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In a debate over what to eat in Yunnan, it'll always be a tough call. So many glorious options! So little time. On a recent and tragically food-deficient trip to Yunnan, I was denied the chance to stuff my face in a manner that paid proper respect to this region's culinary cornucopia. There are, after all, only 24 hours in a day, and much of my five days was spent zooming around in a car looking for commodities and stopping too late to eat, or stuck with a conference buffet. My obvious go-to choice here would be mushrooms, but I won't speak here of the stunning variety of wild mushrooms that this Southwestern province is famous for. Partly because it's not the season, partly because it pains me that I didn't get to eat mushroom hotpot. Instead, in honor of springtime in this land of eternal Spring, I'll post an ode to the edible art growing about the region that I found plucked and ready to fry. As flowers are fragile, they ship poorly and taste best when cooked the same day – making these ingredients hard to come by in the desert that is Beijing.
So, an Ode to Yunnan then! In no particular order of loveliness or taste, here's the flower parade.
Lilies are my favorite flower, and this tender young bloom is the day lily (huanghua cai 黄花菜). There is no dictating how the chef in most local joints cooks the shoots, I merely pointed to the pretty blossoms, and let the experts do their thing. These lilies were served blanched in a light pork broth, and tasted like … spring. Cheesy, but true. Too delicate and light to be classified as anything else, really. They almost tasted yellow, all sunshine and springtime. Well, not quite, but lovely and light and floral (obviously).
They also eat day lilies in their bud form. Also yum, but I do believe I prefer them full-grown in all their sunshiny glory.
Squash blossoms (not sure of the proper name, but I'
ve heard them called xihuluhua 西 葫芦花) are the flowers of zucchinis, and probably the most familiar to the western palate. However, unlike its western counterparts, here this pale orange bloom is not stuff with rice, or meat, or anything, nor is is molested by batter then deep-fried. To do such shocking things to this delicate flower seems kind of pervy. I find these flowers a bit stronger in flavor than day lilies, a little creamy almost with its thicker center. It's like eating squash perfume. A little fruity, a little bitter. More than a little tasty.
Jasmine flower buds (moli 茉莉) are the more common type of flowers found in Yunnan restaurants in Beijing. They are often stir-fried simply with eggs and not much more than a hint of salt. The bulbous nature of these little buds means you are more aware you are munching on flowers, and that is half the joy in devouring a little plate of them. That, or carefully plucking apart each baby petal like you would an artichoke. Okay, that's a bit crazy. But if you're eating flowers, the enjoyment is very much about the aesthetics anyways. It's a joy eating these fresh – they are used more often seen dried in teas and such.
No, that's not a flower. Though how wonderful it would be to find a little field of bacon growing somewhere? Despite what I said about spring, I must also remember to praise this pork. On a tiny street in a random Kunming
neighborhood between the car rental and the airport, we ate a fantastic meal at a streetside restaurant. There is no written menu, there were just trays of fresh vegetables (and flowers) stacked on a bookshelf – just point and they will take a handful of whatever delectable produce you selected and fry/boil/steam it up. They were also drying their salted pork (yanrou 盐肉) out on the street. A mix between Cantonese charsiu (BBQ pork) and larou (which is preserved and dried for much longer, and is therefore much much more salty), this pork was salty enough to satisfy my salt-lovin' tastebuds, yet fresh enough to not be cloying eaten alone.
After all, one cannot live on flowers alone! (At least I can't. No matter how lovely they are.)


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Picks of the Week: Wal-Mart, Hewlett-Packard, McDonald's
Nov. 13 Juniper Networks ("JNPR")
Oppenheimer upgrades to outperform from perform
Oppenheimer analyst Ittai Kidron upgraded shares of Juniper Networks on Nov. 13, saying the company is poised to benefit from a recovery in spending by telecom carriers in 2010. Kidron established a price target of $31 on the shares.
In addition to the carrier spending recovery, Kidron expects data center consolidation and virtualization to "open the door for Juniper" to expand its presence in the enterprise, or corporate, market and gain market share. Virtualization technology helps save companies money by allowing one computer to act as several machines.
Juniper's shares had retreated somewhat on Nov. 12 after Hewlett-Packard ("HPQ") said it would buy 3Com ("COMS"), leaving Juniper out of a consolidation move in the networking equipment market. But Kidron said Friday while HP is a missed opportunity when it comes to manufacturers, IBM ("IBM") and Dell ("DELL") offer "material," multiple-year opportunities for Juniper to outpace expectations. He called the company an attractive long-term holding.
"Goodyear ("GT")
Goldman Sachs upgrades to buy from neutral; raises estimates, price target
Goldman analyst Patrick Archambault said on Nov. 13 that Goodyear shares fell 20% since third-quarter results were released Oct. 28, based on weak fourth-quarter guidance. While he was surprised by the fourth-quarter outlook, Archambault said the shortfall was largely driven by the transitory accounting impact of production cuts, which doesn't affect his long-term outlook.
The analyst expects to see big earnings per share (EPS) improvement after the fourth quarter due to increased consumer tire demand, improved fixed cost absorption benefits, and cost reductions from better manufacturing flexibility afforded by the company's new contract with the United Steel Workers. He raised his 95 cents 2010 EPS estimate to $1.05 and his $1.77 EPS forecast for 2011 to $1.88; he also hiked his $17 six-month price target to $19.
Nov. 12
Wal-Mart (WMT)
Standard & Poor's Equity Research reiterates strong buy; raises estimate
S&P equity analyst Joseph Agnese said on Nov.12 that Wal-Mart's October-quarter EPS of 84 cents, vs. 77 cents EPS one year earlier, is 3 cents above our estimate. Agnese said Wal-Mart's results benefited from increased store productivity and improved inventory management, despite a 0.4% decline in comparable-store sales excluding fuel, below his 1.0% estimate. He expects the company to aggressively price offerings this holiday season in an effort to drive sales growth by utilizing benefits from cost-reduction initiatives.
Due to the slower than expected comparable-store sales growth, Agnese raised his our fiscal 2010 (ending January) EPS estimate only one cent to $3.61 and kept his 12-month price target of $62.
Hewlett-Packard (HPQ)
Kaufman Bros. maintains buy; raises estimates, price target
After the close of trading Nov. 11, HP announced its intent to acquire 3Com for $2.7 billion. In addition, it preannounced upside for both its October and January quarters. On Nov. 12, Kaufman analyst Shaw Wu said he was "somewhat surprised" that 3Com was the networking company HP chose to acquire. "Juniper (JNPR) is viewed as a prized asset and No. 2 to Cisco (CSCO) but its market capitalization at $13 billion and likely acquisition premium are likely a bit daunting, he said in a note to clients. He believes the 3Com deal is a relatively low-risk, "bolt-on" acquisition.
Wu also said HP's preannounced upside for both the October and January quarters is fairly consistent with his recent industry and supply chain checks and potential for better-than-seasonal trends. For the October quarter, he is now modeling $30.8 billion in revenue and $1.14 in earnings per share (EPS), up from prior forecasts of $29.7 billion and $1.11, respectively. For fiscal 2010, he expects $118.3 billion in revenue and $4.35 in EPS (up from $116.6 billion and $4.30). His new estimates do not include 3Com.
Wu raised his 12-month price target on HP to $57 from $54.
Nov. 11
Adobe Systems (ADBE)
Jefferies & Co. raises target price
Shares of Adobe Systems should have more room to climb following recently announced job cuts, Jefferies & Co. analyst Ross MacMillan said Nov. 11. Adobe, best known for its Photoshop, Flash and Acrobat graphics and publishing software, said afte the close of trading Nov. 10 it will cut 680 full-time positions to align costs with its fiscal 2010 budget. The cuts represent about 9% of its work force.
MacMillan estimates the savings will add about 15 cents to 20 cents to Adobe's full-year adjusted earnings per share. He bumped his price target for the company's stock up to $40 from $37.
Though he called the jobs announcement a surprise, MacMillan said he expects additional cuts at Omniture Inc., a software company headquartered in San Jose, Calif., that Adobe bought in October. Adobe, also based in San Jose, has already cut about 108 jobs at Omniture, or 9 percent of Omniture's work force.
The latest cuts will happen at its own operations, Adobe said. The cuts come almost a year after Adobe slashed 600 jobs, or 8 percent of its workers, because of slowing sales.
Logitech International (LOGI)
Standard & Poor's Equity Research reiterates hold
Logitech, a maker of peripheral equipment for PCs, said on Nov. 11 that it had agreed to acquire privately held LifeSize Communications of Austin (Tex.) for $405 million in cash. S&P equity analyst Thomas Smith said in a Nov. 11 note that the deal, if completed as planned in December, would add high-definition video communication capabilities to Logitech's offerings. In Smith's view, it would mark a move to a faster-paced adjacent market from the webcam market where Logitech is active.
Smith maintained his earnings per share (EPS) estimates of 29 cents for fiscal 2010 (ending March), and $1.00 for fiscal 2011. He kept his 12-month price target of $20. Nov. 10
Oracle (ORCL) Standard & Poor's Equity Research Services maintains hold
S&P equity analyst Zaineb Bokhari said in a Nov. 10 note that as expected, European regulators issued an objection to Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems (JAVA), citing the potential for reduced competition in the database market if Oracle gains open source database provider MySQL (owned by Sun). Bokhari noted that the U.S. Department of Justice reiterated its clearance of the deal. The analyst thinks Oracle and MySQL compete at different ends of the database market and is not convinced that Oracle's ownership will limit competition.
Bokhari also thinks MySQL will expand Oracle's market reach, but "judging by current sales, not by much initially."
Priceline.com (PCLN) RBC Capital rates outperform; raises estimates, price target
RBC Capital analyst Ross Sandler said on Nov. 10 that Priceline reported significant upside to his third-quarter estimates. He said the outperformance was broad-based, with hotel room nights accelerating to a year-over-year increase of 56%, while air tickets were up 31%. Sandler noted that there are few Internet companies in his coverage universe as large as Priceline experiencing this kind of volume acceleration at these growth rates.
The analyst also said his thesis for Priceline is based on industry-high exposure to the higher-margin hotel segment and faster growth in international regions continuing to drive above-average growth. He rised his $7.53 2009 pro forma EPS estimate to $8.21, his $9.21 forecast for 2010 to $10.04, and his $235 price target to $260.
Nov. 9
McDonald's (MCD)
Standard & Poor's Equity Research reiterates stong buy; raises estimates
S&P equity analyst Mark Basham said on Nov. 9 than McDonald's October U.S. comparable-store sales ("comps") were flat, in line with earlier management comments suggesting U.S. comps would be flat to down 1%. He noted that Europe and APMEA (Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa) comps were both strong, up 6.4% and 4.7%, respectively; constant currency total sales were up 8.6% and 8.1%. Moreover, including effects of weaker dollar than a year ago, systemwide sales rose 16% in Europe and 21% in APMEA, Basham said.
The analyst said he had not previously incorporated a weak dollar benefit into his fourth quarter earnings per share (EPS) estimate, which management earlier said may be as much as 6 cents, but he raised this fourth-quarter and full-year 2009 estimates by 5 cents each to $1.05 and $4.05.
Northrop Grumman (NOC)
Jefferies & Co. upgrades to buy from hold; raises price target
Northrop Grumman said on Nov. 8 it was selling its advisory services unit TASC Inc. to private equity firm General Atlantic LLC and affiliates of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. for $1.65 billion in cash to comply with the government's "conflict of interest standards." Northrop said it will use the proceeds for a $1.1 billion increase in its stock buyback program.
The transaction shows Northrop Grumman's "understanding of and a capability to find value for shareholders in a changing market for defense-oriented suppliers," Jefferies & Co. analyst Howard Rubel wrote in a note to investors on Nov. 9. "Changes in procurement law almost required this sale."
He upgraded the company's shares, commending the company for returning the deal's gains to shareholders and what he said was a "reasonable" price for the TASC unit. Rubel also boosted his price target on the stock to $62 from $55.

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24 Etudes for Oboe or Saxophone (Luft, Johann Heinrich)
Free public domain sheet music from IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library
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Louis Bleuzet (1874-1941)
Publisher Info.:
Paris: Costallat & Cie., 1926. Plate 3083.
Public Domain - Non-PD US [tag/del]
General Information
|Work Title
|24 Etudes for oboe or saxophone
|Alternative Title
|Luft, Johann Heinrich
|First Publication
|à Monsieur Alexandre de Kavalkoff
|Composer Time Period
|Piece Style
Misc. Comments
First published as "Vingt-quatre etudes pour l'hautbois seul" Leipzig: Peters n.d. (ca. 1835). Plate 2480
Newer editions:
edited by Karl Tamme - Leipzig: Peters, n.d. [1899] Edition Peters No.2963. Plate 8574. "24 Etüden für Oboe"
edited by Ludwig F.W. Klemcke - Heilbronn: C.F. Schmidt, n.d. [1899]. Plate 1889. "24 Berühmte Etüden für Oboe, Op.1"
edited by Louis Bleuzet - Paris: Costallat & Cie., 1926. Plate 3083. "Vingt-quatre etudes pour l'hautbois ou saxophone"
- Bleuzet was an oboist himself, and with a death date of 1941, copyright on this work will expire at the end of 2011 in life + 70 countries. It might not make much sense that an oboist edited for saxophone, it's just traditional that saxophonists use oboe material because the range is the same. Johann Luft (1814-1869), according to the Naxos biographical information, went to St. Petersburg to play in the Imperial Theatre orchestra, and became the founder of the Russian oboe school.
- Until the cover page can be downloaded, this has been tagged for both oboe and sax, assuming it was originally published that way by Luft. (The saxophone was invented in 1841, so it possible Luft knew of it.)
- His edition becomes PD-US in 2024, so I can't download it from here until then- 12 year difference :) may find it elsewhere though. (Hrm. Libraries, libraries- BNF has Billaudot's 2000 repub., a German one has their 1954 repub., Australia has copies of the 1926 publication as does a Swiss library- am nowhere near there though :) nor do I presently have ILL privs- so goes. Bleuzet = Louis Florent Alfred Bleuzet it seems, if his full name is of interest at any point- might run into another edition of his at some time...)
- This can be transferred to the EU server on 1 January 2012, and at that point, one of us can have a look at it. (Steltz)


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By Susan Hines-Brigger
Your Family and the Internet
Getting Involved
Let's Go Surfing
Teens: Sites Just For YouFor
Kids: Who's Your Patron Saint?
Following the attacks
on September 11, stories emerged of people in the midst of terror contacting
their loved ones via e-mail and instant messaging programs. Some of those people
survived, others did not; but the Internet allowed many people to reach their
loved ones during a time of need.
For most of us, our Internet usage is not nearly as dramatic, but is rather
just one more way of staying in touch with friends and relatives
or finding information. Even Pope John Paul II has begun taking
advantage of the Internet's vast capabilities. Last November
he delivered his apostolic exhortation on the 1998 Synod of
Bishops for Oceania via e-mail to synod participants. A month
later, he logged on again and, with the click of the mouse,
opened the official Web site of Mexico's Basilica of Our Lady
of Guadalupe (www.virgendeguadalupe.org.mx).
This year, the theme of the 36th World Communications DayMay 12will
focus on the Internet and its role as a forum for proclaiming
the gospel. Pope John Paul II released the message "Internet:
A New Forum for Proclaiming the Gospel" on January 24, the
feast of St. Francis de Sales, patron saint of writers. To
read the text of the pope's World Communications Day message,
visit www.vatican.va.
World Communications Day is observed
in most countries on the Sunday before Pentecost. It is the only worldwide celebration
specifically called for by the Second Vatican Council.
In his World Communications Day
message, the pope points out, "The Internet can offer magnificent opportunities
for evangelization if used with competence and a clear awareness of its strengths
and weaknesses.
"It is important, therefore,
that the Christian community think of very practical ways of helping those who
first make contact through the Internet to move from the virtual world of cyberspace
to the real world of Christian community."
On February 28, the Vatican issued two new documents on the Internet: Ethics
in Internet, which is a reflection on the ethical issues
of the Internet, and The Church and Internet, an assessment
of online pastoral opportunities. The documents, which were
prepared by the Pontifical Council for Social Communications,
emphasize the Internet's interactive nature. That can help
achieve the Second Vatican Council's vision of communication
among members of the Catholic Church. Both documents are available
at www.vatican. va.
The U.S. bishops have also addressed the issues the Internet
poses to families in their 2000 document Your Family and
Cyberspace. You can read this document at www.usccb.org/comm/cyberspace.
htm. You can read a summary of the document at www.AmericanCatholic.org/Messenger/Mar2001/Web_Catholic.asp.
Getting Involved
As most families with children know, the Internet offers
endless opportunities for information about entertainment
and homework help, for example. It is also important to remember
that, because they are growing up in this age of technology,
most kids are pretty computer- and Web-savvy.
But at the same time the Internet
poses real dangers to teens and childrendangers they often may not recognize.
As parents, grandparents and aunts and uncles, therefore, we must monitor and
provide guidance for proper Internet usage.
One way of monitoring what our children are seeing over
the Internet is through the use of filtering programs, such
as CYBERsitter, CyberPatrol or Net Nanny. The Web site www.filterreview.com
provides information, such as ratings and comparisons
of many filtering programs, that can help you determine the
best monitoring options for your family. Remember, however,
that none of these programs is foolproof and none can replace
parental supervision or involvement.
For more information on ways to keep your kids safe on the
Internet, check out www.safekids.com
and www.safeteens.com,
projects of the Online Safety Project (OSP). Another useful
resource is the U.S. Department of Education's Parents Guide
to the Internet at www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/internet.
Let's Go Surfing
As I just mentioned, no programs can replace parental involvement
in kids' online activity. Therefore, here are some Catholic Web sites you and
your family may want to check out together or bookmark on your computer:
official Web site of the Vatican.
Web site of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. This
site offers a wonderful array of resources such as movie reviews,
statements and documents from the bishops and the daily Bible
readings. For specifically family-related topics, visit the
page of the bishops' committee on Family, Laity, Women and
Youth at www.usccb.org/laity.
Anthony Messenger's Web site, featuring Saint
of the Day, Minute
Meditations, excerpts from St. Anthony Messenger
magazine and a lot more.
Web site of Catholic News Service offers the latest Catholic
news from around the world.
Are there any other Catholic
Web sites that you and your family visit that I missed? If so, send them to
me. By sharing our resources with one another, we as Catholics can help use
the Internet to proclaim the gospel.
Next Month: Being A Good Christian Counts
Teens: Sites Just For You
There are a number of Web sites geared to Catholic teens where
you can ask questions about your faith or meet other Catholic
teens. Take advantage of them!
At www.disciplesnow.com
you can play games, listen to audio clips from Catholic artists,
read reviews of the latest movies or take part in online chats
with other Catholic teens. This site is an effort of DisciplesNow
Ministries, Inc., and focuses on the traditions, life and
mission of the Catholic faith
Some other sites for teens to check are www.onerock.com
and www.lifeteen.org.
Kids: Who's Your Patron Saint?
Are you named after a saint? If so, what do you know about
that saint? Ask your mom or dad or older sibling to help you
look up information on your patron saint. Catholic Online
has a saints and angels page (saints.catholic.org)
that it says is the "largest collection of facts and information
concerning saints and angels on the Internet."
Print out the information about your patron saint and either read it yourself, if you are able, or have someone read it to you. When your family is gathered together, such as at dinner, tell the rest of the family all about your patron saint.
Do you have ideas or suggestions for topics or ideas you'd like
to see addressed in this column? If so, send them to me at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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If you are looking for an apartment, what you pay will largely depend on the number of bedrooms. Two-bedroom apartments average about $800. The monthly rent will go up or down depending on the apartment's size. Many apartment complexes typically include a swimming pool, gym, Internet, cable, washer and dryer, and a basketball court. One thing to note, however, is there aren't as many apartments for rent as there are houses, so you may want to begin your search early to secure a place you like. Furthermore, a lot of apartments only allow cats or small dogs. If you have a large four-legged friend, make sure you ask about weight and breed restrictions.
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Ford Ikon shines in entry mid-size segment: Report
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NEW DELHI: Ford's entry-level sedan the Ikon scored highest in the entry mid-size segment according to the JD Power Asia Pacific 2009 India Initial Quality StudySM (IQS). Despite new entrants and growing competition, Ford Ikon has come out as a clear winner in its segment with a score of 90 PP100 in this J.D. Power study. This score is a splendid result with the industry scores averaging at 123 PP 100 in the entry mid-size segment for Overall New -Vehicle Quality in India.
Ford offers Ikon for Rs 5 lakh
October 13, 2004
CHENNAI: Last year, it was Hyundai Motor India that offered its mid-size sedan Accent at a commemorative price of Rs 5 lakh to mark a significant occasion in its India history. This year, it seems to be the turn of Ford India and its 'C' segment Ikon. HMIL made the offer in 2003 on its Accent GVS to the then Hyundai car owners. It was to mark the roll-out of the car no. 5,00,000 car from its manufacturing facility near Chennai. It was aimed at treating the customers...
Ford India launches new variant of Ikon
September 2, 2002
CHENNAI: Ford India has launched 'Ford Ikon 1.6 EXi,' the latest variant of its flagship passenger car Ikon, offering a "combination of high performance and premium features at great value". "The 1.6 EXi answers our customers' needs for performance at an attractive price. The Ford Ikon, with its range of powertrains, equipment and styling, provides a flexible platform for us to meet the ever changing preferences of our customers," David Friedman, managing director and president of Ford...
Silent Scream
June 27, 2003
I bought a Ford Ikon in December '99 and within three years the exhaust system corroded! Wasan Ford, at Nasik, suggested replacing the it and quoted Rs 6,000 for the same. When the silencer arrived after 15 days, I given a quote of Rs 10,000! The reason given by Pradeep Wasan of Wasan Ford was that 'Ford arbitrarily changes it prices without prior notice'. This was brought to Ford India's notice through their website but they have not bothered to reply. Sunil Mehta, Nasik, Phone:(91)
Ford India gets new VP
August 10, 2005
BANGALORE: Ford India on Wednesday announced the appointment of V Sivaramakrishnan as vice president of marketing, sales and service. He takes over from Vinay Piparsania, who is moving to Thailand to take up an international assignment with the Ford operations in the region, according to a company statement. Sivaramakrishnan was earlier the general manager, sales and distributions launch leader. He played a pivotal role in the launch of the Ford Ikon and subsequently in strategically developing...
Ford to invest $500 m to ramp up Chennai unit
September 10, 2009
ET Bureau
NEW DELHI: Ford India Motor, the fully-owned subsidiary of the US auto major Ford Motors, will be one of the major production hubs for the parent company's operations in the Asia-African region, said Ford India MD and president Michael Boneham. Ford India is investing $500 million to ramp up its Chennai plant's production capacity to 2-lakh vehicles by 2010. These vehicles, including a new small car that will debut in the domestic market next year, will also be exported to Africa...
Ford India launches Ikon variant
August 10, 2009
NEW DELHI: Ford India on Monday announced the launch of a new variant of Ford Ikon -- the iKool -- at a price starting from Rs 4.82 lakh (ex-showroom, New Delhi) which will be available across the country from Wednesday. "Starting August 12, the Ikon iKool will be available at Ford dealerships across India at an aggressive price of Rs 4.82 lakh (petrol) and Rs 5.42 lakh (diesel), ex-showroom, New Delhi," the company said in a statement. It said the Ikon iKool...
Why buy the Ford Ikon TDCi car?
May 3, 2009
John Sarkar , ET Bureau
Bangalore 2002. It was a lovely sunny morning. I had bunked college and was taking a quiet stroll in Sadhashivnagar. The Garden City was a nice place then. The roads didn't have potholes. Traffic lights were deserted. And there wasn't much to surprise you ? other than an occasional good-looking car or a loud bike. Most of these bikes were Suzuki Shoguns and Yamaha RX100s, 2-strokers that were built to go fast and loud. Among the cars, the Ford Ikon was a stunner. Every college-going kid I knew,...
Ford Ikon Gets Duratorq Josh
November 5, 2008
Adil Jal Darukhanawala , ET Bureau
New Ford Ikon Ford's first major success story in India, the Ikon, seems to have got a new lease of life with the Chennai-based automaker getting ready to launch a new version today. This will be an Ikon not just sporting a slightly spruced up look but there will be some substance incorporated below the bonnet in the form of the stonking Duratorq diesel drivetrain. The 1.4-litre Duratorq engine and matching five-speed gearbox, normally found doing...
Inflation, what? Ford cuts Ikon price by Rs 36,000
April 16, 2008
Lijee Philip , TNN
MUMBAI: This is a price war of a different kind. While steel companies are busy taking on the government by raising prices, car majors have decided to cut prices to spur slowing sales. Ford India has reduced Ikon price by around Rs 36,000 to Rs 4.49 lakh through a limited edition offer to take on Maruti's recently-launched DZire, Renault Logan, Hyundai Accent and Tata Indigo. "New launches and competitively-priced models...
Ford to outsource Ikon powertrains from HM
January 15, 2002
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new delhi: call it the 4?4 rush. the latest model to join the great indian suv race is the ford escape, currently the most-successful sub-compact sports utility vehicle in the us. speaking to et, david friedman, managing director and president, ford india, said, "our capabilities and the evolving trends in the indian market makes us consider an suv as a potential product and the escape might be quite appropriate for indian roads and traffic....
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Ford to spruce up existing models
March 27, 2007
Sutanuka Ghosal , TNN
KOLKATA: Ford India is consolidating operations in calender 2007. Towards this, the company plans to spruce up existing models ? Ikon, Endeavour, Fiesta and Fusion ? to maintain 20% marketshare in the country's mid-sized car segment this year. Talking to ET, Mr Scott McCormack, vice-president (marketing, sales & services) at Ford India said: "We've decided to consolidate operations in calender 2007. There are no plans to introduce new models this year. We will take action on the...
Fiesta Durasport launched in Bangalore
October 6, 2006
BANGALORE: Ford India on Friday launched a special limited edition of Fiesta Durasport in Bangalore. The launch follows the "unqualified success" of Ford Fiesta that was launched in November last year, Company's Vice-President-Marketing, Sales and Service Scott McCormack told reporters. Fiesta Durasport, which is available in two petrol versions - 1.4 petrol EXi and 1.6 petrol ZXi, is a sporty and adventurous version of Fiesta and is priced at Rs 6.05 lakh...
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BitBeat: Chicago Court OKs Sunlot-Mt. Gox Settlement
Welcome to BitBeat, your daily dose of crypto-current events, written by Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey.
Bitcoin Latest Price: $437.52, up 0.13% (via CoinDesk)
Crossing Our Desk:
–Sunlot Holdings' bid to buy and rejuvenate bankrupt bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox got a boost from a Chicago judge Thursday.
U.S. District Court Judge Gary Feinerman gave his preliminary approval to a settlement between class-action lawyers representing U.S. creditors of Tokyo-based Mt. Gox and the Sunlot consortium, which is led by bitcoin entrepeneur Brock Pierce and venture capital investors William Quigley and Matthew Roszak. The parties to the deal will now seek the approval of the Japanese trustee and administrative court overseeing the bankruptcy.
Sunlot was not a defendant in the initial lawsuit. However, by negotiating a deal with Jay Edelson, the class action lawyer, which included commitments of support from two of the original defendants, Mt. Gox founder Jed McCaleb and former marketing director Gonzague Gay-Bouchery, the consortium found a legal avenue to pursue its complicated takeover bid. Under the settlement terms, creditors would obtain a 16.5% stake in the newly revived Mt. Gox.
The approval means the plaintiff class is now fully certified. But getting approval in Japan, where liquidation proceedings have already begun, could still be a major hurdle.
If it does get the all-clear from Tokyo, Sunlot would be free to take control of Mt. Gox. However, creditors covered by the lawsuit class would still have an opportunity to opt out of the settlement and continue suing for the recovery of their lost bitcoins. (Michael Casey)
- The Federal Election Commission gave the green light Thursday to political donations in bitcoin of up to $100 per election cycle.
What was left unclear by the perennially divided six-person body was whether it also gave bitcoin donors freedom to give more than that. Read our take on that here.
Either way, the ambiguity isn't holding back Congressman Jared Polis (D., Colo.), a Washigton friend to bitcoin if there ever was one. On Thursday, he opened his website to accept bitcoin donations and, for good measure, converted the "O" in his name as it appears on the donations page into the bitcoin "B" symbol.
This is the same Jared Polis who responded to his Democratic colleague Sen. Joe Manchin's (D., Va.) recent call to to outlaw bitcoin with a parody letter calling for a ban on the U.S. dollar.
In fact, there are already 17 political campaigns and political action committees accepting bitcoin, according to Make Your Laws, the PAC that made the request to the FEC that led to Thursday's advisory. Make Your Laws, which is a non-partisan group working to reform campaign finance, sought FEC guidance as a way to bring clarity to the bitcoin donation question.
One bitcoin-accepting PACs that caught our attention was BitPAC, which has the explicit goal of raising money to contribute to bitcoin-friendly politicians.
We're not sure how easily this feature of BitPAC's web site would pass muster with the FEC's strict disclosure rules, however: At the donation page, you're met with a form to fill in your details but if you ignore that and click on the "Bitcoin: Donate now" button at the bottom of the page, it takes you straight to an address to which you can send coins without having to enter your name and details. (Michael Casey)
- We're not sure what to even make of this, but it must be reported: there is a bitcoin game show. It's called "Take My Bitcoins," it airs on the web every Thursday night at 11 p.m. ET, and it's, well, it's pretty much what you'd expect: call-in contestants play a variety of games, and get rewarded with bitcoins for winning.
One interesting thing is how the show comes by the bitcoin it gives away: it mines them, using mining equipment supplied by Butterfly Labs, which also happens to sponsor the show. Which means the show is really an online throwback to the early days of television, when programs like "Admiral Broadway Revue," "Your Show of Shows," and the soap operas had set sponsorships in place.
It makes for an interest piece of marketing. Butterfly Labs is currently involved in two lawsuits with customers who claims they never got the equipment they purchased. Several mining companies, in fact, are grappling with similar complaints, as the nascent industry is going through a relatively painful teething stage.
The show is hosted by Mike Rotman, a TV and film producer and writer, and guests include relatively well known actors like Samm Levine, Jill-Michele Melean, and Illeana Douglas. The show's got a goofy quality to it, the production values skew toward the public-access cable side of the television spectrum (if you remember the old Uncle Floyd Show, you know what we mean). One game, called This or That, requires contestants to answer whether, for instance, Pol Pot was a dictator or a cookie, and whether "Borg" is a breed of cat or a species on Star Trek. (Paul Vigna)
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2005 International Conference on Analysis of Algorithms
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DMTCS Conference Volume AD (2005), pp. 115-124
|Mihai Furis, Paweł Hitczenko and Jeremy Johnson
|Cache miss analysis of WHT algorithms
|Cache, Divide and Conquer Recurrences, Geometric Distributions, Memory Access Patterns, Performance Analysis, Random Compositions, Walsh-Hadamard Transform
|On modern computers memory access patterns and cache utilization are as important, if not more important, than operation count in obtaining high-performance implementations of algorithms. In this work, the memory behavior of a large family of algorithms for computing the Walsh-Hadamard transform, an important signal processing transform related to the fast Fourier transform, is investigated. Empirical evidence shows that the family of algorithms exhibit a wide range of performance, despite the fact that all algorithms perform the same number of arithmetic operations. Different algorithms, while having the same number of memory operations, access memory in different patterns and consequently have different numbers of cache misses. A recurrence relation is derived for the number of cache misses and is used to determine the distribution of cache misses over the space of WHT algorithms.
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MP Rasheed Masood jailed, faces disqualification
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Rajya Sabha member Rasheed Masood of the Congress was Tuesday sentenced to four years in jail for fraudulently nominating undeserving candidates from across the country to MBBS seats in 1990-91, making him the first to stand disqualified as a lawmaker.
Special CBI Court Judge J.P.S. Malik held Masood guilty on charges of corruption and other offences.
Masood, 67, was convicted of fraudulently nominating undeserving candidates from across the country to the MBBS seats allotted to Tripura medical colleges from the central pool.
He was the minister of health in the 11-month V.P. Singh government between 1990 and 1991.
Masood, who was immediately taken into custody after the sentencing, will also lose the right to contest polls for the next 10 years since a convicted leader cannot fight elections for six years from the date of release from their prison.
Masood faces immediate disqualification as the Rajya Sabha member under a recent Supreme Court ruling that a member of parliament and state legislatures stands disqualified immediately if convicted by a court for crimes with punishment of two years or more and under some other laws even without jail sentence.
The July 10 judgment of the Supreme Court struck down a provision in the electoral law that provided protection to sitting MPs and MLAs by allowing them to continue in their posts if they appeal against a lower court conviction and secure a stay of the order within 90 days.
Masood was found guilty of offences under the Prevention of Corruption Act and under Indian Penal Code Sections 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 420 (cheating) and 468 (forgery). However, he has been acquitted of the charge of using as genuine a forged document.
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Summary: On Sept. 3rd amateur astronomer Bill Yeung discovered a curious object orbiting Earth. Is it an asteroid, a spacecraft, a piece of space junk? No one is sure. Whatever it is, amateur astronomers using 8"-to-10" telescopes and CCD cameras can see it for themselves, glowing like a 16th magnitude star in the constellation Taurus. [ephemeris]
Sept. 17#1 This 10-minute exposure was captured at the Schiaparelli Astronomical Observatory.
Sept. 12MOVIES: small gif, large gif; avi file B. Timerson: "These images were taken by the Telescope in Education 14" reflector on Sept. 12, 2002. The images span about 12 minutes from 7:10:46 thru 7:22:50 a.m. EDT. Exposure time for each image was 30 seconds"
Sept. 11#1 C. Sherrod: "This sequence shows J002E3 passing by the 13th magnitude star GSC 643-12. I captured these frames, separated by ten-minute intervals, using our 0.31m SCT and STV ccd camera at f/3.75, 60-sec. exposures each. The object most certainly varied in light, from about mag. 15.4 (08:42 UT) dimming to about 16.0 at some points. Our conditions here at the Conway observatory were not ideal, with very heavy haze and moisture. "


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PROVIDENCE, RI -- The state has suspended the Emergency Medical Technician license of a lieutenant in the Providence Fire Department after he allegedly punched a patient who had been brought to Rhode Island Hospital in a cruiser and was behaving belligerently.
Health Department Director Michael Fine announced on Friday that he had indefinitely suspended Lt. Anthony P. Toro's EMT license because of the incident, which occurred five months ago. Toro has a right to request a hearing.
According to the summary suspension, the police picked up a 35-year-old male patient who, while being taken to the hospital, "was banging his head around the cruiser and was kicking out at police while exiting the cruiser."
In the hospital, he continued to act in an "extremely combative" manner and at one point allegedly pushed Toro.Witnesses said Toro then hit the man's face and head several times with a closed fist.
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^ So nakikijoin siya sa skyline ng Rockwell? That's cool.
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in relation to the above photographs where will one rockwell and metropolitan be located, thanks
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Metropolitan - to the left of Manansala; One Rockwell - partly visible between Metropolitan and Manansala with most parts covered in view by those two towers.
BTW, this is what Power Plant Mall should have been...
The economic crisis of the late '90s has forced shopping center developers to adapt
By Susan Thorne
Although Asia's economic crisis forced Rockwell Land to scale back its plans for Power Plant Mall in Manila, the company says the center is doing well since its opening last year.
It was envisioned as a trophy mall, a landmark historic conversion project and a shopping destination that would attract new international retail players to the Philippines.
Called Power Plant, the Rockwell Land Corp.'s prestigious shopping center in Manila, conceived in 1995 at the height of Asia's economic boom, was planned as 50,000 square meters (538,200 square feet) of retail in the renovated structure of a former power plant, with a dramatic open-concept using exposed steel beams and floor-to-ceiling glass storefronts.
But that was before the notorious "Asian Flu," the financial and economic upheaval that rolled through Southeast Asia following devaluation of the Thai baht (the national currency) in 1997. Power Plant is just one of many elaborate projects that developers across Southeast Asia have had to rethink in the wake of the crisis, which saw a sudden drop in property values, followed by depressed customer spending, retail store closings and a massive loss of investor confidence in retail projects.
"Development simply ceased, like turning off the tap," said Colin Stephens, chairman of Design International, Toronto, architectural and planning consultants for Power Plant. With the peso plunging by around 40%, planning abruptly stopped on the project in 1998, even though drawings and construction documents had already been prepared with a 1999 completion in mind, and Design International started from scratch with a new, much leaner concept.
They were not alone. The majority of shopping center owners and developers are using a variety of strategies to cope with the new economic circumstances; they are canceling or slowing work on upcoming projects, reconfiguring or downsizing existing centers, and changing mall design features and the tenant mix.
Power Plant, a four-level shopping galleria, today is totally different from the original vision. Plans to restore the old power plant building were scrapped, and it was demolished. In its place, developers drew up a new, more frugal, concept: They used plaster and forms instead of exposed steel, and substituted local building materials for imported ones where possible. They adjusted the tenant mix, too, with leasing efforts focused on local and Asian retailers rather than foreign operators; the original fashion merchandising focus was replaced by more casual, trendy lifestyle retailers and cafe dining. To mask the compromises, Design International held the line on overall center size and distinctive features, such as Italian tile flooring, underground parking and street landscaping, succeeding in setting the center apart from other Manila malls.
Developers all over the region have taken similar measures, and controlling construction and decor costs have been at the forefront of their efforts. Asian developers have traditionally imported many shopping center components such as steel beams, air-conditioning units and glass from North America or other Western countries; Stephens estimates that around 30% of costs for shopping center projects were paid in U.S. dollars before the crisis. But the cost of imports skyrocketed after the Asian currency devaluations, resulting in the much more extensive use of local construction materials.
Developers are also saving money on interior decoration and design. Stan Laegreid, principal with Callison Architects, Seattle, said his company can generate savings by simplifying the major surfaces of a center — using less costly wall surface materials, for instance — and putting more emphasis on accents, "like accessorizing a black dress with jewelry." An example of this "environmental graphics" approach can be seen at Maju Perdana, a 450,000-square-foot shopping center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where Callison used large, dramatic signage and prominent entry features for a cost-effective design theme.
The crisis also has affected the retail mix and price point in centers, in response to lower customer spending levels since 1997. The Flu polarized the Asian shopping mix, Laegreid explained: Most midprice customers have traded down to a lower price point, while a small, affluent percentage of the population continues to buy premium-priced merchandise. Successful centers are adjusting to this new demographic. U2 Zone in Seoul, Korea, for example, started as a boutique-oriented mall with international brands and a high-fashion component, but has recently added a high number of domestic value vendors and stores, Laegreid said. One mall that has capitalized on both extremes of the market is the Wisma Atria Shopping Complex in Singapore's Orchard Road shopping district, which is effectively two distinct shopping destinations — an upper-end one on the two top floors, with designer fashions and premium prices, and two floors of value and junior-oriented retail on the lower levels near the subway.
But the crisis has left many Western retailers reluctant to enter the region, so that local or regional retailers and existing foreign franchisors are now the backbone of the merchandise mix.
North American participation in the food-service sector is still strong, however. Moreover, the withdrawal from Southeast Asia of Japanese department stores such as Sogo, Tokyu and Daimaru has left room for Carrefour, Wal-Mart and other international hypermarkets to play a larger role in shopping centers.
"We're seeing virtually every retail project with a hypermarket included," Laegreid observed.
Nevertheless, many centers face a substantial oversupply of retail space in their markets — overbuilding was endemic in Southeast Asia in the 1990s — and must find alternative uses for their store premises.
"If you're traveling through Bangkok today, you still see it in terms of empty [retail] buildings," said Geoffrey Cresswell, managing director of MMC International Architects, Toronto, who works extensively in Thailand. Demalling or downsizing centers — even operating with half or less of the mall open for business — are two common solutions for Asian owners, he said. In other cases, mall owners might divide vacant retail units into smaller ones with lower rents in order to attract independent retailers as tenants. However, attempts to modify mall space or individual stores are often complicated by the fact that Asian mall premises are most commonly sold rather than rented.
Depending on mall layout and design, conversion to mixed-use may be possible. With a typical Asian multilevel shopping center — six to seven floors of retail tied to office towers — one or two of the retail floors might be rented to office tenants such as travel agencies or small insurance firms, Cresswell said. A focused use approach is another possibility. The 90,000-square-foot gross leasable area Seri Center in Bangkok has bounced back from difficult times that included the loss of anchor Au Printemps by redefining itself as a specialty center for computer and software retailers.
In the intense competition for tenants and customers, many owners are coming to appreciate the importance of good management, Cresswell observed.
"They're starting to see the advantages of promoting your shopping center, of having big events to attract customers — something many of them didn't think you needed to do before," he said. Issues such as energy efficiency are being considered more carefully, and owners are coming to see that leasing is a better arrangement than selling stores, because they can maintain better control over center quality and tenant mix. If it continues, that attention to good management could be the silver lining in the dark cloud of Asia's financial troubles.
The radical changes seem to have worked for Power Plant, which is largely occupied and doing well since its opening last year, its developers say.
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i saw the model of the original power plant, it was really cool. too bad it got changed.
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I tried to search for original plans, and though I found a couple items, I don't know whether or not they're helpful.
Here's two OLD renderings of Rockwell by Design International and Palafox Associates.
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If you look carefully, there's what appears to be a glass structure connected to one end of the mall. The glass barrel vault in the both renderings is also larger. Then there's the planned hotel (Ritz-Carlton?) that's connected to the mall, but I read that it'll be done at a later phase.
...on second thought, maybe it would be easier asking Edmundtanso about what it looked like .
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|January 9th, 2007, 07:01 PM
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I think the Ritz Carlton project will push through after all. I read in the BusinessMirror weeks ago that investors from the Middle East(under the Ritz Carlton brand) are scouting properties for this plan. The former International School property has also been considered. Makes me wonder did the Lopezes cancel the supposedly reserved Rockewell property for Ritz??
|February 2nd, 2007, 04:26 AM
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MMDA Gen Mgr Robert Nacianceno was a guest in TV program in NBN 4 last night Feb 1, 2007 and he gave some interesting information on the MMDA projects for the next three years. He said that there was already a blessing of the Pasig ferry system so hopefully tuloy na yang operation na yan very sson. He also said that there are 6 NEW BRIDGES to span Pasig River to further ease traffic flow. He just gave hints on two of those bridges... one is between Guadalupe and the C-5 bridge and the other is one in Rockwell. So I assume that Rockwell bridge is the one passing through Noah's Ark. But I think the Rockwell Bridge is more of a privately funded project with the aid of the Lopezes. Sana these bridges are not your typical run-of the mill concrete bridge. Hopefully the designs are more artistic, preferably steel types or cable bridges and pleasing to the eyes since it's been a very very very long time since we have a new bridge spanning over the Pasig river. As to the other 4 bridges, does anyone have any idea where they will be located?
|February 2nd, 2007, 04:31 AM
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kung cable bridge, sayang naman kasi maliit lang ang span ng Pasig river diba?
|February 4th, 2007, 03:50 PM
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hey guys! here's a link to another Rockwell page. i said something about the bridge...just scroll down the page.... thanks!
|February 5th, 2007, 07:00 AM
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Last Saturday, I had the chance to kill time in Rockwell so here are my shots around...
took this while on traffic at the Makati-Mandaluyong Bridge..
I almost hit a jeepney while taking this picture near the Hulo Pasig River Ferry station....
Estrella fly-over.. with BGC at the background..
Nestle and Phinma
inside Powerplant Mall
Joya Lofts
around Rockwell
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|February 5th, 2007, 07:21 AM
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Very nice pics Pau_P1. Thanks for sharing those to us. I lived in Makati for 5 years during my college days but I'd never been in power plant and rockwell center. too bad for me, I'll visit rockwell when I returned to PI next week
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Dave and Kendall are what I like to call a "fun couple." I mean, when Wilson Diamonds put on a wedding-themed 5k race last year, Dave came dressed as a flower girl (in Kendall's clothes) and threw flower petals from a basket the entire 3 mile run.
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Sevens in New Zealand: It's a Party
The Costume's the Thing
It is the biggest fancy dress party New Zealand has and it is all in honor of a Wellington rugby tournament.
But while the costume-party concept may seem bizarre, the retailers, eateries, bars and hoteliers aren't complaining after a huge weekend of spending.
Steve Walters, New Zealand International Sevens General Manager, estimates the international competition, now in its 10th year, brought in close to 18 million New Zealand dollars (US$13.9 million) for the city. And that doesn't include the benefits to the surrounding region.
Wellington is one of eight legs on the global seven-a-side tournament's annual calendar that includes stops in Hong Kong and Dubai. Sevens is derived from the traditional 15-player game but differs with shorter halves (seven minutes each instead of 40) and fewer players, encouraging a faster-paced match. This version of the sport is growing in popularity since its inclusion in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio De Janeiro and this year the Wellington tickets sold out in just three minutes.
But for most people, it's not the game that attracts them to the country's capital city for the two-day event. It is the party.
Mr. Walters said in the past, only about 10% of patrons donned costumes. Today, those who spurn the fad are now in the minority. About 95% of the sell-out crowd of 35,000 dressed up in costume, and each year the costumes become more extreme. But this is perhaps not surprising in the city that brought the world Gollum from "The Lord of the Rings" and Na'vi (those blue people) from James Cameron's "Avatar" (both films were shot, in part, in Wellington).
This year at the tournament, there were foam-suited Gingerbread Men, a rubber-clad Frankenstein, plenty of spandex and Lycra and characters from local and global movies. Two friends even turned themselves into flashing railway crossing signs.
Little is off limits, although the family-friendly event does now ban the mankini suit, made famous in the movie "Borat." Mr. Walters said 44 people were arrested over the two-day event, six of whom were pitch-invaders. Only one, however, was brave enough to ditch his clothes during his dash onto the field.
And if the party atmosphere and the surge in spending weren't enough to make locals smile, the victory from New Zealand's team lifted the country's rank to No. 1, tied with England, after the third tournament of the series. The next stop of the series will be in Las Vegas this Saturday and Sunday. Then the tournament stops March 25-27 in Hong Kong, another costume-loving town.
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Mother of murdered Border Patrol agent Brian Terry lashed out at Attorney General Eric Holder on her Facebook page, calling him a "coward" and a "joke." These strong words for the beleaguered AG follows a $25 million wrongful death suit filed by the fallen agent's family against the ATF. The suit claims Brian Terry was killed by by AK47s that were knowingly sold under the Fast and Furious gunrunning probe to a straw purchaser for drug cartels.
"THIS IS FOR YOU SON," Mrs. Terry posted on her Facebook page. DC obtained a screenshot of the Facebook posting. The rest of her message read:
"Mr. Holder. How come you can never say my son's name. You never have. All I ever hear you say is 'I didn't find out or I cant say' I'm actually tired of hearing your double talk in answering questions. What a joke you are. You know my son was a real AMERICAN, a WARRIOR, and a HERO, who was also protecting COWARD POLITICIANS like you. Hope you remember that."
Mrs. Terry singed her message: "PROUD MOM OF BRIAN A. TERRY."
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Good for Mrs. Terry.
She got it exactly right.
He is indeed a 'Coward' and a 'Joke'.
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She's right on both counts. holder is a scumbag of the first order.
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If she or her son wanted respect or support from the Obama administration, they should have joined the black panthers and stood outside polling stations waving clubs and shouting racial slurs to intimidate non-black voters.
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He is a piece of shit coward and a joke. But we knew this long before he actually made a public ass of himself under oath. And Obama just sits there, oblivious to it all.
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Spanish abstract painter and sculptor. Born in Cuenca. Worked from 1947 to 1966 as a forestry engineer in Teruel and Cuenca. Drew the botanical plates for a scientific book on the forest flora of Spain in 1947. Began to paint, self-taught, in 1951, at first in a figurative style. First one-man exhibition at the Sala Aguirre, Cuenca, 1955. Became friendly with Saura in 1955, was impressed by the paintings of Tàpies and began in 1956-7 to work in a textural abstract style. Obtained bold contrasts of texture by using cardboard, charred wood, pieces of rusty corrugated iron and other materials picked up at random. Then from 1963 began to develop a more simplified geometric abstract style; his later works include large-scale metal sculptures of a Minimal kind, some made as commissions for buildings. Co-founder with Fernando Zóbel and co-director of the Museo de Arte Abstracto Español at Cuenca, where he lives.
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles Theme of Man and the Natural World
Hardy's very interested in the relationship of women to nature, in particular. In Tess of the D'Urbervilles, women are more in touch with the earth than men are, and are able to melt into the landscape and become one with the land in a way that men cannot. Being able to stay in touch with the natural rhythms of the earth is obviously something that Hardy values in this novel.
Questions About Man and the Natural World
- In the world of this novel, is civilization always a negative force?
- Does Angel belong with the side of civilization, or of Nature?
- Why does the arrest scene take place at Stonehenge?
- Hardy often emphasizes the ancientness of the valleys and forests he describes—"Blackmoor Valley," for example, was once covered in an ancient forest, and "The Chase" is the remnant of that primeval forest. Why should Nature be associated with the time-out-of-mind ancient?
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You can't convince San Ramon Valley High's football team that Houston has a problem.
After all, De La Salle High quarterback Bart Houston was dominant Friday night in leading the No. 1 ranked Spartans to a thorough 40-3 victory over the No. 3 Wolves.
Houston, the University of Wisconsin-bound senior who hasn't been happy with his play lately, threw for 237 yards and four touchdowns in a showdown against the Wolves and Cal-bound signal-caller Zach Kline.
"I haven't been having the greatest season I've ever had, especially compared to the last two years," Houston told Bay Area News Group writer Ben Enos. "I just had to go out and prove to everybody and myself that I'm the best quarterback on the field tonight. I think I did that."
De La Salle (7-1, 5-0 East Bay Athletic League) made things rough on Kline and the Wolves as Austin Hooper had five sacks to lead a dominating defensive performance.
Meanwhile, the biggest upset of the night was Granada's 26-22 victory over No. 3 California.
And the most intriguing game may have been No. 9 Freedom's 21-14 victory over No. 10 Deer Valley, which threw the Bay Valley Athletic League into a four-way tie for first place.
The Matadors marched 65 yards on seven plays for the game-winner, with the big play coming on Jeremy Mata's 46-yard hookup with Matt Richards on fourth down.
"These guys never gave up," Granada coach Tim Silva told Bay Area News Group reporter Tony Gonsalez. "Our guys made some huge plays down the stretch, and I'm very proud of them."
Freedom, Deer Valley, Pittsburg and Heritage are all 2-1 after the Pirates also beat the previously undefeated Patriots on Friday.
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Police are investigating a shooting in the 5300 block of Old Court Drive that happened Tuesday evening.
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Supporters released balloons in Newport News on Tuesday, remembering the deceased newborn of a homeless woman.
Challenger Andria McClellan beat out longtime councilman Barclay Winn in the Super Ward 6 race.
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State Senator Kenny Alexander is the mayor-elect of Norfolk, the city's first new mayor in 22 years.
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Security Access Control With Solaris Virtualization
By Thierry Manfe-Oracle on May 26, 2014
Numerous Solaris customers consolidate multiple applications or servers on a single platform. The resulting configuration consists of many environments hosted on a single infrastructure and security constraints sometimes exist between these environments. Recently, a customer consolidated many virtual machines belonging to both their Intranet and Extranet on a pair of SPARC Solaris servers interconnected through Infiniband. Virtual Machines were mapped to Solaris Zones and one security constraint was to prevent SSH connections between the Intranet and the Extranet. This case study gives us the opportunity to understand how the Oracle Solaris Network Virtualization Technology —a.k.a. Project Crossbow— can be used to control outbound traffic from Solaris Zones.
Solaris Zones from both the Intranet and Extranet use an Infiniband network to access a ZFS Storage Appliance that exports NFS shares. Solaris global zones on both SPARC servers mount iSCSI LU exported by the Storage Appliance. Non-global zones are installed on these iSCSI LU. With no security hardening, if an Extranet zone gets compromised, the attacker could try to use the Storage Appliance as a gateway to the Intranet zones, or even worse, to the global zones as all the zones are reachable from this node.
One solution consists in using Solaris Network Virtualization Technology to stop outbound SSH traffic from the Solaris Zones. The virtualized network stack provides per-network link flows. A flow classifies network traffic on a specific link. As an example, on the network link used by a Solaris Zone to connect to the Infiniband, a flow can be created for TCP traffic on port 22, thereby a flow for the ssh traffic. A bandwidth can be specified for that flow and, if set to zero, the traffic is blocked. Last but not least, flows are created from the global zone, which means that even with root privileges in a Solaris zone an attacker cannot disable or delete a flow. With the flow approach, the outbound traffic of a Solaris zone is controlled from outside the zone.
Schema 1 describes the new network setting once the security has been put in place.
Here are the instructions to create a Crossbow flow as used in Schema 1 :
(GZ)# zoneadm -z zonename halt
...halts the Solaris Zone.
(GZ)# flowadm add-flow -l iblink -a transport=TCP,remote_port=22 -p maxbw=0 sshFilter
...creates a flow on the IB partition "iblink" used by the zone to connect to the Infiniband.
This IB partition can be identified by intersecting the output of the commands 'zonecfg -z zonename info net' and 'dladm show-part'.
The flow is created on port 22, for the TCP traffic with a zero maximum bandwidth.
The name given to the flow is "sshFilter".
(GZ)# zoneadm -z zonename boot
...restarts the Solaris zone now that the flow is in place.
Solaris Zones and Solaris Network Virtualization enable SSH access control on Infiniband (and on Ethernet) without the extra cost of a firewall. With this approach, no change is required on the Infiniband switch. All the security enforcements are put in place at the Solaris level, minimizing the impact on the overall infrastructure. The Crossbow flows come in addition to many other security controls available with Oracle Solaris such as IPFilter and Role Based Access Control, and that can be used to tackle security challenges.


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By Brian Bienkowski (The Daily Climate)
NOAA Funds Seven New Projects to Increase Understanding and Response to Climate Impacts on U.S. Fisheries
Our Deadened, Carbon-Soaked Seas
By: Richard W. Spinrad and Ian Boyd
The Point of No Return: Climate Change Nightmares Are Already Here
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Waters Vast and Cold: NOAA and Partners Sail to the Gulf of Alaska to Study Ocean Acidification
By: NOAA Ocean Acidification Program
Welcome to the NOAA Ocean Acidification Program! Ocean acidification is an urgent environmental and economic issue along our nation's coasts and throughout the global oceans.
Ocean acidification is occurring because the world's oceans are absorbing increasing amounts of atmospheric carbon dioxide, leading to lower pH and greater acidity. This is literally causing a sea change and fundamentally changing the chemistry of the ocean from pole to pole.
Ocean acidification generally refers to a pronounced shift in ocean chemistry in response to the uptake of rapidly increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide, but can also be caused by other chemical additions or subtractions from the ocean. Anthropogenic ocean acidification refers to the component of chemical change that is caused by human activity (IPCC: Workshop on Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Marine Biology and Ecosystems). Over the last 250 years, the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide has increased from 280 parts per million to over 400 parts per million due to the burning of fossil fuels (e.g. coal, gas, oil) and land use change (for instance, conversion of natural forest into crop production). Ocean acidification has potentially devastating ramifications for all ocean life; from the smallest, single celled algae to the largest whales.
As a requirement of the FOARAM Act of 2009, the NOAA Ocean Acidification Program was officially established in May 2011. The NOAA OAP is an integral part of a much broader US research effort to increase our understanding about how (and how fast) the chemistry of the ocean is changing, how variable that change is by region, and what impacts these changes are having on marine life, people, and the local, regional, and national economies.
NOAA is coordinating closely with other federal agencies which have strong ocean acidification research or policy portfolios. These include the National Science Foundation (NSF), United States Geological Survey (USGS), National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA), Bureau of Energy Management (BOEM), Department of State (DOS), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services (USF&W), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Department of Defense (DOD), US Department of Agriculture (USDA), National Park Service (NPS), and Department of Energy (DOE). See the Interagency Working Group for further information.


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GOP Lawmaker Loses Leadership Post Over Flood Moves
House Republican leaders removed Rep. Bill Cassidy (R., La.) from a party leadership post on Feb. 5 after he joined Democrats last week in procedural maneuvers to press for a vote delaying planned federal flood-insurance rate increases.
Mr. Cassidy is attempting to win a Senate seat held by Sen. Mary Landrieu (D., La.) in a state that has long faced flood threats. He's pressing for changes to a new flood insurance law that is creating a spike in premiums in some flood-prone regions.
He worked in leadership on the GOP whip team that rounds up support for votes.
"It was very cordial," Mr. Cassidy said in an interview, confirming House Republican Whip Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) "came up to me and said you know what the rules are – if you're not with us on this, you can't be on the whip team."
A spokesman for Mr. McCarthy declined to comment.
The ouster is notable because under House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) Republican leaders have rarely used strong-arm tactics to enforce party discipline. The most prominent example came a little more than a year ago when Mr. Boehner removed some conservatives from prized committees after they had repeatedly opposed leaders on key votes.
Siding with Democrats on procedural votes poses a risk to House leaders, whose power comes in large part from their ability to control what bills come up for a vote on the House floor. If Democrats had sway over which votes were scheduled, that would weaken Republican power.
The decision also revealed how flood insurance has become an under-the-radar source of political turmoil on Capitol Hill. Republicans are divided over whether to delay or roll back flood insurance rates, which are changing under a 2012 law designed to stabilize the money-losing flood insurance program.
Fiscal conservatives say the premium increases are needed to avoid additional taxpayer bailouts. Republicans from flood zones say rates have increased much more than intended, rising to from a few hundred to thousands of dollars a year in some instances. The dispute is aggravated by election-year politics, because lawmakers feel the need to show they are willing to break from their party to protect local interests.
"At some point we all recognize that your commitment to your voters has to trump everything else, and I am OK with that," Mr. Cassidy said, although he acknowledged the whip team was "a good group to be on."
Mr. Cassidy still had good words for House Republican leaders, who have helped arrange for a vote on a GOP alternative to respond to flood-insurance rate increases. "Leadership has worked with us to bring a better flood insurance bill to the floor."


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More than 200 job seekers flocked to Streetsboro High School March 18 for the Streetsboro Area Chamber of Commerce's second annual Employee Expo.
Several companies seeking employees said they were pleased with the turnout at the event, and some who also were at last year's inaugural event said the pool of candidates was stronger and better prepared.
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