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For the estimated 1% of the population with celiac disease, gluten can trigger digestive distress and cause long-term health problems. For the rest of us, gluten is a harmless protein found in grains like wheat, rye and barley that is best known for giving bread its fluffiness. Although it's virtually harmless for the majority of the population, "gluten-free" has become a huge selling point in the food industry, as described in a recent Time article by Katy Steinmetz.
Some people may mistakenly believe that "gluten-free" means "low carb," when they in fact are not related to each other. Nonetheless, it is drawing people into the trend and everything from cake mixes to restaurant menus are popping up with gluten-free items. Americans spent a record $2.6 billion last year to banish gluten from their lives.
You would think that the majority of the gluten-free consumers have celiac disease, right? Not so. The trend followers are actually doing the bulk of the buying. A recent survey by market-research firm Packaged Facts showed that only 8 to 12% of people who purchased gluten-free products did so because of gluten intolerance. Most simply thought these products were healthier or of higher quality or could help them manage their weight.
Food manufacturers are rushing to get in on this newest trend, but the Food and Drug Administration has yet to set a standard for gluten-free labeling. For those with celiac disease, this can be very serious, as even the smallest amount of gluten can trigger a reaction. "Vendors or restaurants will feel it's just a fad, it's another crazy diet and it doesn't matter what we feed to these people," says Tiara Rogers, 34, who has a close friend with celiac disease.
Many health experts stress that gluten is not a dietary evil. As for supposed weight loss benefits, a gluten-free pretzel is not going to take off the pounds any faster than a regular pretzel. In fact, if you avoid only gluten, rather than the carb-packed foods it's typically in, you will likely be getting more calories with fewer nutrients because many substitutes end up being high in surrogate carbs and low in fiber.
The gluten-free trend is another example of a weight loss diet fad that draws in followers, even when people don't know exactly what it is they are following! Have you ever tried the gluten-free diet, or do you know anyone who has? We'd love to hear some feedback about this one!


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Here's how RW members rated this race (191 votes).
In short: Don't think I've ever seen such polarised opinions !In full: Mixed reviews,to say the least,but I enjoyed it and will definitely return.It clearly needs a 3rd water station at around halfway and there should have been some water available at the finish.However,I thought the marshalling was OK and as it's such a straightforward route,it doesn't actually need many.It was as flat as the proverbial pancake and would have undoubted PB potential on a calm,still day.However,today was not that day and the headwind from about mile 9 was a killer.Overall,it was a good,basic, "no frills" race,with a quick course and that's enough for me.Date of review: March 8, 2009
In short: Sorry Nice Work, I have to agree with SOME of the things already said.In full: The water stations!! 'Enough Said'The Goody Bag, Somewhat Poor for the entry fee.But as for some comments about the Marshalls, The only comment I have is I feel the marshal at the 12+ roundabout SHOULD HAVE POINTED THE WAY BUT DIDNT I had to follow other runners.But for the other marshalls, although not very vocal they did there job and I thank them for that.Perhaps in future years this event needs to have people who know what it is like to NOT have enough water and a better finish goody bag content would be great.So NICE WORK keep going because we ALL NEED people who are willing to organise events. And as for some of the people who have commented here need to try organising one themselves before they make harsh comments, I have assisted in running events and organised cycling events and it is NOT as easy as they might think...Date of review: March 8, 2009
In short: The worst organised race I have ever run inIn full: Where do you want me to start. "There will be three drinks station at 3.5 miles, at the halfway point and at 10.5 miles; however if the weather is particularly warm we may add an additional water stop." How does that fit in with the reality of first station at 4+ miles and only other station just under 10 miles. THe stations were badly undermanned, runners do not want to have to stop, I wasted a full minute at the first stop. Even if you are let down at the last minute there is NO EXCUSE for missing out the middle water station, redeploy people, but just get somebody out there.Marshalls were virtually non-existent, I saw none between 4 and 9 miles and I doubt if there were more than a dozen out on the course.I could turn this into a total tirade but I won't, but I will finish with one final observation. As there is no running club involved in this race, or any obvious charity connection, who actually benefits from the proceeds of this race?Date of review: March 8, 2009
In short: Nice race at the coast with lots of wind!In full: I really enjoyed the race today; good scenery, organisation (except for water - but I carried my own bottle so not a problem for me) and good marshalls, especially the one at the turn. Very friendly race and I will be back next year to try and do a PB.Date of review: March 8, 2009
In short: Very enjoyable raceIn full: First time I had done this race & thoroughly enjoyed it. Feel previous comments re marshalls are unjustified as nature of course didn't require many & those on the course did a good job. Would definitely do again. Date of review: March 8, 2009
In short: A pancake flat course let down by some basic errorsIn full: When they say the course is flat. I mean, it is really flat. Really, really flat. Headwind for most of the last 4 miles was a pain in the proverbial. For anyone chasing a PB it is well worth doing.However......Some real basics were missing. I won't go on about the water stations as others already have said it all. I always carry my water bottle with me and I was very glad I did so today. 1st station at 4 miles ??? I know it is difficult to get marshalls to turn out to attend races but I don't think I heard any of them mutter one word of encouragement all the way round. They obviously didn't want to be there. The marshall just after the 12 mile mark was especially rude. Wasn't even wearing a vest, didn't even motion which direction to take until I was almost past him which almost led to me taking a wrong turn into the finishing part.Not having water close to the finishing line was a real schoolboy error. Yes, it was only a short walk to get some but after having run 13 miles it is nice to have it a little closer.Shame, as all these things are quite easy to put right but, until they are, I won't be doing this one again. Date of review: March 8, 2009
In short: Quite disappointed!In full: I'd ignore comments about a PB potential. It is flat but it is ALWAYS very windy in the area so PB's are unlikely. The lack of water stations (one doubling up on an out and back route - and none at the finish) is really not good enough for a 'serious' race of this distance (although previous comment intimates race organisers were let down at 11th hour). With strong sun and high winds, I really struggled without fluid despite having my own bottle to start with. Lack of stewards saw people taking different routes around 'The Rype' at the end - I'm not sure if I ran too short, just right or too long - or what my time was. The closest race to my home but I won't bother again.Date of review: March 8, 2009
In short: Good half marathon if only the wind could stop for once!In full: Nice, smaller race suitable for all standards. PB potential is very good but for the seemingly gale force winds on the return home for the last 4 miles. Support a little patchy but then again this is quite a remote part of the South East! What support was out there was appreciated.The lack of a water station was, I understand, due to some promised support not materialising on the day. Not an issue for me as I tend to carry a drink for the first half of the race anyway.Good to have the use of the Village Hall this year which meant much more space.A really good touch was the fact that the kids race took place before the adults meaning we could see our kids run! Nice for the kids to have the support of the other runners too rather than be relegated to after the main event.Date of review: March 8, 2009
In short: WindyIn full: Great local race. Got myself a PB, which i didnt expect this morning with the windy conditions. Battled with the wind for the whole 2nd half of the race back to HQAgree with the comments about the missing water station and feel sorry for people having to wait for water. Have to remember this is only the 2nd year of the race and as numbers pick up the goody bag should improve and any minor problems can be addressed.Keep up the good workDate of review: March 8, 2009
In short: Water water everywhere but not a drop to drink!In full: One water station at 4 miles is pathetic, particularly on a sunny warm day and especially as 3 were advertised. Overpriced event, at best, casually organised with a dreadful goody bag, all for the princely sum of £17. Just for the record this is the first negative review I've ever had to leave in over three years of plodding around races.Date of review: March 8, 2009
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On April 6, 2011, the Department of State and Meridian International Center hosted a reception to celebrate the opening of the U.S. Embassy Kabul-funded exhibit, "In Small Things Remembered: The Early Years of U.S.-Afghan Relations." Over 300 guests viewed the 80 photographs and documents that recalled the first Peace Corps volunteers in Afghanistan, visits to the White House by Afghan kings, infrastructure projects, and cultural emissaries such as Duke Ellington and Dave Brubeck.
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Silver Creek working to get DPW in compliance
By NICOLE GUGINO
OBSERVER Assistant News Editor
SILVER CREEK – The village of Silver Creek's decision to occupy the old Bentges Distribution building as a department of public works after the 2009 flood has led to one problem after another.
After what has been called a "heated discussion" between the village and the town, the Hanover Zoning Board of Appeals granted the village a special use permit for the village. However, with the permit also came stipulations for the village to meet.
Zoning Board Chairman Kevin Waterman explained the board stipulated the village must tie into the town's sewer system and move the driveway along Route 5/20. He said these requirements were decided upon by the ZBA to make the building safer and ore consistent with other buildings in the area.
"They were decided for the fact it would make it safer there. … That building at the time had its own private septic system and they were never required to hook up to the public sewer and we felt that needed to be done. They were going to change the driveway and make it farther east from the stoplight … This was all to make it more compatible with the area," Waterman said.
The ZBA issued the permit in October after thorough research.
"This was a pretty heated discussion between the village of Silver Creek (and the ZBA). … We did a lot of research on this and they met the requirements of different cases that have gone to court over the years. That is how we drew our decision. I believe if someone meets the requirements for a special use permit you can't deny it in zoning. And to deny this they probably would have been entitled to file an Article 78 (lawsuit) against the zoning board and taken us to court … It would have been a waste of taxpayer money for the town of Hanover and the village of Silver Creek," Waterman explained.
He said although the ZBA did not set a time limit for the village to comply, the longer it takes the more the board feels the heat.
"We did not put a stipulation on it for time, anyone with a special use permit, not just the village of Silver Creek, can have their special use revoked at a public hearing if they do not comply with the stipulations of their special use," he said. "It would nice if they could comply with this as soon as possible … I feel the town supervisor (Todd Johnson) brought this up because it makes decisions hard when people don't comply and then other people come to us and say, 'Why do I have to comply when they didn't?'"
Waterman said he thought the village was going to undertake the compliance projects once they received FEMA funding for the DPW and believed the special use permit was what was needed to secure the funding. However, the village has still not received the FEMA funding for the building with the latest update saying FEMA could take up to six months to consider the application.
Trustee Nick Piccolo, who is running unopposed for mayor, said in an interview with the OBSERVER that the village fully intends to come into compliance as soon as possible.
"We were issued the special use permit in October of last year then we had the inclement weather. During this time, we have been trying to get things all in place we are able to comply with all the requirements that we need to comply with the town as well as the county and the state," Piccolo explained.
He said village Streets Foreman Ralph Crawford has been coordinating the requirements from the county and state Department of Transportation and Department of Conservation in order to do the compliance projects. Piccolo said he also asked Crawford to attend the town board meeting Monday to explain the progress to town officials.
"It's not that the village is trying to not do what they have required us to do. Its just basically being able to get everything set up getting the right-of-way permits and the approval from the DEC and the county," Piccolo said. "Ralph has been in contact with Mark (Ellis) from the town to discuss the type of pipe and everything that is going to be permitted for our hookups (into the sewer system). There is progress being made, but … there was no communication going on and now there is. Once the weather breaks we hope to start on our projects and do the things that we have to do so that we are in compliance."
He said it was a misunderstanding that FEMA funding would be used for the projects adding the village plans to budget the expense of the project in the 2013-14 budget.
"I think everybody figured that the money (the village already received) was going to be used to make the building compliant but that is not the case. The FEMA money is to replace the contingency funds and money that has already been spent for doing the work that had to be done at the fire hall to replace the equipment that was damaged during the flood. The DPW portion of the FEMA money, which will cover the cost of the building also will cover some of the expenses that need to be done to upgrade the building. But the funding for the (zoning) projects, we have to basically find that money," he explained.
He said the village is still working on its budget.
"We have to finish our preparation for next year and we have to find out what funding will be available for everything. It isn't that we don't have money or we aren't going to do the project its just that once the weather breaks and we have final approval from the state DOT and everybody that's involved, we will go forward with the project and complete it," he added.
When reached for comment Crawford said he would like the town to hear his report first at its meeting on Monday.


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Well, it is too early to say that. But it was great that that we had 15 folks turn out for a three-week series on learning to practice mindfulness meditation. This class is conducted by yours truly, and is being graciously hosted by the Canton YWCA. The response has been so good, that we'll almost certainly do another one in the near future.
In addition, Spoon River Counseling & Wellness was invited by Liz Utzinger to do three 30-minute workshops on mindfulness for last Friday's retreat for Students With Advocacy Training (SWAT), a large group of area high school students committed to helping their peers and their communities. There were about 20 kids in each group. What a fantastic group of young people they were, too. Teenagers so often get a bad rap, it was really great to work with a bunch of polite, respectful, curious and bright young people.
There are a number of benefits that one may derive from the practice of mindfulness, including increased health, psychological well-being and improved performance. It seems as though there are a number of local folks who agree.
The Daily Ledger also recently ran a column I wrote about mindfulness. You can see it here.


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Florida's Failed Education Policy
A Report by People For the American Way, February 2004
Education is a fundamental value of the people of Florida, whose state constitution even calls for a "high-quality system of free public schools." But rather than live up to this commitment, the state—led by Governor Jeb Bush and a Republican legislature—has embarked on a series of programs that undermine public education.
Florida's Department of Education has invested heavily in privatizing education through voucher and tuition tax credit schemes, and by funneling millions of taxpayer dollars into homeschooling without oversight or accountability. On the other hand, the state has inflexible and often punitive accountability policies for its public schools, such as high-stakes testing that as one state senator puts it, "are doing more harm than good in an effort to 'leave no child behind.'" Rather than investing critical resources in public schools or proven reforms such as class size reduction, the state has rushed to embrace unproven privatization. Even the state's employee pension fund, which includes the earnings of education employees, has been invested in a failing company that is in the business of privatizing education.
As this report demonstrates, the state of Florida is pursuing irresponsible education policies and using taxpayer dollars to the detriment of public education. Rather than investing in public education for every child, Florida is investing millions for a handful of students in untested private programs, contrary to the will of its people and the requirements of its constitution.
Dereliction of Duty explores the following issues:
Vouchers and Tuition Tax Credits
Florida's three voucher and tuition tax credit programs have cost more than $200 million. These programs were drafted with inadequate oversight and enforcement, resulting in financial and accountability problems that have prompted state officials to conduct five separate investigations, including a criminal one.
Although parents who homeschool their children are not supposed to receive state funds to do so, Florida's Department of Education is spending more than $8 million in public taxpayer money to support students who are being homeschooled.
Testing and Graduation
Unlike private schools, which are not held to any performance standards, public schools and students are carefully evaluated and sanctioned for inadequate progress. Schools that fail to meet state expectations lose funding and enrollment, preventing them from serving the needs of their students.
Class Size
Rather than reducing class sizes as dictated by Amendment 9, which passed in 2002, Governor Jeb Bush has fought to repeal the amendment as too costly, while ignoring special interest exemptions and corporate tax breaks that cost the state billions each year.
Edison and Pension Funds
Florida's Board of Administration has chosen to invest the state's employee pension fund, which includes the earnings of education employees, in a company that is not only financially unstable and unprofitable, but that also threatens public education by attempting to privatize it.


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Storm struck
A popular myth says lightning doesn't strike the same place twice, but it seems to have struck the Fredonia area twice during Wednesday night's powerful storms.
According to WDOE, a lightning strike caused heavy damage to an old chestnut tree at 50 Central Ave. after it hit the top of the tree around 11:50 p.m., causing it to "explode." Debris from the strike was reported on Central Avenue and nearby Curtis Place.
A firefighter with the Dunkirk Fire Department quickly checked out the tree to see if any damage or fire was present at the scene. Nothing major was reported.
The Chautauqua County Sheriff's Office also reported to the OBSERVER that a second tree was downed in the town of Busti during the storms.
In a separate incident on the same night, the Fredonia Fire Department was called to a fire on 4617 West Main Road, just outside the village limits.
According to a press release by the fire department, crews made quick work of a barn fire that was ignited by an apparent lightning strike around 11:22 p.m. By the time the fire was reported under control at 11:50 p.m., the structure had received heavy damage to the west rear corner, along with a 12 foot by 14 foot shed that was destroyed. The remainder of the barn had smoke and water damage.
Brocton, the West Town of Dunkirk and the East Town of Dunkirk fire companies also assisted. City of Dunkirk firefighters stood by at the Fredonia fire station while crews were out.
Fredonia Second Assistant Chief John Lanphere wished to thank the mutual aid companies for their assistance at the scene.
To view a video of the West Main Road fire, click on this article on www.observertoday.com.


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Stock option backdating is not illegal. Improper identification and disclosure of grants, however, can violate accounting rules, SEC rules, and IRS rules.
Why is stock option backdating a tax issue? When a company backdates an incentive stock option (ISO) award, it assigns a "grant date" that is earlier than the actual grant date. The option is backdated to give it a lower exercise price, thereby making the option immediately valuable. That renders the incentive purpose of the option moot and violates IRS rules. Properly reported, an "in-the-money" option should be treated as a non- qualified option (NQO) and reported as wages with full federal state, local and payroll tax liabilities accounted for. The company's financial statements should recognize the cost of the grant as compensation expense.
The fifth and latest edition of the classic textbook, Taxes and Business Strategy, A Planning Approach, includes a compact primer on the tax issues surrounding the 2005-2007 stock option backdating controversy.
Merle Erickson, a professor of accounting at Chicago Booth, joins Myron Scholes, Professor of Finance Emeritus at Stanford University, Nobel Prize winner, Chicago PhD, and former professor of finance at Booth from 1974 to 1983, and four more distinguished authors in a book that provide business professionals of all kinds with a general framework for thinking about taxes at the corporate and individual level.
Erik Lie of the University of Iowa gets the credit for identifying, in a 2005 research paper, a systemic pattern by companies to assign a grant date that coincides with the lowest share price that month, thereby manipulating the option exercise price to immediately maximize the value of the option grant. Lie suggested that as many as 2000 companies may have backdated stock options. His paper prompted an investigation by the SEC, Department of Justice, IRS, and the audit regulator the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB).
Erickson and the authors explain that, per SFAS 123, an accounting standard, "in-the-money" stock options should have been disclosed, in the financial statement footnotes, as compensation expense. According to research firm Audit Analytics, the stock option backdating investigations resulted in 153 restatements of previously issued financial statements by companies during 2006 and 2007 because companies failed to properly disclose this compensation expense. The stock market reacted negatively to these restatements. This reaction provides, according to a study in 2009 by Gennaro Bernile and Gregg Jarrell, an estimate of the size of agency costs—unanticipated management opportunism arising from poorly governed companies.
Audit Analytics also says only 13 cases were filed against auditors for giving bad advice and only four auditor settlements exceeded one million dollars. Booth Professor Emeritus Roman Weil, and his co-author Jennifer Milliron, argue in a chapter of the Handbook of Litigation Services that the financial illiteracy of executives, lawyers, and auditors with regard to stock option accounting and disclosure rules during the period leading up to Lie's discovery, while regrettable, is understandable. "The courts should not expect anyone to have followed 'rules' that the accounting profession failed to clarify."
Weil and Milliron scoured the accounting guidance and literature on stock option accounting and auditing and found that for "as-of" grants—those granted with a date prior to the actual grant date—the accounting literature failed to clearly define the technical terms "date of grant" and "measurement date" until 2006. They defend senior executives from "charges of known or reckless behavior with respect to accounting issues" because executives, especially in the technology industry where the practice was prevalent, generally lacked focus on Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) during the years when the practice was common. The ambiguity of the accounting rules didn't help.
But should we let auditors, in particular, off the hook so easily? Every Big Four audit firm made millions in additional consulting fees as forensic accounting investigators hired by law firms to investigate stock option backdating issues. In a recent blog post, venture capitalist Ben Horowitz says everyone knew auditors advised on and blessed the stock option backdating approaches that eventually resulted in civil and sometimes criminal penalties.
Some law firms, like McDermott Will & Emery, warned audit firms as early as in 2006 that claims against them were coming. "Often it is the auditing firms that provide advice concerning issuance of stock options and related tax ramifications. Moreover, auditors review and opine on the financial statements of public companies quarterly and annually." McDermott advised auditors to steer clear of involvement in internal investigations of the backdating issues if the auditor played any part in designing, approving, or implementing the plans in question.
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 changed the reporting requirements for stock option grants. Corporate insiders now have to report grants and exercises in two days rather than ten. If options are backdated by more than two days, it will appear as if the grants are being reported late. It's now impossible to materially juice the value of the option grant through backdating without inviting suspicion. New backdating of grant dates, and exercise dates, has almost disappeared now that the window of opportunity has narrowed.


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- 6 chicken drumsticks, bone-in, skin removed
- 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 teaspoon smoked paprika
- 1 teaspoon garam masala
- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon turmeric
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 2 large Vidalia onions, peeled, quartered and thinly sliced
- 1/4 cup raisins
- 2 tablespoons rum
DirectionsWatch how to make this recipe.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Wash the chicken and pat dry. In a baking dish large enough to hold the chicken in 1 layer, mix together the lemon juice, brown sugar, oil, garlic, paprika, garam masala, ginger, turmeric, a pinch of salt and a few grinds of black pepper. Add the chicken and toss to coat. Arrange the chicken in a single layer in the baking dish. Cover the dish with aluminum foil and transfer to the oven. Bake until the chicken reaches 150 degrees F on an instant-read thermometer, about 35 minutes.
While the chicken bakes, warm the butter in a pan over medium-low heat. Add the onions and a pinch of salt. Saute, cooking slowly, until the onions are golden brown and caramelized, about 20 minutes. Stir in the raisins and rum, and use a wooden spoon to loosen any onion bits from the bottom of the pan. Cook until the alcohol evaporates, leaving just the rum scented flavor, about 2 minutes, then remove the pan from the heat. When the chicken reaches 150 degrees F, spoon the onion-raisin mixture over the chicken. Raise the oven temperature to 400 degrees F, then return chicken to the oven and bake for 10 minutes more, uncovered. The chicken will be fully cooked when it reaches 160 degrees F. Transfer to a serving platter and serve warm or cold.
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Market research company DisplaySearch said that netbooks and slate-type personal computers will be the fastest growing PC products segments this year. Nevertheless, the market share of tablets will be negligible and will only reach approximately 2.3% of all portable personal computers.
For 2010, the total portable PC market is expected to grow to 215 million units and $117 billion, according to a new report by DisplaySearch. The netbook and tablet categories will be the fastest-growing segment of the portable PC market for 2010, propelled in part by the introduction of slates. However, clamshell style devices will continue to grow as well. Moreover, year-on-year growth of notebooks will not be much behind that of netbooks and tablets (25% vs. 28.5%). DisplaySearch expects slates to take some market share from clamshell-style netbook PCs, as well as lure customers that desire more functionality away from the e-reader market.
Even though tablet PCs will show rather dramatic increase in sales, the market research company only expects around five million units to ship in 2010. Therefore, the actual share of slate PCs will be around 2.3% of all portable personal computers or even lower, if consider the fact that a lot of slates will feature platforms from mobile phones with large screens, which is why it makes sense to compare them to smartphones as well.
According to DisplaySearch, the majority of slate volume will ship into the North American and Western European markets due, in large part, to distribution plans for Apple iPad and known content agreements.
DisplaySearch expects continued strong growth in emerging markets and a recovery of B2B spending in the second half of the year to lead to 25.7% year-on-year growth as the market surges towards 215 million units.
Strong unit growth and lower erosion of average selling prices (ASPs) in 2010 will combine to grow portable PC market revenue to almost $117 billion, recovering to 2008 levels. Revenue growth is forecast to be strongest in the netbook/slate category due to the introduction of higher-priced products. ASPs for netbooks have steadily eroded from $400 down to just under $300, DisplaySearch notes, meanwhile, Apple iPad has ASPs that start at $499 and increase to more than $800.
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The old adage applies "You can't please everyone. Presidents can't. Prostitutes can't. Nobody can." I am reminded of that as I fielded a variety of interesting comments and emails about, of all things, my choice of order of things in recent blog posts.
Certainly, there are times when the order of things matters greatly. In my now-infamous blog post [Sock Sock Shoe Shoe], I use a scene from a popular 1970's television show to explain why compression should be done before encryption.
In my case, I put things in the order that I felt made sense to me, but not everyone agrees. Here are three recent examples:
- Example 1:
In my blog post [Two IBMers Earn Their Retirement], I congratulated two of my colleagues on their retirement. Since their retirement happened on the same day, I decided to mention Mark Doumas first, and Jim Rymarczyk second.
However, one of my readers, who I will assume is a member of the unofficial "Jim Rymarczyk fan club", felt that I should have listed Jim first, as Jim served IBM for 44 years, and Mark only 32 years.
Really? I realize that movie stars insist on having their name listed first on the poster, but neither of these guys would be confused with George Clooney!
So, to Jim and all his fans out there, I assure you I did not mean this as a slight in any way. I have updated the post to indicate that the ordering was strictly alphabetical by last name.
- Example 2:
In my blog post [IBM Announcements for February 2012], I presented tape products first, and disk second. Normally, I cover them alphabetically, disk first, then tape. However, I was asked to promote tape this year in preparation for the upcoming 60th anniversary of tape, so I mentioned the tape announcements first, and the disk second.
The feedback from the XIV community was swift. Many felt that I [buried the lede] in not mentioning the XIV Gen3 SSD caching first.
(Note: For those not familiar with the phrase used in journalism, 'burying the lede' refers to the failure to mention the most interesting or attention grabbing elements of a story in the first paragraph. In American news journalism, it is spelled "lede" and elsewhere it is spelled "lead". Major US dictionaries apparently accept both spellings for this phrase.)
Technically, my lead paragraph stated clearly that: "This week we have announcements for both disk and tape, but since 2012 is the 60th Diamond Anniversary for tape, I will start with tape systems first."
So, while I don't claim to be a journalist by any means, I think the lead paragraph accurately reflected that I would talk about both disk and tape products in the rest of the blog post, and if a reader didn't care to learn more about tape could bypass those sections and go directly to the section on disk instead.
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I have had my head handed to me on a platter so many times here at IBM that I am considering installing a zipper around my neck. My friends in XIV land insisted that I write a secondary post about XIV Gen3 SSD caching that had no mention of tape whatsoever. One suggestion was to compare and contrast XIV Gen3 SSD caching with EMC's announcement for VFCache. The result was my blog post [IBM XIV Gen3 SSD Caching versus EMC VFCache].
What could go wrong with an apples-to-orange comparison of two different storage products sprinkled with a small amount of FUD against a major competitor?
I had two complaints on this one. First, is the order of products in my side-by-side table of comparisons. I put EMC VFCache in the left column, and IBM XIV Gen3 SSD caching in the right. I meant nothing sinister by this. Alphabetically, EMC comes before IBM, and VFCache comes before XIV. Chronologically, EMC's announcement came out on Monday, and IBM's announcement came out the following day.
(Note: The term [sinster] comes from the Latin word sinistra meaning "left hand". In the Middle Ages it was believed that when a person was writing with their left hand they were possessed by the Devil. Left-handed people were therefore considered to be evil. My poor mother was born left-handed and was forced as a child to write with her right hand to be accepted by society.)
Apparently, an unwritten convention within IBM is that comparison tables always have the newer product on the left column, followed by one or more older products to the right, or the IBM product on the left column, with one or more competitive alternatives to the right.
The second complaint came from a reader in the comments section: "... I think [what] you're doing is trying to ride EMC's release for your own marketing, did you really need to? XIV is an excellent array; adding SSD Cache to the Gen3 takes it further, Moshe would be fuming (which I think is a good thing), can you just stick to that and not ride someone else's wave?"
Both announcements relate to reducing latency of read IOPS through the use of Solid State Drives. That both companies would announce these were no surprise to any employee at either company, as both IBM and EMC have been talking about their intent to do so last year. IBM's announcement of XIV SSD Gen3 caching was certainly not in response to EMC's VFCache announcement, and I doubt EMC rushed out their VFCache announcement the day before as a pre-emptive strike against IBM's announcement of the XIV Gen3 SSD Caching feature.
Rather, both announcements reflect the growing acceptance of SSD in the data center. I wasn't the only blogger to draw this comparison. See also Peter Velikin's [4 Observations], Charles King's [Cache as Cache Can: New SSD Options Boost Performance], and Rachel Kossman's [Week in review].
And then there was this tweet:
(Note: I don't know her personally, but she has thousands of followers!)
There you have it. I will gladly fix false or misleading information, but I am not going to re-arrange the order of things just to please some readers, only to have other readers complain that they liked it better in the original order. As always, feel free to comment on any of this in the section below.
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Gateway Services: scale the application availability by distributing the workload across multiple servers.
This release also includes the possibility to record remote desktop sessions for later playback from within the Thinfinity® Remote Desktop Server web interface.
Moreover, now every configured connection can have its own URL, allowing for the creation of shortcuts for rapid and simplified end-user's access to remote desktops and apps.
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- Multi-touch input redirection. Send the input of up to ten simultaneous fingers to be interpreted in the remote OS.
- Record Remote Desktop (RDP) sessions and play them back within the Thinfinity® Remote Desktop web interface.
- Create shortcuts to any configured connection.
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- Populate Microsoft RD Web Access links.
- Store Analytics data in MS-SQL database.
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Both editions take advantage of the HTML5 Web browser technology to deliver high-performance RDP access, using only web standards like Ajax, WebSockets and JSON.
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The Server is a more appropriate solution for Terminal Server environments, large deployments requiring profile management and to publish applications, granting access to a single app instead of sharing the whole desktop.
Besides, the Server Edition of Thinfinity® Remote Desktop includes an SDK library that allows you to publish Windows applications and desktops to the web. This SDK library makes possible the smooth integration of your own Website or application with other existing Windows applications.
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- Windows Server 2008 32-bit / Windows Server 2008 64-bit
- Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2
Gateway Services Machine
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- Windows Vista 32-bit / Windows Vista 64-bit
- Windows 7 32-bit / Windows 7 64-bit
- Windows 8 and 8.1 32-bit / Windows 8 and 8.1 64-bit
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- Windows Server 2008 32-bit / Windows Server 2008 64-bit
- Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2
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Thinfinity® Remote Desktop Server can be embbeded into any web page, allowing the integration of any Internet/Intranet website or application with any legacy windows application.
The published windows application will be available to any device with a modern web browser, PC, MAC, Chromebooks, iPad, iPhone, Android devices, etc.
As a simple demonstration, you can access our demo website where you'll be able to access a virtual desktop.
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There are many ways of integrating Thinfinity® Remote Desktop Server with your current environment. Find below some of the features designed to help with this task:
The Server Edition of Thinfinity® Remote Desktop Server includes an SDK library that allows you to publish Windows applications and desktops to the web. Through this SDK library you will be able to integrate your own Website or application with an existing Windows application.
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Thinfinity® Remote Desktop Server incorporates a mechanism to validate users in a corporate environment so that the user will not need to authenticate every time he enters Thinfinity® Remote Desktop Server. The previous coorporate authentication method (Active Directory or any other) can be seamlessly and securely integrated to Thinfinity® Remote Desktop Server. Learn more on the Thinfinity® Remote Desktop Server Guide External authentication page.
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Both, the Server and the Workstation Edition of Thinfinity® Remote Desktop Server have a simple Web interface which can be customized and tailored to your match you branding scheme. Read more about the customization options in the suitable edition help file, at the documentation section.
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The Thinfinity® Remote Desktop Server Access Profiles integration enables external applications to:
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- Create new profiles
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Skip to comments.Atlanta TV Exposes Dem Congressman Yelling At Healthcare Questioner [More how-dare-you elitism]
Posted on 08/08/2009 10:30:20 AM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out
As national media outlets and their employees depict town hall meeting protesters as right-wing outsiders organized by conservative organizations, the Atlanta affiliate of NBC aired a segment Friday evening that should act as a fine example of how this uprising in America should be covered.
11 Alive reporter Duffie Dixon not only showed a heated exchange between Rep. David Scott (D-13th District) and a man asking him about his position on pending healthcare legislation in the House, but also interviewed the questioner when Scott erroneously contended the man was not a constituent and was only trying to hijack his meeting.
As Dixon shared with her viewers, not only wasn't the questioner an organized outsider, he was actually a local doctor (video embedded below the fold, h/t Hot Air via Terri Green):
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Someone needs to remind him that he works for and not the other way around.
Someone needs to remind him that he works for US and not the other way around.
This congressman has a really bad case of "Don't ask me anything that makes me uncomfortable or makes me look bad."
Demonrats being exposed as the tyrants they desire to be and showing why they cannot be trusted with healthcare.
Somebody is racist!
"I'm the Boss...your the little people...got it?"
These congressment get increasingly arrogant the longer they stay in D.C. In their view, their constituents are supposed to applaud their shuck and jive routine and vote for them until they're ready to retire.
Questions and opposition are not to be countenanced.
Whats funny is that the good doctors not even a republican. Stupid democrats think all the people in their party support a government takeover when they don't.
This congress clown is pretty arrogant and hostile to the tax payers he works for. What a worthless piece of $hit!
Very predictable behavior, shout at the questioner and then lie through the teeth. I guess that is what the DNC put out as "the talking points" LIE LIE LIE, and if that don't work,lie again and call on the SEIU thugs.
Cong. Scott, you are an elitist. How many people will be "approved" to enter your healthcare meeting to ask questions? The cost of healthcare has skyrocketed BECAUSE of government involvement...and you want to give us even more of the same? Lunacy!
Why do communists always look so angry and full of hate? They never seem to be happy unless they are unhappy and miserable.
Since 1978, Scott has owned Dayn-Mark Advertising, which places billboards and other forms of advertising in the Atlanta area. Scott's wife, Alfredia, now heads the business. In May 2007, it was reported that the business owes more than $150,000 in back taxes and penalties. Scott's campaigns have paid the company more than $500,000 since 2002 for office rent, printing, T-shirts, and other services. He has also paid his wife, two daughters, and son-in-law tens of thousands of dollars for campaign work such as fund raising and canvassing.
In 2007, Scott was named one of the 22 most corrupt members of Congress by the political watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington In addition to the above complaints Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington also brought into question David Scott's character after he called his Congressional opponent, Deborah Honeycutt, a 'bitch.' After it was reported that Congressman Scott had called Dr. Deborah Honeycutt a 'bitch,' Donzella James, Scott's 2008 Democratic Primary Opponent, issued this statement: "[David Scott] has been disrespectful to me and other women in my presence. Even in mixed company, he often makes vulgar references that are less than gentlemanly."
Not surprised he called his opponent a "bitch." Looked like he was very close to letting loose a racial epithet on the doctor in the clip. Hateful, corrupt, vulgar, mendacious. . . CongressThug Scott you are an embarassment to your constituents, your party. . . and really, all of humanity.
so, why do people keep re-electing such scum?
Dr. Hill couldn't POSSIBLY be a constituent of Rep. Scott-he's white. (so thought Rep Scott)
Because its a majority democrap district, and a majority of the democraps in that district think the same way he does.
they keep saying a mere "man" was being yelled at by Rep. Scott.
That man was a Doctor in Rep. Scott's district. They should both be addressed by their title.
Oops. Caught that they did say he was a doctor.
It is clear that letters and faxes and phone calls to DC and to District Offices are pretty much "old school" and are not working and a lot of these Congressman are going to vote for Socialized Medicine even if 70% of their constituents are angry and opposed. This TOWN HALL approach seems to be the best for now. Of course, they will then move to stop those, and we will have to find some other way to smoke out and corner these sniveling, fleeing rats. They can run but they cannot hide. LOL>
The Political Class believes they are the aristocracy in the new American caste system.
break out the tar and feathers for this Congressional POS...
Turns out that the congressman was wrong on both charges he screamed out.
And that doctor rocks.
This guy is dumb as rocks with a attitude.
If not mistaken, Scott is the brother-in-law of the Hammer, Henry Aaron.
How did THIS get past the national headquarters of NBC?? Here's a reporter who could wind up fired. Everyone at NBC knows you don't report anything embarrassing to democrats!
Take note of how theses RATS are behaveing and don't vote for another RAT for at least 5 yrs., no matter what they tell you they stand for. Some will die off etc.
What an arrogant #@@hole. He points that finger at me and I break it off and shove it up other locales on his person.
What an arrogant #@@hole. He points that finger at me and I break it off and shove it up other locales on his person.
We need to keep pushing their buttons until they completely lose their minds. They are in the midst of a major power implosion. They thought every socialist plan they had would just slip through in an unstoppable juggernaut. Reality is hitting them hard these days.
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"For the wages of sin is death…"
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--Revelation 21:8
It may surprise you that "whoever keeps the whole law of God yet stumbles in one point has become guilty of all."
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If you have ever sinned, or told just one lie, then the penalty for your sin is death, eternal separation from God I hell forever.
But the Good News is that JESUS CHRIST died on the cross to pay for all your sins.
"The wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."
"But God demonstrated His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us,"
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You can receive God's free gift of eternal life by faith in Jesus Christ because of God's grace
"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith – and that not of yourselves, it is the GIFT OF GOD – not by works . . . for we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works . . . "
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Eternal life is a free gift for you but costly for Jesus because He paid for it with His blood. You cannot earn it by doing good works. You can only receive it by faith. Repentance and good works are the evidences of your faith.
Pray the following prayer to express your faith in Jesus Christ:
Lord Jesus, thank you for loving me. I confess that I am a sinner. Thank you for dying on the cross to pay for all my sins. Please come into my heart, forgive my sins and be my Lord and Savior. I accept your free gift of eternal life. By your power, I will live my life to please you. I love You. Amen.
If you just trusted in Jesus Christ, you can know that you have eternal life!
"These I have written to you who believe in the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. . .
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6. A chorino
7. Django Reinhardt's "Djangology"
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I have been shopping MBA programs and given my current employment status a full time program was not really an option. I was forced to look at either a local (New England) Executive MBA program or a distance program. I was surprised at some of the schools that offer distance programs; Duke, UNC, Indiana, Florida, Penn St. are some off the top of my head. All those programs are listed as top 30 Business schools.
Here are my questions:
If you are a hiring director or VP and you get a resume and it has an advanced degree accomplished by distance learning, do you treat it the same as someone who attended the in resident program? The degrees say the same thing.
How credible do you think the programs are? I would assume Fuqua (Duke) would be very credible as it is a top 10 school, but what about places like University of Phoenix?
Would you consider a CSU MBA completed in resident as being superior to a Phoenix MBA?
There was a lot of talk about the degree mills a couple of years ago, I can tell you that if I were a hiring manager I would be very skeptical of any degree from a school I had never heard of (and some that I have).
FWIW, I have decided on a local Executive MBA program (assuming I gain admission).


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My typeless pure functional lazy call-by-name language seems to be working out quite well so I thought I'd talk about two aspects of it:
Firstly: my goal has been to construct something as simple as possible that is as powerful as possible. I've basically got it down to just five instructions: push an integer onto the stack, push a pointer to a function, push a duplicate of the nth item down on the stack, push a closure and tidy up a stack frame. Those 5 instructions are then translated into C. Everything else is provided by libraries (eg. plus, minus, seq) or is part of the runtime (ie. garbage collector and the loop that decides which reduction to perform next). The core compiler is basically ten lines of code - the other 300 lines are mainly the parser that has to deal with the quirkiness of any Haskell-like syntax. Yet with this tiny compiler that compiles to just these five operations I've found it possible to write things like a monadic parser, implement monad transformers, and do simple logic programming using the list monad. I'm astonished by how far you can get with so little programming. The moral is, starting from next to nothing you get a lot more bang for your buck with functional programming. (Sometimes it even competes tolerably, performancewise, with Hugs).
Secondly: I thought I'd mention my handling of monads. The compiler only supports three types - integers, pairs and functions so we have no type inferencing tricks to generate the glue to make monads as easy to use as they are in Haskell. Nonetheless I eventually figured out a way to make monads almost as painless as in Haskell. There were two things I needed to do:
(A) Redefine the semantics of " {" and "}". In Haskell anything between "do {" and "}" is glued together using the bind function where bind is overloaded. What I did was similar. Anything between "{" and "}" is glued together using a function. But I don't use the bind function. Instead I define "{ <statements> }" to be a function that uses its argument to bind the statements together. It's then easy to define something like:
do f = f bind.
and we end up with code that looks like Haskell's again. Unfortunately this definition is only useful in the presence of polymorphism because it commits us to using the global 'bind' function. So the way to deal with this is to
(B) Reify monads. I simply define a monad to be the pair (bind:return) where bind and return are the bind and return funtions for the monad. (I use ':' to define pairs as in my language non-null lists are simply pairs constructed form the head and tail of the list.) I can then define do as
do monad f = f (head monad).
return monad = tail monad.
So now the price I have to pay for the lack of types is just that I have to parameterise uses of do and return with the monad. This isn't too onerous, for example you get code looking like:
putLine l = if l then
doIO {
putChar (head l);
putLine (tail l)
returnIO 0.
where I've defined doIO = do IO etc.
It gets a little more complex with monad transformers. As monads are reified, a monad transformer in my language is an actual function that maps a monad to a monad. For example, here's part of the definition of the StateT monad transformer:
returnStateT monad x s = return monad (x:s).
bindStateT monad m k s = bind monad (m s) (\as -> k (head as) (tail as)).
doStateT monad f = f (bindStateT monad).
-- Actually construct the transformed monad.
StateT monad = bindStateT monad : returnStateT monad.
In some ways these definitions are actually simpler than the corresponding Haskell definitions. In Haskell you communicate information to the compiler about which bind and return to use by your choice of type. So you find yourself repeatedly wrapping and unwrapping objects (eg. using runStateT). No such issue here, a sequence of statements in the state monad can simply be applied immediately to the input state.
Anyway, the monad transformer examples I came up with earlier now carry over to my new language like so:
prog = do (StateT State) {
liftStateT State (modify (plus 1));
a <- liftStateT State get;
modifyT State (plus 10);
b <- getT State;
liftStateT State $ put (a+b);
c <- getT State;
return (StateT State) $ c+1
Note that I chose to make everything explicit. I could easily have made local definitions like lift = liftStateT State to make things look more like Haskell.
Anyway, I'm pretty pleased. With a few hours of coding here and there over a period of two weeks I've written my first compiler of standalone executables in 20 years and it's already at the stage where it wouldn't be hard to port its own compiler to itself. (My previous compiler was an adventure game DSL written in BASIC and based on the one here (though I don't think the acronym 'DSL' existed then). I also implemented Forth on a Psion II a bit later but it's debatable whether you'd call indirect threading by the name 'compilation'.)
I'll probably put a release on my web site some time in the next week. Not that it's actually useful for anything...
And all this computer science is too much. I really must get back to some real mathematics some time soon...


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History teaches us to not disarm
To the editor:
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined," said Patrick Henry.
Gun control is certainly a topic which provides ample opportunity for debate from both sides of the issue. However, the framers' original intention for the Second Amendment is often overlooked or deliberately bypassed in the debate for a reason difficult to talk about.
No one wishes to contemplate the chief reason for the Second Amendment is the possibility that the people may have to defend themselves against a government that may become brutal, repressive and murderous. We find it hard to contemplate such a scenario, but the framers did not, because they lived it.
Gun control advocates state that no one needs a high-capacity semiautomatic rifle to go hunting. This is true; a high-capacity semiautomatic rifle is not needed for hunting, but may well be needed for defending our communities against government forces which wish to visit severe repression on its own citizens in the future. Weapons like that would then be needed to achieve any kind of parity between citizens and those governmental forces who would wish to do them harm.
Now there are many who would look at our government and our way of life and would state that such a need could never arise. The framers did not look at it in that fashion and included the amendment because they realized the nature of man and that such a horrible predicament could arise.
History certainly has its precedents. It is a snap of the fingers in time that the wind blew the ashes of whole groups of people across the fields of Europe because they had no means to defend themselves from an evil government. I do not have the time here to discuss the more recent historical manifestations of the actions of evil governments against their own people, which is even going on as you read this.
You may very well counter that such a thing could never occur here in our day or in the future with our enlightened government. Perhaps you are right, but someone wiser than you or me once said, "There is nothing new under the sun."
We should deal with shootings in our society with proactive imagination, but it is never a good idea to disarm a free people because history has taught us it is a short, quick drop into servitude.
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