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MELBOURNE Airport squeezed an additional $10 million out of consumers last financial year by increasing car parking prices.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's yearly airport monitoring report revealed the state's major airport earned revenue of $114.6 million from its car parking facilities - an increase of 10.4 per cent from the previous year.
The airport did not build any additional parking during this period and the increased revenue was due to some steep price increases. A four-day stay in the long-term, multi-level car park, for example, increased $40 to $139 in 12 months; a 14-day stay in the same car park increased by $100. Some of the long-term uncovered car parks also rose by up to $10 a day.
Melbourne Airport spokeswoman Anna Gillett could not give any explanation for the price rises, except to say that, "people like to drive to Melbourne Airport … and the closer you park to the terminal, the more you pay".
In releasing the report, the ACCC's chairman Rod Sims said the commission's yearly monitoring of the five major airports did not extend to regulation.
"These airports are monitored to provide information to the public and the government about the airports' performance. However, monitoring does not restrict them from increasing prices or degrading service standards to earn monopoly profits," he said.
While Brisbane has the most expensive car parking in the country, travellers parking at Melbourne and Sydney airports are charged the most for short-term parking. Melbourne also makes more revenue out of its car parking than any other airport, though it also has the most number of spaces.
The report also revealed that user satisfaction with Melbourne Airport dropped significantly in the past year. The airlines' satisfaction with the airport fell more than 20 per cent, while the overall quality of service, as rated by airlines, passengers and border agencies dropped 4.3 per cent. The airport still has a satisfactory service rating that is higher than Perth and Sydney; the latter was rated the worst in the country when it comes to quality of service.
Melbourne, however, is considered inferior to both Adelaide and Brisbane, with the Queensland capital scoring the highest satisfaction rating.
Much of the decreased satisfaction with the service at Melbourne Airport was due to complaints about insufficient check-in facilities and space for queuing during peak periods at both the domestic and international terminals.
Ms Gillett said that since the reporting period, the airport had added new check-in desks, two new gates and redeveloped its international departures area to cater for the increasing patronage.
"We understand those concerns … But we have done a lot of work since then. Over the next five years we are looking to invest over $1 billion to make sure that our facilities are up to what Melbourne and Victoria deserves."
Passenger numbers at the airport increased 7.8 per cent in the past year to 28.3 million, making it the second-busiest airport in the country, after Sydney. Perth experienced a 9.4 per cent increase.

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Rhode Island Convention
Center to Host Collection on Thursday, May 17 and Friday, May 18
Providence, RI — After months of conceptual development, experimentation and
meticulous construction, Rhode Island School of Design [RISD] students will
debut their final garments on the runway at COLLECTION 2012. The Apparel Design department's
popular fashion show will take place at 8:00pm with a preview show on Thursday,
May 17 and main show on Friday, May18at Rhode Island Convention Center, One Sabin Street,
Providence RI.
annual event offers an exciting opportunity for more than 50 talented young
designers to showcase their one-of-a-kind creations to an enthusiastic
audience, during a fun and fast-paced evening of entertainment that offers a
sneak peak at the tastemakers and trendsetters of the future. Attendees have a first-hand look at many of the
portfolio pieces that will earn graduates positions at top fashion houses
around the world.
designs shown in each year's Collection are juried by a panel of guest
critics – professional designers who carefully review and discuss the work,
give students critical feedback and select the best garments for the runway
show. The rigorous selection process for
the more than 150pieces shown in
COLLECTION 2012 is an important part of students' preparation to enter the
competitive industry. This year the jury includes the talented Hilary
Gaul [RISD '90], creative director for apparel, C. Wonder;Gary
Graham of Gary Graham Collection; Aaron Millhiser [RISD '02], senior
designer/women's wovens, J.Crew; Loraine Howes professor emerita and Tommy Hilfiger founder, Tommy
Among the
projects presented in COLLECTION 2012 are concepts in color collections
designed by seniors, in addition to their degree project collection – unified bodies of work that
showcase professional-grade conceptual and technical skills. Juniors have a strong presence in the show with knitwear and the cut and sew costume collaboration
with Merce Cunningham and Brown University. Selected sophomores show pieces
from a textile and apparel department's print collaboration project and demonstrate
the department's focus on creative problem solving with the "Re-Innovatives"
challenge –to construct a wearable
piece out of recycled materials other than fabric. Students have constructed
garments out of a wide variety of recycled materials other than fabric.
showcases the impressive work of our student designers and provides a look into
their individual design processes," said Catherine Andreozzi, head of the
Apparel Design Department. "It is an exciting evening and for seniors it marks
the culmination of their development and education at RISD."
selections from the runway show and other pieces by RISD's Apparel Design
students are offered for sale to the public on Sunday, May 20 at 12pm - 4pm in the
RISD Auditorium lobby, Canal Walkway at Market Square, Providence [corner of South Main Street and
College streets]. Select garments from Collection 2012 will be available Saturday, May 19 10am - 7pm and Sunday, May 20 11am - 5pm at Clad in Women's Clothing Boutique, 497 Angell Street, [Wayland Square] Providence, RI.
seniors are poised to join a group of prominent alumni in the apparel industry.
Nicole Miller [RISD '73], Sari Gueron [RISD '97],
Sally Lapointe [RISD '06], Robert Geller [RISD '01], Nicole Romano [RISD '00],
Ani Alvarez-Calderon [RISD '92], Laura Poretzky [RISD '00] of Abaete' and
Marcia Patmos [RISD '91], have all started independent labels, while others,
such as Vanessa Pang [RISD '95], design/product developer for Donna Karan
International; and Lena Wells [RISD '96], designer at Hussein Chalayan, are
among the many alumni who have found success at top-notch design houses.
Apparel Design Department prepares students to meet the highest requirements of
the fashion industry. Built on the philosophy that design and technical skills
are mutually enhancing, the program is structured to take students through all
aspects of apparel design and construction, from functional to experimental
clothing. Technical classes proceed from basic to advanced drafting, draping,
and construction, and incorporate the use of computers as a tool for designing
and product visualization. RISD has offered programs in Costume, Clothing and
Fashion since 1918, and established the Department of Apparel Design in 1952.
Tickets for
COLLECTION 2012 are $42 and $62. For the preview/rehearsal show on May 17 tickets
are $17 in advance and $22 day of. Tickets for the general public will be
available beginning May 2 at the Dunkin Donuts Center box office. Tickets are
available on site at the RI Convention Center in advance of the show on May 17
and May 18 only. Proceeds benefit the RISD Scholarship Fund. For more
information please call 401 454-6741.
About Rhode Island School of
Island School of Design [RISD] has earned an international
reputation as the leading college of art and design in the United States.
Approximately 2,400 students from around the world study at RISD, pursuing
full-time bachelor's or master's degree programs in a choice of 19 studio
majors. RISD is known for its phenomenal faculty of artists and designers, the
breadth of its specialized facilities and its hands-on, studio-based approach
to learning – one in which critical thinking informs making works by hand.
Required courses in the liberal arts provide an essential complement to studio
work, enabling graduates to become critical and informed individuals eager to
engage with the world. Through the accomplishments of its 26,000 alumni, the
college champions the vital role artists and designers play in satisfying the
global demand for innovation. Founded in 1877, RISD (pronounced "RIZ-dee") and
the RISD Museum of Art help make Providence, RI among the most culturally
active and creative cities in the region. For more information, visit
Note to Editors
media and photographers are invited to attend the 8 pm preview event on May 17. No flash photography will be allowed on May
18 at the main event. If you wish to
obtain images, attend the show, or speak with students and faculty members,
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This article demonstrates the workflow for Summary, Lessons learned, Actions, Commitments, and Knowledge base--otherwise known as SLACK. The author believes this process is more suitable for agile development than the conventional Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA) systems.
This article is for the benefit of Quality Professionals who would like to obtain the benefits of a Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA) system, but do not have the time or resources to dedicate to the initiative. This is particularly true with companies involved in "Agile Product Development", where there must be a minimum of administration and all of the work must be performed by those actually responsible for the design and implementation, rather than a layer of quality assurance specialists.
"Picking up the Slack" is a term that is often used in team management to describe the practice where the productive members compensate for the shortcomings of their peers. This provides a short-term improvement, but may lead to long-term problems. As an alternative, rather than concealing the shortcomings and missing opportunities for improvement, this approach embraces such opportunities. In this concept, SLACK is an acronym denoting: S-Summary, L-Lessons Learned, A-Actions, C-Commitments, K-Knowledge Base.
After an event or process, it is important to capture the information. A Summary should be recorded within 48 hours of the event so that key details are not forgotten. Unlike a formal CAPA system, this Summary need not follow any structured format, but can be flexible to suit the needs and priorities of the organization. This is critical as we do not want to create a clutter of trivial details that may obscure the vital facts.
From the Summary, the team can derive Lessons Learned. The Lessons will be those items most relevant to the people directly affected. In contrast, a CAPA system uses people separate from the process to allocate and determine the priorities of the situation. Also, while issues from a CAPA system are generally perceived as negative shortcomings, the Lessons Learned can be either negative or positive, allowing the team to not only fix its problems but rapidly adopt successful innovations as permanent practices.
Each Lesson should engender an Action. As a result of a Lesson, something must be done. This bias for action over analysis is consistent with the Agile methodology, and ensures that there is always progress. However in order to deliver the desired Action, Commitments are necessary. By assigning the Action to an individual and setting a specific deadline, the Action and Commitment are powerful change drivers.
The risk of any team is that the departure of key members will mean a reduction in collective knowledge. To mitigate that risk, the final step is to apply the improvement into the Knowledge Base. While a conventional CAPA system mandates the specific method and approach, this method applies flexibility and common sense. In an unstructured environment, Standard Procedures are infrequently updated or referenced, and make a poor repository for current knowledge. Different prompts or reminders (i.e. content of readme files in the directory, comments within software applications, updates to Intranet pages) that apply technology can be used to communicate and entrench the knowledge so that it remains within the team, no matter who stays or goes.
SLACK (Summary-Lessons Learned-Actions-Commitments-Knowledge Base) is a linear model that can be formatted into a simple table or matrix. Below is an example of this application.
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Police are hunting a man who allegedly stabbed another male in the upstairs foyer of Napier District Court this morning.
The incident was believed to have occurred at about 11am.
A Hawke's Bay Today court reporter said at least 10 police officers were on the scene and the victim was being treated by St John Ambulance staff for cuts to his arm. Multiple blood spots could be seen on the foyer's floor.
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Recipe: Carrot Salad
Kim Schifino's Carrot Salad
Schifino calls this recipe a "twofer—it's healthy and fast." Another bonus: "there aren't a lot of dishes to do afterward."
Serves 2
3 carrots, shredded
1 cup cherry tomatoes, sliced
1 Tbsp. red onion, chopped
1/2 cucumber, diced
1/2 red pepper, sliced
1 cup chickpeas
1/2 cup sprouts
2 Tbsp. balsamic vinaigrette
Mix vegetables together in a bowl. Drizzle with vinaigrette. Separate salad into two bowls. Enjoy!
Nutritional info: 253 calories, 5g fat (0g saturated), 9g protein, 46g carbs, 461mg sodium


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While checking out the new exhibition "Invention: Merce Cunningham & Collaborators" earlier this week, I learned of some distressing news: the extraordinary Cdric Andrieux is leaving the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, where he has performed since 1999, to join the Lyon Opra Ballet. He's excited—which is kind of adorable, yet very irritating. A nasty parting shot: He'll have to perform dances by Jiri Kylin.


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Being a new parent can be joyful at times, confusing at others. Amma Parenting Center is the go-to place for new parents. Join other moms who know just what you're going through – in class, at playtime, or just hanging out in the center.
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This was Brainerd - August 22
20 years ago (1992)
Four of the five Baxter City Council positions could be turned over in the November elections. Only John Erickson is assured he'll still be there come January. Three council seats and the mayor's spot are up for grabs in filing that opens Aug. 24 and ends Sept. 8.
30 years ago (1982)
Gary Borg, a 1981 Brainerd High School graduate who played baseball this past spring for the Univ. of Illinois, was named MVP for the Cambridge, Ontario, Terriers in a Canadian baseball league. Borg hit .440 with nine home runs and 34 RBIs.
40 years ago (1972)
Quick action by John Borgers, vacationing on Fox Lake, saved the lives of three other vacationers who capsized their boat nearby. He moved quickly to dive under the boat and pull out an 86-year-old man and two others, none of whom could swim. All were saved.
60 years ago (1952)
Authorities of Crow Wing and Cass counties, accompanied by State Crime Bureau personnel, staged raids on two alleged gambling houses in the Gull Lake area. The Deauville Club on Gull had blackjack, dice and poker games in operation.
80 years ago (1932)
Two hours after the head greens-keeper at Breezy Point Lodge pulled into the dock with a 15-4 northern pike, the headwaiter and chef came in with a 17-8 northern. Both are on display now, but will be prepared and served to guests of the lodge on Pelican Lake.
100 years ago (1912)
E. C. Bane and John Krekelberg made a trip to Minneapolis in Krekelberg's car, which is a Buick of 25 horsepower. They left at 11 in the morning, had lunch in Little Falls and had supper in Minneapolis.


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A Grand Piano Christmas
Aside from George Winston's "December" and Vince Guaraldi's "A Charlie Brown Christmas," there have been very few solo piano Christmas albums in modern times. Even fewer come in a classical vein. Long Island pianist Jeffrey Biegel capably fills some of the void with "A Steinway Christmas Album," a collection of 21 glowing arrangements of time-honored carols, beloved winter melodies and evocative new works.
As the title suggests, this is the latest release on the Steinway & Sons recording label, which was launched in October 2010 with Biegel playing Bach. He opens this, his follow-up release, with Andrew Gentile's pianistic arrangement of Leroy Anderson's "Sleigh Ride," complete with big octaves and stride flourishes in the final chorus. The traditional carols that follow include "Hark the Herald Angels Sing," and "Silent Night," the latter in two strikingly different arrangements.
Indeed, this is an arrangers' disc through and through. One clever arrangement combines "Ding Dong Merrily On High" with Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring." Another, called "Quiet Night," melds "Away in a Manger" and "Silent Night" in a haunting, Ivesian fashion. Donald Sosin's arrangement of "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" is brilliantly re-imagined as a Beethoven sonata movement.
Not to be overlooked are excerpts from Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker and The Seasons, Max Reger's op. 17 Weinachtstraum, Franz Liszt's The Sheperds at the Manger, and a haunting waltz, Yolka, Vladimir Rebikov. A handful of international songs (Svyatki's Fêtes de Noël) and Biegel's own arrangements -- including Mel Tormé's "The Christmas Song" and "Auld Lang Syne" -- are part of the celebration too.
For a musical season that sometimes gravitates to bombastic excess, Biegel's album is a welcome dose of straightforwardness. A collectible Christmas tree ornament rounds out the package.
Listen: Jeffrey Biegel tells host Jeff Spurgeon how Facebook played a role in the album:
A Steinway Christmas Album
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Dave Brockie of GWAR's autopsy reveals cause of death
Frontman of GWAR for 32 years, Dave Brockie left planet Earth far too soon on March 23rd. This article just released by RVA Mag reveals that his cause of death was an accidental heroin overdose.
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On her website, Vanessa Carlton proclaims: "I used to feel rooted to the piano, now I'm going to dance on top of it." This boisterous new attitude is all over her new album, Harmonium, the follow-up to 2001's mega-successful Be Not Nobody, which featured the ferociously catchy number one single, "A Thousand Miles". Everything about this one screams lessons learned: the writing is clearer, the melodies have matured, and the vocal dominates as Carlton energetically and confidently relates her story-songs.
Carlton told PopMatters that Harmonium, which features collaborations with Stevie Nicks, Pharrell Williams and Lindsey Buckingham, is markedly different from Be Not Nobody in terms of both writing and production. Music has become more than simply a vehicle for emotional release for the singer, who has spent much of her time between releases honing her varied musical skills. "I value lyrics more than I did with the first album," she says. "I was definitely more about the music a few years ago. Now I want the lyric to resonate as much as the chord underneath it."
Carlton knows what she wants with her new songs. "She Floats" and "Afterglow" are two examples of her streamlined style, both with meditative lyrics matching their melodies in such a way that without such matching, neither would feel entirely complete. This kind of attention to detail is something Carlton brings to her work for the first time on Harmonium. "I've gone from being a pianist/vocalist to being obsessed with what the bass is going to sound like underneath me, or how the kick drum is microphoned. I realize that the way a song is recorded is just as important as the song itself."
Carlton, who lists Carole King, Cat Stevens, and Mike Skinner of the Streets among her favourite songwriters, wrote much of her first album while still a teenager, and though those songs showcased a gifted young songwriter, the album's overall feel was distinctly adolescent. Carlton is aware of this and is thrilled that, though a little darker than the Vanessa Carlton they know and love, Harmonium will show off to her fans a personal evolution alongside her professional one.
The darker moments on Harmonium appear in a selection of moody and reflective songs about sex, suicide, insomnia, and death. Carlton says the songs demonstrate her altered perspective on the world, but that they're not entirely new issues of exploration for her. "These darker themes have always been part of my writing," she says. "The first song I ever wrote was called "Little Mary", about a girl who was about to jump off a building. I've always been fascinated by death."
Carlton says that while she's aware of the potential for controversy with the album, shocking her fans was far from her intent. "I think the album is bittersweet," she says. "Rather than just bitter."
Harmonium was co-written and recorded with Carlton's boyfriend, Third Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins, who she has credited with opening her up to the power of music as a reflection of the musician; something she says has made her a better songwriter. First single, "White Houses", is a particularly vivid portrait of a young woman acknowledging her frailty as she finds her feet in a grown-up environment. It's primarily about friendship and adult independence, but tackles, as well, issues of sex, jealousy, and pain. "I never thought for one minute that this song would be controversial," she says. "I still don't understand it. I think people perceive me to be a certain way and if I don't fit that…"
Carlton has never been particularly concerned with fitting in. The Pennsylvania-born singer spent her teenage years at the School of American Ballet training to become a professional ballerina. Several clashes with higher-ups at the school saw her ostracized and labelled a "bad girl". Carlton says the pressure that co-existed with her enjoyment of ballet eventually forced her out. Her years writing and performing songs at clubs in and around New York prepared her for a switch to music and, so far, she hasn't looked back.
"Being aware of your flaws is very powerful," she says. "I try to look outside myself as much as possible." Carlton says as her career progresses she'll continue to fight for her freedom as an artist and stay true to her instincts as a writer and performer. Right now, though, she's looking forward to fans discovering the new and improved Vanessa. "I can't wait for the fans to hear Harmonium. I hope it's the next step in solidifying a spot for me in music. It reflects exactly where I am musically at the moment. I hope people love it as much as I do."
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I don't see any significant change in the broad holdings of dollars around the world. Dollars remain the dominant reserve asset and I expect that to continue to be the case," Bernanke said to the Congressional Economic Committee.
Really? So why is the greenback plummeting if people aren't dumping it, Ben? What an absurd comment. The dollar has lost 63% against the euro and dropped to record lows against a basket of world currencies. Foreign central banks and investors have been ditching it as fast as they can before it loses more value. The dollar's tumble has been the most dazzling currency-flameout in modern times and Bernanke is acting like he's still asleep at the switch. It's madness.
The greenback is getting clobbered by the Fed's "low-interest" snake oil and the gargantuan current account deficit. If Bernanke clips rates again to bail out the stock market, the dollar will slip into irreversible respiratory failure. Food and oil prices will shoot to the moon overnight and the remains of the greenback will be carted off to the nearest boneyard.
September's trade deficit was another blow to the waning dollar. The Census Bureau reported on Friday that the deficit clocked in at $56.5 billion. That's $684 billion per annum! Bush has been crowing about the "shrinking deficit", but the numbers are nothing to boast about. We're still borrowing more than we're producing. We're still living beyond our means. The lower numbers just reflect the decline in home construction which is import-intensive. The fact is, we're addicted to debt-fueled consumption and forgotten that, eventually, the trillions that we've borrowed from foreign creditors, will have to be repaid. If the dollar is replaced as the world's reserve currency, then we'll have to pay back $9 trillion of outstanding debt. We might as well hang out the "Foreclosed" sign right now and get fitted for Chinese workers-suits.
This is from Bloomberg News:
"As the dollar tumbles, concern is growing that its weakness may augur the end of the U.S. currency's 62-year reign as the world's specie of choice for trade, financial transactions and central-bank reserves…..The dollar owes its position as the world's premier international currency to its status as a haven during times of turmoil, the absence of a suitable rival, weak domestic demand in other countries and plain old inertia. Geopolitics also play a role."
Nonsense. Who believes this rubbish? The dollar is the so-called "international currency" because the Federal Reserve and its well-heeled patrons are the directors of the US-Euro-Japan banking cabal which is at the center of the global Fiat money scam. There's nothing more to it than that. Notice the recent "unilateral" clamp-down on Iran by the US-led banking syndicate. The action was initiated without UN approval for the simple reason that the UN, the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO and thousands of NGOs are just more of the Central Banks' prime properties. Don't expect the father to ask the child for permission to punish one of his errant children. The banks are the one's who really call the shots and—behind the curtain of feigned respectability---they are the driving force behind the endless wars.
The Fed's plan to "devalue" our way to prosperity appears to have hit a few ill-placed speed-bumps. The stock market is hanging by a thread and consumer confidence is at its lowest ebb since the start of the Iraq War. The falling dollar is expected to put a damper on Christmas spending and knock equities for a loop. That can't be good for economy---especially when 72% of GDP comes from consumer spending.
We've already begun to see the telltale signs that the consumer is loosing ground and about to slip into a debt-induced coma.
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Post-menopausal women who reported consuming the most daily dietary fat had a 40 percent higher incidence of clot-caused strokes compared to women who ate the least amount, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2010.
The incidence of ischemic stroke also increased by 30 percent in the quartile of women consuming the highest daily amount of trans fat (average intake 7 grams per day) compared to those who consumed the least (average 1 gram/day). Two common sources of trans fat are processed foods and fried foods.
Ischemic strokes are caused by blockages in blood vessels in or leading to the brain.
"We found positive associations between total fat intake and ischemic stroke incidence and between trans fat intake and ischemic stroke incidence," said Sirin Yaemsiri, M.S.P.H., a doctoral student in the department of epidemiology in the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
The study is the first to examine the associations of different fats and different subtypes of ischemic stroke in post-menopausal women, who face a higher stroke risk than men of a similar age.
Evidence from other studies shows that different types of fat have different effects on the incidence of coronary heart disease (CHD), with trans fat implicated in the development of CHD. However, studies of ischemic stroke and fat have been inconclusive, possibly because earlier studies had small numbers of ischemic stroke cases.
Before menopause, women have a lower risk of stroke compared to men of similar age, a situation that reverses after menopause, Yaemsiri said.
The analysis included data on 87,230 post-menopausal women ages 50 to 79 who participated in the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) Observational Study, a project sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. The women answered a food frequency questionnaire when they entered the study and were followed for an average of 7.6 years, the researchers said. During that time, 1,049 ischemic strokes occurred.
Researchers looked for links between dietary fat intake and four ischemic stroke subtypes, which were characterized by their size or point of origin. However, the data on ischemic stroke subtypes fell short of statistical significance, perhaps because strokes are difficult to characterize and 43 percent (445 cases) of the ischemic strokes in the study were of unknown type, Yaemsiri said.
Researchers divided the women into quartiles based on the amount of total dietary fat and types of fat (saturated fat, monounsaturated fat, polyunsaturated fat and trans fat) they reported consuming per day.
Variables included age, race, smoking status, physical activity, alcohol or aspirin use, body mass index, hormone therapy, heart disease history, diabetes, systolic blood pressure and whether the women took medication for high blood pressure or to reduce cholesterol, vitamin E supplementation, fruit/vegetable intake, total calories and dietary fiber.
Women in the top quartile for total fat intake had an average intake of 86 grams of total fat per day. Those in the lowest quartile consumed an average of 26 grams a day.
"I think our findings support the American Heart Association recommendations for keeping trans fat intake at less than 1 percent of energy," said Ka He, M.D., Sc.D., M.P.H., senior author of the study and associate professor of nutrition and epidemiology at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.
Trans fats can be found in many foods -- especially in fried foods like french fries and doughnuts, and baked goods including pastries, pie crusts, biscuits, pizza dough, cookies, crackers and stick margarines and shortenings.
Co-authors are Souvik Sen, M.D., M.S.; Lesley Tinker, Ph.D., R.D.; Wayne Rosamond, Ph.D.; and Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller, Ph.D. The WHI program is funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. This study was supported by a grant funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, and Yaemsiri's work was supported by an American Heart Association Mid-Atlantic Predoctoral Fellowship.
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You've got Firefox and a large amount of users. How do you set up important key settings like:
- Certificates management
- Home page
- Update behavior
- Javascript behavior
- Encryption settings
- Privacy settings
… and just about every other Firefox setting.
Firefox itself has no native Group Policy support with ADM or ADMX files to control these key settings, what are you going to do? It's true there are third party companies like Frontmotion which will repackage, modify and "re-sell" Firefox – each and every time an update is created. It's also true they provide some ADM support with this modified software.
But there's a better way – a much better way.
When you use PolicyPak and our Pre-configured PolicyPak for Firefox, you get to use the actual, unchanged real and genuine Firefox. You're NOT using a re-packaged Firefox.
Full Group Policy lockdown and enforcement is available right now for all versions (current and future) of Firefox.It's a better way to manage Firefox in your enterprise. Watch this video to see exactly how it's done:
Click here for Video Transcript
PolicyPak: Manage Firefox Certificates
Need to add or remove a certificate dynamically within Firefox? PolicyPak makes it drop dead easy. Just point to the file and specify the store. Watch this video to see how it's done.
Firefox: Changing the Firefox Default Search Engine in one-click
Everyone wants to know how to set the Firefox Search Engine from Yahoo to Google or something else using Group Policy. PolicyPak is the way to do it. Check out this video.
PolicyPak: Manage Firefox Pop-Ups and Permissions using Group Policy
Want to see how to dictate which websites can allow or block pop-ups? How about permissions like Camera or Microphone? Only PolicyPak enables you to set these using Group Policy or the Cloud.
Firefox: Force Install Firefox Extensions (from URL or file)
Your users have a ton of (evil?) extensions in Firefox. How did they get there? Who knows. And now you have some you want them to have, but don't know how to get rid of the junk they put there. Check out this video to see how to add or remove Firefox extensions using URLs, Flies, or over HTTPS.
PolicyPak: Manage Firefox Add-ons using Group Policy
Firefox has four types of Add-ons: Extensions, Appearance, Plugins, and Services. And PolicyPak can manage (enable or disable) ALL of these types. Watch this video to finally get a handle on how to manage your Firefox Add-ons using Group Policy or your own systems management utility.
PolicyPak: Manage Firefox Bookmarks
With PolicyPak you can add or remove bookmarks to the menus or the toolbar. Watch this video to see exactly how to do it.
PolicyPak: Remove Firefox's Extra Tabs at First Launch
When Firefox runs the first time, it shows extra tabs. But using PolicyPak you can remove these extra tabs on both Windows 7 and Windows 10. This video shows you how.
Firefox: Disable the following pages and items in one click
Need to remove about:config, about:addons, and the Australis button? How about entire menu items inside Fireofx Preferences? Check out this video. It couldn't be easier.
PolicyPak: Firefox Remove Specific Elements from about:preferences panel
More power than ever before; now you can individually remove specific UI elements from Firefox in the about:preferences panel. Fine tune exactly what users can see and do (and not see and not do.)
PolicyPak: Manage Firefox Misc Settings and Buttons Using PolicyPak
In this video, we show you PolicyPak's "Extras" that can be configured.
Prevent Firefox as Default Browser: 48 seconds in.
Prevent Private Browsing: 2:19.
Prevent Saving Passwords: 3:10.
Disable Firefox Safe Mode: 5:23.
Prevent Access to Local Files: 6:13.
Prevent Firefox Sync: 7:17.
Prevent Misc Buttons and Controls: 9:36.
Our solution isn't a mere "ADM" template, it's a true Group Policy extension, with powerful management and lockdown capabilities. PolicyPak can deliver, lockdown and revoke Firefox settings – the way you need to using Group Policy.
Our PolicyPak software snaps-in to the Group Policy Editor and mimics the user interface of the Firefox application itself. You can set key settings like Home Page settings, like what is seen here.
Why wouldn't you use it?
Besides, once you're using PolicyPak to manage Firefox, you'll also get to manage all your other enterprise desktop applications the same way:Java, WinZip, Acrobat, and any custom application you have. They're 100% included – absolutely free.
It's all included when you're a PolicyPak Professional customer.
PolicyPak was designed by Group Policy MVP Jeremy Moskowitz – who "wrote the book" on Group Policy, runs GPanswers.com, and lives and breathes Group Policy and enterprise software deployments and desktop lockdown.
When you're ready to get serious about managing Firefox today, and in the future, PolicyPak is ready for you.
Manage Firefox with Group Policy Video Transcript
Hi, this is Jeremy Moskowitz, Group Policy MVP and Founder of PolicyPak Software. In this video, I'm going to show you how to manage and lockdown Firefox using Group Policy and PolicyPak.
To get started, let's go ahead and take a look at some "Options" that users can manipulate to mess up, ruin your day and become less secure for your whole company. Let's start off with something simple like the "Home Page." You probably do want to set this centrally and also perhaps lock it down. I'm about to show you how to do that.
Same thing with "Security." Let's talk about this for a second. Let's say any user decides they want to uncheck these three important security settings and click "OK." What have they done? They've just made your world less secure, and you don't want to be in that situation. You want to make sure that the settings that you deploy are important to the business and, therefore, are guaranteed to the user.
Let's see how to do that using PolicyPak and Group Policy. I will "Create a GPO in this domain, and Link it here…," and I'll call this "Manage Firefox using GP and PolicyPak." Here we go. Then I'll click "Edit…" here, and I'll dive down under "Computer Configuration" "PolicyPak/Applications/New/Application."
I'm about to go ahead and pick "PolicyPak for Mozilla Firefox" here, which is at the very bottom, but take a look at what else is on the list. We've got "Flash" and "Java" and "Acrobat" and "Office." Actually, we have over 50 preconfigured applications, and they're all on our website for you to see videos and understand how they all work. When you're a PolicyPak customer, you don't just get one Pak. You actually get all the Paks, including this one, Firefox.
We'll go ahead and click there, and let's go ahead and manage Firefox. The first thing to notice, it looks a lot like Firefox so no learning curve required. If you want to set the "Home Page," go to "www.policypak.com," that's great. But while we're here, let's go the extra mile. Let's lock this down by right clicking and performing the lockdown setting right there: "Lockdown this setting using the system-wide config file."
If we go over to "Security" and we want to ensure that these three checkmarks are checked, we'll just quickly uncheck and recheck them. You can see underline means deliver what's in the checkbox. In this particular case, I want to ensure that all three of these checkboxes in fact are checked. While I'm here, once again I will perform lockdown of this particular setting. Here we go: "Lockdown this setting using the system-wide config file." I'll do that for each of these three guys.
Let's go over to "Tabs." Tabs may be something you want to suggest to a user while they're in a session, but you might want to let them work around it. For these three guys, these first three checkmarks, just for fun I'll check them but I won't perform a lockdown upon them. We'll see what happens when we do that.
That's it for now. Let's go ahead and click "OK," and let's go over to our target machine. I'm about to run "gpupdate" because I happen to be using Group Policy in this demonstration. You could pretend that the user is logging on for the first time or changing job roles or getting a new computer or using a Terminal Services or VDI machine or Citrix machine or roaming. Anything that triggers Group Policy is going to make this magic happen.
That being said, you don't have to use Group Policy if you don't want to. We have an alternate way to deliver our settings, and you can do that using SCCM, Altiris, LANDesk, KACE, Windows Intune or LabTech – anything you want. If you want to not use Group Policy, you don't have to. I just happen to be using it for this demonstration. Let me go ahead and close this out, and let's go ahead and now run "Mozilla Firefox" and see what happens on our target machine.
There we go. We see the homepage automatically set instantly, just like that. If I were to go to "Options" here, you can see the "Security" settings are all locked down just the way we expect. The checkmarks are checked. If I go to "General" here, we can see that the "Home Page" is in fact delivered and also locked down.
But remember "Tabs." Tabs we said that we wanted to enable the user to get the checkmarks while they're in the session but let them work around it. The thing about PolicyPak that's extra special is that it's always working for you even when the user is offline. Even if there's no connection back to domain controllers or you're just completely offline, PolicyPak is always working. When you click back onto "Options" here, those checkmarks are rechecked because PolicyPak is, again, always working even when offline.
Let's talk about something else. There are a bunch of extra special settings involved in Firefox. You can see them by going to "about:config" here. You get a little warning that asks you to be careful here. This is for the highly intense extra settings here. PolicyPak does in fact support these. We have a handful of them that are in the Preconfigured Pak, but you're actually welcome to add your own if you want to. You do that using our free PolicyPak Design Studio.
For instance, if there's some accessibility setting or alert or any of these settings that you want, it's actually really easy to go from here – this list – and add the one or two or three or four you want to into your PolicyPak, because again the actual Pak itself is editable using our own Design Studio tool.
That being said, there are a couple that come up kind of frequently, which are these guys: "network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris," "network.negotiate-auth.delegation-uris" and "network.negotiate-auth.trusted-uris." These come up a lot because they involve websites with regards to NTLM authentication, so we just put them in the Preconfigured Pak waiting for you. The question is can PolicyPak deliver these interesting about:config settings, and the answer is yes. Let me show you how that works. I'm going to go ahead and close out Firefox here.
Let's go back and re-edit our Group Policy here for Firefox. We'll go to the "About:Config" tab. Like I said, at the time of this recording, we only have three of them in here, but it only took me two minutes to put these in. Like I said, if you want to add your own additional about:config settings, you're welcome to do that any time because we give you the tools to do that, to open up this particular Pak and add in your own settings if that's what you want to.
Just for example here, I'll just do "www.a.com, www.b.com." Over here, I'll do "www.c.com." Here, I'll do "www.d.com, www.e.com." Just an example just to prove a point here. I'm clicking "OK," locking and loading it into the Group Policy Object. I'll go ahead and go back to my client machine. I'll run "gpupdate," get the latest, greatest settings. Again, you don't have to use Group Policy if you don't want to. If you want to use your own systems management utility to get these settings deployed, you're more than welcome to do that.
Now that that's done, let me close this out. We'll then go ahead and run "Mozilla Firefox" again. Let's go to our special "about:config" and select "I'll be careful, I promise!" Under "Filter," we'll go back to the filter here, and there we go. We instantly delivered these special about:config settings to ensure that these things are configured the way you want to.
PolicyPak is a true settings management system. We don't just manage Firefox. We can manage tons of your important key applications. If you're looking for a trial for PolicyPak, it's super easy to do. Just go ahead, go over to PolicyPak.com, click on the "Webinar" download button that's on the right side. After we see you in a webinar, we'll hand over the bits and you can try this all out for yourself.
Thanks so much for watching, and we'll talk to you soon.


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May 24, 2012
In today's retail marketplace, there's no shortage of data on consumer preference and behavior. The challenge, according to a panel of alumni experts in retail and consumer marketing, lies in how to interpret the information.
Erik Hurst, V. Duane Rath Professor of Economics, moderated the panel on the use of syndicated consumer packaged goods and retail data during the 60th Annual Chicago Booth Management Conference on May 11.
Hurst asked the panelists to provide insight into how data is accumulated and used to understand the way consumers act. "This is the direction we want to move as a school, where we take this very detailed quantitative analysis and use it for a variety of academic pursuits," he said.
James Dodge, '93, managing director at New York consumer research giant The Nielsen Company, agreed that researchers enjoy an abundance of data from credit card use, customer loyalty programs, and internet purchases. "The challenge is clarity on the issues and outcomes," Dodge said.
The panelists agreed that while retailers and consumer packaged goods manufacturers have become adept at collecting data on who is buying what, the data they compile does not provide an understanding of why a consumer makes a purchase.
"There is a difference between behavior and insight. The data is very important to identify the behavior, but I would encourage marketers to keep trying to peel the onion back and get the deeper motivation," said Howard Brandeisky, '85, vice president of global marketing and innovation at John B. Sanfilippo & Sons Inc., a nut and snack company based in Elgin, Illinois.
To gain deeper insight into a consumer's buying decisions, Brandeisky has accompanied shoppers to the grocery store to conduct "shop-along ethnographies."
"You can see in real time how a consumer's reacting to stimulus in the store. You can see what's on the list, what's not on the list. What they buy on impulse…There's nothing quite like asking them as it happens," Brandeisky said.
Yet while quantitative data is valuable, it's still difficult to predict shopper behavior.
"Consumers don't behave rationally in any type of retail setting. They are irrational by definition," said Robert Mariano, '87 (XP-56), chairman and CEO of Roundy's Inc., the Milwaukee-based parent of the Roundy's and Mariano's grocery chains.
"In the old days, when I was a storekeeper, I knew every one of my customers," Mariano continued. "Today, on a relative basis, we know very little. That's why we use that quantitative information to build a relationship. So we can be relevant."
L. Dick Buell, '78, former chairman and CEO of Catalina Marketing Inc., based in St. Petersburg, Florida, said that research his firm conducted showed that less than half of those consumers considered highly loyal to a brand remain loyal a year later.
"Loyalty is a defection dilemma. Loyalty sounds like the glass half full. In truth, it's a glass half empty," said Buell. "Loyalty is something you think you build and accumulate, but it can be fleeting."
The key to knowing the customer, according to the panelists, is gathering both quantitative and qualitative data and finding bright minds to correctly interpret the information.
"The challenge is to turn all that data into insights and into action," Brandeisky said. "The data is almost a commodity, there's so much of it. The real value-add is turning that into something insightful, something useable." —John Slania
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Gianni Toso, Master Flameworker
Gianni Toso, creator of one of our most popular glass items in our collection (a very witty chess set) comes from a family with a seven-century—that's not a misprint—tradition in Murano glass blowing. He was accepted into the local fine arts academy for glassblowers at age 14, and in 1967, at the age of 24, he opened a studio in Venice. He's been at it ever since, and is considered one of the world's great artists working in lampworked glass.
Toso burst into the spotlight after his work was promoted by Salvador Dali, but he had a fine line to walk in the early '70s. The Glass Studio Movement was taking off, bringing a fresh sharing of ideas, but his family secrets of the great Italian glassmaking traditions had literally been held under penalty of death for centuries, and Toso had to be careful about what he could and could not share.
Here's what made the difference as the secrecy broke down over time—this is glass as art, not a proprietary product. For that shift in thinking, glass art fans will be forever grateful. His August 2013 visit was one of our most well-attended sessions ever.


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SEOUL/PYONGYANG – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has a baby daughter named Ju Ae, according to former NBA star Dennis Rodman, who labeled the supreme ruler of the isolated, authoritarian state a "good dad."
Rodman, who calls Kim a friend and just returned from his second visit to Pyongyang, told The Guardian newspaper that he had spent a "relaxing time by the sea" with the leader's family," during his latest five-day trip.
"I held their baby, Ju Ae, and spoke with (Kim's wife) as well. He's a good dad and has a beautiful family," Rodman said.
While more of a public personality than his introverted father, Kim Jong Il, ever was, little is known about Kim's personal life. Even his age is a matter of dispute, with reports ranging from 29 to 31.
The fact that he was married was only revealed in July last year when pictures emerged of a young woman accompanying the new leader at official events.
A child watch began after state television images in December showed his wife, Ri Sol Ju, looking heavily pregnant.
There was no official confirmation of the birth, but Rodman had commented after his first surprise visit to Pyongyang six months ago that Ri had spoken often of her baby daughter.
There have been unconfirmed reports that the couple already had one child.
Kim is the third-generation leader from the ruling dynasty begun by his grandfather, Kim Il Sung, and followed by his late father, Kim Jong Il.
In such a conservative, hierarchical society as North Korea, observers say there is almost no chance of the leadership succession being passed to a daughter.
According to a report last month by the Chosun Ilbo daily, Kim Jong Un's former girlfriend was among a dozen well-known North Korean performers who were executed by firing squad for violating North Korean laws against pornography. They were accused of videotaping themselves having sex and selling the videos.
On Monday, the North Korean leader attended events in central Pyongyang marking the nation's 65th birthday, but made no public comments before leaving the lavish event.
Flanked by generals and senior government officials, Kim stood in a high viewing area well above and away from the sea of onlookers who cheered and held up colorful placards in unison as the troops filed passed. North Korea watchers had hoped the young leader might address the crowd to shed some light on the isolated and secretive nation's politics or diplomatic goals.
The military parade in Kim Il Sung Square featured mostly reserve troops and did not include displays of the kind of heavy artillery, tanks and missiles that the North rolled out in July to commemorate the armistice that ended hostilities on the Korean Peninsula in 1953.
A day earlier, a report by South Korea's Yonhap news agency said Seoul and Washington had mapped out a joint operational plan that outlines concrete measures to deter and respond to Pyongyang's nuclear threats. No details were given of the defensive and offensive measures included in the plan.


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Swatched my zoyas on Sunday, but didn't have time to post it then. Well here goes.
Did a comparison of zoya Adina with OPI Significant Other Color. I chose the latter because it has the same gold/green duochrome thing going on when you look at the bottles (It was a bit hard to catch on the pics though). But the similarity ends there. OPI SOC is much sheerer in application. I applied three coats and it still looked pale to me. I guess I'm not used to those subtle soft shades. One way to use this would be to layer it over another colour to enliven it and give it that greenish/golden sheen. Click here to see it layered over OPI Black Cherry Chutney, looks pretty gorgeous I think.
Pris requested for a comparison swatch between zoya Charity and OPI Windy City Pretty. First main difference that can be seen is that Zoya Charity contains tiny golden shimmers while OPI Windy City Pretty has pink shimmers. Charity is also slightly darker than WCP and although both look pretty pink in the bottle, Charity leans more towards a dusty mauve on the nail.
Freja was the first shade I started wearing after receiving my zoya loot. Really loved the gunmetal shade, it was all shiny despite being grey. I chose to swatch it against OPI Brand New Skates instead of China Glaze Jitterbug which is all crazy shiny full of silver shimmer. Freja has tiny blue flecks but they are not very obvious, while OPI BNS has golden/green microglitter that really show on the nail.
With its golden sheen, Reece made me think of China Glaze Strawberry Fields. But they couldn't be any more different from each other, from the shade of pink to the golden glitter.
I couldn't find anything in my stash in this shade of purple, so no comparisons for Zara. I paired it with Reece here to show the golden sheen. Really pretty!
So how many times have I used the word "different" in this entry? I just couldn't find any dupes from my stash for my new zoyas. Well, that's a good thing right? Thanks for looking. The pictures did all the talking. :)


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Aiming High The Life of Ski and Travel Pioneer Erna Low
Mark Frary, Roger Lloyd Pack
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Why I wrote this book
The winter of 2012/13 marks the 80th anniversary of the first group of skiers that Erna Low took to the mountains, initially as a way of covering the costs of getting home from London to her native Austria.Over the next three decades she turned this small sideline to her work as a German teacher into one of the most important travel companies in Britain, which pioneered many of the destinations and ideas that we now take for granted.
I always knew that Erna had an interesting upbringing but I my research led to some fascinating discoveries, including that she threw the javelin in the Amateur Athletics Association championships at Stamford Bridge in 1932, coming second to the British record holder. I also learned of some terrible tragedies, including a deadly avalanche in 1952, that could have spelled the end of the company.
This is the first time a biography of Erna Low has been written and I have had unprecedented access to her correspondence, scrapbooks and photo albums and interviewed many of the people who knew her well, including the actor Roger Lloyd-Pack, who treated her like a surrogate mother. Anyone interested in how a woman succeeded in the tough-drinking male dominated world of travel and in the development of the package holiday should reads this book.
SynopsisErna Low, born in Vienna in 1909, was instrumental in starting what has become a multimillion pound industry: the ski holiday business. In 1932, she placed an advert in the Morning Post saying Austria, fortnight, GBP15 only, including rail and hotel, arranged by young Viennese Graduette for young people leaving Christmas . For her, it was a way to get back home to see her family over Christmas, but the popularity of the trip soon saw it develop into a lucrative business. Erna, an Austrian javelin champion and handball player, soon branched out into parties for the young elite at country houses around Britain, becoming something of a matchmaker for the 20- and 30-somethings who flocked to her events year after year. When war came to Europe, she joined the BBC, listening in on German broadcasts to help the Allied effort. After normality had been restored, she grasped the opportunity offered by rising standards of living and grew her eponymous company into a leading travel company in the market by the 1960s, introducing many holiday destinations and concepts to the British market. A consummate networker, Erna Low introduced herself to the great and the good and became their friend and confidante. She taught royalty, actors and politicians to ski. This illustrated hardback biography examines Erna's life, including interviews with her friends and colleagues and shows how her strength of character and business nous enabled her to succeed in a male-dominated world. It will appeal to anyone interested in the history of skiing and travel in Britain, the hundreds of thousands of past and present customers of Erna Low as well as anyone interested in how an independent young Austrian woman from a challenging background became a household name and business success in Britain. A foreword has been written by Roger Lloyd Pack. 2012 is the 80th anniversary of the first Erna Low-organised ski trip. The current chief executive of her company has an amazing archive of material collected by Erna during her life and it was going through this that inspired me to write it, says author Mark about Aiming High.
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