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Winn Dixie Logistics, Inc. 2/17/12
Department of Health and Human Services
|Public Health Service
Food and Drug Administration
|Florida District
555 Winderley Place, Suite 200
Maitland, Florida 32751
Telephone: 407-475-4700
February 17, 2012
Mr. Patrick J. Carraro
Distribution Center Manager
Winn Dixie Logistics, Inc.
3300 NW 123rd Street
Miami, FL 33167-2425
Dear Mr. Carraro:
We inspected your seafood processing facility, located at 3300 NW 123rd Street, Miami, FL on January 18-20 and January 25-26, 2012. We found that you have serious violations of the seafood Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) regulation, Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 123, and the Current Good Manufacturing Practice regulation for foods, Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 110 (21 CFR 123 & 110). In accordance with 21 CFR 123.6(g), failure of a processor of fish or fishery products to have and implement a HACCP plan that complies with this section or otherwise operate in accordance with the requirements of Part 123, renders the fish or fishery products adulterated within the meaning of Section 402(a)(4) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the Act),[21 U.S.C. § 342(a)(4)]. Accordingly, your Smilin' Bob's Smoked Fish Dip, Beck's Smoked Tuna Spread, and pasteurized crab meat products are adulterated, in that they have been prepared, packed, or held under insanitary conditions whereby they may have been rendered injurious to health. You may find the Act, the seafood HACCP regulation, and the Fish and Fisheries Products Hazards & Controls Guidance through links in FDA's home page at www.fda.gov.
Your significant violations were as follows:
- You must have a HACCP plan that, at a minimum, lists the food safety hazards that are reasonably likely to occur, to comply with 21 CFR 123.6(c)(1). A food safety hazard is defined in 21 CFR 123.3(f) as "any biological, chemical, or physical property that may cause a food to be unsafe for human consumption." However, your firm's HACCP plan for "Ready-to-Eat Seafood" does not list the food safety hazard of histamine formation associated with your Smilin' Bob's Smoked Fish Dip (contains amberjack) and Beck's Smoked Tuna Spread (contains tuna).
- You must have a HACCP plan that, at a minimum, lists the critical limits that must be met, to comply with 21 CFR 123.6(c)(3). A critical limit is defined in 21 CFR 123.3(c) as "the maximum or minimum value to which a physical, biological, or chemical parameter must be controlled at a critical control point to prevent, eliminate, or reduce to an acceptable level the occurrence of the identified food safety hazard." However, your firm's HACCP plan for "Ready-To-Eat-Seafood" lists a critical limit of "Product properly iced and in cooler" at your Storage CCP, that is not adequate to control pathogenic bacteria growth as a result of temperature abuse. Furthermore, you do not specify a refrigeration temperature in your critical limit.
- You must implement the monitoring and verification procedures that you have listed in your HACCP plan, to comply with 21 CFR 123.6(b) and (c)(4). Your firm did not follow the monitoring procedures at your receiving Critical Control Point (CCP) to control histamine formation listed in your HACCP plan for "Histamine Fish Group", nor at your receiving CCP to control pathogen growth and toxin formation in your HACCP plan for "Ready-to-Eat Seafood." Furthermore, you did not follow the verification procedures listed in your HACCP plans for Groups 2, 3, 4, and 5. For example:
- You did not implement your monitoring procedure at the receiving CCP in your HACCP plan for "Histamine Fish Group" which lists "Presence of ice/coolant or temperature during transport." You told our investigators that your procedure is to measure the internal temperature of the truck and one fish product upon receipt. This practice is inadequate to ensure that product was transported under appropriate temperature controls.
- You did not implement your monitoring procedures at the receiving CCP in your HACCP plan for "Ready-to-Eat Seafood". Your HACCP plan states that you will monitor the "presence of ice or product temperature at or below 40º F." During the inspection, you received pasteurized crab meat that was not received on ice. You were unable to provide our investigators documentation to show that this product was maintained at or below 40º F during transit. Furthermore, you told our investigators that pasteurized crab meat is not received on ice nor do you require transit temperature documentation from your suppliers. You stated that your procedure is to measure the internal temperature of the truck and check the temperature of one fish product upon receipt, which is inadequate to ensure compliance with your critical limit.
- You failed to implement your verification procedure at the receiving CCP in your HACCP plans for Groups 2 ("Histamine Fish Group"), 3 ("Clams, Mussels, Oysters"), 4 ("Ready-to-Eat Seafood"), and 5 ("Non-Scombroid Species – Reduced Oxygen Pack"), which list a verification procedure of "weekly record reviews." You did not implement this procedure for at least the month of December 2011, as no weekly record reviews were conducted.
- You must have a HACCP plan that, at a minimum, lists monitoring procedures and their frequency for each critical control point (CCP), to comply with 21 CFR 123.6(c)(4). However, your firm's HACCP plan for "Histamine Fish Group" lists a monitoring procedure/frequency at the storage CCP that is not adequate to control histamine formation. Your monitoring procedure of "Temperature reading" is inadequate. Furthermore, you told our investigators that temperatures taken from your continuous temperature monitoring system are not reviewed and a temperature check is conducted twice daily. This frequency is inadequate to control the hazard of histamine formation.
We may take further action if you do not promptly correct these violations. For instance, we may take further action to seize your product(s) and/or enjoin your firm from operating.
You should respond in writing within fifteen (15) working days from your receipt of this letter. Your response should outline the specific things you are doing to correct these violations. You should include in your response documentation such as HACCP and verification records, or other useful information that would assist us in evaluating your corrections. If you cannot complete all corrections before you respond, you should explain the reason for your delay and state when you will correct any remaining violations.
This letter may not list all the violations at your facility. You are responsible for ensuring that your processing plant operates in compliance with the Act, the seafood HACCP regulation (21 CFR Part 123), and the Current Good Manufacturing Practice regulation (21 CFR Part 110). You also have a responsibility to use procedures to prevent further violations of the Act and all applicable regulations.
Please send your reply to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Attention: Lisa A. Warner, Acting Compliance Officer, 555 Winderley Place, Suite 200, Maitland, FL 32751. If you have any questions regarding any issues in this letter, please contact Ms. Warner by telephone at (407) 475-4724.
Emma R. Singleton
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Some creative professionals are forced into freelancing by a relocation or layoff, while others long dream of life as a solopreneur. Either way, making the transition from full-timer to successful freelancer takes preparation, hard work and often a mindset shift. If you're thinking of going out of your own—or if you have a feeling that path is in your future—start planning and preparing now. Here are the first few steps to take.
Moonlighting can be good practice for freelancing. Take a few projects on the side to see how you do. Do you enjoy working on a variety of different projects or do you find it chaotic? Do you manage your priorities well or do you procrastinate? Can you meet your client's deadline?
"Moonlighting will let you know if you are disciplined and will prepare you for being in business for yourself," says Kristin Maija Peterson of Grand Ciel Design in St. Paul, MN. "My moonlight projects allowed me to build my confidence working with clients of my own, not to mention expand my creative range. In the end, the lessons I learned moonlighting made for a smoother segue to freelancing full time."
For more on freelancing, check out this high-comment post on the Creative Freelancer Blog, Is Freelancer a Negative Term? Let us know what you think.
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Thatcher's Enemies
In Britain they are mourning the death of Margaret Thatcher. They are also celebrating. Celebrating? Yes, celebrating.
"Ding Dong the Witch is Gone," reads one sign. "I Still Hate Thatcher," reads another. Then there is "Rejoice, Thatcher is Dead" and "The Bitch is Dead." Try this link if you're up to viewing a lot of sickening photos and a lot of disrespect for Britain's greatest leader.
Granted, any crazy person can create a sign. But this is a good time to remember the conflict in Margaret Thatcher's Britain was not just about slogans on signs. She was actively engaged in a war of ideas.
Most of us have a good idea of Thatcher's political philosophy. Could you explain the political philosophy of her opponents? I think the basic beliefs of the left in Britain are not all that different from the beliefs of the left in this country. Yet you almost never hear it spelled out in clear detail. So let me give it a try.
They believe in two things.
First, government should have virtually unrestricted authority to intervene in the economic sphere. It should be able to set prices, control output, dictate quality standards, nationalize companies, create cartels and restrict entry into markets for any reason whatever. In particular, they believe that government should be able to intervene in the market to help Peter at the expense of Paul, regardless of who Peter is and regardless of who Paul is. By that last point I mean that Peter can be rich and Paul poor, or vice versa. Peter can be young and Paul old, or vice versa. Peter can be happy and Paul can be sad, or vice versa. Peter and Paul can be anybody.
Second, people should be able (and even encouraged) to form special interest groups to pressure government for the express purpose of taking from Peter to benefit Paul.
To understand the contrary point of view, consider the case of New Ice House vs. Liebmann (1932). In that case Oklahoma City granted a monopoly to one firm and refused to allow any other firm to deliver ice to consumers. The Supreme Court, however, was unable to find any legitimate purpose behind the regulation. There was no showing that the ice house monopoly in any way was promoting the "general welfare." Therefore, the Court struck down the regulation on the grounds that it unconstitutionally interfered with the natural liberty the Constitution is presumed to protect.
Now if you listened to the rhetoric of the left, you would think that this decision would be lauded at every Democratic national convention. Here is a greedy (for-profit) ice house that undoubtedly convinced friendly politicians to give it exclusive control over the market for ice. Its monopoly profits were at the expense of consumers, including working class folks struggling to get by. If you favor the little guy over the vested interests, how could there be any question about which is the right side?
Yet it is an article of faith on the left that the Supreme Court decided this case incorrectly.
They may talk about helping poor people, promoting health and safety, protecting the environment and many other things. But what the left most believes in is virtually no restriction on government's ability to regulate the economy. They not only reject the restrictions that would be imposed by classical liberalism. They also reject the restrictions that would be imposed by any other ism.
In the "winter of discontent" (1978-79), the British economy was ground to a halt by the labor unions. As Megan McArdle writes:
Trash piled up in the streets. The truck drivers who ferried goods all over Britain went on strike — and the ones who didn't, like oil tanker drivers, began feeding their destinations to "flying pickets" — mobile groups of strikers who would go from location to location, blockading them so that workers couldn't get in and goods couldn't get out. The BBC called them the "shock troops of industrial action" and that's an accurate picture; effectively mobilized, flying pickets can grind the wheels of industry to a halt…
In Liverpool, the gravediggers went out, leaving bodies unburied for weeks. By the end of January, half the hospitals in Britain were taking only emergency cases. Full of righteous fury, the unions flexed every muscle, demonstrating all the tremendous power that they had amassed by law and custom in the years since the Second World War.
Almost no one on the left disagrees with the principle that government should be able to grant a monopoly to a labor union — just as the Medieval guilds monopolized their trades in earlier times. Almost no one on the left disagrees with the idea of a picket line — an extra legal activity designed to intimidate and coerce private citizens. Rarely will you hear any criticism on the left of the unions' discrimination against outsiders — of their long history of excluding women, blacks and other minorities.
As I have written before, unions are not formed to help those at the bottom of the income ladder. They are organized against the lowest paid workers. A union can succeed in obtaining above-market wages only if it can keep other workers out of their market.
Unions are not about altruism. They are about the raw pursuit of self-interest. What we generally call "liberalism" is about accommodating that pursuit of self-interest. Think of the political sphere as a special kind of Hobbesian jungle in which each group tries to rig the rules of the game in order to enhance its share of the economic pie at the expense of everyone else. During the administration of Franklin Roosevelt, the federal government tried to codify this process — economy wide:
At [Roosevelt's] behest, Congress passed the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA), which attempted to regulate the entire economy, based on the Italian fascist model. In each industry, management and labor were ordered to collude to set prices, wages, output, etc. (acts that today would be a criminal violation of the anti-trust law). So intrusive were these regulations that what in retrospect seems like an incredibly silly regulation made it all the way to the Supreme Court, which responded by declaring the entire scheme unconstitutional.("What is Classical Liberalism?")
One more thing. The left is devoted to process, not to results.
When Britain turned Hong Kong over to the Chinese (1997), per capita income in Hong Kong was higher than it was in Britain. Think about that. This former British colony has no natural resources. It is basically a large rock sitting in the sea. Its citizens are mainly refugees who immigrated with little or no wealth. The only thing Hong Kong had going for it was that it had the freest economy in the whole world.
So how many people in the Labor Party said "the political economy of Hong Kong works better than the political economy of the mother country"? Not a one.


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Notice anything different about Facebook lately? Yes, they've done it again.
Kicked out of their complacency by the emergence of Google+, the social media mavens have unveiled an unprecedented number of changes to coincide with the annual F8 developers conference.
Some changes (like Facebook subscriptions) were announced a few days ago, some have just been foisted upon an unsuspecting public. And, as happens every time Facebook tweaks something, many people are hating on them big time.
Here are the half dozen biggest changes – and what, if anything, you can do to get your old Facebook back.
Tick tick ticker: Want to know what all of your friends are doing every single moment of every day on Facebook? A new ticker in the top right corner of your news feed gives you a Twitter-like stream that details every activity by all of your peeps – and makes you wonder if any of your friends actually have a life.
Hate the ticker? You're not alone. The SumTips blog offers a few semi-geeky ways to turn it off in Firefox, Chrome, and Safari, mostly via the AdBlock Plus extension.
Talk talk talker: Feeling constrained by Facebook's arbitrary 500-character limit on posts? You now have 10 times more space to bore fascinate your friends with your obnoxious keen observations and lameass brilliant opinions. And if any of your friends do go on for 5,000 characters, well, that's why Facebook invented the 'unfriend' feature.
All news, all the time: Surprised by the sudden appearance of all these semi-strangers at the top of your news feed? I know I was. Facebook has combined its old "Most Recent" and "Top Stories" feeds into one, flagging the "Top" stories with a little blue triangle in the left corner.
If you don't like what Facebook's choices for Top Stories, you can click the blue triangle and Facebook's inscrutable EdgeRank algorithms will stop flagging stories similar to it as "Top".
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Here's the best part: Click on a friends list on the left side of your page to see only those posts from, say, close friends, work pals, or your old college chums. For the first time, those friends lists are actually useful.
The floating bar: No, sadly, this is not a poolside hangout at St. Barts. Facebook has anchored the navigation bar to the top of your screen, so your notifications, messages, requests, etc. are always accessible, no matter how far down the page you scroll. Don't like it? Chrome users can sink the floating bar by installing the Unannoying Facebook extension.
The little stuff: Then there are the small tweaks. Photos are now a scosh larger. You can still "poke" people, but you've got to find the poke button first. (Go to that friend's profile and click the button at the top right corner with the little gear on it. Worth the trouble? Probably not.)
Want to wish all of your aging friends a happy birthday? You can now click on the birthday box on the right side of your profile and add greetings inside a single dialog, instead of having to visit each profile individually. (For those special occasions when sending a Facebook greeting just isn't impersonal enough.)
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Much bigger stuff: Today Facebook is also likely to reveal a new music service based on Spotify, as well as new ways to share content with your Facebook posse. I'm sure many of you out there will hate that, too. But that is a topic for another day.
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This interview has been a long time coming. I first reached out to Mark back in September, but I didn't mark his response and it got buried. I apologized to Mark for my disorganization. He, graciously, accepted my apology. Without further ado, let's learn about Mr. Mark Lyons.
Mark grew up in Marlboro, Massachusetts as one of 10 kids in a blended family. Home life, as one might imagine, was a bit chaotic. He loved sports, focusing on baseball, had three paper routes and spent whatever free time he had at the Marlboro Boys & Girls club or fishing. One of his most vivid memories was when he was 15 and playing on a travelling basketball team. They went to play against another team out of Cambridge who had a player that stood 6′ 11″ at 15-years old. This player constantly knocked Mark's shot attempts, sending them into the stands. Mark's team lost to the Cambridge team and their star player, Patrick Ewing, that day.
Mark attended Assabet Valley Vocational High School with plans on learning printing. His family had a print shop in town and he planned on joining the family business. Part of the curriculum at Assabet required that students look at other trades and one of those happened to be drafting. Turns out, Mark was pretty good at it and opted for drafting as career.
After graduating from high school, he opted to join the workforce forgoing college. He worked began working at Hypertronics in Hudson, MA. His quick promotion to Drafting Department Supervisor, at the tender age of 18, was proof that he'd made the right decision.
From Hypertronics, he moved on to Digital Equipment and Prime Computer. Both of whom offered education reimbursement, which afforded Mark the opportunity to go to night school for Mechanical Engineering. Quite the go-getter, Mr. Lyons. It was also at these companies that he was got his first taste of CAD. Unigraphics and then Prime Medusa.
Mark's career took off at this point. He went to work as a Senior Mechanical Designer at Bose. He worked designing speaker housings for automobiles, mainly supporting GM. His designs could be found in Cadillac, Camaro, Olds, Mercedes and Mazda. At the time, circa 1988, Bose hadn't moved to CAD. Mark helped change that, though it was a bit before they were using a 3D package (Unigraphics). Being able to truly design in 3D Mark was moved around to various teams to design. He created designs for the first generation noise cancelling headphones as well as the Wave Radio.
The next natural step for Mark was to give back. Assabet recruited him to teach drafting. Talk about coming full circle, eh? He started teaching manual drafting, the AutoCAD. He spent 10 years teaching, getting the school involved in the FIRST robotics program while he was at it. During his off time, Mark had started playing golf, becoming quite good at it. He left teaching and went to work in the golf industry, as a player and teacher. After trying it for a time, he returned to teaching at Bay Path Tech in Charlton, MA. Again, teaching drafting in both AutoCAD and SolidWorks. Three years later, a position opened up at SolidWorks and Mark took it. In his words, he is "the 2D guy". He is the DraftSight Training Specialist. He creates training material for Draftsight and loves it.
In his down time, Mark loves to spend time with his wife and kids. He also enjoys golfing, fishing and watching the New England Patriots. That, alone, makes him a-ok in my book.
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It wasn't until I joined Twitter in July of '08 that I first became aware of Alistar Dean. How this was even possible is beyond me. Al is one of those people who, upon meeting him for the first time, you know you will never forget. If asked to describe him, I would say he's an uneven mix of father, scholar, punk and geek. I say uneven as I believe the mixture changes depending on environment. Perhaps 'chameleon' would be a more apt description? No matter, it is the sum of these parts that makes up the incredible Human being that is Al Dean.
Can you guys please get together and fix the issue I'm having with my SpacePilots? The need to have the tool I want to map to my buttons on an active toolbar is ridiculous. One of my favorite things in SolidWorks is the fact that I don't need to clog my graphics area with toolbars. I like having my space! When I got this SpacePilot PRO, I was beside myself with joy. I LOVE new technology and dove right in. Then I got bit. My button mappings wouldn't work; not even the default mappings. I uninstalled/reinstalled the 3Dconnexion software to no avail. I called 3Dconnexion's tech support and was told about the whole toolbar thing. I'd forgotten about that tidbit of information when I was having problems with my SpacePilot last fall. The "solution" I was given was to populate a macro toolbar with the commands I wanted to map to my buttons. Seriously? What is it about the coding in SolidWorks that's preventing me from being able to use the buttons as designed? Where is the disclaimer telling SolidWorks users about this shortcoming? Are any other CAD packages effected this way? Another thing is the whole 'S' key thing. That I can get to map to a button, but it won't stay mapped. Why is that?
Don't get me wrong, I think the SpacePilot PRO is great. It'd be even better if it worked like it should. With all the software gurus at SolidWorks and 3Dconnexion, you think they'd be able to solve this issue. While I'm at it, can we talk about the default drivers? Is it absolutely necessary to load drivers for every CAD software under the sun by default? I don't use AutoCAD, Maya or any of the other offerings. It seems to me that, when installing the drivers, you should be given the choice of what to load versus having to go through the custom setup. It just doesn't make sense, in my humble opinion.
A frustrate, yet hopeful user.
When was the last time you meandered over to 3D ContentCentral�? Have you ever been there? Whenever people jump onto one of the forums looking for a model, 3D ContentCentral is where they're inevitably sent. Why? Because there's over 500,000 CAD users registered. If each of them has contributed just 2 models, that's a million models to choose from. Granted, not everyone contributes. But there are prolific posters, as well. Per Nielson has contributed a total of 306 parts since he joined. It goes beyond individual users though. The list of supplier created content is quite impressive as well. Did I mention that there are 2D blocks and macros available as well?
One of the best things about 3DContentCentral is that it's not just for us SolidWorks users. The models are available in all major 2D and 3D CAD formats, including� Autodesk Inventor� and AutoCAD�. This allows for sharing across industries and, in some cases, companies. Dassault Syst�mes has also added self-publishing to the site making it easier for suppliers to upload their parts and assemblies without the use of third-party applications. This means even more content for you!
With the popularity of social networks (Facebook, Twitter), Dassault has added social networking to 3D ContentCentral as well. You can build communities to share experiences and knowledge. Some of the key features, as described by Dassault, are:
Even with all the new features that Dassault has implemented, the best part about it is you don't have to rebuild the wheel, as it were. If it's an off-the-shelf item, there's a pretty good chance you're going to find it at 3D ContentCentral.


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Hey New York! On July 15th we're hosting a rad rooftop showcase at Our Wicked Lady. Want more details? You'll find them here.
We're hosting Metoux and Oscar Key Sung at Berlin's Badehaus on July 28th. RSVP here because it's going to be a good time :)
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Sidewalk Kal is heating up. The Chicago MC rose from the cacophony that is my SoundCloud stream one day with a powerful and rugged proclamation of "Kal The God." He touches a similar nerve while showcasing his versatility with "Thousand Arrows."
The Tuamie-produced joint wastes no time in burrowing itself in your ear. The beat is buoyant, with a healthy balance of post-Dilla slop and golden-age head nod. Kal plays his part and delivers an extended verse in a more monotone delivery than some of the high-energy flows he's chosen in the past.
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Here are some ideas on what to do with the kids this week.
Monday: Messy Science at the Oro Valley Public Library, 1305 W. Naranja Drive. Kids will participate in experiments making slime, launching seltzer rockets and erupting mini volcanoes. Presented by the Children's Museum Tucson. The required tickets are handed out a half hour before the program starts on a first come first served basis. Kids in grades 1 through 3. 12:30 p.m. Free.
Tuesday: Summer Kids Day at Peter Piper Pizza, 9545 E. Old Spanish Trail. Today's theme is "I am a rock star." Kids can dress as a music store and share musical talents with the Peter Piper team. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Includes all you can eat lunch buffet. $3.99 per child.
Wednesday: Meet Me in Marana. Starts at Wade McLean Park, 8000 N. Silverbell Road. Fun, non-competitive social walk/run along the Santa Cruz River. Check in starts at 5 p.m. All ages. Free.
Thursday: Watch The Pirates! Band of Misfits or Disney's African Cats at Crossroads, 4800 E. Grant Road, Suite 150. Movies start at 10 a.m. Free for kids 10 and under; $2 for everybody else.
Friday: Kids Fest Kick-off at Trail Dust Town in the Savoy Opera House, 6541 E. Tanque Verde Road. Wild west trick roper Loop Rawlins performs and a screening of his short film "The Adventures Of Loop & Rhett." Children's music from The Jim Howell Band, carnival games and rides. 5:30 to 9 p.m. All ages. Free. Rides and games additional.
Saturday: Lego Club at Kirk-Bear Canyon Public Library, 8959 E. Tanque Verde Road. The library provides Legos for the kids to build whatever they want with. All ages. 10-11:30 a.m. Free.
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The Dorothy R. and Norman E. McCulloch Center for Global Initiatives
Mount Holyoke has a long and proud history of international engagement. The first international student enrolled in 1839, two years after the founding of the college; the first student went to study abroad in 1928 (to Paris); President Mary Woolley was the only female participant in the U.S. government delegation to the international disarmament conference in Geneva in 1932; and, in 1949, politics professor Ruth Lawson established the first Mount Holyoke international internship program.
Over the decades Mount Holyoke developed a rich array of internationally-focused curricular and co-curricular offerings. Then in 2003, our faculty and trustees decided that the realities of an increasingly globalizing world demanded that we make comprehensive internationalization a strategic priority. The college established the McCulloch Center for Global Initiatives [Dedication Photo Gallery] to implement internationalization within the entire community of faculty, students, staff, and alumnae and to extend MHC's international involvement to a network of organizations around the globe that focus on social justice, health, business, environment, culture, science and technology, and share MHC's values and principles.
In collaboration with our faculty and staff colleagues, support from the College leadership and alumnae, and in partnership with foundations and organizations around the world, we have been weaving global education into the fabric of a Mount Holyoke education.


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Mat 5:3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Mat 5:4 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. Mat 5:5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. Mat 5:6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Mat 5:7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. Mat 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. Mat 5:9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. Mat 5:10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Mat 5:11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Mat 5:12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
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Mat 5:1 When Jesus saw his ministry drawing huge crowds, he climbed a hillside. Those who were apprenticed to him, the committed, climbed with him. Arriving at a quiet place, he sat down Mat 5:2 and taught his climbing companions. This is what he said: Mat 5:3 "You're blessed when you're at the end of your rope. With less of you there is more of God and his rule. Mat 5:4 "You're blessed when you feel you've lost what is most dear to you. Only then can you be embraced by the One most dear to you. Mat 5:5 "You're blessed when you're content with just who you are--no more, no less. That's the moment you find yourselves proud owners of everything that can't be bought. Mat 5:6 "You're blessed when you've worked up a good appetite for God. He's food and drink in the best meal you'll ever eat. Mat 5:7 "You're blessed when you care. At the moment of being 'carefull,' you find yourselves cared for. Mat 5:8 "You're blessed when you get your inside world--your mind and heart--put right. Then you can see God in the outside world. Mat 5:9 "You're blessed when you can show people how to cooperate instead of compete or fight. That's when you discover who you really are, and your place in God's family. Mat 5:10 "You're blessed when your commitment to God provokes persecution. The persecution drives you even deeper into God's kingdom. Mat 5:11 "Not only that--count yourselves blessed every time people put you down or throw you out or speak lies about you to discredit me. What it means is that the truth is too close for comfort and they are uncomfortable. Mat 5:12 You can be glad when that happens--give a cheer, even!--for though they don't like it, I do! And all heaven applauds. And know that you are in good company. My prophets and witnesses have always gotten into this kind of trouble.I think it is such a beautiful passage, with incredible instructions, encouragement, inspiration and blessings.


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The statement said that excursion crew provided initial care, including CPR, until Zapata was transported by ambulance to the King Edward Memorial Hospital in Hamilton, Bermuda, where she was pronounced dead.
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The SSD Anthology: Understanding SSDs and New Drives from OCZby Anand Lal Shimpi on March 18, 2009 12:00 AM EST
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The Trim Command: Coming Soon to a Drive Near You
We run into these problems primarily because the drive doesn't know when a file is deleted, only when one is overwritten. Thus we lose performance when we go to write a new file at the expense of maintaining lightning quick deletion speeds. The latter doesn't really matter though, now does it?
There's a command you may have heard of called TRIM. The command would require proper OS and drive support, but with it you could effectively let the OS tell the SSD to wipe invalid pages before they are overwritten.
The process works like this:
First, a TRIM-supporting OS (e.g. Windows 7 will support TRIM at some point) queries the hard drive for its rotational speed. If the drive responds by saying 0, the OS knows it's a SSD and turns off features like defrag. It also enables the use of the TRIM command.
When you delete a file, the OS sends a trim command for the LBAs covered by the file to the SSD controller. The controller will then copy the block to cache, wipe the deleted pages, and write the new block with freshly cleaned pages to the drive.
Now when you go to write a file to that block you've got empty pages to write to and your write performance will be closer to what it should be.
In our example from earlier, here's what would happen if our OS and drive supported TRIM:
Our user saves his 4KB text file, which gets put in a new page on a fresh drive. No differences here.
Next was a 8KB JPEG. Two pages allocated; again, no differences.
The third step was deleting the original 4KB text file. Since our drive now supports TRIM, when this deletion request comes down the drive will actually read the entire block, remove the first LBA and write the new block back to the flash:
The TRIM command forces the block to be cleaned before our final write. There's additional overhead but it happens after a delete and not during a critical write.
Our drive is now at 40% capacity, just like the OS thinks it is. When our user goes to save his 12KB JPEG, the write goes at full speed. Problem solved. Well, sorta.
While the TRIM command will alleviate the problem, it won't eliminate it. The TRIM command can't be invoked when you're simply overwriting a file, for example when you save changes to a document. In those situations you'll still have to pay the performance penalty.
Every controller manufacturer I've talked to intends on supporting TRIM whenever there's an OS that takes advantage of it. The big unknown is whether or not current drives will be firmware-upgradeable to supporting TRIM as no manufacturer has a clear firmware upgrade strategy at this point.
I expect that whenever Windows 7 supports TRIM we'll see a new generation of drives with support for the command. Whether or not existing drives will be upgraded remains to be seen, but I'd highly encourage it.
To the manufacturers making these drives: your customers buying them today at exorbitant prices deserve your utmost support. If it's possible to enable TRIM on existing hardware, you owe it to them to offer the upgrade. Their gratitude would most likely be expressed by continuing to purchase SSDs and encouraging others to do so as well. Upset them, and you'll simply be delaying the migration to solid state storage.
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lyeoh - Friday, May 29, 2009 - linkGood and informative article.
Regarding the shill tshen83 who claims that Anandtech cost the drive manufacturers millions of dollars in sales.
If that is true, Anandtech has saved customers millions of dollars.
Anandtech should care more about their readers losses than drive manufacturer losses. If Anandtech was a site for drive manufacturers and their shills we wouldn't be reading it.
To me, if the SSD drive manufacturers lose money, it's their own fault for building crap that has higher write latencies than old fashioned drives with metal discs spinning at 7200RPM or slower. Not anandtech's.
I can get higher sequential reads and writes by using RAID on old fashioned drives. It is much harder to get lower latency. So Anandtech did the right thing for OCZ.
Lastly, there might be a way of making your windows machine stutter less even with a crap SSD. Note: I haven't tested the actual effect on an SSD because I don't have an SSD.
Basically by default when Windows accesses a file on NTFS, it will WRITE to the directory the time of the access. Yep, it writes when it opens files and directories (which are just special files). That might explain the stuttering people see. For a lot of things, Windows has to open files.
Warning! There are reasons why some people or programs would want to know the last access time of files. Me and my programs don't (and I doubt most people would).
If you are sure that's true for you (or are willing to take the risk) set NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate=1 as per:
poohbear - Sunday, April 26, 2009 - linkBrilliant article and very informative on these emerging technology. I wont be buying one anytime soon @ their prices, but good to know we'll FINALLY be replacing convential HDD which are the one component that have been pretty much the same since as far back as i can remember
"SSDs have +5 armor immunity to random access latency"
rofl that's the best analogy i've seen on a hardware review site. is every comp geek a RPG geek @ heart? Reply
Gootch - Sunday, April 19, 2009 - linkGreat article. Realy made me understand what I need to look at before making the plunge. Mistakes and all, my compliments. As for value between the now seemingly drastically improved Vertex vs the X25-M, I compared prices between the two and per Gb, the Intell product for say an 80 Gb drive is Can $5.86/Gb, while the OCZ 60 Gb SSD is Can $6.81/Gb. Now that we are no longer comparing apples and oranges, I think we need to point out that the Intel product is not only faster and maintains it's performance edge better, but it is cheaper per Gb. At least in Canada. I have many OCZ products and I love the company and it's customer support. I can only hope that they will make their SSDs more competitive in the near future, because most consumers will pay the extra 70 bucks and go with the X25 when they pay attention to the numbers, both performance and price. Reply
Baffo - Saturday, April 11, 2009 - linkI could forsee a whole host of issues with encrypting SSD drives, not the least of which is essentially making the drive completely "used" outside of the drive slack space - which would be a temporary reprieve for the reasons discussed in this article. However, I could also see potential performance and lifetime issues since modern encryption uses streaming ciphers (e.g. an entire encrypted block - which may or may not conform to the physical block size will be changed for even one bit change within the block itself). Has anyone looked at the resultant effect on performance due to using encryption - it would be good to compare say Bitlocker, PGP, Checkpoint, and an open source encryption solution (Crypt or something like that?). This could actually become a real driver for moving to on-drive encryption where it would have the opportunity to optimize the encrpytion for the pro/cons of the SSD architecture. Reply
brandensilva - Friday, April 10, 2009 - linkGreat article! I respect that OCZ made the necessary changes to make this drive work. I'd rather take a slightly slower drive if it meant consistent performance.
If my hard drive started to stutter I'd flip out! I'm glad that they took the feedback and instead of selling faulty drives, that would ultimately hurt their brand, they decided to go back to the drawing board and iron out the kinks. I'm not expecting them to compare to Intel's 25-M per price or performance. They don't have nearly the cash or manufacturing capacity to compete with Intel but they do have that small business feel with receiving feedback and making improvements, which is important to customers.
Lets hope they continue to utilize that aspect of their business and further improve on their products and bring us some reliable SSD's in the future. Reply
Hrel - Thursday, April 09, 2009 - linkalthough, I have some issues which I have put in an e-mail sent to Anand; can't wait for you response. Reply
Hrel - Thursday, April 09, 2009 - linkInstead of making me dinner can you send me that test system instead??? Please!!! Reply


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Community Biodiversity Celebration
Saturday, April 27, 2013 from 8:00 AM to 2:30 PM (PDT)
Event Details
Join SF Environment to kick off our new Biodiversity program with a day of events celebrating San Francisco's natural heritage!
There is a limited number of tickets for each event- RSVP here to secure your spot!
8:00am-9:45am - Bird Walk on Corona Heights
See and hear birds of San Francisco with one of the city's best birders, Dominik Mosur.
We will meet behind the Randall Museum (east side) at the Oak trees.
10:00am-12:00pm - Habitat Restoration on Corona Heights
Restore habitat for our flora and fauna atop Corona Heights with great views! In collaboration with Recreation and Parks Natural Areas Program.
Meeting location TBD
12:00pm-1:30pm - Community Celebration in Randall Museum Courtyard
Join SF Environment and Recreation and Parks to kick off our new biodiversity program during Bug Day at the Randall Museum. Stop by our booth to learn about San Francisco's natural wonders, and enjoy a smoothie made with "pedal power" from our electric bike!
1:30pm-2:30pm - Nature Walks in the Neighborhood
Join local naturalists for an urban habitat experience and a tour of local natural areas.
We will meet at the SF Environment booth in the Randall Museum courtyard.
When & Where
Corona Heights & the Randall Museum
199 Museum Way
San Francisco,
Saturday, April 27, 2013 from 8:00 AM to 2:30 PM (PDT)
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Great time on the Valor: Carnival Valor Cruise Review by mramos
Overall Member Rating
Great time on the Valor
Destination: Eastern Caribbean
Embarkation: San Juan
We flew into San Juan the day of and were on the boat by 3p.m. We took advantage of the transportation Carnival provides to the ship from the airport. It was quick easy and cheap. I believe the cost was $15 one way per person. Once we got to the boat check in was easy. Waited in line for about 20 minutes and then went through security. We were able to go to our room and eat lunch and were off to explore San Juan by 4:15.
In San Juan, please explore the food trucks. My husband is half Spanish and we stopped at a Taco truck and it was the best taco I have ever had!! Super cheap too. We walked around Old San Juan so much that we almost forgot to check our watches as we were coming up on the 8:30 hr to be back on the ship. That night we ate at the Lido deck and enjoyed exploring the ship. Food for lunch and dinner were very good.
I wont go in detail at every port since I have noticed some More people have done this.
St. Thomas went to a beach near the ship and it was beautiful. We had a great time and swam and snorkeled. There was a welcome aboard show this night. I have to say the shows really were not that good. I think this one turned us off because we didn't make it to another show after this. The dancers were not in sync and they were not really that good. I was actually kind of shocked. I wasn't expecting a Tony Award show just something that kept me from thinking of other things we could do the next day.
At Sea Day Slept in and went to the only at sea day brunch. Great that it didn't close till 1pm. Made for a stress free morning. Food was great! Service was amazing as well. We went to the Serenity Deck and lounged for half the day. Great music was playing and we were glad there wasn't much child activity or splashing water all over the place. That night we went to the comedy show and both comedians were pretty funny. We went there every night there was a show.
Barbados. By far our favorite port. We went to the Boatyard near downtown. For only $12 you get one welcome drink, free WI-Fi, two chairs and an umbrella, your transportation back to the ship and some activities on the beach. There are others walking around selling snorkeling, and other water activities. The water was beautiful, the staff was attentive and answered your questions. They could have easily charged $25 for what they offer!! When we go back to Barbados we will be going back to the Boatyard. Its a must see place!
St. Lucia unfortunately it rained pretty much the whole day off and on. We took the water taxi into town and explored and shopped. Ate at this great place called Chef Robbie's right where you get on and off for the water taxi. This place was sooooo good! Food was delivered hot and was delicious. The servers were great as well. The owner came over and spoke with us and he was so nice and down to earth!
St. Kitts we took a group taxi out to Cockelshell beach and enjoyed a beach day! There are several areas you can rent chairs & umbrellas. The cheapest we saw was $10 for both two chairs and an umbrella so we stuck with them. The owners building burned a few weeks prior, so she had a "shack" that she used to harvest cold drinks and beer. She was very helpful and spoke to us about where we were from since she had once visited. The beach was about 20 minutes away from the ship. You can get this excursion as soon as you leave the ship. There are always people selling excursions at a cheaper price.
St. Maarten the only time we used Carnival's excursion. My husband wanted to do the Regatta Cup Tour where two boats compete against each other. I honestly went into this thinking I would not have fun and that I was taking one for the team. Boy was I wrong! That was by far my favorite excursion ever!! I would suggest this tour for anyone traveling through St. Maarten. It was fun and my husband had the time of his life sailing a real race boat that competed at one point. Afterwards we went into town and shopped for a bit. This is definitely the place to shop if you are looking for deals. I found things I didn't even know I would want! :)
Every night except two we at our dining hall which was my time dining in the Lincoln hall. Never had to wait for a table. We kept requesting the table we sat at the 3rd night since we were treated like royalty our first night dining with them! Even our bartender remembered us and always came over and knew what each of us wanted to drink. The food was amazing!! We ate so much! I couldnt get enough.
We also went to the Steak House one night. We paid the traditional $35 per person and it was well worth it. The service was amazing, and the food was top notch. I couldn't believe how much they gave you and how well everything was seasoned.
We had a room on the 6th floor and never again. We were right above the O2 arena which is a club for teenagers. At first we thought it would be fine since it was the first week in September and most children just started school or started 2-3 weeks prior. Grant it we didn't see that many children but we did run into a few. The room would vibrate from all the bass from O2. And we weren't going to bed early either. We didn't get in our room till around 1am each night. I would have to say that was the worst part of our trip and it wasn't really that bad! We did have a balcony room which was amazing. I would definitely recommend it to anyone who is willing to spend the extra money. It was nice to go out there at night or during the evening before dinner. And it was priceless to get out there in the morning before we hit the port or while they docked. The views were breath taking. They do need to update the rooms. The television was a tube tv. The bathrooms were old and so was the carpet. It looked like these haven't been updated since the late 80's early 90's. We were very concerned that we would have smokers near us, but we were lucky enough to not have any! We had a smoke free balcony!
I think Carnival has really taken all of the bad criticism and worked to prove that they are the real "fun ship." We had an amazing vacation and wouldn't trade our experiences for the world.
Every guest we encountered was usually nice. We met a lot of nice people on this cruise. I was surprised since we were not as lucky that last few times we cruised together.
One note of advice...don't buy an excursion on the ship. Wait until you get off the ship and there are at least 20 taxi drivers and excursion specialist that will provide the same tour for a lot cheaper! Less
Published 09/16/13
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