text: Compliance with food safety issues are becoming an increasingly important determinant in market access. The fall-out from health scares related to food can have global and long-lasting negative consequences. It is therefore important to enhance cooperation in food safety and create the confidence for increased trade. Hence, in 1998 the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) called for APEC Leaders to commit to building an APEC Food System as a comprehensive approach to action in the food sector. In 1999 in Auckland, New Zealand, APEC Ministers agreed that the overriding objective in building the AFS would be "to efficiently link together food production, food processing and consumption to meet the food needs of our people as an essential part of achieving sustainable growth, equitable development and stability in the APEC region." That same year, Leaders adopted the ABAC report on the APEC Food System proposed by ABAC and endorsed its key recommendations to: Address rural infrastructure development; Disseminate technological advances in food production and processing, and Promote trade in food products. Since then, APEC has recognized that the underlying objective of ABAC's original proposal for AFS is the widening of markets into a single regional market. The desired result is to improve the efficiency of food production and trade for the benefit of APEC Member Economies. Progress on these goals is reported annually through the AFS chapter on the Individual Action Plan (IAP). In addition, all Working Groups and sub-fora include activities relevant to the APEC Food System in their SCE reports. Last page update: May 2016 Current Activities In May 2011, APEC held the third Food Safety Cooperation Forum (FSCF) in Big Sky, Montana. This forum included delegates from 18 member economies. During the meeting, members reinstated their commitment to work together to strengthen food safety systems and progress towards a safe food supply and harmonization of food standards with international standards, as recommended in the World Trade Organization's SPS/TBT agreements. This commitment is made with a view to improve public health and to facilitate trade in the APEC region. The APEC Food Safety Incident Management Workshop was also held in May 2011 in Big Sky. Around 100 delegates from a range of government, industry, academic and other organizations from 18 APEC economies attended the workshop. The key recommendation was the establishment of an APEC FSCF Food Safety Incident Network that would have as its primary objectives; Improved information-sharing and communication, including on risk assessment, risk management and risk communication, among member economies to provide accurate and timely information on emerging food safety issues or in the event of a food safety incident; Development and implementation of FSCF-agreed approaches to improved food safety incident preparedness, response and recovery mechanisms within APEC; and Strengthened participation of member economies in the World Health Organization's International Food Safety Authorities Network (INFOSAN) and other international networks to increase the ability to respond to food safety emergencies of global significance. The overall conclusion from the workshop was that there is significant preparedness and goodwill from government and industry to work together in a true partnership approach to improve the APEC region's capacity to deal with emerging food safety issues and resultant food safety incidents. The APEC FSCF and the World Bank signed an MOU to explore opportunities for deepening the working relationship with the World Bank on carrying out capacity building activities to promote and support food safety. Achievements The 2007 APEC Leaders' Declaration emphasized the importance of food safety and Leaders agreed to "develop a more robust approach to strengthening food and consumer product safety standards, using a scientific risk-based approach, and without creating unnecessary impediments to trade". Leaders also agreed that "additional capacity building in this area is a priority". APEC initiatives to advance the AFS have since included the development of a framework to strengthen cooperation in food safety activities across member economies, as well as to share information and build capacity in the region to harmonize food safety regulatory frameworks with existing international food standards. To further strengthen food safety, the first meeting of the Food Safety Cooperation Forum was held in April 2007 in Hunter Valley, Australia. Some 60 regulators from 16 economies participated and a strategy for capacity building in the region was developed at the Forum and endorsed by the SCSC. In terms of food security, APEC Ministers Responsible for Trade met in Arequipa, Peru in 2008 and noted the dramatic increases in prices of many food products. They collectively agreed that APEC economies could play an important role in the global response to this crisis by maintaining a commitment to open markets and to trade and investment liberalization. Particularly, Ministers emphasized the importance of sufficient levels of investment in agricultural technologies, as well as economic and technical cooperation that will help increase agricultural productivity. To this end, APEC Senior Officials initiated a process to review APEC activities in the area of food and agriculture which resulted in the APEC Food Security Work Plan. APEC Leaders agreed to support a fully coordinated response and a comprehensive strategy to tackle the food security issue. In addition, ABAC released a "Strategic Framework for Food Security in APEC" in 2009 that was designed to achieve food security in the region through effective implementation of the AFS. The paper recommends that APEC should refocus on a comprehensive AFS approach that tackles in a holistic way access to food, availability of food, supply reliability, trade liberalization, food safety, dietary health, environmental security, climate change and sustainability. Chinese Taipei hosted an "APEC Food Security Forum" on 18-20 August 2010 in Taipei. This Forum brought together food security related senior government officials, experts from both public and private sectors, and scientists from member economies to discuss issues related to food security including investment, environmental and trade facilitation. The Market Access Group (MAG) held a workshop on "Non-Tariff Measure and Non-Tariff Barriers Affecting Trade in Food and Agriculture Products in the APEC region" on 19 September 2010 in Sendai, Japan. This Workshop included discussions by businesses, academia, and regulators on food security issues relating to transparency, labeling, and unnecessary and unintentional non-tariff barriers to trade in food products within APEC. Preparations for APEC's first-ever Ministerial Meeting on Food Security (16-17 Oct 2010, Niigata, Japan) were progressed at the Senior Officials Friends of the Chair (SOM FOTC) on Food Issues held at the first Senior Official's Meeting (SOM1) in February 2010, SOM2 in June 2010, and SOM3 in September 2010. The latter meeting included a dialogue with the business community through ABAC. The SOM FOTC is also working closely with relevant APEC fora on an Action Plan on Food Security which is expected to be one of the concrete deliverables for the Ministerial Meeting on Food Security. Contacts News APEC Ministers Strengthen Food Markets APEC Ministers Issue Piura Declaration on Food Security 3rd APEC Ministerial Meeting on Food Security APEC tackling new food security challenges Improving food safety in the Asia-Pacific APEC tackling new food security challenges APEC Seminar on Strengthening Public-Private Partnership to Reduce Food Losses in the Supply Chain APEC targets greater use of biotechnologies to enhance food security APEC High Level Policy Dialogue on Agricultural Biotechnology—Agricultural Technical Cooperation Working Group Joint Meeting Securing APEC's food supply chains Boosting ICT energy efficiency through industry-government collaboration 2nd APEC Ministerial Meeting on Food Security APEC business leaders seek to boost commerce, support economic growth, job creation APEC to hold Ministerial Meeting on Food Security APEC Peru 2008: Outcomes Events 21 Aug 2017 High-Level Policy Dialogue on Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture in Response to Climate Change Can Tho, Viet Nam View all group events Links APEC Food System


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by Peter Cohan | July 22, 2011 12:45 pm
Second-quarter profit at temporary employee services firm Robert Half (NYSE:RHI[1]) more than tripled and the company's financial report beat Wall Street's predictions in many categories. With its stock shooting up more than 15% on the news, is now a good time to buy Robert Half's shares, or have investors missed their chance?
Here are four reasons to consider this stock:
One big negative is Robert Half's declining sales, profits and cash. Its revenue fell at an average rate of 1% over the last five years and its net income has plunged at a 23% annual rate over that period. It has no debt but its cash has declined at an 8.4% annual rate from $447 million (2009) to $315 million (2010).
The last five years have been rough for Robert Half but it appears to have turned the corner. At its current valuation, the opportunity cost of avoiding this stock could be significant.
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People of Note
David E. Eagan, J.D. 1982, has joined the New York office of Fulbright & Jaworski LLP as a partner. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions and cross-border and domestic corporate finance and securities laws matters. He also advises senior management and company counsel with respect to a broad range of issues, including securities disclosure, corporate governance and other corporate and securities laws matters. He lives in Wainscott, NY.
Scott Murray, Ph.D. 1982, has been selected as the recipient of the 2000 Leadership Award by the Association of VA Psychologist Leaders. He is the network behavioral VA health-care line director of the VA Healthcare Network Upstate New York, which includes five VA medical centers and 23 community-based outpatient clinics. He supervises a staff of more than 500, and provides care to some 20,000 veterans. He was recognized for his leadership in restructuring inpatient and outpatient mental health services, improving quality, assuring availability of mental health services at all access points and developing additional revenue streams to support patient care.
Donna I. Evans, B.A. 1983, was awarded a master of arts degree in pastoral ministry by Christ the King Seminary during its recent commencement exercises in East Aurora, NY. She is the owner of Complete Creative Marketing in Williamsville, NY, which specializes in developing and implementing advertising and public relations campaigns. She is also developer of the BuffaloWorks job database network, as well as a member of the New Millennium Group and a lay leader at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Buffalo, NY.
Richard J. Lynch, D.D.S. 1983 & B.A. 1979, has been elected treasurer of the University at Buffalo Dental Alumni Association. He practices in Williamsville, NY, where he resides.
Michael Arnold, J.D. 1984 & B.S. 1981, has been appointed by the Perinton Town Board to fill a vacancy on the Perinton Town Bench. A general practitioner in the law office of Place & Arnold in Fairport, NY, he serves as a Chapter Seven Bankruptcy Trustee through the federal court system for Western New York and is the village attorney for Mount Morris, NY. He also serves as the vice president of the Fairport Merchants Association, lectures frequently at continuing legal education seminars, is past leader of the Perinton Republican Committee and is a 1999 William E. McKnight Award recipient for volunteer legal services.
Robert T. Durkin, B.A. 1985, has graduated with highest distinction and has been awarded an M.A. in national security and strategic studies by the United States Naval War College at Newport, RI. He is one of 24 officers from throughout the U.S. Armed Forces selected for an additional year of advanced warfighting training at the Marine Corps University in Quantico, VA.
Nicholas Rodo, D.D.S. 1985 & B.A. 1979, was one of a select group of dentists nationwide to receive the Academy of General Dentistry's prestigious fellowship award during the academy's annual meeting July 22 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was recognized as a leader who is committed to lifelong learning and excellence in patient care. The fellowship award symbolizes the professional responsibility of general dentists to remain current in their profession. He has a private practice in West Seneca, NY. He lives in Orchard Park, NY, with his wife, Elly, and three children.
Rose Sweeney, M.B.A. 1985 & B.S. 1984, has been named compensation manager, human resources, at Rich Products Corporation of Buffalo, NY, the nation's largest privately owned frozen-food manufacturer. Her responsibilities include salary administration and incentive programs. She also advises and assists with compensation problems and issues. Before her appointment at Rich Products, she was manager, salaried compensation and personnel, at Goodyear Dunlop Tires North America Ltd. in Amherst, NY. A resident of Tonawanda, NY, she is a member of World at Work and the Society of Human Resources Management.
John Daly, B.S. 1986, has joined Trautman Associates, a Western New York architectural, engineering, planning and interior design firm as a partner. He will serve as the director of the mechanical, electrical and plumbing department. He is a nationally recognized champion of sustainable "green building" design and is certified as a New York State professional engineer and as a plumbing engineer. He has also participated in MIT-sponsored international design symposiums, exploring the applications of new technologies such as displacement ventilation, daylight harvesting, raised floor systems, fuel cells, indoor air quality and active climate facades.
Michael D. Ehlers, PMCRT 1986 & D.D.S. 1985, was elected president of the University at Buffalo Dental Alumni Association. A resident of Boston, NY, he practices general dentistry with offices in Holland, West Seneca and Boston.
Janet T. Ihlenfeld, Ph.D. 1986 & M.S. 1981, professor of nursing in the undergraduate and graduate programs at D'Youville College in Buffalo, NY, received the 2000 American Association of University Professors' Scholar Award. She was cited for her research on social support among nurses, professional publications including instructors' manuals in child health nursing, and grant awards. She is also a consultant to the master of science in nursing program in clinical systems management at Regents College in Albany, NY. She lives in Buffalo.
Vince Lobuzzetta, M.B.A. 1986 & B.S. 1984, has been promoted to application development manager, information systems, at Rich Products Corporation of Buffalo, NY, the nation's largest privately owned frozen-food manufacturer. He is responsible for new information system development for manufacturing, logistics and research and development. Prior to his promotion, he was information technology manager for non-dairy products. Previous to that, he was senior programmer analyst at Rochester Telephone in Rochester, NY, where he resides.
Daniel Marinaro, M.Arch. 1986, is a partner in the architectural firm K2M Architects PC, a firm he and two fellow UB graduates formed. The firm, located in Clarence, NY, specializes in the digital graphics side of the industry. K2M utilizes powerful Macintosh computers and cutting-edge software to create highly sophisticated models and designs. The firm focuses on the design aspects of architecture, and the staff is committed to technology. He lives in Tonawanda, NY.
Renee B. Bush, M.L.S. 1987, received the 2000 Distinguished Member Award from the Biomedical and Life Sciences Division of the Special Libraries Association at the organization's annual conference in June in Philadelphia; she was cited for her intelligent and resourceful leadership and professionalism. She was also recognized for her exceptional contribution to the library profession, the Biomedical and Life Sciences Division and her colleagues.
Lisa DeLorme, B.A. 1987, is an attorney with Southern California Edison Company in Los Angeles, CA, where she currently resides.
Stephen S. Korniczky, J.D. 1987, a partner with Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP, was elected president of the San Diego, CA, Intellectual Property Law Association; his term began in September 2000. His legal expertise focuses on intellectual property litigation and counseling clients on intellectual property licensing and portfolio development strategies. His clients include computer, communications, Internet, semiconductor, automotive, medical device and biotechnology companies. He resides in San Diego.
Ann Penwarden, M.L.S. 1987, has been promoted to assistant director, systems and extension services for the ETS Libraries at Monroe Community College. She lives in Fairport, NY.
Andrew Zaref, B.S. 1987, has joined KPMG LLP, the professional services firm, as a partner in its New Media/Internet practice. The practice serves start-up and established Internet companies and major corporations that wish to create an Internet presence.
He will provide assurance services to new media, technology, software, advertising, e-commerce, media and other Internet-related companies. He is also coinstructor in residence at the St. John's University master of business arts program. He lives in Cedar Grove, NJ, with his wife and two children.
Richard Bernecki, M.B.A. 1988, B.S. 1979 & B.F.A. 1976, has been named chief financial officer at Trocaire College in Buffalo, NY, where he resides.
Sharon Quinn Costello, M.B.A. 1988, has joined Massachusetts Mutual Life's Buffalo, NY, office as long-term care specialist. She lives in Buffalo.
Elizabeth J. Fitzsimmons, Ed.M. 1988 & B.A. 1986, has been promoted to assistant vice president of First Niagara Bank in Lockport, NY. She resides in Lakeview, NY.
Robert F. Kasprzak, M.Arch. 1988 & B.P.S. 1986, is a partner in the firm K2M Architects PC, a firm he and two fellow UB graduates formed. K2M Architects PC is an architectural firm in Clarence, NY, that specializes in the digital graphics side of the industry. K2M utilizes powerful Macintosh computers and cutting-edge software to create highly sophisticated models and designs. The firm focuses on the design aspects of architecture, and the staff is committed to technology. He lives in Lancaster, NY.
Marguerite L. Miller, M.B.A. 1988, has joined the firm of Lumsden & McCormick LLP, certified public accountants and advisors, as a senior accountant, where she will be responsible for auditing, accounting, and tax services to commercial businesses, not-for-profit organizations and individuals. She resides in Williamsville, NY.
David M. Schoen, M.L.S. 1988 & B.A. 1986, has been named director of libraries by Niagara University in Lewiston, NY. He lives in Blasdell, NY.
Ren Vasiliev, M.A. 1988, is one of 15 scholars who have been selected by the New York State Archives Partnership Trust to receive grants to use records in the New York State Archives to examine a variety of historical subjects. Associate professor of geography at the SUNY College at Geneseo, Vasiliev will research "The Placenames of New York State."
Xingwu Wang, Ph.D. 1988, is a recipient of the 2000 American Society of Engineering Education's Outstanding Educator Award. Wang is one of only 12 society members from four-year institutions nationwide to receive the award this year. He is professor of electrical engineering at Alfred University.
David Canfield, B.A. 1989, has been named development officer for the South Florida and Midwest regions of Altman Development Corporation of Boca Raton, FL, a leading developer of luxury apartment home communities. With this promotion, he assumes increased responsibility and authority in his development duties, including site analysis and acquisition, project design and entitlements, and construction management for new Altman properties. A licensed real estate broker in North Carolina, he earned a master's degree in real estate from the University of Southern California in 1992. He and his wife reside in Boca Raton.
Barbara Connolly, M.S. 1989, has been named dean of academic services at Monroe Community College's Damon City Campus in downtown Rochester, NY, where she will oversee and provide leadership for the academic programs and courses taught at the Damon Campus, including new curriculum and course proposals. She lives in Brighton, NY.
Gary A. Goodman, B.A. 1989, has started a residency in the department of internal medicine at the Nassau County Medical Center campus in East Meadow, NY, for SUNY at Stony Brook in Stony Brook, NY. After his residency, he aspires to enter a critical care role in invasive cardiology or emergency medicine. Following 15 years in emergency medical services as a paramedic, including five years with the Nassau County Police Department, he hopes to enter a teaching position to medically train other paramedics.
Douglas Klotzbach, M.Arch. 1989, is a partner in the firm K2M Architects PC, a firm he and two fellow UB graduates formed. K2M Architects PC is an architectural firm in Clarence, NY, that specializes in the digital graphics side of the industry. K2M utilizes powerful Macintosh computers and cutting-edge software to create highly sophisticated models and designs. The firm focuses on the design aspects of architecture, and the staff is committed to technology. He lives in Clarence.


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Confession from the administrator of BeopentoGod.com
Since I was a youth, I have always struggled with the idea of creation and wrote it off as a "man made" idea. As a youth growing into adulthood, I came to learn about evolution as a possible beginning that was explained through science. The following text summarizes a possible end to this mystery.
What difference does evolution make?
We must distinguish three meanings that evolution can have.
First: it can mean simply a theory about what happened – more complex species appeared on earth – and when, as shown by the fossil record.
Second: it can mean a theory about how this happened: by "natural selection," "the survival of the fittest."
Third: it can mean the absence of a divine design, as distinct from God using natural selection.
This third sense is not scientific at all, but philosophical and theological. One can accept evolution in sense 1 but not 2, or 1 and 2 but not 3. There is certainly a contradiction between the Bible and evolution in sense 3. But evolution in sense 3 is not a scientific theory at all.
If we evolved simply by blind chance, not divine design, then our lives have no overarching meaning, no preset divine plan, no script. The only meaning, purpose or values that exist are the ones we invent for ourselves. These can never be right or wrong, justified or not justified by a higher standard than our own desires, which created them. Thus there is no real reason to prefer Christian ethics to Stalinist ethics, for instance, except one's own desires themselves. Desire (volitional faith) becomes its own reason, its own justification.
There is no logical contradiction between the Bible's claim that "in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (Gen 1:1 NIV) and the claim that once the earth was here, species evolved by natural selection. Science is like the study of the inner ecology of a fishbowl; the Bible is like a letter from the person who set up the fishbowl. Far from being logically exclusive, the two ideas of creation and evolution easily include each other or suggest each other. On the one hand, the Bible does not say that God "created" each species by a separate act, but that he said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures" (Gen 1:24). On the other hand, a theory of evolution that confines itself to empirical science does not claim to know whether or not there is a divine Designer behind these natural forces. But surely such an elegant and ordered design strongly suggests a cosmic Designer.
There is also no logical contradiction between the Bible's claim that the human soul (the "image of God") is "breathed" ("spirited") into us from God, and evolution's claim that our body evolved from lower forms. Genesis 2:7 even suggests just such a double origin.
— Kreeft, P., & Tacelli, R. (2003). Pocket handbook of Christian apologetics. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press.
Recently I was asked "if you could describe yourself in one word, what word would you choose?" My reply was that I am "developing." So are our scientific discoveries, developing, in hopes that we may know someday. Believing that God is Creator, we still seek to understand how he creates. The relationship between faith and reason give us the freedom to explore this fullness of creation.
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Wisconsin nail artists helps fans show team support with nail art
Sports fans in the Green Bay area love their teams," says Lisa Gustafson, nail manager at InStyle in Green Bay, Wis. So much so that some of her clients like to display their team spirit with nail art. When the University of Wisconsin in Madison played in the Rose Bowl two years ago, clients who attended the game wore the team's mascot, Bucky Badger, on their nails. Clients who are Green Bay Packers fans occasionally sport a helmet with their favorite player's number on a nail. And earlier this year, when the University of Wisconsin in Green Bay returned from the NCAA championships, even though they lost, some clients showed their support by wearing the college's mascot, the Phoenix, on one of their nails.
Says Gustafson, "Nail art isn't as common here as I'd like it to be. Some clients are afraid to try it because they think they're too conservative, so I keep trying to come up with simpler designs to win them over."
Before LaDonna Ott moved back home to South Bend, Ind., from California almost two years ago, she had forgotten how important college sports are to the locals. But now that she's working as a nail technician at Michael & Co. in Elkhart, Ind., sports-minded clients don't let her forget and often request nail art designs incorporating Notre Dame or Indiana University logos.
"I had no idea how popular my Notre Dame nail art would become," says Ott. The design started a chain reaction, she says, which landed a write-up on her Notre Dame nails in the local newspaper, the South Bend Tribune.
Ott, who charges only $10 for the design on all 10 nails, says she doesn't charge a lot for her nail art because it makes her happy just to see clients wearing it. "Besides, since nail art isn't nearly as popular here as it is in California, it's a good way to promote it," she says.
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Announcing the arrival of her second child with husband Curtis Conway, the daughter of boxing legend Muhammad Ali tweets, 'Sydney arrived on her due date at 3am!'
Boxing legend Muhammad Ali has become a grandfather again. His daughter Laila gave birth to a baby girl on Monday, April 4.
Laila Ali, a former boxer herself, welcomed her second child with husband Curtis Conway and took to her Twitter.com blog to break the news to fans. She wrote, "I had my baby girl this morning! Sydney arrived on her due date at 3am! Everyone is happy and healthy."
The fourth season contestant of "Dancing With the Stars" has also talked to Us Weekly about her daughter arival. "After a long day of labor, I had a healthy baby girl, Sydney J. Conway," said the 33-year-old. "We are both very tired, but we fell in love the moment we laid eyes on each other. I feel so blessed and overwhelmed with love and excitement. Can't wait to get to know her!"
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This past weekend, I went with my husband to shop at Costco to stock up on household supplies, and to save money on our grocery bills since we are expecting our first child in March. We saved money on protein, and got our freezer stocked for the month with it. While we were there, the store was busy. The employees were helpful, kind, and one of them helped me load the groceries to be checked out at the cash register when my husband ran into the back of the store to pick up an item he'd wanted to get.
I looked around, and I saw what a high-performing wholesale store looks like with well-paid employees that have access to health care insurance. It didn't look like Costco was going out of business. There were no employees standing around, looking beaten and worn down. The cashiers didn't have the vacant, thousand-yard stare look that I often see on cashiers at Wal-Mart and other big box retailers.
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Welcome to In Your Head! Wrestling podcast, news and community!
Welcome to In Your Head! Wrestling podcast, news and community!
Posted in Audio Archive by Jack at 11:19, Jan 04 2017
Jack and Incher took some calls and went over the week in wrestling including:
- Smackdown
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- Braun's improvement
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- Incher's birthday
- Papa Jam rememberin'
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- tons of insanity...mature audiences only!
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Morningstar to restructure local plants
|Kerry Craig | News-Telegram Assistant Editor
Feb. 27, 2004 -- Morningstar Foods, a division of Dean Foods, announced earlier this week that it will be consolidating operations in Sulphur Springs.
Currently, Morningstar operates two facilities here. Last October, Dean Foods acquired Kohler Mix Specialities from Michael Foods Inc. That acquisition included the purchase of the Kohler plant in Sulphur Springs.
Morningstar will be investing approximately $12 million at its Industrial Drive location in order to consolidate the Kohler operations into a single Morningstar facility. Additionally, some production and distribution volume from facilities in other parts of the country will also be consolidated into the merged Sulphur Springs plants.
"A lot of the employees at that facility will be transferred to this facility," said Joe Wallace, manager of the Sulphur Springs Morningstar plant.
The restructuring will allow Morningstar to better serve its customers and create economic efficiencies.
"We are putting approximately $12 million into our facility here," Wallace said. "Seven million of that will be for a new Bosch production line. The remainder of that $12 million will be for the Kohler consolidation."
At the combined Sulphur Springs locations, Morningstar manufactures and distributes aseptic dairy and non-dairy creamers, soy beverages, flavored milks, whipping cream, ice cream mix and other related products across the nation.
"We are also adding additional milk receiving to the plant," Wallace said. "We are having to upgrade utilities like steam, air, water and waste water."
The projected closing of the Kohler location is anticipated to be Dec. 1, 2004, as soon as the capital expansion at the Morningstar location is complete.
"When we get through, we will have approximately 225 employees at this facility," Wallace said.
The Morningstar facility in Sulphur Springs has seen a significant expansion of its plant and number of employees in recent years.
In November of 2002, the employee base at Morningstar was 127, but that number grew in one year to 161 with eight positions open.
Following the addition of a 55,000 square foot distribution center at the facility, an additional 25 jobs were created at the plant, Wallace said in November of 2003.
Initially, that $6.5 million expansion was expected to provide an additional 10 jobs, but Wallace attributed the larger number of employees to growth in the company.
"We are continuing to expand and grow, especially over the past few years," Wallace said in November. "There will be additional growth in this plant. I can't tell you how much, but I know there will be a pretty substantial growth spurt in the next year or two."
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Lakeland, Fla. Publix Super Markets said Monday it has agreed to buy 49 Albertsons stores in Florida from Albertsons LLC. Terms of the transaction, which is expected to close in September, were not disclosed.
The purchase includes 15 stores in northern Florida, 30 locations in central Florida and four locations in southern Florida. Grand opening dates for all locations will depend on the scope of the remodels, Publix said.
"The demand for the high-quality service our associate owners provide gives us the opportunity to reinvest in these communities by acquiring additional sites for Publix stores," said Ed Crenshaw, CEO, Publix, in a prepared statement.
Albertsons LLC said it would continue to operate a limited number of Florida stores, its distribution center in Plant City and division office in Lake Mary.


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BOISE (AP) In a game with 136 total points and nearly 1,300 yards of total offense, it was the defense that made the biggest play.
Sooner or later the defense had to make a stop, and Boise State's Tim Brady did just that on the final play in the fourth overtime period, stuffing a 2-point conversion attempt in a thrilling 69-67 victory over Nevada on Sunday night.
GAME REPORT: Boise State 69, Nevada 67 (4OT)
The game set a record for most points in an NCAA Division I-A game since 1937, when official record keeping began.
The shootout finally ended on a sack by Brady, foiling Nevada's attempt to send the game into a fifth overtime.
"It was the biggest play we had all night," Boise State coach Chris Petersen said. "It's really too bad someone had to lose this one. I don't think I've felt that way after any game, ever."
For a while, it seemed this one would never end — not with the way the offenses were moving up and down the field.
The Broncos (5-1, 2-0 Western Athletic Conference) rolled up 627 total yards on offense, including Ian Johnson's 205 yards rushing and three touchdowns.
Nevada, led by Colin Kaepernick, a redshirt freshman quarterback making his first start, topped the Broncos with 639 total yards. The Wolf Pack (2-4, 0-2) tied the game in the fourth extra period when Luke Lippincott scored on an 8-yard burst up the middle, capping a rushing attack that amassed 406 yards, the fourth most ever allowed by Boise State.
But Nevada opted to pass on the two-point try, and Kaepernick rolled right, found nobody open then moments later found himself in Brady's grasp, sealing Boise State's eighth straight win over the Wolf Pack.
"To come up two points short in overtime in a game like this is a hard pill to swallow," said Kaepernick, who threw for three TDs and rushed for two more. "We knew we were going to have to keep putting points on the board to stay in the game."
Talk about an understatement.
Altogether, the teams combined for 17 touchdowns, 1,266 total yards of offense and a handful of personal bests.
Boise State quarterback Taylor Tharp threw for a career-high 320 yards and four touchdowns. Two of those came in the first two overtimes, both 25-yard scoring strikes to Jeremy Childs and Sherm Brasser.
Johnson had 256 yards total offense, including a 32-yard TD pass, the first of his career in the fourth quarter that put the Broncos up 41-34. His 72-yard TD run in the second quarter was the longest of his career.
Kaepernick, starting in place of injured sophomore Nick Graziano, ran for 177 yards and two scores and passed for another 243 yards and three TDs. His performance came against a Boise State defense that entered the game the third best in the nation, averaging just 12.2 points per game.
"I'm proud of our guys," Nevada coach Chris Ault said. "They came back and stood up all game long. We're going to learn a lot from this game and get better."
The Wolf Pack trailed most of the game, but grabbed their first lead late in the fourth when Brett Jaekle made a 35-yard field goal.
But Boise State freshman Kyle Brotzman sent the game into overtime by nailing a 27-yard field goal as time expired.
The teams traded touchdowns through the first two overtimes. In the third, Jaekle put Nevada on top with a 27-yard field goal, but Brotzman answered with a 29-yarder.
In the fourth overtime, Johnson scored from a yard out and Tharp lofted a short pass to Jeremy Avery on the 2-point conversion.
Nevada matched the touchdown, but Brady came up big when he got back up on his feet and chased down Kaepernick to end the game.
"You've got to give a lot of credit in this game to our offense," Brady said. "They battled for us and they kept us in the game because we weren't on top of our game tonight."
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Chinese Multinationals are becoming more diverse
March 27, 2016
In the recent wave of Chinese overseas investment, the patterns are becoming more diverse along many dimensions, including the types of firms investing overseas, the sectors of investment and the types of projects they undertake. In two blogs, I identify some of the emergent trends:
In addition, I shared my views on these questions with a regional newspaper in Germany, which was interested in Chinese multinationals after two acquisitions - Schimmel and EEW - in the local area. For a change, the Braunschweiger Zeitung actually printed the entire interview (in German) rather than just a single sentence.
A Wave of Chinese Acquisitions in Europe
February 12, 2016
In early 2016, a wave of Chinese acquisitions is taking place in Europe. I have been following this development and commenting on it in several blogs:
In addition, several journalists asked for my analysis or opinion on Chinese multinationals, some of whom quoted my views, including The Economist (January 15, 2016) and Wall Street Journal (January 15, 2016) and well as German-language newspapers like Frankfurter Rundschau, Wiener Zeitung, Weserkurier and Badische Zeitung.
FORBES Blogs on Competition in Emerging Economies, and Outward Investment
June 17, 2015
Unfortunately, I have not been able to blog as frequently as I would like to due to various work obligations. I have not yet given up that one day I may revive the good tradition. In the meantime, you may want to check out a few blogs that I have written for the FORBES website:
A Lesson from Essen: How NOT to manage your finances internationally
January 19, 2015
The recent turbulences in currency markets, and the Swiss Franc markets in particular, remind us of some very basic lessons about international finance. Sadly, many smart advisers offer complex products that seem to lower our costs, or increase our interest earning. Yet they don't. Local governments in German and Austria learned this the painful way.
In the early 2000s, interest rates in Swiss francs were almost two percentage points lower than for euros. So, treasures of several German cities had the smart idea of issuing bonds in francs. For a while they smiled while paying lower interest rates than neighbouring towns.
Yet, then the financial crisis hit, and the euro weakened relative to the franc, the exchange rate dropped from 1.60 FR/€ in 2005 until the Swiss National Bank stabilized the rate in 2011 euro to 1.20 FR/€. Analyzing the situation in September 2014, city treasures acknowledged their loss – which so far was only on the books. The big bill would come when the bonds were due –a 1 million franc bond raised about €625,000 (=1/1.60) in 2005, yet on due day the repayment would be €833,000 if the exchange rate remained at 1.20 FR/€. If you add that up to outstanding bonds of 450 million francs as in the case of Essen, that adds to a lot of money. The 1 or 2 percentage points saved every year in interest covered only a small part of those losses.
However, things turned a lot worse. After months of speculation and increasing capital inflows to Switzerland, in January 2015 the Swiss National Bank stopped its currency market interventions. The Swiss franc again became free floating, and jumped to a new price of 1.02 FR/€. The city of Essen alone lost about €70 million that day, together municipalities in North Rhine Westphalia may have lost as much as €900 million. Meanwhile, the Austrian capital city of Vienna saw its debt soar by about €300 million.
Why did the promising financing opportunity turn saw badly wrong? The city treasurers appear to have ignored some basic rules of international finance:
Sources: (1) M. Kohlstadt, 2014, Revier-Städte verzocken Millionen mit Schweizer Krediten, Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, September 15; (2) M. Schymiczek, 2015, Kursbeben in der Schweiz verschärft Finanzkrise in Essen, Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, January 16; (3) T. Döring, 2015, Deutsche Kommunen in der Franken-Falle, Handelsblatt, January 16; (4) Wirtschaftsblatt, 2015, Franken-Kredite in Österreich, January 16.
Chinese Crowds, Stampede in Shanghai
January 1, 2015.
Three years ago, on New Years eve, I was on the Bund and experienced the atmosphere of Shanghai getting read for the New Year light display. In view of the sad news that we woke up to this morning, I want to share a few impressions to put this in to context.
I was near the place where the stampede happened last night, but I left the area around 10 pm because I did not feel comfortable with the density of people in the central part of the Bund (i.e. the historical riverfront of Shanghai). The crowds seemed to be well managed in the sense that there was a strong police presence; they blocked off many roads and even the nearest metro station (Nanjing East Road) was closed. In this way, they allowed people walk only in certain directions - and only those willing to walk long distances would even make it to the Bund. People were generally also well behaved in the sense that there wasn't much shuffling and pushing, and not much alcohol, compared to similar events in London or Berlin. Yet still, in some areas, one could only move where the crowds pushed.
Generally speaking, the Chinese authorities are good at managing large crowds. Individualistic Europeans or Americans are often irritated by constraints on where they may or may not go. Or, as journalists, they attribute the presence of policemen to some political motives. The truth is that China has a lot of people. There are 24 million people living in Shanghai, and they are joined by tourists from all over China during the holidays. And, the place to be, the place with the best views, is the Bund. If so many people rush into one place, crowd management becomes a real challenge - a freak incident or a panic can cause people to rush in some direction, one person trips and then a disaster happens. For all their experience in crowd management, yesterday the Shanghai authorities failed. Expect a few resignations in the next days, replaced by the new leadership's loyal supporters.
Everyone knows that China is a big country, but unless you see it with your own eyes, it is hard to appreciate what that really implies.
Chinese Multinationals: Rapid Learning Curves
February 14, 2014
A public lecture that I gave in Vancouver is now online at Simon Fraser University. In this lecture, I make three arguments on Chinese multinational enterprises:
You can download the entire video from the website of Simon Fraser University, but note that the file is quite large and it hence it may take some time.
February 3, 2014
Based on my experiences and communications when teaching an EMBA class in Africa I have written a column for the Financial Times, which is available here.
These essence of my commentary is that Chinese investment in Africa holds great potential for both China and Africa. However, not only do both parties still have to design contracts in ways that are mutually beneficial, but they have to learn more about each other's culture to enhance interpersonal understanding in order to turn the recent wave of investment into a success.
While Europeans and Africans certainly also have to deal with a lot of historical legacies and prejudices, it has been my general impression from people I met that they found the relationships with the Chinese even more difficult to handle. Let me illustrate this by examples that have been cut out of the FT piece due to space constraints. I was told of an India telecom operator outsourcing some activities to a Chinese supplier, only to have staff resigning en mass because they did not want to work for a Chinese company. In another example, customers of a Chinese-owned hotel report that relationships between Ghanaian staff and Chinese managers were so bad that is seriously affected service for their event, and hence the (corporate) customer decided not to use that hotel again. Notwithstanding liabilities of Colonial history and associated resentments, Africans seem to prefer the work environment of a European or American company.
Such differences arise from inexperience: for many Chinese expats, their job in Africa is the first experience immersed in a foreign culture. European companies often have expats with at least some cultural sensitivity earned on earlier assignments. The shortage of internationally experienced managers is a pivotal weakness for Chinese companies as they start expanding abroad. As Chinese companies globalize, they can be expected to gradually build experience in managing international operations, and develop leaders that can engage effectively across cultural boundaries. However, at this stage, Africa-China relations are still at an early stage and both sides still have a lot to learn about each other to be able to negotiate contracts that are mutually beneficial, and to work together harmoniously.
There are however positive stories suggesting that such learning is taking place. At the University of Ghana 300 students enrolling to learn Chinese. And in Tanzania, a source told of Chinese expats being more popular than Europeans because they spend more time with their staff, whereas Europeans often send fly-in fly-out managers that spend little time with local communities. Hence, the picture isn't just black and white, and people from all parts of the world are taking initiatives better understand others' cultures.
Chinese Unity meets European Fragmentation
January 13, 2014
Do you know the anthem of the European Union? Most European can sing - or at least to hum along - their national anthem, but few know the what the European anthem is. I actually hear it rather often, at our place all major ceremonies - such as graduations - start with "we now listen to the Chinese National Anthem and the Anthem of the European Union". That's because we are a joint-venture business school owned by Chinese and European institutions.
Hearing these anthems together always reminds me how different these two grand old civilizations of the world are acting on today's global stage. While for most parts China is speaking with one voice on the international stage, Europe offers a cacophony of voices as every prime minister thinks they should play global politics - and as leaders of the EU, these esteemed politicians have chosen individuals whose main qualification appears to be their promise to let the national leaders do as they like. It is not be chance that national leaders want the EU to be weak as it makes the national leaders feel powerful, and allows to use the EU as a scapegoat for all that goes wrong.
Looking at Europe from my vantage point in Shanghai, it is a sad comedy. While the national identities are important, they become a liability when communicating with other civilizations. For China, the appropriate partner to negotiate big issues such as trade and investment treaties with should solely be at the European level. Each time a prime minister - or for that matter a diplomat - representing one of Europe nation comes to negotiate with the Chinese leaders, it is the Chinese side that has the better cards. They can play one country against the other against the other, and so get the most favorable deal for their investments (trade is formally responsibility of the EU, but national leaders like David Cameron making promises on visit to China is weakening the European position in such agreements). Sad as it is for many in Europe, unless Europe learns to speak with one voice, it risks becoming marginalized.
Chinese MNEs learn to manage acquisitions overseas.
January 5, 2014
The Wall Street Journal's Hong Kong office asked my opinion on how Chinese companies are enhancing their operations abroad. Their video is available here.
Why is it so tough to study Strategy?
January 4, 2014
Strategy teachers often face a big frustration if after all the efforts and work, students are still unhappy citing the lack of clear tools and vague decision criteria as evidence that the course was no good. The obvious answer that keeps falling on deaf ears, usually delivered in session 1, is that the real world is complex and uncertain, and designing strategy requires making decisions under uncertainty with respect to key variables (for example competitors reaction).
I was pleased to learn that this is not just the problem me and my friends, but it even befalls the most esteemed strategy professors-and-consultants. Dick Rumelt spells out the challenge in the words of a senior executive course participant: "This strategy staff is nonsense. Give me a break! There is no clear theory. Look, what we need is a way of knowing what will happen if we do A, versus what will happen when we do B. Then we can work out what will be the best strategy. We are actually very good at planning here. You can't build a major aerospace system without meticulous planning. But this strategy staff seem vacuous." [Rumelt, 2011, Good Strategy - Bad Strategy, page 242].
Rumelt suggests responding to this challenge, which often comes from engineers, by comparing strategy in business to a hypothesis in science. Essentially, scientists design hypotheses based on their incomplete knowledge of a field, which they then test empirically through experiments. In a similar, a business strategists has to spell out his ideas in form of a strategy - the difference though is that you will only know if your strategy works after you tried it out in practice. And if your competitors were smarter than you anticipated, even a good strategy may not deliver eternal profits. The problem in the class room is that you can't experiment; you have to convince with the power of your ideas, and your arguments.
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You could always try a trial separation... would that work to help you decide?
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SYDNEY — A Glace Bay man facing charges including attempted murder is scheduled back in Supreme Court May 5 when a trial date will be set regardless of whether he has a lawyer or not.
Supreme Court Justice Frank Edwards served notice of the date setting after an appearance Monday by Thomas Ted Barrett, 38, who is charged with attempted murder, unlawful confinement, assault and uttering a threat. The offences are alleged to have occurred in July 2012 in Glace Bay.
Ann Marie MacInnes, representing the Nova Scotia Legal Aid Commission, said Monday that efforts are continuing to find Barrett representation.
"We have nothing firm yet but we are close," said MacInnes.
Prosecutor Diane McGrath said the Crown is anxious to have the case proceed, noting the best solution is for Barrett to have formal legal representation.
"This matter will be set down," said Edwards, in ordering the case return to court for a trial date next month.
Barrett is also facing two unrelated charges of second-degree murder in connection with the 2006 death Brett Elizabeth MacKinnon, 21, of Glace Bay, and the 2012 death of Larua Catherine Jessome, 21, of Bras d'Or.
He is also unrepresented on those charges having secured counsel but later discharged them claiming a break down in communications.
Judges handling those cases have also warned Barrett that represented or not, hearings will proceed.


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So now we're into the second Battle Round, when people who are vaguely comparable in their style get stuck in a boxing ring and forced to sing against each other, because that's what singers do. Sorry, boxers: that's what boxers do. Why are these people in a boxing ring? The acoustics can't be that good.
Anyway, they're going head to head. The stakes have never been higher. Well aside from last night, when they were also high. And presumably the stakes will just get higher from here. The judges – Will.I.Am, Joel Madden, Kylie Minogue and Ricky Martin - are watching ringside.
Team Will provides both contestants for the first challenge for the night with When Love Takes Over by Kelly Rowland. Anja Nissan is 18, blonde and poured into a tight blue dress. She's up against 22-year-old Sarah Hamad, in insanely shiny black tights. They have similar voices, and they're both well aware that it's all going to come to pulling off flashy vocal filigrees. Hamad correctly predicted "She'll be Christina Aguilera and I'll be Beyonce." And tonight Christina – sorry, Anja – won. The judges declined to save Sarah, so that's her done.
Then Joel Madden's team tackles Avicii's Hey Brother. Doug Williams is 63 and has spent a lifetime doing this music biz thing. He makes a point of comforting his challenger: Byron Bay's Dallas James, 34, who melts into tears during the rehearsals. The pair drop their instruments to just lay out the vocals, and James starts weakly, his tremulous vibrato just sounding terrified. They harmonise surprisingly well, but Dallas has no confidence. Doug kills him, and the judges don't resuscitate the corpse.
Kylie puts Melburnians Thando Sikwila, 20, against Candice Skjonnemand, 27, doing Clown by Emili Sande. And they both start super-strong: Thando brings a breathy falsetto, Candice belts it to the stalls. If the judges don't rescue the loser, Kylie's just doing herself out of a good vocalist either way here. The judges are split, but Kylie picks Candice. Thando is saved by Ricky Martin, and onto his team she moves.
Speaking of Ricky, he's pitting the Byron sibling duo of Gabriel and Cecelia Brandolini against central coast boy Brandon Duff, 20 with Imagine Dragons' Demons. Brandon takes an early lead by not being horribly sharp, given the confidence that only a brown jacket with the sleeves rolled up can give. But then the siblings lock in on their harmonies and Duff starts not quite nailing the high notes.
Kylie asks "so, how do you think that went?" which is an indication of how not great it was. But Ricky goes with Brandon. The Brandolinis look set to go, but Will saves them at the last second.
Ricky has the next bout and gives Radiohead's High and Dry to 31-year-old Josh McDonald and 22-year-old surfer Scott Gelzinnis. It's all about the chorus falsetto, and both kinda fluff it – they're better at the full voiced bits. Josh has the control, but Scott throws in some fancy scat. For the first time it's an actual battle, and Josh gets the very, very reticent nod. Surprisingly, Scott doesn't get saved either.
20-year-old Annabelle Eve and 17-year-old Taila Gogue battle it out for Joel, with Miley Cyrus' The Climb. Gogue is singing for her sick father, Lee's singing for her disabled brother, and they harmonise beautifully. It's impossible to choose, except that then Joel chooses Taila and Annabelle goes home unsaved.
Will.I.Am then matches 27-year-old Louise van Veendenwald vs 19-year-old Marilyn Monroe impersonator Jayde Grey with Kelly Clarkson's Since You've Been Gone. Louise starts weakly and Jayde leaps all over her, and from there it becomes a big belting powerhouse-off.
Louise takes more vocal risks, many of which pay off, and Jayde tries to rely on her clear intonation. It's another proper battle. "That was so entertaining!" says Kylie, as she collapses in fits of giggles. It is kinda ridiculous. Everyone goes with Jayde, except Will, who picks Louise. And it's his team, so that's that. And Jayde is off with no save.
So, the stakes are presumably now getting higher, right? Maybe one of them will do the Pixies' Gigantic. Hell, it's playing on the Apple ad during every commercial break. Hey, think of the synergy!


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The Silver of the Sierra Madre
John Robinson, Boss Shepherd, and the People of the Canyons
John Mason Hart
256 pp. / 6.00 in x 9.00 in / 2008
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known today as Copper Canyon, the small mining town of Batopilas once experienced a silver bonanza among the largest ever known. American investors, believing that Mexico offered an unexploited cornucopia, began purchasing mines in the Sierra Madre, seeking to expand their hold on natural resources outside U.S. borders.
From 1861 until the Revolution of 1910, the men of the Batopilas Mining Company ruled the region using their wealth, armed might, and extensive connections. The technology, industrialism, and politics their interests brought to this remote community tied the Tarahumara, Yaqui, Mayo, and other peoples of the barrancas directly to the economies of the United States and China. Local society was revolutionized, and a dramatic tapestry of human interactions was created.
Based on many volumes of mining company records,
The Silver of the Sierra Madre
exposes the mentality and methods of mine owners John Robinson and Alexander "Boss" Shepherd, vividly detailing their exploitation of the people and the natural resources of Chihuahua. Hart aptly demonstrates the human and financial losses resulting from President Porfirio Díaz's development programs, which relied on foreign investors, foreign managers, and foreign technology. This unprecedented work also provides a highly interesting ethnographic and social description of one of the least-known areas of Mexico. It is a tale of power and desperation, respect and arrogance, adventure and tragedy, and, ultimately, triumph and survival.
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FulaBula Fest 2011
Saturday and Nov. 27 in Leucadia
Every Thanksgiving weekend for the past 11 years, Oceanside musician Semisi Ma'u and a few dozen of his musical friends have presented an annual two-day free music festival to benefit local school music programs. This year's festival (raising money for Carrillo Elementary School) runs from 9:15 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 26 and 27 at Le Papagayo restaurant in Leucadia. The event concludes with an additional concert from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Nov. 27 at Bar Leucadian. This year's festival line-up includes Semisi & FulaBula, Kavadude, Megan Combs, H2Old, Ricky Small, John Bennett, Justin Froese, Jimmy Patton, Stefanie Stevens, Jerry McCann, Vili Makihele, Eric Foster, Tong a Ross-Ma'u, Carrillo Singers, Kainga Music and Steamers; free (donations accepted at door); 760-944-8252.
"The Cherry Orchard"
2 p.m. today in San Marcos
Palomar College presents Anton Chekhov's classic comedy-drama about the fading fortunes of a middle-class Russian family in the late 19th century; Performance Lab Room D-10, Palomar College, 1140 W. Mission Road, San Marcos; $12, general; $10, seniors; $8, students; palomarperforms.com or 760-744-1150, ext. 2453.
"One Man's Trash"
6-9 p.m. Friday in Solana Beach
Re-Gallery, an 18-month-old Cedros Design District gallery that specializes in artwork from reclaimed materials, hosts a holiday celebration of recycled artwork. Dozens of items priced at $5 to $10 will be available, as well as light snacks and beverages; 348H S. Cedros Ave., Solana Beach; regallery.org or 858-259-2001.
Tim Flannery & the Enablers
8 p.m. Saturday in Carlsbad
The longtime Encinitan and ex-San Diego Padre player/base coach performs songs from his new album "The Restless Kind" with his band, the Enablers, at the intimate New Village Arts Theatre; 2787 State St., Carlsbad; $20-$30; newvillagearts.org or 760-433-3245.
-- By Pam Kragen, GO! editor


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A group of companies is starting up an Enterprise Cloud Buyers Council in hopes of removing barriers to enterprise use of hosted cloud computing.
Initial members include companies that offer hosted cloud computing as well as enterprises that use such services, including Microsoft, IBM, HP, Cisco, AT&T, BT, EMC, Deutsche Bank, Alcatel-Lucent, Amdocs, CA, Nokia Siemens Networks, Telecom Italia, and Telstra. Two industry organizations, Distributed Management Task Force and the IT Service Management Forum, are also involved. The TM Forum, an industry association that helps information and communications companies create profitable services, came up with the idea of the council.
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One important issue that the council will try to address is the current fear among enterprises of vendor lock-in, said Gary Bruce, a principal researcher at BT. The council may decide to work on standards-based solutions around various layers of cloud computing, including the virtualization, management and control layers, so that enterprises can more easily port their projects from one cloud computing vendor to another, he said.
In addition, enterprises are often concerned about security and reliability, he said.
"It might be that a full technical solution is needed, or it might be that education is needed," he said. The council will study the issues and decide how best to address them, he said.
The council may also develop programs for dealing with cloud performance and latency issues
Noticeably absent from the initial list of members is Amazon, a leader in cloud computing services. A spokeswoman for Amazon did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
Separately, however, Amazon is also trying to remove barriers to using hosted cloud computing. On Tuesday, it released a cost comparison calculator. The spreadsheet lets companies input information about their data needs, and then it compares the cost of using Amazon EC2, hosting the project internally or using a co-location facility. Amazon also released a white paper that outlines the direct and indirect costs of running a data center.
IBM and Microsoft did not reply to requests for comment about their involvement in the council. BT is currently developing a cloud computing service called BT Koala.
The TM Forum is hosting a Web conference on Dec. 16 to offer more details about the council.