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Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) Fiber project is rightfully seen as a great challenger to the Wireline Operator business model, but will it make a massive dent in the communications industry? I doubt it. All Fiber To The Home (FTTH) operators are limited to just a few revenue-generating streams, Google too. There are severe shortcomings in Google's business model, which can be disastrous for the profitability of its project.
For investors and the likes, my analysis is a sanity-check; for those who are salivating on the prospect of getting Google Fiber in the very near term, this report is a reality check.
Before we move on to the real work, please allow me to introduce myself. I am a so-called pioneer in the FTTH industry. Back in 1999 and 2000, my company started investigating a possible entry in the FTTH industry. Long story short, even Google's leadership recruiter knew where to seek advice on their upcoming Google's FTTH initiative.
On May 18, 2010, I received a very nice email from Google's Leadership Recruiters, stating:
My name is _____________, and I am a Leadership Recruiter here at Google. I am heading a new project to identify an innovator to lead our new FTTH initiative. We believe this has the opportunity to be something quite special, but we need a true visionary to help us completely rethink the status quo of FTTH product architecture and network design (especially as it relates to current U.S. efforts).
Given your extensive international experience involving next generation broadband solutions, I would value 30 minutes of your time to get your thoughts and advice on how and where I should focus my efforts. Thank you very much for your time.
I was flattered, of course. I didn't get the job because I was only available part time (they were looking for full-timers), but needless to say that I shared my thoughts with this person and in his extension with the responsible people at Google's FTTH project.
My full time job is at a company (nowadays called Angie Communications) that is planning large-scale FTTH projects (in the Netherlands, the UK, and even the USA), but we are also including 4G Mobile and 5G wireless infrastructure in the mix. Angie is the latest reincarnation of a company that was founded by a group of Next Generation Communications experts, and I am proud to be their Global CEO. Our team (at Angie) consists of a 40-year veteran/pioneer in fiber optics technologies (Dr. El-Sherif, CTO), and a pioneer-builder (Elli Gudmundsson, CEO Europe) who has lead teams that rolled out FTTH and communications infrastructures for investors, worth approximately $1 billion. I have written numerous analyses and reports, and I even like to claim (tongue-in-cheek) that I have written "the book" on the NGC industry, back in 2007. Out of the many thousands experts who received my analysis (including "the book") I can't remember any (significant) criticisms on my (and my team's) findings. We are not a bunch of me-too/wannabe NGC hopefuls; I will go as far as to claim that my team and I have done seminal research and work in terms of business modeling and technological engineering (since early 2000) for this now-fledgling NGC industry.
Hoping to have established a reference to my relative authority in this field, let us now move on to the reason you are reading this document.
After more than 12 years, our ambitious plans for the Next Generation Communications industry got validation by Google's announcement to launch its Fiber To The Home project.
It struck our team as remarkable how greatly similar the Google Fiber business model is with ours. And while there are lots of massive opportunities to be had, the FTTH industry is not for the faint at heart. Having been breathing and eating Fiber (no pun intended) for the last 12 years, I was curious to see how much sense Google's FTTH business proposition makes. This report is the outcome of my analysis, which consists of three segments:
- Analysis of Google Fiber business model;
- Market-size and opportunity analysis;
- Financial analysis.
Google is rightly so seen as a great challenger to the Wireline Operator business model, but will it make a massive dent in the communications industry? I doubt it. All FTTH operators are limited to just a few revenue-generating streams, Google too. There are severe shortcomings in Google's business model, which can be disastrous for the profitability of its project.
For investors and the likes, my analysis is a sanity-check; for those who are salivating on the prospect of getting Google Fiber in the very near term, this report is a reality check.
First of all, the size of the USA market is too large to be covered and thus disrupted by one single company, even if that company is Google.
If all households and commercial buildings would be connected to fiber, it would take:
- 5-7 (if not ten) years to complete;
- $150-500 billion (half a trillion dollars!) to build, own, operate this FTTH infrastructure over that period;
- An investment of $25-50 billion if financial engineering models can be implemented, conditional to successful modeling and project execution.
So, the probability that Google will built a FTTH infrastructure that connects millions of households and business is about 1%. The probability that it will be Google who brings FTTH nationwide is even slimmer.
Google Fiber Business model
The Free Model
The most troublesome aspect about Google Fiber is its promise to the media that its free service won't be loss-making. In one of her articles, GigaOm reporter Stacey Higginbotham notes a Google executives' remarks:
... the $300 initial connection fee will cover the costs associated with the deployments - it's not doing that at a loss either.
This is either a miraculous achievement or an omission of facts. The physical cost to make a home plug-and-play ready with fiber optic wires (the so-called Cost per Connection, CPC) to provide services is not going to be covered by a one-time $300 fee. I wish it could be, but reality shows it cannot be done (see section Financial Analysis, below). Plus, the free service is guaranteed for seven (7!) years, which implies that its operation costs (including help-desk etc., and -if you want- the price-per-megabit) is included in the one-time $300 payment.
Notwithstanding the profitability aspect, it is a genius strategic move by Google to offer the "common" speed on competitive systems for free at $300. It has at least a three-fold benefit:
- The equipment is basically subsidized by the customer (it gives them a psychological connection as to the value of this otherwise free service);
- The free service allows for a massive take-rate. People understand that their $300 investment boils down to just $3.50 per month (84 months/ $300) to get 5 Mbps;
- Customer loyalty: Google creates great goodwill, and when the customer is ready/willing to make the transition to the bundled Google Fiber service, they will become locked customers- a money-printing machine for Google for decades to come (if done correctly by Google).
Notwithstanding the seemingly fantastic offer (what can be better than free?), there are some potential downsides too.
- Google offers people to pay in installments of 12x $25, which on one side means that the connection fee can be paid over a full year, but on the other side it means that people are effectively paying $25 p/m for just a 5 Mbps connection;
- Google's decision making process in this affair must have been based on the hope that these people will migrate to their more expensive services.
Thus, if the competition is smart, they will beat Google to this with a similar offer, and throw in something in the mix for the other 6 years. If their lives depend on it, these competitors with deep pockets will not just roll over and die. Assuming so is just wishful thinking on the part of Google and its enthusiasts.
Also, as of yet, some residents of self-proclaimed poor areas of Kansas City are disillusioned. One commenter, Danny, writes on GigaOm:
I, unfortunately, live in one of the poor areas of Kansas City that is not even being offered the chance to pre-register for Google Fiber. But, let's be honest, there's no way enough people in my poor area of KCK would pre-register that I'd actually get service from Google anyhow.
Google promises to include other areas in its second pre-registration effort, but that would most likely mean the service won't be coming soon to those "poorer" areas. This, in effect, is cherry-picking, and regardless the great intentions of Google, it shows a massive flaw in business modeling and planning on their behalf.
The Paid Model
Google Fiber's paid model seems fantastic at first sight, but there are market risks lurking. Below is an overview taken from Wikipedia, which was sourced from Google's website.
TV + Internet
$300 construction fee (waived with 2 year contract)
$300 construction fee (waived with 1 year contract)
Internet Speed (Down / Up)
1Gbps / 1Gbps
1Gbps / 1Gbps
TV Access
2 TB DVR Storage (8 Shows can be recorded simultaneously)
1 TB Google Drive
Additional Hardware
Nexus 7 tablet
Let us first and foremost assume that Google Fiber's most appealing unique selling proposition is its 1 Gbps symmetric service. But if you don't care too much about speed and are happy with a lower speed (for the time being, until reality catches up with you), Google is in for some nasty surprises as it will face fierce competition.
In effect, the pricing strategy means:
1. A subscriber of the least expensive package will be paying approximately $840 for 1 year or $1,440 for 2 years (without TV);
2. At the two-year package, the overall expense/fee would be accruing to $2,880 in total (with TV);
3. Google does not provide phone services, thus is it not a triple-play / convergence provider.
If the competition is adamant to compete in terms of pricing by bundling TV, Internet and telephone, Google will have a hard time selling their (what then will be assumed as premium) 1Gbps service.
My conclusion is that when the dust settles, many enthusiasts will be poked from all sides by Google's competition, where the latter will focus on pricing, quality, and bundling (including the argument that it is much easier for the subscriber to have an all-including package).
It seems like Google Fiber has been put together with some very smart engineers, and with the help of some product managers, but providing these kind of services (which are basically primary needs today) is something else than search algorithms and answering the most difficult interview questions. This is people's business, and people will choose for what is best for them and their family and their wallets.
Google is hereby advised to devise a mechanism to a) include all people from all walks of lives, b) to differentiate their product offering even more, and c) to create a strategy to beat the competition on all fronts (for example/especially in terms of convergence and service bundling).
Market Size/Opportiunity
If deploying fiber wires to all homes and business would be an easy feat, the market size and opportunity would be massive, for everyone - not just for Google. The largest, most comparable project that involves large-scale rollouts (as we all hope Google would opt to do) is Verizon's (NYSE:VZ) amazing FiOS project. However, even the Big Red had to cough up billions of dollars - $23 billion ($23,000,000,000) as far as we know, and most likely somewhere near $30 billion in direct and indirect expenses/investments/costs. What did Verizon get for this massive investment? Here are the Q2'12 results:
Verizon FiOS
Total Homes Passed
FiOS Internet Subscribers
36% penetration
FiOS Video Subscribers
32.6% penetration
Consumer ARPU
$100 p/m
Thus, no matter how fantastic the Verizon FiOS service offering was (including the fastest internet speeds in their markets), it has achieved to get a take-rate in the mid-30% range. That is achieved with a project on massive scale that offered bundles services. One could argue that price will make a difference, and I agree, but the rollout strategy is even more important.
When looking at the possibilities for Google to become a large-scale/multi-city/multi-state or even nationwide operator, we have to keep in mind the following:
- Scale of project;
- Service offering;
- Pricing.
The service offering and pricing has been briefly analyzed above, in the Business Model Analysis. The fact remains that the market is too large for one company to serve all USA households. The inherent aspect of building FTTH infra means that it is a labor-intense effort. Yes, Google has bought up tons of dark fiber, but that is no ordinary feat - everybody can do that, including Google's competitors. The opportunity of connecting each and every home/business with fiber optics is undeniably equal to its problem: every new entrant as well as the legacy (cable or DSL) operators is forced to build the last-mile/last-hundred-feet infrastructure - with fiber optic wiring.
According to the most recent Census data the USA overall market size is as following:
Housing Units
131, 704,730
Commercial Units*
114, 235, 996
Commercial Units
* Source: Commercial Building Inventory - Number is excluding apartments/dorms/etc.
Suppose Google wants to create a behemoth FTTH Next-Gen cable company that actually ends up with 15 million paid subscribers, it would probably take them approximately 5 years (if their builders work really hard), costing more than $24 billion, and at a loss (investment capital requirement) of almost $8 billion (i.e. if they actually serve 15 million subscribers - quite an ambitious feat when considering Verizon FiOS take rate of 32-36% at 17M homes passed). This is a truly bare-knuckles calculation, and does not include any form of operational cost (which is obviously highly unlikely at such a grand scale). An in-depth explanation of this cost structure will follow in the Financial Section.
As with many things, seizing upon an opportunity does not always equal a) successful execution, b) medium/long term business sense, and c) profits. It is true that Google Fiber is disruptive, and it will force the legacy operators (as well as newcomer FTTH operators) to review their business models and strategies. But it is equally true that the service provider business is a people's business; it is not easy to create a service-centric business that on top of all has to compete day-to-day with some of the world's largest companies, especially with companies who have decades of experience in providing physical services. As with any education, it will take years for Google and its executives to learn the ins and outs and the tricks and magic these otherwise sleepy and rusty giants can pull out of thin air when needed. And need they will, but it is going to be a money-intense and time-intense battle if Google Fiber reaches beyond Kansas.
Financial Challenges
When considering the feasibility and the profitability of a FTTH project, we usually take in consideration (and specify) several aspects of a project:
- Cost Per Connection (NYSE:CPC) and Cost Per Home Passed - separately mentioned as part of total Capital Expenditure;
- Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) - the monthly revenue generated per user per month;
- Operational Expenditure over the stretch of the project's rollout time;
- Capital Expenditure over the stretch of the project's rollout time;
- Specific expenses and costs, separately mentioned as part of OpEx or CapEx.
In Google Fiber's case beyond Kansas City (KS and MO), we assumed the following:
- In an oversimplified way, the average CPC would be between $850 to $1,250 - this could be much higher due a) equipment cost, b) geographic lay-out of market, c) disappointing take-rates that will drive the CPHP up;
- ARPU of $100 (we assumed 50% would subscribe to the 1-year service and the other 50% would subscribe to the 2-year service);
- Churn of just 1% (may be more, but it can be stabilized by additional sign-ups);
- 20% Cost of Revenue (for example, apps/programming/3rd party services etc.);
- 5% Franchise Fee paid to city (this may be waived in some places - but we assume this is going to be a real cost in larger projects sooner rather than later);
- We assumed a promotional incentive/trial period (needed to attract subscribers);
- We assumed no revenue-sharing with Real Estate owners;
- We assumed no licensing costs or development costs;
- We assumed absolutely NO operation cost (no employees, no marketing, no retail outlets etc. - if one wants to put a price on this [e.g. 10% of the project cost], just increase the Project Cost with 10%);
According to the calculations/projections as per our estimates, the above scenario is the best case. Readers must note that he industry average for the CPC and CPHP has been floating around substantially higher numbers. In the most comparable scenario, the FiOS project has resulted in a CPC of approximately $1,352, which is derived from $23B divided by 17M connections (we ignore the CPHP because that would totally skewer the calculation higher). Ignoring the fact that Verizon had an overbuild strategy (on their existing infra layer), we will assume that Google's genius engineers invented a way to establish a CPC at lower costs than Verizon.
In the analysis below, we have an overview of 12 scenarios, which reveals a dramatic outcome.
The 12 scenarios were derived from the following stand-alone projections:
- CPC at $850
- CPC at $1,000
- CPC at $1,250
- ARPU at $100 per month
- ARPU at $70 per month
Overview range of scenarios
(based on 15 million paid subscribers)
Total Project Cost
Investment Requirement (at highest peak)
* Some amounts may result in lower overall project costs while the ARPU is lower. This is the result of the promotional discounts, which is weighted in ARPU levels. (Less discounts = lower expenses).
Seeing the above, and seeing Google's massive cash pile one would be quick to point out that Google can easily afford to invest $12.5B in the "worst case." However, this is not the worst case scenario. The worst case scenario would be that you add operational costs (let's say 25%) on top of that, which would result in $15B. And even then, things can take a turn for the worse.
Consider the total project cost of Verizon's FiOS, $23B, and then divide that not by the 17M homes passed (as I did), but with the actual subscribers (5,1M), This would result in a cost per subscriber of $23B/5.1M = $4,500. Applying FiOS business model in a nationwide extrapolation, the cost to pass (not subscribe) 100M households/homes with FTTH would be 5.8 (full market size at 100M) x $23B = $133B.
This is excluding operation expenses and other additional investments and costs that accompany such a massive project. Also, don't forget, Verizon had the massive benefit of an existing operating base and an existing service infrastructure. Google does not get to take advantage of that massive benefit.
I don't intend to say that Google cannot make money with the Kansas project; I think they can. However, the problem is when you go beyond a cushioned and championed area/region you will have to live and deal with the bureaucrats, the competitors and the discriminating public. Just speed will not cut it. Pricing and bundling are equally important (if not more for the time being) as the service offering, and in a larger project these aspects, along with the time and money intensity, challenges are of a greater magnitude than in the case of smaller projects.
The bottom line for investors/Seeking Alpha readers:
Is the FTTH project a big enough catalyst for readers to consider investing in Google? Should they take a wait-and-see approach? Well, I conclude by stating that investors will have to decide in due time how they perceive the chances of Google being successful in this very competitive and time-intense business. I'd consider a "Hold" if I were you.
Why? We should not forget that Google is one company that is spreading itself too thin nowadays. It competes (if it's not waging war outright) with some of the world's largest companies on not just one but several fronts. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) in terms of browser and OS, Yahoo (YHOO) in terms of content and programming, Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) in terms of social media, Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) in terms of mobile, these are just a few limited examples of what Google is up to. Now it has included Time Warner Cable (TWC) and potentially Verizon and Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) against it too.
Thus, with the eye on Google Fiber, the minute they announce to roll out beyond Kansas, start asking questions. I highly recommend comparing the feasibility of a larger roll out with the Verizon FiOS project. It doesn't make sense to invest in FTTH if you're not doing it for your bread and butter. If they announce (in let say 3 months) that they go beyond Kansas, I'd run for the exits. If they announce that this is it, then by all means do your own fundamental research, as you have been doing pre-Google Fiber.
In this analysis, I have highlighted the financial as well as business challenges of large-scale FTTH projects, but I also believe these risks can be minimized by implementing smart solutions on a large and full scale. While that is another discussion altogether, readers are welcome to challenge my findings.
Disclosure: I am long GOOG.


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Toward an oral history of Cape Ann : Swan, Carl
Toward an oral history of Cape Ann : Swan, Carl
Swan, Carl Interviewee.;Brayton, Linda Interviewer.
[Gloucester, Mass] : Sawyer Free Library
2 sound files, digital, MPEG3 file
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OH 65 Part 1
OH 65 Part 2
Linda Brayton and David Masters, principal oral historians.;Interviewer(s):Linda Brayton (5/30/1978).
TRACKS:Mr. Swan's background -- Reasons that many people immigrated to Rockport, beginnings of granite industry on Cape Ann -- Different ethnic groups settled in different sections of town, churches -- Adjustments made by Swedish immigrants - language, etc. -- Swedish immigrants became quickly established and improved their situations, description of difficult work conditions in granite industry -- Frugality - living off the land, responsibilities held by the children - chores, making paving blocks to supplement income -- Strikes in the granite industry, closing down of quarries - possible reasons, the breakwater in Sandy Bay -- Offspring of Swedish immigrants - a great many made good -- Offspring of immigrants (cont'd.) - apparent ambition plus natural ability, Mr. Swan's experience working to gain an education, working in the land of opportunity -- Mr. Swan lectures on Cape Ann history, etc., the entire U.S. Navy in Rockport - the white fleet -- The May Walk of the Village Improvement Society.
The following names and terms were used in this interview:John Swan, Drumlin, P-Grow, Steens, Alfred Johnson, Charles Johnson, George A. Tarr School,Herman Lawson, motions, Breakwater Construction Co.,Nehimiah Knowlton, Paddy Hill, Norsrands, Halvins, Walter Johnson, Rachel Johnson, Peter Lilja, Lilja's Pit, Rogers Pros., Grammy Rowe, Major John Rowe, Gustafsons, Johnson, Edith Dean Johnson, Charles Carlberg, John Ericson, Johnson's Pit,Rockport Granite Company.
Originally issued on sound cassettes and transferred to compact discs.
Swedish Americans -- Massachusetts -- Gloucester.;Oral history -- Massachusetts -- Cape Ann.;Quarries and quarrying -- Massachusetts -- Rockport.;Rockport (Mass.) -- Emigration and immigration.
Ann, Cape (Mass.) -- History -- Anecdotes.;Ann, Cape (Mass.) -- Social life and customs.
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Swyer syndrome
National Organization for Rare Disorders, Inc.
It is possible that the main title of the report Swyer syndrome is not the name you expected.
General Discussion
Swyer syndrome is a rare disorder characterized by the failure of the sex glands (i.e., testicles or ovaries) to develop. Swyer syndrome is classified as a disorder of sex development (DSD), which encompasses any disorder in which chromosomal, gonadal or anatomic sex development is abnormal. Girls with Swyer syndrome have an XY chromosomal makeup (as boys normally do) instead of an XX chromosomal makeup (as girls normally do). Despite having the XY chromosomal makeup, girls with Swyer syndrome look female and have functional female genitalia and structures including a vagina, uterus and fallopian tubes.
Girls with Swyer syndrome lack sex glands (ovaries). Instead of sex glands, women with Swyer syndrome have "gonadal streaks", in which the ovaries do not develop properly (aplasia) and are replaced by functionless scar (fibrous) tissue. Because they lack ovaries, girls with Swyer syndrome do not produce sex hormones and will not undergo puberty (unless treated with hormone replacement therapy). Mutations in several different genes are known to cause Swyer syndrome. This condition can occur as the result of a new gene mutation or can be inherited in an autosomal dominant, autosomal recessive, X-linked or Y-linked manner.
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Among the many points of pride for Harley-Davidson (HOG) owners is that the motorcycles are designed and made in the U.S.
In 1901, William Harley, a young man living in Milwaukee, came up with the concept of meshing a small engine with a bicycle frame. After considerable trial and error, Harley, working with his friends Arthur and Walter Davidson, developed a prototype of what would later evolve into the modern motorcycle.
In 1906, Harley and the Davidsons opened the Wisconsin factory that, to this day, serves as Harley-Davidson's corporate headquarters today.
While touting its U.S. workforce, the company has battled the import market for decades.
In 1952, it unsuccessfully lobbied for a 40% tax on imported motorcycles, but in the 1980s the company's complaints over Japanese imports led President Ronald Reagan to impose a five-year tariff plan. That 1983 plan raised the tariff of 4.4% all the way to 49.4% on Japanese imports with engines larger than 700 CCs, gradually decreasing, year-by-year, back down to 4.4%.
In 1987, declaring itself profitable and competitive once again, Harley-Davidson made the surprising move of advocating that the tariff schedule be stopped a year early.
A frequent debate among motorcycle enthusiasts has long been whether Harley-Davidson deserves the "made in the U.S.A." distinction, as various parts are imported from Japan, Germany, Italy and even Australia.
Also made in the U.S. since 1998 are Victory Motorcycles, based in Spirit Lake, Iowa. It is owned by Polaris, a Minnesota company best known as a manufacturer of snowmobiles. Polaris also owns the U.S.-made Indian Motorcycle brand.


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Homeless in Vancouver: The paper called for rain and guess what?
As I read the forecast for rain today in this morning's daily newspaper, I could already see that the grey clouds were giving way to blue sky.
By the time I finished my breakfast it was brilliantly sunny day.
There was a pleasant breeze and the only clouds to be seen were the dry Sauvignon Blanc variety.
The rain finally did come at around 1 p.m. in the afternoon—I was riding through the alley on the east side of South Granville.
It was very short-lived and remarkably localized. But it did rain and thanks to my daily newspaper I was ready for it.
Hopefully this will answer those who scoff, not just at the idea of daily newspapers in the Internet age, but at these periodicals having the gall to print weather forecasts that are already six hours out of date when they're hot off the press.


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LeBron James has decided to join Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh in Miami, according to multiple sources that spoke with Newsday.
RealGM Note: The news of the 10-11 NBA salary cap being at $58.044M creates additional cap room for James, Wade and Bosh to get closer to a maximum contract.
James is scheduled to announce his final decision live on ESPN at 9:00 PM EST on Thursday.
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Schedule 2016
A downloadable version of the schedule is available in HTML and PDF formats.
Note: Times and locations are subject to change.
Friday, October 7, 2016
|Union rooms
|Franklin A
|Franklin B/C/D
|Delaware D
|Ohio LinuxFest Institute Morning Session
Training for Professional Registrants
|Early Penguins Track
Real World Integration with CFEngine
Martin Gehrke
|Early Penguins Track
What's Happening with OpenNMS
Jeff Gehlbach
|Early Penguins Track
A Brief Introduction to GNU screen
Bob Murphy
|Ohio LinuxFest Institute Afternoon Session
Training for Professional Registrants
|Early Penguins Track
Devs are from Mars, Ops are from Venus
Rob Kinyon
|Early Penguins Track
I Don't Git It
Mathew Robinson
|Early Penguins Track
Introducing ZFS
Michael W Lucas
Hacking Bureaucracy with 18F
Catherine Devlin
|Happy Hour in the Expo sponsored by Oracle
All registrants are welcome to join us!
|Birds of a Feather Sessions
All registrants are welcome to participate
|Birds of a Feather Sessions
|Dinner with the Keynotes
Tickets available for $75 at check-in while they last
|Birds of a Feather Sessions
Saturday, October 8, 2016
|Union A
|Union B
|Union C
|Union D
|Union E
|Franklin A
|Franklin B/C/D
|Delaware C/D
Becoming the Next Tech Entrepreneur
Ethan Galstad
|Open Source Solutions Stage
|(15 minute break in Union A-C)
|Community Track
Doc Like an Egyptian
Dru Lavigne
|SysAdmin Track
"It was the best of logs, it was the worst of logs"
Tom Kopchak
|The Biggest Baddest Linux Server Ever
Montgomery Bauman, IBM
|Vendor Expo
|Career Track
Better DevOps through Communication
Aleksey Tsalolikhin
|Virtualization / Cloud Track
Mixed Metaphors: Using Hiera with Foreman
Robert Foreman
|/dev/random Track
Forth, FORTRAN, Pascal, and Ada: FLOSS Keeps Good Things Going
Mat Kovach
|Career Track
Avoiding Death-By-Powerpoint – Creating Effective Presentations
Todd Engen
|Virtualization / Cloud Track
A Tour of OpenStack Deployment Scenarios
Elizabeth K. Joseph
|Scaling Track
Ultra Scale File Distribution @ Facebook
Cooper Lees
|Community Track
Improving Computer Science Education with FOSS-style Projects
Roberto C. Sánchez
|SysAdmin Track
The Gurubox Project: Open Source Troubleshooting Tools
Wes Morgan
|People, Passwords and Process
Alex Juarez, Rackspace
|Career Track
Open Source Innovator Career Options – Entrepreneur vs. Intrapreneur
Kevin Dwinnell
|Virtualization / Cloud Track
Cloud.gov: Automated, Scalable, Resilient and Powered by Linux
Steven Harms
|Scaling Track
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My friend Jessie prided herself on living as independently as she possibly could as her body weakened in a kind of variety pack of aging. Of all her debilitating ailments (broken hip, weakening heart and kidneys), one of the hardest things for her to deal with was her arthritis. Her hands and fingers were stiff and painful.
Not quite a fashion queen but a woman who took pleasure in clothes, Jessie was particularly bugged by the difficulty she had dressing. She couldn't do small buttons; same with bitsy zippers. Tying laces; forget about it. I remember watching her struggle with her favorite winter jacket. I offered to help, and she snorted (as she usually did): "No, I can do it myself." The truth was, she couldn't.
This isn't an unusal problem for older people, and it's one that really takes a hit on self-esteem. Arthritis isn't the only condition affecting the ability to dress. Many people with Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia are irritated by clothing and can't follow the logic of dressing. ("Inappropriate undressing" is an issue for some, who pull their clothes off to bring relief.) Paralysis and mobility problems bring dressing challenges.
Enter the universe of "adaptive clothing for seniors." I like sharing helpful tidbits I've learned along the way as I write about aging. Plain-wrapper adult diapers was one; Alzheimer's dentists another. I call them "heart gems." I could also call them, "Jeeze, who knew?" Adaptive clothing is more than one heart gem, it's a store-filled collection.
- Arthritis clothes: Large-zipper toggles; easy closures. Easy to put on and take off independently.
- Alzheimer's clothes: Loose fitting; soft fabrics; wide openings; super easy to dress someone with minimal hassle. Special clothes for "inappropriate undressers," designed to stay on even when tugged and pulled.
- Elastic-waisted, tie-on, or fold-on pants, shorts, skirts, you name it. No need to fumble with closures.
- Slip-on; fold-on shoes, even dress shoes; no laces or buckles; stable and comfortable.
- Wheelchair clothes; Easy to put on/take off without needing to stand and with minimal moving around.
They're easy to find online by searching on terms like: senior adaptive clothing, clothing for seniors, adaptive clothing, Alzheimer's clothing, or arthritis clothing. You'll find numerous on-line stores. Many include helpful information to make shopping easier. Medical supply stores also sell adaptive clothing, online or offline. Call first to see what they have in stock.
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The shawl is named for my friend, Jenni. She loves to knit lace shawls, especially ones with allover lace patterns. This one I can see her whipping this up in no time!
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Last night's WWE Monday Night Raw featured some highlights and some lowlights. This week's rating indicates that. The rating for last night's Raw was a 3.0 with an average of 4.14 million viewers. That is down from last week's show, which did a 3.3 rating with an average of 4.77 million viewers. The first hour averaged 4.22 million viewers, which ...Read More »
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Daniel Bryan To Miss Weekend House Shows Due To Passing Of His Father
WWE.com reported last night that the father of WWE World Heavyweight Champion Daniel Bryan passed away at the age of 57. Bryan insisted to be on last night's WWE Monday Night Raw. The champion kicked off the show to build his program with Kane, as they will battle at Extreme Rules in 12 days for the title. The Wrestling Observer ...Read More »
The Good, The Bad And The Dirty From Last Night's WWE Monday Night Raw
The buildup to Extreme Rules continued last night on WWE Monday Night Raw from Baltimore, Maryland. Some of the highlights of the show included the return of WWE World Heavyweight Champion Daniel Bryan, the latest in the ongoing saga's of Evolution vs The Shield and John Cena vs Bray Wyatt. Their were good and bad points of the show, so ...Read More »
Updated Card For WWE Extreme Rules
WWE Extreme Rules takes place in 12 days on Sunday, May 4th from the Izod Center in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Last week, WWE announced three matches for the show and two more were added during last night's WWE Monday Night Raw. Here is the updated lineup for WWE Extreme Rules. -Daniel Bryan vs Kane for the WWE Championshop- Extreme ...Read More »
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WWE Monday Night Raw comes back tonight as it takes place at the Baltimore Arena in Baltimore, Maryland. The end of last week's show featured Evolution reforming and took out The Shield. The show also featured the beginning of the Intercontinental Tournament to determine a number one contender and the Kane going back to his old devil ways wanting to ...Read More »
Intercontinental Championship Tournament To Start Tonight on WWE Monday Night Raw
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The International Garden Photographer of the Year (IGPOTY) 2013 competition 7 is now underway. Each year, the organisers run three 'Photo project' seasonal contests alongside the main competition - focussed on photography ideas, techniques and creativity in connection with garden and plant images. These 'Photo project' categories have earlier deadlines than the main competiton. The first of the categories is' Monochrome' - it's all about black and white photography but can include any single-colour photograph. The deadline for this contest is 30 April 2013.
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Transcend has introduced its 64GB microSDXC Ultra-High Speed Class 1 (UHS-I) memory card. The new 64GB microSDXC card features transfer rates of up to 45MB/s (300x) and includes a free download of Transcend's own RecoveRx software, a tool for bringing back accidentally deleted or lost files. The card is now available for a suggested price of US$109 and carries Transcend's Lifetime Warranty.
Seim Effects Photo Tools has introduced ColorFlow, a creative preset collection for Apple Aperture. The ColorFlow presets collection organizes more than 60 presets across 5 categories of colour tools: Essential Colour, Colour Story, Film Inspired, Hollywood Cinema and Colour Toners. The colour effects can be mixed and blended to achieve a specific look or desired mood. Seim Effects' ColorFlow preset collection for Apple Aperture (ver. 3 and newer) is now available for instant download. And, until April 10, 2013 there is an introductory price of $39 (a $10 discount).
Six Calumet shops in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland are participating in this year's Calumet Open Day promotion. The events - which feature hands-on involvement with many key manufacturers - begin at Calumet Edinburgh on Wednesday 3 April, and finish at the company's flagship store in Drummond Street, Euston, London on Tuesday 7 May. Click through / scroll down for the event calendar.
The Kraszna-Krausz Foundation has unveiled the shortlisted entries for its annual photo book awards. Established in 1985, the KKF Book Awards are the UK's leading prizes for books published in the fields of photography and the moving image and the two winners share a £10,000 prize. "The judges have shortlisted books ranging from heavy tomes to small paperbacks, each with outstanding pictorial and literary content and exceptional production," the foundation said in a statement. The shortlisted books include Everything Was Moving: Photography from the 60s and 70s by Kate Bush, Billy Monk by Billy Monk and War / Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath by Anne Wilkes Tucker, Will Michels and Natalie Zest. The Best Moving Image Book Award winner will be chose from the following entries: 39 Steps to the Genius of Hitchcock by James Bell, First Films of the Holocaust: Soviet Cinema and the Genocide of the Jews, 1938-46 by Jeremy Hicks and Hollywood Costume by Deborah Nadoolman Landis. The Kraszna-Krausz Foundation was established in 1985 by Andor Kraszna-Krausz (pictured), the Hungarian founder of the influential publishing house Focal Press.
The Vintage Everyday website has published a set of never-before-seen colour photographs showing inmates in a Nazi concentration camp. The Daily Mail, which also carried the photos, has talked to an unnamed expert who said the shots would most probably have been taken in the Dachau camp sometime after its liberation on 29 April 1945 by US Army forces. With the exception of one photograph depicting dead bodies in a railway carriage, the rare colour images feature exhausted but fairly relaxed-looking men of various nationalities, among them Russians and Poles. In some of the pictures one can also see French and Yugoslav flags being flown, underpinning the assumption that they were taken after the camp had been liberated. (The prisoners weren't able to leave immediately after the arrival of the Americans as the war was still raging, and many of them didn't have the means to return home on their own.) The original source of the images has not been revealed.
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BosStrap's Ultra Light Hand Band, an accessory designed for bridge and compact system cameras with relatively small grips, is now available for purchase. The Ultra Light Hand Band, which has a cam buckle with a double lock safety sleeve, is an extremely light, unobtrusive, and effective hand band that provides extra handling security especially with smaller cameras. In use, four fingers go through the ULHB loop; your thumb does not. The loop is fully adjustable to fit bare hands or large gloved hands. Sold via BosStrap.com, the product is available for $11.95.
A camera that recently washed ashore on a Taiwan beach has successfully been traced back to its owner, who had lost it six years ago during a scuba diving excursion in the Pacific Ocean off the Hawaiian coast. Although reports make no mention of the exact model, the pictures of the weather-beaten camera lead us to believe it was either a Canon PowerShot A510 or A520 encased in a Canon WP-DC60 all-weather housing. The camera was found by an employee of Taiwan's China Airlines, who showed it to his manager, Douglas Chen. After browsing through the photos stored on the unharmed memory card, Chen alerted the company's Honolulu office, which subsequently launched a nationwide search with help from the media. Based on the published photos, a friend identified the owner as Lindsay Crumbley Scallan, a resident of Georgia, USA, to whom the airline has offered a free return ticket so that she could collect her long-lost camera.
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Determining defense tops Bylsma, Penguins' to-do list for 2014
Dan Bylsma has a lot to do in 2014.
Figuring out the Penguins' defense corps tops a list that includes chasing Olympic gold and the Stanley Cup.
The unofficial start of the season's second half begins Friday at Carolina, and the Penguins' bench boss could welcome the return of defensemen Brooks Orpik and Rob Scuderi.
Bylsma joked Monday, before the NHL's Christmas break, that he should not think about possible pairings when his defensemen are healthy.
"Every time I've answered this question, it's led to another defensive injury," said Bylsma, who also will serve as coach of Team USA this winter.
Here are the pairings Bylsma preferred when Kris Letang returned from a nine-game absence to open the season: Letang and Scuderi, Orpik and Paul Martin, Matt Niskanen and Olli Maatta.
On Monday at Ottawa, the top pairing was Niskanen and Maatta, with the other four defensemen out because of injuries. Orpik (concussion) and Scuderi (broken ankle) expect to play soon, perhaps Friday. Letang (elbow infection) is expected to return in early January, and Martin (broken tibia) could play by mid-month.
Having a dependable top four is the objective because coaches felt comfortable playing only three defensemen in big situations last postseason. That is one of the reasons Scuderi was signed as a free agent.
The other was for him to play with Letang.
Penguins coaches praised Scuderi's presence for their strong defensive start. He will be counted on to handle top-four minutes after he returns.
Orpik and Martin, the team's shutdown pairing since last season, will reunite when everyone is healthy, Bylsma said.
"And I think you'd like to see Olli Maatta still be a factor," Bylsma said.
Maatta, a 19-year-old rookie, had not looked out of place playing top-pairing minuteswith Niskanen.
Maatta has impressed by being a quick study and ego-free.
He has made fans out of Orpik and Letang.
Orpik is more than the longest-tenured Penguin. He also is their most physical, a tone-setter, Letang said.
Letang, at age 26, still can elevate the Penguins. He was the only NHL defenseman to average a point per game last season. His 11 points in 24 games this season were a significant dropoff from the pace that made him a Norris Trophy finalist a year ago.
Penguins coaches can boil down the last postseason based off Letang's performance:
He posted 10 points and a plus-5 rating in four convincing wins over Ottawa, which the Penguins bounced from Round 2 in five games last spring.
In the Penguins' last two playoff series losses — Boston (2013) and Philadelphia (2012) — Letang had two points and was a minus-9 in the eight defeats by the Penguins.
The Penguins are not their dynamic selves when Letang is not himself — a defensemen capable of changing shifts with his skating, an offensive catalyst.
Scuderi can help him rediscover that form and consistently play to it, Bylsma said.
"I don't think they've really gotten a chance playing together yet," he said, adding that Letang and Scuderi "absolutely" need that opportunity.
Scuderi has missed 28 games, Letang 14. The Penguins have 43 remaining before the playoffs.
"At some point they've got to get back and get together," Bylsma said.
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Associated Press Twitter @AP #Hacked Following White House Bombing Threat
A threat of a bombing near the White House lead to the Twitter account of the Associated Press being hacked and suspended.
A group of hackers is claiming they called emergency services and said they would detonate bombs near the White House in Washington, DC, unless President Obama declared war on North Korea. That information comes from an exclusive TMZ report.
That report was followed by an erroneous tweet from the AP's twitter account, @AP, that claimed that bombs had been detonated and that President Obama had been injured. That account was swiftly debunked by the White House.
As a result of the hack, the Associated Press's Twitter feed was suspended.
AP Twitter Hack Preceded By A Phishing Attempt, News Org Says tcrn.ch/11Kptew by @sarahintampa
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This looks so bright and fun - I want one. What a great way to get your kid to pick up their toys...stuff them all in the Boon Animal Bag and then JUMP on top of it!!
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Farrah Abraham is many things. She's a teen mom. She's on "Teen Mom." She's the only single cast member of VH1's series "Couples Therapy." She's a wildly successful two-time porn star. She's a singer. She's a memoirist. And now she's an erotic novelist, with the first book in her Celebrity Sex Tape erotica series set for release on July 1. And who better to model for the cover of In The Making (Celebrity Sex Tape) (clever title, really) than Farrah herself! I can tell this is going to be a real page-turner. Check out the book's description:
The journey… Hot sex. A few thrills. A lot of tips and tricks. There has to be more to life than this, and I'm going to find it.
The woman… I'm like every other person out there: I want to be loved and I want to be happy. But in the words of my best friend, I have to kiss a few frogs along the way. That's okay, I know what I want and I'm not afraid to go after it, to hell with what other people think. My name is Fallon Opal, and I'm not who everyone thinks I am.
The star… To the world I'm another starlet gone crazy: always traveling, clubbing non-stop, and juggling drug problems and alcohol issues. The truth couldn't be further from that. I'm on a journey to find myself and I'm going to do it without shame—my way. Sometimes it feels like the world is against me but that won't stop me from getting mine.
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General and Bariatric Surgeon Dr. Carlos Quesada practices in San Jose, Costa Rica and has substantial experience in Minimal Invasive Weight Loss and General Surgeries. Below is his video interview wherein he explains the different surgery procedures undertaken by him, which patients are apt candidates for which surgery and a brief on his successful treatment of patients from the US, Canada and many other international locations.
Dr. Carlos Quesada has trained and gained experienced at hospitals and institutes in Costa Rica, Mexico and other international locations. A general surgeon specializing in Bariatric and Weight Loss Surgery procedures, he is well trained in Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery. Bariatric, Gastric Bypass and Mini Gastric Bypass Surgeries are his main fields of expertise.
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When a patient opts for Weight Loss Surgery, there are many procedure options available. The apt one for a candidate is decided based on the following factors, among others:
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A HEARTBROKEN couple who lost their stillborn daughter just months after losing their son hope the latest internet sensation will help them on their quest to give others the chance of spending valuable time with their children before saying goodbye.
Nicki and Kenny Almond, from Eastham, hope to raise as much money as possible for Arrowe Park Hospital's delivery suite after they lost their 28-week-old daughter Maddison on June 18 – less than eight months after their 21-week-old son, Leon Kenneth, was also stillborn.
So far the couple has raised more than £3,000 for the hospital – whose care and support enabled Nicki and Kenny to spend several hours with Leon and Maddison due to a mechanism called a cuddle cot.
Used in a Moses basket so it does not look clinical, the cot keeps babies cool for longer, enabling parents to have their baby at their bedside or take them home to grieve and say goodbye.
Nicki - who is also mum to three-year-old Leighton and step-mum to six-year-old Louis - said: "After the great success of the fundraiser in February we decided we would like to do more to raise money and help Arrowe Park's Delivery Suite make their bereavement room more up to date.
"I then found out I was pregnant so this went on the back burner but unfortunately Maddison was born at 28 weeks on June 18 - she had a cyst on her brain which had caused a lot of brain damage.
"I was lucky to have such an amazing midwife who ensured I was given the bereavement room in which I had Leon at Arrowe Park.
"However this room is only temporary as they want to move it to another room. This made me more determined than ever to raise more money and ensure that the new room is just as warming and relaxing in order to help parents feel comfortable when spending time with their child."
Nicki and Kenny have already raised enough to provide Arrowe Park with an extra cuddle cot but have been asked to wait until the new bereavement room is completed before donating it.
They have also donated 20 memory boxes provided by charity 4Louis, which aim to offer support and help to families affected by stillbirth and neonatal death by capturing lasting precious memories of their baby.
Despite the unimaginable heartache experienced by the couple, Nicki and Kenny hope to further help the hospital and will be embarking on a series of challenges and fundraising events this year – starting with the Ice Bucket Challenge.
The challenge, which sees people soak themselves with a bucket filled with ice water, has taken the internet by storm with celebrities including Rory McIlroy, Hugh Jackman and even former President George W Brush joining in.
It has been used as a way of raising awareness and money for various charities, with the Almonds choosing the Sleeping Babies Appeal.
"We have organised another fundraising night in February 2015 but when I saw the ice bucket challenge it set me thinking," explained Nicki, who nominated her friends and family to join in.
"I am not a big fan of water but I said that if we can raise £500 by doing the challenge I would happily take part."
To donate to the appeal, visit gofundme.com/LeonAlmondFundRaising


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We talked to Todd Juenger at TiVo and he told us which commercials were watched the most during Sunday's Super Bowl. Note that the data is based not only on how many were watching the game, but also on rewinding and fast forwarding, as opposed to which were viewer favorites.
1. GoDaddy.com: "Enhanced?"
2. Bud Light Lime: "Summer to Winter"
3. Careerbuilder.com: "It May Be Time"
4. Doritos: "Crystal Ball"
5. Transformers: "Revenge of the Fallen"
6. Monster.com: "Moose Head"
7. Bud Light: "Man Thrown out the Window"
8. Pepsi: "MacGruber/Pepsuber"
9. Dennys: "Thugs"
10. Coke Zero: "Mr. Polamalu"
(Thanks Todd)
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Help Choose Superbowl Commercial
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Here's your chance to participate in a video commercial contest that may get you a couple of free tickets to the Superbowl XLIII Feb. 1. It's too late to enter your own video, but you can still vote on the others done by amateur videographers. Last year's Dorito spot was really amusing and we expect with all the mini-camcorders floating around these days this year will have similar results. Voting ends Jan. 25. By the way, we saw a glimpse of one that could be eTrade's entry with a bunch of talking babies, similar to last year's spot. Don't they know that massive amounts of spitting up is not good for keyboards?
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IMDb Offers Free Internet Movies, TV
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Amazon has announced that its subsidiary, IMDb, will be offering free recent and classic films such as "Planet of the Apes" and "The Madness of King George." There are also trailers and short films. They say that over 6,000 titles are available and include episodes of new season shows like "30 Rock." We checked out an episode on the site and noticed that it is about as free as regular TV, so expect some commercials, although not to the extent that you find on network television.
Chi-Chi Gram
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Design, Internet
In our never-ending quest for the cheesiest online promotions, try this weird one. You can now send someone a Chi-Chi Gram. Choose between a cyclops, chicken or cougar, upload an image, and adjust the eyes and mouth. Choose some music, preview your artistic work, then e-mail it to a friend or anyone else you would like to annoy. We're not sure this will help sell the salsa, but it's worth a few minutes of time and you can pick up a recipe or two.
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Hulu Opens With Limited Ad Viewing
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Internet, Movies
Hulu, from the collaborative efforts of News Corp. and NBC Universal, opened today. So far it has only been in use by a test group, but now everyone can see more than 259 full length episodes of TV shows as well as about 100 movies for free from 50 networks, movie studios and Web-based media. The only catch is that there is a limited amount of ads to put up with, but hey, we can deal with that.
During a movie or show you often get your choice of commercials. We watched an episode of "The Simpsons" to see how much advertising there was, and in the half hour we saw only three 15 second spots. We will take that over network TV anytime. Did we mention that you can share, embed, or edit clips from the site? We love the Internet, truly.
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TiVo Literally Counts Top Ten Super Bowl Spots
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Editorial, Home Entertainment, Misc. Tech, Videos
While there are plenty of top ten lists on the Net reporting the popularity of Super Bowl commercials, TiVo has an actual way of gauging which of the exact spots are literally watched the most by viewers. We chatted with Todd Juenger, Vice President of Audience Research and Measurement, who gave us his top 10 list in terms of the most viewed during the event. That list and our interview with Todd, including all you ever wanted to know about TiVo accumulating data and what it means, after the jump.
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Toshiba Slashes Prices, Again
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Corporate News, HDTV, Home Entertainment, Hot Deals, Movies
Toshiba, never admitting defeat, has once again cut its prices up to 50% to promote its HD DVD players. Their entry level players now carry an MSRP of ~$150.00. Expect an onslaught of various media-type commercials within the next few weeks. While we continue to hear rumors concerning the HD/Blu-ray War, we think we will just bide our time and revel in the news that now almost anyone can afford a player. Toshiba is still offering 5 free DVDs with purchase.
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We just saw one of our fave spokesbots in a cameo on television. Asimo recently made an appearance in Honda's latest commercial. We also understand that he is streaking across the stage at Disneyland in a mini-demo designed to get the greater public used to the idea of bringing robotics into the mainstream. The robot is becoming so famous that he even has his own website. Kudos to the company for knowing that robots can make an impact on sales without petty demands and/or the high salary of celebrities.
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Zune Ad Gets Noticed
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With all the attention given to Apple these days, we thought it was only fair that we give a few props to another creative company. Zune aficionados are probably already aware of the awesome video artwork on Zune Arts, but if you are not, then you missed out on some fine animation. The Association of Independent Commercial Producers liked their Zune "Monster" spot so much that they have included it in this year's Art & Technique of the American Commercial Show. You can find dates and locations of showings on the AICP site.
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Drink Free Coffee, Make a Commercial, Aid the Homeless
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While we were doing research on women who have better memory retention by drinking coffee, we noticed that Folgers is willing to help you age with more awareness with a free sample. We call that great timing. They also invite you to make your own commercial on their site, and they will donate $1.00 to Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles (up to $150,000) each time you create one or vote for others'. We figure that you will get such a rush from the caffeine in their gourmet coffee that your creativity will kick into maximum mode.
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Do Trading and Power Operations Mix? The Case of Constellation Energy Group 2008
Constellation Energy has been a leading performer in the merchant power business since 2001. In addition to its legacy utility, Baltimore Gas and Electric, Constellation is a merchant generator and a wholesale power marketer serving the load of utilities as well as industrial, commercial and retail customers. Constellation has developed sophisticated risk management capabilities and a large trading operation in electric power and related commodities. In a recent reorganization, Constellation gave its trading operations greater organizational independence and prominence. It also increased the scale of its proprietary trading, and used its trading operation as the tool for expanded investments into upstream natural gas and coal and international freight. In August and September of 2008, Constellation experienced a major liquidity crisis that saw its stock price fall by nearly three-quarters. In an emergency search for cash, it was forced to agree to sell itself at the low price. This paper reviews Constellation's history and the specific events precipitating its liquidity crisis. It then places Constellation's strategy vis-à-vis its commodity trading operations in the context of the larger history of commodity trading operations and discusses the key financial and strategic questions posed by Constellation's crisis.
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Cult Design
Self-Watering Kitchen Planters
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With terra cotta pots and self-watering reservoirs, Cult Design makes it easy to start your own garden right in your kitchen. The Evergreen pots are designed for growing herb plants. Simply keep the lower section filled with water, and a felt strip sucks up water like a wick and allows a plant to absorb all the water it needs. Likewise, for shoots and sprouts, Grow Green is a system of terracotta boxes atop a water-filled base. Pour the seeds into their own terra cotta sections, and in about one week, you can harvest vitamin- and mineral-rich sprouts for salads and sandwiches.
Co-founded by Swedish designer Marita Lord, Cult Design inspires us to bring farming to the kitchen counter. For recipes, teas, essential oils and more, you've got herbs and sprouts within arm's reach. It doesn't get more local than that. Read More Read Less
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We are thrilled to have the opportunity to share our Kitchen Farming concept as a feature on the The Grommet. Eating healthy, nutritious and organic is very close to our hearts in Sweden as we all try to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Our small terra cotta growing planters provide a unique and very good place to grow sprouts, alfa-alfa, herbs, etc. right in the kitchen. Terra cotta has been used for thousands of years as a storing material for food or drinks, so by using this natural material we brought back old fashion material to everyday function in a fun, timeless design. Mothers are all concerned about the well-being of their families, now you can add some healthy, organic and nutritious well-being to Mom in time for Mother's day.
Hi there,
Can you use your own seeds or do you have to buy proprietary seeds?
You can use you own. Cult Design do not sell any seed.
In US you can buy organic seed from
Hi, everyone!
Since I started to develope the Grow green sprout box my own life has changed. While testing the product during the developing process ( to make it as efficient as possible) I produced soooo many sprouts and me and our office people needed to eat them up. Suddenly my life become more healthy./ Marita Lord
When we have used the terracotta material for Green Farm you only need to rinse the sprouts one time every day. If you use glass or plastic containers you need to rince 2-3 times to avoid mould.
Sorry I wrote Green farm but meant of course the sprout box Grow green.
I'd like to see the measurements on this small pots. My windowsill is narrow. Thanks.
The small pot is 8 cm x 8 cm. Hight without herb plant is 19 cm.
@Marita That is 3 1/8" x 3 1/8" and 7 1/2" high.
You use inch in US. Size is 3,2 inch x 3,2 inch x 7,5 inch high.
Are the herb pots hydroponic, or do you add your own potting soil?
You use organic soil if you plant seed in them and will start from scratch. You can also buy herb plant in the super market and in that case you get rid of the plastic pot and move the plant including the soil it the terracotta container. One time evry week you fill water in the white water reservoir.
The Grow green for producing sprouts is hydrophonic, of course.
hi. can you tell me what are the best herbs to grow in these pots. can i do mint, basil etc or only sprouts?
The Evergreen pots are suitable for any herb plant. You use soil in the terracotta container.Mint and basil are perfect.You can buy the fresh herb in the supermarket and keep it growing or plant seed and wait until it grow to a plant.
For making sprouts you should use the Grow green. It works hydrophonic without soil. You rinse the seed, beans one time every day. After 4-7 days they are ready to eat and enjoy your own vegetables.
Can I plant grown plants or do they have to be seeds?
My idea came from that I bought fresh herb plants in the supermarket during the week and when I should cook at the weekend they were dead because I had forgotten to give the plant water every day!!! Now you fill water in the white reservoir and the herb keep fresh at least one week. After that you have cooked you maybe have half of leavs left and you can keep them to next time you need fresh herbs. Only remember to give water one time every week. Normal case you need to water herbs every day and this is easy to forget.
What are the dimensions of the herb pots? I have a shallow window sill.
Hi Laureta,
There are 3 sizes for these. You can find the information on each size's specific dimensions when you click on "shop" which is an orange button directly on each picture. I've detailed the sizes below for you.
For the large pot:
For the small pair of pots:
12x10x8in each
For the Grow Green Terracotta pots:
17.25x11.25x8in each
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Good Thing We Got Rid Of Him13 Sep
On the return of Hideki Matsui, Bobby Abreu stole the show:
Abreu hit a three-run homer and a three-run double in a nine-run first and finished with a career-high seven RBIs in the New York Yankees' 12-4 laugher over Tampa Bay on Tuesday.
"It was crazy," said Abreu, who went 2-for-3 with a third-inning sacrifice fly and fourth-inning flyout to the warning track, just missing a grand slam.
He's now hitting .344 for the Yankees with a 436 OBP and a 503 slugging percentage. He's hit 15 doubles, 3 homers, and gotten 31 RBI and 25 runs. He's also stolen 7 bases. I didn't even mention his web gem from last night, either.
Good thing we got rid of this cancer. This lazy bum afraid of walls and of swinging the bat! What a bum.
Specter/Toomey Redux As Lincoln Chafee Holds On13 Sep
This time the moderate Republican v conservative Republican fight was set in Rhode Island, with incumbent Senator Lincoln Chafee emerging victorious Cranston, RI mayor Steve Laffey 55% to 45%. He will now go on to the main race against Democratic challenger Sheldon Whitehouse. The race evoked overtones of Pennsylvania's 2004 neck-and-neck primary race between Arlen Specter and challenger Pat Toomey (Specter won by a hair, and the rest is history). Toomey's Club For Growth even backed Laffey, who basically stands step for step beside President Bush on many issues, and is more conservative on some other important government measures.
The Republican voters may have given themselves an actual shot at holding onto Rhode Island, even if it is going to be won by someone who is staunchly opposed to President Bush on many matters. If Laffey would've pulled through in the primary, it's quite possible that Whitehouse would've simply ROMPED, with polls showing him with a margin as wide as 17%. As it stands, however, Chafee/Whitehouse is simply too close to call, and will continue to be.
Let the games begin. The fight for the heart and soul of the Republican Party continues…will it become non-existant in the Northeast? Will the religious right continue to dominate much of the grass roots? And could it possibly splinter in the future? And what of the 2006 mid-term elections?


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This article was published 28/2/2012 (1998 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
WASHINGTON - U.S. health officials are adding new safety warnings about risks of memory loss and elevated blood sugar to statins, a widely prescribed group of cholesterol-lowering medications.
The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday it is making labelling changes to medicines like Pfizer's Lipitor, AstraZeneca's Crestor and Merck & Co. Inc.'s Zocor. The drugs are used by tens of millions of Americans to help prevent heart-related problems associated with cholesterol.
New labelling on all such drugs will warn of memory loss and confusion reported among certain patients taking statins. The problems were not generally serious and went away after patients stopped taking the drugs, according to the FDA.
The updated labels will also mention elevated levels of blood sugar, associated with diabetes, that have been reported in some patients taking statins.
A growing number of studies published over the last five years have found a link between statin use and Type 2 diabetes. Last June, a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association analyzed five older randomized trials and concluded the increased risk was small but real for people taking higher doses of any statin.
Statins are mainly prescribed to prevent heart attacks in people with clogged arteries and work by dramatically lowering LDL, or bad cholesterol. They were the third bestselling drug class in the U.S. for 2010 with sales of $18.8 billion.
A Health Canada spokeswoman said the current Canadian labels for some statin drugs already contain information about the risk of memory loss and advise diabetics to inform their doctors if blood sugar level changes are noticed.
Leslie Meerburg said Health Canada is evaluating the available information and will work with manufacturers to update labels if additional warnings are needed.
In addition to the new label warnings, the FDA said it will remove a long-standing caution related to liver injury. The drugs' labels previously recommended routine testing of liver enzymes to avoid injury. The agency now recommends a single test when patients first begin taking statins.
"FDA has concluded that serious liver injury with statins is rare and unpredictable in individual patients, and that routine periodic monitoring of liver enzymes does not appear to be effective in detecting or preventing this rare side effect," the agency said in a statement.
In addition to statins, the new labelling changes apply to several combination drugs that mix older statins with newer cholesterol medicines, including Merck's Vytorin and Abbott Laboratories Simcor.
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This example is a 23 inch reproduction doll by a modern late 20th century doll artist using a mold that was cast from an authentic Bru Jne doll. She has large paperweight eyes, pierced ears, and a body that allows her to be posed as if in action. She wears a human hair wig and an outfit made to look 'antique,' though it is not.
Authentic antique originals Bru dolls can of course be very expensive. Because the mold to make the head for this modern copy was taken from a real antique Bru and the bisque was decorated by an accomplished doll artist, dolls like this may be more easily mistaken for an original. Especially if dressed in antique clothing. The doll artist who made this example probably never intended for a buyer to pay a real Bru price for her, but the potential exists for that mistake to be made, just the same.
Antique dolls originally made by well-known doll makers of the past like the Bru Jne & Cie company have been copied and will continue to be copied. Even though this doll's bisque head is inscribed on the back with the name of the company that made the mold from the original, keep in mind that on the secondary market even obvious marks may sometimes be kept concealed under a wig.
Modern skilled craftsmen are able to recreate features of vintage or antique dolls. And as these types of artist-made reproductions begin to gain some amount of actual age of their own it may become increasingly difficult to differentiate some of them from the originals they mimic. So, when buying collectible dolls online never hesitate to ask to see pictures of specific features you think it is important to see clearly, if they have not already been provided in a listing, or to ask questions prior to purchasing.
If you don't feel you have the time to research a doll prior to making a purchase then your best course of action would be to buy dolls for your collection only from established, reputable dealers who value their reputation and avidly seek repeat customers. This type of dealer will be happy to guarantee the authenticity of all items they sell.
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AccuTracking Now Supports Google Earth
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AccuTracking Network Link enables you to track in Google Earth in real time (auto refresh the latest phone positions). This feature is now available for Package 2 users. For details, please login to AccuTracking website (click "DEMO" and login as demo if you don't already have an account), click "Manage Units", then click "Show" under "Sticker". The Google Earth Network Link is at the bottom of the page.
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