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Intel Corp. (
) has a long way to go to be a strong competitor to the coalition of ARM Holdings Plc (
) licensees who today dominate the smartphone and tablet industries. The company, long the dominant force in the personal computer CPU market, is
working diligently
to catch up. Its first smartphone effort -- Medfield was
surprisingly capable
, although not giving Intel a clear win over rival ARM-based offerings.
I. Tri-Gate is Crucial to Intel's Mobile Ambition
But Intel has a trick up its sleeve for the next round --
22 nanometer tri-gate transistors
. The unique 3D transistor technology employs a special fin-shaped structure to eliminate leakage at the gate, a key source of inefficiency and inaccuracy, as transistors get smaller.
Kaizad Mistry, a vice president in Intel's manufacturing group,
The Wall Street Journal
, "There has been some press about how TriGate may not be suited for SoCs. I find that frankly quite baffling."
Intel's tri-gate transistors will hit the mobile market next year.
Intel first
revealed its tri-gate transistors
Ivy Bridge
, its latest personal computer CPU line, which
launched earlier this year
Ivy Bridge
is currently the leader in single-threaded performance in that market.
For Intel, a company who
invests vast sums
in process improvement, die shrinks allow the company to yield continuous improvement, while novel technologies like tri-gate allow the company to offer a little something extra. In the personal computer CPU market where Intel has long dominated, such extras are less game changing, but in the mobile market where it's struggled they're critical. Intel needs all the help it can get as its monolithic chips, while powerful, have traditionally been less power-efficient on the mobile front than ARM processors.
II. Critics Not Convinced Technology Will be Enough
Intel's critics are quick to point out that the company promised 22 nm smartphone chips in H1 2013, but has delayed the launch roughly 6 months to sometime in H2 2013.
But Intel looked to silence doubters by releasing a paper at the 2012 International Electron Devices Meeting (
) in San Francisco this week. The paper details Intel's work to port the process to the mobile (Atom) chip line. The paper claims that the 3D transistors will bump processor speeds by between 22 and 65 percent, while also offering power savings over 32 nm Atom chips.
But the critics are as noisy as ever. Some say Intel's chips are too expensive to gain ground, while others call the gains of the company's novel 3D transistor technology okay, but uninspired (taking into account that part of the aforementioned performance/power gains come from the die shrink itself, not the 3D design).
Price remains a major roadblock for Medfield; the Intel chips are more than twice as expensive as their most expensive ARM counterparts.
Asen Asenov
, a
University of Glasgow
electrical engineering processor and head of technology consulting firm Gold Standard Simulations Ltd., comments, "Honestly speaking, this isn't a big improvement."
Scott Thompson, who once served as an Intel research fellow and today is chief technology officer of chip technology firm SuVolta Inc. comments, "I think Intel has the best engineering team out there. The problem with where they are going is their technology is just not cost-effective for the mobile space."
Atom chips typically start at around $40 USD per unit, while ARM-based chips are priced at between $5 and $20 USD.
"Paying an extra $500 for a computer in this environment -- same piece of hardware -- paying $500 more to get a logo on it? I think that's a more challenging proposition for the average person than it used to be." -- Steve Ballmer
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Discussion in 'The GCB' started by Syrilrian, Jan 27, 2013.
Make sure to post screen shots of the results of all this.
I will! tomorrow, when I get home, I want to take some screenshots of the characters I've already made; thusfar I have myself (lolduh), @east1226, @khandoit, @Lost_In_Translation, and @GSFAkimboJoe.
I also plan to do you, @Chrono_Link, @PandaMasterX4, @jabroni12, @Threm, @Zinfandelicious, @supergreg64...
TBC because I can only tag 10x at once...
@adidas198, @kiera2, @nate38, @Dillo64, @Sertith, @audioaddict77, @DevilDancer, @dereksmalls1985, @AvocadoGenesis, @FrogTheKnight for part 2, and that is all I can tag here... but I plan to do these folks too (as long as they have no objections!)
@Tucker1011, @m00m00m00, @Ramundi, @Tiger61378, @DaBest13, @vornoff, @blinkz0rz, @OneBigClam, @Solar7, @NecronomiSean.... lol. I plan on making a lot. If they don't want to give me any info for their toons, I'll randomize the looks and guess as best I can on the traits, but I'm having a lot of fun making them as close as I can.
There's others in there that I plan to do too... I just am having a hard time remembering usernames off the top of my head, LOL.
Edit: sorry for the multi-summons. Found typos. Had to fix!
Animal Lover
Heavy Sleeper
Night Owl
Blue, fruit, I'm very musically diverse, so uuhhh...Rock? Hair, well we all know how that changes...natural is brown. Eyes, Hazel.
Glasses, chunky, big nose, weird hair.
Whatever you want to name me. I tend to name myself Sertith related in video games. Sarta, Seri, and such.
what colour is it now? still purple?
I was told I couldn't be evil. The fuck I can't. I guess I'm not rich enough.
Damn right you can't, lol.
Note to self: Panda has picked - ambitious, childish, daredevil, artistic, insane
I disagree with the insane part, but if I won't let you have evil... lol.
Well for fuck sakes. Does not being put in a mental hospital classify me as insane?
Black, purple, blue and a smidge of green.
I'm a bit inebriated, I'll answer this tomorrow, kay?
Evil is always fun Just a touch of evil though...don't want to go overboard
Okay, I narrowed them down to a list of about fifteen that I felt were perfect for me. Then I narrowed those down to the five that I feel describe my most dominant traits. I ended up with ambitious, commitment issues, friendly, perfectionist and supernatural skeptic.
My favourite foods are roast lamb, medium-rare steak, raspberries, raw salmon, and potatoes. Favourite colours are turquoise and crimson. Favourite music type is alternative rock. Eyes and hair are blue-grey and blonde respectively.
Other distinguishing features... I like being barefoot?
Dab Thirteen
Dark brown hair (almost black), Hazel Eyes
Good Sense of Humor, Easy Going, Party Animal, Lucky, Good
Food: Cheese Steak, Color: Red, Music: Alternative
Still a dude.
He wants to find out if he'd sleep with me.
I know, weird.
Audio Mike
Dark brown medium length hair, blue eyes, average build
Ambitious, Artistic, Family Oriented, Night Owl, Hot-Headed
Food: Mexican, Color: Green, Music: Indie Rock
5'10, salt and pepper beard, dark blond hair
Here's my stuff:
Traits: Artistic, Supernatural Fan, Hopeless Romantic, Night Owl, Perfectionist
Special: Tall, beard, glasses,
Hair and eyes: Dark Brown
Music: Indie, with a smattering of Roy Orbison thrown in
Food: Italian
Color: Blue
Good Sense of Humor
Great Kisser
Social Butterfly
Color: Blue
Food: Seafood (Lobster/Oysters, if we're getting specific)
Music: Alt Rock
Eye Color: Green or Blue, depending on the light
Hair Color: Blonde
I don't know of any particularly special/outlandish traits. Maybe blonde, spiky hair? That's probably the crux of it. I wear a lot of button downs/long sleeved shirts with the sleeves pushed up?
Solar reminded me
I wear my hair parted from the left side. if thats an option
5 traits:
Ambitious, Family-Oriented, Good Sense of Humor, Hot-Headed, Workaholic (although i've made steps to make that harder to do).
Food: Mexican Food
Colour: Blue or black
Music: Country
Hair colour: was dark brown, not bald...
Eye Colours: Grey/blue
Features: I'd say I'm on the larger side of muscular...most people see me as a big guy who works out a lot. Bald would be another trait...
Are you creating Red Shirts from the GCB for your D&D campaign?
Social ButterflyGood
Sense of Humor
Dark brown hair
Green eyes
Food: Vietnamese, Sushi, Mexican
Color: Green
Music: Indie Folk
Got CL and Cath made - cath is now a set of twins, with the exact same personalities, one a girl one a guy. lol. Now on to Threm and his army of midgets family!
Wanna make ambitious babies? Well fuck I can't. I'm snipped.
We could always do the process.
Panda/Fei, Serty, Jabroni, Tiger, AG/Mortiz, done!
Up next, Keira, m00 (if I can think of a better name than m00), Dab (I also want to make Lauren [that's her name, right? I keep thinking that's what I've seen you say], and I need to think of a name other than "dab thirteen" because I'm picky like that - it'll probably be ____ and Lauren Best or something), and audioaddict.
I still need to evict everyone from their houses in the town... then I need to slowly move everyone into a lot, one by one, give them the motherload cheat once so that they can afford the lots in the town (lol all of the characters are, essentially, poor when they start out, and most of you cannot afford the houses even after I've evicted the tenants, haha).
It almost is more time-consuming doing the town editing and placing folks on lots, than it is to make sims!
@Ramundi, I need deets for Ray Mundi!
Dog Person
Heavy Sleeper
Never Nude
Fav Color Yellow
Fav Food Chinese
Fav Music Classic Rock
Hair Brown
Eyes Hazel
Name Nate Neaterson
I just noticed this.... am I too late?
Description. Black hair fade haircut. (I actually have a mini afro but when I get my haircut... it'll match.)
Dark Brown Eyes (Almost Black)
Color: Orange
Food: Spaghetti
Music: Rap or Japanese Pop.. or whatever. I'm open to most genres... there are things in all of them I like and don't... so it was hard to choose one.
Couch Potato
Heavy Sleeper
nope definitely not too late! I will happily keep adding sims until I run out of housing lots, lol.
Though right now I'm stalled after the last batch; I need to do the placing on lots thing, and that takes forever, as I have to save every time I place and give funds, evict and replace someone. my computer does not like saving, either. Heh.
Also, why isn't there an always nude option? Needs a counter to the never nude.
Would have so gone always nude, great kisser, inappropriate, flirty, born salesman.
Great Kisser
Light Sleeper
Loves the Heat
Supernatural Skeptic
Close enough.
This reminds me, I need to post more of my Jenkins house story.
Tucker James
Dark brown hair, blue eyes, relatively strong.
Special: Wide build, beardy, kill all humans.Vehicle Enthusiast, Photographer's Eye, Handy, Genius (scientifically proven, I might say), Commitment Issues.
Food: Steak; asian cuisine.
Colour: Rich orange; tardis blue.
Music: Progressive, experimental, metal, alternative.
That'll do, I think.
I don't feel like picking from the list. Or thinking about it.
So my five traits are
~ T h e D i l l o ~
So, lazy, procastination, artistic, neurotic, horse lover.
got it.
alright, got Tiger, serty, east, AG, Akimbo Joe, LiT, Panda, Jabroni, Khan, Cathsx2, Chrono, Kiera all housed somewhere in town; got the 5br monstrosity saved for Threm's brood.
I still need to make Threm&Them, Dab/Lauren, Vorn, Zin/Syah/Baby. Derek Smalls, Devildancer, Mundi, OBC, Didas, Hector, Frog, Solar, Audio and the wife and Zoey, New Guy Sheriff, Nate, Bishop, Tucker, and possibly Dillo and NecronomiSean, amongst several others.
I was supposed to be in bed, asleep, about 2 hours ago. My sleep aid failed and I'm just.... awake. Goddamnit. Whatever. I guess I'm going to lay down and pretend that that is doing what is called "sleep."
I'll either fuck around with this more in the AM before work, or sometime after work. Main goal is just to get everybody made and housed, at this point. I worry about running otu of town lots. Some of you fuckers are gonna have to start shacking up soon, dammit. lol.
We'll see how much I get done tomorrow.
Give me a mansion because I do it big.
Shack me up with Vorn. We understand the BC ways.
Frog can come too.
Hm. There's no option for anxious/worrier and I don't like the term neurotic so I guess I'll use shy?
animal lover
computer whiz
good sense of humor
hot headed
Color: Orange
Food: Chocolate
Music type: Rock
Hair color: Dark blonde
Eye color: Brown
@ both of you:
I'll probably do it while working from home this Friday.
but thats a whole week away!
From that list...
Computer Whiz
Good Sense of Humor
Loves the Cold
I wish Icould edit the OP - it doens't let me choose the cold/heat or supernatural/skeptic traits 'cause I apparently don't have that xpac
That's in 3 days!


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If you're searching for reasons to envy me -- other than the fact I possess most of my own teeth along with TV newscaster-quality hair -- you're in luck.
Earlier this week, armed only with a fork and my rat-like cunning, I chomped my way to victory in a hotly contested spaghetti-eating contest in support of CNIB Manitoba.
I wish you could have seen me gobble my way to the championship. I didn't see a thing. This is because all the media persons and local personalities involved in the race were blindfolded to get a tiny taste of what people with vision loss face every time they sit down to eat.
While I did not receive a trophy for being the first to power down a heaping plate of pasta at The Old Spaghetti Factory at The Forks, when we took off our blindfolds, there was a look of respect in my competitors' eyes -- either that, or they were stunned by the number of tomato-sauce stains on my favourite golf shirt.
We agreed to put our gastrointestinal systems on the line to help promote CNIB Manitoba's third annual Dine in the Dark gala, a fundraiser with a twist -- everyone who buys a ticket gets to enjoy a gourmet meal while wearing a blindfold or special glasses that simulate different visual impairments.
(Dine in the Dark is being held Wednesday, Sept. 3, at the RBC Winnipeg Convention Centre. Tickets are $100 and can be obtained by calling 204-774-5421 or visiting www.dineinthedark.ca)
Before wielding our forks, we received a few pointers from Tracy Garbutt, who has been legally blind since the age of 12 and has spent the last 17 years as an independent-living-skills specialist teaching people with vision loss how to prepare and eat food they can't see.
The idea is to treat your plate like a clock, with various food items located at various points on the clock, unless you are eating spaghetti, in which case your food is basically plopped in the middle of your clock.
"Keep your hands low so if you reach for your wine or water glass, you don't knock it over," Tracy advised. "The best thing is taking your time. If you're twirling your spaghetti on your fork, take it slow to avoid the splatter factor."
We didn't want to seem rude, but a few of us told Tracy that taking things slowly might not be such a good idea when the central point of the contest was to eat faster than everyone else.
Then we slipped into our special blindfolds known as occluders and -- after I shot myself up with healthy dose of insulin -- attacked our bowls of spaghetti with reckless abandon. As I have already mentioned, I was the first to lick my bowl clean. It took exactly one minute, 18 seconds to accomplish this feat, not that I am bragging.
As I chatted with other competitors, it became obvious a lot of things bounce around your brain while you are stuffing your face with food you cannot see.
"I couldn't see the fervour, but it was palpable," chirped renowned Winnipeg sculptor Jordan Van Sewell. "I could sense there was a whole lot of eating going on. It must be difficult for those who can't lift a blindfold when they finish. You can see how the novelty would wear thin real soon."
In a rare act of generousity, CJOB's Geoff Currier, who was parked beside me, let me finish his pasta, because -- again, not proud of this -- I was still a little hungry. "It's an eye-opener, but that's a bad joke," Geoff said as I picked at his bowl. "It's an eye-closer. You're struck by how much we take for granted -- picking up a knife and putting butter on a piece of bread becomes something you have to navigate."
Later, full of pride and spaghetti, I approached another organizer, Maggie Lee Grant, who lost her eyesight at 31, and asked for a few tips on how to eat food you can't see.
Maggie, the daughter of Manitoba Lt.-Gov. Philip Lee and his wife, Anita, said, in her view, it's OK to cheat. "When I go to restaurants, I cheat," she said, laughing. "I get them to cut up my food for me."
Maggie explained that, when you lose your sight, you end up putting your trust in a lot of other people, every day. "After I lost my sight, as much as I wanted to crawl in bed, I had a little baby I had to look after," she said of her son, Philip, now 15. "This little guy needed me. I felt like I was being robbed of seeing my son grow up. I called him my 'Seeing Eye Baby.' He'd get out of his car seat, run around and get me, saying, 'Mommy, I'll be your eyes.' "
Which, I think, explains why I want everyone to buy tickets for Dine in the Dark. Best of all, you won't be able to count the stains on my golf shirt.


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It's been a busy week: Old World Blues reviews, Skyrim creations you can wear and play, details and screens for Brink DLC, a new Bethesda Podcast, studio tours for Tango & id, and plenty of updates for Dishonored & QuakeCon. So what did I miss? Apparently quite a bit!!
In print, get new details on Skyrim in the latest issue of PSM3 — now on newsstands in the UK. Meanwhile, folks in the US can read GameInformer's E3 impressions of both Skyrim & RAGE in their August issue.
There's plenty more to read online, including various features with the folks that make our games great
- Pete Hines talks Bethesda in a two-part interview (part 1, part 2) with Edge. Todd Howard chats with them, too.
- USA Today interviews John Carmack about RAGE
- IGN looks back at the early years (before Resident Evil) of Tango's Shinji Mikami
- id Software senior producer Jason Kim answers RAGE questions for CVG (part 1, part 2)
- Kotaku takes a look back at the work of Dishonored's visual design director, Viktor Antonov
After the break, check out the latest Skyrim coverage…
- The Wall Street Journal make comparisons to Tolkien in a new preview
- New impressions from the New York Post
- G4TV: New X-Play Preview
- IGN: Five Reasons Skyrim is Going to Make You its (ahem) Bitch
- What Culture: Anticipates Skyrim, RAGE, and 14 other titles coming out and discusses why the game will ruin your social life
- 1Up: A fact about Skyrim you might not already know
- Gamespot: Interview with lead producer Craig Lafferty
- GamingBolt: Shares 10 facts about Skyrim they think you should know
- PlayStation Universe: Looks back at the history of TES (part 1, part 2)
- Guyism: New preview from a recent New York event
- Cheat Code Central: New preview
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U.S. plans to reduce its land mine stockpile
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The Obama administration announced measures Friday to reduce and eventually eliminate its stockpile of antipersonnel land mines, with the aim of joining the global treaty that prohibits them.
The announcement, made by a U.S. observer delegation to a conference in Mozambique on the progress of the 15-year-old treaty, was stronger than the previously stated administration position - that it was studying the treaty's provisions. It appeared to put the United States on a trajectory to signing the treaty.
The administration did not indicate when the United States would sign the treaty, known as the Ottawa Convention, which the Clinton administration had originally encouraged and which most nations have signed.
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The U.S. delegation said in a statement that the United States would no longer produce or acquire antipersonnel land mines, or replace old ones that expire.
The United States has not disclosed precise details about the size of its stockpile. Arms control experts have estimated it to be 10 million to 13 million.
The U.S. statement also said the United States was "diligently pursuing solutions that would be compliant with and ultimately allow the United States to accede to the Ottawa Convention."
Human rights groups and disarmament advocates who have increasingly criticized the United States for its reluctance to sign the treaty cautiously welcomed the announcement, although they had been pressing for more.
"We are very pleased with the U.S. announcement that it intends to accede to the mine ban treaty, and that it has instituted a new policy banning future production of antipersonnel mines," Stephen Goose, the director of the arms division at Human Rights Watch, who was attending the treaty conference in Maputo, the Mozambique capital, said in a statement.
But Goose, who helped found the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, a group that won a Nobel Peace Prize for its work and is considered largely responsible for the Ottawa Convention, was also critical of the new U.S. position, a view shared by many other disarmament advocates.
"It makes little sense to acknowledge that the weapons must be banned due to the humanitarian harm they cause, and yet insist on being able to use them," he said.


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Victor Kanyema is the manager of the Program on Social and Economic Rights (POSER) for Abwenzi Pa Za Umoyo, PIH's Malawian sister organization. POSER is designed to alleviate the social determinants of poor health in Neno District, Malawi, by improving housing, providing workforce training, economically empowering women, and ensuring access to education. We recently asked the 36-year-old Kanyema to share the story of how he came to work with APZU and why his work is so important. The below transcript has been edited for brevity.
When I saw an advertisement in the newspaper for Partners In Health, I got interested and thought it's high time that maybe I should join an international organization and contribute to the development of other parts of the country where I was born.
At the time, I was working with the youth movement in Malawi at a very popular and prominent organization called Active Youth Initiative for Social Enhancement. I had served with that organization for about 11 years, joining after I graduated from secondary school. I went to college on a part-time basis while I was also working so that it would balance out and I'd have qualifications relevant to my field.
After I applied to Partners In Health, I got invited to Neno for interviews. A truck came to take me and several other people to the interviews. I knew of Neno, of course, but I had never been there. We passed through mountains, we crossed the river, we climbed the mountains. There were five of us and we kept on asking, "Driver, are we there yet?" He said, "No, we are going there, wait." Inside I was nervous, thinking about what type of community this is. Because I could see we still had a lot of driving to do, even after 1 hour and 30 minutes of just going and going. It looked like there was nothing. Within myself, I thought, "I don't think I can work in this community." I was nervous—it was so far out there. So I said a prayer within myself.
I eventually started seeing some positive signs of development on the car ride. I saw houses for health workers near the hospital. During the interview, I first told the Partners In Health people that I didn't think I could work here. But after I saw the buildings and the other various structures that Partners In Health has constructed in partnership with the government, I told them that I think I am ready to work in this community. Almost everybody laughed.
This is how I came to Partners In Health.
At first, it was so challenging in Neno. My wife and whole family was in Blantyre, two hours from Neno, and there are not many good roads between. So every week, every Friday, I had to make sure I could find myself transportation to Blantyre. It wasn't an easy thing. I had to make sure I got back to see my family.
For your information, my wife is a nurse. She was working at a position in Blantyre Adventist Hospital, which is one of the best. So she was working there and it was hard for me to keep on moving up and down, going to Blantyre on Friday and coming back on Sunday. The challenge was to get out of Neno. We'd pack ourselves to the maximum in cars. We did not care what is happening or who you are sitting with as long as you find yourself going to your family.
It was a new environment, an environment where I had never worked before. I was excited because I wanted the experience of working in an international organization. The biggest difference with my previous job and my job in Neno was the scale. I find it to be good because we are able to touch so many lives through the various support and programs we have, even though there are many challenges.
It's not a one-man show. We work together and learn from each other so that we can reach our goal.
The first thing I concentrated on was understanding the concept of the Program on Social and Economic Rights (POSER). Who were the families we were to work with? What tools do we have to help us make decisions about who we should support and why? How do we reach them? I had so many questions. Who are the partners that we are working with?
I came to know the team in Neno well. I learned what their roles are and how to help each other and develop as a team. It's not a one-man show. We work together and learn from each other so that we can reach our goal. (Read more about POSER's work.)
During this early period, my first assignment was to go into the community and visit the patients, chat with them, talk with them, get data. The clinical department refers patients to POSER. We have three steps to support. The first step is the patient himself or herself presenting their grievance to POSER or to the clinic or hospital or health center based on the proximity to where they are coming from. The second step is following up to see what challenges this particular patient or client is faced with on a daily basis in their community. Third is to develop a strategy and deliver support. So after going into field and getting the data, we sit down and analyze it all. And we make a decision to say let's support families A, B, C, D based on what we have seen.
We believe as PIH and Abwenzi Pa Za Umoyo (APZU) that treatment alone is not enough to meet the needs of the patients. If we are missing elements of social and economic accompaniment, clinical treatment itself may not work because our patients are so vulnerable. By helping them have habitable homes, we are addressing multiple issues: psychologically, physically, and even economically.
We are serving and lifting somebody from extreme poverty to a certain level of hope where he or she can start living a life of independence.
We are serving and lifting somebody from extreme poverty to a certain level of hope where he or she can start living a life of independence. Independence cannot be realized if we cannot intervene and help lift somebody to that level. That's why we are constructing new houses and renovating existing ones. Those houses serve as part of our strategy to prevent communicable diseases or other opportunistic infections.
Poorly constructed houses, poorly ventilated houses can raise the risk for pneumonia. Other houses in poor shape can be a breeding ground for malaria because there are so many mosquitos. If we treat a patient for pneumonia and he goes home to a damp hut with a leaky roof, he's going to get sick again. But if we are creating a good environment for the patient to live in, then we contribute positively to the health of a particular individual and the community.
After working in Neno for a time period of a year, I admit that it was becoming difficult. Every weekend going to my family was challenging. At the end of the day it was becoming problematic on my part. I was failing to have enough to feed my family and also feed myself here. I was spending on going back and forth between Neno and Blantyre, and it was hard to save anything.
I had to communicate with our country director and I said, "Doctor, I need to talk to you. I'm having challenges here and I need help. I wish my wife could come to Neno." I said that if my family was here, I could better concentrate on my work. The country director understood and said that if there was ever an opening, he would give my wife a chance to apply. Later on there was a need for a palliative care nurse. Luckily, my wife, Judith, was a capable palliative care nurse. She had to apply. She had to go and interview. She did well, and they knew she was capable.
It still wasn't easy for either of us. She had visited me twice or so and the first time she said, "This is where you're living? I don't think I can make it." I knew what she meant. So we had to sit down to discuss it. I said, "Let's try. I know there is an opportunity here. There are so many other people that are staying here. If they are making it, then we can also do it. There's no difference between them and us. I love this community, I think in time you too are going to love this community."
Now we are so motivated because all of us are in Neno. And we bought a piece of land in Neno because we are planning to stay—we just love the community, and we are so attached to the people that we are working with. Buying land in Neno is a sign that we want to continue serving the people here.
There are many changes that have taken place in Neno since I arrived two years ago. The health system is improving and getting stronger every day, and we are providing great medical care. And POSER is helping in many ways, socially and economically.
We have two restaurants that we are using to help empower women economically. Part of this process is to help empower women to become independent. They receive training on managing a small business. We work hand in hand with the government's Office of Social Welfare. They provide facilitators who have knowledge of business skills and customer care so that participants become business-oriented and knowledgeable enough to stand with other competitors that are there in the market. These women normally go through a two-year period of training. After that, they need to graduate so that they can pave the way for other women to come in and use the same facility and go on to graduate.
What matters is this: Are we there to serve humanity? That is what is important.
Economic empowerment is very important for women in Neno. We have seen that a good number of women we have supported through the restaurant programs have become independent. They are economically empowered and independent. They can construct their own houses. They can send their children to school.
Education is another important area. Education is the backbone of any development, and it is part and parcel of POSER. This is very important because so many parents—because of the high level of poverty that exists in the district—might have difficulties getting their children into school, both primary and secondary school. They find it difficult to supply them with learning materials and food and transport. But because of our intervention, we are relieving the parents of the burden of having to supply scholastic materials for their children.
We are working hand in hand with the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology. We are working with teachers, and we have a team of what we call "teacher point persons." These point persons work with children on a daily basis to provide psychosocial counseling and to motivate them to understand the importance of education.
We are also helping children that have lost parents and are without parental care. We can help ensure that they do not end up in an impoverished cycle. If they do, they may end up compromising their decision-making and health, especially girls. If a girl has reached a certain age, she may think that maybe the best way to survive is to sell her body. So we need to prevent people from entering into that cycle by making sure that we provide basic necessities, encourage children to go to school, help people have sturdy homes, and empower them economically.
This is what we want to see happening in Neno, and it is. It doesn't matter where we are. What matters is this: Are we there to serve humanity? That is what is important. That is what motivated me and inspired me to believe in this community. Together we are going somewhere.


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Stormtroopers were on guard for the World Premiere of Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith at the Cannes Film Festival.
And it's good job the stormtroopers were there to keep order, because lots of photographers had turned up.
The stars of the film Hayden Christensen and Natalie Portman pose with Star Wars director George Lucas.
George wonders where Natalie's hair has gone. It's for a part in another film.
Hayden and Ian McDiarmid don't look very evil at all in person, but that's not the case in the film.
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Nifty New Poster for 'Stand Up Guys' with Pacino, Walken and Arkin
by Ben Pearson
September 21, 2012
Source: IMPAwards
It's obvious we love cool posters and slick design work here on FS.net. We feature work from Mondo (like this awesome Dredd poster) and other artists all the time, and there's nothing quite like an amazing piece of film artwork to get you pumped up about a movie. Sometimes the amateur pieces are even better than the official studio posters, as was the case with Battleship earlier this year. But sometimes the studios get 'em right. Here's a new official poster (via IMPAwards) for Stand Up Guys, the new hit man comedy starring Christopher Walken, Al Pacino and Alan Arkin, which I actually like more than the film's trailer itself.
Fisher Stevens (producer of The Cove) directs Stand Up Guys from a script by Noah Haidle. Val (Al Pacino) is released from prison after serving twenty-eight years for refusing to give up one of his close criminal associates. His best friend Doc (Christopher Walken) is there to pick him up, and the two soon reteam with another old pal, Hirsch (Alan Arkin). But one of the friends is keeping a dangerous secret, and his time to find an acceptable alternative is running out. The film is expected in theaters on January 11th next year, which isn't too promising. We featured the first trailer for this movie just last week if you haven't seen it yet.
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Cambridge police took report Friday of the theft of electronic devices from a city business a week before.
According to reports, a female employee of Rent-A-Vision, 1205 Southgate Parkway, reported to Sgt. Jim Wilson that three males entered the store the evening of Jan. 11. As she spoke with one of the men a second placed three Apple iPod Touches under his jacket and left the store. The devices were valued at approximately $600 each.
The woman produced video footage of the crime, according to the report.
The suspect was described as a white male with a heavy build and a beard wearing a dark-colored jacket and dark-colored ball cap.
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A native of Los Angeles.
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Died of a heart attack Aug. 24, 2001 in San Luis Obispo at the age of 83 [1]
Hasslein earned his architect's degree from USC.
During his college years at USC, Hasslein painted watercolors while studying with Dan Lutz.[2] He earned his B.A. degree in 1946,
Founding dean of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo's School of Architecture and Environmental Design
Joined the Cal Poly faculty in 1950. A year later he was named head of its then-new architectural engineering department.
A staunch advocate of a multidisciplinary curriculum, Hasslein headed the School of Architecture and Environmental Design from its creation in 1968 until 1983, when he returned to teaching.
Hasslein, who planned to teach a full schedule the fall of 2001 as usual, was a consultant on architecture to the Cal State Board of Trustees.
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Among his awards was one for excellence in education from the California Council of the American Institute of Architects.
- ↑ Los Angeles Times, George Hasslein, 83; Dean of Cal Poly SLO School of Architecture, September 08, 2001
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Where has the service gone to Disney?: Disney Wonder Cruise Review by v medcalf
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Where has the service gone to Disney?
Destination: Mexican Riviera
Embarkation: Los Angeles
Did the Disney Magic around Europe last August and I thought it was great (food was a little underwhelming but on the whole great service and great entertainment too).
I recommended Disney cruises to my family and so for Christmas my parents spent over £20,000 taking the whole family on the Mexican Riveria cruise on 26 December.
My parents had a cabin with 2 little portholes on deck 1 - so noisy as it was next to the engine room. All 4 cabins were on different decks (1, 2, 6 & 7) - we were originally on different tables at dinner.
Service in the restaurant was interesting to say the least. Our waiter was lovely but rarely got anyones order correct. At the character breakfast not one breakfast order was correct - in fact she then turned up with plates full of bacon, sausage etc. and turned it into a More buffet (which is not what we wanted!!).
The assistant waiter was so sweet but obviously very nervous - shaking hands, sweating a lot (in fact this dripped on my brother -in - law!!). My bill included 7 wrong drinks orders - he often made us sign the receipts the next day as he couldn't work them out on the night. It wasn't very complicated as we only had one or two drinks each!!
it wasn't just the waiting staff though. it took 2 calls to guest services and 2 further phone calls to finally get my safe fixed (day 5 of the cruise).
Thought PV was awful, Cabo San Lucas was nice though. When I asked the morning of the PV port stop if there was a public beach nearby, I was told not to go to the public beach as there was no lifeguard and that I should have booked the beach excursion. I then answered that wasn't it a little late to book it - the response was 'it's full anyway!!" completely pointless conversation!
By the way the public beach was very good - and there was a lifeguard Disney!!
We did have a lovely cruise but I was disappointed and embarrassed that this wasn't the experience we'd had last year.
Also disappointed that 3 of the shows were exactly the same as last year, another show was a hypnotist (of no interest to a 5 year old) and then they showed The Muppets movie in the theatre one night - that's just plain lazy!
I have booked to go on the Fantasy next September and to be honest I wouldn't have booked it if i'd have been on this cruise first.
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BROOKSVILLE — The Hernando School Board tried Tuesday to claw its way toward closing a roughly $1.4 million budget gap.
Faced with no easy options on a list of ideas presented by superintendent Bryan Blavatt, they made little progress.
"I guess we know where we stand on how unnerving this entire situation is," Chairman James Yant said at the end of the two-hour discussion.
The four-member board, which is still waiting for Gov. Rick Scott to appoint a replacement for Pat Fagan, could wipe out the shortfall in one swoop by dipping into the district's estimated $4.2 million unrestricted reserves. But Yant and board member Cynthia Moore balked.
That would drop the reserves down to 2 percent of the total general fund of $159 million, the minimum required by the state. More concerning, though, would be the lack of a substantial rainy day fund to deal with a catastrophic hurricane or a successful outcome for Cemex, which is currently suing the county to get as much as $3 million in back taxes, board members said.
"That would put us in major jeopardy there," Yant said.
Blavatt voiced his own concerns about that strategy.
"We don't have one payroll in reserve, and that's a scary way to operate anything," he said.
Later, though, Blavatt acknowledged that the time may have arrived to use the reserves to stave off cuts to programs, then replace the money when — or if — the financial picture brightens.
"You're in triage now," he said.
Only one board member, Dianne Bonfield, offered an opinion on cutting an additional 10 magnet and theme positions at the six schools that offer special programs. That would wipe out all 15 of those schools' allocations because five have already been cut as principals looked for ways to meet Blavatt's directive to cut 10 percent of their staffing allocations.
The move would save $590,000, and Bonfield said it should be seriously considered.
"I don't think we can afford anything extra at this time," she said.
That could effectively kill some programs, though, Blavatt warned.
"I don't know that you'd have the uniqueness any longer of a magnet," Blavatt said.
Polled by the St. Petersburg Times afterward, Yant said those cuts should be a last resort, Moore said she was undecided, and member John Sweeney said he doubted it could be done for the upcoming school year given that the district already has committed to families who were accepted into the programs.
"Eliminating the magnet positions would effectively eliminate the magnet schools," Sweeney said. "It would cause complete turmoil."
The board did agree to scrounge for some smaller savings, including a move that could be tough for the beleaguered teachers and staff to swallow: banning from classrooms personal appliances such as fans, microwaves, mini-refrigerators and radios. It could save as much as $56,000 districtwide, maintenance director Sean Arnold told the board.
"Some schools have 60 to 80 miniature refrigerators," Arnold said. "I know it's an inconvenience, but there are teacher lounges in every school and that's where you would have to go to get your beverage."
The board also firmed up decisions made in the last workshop to help reduce what at that point was a roughly $11 million budget gap, including a fee system for participation in athletics and extracurricular activities, and the elimination of so-called courtesy bus service for students who live within 2 miles of school and activity.
Though she ultimately agreed with the move, Bonfield said she wasn't comfortable with a wholesale elimination of the service. "Some schools have major issues with no sidewalks, no lighting, lime rock roads, dangerous highways," she said. "That's money well spent."
The board will formally vote on that measure at a special meeting on June 30, the last scheduled meeting before chief financial officer Desiree Henegar is slated to present a tentative balanced budget at the first public hearing on July 26.
Hanging over the workshop was the specter of cuts to personnel. The district, facing a $7 million shortfall, is terminating the contracts of 116 first-year teachers, 47 bus drivers and attendants. Total savings: $4.6 million.
Blavatt said the district had to go that route after the first round of talks with both unions failed to result in an agreement on forgoing five paid holidays and automatic experience-based raises. The district faced a deadline to notify employees if they still have a job or not, Blavatt told the board.
If job cuts wind up to be necessary after all, at least some employees will likely be able to move into positions left vacant by resignations and retirements, said Heather Martin, executive director of business services. Others could become long-term substitutes.
Talks with the Hernando Classroom Teachers Association and the Hernando United School Workers resume Thursday. Board members expressed hope that talks will go well.
"The last thing the district and the board wants to do is eliminate positions," Sweeney said. "A little bit of cooperation on everybody's part and we can get this done."
The teachers union needed clarity on the numbers and confirmation that the board would consider every option to spread out the pain, HCTA president Joe Vitalo said after the meeting.
"Now that everybody understands the whole picture, we will get it done," Vitalo said.
School administrators and district-office workers are slated to lose five of 10 paid holidays for a savings of $321,000.
The board and Blavatt also reiterated their intention to make sacrifices. Board members will give up five paid days for a total savings of $4,254. Blavatt will do the same, saving $3,392.
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Peter Freistadt, the Czechoslovakian stage director who came here to direct a play by the Ohel Theater, asked for asylum at Lydda Airport today after he was already aboard his plane to return home. He will be permitted to remain in Israel in accordance with this country's Law of Return which allows any Jew abroad the right to emigrate to Israel.
During his visit here, it was suggested that Mr. Freistadt, who has no relatives in Czechoslovakia, remain in Israel. He decided, however, to return home. He boarded his plane for the return flight to Europe, but, after the doors of the aircraft were shut and the stairs were removed, he asked to be allowed off the plane. After disembarking, he approached the first policeman he saw for permission to remain in Israel.


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Effect of the Japanese herbal medicine, Boiogito, on the osteoarthritis of the knee with joint effusion
1 Department of Joint Replacement and Tissue Engineering, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
2 Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
Sports Medicine, Arthroscopy, Rehabilitation, Therapy & Technology 2012, 4:3 doi:10.1186/1758-2555-4-3Published: 10 January 2012
Boiogito (Japanese herbal medicine, Tsumura Co. Tokyo, Japan) contains sinomenin which inhibits inflammatory reactions. Since sinomenine is a principle component of the Boiogito, there is a possibility of it being effective on osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee with joint effusion. However, there is no report concerning the effectiveness of Boiogito on knee OA. The objective of the present study is to investigate the therapeutic effect of Boiogito on OA of the knee associated with joint effusion in a comparative study among randomly assigned groups.
Study was performed using 50 patients who were diagnosed with primary osteoarthritis of the knee with joint effusion. The patients were randomly assigned to two groups: one group (25 patients) using both loxoprofen (2-{4-[(2-oxocyclopentyl) methyl]} propanoic acid) and Boiogito and the other group (25 patients) using loxoprofen, and were evaluated during a 12 week observation period. The assessment parameters including knee scores in the Knee Society Rating System including Knee score and Functional scores, amount of joint effusion by joint puncture in clinically detected cases, the 36-items short form of the Medical Outcome Study Questionnaire (SF-36) as a measurement of health related quality of life were used.
The knee scores based on the Knee Society Rating System were improved in both groups. The staircase climbing up and down ability in the Knee society rating system functional score was significantly improved in the group using Boiogito and loxoprofen compared to the loxoprofen group. In the evaluation using SF-36, significant improvements were found in the scores in both groups in physical functioning after 12 weeks. The amount of joint fluid was significantly decreased at 4, 8 and 12 weeks compared to pre-administration baseline in the group using Boiogito and loxoprofen. A side effect of Boiogito, dry mouth, was found in one case. The symptom was mild and improved immediately after discontinuation of administration.
The results indicated that Boiogito have a possibility for a treatment modality for joint effusion with osteoarthritis of the knee.


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Paris (Jul. 12)
Dr. Kahn, the prominent French Zionist, will proceed shortly to Spain and Portugal for the purpose of studying the possibilities of Jewish immigration into those countries.
In an interview with the correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, he declared that the purpose of his journey is to put the question of Jewish immigration to the governments of Spain and Portugal. Dr. Kahn further stated that it is imperative to warn Jewish immigrants from leaving for those countries before his investigation is concluded.


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Big fight touts take a beating
Ticket touts hoping to cash in on demand for the Lennox Lewis-Mike Tyson fight were facing large losses in the run-up to Saturday's bout.
Promoters declared the heavyweight championship contest a $23m sell-out almost immediately after it was announced.
But 12 hours before Lewis and Tyson stepped into the ring at the Pyramid Arena, tickets were still on sale at the venue's box office.
That left scalpers who had expected to sell seats for many times their face value scrambling to offload them at knock-down prices.
One seasoned tout described the situation as the worst ticket glut seen in American sport for 25 years.
And another declared: "This is brutal.
"I'm just hoping to get close to face value but it is going to be tough - there are a lot of people out here."
On the street, tickets priced at $900 were being offered to fans at $650 - but there were still no takers.
It has been reported that the Lewis and Tyson camps both returned millions of dollars worth of tickets they could not sell, many of them ringside seats priced at $2,400.
"This a disaster," said a dejected tout.
"And it's probably just going to get crazy as the fight gets closer."
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The Rudolf Steiner Library is the research, archival, lending, and mail-order library of the Anthroposophical Society in America. It is a unique resource for the on-going conversation about humanity's future.
The library is in Hudson, NY.
July-August hours are back to
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- Read more and see pictures on the RSL blog.
- Learn more about this remarkable collection.
- Make a gift to support the library's work.
- Do you need to return books?
- Would you like to search the catalog online?
- Read more about the library's history and tributes to long-time librarian Fred Paddock
The Rudolf Steiner Library has reopened and has resumed lending, receiving returns, and renewing.
Our new address is [map]:
Rudolf Steiner Library
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Hudson, NY 12534-1259
You may still reimburse the library for postage costs by mailing us a check or stamps, but if you have a Paypal account, you can now pay the library for postage by directing your Paypal payment to email@example.com
Books are once again available for lending, and you can search the library catalog online.
The Waldorf Educational Foundation has awarded a grant of $15,000 to the Anthroposophical Society in America that will enable the society's national research and lending library, the Rudolf Steiner Library in Hudson, New York, to offer free one-year individual memberships to Waldorf school faculty and staff, Waldorf teacher trainees, and parents of Waldorf school students at any of the Waldorf schools and teacher training centers in the continental United States, for the period September 1, 2016, through August 31, 2017.
Read more details, and register online for your free membership by filling out the application form [ https://goo.gl/o87dLr ] or calling the library at (518) 944-7007.
The Rudolf Steiner Library houses an eclectic collection of rare breadth and depth—we encourage you to explore it.
- Over 27,000 volumes.
- All available Rudolf Steiner titles in both English and German.
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Alex Sperry is a manny. That is, he works as a male nanny for a wealthy, globe-trotting family. More than an employee and not quite a family member, how he got to this point in his life has been "an eye-opening experience."
Alex Sperry's Small Town Start
Sperry hails from Pattonsburg, Mo., the town so badly damaged by the 1993 flood that it was relocated three miles away. It is a "small town where everyone knows your business," Sperry says. "I was not meant for a small town lifestyle."
He first became a manny at 16 while in high school. Sperry's mother knew he was unlikely to work on the family farm. She connected him with a local couple with newborn twins. "I lived with them on weekends," Sperry says.
He shopped for groceries, ran errands, played with the kids and bathed them. When the family moved to Clinton, Sperry drove two hours after school on Fridays to live with and work for the family. Each Monday morning, he returned to school.Perks also came with the tedious chores. He says, "They took me to Disneyworld with their children 13 years in a row."
In 2005, he changed employers to work with a second family that had three triplets with a fourth child born a year later. One boy required a medical ventilator. Sperry says, "The mother suffered from postpartum depression. The divorce came later."
As a member of the household, Sperry's life orbited around the family's needs, emotional shifts and dynamics. He wanted a fresh start that would get him beyond the Midwest and the turbulent undercurrent of his life at the time.
Then Sperry had an epiphany. He could be a nanny for celebrities. He says in retrospect, "I had the experience."
A Manny's West Coast Dream
Sperry observed how celebrity nannies for Ethan Hawke, Rob Lowe and Britney Spears were appearing in tabloids. It prompted him to contact a Los Angeles employment agency that specialized in contracting nanny work for an appointment. "I flew to Los Angeles in 2007 for a week and met with every agency in town," he says. "A male nanny experienced in working with twins and triplets was rare."
He met with a producer living in a $20 million home for his first interview. The staff included a personal chef and many assistants. "What am I getting myself into?" Sperry recalls thinking. "I aspired to have it all. No one had ever really made it out of my town." He didn't get the job. Dejected, he returned to Pattonsburg.
A year later, the agency called Sperry about a family interested in him. He flew to L.A. once again and had dinner with the family. "They said, 'We can mold him into what we want,'" he recalls. "A week later, I was hired by the owner of Hyatt Hotels, the 16th most wealthy man in the U.S. at the time."
Sperry, 23, became a live-in manny for seven children at the family's Topanga Canyon residence in the Santa Monica Mountains, west of L.A. He earned $68,000 annually, plus bonuses and spending allowance. He had made it out of Pattonsburg. Sperry was one of four live-in nannies on a staff that included two additional nannies on weekends, 24 housekeepers and security guards between the family's two homes. Getting used to his new surroundings, Sperry had a full-circle moment. "I realized that I was living seven doors down from the house of the producer I interviewed with a year prior."
He adjusted to his new life in a gated community, exploring Beverly Hills and West Hollywood on weekends off. He flew by private jet with the family on trips. He says, "We'd fly to Atlanta, Hong Kong and Tokyo. We spent a month and a half in Bangkok. I flew with the twins, another nanny and the mother. The house manager came with the other five kids later."
While in Bangkok, the family stayed in a villa "where everyone else was a billionaire," Sperry recalls. "We could get anything at the owner's expense and always had lots of pocket cash."
One day, the mother of the family asked Sperry how much he was being paid annually. He replied and she upped his pay by $5,000 on the spot. Despite the abundance of wealth and lush lifestyle, Sperry discovered a downside to his role.
"People threw money in your face. They think they own you," he says. "I had middle-class family values. I was young and never realized what I was doing to myself when I took the cash."
Months later, Sperry and other staff were fired unexpectedly by the house manager. He says, "I was shocked. I had done everything asked of me. I was confused and caught off guard."
He was given a severance package and told to get off the property in 30 minutes. "They told me the news at the tennis court. There was no goodbye to the family, kids or other staff. No explanation," he says. "They just let people go."
Sperry had been working for the family for a little over a year. "I had the sense of being the king of the castle. I mean, I lived in that house. Money does that to you. It took time to ground myself."
Finding Balance Between Babysitting Jobs
Sperry returned to Missouri and picked up work with the first family he had worked for at the beginning of his career. He says, "I lived with my parents and worked. I was in transition. It's hard to get work as a male nanny here. My experience became a liability. People were intimidated because I had worked for this wealthy family in L.A."
Today, Sperry works for a wealthy filmmaking couple––the mother is German, the father is Swedish––where he cares for their American-born kids. He spends time between Europe and Los Angeles. He says, "They are more down-to-earth than my previous employers."
He helps the kids with school, organizes clothes for traveling, grocery shops, mows grass and does laundry. Besides the housekeeper, he is the only staff but the domesticity of his life feels cozier. "They are like my second parents. They really care about me," he says of his current employers. "I'm more like a son with duties and I have my own time. Sometimes it is crazy to organize around their life, but I'm used to it. It's hard to decompress. I have to be more aware of my needs and time. You become part of the family and don't think about it being a job."
Now, Sperry strives to set boundaries. A live-in nanny has little freedom or privacy. He needed to be more social. Sperry recounts a fight with the mother in spring 2013 while in L.A. He told her that he "didn't have a normal life."
"They agreed to look at an apartment for me in Stockholm," he says. "You have to be aware of your own needs. I want to be a live-out nanny, have a life, maybe adopt a child."
Later this year, he may help the family move from Sweden to L.A., depending on their decision. Until then, he anticipates returning to Kansas City one day, where he "can work and live a normal life." He says, "I don't know when, but this is home."
Finding a qualified nanny isn't easy. Here are some web resources for finding a nanny in Kansas City:
Nannies of Kansas City – http://www.nannieskc.com/
International Nanny Association – http://www.nanny.org/
Ella's Silver Spoon Sitters – http://www.silverspoonsitters.com


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DOES anyone still want to argue that Tony Pulis is anti-football, or a poor manager or any of the other nonsense spouted about him?
For so many years castigated as some kind of Luddite halting the progress of the beautiful game and who "can only play one way," Pulis has always been given a very rough ride by many sniping critics.
In a world of Brendan Rodgers' and Andre Villas Boas', clipboard managers who are more interested in social science than social clubs, Pulis is viewed as some sort of throwback who would make 'beautiful games' proponents like Brian Clough and Danny Blanchflower turn in their graves.
And as I've argued in this column many times, it is and always was total and utter rubbish. If you want to see a long-ball merchant, go and visit Bobby Gould or John Beck. If you want a terrific manager who understands the game brilliantly, talk to our Tony.
Of course there is an element of bias here in Newport for one of its prodigal sons and certainly, I can't deny that regular contact with Pulis over the years has influenced me; he's someone I can't help but like and admire.
However, no amount of bias, nor indeed, any level of hatred towards Pulis for those at the other end of the scale, can cloud assessments of the job he is currently doing with Crystal Palace.
The facts, as they say, speak for themselves.
Crystal Palace, a club many stated were already relegation certainties when Pulis took control, are currently outside of the bottom three.
A club who looked shambolic at the back and incapable of scoring are now routinely winning, especially the crunch clashes against rivals at the bottom, like Stoke on Saturday.
Pulis was rightly heralded by every fan at Selhurst Park on Saturday and it is so thoroughly deserved, having transformed the Eagles in just a few short weeks.
If Palace stay up then Pulis' legacy is absolute and unquestionably secured. Because Newport's favourite son is nothing more or less than a quite brilliant football manager.


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Arrow Electronics Inc. and National Semiconductor Corp. said they have successfully implemented the full series of RosettaNet 5C partner interface processes (PIPs) that automate the electronic exchange of information for design support.
The move eliminates the need for manual data entry, updating in real time both companies' IT systems with the same information. Benefits include reduced data entry errors and faster design cycles, the companies said.
The announcement is the second of its kind in the past month. Avnet Inc., Phoenix, and National, Santa Clara, Calif., also have implemented the PIPs series.
Arrow, Melville, N.Y., has been developing and implementing RosettaNet standards to automate and streamline its supply chain since 1999.
The distributor has numerous trading partners with which it exchanges information through a number of RosettaNet processes that cover the entire "concept to cash" cycle from product information and design through order management and payment.
RosettaNet, Santa Ana, Calif., is a consortium of information technology, electronic component, semiconductor manufacturing, and telecommunications companies working to create and implement industrywide, open e-business process standards.