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Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Where and When
Time: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location: Early Learning Center (behind Founders Hall)
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Are you in need of Child Care for your 3-5 year old child while you attend classes or work here at Bucks?
Come to the Child Care Open House, Monday 4/22/13 thru Wednesday 4/24/13, 10AM-12PM
Come see what the ELC is all about!
The ELC is a small intimate early childhood community where parents are assured that their children are safe, loved, respected as individuals, and nurtured in a fun filled play based educational environment. We provide care to the children of employees and current and former Bucks students. The Open House is an adult only event. You will have an opportunity to tour our facility, see our program in action, and have your questions answered.
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Hi all, I hope someone can help me with this.
I currently have a map (of Ireland) with multiple markers (about 30). Ireland is split into 4 provinces, so what I need is 4 links for each province, that when clicked will move and zoom to the province the marker is in.
Can anyone help with this?
I had posted on another site and one of the replies was this: http://assets.marcgrabanski.com/resources/jquery-google-maps/tutorial-part1.html - but it's not exactly what I'm looking for. I've been searching in developers.google.com and can't find what I need.
What you could do is attach a click event handler to each of the links that calls setCenter() and setZoom() on your map, to let you recentre on the relevant province.
Edit: Can you share the code you've got so far?

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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- You have just got to be on the conference call for some companies. If you don't catch it live, stream the Webcast or, at the very least, read the transcript, you're only seeing what the financial media puts in front of you. A formulaic series of numbers that, while meaningful, do not tell the entire story, particularly with respect to a company as dynamic as Starbucks ( SBUX).People scoff at me when I refer to Starbucks as a tech company, but, with more than a cursory glance, it's obvious that mobile, social, digital and a sense of what's hip drives the company's most recent -- and ongoing -- hyper-growth phase. In this article, I take a slightly different approach from my others. Because most of the media doesn't pull the real nuggets from conference calls, I excerpt the quantitative and qualitative stuff I consider most important. I use this information to make the case for Starbucks as a tech company. I close by explaining how local retail, particularly coffeehouses, must stop playing victim to the corporate behemoth. The free-form style meshes nicely with the gritty, rough-around-the-edges, yet freakishly refined vibe we're nurturing with our still-evolving videos from TheBeach in Southern California. So, from Starbucks FY13 Q1 earnings conference call, some seemingly random, though chronological and complementary blurbs:
This season, and for the first time, a Starbucks card was perhaps the nation's single most frequently given holiday gift, with one in 10 U.S. adults receiving a Starbucks card and $2 million worth of our exclusive first-ever steel Starbucks card selling out on Internet luxury goods retailer Gilt.com in only, believe it or not, six minutes.
And we will expand Teavana's current 300-store footprint from largely mall-based stores to urban street locations, where Starbucks obviously has very strong capabilities ...Starbucks recently closed on Teavana acquisition. You heard the man; Howard Schultz will overhaul Tevana's absolutely awful geographic strategy. I wrote about it in July, 2011, on the eve of Teavana's IPO for Seeking Alpha in "Teavana Needs to Penetrate Urban Areas to Become a Buy." At first blush, you might not associate mobile and digital efforts with a focus on "urban street locations," but it's there. Urban consumers tend toward mobile and digital adoption/savvy. Plus, they have disposable income. Like LULU, Starbucks locates where these people are; it infiltrates the best neighborhoods in big cities and, although the company doesn't break down sales, I would love to see an urban/suburban side-by-side of its sales.


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By Andrew Macey
Black Friday sales for 2010 were up only 0.3% over last year, yet online sales are up 16% against last year. Sixty percent to 70% of offline, store and catalog sales are now impacted in some way by digital commerce, either through comparative ratings and reviews, research, or targeted promotions and personalized campaigns. Almost all retailers are making significant investments, ranging in scale from about 1% to 3% of revenue, in cross-channel capabilities including online, mobile, and social media to build brand and drive new revenue streams.
Despite all this momentum and spend, however, few companies have managed to successfully bring together the thinking, skills, and experience required to create a unified, successful cross-channel organization. What's required for a company to build a successful cross-channel organization? How does one ensure maximum return on all those investment dollars?
The first and most important step is to think of cross-channel as a combination of touch-points that together must create a seamless customer experience, and an organization has to accommodate that change in thinking. It doesn't matter whether your customer is buying online to pick up in the store, returning online purchases to the store, doing comparative price checks on a phone while in the store, or using mobile coupons in the store – marketing and merchandising have to be able to work together to create that seamless customer experience. A helpful tool to use is a day-in-the-life map of what your customer actually does and wants to be able to do as s/he moves from online to store to catalog and back again. Design a set of experiences around those day-in-the-life scenarios.
Recognize that any organization has to evolve over time. It's not reasonable to believe that all best practices and new ideas can be adopted from day one. A framework that can be helpful to gauge relative strength is the use of a maturity model with varying levels of maturity as they develop more cross-channel capabilities. Aspects of the organization should be evaluated, designed, and built with respect to different criteria i.e. incentives and rewards, people and culture, business processes, technology, and internal structure as companies develop a more sophisticated set of capabilities.
Figure out where the current organization lies within the maturity model by assessing its capabilities in each functional area, including marketing, merchandising, web commerce, fulfillment, customer service, international expansion, and IT. Consider the ability to design and execute things like targeted campaigns, seamless cross-channel support, dynamic and consistent pricing, or cross-channel analytics. Evaluate against several criteria including depth of skills relative to the future vision, readiness and ability to change, and expected impact and size of impending change.
There is no one best model for cross-channel organizations, despite the intuitive appeal such an idea offers, but there are a small and finite number of viable options that can be adapted, and the core element of best thinking revolves around developing a cross-channel or digital Center of Excellence (COE) that serves as the building block for future capabilities for domestic and international needs.
The first model is a COE or digital operations hub with strategy, website, mobile, and capital spending responsibility, but no direct P&L. IT, such as it relates to digital, online, and call center operations, is part of this organization, and the organization serves its business line P&L counterparts through named liaisons that help prioritize capital spending and investment across the company as a whole. In this model, there is a great ability to try new ideas, experiment, and learn without disruption to the traditional, P&L-based business lines.
The second model is a digital operation COE that has its own P&L for direct sales. Website, call center, and fulfillment for any digitally-enabled orders run through this organization. This simplifies investments, since there is no longer competition between channels, but the change is large and it's a big strategic shift to execute in this model.
Finally, the most sophisticated version of the cross-channel organization is where digital is embedded within each business line, and it is no longer a separate organization. This is the most evolved and advanced organization, and the hardest to achieve without a lot of duplicated cost in various brands or business lines.
It may sound obvious, but it's worth reiterating that there is no one-size-fits-all best practice. The challenge is to decide what functional aspects of a digital or cross-channel organization should constitute the COE for a given company. A good way to think through how to build the COE is often to distinguish between things like transactional commerce capabilities versus creation, development, editing, and publishing of content. Content generally should be locally produced (or outsourced), but in accordance with standardized workflows, methods, and tools that govern how content will be published, maintained, and reused across channels. It also assumes a content management system to enable reuse.
The benefits of centralizing a lot of business functions include generally lower total cost, more control, and clear standards. Potential negatives are that a COE runs the risk of being further removed from the customers than are the P&L business lines, and the fact that response to the market could be slower than if driven within P&L-based business lines. On the other side of the coin, decentralizing digital functions can create a quick response to market needs, but with a loss of central control, consistency, and standards and a likely increase in duplication and higher total cost to the company. For all these reasons, a balanced approach to a COE that evolves over time is usually most appropriate for customers, employees, and company needs.
In conclusion, there is no better time for any company to be moving toward a new set of digital and cross-channel capabilities. Momentum is strong, future growth in digital is all but certain to continue, and consumers will continue to expect more seamless interactions that build brand experiences, boost loyalty and retention, and bring in new customers – but planning, creating and evolving the digital organization to make use of any investments in social, mobile, or cross-channel commerce is the hard part, and without the right organization, it's impossible to win.
Andrew Macey is VP strategy at SapientNitro (www.SapientNitro.com), where he is primarily focused on helping companies think through the challenges and benefits of future business models, organizational capabilities, and new ways to create meaningful and rewarding experiences across channels for business and consumer customers.


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Intellectual property crimes are on the rise because they are highly lucrative and historically there has been little criminal enforcement activity. Recently, however, federal agencies have begun to increase their efforts to investigate and prosecute IP violators. From the IP holder's perspective, stepped-up enforcement raises the question: Is it better to pursue civil remedies or actively work with law enforcement to protect products and brands?
Shifting perceptions of counterfeiting
Once regarded as a victimless crime that involved selling cheap knockoff sunglasses and watches, counterfeiting is increasingly viewed as a serious threat to the public health. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) estimates that counterfeit drugs account for approximately 10 to 15 percent of all pharmaceuticals sold in the world. A staggering 50 to 60 percent of drugs in developing countries are counterfeit. Other dangerous counterfeit consumer products that are commonly seized in U.S. ports include infant formula, toothpaste, automobile parts, batteries and electronic products. Counterfeit goods have even infiltrated military supply chains.
Counterfeiting also presents a serious threat to the economic well-being of American innovators. Based on 2005 estimates, counterfeiting costs the U.S. economy approximately $200 to $250 billion per year, and according to the FBI, Interpol and the World Customs Organization (WCO), approximately 5 to 7 percent of world trade ($512 billion) is in counterfeit goods. IP holders suffer lost sales, downward pressure on prices, damage to brand equity and consumer confidence and costs associated with anti-counterfeiting and anti-piracy efforts.
The President, Congress and federal law enforcement agencies are responding to these threats. In October 2008, Congress enacted legislation creating a new U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC). The IPEC harmonizes the efforts of the U.S. government agencies that have a stake in IP enforcement and coordinates international enforcement efforts. Additionally, Attorney General Eric Holder reestablished the Department of Justice's Task Force on Intellectual Property, which coordinates international law enforcement investigations, and deployed two federal prosecutors to manage IP protection efforts in Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe.
Statistics from recent years show that these efforts are beginning to show real results: An increasing number of intellectual property investigations, arrests and seizures, and joint U.S./WCO and INTERPOL investigative operations. Overwhelming evidence points to future increases in these enforcement efforts.
Cause to reevaluate the current strategy
While civil remedies are important to enforcing IP rights, it is time for IP holders to consider referring cases to the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center or to the appropriate U.S. Attorney's Office. Such referrals increase the availability of combative tools, including:
- Investigative techniques that are not available to private litigants, such as undercover operations, wiretaps and other electronic surveillance
- Criminal and civil forfeiture of ill-gotten assets
- International investigations conducted by law enforcement, thus avoiding the legal roadblocks and ethical pitfalls facing private litigants when gathering evidence abroad
- Greater deterrent effect than private enforcement, especially given the increasing criminal penalties associated with IP crimes
- Leverage in the form of government resources to protect IP rights
Federal agencies and prosecutors are actively looking to partner with IP holders to identify potential targets for prosecution. They will rely on IP holders to explain, for example, the product and the relevant market, the distribution channels, differences between the counterfeit product and the genuine article, methods of detecting a counterfeit product and counterfeiting's effects on the innovator and the public. Absent cooperation, law enforcement will be hard-pressed to independently develop the necessary evidence or an appreciation of the harm the counterfeit product presents.
It would behoove the savvy IP holder to examine its current strategy for protecting its intellectual property rights and consider the pragmatics of a partnership with law enforcement.


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Some of us don't consider front row as superior. In fact I hate sitting in the front row of the floor level.
You also have to take into consideration that the team is still young, and it is rare that a young team wins the championship. It is usually veteran teams who have played together for a full season or two before they win a championship.
It is a little chicken-egg, I don't disagree. I just hate they "you must have" when every season there are more teams failing using that model than winning.
I mean guys like Melo or Nash qualify as superstars and they don't make the Finals even. And then guys like Ellis or Joe Johnson or Blake Griffin - if their TEAM wins it all and they are playing, they are going to obtain superstar status unless they just were miserable in the post-season.
There's a similar stat of "must have a top 5 pick". Well no s*** all the title teams have top picks. That's because you have 8-10 active draft classes which makes 40-50 top 5 picks, and with a salary cap it's kinda hard for teams to assemble more than 2. Miami is barely getting by and has a bench so bad they could lose games for them. They are paying those 3 players nearly their entire cap space and they didn't even draft 2 of them.
Plus top 5 picks have less uncertainty for failure. They might not be stars but they have enough talent to stay in the league and land on teams, whereas pick #20 is hit and miss. So then you find that many teams have a top 5 pick which qualifies them for this rule (ahem, Mike Dunleavy) so the odds are that a random choice of teams will have a top 5 guy on it.
Just like no one threw out the stupid "no FA will sign in Indy" theory even though David West took a dump all over it in the first off-season the Pacers ever had cap space to go after someone, at least since maybe 1986.
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You and Bill were season ticket holders when JOB was the coach I don't think you can judge other people for expecting more out of the team, as I see it doesn't matter if the worse coach in Pacers history is coaching because you two are still going to go to the games.
My point is that anytime you are telling me anything about the team and "how happy we should be just to make it to the playoffs and don't set your goals too high or you are going to be miserable" I take it with a truck load of salt because I know that either way you are going to be there.
No disrespect but fans like you are the ones that keep mediocre teams stay mediocre, when a front office knows that you are going to show up not matter what they don't try hard to put a product that could actually compete for a championship, again no disrespect
First time I hear that superstars are build on the playoffs, I guess Lebron was not a superstar before winning the finals, Wade was not a superstar before winning a championship, yep Howard, CP3 and Melo are not superstars either.
I would also like to know how many superstar less teams have won the Championship? one out of how many? and the team that did it had multiple all stars hitting their prime at the same time.
Anyone with half a brain could figure out that a team that is making more money with more supportive fans is going to be more willing and more able (!This is the key thing) to spend on big time players or on risky trades.
The Colts got rid of Manning this offseason not because they thought the fans are just blind dummies who would hang around whether or not the Colts were good or bad, they did it because they could take a chance on Luck because the fans are loyal.
You want Simon/Walsh/et. al. to feel comfortable taking risks? Then you better be willing to put your butt in a seat whether the team is 50-32 or 32-50.
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Main reason Karl Malone never won was because Jordan beat him during his best oppurtunities. It's not all that scientific.
Heck, if Jordan hadn't taken a hiatus for a couple years playing baseball, it's very possible people would be talking and analyzing why Hakeem was another superstar never good enough to win a ring.
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I other words their point of view is way different than those of us that are not season ticket holders and those of us that don't like to watch a s*** product on the floor.
You don't have any right to tell them how they should feel either and to accuse them of being the reason the team remains mediocre? Basically just calling them blind sheep? Complete and utter BS.
I bet the Colts are selling tickets because they have Andrew Luck and not Curtis Painter, and I'm sorry I'm not expending money on a team whose goal is just to be mediocre every year.
I own office buildings it is my job, I'm able to reinvest in my properties because people pay me rent. I couldn't do that if they didn't pay me rent. Now you would say oh they wouldn't pay you rent if you didn't do that. Do you see what I'm saying? There are similarities here.
My point on both examples, it is a two way street man, you want us to go swing for the fences? To make a trade for a guy like James Harden and then invest $80 million in him? Then you should be willing to spend on the team.
To say that the team stays mediocre because guys like Seth and Bill are just willing to keep dumping money into the team is just totally backwards and it flies in the face of what this team did in the 90s. So unless you think the Simons have just totally changed their tune maybe you should really think about what you are saying.
You say anything short of a championship is pretty much a failure, how you expect any team to ever live up to that? It's not possible.
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No, it was not only Wade and James. I clearly remember Chalmers going off in a game when Wade couldn't get it done. I also remember Battier and Miller hitting some big 3s and Haslem hitting some key jumpers.
It was mainly Wade and James but without the help from the rest of their team they wouldn't be able to do it.
Also, I don't think we lacked the talent to get it done. What we lacked was clearly the execution to do so.
We were all fooled to think that they were really going to do something and we bought the bs they were selling.
True, but it has been very close a couple of times. If the team was say 2-8 right now, then I fear this Bills game would be a blackout. Just a guess though.
It's fine to say the Pacers had a bad plan, but to act like they didn't spend? 58 million Roy Hibbert? 20 million on David West? 40 million on George Hill? The Pacers spent a lot of money and they did it on guys they thought could win, you disagree with that, but you are acting like they mislead you or something. They did no such thing.
Basically, Vnzla, you can say whatever you want, but you pretty much said fans that consistently spend on the Pacers are a reason the franchise will stay "mediocre". There is no way for us to find middle ground on this because fundamentally your point makes no sense, and frankly it is offensive to those who have had season tickets through the bad and good years (me being one of those people).
I support the Pacers because I want to see them succeed, not because I'm just a big idiot who lights piles of money on fire.
So as far as I'm concerned, this conversation is over, but speaking as someone who had season tix when we were watching JOB run his BS all day, and then you saying people like me are the reason this team will stay mediocre, well, you can pretty much just bite me.
And yes, I did take this personally, because it is my money and I choose to spend on the Pacers out of loyalty, and your suggestion is basically that folks like me (apparently Bill and Seth specifically) well we are just big idiots who don't get to have an opinion because we will spend our money on pretty much anything according to you. And evil Simon will just laugh all the way to the bank as he watches us suckers filter into arena as part of his master plan to stay "mediocre"
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Seriously, root for a different team.


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Al Roker – celebrity meteorologist, television star and dairy farmer?
Weather may have brought Roker to the Hatcher Family Dairy in College Grove, Tenn., but it was dairy farming that stole the show.
The dairy was the first stop for Roker's new "Wake up with Al" television series, and the Hatcher family put the host to work. From the milking parlor to calf feeding, Roker may soon take a new gig as a dairy farmer.
"I never thought I would be driving a tractor. Life is pretty good here at the farm."
Watch the video (shown above) for a glimpse of Roker's trip to the farm.
The sixth-generation dairy is also home to two veterinarians, Charlie and Jennifer Hatcher. The father-and-daughter duo work at Rock N Country Veterinarian Services and have been featured several times in Bovine Veterinarian magazine, including "'Best practices' good for all" and "So you want to be a mentor?"
Food on the farm also was featured in a clip focusing on southern cooking which included a filling breakfast with the Hatcher family. Click here to watch the clip.


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CUTTING edge crime fighting devices were on show courtesy of some modern day Inspector Gadgets who have made it their mission to help homeowners defend themselves and their property against criminals.
Graham Houghton of West Side Neighbourhood Watch organised a team of experts from the world of home security to demonstrate the newest home defence gadgets at St John's Youth and Community Centre in Swanpool Walk, Worcester, on Friday. He said: "We have got to be more security conscious in this day and age. It isn't going to cost you a fortune. Prevention is the best thing."
One of the devices on show was a forensic door alarm ("Chain Reaction") courtesy of inventor Rob Simpson, a key chain which sprays home invaders with UV marking fluid and emits a piercing alarm. The fluid has a unique coded signature so it can be tracked to a specific house/crime with the information stored on a national database. Mr Simpson came up with the idea of the forensic burglary deterrent while watching an episode of The Bill and he wants homeowners and businesses to use the device. He said: "This is the cutting edge of crime prevention, assisting the police in their inquiries. They go through the door and "boom!" Hundreds are now being installed, from Land's End to John O'Groats. As homeowners it is up to us to make sure we don't become victims of crime. It is about being proactive." He said the drop-in session was a chance to promote the use of the device to West Mercia Police. Mr Simpson was also demonstrating the offender marker, a hand-held device used by door supervisor to UV spray troublemakers.
Another demonstrator was former police officer turned independent security adviser Michael Keyte of Detect Deter Defend Limited who was promoting the "soft alarm" developed by Per Dahl in Sweden. The downloadable app for mobile phones is a "personal safe device" which can be set of manually if someone becomes the victim of a crime. Mr Keyte believes it could be used by the public or by the victims of domestic violence or in witness protection, with talks now underway with various police forces.
The app shows were someone is on a map, using the GPS, and even has a "man down" function so the alarm activates if the phone has not moved for a certain period of time. He also showed 'property marking skins' which cover UV signatures on possessions like laptops or bikes, so criminals cannot remove the signature. The idea is that it will help police to identify more easily stolen goods and return them to their owners. PC Julie Merry of the Safer Neighbourhood Team for the West Side was also present, as was Christopher Burton, senior health trainer for Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, on hand to check people's blood pressure and BMI and give them other healthy lifestyle advice and Chris Stockman, director of Fire Fighting First Aiders. Representatives of Healthwatch Worcestershire and the Citizen's Advice Bureau were on hand to give advice.


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Looking to expand your business in 2013? Then head on down to San Antonio, Texas, May 19-21 where some of most successful owners and managers of multi-unit salon and spa businesses will gather to celebrate 40 years of the International SalonSpa Business Network. "At our conference you can meet senior management from companies that operate thousands of salons, as well as owners of companies with two or three highly successful salons or spas," says Jason Volk, ISBN president and the CEO of Chatters Canada. "We share and learn from each other in a non-competitive environment. While each of us has our own business model and culture, we share the same goals."
The carefully designed conference integrates insightful speakers and interactive panel discussions with breakout sessions and an opportunity to meet one-on-one with some of the industry's most forward-thinking vendors. Most of the association's members believe ISBN's thought-provoking curriculum serves to foster the true magic which happens when the members network and share ideas among themselves at the conference's hosted breakfasts, lunches, dinners and cocktail parties.
From the Stage: On Monday morning, Scott Klososky, the former CEO of three successful tech startup companies and the principal at Future Point of View technology consulting firm, will illustrate the trends in emerging technologies and those can be used to help organizations thrive, leaders prosper and entire industries move forward. With "Trends, Technology and Taking the Lead," Klososky offers attendees practical tools and concepts they can implement as soon as they return home.
T. Scott Gross, a veteran of the hospitality industry and the author of Positively Outrageous Service, takes the stage on Tuesday to show owners how to sell, serve and stand out in the digital age through outrageous customer service. He promises to show attendees how to multiply their marketing efforts by creating experiences that build their brand and benefit the bottom line.
In a very timely presentation, Steve Overholser, CPA, the chief financial officer of Great Clips, will walk attendees through the implications of the Affordable Care Act on salon businesses as new taxes come into play in 2013 and new mandates and employer penalties take effect in 2014. This discussion will to quantify the potential costs of different courses of action and present several alternatives for businesses to consider.
Sharing Sessions: Moderated by ISBN board member Pat Neville, the State of the Industry panel and discussion will focus on identifying money-making trends in products and services in the salon and spa industries. Industry heavyweights representing the multi-unit salon and spa and manufacturing sectors will weigh in on the emerging products and services salons and spas must add to their mix.
New to ISBN, the Salon Secrets forum gives ISBN members the opportunity to take the stage and detail one aspect of their business that sets them apart from their competition in five-minute presentations. After the final presentation, Sport Clips CEO Gordon Logan offers a more in-depth case study of how he took his innovative concept from one test location to 900 Sport Clips today, including a look at his biggest challenges and most gratifying successes.
Lifetime Achievement Award: This year ISBN will honor <B>Carlton Whitaker<B>, vice president of Mitchell's Spas and Mitchell's Hairstyling Academy in Raleigh, North Carolina, with its 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award. Along with his wife and his partners, Whitaker, helped build Mitchell's into a company of 18 value-priced and high-end salons which they sold to open two day spas and eventually grow four cosmetology schools. Whitaker served 12 years on ISBN's Board of Trustees, including in the role of vice president, and as a member for almost 30 years. He's known for facilitating the conference's marketing roundtable for more than 10 years, for which members took home great ideas for strengthening their salon businesses.


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New 'HART' for an Old Standard
Has HART 7 Given This Old Standby a New Lease on Life?
By John Rezabek, Contributing Editor
The HART Communications protocol has been around for more then 20 years, and is perhaps the only one from its generation whose installed base continues to grow. With more than 20 million intelligent devices installed, you might wonder whether a new and expanded specification amounts to "fixing what ain't broke." Ed Ladd, of the HART Communication Foundation (HCF), says, "Our most recent report shows more than 70% of all process instruments shipped are HART-enabled."
By short-circuiting the bogged-down ISA SP-100 path to a wireless standard, HART 7 allows suppliers and end users to begin manufacturing, selling and implementing wireless networks in a way that wasn't previously possible. Along the way, the architects of the new standard seized the opportunity to plug some holes that increasingly were seen as fatal flaws relative to more modern standards like Foundation fieldbus (FF). With some major EPC firms in both hemispheres saying that up to 70% or more of projects adopting FF for large expansions, additions and greenfield sites, and with the successful demonstration of FF for SIL-rated process safety interlock applications, concern that HART was in danger of losing its dominant market position is not unreasonable. Will HART 7's new enhancements bring it up to par in the eyes of the decision makers who wish to exploit state-of-the-art digital integration of field devices?
Like other fieldbus protocols, HART was poorly supported, if at all, in the large legacy DCS and PLC systems of the 1980s and 90s. But many plants are still running on this legacy installed base, and many of those may remain that way for years to come.
Safety-instrumented systems (SI") can account for two-thirds of the I/O in some processes or production sites, and even today, few SIL-rated logic solvers support either native HART or any other fieldbus I/O. Users who try to exploit wireless or HART 7 diagnostics for safety applications may find themselves straying a bit far from the herd. A plant near me, for example, is implementing WirelessHART to provide secondary level indications on storage tanks. Its tanks contain substances much less benign than milk, and whether a wireless installation provides any ndependent protection layer" is worthy of some debate. Will HART 7 features rescue users who might be poised to "jump too soon?"
Since today's wireless transmitters typically "go to sleep" for anywhere from 60 sec to 1 hour or more (primarily to optimize battery life—they are capable of sub-second measurement and transmission), they "wake up" to make a measurement and transmit it in a fundamentally asynchronous fashion. Consequently, the old HART model of master-slave polling had to be adjusted to one that accommodated considerably more field device autonomy. This same property will be part of new "wired" HART 7 devices, so they now can independently send time-critical, time-stamped alerts to a host that has the smarts to "hear" them. One will not have to wait on host or asset management system based "polling" to detect a condition that needs more urgent attention—the transmitter sends the message along with a time stamp immediately when the condition is detected.
Present-day HART 5 and later devices have a status bit that's set when the device has an issue, and if the host is set up to read it, it can subsequently poll for more detailed information about the problem. How well this all happens, how fast it happens, or whether it happens at all, is worth some investigation on the part of end users who are aiming to exploit these features. If you've implemented any OPC, you have doubtless noticed that compliance to the standard is very much a matter of interpretation and has been the source of many headaches for end users. HART has always provided test tools for manufacturers to validate their devices conformance to the standard, but the degree to which a feature is implemented or exploited can vary widely, especially on the host end.
Eric Schnipke, process control specialist at the INEOS Acrylonitrile facility in Lima, Ohio, remarks, "We recently installed a new HART-capable control system with the hope of bringing in engineering units and secondary variables of all HART devices, but quickly realized that the older HART revisions were not supported by the system."
It's estimated that fewer than 20% of end users with existing HART-smart devices are using HART for more than initial configuration and re-ranging. If the end-user community consists of few pioneers blazing the trail, we are at the mercy of the supplier community to "do the right thing, and advanced users are on the wrong end of the Pareto charts.
"We have to do what the market demands" says an engineer at a major DCS supplier. "HART, Foundation fieldbus, Profibus—we support them all, and the specs keep changing. With finite resources, we continuously prioritize our investments in those areas where we anticipate the greatest value will be delivered to the clients."
Schnipke hit a few speed bumps during hot cutover: "Once you have the system, there's no guarantee you'll be able to make use of all of your HART devices or that all devices of from the same vendor will behave consistently. Two different versions of valve positioners from the same vendor did not have the same engineering units. This was the source of much confusion when configuring the XD_Scale (transducer scale) of the associated analog output blocks."
Users attempting to use some of the advanced features have been experiencing more frustration. For example, one end user is aiming to use the HART range-change bit to flag when a technician makes a range change using a field communicator that doesn't match the host. "You'll find that the function isn't clearly specified. Each vendor has implemented the function differently—or ignored it. There is no definition of what a host should do with the bit or how a device should implement the functionality, and there is no ITK (never has been) to test functions such as this."
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Arenado sent to Triple-A despite strong spring
Arenado, who turns 22 on April 16, hit four home runs early in Spring Training before leveling out. He went into Thursday's Cactus League finale with the Brewers hitting .288. Incumbent Chris Nelson, who entered Thursday hitting .265 with homers in two of his final three games, will remain the starter.
"It definitely hurts, no question about it," Arenado said. "That wasn't their plan for me to make this team. I've just got to deal with it, so I'll go down to Triple-A and things go well. And I'll stay healthy. If both of those happen, I'll be back."
Arenado hasn't played above Double-A and had a 2012 season full of challenges, but he reported to camp more mature mentally, physically leaner and better defensively. Although he didn't keep up his early spring pace, he was more consistent over the length of camp than he was last year -- his first invitation to big league Spring Training -- and he pushed the decision to the final week.
The way the Rockies' lineup is constructed, if he had made it, he likely would have had to hit eighth, which is a tough spot for a young hitter. Pitchers don't typically give that spot much to hit, because they know they're facing a pitcher next. Arenado displayed patience throughout camp, but at Triple-A he will be able to revert to a power hitter's approach. The Rockies see him as a run producer in the future.
"I made my case for being in there," Arenado said. "I came ready, and I showed them what I've got.
"They said, 'Keep doing what you're doing. Keep working hard and find your way back here.'"
It was a good spring for Arenado, who emerged from early inconsistency to hit .285 with 12 homers and 56 RBIs for Tulsa last year, but it was not quite enough to force the Rockies into a decision with Nelson, who is out of Minor League options.
If the Rockies had kept Arenado and opted to send Nelson to the Minors, he would have been exposed to other teams through waivers. Trading Nelson was an option, but for the Rockies to receive the pitching they want, he would have to be part of a larger deal.
There are future payroll considerations as well. If Arenado is the type of talent who will enter the Majors and stick, the Rockies can delay his arbitration eligibility by holding him out of the Majors for a couple of months. Players with three years of service time can file for arbitration, and guys who have between two and three years can file as Super Two players if they rank in the top 22 percent of service time among this group. Keeping Arenado in the Minors long enough could give the Rockies another year on his arbitration clock.
Thomas Harding is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Hardball in the Rockies, and follow him on Twitter @harding_at_mlb. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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THE final touches are being made to the new Waitrose store in Swindon following a three-month build.
The new Mill Lane branch in Wichelstowe will be officially unveiled by Robert Buckland MP at 8am on Thursday, April 10. He will join branch manager Ian Smith and his new team in welcoming the store's first customers.
It is the realisation of a long-standing ambition by Waitrose to have a store in Swindon and marks a significant milestone for the development being carried out in the area.
It will be run by a team of almost 200 partners, with 95 per cent of them living locally, and the branch will also be taking on two apprentices in customer services and operations. The Waitrose Delivery Service will operate in Swindon, providing shoppers with the option to have their purchases delivered to their homes at a convenient time.
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my problem is as follows:
I got very much datas like this in the dataportal:
[1] friction
+[1] way
+[1] force
[2] friction
+[2] way
+[2] force
and i want to bring them in this form:
x- axis | y-axis
[1] way [1] force
[2] way [2] force
But when i select them all and put them in the report or view i only get this:
x- axis | y-axis
[1] way [1] force
[1] way [2] force
How can i change this?
as i said i got really much datas... so changing every single one is not an option
Thank you for helping!
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Hi Rauppson -
You say "...when I select them all and put them in REPORT or VIEW..."
Are you selecting all of the channels at one time? If so, REPORT and VIEW both interpret your selection by using the first channel selected as the X-Channel and graphing the rest of the channels as Y-Channels. This is why each of your channels is being graphed versus the original X-Channel.
One option for you is to drag each Channel Group into REPORT or VIEW. This will graph each of the channels in a group using the first channel in the group as the X-Channel.
However, if you have many many channels, you may want to try using Curve Expansion. To enable Curve Expansion in REPORT, choose Settings » Layout Setup » Layout Parameters. Select the Curve Expansion button and check the box for Expand Curves.
This procedure will allow you to add one single X-Channel and Y-Channel pair to a graph in REPORT, but DIAdem will then graph all instances of that identical X-Channel and Y-Channel name that it finds in the Data Portal, even if the Channels exist in different Channel Groups.. You can read more about the procedure here:
Let us know if this helps you!
Hi DRock,
thank you for your quick answer.
"Are you selecting all of the channels at one time? If so, REPORT and VIEW both interpret your selection by using the first channel selected as the X-Channel and graphing the rest of the channels as Y-Channels. This is why each of your channels is being graphed versus the original X-Channel."
Yes i am selecting all of the channels at one time and this is exactly my problem that REPORT and VIEW are only using the first channels selected as the X-Channel.
I can't drag each channel into REPORT or view because i got about 150 channels for 1 measurement and at that time 12 measurements and it's getting more.
I tried this option with the curve expansion. The result is close to the result i wanted to have but here i got the problem that all curves have the same color and it's very difficult to look at one single measurement. (I need this because i want to sort "bad" measurements out and have a closer look at them)
Do you have any other suggestion for this problem?
Hi Rauppson -
When you enabled Curve Expansion, did you take a look at the bottom part of the dialog box? If you enable the "Properties List" checkbox it will allow you to specify colors used for the individual curves instead of using the same color.
The result would look something like this:
Let us know if this does not work for you?
Ah sorry, I did not recognize this
This is exactly the result i wanted to have.
Thank you very much!


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text: Alright - instead of bumping last year's version.... what's the scoop? We have the first preseason game coming up this Saturday night (home v. Denver). I know I didn't get a chance (or remember) to look for alternate locations. Did anyone else find central spots? As for this Saturday - anyone in for watching this one at a location of choice? Perhaps Ker's for now till we find other solutions?


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It can be easy to see one side of a coin and think nothing but fluffy, positive thoughts. Depending on the shading, spin and angle from which you view it, that one side can put those who believe in it into a euphoric state.
Unfortunately, in downtown Los Angeles, the second side of the coin is now front and center and forcing the Guggenheim Baseball Management group into a corner out of which it will be tricky to maneuver.
That freshly minted ownership group stood on a stage in center field at Dodger Stadium under a cloudy, gray sky in May and vowed to be different from the organization's previous regime that pinched pennies and rarely made a helpful deadline trade. The new group also promised to do whatever it takes to return the team to prominence.
With the Dodgers in contention, their still-guarded fan base sees this as a perfect opportunity for the Guggenheim group to prove itself. And with team chairman Mark Walter declaring last week that the baseball operations department—president Stan Kasten and general manager Ned Colletti—would not have any budget restrictions as the July 31 non-waiver trade deadline slithers closer, expectations are high.
Then there was that bold, exciting statement a little more than a month ago from Kasten, the main man in charge of remaking the Dodgers.
"I promise you, we'll explore everything," Kasten said. "Look, as candid as I can be, we're the Dodgers. We're supposed to be big. We intend to be big. Will we look at big things? You bet."
He also noted that while the team doesn't have the bushel of prospects it takes to usually land a big-name target, the Dodgers would be willing to supplement a trade with cash. While that isn't necessarily an assurance that the Dodgers will make a blockbuster trade before the deadline, Kasten's words created incredible buzz.
Now, from a public relations standpoint, the worst thing the Dodgers can do is nothing. Standing pat as the deadline zooms by is not an option in the minds of the loyalists who have come back to Chavez Ravine this summer after deserting it in 2011. If ownership does that, it will have taken an extra step back from whatever forward movement it's made since being crowned.
Again, the problem for Kasten and Colletti is that the Dodgers can't put together a prospect package to land that big-time starting pitcher they desire and need. Top-tier minor league talent is lacking for the most part, and that is because spending on the draft and international players was choked during previous owner Frank McCourt's time at the wheel.
Many teams are asking, but it would not be wise to move top pitching prospect Zach Lee, 20, for a two-month rental like Ryan Dempster. It also wouldn't be smart to use him in a lateral move for someone like Matt Garza, whose career numbers are essentially the same as Chad Billingsley's, who also hasn't lived up to his hype and is due a significant raise in arbitration next year.
"Their focus has to be to replenish their system because there isn't a lot there that sparks excitement except for maybe Lee," a National League scout said. "Giving up prospects right now wouldn't be smart, especially for nothing more than a guy who might make 10 starts."
Of course not, and Kasten knows that. For that reason he has been less brash with his recent comments regarding the trade deadline as the Dodgers sit in second place in the NL West and in the lead for the second wild card spot.
He tamped down Walter's comments about money not being a restriction by saying last week that any trade would "have to be governed by reason" and "make sense long term" while also noting that building the Dodgers into an annual NL power "probably can't be done overnight."
Besides Dempster and Garza, the Dodgers have made calls about Cole Hamels and Zack Greinke on the pitching front. As for hitters, they've been linked to Chase Headley, Shane Victorino, Jimmy Rollins, Aramis Ramirez and, most recently, Hanley Ramirez. Every one of those players could help the Dodgers' chances of playing and succeeding in October, but none of them make a ton of long-term sense when it comes to their price tags. That is, unless they can figure out a way to re-sign the likes of Greinke, Hamels or Victorino, who can all become free agents after this season.
Winning a wild-card berth doesn't hold the same weight as it did last season–it guarantees only one extra game in a pseudo-postseason–so the only way it makes sense for the Dodgers to give up a load of prospects is if it results in a World Series championship. Since there is no way to predict that outcome, it leaves the team in an unenviable position.
Mortgage their long-term future to pull off a major-impact trade to possibly help their title aspirations and appease a starving fan base, or be wise and not pay an exorbitant asking price and not pull off a blockbuster deal, thus upsetting a town desperate for a baseball team to believe in?
Decisions, decisions. Tick tock, tick tock. Reality and time have now exposed the other side of the shiny organizational coin. Over the next week, it will be up to Kasten and Colletti to put it in the proper light for the public.
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Being unable to close out a game in which you have a comfortable lead in the 4th Q = Pulling a Frank Vogel
stats summary, team rankings
Turnover differential has been a huge factor for the Patriots
Points scored
Pats: 1st (33.2)
Colts: 22nd (20.6)
Points against
Pats: Tied-15th (22.3)
Colts: Tied-15th (22.3)
Third-down offense
Pats: 2nd (64 of 129, 49.6 percent)
Colts: 7th (55 of 133, 43.6 percent)
Third-down defense
Pats: 31st (50 of 112, 44.6 percent)
Colts: 12th (41 of 110, 37.3 percent)
Turnover differential
Pats: 1st (Plus-16 -- 23 takeaways, 7 giveaways)
Colts: Tied-28th (Minus-9, 6 takeaways, 15 giveaways)
Red-zone offense (based on TD percentage)
Pats: 6th (28 of 43, 65.1 percent)
Colts: 22nd (14 of 30, 46.7 percent)
Red-zone defense (based on TD percentage)
Pats: Tied-19th (15 of 27, 55.6 percent)
Colts: Tied-26th (17 of 27, 63.0 percent)
The poster "pacertom" since this forum began (and before!). I changed my name here to "Slick Pinkham" in honor of the imaginary player That Bobby "Slick" Leonard picked late in the 1971 ABA draft (true story!).
They need to control TOP to keep it away from Brady and the Patriots' offense. If the Colts can establish a running game early, they'll be in great shape since the Pats D is 29th is passing defense, but their 6th against the run. Our defense needs to stop the run since we're 22nd, but it will be interesting how we play the passing game since we're 9th in defense against the passing game.
Smothered Chicken!
Early on in the year, we were getting wins at home and not playing well on the road. Well now we're learning how to win on the road.
I think if I were in those Indy offensive meetings, the main focus would be finishing drives and converting in the red zone, which is something we haven't been doing all that well. I think if they make strides in this area against NE, we'll match them in the least. Luck has been notoriously great after long breaks throughout his college and even after our week 4 bye (we beat GB, if anyone remembers that game). You give him time to bone up on a team and he will execute.
What I'm unclear on is how well NE will apply pressure in the front line. I thnk that's the biggest factor. If Luck can have some time, I think this game could get surprisingly out of hand. Even if he doesn't have time, I have confidence he will escape the pocket and still make them pay.
The biggest question mark for me is how our D will hold up against their offense.
NE isn't the team we were used to facing in the past, though... they have holes. They have great strengths, but they also have holes.
There are two types of quarterbacks in the league: Those whom over time, the league figures out ... and those who figure out the league.
Nantz and Simms to call the Colts - Patriots game.... guess this one has a little interest.
You know how hippos are made out to be sweet and silly, like big cows, but are actually extremely dangerous and can kill you with stunning brutality? The Pacers are the NBA's hippos....Matt Moore CBS Sports....
another good game from Darius Butler and Donnie Avery gets over 100 receiving yards and a TD
Thank you. I was caught up in the injuries to Big Ben, Cutler and Vick.... Ben's is really serious. He has a dislocated rib that could tear his aorta. That is life threatening. I would never wish an injury on anyone.... I am concerned about all of the NFL players.....
Will you watch Colts-Pats this week, Blu?
I have said that. When I watch them and see Luck, it just makes me angry. So, I won't be watching as long as he is the QB.....
Ol Blu has already admitted that. He said he's come to realize he's no longer a fan of the Colts. He says he used to be but as this season as worn on he's come to realize the changes and Irsay's leadership have changed that.
Which is fine... Maybe we can all move on now.
Nuntius was right for a while. I was wrong for a while. But ultimately I was right and Frank Vogel has been let go.
"A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group, thats teamwork."
-John Wooden
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Oh, I never claimed Ol Blu was being rationale. I doubt he'd disagree. It's just that nobody needs to argue with him as to whether he's a fan or not. He's already said he's decided he's no longer a fan. He says he hates Irsay and Luck and so no longer cares about the Colts.
Luck clearly deserves his ire because Luck had the gall to play his way into a #1 pick AND not refuse to play for the Colts. <-green
Nuntius was right for a while. I was wrong for a while. But ultimately I was right and Frank Vogel has been let go.
"A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group, thats teamwork."
-John Wooden
If Luck somehow beats Brady on his first trip to Foxboro, I might be on the verge of declaring him for saint hood or beginning to prepare for the apocalypse. If it turns into a shootout, I just don't see Brady letting Luck beat him. I actually think our best chance is to try and muck this game up. Use our mid range passing game and Luck's ability to extend plays to milk clock.
A poster asked me a direct question and I answered it. I still read everything but I won't be posting much.
Think what ever you like. I have been gracious in saying that I was wrong. I am not sure I am really wrong. I think they should be 2-7 at best and I think they will tumble and play to their level but they haven't done that yet. I am not scared of anything. I just get angry when I watch the Colts and see Luck at QB. I may come back when he is gone if I am still around..... Most of my problems with the Colts are related to Irsay.....
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I'm glad that Irsay is showing the world that the Indianapolis Colts can succeed without Peyton Manning. I always hated the idea amongst Colts fans and NFL fans as a whole that the Colts franchise would disintegrate into dust once Manning left and never be heard from again. We are clearly going to be just fine without him. I'm as big a Peyton fan as anyone, but I'm glad that the Colts are showing that they can be successful without him.
Irsay has done nothing but win since he took over in 1997. He got a palace of a stadium built that hosted a Super Bowl. The franchise has given a ton back to the community in recent years. We haven't had a blackout in almost 9 years and I don't think we'll have another one for a looooooooong time.
Seems like everything Irsay does works out pretty well....
Honestly, with the Colts apparently recovering so quickly from losing Manning and the Packers recent recovery of life after Favre, the old myth that it is tough to survive once you lose a franchise QB is kind of looking outdated. (And maybe it was never really true anyway see the 49ers going from Montana to Young). The NFL is definitely set up differently than the NBA in the sense that if you are a well run franchise you can recover pretty much at any time regardless of who you just lost.
I know what you meant. However, as written, you just said there is nothing classless about trying to hurt someone.


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(UPDATED COVERAGE July 28) It's only two pages, but a document signed by U.S. and Mexican officials is being called a milestone in the pursuit of cooperative food safety efforts, especially for preventive practices and verification requirements for fresh produce.
"We know that food safety is more a journey than a destination, but there are times when we can point to a major milestone along the road. Today, we reached such a milestone in our long-standing relationship with Mexico by signing a statement of intent to establish a new produce safety partnership," Mike Taylor, deputy director of the Food and Drug Administration, wrote in his blog on July 24.
Taylor and FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg met with their regulatory counterparts from the National Service for Agro-Alimentary Public Health, Safety and Quality (SENASICA) and Federal Commission for the Protection from Sanitary Risks (COFEPRIS) before signing the document.
"This collaboration is a priority for public health," said federal commissioner of COFEPRIS Mikel Arriola Peñalosa in a news release. "The partnership will focus on implementing preventive practices and food verification measures that meet the guidelines and best international practices for produce safety."
The statement of intent calls for:
- Exchanging information to better understand each other's produce safety systems;
- Developing effective culturally-specific education materials;
- Identifying common approaches for training auditors; and
- Enhancing collaboration on laboratory activities and outbreak response/traceback activities.
Lance Jungmeyer, president of the Fresh Produce Association of the Americas in Nogales, Ariz,, attended the signing ceremony and said it is a good sign.
"With over a hundred years of produce exports to the U.S., Mexico is well entrenched into the U.S. food supply," Jungmeyer said July 25.
"This agreement gives credence to the excellent work that the Mexican government and growers are putting into food safety advancements. It adds more trust to the relationship and is a sign that FDA likes what it is seeing out of Mexico."
Officials at fresh produce industry groups also expressed support.
"We're pleased to see the FDA announcement about cooperation with Mexico's authorities on food safety," said Ray Gilmer, vice president of issues management for the United Fresh Produce Association.
"United has been working with FDA and border associations in support of increased cooperation, and we look forward to continued progress under this agreement."
At the Produce Marketing Association, former FDA official and PMA vice president for food safety and technology Jim Gorny said the document is a step toward an integrated and harmonized approach.
"As our largest fresh produce trading partner, Mexico is an important contributor to the global produce supply chain and assuring continuity of commerce with the implementation of the new Food Safety Modernization Act needs to be high priority for both government and industry," Gorny said.
Hamburg noted in her blog that about a third of the foods regulated by FDA come from Mexico. The FDA estimates about $4.6 billion in fresh vegetables and $3.1 billion in fresh fruits, excluding bananas, are exported to the U.S. annually.
Hamburg also described a stop she and Taylor made at a mushroom growing operation, Hongos de Mexico, that exports part of its daily production of 60,000 pounds of mushrooms to the U.S.
"In addition to being an enlightening education on the process of growing and packing mushrooms, our visit to the Monteblanco facility was a living example of the critical role the private sector plays to ensure the safety of products for consumers in the U.S. and around the world," Hamburg wrote in her blog.
"(The) Produce Safety Partnership Statement of Intent is just the latest example of the successful collaboration to reduce the increased risk of foodborne illnesses that naturally comes with a more globalized market. The partnership will support our work to implement preventive practices and verification measures to ensure the safety of fresh and minimally produced fruits and vegetables."


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'Myers did not take the ice for the warmup and it was announced just before faceoff he was a scratch for the first time during his two seasons after playing 117 consecutive games. Ruff said Myers told him after the morning skate he wasn't feeling well. The coach didn't know what Myers' status would be for tonight. "I don't think it's likely," Ruff said.'
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Banks are increasingly viewed as a bane to a healthy economy. But done right, banks can play a key role in the shift to sustainability. Today, Sea Change presents three perspectives on futures for banking. Peter Blom, CEO of Triodos Bank in the Netherlands, proposes a shift in the mission of banks, from maximizing profit to maximizing sustainability. Doug Rushkoff, author of LIFE INC, discusses how a surplus of debt that banks needed to sell triggered the financial meltdown. And Lyle Estill describes the role a chapter in his book SMALL IS POSSIBLE played in a local currency in North Carolina, The Plenty, being carried by a local bank.


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It all started with a simple request.
Maureen Petrie, 67, asked her 32-year-old son Michael to take his lunch dishes into the kitchen. According to police, an angry Michael Petrie sidled up to his mother while she watched television in October 2012 and struck her on the left side of her head with a martial arts weapon called a sai. He then stabbed her repeatedly.
But the grisly crime soon became even more macabre. According to prosecutors, Petrie left his mother's corpse in the living room of their Barberton, Ohio, home. The murder weapons sat at her feet.
In April 2013, investigators performed a welfare check on Maureen Petrie after relatives reported that they hadn't spoken to her in six months. When no one answered the door, officers went into the house and discovered Petrie's body in the chair where she had been murdered six months earlier.
The case is eerily similar to that of Chava Stirn, a 28-year-old Brooklyn woman whom police say lived with the remains of her mother for between one and three years.
A Bizarre Trial
Petrie pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. When he went to trial earlier this week, he calmly watched the proceedings. Even as prosecutors dropped bombshells, his face remained expressionless.
During opening statements, a jury of seven women and five men heard about Petrie's matter-of-fact confession.
"When police asked him about the welfare of his mother, Mr. Petrie said, 'Don't be stupid. I killed her,' " prosecutor Justin Richard said.
But Petrie's attorney, Jeff James, argued that Petrie was a paranoid schizophrenic. According to James, Petrie suffered from delusions that his mother exerted "inner control" over him, and that the only way to escape was to kill her.
"Even moving out was not an option because she would still have this control," James said in opening statements. "He believed that [killing her] was the only escape."
Both the prosecution and defense agreed that Michael and Maureen Petrie loved each other, but classified their relationship as codependent. According to the defense, Maureen Petrie homeschooled her son, and they slept in the same bed until he was 12.
A Six-Month Cover-Up
During the six months after Maureen Petrie was killed, Michael tried to keep up the appearance of normality. According to prosecutors, he continued to pay the bills, but lied to family and friends about his mother's well-being. According to Cleveland.com, neighbors suspected that Maureen Petrie had died.
Petrie also covered up the windows with garbage bags and tried to mask the odor with carpet cleaners and air fresheners.
"That was intentional," said prosecutor Richard. "He knew what he was doing."
The jury of seven women and five men agreed. On July 24, after less than two hours of deliberation, they found Petrie guilty of aggravated murder and abuse of a corpse.
On Wednesday, Petrie was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. He declined to comment as he was sentenced.


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Andrew McCutchen drove in two runs, Garrett Jones homered and the Pittsburgh Pirates snapped a five-game losing streak by beating the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-3 on Monday night.
McCutchen doubled in a run in the Pirates' three-run first inning and broke a 3-all tie with his sacrifice fly after Starling Marte's leadoff triple in the fifth.
Jeanmar Gomez (1-0) got the victory in relief of Wandy Rodriguez, who left after 2 1-3 innings because of tightness in his left hamstring. Trevor Cahill (0-2) allowed four runs and four hits in five innings for the Diamondbacks, who had won four in a row and were coming off a three-game sweep at Milwaukee.
Alfredo Marte drove in a run for Arizona with his first major league hit
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Hoffman Estates, Ill. -- Sears Holdings Corp. said Wednesday that its namesake and Kmart stores will offer ship-to-home delivery for items purchased through online layaway.
The new service, which comes at a time when many major retailers are amping up shopper-centric programs for the holiday selling season, is also available on store kiosks, said Sears, enabling customers to bypass the layaway line and select, purchase and have items delivered directly to their homes.
Both retailers will launch the service on Nov. 7.


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East Meets West: The Power of the Pitch
Friday, 17 December | 2:15 am - 4:00 am | Room 308B/C
This course presents a publisher's perspective on development opportunities related to the pursuit of new intellectual property, work for hire on existing portfolio needs, and possible acquisition off external, independent developers.
The course explores four key questions:
1. What are publishers looking for these days?
2. How does a small, independent developer get traction when risks are high and investment is scarce?
3. How does the publisher's perspective change based on the genre and/or the region for product opportunities?
4. What is the best way to pitch a company and/or a product-development opportunity?
The course ends with a question-and-answer session.
Presented in cooperation with the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences.
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All who love games, how we make them, and how we can continue to be an important part of shaping interactive entertainment for the future.
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Dan Winters
After getting his start at Activision in 1993 and working on various titles including Mechwarrior 2, Dan Winters spent 10 years at Disney Interactive, where he became Vice President of Product Development. Under Dan's leadership, Disney Interactive contributed to or co-released over 50 games, including Kingdom Hearts, Tarzan, A Bug's Life, Toy Story, and Tron. He rejoined Activision in 2005 to oversee developer relations and acquisitions after a stint at Electronic Arts as Executive Producer of Medal of Honor.
Changki Kim
Changki Kim co-founded Joycast Entertainment Co., Ltd., the first 3D console developer in Korea, in 1997. Having come from a different field, his major role was mainly focused on investor relations and overseas business development. Later, he moved on to establish an online game-development company called Xenon Interactive, where he managed a merger with Mega Enterprise. After the merger, he served as the director of overseas business development and helped Mega sign publishing deals with Digicell and CIBN. Now at Gravity Co., Ltd., he heads acquisitions, marketing, and publising as well as sales and online game services through publishing partners or Gravity's subsidiaries. He has been in both the publisher's and developer's role as Ragnarok Online has expanded to 64 countries, and he has supported seven online titles developed and maintained by independent studios. He strongly believes in systematic management to maximize monetization and prolong the life cycle of live online games.
Joseph Olin
Joseph Olin is president of the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences, an organization dedicated to advancement and recognition of the interactive arts. He oversees the annual D.I.C.E. (Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain) Summit, the Interactive Achievements Awards (IAA), the Into the Pixel videogame art exhibit and the Indy Game Challenge. He has been instrumental in advancing the international presence of the academy and is a highly sought-after speaker at international videogame and related industry conferences.


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Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was a metaphorical term referring to the physical and ideological division across post-World War II Europe, which restricted travel, commerce and communication between the nations of the West and the nations under the control of the Soviet Union.
It was erected by the Soviet Union after the war and was the first part of the Cold War. Although drawn from the use of actual "curtains" of iron used in theaters to prevent the spread of fire, the phrase was probably first used in a metaphorical sense by H. G. Wells in 1901, and later by Joseph Goebbels (February 1945) and German politician Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk (May 1945). It achieved wider exposure and popularity when it was used by Winston Churchill in a speech at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri on 5 March 1946: "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."[1] Stalin responded to Churchill's speech by calling it a "declaration of war".[2][3] The Berlin Wall became its most visible symbol, dividing the German city into the free West Berlin and East Berlin under Soviet dictatorship.
The Iron Curtain fell after a series of events in the 1980s, perhaps best symbolized by the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989, followed by the Soviet Union itself in 1991.[4]
The shootdown of Korean Airlines Flight 007, carrying 269 people, including Congressman Larry McDonald from Georgia, being a catalyst for the collapse of the Soviet Union may be inferred from the fact that NATO had decided, under the impetus of the U.S. administration, to deploy Pershing II and cruise missiles in Europe, primarily West Germany. This deployment would have placed missiles just 6–10 minutes striking distance from Moscow. But support for the deployment was wavering and many doubted that the missile deployment would find enough support to effect it.When the Soviet Union shot down Flight 007 with 269 people aboard—an act which U.S. President Ronald Reagan characterized as a "massacre"—enough support was galvanized for the deployment. Many believe this U.S. confrontational demonstration of strength to be a factor in the demise of the Soviet Union.
In popular culture
- In the 2004 film C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America, a similar "Cotton Curtain" is erected between the Confederate States of America (in that universe having won the American Civil War) and Canada for almost identical purposes to those of the Iron Curtain.
Further reading
- Harbutt, Fraser J. The Iron Curtain: Churchill, America, and the Origins of the Cold War (Oxford University Press, 1989) ISBN 0-1950-5422-9
- Rose, Brian The Lost Border: Photographs of the Iron Curtain (Princeton Architectural Press, 2004) ISBN 1-5689-8493-6.
See also
- ↑ Sinews of Peace Speech by Winston Churchill The History Guide. Accessed 5 February 2008
- ↑ Soviet expansion in Eastern Europe International Relations 1945-1991 BBC Schools. Accessed 5 February 2008
- ↑ Zubok, Vladislov Stalin used Churchill speech to tighten Iron Curtain CNN Interactive. Accessed 5 February 2008
- ↑ Berlin Wall Timeline Berlin Wall Online. Accessed 5 February 2008


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Baylor again named a 'best buy' among colleges and universities
As a new class of high school seniors spends the summer thinking about which college they'll attend in the fall of 2015, the latest study from the best-selling Fiske Guide to Colleges has once again named Baylor a "best buy."
Baylor is one of only 44 institutions — public or private, college or university, from the U.S., U.K. and Canada — on Fiske's "Best Buy List." Just two other Big 12 schools (and only five others in Texas) made the list, which is based on academic rankings, affordable cost and quality of student life on campus.
Baylor's sticker price may not be the cheapest around, but the Baylor experience — the combination of high academics, research opportunities and great teachers in a Christian environment — stands out in the world of colleges and universities. I would call a Baylor education "priceless," but studies like Fiske's and Kiplinger's each year manage to put a value on it — and each year, they find Baylor to be one of the "best buys" in higher education.
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INDIANAPOLIS — The latest talk among Dale Earnhardt Jr. fans, and even people inside the industry, focuses on when Earnhardt will announce a new sponsor and whether he will have sponsorship for all the races this year.
For Earnhardt, that's not as much of a concern as finding his way back to victory lane.
Hendrick Motorsports continues to work on sponsorship for Earnhardt's No. 88 car, and National Guard remains on the hood. The team still has about a dozen races it could sell for 2013 and while team owner Rick Hendrick has indicated that it is close to sponsorship, no deal has been announced.
"We have had a lot of good conversations with a few potential partners about what we can do in 2014 and beyond," Earnhardt said Friday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. "Anybody who has got any sense about how the corporate world works knows that it's too late into the season, too late in the year to expect to put together a package for the rest of the season that is going to turn into a multiyear deal.
"It's just all the dollars and cents are accounted for at this point in the year."
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Hendrick has some challenges. It doesn't want to decrease the value of the sponsorship — National Guard has budgeted $29.96 million this year to sponsor the car as well as activating the sponsorship through promotions — and it also must find a sponsor that does not conflict with others in the organization.
"(The economics of it) doesn't mean we can't put some things together and do some creative stuff with some people and some partners that we already have," Earnhardt said. "I don't think it should be a cause for concern."
The void for Earnhardt came in part when PepsiCo reduced its sponsorship from 20 races to five this year with Diet Mt. Dew.
"We are in really good shape regardless with our partner National Guard and the races that Diet Mountain Dew has on the schedule," Earnhardt said. "We are in pretty good shape there. It is important to try to fill out what we have this season, and we will. I don't have any doubt at all that we will get that done.
"I think we almost have to look forward beyond that to try to find out who is going to be the partner that we can put a long-term deal together that matches up with what we want to do in the future."
The biggest concern for Earnhardt is on the racetrack, where he sits fifth in the Cup standings heading into the Brickyard 400 on Sunday. While in good position to make the Chase for the Sprint Cup, he is riding a 38-race winless streak.
His teammates Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson have won four times each at the historic 2.5-mile oval. Earnhardt is looking for his first. While a win Sunday wouldn't be bigger than his 2004 Daytona 500 victory, winning at the home of the Indianapolis 500 would be quite meaningful.
"I don't know that you can place importance on races specifically so much so that you can put them in order," Earnhardt said. "I think that it's an important race — anybody who wins here gets to put their name along a list of names of legends and not only in the stock-car racing realm, but also in open-wheel and all kinds of other different series.
"It's a pretty big deal and there is a good amount of envy to the guys that have won this race before, more so than I feel at other racetracks that I haven't won at. I would say it's a pretty important race, it ranks right up there."
Earnhardt has just one top-five and three top-10 finishes in 13 Cup starts at IMS. His average finish is 20th.
"The first time I came here, I ran an IROC (car in 1999) and just got destroyed by everybody out there," Earnhardt said. "It was just such a different track and really big place. The shape of the track is unique compared to anything else we race on. It's a real technical track, and if you are just looking at the racetrack, you would assume that all the corners look relatively similar.
"The car must go through each corner pretty much the same and what you might be fighting in one corner you would probably assume you would fight in all of them. But to be honest, all the corners are really different and as odd as it is they are extremely different from each other."


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MYAKKA CITY, Fla. — Utopia Packing LLC, one of Florida's newest vegetable grower-shippers, is beginning the fall season by packing bell peppers at a larger facility.
A division of Utopia Farms, Utopia Packing is packing bell peppers, hot peppers and cucumbers in a new 70,000-square-foot building.
The pepper and cucumber lines are on opposite sides of the building, separated by cold storage rooms that hold 100,000 cartons.
The rooms are designed to quickly cool large volumes to better maintain product integrity, said owner Brian Turner.
For seven years, Turner, co-owner of Palmetto-based tomato company Taylor & Fulton Packing LLC, packed his bell peppers in space leased from Bradenton-based C&D Fruit & Vegetable Co. Inc. but found he outgrew the facility, Turner said.
"It was time for me to pack on my own," he said. "We have full control of the product. Food safety is obviously one of the reasons you need to go to the newer type of buildings, and this building was built with all the food safety standards in mind.
"I think we will be able to handle the product a lot better because of what we have here."
Jim Monteith, Utopia sales manager, joined the company last fall.
Monteith said the building's massive forced air cooling system helps improve product for shipping.
"This new facility provides a better-packed product for our retailers, wholesalers and foodservice buyers," he said. "We were running a lot of volume through a small facility."
Monteith said the building's steel was constructed with U.S. Department of Agriculture-certified primer and paint to meet food safety requirements.
Constructed by Pac-Tek Inc. of Lakeland, the pepper line also handles hot peppers. The other line is for pickling cucumbers, primarily for processing. The cucumbers run from late September to late December.
The company plans to harvest a new item, pole-grown cucumbers, from early November through late March before returning for spring production mid-April.
Turner said the new operation can better consolidate products from eight farms in two counties.
Utopia packs central Florida peppers from mid-October through late December before shifting production to Immokalee until returning to central Florida in mid-April.
The spring deal runs through late June. In July, Turner begins laying plastic in central Florida for August transplanting and mid-September south Florida transplanting.


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Tanner Topp of Wooster, Ohio exhibited Conebella Sarge's Wendy, the 2011 Grand Champion of the International Ayrshire Junior Show at World Dairy Expo on opening day. Conebella Sarge's Wendy was the first junior of the Ayrshire Four-Year-Old Cow class. Reserve Grand Champion Female of the Junior Show went to Maple-Dell Poker Spade-ET exhibited by Derek Patrick, of Woodbine, Maryland. Maple-Dell Poker Spade-ET was the first place Junior in the Ayrshire Junior Three-Year-Old Cow class. Topp received the $500 Udder Comfort Grand Champion Cash Award presented by Udder Comfort of Williamsburg, Ontario. Judge Justin Burdette, Mercersburg, PA and Associate Judge Sean Johnson, Glenville, PA placed 236 Ayrshires today, 82 of which were Juniors.
Overall show results and top class placings follows:
Spring Heifer Calf
1. Mackinson Jackson Darcy-ET, Matthew and Mary Mackinson, Samantha Ropp, Poniac, IL
2. Vales-Pride Reality Odeilia, Michael and Denise Valentine, Maegan Olson, Emmitsburg, MD
Winter Heifer Calf
1. Meadowdale Dozer Jolly Rancher, Chris, Janice, Carley and Charlie Richards, Linden, WI
2. K-Bar-Bee Alkatraz Popsickle, Kailey Barlow, Scottsville, KY
Fall Heifer Calf
1. Sharwards Reality Asset, Gina Fisher and Darryl J. Keehner, Edgewood, IA
2. Covey-P&A Stillmore Ben Jemini, Anthony, Steven, Jodi and Clarissa Streeper, Conroy, IA
Summer Yearling Heifer
1. Emerald Farms Checkers Atta, Fenton Bros and K, T, C, C, Jodrey, Winchester, OH
2. Onword Poker Angie-ET, P&A Ayrshires, Kruse, Dyersville, IA
Spring Yearling Heifer
1. Geminaecho Jupiter Millie, Ashley Hawvermale, Wooster, OH
2. Onword Wilton April, Tom, Sara, Kaleb, Cole and Carter Kruse, Dyersville, IA
Winter Yearling Heifer
1. All-Star Tillie, Fenton Bros & K,T,C,C, Jodrey, Winchester, OH
2. Designer Genes Olivia, Seth Whiting, Edinburg,PA
Fall Yearling Heifer
1. P&A Modesto Brenda, Becky Martin, Candace Wetter, Sean Brown, Stitzer, WI
2. Ski-Pal Lucky Phenny, Eric Hill, Fayetteville, AR
Junior Champion Female of the Junior Show
Meadowdale Dozer Jolly Rancher, Chris, Janice, Carley &Charlie Richards, Linden,WI
Reserve Junior Champion Female of the Junior Show
Mackinson Jackson Darcy-ET, Matthew and Mary Mackinson, Samantha Ropp, Pontiac, IL
Fall Yearling Heifer in Milk
1. Old Bankston Sausage Saralee, Ted Wolf, Epworth, IA
Junior Two-Year-Old Cow
1. Four-Hills Tdent Snoopy, Britney and Bradley Hill, Bristol, VT
2. Old Bankston Ristourn Shawn, Ted Wolf, Epworth, IA
Senior Two-Year-Old Cow
1. Mapleburn Cinnamon Girl, Mckenzie Stanford, Cushing, OK
2. Daltondale Tuxedo Rebecca, Steffani Koch/Daltondale Farms, Mayville, WI
Junior Three-Year-Old Cow
1. Maple-Dell Poker Spade-ET, Derek Patrick, Woodbine, MD
2. Real-Hart Little Queen, Mckenzie Stanford/Hall's Ayrshires, Cushing, OK
Senior Three-Year-Old Cow
1. Geminaecho Showstar Shirley, M Hardy, E Virgin, R Rida, K Gibson, Eminence, KY
2. Flower Land Black Tuesday, Rex, Seth and Sophia Eiler, Larwill, IN
Four-Year-Old Cow
1. Conebella Sarge's Wendy, Tanner Topp, Wooster, OH
2. River-Valley Salute Deedra, Britney Hill, Bristol, VT
Five-Year-Old Cow
1. Meadowdale Ef Riley, Chris, Janice, Carley and Charlie Richards, Linden, WI
2. Hi-Ayr View Masterpiece Juju, Tom, Sara, Kaleb, Cole, and Carter Kruse, Dyersville, IA
Senior Champion and Grand Champion Female of the Junior Show
Conebella Sarge's Wendy, Tanner Topp, Wooster, OH
Reserve Senior and Reserve Grand Champion Female of the Junior Show
Maple-Dell Poker Spade-ET, Derek Patrick, Woodbine, MD
Total Performance Winner-Junior Show
Conebella Sarge's Wendy, Tanner Topp, Wooster, OH
Generous support from sponsors makes the International Junior Ayrshire Show possible. In 2011, sponsors include: 7 Oaks Dairy, Accelerated Genetics, American Milking Shorthorn Society Syndicates, Ayrshire Youth Committee, BouMatic, Brown Swiss Enterprises, Carol's Original Works (COWS), Daltondale Farm, Evergreen-Lawn Ayrshires, Family Af-Ayr Farm, Foremost Farms USA, G-Force Ayrshires, Good-Vue Farms, Grand View Ayrshires, Hi-Ayr-View Farm, Hillcrest Alfalfa, Ma-Brown Holsteins & Jerseys, Maple Crest Farm, Meadowdale Farm, Moy-Ayr Farm, Nel Ayr Farm, NuPulse, Inc., Oxyoke Dairy, P&A Ayrshires, Red & White Dairy Cattle Association, Second-Look Holsteins, Select Sires, Inc., The Ellenbecker Family, Udder Comfort, Ullmstar Farm and World Dairy Expo.
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