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Local inequality and project choice : theory and evidence from Ecuador
This paper provides evidence consistent with elite capture of Social Fund investment projects in Ecuador. Exploiting a unique combination of data-sets on village-level income distributions, Social Fund project administration, and province level electoral results, the authors test a simple model of project choice when local political power is unequally distributed. In accordance with the predictions of the model, poorer villages are more likely to receive projects that provide excludable (private) goods to the poor, such as latrines. Controlling for poverty, more unequal communities are less likely to receive such projects. Consistent with the hypothesis of elite capture, these results are sensitive to the specific measure of inequality used in the empirical analysis, and are strongest for expenditure shares at the top of the distribution.
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Parents' Association
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Welcome from Parents' Association President
Parkdale Secondary College Parents' Association would like to welcome both students and parents for the coming year.
Our Parents' Association plays an active role in the College community and we find many parents wish to be involved in their children's school life and keep abreast of current happenings within the school - as we all know it is impossible to rely on our teenager for vital information, no matter how hard we (and they) try!
The Association meets once a month on the school premises and often has very informative guest speakers in attendance. It is a great opportunity to network with other parents and discuss any queries you may have regarding the school and education of your child/ren.
The Parents' Association has been involved in many activities at the school over the years and looks forward to continuing this support for many more to come. Some of the more recent and ongoing programs we participate in include:
Unlike parent support at Primary school level that focuses on raising funds to give back to the school, the main objective of the Parents' Association at Parkdale is to improve communication between parent, teacher and student and to assist the school by providing support to teachers and educational programs. Currently the College receives donations from Ritchies' Community Benefits Scheme, so that with every swipe of your card or tag at the checkout, Ritchies donates a percentage of your total shop to the school automatically every month. You can request a card or tag at your local Ritchies Store.
The teaching and administrative staff of Parkdale encourages and appreciates the parent involvement in our Association, and we are proud to support the learning of our children. I encourage you all too please consider being a part of your child's secondary education.
We hope you enjoy your time at Parkdale Secondary College!
Meetings are held monthly in the College Senior Centre starting at 7pm.
Click here for the 2017 College Council and PFA Meeting Schedule.
Click here for the Parents' Association Application Form
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Keane praises players
Roy Keane praised his players battling 1-1 display against Fulham at the Stadium of Light.
By Steve Pass
Last Updated: 27/10/07 6:42pm
A relieved Sunderland boss Roy Keane praised his players' battling display after they came from a goal down to salvage a point against Fulham at the Stadium of Light.
Kenwyne Jones netted the vital equaliser in the 86th minute, which cancelled out a Simon Davies opener in the 32nd minute.
It really was a game of two halves as Fulham dominated a nervous Sunderland in the first-half, but the Black Cats looked a different team in the second period.
Their come-back was even more commendable as they had been reduced to ten men when Greg Halford was sent-off in the 67th minute for a second bookable offence.
And they could then have won the game deep into injury time but substitute Anthony Stokes shot straight at keeper Antti Niemi from point-blank range.
Despite the wasted chance, Sunderland boss Roy Keane believed it was a point gained, rather than two lost.
"The first half we were disappointing, our passing wasn't up to scratch, our energy levels certainly weren't there. I suppose I was glad to get them in at half-time," he said.
When asked what made the difference in the second-half, he said: "Maybe the fact we went down to ten men and we thought we'd have to have a go at them.
"I thought our three substitutions had a big difference, a big influence on the game when they came on."
Keane revealed goal-scorer Jones had not been able to train during the week because of a slight calf problem and he only had 16 first-team players available, a lot of whom were carrying knocks.
"Credit to Kenwyne, especially when we went down to ten men. He was up there on his own but he was a real handful again. He was fantastic today again," said Keane, who praised all his players for their battling display.
"I was delighted with them. The character they keep showing doesn't surprise me...we'll need that between now and the end of the season," said Keane, who also praised the fans for staying behind the team, saying they were 'a different class today'.
He concluded: "On another day we could have won it, their keeper made two great saves.
"When you're one-nil down with 20 minutes to go and you're down to ten men, I suppose you look at it as a point gained rather than two dropped."


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Police are appealing for witnesses after an 18-year-old man was robbed of his bike in Langley Green, Crawley.
The victim was walking with his bike along Stagelands towards Langley Gren parade when he was approached by four men outside the Lea Croft Medical Practice.
One of the men grabbed his bike and another man demanded his mobile phone, which he did not have on him.
He was punched once in the face but did not suffer any injuries during the attack on Monday (January 6) at around 9.20pm.
Detective constable Dan Richardson said: "The stolen bicycle is described as a red moutain bike made by Silver and has silver duck tape fixed to the front light bracket. The suspects are described as aged in their early teens, wearing tracksuits and hooded tops.
"Anyone with information on this assault please contact Sussex Police on 101 or email firstname.lastname@example.com quoting serial 1395 of 6/1. Alternatively contact the independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111."


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Milpitas, California -
California Lottery officials say the sole winner of February's $425-million Powerball jackpot has come forward to claim the prize.
B. Raymond Buxton claimed the prize at the California Lottery headquarters in Sacramento on Tuesday.
Lottery officials say Buxton was wearing a shirt that featured a picture of Yoda of Star Wars and read, "Luck of the Jedi I have".
The one winning ticket was sold at a convenience store in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Milpitas, north of San Jose.
The winning numbers were drawn on February 19.
The $425-million jackpot is one of the largest lottery jackpots in US history, though far from the record.
Lottery officials say Buxton chose to take a lump sum payment of $242.2 million before taxes. - Sapa-AP


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Eliminate or Reduce Mic Input to Speakers Latency?
Ok, my question is likely an odd one but here goes anyway.
I have a Macbook running Ubuntu Karmic and I have been asked to DJ (amateur to the MAX) a friend's wedding next weekend. I don't have the coin to spend on a Mixer so I can run my mic and laptop through my amp so I figure I'd just run the Mic into the mic input on my Macbook and let the laptop do the mixing for me.
Well, I added the loopback module to Pulse and inserted a command to have it auto start:
pactl load-module module-loopback
sudo sh -c ' echo "load-module module-loopback" >> /etc/pulse/default.pa '
Is there any way to reduce the latency? To make the input-to-output faster?
Thanks in advnace!
Maybe try something that is reputed to be optimised for handling audio, like 'buntu Studio ?
Thought about it. What is different sound server-wise between Studio and Original?
I though Studio was more adapted to post-production rather than live. I could very easily be wrong here.
Thanks for the reply!!!
You don't want to be using pulse audio.
Try this :
I agree with smoker. Remove or disable Pulseaudio and use JACK instead. JACK is designed to have the lowest latency when possible. If programs does not support JACK, ALSA has a plug-in to make non-JACK supporting programs work with JACK.
Personally, I would not put Linux on a Macbook or any Mac these days because the operating system is Unix like, so you get the best of two worlds.
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Since cast member Sam Marks was kind enough to tweet from the first day of rehearsals yesterday, we thought we'd pick today to introduce you to the actor who is playing "Bushy" in the upcoming production of Richard II, directed by Royal Shakespeare Company Artistic Director Gregory Doran and starring David Tennant in the title role.
Great 1st day of #richardii @TheRSC
– Sam Marks (@samueljmarks)
Sam Marks has an extensive resume of theatre credits, including RSC productions of A Christmas Carol, Measure For Measure, and Written on the Heart, which was also directed by Gregory Doran.
He has appeared in several television series – Law & Order (2003), Nighty Night (2004), and Foyle's War (2010) – and the 2006 film Children of Men which starred Clive Owen and Julianne Moore.
David Tennant and Doctor Who fans may recognise Marks from his appearance in the Doctor Who series three episode The Shakespeare Code, where he played Wiggins, the young man who was courting the Carrionite witch Lilith. When Wiggins tries to kiss Lilith, she reveals her true face and he meets his unfortunate demise.
Marks' Richard II character, Bushy, is a loyal friend to King Richard, and is usually grouped with Bagot and Greene – they are the king's "yes-men" and tell Richard only what he wants to hear. Unfortunately, Bushy doesn't survive the end of the play. Maybe Sam Marks should stop working with David Tennant – his characters don't seem to get a great ending.
Sam Marks joins David Tennant as King Richard II, Michael Pennington as John of Gaunt, Oliver Ford Davies as the Duke of York, Jane Lapotaire as the Duchess of Gloucester, and Nigel Lindsay as Bolingbroke. The full cast list is available on the RSC website, and we will be updating our cast pages soon.
Richard II runs in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon from the 10th October to the 16th November 2013, then transfers to the Barbican Theatre in London from the 7th December 2013 to the 25th January 2014. More than 100 UK cinemas will also be screening the performance on the 13th November as part of their Live from Stratford-upon-Avon season. International screenings have yet to be announced. For more on this production, see our dedicated pages.


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Jon Swaine
London Telegraph
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Karen Kraushaar, a US Treasury spokesman, was revealed as one of two women to have received five–figure payouts from the National Restaurant Association after complaining about Mr Cain in the 1990s.
Mrs Kraushaar, 55, of Maryland, last night described Mr Cain as "a monster". Her lawyer, Joel Bennett, said that she suffered "multiple incidents over multiple days" with Mr Cain, who was president of the Washington–based lobbying organisation until 1999.
She told an interview she felt "extremely vulnerable" and left the group in the hope of finding "a job some place safe". She called for all of Mr Cain's alleged victims to hold a "joint press conference".
Mr Cain insists he merely told Mrs Kraushaar: "You're the same height as my wife" and gestured to his chin while together in his office. "The door was open," he said last night. "My secretary was right there".
This article was posted: Wednesday, November 9, 2011 at 8:30 am


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Allison returned to the United States to study art and writing at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. She earned her B.A. under the tutelage of the well-renowned and prolific writer Andrew Salkey, a student of her other great inspiration, and the father of fantasy, J. R. R. Tolkien. After graduating from Hampshire College, Allison moved to Connecticut. There she got the opportunity to attend seminary and further explore her faith before returning to her home state of Ohio.
Allison now lives in the Miami Valley area with her husband and children. She continues to work on her first published series while taking care of her family, editing for other independent writers, and managing a home business.
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The enemy Glak describes has not been seen in hundreds of years, yet somehow it has been haunting Elowyn's dreams. Has Braeden's cruel reach followed her from Tyroc's troubled borders into this remote wilderness? If so, there is no place left to run, and the Kinship is preparing to fight an enemy more sinister and powerful than they can possibly imagine.
Past becomes present, as prophecies long buried continue to emerge, revealing their truth to the coming generation. The Era of Peace has ended. The Era of Awakening has begun. While Morganne seeks guidance from the crumbling pages of ancient tomes, Elowyn tries to find her place within a community for the first time.
Despite the impending danger, Morganne and Elowyn decide to make their stand with the people of Minhaven. As they plunge into the depths of history, prophecy, the wilderness, love, fear, hope, faith…the girls begin to learn more about who they are, and who Aviad is calling them to be.


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My World Is Not of This Kingdom by Joao de Melo
(Aliform Publishing, 2003; 248 pp.)
Jail by Jesus Zarate
(Aliform Publishing, 2003; 236)
One book originally published in Portuguese, My World is Not of this Kingdom by Joao de Melo, and another originally published in Spanish, Jail by Jesus Zarate—both translated by Gregory Rabassa—were recently released by Aliform, a publisher of Latin American and world literature. My World is Not of this Kingdom recounts the history of a small village in the Azores inhabited by a group of mythical figures, all on an island in the middle of the ocean. Jail is set in a prison cell somewhere in Latin America, where four unlikely cellmates share the space. Rabassa has been called, by The New York Times, "one of the best translators who ever drew breath." His previous translations include One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar. Rabassa is distinguished professor of comparative literature and Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian literatures and languages at The Graduate Center.
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Jamestown woman arrested on heroin-trafficking charges
JAMESTOWN – A 20-year-old Jamestown woman was arrested on drug charges in what Jamestown police said is a continuing investigation of heroin trafficking around the city.
Carmen Lopez was arrested on felony drug charges about 9 a.m. following a raid at 113 Willard St. Investigators reported seizing more than 29 grams of uncut heroin, packaging material, scales and other drug paraphernalia.
The action also involved searches of two parked vehicles on Barrows Street and two storage units in the Town of Ellicott.
Officials said heroin seized is the equivalent of about 600 doses or 60 bundles of heroin with a street value of about $7,200. Lopez is being held in the City Jail. The investigation is continuing and more charges are expected, officials said.
Lopez is charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third-degree, which carries a possible 25-year prison term, and criminally using drug paraphernalia.
Anyone with information about illegal sales or trafficking in narcotics in the Jamestown area is asked to contact the Jamestown police anonymous tip line at 483-8477. All calls are confidential.


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Last week: SAHS d. Flagler Palm Coast, 14-13 (OT); Bartram d. Ponte Vedra, 56-6
State rankings: SAHS is No. 4 in Class 3A; Bartram is No. 10 in 5A
Players to watch: SAHS, RB Marlon Williams, sr. (111 rushing yards, TD); DL Mike Mayoral, sr. (17 total tackles); DE Darryl Lee, sr.; RB Clarence Jones, jr. (scored winning TD in OT); Bartram, QB Jason Young, sr. (3 passing TDs, rushing TD); PR/WR Colin Parker, sr. (punt return for TD); LB Tanner Creed, sr.; LB Nick Jones, sr.
Glance: Yellow Jackets were rusty on offense in their opener and needed a monster effort from their defense to escape in OT at Flagler Palm Coast last week. St. Augustine gave the ball away six times (three fumbles, two interceptions and a bad snap on a punt) but yielded no points off of those mistakes. Credit a suffocating defense that played both the run and pass well. A total of 27 FPC offensive plays went for 3 yards or less. DL Mike Mayoral had 17 total tackles for St. Augustine, a number that coach Joey Wiles said may be the most a lineman has had during his 13-year tenure. ... The 7 points St. Augustine scored in regulation against FPC was one of the lowest four-quarter totals in the past decade. SAHS has scored 7 points or less in regulation just six times in that span, and five of those have come to Clay (7-0 loss in 2000; 13-7 loss in 2001; 13-7 win in OT in 2002; and 32-6 and 23-3 losses in 2003). The other was to Rockledge (38-6) in the 3A state championship game in 2001. ... History is not on Bartram's side. The Bears have beaten three of the county's other programs, but are 0-7 against St. Augustine. And it's always been feast or famine for the Bears when it comes to the Yellow Jackets. Four of those games have been decided by a touchdown or less (22 total points in those meetings). The other three have been shutouts by a combined score of 90-0. ... The Bears have proven themselves both in the county and the state. Bartram made the state semifinals last season, going 9-5. Last week was a good start for the Bears, who have scored at least 50 points in their last two season openers. Bartram drilled Palatka 51-0 in Week 1 in 2007. ... The Jason Young era got off to a good start. Three of Young's six passes went for touchdowns. Defensively, Bartram didn't give Ponte Vedra anything to work with. The run defense limited the Sharks to a little over 1 yard per carry. ... Three QBs tossed touchdowns for Bartram and returner Colin Parker brought a kick back for a score.
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C1288 OBD2 may also be triggered by faults earlier down the line. For example, a dirty MAF sensor might be causing the car to overcompensate in its fuel-trim adjustments. As a result, oxygen sensors are likely to report fuel mixture problems.
The scent may C1288 signal oil or coolant leaking from their normally closed-loop systems, or it may indicate dangerous exhaust gases invading your car's interior. Car and truck exhaust contains toxic gases such, so if the inside of your car as if you were standing behind your car, get out and get it fixed. Fight the urge to take a little nap first. So sleepy. That's the carbon monoxide talking, friends. At least open a window on your way to the shop.
The leak detection pump is part of the evaporative emissions system. This system tests the fuel system to make sure it is not leaking fuel vapors into the air. The system pulls a vacuum on the fuel system and holds it for a period of time.
The firing order is an important part of the overall design of the engine and is determined during the design of the engine to eliminate as much engine vibration as possible. If the firing order is changed or adjusted, the ignition from the spark plug is delivered at the wrong time and the engine functions poorly or does not run. The firing order for a particular engine is typically found in the repair manual specific to that model.


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Kentucky Derby
workouts for today (Monday, March 21)
(with HRN Derby rankings):
Today's Derby contender works included
a five furlong breeze from Florida Derby hopeful To Honor And Serve. That was
his third morning move since finishing a well-beaten 3rd in the
Fountain of Youth Stakes. A handful of horses entered in the Louisiana Derby
were also on the Monday worktab.
#6 Crimson China – 5f turf
bullet in 1:03.80 (1/9) at Palm Meadows.
#12 To Honor And Serve – Breezed
5f in 1:02.40 (3/11) at Payson
#32 Arch Traveler – 7f in 1:27.50
at Palm Meadows.
#49 Machen – 4f in :48
(4/69) at Fair Grounds.
#53 Wilkinson – 4f in :48.20
(5/69) at Fair Grounds.
[Who do you like in
the Louisiana Derby? Can To Honor And Serve rebound in the Florida Derby? Log
in and rank your 2011 Kentucky Derby contenders!]
Other Works:
Travelin Man (#98) drilled a 5f
bullet in 1:00.90 (1/22) at Palm Meadows. Financial Empire (#120) breezed 5f in
1:01.90 (7/22) at Palm Meadows. Justin Phillip (#133) journeyed 6f in 1:13
(1/2) at Fair Grounds. Prime Cut (#135) breezed 4f in :49.80 (32/69) at Fair
Grounds. Razmataz (#162) went 4f in :50.50 (18/33) at Palm Meadows. Liondrive
(#165) breezed 4f in :48.80 (14/69) at Fair Grounds. Blue Laser (#166) worked
an easy 4f in :51.40 (3/3) at Winstar
Training Center
(all-weather). Populist Politics (#175), cross-entered in the Crescent City
Derby and Louisiana Derby, uncorked a 5f bullet in 1:00.20 (1/21) at Fair
The Louisiana Derby attracted a
baker's dozen including Elite Alex, Machen, and 9-5 morning line favorite Mucho
Macho Man. Impressive debut sprint winner Bind is entered in the 4th
race at Fair Grounds on March 26. He is the 2-5 morning line favorite against
six rivals in the optional claiming route.
Summer racing at Saratoga, Del Mar, and Gulfstrea...
Gainesway Farm announced their 2016 stallion roste...
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LONDON, Ont. - Two Ontario women are charged after the Mounties say a tip about a terrorist threat on an airplane turned out to be a hoax.
Darlton Graham, 52, of London and Marjorie Chamberlain, 54, of Brantford were charged Tuesday with creating a terrorist hoax and public mischief.
"The hoax was an anonymous phone call placed to police about an individual allegedly planning to carry out a terrorist attack on a Canadian flight," said RCMP Sgt Richard Rollings.
Rolling said the individual identified in the call as a terrorist was an adult male from Edmonton.
RCMP security teams based in Toronto, Ottawa and Edmonton began investigating on Jan. 22 and determined the tip was a hoax. The London, Brantford and Edmonton police forces were also involved in the investigation.
Rollings wouldn't say which airline or flight was targeted, but said there was no disruption to airport operations.
"It definitely tied up a lot of resources and took a lot of investigation effort to determine it was a hoax," he said.
Rolling declined to comment on the relationship between the accused and the Edmonton man or why two middle-aged women might be involved in a hoax.
"It's definitely unusual," he said.
Graham and Chamberlain are scheduled to appear in court in London March 18.


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Gusto-2 Ultra-Low Power NVM IP
Gusto-2 Ultra-Low Power NVM IP for Code Storage
Gusto-2 is the second generation of Kilopass code storage antifuse non-volatile memory (NVM) intellectual property (IP) that serves a new emerging class of small ultra low-power, one-chip designs. Single chip systems must run for years on a coin cell battery or harvest energy for operation. These designs cannot accept the shadow SRAM leakage in addition to the power of the off-chip serial EEPROM or flash. Such designs need an on-chip NVM: (1) that has near zero standby current; (2) that has the active and standby power equal to or better than the shadow SRAM it replaces; (3) support code storage capacities ranging from 32kB to 128kB; (4) has sufficient bandwidth to support execute-in-place operation.
Ultra-low power system-on-chip (SoC) designs in this category perform functions such as
- Remote wireless sensors for monitoring health and fitness, home automation, and security
- Near-field communications (NFC) for digital wallet, wireless financial transactions, electronic identification driver's license, passport, fare collection, and others as well as
- Applications serving the emerging market of Internet of things.
Gusto-2 will take up a less than a quarter of the designer's total chip area and power budget. Gusto-2 uses significantly less standby power than the shadow SRAM, consumes less active power than the shadow SRAM and serial Flash/EEPROM it replaces. Gusto-2 delivers 400MB/s throughput, sufficient to enable efficient execute-in-place operation.
Gusto-2™ Ultra Low Power Code Storage
- Flexible, field-programmable memory
- Asymmetric power domain shut down
- Fast programming time
- Wide read datapath: up to 128 bit for efficient XIP
- Read bandwidth up to 400MB/sec
- Low standby power (3 uW) and active power (0.1 mW/MHz)
- Built in self-test and repair
- Read Operating Temperature Range: -40C to 125C (Junction)
- Programming Operating Temperature Range: -20C to 125C (Junction)
- Data Retention: more than 10 years
- ROM conversion with ROM-it!
Gusto-2™ Deliverables
- Front-end: FRAM, Antenna LEF, Verilog model, Synopsys model
- Back-end: GDS, DRC & LVS reports, PIPO log
- Collateral: datasheet, test methodology guide, integration guide, application notes


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Ellen Pompeo in Elle Decor's May Issue
Ellen Pompeo Opens Up Her Hollywood Home to Elle Decor
Elle Decor's May covergirl is none other than the lovely Ellen Pompeo. In the issue, Pompeo opens up her 1920s Spanish-style home in the Hollywood Hills, which was designed by renowned Los Angeles-based designer Martyn Lawrence-Bullard. You may remember Lawrence-Bullard was chosen to design this past year's Primetime Emmy Awards Green Room, which was absolutely stunning. From the looks of it, Pompeo's home is equally glamorous, yet understated. Elle Decor says it has "a laid-back Mediterranean vibe," which seems absolutely fitting for the casual California gal and new mom!
Ellen on her ideal family home:
This house is perfect for our family. It's all about swimming, eating, and hanging out with friends. Martyn jokes that we live like college kids—people are coming and going all the time. What can I say? It's a happy place.
Martyn on designing a laid-back home for Ellen:
Ellen's basically a very easy, relaxed person who likes her home to be easy and relaxed as well. There's none of that star-diva craziness.
The issue also brings us a look at the home of another celebrated LA designer, Michael Smith, who was chosen to decorate the Obamas' White House. According to Elle Decor, Smith's Manhattan penthouse "pays tribute to its storied past with a masterfully elegant mix."
Take a look at a few images from the issue below, head over to the just-launched elledecor.com for more photos and details, and pick up the issue on newsstands!


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DIRECTV pays below par in most all cases. In the Los Angeles, they pay 15-20% market rate for engineering and technical positions.
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128 months ago
No they do not pay very much at all unless you are there for three years. Not much room for promtion either.
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It is very true Directv pays far below the average wage for technical positions. The tech II positions are ball busting in LABC. Basically a Chief Engineer position minus the Auto cad knowledge a CE needs. I got paid about 65K for the gig and from my experience I was doing a job that many guys I know get paid over 100K to do. Also, be prepared to be asked to work 5-10 hrs a week overtime. No problem if you dont have kids and a wife. If you dont do it your supervisor will read you the part of your employee contract where it says you will do overtime as part of your job! They own your butt! When your super says jump you better say how high soldier!
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Host said: What are the average starting salaries, bonuses, benefits and travel requirements like at DIRECTV?
Take a quick look at all the Directv positions that are on Indeed.com There are a lot of them. This is because there is a lot hiring and firing going on there. Also people quit because the demands are extreme. It was almost like a sweat shop with a churn em and burn em attitude. All I can say is you better be ready to work like a dog for low pay!
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Thinking and Acting Innovatively Participant Workbook: Creating Remarkable Leaders
16 pages
October 2010, Pfeiffer
Unleash your leadership potential one skill at a time
With the increasing complexities of the business world, strong leadership is more critical to success than ever. But finding the time to devote to leadership development is increasingly difficult. Developed with these dual realties in mind, the Remarkable Leadership workshop series is based on the book Remarkable Leadership: Unleashing Your Leadership Potential One Skill at a Time and consists of 12 workshops, derived from the leadership competencies described in the book.
After completing the Thinking and Acting Innovatively workshop, you will:
Learn to recognize and address common creativity squelchers
Understand the connection between your view of mistakes and the creative process
Know how to prepare for and conduct a better brainstorming session
Understand the creative process and how to emulate creative geniuses
Building Relationships 978-0-470-50182-5
Championing Change 978-0-470-50183-2
Communicating Powerfully 978-0-470-50185-6
Developing Others 978-0-470-50186-3
Focusing on Customers 978-0-470-50187-0
Influencing with Impact 978-0-470-50206-8
Managing Projects and Processes Successfully 978-0-470-50188-7
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Author Information
Kevin Eikenberry (www.kevineikenberry.com) is the Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group, a learning consulting company that provides a wide range of services including training delivery and design, facilitation, performance coaching, organizational consulting, and speaking services. He has worked with Fortune 500 companies, smaller firms, universities, government agencies, and more.


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Balanced Scorecard for Information Security Introduction
On This Page
Executive Summary
Balanced Scorecard background
Problems with Information Security Justification
Balanced Scorecard as a resolution to problem areas
Other benefits of Balanced Scorecard adoption for information security
Conceptual Design
Appendix A
Executive Summary
Information security professionals traditionally had difficulty trying to justify their existence. IT security staff agree there should be some security controls in place, but trying to validate a defense in depth approach is difficult. Organizations have tried to use Return on Investment (ROI) and Return on Security Investment (ROSI) as a method to prove the value in security controls with varying degrees of success. ROI and ROSI don't always work for an organization's information security goals.
The Balanced Scorecard is an accepted business framework for showing progress on organizational goals. Balanced Scorecard has been around for 15 years. It was originally an idea proposed by Robert Kaplan and David Norton and published in the article "The Balanced Scorecard: Measures that Drive Performance", Harvard Business Review Jan – Feb pp71-80. The Balanced Scorecard has been used as a method to demonstrate progress on intangible business goals.
Information security is a required business function that has been difficult to quantify objectives. The Balanced Scorecard framework and its focus on intangible and difficult to monetize goals make it a perfect presentation method for information security metrics to executive management.
Balanced Scorecard background
The Balanced Scorecard (BSC) was originally introduced in 1992 when Robert Kaplan and David Norton published the initial document "The Balanced Scorecard: Measures that Drive Performance", Harvard Business Review Jan – Feb pp71-80. It has been adopted by businesses and business schools. The BSC framework starts with an organizations building its vision and strategy. The framework uses scorecards to show progress on the strategy. Progress on strategy is a much easier gauge for information security managers to prove progress. The Balanced Scorecard allows managers to look at the business from four different perspectives. In the words of Kaplan and Norton, it provides answers to four basic questions:
How do customers see us? (customer perspective)
What must we excel at? (internal perspective)
Can we continue to improve and create value? (innovation and learning perspective)
How do we look to shareholders? (financial perspective)
Figure 1 is a sample BSC framework which highlights the four perspectives:
Figure 1
Based on management's decisions as to what the desired result should be, management and others in the organization then establish goals and objectives to work toward the desired result, the vision. Measurements are then established to track progress towards those goals.
Information security is an area of IT management that is not short on the amount of data that is created by log files from multiple application and device sources. The amount of information can at times be overwhelming. Organizing the data output in a way that it can be easily tracked and mapped to strategy can be of great help for information security managers.
Problems with Information Security Justification
Almost all information management organizations have large amounts of data. The problem that most managers have is how to take all of that information and turn it into something that is meaningful. Another issue is that in traditional metrics views, one metric may seem completely out of place when placed side by side with another. An example would be a traditional information security dashboard may have VPN connections denied on the same page as the output from an Intrusion Detection System. All of this data in its raw format place on the same page may make sense to a security manager, but when shown to executive management it does not communicate in terms the executive management can understand and act upon.
Risk management has been used as a way for security managers to show ROSI. Risk management is a process that assesses risk, and based on the decisions made identifies controls to reduce the risk to an organization. Identification of risk and the placement of controls are a very important task for security organizations. The complete process is displayed below in figure 2.
Figure 2
When assessing and identifying risk, the risks are quantified based on series of estimates. The first figure, Single Loss Expectancy (SLE), is created by estimating the revenue loss that may be realized in a single security incident. The second figure, Annual Rate of Occurrence (ARO), is determined by estimating the number of times an incident could occur in a year. The final figure, Annual Loss Expectancy (ALE) is calculated by multiplying the SLE by the ARO. The ALE is then used as an indicator to how much money should be spent on the security controls that should be put in place to mitigate a specific risk. This is a gross over simplification of risk monetization, but it does demonstrate the amount of guesses involved in calculating ALE.
Many security organizations equate ALE to ROSI. That is also an over simplification and many managers are beginning to refute this as a solid basis for definitive proof of investment justification. By no means is risk management a futile task, and it should be conducted by all organizations to help identify risk and prioritize security controls. For more a much greater review of risk management, see the Microsoft Security Risk Management Guide, http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=C782B6D3-28C5-4DDA-A168-3E4422645459&displaylang=en.
Balanced Scorecard as a resolution to problem areas
The Balanced Scorecard can be used to frame information security in a way that it can be easily understood by executive management. Using BSC a security manager can use the many difficult to understand metrics that are collected by information security controls and put them into a context that makes sense. Even when combining seemingly disparate data, BSC can help a security manager create views that will map complex information up to the high level business objectives of an organization.
Since Balanced Scorecard has reached acceptance in executive management circles for some time it is much easier to match management decisions to aligned security metrics. In the case of risk management a Balanced Scorecard framework can remove monetization from the high level view. This allows a security manager to highlight strategy progress on risk instead of on whether specific risk estimates are valid for their organization.
Other benefits of Balanced Scorecard adoption for information security
The Balanced Scorecard is designed as a strategic tool for organizations. Fundamentally, the organization develops strategy, develops goals to achieve those strategies, and measures the progress towards the goals through Key Performance Indicators (KPI's). When framing information security into a model that is designed around goals, the practitioner is forced to communicate security objectives into terms that align with corporate strategies. This often changes the discussion of information security more along the lines of corporate strategy, which proves helpful for discussions with senior management as well as managers in other departments.
Conceptual Design
How does one go about adopting a Balanced Scorecard for information security? The following sections will explore the concepts of Balanced Scorecard implementation. When creating a balanced scorecard an organization must have the correct input to be effective. The stake holders in a balanced scorecard should be: security management, security strategists, security auditors, security metric owners. These individuals will be able to help identify strategy, metrics and other helpful information. Information Security managers must consider how to present their data in a manner that will most effectively convey progress on their strategy. A BSC framework could be used to enhance any of the IT methodologies in existence. For this example we will use ISO l7799 as a basis for strategy.
Information Security Program Strategy
When considering Information Security strategy, one must remember to keep the high level ideas simple, even if the technical execution of the strategy may be complex. Balanced Scorecard will adopt the high level strategy points. These strategy points can then be mapped to actual security metrics. How the metrics are mapped back to strategy will vary from organization to organization.
A suggested approach is to organize information security frameworks along easily understood descriptions. In the following diagram, any security event can be described as some event taking place on an asset that has an organizational impact:
Categories in a framework like ISO 17799 can be organized in very general terms, so vulnerability management can be anything to do with protecting the asset. For those security events which actually involve humans as the threat actors, controls that are specific to people can be grouped as Security Awareness and Education. Finally, accessing the asset in question is a function of the physical and cyber access control mechanisms involving the asset. In this case, the follow on picture becomes:
And the ISO 17799 categories are grouped as follows:
ISO Categories
Security Programs
Security Awareness and Education
Human Resources Security
Security Awareness and Education
Physical and Environmental Security
Access Control
Access Control
Access Control
Communications and Operations Management
Vulnerability Management
Information Systems Acquisition, Development and Maintenance
Vulnerability Management
Information Security Incident Management
Vulnerability Management
Business Continuity Management
Business Continuity
In this way when the senior management asks to drill down on measurements, the first level organization along the lines of information security can be easily described and understood. Business continuity and compliance typically are terms that are more readily understood by audiences not involved with information security.
Below is a set of example objectives based on the balanced scorecard pillars of (F) Finance, (C) Customer, (I) Internal Process, (L) Learning and Growth:
Security Awareness and Education
(F) Lower security incidents
(C) Increase customer confidence
(I) Improve security adoption in internal applications
(L) Improve security awareness
Access Control
(F) Control access to reduce financial loss
(C) Allow customers access to customer based resources
(I) Ensure that employees set access correctly
(L) Allow users to access resources required to grow the business
Vulnerability Management
(F) Reduce financial loss due to vulnerabilities
(C) Do not expose customers to vulnerabilities
(I) Ensure that risks do not affect day to day operations
(L) Learn from security incidents
Business Continuity
(F) Ensure the business continuity when events happen
(C) Provide customer service during a continuity event
(I) Test business continuity processes
(L) Ensure all employees are aware of business continuity processes
(F) Comply with all mandated regulations
(C) Comply with quality regulations
(I) Ensure all employees understand compliance measures
(E) Continually review compliance measures to ensure continued growth
While this description is intended to provide a sample of the kinds of approaches that can be taken, it should by no means be considered as anything but a starting point. The ideal implementation would be one where the organization's goals are well-defined and the information security team can directly map their efforts to the broader organizational goals.
Even without organizational goals, the information security professional can develop departmental goals. That effort can facilitate an improved executive communications tool. The result could replace the existing reports which may be overly technical or require an education in information security in order to be successfully digested. The improved executive communication can in turn win the information security organization needed executive sponsorship.
Please direct questions and comments about this guide to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Appendix A
Sample Scorecard


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If you are "equity rich", but "cash poor" and are in your senior years, you may want to consider getting a reverse mortgage. A reverse mortgage, or lifetime mortgage, is a loan available to senior homeowners who are at least 62 years of age and have substantial equity accumulated in their home. A reverse mortgage is a tool that many retirees use to provide a steady stream of cash during their "golden years". These intensely debated, but widely popular loans come with many pros and cons.
A reverse mortgage is the right choice for many senior homeowners due to its number of benefits. One of the most significant advantages is that it provides you with a guaranteed source of tax-free income for life, while allowing you to remain in your home. The payment method is also flexible. For example, you can receive monthly payments, a lump sum payment, a line of credit — or some combination of all three. You also do not need to own your home fully to qualify for a reverse mortgage because most reverse mortgages only require 40 percent equity in your home. Further, the homeowner keeps ownership and title to the home.
The income from a reverse mortgage does not affect your eligibility for Social Security or Medicare either. You can cancel a reverse mortgage loan, but there is a three day window after the reverse mortgage closes to do so. Reverse mortgages usually have a provision that prohibits you from losing your home, provided you make property tax and insurance payments as well as necessary repairs. The "non-recourse" clause prevents your heirs from owing more than the value of the home.
Although there are many advantages to reverse mortgages, there are also a number of disadvantages that must be carefully considered. Reverse mortgages are not cheap. They come with considerable fees, including origination, mortgage insurance and closing costs. Because the entire reverse mortgage loan must be repaid when the borrower dies (or moves or sells his home), the equity in the home is decreased, reducing what is left to your children or grandchildren. In addition, your heirs will be responsible for paying back the balance due — plus interest — in the event of your death.
Property taxes, home owners insurance and repairs are still your responsibility. In the event that you are delinquent on any of these payments, you may be required to pay back your reverse mortgage early. Reverse mortgages are more binding than a line-of-credit and more costly too. Three days after the reverse mortgage loan closes, the loan is considered final. Although reverse mortgage loan refinancing is an option, it is challenging and costly. While reverse mortgage income does not affect your eligibility for Social Security or Medicare, it may affect your eligibility for Supplemental Social Security Benefits and Medicaid, depending on where you live and the amount of the loan.
The Bottom Line
All-in-all, reverse mortgages can be beneficial for many borrowers, but they are not the right choice for everyone. Before committing to a reverse mortgage, it's important to fully understand all terms, costs, and advantages and disadvantages. It's also wise to consider reverse mortgage alternatives, such as downsizing, relocating, refinancing, selling your home, or renting out a portion of your home.


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CUMMING, Ga. — Since she was a child, Dr. Gale Galland has always loved animals.
Today, she lives in Cumming and although she says she's semi-retired, she works part-time between the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and the Forsyth Animal Hospital.
For her work with the CDC, Galland was recognized at the American Medical Veterinary Association's convention in Denver, Colo. July 25-29 with the Public Service Award.
"It was a complete surprise," Galland said. "It meant a whole lot to me that they thought enough about me and my career to nominate me for this award. It was really special."
Leading the Importations and Animal Contact Team, Galland handled imported animals and animal products, especially primates, as one of her jobs during her 21 years with the CDC.
Once, when there was a loose monkey on a large container ship, Galland climbed a rope ladder from a small Coast Guard boat to rescue the animal, said Adam Langer, a CDC colleague, in a recommendation letter.
"There is literally no one who is Dr. Galland's equal with regard to the regulatory, public health, and medical issues surrounding the ongoing use of nonhuman primates in research," Langer said.
When she graduated from the University of Georgia in 1986, Galland worked full time at the Forsyth Animal Hospital and has helped out ever since.
"I've always had a love for animals," said Galland.
Dr. Bill Avra of Forsyth Animal Hospital recalled Galland's early years there.
"I'd leave the clinic at noon on a Saturday when we closed. I'd come back at seven at night, and she'd still be sitting with a dog to make sure it was okay," Avra said. ""She's a very devoted veterinarian."
Colleagues described Galland as having a calm, humble personality.
"I'm not used to being the center of attention," Galland said. "I'm a little embarrassed."
Galland said that even though she is semi-retired, she enjoys her work at the CDC.
"I didn't want to leave it," she said. "I've learned so much. It's been a really good, educational career for me."


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Leading Global Reinsurer SCOR Invests in LeapFrog, Groundbreaking Microinsurance Fund
Backing brings Fund to USD $47M and demonstrates strong commercial appeal of new market
Nov 25, 2009, 09:00 ET from LeapFrog Investments
PARIS, Nov. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- SCOR, the Paris-based global reinsurer, has announced an investment in LeapFrog, the world's first microinsurance fund. SCOR joins a diverse set of public and private investors, including the European Investment Bank, Omidyar Network, FMO, Triodos-Doen, Hivos-Triodos Fund, ACCION International, Calvert Large Cap Growth Fund, and wealth manager Felipe Medina, in backing LeapFrog's distinctive approach to tapping the massive market for microinsurance. The fund invests in businesses that bring insurance products to low-income and vulnerable people in Africa and Asia, and targets strong returns for investors while reaching 25 million beneficiaries.
"Our investment in LeapFrog is a demonstration of our support of a socially-responsible sector such as microinsurance," says Paolo De Martin, Chief Financial Officer of SCOR. "The Group believes that the microinsurance sector is a market that has the potential to expand very quickly as it represents more than one billion individuals without access to traditional insurance services such as life, health, disability or livestock insurance. The investment was done based on strict investment return criteria applied by SCOR for all its investments."
Numerous studies have demonstrated that low-income people in developing countries are willing and able to pay for a safety net that protects their family or business, but they generally cannot access affordable and quality insurance. Last week, Lloyds released a new study by the Microinsurance Center (MIC), estimating a market size of 1.5 and 3 billion policies. It notes that microinsurance already covers around 135 million people, and has an annual growth rate in excess of 10%, but only 5% of the potential market is penetrated -- a significant opportunity.
"SCOR's commitment confirms the coming of age of microinsurance as a profitable investment class," says Dr. Andrew Kuper, LeapFrog's Founder and President. "For the global insurance industry, growth will come largely from emerging markets -- we cannot ignore the 83% of the population in Asia and 95% in Africa classified as low-income. The industry has a historic opportunity to develop profitable businesses that serve this immense customer base. LeapFrog invests in these exciting businesses, anticipating strong social and financial returns."
Beyond financial capital, LeapFrog can provide portfolio companies with support in business planning, product design, regulatory and risk management, or development of efficient high-volume distribution channels.
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LeapFrog Investments created and manages the world's first microinsurance fund. Launched by President Bill Clinton in 2008, LeapFrog has raised $47 million to date from banks, funds, and microfinance and insurance investors. Its profit-with-purpose investment approach has been hailed by many global leaders as a new frontier for alternative investment and microfinance. www.leapfroginvest.com
SCOR is a leading global reinsurer, covering both Life and Non-Life reinsurance. SCOR's specialist teams operate in over 52 countries, developing value added, innovative and made to measure products and services and making long-term commitments to their clients, namely insurers and large corporations. At 30 September 2009, SCOR's total investments, including cash, stand at EUR 19,699 million. Investments consist of fixed income (44%), funds withheld by cedants (40%), cash and short-term investments (9%), equities (4%), real estate (2%) and alternative investments (1%). www.scor.com
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Most programming languages have a native "Boolean" data type. Perl
does not.
Perl has a simple and well known Truth System. The following scalar
values are false:
@false = (undef, 0, 0.0, '', '0');
Every other scalar value is true.
This module provides basic Boolean support, by defining two special
objects: "true" and "false".
WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/boolean/
make generate-plist
To install the port: cd /usr/ports/devel/p5-boolean/ && make install cleanTo add the package: pkg install p5-boolean
cd /usr/ports/devel/p5-boolean/ && make install clean
pkg install p5-boolean
PKGNAME: p5-boolean
SHA256 (boolean-0.46.tar.gz) = 95c088085c3e83bf680fe6ce16d8264ec26310490f7d1680e416ea7a118f156a
SIZE (boolean-0.46.tar.gz) = 15552
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
This port is required by:
No options to configure
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Fix license information for portgs that use "the same license as Perl".
Sponsored by: Absolight
devel/p5-boolean: Update version 0.45=>0.46
- Mark NO_ARCH
devel/p5-boolean: Update version 0.43=>0.45
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1787
Approved by: marino(mentor)
devel/p5-boolean: Update version 0.32=>0.43
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1624
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Change my non-FreeBSD MAINTAINER mail to bofh@
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Before, we had:
site_perl : lib/perl5/site_perl/5.18
site_perl/perl_arch : lib/perl5/site_perl/5.18/mach
perl_man3 : lib/perl5/5.18/man/man3
Now we have:
site_perl : lib/perl5/site_perl
site_arch : lib/perl5/site_perl/mach/5.18
perl_man3 : lib/perl5/site_perl/man/man3
Modules without any .so will be installed at the same place regardless of the
Cleanup plist
- Update to 0.32
Changes: http://search.cpan.org/dist/boolean/Changes
Submitted by: Muhammad Moinur Rahman <email@example.com> (maintainer)
- add stage support
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Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
devel part 3)
- convert to the new perl5 framework
- trim Makefile header
Approved by: portmgr (bapt@, blanket)
- Update to 0.30 [1]
- Pet portlint(1) by changing tab into space in WWW link [1]
- Add LICENSE (Artistic 1 & GPL 1)
Changes: http://search.cpan.org/dist/boolean/Changes
PR: ports/178459 [1]
Submitted by: Muhammad Moinur Rahman <email@example.com> (maintainer)
- Pass maintainership to submitter
PR: ports/172813, ports/172814, ports/172815,
ports/172816, ports/172817, ports/172818,
ports/172820, ports/172821, ports/172822,
ports/172823, ports/172824, ports/172825
Submitted by: Muhammad Moinur Rahman <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Approved by: timur (via private email)
makc, avilla (mentors implicit)
Feature safe: yes
- Update to 0.28 [1]
- Trim Makefile header
PR: ports/168270 [1]
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Approved by: timur (maintainer timeout, 4.5 months) [1]
makc, avilla (mentors, implicit)
Feature safe: yes
- Replace ../../authors in MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR with CPAN:CPANID macro.
See http://wiki.freebsd.org/Perl for details.
- Change maintainership from ports@ to perl@ for ports in this changeset.
- Remove MD5 checksum
- Update to 0.23.
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Add new module 'boolean' which provides Boolean type for Perl.
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Rebuild isn't in Montreal Impact owner Joey Saputo's vocabulary.
In Montreal, it can't be.
"They don't accept it," he said of Quebec supporters in a recent interview with mlssoccer.com.
"If you want instant recognition, you need to be successful, or at least do all the right things to be successful. There's no such thing as a rebuilding year. You can't use those words here in this city."
It's impossible, as its closest rival, for Toronto FC and its supporters not to gaze on with a bit of bewilderment.
Montreal, in its second MLS season, is a lock to make this year's playoffs. On top of embarrassing the Reds in Canadian Cup play in May, the Impact has a good shot at the Supporters' Shield, too.
Suddenly, hosting this year's MLS Cup inside his city's Olympic Stadium isn't so farfetched a year after falling well short of the post-season.


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Washington, DC - A year after Pacific Island Leaders made an unprecedented commitment to establish the largest government-endorsed framework for a marine management initiative on the planet, Conservation International applauds the global vision shown once again by leaders here, who pledged bold new ocean conservation commitments - a new marine park and sanctuary - and named the first Pacific Oceanscape Commissioner at the close of the 42nd annual meeting of the Pacific Islands Forum in Aukland, New Zealand.
Cook Islands Prime Minister Henry Puna dedicated the Cook Islands' newly declared marine park as their country's commitment to the Pacific Oceanscape and emphasized the need for Pacific peoples to reclaim their "mana" for the ocean.
"We have inherited our great ocean, Moana Nui o Kiva, and we must feel the "mana" - the honour of being its stewards," said the Rt Hon Henry Puna. At more than one million square kilometers the marine park, which covers half the country's exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and the entire southern island group, is the largest in the world today.
The Ulu-o-Tokelau Faipule Foua Toloa followed this announcement with Tokelau's designation of their waters as a sanctuary for marine mammals, turtles and sharks.
"Tokelau lies at the heart of the Pacific Ocean and the Oceanscape. We Tokelauans - in common with Polynesians, Micronesians and Melanesians - and in common with species such as the humpback whale or the hawksbill turtle or the great white shark - are Pacific Voyagers and the ocean is, quite simply, our home," said Ulu Toloa.
"Never has our home been more under threat. Overuse of marine resources and now climate change threatens our very existence," Ulu Toloa said. "Taking care of our islands is commonsense to all, and applying this care throughout our domain is now the imperative for the ocean's future and our future."
The Forty-Second (2011) Pacific Islands Forum Leaders' Meeting brought together heads of state from 14 independent and self-governing states in the region. Member nations include Australia, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Republic of Marshal Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
The Pacific Oceanscape, which was conceptually approved by leaders in 2010 and formally launched this year, is a collaborative agreement managing 38.5 million square kilometres (nearly 15 million square miles) surrounding their collective islands, or comparatively larger than the land size of Canada, the United States and Mexico combined. In total, the exclusive economic zones (EEZs) of those nations cover approximately 10 per cent of the planet's surface.
Also among the announcements made was that Pacific Islands Forum Secretary General Tuiloma Neroni Slade is to be the first Pacific Oceanscape Commissioner. His role is to be the united voice for the Pacific Ocean and to help the region prepare for the United Nation's Rio + 20 and other international meetings.
"We have learned much in the voyage to design and establish our Phoenix Islands Protected Area and we are proud to share this and to commit this site as a foundation site for the Pacific Oceanscape," said Kiribati President Anote Tong. "We hope soon to expand our effort to join with the United States' Phoenix Islands to foster a whole-of-archipelago approach for island and ocean conservation. We call this an Ocean Arc initiative and this forms a key basis for effective collaboration for protected area management at scale."
"It gives me hope for the future of our oceans' health to see the continued commitment from the Pacific Island Leaders to the Pacific Oceanscape initiative," said Gregory Stone, Chief Ocean Scientist at Conservation International, one of the Pacific Oceanscape's founding partners. "It will help secure the well being of all people in this region in terms of food security, climate adaptation and economic security."
The Pacific Oceanscape is a collaborative agreement between 15 Pacific Island nations, covering an area four times the size of continental Europe (38.5 million square kilometres), and providing a framework for the integrated management of the Pacific Ocean. The agreement covers ocean health and security; governance; sustainable resource management; increased research and knowledge investment; and facilitating the partnerships and cooperation needed to support the conservation of these vast and essential ecosystems.
For more on the goals and principles of the Pacific Oceanscape please visit: www.conservation.org/FMG/Articles/Pages/marine_pacific_creating_an_oceanscape.aspx
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As we have established, there is nothing even remotely useful on the main landing page of the app lens. You can get a more manageable view of the applications you have installed by filtering the lens and viewing the contents of a specific category. To filter, you use the combobox in the top right-hand corner of the lens.
Calling it a combobox is frankly an overly generous characterization. It's basically some text with a down arrow next to it. If you click the text, it will display a translucent white sheet with all of the categories. You can click one to apply the filter. If you want to find the video editor, for example, you can select Multimedia from the combobox and then you will see the Pitivi Video Editor in the installed application row.
The filtered category views are structured the same way as the top-level app lens view, so you still have the same annoying three-row layout. It will show most frequently used applications at the top, your installed applications in the middle, and some random crap from the repositories at the bottom. In this view, there are often redundancies between the first and second rows.
Trying to get to an application by clicking my way through this interface was consistently painful. It takes far more clicks and far more time than the classic applications menu. The one bright spot is keyboard enablement. It has a search box at the top where you can simply type in the name of the application that you want to use. You can click one of the items that comes up in the results or simply hit enter to launch the first one. This feature works a bit like GNOME-Do and other similar application launching tools.
If you know the names of all the applications that you want to use, you can simply rely on the search feature. If you don't, then you are going to be stuck clicking deep into the bowels of the lens in order to figure out what you even have installed. The app lens is a pretty bad experience from top to bottom and it's going to take more than mere refinement to get it right. I was only able to tolerate it during my time with Unity because I'm comfortable using the search feature to launch applications.
File lens
The previous version of Unity—which shipped in Maverick's Netbook Edition—had a file management overlay that was intended to replace the conventional file manager, but fell far short in functionality. The Unity developers have wisely decided to pursue a saner approach in Ubuntu 11.04.
A launcher for the conventional Nautilus file manager is prominently positioned at the top of the dock so that users have convenient access to a fully functional file management tool. The file lens, which is positioned below the app lens in the dock, is designed to complement Nautilus by providing a springboard for finding and accessing important files and folders. It functions very well in that limited capacity and behaved much better than the app lens.
The top row of the file lens displays files that have been used or modified recently. The second row displays the contents of the user's Downloads folder. The third row shows a list of all the folders that the user has bookmarked in Nautilus. Clicking any of the files will cause them to open in their associated application. If you click one of the folders, it will open the path in a Nautilus window.
Like the app lens, the file lens has a filtering mechanism in the top-right corner. You can choose a file type from the filter list to see a date-sorted overview of the relevant files in your home directory that have been worked with in the past six months. You can also input some text in the search box at the top of the lens to find files with matching names.
Third-party lenses
The highly modular lens system in Unity is designed to support any number of arbitrary custom lenses. Third-party developers can create their own lens that plugs directly into the dock and presents content to the user in a Unity screen overlay, just like the app lens and the file lens.
There are already several custom lenses that adventurous users can install on their system for testing. Some of the custom lenses pull data from Web APIs and others are designed to interoperate with existing desktop applications. For example, there is an AskUbuntu lens that provides a convenient Unity-integrated interface for searching the questions from the AskUbuntu Stack Exchange site.
There is also a social networking lens—developed by my friend Ken VanDine—that displays messages from the user's Twitter and Facebook friends. The social network lens is powered by the Gwibber backend daemon, which provides the integrated social networking capabilities in Ubuntu.
The fact that developers have already managed to create lenses that integrate with Gwibber and AskUbuntu demonstrates the flexibility of the lens system and its compelling ability to display content from diverse sources. As the APIs mature and more third-party developers start exploring Unity, it's possible that we could see much more sophisticated functionality exposed through lenses in the future.


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Even if you were a member of the crew aboard the Enterprise, you wouldn't sleep with your tricorder in your pocket or eat standing at the replicator. Sometimes you would want to ditch the gizmos and knock off for the day.
In fact, all of us have lived in the future long enough for the wow to wear off the latest iteration of our nagging devices. Sometimes it's cool to wear a handsome piece of retro technology that won't yammer during the movie or flash the name and picture of your ex in the middle of dinner with your current.
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Pawel Trebach demonstrated how the formal design of a building ties in with the fabric of buildings, roads, parks, and the views around it. Reducing the decisions into simple diagrams made it easy to follow his lecture. As I was sitting and listening closely to him speak in the noisy room I began to think about some things.
Even though it was difficult to make out his words sometimes, the diagrams spoke almost entirely by themselves. Speaking as a student I feel the actual process of design is lost oftentimes at this stage of communication- the architect and his building dancing only in his head. Why do we (as designers) take the communication of the design to so many places other than the minds of the listener? Where does it go? We use stylized abstractions such as renderings, plans, and sections to tell about how we see the building, but I feel like it is so often lost. Somewhere else.
It feels so difficult to take a process that took such a long time (perhaps too long) and reduce it to simple lines and shapes. This lecture was a good reminder for me about the process of distilling that happens between design and communication. I once heard someone say something about how the poet can easily make an entire room feel uncomfortable if he or she said what was really meant, but the same idea could be said in simple terms to communicate a beauty they would have otherwise not known.
I learned a lot from Pawel while I was in Poland about this process of communication. Sometimes it was difficult because between the thick, red, unexpressive lines about public domains and green spaces I would imagine people laying on the grass or hearing the fountains. But without that thick red line there will be no experience, the words that could have brought a beauty, brought discomfort instead.


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Regals hockey advances
Emma Ruggiero scored the game-winning goal as the Buffalo Regals advanced to the girls Tier I 16-under national quarterfinals with a 2-1 win over New Hampshire. Goaltender Amber Dubill made 23 saves.
The Northtown Center in Amherst is the site of the Tier II nationals for 14-under, 16-under and 19-under.
In the Tier II 19-under the Buffalo Stars lost to Alaska, 4-3. Jordan Roetze, Alanna Herne and Emile Burow scored for the Stars. They went 2-1 in pool play and advanced.
The Buffalo Bisons dropped a 3-1 decision in the Tier I 19-under to Shattuck-St. Mary's. Despite the loss they advanced to quarterfinal. Shattuck beat this Bisons team by a goal in last year's national semifinals.
Amherst's Tier II 14-under team lost to New Jersey, 8-0 while the 16-under team lost to KPHA, 3-1. The Buffalo Regals Tier I 14-under lost to the East Coast Wizards, 7-2.


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India, April 8 -- The Japanese Wife Director: Aparna Sen Actors: Rahul Bose, Chigusa Takaku Rating: **
Be wary of the friend who passes off as opinion on a film, comments such as, "It's beautifully shot". Or, "The acting is awesome." Or, "The film's good, but kinda long (or slow)." What he unknowingly means to say is the story sucks.
Sen's The Japanese Wife is wonderfully shot, reasonably well enacted, and is sure enough, long (or slow) as hell. Such elements individually draw attention toward themselves because, quite frankly, the script sucks.
Spanning across almost two decades, Rahul Bose plays a graying schoolteacher in Sunderbans. He lives with his mother (Moushumi Chatterjee; crackling transformation) in rural Bengal - cinematic constructs of which have largely been made popular globally by Ray, Ghatak and several others after them. This quiet gent makes contact with a Japanese girl, a pen friend, in Yokohama. They have written-English in common, though neither can speak the language as fluently. Over years, they write to each other, and at some point, in one of those casual exchanges, even decide to turn man and wife. Bose's Snehamoy sends Ms Miyage (Takaku), "vermilion for the parting of the hair." Ms two-minute Miyage sends across various Japanese tourist memorabilia to decorate his room. Snehamoy in fact gradually builds for himself a fairly enviable collection of Japanese kites, which he takes once to the community festival. The kite-seller at that carnival feels threatened. He urges fellow villagers to turn the kite-flying competition into one between India and Japan: "Indian kites, zindabad. Japanese kites, murdabad." The chorus is infectious. Everyone joins in. The scene cuts into another group that again doesn't understand the meaning of a cry, but goes, "Workers of the world unite." The analogy is truly inspired.
You wish, so was the sub-text of this film. Where Snehamoy keeps his vows until old age, masturbating on a tilted boat. Sissy Miyage walks around aimlessly in her minka (free-standing Japanese home). He has no means to travel to Japan, and has "only one lavatory (in his house) - that too Indian (style)". She couldn't care less about the lavatory, or meeting ever for that matter. That isn't their relationship's point.
Omkara, the film, has by now reached television sets of Snehamoy's tiny hamlet. National news discusses Taslima Nasreen's deportation from Bengal. We're certainly way past the mid-2000s. Yet, cellphones, or SMS, or Internet chats in a nearby town, are technological novelties waiting to be discovered by sulky Snehamoy and his Ms Miyage. They continue to tuck sheets of paper into 'Par Avion': white envelopes with red and blue striped borders. This platonic romance bears neither poetry in those letters, nor cynicism among friends, relatives or neighbours. It's turned into marriage, and still carries on for its own sake through snail mails, sickness, and good health.
If I'm not mistaken, this is Sen's (36 Chowringhee Lane) first screenplay adaptation (from a short story by Kunal Basu). It shows. The realism and connect of her films is entirely missing here. In a fairly prolific 30-film career, it is Sen alone who's managed to use Bose best (Mr And Mrs Iyer, 15 Park Avenue). This one's no exception at all, and could well be Bose's best work. It doesn't quite bode well for both. The film remains at best an affected bore.


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The Ramona Bulldog wrestling team started off the season with a 48-30 dual meet victory over Torrey Pines High School in the Dawg House.
The meet started with Max Hughes (125) winning by a forfeit. Sean Conroy (130) then lost by fall and the score was tied at 6.
Landon Jones got the Dawgs the lead by pinning Dyllon Max in 1:19. Marcos Herrera (140) lost a decision to Dylan Joyce. Brodie Chenowth came from behind to pin Tony Paladino in the 145-pound class and the Dawgs led 18-9.
Torrey Pines then went on a roll. Jared Widner (152), Connor Martin (160) and Pat Burns (171) all lost by fall and Brian Orr dropped a decision. The Dawgs trailed 18-30.
Brett Germain (215) pinned Robert Murray in 1:40 to stop the momentum of the Falcons. Dannery Apaez (275) recorded a pin over Harry Wilburn in 4:29 and the score was tied at 30.
Connor Koch (103) recorded a pin in 3:31 to give the Dawgs a lead that they would not relinquish. Eddie Delgado (112) won by forfeit.
Spaso Ilich (119) then thrilled the crowd with the quickest fall of the night when he pinned Donald Casey in 53 seconds.
"Torrey Pines is a much improved program and they are a Division I program so it was a big win," Coach Steve Koch said. "Some of our wrestlers stepped up when we needed it,"
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The junior varsity wrestling team beat Torrey Pines 42-39. The Flacons had to forfeit six bouts and that cost them the match.
Rio Rodrigues, Grant Faddis, Greg Peterson, Bryan Coane, Matt Cornecelli, Marshall Thrasher and Preston Johnson all received forfeit victories.
Elias Jauregui and Colton Houlihan won by fall in exhibition matches. Jaurequi recorded the fastest pin of the night at 25 seconds. Houlihan registered a 31-second pin.
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Asian Braised Spares
A couple Saturdays back I had planned on smoking up a rack of spare ribs which I had thawed out. Well, plans change and plans were made and then cancelled and I ran out of time to do them on the smoker. Instead I made up a recipe for asian braised spare ribs which I did in the oven, but I think could be easily adapted for the smoker.
Ingredients (All measurements are approx. as I don't ever measure anything)
1 rack pork spare ribs (full or STL trimmed)
1 large onion sliced
8 oz. mushrooms quartered (I used crimini, but I think shiitake would have worked even better)
1" chunk of ginger sliced about 1/4-1/8" thick
4 cloves garlic very rough chop
1 T Chinese 5 spice powder
1 T stir fry oil (combination of canola and toasted sesame, straight canola or veg oil would work fine as well)
2 C chicken stock (I like to use low sodium)
1/4 C soy sauce
3 TBS Hoisin sauce
2-3 T worcestershire
2 tsp garlic chili paste or sambal (add a little more if you like a lot of heat)
2 tsp Red Boat 40 Fish sauce
I started by cutting the rack down into 3 pieces so it would fit easily into my 6.5 qt oval dutch oven. Then peeled the membrane and seasoned both sides with some salt and the 5 spice powder.
While waiting for the ribs to "sweat" I mixed all of the ingredients from the chicken stock down together to create the braising liquid.
I heated the oil in my 6.5 qt oval dutch oven and then seared the ribs on each side for 2-3 minutes to get a nice brown on them. I then removed them and set them aside.
Next in went the onions, I cooked them for 2-3 minutes until they started to soften and then added the mushrooms. After they started to brown, 3-5 minutes, I added the garlic and ginger and let it cook until they got fragrant, another 1-2 minutes.
Turned the heat down and laid the ribs down on top of the mushroom & onion mixture then added enough braising liquid to cover the vegetables but not the meat. Once the liquid came close to a boil I covered with foil and then put the lid on for a nice tight seal and into the oven at 350* for about 2hrs.
I served this with an cold asian glass noodle salad, which is a recipe for another time.
How would I adapt this for the smoker?
Instead of browning the ribs and cooking in a DO, I would season them with the salt and 5 spice then put on the smoker for about 2 hours until they got a nice color on them before transferring to an aluminum pan with the cooked vegetable and the braising liquid.
I love traditional smoked ribs, but this was a really good departure from the norm. The ribs were incredibly tender and moist and the whole dish had a great richness to it along with an incredibly unctuous texture.
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That sounds delicious and I know the kind of texture and unctuous texture braised ribs can give to a dish. I know it has to be good. BTW, the Southern Chinese use a mushroom that is almost exactly like Crimini and they make braised rib dishes that are amazing.
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