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Plot: John Clayton following his parents' death in Africa would be raised by an ape and would be known by the name Tarzan, would leave Africa and go to his parents's home in England along with woman he fell in love with and married, Jane Porter. He would be asked by Belgian King Leopold to go to Africa to see what he has done there to help the country. Initially he refuses. But an American, George Washington Williams wants him to accept so he can accompany him. He says that Leopold might be committing all sorts of atrocities to achieve his goal like slavery. He needs to prove it. Clayton agrees and his wife insists that she accompany him because she misses Africa. They go and when they arrive a man named Rom who works for Leopold attacks the village they are at and captures Tarzan and Jane. With Washington's help he escapes and sets out to rescue Jane by going across the jungle and Washington joins him despite being told that he might not make it. .
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Apr 15, 2011 Erin Wisneski Uncategorized
PEACE, Inc. wants to help Baldwinsville parents.
Through the County West Family Resource Center (CWFRC), PEACE offers a parent support group, which meets from 11 a.m. to noon every other Friday at the center in Nobles Plaza.
According to Alicia Manor, the CWFRC coordinator, the purpose of the group is to offer support, education, information regarding resources and services available, as well as fun and relaxation.
"This group is necessary because most of our parents in the group are single moms, and they need all the support they can get," Manor said. "It also gives parents a break from their daily responsibilities and gives them something to look forward to. In addition to that, it gives parents necessary information to handle daily issues in their lives."
The group is open to PEACE clients, who decide what meeting topics should be.
"We get presenters that can come in and give information about [requested topics]," Manor said. "For example, the ladies wanted to learn about makeup and have facials, so a Mary Kay consultant came in to do a class on makeup and skin care. The group all got a nice gift bag of cosmetics from her, and it was lots of fun. Also, it made the ladies feel pretty and gave them some confidence."
PEACE's County West Family Resource Center is located at 93 Syracuse St., Suite 700, in Nobles Plaza, Baldwinsville. For more information, call 638-1051.
Parent Support Group
Food for the Parent's Soul, a support and education group, meets from 11 a.m. to noon at the County West Family Resource Center, 93 Syracuse St., Baldwinsville on the following dates:
Prom/Ball is quickly approaching. Learn how to keep your teens safe. The dangers of underage drinking will be discussed. Guest Speaker is Beth Hurny, LMSW, CASAC, Director of Youth & Parenting Services at Prevention Network.
May 6, Extreme Couponing:
May 20, Stress Management:
Guest speaker is Beth Hurny, LMSW, CASAC, from Prevention Network.
June 3, Walk Away Your Waist:
Wear your sneakers for a neighborhood jaunt and good conversation. Let's keep moving.
June 24, TBA:
Summer fun and safety information will be provided.
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ok so ive used WiiScrubber to add eng patch to MH3 and when i go HBC > Gecko 1.9.3 and put all settings right and put MH3 dvd in and press Launch DVD it does that "Setting Up Drive..", "Reading DVD Stats..", "SD Codes Found. Applying" and "Loading Title.." then it just crashes it wont do anything it just freezes there and it wont respond anything i do so what to do im using 4.2E Wii System Menu.
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QUN Programme Assistant, Climate Change and Natural Resources – Geneva, Switzerland
Title: Programme Assistant, Climate Change and Natural Resources
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Hours and Compensation: Full Time, 1,360 Swiss francs per month
Application Deadline: September 29, 2011
Posted on: September 14, 2011
Summary of Position/Organization Overview: The programme assistant (PA) position is a one-year placement that gives a young person the opportunity to live and work in Geneva contributing to the work of the Quaker United Nations Office. QUNO always has at least one PA and Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) (www.quaker.org.uk) funds that position. Other PA positions are offered if specific programme funding is available.
This is an opportunity for a person with an interest in international affairs and in international organisations to experience a range of international work, while working as an assistant to QUNO s programmes, with a particular focus on climate change and natural resources issues.
To apply for a job as a PA you must be eligible to work in the EU or Switzerland and preferably be aged between 21 and 30.
Description/Responsibilities: PA duties are split between helping with the general running of the office and programme specific work. Programme work obviously varies depending on which representative you are working with but you can expect to attend and help to organise meetings, follow UN processes and help with research, amongst other tasks. The general administration of the office involves the PA in a wide variety of different tasks – be prepared to help out with anything and everything, from cooking a lunch for 25 people to creating and coordinating the mailing of Christmas cards!
Qualifications/Skills: These posts are open to Friends or persons in close sympathy with the Religious Society of Friends. Programme assistants are an integral part of the small team at QUNO. A strong interest in international affairs and a commitment to building social justice in the world is essential. Fluency in English with a working knowledge of French is prefered, computer skills and a degree or the equivalent qualification are all advantages. Most important of all though is a willingness to contribute actively to all parts of QUNO's work including general office, catering and domestic duties. A sense of humour can go a lot further than an academic qualification!
Dates: The next PAs will start in September 2012. The advertisement for the positions starting in September will be online in January-February of that year. Interviews are usually held in March or April, ready for the successful applicant to begin their introduction period in late August of the same year.
Salary & Benefits: QUNO pays a salary of approximately 1,360 Swiss francs per month, in addition to covering the costs of housing, health insurance, public transport in Geneva, and the cost of a return ticket to the appointee's home base. In addition, QUNO pays the social costs and benefits required under Swiss law. QUNO follows Swiss custom of a 40 hour work week with 27 days holiday per annum, in addition to Geneva public holidays.
How to Apply: Download the application form from the QUN website: http://www.quno.org/getInvolved/getProgramAsst-Geneva.htm


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"We enter parliament in order to supply ourselves, in the arsenal of democracy, with its own weapons. If democracy is so stupid as to give us free tickets and salaries for this bear's work, that is its affair. We do not come as friends, nor even as neutrals. We come as enemies. As the wolf bursts into the flock, so we come."
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"To carry weapons and participate in a democratic process and sit in Parliament, there is a fundamental contradiction, and I'm sure they are thinking about it, too."


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Observation deck on Säntis, usually I wouldn't take pictures lunch time, but March still enables to see some shadows even during the unfavourable hours.
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BennyV (22569) 2012-04-25 5:21
Hi David
Superb how everything in this shot converges in that one point where the railings meet. Great subdued colours with lots of hints of grey, this makes the plasticky red of the chairs stand out brilliantly. Another top picture shared, thanks for it.
Vato_Law (12732) 2012-04-25 9:10
hello David.
now this is a room with A view. Most enjoyable terrace with such an incredible background.
I love how you composed it and those shadows reflected on the ground.
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TV Party: 90's Summer Vacation
Thursday, Jul 07, 2011 8:00 PM EDT
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What's better than going on your own summer vacation? Staying in and
watching all of your favorite 90's TV characters go on theirs!
We'll be watching summer vacation episodes of The Adventures of Pete & Pete, Saved by the Bell, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Baywatch, The Simpsons, Step by Step, Full House, Tiny Toons and more. Compete in contests for prizes and to pick which episodes we watch!
+Featuring a summer cook out menu from Urban Rustic including hot
dogs, hamburgers (both meat and veggie varieties) and lots of other
tasty snacks.
+Themed summertime cocktails, like Sex on the Beach and Pina Coladas
+90's TV trivia competition for free drinks
+Beach balls!
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+Limbo competition
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+DJ Brian Blackout spinning 90's summer hits
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Thank you for choosing School District of Belleville. We look forward to working with your family.
Fillable Enrollment Form
To enroll, please complete the fillable enrollment form above. Also included is a transfer of records request if your student attended a previous school. Please drop off this paperwork at the District Office, 625 W Church Street, Attn: Lauren Burkey. Office hours for the summer are 8am-3pm. Please also bring proof of residency (utility bill, tax statement, etc..) and birth certificate(s) for each new student(s).
To help with the enrollment process, we have included a Checklist link below.
New Student Checklist
A two part Registration, consisting of online and in-person registration is also required for all students each year in addition to enrollment paperwork. See details to the right.
Questions on enrollment can be directed to Lauren Burkey at (608) 835-6120 ext. 3405.
Online registration opens August 1st and closes August 13th.
In-person registration days are Wednesday, August 23rd 3:00pm-07:00pm and Thursday, August 24th 8:00am-12:00pm.
As a new Belleville family, a great place to stock up on Belleville apparel is the school store, The Catty Shack! Located in the Belleville High School and open before and afterschool. A great way to show your Wildcat pride!
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March 16th, 2012
Traveler's Tip: The Smartest Website for Booking Hotels
I recently took a job at a small adventure tour company and have an upcoming business trip, which will take me to Houston, Dallas, Denver, Atlanta, Boston, New York and Washington, DC in a span of two weeks, I spent a good chunk of last night booking hotels. Using old standbys – Orbiz and Expedia I was able to find decent options while staying under budget, so I was happy enough. I had to wait an hour or so to book my last hotel in DC, as we hadn't confirmed the address of the event I needed to attend. As I waited I played around on my latest internet distraction, StumbleUpon, and came across an article by Golden Book Traveler titled The 20 Best Travel Websites. Included on this list was a hotel search I had never heard of called HotelsCombined. I took it for a test drive once all my DC plans were set and the results were pretty surprising. While HotelsCombined wasn't cheaper for every hotel, there were certain cases in which the savings were over 50 percentWashington DCStar RatingExpedia PriceOribitz PriceHotelsCombined PriceThe Normandy Hotel3$362$323$152L'enfant Plaza3$213$214$110
I ended up booking a room at the L'enfant but decided to continue playing around on the site to see if my findings were a fluke or not. A search for a room in San Francisco on a Friday night in March revealed similar results; shockingly low rates for some very nice hotels:San FranciscoStar RatingExpedia PriceOribitz PriceHotelsCombined PriceArgonaut Hotel4$299$298$194Clift Hotel4$293$292$145
Last I decided to check an international destination to see if there was a difference. The savings in Buenos Aires turned out not to be as significant, but still cheaper:Buenos AiresStar RatingExpedia PriceOribitz PriceHotelsCombined PriceMelia Recoleta Plaza5$283$283$256Axel Hotel4$149$145$121
HotelsCombined doesn't actually book the rooms; rather they seem to be an aggregator finding rates on websites such as EasytoBook, Olotels, Octopus and RatestoGo. I had never heard of any of these sites either but will certainly continue using them for future hotel bookings. Speaking of good deals, starting today Eagle Creek is giving away gear on facebook so be sure to like us and enter to win today.
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Barbecue Turkey Meatball Sliders
The January/February issue of Everyday Food is dedicated to "Light Done Right" dishes: main course salads, puréed vegetable soups, even brownies that use applesauce in place of butter. Since I just spent weeks stuffing myself with high-fat holiday fare and guzzling festive cocktails, it couldn't have arrived in my mailbox at a better time. After perusing all the recipes, I decided to make the Light Turkey Meatballs from the issue and then turn them into Mini Barbeque Meatball Sliders.
The recipe came together fairly quicklybasically, you throw all the ingredients together in a bowl and mash them up with a forkbut I did find two discrepancies. First, the yield is listed as 35 meatballs, each about 2 tablespoons in size. My meatballs were about half as big, and I came out with only 34. Second, the procedure calls for freezing the meatballs on a cookie sheet for one hour to set their shape, but I found mine needed two hours to really firm up.
To make the sliders, I broiled the meatballs for 10 minutes. Even though I oiled the pan well, they still stuck a bit, but other than that, there were no major cooking issues. I didn't have the requisite potato rolls, so I improvised (that's what cooking's all about) and layered four meatballs into a hunk of baguette. Then I slathered them with a generous dose of my favorite barbecue sauce.
The result was terrific. The meatballs crisped up nicely on the outside yet remained tender and juicy throughout, and I thought the flavors were surprisingly complex given the minimal ingredients. They really held their own against the spiciness of the sauce. After dinner I felt like I had eaten a hearty, lick-your-fingers-and-use-your-bread-to-mop-the-plate meal, and if I hadn't made them myself I never would have guessed they were good for me. In all it was a successful start to my New Year's cooking resolution!
About the author: Lucy Baker is a graduate student in the writing program at Sarah Lawrence College. Before returning to school to pursue an MFA, she was an assistant cookbook editor at HarperCollins. She lives in Brooklyn and is currently obsessed with all things fennel.
- Yield:about 34 meatballs
- 3 slices whole-wheat sandwich bread
- 1/4 cup whole milk
- 1 1/2 pounds lean ground turkey
- 3 scallions, finely chopped
- 2 small garlic cloves, finely minced
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
- 1 large egg
- Salt and pepper
- Vegetable oil, for baking sheet
- Light Turkey Meatballs (recipe above)
- Party-size potato rolls (or bread of your choice)
- Barbecue sauce (your choice)
Pulse the bread in a food processor until fine crumbs form. Mix bread in a bowl with the milk. Let stand at least five minutes.
Combine the turkey, scallions, garlic, parsley, egg, 1 1/2 teaspoons salt, and 1/2 teaspoon pepper in a large bowl. Add breadcrumb mixture, mix together gently with a fork.
Form mixture into balls (about 2 tablespoons each). Freeze meatballs on a baking sheet for two hours, then transfer to a resealable plastic bag or an airtight container and freeze for up to three months.
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No change to school board's social media rules
The District 192 School Board approved an updated policy on board conduct this week without any new rules about board members' use of social media tools.
The board reviewed the policy March 8 as part of an ongoing effort to keep district policies up to date. That's when board member Veronica Walter raised the issue of social media and the potential for miscommunication.
Walter said this week she only wanted to ensure board members knew where the lines were when using tools like Facebook and Twitter. But some, including board member Tim Burke, worried the district might restrict use of such tools.
"My reasoning for questioning that was not to block any communication," Walter said at Monday's regular school board meeting. "That is not even close to where my thoughts were going on this."
Walter expressed concern that messages sent out online by one board member might be taken as the position of the entire board, or that a board member might inadvertently share information that should not be public. But representatives from the Minnesota School Boards Association said last week the same rules apply to communication via social media that apply to other forms of communication.
A blog post is no different than a letter to the editor or a conversation over coffee.
"I just want to make sure we're not crossing lines that would be more of a detriment than a positive to the district," Walter said.
Other business
In other action Monday the board did away with a primary election that would have been used to narrow the field before November's general election.
The board had kept the primary available as an option in recent elections and it held one two years ago when eight candidates filed for three available seats. Under the rules the district followed then primaries were required if there were more than twice as many candidates as available positions.
Eliminating the primary will give residents more time to decide if they want to run. The deadline for filing two years ago was in July. Without a primary the deadline will not come until fall.
Skipping the primary will also save the district the cost of running the election.
The board also approved a reduction from full time to two-thirds time for middle school physical education teacher Connie Berg. Berg's position was part-time before this year. The reduction is based on enrollment.


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Children from Ickworth Park Primary School strode out into the countryside at Ickworth on Saturday inspired by this year's Suffolk Walking Festival.
The three mile course through woodland and across countryside was monitored with pedometers organised by Daniela Elstone from the Ickworth Hotel.
The school has a partnership with the hotel and as well as growing their own vegetables also supples the hotel kitchens during the summer holidays.
Children are also working towards the gold award for the Food for Life scheme having already received their silver award in December.
Jayne Cook, who is responsible for the school's food and gardening curriculum said: "The children had a wonderful time . It was so nice to see them having a really good time outside a school context. Several of them were fascinated by the concept of the pedometers and were hoping to buy one for themselves."


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'Emergency Department' signs to come down at Bulli
New signs will be placed outside Bulli Hospital over the next few days reflecting the emergency department's transition to an 'emergency primary health care centre'.
The local health board says the service provided will remain at the current level and operate between the hours of 7:00am to 10:00pm AEST daily.
The new hours will start before the Christmas holiday period.
The chair of the health board, Dr Denis King, says patients who arrive at Bulli will now know the hospital only specialises in less acute emergency presentations.
"The signage will also clearly say what it does provide," he said.
"There will be words to the effect that this centre provides treatment for patients for GP type services.
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I'm in the eastern time zone. I play afternoons and evening on weekdays, and weekends vary. I'm rank 20 as of now. Have a mic, various voice chats, and capable of leadership roles.
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I play either a mesmer or warrior. What kind do you ask? Well my mesmer portals around, holding points and pew-pewing with his staff. He laughs as the conditions build and enemies fall. He'll throw down some awesome support fields when he fights with his teammates. He can even man the mighty treb and defend it from attackers.My warrior just likes to roam around the map slashing with his axe and bashing with his mace, while defending with a sword and shield combo. He does best in smaller fights, but is a force to be reckonded with on a team.
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I'm active and I learn quickly. I can play well as a team or on my own. I've played competitive pvp in multiple MMO's (GW1, WoW, WAR). Message me at Trax Reborn.2083 or pm me on here.
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Dallas police are airing a videotaped confession of a career burglar in hopes of educating homeowners in far North Dallas.
An area off Beltline Road between Hillcrest and Preston roads has had as many as 12 break-ins, investigators said.
But police say they hope an old jailhouse interview with James Butters will give homeowners new tools to fight crime. Butters, who broke into 850 homes -- four burglaries per day, six days per week -- agreed to the interview several years ago.
"I think in this particular case, James had committed so many offenses that he was willing to talk about some of the things he had done and wanted to try and make things right," Deputy Chief Jesse Reyes said. "It's good for people to learn what makes their houses vulnerable."
Butters, who targeted homeowners in North Dallas, Richardson and Plano, said he almost always entered through the front or back door between the hours of 8 a.m. and 11 a.m.
"I work the same hours as you do," Butters said in the interview.
"I take off for lunch, because people take off for lunch," he said. "I'll go to work at 8 o'clock in the morning, and 11 o'clock is the latest I'll pull a burglary."
He followed delivery drivers to figure out who was home and who wasn't, and said his job was easy once he was inside.
"Normally, people keep the same items in the same place," he said in the interview. "There's going to be a jewelry box on top of the dresser. If it's not there, it may be in the bathroom closet."
Butters said if it wasn't there, jewelry was under the bed or in the top dresser drawer.
He said guns were under the mattress or in the closet, and cash was under knickknacks or on top of the dresser.
His advice to keep your home safe -- even from an experienced burglar such as himself -- was to "close your blinds, close your curtains, leave the stereo on."
"The best protection you can have if you don't have an alarm is a dog," he said in the interview. "A burglar will not mess with you if you've got a dog."
Butters said he also avoided neighborhoods that tended to have nosy neighbors. When someone came out to see what he was doing, he said he left and never returned.
Butters was released from prison this summer and is believed to be living somewhere in the Tyler area. Police said they don't believe he has any connection to the recent string of break-ins in far North Dallas.


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TRANSFORMING EDUCATION: Delivering on Our Promise to Every Child
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|Transforming Education: Delivering on Our Promise to Every Child
It is imperative that we transform the national education agenda so that each and every child may succeed. CCSSO, has worked in collaboration with members, partners and thought leaders to identify four areas of focus that will lead the systems change necessary for a true transformation of teaching and learning. Those areas are Next Generation Learning; Standards, Assessment, and Accountability; System of Educator Development; and Comprehensive Data Systems.
After receiving feedback on initial white papers in each of the four areas of focus back in November 2008, this whitepaper serves as a discussion document. The main purpose and intention of this document is to fuel discussion, establish a rationale for why we have chosen these four areas of work, highlight the connections among the areas, and outline next steps. The content contained in this document will be used to shape and inform our specific programmatic work, advocacy agenda, fundraising efforts, and other communications materials.


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Global Knowledge and The Open University will launch a new Post-Graduate Certificate in IT Service Management at the SDITS at Earls Court, London on 24-25th April 2012.
The Service Desk & IT Support Show (SDITS) is the only place to see all the latest technology and business services all under one roof. We are pleased to announce that we will be exhibiting this year in conjunction with The Open University on stand 940.
This year the event will hold over 250 technology solutions and business services from the most innovative and trusted suppliers in the industry.
The show aims to give you everything you need for:
- Building team productivity and motivation
- Reducing operational costs
- Developing ITIL® processes
- Maintaining Continual Service Improvement
- Increasing business efficiency
- Identifying the best service desk solution for your organisation
It will also provide a great opportunity to get involved in discussions and debates at the keynote sessions, and receive advice in the expert-led seminars.
Speaking of which… Our very own Barry Corless, Business Development Director for Best Practice at Global Knowledge and Kevin Streater, Head of IT Industry Engagement at The Open University, will host "ITIL expert and beyond… higher is better" seminar at the SDITS on Wednesday 25th April at 13:50 in Seminar Theatre 3.
During this seminar session, Barry and Kevin will discuss how to select your certification route & justify the ROI by linking it to your organisational goal.
To attend this seminar, please register your details online for the SDITS.
You can also attend our free pre-show webinar on 11th April at 13:00 (GMT), where Barry Corless and Kevin Streater talk about taking ITIL® certification to the next level!
Follow our @GKUnitedKingdom Twitter account or Global Knowledge UK Google+ account for more information and live tweets from SDITS 2012.
Please pop by stand 940 to meet our SDITS team… we hope to see you there!
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Due to its "declining financial condition," the Saguache County Credit Union was placed into conservatorship by Colorado regulators and the NCUA was named the conservator, the NCUA announced Friday.
Saguache County CU, headquartered in Moffat, Colo., saw its losses grow from $17,781 in the first quarter to $204,779 in the second quarter, according to the Call Report filed with the NCUA. It has assets of $17.7 million and 3,165 members.
The community development credit union has shown a loss for every quarter for at least the past year, the NCUA report said.
At the end of June, the credit union's net worth ratio was 2.2%, compared with 3% at the end of March. Its delinquent loan ratio was 5% at the end of June, compared with 6.5% at the end of March.
It has had a negative return on average assets for at least the last four quarters. At the end of June, its return on average assets was -2.26%, and it was -.38% at the end of March.
The NCUA said operations will continually normally at all three of the credit union's branches. It is the ninth federally insured credit union placed into conservatorship this year.


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English: Cornflour
tamil: Chola Maavu / Makka Cholam
malayalam: Cholapodi
telugu: Mokkajonnalu Pindi
kannada: Musukinajolada Hittu
hindi: Makai Ka Atta
Bengali: Bhoottar Maida
Gujarati: Makai No Lot
Marathi: Makai Chi Peet
Oriya: Makka Atta / Makaa Chunaa / Makaa Gunda
Punjabi: Makai Ka Atta
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English: All Purpose Flour
tamil: Maida Maavu
malayalam: Maida Mavu
telugu: Maida Pindi
kannada: Maida Hittu
hindi: Maida
Bengali: Maida
Gujarati: Mando
Konkani: Maida
Marathi: Maida
Oriya: Maida
English: Garlic
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malayalam: Veluthulli / Vellulli
telugu: Vellulli / Velluri / Ullipayilu / Vellipaaya / Tellapaayalu / Velluli Payalu
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Bengali: Rasoon / Rashun
Gujarati: Lasan
Konkani: Lahsun / Losan
Marathi: Lasun / Lusson
Oriya: Rasuna
Punjabi: Lassan / Lahsun
Tulu: Bollulli
Kashmiri: Ruhan
Urudu: Lassun / Leshun
English: Cumin Seeds
tamil: Seerakam / Jeerakam
malayalam: Jeerakam
telugu: Jeelakara / Jidakara / Jikaka
kannada: Jeerige
hindi: Jeera / Jeeru / Safaid Jeera / Zeera / Shimai Shombu
Bengali: Jeera / Zeera / Safed Jira
Gujarati: Jeeru / Jiru / Safed Jiraun
Konkani: Jeerey / Jeren
Marathi: Jeera / Jeregire
Oriya: Jira / Jeera
Punjabi: Jira
Kashmiri: Zyur
English: Cumin Powder
tamil: Jeerakapodi
malayalam: Jeerakapodi
English: Chilli Powder
tamil: Mulakupodi
malayalam: Mulakupodi
telugu: Erra Mirapa Kayalu / Yendu Mirapakayalu
kannada: Molaku / Kempu Menasinakai / Ona Menasinakai
hindi: Lal Mirch
Bengali: Paka Lanka / Lal Mirch / Lankamorich
Gujarati: Lal Marcha
Konkani: Sukki Saangi /Suke Miriyasang
Marathi: Lal Mirchi / Mirchya
Oriya: Lanka / Nali Lankamaricha
Punjabi: Lal Mirch
Kashmiri: Marach Wangun
Urudu: Lalmirch
English: Ginger
tamil: Inji
malayalam: Inchi
telugu: Allam / Allamu / Sonthi
kannada: Shunti / Alla / Ashi Shunti / Ardraka
hindi: Adrak / Adu / Soonth
Bengali: Ada
Gujarati: Aadu / Soonth
Konkani: Alley
Marathi: Aale
Oriya: Ada
Punjabi: Adrak
Tulu: Soonthi
Urudu: Adrak / Adhrak
English: Salt
tamil: Uppu
malayalam: Uppu
telugu: Uppu
kannada: Uppu
hindi: Namak
Bengali: Laban / Noone
Gujarati: Meethu
Konkani: Meet
Marathi: Mith
English: oil
tamil: Ennai
malayalam: enna
telugu: camuru
kannada: taila
hindi: tela
Punjabi: moyen
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Mix together corn flour, maida and salt in a tray.
Coat the chicken pieces with the above flour and deep fry it in oil. Keep it aside.
In a vessel, add garlic, dry red chillies and vinegar. Bring it to boil for 4 minutes.
When cooled, grind it into fine paste.
In a pan, add oil.
Add cumin seeds, ginger-garlic paste, cumin powder, chilly powder, salt and tomato ketchup.
Add the fried chicken pieces in it and mix well.
The sauce must be well coated in chicken. Remove from flame
Kerala chilly chicken is ready. Serve hot with chapatti, bread, etc.
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BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) — We make a habit out of not republishing what other media is doing or reporting. BocaNewsNow.com is independent. But giving credit where credit is due, the Post's editorial today calling Sheriff Ric Bradshaw's removal of the booking blotter "apparent retaliation" and "uncalled for" is right on.
BocaNewsNow.com is a hobby that has grown to 150,000 readers a month. It may be a very small operation — and by no means a full time job — but our roots are in national network and local broadcast news. We know the way things are supposed to work, and are constantly amazed that the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office spends more time looking for ways not to deliver information than make it easier for citizens to access.
We have asked — repeatedly — for access to the non-confidential records of what the deputies do in Boca Raton's "District 7." They risk their lives every day. We'd love to report on the good they do. This is information routinely provided by Boca, Delray and Boynton Beach police departments. But PBSO refuses to provide the information — even though Florida law requires the agency to do so.
It's par for the course for an agency that blocks all public access to arrest information as retaliation for the Palm Beach Post asking legitimate, tough questions.
Sheriff Ric Bradshaw's move was unprecedented and, quite frankly, petty. We expect better. Conversations with folks in the State Attorney's Office, the County Commission and even Statewide offices suggest we're not alone. Bradshaw has spent more than a decade in his office which is not term limited and immune from checks-and-balances. The Sheriff is free to do anything he chooses with his roughly $500 million budget. He can only be sidelined by the Governor.
Perhaps it is time for Bradshaw to finish out his term and for term limits to be in place moving forward. We can't blame Sheriff Bradshaw for being a savvy Politico and amassing power over a decade. But the public can change the laws so it doesn't happen again.
Join BocaNewsNow.com founder Andrew Colton next week as he hosts the 610WIOD morning show for Jimmy Cefalo. This topic is likely to come up — unless Sheriff Bradshaw locks him up in a secure, undisclosed location. (We're kidding. We think).
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Anyone cursing his luck at having to travel all the way across the city for a game during the MCA Bonspiel might want to consider just how far Sean Becker and his New Zealand mates have come to find ice time and decent curling competition.
"We're used to doing a lot of travelling to get to our curling because until July of this year we didn't have a single sheet of actual curling ice in New Zealand," Becker's lead Lorne De Pape said.
"We just curled outdoors or out of the country."
Becker's foursome arrived in Winnipeg this week to compete in the 118th annual MCA Bonspiel, an event unlike anything the curlers have seen in their home country.
With 441 teams and more than 1,700 participants, the MCA features more curlers than there are in the entire Pacific region.
"There's double the amount of curlers that we've got in New Zealand competing in this one bonspiel so that's something special to be a part of," Becker said yesterday after his team practised at the St. Vital Curling Club.
Becker, third Hans Frauenlob, second Dan Mustapic and De Pape are on an eight-week, around-the-world curling tour which will end next month in Turin, Italy.
You see, this isn't just a bunch of knee-sliding Kiwi's we're talking about. These guys are Olympians, who managed to qualify for the Turin Games despite the fact that New Zealand's first indoor curling facility (actually, it's the first in the southern hemisphere) was opened just last summer.
"We're not far away (from being medal contenders) and it's only really been lack of practice that has affected us," Becker said.
Becker is a native New Zealander, as is fifth player Warren Dobson, but the other three are Canadians. Frauenlob is from Toronto, Mustapic from Thunder Bay, Ont., and De Pape? Well, this a homecoming for the former Winnipegger.
"I've never competed in the MCA before," said De Pape, who moved to New Zealand 14 years ago as part of his job at Monsanto. "When I lived here, the only bonspiel I was in was an Agriculture (University of Manitoba) all-nighter and we wore cowboy boots and duct tape."
The foursome needs all the practice it can get but these are hardly raw rookies. They competed at the World Curling Championships in 1999, 2001, 2004 and 2005 and had a 5-6 record last year in Victoria. They hope to improve on that with a little fine tuning.
"The MCA seemed like the perfect place to get in lots of games on lots of different ice in lots of conditions," De Pape said.
"Coming to Winnipeg is one of the highlights of our trip. This is certainly the heartland of curling. It kind of blows the guys away when we talk about there being something like 22 curling rinks here and over 120 sheets of curling ice."
New Zealand has never qualified for the Olympics in curling and generally sends a small contingent to the Winter Games. So far, only 11 athletes (five curlers, three snowboarders and three alpine skiers) have qualified but that will constitute the country's largest team ever.
"It won't be until we hit Torino and get our accreditation and get into the village that it will really hit home."
Whether they win a medal or not, the New Zealanders have one distinction they can celebrate.
At 50, De Pape will be the oldest curler at the Olympics, if not the oldest athlete, period.
"I'm 10 months older than (Canadian second) Russ Howard. I thought there would be no one older than a curler, but rumour has it that there's a couple of luge athletes who are older. It doesn't matter to me."


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California Chrome goes for horse racing's Triple Crown this weekend at the Belmont Stakes. Even if he wins, the horse won't likely sell for the top rates -- as high as $60 million -- that we've seen in the past.
So here's a look at some of the other numbers around the horse:
The last year there was a Triple Crown winner. The horse was named Affirmed.
The number of horses that Daily Racing Forum says have been in a similar position to California Chrome since 1978.
How much Peter Bradley III, one of the top bloodstock agents in the country for thoroughbred racing, guesses California Chrome is worth today. Others in the horse racing industry say he's worth a few million more, or a few million less.
How much California Chrome's trainer, Art Sherman, says the horse is worth.
The number of shoe companies sponsoring California Chrome. This week, Skechers announced they were going to sponsor the horse. Though, don't get excited for a horse in sneakers -- California Chrome's trainers will be the ones sporting Skechers' shoes.


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I'm currently frustrated because under iOS, xGPS allowed me to easily download any size area I wanted from Google Maps. I could even use my desktop to download and transfer the map to my phone via WiFi.
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Note, I don't need offline routing or anything. Just a clear, high resolution map, preferably with terrain features, and a GPS dot for where I am.


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How to Run Your Meetings Like Google
Meetings are the last thing anyone wants to see on their calendar. They slow down productivity and can interfere with trying to tie up loose ends on projects. Some days, it seems like meetings will never end, and for some people, they don't. In fact, it's not uncommon for professionals to be forced to set aside actual work until they get home in the evenings because their days are clogged with meetings. So what's the solution?
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If you're looking to end days like this, consider having more meetings like the way Google does. The tech giant has been known for several years to have some of the most efficient processes for holding meetings and ensuring employees can actually get things done — and while still in the office, for that matter.
For example, take how Google revamped meetings back in 2011, when the company was trying to get back to its original values as a startup. According to 99u, Google VP of Business Operations Kristen Gil described some of the new rules Google implemented, including;
- All meetings should have a clear decision maker. This is critical to ensure the meeting stays on track.
- No more than 10 people at a meeting. As Gil writes, "Attending meetings isn't a badge of honor."
- Decisions should never wait for a meeting. Meetings are not the time to make decisions. If a meeting needs to happen to get something done, the meeting should happen as soon as possible.
Another way of approaching meetings the way Google has in the past can be done by implanting strategies utilized by Marissa Mayer, who held several leadership positions at the company before leaving for Yahoo!. According to Bloomberg, Mayer held an average of 70 meetings a week — but didn't waste anyone's time. She made sure her meetings were effective and ensured everyone stayed productive. Here are a few lessons to be learned from the way Google ran meetings during Mayer's tenure:
- Set a firm agenda. Mayer requested a meeting agenda before each meeting to ensure meetings stayed short and to the point.
- Stick to the clock. To add pressure to keep meetings focused, meetings at Google often feature a giant (projected) timer on the wall, counting down the minutes left for a particular meeting or topic.
- Assign a note-taker. Google believes it's critical to capture an official set of notes — and yes, these too are projected in real-time on the wall during meetings, too.
Finally, you may want to consider holding no meetings at all. Rumor has it that Google has "no-meeting weeks" where there are literally no meetings, company-wide. This freedom from meetings encourages employees to not only communicate more effectively, but also get things done — something that is hard to do when you spend your days holed up in conference rooms.
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Great article and reflects – as you'd expect – huge amounts of common sense.
My view is that for meetings to be effective, it's all about the preparation.
For meetings to realize the full benefit, it's then about follow-up and making sure actions and decisions are then pursued and circulated across all the relevant teams.
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Overnight school fieldtrip for a 9 year old?
So I just found at my 4th graders open house last night that they will be going on a 2 day - overnight fieldtrip! Am I crazy to think that this is a bit much for 9 and 10 year olds?? I wasn't the only parent in the room concerned when we heard about it and immediately parents started asking how they could sign up to be a parent volunteer for the trip. Well, the reponse from the teacher was "You can't sign up, we won't be taking any parents!" and the teacher followed it by saying " And following the bus is highly discouraged"!
Now I don't want to over protect and baby my child, but I sure don't recall going on all nighter field trips when I was 9. I didn't do that until high school for heavens sake! Am I overreacting? I talked to my child about it last night and he actually said he didn't want to go because it sounded scary to be so far away by himself.
What do you think?
It does seem a little young for an overnight field trip, but I wouldn't have a problem with it. We are a small school and I trust our staff 100%.
We are in Florida and the trip is to St. Augustine. We are not a small school, it is about 10 4th grade classes with about 22 kids in each. Now, of course the trip is very expensive, like $400.00 I believe and so you would imagine that not every kid goes, but a good majority do from what I heard from last year. Since there are no parents allowed, I'm not sure what the adult to student ratio would be then. Those are all details I still have to find out. I just feel very uneasy being so far away from my kid and god forbid something happens and I am like 8 hours away.
Where are they going? How far away is it?
When my oldest was in 3rd, they took a day trip to Columbus, OH (3 1/2 hours from us). That freaked me out, so, we followed them! Which, by the way was perfectly fine with the school. They made it clear we had to be in our own cars and pay for our stuff. Fourth grade didn't do a big trip last year and I'm awaiting 5th grade trip info. In the past, they've done an overnight thing at Ripley's Aquarium and Dollywood.
My DD did an overnight in 3rd last year but it was at our local zoo and only lasted from 7pm to 10am. I am not sure what the big 4th grade trip is for this year.
I guess it would depend on how far away they were going, where they would be staying, what they would be doing, and how many adults would be going (especially depending on which kids were going...). Most likely I would be ok with my 9yo going, but the biggest concern for me would be the fact that he still has the occasional nighttime accident depending on how much he has to drink in the afternoon...!
The no-parent thing is not such a bad thing--they probably want this to be a class trip, not a family vacation...
We don't do overnighters for school here until sixth grade. However many kids are doing sleep away camp during the summer at that age, so it really isn't as uncommon as you think.


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Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra Visits DePauw for February 9 Concert
February 1, 2008
February 1, 2008, Greencastle, Ind. - The acclaimed Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra -- the orchestra-in-residence of the National Museum of American History, which features two members of the DePauw School of Music faculty -- comes to the University for a Saturday, February 9 concert. The program begins at 7:30 in the Green Center for the Performing Arts' Kresge Auditorium and is free and open to all.
Under the artistic and musical direction of David Baker, the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra (SJMO) serves not only to perpetuate one of America's greatest musical traditions, but also to perform classic jazz as a vital contemporary art form. Baker, who is a distinguished professor of music and chairman of the jazz department at the Indiana University School of Music, is one of the must revered figures in the world of jazz and is known internationally as a composer, conductor, performer, author and educator. Under Baker's direction the SJMO performs a sophisticated repertoire of freshly arranged works by the historical giants of jazz composition as well as newly commissioned works by contemporary composers.
The New York Times has hailed the SJMO as "culturally important" and "spectacular musically." Praise for the SJMO's unique place in America's musical and spiritual heritage has also come from NAACP chairman Julian Bond, who stated, "Jazz is sacred music, and we are blessed to have the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra in our midst."
In the nearly twenty years since its inception, more than a hundred of America's best jazz artists have joined SJMO either as regular members of the eighteen-piece ensemble or as guest performers. That legacy includes two DePauw School of Music faculty members, Randy Salman (pictured above right) and Lennie Foy (seen at left), who respectively blow saxophone and trumpet for the current SJMO ensemble. Like other members of the Orchestra, Salman and Foy regularly travel throughout the U.S. and abroad serving as cultural ambassadors and bearers of one of America's great musical traditions.
Doors will open for the concert at 7 p.m. The Green Center for the Performing Arts is located in the middle of the DePauw campus, at 605 South College Avenue. For information, contact Performing Arts Series coordinator Ron Dye at (765) 658-4689 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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RESEARCHERS FROM the University of Washington's Burke Museum step around a fossilized mammoth tusk that was found earlier earlier this week in Seattle. In the crowded south Lake Union neighborhood where Amazon.com workers go out for espresso, an ice age mammoth died 10,000 years ago and remained until a plumbing contractor crew uncovered its tusk. Paleontologists with the Burke Museum are working with the building contractor to remove the tusk.
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Ulster Unionist Tom Elliott says Republic of Ireland's decision to use map of island on new Irish passport is a 'stupid decision'
Eamon Gilmore: It is a topographical map... it is not intended to be a map of the administrative or political arrangements
The inclusion of an all-island map on the new Irish passport is a "stupid decision" designed to make a political point, an Ulster Unionist MLA claimed last night.
Former party leader Tom Elliott also rejected claims from Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore that the map of the entire island "was not intended to show political or administrative arrangements".
The redesigned passport also includes verse in Ulster Scots for the first time from poet James Orr, a move which has been welcomed by the Ulster-Scots Agency.
The cross-border agency's chief executive also called on the UK Government and Northern Ireland Assembly to follow the Irish government's example.
"Ulster-Scots people have made a huge impact across the British Isles and beyond. Any recognition at governmental level is to be welcomed," Ian Crozier said.
Extracts from the Irish Constitution stating the birthright of anyone born north or south of the border to be part of the Irish nation are prominent throughout the passport. However, at yesterday's launch of the new passport, Mr Gilmore played down the significance of the inclusion of the map of the island, stressing that it was "a topographical map... it is not intended to be a map of the administrative or political arrangements".
It also emerged yesterday that there was no consultation with Northern Ireland Secretary of State Theresa Villiers.
Dismissing any suggestion of territorial connotations, Mr Gilmore said: "The design of passports is not something that we discuss bilaterally or negotiate with another state."
However, Mr Elliott asked last night: "Why did the Irish government need to do this?
"The only reason that I can assume is that they wanted to make a political point and demonstrate they were still holding to the long established territorial claim.
"This was a stupid decision in terms of building good relationships with their neighbours."
Among the design features in the 34-page passport booklet are verses from three poets – Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, William Butler Yeats and James Orr.
Orr, from Co Antrim, and known as the Bard of Ballycarry, wrote in Ulster-Scots.
An excerpt from his poem Written In Winter, along with a specially commissioned drawing to illustrate the verse, covers two pages of the visa sections of the new passport.
Other images include Grianan of Aileach, an ancient fort in Co Donegal linked to the Ulster Ui Neill high kings, and the Rock of Cashel.
Drawings of Gaelic games, dance, fishing and music also feature, along with the national anthem, written in music throughout the booklet.
Asked why there were no images from Northern Ireland, Mr Gilmore – who is Dublin's foreign affairs minister – said drawings and symbols through the passport were "all-island images".
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James Orr, the radical activist, poet and weaver, is widely regarded as the father of Ulster-Scots literature.
He was from a Scottish Presbyterian background and lived and worked in the Scots-speaking Co Antrim village of Ballycarry.
Orr was one of many young Presbyterians of the time inspired by the European Enlightenment and he took part in the 1798 Rebellion. He has now become the first Ulster poet to be featured in the redesigned Irish passport, with the inclusion of an extract from the poem Written In Winter.
Also featured is poetry from WB Yeats and Nuala Ni Dhomhmaill.
Other landmarks featured are Kylemore Abbey, the Aviva Stadium and the Samuel Beckett Bridge over the Liffey, with the Custom House and Dublin Convention Centre in the backdrop.
Half-form images of 14 different river gods -- like those on the Custom House and Liffey bridges, in Dublin city centre -- are at the edge of each page. The images only fully form when two different pages fold back on each other, and Mr Gilmore says this is an additional security feature.
Passports issued from 3 October will have the new design.
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The data gold rush: Companies need the right models and capabilities to monetize data
For financial services firms, the opportunity to monetize customer and transaction is new and compelling – with revenues of US$175-300 billion per year. Financial firms can expect to see nontraditional players trying to muscle into the space. This report identifies five basic business models for using data profitably and effectively.
The data gold rush Companies need the right models and capabilities to monetize data
Boston John Plansky Senior Partner +1-617-521-8801 john.plansky @strategyand.pwc.com Carl Drisko Partner +1-617-521-8809 carl.drisko @strategyand.pwc.com Jamie Solomon Senior Executive Advisor +1-617-521-8800 jamie.solomon @strategyand.pwc.com
Düsseldorf Peter Gassmann Partner +49-69-97167-470 peter.gassmann @strategyand.pwc.com São Paulo Roberto Marchi Partner +55-11-5501-6262 roberto.marchi @strategyand.pwc.com
Sydney Vanessa Wallace Senior Partner +61-2-9321-1906 vanessa.wallace @strategyand.pwc.com Peter Burns Partner +61-2-9321-1974 peter.burns @strategyand.pwc.com
About the authors
John Plansky is a senior partner with Strategy& based in Boston. He specializes in IT strategy, large-scale transformations, and cost fitness initiatives for financial-services firms. He leads the North America digital business and technology practice for Strategy&. Jamie Solomon is a senior executive advisor with Strategy& based in Boston. He has 35 years' experience in business and technology for financial-services firms, focusing on the monetization of data assets. Rebecca Karp was formerly a principal with Booz & Company based in Boston. Carl Drisko is a partner with Strategy& based in Boston. He leads the firm's financial-services IT architecture team and specializes in the architecture, design, and implementation of large mission-critical applications.
This report was originally published by Booz & Company in 2013.
Executive summary
Few financial firms recognize the value of their data. One reason is the newness of the technology. Only recently has it become possible to mine in such quantity this fine-grained information about costs, profits, operations, supplier practices, and (most important) customer behavior. But though the opportunity is new, there is no time to waste. Strategy& estimates that the revenue from commercializing data will be US$175 billion in 2013 and will ramp up to $300 billion per year in the next three to five years across capital markets, commercial banking, consumer finance and banking, and insurance. That kind of opportunity is going to attract interest from many quarters, and financial firms can expect to see nontraditional players trying to muscle into the space. To seize the opportunity, leaders of financial-services companies must first pick an appropriate business model for an enterprise-wide data and analytics transformation strategy. This report identifies five basic business models for using data profitably and effectively. They range from improving your current core business to offering entirely new products and services. No matter which of these models a company chooses, there are five core design principles that it must put in place to pursue a data transformation strategy: understanding its customers, getting to know its data, understanding the value chain, sizing the value, and enhancing the infrastructure.
Data is a valuable asset
Opportunities can hide in plain sight. Consider, for example, the data available to financial-services firms about their customers' behavior, their suppliers' practices, their costs and profits, and their own operations. Data of this sort is so abundant that it is often overlooked. Its growth is so exponential that the companies are unprepared. Its operational challenges are so daunting that many financial-services companies fail to recognize that data is also one of their most valuable assets. In the next five years, fortunes will be made and lost based on which corporate leaders can grasp this fact; reorient their approach; initiate enterprise-wide, data-led transformations; and effectively monetize this new type of asset. But how do you get there? A financial-services company can take advantage of the data gold rush through a three-phase transformation. These phases can occur sequentially, but in some well-designed initiatives, they occur in parallel and reinforce one another's impact. The transformation includes the following phases: 1. Process-led transformation: standardizing and simplifying the front- and back-office processes to be best in class, while focusing operations on the most valuable parts of the business 2. IT-led transformation: using digitization and emerging technologies such as cloud computing and machine intelligence to automate delivery of products and services and create straight-through processing 3. Data-led transformation: monetizing data assets, integrating outside data (perhaps from adjacent industries, new partners, or unstructured data sources) with internal information, and developing analytics to gain powerful insights into customer behavior and supplier capabilities to create new products and services
This report describes the design and practice of data-led transformation and the monetization of data assets. The value of this opportunity for any financial-services firm can be enormous. Strategy& estimates that the revenue from commercializing data and analytics will be US$175 billion in 2013 and will ramp up to $300 billion per year in the next three to five years across four key areas: capital markets (accounting for 30 percent of this potential revenue), commercial banking (20 percent), consumer finance and banking (35 percent), and insurance (15 percent). For many financial-services companies, this will be a game-changing move, allowing them to move beyond enhancing core offerings and enter new industries, reach new customer segments, and drive revenue, profitability, and higher valuations (see Exhibit 1). Recent technology advancements, regulatory developments, and consumer habits are all converging to set the stage for this opportunity. On the technology front, mobility and connectivity allow companies to know where customers are at any moment and to market more easily to individuals, providing such personalized services that they reach the "segments of one." Meanwhile, cloud computing, Hadoop (an open source software project that enables the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of commodity servers), machine intelligence, and other technologies allow companies to process vast quantities of data in real time (or very near real time) and to integrate external structured data, along with internal and external unstructured data, with their own internal structured data. For example, imagine the power of correlating keyword searches and global news mentions, which are both unstructured data sources, to a momentum-trading strategy.
Exhibit 1 Financial-services estimated data monetization market size
Consumer finance and banking
Commercial banking
Capital markets
Total estimated market = US$175M
Source: Strategy&
In the regulatory arena, new oversight requirements since the financial crisis have expanded the categories of data that financial-services firms need to manage, process, and disseminate. For example, new capital and risk analytics will be required to efficiently manage Basel III and Dodd-Frank. Finally, consumer habits and expectations are changing rapidly, driving some consumers to switch their banks and insurance providers. Social sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest have whetted people's appetite for more comprehensive information, and retail sites such as Amazon and eBay are broadly influencing customer experience expectations. Google and eBay are quickly entering into the payments space, demonstrating how nontraditional competitors can enter the landscape via a data advantage. The end result for the industry will be a new group of high-margin business opportunities. This is good news for the industry as a whole, but it is also likely to attract outside firms with expertise in monetizing data. Think of PayPal and Google Wallet as the first of these new competitors. Companies from the computer industry could easily give some established financial firms a run for their money. Strategy& estimates that leading financial firms risk losing 10 percent or more of their potential top-line revenue to nonfinancial competitors within the next few years if they do not move aggressively to transform the enterprise today.
Five basic business models
The first step in seizing the opportunities of data monetization is picking an appropriate business model for your data and analytics transformation strategy. There are five basic models — five ways to use data profitably and effectively (see Exhibit 2). Together they make up a spectrum of activity for transforming your approach to information: • Your current core business, improved through use of enhanced data • Better return on your marketing investment using insights about your customers or transactions
Exhibit 2 Data and analytics transformation spectrum
Enhance current business
Leverage enhanced data for core business Generate new insights
Enter adjacent businesses
White-label capabilities & infrastructure
Develop new businesses
Create new data
Create new offerings
– Seek opportunities to enrich existing service through new data sources – Develop and leverage new platforms – Deliver enhanced services (e.g., in real time)
– Understand deep client insights – Enhance marketing campaign ROI and conversion
– Monetize existing analytics capabilities via white labeling to clients and other partners across the value chain – Commercialize infrastructure to sell platforms as a service
– Partner with adjacent players across the business value chain – Identify new sources of data (e.g., unstructured) to join with existing data sets – Monetize new sets of data
– Develop new sets of analytics and data products (e.g., benchmarks, tools) – Develop new products that benefit from enhanced data and analytics (e.g., real-time net asset value, active non-disclosed exchange traded funds)
Source: Strategy&
• White-label capabilities and infrastructure delivered by other firms • Delivery of new types of data directly to customers • New products and services made possible by data and analytics All these business models will generate incremental revenue. However, some are more transformative than others — in other words, they are more likely to reshape your business overall. Financial-services firms that are creating new data and developing data and analytics products are truly evolving into something more like a technology business. They may even start to enjoy the higher valuation multiples associated with technology and data firms. Corporate leaders can ask themselves a series of questions to understand where they would best fit on the data and analytics transformation spectrum: 1. Does my firm have a strong product set but limited conversions, cross-sells, or marketing results? 2. Do I own the market in key categories but have trouble enticing customers with new products? 3. Do customers need my products in real time or integrated with common industry platforms? 4. Is my firm's accessible data robust? For example, do I see 20 percent or more of the industry's transactions or volume? 5. Can I partner with others to improve the quality, value, and delivery of my data? 6. Can I use data to develop products and services in adjacent or new business sectors? The answers to these questions will help a company identify the best business model for its data and analytics transformation strategy (see Exhibit 3, next page). Frequently, companies will pursue more than one of these models to reach various customers and address different needs.
Exhibit 3 Data and analytics transformation dimensions
Key questions
Leverage enhanced data for core business
Generate new insights
White-label capabilities & infrastructure
Create new data
Create new offerings
1. Does my firm have a strong product set but limited conversions, cross-sells, or marketing results? 2. Do I own the market in key categories but have trouble enticing customers with new products? 3. Do customers need my products in real time or integrated with common industry platforms? 4. Is my firm's accessible data robust? For example, do I see 20 percent or more of the industry's transactions or volume? 5. Can I partner with others to improve the quality, value, and delivery of my data? 6. Can I use data to develop products and services in adjacent or new business sectors?
Source: Strategy&
Case study: Equifax
On the surface, Equifax is a company that sells data and enriched data in the form of credit scores and ratings to risk managers, marketing officers, compliance heads, demand managers, and the like. It is also an anomalous success; its stock price has risen by 50 percent over the past two years, more than double the growth of the S&P 500. What sets Equifax apart is its ability to develop business opportunities across the entire data and analytics spectrum. Like many financial companies, Equifax interacts with a large and diverse set of data assets: customer wealth, fraud and authentication, securities compliance, telephone and utility exchange, and income and employment data. It already has a presence in each of the five business models, with its core business positioned on the far right of the data and analytics spectrum. Most recently, Equifax is expanding into adjacent businesses based on its access to income and employment data from more than 200 million employee records. For example, Equifax's Suspicious ID product provides real-time fraud monitoring capabilities across the company's network of financial institutions as well as related industries, a big improvement over the existing periodic report. Equifax is also focusing on tailored solutions. Its Analytical Sandbox product blends Equifax data and analytics with data and analytics from a specific customer to conduct back testing and scenario testing. The company's ability to develop products and services across the entire data and analytics spectrum is clearly driving growth. In fact, Equifax predicts multiyear growth of 7 to 10 percent (with acquisitions), including 2 to 3 percent growth fueled by new products and innovation in data and analytics.
Design principles
No matter where your company currently sits on the data and analytics transformation spectrum, one goal should be to fill in areas of the spectrum you don't currently occupy. This typically means moving to the right, where new data and new offerings can yield new business. There are five core design principles that companies must have in place to pursue such a data transformation strategy. Understand your customers: Continually learn about and manage customer needs, a process that should include a deep segmentation analysis to unearth customer requirements and preferences. This goes beyond enhancing products and services to fill unmet needs. It means understanding the delivery and integration models that clients require in order to benefit from those enhancements. In other words, it's not enough to offer a useful product; the company must also deliver data using tools and platforms that customers can easily integrate into their advisory platforms, trading platforms, analytic desktops, order management systems, middle-office systems, and back-office systems. For example, a tool to help investment managers understand fund flows needs to integrate into their systems in real time to be useful at the point of sale. Get to know your data: Catalog and map data housed across all business lines to develop an enterprise-data taxonomy and identify opportunities. For example, one capital markets firm mapped its full range of data and analytics capabilities and channels to identify those it could use to build new products and services. The firm then prioritized those data sets, favoring the ones with the most immediate promise. For instance, it built a new business generating intraday risk measurements, combining its capabilities in investment risk management and its enhanced data storage capacity. This was linked with proprietary data that, in combination with outside data, generated additional product opportunities, such as an intraday risk analytics tool kit. Understand the value chain: Develop insights into partners and competitors across the value chain, including upstream suppliers and other partners of your clients, paying particular attention to where
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Case study: Tesco
U.K.-based supermarket giant Tesco is a prime example of a nonfinancial company that's using data to compete effectively with traditional financial players. Until 2008, the company ran Tesco Bank as a 50/50 joint venture with the Royal Bank of Scotland. That year Tesco bought out RBS and began developing a completely new infrastructure for the business, built a new team, and brought in new expertise. The transition was not always smooth — for instance, online customers were locked out of accounts for several days in 2011 when Tesco moved data from the RBS systems to its own — but it's now complete. To fully exploit this treasure trove of data, the company took a significant stake in Dunnhumby, a U.K. data mining firm that will help Tesco monetize the consumer data from both the retail and banking operations. At its core, Tesco Bank is underpinned by the Clubcard. The insights the bank gains from the Clubcard customer data allow the company to understand customer needs and make the most relevant offers in the store and in the bank. The Clubcard credit card rewards customers with points whenever they use their card — one Clubcard point for every £4 (US$6.12) spent. Clubcard customers can also receive preferential deals when buying Tesco Bank products — including discounts on car, home, pet, and travel insurance — and can use points to buy Tesco Bank insurance. This year, Tesco Bank gave customers around £70 million (US$107 million) worth of points to spend in the store or on Clubcard rewards. In terms of systems and IT, Tesco's new platforms significantly improve customer service. Instant decisions are now possible on loan applications, and customers can open and fund savings accounts in just 10 minutes rather than the two weeks required in the past. The conversion is still in its early days, but Tesco's efforts are paying dividends in the form of increased market share across a range of products. In 2009, Tesco Bank credit cards made up 9 percent of all MasterCard and Visa credit card transactions in the U.K., and by 2012 that figure had grown to 12 percent. Meanwhile, from 2008 to 2012, the company's car insurance gross written premiums increased by 39 percent and pet insurance gross written premiums rose 44 percent.
market adjacencies offer new opportunities to leverage your data. For example, by understanding how merchants interact with order management system vendors, a payments company can identify potential partnerships and opportunities for its data. One merchant might benefit from a better understanding of segment-specific demand patterns; another might benefit from understanding sales volume by time of day. To identify these relationships and opportunities, it's helpful to map the data ecosystem to see your adjacent relationships, as well as those relationships' adjacent relationships, and so on. Size the value: Understanding the market opportunity for commercializing data is a key design principle. Each of these business models can yield a substantial internal rate of return; indeed, each of them can be self-funded with the right design. One reason is that
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investing to digitize your business can save 25 to 35 percent in operating costs. To size value, you need to understand your competitors and your own key inputs — such as the various costs — as well as the marketplace demand for the data products. Enhance the infrastructure: At the foundation of the data strategy must be an information technology infrastructure that is sophisticated, transparent, and flexible enough for a company to unlock the value of its data. At a minimum, the infrastructure needs to provide single sources of data truth, real-time data for messaging and transactions that can be monetized (even without additional analytics), and a highly available infrastructure. These five core design principles should guide your practice as you design and execute your strategy for monetizing data. You will invest and manage a host of new activities (see Exhibit 4). They will enable you to build the capabilities you need for the data gold rush.
Exhibit 4 Building capabilities for the data gold rush
- Invest in continuous learning and management of clients' or customers' unmet needs across the value chain. - Truly understand the delivery and integration models that clients require to benefit from enhancements to products or new products and services. - Understand, catalog, and map data housed across all business lines. - Map data and analytics services across business units to understand what types of capabilities can be leveraged to build new products and services. - Determine additional opportunities across the value chain by developing insights into adjacencies, for both data and partners. - Create a comprehensive view of the data ecosystem. - Combine "internally owned" structured data with both internal and externally sourced semi-structured and unstructured data, market data, telemetry data, etc. - Seek out opportunities to enhance the core business or develop new products and services. - Put in place a data infrastructure that can provide the necessary foundation to enable the organization to unlock the value of data assets. - Continue to evaluate core capabilities to determine what suits the particular situation best.
Investment in continuous improvement Cataloging & mapping existing data Developing insight adjacencies Combining structured & unstructured data
Building data infrastructure
Source: Strategy&
Most financial-services companies still don't think of their data as an asset they can monetize if they build the right capabilities. They're overlooking an opportunity in plain sight. Not only can they make better use of their data to enhance products and services for current clients, but new technologies now allow them to take the next step and combine their data with external data. This marriage will create powerful new insights into the customer and supply base and could transform the enterprise, unleashing a whole new generation of highmargin products and services for current customers and customers in adjacent markets. The enormous revenue potential will not go ignored by others. If financial-services firms don't embark on data-led transformations to seize this opportunity, more nimble nonfinancial players surely will.
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This report was originally published by Booz & Company in 2013.
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Olympus E-P3 Compact System Cameras
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The Olympus E-P3 is the third top-of-the-line flagship Pen camera from Olympus. It has a newly-designed 12-megapixel sensor and new image processing for improved image quality. The E-P3 boasts the world's fastest auto focus and the 3-inch OLED touch screen LCD has touch screen auto focus and shutter controls. The E-P3 is the first Olympus Pen camera to have full HD 1920 x 1080 AVCHD video.
Olympus E-P3 Pen Pro Review
The Olympus E-P3 is the third-generation flagship camera in the Olympus Pen line of Micro Four Thirds format mirrorless, interchangeable lens cameras. It has a 12-megapixel Live MOS sensor, seriously improved auto focus, full HD video, a beautiful OLED (organic light emitting diode) touchscreen display, a solid metal body and pro-level exposure controls. The Olympus Pen system has matured considerably since the E-P1 was introduced in the summer of 2009. The lens selection has and there are now ten dedicated Olympus Micro Four Thirds lenses, including three fast primes. There are also a whole bunch of non-Olympus Micro Four Thirds lenses available now. I've been using the Olympus pen cameras since they were first introduced and I think the new sensor, OLED display, faster auto focus and refined design make the Olympus E-P3 the best Pen camera yet... Continue reading →
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Submitted by Stephen Reese a Intermediate
Date Reviewed: January 23, 2012
Strengths: Of course it would be worthless if it was only eye candy. I was expecting to have to shoot RAW files, but the out of camera JPEGS are amazing. Plus if you want to fine tune the JPEG the settings allow you two tweak them to suit your sensibility. ISO up to 1600 looks terrific and if you are in a jam the higher ISOs are useable. The OLED viewfinder is iPhone quality gorgeous. And while I thought the touchscreen interface was a feature that I wouldn't use, it is thoughtfully configured and more importantly responsive. Most reviews rave about the lightening fast focus...and I agree. There' s a little hunting and pecking at incredibly low light levels but manual focusing is easy. I am crazy happy with my PEN.
Weaknesses: Let's be honest--this camera is expensive. Yes, there are better micro 4/3 capable of producing higher resolution photos with lower noise. If you include the cost of a good quality prime you are looking at the equivalent of a mid-range DSLR like the Nikon D90. But I would make the same purchase decision of the Olympus PEN E-P3 in a second.
Ideally the perfect PEN camera would have an integrated viewfinder. After using this camera for 4 days I decided to purchase the VF-2 accessory viewfinder. I went with the VF-2 instead of the more current VF-3 because of the glowing reviews it received. The VF-3 resolution is not as good as the model it replaced. The VF-2 was a GREAT purchase.
To put it gently, the sensor has some mileage on it. I am perfectly fine with the 12.3MB sensor size, but I have to believe that a more contemporary sensor would result in even better image quality. The PEN E-P3 does have an updated processor which is reasponsible for its increased processing speed.
About my Purchase:
My online purchase was a 2 step process which is a hassle. The online price does not include "insurance" so you are required to call to speak with an associate to complete the order. Of course the call involved several sale pitches for add-ons and upgrades of accessories. But after sealing the deal--which included an upgraded spare battery and a service contract--their price was still the best price I could find on the net.
Bottom Line:
I had to write this one because my PEN e-P3 exceeded my expectations--which doesn't happen very often. First, this camera is like a Faberge jewel. It is beautifully crafted with great attention to detail. I spent months doing research and I am so glad I chose this over DSLRs. You will not be disappointed! My rating is a 4.5 but since the rating scale does not accommodate half stars, I gave it a 4. If the sensor was a more contemporary one, I would have given it a 5.
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