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A Longitudinal Study of Corporate and Organisational Identity DynamicsKjærgaard, Annemette; Morsing, Mette (København, 2005)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Research on identity has raised attention to the importance for managers to align corporate and organisational identity, and to express those identity features that are central, distinct and enduring to strengthen corporate image and reputation among a variety of stakeholders. Drawing from an extensive data collection from two longitudinal studies in the same organisation, Oticon A/S, this study challenges the advantage of an enduring corporate identity by exploring how the dynamics between an organisation's corporate identity and its organisational identity unfolded over time. Following a grounded theoretical approach, a process model is developed to show how the strong corporate identity fluctuated from being productive for the alignment of organisational identity and member identification to being counterproductive during a period of ten years. The paper discusses the implications of endurance of a strong corporate identity, and contrary to prior research we suggest that a strong corporate identity may result in member disidentification. We also suggest that a strong enduring corporate identity may impede organisational development, because top management will disappoint external and internal audiences if a corporate identity change is suggested. The paper concludes by encouraging more longitudinal research to advance knowledge about the complex dynamics of interplay between corporate and organisational identity. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6451
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a study of how organisational identity influences the strategy-making processKjærgaard, Annemette (København, 2004)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Organisations have to deal with increasingly complex and turbulent environments, which demand that they continuously change and adapt to new circumstances or challenges. One way for organisations to cope with these challenges is to manage the strategy-making process in order to ensure that a continuous stream of new ideas and initiatives create new opportunities and ensure that the company stays viable by adapting to new internal and external challenges. This has been pursued in studies of strategy formation (Mintzberg, 1978), strategic change (Pettigrew, 1988) and internal corporate venturing (Burgelman, 1983b, 2002) and is still a central issue in the strategic management discourse. It is generally acknowledged that continuous change is important for organisations' survival in a changing world. On the other hand the need for stability and continuity in form of a clear and strong corporate identity is also acknowledged to be critical for organisational success (Collins & Porras, 1994). Where the organisational identity works to ensure consistency in the company's strategic action, the strategy making process works to renew the current concept of strategy (Burgelman, 1983b). Organisations thus face a dilemma when they engage in strategy-making to reconcile the perpetual tension between continuity and change (Burgelman, 2002). This challenge is far from new and has been discussed as e.g. the balance between exploration and exploitation (March, 1991). This article attempts to answer the question of how organisational actors' perception of organisational identity influences the strategy-making process during organisational change. The study adopts an evolutionary approach to the unfolding of the strategy-making process, using the variation-selection-retention framework of cultural evolutionary theory (Aldrich, 1999; Campbell, 1969; Weick, 1979), which has been applied to the strategy-making process by Burgelman in several of his works (Burgelman, 1983a, 1983b, 1991, 2002, 2003). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6497
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Kjærgaard, Annemette (Frederiksberg, 2015)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This document describes the pedagogical principles that guide teaching and learning at Copenhagen Business School (CBS). The purpose of making the pedagogical principles explicit is to guide and inspire students, faculty and administrative staff who are involved in designing, implementing or evaluating teaching and learning activities. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9263
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Kjærgaard, Annemette (Frederiksberg, 2012)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Vi afholdt i efterårssemestret 2012 en fastholdelsesworkshop for de nye studerende på HA(it) med økonomisk støtte fra uddannelsesdekanen. I denne rapport vil vi kort gøre rede for forløbet samt de umiddelbare reaktioner fra de studerende som deltog. Det er først muligt at sammenligne tal for frafald med tidligere årgange til sommer 2013, når de studerende aktivt skal semestertilmelde sig, så denne rapport har ingen resultater ift fastholdelsesmålet. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8652
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A new point of view in the IS reference discipline discussionKjærgaard, Annemette; Vendelø, Morten Thanning (København, 2007)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Information Systems scholars continuously debate about the nature of the IS discipline. Recently a series of articles have discussed whether the IS field has reached the status of a reference discipline. We address this issue by examining the application of the theory of sensemaking in IS research. Our findings show that the prospects for IS as a reference discipline are not promising. Based on these findings we suggest that IS scholars hallucinate when they a) assume that to become a 'real' academic discipline, IS has to become a reference discipline, and b) believe that IS will become a reference discipline in time. Hence, we describe the IS reference discipline discussion as a misconception, which should be abandoned in the pursuit of a stronger IS discipline. Academic legitimacy, information systems research, reference disciplines, theory application, theory of sensemaking URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6452
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Understanding ERP Usage as Complex Responsive Processes of Conversations in the Daily Practices of a Special Operations ForceChristiansen, Ulrik; Kjærgaard, Annemette; Hartmann, Rasmus Koss (Frederiksberg, 2011)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Organizations are met with increasing demands for being in strategic control. According to conventional managerial wisdom, clearly defined tasks, uniform processes, thorough documentation and strategic oversight are all perceived as part and parcel of making large and unwieldy organizations manageable, transparent and efficient (Johnson, Scholes, & Whittington, 2008; Kaplan & Norton, 2008). To live up to these demands, numerous efforts have been undertaken, including the design and implementation of management information systems. These systems, as epitomized in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, seek to bring the organization under strategic control by creating a unified infrastructure for collecting and analyzing data from virtually all fields of organizational operations to enable planning and monitoring of activities (Kallinikos, 2006). Expectations of these systems at all levels of the organization are high as they are expected to create organizational transparency and oversight for decision making (Hanseth, Ciborra, & Braa, 2001). In this paper, we explore how ERP systems are used and impact local practice in a specialized unit within The Danish Defense. Specifically, we ask what role SAP R/31 plays in enabling and constraining everyday local practice and the handling of complexity and uncertainty at the organizational front‐line. We draw on a case study conducted in a special operations force unit within the Danish Defense, "The Frogman Corps". The case illuminates the difficulties of using ERP systems for management control in organizations experiencing complex operational conditions, including tension between centralized control and uniformity on the one hand and unpredictability and need for decentralized decision making on the other hand. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8364
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SOURCE: STMicroelectronics
March 18, 2013 03:39 ET
GENEVA--(Marketwire - Mar 18, 2013) - Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) and STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) today announced an agreement on the way forward for the joint venture (JV) ST-Ericsson. As communicated by the parent companies in December 2012, both have been working together toward a strategic solution for the JV. After months of intensive joint work, the parent companies have selected the strategic option which maximizes their respective future prospects and growth plans.
The main steps agreed upon to split up the JV are the following:
The formal transfer of the relevant parts of ST-Ericsson to the parent companies is expected to be completed during the third quarter of 2013, subject to regulatory approvals.
After the split up it is proposed that Ericsson will assume approximately 1,800 employees and contractors, with the largest concentrations in Sweden, Germany, India and China.
It is also proposed that ST will assume approximately 950 employees, primarily in France and in Italy, to support ongoing business and new products development within ST.
Today, it is also announced that Carlo Ferro is appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of ST-Ericsson, effective April 1, 2013. Ferro is currently Chief Operating Officer of ST-Ericsson and succeeds Didier Lamouche who, as previously announced, will pursue opportunities outside the company. Ferro will lead the work in securing both business continuity of ST-Ericsson and effective completion of the transition phase.
Hans Vestberg, President and CEO, Ericsson and Chairman of the Board of Directors, ST-Ericsson said: "I welcome Carlo Ferro as the new President and CEO of ST-Ericsson. Carlo has over twenty years of experience in the semiconductor industry and a strong track record in driving and managing complex transformation projects. He has been a contributor to the solid progress ST-Ericsson has made the past year in terms of strategy execution and significantly lowering the breakeven point."
"In line with what we announced in December last year, we have now moved to the next step of our exit process and found a solution with Ericsson that fully aligns with our new strategy", said Carlo Bozotti, President and CEO of ST. "The agreement made with Ericsson represents a major step forward in reaching our new financial model target and allows us to further strengthen the skillsets of our company, by welcoming in ST, at completion, additional strong competences to fuel growth in specific key product areas. Moreover, it protects and leverages the ongoing ST-Ericsson's business, allowing us to reinforce our relationships with key customers, both of ST and of ST-Ericsson".
With the proposed transfer of competencies from ST-Ericsson, ST will further strengthen its capabilities in the areas of application processors, RF, analog and power as well as software and complex system integration. In addition, ST-Ericsson's portfolio includes devices that are complementary to ST's focus on the fastest growing segments of the wireless semiconductor market, such as system-optimized analog mixed signal and power management devices, high-quality, low-power audio and video enhancements and innovative energy harvesting solutions.
The agreement is fully in line with ST's financial model target of an operating margin of 10 percent or more and with plans to reduce quarterly net operating expenses to an average quarterly rate in the range of $600 million to $650 million by the beginning of 2014.
In addition, as a result of the agreement, ST expects to incur cash costs, including the covering of ST-Ericsson's ongoing operations during the transition period and its restructuring costs, in the range of approximately $350 million to $450 million, narrower than the range provided at the end of January 2013.
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This Press Release contains statements of future expectations and other forward-looking statements (within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 or Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, each as amended). These statements include expectations regarding our new strategic plan, including expected benefits, future financial and operating results and expectations regarding events or developments that we believe or anticipate will or may occur in the future. These statements are based on management's current views and assumptions, and are conditioned upon and also involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results, performance or events to differ materially from the forward-looking statements contained in this Press Release. Such risks and uncertainties include the continuing difficult macro-economic and industry conditions and trends in the semiconductor sector and the other risks detailed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission in particular our Annual report on Form 20F filed on March 4, 2013. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially which could have a material adverse effect on our business and/or financial condition. We do not intend, and do not assume any obligation, to update any forward looking statements set forth in this Press Release.
STMicroelectronics Conference Call and Webcast information
The press release will be available immediately after publication on the Company's website at www.st.com.
The management of STMicroelectronics will conduct a conference call on March 18, 2013 at 9:00 a.m. Central European Time / 4:00 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time, to discuss the agreement with Ericsson, followed by a Q&A session. Dial-in information is:
+41 58 310 5000 (Europe)
A live webcast of the conference call will also be available via the Internet by accessing http://investors.st.com.
About STMicroelectronics
ST is a global leader in the semiconductor market serving customers across the spectrum of sense and power and automotive products and embedded processing solutions. From energy management and savings to trust and data security, from healthcare and wellness to smart consumer devices, in the home, car and office, at work and at play, ST is found everywhere microelectronics make a positive and innovative contribution to people's life. By getting more from technology to get more from life, ST stands for life.augmented.
In 2012, the Company's net revenues were $8.49 billion. Further information on ST can be found at www.st.com
Biography for Carlo Ferro
Carlo Ferro has been the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of ST-Ericsson since February 2012.
He has been a Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of STMicroelectronics since May 2003 and over time his responsibilities have been extended to include investor relations, treasury, corporate communication, operation planning, procurement and logistics. He has also been a member of ST's Corporate Strategic Committee.
Ferro joined ST in 1999 as Group Vice President Corporate Finance. In 2002, he became Deputy CFO, and was promoted to Chief Financial Officer in 2003.
With ST-Ericsson, Ferro led the execution of a transformation and restructuring plan that allowed the Company to substantially lower its break-even point and reduce its losses by 55% in three quarters while accelerating new-product development by improving R&D efficiency. After Ferro joined the Company, ST-Ericsson showed improved discipline in execution, delivering on or above target on almost all metrics in all quarters. During his tenure as COO, employee motivation and confidence in the management team improved thru the period, as measured by a substantially increased score in the employee engagement survey.
As ST's CFO, Ferro has contributed to executing a strategy of growth combined with financial discipline: from 2005 through the end of 2011, ST grew its revenues by about 6% CAGR (ex. divestitures) and improved its net cash balance by $1.4 billion. In addition, through the market turmoil of 2008-2011, ST maintained a solid capital structure, improving its net financial balance and maintaining a credit rating well above investment grade, while both substantially investing to fuel business growth and increasing the dividend distribution. Ferro inspired and delivered on ST's strategy of a focused product portfolio that led to the creation of Numonyx, a merger of the flash memory businesses of ST and Intel. He also drove the subsequent merger of Numonyx into Micron Technologies that allowed ST to improve its capital structure by about $1 billion and Numonyx' employees to join a sustainable worldwide leader in memories. With ST, Ferro oversaw several major restructuring efforts that led to a consolidation of the number of silicon fabs from 17 to 8 and the reduction of the number of non-manufacturing sites by about one third. Focusing on execution and financial discipline, under his tenure as CFO, ST posted quarterly results within guidance for 33 quarters out of 35. Recognizing his credibility and care of public investors, in 2006 Ferro was recognized to be among the best European CFOs by Institutional Investor.
At Finmeccanica, the leading Italian high-tech engineering and manufacturing group and, at that time, a shareholder of SGS-THOMSON Microelectronics (now STMicroelectronics) from 1992 to 1996, Carlo Ferro gained extensive experience in Planning and Control, Corporate Finance and M&A. In fact, he was part of the ST IPO team in 1994 and had been associated as an expert to the ST Supervisory Board. Over the next three years, he held executive positions for Elsag Bailey Process Automation NV (EBPA), a global leader in process automation listed on the NYSE, first as Vice President for Strategic Planning, and later as Vice President for Planning and Control and principal financial officer, leading these functions in phases of acquisitions and consolidation until the merger between EBPA and ABB.
Ferro had been the Chairman of Incard SA, the sole Managing Director of ST Service Srl, a member of the Board and Chairman of the Audit Committee of ST-NXP Wireless and ST-Ericsson till February 2012. He has also been a member of the governance bodies of several companies, including STS (a manufacturing JV in China), ST's affiliates in Singapore, Japan, France and Italy, a former joint-venture between ST and Hitachi, DNP Photomask Europe, and, earlier in his career, of several companies in process automation, engineering, transportation, electronic and power generation businesses.
A Swiss and Italian citizen, born in Savona, Italy, in 1961, Carlo Ferro is married with two children. A graduate in Business and Economics from the LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome, where he served as a professor of Planning and Control and as an associate professor of Advanced Finance in various periods. He is a Certified Public Accountant registered in Italy.
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Computer viruses became more intricate and spread at a faster speed in the first half of 2003, posing a grave threat to computer networks, Symantec Corp. reported Wednesday.
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These threats are also spreading faster than ever before. The Slammer worm had a worldwide impact within a few hours, while the Blaster virus infected around 2,500 computers every hour.
What is the internet coming to? Soon we will have to go back to the dark ages.
- The mind is too beautiful to waste...
Computers are becoming cheaper and there apparently is a greatly increased number of malicious "hackers" and virii writers.
What is the internet coming to? Soon we will have to go back to the dark ages.
Not if people become security literate and protect themselves; two, the people who are writing this code need to grow up. It's not funny to shut down peoples computers, **** them up, or flood the interenet any more than it is for any malicious "hacker"(mainly skiddies) to run some program they do not even understand and mess with peoples computers.
Main Points:
1) The public needs to be security literate
2) Skiddies and virii writers need to grow up
It takes time to make people security conscious... but time won't make the others grow up
i hate viruses, its a waste of tanlent
You need talent to create a virus? No way... virus creation kits?
However, if you mean waste of talent fixing/protecting against, then I completely agree.
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I read last weekend (can't remember where) that the University of Quebec will be including a course on writing virii in it's CS curriculum. The idea is that if people understand how they work they wil be better preparred to deal with them.
That was the universities point of view. I happen to vehemently disagree.
If i can find the article I'll come back and edit...
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Hi Folks,
All of a sudden I feel very, very, old. I can remember the days when we connected at 9,600 Baud (roughly equivalent to BPS).
I remember one of my people developing an internal communications system to run on an IBM S/38, and us discussing what to call it, we chose "e-mail" ...............my PC booted DOS (about v3.0, I think) There were probably a few dial-up BBS sites around, but no internet as we know it now.
My point is that I consider the Symantec analysis to be a bit "weak".............of course malware is travelling faster and further...it is called technology. My current modem would fire crap out at 578,000Bps..................we have cable, satellite and DSL? There are more targets?
A biological analogy................if there are 5 farmers living twenty miles apart and one contracts strep throat..............chances are the others won't?.......50,000 soldiers on an army camp an the MO will be quite busy?
It is all down to technology and environment IMHO
Just my £0.02
A biological analogy................if there are 5 farmers living twenty miles apart and one contracts strep throat..............chances are the others won't?.......50,000 soldiers on an army camp an the MO will be quite busy?
Very good analogy nihil!! I like it.
You are right that with more targets connected together on faster communications systems there will of course be more infections occurring faster.
I think the thing that concerns me more than that is the fact that the timespan from vulnerability discovery to exploit code to worm is getting shorter and shorter. Slammer exploited a hole that was 6 months old. Blaster exploited a hole that was about 6 weeks old.
Patching is a full-time job and then some these days (maybe they should come out with a MCPI (Microsoft Certified Patch Implementer) certification- it would be a high-demand cert these days!!). When you have vulnerabilities coming out weekly and it takes a month to patch the tens of thousands of computers in your environment but the malicious coders of the world come out with an exploit worm in 2 weeks it poses a huge problem.
The other huge problem- which has been covered in other threads- is that security education is only half the battle. Even a well-educated and intelligent home user can not feasibly keep his system patched over a 56k dial-up connection. Windows 2000 SP4 is 130Mb- it would take more than 5 hours to download on an excellent, noise-free connection. Worms like Slammer and Blaster can infect a vulnerable machine in about 1 minute.
They need to come up with alternative means of distributing the patches like making them freely available on CD at Best Buy, CompUSA, Walmart, Blockbuster- anywhere that consumers can just go get the CD for free to patch their computer rather than trying to download it.
Anyway- kudos again on the great analogy!
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I'm sure any virus writers and blackhats here on AO will flame me for this but I think the more virus writers and blackhat hackers they throw in jail the better. It will send a strong message that this is not being put up with!
I read somewhere that the reason why (speculation of course here) a new worm exploiting the MS RPCSS vulnerability hasn't been released yet as predicted was because the hackers/writers were hiding underground due to all the arrests and investigative activity focused around the Blaster worm...who knows maybe some truth to that speculation??!?
I realize this doesn't cure the root problem and is only a deterence but I think it would help greatly since we are really starting from a very low prosecution rate now.
We do also need to understand the WHY DO THEY DO IT better and work on that core too!
...hey the damn software needs to be fixed and better developed too...I know.
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I am planning a garden in Seattle and my highest priority is to attract birds. Do you have a list of plants I can use as a reference?
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Source: Landscaping for Wildlife in the Pacific Northwest, by Russell Link (University of Washington Press, 1999, p. 48).
There is a lot of good advice on planning your garden with birds (and other creatures) in mind.
Washington Native Plant Society has a resource page devoted to native plants for wildlife.
The Miller Library has a booklist featuring titles on attracting wildlife to the garden: Information Resources for Gardening with Wildlife.
Another good source for this information is Native Plants of the Northwest, by Wallace W. Hansen.
Scroll down to Wallys Wildlife Habitat Recommendations.
Following is an annotated list of plants that attract birds for western Washington: the oaks, chinquapin, Oregon myrtle, western hazelnut, cascara, and all trees in the Rose family (hawthorn, bitter cherry, chokecherry and Pacific crabapple). Native shrubs include: serviceberry, salal, all Oregon grapes, Indian plum, bittercherry, roses, blackcap, thimbleberry, salmonberry, Pacific blackberry, red and blue elderberries, russet buffaloberry, mountain ash, snowberry, and all huckleberries.
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It would take two weeks to see everything and attend all the seminars, luncheons and breakfasts at the 36th annual World Ag Expo Feb. 11-13 at the International Agri-Center show grounds just off Highway 99 south of Tulare, Calif.
There are only eight hours on Tuesday and Wednesday and seven on Thursday to traverse the 2.1 million square feet of exhibit space housing 1,400 exhibitors.
Throw in attendance at one or two of the seminars offered and time will seem to disappear faster than the time it takes to get your rubber boots out of the pickup and head to the gates to pay the $7 each day to get in. There is a discount $18 three-day pass for those who want to try to see everything in three days.
Gates open at 9 a.m. each day. They close at 5 p.m. the first two days and at 4 p.m. the third day.
Things are getting so jammed, farm show week events at the show grounds begin on Monday this year featuring an environmental issues forum; the California World Ag Expo kickoff luncheon, with U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and Californian Ann Veneman invited and the Fourth Annual Women Leaders in Agriculture Conference.
Information booths
When the show officially opens on Tuesday, information booths will be manned by volunteers to help attendees find particular products or exhibitors.
Food booths on the grounds are operated by non-profit organizations.
The Tulare farm show likes to ballyhoo its international flavor, although the overwhelming majority of visitors are Californians with many farm visitors from other states.
The International Business Center, located on the top floor of the Heritage Complex on the show grounds, is the center of many import-export trade negotiations each year during World Ag Expo. There is a pool of 76 interpreters who translate into 17 languages, including sign language. In addition, export seminars from leading export professionals are presented there.
First opened for the 1992 show, the International Business Center is expecting to host representatives from 60 nations.
"To show our interest in connecting the agricultural community from around the world, we have created a professional environment, as well as a social one," Dan Khal, World Ag Expo chairman says.
To that purpose, the John Deere Co. will host the annual reception for international visitors and exhibitors on Wednesday evening from 5-7 p.m.
Seminar topics
There also will be a free series of export seminars aimed at helping farmers, ranchers and dairymen gain knowledge about doing business in the global market.
Seminar topics include resources to conduct international trade, exporting cotton, China as a market and competitor, U.S.-Cuba trade, south of the border trade and increasing profits while reducing costs.
"With the international market changing rapidly," noted Khal, "We feel that one of our responsibilities, as the largest farm trade show in the world, is to keep our visitors informed. We have always recognized that doing business internationally is a key component of being successful in agriculture."
World Ag Expo 2003 has once again been chosen to participate in the prestigious U.S. Department of Commerce International Buyer Program.
Seminars are held in the 89-seat Wells Fargo Theatre of Heritage Complex on the International Agri-Center grounds.
The schedule of seminars is:
Tuesday, Feb. 11:
10 a.m. Let's Talk Trade! Resources to Help You Conduct International Trade — An introduction to international trade resources available from public and private sectors.
11 a.m. Trade opportunities with our neighbors to the south — Latin America.
Noon: Mexico and agricultural trade policy.
1 p.m. Exporting cotton under the new farm bill.
2 p.m. Cuba: A new export market for U.S. companies.
3 p.m. China as a market and competitor for California agriculture.
Wednesday, Feb. 12:
10 a.m. California raisins for Cuban cigars?
11 a.m. Wine and agricultural exporters.
1 p.m. Reduce cost and increase profits through exporting.
3 p.m. Global market for agricultural equipment and implications of trade promotion.
Thursday, Feb. 13:
10 a.m. - South of the border trade opportunities.
11:30 a.m. Getting your share of the international on-line marketplace.
12:30 p.m. Are you ready for China.
For those more interested in irrigating than exporting, there will be free irrigation seminars at Edison AgTAC, across form the farm show grounds.
These Seminars are coordinated with two top western agricultural universities. Attendees can see the latest technology on energy efficiency and tomato irrigation.
Following is the schedule of irrigation seminars:
Tuesday, Feb. 11:
8:30 — 11 a.m. and 1:30 — 4 p.m.: Saving energy and money on the farm presented by the Center for Irrigation Technology at CSU Fresno and sponsored by the California Energy Commission.
Wednesday, Feb. 12:
9 a.m.-Noon: Drip irrigation on canning tomatoes presented by the Irrigation Training and Research Center (ITRC) at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, sponsored by USBR and Mid-Pacific Region.
One of the luncheons at the show will feature Leon Panetta, former White House Chief of Staff, as the keynote speaker at the Ag Leadership Alumni Breakfast on the last day of the show.
And, there are even more events like the following:
Tuesday, Feb. 11:
10:30 a.m. - Prevention of ag terrorism. Speakers to include top state and federal officials.
11:15 a.m. - The economic effects of 9/11 on agriculture. Dr. Thomas L. Cox, professor of agricultural economics at University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Noon — What's going on in the water world? Speakers: Bruce George, general manager of the Kaweah Delta Water Conservation District, and Dick Moss, consultant and former manager of the Friant Water Users Association.
Wednesday, Feb. 12:
7 a.m.- Ag Expo prayer breakfast at Heritage Complex.
7 a.m. to Noon: Tulare-Kings CAPCA meeting at the International Agri-Center Social Hall.
10 a.m. Land use planning for today's agriculture and growth. by Mike Chrisman, regional manager for Southern California Edison Co., rancher and former undersecretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, with selected officials and agricultural planners.
Noon — What's the latest in the field of labor? Speakers: Manuel Cunha, president of the Nisei Farmer's League, and George Daniels, executive vice president of Farm Employers Labor Service.
1 p.m. - Air quality issues and regulations in the San Joaquin Valley and how they will affect you. Speaker: Roger Isom, executive vice president of the California Cotton Growers and Ginners Association.
2 p.m. Strategies for success in the changing California ag industry. Speaker: Vernon Crowder, Bank of America.
3 p.m. — Loss prevention and security featuring officials with the Tulare County District Attorney's Office and sheriff's department.
Thursday, Feb. 13:
10 a.m. - Employment Development Department seminar.
Back to the farm equipment show. The ride and drive area will again be featured.
There will be free parking around the show ground. Also, the popular and free park and ride shuttle service will operate from five locations; the Horizon Outlet Center (located at Highway 99 and Prosperity Avenue); the Tulare County Fairgrounds (at Bardsley and K streets); Mid-Valley Cotton Gin (at Highway 99 and Cartmill Avenue); the Tulare airport; and the Visalia Mall (Mooney Boulevard and Walnut Avenue). Attendees will be able to purchase admission tickets to Expo at the park and ride sites and therefore avoid standing in line.
RV parking is available on the showgrounds; cost is $7 per day, and there are no hook-ups.
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WASHINGTON - Racing the clock, the White House reached a New Year's Eve accord with Senate Republicans late Monday to neutralize across-the-board tax increases and spending cuts in government programs that were due to take effect at midnight, according to administration and Senate Democratic officials.
WASHINGTON - Racing the clock, the White House reached a New Year's Eve accord with Senate Republicans late Monday to neutralize across-the-board tax increases and spending cuts in government programs that were due to take effect at midnight, according to administration and Senate Democratic officials.
Under the deal, taxes would remain steady for the middle class and rise at incomes over $400,000 for individuals and $450,000 for couples - levels higher than President Barack Obama had campaigned for in his successful drive for a second term in office.
Spending cuts totaling $24 billion over two months, aimed at the Pentagon and domestic programs, would be deferred. That would allow the White House and lawmakers time to regroup before plunging very quickly into a new round of budget brinkmanship certain to revolve around Republican calls to rein in the cost of Medicare and other government benefit programs.
Officials also decided at the last minute to use the measure to prevent a $900 pay raise for lawmakers due to take effect in the spring.
Democratic senators said they expected a post-midnight vote on the measure. They spoke after a closed-door session with Vice President Joseph Biden, who brokered the deal with Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell.
"The argument is that this is the best that can be done on a bipartisan basis," said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., when asked about the case the vice president had delivered.
Passage would send the measure to the House, where Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, refrained from endorsing a package as yet unseen by his famously rebellious rank and file. He said the House would not vote on any Senate-passed measure "until House members - and th,merican people, have been able to review" it.
Numerous GOP officials said McConnell and his aides had kept the speaker's office informed about the progress of the talks.
The House Democratic leader, Rep. Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco, issued a statement saying that when legislation clears the Senate, "I will present it to the House Democratic caucus."
Without legislation, economists in and out of government warned of a possible recession if the economy were allowed to fall over a fiscal cliff of tax increases and spending cuts.
And while the deadline to act was technically midnight, Obama's signature on legislation by the time a new Congress takes office at noon Thursday - the likely timetable - would eliminate or minimize any inconvenience for taxpayers.
Even by the dysfunctional standards of government-by-gridlock, the activity at both ends of historic Pennsylvania Avenue was remarkable as the administration and lawmakers spent the final hours of 2012 haggling over long-festering differences.
Much or all of the revenue to be raised through higher taxes on the wealthy would help hold down the amount paid by the middle class. In addition to preventing higher rates for most, the agreement would retain existing breaks for families with children, for low-earning taxpayers and for those with a child in college. Also, the two sides agreed to prevent the alternative minimum tax from expanding to affect an estimated 28 million households for the first time in 2013, with an average increase of more than $3,000. The law originally was designed to make sure millionaires did not escape taxes, but inflation has gradually exposed more and more households with lower earnings to its impact.
The legislation leaves untouched a scheduled 2 percentage point increase in the payroll tax, ending a temporary reduction enacted two years ago to help revive the economy.
Officials said the White House had succeeded in gaining a one-year extension of long-term unemployment benefits about to expire on an estimated 2 million jobless.
It was unclear whether the legislation would prevent a 27 percent cut in fees for doctors who treat Medicare patients was unknown.
Also included is a provision to prevent a threatened spike in milk prices after the first of the year.
Even as time was running out, partisan agendas were evident.
Obama used his appearance not only to chastise Congress, but also to lay down a marker for the next round of negotiations early in 2013, when Republicans intend to seek spending cuts in exchange for letting the Treasury to borrow above the current debt limit of $16.4 trillion.
"Now, if Republicans think that I will finish the job of deficit reduction through spending cuts alone - and you hear that sometimes coming from them ... then they've got another think coming. ... That's not how it's going to work at least as long as I'm president," he said.
"And I'm going to be president for the next four years, I think," he added.
Obama's remarks irritated some Republicans.
Sen. John McCain of Arizona they would "clearly antagonize members of the House."


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Today Pope Benedict XVI announced plans to resign on Feb 28, citing his advanced age and health. Over his tenure he garnered the moniker "the Green Pope" by making environmentalism a moral issue. Pope Benedict XVI stressed Catholic stewardship of God's creation, and he was also instrumental in making the Vatican a carbon neutral city during his reign. From installing solar panels on the roof of the main auditorium of the Vatican to riding in an electric Renault Popemobile, Benedict lent support to the environmental movement through his endorsements.
With the election of a new pope on the horizon, many are looking back on the accomplishments of Benedict XVI and the legacy he is leaving behind. Known to denounce the evils of unchecked consumerism and the abuse of the planet's resources, he made environmentalism a key topic of his doctrinal announcements. In addition to official pronouncements, Benedict called for the installation of photovoltaics on the roof of the Vatican, donated trees to a Hungarian national park to neutralize the city's carbon emissions, and used electric vehicles for transportation. He was openly critical of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference in 2009 when leaders failed to establish any sort of binding climate regulation, and he has raised awareness of the plight of African countries and the wars that result from natural resource competition. During a Vatican conference on climate change in 2007, he highlighted "polluting the environment" as a new sin that required repentance.
Many attribute Pope Benedict XVI's concern with the environment as an extension of valuing the quality of human life, peace, and "God's laws of nature". Citing Genesis, he said that taking care of the earth is also protecting what was written down in scripture. A green lifestyle also falls in line with the Catholic commitment to social justice and looking out for the poor, many of whom live in developing nations and are the first to feel the effects of climate change and natural disasters. Focusing on these modern issues is also an important way for the centuries-old institution to remain relevant.
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Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 450°F. Divide turkey necks and wings between 2 heavy large rimmed baking sheets, spreading in single layer. Roast 30 minutes. Using tongs, turn turkey parts over; scatter carrots, onions, and celery over, dividing equally. Roast until turkey parts are golden brown, about 1 hour longer.
Transfer turkey parts, vegetables, and any pan juices to heavy large pot. Place each baking sheet over 2 burners; add 1 cup water to each sheet and bring to boil, scraping up any browned bits. Pour mixture into pot with vegetables. Add bay leaves, peppercorns, salt, and remaining 18 cups water to pot; bring to boil. Reduce heat to medium-low, cover partially, and simmer gently for 2 1/2 hours. Strain broth and cool slightly. DO AHEAD Can be made 2 days ahead. Refrigerate uncovered until cold, then cover and chill. Before using, scrape any fat from surface of broth; reserve fat for gravy.


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Sands China's,$4 billion integrated resort on Macau's Cotai Strip that opens on Wednesday could help the Las Vegas headquartered firm challenge some of Asia's biggest casino operators for leadership in the region, say gaming analysts.
"I think you could see Sands China actually challenge SJM for market share leadership. They are going to gain major market share in the mass market and gain share that they have lost in the VIP market. They are going to bring in new customers to Sands and not cannibalize customers from the Venetian," Chad Mollman, Equity Analyst at investment research firm Morningstar, told CNBC on Wednesday.
The world's largest integrated resort, the Sands Cotai Central — with 2 casinos and 530 tables — is expected to expand the supply of table games in Macau by 10 percent.
Sands China, the Chinese subsidiary of Sheldon Adelson's Las Vegas Sands ,which also operates The Venetian Macao, The Sands Macao and The Plaza Macao, is the third-largest casino operator in the Chinese enclave in terms of gross gaming revenue. Casino magnate Stanley Ho's SJM and Galaxy Entertainment Group , which runs StarWorld hotel and casino hold the number 1 and 2 spot, respectively.
Grant Govertsen, Principal Analyst at research and advisory firm Union Gaming Group, agrees that Sands China's market share will get a boost from its Cotai Central project, adding that its other legacy properties located on the Cotai Strip will also benefit from the hype created around the new launch.
"Customers love to trial new casinos and you will see most if not all customers who come to Macau want to see the new product (Cotai Central)," Govertsen said. "(It) will also benefit some of Sands' legacy products such as the Venetian and Four Seasons."
As Casino operators invest billions into casino resorts on the Cotai Strip, Mollman expects gaming revenue from the Asian equivalent of the Las Vegas Strip to account for almost three-quarters of Macau's total earnings.
"(The launch of Cotai Central) is just another step in the gradual shifting of the center of gravity from the Macau peninsula to the Cotai Strip. We see gaming revenue shifting from less than 50 percent from the Cotai Strip to over 70 percent as the decade progresses," he said.
Discussing the timing of the launch, both Mollman and Govertsen say they are not worried about the possible impact on gaming revenues in Macau from a slowdown in China particularly because of robust demand from the mass market.
"All the indicators to date have suggested Macau is very strong on both the VIP and the mass side, but we are more excited about what's going on in the mass market and the growth potential there which is why you are seeing Sands China open a resort with over 6,000 hotel rooms," Goversten said.
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Mollman is upbeat on prospects for parent company Las Vegas Sands, which derives 85 percent of its sales from Asia,"Sands has strong growth prospects in Asia and competitive position in key markets," he said, adding that there is also a lot of growth potential for its hotel Marina Bay Sands located in Singapore.
Share of Las Vegas Sands have risen over 35 percent since the start of the year. Overnight Invest Bank JP Morgan raised Las Vegas Sands price target to $66 from $61 with an overweight rating. The stock closed Tuesday in New York at $58.40.
Govertsen, meanwhile, is upbeat on shares of subsidiary Sands China, which have gained over 30 percent since the start of 2012.
"We like Sands China, as the company has built the perfect mousetrap with its collection of assets in Macau. No other operator will have as many wholly-owned gaming positions or hotel rooms than Sands," Govertsen said.
"All of its properties combined will have about 25% of the table games supply in the market and about on third of the total room supply," he added.


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By Cyndi McMahon
Though he usually spends his time on large ocean research vessels, Gordon's newest biology faculty member, Walter Cho, is a deep-sea biologist with big plans for his students.
Soon after he arrived at Gordon, Cho took his Marine Science class out into the waters of Ipswich Bay to collect samples of the water column and sediment to study the physical and biological characteristics of this environment.
Their transportation? The IXTHUS—the Biology Department's 21-foot power boat, equipped with a Van Dorn-type water sampler to study the water column; a petite ponar benthic grab to study seafloor sediments and animals; a plankton net to study animals that live at the sea surface; several water-quality meters to study water chemistry; and an underwater video camera to study the benthic habitat and animals.
Cho let the class design the cruise plan, and his students decided on different sites around Ipswich Bay. "They were interested in comparing sites near shore, off shore, and near an estuary to see if there were differences in the habitat and animals that live there," said Cho.
In addition to taking samples of the sediment, water and plankton, and documenting the characteristics of the habitat and animals, the students also took photos and video footage of the ocean floor for further analysis. "We were all excited by the video footage we collected of the seafloor," said Cho. "We found sand dollars, several skates—that even bumped the camera a bit—a flounder and some small crustaceans. We were even able to use the video camera to document our benthic sediment sampler in situ, watching as it took a sample from the seafloor."
Cho recently returned from St. Petersburg, Florida, where he was a participant in the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Principal Investigator One Year Update Workshop, sponsored by the National Science and Technology Council's Sub-Committee on Ocean Science and Technology. Along with his colleague Timothy Shank from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), he presented his research on the potential impacts of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill on coral communities in the Gulf of Mexico.
Dr. Cho earned his B.A. in biology at Harvard University in 2000 and his Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in 2008.
Photo: Dr. Craig Story and Dr. Walter Cho exploring Ipswich Bay in the Biology Department's boat, the IXTHUS.
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Family wants to give back to Children's Hospital
Mirabelle Medina has congenital heart defect
Saturday morning, thousands of will hit the streets to raise money for Children's Hospital of Wisconsin.
WISN 12 News' Patrick Paolantonio has one family's very special reason to lace up the running shoes and join in.
"Just a lot of the things regular parents take for granted, we are just loving right now," mother Amber Medina said.
Amber and John Medina are soaking in every moment.
Their daughter's name is Mirabelle. She was born in October, but it was long before that, during the 20th week of pregnancy, when they first learned of her condition.
"She had one kind of iffy ultrasound, and we were referred to a specialist, and they were able to make the diagnosis of the hypoplastic left heart syndrome," Amber Medina said.
It's a rare, congenital heart defect, when parts of the left side of the heart are small and under-developed.
"Whereas normal hearts have a right ventricle that pumps blood to the lungs, left ventricle pumps blood to the body. She was left with a single ventricle that was doing the work of two," said Dr. Nancy Ghanayem of Children's Hospital of Wisconsin.
Ghanayem is on Mirabelle's medical team at Children's Hospital, where Mirabelle had two heart surgeries.
The first was when she was just days old.
"We couldn't diaper her. She had a catheter. We couldn't hold her for, I think it was close to six weeks, we couldn't hold her," Amber Medina said.
All they could do was watch as their only child fought for her life. The hospital became their home.
"People treated her like she was a member of their family. What Mira needed, Mira got. What Mira wanted, Mira got. And that's how it should be," Ghanayem said.
Her case was complicated because the way her body responded, their little girl was kept at Children's Hospital for the first 10 months of her life.
"It's like holding your breath for 10 months, and then you can finally breath a little bit when she gets home," John Medina.
She finally made it home earlier this month, where Mom and Dad are handling medical care.
Mirabelle makes regular visits to Children's Hospital and has at least one more surgery ahead.
Her parents are now hoping to raise awareness for children with congenital heart disease and this weekend, they're paying it forward.
A team of close to 20 people will join them for Briggs & Al's Run & Walk for Children's Hospital.
"I feel like I have the energy, and I kind of have the focus now to just do whatever I can to give back to a place that kept her alive," Amber Medina said.
To treat the condition Mirabelle has, patients go through a series of three operations.
As for the prognosis, Ghanayem said it's variable and unknown because the oldest patients to survive the first operation are now only in their 30s.
The Medina are hopeful that further advancements will keep their daughter from needing a transplant someday.


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NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - BP Plc and lawyers representing over 100,000 individuals and businesses claiming economic and medical damages from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill on Thursday urged a U.S. judge to approve a proposed $7.8 billion class-action settlement.
U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier initially approved the deal in May, but called the "fairness hearing" to weigh objections from about 13,000 claimants challenging the settlement to resolve some of BP's liability for the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history.
BP still faces civil and potential criminal liability charges brought by the U.S. government and U.S. states.
Barbier did not issue a final ruling at Thursday's hearing in a New Orleans court, but he appears poised to grant final approval to the deal in the coming days, legal experts said.
"We shouldn't lose sight of the forest for the trees," Barbier said at the end of the hearing, saying that some objections "were not frankly made in good faith and bordered on being frivolous."
London-based BP's Macondo well spewed 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico over a period of 87 days. The torrent fouled shorelines from Texas to Alabama and eclipsed the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska in severity.
Lawyers for some affected parties say they will "opt out" of the deal, reached in March between BP and lawyers representing plaintiffs ranging from restaurateurs, hoteliers, and oyster men who lost money from the spill to recovery workers and coastal residents claiming medical damages from the cleanup.
"The settlement zones are inherently unfair," said Stuart Smith, a lawyer for Florida business owners, referring to boundaries set by the deal which are meant to compensate businesses and homeowners based on their proximity to the spill.
Barbier said he had no authority to tweak the deal as written, but merely to approve or reject it.
"It sounds to me that maybe your gripe is that you weren't in the room and that you would have done things differently," Barbier told one of the objectors' lawyers. "I don't think there is such a thing as a perfect settlement."
Jim Roy, a lead plaintiffs' attorney, said the deal would resolve "well in excess of 100,000 claims." BP in March estimated the deal's cost at $7.8 billion, but damages are uncapped and could rise to far exceed that, Roy said.
"This is not a bunch of insurance adjustors trying to save money for BP," Roy said of the deal, but rather "a way to quickly get a fair and objectively determined settlement and to avoid litigating for potentially 20 or more years such as what happened in the Exxon Valdez."
Rick Godfrey, an attorney for BP, said the settlement should not be delayed by the "miniscule" number of objectors.
"BP has no intent of allowing justice to be delayed, much less denied, as a result of this tragic event," he said.
Barbier is likely to approve the settlement in coming days, said Blaine LeCesne, a law professor at Loyola University, citing the judge's initial approval of the deal as the strongest signal of its eventual fate.
"It's inevitably going to leave some people unsatisfied," LeCesne said. "But it casts a very wide net and includes a remarkably high number of potential claimants."
BP has been locked in a year-long legal battle with the U.S. government and Gulf Coast states to settle billions of dollars in civil and potential criminal liability from the explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig that killed 11 workers and caused the massive spill that soiled the shorelines of four Gulf Coast states.
Absent a far-reaching settlement, Barbier will preside over a sprawling three-part non-jury hearing to decide BP's liability for the spill, now set to begin on February 25, 2013.
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Zippos Circus is back on the road in 2018 with a nationwide Big Top tour - "LEGACY" celebrating the 250th anniversary of the circus. Expect a spectacle like no other as extraordinary equestrians, astonishing acrobats, comic clowns and dashing daredevils join together in the ring to pay homage to Englishman and charismatic impresario, Philip Astley who invented the worldwide sensation that is circus in 1768. The electrifying cast will also introduce timeless comics Totti and Charlotte, Brazilian Capoeira comic acrobat Paulo Dos Santos, Daredevil Pablo performing atop a dazzling Space Rocket, Cuban acrobats the Hermansito Troupe, footjuggling from Romy, and Alex Michael who walks upside down 30 feet high. LEGACY will be presented by the world's most famous Ringmaster, Norman Barrett, MBE, who will also welcome back his colourful fun-loving budgies, a perennial hit amongst children and adults alike.
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It's crazy how it happens. You're idly flipping around late at night for something decent to watch on television and suddenly you're mesmerized by a commercial for a wacky solution to a problem you didn't know you had.
Now you've got two competing, contradictory thoughts:
1.That is the stupidest thing I've ever seen. Only a lunatic would buy that, and
2. I wonder if it works. I think I'll buy that now.
And so I did. I bought six "As Seen on TV" products--fashion and style items--and put them to the test.
There seems to be a bit of obsession with buttocks and breasts in these TV gizmos. Lifting, enlarging, concealing. For this experiment I mostly stuck with above-the-waist anatomy.
Of the items I tried, the one that sounded the absolute cheesiest, with a high yuck factor, turned out to be a favorite. That was Bare Lifts ("The instant breast lift…but without the surgery"). You slap this sticky crescent on your bare bosom, yank upwards and plaster the top half of the thing to your chest. Vavoom, your breasts are two inches higher. Call it The Perk-ifier. It works.
Don't let anyone see these in place. The adhesive adds wrinkles (not a good look). A minor redness resulted from sleeping in them. But they stayed put while running and bicycling. And, I know you're thinking it must kill to remove them but really, it's not a problem.
GO FOR IT: Bare Lifts, 10 for $9.99, Walgreens, walgreens.com for store locations; also barelifts.com
On the flip side of breast-related gimmickry there's the cover-up Cami Secret, a triangle of lace-trimmed fabric you clip to your bra straps to conceal cleavage in low-cut tops. A YouTube parody of the TV ad calls it a "boob apron." That's about right.
I could live with the polyester and the nylon/spandex lace but the deal-breaker was that the thing wouldn't stay flat. It wrinkled and buckled. Also, the weird garter clips dug into my skin when I wore a seatbelt. A full camisole is the preferred option.
DON'T BOTHER: Cami Secret, 3 for $9.99, Rite Aid Pharmacy, riteaid.com for stores; also camisecret.com
And just in case I wanted to "add a full cup size instantly" there was Strap Perfect, a piece of plastic that turns your regular bra into a racer back model. By pulling your bra straps up and in, your breasts are squished together giving you enforced cleavage. It works but I felt like my bra had been yanked toward my chin. If you hate showing your straps this is a fast fix but a racer back bra is better.
ONLY OK: Strap Perfect, 6 for $9.99 plus $6.95 shipping/handling, kmart.com; also strapperfect.com (or one similar, Strap Solutions, $2.80, Forever 21, forever21.com)
Just in time for Halloween! When I looked at myself wearing the Bumpits hair accessory ("Flat hair is so last year") my very first thought? Bride of Frankenstein. Or, if you want to look like a '60s Go-Go dancer, buy these. Otherwise, take a pass. Especially lousy for thin hair.
NO: Bumpits, set of three, $5.99, Walgreens, walgreens.com for stores; also bumpits.com
We've all got necklaces and bracelets we can't wear because they're impossible to close. No more. Clever Clasp magnet closures work great with an important twist lock feature built in. The clasps are bulky, ugly and cheap looking and can travel around to the front of your necklace—but I still love them.
YES! Clever Clasp, four clasps and two extenders, $8.99 plus $1.95 shipping/handling, amazon.com
You've spent a lunatic amount on a pair of jeans and they're the perfect length—with heels. But they drag on the ground in flats. You can multi-task your denim with Style Snaps by Hemming My Way. These sticky snap-ons let you change the length depending on heel height. These are a good option for quick changing pants length and are reusable—if you're careful. Also better than a safety pin to close a gaping blouse or tame a curling lapel.
WORTH A TRY: Style Snaps by Hemming My Way, 32 for $10 plus $15.98 shipping/handling, buystylesnaps.com; also 16 for $9.99 beginning Dec. 1 in Walgreens, CVS and Bed Bath & Beyond
Buyer Beware:
- Ridiculous online processing fees can exceed the cost of the item.
- "Free" online additional sets often carry a second huge handling fee.
- Delivery sometimes takes weeks.
- Buying at drug, big box and convenience stores is lots cheaper.


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By Major League Lacrosse
The 4-5 Boston Cannons returned to Harvard stadium Saturday night to take on the 4-5 Charlotte Hounds in game with playoff tie-breaker implications. The fourth quarter of this matchup on the fourth of July weekend was filled with offensive fireworks. The two squads traded blow after blow, and with just over a minute left in regulation, the score was tied at 16. On this night, however, four quarters just wasn't enough. After a pair of close scoring opportunities for both sides, the horn sounded and the two teams prepared for overtime, knowing that only one could walk away with their fifth win of the season. After a timeout, Rabil tossed a dime pass to newly acquired Stephen Berger who scored the game winner in his first appearance for Boston. The Cannons came away victorious with a 17-16 overtime win.
Source: majorleaguelacrosse.com


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X-Photographer Pascal Bourguignon shot aerial photography with the GFX 50S and GF23mmF4
X-Photographer Ben Benvie from Canada explores Bisti Badlands with the GFX 50S and GF23mmF4 R LM WR.
X-Photographer Tomasz Lazar wanders the streets of Tokyo with the GFX.
Photographer Masakatsu Shibata gives his impression on the GF110mmF2 R LM WR
Photographer Nonami Hiroshi tests the GF110mmF2 R LM WR in studio.
Photographer HASEO creates his world's vision with the GFX 50S and GF23mmF4 R LM WR.
X-Photographer Niko Villegas from the Philippines shoots fashion with GFX 50S
X-Photographer Jan Gonzales shoots fashion with the GFX 50S.
Riccardo Spatolisano talks on photography with the X100F.
Landscape photographer Shiro Hagihara climbs up the mountain for autumn leaves. Movie filmed 4K on a X-T2.
Commercial / Fine Art Photographer Seiichi Nakamura shoots light & water with the GFX 50S.
Jan Gonzales shoots automobile with the GFX 50S in warehouse.
Bernd Ritschel climbs up the mountain in Austria with the GFX 50S.
Supalerk Narubetkraisee shares his view on the GFX 50S.
Felipe García Segovia shoots fashion with the X-T20.
Saraya Cortaville shoots kids portraits with the X-T20.
David Airob talks about X100F and street photography
Matt Hart talks on X100 Series and street photography


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The first issue of "The Secret Service" arrives Wednesday from the very intriguing tandem of writer Mark Millar ("Kick-Ass," "Wanted") and artist David Gibbons ("Watchmen," "Give Me Liberty"), and we've got some preview pages in the gallery above (you can view larger versions below). We caught up with Gibbons in a transatlantic phone call to talk about the new work and the echoes of a certain 1980s masterpiece that is back in the news these days.
HC: "The Secret Service" gets off to quite a start in this first issue. What are you finding most interesting about the project so far?
DG: It's slightly unusual in that it's not a superhero book, and I'm really pleased it isn't a superhero book, we've got enough of those. That isn't to say that this is not a book about heroes or some larger-than-life situations. It is. I think it's a refreshing take on it, although, and a little bit of a social document. Much in the way "Kick-Ass" contrasted everyday kids with the superhero life, this kind of contrasts everyday, low-class British life with the possibilities of the James Bond life, I suppose you could say.
HC: You've had a lot of experience in comics that veer away from the superhero center of comics — the Martha Washington character in "Give Me Liberty," for example, or Doctor Who and Rogue Trooper. The story of Martha, too, presented her as someone with a foot in the lower-class mean streets who found herself drafted into the wars of the fantastic.
DG: With Martha Washington, [collaborator] Frank Miller and I were coming off of "The Dark Knight Returns" and "Watchmen," respectively, and if we had done a comic book about retired superheroes we would have sold millions, no doubt. That was never really the idea with Martha. It was kind of interesting, because it started off kind of gritty and slightly depressing, and then it became a much-larger-than-life kind of thing, and that was mainly because I decided I didn't want to do a depressing comic. It gave it a bizarre kind of verisimilitude because it felt like the future of our world where one outlandish and scary thing happened on the heels of the last outlandish and scary thing. And, yes, there are some parallels now that I think about it, between Martha and the characters in "The Secret Service."
HC: Without giving too much away, what's a specific character or relationship in "The Secret Service" that has intrigued you as an artist or storyteller?
DG: There's the really interesting relationship between two characters. One is an older guy who is a very experienced and very successful secret operative. It's about the relationship between him and his wayward nephew who is on the cusp of adulthood and hanging around some really bad people and it's going to go completely the wrong way. It's about this operative deciding to help his nephew and give him a chance and what the consequences are for their relationship and their individual destinies.
HC: If you look at Mark's work, the ideas of dangerous inheritance and off-kilter, antihero mentoring are in both "Kick-Ass" and "Wanted" also.
DG: Yes, and when I look at Mark's work, what I see is his ability to tap into basic psychological truths. If that sounds a little pretentious, what I mean to say is he has a really good grasp of character and a grasp of heroes and what it means to be seen as a hero. And what's really refreshing for me is that he sees that in a way that is separate from that post-"Watchmen" and post-"Dark Knight" way. For many, many years, ["Watchmen" writer] Alan Moore and I felt guilty that we inflicted this kind of misery [of tone] on the comic book industry. And Mark's work is in contrast to that, he's very much in touch with the upbeat sides of what it means to be a hero. That's something I hope we tap into on this project as well.
HC: That guilt you mentioned — you're referring to a regret that "Watchmen" and "Dark Knight" shifted the creative community into a mode of the grim and the dystopian? Or something postmodern as far as superhero portrayals?
DG: If Alan and I had done another major project together after that, the thing we had talked about was doing something bright and dreamlike, a Captain Marvel kind of thing that was kind of mythic and close to a fairy tale in a way. Alan did go on to do that with "Supreme" and other things. It was never really our idea with "Watchmen" to say, "Here is how superhero comics ought to be." It was just, "Here's a possible way to tell this story that you haven't seen before." After that we were ready to see other ideas that we hadn't seen before but instead we saw our own idea come back to us again and again. "Watchmen" sprang out of a love of superheroes too, we wouldn't have spent so much time on it if we didn't love the whole thing in the first place. But something was lost in the translation and some people thought, "Ah, black leather, stubble and a bad attitude, that's the future of superhero comics."
HC: "Watchmen" opened up this amazing new universe for readers, as did "Give me Liberty." Do you prefer that as opposed to working on Superman, Green Lantern or other properties that tap into iconic mythologies but are also trapped within them?
DG: I've enjoyed in my time kind of playing with the toys in the DC Comics toy box. But I'm really pleased to be doing a creator-owned book now and a book that hopefully does break some kind of new ground. You eventually come to the conclusion that there's only so much you can do with these established characters and you start wondering who among us will be the one to create the next Superman or Batman or James Bond or next Lone Ranger. I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself.
— Geoff Boucher
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Festival of Books: 'Watchmen,' in the spotlight
'Watchmen' prequels: DC dares to expand on classic
Mark Millar's 'Supercrooks': Pack your bags, villains
'Kick-Ass': Mark Millar knows exactly how it will end
Mark Millar: Cap is the right hero for a recession
Neil Gaiman returns to 'Neverwhere'
'Watchmen': DC dares to expand on classic
Rothfuss: Let's move past dragons, dwarves


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Let me first start of with the fact that EVERYONE will see snow tonight. The better question is how much? That is something that will depend on a couple of factors, which are described in detail below.
An upper level low is currently moving through west central Texas. An upper level low is really nothing more than an area of cold air aloft. This low has some pretty cold air with it, so as it moves over top of us overnight, temperatures aloft will cool. This cooling will allow the temperatures in the portion of the atmosphere where snow forms, between -10 and -18 degrees, to drop low enough where there is plenty of moisture. You couple moisture in the snow growth region with some uplift tomorrow morning, and a snow squall (band of heavy snow) is possible tomorrow morning.
Now, the timing looks for rain to change to snow after 3am. Until about 9am, I expect very little in the way of accumulation (less than 1" area wide). After 9am, that is when we could see a snow squall or two, especially just north of the track of the upper low. If you get in a snow squall, you could pick up 2 or 3 inches by the time the snow ends late Thursday morning or very early Thursday afternoon. This snow squall potential is why NWS Jackson has issued the Watch where it is, and why it may be upgraded.
As for as snow amounts, point locations are listed at the bottom. Find the one that is closest to your location, and that will be your total.
Now, our Alabama counties are not under a Watch and NWS Birmingham does not look to issue one, and I agree with that. The best potential for more than an inch is in East Mississippi if a squall forms, and that will depend on the track of the snow. The squall right now looks to set up somewhere between I-20 and Highway 82, so our area could miss out complete.
As a whole, I expect less than an inch for all locations south of I-20/Highway 80 in both Mississippi and Alabama. North of this in Mississippi is where amounts could be greater, and those details are below.
Meridian: ~1"
Quitman: < 1"
Bay Springs: < 1"
Butler: Trace - 1"
Demopolis: 0.5-1"
Livingston: ~1"
DeKalb: 1-3"
Philly: 1-3"
Carthage: 1-2"
Forest: ~1"
Raleigh: ~1"
Louisville: 2-3"
Macon: 2-3"
These amounts again vary in the track of the low, but for now, I am fairly confident in them. I will note importantly that THESE AMOUNTS ARE FOR GRASSY LOCATIONS AND BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES. NO TRAVEL CONCERNS ARE CURRENTLY EXPECTED. Most of the snow will melt on contact with the ground as we will stay at or above freezing, making it too warm to cause icy conditions.


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Many educators across NH honored for teaching excellence
June 07. 2014 8:08PM
Holly Doe, Pelham Elementary School, Pelham: The N.H. Department of Education has selected Holly Doe as this year's recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics & Science Teaching.
Her selection was based on her passion and commitment to teach students in a collaborative, project-based environment. Her students explore their own solutions and think and act like scientists and engineers.
At Pelham Elementary School, Doe has implemented a program with a strong engineering focus. More than 800 students visit her classes once a week to learn about the engineering design process and to use their problem-solving skills. Through building and programming activities, students in Doe's classes learn to persevere and to think critically in order to solve relevant problems that cross all disciplines and themes.
Dr. Michael Hendery, Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester: The New Hampshire College and University Council has chosen Dr. Michael Hendery, Assistant Professor of Psychology, to receive their 2014 Outstanding Teaching in Postsecondary Education Award.
The selection committee cited Hendery's enormous impact on his students and his ability to empower students both in and out of the classroom. Learning is not just a passive habitual teaching process for Hendery. He is well known for his preparation for class and for the care he puts into creating learning experiences that are effective and relevant for students.
Rebecca Rush, Northwood School, Northwood: The N.H. Association of World Language Teachers is proud to present the 2014 World Language Teacher of the Year Award to Rebecca Rush. Rush is currently teaching Spanish in Northwood School.
Rush promotes enthusiasm and understanding of World Languages to all of her students, regardless of their abilities. With her guidance, nearly all of her middle school Spanish students enter high school at level two honors where they continue to excel.
Rush's encouragement in the World Language community has inspired her colleagues to look beyond the honor student, and to find ways to help all students find meaning in World Languages.
Marian Alese, ConVal School District, Peterborough: The New Hampshire Association of School Business Officials has selected Marian Alese as the School Business Administrator of the Year.
Alese was chosen due to her extensive knowledge in school budgeting, project financing, and creating appropriate fiduciary internal controls. She has used her knowledge of the financial and business operations of schools in mentoring and supporting her colleagues and in her involvement in the wider educational community in New Hampshire.
In addition, Alese is the chairperson of the NH Association of School Business Officials Professional Development Committee that provides "best practices" training to NH's school business professionals seeking to earn and maintain their New Hampshire and national certifications.
Christina Flanders, Laconia School District, Laconia: The New Hampshire Association of School Psychologists has selected Christina Flanders as their School Psychologist of the Year.
Flanders is a school psychologist in the Laconia School District where she has worked since June 2005. She is also an adjunct instructor at Plymouth State University and is a doctoral candidate at the University of Southern Maine. Over the years, she has been actively involved in the NH Association of School Psychologists, serving as secretary, regional representative, and as a member of the Ethics Committee.
Flanders has been involved in advocacy efforts at the state and national levels. She is well respected by her colleagues, performs her job in an exemplary manner, and provides a full range of school psychological services to students, staff, and families with whom she works.
Martha Rives, Souhegan High School, Amherst: The NHAEA is proud to have selected Martha Rives as the 2013-14 Art Educator of the Year. Rives has been a dedicated art educator teaching at Souhegan High School since 1992 and has worked tirelessly to promote art education at the state and national levels.
As her principal, Jon Ingram, states, "Martha's commitment to integrating the arts into the fiber of our school and community and the community we serve is at the heart of what makes her such an integral part of the student experience."
Her commitment was just as strong in the Art Educators' Association, leading them as the past president from 2007-2012 and working on the fall conferences since 2006. She has also represented her art association at Team East and at national conventions.
Donna Ciocca, Plymouth State University: The Granite State Reading Council of the International Reading Association has selected Donna Ciocca as the Reading Teacher of the Year.
Ciocca embodies all those traits that reading teachers exemplify. Ciocca taught science, mathematics, and language arts in the Concord School District for 26 years before retiring. She currently is an adjunct professor at Plymouth State University where she teaches in the Reading Specialist program.
In addition to teaching at the graduate and undergraduate levels at Plymouth State and Southern New Hampshire Universities, Ciocca has planned and executed New Hampshire Literacy Day for the past 8 years.
Through her tireless devotion to literacy, Ciocca has worked to give away close to 75,000 free books to children who participate in the various activities associated with the NH Literacy Day.
Tony Baldassaro, Virtual Learning Academy Charter School, Exeter: Tony Baldassaro has been chosen by the NH Society of Technology in Education for the Susan Janosz Technology Impact Award because he is a fine example of educational technology leadership for the 21st century.
Baldassaro has been a classroom teacher, building administrator, and school district administrator prior to taking his current position as Chief Human Resource Officer at the Virtual Learning Academy Charter School in Exeter, NH. He writes regularly on his personal website, speaks at conferences, and shares liberally through various social media tools including Twitter.
Baldassro is truly an exceptional leader and has impacted so many people in education and in the area of technology integration.
Monica Cataldo, East Derry Memorial Elementary School, Derry: The New Hampshire Association for Gifted Education has selected Monica Cataldo as this year's Gifted Educator of the Year. The Program for the Acceleration and Curriculum Enhancement at the East Derry Memorial Elementary School is honored to have her as the teacher.
She develops the academic talents of her students by teaching math classes at an accelerated level and is dedicated to understanding and implementing the Common Core State Standards. Cataldo plays a critical role in inspiring and motivating students to reach their highest potential.
She provides creative and challenging learning experiences for all students with whom she works. Her lessons and activities engage students while fostering higher-level thinking. Cataldo is a valuable resource for classroom teachers by assisting with differentiation of instruction for gifted and high-ability students.
Kristen Burke, Conway Elementary School, Conway: The New Hampshire School Counselors Association is pleased to announce Kristen Burke as their 2013-14 Elementary School Counselor of the Year.
Burke was born to be an elementary school counselor! Through her individual work with students, innovative school counseling programs and community outreach, she has formed unique and impacting relationships with her students and their families.
These relationships have formed the foundation of a highly effective and comprehensive elementary school counseling program that meets the needs of all of her students.
Education New Hampshire Laconia Amherst Derry Manchester Northwood Pelham Peterborough Exeter Conway


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Opinion: Issues
The Pope, the 'La Sapienza' Protests, and the Death of Irony
The sad irony of the recent protests at Rome's La Sapienza University that kept Pope Benedict XVI from speaking there was that they were based entirely on a mistake. Not only was the source of the protests—a 1990 quote about Galileo lifted from a speech given by then Cardinal Ratzinger—taken out-of-context, the statement… READ MORE >
News: Faith
The Puzzling Pope: Six Surprising Things About Benedict XVI
"The head of the CDF has to draw lines, level punishments and basically talk tough, a role that Ratzinger seemed to relish, but one that won him epithets like God's Rottweiller and the old standby, the Panzerkardinal. But now that Cardinal Ratzinger is Pope Benedict, he knows better than anyone that he is also the chief pastor of the church. There can be no 'Panzerpope.' His job is to be the good cop, a symbol of unity who tries to encourage people to live their faith more deeply. As he told a dinner companion about his new role: 'It was easy to know the doctrine. It's much harder to help a billion people live it.'" READ MORE >
Opinion: Faith
Beyond Benedict, 'the American Pope'
Time Magazine's recent cover story about Benedict XVI's upcoming visit had two headlines: "Why The Pope Loves America," and "The American Pope.' Neither title was accurate. It's hard to imagine the soft-spoken, intellectual, Mozart-loving pontiff as somehow quintessentially American. But is it true that he loves America? Sure,… READ MORE >
Opinion: Faith
America: Encounter the Pope
The Pope is coming to America. I'll be with the crowds in D.C. and New York this week, live-blogging my experience of the pope's visit, and the experiences of the pilgrims and bystanders around me. Secular media coverage has positioned America front-and-center of the trip. I'd like to do the reverse. In my mind, the pope… READ MORE >
Opinion: Faith
Open Doors at St. Stephen Martyr
I'm comfortably settled in DC at the church of Saint Stephen Martyr on Pennsylvania Ave, and my particular thanks go to Br. Hugh Vincent Dyer (a fellow Godspy contributor) for his generous hospitality. As I entered the parish office I received a warm welcome from Msgr. Filardi, the pastor, but could sense that my arrival was a shade anticlimactic.… READ MORE >
Beyond Politics at the White House: What the Pope said, and what he didn't say
As I listened to Pope Benedict XVI's speech at the White House this morning, I thought of a very wise statement about God: "He loves us just the way we are, but he loves us too much to let us stay that way." All popes follow this method, the one established by Jesus: Communicate unconditional love specifically to every person and nation,… READ MORE >
Opinion: Faith
The Pope's Birthday Party
11:50. am In roughly fifteen minutes the popemobile will pass by. I walked down Pennsylvania Ave. towards the White House this morning and the mood is electric. Thousands of people line the sidewalk behind the barricades, holding aloft the Vatican flag and chanting "Viva il Papa!" Praise music is the soundtrack (and lots of 'Happy Birthdays'):… READ MORE >
Opinion: Faith
Close to Benedict at the Basilica
9:30 pm. I'm beat and a more than a bit sunburned after a day spent in hot pursuit of the popemobile through Washington D.C. This afternoon I was on the campus of Catholic University, where Pope Benedict arrived at around 5:30 to attend Vespers and address the US Catholic bishops in the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.… READ MORE >
Opinion: Faith
With the Pope at Nationals Park
1:30 p.m. I'm just back to St. Stephen Martyr from the Pope's mass at Nationals Park. Without a ticket to get inside the stadium, I watched the mass on a giant TV screen set-up just outside the security gates. (My homemade sign reading "Prayers for a Ticket" didn't land me any supernatural luck – just what I get for trying to use… READ MORE >
Opinion: Faith
Reflections on the Pope as he is about to speak at the United Nations
When I first heard that Cardinal Ratzinger had been elected to the papacy, my reaction was, "Good. We're going to stick it to the liberals!" There had been so much discussion following John Paul II's death about whether the Church would now accommodate herself to the secular city via women's ordination, etc., that I could… READ MORE >
Opinion: Faith
Following Christ in the Footsteps of Peter
I am not a morning person, but this morning I extracted myself from the warmth of slumber at 4:30. I dragged myself to the shower and groggily went out into the chill. My destination was Annunciation Parish in Northwest Washington. There a happy party of about 100 waited to board buses to go to the residence of the Vatican nuncio. We were… READ MORE >
Opinion: Culture
'The Father of the World'—The Pope at the U.N.
As I listened to the Pope's U.N. address, while driving through Manhattan with Godspy editors John Romanowsky and John Murphy, and my son Gianni, on our way to videotape among the crowds at Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, just outside U.N. headquarters, I thought to myself—what could I possibly write about the Pope's astonishingly deep… READ MORE >