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France poked Turkey in the eye last night by approving a new "genocide denial" bill, then this morning urged Turkey to "remain calm."
But Turkish reaction was not especially calm.
After the French Senate voted in the late hours Monday to criminalize a denial of the 1915 Armenian genocide – punishable with a year in jail and a $58,000 fine – Turkey's ambassador to France said he will leave.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan today called the new law "discriminatory" and "racist" and a "massacre of free expression," and pointed out that French President Nicolas Sarkozy's ancestors had once sought refuge in Turkey.
Something's definitely out of whack in this diplomatic fallout. But it isn't entirely Turkey's inability to face its Ottoman past, which includes the killing or deporting of some 750,000 to 1.5 million Armenians during World War I.
Even French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, a member of the ruling party, thinks the new French law is a bad idea and "ill-timed."
"I'm sure we'll find again a constructive relationship," Mr. Juppe told French TV. "I put out my hand and I hope it will be shaken one day."
In fact, there are actual reasons why Turkey might see fit to remain calm, as Juppe urges. This law really isn't about Turkey. It's French politics.
Turkish leaders take the genocide law as a matter of national dishonor and high principles, and point to French slaughters in Algeria, and speak of rights, including of independent thought, that France champions. It is highly emotional.
Yet in France the new genocide law is seen with considerable cynicism, and with little emotion or much regard. It comes just ahead of national elections this spring. Along with its slightly craven appeal to the hundreds of thousands of French-Armenian voters, for whom the issue has always been a defining one, the law also gives President Sarkozy a way to remind conservatives that he's against a Muslim country joining Europe.
Mr. Sarkozy has a problem with a poll-surging Marine Le Pen of the far-right National Front, who accuses him of overseeing an "Islamization" of France.
The bill is "not entirely free of ulterior electoral motives considering that there is a 500,000-strong French Armenian community in France," as the French daily Liberation put it.
French politicos have portrayed their new legal concoction as part of a long, historic fight against a "poisonous denial" by the human race of various mass murders.
Yet as the Monitor noted in December, the only time France sees fit to raise this universal value is right ahead of its own elections: In 2001, it was just before elections that France recognized the Armenian genocide. In 2006, just before elections, French politicians nearly passed a five-year jail term for denying the genocide. Now, with the 2012 vote around the corner – voila! – a new law to jail Armenian deniers has taken shape.
The French senate passed the law with only 126 votes to 86, meaning the lion's share of 348 senators demurred or expressed reservations, reports Le Monde. The law goes into effect if Sarkozy signs off in late February.
French Senator Fabienne Keller said many of her peers who didn't vote Monday agree a genocide did take place. But they refused to vote since their work is not to "legislate about history…o r decide historical facts." Ms. Keller, when asked by France 24 television if the new laws would allow prosecution of deniers of the Rwandan genocide, or of Algerian massacres by France at the end of World War II, both sensitive cases here, said that just such questions are why "we are not morally allowed to define the rules … in the Turkish-Armenian case."
Most historians agree a genocide occurred in Turkey prior to the end of World War I, using the United Nations' definition of the term. The US ambassador to the Ottoman Empire at the time, Henry Morgenthau, was distraught at the scale of the inhumanity, and wrote prolifically about the details in cables and articles. Yet the carnage was ignored for years as an inconvenient truth or lost in the overall shock of the "war to end all wars" – and earned the title of "the forgotten genocide."
Turkey is officially adamant that the record is distorted or false.
That attitude is slowly and painfully changing, albeit in limited circles. Last year 150 intellectuals signed a letter apologizing to Armenians. Weeks ago at least 10,000 Turks marched in memory of the late Turkish writer Hrant Dink, who urged Turks to face up to history. However, in 2006 Mr. Dink said of French proposed denial laws that he'd rather dance up the Champs-Élysées denying the genocide than see such restrictive laws passed.
Both French and Turkish intellectuals argued that the effect of French laws will be to make it harder for Turkey to confront the emotional question and bring crack-backs against those in Turkey working toward that goal.
Nor has France been generally regarded among historians as a stellar example of facing history. Academics and intellectuals, in and out of France, and including the late Tony Judt of New York University, point to a French "serial denial" of its complicity with Nazi authorities in Vichy France, and its role in both colonial and post-colonial Africa.
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I'll be relocating to London in September. I guess it won't hurt to mention on here that I'll be looking for an exciting new job when I get back there. Check out my LinkedIn profile if you are in the market for a Java tech team lead.


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IFLAS director Jem Bendell delivered the annual Derwentwater Lecture at Keswick's Words By The Water literary festival in Keswick on Friday, March 14.
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National Security Agency (NSA) Director Gen. Keith Alexander said that the NSA would soon be moving to cut 90 percent of the system administrator positions that it has contracted out—positions like the one previously held by whistleblower/leaker Edward Snowden—by moving to an automated cloud infrastructure. He also admitted that there may have been "compliance issues" in the way the NSA handled data collection.
The comments came as Alexander spoke on a panel with FBI Director Robert Mueller and CIA Director John Brennan in New York Thursday at the International Conference on Cybersecurity. "What we've done is put people in loops of transferring data and securing networks—doing what machines are probably better at doing," Alexander said. Moving to an automated cloud provisioning system, he explained, would cut the number of hands that touch the NSA's internal systems and address vulnerabilities—such as a sysadmin loading data onto a thumb drive and walking out with it. "It would also address the number of system administrators we have," he said. "Not fast enough—but we plan to reduce the number of system administrators by 90 percent to make networks more defensible and secure."
In regard to the risk to civil liberties posed by the NSA's surveillance, Alexander said, "I will tell you that, as you look at the debate that's going on right now—yup, people make mistakes. But one thing you'll find: no one has willfully or knowingly disobeyed the law or tried to invade your civil liberties or privacy."


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Memory Monday: Scary Movies details my childhood love of horror movies and notes that a particular source of terror was The Beast With Five Fingers.
The Beast headed the gallery of imaginary Monsters who terrified me in those fuzzy minutes between lights out and sleep. My overactive imagination attributed all kinds of horrible forms and supernatural powers to these nighttime creepers, but there were some limitations as to what and where they could be.
1. Monsters did not live under my bed. They might sneak into my room and creep under my bed to hide, but it was not their usual abode. And if a monster was very large, well, he obviously couldn't fit under there.
2. Monsters did not take animal shape or resemble animals in any way. Animals weren't scary, though large and ferocious ones might be intimidating.
Monsters tended to take near-human form. They might be horribly scarred, like the Phantom of the Opera (not Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom, but more like Lon Chaney) or they might just be parts of humans: that creeping hand, a scary head, or a guy that gave The Beast With Five Fingers a run for his money – the Circle-Running Half-Man. Or, there might be some resemblance to a clown.
Scariest of all were the monsters I couldn't quite see. They were the ones, I was certain, who crawled into my room at night after the lights went out.
And my little kid's eyes could see some monstrous shapes in some pretty mundane things. So I had to make sure that my room contained nothing that could morph into a monster in the half-light. That meant, right from the get-go, nothing with a remotely creepy appearance, even in full light – no clown dolls or sock monkeys for me, thank you.
But even the most innocuous or beloved item could turn into a sinister specter in the shadows. My child-sized Saucy Walker doll (Memory Monday: Favorite Toys) was a particular problem. She was usually perched on the little rocking chair next to my bed. And whether she was in profile or full-face, she was scary in the dark. I could not hide her away for fear of hurting my parents' feelings, and covering her with something only heightened the fright factor. So, I would have to keep getting up and adjusting her until she didn't look scary any more. Then there were things like brushes, chotchkies, and small toys that could cast shadows resembling gnarly hands. They had to be adjusted, too.
Somewhere between all this getting up and adjusting and getting up and trying to sneak a peak at late-night movies earned me the reputation of an inveterate night creature. Funny how parents seem to be intolerant of that sort of thing.
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Memory Monday: My Monsters
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You have reminded me of your scary movie blog....slumber parties and those horror movies late at night. I wasn't scared during the party....it presented itself when I was back in my own bedroom. Even as a teen, watching Twilight Zone gave me nightmares. Once a friend was afraid to walk home after a particular Zone program thinking she would walk into the third dimension.ReplyDelete
Oh, yeah, Twilight Zone - probably the single TV show that gave me the most frights. I will often try to catch some of the memorable episodes during the New Year's Twilight Zone marathon and have my daughters watch them with me. Great stories.ReplyDelete
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The Cisco Aironet 3600 Access Point comes out on top in Miercom's Performance Test Report
With all that has recently been written about BYOD, it's clear that enterprise IT managers need to consider performance requirements on the wireless access point. With more clients accessing the network, the performance demands in terms of coverage and client density will increase. Furthermore, consumer devices such as smartphones and tablets may have difficulty connecting to an AP compared to a laptop. This could be attributed to the fact that most of these devices either do not support 802.11n or they support legacy 802.11g/a. If the devices support 802.11n is sometimes limited to 1×1 MIMO. An access point that has superior performance will be needed to address the growing needs of these new clients.
It is typical for vendors today to claim that their equipment has "superior performance" or "industry-best performance". However, from a customer's perspective, how do you know that these claims are legitimate? Aside from doing the performance testing yourself, one of the best ways is to see if your vendors' product has been had its performance claims verified by an independent test house. Miercom, an independent test facility has just released a report on how the Cisco Aironet 3600 Access Point performs against a competing vendor's access point. The Miercom Test Report demonstrates that Cisco 3600 Access Point supports 3x more clients than a competing wireless vendor and can maintain high throughput data rates at great distances, even in environments that contain RF interference. Also, battery usage for wireless devices such as tablets show 38% improvement with Cisco AP 3600 over the competition.
If you are one of the growing numbers of enterprise networks that have either implemented or is considering BYOD, the Cisco Aironet 3600 Access Point is going to perform much better in your network than a leading competitor.
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I consider myself to be a very lucky girl at the mo. I'm spending rather a lot of time with Nate. Anyone who has read No Such Thing as Immortality will know exactly who I mean. Nathaniel Gray, the former Earl of Ridings, but now a two-hundred year old vampire.
I'm working on book 2 of the No Such Thing series. As this book continues Nate's story, and is written from his perspective, the two of us are finding ourselves engaged in an awful lot of one-to-one time. It's at times like these I ask myself why I ever became a writer. It's such a very very hard life 🙂
He's intense, too. Seriously intense. And has been leading me astray no end. All he has to do is look at me with those eyes of his and raise a brow. Plot line? There was one once upon a time, but now I have not a clue where he's leading me. I know where I want him to end up, but he's presently got other ideas. But it's his prerogative. It's his story after all. And I am so enjoying the ride.
I've yet to decide on a title for this second book. No such thing as […..]? There are currently four possible blank-fillers, although the count is growing daily rather than shrinking. We will see.
So there you go. What I am presently working on. If you can of course, call it work. And to all those who have contacted me to find out when book two is out ― soon I hope 🙂
Edits also loom for Romancing the Soul, due out in January 2014. This one is rather different – not a vampire or faerie in sight. Mainstream but with perhaps a twist as two soul mates deal with the consequences of meeting during a past life regresssion. I adore the cover for this one, too – thank you so much Berni Stevens and Choc Lit!
And a couple of writing tips for those that way inclined. I'm not at all sure I'm qualified to give them. I kind of make things up as I go along. And no doubt I will not be asked to provide them again. But on the basis of recent weeks, I would suggest:
Not letting your characters go into a kitchen when you are on a diet (see – I so won't be asked again). You might think you have your cravings under control, but your characters will likely prove otherwise. You will end up with a scene incorporating all of your favourite comfort foods. In my case, quite an accomplishment with so many of the cast being vampires, not at all interested in hot toasted bagels with marmite or macaroni cheese. You may be able to make use of some of it. You may not. But it's safe to say it can rather take you off course.
The second ― I'm actually chuffed to bits with. In my case, it has allowed me dedicated early morning romps with Nate. The advice? If you seem to be struggling to get words down on the page, try making a dramatic change to your writing routine. I'm not a morning person at all. No Such Thing as Immortality was written very late at night and right through it on occasions. But with my boys' bedtime getting later and later and with that, the point at which I can recommence writing (I am knackered at 9.30pm) I've had to take desperate measures. I've been setting my alarm clock to go off at 5am. And for me, sitting in front of my laptop in a freezing cold kitchen at 5.10am, kitted out in extreme weather gear, has proved an amazing incentive to write. I am only out of my warm cosy bed to write. If I don't write, I've wasted that huge effort that was getting up. Previously, that pre-feeding the boys 5―7am slot was spent asleep so I now only associate that time with writing. I find I don't get distracted with washing and cleaning because I simply wouldn't climb out of my bed at that time in the morning to do that stuff. It may not work for everyone. In fact, it may only work for me (generally work ― kids!) ― but it's a great sensation to know you've words under your belt before the day starts proper. In my case, that sensation, obviously, has absolutely nothing to do with having a bit of extra time with Nate🙂


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The Future Is Demand Segmentation
Nowadays, to effectively meet demand service needs across products, formats, responses, and methods, it is essential that businesses understand that no two customers, channels to market, or products are the same. A "one-size-fits-all" supply chain is no longer adequate. Businesses need to classify products, customers, and channels into groups that share similar characteristics and respond accordingly.
But segmentation is not just about responding to the varying needs of consumers today. It's about anticipating long-term trends, thinking ahead of the game, and predicting what customers want, even before they do, so there is time to respond and align the firm's business model and supply chain.
Put customers at the heart
Not only do customers, channels to market, and products differ greatly, but the competitive playing field remains volatile, too. At different points in time, customers will have different expectations. For example, notwithstanding its inglorious role in the global financial crisis, the banking industry has adapted well to the shift from dealing with customers face to face to being heavily dependent on call centers for telephone banking to now being IT savvy with online banking and smartphone apps.
Marketing takes the lead
Led by sales and marketing, and running as a core business process, segmentation enables the supply chain to negotiate the optimal way to deploy resources and investments to bring new products and innovations to market and to manage them across their life cycles. A good marketing person will say, "Segmentation? But we do this." However, it is rare for segmentation to be truly integrated with demand.
A case in point: One global company Oliver Wight is now working with traditionally depended on the impulse market. But shoppers' buying behaviors have changed; consumers are shopping online or going to the self-service checkouts, so they are not exposed to the product right in front of them. The occasion to buy is very different, and the company's sales subsequently declined. Had these changing consumer trends and shopping habits been anticipated, the marketing team could have worked more collaboratively across the end-to-end supply chain and gained competitive advantage; it could have even increased sales through a segmented response to these changing needs.
Breaking down silos
Integrated management processes, such as Integrated Business Planning (Advanced S&OP) can play a valuable role here, as they integrate diverse processes and different plans from the individual business functions to form one integrated company plan. This helps to break down the functional barriers and silo mentality, encouraging cross-functional integration instead.
Play the long game
With the short-, medium-, and long-term trends built into the demand planning process, this can then be shared with the supply chain with open discussions on how to respond. "Are there products and services that need changing? Are there new products, new marketing messages, or new activities which could be introduced?" Then there are questions regarding the supply chain implications: "If the business moves into different product ranges, categories, markets, or customers, what skill set does it need?"
Looking ahead, there needs to be an ongoing review of market segmentation. A company may have identified customer segments today, but as more insights, trend predictions, and product developments emerge, the business strategy needs to reflect this.
Demand segmentation brings with it a whole host of benefits -- it enables better decision making, instills simplicity in complex supply chains, increases operational efficiency, and drives competitive advantage. But in order to achieve this and truly understand customers' needs in tomorrow's rapidly changing market, demand segmentation must be intrinsically linked with the business strategy and become a core business process. Do this, and consumer needs will be met effectively and profitably, not just now, but well into the future.
Oliver Wight associate Debbie Bowen-Heaton co-authored this article.
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Oklahoma Routs Nebraska, 62-28
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) -- From the moment Nebraska lined up, Oklahoma cornerback Dominique Franks knew exactly what was coming.
By the time he and his Sooners teammates were done with their dominating start, the Cornhuskers didn't know what hit them.
Sam Bradford threw for 311 yards and five touchdowns and No. 4 Oklahoma capitalized on three disastrous Nebraska pass plays in the opening minutes Saturday night to the beat the Huskers 62-28.
The Sooners scoring outburst was their biggest in the history of the storied rivalry.
''We just really came out firing, really with everybody,'' Sooners coach Bob Stoops said. ''I thought our guys really were focused in and came out and couldn't have executed much better in all parts of the game. ... It's a good way to start a big game.''
It was the kind of start that would make Nebraska fans long for the power-running days of the past, and the stars of the Cornhuskers' ''Game of the Century'' win in 1971 just happened to be on hand for a reunion.
This game was hardly another classic in a rivalry full of them.
Franks intercepted Joe Ganz 's first pass attempt and returned it 18 yards for a touchdown, and the Huskers (5-4, 2-3 Big 12) also had turnovers on each of their next two passes as the Sooners (8-1, 4-1) raced to a 28-0 lead in the first 5 1/2 minutes.
''I've been in a lot of games. I've seen it happen,'' Nebraska coach Bo Pelini said. ''The snowball started rolling on us, and we didn't do anything to get it stopped.''
Oklahoma had never scored more than 55 points in 83 previous meetings with Nebraska dating back to 1912, but got more than halfway to that total in less than half a quarter.
Chris Brown got it started by capping a seven-play, 53-yard opening drive with a 2-yard touchdown run and only 4 seconds ticked off the clock before Franks, a cornerback, stepped in front of Ganz's screen pass behind the line of scrimmage and took it in for another score.
Franks said the Huskers had a ''real big tendency'' to run the screen play out of that single-back, two wide receiver formation and he'd imagined making that kind of interception in days leading up to the game.
''I just jumped it,'' Franks said. ''I got a chance and I just made a play.''
Dreu Young then fumbled after catching Ganz's second pass, and Oklahoma cashed in three plays later with a 48-yard TD from Bradford to Quentin Chaney .
Then coincidence turned into absurdity. I-back Marlon Lucky reached up to deflect Ganz's next pass high into the air, and Lendy Holmes picked it off and returned it 26 yards. Bradford made it 28-0 on the next play by zipping a 9-yard touchdown pass to Jermaine Gresham , and there was still 9:27 left to play in the first quarter.
By that point, Nebraska had run five offensive plays and committed three turnovers.
''You can get all over somebody pretty quick and jump on them. It's big obviously,'' defensive coordinator Brent Venables said. ''It gets them on their heels. It creates momentum, it creates points. It gets things a lot more comfortable out of the gate.''
Pelini, a former defensive coordinator under Stoops and at Nebraska and LSU, took the blame for a ''lousy'' defensive performance and didn't allow his players to speak to reporters after the game.
''I'm responsible for what happened out there,'' Pelini said. ''I'm the voice of this team. I told our guys, 'Oklahoma's over. We're moving on.'''
Brown tacked on a 1-yard TD catch on the final offensive play of the first quarter, giving Oklahoma a 35-0 lead. It was the first time Nebraska had ever given up more than 28 points in any quarter.
''We didn't expect it, but at the same time we were just ready to play,'' Holmes said. ''We knew this was a rival game. You can't be relaxing out there and just playing. You've got to play hard because you know they're going to come out here and play hard.''
Bradford went 19-for-27 and cleared 300 yards passing for the seventh time this season. It was the sixth time he tied the school record with five touchdown passes in a game.
DeMarco Murray had two short touchdown runs and caught a 25-yard TD pass to tie Adrian Peterson 's record for the most scores by a Sooners player in his first two seasons with 29.
After letting Kansas State come back from a 28-7 lead to tie the game in the first half last week, the Sooners led by at least 28 for the final 50 minutes of the game.
''We saw last week how scores can change,'' Murray said. ''We've just got to keep putting the pedal down and keep trying to stay focused.''
Backup I-back Roy Helu ran 16 times for 157 yards and a touchdown for Nebraska, but all after the Huskers fell behind 35-0. Ganz finished 14-for-26 for 206 yards with one touchdown pass and the two early picks.
''Obviously, that wasn't what we wanted and it hurts,'' Pelini said. ''The reality of it is if you coach in this game long enough, you play in this game long enough, you're going to face situations like this. Nobody likes it, but you have to move on,''
Oklahoma defensive end Auston English , the Big 12 preseason defensive player of the year, was helped off the field in the third quarter and did not return after trainers taped up his leg. Sooners receiver Manuel Johnson , who'd missed last week's game at Kansas State after dislocating his left elbow, played only the opening series.
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John Hoover of the Tulsa World: "The temptation may have been there for Oklahoma to turn one eye to Lubbock, Texas. Instead, the Sooners set their full attention on Nebraska. Poor Nebraska. OU embarrassed the Cornhuskers..."
Berry Tramel of the Oklahoman: "From outside the Red Room came the roar. It came from down the hallway, from Sooner gladiators gathered around an equipment room, after their 62-28 dismantling of Nebraska..."
John Shinn of the Norman Transcript: "No. 4 OU blasted Nebraska 62-28 behind a first-quarter blitzkrieg never before seen in the historic rivalry. A little more than 5 minutes into the game, the Sooners led 28-0. Nebraska..."
From the Omaha World-Herald: "Coach Bo Pelini did not allow Nebraska's assistant coaches and players to do interviews with members of the news media after the Huskers were blown out 62-28 by No. 4 Oklahoma Saturday night..."
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Dennis James, a heralded armonica virtuoso who lives in upstate New York, will visit Baltimore next weekend to be a soloist with two organizations.
The story goes that in 1761, when Benjamin Franklin invented the glass instrument he dubbed the "armonica," he kept it from his wife so he could surprise her by playing it one night after she had gone to bed. "Surprise" was the apt word. She assumed she had died and was hearing the music of the angels.
To this day, the sound of the armonica, created by rubbing the rims of water-filled glasses with wet fingers, remains wonderfully ethereal — when you can hear it. There are few masters of this difficult instrument, and opportunities to experience their work don't come around every day.
So it's doubly newsworthy that Dennis James, a heralded armonica virtuoso who lives in upstate New York, will visit Baltimore next weekend to be a soloist with two organizations.
He will provide the otherworldly accompaniment originally intended for the famous mad scene in Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor," presented by Baltimore Concert Opera. And James will perform one of Mozart's endearing works for the armonica in a program by the Concert Artists of Baltimore.
Given the reputation the armonica once had for causing deleterious effects, it's interesting that it survived at all.
One of the problems was supposed to be delirium tremens, said James, 61. "I'll admit I have an element of uncontrolled hand-shaking, but that is more a process of aging. The other famous disorders I don't exhibit. I don't have hair loss. I don't have blindness. And I don't have insanity. All those symptoms are traceable to lead poisoning."
Avoiding lead poisoning from glass is easy enough today, but there can still be risks in handling this delicate device. During a concert in Germany, as soloist with an ensemble that ignored his admonition to play super-softly, James tried to get more sound out the armonica.
"I played too hard and cut myself," he said. "Blood just flew everywhere. It was unbelievable."
Although people had been obtaining music from rubbed glasses long before Franklin became interested, it was his typically inventive approach that elevated the concept.
The earliest method simply involved wine glasses filled with varying amounts of water and set out on a flat surface. Our most colorful Founding Father figured out a way to mount more than three dozen glasses and bowls arranged by size on a spindle operated by a foot pedal.
Franklin, who named the instrument after the Italian for harmony, armonia (others gave it various terms, including "glass harmonica"), fashioned a music-producing device capable of considerable range and nuance. The mere sight of one got James' attention.
"My first uncanny encounter was when I was a child, seeing the instrument on display at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia," he said. "I am told I kept staring at it."
Years later, his interest was further piqued while studying organ at Indiana University, when a professor mentioned that the armonica was the first instrument invented in America.
"When I asked him what it sounded like, he said, 'Nobody knows. It hasn't been played in 200 years,'" James said. "That did it. It became pure obsession and fascination, a wonderful, strange passion."
After starting to teach himself to play what he calls "the ultimate footnote instrument" in 1981, James attempted his first public performance in 1988 as soloist with a chamber orchestra. When the conductor cued him, James could get no sound from the armonica. The performance was postponed until after intermission.
"Backstage, it took me 10 minutes to figure out that it had to be perspiration," James said. "I hadn't yet dealt with nerves. I knew that alcohol will clean oils off of hands, so I went to a drugstore and got some. And, by God, did that instrument play."
By his own admission, it took James until 1991 before he felt he had mastered the art of the armonica. Since then, he has maintained a busy concert schedule throughout this country, Canada and Europe.
He has also played on albums by Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris ("That was fabulous," James said), as well as on film soundtracks, including "The Minus Man," starring Owen Wilson.
For his Baltimore visit, James will be focusing on two composers who left particularly strong marks on the armonica repertoire.
In Donizetti's case, that mark almost disappeared. He wanted an armonica to add atmosphere to the heroine's tragic mad scene in "Lucia," but crossed out the part and substituted flute just before the premiere.
In recent decades, attempts to re-create the composer's first intentions have become more common. One of those attempts was made at the Kennedy Center last fall in a production by Washington National Opera, although with some cheating — a synthesizer was employed as backup.
For the Concert Artists of Baltimore's all-Mozart program, James will play the gentle, haunting Adagio from 1791, the year the composer died.
"Mozart played an armonica at least once and was totally taken with the instrument," James said. "The Adagio is extremely well-written."
If you go
Baltimore Concert Opera presents "Lucia di Lammermoor" at 7:30 p.m. Friday, 3 p.m. March 25 at the Engineers Club, 11 W. Mount Vernon Place. Tickets are $25 to $65. Call 443-445-0226 or go to baltimoreconcertopera.com.
Concert Artists of Baltimore presents "The Musical Life of Mozart" at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 24, at Peabody Institute, 17 E. Mount Vernon Place. Tickets are $22 to $35. Call 410-625-3525 or go to cabalto.org.
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The word "midwife" comes from an old German phrase meaning "with woman." Originally it referred to being the attendant for a woman in childbirth, but the role of a Certified Nurse-Midwife has expanded that definition: A Certified Nurse-Midwife is with women through all phases of life, not just during the event of childbirth. CNMs serve women from adolescence through late adulthood. We do well-woman exams, primary care and perhaps most importantly, recognize what's normal and what's not normal. We frequently refer a woman to a physician if her symptoms, lab results and other testing indicate an abnormal condition. Certified Nurse Midwives are team members with physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, ultrasonographers, therapists, social workers, laboratory technicians, and many others on the health care team.
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Marissa Mayer's challenge as Yahoo CEO
ANALYSIS Yahoo's leader has the credentials - can she succeed where others failed?
Google executive Marissa Mayer enters the revolving door that is the top slot at Yahoo on Tuesday, staking her sterling reputation on the long odds of turning around the struggling Internet pioneer.
It's a high-risk, high-reward move for Mayer, who was among the earliest employees at Google and most recently led the company's local and maps division. If she can successfully reinvigorate Yahoo, a task that many short-lived CEOs have failed spectacularly at completing, it would cement her spot among the pantheon of celebrated technology leaders.
"If she's able to pull it off, she will go down in history, almost to the extent to which Steve Jobs did with Apple," said Allen Weiner, an analyst at Gartner. "I think it's a really good choice."
Yahoo surprised the tech world Monday by appointing Mayer, 37, as the Sunnyvale firm's seventh permanent or interim chief in five years. She helped announce the news herself in a succinct post to both her Google+ and Twitter accounts shortly after the stock market closed.
"I'm incredibly excited to start my new role at Yahoo tomorrow," Mayer wrote.
Ross Levinsohn, who took over the interim role in May after the abrupt departure of Scott Thompson over a resume exaggeration, appeared to have the inside track after he negotiated a settlement of patent infringement lawsuits with Facebook this month.
Yet Yahoo's board gave the job to a rival's respected vice president, a highly visible tech executive who may have enough star power to refocus the spotlight on a company languishing in the shadows of Internet powerhouses Google and Facebook.
While a Google executive, Mayer has been a high-profile presence on business TV shows and at San Francisco social events. She has also been a player in political circles. In October 2010, she and her husband hosted President Obama at a pricey fundraising dinner at their Palo Alto home. On top of her new job, she is expecting her first child in October.
"Marissa Mayer has always attracted a great deal of attention and, to date, it's all been positive," said Rebecca Lieb, digital advertising analyst with the Altimeter Group, a business research firm in San Mateo.
Miracle worker?
So what does Mayer have to do at Yahoo?
"Work miracles," said Carl Howe, analyst with information technology specialists the Yankee Group, with a laugh. "But to be fair, she's one of those people who could do that."
Specifically, she needs to establish a clear vision for what Yahoo should be, and then make it happen, he said. The ripest area for rebuilding is mobile, creating apps and content that will engage audiences on phones and tablets.
Howe also stressed that the move is a blow to Google, noting that Mayer turned each of the product areas she focused on into gold mines, from search to maps. In recent years, she's accomplished more at Google than the company's two founders have, Howe argued.
"She's the person who gets things done," he said.
Mayer's departure may be a blow to Google in another way.
"A lot of people would fall over themselves to work for Mayer who otherwise might not fall over themselves to work for Yahoo," Lieb said.
Praise from Schmidt
Still, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, at least publicly, praised Yahoo's move.
"I worked with Marissa for many years," he said in a statement released by Google. "She's a great product person, very innovative and a real perfectionist who always wants the best for users. Yahoo has made a good choice and I am personally very excited to see another woman become CEO of a technology company."
Yahoo said Mayer's hiring "signals a renewed focus on product innovation." Exactly what that means won't be known until she hires her management team and settles into the job.
The Yahoo job also presents Mayer with a potentially higher perch to fall from, one subject to intense scrutiny from the press and investors. She follows in the footsteps of Terry Semel, Jerry Yang, Carol Bartz and Thompson, all of whom took public beatings during their unsuccessful tenures.
Surprise move
Mayer wasn't on the public short-list for the position. Indeed, many were surprised that anyone would leave a high-profile spot at Google for Yahoo. After all, it was the emergence of Google as an engine of online innovation that first tarnished Yahoo's status as the Internet darling during the last decade.
Yahoo has labored to regain its momentum ever since. While the company remains one of the most popular online destinations, it has largely failed to invent products that excited consumers or observers. As a result, ad revenue and user engagement have been shrinking.
Yahoo's stock closed Monday at $15.65 per share, a far cry from Microsoft's rejected bid to buy the company for $47.5 billion, or $33 per share, in 2008.
Some speculated that Mayer, who is roughly the same age Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, simply concluded that she couldn't rise any further there.
But like any ambitious executive, Mayer probably was looking for a new challenge, especially after spending almost her entire career at Google.
"This is a challenge for anybody," Lieb said. "It's not every day that jobs like this open up, although that's happened at Yahoo more frequently than elsewhere."
"Her biggest personal strength at Yahoo will be her unwavering dedication to the simplest, cleanest, most crisply designed user interfaces on the Web," Lieb said. "Will she pare Yahoo down? Possibly. Will she look at acquisitions for Yahoo? Again, possibly."
Mayer graduated from Stanford University, with degrees in symbolic systems and computer science, specializing in artificial intelligence. She has also worked at the research lab of global financial firm UBS in Zurich, and at nonprofit research institute SRI International in Menlo Park.
She is also on boards of directors for Walmart, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Ballet and the New York City Ballet.
Baby on the way
She has been married to Zachary Bogue, a commercial real estate investor and co-founder of Montara Capital Partners, since December 2009.
Hours after her appointment was announced, she told Fortune magazine that she is expecting a boy in October. She said Yahoo directors did not reveal any trepidation about hiring a pregnant chief executive. "They showed their evolved thinking," she said.
Mayer was Google's first female engineer and held various posts, most recently vice president of the company's suite of local and geographical products like Google Maps, Google Earth, Street View and Zagat restaurant information service.
"Since arriving at Google just over 13 years ago as employee number 20, Marissa has been a tireless champion of our users," said a statement from Google CEO Page. "She contributed to the development of our Search, Geo, Local and other products. We will miss her talents at Google."
Fortune magazine ranked her as the 38th most powerful woman in business in 2011, although she is now sure to rise on that list this year.
"There's no reason to believe she's got a magic formula for Yahoo," said Greg Sterling, senior analyst at Opus Research. "She faces the same uphill battle to revive Yahoo (as previous CEOs). But in many ways she may be the most well-rounded of the group: tech savvy and ad savvy."
Marissa Mayer at Google
1999: Hired as software engineer; first female engineer and 20th employee hired.
July 2001: Named product manager, Google.com.
March 2003: Named director, consumer Web services.
November 2005: Named vice president of search products and user experience.
October 2010: Named vice president of location and local services.
June 2012: Joins board of directors for Walmart.
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Last week a craving for lasagna hit. We're talking Garfield style craving. I hit two issues though. The first issue was that a pan of lasagna, even eaten as leftovers, is simply way too much for the two of us. The second issue was that I really needed to find a way to make it dairy-free (reasons why I limit dairy found here).
While looking for dairy-free alternatives, I started seeing a lot of lasagna roll up recipes. Excuse me?! I had not only never heard of them, I had never thought of making them. I knew this was perfect because it meant I could make only as much as Andy and I wanted. As far as dairy-free, that turned out to be a bit more difficult. A lot of recipes used processed vegan parmesan and other "cheeses". Then I came across multiple blogs mentioning cashew cream and I bonked myself on the forehead. Cashew cream is incredible for both sweet and savory purposes. It's simply cashews (soaked if you have a regular blender) and water thrown in the vitamix into a smooth velvety mixture. Add chocolate and you have a chocolate like mousse / pudding. Add basil, a little garlic, Italian seasoning and you get an absolutely delicious spread for lasagna or just to put on top of pasta as is.
The cashew cream really added a delicious velvety texture and awesome flavor. In addition, the cream really helped the fillings stick while rolling.
Speaking of fillings I did both a vegan filling and a meat lovers filling using local hot italian sausage from Farmers Gate Market here in Maine. The best part is that you can put whatever you want in these roll ups, just like any other lasagna you would make. I sweated down some onions, garlic, spinach and mushrooms. On the vegan ones I left as is, on the meat ones I simply crumbled already cooked sausage on top. Because these typically are just heating up in the oven for a short period I would definitely make sure any meat is thoroughly cooked.
When it came to rolling up I first put down a layer of cashew cream on the noodle, then topping, and then rolled it up. Note on rolling, as you roll press in to make sure it's tight. Some of the filling might fall out but that's okay. I found if I kept an inch or two of noodle at the end filling free it helped it all hold it together easier.
Once I finished rolling I topped them with tomato sauce, put in the oven at 350 for 10-15 minutes, and then served! So incredibly easy, and so incredibly tasty.
These are definitely going to become a staple in our house. I know the cashew cream might sound odd if you've never made it before but I definitely encourage you to try it—even if you're a regular dairy eater! I'm going to be honest, I actually liked the flavor of these better than when I've had lasagna with cheese which I certainly didn't expect.
- Few handfuls baby spinach
- 1/2 large onion, diced
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1/2 container small mushrooms
- Lasagna (as many noodles as rollups you want)
- 2 cups raw cashews
- 1 cup water
- Italian seasoning (to taste)
- Salt (to taste)
- Dried or fresh basil (to taste)
- Spaghetti sauce
- Cook according to directions. Noodles should be al dente.
- Add onion to a hot skillet, cook until translucent
- Add garlic & mushrooms to the skillet
- Add spinach and cook until wilted
- Remove filling to bowl
- Add meat to skillet and cook thoroughly if using
- If using a Vitamix or other high powered blender, add raw cashews, spices and enough water to create a smooth paste. If using a regular blender, soak raw cashews overnight before using.
- Drain noodles and slightly cool.
- One noodle at a time smear with a heaping tablespoon of cashew cream. Spread leaving 1-2 inches of noodle bare at the end.
- Add vegetables in a thin row and meat if using.
- Slowly roll the noodle tightly around the filling
- Place each roll, seam side down, into a rimmed baking pan for cooking
- Top the rolls with spaghetti sauce
- Bake at 350* for 10 minutes or until heated through.
- Fillings should be whatever you love best in a regular lasagna. Our favorite is spinach, onion, garlic, mushroom and local sausage. Meat should be thoroughly cooked before using as stuffing. Vegetables should be reduced properly as they will not cook down in the oven.
Cashew cream – win.


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Release Date: November 7, 2013
BUFFALO, N.Y. – University at Buffalo computer science students outwitted the competition at two recent hackathons, taking home top honors and thousands of dollars in prizes.
A four-student UB team won first place at Kent State University two weeks ago for developing a computer program that allows people to browse the Internet without a mouse or keyboard.
And in September, sophomore Nate Burgers received $2,000 and an iPad after competing in MHacks, a 36-hour codefest featuring more than 1,000 competitors. He placed in the top 10, and won the prize for the most technically difficult hack.
"These competitions are a great way for like-minded students to meet each other and boost their skills," says Aidong Zhang, PhD, UB Distinguished Professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. "But they're also an indication of how talented our students are."
Despite its underworld connotations, the original meaning of hack is to code and build programs for computer software. A hackathon is a gathering, often involving students, that asks participants to develop programs in an intense, deadline-oriented environment.
The four UB students who went to Kent State were near strangers when they rented a car and drove 3 ½ hours to the hackathon.
"We connected through UB Hackers and chatted a few days before the event. Then we met for the first time at Davis Hall before driving to Ohio," says Mackenzie "Mack" Ward, a junior majoring in computer science and mathematics.
Ward and his teammates — Pritesh Gupta, Gabriel Holodak and Zach Wieand — decided to develop a program that uses the computer's webcam to monitor the user's face. As the user tilts his head up and down, or from left to right, the page he is viewing moves in that direction, thus eliminating the need for a mouse or keypad.
The team wrote the code and demonstrated the program within 37 hours. It could be especially useful for people suffering from ailments that limit the use of their hands.
The program impressed the event's judges, who awarded the team first prize among 1o competitors. The students split $1,000 cash and $3,000 in the cloud computing platform Amazon Web Services.
MHacks was held Sept. 20-22 at the University of Michigan. Burgers placed in the top 10 by inventing Lark, a new programming language that allows iPhone and iPad app developers to edit applications while they're running.
He tested the language on a simple app he created. The app featured a blue circle bouncing amidst a sea of red circles, and a demo video shows how Burgers used the programming language to alter the size and speed of the blue circle without shutting down the program.
"Usually, apps cannot be changed while running, so if you have to fix things or add a button or change the background, you have to stop your app, write the code and turn it on again," Burgers says. "Lark lets you change things live."
What Burgers accomplished is tricky. In addition to his top-10 finish, he won the hackathon's $2,000 Andreessen Horowitz Prize for the Most Technically Impressive hack. He also was given an iPad as an award for the best use of Apple's iOS operating system.
Several startups and hackathon organizers are interested in his work. He also was invited to interview for an internship with one of the world's largest computer companies.
Both Burgers and the Kent State team plan to continue working on their respective programs.
Thinking back to MHacks, Burgers is slightly stunned by how quickly and smoothly the fundamentals of Lark came together. "It was incredible," he says. "Here I am, six hours into working on this thing, and the core language was already working."
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