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Controlling the skies
Millions of passengers, thousands of flights, countless processes seamlessly coordinated: Daily flight operations are a huge logistical feat ably performed by the IOCC in Frankfurt, Lufthansa's "brain"
The brain works on the sixth floor of building BG2 at Frankfurt Airport. Light-gray carpet, flat screens on the walls, desks encircled by up to nine monitors. The brain works silently and with the utmost concentration amid muted human murmurings.
The brain monitors roughly 40 million passengers a year,28 million transfers, 15 000 flight attendants, 4000 pilots and 183 aircraft. It keeps an eye on the winds over the Atlantic, blizzards in southern Germany, potential volcanic eruptions in Mexico – and it ensures that roughly 11 500 tons of kerosene a day gush into the aircraft tanks at the right time.
Every day, Frankfurt Airport handles some 800 Lufthansa flights from all over the world, and that means high air-traffic-control fees – and every mistake costs money. There are always at least 35 pilots and 100 flight attendants on stand-by; and every day, 1300 cockpit crews and 4200 cabin staff fly to 172 destinations. Myriad numbers, countless processes, so many people: The brain coordinates them all.
The brain, Lufthansa's nerve center in Frankfurt, has a name: IOCC, Integrated Operation Control Center. Around 400 people work here, controling the airline's global flight movements from and to Frankfurt and on the ground.
Snippets of conversation flit around the open-plan office. "Singapore, good weather." "Denver rerouting to Montreal due to a medical emergency." "No irregs so far." Irregs are irregularities, and they are anathema to the brain. The control center responds by switching up a notch.
Irregs are an everyday occurrence. A storm over Detroit, an air-traffic-control strike in France, a delayed flight from South America – any of these can disrupt the complex network of processes, triggering all manner of snowball effects.
That's why a team of Lufthansa experts works 24/7 to take action and bring things back to normal as fast as possible, always with a plan B up their sleeve, anticipating problems and finding speedy solutions.
Gerrit Klempert, 47, heads the IOCC team responsible for ground operations at Frankfurt Airport. "We need to adjust parameters here and there, pull the right levers at the right time," he explains. Sounds easy – and is anything but.
Depending on the type and scale of the irreg, his team has to intervene in highly complex processes. Transfer Coordination, Customer Disposition, Crew Bus Operation. The departments work together to make up for delays. They reduce ground times, prioritize flights, allocate the best parking positions.
New questions keep popping up. How many passengers need to be rebooked to Tokyo, Rio and Munich if the flights from Hamburg, Moscow and New York are delayed? How do we control passenger streams? How can we speed up cleaning and catering? Do we need a ramp direct service to take passengers straight from one aircraft to the next? And when exactly is that storm from southern Hesse expected to blow across the apron?
"All areas are parts of the process," says team leader Klempert, "everything merges." The problems start if this gigantic structure wobbles. A glimpse at the screen gives an impression of just how complex it all is. Charts, graphics, status reports, percentages, curves, abbreviations. All across Europe, the world. When there are millions of euros and the itineraries of thousands of passengers at stake, you need nerves of steel and experience by the bucketload.
Klempert remains calm. A doctor of math, he has researched waiting-line theory and congestion logics, and conducted capacity analyses at airports. He lives and breathes stochastic processes and conditional probabilities. Adjust a few parameters and pull the correct lever …
It also takes more than complicated processes to worry Christian Pöselt, 44, a doctor of physics. At IOCC, he heads the department responsible for all flight processes: His staff prepare timetables and check routes, calculate minimum fuel requirements, monitor flight operations, provide pilots with the latest information and change crews.
They sit in front of weather charts, follow flight routes, inquire about short cuts in airspace, and communicate with pilots, directing them if they need to fly around a large storm cell over the equator. They have all the aircraft data on screen in front of them; flying altitude, fuel, speed, course.
They all have one job to do: avoid delays, smooth out irregs and their effects as quickly as possible and keep costs low. "In aviation, every minute costs money," says Pöselt, "but safety always comes first."
In aviation, every minute costs money, but safety always comes first
Today, as usual, there's a problem: LH 729 left Shanghai late due to bad weather and is two-and-a-half hours behind its scheduled arrival time. This has a knock-on effect: If the A380 arrives late, can it make the turnaround to Singapore the same evening? It could be a close thing as the night flight ban requires the last plane to be in the air by 23:00.
How many passengers have booked connecting flights? Are there any free hotel rooms if they cannot continue today? The IOCC requests a route through Russian airspace where the winds are more favorable and asks the captain how fast he can fly without using too much kerosene as LH 729 would otherwise only make it to Berlin.
By 18:00 the experts of both teams have come up with measures to get the plane in the air as efficiently as possible. They've organized a good apron position so that the passengers can embark and disembark quickly. Larger cleaning and catering teams have been requested, and the new cabin crew has been in- formed. As a precaution, 130 hotel rooms have been reserved.
The brain has gone silent. A brief meeting, everyone is focused on LH 729. Tense faces despite the routine. Can they stop the domino effect and send the same Airbus back to Singapore this evening? If not, things could get expensive for the airline – and cost more than 500 passengers at least ten hours.
"One tiny pebble can trigger an avalanche," says Klempert, "and that's something we want to avoid." His face betrays nothing. Over Russia, going flat out and with a tailwind, the A380 managed to catch up half an hour and has now landed and is parked on the apron; the passengers disembark, the cleaning team boards.
It's just after 21:00, the clock is ticking. Everyone stares at the screens, where red, yellow, brown lights flash. Minutes, status reports. Deboarding, fueling, cleaning, catering, crew bus, boarding, loading, pushback.
One after another, the colored fields turn green. The teams have turned around the flight as fast as they could: LH 729 becomes LH 778 and takes off for Singapore at 22:45, comfortably before the night flight deadline.
"It's like standing in a supermarket line just before closing time," says Klempert, "only you don't have all these handy levers to flip." Today, the brain beat the clock and won the game.


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This article traces the development of complexity theories and proposes a Complexity Representation Model (CRM) for management processes. The purpose here was to translate key elements of complexities theories (e.g. self organisation, adaption, co‑evolution, chaos) into a recognisable form and relate these to management practice (particu‑ larly knowledge management and learning). A further Complexity Application Model (CAM) is offered that shows the relationship between the formal and informal aspects of the management environment and the CRM. It models an active environment that should learn and adapt to minor perturbations and major schisms. It is a conceptual guide as to the "ideal" management system, one that self‑ organises, learns, adapts and evolves with its environment. The application of the CAM is discussed in terms of practical methods and processes that can be used to manage and encourage managers to feel they are in control of a complex adaptive management system.
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With us today is Robert Levy who leads the design development of the APIs and controls in the Microsoft Surface SDK.
Q: Robert, what is "Microsoft Surface"?
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Q: What's different from, say, a standard desktop device when it comes to developing software for it?
A: Microsoft Surface is architected as an extension to Windows, WPF, and XNA. The team focused on leveraging existing development tools, technologies, and patterns as much as possible. Because of this, the learning curve for Microsoft Surface development is actually quite minimal.
A popular demo we'll do for developers is to pull a sample app out of the Vista SDK and run "find and replace" command against it (to turn Button into SurfaceButton, ListBox into SurfaceListBox, etc) and show that this is all it takes to port an application over to the multi-touch world of Microsoft Surface.
That said, there is a significant learning curve and innovation opportunity when it comes to designing Microsoft Surface applications. Simply porting apps over with find-and-replace won't result in an app that leverages the unique attributes of Microsoft Surface: multi-user, massive multi-touch, direct interaction and object recognition. The Microsoft Surface SDK includes a number of innovative new controls, tools, samples and documentation to help developers take advantage of these unique attributes and the new Service Pack 1 (SP1) release represents a significantly increased investment in this area.
Microsoft Surface is built around a standard Windows Vista PC with a layer of code running on top of the OS to provide the UI. You can run a standard Windows application on Microsoft Surface, but why would you want to limit yourself when you can do much more? Direct interaction allows users to "grab" digital information with their hands -- interacting with content by touch and gesture, without the use of a mouse or keyboard. Multi-touch functionality also creates a new area of challenges, as Microsoft Surface recognizes many points of contact simultaneously, not just from one finger like with a typical touch-screen, but up to dozens of items at once.
The horizontal form factor makes it easy for several people to gather around Microsoft Surface together, providing a collaborative, face-to-face computing experience. Another facet for developers to consider is the object recognition feature, which allows users to place physical objects on the Microsoft Surface to trigger different types of digital responses, including in the future being able to transfer digital content.
Q: I recently saw a demo of a Nokia N97 smartphone running a gesture-based application that used the phone's camera to capture gestures. So my question is, how does multi-touch software scale between platforms ranging from cell phones to Surface?
A: Within Microsoft, there is close collaboration across the company to establish a consistent developer platform with gestures and other multi-touch interaction concepts. While hardware capabilities may vary between Microsoft Surface, mobile and desktop, it is important to end users that they be able to interact with all devices in the same basic ways. Likewise, it is important to developers that they be able to reuse tools, design patterns and even code across these platforms so that they can get the broadest possible reach.
A good example of this cross-company collaboration is the Manipulation & Inertia Processor APIs. These were originally created for Microsoft Surface using .NET, but Windows 7 includes a COM version and a specialized version is included in the recently released WPF 4.0 Beta 1. Because of this collaboration, all developers -- whether they are targeting Microsoft Surface or Win7, writing native or managed code -- will be able to work with manipulations and inertia (how objects are moved/rotated/resized/flicked with gestures) in the same way.
Q: What's the most difficult part of developing multi-touch software?
A: The real challenge of developing for multi-touch platforms like Microsoft Surface is that developers are forced to rethink a lot of the basics of UI design in order to account for the strengths and weaknesses of touch interaction. With multiple users simultaneously interacting with an application for all sides of Microsoft Surface and while using physical objects, there are great opportunities to build innovative experiences that couldn't exist before and really redefine the way people interact with technology -- but these opportunities require a lot creativity.
We're very pleased with the success our 180+ partners have had in designing innovative experiences for Microsoft Surface, but we've also gotten a lot of feedback from them on how we can make it even easier for them to create and deploy these applications. We've taken this feedback and used it to define Service Pack 1 of the Surface v1 platform which is now available.
SP1 allows for faster and easier application development with an improved SDK and developer tools, including API enhancements, WPF library and menu controls to help speed up the development process. A new stress testing tool simplifies testing of massive multi-input scenarios and a new 128-bit identity tag includes tools and APIs to help developers quickly generate identity tags that Microsoft Surface can recognize and track.
SP1 allows for new platform capabilities in the designing of new applications. Tagged object routing enables users to quickly switch between applications by using tagged objects and gives developers innovative new interaction options. Additionally, service applications run in the background and automatically launch new applications or notifications to create an improved user experience.
Microsoft SurfaceSP1 also includes improvements for end users, including enhanced access points with new audio and visual cues which allows for easier discoverability, as well as single-application mode, which provides easy access to one key application. Contact visualization was also added, displaying visual feedback when users touch Microsoft Surface, providing a faster learning curve with the touch experience.
With a growing partner ecosystem around the world, it was vital that SP1 provide increased reach through broader international support. Localized end-user and administrative interface in available countries (U.S., Canada, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Qatar, Spain, Sweden, UAE and the UK) enables multi-language rollouts in top world markets.
SP1 also allows for easier installation, configuration and maintenance of Microsoft Surface. A simplified system configuration uses new calibration guides and doesn't require an external monitor. Integration with Microsoft Update provides automatic updates to keep units on the latest software and the Microsoft Management Pack support enables proactive and remote management of units.
Q: If readers want to learn more about developing multi-touch software for Microsoft Surface, is there a website they can go to?
A: Readers can find more general information about Microsoft Surface at www.surface.com and become a partner at www.microsoft.com/surface/Become-a-partner.aspx.
For more on multi-touch systems, see Designing for Multi-Touch, Multi-User and Gesture-Based SystemS, by Joel Eden.


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Solar, wind power get Pentagon boost
The U.S. Defense Department will encourage companies to build solar power plants and wind farms on 16 million acres of open land surrounding military bases, making each base less dependent on the nation's aging electricity grid.
The plan, announced Monday, will help the military cut its $4 billion annual energy bill and help insulate bases from blackouts. About 13 million of the acres involved lie in Western states, primarily California, Arizona and Nevada.
"It's a clear recognition that renewable energy can contribute greatly to the energy security of our military facilities, particularly in the Southwest," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.
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A study the Defense Department released this year found that the lands surrounding four military installations in Southern California alone could generate seven gigawatts of solar energy, equivalent to the output of seven nuclear reactors.
But the plan will not focus solely on the desert Southwest. Federal officials also will study the possibility of creating offshore wind farms near military bases along the country's coasts.
The plan represents a partnership between Defense Department officials and the Interior Department. The land that will be developed was once controlled by the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management but was withdrawn from public use at the request of the military. The bureau retains some oversight over the land.
Much of it is now used for training exercises - if it's used at all. The Defense Department will not allow renewable power development on land that the military actively uses, nor will it permit renewable facilities that could interfere with base operations.
The Pentagon has developed a strong interest in using renewable power and alternative fuels to improve energy security. Each of the military's five branches has committed to using one gigawatt of renewable power - enough for roughly 750,000 homes - by 2025.
Military bases rely on the power grid for their electricity, and the grid can sometimes fail due to extreme weather or mechanical problems. Bases now use on-site backup generators - typically burning diesel or other fossil fuels - for protection during blackouts. But they pollute and are expensive to run for long periods, said Dorothy Robyn, undersecretary of defense for installations and the environment.
Solar, wind, geothermal and biomass facilities developed near military bases will be used primarily to power those facilities. But the projects will be big enough that the private companies that finance and build them will be able to sell some excess energy to other users.
"We want to develop these projects at an economic scale," Robyn said.
California and Arizona will serve as the plan's testing ground. Officials from the Bureau of Land Management and the Defense Department will create a pilot process for issuing solar development permits at California's Fort Irwin in San Bernardino County, the Barry M. Goldwater Range in Arizona and the Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona.
"I think you'll see a lot of the large developers move forward with the Department of Defense," said Rhone Resch, president of the Solar Energy Industries Association, a solar trade group. "This expands a market substantially."
David R. Baker is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: email@example.com


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When Muhammad died, did he go straight to paradise like the martyrs or did he go to the grave?
I am led to believe that non-martyrs go to the grave and are subjected to being pressured by the walls of the grave and then quizzed by the angel of death before facing Allah and the recording angels on Judgement Day.
Was Muhammad given a "pass" regarding the torment in the grave and go straight to paradise?


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February 2011 Readers' Tech Tips
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Here's an economical way to keep your trailer floor clean and stay off the hot asphalt or the dirt in the pit stalls at the track. Find a commercial carpet company and ask for its old floor runners. Most companies will give you their old or faded ones for free. Cut them down to 4 feet long so you can throw them under your car. It makes it easy to slide under so you aren't directly on the dirt or asphalt. When you're not at the track, put them under your car so oil and other fluids don't leak on the trailer floor.
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"As biologically diverse as the Amazon is, this peculiar creature would not appear to be a natural inhabitant of the Brazilian jungle or, indeed, Earth for that matter. Standing just a few feet from a mesmerising flashing light, this unidentified being could offer proof that we are not alone in the universe. The image comes from a video obtained by noted paranormal writer Michael Cohen and is claimed to have been filmed by two British tourists visiting the Mamaus region of the Amazon" - Dailymail
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Archive for August 2008
IEEE Visualization 2008 (Vis, InfoVis, VAST) papers posted
The IEEE Visualization 2008 conference will be held in Columbus, Ohio this year. The VGTC committee decided to call the paper presentations, art exhibits, panels, posters, worshops:VisWeek . The idea is to have all the events that are based on data visualization of some sort are clubbed under one event name. Previously, in the past people would attend InfoVis and then leave or attend only Vis (which generally starts on a tuesday/wednesday) and then leave at the end of the week. I think its a great idea that they are allowing attendees to attend the whole week of amazing talks and presentations. I am sure such an endeavor will encourage interactions between people and lead to more interesting results for the community.
Well, as one of the marquee events of the conference, the list of accepted papers for the conference has been posted on their website.
I am keenly looking forward to reading some papers and shall post my thoughts on them as soon as I can my hands on them 🙂
The posters, panels, workshops, tutorials etc links too have been updated. All the links can be found from the main page at http://vis.computer.org/VisWeek2008/
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Bill Taylor, Lipscomb's director of cross country and track and field, has announced the hiring of current graduate assistant Marcus Evans as an assistant coach for the track and field programs. Evans will be in charge of sprints and hurdles.
Evans has spent the last two years as a graduate assistant in the same capacity but will move into the larger role of fulltime assistant.
"First, I want to thank Philip Hutcheson (Athletic Director), Danny Taylor (Sr. VP for Finance and Admin) and Dr. Randy Lowry (Lipscomb President) for continuing to support and invest in the cross country and track and field programs here," Taylor said. "They have recognized the value we bring to Lipscomb, and I know we have stepped up in a big way in every way.
"They have also understood that the athletes we bring in need to be taken care of, and adding a fourth fulltime coach to our staff shows their concern for the well-being and success."
With the university allowing for the hiring of another assistant coach, Taylor believes the value came from building a program from a few athletes to nearly 100 six years later.
"When I was hired as the head coach we had about 20 athletes," Taylor said. "That was cross country and track and field combined for men and women. Next year we will have nearly 100 athletes on the teams from at least 27 different states.
"Our women's distance team is incredible, our men's distance is young and rising, we have seen success in throws, jumps and the vault. In particular, our sprints and hurdles have been rising dramatically. The consistency in coaching should only help."
One of the sprinters who has gained national attention is rising senior Tucker Peabody. Under Evans' tutelage, Peabody has qualified for two-straight NCAA Preliminary rounds and held a top-20 time in the 200-meter dash this season.
"Just seeing how Tucker has qualified for national meets along with the large group of recruits provides a unique opportunity for me," Evans said. "It is something we are all working towards. We think it is important for Lipscomb to be on the national stage as a Christian university."
The Christian atmosphere that Evans has grown accustomed to over the last two years helped Evans want to stay.
"There have been a lot of things that I have grown to love," Evans said. "I love the fact that we are a small Christian school that provides a really unique opportunity to recruit and go after kids that a lot of schools may not.
"I love that I get to head the sprints and hurdles position and work with those athletes so closely. Being at a small school and getting to work with them has been something I really enjoyed."
Also enjoying the growing success of the Lipscomb sprint and hurdle corps, Evans hopes to continue to grow the squad into a powerhouse in years to come.
"It is kind of like a domino effect," Evans said. "Once you get going at that elite level, the younger athletes start recognizing that you know what you are doing. We are hoping this domino effect works its way through with some really good hurdlers and sprinters that are coming in next year,"
Through the hiring process Taylor said that Evans rose to the top despite a national search.
"The hiring process was wide-open as we did the national search," Taylor said. "In the end, despite great candidates that were considered, Marcus was on top. I really look forward to helping him continue to develop into a nationally elite coach while he continues to bring more and more success to our program."
Evans earned his bachelors degree in Mass Communication at Southern Illinois – Edwardsville in 2010 where he also competed on the track and field team as it was going through the transition from NCAA Division II to Division I.
He began his coaching career as an assistant coach at Adrian College, a NCAA Division III institution, where he coached five MIAA conference champion sprinters and a NCAA Division III high jump qualifier.
Evans will earn his master's degree in Conflict Management from Lipscomb in August.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The cold weather predicted for this weekend will take its toll on local yards and plants.
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"People are coming in and asking every day, 'What should I do? What should I do? And I honestly recommend not a whole lot."
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Korlacki said cold snaps are inevitable, and he said luckily most plants in northeast Florida are designed to sustain it.
"People want to build a greenhouse over the top of their yard 'cause they feel like every plant they have is going to be damaged, and that's not the case," he said. "The majority of your plants are going to be fine."
Korlacki said if residents don't do anything to their tropical plants this weekend, they'll still survive. He said for those who have a prized tropical plant and are concerned it won't make it, there are steps they can take.
"You can take a blanket, you can wrap it along the base of the plant," Korlacki said. "The part of the plant that you want to protect the most is the root ball. The top of the plant where you're going to take most of the damage, you don't want to cover it all."
The cold snap will kill warm weather plants, such as tomato plants, banana plants and pepper plants, so residents will want to harvest what they can, even if the fruit isn't yet ripe.
As for yards, Korlacki says hold off the sprinklers.
"I did that and I had ice crystals on my whole front yard, so it's not really that necessary to do," he said. "There's really not a lot of things that you need to do."
Most plants that sustain damage will grow back. As for plants in pots, Korlacki said to move them inside or out of the wind. He said they don't have that extra layer of protection like plants in the ground.
Use fire safety with space heaters, AC units, fireplaces
As the temperatures plummet outside, many will turn up the heat inside. And for local firemen, that is when they say they see more fires, many of which are started by space heaters.
They say prevention starts with keeping the space around the heater clear.
"Make sure that they have no flammable material that's close to them if they are going to use a portable heater inside," said Randy Wyse, president of the Jacksonville Fire Fighters Association. "Most of them are electric or kerosene, obviously, keeping the flammables away from it."
Though some may want to fall asleep with that heater on, Wyse says it's too risky and they should turn it off.
Those who have to refuel a kerosene space heater should do it outside "that way if you do spill any kerosene on the floor it doesn't become a hazard," Wyse said.
Many will be reaching for the thermostat when the temps drop this weekend. Snyder Heating and Air recommends getting systems checked if it's been a while just to make sure everything is OK.
"When you're starting it up for the first time, you're going to get that burning smell," said Jorge Irizarri, a supervisor at Snyder. "It's very important to keep an eye on it 'cause you never know if something has gotten into the duct work and has fallen on to the heat strip where it can cause a fire."
There is even advice for those taking a more natural approach.
"A lot of people use fireplaces in this time," Wyse said. "Making sure that they are maintained is the most important thing, making sure that none of the logs roll out and making sure that they're clean."
Fire officials also say this is a good time to check smoke detectors and make sure the batteries are working.
That could be your first signal that something is wrong and could save lives.
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- 1 recipe Savory Pie Crust, recipe follows
- 1 egg
- 2 pounds ripe tomatoes, peeled
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1/3 cup plain bread crumbs
- 4 tablespoons mayonnaise
- 3/4 cup thinly sliced Vidalia onions
- 1/4 teaspoon fresh thyme leaves
- 2 tablespoons chiffonade fresh basil
- 1/2 cup grated fontina cheese
- 1/2 cup grated mozzarella cheese
- 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan
- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons Essence, recipe follows
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 4 ounces (1 stick) cold unsalted butter, cut into pieces
- 3 to 4 tablespoons ice water
- 1 tablespoon dried thyme
- 2 tablespoons salt
- 2 tablespoons garlic powder
- 1 tablespoon black pepper
- 1 tablespoon onion powder
- 1 tablespoon cayenne pepper
- 1 tablespoon dried oregano
- 2 1/2 tablespoons paprika
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Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
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Roll out the pie crust on a lightly floured surface to fit a deep 9 or 10-inch pie pan. Place the pastry in the pie pan and crimp edges decoratively. Refrigerate at least 30 minutes, then line with aluminum foil. Fill with pie weights and bake for 12 to 15 minutes, or until lightly golden around the edges. Remove foil and pie weights, and return to the oven for 3 to 5 minutes. Remove from the oven and transfer to a cooling rack to cool. Crack the egg in a small bowl, reserving yolk for the filling, separately. Lightly beat the egg white with a fork, then brush the surface of pie crust with a light coating of egg white and allow to cool.
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Slice the tomatoes, discarding the stem and root ends, into 1/4-inch slices and lightly season with the salt and pepper.
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Sprinkle about 1/3 of the bread crumbs in the bottom of the pie crust. In a small bowl combine the mayonnaise with the reserved egg yolk and stir until smooth. Place a layer of tomatoes in the bottom of the piecrust over the breadcrumbs, using about half of the tomatoes, then top with half of the sliced onions. Drizzle with half of the mayonnaise mixture, half of the thyme and basil, half of the fontina and half of the mozzarella cheeses. Top with half of the remaining breadcrumbs then top with the remaining tomato slices, remaining onions, remaining fontina and mozzarella, remaining mayonnaise mixture, and remaining thyme and basil. Top with the remaining bread crumbs and drizzle with the olive oil. cover with the Parmesan cheese, place in the oven and bake until bubbly hot and golden brown, about 1 hour and 15 minutes. Remove from the oven and allow to cool for at least 30 minutes before slicing and serving. Serve warm or at room temperature.
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2 teaspoons Essence, recipe followsÂ
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In the bowl of a food processor combine flour, Essence, salt, and butter and process until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. While the motor is running, add water in increments until dough comes together to form a ball. Transfer dough to a lightly floured surface and shape into a flat disc. Refrigerate overnight or at least one hour.
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Remove from refrigerator and roll out on a lightly floured surface to desired shape and thickness.
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Combine all ingredients thoroughly.
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Recipe from "New New Orleans Cooking", by Emeril Lagasse and Jessie Tirsch, Published by William Morrow, 1993.


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ENIAC: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer
Berkley Books, 2001 - Computers - 262 pages
'ENIAC' is the story of John Mauchly and Presper Eckert, the men who built the first digital, electronic computer. Their three-year race to create the legendary ENIAC is a compelling tale of brilliance and misfortune that has never been told before. It was the size of a three-bedroom apartment, weighed 30 tons, and cost nearly half a million dollars to build-and $650 an hour to run. But in 1945, this behemoth was the cutting edge in technology, and a herald of the digital age to come. This 'little gem of a book' tells the story of this machine and the men who built it-as well as the secrecy, controversy, jealousy, and lawsuits that surrounded it-in a real-life techno-thriller.
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Marvel Studios' Iron Man 3 is on the verge of crossing $1bn after Disney executives reported on Wednesday [15] it had reached $980.3m worldwide.
This makes the film the second biggest superhero releases behind Marvel's The Avengers and the 13th biggest international release on $685.6m.
China has accounted for $104.5m, followed by South Korea on $54.9m, the UK on $48.9m, Mexico on $42.9m, Russia on $39.3m, Brazil on $38.4m, France on $36.1m and Australia on $33.5m.
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That is an amazing shot! The blue of the sky turning the puddle into a piece of sky lost on earth coupled with the reflection of the fence is such a rare shot. You really should publish some of these when you are done with your project. 🙂
Love that shot! You have such an eye. Is the sock yarn below from Sunshine Yarns? I've got some that looks pretty darn close!
Oh my god, this photo startled me! I just finished a Pi shawl (mini) with the exact colores like that. I made the Queen Ann's shawl in those colores, I love them. I might have to link to your photo, when I blog about my Pi shawl. Wonderful!!!
That is quite beautiful. The colors in the picture just work so well together.


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Scenes from a long weekend.
Leading the way.
Sharing the load.
Gorgeous view.
Fun in the sun.
Flowering cactus.
Action shot.
Stubborn (he would not look at the camera).
Very tired (two hikes in two days will do that to a girl).
Ready for the ride home.
Smart kitty (sleeping in front of AC unit).
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1. Since the Holy Scriptures are the only infallible rule of faith and practice, the principles of public worship must be derived from the Bible, and from no other source.
2. A service of public worship is not merely a gathering of God's children with each other but before all else a meeting of the triune God with his chosen people. God is present in public worship not only by virtue of the divine omnipresence but, much more intimately, as the faithful covenant Savior. The Lord Jesus Christ said: "Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them."
3. The end of public worship is the glory of God. His people should engage in all its several parts with an eye single to his glory. Public worship has as its aim the building of Christ's church by the perfecting of the saints and the addition to its membership of such as are being savedall to the glory of God. Through public worship on the Lord's Day Christians should learn to serve God all the days of the week in their every activity, remembering, whether they eat or drink or whatever they do, to do all to the glory of God.
4. Public worship is rightly said to be divine because God is its beginning and its end. It is of him and through him and unto him.
5. Public worship is Christian when the worshipers recognize that Christ is the Mediator by whom alone they can come unto God, when they honor Christ as the Head of the church, who rules over public worship, and when their worship is an expression of their faith in Christ and of their love for him.
(From the Directory for Worship)
The author is pastor of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, Franklin Square, New York. Reprinted from New Horizons, November 2005. First article in series. Next article. Index.
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Don't blame parents for childhood obesity
State must act to tax products with high sugar content and promote healthy, nutritious food
Spaghetti Bolognese is a meal lacking in fibre, but high in saturated fat and refined carbohydrate. Photograph: Getty Images
Safe Food Ireland (SFI) launched its campaign against childhood obesity, with billboards urging parents to reduce portion size. But blaming parents draws attention away from a defective food chain that the State is doing nothing to ameliorate.
Moreover, SFI's choice of a plate of spaghetti Bolognese for its posters is puzzling as this is a meal lacking in fibre, but high in saturated fat and refined carbohydrate.
There is no hint of a vegetable, let alone the latest dietary guidelines in the US and UK advocating half a plate of vegetables or fruit.
The message is: there's nothing wrong with what is on the plate, just serve less of it.
It is important to point out that the body mass index (BMI), the current measure of obesity, is a clumsy metric. Slim people often store fat in dangerous areas, especially around their stomachs. This is known as TOFI: thin-outside-fat-inside.
Moreover, up to a third of people who are clinically obese avoid chronic diseases; many athletes are categorised as obese.
Being overweight should not be stigmatised as once weight is put on, it is difficult to lose.
Robert Lustig, author of Sugar: the Bitter Truth, observed: "Once the balloon is filled, it doesn't want to be deflated." A person can be simultaneously healthy but overweight if they exercise and eat a healthy diet.
An evolutionary perspective suggests that refined sugar is unsuitable for our bodies. In The Story of the Human Body, Daniel Lieberman writes: "Since natural selection adapted the human body over the last few million years to consume a diverse diet of fruits, tubers, wild game, seeds, nuts, and other foods that are rich in fibre but low in sugar, it should hardly be surprising that you can develop illnesses such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease from consistently eating foods that are loaded with sugar but depleted of fibre."
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Paleo-biologists performed DNA footprint analysis of 3,000-10,000-year-old stool samples from caves in Texas and estimated that these cave dwellers consumed about 100g of fibre per day, yet our mean consumption is less than 20g.
Prof Mike Gibney, chairman of the Food Safety Authority, takes a different approach and this seems to inform Government policy. The author of Something to Chew On argues that the obesity epidemic is a simple product of insufficient calories being burnt.
He writes: "The fact is that every food category plays a role in obesity. For some it is fast food, for others it is big lunches and dinners."
At a recent conference he argued against a "fat tax", and downplayed the relevance of social background: "If social class is important in obesity, it is only if it is associated with a genetic predisposition to obesity."
Yet no single "fat gene" has been isolated, and any genes associated with obesity long precede the recent upsurge.
Decreased energy expenditure is obviously a factor but so is the type and not just the amount of food we eat.
Certain foods do us more damage due to their hormonal effects and it doesn't matter if we have a high BMI or not.
Tax on sugar
Refined carbohydrate, including sugar, causes a spike in the secretion of insulin, the hormone responsible for storing fat, and regular consumption can lead to type 2 diabetes.
Moreover, half a sugar molecule is fructose which is processed in the liver. As hunter-gatherers we encountered fructose in fruit (or rarely honey) which contains fibre which slows the absorption of fructose, giving us time to process it. But without it we either store it as fat in the liver or dump it into the bloodstream.
These fatty triglycerides block the action of insulin in the liver.
Fructose also does not act on the hormone ghrelin which causes hunger, meaning we don't register these calories. That explains why soft drink portions keep getting bigger.
Sugar, especially high fructose corn syrup, became extraordinarily cheap after US corn began to be subsidised in the 1970s. Tellingly, obesity only began to feature in medical textbooks from that time.
It also acts as a preservative, ensuring long shelf life. In the United States, of the 600,000 items for sale, 80 per cent are laced with sugar. There is no data available for this country but we are unlikely to be far off.
I propose a carrot-and-stick approach to the problem. First, a tax should be introduced on products with high sugar content, especially targeting soft drinks.
Second, the display of such products in shops and supermarkets should be regulated in the same way as we treat tobacco.
In terms of a carrot, I believe revenues should be reserved for the promotion and subsidisation of whole food, plant-based nutrition, especially fruits and vegetables.
This is the best way of increasing the consumption of that missing fibre. It is also cheap and sustainable.
Low carbohydrate fads such as the Atkins and Dukan diets can cause a dramatic loss of weight but have dangerous long-term consequences. Dr Dukan has been struck off the French medical register while Dr Atkins developed heart disease and died obese.
Portion size
The real problems arise with carbohydrates when we strip them of their nutrients and fibre, creating white bread, white pasta, white rice and, worst of all, sugar.
SFI's public information campaign reveals a lack of ambition and blames parents for structural problems in the supply of food that keeps the price of fresh, healthy food high relative to unhealthy alternatives.
If nutritious, high-fibre food is served to children they can eat until they are full and portion size will rarely be relevant.
Frank Armstrong is a food writer and teaches a course on the politics of food in UCD.


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Shellfish farmers are appealing to the federal and provincial governments to support genomic research in an effort identify oysters, mussels and scallops suited to withstand the west coast's rapidly changing marine environment.
Oyster and scallop farmers from Oregon right up the coast of British Columbia are experiencing massive die-offs of animals associated with rising carbon dioxide levels and increasing acidity in local waters.
"We've been aware of these problems for quite a while and we just have to learn to operate our farms under new parameters," said Roberta Stevenson, executive director of the B.C. Shellfish Growers Association. "Genomics offers us an opportunity to develop an animal that is more capable of adapting to this new pH level."
Shellfish farms employ about 1,000 people in mostly rural parts of the coast and generate about $33 million in sales each year, Stevenson said.
But the industry is facing a serious threat as higher levels of carbon dioxide in near-coast waters are lowering the natural pH of the water (increasing its acidity) and interfering with the development of oysters and, more recently, scallops.
A Qualicum producer lost millions of scallops worth $10 million last year, one of many extreme shellfish mortality events reported since carbon dioxide levels and acidity began to rise in the past decade.
Several studies have identified increasing levels of carbon dioxide and high acidity events as the cause of significant mortality in oyster and scallop larvae. More recent die-offs of mature scallops is a new and unprecedented wrinkle in B.C. waters. A viral pathogen found in France (the site of a large die-off), Spain, Italy the Netherlands, the U.K., United States, Asia and New Zealand has never been detected in Canada.
In 2010, the highest concentration of carbon dioxide recorded in B.C. waters was 850 parts per million. Last year, concentrations as high as 1,400 ppm were recorded, according to the BCSGA.
The combination of localized algae blooms, fresh water outflow, upwelling of low-pH deep water and carbon dioxide absorbed from the atmosphere in surface waters are combining to create dramatic changes in water quality, said Vancouver Island University research scientist Helen Gurney-Smith.
"Within a day you can have massive fluctuations and then month-to-month and year-to-year fluctuations," she said. "It's much different than the steady state you see in open oceans."
Oyster and scallop hatcheries are coping with the variable acidity of ocean waters by adjusting the pH of waters they take in from the ocean, but once shellfish are moved to the open ocean to grow to full size, they need to be able to endure and thrive in whatever conditions the environment throws at them.
"Ocean acidification creates problems for oysters and scallops in creating their shell, but it's not all gloom and doom," she said. "We don't like it but we are trying to learn to live with it."
Some local growers have already begun the work of identifying the genetic profile of Pacific oysters and scallops that cope best with low pH and high carbon dioxide events.
"We are hoping to identify brood stock that are more resilient, much like how some families are less likely to get diabetes or heart disease than another family," said Stevenson. "We need to find the sturdiest parents for our hatcheries that can work in these new conditions."
Genomic tools can help identify which animals are more resilient under different conditions, said Gurney-Smith.
"Within a population you will find individuals that have different potential adaptations to different environments, which is why you find shellfish all over the world," she said.
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The Foundation has developed a set of criteria that it can refer to when deciding whether to enter new fields of grantmaking. These were set out in a paper on Creating, Changing, and Closing Areas of Grantmaking. We may find it useful, as well, to systematically assess MacArthur's contribution to positive change in the areas of our grantmaking. Such assessments could aid in setting and revising priorities, and in allocating staff and financial resources among the range of interests represented by our grantmaking portfolio.
One way to think about such assessments would be to ask whether and how MacArthur's financial contributions, expertise, and reputation are adding value in the fields we have chosen to enter. That is, are MacArthur funds fostering the changes in policy and practice that we set out to accomplish; or, on the other hand, have we reached diminishing programmatic returns on those grantmaking investments. The most critical question will be: When does staying the course to make further incremental change in one field cost us an opportunity to make substantial change in another or new field of activity? This can be a difficult question to answer and the following discussion is intended to help provide a framework for deliberations.
To assess MacArthur's added value to a field, we propose five sets of questions that, taken together, form a framework for judging how much value our grantmaking adds to a field of policy, research, or practice. This framework is by no means the only way to think about the value we add to the fields that we work in, but it provides a useful heuristic device for analysis and discussion of MacArthur's program and area activities. We recognize that making decisions about individual awards is relatively easy; it is more difficult to make a difference in a field or on a set of issues.
At the outset we acknowledge a tension, and even tradeoffs, between starting up new initiatives on the one hand, and staying the course in existing areas, on the other. In the end, our ability to make a difference may require a balance in the portfolio of grants among forward-looking, leading edge projects, and sustained support for organizations that we view as central to any long-term solutions to the problems we are addressing.
The sets of questions center on five related themes:
1. Innovation/creativity. Is MacArthur still on the leading edge in an area? Are grant recipients breaking new conceptual ground? Is the Foundation continuing to identify and fund the most creative people and projects aligned with our goals?
Foundations can often stimulate innovation in policy, research, and practice. Their flexibility and freedom to act, without regard for financial return or political support, allows them to be more experimental than other kinds of institutions. In fact, foundations are often rewarded for moving on from successful projects and for achieving sustainable reforms in particular fields. Though we sometimes hear about the problems associated with foundation "fads," moving from one area to another is one aspect of foundation independence that is unusual among social institutions and may well be worth preserving.
The relatively modest resources at their command also argue for an emphasis on seeking the creative leverage point in a field, rather than, for example, providing services to a broad public. Setting an agenda—by supporting those who are posing new questions and reframing issues rather than implementing a consensus—is more often a foundation's comparative advantage. Indeed, some observe that foundations are often most useful in the formative stages of addressing social needs or in reformulating a public agenda. Because of their independence and flexibility, funding can be swiftly moved to try out new ideas and new programs. The "slack" that such independence affords can encourage and reward creative solutions, a resource not often available in public bureaucracies or in private business. Not all projects will succeed; but failures are not punished as severely as they are in other sectors, and foundations are in a position to learn from those failures. Indeed, giving more attention to the analysis of failures would increase our understanding of the drivers of policy change, and could contribute to more effective grantmaking in the long-run.
In philanthropy, especially among those private foundations that seek to foster innovation, staying in a field for a long time, while continuing to pursue unchanging priorities, may be a sign that inertia has set in. In that case, a foundation may not be taking advantage of its freedom to stimulate fresh insight and inspire new solutions. More often than we may wish, foundations may be too cautious, avoiding risk-taking and experimentation. In some cases, where they stay too long in a field, continue to fund projects in the same way on the same issues, or continue to employ the same strategy even where evidence of success is thin, foundations may have been "captured" by a constituency, lack creativity and innovation themselves, or are unable to leverage other funders to sustain activities that they had earlier initiated. Yet foundations, like other social institutions, may yield to these inertial pressures and avoid risky ventures.
If funding flexibility is compromised by remaining in a grantmaking field despite diminishing returns, then the role of foundations as innovators and contributors to creativity may be compromised as well. Given the opportunity for flexibility and creativity, the question of how long to remain in a field, or how long to pursue a given strategy in a field, is one that we want to return to often.
In some areas, however, because of the nature of the issues, or the strategies employed, it is unlikely that funding will come from government or from the private sector to help sustain programs that MacArthur initiates; in such areas, we may need to remain for the long-term. We would provide sustained support to strengthen institutions and ensure that our investments in organizations and leaders are not lost. Where this is the case, the Foundation would take care to provide adequate funding to protect those investments before taking on new issues in fields where we have little experience; we are not interested in chasing new philanthropic fads. In fields such as human rights, or international peace and security, for example, strategies rely on monitoring government and private sector actions. To accept funding from organizations and institutions that are being monitored, and sometimes criticized, might compromise the freedom of nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations to act independently. In these areas, we may determine that grantmaking should continue for the indefinite future.
This commitment to areas of grantmaking that may require long-term grantmaking from the Foundation does not exempt these program areas, however, from application of the framework outlined here. Nor does it exempt these areas from scrutiny, evaluation, and redefinition at regular intervals. In fact, we would expect such reviews to foster new thinking in areas of sustained grantmaking to ensure that the Foundation continues to add value even where it will continue funding for some years. We want to be reasonably sure that the changes the Foundation helped to initiate will continue after our departure. In some cases, other institutions—governments, international organizations, universities, other foundations, or business firms—will have incorporated the innovations we helped to bring about so that our funding may no longer be adding substantial value. On the other hand, where this is not the case, we may well decide to remain in the field, continuing to sustain organizations to carry on essential activities. Many organizations in civil society, in the independent sector, require just such funding. For example, some require philanthropic grants to continue work in communities that seem habitually neglected by both government and markets, and other organizations need to maintain their independence as they hold governments and firms accountable to commonly accepted standards of ethical action.
2. Issue Visibility. Are we continuing to bring visibility to the issues in a field through our grants, our communications strategy, and/or our convening power? A major element of setting the public agenda is funding organizations that can raise the visibility of issues in our grantmaking areas, and move them higher on the public agenda. Of course, just by announcing its intentions to make grants in an area, a foundation can have significant influence. By communicating its own priorities, based on wide consultation, it can draw attention to a neglected field or understudied area. Beyond that initial entry into a field, however, the foundation will wish to continue to keep the spotlight on issues until changes are made that solve the social problem that has been identified, or until additional significant resources have been mobilized to address the problem.
If the area we have chosen to focus on, or the strategy we are pursuing, does not engage key leaders and relevant organizations among practitioners, in policy circles, or in the media, then we may need to step back to assess the foundation's strategy. We will want to understand the reasons for continued lack of visibility, or "traction." For example, the number or the reputations of foundation-supported organizations may be too low to engender enthusiasm. Entrepreneurial leadership may be wanting, or there may be too many other areas crowding the policy agenda.
On the other hand, a set of problems may be very visible, and the Foundation may choose to continue funding in the area because we can add value beyond simply raising the salience of the issues in the field. Such value may be added by supporting analysis that will shape the direction of policy change or practice, or by convening parties who have different views of desirable solutions. While raising the level of attention to a field is usually a key to success, our job may not be finished even when policymakers begin to focus. For example, the issue area of nuclear weapons proliferation is now squarely on the U.S. national security policy agenda, yet the Foundation is still seeking to contribute to creative public discussion and policy solutions. We are funding technical experts and regional specialists to provide deeper understanding of the local or regional security threats that might propel nuclear weapons development, as well as to monitor efforts to secure and safeguard dangerous technologies and fissile material.
3. Timing/momentum for change. The timing of foundation-supported actions may be critical in bringing attention to societal problems and to fostering innovation. While we may not always be lucky enough to enter a field when an issue is "ripe" for change, we will look for potential for change, as we consider whether or not to enter an area of grantmaking. Depending on the particular issues in an area and the Foundation's goals, we may want to develop strategies geared to different time horizons. Short-term (one to two years) success may be likely on a particular issue in an area, medium-term of three to five years on other problems, and on yet others, long-term investments and expectations for success in a ten-year time period may make more sense.
Other questions might include: Are there a sufficient number of policy entrepreneurs to inspire action in a desirable direction? Are policymakers open to alternative ideas and able to receive information and analysis, and can they act on policy recommendations? Is public attention high enough to provide incentives for action? Are practitioners applying new methodologies to address old problems (e.g., treating teenagers differently from adults in the justice system)?
On the other hand, is the area we are addressing well past the "tipping point" at which a foundation might hope to make the most critical contribution? Are policymakers exhausted by the debate in a field? Have constituencies moved on to other problems? Is the public "fatigued" by the intractable nature of the problems, or the lack of perceived change for the better after years of attention? Are younger people and emerging leaders focusing on other fields or areas of practice? Are nongovernmental organizations in the area losing membership and funding?
Or, we may conclude that the scale of change we are contemplating requires long-term investments. When MacArthur decided to contribute to the transition in the region of the former Soviet Union, after its break-up, we understood that we would be engaged for the long-term. Establishing an office in Moscow was a sign of MacArthur's intentions to engender and contribute to reforms in scientific institutions and intellectual life in the region. We understood that the enormity and complexity of the transition would require at least a generation to achieve, and our contribution might well extend beyond ten years.
In yet other cases, we may find that the conditions that were in place when we entered a field—demographic, economic, social, political, for example—have changed dramatically, so much in some cases, that our intervention is swamped by current trends and forces. We may determine that continuing to make grants in such a field will have little or no effect. These are some of the questions to ask as we examine the possibility that the issue domain, or field, we are working in may no longer offer the opportunities for change that we observed initially.
4. Foundation leadership. One of the positive indications for entering a grantmaking field was our judgment that MacArthur might play a leading and distinctive role. While we wish to guard against being the only source of private funding in a field, we also believe that MacArthur's reputation, its staff resources, and financial means equip it to provide leadership in the grantmaking areas it chooses to enter.
In assessing whether we are continuing to make a contribution, and beyond that, whether we are adding value in a field, we will want to ask whether MacArthur still maintains a leadership position in the area? Do we still enjoy the comparative advantage that we observed as we entered a field? Have other donors taken up the issue so that our funding is now only marginally useful? In some cases, we may have been able to persuade a large number of new donors to provide support, so that the marginal utility of our contribution has diminished over time. On the other hand, are we continuing to leverage substantial funds from other private donors?
A second set of questions might be: have we passed the point where private philanthropy can add greatest value? Or is the long-term implementation of a solution better taken up by government resources or private enterprise? We may see that government agencies are now providing major sources of support in the direction of change that we sought. Or private market resources are being attracted to the area as we intended, say for example, in providing affordable housing. In these cases, MacArthur funds may no longer be necessary to spur the changes needed; others have entered the area and have begun to fill the need.
When the foundation enters a field, it has decided that the issues or problems that we choose to address are at a point where relatively modest contributions can help influence the direction of change. We also are aware of our role as one among many institutions and sources of funding. To stimulate lasting change, our grantmaking efforts will usually be intended to harness resources—financial, organizational and intellectual—of other, often larger institutions. We seek to be the "hook in the elephant's ear"—exerting pressure at a sensitive point to shift directions or accelerate desired change.
As we assess our effort relative to the change we sought to bring about, we will also wish to know whether the Foundation is still stimulating change beyond what it might be accomplishing with the single projects it is supporting? Does the sum of our investment seem to be bringing about more substantial change, through a ripple or demonstration effect, than we might have expected absent our funding? Are there positive unintended consequences that we might follow up on? On the other hand, are there unintended negative consequences that might lead us to rethink our strategy and even our presence in a field?
5. Synergy. One of the advantages of a general purpose foundation like MacArthur is that board members and officers with interests in specialized areas of grantmaking can begin to learn from one another, and out of that learning, think in new ways about the areas of grantmaking for which they are responsible. So for example, grantmaking on human rights informed the development of new ideas about human security, and a focus on population and environment led the foundation to initiate a research competition on issues at the intersection of population, consumption, and the environment.
While the discussion so far has emphasized changes outside of the Foundation—in the policy domains in which we are working—we should also consider the experiential and intellectual returns to Foundation staff and board in assessing the value added by continuing to make grants in that area. Have lessons learned from our activities in a field been integrated into the Foundation's general knowledge? Have staff been able to take advantage of working together with others in the Foundation to develop broader perspectives about their own grantmaking responsibilities? Are there ways in which grantmaking in one area links to others? And finally, has experience and knowledge from one field of grantmaking informed other areas so as to take advantage of MacArthur as a general purpose foundation? We are also in an advantaged position when we decide to take up cross-cutting themes that draw on the existing grantmaking areas. For example, taking up migration issues can draw on knowledge from grantmaking on human rights, population, and urban economic development. In reviewing fields that the Foundation may enter, we will be interested in whether there are continuing possibilities for synergies between and among areas. And while the internal learning that takes place across programs and areas is valuable in developing innovative strategies, our larger aim, as always, is to reflect those lessons in our grantmaking in a way that encourages similar synergies among leaders and organizations that we are supporting.
In general, the Foundation seeks to achieve a balance between more venturesome program initiatives where there may be a lower probability of success, and ones that are assured to accomplish our objectives. Likewise, we seek a balance between support for innovative, ground-breaking activities, on the one hand, and sustained attention to well-established organizations in fields where MacArthur has built a reputation. In some areas, we may be the clear leaders in a field, in others we may wish to be one among many, as additional donors take up leadership in one of our chosen fields. We are interested, in the end, in a balanced portfolio approach to our giving and convening. Ongoing assessment of program areas will help to ensure that balance.
With this idea of balance in mind, it may be useful, once a year, for the Foundation to devote a session to a review and discussion of all of the program areas, including the President's critical reflection on the value added by MacArthur in each of the Foundation's grantmaking portfolios. Reviews would be organized around the five themes discussed here, providing assessments of MacArthur's contribution in each area to: innovation/creativity; issue visibility; momentum for change; leadership; and, synergy within the Foundation. Taken together, such reviews would identify tensions and trade-offs between staying the course in an area, on the one hand, and initiating new activity in another. A periodic review would also provide a quick assessment of the overall balance in MacArthur's grantmaking portfolio, afford a designated time for discussion about changes in the mix of old and new program initiatives, and provide assurance that we are adding sufficient value in our chosen fields of grantmaking.


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks advanced on Friday but failed to make up for what turned out to be the worst week for markets since June, as investors turned their attention from the presidential election to the coming negotiations over the "fiscal cliff."
The market gave up some early gains after President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner, in separate public remarks, made it clear that partisan sparring would likely dominate the next several weeks.
The S&P 500 finished Friday's session up 0.17 percent, but it fell 2.4 percent for the week - the worst since early June.
"At this point, there's no election, and there's nothing else that can distract. The junk has filtered out and the politicians will be forced to make a decision on the fiscal cliff," said Chris Hobart, CEO and founder of the Hobart Financial Group, an investment management and financial planning firm in Charlotte, N.C.
The outlook was somewhat brightened earlier in the day when new economic data showed consumer sentiment was at its highest level in more than five years, according to the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan surveys, and wholesale inventories jumped in September, according to a Commerce Department report.
Shares of Walt Disney Co (DIS.N) fell 6 percent to $47.06, dragging on the Dow industrials, after the company reported results late Thursday. The company said coming results will be under pressure due to declining home video sales and rising costs.
Groupon Inc's (GRPN.O) shares sank 29.6 percent to $2.76 a day after the daily deal company's results fell short of Wall Street's expectations.
The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI edged up 4.07 points, or 0.03 percent, to 12,815.39 at the close. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX rose 2.34 points, or 0.17 percent, to 1,379.85. The Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC advanced 9.29 points, or 0.32 percent, to close at 2,904.87.
For the week, the Dow fell 2.1 percent and the Nasdaq lost 2.6 percent.
Tech stocks managed solid gains in Friday's session. An S&P information technology sector index .GSPT rose 0.6 percent.
Shares of Apple Inc (AAPL.O) rebounded from their slide into bear market territory earlier this week with a 1.7 percent gain on Friday to close at $547.06.
But the stock of J.C. Penney (JCP.N) slid 4.8 percent to $20.64 and ranked as the S&P 500's biggest decliner after the retailer reported a sharper-than-expected decline in quarterly sales at stores open at least a year.
The market's early gains on Friday came after stronger-than-expected figures on U.S. consumer sentiment.
But investors' enthusiasm cooled after hearing from the House speaker and the president about the fiscal cliff.
Boehner, a Republican, reiterated his opposition to any tax hikes on the wealthy late this morning. Obama responded in the early afternoon by saying there was no way around tax increases, but that he would remain open to any new ideas that congressional leaders might have.
The fiscal cliff is a combination of government spending cuts and tax increases set to go into effect early next year unless Congress acts to change the law before then. It could take an estimated $600 billion out of the U.S. economy and push it into recession.
"There was an anticipation that there may be more willingness to compromise, but just like Boehner did earlier in the day, both camps stuck to their lines in the sand, so to speak," said Mohannad Aama, managing director of Beam Capital Management LLC in New York.
Investors are reacting to the prospect of higher tax rates by selling both losing and winning stocks for the year to decrease the tax impact from their positions.
The euro zone is not inspiring confidence, either. Greece's finance minister said his country was running out of cash, growth in Germany is expected to weaken in the next two quarters, and France's central bank said the country's economy would slip into recession as 2012 ends.
Germany and France are the euro zone's two largest economies, and Greece has been scraping by, thanks to a 130-billion-euro bailout.
International Game Technology (IGT.N) gained 5.2 percent to $13.50 after the slot machine company reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings.
Lions Gate Entertainment Corp LGF.N jumped 14.3 percent to $16.68 after reporting earnings of $75.5 million, an above-expectation figure that was boosted by the studio's blockbuster movie, "The Hunger Games.
According to Thomson Reuters data through Friday, of the 449 companies in the S&P 500 that have reported earnings, 63.3 percent have topped analysts' expectations - slightly above the 62 percent average since 1994, but below the 67 percent beat rate over the past four quarters.
But revenue results remain disappointing, with only 38.2 percent of companies topping expectations - well below the 62 percent average since 2002, and the 55 percent beat rate over the past four quarters.
Volume was roughly 6.6 billion shares on the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq and the NYSE MKT, compared with the year-to-date average daily closing volume of 6.52 billion.
Decliners outnumbered advancers on the NYSE by a ratio of about 8 to 7 on the New York Stock Exchange.
On the Nasdaq, advancers had the slight edge, with 1,232 stocks gaining and 1,208 shares declining.
Reporting by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian; Editing by Jan Paschal


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2017 Section of Cardiothoracic Surgery Annual Report
Washington University pediatric cardiothoracic surgeons specialize in treating children with congenital cardiac disorders requiring surgical care.
Our surgeons treat a range of conditions, from those that are relatively straightforward – such as atrial septal defects – all the way to complex single ventricle anomalies. Particular areas of interest include neonatal surgery of all types, surgery for congenital heart disease, Marfan's syndrome, the Ross procedure, the Fontan procedure and late complications following that operation, and tracheal reconstruction.
The transplantation program is another area of strength. The lung transplant program at St. Louis Children's Hospital is the most active of its kind in the world and attracts patients with cystic fibrosis as well as other lethal lung diseases. Our pediatric heart transplant program also is considered one of the leaders in the United States.
A list of the more common procedures performed by our surgeons includes:
- Repair of AV canal
- Repair of tetralogy of Fallot
- Norwood procedure
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- Repair of coarctation of the aorta
- Closure of atrial or ventricular septal defects
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Join us for Rock The Boat, on Friday, November 7, 2014, 6:30-9:30pm at the Arts at the Armory, 191 Highland Avenue, Somerville, MA 02143. This fundraiser is a benefit for Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance (NAMA), www.namanet.org.
For almost 20 years NAMA has been rocking the boat! We've been shaking up the systems, policies, processes, markets and narratives that are dominating fishery policies and marine conservation. Rock The Boat is NAMA's first benefit event featuring, art, food, education, and an auction. The evening will be joined by singer-songwriter Chelsea Berry and the Bob Marley tribute band, Hope Road.
Dance to the music of singer-songwriter Chelsea Berry and groove to the tunes of Bob Marley tribute band Hope Road. Enjoy food provided by supportive restaurants and hospitals – yes we said hospitals! – creating delicious bites using regional sea and land food. Snack on vegetarian raviolis rolled out all night by Joe Gatto of "From Scratch" TV. Imbibe on some local beer, wine and healthy sodas. Learn from thoughtful chefs. Take part in a silent auction. Celebrate our living fishing economies. And support our efforts to keep rocking the boat!
If you can't make it, buy a ticket for someone who can but can't afford it by checking the "Rock the Boat Without Me!" ticket box. We'll prioritize distributing those tickets to fishing community advocates.
See you November 7th! Come Rock the Boat with us!
Rock the Boat aims to fund programs in continuing the work of NAMA to:
- Promote taking control of the seafood in our food system
- Increase awareness about racial equity, economic justice, and food access
- Celebrate the work of community-based fishermen everywhere
- Inform fisheries policy makers about the importance of support for community-based, independent fishermen and their families
- Advocate for small and medium scale fishermen
- Support food workers along the entire food chain
|Chelsea Berry – A singer and songwriter with incredible edge, power, and finesse.
Enjoy a voice of remarkable power and control with a joyous soul at Rock the Boat!
|Hope Road – A tribute band recreating the music, the passion, and the vibe of Bob Marley & The Wailers. Enjoy and embrace with them at Rock the Boat!
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Please note: This is only a partial list. More vendors are coming!
|Joe Gatto is a private chef, culinary instructor and host of his own killer cooking show From Scratch.
|Johnny's Luncheonette – Newtown, MA
|ROCKs – Reaching out to cook with kids
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Assume you have two connections in Mobile Broadband and WiFi.
I would like to allocate manually given packages to given connections. For instance, my bank connection to Mobile Broadband and my internet surfing and software downloads to WiFi.
How does Ubuntu 11.10 or 11.04 allocate the usage of two connections to Google Chrome?
How can you manually decide which internet connection to use with Wget? Do you need any external command to do the allocation? - In my opinion, it would be much more orthogonal and efficient if you could have an external program to do the allocation. - I could then simply launch my Google Chrome to the wanted connection manually.