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In a seemingly endless stream, pesky wackos roll off the line at a bottling plant ...
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[The University of Minnesota's] senior director of communications sent out an internal message that read in part, "I looked her up [Dr. Judy Stone] and can't tell if she's a wacko or not…. I get nervous about anyone who would pay any attention to Carl." [link]
"Carl" is Dr. Carl Elliott, Pathetic.
Wacko - anyone who does not agree with the University of Minnesota administration's official position
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Earlier posts on the Markingson case have appeared on the Community Voices site:
Markingson Case: Has the Gordian Knot puzzle
been solved at the University of Minnesota?
Recent Developments
Although the Faculty Senate at the University of Minnesota voted overwhelmingly for an outside, independent, investigation of the Markingson case, it appears that an attempt to ignore what went wrong in the case is in progress.
President Kaler said in a recent interview with the Minnesota Daily:
I'm a big believer in shared governance, and so I'm willing to take the advice of the Senate and the panel. ... I think they will find that our review processes are robust and that we do, in fact, protect patients in clinical trials, but there's been concern raised in how we do that, and so our goal is to air out clearly and very publicly what we do and have a panel of external experts validate that and be sure we are doing this absolutely as well as can be done.
It's certainly resulted as a consequence of a lot of repetitive publicity about the Markingson case, but it's not a review of the Markingson case; it's a review of what we are doing now and what we're going to do moving forward.
"it's not a review of the Markingson case"
"It's certainly resulted as a consequence of a lot of repetitive publicity about the Markingson case, but it's not a review of the Markingson case."
These remarks seem more than a little defensive. And the direction in which they lead do not seem much different from the one we've seen out of the University of Minnesota administration since the inception of the Markingson case.
And so it should be no surprise that these wackos who have been generating a lot of repetitive publicity about the Markingson case are back whining and writing more letters, this one requesting that a promised outside investigation be done right.
The nerve of these wackos ...
Lemmens Follow Up Letter Senate Dec 11 2013 by MarkingsonCase
Time to do the right thing?
Da Mayor: "Doctor, always do the right thing."
The time is always right to do the right thing. Martin Luther King
Do the right thing, even when it is hard. Joel Osteeen
Do the right thing because it is right. W. Clement Stone
Sometimes it is better to lose, and do the right thing... Tony Blair
Leaders are people who do the right thing. Warren Bennis
In plain Texas talk: It's do the right thing. Ross Perot
You do the right thing, even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness. Tracy Kidder
Or, as Mark Yudof said in his inaugural address as president of the University of Minnesota:
"Simply stated, it is imperative that we continue to embrace our land-grant roots if we are to thrive."
"The need for integrity permeates every aspect of the University. The education mission of the University must be taken seriously--not just the way to get state funding."
"Administrators should tell the truth, keep their word, implement what they promise, and not dissemble. My point is plain enough: Without integrity, the phrase higher education is an oxymoron."
"When making decisions, I view shared governance and consultation with constituent groups as only fair because of the enormous stake they have in the University. Without fairness there is no legitimacy and no buy in to the institutional vision."
Mark Yudof handled a horrible scandal in the athletic department with grace and dignity, with no excuses and no dissembling. I have been very disappointed with the University of Minnesota administration since his presidency. Yudof fired people (the athletic director as well as coaches and support staff) and had Tonya Moten Brown essentially take over the athletic department. And his humility was not false.
The time for stonewalling has passed. Trying to dodge the issues inherent in the Markingson case is a fool's game. A university without integrity is not really a university. Bread and circuses do not a great university make, nor idle chatter about the infamous third greatest public research university in the world.
Time to walk the talk, President Kaler. Otherwise, disappointed University of Minnesota alums will have to take a hike from their alma mater. In the Twin Cities alone there are plenty of places for higher education philanthropy besides the University of Minnesota - Augsburg and Macalester colleges being two examples. Note that at these two schools the student debt at graduation is lower than that at the public University of Minnesota, to our everlasting disgrace. I hope not.
One might whine that Mac is a school for the rich, a terrible and untrue argument, but such a charge ridiculous on its face for Augsburg College with its much more modest endowment. When Auggie, as it is familiarly known, got donor money of questionable provenance, they gave it back. This is what doing the right thing means. And the education available at Auggie is hardly for chumps. An Auggie, Peter Agre, recently won a Nobel Prize in chemistry. Nice ROI on that, I'd say. Kudos, Auggie, a Minnesota school that makes me proud. Macalester is also in this category as well as many other fine Minnesota small liberal arts colleges, or SLACs to use au courant higher ed jargon.
Our recent University of Minnesota debt-saddled alums and their parents are none too happy with the performance of our university. Nor are our state legislators who are heartsick and bewildered by the fact that we are one of the leaders in the country - for student debt. Perhaps the plan is to salvage our position with sports dollars? I understand that Louie Nanne has been charged with raising two hundred million dollars for our athletics program. Under the present circumstances of crushing debt for our students, this is pathetic.
And of course if one desires to contribute money for medical research, there is always the Mayo. What's been going on at Fairview-University hospital lately does not exactly inspire warm and fuzzy feelings in the hearts of the populace. People will vote on the University's performance with their feet and their checkbooks. This goes also for the people in the state legislature.
If the University wants to see private philanthropic support, perhaps they should give us something to be proud of? Manufactured hash tags like #umnproud will not suffice.
Is it finally time to do the right thing in the Markingson matter?
More evasion will only serve to further erode our reputation in the real world. Out there where recent University of Minnesota administrations apparently would prefer not to go.


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Three weeks ago, we introduced a movement screen that we use with the Galaxy players, called the Functional Movement Screen (FMS). As we mentioned, the FMS is a series of seven different exercises that allow us to analyze how the body is moving and consequently adjust the players' lifting and injury prevention programs based off of how well they perform the exercises and if they are feeling pain with any of them.
READ: Fitness Screening to improve performance and prevent injuries
First we looked at some of the common errors found via the Deep Squat screen and exercises we incorporate in the gym and on the field that help with our squatting and deceleration mechanics.
READ: Breaking Down the FMS: Deep Squat
Last week we highlighted one common error seen frequently when the players perform the Hurdle Step screen and went through some of the exercises we incorporate in the gym and on the field to help address the issues that the screen brings to light.
READ: Breaking Down the FMS: Hurdle Step
This week we are going to continue to look at some of the exercises we have the Galaxy players perform based off the results of another of the Functional Movement Screens: the Inline Lunge.
Error: Knee drives forward, heel off the ground
The common issue that we see in the Galaxy players with the Inline Lunge is their inability to load the hips and a tendency to let their knees drive forward and the heel of their front legs to come off the ground. Similar to the deep squat, by doing this the knees absorb all the forces and weight of the body and we don't let our hips and glutes help in the process. Below are a few exercises we have the Galaxy players perform in the gym and on the field if we notice that their front knee drives forward or heel comes off the ground.
In the gym
The split or lunge position requires a significant amount of stability and balance in order to become efficient. In order to work on form and strength, Galaxy players use these three exercises in the gym to challenge their stability and balance while also strengthening and developing power in this movement pattern.
Exercise #1: Rear Foot Elevated Split Squat
Place one foot on the ground with the other on a box or bench. Sit through your hips dropping the trail leg knee towards the ground maintaining a slight forward lean of the torso. Push from the hips and drive back to the starting position. Do 3 sets of 10.
Exercise #2: Cable Lunge
Start tall with a cable or band around your waist and resistance in the front. Allowing the resistance to pull you forward, step and drop down into a lunge. As you drop down, you must decelerate your body and hold the lunge position for three seconds. Push from the lead leg and return to the starting position. Do 2 sets of 8 reps.
Exercise #3: Split Jumps
Place a foot on a 6 to 12-inch box with the other foot on the ground. Maintain a slight forward lean and load the leg that is on the box. Push from the leg on the box, and explode up into the air. Land back in the same position you started, maintaining form. Do 3 sets of 5.
On the Field
The Inline Lunge is a good indicator of sprinting or acceleration mechanics. Below are two exercises the Galaxy players use on the field to improve speed and become more explosive running straight ahead.
Exercise #1: Resisted March
You will need a partner to resist you. Start with a slight forward lean and resistance around your waist. Maintain the forward lean and march forward driving your knee straight up in front, making sure to extend the hip, knee, and foot of the planted leg. Push and extend through the ground, contacting with the ball of your feet. Do 3 sets of 15 yards.
Exercise #2: Walking lunge
Start in a loaded lunge position. Push from your front leg, driving the leg down and stepping forward, finishing in a lunge position with your other leg now in front. Do 3 sets of 15 yards.
Over the last few weeks we looked at some of the major movement errors and corrective exercises the Galaxy players use in the gym and on the pitch to try and correct and strengthen these muscles and movements. While all seven screens are very important, I have found that the conclusions drawn from the Deep Squat, Hurdle Step and Inline Lunge are sufficient indicators of issues that need to be addressed in the gym and on the pitch with soccer athletes. Next week we are going to start to look at some of the warm up exercises the players perform on a daily basis.
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- W. Curtis Preston, Druva
In the June issue, (see "Surprise! Cheap disks cure slow backup") I introduced the idea of using inexpensive ATA-based disk arrays as the primary storage medium for a backup and recovery system. Instead of backing up to a tape library, your initial backup goes directly to these new ATA disk arrays and is later sent to tape for off-site and long-term storage. This article further examines the options available in this new world of disk-based backup and details the pros and cons of using various products with ATA disk arrays.
RAID arrays
There are a myriad of vendors offering inexpensive RAID arrays based on ATA disk drives and FC connectivity. These boxes usually offer hardware-based RAID supporting RAID 0+1, RAID 1+0 and RAID 5. What these boxes lack is a file system. How you use these RAID arrays in your backup system depends on your configuration and what you hope to achieve.
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Suppose you want to back up everything across the LAN to a central backup server, and you simply want to use this inexpensive RAID array as the destination device for its backups. To do this, simply choose a RAID level, create your virtual disk drives using that RAID level, connect the array to your backup server, create a file system on the array and use this file system as the destination for your backups.
What if you had a master backup server, four media servers and a terabyte-sized disk array and you wanted each of these servers to be able to use the RAID array as the destination device for backups? There are three ways to do this. The first method is inexpensive and simple, but lacks some flexibility. Create five 200GB LUNs, attach the disk array and five servers to a storage area network (SAN), create a 200GB file system on each server using one of the five LUNs and then use this file system as the destination for backups on that server.
The disadvantage to the above method is when one server needs far less than 200GB, and another server needs more than 200GB. There are two ways to get around this problem. The least expensive way would be to attach the disk array to the back of a low-cost Windows or Linux box, and share the RAID array via Common Internet File System (CIFS) or network file system (NFS). The viability of such a solution will be based on the power and speed of your network, as well as the power and speed of the Linux or Windows server. Another option would be to connect the RAID array to a SAN and use a SAN-accessible file system, such as Sistina's Global File System or Veritas' SAN Filesystem. This option is obviously more expensive than the previous option, but it allows you to share the entire capacity of the array with each server on the SAN. Some vendors that are offering ATA-based, FC attachable disk arrays include Axus, Nexsan, and Zzyzx.
VTL appliances
The next way that ATA disks are being used in backup is with virtual tape library appliances (VTLs). VTLs consist of a RAID array, usually custom-built for the appliance, and some type of firmware or software. Physically, a VTL doesn't look much different than a FC disk array. On the outside, you would find one or two FC interfaces, and if you were to open it up, you would find an array of ATA disk drives. What makes this different from a regular RAID array is the software (or firmware) running inside the VTL. It causes the RAID array to appear to be an actual tape library. For instance, the Quantum DX 30 appears to be a Quantum/ATL P1000 library with two or six DLT tape drives and 30 slots preinstalled with media. Other VTLs -- such as Hitachi's VTLA -- are able to emulate many different types of tape libraries.
As of this writing, there are only two such VTLs in existence: Quantum's DX 30 and Hitachi's VTLA. The DX 30 is a complete solution built entirely by Quantum. Hitachi's product, on the other hand, was created by a cooperation of three companies. Hitachi built the hardware, Nissho Electronics helped with planning, and Alacritus wrote Securitus, the software that makes the Hitachi disk array appear as a tape library.
The biggest advantage of VTLs is they can be seamlessly integrated into your enterprise without requiring any change in how you do backups. To the storage administrator, it looks like another tape library to back up to. You stop using one tape library and start using this one. You will, of course, need to duplicate your backups from the VTL to a real tape library if you wish to ship your backups off-site. If you have connectivity to your off-site storage vendor, you could duplicate your backups from one VTL to another.
VTL vendors also claimed a performance advantage over network-attached storage (NAS)-based devices, which are discussed in the next section. They say they're writing directly to the raw disk without the overhead of a file system. They might also be using a different level of RAID that's more suitable to sequentially streaming data. The DX 30, for example, uses RAID 3, which is typically used for streaming video.
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Like real tape libraries, VTLs can also be shared using dynamic drive sharing software such as Veritas' SSO or Legato's DDS. An interesting point: In order to use a VTL, you must buy a robotic license from your backup software vendor for a robot that doesn't truly exist.
Emulating tape drives also gives VTLs a disadvantage. Since the backup software doesn't realize this tape drive (a sequential access device) is really a disk drive (a random access device), it will treat it like a sequential access device. The first backup will be placed at the front of the tape. Subsequent backups will be placed after previous backups on the tape. When a backup product needs to restore a backup that was placed closer to the end of the tape, it will need to read the tape sequentially until it gets to the end of the tape. Another problem is multiplexing. If a storage administrator needs to multiplex multiple backups onto a single virtual tape drive in order to achieve the maximum throughput of that device, multiplex backups will be interleaved onto the tape just as they would to a tape drive. When a backup product needs to restore or copy one image from a multiplexed backup, it will need to read and disregard the other backups within that multiplex image, just as it would with a tape drive. As you'll see in the next section, NAS-based devices don't have this disadvantage.
NAS devices
Instead of purchasing an ATA-based RAID array and connecting it to your system via FC, you could purchase a NAS device based on ATA disk drives. Some NAS filers were always based on ATA disk drives, such as Quantum's products. Other vendors' filers are based on SCSI or FC disk drives. Some of these vendors have recently created ATA-based filers, and they are actively marketing them in the archiving and backup and recovery markets. Network Appliance's NearStore is an example of such a product.
Using a NAS appliance instead of a basic RAID array solves the sharing problem described earlier. All servers that can mount the NAS appliance can use it as a destination for backups. Since each server sharing the appliance will only be writing to a separate file within a large network file system, sharing isn't a problem. NAS vendors will also tell you advances in NFS, CIFS and NAS technology will allow your backup server to write to the NAS appliance with minimal latency and maximum bandwidth -- usually allowing you to fill the entire Gigabit Ethernet type with backup data.
One perceived disadvantage to NAS-based devices is that your backup software must support backing up to a file system device in order to back up to a NAS device. However, almost all backup software supports such functionality. Although integrating this device into your backup system wouldn't be as seamless as installing a VTL, it's still relatively simple. You mount the NAS device to your backup server, create a directory for each destination device you wish to create and then configure your backup software to use those directories as destination devices for backup. And, unlike VTLs, they don't require purchasing a robotic license or drive sharing software.
The advantage to NAS-based devices is your backup software knows they are random access devices. When writing the first backup to a file type device, it creates a new file within the directory you created. When making subsequent backups to the same device, it makes new files for each backup sent to the device. This is true even for multiplexing. If you send several simultaneous backups to a file type device, each backup would create a separate file on the file system. This means that when the backup product needs to read a particular backup - whether for a restore or for duplication - it knows exactly which file it wrote to, and will open only that file and read it. So restores happen instantaneously, instead of waiting while the tape reads unneeded data that it must disregard. Customers can also make the multiplexed backups from multiplexed originals with no performance impact.As you can see, VTL and NAS vendors are able to claim both advantages for their product and disadvantages for the other type of product. Only testing in your environment will prove which one is right for you.
Backup and recovery software
Also participating in this revolution are traditional backup and recovery software vendors. Most of them are confirming they can write to virtual tape libraries and file type devices, and are making sure they can automate copying to (real) tape the backups that were sent to these devices. At least one vendor, BakBone Software, has written their own virtual tape library software allowing standard disk to behave like a tape library. At this time, this software only works with NetVault, their backup software product.
There's also a new genre of backup and recovery software. These products were written from the ground up with the understanding that the primary backup medium would be disk, which allows them to use a number of new backup methodologies that wouldn't be possible with tape. These include concepts such as Single Instance Store (SIS), a technology that backs up a single copy of the each file, regardless of how many times that file resides in your enterprise. Imagine backing up only one copy of word.exe, or df. They also include block level incremental backup, where only the bytes of a file that have changed are backed up. Traditional backup software backs up the entire file when only one byte changes. Using both of these technologies together doesn't work well when tape is your primary backup medium, because they result in a single system being backed up to many tapes.
This relatively new industry includes products such as Connected's TLM, Veritas' NetBackup Professional, EVault, Nexsan's InfiniSAN D2D, and Avamar's DPN. You should expect to see many more products like this in the near future.
About the author:
W. Curtis Preston is the president of The Storage Group. He is the author of Unix Backup and Recovery and Using SANs and NAS.


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Who is the No. 1 quarterback in the Big 12?
IRVING, Texas — At one time, the Big 12 nearly stood for the number of good quarterbacks in the league. With Colt McCoy, Sam Bradford and Todd Reesing gone, the big question is who is No. 1?
Texas A&M's Jerrod Johnson made most of the preseason all-league teams but don't rule out Missouri junior Blaine Gabbert. He finished second to McCoy in pass efficiency at 140.5 while throwing for 3,593 yards, second only to Reesing, with 24 touchdown passes and nine interceptions. And he did it while playing on an injured ankle the last half of the year.
"That said an awful lot about him," Missouri coach Gary Pinkel said Tuesday at the Big 12 Media Days here. "I thought he did a lot of good things. I expect him to up his game with the experience factor. I expect him to have a really good year. He has a chance to be a great player."
He made an impression on his teammates.
"Him going out there and playing like that shows how much heart and leadership he has and passion for the game," tailback Derrick Washington said. "He didn't want to sit out. Coaches were telling him, 'You've got to sit out. You've got to rest.' He said, 'No, I'm going out there. I'm going out there for the team.'
"It was tough for him. He was limping around, literally. He'd hop back to the line and it was tough watching it."
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Dubai Tourism had a Study Mission group for their suppliers in the Asian market - China, South of Asia & India. They invited buyers from MICE and corporate companies for a familiarization trip in Dubai. Read more..
Flat Out Formula 1 with Team Up Events - Turners28 April 2015
The world famous winery Villa Maria Estate in New Zealand was the unlikely venue for a Flat Out Formula 1 Grand Prix with participants from Turners. Read more..
Focus on Organisational Values - Home Retail Group24 April 2015
Team Building Asia recently spend 1.5 days participating in a series of team building activities facilitated by Catalyst Global partners in Hong Kong, Team Building Asia. Read more..
Office Products Depot Boom Time - Office Products Depot3 April 2015
120 Office Products Depot staff from around New Zealand recently held their National Conference at Trinity Wharf, Tauranga on the north island of New Zealand. Organisers chose Team Up Events to facilitate Catalyst Global's fast paced ice breaker Boom Time to kick-off the event on a high! Read more..
High energy, fun with Team Torque - Microsoft26 March 2015
A group of 36 participants from Microsoft in Ireland buzzed with excitement and joined together in laughs as they motored through tasks to create a model car for a drag strip finale. Read more..


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Is IPsec on borrowed time?
IT professionals say SSL VPN connections are easier to secure and manage than their IPsec counterparts. But don't count IPsec out just yet.
For proof that hunger is growing in the information security community for Secure Sockets Layer [SSL]-based virtual private networks [VPNs], look at the latest offerings from Check Point Software and Juniper Networks. For insight on what the big deal is, ask Steve Smith, network manager for Erie, Pa.-based Saint Vincent Health System [SVHS].
He'll start by telling you how crazy it was to manage an Internet Protocol Security [IPsec]-based VPN in an organization with 1,650 employees spread across 25 facilities -- including the main campus, a separate hospital in New York, four satellite rehab offices, an outpatient center and 20 outside doctor's offices.
"I walked into a job where all kinds of insecure remote connectivity was in place," Smith said. "We went from zero to 30 VPNs in a month. We were giving outside clients full secure access to our networks."
The trouble with IPsec is that it gets overly complicated and expensive to manage as the user base expands, he said. There's a growing tangle of firewalls as more doctor's offices seek VPN connectivity. IT staffers are forced to become experts on whatever technology the third party is using, which costs additional time and money.
When SVHS discovered the SSL approach, all that pain went away, he said.
SSL vs. IPsec
IPSec VPN is a layer 3 technology that provides a secure tunnel between a remote location and the corporate network. It requires host-based clients and expensive hardware at a central location; ongoing configuration maintenance and account administration are heavy burdens. Users have full office functionality using IPSec VPNs, but there's very little granularity in access control. Access is generally permit or deny with most shared network resources available to any user.
Smith, whose organization is a Check Point customer, said headaches here aren't limited to third-party users.
"We have a group of eight radiologists and they didn't want to be there 24 hours a day," Smith said. "They wanted the ability to work from home. Before SSL, our solution was to put a firewall/VPN connection out of their house so they could access images from the hospital. It worked fine at first. But then we had too many firewalls to manage, too much code to upgrade. We had to pay outside contractors to go out to these places, update code and troubleshoot."
By comparison, SSL VPNs work on layers 4 through 7 and don't require a client download. Remote connections are made via a Web browser or through a downloadable Java or ActiveX agent. Security managers can assign role-based access for each user and application and client administration is eliminated.
Smith likes the latter feature above all. "We're able to rip out firewalls or we let users keep them for their own purposes," he said. "As long as users meet certain baseline criteria, they can use [SSL]."
Now if a doctor's office or home worker needs VPN access, all Smith has to do is determine the level of access they need to do their job and assign them to the most appropriate access folder. If the user's access needs don't fit with the existing folders, he can simply create a new one.
As demand grows, vendors respond
Vendors like Check Point and Juniper see a growing army of users who share Smith's enthusiasm for SSL VPNs. Last week they rolled out new products to satisfy the hunger.
Redwood City, Calif.-based Check Point announced the coming release of Connectra NGX, an enhanced version of its SSL VPN technology. On its Web site, Check Point describes Connectra as "a complete Web security gateway with integrated endpoint security to defend against insecure endpoints and integrated application security to provide protection against malicious activities and attacks over SSL VPN."
Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Juniper Networks announced major enhancements to its Secure Access and Remote Access SSL VPN appliances with a new version of Instant Virtual Extranet (IVE) 5.0 software. In addition to delivering the next generation of its Network Connect product and advanced endpoint remediation capabilities, the new software offers dynamic XML re-writing and a Java Applet Delivery Infrastructure, said Vivian Ganitsky, management director of Juniper's SSL VPN product line.
"People are finding SSL more granular," she said. "The customer has a lot more leeway in determining who gets access to what. With SSL, if a user is logging on from an airport kiosk, which is an untrusted network, you can control what they can access. If you do business with a partner, you don't want to give them full access. IPsec gives them full access, which you don't always want."
Carmi Levi is network and communication team manager for another Check Point client, Tel Aviv-based Zim Integrated Shipping Services, which has 3,000 employees spread across Israel, Europe, Africa, Virginia and Hong Kong. He said IPsec can be problematic when it comes to outer office use. "It's not transparent to the user," he said. On the other hand, he said, "SSL via the Internet is a better fit. It's a VPN that can go everywhere. It's just more flexible and reliable."
End of the line for IPsec?
Despite all the praise for SSL VPNs, don't expect those IPsec connections to go dead anytime soon. Users and vendors alike agree most companies will keep using IPsec even if they've adopted SSL, and with good reason.
"As far as I see it these two technologies are complementary rather than exclusive: Both protocols provide a valid solution for securing remote access users, and each has its own merits," Itay Yanovski, Zim Shipping's information security officer, said by e-mail. "At our organization we use both IPsec and SSL VPNs, and as the company's security officer I wouldn't give up either."
Ganitsky said plenty of Juniper's customers feel the same way. As a result, she said the company's latest product overhaul is designed to make it easier for companies to use both IPsec and SSL.
"The great benefit with IPsec is that it's a fast mode of transport," she said. "It is optimized for quick access to VoIP and screaming media, and fast access to items at the network layer."
But while many companies still use IPsec and SSL, Forrester Research analyst Rob Whiteley believes most will eventually push IPsec to the sidelines and go full-on with SSL.
"We are in a transition phase," he said in an interview with Information Security magazine, a sister publication to SearchSecurity.com. "We are going to see more SSL deployments until IPSec becomes the niche technology, which is the reverse of today."
He recommended enterprises assess their applications and ensure internal compatibility with their VPN plans. Exhaustive SSL VPN evaluations should be conducted and IPsec should be maintained for specialized applications that are not Web enabled, he said.
Information Security magazine senior editor Michael S. Mimoso contributed to this report.


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Things are getting nasty in Colorado Springs government.
The Gazette posted a story Monday detailing how one Springs council member used the F-word twice in an e-mail to a colleague on the council in a dispute over utility issues.
The Colorado Springs City Council also sits as the utility board, and the conflict centers on whether to decommission an older, coal-fired power plant.
According to the Gazette, here's the money quote, written by Councilwoman Lisa Czelatdko to Councilwoman Angela Dougan:
"Almost every question you and Tim asked Wednesday was not new information being given to us," Czelatdko wrote. "Start paying some (expletive) attention and stop participating in giving away our authority and making us look like (expletive) idiots!"
If profanity is the last refuge of the ignorant, Czelatdko should consider that using the F-word to berate a colleague doesn't exactly make her look like a Rhodes Scholar.


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- What is PediatricEducation.org and what is its purpose?
The goal of PediatricEducation.org is to build a pediatric virtual learning community.
The project's hypothesis is that residents, fellows, and staff physicians practicing pediatrics can broaden and deepen their knowledge of pediatrics through the use of a continuing pediatric education program that is delivered daily in small granules and integrated into their workflow in the form of pediatric cases.
To place the learning in a clinical context, each case begins with a question, and the case is then used to illustrate and discuss the question, thus creating a form of situated learning that is focused on the discussion that occurs at a higher level after the diagnosis is made.
Over time these cases will aggregate into an unstructured curriculum of pediatric topics that will closely parallel the structured curriculum of a pediatric residency, fellowship and continuing medical education program. Engaging in discussions related to these cases will also result in the development of educational collaborative relationships.
Additionally, the case archive will consist of a database of pediatric cases that can be used by individuals for self-study and review, and by medical educators to demonstrate to their students the spectrum of a disease, the multiple etiologies of a symptom, key concepts to master within a discipline, and the variety of diseases within different age groups.
- What does your motto – Ex infante, scientia – mean?
From the child, knowledge.
- What population is PediatricEducation.org intended for?
PediatricEducation.org addresses the continuum of pediatric education and may be of use primarily to four distinct populations. It is written for and intended primarily for use by Residents, Fellows, or Attending Physicians practicing pediatrics. Medical Students beginning their study of pediatrics or Other Health Care Providers practicing pediatrics may find it useful. Finally, Patients (including patient's family members or friends) may find it of some use, though probably difficult to understand. At some point in the future we would like to create a textbook that would help patients better understand the cases in PediatricEducation.org.
- What are the Educational Objectives of PediatricEducation.org?
PediatricEducation.org's Educational Objectives are based upon the ACGME General Competencies:
- The learner will acquire knowledge of the pediatric discipline
- The learner will improve his/her analytical thinking skills
- The learner will analyze his/her own learning needs for needed improvement
- The learner will use evidence from scientific studies to answer the questions posed
- Some learners will use these cases to facilitate the learning of others
- The learner will be exposed to cultural, age, gender and disability issues
- The learner will be exposed to examples of professional respect and altruism
- The learner will be exposed to the interactions between various systems of practice
- The learner be exposed to different practice and delivery systems of care
- The learner be exposed to examples of patient advocacy
- Who curates PediatricEducation.org?
PediatricEducation.org is curated by Donna M. D'Alessandro, MD and Michael P. D'Alessandro, MD.
Donna D'Alessandro received her M.D. from Wayne State University School of Medicine, completed a residency in Pediatrics at the Children's Memorial Hospital / Northwestern University, and completed a fellowship in General Pediatrics at Children's Hospital Boston / Harvard Medical School. She is currently a Professor of Pediatrics and a member of the Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine at the University of Iowa.
Michael D'Alessandro received an M.D. from Wayne State University School of Medicine, completed a residency in Diagnostic Radiology at the University of Iowa, and completed a fellowship in Pediatric Radiology at Children's Hospital Boston / Harvard Medical School. He is currently a Professor of Radiology and a member of the Division of Pediatric Radiology at the University of Iowa.
The Drs. D'Alessandros' research is in the field of digital libraries and educational informatics.
- Sum it all up?
By reading PediatricEducation.org regularly, and participating in its discussions, individuals will be taking part in unstructured, situated learning that will result in continuing pediatric education.
- Further Questions?
See our Frequently Asked Questions


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The MSP430™ ultra-low-power (ULP) FRAM platform combines uniquely embedded FRAM and a holistic ultra-low-power system architecture, allowing innovators to increase performance at lowered energy budgets. FRAM technology combines the speed, flexibility, and endurance of SRAM with the stability and reliability of flash at much lower power.
The MSP430 ULP FRAM portfolio consists of a diverse set of devices that feature FRAM, the ULP 16-bit MSP430 CPU, and intelligent peripherals targeted for various applications. The ULP architecture showcases seven low-power modes, which are optimized to achieve extended battery life in energy-challenged applications.
(1)RTC is clocked by a 3.7-pF crystal.
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The BlackBerry® Mobile Conferencing app has been a huge hit with the BlackBerry business community, which comes as no surprise to me considering how often the app is used in my everyday work life. We introduced the BlackBerry Mobile Conferencing app in June, and today we're excited to announce an updated version of the app that brings even more functionality.
As a reminder, BlackBerry Mobile Conferencing is a free app (available in BlackBerry App World™) that integrates with your BlackBerry® smartphone's calendar to make joining and scheduling calls easy while on the go. When it's time to jump on a call, you can simply press the "Join Now" button that appears with the calendar alert. Check out the additional features offered in the new version of Mobile Conferencing below:
Convert an Email to a Conference Invitation
Now you can shift your conversation from email to a conference bridge quickly and simply. Use the "Schedule Conference" menu option on any email to create a calendar invitation with the same individuals on the email thread, subject, and message notes. Check out the screenshot above for an example.
Manage up to 10 Conference Profiles
If you're like me, you're constantly hosting conference calls as well as attending them, using a variety of conference bridges. The BlackBerry Mobile Conferencing app has been designed not only to provide ease of access and connection to these calls, but also to help you manage the variety of conference bridges that you use by allowing up to 10 conference profiles to be stored on your device.
Improved Conference Call Detection Algorithm
The app has done a great job of detecting conference call information and automating the process, and now the algorithm behind this process is better than ever. Using feedback from users, we've increased the "intelligence" of the conference call detection, including more conference description formats and language constructs.
Improved Hidden Moderator Code
When you're scheduling conference calls from your desktop, you can now send only the participant information and keep your moderator or host code hidden. For meeting invites that only include participant information, the BlackBerry Mobile Conferencing app will automatically search for matching bridge information in your conference profiles. If it finds a match, it will dial you in with the moderator code from the corresponding profile and connect the conference when you press "Join Now".
Support for BlackBerry 7 and Liquid Graphics
All of the new BlackBerry® 7 OS smartphones will support the BlackBerry Mobile Conferencing app, including the BlackBerry® Bold™ 9900 and 9930 smartphones, as well as the BlackBerry® Torch™ 9810, 9850 and 9860 smartphones. If you have yet to upgrade, BlackBerry Mobile Conferencing is also supported by BlackBerry® Device Software v5.0 and BlackBerry® 6 OS.
These improvements have all been made as a result of user feedback and dedication to the solution. Most of us use conference bridges every day, and we love a tool that simplifies and automates the process just as much as you do.
Get the new BlackBerry Mobile Conferencing app for free from BlackBerry App World, where you can find it in the Business Tools category. Or, to learn more, check out the BlackBerry Mobile Conferencing web site.


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| 5°C Dublin
Ewen McKenzie could be prepared to shelve his stated ambition of coaching Australia if the opportunity arose for him to take charge of Ireland.
McKenzie is the favourite in a narrowing field of potential candidates to replace Declan Kidney, whose departure was announced on Tuesday after Ireland finished fifth in the RBS 6 Nations. The former Australia prop told Sydney's Daily Telegraph he had not been in contact with the IRFU - but he also left them in no doubt he would be interested in a conversation.
"I have said I am looking for coaching challenges at the next level and I am looking for whatever the possibilities are," McKenzie said. "It's the type of job I am interested in looking at but there have been no discussions."
Harlequins director of rugby Conor O'Shea has ruled himself out of contention and Saracens chief executive Edward Griffiths insisted Mark McCall is committed to the club.
McKenzie has been linked with the Ireland role since announcing he would step down as Queensland Reds head coach at the end of the current Super Rugby season to pursue a job at international level.
He added: "I have stated I would like the Wallabies job but it's all in the timing. You have to look around what's available when you're looking for a job.
"I have made it clear the challenge of coaching at that level is what interests me but there aren't many opportunities at Test level and you can't control the timing."
O'Shea was immediately tipped for the job, having guided Harlequins from the Bloodgate saga to Aviva Premiership champions and into this weekend's Heineken Cup quarter-finals against Munster, but the former Ireland full-back insisted that even the lure of coaching his country was not enough to turn his back on a project at Harlequins he believes still has a long way to run.
"I'm going nowhere. My contract is here (until the summer of 2014), I love it here and hopefully I will be here for a long time to come," O'Shea said. "Of course you are flattered (to be linked) but my job is here."
Joel Schmidt is a strong contender for the Ireland job, having guided Leinster to back-to-back Heineken Cup triumphs with one of the most scintillating attacking teams in Europe.
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Via Scoop.it – Monetizing The TV Everywhere (TVe) Experience
The Need For (And Cost Of ) Speed – 03/28/2012…It's still early in the higher-speed mobile revolution. And while faster mobile speeds are just around the corner, it could be interesting to monitor how the market adapts to the cost of that shift.
It's no secret that 4G mobile network speeds being rolled out by carriers like Verizon Wireless and AT&T provide dramatically faster mobile downloads. The reality is that more data can be sent in a shorter amount of time, although consumers are not charged by time but rather by the amount of data used.
Read more: http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/171299/the-need-for-and-cost-of-speed.html#reply#ixzz1qTooWWNo


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CAUSE OF PREECLAMPSIALast Updated on Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Preeclampsia was once called "the disease of theories," but research efforts this past decade have produced exciting breakthroughs that may bring us closer to causality, improve diagnosis and even prediction, and lead to prevention and/or specific treatments. Some speculation remains over different theories including: changes in biology of the placenta, the systemic inflammatory response, a variety of hormones and other proteins that are in the mother's circulation, changes in immune factors, improper cardiovascular adaptations to the pregnant state, underlying maternal risks for cardiovascular disease, associations with insulin resistance and diabetes, and deficiencies in essential nutrients, minerals, and vitamins.
The most plausible theories focus on the placenta and describe the disorder in two stages. In the first, the initiating cause results in the placenta producing factors (e.g., specific proteins, placental "debris") that enter the maternal circulation and are believed responsible for producing the next stage. This is the second stage, which results in the overt maternal "disease" (high blood pressure, kidney, liver and coagulation abnormalities). The overt disease depends not only on the action of the circulating factors from the placenta, but also the health of the mother, including diseases that may affect the vasculature (such as preexisting cardiovascular, renal, metabolic, and genetic factors; and obesity). A quick chart of potential causes can be found in our FAQs.
A promising area of recent research involves the role of proteins produced by the placenta that inhibit angiogenesis (the production of new blood vessels). Two of these "antiangiogenic factors" (soluble Fms-like tyrosine kinase-1, and soluble endoglin) have been shown to produce a preeclampsia like disease in rodents. Their concentrations rise in the mother's circulation weeks to months before the disease manifests. Placentas of women destined to develop preeclampsia overproduce these proteins that then enter the mother's circulation. Neutralizing their actions is now being investigated in animal models, and in some studies has reversed the disease in rodents. . Excitement regarding these interventions is tempered by a limited understanding of the functional role of antiangiogenic substances in normal pregnancy.
If the ability of these antiangiogenic proteins to cause preeclampsia is confirmed by research in humans, why the placenta overproduces them remains unknown. Hence, many of the other areas of investigation mentioned above may be important. Preeclampsia may have multiple causes, and other leads are being investigated, including prostaglandins, digoxin-like molecules, immunological mechanisms, autoantibodies that trigger receptors that lead to vessel constriction (agonistic autoantibodies to the angiotensin 1 receptor), oxidative stress, mitochondrial pathology, the impact of hypertension and prehypertension on endovascular health, and genes sensitive to low oxygen environments.
Basic research into causes of preeclampsia, lacking for decades, is being revitalized, albeit more slowly than needed. While we are moving closer to historically elusive answers, the true cause of preeclampsia remains unknown. Successful ongoing research needs far more support and funding.


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Quickly accessible, concise information about each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia!
50 State Agricultural Rankings
The tables below offer information about Massachusetts agriculture from the general agricultural groups to the more specific commodities or products. The ranking assigned to a given commodity is based on the commodity's cash receipts; how much money it made.
Commodity groups cash receipts - 2004
As you can see from the table below, Massachusetts ranks 47th among the states for total agricultural production.
Massachusetts's top five commodities by cash receipts - 2004
This table lists Massachusetts's top commodities in each of Massachusetts's two agriculutural groups, livestock and crops.
Massachusetts' most valuable crops include greenhouse and nursery commodities, making up over 1/3 (35.4%) of the state's total agricultural production. The production of cranberries is also very important to the state. Other valuable crops are sweet corn and apples.
The most valuable livestock products of the Bay State are dairy products. Cattle and calves, and aquaculture are also important.
Leading commodities for cash receipts - 2004
This table offers a more complete view of the most important agricultural products of Massachusetts.
The 2004 table above contains information about Massachusetts agricultural production provided by the Economic Research Service at the United States Department of Agriculture.
The first column of the table lists the product (commodity).
The second column of the table lists a number representing the dollar value of the product. This number is not the dollar value of the product. This number represents the dollar value of the product in thousands of dollars. For example, the number listed for the value of greenhouse and nursery products produced in Massachusetts is 146,398. This number represents a dollar value of $146,398,000 (146,398 x 1,000): one hundred and forty-six million, three hundred and ninety-eight thousand dollars.
The third column of the table lists the percent (part) of the total agricultural value produced in Massachusetts. For example, greenhouse and nursery commodities account for 35.4% of Massachusetts's total agricultural production value. The dollars generated by the production of greenhouse and nursery products add up to more than 1/3 of Massachusetts' total agricultural production.
Massachusetts farms and farmland - 2004
Because of different rounding methods (e.g., farm acres given by the National Argriculture Statistics Service), percentage of farmland per state should be considered a rough estimate.
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Effective robotic telepresence for IoT devices
RFID, Bluetooth, and Zigbee IoT devices are everywhere, why not have your robot use them?
You're in California, and you need to do an instant site visit, move around and interrogate sensors, manipulate devices, or check inventory in New York? You need Controlbot's patented short-range robotic wireless technology! Controlbot's IP solutions can add RFID (active or passive), Bluetooth, Ultra-Wideband USB (UWB), Zigbee, Z-wave or other short-range wireless capability to your Internet controlled mobile robots.
Short-range wireless radio field surrounding a Controlbot robot
Imagine controlling your factory or laboratory equipment from home. Imagine visiting a patient and getting direct access to medical instrument data using any web browser in the world. Imagine an elderly person equipped with a portable alarm that can instantly summon an automated attendant connected to any human caregiver anywhere. With Controlbot technology, this is not only possible, it's not all that expensive or difficult. Controlbot technology is fully compatible with both Microsoft and open-source LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python) software.
A mobile Internet router:
A Controlbot robotic mobile router can automatically position itself in the best location to connect local radio linked devices (Bluetooth, Smart-dust, WiFi, Zigbee, Z-wave, etc.) with the Internet. No more dead spots! Even devices as simple as a passive RFID tag can trigger a mobile router with Controlbot technology to reposition and/or connect with the Internet and transfer data.
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The User's gallery at The Panorama Factory website is open to all users of
The Panorama Factory.
Its purpose is to show the range of uses to which the application can be put
and to give users a chance to showcase their work.
Pictures that do not meet submission guidelines will be removed by the moderator.
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Hurdle responds to La Russa's comments on HBP
PITTSBURGH -- Entering Thursday, the Pirates had hit 11 more batters than anyone in baseball. But one plunking in particular has caused quite a stir in the last week.
Bucs reliever Ernesto Frieri hit the D-backs' Paul Goldschmidt in the hand on Friday night, which set off a chain reaction. It was announced Saturday that the first baseman's hand was fractured and his season was over, and later that night, Pirates center fielder Andrew McCutchen was drilled in the back by Randall Delgado in the ninth inning.
Tensions were high in the desert even after the Pirates left town, and D-backs chief baseball operator Tony La Russa said earlier in the week he was upset by how much flak his team was getting for hitting McCutchen. La Russa added: "There's a big difference between getting hit here [in the hands] and getting hit here [in the back]. That's why I think it's unfair."
On Thursday afternoon, Pirates manager Clint Hurdle was asked about La Russa's comments and defended his team's pitching philosophy.
"I have a personal and professional respect for Tony; I see things from a different lens," Hurdle said. "We try to pitch aggressively to both sides of the plate. We have not taken an initiative to pitch dangerously. He's entitled to his opinion."
McCutchen fractured a rib in his left side the following day while taking a swing, which caused further anger from the Pirates fan base, though Hurdle called relating the injury and the hit by pitch a "conspiracy theory."


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Doc Rarity
Lyle Overbay was released by the Pirates last week, was washing his car at home last Friday, signed by the Diamondbacks and made his first start last night against Doc, a teammate in Toronto.
Lyle's two-run double in the top of the ninth ended Arizona's seven-game losing streak at Citizens Bank Park and gave the Diamondbacks their NL-high 35th comeback win. Doc entered the ninth inning having throw 96 pitches and ended up at 123. As he said after the game, two of those ninth-inning pitches were mistakes (location) and it cost him.
For Doc, it dropped his record to 35-4 when he had a lead in a Phillies game. It was his second loss at home this season.
From Elias Sports Bureau:
**It was the first loss of his career in which he was pitching with a lead in the ninth inning.
**It snapped a streak of 10 straight wins at home.
**It was his 13th complete gave loss over the last five seasons; no other pitcher has even half that number.
Doc even chipped in with two hits, including his first-ever extra base hit. Leading 2-1, he doubled to start the seventh. He didn't score and it came back to haunt the Phillies.
Harry Statue
The late Hall of Fame broadcaster Harry Kalas is one of the most beloved characters in Philadelphia Sports History. His soothing voice came into our homes for more than 38 summers describing the exploits of his favorite team, the men he called the "Fightin Phils." Upon his passing in 20009, many fans felt the same sense of grief as if they had lost a family member.
Prior to last night's game, ceremonies welcomed the fifth bronze statue at Citizens Bank Park.
Fans packed the area behind Section 141, lined three long ramps, filled the second deck of Harry the K's and were looking down from the upper deck to see the ceremony. Dear Harry, Inc., a group that was formed to fund the statue, beamed like little kids and deservedly so. Their dream came to life during the 15-minute ceremony which climaxed with Steve Carlton and Jimmy Rollins unveiling the 7.5-foot statue.
Sculptor Larry Nowlan did a great job. Larry sculpted a 2008 World Series ring on Harry's right hand, which is holding a microphone and leaning on a Richie Ashburn model bat. Harry's trademark white shoes were naturally bronze.
During the game, Harry's youngest son, Kane, sang "God Bless America" and Take Me Out To The Ballgame". He was wearing white shoes.
Taylor-Wise Puzzle
Still working on the details from Monday's blog which got people's attention. Unable to reach Rick as he's been traveling back home.
Down On The Minors
David Bush made his Lehigh Valley debut an impressive one, 0 runs, 3 hits, 6 innings as the IronPigs beat Rochester 5-2 . . . Riding home runs from LF Brett Clevlen, 3B Carlos Rivero and C Tuffy Gosewisch, Reading defeated Portland, 7-5 . . . Clearwater dropped a 4-2 decision to Dunedin . . . Lakewood won twice over Delmarva; 2-1, 7-inning complete game for RH Lisalverto Bonilla (3-4) and 5-3, LF Bill Rice extended his hitting streak to 9 games (,515); hitting .396 since joining the BlueClaws on July 16 . . . Williamsport is on a two-day All-Star Game break; OF Aaron Altherr, OF Kyrell Hudson, RHS Michael Nesseth and RHR Gabriel Arias were named to the NL squad . . . Gulf Coast League Phillies were rained out for the fifth time in the last week


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My Ham Radio Interests
Anything to do with radio! APRS, HF, VHF/UHF, Fox Hunting, OSCAR, Bicycle Mobile, Antenna building, Burning solder, Digital, Packet, I even do PSK31 on my phone! Whatever I can find to learn something new...What makes it even better is that my wife is a HAM too!On another note:One of my favorite quotes...God has given to men all that is necessary for them to accomplish their destinies. He has provided a social form as well as a human form. And these social organs of persons are so constituted that they will develop themselves harmoniously in the clean air of liberty. Away, then, with quacks and organizers! Away with their rings, chains, hooks, and pincers! Away with their artificial systems! Away with the whims of governmental administrators, their socialized projects, their centralization, their tariffs, their government schools, their state religions, their free credit, their bank monopolies, their regulations, their restrictions, their equalization by taxation, and their pious moralizations! And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works. -The Law by Frédéric Bastiat
QTH Station is:FT2K, Yaesu Quadra, Alpha 87a, FT-897, FT-847, Mirage B2516, Antennas are: Hygain TH-11, CushCraft 2,70,6 tribander, CushCraft 17B2, G5RVjr all on a 50ft tower, diamond 510 on the roof, Gulf Alpah dualbander on a tripod for OSCAR fun. There's also a Zero Five 43ft vert in the back yard.BiCycle Mobile is: FT-897, ASAS-120, 10ah battery, Bike is an Electra Delivery 3i in grey trim.Mobile is:Kenwood D710 w/APRS and packet, Yaesu FT-857, ATAS 120Also have various HTs laying around and an Icom 7000 in the garage I have yet to play with.
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Projects I'd like to tackle:Full capability bicycle mobile. Can't scratch the cool paint, and must be able to convert to HF ManPack easily. Here's a link to the bike I have. The Electra Delivery 3i in grey.http://mybiketinley.com/nobots/zoom/item_zoom.cfm?libid=52064Update: see pics for BiCycle Mobile!Solar, battery, and generator station power. I have all the equipment but still waiting for the motivation to come in. Must be on back order... Update: Have completed solar! 160ah battery, 60 watt solar.A travel camper designed for 72 hour communication and survival in an emergency. I'm looking at the Scamp 5th Wheel. "A Go Kit on Wheels". (Maybe use that IC-7000 in the garage?)The perfect ARES portable station in a box. I have seen many designs but all are missing something. Either needed equipment or something in the design it self. Maybe it's just me but aesthetics are important too. Not as important as the other stuff but I don't want to be distracted with the thoughts of how I could have done something better when I'm trying to concentrate on the task at hand.
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50 ft tower down again. Broken rotor plate. Seared all three connections. Don't know if I'm going to put it back up. May go a different rout this time? Hmmm...Antennas are: HyGain TH-11, CushCraft 2-70-6, CushCraft 17B2.Maybe the HyGain on the roof? Easier to work on and still up 30 ft overall. Maybe a crank up? Nah, that means serious cash.Guess I'll have to think on it. I still have the 43 ft vertical to get me by.
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Morning MarketBeat: Bonds, Stocks Singing Different Tunes
Pre-Market Brief:
MARKET SNAP: At 0525 a.m. ET, S&P 500 futures up 0.1%. Treasurys flat. Nymex crude up 26c at $88.14; gold down 0.3% at $1,688.88. In Europe, FTSE 100 up 0.4%, DAX up 1.2% and CAC 40 up 0.7%. In Asia, Nikkei 225 up 0.8% and Hang Seng down 0.1%.
Overnight action:
SEC probes Deutsche Bank; Behind Scotia's global push; Germany approves missiles for Turkey.
Watch for: Challenger November job-cut report (7:30 a.m. Eastern Time). Weekly jobless claims (8:30): seen falling to 383,000, from 393,000. EIA weekly natural gas storage report (10:30).
Earnings: Analogic, Lululemon, Smith & Wesson, Smithfield Foods, H&R Block, Diamond Foods, Cooper Cos., Toronto-Dominion
For more MarketBeat and other streaming markets coverage from The Wall Street Journal, point your mobile browser to wsj.com/marketspulse.
The Breakfast Briefing
The bond market and the stock market are sending opposing signals about the fiscal cliff.
Bond investors have long been seen as the more sober and cautious bunch when compared to stock investors. That mindset is exactly what seems to be playing out right now as the deadline to avert tax increases and spending cuts approaches.
Treasury prices have been drifting higher, casting a skeptical light on the stock market's hopeful stance. Yields on the benchmark 10-year note now stand at 1.591%, the lowest level since Nov. 16. Bond yields fall when prices rise.
Meanwhile, the Dow chugged its way to a one-month high yesterday, extending the recent rally that has now reversed the entire post-election swoon. Stock investors, for better or worse, are increasingly betting a budget deal will be agreed upon by year-end.
Some suggest the stock market is getting complacent, especially with many economists warning that falling off the cliff would push the economy back into a recession.
While stocks may have more to lose in that scenario, bond investors could actually gain no matter how the cliff plays out. If the economy tumbles over the cliff and falls into a recession, investors could flock to Treasurys for their safe-haven appeal. Yet if a deal is struck that attempts to deal with the U.S.'s fiscal problems, then that still may be good for bonds.
And even if the cliff is avoided, the Fed appears ready to keep plugging away with its massive bond-buying program into the new year and beyond, which could also keep rates low.
Bond investors already seem to be positioning this way. The Fed's policy setting board gathers for a two-day meeting next week to provide its latest read on the economy and a policy plan for next year.
With Operation Twist winding down, bond investors are banking that more stimulus lies on the horizon.
"We expect the Fed will continue with massive purchases into the new year," Brian Svendahl, portfolio manager and co-head of U.S. fixed income at RBC Global Asset Management, told WSJ. "The market is priced as if they will keep their foot firmly on the gas."
Stocks and bonds are flashing different signals. That alone should be enough to make investors a tad more cautious as the end of the year approaches.
Cliff Notes: The White House is hardening its stance that Congress should raise the U.S. borrowing limit without preconditions, according to WSJ, a position President Barack Obama capped Wednesday when he said he wouldn't negotiate with Republicans on this issue as he did last year.
Morning MarketBeat Daily Factoid: On this day in 1957, the U.S. attempted for the first time to put a satellite into orbit. The mission failed, however, as the satellite exploded on the launch pad.
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Stocks to Watch
Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Thursday's session are H & R Block, Lululemon Athletica and Palo Alto Networks.
H & R Block is expected to report a loss of 42 cents a share in the second quarter, according to a consensus survey by FactSet.
Lululemon Athletica is projected to post third-quarter earnings of 37 cents a share. "We continue to believe LULU remains one of the key brands that is building awareness, driving share, and selling product at full price in a sea of price competition. LULU remains an attractive longer term growth story, and we believe earnings growth is still above 30% annually for the next several years," said analysts at Janney Capital Markets in a report.
Palo Alto Networks is likely to report earnings of 3 cents a share in the first quarter.
Overnight Headlines (Links)
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HUBERT SELBY JR: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
this photo for more pix from the Robert Downey, Jr. narration
recording session
"Selby's place is in the front rank of American
novelists. His work has the power, the intimacy with suffering and
morality, the honesty and moral urgency of Dostoevsky's. To understand
Selby's work is to understand the anguish of America."
"Last Exit to Brooklyn should explode
like a rusty hellish bombshell over America and still be eagerly read
in a hundred years."
"The Demon is a freight train of a
novel with a climax like a kick in the stomach!"
|Above: photo of Hubert Selby, Jr. in 1989 by James Fee. Used with permission.
Welcome to CubbyMovie.com--the site for
the labor-of-love documentary on the life and work of legendary cult
writer Hubert Selby, Jr.
Hubert "Cubby" Selby, Jr. (July 23, 1928-April 26, 2004) was the author of Last Exit To Brooklyn, The Room, The Demon, Requiem for a Dream, The Willow Tree, Waiting Period, and a book of short stories, Song of the Silent Snow.
Featuring new interviews with: Hubert Selby, Jr, Lou Reed, Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Darren Aronofsky, Uli Edel, Alexis Arquette, Desmond Nakano, James Remar, Nicolas Winding Refn, Jerry Stahl, Richard Price, Amiri Baraka, Nick Tosches, Gilbert Sorrentino, Michael Lally, Kenneth Shiffrin, James Ragan, Michael Silverblatt, James R. Giles, John Calder, Arthur Boyars, Luke Davies, Jem Cohen, Susan Compo, Matt Polish, Carmine "Tony" DeFeo, Anthony Di Novi, Kaytie Lee, Susan Anton.
Appearing in archive footage: Hubert Selby, Jr, Anthony Kiedis, Henry Rollins, Cameron Johann, Stephen Lang, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Burt Young, Bernard Zette, Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Marlon Wayans, Bill Buell, Jimmie Ray Weeks, James Remar, John Turturro
Narrator: Robert Downey, Jr.
Directors: Michael
W. Dean & Kenneth Shiffrin
Editor: Ryan Brown
Producers: Michael W. Dean, Ryan Brown
Executive Producers: Suzanne Selby, Kenneth Shiffrin
Narration written by: Michael W. Dean
Pix from the making of the movie.
pix from the making of the movie.
More making of pix
Pix from the Jerry Stahl interview.
Pix from the Alexis Arquette interview.
Pix of our interview with Amiri Baraka
Pix of our interview with James Remar
Pix of our interview with Susan Anton
Interview with our British correspondent, Ian Hawkins, about the making of this movie
Click for a page with audio and pix from the British Obscenity Trial interviews.
Photos of Cubby as a child (courtesy of Suzanne Selby)
Photo of Hubert Selby, Jr. in December, 2003 by Lydia Lam.
Click Ellen Burstyn for more shots from our interview with her:
Click Darren Aronofsky for more shots from our interview with him:
Click Lou Reed to see another photo from our interview with him.
Henry Rollins speaking at Cubby's memorial service,
Co-producers: Merl Edelman, Tracy Hatfield
Re-recording engineer: Dave Bach
Camera, Los Angeles: Michael Dean, Chris Cruse, Geoff Moore, Adam Jeppesen, Adam Hashemi
Camera, New York:
Ray Michel, DJ Brouillard, Jem Cohen, Robert
Sound, New York: Jeff Ent
Camera, Honolulu, Hawaii: Gerard Elmore, Vince Lucero
Camera, London: Ian Hawkins
Camera, Sydney Australia: Bonnie Hart
Sydney Australia second-unit production team captain: Phoebe Hart
Camera, Montreal, Canada: John Christou, Brett Gaylor, and Mila Aung-Thwin (from www. eyesteelfilm.com)
Denmark: Mira Jargil, Maia Kahlke Lorentzen
Camera, DeKalb, IL: Kathy Giles and Stuart Wahlin
Sound, New York: Jeff Ent
Audio engineer of narration: Vincenzo LoRusso
Assistant editors: Shar Alamdari, Meridith Sommers
Music: Douglas Bohm, Allison Lovejoy, Aaron Jones, Brian Wenz, Bob Bartosik, Dr. Jonathan D. Green, Beauty's Confusion, Trey Harrison, Dan Racanelli, Darren Bloom, Twostarsymphony, Lucas Van Lenten, DJ Brouillard, Jean-François Côté, George Earth, John DeBorde, Stefan Gustafsson, Steve Munger Quintet, Martyn LeNoble, Elizabeth Johnson, Michael W. Dean, Jimmie Wood, J J Holiday, Michael Barsimanto, The Imperial Crowns
Photographs: James
Fee, Stathis
Geoff Moore, David Morgan, Susan Anton, Ryan Alexander, A. Karno, Helen Zahavi, Jessica Mann, Ian Hawkins, Rebecca Waddington, Bill Shumate, Fern Feller, Harriet Sommers, Bill Ward, Mark McKennon, Suzanne Selby, Hubert Selby, Jr, Lydia Lam
Illustrations/Caricatures: Greg Oakes, Lydia Lam
Additional archive footage: Prelinger Archive
Audio of Cubby
telling hospital story courtesy of Eva-Marie Fredric
Associate Producers: Lydia Lam, Greg Anthony Benjamin, Jonathan Elias, DJ Brouillard, P. Kime Le, Susan Anton, W. Vann Hall, James Jose, Katy Robinson, Ray Michel, Cristy Herman
Special Thanks and Angels
Selby's books on Amazon
Q. "What's the significance of the title 'It/ll Be Better Tomorrow'?"
A. It's taken from page 103 of Selby's The Demon. "It/ll be better tomorrow--it better be!" (The slash is included in Selby's typography).
Cubby's 1975 inscription in Carmine De Feo's copy of Last Exit:
Cubby's 1964 inscription in Gilbert
Sorrentino's copy of Last Exit to Brooklyn: (Gil
was the editor on Last Exit)
(photo credit for both above photos Jerrod Lopes and Shawn Alfaro)
Maureen Nolan and Cubby in August 2003, by Geoff Moore. Used with permission.
|Maureen was
the person who put me in touch with Cubby. She was my friend and
neighbor. She died Monday, Aug 30, 2004. 11:30 AM.
After a long battle with Cancer. She is missed. --MWD
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Startup d.light brings solar power to the poor
About three decades ago, Donn Tice was an MBA student at the University of Michigan, studying with the late C.K. Prahalad, who was developing his argument that companies can make money and do good by creating products and services for the world's poorest people. It's an exciting notion, popularized in Prahalad's influential 2004 book, "The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid."
Today, Tice is the CEO of d.light, which sells solar-powered lanterns to the poor. He's trying to prove that his teacher was right — a fortune awaits those who can create and sell life-changing products that help the very poor.
For now, this remains an unproven hope. Dozens of startups have ventured into the global south, selling everything from $100 laptops, cheap bikes, clean cook stoves and solar panels to the poor. Some have enjoyed success (See, for example, my blog post, "Clean Star Mozambique: Food, fuel and forests at the bottom of the pyramid"), but few have achieved meaningful scale. Or made anything approaching a fortune.
The good news is that d.light is getting there. The company is now selling about 200,000 solar-powered lanterns and lighting systems a month in about 40 countries. By its own accounting, d. light has sold nearly 3 million solar lighting products and changed the lives of more than 13 million people. And if all goes according to plan, the company will turn profitable this year.
"In addition to bringing lighting to people who need it and power to people who can't access it — which is our mission — we think we have the ability to demonstrate that this is a business model that works," Tice said during a recent visit to the d.light offices in San Francisco. Earlier this year, d.light was recognized with the $1.5 million Zayed Future Energy Prize.
D.light is a for-profit company started in 2007 by Stanford MBA students Ned Tozun and Sam Goldman, whose idea for solar-powered lights was born out of a Stanford Design School course called "Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability." As a Peace Corps volunteer in Benin, Goldman had seen a young boy badly burned by a kerosene lamp. Both founders knew that more than 2 billion people in the world don't have access to reliable electricity. Venture-capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, which sponsored the design contest, invested $250,000.
Tice, meanwhile, had enjoyed a more conventional business career in the consumer products industry, running the Folger's coffee business for Procter & Gamble and helping to develop new products for Dreyer's ice cream. While working with advanced nanotechnology to create stain and wrinkle-resistant fabric for a company called Nano-Tex, he decided to make a change.
"I woke up one day and realized that I was saving the world from stains," he said.
Through a networking group that looked at ways that entrepreneurs could help alleviate global poverty, Tice was introduced to investors who were considering putting money into d.light. He became an informal adviser to the company, joined the board when they closed their first round of financing in 2008, became chairman in 2010 and CEO about two years ago.
He's glad he did: "I love the work. I love our customers. You bring something into their lives that changes their life. What's not to like?"
One key to the success of d.light is the company's willingness to listen to its customers. Senior executives visit rural villages in India or Africa, where most of the lanterns are sold.
"The consumers really design our products," Tice said. "It's what we used to do at P&G. Our teams tromp around in the dust with prototypes."
By coincidence, Jacqueline Novogratz, the founder of the nonprofit Acumen Fund, an investor in d.light, wrote a blog post the other day about a visit that she and a company executive, David Small, had made to a d.light customer named Teresia in Benin.
Teresia had bought a $40 lantern, borrowing the money to do so and paying it back at the rate of $3.50 a week — less, she said, than she used to pay for kerosene. She proceeds, at some length, to tell David Small how to improve the product: She'd like the light to be able to charge her phone, she'd like it to charge a radio because batteries are expensive and couldn't she have a way to hang the light from the ceiling?
As I watch Teresia and David exchanging thoughts about consumer satisfaction, emotion swells inside. This is why I am doing this work. This is why I started Acumen: I am witnessing a conversation of equals, one between an empowered consumer and a businessman trying to serve her. Teresia is not pandering nor is she begging. David is neither self-satisfied with his own sense of benevolence, nor is he assuming he has the answers. Teresia may have next to nothing of material value in the world, but here she is, full of dignity, full of the confidence that comes with doing something for yourself and paying for it, to boot. Her eyes sparkle with curiosity and strength. Teresia has earned this conversation. David must continue to work for her loyalty and trust as a customer. In the process, both have the chance to be transformed.
Interesting, no? This helps explain what Tice says is the company's competitive edge.
"The really big thing that has changed is that we have pushed the whole market in the direction of a better-quality product," he said. "Consumers don't want a cheap product. The product has to work, and it has to work for a long time."
D.light is now offering two- or three-year warranties on their lanterns, telling customers that the products should last for five years, and designing them to last longer. "It's really important that people trust what they buy," he said. In other words, poor consumers are very much like you and me: They want a quality product at a good price from a company they trust.
D.light has raised about $20 million so far, including about $15 million from a mix of traditional venture investors like DFJ and Nexus India and from impact or social investors like Acumen and the Omidyar Network. The company borrowed about $3 million from Deutsche Bank, and it has brought in about $2 million in grants. It will probably need more capital, Tice says, to reach its goal of changing the lives of 100 million people by 2020.
"It's great to celebrate our success," he said, "but we shouldn't rest until we've really moved the needle."
And it's proven that yes, there really is a fortune at the bottom of the pyramid.
Photo of a girl in India studying with d.light provided by company.