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Blog by Kirsten Jack, Acting Head of Smart Technologies, The Climate Group.
This blog post is part of a short series profiling LLGA | Cities Pilot the Future (previously the Living Labs Global Award) success stories, as well as current open challenges for LLGA 2013.
LLGA is a global initiative that brings together cities to implement solutions that will improve the lives of their citizens. The Climate Group chairs the panel of experts that assess the sustainability of each solution that is submitted. Our work with LLGA is part of the Agile Cities program, which aims to connect cities, citizens and innovators to drive accessibility, efficiency and growth.
In the blog series I explore how innovative solutions for economic development, energy efficiency, mobility and information products can each play a role in supporting cities that are at the forefront of the clean revolution.
You can submit solutions for LLGA 2013 current challenges until January 31.
LLGA has a history of solving energy and resource challenges. As you'll see in a moment, great examples include San Francisco and Barcelona, two cities that both found -- and are piloting -- solutions to improve resource efficiency through LLGA.
Energy and resource challenges are central to the work of our Agile Cities program for the following reasons:
In this year's LLGA there are four major challenges which focus on energy and resource efficiency. Just click the links below to read more about each city challenge.
Firstly there's Rosario, Argentina, which is seeking to expand its Green Homes Network, both as an educational and an impact monitoring program.
The second city challenge belongs to Paris, France, looking to make outside seating more resilient by finding a solution to the excessive energy currently used to heat exterior social spaces – a problem common to many northern cities.
Next is Sheffield, UK, a city that is searching for solutions to capturing and distributing industrial heat.
And finally is Christchurch, New Zealand, which is pursuing transformational lighting systems that can support spatial and social development of its city spaces, in the aftermath of 2011's devastating earthquake.
LLGA is a unique challenge program, as rather than simply publishing the challenge, it also tasks its multilingual in-house research team to explore potential solutions for challenges via niche methods, or coalitions of existing services.
I've taken the time to speak with Ana Paola López, currently researching solutions for Rosario, Argentina, which is looking for ways to involve more households in their Green Homes Network initiative and to monitor its environmental impact. She said: "Rosario currently conducts evaluations by asking 'Leader' families to monitor things such as the volumes of waste they produce, but this is hard work for the families and it is unlikely this will work if scaled further.
"Through our research we've found apps and software to measure environmental impact which are aimed at businesses, and even though it has been harder to find those for individual households, some scoring and credit schemes have been developed, such as the LEED for Homes Scoring Tool. We've then come into contact with a number of environmentally-focused community groups such as GALA (Global Awareness Local Action), Practically Green, CitéGreen and Green Calgary Healthy Homes Program. These tools are more helpful in supporting people in making changes, while providing an element of monitoring. What is lacking however is an app that comprehensively monitors household performance while acting as a community-integrated motivational tool; we'd be excited to get submissions from companies who might be able to provide these types of solutions."
The main benefits for cities participating in an open procurement process like this are demonstrated clearly by the successful LLGA pilots that are in progress, or those that are already completed.
One of these is San Francisco, an innovative city that developed intelligent lighting systems for implementing remotely managed street lights. Paradox Engineering, the small European company that implemented the pilot, have since had the opportunity to build working relationships with larger smart city players too.
Speaking about their work in San Francisco, Paradox state on the LLGA website: "Working closely with the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC), we also had the opportunity to build solid partnerships with notable industry players such as Philips Lighting and Oracle. It would have been much more difficult for us to find or build inroads in a city like San Francisco, and longer than it was to build partnerships like the ones we now have in place with Philips and Oracle."
The pilot also allowed the company to set up a new base and pursue market opportunities in the US. They state: "We have recently inaugurated a new branch office in San Francisco, which will leverage our sales and marketing operations in North America and help us to provide effective customer support to the SFPUC and other prospects we are already approaching."
Barcelona boasts an equally impressive story. Smart city company Urbiotica piloted their intelligent waste management system in Barcelona, which lead to new contracts and venture capital of $1.8 million. On LLGA.org they say: "The collaboration with the different stakeholders in the pilot has been constructive and fruitful. The results are positive and meet what we had expected initially: our system is now installed and running in a small area of Barcelona. We keep an active reporting with the municipality as well as the company in order to refine the whole process and extract valuable practices, which can then be used to extend the solution to larger areas of the city and/or to other cities."
Be sure to return tomorrow, when for part 2 of the sustainable innovation in cities blog series, I will be exploring the role of information products in supporting cities that are at the forefront of the clean revolution.
You can submit solutions for LLGA 2013 current challenges until January 31.


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Mariners Notebook: Furbush pitches three innings
The lefty reliever hadn't thrown since losing in Cleveland.
Charlie Furbush's anger after giving up a walk-off home run in the final game during Cleveland's four-game sweep of the Mariners was hard to miss. Postgame, as he searched for answers, his face was still a reddish-purple hue of frustration.
He couldn't wait to get back on the mound again to help erase that last outing.
Furbush got that chance on Wednesday and he pitched well, throwing three perfect innings of relief in the Mariners' 7-1 loss to the Angels.
"I just tried to make some pitches and keep it down in the zone," Furbush said. "I just tried to do the best I could given the situation."
Obviously, coming into the game in the fourth inning with your team down 7-0 isn't quite the same as pitching in the 10th inning of a tie game like in Cleveland. There isn't that same pressure.
But with starting pitcher Brandon Maurer only lasting three innings, Furbush knew he had to give the Mariners and his overworked bullpen-mates more than just one inning.
"I did the best I could, given the situation I was in," Furbush said. "I knew I was going to have to give us a couple of innings. And I just tried to work as fast I could and get in and get out of there.
Besides the three perfect innings, Furbush also picked up strikeouts of Josh Hamilton and Mike Trout along the way. He was the first lefty reliever to throw three or more perfect innings of relief in a game since Paul Mirabella in 1984.
"I was telling Tom (Wilhelmsen) today that I felt pretty good when we were playing catch," Furbush said. "I was just glad that it translated into the game.
Mariners' manager Eric Wedge was pleased to see Furbush bounce back. Before the loss in Cleveland, Wedge liked what he saw from Furbush in the prior two outings, throwing 3 2/3 perfect innings with five strikeouts.
"It was nice to see Charlie go back out there and pitched the way he pitched," Wedge said "That was big for him."
Saunders dropped to second in the order
Wedge did a little shuffling with the line-up on Wednesday, dropping normal lead-off hitter Michael Saunders to second with lefty C.J. Wilson on the mound. After being such a catalyst to the offense when he came off the disabled list, Saunders' bat has cooled a little.
Coming into Wednesday's game, Saunders was hitting .125 (4-for-32) with 13 strikeouts over his last eight games.
"I don't think it's fatigue," Wedge said. "I think he's expanded the zone a little from time to time. When he stays within his zone, he does damage. I think he's just expanded his zone, trying to do a little too much. We're at our best when these guys are willing and able to set the bat down and take a walk and let the next guy get a shot at it. When they try to do too much or get a little greedy up there, that's when you get in trouble."
Jason Bay (Trail, British Columbia) and Michael Saunders (Victoria, British Columbia) are the first Canadian natives to bat 1-2 in a starting line-up since at least 1921. Line-up information before then is relatively unavailable. ... Robert Andino made the start at third base, his third different position in three straight games having played second base on Monday and shortstop on Tuesday. He became the sixth Mariners player to start three different infield positions in three consecutive games. Kyle Seager started at the same three positions in three games in 2011. ... Kendrys Morales has notched a hit in 15 of his last 18 games (3-for-4 on Tuesday), and 8-of-9 games on the road trip. ... Brendan Ryan went 2-for-3 with a double. It was his fourth multi-hit game in his last six games.

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So, how did everything start?
...a timeline for the Universe
Here is a brief 'potted' history of how the Universe was developed from the so-called 'Big Bang' according to most accepted current theories.
By studying the origins of the Universe, ESA Science can help provide answers about how the Universe will end - whether it will expand forever or collapse in on itself, thousands of millions of years from now.
From 'zero time' to a millionth of a second
During this period, a very quick 'inflation' process takes place, and in an infinitesimal fraction of a second the cosmos becomes extremely large. All the matter and energy, concentrated in a region smaller than a coin, begins to expand at a very rapid rate. Once inflation is over, the Universe continues the expansion at a much slower pace. As it expands, it also cools.
When it is at a temperature of 1000 GeV (about 10 million million degrees), the forces of nature assume their present properties (such as gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak forces) and the 'quarks', the elementary particles that are the building blocks of matter, wander freely.
This is the most accepted theory. For many scientists, this period is 'speculative'. There are no observations to confirm or disprove the theories.
A millionth of a second after the Big Bang
The Universe is roughly the size of our Solar System today, and the temperature drops to 1 GeV (10 thousand million degrees). It is cool enough for quarks to combine and make the particles in the atomic nucleus, protons and neutrons. These particles are called hadrons, so this period is often called the 'quark-hadron transition'.
From one second to three minutes after the Big Bang
At one second, the Universe grows to about a thousand times the size of our Solar System today and the temperature drops to 1 MeV, equivalent to 10 000 million degrees. Neutrons and protons combine to form the first nuclei: first deuterium, then helium and other elements. This is called 'primordial nucleosynthesis' and it lasts several minutes.
Three minutes after the Big Bang the temperature is a thousand million degrees. It is still too hot, however, for the atomic nuclei to capture electrons and form real elements.
From three minutes to 300 000 years after the Big Bang
The Universe keeps expanding. It is too hot yet for electrons to be captured by the atomic nuclei. Electrons wander freely and are therefore able to interact with the photons (light 'particles') as a result, light is trapped and cannot propagate more than a very short distance before encountering an electron. Therefore the Universe is opaque.
But about 300 000 years later, the Universe has cooled enough (to some 3000°C) to allow protons to capture electrons, and form neutral hydrogen atoms (in a phenomenon called 'recombination' or 'decoupling').
The Universe is about 1000 times smaller than its present size. Light can propagate without hindrance: the Universe suddenly becomes transparent. The Cosmic Microwave Background radiation that we detect today is that 'first light'.
Soon after recombination (The Dark Age)
The matter is now cool and luminous. Initial 'clots' of matter start to grow by gravitational attraction. This process is still unknown, but involves both the matter that we can see ('baryons') and so-called 'Dark Matter'.
The first stars form when the lumps of matter grow to about 10 million times the mass of our Sun, when the Universe is about one thirtieth of its current size. The lumps of matter (containing stars) coalesce to form galaxies and clusters of galaxies.
The first stars produce lots of ultraviolet radiation which ionises most of the neutral hydrogen (that is, liberating the electrons from the protons), thereby ending the so-called 'Dark age' of the Universe.
1000 million years after the Big Bang
The Universe is a fifth of its present size. Observations indicate that there are already fully formed galaxies. Therefore galaxy formation must have started much earlier. When the Universe is half its present size, the nuclear reactions inside the stars have already produced most of the chemical elements that are needed to make Earth-like planets.
10 000 million years after the Big Bang
About 5000 million years ago, our Sun was formed from the collapse of a cloud of dust and gas, producing a very average- looking star.
The remnants from the formation of the Sun, swirling in a disk around our infant star, gradually coalesce into the planets that form part of our Solar System. 4500 million years ago, the Earth and the inner planets form with rocky mantles and molten interiors, while more distant planets become gaseous giants.
Around 700 million years later, life begins on Earth. The oldest fossils of living organisms (bacteria) found on Earth are 3800 million years old.
Studying space science at its largest scale therefore provides some of the deepest insights into physics on the smallest scale. ESA Science is now providing access to the largest science laboratory we have ever known: our Universe!


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First-hand accounts about how establishing partnerships, trusting and letting go, investing in people, and assessing situations have been instrumental to smart decision-making.
In this series, Public CIO set forth to find answers from several of the nation's top CIOs who have served or currently are in state, local and federal positions.
The following are first-hand accounts about how establishing partnerships, trusting and letting go, investing in people, and assessing situations have all been instrumental to smart decision-making.
|Chris O'Brien | Ignore Technology
Chris O'Brien, former CIO of Chicago, is now a principal at PwC's Public Sector Practice.
|Sheila Butler | Building and Planning Strategically
Sheila Butler is the CIO of Horry County, S.C.
|Vennard Wright | Building a Procurement System
Vennard Wright is the CIO and Director of OIT for Prince George's County, Md..
|Phil Bertolini | Building and Maintaining a Team
Phil Bertolini is the Deputy County Executive and CIO for Oakland County, Mich.
Jerry Fralick | Assess and Strategize
Fralick is the former CIO of North Carolina -- and current CIO of the Office of Justice Programs in the U.S. Department of Justice, and deputy CIO for the Administration for Children and Families in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Irey is the CIO of Overland Park, Kan.
Roper is the CIO of Raleigh, N.C.
Bill Greeves | Trusting and Letting Go
Greeves is the CIO of Wake County, N.C.
Terry Bledsoe | Investing in People
Bledsoe is the CIO of North Carolina's Catawba County.
Andy Blumenthal | People First, Mission Always
Division Chief of the U.S. State Department, former
CTO of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms
and Explosives
Brenda Decker | Expanding My Role
CIO, Nebraska
Harold Tuck | Sparking Innovation
Former CIO, San Diego County
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The Great Black North: Contemporary African Canadian Poetry (Frontenac House, 272 pages, $22), edited by Valerie Mason-John (a.k.a. Queenie) and Kevan Anthony Cameron (a.k.a. Scruffmouth), focuses on new and unpublished work by over 90 authors, divided into groups of "page" and "stage" poets (works composed for print alongside dub, spoken word and slam poetry).
A preface by George Elliott Clarke provides a smattering of historical context. The focus on new work makes the anthology a good snapshot of the current moment in African-Canadian poetry and its recent trends.
The inclusion of the "stage" section is inspired, since even "page" poets like Clarke draw heavily on the sonorous qualities of spoken language ("To scoop up gold, troops must set blood a-flood").
It's often said that poems written for performance translate poorly to the page, but this has always been a myth, as authors like Oni the Haitian Sensation and Wakefield Brewster deftly show. (Oni's wonderful Botanical Latin is a highlight of the collection: "They [the monks] are not in heaven because they f**ked with the Haitian wives of Hochelaga.") The poems that don't translate well are simply lousy poems, like Marlon Wilson's bland and cliché-ridden defence of hip-hop. Aside from a few such missteps, The Great Black North proves a stellar collection.
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Vancouver's Elizabeth Bachinsky offers a strange glimpse into a poetic cross-section of her notebooks in I Don't Feel So Good (BookThug, 60 pages, $16).
Composed of material selected by chance, rolling die to determine the book's content and order, Bachinsky combines the confessional mode with experimental procedures. The result is a revealing yet hilarious portraiture in words: "Your search 'BARF-ER-AMA' did not match any products."
"What is a 'poetic' response anyway?" asks Bachinsky in one moment, providing the answer in another: "A book called I don't feel so good." Later, Bachinsky notes that poets should "just write something down. Eventually things will distill themselves into something that behaves like poetry."
Elsewhere, a plaintive cry -- "I wish I had some $$" -- nicely captures those moments in a writer's life where existential despair and flippant silliness hold hands to cross the street.
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Whitehorse's Jamie Sharpe makes a cheeky debut with Animal Husbandry Today (ECW, 106 pages, $19). Sharpe's best poems are like "chaste revolvers filled / with explosive chorus girls," balancing inventive imagery against dense bitterness.
"In the friscalating dusk we walk / in the shadow of our nation's parks, / in the shadow of one-hundred-year / evergreens, back to tomorrow's life," writes Sharpe in a classically mournful moment. "The $1.19 nacho cheese chalupas / were also excellent," he concludes, in a wonderful deflation of that high seriousness, which nevertheless leaves its mournfulness intact.
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James Arthur, who grew up in Toronto but now lives in Princeton, N.J., delivers many exhilarating moments in Charms Against Lightning (Copper Canyon, 64 pages, $16). The "treetops are raucous clown wigs" in Arthur's eye, and "a star is a star is a hydrogen bomb."
"The kitchen weeps onion / because the cook is dead," writes Arthur in one poem, a strong example of the simple reversals and revitalizations of worn imagery that he is able to manage. Although without Sharpe's skill for tonal juxtapositions, Arthur's debut also charms.
Winnipeg English professor Jonathan Ball (@jonathanballcom) just published The Politics of Knives with Coach House Books of Toronto.
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This summer I didn't want to miss a fireworks show.
We were going to go to the Adachi fireworks in Kita Senju but it didn't end up happening, and the Sumidagawa fireworks were on the same night as a party I said I was going to. So, I made sure we would go to Yokohama's Kanagawa Shinbun. We went last year and I really enjoyed it.
Last time we were a little far away, with the Intercontinental hotel blocking some of the view. This year we hoped to get to Rinko Park, much closer to the action. Unfortunately a lot of other people had the same idea, so instead we, along with many others sat down on a closed-off road just outside the Pacifico complex which gave an almost unobstructed view.
This time we brought some cracker and cheese snacks, along with some limited edition green tea Krispy Kreme donuts we bought nearby. Of course I had the mandatory chu-hi to celebrate the spectacle. I also brought along my tripod this time to avoid camera shake and "alcohol hands".
I took a LOT of photos. They turned out much better than last year. But due to the unpredictability of fireworks, the best came about solely by chance. Here's a few.
Sunday, 1 August 2010
Yokohama Fireworks
This summer I didn't want to miss a fireworks show.
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Rock Climbing is one of the fun activities for adventure lovers. The activity can either be along natural rock formations while on a trek or even on an artificial rock wall. The Rock Climbers goal is to hit the top and use the smaller rock formations as grip to achieve it.
There are also professional Rock Climbing activities that test either the speed of the Rock Climber or the stamina on a difficult Rock climbing route. The sport activity requires physical and mental presence of mind throughout. Starting with the climber having to analyze his climb up to being able to balance the weight of his body while taking grips of the rock formations.
The less complicated level of Rock Climbing makes for a great outdoor activity in general. Rock climbing along rock formations in the hills is definitely worth the adrenaline rush. Campsites also make sure that the rock climbing spot isn't a dangerous challenge for adventure lovers on a trip. There are usually climbing equipments that make the sport more convenient and a much safer, fun thing to do. To help with the sport, there are usually no climbing the rocks downward as the complications are mostly high while climbing down and backwards.
History of Rock Climbing:
History shows a 200 BC of when the Chinese men used to Rock Climb and later in the 1880's Rock Climbing became an independent pursuit apart from Mountain Climbing being an adventure activity too.
Rock Climbing Now:
The current method of Rock Climbing can simply be labeled as Free Rock Climbing as the climber uses the rock climbing equipment only for protection and not as a support in itself to climb.
Aid Climbing is a style of climbing that lets the climber use the climbing equipment for support while climbing.
Bouldering is also a form of climbing, mostly without the safety rope, but the climb is still on a shorter and lower rock formations.
Why Rock Climbing:
While there are various other styles of Rock Climbing the most fun and simplest forms of Rock Climbing is usually included in as adventure activities for adventure lovers. These can either be indoor or outdoor Rock Climbing. These help the climber experience adventure sport, though not full fledged professional climbing, at least as one of the fun things to do on an adventure camp in the hills.
As a part of most Adventure Trips or treks, there are usually sessions of Rock Climbing or Bouldering to let the participants experience some fun adventure.


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Fans invited to go old-school for D-backs' party
Game Seven Grill to host event featuring club alums, World Series trophy
PHOENIX -- While D-backs fans have come to know and love the Sedona Red that is now seen on the team's uniforms and throughout Chase Field, many fans still keep the old-school black, teal and purple in their closets from the franchise's earliest days. This Friday, the team is providing fans with the golden opportunity to break out that gear for the Budweiser Throwback Watch Party at Game Seven Grill, located on the Gila River Casino Plaza at Chase Field.
Former D-backs Augie Ojeda and Albie Lopez will be on hand beginning at 3:30 p.m. this Friday, as will the 2001 World Series trophy. Fans can have their pictures taken with the trophy and the former D-backs while they watch the team take on the Philadelphia Phillies in the first game of a three-game series.
Prizes will be available to fans in attendance, and the grill will be open for the first time on a non-game day. The event is open to the public, with a customized menu inside the BBQ-style restaurant, which opened on April 1 this year.
The Budweiser Throwback Watch Party is being held in advance of the team's upcoming Throwback Night on Aug. 31, presented by Denny's in partnership with Sanderson Ford. Following the game that night against the Giants, Ojeda and Lopez will join the likes of Luis Gonzalez, Matt Williams, Steve Finley, Travis Lee, Shea Hillenbrand, Junior Spivey, Reggie Sanders and Greg Swindell, who are all scheduled to participate in the second annual Alumni Game. Last year's four-inning exhibition featuring rival managers Gonzalez and Williams ended in a 2-2 tie, but it gave fans their first look at many of the alumni since their respective playing days for the franchise.


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When our eight-year-old was fighting a cold a couple weeks ago, I snuggled him into bed, stocked his bedside table with Kleenex, a water bottle and ChapStick. Then I strategically positioned a humidifier, gave him Tylenol, and put Vicks under his nose and on the bottom of his feet. [Does anyone else use this trick? Just curious. It seems to work.]
As I was tucking him in, he said: "Thanks Mom, for helping me get better."
It caught me off-guard. Not because our son is some kind of ingrate and never says thank you—he's a sweet thoughtful boy—but to verbalize his gratitude when he was feeling so lousy was a divinely inspired, perfectly timed, mommy pick-me-up.
As a mom, have you ever felt under-appreciated? You know I'm joking, right? Of course you have. Along with the joys and rewards that come with being a mom, we take on our fair share of sacrifice, overtime, and work that might seem; well, below our pay grade. A simple unsolicited "thank you" every now-and-then can work wonders.
Earlier this month, Oct. 1, was the feast day of a saint who lived and taught the importance of the *little* things: St. Thérèse of Lisieux. This young girl, who entered a convent at 15, had a burning desire to be a saint, but felt she lacked the gifts and opportunity to do so, so she took a different approach.
St. Thérèse determined her path to holiness was to take every chance she could to sacrifice, no matter how small it seemed: smiling at sisters she didn't like, eating everything on her plate without complaining, and one time when accused of breaking a vase she didn't break—begging for forgiveness instead of arguing.
She felt these little sacrifices cost her more than bigger ones, because they went unrecognized by others. Her philosophy was: "What matters in life is not great deeds but great love." And today her "Little Way" continues to resonate as we try to find holiness in our ordinary lives.
On those days when I'm feeling not-so-saintly [so daily], I need to remember that God provided me the path of holiness where he thought I had the best chance for success: the path of a wife and mother. Then, he paved it with runny noses, late-night coughs, practice spelling tests, Lego organizing sessions, trips to the grocery store, carpools, and a whole host of other *little* tasks he knew I could take on—hopefully with great love.
"May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be." —St. Thérèse
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Feds pledge to improve protection of sacred sites
Protection of sites held sacred by American Indians and Alaska Natives will be bolstered under a memorandum of understanding signed Thursday by four federal agencies and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation.
The memo signed by the departments of Agriculture, Defense, Energy and Interior also calls for improving tribal access to sites that are on federal land.
"We have a special, shared responsibility to respect and foster American Indian and Alaska Native cultural and religious heritage, and today's agreement recognizes that important role," Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said in a statement.
The agencies plan to work during the next five years to raise awareness about sacred sites. That includes developing a website, a training program for federal employees and guidance for managing sacred sites.
The agreement comes just weeks after thieves made off with rock carvings from a sacred site in California's Sierra Nevada. The site on the Volcanic Tableland north of Bishop, Calif., was what land managers called one of the most significant rock art sites in the region. The local Paiute tribe uses the site for ceremonies.
Tribal leaders have said they're appalled at what happened to the petroglyphs, and the Bureau of Land Management is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible.
Officials at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Forest Service also announced Thursday the findings of a report on sacred sites. It includes a list of recommendations for working more closely with tribes in the protection, interpretation and access to such sites.
"American Indian and Alaska Native values and culture have made our nation rich in spirit and deserve to be honored and respected," Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a statement.
The report is the culmination of dozens of meetings with tribal members and agency employee surveys. It recommends training Forest Service workers on tribal history, law and culture. It also suggests promoting cooperative agreements with tribal police to enforce the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act and other cultural laws.


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Selena Gomez mom is pregnant. Yesterday she announced the news on twitter:" Momma and Brian are finally letting me share the news...My mommy's carrying my baby brother or sister:)," Selena wrote. "I'm the happiest girl in the world!!"
Selena Gomez's moms pregnant!
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More than a week after Apple introduced iPhone 2.0 beta software with Exchange e-mail and powerful security tools, there are lingering questions over whether it can gain wide acceptance inside corporations for mission critical needs.
An IT official at a major US bank Friday said that the case for iPhone 2.0 internal deployment looks "less optimistic" than when the announcement was first made on March 6. That comment came after the bank's IT officials got a thorough review of the 2.0 beta from Apple officials earlier this week, partly to see if federal security requirements imposed on banks can be satisfied, said the official, who asked not be named, citing bank policies.
The bank's review of 2.0 software is not complete, and the official would not elaborate.
Industry analysts agreed that iPhone 2.0 is filled with important features needed by corporate users. But some corporations, such as financial services firms and hospitals, have more demanding requirements, including US federal rules for protecting data.
At its announcement, Apple said Nike and Walt Disney, among others, would be adding more iPhone users with the 2.0 release in late June. But the announced users, so far, do not face some of the tight regulatory scrutiny of banks particularly, some analysts said.
"I'd call it [iPhone 2.0] enterprise lite," said one of those analysts, Nathan Dyer of Yankee Group in the US, during a conference call with reporters and IT managers. "In financial and health care sectors, you're not going to see a huge uptick. It's certainly not for everyone."
Clearly, some analysts disagree, including Michael Gartenberg at Jupiter Research, who said that when the CEO of a company buys an iPhone and wants to use it at work, "it becomes a defacto enterprise business tool." He added that the security in the iPhone "is certainly going to be good enough for most enterprises."
Apple officials would not respond to queries on this topic, referring a reporter to a Webcast of the iPhone 2.0 announcement.
The announcement includes many important security features, but there might be some small gaps that would pose problems for the toughest customers, some analysts said. Included with Exchange ActiveSync will be the ability to remotely wipe data off an iPhone that is lost or stolen. A Cisco Systems IPsec VPN also will provide encrypted access to private corporate networks.
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This system has already dropped snow across parts of Colorado and Kansas and a few of those snowflakes could mix in across parts of Northwest Arkansas by early Friday morning. One Arkansan we spoke with put it quite simply, "You might think of it there, but, you don't think of it here in May. I mean school's almost out."
The rain could change to a wet snow late Thursday night into early Friday morning as temperatures fall into the 30s. Little if any snow accumulation is expected at this time. Mainly less than an inch in the grassy areas if it does accumulate.
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"As for Frank Mir, he wants to get back in the title picture, and if I know him, he was the first man to knock Nogueira out at UFC 92, and now he'll want to be the first man to make him tap out."
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• A version of this post ran on the author's blog, centralamericanpolitics.blogspot.com. The views expressed are the author's own.
On Sunday, I wrote about the temporary halt of some US aid to Honduras. The suspension of aid was brought on by alleged connections between the current national police chief, Juan Carlos Bonilla, and death squads that operated about a decade ago. The US is going to step back and sort things out.
RAJ at Honduras Politics and Culture asks really important questions about where exactly the US is going to be holding back aid. The US said that it is suspending aid to those personnel and units who are not directly supervised by Bonilla.
Direct supervision" is the operative phrase here, since Bonilla, as national police chief, is the commander of all the Honduran police. Does it really matter if there is an interposed subordinate officer between him and the units the US is still funding? Or is the significant difference here that the US will still fund US trained, guided, and advised units which, while technically part of the Honduran police forces, would be expected not to follow orders from the national police chief?
Only those elements of the national police that the chief of the national police does not oversee? That's not very comforting. Given the evidence available, Tigre looks like it might be the unit cut from US assistance.
Greg Weeks at Two Weeks Notice has more on the role of a human rights agenda in US foreign policy. Given what the US cares about in Honduras, concerns about drug trafficking should trump human rights concerns. However, in this case, aid is being suspended because the chief of police might have been involved in extrajudicial killings years ago. Aid is not being suspended because Bonilla was involved in drug trafficking, was corrupt, or incompetent in carrying out his duties. Those might all be there case, but for now, they are not.
A few more things about the story. I don't think that the letter from US and Honduran academics and members of the US Congress caused the State Department to do something that it didn't want to do. I wouldn't go so far as to say that it's just a coincidence, but there's got to be more to the story, obviously, than what we already know. For example, what the State Department did isn't exactly what the letter writers asked them to do. (Here's the letter.)
We call upon you to cut off your support (logistical, financial, and training) to the forces of disorder that are also the most violent institutions in our society, and to put an end to your occupation of our territory for military purposes without consulting the people of Honduras. Any subsequent reestablishment of your aid should depend on the verification of progress made by the recently established National Commission for the cleaning up [of the police], and the re-establishment of US bases should have the support of the citizenry, determined through the ballot box. But US appeasement and support of the violent agents of a rogue state have destroyed our fledgling democracy, brought us greater insecurity and a human rights catastrophe. Investment in the depressed economy will do much more for our mutual goals than these counterproductive expenditures. We call upon you to allow us as Hondurans to seek our own solutions to our problems in order to progress toward building a peaceful coexistence. Only with sovereignty can we work toward the refounding of Honduras as democratic nation that respects rights. And US policy should not continue to be an obstacle to that goal. History will see the emperor without his clothes on.
Remind you, this is after blaming the US for just about everything that has gone wrong in Honduras since the 2009 coup. The letter talks about US responsibility "in part" but that's not really the tone of the letter. The US is directly and indirectly to blame for just about everything that is wrong in Honduras today. The US is asked to suspend all aid. It is asked to stop occupying Honduras (Occupying? Seriously?). And then, the US should only be allowed to re-establish bases once Hondurans allow them to do so "through the ballot box" which I take to mean not through their elected representatives (I know, today's leaders weren't really elected in free and fair elections nor do they really represent the people of Honduras) but through a separate referendum.
Here's the other quote from the letter that I found interesting.
Combating drug trafficking is not a legitimate justification for the US to fund and train security forces that usurp democratic governments and violently repress our people. Everyone here in Honduras, including the staffers of your DEA offices in Tegucigalpa, know exactly who the drug traffickers are and where to find them.
I've seen the first sentence quoted in a few places but it's the second one that interests me. I'm sure that everyone thinks that they know who the drug traffickers are and where to find them. However, that's not the same as knows. And even if the US knows who the traffickers are (even that's not very convincing to me), they are going to need some evidence on which to act. And even if they do have evidence on which to act, it's not really clear that the US has many reliable partners in Honduras with whom it can act.
--- Mike Allison is an associate professor in the Political Science Department and a member of the Latin American and Women's Studies Department at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania. You can follow his Central American Politics blog here.


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Tuesday, December 07, 2010
If you like Mahler - and who doesn't? - try this
Malcolm Arnold's music was heavily influenced by his time as a trumpeter with the London Philharmonic Orchestra in the 1940s when he played in pioneering performances of Mahler's symphonies. If you like Mahler but do not know Arnold's symphonies his Fifth, with its mighty Mahlerian adagio second movement, is a very good place to start.
My love of Malcolm Arnold's music dates back to the composer's own recordings on Lyrita LPs. But in the 1990s chance brought me to live near to Sir Malcolm here in rural Norfolk, and that led me to editing the composer's personal website for the last years before his death in 2006. Those final years were not easy for the composer or for his tireless carer and champion Anthony Day. The bardo like nature of that period is presaged in Sir Malcolm's Ninth Symphony, written in Norfolk in 1986, with its haunting twenty-three minute concluding slow movement.
The Ninth Symphony is dedicated to Anthony Day and my 2005 post about it was written with his collabaration. It was an extraordinary experience sitting in the house in Attleborough where Sir Malcolm and his carer lived discussing one of contemporary music's most enigmatic works. The composer remained totally silent and expressionless in the room as I talked with Anthony Day. But how could his silent presence be ignored as we pondered over the enigma of that last symphony?
Malcolm Arnold's Fifth Symphony was composed twenty-five years before the sparse Ninth, but already there is a sense of approaching darkness. Mahler's presence is felt not only in the central adagio but also in the juxtaposition of the banal and the profound in the surrounding movements. But whereas the angst of Mahler's Fifth is resolved in a rousing rondo finale, Arnold's Fifth sinks further into darkness in the closing bars as tubular bells toll against a minor chord in the cellos and basses.
Gustav Mahler famously predicted "My time will come", but it did not happen in his lifetime. Let us hope that Sir Malcolm, whatever his present reincarnation, does not have too long to wait before his music receives the recognition it so deserves.
* What is it about fifth symphonies?
** Header image shows Richard Hickox's recording of Malcolm Arnold's Fifth Symphony with the London Symphony Orchestra on Chandos. It comes in ravishing sound captured in All Saint's Church, Tooting. A fine EMI recording of the Fifth with Malcolm Arnold conducting the CBSO coupled with Charles Groves conducting the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in Arnold's Second Symphony is now deleted.
*** Music trivia - Sir Malcom is celebrated for his brilliant film scores, among them the 1958 Inn of the Fifth Happiness which starred Ingrid Bergman. A gold statue of Buddha used in the film is now at the Italianate village of Portmeirion in North Wales.
Chandos' recording of Sir Malcolm Arnold's Fifth and Sixth Symphonies was bought at retail. Report broken links, missing images and errors to - overgrownpath at hotmail dot co dot uk Also on Facebook and Twitter.
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- Pliable said...
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I never liked Mahler.
When I was a teenager I heard his music for the first time. I didn' t like it. I liked renaissance music, baroque, the great classical composers, only partly 19th century, and most of all Stravinsky, Berio, etc. Beside – later – pop & jazz.
Later I kept having the same appreciation. Mahler: who understands that music? You just run away from it.
And now, after so many books about his " World famous" wife ( ie a bitch) I understand why. The poor Mahler guy….
See amongst other books: the best
There' s also a EN translation. Or it was written in EN. I don't know.
Ok, this was about the old Bagehot ( The Economist ) trich " simplify & exaggerate". However it's true.
- 5:19 pm
- Pliable said...
A regular reader has emailed the following:
That's bugging me- the headline to your last post. I'm sure that's from dialogue in a movie but i can't place it. I remeber seeing a scene in some movie where a girl asks the star "Do you like Mahler? and he replies "Yeah, who doesn't?" Maybe not.
I'm not aware of that quote from a movie. In fact my headline was inspired by the Amazon 'if you like this you'll like that' meme. But that's not to say it did not appear in a film. Can any readers help?
This headline has provoked more discussion than any other. There was quite a bit of agonising before it was posted about the correct punctuation for when a rhetorical question appears in the middle of a sentence, as it does in that headline. The punctuation actually used is not mine, it comes from a friend whose grammatical and musical knowledge I am quite happy to defer to.
- 9:32 pm
- Seymour said...
Hello, there is a film called "Aimez-vous Brahms?" (Do You Like Brahms?), the English title was Goodbye Again (1961)
ps: I LOVE MAHLER :)
- 10:28 pm
- Halldor said...
When I saw the headline, I assumed it was a paraphrase of that line from Willy Russell's "Educating Rita": "Wouldn't you simply DIE without Mahler?!"
Originally intended as a satirical comment on precious, emotionally incontinent wallowing in a then (1980) fashionably "difficult" composer, it seems - this year - to have become the default critical position on this overplayed composer.
- 12:12 pm
- Pliable said...
'...it seems - this year - to have become the default critical position on this overplayed composer'.
Interesting comment, let me explain. The first version of this post was written some weeks ago when BBC Radio 3's Mahler fest was at its peak, and that original version started with these words:
"Here in the UK we currently have wall to wall Mahler to the detriment of many other fine composers."
Before uploading I decided that it was better to let the Malcolm Arnold advocacy speak for itself and the opening was axed. Which I am not sure was the right decision.
- 2:52 pm
- Nick said...
Sorry to be a pedant - the Arnold conducted version of the 5th is with the CBSO (originally coupled on the LP with the Cornish Dances and the Peterloo Overture)and Groves conducts the BSO in the 2nd (originally coupled with the English Dances as I recall. Arnold's own recording of the 2nd was in pick-up session with the LPO. But in essence you are quite right the 5th is wonderful but the 9th is a masterpiece as yet unacknowledged generally.
- 8:38 pm
- Pliable said...
Nick, no pedantry at all. I had my wires crossed in that section and many thanks for straightening them out. No excuse as I had the EMI LP in front of me as I typed - it has one of those awful HMV Greensleeve cover designs. But the error has now been corrected in the post and I am grateful to you for pointing it out.
- 8:48 pm
- Bodie said...
Arnold's 5th may descend from Mahler, but, having just listened to his 1st, I believe it descends from Berlioz. Thoughts?
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I am a 9th grader, who stopped homeschooling at the end of 8th grade (I started in 4th), because of the antisocial aspect of it. Now, the high school I am at has very high ratings; one of the highest in the county, in fact. However, and I mean no offense to any public school teachers...a lot of people that went to public middle school are stupid. Just plain and simple, stupid.
It's not even that I'm taking easy classes. It's that public schools teach for the standardized test, not for the sake of learning. When I was homeschooled, besides learning what I had to learn, I would go out and research and study subjects that interested me. I began to teach myself Latin, and got very involved with the programming/computer science community in my area. In fact, one of the few good parts of my school is my AP Computer Science teacher, who believes as I do: that the policy of "if it's not needed on the test, the school system doesn't include it in the curriculum" is ridiculous. My Latin class, however, is just full of obnoxious upperclassmen who take the language to get better scores on the SAT. Those are my criticisms of public school.
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Thing is, you can get the good studying in at home AND have the social activities after school hours. My siblings have been active in Civil Air Patrol, swim team, Tae Kwon Do, assorted conventions (mostly gaming and anime), etc. School is for studying, and if it's not doing a good job with that, then there's not much point to going. You can get better-quality social interaction elsewhere.
EDIT: The exception would be if you're a type-A personality and really enjoy beating others in academics. In that instance, school may provide more motivation, assuming the teachers are halfway decent.
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Integral Theory and Spiral Dynamics are effective tools that are being used around the world to understand the complexity of human behavior and to develop integrated solutions to social change and conflict. During this workshop, we will explore how these frameworks can be used practically in everyday life and our various fields of engagement (work, relationships, etc.).
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Received this photo of Longrow Boys FC (Under 8s perhaps) today to scan and share on the forum.
Can you name the players?
kbm wrote:Back row maybe neil hutchinson front row reminds of kb but he wouldn't be playing for Longrow! Would he?
Sheik Yir Erse wrote:Is that the Boo holding the ball?
Sheik Yir Erse wrote:Is back row, far right Robert Sharp?
Rabmacd wrote:Sheik Yir Erse wrote:Is that the Boo holding the ball?
Yip----they always stick the worst players in the goal
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Are prepaid cards and teens a trustworthy mix?
- Prepaid cards are largely an unregulated product
- Beware of fees with prepaid cards
- It pay to comparison shop when looking for prepaid cards
The most dangerous part about handing a teen a prepaid card, say something like the plastic promoted by Justin Bieber, is that the young consumer could unwittingly end up unlocking a slew of hidden fees.
Do you imagine that a teen is going to carefully study a fee list to avoid $15 or $20 in fees in a month? How did it go when you taught a teen to separate whites from colors when doing the laundry? Did you suddenly see pink?
Parents could be seeing red if they think it's safe to just pick up any prepaid card for a student, as a way to avoid the overdraft fees of a regular checking account.
Justin Bieber is giving lessons now on money management and talking about budgeting in a commercial for the SpendSmart Prepaid MasterCard. But never say never when it comes to the risks of going broke on little-discussed fees.
The good news is that the prepaid card field is growing, so there are far more ways to comparison shop if you're willing to read the fine print and fee schedules. Yet, this remains a product that is mostly unregulated at the federal level. The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is reviewing public comments and could issue rules in the future.
"Paying more upfront doesn't guarantee that you're not going to get nickel-and-dimed on other transactions," said Greg McBride, senior financial analyst for Bankrate.com.
Prepaid cards are being marketed to the unbanked, the underbanked and quite simply those who don't like dealing with banks. Walmart, for example, recently advertised its Walmart MoneyCard in circulars as a way to "Save on your overdraft fees." That card has a $3 issuance fee, and other fees apply, too.
Some prepaid cards have upfront fees from $2.99 to $14.95 to activate the card. But many cards won't charge such fees if you get the card online. In some cases, you may have to load a minimum of $20 or so to activate the card.
Fifteen of the 24 most widely issued prepaid cards charge a fee ranging from $3 to $9.95 each month, according to a study released Monday by Bankrate.com. The Bieber-backed SpendSmart card was not part of that survey, but it has a $3.95 monthly fee.
Some cards — including the Bluebird by American Express and Walmart and H&R Block Emerald Prepaid MasterCard — have no monthly fees.
For a younger consumer, the real fees could add up quickly with some services. As a parent, I opened a prepaid card that my son could use only with his e-reader. I found a card without monthly fees, but my teen is not going to be heading to the ATM or using the card in other ways. So far, our experience is limited, and I've only put $20 on the card.
Before selecting any card, though, consider how it would be used. Will the teen want to get cash at an ATM? There could very well be a fee for that. Every prepaid card in the Bankrate.com survey will charge a fee to withdraw money from another institution's ATM; that fee ranges from $1.50 to $2.75 a pop. The Bieber-promoted SpendSmart card charges an ATM withdrawal fee of $1.50 at domestic ATMs; plus other third-party fees could apply from other ATM operators for any type of transaction, including balance inquiry, even if you do not complete a withdrawal.
Several national and regional banks — including Chase, PNC and Comerica Bank — now offer prepaid cards. The banks often charge monthly fees, but many have no fees if you use the issuer's ATM to withdraw money. Depending on how you use the card, the monthly fee could be worthwhile if you avoid other fees, like an ATM fee, McBride said.
Here's a fee that could eat up cash quickly: Will your son or daughter use that card maybe once and then let it sit around unused month after month? Inactivity fees are charged by 29% of the cards surveyed by Bankrate.com. Typically, the monthly fee ranges from $1.95 to $5.95 and may be triggered if at least 90 days have gone by without activity.
Where the SpendSmart fees could add up: There's a $3-a-month fee after 30 days of inactivity. But the inactivity fee is not assessed for the first two months regardless of activity.
And will your teen watch the balance on the card? Or listen when you point out the fees that could be associated with that one?
Many cards will charge a fee if the card is declined for insufficient funds, too.
Five cards in the Bankrate.com survey charge a declined-transaction fee ranging from 25 cents to $1.95 for each declined transaction. Four charged only for transactions that are declined at an ATM; their fees are either $1 or $2.
Sure, sure, fees on prepaid cards are avoidable, if you pay attention to the rules. Remember, though, overdraft fees — and pink socks — can be avoided, too. The question remains: Will your teen handle that prepaid card more carefully than the laundry?
What fees do you need to consider with prepaid cards?
• Before picking up a prepaid card, read the fine print either online or on the card's packaging. Will there be a fee to load money onto the card?
• The Bankrate.com survey of 24 widely issued prepaid cards indicated that most of those prepaid cards do not charge a fee for PIN-based point-of-sale transactions. But two cards in that survey do not allow for PIN-based point-of-sale transactions. Five cards charge a fee for PIN transactions that can range from 49 cents to $2 a pop.
• If you're considering a prepaid card, pay attention to any fees for calling customer service, paying bills, getting a paper statement, extra fees for ATM balance inquiries or even a fee for not using the card for a month or more.
• If you have direct deposit onto a prepaid card, it may be possible to avoid a monthly fee. But often, there's a minimum required deposit.
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Every year, Accenture's design and innovation consultancy Fjord identifies the trends that will have the greatest impact on the role of digital services in the business world, with particular emphasis on consumer expectations and service design. The 2015 report predicts that successful organizations will form connections between services, devices and places, with an eye to minimizing the seams between them. Those that succeed will offer the most engaging and profitable value in the year ahead.
Fjord's trends for 2015 are:
1. Designing for seamless experiences between physical and digital channels and across devices.
Consumers toggle continually between devices and channels. It's in the spaces between them that the customer experience might be fragmented. The gaps between the physical and the online worlds are especially challenging for insurers. But users expect a consistent brand experience across all touch points, and therein lies the challenge for carriers.
2. Aggregation moves to services.
Aggregators like Google, Facebook and Spotify have increased customer expectations regarding ease of use and immediacy. Fjord predicts that others will follow their lead and start branching into different parts of their customers' lives, providing value in unexpected ways and places. For insurers, the trend will gain traction among customers when carriers combine most of their services into a single aggregated, connected and user-friendly offering that also includes the services of their ecosystem partners.
3. As advances in technology enable more natural human-machine interactions, insurers need to evolve their digital personalities.
The fast paced development of cognitive machine learning, combined with data analytics, is offering insurers many more options to radically humanize and personalize their customer interactions. USAA uses facial recognition as an authentication option for its customers. Fjord also recommends incorporating the brand personality into digital touchpoints. Allianz UK is doing this by partnering with the popular Mumsnet website, positioning itself as a carrier that understands and cares about the stresses of motherhood.
4. More physical actions and items will become data-driven services.
There are many examples of visionary startups that merge the physical and the digital. The Uber ride-sharing platform has enjoyed spectacular growth by combining cars and data within a radical business model. In insurance, a number of carriers are seeking authorization to employ drones for damage assessment in remote or hazardous locations. The concept of the "connected insurer" utilizes sensors attached to physical objects (including people) to obtain data that enables entirely new products and services. This is a trend which is set to revolutionize the insurance business.
5. The gateways to interacting with our surroundings are not only expanding, but standardizing.
The popularity of wearable devices is especially evident in the health and fitness sector. From vehicle telematics to in-home monitoring systems and autonomous manufacturing, the message is clear: we're moving toward a totally connected world. One result is likely to be that insurers will develop a "sixth sense" that anticipates what a customer might want, and will be able to act on it—using smart design and data mining—before the customer lifts a finger.
6. Businesses are creating points of action to equip their omni-channel with omni-colleagues who can take meaningful action for the customer.
There is a shift from robotic to personalized, in which businesses are finding ways to make their customer interactions more human and engaging. A great example is the ride-share program Lyft, which allows passengers to give feedback on their experience and dispute ride fares directly if their experience falls short of their expectations. In insurance, ING Life in Poland has created a sophisticated sales app that speeds up the application process, allowing agents to spend more time getting closer to their customers.
To find out more about the insurance implications of the trends that Fjord has identified, read Jean-Francois Gasc's series on the Accenture Insurance Blog.


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More registered investment advisors are adopting ETFs in client portfolios, according to a new Invesco study. The RIAs surveyed said ETFs will make up 24% of portfolio allocations over the next 12 months and 33% over the next three years.
"This year's study continues to show how RIAs are embracing the value of ETFs and the many ways they can be implemented in their clients' portfolios," said Bobby Brooks, national sales director for Invesco PowerShares. "But even as the equity markets have enjoyed a strong run year-to-date, RIAs are still indicating that risk management is a primary focus and they are looking to a variety of products, including alternative assets, to manage risk."
Invesco partnered with Cogent Research to conduct its second blinded study to learn what's top of mind for RIAs and their clients given current market conditions.
RIAs continue to blend active and passive funds in a single portfolio, the study found, determining that 40% of RIAs create client portfolios using a blend of active investment vehicles and passive ETFs. Less than a quarter of RIAs utilize an exclusively all active management portfolio (24%) or an all-ETF/passive management portfolio (19%).
The surveyed RIAs cited risk management as a predominant philosophy in managing client assets (40%). The survey showed wealth preservation as the most important issue for clients, followed by mitigating risk.
Risk management investment strategies have not changed, however. The RIAs continue to mitigate risk in client portfolios by creating a blended asset allocation of active investments and passively managed ETFs (62%) and applying a more conservative asset allocation (56%).
Alternatives, emerging market equities and large-cap funds drawing more attention. Within actively managed mutual funds, RIAs are most likely to increase capital over the next 12 months in alternatives (46%), emerging market equities (43%) and U.S. large-cap funds (40%).
The RIA Market Research Study was conducted for Invesco by Cogent Research in late August and early September 2012. The study is based on a survey of RIAs around the country with an average of $478 million in investable client assets. Cogent Research is not affiliated with nor employed by Invesco.


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Cain knocked out, Giants roughed up by Bucs
Righty exits after liner hits arm; bullpen battered in seven-run fifth
SAN FRANCISCO -- It's just a statistical quirk, but it's a fitting one.
With Thursday's 10-5 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Giants allowed double-digit runs in back-to-back games for the third time this year. That hasn't occurred since 2008, which happens to be their last losing season.
Possessing a 56-71 record, the Giants appear destined to return to the sub-.500 realm. But that wasn't their primary concern.
The evening's most significant development for the Giants was Matt Cain's avoidance of an ugly injury. Cain was hit on the right forearm by a Gaby Sanchez line drive to begin the fourth inning but escaped with just a bruise, though he left the game immediately. X-rays of Cain's arm revealed no serious damage, though his status for his next scheduled start, Tuesday at Colorado, is questionable.
"We are fortunate, and he is fortunate," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. "That ball was smoked. But he's tough."
Before departing, Cain's recent sharpness deserted him. Having recorded a 2.25 ERA in his previous five starts and worked at least seven innings in each outing, Cain allowed three runs and seven hits. Pittsburgh opened the game with three consecutive hard-hit singles in his first nine pitches. He then surrendered second-inning homers to Garrett Jones and Jordy Mercer.
"I made some bad pitches with fastballs and they didn't miss them," Cain said.
The Giants briefly revived their 2012 brand of baseball. Trailing, 3-1, they pulled even in the fourth inning against All-Star left-hander Jeff Locke on Marco Scutaro's two-out, two-run single -- the kind of clutch hit he repeatedly delivered through the stretch drive and postseason.
Pittsburgh's big fifth quickly followed. The Pirates loaded the bases without a hit off Guillermo Moscoso, who struck leadoff batter Jose Tabata with a pitch before issuing a pair of walks.
"When the long [reliever] has trouble throwing strikes, that's a recipe for disaster," Bochy said.
In came Jose Mijares, who surrendered Pedro Alvarez's two-run double and Tabata's three-run double. Even the inning's first two outs produced runs -- sacrifice flies by Russell Martin and Sanchez.
Pinch-hitter Brandon Crawford's bases-loaded, two-run double off Jared Hughes with two outs in the eighth inning made the score a little less lopsided.
Jones spoke charitably of the Giants.
"They have good at-bats," he said. "They battle up there, don't chase pitches, just weren't biting on Jeff's pitches. It was good to get some big two-out RBIs and score a bunch of runs to relieve some pressure off our pitchers."
Anyone still wondering about the depth of the Giants' plunge from baseball's elite should consider this: In four home games against division-leading teams, San Francisco has been outscored 31-9.
Some intrigue remains in the Giants' season -- for instance, the left-field competition. Amid the backdrop of Andres Torres' strained left Achilles tendon that landed him on the 15-day disabled list, Bochy pledged to use left field as a proving ground for the team's younger outfielders, such as Roger Kieschnick, Francisco Peguero and Brett Pill, whose primary position is first base. Pill started Thursday in left and responded with a 3-for-4 performance.
Pill said that he feels "pretty comfortable" in left, where he started seven games for the Giants last year. He has worked extensively in the outfield during batting practice to sharpen his defensive technique.
"As for the routes, knowing where to position myself, that's obviously better," he said.
With right-hander Charlie Morton slated to start Friday for Pittsburgh, the left-handed-batting Kieschnick likely will receive the next turn in left field.


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As well, to watch a Bresson film, specifically for performances from actors (or "models", whatever your semantic preference), it would be hard to believe that those performances would be the same from a different director. The consistency in the performance styles throughout Bresson films strongly point to Bresson being the universal factor.


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