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We are proud to name our Michigan Lawyers Weekly's Class of 2013 "Women in the Law," women who have worked hard on behalf of their firms, their families and their communities across the state of Michigan.
They are changing the law and the legal profession. They are making a difference in their firms and communities. They are setting the example for determination and dedication for all lawyers.
These women have paved the way — and continue to do so — for others in their profession and in their communities. You may find our special section, with profiles on each of our honorees, by clicking here.
We are proud to honor them and feted them at a special luncheon Thursday, Sept. 26, at the Detroit Marriott Troy.
At our Women in the Law luncheon, we named U.S. District Judge Victoria A. Roberts as our "Woman of the Year."
Once again, congratulations to all the members of the Women in the Law Class of 2013:
- Jocelyn M. Benson, Wayne State University Law School, Detroit
- Mary Chartier-Mittendorf, Alane & Chartier PLC, Lansing
- Jennifer E. Consiglio, Butzel Long PC, Bloomfield Hills
- Pamela C. Enslen, Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone PLC, Kalamazoo
- Randi P. Glanz, Clark Hill PLC, Birmingham
- Ann T. Hollenbeck, Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP, Detroit
- Ellen Bartman Jannette, Plunkett Cooney PC, Bloomfield Hills
- Elizabeth C. Jolliffe, Your Benchmark Coach, Ann Arbor
- Stacey L. King, Garan Lucow Miller PC, Detroit
- Elizabeth A. LaCosse, LaCosse Law PC, Menominee
- Mary Jo Larson, Warner Norcross & Judd LLP, Southfield
- Leslee M. Lewis, Dickinson Wright PLLC, Grand Rapids
- Véronique Liem, Smith Haughey Rice & Roegge, Ann Arbor
- Elizabeth L. Luckenbach, Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss PC, Southfield
- Lisa Rycus Mikalonis, Sommers Schwartz PC, Southfield
- Markeisha J. Miner, University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, Detroit
- Lauretta K. Murphy, Miller, Johnson, Snell & Cummiskey PLC, Grand Rapids
- Kristen L. Pursley, The Dobrusin Law Firm PC, Pontiac
- Linda K. Rexer, Michigan State Bar Foundation, Lansing
- Beth M. Rivers, Pitt McGehee Palmer Rivers & Golden PC, Royal Oak
- Hon. Victoria A. Roberts, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan, Detroit
- April E.H. Sawhill, Varnum LLP, Grand Rapids
- Jean G. Schtokal, Foster Swift Collins & Smith PC, Lansing
- Elizabeth C. Thomson, Hertz Schram PC, Bloomfield Hills
- Lisa C. Walinske, ReDetroit East Community Law Center PLLC, Detroit


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For Immediate Release
Patricia Kiernan Johnson;
Joseph and Judy Liff-Barker (Nashville Opera), Elizabeth Eveillard (The Glimmerglass Festival),
Susan F. Morris (The Santa Fe Opera), William C. Morris (The Metropolitan Opera) and
Dr. George R. White (Opera Theater of Pittsburgh) to be Honored in New York in February
New York, NY—
OPERA America
, the national service organization for opera, is pleased to announce the recipients of the
2012 National Opera Trustee Recognition Award
. In its fifth year, this award honors outstanding trustees of U.S. opera companies for exemplary leadership, generosity and audience-building efforts on behalf of their respective opera companies.
The recipients of the 2012 National Opera Trustee Recognition Award are
Judy Liff-Barker
Nashville Opera
Elizabeth Eveillard
The Glimmerglass Festival
(Cooperstown, NY),
Susan F. Morris
The Santa Fe Opera
William C. Morris
The Metropolitan Opera
Dr. George R. White
Opera Theater of Pittsburgh
. Dr. White, who passed away on January 14, 2012, is being honored posthumously.
"We are delighted to be joined by
Bank of America
in celebrating the significant and enduring contributions of these devoted trustees," stated Marc A. Scorca, president and CEO of OPERA America. "The National Opera Trustee Recognition Award affords the entire opera community with the opportunity to salute and learn from those who have been so generous in their passion for the art form, vision and support of their opera companies."
Each year, OPERA America member companies are invited to nominate one of their trustees for this award. Honorees from each of the four OPERA America budget levels are chosen by an adjudication committee through a competitive selection process. Recognizing the combined monumental contributions to two of the country's largest opera companies, both Susan F. and William C. Morris, husband and wife, are being honored in the level 1 budget category.
The National Opera Trustee Recognition program is led by OPERA America Vice Chairman and Chairman-Elect Frayda B. Lindemann (New York, NY); committee members include Betty Eveillard* (New York, NY), Fred Good (Cincinnati, OH), Ruth Orth (Pensacola, FL) and Fillmore Wood (Corona del Mar, CA).
These honorees represent a significant range of accomplishments, generosity and a deep commitment to promoting opera in their communities. The following profiles illustrate just a few examples of their dedication.
Elizabeth Eveillard, The Glimmerglass Festival (Cooperstown, NY)
Betty Eveillard has devoted herself over the past decade to the successful governance of The Glimmerglass Festival. Mrs. Eveillard brought to Glimmerglass extensive experience as a member of corporate and college boards, as well as the background of her 30-year professional career in investment banking. Throughout her tenure, she has been a voice of balance and sensitivity as she assisted the board in making decisions which enabled Glimmerglass to remain true to its artistic mission, while considering fresh ideas in response to the financial climate, changes in audience behavior and initiatives and opportunities brought forth by new artistic and general directors. Mrs. Eveillard and her husband, Jean-Marie, understand the important philanthropic role of a board officer, contributing to the annual sponsorship of a production. As production sponsors, they provide generous personal encouragement to the talented artists involved in these productions. Mrs. Eveillard has also consistently served on committees for Glimmerglass' annual fundraising galas in New York City. Her warmth and personal enjoyment at these events — and her hard work at making them successful — are exemplary of her overarching generosity, spirit and love for Glimmerglass. Glimmerglass Vice Chair Patricia Kavanagh credits Mrs. Eveillard with inspiring model stewardship of the organization: "Everything Betty has done for Glimmerglass flows from her love of opera and specifically this organization. It has formed her leadership of the board and widened our circle of enthusiastic supporters. It's catching." Mrs. Eveillard is a graduate of Smith College and Harvard Business School.
Joseph and Judy Liff-Barker, Nashville Opera
The Judy Liff and Joe Barker Family have been involved with Nashville Opera for more than 20 years as donors, subscribers and also serving in volunteer leadership roles. Their transformational lead gift not only gave Nashville Opera a permanent home, but also a new revenue stream and community asset in the form of the Noah Liff Opera Center which includes theater-scale rehearsal space, costume shop and warm up rooms — all in one location. Their behind-the-scenes roles have been pivotal for the organization. The Liff-Barker family have worked tirelessly to raise five, six and seven-figure support for Nashville Opera. Most recently, the Liff-Barker family made a second generous gift to help the Capital Campaign come closer to its goal and receive a challenge grant from the Kresge Foundation. This donation and grant award is enabling Nashville Opera to make the final loan payment for the Noah Liff Opera Center in February 2012 and puts the Opera within $1 million of its $12 million endowment goal. In 2009, when the recession caused other donors to delay their pledge payments, the Liff-Barker family accelerated their gift payments to ensure Nashville Opera could make term loan payments. Zachary Liff, Judy's son, was instrumental in the development of the Young Lovers of Opera group and currently serves on the Nashville Opera board. Nashville Opera would not be where it is today without the Judy Liff and Joseph Barker family for their vision, generosity and commitment.
Susan F. Morris, The Santa Fe Opera
Susan F. Morris attended her first Santa Fe Opera performance as part of the Gala Opening Celebration for the company's 40th season in 1996. As a token of her admiration for the company's founder and general director, Mrs. Morris and her husband established the John Crosby Production Endowment Fund, which each season helps to underwrite one production. She became a member of the board of directors of The Santa Fe Opera in 1999 and was later elected vice president in 2001 and president in 2003, serving until 2011. During that time, she chaired the Building a Sound Future Campaign, providing the single largest gift to the $30 million multi-year campaign to improve rehearsal and patron facilities. Mrs. Morris was a hands-on president, bringing to the opera her extensive experience from the board of trustees of her alma mater, the Masters School and providing advice and support to Richard Gaddes, the company's second general director. She spearheaded the search for the company's third general director, identifying and then recruiting Charles MacKay for the position. In her leadership capacity, she participated in the strategic planning process undertaken by the board of directors in concert with Mr. MacKay. Mrs. Morris has advocated for the company with the Mayor and City Council, and also walked the halls of the state capitol to campaign on behalf of The Santa Fe Opera with state legislators. "The Morris's contributions to both institutions are immeasurable, and a lasting legacy to their passion and commitment to the operatic art form," observed Charles MacKay, general director, The Santa Fe Opera.
William C. Morris, The Metropolitan Opera
William C. Morris, the current chairman of the Metropolitan Opera's Executive Committee, recently completed eight years of exemplary service as the company's president and chief executive officer, a period of extraordinary artistic achievement and unparalleled fundraising success. Mr. Morris's association with the Met began in 1995, and since that time, his board roles have included advisory director, managing director and president and CEO. He has made remarkably generous unrestricted operating gifts each fiscal year, in addition to participating at the highest possible level in Met galas and special events. On top of his unrestricted gifts, Mr. Morris also underwrote a number of new productions and other special projects. Perhaps most importantly, he oversaw the long-range planning process that resulted in a $470 million Campaign for the Met, of which $320 million has been raised to date and to which he contributed generously. As a strong advocate for audience development, he has been a particularly keen supporter of General Manager Peter Gelb's Live in HD program of movie theater performance transmissions. Mr. Morris has also demonstrated his commitment to engaging new audiences through his support of the Agnes Varis and Karl Leichtman Rush Tickets program. He also contributed extra gifts to expand the Rush Tickets program to include weekend performances. Today, the Met's board is stronger, better informed, and more engaged than ever before, thanks to Mr. Morris' stewardship. He has helped the Met assume a leadership role in the larger cultural community with his financial acumen and bold support of the art form of opera.
Dr. George R. White, Opera Theater of Pittsburgh
Dr. George R. White, former Opera Theater of Pittsburgh board president and generous friend, had a deep and abiding love for opera and boundless energy in sharing his enthusiasm for the discipline with others. Thanks to his unyielding efforts and philanthropy, Pittsburgh was able to build up a great capacity for producing opera at much higher quality levels than would have been possible. His visionary leadership had been a primary force in Opera Theater's recent transformation into a summer festival. Dr. White viewed his greatest achievement as pursuing the vision and securing the funding for "The Pittsburgh Ring," Opera Theater's production of Wagner's complete Ring Cycle in the Jonathan Dove orchestration. Five years ago, Dr. White placed his reputation and financial support on the line to encourage Opera Theater and Pittsburgh Opera to establish an innovative collaboration. This resulted in a marketing and co-production partnership with Pittsburgh Opera to bring new and inventive productions to the Pittsburgh area. Dr. White encouraged Opera Theater to think more expansively about diversity, beyond casting, to include repertoire selection. As a result, Opera Theater produced an extraordinary series of operas that addressed the African-American experience in the U.S. and appealed to the African-American community. In the last several years, Dr. White encouraged Opera Theater to assemble cost-effective productions of both new and canonical works to encourage the company to ensure that opera will be relevant and economically viable in the 21st century. Dr. White had been a champion for opera in Pittsburgh and raised the artistic quality of the art form, and provided more opportunities for music lovers in Pittsburgh to enjoy opera. Dr. White died on January 14, 2012, at the age of 82.
OPERA America will pay tribute to these 2011 honorees and celebrate their remarkable achievements at a February dinner and reception in New York City.
OPERA America's commitment to recognizing excellence in governance is shared by its sister organization Opera.ca, the Canadian national association for opera. Opera.ca honors
Peter George
Manitoba Opera
as the 2011-2012 recipient of its National Opera Directors Recognition Program.
The National Opera Trustee Recognition Program is made possible by the generous support of
Bank of America
* Note: Reflecting that she was both a committee member and a nominee, Betty Eveillard did not participate in the discussion and selection of the recipient of the National Opera Trustee Recognition Award in her budget level.
Previous National Opera Trustee Recognition Program recipients:
Jane A. Robinson, Florida Grand Opera
Sally S. Levy, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
G. Whitney Smith, Fort Worth Opera
Betty W. Healey, Opera Birmingham
James T. Cody, Jr., The Dallas Opera
Beth Ingram, Lyric Opera of Kansas City
Richard Holland, Opera Omaha
C. Guy Rudisill, III, Piedmont Opera
Marc I. Stern, Los Angeles Opera
Jeffrey A. Evershed, Portland Opera
Fred and Eve Simon, Opera Omaha
Benjamin Keaton, Long Leaf Opera Company
Lynn Wyatt, Houston Grand Opera
Eleanor "Ellie" Caulkins, Opera Colorado
Jackie Lockwood, Dayton Opera
John I. (Jack) Riddle, PORTopera
For more information about OPERA America and its services,
OPERA America leads and serves the entire opera community, supporting the creation, presentation and enjoyment of opera.
Artistic services help opera companies and creative and performing artists to improve the quality of productions and increase the creation and presentation of North American works.
Information, technical, and administrative services to opera companies reflect the need for strengthened leadership among staff, trustees and volunteers.
Education, audience development and community services are designed to enhance all forms of opera appreciation.
Founded in 1970, OPERA America's worldwide membership network includes nearly 200 Company Members, 300 Associate and Business Members, 2,000 Individual Members and more than 16,000 subscribers to the association's electronic news service. In 2005, OPERA America relocated from Washington, D.C. to New York as the first step in creating the first-ever National Opera Center. With a wide range of artistic and administrative services in a purpose-built facility, the Opera Center is dedicated to increasing the level of excellence, creativity and effectiveness across the field.
OPERA America's long tradition of supporting and nurturing the creation and development of new works led to the formation of
The Opera Fund
, a growing endowment which allows OPERA America to make a direct impact on the ongoing creation and presentation of new opera and music-theater works. Since its inception, OPERA America has made grants of nearly $11 million to assist companies with the expenses associated with the creation and development of new works.

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MONTREAL - Welcome to the Chefs' Smackdown, where we pit chef vs. chef to make a dish according to a theme. We pick the ingredient, and the chefs cook up their versions in their restaurant kitchens. I taste both and choose a winner.
They can be sliced, puréed, marinated, encased in cream, frozen or simply left plain. Two Montreal pastry chefs take on the challenge of presenting Quebec strawberries at their best.
The Quebec strawberry season is in full swing, which means we're all in our kitchens making jam, pie, shortcake and ice cream. And when the strawberries are as good as they are this year, it might just be best to serve these sweet crimson babies topped with nothing more than sweetened whipped cream, ice cream or, for the sophisticates, a capful of kirsch.
Strawberries are available year-round in our supermarkets, but the local ones at peak season are smaller, redder, juicier and more flavourful. Compared to an in-season strawberry, the imported strawberry, with its lack of flavour, crisp texture and white centre, seems more apple than berry.
Predictable strawberry classics aside, I wondered what the pros were doing with their berries this summer. Sadly, not enough! Restaurant pastry chefs, wake up: It's time to drop the citrus, chocolate, caramel and pineapple in favour of Quebec strawberries, which are spilling off most every market counter from now until late August.
I did, however, find two chefs who are exploiting this berry to its fullest: Michelle Marek and Stéphanie Labelle. I placed the challenge to create the ultimate strawberry dessert to these two talented "pâtissières."
Here's what they came up with.
The competitors:
Michelle Marek: Pastry chef, Restaurant Laloux, 250 Pine Ave. E., 514-287-9127
Stéphanie Labelle: Pastry-chef/owner, Pâtisserie Rhubarbe, 5091 de Lanaudière, 514-903-3395
The buzz: These ladies are considered two of the best pastry chefs in the city. Labelle opened her jewel-box of a pâtisserie last November and has been receiving a steady stream of rave reviews for her modern take on pastry classics like lemon tart, mille-feuilles, Paris-Brest, rhubarb tart and sugar pie. Marek is a creative force who not only thinks up outside-the-box plated desserts, but also holds events like the Viennese-inspired "Kaffeeklatsch," where dozens of Montrealers crowded Laloux's dining room to enjoy Sachertorte, apple strudel and coffee earlier this year. In a city where excellent pastry chefs are as rare as Liberal ridings, it's great to have these two maintaining a high level while adding a creative twist to their sweets. No surprise: they are good friends.
The advantage: Labelle specializes in pastry-shop sweets, which means she must stay true to a dessert that can be carted away in a box. Marek, however, is a plated-dessert specialist, so she can sauté the strawberries, turn them into sorbet, serve them in a pretty glass or on a fancy plate. So for the greater variety of ways she can use strawberries, the advantage goes to Marek.
Marek: In a dessert she calls "Bohemian Rhapsody," Marek paired her strawberries with a granita made of hops (yes, the same flower clusters used to flavour beer), as well as a malt cream, caramelized rye bread crumbs, and wild mint flowers. The inspiration behind this combination was her Czechoslovakian mother, who used to tell Marek about picking strawberries in the countryside and afterwards enjoying a glass of beer and slices of rye bread sitting among the wild flowers. The flavour combination of Marek's dessert mix was chosen to evoke her mother's memories.
Labelle: Labelle's inspirations include Parisian pastry chef Pierre Hermé, whom Labelle worked for years ago. In true Hermé style, she took a classic cake, the "Fraisier," and added a twist, which in this case was pistachio cream instead of the usual vanilla. She also vetoed the classic pink marzipan topping in favour of piped whipped cream, strawberries and lemon balm leaves. Instead of the usual sponge cake, she used a Martha Stewart recipe for a cake with a buttermilk base.
The verdict: Both these desserts have many strong points, making it difficult to choose one over the other. The thought process and flavour profile of Marek's dessert is utterly unique. My only suggestion would be to sweeten the strawberries a bit to counteract the bitterness of the hops. As for Labelle, her cake is just so incredibly pretty, and the pistachio flavour is dreamy when paired with ripe strawberries. The only off note here is the complexity of her recipe. Only serious cake-makers need apply.
In the end I chose Marek's dessert, because when I sat in Laloux's pretty French-style dining room and tasted this blend of flavours, I was indeed transported to a different place, surrounded by wild berries, sipping cold beer and nibbling buttered brown bread. So, so summery....
The winning recipe:
Bohemian Rhapsody: Strawberries with Hops, Malt and Flowers
Serves 4
Hops granita:
3/4 cup and 1 tablespoon (200 mL) water
1/3 cup (75 mL) honey
¼ cup (50 mL) cascade hops (or other variety) *
Fresh lemon juice to taste
Mix water and honey in a small saucepan and bring to a boil. Turn off heat and add hops. Stir and let infuse for 1 ½ minutes. Strain into a freezer-safe container, add lemon juice to taste and freeze until hard (several hours or overnight). Grate with a fork until it is a mass of fluffy shavings. Reserve in the freezer.
Malt cream:
3/4 cup and 1 tablespoon (200 mL) whipping cream
4 teaspoons (20 mL) barley malt syrup *
1 tablespoon (15 mL) sugar
Heat cream, syrup and sugar until the sugar is dissolved. Let cool completely. Whip in a mixer with the whisk attachment to soft peaks. Place in the refrigerator.
Rye crumbs:
3 slices of dark rye bread, preferably sourdough, dried out completely
3 tablespoons (45 mL) sugar
1 tablespoon (15 mL) butter
Break the dried bread into small pieces and pulse chop in a food processor to make crumbs. In a sauté pan, melt butter with sugar until it begins to bubble and caramelize. Add crumbs and sauté until toasty and dark but not burnt, approximately 1 minute. Pour out onto a piece of parchment paper and let cool. Place in a food processor or spice grinder to reduce to a powder. Store in an air-tight container.
To serve:
1 pint fresh strawberries
Hull and quarter the strawberries and divide between four glasses or bowls. Add 2 tablespoons (30 mL) of granita on top of the berries. Spoon over a layer of the barley cream, and sprinkle about a spoonful of rye crumbs over top. Finish with fresh mint flowers (or any other small edible flowers) and serve.
Note: Leftover hops granita is perfect for summer drinks, especially shandies. Try it in a lemonade. Leftover malt cream can be served on fruit, or with a simple cake. If you are feeling decadent, use it to top a coffee, iced or hot.
Hops and barley malt syrup can be purchased at La Chope à Barrock, 4709 St. Dominique St., 514-282-9553.


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Rarely has a game reveled in its own crapulence the way that Total Overdose: A Gunslinger's Tale in Mexico does. Taking the concept of a stylish, violent third-person shooter to the height of hyperactive instability, Total Overdose is an all-out celebration of all things gun. Bullets fly with reckless abandon, bodies pile up to an almost alarming degree, and all the while you're pulling off the kinds of acrobatic maneuvers that would make Keanu Reeves say, "Woah." Of course, it's also all been done before. From playing Total Overdose, you get the feeling that the developers at Deadline Games had an awful lot of affection for the Grand Theft Auto and Max Payne games and that they may have watched one too many Robert Rodriguez movies late at night. That's because the main character plays just like Max Payne, the world around him operates just like the one in Grand Theft Auto, and the storyline plays out like a script Rodriguez might have written early in his career, before he knew what he was doing. Because it's made up of so many familiar parts, action game fans ought to be able to settle in and blast their ways through Total Overdose's relatively brief campaign with reasonable levels of enjoyment. Just be prepared for one extremely cheesy ride, and to sift through a few serious flaws as well.
The story of Total Overdose is cut from the kind of heavy-on-the-gunplay, light-on-the-drama cloth made famous in 1980s-era action films. Ramiro Cruz is an ex-convict and all-around screwup. His twin brother works for the DEA. Ramiro's twin is injured while working undercover, right as he's about to get in with some rather powerful drug lords down in Mexico. In a twist that plays like a vaquero movie version of the Anthony Hopkins/Chris Rock vehicle Bad Company, Ramiro is brought in to replace his brother so he can get in with the shady dealers. About a billion bullets, bodies, and busts later, you're dealing with crooked DEA agents, big-time drug deals, and a revenge plot about who really killed Ramiro's former-DEA-agent father. None of this means a thing, mind you. The plot here is merely a vehicle for you to get out and start shooting things. What little storyline exists here is largely turned irrelevant by the incredibly cheesy voice acting and writing, so there's no real opportunity to care about any of these people. But that suits the game just fine, since you'll be too busy killing everybody to bother caring about them.
What makes Total Overdose more than just another dull shoot-'em-up is the ludicrousness of its action. There isn't a kilo of realism to be found anywhere in this game...a fact flaunted at every opportunity by the insane acrobatic moves Ramiro can pull off for seemingly no reason other than because they're fun. Like Max Payne, Ramiro can shoot-dodge in bullet time while pumping tons of rounds into bad guys within a split second's time, all the while bouncing off walls and spinning around like a man possessed. These moves all play into a points rating that judges the different maneuvers you pull off and earns you points you'll need to complete missions. It's a neat system, but it's hindered by the most obnoxious aspect of the game, which (oddly enough) is the naming system for said moves. Moves are named the cheesiest things possible, like "Gringo loco!" and the oft-repeated "Spicy move!" In fact, you'll hear the words "spicy move" so often throughout the game that after a while a small piece of you will die inside every time it's uttered.
Thankfully, the basic shooting is reasonably satisfying. You're given plenty of different weapons with varying degrees of effectiveness. Fully automatic guns pump more rounds, but they also lack accuracy. Pistols are accurate, but they lack punch. Assault rifles tend to offer the best of both worlds. Rocket and grenade launchers? Well, you can imagine the level of destruction they inflict. If there's any complaint to be made here, it's that you often get the short shrift on ammo. There are upgrades you can earn throughout to give each gun type more available ammo. But even then, in a game this silly--where it's all about highly unrealistic action--you'd think the developer might have been a touch more generous with the ammunition. As it is, it's far too easy to run out of ammo for all guns very quickly, forcing you to constantly run around to pick up weapons off fallen enemies, which can be a risky affair in the middle of a firefight.
Ramiro can also earn a number of wacky special moves that border on comedic. Simply press a button and one of several select moves will occur, ranging from a kooky jumping spin move with dual Uzis blazing, to the appearance of an angry Mexican wrestler who will aid you by attacking any nearby enemies. Don't question it, because you'll absolutely despise this game if you try to put much thought into it. If you're willing to roll with the crazy Mexican wrestlers, the exploding piñatas, and the move called "El Mariachi," which straight-up gives you the Antonio Banderas-style "guns in the guitar cases" from the titular Robert Rodriguez film (though they should have called it "Desperado," since that's the actual film the move is from), Total Overdose can be a hysterical romp (though often unintentionally so).
Don't expect Total Overdose to be an especially challenging piece of work though, because it fails miserably in this regard. The enemy artificial intelligence borders on damaged. Bad guys will sometimes run around in circles, shooting at nothing in particular, or they'll get stuck in parts of the scenery. The only time they're at all hard is when there are just too many of them, and even then you can enact the game's "rewind" feature to just reverse time back a few seconds to avoid whatever bullet killed you a moment ago. Ramiro's special moves can also be abused to almost depressing levels. All it takes is one bout of El Mariachi to blow away just about any boss, without taking any damage yourself. Not that you need to cheat like this, since most bosses can be beaten just as easily with some nifty shoot dodging, but even still, exploits like this are prevalent throughout the game.
Total Overdose's Grand Theft Auto inspirations come from the vision of Mexico that the developer has created for you to play around in. The city you work in is largely open-ended, with plenty of pedestrians, ancillary traffic, buildings, and multiple locales, which unfortunately can't be jumped to without some load times. Additionally, these locations are also often difficult to find, since the in-game map is absolute garbage. As you wander around, you can look around for hidden bonuses and items, or you can just shoot the hell out of anyone who crosses your path. Unlike in GTA, though, there are really no consequences for your actions. Some cops might show up, but that's as far as it escalates, which effectively turns the process into a pretty dull affair. You get your missions by driving to icons located on the aforementioned terrible map, though it's at least good enough to denote the difference between a story mission and a side mission.
Side missions are mostly secondary and optional, though there are a few instances where you'll be required to do one or two side missions before the next story mission is available. Most of these are pretty simple "kill everyone in sight," checkpoint race, or "blow up a few burrito carts filled with cocaine" types of things, but they're fun enough for what they need to be. The story missions are longer and much more involved, often with multiple sections and plenty of heavy combat against drug runners, border patrol officers, and just about anyone else who might cross your path. The game is absolutely rife with save points, though, so you'll almost never find yourself having to repeat a lengthy section of the game. However, in the rare instance that you do, it's super-annoying.
There are also plenty of vehicles in the game, and they easily represent the least fun you'll have with any aspect of the gameplay. The cars handle in a very squirrelly manner, like the General Lee on a greased hockey rink or something. Fortunately, apart from the occasional checkpoint race, it's rare that you'll have to drive for more than a short distance. Often, cars are simply an optional means to an end, rather than a required piece of equipment for a mission. That's good, because if you had to drive for long bouts with these absolutely atrocious driving physics, you'd break the disc in half before you got anywhere near the end of the game.
Total Overdose certainly has style, but this isn't a particularly good-looking game. The character models are drab and blocky, and they don't animate as smoothly as they ought to. The rare exceptions are the style moves, but even they can be occasionally weird-looking. The cities are better-looking, and there are plenty of colorful set pieces decorating the background. However, the things going on in the background are frequently ugly. People dive out of the way of cars that aren't anywhere near them, cars will sometimes drive onto pieces of the scenery and get stuck there, and all manner of other little crazy glitches will go on--especially if you're involved in gunplay. The three versions of the game are all comparable, with only the PlayStation 2's lackluster frame rate setting it a notch or two lower than the rest. The PC game also does have a tendency to chug a bit, but it's marginal at most.
The game's sound manages to be both better and worse all at once. The voice acting, as mentioned before, is awful, though perhaps intentionally so. All the dialogue is terribly cheesy, and the actors ham it up to the nth degree. The credits list a number of Latino actors as playing the parts here, but most of them overdo the accents and slang so ludicrously that it all sounds forced and poorly stereotyped. However, the soundtrack is, in a word, tough. Featuring a smattering of songs from Latino rap group Delinquent Habits and Mexico City rap-metal group Molotov, the music complements the hard-edged tone of the game perfectly. What's more, a number of action sequences kick in with random bits of traditional flamenco guitars and upbeat mariachi tunes. Surprisingly, the jauntiness of these tracks sets a delightfully comedic contrast to the shooting, and it just plain works. The sound effects for the weapons, explosions, and whatnot are all effective enough, so you won't get any shortage of thunderous booms and bullet-riddled screams throughout the experience.
Total Overdose is one of those games that presents a conundrum. Most people shouldn't buy it, as it's far too short, too patently ridiculous, and too weak outside of its combat to be worth the money. Conversely, the game's utterly ludicrous nature makes for a fairly entertaining ride at times, and the shooting can be quite fun. Shooter fans on the hunt for something brainless and easy, but with lots of stylish gunplay, should certainly rent Total Overdose just to see how bananas the whole thing is. Those with slightly more-discerning tastes ought to just leave well enough alone and look elsewhere for their needs.


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We are now a dozen days away from the start of the 2013 Monster Energy FIM Motocross of Nations, which means twelve riders are left in our countdown of the Top 25 Team USA riders of all time. Today, we reach back into the thirteen-year winning streak by Team USA that redefined the motocross world in the eighties and up through the day the streak ended in 1994.
Mike Kiedrowski came out of practically nowhere to win the 1989 AMA 125 National Championship on a Honda Support bike with #762 as his Pro-Am number. But Kiedrowski, a late bloomer who hailed from Canyon Country, California, was not a shoo-in to be Team USA's 125cc rider at the Motocross des Nations that year, as Team USA's Roger DeCoster had made a habit of not necessarily choosing the 125 champ for the role. In fact, George Holland had been passed over the year before ('88) and Micky Dymond was passed over twice (1986-'87)—and both of those guys rode for DeCoster at Honda!
After riding for Team USA twice on a Honda CR125, Mike Kiedrowski (#1) got the call to ride the 500 in 1993 in Austria and helped deliver a thirteenth straight win.
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But things were different in 1989 due to the wrist injury suffered by Rick Johnson, the best rider on the planet at the time. Johnson first injured his wrist at the Gatorback National in March but appeared ready to make a comeback by midsummer. That led his teammate and newly crowned AMA Supercross Champion Jeff Stanton to ride a CR125 in the 125 Support class at the U.S. 250cc Grand Prix at Unadilla, signaling to DeCoster his willingness to take a supporting role to Johnson when the captain returned. But then RJ got hurt again, and suddenly DeCoster had to draft Kiedrowski on the 125 and Stanton on the 250, with the war horse Jeff Ward ready to go on the 500.
Neither Kiedrowski nor Stanton had ever been to the Motocross des Nations, set that year at the high-speed circuit at Gaildorf, Germany. Stanton came through with two resounding wins on the 250 while Wardy won a masterful first moto from Dave Thorpe, who was driven to avenge himself for his 1986 defeat to the Americans. Kiedrowski also proved to be clutch, finishing as top 125 in the first moto (tenth in the combined 500/125 field) and then second to Italy's Alessandro Puzar the second time out, but good for the 125 individual honors—not to mention a Team USA win, their ninth in a row.
Here's footage of the first moto, starring Ward in the lead role as the winner of the 500 class and the race outright over Dave Thorpe, with Kiedrowski winning the 125 class.Kiedrowski did not return to the team in 1990, the 125 gig going to Damon Bradshaw instead, rather than that year's eventual 125 National Champion, Guy Cooper. But Kiedrowski got his #1 plate back in 1991 on a Kawasaki, and with it another invite to race for Team USA. This time the race was in the sand of Valkenswaard, and while Kiedrowski did not have his best day—the then-very-young Belgian rider Stefan Everts topped both 125cc group results—he helped Team USA's Stanton and Kiedrowski extend America's streak to eleven.
In 1992, Kiedrowski, Stanton, and Bradshaw all made the regrettable decision not to attend the Motocross des Nations, which was being held all the way Down Under in Australia. It's a decision all three will likely now tell you they regret. Jeff Emig, Mike LaRocco, and Billy Liles all went instead, managed by Roy Janson in place of Roger DeCoster. The "B Team," as they were soon called (since none of them had been to the race before) upset the world again.
Kiedrowski was back in '93, this time on a 500, and the race was held in Schwanestadt, Austria. His teammates were Emig (125) and Jeremy McGrath (250). Again, the Americans were expected to lose—many thought it was Belgium's turn, or maybe the strong Italian team's—yet once again, Team USA came together for the overall. Kiedrowski won the first moto outright over Sweden's Jorgen Nilsson and Belgium's Marnicq Bervoets, then made a valiant charge at the end of the final moto to reach seventh place (and third 500) and help Team USA beat a very pissed-off Belgian team by one point. The streak was at thirteen years!
Of course, all good things end, and Team USA's streak would do just that in 1994 on the hills of Roggenburg, Switzerland. Once again, Kiedrowski was on the squad, this time on a Kawasaki KX250, teamed with Emig (125 Yamaha) and LaRocco (500). He did not have a good day. In fact, none of the Americans did, and the British team of Paul Malin, Kurt Nicoll, and Rob Herring ended the Americans' run before they could hit fourteen. The nearly complete race that ended Team USA's winning streak is here.
All told, Mike Kiedrowski's time with Team USA helped result in a 3-1 tally over the years. He rode two different brands in three different classes and proved valuable in all three wins. That's why he's #12 on on our list of Team USA's Top 25 riders of all time.
Kiedrowski was also a member of the first team to lose in thirteen years, the 1994 squad, along with Jeff Emig and Mike LaRocco.
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I know this is hard to answer since, to the extent that anyone does this, they likely don't do it consciously. In the spirit of Richard Wiseman and Quirkology I just wondered what were people's thoughts on it.
Please bear in mind that that's me in the picture, and if you down-vote this, that'll be a real person hurtin', not some abstract symbol.


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3/28/2014 | By Allen Kenney
REIT magazine: March/April 2014
The Empire State Building is the architectural marvel that defines the skyline of the world's most famous city, an iconic building that has been inextricably linked in popular culture to New York.
And now a REIT has the landmark property as the cornerstone of its Big Apple-centric portfolio.
Anthony E. Malkin led a consolidation of separately owned assets through a three-and-a-half-year process to form Empire State Realty Trust (NYSE: ESRT) and put the building and the rest of the company's office and retail assets throughout the New York metropolitan area into the hands of public ownership. The grinding process eventually culminated in an initial public offering in 2013 that netted more than $880 million. However, Malkin, the company's chairman, president and CEO, downplays the suggestion that the launch of the publicly traded REIT represents a personal victory.
"We are thrilled to have delivered the result for which thousands and thousands of investors voted overwhelmingly," Malkin says when asked if he ever considered ending the bid to go public. "There were many interesting turns in our process. The REIT path was really chosen initially and maintained after careful consideration of all alternatives, both before and during the process. Over a long period of time in which they could have changed their minds, our investors chose to become a REIT."
In an interview with REIT magazine, Malkin discussed his entrance into the real estate world, his vision for the company now that it has gone public and one of the Empire State Building's more notable visitors.
REIT: Your family has a well-known history in the real estate industry. Growing up, some people in that kind of situation can't wait to take part in the family business; others might hesitate to take that on. Which one were you?
ANTHONY E. MALKIN: While business was discussed around the dinner table and at family gatherings, real estate was not my first focus. I went into private equity out of college, so I definitely hesitated. Ours was a different sort of family business. While we had a significant interest in all our deals, our family business was a business of working on behalf of other investors.
It wasn't the same as just "joining up with one of the real estate families."
In the end, I did not join up with the family business until just after my grandfather died in 1988, which happened to be the great real estate downturn of 1989 through 1993. It was an interesting time—sort of birth by fire. I was more drafted than a destiny chosen by me, but I've had a good run while I've been here.
REIT: What is it that you find attractive about the real estate industry now?
MALKIN: I view real estate as an area of investing and one of the few left with information asymmetry, which creates opportunities for expert practitioners to add value uniquely. I think one of the interesting things as an expert practitioner in real estate is having the ability to do things differently because there is differentiation in the marketplace as far as who knows what and who can do what.
It's not a commodity, at least not the way we practice it. I find that to be the most attractive component of it.
REIT: Empire State Realty Trust went public last year, but getting the company to that point was a protracted process with some hurdles that had to be cleared along the way. At any point did you consider taking the company off that path? What kept you so steadfast in the belief that the firm was best off as a publicly traded REIT?
MALKIN: As Sam Zell has said—and I agree—public ownership of real estate is a fantastic format and a great opportunity for investors. Illiquid private ownership, frankly, has a lot of downsides and disadvantages for investors.
Remember that we were working on behalf of investors, even in our private business before we went public. There were many interesting turns in our process. The REIT path was really chosen initially and maintained after careful consideration of all alternatives, both before and during the process.
The key for us was listening to those thousands and thousands of investors who overwhelmingly in the end declared their desire to have a path to all of the options and benefits afforded by the REIT structure, including liquidity on an efficient public market. We worked very hard to deliver what investors wanted after listening to investors' own voices over a period of years. When confronted with a lot of different information, investors really became very informed not by just what we put out there, but from folks who had other views as to whether or not this deal should go forward. Investors overwhelmingly chose—and remained committed to—this public REIT course. We feel very good that we delivered it for them.
It was long. It was challenging. But we gave people what they wanted.
REIT: Your company specializes in both the office and retail sectors. Does the fact that Empire State Realty Trust isn't a pure-play make managing the business more difficult?
MALKIN: We're very straightforward: We're in one market with two asset types.
Our balance sheet is one of the lowest levered in the industry. We have tremendous built-in growth in bringing our assets to market. Our ownership structure is far simpler now than what we had when we were private.
We've been working with these assets for decades. To us, it could not be more straightforward. We have centralized management, which is a big difference from how we were before. We know our market intimately. To us, it's very simple and straightforward.
REIT: How do the retail and office sectors complement each other?
MALKIN: A great deal of the value that we create is in the retail of our office buildings. Remember our retail is not grocery-anchored centers in the suburbs; this is in the central business district, the bases of buildings or individual stores on main streets.
We think they're entirely complementary. One muscle exercises the other, so to speak.
REIT: Empire State Realty Trust is inextricably tied to one of the most iconic buildings in the world. From a brand standpoint, do you think the market as a whole has a firm grasp on the fact that the company is more than just one architectural wonder?
MALKIN: Let's be clear: We're not upset about having the world's most famous building and the international icon of the greatest city in the world as the trophy of our portfolio. There was a time when the Empire State Building was not under our control and, frankly, was not a well-regarded property. We're thrilled to have it as our centerpiece and we're thrilled to have the work that we are doing to turn it around recognized.
There are two markets out there. There are the capital markets where people determine whether or not they want to own our stock. Then there's the market on which we focus most, which is the market filled with tenants and brokers on whom we rely to do business. We know tenants and brokers are well aware that the greatest majority of our portfolio out there is not tied to the Empire State Building.
As far as investors are concerned, we're confident that people will figure us out a bit better with the passage of time. From the perspective of investors, it's understandable since we have spent so much of our time rebuilding the brand as well as the building itself that it should dominate the view. But tenants and brokers understand the rest of our properties and regularly put tenants in them and regularly sign leases in them.
When people get to know us better, I think the capital markets will broaden their understanding and comprehension of who we are and what we do.
REIT: The global financial crisis and ensuing economic downturn created concerns for the office sector that it has struggled to shake. Are you seeing any evidence that the cloud is lifting?
MALKIN: It's kind of a tale of two worlds. That may have some roots in some very broad trends out there, but we're in New York City, which is the international financial and creative center of the world.
We think our New York City market, frankly, is unique. We like our product, we like our market and we like our competitive position for our product within our market.
I'm really not in a position to comment on super-broad trends in office properties in other markets where we are not present, but I feel good about the trends and direction in office in Manhattan and the greater New York metropolitan area, and I like our position within it.
REIT: Within Empire State Realty's target market of the greater New York metropolitan area, are there any submarkets that stand out to you as intriguing candidates for expansion?
MALKIN: In general, a very broad view is that we feel very comfortable with our current presence, and we really look at the Manhattan market as the greatest opportunity for growth.
When we look at the greater New York market in general, the properties that we have outside of New York— both office and retail—we like very much. We like our position within those markets. They are consistent outperformers: best-in-class, midtown Manhattan-quality assets within those markets. They perform better because they are differentiated, and I think that differentiation limits the opportunity for expansion for us outside of Manhattan.
Within Manhattan, it's a giant market, and given our size and given our balance sheet, we don't have to do a lot to be transformational for our company. We want to deliver the internal growth that we've got, bringing our properties'occupancies and rents to market. As for the future, we only have to conclude a couple of transactions over a period of years to be very transformational to Empire State Realty Trust without needing to go into other markets in what might be marginal situations.
REIT: Looking ahead, what's the top objective for your company this year?
MALKIN: Empire State Realty's top goal for the next year and beyond is to complete the redevelopment of the Empire State Building and to complete the repositioning of our entire Manhattan portfolio, bringing our rents and occupancy to market. That's going to deliver material growth to our top and bottom lines.
Of course, we will continue to drive traffic and margin in our observatory operation at the Empire State Building. Beyond that, we will look for opportunities where they exist to apply our asymmetric knowledge and our unique skills as property redevelopers if opportunities present themselves.
But today the clear objective is to bring our rents and occupancy to market levels. We have spaces to develop at the Empire State Building. And we have demonstrated, we believe, the ability over time to do this. We intend to complete that work, and that's going to occupy our time for the foreseeable future.
REIT: If King Kong comes to you and wants to climb the Empire State Building again, what do you say?
MALKIN: Welcome back, Big Boy.


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That's interesting. The link works from the Flying Giant forum but it wont work here.
RCModelReviews wrote:Engineer wrote:There seems to be a miss understanding about how 2.4 works.
A channel is not limited to just one system at a time. There can be many system on the same channel at a time. How many? A channel channel is 1 MHZ wide. If we were operating on 72mhz rules, and had separation of frequencies of 10kc there would be 100 separate frequencies to operate on.
In the testing done by Cal Orr there seems to be a limit of 16 systems before the range starts to degrade. Thus we could have 16 x 40 = 640 Spectrum DSSS radios happily operating at one time.
What you're referring to is temporal density.
Because 2.4GHz systems don't transmit all the time (like the old MHz systems did), you can "share" a single part of the band with other transmitters.
In theory, if you timed it just right, a transmitter which each transmitted for just 5% of the time could co-exist with 19 other transmitters of the same type -- so long as no two tried transmitting simultaneously.
In the computer networking world the same thing happens. After all, how else could you get a dozen or so computers all sharing the same WiFi connection?
These systems use what's called carrier sense multiple access (CSMA) which means that before any transmitter sends a signal, it listens to make sure that the channel is free and not already in use. If it hears another transmitter using the band, it waits for a random length of time (a few mS) and then listens again.
Obviously, if you're dealing with non-realtime or soft-realtime data like a file-transfer between two computers then this isn't a problem. However, with RC model planes there would be a problem.
Imagine if your model is on the back-side of a loop, heading towards the ground and you need to give it up elevator at exactly the right time to avoid hitting the ground. The last thing you want/need is a transmitter that listens to the part of the band it's using and courteously waits for it to be free before sending your "up elevator" command to the model.
So RC systems generally don't use CSMA to control access to the band.
This means that we can never really achieve the theoretical maximum number of users on a single part of the band.
So, in the case of the Spektrum, it has only a very limited ability to share the same part of the band with other Spektrum RC systems. The more Spektrum radios that try to share the same part of the band, the more "collisions" occur because one or more radios transmit at the same time.
Because the Spektrum radios use the same spreading code, two Spektrums transmitting on the same frequency at the same time *will* interfere with each other. Unlike an FM radio, this interference won't produce a glitch -- it will simply result in a loss of the data. Lose enough data and the receiver goes into lockout/failsafe mode.
As a result, although "in theory" you might be able to have as many as 16 Spektrum systems all coexisting on the same part of the band, it simply doesn't work that way in practice.
I'm unaware of Cal Orr's comments but I suspect he's based them on the way that CSMA networks work -- and RC isn't a CSMA network -- it doesn't look before it transmits so even two Spektrum radios on the same channel may produce lockouts, if they try to send too many packets of data at exactly the same time.
Interestingly enough, a Spektrum and a Corona (or other-brand DSSS system) are far *less* likely to interfere with each other when using the same part of the band. This is because they use different spreading codes and therefore can (to some extent) actually both transmit at the same time without losing too much data.
Spread Spectrum is a different beast to FM and there are many details that need to be considered.
However, bearing all this in mind, in an RC context, FHSS (or to be more accurate - constantly agile DSSS) does offer more resilience and a far more progressive degradation when trying to deal with very noisy environments.
Engineer wrote:The receivers are synchronized to the transmitter during the binding process.
A PRN code is a long series of numbers that are repeated. Synchronizing them means getting them to start in the same position of the code. Two transmitters would never be in sync[...]
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For Release Worldwide: October 31, 2013
Release Number: 519PR13
Caterpillar is recognized for its innovative hydraulic hybrid technology, which dramatically increases fuel efficiency for the company's excavator equipment customers.
PEORIA, Ill. – Oct. 31, 2013 – Caterpillar Inc. today announced its new Cat® 336E H Hybrid Excavator was selected by a panel of judges to receive a 2013 Illinois Governor's Sustainability Award. The 336E H, the industry's first "hydraulic hybrid" machine, uniquely captures and reuses kinetic energy to help lower customers' owning and operating costs. Its sustainability-related benefits include lower fuel use, reduced exhaust emissions and a smaller carbon footprint—all without any compromise in production, reliability or operability in all applications. Caterpillar was presented the award by Illinois Governor Pat Quinn as part of the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center's (ISTC) sustainability award ceremony and technical symposium held on Oct. 29 in East Peoria, Ill.
In receiving its award, the Cat 336E H was recognized as an outstanding innovation in the application of technology that will help Caterpillar customers succeed by lowering their fuel usage and operating costs. It also helps customers meet their sustainability goals. Customers can expect the 336E H to use up to 25 percent less fuel per hour than the standard 336E and up to 50 percent less fuel per ton of material moved than a 336D in a wide variety of operating conditions—with no sacrifice in performance.
This is the first time that Caterpillar has nominated a Cat product for—and won—an Illinois Governor's Sustainability Award. "Being recognized to receive this award by ISTC, the judging panel and Governor Quinn, whose office makes the final award decisions, is a major achievement for our company," said Ken Gray, global product manager for large hydraulic excavators for Caterpillar's Excavation Division. "Caterpillar is deeply honored to win this prestigious 2013 Illinois Governor's Sustainability Award in recognition of our significant achievements in hydraulic hybrid technology. The technology dramatically reduces fuel usage and exhaust emissions to reduce our customers' carbon footprints, helping to protect and sustain our planet."
Hydraulic hybrid technology represents one of the most significant technical achievements in Caterpillar's history. In fact, more than 300 patents were filed on the new technologies incorporated in the 336E H. Yet, to achieve fuel savings its design is relatively straightforward, using three building block technologies: 1) the conservation of fuel with engine power management via the Cat Electronic Standardized Programmable (ESP) pump; 2) the optimization of performance using restriction management via the patented Cat Adaptive Control System (ACS) valve and 3) the reuse of energy via the hydraulic hybrid swing, which captures the excavator's upper structure swing brake energy in accumulators, and then releases the energy during swing acceleration.
The Cat 336E H was unveiled in October 2012, and is now being sold and serviced exclusively through the Cat dealer network. Caterpillar validated its fuel efficiency and productivity claims for the 336E H through comprehensive production studies in multiple applications with operators from all over the world. uming today's fuel prices and a high-production application, Caterpillar estimates customers will recover their incremental hybrid investment in as little as one year, with 18 months typical for most users.
In addition to this 2013 Illinois Governor's Sustainability Award, the 336E H has been honored in receiving a 2013 Silver Edison Award, Equipment World's 2013 Innovation Award, Utility Contractor 2012 Top Products and "Contractor's Top 50 New Products" award in the Earthmoving category by Equipment Today and ForConstructionPros.com. The 336E H has also been named a finalist for an International Construction Economic Forum (ICEF) Award for Construction Equipment Innovation and a Platts 2013 Global Energy Award, with the ultimate winner of both of those awards to be announced at conferences taking place later this year.
About Caterpillar
For more than 85 years, Caterpillar Inc. has been making sustainable progress possible and driving positive change on every continent. With 2012 sales and revenues of $65.875 billion, Caterpillar is the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. The company also is a leading services provider through Caterpillar Financial Services, Caterpillar Remanufacturing Services and Progress Rail Services. More information is available at: http://www.caterpillar.com.
About the Illinois Governor's Sustainability Award Program
Governor's Sustainability Awards are presented by the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (ISTC), which is a unit of the Prairie Research Institute at the University of Illinois. Since 1987, ISTC has presented Governor's awards to organizations in Illinois that have demonstrated a commitment to environmental excellence through outstanding and innovative sustainability practices that also save money and help the economy. Sustainable technology encompasses any technique or technology that reduces the amount of and/or toxicity of pollutants that would have otherwise been released into the environment. For more information about the ITSC and the Governor's Sustainability Award program, as well as a full list of this year's winners, visit http://www.istc.illinois.edu/info/govs_awards.cfm
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Note to Editors: Caterpillar rolls-out products and services in each of its territories at different time intervals. Although every effort is made to ensure that product information is released only after Caterpillar has received confirmation from our dealer network, our plants, and our marketing subsidiaries that products and services are available in the relevant region, editors are kindly requested to verify with their local dealer for product availability and specifications.
Caterpillar contact:
Barbara Cox
Global Government & Corporate Affairs
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Ephesians 2:11-22 New American Standard Bible (NASB)
11 Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called "Uncircumcision" by the so-called "Circumcision," which is performed in the flesh by human hands— 12 remember that you were at that time separate from Christ, [a]excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who formerly were far off [b]have been brought near [c]by the blood of Christ. 14 For He Himself is our peace, who made both groups into one and broke down the [d]barrier of the dividing wall, 15 [e]by abolishing in His flesh the enmity, which is the Law of commandments contained in ordinances, so that in Himself He might [f]make the two into one new man, thus establishing peace, 16 and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, [g]by it having put to death the enmity. 17 And He came and preached peace to you who were far away, and peace to those who were near; 18 for through Him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father. 19 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the [h]saints, and are of God's household, 20 having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone, 21 in whom the whole building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy [i]temple in the Lord, 22 in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit.
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Calico architecture
This document discusses the various pieces of Calico's architecture, with a focus on what specific role each component plays in the Calico network.
Calico is made up of the following interdependent components:
- Felix, the primary Calico agent that runs on each machine that hosts endpoints.
- The Orchestrator plugin, orchestrator-specific code that tightly integrates Calico into that orchestrator.
- etcd, the data store.
- BIRD, a BGP client that distributes routing information.
- BGP Route Reflector (BIRD), an optional BGP route reflector for higher scale.
The following sections break down each component in more detail.
Felix is a daemon that runs on every machine that provides endpoints: in most cases that means on nodes that host containers or VMs. It is responsible for programming routes and ACLs, and anything else required on the host, in order to provide the desired connectivity for the endpoints on that host.
Depending on the specific orchestrator environment, Felix is responsible for the following tasks:
Interface management
Felix programs some information about interfaces into the kernel in order to get the kernel to correctly handle the traffic emitted by that endpoint. In particular, it will ensure that the host responds to ARP requests from each workload with the MAC of the host, and will enable IP forwarding for interfaces that it manages.
It also monitors for interfaces to appear and disappear so that it can ensure that the programming for those interfaces is applied at the appropriate time.
Route programming
Felix is responsible for programming routes to the endpoints on its host into the Linux kernel FIB (Forwarding Information Base) . This ensures that packets destined for those endpoints that arrive on at the host are forwarded accordingly.
ACL programming
Felix is also responsible for programming ACLs into the Linux kernel. These ACLs are used to ensure that only valid traffic can be sent between endpoints, and ensure that endpoints are not capable of circumventing Calico's security measures.
State reporting
Felix is responsible for providing data about the health of the network. In particular, it reports errors and problems with configuring its host. This data is written into etcd, to make it visible to other components and operators of the network.
Orchestrator plugin
Unlike Felix there is no single 'orchestrator plugin': instead, there are separate plugins for each major cloud orchestration platform (e.g. OpenStack, Kubernetes). The purpose of these plugins is to bind Calico more tightly into the orchestrator, allowing users to manage the Calico network just as they'd manage network tools that were built into the orchestrator.
A good example of an orchestrator plugin is the Calico Neutron ML2 mechanism driver. This component integrates with Neutron's ML2 plugin, and allows users to configure the Calico network by making Neutron API calls. This provides seamless integration with Neutron.
The orchestrator plugin is responsible for the following tasks:
API translation
The orchestrator will inevitably have its own set of APIs for managing networks. The orchestrator plugin's primary job is to translate those APIs into Calico's data-model and then store it in Calico's datastore.
Some of this translation will be very simple, other bits may be more complex in order to render a single complex operation (e.g. live migration) into the series of simpler operations the rest of the Calico network expects.
If necessary, the orchestrator plugin will provide feedback from the Calico network into the orchestrator. Examples include: providing information about Felix liveness; marking certain endpoints as failed if network setup failed.
etcd is a distributed key-value store that has a focus on consistency. Calico uses etcd to provide the communication between components and as a consistent data store, which ensures Calico can always build an accurate network.
Depending on the orchestrator plugin, etcd may either be the master data store or a lightweight mirror of a separate data store. For example, in an OpenStack deployment, the OpenStack database is considered the "source of truth" and etcd is used to mirror information about the network to the other Calico components.
The etcd component is distributed across the entire deployment. It is divided into two groups of machines: the core cluster, and the proxies.
For small deployments, the core cluster can be an etcd cluster of one node (which would typically be co-located with the orchestrator plugin component). This deployment model is simple but provides no redundancy for etcd – in the case of etcd failure the orchstrator plugin would have to rebuild the database which, as noted for OpenStack, will simply require that the plugin resynchronizes state to etcd from the OpenStack database.
In larger deployments, the core cluster can be scaled up, as per the etcd admin guide.
Additionally, on each machine that hosts either a Felix or a plugin, we run an etcd proxy. This reduces the load on the core cluster and shields nodes from the specifics of the etcd cluster. In the case where the etcd cluster has a member on the same machine as a plugin, we can forgo the proxy on that machine.
etcd is responsible for performing the following tasks:
Data storage
etcd stores the data for the Calico network in a distributed, consistent, fault-tolerant manner (for cluster sizes of at least three etcd nodes). This set of properties ensures that the Calico network is always in a known-good state, while allowing for some number of the machines hosting etcd to fail or become unreachable.
This distributed storage of Calico data also improves the ability of the Calico components to read from the database (which is their most common operation), as they can distribute their reads around the cluster.
etcd is also used as a communication bus between components. We do this by having the non-etcd components watch certain points in the keyspace to ensure that they see any changes that have been made, allowing them to respond to those changes in a timely manner. This allows the act of committing the state to the database to cause that state to be programmed into the network.
BGP client (BIRD)
Calico deploys a BGP client on every node that also hosts a Felix. The role of the BGP client is to read routing state that Felix programs into the kernel and distribute it around the data center.
The BGP client is responsible for performing the following task:
Route distribution
When Felix inserts routes into the Linux kernel FIB, the BGP client will pick them up and distribute them to the other nodes in the deployment. This ensures that traffic is efficiently routed around the deployment.
BGP route reflector (BIRD)
For larger deployments, simple BGP can become a limiting factor because it requires every BGP client to be connected to every other BGP client in a mesh topology. This requires an increasing number of connections that rapidly become tricky to maintain, due to the N^2 nature of the increase.
For that reason, in larger deployments, Calico will deploy a BGP route reflector. This component, commonly used in the Internet, acts as a central point to which the BGP clients connect, preventing them from needing to talk to every single BGP client in the cluster.
For redundancy, multiple BGP route reflectors can be deployed seamlessly. The route reflectors are purely involved in the control of the network: no endpoint data passes through them.
In Calico, this BGP component is also most commonly BIRD, configured as a route reflector rather than as a standard BGP client.
The BGP route reflector is responsible for the following task:
Centralized route distribution
When the Calico BGP client advertises routes from its FIB to the route reflector, the route reflector advertises those routes out to the other nodes in the deployment.


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NEA honors legendary civil rights warrior Joseph Lowery
WASHINGTON - June 23, 2011 -
The Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Education Association (NEA) at its annual Human and Civil Rights Awards dinner to be held in Chicago on July 1.
"What a thrill it will be for me to give Rev. Lowery NEA's Lifetime Achievement Award," said NEA President Dennis Van Roekel. "At a time when educators' basic rights are under attack and our public schools are being starved for funds, we can learn much from Rev. Lowery about standing up for what you believe in, regardless of the consequences."
The Montgomery bus boycott, the Birmingham street protests, the historic "I have a dream" rally in Washington, D.C., the Selma march for voter rights, the Memphis sanitation workers strike, the first civil disobedience action against apartheid outside the South African embassy—Joseph Lowery was always there, a nonviolent warrior for equality and justice, a leader willing to go to jail for his beliefs.
Together with the Rev. Ralph Abernathy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Lowery founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and 51 years later, he was given the honor of offering the benediction at the inauguration of America's first Black president. In his blessing, he implored God to help Americans make choices "on the side of love, not hate, on the side of inclusion not exclusion."
Now retired from the pulpit, the civil rights activist served for years as the pastor of the Cascade United Methodist Church in Atlanta. He still lives in Atlanta, and he is still a force to be reckoned with as he advocates for better health care, housing and education for the poor.
It is fitting that NEA honors Joseph Lowery at its annual Human and Civil Rights Awards dinner. This event is the creation of the American Teachers Association (ATA), which represented 85,000 Black teachers who worked n segregated schools. Since its merger with ATA in 1966, NEA has carried on the tradition of the Human and Civil Rights Awards dinner. Like Lowery, the ATA stood up against segregation and the racism that spawned it.
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A seasoned human resources professional with more than 25 years of experience in the field has been named Director of Human Resources at Unity College.
Sarah Conroy began her role during the spring semester 2013. Conroy has human resource experience in organizations of various sizes, including HR director positions at Penobscot Bay Media and the State of Maine DAFS Corrections Service Center, HR consulting work with Gaudet Associates, and HR Analyst positions with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston University and the University of California. Her specialties include employee relations, compensation and benefits design and delivery, compliance, communications and strategic planning.
Conroy served as Maine Government Affairs Director for the Society for Human Resources Management from 2009-2012.
Conroy is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire and holds both the Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) and Certified Employee Benefits Specialist (CEBS) designations. Throughout her career, she has written broadly about HR issues and has delivered solutions across the HR spectrum.
In recent years Unity College has gained national attention for a variety of achievements including its focus on sustainability science, the leading-edge of 21st century ecological problem solving and the vanguard in the fight for the mitigation of global climate change; its ground-breaking "green" innovations such as the award-winning TerraHaus, the first student residence on a college or university campus built to the Passive House standard, the most energy efficient building standard in the world; and for being the first college in the United States to divest from investments in fossil fuels, igniting a growing national movement in higher education.
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Gregorius' big night fuels D-backs' 50th win
Didi homers in two-RBI game; Montero, Kubel also connect
PHOENIX -- Mired in a 4-for-26 slump entering Saturday night's contest, Didi Gregorius was starting to wonder what he needed to do to turn his fortunes around.
Turns out, all he needed were his good-luck charms.
Playing in front of a large contingent of family from his home island of Curacao for just the second time in his brief Major League career, Gregorius turned in an inspired performance, launching his first homer in more than a month, driving in a pair of runs and flashing some nifty glovework as the D-backs erased a three-run deficit to take down the Brewers, 5-4, at Chase Field.
"It's a dream come true," Gregorius said. "For me, it's amazing to see them, and for them to get to see me play in the Majors, it's just awesome."
Flown in from more than 4,000 miles away, Gregorius' parents, brother, nephew and girlfriend were in attendance Saturday. The only other time his family had seen him play in the big leagues came last September in Miami when he was with the Reds. Not surprisingly, Gregorius had another memorable night that game, batting 3-for-5 while recording his first MLB RBI.
"They're definitely coming to tomorrow's game," Gregorius said, laughing. "That's for sure."
Saturday's victory marked Arizona's 50th of the season and its sixth straight this year over the Brewers, who for the third day in a row outhit the D-backs and still lost. The Dodgers also won Saturday, so Arizona couldn't build on its 2 1/2-game lead in the division, but that didn't take away from Gregorius' big night.
Trailing by one in the seventh with the bases loaded after the two batters before him walked, the rookie drove a screamer through the right side of the infield off John Axford to tie the game at 4. The next batter, pinch-hitter Eric Chavez, drew a walk to bring in the winning run.
"I saw he was throwing a lot of balls," Gregorius said. "He was struggling with his command, so of course he was going to throw a fastball, and thankfully I got the hit."
One inning prior, Gregorius cut into the club's deficit by depositing a Kyle Lohse fastball into the right-field seats for his first long ball since May 27. Upon rounding the bases and touching home plate, Gregorius pointed at the stands to his family, who were all on their feet cheering.
"It was special," he said. "I am proud that we got a 'W' and we did it in front of my family."
Gregorius capped off his impressive game by flashing some leather in the ninth inning, ranging to his right toward third base, backhanding a grounder and throwing out Rickie Weeks at first.
"That's difficult," D-backs manager Kirk Gibson said. "He's got a good arm and he got just enough on it. You've watched him this year, you've seen what he can do. He makes it look routine, but it's not an easy play at all."
For his efforts, Gregorius was given the Player of the Game Award by his teammates, a new honor created by Martin Prado that comes with a child's plastic dinosaur hat.
"I don't know what it is, it's something on top of my head, but I'm proud to wear it," Gregorius said.
Aside from the young shortstop, Miguel Montero and Jason Kubel also provided a bit of power Saturday, each tallying solo homers off Lohse, who retired the first 14 batters he faced before allowing five runs on five hits over his final 1 2/3 innings of work.
"I had good stuff going, it's just that mistakes were made and hit out of the park, and after that I couldn't control," Lohse said. "You make mistakes and you pay for it. They're big league hitters. You fall behind and make the wrong pitch, they're going to hit it hard and sometimes it goes out."
Making his sixth start since joining the rotation, D-backs right-hander Randall Delgado pitched well again, but received some shaky defense behind him. The Brewers jumped on the board first in the second inning after Aaron Hill was unable to snag a low line drive off the bat of Jeff Bianchi. Then in the sixth, a Montero passed ball allowed another run to score.
"Delgado pitched well, we didn't play very good behind him," Gibson said. "Hill probably should've had that play on the first run and the ball that got to the backstop. That's not us, that's not what you do."
The only runs Delgado allowed on his own came when Jonathan Lucroy hit his fifth home run in his last seven games, a two-run shot to left. Delgado finished his outing allowing four runs (three earned) on eight hits over six innings. The 23-year-old now has a 3.65 ERA as a starter this season.
"I feel good with what I'm doing, I'm just upset about the home run," he said. "It's all right though. I did what I wanted to, kept the game close and gave our team a chance to win."
Brad Ziegler worked a clean ninth for his third save of the season. The D-backs, who reached the 50-win mark prior to the All-Star Game for the first time since 2003, will go for the series and season sweep Sunday in their final game before the break.


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This Tech Tip reprinted with permission by java.sun.com
If you develop programs that execute many short-lived tasks, it's wise to take advantage of a technique called thread pooling. Instead of creating a thread for each new task and discarding the thread when the task is done, you can create a pool of threads and give the pool each task to execute. If a thread in the pool is available, the task executes immediately. The thread returns to the pool when the task is done. Otherwise, the task waits for a thread to become available from the pool before executing.
J2SE 5.0 offers a new java.util.concurrent package, and in that package there are concurrency utilities that provide a pre-built thread pooling framework. The Executor interface in java.util.concurrent provides a single method, execute, that accepts a Runnable object as follows:
public interface Executor { public void execute(Runnable command); }
To use the thread pooling framework, you create an Executor instance, then you pass it some runnable tasks:
Executor executor = ...; executor.execute(aRunnable1); executor.execute(aRunnable2);
Then you create or find an implementation of the Executor interface. The implementation could run the task immediately, in a new thread, or serially. For example, here is an implementation that spawns a new thread for each task:
class MyExecutor implements Executor { public void execute(Runnable r) { new Thread(r).start(); } }
The concurrency utilities also include a ThreadPoolExecutor class that offers support for many common pooling operations. With one of the four ThreadPoolExecutor constructors, you can specify options such as pool size, keep alive time, a thread factory, and a handler for rejected threads:
public ThreadPoolExecutor(int corePoolSize, int maximumPoolSize, long keepAliveTime, TimeUnit unit, BlockingQueue<Runnable> workQueue) public ThreadPoolExecutor(int corePoolSize, int maximumPoolSize, long keepAliveTime, TimeUnit unit, BlockingQueue<Runnable> workQueue, ThreadFactory threadFactory) public ThreadPoolExecutor(int corePoolSize, int maximumPoolSize, long keepAliveTime, TimeUnit unit, BlockingQueue<Runnable> workQueue, RejectedExecutionHandler handler) public ThreadPoolExecutor(int corePoolSize, int maximumPoolSize, long keepAliveTime, TimeUnit unit, BlockingQueue<Runnable> workQueue, ThreadFactory threadFactory, RejectedExecutionHandler handler)
But you really don't need to call a constructor. Instead, the Executors class of the java.util.concurrent package creates the thread pool for you. In the simplest case, you call the newFixedThreadPool method in the Executors class and pass in the number of threads you want in the pool. You then use ExecutorService, an interface that extends Executor, to either execute Runnable tasks or submit them. Calling the submit method of ExecutorService allows you to get a result back. The submit method also returns a Future object that you can use to check if the task is done.
Let's run a test program to demonstrate the use of thread pools. First, here's a program, NamePrinter, that notifies you when it starts, pauses for some amount of time, and then notifies you when it's done.
public class NamePrinter implements Runnable { private final String name; private final int delay; public NamePrinter(String name, int delay) { this.name = name; this.delay = delay; } public void run() { System.out.println("Starting: " + name); try { Thread.sleep(delay); } catch (InterruptedException ignored) { } System.out.println("Done with: " + name); } }
Here is the test program, UsePool. It creates a thread pool of size 3, and adds 10 tasks to it (that is, 10 runs of NamePrinter). The UsePool program then waits for the tasks to finish before calling shutdown and awaitTermination. An ExecutorService should be shutdown before being terminated. There is also a shutdownNow method which attempts an immediate shutdown. Termination here is even faster than through the shutdown method. The shutdownNow method returns a List of any remaining Runnable tasks.
import java.util.concurrent.*; import java.util.Random; public class UsePool { public static void main(String args[]) { Random random = new Random(); ExecutorService executor = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(3); // Sum up wait times to know when to shutdown int waitTime = 500; for (int i=0; i<10; i++) { String name = "NamePrinter " + i; int time = random.nextInt(1000); waitTime += time; Runnable runner = new NamePrinter(name, time); System.out.println("Adding: " + name + " / " + time); executor.execute(runner); } try { Thread.sleep(waitTime); executor.shutdown(); executor.awaitTermination (waitTime, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS); } catch (InterruptedException ignored) { } System.exit(0); } }
Compile NamePrinter and UsePool, then run UsePool. Here's a sample output run -- note that each run will be unique with the random sleeps present:
Adding: NamePrinter 0 / 30 Adding: NamePrinter 1 / 727 Adding: NamePrinter 2 / 980 Starting: NamePrinter 0 Starting: NamePrinter 1 Starting: NamePrinter 2 Adding: NamePrinter 3 / 409 Adding: NamePrinter 4 / 49 Adding: NamePrinter 5 / 802 Adding: NamePrinter 6 / 211 Adding: NamePrinter 7 / 459 Adding: NamePrinter 8 / 994 Adding: NamePrinter 9 / 459 Done with: NamePrinter 0 Starting: NamePrinter 3 Done with: NamePrinter 3 Starting: NamePrinter 4 Done with: NamePrinter 4 Starting: NamePrinter 5 Done with: NamePrinter 1 Starting: NamePrinter 6 Done with: NamePrinter 6 Starting: NamePrinter 7 Done with: NamePrinter 2 Starting: NamePrinter 8 Done with: NamePrinter 5 Starting: NamePrinter 9 Done with: NamePrinter 7 Done with: NamePrinter 9 Done with: NamePrinter 8
Notice that the first three NamePrinter objects started quickly. Later NamePrinter objects started as each executing NamePrinter object finished.
There is much more to the thread pooling framework available in J2SE 5.0. For example, you can create scheduled thread pools, where you can schedule tasks to run "later".
For more information on thread pooling and the new concurrency utilities, see Concurrency Utilities.
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WWII soldier's duffel bag returned 7 decades later
A World War II veteran who served in France during the war has been reunited with his Army-issued duffel bag nearly seven decades after it went missing.
William Kadar, 92, opened a carefully wrapped package Tuesday at his Merrillville, Ind., home and found his drab green duffel bag inside, still stenciled in black with his name and serial number. Kadar last saw the bag used by soldiers to tote their gear in November 1944, a month before he was captured by the Germans.
A letter included in the package said the bag was being returned by a 16-year-old French boy who found it in his grandfather's house.
"It's still in good shape. Oooh, boy. Well, I finally got it," Kadar told the Post-Tribune ( https://bit.ly/XjCiwa ) for a Wednesday story.
Kadar's granddaughter, Arleen Haas, said the bag was found and kept by a family in Rehaupal, France. The teen's great-grandparents were killed when their house was bombed by the Germans when his grandfather was 10 years old.
The teen was initially reluctant to return the bag since it was a symbol of his family's history, but the family eventually decided to send it to Kadar. Haas said her family hopes to speak to the boy through Skype soon.
"It's given us a deeper understanding of what he and others went through," said another of Kadar's granddaughters, Amy Parsons, of Valparaiso. "We don't have that perspective in the U.S. as much. (Kadar) always said, `It's a miracle I came home.'"
Kadar was captured by the Germans in December 1944 in Mittelwihr, France. He lost nearly 80 pounds in a prison camp before it was liberated in April 1945.
Haas, who served 10 years in the Army, retraced her grandfather's footsteps while stationed in Germany. Back in the U.S., she sought more information on his war experience and eventually entered his name and service information in an online military forum.
Someone from there contacted the family about the duffel bag after the French boy's uncle asked the Texas Military Museum for help in finding the owner.
Kadar's daughter, Lynn Sattler, said the experience left her with a mixture of emotions.
"I'm amazed it's been found, grateful that it was sent back to him, and bittersweet because he doesn't remember (the war), but parts of it do come back," Sattler said.
Information from: Post-Tribune, https://www.post-trib.com


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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Keenan Reynolds extended Navy's dominance against Army, scoring the winning touchdown late in the fourth quarter in a 17-13 victory in the 113th rivalry game Saturday.
Navy (8-4) won the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy awarded to the team with the best record in games among the three service academies. Army and Navy each beat Air Force, putting the prestigious trophy up for grabs in the regular-season finale for the first time since 2005.
Army (2-10) hasn't hoisted the CIC trophy since 1996.
The Black Knights came close, but Navy recovered a late fumble, and Reynolds' 8-yard rushing score made it 17-13.
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MCMC Perfume Oil - Noble
Perfumer Anne McCain studied natural aromatherapy at the Grasse Institute in the south of France and went on to blend her own line of fragrances under her brand MCMC. She mixes and bottles her own fragrances by hand in her Brooklyn studio in small batches and her fragrances reflect memories and moments and therefore are layered and deep. Sold individually.
Noble - This is the first fragrance Anne McCain ever created. Long before formal training, she was toying with the sensual, intoxicating scent of Indian jasmine absolute and combining it with the fiery, earthy vetiver oil of Haiti. The two ingredients are a symbol of time spent in the beautiful and spiritual country of Nepal. Combined with rich almondy notes of chai tea, burning incense, amber and musk, the jasmine-centered Noble is a long-lasting floral woody with an ethereal drydown.
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3 Ways to Make Content Marketing Meaningful
Over the last few years, much of the marketing world has turned to content marketing: the idea that the best way to engage with audiences and raise your visibility is to share robust, usually educational content for free. This content takes many forms - blogs, videos, podcasts, books (and particularly ebooks, given their ease of distribution), material on social media, and more. Basically, anywhere and any way that folks learn.
Recent studies have, time and time again, shown the the same thing: content marketing works. It works in large part because there's a hunger for substance in marketing - for folks to talk to one another, teaching and sharing knowledge, rather than talking past one another with fluffy pitches. But as the research has shown, it's not just a feel-good strategy, but a serious driver of growth. So how do you go about implementing it for your own organization?
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If you create a Perl 6 repository, you can really own the place.
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