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Rice, oatmeal, or barley? What infant cereal or other food will be on the menu for your baby's first solid meal? Have you set a date?
At this point, you may have a plan or are confused because you have received too much advice from family and friends with different opinions.
Here is information from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) to help you prepare for your baby's transition to solid foods.
Here are some helpful tips from AAP Pediatrician David Hill, MD, FAAP on starting your baby on solid foods. Remember that each child's readiness depends on his own rate of development.
Other things to keep in mind:
Can he hold his head up? Your baby should be able to sit in a high chair, a feeding seat, or an infant seat with good head control.
Does he open his mouth when food comes his way? Babies may be ready if they watch you eating, reach for your food, and seem eager to be fed.
Can he move food from a spoon into his throat? If you offer a spoon of rice cereal, he pushes it out of his mouth, and it dribbles onto his chin, he may not have the ability to move it to the back of his mouth to swallow it. That's normal. Remember, he's never had anything thicker than breast milk or formula before, and this may take some getting used to. Try diluting it the first few times; then, gradually thicken the texture. You may also want to wait a week or two and try again.
Is he big enough? Generally, when infants double their birth weight (typically at about 4 months of age) and weigh about 13 pounds or more, they may be ready for solid foods.
NOTE: The AAP recommends breastfeeding as the sole source of nutrition for your baby for about 6 months. When you add solid foods to your baby's diet, continue breastfeeding until at least 12 months. You can continue to breastfeed after 12 months if you and your baby desire. Check with your child's doctor about the recommendations for
vitamin D and iron supplements during the first year.
Start with half a spoonful or less and talk to your baby through the process
("Mmm, see how good this is?"). Your baby may not know what to do at first. She may look confused, wrinkle her nose, roll the food around inside her mouth, or reject it altogether.
One way to make eating solids for the first time easier is to give your baby a little breast milk, formula, or both first; then switch to very small half-spoonfuls of food; and finish with more breast milk or formula. This will prevent your baby from getting frustrated when she is very hungry.
Do not be surprised if most of the first few solid-food feedings wind up on your baby's face, hands, and bib. Increase the amount of food gradually, with just a teaspoonful or two to start. This allows your baby time to learn how to swallow solids.
Do not make your baby eat if she cries or turns away when you feed her. Go back to breastfeeding or bottle-feeding exclusively for a time before trying again. Remember that starting solid foods is a gradual process; at first, your baby will still be getting most of her nutrition from breast milk, formula, or both. Also, each baby is different, so readiness to start solid foods will vary.
Do not put baby cereal in a bottle because your baby could choke. It may also increase the amount of food your baby eats and can cause your baby to gain too much weight. However, cereal in a bottle may be recommended if your baby has reflux. Check with your child's doctor.
For most babies, it does not matter what the first solid foods are. By tradition, single-grain cereals are usually introduced first. However, there is no medical evidence that introducing solid foods in any particular order has an advantage for your baby. Although many pediatricians will recommend starting vegetables before fruits, there is no evidence that your baby will develop a dislike for vegetables if fruit is given first. Babies are born with a preference for
sweets, and the order of introducing foods does not change this. If your baby has been mostly breastfeeding, he may benefit from baby food made with meat, which contains more easily absorbed sources of iron and zinc that are needed by 4 to 6 months of age. Check with your child's doctor.
Baby cereals are available premixed in individual containers or dry, to which you can add breast milk, formula, or water. Whichever type of cereal you use, make sure that it is made for babies and iron fortified.
Once your baby learns to eat one food, gradually give him other foods. Give your baby one new food at a time. Generally, meats and vegetables contain more nutrients per serving than fruits or cereals.
There is no evidence that waiting to introduce baby-safe (soft), allergy-causing foods, such as eggs, dairy, soy,
peanuts, or fish, beyond 4 to 6 months of age prevents food allergy. If you believe your baby has an allergic reaction to a food, such as diarrhea, rash, or vomiting, talk with your child's doctor about the best choices for the diet.
Within a few months of starting solid foods, your baby's daily diet should include a variety of foods, such as breast milk, formula, or both; meats; cereal; vegetables; fruits; eggs; and fish.
Once your baby can sit up and bring her hands or other objects to her mouth, you can give her finger foods to help her learn to feed herself. To prevent
choking, make sure anything you give your baby is soft, easy to swallow, and cut into small pieces. Some examples include small pieces of banana, wafer-type cookies, or crackers; scrambled eggs; well-cooked pasta; well-cooked, finely chopped chicken; and well-cooked, cut-up potatoes or peas.
At each of your baby's daily meals, she should be eating about 4 ounces, or the amount in one small jar of strained baby food. Limit giving your baby processed foods that are made for adults and older children. These foods often contain more salt and other preservatives.
If you want to give your baby fresh food, use a blender or food processor, or just mash softer foods with a fork. All fresh foods should be cooked with no added salt or seasoning. Although you can feed your baby raw bananas (mashed), most other fruits and vegetables should be cooked until they are soft. Refrigerate any food you do not use, and look for any signs of spoilage before giving it to your baby. Fresh foods are not bacteria-free, so they will spoil more quickly than food from a can or jar.
NOTE: Do not give your baby any food that requires chewing at this age. Do not give your baby any food that can be a choking hazard, including hot dogs (including meat sticks, or baby food "hot dogs"); nuts and seeds; chunks of meat or cheese; whole grapes; popcorn; chunks of peanut butter; raw vegetables; fruit chunks, such as apple chunks; and hard, gooey, or sticky candy.
When your baby starts eating solid foods, his stools will become more solid and variable in color. Because of the added sugars and fats, they will have a much stronger odor too. Peas and other green vegetables may turn the stool a deep-green color; beets may make it red. (Beets sometimes make urine red as well.) If your baby's meals are not strained, his stools may contain undigested pieces of food, especially hulls of peas or corn, and the skin of tomatoes or other vegetables. All of this is normal. Your baby's digestive system is still immature and needs time before it can fully process these new foods. If the stools are extremely loose, watery, or full of mucus, however, it may mean the digestive tract is irritated. In this case, reduce the amount of solids and introduce them more slowly. If the stools continue to be loose, watery, or full of mucus, consult your child's doctor to find the reason.
Babies do not need
juice. Babies younger than 12 months should not be given juice. After 12 months of age (up to 3 years of age), give only 100% fruit juice and no more than 4 ounces a day. Offer it only in a cup, not in a bottle. To help
prevent tooth decay, do not put your child to bed with a bottle. If you do, make sure it contains only water. Juice reduces the appetite for other, more nutritious, foods, including breast milk, formula, or both. Too much juice can also cause diaper rash, diarrhea, or excessive weight gain.
Healthy babies do not need extra water. Breast milk, formula, or both provide all the fluids they need. However, with the introduction of solid foods, water can be added to your baby's diet. Also, a small amount of water may be needed in very hot weather. If you live in an area where the water is
fluoridated, drinking water will also help prevent future tooth decay.
It is important for your baby to get used to the process of eating—sitting up, taking food from a spoon, resting between bites, and stopping when full. These early experiences will help your child learn good eating habits throughout life.
family meals from the first feeding. When you can, the whole family should eat together. Research suggests that having dinner together, as a family, on a regular basis has positive effects on the development of children.
Remember to offer a good variety of healthy foods that are rich in the nutrients your child needs. Watch your child for cues that he has had enough to eat. Do not overfeed!
If you have any questions about your child's nutrition, including concerns about your child eating too much or too little, talk with your child's doctor.
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For some reason there are certain buildings in this town that never survive in business. The building across from the Putt Putt on Rio is another one, how many places has it been?
I am not sure what it is, bad feng shui? Are they cursed? What? It will be interesting to see how these changes work out.
what about the spot across from the police station?
Hawes, you need to correct the caption in the Boathouse photo.
Beth there are also some homes/estates in this area that are also "tainted" even the real estate brokers don't know of those. One estate in Albemarle County within 5 years of ownership, the male head of household dies. The last two owners have been single women so the history has faded.
Restaurants are notorious for not operating for very long.
Location, Location, Location.
I was about to say, that Boathouse building has definitely been through a number of different businesses. I remember it was Pargo's, then it was Maverick, then it was something else, and now the latest business to close there was Boat House. Not a bad location, but things just don't seem to survive there.
Location is important for sure, but Pargo's was there for a long time - and quite successful. IIRC, Pargo's was founded by an executive who had broken away from another 'casual dining' (Chili's, Outback, TGIF, etc.) corporation. Pargo's was a smaller version of this; he only stopped doing that and divested when he had to as a non-compete condition of returning to another corporation.
I believe Maverick, Boathouse, etc, fail primarily because they are overpriced for the mass-production corporate style food they produce. I never ate at Maverick, but I can't imagine their steaks were much cheaper than the Aberdeen Barn, and I would be shocked to learn they were anywhere near as good. Outback is lousy - just what I'd expect for pretentious fast-food - but it is less expensive than the barn, and probably has, as a major chain, a lower basis and higher margin than one-off knockoffs like Maverick or the Boathouse Grill.
I'm entirely unsurprised to learn that Cheeseburger in Paradise succumbed...same story....in a down economy, a premium for a burger?
There is a reason Chipotle and Whole Foods are always crowded when other restaurants and markets are empty. People will pay more for food that is good, local, and/or ethically raised. Why pay high prices for bad, unhealthy food? You can get that at a vending machine. Chipotle at Barracks uses pork from Polyface Farm. I don't even eat pork but I will go to Chipotle over other restaurants on principal. If you want to attract a high end crowd, you need to appeal to more than just their basest instincts.
I went to the Boathouse once. I looked at the menu posted outside, peeked inside, and decided that I had no interest in patronizing the place. Maverick's was, as another poster commented, just another Outback (albeit quieter and less crowded). Pargo's on the other hand, I miss. When it first opened the correlation between quality and price was too obvious, but once it got its act together it became very popular as Everybody's Second Choice. Everyone seemed to like, but not love, Pargo's.
Pargos is definitely missed.
At least the place beside Putt Putt is not a restaurant now, maybe it will do better selling lawn equipment.
Missed the story on the snake. Got a link?
The place by putt-putt kept changing because although the operator/owners remained the same, they never paid their taxes and had to shut down each business entity...much like the Arby's "Tea Party" Entrepreneur, they didn't seem to really understand how to run a business, despite their free-market ranting.
I remember it being Bonanza back in the late 70's or early 80's, one of the first buffet places I remember.
Outback Steakhouse eclipses out back snake house?
Ask any former employee or vendor and they will tell you why the place failed. It has nothing to do with the building, the previous ventures all had the same owners. It's the owners and their shifty business handling!
@non-resident, Cheeseburger in Paradise was renting from OSI, the parent company of Outback Steakhouse. When CIP and Outback both had lease renewals coming up at the same time, OSI decided not to renew the CIP lease and chose to move Outback to its own building instead. It had nothing to do with Cheeseburger's success as a business in the area.
Isn't a Plaza Azteca Mexican restaurant going into the Boat House location?


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Rand's address builds on eight new research papers included in the AARP Public Policy Institute's " Middle Class Security Project," a major initiative that has focused on the economic challenges facing America's middle class and the prospects for a financially secure retirement.
The prosperity of the middle class has been the basis for the American way of life for the past 60 years. A middle-class standard of living in the United States has come to mean having a secure job, a safe and stable home, access to healthcare, retirement security, access to a good education, including college education for our children.
But today these middle class fundamentals are threatened, straining our ability to fund health and retirement programs, weakening our ability to maintain a safety net for the most vulnerable and thwarting our investment in the future.
At the event, AARP Executive Vice Presidents Nancy LeaMond and Debra Whitman offered insights into PPI's research and more about what we need to do as a nation to restore prosperity to the middle class and keep the American Dream alive.
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I received the book "Robert Fawcett - The Illustrator's Illustrator" for Christmas this year and boy is it a beauty. With insightful text by illustration aficionado and intellectual property lawyer David Apatoff, this book comes to life with hundreds of eye popping images by Fawcett.
I was aware of Fawcett's work from my history of illustration classes, but this book brings a whole new appreciation for the quality and draftsmanship that Fawcett produced. Born near London in 1903, his family moved to Winnepeg , Canada while he was a young boy. Popular magazine illustrations by the likes of Howard Pyle and N.C.Wyeth sparked young Robert's interest in picture making.
Fawcett was largely self taught, spending only two years of formal art training at the Slade School of Art in London. This volume documents his rise to the top if the American illustration ranks after abandoning a short career as a "fine artist". Apparently not being able to stomach the "commercial side of fine art", he determined to earn a living doing "honest commercial work".
Fawcett felt there really was no line between fine art and commercial work insisting that an illustrator was just as capable of creating quality work as a gallery painter was of creating mediocre work. As far as his own work was concerned, Fawcet said, "everything I do is fine art".
Opinionated and often brash, Fawcett commanded top prices at the height of his career that stretched from his return to the United States in 1924 until his death in 1967. Though he never took a course on human anatomy, It would be difficult to argue that there has ever been an illustrator with stronger skills in draftsmanship and narrative composition than Fawcett.
This book showcases all of his formidable skill in stunning fashion.Particularly of interest in the book are some of the sidebar details that describe Fawcett's style and working methods as well as a reprint of a Famous Artist Magazine interview with Fawcett from 1960.
Anyone with an affinity for great drawing and gorgeous mid-century illustration will want to pick up this volume. Also check out the other great art and illustration books from Auad Publishing at the link below.
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Another post on Fawcett by David Apatoff on Today's Inspiration


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Enrollment Rx, built on the Salesforce.com platform, is one of several modules the company produces. Other applications in the same product line address retention, placement, alumni management and student information management. The cloud-based constituent relationship management program allows users such as recruiters at student recruitment events to enter data into their mobile devices and make it available to other departments on campus as well as maintain task lists, reminders and reports.
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"Hugo," Martin Scorsese's first foray into the world's of children's films and 3D, won Best Picture from the National Board of Review, and earned him Best Director, as well. But no film took home more awards than George Clooney's "The Descendants."
Clooney won Best Actor, while co-star Shailene Woodley earned Best Supporting Actress, and Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash took Best Adapted Screenplay, giving "The Descendants" three prizes.It's early yet, but we're guessing that no awards body will differ more from our own personal opinions, as both "Hugo" and "The Descendants" left us utterly cold. But what're you gonna do?
That said, we're thrilled for Tilda Swinton's Best Actress win for "We Need to Talk About Kevin," Will Reiser's Best Original Screenplay prize for "50/50" and Felicity Jones' Breakthrough Performance award for "Like Crazy."
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Here's the complete list of winners:
Best Film: Hugo
Best Director: Martin Scorsese, Hugo
Best Actor: George Clooney, The Descendants
Best Actress: Tilda Swinton, We Need to Talk About Kevin
Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer, Beginners
Best Supporting Actress: Shailene Woodley, The Descendants
Best Original Screenplay: Will Reiser, 50/50
Best Adapted Screenplay: Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash, The Descendants
Best Animated Feature: Rango
Breakthrough Performance: Felicity Jones, Like Crazy
Breakthrough Performance: Rooney Mara, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Debut Director: J.C. Chandor, Margin Call
Best Ensemble: The Help
Spotlight Award: Michael Fassbender (A Dangerous Method, Jane Eyre, Shame, X-Men: First Class)
NBR Freedom of Expression: Crime After Crime
NBR Freedom of Expression: Pariah
Best Foreign Language Film: A Separation
Best Documentary: Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
Special Achievement in Filmmaking: The Harry Potter Franchise – A Distinguished Translation from Book to Film
Ten Best Films
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The Artist
The Descendants
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
The Ides of March
J. Edgar
Tree of Life
War Horse
Five Best Foreign-Language Films
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13 Assassins
Elite Squad: The Enemy Within
Le Havre
Point Blank
Five Best Documentaries
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Born to be Wild
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
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Top Ten Independent Films
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Functions to run the rendering pipeline.
- This module provides elementary rendering functions. For a simpler
interface, consider using
- The Pango rendering pipeline takes a string of Unicode characters,
divides them into sequences of letters that have the same characteristics
such as font, size, color, etc. Such a sequence is called
PangoItem. Each
PangoItemis then converted into one
GlyphItem, that is an actual sequence of glyphs, where several characters might be turned into legatures or clusters, e.g. an "e" and an accent modifier are turned into a single glyph. These
GlyphItems can then be rendered onto the output device with functions such as
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- pangoItemGetFontMetrics :: PangoItem -> IO FontMetrics
- pangoItemGetFont :: PangoItem -> IO Font
- pangoItemGetLanguage :: PangoItem -> IO Language
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PangoItem: Partition text into units with similar attributes.
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Turn a string into a sequence of glyphs.
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glyphItemExtents :: GlyphItem -> IO (PangoRectangle, PangoRectangle) Source #
Ask for bounding rectangles of this glyph sequence.
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Retrieve the width of every character in a string.
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True). If
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glyphItemSplit :: GlyphItem -> Int -> IO (GlyphItem, GlyphItem) Source #
Split a
GlyphItem at the given index.
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OutKast are slated to perform at the Governors Ball in New York this year.
The good news concerning OutKast just keeps on coming today. Following the official announcement from Coachella that the duo would be headlining the festival, another concert with the ATL legends has been announced.
Andre 3000 and Big Boi will join forces once more for the Governors Ball in NYC, where they will perform in the spring. The event takes place from June 6- June 8 in New York City's Randall's Island Park.Â
The festival will continue announcing acts for this year's set in the coming days, through Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. They recently tweeted an image of 2Pac and Biggie together with the caption "Just you wait." Could we be getting more holograms?
Tickets for the fest go on sale next week, it's said to feature over 80 artists.
Listen to our Throwback record of choice today, which is OutKast's "Rosa Parks," below. Let's hope these reunion shows also mean some new music is on the way.
[UPDATE: The Full Line-Up For NYC's Governors Ball Revealed, Includes Tyler, The Creator, Chance The Rapper]
Last week we heard that one of the headliners at the Governors Ball this year would be OutKast, and now we have the full line-up. While it's not strictly hip-hop, there are some notable rap artists performing. Jack White was also tapped as the other big headliner.
Other performers of interest include J. Cole, Childish Gambino, Tyler, The Creator, Earl Sweatshirt, Chance The Rapper, Run The Jewels, The Internet and Janelle Monae.
Peep the full list of artists in the flyer above. The festival goes down June 6th-8th at Randall's Island Park in NYC.


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Professional Community for Car Dealers, Marketing, Advertising and Sales Leaders
The most important review site on the web? The one that the last Bad review was left on! That statement puts value in EVERY review site on the web. The most powerful review sites would be the ones served on Google's Maps Page for you business.
With Google rolling out new algorithms for serving up business review sites, I looked at about 50 dealers Google Maps Pages across the US to see who they were serving up. This was not scientific, I did not keep count. BUT these review sites seem to appear on Googles Business Maps Pages in this order of frequency:
Google Local Business Listings
Insider Pages
Yahoo! Local Listings
Judys Book
Other reviews sites I am aware of that show up in search on dealers name are:
It appears in Canada they are NOT serving reviews yet.
So my questions are;
1. Are there any other big players out there?
2. Anyone know the terms of agreement of these sites?
3. Which sites ALLOW multiple reviews from an IP Address? So We CAN walk the customer to a dealership computer to leave a review for the business?
4. Anybody out there have customers leave a reviews from the showroom? If so what sites do yopu use?
I am in no way looking to work around the terms of agreements of any review site. If they allow you to do in-house reviews, EVERY store should have 20 positives reviews on that site in 1 week easy/peasy.
What are your thoughts? Best practices?
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I explore this topic a lot further in regards to which sites work the best for dealers, and inserted a clip from Checkered Flag Automotive at http://www.automotivedigitalmarketing.com/profiles/blogs/dealership... . I also want to say that I like Merchant Circle and Insider Pages as well, but from what I have seen, neither has had the impact, nor provided dealers with the tools, credibility and SEO benefits that the ten I listed seem to have.
Thanks Ralph for the info! Good to know about Yelp. I knew of Presto Reviews but wasn't sure who/if anyone else in the dealership.
Lindsay - The only provider that allows dealership reviews to be executed by consumers while they are at the dealership (that I know of) is Presto Reviews. They have built their entire model around dealers encouraging customers to post reviews while at the dealership and providing them with work stations to do so... The other nine sites that i listed each forbid reviews from being posted at the place of business. Yelp goes so far as to recommend that dealers DO NOT ask customers to post reviews and even when a customer posts the review on a mobile device, will not let that review go live until the customer has resubmitted their review from a PC located at work or home...
Very interesting post. Started researching myself about the agreements of the site. I think it would be beneficial for us to find out which allow for in-house reviews and which will quickly flag and encourage from different IP addresses. Let me know ASAP!!
Right now in our market as a midwest dealer 1) DealerRater is coming up strong and then it is a toss up between serving up reviews of Google, InsiderPages, Judy'sbook and Edmunds.
With the integration of hotpot I think reviews are going to be even more popular in early 2011 as the whole ecommerce is changing.
Tim, here are my Top Ten favorite dealership review and rating sites listed in order of what I personally consider to be their desirability to have positive dealer reviews on them:
2. Yelp
3. DealerRater
4. Edmunds
Just found another review site being served up by Google on dealer Maps pages:
Are there any other reviews sites out there worth mentioning? If so why?
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Research studies have shown that most computer professionals do not like to socialize and they like to work alone. That is not to say that they are not social. In fact, social interaction is a key factor to job satisfaction. However, that social need is filled in many cases by online interaction with other computer professionals. Are you surprised?
I can just see you now, sitting there with your morning cup of coffee. You just finished reading the online news from your favorite sites. Now you are checking out the latest stories on Tech Republic. For many of you this is routine. For others, this may be the first time you have read a Tech Republic story.
We don't often think about what an amazing thing it is to get news and information via the Internet and our favorite web browser. Who would have thought even fifteen years ago how dramatically the web would change lives? In 1993 I installed my first copy of NCSA Mosaic and marveled at the support for sound, video, forms, bookmarks, and history.Finding information in the old days
I was in the research business in those days, digging through online documentation of computer manufacturers. When I say online, I mean that in the loosest sense of the word. Some vendors had placed text files describing their product offerings on a dial-up BBS. Others used a FAXback system to send out their latest spec sheets. The web browser changed all that.
Overnight, dozens of web servers sprang up and we were able to get our documents much quicker. We also discovered that many more databases were available in this new format. My company published pocket-sized sales guide booklets for IBM, Apple and Compaq each quarter. Our job became so much easier with the Internet and the web.
Today, I could not do my job without the Internet and the browser. I know I can safely guess that many of you would not have a job were it not for these modern miracles. Those who make a living designing web pages or maintaining web server farms would not be employed today. There would be a whole lot less people employed who program routers.Using the Internet on the job
As a tech support manager for a small company my job would be a whole lot different were it not for the Internet. Sure, I know that the Internet existed before 1993 but for most companies, that's when they started using e-mail or the web. I think I wrote my first web page in 1995 - writing in raw HTML in a plain old text editor.
A large part of my day consists of monitoring web servers, e-mail servers and in helping employees with e-mail. I still occasionally get a call about a lost e-mail or a complaint about "the slow Internet". Even after all these years I am still in the end-user education business. You would think employees would be a bit more computer savvy by now.
Admittedly, many of these calls for support come from the older executives. Most of them have no clue about the differences between file types and don't care about the size of the enormous PowerPoint slides they send back and forth between multiple offices. My job is just to make sure they can send their bloated e-mails wherever they want.Computer professionals are just better at research
My point is that you and I may be a little bit different from the people we support. We are much more comfortable finding information online than your average employee. It still amazes me how many people will ask me to help them find something that a few simple keystrokes and clicks in Google will bring right to their face in less than ten seconds.
Are computer geeks just better researchers? I think so. We seem to delight in knowing where the latest tech toys are to be found. Perhaps it is because we have spent so much time finding out information for others via Google that we quickly know which sites are legitimate and which sites are garbage. To others, it seems like we know magic.Tech Web Sites
We hang out on Tech Republic, Slashdot, Engadget, C|NET, NewsForge, InformationWeek, TechCrunch, ars technica, Something Awful, InfoWorld, TechWeb, ITWorld, ChannelWeb, ZDNet, eWeek, PC Magazine, TechDirt, TechNews, CIO, ComputerWorld, PC World, Silicon Valley, ExtremeTech, WindowsITPro, MCPMag, Tom' s Hardware and many, many more.
Our jobs require us to be experts in some form of technology. We keep up in our field by constant reading on the web. In most cases, because we are so busy putting out fires during the day, we do our reading early in the morning or late at night. If you are like me, you spend at least an hour a day in reading tech news, and maybe just as much in writing.
What do you think? Would you rate yourself a good researcher? Do you get paid to know where to find things on the Internet? And just how much time do you spend writing comments in online forums and blogs?


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The kingdom of lanna, meaning the kingdom of a million rice fields, was once a thriving, independent state located in what is now northern Thailand. This former kingdom bordered the shan states of what is now eastern Myanmar (formerly known as Burma), and is rich in Thai and Burmese culture and history.
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New lieutenant welcomed at Oneida Fire Department
ONEIDA--The Oneida Fire Department promoted a firefighter to the rank of lieutenant on Thursday.
Scott Jones, 32, of Oneida, has been with the department since August 2006.
Jones said he always wanted to be a firefighter.
Before coming to the department, he served time in the United States Air Force, where his job was fire protection.
"I've been looking forward to this," he said of the added supervisory responsibilities that will come with the promotion. "It was a welcome surprise."
Oneida Fire Chief Gregg Myers said Jones has been an instrumental part of the department, and that he was happy for him.
To be eligible for the position, Jones had to take a civil service exam and be interviewed by the city's public safety commissioner, Doug Lippert.
Jones was sworn in to the position by city clerk Susan Pulverenti inside the fire station with friends, family and department members present.


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Don't miss the Pointe
With over 60 eateries and restaurants in the Downtown Mall area, it's easy for some places to get lost in the crowd. And when you're inside a hotel and blocked from view by a forest of urban trees at the far West End of the Mall, it's especially easy.
"People don't notice us sitting on the hill," says Morgan Oliver, the executive chef at The Pointe Restaurant in the Omni Hotel. "I think we've been kind of looked over because we're in a hotel."
Those logistics have been particularly frustrating for Oliver, who, since taking over the kitchen three years ago, has changed the whole concept of the restaurant and given it a local food and organic focus. For instance, Oliver's menu includes food from Meadow Creek Dairy, Everona Dairy, Caramont Farms, Carter Mountain Apple Orchard, Polyface Farms, Gearhearts, Bodos Bagels, and the Albermarle Baking Company to name just a few.
Another unique feature of the Pointe is that half the seating inside is in a huge open air atrium, which is particularly nice in the winter when all the outdoor caf© spaces are closed. Of course, they've also got an outdoor patio.
Oliver puts a particular emphasis on breakfast, which begins at 6:30am, and features cage-free, hormone free eggs, humane certified organic bacon and sausage, and bagels fresh from bodos. They also have a $9 lunch buffet Monday through Friday, and a Happy Hour from 5pm to 7pm featuring drink specials and cheap, tasty treats like craballs and wings.
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It's the unnecessary "e" in Point. That's keeping people away - doesn't the Omni know how many locals graduated from Virginia with degrees in English? Pointe is not an English word, it's a French word.
Drop the "e." Seriously.
The chocolate confusion is delicious.
Music Lover, seriously get a life.
It's the "o" that keeps me going back...because its oooooo do good!!


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Three up, three down: Ortiz proving ageless for Sox
Veteran slugger closing in on 30-homer, 100-RBI season for AL East champs
UP: David Ortiz
Ortiz missed the first 15 games of the season with a strained right Achilles tendon, but he hasn't slowed down since joining the Red Sox's lineup on April 20, helping the Sox become the eighth team since 1997 to go from worst to first in one year. It's a balanced offensive attack, but the grizzled veteran Ortiz, without a doubt, is the leader.
There are nine Red Sox who have at least 50 RBIs, led by Ortiz with 98. There are eight Boston players with at least 10 home runs, led by Ortiz with 29, and both Mike Carp and Dustin Pedroia are sitting on nine. And at .307, Ortiz is leading the Red Sox in batting average, with four other regulars batting at least .294. The result? The Sox have run away with the American League East, having taken over first place for good on May 26. Boston has spent 136 games atop the division, did not have a losing record in any month and has not lost more than three consecutive games all year.
DOWN: Yasiel Puig
The talk of the baseball world after his June callup by the Dodgers, Puig has become a virtual non-factor in September, hitting .227 with 17 strikeouts in 66 at-bats. And the Dodgers? Well, after a resurgence that saw them rally from last place in the National League West on July 1 to the division title, the Dodgers have lost 11 of their last 18 games, and they are 10-11 in September. Los Angeles ranks eighth in the NL in both average (.254) and runs scored (82), despite strong efforts from late addition Michael Young (.385) and Hanley Ramirez (.408).
Does September really matter? Since the advent of the Wild Card in 1995, only three times has a team with a losing record in the final month of the season won a World Series -- the 2006 St. Louis Cardinals (12-17), the 2000 New York Yankees (13-17) and the 1997 Florida Marlins (12-15). The past five World Series champions have finished strong, averaging 18.6 wins for the season's final month.
UP: Josh Donaldson
In 89 big league games prior to 2013, Donaldson had hit .232. Given an everyday opportunity this year, Donaldson has been a major factor in the A's claiming their second straight AL West title. Having at least 100 plate appearances at every spot in the lineup between third and sixth, Donaldson has hit .306 with a .388 on-base percentage, 24 home runs and a team-best 92 RBIs.
Since Aug. 24 -- when Oakland (22-7) has left Texas (9-18) in the AL West dust -- Donaldson has hit .363 with six home runs and 20 RBIs, joining teammates Yoenis Cespedes (22 RBIs), Brandon Moss (21) and Jed Lowrie (21) in the 20-RBI club over that 29-game stretch. Donaldson is part of a big-bang A's offense that may be eighth in the AL with a .254 season average, but ranks third in runs scored with 734.
DOWN: Adrian Beltre
Beltre has put together a solid season (.318, 28 home runs, 88 RBIs), but the Rangers have been in a September swoon, and Beltre has struggled himself. He's hit only .266 with no home runs and only six RBI while Texas has lost 15 of 20 games. Only the Chicago White Sox (5-16) have a worse record for the month.
That's why the Rangers -- who faded in the final weeks in a bid to win the AL West a year ago and then lost the AL Wild Card Game -- not only have been overtaken by the A's in the division, but suddenly find themselves behind both Tampa Bay and Cleveland in the Wild Card race. It is certainly not all Beltre's fault. Elvis Andrus (.323) is the only regular hitting better than .275, and Andrus (16) and Alex Rios (10) are the only Texas players with at least 10 RBIs this month
UP: Freddie Freeman
Atlanta's success might be driven by its pitching staff, but there has to be some run production, and Freeman has been the key to the Braves' offense. Atlanta's 3.19 ERA is the best is baseball, and its 52 saves are tied with Pittsburgh for the NL lead. Kameron Loe (0-1 as a starter) is the only one of 10 pitchers who have started a game for the Braves to have a losing record in the starting role.
Offensively? Well, the Braves rank 10th in the NL and 21st in baseball with a .248 batting average, but they do have a big-bang approach, having scored 661 runs -- fifth in the NL -- thanks in no small part to an NL-best 177 home runs. Freeman (.314) and Chris Johnson (.329) are the only Atlanta players hitting above .260. Freeman leads the Braves with a .392 on-base percentage. He also ranks second on the team with 23 home runs, three behind Justin Upton. Freeman also has 105 RBIs, the only Atlanta player with more than 67.
DOWN: Ryan Zimmerman
OK, Zimmerman has been a key part to the Nationals' late surge, but the surge will in all likelihood fall short, and a team many expected to be in the World Series will be left out of the playoffs. Zimmerman has hit .322 with 11 home runs and 16 RBIs in September, during which the Nats are 16-5. Washington, however, came into September with only a 68-67 record and too much ground to make up to earn a second consecutive postseason bid for first time in franchise history. Zimmerman hit .275 with 15 home runs and 61 RBIs in the first five months of the season.
And then there is Gio Gonzalez. The left-hander is 3-1 with a 2.36 ERA in September, but he was only 8-6 with a 3.56 ERA in the first five months of the season, a far cry from the 21 games he won a year ago when he anchored the Nationals' rotation.


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Mark Cuban Invests in Little Bird to Find Online Influentials
Little Bird launches today a service that goes deeply and geekily into the world of online influence to find people in social media who are trusted on various topics.
The service helps marketing, media and PR companies figure out who can best spread their message.
Little Bird was founded by Marshall Kirkpatrick, a former writer for ReadWriteWeb who started dabbling in these sorts of social media analyses before he left tech blogging and was drawn over to the dark side to start his own company.
The company is backed with $1 million in funding led by Mark Cuban's Radical Investments and including Howard Lindzon's Social Leverage Group, Hubspot co-founder Dharmesh Shah and early Twitter engineer Blaine Cook.
Where Klout ranks the social media world in a sort of universal popularity contest, Little Bird is much more focused on the long tail of people who are trusted within a community around a certain topic.
Little Bird analyzes social graphs — basically, who follows who on Twitter — to spit out long lists of influencers, even from within small communities. Then it compiles those people's blog content to offer archival search within the experts in a field. "It's almost like a robot librarian," Kirkpatrick said.
Kirkpatrick said the closest competitor is probably Traackr, but characterized that company's process as more manual.
(By the way, the name for the Portland, Ore.-based start-up — which was formerly called Plexus Engine while in stealth mode — comes from the saying "a little bird told me," not from the comedy show Portlandia's excellent "Put a Bird on It" sketch. Though that would be fitting, too.)
After Twitter and blog content, Little Bird is adding LinkedIn, Google+ and academic research citations.
The service will have a free preview version and a corporate version starting at $250 per month. For now, it is in private beta.


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text: bochen280 0 #1 April 27, 2012 I'm from the TX area and earlier this week was my first time skydiving. I wanted to do my first jump solo but unfortunately was told by the DZ that that was only offered on the weekends. So I went with a tandem jump instead. When I got there, winds were calm, clear skies all around, absolutely beautiful weather and temperatures. The tandem instructor I was paired with happened to be one of the more experienced, with I think 5,000+ jumps. He briefed me on the basics, put me in a blue jumpsuit, and I had to put on that silly looking hat... basically it was pretty fast paced in less than half an hour after I got to the DZ we were already up in the air (not a lot of other tandem jumpers that day, so loading went quick) The jump itself went perfect. I arched when I was supposed to... everything was stabilized. The instructor didn't forget to deploy the drogue chute or miss a strap or d-link. Freefall was by far the best part... but I honestly felt it was way too short. I understand for safety reasons (in case he had to cutaway) tandem pulls happen at 5,500ft... but I don't think our airplane ever reached the max of 13,500 ft when we jumped out... barely even 13,000ft... I would have liked longer freefall experience. But oh well. Even though I had those goggles on and was wearing them correctly, I lost a contact lenses on the way down during free fall shortly after we reached terminal velocity. I have no idea how that could have happened but I guess the wind must have went in on the sides. During the glide down to earth the straps felt way too tight for comfort... The instructor said that was to prevent me from falling out... I didn't believe him until I got home and researched this and found out there were passengers that have fallen out of their tandem suits/harness before.. Landing didn't seem a big deal at all until I hit the ground and broken/sprained/fractured my ankle really badly... I've been basically resting the last couple of days and had some time to think about how this incident might have happened and how it could be or could have been avoided or mitigated. At only 5'11" I'm actually at least three if not four inches TALLER than my tandem instructor. I didn't weight him but they DID weight me, and I was at 199lbs (just under the 200 limit were I would be fined extra for the jump, and 11+ more lbs I wouldn't have been able to jump at all) I'm not fat or rotund, just heavy. I mean it doesn't help matters that I was both taller and heavier than my instructor by a significant amount... not only does that tilt the center of gravity, it also means a faster fall rate (harder landing) and who knows I have a big head (no kidding, they had to get me the largest hat and even then it barely fit) and I might have blocked some of his visibility... Between the tight straps, the jump suit and just the overall position of being suspended in the air during the glide to final approach I really had a very hard time of "bringing my knees up", or "bringing my legs up" and then "pointing my toes towards the ground"... During the brief classroom instruction I was told to keep both my feet and knees together, bring legs up during landing, and keep toes pointing forward... That was easy to do under normal circumstances, but in that suit and with those death grip straps it was nearly impossible to do... I told the instructor this prior to final approach and he told me to use my hands and grab onto those funky looking green tube-like things on the sides of my leg/thigh on the blue suit itself to basically "pull myself/my legs Up" ... I did this during his flare and I thought everything would go smoothly... Then he surprised me by saying that we are doing a sit down, at the very last moment.... next thing I know my butt slams the ground, and seemingly at the same moment my right foot/ankle got hurt really bad. On our way down I chatted with him a bit about the accuracy of his landing ability... he told me he had a stadium rating or something like that and could land within meters of where he intended to land.... I took that to mean he could also provide the softest landing possible... I was less concerned about accuracy and more about gentleness on impact with ground. During classroom he briefed me on the procedure for a standup landing, but not a PLC (I didn't even know what that term was until much later when I read the SIM about types of landing techniques) ... so went he told me we were during a sit down at the very last possible moment, I had no time to react, and even if I did have time, I wouldn't have know what exactly to do.... I think all that coupled with the fact that I've never been a very flexible person (in terms of legs, stretching, arms, etc) meant that under those tight straps it was not possible for me to keep my feet closely together, and I could only bring up my legs with the help of my arms, and when pulling up by the side of my jumpsuit on each side of the thigh, this caused my feet to orient outwards/split.... (as opposed to ideally be straight and pointed directly forward) and on impact that was what strained/fractured my ankle/foot.... The instructor was so concerned about a possible "face plant" (that was what he called it) if my feet hit the ground first and we toppled over, that he obsessed about getting my feet up to the point where I forgot the actual landing/impact and the position/angle of my feet upon impact. There was a girl beside me doing tandem with another instructor and she had a stand up landing and I felt really bad about myself. I never intend on doing tandem again (in fact I never wanted to do tandem in the first place, but it was the only option under those circumstances) Is solo landing any easier? I see others doing perfect running landings, stand up landings at the DZ all the time that morning when I first drove in..... it doesn't seem that difficult at all.... Ironically, is tandem landings more dangerous than solo landings if the passenger is both taller and heavier than the instructor? I see videos on the net all the time when this petite lady just rests on top of her bigger, taller male tandem instructor and she just lands as light as a feather..... in my case it was lopsided and I was larger than my instructor, and believe me it was NOT a soft landing by any means. Would landing have been easier had I done this on my own instead of worrying about making sure my instructors feet landed first before I was allowed to make contact with the ground? 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Holiday Party Fashion Dos
Century 21 spokesman and "Fashion Police" co-host George Kotsiopoulos talks about what to wear to your holiday parties this year.
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Google Is Now Indexing JavaScript and CSS Content: Pitfalls to Avoid
Google has announced that Googlebot, its web crawler, now executes and indexes some content in JavaScript. This change could impact negatively search results, unless a few basic rules are taken into account.
IDE Integrated Search Engines
New tools are bringing the web directly into a programmer's IDE. As search engines continue to compete for customers, new programming-specific search functionality has been produced for Visual Studio users.
Search Based Apps Broken in Windows 8.1
Windows 8.1 has hidden the integrated search contract that many applications rely on. In its place users will instead see Bing search results and advertisements.
DataStax Brings Enterprise Security To Cassandra, Hadoop, Solr
Datastax Enterprise 3.0 was announced last month with several Enterprise security features for a cluster using Cassandra, Hadoop and Solr. InfoQ caught up with Robin Schumacher, VP of Products at DataStax to learn more.
Updated: Ed Bott Crowns Java the New "Foistware" King
On top of repeated security breaches to the Java browser plug-in, the long-established practice of including unrelated browser add-ons with the Java runtime installer is giving end-users another reason to avoid the Java platform.
On Lucene.Net: Becoming a Top-level Apache Project and Its Future
Lucene.Net, a C# port of the Lucene text search index library, has graduated the Incubator and has become a top-level Apache project. This article contains an interview with Prescott Nasser on the future of the project and Solr.Net.
Yahoo! Axis! Of! Incompetence!
Yahoo! have released a search plugin Axis which allows clients to search for web content with graphical previews rendered on the server. Unfortunately, they also leaked their private Chrome signing key with the Chrome extension. Read on for more.
Amazon's CloudSearch Stiffens Competition for Search as a Service Providers
Amazon launched CloudSearch to address growing demand for search capabilities in applications without the overhead of standing up and maintaining search infrastructure. The launch has spurred off a race among search providers. This article focuses on the strengths and gaps in the CloudSearch feature set based on experiences and reactions from the user community.
LinkedIn Engineering Releases SenseiDB 1.0.0
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CONNIE SCHULTZ: Hillary schools Congress while teaching girls how it's done
So many times during Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's testimony last week before Congress, I wanted to place one hand on the shoulder of every teenage girl in America, point at the TV screen with the other hand and whisper: This. This is how it's done.
Clinton showed up to answer tough and sometimes ridiculous questions regarding the deadly September 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. In the process, she offered a tutorial for today's young women.
Key points:
1) When a man asks you a question and then refuses to look at you as you answer, just keep going. Don't let his rudeness silence you.
2) When he interrupts you, return the favor.
3) When he says things you know are not true, correct him. Repeatedly.
4) When he attempts to bully you, mow him down with facts.
5) And whenever possible, smile. Nothing rattles an angry man like a woman who looks happy to annoy him.
Pundits have launched another round of debate over everything Hillary.
After her Senate hearing in the morning, Politico posted a gallery of her facial expressions. The Huffington Post ran a photo caption contest.
When Clinton's voice broke as she described meeting with families of the four diplomats who died, the coverage echoed the second-guessing of an emotional moment during the 2008 New Hampshire primary.
Did she choke up (ABC News) or tear up (Bloomberg News)? Or was she merely "close to tears" (The Daily Beast)? Or was she "tear-syncing" (Michelle Malkin)?
Here's what she said in that emotional moment: "For me, this is not just a matter of policy; it's personal. I stood next to President (Barack) Obama as the Marines carried those flag-draped caskets off the plane at Andrews. I put my arms around the mothers and fathers, the sisters and brothers, the sons and daughters, and the wives left alone to raise their children."
Clinton pushed back on Republican Sen. Ron Johnson's rant full of accusations and interruptions over the State Department's initial report that the Benghazi attack was a reaction to an anti-Islam YouTube video.
Various accounts described her response as "wrangling," "testy," "erupting" and "blowing up."
An excerpt of their exchange:
Johnson: "But, Madam Secretary, do you disagree with me that a simple phone call to those evacuees to determine what happened wouldn't have ascertained immediately that there was no protest? I mean, that was a piece of information that could've been easily, easily obtained ..."
Clinton: "Well, but, Senator, again ..."
Johnson: "within hours, if not days."
Clinton: "Senator, you know, when you're in these positions, the last thing you want to do is interfere with any other process going on, No. 1 ..."
Johnson: "I realize that's a good excuse."
Clinton: "Well, no, it's the fact. No. 2: I would recommend highly you read both what the (Accountability Review Board) said about it and the classified ARB, because even today, there are questions being raised.
"Now, we have no doubt they were terrorists; they were militants; they attacked us; they killed our people. But what was going on and why they were doing what they were doing is still unknown ..."
Johnson: "No, again, we were misled ..."
Clinton: "With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest, or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided they'd they go kill some Americans?
"What difference, at this point, does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, Senator."
Dear God, if that's an eruption, make me a volcano.
One last thing: A Washington Post/ABC News poll last week showed that Clinton has the highest approval ratings of her long public life. Interestingly, 67 percent of Americans like her, whereas only 19 percent said they approve of the job Congress is doing.
That, young ladies, is Hillary for the win.
Connie Schultz is a columnist for Parade magazine. She is the wife of U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio. Readers may write her at email@example.com.


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The broker-dealer industry has entered a period of profound change, one that is characterized by fundamental shifts in demographics and attitudes, and in the very nature of the advice model.
Yesterday's advice model presented a simple choice for investors. They could either do it themselves using online tools and a discount broker, or they could work with an advisor. Today we are seeing a significant convergence of the two models.
The phenomenon is being driven by individuals who want the best of both worlds: the benefits of financial guidance coupled with the comfort of being in the driver's seat.
Discounters are capitalizing on the opportunities presented by those investors with what I call the "Do-It-Yourself 2.0" model (DIY 2.0), with technology at its core. They offer control coupled with scalable advice using a mix of robust online planning tools and powerful websites.
Broker-dealers may want to explore engineering a similar transformation to reconfigure the current advisor model to what I'll call Advisor 2.0.
I believe the Advisor 2.0 model may help BDs supplement or even leapfrog DIY 2.0 by taking the core of the model—the advisor—and combining it with online tools and channel integration. Broker-dealers may, as a result, be better able to offer scalable, repeatable advice via a personal relationship.
Creating Advisor 2.0 won't be easy, but some National Financial clients have shown that it can be done successfully. Based on our experience working with hundreds of broker-dealers, Advisor 2.0 hinges on five key areas:
1. Being laser-focused on your strategy. No firm can be all things to all investors, and the most successful are those that have clearly defined their strategy and aligned their business to achieve it. We are seeing four potential strategies emerge:
- Focused players who strive to do certain things very well, for example, helping CPAs enter the brokerage industry.
- New model creators who combine various models into one, such as an "independent wirehouse" where advisors have the independence to give clients fiduciary advice, but are relieved from running a back office because of a centralized infrastructure.
- Adjacent business acquirers who have grown by adding complementary businesses, such as a bank broker-dealer acquiring a corporate trust and mutual fund business.
- Scale acquirers who have grown their footprint and gained efficiencies by combining similar businesses.
2. Putting the investor at the epicenter. Winning demands a deep understanding of the end investor and a business model designed to meet his or her needs. The industry has been focused primarily on helping boomers accumulate. Now we should help them navigate the switch to retirement, and also deal with a markedly different generation, with distinct risk tolerances and technology needs.
3. Transforming your advisors. The next generation of investors will consume advice differently from their parents. BDs who can reorient their advisors' focus to support the new model may benefit the most from this shift.
4. Cracking the product code. Broker-dealers should review their product offering and consider offering more simplified products that have the potential to cut through today's marketplace proliferation while addressing risk for skittish investors.
5. Driving operational excellence. To enable advisors to provide scalable advice, broker-dealers must increase the efficiency of their infrastructures. Better use of technology to connect investors, advisors and the middle office is the next frontier for efficiency.
Advisor 2.0 should continue to help younger boomers with their retirement savings, but should also help older boomers navigate the switch to decumulation. At the same time, it should help members of Gen X and Y increase their wealth accumulation, though in a wholly different way from their parents.


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Before Barack Obama became president, he reveled in the irresponsibility of his powerlessness. He could denounce Bush-administration counterterrorism initiatives from a glorious position of civil-libertarian purity and posit the need to strike a perfect balance "between privacy and security."
Then he got elected president, and the mere posturing had to end. He had to grow up. Invested with responsibility for keeping the country safe and, no doubt, informed of potential threats in hair-raising terms on a daily basis, he jettisoned his innocent civil libertarianism. In light of what were dire and real threats to our security, he had no choice but to use the surveillance powers of the government to foil them.
Now, President Obama thinks the Goldilocks balance he has always spoken of is struck by a vast National Security Agency monitoring program that vacuums up the phone records of all Americans. There is poetic justice in hearing the president excoriated in exactly the same terms as President George W. Bush was, by the very same people who worked to get him elected to end the terrible abuses of the Bush-Cheney regime. They are venting their sense of betrayal, but the fact is that — in least this respect — Obama grew up and they didn't.
As president, he didn't have the luxury of turning his back on Bush policies merely because they were Bush policies. In his press conference Friday, he said of the NSA program that upon taking office, he concluded that "on net, it was worth us doing." Whereas his allies can either pretend that the terror threat doesn't exist or that there are easy and simple ways of combating it, he has to deal with it in the real world. As he said of the programs on Friday, "My assessment and my team's assessment was that they help us prevent terrorist attacks." Finally, he can't celebrate leaker Edward Snowden, who portrays himself as a brave freedom fighter, then runs off into the arms of dictatorial China to hide after violating our laws.
There seems little question that the NSA programs are constitutional and legal. The Internet element is directed at foreigners overseas to whom our Fourth Amendment doesn't apply. In The New Republic, Robert Chesney and Benjamin Wittes write about this aspect of the Snowden leak, "There is nothing in the story that does not reflect exactly what someone who understands the law of this area would have predicted." Although, they note, that didn't stop the Washington Post from publishing what online platforms we are monitoring, useful information for anyone trying to evade our surveillance.
As for the phone program, it involves metadata — i.e., phone numbers dialed, and for what duration, and from where — that courts have held aren't protected by the Fourth Amendment the same way that the actual content of conversations are. Congress authorized the program, albeit somewhat vaguely, in Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act. The question here isn't whether Obama is lawless or shredding the Constitution any more than that was the question to ask George W. Bush. It is whether the program is proportionate and wise.
The metadata are fed into the maw of government algorithms. It is only anomalies that, assuming a court warrant can be obtained, get more attention. But the government is nonetheless sweeping up the records of Americans who have done nothing to earn anyone's suspicion. The information lands on the desktops of the likes of Edward Snowden, who, it turns out, isn't a very reliable custodian of sensitive data. Defenders of the program say that there has not yet been a demonstrated instance of abuse. But at the time of the Internal Revenue Service scandal, this isn't so reassuring.
The Snowden leak was wrong, but at least it makes possible an open debate about the program that might lead to useful tightening and new controls. Years ago, Barack Obama's contribution to that debate might have been as hyperbolic and irresponsible as that of his disappointed friends. Now, evidently, he knows better.
— Rich Lowry is the editor of National Review. He can be reached via e-mail:firstname.lastname@example.com. © 2013 King Features Syndicate


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Here, the visitor may follow one of the many paths through the wildly beautiful nature of mountainous Western Greece. The area is also ideal for those seeking for off road excitements on rocky and hardly accessible paths. If you are addicted to the sound of roaring engines and spinning wheels, visit Grevená and participate in organised jeep tours in mountain trails with 4x4 vehicles.
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Town Attorney David Persson sent an e-mail to Longboat Key town commissioners Wednesday, Oct. 28, advising them to consider "politely declining" a Sleepy Lagoon Homeowners meeting next week.
Because the main topic of discussion at the Wednesday, Nov. 4 meeting will be the site plan for the future Christ Church of Longboat Key, Presbyterian multi-functional building planned at 6400 Gulf of Mexico Drive and General Harris Street.
Several Sleepy Lagoon residents are upset with the project, which must be approved by the Town Commission, because they are worried about traffic and parking concerns in their community.
Persson, however, suggested commissioners consider staying away from the meeting.
Wrote Persson: "I just wanted to remind you that you are the final authority for site plan applications. The church's request is a site plan application. Therefore you will hear this quasi-judicial application at an advertised public meeting. Attendance at the Sleepy Lagoon meeting where this will be discussed will be an ex-parte communication."
Persson explained that the town's policy, established by a resolution, discourages ex-parte communications.
Ex-parte communication is any conversation held about a particular hearing before it is heard before the commission in an advertised meeting setting.
"I think it is obvious that the more ex-parte communications that occur, the more the formal process of review could be viewed as tainted," Persson wrote.
Persson also used the church site plan to allude to bigger issues, such as The Longboat Key Club and Resort's Islandside expansion and renovation plan.
"While this might not be a huge issue with a church site plan, it could be with other projects," Persson wrote.
Persson explained that mere attendance at the meeting is okay, as long as two or more commissioners are not exchanging ideas about the project.
"It is for these reasons that I continue to recommend that invitations of this nature be politely declined," Persson wrote.
Contact Kurt Schultheis at [email protected].
Town Attorney David Persson sent an e-mail to Longboat Key town commissioners Wednesday, Oct. 28, advising them to consider "politely declining" a Sleepy Lagoon Homeowners meeting next week.


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Mockingbird rises from the ashes
First it sang, then it burned, and now it has risen again. Mockingbird, Staunton's new restaurant and music hall, caught fire before it even opened back in August when two trash cans ignited during the renovation of the historic building on Beverley Street.
At the time, stunned owner Wade Luhn was planning on a September opening, but as he stood on the street watching the blaze he was speechless. While the restaurant side of the building suffered little damage, the music hall side took the brunt of the two-hour fire. A day later, though, Luhn was determined.
"We're uncertain when we will be able to restore the music hall," said Luhn. "but it will happen as soon as possible, and we will work with renewed determination to complete the project."
The restaurant, believe it or not, opened on schedule October 2, and now Luhn says the Grand Opening for the 162-seat music hall will be on November 14, just two months behind his original schedule.
"We recovered from the fire with sweat, hard work, and a great crew of determined workers," says Luhn.
In the end, he also got a little encouragement from Governor Tim Kaine, who stopped by the day before the restaurant opened during a trip to Staunton to promote arts in the region.
"He's a musician himself, and took a personal interest in all that's going on here regarding our performance space," said Luhn.
"I think using art as a drawing card for Staunton is great," Kaine told reporters.
On November 14 at the Mockingbird, that drawing card includes Trent Wagler and the Steel Wheels, one of the hottest "Roots Music" bands in Virginia, says Luhn. Next, it's Larry Keel and Natural Bridge and a special WNRN Presents show with Nathan Moore and Old School Freight Train's Jesse Harper.
Luhn says to check the Mockingbird's website for the full schedule of November acts.


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A strategic partnership between an energy management company and In-Q-Tel could help U.S. intelligence agencies better manage power consumption in their data centers.
Power Assure and In-Q-Tel, the CIA-owned investment firm, have entered into an investment and development agreement to derive more efficiency out of data centers.
Data center managers within the intelligence community will have access to Power Assure's EM/4 Data Center Energy Management platform, which allows managers to collect, synthesize and analyze the large volumes of raw data available from facilities and IT equipment. They can then turn the data into useful business information for making decisions in real time about improving the efficiency, capacity and performance of their data centers.
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"Power Assure is an important addition to our strategic investment portfolio," said William Strecker, executive vice president of architecture & engineering and CTO of In-Q-Tel. The software will let intell agencies "drive additional efficiencies into their data centers by managing power consumption, optimizing asset utilization and aligning power management with business processes," Strecker said.
In-Q-Tel has inked deals with other energy management companies to help intell agencies run more efficient data centers through power management. In July, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency announced plans to deploy MiserWare's Granola Enterprise and Datacenter software, which lets organizations track energy use and savings across thousands of computers.
The software is available to NGIA through a strategic partnership between MiserWare and In-Q-Tel, which identifies innovative technologies to support the U.S. intelligence community.
The Obama administration has spurred agencies to reduce energy consumption and eliminate and consolidate data centers through the Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy, and Economic Performance Executive Order 13514 and the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative.
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A's impressed by Gray's early spring performance
PHOENIX -- At this time last year, all eyes were on Sonny Gray. Yet on Friday, Bob Melvin didn't even bother to get a look at the right-hander throwing live batting practice.
"I purposely didn't watch Sonny today," said Melvin, smiling. "I didn't want to see him break any bats or hurt any feelings."
"When he told me that," said Gray, "I kind of laughed. What a difference a year makes."
Indeed. Gray was still a prospect last spring and months from making his big league debut. Fast forward through 10 impressive starts and another two in the playoffs, and the 24-year-old is now a staple at the top of Oakland's rotation.
Through it all, Gray has continually showcased improved fastball command. That was no different on Friday at Papago Park, where Yoenis Cespedes stepped away from the plate, shaking his head and commenting, "He looks real good. Very fast!"
Gray, who also faced Josh Reddick, threw a total of 16 fastballs, 10 changeups and four curveballs.
"My fastball location and movement were both really good today," he said. "That's something that we worked hard on, all throughout last year and even this offseason in the early bullpens. That's why I came in here two weeks early, to get working on that even more with the coaches. Hopefully, that continues to go in the right direction."


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Behold the Wounds in Jesus' Hands
Music for Choirs, Music from the Ensign, Submitted Music (1998-2006)
1. Behold the wounds in Jesus' hands,
The marks upon His side,
Then ponder who He meant to save
When on the cross He died.
We cannot see the love of God
Which saves us from the fall,
Yet know that Christ from wood and nails
Built mansions for us all.
2. Behold the outstretched hands of Christ,
Our Lord, who came to save,
Whose love and grace redeem our souls
And lift us from the grave.
Though bruised and battered as we stray
His guiding hands caress,
He washes and anoints with oil
Then in His arms we rest.
3. Behold the wounds in Jesus hands,
Look to your Lord and live.
He yearns to bless you with His love
And all your sins forgive.
Oh, empty is the heart of man
When it is filled with sin.
Come, open wide your broken heart
And let your Savior in!
4. Behold His wounded hands and feet!
Come touch, and see, and feel
The wounds and marks that you may know
His love for you is real.
Then as you fall to worship Him
And wash His feet in tears,
Your Savior takes you in His arms
And quiets all your fears.
Text: John V. Pearson
Music: David R. Naylor
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