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Your home directory is backed up automatically each day to backup server. You can access these daily images by going to:
There, you will see directories with names like '
20070804,' which corresponds to the date of the backup.
Inside this directory you'll see another directory named '
tree' corresponds to your home directory. So, in side it you'll see all the files and dictories backed up on that date. This is an 'image' or snapshot of what your home directory looked like at backup time. Backups are taken sometime between midnight and 8am generally.
You can read from (copy from) these directories, but cannot write to them.
The backup images are deleted over time inside a 3 month window according to the following schedule:
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Venture Shift is heading to NYC on November 17
Want to mingle with top entrepreneurs, such as CEOs and founders of Turntable.fm, SecondMarket and Buddy Media, as well as leading VCs from top firms, such as GRP, First Round, FirstMark, RRE, TechStars, Betaworks, Founder Collective and more?
Vator and Bullpen are looking to give away two demo tables to top startups (NYC-based preferably) who want to showcase their products and services to hundreds of high-tech influencers.
The winners get a free demo table, which consists of one 2ft by 4ft table, and three tickets to the Venture Shift NY event, and a couple meetings with two major VC firms (TBD).
For the lineup and agenda, click here.
Unlike Vator Splash, Vator's premier start-up competition and event, Venture Shift is produced by Vator and Bullpen Capital. The gathering is a discussion with top-tier venture capitalists, angels, super angels, fund investors, incubators, secondary market experts, and incubators about the changing dynamics across the venture landscape.
Knowing the way investors are thinking and deploying capital is essential to entrepreneurs who want to build businesses that last.
Join the competition by hitting "participate" on the right side.
Winners will be chosen by a combination of popular vote and judges votes.
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Newtown leader, police to be on hand for State of the Union speech
HARTFORD -- Newtown First Selectman Patricia Llodra and two local police detectives who were among the first on the scene for the deadly Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting will be guests of U.S. Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy for President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech.
Blumenthal said Monday he hopes the presence of the Newtown officials in the House of Representatives on Tuesday night will inspire the president to push ahead with a "very aggressive" gun control package in light of the Dec. 14 shooting, which left 20 first graders and six educators dead.
"I think the president, looking out at the gallery, knowing that victims are there, has to be moved to, in effect, sound the charge," he said, adding how he's concerned about talk of backing off on a new federal assault weapons ban and a ban on high-capacity magazines.
Murphy said Newtown Detective Dan McAnaspie will join him in the House. He also has invited Detective Jason Frank to Washington, D.C. He hopes both will attend a traditional Senate dinner before the address and have a chance to speak with other senators.
He said having the Newtown officials there reminds members of Congress that a mass shooting can happen anywhere.
"It's a reminder to even the most hardened friends of the gun lobby that your community could be next if we don't make changes," Murphy said.
U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty has invited Sandy Hook's lead teacher, Natalie Hammond, who was shot in the foot, leg and hand but crawled to safety.
Meanwhile, U.S. Rep. John Larson has invited his longtime friend Ross Hollander, president of Hartford Distributors in Manchester, where on Aug. 3, 2010, eight workers were shot and killed by an employee who had just been fired.
Also, U.S. Rep. Jim Himes invited his constituent Kurtina Murphy, of Bridgeport, whose 3-year-old daughter was hit in the crossfire of a gunfight last summer but has recovered.


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Chameleon Double Bass
The double bass chameleon,
a very rare beast!
a very rare beast!
a chameleon
than any other instrument. The different meth-
ods of tuning, the number of strings – and thus
the compass of the instrument – its size and the
nature of its construction, and the different tech-
niques for playing it. And last but not least, its
many names: all of this indicates how the term
"double bass" describes more a family of instru-
ments than a single specific member.
Names used for the largest of the bowed
geige and Groß-Quint-Baß, which in the opinion
of some experts point to kinship with the violin,
and others which seem to speak more of mem-
bership of the viol family: Viola grande, Subbass, Violone grosso, Contrabasso di viola, Contraviolon, Basse de viole, Violone grande, to list
In addition to the variety of its forms, the double bass may also be the most universally used instrument, appearing as it does in almost all the genres and styles of European and North and South American musical culture.
It is to be found in the classical symphony orchestra and in the rockabilly band,
in the palm court orchestra and in the avant garde ensemble, in pop groups and in the Baroque orchestra, in chamber music groups and in Tango ensembles, in Alpine and in bluegrass, in Klezmer and in the blues band.
An indispensable member of the jazz band, where it has in America been known since the 30s by the affectionately mocking name "doghouse". There, it has written musical history with the "walking bass", those bass note sequences, almost exclusively plucked – or slapped - which are in essence nothing other than the "basso continuo" of jazz, and with the swing rhythm without which modern musical life is unthinkable.
The double bass is needed in almost all types of music – and is nevertheless tolerated rather than welcomed. You can read about the reasons for this in the section


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I have tried writing to a socket using write() command. The data I need to write is of structure type and it contains both char and int datatype values. But when I write the data to the server socket, the value of the int variable is getting corrupted. I am receiving a value as 16777216 always.
I am writing from a Solaris machine to a Linux machine. Solaris is a 32 bit machine and Linux is a 64 bit machine. Do this have any impact on my problem.
I used htonl/ntohl and vice versa for passing the integer values from and to the server. But how can I use this if I am writing the whole structure type into the socket?? Can anyone help me to sort this out??
PCHAR data = NULL;
int size = sizeof(WSMsg);
int retry = 10;
data = new char [sizeof(WSMsg)];
memcpy(data, msg, sizeof(WSMsg));
int n = write(fd, &data[0], size);
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VANCOUVER - The pilot killed during yesterday's fiery plane crash near Vancouver International Airport has been identified as 44-year-old Luc Fortin of North Vancouver.
The B.C. Coroner Service confirmed this morning that Fortin died from "thermal" injuries.
The co-pilot, 26-year-old Matt Robic, remains in critical but stable condition with burns to 80 per cent of his body, according to Bill Hesse, the general manager of Prince George-based Northern Thunderbird Air, which operated the downed charter.
Fortin died just after 10 p.m. last night, at Vancouver General Hospital, said coroner Owen Court. An autopsy is currently underway, he said. "The next of kin was present at the time of his death," Court told The Sun Friday morning.
Court said the coroner service will continue to work closely with the federal transportation safety board (TSB), moving forward with the investigation.
"He [Fortin] was a pretty experienced pilot," Hesse said in an interview. "He's been with us since 2007."
Fortin was a 14,000-hour pilot who had worldwide flying experience taking him to Canada's north, Antarctica, the Maldives and many other places around the globe, Hesse said.
Hesse, who arrived in Vancouver this morning, said Fortin leaves behind a wife and child.
Robic, a 1,400-hour pilot, joined the company in June of this year, Hesse added.
The airline is a small company with between 60 and 70 employees. "We just want to know what happened," he said, adding that he has more questions than answers at this point about caused the crash.
Hesse said the company was in communication with the plane via radio and satellite before it crashed, but he wouldn't share other details.
As of 9 a.m. Friday morning, two patients involved in the crash remained in the intensive care unit at VGH, according to a Vancouver Coastal Health release. Four other patients from the crash are in stable, but serious condition at VGH, and two others were released from hospital last night after receiving treatment—one from VGH and one from Richmond.
No patients remain at Richmond Hospital, said VCH spokeswoman, Trudi Beutel, in the release, adding that all next of kin have been notified.
Lead crash investigator Bill Yearwood told a news conference Friday that it was an oil indicator light that prompted the pilots of the flight to turn back for YVR while flying at about 4,600 metres above Golden Ears Provincial Park.
The caution light did not prompt an emergency, but, as per procedure, forced the pilots to turn around roughly 15 minutes into the flight.
About 900 metres from the runway back at Vancouver International Airport and with its landing gear down in a stable approach, the plane veered 90 degrees to the left and crashed into Russ Baker Way, Yearwood said.
"That's our challenge: to determine why what appeared to be a benign indicator problem turned into such a tragic event," Yearwood said.
As it crashed, the plane hit a lamppost and a car. The car wasn't badly damaged, but its occupants were taken to hospital, Yearwood said.
"It was fortunate that it was clear enough for them to come to a stop before colliding with too many objects or people."
Recordings and radar data from YVR's control tower have been taken by investigators and witnesses have been interviewed Yearwood said.
A "blackbox" containing the pilots' cockpit conversation - but not any physical data like the plane's altitude - was recovered roughly intact.
The recordings were sent to the TSB's lab in Ottawa on Friday to be downloaded. Yearwood said he expected to have the audio from those last few minutes before the crash in his hands by the end of next week.
Meanwhile investigators completed the physical inspection of the crash site early Friday morning and soon will do more in depth study of the plane's machinery as it sits in a YVR hangar, according to Yearwood.
Transport Canada spokeswoman Sara Johnston said Friday that the federal department last conducted an inspection of Northern Thunderbird, including the aircraft involved in Thursday's crash, in April 2010 and did not uncover any problems.
The captain and first officer had valid commercial pilot licenses and valid medical certificates.
Johnston noted that Northern Thunderbird Air is a fully owned independent subsidiary of Central Mountain Air and operates from Prince George, with a sub-based in Vancouver.
The company is authorized for flights under both instrument and visual flight rules; until the crash, it had a fleet of eight aircraft, including three King Air 100 planes, three Beech 1900 aircraft, one Cessna Caravan, and one King Air 350.
A Transport Canada minister's observer has been assigned to monitor the transportation safety board's investigation and plans to follow up with Northern Thunderbird in the next few days, she said.
The crash occurred shortly after 4 p.m. at the intersection of Gilbert Road and Russ Baker Way. Bridges around YVR, including the No. 2 Road Bridge, were closed into the evening, disrupting the afternoon commute.
Officials said all traffic disruptions have been resolved as of Friday morning.
Terry McBratney, a Metro Vancouver district supervisor for BC Ambulance who was at the scene of the crash, said it was "amazing anyone survived."
The plane landed when there was a break in traffic, he said.
"It was lucky."
"If the plane had landed 30 seconds later, it would have taken out a row of cars."
McBratney said the plane took out a light standard and part of a concrete median, losing its propeller along the way.
Nikolai Jensen was walking in the area when he saw the plane going sideways, "one wing was dipping down," he said. "It was coming straight for me, of all people to go toward, I'm alone and this plane's coming straight for me."
He said the plane was trying to use the road straight in front of it as a runway. By the time it stopped it was only about nine metres (30 feet) away from him. "I was thanking the maker by then," he said, "and I'm not a very religious man."
He told Global News that when the plane came to a halt, people in cars around the crash jumped out and rushed toward the wreckage to help. "They were dragging these people out," he said. " ... Way before police arrived or anyone."
He said the rescuers seemed unfazed by the burning wreckage — they just wanted to save peoples' lives despite the risk to their own.
"Heroic qualities really," he said.
Vincent Varona was driving southbound on Russ Baker Way when he noticed the plane flying erratically.
"Directly ahead of me in the sky I saw the plane bank really hard to its left, and then immediately to its right, as if it were out of control," he said.
"It was still going very fast, and at that speed it was lower to the ground than a plane making a normal descent would be, so putting all of these things together, I thought to myself, 'It's going to crash.' "
Varona turned a corner, where trees momentarily blocked his view of the plane, "and sure enough once I drove forward another few metres, I saw smoke billowing from maybe another kilometre or so in front of me."
Yearwood said the Beechcraft King Air 100 is common in the industry, and the Pratt and Whitney engine has a reputation for reliability. "There was nothing on our watch list about this aircraft or this type of operation," he said.
The transportation safety board had five investigators on the site late Thursday night. The source of the problem will be the focus of its investigation in coming days.
The stretch of Russ Baker Way is expected to be closed until at least this morning.
Two pilots died in 2005 when a twin-engined Northern Thunderbird King Air 200 crashed near Squamish.
Yearwood said that crash occurred when the plane was transitioning from Vancouver to Prince George. The pilot flew up a valley and was in a steep climb trying to avoid terrain when the plane crashed.
In 2001, a Northern Thunderbird single-engine Cessna 185 crashed north of Prince George while under government charter to do a wildlife survey. The pilot and passenger survived.
The Beechcraft King Air 100 was built in 1970, according to aircraft registration information.
Northern Thunderbird's website states that the company, also known as NT Air, has been providing charter and scheduled services to B.C. and Yukon since 1971.
"Our roots are in the float, ski and off-strip work in BC's north and although we have moved on to modern aircraft, practices and covering a larger geographical area; it is this historical experience that drives our company today. We take pride in doing the hard jobs and doing it without compromising safety or professionalism.
"We hold our people to a high level of accountability and reward them based on performance and leadership. We put careful thought into what we promise and never make our problems our clients' problems. Thinking and delivering 'outside the box' is what we do best."
With files from Global News
The Vancouver Sun would like to talk to any of the rescuers who helped out in yesterday's fiery plane crash near Vancouver International Airport, as well as any passengers or motorists involved in the crash.
Please call Sun reporter Jeff Lee at 604-605-2197 or email at email@example.com


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- B.M.Ed., Columbus State University
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Scott began his musical training in his native Georgia and completed his BMED at Columbus State University where he began performing Operas and Musicals at both the University and the historic Springer Opera House. Scott and his sister Kathy performed throughout Georgia and on state-wide Public Television. Scott then continued his studies at Florida State University with a Master's in Vocal Performance where he studied with Janice Harsanyi.
After moving to California, Scott began performing in Musical Showcases throughout Hollywood and then professionally in Musical Theater, Dinner Theater, Oratorio and Opera including solo engagements with San Diego Opera, Oakland Lyric Opera and Opera Idaho. Scott has performed with Ronald Reagan, in shows with Broadway Award winners John Raitt and Eadie Adams, with Screen Stars Anne Blyth, Bill Hayes, and John Schuck as well as Metropolitan Opera legends Jerome Hines, Richard Fredricks and Cesare Siepi and Grammy Award winning conductor Thomas Conlin. He has sung for Joan Sutherland, Richard Bonning, John Wustman and Multi-Grammy Award winning Conductor Leonard Slatkin of the National Symphony Orchestra.
Scott performed numerous roles in over 200 performances during three seasons touring Southern California and Las Vegas with the San Diego Educational Opera. He has also appeared as a featured soloist with the Bakersfield Symphony, Doctor's Symphony of Los Angeles, The San Angelo Symphony, The Carmel Bach Festival, the Santa Barbara Choral Society, the Los Angeles Camarata, the Consortium Angeli and the Southwest Consortium performing Bass and Baritone solos from such works as Handel's "Messiah", The Mozart Requiem, The Fauré Requiem, The Duriflé Requiem, The Brahm's Requiem, Bach's "St. John Passion", Rossini's "Stabat Mater", Vaughn Williams' "Five Mystical Songs" and Michael Tippett's "A Child of our Time". He has performed for the TEXOMA National Association of Teachers of Singing conference at Baylor University and premiered works for Baritone and Bassoon at Columbus State University for the International Double Reeds Conference.
Scott completed his Doctorate of Musical Arts in Vocal Performance at The University of Southern California where he studied with Judith Natalucci and Frank Curtis. Before coming to Angelo State University, Scott taught classes at Florida State University, The University of Southern California and was Assistant Professor of Voice at Northern State University in South Dakota. While at Northern State, Scott also performed, lectured and adjudicated in both North and South Dakota.


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Last weekend's adventure involved friends introducing Betty and the HP to siphon coffee.
This is the closest Betty has come to hard drugs, and to be honest it was intensely appealing.
The siphon paraphernalia draws water from a bulb into a chamber, brews the coffee, and then sends it back into the bulb in a rather rarefied form, with depths and intricacies of flavour that espresso doesn't quite capture.
The only place we've found in Auckland so far that serves siphons is Espresso Workshop, in Britomart – they're brilliant.


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Partner Project 2: What's your idea?
In part two of this series, find out how to research your idea to find out how to make it better. Also learn some tools that will help you find your niche and organize your data. For discussions and help with your project, please visit:
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August 24, 2011 at 10:28 am
very informative video, i wrote down what i wanted to do on a piece of paper yesterday, it was just now when i watch this partner project. I guess im on the right track, Thanks very much.
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September 4, 2011 at 5:56 pm
Can I Use Your User Name Gigafide For My Website?
September 10, 2011 at 11:19 am
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November 23, 2011 at 12:53 am
hi everyone I'm actually preparing to make my on website,
I really like your work in the partner project it was a good help for me to start my own web site as a web developer for 4 year now I found my self withe a little experience that I could share withe the world 🙂 but some times with my lase way and the work pressure I can't just find the right organization of my time for this. And you know the time needed by the website 🙁
I will try, and try until I touch my goal
so thinks for the help 🙂
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100w Mega-Ray & Deep Dome Kit.
The 100w mega-Ray & the Deep Dome have been put together for this deal, the Mega-Ray fits perfectly and is suitable to use in the Deep Dome and the dome will swallow the bulb so no glare from the bulb can be seen and it will also ensure that if you brush past the bulb you will not get burnt. Buying this kit will save you £££'s than if you brought the two separately on this site.
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Serena dominates, Venus improves at Family Circle
What a week for the Williams sisters.
Serena gained a title, Venus found a renewed belief in her game and both showed a calm confidence at the Family Circle Cup born of perspective and enduring difficult times.
Serena capped a dominant week with a powerful performance in the finals Sunday, defeating Lucie Safarova 6-0, 6-1 to win the championship. It was Serena Williams' 40th career tournament title and her first win on clay since taking this event in 2008.
"It all came together a little bit," Serena Williams said. "So hopefully I can improve on this and just use it as one block of building."
Sister Venus has similar hopes. The 31-year-old star and seven-time grand slam winner was playing just her second tournament since an autoimmune disease - Sjogren's syndrome - kept her sidelined for more than six months. Venus Williams reached the quarterfinals in her return at the Sony Ericsson Open and did the same here, showing off some solid tennis of her own in her first clay-court event in two years. Venus nearly made it to the semifinals, missing out on her first matchup with Serena since 2009 when Samantha Stosur rallied to win.
Then Serena got a bit of sisterly revenge, ousting Stosur in dominating 6-1, 6-1 fashion.
Still, Venus' effort moved her up about 60 spots in the rankings from where she started last month at 134th in the world. "I've never been so happy to be ranked 70," Venus said with a smile.
It was that sort of tournament for the Williamses, who both showed an easy grace throughout the Family Circle.
Serena cracked herself up plenty after matches, joking about having the game to defeat friend Andy Roddick or having her dogs pop out in the media room after beating Safarova.
"I hated seeing her in here," Serena said of her dog, Jackie. "That's my baby girl, though."
Serena, 30, said she's got plenty on her plate off the court which keeps her mind free for tennis when it's time to compete. Williams spoke of re-launching her clothing line on a TV shopping network and papers she's got due for school that she hasn't done.
She's even thought of moving to Paris, which she's said several times is her favorite city.
"Yeah, I was thinking about it and I told my mom the other day, how would she feel if I moved to Paris," Serena said. "I didn't tell my dad, though."
Venus, 31, spent more time discussing her changed attitude about tennis than about what strokes she needed to improve.
"I think a lot of people go into matches and they're worried about their game," Venus Williams said. "I don't worry about that anymore, so my priorities are completely different."
Williams was honored to help celebrate the legacy of women's tennis at the Family Circle. She took part in a gala dinner Friday night in honor of the sport's "Original 9" players led by Billie Jean King who started the women's pro tour in 1970. Three years later, the WTA was founded and the Family Circle began. "So I feel grateful to have this job," Venus said with a nod to the founders.
There was a time when about the only priority for both sisters was coming out on top. The two have combined for 20 grand slam titles - Serena has 13, Venus seven - and their matchups were can't-miss affairs for the sport. During one stretch in 2002 and 2003, Serena won five grand slam championships and beat Venus in the finals of each.
Venus has had her wins over Serena, too, coming out on top over her younger sister in the 2001 U.S. Open and the 2006 Wimbledon championships. These days, the two seem content with their games and places in the sport.
They tried to stoke up some fire for the potential semifinal meeting, but none of it got very far. Serena was more pointed than Venus about going after the French Open title - only one of Serena's major championships came at Roland Garros - and how the Family Circle win was a great starting point.
"I'm just focused on the moment," she said.


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Scaling of Selected Elements of the Sensory Impressions of the Tactile Sense
People from various regions of the world were questioned for their personal associations of three components of the sense of touch i.e. smoothness/coarseness, hardness/softness and warm/cold with peripheral colors of the rainbow e.g. either violet or red color. Links of violet color to smoothness, hardness and cold and red color to coarseness, softness and warm clearly dominated among collected 1433 replies. Thus, the dominating associations could be considered standard. These results will be helpful in attempted construction of standard sensory profiles of the human individuals.
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This one will only apply to our friends over in China, at least for the moment. We've just gotten a press release from the folks over at Appular, who have just signed a deal with iDreamsky to create SkyNet, which will essentially be the one-stop shop for Android apps and games in the Chinese market. iDreamsky has received over 2 million USD in funding for this venture from Hua Xiu Investment Group, and they claim SkyNet will be the official preloaded game center app for future devices manufactured by Lenovo, Coolpad, and many more. Appular projects that SkyNet will be preloaded onto over 4 million Android devices by the end of 2011. Those are some pretty impressive numbers, if you ask me.
Appular and iDreamsky are working to bring popular U.S. titles to SkyNet, and they're seeking Android game developers that want to get their games out to a bigger audience: China. So, if you're an Android dev, and you want your game to go international, you can contact Appular at [email protected], or iDreamsky at [email protected], but you'd better hurry, because there are only a few spots open. With that being said, SkyNet is currently in a closed beta, and there's no set release date, but if they want to reach that 4 million devices goal they've set, Appular and iDreamsky need to move quickly. More on this as it develops. The full press release can be seen below.
Partners with Appular to bring US titles to new Android distribution platform
Shenzhen, China and New York
– April 4, 2011 – iDreamsky, a leading mobile app developer in Southern
China has recently received over 2 million USD in funding from Hua Xiu
Investment Group and today announced their latest product, SkyNet, a
social gaming and distribution platform for Android games in the Chinese
market. The SkyNet platform will be the official and preloaded game
center app on Android devices manufactured by Lenovo, Coolpad and many
others, and is projected to be preloaded on more than four million
Android devices by the end of 2011 alone.
is currently in closed beta, and iDreamsky seeks 82 Android game
developers who are interested in expanding their titles to a new market
for the initial launch. All titles will be required to integrate
SkyNet's SDK, and integrated titles will be made available on SkyNet's
Android app market, giving these titles maximum exposure to all Android
users. Titles will also be featured in some of the biggest social and
gaming networks in China, allowing developers to introduce their
products to an entirely new international audience.
evaluating various smartphone social gaming platforms available in the
market, SkyNet is the only one that truly understands what the players,
developers, manufacturers and telecoms in China need," said Mao Shijie,
Director of Mobile Internet Application and Service of Lenovo Group.
"SkyNet has the right tools to allow developers to form a good ecosystem
and gamers to be socially connected."
provides unique social gaming features such as PvP, virtual currency
reward mechanics, local social media integration in Sina Weibo, QQ
micro-blogging, RenRen and more. Opening up doors for in-app purchases
for titles on China's Android Market, SkyNet has also integrated many of
the most popular payment channels in China, such as QQ coins, Unionpay,
Alipay and all three of Telecom's payment gateways.
partnership with Appular, global leader in mobile app marketing, SkyNet
plans to collaborate on bringing US titles to the upcoming Android
market. Representing some of the biggest titles on the US Android Market
and iTunes App Store that have totalled over 100 million downloads in
the past year, Appular specializes in enhancing of visibility,
distribution, and commercial success of mobile apps.
of the developers we talk to are looking for opportunities to expand
their titles and brands onto an international market," says Brian Akaka,
CEO of Appular. "SkyNet is the perfect way for an app to gain traction
in the Chinese market. We hope to bring some of the most beloved titles
from the US and introduce them to a massive new audience."
has shown us that they have a well-established network of developers
and can connect them with iDreamsky to bring new titles to China's
Android market," says Michael Chen, CEO at iDreamsky. "This partnership
will help us and Appular to mutually extend our reaches across the
Pacific. We want to be able to introduce new content to our Android
users in China and this partnership with Appular will make it possible."
who are interested in bringing their Android titles to SkyNet or those
who would like more information can contact Appular at [email protected] or iDreamsky at [email protected].
About iDreamsky:
is a Shenzhen, China based company founded in 2009. Even since it has
established to be one of the leading mobile app developers in China.
With major clients such as Lenovo, China Telecom, Chung Hwa Telecom, HTC
and many more. At 2011, iDreamsky have successfully secure a 2 million
USD seed investment from Hwa Xiu Investment Group. For more information,
visit www.idreamsky.com.
About Appular
is an NYC-based company whose mission is to share its world-class
experience in marketing, promoting, and publishing apps with innovative
mobile app developers across the globe. The Appular team has helped
share a multitude of apps with millions of iPhone and Android users. For
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Not Seeing Twitter Mentions on Your iPhone? This May Be Why
I look at my Twitter feed on a variety of system: desktop, tablets and smartphones. So it took me a little while to notice that the Connect tab on my iPhone's Twitter app was frozen in time. Eventually, with responses two days old on my Apple iPhone 4, I followed the somewhat dusty path to Twitter's help forum where I found proof that it wasn't just me. Twitter for the iPhone and Android has a problem with showing you Twitter content about you.
In a Support post entitled simply: "Not seeing @mentions under Connect tab on Twitter for iPhone and Twitter for Android", Twitter support said the service is "experiencing an issue where some users are unable to see their @mentions under the Connect tab".
Twitter doesn't say why this is happening. It happened to me before I updated to iOS 5.1. In fact, I updated to the new Apple's mobile OS, hoping that that would fix the problem. I also tried turning on and off my phone. Nothing worked. My other Twitter tabs: Direct messages and my Twitter stream (under home) worked just fine. I am, by the way, using Twitter 4.0 for the iPhone.
Twitter says the problem exists on iOS 4 and Android devices, so it's not app- or platform-specific. As soon as I mentioned the problem on Twitter, I get a bunch of responses indicating that I was not alone. I've asked Twitter for comment on how wide-spread the problem is and will update this post with its response.
While we wait for Twitter to provide an official fix, here are the steps you can take right now to get your Mentions going again. It does involve removing your Twitter accounts from your phones and adding them back in again. Not a big deal, really.
To remove your account on the iPhone, go to Settings, scroll down to Twitter, find your account and highlight your name by selecting it. A "Delete Account" option will appear below. Select it, confirm and then add your account back in just the way you did when you first got your iPhone. The process is similar on your Android device: Your Twitter account info is under the App settings. Remove the account and then add it back in.
This worked for me and it should for you, too. Then all will be right in your mobile Twitter world.
Are you experiencing this problem? Let us know in the comments the details and if this fix worked for you.
Update: Twitter representatives would not comment on the scope of the problem. However, the company has posted a fix for Android phones. More details here. Twitter promised to update the post when an iPhone fix becomes available.


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Reaching Older Women (ROW)
Event Dates:
Pre-registration required. Please contact our office at 250-860-3181.
Tuesday, September 26th – Tuesday, November 14th, 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm. There is no cost to attend the program, but you are welcome to make donations that go toward paying for supplies. (Please note that there is a cost to participants for metered parking.)
This confidential group is for women who have experienced historical or current partnership abuse.
Topics may include: boundaries, transition, what's normal, loss, trust, self-esteem, shame, beliefs & values.
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Quote of the Day - I never read a book before reviewing it - it prejudices a man so.
MIPTCS Occasional Book Review: Solo by Choice, by Carolyn Elefant
"Back when you were in law school you had dreams. Maybe it was standing before a jury, passionately arguing on behalf of a desperate client ... or winning an appeal that would link your name to a new legal precedent ... or pulling off a dramatic 11th hour deal that would give your struggling technology client a life-saving infusion of capital. But what happened? ... years later ... most of those dreams are unrealized."
Now, instead "You work 60-hour weeks in BigLaw... or, you're a government prosecutor ... whose work is no longer challenging ... Or you just passed the bar, and the prospects of paying off your student loans ... has you popping antacid in the middle of the night." The Preface of Solo by Choice gives this wonderful setup for three-hundred pages packed full of timely and spot-on advice for a lawyer struggling with these issues.
If you're a lawyer and those law-school dreams have all but evaporated and you're contemplating taking the plunge to start your own law firm, perhaps as a solo, perhaps as a group of lawyers who all have these unrealized dreams and want to run your own show, then...
You need this book. Don't do anything else to start up a new law firm without reading this insightful guide, Solo by Choice, by Carolyn Elefant.* Even if you have a long-established solo or small firm, then this book will help you fine-tune your practice in ways you can't even imagine. Even if you are in BigLaw or even a government prosecutor, there are a few tips you can pick up to help your practice (see the chapter on Dealing with clients).
Even after starting this firm, WLF | The Williams Lindberg Law Firm five years ago and after more than twenty years of practicing law, I learned more than a few things from this paperback. You'll find it more than helpful, I'm sure. Your investment will yield much in return.
* MIPTC and Carolyn Elefant's blog, My Shingle, are both members of the Law.com blog network. Elefant also contributes to the Legal Blog Watch.


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Complex Systems Symposium
Held on November 6, 2009
at Thayer School of Engineering
Complex systems are systems involving large numbers of interacting cyber/mechanical/human entities or "agents." This symposium described the role of engineering sciences in complex systems with societal impact and explored the key challenges that arise from engineering networks of collaborative agents.
Videos of this event are posted on the program page.
Three main themes were addressed:
Networked Systems
- Keynote speaker: Duncan Watts, Yahoo! Inc., "Using the Web to Study Social Networks"
- Focus: social networks, cooperative multi-agent groups, sensor networks for monitoring an environment, distributed robotic networks, and cyber-enabled intelligent transportation systems.
- Keynote speaker: George Conrades, Executive Chairman, Akamai Technologies, "Commercializing Complex Systems in the Marketplace"
- Focus: all aspects of computer, network, and information security and public policy issues related to security and privacy.
- Keynote speaker: John Donahoe, CEO, eBay Inc., "The eBay Story"
- Focus: the role of information technology & science (ITS) in business from design to management, operations, and scheduling issues.
For more information, contact Professor Reza Olfati-Saber.


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Woah, it's been a while since I wrote my last post eh? I thought it was good to have a moment's radio silence to take a break and to give myself a little privacy for a while.
So what did i do in Brisbane? What IS there to do?
First few days I just chilled out and didn't do too much, a look around the city, a Boardwalk Cafe coffee at Southbank.
It was great to drive my car around.
I got a surprise visit from my brother in Sydney. Before I left Tokyo I was thinking of going down to Sydney to visit him. Lucky. It was a surprise that could've gone horribly wrong.
We went to Steve Irwin's ("The Crocodile Hunter") Australia Zoo, an hour's drive north of Brisbane on the Sunshine Coast. They let us touch the kangaroos and koalas, as well as feeding the elephants. It's a little pricey at $54, but I think it was worth checking out.
Another worthy excursion to do in Brisbane is to ride the City Cats, the commuter ferries that run up and down the river. For $4.40 (off-peak), it's cheap and a great way to see the city from the water.
During the day, the temperature was great. It was constantly around the 26 degree mark. Hard to believe it was winter. A night it was a little chilly but there were still people going out in T-shirts.
It was great catching up with old friends. A drink at the Down Under, visiting a friend in Toowong, eating a nice Korean meal. I even visited my old workplace to see who was still around. I was surprised to see a lot of the old faces. It was great to feel that familiarity. It's the thing that makes me miss home the most.
I brought back the usual "food run" of cheese, Di Bella Coffee and biscuits. I also brought emergency supplies of medicine, deodorants and other bits and pieces.
My hard drive is running out of space so I got a 500GB portable drive and DVD DL burner for backups. I think I'm prepared. I left my SLR to my dad so sometime I'll be looking for a new one.
I watched a few movies while I was there.
I rented out "The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button" (good), "The Science of Sleep" (looks good, but confusing), and watched "Yes Man" (better than I expected) on the plane.
I hadn't been to the cinema in years now, so desperate to watch a film on the Imax I settled for "Bandslam". It's a typical FAMILY film. Vanessa Hudgens was in it. 'Nuff said. All I could think about was her leaked internet pictures, to excuse her bad acting. Not a bad film, definitely forgettable though.
It's been almost a week now back in Tokyo. Business as usual really. The week went by so fast.
Tokyo says "Irrashaimasu", but I think she doesn't mean it.
Tuesday, 25 August 2009
Brisbane Winter?
Woah, it's been a while since I wrote my last post eh? I thought it was good to have a moment's radio silence to take a break and to give myself a little privacy for a while.
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Hello fellow Sugar Detoxers,
Today is formally our 7th day on aiming for a Sugar Free Diet.
As with any addictive substance, withdrawal is a common side effect. Feelings of irritability and headache are amongst the most common for those who are flushing out sugar from their system. Another common side effect can be flu like feelings which can feel like a common cold or feel as sever as needing to be in bed for a few days.
Just when the individual is waiting for that "feel great" feeling which a sugar free diet promises, the withdrawal symptoms kick in.
These side effects usually come upon Sugar Detoxers about a week after starting the plan.
Symptoms usually last between 3-7 days, though can stay with you for up to 2 weeks.
My recommendation for the withdrawal period is to eat extra fruits especially the sweet ones, like watermelon, mango and bananas. You can also incorporate more sweet vegetables like sweet potatoes, steamed carrots and squashes.
Simple Banana Snack
- Peel Bananas
- Roll in almond butter
- Roll in crushed walnuts
Eat and enjoy the benefits of a sweet fruit coupled with satisfying nut protein.
With these fruit and vegetable choices you will keep healthy vitamins and minerals in and keep refined sugar out!
Continues these type of food choice recommendations until your symptoms subside.
To all the wonderful mothers, "Happy Mothers Day!"
Tell your mom about Sari's Sugar Detox because we all know…
Sari Dana
Health Coach
Fitness Professional
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3net — the 24/7 3D Network from Sony, Discovery and IMAX — to Debut FIELDS OF VALOR: THE CIVIL WAR, World's First Native 3D Documentary Series, December 3November 28, 2011 – 2:30 pm
3net and Sister Networks Velocity and Military Channel to Offer 3D/2D Simulcast Sunday, December 4 at 10PM ET/PT
(Culver City, Ca.) 3net, the joint venture 24/7 3D network from Sony, Discovery and IMAX – will debut FIELDS OF VALOR: THE CIVIL WAR, the world's first native 3D war documentary, Saturday, December 3 (9PM ET/PT), it was announced today by Tom Cosgrove, President & CEO of 3net. In addition, 3net, along with Discovery Communications' sister networks Velocity and Military Channel, will offer a 3D/2D simulcast of the premiere episode Sunday, December 4 (10PM ET/PT).
The epic, four-part 3net original miniseries – the most ambitious 3D project ever produced for television – will transport viewers back in time, retelling the war's most pivotal moments both on and off the battlefields from the unique perspective of both sides of the historic conflict. The series utilizes carefully selected stereoscopic stills from the period – recently released by the Library of Congress – and shown for the first time ever to television audiences in their native 3D format.
In addition, FIELDS OF VALOR: THE CIVIL WAR features a cast of thousands for the penultimate battle scenes, unique "tableau form" style 3D recreations and 3D graphic effects to bring to vivid life the men of the 20th Massachusetts and the 1st Virginia as they leave their homes and loved ones, prepare for ensuing battle and plunge headlong into the history's most brutal domestic conflict. Intimate accounts of the brave men on the front lines are told through paralleling stories from each side of the war, giving audiences a unique insight into the beliefs, struggles and passions of those involved from both the North and South.
"Recent advancements in 3D production have allowed us to get much 'closer' to this period in our history and offer a uniquely personal and immersive telling of the conflict that simply wasn't possible before," said Cosgrove. "By capturing the soldiers and battles of this historic war in native 3D, and showcasing perfectly preserved stereoscopic stills from the period, we've been able to bring a level of humanity and realism to the project unlike anything television audiences have experienced with previous Civil War documentaries. As well, we're excited to broaden the audience for FIELDS OF VALOR: THE CIVIL WAR with the 2D premiere on our sister networks Velocity and Military Channel."
FIELDS OF VALOR: THE CIVIL WAR is produced by Towers Productions, LLC, with Jonathan Towers and 3net's Vice President of Production and Development Tim Pastore serving as Executive Producers. David W. Padrusch serves as Director, with Patrick Brennan serving as historical consultant.
FIELDS OF VALOR: THE CIVIL WAR – Premiere Schedule:
"Collision Course" – 3net 3D Premiere Saturday, December 3 (9PM ET/PT) & 3net/Velocity/Military Channel 3D/2D Simulcast Sunday, December 4 (10PM ET/PT):
As America plunges headlong into Civil War, Harvard graduate Henry Livermore Abbott, from a prominent Boston family, enlists in the 20th Massachusetts, determined to fight because his two brothers have already joined up. Around the same time, in Richmond, Virginia, a young pharmacist named Edward Payson Reeve, passionate about the Southern Cause, joins the 1st Virginia, a storied unit whose history goes back to the nation's founding. In July 1861, the Virginians play a key role in the first Bull Run campaign, helping to push the Yankees back toward Washington, DC. That fall, the so-called Harvard regiment sees action for the first time in the Battle of Ball's Bluff, another Union defeat, where a future US Supreme Court justice named Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. is injured.
"The Grind" – 3net 3D Premiere Saturday, December 10 (9PM ET/PT), preceded by a special encore presentation of "Collision Course" at 8PM ET/PT:
As the Civil War enters its second bloody year, the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia becomes the Holy Grail of the conflict. As the North marshals its troops to capture it, Harvard men Henry Livermore Abbott and Oliver Wendell Holmes form a tight bond of friendship. In the spring of 1862, during the Union ill-fated Peninsula campaign, Edward Payson Reeve of the 1st Virginia is wounded and taken prisoner. Also captured in the fighting is Paul Revere of the 20th Massachusetts, grandson of the legendary patriot, who witnesses the horrors of slavery while in rebel captivity and becomes an abolitionist. Another Southern gentleman, John Dooley, leaves Georgetown University and joins the 1st Virginia in time to help the Confederates defeat the Yankees in the Second Battle of Manassas in late August.
"Hell on the Horizon" – 3net 3D Premiere Saturday, December 17 (9 PM ET/PT), preceded by encore presentations of the first two episodes beginning at 7PM ET/PT:
In September 1862, Confederate General Robert E. Lee invades western Maryland, with Private John Dooley and the men of the 1st Virginia regiment leading the way. The campaign culminates along the Antietam Creek at the town of Sharpsburg, where both the Virginia men and the 20th Massachusetts, including a new recruit from Nantucket named Josiah Murphey, will both see action in the bloodiest single day of the entire Civil War. Once again, future Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. is wounded. President Lincoln uses the outcome of the battle to redefine the meaning of the war by announcing his Emancipation Proclamation, freeing slaves in rebel territory, a bold move that some Union soldiers, including Henry Livermore Abbott, find offensive.
"Judgment Days" – 3net 3D Premiere Saturday, December 17 (10 PM ET/PT):
In the spring of 1863, Confederate General Robert E. Lee once again takes the war north of the Potomac River, and invades Pennsylvania, determined to crush the enemy before the South's time runs out. John Dooley, Edward Payson Reeve and Howard Walthall are all part of the invasion force. In July, the 20th Massachusetts and 1st Virginia regiments both march to Gettysburg where, on the third day of the bloody battle, in the famous Pickett's Charge, the two regiments that have shadowed each other for two years will finally come face to face in the climactic battle of the Civil War. After fellow Harvard man Sumner Paine is killed, Henry Abbott and other members of the 20th Massachusetts go on the attack, preventing the rebels from advancing into the Union lines. Among the casualties in the so-called "Harvard regiment": Paul Revere, grandson of the legendary patriot. On the rebel side, both John Dooley and Edward Payson Reeve are injured.
About 3net
3net, the joint venture of Sony Corporation, Discovery Communications and IMAX Corporation brings together three of the world's leading media, technology and entertainment companies to provide the nation's first and only fully programmed, 24/7 3D network. The three partners deliver an extraordinary collection of award-winning 3D content, technology and production expertise, television distribution and operational strength to the project, with a mission to bring viewers the highest quality and most immersive in-home 3D viewing experience possible. The channel will feature the most extensive library of 3D content in the world by the end of 2011, featuring genres that are most appealing in 3D, including natural history, documentary, action/adventure, travel, history, kids and family, hyper-reality, lifestyle and cuisine, concerts, movies, scripted series and more. 3net is currently available on DIRECTV channel 107. For more information, please visit www.3net.com.
About Velocity
Velocity, a division of Discovery Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK), is the upscale men's cable network that provides high-octane programming for its viewers. Velocity Network programming is diverse, intelligent and engaging, with series geared toward events, with live auctions and world rally championships, real-life adrenaline-pumping shows, and historical and biographical programming. Formerly HD Theater, the fully HD network is available in approximately 40 million homes. For more information on Velocity, please visit www.DiscoveryCommunications.com.
About Military Channel
The Military Channel brings viewers compelling, real-world stories of heroism, military strategy, technological breakthroughs and turning points in history. The network takes viewers "behind the lines" to hear the personal stories of servicemen and women and offers in-depth explorations of military technology, battlefield strategy, aviation and history. As the only cable network devoted to military subjects, it also provides unique access to this world, allowing viewers to experience and understand a world full of human drama, courage, innovation and long-held military traditions. Visit online at http://military.discovery.com.
UPDATE: More news on Fields of Valor: The Civil War:
Realscreen: 3Net, Velocity, Military Channel to simulcast "Fields of Valor"


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|System: PC, PS3*, Xbox 360
|Dev: Monolith Productions
|Pub: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
|Release: February 7, 2012
|Players: 1-12
|Screen Resolution: 480p-1080p
|Blood, Comic Mischief, Language, Mild Suggestive Themes, Violence
To accommodate this sure-to-be-lengthy process of getting your character the perfect loadout and look, there are 1,000 levels of advancement. No, I'm not kidding. When I first read that, I assumed it was either a typo or just a sneaky way of saying "100 levels of advancement with ten tiers of Prestige." Nope. You actually get to shoot, trap, capture, and giggle your way through 1,000 entire levels of character progression.
So how does it play? Well, truthfully, it feels a lot like a Call of Duty game. In fact, the controls are pretty much identical. However, as I explained during the game's beta period, the look sensitivity feels a bit too loose. Of course, there is a sensitivity slider that should fix this up for you if it bothers you, but it's still a little weird to have the sensitivity turned so high from the get-go. Also, the controls are quite a bit sloppier than, say, Modern Warfare 3. (I would actually put it much closer to Black Ops than Modern Warfare 3 on the "sloppiness" scale.) Then again, the game is about psychopathic wannabes who put on homemade outfits and battle each other. A little sloppiness is actually quite fitting here.
My biggest concern during beta was that the matchmaking tended to cause a lot of unnecessary waiting. I am happy to report that, in my first few days with the game, the issues are far less frequent, and getting into a match is quite a bit easier than it was during beta. It's not perfect by any means, but Monolith promises there are some more improvements coming with the free March DLC that will streamline matchmaking even more.
At the end of the day, Monlith managed to make a Batman-related first-person shooter without putting a gun in the hands of Batman himself—not an easy feat. Additionally, they have provided some incredibly fun gameplay modes and some very well-built maps, all while keeping the price point low. Some may complain about the small amount of maps here, but really, the game costs the same amount as a Black Ops map pack. Did you really expect fifteen maps for fifteen bucks? And when you consider the insane amount of costume customization and level progression here, $15 isn't a bad price at all. If you want an alternative to Team Fortress 2, with a little bit of Batman thrown into the mix, you can't go wrong with Gotham City Impostors.
Josh Wirtanen
Editor / News Director
Date: February 10, 2012
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Asian countries led by China are responsible for the vast majority of reports of counterfeit electronics parts, which have reached 12 million over the past five years in a potentially lethal development for the global supply chain, according to analyst IHS iSuppli.
Citing data from supply chain monitoring organisation, ERAI, the market watcher claimed that 2011 was a record year with 1,363 counterfeit incidents reported.
However, with each incident potentially involving thousands of individual parts, IHS calculated that over the past five years there have actually been reported 12 million, or one counterfeit part every 15 seconds.
Although the US led the way in 2011, as the country where most reports were logged (33 per cent), China was just behind with 32.3 per cent and when combined with other Asian countries such as Japan (1.7 per cent), South Korea (4.3 per cent) and Singapore (7.6 per cent) the total reaches close to 50 per cent – the largest for any global region.
Furthermore, the countries where the counterfeit parts originated are overwhelmingly Asian, with Malaysia, South Korea, Japan and the Philippines accounting for 64 per cent, IHS said, with the caveat that counterfeiters are adept at hiding the true origin of their products.
When contacted for further comment, IHS referred The Reg to some previous statements by the firm's director of supply chain product marketing Rory King, who has said that in some cases these rip-off parts could endanger lives.
"Counterfeit parts often are often cheap substitutes or salvaged waste components that fail to meet strict military and aerospace specifications, leading to potential failures. Even more concerning, these failures put lives at stake," he said.
"A faulty counterfeit analogue IC can cause problems ranging from a mundane dropped phone call to a serious tragedy in the aviation, medical, military, nuclear or automotive areas."
The analyst also warned that the biggest risk is obsolete parts, especially in the defence and aerospace industries, with more than one in every two counterfeit parts shipped during 2001-2011 obsolete.
Obsolescence management, lifecycle planning and vigilance in managing the supply chain are crucial to reducing the number of counterfeit goods, it added.
One law which could help tighten things up, at least in the military sphere, is the new National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which imposes strict penalties on any company supplying rip-offs to US government military and aerospace programs, said iSuppli.
The report comes just a month after IHS highlighted the challenge facing the semiconductor market after revealing that the five most common types of counterfeit parts there represent $169 billion (£107bn) in potential annual risk for the global electronics supply chain. ®


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Other possible call-ups are: Jed Lowrie, Michael Bowden and Josh Reddick.C George Kottaras
OF Brian Anderson
OF Joey Gathright
INF Chris Woodward
P Junichi Tazawa
Also: Daisuke Matsuzaka will start for Pawtucket at home on Friday night. ... Brad Penny signed with the Giants.
The Red Sox hit 50 homers in August. The only months in club history with more dongs are July 2003 (55) and July 1964 (53). ... Kevin Youkilis is the ninth Red Sox player to have 30+ doubles in four straight seasons.
Citing the fact that "Since the wild card was first used in 1995, no team in either league with at least a three-game lead on Sept. 1 has missed the playoffs", John Tomase writes that the Red Sox -- who lead the WC by 4 games -- are a lock for the playoffs: "[M]ake no mistake about it."
Amalie Benjamin is a bit more skeptical, noting the Red Sox's regular season record of 2-13 at Tampa in 2008-09 and stating "a large chunk of Boston's [wild card] lead could be gone by Friday".


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Small Plant News: Volume 3, Number 3
|Small Plant News Archive Page. This is an archive page. No new content is being added. While these newsletters remain available for reference purposes, the documents do not reflect changes to Agency policy that may have been instituted since the newsletters were published. Also note that resources and websites mentioned in older issues may have moved or may no longer be available. Points of contact for various initiatives may have changed.
In This Issue:
- Choosing Your Suppliers: Some Helpful Tips From Small Plant Owners
- How the 2008 Farm Bill Affects State and Federal Meat and Poultry Plants
- Adopt a Food Defense Plan Voluntarily
- Food Safety Resources
- Commonly Asked Questions & Answers
Choosing Your Suppliers: Some Helpful Tips From Small Plant Owners
By Larae Booker
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) wants you to have the information you need to comply with regulatory requirements and to produce the safest possible food.
To help the Agency do this, from time to time Small Plant News will bring you tips from small and very small plant owners—just like you—on topics that matter most to your operation.
For this issue, Small Plant News reached out to Hugh Tyler, owner and operator of the Columbia, South Carolina-based, The Butcher Shop, with over 40 years in the meat industry, and to Mark Schad, who in his position with Smart Food Safety, Inc., a consulting company, uses knowledge from 30-plus years in the meat industry, primarily as owner of a small processing operation based in Cincinnati, Ohio, to advise small and very small plant owners.
Tyler and Schad weighed in on an area they both found of critical importance to you: choosing your suppliers. The following are four major tips that came out of Small Plant News' conversations with these experienced—and successful—meat industry professionals.
Tip 1: Relationships are key.
Both Schad and Tyler suggest buying only from suppliers with whom you can have a relationship.
Schad, whose processing operation made only one product, was able to form a solid relationship with a single supplier. He recognized that other operations that produce multiple products may need several suppliers, but the idea is the same: "Nail it down to one supplier and form a relationship with him or her, or narrow it down to as few suppliers as possible."
While Tyler suggested a slightly different approach of using two to three suppliers to spur competition for pricing, he also stressed the importance of relationships. And because reputations are invaluable to small and very small processors, you should buy from those suppliers who work hard to protect their own reputation. His advice is to work with suppliers who have too much to lose if they don't.
Tip 2: When it comes to the quality and safety of the food you produce, the better the materials you have coming in the door, the better product you'll have going out.
Or as Schad explained, "Aim for minimal defects when you receive the product." Defects can include not only the presence of bone, blood, and excess fat associated with food quality, but pathogens as well. Catching defects at the door by choosing quality suppliers saves your operation the time and expense of removing them.
Tyler agreed. "Look for suppliers who are careful about what they themselves buy." Beware of "salvage dealers" who don't use quality ingredients in their products.
Tip 3: Upfront costs for better suppliers are worth the price.
A simple concept, but a hard sell: you get what you pay for. If you're forging a relationship with quality suppliers and aiming for minimal defects, it may come at a slightly higher price. Schad advises, "Don't always buy cheaper. Paying more up front can be better in the end."
But, as Tyler added, "losing customers is a much greater cost than, say, 3 cents on the pound for a good supplier with quality product."
Tip 4: Flex your muscles as a buyer.
Work with suppliers who understand that your operation is under Federal inspection and who will help you stay in compliance. For example, you can inform suppliers up front that if the product doesn't meet your critical limits—like temperature—when you receive it, you won't accept it. Tyler's establishment uses this practice.
Be confident that you have some buying power, especially if you're building relationships with good suppliers. Be critical about what comes in the door and even consider paying a little more for it.
Your suppliers have an impact on the quality and safety of the products that come out under your establishment's name. Choose them wisely.
If you have a tip you'd like to share with other owners of small and very small plants, contact Small Plant News at (800) 336-3747 or email email@example.com.
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How the 2008 Farm Bill Affects State and Federal Meat and Poultry Plants
By Elizabeth Boody
The Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (also known as the Farm Bill), which was enacted on June 18, 2008, provides a new program option for certain State-inspected establishments, as well as new regulatory requirements for federally inspected establishments.
The new law supplements the existing Federal-State cooperative inspection program with a new provision whereby existing State-inspected plants with 25 or fewer employees can apply to join a new program. Under the direction of USDA, State employees would administer Federal regulations and label all products with a Federal mark of inspection. Thus, these USDA-selected small and very small State-inspected establishments would be eligible to ship interstate.
When the interstate program goes into effect, the U.S. Department of Agriculture will reimburse the respective States for "not less than 60 percent" of the inspection costs at those selected establishments. Under the current cooperative agreement, the reimbursement is up to 50 percent. The Farm Bill also provides "transition grants" for States to help establishments develop food safety plans in order to transition to this new hybrid program.
On September 16, 2009, FSIS published the proposed rule for interstate shipping. Two public teleconference meetings were held on October 27 and November 5.
State meat and poultry inspection programs that choose not to participate will continue to operate under the current cooperative agreement, which requires that State meat and poultry inspection programs impose mandatory inspection and sanitation requirements "at least equal to" those in the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act. However, under that program, State-inspected meat and poultry products produced are prohibited from being shipped across State lines.
Another provision in the Farm Bill having an impact on small plants is a requirement that all FSIS-inspected meat and poultry establishments do the following: (1) prepare and maintain recall plans for all meat or poultry products produced and shipped by the establishment; (2) document each reassessment of the process control plans of the establishment; and (3) "promptly notify USDA FSIS with regard to the type, amount, origin, and destination of the [meat] or poultry product" if they have "reason to believe, that an adulterated or misbranded [meat or poultry] product received by or originating from the establishment has entered into commerce."
If you have further questions or need more information on the progress of the Farm Bill implementation, contact FSIS' Congressional and Public Affairs Office at (202) 720-9113.
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Adopt a Food Defense Plan Voluntarily
By Marianne Elbertson
FSIS is offering a new, simple and easy-to-use planning tool to small and very small plants that need food defense plans. The agency hopes to avoid rulemaking that will mandate food defense plans by encouraging all plants to adopt them voluntarily.
If at least 90 percent of the regulated industry maintains functional plans, as evidenced by surveys of FSIS inspection personnel, FSIS will deem rulemaking unnecessary. In December 2009, FSIS will repeat its Food Defense Plan Survey to determine how many FSIS-regulated slaughter and processing plants have voluntarily adopted a functional food defense plan. Results from the third survey, conducted in August 2008, indicated that fewer than 50 percent of these plants had adopted plans.
To assist small and very small plants with voluntarily adopting a plan, FSIS has developed a new general food defense plan (PDF Only). It was mailed in October 2009 to establishments that did not have a food defense plan documented during the 2008 survey. By reviewing the document and signing the cover page, plants can answer "Yes" when FSIS inspectors ask whether they have a plan as part of the latest survey.
The plan documents procedures that an establishment likely already has in place. In addition, the plan will provide guidance on how to maintain a functional plan through periodic reviews and annual testing.
It is important to have a functional food defense plan for several reasons. Adopting and implementing a food defense plan can increase your preparedness and ability to respond to an emergency in a way that is consistent with current best practices. This, in turn, will help protect your customers, employees, brand name, and company reputation, and may reduce your exposure to liability. The first page of the FSIS general food defense plan has more about the importance of food defense plans.
In addition to the mailing, it is available on the FSIS Web site at www.fsis.usda.gov/Science/Small_Very_Small_Plant_Outreach/index.asp.
If you have policy-related questions about the new plan, contact the FSIS Policy Development Division through askFSIS at http://askfsis.custhelp.com (any time) or call (800) 233-3935 (6:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. CT, Monday through Friday, except on Federal holidays).
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Food Safety Resources
By Sally Fernandez
Looking for a resource to assist you in preventing Listeria monocytogenes ( Lm) contamination in your plant? The DVD and companion booklet, "Control of Listeria monocytogenes in Small Meat and Poultry Establishments" may be just what you need.
This pair of resources is designed to provide guidelines for small processors on methods and practices for assessing and controlling opportunities for contamination of ready-to-eat (RTE) products by Lm. Sanitation steps and testing regimes are clearly demonstrated and explained in the DVD. The booklet describes primary sources and potential reservoirs of contamination. It provides considerations for control methods and suggests design improvements for optimal contamination prevention. In addition, the booklet covers environmental, food-contact surface, and product testing. The appendix contains a checklist of questions designed to help you perform a risk assessment of Listeria contamination in your plant.
Readers who are interested in this topic may also be interested in the following resources: " Listeria Guidelines for Industry," "FSIS Listeria monocytogenes Workshop," and "Implementation of a Post-Packaging Heat Treatment to Reduce Listeria monocytogenes on Ready-to-Eat Meat Products for Very Small and Small Establishments."
To order these free materials, fax the order form found in the Food Safety Resources brochure to (202) 690-6519, or complete an online version of the form and send it to email@example.com. The online form can be found at www.fsis.usda.gov/Science/HACCP_Resources_Order_Form/index.asp . For further assistance, call (800) 336-3747.
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Commonly Asked Questions & Answers
Q. Am I required to document Sanitation Standard Operating Procedure (SSOP) and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) corrective actions on the Noncompliance Record (NR), or do I have to write them on my company record?
A. The requirement in 9 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 416.16 and 417.3(c) is that you document SSOP and HACCP corrective actions. The establishment can document these corrective actions in its records or on the NR. If the documentation is on the NR, the NR becomes part of your HACCP or SSOP records and must meet the recordkeeping requirements of those regulations.
Q. If I conduct retail exempt operations in a federally inspected establishment, am I required to keep these operations separate from federally inspected operations?
A. Yes. 9 CFR 305.2 requires the official establishment to be separate from the unofficial establishment so that FSIS is able to distinguish between the two operations and the product from those operations. Operational and product separation has typically been determined by time or space. In other words, the retail exempt operations would have to be conducted in an area that is completely separate from the area in which inspected activities are being performed and where there is no possibility of cross-contamination between the two areas. Alternatively, they could be conducted in the same facilities, but they would have to be conducted at a time when no inspected activities are occurring. The criteria for exemption from inspection for retail operations are addressed in 9 CFR 303.1(d).
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Facing a wave of criticism from around the world, IOC President Jacques Rogge will meet with the head of wrestling's governing body to discuss ways the sport can fight to save its place in the Olympics.
The IOC executive board dropped wrestling from the program of the 2020 Games on Tuesday, a decision which brought a sharp backlash from wrestling organizations and national Olympic bodies around the world — including the United States, Russia and Iran.
The move must still be ratified by the full International Olympic Committee in September, giving wrestling time to try to overturn a decision against a sport which dates back to the ancient Olympics and has been featured since the inaugural modern games in 1896.
Rogge said Wednesday he has been contacted by Raphael Martinetti, the Swiss president of international wrestling federation FILA, and was encouraged by the sport's resolve to make changes and fight for its place.
"We agreed we would meet at the first opportunity to have discussions," Rogge said at a news conference at the close of a two-day board meeting. "I should say FILA reacted well to this disheartening news for them.
"They vowed to adapt the sport and vowed to fight to be eventually included in the 2020 slot."
Wrestling, which remains on the program for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, still has a chance to stay on the list for 2020 — if it manages to respond decisively to the wakeup call and convince the IOC to reverse course.
"This is not the end of the day. The door is not closed," IOC Vice President Thomas Bach of Germany said. "It's good to see the reaction of FILA to say, 'OK we have understood, we have to do something and we will present a plan for the future of wrestling.' That is the right attitude."
Wrestling now joins seven other sports vying for one opening on the 2020 program: a combined bid from baseball and softball, karate, squash, roller sports, sport climbing, wakeboarding and the martial art of wushu.
The IOC executive board will meet in May in St. Petersburg, Russia, to decide which sport or sports to propose for 2020 inclusion. The final vote will be made at the IOC general assembly in September in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
"The vote of yesterday is not an elimination of wrestling from the Olympic Games," Rogge said. "Wrestling will participate in the games in Rio de Janeiro. To the athletes who train now, I say, 'Continue training for your participation in Rio. Your federation is working for the inclusion in the 2020 Games."' Rogge was asked whether Tuesday's decision marked an end to wrestling's Olympic hopes.
"I cannot look into a crystal ball into the future," he said. "We have established a fair process by which the sport that would not be included in the core has a chance to compete with the seven other sports for the slot on the 2020 Games."
Rogge said he was fully aware of the strength of criticism leveled at the IOC for the move.
"We knew even before the decision was taken whatever sport would not be included in the core program would lead to criticism from the supporters of that sport," he said.
Still, complaints continued to pour in Wednesday from different parts of the world, uniting the U.S. and Iran on an issue in ways never imagined in diplomatic circles. The U.S. and Russia were also unlikely allies in the save-wrestling campaign.
Alexander Zhukov, head of the Russian Olympic Committee, said he would write to Rogge and "use all of our strength to persuade the IOC not to exclude wrestling from the Olympic program."
Wrestling has been one of Russia's strongest sports: Soviet and Russian wrestlers have won 77 gold medals.
In Tehran, Iranian wrestler Ali Reza Dabir, a gold medalist in 2000 Sydney Games, called wrestling "the identity" of the Olympics.
"Do we destroy our historical sites which are symbols of humanity?" he told The Associated Press. "No. Then, why should we destroy wrestling?" The Wrestling Federation of India said it would do all that it can to reverse the decision, and the Olympic committee in Greece — the birthplace of the ancient and modern games — condemned "a decision that is clearly in total opposition to the history of the Olympic Games and of sports in general."
On Tuesday, U.S. Olympic Committee CEO Scott Blackmun questioned the IOC decision "given the history and tradition of wrestling, and its popularity and universality."
There are potential scenarios that would work in wrestling's favor.
IOC officials said it's possible the executive board could decide in May to put three sports forward for consideration, including wrestling. Then it would be up to the assembly to approve wrestling or not.
If the board decides to keep wrestling off the list, the IOC assembly — which has resisted past attempts by the board to impose changes to the sports program — could reject the proposed list of 25 sports altogether. That would mean the current 26 sports, including wrestling, would stay and the whole process would go back to square one.
Modern pentathlon — a five-sport discipline dating back to the 1912 Games — had been widely expected to face removal from the program but lobbied successfully to save its status.
IOC member Richard Carrion of Puerto Rico, who served on the executive board for eight years, said such decisions are inevitably swayed by politics.
"Some people are better at lobbying than others," he told the AP. "There is a political dimension to this. There are people who have connections, who have this and that. We may like it or not, but in a multi-national organization like this decisions get made in ways that are not completely logical."
IOC President Jacques Rogge to meet with wrestling leader
LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Facing a wave of criticism from around the world, IOC President Jacques Rogge will meet with the head of wrestling's governing body to discuss ways the sport can fight to save its place in the Olympics.


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This year's congressional elections hold considerable potential to reshuffle power on Capitol Hill. Neither the Democratic majority in the Senate nor the Republican majority in the House has a secure grip on control of its respective institution. For the financial sector, the stakes include the future of the Dodd-Frank regulatory framework and the composition of the key committees overseeing financial services industries.
Congress, indeed, is one of the few institutions rivaling Wall Street in unpopularity at present. An April average of polls tracked by the website Real Clear Politics showed job disapproval ratings for Congress at 78% and approval ratings at 14%.
Remarkably, even this dismal public assessment was a slight improvement over polling results earlier in 2012 and in the last five months of 2011, which tended to put congressional disapproval ratings in the low 80s. Prior to August of last year, those negatives had been fluctuating in the 60s and 70s.
Last summer's debt ceiling conflict appears to have been an important factor in souring the public about Congress. However, the upswing in negatives continued after a compromise agreement was passed in early August, which suggests that both the standoff and the compromise irritated significant portions of the public.
Against this backdrop of widespread popular disenchantment, the two major parties are seeking to protect majorities that could prove fragile. In the Senate, the Democrats currently have a de facto 53-47 majority (two of those seats are held by independents who are part of the Democratic caucus). This year, 23 of those seats are up for election. Senate Republicans, by contrast, have only 10 seats at risk in November.
In the House, the GOP now holds 242 seats, and so would need to lose 25 in order to fall short of the 218 needed for a majority. Although many analysts have argued that a shift of that magnitude is unlikely this year, it would hardly be unprecedented; the Democrats lost 63 House seats in 2010. House Speaker John Boehner recently caused a stir by stating there is a "one-in-three chance" of the Democrats winning back the chamber.
National Tides
The presidential race promises to be a big factor in how the congressional races turn out. A victor at the top of the ticket might have "coattails" on which legislative candidates can ride. One concern expressed by Boehner was that Republican House candidates might fare poorly in "orphan districts," areas where GOP turnout may be weakened since they're in states that President Obama can be confident of winning.
In early May, the Intrade prediction market gave a 27% chance to the 2012 elections resulting in a Democratic president, a Democratic Senate and a Republican House — the status quo, in other words. The market put a 23% chance on a GOP sweep of the presidency and Capitol Hill, while attributing the next greatest likelihoods — 17% and 15%, respectively — to a Democratic president with a GOP House and Senate, or alternatively to a Democratic president with Democratic control of both chambers.
The market assessed at around 9% the chance that the White House will shift parties while neither house of Congress does so, and put in low single digits the chances of a Republican president facing either two Democratic chambers or getting elected while the two parties swap control of the House and Senate.
Mitt Romney has stated an intention of repealing the Dodd-Frank legislation, but has said little about what regulatory framework he would put in its place. A Romney victory accompanied by GOP control of both houses of Congress would make a sweeping repeal of Dodd-Frank plausible. At the other end of the spectrum, an Obama victory with Democrats in charge of both houses essentially would cement Dodd-Frank into place, curbing efforts to limit its impact.
If, as is more likely, some degree of divided government emerges from this year's elections, then while the Dodd-Frank framework will probably endure, its scope and practical meaning will be the subject of an ongoing tug of war by the competing parties. How broadly and aggressively regulators undertake their Dodd-Frank responsibilities will depend, in substantial part, on the pressures they face from Capitol Hill.
Committee Shifts
Contention over financial regulation can be expected to be an ongoing theme at the two congressional committees tasked with oversight of that policy area. These are the House Committee on Financial Services and the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. The partisan division of each committee reflects, roughly, the overall balance in its respective chamber. Currently, the Senate committee has 12 Democrats and 10 Republicans, while the House committee has 34 Republicans and 27 Democrats.
Besides the prospect that these balances will change with the broader composition of Congress in the upcoming elections, the committees will be altered by some decisions and maneuvering among their current members.
The impending retirement of Barney Frank (D-Mass.) means the House Financial Services Committee will get a new Democratic ranking member or (if Democrats win the House) a new chairperson. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) would be that person if, as is often the case, the matter is decided by seniority. The prospect of the left-leaning Waters as the top Democrat has stirred some industry grumbling that she would be, as one anonymous financial executive put it, "too much of a bomb thrower."
There has been speculation that Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), the next most senior member, might challenge Waters for the top slot. Maloney has disavowed such an intention, but the matter may not be closed. Waters has been embroiled in a long-running ethics inquiry, while Maloney has taken a high-profile role on the committee, including in the recent bipartisan bill for a self-regulatory organization for investment advisors.
Further uncertainty involves who will be the top Republican on the House committee. The current chairman, Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.), is expected to step aside in keeping with House Republicans' self-imposed six-year term limit on committee chairs. The second-ranked Republican, Peter T. King (R-N.Y.), probably would not be in the running, as he heads another committee. Likely leading aspirants include Ed Royce (R-Calif.) and Scott Garrett (R-N.J.), both widely seen as staunch conservatives.
On the Senate committee, the chairman is Tim Johnson (D-S.D.) and the ranking member is Richard Shelby (R-Ala.). Neither faces reelection this year. Johnson, who was next in line in seniority when Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) announced his retirement two years ago, was viewed skeptically on the left as the "Banks' Favorite Dem," in the words of a Huffington Post headline. As chairman, however, Johnson has been a vocal proponent of Dodd-Frank. Shelby, meanwhile, has been a frequent critic of the new regulatory regime.
On the committee's current majority, Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.) are up for reelection; Menendez and Brown have the edge in their races, while Tester is in a hard-fought battle. Two members, Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii) and Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) are retiring; the Hawaii seat is relatively likely to stay Democratic, while the Wisconsin seat is closely contested. On the committee's minority, Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) is favored to win reelection.
Relevant to the future composition of the Senate banking committee is the tightly contested Massachusetts race between incumbent Republican Scott Brown (who is not on the committee) and Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren. A Warren victory could lead to her gaining a committee seat as a forum for her high-profile criticism of Wall Street. Brown, who was one of just three Republicans in the Senate to vote for Dodd-Frank, enjoys heightened support in the financial sector from non-enthusiasts of Warren.
Kenneth Silber is senior editor of Research magazine.


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