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MGM has tapped Jose Padilha to direct their reboot of the 80's cop turned into a robot classic "Robocop". I've never seen any of the movies this guy has made and this is normally where I would put some sarcastic comment about that fact but I saw his IMDB page and he has caring eyes so I'm going to approve of this.
I don't know a single stereotype about Argentina so this one's going to be short. Here's a bunch of pics and a trailer for the new hand held feature to come out of the country(?) titled "Incidente". According to the description the movie isn't filled with zombies but rather "demons who use the humans like clothes". I assume this is a play on the saying "wear your ass like a hat". Could be wrong thoguh.
A new "Scream 4" poster is out and call me a giant prick but I actually like it. Of course it's done by Olly Moss and I actually know who that is so it might just be the buzz I have from feeling somewhat smart. Want me to do your taxes?!
A trailer for the new kids lost in the sticks slasher flick titled "Madison County" has hit the tubes and it looks grimy, son. Like girls covered in dirt running around a gravel road grimy. It makes me feel like I need a shower. Oh and there's a guy with a pig's head killing people. But man that gravel has got to be hard on the tootsies.


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Parker Posey Ticked Off by Lyme Disease
Wed., Aug. 26, 2009 2:45 PM PDT by Natalie Finn
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There won't be a chance for Parker Posey to be best in show this time.
Instead, the indie-film fave was forced to drop out of her starring role in an upcoming Off-Broadway play after being diagnosed with Lyme disease.
Posey, 40, had been planning to play a single-mom poet dealing with life and love in Melissa James Gibson's This at the Mainstage Theater. Previews start Nov. 6 and, according to the production's artistic director, they will kick off as scheduled with a replacement to be announced later.
Lyme disease, caused by the bite of a tick carrying a particular bacteria, is more often than not picked up in woodsy areas. It's totally treatable but can lead to severe problems in the brain, heart, nerves, joints and other spots if left unattended to.
Parker Posey is guest-starring this fall on HBO's new sitcom, Bored to Death?find out right here when that and all your returning faves premiere in WWK's fall TV premiere calendar!
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Just as Monday's avatar-mania begins to die down, AMC has released a whole mess of Mad Men promo photos of the cast. What can we learn about Season 3 from these fierce, posed portraits?
Don will hear a familiar canine whimper during a smoke break. Is it— could it be— Chauncey?
Betty will stand by her (super) Man.
The Sterling Cooper gang will prepare for their network-synergy dance-off with the cast of Breaking Bad.
These men will be old.
Peggy will be smug.
Betty will become disillusioned with material possessions.
Really disillusioned.
Like, "Who am I, really, inside?" disillusioned.
Joan will wonder why all the good-looking men are either married or rapists.
Sal will wish he could just find the right lady to settle down with.
The guys will prepare for their skill-matched dance-off with the cast of The Big Bang Theory.
And, finally, an actual spoilery-type-thing: Don and Sal will have dinner with stewardesses (for Don) and a pilot (for Sal)!


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Ed. Schools Lag Behind Digital Content Trends
Teacher education is struggling to catch up to digital-content developments
Casey Wardynski knew his district had to make a change when he glanced at its crop of history textbooks and spotted one glaring omission.
"They didn't even have 9/11 in them," said Mr. Wardynski, the superintendent of the Huntsville city schools, an Alabama district of about 24,000 students.
Last summer, the district replaced its paper-based curriculum with digital content in a rapid-fire overhaul—with 3rd graders and above receiving Hewlett-Packard laptops, while pre-K pupils to 2nd graders received iPads.
But going digital, said Mr. Wardynski, was the easy part. Getting the buy-in of his teaching staff has been the real challenge.
Most notably, he's witnessed a gap in the skill set of many of his teachers who were never trained to teach in a digital world. As a consequence, many of Huntsville's teachers are learning as they go, with administrators struggling to fill in the missing pieces.
"We're working with the higher education institutions to let them know what we want to see when it comes to teaching with digital content," said Mr. Wardynski. "They're moving in that direction, but it's safe to say that a lot of us are moving a bit faster."
The challenge is hardly unique to Huntsville. As more districts make the digital shift, many education schools are grappling with how best to prepare the next generation of teachers. In recent years, some programs have struggled to adapt quickly enough to meet the changing needs of both districts and educators.
"Education schools are in the process of trying to figure out what it all means, with everyone in the teacher-preparation front playing catch-up," said Pam Grossman, a professor of education at Stanford University's graduate school of education and the director of the university's Center to Support Excellence in Teaching.
James G. Cibulka, the president of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), which currently accredits 670 colleges of education, sees a range of offerings when it comes to education schools keeping up with advancements in technology.
Mr. Cibulka cautioned that NCATE only accredits fewer than half of the national providers. The issue is further complicated by the fact that accreditation is a voluntary process, with some states requiring it for licensure while others can opt out. Based on NCATE's subset, he described offerings as "all over the place," and called it "a matter of great concern."
In future years, the organization is planning to put in place a new set of five accreditation standards, in which technology is woven throughout each requirement. The aim is to provide more symmetry and quality in preparing teachers to use digital curricula.
And with schools coming up for accreditation once every seven years, Mr. Cibulka didn't mince words: "There will be no way for schools to meet the new standards unless technology is infused throughout their program."
Slow to React
Digital devices, cautions Ms. Grossman, are merely one piece of an ongoing puzzle. "Technology is not the thing," she said. "It's what it enables."
Ms. Grossman emphasizes the need to still train teachers across a wide array of contexts—from 1-to-1 computing classrooms, in which each student has his or her own digital learning device, to a district that has yet to take the digital plunge.
"If we invest too much, too soon, and only teach digital, we're also doing many teachers a disservice," she said.
Ellen B. Meier, a professor of computing and education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and co-director of the Center for Technology and School Change, says that when it comes to making changes, education is a field that's often reluctant to do so.
Too much emphasis in the world of teacher preparation is placed on the technology tools themselves, Ms. Meier believes, rather than on how they can help improve teaching and learning.
She sees, instead, a need for schools of education to harness the devices as a catalyst for moving into the 21st century—not as silver bullets or quick fixes, but as tools to strengthen curriculum and enhance pedagogy by giving teachers and students access to better information and helping personalize learning in ways that bolster students' strengths and shore up their weaknesses. For example, Teachers College started a program that prepares students to work in schools as technology specialists who can help educators facilitate these changes.
Ms. Meier also cited research that says beginning teachers need more exposure to technology. "Studies show that when students are placed in classrooms, they're often not placed with teachers who are demonstrating a fluent use of technology, or are often placed in schools that don't even have the technology because of funding constraints," she said.
Relay Graduate School of Education, a New York City-based hybrid master's-degree program for teachers in New York and New Jersey, is similarly trying to figure out how best to meet the needs of its teachers who are working in more than 180 schools, each with vastly different resource configurations.
The school, which was chartered in 2011, now enrolls more than 600 full-time teachers, half of whom are current Teach For America corps members. Using a hybrid model, students take 60 percent of their coursework in-person and 40 percent online.
While the school has yet to offer specific classes or modules to train teachers in using digital curricula, Thackston Lundy, Relay's chief of staff, says they are eager to head in that direction.
In future years, he sees education schools playing a vital role in reshaping the classroom and influencing the changing role of teachers.
"We're standing on the precipice of the role of the teacher changing dramatically in the next several years," Mr. Lundy said. "New technology and better data will change how we structure the school day, what students learn, and how we organize K-12 classrooms. The role of a great teacher will be more important than ever.
"But our most urgent priority right now is making sure our graduates are prepared with the basic pedagogical underpinnings and deep content knowledge needed to make an immediate impact in their classrooms today," he said.
Relevance at Risk
The problem is that even at well-established education school programs, reluctance to make changes is common.
Chris Dede, a professor of learning technologies at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, described his school as being "more forward-thinking" than the vast majority of education schools.
"Even so, there hasn't been the sea change towards technology-based methods throughout all teacher preparation courses that I and my technology-using colleagues would like to see," he said.
Mr. Dede considers one major culprit to be a lack of pressure on faculty members to change the content of their courses.
"Most teacher education faculty in the U.S. aren't pressured to update what they're teaching, not just in terms of technology, but in general," he said, noting that many instructors preparing teachers were out of touch with the trend to teach education students how to customize learning to fit the needs of individual students.
Of approximately 650 Master of Education students at Harvard, he estimated that around 8 percent had selected its "technology, innovation, and education" program, one of 13 available degree programs. But in 2013-14, the program will enroll the largest cohort in its history.
Mr. Dede, who has taught at Harvard for more than a decade, considers the lack of change to be part of the reason for so many aspiring educators' decisions to take alternative routes to teacher certification—pathways that are often less time-consuming and less expensive.
"Eventually, a lot of teacher preparation programs are going to go away," he predicted. "It's at their peril that they're reluctant to use modern methods for educational innovation—not only in technology—but across the board."
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Johnnypoach would be jealous.
Well, new to me at least. I haven't been on a bike since I was a kid, but decided to get into it as a summer activity. Got it off craigslist for a couple hundred or so, the guy said it was a downhill race bike but that he never got to ride it at the ski resorts so he had to sell it. It's nearly new....so I bought it...
I've also got my cases of mt. dew, so I'm ready to hit some sweet jumps and tear up the local trails.....probably Killington too this summer.
I can ride in my jeans and ski helmet, right?
Anybody up for a bike-off???
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Cute, cool and dangerous: Okinawa's diverse wildlife
The subtropical beauty of Okinawa makes it Japan's top resort destination.
And much like Okinawa's food and culture, the wildlife found on these Japanese islands is completely different from what you'll find in the rest of the country.
Here's a rundown of some of Okinawa's most famous wildlife, the cute, interesting and downright dangerous.
Cool and cute
Consider yourself extraordinarily fortunate if you catch sight of one of these critically endangered creatures.
A distant relative of the manatee, the Okinawan dugong can reach up to 1,000 pounds, but these gentle giants have more to fear from us than we do them.
Their numbers have dropped dramatically from hunting (now banned), boating incidents and habitat destruction.
Ryukyu flying fox (Yaeyama ookomori)
More than a few first-time visitors to the islands have been shocked at seeing large ravens in flight at dusk, only to realize the "ravens" are actually enormous bats with dog-like faces.
Don't let their size or appearance fool you: these creatures of the night prey on fruit.
Okinawa coconut crab (Yashi-gani)
Godzilla-sized versions of the hermit crabs you played with as a kid, minus the shell. Weighing in at up to two to four kilograms (4.4 to 8.8 pounds), these hefty crustaceans are the largest land-living anthropod in the world.
They eat the fruits of palm trees.
Coconut crab are considered a deilicacy, but over-catching is threatening the species. It's best to keep your distance if you happen to run into one: they get testy when disturbed, and their claws can easily take off a finger.
Atlas moth (Yonaguni-san)
If the coconut crab is the islands' Godzilla, this is the undisputed Mothra.
These huge insects can grow to have wingspans of up to 25 centimeters –- close to a foot.
Found mainly on Yonaguni, they're called "Yonaguni-san" throughout Okinawa. Although occasionally spotted on Iriomote and other islands, Yonaguni remains the best place to see the Atlas Moth; there's even an entire Atlas Moth Museum dedicated to them there.
Mudskipper (Tobi-haze)
Fish or frog? The former, though it's kind of hard to tell with these guys as they blend features of both.
Of the gobi family, these tiny (roughly 10 centimeters), beady-eyed amphibians lounge ashore at low tide, using their arm-like front fins to hop back into the water if danger approaches.
They can be spotted in mangrove marshes throughout the Okinawan islands.
More on CNN: Searching for Southeast Asia's incredible wildlife
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Pit viper (habu)
This is the poster child for dangerous animal life in Okinawa.
Although there are a variety of subspecies, all grow to an average of 150 centimeters (four to five feet) and pack a venomous wallop.
Pit vipers are irritable and aggressive; should you see one, stay well out of striking distance, which can be well more than a meter (more than three feet).
Treatment: Head to the nearest hospital immediately.
Black banded sea krait (Erabu umi-hebi)
This pretty, striped sea snake can be found throughout the waters of the Okinawan islands.
They grow up to 80 centimeters (about two and a half feet) and their venom is actually more toxic than that of the dreaded habu, rivaling that of a cobra.
Fortunately, they're docile and only bite if unnecessarily provoked.
Treatment: Head to the nearest hospital immediately.
Blue-ringed octopus (Oomarumon-dako)
These tiny, colorful cephalopods look like something out of a Pokemon cartoon, with neon-blue ringed polka dots that make you just want toy with them. Don't.
In spite of their pint size –- just 15 centimeters (6 inches) or so –- they're among the world's most venomous sea creatures, capable of injecting enough tetrodotoxin in a single bite to kill an adult human.
Treatment: Immediate artificial respiration and transport to a hospital.
More on CNN: Okinawa: Which island is for you?
Fire coral
Although these mustard-colored organisms resemble coral formations, they're actually related to jellyfish and anemones.
Brush against one and millions of microscopic stingers are triggered. It feels like a lighter being held against your skin.
A sting is more annoying than dangerous, but the pain can last quite a while.
Treatment: Hospitals will apply cortisone cream, but in a pinch in the field urine does a great job of neutralizing the sting.
Cone snail (Imo-gai)
These beautifully patterned clams glide along the seafloor looking for fish and other prey, which they immobilize using a poison-packed, harpoon-like stinger.
Only scuba divers are likely to encounter these creatures.
Their empty shells are prized by beachcombers for their beautiful patterns. Just be sure the shell is empty before you pick it up.
Treatment: Head to the nearest hospital immediately if stung.
More on CNN: How to take good wildlife photos
This is just a selection of Okinawa's wildlife. Let us know what other wildlife experiences you've had on the Japanese islands.
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NEW YORK, N.Y. - Queen Latifah's production company, Flavor Unit Entertainment, has signed a deal with Netflix.
The entertainer announced Tuesday that the multiyear deal gives the streaming service first look at titles from her production company. It starts this spring.
Latifah launched Flavor Unit in New Jersey with Shakim Compere. It's now based in Miami. The company has produced films such as "Bringing Down the House" and "Just Wright," both starring Latifah. It also produced the HBO film "Life Support," which earned a Golden Globe Award for Latifah.
Latifah said in a statement that Netflix is a "strong brand and the perfect place to showcase our projects."
Flavour Unit is also producing the upcoming Terrence Howard thriller "House of Bodies" and "Percentage," starring Ving Rhames and Macy Gray.


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Strategies for Calibrating and Validating CryoSat now underway
An important step in the progress of ESA's Earth Explorer CryoSat mission has recently been made with the setting up of the CryoSat Calibration and Validation Team. This new team consists of selected technical experts and scientists, who will plan and carry out appropriate field campaigns and data analysis to ensure that the altimeter, which is to fly on the CryoSat satellite, is correctly calibrated and validated. The team of scientists were selected following ESA's Announcement of Opportunity for CryoSat Calibration and Validation proposals that closed in April this year.
The altimeter on the CryoSat satellite will be the first optimised observation system for elevation change estimates for the ice caps in Greenland and Antarctica. Furthermore, its design will facilitate the determination of the thickness of floating sea ice by measuring the floe elevation above the surrounding ocean water. These observations will help improve our understanding of the effect that polar ice has on the global climate as well as determining rates of change within the large polar ice masses.
So that the data is accurate enough to be used in global climate research, it is essential to gather many data points and subject the resulting data to careful statistical analysis. As with all remote sensing data, each measurement point taken by CryoSat can contain a degree of error due to a variety of technical and physical effects. Technical errors can result from the stability and accuracy of the instrument itself but can be addressed not only with careful instrument design before launch, but also with adequate system calibration once CryoSat is in orbit. Physical issues can arise with uncertainties about the reflecting ice surface or simply uncertainties as to whether the instrument actually 'sees' down into the ice layer or if the snow layer above is confusing the data. Snow layers are unavoidable when observing ice surfaces, and the influence they have on the observations to be made by CryoSat have to be assessed very carefully if we are to verify any trend towards thicker or thinner ice over the lifespan of the mission. Other complications arise from the density profiles in the ice layers and sea ice floes as well as the wetness of the upper snow layer and how all these parameters can vary over a certain area. These issues can only be tackled by taking direct measurements in the polar regions. This means actually going there with ships and aircraft and conducting appropriate experiments with a broad range of instrumentation so that the data received from the altimeter on CryoSat can be calibrated and verified with data taken in-situ.
Now that the new Calibration and Validation Team for the CryoSat mission has been established, strategies for addressing these areas of possible uncertainties are now being made. The team of selected scientists met for the first time at the end of September at ESTEC and enjoyed a fruitful discussion on all relevant aspects of how to organise and harmonise the proposed experiments. The team discussed topics such as:
- Research vessels such as Polarstern from Germany will serve as the operations platform for experiments on sea ice. Laser profiling from helicopters, carrying special electromagnetic sensors, which allow thickness estimates to be made of individual ice floes, will examine ice properties. Alternatively, ice core drilling and subsequent laboratory analysis may be carried out.
- Aircraft from Denmark, Germany and the US with radar and laser altimeters will measure ice sheet profiles so that they can be compared with the results from CryoSat. This will include the first flight with the airborne version of the CryoSat altimeter (ASIRAS), currently under development.
- US scientists will look for opportunities to acquire Upward Looking Sonar sea ice thickness data from US Navy submarines.
- Several field campaigns are in preparation in Greenland and Antarctica during which intensive periods of measurements of snow and ice properties on glaciers and ice caps will take place.
It is a truly international endeavour and each scientist brings a specific area of expertise. After this initial meeting there will be more dedicated meetings later this year to coordinate the various activities. The first campaigns are planned for Spring 2003 and will be based on the experiences and lessons learned from the recent ESAG and LaRA campaigns carried out earlier this year.


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I love the Black Hockey Jesus blog post 'He's Not My Character to Write Anymore' not just because it's a touching tribute to his 13-year old son, but because he writes about the struggle of writing. I have too many posts that rot and die in my MarsEdit Drafts folder because I don't like them enough to publish them or I let writer's block prevent me from spending time on a post until it stops being current. I delay them and they die.
The months of silence on this blog also fills me with guilt. I started Entrepreneurial Seduction to help others build their businesses. I wanted it to be more interactive—more raw. It was supposed to a stream of consciousness, as if someone were reading a diary. Unfortunately, I'm a bit of a perfectionist and a harsh self-critic so I hold back my writing looking for the right words or that amazing sentence that everyone will quote. It's a damn shame, too, because so much has happened in the last six months that would benefit fellow entrepreneurs. Delays in writing are a sure sign of rigor mortis settling in.
Typically, the dead zones in this blog align with periods of heavy software development. Let's blame this latest on MoneyWell 2.0, which has been chatted up by me for so long that it was compared to vaporware products TextMate 2 and Duke Nukem Forever. I even allowed the code name MoneyNukem to be bantered about until Duke Nukem Forever actually shipped—and sucked. Then I wanted nothing to do with it.
So what happened to delay MoneyWell 2.0 for so long? To be honest, the 2.0 release shipped two-and-a half years ago—it was just called MoneyWell 1.4 at the time. And then I shipped 3.0 fourteen months later, but called it 1.5. What we are working on now could legitimately be called MoneyWell 4.0. The problem is that I promised too much in 1.0 and felt guilty charging for an update. I delayed incrementing the major version number, which I consider to be a major business mistake.
No matter what we call it, the new version of MoneyWell is late. Why? Because we started it late. The finish wasn't delayed, the start was. Coding on 2.0 didn't begin until October 2010 due to delays caused by our syncing issues and MoneyWell for iPhone, and our current team wasn't coding 100 percent on 2.0 until December. The complete design-development-ship cycle should stay under one year—not too bad for what has amounted to a massive rewrite of my original code. I'm not trying to minimize or excuse the fact that MoneyWell 2.0 has taken too long to deliver. I allowed too many other activities get in the way of building 2.0, which resulted in the release being delayed.
So I need to thank John Gruber and his Daring Fireball post that led me to read the Black Hockey Jesus post, which allowed me to write another blog entry on my own site without a delay. Once MoneyWell 2.0 ships—and it will ship—I'll try to avoid any delays in writing a postmortem blog entry on the project cycle. I think there are lessons to be learned from my mistakes and that is why I started this blog.


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Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 gets a little bit dressier next week, when a new costume pack goes up for sale on the PlayStation Network.
Ayane, Momiji, Rachel, and Ryu each get some fancy new duds in next week's Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 costume pack, available on November 19th in North America for $3.99. Momiji shows off her meaty thighs in her Matsuri Festival costume; Ayane sports the latest Venice Festival fashions; Rachel dresses up like the other sort of New York Working Woman; and Ryu prepares to hide in a snow bank with his Special White costume.
Seems like Ryu is getting the short end of the stick here, but then Sigma 2 was never really about Ryu, was it?


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Monster Shrimp Invade U.S. Coastal Waters
Asian tiger shrimp, which can grow to the length of a man's forearm and are voracious predators, are establishing themselves in U.S. coastal waters. Will these monster shrimp upset local ecosystems? WSJ's Cameron McWhirter reports.
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- ¼ cup hot water
- 8 ounces Mexican chocolate (such as Ibarra), chopped
- 3 large eggs
- ¼ cup sugar
- 2 cups Mexican crema or whipped cream
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ cup pecan pieces
- Butter for dishes
- 2 1-pint containers strawberries, hulled, sliced
- ½ cup coffee-flavored liqueur (such as Kahlúa)
- ¼ cup chopped fresh mint
- 1 cup Mexican crema or whipped cream
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
For pudding
- Place raisins in small bowl. Pour 1/3 cup liqueur over. Let stand 1 hour or overnight. Preheat oven to 350°F. Place bread slices on baking sheets and toast until golden brown, about 15 minutes. Crumble bread into bowl (yield should be about 4 cups).
- Combine 4 teaspoons liqueur and 1/4 cup hot water in top of double boiler set over simmering
water. Add chocolate and simmer until melted, stirring frequently. Cool slightly.
- Whisk eggs and sugar to blend in large bowl. Whisk in crema, vanilla, and cinnamon. Stir in melted chocolate mixture. Add crumbled bread and raisin mixture and mix well. Stir in pecans.
- Cover and refrigerate until bread absorbs custard, about 2 hours.
- Butter ten 2/3-cup custard cups or soufflé dishes. Divide pudding mixture among cups. Place cups in large roasting pan. Add enough hot water to come halfway up sides of cups. Bake until puddings are set and puffed in center, about 40 minutes. Remove cups from water bath. Let come to room temperature. Cover and refrigerate until cold. (Can be prepared up to 3 days ahead.)
For topping
- Combine strawberries, liqueur, and mint in large bowl.
For garnish
- Mix crema with vanilla in small bowl. Bring puddings to room temperature. Run knife around edges of puddings. Unmold puddings onto dessert plates. Spoon strawberries over. Drizzle with vanilla crema.
Enjoy with coffee, tea, milk, hot chocolate, or juice. Serves: 10
Recipe from Arthur J. French in the Thermador Taste of America Cookbook


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Over the top? Check out these $100,000 Valentine's Day packages.
Want to bag the award for staging the most memorable, elaborate and perhaps expensive proposal this year? For $100,000, one California hotel will hire out the entire Rose Bowl Stadium, plus the Pasadena Symphony Orchestra, and throw in a handcrafted diamond ring in its Valentine's Day hotel package.
For The Langham Huntington, 2014 is the year the stars align: both The Huntington Langham hotel and the Rose Bowl Game (American college football) celebrate their centennial anniversary, while the Rose Parade fetes its 125th birthday.
To mark the trio of milestones, the hotel has developed an over-the-top "Proposal of the Century" package that may be of particular interest to couples who are also major football fans.
For example, the package includes the use of the Rose Bowl stadium's video message board which would illuminate with "Marry Me"; the opportunity to pop the question directly on the field while being serenaded by the 40-piece Pasadena Symphony Orchestra, and a photographer to document the entire experience.
Oh, and the hotel will also throw in a handcrafted, 2.5-carat diamond ring, with a retail value of $35,000.
Here's what else you get for a $100,000 proposal:
– A two night's stay in the hotel's presidential suite decked out in advance with 100 long-stemmed roses, chocolate-covered strawberries, monogrammed bathrobes, rose petals strewn throughout the suite, and a bottle of Louis Roederer Cristal Rose Brut Millesime Champagne;
– A four-course meal either in-room or at The Royce Wood-Fired Steakhouse's Red Wine Room;
– Use of an engagement coordinator;
– Chauffeur services in a Bentley.
If $100,000 is a little steep, Hotelchatter.com reports that the InterContinental Los Angeles has also developed a Valentine's Day package for couples where the sky is the limit.
The more modestly priced $11,000 Valentine's Day package includes a stay in the hotel's Presidential Suite, a 30-minute helicopter ride above Tinseltown, a six-course dinner on the rooftop helipad, and a couple's spa treatment.
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Following up on their NEH Digital Humanities Start-up Grant, ELO President-elect Dene Grigar sends word of the Pathfinders project with first guest ELO board member Stuart Moulthrop:
"Pathfinders: Documenting the Experience of Early Digital Literature" is making its debut at Washington State University Vancouver July 8 – 9 in the Electronic Literature Lab in the Classroom building, room 210. Stuart Moulthrop, professor of English at the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee and an innovator of electronic literature and hypertext fiction as both a theoretician and writer, will be the first guest. He will also lecture at 7 p.m. July 9 at Nouspace Gallery, 1005 Main St, Vancouver, Wash. The lecture, "Failure to Contain: Electronic Literature and the State of (Machine) Reading," is free and open to the public.
The project explores the idea of digital preservation and asks the questions: What happens to literary works meant to be experienced on a computing device when the software and computer systems with and for which they were created update, change or become obsolete? Do we allow these works also to become obsolete too, or do we find ways to preserve them?
"Pathfinders," led by Dene Grigar, associate professor and director of the creative media and digital culture program at WSU Vancouver, and Moulthrop, are developing methods for digital preservation with the goal of capturing not only the digital work but also the human experience of interacting with early digital art . It is supported by a "Digital Humanities Start Up Grant" from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Moulthrop has produced many critically significant works of digital writing and art over the past 25 years. One of his best-known, "Victory Garden," (1991) was produced for computers that are not compatible with current standards, making the work unavailable for web-based archives without changes to its original form.
To preserve the beauty of the original work, Grigar will videotape Moulthrop in the Electronic Literature Lab as he talks through "Victory Garden" using a vintage Mac Classic. Following Moulthrop's reading, two readers unfamiliar with "Victory Garden" will be videotaped to produce a record of multiple readers' experience with the work. This is a process Grigar and Moulthrop call "traversal."
Three more "Pathfinders" traversals are scheduled through the fall. To learn more, visit http://dtc-wsuv.org/wp/pathfinders or contact Grigar at email@example.com
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Phil Pressey scored 21 points and Laurence Bowers added 14 - all in the second half - to help No. 14 Missouri rout Alcorn State 91-54 on Tuesday night.
After a rough first half, the Tigers (2-0) pulled away from the Braves. Missouri made just nine of its 39 attempts before the break and held a seven-point halftime advantage thanks to Pressey's deep 3-pointer with three seconds left.
Bowers hit three 3-pointers in the second half to help Missouri take command. The Tigers used an 18-3 run after the half to blow the game open.
LeAntwan Luckett scored 14 points and Anthony Nieves added 13 for Alcorn State (1-1), which struggled from poor shooting of its own. The Braves only shot 30.6 percent for the game, including 9 of 31 in the first half.
Bowers and Pressey were the only players on the court who had worn a Missouri uniform prior to this season as Michael Dixon watched his second consecutive game from the bench, suspended for an undisclosed violation of team rules. Dixon also missed both of the team's exhibition games, and coach Frank Haith has declined to specify a timetable for his return.
Alcorn State, out of the Southwestern Athletic Conference, went 10-22 in coach Luther Riley's first season in 2011-12, a six-win improvement from the Braves' previous season. The team was picked to finish eighth out of 10 teams in the SWAC this season by conference coaches.
Bowers went 3 of 4 from behind the arc, his first 3-pointers since the 2009-10 season after going 0 for 8 in 2010-11 and missing last season recovering from a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee.
Bowers scored eight consecutive points five minutes into the second half to give the Tigers a 56-31 advantage, capped by a two-handed dunk off a pass from Pressey.
Missouri won its 67th consecutive home game against a non-conference opponent dating back to the 2005-06 opener.
The matchup was part of the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament, though the outcome had no bearing on the field headed to the Bahamas next week. The only previous matchup between the two teams was an 82-51 Missouri win on Dec. 1, 1981.


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Technical sketches are scheduled oral presentations of about 15 minutes followed by a question-and-answer session. The technical content is also described in a two-page document, which is included in the SIGGRAPH Asia 2010 DVD-ROM and published in the ACM Digital Library.
Posters combine display of visual materials in a high-traffic area within the convention center with a scheduled poster session, where authors informally explain and possibly demo their work to interested attendees. For the first time, authors have the option to submit multimedia posters that include video. Accepted multimedia posters will be played in a loop on a large screen in addition to the standard printed display.
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Whether you are coming up with what-if ideas, developing new techniques, or using existing ones in novel ways, your submission is welcome. We encourage submissions from animators, developers, educators, students, and researchers from academia and industry. We also welcome submissions that provide technical details on work submitted to the Computer Animation Festival. Typical examples include:
- Technical and research work: We invite researchers and developers to submit descriptions of their work in progress.
- Art and design: We invite artists and designers to submit artistic work built on unique ideas. Contemporary topics, such as entertainment design and smart gadgets are included in this category.
- Games: We invite game companies and independent developers to share descriptions of their philosophy, challenges, and experiences in making innovative commercial products, technologies, or content in this category.
- Animation and visual effects: We invite computer animation creators to present their latest techniques and ideas, ranging from industrial development and practical tools to behind-the-scenes explanations of commercial and artistic work.
- Education: We invite computer graphics educators to share their research and observations about the theory and best practices of teaching computer graphics as well as using graphics tools for teaching other disciplines.
- Applications: Presentations of computer graphics technologies applied to other problems are also welcome. Applications may cover a variety of areas including web and mobile graphics, digital signage, or design.
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We strongly encourage starting the submission form well before the deadline. Also, please do not wait until the last minute to upload your files. See Uploading Files for complete information.
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The submission form gives you the opportunity to specify whether your work should be considered a sketch or a poster, or both. If you choose both categories, the jury will decide which format is appropriate for your submission. Due to the limited number of time slots for oral presentations, only the strongest submissions will be selected as Technical Sketches. If a submission is specified as "Technical Sketches only" and it is rejected, it will not be considered for a Poster presentation. "Posters only" submissions will not be considered as Technical Sketches. All posters submitted with a video attachment will be considered for the multimedia poster program (which provides an extra display of the accepted material on a large screen in a high-traffic area of the convention center).
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Your submission must include the following materials and information. The total size of all uploaded files should not exceed 100 MB:
A one- or two-page document describing your work (PDF): this self-contained document, formatted according to the SIGGRAPH template for technical papers, should be at most one page long for Posters and two pages long for Technical Sketches (a submission you wish to be considered for both can be two pages long). It should briefly explain your work, emphasize what is novel about it, and explain the concept or the technique, using appropriate figures, tables, results, and references. See this artificial example for formatting guidelines. Other instructions can be found on this page.
Prepare the document with the Submission ID number alongside the printed title. For example: "Rendering Hair (sap_0029)". You will be assigned a Submission ID number, of the form "sap_0029" when you create an Online Submission Form. This number will be used to identify your submission throughout the review process. In all other ways, the document must be in the final format. For instance it should include the names of all collaborators on the work and their institutions, since the reviewing process is not double-blind. Submissions that are more than two-pages long or that are improperly formatted will not be considered.
One representative image (JPG) suitable for use on the conference web site and promotional materials: All submissions should include a representative digital image that should be of the highest print quality possible, pixel resolution of at least 1500 x 1200 (at least 300 dpi at 5 inches wide, with depth proportional) or the highest possible screen grab. Images must be submitted in JPG format.
Up to three supplementary materials (OPTIONAL): The one- or two-page
document must stand alone as an overview of the proposed sketch or poster.But in many cases, providing extra material could help the jury to evaluate the work. Accordingly, authors may provide supporting material in the form of video, images, and/or further documentation:
- Images: Authors may provide high-resolution images to demonstrate their work. They must be in one of these formats: TIFF, JPEG. PNG, BMP, GIF.
- Video: All submitters are encouraged to provide video demonstrations of their projects when available. A video must be provided for posters to be considered for the multimedia poster program. The video may be uploaded in one or more separate files. We can only accommodate videos in QuickTime, MPEG-4, or DivX Version 5 (or later) formats. The total length of all videos should not exceed five minutes. Remember that the total size of all uploaded files should not exceed 100 MB.
- Documentation: In some cases, results can best be conveyed as a document with images, graphs, charts, and so forth. Supporting documentation should be in PDF format, up to three pages long, and should contain mostly captioned figures or tables. Please refrain from submitting an expanded paper, as the jury will not have time to read it.
Please review the Frequently Asked Questions for more tips and guidelines on how to prepare your sketch or poster and what to submit.
New requirement: All submitters must complete the Submission and Authorization Agreement (formerly the Acceptance Agreement) before the submission deadline. Incomplete submissions will not be reviewed or accepted.
Jury Review
All submissions will be reviewed by a jury of academic and industry professionals in computer graphics, animation, games, interactive techniques, art, and related fields. The Technical Sketches and Posters Co-Chairs and Committee are responsible for conducting the jury process in order to set up a high-quality program, with exciting talks and posters sessions.
The review process is single blind, which means the reviewers will know who the authors are, but the authors will not know who the reviewers are. Thus, submissions should include the names and affiliations of the authors.
Submitters will be notified of acceptance or rejection by the end of September 2010.
Technical Sketches
If your work is accepted as a Technical Sketch, you will be required to prepare two extra PowerPoint slides for the Technical Sketches Fast Forward session. A two-minute presentation slot will be allocated to you in this session, in addition to the 15-minute presentation followed by five minutes of questions, in your regular Technical Sketches session (the exact time allocations may change slightly depending on the number of accepted presentations). Please check the conference program to find out when and where the fast forwards and your session are scheduled. For information on the Speaker Preparation Room, Session Room Equipment, Slide Preparation, and Movies in Presentations, see Speaker Preparation.
If your work is accepted as a Poster, you will be required to print the actual large-format poster and display it as soon as possible in the location that will be specified in your instructions. If your work is accepted as a multimedia poster, you will also be asked to provide a slide with embedded video, to be part of a poster loop played on a large screen in the convention center. During the poster presentation session, the poster must be staffed at all times by at least one person, and you are encouraged to bring a portable computer to demo your work.
The maximum poster size for presentation at SIGGRAPH Asia 2010 is: 0.9 meters (width) x 1.0 meter (height).
For instructions about preparation and delivery of your final content for publications, see the poster format examples.
Please carefully follow the instructions in the acceptance letter.
Presenter Recognition
Presenters are expected to cover their own travel costs, which are not covered by SIGGRAPH Asia 2010. One contributor for each accepted submission will receive a registration discount as specified in the SIGGRAPH Asia 2010 Recognition Policy.
All work selected for the Technical Sketches & Posters program will be documented in the SIGGRAPH Asia 2010 Full Conference DVD-ROM, a publication that provides an ISBN and ACM order number. The work will also be published in the ACM Digital Library.
1. Is a Technical Sketch or Poster a publication?
Technical Sketches & Posters are publications. Both submission types will be published in the ACM Digital Library after the conference. This was one of the important changes to the program starting from SIGGRAPH Asia 2009. We hope this will further encourage you to submit your work to this program.
2. Will my Technical Sketch or Poster preclude publication of my idea in future conferences and journals?
No. Publishing a Technical Sketch or Poster does not prevent you from submitting an extended paper in the future. Most conferences and journals require at least 30% of new material when a paper extends prior work, which should not be difficult since the Technical Sketch or Poster document is no more than two pages.
3. Can I submit work I've published or submitted elsewhere?
No, Technical Sketches & Posters is dedicated to presenting new, unpublished work. Work that is under review elsewhere (for example, by a journal or another conference) cannot be submitted to the Technical Sketches & Posters program. Such dual submissions are widely considered unethical.
4. How should I present work that is based on a recent paper I wrote but extends that work?
Submissions with new, incremental results based on previous publications are a common occurrence. You must reference the original paper(s) and clearly explain what in your submission is new. To consider the work for acceptance, the jury expects about 30% new material that goes beyond the previous publication.
5. Can I submit work that I did for my thesis?
Yes, provided that work has not already been extracted from the thesis and formally published.
6. My SIGGRAPH or SIGGRAPH Asia Technical Paper was rejected. Can I submit a shorter description of the same work to Technical Sketches & Posters?
Yes, provided it is not currently under review or scheduled to appear elsewhere. Notification of Technical Papers acceptances will happen well before the Technical Sketches & Posters submission deadline. This will leave you several weeks to prepare a one- to two-page document describing the work and submit it along with additional materials, using the normal Technical Sketches & Posters submission mechanism.
7. My company has a great new product that is of general interest to the SIGGRAPH community. Can I submit a Technical Sketch or Poster about it?
A simple product announcement is not appropriate for the Technical Sketches & Posters program. However, a methods or systems description of the engineering design and algorithms behind the product could be appropriate.
8. Can my company have a dedicated session in which we present a collection of Technical Sketches about various aspects of a large project?
No. You are welcome to submit a collection of related work. However, the jury will evaluate the submissions individually and decide whether to accept each one individually, so each must stand on its own. For those that are accepted for Technical Sketch presentation, we can't promise that they will be presented together in a single session. They may be grouped into sessions with other Technical Sketches that present similar techniques.
9. Why do you only accept electronic submissions?
The jury has a small amount of time to review a large number of submissions. Electronic submission allows the jury to start the review process almost immediately. It also saves the time and costs involved in shipping submissions to the jury members.
10. Can I submit earlier papers or technical reports as supporting materials?
No, the jury already has its hands full and will not have time to read them. The acceptance decision will be made based on your one-page submission. However, you can provide URLs for the works in your submission or supplemental documentation, so if a specific question arise, jurors can download the works themselves.
11. Do I have to submit a supporting video?
You're not required to, but it is a good idea for both Technical Sketches and posters,and it is necessary for the work to be accepted as a multimedia poster. The power of a video during the jury process cannot be stressed enough. The jury has a small amount of time to review a large number of submissions. Seeing the video can answer many questions that the jury might ask after reading just the one-page document. For instance, the jury is unlikely to accept a Technical Sketch or Poster about animation if they haven't seen the actual animation. In the case of posters, the video can be very useful to give an idea of the demo the authors will be able to show to attendees during the informal presentation sessions.
12. My submission is about production effects, but the studio won't give permission to submit a supporting video because the movie hasn't been released yet. What should I do?
First, be certain that you will have permission to show the actual effects at the conference. If possible, submit a video that uses non-sensitive stand-in models or scenes to illustrate the techniques in question, with an explanation that the real thing will be shown at the conference. Contact the Technical Sketches & Posters Co-Chairs to see if some special arrangement can be worked out. If all else fails, submit without a video, but with an extra document listing in detail what the contents of the video will be, illustrated with still frames if possible.
14. My video files are larger than 100 MB. What should I do?
The total size of your uploads should stay below 100 MB, to allow jurors in various locations around the world to easily download them. Remember that the total length of your video must not exceed five minutes. The jurors won't have time to watch more than that. To fit the size requirement, you can try to decrease the image resolution
and/or use a better compression technique. You can also try a higher compression rate at the cost of slightly reduced image quality.
14. Can I submit a supporting videotape in VHS NTSC or PAL format?
Unfortunately, you cannot. Supplemental videos must be uploaded in digital form to save everyone the effort of making and shipping multiple copies of videotapes.
How to Get Accepted or Rejected
15. Do you have any advice on how to write my Technical Sketch so it will be accepted?
First of all, make sure your submission is no more than two pages long. The jury has a small amount of time to review a large number of submissions. Submissions that are longer than two pages will be rejected without review.
It should be immediately obvious at the beginning of your document what the motivation for your work and the new contribution(s) are. Just one or two sentences such as: "We present a new method for ... that's N times faster than ..." Or: "We have conducted a new study comparing A and B." Or: "Effect X in feature film Y presented a new challenge." Or something similar.
Try to focus on one or two key ideas. Two pages is not a lot of space. For example, it is almost impossible to summarize all the contributions of a regular, eight-page paper in two pages. Remember that the jury members have very limited time to "get it", so keep it simple.
You should cite previous work where appropriate. Of course, there is not space for a huge bibliography, but a few key references are helpful. If you propose to present work that extends previous work of your own, cite the previous work and explain what is different. For example: "We build on our previous work [1] by ..." If there has been previous work by several others, choose one major work to cite and state why your work is different. For example: "Unlike previous work, such as [1], we ..."
There are few graphics techniques and applications that result in absolutely no visuals. Submit supporting images or video to illustrate your work. The jury is more likely to accept a Technical Sketch or Poster if they can examine the results.
Lastly, non-native English speakers may wish to make use of the English Review Service to check for grammar and readability before submitting their abstracts. To use this service, you will need to send your work a few weeks before the deadline.
Examples of successful Technical Sketches and Posters from SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 can be found in the ACM Digital Library.
Why are submissions rejected?
Submissions that are longer than two pages will be rejected without review. For technical submissions, several phrases are commonly heard just before rejection: "Good solutions to this problem already exist. I see no motivation for this specific one." "There's not enough new here." "It's not clear enough. I don't understand it." "There's not enough evidence to demonstrate the claims." "I'm not impressed by the results." "This has been done before." Try to get the reviewers excited, thinking: "Hey, this is a talk I would like to attend!"
30 August 2010 (23:59 UTC/GMT)
Submission deadline
September 2010
Jury review
Late September 2010
Acceptance notification
Two weeks after acceptance notification
Final materials submission
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has declared a public health emergency for New York State because of the severity of the flu season.
Cuomo made the announcement Saturday. His executive order allows pharmacists to administer flu vaccinations to patients between 6 months and 18 years of age.
The order also suspends for the next month the section of State Education Law limiting the authority of pharmacists to administer immunizing agents only to individuals 18 years of age or older.
The order comes as nearly 20,000 cases of influenza have been reported in the state so far this season. That's more than four times the 4,400 positive laboratory tests reported all of last season.


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HAMMEAH, TOWER OF (A. V. "tower of Meah"):
Tower near the sheep-gate of Jerusalem (Neh. iii. 1, xii. 39). The rendering of the Greek version, "the tower of the hundred," might be interpreted to mean that the tower either was garrisoned by one hundred men, or was one hundred cubits high, or had one hundred steps.


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What is the Future of Microwave Technology in Diagnostic Imaging?
December 10, 2012
Researchers at the Cancer Imaging and Radiobiology Research Program (CIR) at Dartmouth-Hitchcock's Norris Cotton Cancer Center study and test new ways to get good images using techniques that exploit different properties of tissue. This research program includes a collaborative team of engineers, family physicians, oncologists, and radiologists.
Microwave imaging has been shown reliable in detect breast tumors
One area we are exploring is microwave technology: the same basic technology used in microwave ovens can be used to create an image of breast tissue. By sending very low levels (1,000 times less than a cell phone) of microwave energy through tissue, researchers can form a three-dimensional image. These images capture the dielectric properties—electrical conductivity and permittivity (electrical resistance)—of the tissue, which translates into detecting anomalies, such as tumors or other aberrations.
Professor of engineering Paul Meaney has been working on microwave engineering for more than 15 years, primarily with Keith Paulsen, the co-director of the CIR, and also the Robert A. Pritzker Professor of Biomedical Engineering; professor of radiology at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth; and director of the Dartmouth Advanced Imaging Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.
Their work together has revealed that microwave imaging is not just for soft tissue, and it's not just for detecting tumors. They have determined that microwave technology can produce images of bones that correlate to other more commonly used techniques that measure bone density, like X-ray, ultrasound, or CT. Their work was published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, and it's the first study to use microwave technology to get images of the calcaneus bone, or heel, in humans. (The heel region is comparable to the allotted breast size. With some minor modifications to the microwave image system Dartmouth scientists constructed to study breasts, they were able to move from investigating soft tissue to looking at heel bones.)
Below, Paulsen describes breast-cancer imaging techniques that go beyond mammography:


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Australia is vast. It's about the same size as the US, but its population is less than 8% that of the US. Low population density makes commercial broadband development a challenge in many places. Despite boasting one of the world's strongest economies, Australia's population is forced to endure some of the slowest Internet speeds, and many rural areas of the country have little or no Internet access.
To tackle the problem, the Australian government proposed building a national broadband network (NBN) that would bring fast Internet access to all residents across the country. But three years into construction, the country's largest public-infrastructure project had fallen far behind schedule and was on track to go billions of dollars over budget.
In October 2013, Australia's NBN hired BCG to answer the question, "Is there a better way?" The project was more than challenging: we needed to deliver a new strategy before year's end.
Four Years—and AU$30 Billion—Saved
Assembling a global team of more than 30 BCG professionals—including experts in geoanalytics, advanced optimization, construction, and five different broadband technologies—we devised complex models to evaluate the quickest and least expensive way to launch or expand broadband service to individual homes and businesses in more than 60,000 distinct distribution areas across the country.
Our analysis showed that Australia could save taxpayers approximately AU$30 billion and four years of construction time if NBN could be flexible in the deployment of a range of technologies (cable, fiber-to-the-premises, fiber-to-the-node using the existing copper network "last mile," fiber-to-the-distribution-point, and fixed wireless solutions) rather than relying almost entirely on a fiber-to-the-premises solution, which had been the government's original plan.
The new strategy will enable Australia to complete the NBN by 2020 and accelerate broadband rollout to many of the nation's poorly served urban, rural, and remote bush regions.
Q&A with the Broadband Specialist
Dorothee works in BCG's Sydney office and is an active member of our Technology, Media & Telecommunications practice area. Once a consultant on this project, Dorothee is now a project leader. She has an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management, University of New South Wales, and a master's equivalent degree (Diplom-Kulturwirt) in commerce and arts from the University of Passau.
Q: What was your role on this project?
Broadband cable was a vital component of this project, and I have quite a bit of experience working with cable operators in Europe. Early on, we asked ourselves, "What if we could leverage the existing cable networks, rather than running fiber to every single home?" I was in charge of that analysis—what it would cost, how much time it would take. Our goal was to deliver the best performance at the lowest cost to Australian taxpayers.
Q: Sounds complex. What did that analysis involve?
You have to understand the costs at a really deep level—right down to how many meters of cable it takes and what it will cost to dig the trench—for every home and business. And my expertise was just cable. We had experts, including BCG consultants from Switzerland, Dubai, Belgium, and the US, performing the same kind of analysis for every technology we were evaluating.
Q: How could you accomplish so much in such a short time?
It was an enormous project, involving huge amounts of data. But each of us knew exactly what we needed to do, and we interacted continually. The experience taught me a lot about how to break down a complex project into definable parts and how to stay focused—under immense scrutiny. I gained confidence in my ability to manage and courage to make important decisions. In fact, I've since been promoted to project leader at BCG.
Q&A with the Financial Analyst
Alan joined BCG in 2012 and is a junior consultant in BCG's Sydney office. Alan has a bachelor of commerce/bachelor of law degree from the University of New South Wales.
Q: What was your role on this project?
There were 10 or 15 of us on the modeling team. I was in charge of the financial model—a big role. Literally millions of data points with billions of dollars at stake. We analyzed six different scenarios—each representing a different rollout plan and mix of technologies—and the financial impact each would have, so the team could determine the relative financial and operating trade-offs among the scenarios.
Q: What made working on this project so satisfying?
I'm proud to have been part of a project that will have such a big impact on our country. The NBN will touch every single one of us Australians in some way or form—whether we live in a big city or in the bush. The NBN is not just there to help bring us up to par with other countries; it will provide the infrastructure for our future growth and development.
Q: What attracted you to BCG after getting your commerce and law degree?
Actually, while I was interviewing for clerkships at law firms, I was invited to talk to BCG. Frankly, I had never given consulting much thought, but I really enjoyed the case study interview and thought that kind of work could make a fantastic career. BCG allowed me to complete my summer clerkship so I was able to get a taste of what law was like, and I started at BCG the next year.
Q&A with the Geoanalyst
Nicholas is a senior knowledge analyst on BCG's GeoAnalytics team in Boston. An expert in spatio-temporal analysis, Nicholas earned his PhD in geography from Arizona State University, an MA in geographic information science from Clark University, and a BA in geography from Clark University.
Q: I'm sure you are frequently asked to explain what geoanalysis is and what you do.
You're right. As a member of BCG's GeoAnalytics team, I analyze spatial problems for our clients. These are typically complex, involve huge data sets, and are very much location-driven questions, having some sort of "where" question in them. For example, network optimization for retailers—where to put stores or warehouses—or, in this instance, the location trade-offs of a particular technology.
Q: What was your role on this project?
My primary role was to build the technology-allocation-optimization model. I was also the go-to guy for spatial data visualization, because being able to "see" a problem can really help you solve it. I could almost see the light bulb go off over people's heads about why, for instance, a spit of land would be better served by satellite rather than fiber.
Q: What did you learn from working on the project?
The experience reinforced my understanding that you can't predetermine your path to a solution. You have to let the problem define the approach. We couldn't just say, "We have a one-size-fits-all hammer, let's find some nails." We had to build or customize many of the tools for our analysis, including the technology optimization algorithms. I'm not even sure who else could have done that sort of thing.


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2019-2020 Benton County Budget Award Book
Benton County Washington
Awarded 9 consecutive Government Finance Officers Association
Distinguished Budget Presentation Awards
Documents submitted to the Budget Awards Program are reviewed by selected members of the GFOA professional staff and by outside reviewers with experience in public-sector budgeting.
In 2006, Benton County made the decision to prepare a document that brought forth the County's mission statement and compiled prior decisions adopted by the Board of Commissioners; decisions that shaped the County into what it is today. This document, called the Budget Award Book, is prepared each budget cycle and is used as a policy document, an operations guide, a financial plan, and a communications device for the citizens Benton County serves. It is imperative that the citizens receive insight as to why the Board of Benton County Commissioners make certain decisions and understand the challenges Benton County faces such as meeting growing service demands and voted revenue constraints.


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The average return for target maturity funds last quarter came in 3.5% under the S&P 500 at nearly 9%, but beat the BarCap U.S. Aggregate Bond Index by over 8.5%, according to the Ibbotson Target Maturity Report. The first quarter of 2012 was the highest quarter for TDFs since the third quarter of 2010, the report notes.
The report also noted that the first quarter was the second consecutive quarter when all target maturity funds with at least a one-year history ended the period with a positive return. In general, the funds furthest from retirement had the strongest relative performance as equities significantly outperformed fixed income.
Momentum in equities carried through the first quarter from the end of 2011, the report notes. The S&P 500 rose 12.6% during the first quarter and non-U.S. equities also improved. Low interest rates helped drive investor interest in equities, but hurt performance in the fixed income sector.
In the first quarter, U.S. growth equities were the top returners, followed by value equities. "For the third time over the past four quarters, funds investing in growth outperformed those investing in value which rewarded those target maturity funds with a growth tilt during the quarter," according to the report.
Real estate returned 10.5%, while commodities returned less than 1%.
Among fixed income assets, high-yield bonds returned 5.3%, while other bonds returned less than 1%.
"These meager fixed income returns are one of the primary reasons that those funds closest to retirement exhibited underperformance relative to those furthest from retirement," the report notes.
According to the report, returns among asset classes over the past 12 months showed "drastic differences." In equities, returns ranged from an 8.5% loss to a gain of 11%. The spread in alternatives is even more dramatic, with REITs outperforming all asset classes over the past year at 11.3%, and commodities trailing all other asset classes at a 16.3% loss.


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Get Smart/Naked Gun 3 director Peter Segal has taken on the cast-off movie project originally geared as Will Ferrell's next slapstick riot, Neighborhood Watch. Now we can only imagine in horror which overdone comedian will star in the paranormal comedy.
Variety announced today that Peter Segal, who did make the very funny Tommy Boy but is also responsible for countless comedic failures, is directing the comedy Neighborhood Watch, which is about a man who takes over his local Neighborhood Watch only to find out that the neighborhood is haunted. Hilarity, no doubt, ensues.
We shudder to think which comedian will be lined up to make this classic late-night TNT movie. My vote goes to Davie Spade.