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Columbus, Ohio - United States Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property Stephen Pinkos and Senator George Voinovich (R-OH) today warned members of Ohio's small business community that they are at risk of overseas intellectual property theft-even if they do not export. Both Deputy Under Secretary Pinkos and Senator Voinovich urged America's small businesses to consider protective action.
In remarks before the "Conference on Intellectual Property in the Global Marketplace," sponsored by the Commerce Department's United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Pinkos and Voinovich emphasized the importance to businesses of obtaining intellectual property protection both in the United States and overseas. Pinkos noted that in 2004, more than 850,000 businesses (or 98 percent of all businesses) in Ohio were small businesses, employing nearly 50 percent of the non-farm private workforce in Ohio. And Ohio's exports are significant. It was the seventh largest exporting state last year, and the ninth largest export state to China, sending more than $934 million worth of goods. Ohio's exports to China have more than tripled since 2000.
"Piracy and counterfeiting around the world are on the rise," Pinkos said. "Intellectual property theft worldwide costs American companies $250 billion a year and-by extension-hurts American workers and their families." The goal of our seminar in Columbus is giving small businesses the information they need to protect their intellectual property assets in the U.S. and around the world."
While counterfeiting and piracy pose a serious threat to all American businesses, small businesses are particularly at risk because they often lack the knowledge and expertise to effectively combat it. Because small businesses typically do not have personnel or maintain large operations in other countries, theft of their intellectual property overseas can go undetected.
This seminar is the latest in a series the USPTO is hosting across the country to help educate American small businesses about the realities of piracy and counterfeiting. During the two-day seminar in Columbus, intellectual property experts from the agency provided attendees with details and useful tips about protecting and enforcing their intellectual property rights in the United States and around the world.
The Columbus seminar represents one of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's many efforts to educate small businesses about intellectual property protection. The USPTO also has a website specifically designed to address the needs of small businesses, and informational materials informing small businesses about the problem and steps they can take to mitigate it. Materials and other information about the awareness campaign are available at www.stopfakes.gov/smallbusiness.
The seminars and website are part of a much larger USPTO and federal government effort known as the Strategy Targeting Organized Piracy (STOP). The STOP initiative aims to combat criminal networks that traffic in fakes, stop trade in pirated and counterfeit goods at America's borders and help small businesses secure and enforce their rights in overseas markets. As part of the initiative, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office maintains a toll-free telephone hotline, 1-866-999-HALT, that helps businesses leverage the resources of the U.S. government to protect their intellectual property rights.
For more information about the U.S. government's efforts to educate American businesses about intellectual property rights, visit www.stopfakes.gov.


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I'm serving up my favorite way to satisfy your inner chocoholic~ A No Bake 5-Ingredient Chocolate Tart guaranteed to make your sweetheart, family and friends swoon!
It was love at first bite when I discovered this chocolate ganache tart!
Oh Chocolate Tart, How do I love thee? Let me count the ways:
♥ Make ahead.
♥ No-bake.
♥ No special skills needed in the kitchen, just chopping chocolate, pulsing cookies in the food processor, and heating cream just until boiling and stirring.
♥ Just 5 ingredients including the strawberries.
♥ The removable outer ring of a tart pan allows you the see the pretty edge of the crust and makes it easy to serve, especially that first slice.
♥ Decadent, luscious and splurge-worthy!
Strawberries and raspberries were on sale this week in anticipation of Valentine's Day, so I used a combination of both berries for this tart, but feel free to skip the berries and serve this tart with a drizzle of salted caramel or a simple sprinkling of flaky sea salt for an easy and delicious finish.
Because the filling of this tart is just two ingredients, you want to use good quality chocolate and full fat, heavy cream, no substituting with light cream or half and half. The higher the fat content of the cream, the richer and more stable the finished ganache will be. I used a combination of bittersweet and semi-sweet chocolate.
For the cookie crust I used some seasonal Red Velvet Oreos for some additional Valentine's Day red, but you can substitute regular Oreos or the cookies of your choice for the crust. Red Velvet Oreos are not overly red velvety nor are they very cream cheesy, but they are pretty. ;)
No Bake 5-Ingredient Chocolate Tart
Makes an 11″ Tart
For crust: 1 package Oreos (or similar chocolate sandwich cookie, about 36)
Red Velvet Oreos are in smaller packages, around 24, so you'll need 1 1 /2 packages to get 36
1 /2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted
To make crust: Add Oreos (including the cream filling) to bowl of a food processor and pulse until fine crumbs. Pour in melted butter and pulse, mixing until well combined. Press the mixture onto the bottom and up the sides of an 11-inch tart pan. Tip: Use the sides and bottom of a measuring cup to help press crumbs evenly into sides and bottom of tart pan. Place crust in the refrigerator to chill and firm for 1 hour before adding filling.
Ganache Filling:
(3) 4 oz. bars Premium Chocolate Baking Bars, Semi-Sweet or Bittersweet, (I used Ghirardelli and a combination of both semi-sweet and bittersweet)
1 1/2 Cups Heavy Cream
To Make Ganache filling:
Coarsely chop chocolate bars and place in a heat proof bowl. In a small saucepan, bring cream just to a boil over medium-high heat. Pour heavy cream over chocolate and let stand for 2-3 minutes, until chocolate has softened. Slowly whisk the mixture until smooth and chocolate is melted and shiny. Pour filling into prepared cookie crust. Place in fridge until set, about 4 – 6 hours or overnight.
*Note: Add any sliced strawberries just prior to serving, since cut berries will weep onto surface of ganache filling.
Printable Recipe
Because, I'm a more is more kinda girl, especially when it comes to chocolate, I added a drizzle of additional chocolate top of the berries.
You can find more Valentine's Day recipes and table inspiration to make your celebration extra sweet, here.
I used my favorite 11-inch tart pan. It's a Wilton® Advance Select™ Premium Nonstick 11-Inch Tart/Quiche Pan in Gunmetal. I found it for $14.99 at Bed, Bath & Beyond. You can order it online or use the store locator to find one near you and use your 20% coupon.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is the U.S. regulatory agency charged with the oversight of securities markets and market participants in the U.S. Its mission is to protect investors, to maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and to facilitate capital formation.
Organization and Purpose
The SEC has up to five commissioners, all of whom are named by the U.S. president, with staggered five-year terms. One appointee is designated as chairman of the SEC and serves as the agency's chief executive. By law, no more than three of the commissioners may belong to the same political party. Jay Clayton is the current chair, having been appointed in 2017 by President Trump.[1]
The laws and rules that govern the securities industry in the U.S. derive from a singular concept. According to the SEC, "All investors, whether large institutions or private individuals, should have access to certain basic facts about an investment prior to buying it, and so long as they hold it. To achieve this, the SEC requires public companies to disclose meaningful financial and other information to the public. This provides a common pool of knowledge for all investors to use to judge for themselves whether to buy, sell, or hold a particular security. Only through the steady flow of timely, comprehensive, and accurate information can people make sound investment decisions."[2]
The SEC is the overseer of such market participants as securities exchanges, securities brokers and dealers, investment advisors, and mutual funds. In this area, the SEC is concerned primarily with promoting the disclosure of important market-related information, maintaining fair dealing, and protecting against fraud.
Through the SEC's enforcement authority, each year hundreds of civil enforcement actions are brought against individuals and companies for violation of the securities laws. Typical infractions include insider trading, accounting fraud, and providing false or misleading information about securities and the companies that issue them.
Investor information is a major source of actions brought by the SEC. To help support investor education, the SEC offers educational information on its Internet Web site, which also includes the EDGAR database[3] of disclosure documents that public companies are required to file with the SEC. The SEC's Office of Investor Education and Advocacy, [4] which provides a variety of services to address the problems and questions investors face, also serves in advisory capacity to the Alliance for Investor Education.[5]
Though it is the primary overseer and regulator of the U.S. securities markets, according to the SEC, it "works closely with many other institutions, including Congress, other federal departments and agencies, the self-regulatory organizations (e.g. the stock exchanges), state securities regulators, and various private sector organizations. In particular, the chairman of the SEC, together with the chairman of the Federal Reserve, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, serves as a member of the President's Working Group on Financial Markets."
The SEC's functional responsibilities are organized into four divisions and 18 offices, each of which is headquartered in Washington, DC. The Commission has approximately 3,800 staff located in Washington and in 11 regional offices throughout the country.
Current Commissioners
- Jay Clayton, Chair
- Allison Herren Lee, Commissioner
- Elad Roisman, Commissioner
- Hester M. Peirce, Commissioner
- Caroline A. Crenshaw, Commissioner
The SEC was created in 1934 after the Great Market Crash of 1929, during the days of the ensuing U.S. Depression. Prior to the Crash of 1929, there was little support for federal regulation of the securities markets.
According to the SEC, "Tempted by promises of 'rags to riches' transformations and easy credit, most investors gave little thought to the systemic risk that arose from widespread abuse of margin financing and unreliable information about the securities in which they were investing. During the 1920s, approximately 20 million large and small shareholders took advantage of post-war prosperity and set out to make their fortunes in the stock market. It is estimated that of the $50 billion in new securities offered during this period, half became worthless."
Congress passed the Securities Act of 1933. Along with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which created the SEC, it was designed to restore investor confidence in U.S. capital markets by providing investors and the markets with more reliable information and clear rules of honest dealing. President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Joseph P. Kennedy, former President John F. Kennedy's father, to serve as the first chairman of the SEC.
Monitoring the securities industry requires a highly coordinated effort. Congress established the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in 1934 to enforce the newly-passed securities laws, to promote stability in the markets and, most importantly, to protect investors.
In July of 2009, the Obama administration sent Congress legislation designed to protect investors by bolstering the authority of the SEC. The proposal unveiled was part of the sweeping plan for overhauling the U.S. financial rule book that the administration is pressing lawmakers to enact to help avert another meltdown. It sought to put investment advisers providing services to retail investors and stockbrokers under the same standards of conduct, and to strengthen rules governing the timing and quality of disclosures by investment funds.[6]
On September 5, 2014, the SEC named Tracey McNeil, a longtime SEC official, its first ever ombudsman, a role mandated by the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial overhaul. McNeil acts as a liaison in resolving problems that retail investors may have with the Commission.[7]
On August 5, 2015, the SEC approved a final rule requiring companies to disclose the pay gap between chief executives and rank-and-file employees, marking the culmination of years of heated debate over the measure, which is required by the 2010 Dodd-Frank law. The vote was 3-2, with the two Republicans on the commission opposing the rule.[8]
- ↑ Jay Clayton Bio. SEC.gov.
- ↑ "The Investor's Advocate: How the SEC Protects Investors, Maintains Market Integrity, and Facilitates Capital Formation". Securities and Exchange Commission.
- ↑ EDGAR database info page. Securities and Exchange Commission.
- ↑ Investor Information. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
- ↑ Members. Alliance for Investor Education.
- ↑ Administration Seeks To Bolster SEC's Authority. Yahoo News.
- ↑ SEC Names Ombudsman. The Wall Street Journal.
- ↑ SEC Approves Final CEO Pay-Ratio Rule. The Wall Street Journal.


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Cosmo Challenge: Do a Dirty 360. Get into girl-on-top, and spin all the way around without pulling away.
I told you in the last post that D. got a 360 degree view of me. Well, I wasn't totally honest. It was more like 330 degrees. And then I fell off.
But I'm getting ahead of myself.
So, D. and I were in bed, all over each other. Within just a few seconds he had his hands between my legs. He did the whole teasing thing by touching everywhere but the target—thighs, leg crease, lower abdomen. Then he went for it, using the techniques he must have learned reading this article on the 15 minute female orgasm. (Thank you, Cosmo!) Then D. took my hand and put it on his junk.
(What are your thoughts on this move, ladies? D. almost never does it (and thankfully, he's never ever done the push-my-head-down move as a not-so-subtle way to get head). But it definitely gave me pause.)
Regardless, I took the hint and started to give him a hand job. And after a few tugs D. whispered in my ear, "I want you so bad, S." I took that not-at-all-subtle hint and climbed on top. I rested my hands on the wall behind D.'s head and hovered just over D.'s shaft, being a big ol' tease.
It worked. He got all riled up and eventually just grabbed my shoulders and pulled me down so he was completely inside of me. (D. was clearly in a slightly aggressive mood! And I liked it!) I leaned down so my torso was parallel to his, kissed his ear then murmured, "Think we can do a 360?"
D.'s face lit up like a Christmas tree. I've never done this with him (or anyone else, for that matter) and I have to admit I was wondering if he even would even find the challenge appealing.
Then something hit me: I had absolutely no effing clue how I was going to spin all the way around. Would my feet be in his face? Would D. fall out? Would I stay in reverse cowgirl for a little bit then continue on my circuitous journey or just do the spin in one motion?
Luckily D. took control of the situation. He moved my left leg so that it was straight out in front of me then crossed it over his chest. (Word to the spinners: make sure your feet are clean for this challenge because he might get a face-full.) My torso and right leg followed the lead and soon I was facing sideways and somehow we had not lost down-there contact.
We stayed in this position for a little while (my hands were behind me supporting my weight so I sort of looked like a crab) because it felt so damn good. D. was thrusting and the angle was something I'd never experienced before. It was shallow penetration, but I remember reading that there are a ton of nerve endings right at the entrance of the vagina that often get overlooked. So maybe that's why I was enjoying the position so much.
But you know what they say: the spin must go on. Plus, I was afraid D. would finish if we kept going at it in the crab pose. So I continued on my trip and ended up in reverse cowgirl.
If you read my last blog, 77 Positions in 77 Days, then you know that I had never tried reverse cowgirl until recently, but as soon as I did, I was a convert. It feels so amazing and I secretly think that it gives D. a great (and flattering) view of my ass. We stayed like this for a while and D. did the reach around and stimulated my clitoris manually. When I came close to climaxing, I grabbed his hand and moved it over his to make sure I got just the touch I wanted.
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Without warning D. grabbed my torso again and tried to manually move me the last 180 degrees. Bad, bad idea. I got maybe halfway around then fell. Off his penis. And off the bed.
Yes, it's as ridiculous as it sounds. Luckily there was a wall not far away to break my fall, but my clumsiness killed the moment. When I recovered and climbed back on top, D. had gone from a full-fledged hard-on to a chubby. (He later said that it's really hard for guys to stay in the moment when something humorous is going on. It's like their brains short circuit when they have to deal with two conflicting emotions. Men!)
I didn't want to pressure D. to get hard again so we could complete the remaining 30 or so degrees. I know from experience that the more a dude knows you're waiting for him to go stiff, the more difficult the task is. So I decided to give him oral instead. I knew it would be the quickest way to arouse him and he wouldn't feel like I was waiting on him.
The good thing about starting a blowy when the guy is still a bit soft is that you can usually get the entire thing in your mouth, even if he's well-endowed. D. loved that and it didn't take more than a minute or two for him to climax.
Afterward, while we lay in bed laughing about what had happened he looked over, grabbed my hands and said, "S., I've never had so much fun having sex with someone." I feel the exact same way.
Have you ever done a 360? If so, please share your tips for making it work! Also, have you ever had a guy go soft while you're hooking up? How did you "recover"? Just carrying on or taking a break?


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WASHINGTON -- Lt. Gen. Harry M. Wyatt III, Air National Guard director, retired after more than 40 years of military service during a ceremony Jan. 29 hosted by Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin at Joint Base Andrews, Md.
The Air Force Chief of Staff Air Gen. Mark A. Welsh III, the Chief of the National Guard Bureau Army Gen. Frank J. Grass, the Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Chief Master Sgt. James A. Cody and other dignitaries attended.
Wyatt received the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal for exceptionally meritorious service in a duty of great responsibility. The award recognized his outstanding leadership, professionalism, initiative, dedication, and an unwavering devotion to the welfare of service members, civilians, and their families. As the director, Wyatt propelled the ANG through a pivotal transition and adaptation of policy and processes, providing strategic direction for the ANG.
Wyatt's wife, Nancy Wyatt, was presented with the Exceptional Service Award for her work with military spouses, Airman and their families. The award recognized her activism on behalf of military families. Nancy Wyatt was instrumental in communicating initiatives on behalf of Dr. Jill Biden and first lady Michelle Obama to take care of those who cared for wounded warriors. Nancy Wyatt reinvigorated a national family support program at senior National Guard levels revitalizing family support initiatives directly benefiting nearly 500,000 Guardsman.
Wyatt, an Oklahoma Air National Guardsman, served as the ANG director since Feb. 1, 2009. He was responsible for formulating, developing and coordinating all policies, plans, and programs affecting more than 106,700 ANG members in 89 wings and more than 200 geographically separated units throughout the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Virgin Islands.
Wyatt entered the Air Force in 1971 and completed undergraduate pilot training at Laredo Air Force Base, Texas, in 1973. He was a command pilot with more than 3,000 hours in a variety of aircrafts to include: A-7 Corsair II, C-26 Metroliner, F-16 Fighting Falcon, F-100 Super Sabre, F-106 Delta Dart, T-33 Shooting Star, T-37 Tweet and T-38 Talon. Before assuming his position as the ANG director, Wyatt served as the Adjutant General of Oklahoma, where he was responsible for commanding the Oklahoma Air and Army National Guard.
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Bill Moggridge (1943-2012) was a co-founder of IDEO, one of the most successful design firms in the world and one of the first to integrate the design of software and hardware into the practice of industrial design. Bill was also the fourth director of the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, the only museum in the United States devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design.
Bill designed the first laptop computer, the Grid Compass, launched in 1982. He described his career as having three phases: first as a designer with projects for clients in ten countries, second as a co-founder of IDEO where he developed design methods for interdisciplinary design teams, and third as a spokesperson for the value of design in everyday life.
A Royal Designer for Industry, Bill pioneered interaction design and was one of the first people to integrate human factors into the design of software and hardware. Bill was also a 2010 winner of the Prince Philip Designers Prize, a trustee of the Design Museum in London, Visiting Professor in Interaction Design at the Royal College of Art, and Consulting Associate Professor in the design program at Stanford University. He served as Congress Chair for CONNECTING'07, the Icsid/IDSA World Design Congress held in San Francisco in October 2007. He was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at Cooper-Hewitt's National Design Awards in 2009.


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Cultured butter, our favorite. Photo courtesy Vermont Creamery.
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Butter terms beginning with C, including clarified butter and compound butter. If you'd like to suggest other terms, use the Contact Us link on this page. This is Page 2 of a seven-page glossary. Click on the black links below to visit other pages. See a wealth of food knowledge in our many other food glossaries.
The physical process by which liquid cream is "worked" to coalesce the butterfat globules, with the concurrent expulsion of buttermilk.
Clarified butter is unsalted butter that has been slowly melted, evaporating much of the water and separating the milk solids. All that remains is pure liquid golden-yellow butterfat. Because the milk solids have been removed, clarified butter has both a long shelf life (it will keep from going rancid longer) and a high smoke point (it can be used in frying without burning); it also is less flavorful than regular butter. To clarify butter, melt unsalted butter in a saucepan over low heat. Skim the froth from the top and carefully pour off the clear liquid, leaving the milky residue behind. Clarified butter is used in sautés, sauces and in baked dishes. See also ghee.
A type of thick cream with a yellowish crust, popularized in the English counties of Devon and Cornwall. Clotted cream is an essential ingredient of a cream tea. It contains an average fat content of 63% (the minimum is 55%) and is produced by cooking full-fat milk over a bain-marie. Known as crème fraîche in France and racreme in Scandinavia, "clabber" is an archaic English word for a cupboard or pantry.
Not a dairy product, but the fat portion of the kernel (nib) of the cocoa bean. More about cocoa butter, including a photo.
Color in butter comes primarily from the presence of carotene and xanthophyll, which are natural compounds present in the feed of cows.
Butter flavored with herbs, garlic, wine or other seasonings, most often made by mixing them into softened butter. The butter is then rolled into a log shape and refrigerated until needed; slices are cut from the roll and placed directly on hot meat, fish or vegetables, where it melts immediately, creating a sauce. Herb butter and anchovy butter can be forms of compound butter: it is the creation of the log and the slice-as-needed to create a sauce that creates the reference. Here's more about compound butter, including recipes.
Foil-wrapped teaspoon-size portions of salted or unsalted butter, packed in trays for food service use.
This refers to butter, margarine, vegetable oils and vegetable shortening, all of which are used to moisten and flavor foods during cooking and to enrich and tenderize baked goods.
The word cream comes from the Greek chriein, which means "anoint," and which is also the root of Christ ("the anointed one"). The link between ancient ritual and rich food is oil, the substance used to anoint the chosen, and the defining element of cream. Cream is a form of milk in which the fat globules have become more concentrated than usual, whether by rising to the top in a bottle or spinning off from the heavier water phase in a centrifuge. There are several grades of cream marketed today, including heavy cream, light cream and half-and-half. Cream is also a verb meaning to beat until soft, smooth and fluffy, as with butter and sugar.
A matured, thickened cream with a slightly tangy, nutty flavor and velvety rich texture. The thickness can range from that of commercial sour cream to almost as solid as room-temperature margarine. In France, it is unpasteurized and contains the bacteria necessary to thicken it naturally. In the U.S., the fermenting agents necessary for thickening are obtained by adding buttermilk or sour cream. A very expensive American facsimile of crème fraîche is sold in some gourmet markets.
Fresh cream butter to which lactic acid cultures have been added for the development of a particular flavor. Most popular in European countries.
Two sticks of butter equal one cup, or 8 ounces. One stick of butter is 4 ounces, 8 tablespoons, 1/2 a cup, 115g and 115ml. Another tough measurement: 3/4 stick of butter, 6 tablespoons, is 3/8 cup.
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The Nature of Culinary Choices: Foodways and the Environment
[I am proposing a session for the 2010 ASA conference in San Antonio and am looking to fill out my proposed panel.]
CFP: In 2005's Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should be Good, Clean, and Fair, Carlo Petrini defines food as the most basic feature of human identity, arguing that it undergoes a "series of processes […] that transform it from a completely natural base (the raw material) into the product of a culture (what we eat)." The nature/culture angle is nothing new to environmental studies, but with the recent publications of works like the best-selling Food Matters by Marc Bittman and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver and the stream of documentaries such as Food, Inc. and King Corn, the focus on food has turned from the exploration and preservation of cultural foodways to include the protection and conservation of the natural world. Michelle Obama's purpose for reintroducing a vegetable garden at the White House highlights the political importance of sustainability, the social impact of the obesity epidemic, and the possibility of power over one's personal food supply. The garden, then, is the new (or recycled) symbol of self-reliance.
Accusations against the industrial food complex's environmental impact have not only sparked concern about the destruction of ecospheres and the debilitating and dangerous lack of biodiversity but also the safety, accessibility, nutritional quality, and cost of food. In fact, the peril in a McDonald's Value Meal, as Michael Pollan points out in The Omnivore's Dilemma, lies not only in the massive amount of fossil fuel required to produce and consume it but also its wide availability and cheapness, often forcing the underprivileged to make food choices based on cost rather than nutrition. Thus, destruction of the environment at the behest of food production plays into issues of environmental and social justice.
This session proposal seeks papers for an interdisciplinary approach (political, sociological, literary, philosophical, scientific, historical, etc.) to the issues surrounding our food supply and the environment. In keeping with the theme of the 2010 ASA meeting, some questions you might want to consider include:
• How does the so-called "foodie" movement, manifest in the proliferation of cookbooks, celebrity chefs, and television cooking shows, have to say about the way we consume both food and natural resources?
• How does environmental justice for minorities and the underprivileged play into issues surrounding the accessibility of food?
• How do chains of production and consumption coincide with environmental impact?
• How have grass-roots and larger organizations influenced the politics of food ecology?
• Is this question of the environment and food unique to our times?
• How and why do cultural representations (advertisements, art, film, literature) engage with portrayals of the raw material of the food supply?
• What changes have come about since the turn of the twenty-first century to influence the profusion of debates surrounding food?
• How have certain cultures and foodways impacted their local ecospheres?
• Are there any "responsible" and sustainable ways to produce food for a growing population of consumers?
Please send a 300-word abstract and biographical information (name, affiliation, email address, and one-page vita) to Jill E. Anderson at email@example.com by December 31, 2009.


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With All Respect To Reed Hastings, The Netflix-Qwikster Split Bad For Customers
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We have nothing but respect for Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, who has demonstrated again and again a willingness to take the long view instead of an easier short-term one--making tough decisions that cause near-term pain in order to improve the company long-term.
In the middle of last decade, for example, Reed decided to cut Netflix's pricing to neutralize a competitive threat from Blockbuster. Hastings and Netflix were scorned at the time for this decision--Netflix would obviously go broke--and Netflix's stock collapsed.
Well, we know how that one turned out: Netflix won the battle, and its stock blasted off for the moon. Blockbuster, meanwhile, went bust.
And now Hastings has gone and made another earth-shaking decision--enacting a major price increase for DVDs-by-mail and splitting Netflix into two companies. And the market has responded by chopping Netflix's stock price in half.
We suspect, eventually, that Reed Hastings will once again be proven right about the price increase and that those who have written the company off for dead will once again have to hang their heads in shame.
And we can also certainly understand why, from the company's perspective, it makes sense to split the DVD and streaming businesses into two separate companies: They're different businesses, with different cost structures and different delivery, marketing, licensing, and management challenges, and they will be easier to run better if they're managed separately.
But what's better for the company, in this case, is worse for most of the company's customers.
One of the big advantages of Netflix's current service is that it's a one-stop shop. Subscribe to Netflix, and you know that you'll be able to watch basically any movie or TV show ever made. You may not be able to watch it instantly, via streaming, but if you can't watch it instantly, then you can order the DVDs. And you can go to a single web site, Netflix, to figure out what your options are.
This is very different offering than most of Netflix competitors have, which is access to some TV shows and movies, but not all.
Subscribing to a service that has access to some shows and movies, is very different (and distinctly worse for the customer) than subscribing to one that has access to all of them.
Searching a database that contains some shows and movies is very different (and distinctly worse for the customer) than searching one that has access to all of them.
And subscribing to two different services, with two different brands, bills, and customer support, is much more of a pain in the ass than subscribing to one.
What percentage of Netflix's customers value its "one stop shop" feature? Half.
Netflix subscribers fall into one of three buckets:
DVD-only (~2.2 million target for Q3, by far the smallest)
Streaming-only (~9.8mm target for Q3)
Hybrid (12mm target for Q3)
Netflix's largest customer segment, in other words, is still choosing to pay for the ability to either stream or order DVDs by mail, despite the massive 60% price increase for this plan that Netflix just enacted.
This suggests that half of Netflix's customers very much value this option.
Will all of Netflix's "hybrid" subscribers maintain their DVD service subscription now that they'll have to search another web site and get another bill every month from "Qwikster"? We doubt it. And, in any case, it will be considerably more of a pain in the ass.
(One question we have for the company is whether both databases will still contain ALL movies and TV shows--or whether the databases will be limited to the movies that that particular service offers. If the streaming database does not contain the DVD movies, we imagine Netflix will lose a lot of free marketing for that service).
We understand that Netflix wants to discourage customers from ordering DVDs, and the split will certainly do that. We also understand that, eventually, Netflix's whole business will be streaming (or other digital delivery) and that DVDs will go away. And so we understand why Reed Hastings and Netflix are being applauded for facing reality and embracing the future.
For the moment, and for the next couple of years, Netflix's value to half of its customers has just dropped. Put differently, this seems a distinctly customer-unfriendly move.
It seems so customer-unfriendly, in fact, that one suspects there is more behind it than merely the desire to have a separate management team for each company.
Benchmark (VC) partner Bill Gurley offers one guess as to what this unstated factor may be.
Gurley observes that the licensing for content for DVDs versus streaming is entirely different. To rent a DVD, Netflix need merely buy it: The company does not pay any per-view or per-customer licensing fee to the studios. To stream a show or movie, meanwhile, Netflix has to pay a direct licensing fee, which is based on its number of subscribers.
Gurley believes that the Hollywood studios are now insisting that Netflix pay a per-subscriber-per-month licensing fee, whether or not its subscribers actually ever stream movies. This demand, Gurley reasons, may be forcing Netflix to pay per-month-fees on way more subscribers than it will ever recoup any value for (because many never use the streaming option).
By splitting the businesses in two, Gurley continues, Netflix will be able to negotiate streaming licenses on a much smaller subscriber base--say ~15 million, versus the ~25 million total subscriber base--thus reducing its streaming content costs.
This, too, makes sense from a business perspective, and, if true, it explains a lot.
SEE ALSO: REED HASTINGS: Here's Why We're Splitting Netflix Into Two Companies


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As officials confirmed a body discovered near Tourmaline Beach was that of a missing surfer Thursday morning, lifeguards revealed the man's body had wounds consistent with a shark attack.
The surfer was the subject of a search in the waters of Tourmaline Surf Park in the 5100 block of La Jolla Boulevard Wednesday night.
At approximately 10 p.m., San Diego police received a missing person report from a woman who said her fiancé had gone surfing and hadn't returned.
Around 3:35 a.m., the 42-year-old man was found lying in the kelp at the waterline near Tourmaline Beach, several hundred yards from where the search was initiated, lifeguards said.
When the body was recovered, there were wounds and trauma on the body that are consistent with what medical examiners would expect from a shark attack, according to San Diego Lifeguards Lt. John Everhart.
He said initial evidence indicates the attack may have happened after death.
"The thought is the person drowned in the waters off PB and then some time after that event, was the shark attack incident," Everhart said.
Shark expert Andy Nosal, Ph.D. agreed, saying the victim looked as though he died from drowning and was bitten postmortem, possible by a sevengill shark.
Officials are not sure why the man may have been submerged in the water. Hypothermia, ocean conditions, an unrelated medical condition, accidental drowning or suicide are all possible, Everhart said.
Officials say some unusual findings are complicating the investigation.
For instance, witnesses reported seeing the surfer paddle boarding on his knees, and then disappearing into the water without any struggle.
Officials say the man's truck was also found in a nearby beach area with the doors unlocked and keys in the ignition. His wetsuit – which he had been wearing earlier – had been taken off and tied around his surfboard.
Lifeguards say this is an unusual case in that the man took his wetsuit off while he was out in the water and tied it around his surf board "in a very purposeful manner." There were no signs of struggle. No damage was done to the surfboard or the wetsuit, lifeguards said.
"That someone would take their wet suit off while they're out at sea, and then tie it around their surf board and then disappear -- I've never seen anything like it," said Lt. Everhart, a 29-year lifeguard veteran.
The surf board was found in the water, approximately 250 yards out from the shore.
The county's medical examiner will investigate further and release a cause of death.
Officials searched the area from the shore and by boat overnight. A San Diego Fire-Rescue helicopter also helped in the search.
One surfer said he noticed something unusual off shore when he saw a surfer very far out in the water.
"He was really, really far out there. Like double the distance of where the other surfers were at the time," said surfer Tommy Calagna.
Calagna said soon after, he lost sight of the man.
He said when a surfer goes out with his wetsuit, he usually doesn't take it off until he comes in.
Surfer Neil Ratnavira said he also saw the surfer in the water Wednesday night.
"He was having a rough time paddling out there because it was choppy and windy, but no indication he was out there to take his own life," recalled Ratnavira.
Surfer Sarah Goltz heard about the man's death and agreed that taking off a wet suit was hard enough.
"I don't know, it doesn't make any sense, you don't take your wetsuit off in the water," Goltz said.
Ed Noble said he has noticed surfers along this section of the coast care about each other and look out for each other.
"People just care and they're wondering who it is," Noble said. "It's a tragedy. A young man, 42-year-old guy loses his life."
Officials hope to find some answers about the surfer's death Friday after an autopsy is performed.
On Friday night, an updated report released by the county medical examiner's office determined the surfer's cause of death to be drowning. The report identified the surfer as San Diego resident Brandon Beaver, 42.


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E-books Are Booming, and Still Sort of Small
No surprise to anyone who reads a site like this one: Sales of e-books are booming.
But just like most media formats, the book market is still a long way from converting completely to digital: Last year, print accounted for 85 percent of the publishing industry's general interest sales.
That number comes from the new BookStats survey, sponsored by two industry groups. It finds that Amazon and other digital distributors are taking an increasing chunk of the market, and that sales of "trade" e-books — basically, everything except educational and professional texts — doubled in the last year.
That helped keep the publishing business more or less flat in 2011, even as print sales dropped off. Net publisher revenue for trade books increased 0.5 percent, to $13.97 billion, with e-books accounting for $2.1 billion of that. Meanwhile, overall net revenue dropped 2.5 percent, to $27.2 billion.
That's the kind of year executives in the newspaper and music business would have loved to have over the last decade. Those industries have seen their analog businesses drop off a cliff, and have spent a long time waiting for digital revenue streams to replace them. It took until 2011, for instance, for digital music sales to (barely) top CD sales in the U.S.
But book publishers aren't solely concerned with digital revenue — they're also concerned about digital distribution, and who will control it. One of the big lessons media companies have taken from the music industry's collapse is that they don't want a single player — in the case of music, that would be Apple's iTunes — with a lock on the digital market.
That's what led the publishers to push for "agency" pricing, where they could set the sale price for their books — and, presumably, lessen Amazon's dominance in the e-book market by creating equal footing for all digital retailers. And that's what has led to the federal antitrust charges against Apple and the industry's biggest publishers.


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AMMAN (Reuters) - Elite Syrian government troops backed by tanks battled on Monday to recapture a strategic Damascus suburb from rebels who have advanced within striking distance of the centre of Syria's capital.
Five people, including a child, died from army rocket fire that hit the Daraya suburb during the fighting, opposition activists said. Daraya is part of a semi-circle of Sunni Muslim suburbs south of the capital that have been at the forefront of the 21-month-old revolt against President Bashar al-Assad.
"This is the biggest attack on Daraya in two months. An armoured column is trying to advance but it is being held (back) by the Free Syrian Army," said Abu Kinan, an opposition activist in the area, referring to a rebel group.
Clashes were also reported near the airport in Aleppo, Syria's largest city, which is in the north. Insurgents have made that airport a target in the hope of limiting government access to Aleppo, which is largely under rebel control.
Rebels have taken much of the north and east of Syria over the past six months, but government forces still hold most of the densely populated southwest around the capital, the main north-south highway and the Mediterranean coast.
Government forces scored a victory on Saturday, pushing rebels out of Deir Baalbeh, a district in Homs, an important central city that straddles the highway linking Damascus with the north and the Mediterranean.
Some opposition activists have said scores or even hundreds of people were executed in Deir Baalbeh by troops that seized it after several days of fighting. However, reports of killings there on a large scale could not be verified.
More than 45,000 people are estimated to have been killed in the 21-month war, the longest and deadliest of the revolts that began throughout the Arab world two years ago. Mainly Sunni Muslim rebels are fighting to topple Assad, a member of the Alawite minority sect whose family has ruled Syria since his father seized power 42 years ago in a coup.
The opposition refuses to hold peace talks unless Assad relinquishes power, and military successes over the last six months have reinforced its belief it can drive him out by force.
However, government troops still heavily outgun the fighters and maintain air bases scattered across the country.
The Damascus suburbs have become one of the major fronts of the war, with the rebels hoping to finally bring their uprising to the capital, heart of Assad's power.
Activist Abu Kinan said that tens of thousands of civilians had fled Daraya during weeks of government assault on the suburb, but that 5,000 remained, along with hundreds of rebels. Daraya is located near the main southern highway connecting Damascus to the Jordanian border 85 km (50 miles) to the south.
Activists said Republican Guard forces are trying to push back rebels who have been slowly advancing from the outskirts of Damascus to within striking distance of government targets and central districts inhabited by Assad's Alawite minority sect.
Assad's forces have mostly relied on aerial and artillery bombardment, rather than infantry. Rebels have been able take outlying towns and have clashed with government troops near Damascus International Airport, halting flights by foreign airlines.
Another activist in Damascus with links to rebels, who did not want to be named, said Daraya has been a firing position for rebels using mortars and homemade rockets. From it, they have been able to hit a huge presidential complex located on a hilltop overlooking Damascus and target pro-Assad shabbiha militia in an Alawite enclave nearby known as Mezze 86.
"So far they have missed the palace but they are getting better. I think the regime has realised that it no longer can afford to have such a threat so close by, but it has failed to overrun Daraya before," he said.
The opposition is backed by most Western and Arab states, while Assad has enjoyed the diplomatic protection of Moscow, which sells arms to his government and maintains a naval base in one of his ports.
Western countries have been searching for signs that Moscow is lifting its protection of Assad, hoping that would bring him down much as Russia's withdrawal of support heralded the fall of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic 12 years ago.
Moscow said on Saturday that it has no power to make Assad leave office, and accused the rebels of prolonging the bloodshed by refusing to negotiate with him.
U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has called on outside powers to push all sides to talk, arguing that Syria faces a choice of "hell or the political process".
Brahimi is touting a peace plan agreed to in principle by international powers six months ago, but the plan does not explicitly call for Assad to be excluded from power, which the opposition regards as a precondition to any talks.
The opposition-linked Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that rebels clashed with government troops near Aleppo's international airport. Rami Abdelrahman, the British-based Observatory's director, told Reuters by phone that fighting flared on Sunday night and continued into Monday morning.
He said no flights were departing or arriving from the airport. Syria's state airline cancelled at least one flight there over the weekend.
Nevertheless, the government's seizure of Deir Baalbeh in Homs is a reminder that its forces are still capable of recapturing territory from the lightly armed rebels. Syria's state news agency SANA said government forces seized a large cache of weapons and ammunition after capturing the district.
Writing by Peter Graff; Editing by Oliver Holmes and Mark Heinrich
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I've often been accused of being contrarian just for the sake of being contrarian, but I don't know that I've ever gone this far.
As if he were worth of being alive, Keith; of sharing the status of "human being" with Lou Gehrig. Manny Ramirez should have declined all offers of oxygen, on this day, and on every other day that is an anniversary of a day on which Lou Gehrig was alive.
For shame, for shame, baseball fans. You should all be standing in line to forfeit your mindless baseball entertainment, on account of there having been rule-breaking in that industry, which is devoted primarily to occupying the minds of 30-something lawyers with expense accounts, middle-aged journalists and college kids making fictional "trades" at 3 in the morning while eating week-old pizza slices they found in their closets. Why, oh why, don't you brainless masses boycott this farce in favor of a more wholesome, ethical and Gehrig-approved entertainment option?
I would argue further: that no one not named Gehrig should ever again be allowed to play baseball, even Strat-O-Matic. And that Manny Ramirez should be tasered every night for a year. And that the fans who have cheered for him should be tasered, too. And that Manny Ramirez is, pretty much, the Worst Person in the World. And that anyone who so much as cashes one check paid for with dirty baseball money from immoral cheering fans should be banished from civilized society.
Wait, Keith, why is there an MLB logo on your blog?
Umm… as anybody who reads the MLBlogs knows, baseball has no say over what is written here, by me, or anybody else. And, yes, this particular blog, MLB pays for. Only I don't get checks to cash. The money gets split three ways: to St. Jude's Hospital, to the Baseball Assistance Team, and to the education fund for the grandchildren of the former big leaguer and MLB.TV host John Marzano.
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Sigh, forgotten again! He forgot 55 year old, disabled (FSH Muscular Dystrophy), red haired women with an attitude. And no attitude bugs me more than that disabled people, dead or alive, have society by the short hairs. It's alright Dan if you would rather forget us or insult us but please just come out with it and stop using others as cover. What do I think of Manny Ramirez reappearing on Lou Gehrig Day? Not that you care but I'll tell you anyway! It makes me sad, sad because anytime I see someone, particularly an athlete, ruin the health I wish I had been born with it just disturbs me. I want to yell, "be happy, take care of your health, you don't appreciate what you've got!".
Don't pay attention to these jokers. You hit the nail on the head with that post, and some of your critics admit that. Others can't deal with it.
You figured it out, Keith — with this comment, "I hadn't heard previously of Dan Steinberg and his blogs at The Washington Post and The Sporting News . . ." but now you have and now all your readers have.
Mission accomplished, Mr. Steinberg.
Well, the final line was added after I had already finished, and I guess I'll agree that it gives the wrong impression. Although I didn't really think you got paid for doing this. The point was more that you are associated with the official apparatus of MLB, which has clearly been pretty well filled with cheaters of various degrees for a long, long time. Seems to me either you give up on an entire generation of baseball fans, or you just accept the fact that cheaters were everywhere and you move on with your life. When so many were cheating, to me, it's a systemic problem and not a sign of individual moral failing.
As for the rest of the slop quoted above, apologies for not just writing what I thought. Here's what I think: there are so very many problems in the world that deserve outrage, many of which you highlight on TV. Manny Ramirez sullying the image of a man who's been dead for decades by trying to hit a ball with a piece of wood on a day his employer told him he was eligible just doesn't strike me as one of them.
And if you want to say that being outraged about Manny is also a topic unworthy of outrage, I will concede the point.
As for never having heard of me, I was the fella who turned up Miles Rawls, the Wizards fan who taunted Prez Obama this spring. You quoted from my piece extensively, on the air! And I thought that made us bff!
Come on Keith, give this a break. If you haven't heard of Steinberg you clearly haven't read any sports blog in the past several years. The guy is a king there, and maybe you're too high and mighty to read sports blogs but believe me, his opinion counts and is never as snotty sounding as your post came across as. Ever heard of sarcasm when it comes to Steinberg's post? Come on, you know better.
Mr. Steinberg writes above that "trying to hit a ball with a piece of wood" is not something to be outraged about, considering all the problems in the world. I disagree with this statement. To say this is to suggest a fan should have no passion or opinion for something that has been a constant in our life since childhood. We have every right to feel anger when we think back to the players of a time gone by and compare them to today's rich, and all too often, lazy ballplayers. Perhaps we romanticize. I know I do, but it's borne out of respect and admiration. There is a certain dignity when one looks at pictures of ballplayers from prior generations. Their uniforms are torn and dirty and wrinkled, as though they had been wearing the same one for weeks. There is something in their faces, something in their eyes that tells you no one handed them a thing. So yes, we do feel anger when we see what Manny has done, and ARod and McGwire and Sosa and Bonds, etc. Because not only did they cheat themselves, they cheated us, their fans, just as they cheated Roger Maris and Hank Aaron. And they didn't have to. They were terrific ballplayers who needn't have "used" anything.
So if we become angry, or disappointed, so be it. That is our right. We started following baseball because we love excellence. We love to see what a player can accomplish in the short time he is in the majors. And we root for the best, regardless of what team they play for. We love to see records chased.
Does cheating in baseball matter compared to the problems of today? Yes. Precisely because of the problems of today. This is what sports is for. I can't help but think that Clemens' love of the game and Smokey Joe Wood's love of the game have different meanings.
For the lifelong baseball fan, the meaning of the game has never changed. And never will. And that's the way it should be.
"Pitchers, like poets, are born not made."
— Cy Young —
To Mr. Steinberg (and your sockpuppet and/or flying monkey jprywes): You've missed the entire point, which is that your lame attempts at wit mocked the struggles of Lou Gehrig and anyone else who has battled health problems. You directly mocked Keith's statement, "For risking that for which Lou Gehrig would've given anything — his own health."
You want a problem that deserves outrage? Here's one: People are struggling with, and dying from, severe health problems every day, and people like you don't care. Instead of trying to justify your juvenile screed, you should publicly apologize for being so disgustingly unsympathetic.
I'll admit up front that I know nothing about people in sports. I apologize to both sides of this debate/argument if I get anything wrong.
What I can do is look at this from the outside. It looks as if Mr. Steinberg tried to go after what Mr. Olbermann had wrote about Lou only to end up rolling over the dead guy. To pick on someone who's defenseless is petty at best.
"For publicly admitting he likes Tiramisu better than Apple Pie."
Wait.. what?? When did it matter what foods someone does or does not like? Please tell me this was a joke.
As for the rest of the entry.. I'm at loss for words. I don't see how being upset at an athlete for completely missing the point of sports in the first place is wrong. People of all ages can still enjoy the game but to excuse the athletes for doing wrong does not make your sport look any more appealing to the rest of us. Maybe Mr. Olbermann would not have gone off on his post like that had the return of Ramirez not been on a day for Lou.
Mr. Steinberg,
While much of what has been said here may be true in any number of contexts, there's one simple flaw in your basic argument, which I presume to be: "…there are so very many problems in the world that deserve outrage… Manny Ramirez sullying the image of a man who's been dead for decades… just doesn't strike me as one of them." That's true. It's also why Keith wrote about this subject on his MLB Blog instead of leading with it on his TV show. It's okay to care about the world's problems and have an opinion about baseball at the same time. He chose the appropriate venue and the fact that MLB doesn't censor him should be applauded.
I'm possibly a bit off topic here, but having just heard you reference Mr. Ramirez in another venue, I felt this diary the most appropriate of the options available.
I was reminded of Michael Jordan playing AA ball in Sarasota Florida in the 1990s, which is in itself a rather interesting saga.
But to the point, I would note that Mr. Jordan bought the AA White Sox a brand new team bus. A Prevost, if I recall correctly. Those check out in the low seven figure range, and he never even played in The Show!
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I remember the first time I ever saw a capo. One of my school teachers had one on a twelve-string guitar while she was playing a song at a school assembly. I was probably about 8 years old and already interested in guitar, but there was something about what she was singing and playing which made me associate the capo with wimpy songs played by old ladies (she was probably only 25, really, but to an 8-year-old that was ancient). It took me a while to start to appreciate the flexibility that the capo afforded. And to appreciate all the meats of our musical stew, not just the bits involving angry-sounding guitars like 8-year-old-me was into.
Let's backtrack for a second though, for those who might be new to guitar. A capo is a device that fits over the neck and holds down all six strings at whichever fret you place it at. The effect is to raise the pitch at which the open strings ring out, so you can play songs in higher keys than just down at the first position. You might want to do this to suit the range of a vocalist or another instrument, or perhaps you just want to explore the sonic texture of higher notes. There are plenty of reasons to use a capo and all of them are valid. Now, when installing the capo, whether it's a spring-loaded type that presses against the neck from both sides or if it's the kind that hooks onto itself via a stretchy fabric band, you want to make sure that you've placed it just behind the appropriate fret. If you place it in the middle of the space between two frets you risk getting a muffled sound, or even a buzzy sound depending on your guitar's construction.
A lot of the sheet music that you'll find written for capo'd guitars will use the original chord shape names - for instance, a song may require the capo to be placed at the 5th fret and played in the key of A, using the shape of an open E chord. That chord will still be referred to as E, even though the notes at the start of the music will say "Capo 5" (for 'capo at the 5th fret). This makes it exceedingly easy for novice musicians to transcribe songs in an instant without having to re-learn a whole new set of chords. It might not be the most effective method for promoting musical literacy, but it works great. In Figure 1 we have two guitars: one without Capo (Guitar A) and one with (Guitar B). Guitar A plays an open-position E chord and then a 5th position A. Guitar B then plays a single strummed A chord, holding on for two bars. This would be pretty painful if you were fretting it as a barre chord like Guitar A, but since the capo is at the fifth fret, we're freed from the tyranny of having to hold down all six strings at once. This also leaves us free to add little embellishments as we see fit.
Fig. B
Figure B features both guitars playing identical notes (an arpeggiated - that is, broken-up - A chord, followed by an arpeggiated D chord), but you'll notice that Guitar A has to hold down the 5th fret throughout the entire sequence, while Guitar B - still with the capo at the 5th fret - gets to take things relatively easy by only needing to fret three strings to play the exact same notes and chords. And if you wanted to play the same pattern but using the chords C then F, you would simply move the capo up to the 8th fret.
There's another way that capos can come in quite useful. Ever listen to the band Placebo? Brian Molko and Stefan Olsdal have been known to use a relatively unconventional tuning of F# Bb Eb G# C C - in other words, they tune their whole guitar up a half-step, with the exception of the high E string which they tune down to C in unison with the string immediately before it. That can be a pretty fiddly tuning to perform onstage in between songs, but it's much easier to snap a capo on at the first fret and then down-tune the high E string until its pitch matches the C of the next string (most capos have a relaxed-enough grip that you'll still be able to operate the tuners). And whether you're a Placebo fan or not I highly encourage to you try this tuning. It can open up all sorts of doors creatively because it gives you access to those unison strings and a different tonal base compared to the E that we're generally used to.
Another fun trick is to tune your guitar to Drop D (D A D G B E) then put the capo at the first fret, giving you a 'Drop D' version of an Eb tuning.
Oh and one last, really cool trick: record a rhythm part in standard tuning, then place a capo at the 12th fret and record another take. Pan them left and right, and you've instantly created the biggest-sounding 12-string guitar in the universe, where even the B and high E strings are doubled an octave above!
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When you talk to people outside of healthcare about the value of healthcare IT, you will often get a response that healthcare IT is fantastic because it makes it so easy for medical data to be shared with who needs the data when they need it. Those of us in healthcare IT know that this is far from the reality of what's possible with healthcare data today. This is really unfortunate, because the promise of technology in healthcare is to make the movement of data possible. We're currently missing out on the benefits of this promise.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm sick and tired of hearing the excuses for why healthcare data can't be shared. We've heard them all: privacy, security, data governance, payment model, etc etc etc. Yet we go to the HIMSS Interoperability Showcase and see that the technology to start sharing data is there, but what seems to be missing is the willpower to push the data sharing through despite the challenges and naysayers.
Maybe Farzad is on to something when he called for EHR vendors to do what's "Moral and Right." There's no more moral or right thing someone can do in healthcare than to make healthcare data interoperable. It's not only EHR vendors that need to do this, but hospital institutions and doctors offices as well.
We need some brave leaders in healthcare IT to step up and start sharing data. No, I don't want an announcement at HIMSS that a healthcare organization has partnered with a vendor to start sharing data. I don't want a new organization formed to assist with healthcare data sharing initiatives. I don't need another book on the challenges of HIE. We don't need a session on HIEs and data sharing standards. No, we need brave organizations that say that sharing healthcare data is the right thing to do and we're making it happen.
I'm not suggesting an organization should do anything ruthless or reckless. I'm suggesting that healthcare organization start DOing something as opposed to talking about it. The time for talking is over and the time for DOing is here. Healthcare data interoperability won't happen until we make this choice to DO instead of TALK.
I'm not even asking for a healthcare organization to start sharing all their healthcare data everywhere. In fact, I think that's another failed interoperability strategy that we seem to keep trying over and over. If you try to solve all of our healthcare interoperability problems in one major project, you'll end up doing nothing and solve none of the problems.
Instead a successful interoperability strategy will focus on sharing one meaningful piece of healthcare data while still keeping in mind that this is just the start. Connect the healthcare data end points with that one meaningful piece of data. Once you make that connection, others will start to wonder why that same process can't be used for other important and valuable pieces of healthcare data. This is exactly the push that healthcare interoperability needs. We need departments and providers jealous of other departments and providers that are sharing their data. The same principle of jealousy can apply across institutions as well.
Yes, this will take a forward looking leader that's willing to take what many in healthcare would consider a risk. Imagine a hospital CIO whose stuck trying to explain why their hospital is sharing data that will help doctors provide better care to their patients. Imagine a hospital CIO explaining why they're driving healthcare costs down by lowering the number of duplicate tests that are done because they already have the data they need thanks to interoperable healthcare data. I'd hate for a hospital CEO to have to explain why they've reduced hospital readmissions because they shared the hospital data with a patient's primary care doctor.
Maybe implementing interoperability in healthcare isn't such a brave thing after all. In fact, it's a brave thing for us not to be sharing data. Why aren't we holding our healthcare institutions accountable for not sharing data that could save lives, lower costs, and improve healthcare? Why are we ok with non-profit institutions worrying more about profit than the real stakeholders their suppose to be serving? Are we really so far gone that healthcare organizations can't do something so obvious: sharing healthcare data?
Think of all the other major healthcare initiatives that would benefit from being able to share healthcare data where it's needed. Meaningful Use, Obamacare (Affordable Care Act if you prefer), Clinical and Business Intelligence, Mobile Health, ACO's, population health, etc could all benefit from healthcare institutions that embraced interoperable healthcare data.
Who's going to take the lead and start doing what we all know should be happening? It won't happen by #HIMSS13, but over cocktails at HIMSS I hope some hospital CIOs, doctor groups, EHR vendors, and other medical providers come together to do what they know is the right thing to do as opposed to just talking about it.
The above blog post is my submission to the #HIMSS13 Blog Carnival.


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2014 Chevrolet Impala May Offer Some Relief
2014 Chevrolet Impala May Offer Some Relief – Sep 14, 2013– Detroit, USA (AutoReleased) – Full-speed-range adaptive cruise control, available on the 2014 Chevrolet Impala, can help reduce the number of repeated stops and starts during every day commuting, which can be stressful for drivers.
The redesigned flagship sedan is the first Chevrolet to offer this technology, which addresses the repetitive task of braking and accelerating via a cruise control system that allows the driver to maintain a driver-selected following gap with the vehicle ahead.
Unlike regular cruise control, the full-speed-range adaptive cruise control system uses forward-looking radar to let the driver choose one of three gaps at which to follow the car ahead. These gaps adapt to the cruise speed selected, so a larger distance between cars at a higher cruise speed is provided. The system can automatically accelerate and brake the vehicle up to moderate levels to maintain the driver-selected gap, and can even work under stop-and-go traffic conditions, such as automated toll booths.
Adaptive Cruise Control still requires the driver to pay careful attention to traffic and road conditions and override the system when necessary by manually accelerating and/or braking.
General Motors and the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute conducted a large field test in 2005 in cooperation with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, using Adaptive Cruise Control at speeds above 25 mph.
"Results indicated that brake-apply rates were 25 times lower under freeway conditions relative to manual driving," said James Sayers, a research scientist in the institute's Human Factors Group. "These results suggest that Adaptive Cruise Control can substantially reduce the workload and stress associated with the everyday task of car following."
Two other Impala features help avoid or reduce the damage caused by crashes. Forward Collision Alert warns the driver when he is approaching a vehicle ahead too quickly or if he is following much too closely. Crash Imminent Braking, available with the ACC package, can intervene to automatically apply the brakes, such as when a driver fails to respond quickly enough to Forward Collision Alert warnings.
Other available features on the Impala that can help the driver become aware of possible crash hazards include Lane Departure Warning, Side Blind Zone Alert, Rear Cross Traffic Alert, Rear Vision Camera, and Ultrasonic Rear Part Assist.
The new Impala recently received the highest possible 5-star Overall Vehicle Score for safety as part of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's New Car Assessment Program, and has one of the most comprehensive collections of standard and available safety features in its segment.


text: Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums :: View topic - Mistakes of Japanese style restructuring Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Mistakes of Japanese style restructuring Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Culture View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message SNJoined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 61Location: http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~ii4n-sky/ Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2003 3:28 pm Post subject: Mistakes of Japanese style restructuring Mistakes of Japanese style restructuring Restructuring which is under the way in many Japanese companies contains four mistakes,which give deep bad effects to Japanese economy. First mistake is the timing of restructuring. At the point when japanese economy recovered step by step from the collapse of bubble economy, tax burden on people increased and managing failure of banks and security firms begun. We can say that after this point Japanese economy rushed into deflation spiral. Additionally companies made an employment adjustment at this point. If wage adjustment had had priority over employment adjustment, anxiety of people would be by far smaller. Second mistake is that the speed of restructuring is too fast. Most of restructuring at present dont have supportive background for advanced productivity. Therefore they resulted in that employee who remain the company are taking care of jobs,without overtime pay, of employee who were fired. If any, instead of restructuring,it is better for all employee to share their jobs. In other words,worksharing is very good for business peoples mental health.If labour cost need to be cut,wage adjustment should be taken. By that, technology and know-how which were possessed by employee still remain. And in case that restructuing is too fast, even if the companys business recovered by firing employee, the employee who are fired cannot find out new posts. Unemployment benefit which is paid in that case are beared by workers and companys,so it doesnt become a benefit for the country. Third mistake is the direction of restructuring.Althoug the aim of restructuring is to increase the productivity, the restructuring at present such as employment reduction or scrap of production facility is the reduction of input(investment of capital and labour power). But in the coming intelectual creative society,by quality upgrade output(production) needs to be increased. But in the restructuring at present,employee who made mistakes become scape goats,instead of that employee who attribute to the company are evaluated. Under that circumstance,employee who are trying drastic challenges dont appear andnew creative achievement are not made. Japan in the future cannot help manufacturing products which are with refined sence and novel idea by high technology which cannot be obtained by other asian countries. But such ideas are not produced by employee who withered under such circumstance. Fourth problem is that most companies are misunderstanding the merit system. Merit system officially is to pay wages depending on how much the employee could attribute to the company.But in Japan, regardless of ones desire,all employee have to do jobs in the job field which are dicided by the company.And the company it self is responsible for whether if the job can succeed or not. So regardless of the result of the job, employment and a certain treatment have to be secured on the responsibility of the company. This should have been the Japanese employment style. The restructuring which are underway in many Japanese companies at present is as follow. Employee in middle age have only job ability which is useful only in the company in the result that they have developed their job ability according to the company. And then suddenly they are said Time of merit system has come. You have to quit your job and get another post by yourself. We add a little to your retirement money. The restructuring which is underway in Japan made those mistakes. The best restructuring is to intensify the merit system on condition to secure the employment and to secure employees creativity by giving employee a freedome to plan ones job carrer. When large scale restructuring is made, in short term, the companys benefit doesnt increase because of the cost for the restructuring such as wellpaidmoney for early retirement. And in long term, its business doesnt improve because able employees go out the company and the moral of the employees go down. 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Choose your own country to lead in a struggle to take over the world. Spread your army from nation to nation until everyone's under one ruler, you! At first, you may need to make some pacts and sacrifices to step up in the game. Give speeches to boost your troops morale and encourage them towards victory. Do whatever it takes to make the world yours!
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The S.C. English department offers a wide range of courses to meet the needs, abilities and interests of diverse learners.
In grades 9 and 10, students can take either applied or academic English; in grades 11 and 12, either college or university courses are offered. In addition, Advanced Placement English courses are offered at grades 11 and 12. Students who are looking for additional challenge and variety in English class may apply for this program.
Students choosing courses should consider a number of factors, including the ability to work independently, skill levels in reading and writing, and post-secondary plans. Work with an English teacher and/or guidance counsellor to make the right decisions.
Extra help in English is available Wednesdays at lunch in room 9. Students are encouraged to drop in with any questions they may have.
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