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ISO overview
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Probing the cool and hidden Universe, the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) was the most sensitive infrared satellite ever launched. It made important discoveries about interstellar dust, and its data still produce results today.
In its time the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) was the most sensitive infrared satellite ever launched. ISO made particularly important studies of the dusty regions of the Universe, where visible light telescopes can see nothing. The wealth of data collected by ISO still produce important science results.
In 1983 the US–Dutch–British IRAS satellite inaugurated infrared space astronomy by mapping 250 000 cosmic infrared sources and large areas of extended emission. However, that was only the beginning. ISO's detectors, with an enhanced sensitivity and resolution (by 1000 times in sensitivity and by 100 times in angular resolution at 12 microns), have allowed a much closer look, a much more detailed perception of the 'infrared scenery'. ISO has therefore provided astronomers with a unique facility to see both familiar objects in an unusual way and objects that are invisible at other wavelengths.
What's special?
Infrared radiation is primarily 'heat', or thermal radiation. Even objects that we think of as being very cold, such as an ice cube, emit infrared radiation.
For this reason, ISO, operating at wavelengths from 2.5 to 240 microns, could observe astronomical objects that remain hidden for optical telescopes, such as cool objects that are unable to emit in visible light. Opaque objects, those surrounded by clouds of dust, are another specialty of ISO because the longer IR wavelengths can penetrate the dust, allowing us to see deeper into such clouds.
On average, ISO performed 45 observations per revolution (a period of almost 24 hours). Throughout all of its lifetime - more than 900 revolutions - ISO successfully completed well some 30 000 scientific observations.
The satellite essentially consisted of a cryostat, the telescope, four scientific instruments, and the service module:
Observing the cool Universe requires cooled instruments which can work at temperatures close to absolute zero, –273°C. Keeping the temperature this low was the task of the large liquid-helium cryostat on board ISO, filled before launch with 2286 litres of superfluid helium. This cryostat made ISO one of the coldest objects in the universe. ISO's lifetime was limited by its helium supply, so nearly all observations had to stop when this coolant liquid was depleted on 8 April 1998.
A telescope with a 60-centimetre diameter primary mirror feeds infrared light via a pyramidal mirror to the four instruments. The fields of view and the selection of wavelengths were varied, to suit the nature of the object examined.
ISO's infrared camera (ISOCAM) covered the 2.5 to 17 micron band with two different detectors. It can be compared to a normal photo camera, taking pictures of the 'infrared face' of astronomical objects at a high resolution (so as to distinguish very fine details).
The ISO photo-polarimeter (ISOPHOT) was designed to detect the amount of infrared radiation emitted by an astronomical object. The broad range of wavelengths at which ISOPHOT operated (between 2.5 and 240 microns) allowed it to 'see' objects as cool as the clouds of dust lying among stars and galaxies, whose temperature may be just a few degrees above –273°C.
The Short-Wave Spectrometer (SWS) covered the 2.4 to 45 micron band. It has provided valuable information about the little known chemistry of the Universe, since many molecules emit copiously in the infrared. Moreover, SWS has been able to study the physical conditions of those chemical constituents, such as temperature or density.
The Long-Wave Spectrometer (LWS) operated at the 45 to 196.8 micron band. LWS has focused on cooler objects than SWS. It is especially useful studying the physical condition in very cold dust clouds in the space between stars.
The service module provided electrical power, attitude control, and telecommunications.
ISO's highly elliptical orbit around the Earth took almost 24 hours. For almost 17 hours per day ISO was outside the radiation belts surrounding Earth. During this time, all of ISO's detectors could be operated.
ISO was launched by an Ariane 44P launcher from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on 17 November 1995. Initially it was supposed to be operational for 18 months, but thanks to meticulous engineering and some good fortune, the satellite's working life was stretched to more than 28 months until May 1998.
Just before ISO was switched off on 16 May 1998, its orbit was changed to force the satellite to burn up in the atmosphere, contributing to preserving the environment in space.
However, ISO continued to give scientific surprises to the very end. ISO's 'last-light' observation - taken with the SWS instrument just before midnight on 10 May - was of emission lines from hydrogen in the hot supergiant star Eta Canis Majoris.
The ISO project was started by ESA in 1983 under its Horizon 2000 science programme. The investment involved covered satellite development, launch, and in-orbit operation. The scientific instruments were provided separately by a group of eleven European countries. The United States and Japan co-operated on ground support operations in return for average daily observing time of half an hour each.
The scientific instruments were developed by multinational teams, with leaders in France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.
The satellite was developed, manufactured, integrated, and tested by an industrial consortium made up of 32 companies, mostly from Europe, headed by Aérospatiale, France.


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To some people, LeRoy Neiman will be better known as the popular artist who helped capture and immortalize moments from five different Olympiads and painted portraits of dozens of notable athletes over the years. Here's a sampling of his work. Chances are you've seen one or 10 of these somewhere.
And there is no mistaking that he was a talented artist. Sylvester Stallone sure thought so, which is why he had him produce exclusive art for the Rocky franchise starting in 1981. He did the painting above, of Rocky and Apollo Creed, which was featured in the end credits for Rocky III, as well as this Stallone portrait, perhaps his best-known work. But for a generation hooked on cheesy sports films of the '80s, Neiman was a fixture not just with his brush but also his acting, as Stallone cast him as a ring announcer in Rocky III, IV, and V. (Neiman also made a cameo appearance in Rocky Balboa.)
Here's how the AP encapsulates his legacy:
He also produced live drawings of the Olympics for TV and was the official computer artist of the Super Bowl for CBS.
Neiman's "reportage of history and the passing scene ... revived an almost lost and time-honored art form," according to a 1972 exhibit catalog of the artist's Olympics sketches at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
"It's been fun. I've had a lucky life," Neiman said in a June 2008 interview with The Associated Press. "I've zeroed in on what you would call action and excellence. ... Everybody who does anything to try to succeed has to give the best of themselves, and art has made me pull the best out of myself."
Neiman's paintings, many executed in household enamel paints that allowed the artist his fast-moving strokes, are an explosion in reds, blues, pinks, greens and yellows of pure kinetic energy.
He has been described as an American impressionist, but the St. Paul, Minn., native preferred to think of himself simply as an American artist.
Neiman was 91 years old.

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I wanted the $5 swim shorts from Zara, but they don't ship so I had to improvise with some swim fabric from Joann's. Ship to the us already, Zara!
Sometimes Ben and I are pretty good parents.
But most of the time we are crazy.
This summer we decided our children's unwillingness to put their faces in the water was reeeediculous and so we've spent the summer
torturing bribing them to take baby steps toward our olympic swimming dreams for them.
Bribe 1: Get in the pool or I'll throw you in. (We ended up throwing at least one of them)
Bribe 2: Try putting your face in the water or I'll take you under myself. (...you can probably imagine)
Bribe 3: Jump in for a square of chocolate (Lots of prodding but eventual success!)
Bribes 4- 793: Swim, dangit, Swim!
And at the end of the summer, we have two swimmers, and two boys who want speedos so they can swim with more "freedom."
I've always heard you shouldn't force your kids to do things before they are ready, but after this summer I'm not sure... It seems to have worked pretty well. :)
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
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Monday, July 18, 2011
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I, like my friend Mellie P, love making lists. I have long lists of plants for my someday vegetable garden, flower garden, and peony garden. I have lists of books I'd like to read. And places I'd like to go. And a short list of things I'd like to do. My to-do life list only includes two things (so far):
1. See a fashion show at a fashion week
2. Walk the Coast to Coast Walk with Ben. I wish so badly I could beam myself (and him) there right now, and we could spend the next two weeks strolling through the countryside from village to village, just him and me, walking and talking and walking some more. I think this is my new happy place for this week, when it is 95 degrees inside my house and I'm trying to not end up like the guy blinded by the heat in The Stranger.
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Monday, July 11, 2011
and the living is easy
This is the stuff of summer. Mouths full of cherries, riding tandem on the tricycle, shooting cherry pits at the "Momster" as Benson has taken to calling me.
Ben has been calling this summer "The Summer of Our Lives" as this is probably the last time we'll be able to spend this much time together (Ben's only working 2 days a week). And it really has been.
Three cheers for summer!
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Friday, July 1, 2011
gotta git down on friday
We are all putting on our dancing shoes cause it's friday night! Date night, woo hoo!
Of note:
1. He makes his own music to dance to.
2. The shoulder shake is his signature move.
3. Benson is embarrassed about being in his undies. Don't tell him you saw this.
4. Yesterday was thursday. Today it is friday. Tomorrow is Saturday. Sunday comes after thaaaat.
5. Happy weekend!
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Cherry Belle (Radish O/P)
Latin Name: Raphanus sativus
Item #: 274
24 Days
Open Pollinated
RADISH - for fresh market
CULTURE: Early crops of Champion, Scarlet Globe Forcing and Cherry Belle may be sown in the spring as soon as the soil is workable. Spring frosts or heavy snowfalls after plants have emerged do not usually injure the crop seriously. Sow seed in rows 6-8 in/15-20 cm apart, 0.5 in/13 mm deep @ 2 seeds per in/25 mm. Thin to 1.5 in/4 cm apart. Seed requires 5 days @ 40-70°F/4-21°C to germinate.
MACHINE HARVESTING: Space large commercial plantings in 4-6 in/10-15 cm rows. Using sized seed, space plants @ 12 or 15 plants per ft/31 cm of row. Use larger sized seed (7/64 or 8/64 - 3 mm and up) for early and late plants; 5/64, 6/64 and 7/64 - 2-3 mm for main sowings. Make succession sowings every week through most of the summer (except during the hot dry periods from July 15th - Aug. 15th) Radish is a cool season crop which is adversely affected by hot, dry weather.
HARVEST: Radishes are in prime condition for only a few days harvest. To be mild they must be grown rapidly with plenty of moisture. If growth is checked in any way (through drought etc.) they become hot, tough and pithy. During medium to short day length (spring, early summer and fall), roots are normally well shaped and tops are fairly small. During long days (15 hours - mid summer) roots become misshapen, tops grow longer and usually produce seed stalks. Use short to medium top varieties on black muck soils and medium top types for sandy loam. Cultivate as shallow as possible. Fertilize @ approx. 275 lbs/125 kg of 15-15-15 per acre. Avoid using raw manure or too much fertilizer: it encourages attacks of root maggots. Home gardeners should require very little fertilizer for good radishes. Long rooted types such as White Icicle must be grown in deeply roto-tilled sandy land just like carrots.


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Greenwich beats Ridgefield to reach FCIAC title game
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FAIRFIELD -- One of the characteristics of a championship team is how well it responds to adversity. Greenwich's response during Tuesday's FCIAC Tournament semifinals against Ridgefield has it advancing to a game it hasn't played in for quite a while -- the conference championship.
The onus was on the Cardinals to finish strong after low post threat Alex Wolf fouled out with three minutes remaining in the fourth quarter of a close game, and coach Bill Brehm's team did just that.
Scoring 12 of the game's last 14 points, second-seeded Greenwich posted a 65-54 victory over third-seeded Ridgefield in the FCIAC semifinals before a large crowd at Fairfield Warde High School.
Senior guard CJ Byrd, who picked up his third foul right before halftime, scored a team-high 22 points and Wolf added 17 points despite being plagued with foul trouble for the Cardinals (20-2).
"I definitely saw something in us before the season -- something that could help us accomplish something special," said Byrd, who scored 15 second-half points. "When we were down and Alex fouled out I told the team to calm down. We had to get all the negativity out of our mind."
The Tigers (17-5), who lost to the Cardinals 49-45 during the regular season, were led by 6-foot-7 junior forward Patrick Racy's 26 points. Ridgefield held a 34-32 halftime edge and brought a 48-46 lead into the fourth quarter.
"I'm very proud of our players, we battled hard against a good Greenwich team," Ridgefield coach Andrew McClellan said. "We lost our leading scorer (guard Matthew Brennan, knee injury) eight or nine games ago, but we still finished the season strong and our guys did a great job of coming together."
The tide began to turn in Greenwich's favor at the end of the third quarter. Senior Zachary Ward's layup gave the Tigers a 48-43 advantage, but GHS junior guard Griffin Golden converted a 3-pointer from the right corner at the buzzer, making it 48-46. Byrd drove left and made a layup, then made one of two foul shots on the ensuing possession, putting the Cards ahead for good at 49-48 with 5:40 to go in the fourth quarter.
Shortly after Wolf scored his 17th point by sinking a pair of foul shots, he was charged with an offensive foul, his fifth of the evening. But the Cardinals showed poise down the stretch. Byrd, who ran the point the final three minutes, found Golden in the corner and the sharpshooter came through, nailing a 3-pointer, giving GHS a 56-52 lead with 2:21 remaining.
"CJ drove to the basket and I just got ready to shoot," Golden said. "He did a great job of kicking it out to me and I was just able to make the shot. I practice that shot a lot and in that situation, it's just muscle memory"
The Tigers opened their biggest lead of the night at 41-35 after sophomore guard William Brady swished a jumper and senior forward Charles Irwin made a 3-pointer. Greenwich, which played a 2-3 zone and man-to-man in the first half, switched to a 3-2 zone in the third quarter and it paid dividends.
"We put it in two games ago and our players executed it perfectly," said Brehm, who was recently named the FCIAC's Coach of the Year. "We didn't have a zone to match up with shooters, so we tried it just to match up with them and we couldn't have run it any better tonight."
Senior forward Jonathan Palmer played up top in the middle of the 3-2 zone and came up with a pair of key steals and also hit the backboards.
"Palmer was the player of the game in my eyes," Brehm said. "He was everywhere tonight and really brought a lot of energy."
McClellan knew the final five minutes of the third quarter was critical.
"We were up by six and if we could have shown a little more poise we could have increased our lead," McClellan said. "One more stop and a couple of more baskets could have really changed things around for us. The score doesn't really show how close this game was. It really just came down to a couple of baskets like last time."
Wolf, a 6-9 center, scored 12 of Greenwich's first 21 points and Racy was hot for Ridgefield, pouring in 17 first-half points. Golden contributed 11 points, point guard Tommy Povinelli scored seven and Leonel Hyatt and Palmer added four for the victors, who shot 21-of-27 from the foul line
Irwin finished with seven points for the Tigers, who were outscored 19-6 in the fourth quarter.
Greenwich, 65, Ridgefield 54
Patrick Racy 7 12-14 26; William Brady 4 0-0 11; Charles Irwin 3 0-0 7; Thomas Haughney 1 0-0 2; Matthew Bartolucci 2 0-0 4; Zachary Ward 2 0-0 4; Steven Thaxter 0 0-0 0; Cavan Briody 0 0-0 0. Totals: 19 12-14 54.
Tommy Povinelli 1 4-4 7; CJ Byrd 6 9-12 22; Alex Wolf 6 5-6 17; Leonel Hyatt 2 0-1 4; Griffin Golden 4 1-2 11; Jonathan Palmer 1 2-2 4; Patrick Santini 0 0-0 0. Totals: 20 21-27 65
3-pointers: R--Brady 3, Irwin 1; G--Golden 2, Byrd, Povinelli.


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Midwest Manufacturing Output Rises in March
The Chicago Fed Midwest Manufacturing Index (CFMMI) rose 1.1% from February to March, reaching a seasonally adjusted level of 149.2 (1992=100). Revised data show the index was at 147.6 in February and had increased 0.3% from January. The Federal Reserve Board's industrial production index for manufacturing (IPMFG) rose 0.8% in March after rising 0.2% in February. This was the third consecutive monthly increase for regional production. March output in the region was 6.0% lower than a year earlier, while output in the nation was down 2.7%.


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Gov. Bill Ritter and CIO Mike Locatis banded together to overhaul Colorado's IT
When Bill Ritter was elected Colorado's governor in 2006, he arrived at the Capitol in Denver showcasing an ambitious agenda packed with bold ideas that ranged from funding for universal health care and reforming K-12 education to kick starting a "new energy economy" based on sound environmental principles.
But Ritter's carefully laid plans for reform and big ideas faced a significant challenge. The state's IT systems were dysfunctional. In addition to the usual list of decentralized and redundant data centers, phone systems and e-mail programs, the state had a rogues' gallery of failed and failing computer projects. Although the problems were a legacy from the previous administration, Ritter knew the 21st- century state government he envisioned couldn't operate on islands of information running on computers that waste money rather than generate value.
"If you think of all the siloing that goes on - the separate IT functions - it only exacerbates the siloing of departmental functions," he said. "Running government today is in many respects a consumer-oriented business. You need to think about how you do the best work for consumers at lower cost."
Sounding like a Fortune 500 CEO despite his background as a district attorney, Ritter realized the state government lacked access to centralized information for making sound decisions and needed simple enterprise services for taxpayers to use and make government function better. Attention to Colorado's IT problems is now a top priority.
Ritter braced for the challenge by doing three things: creating an IT Transition Committee made up of public- and private-sector technology experts; hiring Mike Locatis to be his CIO; and making the CIO a Cabinet-level position.
Public-sector IT leaders rarely follow identical career paths. They can be career public servants, such as Dan Ross in Missouri or David Wennergren in the Department of Defense. Some come directly from the private sector, try to set things right and move on. But increasingly, government CEOs, especially tech-savvy governors and mayors, are choosing CIOs who have a blend of private- and public-sector experience. People like Teri Takai, Steve Fletcher, Vivek Kundra and Paul Cosgrave immediately come to mind.
That's where Locatis comes in. Before his Cabinet appointment in Colorado, he was CIO of Denver, where he showed his centralization skills (and caught Ritter's attention) by consolidating 20 separate municipal and county departments into a single, citywide IT agency. It's also where Locatis learned how fragmented the state's IT systems were.
"It was while I was working in local government that the issues surrounding state IT were immediately apparent because they impacted how services were delivered at the local level," he said.
Before becoming a public-sector CIO, Locatis was the senior director of enterprise technology strategy for Time Warner Cable Inc., part of Time Warner Inc., a Fortune 50 company and the country's largest entertainment firm. Locatis honed his skills at aligning customer-service delivery systems, standardizing desktop capabilities and managing tech and support teams for huge enterprise resource planning applications.
Despite Locatis' knowledge of the state's IT systems' problems, he wasn't expecting the mammoth job he faced. "It was significantly siloed and fragmented IT delivery, which was a root cause of a lot of the issues - including inefficiencies, a lack of leveraging an enterprise approach and just about every [IT] department in the state doing its own thing," he said.
Ritter's IT Transition Committee delivered an even sterner message regarding the state's IT problems. "It was a message about real problems and issues," recalled Locatis. Some challenges were both agency- and project-specific, such as the $223 million Colorado Benefits Management System, which still wasn't functioning properly after four years of work. But the biggest shortcoming was how the state invested its $256 million annual IT budget .
Like the rest of the public sector, Colorado's IT assets and infrastructure reflected years of decentralized and largely uncoordinated planning and management. The state's IT assets included: 38 data centers, 20 phone systems and 20 e-mail systems.
In addition, the state lacked enterprise licenses, forcing IT to pay more for desktop and network services and software. In fact, the state had little to show in the way of enterprise service delivery.
Besides wasting taxpayer money on fragmented and duplicative IT services, Colorado's existing IT management practices negatively impacted the IT staff's efficiency and productivity. Colorado also lacked an enticing career path for IT professionals who wanted to continue working for the state.
Identifying the numerous problems with Colorado's IT systems was the easy part for Ritter, Locatis and the IT Transition Committee. It would prove formidable to map out how to change the dysfunctional system - from top to bottom - and implement that transformation so all key stakeholders were on board.
Fortunately the executive order that created the Cabinet-level CIO position also contained a number of vital first-step changes. It authorized the Office of Information Technology (OIT) to approve IT projects and spending requests of more than $10,000. State agencies now provide OIT with an inventory of their IT assets and give the office more leeway when hiring senior IT professionals. The order also granted OIT more authority over project management.
Overall, the executive order gave Locatis the management tools to start changing the status quo. "It gave us a little more authority to go in and start working with the departments," he said. With the order backed, Locatis and OIT were able to quickly launch the start of an enterprise approach to IT management before the next big change occurred.
Following the executive order, issued in late May 2007, the governor introduced legislation that would make the consolidation changes he planned to use to transform the state's IT role permanent.
Preparation was extensive. Locatis and his senior staff interviewed more than 900 state IT professionals, the governor's senior staff, departmental directors, CIOs, third-party consultants and private-sector stakeholders. In addition, Locatis and OIT senior staffers sat down with CIOs and departmental leaders from six states that had undertaken consolidation efforts.
"A lot of times, you don't have the luxury of having a plan before you 'operationalize' a big piece of legislation," remarked Locatis on the breadth of their preparation. "We were definitely not winging it."
The plan, named the Colorado Consolidation Plan, reflected months of research and interviews. Ritter's original goal was to introduce the consolidation legislation during his first legislative session. But as one person familiar with the process explained, support for the bill was far from unanimous, especially among the agencies with the largest IT programs.
Locatis slowed the process down and continued to work on persuading the reluctant stakeholders to rethink their positions.
In February 2008, SB 155 was introduced, backed with strong bipartisan support. Ritter pointed out that the bill's support arose because so many legislators knew the system had to change for the better. "We've had some people serving in the Senate and the House who were frustrated by the siloed effect and looked forward to this kind of a change," he said.
Having learned from other state CIOs that resistance from state workers can stall even the best plans, Locatis conducted a massive outreach initiative to explain what the legislation would mean in terms of their jobs, who they would report to and its significance to their careers as IT professionals working for Colorado.
John Conley, Colorado's deputy CIO, explained that getting the right message out quickly was vital. "The message had to be not just what we were going to do, but why we were doing it," he said.
"That's why we delayed introducing the legislation in 2007," added Locatis. "We realized we didn't have enough time to fully and adequately explain why we were moving forward with consolidation."
The bill, passed by both state Legislature houses in spring 2008, was signed into law by Ritter on May 22 .
The law didn't take effect until July 1, but according to Locatis, the benefits were already apparent. "Our project-governance model is getting executive sponsors, the business side of IT is more involved in requirements and the software/system development life cycle, and we're already seeing improvements in project delivery as a result of that," he said.
Another early benefit: the legislation is acting like a stamp of approval on the importance of IT skills in state government. "We see the legislation as a way to leverage our ability to attract and retain IT workers. The state's 1,200 IT workers now have a career path, a toehold in the strategic direction of IT in the state, where before they might have been tucked away. Now they are part of a larger transformation," said Locatis.
Mark Weatherford, former chief information security officer of Colorado, said from an IT security standpoint, the legislation will have a huge impact. "You can now develop an enterprise [IT security] policy that all agencies have to adhere to," he said.
The legislation also allows the state to standardize IT security in multiple areas, such as Web applications, and produce a consistent service level, Weatherford pointed out. "Having a better enterprise view, in terms of IT security, saves money," he added. "I've done a number of consolidation efforts, and it takes leadership to pull it off. Colorado's governor, CIO and Legislature are showing lots of courage doing it this way."
By breaking with the traditional, federated model of the CIO reporting to the central budgeting authority, and having Locatis report directly to the governor, Colorado has put a stake firmly in the ground for strong IT leadership at the highest level in government.
"As high-tech as the world and state government is today, we need to keep up, so you need to have a person at your right-hand side who is tech-savvy and who gives a status to and respect toward the work he is doing," Ritter said. "I can imagine that if Mike had not been a member of the Cabinet, other members of the Cabinet might have been more difficult to engage in the centralization initiative."
For Locatis, the Cabinet position is akin to having a CEO-CIO relationship often found in the private sector. It's also a model that Locatis hopes other states will adopt as they tackle IT transformation. "By installing me in his Cabinet, the governor has put a voice for IT at the table," he said. "In almost every meeting, I address IT transformation and IT issues with the full Cabinet, who are the executive directors of each line of business in the executive branch of government. It allows me to set the stage ... for the cultural momentum for making this transformation."
With the governor's signature barely dry on the new legislation, Locatis has a full agenda to manage as consolidation begins to take hold. Projects range from a series of retreats for departmental CIOs who now report to the state CIO, to putting into operation the massive consolidation plan.
Locatis is taking a long view of the situation, pointing out the need for a "sustainable model for the state going forward" and to break down the complexity of a decentralized IT infrastructure that's locked into doing maintenance, "which consumes 80 percent of our time, leaving barely 20 percent for innovation. We want to flip that ratio around," he said.
More importantly, constituent expectations are high. The public doesn't usually understand why the fruits of IT consolidation can take so long. Citizens tend to focus on computer systems that don't work when they need customer service.
Already, critics, referring to the state's problem-plagued welfare benefits system, are questioning why Locatis spent his first 16 months on the job writing a plan, drafting legislation and persuading the Legislature to pass it when the state still has IT systems that don't perform properly. University of Denver professor Don McCubbrey told the Rocky Mountain News that "Ritter has to reset Mike's priorities. Let's get this [benefits system] behind us."
Locatis knows the state's beleaguered systems will get fixed, but consolidation and the benefits that come from an enterprise IT architecture take time, consensus, collaboration and superior IT management and governance. "Technology is going to play a critical role in helping the governor meet his promises to the state," Locatis said. "If we can get through the first term and into the second term with an eye on improvement to services, that's going to make the difference."
Ritter also realizes that turning IT around takes time, but he has high expectations too. "I want to test the envelope for online services in Colorado," he said. Ritter's vision is to leverage the sharing of now-siloed data so that it can support sound policy decisions and provide the evidence to understand how one policy decision might impact another. "Data shared across agency lines lets us look at several different things at once, such as the impact of child health care on child education levels," he explained.
Ritter, backed by Locatis, has the vision of how state IT should be transformed and the foresight for why it must change. The question remains whether the two can overcome the status quo and bring about change on an enterprise scale with lasting benefits.
It won't be easy, and the country's public-sector IT community will be watching as the most comprehensive state IT consolidation effort gets under way.


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- ibus now supports input method engine per window for non-GNOME desktop environments. It can be enabled from
- ibus-cangjie is a new ibus engine for users of the Cangjie and Quick input methods. It is primarily intended to Hong Kong people who want to input Traditional Chinese, as they are (by far) the majority of Cangjie and Quick users.
- ibus-rime is a new Rime input method engine for Linux/IBus.
- - Whitelist i-t-b https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=860552, should we add this (mfabian)?
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http://mmajunkie.com Although the attendance figured dipped a bit, UFC Fight Night 24 set an event-series record in that category, as well in live gate.
UFC officials initially announced estimated totals of 14,212 attendees and a $1,182,850 gate.
According to figures MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) obtained from the the Washington State Department of Licensing, the gate figure remained the same, though the official attendance came in a bit lower at 13,741.
UFC Fight Night 24 took place this past Saturday, March 26, at Seattle's KeyArena. The night's main card aired on Spike TV, and five preliminary-card fights streamed for free on Facebook.
Phil Davis defeated Antonio Rogerio Nogueira in the headliner, and Anthony Johnson topped Dan Hardy in the co-headliner.
Of the 13,741 attendees, only 791 (5.8 percent) received complimentary tickets, and the average paid ticket price was $91.34. Given the strong ticket demand for a mid-level UFC card (officials initially configured the arena for 8,000 attendees but had to open additional seating sections to meet demand), a second trip to Washington is likely.
The UFC Fight Night 24 figures broke records set by UFC Fight Night 20 ($753,962 gate) and UFC Fight Night 18 (10,267 attendance).
The top 10 attendance marks in UFC Fight Night history, as compiled by MMAjunkie.com, include:
- "UFC Fight Night 24: Davis vs. Nogueira" – 13,741 attendance ($1,182,850 live gate)
- "UFC Fight Night 18: Condit vs. Kampmann" – 10,267 ($626,077)
- "UFC Fight Night 19: Diaz vs. Guillard" – 9,490 ($577,997)
- "UFC Fight Night 15: Diaz vs. Neer" – 9,103 ($700,00)
- "UFC Fight Night 16: UFC Fights for the Troops" – 8,500 (n/a)*
- "UFC Fight Night 20: Maynard vs. Diaz" – 8,078 ($753,962)
- "UFC Fight Night 22: Marquardt vs. Palhares" – 7,724 ($595,500)
- "UFC Fight Night 21: Florian vs. Gomi" – 7,700 ($590,685)
- "UFC Fight Night 17: Lauzon vs. Stephens" – 7,596 ($304,000)
- "UFC Fight Night 13: Florian vs. Lauzon" – 6,742 ($753,429)
* – Event served as a fundraiser for the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund; official figures not available
For more on UFC Fight Night 24, stay tuned to the UFC Events section of the site.


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A week ago we noted something peculiar: in one day, COMEX depository Scotia Mocatta (one of five in the world) saw a 25% transfer of silver from "registered" (or deliverable physical) to "eligible" (or "undefined" - a distinction discussed previously, and also below). We said: "Canada's largest bullion depository (and one of five total) reclassified a whopping 5.2 million ounces of silver from Registered to Eligible status. In order to get a sense of how big this amount is, which amounts to just under $238 million at today's fixing price, it represents just over 25% of the total silver stored at Scotia Mocatta, and about 5% of the total silver held across all depositories." The reason then given was: "due to a reporting reclassification, 5,287,142 t oz was moved from Registered to Eligible." To our (lack of) surprise, a quick glance at today's silver holdings at the Comex confirms that the trend of reclassification is continuing unabated, and total "physical" silver across the entire Comex universe has now plunged by almost 20%, or from 41 million ounces to 33 million ounces, in the span of one week! And while last week it was Scotia Mocatta, today it is HSBC and the Delaware Depository, and the reason given: "Adjustments include reporting classifications of t oz that were moved from Registered to Eligible. Please see Special Executive Report reference 5736 for additional information. http://www.cmegroup.com/tools-information/advisorySearch.html#." And a further drill down reveals the following link. Many have speculated that there could well be a run on physical silver. But for those looking for a smoking gun, this is probably as close as you will get to one, short of JPM actually declaring "force majeure."
This is from April 20:
And this is from today (link):
As for the detailed reason provided by the CME, we get the following:
A correction to the COMEX Metal Depository Statistics Stock Reports published on April 27, 2011, has been made to reflect a change in the reporting of metal from the Registered category to the Eligible category. This change reflects paper warrants that have yet to be converted to electronic form. The metal represented by these paper warrants, which will now be reported in the Eligible category, will continue to remain eligible for delivery against COMEX futures contracts provided holders of the paper warrants convert them to electronic form.
Exchange metal reported in the Registered category represents troy ounces of metal that meet the contract specifications as defined in the Exchange Rules for which an electronic warrant has been issued.
Exchange metal reported in the Eligible category represents troy ounces of metal that meet the contract specifications as defined in the Exchange Rules for which an electronic warrant has not been issued.
So, a rather odd last minute paper to electronic contract conversion, which mysteriously results in a 20% drop in the physical silver across the entire Comex universe? And this coming at a time when silver is within cents of breaking the all time nominal high? Sure, we'll buy it. But perhaps the Comex can tell us just how many more such "warrants" exist in the system, and whether when all is said and done, where it says 33,322,807 million ounces of registered silver (where it was 41 million last week), it won't be zero, or, who knows, negative?
We, for one, won't wait to find out and demand delivery only when said number hits zero.
And as a reminder for those unfamiliar, here is a distinction between "registered" (real) and "eligible" (somewhat "questionable"), courtesy of SilverAxis
For those who aren't familiar with the terminology, the registered category of COMEX warehouse bullion stocks generally refers to gold and silver bars against which COMEX warehouse receipts are outstanding. The COMEX publishes these stocks on a daily basis and they can be found here: Silver | Gold. The registered category is the total pool of gold and silver available at any time to meet delivery requirements under expiring futures contracts or to establish initial futures contract positions through a transaction called exchange-for-physicals (I'll explain this another time). It is important to realize, however, that many parties holding COMEX gold and silver in registered form have no intention of making their holdings available for delivery. By this I mean that such parties are neither (1) holding a short futures position against the warehouse receipt nor (2) willing to sell their registered metal (warehouse receipts) to a party with a short futures position. Indeed, a substantial portion of those holding registered metal would have acquired the COMEX warehouse receipts by holding long futures positions for delivery. In other words, these registered stocks are held for investment and not for commercial purposes.
In comparison, the eligible category of COMEX warehouse bullion stocks generally refers to bullion held in the warehouses that meets the specifications of an acceptable COMEX bar (proper weight, size, purity and refiner) but does not have a COMEX warehouse receipt issued against it. For example, an investor might purchase several 1,000 oz. bars of silver from a dealer and then deliver the bars for allocated storage at a COMEX warehouse. This is a private arrangement and has nothing to do with the COMEX. Unless these bars are officially registered (the easiest way to do this is through the aforementioned exchange-for-physicals), they will remain in the eligible category until withdrawn from the warehouse by the investor. Thus, the appropriate way to treat eligible COMEX warehouse bullion stocks is that they represent metal that could potentially be registered at some point in the future but cannot presently be used to make delivery under a short futures contract.
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FARMINGTON, Minn. -- Erling Kindem, a World War II veteran whose friendship with Emmett Rychner became an internet sensation, has passed away at the age of 91.
Erling's family says he died Saturday afternoon at a senior care facility in Farmington.
KARE 11 produced a series of stories about Erling and his pre-school neighbor Emmett over the past few years. His gentle demeanor with the little boy next door touched an entire nation.
"They kind of bonded over the tomatoes in his garden," Emmett's mom told KARE 11. "Because Emmett loves tomatoes."
Seeds planted in a garden bloomed into an unlikely friendship between the then 3-year-old Emmett and 89-year-old Erling.
"Every time he saw me out there he would come running over," Erling told KARE 11, remembering those early visits from the boy next door who would ask, 'Erling, got any 'matoes?'"
Soon Erling and Emmett were racing lawn mowers, Erling on his John Deere garden tractor and Emmett on his battery operated toy riding tractor.
Their friendship continued, reuniting for birthdays and play dates, even after Emmett and his family moved away and Erling moved to a retirement community.


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TeamViewer 10 is the latest release of the popular remote access/control program.
As with previous editions, you can use it to access your own computer across the internet, maybe recovering some important document you've left at home. Or you can use it to remotely control another PC where TeamViewer is also installed; so if a friend's having technical troubles, you can log on to their system, even through most firewalls, and troubleshoot the computer as though you were sitting in front of it.
TeamViewer 10 extends the program with smarter contact management, automatically finding nearby people and computers. It's able to launch video calls with a click (no need to start a meeting first), and the ability to add a profile picture gives your activities a more personal touch.
New Integration with Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive and Box makes it quicker and easier to share files in meetings or remote control sessions. The Whiteboard can now be used during remote control sessions (by both parties); you're able to take notes during a session, and if that's not enough, a complete chat history records the full details of all your conversations.
Corporate users will appreciate the ability to set, distribute and enforce policies from the Management Console. You can give users access to all your devices from a single master whitelist, and the Computers and Contacts API helps integrate your computers and contacts into any software.
There are also a stack of more fundamental improvements which should appeal to just about everyone: multicore CPU optimisations, better voice quality, 4K support, a BlackBerry Remote Control app and (on Mac OS X Yosemite) an integrated remote control toolbar, amongst many others.
It's a very impressive upgrade, especially as the program remains entirely free for personal and non-commercial use. Business users, however, will need to purchase a licence.
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This week over at the Paper Cupcake's challenge blog Patti Painter brings us this weeks challenge of "Anything Goes". So, with that is is free range of creativity, which I love. I used the image Jingles; Flying High & Christmas Tickets by Paper Cupcakes. The dp is by DCWV and it already has the swirls on it with some sparkle, but I still added some Stickles on top of that. This is really a pretty simple card, just punched some holes on the sides and added all those little bow knots. Added the flowers, the punched snowflakes and rhinestones. I colored my image with both Bic Mark-its and colored pencils. I loved how this turned out and the color combo.
We had a lovely Thanksgiving and I made a full meal. Funny how long it takes to prepare and only minutes to consume, but it was a lovely day. I hope everyone in the US had a lovely Thanksgiving as well and those outside the US, well, hope your past week and weekend was just as lovely. Well, here's to another week, have a good one!
November 29, 2010
Magical Monday - Anything Goes
Posted by Nina at 6:00 AM
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- cardmaking bird said...
Great card, Nina. I love the cool blue and the touches of red really lifts it. The penguin image is a little cutie too! Hugs, Marie x
- November 29, 2010 at 2:46 PM
- CraftinGranny said...
Beautiful creation Nina! So festive and Christmasy. I love what you've done with this image! See ya next week. "Hugs" Carol
- November 29, 2010 at 11:17 PM
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Age bias prevalent on Facebook
NEW HAVEN >> Young Facebook folks are ganging up on geezers, according to a new Yale University study.
Yale researchers found that a startling percentage of public Facebook groups in a targeted search engine sample contained negative stereotypes of people over the age of 60. The descriptions included everything from severe snark to an assertion that older people should be put before a firing squad.
"I think we were all surprised," said Becca Levy, an associate professor and director of the social and behavioral sciences division of the Yale School of Public Health. "Quite a few of the descriptions had to do with banning older people from driving or shopping. There were a few that talked about shooting older people."
The study, which appeared on the online version of the journal The Gerontologist, was conducted by Yale, the University of California in Berkeley, Hunter College and New Haven's Hopkins School.
Researchers used a Facebook search engine to find publicly accessible, non-commercial groups using 75 search words, including the words old, aged, elderly, retired, experienced, senile and decrepit. They ultimately analyzed 84 Facebook groups.
Levy said all but one of them included a negative stereotype. The exception was a group devoted to the "Lord of the Rings" character Gandalf.
"Old people are a pain in the (expletive deleted) as far as I'm concerned and they are a burden on society," one group's description said. "I hate everything about them, from their hair nets in the rain to their white Velcro sneakers. They are cheap, they smell like (expletive deleted) ... they are senile, they complain about everything, they couldn't hear a dumptruck ..."
Another group's description said, "Old people do not contribute to modern society at all. Their single and only meaning is to nag and to (expletive deleted) moan. Therefore, any OAP (Old Age Pensioner) that pass (sic) the age of 69 should immediately face a fire (sic) squad."
Although the Yale team only looked at English language groups, Levy said the study included groups from around the world. She said 74 percent of the groups excoriated older people, 37 percent suggested they should be banned from public activities and 27 percent infantilized them.
The majority of the groups' creators were between the ages of 20 and 29, Levy said.
"Facebook has the potential to break down barriers between generations; in practice, it may have erected new ones," the study argued.
But Facebook sees the matter quite differently.
Andrew Noyes, a spokesman for the social networking site, released this statement about the Yale study:
"We welcome meaningful research on how people connect and share on Facebook but believe this study paints an incomplete picture of how more than a billion people use the platform."
With regard to hateful speech or content, Noyes said Facebook's policy is that "direct statements of hate against particular communities violate our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities and are removed when reported to us. However, groups that express an opinion on a state, institution or set of beliefs even if that opinion is outrageous or offensive to some do not by themselves violate our policies."
There are hundreds of millions of Facebook groups. The 84 groups analyzed in Yale's study include roughly 25,000 members, which represents only a fraction of Facebook's global user base.
Groups that advocate for the elderly also can be found on Facebook, including AARP and the National Council on Aging.
Levy pointed out that Facebook's Community Standards list of forbidden hate speech mentions race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability and disease, but not age.
She said her team reported 10 Facebook groups as being offensive. Eight of the groups remained in operation nearly a year later.
"These are the groups older people are likely to come across," Levy said. "It would be good if the people creating these groups realized they could be alienating and hurtful to older people."
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Rosie's Mom: Forgotten Women of the First World War
One hundred years ago, a full generation before Rosie the Riveter, American women rolled up their sleeves and entered war industries where they had never been welcome before. They ran powerful machinery, learned new skills, and faced the sullen hostility of the men in the shops. In this illustrated lecture, historian Carrie Brown reveals their courage and their hard work, asks what impact "the Great War" had on their lives, and explores how these women helped shape the work that their more famous daughters would do in the next World War. NOTE: This program was originally scheduled for May 12th.


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Five Reasons Mass Effect 3 Will Beat Mass Effect 2
Mass Effect 3 will be a renegade punch in the neck of its predecessor. Here's why.
If you've been paying attention to Mass Effect 3, you'll be au fait with a handful of headline features. The new cooperative multiplayer. Kinect voice commands. Freddie Prinze Jr.
You'll know this is the third and final act in a galaxy-wide fight for survival. The implacable Reapers are preparing to purge the Milky Way of organic life, for real this time, setting the stage for an epic, space-operatic endgame.
You'll have noticed how pretty it all is, from the scuffing on Shepard's N7 battle gear, to the sleek squidbots descending on Vancouver harbour. In our most recent hands-on with the upcoming demo, we watched red storm clouds roll in over the Mars horizon, flickering with otherworldly lightning, and they looked spiffy too.
But beyond the all-new co-op, celebrity cameos, and ever shinier visuals, Mass Effect 3 is about to hand Mass Effect 2, masterful though it was, a beating on a galactic scale. Here's why.
[Warning: may contain traces of spoiler. If story hints bring you out in a rash, click away.]
1. More customisation
Mass Effect's weapon and character customisation is richer and more meaningful than that of its forerunner, which cut a bit too deep when trimming the customisation fat. Options are still on the streamlined side, but this time your Shepard (and his or her crew and gear) will be a creation all of your own.
Biotic, tech, and combat powers are at the heart of customisation again. You can level up each of a character's powers through six ranks, with a branching choice after rank three, offering a couple of tempting specialisation options. Compare that to the four ranks per power in Mass Effect 2, with the option to finally evolve it into one of two more-powerful versions right at the end, in rank four. Evolving a power much earlier makes the choice more significant, not least because you'll spend much more time using it before (probably) nipping through a Mass Relay for a heroic final rumble with the Reapers.
Weapons also hit a sweet spot of streamlined customisation. Take scavenged upgrades to a weapons bench, and you can add a couple of mods to each gun, boosting damage, range, and the like. And your choices are reflected in the weapon models as well as the all-important stats so, hey, your gun will look different to how your gun looked before.
2. Shepard's got moves
Shepard is scrappier and more agile this time around. In addition to that flashy omni-blade melee kill, Shepard can sneak in, grab an enemy from behind cover, and give it a surprise helping of holographic stabbing. Other abilities include tossing grenades, sliding into cover, and vaulting up onto obstacles without pause.
Getting in, out, and around cover is smoother in general, and there's more up-and-down action, too; the levels we saw were generously populated with ladders to showcase Shep's all-new ladder-climbing power and designated points for hopping down onto lower levels.
And those early concerns that the shooter extremists at BioWare were turning Mass Effect 3 into a balls-out gun game and nothing else have resolved into something much more agreeable: shooting stuff is just plain more fun in 3 than it was in 2, whether you're sniping a riot-shielded enemy right in the eye slot or peppering a Reaper minion with space bullets from up close.
3. The old gang is back
So what has Liara been up to? Is Miranda still genetically perfect? Did Garrus ever fix that gaping hole in his armour? This we need to know. Tighter gunplay and fuller character customisation are grand, but it could all go hang if this last game in the trilogy weren't a big old Mass Effect reunion party. Luckily, it's a little bit of just that: all the squad members from the first two games make a return in Mass Effect 3. If you didn't get them killed, obviously.
They won't all be coming back as playable squad members; we're told there are fewer characters to team up with than in the expansive Normandy roster of the second game, with its crowded character select screen. But everyone's back in some form, with "a lot more of an organic feeling to the relationships," says associate producer Mike Gamble.
The first mission, in which Shepard swings by Mars on the way to the Citadel to investigate a Prothean technology archive, reunites her with two Mass Effect old-timers: Liara and either Kaidan or Ashley, according to which one you sacrificed all the way back in the first game. With Liara conjuring biotic singularities over clusters of bad guys, Kaidan snap-freezing them with cryo blast, and you gunning down the lot, it feels just like old times. Aw.
4. Cerberus are baddies, for real this time
We spent Mass Effect 2 uneasily cooperating with Cerberus because they had the resources and the intel we needed, but they were always shifty pro-human militants named after a triple-headed hellbeast; it's well past time those guys showed their true colours. Look for that in Mass Effect 3.
As the game begins, Shepard has severed ties with the Illusive Man and his posse, though Kaidan (or Ashley, presumably) is still giving you trouble for having done their dirty work. And up on the red planet, Cerberus soldiers are getting their hands bloody, executing the staff of the Mars base housing the Prothean archive.
They may have spared no expense bringing Shepard back from the dead in game two, rebuilding him or her around a charred scrap of corpse, but like holographic Martin Sheen says: he needed you once, but now "your time is over." We predict plenty of Cerberus thugs mixing it up in the enemy ranks, alongside all the multiracial Husk variants. As a pitiless, genocidal machine-race, the Reapers are officially the Big Bad, but we're looking forward to being back on the right (wrong) side of Cerberus.
5. Earth, at last
Though we had a tantalising peek at Earth from the moon, Mass Effect never let us set foot on the blue planet. Through all of Shepard's planet-hopping, there has been no trip back to the cradle of humanity--until now.
Mass Effect 3 kicks off in future Vancouver, home of humanity's Defence Council, and with respect to that city, we can't imagine that's the only Earth location in the cards. Though the early trailer depicting a Reaper attack on London may have been just for flavour, not a promise we'd be omni-stabbing Husks in Hyde Park, we'd bet on Earth turning up more than just once.
"Earth in general has some significance," says associate producer Mike Gamble, and that's all the encouragement we need to be daydreaming of epic ground battles across semi-familiar territory. Because there's no place like home(world).
The Mass Effect 3 demo launches on February 14.
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Various Artists, "This Is 40 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack" (Capitol Records)
It doesn't matter if you're 40 or a fan of Judd Apatow, the soundtrack for the writer-director's latest film, "This Is 40," is worth checking out.
Among its 16 tracks are new and original songs from Fiona Apple, Norah Jones, Graham Parker and Lindsey Buckingham, plus new takes on old songs by Wilco and Ryan Adams.
It's a folksy blend of indie tunes, and as the film deals with the challenges of marriage and midlife, there are some heart-wrenching ones in the mix.
Jones' track is a standout, with a happy, dancing piano that contradicts its stark refrain: "Always judging, never loving." Another highlight is among three new songs Buckingham contributes: "Sick of You" is a showcase for his signature guitar melodies.
There's bright love on the album, too, most cheerfully on Wilco's "I Got You," a new version of the band's 1996 song with Jones on backing vocals, and Yoko Ono's fairytale love song, "Yes, I'm Your Angel."
Songs by composer-producer Jon Brion, Paul McCartney, Loudon Wainwright III, the Avett Brothers and Paul Simon round out the album.
CHECK OUT THIS TRACK: Apple is dramatic and demanding on the string-tinged "Dull Tool."
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Small Plant News: Volume 7, Number 10
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Decreasing Contamination in Veal Slaughter Plants
By Janet McGinn, DVM, and Paula Jones-Adjetey, Special to Small Plant News
USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service's (FSIS) test programs have shown that laboratory positives for Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) for veal trimmings appear to be higher than that for trimmings from other cattle slaughter classes.
Following up on these significant results, FSIS conducted a review of Food Safety Assessments (FSAs) and onsite visits to veal slaughter establishments in an attempt to identify conditions that are unique to veal that may be responsible for this problem. FSIS identified three common deficiencies in these plants, and they are:
- Inadequate sanitary dressing;
- Ineffective antimicrobial intervention; and
- Failure to use microbial data in decisionmaking.
Foremost among these is inadequate sanitary dressing.
Effective sanitary dressing procedures serve as the foundation upon which a slaughter Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) system is built. Properly conducted sanitary dressing procedures enhance the likelihood that antimicrobial treatments will achieve their intended effect. Inadequate sanitary dressing can introduce enough microbial contamination into the system that subsequent interventions cannot effectively reduce, let alone eliminate, pathogens.
The most frequent inadequate slaughter procedures that FSIS observed in veal plants occurred during sticking, hide removal, bunging, and evisceration. These deficiencies included:
- Cutting through the weasand (esophagus) during sticking, causing ingesta to leak onto the carcass and head;
- Cutting through the hide and not sanitizing knives, gloves, or other equipment before further dressing the carcass, causing cross-contamination;
- Allowing the exterior side of hide flaps to contact exposed carcass;
- Failing to properly bag and tie the bung;
- Allowing the bagged bung to contact the hide, which results in trailing contamination as the bung is pulled through the pelvic inlet;
- Puncturing the paunch and intestines during evisceration and allowing ingesta to leak onto the carcass; and
- Eviscerating the carcass before to hide removal (e.g., hide-on processing).
To improve sanitary dressing, FSIS recommends that veal slaughter plants:
- Develop comprehensive formal sanitary dressing programs that include:
- Written procedures designed to prevent carcass contamination at each point in the slaughter process where carcasses are vulnerable to contamination. These locations include: live receiving/holding, sticking, hide removal, bunging, brisket opening, rodding the weasand, head removal, evisceration, carcass splitting and head/cheek meat processing.
- Verification activities that ensure employees are performing the procedures effectively to prevent contamination.
- Assess the effectiveness of plant procedures using real-time data and microbial results. Real-time data can include carcass audits after points in the slaughter process where carcasses are vulnerable to contamination (e.g., de-hiding). The real-time data and microbial results will help plants assess whether the procedures are effectively preventing contamination.
The second deficiency FSIS identified in veal slaughter plants was the ineffective implementation of antimicrobial interventions, which may occur when plants:
- Fail to implement interventions so that they achieve full carcass or product coverage (ensuring that the entire carcass surface is treated and that all product surfaces are treated);
- This failure may be a result of an establishment's practice of suspending veal carcasses from a single hook or allowing product to be stacked, folded, or outside the arc of spray as the antimicrobial is applied;
- Cross-contaminate adjacent product by allowing overspray from the antimicrobial treatment;
- Cross-contaminate product from employees spraying equipment, the floor, and other surfaces;
- Cross-contaminate product from employees using contaminated or unsanitized equipment; or
- Cross-contaminate product by allowing visibly contaminated carcasses to enter the wash cabinet or receive the manual application of water or antimicrobial sprays.
FSIS recommends that plants make their antimicrobial interventions more effective by:
- Identifying supporting documentation that closely matches the intervention.
- Identifying critical operating parameters in the supporting documentation. These parameters are the specific conditions (such as contact time, pH, temperature, concentration, etc.) of the intervention that must be met for the intervention to be effective.
- Incorporating the critical operating parameters into the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) system.
- Implementing the intervention so that it meets the critical operating parameters.
The final deficiency FSIS has identified is the failure of plants to use microbial data in their decisionmaking. This failure is a critical lapse. FSIS observed that veal plants were not properly evaluating testing results, including generic E. coli on carcasses, STEC in beef manufacturing trimmings, and E. coli O157:H7 in ground veal to help determine whether their procedures are adequately preventing contamination.
To properly assess microbial testing results, FSIS recommends that plants:
- Use test results to assess the effectiveness of their controls for preventing contamination;
- Identify specific criteria for use when their slaughter process is out of control;
- Verify that their slaughter controls are reducing STEC to a below-detectable level on an ongoing basis;
- Review sanitary dressing procedures and intervention measures to investigate the cause when microbial test results indicate a loss of process control; and
- Perform increased microbial testing to demonstrate that the corrective actions the establishment took in response to the loss of process control are effective.
The Agency has developed the "Compliance Guideline for Establishments Sampling Beef Trimmings for Shiga Toxin Producing Escherichia coli (STEC) Organisms or Virulence Markers," which is available on FSIS' Web site at: http://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/wcm/connect/e0f06d97-9026-4e1e-a0c2-1ac60b836fa6/Compliance-Guide-Est-Sampling-STEC.pdf?MOD=AJPERES. This guidance has general information on verification testing, designing sampling plans and factors affecting the design of sampling.
To summarize, plants can minimize their risk of producing adulterated product if they:
- Implement a comprehensive sanitary dressing program that focuses on preventing contamination throughout the slaughter process;
- Apply interventions effectively; and
- Use microbial data to assess their slaughter operation and to improve their process.
For more information, or if you have any questions, contact the Small Plant Help Desk at 1-877-FSISHELP (1-877-374-7435) between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. ET, or via e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com. For policy-related questions, you can also utilize the askFSIS tab on FSIS' homepage at www.fsis.usda.gov.
Jones-Adjetey was an FSIS intern when she co-authored this article. She is currently a graduate student at Rutgers University's Graduate School of Public Affairs and Administration.
Commonly Asked Questions & Answers
Q: If an official (Federal) establishment tests a beef/veal carcass or part and the carcass or part is presumptive positive or positive for STEC such as E. coli O157:H7, can a disposition option for the product include moving it to a State-inspected facility for an adequate lethality treatment?
A: No. When an official establishment tests a carcass or part and determines that it will address the finding on the carcass or part by sending the carcass or part for a lethality treatment, the carcass or part may only move under controls to another official establishment that is capable of applying a full lethality treatment to the product (see FSIS Directive 10,010.1 Chapter III, IV OFFSITE DISPOSITION OF PRODUCT). Such a carcass or part is considered adulterated or potentially adulterated and such products may not move in commerce. Shipping an adulterated or potentially adulterated carcass or part from an official establishment under Federal inspection to a State-inspected facility not under Federal inspection would place that shipment in commerce, which is not permitted under the Federal Meat Inspection Act, even if the products are moved under controls.
Q: For the purpose of raw beef product classification, would a veal rack that is prepared by "Frenching" (i.e., removal of the intercostal meat and lean and fat over the ribs) be considered an intact or a non-intact raw beef product?
A: Contrary to what was published in the January 19, 1999 Federal Register, Beef Products Contaminated With Escherichia coli O157:H7, which, at the time, classified "Frenching" as "non-intact" along with beef that has been mechanically tenderized by needling, cubing, or pounding devices, FSIS believes a "Frenched" veal rack is intact. "Frenching" is a process similar to surface trimming where the intercostal meat, lean, and fat between and over the ribs is removed. This process is not believed to cause interior contamination of the veal rack. The finished trimmed veal rack is still intact, similar to other primal or subprimal bone-in cuts that are only trimmed. Additionally, resulting veal trimmings are then comparable to "bench" trimmings that are generated from trimming of primal and subprimal cuts.
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Yikes! Can you believe that it is October already?! September just flew by….whoosh…..before you know it the Christmas season will be upon us! I always have the BEST intentions to get working on my gift projects early, and then decide that there is plenty of time to get them done. Then the days, weeks, and months fly by and I of course don't get done half of what I was hoping for….you'd think I would learn my lesson *sigh*.
Well, at least I had Maggie's First Dance on my radar last month and when I realized that the first Monday in October was just lurking around the corner I got right down to work on those next blocks! These are the setting blocks to go with the 4 appliqued blocks that were made in previous months. There are 5 to make in total, but they are easy and won't take nearly as much time as the appliqued/ embroidered versions! If you signed up for the quilt- along your instructions should be in your inbox sometime today. If you are new here and you want to see what Maggie's First Dance is all about, you can go here to check out details: www. jacquelynnesteves.com.
For me the part that took the longest was figuring out the color scheme! I am not using the suggested colors, partly because I am on a fabric diet this year and I am trying not to buy any new fabric, but also because for me it is much more fun to be a little rebellious and do something a little different. So these were my completed blocks so far:I really wanted to bring all those colors that I used back into my setting blocks, and after playing with some different combinations came up with the idea to keep the block colors all the same, except for the one color band ( which is yellow in the pattern). So these are my setting blocks:
I think these blocks will work well in the overall look of the quilt. This is what all the blocks look like together:
I am really happy with how it is turning out! I suppose I could start quilting the blocks already, because I love to quilt as I go, and it will certainly be easier to twist and turn the blocks while they are still unattached. Let's see if I get distracted by another project first 🙂
Now for the part you have been waiting for….the giveaway for this month is sponsored by Christa Watson of Christa quilts: All of you will have a chance to enter to win these patterns designed by Krista. How fun are these?! Just think of all the scraps you could use up while making these quilts! Okay, so to enter you must do this:
- Leave me a comment on this post telling me what project you are hoping to finish before the holidays ( if any).
- Respond by October 10th, midnight, EST.
- Leave me an email address so I can contact you if you are the chosen winner. If I can't contact you I will have to choose someone else.
- I will randomly choose a winner and announce them right here on my blog, but I will also email the winner.
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You can enter to win here, at Christa's page, and at all the other bloggers for a total of 8 chances to win! GOOD LUCK!!
Have fun making your blocks! And don't forget to share your work over on Jacquelynne's facebook page and on her Sew Quilty Friends page too. I just love seeing all the creative blocks people are making….so inspiring!
I will be blogging again sometime later this week or early next week about other things I have been working on around here. Here is a little sneak peek:
Oh, and I am going to have my own little give-away soon too 🙂 Because it is so much fun being able to send out a little gift here and there and because I am having so much fun with my blog and all you guys!! So stay tuned. ( If you are not signed up to receive my emails, you can do so by clicking on the link on the right-hand side of this post, right near the top. I promise you won't be inundated with mail…I really don't blog that often 🙂 )
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