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Phil Simms shares stories with U of L students
Former NFL quarterback and sportscaster Phil Simms visited U of L's Comstock Hall on Tuesday night as part of a new forum, Conversations with Champions. Simms recounted memories of his successful careers in football and sportscasting and shared his thoughts and wisdom about current issues in the world of football.
The event was moderated by local sports journalist Billy Reed, and presented by the Sports Administration program.
"The goal of Conversations with Champions is to promote principles of integrity and character," said Sports Administration professor Gary Bernstein in his introduction, asking, "are you ready to be inspired?"
Reed began by asking Simms about his recent comments about the Washington Redskins controversy. Simms said that he plans to call the team by only Washington on television, boiling it down to the fact that people have told him that it offends him.
The mostly-full house in the concert hall applauded upon hearing his thoughts on the controversial issue.
The conversation then moved to his childhood. Simms grew up in Louisville and attended Southern High School. He was looked at by a few schools, but only received an offer from Morehead State University, where he had an unspectacular career. To the surprise of many, however, he was drafted in the first round by the New York Giants.
Simms said that if he were to be playing today, he would never have been drafted as high as he was, blaming ESPN draft analysis and calling it "moronic talk."
He went on to a successfull NFL career, eventually leading the team to a victory in Super Bowl XXI. He was named the MVP of the game. During his career he was named to the Pro Bowl twice and was an NFL MVP in 1986. Although his number was retired by the Giants, he has not entered the Hall of Fame.
A big topic during the forum was the recent focus on concussions in the NFL. Reed said that some former players are unable to watch football now because they feel that new contact rules have changed the game too much. Simms, however, disagreed.
"Some of the contact is detrimental to your long-term health," he said. "So it has to change."
He mentioned that many of his teammates are "really beat up" due to football injuries, and that he himself makes an effort to keep his mind active to offset effects of past concussions.
Most of the conversation, though, focused on amusing stories from his career, such as his relationship with famous coach Bill Parcells and his famous line after his Super Bowl victory: "I'm going to Disney world."
After reminiscing about his career, Reed asked Simms if he took time to think about his past achievements.
"I'm not a big look-back guy," he said in response, saying he looks forward and enjoys taking on new challenges in life.
Simms then discussed his TV career, which has included roles at ESPN, NBC and his current job at CBS. He also talked about his job doing voice overs for the Madden football video games, describing it as 45 hours of talking.
He also had some analysis rookie quarterbacks Teddy Bridgewater and Johnny Manziel.
For Bridgewater, the former Cardinal, he had kind words. "It's gonna work for Teddy Bridgewater very well because the system (at Minnesota) is perfect for his skill set," said Simms. "It's not a question of if he plays, it's when.
And Johnny Manziel, we'll see," he said to laughter.
Simms, ever the sportscaster, also had a Super Bowl prediction to share with the audience: a Seattle v. Denver rematch with another Seattle victory.
The entire forum was filmed and will air on KET.
Full disclosure: Billy Reed serves on The Louisville Cardinal's Board of Directors.


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Two separate bombings in Kandahar and Kunduz kill at least 10 people, including four police officers.
|A bomb rigged to a motorcycle was detonated as a police vehicle was passing from the market of Kunduz City [AFP]
Two separate attacks in Afghanistan have killed at least 10 people, among them four Afghan police officers.
A suicide car bomber killed three civilians, including a child, and wounded several others when he rammed his vehicle into an Nato convoy in Kandahar on Saturday.
"I was walking along this road when suddenly I heard a huge explosion and I started running away, after a few minutes I went to the blast site, I saw three people had died and eleven others were wounded," John Agha, an eyewitness at the site, said.
About a dozen people were injured in the attack. There was no immediate information about possible Nato casualties.
"Obviously they [the Taliban] do continuously attack foreign forces throughout the country but there was no direct claim of responsibility," Al Jazeera's Hoda Abdel-Hamid, reporting from Kabul, the Afghan capital, said.
Kunduz bomb
Earlier on Saturday, seven people were killed and 16 others injured in an attack in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz.
Sources told Al Jazeera that the explosion took place in front of a butcher shop supplying the local police in the Bander Imam area of Kunduz city.
"The bomb rigged to a motorcycle detonated as a police vehicle was passing from the main market of the city," Muhammad Omar, the governor of Kunduz, said.
Abdel-Hamid said at least seven people were killed in the attack, including four police officers.
Kunduz is a major transportation hub and lies along a crucial supply line for coalition forces that has been repeatedly attacked by Taliban fighters.
Fighters have stepped up attacks on police and civilians in Kunduz in an apparent attempt to destabilise local authorities.
While there was no immediate sign of a connection, the bombing came on the first anniversary of a Nato warplane attack on two fuel trucks just outside Kunduz city that killed as many as 142 people, the single largest loss of civilian lives since the 2001 US invasion of the country.
Afghan officials repeatedly warn that such incidents undermine the central government in Kabul and fuel support for its Taliban opponents.
Also on Saturday, Nato announced the capture of a Taliban commander and the killing of six fighters in a raid on their hide-out in the northern province of Takhar.
The attack followed a string of recent raids on Taliban leaders that aim to demoralise the Taliban and sever contacts between armed groups.

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I hope you all have a great one. Sorry you're not all arriving up here in the cold and snow this evening for a night of Asian food before we have the usual feast on Thanksgiving Day. Tradition looms large in memory.
I thought I'd feature some music that I've discovered lately from each of our cities. Peters may have to settle for Lawrence — I 'm not sure if Lindsborg is churning out new music. So I found this band called Now, Now (formerly Now, Now Every Children) and like their music quite a bit…catchy and light. Hope you guys are in the mood for some of that today. If you like these tracks, I recommend checking out some more of their wares.
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Political Theories
Examples: Morgenthau, Cohen
Imperialism is simply a manifestation of the balance of power and is the process by which nations try to achieve a favorable change in the status quo. The purpose of imperialism is to decrease the strategic and political vulnerability of a nation.
"...we are engaged in 'pegging out claims for the future'. We have to consider, not what we want now, but what we shall want in the future. We have to consider what countries must be developed either by ourselves or some other nation and we have to remember that it is part of our responsibility and heritage to take care that the world, as far as it can be moulded by us, shall receivethe Anglo-Saxon and not another character. Remember that the task of the statesman is not merely with the present, but with the future. We have to look forward beyond the chatter of platforms, and the passions of party, to the future of the race of which we are at present the trustees, and we should, in my opinion, grossly fail in the task that has been laid upon us did we shrink from responsibilities, and decline to take our share in a partition of the world which we have not forced on, but which has been forced upon us." Earl of Rosebery, Speech at the Royal Colonial Institute, 1 March 1893
Conservative Theories
Examples: Disraeli, Rhodes, Kipling
Imperialism is necessary to preserve the existing social order in the more developed countries. It is necessary to secure trade, markets, to maintain employment and capital exports, and to channel the energies and social conflicts of the metropolitan populations into foreign countries. There is a very strong ideological and racial assumption of Western superiority within this body of thought.
The Philippines
"I went down on my knees and prayed to Almighty God for light and guidance ... and one night late it came to me this way. We could not leave (the Philippines) to themselves--they were unfit for self-government--and they would soon have anarchy and misrule over there worse than Spain's was... There was nothing left for us to do but take them all and educate the Filipinos, and uplift and Christianize them." US President William McKinley, as quoted in General James Rusling, Interview with President William McKinley, The Christian Advocate 22 January 1903, 17. Reprinted in Daniel Schirmer and Stephen Rosskamm Shalom, eds., The Philippines Reader (Boston: South End Press, 1987), 2223.
The Belgian Congo
Liberal Theories
Examples: Hobson, Angell
Imperialism is a policy choice, not an inevitable consequence of capitalism. Increasing concentration of wealth within the richer countries leads to underconsumption for the mass of people. Overseas expansion is a way to reduce costs (and thereby increase or maintain profit levels) and to secure new consumption. Overseas expansion is not inevitable, however. A state can solve the problem of underconsumption by increasing the income levels of the majority of the population either through legislation concerning wage levels (minimum wage laws, legalization of unions, child labor laws) or through income transfers (unemployment compensation, welfare).
"Aggressive Imperialism, which costs the tax-payer so dear, which is of so little value to the manufacturer and trader, which is fraught with such grave incalculable peril to the citizen, is a source of great gain to the investor who cannot find at home the profitable use he seeks for his capital and insists that his Government should help him to profitable and secure investments abroad.
If, contemplating the enormous expenditure on armaments, the ruinous wars, the diplomatic audacity of knavery by which modern Governments seek to extend their territorial power, we put the plain, practical question, Cui bono? the first and most obvious answer is, The investor . . . .
Investors who have put their money in foreign lands, upon terms which take full account of risks connected with the political conditions of the country, desire to use the resources of their Government to minimize these risks, and so to enhance the capital value and the interest of their private investments. The investing and speculative classes in general also desire that Great Britain should take other foreign areas under her flag in order to secure new areas for profitable investment and speculation." John A. Hobson, Imperialism. A Study (1902)
Marxist Theories
Example: Lenin
Imperialism also arises because increased concentration of wealth leads to undeconsumption. However, since the state represents the capitalist interest it is not possible to reduce underconsumption effectively through liberal strategies. Both strategies involve taking away money from the bourgeoisie and Marx and Lenin did not view this strategy as possible. Ultimately, according to Lenin, the world would be completely divided up and the rich countries would then fight over the redivision of the world. This analysis served as his explanation for World War I.
"It goes without saying that if capitalism could develop agriculture, which today is everywhere lagging terribly behind industry, if it could raise the living standards of the masses, who in spite of the amazing technical progress are everywhere still half-starved and poverty-stricken, there could be no question of a surplus of capital. This argument is very often advanced by the petty-bourgeois critics of capitalism. But if capitalism did these things it would not be capitalism; for both uneven development and a semi-starvation level of existence of the masses are fundamental and inevitable conditions and constitute premises of this mode of production. As long as capitalism remains what it is, surplus capital will be utilised not for the purpose of raising the standard of living of the masses in a given country, for this would mean a decline in profits for the capitalists, but for the purpose of increasing profits by exporting capital abroad to the backward countries. In these backward countries profits are usually high, for capital is scarce, the price of land is relatively low, wages are low, raw materials are cheap. The export of capital is made possible by a number of backward countries having already been drawn into world capitalist intercourse; main railways have either been or are being built in those countries, elementary conditions for industrial development have been created, etc. The need to export capital arises from the fact that in a few countries capitalism has become overripe and (owing to the backward state of agriculture and the poverty of the masses) capital cannot find a field for profitable investment." Vladimir Lenin, "Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, 1920
Social-Psychological Theories
Example: Schumpeter
Imperialism is objectless expansion, a pattern simply learned from the behavior of other nations and institutionalized into the domestic political processes of a state by a "warrior" class. This warrior class is created because of the need for defense, but, over time, the class will manufacture reasons to perpetuate its existence, usually through manipulation of crises.
These theories have been updated and modified by theorists who see an alliance between the warrior class and corporate interests. Most commonly this alliance is referred to as a "military-industrial complex" a phrase coined by US President Eisenhower in his farewell Address to the American people:
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together. President Dwight David Eisenhower, 1961
John Ismay, "What Would a Fighter Jet Buy 60 Years After Eisenhowers Speech?" New York Times, 16 April 2013
Recommended Readings:
John Hobson, Imperialism, 1902
Vladimir Illyich Lenin (1870-1924), Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism, 1916
Joseph A. Schumpeter, The Sociology of Imperialism, 1918
British Imperialistic Anthems, Rule Britannia and Land of Hope and Glory, and more
George Orwell, "Shooting an Elephant"
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Where I Live: New & Selected Poems 1990-2010
It's truly a shame that poetry is so often thought of as inaccessible, hopelessly and purposefully snarled with obscurity and flabby with rococo intellectualism. Great poetry should work on many levels, and thus appeal to a wide audience from those who appreciate it for its pure beauty and those that delight the complexity of further analysis. Maxine Kumin is a poet whose entire oeuvre is rooted in what she knows: her farm in New Hampshire, where she works in the ground, keeps horses. Her poetry is the dirt, it is the food scrap, it is the snort of horses, but she makes these mundane details peal out their secret beauty; she makes them transcendental.
Where I Live is a collection of poems that spans two decades of the poet's illustrious career, which includes a Pulitzer Prize, a stint as Poet Laureate of the United States and countless other honors. The collection allows a reader to follow along with the contours of Kumin's life. As with any life, there are personal and cultural landmarks, some common and others not so: marriage, giving birth, creating a home, a broken neck suffered by falling from a horse at age seventy-three, the death of a close friend, Anne Sexton. All are contemplated with a true, ringing voice and simple grace.
More interestingly, though, are those elements held constant. Kumin's love for nature and animals alternately stings and sings. The reader can also feel her all-consuming vitriol for those who mistreat land and beast alike:
Damn all of you with dumpsters.
Damn all who do not compost.
Damn all who tie their dogs out
on bare ground, without water.
Damn all who debeak chickens
and all who eat them, damn
CEOs with bonuses, corporate jets, trophy wives.
Her poems of celebration are absolutely reverent: in an ode to her garden plants, she writes, "O children, citizens, my wayward jungly dears/you are all to be celebrated/plucked, transplanted, tilled under, resurrected here […] For all of you, whether eaten or extirpated/I plan to spend the rest of my life on my knees."
It is from this celebratory spirit that she approaches her craft, too, referencing and playing with other poets, taunting and engaging them in her own verse. Her belief in the healing and cleansing power of composting and mucking out and gardening easily becomes a metaphor for her own work as a poet. Her exhilaration for both nature and language sustain one another; in fact, they feed one another, and Kumin, in her eighties, has much fertile land left to till.


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The next Republican debate takes place at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California, on September 16, 2015. It is sponsored by CNN and the Reagan Library Foundation. So far, a total of sixteen candidates have received an invitation, from former first lady Nancy Reagan, to attend the debate. The threshold for participation is similar to the Fox News debate where the field will be split into the top ten candidates engaging in a prime-time debate, and six (possibly more) candidates engaging in an earlier debate.
Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Aired on: CNN
Preliminary candidate lists:
Candidates Prime-time: Trump, Bush, Walker, Huckabee, Carson, Cruz, Rubio, Paul, Christie, Kasich
Candidates Early: Perry, Santorum, Fiorina, Jindal, Pataki, Graham
Note that the actual lineups won't be fully finalized since it will be based on polling between July 16 and September 10. At that point, the polls which CNN has already named will be averaged to fill out which candidates appear prime-time and which appear in the earlier broadcast. Thus, more candidates could be invited such as former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore should he hit the 1 percent mark.
Report from the Washington Times:
Former first lady Nancy Reagan has invited 16 candidates so far to participate in the next 2016 GOP presidential debate, to be held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California on Sept. 16.
"My husband was humbled and honored to be president of the United States. I heard him say on more than one occasion that he was only given temporary custody of the presidency, but I know from very personal experience that it was the role of his lifetime," Mrs. Reagan said. "Debates are a crucial part of the election process, and I'm thrilled that so many qualified candidates have the opportunity to be heard at the Reagan Presidential Library."
The debate, to be moderated by CNN anchor Jake Tapper, will be divided into two parts. One group will feature the top 10 candidates based on an average of recent polls and the other group will include candidates who meet the minimum threshold of 1 percent.
The format is similar to the first debate hosted last week by Fox News, although Fox ultimately did away with the 1 percent threshold for the second group. An average of all "recognized polling" released between July 16 and Sept. 10 will determine the groups, and more candidates will get invited if they meet required criteria and average at least 1 percent in three "recognized national polls" between now and Sept. 10. [Emphasis added]
All the candidates in the top 10 in polling before last week's event who participated in the prime-time debate have qualified thus far and have gotten invitations: businessman Donald Trump, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
Additionally, candidates outside the top 10 of polling for the first debate who have been invited are former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, former New York Gov. George Pataki and Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.
No word on the broadcast time for the two debates, but from what I've read, it seems the "early" debate will actually show right before the primetime debate which will give the lower-polling candidates some more face time. This marks a difference from Fox's decision to show the early debate a full four hours earlier in the afternoon.


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(Washington, D.C.-- 04/19/05) The top 25 green power purchasers are buying enough energy to run more than 150,000 homes a year, according to EPA. The top-25 list includes a diverse set of companies and organizations that have voluntarily bought the most renewable energy and are part of EPA's Green Power Partnership. Together, the top 25 are purchasing more than 1.6 million MWh (megawatt hours) of green power annually.
Green power is electricity from environmentally-preferable renewable resources such as solar, wind, or geothermal power. Green power currently accounts for about two percent of America's electricity supply, but voluntary purchasing of renewable energy is accelerating renewable energy development.
The U.S. Air Force leads the green power list, purchasing more than 321,000 MWh annually for Air Force bases across the country. Second on the list, Johnson & Johnson, bought more than 241,000 MWh of renewable energy in 2004.
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I want a sigma plot of smoother curves at a time value of 2300 for the upper curves (circled in red, It looks like I have a bi-modal distribution so I just want to focus on the biomodal distrubtion that has more data points). I have no voltage measurements at the circled points (values are between 2.9 and 3.0V). Is there a way to get a sigma plot of these smoother plots at a time of 2300?
Thanks for posting the data. There's a few splits and stacks to get the data in the right format so we can do the spline fitting, predictions for new values of Voltage, and then compute the standard deviations. Hope this is clear enough to follow along. I attached the results of each step.
Col Std Dev( :Time Predicted, :Voltage )
What's a sigma plot? The Google machine just returns a bunch of information about some overpriced graphing software. I'm guessing that's not what you meant.
Here is sigma plot I am trying to create. Yeah I also noticed google giving a bunch of links to buy some software
Ok thanks for the illustration. That helps, but I'm still a bit confused. Is sigma denoting standard deviation here? If so, is it of voltage at a given time point across blocks, or time at a given voltage across blocks? Neither of those actually make sense to me if you are just interested in Time = 2300 since you would just get a single point to plot. If we can get on the same page on what is the Y-axis is measuring, then I think it will be easy enough to get the plot you're after.
Sorry for the confusion. Sigma plot is denoting standard deviation. I want voltage at a given time of 2300 across the blocks. I want to emphasize that I want the sigma plot on the curves that have been smoothed between 2.9 and 3.0V and not on actual data points (I don't have any voltage points between 2.9 and 3.0V). So in other words it is a sigma plot on teh interpolated values.
So, x-axis is Voltage with min at 2.9V and max at 3.0V, and y-axis is standard deviation of time predictions (interpolated from smoothers) at a given voltage. Right?
If that's the case, you'll probably need to re-create those smoothing splines in Fit Y by X for each block and save the predicted values to the table so you can get those predictions. If you have each block as a separate column, you can add a few more rows to the get the predicted time at each voltage value you want. Then, you could compute the standard deviation of the predicted values for each row to get the sigma values for your plot. If you could post your data table, I could show you what I mean.
Yes this is exactly what I want. Attaching data table.
Thanks for posting the data. There's a few splits and stacks to get the data in the right format so we can do the spline fitting, predictions for new values of Voltage, and then compute the standard deviations. Hope this is clear enough to follow along. I attached the results of each step.
Col Std Dev( :Time Predicted, :Voltage )
So this is close but not exactly what I need. In table 2 you give voltage inputs from 2.9 to 3.0V and then from this you can get the corresponding predicted time for every block. What I want is the other way around I want to give a time of 2300 and then see what voltage each block will give me. So in table 2 if I could instead give it a time of 2300 and then it would predict what voltage that corresponds to. Sorry for confusion about this :(
I have done the following and got it to work but I have a lot of data and it is not feasible to do this task in the steps below:
I see no feedback on this is it fair to say that this cannot be done in JMP?
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Fave Raves: 25 IT pros name their favorite products
What IT pros like, in their own words
It's not always easy to impress IT pros with new technology, but these hardware, software and cloud products managed to do it. The common thread? Gear that saves time or money, increases productivity or tightens security. If your favorite tech product didn't make the list, tell us about it.
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STORY: Hot cloud products IT pros swear by ]
Why it's a favorite: "With over 3,600 employees, 25 websites and over 15,000 endpoints on our network, we needed a solution that would give us real-time insight into the security status of each of those endpoints. Right after installing CounterACT on our network we discovered a number of issues that required immediate attention. We can't walk around our IT area and not hear the word ForeScout being mentioned. It has a reputation as a tool that can see everything, a function that is both greatly valued and heavily leveraged by the entire IT organization."
Years in IT: 17
Upcoming IT projects: BYOD using mobile device management (MobileIron) and NAC (ForeScout CounterACT)
Why it's a favorite: "Virtualization along with Veeam Backup & Replication got us through three worst-case scenarios: an earthquake, a tsunami and a fire. If our IT team hadn't implemented Veeam in our Corby, U.K., site and had continued backing up our virtual machines using the same tool we use to back up our physical servers, the VM recovery process would have taken at least seven days after a devastating fire. Restoring VMs with Veeam took hours -- a 95% reduction in time.
Years in IT: 20
Upcoming IT projects: AD consolidation across 30 sites. "This will allow us to use newer technologies like Windows 7 and Office 365, which we cannot do at the moment due to NT4 domains and 30 separate domains."
Why it's a favorite: "POQ gives me and my team peace of mind that people aren't lifting data from the browser. I like that it's easy to deploy and set up policies. My favorite features are that I can stop copying of data and print screen. We have a lot of people using BYOD, so being able to provide the same access and security on unmanaged devices is huge. POQ helped us with PCI compliance, as we use it for our credit card payment processing. It protects our data from malware on the endpoint as well as data leakage by malicious end users."
Years in IT: 15
Upcoming IT projects: Software as a service and hybrid cloud infrastructure
Why it's a favorite: "The Riverbed Steelhead product accelerates our applications through MPLS circuits to each location. New branches require less bandwidth. We were able to reduce the monthly circuit expenses by 35% while doubling our branch footprint. Steelheads are also used to decrease the time needed to replicate data to an offsite location."
Years in IT: 25
Upcoming IT projects: "My focus is now on security-related issues and developing strategies to address this fast-paced challenge."
Why it's a favorite: "There are a ton of features, all of which are included without having to purchase additional licenses. This makes it a super-flexible platform with great capabilities for Layers 1-7. Aside from that, it just works and is very stable so I don't worry much about it."
Years in IT: 14
Upcoming IT projects: New site launch. "One of the things I like most about my job is creating a plan then seeing it come to life."
Why it's a favorite: "I love Scrutinizer because it makes network visibility simple and fun. It has honestly put an end to the 'I don't know why your site is performing poorly' answer. Root cause analysis is quite simple when you can run a report showing the reason why a site with a T1 came to a crawl because some users decided to hit their favorite streaming media site or a system administrator accidentally kicked off a nightly backup in the middle of the day."
Years in IT: 13
Upcoming IT projects: Implementing Scrutinizer in a Cisco Medianet environment
Why it's a favorite: "It gives me visibility to the growing number of cloud services that my organization is using and helps me create a strategy utilizing the best and most secure services. Our firewall will allow us to block entire categories of services, but I needed more granular information about specific services as well as usage data to help me understand the needs of my customers and to help craft a smart policy."
Years in IT: 23
Upcoming IT projects: Implementing Citrix XenMobile mobile device management and cloud gateway
Why it's a favorite: "Nasuni allowed JSJ to deliver a truly global file storage solution to our business sites without compromising our security and data recovery standards. Because Nasuni places only a nominal load on our high-cost MPLS circuits by utilizing low-cost public circuits, the system is highly cost effective. The positive feedback and comments from our business users indicate that file access speeds rival the onsite storage solutions that pre-dated our move to centralized storage."
Years in IT: 30+
Upcoming IT projects: Product lifecycle management/product data management implementation
Why it's a favorite: "Spotfire is simply the best, most elegant data visualization environment that I've ever used. We have been able to consume huge amounts of diverse drug discovery and translational medicine data into this platform and quickly generate clear and informative views of those data. From a technologist perspective, Spotfire is one of the most beautifully architected pieces of software I know, and that architectural richness allows it to scale with fantastic performance and consistent user experience."
Years in IT: 16
Upcoming IT projects: Storage and analytic projects related to Array's next-generation DNA sequence efforts
Why it's a favorite: "It securely separates my work applications and data from my personal life. It means I'm always compliant with my employer's BYOD policies, and my personal life stays private and separate."
Years in IT: 15
Upcoming IT projects: Tangoe Enterprise Portal
Why it's a favorite: "SysAid ITSM has helped us respond faster, add content, assign cases, open, close and manage service desk requests from any mobile platform. This has allowed us to serve our customers better by responding in real time to customer requests from most any location. On top of that, the tool is free."
Years in IT: 20+
Upcoming IT projects: Dashboarding IT metrics, application uptime, network uptime, service levels and performance
Why it's a favorite: "A very simple function of WhatsUp Gold is interface performance monitoring. This feature enables me to quickly identify unused ports on a switch and determine if I need to add additional capacity in a given location, or just send a technician down to recover unused ports. The WhatsConnected and WhatsConfigured plugins enable me to determine what's been plugged into the interface and how the interface is configured, and alerts me when a change is made to my network."
Years in IT: 10+
Upcoming IT projects: Storage migration, server virtualization
Why it's a favorite: "In truth my absolute favorite is the UNH Mobile application developed by our own UNH Information Technology team. However, my favorite vendor product is Enterasys IdentiFi WiFi -- without it, the UNH mobile application would not be able to be used as effectively on campus! Mobile devices, from smartphones to tablets and more, increase each year, and the applications used on those devices devour bandwidth. We need reliable wireless solutions. We have been a long-term Enterasys customer, and with IdentiFi we have a wireless solution that can scale to meet the needs of tens of thousands of users."
Years in IT: 20+
Upcoming IT projects: Wi-Fi expansion
Why it's a favorite: "Dole Fresh Fruit Company was able to cut our operational costs through an improved approach to application performance management (APM) using Compuware's Data Center Real-User Monitoring. This greatly improved IT productivity in the following areas: reduced problem resolution from days and weeks to hours; decreased backlog of IT issues from several hundred to a manageable number; reduced the number of IT related incidents by 35%; and dramatically improved the performance of our ERP environment."
Years in IT: 20
Upcoming IT projects: Expanding Compuware APM use
Why it's a favorite: "Riverbed's Granite product has simplified our approach to managing data and hardware at our branch locations. The inherent benefits of the product include virtualization, WAN acceleration, replication and deduplication. These benefits have enabled us to shrink our hardware footprint, effectively manage and backup the branch data in our data center, improve our file access, and avoid an increase in bandwidth costs and ultimately better manage our data footprint. Granite is now our 'site in a box' solution and a blueprint for integrating newly acquired sites."
Years in IT: 20
Upcoming IT projects: Revamp data backup practices and enhance disaster recovery capabilities
Why it's a favorite: "[It's] easy to use, flexible, has just the right amount of complexity for our organization. We are a far-flung group of people, and Teambox helps us gain visibility into our work. Teambox has also proven to be effective at sharing, brainstorming and collaborating."
Years in IT: 18
Why it's a favorite: "SecureSurf is an easy-to-deploy hosted solution that doesn't inhibit Web surfing and safeguards users against malicious sites, viruses, inappropriate content or anything that might violate a company's policy. I like how I can install the agent on individual machines to ensure those machines are configured for the most accurate website traffic evaluation, even if a user is working remotely or through a non-corporate network. Plus, I appreciate the machine-by-machine reporting of Web surfing activities."
Years in IT: 22
Upcoming IT projects: Moving a large foreign currency bank into a co-location facility
Why it's a favorite: "Eze Software Group's RealTick's market data infrastructure is expansive, extending across hundreds of servers in multiple data centers around the world. In the past, due to the large volume of data being delivered, our clients needed large quantities of IP addresses to connect to the infrastructure. The Viprion hardware allows us to consolidate addresses and shrink this presence by more than 98%, while still allowing ample room for growth through its modular and powerful expansion capabilities in both hardware and software. This has greatly enhanced our security posture while still providing increased reliability for our customers."
Years in IT: 23
Upcoming IT projects: Data center migration and comprehensive infrastructure refresh
Why it's a favorite: "Spiceworks has helped me and saved my skin more times than I care to mention. The app is solid, works well and fits my needs. But the real value is the fact that they have the best online community in the entire universe. This coupled with all the amazing folks at Spiceworks (both support and outreach) means there is no equal. I love the high level of customization potential in the app, while at the same time being very easy to setup. This has allowed for a quick deployment at my company and flexibility as we grow and our needs change."
Years in IT: 3
Upcoming IT projects: Phone system upgrade; backup upgrade; VMware infrastructure expansion
Why it's a favorite: "A cornerstone of our SOA architecture, Forum Sentry helped Synovus reduce online banking sign-in time from averaging about 20 seconds to averaging less than 6 seconds -- significantly enhancing our users' experiences. Based on that success, Synovus then looked to extend the online banking experience to mobile users. With Forum Sentry centralizing access control and identity management, Synovus now supports more than 10,000 customers accessing their accounts through iPhone, BlackBerry, Android and WAP clients."
Years in IT: 13
Upcoming IT projects: Call center, Tibco ESB implementation, core banking consolidation, ATM replacement
Why it's a favorite: "The product allows Dime IT to offer a solid backup strategy to clients. And, when a disaster does happen, Acronis leaves us confident that we have the necessary options to restore customer data as effortlessly as possible."
Years in IT: 10
Upcoming IT projects: Moving to virtual environments in the SMB space. "Dime IT is finally seeing smaller clients take advantage of technology that previously was only available for the enterprise."
Why it's a favorite: "ClickSoftware is helping Ledcor to better optimize work order creation, scheduling and call center dispatching, and capture real-time status updates from the field. We use ClickSoftware to simplify operations, improve customer service and lower operational costs. Being able to respond to customer demands faster and more efficiently is a significant competitive differentiator."
Years in IT: 10
Upcoming IT projects: Enhanced mobile capabilities for field technicians and supervisors; analytics upgrades
Why it's a favorite: "OnApp's software is packaged nicely and is a great base to build cloud products on top of. We've tested and deployed many virtualization and storage systems as our services have evolved, and the one thing that was always lacking was an effective storage system. With the integrated SAN built into OnApp Cloud, we've finally found a way to achieve enterprise-class storage for our cloud, at a fraction of the cost of an enterprise SAN."
Years in IT: 12
Upcoming IT projects: Adding features to Ubiquity Motion control panel
Why it's a favorite: "eyeShare provides a rich, user-friendly and intuitive interface, is stable, and has reliable performance. Development in eyeShare allows us to automate IT processes quickly and easily. eyeShare provides the ability to view and manage critical alerts from a variety of systems in one centralized console. It also improves our system team's SLA and reduces the time involved in writing complex scripts."
Years in IT: 17
Why it's a favorite: "Prior to using Lavastorm Analytics Engine, A/R and revenue were calculated/recorded to the ERP on a monthly basis and required complex reconciliations. Using LAE, Gogo has developed a Financial Systems Integration platform, which pulls in data from our product catalog, sales transaction systems, payment processors and banks. Gogo has also used LAE to integrate revenue assurance analytics up front, in the Financial Systems Integration platform, in order to build in preventative controls. This has resulted in the reduction of manual processes, a high level of repeatability and improved analytics, which allow for greater accuracy and completeness of the data."
Years in IT: 16
Upcoming IT projects: Financial Systems Integrations for the new Gogo International service
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text: The Porpoise Hibernicus lighting sculpture is set to travel from East coast to West coast today just in time for the Irish Design Works Exhibition at The Niland Gallery in Galway on 12th July . This one off piece is a porpoise vertabrae found on Shenick island in the Irish Sea off Skerries. This 1.3 metre complete section has been restructured as the centrepiece of a lighting perimeter of leds which is suspended with nylon lines to appear as if floating. Holland hopes this piece will be well received when it appears in Galway international Arts Festival and race week in the Design Island show which runs until 2nd August. This exhibition featuring the work of some of Irelands' most exciting designers will feature furniture by Ben Gabriel , Knut Klimmek, Wedge Tricia Harris and Willow woodworks, ceramics by Raymond Kinghan, rugs by Ceadogán and metals by Stephen Quinn. We invite all of our friends and clients to make this date and to see us in the West this summer in one of the best cities in the world for culture and craic.


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Key West Florida Weather, Warnings, and Dangers
A Key West Florida weather report will tell you how hot and cold the weather is generally is in Key West. This is a beautiful place to spend your next vacation. However, you need to make sure that you have detailed weather report before visiting the place. This will make your visit even more pleasant.
Days of Hot Weather in Key West
It is not normal for the temperature in Key West to rise above 100 degree Fahrenheit. However, this does fall to 90 degrees Fahrenheit in the months of July and August. As a matter of fact, during the winter months, the temperature falls to 80 degree Fahrenheit.
Key West Florida weather is generally warm. It has an average temperature of 50 degree Fahrenheit throughout the year. Usually, from June to September, the temperature is normally colder than 70 degree Fahrenheit.
Even though Key West offers pleasant weather throughout the year, this might change instantaneously during the rainy season. As a matter of fact, it is not easy to go out as there is only two lane road all across the city. If everyone tries to leave, it might become pretty congested. However, you have the option of high speed ferries. This will take you to Ft. Myers over the Gulf Coast. Again due to strong winds and large waves, this might prove to be pretty dangerous. In case you are planning to visit Key West during the hurricane season, you should keep a check on the weather warnings. Thus, you will be able to move out a soon as possible.
Outdoor Lifestyle
Apart from the Key West Florida weather, there are other things that you should know. This place has an amazing outdoor lifestyle. In fact, most of it centers on water activities. Thus, you should always use sun screen and drink water to be hydrated. The Gulf Stream wind makes the temperature seem mild. However, the sun shines strongly over the water and land.
You will find jelly fish near the shore line that is on the beaches and sea grass. This is colorful balloon like creature which has a vicious sting. In fact, it can be extremely painful. Moreover, it can interfere with lung and heart function. In case the pain last over an hour, you should call for medical help.
You will notice barracudas swimming close to the shores and also along the piers. They might not attack you while you are swimming but if you have an accidental encounter like stepping on them by mistake, they might bite you.
Key West is unofficially called the Conch Republic. This place is popular for tourist. As a matter of fact, thousands of tourists visit this place every year. The main attraction of this place is the Everglades and the beaches. If you want some adventure in your vacation, you can simply avail the various tours to the Everglades National Park. Here, you will be able to see the alligators and various other creatures. However, if you want to have a peaceful and laid-back holiday, you should stick to the beaches. There are several beaches and you can simply choose the one that you like the most. You can either sun bath or take a stroll on the beaches.
If you are visiting Key West, you need to make a plan beforehand. This is because while booking hotels in the rush hours, there might be price hike. Thus, if you plan beforehand, you will be able to book the hotels at a lesser price. This way you will be able to save some money.
The docks are usually crowed and you need to secure the wallet, money, and cell phone. Make sure that you ask before taking photos of others.


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Climate Change and the PSD Program: Using BACT to Combat the Incumbency of Fossil Fuels
Climate change and its impacts are steadily worsening. Stubborn reliance on fossil fuels for electricity and the associated greenhouse gas emissions are largely to blame for exacerbating those impacts. The Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) program under the Clean Air Act establishes one of the mechanisms for monitoring and controlling …Read More
A Chronic Problem: Pritzker and the NOAA Roadmap's Deficiencies
Anthropogenic noise from sources such as sonar, oil and gas exploration, and commercial shipping pollutes the ocean and causes serious problems for marine mammals, who rely on sound to survive. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently addressed the extent of anthropogenic ocean noise pollution (AONP) in its Roadmap …Read More
Fish and Wildlife Management on Federal Lands: Debunking State Supremacy
This Article reviews the authority of federal and state governments to manage wildlife on federal lands. It first describes the most common assertions made by state governments regarding state powers over wildlife and then analyzes the relevant powers and limitations of the United States Constitution and federal land laws, regulations, …Read More
Regulating Inherently Subjective Food Labeling Claims
For many consumers, the modern food label serves as the sole source of information regarding any individual food product. While it may be considered informative in some respects, it is often enigmatic in others. The present debate regarding the creation of a federal regulation to define use of the term …Read More
Overuse of Antibiotics in Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations: Regulation and Tort Law
This Essay explores the potential role of the tort system to plug the regulatory gap created by the reluctance of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to reduce the use of antibiotics in animal food production despite increasing evidence that this practice increases the risk of human infections that cannot …Read More
Owning All the Seeds: Consolidation and Control in AgBiotech
Agricultural companies are merging at a remarkable rate. The ensuing ag-biotech behemoths will have unprecedented control over global food production. The companies claim that this industry consolidation will not only benefit shareholders, but will serve the public by promoting food security and environmental sustainability. This Article tests those claims and …Read More
Labeling Genetically-Engineered Foods: An Update From One of the Front Lines of Federalism
Consumers in the United States have increasingly demanded that manufacturers of foods that are either directly genetically engineered or that contain genetically-engineered (GE) ingredients label their products as such. In general, federal law—in the form of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA)—lodges primary authority for approving and regulating the …Read More
The Healthy Watershed Framework: A Blueprint for Restoring Nutrient-Impaired Waterbodies Through Integrated Clean Water Act and Farm Bill Conservation Planning and Implementation at the Subwatershed Level
Current approaches to Clean Water Act and farm bill conservation programming are not effectively addressing agricultural runoff in the United States. Waters in the United States are reeling from the effects of nutrient pollution. Clean Water Act and farm bill policies can be revised and integrated to support a small-scale …Read More
Controlling the Environmental Costs of Obesity
Obesity is increasingly viewed as a major health problem across the world. Obesity presents both external and internal costs. Obesity alone may be responsible for some $2 trillion in medical costs and lost productivity, representing significant external costs. Internal costs occur because people make eating and drinking choices without being …Read More
Eating for the Environment: The Potential of Dietary Guidelines to Achieve Better Human and Environmental Health Outcomes
Agriculture and food production contribute significantly to greenhouse gas emissions and environmental pollution. Shifting human dietary patterns has the potential to reduce such environmental harms while also promoting human health. Government policy, in the form of the United States Dietary Guidelines (USDG), recommends what Americans should eat and could play …Read More


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I, like every other person in the world who's ever tried it, am in love with Nutella. It is delicious and awesome to use in baking (just like my other favorite things, peanut butter and bananas, but that's another story…)
These rolls were incredibly messy to make and took forever, but it was totally worth it. I ate one while warm and it was to die for. I definitely recommend serving them warm (but they're still delicious at room temperature or you could always pop them in the microwave for a few seconds).
Nutella Cinnamon Rolls
For the rolls:
2 cups whole milk
½ cup vegetable oil
½ cup sugar
2¼ tsp active, dry yeast
5½ cups flour, divided
½ tsp baking powder
½ tsp baking soda
½ tsp salt
1 stick butter
½ cup Nutella
For glaze:
3 cups powdered sugar
6 tbsp milk
2 tsp vanilla
In a large pot, whisk together the milk, vegetbale oil, and sugar. Scald the mixture (heat just until about to boil) and turn off the heat. Let cool 45 minutes to an hour. When mixture is lukewarm, whisk in yeast and let it begin to dissolve. Stir in 4½ cups of flour then cover and let rise at least an hour.
Next add in baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Turn out onto a floured surface and gently knead in the extra cup of flour. Form the dough into a rough rectangle and roll thin, maintaining rectangular shape. In a small bowl, add the nutella. Cut the butter into chunks and add to bowl. Microwave on low heat until butter melts. Stir until smooth.
Spread nutella/butter mixture over rolled out dough and follow with a sprinkling of cinnamon.
Starting at opposite end, begin rolling dough toward you keeping it as tight as possible. Pinch seam at the end.
Spray 3 8" round pans with cooking spray. Cut rolls approximately ¾" to 1″ thick and lay in pan. Let rise 20-30 minutes.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees and bake rolls 15-18 minutes or until light and golden brown. To make glaze, mix together powdered sugar, milk and vanilla until smooth (thick). Split between 3 pans and generously drizzle over the warm rolls.


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I was so excited to see that Darline finished her hat as the original I worked from, I asked her to write about her hat for the blog. She did an amazing job replicating the zig-zag ribbon of the original. Thank you, Darline, for taking the time to share with us.
Anna's fingers had barely left her keyboard after posting a small straw hat, when I snapped it up. I had been researching straw hats – how, when and where they would be worn in the early 1860s – and now I owned a lovely little replica.
When it arrived and I was happily trying it on, I thought of the original hat with the brown ribbon in a zig-zag pattern as a strong contender for the inspiration for finishing this hat. Then, I set it aside and looked at even more images. In the end, the zig-zag pattern spoke to me: make me. What I love about it is the simplicity of the design – yet it isn't just about slapping ribbon on a brim, it has a definite scale to it. I also liked that, while it stands alone, it could support further embellishment to change the look.
I had a "further embellishment" in my sewing room, just waiting for a home. In the marketplace at the 2015 Civilian Symposium in March, I purchased a bunch of creamy yellow flowers with fabric "stems," tied with a pale green velvet ribbon. Holding the bunch at the back of the hat, I decided this would be my first "further embellishment."
The ribbon on the original hat is taffeta, but I chose to use some lovely double faced silk ribbon from my stash (purchased because I loved the color, also waiting for a home in my 1860s wardrobe). I began by enlarging and printing the image of the original hat to guide my work. Observing the symmetry of the zig-zag design, I loosely pinned the ribbon to my hat (pinning on the edge of the ribbon straight down through the hat). Satisfied that I had the layout correct, I started by securing the front "V" then worked my way down each side, careful to follow the ridges of the straw at the top and bottom of the folds to make the design even. It was "fiddly" work, hiding the stitches. I brought the thread up and hid it under the ribbon to the next place it was to be secured.
Before trimming the ribbon ends at the back, I thought about how I would stop it from fraying. Somewhere, I had seen a treatment on an original piece, where the ribbon end was turned back to a point, and held with a simple embroidery stitch. I decided to use this technique on my ribbon. I brought the edge of the ribbon to a point right sides together and stitched, then carefully turned it right side out and pressed it flat, making a nice little point. I used sewing thread to make five little petal stitches, securing the end of the ribbon. What I like about it is, it provides a little bit of weight to the end of the ribbon and finishes it unobtrusively.
Anna gave me some guidance on the placement of the ribbons that would tie under my hair. Done! I tried it on and loved it. Now for the further embellishment!
After trying various ribbon loops and placement options, I settled on a plan. I just wasn't sure about the stems hanging down. I like how amazingly real they look and also liked them as a design element. But I needed some input – lose them, trim them??? So I decided to add the flowers and ribbon, and then post it on a couple of Facebook groups and see what others thought. The amazing folks on the Civilian Civil War Closet didn't let me down, and I soon had plenty of guidance! When Anna chimed in, encouraging me to try trimming the stems, I did so. As soon as I trimmed the first stem, I could see that was the answer. I took about three inches off and trimmed them on an angle, since that is how I would cut real flowers. The scale seemed right, and I'm very happy with my new hat!


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This Champagne bears the hallmark of the Pinot Noir variety from the heart of the Cumières Terroir. We aim to offer the best expression of Pinot Noir from several different plots of the Terroir each year. This Champagne owes its complexity and its substance to the chalky clay soil and then reveals an elegance that typifies the great Terroirs.
Soil: clay and chalk, with fragments of flint; a selection of very early-ripening plots above Cumières (Barremonts, Demoiselles, Houtrants)
Average age of the vines: 30 years
Blending: 100% Pinot Noir
Dosage: 1 g/l
Harvested and sorted by hand; pressed on a traditional Coquard wine press; only the cuvée (first
juice of the pressing) is selected; vinification plot-by-plot to 80% in tuns, demi-muid casks and
barrels. Avoidance of malolactic fermentation.
On the nose, a coated, flattering bouquet of a complex palette of aromas of red fruits; airy, bright
and vigorous in the mouth. Boasting great freshness, generous doses of strawberry and
redcurrant dictate, punctuated by hints of fragrant flowers, such as peonies.
It maintains a beautiful balance with a persistent finish.
By virtue of its power, this Champagne Empreinte complements the expressive flavours of
gastronomic cooking remarkably well. Bresse chicken with morel mushrooms, quail with grapes
or a fricassee of forest mushrooms harmonise perfectly with this Champagne Empreinte, served
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Type: Champagne
Alcohol: 12%
Net Volume: 750ml
Producer Address: Champagne René Geoffroy - 4, rue Jeanson - 51160 AY, France
Allergy Information: Contains sulfites. May contain trace amounts of egg protein and milk
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PETALING JAYA: Indigenous groups are crying foul over the European Union's readiness to sign a timber trade agreement with Malay-sia.
This was despite the continuous boycott of so-called multi-stakeholder consultations by various indigenous groups since March last year.
The groups, known as the Jaringan Orang Asal SeMalaysia and Jaringan Orang Asal dan NGO Tentang Isu-isu Hutan (JOANGOHutan), have rejected the requirement that defines the source of timber as legal based merely on existing laws.
They object to the fact that the definition ignores how logging licences have often been issued on land claimed by indigenous communities without their free, prior and informed consent.
On Monday, the adviser to the ministry on the negotiations, Datuk Dr Freezailah Che Yeom, said substantial progress on the negotiations has been made on the agreement known as the EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade-Voluntary Partnership Agreement.
The Head of the EU delegation to Malaysia, Vincent Piket, said many technical details had been resolved but acknowledged that there remained "difficult issues" to be settled by July.
He also dismissed concerns that the non-participation of NGOs would derail the July deadline, pointing to a meeting between the NGOs and Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Tan Sri Bernard Dompok at the end of last year.
Friday, 29 January 2010
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I would love to trek the Machu Pichu but i had been warned it's pretty expensive and the trail is fairly challenging. Any recommendations?
Trail package, accommodation, transfers
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Hola! I am not sure what you mean by pretty expensive. What were you thinking in terms of budget?
I will tell you that it is better to spend a little more. When I hiked the trail last May, I ran into people who had gone with the cheapest option. Their company didn't send enough food for the hikers. They were starving. So, you can only imagine what the guides and porters were going through.
Other people had tried to spend less by carrying their own backpacks rather than hiring a porter. I can honestly tell you that as we were hiking up Dead Woman's Pass, they were not having any fun!
The trail is fairly challenging. But, it is do-able if you are in reasonably good shape and if you go slow. By go slow, I mean stroll rather than hike. Hiking at altitude is a whole different animal. The people I saw who had a difficult time, were the people who were not in good shape or who insisted on hiking at the same rate they would at sea level. I guess they were afraid of getting left behind.
Our guide hiked behind us until we were about 10 minutes away from the agreed upon stopping point. He then sprinted ahead. I hiked with a 74-year old woman. We were the slowest people in the group by far. Yet, there was only a difference of maybe 30 to 40 minutes max between our arrival time and the arrival time of the fastest hikers in our group. Often the difference was more like 10 minutes.
I have blogged about the Inca Trail extensively. So you might want to take a look as you weigh your options. My blog is http://blog.llamaexpeditions.com/blog/.
Other alternatives to the Inca Trail are the Lares trek and the Salkantay trek. Lares is not as steep and after the first day, Salkantay trends downward.
Hope this helps! almost 9 years agoAnswered by llamaexpeditions via WorldNomads.com
The Machu Picchu trek is "expensive" because of the license you need to buy and because of the team accompanying you (we went in a small group, but there were more porters than participants...), but IT IS DEFINITELY WORTH IT !
The trail is challenging indeed, mostly because of the height, but you do not need any training, a normal condition is good enough. Acclimatisation to the height for 1-2 days (e.g. In cuzco) is recommended.
Have fun! over 8 years agoAnswered by BE Nomad via Ask a Nomad iPad app
I had to post this in the forum column after returning from our trek since my boyfriend and I had the absolute best time trekking in the Everest region!
His name is Sanjib Adhikari and his email is firstname.lastname@example.com, he is licensed by the country of Nepal and has been a trekking guide for over 12 years.
I found him through the posted forums when I was inquiring about trekking since my boyfriend and I only had 5 days to trek and really wanted to see mount Everest. He was able to customize a plan to get us as close as possible. We had a blast!!! I'd love to send you photo's of our trek and trust me there was a part when we were climbing the hill to get to Namche and I thought I was going to die!!!!! Sanjib was so patient and his knowledge of the mountain area and all of Nepal is commendable! We met up with a couple of other people trekking and had a blast hanging out in one of the places to stay and even the other people were asking Sanjib about routes to take and length of time it would take to get to base camp.
He is a smart, honest and genuine person and guide! Even after the trek we met up in Thamel and hung out for 2 days seeing the sights around Kathmandu and Patan. Sanjib not only knows the Everest region but all around Nepal and I highly recommend him!!!!
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My boyfriend and I also used this guide whilst we were out in Nepal - we were recommended by a friend who used him when she did Everest Base Camp. We decided to do the Annapurna Circuit plus base camp.
We met with Sanjib in Kathmandu when we arrived in Nepal and we told him what we wanted to do and how much time we had etc. He told us about a few trips that were possible and we eventually came up with this one.
It was the most amazing trip and wouldn't have been the same without him and Ram our porter (
We spent 20 days trekking in November 2011 and Sanjib was able to answer all of our questions from the birds to the trees to the mountains and religion. It was a very cultural trek with so much history.
www.nepaltreckinguide.jimdo.com over 8 years agoAnswered by Janee43 via WorldNomads.com


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Durham native, music maker, and cultural commentator, Jeremy Rist, has been on the Clarion Content podcast previously. He and Buddy Ruski, aka Justin Laidlaw, discussed race and culture in America back in May of 2015. Rist is from a politically active family. Here Rist and Clarion Content publisher, Aaron Mandel, talk politics. They reflect on the election without rehashing it, they dissect media coverage and the media's culpability, and they look forward to what's next. Three parts, plus a brief bonus postscript.
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True to his portrayal as an anti-globalist isolationist, President Donald Trump intends to bring troops home from Syria and Afghanistan and avoid getting bogged down in future interminable wars. Belying his portrayal as an isolationist, Trump is aggressively beefing up America's military and intervening seemingly everywhere around the globe — in Asia against North Korea and China; in Europe in disputes with his NATO allies; in the Middle East against Iran and Turkey; and in the Americas, most recently in Venezuela, where this week he recognized as president a rival to Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro.
In truth, Trump is neither an isolationist nor a war hawk. He believes, as did Ronald Reagan, in "peace through strength." But unlike Reagan and other predecessors, Trump's weapons of choice aren't jet fighters and boots on the ground. Trump's arsenal primarily employs economic weapons: tariffs, sanctions and cuts to international programs that don't serve America's interests.
Trump, the presumed isolationist, is proving to be anything but
Other presidents have used economic instruments in diplomacy to threaten or punish military rivals, but rarely with Trump's conviction. Trump's unprecedented tariffs against China are designed to thwart both its military ascent and its goal of supplanting America as the world's dominant economy. His sanctions against North Korea are the toughest it has ever faced, as are his sanctions against Iran. In all these cases, the sanctions are having their desired effect: China's economic growth has stalled, limiting its military's ability to continue its rapid growth; North Korea has come to the negotiating table; and Iran is reeling, its economy in decline and suffering from high inflation.
While none have yet cried "uncle," neither are they thriving as under the naïve policies of Trump's predecessors, who funded North Korea's nuclear program on the promise it wouldn't be put to military use, who accepted China's promise that it would trade by the rules once accepted into the World Trade Organization, and who not only lifted sanctions on Iran but supplied it with US$100 billion in exchange for Iran's promise to delay completing its nuclear program.
All told, Trump has some 30 economic sanction programs in place and is threatening more, including against Turkey, a NATO ally, if it attacks the Kurds in Syria. Last year the U.S. did impose sanctions on Turkey for imprisoning an American pastor, Andrew Brunson — the first time the U.S. had ever imposed sanctions on a NATO ally. Trump has made another threat, too, to discipline a NATO ally: He threatens to sanction the Nord Stream 2 pipeline designed to bring Russian gas to Germany, to prevent Germany from becoming overly dependent on Russian gas.
Trump also employs foreign aid to discipline countries and organizations in need of persuasion, among them Pakistan and Central American nations. When other presidents have done this, it has been widely known as "chequebook diplomacy," because the U.S. would pull out its chequebook to bribe other countries to do its bidding. Trump-style chequebook diplomacy works in the opposite way — those that don't comply see their funding cut back or cut off, as Trump has done to the Palestinian Authority and the United Nations Relief and Work Agency,.
With wealthy countries, such as NATO members who aren't pulling their weight in the defence of the West, Trump's chequebook diplomacy requires the NATO deadbeats to pull out their own chequebooks and chip in their share — those chips so far add up to an extra US$1 billion. In the Middle East, it's the turn of Saudi Arabia and other wealthy oil producers to pay for their local wars against Iran and its Shia allies. In Asia, wealthy Japan and South Korea are ponying up for U.S. military protection.
Trump, the presumed isolationist, is proving to be anything but. History will rank him among the most interventionist of U.S. presidents, along with the likes of Theodore Roosevelt, famous for the motto, "Speak softly and carry a big stick," and for wielding that big stick in gunboat diplomacy. Trump's motto should be "Speak loudly and carry a big stick." His bluster may spare him the need to often wield that stick, and to dispatch the gunboats.


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Desert Isle Keeper
Tigers and Devils
All of this was great preparation for Kennedy's wonderful Tigers and Devils even though I'd never heard of Australian football before and had no idea what their teams were. Rabid sports fans are rabid sports fans the world over.
Because his best friend Roger and his wife Fran insist, Melbourne film festival organizer Simon Murray shows up at a party where he knows practically no one. Overhearing a group bad mouth football star Declan Tyler whose year of injuries have made him the sports target of the year, Simon defends the man — only to find Declan standing right behind him.
Through this accidental meeting, gay Simon finds out that Declan is a closet case and that they immediately click. But every time they get close, Declan runs, leaving Simon with very mixed signals.
With the encouragement of his married friends and his snippy assistant, Simon patiently waits for Declan, who is battling injuries and is playing for a new team, to acknowledge his sexuality and either admit his feelings for Simon or drop him once and for all.
Kennedy plays lightly with the story often with laugh out loud moments. However, even with this light touch, the central romance shines through and features scenes that will resonate in readers' hearts, all because the characters are so lovable and real.
Simon is a wonderfully self-sufficient, often confident character even though he has his moments of self-doubt. He's occasionally a jumble of nerves about his non-existent social life and a critic who hounds him. But he's the kind of friend who banters easily and for the most part is fairly laid back.
Declan is more difficult to get to know. He's got an image to protect and can't come to terms with who he really is, so he flees when he's conflicted and just about ruins any hope of getting together with understanding Simon.
While these two are the heart of the book and keep it beating right along beautifully, Kennedy adds absolutely wonderful peripheral characters in Simon's married friends, Simon's assistant, and the gay reporter who hounds Simon. All add to the ambiance of the book and made the book come alive.
I've never been to Australia, but Kennedy's book not only made me want to visit there but also made me curious enough about Australian football that I googled page after page about it. What I found made me nostalgic about the days sitting in our family's rec room watching American college and professional football.
I must add, for those who aren't readers of male / male romances, there is sex in this book. There's not a lot, and it's not rabidly blatant. But it is there. It's mixed in nicely with this exploration of an older man's coming of age sexually. And the coming into self-awareness is the magical glue that makes this book so enjoyable.


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A Pakistani-origin councillor in the UK sent a photo of a topless woman to a group of women during a meeting, prompting the opposition Labour party to suspend him for what he called an "honest mistake", media reports said Thursday.
Sheffield City councillor Mohammad Maroof posted the image on a WhatsApp group named 'Mums United', BBC reported.
As the group's founder Sahira Irshad presented a petition on knife crime, he sent the picture to the group, it said.
Maroof, who said that he was "very embarrassed" and has apologised for what he described was an "honest mistake", has been suspended by the Labour council pending an investigation, the report said.
He said he was trying to attach a video of Irshad speaking at the meeting and instead accidentally attached the unsolicited image, which he received earlier in the day, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.
He claimed that he asked for it to be deleted "within seconds" of sending it.
"This is my private phone and I receive so many things that my WhatsApp has been set up to automatically save everything in my phone's photo file.
"Somebody sent me this photo, it may have come in the morning, and it went into my phone's file," Maroof said.
He represents Nether Edge and Sharrow Ward which includes the districts of Brincliffe, Carter Knowle, Nether Edge, Sharrow Vale, and most of Banner Cross, and is one of the 28 electoral wards in the City of Sheffield, England.
"I tried to send the group a video and by mistake I pressed the wrong photo. As soon as I realised, I asked for it to be deleted as I couldn't delete it myself. It was only there for a second," Maroof said in his defence.
He said that he has sent an apology to the group chat.
"I sincerely apologise. I had no intention to do such a thing and to cause such disruption. I have a lot of respect for the group," he said.
A member of the group, on condition of anonymity, said it was "absolutely disgraceful".
Council leader Julie Dore said it was "a very serious matter" and his suspension was immediate "until we have ascertained the details".
Maroof, who was educated in Pakistan and the UK, said the WhatsApp group was set up to empower women, the report added.
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Christo's 'Over the River' Installation Pushed Back to 2015
So much for smooth sailing for the "Over the River" art installation in Colorado. But, really, when does a Christo project ever not run into a constant series of hurdles? After all, the artist himself who has repeatedly said, "By discussing the work of art they become part of the work of art. They make it more important." The latest comes after this past November when the government gave a partial go-ahead for the artist to begin plans to drape large, sweeping panels across 42 miles of the Arkansas River, with stipulations that there were still a bit more paperwork to fill out and more permits to finalize before construction could both begin and end this summer, for an estimated August debut. In a statement issued on the artist's site, two factors have pushed the project back substantially: first, that some of the reports required before the launch came in later than expecting, thus shrinking the time available for construction by several months. Second, the required Event Management Plans, which in part include details on "traffic, safety and other issues," will also take longer than expected, which would mean that "the public may not have sufficient time to understand this detailed information before installation begins." Given that there was an equal amount of those against Christo's project as there were supporters, it seems like a solid plan not to create new hostilities. That said, "Over the River" has now been pushed by three full years, out into early August of 2015. If you're a big Christo fan and were expecting swiftness this time, maybe you'd do better finding a new favorite artist, as we've entered par-for-the-course territory here.