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According to feng shui, a citrus plant wards off negative forces in the home and provides a beacon of positive energy. When you smell a calamondin orange in intoxicating bloom and see its rich, luscious leaves, it's easy to understand why.
Citrus has an unfortunate reputation for being difficult to grow. While it's true that Edmontonians aren't going to be able to grow an orange grove in their backyard, anyone with a bright window and a little love to give can enjoy citrus in their home throughout the year.
Citrus's tendency to bloom and fruit during winter makes it a holiday favourite. It's also a traditional gift given over the Chinese New Year, which falls on Feb. 10 next year.
Best varieties to grow
Many varieties are well suited to growing indoors. Acidic fruits such as calamondin oranges, lemons and limes are miniature plants, not growing past three to four feet, that are well suited to normal household conditions.
Sweet fruits - such as naval and blood oranges, grapefruits and kumquats - need more space, light, and heat than our homes can give them, so sadly you'll still need to get those breakfast grapefruits from the supermarket.
Availability can be elusive, so call around to large garden centres to find citrus for sale. Before you buy, check for yellowing leaves, which indicate improper watering. Give the plant a gentle shake, and if leaves flutter down it probably hasn't been properly cared for in the store.
Caring for your citrus
Luckily, acidic citrus varieties thrive in temperatures of about 20 C during the day and a couple degrees cooler at night. If it's too cool, you will know, because the fruit won't ripen. Try not to subject these plants to anything under 7 C; frost will definitely kill them.
Give your citrus as much light as possible. Even though you won't need to add a supplemental grow light for an acidic type, it will still need six hours of bright light daily, which can be a tall order in Alberta winters. Put it in the sunniest window you have.
Like most tropical plants, citrus like to be moist but not wet. Expect them to consume more water when in fruit/ bloom and during the heat of the summer.
Water with room temperature water when the top five to seven centimetres of the soil is dry. Soak the soil thoroughly to rinse accumulating salts away. Afterwards, make sure to empty the saucer to avoid the dreaded wet feet.
Don't be in a rush to transplant. Citrus like to be somewhat snug and root-bound in their containers. If you buy it in a grower's pot - not very attractive for the living room - place the pot in another container with decorative rocks around it.
Misting your citrus every few days - especially if you don't have a humidifier to temper the furnace's dry heat - will keep it lush and help it fight off insect infestations. Make sure it's not above a heat register, or the leaves will quickly dry out.
If you have hard (alkaline) water, consider using distilled water for watering, or adding about a tablespoon of vinegar to a gallon of water to adjust the pH.
Citrus are heavy feeders and need regular fertilizing to yield. You can use 20-20-20 (which contains important micronutrients such as iron and magnesium), or a specialty citrus fertilizer. Pale leaves with green veins are evidence of nutrient deficiency.
During summer, you will probably want to enjoy your potted citrus outside with your other containers. With our intense Alberta sun, however, you may need to protect it from the afternoon scorch.
Calamondin oranges
Calamondins are the most popular and easy-to-grow indoor citrus. As the most ornamental variety, they also make a beautiful house guest.
Although not true oranges, calamondins produce scores of four-centimetre fruit, preceded by intoxicating, delicate white flowers. The fruit is edible (peels and all), and although it's sour, it's perfect for making marmalades or adding to summer drinks. It makes a zesty substitute for lemon.
You will need to be the "bee" and pollinate your calamondin. This is easier than it sounds; simply rub a small, dry paintbrush or Q-tip in all the flowers to spread the pollen around.
Don't be in a rush to pick the fruit. The ripening oranges are gorgeous on the branch and last for months, sweetening gradually as they hang.
Rob Sproule is the author of Gardening with Colour, Creative Design Ideas for Canadian Gardens (Lone Pine Publishing) and the co-owner of Salisbury Greenhouse in Sherwood Park. For more information, go to salisburygreenhouse.com. firstname.lastname@example.com twitter.com/SalisburyGarden
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According to feng shui, a citrus plant wards off negative forces in the home and provides a beacon of positive energy. When you smell a calamondin orange in intoxicating bloom and see its rich, luscious leaves, it's easy to understand why.


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Four unsuspecting Londoners find themselves stranded at a storage facility and stalked by an otherworldly predator in this independent sci-fi horror opus from director Johannes Roberts (F, Forest of the Damned). When an Air Force cargo plane carrying a mysterious cache crashes in the heart of the London, the entire city is placed in quarantine. Meanwhile, heartbroken Charlie (Noel Clarke) and his best mate Mark (Colin O'Donoghue) are en route to the local storage facility to gather up some personal items following a bitter break up between Charlie and Shelley (Antonia Campbell-Hughes). Upon arriving, Charlie and Mark are greeted by an electrician who's working to open the front gate following a power outage. Eventually they manage to get in, only to find Shelley sorting through the unit with help from Nikki (Laura Haddock) and Chris (Jamie Thomas King). Later, as the lights in the storage facility flicker on and off, the foursome realize they are trapped inside with a killer creature of unknown origin. With the help of eccentric divorcee David (Ned Dennehy), who has recently moved into his unit to escape the wrath of his crazy ex-wife, the terrified group realizes that their only hope for survival is to find a means of escaping a building designed specifically to keep its treasured contents completely secure. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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The volatile/dysfunctional relationship of Teen Mom stars Amber Portwood and Gary Shirley continues!
Over the weekend, Gary, 25, revealed he was once again done with Amber, 21, while also accusing her of cheating on him. Gary's announcement was a bit surprising as the current issue of Star magazine reports he recently got a huge tattoo of Amber's name tatted on him.
Star reports that while partying in Nashville on Sep. 3, Gary decided to visit a tattoo parlor to get Amber's name tattooed on his right shoulder.
According to the local tattoo artist, Chris Collins, "Gary said, 'Amber doesn't know I'm down here, and I want it to be a surprise.'" Chris adds, "He told me, 'We've been through a lot together, but at the end of the day, I still love her.'"
Well something's changed since that faithful day as Gary took to his twitter page over the weekend to slam Amber. He tweeted on Saturday, "I'm completely through w amber No more back n fourth shit. I got my precious baby u got your precious anderson men hope your sins r worth it."
Yikes! He added minutes later, "Moving on I'm bout to kick it with honors with my last night til I get Leah back from grandmas. Thank u mom for everything." And the very next day, he made sure to tweet about a date: "I got a date tonight. With a girl in Indy… Where to take her?"
Gary also added on Sunday, "Hard to turn u away today, heading u cry was hard but your actions were terrible and this time there was no reason for what u did. No love."
All interesting but knowing these two, it's only a matter of time until they are back together a la Ronnie and Sammi from the Jersey Shore. A new episode of Teen Mom airs tonight on MTV at 10/9c.
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The new Federal Stafford Loan rates for the
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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. retail sales of new video game hardware, software and accessories fell 25 percent in October, marking the 11th straight month of declining sales for physical game products, according to a report from NPD Group.
Many gamers are waiting for big holiday releases such as Activision's "Call of Duty: Black Ops II."
NPD said sales fell to $755.5 million from $1 billion a year earlier. Sales of video games themselves, excluding PC titles, fell 25 percent to $432.6 million. Sales of hardware such as Microsoft's Xbox 360 fell 37 percent to $187.3 million. Sales of accessories, meanwhile, grew 5 percent to $135.6 million.
Thursday's study from NPD Group tracks sales of new physical products — about 50 percent of the total spending. Excluded are sales of used games and rentals as well as digital and social-network spending.
NPD also listed the top-selling games in October:
1. "NBA 2K13," Take-Two Interactive Software Inc.
2. "Resident Evil 6," Capcom USA
3. "Pokemon Black Version 2," Nintendo Co.
4. "Dishonored," Bethesda Softworks
5. "Pokemon White Version 2," Nintendo Co.
6. "Madden NFL 13," Electronic Arts Inc.
7. "FIFA Soccer 13," Electronic Arts Inc.
8. "Medal of Honor: Warfighter," Electronic Arts Inc.
9. "Borderlands 2," Take-Two Interactive Software Inc.
10. "Skylander Giants," Activision Blizzard Inc.


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Jayant Sinha was a management consultant in India for McKinsey & Company in the mid-2000s when he observed first-hand what seemed to be an extraordinary imbalance of wealth in his native country. He determined it was having a negative effect on India's economic future.
Sinha, who holds an MBA from Harvard University, later furthered his research as a hedge fund investor in India for Courage Capital Management. "I compared the net worth of India's billionaires versus national GDP," he said. "It was the first time it had been done."
He discovered that India's billionaires' aggregate wealth equaled 31 percent of its gross domestic product, as compared to the United States, where U.S. billionaires' wealth was equivalent to just 12 percent of GDP.
From 2008 to 2010, Sinha wrote a series of columns for Outlook India magazine, then co-wrote a couple pieces for London's Financial Times, describing what he observed through his research as India's Gilded Age. He called out the nation's billionaire oligarchs for engaging in what he called crony capitalism. "I compared what happened from 2004 to 2011 in India to the robber baron era in the United States in the late 1800s," he said.
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The comparison resonated. Since then, both Indians and international observers have become more aware of illegal mining, land scams, coal allocations and telecommunication spectrum allocations that have helped a handful of Indian billionaires become even wealthier, thanks to their cozy relationships with government officials.
Eventually, thanks to a high-profile squabble between Mukesh and Anil Ambani — billionaire brothers who preside over India's leading oil and gas concerns and its top telecom and financial services companies, respectively — the international image of India's hedonistic, wealth-laden ruling class was solidified.
The spat was over the division of Reliance Industries , the conglomerate founded by their late father, Dhirubhai Ambani.
The world's first 10-figure residence
In 2010, when Mukesh Ambani, India's richest individual, unveiled his $1 billion, 27-story home in Mumbai — the world's first 10-figure residence — it served as a fitting cap to India's robber-baron bubble. Indeed, Forbes reported in early 2012 that the number of Indian billionaires dropped from 55 the previous year to 48, with a net worth of $246.5 billion.
Included in those ranks are steel titan Lakshmi Mittal, the second-wealthiest Indian; and Azim Premji, chairman of Wipro , a multinational IT corporation, who is No. 3 on the list.
Jayant Sinha says publicity has impacted efforts to reform some of the governmental policies that permit India's oligarchs to profit from natural resources technically owned by the Indian people. "The middle class and voting population has been roused against this kind of behavior," he said. He cited, for example, the emergence of grass-roots organization India Against Corruption.
He also said India's Supreme Court and Comptroller General have become "much more active" in putting in place laws to prevent some of these practices.
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Sinha argued that some foreign institutional investors "have realized that projects they thought were above-board are not." And while few if any hedge funds, sovereign wealth funds or pension funds have pulled investments out of India so far, he believes there is an investment opportunity for those who take time to research which Indian companies are built on solid growth strategies — and which are being propped up by eroding corrupt policies.
That's not to say India's oligarchs are considering becoming better corporate citizens for purely humanitarian reasons. "I think that all of them have realized that to create the right business environment, you need to show some corporate responsibility," said Sandeep Shastri, vice chancellor of Jain University in Bangalore and coordinator of the Lokniti Network, a Delhi-based research organization devoted to promoting democratic values in emerging economies.
How to end the Gilded Age
While he acknowledged that the public debate has prompted some oligarchs to increase their social involvement, Shastri says these powerful figures need to take a more systematic approach to helping India's less fortunate. "I was at a meeting recently where lobbyist groups were listing all their social contributions, and one young lady stood up and said, 'Somebody should ask us what we would like help with.'"
Sinha, in his current role as a partner with Omidyar Network, a philanthropic investment firm started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife, Pam, has determined some ways to help end India's Gilded Age, then help it evolve into a more progressive economic era.
At the top of Sinha's list is taxing the transfer of extreme wealth from generation to generation. "There is no estate tax in India, which allows wealthy families to keep compounding their vast fortunes," he says. "Estate taxes make a huge difference."
Another area he sees as ripe for reform is the government's policy on land acquisition. He puts the blame on the 1894 Land Acquisition Act, which began as an eminent domain law allowing the government to seize private land for public purposes. Sinha says the "obsolete" law has abetted a web of kickbacks and payoffs that taken public land from the people and converted it for industrial purposes."
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But the most egregious area for abuse, in Sinha's view, is the rampant illegal mining of natural resources, such as coal, a situation that has enriched the oligarchs virtually unchecked. "There are parts of India that are not in control of the Indian government," he says. "Companies just put coal into trucks and then ship it to China. Anything connected to natural resources is abused."
Still, Sinha believes that the winds of change are blowing stronger than ever. "I'm very hopeful," he says. "We are living in the Internet era, and everything happens very fast." He points out that more has been done to destabilize India's oligarchs in the last five years than in the previous 10.


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It's pretty easy to control how much water you use and conserve -- you turn off the tap when you brush your teeth, you only do laundry when you have a full load and sometimes you even "let it mellow" in the toilet. These are all examples of direct water use (i.e. water you use by turning on and off a tap).
Most of your daily water use, however, comes indirectly from the food you eat (water for irrigation, especially for feed stock for the animals we eat), the energy you use (water for power plant cooling and extracting and refining fossil fuels) and the products you buy and use (water for extracting, refining and manufacturing). It's more difficult to measure and reduce this virtual water use. You can't see it and you can't help but use it, so what exactly is virtual water? It's all the water it took to grow, process, manufacture and transport the food, goods and services that you eat, consume and use every day.
Here's an example.
Your cellphone may not be waterproof but it took water to make it! The phone is made of plastic, metal and glass components, and each requires virtual water* to produce. Here's why:
- Plastics are derived from oil that was drilled out of the ground, sent to a refinery and turned into plastics pellets which are then sent to a manufacturer and formed into plastic parts. Each of these processes requires water to complete. The plastic parts are then sent to the cellphone manufacturing plant using transportation fuels that require water for extraction and refining.
- Metals are extracted from mines, sent to a refinery and formed into metal pieces. Both processes require water. The metals are then sent to the cellphone plant, using transportation fuels that require water for extraction and refining.
- Glass is made from silica that is extracted from a quarry, sent to a refinery and made into glass parts. Each of these processes requires water. The glass parts are then sent to the cellphone plant for assembly, using transportation fuels that require water for extraction and refining.
- Once the phone is assembled, it's packaged and sent to stores. So there's more water required to produce packaging, and of course, for the transportation fuels.
This doesn't even include the water required to produce the energy it took to complete all those steps! As you can see, virtual water runs deep.
The volume of water required for each of these processes and steps adds up quickly but measuring exactly how much we use is difficult. Every five years, the USGS estimates daily US water withdrawals for uses like agriculture, energy production and commercial/industrial processes. According to the 2005 data (the most recent data set available):
- 49 percent of daily US withdrawals go to thermoelectric power generation;
- 31 percent of daily US withdrawals go to agriculture; and
- 4 percent of daily US withdrawals go to industrial processes; whereas,
- 11 percent of daily withdrawals are for public supply.
Clean energy sources like solar and wind use very little water to produce power. Find out how clean your energy mix is with this EPA Power Profiler.
It's easy to see, given these percentages, that most of your water footprint comes from virtual water use. In fact, your water footprint is heavily influenced by the type of diet you eat. A diet that's more reliant on meat and dairy products has a higher water footprint because it takes a lot of water to grow the grain that the livestock eats. In addition, processed foods require more water than whole foods because there are more water-intensive steps involved in order to get food to you, including transporting food from the farm to the processing facility, then to the store, processing food at a plant, and finally wrapping it in all that packaging. Think about that the next time you're about to eat a big ole' fast food cheeseburger or are buying lots of packaged food at the grocery store.
Your water footprint is also heavily influenced by the predominant form of energy production in your state. Areas that rely heavily on thermoelectric power - especially coal-fired power plants - have higher water footprints because a lot of water is required for cooling. Additionally, although hydroelectric power is considered a renewable energy source, it has a high water footprint because significant amounts of water can evaporate from the surface of reservoirs created by dams.
If you want to reduce your water footprint, food and energy offer opportunities that you might not have realized. Changing how you eat and how and where you get your electricity are great ways to start. Here are some suggestions:
- Eat lower on the food chain - it takes less water to grow and produce vegetables, fruits, nuts and legumes than it does to produce meat and dairy products from grain-fed animals. Farmers raising sustainably grown animals that are completely pasture raised often take water use into account and have much lower water footprints than grain-fed animals. Seek out these sources for meat and dairy.
- Eat more whole foods, which use less virtual water than processed food.
- If possible, install renewable energy sources like solar and wind power on your property - or sign up for renewable power through your utility - because they use very little water to produce electricity.
- Look for opportunities to become more energy efficient, by doing something simple like changing your light bulbs or more complex like buying energy efficient household appliances. Remember, by saving energy, you also save water.
You can find out more about your water footprint and learn ways to conserve and use water more efficiently by taking GRACE's Water Footprint Calculator.
*The exact amount of water required to make a cellphone is not available as of this publication date, but check out this Treehugger article to find out how much water it took to make a car, a pair of jeans or a to-go latte.
The water used in producing just about anything can be measured and evaluated along the life cycle of the product to determine its water footprint. The Water Footprint Network has evaluated the water footprint of many food items and some textiles products and has assembled an online gallery showing how many gallons it takes to produce these items.


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A week ago I took a site visit to Ol' Colony Golf Complex to see all the work being done. And who did I run into but course designer and University of Alabama great Jerry Pate.
A week ago I took a site visit to Ol' Colony Golf Complex to see all the work being done. And who did I run into but course designer and University of Alabama great Jerry Pate.
Pate designed the course that opened in December 2000 and is also responsible for the renovation. He was on site for a couple of days to oversee some tree removal and to give his final approval to the numerous new tees that have been constructed.
Director of golf John Gray, who also played for Alabama back in the day, was my tour guide, and he noted that a whopping 590 yards have been added to the course with the construction of new tees on more than half the holes. The crimson tees have been built primarily for the men's golf team at Alabama and, I venture to say, they are the only players who can handle this significant infusion of new yardage.
Pate has found the added distance by selectively removing trees, and the course will measure a very healthy 7,544 yards from all the way back. Not only has this added distance, it has brought fairway bunkers back into play that the big hitters would not have given a second thought to previously. Thus, players will be tested both with added length and the need for improved accuracy.
However, the regular golfers, Ol' Colony's "bread and butter," will see little impact as they will continue to play from a more reasonable yardage for them.
The other major change is the rebuilding of the greens. The tift dwarf greens were starting to show their age and have been replaced by mini verde, a different strain of Bermuda grass. They have also been rebuilt to their original specifications and sizes, with some softening of selected contouring.
A new stone retaining wall has been built fronting the water in front of the 18th green, and dense trees to the left of No. 10 fairway will be removed to provide a vista of the lake that comes into play on No. 13. A few fairway bunkers have been removed, and all 70 bunkers have been refaced with sod, rather than the previous flashed-up sand surfaces.
Indeed, the work has been a significant undertaking, with the course closing June 17, and it is expected to reopen next month. From what I witnessed, this will be to widespread acclaim.
Drive, Chip & Putt
Last week I mentioned Grant Kerr, who grew up in Gordo and recently moved to Pelham.
He will be a freshman in high school this fall and is a keen golfer. He had won the Tallahassee, Fla., qualifier in the national Drive, Chip & Putt event and advanced to Reunion Resort in Orlando, Fla., on Saturday for the regional qualifier with 19 other boys in his age group.
Kerr won the putting portion with 70 points in the regionals and fared well in the chipping. However, he failed to register any points driving.
"It was an incredible experience. The Golf Channel filmed it, including me making a long putt," Kerr said.
U.S. Amateur
Fourteen players with ties to the state were in the field for the U.S. Amateur, which concluded Sunday. Only two advanced from the stroke play into the match play.
They were Bobby Wyatt from Mobile, who is about to start his final year at Alabama, and Mountain Brook's Stewart Jolly, who plays for LSU. Jolly lost in the first round of match play, while Wyatt made it to the round of 32 before bowing out.
Ian Thompson has been writing about golf in Alabama for nearly 20 years. His weekly "Mr. Golf" column concentrates on golfers, golf events and people associated with the sport of interest to the Tuscaloosa and Birmingham areas. Reach him with story ideas at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Mexico's new president signs pact with leaders of top opposition parties
MEXICO CITY – Newly inaugurated President Enrique Pena Nieto and top opposition leaders have signed an agreement to increase Mexico's economic growth, employment and competitiveness.
The leaders of the conservative National Action Party and the leftist Democratic Revolution Party joined Pena Nieto in signing the "Pact for Mexico" on Sunday. It includes measures Pena Nieto announced during his inauguration, including education reform, pensions for people 65 and older, and concessions for two new national television stations.
Pena Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party ruled Mexico for 71 years before being voted out 12 years ago.
His inauguration Saturday was marred by at-times violent protests.
Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard says eight people were injured, including one gravely, and 92 detained. He blamed anarchist groups for vandalism, attacks on businesses and other "barbaric acts."


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MIRAMAR, Fla. - Police continued Tuesday to search for a missing Miramar woman, more than one month after she was last seen.
After spending Monday searching a canal at Southwest 148th Avenue and 48th Court, investigators searching for evidence in the disappearance of 38-year-old Vilet Torrez moved Tuesday to a canal near Miramar Parkway and Red Road.
Police used K-9s trained to detect the odor of decomposing bodies in their search.
Investigators have not yet determined what happened to Torrez, a mother of three who was last seen March 30. Torrez went to dinner with a friend, and police believe she came home after, but sometime later, she disappeared.
Torrez's husband, Cid Torrez, had their three children when his estranged wife was last seen. Police have questioned Cid Torrez, who has insisted he has nothing to do with his wife's disappearance.
Police said they are pretty sure that foul play was involved, and they began searching waterways in the hope that they would find some evidence of what happened.
Cid Torrez has not been charged with any crime. A court gave custody of the couple's children to Vilet Torrez's parents, but a custody hearing is set for May 10.
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Eoin Woods, one of the IASA Fellows has published an article about what he considers to be the top ten software architecture mistakes - mistakes that are too often learned the hard way. Brief excerpts of the ten points are below:
- Scoping Woes. "This is the sort of situation where a simple travel booking system ends up with full expense claim management facilities being built into it, with inevitable repercussions for project costs, timescales and quality...It is really true that no security is needed beyond simple login? Once logged into the system can users really perform any system operation?"
- Not Casting Your Net Widely. "A related mistake that many of us have made is to focus on just a couple of our system stakeholders – classically the acquirer (who is paying for the system) and the end users get all of the attention."
- Just Focusing on Functions. "…unless the system exhibits a whole range of qualities (such as performance, security, maintainability and so on) it is unlikely to be successful."
- Box and Line Descriptions. "There are two reasons why the [single, all inclusive] huge Visio picture doesn't work well as an architectural description: firstly, it's trying to show too much information in a single representation, and secondly, no one is really sure quite what each of the different types of symbol that you've drawn mean."
- Forgetting That It Needs to be Built. "Common things to watch out for related to building the system include designs that the developers or testers don't really understand, technologies that they aren't enthusiastic about or don't have the time to learn, and new technologies that don't yet have good tool support or perhaps impose a new and unfamiliar way of working."
- Lack of Platform Precision."…its no longer sufficient to simply say that you "need Unix and Oracle" when specifying your platform. You need to be really precise about the specific versions and configurations of each part in order to ensure that you get what you need. This will allow you to avoid the situation where you can't deploy your system because someone has helpfully upgraded a library for one part of the platform without realising that it means that something else will no longer work."
- Making Performance and Scalability Assumptions. "Start considering performance and scalability early, create performance models to try to predict key performance metrics and spot bottlenecks and get stuck into some practical proof-of-concept work as your design ideas are forming. This will all help to increase confidence that there aren't any performance and scalability demons lurking in your design."
- DIY Security. "A mistake made in many systems over the years has been to try to add security into the system using "home brew" security technology. Be it custom encryption algorithms, a developer's own auditing system or an entire DIY access control system, locally developed security solutions are rarely a good idea. While most of us think we could probably whip up a clever piece of security technology in no time, we're usually wrong."
- No Disaster Recovery. "The key to getting resources to implement a DR mechanism for your system is to be specific and quantify the cost of system unavailability in a number of realistic scenarios. If you can also estimate the probability of the scenarios occurring then you can use these two figures to convince people that DR is important and to justify a certain level of budget to implement it."
- No Backout Plan. "Make sure that whatever happens during the deployment of your system or upgrade that you have a documented, reviewed and agreed backout plan to allow you to restore the environment to its state before you started deployment."
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Are these Architecture Mistakes?
mani doraisamy
Re: Are these Architecture Mistakes?
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Re: Are these Architecture Mistakes?
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IMHO, they qualify as "Architecture", but in several cases they are "System" rather than "Software".
Totally agree, provided that software architecture is two, technology/software architecture (like Anders architecting C# for example), and system architecture, as we all do in our custom solutions and products/properties.
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Niclas Nilsson
What does an architectural mistake that is not related to requirements look like?
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Re: Are these Architecture Mistakes?
mani doraisamy
Other mistakes could include:
1) Workflow component Vs Database queries for building queues, inboxes
2) ORM Vs DAO Vs JDBC (probably not common nowadays)
3) Rich client (AJAX vs Webstart Vs Flash client) Vs Thin client
4) Spring POJO Vs EJB3
5) RPC styles - native (java remoting,JSON) vs XML
6) Vertical vs Horizontal scaling
and so on...
Obviously these are technology dependent (server, desktop, mobile etc) and context dependent (one is favorable over other based on requirements, maturity, standardization etc). But in general, i tend to think that major portion of architectural choices and therefore mistakes are to do with category/sub-category selection. (category: Rich client -> Sub-category: AJAX -> Vendor: DOJO)
I miss one common mistake, maybe its #11
Fredrik Klintebäck
E.g. I have seen projects where the architect wants to build an application framework before any application can be developed, but doing frameworks is hard.
And I have seen projects where the architect says: We shall have a layered architecture, and btw I have added a few new layers of my own, the developers must use all these layers, and in the end each layer just shuffles data back and forth.
I think I am becoming an advocate of just in time architecture, really.
Interesting Article
Mike Miller
Re: I miss one common mistake, maybe its #11
Johannes Brodwall
Zubin Wadia
It is basically my mind-map of the solution being built. If you can't express that cohesively, you are likely missing key considerations for the solution - and that will result in #1.
Zubin Wadia
"Business Acceleration Through Process Automation"
Re: I miss one common mistake, maybe its #11
Eoin Woods
Re: Are these Architecture Mistakes?
chris Rowse
Businesses then structure and limit themselves to support technology instead of the other way round.
Packaged software, by its nature, often introduces and exacerbates this problem.
Re: Are these Architecture Mistakes?
Juan Lanus
IMO this one opens a whole new breed of errors, all of them rooted in attempting to architect the users' behaviour on behalf of a stiff system.
This mistake is "fixed" by applying a huge amount of management power.
See dilbert.com
Re: Are these Architecture Mistakes?
mani doraisamy
> Packed software ...Well said
IMO this one opens a whole new breed of errors, all of them rooted in attempting to architect the users' behaviour on behalf of a stiff system.
This mistake is "fixed" by applying a huge amount of management power.
See dilbert.com


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We're all familiar with the Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers on job growth in the planning field. US News bases their reports on these numbers, as well as nearly all other sources on job prospects. In other words, this is the strongest, most authoritative information we have on how many jobs there might be for planners in the future.
A while ago, after doing some brief research on how these numbers are derived, I posted about how these statistics are basically a combination of historic growth with vague, anonymous tweaks by BLS economists, most likely just adjustments based on overall economic downturn. Most of the BLS data is qualitative, as they talk about how more people are moving to cities, and therefore there will be an increased need for planners, etc. Rather than debate these assumptions, this post assumes that the BLS data is relatively correct in predicting future planning employment.
Now that I have that out of the way, I'll get into the meat of the matter: The BLS data, and therefore 99% of the data on future planning employment, does not give any idea of how competitive those jobs will be to obtain. What does it matter if there will be 6,500 more planning jobs in 2020 if there are tens of thousands of hopeful planners trying to get them? Well, based on my calculations, with data derived from the 2011 Guide to Undergraduate and Graduate Education in Urban and Regional Planning (produced by The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning), there may be 25,308 more planner graduates by 2020.
That's 6,500 more jobs for 25,308 people, or about 1 job for every 4 graduates. This is the cumulative total of 9 graduating classes from 2011 to 2020.
That's the basic result of my analysis. Simple, but the implications, I believe, are tremendous. There are many sources that give false information on the demand for planners. (Example: http://www.acsp.org/education_guide/careers) And because demand doesn't mean anything unless you factor in supply. As shown here, the supply far outweighs any purported demand for planners.
So who, among those who should be doing so, are giving an accurate picture of this? The planning programs and their professors aren't. Their jobs depend on your tuition money. What about APA? Their jobs depend on you trusting that their career development offerings will pay off. What about the ACSP? Read page 8 of this report: http://www.acsp.org/sites/default/fi..._PROOF%231.pdf. If you still haven't got the picture, every institution who has the responsibility to disclose this information is misleading you. Why?
Because they all want your money.
The following explains how I got those numbers: Basically, I added all of the degrees granted from all of the undergraduate and graduate programs listed in the above publication. This does not count any PhD programs, so this assumes PhDs will not be competing with undergrads and grads for the estimated 6,500 more jobs, even though the BLS demand estimate includes academic jobs. It also does not count any majors that were strictly "Urban Affairs" or "Historic Preservation." Also, while listed in my spreadsheet, I do not count non-US planning schools, assuming that graduates from McGill and Toronto and UBC only compete for Canadian positions. In addition, this does not include any geography-only or community development-only programs, which produce considerable numbers of people who compete for planning jobs. Finally, I cannot include the number of graduates where schools do not report it. There are at least 6 cases where this is so. Therefore, given these facts, 25,308 more planning graduates is a reasonably conservative number.
However, there are a number of assumptions that I'm making, and they are as follows:
Assumption 1. That all those who receive a planning degree (whether undergrad or grad) join the workforce and start competing for planning jobs. Based on anecdotal evidence, I think most look for planning work, for some length of time. Some of course go off on parent-paid trips abroad, go to grad school for something completely different, get non-planning jobs, or go retrain for something else. Many, of course, show up at Cyburbia forums asking about how to get a planning job.
Assumption 2. That there is no double counting between people who get an undergrad planning degree and then follow up with a graduate planning degree. Given that most of the data is from a single school graduating season, I think the number of double-counts is very minimal. Also, even if you eliminate all undergrads, there would still be 17,100 new planners by 2020.
Assumption 3. Where data for degrees granted spans multiple graduating seasons, an average over those years represents future graduating numbers. If you look at my spreadsheet, the number of these cases is in the minority, so I don't think this is a significant source of skewing. But it is possible, of course.
Assumption 4. That the data from this publication is accurate.
If anyone else has any thoughts about how relevant this data is, I'd like to hear them. I think this is a very important aspect of what our future will continue to look like, and what planner-prospects need to know about before they jump into a program.
Here is my spreadsheet in PDF: http://www.pdf-archive.com/2012/06/2...grees-granted/
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's state TV is reporting the country has appointed its first ever Foreign Ministry spokeswoman.
The Thursday report quotes Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif as saying Marzieh Afkham has been appointed spokesperson for the country's diplomatic apparatus.
Afkham has been working in the ministry for nearly 30 years and was head of its public relations department under former reformist President Mohammad Khatami.
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WASHINGTON — More Republican governors announced Friday they would not implement a key part of the new healthcare law, despite a new attempt by the Obama administration to give states more time to develop plans to put the Affordable Care Act in place.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Maine Gov. Paul LePage joined more than a dozen GOP governors who have notified the administration they will not set up state insurance exchanges next year, instead leaving the job to the federal government.
"Operating a state exchange would not provide the flexibility to meet our state's unique needs or to protect our state's taxpayers," Walker said in a statement.
Kasich's decision drew quick praise from House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio). "I'm proud of my governor … for taking a stand and resisting the federal takeover of healthcare in Ohio," said Boehner, who just last week seemed ready to soften the GOP campaign against the law, pronouncing, "Obamacare is the law of the land."
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A division of the Hanover Insurance Group Inc. has sold a new office building in CitySquare to a Florida real estate company for $76 million.
Benderson Development Co. of Sarasota, Fla., is buying the 214,000 square-foot building and the adjacent 860-car parking garage, Hanover Insurance announced today.
The sale comes two years after Hanover bought several acres of downtown property in an effort to revive the long-stalled redevelopment of the area known as CitySquare. Hanover, a property and casualty insurer based on Lincoln Street, built an eight-story office building in CitySquare to serve as the new Worcester headquarters of another insurance company, Unum Group.
Unum and its 700-plus employees are scheduled to move into the new office next month. The disability insurer has been based at an aging office complex on Chestnut Street for several years.
In a statement, Frederick H. Eppinger, Hanover's chief executive, said Hanover always planned to sell the new Unum building.
"We undertook the development of what now is the Unum Building to initiate activity at CitySquare and to pave the way for the necessary infrastructure and street work to be accomplished," Mr. Eppinger said. "We always intended to sell the building upon completion, and remain committed to advancing the thoughtful and economically sound development of CitySquare."
St. Vincent Hospital is building a cancer treatment center in CitySquare. No other tenants have been announced. City Manager Michael V. O'Brien said in August that an investor group was eyeing CitySquare for a hotel and a complex of luxury apartments, but no plans for such a development have been made public.
The new Unum office, at 1 Mercantile Place, was sold by CitySquare II Development Co. LLC, a subsidiary of Opus Investment Management Inc., the investment arm of Hanover Insurance. The sale closed today.
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In some major enterprises, CIOs are working closely with their Chief Marketing Officers to make the most of their respective skill sets. But many may overlook an essential company asset to help them with this need: their own IT employees, according to Josh Bernoff and Ted Schadler, senior executives at Forrester Research. Bernoff and Schadler are authors of the new book, Empowered: Unleash Your Employees, Energize Your Customers, and Transform Your Business (Harvard Business Review Press/Available Sept. 14). It's your IT employees, after all, who are most connected via mobile devices and social-network sites. They're the ones who know what works and what doesn't with respect to pleasing the very critical "influencers" out there - consumers who shape mass impressions of an organization's reputation. Learn how they can help your organization to influence the influencers.
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What are some of the clues for noticing the difference between a legit product a fake one?
Just as the title states, i was cautioned against buying carelessly some time ago when i almost wasted money on a bootleg...but honestly, i don't really know what to signs to look for when looking up animes online, especially on eBay, so some information, pointers, help, etc would be much appreciated :)
Besides that, this is what i'm looking at buying: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Gosick-Episodes-1-to-25-Complete-Series-BONUS-CD-Soundtrack-/290899092227?pt=US_DVD_HD_DVD_Blu_ray&hash=item43baefe303
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One of the things you should DEFINITELY be careful with is the region codes.
Almost no legitimate releases are Worldwide, or 0. Imports from Japan will be region code 2, USA releases will be region 1.
the other thing I noticed is a lot of bootlegs have either a very high number of episodes per dvd than you would expect, and tend to also have chinese subtitles, along with english subtitles. As you probably noticed, that particular dvd set has 25 episodes spanning across 2 dvds. That's about 12ish episodes each dvd, even if it was a dual layer dvd (highly unlikely) it would still suffer from a great deal of compression.
So many shows/manga so little time...
Maxwell has it right. High episode counts + Chinese subtitles = your boot been legged, son.
Goblin Slayer has nothing on '80s anime when it comes to hard content, folks.
Adding onto what m4x said, the majority of anime's I own have between 3-4 (I believe the maximum I've seen is 6) episodes a disk.
So, is a region coded dvd a sure indicator that it's a genuine product?
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Shiek2005 wrote:
Just as the title states, i was cautioned against buying carelessly some time ago when i almost wasted money on a bootleg...but honestly, i don't really know what to signs to look for when looking up animes online, especially on eBay, so some information, pointers, help, etc would be much appreciated :)
Besides that, this is what i'm looking at buying: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Gosick-Episodes-1-to-25-Complete-Series-BONUS-CD-Soundtrack-/290899092227?pt=US_DVD_HD_DVD_Blu_ray&hash=item43baefe303
Looks like you've got some excellent answers. My basic guideline is "if it looks too good to be true, it's probably a bootleg"--so when I run into those I research a bit more.
For future reference, requests for anime-related information (such as this is), should be made in this thread:
Generally new topics should be ones that are more discussion-based.
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That Gosick DVD set is a bootleg. LF is a known Malaysian bootlegging company. Malaysia and China are notorious for selling bootlegged anime DVD sets and should generally be avoided when buying on ebay. Other obvious bootleg tip-offs are an unusually high number of episodes across a small number of DVDs, a ridiculously low price, Malaysian or Chinese subtitles, and Region-0 (i.e. region free) encoding, all of which are things publishers almost never do. Another good way to spot a bootleg is to check the publishing company on the DVD box label and research them on the net to see if they're among lists of known bootleggers. These tips also apply to Amazon.com, which surprisingly also lists a number of bootleg anime DVDs.
If you're simply looking for a legitimate Region 1 release of an anime series, the easiest way I know of to check if one exists would be to go to Anime News Network's encyclopedia, which usually has images of DVD covers for all the known R1 DVD releases for a series (just select a series and scroll down to the DVD section for links to the title's various DVD releases).
As for Gosick, if you check its Wikipedia article it seems that Bandai had announced in 2011 an R1 release for the series, but unfortunately stepped out of the R1 anime market in early 2012, which means there's not yet a legitimate R1 release for the series. That said, according to the ANN encyclopedia entry for Gosick it does appear that the series got a legitimate subtitled release in Australia from Madman Entertainment. A quick check on ebay turns up some copies of the legitimate Australian DVD sets (set 1 and set 2), albeit they're fairly expensive. Australian DVDs are Region 4, so you'd have to get a region-free DVD player in order to watch them.
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This can be put up for discussion, just like how to look at counterfiet toys and such. Although, it goes to a more personal question, so there's that too. Well, let's see.
Yeah, it's definitely something that can make a good discussion topic (in which some advice may also be offered), but the OP seemed to be asking for some specific advice. I guess if enough of us use this thread as a discussion launcher, we could keep it. The mods may decide.
If you start up the movie or show, for instance Star Wars and you get a sub title of The Backscratch of the West, then you have a bootleg on your hands.
Poi is the new Desu!
I learnt this lesson the hard way I'm embarrassed to say.
Thanks for the replies everyone, lots of good information that will hopefully help me make good buying decisions and if the thread sticks around, i'll probably be coming back over time.
Also, i wasn't aware that amazon would like bootlegs...is this like when you buy from independent sellers only? or does it also apply when amazon itself is fullfilling the order too?
The Almighty Nerb!
In the case of Amazon, it would only apply to marketplace sellers, not from products sold directly from Amazon, although fulfilled by Amazon is different than sold by Amazon.
Another giveaway in the ebay link is also in the pictures of the back of the box, the Chinese language description, and the Chinese title above the original title on the cover. That wouldn't be on a legitimate US or Japanese version.


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Logic puzzle in which cells in a grid have to be colored or left blank according to numbers given at the side of the grid to reveal a hidden picture. The numbers measure how many unbroken lines of filled-in squares there are in any given row or column. For example, a clue of "4 8 3" would mean there are sets of four, eight, and three filled squares, in that order, with at least one blank square between successive groups.


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Britney Spears: 'Hold It Against Me' Demo Leak!
Check out the latest rumored demo leak of Britney Spears' new single "Hold It Against Me" off of her upcoming album, executive produced by hitmakers Max Martin and Dr. Luke. (It's clearly not Britney singing on the track — but sounds like Ke$ha strangely enough.)
"The next time you hear this song, the production, vocal and structure will sound very different," UK's PopJustice writes of the demo leak. "And you don't have very long to wait."
Check out the new rumored Britney Spears "Hold It Against Me" Lyrics!
So if I said I want your body now, would you hold it against me?
Britney Spears: 'Hold It Against Me' Demo Leak!
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Mobile Agent is Set to Not Ready
|Problem Summary
|Call by call delivery mode fails and mobile agent is set to Not Ready.
|Error Message
|Possible Cause
|Mobile agent state changed to Not Ready because the mobile agent did not answer the call, or the mobile agent's phone line rang busy.
|Recommended Action
|Check mobile agent phone line and make sure the line is available.
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Value Line's Financial Services objective group is a collection of funds with the stated policy of investing at least 50% of assets in common stocks of financial services and related companies. Functionally speaking, most funds in the group have a much higher percentage of assets allocated to this sector. One might suspect that such a narrow mandate would result in a group that owns very similar investments, but that isn't necessarily the case.
While the vast majority of fund offerings here can, effectively, "go anywhere" within the confines of the finance sector (Legg Mason Financial Services A, SBFAX), fund mandates range from those that invest specifically in regional banks (John Hancock Regional Bank A, FRBAX) to those that focus solely on insurance (Fidelity Select Insurance, FSPCX). There are funds with a global focus (BlackRock Global Financial Services A, MDFNX), as well as those that use an index approach (ProFunds Financial UltraSector Investor, FNPIX, and, of course, Vanguard Financials Index, VFAIX).
As with any sector-focused investments, these funds often move roughly in tandem directionally. So, if the finance sector is out of favor, the vast majority of funds in this group will post losses. The opposite is obviously true when the sector is in favor. It is important to remember, however, that the more highly focused funds, such as ALPS/Red Rocks Listed Private Equity A (LPEFX), can move swiftly, decisively, and often counter to the broader finance industry. This can happen for several reasons, including the fact that events that impact just this subsector will have a disproportionate impact on these narrowly focused funds when compared to their broader focused brethren. Also, good or bad news about one investment in a narrowly focused portfolio with just a few names in it can result in outsized moves compared to funds with broader diversification.
Over the long term, the Financial Services objective group has been a below-average performer relative to the broader market, as measured by the S&P 500 Index. For the 10-year period ended January 31, 2013, the group had an annualized gain of 3.5%, while the S&P 500 achieved a gain of 7.9%. For the five- and three-year periods through January 31st, the group had an annualized loss of 2.6% and a gain of 8.1% respectively, while the S&P 500 reported annualized gains of 4.0% and 14.1%, respectively. However, during the past year, the Financial Services group reported a gain of 24.6% compared with a gain of 16.8% for the S&P 500. Year-to-date, the Financial Services objective group posted a gain of 6.5%, outperforming the S&P 500, which reported a gain of 5.2%.
The Financial Services objective group currently has a higher Risk Rank of 4, indicating that funds in this group might not appeal to risk-averse investors.
One fund with a very high gain for the month ended January 31, 2013 is Fidelity Select Brokerage and Investment Management Portfolio (FSLBX). This fund's investment objective is capital appreciation, which it hopes to achieve by investing at least 80% of its assets in securities of U.S. and non-U.S. companies principally engaged in stock brokerage, commodity brokerage, investment banking, tax-advantaged investment or investment sales, investment management, or related advisory services. Management uses fundamental analysis to assess each company's financial condition and industry position. The fund also does a top-down study of market conditions and analysis of the economy to make investment selections.
As of December 31, 2012, the fund had about 93% of its assets in diversified financial services shares, 1% in information technology, and the 6% balance in cash and equivalents. Another fund with a strong return for the first month of 2013 is Royce Financial Services Fund (RYFSX). This fund's investment objective is long-term growth of capital. To achieve this goal, the fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in a diversified portfolio of micro-cap, small-cap, and/or mid-cap companies principally engaged in the financial services industry. Using fundamental bottom-up analysis, the fund selects securities issued by companies that it believes have excellent business strengths and/or prospects for growth, high rates of return and low leverage, and that are trading significantly below its estimate of their current worth. As of December 31, 2012, the fund had about about 87% of its assets in financial services, 11% in industrials, and 2% in real estate. As of the same date, the fund's top ten holdings accounted for about 24% of assets.
A third fund with a better than the objective group year-to-date return for the first month of 2013 is Alpine Financial Services Fund A (ADAFX). This fund's investment objective is long-term growth of capital and consistent above-average total returns as compared to those typical of investments made in public equities. Under normal circumstances the fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in the equity securities of certain U.S. and foreign companies engaged in the financial services industry. These companies may include commercial and industrial banks, savings and loan associations, community savings banks and other thrift institutions, consumer and industrial finance and leasing companies, securities brokerage and investment advisory firms and insurance companies. In particular, the fund invests a substantial percentage of its net assets in equity securities issued by banks that management believes have strong growth prospects or takeover potential. Such equity securities will primarily include common stocks and preferred stocks which the fund may acquire through direct investments or private placements. In managing the assets of the fund, the adviser (Alpine Woods Capital Investors, LLC) generally pursues a value-oriented approach. The adviser seeks to identify investment opportunities in equity securities of banks and other financial service companies that it believes are undervalued relative to the market and to the securities' historic valuations. The equity securities of the financial institutions in which the fund invests are not subject to specific restrictions as to market capitalizations, however, it is expected that the fund's investment program will emphasize smaller market capitalizations, including micro-cap. Factors that the adviser considers include fundamental factors such as earnings growth, cash flow, and industry and market–specific trends. The adviser expects that the fund's investment strategy may result in a portfolio turnover rate in excess of 150% on an annual basis.
In the table below, we have listed 10 top-performing funds through January 31, 2013 that we follow in our Fund Advisor database.
10 Top Financial Services Equity Funds Performance
Fund Name
% Year-to-date
Total Return
% 1 Month
% 3
% 6 Month
% 5 Year
Fidelity Select Brokerage and Investment Management
ALPS/Red Rocks Listed Private Equity A
Royce Financial Services
Alpine Financial Services A
Fidelity Select Insurance
Prudential Fin'l Services A
Fidelity Adv Financial Serv. A
Fidelity Select Financial Serv.
J Hancock Financial Ind A
T Rowe Price Financial Services
Financial Services Objective Group
At the time of this article's writing, the authors did not have positions in any of the funds mentioned.


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The fantastic growth in network video solutions during the past ten years is gradually entering a new phase. As parts of the market mature, innovations and solutions are required that address new market segments. During the year, we saw a good performance in our offerings aimed at smaller installations and we released a new concept for medium-sized systems.
The market is still undergoing many exciting changes and there are great opportunities due to new use of network video, new customer segments and rapid technological developments. Based on our organic growth model, we will continue on the path to be a leading global player in network video.
Investments for today and for the future
In 2014, we carried out many strategic investments and releases aimed at continuing to drive the technology shift to network video in those remaining areas of the market with great potential. Meanwhile, we made investments to broaden our offering with solutions that make us even more relevant to our strong partner network. We are continuing to maintain a high release rate of new innovative network cameras for all market segments. Our product portfolio has been strengthened with network cameras of exceptional leading edge technology as well as cost-efficient products for customers, with simplicity and user-friendliness in focus. At the same time, we are continuing to broaden our offering and take a greater responsibility for the overall security solution. During the year, we released a new version of our AXIS Camera Station software and updated versions of the software for AXIS Companion and AXIS Video Hosting Solution. In medium-sized systems, we released the AXIS S10 series during the fall, consisting of an overall solution featuring cameras, software and a storage unit. Our access control offering was well received in the US market and was introduced in Europe during September when it was also supplemented with a card reader. Taken together, the continued innovation rate demonstrates the strength of our ambition to be a leading supplier of network video surveillance solutions. We continue to be driven by a desire to create new opportunities in the market and to strive for a smarter and safer world.
Continued investments in small and medium-sized installations
The network video market has been characterized by a strong growth rate for many years. A large part of this growth has come from the technology shift in large surveillance installations where the advantages of digital video surveillance have been obvious from a cost and user perspective. Network video is today the natural choice in this market segment. To continue to drive growth through the technology shift, it is important to complement our offering with simple, user-friendly and cost-efficient solutions for small and medium-sized installations. This part of the video surveillance market still has great growth potential for network video. Axis' goal is to have an annual growth rate of 20 percent and an operating margin of more than 10 percent. This means that we must continue to invest in order to retain our leading position in network video, but we must also dare to invest in new innovations that support our core business and diversify our offering towards partners and end users.
Geographical differences
We still have a very strong position in the US market and the performance in the Americas region has been stable. During the year, we divided the US market into six sales regions with the aim of strengthening our local presence with resources for sales, support and training. In Asia, efforts are ongoing to further establish our partner network and create opportunities for continued strong growth. We are maintaining a high rate of recruitment and are performing strongly in several of the region's key emerging markets. Axis' operations in Europe have been impacted by weak demand in many parts of the continent. The countries in Southern Europe are still being affected by the economic turbulence in the region. In Eastern Europe, the political situation in Russia and Ukraine has had a strongly negative impact on sales. Most of Axis' sales in this region are generated in large projects, which are affected by this type of turbulence. Meanwhile, a number of countries in the Middle East are showing a very positive sales trend and the importance of this region is increasing.
Continued expansion
In 2014, the number of employees increased by 314 people. We are continuing to invest in R&D and the sales organization in order to drive product development and to boost our presence in new and existing markets. During the year, the number of countries with local Axis employees increased to 49. A high recruitment rate imposes great demands on the organization to ensure that competencies are safeguarded and that the strong corporate culture is maintained. There were more introductory programs than ever before and we are continuing the ongoing work related to cultural activities and evaluating Axis as a workplace in order to attract and retain the best employees in the industry.
Today, sustainability is a natural part of everything we do and we have a policy with a declared ambition to be an industry-leader in sustainability issues. During the year, we continued to work on reducing energy consumption in our products and on phasing out hazardous materials even before they are classed as harmful to the environment. In spring, we released two cameras that are manufactured exclusively using recycled material. We are also working to shift to environmentally-friendly forms of transport as far as possible and to establish regional supply chains. We have also intensified the number of training programs and checks of suppliers and contract manufacturers in order to ensure that they meet Axis' strict requirements relating to the environment and working conditions.
Well-prepared for the future
Axis is well-prepared to continue to drive the trend in network video. We have a clear ambition to continue generating profitable growth and to be a company that is based on a willingness to continually advance our offerings and seek new complementary solutions. To succeed with this, we will continue to invest in innovation and dedicated employees, boost our presence in emerging markets and also work to improve organizational efficiency in line with our expansion. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Axis' customers, employees and shareholders for your continued support, commitment and confidence during the past year.
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Firefighting reinforcements arrived Monday to help battle a 451-acre wildfire that broke out Sunday southwest of Durango.
Two single-engine air tankers, one heavy air tanker and three helicopters were working on the blaze. About 150 firefighters were on scene, with more crews expected to arrive Monday night.
More precise mapping Monday prompted fire officials to revise down an earlier estimate that put the fire at more than 500 acres Sunday. By Monday evening, it was back up at 499 acres.
Most of that growth was from a firing-operations test, said Fire Information Officer Pam Wilson. We were testing conditions to see what would happen if we did a burnout, to see how the fuels would react. We were able to secure the northern end of the fire in the vicinity of the dam (at Lake Nighthorse).
The lightning-caused fire was burning through piñon and juniper on Southern Ute Indian and federal lands about a mile west of Animas Air Park, a small airport south of Durango.
Wilson said 405 acres of fire activity was on the reservation, with the remainder on Bureau of Reclamation land.
The fire is burning about two miles east of Trappers Crossing subdivision. About 145 homes have been put on pre-evacuation, meaning they may need to evacuate at a moments notice.
Butch (Knowlton) made courtesy calls Sunday night to homeowners to tell them, Dont worry, you can sleep in your homes, Wilson said about the director of the Office of Emergency Preparedness for La Plata County.
The fire burned throughout the day Monday, but did not make any significant runs. The plume of smoke that rose prominently against a blue sky Sunday looked more like a wisp of smoke Monday afternoon.
A small amount of precipitation fell over the burn area Sunday night, according to a news release from the Durango Interagency Dispatch Center. More rain fell Monday evening starting about 6 p.m.
We pulled people off the fire when it started raining, because the roads can get really nasty out there when its wet, and we didnt want people stuck, Wilson said Monday night. Out here at Sunnyside Elementary, where were set up, it rained hard for 10 or 15 minutes then steadily for 45 minutes or so. Our plans for tomorrow are contingent on how much rain falls tonight.
The fire was 5 percent contained Monday night.
Firefighters will be working to keep flames west of La Posta Road, south of Nighthorse Reservoir, north of Indian Creek and east of Box Canyon.
A federal incident comsmand team is managing the fire, while local fire agencies are assisting with structure protection, said Hal Doughty, deputy chief with the Durango Fire & Rescue Authority.
The fire was burning in steep, rugged terrain that made it difficult for ground crews to have a significant impact, he said.
This is a fire that makes you a real believer in air resources, Doughty said. Without the air assets that we have, I would be really concerned.
Drier air is expected later this week on Thursday and Friday, said Dennis Phillips, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Grand Junction.
Gusts from the storms could increase fire activity.
The fire was first reported at 11:48 a.m. Sunday west of the Animas Air Park in Basin Creek. It started with one tree and grew to more than 400 acres in one afternoon, illustrating how dry conditions remain even after the monsoons arrived a couple of weeks ago, Doughty said.
Thats pretty significant fire behavior, he said. It should really be a cautionary note to people living in La Plata County.
The rainfall weve been getting has been spotty, he added. It will rain an inch in one place and a half mile down the road it doesnt rain a drop.
Federal and local government officials eased fire restrictions last week.
The Air Park Fire is one of several significant wildfires that have sparked this summer in Southwest Colorado. Other fires included:
The Weber Fire, which started June 22 about six miles south of Mancos and burned 10,133 acres.
The Lightner Creek Fire, which started June 26 a few miles west of Durango and burned 90 acres.
The State Line Fire, which started June 23 about a mile north of New Mexico along U.S. Highway 550 and burned 350 acres.
Residents in Trappers Crossing and parts of Rafter J subdivision have been on notice since Sunday they may need to evacuate. Reverse 911 calls were made to 146 homeowners.
Some received the call about 6:15 p.m. Sunday on their cellphones during an orchestra concert at Music in the Mountains at the Fort Lewis College Concert Hall. Several people got up and left the performance.
A threatened gas well pad was shut down Sunday, with gas companies preparing to shut down others in the area.
The Bureau of Reclamation has postponed tests that were scheduled Monday at the outlet from Lake Nighthorse.
Releases of 15 to 150 cubic feet of water a second had been scheduled to see how engineered stretches of Basin Creek below the dam perform.
The agency postponed the tests because people parking along La Posta Road where Basin Creek empties into the Animas River were hindering the work of firefighters.
firstname.lastname@example.com Herald Staff Writers Dale Rodebaugh and Ann Butler contributed to this report.
An earlier version of this story incorrectly said the Air Park Fire had burned Bureau of Land Management land.


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Man charged with giving police false name, addressStaff report
May 06. 2014 8:38PM
MANCHESTER — When police questioned a man about 3 a.m. Monday while parked in the Grove Street alley, he identified himself as Wilfredo Castro Osorio, 42, of 67 Lincoln St., police said.
After an agreed to search of his vehicle, he was arrested and arraigned a few hours later in Circuit Court-Manchester District Division on charges that included possession of a narcotic with intent to sell (crack cocaine), carrying a weapon without a permit and unlawful possession of a prescription drug. He told officers the $2,000 in cash they found belonged to his sister, police said.
But after his fingerprints were run through a national data system, police learned the address he gave was correct, but not the name or date of birth.
Raul Santiago, 33, was back in court Tuesday facing all the same charges, plus two new ones: disobeying a police officer, for providing a false name and date of birth, and being a felon in possession of a dangerous weapon, police said. He was convicted of narcotics possession in Los Angeles in 2011.
There is also an outstanding warrant for Santiago from Rockingham County for accomplice to escape.
The bail and court dates remain the same: $10,000 cash/surety, with a hearing on the source of funds offered for bail, and a probable cause hearing on the felonies May 19 and trial on the misdemeanors June 5.
Charged with stalking
When police responded to 739 Grove St., around noon Monday for a domestic situation, they found Jesse Delgrecco, 26, who was out on $3,000 personal recognizance bail on felony assault and criminal threatening charges that bar him from returning to the address, police said.
Court documents show Delgrecco told police he called because he was there to pick up his belongings, and his alleged victim, the mother of his child, was claiming some of his property.
Delgrecco said there had been a court hearing on a 2012 domestic violence petition earlier Monday, and when the woman didn't show up, the petition was vacated. According to the documents, he told officers he assumed that meant he was allowed to return to the Grove Street address.
However, the bail conditions imposed last month on the assault and threatening charges, scheduled for a probable cause hearing May 14, were still in effect.
As a result, Delgrecco was arrested for stalking. He was arraigned on the new charge Tuesday in Circuit Court-Manchester District Division. Police prosecutor Carrissa Pelletier filed a motion to revoke Delgrecco's bail for violating conditions. A hearing was scheduled for Wednesday morning.
Man arrested third time
Alfred Nyonee, 18, of 82 W. Brook St., was arraigned Tuesday in Circuit Court-Manchester District Division on charges of receiving stolen property and contempt.
It was the third set of charges this year for the Manchester High School West basketball player. He was arrested Jan. 23 for attempted theft of a laptop from a West High School classroom, and on March 3 for disorderly conduct, in connection with a fight at the high school.
The current charge alleges he had an Apple iPhone 4 belonging to another person at McDonald's on South Willow St. Because he was out on bail at the time, he was also charged with contempt.
Bail was set at $5,000 cash/surety, and trial was set for May 29.


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Curse of Chucky (US - DVD R1 | BD RA)
Universal has release info on the release of the evil doll's latest outing...
Starring: Brad Dourif
Released: 8th October 2013
Further Details:
Curse of Chucky, the sixth film in the Child's Play series (and reportedly a sequel to Child's Play 3, not Seed of Chucky), will be released on Blu-ray Combo Pack and DVD October 8th. The Blu-ray will feature 1080p, 1.78:1 video, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English and DTS 5.1 Spanish and French audio, and English SDH, French and Spanish subtitles. The DVD will feature anamorphic 1.78:1 video, Dolby Digital 5.1 English, French and Spanish audio, and English SDH, French and Spanish subtitles
Blu-ray exclusive extras will include:
- Living Doll: Bringing Chucky to Life: Featuring the award-winning work of animatronics company Alterian, this featurette shows the pain-staking detail involved with bringing Chucky to life and the army of people behind the process.
- Voodoo Doll: The Chucky Legacy: More than six films and a quarter of a century, Chucky, the possessed Good Guys doll, has been the playmate we love to hate. This featurette looks at why we're still frightened by the red haired terror and recalls some favorite moments from the previous films.
- Storyboard Comparisons
Blu-ray and DVD extras will include:
- Deleted Scenes
- Gag Reel
- Playing with Dolls: The Making of Curse of Chucky: From scripting, to casting to shooting, this featurette proves that playing with dolls is definitely not child's play! Follow the cast and crew of Curse of Chucky as they bring the newest and scariest chapter in the series to the screen.
- Feature commentary with director Don Mancini, puppeteer Tony Gardner and star Fiona Dourif
Chucky: The Complete Collection Limited Editionis also available on Blu-ray and DVD on October 8 (in the United States only). For the first time ever, Chucky fans can experience all six movies in one set, including Child's Play, Child's Play 2, Child's Play 3, Bride of Chucky, Seed of Chucky and Curse of Chucky.
Quote: He's back! From the filmmakers that brought you Chucky comes the terrifying return of the pint-sized doll possessed by the spirit of a notorious serial killer. When a mysterious package arrives at the house of Nica (Fiona Dourif), she doesn't give it much thought. However, after her mother's mysterious death, Nica begins to suspect that the talking, red-haired doll her visiting niece has been playing with may be the key to the ensuing bloodshed and chaos. The return of America's favorite toy, voiced again by Brad Dourif, is unrated and full of more blood-splattered thrills and chills.
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"A new trojan horse designed specifically for Mac OS X systems has been discovered on several pornography websites that can hijack Web traffic, according to security firm Intego. Affected systems are used to hijack some Web requests that lead users to other phishing sites, or simply display ads for other pornographic websites to generate ad revenue. Phishing attacks may lead users to believe they are surfing to eBay, Paypal, or various banks when in fact they are accessing specially-crafted mockups designed to retrieve usernames and passwords for those sites. The trojan, titled OSX.RSPlug.A, is rated as a critical risk by Intego, and is known to affect Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger as well as Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Intego is testing prior versions of Mac OS X, but believes them to be vulnerable as well."