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The deaths of 19 firefighters last month in Arizona were a tragic reminder that trying to save lives on the front lines of a wildfire can be one of the most dangerous jobs on the planet. I don't think anyone would argue that the heroes who perform this vital function deserve less than the best and most advanced technology that we as a nation can afford.
The U.S. Forest Service works hard to make that job as safe as possible. They run thousands of forest fire simulations, recording how blazes travel and in what conditions to try and make sure those with boots on the ground deploy in a safe location. In the Arizona fire, the wind apparently shifted so quickly that there was little time to react. However, the New York Times reported using better technology could give future firefighters more of warning about shifting conditions.
The technology in use right now is a bit of a mix of the advanced and the primitive. For example, military predator drones sometimes are deployed at night to take thermal readings of approaching fires and map them out. But those maps are not given to fire crews until the next morning, and not fully updated again until the following day. Only visual reports change the maps during the day, so that by the afternoon, the entire situation could have easily changed from what the morning plan shows.
A perfect solution might be to send information in real time to mobile devices held by firefighters, whether from addition drones flown during the day or from weather satellites, as even a standard iPhone could render the map data.
But Laura L. Hill, an information technology strategic planner for the Forest Service, told the Times that the problem with that plan is that the fires are often in remote areas without cell towers, or in places where the towers have been destroyed by the flames.
Sometimes the Forest Service erects temporary towers or sets up microwave links with local providers to give firefighters needed communications in the field. But those take time to create and are not always reliable.
I have another suggestion. I'm no expert on firefighting, but I've traveled into many dead zones to test phones, including deep into the Mojave Desert. So I can tell you first-hand when a bag full of cell phones on most normal networks can't even sniff out a signal, satellite phones can pick up the slack, getting full signal bars from literally the middle of nowhere. For the most part, a signal only requires line of site to the sky, something firefighters almost always can find.
Even today, satellite phones are bigger than typical cell phones by about half, but the last one I reviewed was fairly sleek, and able to receive data up to 20 kilobytes/sec. Satellite phones aren't cheap — the Inmarsat IsatPhone Pro, for example, costs $599 plus monthly fees — but I think that hero firefighters deserve them. If nothing else, perhaps one could be given to the leader of each squad so that the state of the fire could be constantly monitored. There are even rugged models that could handle the harsh conditions.
That may not be the only solution to the problem, but if sending data to firefighters anywhere is an issue, then a satellite phone would fix that when nothing else is available. I think we would all agree that the extra money would be well spent when lives are at stake.
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I heard a fireman request a satellite phone, while fighting a large fire near here, in an area where there is no cell service. Apparently a satellite phone does serve a purpose for some people some of the time.
The author of this article should consider going through the training we go through before making determinations in which they know nothing.
For instance I am an Operations Section Chief and certified Wildland Fire Fighter. We don't send crews into an area until we have developed a plan of action, discussed alternatives, prepared escape routes, requested resources, briefed everyone of the plans, and then deploying crews. There are many methods of getting crews out to an area whether it be smoke jumpers, hot shot crews that walk or drive in, or the engines and brush trucks that hit hot spots.
It takes several hours to build a proper plan. Depending on the operational periods it could be 8, 12, or 24 hour operations. Typically we figure on 15 hours of awake time and the rest of the time is sleep per crew member.
Google: ICS Forms and you will have an idea of the template we use to build a plan, then look for: NWCG Handbook 3 PMS 410-1 NFES 0065 Fireline Handbook. This is our operational bible that every crew member carries on the line.
Trust me throwing technology at the incident does not help, in addition the added weight would not be helpful. Many of these guys carry changes of socks and underwear but wear the same clothes for a week. Carry a couple of meals on the line, tools, fuel/oil for saws, sharpening tools, maybe some snacks, the rest is going to be water. Plus, there is the ever important and hopefully never needed Fire Shelter, hardhat, gloves, boots, and Fireline Handbook.
I love Technology, but the fireline is not the place for it, the device would have to run on AA batteries which is what we use for our Bendix King portable radios, it would need a huge network of data connectivity, and that is just the beginnings.
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The "law" is just some bull invented by people. It's not a legitimate academic field of study, like sociology or philosophy. There are no "right answers." you will learn how to justify any position, no matter how outrageous. You will hear these terms, among others, until you want to @ # ! * i n g puke: "public policy considerations," "reasonableness" and "balancing." you will seriously consider questions suck as whether or not a 4-year-old can batter an adult woman, without pausing to think about how absurd the question is in the first place. You will jettison any common sense, decency and fair-mindedness you once had and replace it with mechanical, pseudo-intellectual thought processes that do nothing to advance the quality of life in our society. Laws are written and applied arbitrarily. If not, they are applied depending on political considerations. Liberals and conservatives are equally guilty of this. The "law" is nothing more than a set of fictions agreed to by elites -- it is a giant lie.

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Last week Autodesk announced several updates to its Forge platform, including new cloud application development tools, and three investments at Forge DevCon, the company's inaugural event for cloud developers.
Since its inception in December 2015, Autodesk claims that rapid progress has been made with early adopters of the Forge Platform in changing both what and how things are made, and at transforming "the future of making things."
The Forge Program consists of three main components; the Forge platform (PaaS), developer program, and a $100M investment fund. The cloud-based Forge Platform features APIs and SDKs developers can use to create design, engineering, visualization, collaboration, and other types of enterprise applications. The Forge developer program aims to bring together a community of cloud application developers by providing application development resources.


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Fan-gating or Like-gating is the practice of displaying certain content only to users who Like your Facebook page.
It's an increasingly common practice and something I discuss with clients almost daily. But is it a good idea?
What is Fan-Gating?
Fan-gating is accomplished by creating two versions of a tab on your page—one that's shown to users who already Like your page and one to those who have not Liked the page.
The non-fans are encouraged to Like in order to "unlock" the content behind the tab. Because information about whether a user has Liked your page is easily accessible through Facebook's Graph API, it is relatively easy to implement a gate, or "reveal tab" as it is sometimes called. There are many companies that provide tools to do this and a list of some of them can be found here.


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Rick Steves' Europe "North Wales: Feisty and Poetic" Rick takes in Mount Snowdon, medieval castles and Victorian promenades. He learns a bit of Welsh, follows a miner deep into a slate mine, and herds sheep with a clever dog.G
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The Lawrence Welk Show "Small Town, U.S.A." Myron Floren is the host for this show from 1969 that showcases the talents of costumer Rose Weiss and the sets by Chuck Coon. The gang sings the praises of small towns everywhere with "Dear Hearts and Gentle People" and "That Old Gang of Mine." Andra Willis sings "Peace in the Valley."G
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Are You Being Served? "Do You Tale This Man" Mrs. Slocombe believes she has found her man, a bouzouki player in a Greek restaurant.G
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As Time Goes By "We'll Always Have Paris" When Lionel and Jean were young, they dreamed of a romantic holiday together in Paris. Now the dream is reality but they find they are not alone in this lovers' paradise.G
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Outnumbered Pete and Sue are trapped in a foreign airport with three bored children and an increasingly bewildered granddad. Karen grills her dad about al-Qaeda, and security staff grill Ben about the worrying objects in his bag. Ben seeks the Spanish words to ask, "Can I play with your machine gun?" and others wonder about someone letting the kids drink double espressos.G
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The Red Green Show "Barter Starter" Red and Walter use a giant electromagnet to find lost car keys. Then, Red makes an outside elevator out of a phone booth and a hot water heater.G
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My Family "One of the Boys" As Roger and Abi's big day is approaching, Roger's mother, Nerys, visits to check out her future daughter-in-law. Ben is pleased that his old college buddy is due momentarily so he won't have to deal with Nerys' visit. But when his friend arrives, Ben finds he has an even bigger adjustment to make.G
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Doctor Who Series "The Impossible Astronaut" The Doctor returns for new adventure, along with newlyweds Amy and Rory. They receive a secret summons that leads them to the Oval Office in 1969. Enlisting the help of a former FBI agent and the irrepressible River Song, The Doctor promises to assist the President in saving a terrified little girl from a mysterious Space Man.G
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Benjamin Curtis needed a new banner ad design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 48 designs submitted by 10 freelance designers.
I need 4-6 banner ads to send traffic to the SaaS Rails Kit page at http://railskits.com/saas/. The ads will be on sites targeted at developers.
Rails Kits
Rails Kits provides ready-made code for Ruby on Rails developers to help them get a quick start on building their web applications. The SaaS Rails Kit includes code for recurring billing, subscription management, etc., so developers can quickly build SaaS (software as a service) web applications without having to write boring billing code.
I want some ads that will help a developer be motivated to spend money on a development component rather than spending the time to build the billing code for his app himself. :)
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April 10, 2012
Win a pair of tickets to Explore Nashville and PodCamp Nashville!
It's an amazing week to be in Nashville!
In case you missed the news, Jason Falls is bringing his Explore conference to town this Friday. I have a pair of tickets to giveaway! Read on for details.
Explore is a one-day, intensive learning summit offering insights, advice and learning from some of the top thinkers and practitioners in the social media marketing and digital marketing space. Topics include social media strategy, integrating social and traditional mediums, mobile marketing innovation, content marketing strategy, distribution of social messaging, branding in the digital realm, creating spreadable media and a brand case studies panel.
Speakers include: Jason Falls, Amber Naslund, Scott Gulbransen, Mark Schaefer, Nichole Kelly, Zena Weist, Tom Webster, Tim Hayden, John Morgan, Courtney Seiter, Arienne Holland, Kevin Magee, Ike Pigott, and yours truly.
Explore is a social media marketing conference that anyone with any professional interest in digital marketing should not miss. Even if you don't win the tickets, you can use coupon code PODCAMP to save 50% on the ticket price.
Enter to win a pair of tickets to Explore
Leave a comment below explaining why you love social media to be entered to win a pair of tickets worth $400 for Explore. I'll randomly select a winner tomorrow (Wednesday) after 8 PM CST. Include your Twitter handle in the comment, and be sure that you are following me, so that I can DM you if you win.
In town for Explore? Stick around for Saturday to get WAY more bang for your buck! The social media celebration continues during the fifth PodCamp Nashville, social media unconference.
PodCamp is a free, all-day, multi-track, event that jam-packed with incredible speakers and presentations all about social media. Check out the line up!
Don't miss PodCamp. Last year nearly 700 people were in attendance, we expect this year is going to be even bigger and better.
Here are a couple of free events involving beer that you should know about too.
Thursday evening 44Doors are throwing a Pre-EXPLORE NASHVILLE Happy Hour Honky-tonk. Tickets are free. RSVP to attend.
Saturday evening there will be a PodCamp Nashville after party. Be sure to follow Podcamp Nashville on Twitter for more details on this. You'll need your badge to get in.
Ok…. if I don't see you in Nashville this weekend I will assume that you have packed up and moved on. If you have moved on, I bet you're kicking yourself now, eh?
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An inconsiderate asshole who drives at high speed through residential areas in order to avoid traffic and/or traffic lights.
"Wow! That guy nearly ran over those kids. What an asshauler."
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n. One who has to haul a lot of newbs to victory on halo, WoW, or any other multiplayer online game.
Man I hate being an ass hauler in Halo 2 all the time...
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A.J. Pollock broke out of an 0-for-13 start to the season with three hits, scoring twice and driving in a run, and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Giants 5-4 on Tuesday night.
Wade Miley (1-1) gave up four runs in the first inning, and then blanked the Giants for the next six, retiring 15 in a row in one stretch.
Gerardo Parra had two hits and the sacrifice fly that scored to the go-ahead run in the sixth inning.
Brandon Belt hit a three-run home run in the first, his second homer in as many games.
Addison Reed, who gave up the game-winning home run to Buster Posey Monday night, pitched a scoreless ninth for his first save with the Diamondbacks.
Pinch-hitter Hector Sanchez reached second with one out in the ninth when Arizona rookie shortstop Chris Owings misjudged a pop fly to short left and it dropped for a double. But Brandon Crawford fouled out to the catcher and Juan Perez struck out looking to end the game.
Pollock, dropped from the leadoff spot to No. 8 in the order, beat out an infield single in the first, singled and scored in the fourth, then doubled in a run and scored the go-ahead run in the sixth.
Juan Guiterrez (0-1) went two innings to take the loss in relief of Matt Cain.
The perils of the new challenge rule were on display in the bottom of the fourth inning. With two outs, Giants manager Bruce Bochy challenged a safe call on an attempt to pick off Pollock at first.
Bochy lost the challenge, so he didn't have one to use moments later when Pollock scored from third on a passed ball. Replays showed Cain's glove appeared to touch Pollock's foot before the Diamondback base runner crossed the plate.
The run cut the Giants' lead to 4-3.
The Diamondbacks scored twice in the sixth to take the lead. Owings singled with one out, stole second and scored on Pollock's ground-rule double to left-center. Miley singled, an then Pollock scored from third on Parra's sacrifice fly to left, sliding in barely ahead of Perez's throw.
San Francisco jumped on Miley in a hurry. Singles by Angel Pagan, Pablo Sandoval and Posey brought in the first run. Then Belt hit Miley's 1-0 pitch into the swimming pool area in right field and it was 4-0.
Arizona got two in the bottom of the first. Parra led off with a single and came home on Goldschmidt's double to deep right-center. Goldschmidt scored on Martin Prado's single.
Cain left with a 4-3 lead after five innings. He gave up two earned runs, struck out two and walked two. Will Harris pitched a scoreless eighth for the Diamondbacks.
Notes: Posey is 8 for 17 in his career against Miley. ... In Wednesday night's third game of the four-game series, Tim Hudson makes his Giants debut, while Trevor Cahill (0-1) goes for Arizona. ... The Diamondbacks' Miguel Montero walked three times, once intentionally. ... Arizona's Mark Trumbo twice grounded in to inning-ending double plays. ... The attendance of 18,974 was just under 30,000 below Monday night's turnout.


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Bjorn necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 73 diseños de 29 diseñadores freelance.
Professional looking design needed for a legal document purchase service. The layout is simple and straightforward (centered). The user will be able to choose document from dropdowns in 4 categories, Buy & Sell, Family, Real Estate and Business. Each category has an image related to the category (material from stock photo services is ok).
The name of the service is Avtal Direkt and is Swedish for "Agreements Direct" or "Contracts on demand".
See the brief for more info and Layout draft!
Avtal Direkt
See the layout draft linked from here. We used English for most texts but we will change the texts ourselves to Swedish, so please keep that in mind when designing buttons etc.
Menu choices may change so don't make it too "static".
Feel free to play around as long as the basic layout elements is used.
Use whatever colors you want, no restrictions, as long as it looks professional.
Each category-image should have a price-tag attached to it as in the draft.
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Orlando Bloom on Miranda Kerr Split: Our Busy Schedules Were 'Challenging'
Miranda Kerr keeps it chic as she heads out of her apartment to catch a flight at JFK Airport on Thursday afternoon (November 7) in New York City.
The 30-year-old Aussie supermodel's husband Orlando Bloom recently opened up about their separation on CBS's Sunday Morning.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Miranda Kerr
"You know, when you have two people who are incredibly busy and who are both very visible in the world, I think it can be challenging to keep that, that schedule and that kind of life in the same track, you know?" Orlando said.
He added, "It's very challenging. You know, I love Miranda and she loves me. We both adore and love our son. We both recognize and realize that we're going to be in each other's lives for the rest of our lives, raising our son."
FYI: Miranda is wearing rag & bone's Turner Coat.
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I am a sudent learning ancient Chinese and history.For a occasional chance I found this Web and soon be fond of it as I am very interested in ancient culture.
In my country only English courses are provided in junior and high schools.We have little chances to get to other languages saying nothing to Latin even ancient Greek.And now I`ve prepared to set a course of ancient Greek by the abundant datas here,so I can read the ancient Greek literatures to feel its original spirit.Of course,I`ll also get to Latin in the future.
Sincerely wish to make friends here coming from all over the world who have the same tastes with me.I like English football and watching football games.My favourite team is Arsenal in London.Its showily technical style makes me infatuated.
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Clean lines, spare details and quiet glamour. Those are the cornerstones of L.A. designer Jenni Kayne's 10-year-old brand, which has found a niche in the fashion world among women who are looking for a no-nonsense, modern day uniform with a colorful, California twist.
"I can't believe it's been 10 years," said Kayne,a Beverly Hills native who is the daughter of investment manager Richard Kayne and philanthropist Suzanne Kayne. "I debuted my first collection at age 19, and now I'm 30 with two kids. Everyone has gotten to see my growing pains and my development into the person and the designer I am today."
A former design assistant to Jennifer Nicholson, Kayne launched her label in 2003. One early collection, shown during Los Angeles Fashion Week, featured satin cone bras and mini-dresses dangling garters.
"I was hanging out with a lot of musicians," she said on a recent afternoon at her West Hollywood boutique. "It was a different time."
Today the collection, about $175 to $1,095, is more chic L.A. mom than rock 'n' roll chick, full of relaxed-yet-polished pieces that mix masculine and feminine elements: button-down silk shirts; tapered, pleat-front pants; lightly-structured blazers that are either boxy and short or elongated; and nubby knit, beach-appropriate sweaters, often incorporating lots of sunny color-blocking. The line is sold in Kayne's namesake boutiques in West Hollywood and the Brentwood Country Mart, as well as a couple dozen other high-end stores around the world.
"The Jenni Kayne woman could be 25 or 60. She's a woman who loves classic clothes that are easy and wearable — things you can throw on the floor and sit on the floor in," the designer said.
"The styles are fashion forward, but still easy to wear at an accessible price point," said Justin Warner, designer buyer for the website ShopBop.com, which has been stocking Kayne's line since 2007.
"She doesn't follow trends, but at the same time the styles always look current," said Stacy Smallwood, owner of Hampden Clothing in Charleston, S.C. "And her shoes have a cult following. We can't keep them in stock."
Indeed, a key part of Kayne's success has been her signature, minimalist-cool, pointed-toe D'Orsay flats ($450 to $595), which launched two years ago and have since become the run-around-town footwear of choice for Jessica Alba, Emma Roberts, Rebecca Gayheart and others.
"We had them in three colors the first season, and they did well in our stores and at wholesale. Then a blogger in China wrote about them, and we got hundreds of calls from people ordering the shoes. We couldn't keep up. The store couldn't even function. And we said, 'Wow, I think we hit the jackpot.' So we blew them out in tons of colors and fabrics, and they are doing really well," Kayne said.
Bags are on the horizon, too, probably for next year, she said — "One or two styles, not a full collection."
Kayne has been working with her head designer Cesar Trujillo for eight years, and gives him credit for the brand's color sense. "I wear neutrals most of the time myself, but I do love playing with color," she said.
Together, they design four collections a year. In stores now, the pre-fall collection started with a floral print Trujillo painted himself.
PHOTOS: Jenni Kayne Resort 2014 Collection
Kayne recently returned from New York, where she presented her Resort 2014 collection, comprised of fluid tailored pieces, blouses and tanks with sharp pencil skirts, in black, navy, white, oxblood and khaki with flashes of hot pink and ethnic-inspired plaids. The looks were accessorized with ropes and ropes of bold gold chains by jewelry designer Lizzie Fortunato.
Kayne doesn't do runway shows anymore, preferring instead to show her collections in low-key presentations.
"I don't do this for ego, and I don't have the drive anymore to be in New York trying to be seen," she said. "I will go for a day or two, cast and style my show and come home. I feel guilty when I miss the first day of school because it's fashion week. "
Although she won't talk numbers, Kayne said her business is growing — enough so that she will open two more stores in September in Montecito, one for women's clothing and accessories, and the other for tabletop, gifts and garden accessories. But she is in no rush to expand. She's happy having an L.A.-centric brand.
Kayne's boutiques also stock merchandise by other designers, including jewelry by All for the Mountain, candles by Cire Trudon, hats by Patricia Underwood, and bags by Clare Vivier. "When we first opened the store, I wanted to have everything a woman would need — shoes, clothes, handbags, jewelry, Spanx and Wolford tights. I also wanted you to be able to pick up a hostess gift, a candle or an amber ball, for example."
But, you only have to look on Kayne's popular lifestyle blog Rip+Tan, named after daugher Ripley, 2, and son Tanner, 4, to know that she has designs on branching into other product categories herself.
She updates the blog daily with posts on everything from how to throw a pirate-themed kids birthday party to how to wear stripes. "I'm the friend people come to ask stuff, like 'I'm getting married, who do I use for flowers?' Or, 'Where do I get white linen table napkins?' Or, 'I'm having a baby, what do I register for?' I don't know why they come to me. I'm a Virgo, I'm organized, I guess I spend too much time on the Internet, and I like beautiful things," she said. "As much as I loved giving advice all the time, I thought if I could put it all in this blog, I wouldn't have to send out so many individual emails. And I've gotten so into it. I love it."
She also has a kids' street style blog called Ladys & Gents, launched with her friend, stylist and decorator Estee Stanley. "We got pregnant at the same time, and were both spending way too much time online shopping for kids clothes." On the site, parents can upload photos of what their kids are wearing. "It's meant to be inspirational for parents who like children's fashion, not for children," she said. "It's anonymous. You don't know the names of the kids or where they are. And we get submissions from as far away as Asia. It's incredible."
It's no wonder Kayne is known for being an L.A. tastemaker as much as a designer. The June issue of W magazine profiles Kayne and her sisters, gallery-owner Maggie Kayne and academic Saree Kayne (a phD student in Anthropology at Stanford),calling them "L.A.'s coolest sister act" and describing Jenni as the "Tory Burch of L.A." The Beverly Hills home the designer shares with her real estate agent husband Richard Ehrlich was featured in Architectural Digest (Ripley's nursery, which is pictured, features framed Hermes scarves on the walls). And Martha Stewart Living recently ran a story about Kayne's hyper-organized kitchen.
"I would love to be a younger Martha Stewart, not that I ever could be," the designer said.
But don't count her out just yet.
Kayne hosts a cooking class at her house each month and was en route to a flower arranging class after our meeting. Even her summer vacation will be a domestic pursuit.
She's taking a month off to fix up a house in Lake Tahoe that was the family retreat when she was growing up. After 30 years, her parents sold it, but Jenni and her sisters recently bought it back. "It's the kind of place where your kids can be outside and you can watch them through the window," she said. "I'm excited to cook, take a breather and be a mom."


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AMD and NVIDIA usually do not launch graphics cards on the same day, but today is a new day and that is exactly what has happened. AMD is announcing the Radeon HD 4890 graphics card, which is powered by the RV790 GPU. This is basically an updated and improved version of the RV770 which powers the Radeon HD 4870 and 4850 series of video cards. Arch rival NVIDIA is releasing the GeForce GTX 275 graphics card. This graphics card is basically half of a GeForce GTX 295 and it has been overclocked for even better performance than the GeForce GTX 260. Neither of the cards has been designed from the ground up with truly new designs, but both feature improvements in a number of areas that are important to consumers.
The RV790 is a re-masked RV770 that has been improved upon. AMD basically took a look at the RV770 and figured out what could be done better to improve thermals and power consumption, while at the same time boosting the clock frequencies. When the dust settled AMD had a new chip they named RV790. This new GPU has 3 million more transistors than the old one due to changes in the decap Ring (signal noise/die area), retiming of entire chip, and altered ASIC power distribution. With that many new transistors you can see that AMD really did change a ton of things and they claim the new chip is an overclocking monster. They also updated the PCB design, improved the heat sink by adding a heat pipe, and have improved drivers since the launch of the original RV770.
As a result, the base clocks for the Radeon HD 4890 will be 850MHz for the GPU and 975MHz for the GDDR5 memory. They also have a Radeon HD 4890 OC, which has a higher core clock of 900MHz. If that isn't fast enough, AMD claims that these graphics cards can easily reach just shy of 1GHz on the core and 1050MHz+ on the memory without touching the voltages. If you wanted to tinker with the voltages and add a better cooling solution, AMD claims you might even be able to reach higher! When it comes to pricing AMD told Legit Reviews today that the Radeon HD 4890 1GB graphics card will sell for "under $260", but they expect that you will find them for under $220 after mail-in-rebate. They also said that retailers have them already, so by the time you read this you should be able to order one. No paper launch going on with AMD, so let's take a look at what NVIDIA is doing today.
The GeForce GTX 275 is based on the GT200 architecture, featuring 240 shader processors operating at 1404MHz. In price and performance, the card sits between the GeForce GTX 260 core 216 and the GeForce GTX 285. In all honesty, the GeForce GTX 275 isn't that far off from a GTX 285 as the 448-bit memory interface is just shy from the full 512-bit interface. The GeForce GTX 275 also differs from the GeForce GTX 285 as it has two fewer memory ICs, so it has a total frame buffer size of 896MB instead of the 1GB. NVIDIA is eager to inform the consumers that the GeForce GTX 275 is fundamentally differentiated from the Radeon HD 4890 by supporting PhysX, CUDA, and GeForce 3D Vision, but our readers already should know that. The GeForce GTX 275 is supposed to retail around the $249 USD range with retail availability expected on or before April 14, 2009.
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya's security services made another arrest Sunday in connection with the deadly Westgate mall attack, a top official said, but declined to say how authorities believe the person was involved in the siege.
Kenya has arrested 12 people since the attack but three have been freed, Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku said during a press conference. He declined to say if any of those arrested had been in the mall during the attack.
Investigators have also identified a car used by the gunmen, from the Somalia-based Islamist group al-Shabab, and found in it "an assortment of illegal weapons," said Lenku.
The four-day siege, which included the collapse of part of the mall, left 67 people dead, according to officials. The Red Cross says 59 people remain missing, though the government puts that number at zero.
Kenyans have become increasingly frustrated over the government's unwillingness to share information about the attack. Almost no details have been released about what happened after the first hours of the siege.
"We ask you to bear with us," he said, of the government's unwillingness to share information.
While the mall was a chaotic scene for many hours after the attack began, with people moving in and out of the upscale shopping center, Lenku insisted no terrorists could have escaped.
"Our forces sealed off every point of exit," he said. "It was completely secured."
Earlier Sunday, about 200 Kenyan Muslims held a rally near the mall to remember the dead and call for peace.
"We condemn the terror attack on Westgate Mall," said one sign. "One Country. One People. One Love. Kenya Asia Muslims," said another.
Many of those at the rally were from Kenya's "Asian" community, the descendants of people who came from colonial India — what is now India, Pakistan and Bangladesh — to work in Kenya more than a century ago.


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Japan's decision to dispatch troops from its self-defence force to southern Iraq has marked a watershed inthe country's postwar history and jarred the pacifist roots of its constitution.
But while Japan may now be shipping its soldiers to Samawah, it still struggles to export Japanese-made weapons. A four-decade ban on the sale of weapons abroad has left the country's defence industry largely impotent on the world stage.
Some analysts argue that the very term "Japanese defence industry" paints an inaccurate picture, as the country's fragmented collection of defence manufacturers produce many of their weapons and missiles under licence from US companies.
Save for the Defence Agency (JDA), there is no market for Japanese arms and no single Japanese company derives more than 50 per cent of its revenues from defence-related sales. In 2001, Mitsubishi Heavy - the country's leading defence supplier - was 19th in the world defence rankings. Its Dollars 3.9bn (Pounds 2.1bn) of defence revenues compare with Boeing's sales of Dollars 57.9bn.
The picture looks even bleaker this fiscal year. The country's defence budget has more or less been frozen, with about Y100bn (Pounds 520m) - nearly one-eighth of it - being allocated to the joint development of a missile defence system with the US.
"Because most components for the missile defence system will be procured from the US, the Japanese industrial circle is concerned that their sales will decrease," says Takashi Inoue, manager at the Space, Energy and Technology policy group at the Keidanren, a powerful business lobby.
But ironically, Japan's involvement in the missile defence system may prove the event that leads to the lifting of the arms export ban. The ban is to be revisited later this year, when an advisory panel and a JDA panel release reports on Japanese defence. The government is planning to endorse the first new defence guidelines in a decade by mid-December.
Shigeru Ishiba, director-general of the defence agency, has already called on Japan to review its ban on weapons exports, much to the chagrin of officials such as Yasuo Fukuda, the chief cabinet secretary. For the pacifist nation, the issue remains delicate.
Gen Nakatani, a former defence minister, favours lifting the ban, but concedes that the outcome could be one-sided. "The US would probably protest if we jointly developed weapons with countries with which the US has unfriendly relationships," he said.
Some experts say that, rather than lifting the ban, the government might just grant an exception regarding the missile defence project.
There is already one exception to the export ban: Japan is permitted to transfer defence-related technology to the US. But while many countries justify defence spending by demonstrating how military technology can be used to stimulate civilian inventions, Japan's record of innovation has little to do with military investments.
Instead, many Japanese commercial technologies end up being deployed in defence applications, labelled as "dual-use" technology.
While the export ban remains, Japanese companies remain unable to develop systems jointly with foreign companies. "Because projects for the defence industry are so costly, international joint development is the mainstream trend," says Mr Inoue.
But lifting the ban could also expose Japan's protected industry to international competition, possibly harming the 1,000 companies that provide the JDA with defence-related products.
Despite that risk, many are convinced that lifting the arms export ban may not be as controversial as the decision to send troops abroad, the first time it has done so since the second world war.
"When I came to Japan in 1976, I came to a country hardly willing to admit to having such a thing as a self-defence force," says Robert Orr, president of Boeing Japan. "The decision to lift the ban remains up to the government. But if Japan's objective is to become more of a player on a global scale, it is probably the way they will have to go."
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President Barack Obama cast himself as a savior of the U.S. auto industry Friday, standing in a once-shuttered Michigan assembly plant with the president of South Korea to boast of a new trade deal and the auto bailout he pushed through Congress. "The investment paid off," Obama declared.
At his side, South Korea's President Lee Myung-bak donned a Detroit Tigers cap to assure U.S. auto workers that the new U.S.-South Korea trade pact wouldn't steal away American jobs. "This is the pledge that I give you," said Lee, acknowledging the suspicion with which U.S. labor unions view trade agreements.
In a rare political spectacle of a visiting head of state on a field trip outside Washington with the U.S. president, both sounding boosterish about American industry, Lee said the trade pact "will create more jobs for you and your family. And it is going to protect your jobs."
The trip took Obama to a state that is key to his re-election hopes and where unemployment is the third highest in the country. Obama has been paying special attention to Michigan; his most recent visit was to deliver a Labor Day speech in Detroit.
But in singling out the auto industry for special attention, Obama and his advisers believe he has a winning issue that stretches beyond Michigan and into other Midwestern states where auto makers have a sizable footprint. At the same time, Obama and his advisers say the trade deal and the bailout were hard-fought victories for the president that portray him as a tough leader.
Obama credited the $80 billion bailout he pushed through Congress two years ago with reviving the once-shuttered plant and keeping General Motors and Chrysler from financial ruin.
"There were a lot of politicians who said it wasn't worth the time and wasn't worth the money. In fact, there are some politicians who still say that," Obama said in an apparent shot at one of the leading challengers for his job, Republican Mitt Romney. "Well, they should come tell that to the workers here."
General Motors Co.'s Orion assembly plant, about 30 miles north of Detroit, had been shuttered before the federal government stepped in.
"One of the first decisions that I made as president was to save the U.S. auto industry from collapse," Obama said.
"An American auto industry that's more profitable and competitive than it's been in years made it worth it."
The plant makes subcompact Chevrolet Sonics with Korean parts, and in Lee, who once headed Hyundai in South Korea, Obama brought a foreign guest familiar with the industry and head of a country whose exports have battered the U.S. car industry. In 2010, U.S. automakers exported fewer than 14,000 cars to South Korea, while South Korea exported 515,000 cars to the U.S., according to congressional staff.
Obama and Lee said the long-delayed new trade pact would help turn that around. The auto provisions hung up the deal's completion, until negotiators overcame U.S. auto industry complaints that previous efforts at a deal failed to do enough to lift South Korea's barriers to U.S.-made cars.
"Despite all the work that lies ahead, this is a city where a great American industry is coming back to life and the industries of tomorrow are taking root," Obama said, "and a city where people are dreaming up ways to prove all the skeptics wrong and write the next proud chapter in the Motor City's history."
GM began building the Sonic last year following an agreement with the United Autoworkers that allowed the company to pay some workers lower wages that are more competitive with those in GM's foreign plants. The Sonic's predecessor, the Chevrolet Aveo, was built in South Korea.
Obama won Michigan by a 57-41 margin in 2008 but could face difficulties in the state next year, especially if his general election opponent is Romney, whose father was Michigan governor.
In a Republican debate this week, Romney said he disagreed with the Obama administration's handling of the auto rescue. Democrats have pounced on a New York Times opinion piece written by Romney in November 2008, as GM and Chrysler were seeking federal bailouts. Romney, at the time, wrote that the companies needed to restructure themselves and said if they received a federal bailout, "you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye."
The trip also served as an opportunity for Obama to illustrate his special relationship with the South Korean leader. Inviting Lee to the U.S. heartland was an unusual addition to the itinerary of a high-profile state visit, and once there, both leaders took off their jackets, rolled up their sleeves and, wearing nearly identical steel blue ties, posed for pictures inside a shiny red Sonic. Obama was behind the wheel and Lee in the passenger's seat.
When Lee got out he turned to his hosts and asked in English: "Special discount?"
Replied Obama: "It's already a good bargain."
The South Korea could expand U.S. exports by $11 billion and support 70,000 jobs, according to the White House. Along with new deals with Colombia and Panama, the agreements would lower or eliminate tariffs that American exporters face in the three countries.
Many labor groups opposed the deals, but the agreements won wide bipartisan support in part because their passage was linked to legislation to extend aid to workers displaced by foreign competition.
Associated Press writer Ken Thomas in Washington contributed to this report.


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Thousands of New Hampshire residents are still without power because of heavy winds during storms that pushed across the state Monday night.
Public Service of New Hampshire said more than 22,500 customers were without electricity early Monday evening. By 10:30 p.m., the total had been cut to about 12,800.
PSNH spokeswoman Elizabeth LaRocca said line and tree crews planned to continue working into the morning while trying to repair the damage done by the wind gusts. Most of the outages were in the western part of New Hampshire while customers on the coast were not affected.
Nashua was also hit hard by the storms. LaRocca said about 1,200 customers in the Nashua area were still without electricity. The Pheasant Lane Mall was forced to close early due to the outages.
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Heavy rain and wind gusts have left hundreds of New Hampshire residents without power.
Public Service of New Hampshire says the most concentrated areas are in northwest New Hampshire just east of the Vermont state line in towns of Lyman, Bath, Landaff and Easton.
The utility says customers in Francestown in southern New Hampshire are also without electricity.
In all, PSNH says about 22,500 customers have been affected by outages scattered across the state.


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MOSCOW (AP) — Syria's foreign minister said Friday that his country is prepared to implement a cease-fire in the war-torn city of Aleppo and exchange detainees with the country's opposition forces as confidence building measures ahead of a peace conference opening next week in Switzerland.
Walid al-Moallem told journalists about the cease-fire plan after meeting in Moscow with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov. Al-Moallem did not divulge details of the plan, which would contain "measures to enforce security" in Aleppo, 190 miles (310 km) from the Syrian capital.
"As a result of our confidence in the Russian position and its role in stopping the Syrian bloodshed, today I submitted to Minister Lavrov a plan for security arrangements that have to do with the city of Aleppo," said al-Moallem. "I asked him to make necessary arrangements to guarantee its implementation and specify the zero hour for military operations to cease."
Al-Moallem said that if Lavrov's efforts were successful, the cease-fire plan could be used as a model for other parts of Syria, where the conflict between President Bashar Assad's government and opposition forces has claimed over 100,000 lives.
The meeting between Russian and Syrian sides was part of a final diplomatic push ahead of a peace conference dubbed Geneva 2, which opens Wednesday in Montreux, Switzerland. On Thursday, Lavrov met with the foreign minister of Iran, Syria's staunchest regional backer. Lavrov strongly urged the West to invite Tehran to participate in next week's peace conference.
But prospects for the talks, the first between the warring sides in Syria since the start of the conflict, are dim as each party shows no inclination for compromise.
Al-Moallem's comments came on the same day that Syria's main Western-backed opposition group, the Syrian National Coalition, will meet in Istanbul to decide whether to participate in the peace talks. The coalition has remained adamant that the ouster of Assad is a condition for any deal, and Al-Moallem's overtures in Moscow appeared to be an attempt to coax the group into attending the talks.
Zeina Karam contributed to this report from Beirut.


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It is with great sadness that I send news that our long-time colleague, Professor Emeritus Erwin Mickelberg, passed away last Friday. Professor Mickelberg was an Augsburg alumnus (class of 1954), a member of the Augsburg Faculty and the Department of Biology.
Professor Mickelberg began his teaching career at Augsburg College in 1956 and retired in 1994. He received his bachelor's degree from Augsburg College and his master's degree from the University of Minnesota. Erwin taught classes in anatomy and physiology, human biology, nutrition, and botany in both the Day program and the Weekend College program. He also volunteered in the Minneapolis Public Schools, teaching elementary school children about the human body, and was active in his church.
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Molecular evidence points to four species of small mammals—the white-footed mouse, the eastern chipmunk, the short-tailed shrew, and the masked shrew—as the main reservoirs of B. burgdorferi. Together they are responsible for infecting 80 to 90 percent of ticks. Levi and his colleagues analyzed the correlations between Lyme disease and the abundance of coyotes, red foxes, and deer. Their conclusion: Lyme disease is more common in areas with fewer small-mammal predators.
With the extirpation of gray wolves from large areas of the United States, coyotes have become the dominant predator across the country, displacing red foxes and causing their range-wide decline (foxes won't build dens when coyotes are nearby). While coyotes rely more on deer, red foxes feed primarily on small mammals, killing them in large quantities and stashing them away for later feeding. The team found that Lyme disease did not consistently increase with deer abundance, but it did correlate positively with an abundance of coyotes and a scarcity of foxes. In western New York State, where foxes are abundant, Lyme disease is rare even though deer are plentiful. (PNAS)


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jon Hamm is going from a presenter to host of the ESPY Awards, a natural segue for the former three-sport prep athlete who is unabashed in his love for his hometown St. Louis Cardinals.
Hamm called himself a "pretty good" high school player, but is quick to note he was never a threat to make it in the professional ranks.
That's why the 42-year-old actor best known as Don Draper on AMC's "Mad Men" wants to keep the focus on the athletes when he hosts the annual show honoring the year's best sports moments. It airs live on ESPN on July 17 from the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles.
"When you look at someone else who is excellent at what they do, you can't help but be jealous," Hamm said Thursday. "When you look at what David Freese did in the 2011 World Series, that's performance at the highest level with all the chips on the table."
Freese had two key hits in the late innings of Game 6 against Texas that year, helping the Cardinals force a Game 7, which they won.
"I don't want to disrespect any Blues fans, but the Cardinals are No. 1 in my heart," he said, adding that the Cardinals and NHL's Blues are "1 and 1-A" in his rooting order.
At John Burroughs High in suburban St. Louis, Hamm was on the football, baseball and swimming teams, lettering in all three sports.
"I loved it. A lot of those guys I played on those teams with I'm still pretty good friends with," he said. "It's important for young kids to get out there and move around, especially in the kind of high-fructose environment we have these days."
Hamm is hosting the ESPYs just as he wraps filming on the Disney movie "The Million Dollar Arm," in which he plays a sports agent.
Hosting an awards show is not like hosting "Saturday Night Live," he noted. "But I've never had a problem standing up in front of people making a fool of myself, and I'm sure that will happen at least once during the telecast."
As someone who's been nominated for his share of acting trophies, Hamm knows what it's like to sit in the audience for an awards show.
"You kind of want it to go fast because there's fun parties afterwards," he said, noting that the best hosts "always kind of keep it moving, keep it light, and give you some laughs."
Among the scheduled presenters are LeBron James, Ben Affleck, Sean "Diddy" Combs, Selena Gomez, Danica Patrick, Maria Sharapova, Jason Sudeikis, and Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Chrissy Teigen.


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too much funFriday, August 17, 2007
The kids and I took a little road trip to my sisters house this week. This is one of our favorite summer trips. Quiet and private, we don't even leave the grounds once we get here. Many fantastic memories have happened in this home.
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MANSFIELD, LA (KSLA) - When a wild shopping spree fueled by what appeared to be "limitless" Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards ensued at two Louisiana Walmarts, not everyone who receive food stamp benefits joined in.
In cell phone video that is circulating the Internet, several hundred people can be seen filling their shopping carts at Springhill and Mansfield Walmarts, when the stores apparently continued accepting EBT cards even though they weren't showing limits.
However, what can't be seen in those videos are the people who get food stamp assistance and chose not to abuse the system. One Ark-La-Tex man, who asked not to be identified, was one of them, though he admits the thought did cross his mind. "The first thing I thought of was, rib eye steak tonight instead of ramen noodles, but if we would have done that, I would have felt too guilty," he said.
Another EBT card user emailed KSLA News 12 and described her situation. She explained that the cashier at the Mansfield Walmart told her about the glitch Saturday night, while she was checking out, "I could have easily walked back and went slap crazy and got all sorts of stuff, but I am conscious of the fact that this isn't my money," she wrote and adds she now fears all EBT card users are being judged, and the man who wishes to remain anonymous agrees.
"Honestly, I do believe in our system, I do think it's a privilege to get the EBT money, to abuse it would mean that one apple spoils the bunch and if that system goes down, that's money I don't get a month to help pay for groceries, I don't want to see that happen because that would just put me in a bigger bind than I'm already in." He explained that he receives $150.00 a month and is careful to make that money stretch to feed his family four. He believes there are more people like him using the system correctly than the types of people who took advantage of the glitch Saturday night. "It just seems like the ones we pay attention to are the ones who abuse the system," he said.
But who will pay for the food the EBT card users apparently got away with and the food left to spoil in the carts? The Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services, the agency who oversees these benefits explained to KSLA News 12, not a dime of taxpayer money was used.
Any overages would be picked up by the retailer, in this case that would be Wal-mart, "If someone only had $50.00 left on their SNAP/EBT card, but came into a store and purchased $150.00 worth of merchandise, then that retailer will only be reimbursed for that $50.00 on their card," said Trey Williams with DCFS. You can read more of what Williams said here.
KSLA News 12 reached out to Walmart for a statement, but didn't get a response.
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Community Developments Investments (August 2012)
New Markets Tax Credit Transaction Brings Food Jobs to Newark
Phyllis Reich, Tax Credit Investment Officer, Community Capital Group, TD Bank
TD BankForklift driver is one of 250 jobs that are expected to be available at a new cold-storage facility owned by the Newark Farmers Market and the Wakefern Food Corporation in Newark, N.J.
The Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI) is most recognized for bringing fresh food to underserved neighborhoods, commonly known as "food deserts." (For more about food deserts, see "A Look Inside.") The HFFI is praised for the expansion and support of new grocery stores, improved corner stores, and the establishment of farmers markets. Retail suppliers, however, are only part of the story of bringing better food to the table. The packaging, warehousing, and distribution of produce and fresh meats and fish to the retailers also play roles.
The city of Newark, N.J., is supporting the HFFI and creating local jobs by participating in a partnership financing arrangement that will store and distribute food, including fresh produce.
The Project
In 2010, TD Bank was approached by the owners of Newark Farmers Market and the Wakefern Food Corporation to finance and build a new refrigerated warehouse and food distribution facility in Newark. This 180,000-square-foot, temperature-controlled facility will have the capacity to accept 40 million packages of fresh produce annually for distribution to ShopRite supermarkets throughout the Northeast. Wakefern, the largest retailer-owned cooperative in the United States, will use the new facility to support the development of 27 to 30 new grocery stores in the Northeast corridor of the United States and create 250 permanent jobs in the Newark area alone.
This transaction involved collaboration among five entities:
The Background
The warehouse is located at 2-44 Cornelia Street on a site owned by the Newark Farmers Market, in the eastern part of Newark's Ironbound neighborhood, which got its name because of the many forges, foundries, and railroads surrounding it in the nineteenth century. It has historically been one of the most stable and viable neighborhoods in the city. Today, local factories, warehouses, and industrial lots continue to operate in the Ironbound section alongside a vibrant and lively residential neighborhood known for its fine Portuguese cuisine.
The area, however, is also in an economically distressed census tract with a median income of $35,507, which is approximately 50 percent of the statewide median income, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The proportion of Newark residents living below the poverty line between 2005 and 2009 was 24.3 percent, or almost three times the poverty rate for the state of New Jersey, according to Census.
Newark, New Jersey's largest city by population and one of the most densely populated cities in the nation, is located in an old, established industrial and commercial region. Its proximity to the waterfront and to booming East Coast cities such as New York and Boston influenced its development into a significant industrial center during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This changed in the 1950s as Americans moved from the cities to the suburbs. The flight of wealth and residents was followed by businesses that thrived on meeting the needs of those transplanted consumers and workers. As businesses left the center-city neighborhoods, they took the jobs and left behind empty facilities.
In 2005, a forward-looking master plan established several new objectives for future development in Newark. The plan identified a strategy to increase the percentage of port and port-related jobs for Newark residents. The strategy specifically encouraged the application of new business models for the industrial business district, including modern production, warehouse, and distribution centers.
Importance of Healthy-Food Financial Development
Recent studies indicate that many low-income city neighborhoods lack access to outlets that carry fresh, affordable food. To improve fresh-food access, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), along with many private foundations, have united to provide capital to bring supermarkets and other fresh-food venues, such as farmers markets, green carts, and small supermarkets, back to the nation's cities. The Newark Farmers Market project demonstrates that a large distribution center located in an urban port area can provide economic benefits and help support the expansion of new healthy-food outlets by taking advantage of economies of scale in procurement and packaging, and using state-of-the-art information technologies to deliver affordable fresh food to urban communities.
This project also reflects the strategy outlined in the Newark master plan. Because of its natural proximity to the Port of Newark, interstate highways, and rail lines, the Newark Farmers Market is ideally situated to provide cold-storage facilities. The new warehouse and distribution center can handle the large volumes of perishable goods that arrive through the seaport and can be shipped up and down the Northeast corridor.
The warehouse and cold-storage facility is leased entirely to Wakefern, which owns one of the Northeast's largest trucking fleets. The facility will be used primarily for the receipt, storage, packaging, and distribution of various fruits, and it includes specially constructed banana ripening rooms. The 30 planned banana rooms are expected to store, ripen, and ship approximately 3.5 million cases of bananas annually for supermarkets throughout the Northeast.
Packaged and precut vegetables and fruits are occupying more shelf space in the produce department of supermarkets. More produce is being shipped directly from growers and shippers to large retailers who operate their own distribution centers, resulting in greater variety and favorable pricing for the end consumer. By locating this facility in Newark, Wakefern is bringing healthy, more affordable produce closer to urban neighborhoods.
Tax Credit Financing Structure
The financing was structured as a "leveraged model" NMTC transaction. The NMTC allocation was provided by TRF and Consortium America. A total of $35.7 million, comprising $9.4 million in equity and a $26.3 million leveraged loan from TD Bank, was capitalized in an investment fund created for this transaction. After an initial payment of $1.4 million in transaction fees, these combined funds were used to make Qualified Equity Investments (QEI) into two separate subsidiary Community Development Entities (sub-CDE) formed by TRF and Consortium.
After the payment of additional transaction fees and expenses, TRF and Consortium each made two Qualified Low Income Community Investment Loans (QLICI) totaling $33.4 million to the Newark Farmers Market (a Qualified Active Low Income Business or QALIB) for construction of the refrigerated warehouse. The following table illustrates the project costs.
TRF and Consortium America are both certified Community Development Entities (CDE), and together they provided the NMTC allocation for this project. TRF is a community development financial institution (CDFI) that finances housing, community facilities, and commercial projects. It receives its capital from a diverse group of investors that includes individuals, banks, foundations, corporations, civic organizations, and government. TRF also provides financing for community development initiatives through dedicated loan funds such as the Pennsylvania Fresh Food Financing Initiative and the TRF Growth Fund. (See "The Reinvestment Fund: A Healthy-Food Financing Leader.")
Consortium America is a subsidiary of the Trammell Crow Company. It received a total of $80 million in NMTC allocation authority in 2009. Consortium America makes debt and equity investments in large-scale new construction and redevelopment projects that have the potential to serve as "anchors" or transformational projects in low-income communities. It focuses its resources on the most distressed NMTC-eligible census tracts.
Flow Chart
The flow chart illustrates the structure of the transaction. The loans and equity from TD Bank flowed into the investment fund. The investment fund paid fees to the CDEs (TRF and Consortium America) and made two QEIs into two sub-CDEs established for the purpose of this transaction. These sub-CDEs made QLICI Loans to the borrower.
The borrower repays the loans to the sub-CDEs with income from its business operations. The sub-CDEs make distributions to the investment fund, which in turn repays the TD Bank loans. The equity investor (TD Bank) also receives NMTC tax credits generated by the QEIs for the seven-year term of the investment.
Next Steps
The Newark Farmers Market is expected to hire new workers whom Wakefern will train. Employees will be members of the Teamsters Union Local 863, which presently represents workers at the Wakefern supermarkets. In addition, Wakefern will be able to significantly increase the production and distribution of fresh fruit throughout its network of supermarkets because of the increased storage capacity and value-added packaging.
For further information, contact Phyllis Reich at email@example.com or call (201) 574-4859.


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by Tom Coates
New product ideas are increasingly based around the surfacing, exposing and recombination of data - and people are the biggest source of data there is. The last few years have seen us exploring the possibilities of social data and we're on the brink of the mainstreaming of location - so what's next? What parts of our lives can we track and instrument? What new product possibilities emerge? And what of data portability, ownership, brokerage and privacy?
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THOMASVILLE | A man died Tuesday after a pickup truck left East Holly Grove Road and struck him as he was mowing his grass.
THOMASVILLE | A man died Tuesday after a pickup truck left East Holly Grove Road and struck him as he was mowing his grass on a riding lawn mower.
Bobby Lambert, 73, was pronounced dead at his residence in the 6900 block of East Holly Grove Road. First responders were dispatched to the accident about 3:30 p.m.
The driver of the Chevrolet extended-cab pickup truck, 50-year-old Edward Glenn Burcham of Black Lake Road, Thomasville, was traveling east on Holly Grove Road when a dog ran out in front of his vehicle, said Trooper Jeff Boozer with the N.C. Highway Patrol. The truck crossed the center line and ran off the road to the left before striking Lambert who was on the lawn mower in his own yard, the trooper said.
"He was well off the roadway and inside of his own yard when he was struck," Boozer said.
Lambert, Boozer said, was struck from behind and was ejected from the lawn mower as the truck continued through the yard. Burcham's vehicle struck several small trees and came to rest near Lambert's driveway.
First Sgt. B.D. Stalvey of the N.C. Highway Patrol said the driver, who was uninjured, and a witness told troopers he was trying to avoid a dog in the road before the truck hit the lawn mower.
Stalvey said the Highway Patrol's Reconstruction Unit based in Winston-Salem was en route to the scene early Tuesday evening to reconstruct the accident. Those results would determine if there would be any charges filed against the driver, who was being held Tuesday evening by a sheriff's deputy in an area away from the scene.
"Charges right now are pending," Boozer said late Tuesday night. "We have gathered all the information and we are going to present it to the (district attorney) and it will be up to them on whether they will go with any charges."
Boozer said Burcham was traveling an estimated 30-35 miles per hour and an original travel speed of 45 mph, which is the speed limit in the section of East Holly Grove Road where the accident occurred. The trooper said there is no indication of speeding "whatsoever."
"It certainly wasn't an intentional accident," Boozer said.
Shortly after the accident occurred, Ricky Crigger, a passer-by, pulled up to a stop sign on Johnsontown Road at Holly Grove Road and saw the driver of the truck on the phone. He learned the man was on the phone with 911 and saw Lambert lying on the ground in the lawn.
Crigger, who was previously trained in CPR, determined Lambert had no pulse and wasn't breathing. A telecommunicator told him to go ahead and start chest compressions. With hearing family members crying in the background, Crigger administered the compressions for several minutes until a sheriff's deputy arrived on the scene and continued CPR. Firefighters with the Fair Grove Fire Department also assisted with resuscitation efforts until paramedics arrived.
"He is very remorseful," Crigger said of Burcham. "I did pray with him, and asked him to keep his prayers with the family of the victim. I don't believe there was anything in his heart that would lead to indicate that he meant to do this by any means."
Linda Harris, a neighbor, identified the victim as Bobby Lambert. Highway Patrol troopers were interviewing witnesses, including a 12-year-old child who was riding his bicycle and saw the accident unfold.
It appeared the mower came to rest on its side, and Lambert's body was about 10 feet from it.
Kay Roop, who lives across from the Lamberts, said her son rushed to her side on his bicycle and alerted her of the accident. The former certified nursing assistant arrived on the scene to help but found others were working in an effort to revive the man. Roop said she would be seeking counseling for her son after he saw the horrific accident.
Lambert's wife, Barbara, alerted, their pastor, the Rev. Tom Sizemore of Southside Baptist Church in Thomasville, of her husband's death.
"(Lambert) is awesome," Sizemore told The Dispatch at the scene of the accident. "There is no other word for the man."
Sizemore explained Lambert was a deacon, a Sunday school teacher, a father and grandfather. He would often write Gospel songs as he mowed grass, the pastor said.
"There is no finer man that I have ever met in my life," Sizemore said.
Sizemore was speaking on behalf of the family who were grieving Tuesday evening.
"God is in control," he said of his message to Lambert's family.
Bill Blevins, a neighbor, said he's known Lambert for several years.
"He's been a wonderful neighbor," he said. "…He was just a good man. He had a good character about him."
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Mobile & Wireless Slideshow: Apple's iPad is Top Enterprise Tablet Choice
By Don Reisinger | Posted 03-27-2012
There was a time when just about every IT decision maker looked at Apple as the tech company that would kill their career if they so much as considered bringing the company's products into the office. In recent years, enterprise attitudes towards Apple and its products have changed dramatically. It seems each month, we're pelted with news of more and more companies deploying Macs across the office. With each new iPhone launch, we're told that the smartphone will become a favorite among corporate users. A recent study from research firm ChangeWave Research supports that premise, finding that Apple's iPad is the most popular tablet choice for enterprise users. The company polled 1,604 U.S. business IT buyers in February 2012 to discuss their tablet purchasing roadmap. More than one fifth (22 percent) of respondents said they plan on purchasing tablets for their employees in 2Q 2012. Here's what else the survey reveals about Apple iPad and other tablets in the enterprise.
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HACKENSACK, N.J. — Clara Sofia Ochoa of Hackensack cleans a BMW dealership in Maywood at night.
It's a far cry from her old job: she was a pharmacist at a national penitentiary in her native Colombia.
The 32-year-old loved working there.
She has loved pharmacies since her girlhood when she watched her father help people in his pharmacy.
"I always admired what my father did," Ochoa told Daily Voice. "I have a passion for helping people."
But it's one she has been unable to indulge since she came to the U.S. in 2010.
Upon arrival, she learned she couldn't attend pharmacy school here. A congenital hearing problem made it impossible for her to do an internship.
Was she upset? Yes.
Deterred? No.
She'd always been a straight-A student.
So she kept cleaning— and learning English at the Bergenfield Public Library — even as she earned a bachelor's degree with a specialization in science in FDU's Puerta al Futuro program .
"After that, I decided to change my career path," Ochoa said.
In 2014, she registered for a master's in administrative science, also at Puerta al Futuro.
"I thought I could use my experience and knowledge as a pharmacist in some administrative position in the health care field," Ochoa said.
Onward she went, always optimistic, always cleaning.
In 2015, Ochoa got her master's, along with three certificates.
In 2016, she became a U.S. citizen.
None of this was easy, particularly given her hearing issue. Then again, it had never been easy.
Her childhood was filled with physical, motor, and speech therapies, at some points requiring 90-minute drives from her home village of Santuario, near Pereira in central Colombia.
In high school, she took notes and read lips as best she could and got no extra help.
Even today, Ochoa hears 60 percent of the words someone utters in a quiet environment.
In lecture halls, she uses a SurfLink system. A professor must clip a microphone device to his or her clothing for Ochoa to receive the sound on her end.
Then there's the issue of other electronics.
"I cannot understand the sound that comes from the TV, the phone," Ochoa said.
During the last year, as she looks for an administrative health job, many potential employers have asked for phone interviews. Ochoa has trouble understanding them.
If the interviewer shuffles papers on the other end of the line, she hears nothing.
If the interviewer's mouthpiece moves an inch, ditto.
She needs to get past the obstacle of the phone interview. But so far, she hasn't.
In her spotless apartment, Ochoa keeps bucking herself up. Now she's reading "I'll Scream Later," a memoir by Marlee Matlin, the famed deaf actress.
She draws inspiration from Matlin's life story .
And she keeps cleaning.
And hoping.
And applying for jobs. Every single day.
She's come so far. She knows, she said, that she will go the distance.
Reach Clara Sofia Ochoa at email@example.com or, by text, at 201-421-6980.
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