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Pitchin' In - Episode Guide
Season 4
Pitchin' In at the Lodge
Season 4 - June 21, 2017
In this episode, Chef Lynn heads off to fish one of her favourite fishes, West Coast Halibut at Eagle Pointe Lodge.
Season 4 - January 25, 2017
Plentiful and native to The Great Lakes, whitefish is caught in Georgian Bay right into the winter, when Chef Lynn decides she's brave enough to endure the job.
Season 4 - January 24, 2017
Chef Lynn gets one-on-one with free run pasture raised hens and discovers there is no turning back once she experiences how superior their eggs are for cooking and baking.
Season 4 - January 24, 2017
Chinook salmon is prized for its meaty and rich flesh. Now it's being farmed sustainably on Vancouver Island. But it's a wet and cold business, as Chef Lynn finds out.
Season 4 - January 23, 2017
A lot of people think pheasant is fancy, but in Southern, Alberta, lots of folks grow up eating it. Chef Lynn finds out how tough and sneaky they are to catch.
Sweet Potato
Season 4 - January 23, 2017
Chef Lynn is on a mission to prove that you can use sweet potatoes in more than pies and sweet side dishes. So she travels to Tennessee where some of the best are grown.
Season 4 - January 20, 2017
The Annapolis Valley is one of the best areas in Canada for growing fruit, especially apples. Chef Lynn travels there to harvest some of the oldest species of apples in Canada.
Sweet Corn
Season 4 - January 20, 2017
Summer sweet corn and seafood is a match made in heaven for Chef Lynn. So she's willing to do whatever it takes to harvest some of the finest in the country.
Season 4 - January 19, 2017
Chef Lynn finds herself up a tree confronting her fear of heights once again. This time, she's fired on the job.
Season 4 - January 19, 2017
Watermelon says summer. But , as Chef Lynn discovers, harvesting them in the heat is tougher than a full workout at the gym with medicine balls.
Season 4 - January 18, 2017
The sweetest, most prized onion of all is the Vidalia, and Chef Lynn is willing to suffer to harvest them for the perfect French onion soup.
Season 4 - January 18, 2017
Chef Lynn travels to the artichoke capitol of North America to work with a third generation artichoke farmer. She even gets to try some artichoke muffins.
Season 4 - January 17, 2017
Baked, Smoked, Grilled, fresh trout is one of Chef Lynn's favorites. But she never imagined she'd need to play hockey to find out how the locals enjoy it in Thornbury, Ontario.
Season 4 - January 17, 2017
Plump, juicy strawberries grow low to the ground, so Chef Lynn finds out it's back breaking work to harvest the best. But these gorgeous berries inspire her to create a mouth-watering brunch.
Season 3
Season 3 - January 16, 2017Most people think a pumpkin is a pumpkin and enjoy them on holidays. But in rural Illinois, they grow more than 50 varieties and Chef Lynn is anxious to showcase them in every course of her dinner.
Season 3 - January 16, 2017The pristine waters off Vancouver Island produce some of the finest seafood in the world, including scallops, long a favorite of Chef Lynn. But harvesting them is work for strong young men, as she finds out the hard way.
Season 3 - January 13, 2017Rice feeds the world but there is nothing pleasant about the way it's farmed, especially in the Mississippi heat and humidity. But Chef Lynn wants to see how it's done.
Saskatoon Berries
Season 3 - January 13, 2017These berries are a prairie treasure and every one in Saskatchewan and Alberta has a secret recipe for Saskatoon berry jam or pie that Lynn can't wait to taste.
Season 3 - January 12, 2017Peaches are summer and when they are good they are great. But they grow in hot, dry climates and harvesting them is a sticky mess.
Season 3 - January 12, 2017This Middle Eastern delicacy is harvested under the hot California sun which proves to be the biggest obstacle for Chef Lynn getting her hands on some of the finest figs she's ever seen.
Season 3 - January 11, 2017For a few weeks early every summer, Central Michigan goes nuts for Asparagus. The area's sandy soil makes it ideal for this delicious vegetable. But the locals do more than celebrate it; they revere it—and even crown a local Mrs. Asparagus at a pageant. Will it be Chef Lynn?
Season 3 - January 11, 2017The king of Canadian freshwater fish and the star of many of Lynn's menus, pickerel is tough to fish commercially—as Lynn will find out, and its delicate flesh needs a light touch!
Season 3 - January 10, 2017In the highlands of Nevada, Lynn's longtime dream to live like a true cowgirl comes true. Here the special "Buckaroo" subculture will put Lynn to the test driving, corralling and branding.
Yellow Tail Snapper
Season 3 - January 10, 2017Almost all snapper is overfished, but Florida yellow snapper is abundant and sustainably harvested with a delicious buttery flesh and flavor. It's considered one of the finest fish in the world and fishing for it holds some major challenges for our intrepid chef.
Maple Syrup
Season 3 - January 9, 2017The iconic Canadian ingredient is relegated to desert and breakfast. Lynn has never seen it harvested and is anxious to experiment with it in savory dishes.
Buffalo Mozzarella
Season 3 - January 9, 2017Recently, a group of Ontario farmers have become some of the only farmers outside of Italy to raise Water Buffalo for their prized milk, and a local creamery is making it into Buffalo Mozzarella. Lynn is delighted to work with this ingredient, but intrigued to find out more about these charismatic animals.
Season 2
Season 2 -Avocado is almost always served as an appetizer or used to enhance a dish. But Chef Lynn decides she wants to make it the star of a meal. Turns out the farmer she meets is a retired army officer and puts her through a serious avocado boot camp.
Season 2 -Cloudberrires or Bake Apples, as they are called in Newfoundland, can fetch up to $60 a gallon, because they are so rare and so tasty. But Chef Lynn has to battle her fear of heights to gather enough of them for a meal that celebrates the local tradition of living off the land.
Season 2 -Bison was once almost extinct. But a small group of ranchers have worked to bring them back and now bison is becoming a popular more healthy alternative to beef. But these majestic creatures are raised almost wild, and Chef Lynn has to come face to face with her fears when she has to handle them.
Season 2 -Farmed fish is the way of the future, so Chef Lynn decides to check out the classic fish in Southern cuisine.
Season 2 -Chef Lynn loves a roast chicken—now she's found heritage French birds that taste the way chicken used to taste. But raising them is hard and dirty work, and even requires Chef Lynn to sleep overnight with 5000 baby chicks.
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Chef Lynn will admit that she prefers Crab to any other seafood—including Lobster. So she's thrilled to go out on the open waters off Vancouver Island to haul in trap after trap of the finest Dungeness Crab in the world. Tipping her toque to her Asian mentors, she prepares a Cantonese inspired crab for her final meal.
Season 2 -Chef Lynn loves to quote Julia Child, who used to say: "If you don't want to use butter, use cream". As far as Lynn is concerned, life would be empty without dairy fat, so she's found an organic farmer in Minnesota who produces some of America's finest-His pride and joy is his 43% cream. Dairy is produced 365 years a year, so Lynn suffers in the cold of late winter to experience how the best is produced.
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Chef Lynn calls limes the underdog of the citrus family because they are relegated to very few dishes in North American cuisine. In the orchards she visits, many varieties of lime are grown, some she's never tasted, and her imagination goes wild for all the great dishes she can prepare with them.
Season 2 -The clear and clean waters around Prince Edward Island are home to some of the best shellfish in the world, especially mussels. They are great just steamed in their own juices or with white wine. But Chef Lynn can't wait to get her hands to show the locals how much she can do with them.
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The plumpest and richest pecans in the world can be found in north central Texas, and it's there that Chef Lynn finds a family farm that's producing the tastiest nuts she's ever had.
Season 2 -According to Chef Lynn, " a day without a potato is like a day without sunshine". So she's keen to get down and dirty to dig up a variety of heirloom potatoes in Alberta. Trouble is, it's all about operating heavy and dangerous machinery, and that freaks her out.
Season 2 -Squid fishing is highly competitive and the people who do it are hard core. But that doesn't stop the intrepid Chef Lynn. Battling the cold and the darkness, Lynn goes out for an all-night adventure.
Wild Boar
Season 2 -Perth County in Southwestern Ontario is famous for some of the best pork in Canada. But it's also home to one of only a handful of farmer's who are raising Wild Boar. Inspired by the possibilities, Lynn has a local butcher prepare wild boar bacon for her.
Season 1
Season 1 -Most people think cranberries are for holiday meals or maybe for juice to go into cocktails. But Chef Lynn wants to see how many ways she can use them in an autumn brunch. But first she has to earn her keep, knee deep in the wet bogs where cranberries are grown.
Season 1 -Chef Lynn wants more than anything else to live the Cajun life for a day and gets herself invited to go crawfishing. She battles the bugs and the mud, but her biggest obstacle to fitting in turns out to be figuring out how to cook for the locals, who hate vegetables.
Goat Cheese
Season 1 -Chef Lynn is blown away by the scenery in British Columbia's Fraser Valley, but over the moon when she tastes the local artisanal goat cheese. She needs to know how it's produced—from start to finish and is put to work milking and feeding goats. It's a long way from Fifth Avenue!
Hog Wild
Season 1 -Chef Lynn likes nothing more than pork and picks one of America's top heritage hog farmers to explore what it takes to raise the perfect pig. It's nasty and dirty work that has Lynn shoveling poop and chasing sows. On a side trip, she discovers the secrets of southern barbeque and realizes she's up against it if she expects to impress the locals when she cooks for them.
Season 1 -Chef Lynn has long been a fan of Ontario-raised lamb but has never seen a lamb or sheep close up. She also has no idea of the brute strength required to shear a sheep or trim their toe nails, and finds out the hard way. Like many North Americans, her hosts are used to eating their lamb well-done. But Chef Lynn is on a mission to change that.
Season 1 -Chef Lynn is invited to go lobster fishing on The Bay of Fundy, where some of the finest lobster in the world is caught. It's backbreaking work and Lynn is totally out of her element. At the Four Seasons in New York, she had a $1000 omelet on the menu, but before she prepares dinner for her hosts, she finds out that the locals prefer their lobster micro-waved.
Season 1 -She didn't sign up for scaling cliffs in the pouring rain or crawling around on the muddy forest floor. But to get the finest and most interesting mushrooms, Chef Lynn is certainly put to the test. Her hosts forage and grow specialty mushrooms that take center stage in a spectacular final meal.
Season 1 -Chef Lynn gets pelted by olives raining down from trees when she attempts to live the life of an olive farmer. But when she visits a local monastery where wine is produced, the joke is on her.
Season 1 -Most people don't think about all the work that goes into a glass of orange juice. Lynn visits the oldest organic citrus farm in Florida with a mission to highlight oranges and tangelos in every course of a meal. To make sure her dinner is pitch perfect, Lynn also confronts her fear of bees to harvest some orange-blossom honey.
Season 1 -Farming oysters is a filthy dirty job, but Chef Lynn thinks it will be an easy assignment. She quickly finds out that she's bitten off way more than she can chew, and her host has no patience for her whining.
Season 1 -Chef Lynn signs up as first mate on a shrimp boat off the coast of Oregon. But she doesn't realize the deal means she has to bunk in overnight with the guys until the crew hauls their quota of shrimp.
Season 1 -There are hundreds of varieties of heirloom tomatoes -- one of Lynn's all-time favourite ingredients. She visits a farm in one of the most southern points in the continental United States to work with as many types of heirloom tomatoes as possible. Lynn then gets elbow-deep in compost on a farm that grows avocadoes and micro-greens.
Season 1 -Almost all the turkey eaten in North America is genetically modified, but a small group of farmers in Kansas are reviving Heritage turkey. Chef Lynn pays them a visit, but is pushed beyond her limits. She's humiliated and embarrassed and then tries to regain her hosts' request by preparing them a Thanksgiving style dinner like they've never had before.


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We're One Step Closer to Bringing Holograms Home
It seems as though everyone is fascinated with the possibilities and promises of a holographic 3D world. With major events such as Coachella and the London Olympics showing off the latest in hologram technology, it's not hard to desire the concept in theatres, stores or homes. Let's face it: Who doesn't want to live in a place where holographic projections a la Star Wars communicate information?
Luckily, holographic technology is becoming much closer to entering our homes and our lives — it's a future tech that's well within our grasp. Mashable spoke with companies planning big things in the space in just the next few years, let alone 2020. All of these exciting innovations are coming our way, and it's just the tip of the hologram iceberg.
What do you think of holograms and holographic technology? Let us know in the comments.
The History of the Hologram
Before we can understand where holographic technology is heading, there's a lot to learn about where it came from.
Holograms actually began a life as a classic parlor trick known as "Pepper's Ghost" — an illusion that took advantage of a well-angled mirror to "project" the reflection of a ghost in a secret, hidden room. This simple technique, dating back to 19th century phantasmagoria shows, is still used in some capacity today, most notably within Disneyland's Haunted Mansion, where the largest Pepper's Ghost installation resides to make guests feel as though they've entered a haunted ballroom.
Some elements of Pepper's Ghost were also used to achieve arguably the most talked-about hologram of 2012, the Tupac Hologram at Coachella. Instead of a so-called "real" hologram, the people at San Diego's AV Concepts projected Tupac onto a piece of foil and utilized angled mirrors to put him on stage. Flashes of holographic images continued to crop up during major events within the past year, most notably the London 2012 Olympics and even hologram-style Beyonces during the halftime show of the Super Bowl.
However, nothing has yet to capture true hologram abilities. That is, the holograms everywhere largely are illusions rather than a native, glasses-free 3D projection or a multi-projector orchestration to produce a lifesize image. But, we're well on our way to accomplishing this.
The Next Phase
Many companies are taking the next step towards the future of holograms, and one is the Toronto-based technology company Rose and Thistle, which is currently marketing a patented hologram technology: Holographic Paramotion.
"We've created a very rich holographic experience through the first half of 2012," says Paul Duffy, president of Rose and Thistle. "We didn't know it at the time, but no one was taking holograms and adding multiple layers of depth or integrating it all into a product."
Rather than taking advantage of hidden rooms, Holographic Paramotion relies on a proscenium-style display box to reflect elements of the hologram onto the center of the stage. The system, called the ShowBox, can then be scaled to reflect the light sources available — big as a movie theater screen or as small as a television. Duffy says that the biggest challenge in developing a true hologram is surpassing the so-called "uncanny valley" to help the audience believe that the images on stage are actually real.
"If you're thinking 'where in the future is holography going?' We found it in four key domains. The first one is the most important: the projection and illumination systems that allow you to deliver or view the images," Duffy explains.
"That category of technology is undergoing an exponential growth right now — the ability to not just take the quality of the image but the brightness and illumination is increasing dramatically."
Rose and Thistle brought their product out to play, although still in beta testing, for a few big names already. One notable experience was a presentation for PBS's Quest Beyond the Stars, creating a snippet of a live holographic touring show that could explore the wonders of space via hologram. A second installation, for Canadian department store chain Holt Renfrew, showed off holographic models in the Toronto flagship outlet's display windows constantly during Fashion Week. Duffy says the goal for their products is not only quality, but consistency.
"It really allowed us to stress test this all in a live environment," Duffy explains. "It was on 24 hours per day, in full light and full dark, on a very high-traffic street near Toronto. That's another sign that this technology is really starting to come together."
This technology can be just a few years away, and Duffy says that he is also excited for the possibility of taking holograms portable. The ShowBox already has plans to be scaled into a personal, iPad-sized display piece, but the technology just isn't there yet.
"On an iPad 2 right now, it's a little weak — the power source doesn't provide the light you need," Duffy says. "But the iPad 3 is close, and as we improve the quality of tablet devices, the viewing capability is going to be strong enough that with the right lighting, you're going to get an equivalent experience on the handheld."
Holograms Beyond the Display
While personal holographic technologies are out of reach, there are other companies approaching a similar endgame from a different starting point. Infinite Z, the company behind 3D tablet workspace zSpace, approaches the personal hologram problem from a natural starting point — passive 3D technology. Rather than projecting the 3D system without glasses, the zSpace relies on glasses to produce the imagery. But it has a lot of holographic elements incorporated into the system to make it all feel real.
"We offer a lot of benefits of a holographic environment to the user while trying to get around the constraints that allow a true hologram to exist," says David Chavez, CTO of Infinite Z.
Chavez says that they key to a successful personal holographic technology, and something that is a big draw with the zSpace, is the "motion parallax," the ability for an image to react to the way that your eye is tracking in a believable way. If you move and the image moves with you, then a holographic image is performing well, but the technological features to facilitate that simple motion are still years away.
"We render the scenes based on the position of the eyes, and that's a big deal. It's a lot more straightforward to create that illusion," Chavez explains.
"Someday it'll come — today we're limited by the performance of the technology on hand. Because the requirements for tracking performance are quite high and your brain gives exactly instantaneous and accurate feedback all time, the technology has to be able to do it all without skipping."
Still, as tablets become smaller, stronger and faster, there's a possibility that they could project 3D images in some not-too-distant future. While he would not give any specifics, Chavez did say that it's on their radar.
"We're going to provide these great products to meet market demand. If it happens to be in a smaller package, then that's where we'll go."
Holograms Tomorrow?
Right now, technology is not quite ready to handle the implications of a truly full-scale holographic experience — but we are closer than we ever have been before. Perhaps even in the next ten years, we'll be viewing perfect holograms in theatres all over and watching crystal-clear projections from our tablets.
One thing is for sure — this fiction is destined to become reality.
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I have been studying Mandarin for almost a year.However I have had two instances where mother has said a big no to marrying a non-traditional non Cninese man. I feel like I am doomed. I am already sensitive about this being my last chance for a loving marriage because of my age and health. How can I address this traditional issue? She was the one who was adhering to tradition. Was I politely being blown off?
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Eight mammoth Python class transport planetoids of the Sansterre Navy, blast off from Gorez Naval Base on the Moon, and jump out-system, bound for St. Geneviève, accompanied by a large escort of other vessels. They are carrying 102 Sidewinder class armoured destroyers which are to be sold to the government of New Home.
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It's almost Christmas and, naturally things happen in relation to that "thing" around this time of year. Christmas songs, remixes, giving of gifts and so on. It shouldn't be a great surprise for us to present to you a Christmas mix (or DiSmas...) and neither should it be much of a surprise to find out that it's those now-Manchester-based electronic types Ghosting Season that have compiled it for us. Getting the things you want and expect is good. Have a listen...
Should you want it, here's the tracklist also.
- Sequent C - Tangerine Dream
- Blondin Makes an Omelette - Gareth Liddiard
- Pause (Capac remix) - Emily Barker
- Feel Something - Holy Other
- Korpi - Vladislav Delay
- Goodbye - Kevin Shields
- You're Inside Your Own Shadow - Wixel
- For a Moment, Lost - Hood
- Washed Ashore - Ghosting Season
- New Ground - Andy Stott
- Albedo - G.H.
- Witness to a Murder (part 2) - Mansun
- The Beat That My Heart Skipped - Her Name is Calla
- Variationen zur Gesundung von Arinushka - Arvo Pärt
Ghosting Season make their 2012 live debut on January 27 at The Nest in Dalston, London. See you there?
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Emotions get best of Valdespin after demotion
NEW YORK -- The latest chapter of Jordany Valdespin's rocky big league career involved the utility player throwing a clubhouse tantrum Saturday following his demotion to Triple-A Las Vegas.
"He wasn't happy," Mets manager Terry Collins said. "When he left the office, he was angry. The easiest way to put it is: I went out to the clubhouse to calm him down. It was not accepted very well by the other 24 guys, I can tell you that, too. We all know he's an emotional kid. That's how he plays, and that's how he goes about things."
Minutes after Saturday's game, Collins called Valdespin into the visiting manager's office at PNC Park. There, he and general manager Sandy Alderson broke the news that Valdespin was headed to Triple-A to make room for reliever Scott Atchison, who was coming off the disabled list.
Collins confirmed a Star-Ledger report that Valdespin grew irate after that, though he claims he did not hear the infielder curse him out.
"Now, I can't say what he did on the plane," Collins said. "I can't say what he did walking out of the clubhouse. I wasn't there."
Acknowledging the incident on Twitter early Monday morning, Valdespin did not apologize.
"Though I try not to get upset about things that are written about me, its tough for me not to react to the article about me disrespecting my manager," wrote Valdespin, who hit .188 with a .250 on-base percentage in 133 at-bats. "I was very upset with myself for not helping the team when I was given the opportunity to play. I respect my manager organization's decision to send me to triple A and am working very hard to become a better player and teammate and will hopefully be back to NY soon to do whatever is needed of me."
It was just the latest in a string of misbehavior and insubordination from Valdespin, who has been disciplined several times throughout his Major and Minor League careers.
"You expect Jordany to understand it because he's been sent down before," Collins said. "He didn't get it."


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Herr Bush is secretly boosting his domestic spy program. That includes everything from your telephone records to your credit card accounts.
The U.S. government's own police state is becoming bigger and stronger with each passing second.
Monday, March 10, 2008
Big Brother Is Snooping More into Your Privacy
Herr Bush is secretly boosting his domestic spy program. That includes everything from your telephone records to your credit card accounts.
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Kentuckian Government Busybody Proposes to Outlaw Anonymous Internet Posting
A Kentuckian busybody state lawmaker wants to police internet websites by simply outlawing anonymous posting online.
If the bill is passed and becomes law, any online anonymous user who refuses to register with a website will be slapped with a $500 fine for the first offense and a $1,000 fine for each offense after that.
Don't these statist, government-worshipping collectivists have anything better to do than to worry about some anonymous twit posting a nasty comment on some website? And how are they going to enforce this bill if (and when) it becomes law? How will this work? Don't they understand that, if this bill becomes a government-sancted edict, the cost to operate a website would go through the roof? More so, don't they understand that it will scrap free speech on the internet for good?
This is nothing more than an attack on an anonymous poster and any other Internet surfer's First Amendment protections. Anyone who is for anonymous posting on the Internet in that state should speak up, contact their state legislator, and speak out against this vile and diabolical monstrosity.
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Sallie Krawcheck's "real career" started "just shy of 30," she said, when she became a research analyst, she told IA in an interview.
"Every firm on Wall Street rejected me. Lehman Brothers rejected me about three times. Smith Barney rejected me because they didn't think I'd work hard. I later fired that director of research," she said.
After a few well-publicized changes, she purchased 85 Broads, the "unfortunately named professional women's network" of about 35,000. The network started as an informal alumni network for women who worked at Goldman Sachs — originally at 85 Broad St. in New York — but with Krawcheck at the helm, the group is expanding its focus to include education.
Networking is the "No. 1 unwritten rule of success in business," Krawcheck said, but the organization is also educating its members so "they have the tools they need to move themselves along to make themselves more successful economically and financially."
Getting women more economically engaged is not a "nice to do," it's a "smart to do," she said. "It's [smart] for our business over all, where about half of affluent women have unmanaged assets; the industry will increasingly lose out as this demographic gets bigger and bigger and more powerful. From a company perspective, all the research shows that more diverse leadership teams substantially outperform less diverse leadership teams. From a broader economic perspective, if women were as engaged in the economy as gentlemen are, our economy would be up to 9% larger."
Furthermore, the industry has "gone backwards" on the diversity issue, she said. The number of female advisors has gone up and down, "but they haven't gone meaningfully up. They bounce a little bit up, they bounce a little bit down, but they have not had a steady march upward."
To people who might argue the industry as a whole has shrunk, she was emphatic. "No," she said bluntly. "The number of men has gone up."
A challenge to the industry as a whole is to avoid becoming "a victim of its own success," Krawcheck said. "As you watch the demographic that [advisors have] served so well become a smaller part of the population and a demographic that it has done not as good a job of serving–in this case women–become more important, [the industry] risks just fading away."
Individual advisors face a similar challenge. "You stay with what you're comfortable with, and why not?" Krawcheck asked. "If you have a practice that's based around neurosurgeons and you really have that shtick down, why go after physicists? The challenge for the advisor is what is the trade-off of getting yourself out of your comfort zone?"
All advisors—male, female, established, next-gen—have inherent biases. "It's not just 'those guys,'" she said. "The challenge for advisors is they think they're serving the whole family, but they're actually serving the husband. When you tape them, they think they spent 40% of the time talking to the wife or the woman, but they didn't; they spent about 15%."
What about that niche advisors are starting to realize isn't a niche at all? "Everyone has a women's initiative and everyone has a women's panel," Krawcheck said. "We went past the 'ignore women' [stage]. The stage we're now at is everybody is marketing to women, but nobody is really serving women; that's a big difference."
With its focus on networking and education, one specific challenge that 85 Broads could help female advisors overcome is the military-style career track some big firms have in place. "The success track that has been put in place for many of these women to be senior management can be almost military. Historically, some [firms] used military questionnaires to hire them," Krawcheck exclaimed. "But also, the track as it exists today at a number of these firms is still that you move from branch to branch, and therefore you move your family several times. I never would have run Smith Barney or Merrill if I'd started as a trainee, because I wouldn't have been able to move my family that many times."
Krawcheck said of 85 Broads that the mission is "driven in good part because of my lessons learned about the importance of diversity."
As for the name, "Oh, we're definitely going to change it."


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If you're a loyal Sprint customer long hoping for a Windows Phone 8 handset, the good news is that your wait is over. The bad news is that the HTC 8XT isn't quite the answer to your dreams. Though its sleek and attractive design shows many of the traits we've come to expect from both HTC and Microsoft's OS, the display resolution could use a serious bump. Likewise, while it supports Sprint's (growing) LTE network and takes sharp and colorful images, internal performance was slow and call quality wasn't completely reliable.
The result is a device that makes you more prone to notice Windows Phone 8's flaws -- like its mediocre app selection -- than the positive attributes that the operating system brings. At $99.99 it is reasonably priced, but Sprint has better smartphone options available if you don't have your heart set on Windows. The LG Optimus G, for example, takes great photos too, has a faster processor, and runs more apps thanks to Android's more robust software selection, and it's free if you're a new Sprint customer.
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If the HTC 8XT looks familiar that's because it's practically a splitting image of the HTC Windows Phone 8X which debuted on AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon last year. While it's a bit of a design redux, in some respects that's a good thing. The 8XT shares the sleek lines, slim profile, and rounded edges of the 8X which helped that device really stand out from the crowd. The phone comes in a similar blue hue as well, though the 8XT sports a two-tone light and dark blue paint job as opposed to the 8X's uniform color scheme.
Measuring 5.2 inches tall by 2.6 inches wide and just 0.39 inch thick, the 8XT has roughly the same physical footprint too. That said, the 8XT weighs a heavier 4.9 ounces compared with the 8X's 4 ounce heft. Even so, the gadget is compact enough to slide into tight pockets and other cramped locations easily. I also found the phone's gently curved back comfortable to grip.
On front of the 8XT is a 4.3-inch LCD with a WXGA resolution (800x480 pixels). That's far below the sharpness of more expensive phones with full HD resolutions (1,920x720). Still, while it won't exactly blow your socks off, the screen is bright enough and colors are sufficiently vivid so as not to detract from video, text, and other mobile content.
HTC also claims that the 8XT features its BoomSound audio technology which first appeared on its HTC One flagship. In a nutshell, there are two front-firing stereo speakers each equipped with their own amp. The goal is to boost the volume of music, video, and other audio.
I admit I was skeptical that a phone this trim could belt out pleasing sound. After firing up a few test tracks, however, my doubts quickly evaporated. The 8XT played music very loudly, with almost as much volume as my HTC One test unit in fact. I did notice though that the 8XT had a tendency to distort at maximum volume on tracks that gave the One no trouble.
Above the display is the 8XT's 1.6MP front camera for self portraits and video chat. Running along the bottom of the screen are typical Windows Phone controls for Back, Start, and Search. There are no physical keys on the 8XT's left edge but you'll find a thin volume rocker and dedicated camera button on the right side. As with the 8X, these keys lie extremely flush with the phone's surface almost to a fault. I found them very tricky to locate and push blindly especially when holding the device sideways in landscape orientation.
Up top sits a 3.5 mm headphone jack and a trim power key. Around back is the 8MP main camera and LED flash. They're both housed in a metallic circle too, which is one difference from the Windows Phone 8X which has no such design element.
While the 8XT's 1,800 mAh battery is embedded, you can remove the back cover to get at the SIM card and micro SD card slots. It's a welcome departure from the 8X which uses a completely sealed chassis.
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Running Windows Phone 8, the HTC 8XT uses Microsofts much-touted "Live Tile" UI where square and rectangular application tiles actively twinkle with alerts and other data in real time. Living on the vertically scrolling homescreen, you can also move tiles around, resize them, or delete them to suit your tastes.
I have to say that while Windows Phone 8 certainly brought much needed improvements over its previous software iteration, its layout, capabilities, and dare I say basic philosophy still feel misguided. Perhaps it's a result of Android's fresh tweaks to Jelly Bean (4.2 and 4.3), wizbang extras of Samsung TouchWiz and slickness of HTC Sense 5, and upcoming iOS7. Whatever the reason, WP8 just seems a bit flat and otherwise uninspiring.
Additionally, all the graphical eye candy as you flip through menus and open apps looks excessive at best. At worst it causes delays as you wait for text to complete rotating with fancy 3D flair.
In the HTC 8XT's defense though, it can tackle all your basic smartphone chores such as tapping into personal and corporate email and Gmail accounts. It also runs versions of many popular mobile apps such as Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, and Netflix. You can peruse the Windows Phone 8 store to search for more titles.
Of course Microsoft's roster of mobile software is less developed than Apple's and Google's so finding your favorite iOS or Android app might be an issue. For instance WP8 still lacks apps for Instagram and Flipboard though staples such as TuneIn Radio and Evernote have made a home here.


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As you already know, the DTS migration wizard of SSIS 2005 doesn't migrate Data Transformation Task in a Data Flow component, but instead it uses to encapsulate each Transformation Task into a legacy embedded DTS2000 package.
Now, you can imagine my surprise when I tried to migrate a DTS this morning and I've got a Data Flow task into a SSIS package. But wait, it's not so beautiful as we could hope!
This is the starting situation: I had a simple DTS generated by Import/Export Wizard of SQL Server 2000. It copies two tables from Northwind (Customers and Categories) into another database. One of those transformations has been migrated to a Data Flow task, and another to an inner DTS package execution. It deserves to investigate!
The task migrated to a data flow has only "direct row transformations", while the other has a "ActiveX Script Transformation", even if this transformation is a simple "copy column" script (it's the default of SQL2000 Import wizard if you choose the script transformation). Probably I changed the default transformation on one of those task at the time I generated the task (it was a demo I realized while teaching a DTS course some months ago).
My test at this point has been to change the script transformation into a direct one: both Transformation Task has been correctly migrated to a data flow task (one for each original task)!
At this point I'm really excited: why on the earth this wizard still doesn't migrate some more complex package full of simple Transformation Task which simple map columns directly between source (got with a SQL query) and destination? To make the story short, here are my results (works means successfully data flow migraton, doesn't work mean a DTS inner package migration):
Until today I never found a similar schema of what are Data Transformation Task supported features to allow a Data Flow migration instead than a legacy Inner Package execution. I'd like to have an official one by MS.


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Suns return home looking to end skid
The Phoenix Suns may be thrilled to return home. Another defeat may have the Orlando Magic feeling the same way.
Opening their longest homestand of the season, the Suns attempt to avoid a seven-game skid for the first time in almost nine years Sunday night against the road-weary Magic.
The Suns (7-14) have lost six straight and seven of eight, with all but one of those games coming on the road. They fell 97-94 to Dallas on Thursday in their only home contest during that span, dropping to 5-4 at US Airways Arena, where they play their next five games.
Phoenix's road and defensive woes continued Saturday with a 117-99 loss to the Los Angeles Clippers. The Suns, who haven't dropped eight in a row since Feb. 4-22, 2004, have surrendered an average of 107.7 points during the current six-game skid.
"If we're going to get out of this, we've got to work our own way out and do it collectively as a group," coach Alvin Gentry said. "In this league, no one's going to help us and no one feels sorry for you. It's not a pity league."
Phoenix isn't likely to get any from Orlando (7-12), either. The Magic have problems of their own, losing five of seven overall and seven of 10 on the road this season.
After wins on the first two stops of its five-game trip, Orlando lost its second straight, 91-82 to Sacramento on Friday. Playing four straight on the road appears to be wearing on the Magic, who have hit 5 of 30 from 3-point range over the last two games.
"I feel it, but our trainers and coaches have been keeping us ready really well and making sure that we get rest," forward Glen Davis told the team's official website. "They are making sure that our bodies feel right. You get bumps and bruises and you just have to take care of your body."
Davis is averaging 21.3 points, 10.3 rebounds and 2.0 blocks during the trip. He had 22 points and eight rebounds in Orlando's 115-94 win over Phoenix on Nov. 4.
J.J. Redick scored a season-high 24 with six assists in that game, and he'll try to replicate that effort after going 2 for 10 from the field en route to six points Friday. The reserve guard was averaging 16.7 points and 6.0 assists over the first three games of the trip.
The Suns may insert Michael Beasley back into the starting lineup after he had 21 points, five assists and four rebounds off the bench against the Clippers. The mercurial forward had totaled just 24 points on 10 of 35 from the field in his previous three games. Beasley scored a season-high 22 at Orlando last month.
The Magic have won four straight and six of the last seven meetings. They ended an eight-game losing streak in Phoenix with a 111-88 victory there on March 13, 2011.


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Mets set Grapefruit League rotation in motion
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- The Mets have set their initial Grapefruit League rotation, holding back some of their established starters to take closer looks at those likely ticketed for Triple-A Las Vegas.
Rafael Montero will kick things off on Friday afternoon against the Nationals, followed by John Lannan on Saturday, Daisuke Matsuzaka on Sunday, Noah Syndergaard on Monday, Jon Niese on Tuesday and Bartolo Colon in a split-squad game Wednesday.
Montero, Lannan and Matsuzaka are all ostensibly competing for the Mets' fifth starter's job, though Matsuzaka and Jenrry Mejia appear to be the early frontrunners.
Two Mets pitchers not in the initial spring rotation, Dillon Gee and Zack Wheeler, will make their Grapefruit League debuts later this spring. Barring injury, Gee, Wheeler, Niese and Colon are all guaranteed spots in the Opening Day rotation, with Niese the early favorite to start against the Nationals on March 31.
"We've got to see everybody," manager Terry Collins said. "We have to get seven or eight starters ready. … I'm anxious to see them all."


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Man Dies Jumping From Queensboro Bridge Landing On Roosevelt Island Last Thursday Evening - Woman Nearby Hears Loud Noise, Turns Around And Sees Body On Ground
Image Of Queensboro Bridge And Roosevelt Island Beneath Taken 8/11
A Roosevelt Island resident reported to me seeing NYPD officers and an ambulance gathered underneath the Queensboro Bridge next to a white sheet on the Main Street ground that may have been covering something last Friday evening.
I asked the NYPD what happened?
According to a NYPD Spokesperson the incident occurred:
... on Thursday, August 7, 2015, around 10:10 PM, a 39 year old male in an apparent suicide jumped off from the 59th Street bridge landing in front of 281 Main Street and died from the extent of his injuries.adding that a woman was walking in the area at the time when she heard a loud noise, turned around and saw the body laying on the ground.
During Roosevelt Island Residents Association (RIRA) Public Safety Committee meeting last night, Roosevelt Island Operating Corp (RIOC) Public Safety Director Jack McManus and Deputy Director Lynda Marmara described this terrible incident in greater detail and reported that the deceased was not a Roosevelt Island resident.
UPDATE 9:10 PM - A reader points out confusion regarding date of the incident. The NYPD spokesperson said the incident occurred on Thursday August 7. Thursday was August 6, Friday was August 7.
The incident occurred on Thursday August 6 and was reported that way on the Roosevelt Island Public Safety Report:
08/06/15 – 2208 - 281 Main St. – Aided – PSD / EMS / FDNY responded. Transported to hospital.


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Both developed and emerging economies will see lower growth.
BEIJING ( Caixin Online ) — Between 2009 and 2011, the emerging economies, especially the BRICs, kept growing following a brief crash in 2008. Many pundits interpreted it as a sign of decoupling. Emerging economies, due to their low base, tend to grow faster than the developed ones. The issue is by how much. We read this article on Marketwatch by Andy Xie.
During the 2009-11 period, they experienced high inflation, debt growing faster than income, and asset bubbles, not signs of sustainability.
The growth spurt was due to a hot money bubble rather than a natural state of affairs. This bubble isn't blowing up like in 1997 because the big central banks are still loosening monetary policy. Hence, this bubble could deflate gradually.
A bubble deflates when it can't expand, even if there is no trigger to deflate it. The weight itself can bring it down. Even though the Fed, European Central Bank and Bank of Japan continue to expand money supplies, the incremental changes are smaller than before.
On the other hand, the asset bubbles in emerging economies have become big and demand acceleration of hot money to continue. The contradiction is causing the emerging economies to cool.
The statistics in emerging economies are not accurate. The gross domestic product data in China and India, for example, do not reflect their 2012 slowdown. My estimate is that the growth rate in emerging economies declined by half in 2012 from 2011. It could be seen in trade stagnation and weak commodity demand.
China and India
When an emerging economy has a low stock of capital and surplus labor, like India, inflation tends to be associated with supply bottlenecks and commodity inflation. China was like that a decade ago and India still is today.
China was able to invest massively to de-bottleneck and join the World Trade Organization to create demand. The policy combination led to a decade of rapid growth. Now, China has exhausted growth potential from surplus labor, infrastructure formation and rising export penetration.
For the next wave of growth, it needs to shift to labor productivity through improving quality and technology on the supply side, and consumption on the demand side. Even if the transition is successful, the growth rate would be much lower than in the past, possibly only half as high.
India faces terrible trouble in expanding supply. The constraint is problems in investment implementation, not capital. The global cost of capital has declined sharply with slowing growth everywhere.
If India can show ability to form capital like China, global capital would pour in for the upside. Even though the global financial community has been hyping the India story, trying to drum up more business, the multinational corporations (MNCs) have not been able to invest much. Those that have, have had a pretty bad experience.
Even though India has potential, it will remain so for years to come. Hence, it is not going to take from China to become a growth engine. This is important for commodities. As China's demand cools, suppliers are pinning their hopes on India. They will likely be disappointed. Industrial commodities will likely continue to decline in 2013.
The China-India story is vital for the global growth outlook. If they can't deliver more, the global economy will remain stuck. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) economies are not capable of good growth under the best circumstances.
Aging and declining competitiveness hold them close to zero growth in per capita income. The debt problem is an added headwind. The relatively low growth rates in China and India will last for years to come, I believe.
Death of debt-led growth
The global economy has seen debt growing faster than income for the past decade. It is obviously not sustainable. After the 2008 global financial crisis the pattern has continued with debt formation shifting to the government. Now the fiscal crisis is engulfing Europe, Japan and the United States. Government debt can't grow fast in the future.
The Fed isn't giving up on the debt model. Through quantitative easing (QE), it is artificially depressing the cost of borrowing. Corporate debt issuances have skyrocketed. But businesses cannot create final demand. Bonds are really replacing more expensive equity capital. It is a substitution that won't do much to final demand.
The latest Fed QE is putting mortgage borrowing on sale. Its cost is at a historic low. The U.S. housing recovery is largely driven by that. Putting borrowing on sale may not work if debt is already too high.
U.S. household debt is down 7% from the peak that triggered the financial crisis. By the historic norm, the current level is still too high. Also, debt demand depends on one's income expectation. American workers have low income expectations. Making them borrow more isn't likely to be effective.
China's debt problem is the opposite of that in developed economies. The leverage is mostly with businesses and local governments. China's companies have debts twice as high as the international average, but less than half of the profitability. The leverage has been dependent on land appreciation.
As the land bubble deflates, a business debt crisis has already begun. It doesn't burst like the United States' subprime bubble because Chinese banks roll over the delinquent loans. Still, debt could hardly be used to boost growth again.
Stagnation continues in 2013
The fiscal consolidation among developed economies will keep their growth rates in 2013 lower in 2012. Europe and Japan will probably have zero growth, plus or minus half a percent. The United States may have 1.5% to 2%, depending on how much fiscal consolidation unfolds during the fiscal cliff and debt ceiling negotiations. The OECD block may see a growth rate of 1%.
Emerging economies will likely grow between 4% and 5%. It will be seen in similar growth rate in dollar trade value. I think this outlook is optimistic. My bias is that it would be worse. The market is expecting a significant improvement in 2013 from the depressing 2012. I think otherwise. Indeed, we need to get used to low growth rates in the future.
Growth stimulus has been a mistake. The low growth isn't just an outcome of the debt crisis. It reflects structural forces that will keep growth low for years. The growth spurt in the last decade is largely due to integrating Chinese labor into the global economy.
The information technology revolution also contributed. Both forces are spent. Nowadays, the IT revolution is more about destroying first than creating later. The net growth impact is likely small.
Instead, policy-makers should adjust their policies for a slow growth environment. The growth stimulus merely brings financial buzz in the short term, which makes some people happy, but at the expense of balance sheet health. Eventually, inflation blows up, which would cause worldwide political turmoil.
Some predictions
Last year I was bullish on the stocks of MNCs and precious metals, and bearish on industrial metals and emerging market properties. My hunches for 2013 are similar, with a few changes.
1) MNC stocks. MNCs are the biggest beneficiaries of globalization. Their global footprint allows them to manage costs and demand fluctuation in any one place. They have used their profits to build up intellectual properties, brands and scale.
The entry barriers are very high at the top. This is why their profits have remained good despite all the crises around them. Their stocks gained sharply in 2012. Hence, the gains in 2013 may not be as spectacular. Still, in a low growth era, stable earnings will be highly valued.
2) Gold. Gold performed poorly in the second half of 2012. Rupee (ICAPC:USDINR) devaluation has sapped Indian demand for gold. The dollar has been strong. Competing assets like stocks and bonds have done well, draining its investment demand. Still, it has remained resilient.
Gold is a hedge against monetary inflation. Inflation is inevitable to solve today's debt crisis. When the market realizes that the Fed wouldn't pull money back to fight inflation, gold will go very high. The final surge is likely in 2014, not next year. Still, it could reach a new high in the second half of 2013.
3) Bonds. Central banks are manipulating interest rates along the whole yield curve. They will continue to do so as long as inflation isn't a big problem. The bond market is a bubble, but there is still time to play.
I suspect that 2013 will still be a good year. Along the same line, I'm bullish on U.S. banks. What the Fed is doing to the property market will benefit them enormously. The bond bubble will burst when inflation becomes indisputable, which is likely in 2014.
1) The yen. I wrote an article on the turning point for the yen in early November. Even though the yen has dropped sharply since, it has a long way to go. The yen-U.S. dollar exchange rate may break above 100 in the second half of 2013.
With fiscal consolidation inevitable and the economy in recession, Japan has nowhere else to turn. Some people argued with me about the yen. They said that not only Japan, but everyone else, needed devaluation. The difference is that yen has been appreciating despite Japan's recession. The reversal brings it in line with others.
2) The A$. The Australian dollar may tumble over 10% in 2013. The Australian economy is not in good shape due to the strength of its currency. It lives on the commodity boom and a property bubble. The recent recovery in iron ore and other industrial commodities is a head fake.
The commodity boom is over. The investment boom in the sector will lead to oversupply for years to come. Along the same lines, industrial commodities will do poorly again. The price of iron ore will likely reach a new low in 2013.
3) Emerging markets. Stocks and properties in emerging market will again fare poorly in 2013. They need to absorb the impact of a deflating hot money bubble. They are behind developed economies in debt and bubble adjustment.
Companies in emerging economies have few inherent competitive advantages to protect earnings on the way down. Indeed, on the way up, they depend on asset inflation for earnings. This is why banks and property companies tend to lead emerging markets. When the cycle turns down, no one does well.
4) Bullish on agriculture. The degradation of farmland in China will remain a major force driving up the prices of agricultural products. As food safety becomes a central policy issue in 2013, the impact becomes bigger. In a down cycle, food consumption is resilient. The demand and supply balance favors the agro market again.
Every year I write down some thoughts on the markets. Economics says that markets are unpredictable. Nevertheless so many of us still try.
I try to make predictions on extension and collapse of irrational forces. When a government or central bank understands something wrongly and acts accordingly, it drags the market along until it hits a wall.
A herd mentality is another force. It is usually potent in emerging economies. Betting on governments and people acting foolishly seems a winning strategy, at least in the short term.


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Last year was pretty easy, so this year I'm going to make it a little tougher. If you can name the Muppets listed below, you can win a little prize from HQ. I know these may be hard, so try and name as many as you can.
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Reaction to the death of Nelson Mandela
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(RNS) As the world reacted to the death of South African hero Nelson Mandela, on Thursday (Dec. 5) at age 95, religious and political leaders added their voices to remember the man who brought down his nation's race-dividing apartheid system. Here's a sampling:
"We will not likely see the likes of Nelson Mandela again. So it falls to us as best we can to forward the example that he set: to make decisions guided not by hate, but by love; to never discount the difference that one person can make; to strive for a future that is worthy of his sacrifice. For now, let us pause and give thanks for the fact that Nelson Mandela lived — a man who took history in his hands, and bent the arc of the moral universe toward justice. May God bless his memory and keep him in peace."
– President Obama
"Paying tribute to the steadfast commitment shown by Nelson Mandela in promoting the human dignity of all the nation's citizens and in forging a new South Africa built on the firm foundations of non-violence, reconciliation and truth, I pray that the late president's example will inspire generations of South Africans to put justice and the common good at the forefront of their political aspirations."
– Pope Francis
"The values that Mandela lived were derived from the traditions of his people, consistent with the best teaching of his Christian educators and the ecumenical movement. They are values that inspired the long walk from apartheid to freedom and that transformed South Africa during his presidency. They are ideals that have much to contribute to the continuing life of his country and every country."
– The Rev. Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary, World Council of Churches
"Was he a saint? Not if a saint is entirely flawless. I believe he was saintly because he inspired others powerfully and revealed in his character, transparently, many of God's attributes of goodness: compassion, concern for others, desire for peace, forgiveness and reconciliation. Thank God for this remarkable gift to South Africa and the world. May he rest in peace and rise in glory."
– Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu of Cape Town, writing in The Washington Post
"In his struggle against apartheid rule, Nelson Mandela was a light for peace and equality in his country and for the whole world. His years of imprisonment exemplified the suffering experienced by so many who seek justice. As president of South Africa, Mandela sought to undo the structures that marginalized and impoverished people — work Pope Francis is now challenging the entire world to imitate."
– Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
"The world has lost a great leader. Nelson Mandela was a model of courage, vision and personal sacrifice. Today more than ever we need this kind of leadership. May the memory of Nelson Mandela inspire a new generation of such leaders around the world."
– Geoff Tunnicliffe, secretary-general of the World Evangelical Alliance
"Nelson Mandela's signature contribution was demonstrating the power of and ethos of forgiveness as a political concept, not only to prevent bloodshed but to bring to life the potential of a new society. Jews around the world shared with Mandela the commitment to continuing dialogue, even amidst difference, and the experience of how forgiveness and understanding can lead to the constant moral development of nations and peoples in an imperfect world."
– Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, executive vice president, Rabbinical Assembly
"We knew Nelson Mandela as a committed Christian who sought equal rights for all and a democratic South Africa. He is a towering figure of world historical importance. We urge Christians everywhere and congregations to say prayers of thanksgiving for his life and his achievements."
– The Rev. Jim Winkler, incoming general secretary and president of the National Council of Churches
"With the passing of this great man, the world has lost a remarkable emancipator. Mandela blazed a trail of respect for human dignity and human rights. We cannot afford to forget the unbounded passion for freedom, the relentless striving for justice and the unshakeable commitment to peaceful human coexistence that Mandela exhibited."
– Neville Callam, general secretary, Baptist World Alliance
"He wrote a new chapter on the power of dialogue which he, a helpless prisoner, initiated with his powerful captors. And he did all of this without losing his dignity, without compromising his principles, and without being intimidated by the power of the apartheid regime."
– Imam Abdul Malik Mujahid, chair of the board of the Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions
"He helped the world to see a shining vision of the incarnate Reign of God. We pray that it was not simply a brief glimpse, but that his labor may be joined to that of others, grounding and growing a world of peace with justice for all. May God welcome this shepherd home in peace."
– Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori
"Nelson Mandela's life embodied the idea of prophetic activism with an unquenchable thirst for justice. His struggle for equality brought down one of the final strongholds of segregation and subsequently empowered an entire continent to overcome by doing justice and loving mercy. His life inspired us while his humble demeanor will continue to move us towards a more just and loving world."
– The Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, president, National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference
"His unjust decades-long imprisonment made him a symbol of the horrors of apartheid. Yet by using his influence after being liberated to champion human rights for all, reconciliation for his divided country, and to lead his nation into a new democratic era, Mr. Mandela inspired the world."
– Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
"Just as this year's Hanukkah lights ended, with their celebration of freedom from oppression and victory over tyranny, we learned one of the brightest lights in the world, Nelson Mandela, had made his transition."
– The Rev. Suzan Johnson Cook, former U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom
"Nelson Mandela will be long remembered as one of the greatest figures of his generation and one of the most inspirational and effective freedom-fighting figures in modern history. In a world where the word 'hero' is too readily bandied about, Nelson Mandela was a true hero of freedom who brought historic change, and did so peacefully. "
– Abraham Foxman, national director, Anti-Defamation League
"President Mandela's life is the closest thing we have to proof of God."
– Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger


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May 14, 2012 by firstname.lastname@example.com
This is the latest edition of the bi-weekly netlabs.org newsletter. The newsletter can be read on the web at the following URL:wiki.netlabs.org/index.php
News from netlabs.org:7. May - 13. MayACPI Subsystem for eComStationQuite a lot of closures (old release items or lack of feedback) and some updatesSee: svn.netlabs.org/acpi/timelineAirBootNew ticket raisedSee: svn.netlabs.org/air-boot/timelineDynamic Windows LibraryVarious updates and some fixesSee: svn.netlabs.org/dwindows/timelineJava port for eCS and (OS/2)Bunch of updates including sponsoringSee: svn.netlabs.org/java/timelinekBuildTwo bug fixesSee: svn.netlabs.org/kbuild/timelineLucideA few updatesSee: svn.netlabs.org/lucide/timelineNEPMDChecks doneSee: svn.netlabs.org/nepmd/timelineQt Version 4 for OS/2Sponsoring updateSee: svn.netlabs.org/qt4/timelineSamba for eCS (OS/2)Little fixSee: svn.netlabs.org/samba/timelineUnix Ports and moreLib7Zip addedSee: svn.netlabs.org/ports/timelineUSBMix of updatesSee: svn.netlabs.org/usb/timeline
30. April - 6. MayACPI Subsystem for eComStationA good mix of updates, fixes and documentation. Good work is done for proper XWP / ACPI shutdown code as well, but changes are needed in the generic XWP tree. ACPI is ready for it.See: svn.netlabs.org/acpi/timelineDynamic Windows LibraryLoads of additions and some fixes againSee: svn.netlabs.org/dwindows/timelineJava port for eCS (OS/2)Number of updatesSee: svn.netlabs.org/java/timelineLucideTwo new tickets raisedSee: svn.netlabs.org/lucide/timelineNEPMDLoads of updates and fixesSee: svn.netlabs.org/nepmd/timelineQt Applications for OS/2SM Player updatesSee: svn.netlabs.org/qtapps/timelineRPM and YUMNew ticket raisedSee: svn.netlabs.org/rpm/timelineUnix Ports and moreGood progressSee: svn.netlabs.org/ports/timeline
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If you work IR, you know how frustrating the whole process can be, especially when a customer wants to fly the "mission accomplished" banner prematurely. Of course I understand the desire to bring it all to and end. The long hours start to wear on people. Questions of cost start to come in. "How much more time will this take?"
A few years ago, I worked with a customer who was ready to call the IR done based on the fact that we didn't see any known IOCs in the data collected. The problem was that the data collected accounted for less than half of the environment. How much less than half? Nobody, including the customer knows. That's because they had never performed a hardware or software inventory before. Seeing how those are #1 and #2 respectively on the SANS 20 Critical Controls, they're pretty darn important.
Detecting Code Injection on an Enterprise Scale
You probably already know that I'm a huge proponent of memory forensics. But you can't do memory forensics on an enterprise scale. Fortunately, there are tools available that will help you at least look for injected memory sections (code injection) on enterprise scale. I say fortunately because this is a technique used by attackers today with relative impunity. If we lack the visibility to see that data, then we're urinating into a strong headwind and should expect predictably messy results.
To say that you have endpoint visibility covered when you can't detect code injection is like a SWAT team clearing a building for hostages without checking all the floors. It's just plain stupid. You don't have to ensure maximum visibility, but at least communicate correctly what you have and what you don't.
So if you've exhausted your known IOCs, can you call the investigation done?
Not if you haven't checked all of your endpoints. Most investigations start with a single IOC. This turns into multiple host and network IOCs. Attackers are smart and will use different techniques across the environment so all of their eggs are not in a single basket. Given available data and good data analysis techniques, we regularly find new IOCs. It isn't easy, but our attackers are counting on us taking the easy way out. Don't oblige them - make their lives tough. Complete your host inventories and then scan, at least for known IOCs, across 100% of the environment. Declaring an IR over when you've exhausted the initial IOCs may feel like an easy way out, but if you're wrong it can be a career ending move.
We continued looking back through collected data from the endpoints that we had access to and discovered additional IOCs two weeks after the IR had been called done. For those curious, we discovered them using some proprietary data analysis techniques that have their roots in machine learning. We learned we were nowhere near done with the IR and had not previously discovered the "zero patient." The irony is that we learned even later that had we just completed a good inventory and scanned for the known IOCs we'd have found these new IOCs through traditional forensics too.
The Conclusion
Sure, briefing to the board that the IR is still going on can be uncomfortable. But saying "oops we screwed it up" is even more so. Don't call the IR done until you've at least looked at all your hosts for known IOCs. And if you don't have an inventory, complete one first as part of the IR. You have executive visibility and funding. No better time than the present to do what you know needs to be done to call the IR a true success.


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What is SaaS? | Software-as-a-Service Myopia
By Joel York on August 16, 2011
It seems a little late in the game for me to be asking a question like "What is SaaS?" But, I've always harbored a few embarrassing little secrets on the subject and I think it's time I came clean. There is a classic Harvard Business School case study called Marketing Myopia by Theodore Levitt that […]
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The numpad, as antiquated as it is, is still useful for many. Bankers! Gamers! Crude mathematicians! But damn it takes up so much space. That's why Mobee is letting you transform your Magic Trackpad into Magic Numpads.
It's clever, you just put a film on top of your trackpad and all of a sudden, a numpad is overlaid on your trackpad. The program will read your inputs as they would a traditional numpad. Making the trackpad pull double duty lets you avoid the annoyingness of owning the longboard keyboard but of course, you'd still need another trackpad or mouse to navigate around your computer. Can't have everything. $30 [Mobee Technology via This Is My Next]


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Even though the largest part of the day is occupied with work, there is always a moment I can dedicate to archaeology, amateur archaeology or armchair archaeology you may well call it. I don't dig archaeological sites but I dig into any form of information, be it publications or the internet. I even get out of my armchair to dedicate my entire vacation to visiting archaeological sites, museums and exhibitions and taking pictures of stuff a normal person would walk by. All because I want to tell the story of Sardinia and Sicily in prehistoric times.
I take my pictures of stones and sherds, publish them on my site and tell my visitors what they are looking at. I tell them why these stones or sherds are interesting and what happened to them in the past. I hope to attract their attention beyond their normal level of knowledge, to get them to look at details and not to walk past them, to recognize what they are looking at, and even perhaps enjoy what they are visiting, beyond the usual ten to thirty minutes it takes to bore them to death (seen one seen them all, it's just a heap of stones what's the use).
So I sit in my armchair, well really it is an old kitchen chair, in front of my screen working away hundreds of images, reading endless stuff and combining it into texts hoping to capture the imagination of the traveller, the schoolkid, even the scholar, the same way these stones and sherds are capturing my own imagination. I sit there in the morning before going to work, sometimes in the evening to write some text, getting my satisfaction from a one-liner, a single appreciating remark left as a comment, bridging in my way the gap between the archaeologist who enthusiastically uncovered his artifact and the larger public interested in a remote past.
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flames meant to melt the
chalice of your heart.
In the white night
we cross the continents,
feel but never touch.
Our secrets, too sacred for the light,
set the night on fire.
I am profanity in a scarlet sky,
A blasphemy of flaws to small to alter fate.
While I was thinking of you
a fledgling fell to earth,
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Getting Connected: For Researchers in Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM) New
An official welcome from the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs (OPdA). This event consists of two sessions so as to give postdocs an opportunity of attending either a morning OR an afternoon session as best suits. Both sessions will include brief interactive presentations from the OPdA, Careers Service and Personal and Professional Development (PPD) whose principal role is to support the University's research staff.
- All current University of Cambridge "Postdoctoral Researchers"
- Further details regarding OPdA's elgibility criteria are available
Number of sessions: 2
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'Getting Connected in Cambridge: Insights and opportunties for Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics research staff' will provide invaluable information on how to navigate life as a researcher in Cambridge.
For more information about the event please visit: http://www.opda.cam.ac.uk/events-1/opda-events
Postdoctoral researchers have an option of either attending Session 1 which runs from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm OR session 2 which runs from 14:00 pm to 17:00 pm
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On 5 April 2016 the JRC presented the interactive and collaborative online European Energy Efficiency Platform. This beta platform is conceived to fill the gap opened by scattered data and fragmented knowledge resulting from a rapidly growing energy efficiency market. It is expected to be both a one-stop shop for information retrieval and a meeting point for experts to exchange data and reduce redundant activities.
How can energy management contribute to the EU's energy efficiency targets? - Progress and challenges
Brussels, BE — Tuesday, June 14, 2016 - 09:00 to 14:00
The workshop presents the scale of the highly costeffective energy savings that can be obtained from broader and more effective adoption of energy management (EM) across the EU, followed by an open discussion with representatives of industry and the Commission, on how current EU policy instruments (such as the EPBD and the EED) could evolve to become more supportive of unlocking these largescale savings.
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