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The moment of truth is fast approaching for the future of Ross Mirkarimi, the embattled Sheriff of San
Francisco who has been denied the job to which he was elected nearly a year ago.
But that "moment" has profound implications for the rest of us, too.
Late in 2011, Mirkarimi was charged with three counts of domestic violence against his wife after a neighbor called police about her bruised arm. As the case unfolded, Mirkarimi's wife repeatedly asked the district attorney not to prosecute because of what she called an overblown incident. Nonetheless the city moved forward.
Ultimately, Mirkarimi pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor charge of false imprisonment.
Timing is important here. The incident occurred after he was elected but before January 8th, when Mirkarimi was sworn in as Sheriff. After Mirkarimi's conviction in March, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee suspended Mirkarimi and demanded that the Sheriff-elect be removed permanently.
Following the city's prescribed process for removal, Lee presented his case to the San Francisco Ethics Commission, which agreed that Mirkarimi committed "official misconduct." The case now goes to the eleven member San Francisco Board of Supervisors, which can remove Mirkarimi with nine votes.
Two troubling questions have emerged from the Mirkarimi incident.
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First, does his offense make Mirkarimi unsuitable for the job as Sheriff? Second, inasmuch as his crime was committed before he assumed office, how is it that Mirkarimi could have committed "official" misconduct?
The first question gets to the issue of domestic violence. Hardliners would argue that one incident is two too many and that such events tend to part of a pattern. Others would counter that this particular incident may not have risen to the threshold of abuse, especially if there are no other examples of egregious behavior.
Good people of different values can disagree on this one, to be sure.
But the second question is not so easy to equivocate. If someone is elected to office in November 2011 and commits a misdemeanor on December 31, and takes office in January, how is it that he has committed official misconduct when the event occurred before he assumes office?
He hasn't, yet that is exactly what the mayor and Ethics Commission have concluded.
The simple fact is that Mirkarimi's detractors are interpreting the rules to fit the incident.
That may be a "feel good" for the moment, but it sets a terrible precedent for the future. What's to keep the mayor from denying office to someone who is on the wrong end of a civil suit or who has a lien on his house or who has been arrested at a protest before taking office?
What's to keep any of these acts from being declared "official misconduct?" We can not afford to place justice on such a slippery slope.
There are legitimate ways to remove Mirkarimi if the public is incensed enough, either through gathering enough signatures to force a recall or defeating him at the next election. Either route would accomplish the goal of turning out an unwanted public official without perverting well-established rules.
Rules exist in a democracy so that we know how to behave and what to expect. To change a rule after the fact for the sake of expediency is a threat to us all and patently undemocratic. Elected officials need to be vigilant in rejecting such temptations.
Whatever Mirkarimi's misdeed, his actions pale next to those of Mayor Lee. If anyone has abused the powers of his office, it's Lee. Let's hope the Board of Supervisors has more respect for the law.
Larry Gerston teaches political science at San Jose State University and is the political analyst for NBC Bay Area.
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AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) � The Democratic leader of the Maine Senate has resigned to serve as New England Regional administrator of the Small Business Administration.
Majority Leader Seth Goodall told Gov. Paul LePage in a letter that it's been an honor to serve and that leaving the Senate is "bittersweet." A special election will be held for Senate District 19, which covers Sagadahoc County and the town of Dresden. The date will be set by the governor.
Goodall's resignation was effective when the Legislature adjourned early Wednesday. Lawmakers reconvene in January.
Goodall said he looks forward to his new post. He said he hopes to "sustain and grow small businesses, the backbone of our communities, throughout Maine and New England."

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"Having known Satchel when I was a young ballplayer, I'm reminded of the man who took over the game with both his superior pitching and his dynamic personality. This book is a must-read that captures the essence of one of the greatest legends in baseball history, Satchel Paige."—Dusty Baker, Manager, Cincinnati Reds
"Knowing Satchel Paige is knowing nobody like him. This is a superb book about an outstanding man."—Yogi Berra
"First, make a list of, say, the five athletes of all time you'd want to invite to the house for a night of beer and nonsense. Second, if you haven't picked Leroy (Satchel) Paige, one of the others has to go. (Good-bye Wilt, Arnie, Whomever.) Third, get up the cash for this book and Satchel's there. Larry Tye delivers him in fine, robust prose, living and breathing, riding the buses and breaking off outrageous curve balls and figuring out the complexities of segregated America. Great stuff."—Leigh Montville, author of The Big Bam, The Life and Times of Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, Biography of An American Hero, and The Mysterious Montague, A True Tale of Hollywood, Gold and Armed Robbery
"Satchel is a wonderful book. Larry Tye, with his deep research and clear writing, does not just baseball fans but all of America a great service by showing us the real Leroy Paige and why he deserves his legendary status on and off the mound.—David Maraniss, author of Clemente and When Pride Still Mattered
"It takes nothing away from Jackie Robinson to note, as Larry Tye does in this important new book, that Satchel Paige—he of a fastball of historic proportions–is an overlooked pioneer in the integration of baseball, and of America itself. This engaging biography sheds light not only on Paige but on the game and the country he helped change forever."—Jon Meacham


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Apparently designed by Cylons, the trimaran's surface is covered with multilayered solar panels, which power the ship and can bring her up to 8 knots. The hull is made of concrete and reinforced with plastic fibers.
What I like most about Arkki is that it is designed to be a house. And a very large one at that: It has 1647 feet of interior space and a 1076-foot exterior wood deck. It's not as big as the WHY, but it looks much better. So good, in fact, that Sean Connery would like to use it if he were playing Noah in a movie.* [Janne Leppänen via Tuvie via Bornrich]


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Golden Boy Promotions is trying to get Nonito Donaire (above) and Abner Mares in the ring together. (AP)
• Golden Boy Promotions ratcheted up its pursuit of a fight between super bantamweights Nonito Donaire and Abner Mares this week, submitting a contract to an attorney for Top Rank, which promotes Donaire, for a guaranteed $3 million purse for the fight. That money -- however it is split between Donaire, Top Rank and manager Cameron Dunkin -- would be a record purse for Donaire. Unfortunately, it's not enough. I'm told Top Rank has no interest in the offer. It prefers Donaire fight in April, on HBO; the contract gives Golden Boy the ability to hold the fight as late as June 30. It also states that should the fight need to be postponed, Golden Boy has the right to reschedule it within 90 days or cancel it outright, provisions Top Rank isn't willing to live with.
Instead, Top Rank plans to move ahead with an April 13 date for Donaire and match him against either super bantamweight titleholder Guillermo Rigondeaux or former bantamweight champion Vic Darchinyan.
Personally, I think this is all pretty stupid. If scheduling is the biggest issue -- and forget the network issue, if Golden Boy is putting up close to $5 million between Donaire and Mares, it's a safe bet it winds up on HBO -- then shame on the promoters for not finding a common ground. And according to Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer, it's not. Schaefer told me on Wednesday that he has "all the flexibility in the world" when it comes to changing the date and that he personally sent an email to HBO letting network executives know he had no intention of squeezing them out, that he would take the best financial offer for the fight, regardless of the network.
"What usually happens when you get a $3 million offer is you come back with comments," Schaefer said. "If we can do this or that, we have a deal. But it just doesn't seem like they want the fight. I'm going to keep trying. I'm going to keep pursuing until [Top Rank] announces something. Then, I'll move on."
• One of the names published in a scathing Miami New Times report connecting athletes to a company that allegedly provided steroids and other performance enhancing drugs was that of Yuri Gamboa, a 2004 Olympic gold medalist and current super featherweight contender. But while Major League Baseball investigates the players who were named in the report, Gamboa has nothing to worry about. That's because boxing -- with one of the worst drug testing systems of any major sport -- will not retroactively punish a fighter, nor will it do any kind of investigation. In fact, if Gamboa, who tested clean after his December fight in Nevada, has been using something, there is little incentive for him to stop. Clearly, the arcane testing by state athletic commissions isn't catching him.
• Brian Kenny has been a superb addition to Showtime's broadcasts. Kenny is a pro's pro, a skilled interviewer and an excellent host.
• Heavyweight contender Tyson Fury is close to a deal that will match him with former cruiserweight champion Steve Cunningham on April 20 at Madison Square Garden. The fight will be an afternoon show broadcast nationally on NBC. Cunningham's wife and manager, Livvy, told me that while they do not have an official offer -- and though they prefer a fight with Alexander Povetkin -- they were interested in a Fury fight. Cunningham, of course, is coming off a controversial loss to Tomasz Adamek in December.
• One of the names I'm hearing for the Cunningham-Fury undercard is Curtis Stevens, who is coming off a spectacular first round knockout of journeyman Elvin Ayala last month.
• Boxing Scene has an interesting post detailing how the WBA and former middleweight champion Felix Sturm colluded to avoid forcing Sturm to defend his title against Gennady Golovkin.
• Last week, heavyweight contender Bryant Jennings told SI.com he was out of a proposed March 9 date on NBC Sports Network. Jennings said the money he was being offered was the same as what he made last January, when he made his television debut. Main Events CEO Kathy Duva denied that the offer was the same, telling me that it was, in fact, double what Jennings made in his first fight.
• Can Sergey Kovalev fight again soon? Please?
• I can understand Zab Judah's frustration with the postponement of his Feb. 9 fight against Danny Garcia, but accusing Garcia of faking an injury is just dumb. Injuries during training happen, unfortunately, and Judah himself has experienced them: In 2008, Judah fell in a bathroom, a fall that opened a gash on his arm and forced the cancellation of a fight against Shane Mosley. Garcia-Judah has been rescheduled for April 27.
• Lucas Matthysse's spectacular first round knockout of an overmatched Mike Dallas Jr. will only enhance his reputation as the most feared fighter in boxing. While Matthysse wants a fight with Danny Garcia, expect Showtime to try to lure him back into the ring quickly, possibly as early as March.
• Paging Vernon Paris.
• Johnathan Banks wasn't too excited when Seth Mitchell exercised the immediate rematch clause in his contract following Banks's knockout win over him in November. Banks wanted to take an interim bout, preferably against Alexander Povetkin, before facing Mitchell again. But at a recent public workout, Banks sounded like a fighter who has found motivation.
"Mitchell has contradicted himself," Banks said. "Right after the fight he was very humble, gave me respect for the win and said he was going to have to go back to the drawing board, work his way back to the position he was in. Now I hear him saying things like 'I didn't win the fight or knock him out because I was the better man that night,' and that it was his mistakes that were the cause of the loss. I find that to be out of character for this guy who seemed to be humble and respectful of me as a fighter prior to the first fight. When I lost to [Tomasz] Adamek as a cruiserweight, I lost. I can see [Mitchell] coming for the knockout this time. He says he is going to be different this time. I believe he will be.
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The England striker left St Mary's to join his boyhood team this week, completing a remarkable rise through the divisions to the Champions League.
Saints supporters will be devastated to see the hitman leave after a prolific five-year spell, but Davis does not expect any bitterness towards his former team-mate.
The Northern Ireland captain recalls how pleased Lambert was to play at Anfield as an away player and is glad he can now turn out for his hometown heroes.
"I think everyone is delighted for Rickie
Even the most diehard Saints fans who will have hated to see him leave the club will respect what he has done," said Davis, who will lead his country in a friendly in Chile on Wednesday night.
"He's had an unbelievable time there and fired the club from League One to eighth position in the Premier League.
"I think he has deserved this move, I don't think anyone will begrudge him it and I am delighted for him personally.
"I know how much it will mean for him to sign for Liverpool and I hope he will go on to be a success there which I'm sure he will because he has all the attributes and attitude.
"I'm sure he thought his time was gone in terms of getting his chance to go there but I remember how much it meant to him just to play at Anfield with Southampton in our first season back in the Premier League, he had all his family there.
"It's been an unbelievable rise for him and that is a credit to him for how he has adapted his game."
Saints fans may be less magnanimous if Lambert turns out to be the first of several high-profile departures, with Liverpool also circling captain Adam Lallana and Luke Shaw repeatedly linked with Manchester United.
Although the club are currently managerless, Mauricio Pochettino having been cherry-picked by Tottenham at the end of the season, Davis is confident a team who excelled last term will not fall apart.
"We had a great season and kept progressing, it went very quickly because it was so enjoyable," he said.
"Of course, it could be difficult to hold on to players but I'm sure the club has a plan in place to keep moving the club forward.
"We want to get to the next level and that means keeping the players we have and also adding to it."
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John Williams, a native carver who used to sit on the third floor of Carnegie Centre and carve, about 20 years ago, has been drawn into the highly political case of the shooting of black teenager, Trayvon Martin. The shooting of the unarmed Martin by a hispanic Neighborhood Watch captain in Florida, has re-stimulated a discussion of racial profiling in the U.S.
Christina Lopez, a Seattle activist, has compared the shooting death of Martin with the shooting death of Williams by a Seattle police officer in Aug. 2011. Listening to her mention Williams' name on the radio, reminded me of him sitting on the third floor of Carnegie Centre carving, wearing a pale yellow t-shirt and jeans. He was 50 years old when he was shot. The last time I saw him in the Downtown Eastside, he was 29 years old. It was a sweltering August night when I dropped by to visit him at his room by Pigeon Park.
The lead up to the Williams shooting was caught on the police car video and the multiple shots pumped into Williams can be heard off camera. It was clear from the video of Williams crossing the street that he posed no threat. It was clear also that years of drinking had taken its toll. The last time I talked to him on that August night, he told me he had started drinking again, after having quit for a long time. He didn't know many people in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and I wonder if isolation contributed to his return to drinking.
After Williams was shot, he was identified by native people, who knew him from seeing him carving at the Chief Seattle Club, as a Seattle resident originally from Vancouver Island. His time as a Downtown Eastsider is probably remembered only by a small circle of people who had contact with him. I met him in the winter or spring at Carnegie Centre and knew him through the summer, casually, bumping into him once in a while. He told me that he had been living in Seattle and planned to head back there. He said he could make a good living there as a carver, unlike in Vancouver. I got the impression that he had been up here visiting Vancouver Island.
Carving seemed to be his calling. He carved constantly. In fact, he was holding a carving knife when he was shot, a knife for which he had a permit.
When I visited Williams at his room by Pigeon Park, he showed me a mini totem pole he was carving, and he said he was from a family of carvers on Vancouver Island. His family were well known as carvers, he said. Not knowing much about art, I had a picture in my mind of totem poles being more colorful, and I remember asking him if he was going to paint it. He said he might put a little paint on it, but he didn't seem to interested in that angle.
When I heard on the radio that John Williams had been shot, I was thinking of how calm and grounded he used to be, and I wasn't surprised to read that someone who knew him at the Chief Seattle Club also remembered him as calm.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
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CHERNOSE and RICHARD are sat at the table in a wine bar. They are drinking red wine and appear to have finished a bottle already.
RICHARD: I don't mind telling you, Chernose. I'm pretty terrified right now.
CHERNOSE: **** are you scared of, man? We're just two single gentlemen out to meet some fly young ladies. Then make sex with them.
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RICHARD: Yeah, exactly. I've not done that for a while.
CHERNOSE: Met ladies?
RICHARD: Yeah. Or had sex with them.
CHERNOSE: How long? Months? Years?
RICHARD: Decade?
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CHERNOSE has stood up and is shouting. People are looking round.
CHERNOSE: **** OFF! You haven't had sex for ten years? **** off! That's like... You haven't had sex since before I started! And I've had a lot! I've had your share, man! ****!
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CHERNOSE sits down, conversation continues as if this didn't occur but some women are now staring at Richard.
CHERNOSE: So when did Tiny Richard's Mum leave you?
RICHARD: Amanda? She left about nine years ago with a guy named Craig to live in Spain where he sells villas.
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CHERNOSE is back up.
CHERNOSE: Oh ****! So you like ****ed them up law courts style on some Fathers for justice type shit, right? Like "You take the car, bitch, but the kid stays with me!"
RICHARD: She didn't steal my car. Where have you got the car stealing thing from?
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CHERNOSE sits down once again.
CHERNOSE: **** do you drive that beat up piece of shit then?
RICHARD: It's a better car than your bus pass is.
CHERNOSE: **** you, man. I'm taking lessons and shit. It's the gears- I don't get them.
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- AB, on consumer feedback regarding the success rate of the recipes in the book: "We believe we have a 99% success rate. We can't have 100% success, because 1% of the population are morons. And I can't do anything about that." He went on to talk about a woman who felt his smoked salmon recipe was no good, only to find out that she had tried smoking it in a cardboard box in her apartment, resulting in a visit from the fire department! Alton's comment: "All I can do is suggest she not have children."
- AB, in answer to an audience question of how to get noticed in order to get on TV: "Own a pawn shop. Hoard. Catch catfish with your bare hands."
- AB, on being one of the judges for the next season of The Next Food Network Star: "My goal is to make all the contestants cry."
- AB: "Chefs scare me. I've been screamed at in a lot of languages by guys in white jackets."
- From the audience: "My husband said you can be my 'hall pass'." Audience erupted with laughter. AB: Takes a drink of water and contemplates for a moment, then, "I'm not sure what that means." After hearing the explanation, he says with a straight face, "Well, does your husband get a hall pass, too, because I've got Giada's phone number in my wallet somewhere that I can give him..."
- AB, to the man about to ask the next question: "Sir, if you tell me the same thing she just did, I'm leaving."
- AB, on his early experiences on Food Network: "Bobby Flay is one of the nicest guys on Food Network. Really, he's the only one who would give me the time of day at the beginning."
- AB, on his lack of popularity with women in his younger days: "I didn't know anything about women. I still don't. I learned how to cook, because girls were more likely to accept your offer of a date if you were offering to cook them dinner. Back in the 80's, that was a little risque."
- AB: "Why do they call it a 'hall pass'? Back in grade school, all that meant was you had permission to go to the bathroom."
- AB, on his diet and weight loss: "Milk makes me do evil things. If I drink a glass of milk, I hear a little voice saying 'come on, let's get some girl scout cookies'. And you know there's only two servings per box."
- AB, on future Food Network projects: "One of my next projects is a mini-series called Foods that Changed the World." He paused, pulled something out of his jacket pocket and said, "Including, the nutmeg. I always have one with me." And he sure did!
- AB, on why he chose cooking as a career path: "Food is to me what the mob is to Martin Scorsese. It's always interesting."
- AB, on how he comes up with ideas for Good Eats: "About two weeks before I start writing my scripts, I go off my medication."
- AB, on tasting some of the food creations on Iron Chef America: "Yeah, that trout ice cream? It tasted like ASS!"
Monday, October 17, 2011
A Night at the Ballet, a Pizza, and meeting Alton Brown...
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i love Alton and his witty charm on Iron Chef! lucky girl!ReplyDelete
Alton Brown is great. I would love to meet Alton. Sounds like y'all had a great time.ReplyDelete
How much fun! That must have just been a blast, you lucky duck!ReplyDelete
What a perfect post, food, wine, celebrity foodie!ReplyDelete
And the way you present your pictures in black & white looks terrific!
Yep, I'm totally jealous of this evening. Seriously though, I love your blog. And curly brunettes are the best (okay, okay, my girls and I may have brown curly hair too).ReplyDelete
I'm not very familiar with Alton Brown, but it sounds like you had a wonderful evening!ReplyDelete
Nothing beats homemade pizza, even one that doesn't come together that well. Still far superior to shop bought :-)
Sounds like you had a great time. Love your photo essay of the night!ReplyDelete
Yeah for Curly Girls! :)ReplyDelete
I thoroughly enjoyed this post. Thanks for writing it up! I would love to meet Alton Brown! He's so funny and so knowledgeable.ReplyDelete
PS I had to google what a hall pass is because I didn't know what it meant LOL.
Too funny - they actually just made a movie called "Hall Pass".ReplyDelete
That's so exciting you got to meet Alton! Any time I've had the opportunity to meet someone famous I do the same thing. I plan out something clever to say and then just forget it and say 'I'm a big fan' or something like that!:)ReplyDelete
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At 2:50 on Monday afternoon , with a spring sun casting crisp shadows across Boylston Street, two bombs detonated in close succession, turning the city's largest annual public gathering into a tableau of glass and blood. Exhausted marathoners wheeled in shock, stumbled, collapsed. Doctors expecting to treat leg cramps found themselves running trauma units instead.
The disbelief curdled into anger—who could have done this?—and a profound sense of worry. Was there enough security? Did someone carrying a bomb really walk undisturbed so close to the finish line of the city's most famous annual event? A feeling of vulnerability coursed through Boston like an aftershock. If it could happen at the Boston Marathon, it could happen anywhere in the city.
The Marathon is an exceptional moment, of course: tens of thousands of people lining the streets, cheering behind barricades, clustering together, exposed. But an urban tragedy like the bombing unsettles us more generally, because it wakes us up to precisely how much we have to fear every time we set foot on a city street. Simply to live or work in a city is to open ourselves, daily, to almost unimaginable risk. We stand unprotected in crowds; we travel underground, beneath water, or 300 feet in the air. We buy weird food from strangers in trucks. City life means violating every rule your parents taught you, every day.
After events like Monday's, it can be easy to conclude that there is just something wrong about cities. Perhaps people were never meant to live so close together, to be so unguarded in large groups. It's inarguably safer to disperse, each of us behind a lawn and a driveway and a "beware of dog" sign. But there is another way to think about it: that what we felt this week, the collective vulnerability, is an exact reflection of what makes cities work in the first place, what makes them productive, and vital, and almost unimaginably resilient.
After decades in which Americans flooded out of cities as soon as they could afford it, there is a reason that people have begun flocking back. The exceptional safety of suburbs, their vanishingly low rates of crime and risk, turned out to come with a steep price. Increasingly we are recognizing that when new things happen, they happen in cities: the places where people stand shoulder to shoulder, meet strangers, have conversations they didn't expect. Where they accept unpredictability. Where they leave themselves open to something going wrong.
It is possible to see dynamism and risk as flip sides of the same coin. Every once in a while, that openness comes with a horrible cost. Boston has been lucky in this regard: Not since a courthouse explosion sent 22 people to the hospital in 1976 has anyone been seriously hurt in a public bombing here. Now, sadly, Patriots Day will commemorate the moment that streak ended.
But in the wake of a tragedy like last week's, it also matters to remember that within the openness that leaves us vulnerable lie the seeds of recovery. Some of it will take years. Some of it we have already seen.
In the videos following the Marathon bombing, amid the horror, the screaming, the concussion of the bomb and the confused runners, something else is visible as well: people running not out, but in. They muscled apart barriers to allow pedestrians to escape the chaos; they tore what fabric they had into tourniquets. They sensed that a rift had been opened. The risks were still there; there could just as easily have been a third bomb awaiting them. But the city had already begun to close around the rift.
Long-distance running is a metaphor for isolation, for individual achievement and willpower. The stories of marathon runners every year focus on their private resolve and superhuman dedication.
But anyone who has run the Boston Marathon, or lives along its route, knows that the actual feeling of being there is precisely the opposite. It's an expression of collective energy so total you can feel it. Once a year, a small city spontaneously arises just to take care of the crowd flowing through Greater Boston. In town after town, people set up chairs and sit on their lawns to hand water to strangers. They crank inspiring music at full volume for the benefit of people they have never met, and will never see again.
To run the Marathon is to be greeted by a nearly unbroken string of spectators, kids pedaling on trikes alongside you, an entire college trying to slap your hand. You could eat a case of oranges, hand-quartered, offered to you by children. There is almost no event that so perfectly encapsulates what it means to be a citizen.
Planting a bomb at an event like the Boston Marathon seems almost unimaginably perverse. If it's a symbol, it's a symbol of what people are willing to do for one another: Dick Hoyt, who pushes his wheelchair-bound son to the finish line every year. The hundreds who run for leukemia research, or the Jimmy Fund. Exceptionally engineered humans arrive from Kenya, Ethiopia, Germany, Japan, and the city enfolds them like homegrown champions. Cosmas Ndeti won the Marathon three times and gave his son, a boy born in Kenya, the middle name Boston.
The spirit we see at work on Marathon Monday has become a vogue in sociology. It goes by the name social capital—the rich capacity of people to support one another productively, to build networks, to cooperate. And we need these opportunities to build all the social capital we can. The statistics show that trust is actually declining in America, in cities as much as anywhere. An event like the Marathon, a parade of strangers cheering for strangers in a grand civic spectacle, somehow pulls us out of that dive.
Economists and planners have become fascinated by cities' ability to bring us together in spite of ourselves—and by what happens when they do. "People create ideas by literally bumping into each other and finding each other. That's the wellspring of ideas. That's what advances humanity," says Columbia University development professor Vishaan Chakrabarti. He has calculated that an astonishing 90 percent of America's gross domestic product comes from just 3 percent of its landmass—that is, from the densest cities.
What happens there requires care, cultivation, even planning. A century ago the visionary landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted designed spaces allowing for people of all classes to mingle, those beloved city parks that include Central Park and the Back Bay Fens. Today modern urban planners have returned to that idea, eschewing privacy in favor of plazas, boulevards, openness—features that allow what Chakrabarti calls "the spark of urban serendipity," or, more touchingly, "public joy."
The sound of those two explosions abruptly ended the feeling of easy serendipity and public joy in Boston, at least for a while. In the days afterward, the Back Bay, one of the nation's most beautiful urban neighborhoods, lay barricaded off. If we think of the city as a dense grid of people, and not just streets and buildings, it is fair to say that a chunk of the city went temporarily missing. The bombing removed it.
But perhaps it is more accurate to say it was dispersed. When the news began to spread, shared documents arose online: People who lived in suburbs around Boston, with beds and sofas free, began to invite strangers visiting the city to their homes. It is easy to imagine that an event like this would fracture trust the way it fractures glass, slicing apart the thin web that holds a city together. Instead the web spread outward. "I can drive to pick you up," wrote one person. "It's an Aerobed, but it's a comfortable one!" wrote another.
As of this writing , we don't yet know who planted the bombs on Boylston Street. And, importantly, nobody knows how officialdom will react over this next year. As much as we worry about safety, we also worry about blame, and crackdowns, and rightly so: Humans are prone to excess in reaction. New York City returned to normal in many ways after the 9/11 attacks, but in some ways it did not. The immense concrete bollards that went up around government buildings remain; Boston has those, too. All over the United States, we are scanned and detained and filmed in ways that we have never been before.
Openness and security, we're forced to remember, are a trade-off. The city of Boston has taken plenty of heat for its insularity and guardedness, but in the full sweep of its story, Boston is a stake planted in the ground for freedom. The first school in the country is still here, and still public. The green heart of the city is still called, simply, the Common.
Nothing, no virtue of cities, can make up for what the victims of the Marathon bombing lost on Monday. But no amount of safety, no security regime, would be worth exchanging for what we have gained from this way of life over the centuries: the shifting web of human connection, the knowledge and prosperity that were born here—not in spite of our vulnerability, but because of it.
There will be another Marathon next year, the 118th. It will be different. Boston will be locked down more securely before the event. Perhaps there will be metal detectors on city streets; there will be more surveillance cameras, more dogs. We will be less vulnerable, more guarded.
But look around, when it happens, for signs of a stronger spirit at work. People will cheer on their lawns as 25,000 strangers run by. They will throng the barriers in Brookline to cheer for people whose names they can't pronounce. They will hand water to strangers, and their children will proffer carefully sliced oranges, and the exhausted runners will take them with trust and gratitude. The city will be enfolding them again, risk or no. And to anyone who loves the city, it will look a lot like public joy.
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Miley Cyrus Spotted in NYC With Emu [PHOTO]
Miley Cyrus is back on the road, making up previously cancelled Bangerz Tour shows as a result of her hospitalization in April. This time, however, she's not doing it alone: She's bringing her new puppy Emu with her for the ride!
Cyrus was spotted with Emu in her arms, leaving a hotel in New York City Saturday, Aug. 2, after performing at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, N.Y. Wearing a kimono-type dress, she left the hotel and headed to her transport where she was scheduled to perform for Philadelphians last night. She then travels to Pittsburgh on Monday for the next stop in her tour.
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An 18-month-old girl is dead after she was run over by a school bus that had just offloaded children in a rural East Texas subdivision.
Authorities identified the girl as Arra Preciado.
Trooper Jean Dark of the Texas Department of Public Safety says accident happened about 3:30 p.m. Tuesday about 3 miles northwest of Tyler. She said the child walked in front of the Chapel Hill school bus as it pulled away from the stop, first knocking her down then running over her body.
The latest news from around North Texas.
Dark said the bus driver, at first, was unaware that the child had been run over but stopped around the corner from the site.
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Painstaking reconstruction of De Soto's journey through what is now the southeastern US, and the many vanished cultures and peoples he encountered.
This is probably the best overview yet of the cultures of the Southeast at the time of First Contact. I learned a *lot*.
1. Most importantly, the overall picture is not of the Civilized Tribes being civilized because they later adopted European culture, but because they *already were*. That is, they lived in settled towns surrounded by farms, and with most of the accoutrements of early civilizations as seen in the eastern hemisphere: temples or ritual structures (the earthen pyramids for which the "Mound Builders" were named), hereditary nobility, shifting alliances, war, fortifications, slavery, human sacrifice … The names are strange, but the basic outline is all too familiar.
2. Even before Contact, the political structure in the Southeast was fluid and unstable: chieftainships repeatedly grew, fought, and collapsed. Hudson thinks these political factors were more important than climate or land use in explaining things like why the Savannah River valley was almost uninhabited when De Soto passed through — it was a buffer zone between the warring Cofitachequi and Ocute polities. Each of these was actually a multi-chief society, with a paramount chiefdom at the top.
3. De Soto's trip was not so much an "expedition" as a "swath of destruction". The Spanish started with over 600 men, 220 horses, a herd of pigs, and several packs of large dogs — but without much in the way of food. All along the way, they got the food they needed by grabbing it from the Indians, as loot or "gifts". They also grabbed many people to be slaves — to carry their loot, cook their food, be raped, and guide them.
4. I deduce that many of the Indians occasionally practiced slavery or something like it, from the fact that De Soto frequently demanded that various chiefs "give him" porters and women — and they did. I doubt very much that these were hereditary chattel slaves, but some form of slavery-like control seems to have been involved.
5. I knew the Spanish behaved quite terribly, but in one respect Hudson shows they were even worse than I thought. De Soto's expedition — who, as Hudson says, thought of themselves as "Christian" rather than "Spanish" — brought several groups of large, fierce dogs with them: mastiffs, Irish wolfhounds, greyhounds. These dogs were trained to fight and kill humans at their masters' orders. When De Soto had Indians "thrown to the dogs", the dogs didn't just kill the people … they ate them. These were, after all, meat-eating animals, traveling in an area where their masters were constantly worried about getting enough to eat. Hudson doesn't mention the dogs after the first winter, so I assume they were killed (or possibly ran away). Not surprising — I can imagine few things more dangerous and unstable than domestic animals that are used to feeding on human flesh. It really makes me appreciate why "dog" is a deadly insult in certain cultures.
6. I had maybe heard vaguely of the Battle of Mabila before, but not in any detail. Paramount Chief Tuskaloosa had assembled a force of several thousand warriors to try to trap the Spanish in the fort of Mabila. In the event, the armor, horses, and discipline of the Spanish gave them an overwhelming advantage, and almost all the Indians were killed in the battle, the fire that burned down the town, or committed suicide to avoid capture.
The Spanish victory was Pyrrhic: though only 22 were killed directly, almost everyone was wounded, many horses were killed, and almost all their possessions were destroyed in the fire. Hudson thinks that De Soto realized at this point that the expedition was a failure, but instead of giving up gracefully and retreating to Apalachee Bay (where their ships were waiting), he decided to take everyone down with him.
7. I always thought De Soto and his men were basically crazy to focus so much on gold. The Indians called them "brigands", and that's exactly how they acted: not like people who were looking for a place to colonize or settle, not like organized conquerors, but just like robbers tearing a house up looking for the money. This was all true, but what I hadn't known was that De Soto was basically second-in-command to Pizarro during the conquest of the Inca Empire. That campaign netted truly staggering wealth; De Soto used his share to go back to Spain for an upgrade in social standing, and to finance the Expedition. Many of the Spanish on the Expedition had invested most or all of their personal wealth into the trip, and finding gold was the only likely way they could get their investments back quickly.
One of the unnoticed forking points of history was that De Soto's route twice passed within 50 miles of Dahlonega, Georgia — later the site of the first Gold Rush in the US. There was, in fact, gold in them thar hills, but the Indians didn't know (or care) and the Spanish never found it.
8. Hudson is quite clear that there's no real evidence that the De Soto expedition itself spread Old World diseases across the Southeast. What *is* clear is that between the time of the expedition in the mid 16th century and the arrival of large numbers of European colonists in the early eighteen century, the native population fell by 70-95% with no particular signs of violence. The evidence that disease was the culprit is circumstantial, but compelling.
The upshot is that the Indians colonists encountered in the 1700s — Creek, Chicasaw, Cherokee, Alabama, and the rest — were descendents of the people De Soto met, but they did not have the same cultures. The Indian cultures of the 18th century were not ancient or timeless: the world had changed, and they changed with it.


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Welcome to our Hawaii Nonprofit Startup Guide! If you're passionate about helping others and have an idea to serve your community, starting a nonprofit is a great way to turn your vision into a reality. There are many different types of nonprofits - religious, educational, human service oriented, animal welfare, and more. What all nonprofits have in common is a focus on helping others and benefiting their community. You are genuinely committed to these goals so you are already well on your way!
According to the National Center for Charitable Statistics, there were over 6,000 nonprofit organizations in Hawaii in 2012. Before you start a new nonprofit, make sure you have identified an unmet need in your community and know that there are not any existing organizations serving your cause. If another organization exists, consider working together, as that may be a better way to make an impact in your community and use existing resources.
When you are ready to start your nonprofit, plan to incorporate and apply for 501(c)(3) status, as these are important steps to fully achieve your goals. As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, you will be able to apply for grants and accept donations, be exempt from federal corporate income tax, and limit the liability of your organization's officers and directors. Most importantly, you will gain credibility and legitimacy for your cause, instilling the public with confidence in your organization.
This guide will walk you through the basic steps to start your nonprofit in Hawaii. Let's get started!
Your organization's name establishes its brand and is also important for incorporating with the state. The legal name of your nonprofit corporation may not conflict with any other organization registered in the state. Make sure the name is available and meets state requirements.
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The incorporator is the person who signs the Articles of Incorporation for your nonprofit. You will need at least one, but can have more than one. Directors make up the governing body of your nonprofit corporation and are stakeholders in your organization's purpose and success. You'll want to identify three, unrelated individuals to meet IRS requirements. You will also want to be aware of any age or residency requirements.
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A registered agent is responsible for receiving legal notices on behalf of your organization. The appointed registered agent must be physically located in the state and maintain an office that is open during regular business hours. As a nationwide registered agent, our service is designed to receive your legal documents and provide secure access to those documents through your online account. Our local Hawaii registered agent office is located in Honolulu, HI. We offer registered agent service independently or as part of our nonprofit formation packages.
Your nonprofit's articles of incorporation officially mark the creation of your organization. They document where and when the organization was formed and capture other information necessary to verify its existence. While requirements for language vary from state-to-state, there are some basic provisions that the IRS will look for when you apply for 501(c)(3) exemption. It is important to customize the articles for your organization and make sure you meet the state and IRS requirements. Meeting these requirements from the start will help avoid having to make amendments later or risk getting your 501(c)(3) application rejected. Some states will also require you to publish your articles of incorporation, so be mindful of any deadlines and publishing instructions.
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This unique, nine-digit number is assigned by the IRS to identify your nonprofit. All types of nonprofits will apply for an EIN, not only those that hire employees. You will use your EIN to open a bank account, apply for 501(c)(3) status, and submit 990 returns to the IRS.
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The IRS website is only available during certain hours. Print your EIN before closing your session. For additional guidance, see IRS Pub 1635: Understanding Your EIN.
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Your bylaws are the governing document for your nonprofit. They serve as your organization's operating manual and should be consistent with your articles of incorporation and the law. When your Board of Directors meets for the first time, you'll review and ratify the bylaws and they will be a roadmap for governance from there.
At the same time, you'll also want to create and adopt a conflict of interest policy. A conflict of interest is when someone in a key position in your nonprofit has competing interests and is making choices that could benefit themselves to the harm of the organization. Personal interests should be set aside and organizational interests prioritized. If a conflict of interest does arise, it should be disclosed immediately.
Your application to the IRS for 501(c)(3) exemption will require that both the bylaws and the conflict of interest policy are approved and adopted. Once they've been adopted, safely store them in your Nonprofit Records Kit.
The initial organizational meeting of your Board of Directors will be incredibly productive. At this meeting you will approve the bylaws, adopt the conflict of interest policy, elect directors, appoint officers, and approve resolutions such as opening the organization's bank account. Important decisions are being made so be sure to record them in the meeting minutes.
Hawaii offers a consolidated state tax registration application. This application simplifies the process of starting a business in Hawaii by allowing you to register for various State tax and employer licenses and permits, including general excise tax (GET), withholding (WH) tax, and unemployment insurance (UI) tax.
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Applying for 501(c) tax exemption can feel like the most daunting step in bringing your nonprofit dream into reality, but obtaining tax exemption comes with many benefits. You will be able to apply for grants and grow your fundraising success in addition to being exempt from IRS income tax. 501(c) is the chapter of the Internal Revenue Code that regulates nonprofit organizations. Like others, you may be most familiar with 501(c)(3) nonprofits, including charities and foundations. 501(c)(3) nonprofits apply using Form 1023 or Form 1023-EZ. Review the criteria for each application and make sure you meet the eligibility requirements set out by the IRS. Other types of nonprofits, including 501(c)(4)s and 501(c)(6)s, apply using Form 1024. After reviewing and approving your application, the IRS will return a Determination Letter officially recognizing your exemption.
Completing the federal application for tax exemption is significantly easier with the assistance and support of a professional. Find someone with the expertise to ensure the correct application is being used and is completed accurately. A well-prepared application takes time, over 100 hours by IRS estimates, so put yourself on the path to success by finding a specialist to walk alongside you in the journey - from start to tax-exempt finish!
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Your IRS determination letter granting exemption from federal income taxes, also exempts your organization from Hawaii income taxes. Organizations that are not required to file an application for recognition of exemption with the IRS are exempt from Hawaii income taxes.More information: Hawaii Department of Taxation
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It appears that GE intensifies the preceding word rather than downshifts the following. MONON may do that in some contexts. These kind of discourse particles do not correspond across languages, so we can rarely say that a particular particle in one language corresponds to a particular one in another language.Peter Streitenberger wrote:Dear Jonathan,
So the entrance question remains: how would Koine-Speakers downshift the following Information. Is it agreed to consider GE depending on context? Or MONON ?
Peter, Germany
The German one you are looking at corresponds somewhat to our Danish "bare", My dictionary gives a number of options: nur, bloss, schon, doch, eben. (But it is only one of the senses of eben that fits here.)
When I looked at where we used "bare" in our Danish translation, I noticed that we had used it 76 times in the NT. Then I compared with the Greek MONON which occurs 73 times, but in only 10 places could I detect that MONON had been translated by "bare". A native speaker will put these particles in depending on context, not by looking at dictionary explanations. In most cases where we used "bare", there was no particular Greek word it translated.


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Unfortunately it's becoming more widespread.ina wrote:It was the same last year - same packet of seeds, so I suspect it was just a dud lot.Flo wrote:It's been an odd broad bean year here - it may be nothing that you or the brand of beans did but just that 2017 took a dislike to broad beans in general.ina wrote:
Sounds familiar. They did certainly not take over anything... Not a single bean this year!
Back to whatever I had before next year, even if I have to stake them.
I had a packet of parsnip which I germinate on moist tissue in the airing cupboard and I had about 5% germinate, bought another variety from a different seed company and got about 90% germination.
Same with peas, packet of Douce Provence hardly any came up, did a germination test and got about 10%, both brand new seed professing to be new 2017 stock and curiously both from the same seed company. I suspect old stock and I will not be buying any more from them, which is a shame as I have been a customer of theirs for over 50 years.


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Well, it didn't go to a shootout...
Last night's game between the Caps and the Islanders – a 3-2 overtime loss for the Caps – was a study in will and who could impose theirs on the other club. In the end, it was an Islander kind of game.
The Caps had two moments of the kind of style Bruce Boudreau has installed, and the Alexes scored goals. There are your Caps highlights. There are your highlights, period. The rest was a rather pugnacious affair, not as a penalty-filled affair, but more a contest of two clubs playing on the local, going from zone to zone and fighting for territory.
And that's what the Caps more or less permitted. They didn't press much in the early part of the game, looking more like they were on auto-pilot.
And here is your odd number for the evening…50:36.
That is how long it took Alex Ovechkin to register a shot on goal. For the game, the Alexes – Ovechkin and Semin – had a total of four shots. That's what the Islanders do unless a club is more able to impose its will on them than the Caps were capable of last night.
Here is another reflection of the Islanders imposing their style on the game: 42-24. That was the difference in turnovers (giveaways yielded and takeaways made), the Caps having the "42."
And, the Islanders had more blocked shots (18) than the Caps registered on goal (16).
Even when things showed promise, they didn't last. An example – Viktor Kozlov, who has been battling a goal slump going back to November 8th in
In the end though, it came down to Rick DiPietro and Olaf Kolzig. Both goalies made some top notch saves, but DiPietro made all the saves he's supposed to make, too (although with 16 shots faced, it wasn't as if he faced a severe test). Kolzig – who gave up the overtime winner on a severe-angle shot from Richard Park – did not.
The three points the Caps earned on the road were given up in the last two games – a home game of the sort they need to win and an overtime game that probably shouldn't have gone that far. It isn't the way to go into the break (0-1-2), and there are hazards as the Caps come out of the break next week – last year the Caps lost all five games between Christmas and New Years (including two sets of back-to-back games) by a combined score of 21-10. The Caps will spend this year's between-the-holidays week facing four clubs who can make goalies in a slump pay –
It will be a big week, made bigger by the points that got away this week.


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Having bought rival Voltaire, Mellanox Technologies has pretty much ruled the InfiniBand adapter and switching roost for the past several years. But this week Intel shelled out $125m to acquire the InfiniBand chip, adapter, and switch businesses from QLogic, and the big question now is: what does this mean for Mellanox?
Speaking in a conference call with Wall Street analysts to go over his company's fourth quarter 2011 financial results, Mellanox president, CEO, and chairman Eyal Waldman shrugged off Intel's InfiniBand move, which follows Chipzilla's purchase of Ethernet switch ASIC maker Fulcrum Microsystems last July.
Mellanox sells hybrid Ethernet-InfiniBand ConnectX adapter cards and chips for server links, and has also created the SwitchX switch-hitting ASIC, which can do Ethernet or InfiniBand today and eventually both at the same time.
Mellanox wants to expand its share of the networking racket that's focused on high performance computing, cloud, database clustering, and business analytics, and it bought Voltaire to move into Ethernet so it could tag-team data centers with both network protocols on one set of iron. The idea is to cut development and manufacturing costs, and drop prices – as Mellanox did this week on the same day that Intel bought the QLogic InfiniBand biz – and make it up in volume.
There's nothing stopping Intel from pulling the same maneuver, of course, now that it will have plenty of switch engineers on the payroll with deep expertise in Ethernet and InfiniBand. Intel has given no indication of what its networking aspirations are, and this thought did not occur to the Wall Street moneymen on the earnings call – and Waldman did not go there by himself.
But Wall Street did ask about Intel now being a competitor as well as a partner. Waldman put the best face forward on the situation, as you might expect.
"We like this," Waldman told Wall Street. "We think this is important to the market. I don't think QLogic was very successful with their InfiniBand business, and it is important to have more than one vendor in this market. We think Intel is doing the right thing in terms of supporting InfiniBand and understanding that the market is embracing this technology not just for high performance computing, but for virtualized data centers, clouds, Web 2.0, and so on."
Waldman said that Mellanox believes that 40 per cent or more of the x86 server business in data centers could potentially be using top-speed InfiniBand or Ethernet protocols in the coming years, and added that the company believes that there are something on the order of 11 to 12 million of these high-speed ports on both servers and their matching switches up for grabs.
Mellanox doesn't think the addressable market for ports in the data center will grow that much, but that its ConnectX and SwitchX silicon could get a bigger slice of those ports over time. Hence their price cuts this week on 10GbE adapters and switches.
"We look forward to working closely with Intel to continue to drive InfiniBand and RDMA over converged Ethernet into the market," said Waldman, adding that he believed that Mellanox had a lead of between one and two years over the QLogic technology that Intel has acquired. (QLogic would no doubt dispute this, and did when talking to El Reg earlier this month.
Mellanox has been in the driver's seat with InfiniBand for years, and has made a credible expansion into Ethernet switching thanks to the Voltaire buy and the SwitchX chips. But it may not take long for Intel to be in the driver's seat unless Mellanox gets some big allies or is acquired, perhaps by Chipzilla rival AMD. IBM, HP, and Oracle, the three biggest buyers of Mellanox' wares, could also be interested.
But in the wake of decent Q4 numbers, a relatively sunny outlook for 2012, and Intel's acquisition of the QLogic InfiniBand biz for maybe five times revenues, the stock of Mellanox shot up to a level that gave the company a market capitalization of $1.26bn. That would be perhaps too pricey given its modest revenue and profit stream, even for such big potential suitors.
By the numbers
In the quarter ended in December, Mellanox posted sales of $72.7m, up 78.6 per cent thanks in large part to the Voltaire acquisition, but also boosted by old-fashioned organic growth. More significantly, Mellanox swing from a $352,000 loss in Q4 2010 to a gain of $4.1m this time around. For the full year, revenues at Mellanox reached $259.3m, up 67.6 per cent. But for the full year, earnings were actually down by 24.9 per cent to just under $10m.
Mellanox CFO Michael Gray said on the call that integrated circuits and adapter boards accounted for 57 per cent of the company's sales in the fourth quarter, with switches accounting for 30 per cent. Software and services made up the remaining revenue streams.
By protocol across IC, adapter, switch, software, and services, 40Gb/sec InfiniBand products (also known as Quad Data Rate or QDR) pushed 50 per cent of the company's overall revenues, down from 53 per cent of sales in the third quarter. Double Data Rate, or DDR InfiniBand products, which run at 20Gb/sec, had a 12 per cent slice of Mellanox sales in the third quarter, but this dropped to 8 per cent in the fourth quarter. 56Gb/sec InfiniBand, also known as Fourteen Data Rate (FDR), were a mere 4 per cent of sales in Q3, but jumped to 14 per cent of total revenues in Q4 as Mellanox took down some big supercomputer cluster deals.
Ethernet products, which are just getting rolling at Mellanox, saw a 52 per cent revenue spike in Q4 and now account for 14 per cent of overall sales. It is not clear how Mellanox is reckoning revenue for devices that can run both protocols, but this gives you an idea of what's growing and what's shrinking.
During Q4, Mellanox had two customers that accounted for more than 10 per cent of its sales – and when that happens, the US Securities and Exchange Commission says you have to tell investors. Combined, these two vendors accounted for 39 per cent of total revenues booked by Mellanox. And no, it was not Oracle, which holds a 10.2 per cent stake in Mellanox. HP accounted for 20 per cent of total sales at Mellanox, and IBM made up 19 per cent.
Looking ahead to the first quarter of 2012, Gray said that Mellanox had two big supercomputer deals – one in the US and one in Europe – that would contribute $10m to sales. Both deals are based on InfiniBand, and presumably running at FDR speeds, but Mellanox would not say.
Because of these deals, Mellanox will not experience the traditional first quarter swoon that most IT suppliers deal with every year, and instead expects for sales to rise sequentially to between $81m and $82m. And, perhaps more importantly, Waldman told Wall Street that the company would be able to grow sequentially through the year from there.
That's one reason why Mellanox's share price was up by 16.75 per cent as the market neared Thursday's closing bell. ®


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The record is made up of 1 volume (230 folios). It was created in 16 Apr 1935-28 Jun 1935. It was written in English and Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers.
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The volume contains correspondence and telegrams between the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at Bahrain and the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. at Bushire, the Government of India, the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. in London and Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) representatives in regard to the final negotiations with the Sheikh of Qatar before the signing of the oil concession.
The volume contains:the Qatar oil concession, signed by the Shaikh of Qatar, 'Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī, and APOC on 17 May 1935, in Arabic and English (folios 67-86) 'Sketch map of Qatar Peninsula' (folio 87); agreement 5 June 1935 between the British Government and APOC regarding the Qatar Oil Concession (folios 211-212).
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May 31, 2006
summer in the air
Tokyo's been having a weird spring. This is supposed to be one of the best time of the year in terms of weather, but a fairly chilly April and unusually rainy May seem to have ruined it a whole lot, unfortunately. On top of that, we are soon having a lousy month-long rainy season before a muggy summer finally comes, so any day with some nice sky and any breeze has to be savored while we can. Thankfully, it seems like the weather is finally picking up over the coming few days.
For the better or for the worse, it's already becoming pretty warm and humid
As hydrangeas in my neiborhood have just started bursting with colors
And if I fancy some cold sips, that's when ginge rale comes in... or even better, stir in with some iced tea. Definitely a keeper for summer.
When I go and get some outside air in the evening, I could instantly smell the summer in it - the young leaves, the heat, the humidity, the breeze, every element makes up that familiar air that tells me the summer is indeed almost here. I always struggle with Tokyo summers, but I am actually quite fond of this feeling of sensing an arrival of summer, don't ask me why.
At any rate, this is also the time when something cool and sweet seems as good as it gets...
Although a dessert like this could just fit in at any given day of a year, I would guess. It's called Ginger-scented Chocolate Mousse with Mango and Passionfruit, and that is precisely what it is; cubes of fresh mango, pulp and seeds of passionfruits mixed with ginger syrup, and light and smooth chocolate mousse with ginger bits come in layers in a glass, topped with chocolate shaves. The recipe is from Australia's great Gourmet Traveller magazine, May 2006 issue, and it was the first recipe that caught my attention, firstly because it was pictuerd on the cover (don't even think about compare mine to it!), and secondly, well, the choc-ginger-mango-passionfruit combination just sounded like my type of thing.
It was pretty simple to prepare, although the biggest challenge to me was decoration; I made a very poor attempt to produce chocolate curls, and not only I ended up having a mass of chocolate shaves, but I stumbled and scattered the relatively luxury Valrhona Manjari (that was specified by the recipe as "its slight acidity works beautifully with the fruits") around on the floor. A total mess.
Apart from the messy finish, the dessert turned out impressively tasty. I was pretty happy with the mousse alone, but when it was had together with the mango and passionfruit, the whole thing got along so well. That is probably what it makes a chef recipe, I suppose - like the rosewater-scented champagne-poached rhubarbs I made a couple month ago using the same magazine issue, this one's by Philippa Sibley, a Melbourne-based dessert chef who has reputation as one of the best in town, or in fact, the country. I can't tell if that is true or not, but if other things turn out as good as this one when I try more of her recipes from the magazine, I'll most likely be convinced.
And this is the time when something cool and sweet seems as good as it gets......
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Chika, I quite like the last shot - it reminds me of the summer in Tokyo somehow... Your dessert looks beautiful, the combination sounds intriguing.
Hope you're doing well, take care.
- 1:38 AM, June 01, 2006
I am French and I love Japan but also the kitchen! would it be possible a little "know"? I do not know if all that I
marked is correct because I used a translator for a part
i like very much your blog ! bye
Posted by clotilde
- 8:58 AM, June 01, 2006
- JahTeh said...
Once again, Miss Chika, I have used your beautiful photograph of the ginger scented chocolate mousse at my site. I gave full credit to you and linked back to this blog. If you would prefer that I didn't use your photos please let me know and I will just continue to drool here and my friends will miss out.
Posted by JahTeh
- 4:50 PM, June 02, 2006
- Orchidea said...
HI. I am Italian and I do not know much about Japan... I am glad I found your blog so I can learn more about Japanese food nd culture.
Nice dessert and beautiful pictures.
Posted by Orchidea
- 10:14 PM, June 04, 2006
Wonderful idea of a new summer. I like so much the green light through the green leaves. It's a wonderful blog. I put it as one of my "chouchous" links on my blog. Thank you so much for your vision… V
Posted by venezia
- 9:46 AM, June 06, 2006
- a said...
What a lovely picture so summer is in the air and thanks for sharing all those photos you have...I love it!
Posted by xtine
- 12:27 PM, June 06, 2006
Hi there, thank you very much for leaving comments :)
Keiko - the photo does indeed represent Tokyo summer, I guess, at least part of it. If I was as skilled as you, the dessert would have looked just as good as it tasted.
clotilde - thank you, what exactly did you mean would be possible?
JahTeh - thanks, looks like it's pretty chilly over there. Take care.
Posted by chika
- 3:04 AM, June 10, 2006