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The story of Peter McCormack against Craig Wright, and why it is serious for Bitcoin community
By Pareen Lathia on June 3, 2019
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Craig S. Wright claims to be the creator of Bitcoin aka Satoshi Nakamoto and has brought about a libel lawsuit against podcaster Peter McCormack for $130,000, who also called him a fraud. This is the entire story and why it is important for the Bitcoin community.
Background for those who aren't up to date with the events. Craig Wright is NChain's chief scientist and a proponent of Bitcoin SV (BSV). He has been claiming that he is Satoshi, the person who wrote the Bitcoin whitepaper and code, since quite some time now. His outrageous claims create further confusion for new users and have been known to be harmful to Bitcoin's public image.
While initially the idea was received by the community as an amusing joke, since Craig Wright's background of various lawsuits, it became serious when he tried to file copyrights for the Bitcoin whitepaper in the United States as well as brought about a suit for libel against the podcaster Peter McCormack for calling him a fraud.
Given Craig's background, he is popularly known in the crypto community as Faketoshi. He has a multi-billion fraud case against himself by Dave Kleiman, a computer forensics expert who was an early adopter of Bitcoin alleging that Craig Wright defrauded him of Bitcoin worth $1.1 million, which is now worth over $10 billion. In the same case, Craig was caught for producing false evidence. More court cases faced by Craig Wright have been brought to light since then.
1/ In 2004, Wright was convicted of contempt of court by the Supreme Court of New South Wales. He was sentenced to 28 days in jail for breaching an injunction that prevented him from approaching customers of DeMorgan Information Security Systems, from which he resigned in 2003.
— Dr. Peter McCormack (@PeterMcCormack) May 30, 2019
The situation grew worse when Craig started threatening Twitter users with a lawsuit if they called him out on not being Satoshi Nakamoto. Craig even placed a bounty on an anonymous Twitter user's identity who claimed that he is not Satoshi. It further escalated when Binance CEO, Changpeng Zhao de-listed BSV for the team's conduct. P2P exchange Shapeshift also de-listed BSV, and San Francisco based Kraken followed suit.
The Lawsuit
In the latest series of events, Craig has brought about a libel lawsuit against podcaster Peter McCormack for $130,000, who also called him a fraud and asked him to provide his digital signature of the Genesis block if he really wanted to prove that he is Satoshi.
When Peter announced this on Twitter, Bitcoin community was prompt to support him morally, legally and financially. Binance CEO offered to cover the costs of the lawsuit, many lawyers offered their advice and service, numerous Bitcoin and crypto believers offered to donate small amounts that could pile up to the sum Peter needs to fight this lawsuit. Peter asked the supporters to hold while he decided the best course of action. The response got him more respect from the community.
A huge thanks for all the messages of support.
An Australian registered as a citizen from Antigua and Barbuda, financed by a Canadian is looking to use the libels laws of "my home country" to sell a lie, I look forward to defending this.#CraigWrightIsNotSatoshiAndIsAMoron
Today, on May 31, he has declared his intention to fight this and appointed RPC, the best firm to defend a libel case, to represent him. He has mentioned that he can cover some cost but will need financial support and will consult some Bitcoiners about the method of fundraising, currencies, management of funds, the audit of funds and about the use of surplus funds if any.
Supporting Peter is supporting Bitcoin
Bitcoin SV and Craig Wright have just added to the confusion through their mouthpiece, CoinGeek about how Bitcoin SV represents Satoshi's vision based on their claim that Craig is Satoshi Nakamoto. From bullying Twitter users for speaking out to filing for a copyright for Bitcoin's whitepaper, this menace needs to stop and as a community, we need to set an example for anyone trying to claim Satoshi's identity for future. If Satoshi really wanted to reveal himself/herself/themselves, they would not wait for ten years. This is clearly because the market cap of Bitcoin is so high, anyone claiming to be Satoshi can manipulate it.
This is against the very ethos of Bitcoin, the only crypto project to be decentralised enough to NOT have a figurehead – CEO or project founder. I cannot find any crypto project worth its salt that has survived without a figurehead, which is the epitome of decentralisation.
We will publish updates of the case as it proceeds and some tips on how Bitcoin and crypto community can protect one of their own. For updates, subscribe to posts via email.
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Craig Wright is not Satoshi. I stand by Satoshi's decision to remain anonymous and keep Bitcoin Decentralized. I stand with @PeterMcCormack to disprove #Faketoshi. #StandwithPeter #Bitcoin
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How to change your behavior and influence others — use some magic!
By Evelyn Marinoff on Monday, December 17, 2018
Have you ever wished you were a wizard? The kind that can wave his/her wand, pronounce few words and make something happen? No, this is not a trick question. Nor it's a test on your knowledge of the Harry Potter books either.
Although we primarily think of "magic words" as a purely fictional idea, this may not be quite so after all. In fact, the concept has been studied by psychologists and it's known as "priming." Priming means that exposure to a stimulus (certain words, for example) can make us react in a desired way. And it's no illusion.
Imagine that you are asked to participate in an experiment and are given to read a set of words — for example, "aggressively, bold, rude, bother, disturb, intrude, annoyingly, interrupt, audaciously, brazen, impolitely, infringe, obnoxious, aggravating, and bluntly." Then, you are requested to go outside your room, find the experimenter, who will then give you the second part of your test.
You do as instructed, only that he is involved in a deep conversation with someone else and don't notice you. What would you do? Would you wait for him to finish? Maybe. It probably depends on how courteous you are. Well, according to the study results, this is not exactly how this will play out.
On average, over 60% of people will interrupt the experimenter — an outcome, completely unrelated to the way we were brought up — i.e. not to intrude on others' conversations. Rather, it has everything to do with the words that we have been "primed" with.
The above describes a much-buzzed-about study by John Bargh, a professor of social psychology at Yale University. It yields a rather daunting conclusion — sub-consciously perceived stimuli, such as a string of seemingly random words, can invoke fairly anticipated responses.
When partakers in the test were given "positive" words such as "respect, honor, considerate, patiently, polite," they waited much longer before deciding to interrupt and only less than 20% did so.
Yet another outcome of the priming effect — part of Dr. Bargh research — is the so-called "sentence scramble test" for which some participants were asked to walk to an elevator (about 10m away), after reading sentences, which contained mixed wording order, such as "Florida," "bingo," "wrinkle." Those primed with the "elderly" words tended to walk slower than the ones who were prepped up with neutral words.
Similar experiments were done by other researchers with different words and even pictures, and the results do support the idea that our behavior can be directly influenced by what we hear, read or see — a notion that's often fueled our fancy, especially when we were kids.
As grown-ups, however, we think we know better — than such "superpowers" tend to live only in the fantasy world of the books and movies.
But priming is hardly a forgotten notion today, retired to collect dust on a library shelf. It still fascinates marketing gurus and sellers around the world. Just think about the power it has — a potential to make us behave in certain ways or purchase particular brands and goods, even if we didn't originally intend to do so.
If true, it also means that "our" thinking, actions, moods and decisions may be not precisely originate in our minds but those of another — a skillful influencer, an astute manipulator, or even an innocent or unsuspecting party. And that our "free will" may not be that free after all. It's the ultimate mind control tool.
This idea is close friends with another concept — a practice so scary that it has been forbidden in most European and North American countries. It is known as "subliminal advertising" and is probably one of the most controversial topics in psychology. Subliminal means "below the threshold" and describes messages that our minds catch without us being aware and to which we are exposed for only less than a second.
A highly famed and criticized experiment was done in 1957 by the marketer James Vicary revealed that when words, such as "Eat popcorn" and "Drink Coca-Cola" were inserted for splits of a second in a movie, the consumption of these products increased. The tests have later discredited a fabrication but the idea, although highly debated, is still enticing to researchers. It even caught the eye of the CIA to be further researched.
In 2015, BBC Radio 4 carried out a public test with 98 participants where they were asked to watch a video. The word "Lipton" flashed every 10 milliseconds, every 5 seconds. Afterward, partakers were assessed on whether they'd rather drink water or Lipton Iced Tea. The results were not encouraging — no significant preference was given to iced tea.
However, not all is pure wish-it-was-real fiction, it seems.
Some other studies claim that subliminal messages may work after all — to a degree. A positive link was found to self-help tapes where people believed that their self-esteem and memory have improved after listening to motivational messages. Product placements in movies and TV shows is another example of subliminal advertising linked to some positive outcomes. So far, though, from what's public knowledge, it all carries the speculative charm of a conspiracy theory rather being proven science.
There may be more reality in the fiction that we may let ourselves to believe. Aside from priming, some scientists consider that certain words do have "magical" effect on people and may be used to elicit the desired response or an action.
Market research specialists and neuroscientists have long been exploring this concept in order to show that "power words" are real. For example, it is no secret that some linguistic "tricks" can have an influential effect, such as our tone of voice, stressing certain words in a sentence or repeating words.
What studies do confirm, though, in a somewhat definitive fashion, is that different words have varying degrees of power over us.
Certain words, such as "believe, healthy, succeed, and overcome," for instance, tend to invoke positive emotions, while others as "urgent, limited time, or final hours," are meant to prompt us to action. Marketing gurus further claim that, to achieve the utmost wham or influence, we need to use more often words as "free, now, you, save, money, easy, guarantee, new, love, results, discovery, proven, safety, because."
Other studies (by the neurotheologist Andrew Newberg and Prof. Mark Waldman) using fMRI reveal that the "most dangerous word in the world" is…NO. Their study has shown that by only seeing the word, our brains release multiple stress hormones. This, in turn, leads to negative consequences, such as a decrease in our mood levels, logical thinking and communication abilities.
In fact, the same holds true of all negative words. Unfavorable thinking, in general, or the use of words, such as "death, "illness" and "poverty," can have a profoundly damaging mental and physical effect on us.
The solution? — Quite simple. Start thinking in positive terms.
It's barely a break-through idea but positive beliefs influence our brains in a different way — one that can lead to long-lasting happiness, wellbeing and confidence. A small shift in the way we view the world may help break the spell of our "bad luck" and make us feel like anything is possible.
In the end, science tells us that not all words are created equal. Some are more "special" than others, more powerful and dominant — and can help us get into the minds of our opponents and possibly influence their responses or actions.
If used properly, such knowledge can help us advance in our careers, become more persuasive and win over people by just using few skillfully-used phrases. More importantly, though, positive self-talk will allow us to start believing in our stars again as we regain control over our lives.
And finally, the reason why using power words also matters to many of us is that this may as well be as close as we can possibly get to true magic and wizardcraft in the real world.
And who doesn't like little magic after all?
*This piece originally appeared in the StartUp.
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Aussie dogs facing pedigree pain: vet
Reged Ahmad for AM Updated Fri 11 Sep 2009, 2:54 PM AEST
Dachshund from the present day and a painting of a dachshund from 1906.
A leading Australian vet is warning that the health of dogs is being jeopardised by the quest to keep breeds as pure as possible.
BBC documentary Pedigree Dogs Exposed, which screened on the ABC TV last night, shows footage of boxers having epileptic fits and cavalier king charles spaniels writhing in pain from syringomyelia - a condition where the dog's brain is too big for its skull.
The cause, it argues, is the United Kingdom breed standards - rules dictating how a particular breed should look.
Dr Paul McGreevy from Sydney University says the obsession with pedigrees is creating new painful genetic illnesses.
He has also criticised some of his fellow vets for putting profits ahead of animal welfare.
The Australian Kennel Council is distancing itself from the UK practices, saying standards here are constantly under review and are focused on the health of the dog.
But Dr McGreevy, an associate professor with the Faculty of Veterinary Science at Sydney University, believes the practice is also happening in Australia.
"The situation in Australia is almost identical because the rules of engagement in pedigree dog breeding are the same," he said.
"The same breed standards and the same rules that surround what dogs you can breed with what."
Dr McGreevy says he has new data which shows a direct connection between pedigree dog standards and congenital problems.
"The 50 most popular breeds in the UK, of which 35 are also the most popular breeds in Australia, all have at least one inherited disorder that is associated with a breed standard," he said.
Some vets cite the german shepherd as a case in point, with more than 60 reported genetic illnesses.
Australian breeder Rhonda Ralphs disagrees.
"They're generally a very healthy dog, apart from the hip and elbow dysplasia and the occasional OCD - which is a bone disease ... I've only ever had one in 30 years - they don't have any health problems," she said.
Dr Peter Higgins, a veterinary advisor with the peak dog breeding organisation the Australian Kennel Council, says he hasn't seen genetic illnesses in Australia directly linked to standards.
"Perhaps that's the case overseas, because we adapt standards from the United Kingdom, sometimes from the United States as well," he said.
"And we're allowed to set our own standards as long as they fit in with [what] the overall thing should be. I have to say personally I haven't seen that, a direct link."
But Dr McGreevy says Australian breeders need to widen the gene pool and bring in healthier bloodlines.
"I'd like to see a greater call for change from the Australian Veterinary Association and it has been noted that there may be financial disincentives for vets to want to do more," he said.
The association's president, Dr Mark Lawrie, says that is unsubstantiated.
"The actual evidence is that vets are doing work to fix the problem," he said.
"Certainly they're making some money out of doing tests and doing X-rays to screen tests, doing MRIs for syringomyelia. We've been very progressive, more progressive than any other country in the world."
Posted Fri 11 Sep 2009, 10:20 AM AEST
Photo Pedigree Dogs Exposed: Composite of bull terrier as a result of inbreeding
Photo The skulls of a bulldog LtoR from 100 years ago and from present day
Video 2:13 Excerpt - Pedigree Dogs Exposed (Warning: graphic content)
Video 4:48 Catalyst reporter Jonica Newby discusses the shocking doco
Video 2:06 Dog breeders bite back over cruelty claims
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 * Angabe, ob eine Personalpronomen-Form als Pseudoaktant geeignet ist (oder ob
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	MOEGLICH(true, true), NICHT_MOEGLICH(true, false), NICHT_VORGESEHEN(false, false);

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Adjunct Faculty - MSNEL and College for Adults BSN programs
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Faculty Positions, Health & Medicine, Nursing
Posting Details Position Information Position Title Adjunct Faculty - MSNEL and College for Adults BSN programs Division Academic Affairs Department/Office Nursing MS Entry Level Position Summary Information Advertisement TheNursing DepartmentatSt. Catherine Universityinvites applications for adjunct faculty positions for the 2023 Spring Semester.These positions are for ourMSNELand College for AdultsBSNprograms that typically serve adult students
St. Catherine University nursing faculty educate students to develop the knowledge, technical skills, and professionalism they will need to be compassionate and successful nurses and leaders. Our nursing programs and curricula are delivered in an environment that embraces multicultural and social justice perspectives, relationships, interdisciplinary collaboration, and the liberal arts. Our bachelors program integrates holistic nursing theory and modalities, and is endorsed by the American Holistic Nurses Credentialing Corporation. We offer nursing degrees at every level and we offer a broad array of courses including clinical experiences. We search for excellent nurse educators in a variety of learning formats and with experience in different specializations. Specific specialization needs we have identified for ourMSNELandBSNprograms include:
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We are searching for nurses to contribute to lab, clinical, and didactic/theory components of course instruction. Available positions include evening, weekend, and weekday opportunities. Most positions require in-person instruction. Join us and give back to the nursing profession while impacting better health outcomes!
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Given the way campus life inherently puts people in close proximity to each other, including residence and dining halls, classrooms, and gatherings, the University has determined that a vaccination requirement is the best way to keep our community safe and prevent potential outbreaks as we return to more regular, in-person operations.St. Catherine University is requiring all students, faculty (including adjuncts contracted for the fall semester and beyond), staff, and residents age 12 and older to complete theirCOVID-19vaccination series unless the University approves a medical or religious accommodation or other accommodation/exemption as required by applicable law. New employees must submit vaccination documentation or be approved for an exemption/accommodation before beginning work. For more information, visitstkate.edu/coronavirus-info/vaccine.
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Our university is a proud member of the Upper MidwestHERCand is committed to recruiting and retaining outstanding and diverse faculty and staff and assisting dual career couples. For more information and to find other higher education jobs in the Upper Midwest region, visit: www.uppermidwestherc.org. Posting Detail Information Posting Number 20220127-FAC Posting Start Date 09/28/2022 Application Deadline 10/12/2022 Posting Specific Questions
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*Given the way campus life inherently puts people in close proximity to each other, including residence and dining halls, classrooms, and gatherings, the University has determined that a vaccination requirement is the best way to keep our community safe and prevent potential outbreaks as we return to more regular, in-person operations. St. Catherine University is requiring all students, faculty (including adjuncts contracted for the fall semester and beyond), staff, and residents age 12 and older to complete their COVID-19 vaccination series, including booster, unless the University approves a medical or religious accommodation or other accommodation/exemption as required by applicable law. New employees must submit vaccination documentation or be approved for an exemption/accommodation before beginning work. For more information, visit stkate.edu/coronavirus-info/vaccine. We include this information to ensure that candidates are aware of and acknowledge understanding of the new requirement.
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import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.HashMap;

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 * The PerThreadComponentHandler implements a singleton with a slight difference:
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 * @author Excalibur Development Team
 * @since 4.0
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    extends AbstractComponentHandler
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    private static ThreadLocal m_slot;
    private static List m_instances;

    public void initialize()
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        super.initialize();
        m_slot = new ThreadLocal();
        m_instances = Collections.synchronizedList(new LinkedList());
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            Map map = (Map) m_slot.get();

            if (map == null)
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                Object instance = null;
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            Object instance = map.get( super.m_factory );

            if (instance == null)
            {
                instance = newComponent();
                map.put( super.m_factory, instance );
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            return instance;
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    protected void doDispose()
    {
        Iterator it = m_instances.iterator();
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Latest "American-backed Syrian Defense Forces" stories
US military moves 2 British Islamic State members known as 'Beatles' from Syria
Two British militants believed to be part of an Islamic State group that beheaded hostages and was known as "The Beatles" have been moved out of a detention center in Syria and are in American custody, U.S. officials said Wednesday.
By Lolita C. Baldor, The Associated Press


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a series of fast portraits inspired by my former teacher andrea modica. aproximately 1 hour is spent with 1 subject using 1 lens with the result being 21 photos and a story.
is a dance student from france living in new york city. she's been at various schools, living away from her family, since the age of 13.
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Since January first Prof. Thomas Illig is heading the Hannover Unified Biobank, including all biomaterials from Hannover Medical School (MHH). Prof. Illig is establishing a modern, unified high-throughput biobanking centre in a new building (Clinical Research Center = CRC) being finished mid of 2013. The last 15 years he worked at Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen (HMGU) at the end as director of the Independent Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology. He has a longstanding experience in environmental, molecular and genetic epidemiology. He co-organized large population based and disease related epidemiological studies (e.g. KORA, Augsburg Diabetes Family Study). One main focus is the molecular analysis of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases mainly of type 2 diabetes and CVD but also on other complex diseases like asthma, atopic eczema and lung cancer. Prof. Illig pioneered work on the combination of different systematic molecular data eg. the combination of genome wide association (GWAs) and metabolomics, transcriptomics or epigenomics, leading to better understanding of complex diseases. Thomas Illig established the Genome Analysis Center (GAC) of HMGU and was one of the four founding members of the metabolomics platform MetaP of the Helmholtz Zentrum München. Prof. Illig is member in several international genetics consortia, many of them focussing on cardio-metabolic diseases (DIAGRAM ands MAGIC for type 2 diabetes; IBC 50K CAD consortium, Global BPgen Consortium, CARDIoGRAM Consortium for cardiovascular diseases). In Munich Thomas Illig was head of the biobank of the department of epidemiology with more than 50 000 genomic DNA samples consisting of population-based and case-specific cohorts. Prof. Illig is leading the biobank group of the German National Cohort including 200 000 participants.
Prof. Illig has organized the MBA programme "Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology" at LMU Pettenkofer School of Public Health. In the last 5 years he authored or co-authored more than 300 peer-reviewed publications also in leading journals such as Science, Nature, Nature Genetics, Plos Genetics, Lancet and the American Journal of Human Genetics.


The exotic engages our senses while evoking images. For some, the exotic might be the wispy scent of jasmine tea being poured by a procelain-skinned woman wearing a kimono. For others, it might be floating in warm Pacific waters as the tropical sun descends towards the horizon and fronds of tall coconut trees flutter in aloha. It doesn't matter whether these exotic images actually exist. What matters is that these distant lands and cultures beckon us and allow us to dream, to hope, to imagine, to appreciate.
For me, the exotic is the fragrance of spices in temporary tents around an isolated oasis or in a cacophonous bazaar where one can haggle for roasted chicken on a spit or the coveted mace and saffron. Far off places like Marrakech, Casablanca, Fez – where travelers in caravans pause for a night of lamb stew, rest, and perhaps a tale or two.
For Week 5, I harkened back to this exotic scene and found recipes at morrocanfood.about.com that promised to arouse these images – if only for a night.
Ras El Hanout is a mixture of several ground spices that are staple in many Moroccan dishes. Its literal translation from Arabic is "head of the shop," implying that it is the best.
I used a recipe that combined 13 spices. Most were in my pantry, though some rarely used. I bought a few in bulk at Central Market, the most intriguing of which was mace, which sold at $45.95 a pound. Mace is the bright red, lacy covering of the nutmeg seed shell. While its sweet fragrance is similar to nutmeg, its bouquet is stronger, more intense. I bought the exact two teaspoons I needed for the mixture.
As I transferred the Ras El Hanout into a spice jar, I was as careful as if I were handling gold dust.
Just saying this is exotic. M'rouzia is a lamb dish with raisins, almond and honey. It is traditionally prepared in the days following Eid Al Adha, or "Festival of Sacrifice," a major Islāmic holiday that commemorates Abraham's willingness to obey God when he envisioned that he was to sacrifice his son.
I used three pieces of lamb shank, which yielded about three pounds of meat. The Central Market butcher was kind to remove the bone and cut the meat into stew-sized pieces (I later boiled the bones for our dogs and kept its broth for uses I have yet to figure out). The meat was rich in color and texture, plump, interwoven with fat, sinew and tendon.
I soaked a 1/2 cup of golden raisins in water. In my favorite Le Creuset pot, I mixed the meat with grated onions, pressed garlic, two cinnamon sticks, two tablespoons each of Ras El Hanout and ground ginger, a 1/2 teaspoon of turmeric, salt, ground pepper, 2 cinnamon sticks, crumbled saffron and 1/2 cup butter. I cooked this on medium high heat for about 15 minutes.
I added water to cover the meat and simmered this wonderfully fragrant brew for a couple of hours. I then added the raisins, honey, a teaspoon of cinnamon and a 1/2 cup of blanched slivered almonds. This simmered for an additional 30 minutes, as the liquid became thick and syrupy. The meat became tender chunks that came apart when prodded with a fork.
I prepared a Moroccan rice dish that featured saffron, the fragile stigma of the saffron crocus plant. In addition to adding a golden color to dishes, it imparts a woody and slightly bitter taste.
I'm accustomed to preparing rice in a rice cooker. This dish was cooked in a large skillet. While I heated four cups of chicken broth in a saucepan, I mixed white long grain rice with two tablespoons each of butter and olive oil, a chopped onion, two finely chopped garlic cloves, and two cinnamon sticks. To this I added 1/2 teaspoon each of ground ginger, white pepper, cumin and turmeric. For vegetables, I used a yellow bell pepper and a zucchini, both chopped into small chunks, and a handful of cilantro.
This rice mixture was cooked on medium heat for 10 minutes, during which I had to stir frequently to keep everything from sticking. I then added the heated broth and some saffron, stirred it once, and let it simmer for about 25 minutes.
By the time the cooking was done, I imagined our house smelled like a Marrakech souk (traditional marketplace).
Of course, this meal would not be complete without the company of fellow sojourners, and we were fortunate to have dear friends, originally from England, dine with us. We shared stories over m'rouzia and rice pilaf, finishing off iced mint tea at almost midnight.
Our friends left amid promises of more meals and tales to share. Our paths shall cross again soon.
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A deliciously told story, Berna. Another fantastic job. This writing and cooking thing can really pan out for you, you know.
My husband and I were the fortunate friends who were invited to share in this culinary delight. It was a most wonderful evening! And to cap it all we were given some of the precious Ras el Hanout spice blend to take home! We will try to make our own Moroccan dish with it one day soon. Thank-you, Berna for sharing your gifts with us!
Leyna, you folks brought texture and wonder to our meal. Your company truly brought the spirit of comraderie and sharing to what might have otherwise just have been dinner. Thank YOU for letting me have a bit of the exotic!
Wow! What a special dish! You make it look and sound so delicious. 🙂 Spices are so tricky because you have to blend them just right – and it sounds like you did. Great job!
Thank you, sweetie. I pretended the spices were part of my chemistry lab classes and just followed instructions.


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It is often said Japan Inc never moves fast. Now we know this applies even to modern game industry. It's 1,5 years since Softbank and its game company Gungho paid USD 1,5 billion to bring Finland's Supercell under its umbrella and launch the globally successful Clash of Clans game in Japan, the world's biggest "appli" market, yet only last week we had the company name and "the No.1 game in 140 countries" splashed all over Tokyo from Shibuya crossing billboards to "nakatsuri" and videos in Yamanote line trains. When even Visit Finland joined in Shibuya with big video screens promoting travel to Finland, it all made for bigger than ever visibility for our little country here.
Supercell, Angry Birds and other "new generation" companies are also featured in an event called Slush Asia that will be held April 24 in Tokyo. It targets to encourage young entrepreneurs in Japan and around Asia to live up to their ambitions. With only a few new Finnish companies interested to join in the market here these days, it is nice to see new blood and new business ideas. Hope they will manage to encourage young Japanese follow example and that they will themselves do well here.
As for old slow Japan, nothing compares in scale with the rebuilding the Tohoku coast damaged in the "Japan 3-11" triple catastrophe. With the passing of fourth anniversary last week, plenty television coverage of the gigantic construction sites made it all look like pyramid building in ancient Egypt and the figures laid out relayed the poor conditions still prevailing for the victims there. Over 80,000 people, many of them old beyond 65, continue to live in temporary barracks, hastily built to last 2-3 years and now already growing mold and leaking. Obviously this is testing their patience, physical and mental health and more than 3000 have already died from boredom, sickness and suicide. Of the 30,000 promised public replacement homes, less than 20% have been built as it took the first three years to just clean up the mess of 25 million tons debris and since then the work has focused on building infrastructure for the new communities before housing can be added.
There's an old saying about Mohammed and mountain - which one should move? - as well as another one of Japanese always choosing the more expensive way, if two alternatives are given. Yet even an old hand like me cannot help but shake head seeing that the newly built JPY 12 billion "Bridge of Hope" over a river in Rikuzentakata, one of the worst damaged towns, is not for people, but for a construction company to transport sand from mountain side to the seaside, where the ground is being elevated by 10 meters before starting build the town back at its original place. To further minimize the risk of repeated tsunami destruction in this risky position, the town is also building a new 2 km long, 12 meter high sea wall to protect the new dwellings � the 2011 tsunami was 14 meters high there. "Seeing the progress with their own eyes is highly encouraging for the people", says the town mayor. Many others see huge waste of tax payer money. It's not only Rikuzentakata, but many other communities, who decided to rebuild themselves at their old dangerous place next to the sea. In Japan, Mohammed does not want to move, it's the mountains that are made to move instead.
As pointed out before, it is not for lack of money that the reconstruction is progressing so slowly. From the outset, the central government pledged JPY 26 trillion (USD 220 billion) funds for FY2012-16 and as that is coming to end one year from now, PM Abe last week already promised another JPY 6 trillion for next five years, now called "the latter term of 10 year recovery period". In a UN Global Risk Prevention conference in Sendai over the weekend, he threw in another USD 4 billion to help other countries prevent their disasters, a big wad of cash for most of us, but actually peanuts in comparison to spending in Tohoku. In fact, the sum is about same that Tokyo City - and not central government - budgeted to pay for the 2020 Olympics, so those who say Tohoku rebuilding suffers from Japan's choice to host the Olympics clearly don't know what they are talking about. A better comparison for Olympic cost, energy experts point out, is that keeping nuclear plants closed costs Japanese electricity users one Olympic game every month. Yet, anti-nuclear NGO's are already preparing to get court injunctions to stop starting up the plants that have now received the new safety agency's green light and pass through the local democratic process.
Apart from the magnitude of the task, what has delayed things in Tohoku is lack of labor and rapidly risen material costs. Repeatedly, public biddings to build a road or a bridge have failed to receive any offers from construction companies already busy elsewhere or the bids have overshot the price norms set by the bureaucrats. It is said that building costs, materials and labor, are now double from 2012 and every year up to 20 percent of the budgeted money has gone unused. Yet, no doubt, the construction companies, big nationals as well as small local operators, have done great business and will continue to do so.
Naturally the rapid cost rise in Tohoku has spread nationwide and doubled Tokyo City's Olympic cost estimate, too, so it is no wonder Governor Masuzoe and the arranging committee rushed to re-negotiate with IOC their original promise that all events will be held within 7 km from the new Olympic Village. Some events will be now changed to old, existing facilities a bit more far away. For instance, basketball will be played in Saitama Super Arena, often used for this sport and located 20 minute train ride from Tokyo station. The new IOC leadership has accepted the proposed exceptions as it has noted that, after all, Olympics are for sports and not for megalomaniac building projects like Beijing and Sochi that only centrally-governed countries like China and Russia are willing to do. With Oslo and other European cities declining to host 2022 Winter Olympics, IOC is left to choose between China and Kazakhstan to follow Korea 2018, all three unknown places in Asia with no history for winter sports except Alma Ata, where speed skating records were often made during Soviet time � with Soviet clocks. FIFA is not any better off with its next World Cups set in Russia 2018 and Qatar 2022.
Instead of money, the debate in Tokyo has focused on design of the new stadium that will be constructed in place of the old National Stadium, which was originally built for 1940 Olympics, but got to be used only in 1964. The winner design by award-winning British-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid was criticized by a number of Japanese architects and some powerful decision makers as "overtly attention-seeking, aesthetically disharmonic and degrading for the visual environment" and the winner was forced to make changes to her plans, which, in turn, were not good for some others. With the architectural feud finally over now, the deconstruction work of the old place finally started two weeks ago, full 10 months after our Chamber arranged the "last opportunity" visit for members to see the old site with so much history. Apart from clearly run down facilities, we saw three historical Finnish gold medal winners' names engraved in gold on the honorary marble wall, two from the 1964 Olympics and one from 1998 Athletic World Championships. Now they are gone, but happily the marble wall will be preserved for the new Stadium together with the original cauldron for the Olympic fire. Once again, action comes late after much deliberation, but happily still in time to get the stadium ready in schedule.
The feuding in parliament about money in politics ended, too, after it was found that not only all ministers including PM himself, but high number of other MP's including the opposition leader himself, had received donations from companies that had received government aid for their projects, something forbidden in the political financing law. As result, the FY'15 budget finally passed through the Lower House on Friday, almost unchanged from the government proposal, which was detailed in this column in January. As opposition does not have numbers to change it much even in Upper House, it just might pass through in time before start of new financial year April 1. Anyway, senators cannot delay it more than 30 days, so even in the worst case it will take effect on April 13, just two weeks late. For any delay days, the government just have to create a stop gap budget to keep the public services going.
Amidst two months of feuding, not many new laws could be passed. The one that received most media attention was a new law substituting the ordinance from 1946 that forbid dancing in public restaurants and bars after 10 pm. As all of us who have been clubbing in Roppongi until morning hours know, the law was enforced rather selectively, if ever at all, but now you can dance perfectly legally - though with a twist. The original law makers in post-war poor Japan were concerned that dancing late was conducive to prostitution and even today's law makers - bless their high average age - remain so concerned about nation's morals that they added demand for bright lighting to be kept up in the clubs. The required lighting level was spelled out in clear scientific terms, but it's easier to say it is about same as you would have in other public places like railway stations. Hardly conducive for romantic encounters that could lead to young people boosting the birth rate as the same old MP's cry for. As none of the clubs are likely to follow this additional rule any more than they followed the ban earlier, it is again left to police discretion how they wish to enforce it.
Interestingly, the same MP's, who are so concerned about what adult people do when they are dancing after 10 pm, all agreed on joint new law proposal to bring the voting age down to 18 from 20 as required for normal adulthood in Japan. There was no discussion of changing the adulthood in general, ie. whether young people here at 18 to could drink beer and smoke cigarettes or sign their name to buy a bike or be otherwise legally responsible for their actions as they can in most other countries, only that they were now suddenly mature enough to vote how their country and community should be run. There was impressive unity over party lines on this, no feuding at all. The rest of us outside Nagatacho wonder what's the rush? The calculations show that the change will theoretically bring 2,4 million new voters to ballot boxes, but if less than one in three of 20-30 year olds bother to vote, then how can you expect 18-19 year olds to be any more interested? Not to talk about informed enough.
The new law will probably not yet reach validity by the nationwide local elections next month, the next milestone in political calendar that parties are now focusing on, but certainly by Upper House election in 2016. As that is seen now an important step to Prime Minister's plans to initiate process to change the Constitution, one can only wonder the logic to invite into that debate people, who cannot even buy cigarettes from Seven-Eleven.
While the politics continue in their own pace and direction, the economy rolls on its own. Most of the headline figures continue to say things are going well. Nikkei index hit last week already over 19,000 points, highest level in 15 years, in expectation of excellent corporate results and big dividends at March 31 closing. Some say the billions that the Government Pension Fund is spewing into share market today following its policy change from government bonds, has something to do with the rise, too. Yet, it is true that the latest business outlook survey shows the sentiment remains high among major corporations, especially in car manufacturing, construction and real estate and the latest estimates say car makers' profits for the ending financial year will be average 40% up and those of electronics over 50%. So it is not surprising if Toyota, Toshiba and other big multinationals really are going to pay biggest pay rises in 10 years. Yet, the same calculations show that most of their big profits came from their overseas operations, not from the domestic factories, so you can ask whether it is right that Japanese workers will be rewarded for the productivity of their counterparts in Thailand, Mexico and Mississippi? Be as it may, more money in the pocket for Japanese consumers is what matters for the government's growth model.
The GDP growth for October-December quarter was recalculated to have been 1,5% on annual basis instead of the original estimate 2,2%, still pretty good in international comparison today. The worry is that half of it came from overseas and prospects there are today not any better than in Japan. The US growth, that powers ahead of other developed economies today and leads Japan's overseas business, was recalculated to have been Japan's original 2,2%. Europe remains a global worry and anything above zero there is these days considered good with Germany and UK as the only exceptions. Meanwhile you don't hear much about the BRIC's leading the world growth any more.
What worries analysts most is China, always first to give out its own estimate and always so precisely that it never needs recalculation like others. This time its official growth figure fell to lowest level in 20 years and the Prime Minister called it "the new normal". As the same guy famously said some years ago that the official statistics in China are only figurative and for real growth you should look at other indicators like electric consumption and rail cargo movements, some analysts have calculated that based on such "Li Index" China's growth rate end last year was just 5%. This is hardly enough to support the huge social change that the country is going through and raises questions how the leaders are going to keep the big masses happy.
With first name Atom, the ex-Niigata football player Tanaka was expected to be a mid-field dynamo in his new Finnish club and sure enough his precision passes clinched two winning goals for Helsinki in his first match. Helping to finish them off was his new colleague Mike Havenaar, the 195 cm lanky forward, who despite his Dutch name carries Japanese passport having grown up here from small child. It seems the pair could do well in their new club once the proper league season starts in the North.
In Japan, the soccer season started one week ago and it took only 9 minutes from Hiroshima's veteran forward Hisato Sato to score the season's first league goal. The 36 year old has already played 20 years in J-League, all of them in Hiroshima, and could this year pass the legendary "Gon" Nakayama's record for all-time league goals. The title for the oldest player in the league, maybe in the whole world's premium football, however, goes to another legend "Kazu" Miura, who started his umpteenth season in the second tier Yokohama FC at the ripe age of 48 years. More like a fashion model outside the field, Miura can still move around the pitch with surprising agility, but scoring goals is another matter.
It's all admirable for Japan's league clubs to have these veterans still doing OK here, but many say that the recent problems for the national team come from having too many old star players with too high salary and comfortable life in their foreign clubs to be really interested to fly back home and give their best for the national team. We will soon see if the new national manager Vahid Halilhodzic will bring a change into that. The Bosnian, who coached Algeria into Top 16 in Rio World Cup last year, will follow Italian Alberto Zaccheroni, who failed to do same for Japan, and Mexican Javier Aguirre, whose contract was cut short for suspected bribe crime during his previous stint in a Spanish league club. Halilhodzic comes with recommendation from Ivan Oscim, another Bosnian, whose promising start as Japan national manager 10 years ago was cut short by heart attack. We will soon see what he can do to re-energize the Blue Samurais, who will have two international friendlies end this month before starting their qualification campaign for the next World Cup in early April.


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Designer Mahé Betrand's latest designs incorporate some of his art favorites, De Chirico and Dalí.
With these Aristide surreal themed lambskin gloves, you can still show off your manicure even on the coldest and nippiest of winter days.


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Toni Servillo and Jean Reno to star in film adaptation of Carrisi's THE GIRL IN THE FOG
21st April, 2017
The cast of The Girl in the Fog (original title La ragazza nella nebbia), based on the novel by Donato Carrisi, has been announced, with Italian actor Toni Servillo (Il divo; Gomorrah; La Grande Bellezza) and French actor Jean Reno (Leon; Les Visiteurs; The Pink Panther) taking the two leading roles.
An international co-production by Gavila, Colorado Films and Canal +, the film is scheduled for release on November 1st in Italy, France, Germany, Spain and Australia.


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		$this->data						 = array ();
		$this->data['title']			 = 'CodeIgniter Web Framework';
		$this->data['mybb_forum_url']	 = $this->config->mybbForumURL;
		$this->errors					 = array ();

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		$this->cache = \Config\Services::cache();

		$this->response = new Response($this->config);

		$this->response->setStatusCode(Response::HTTP_OK);
		$this->response->setHeader('Content-type', 'text/html');
		$this->response->noCache();

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		// Turn on IE8-IE9 XSS prevention tools
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		$this->data['content']	 = $this->parser->parse($this->data['pagebody'], $this->data, true);

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She takes the piss out of me for any number of things – but her greatest source of ammunition is food. In restaurants, she thinks it's adorable that I don't have the guts to go for the proper Mexican or Italian pronunciation and have to resort to pointing and awkward gestures. She thinks that it's hilarious that I always order the wrong thing and spend the evening with food envy (and wine that I didn't want having given up on trying to say cabernet sauvignon). At home, when it's my turn to cook, it only takes her a few attempts to guess what we're having. I have a limited repertoire (apparently). I try and mix it up but I'm only good at certain things. She doesn't mind jacket potatoes, spag bol or steak every other day though; she says it's comforting and lovely. I only get a smile when I suggest "much like me".


With only weeks away until election day, Hillary Clinton is set to make a bold proclamation while on the election trail. Sources close to Clinton state she will begin a new push for Americans to have their children microchipped using RFID chips. "It's in their best interest for health and safety purposes." Stated the unnamed source. Clinton has made mention of ID chips on numerous occasions while on the campaign trail. The source leaked Clinton's controversial ideas while visiting with lawmakers in Harrisburg Saturday. One email within the recent Wikileaks treasure trove hinted at the topic.
RFID chips have been approved for humans by the FDA since 2004. In recent years, many progressives have signaled for all people to become "chipped" to provide health records and identity in case of an emergency. Verichip is one of the leading companies working with the FDA and many health care institutions to provide RFID chips for people. The microchips store the identity and health records of the person housing the chip. In most cases the micro chip is implanted in the forehead or hand of the person. One researcher working on the chip stated it took 666 scientists to finalize the product in 2003. The FDA approved its use on Oct 31, 2004.
Clinton is set to discuss the topic of microchipping children while on the campaign trail this week. The source would not state if it would be discussed at the Presidential debate on Wednesday.


Yesterday I was tweeting quotes from Poe and blogging lines attributed to Heraclitus. Today I'm moving on to Shakespeare. Kudos to anyone posting a comment pointing out the second quote that appears later in the text.
Dashboards are all the rage at present. The basic idea is that they provide a way to quickly see what is happening, without getting lost in a sea of numbers. There are lots of different technologies out there that can help with dashboards. These range from parts of the product suites of all the main BI vendors, through boutique products dedicated to the area, all the way to simply using Java to write your own.
A lot of effort needs to go into how a dashboard is presented. The information really does need to leap off the screen, it is important that it looks professional. People are used to seeing well-designed sites on the web and if your corporate dashboard looks like it is only one step removed from Excel charts, you may have a problem. While engaging a design firm to help craft a dashboard might be overkill, it helps to get some graphic design input. I have been lucky enough over the years to have had people on my teams with experience in this area. They have mostly been hobbyists, but they had enough flair and enough of an aesthetic taste to make a difference.
I'll now consider the importance of these two areas.
The acronym KPI is bandied about with enormous vigour in the BI community. Sometimes what the 'K' stands for can get a bit lost in the cacophony. Stepping back from dashboards for a few minutes, I want to focus on the measures that you have in your general business intelligence applications such as analysis cubes. Things like: sales revenue, units sold, growth, head count, profit and so on.
When you have built a Data Mart for a particular subject area and are looking to develop one or more cubes based on this, you may well have a myriad of measures to select from. In some of the earliest prototype cubes that my teams built, we made the mistake of having too many measures. The same observation equally applied to the number of dimensions (things that you want to slice and dice the measures by, e.g. geography, line of business, product, customer etc.). Having too many measures and dimensions led to a cube that was cumbersome, difficult to navigate and where the business purpose was less that crystal clear. These are all cardinal sins, but the last is the worst as I have referred to elsewhere. The clear objective is to cut down on both the figures and the business attributes that you want to look at them by. We set a rule (which we did break a couple of times for specialist applications) of generally having no more than ten measures and ten dimensions in a cube and ideally having less.
Well this all sounds great, the problem – and the reason for this diversion away from dashboards – is which measures do you keep and which do you drop. Here there is no real alternative to lots of discussions with business partners, building multiple prototypes to test out different combinations and, ultimately, accepting that you might make some mis-steps in your first release and need to revisit the area after it has been "shaken down" by real business use. I won't delve into this particular process any deeper now. Suffice it to say that choosing which measures to include in a cube it is both an area that is important to get right and one in which it is all to easy to make mistakes.
So, retuning to our main discussion, if picking measures at the level of an analysis cube is hard, just how hard is it to pick KPIs for a dashboard. I recall a conversation with the CEO of a large organisation in which he basically told me to just pick the six most important figure and put them on a dashboard (with the clear implication that sooner would be rather better than later). After I had explained that the view of the CEO in this area was of paramount importance and that his input on which figures to use would be very valuable, we began to talk about what should be in and what should be out. After a period of going round in circles, I at least managed to convey the fact that this was not a trivial decision.
What you want with the KPIs on a dashboard is that they are genuinely key and that you can actually tell something from graphing them. The exercise in determining which figures to use and how to present them was a lengthy one, but very worthwhile. You need to rigorously apply the "so what?" test – what action will people take based on the trends and indicators that are presented to them. In the end we went for simplicity, with a focus on growth.
There was a map showing how each country was doing against plan; colour-coded red, amber and green according to their results. There were graphs comparing revenue to budget by month and the cumulative position and there was a break-down by business unit. The only to elements of interaction were to filter for a region or country and a business unit or line of business. Any further analysis required pulling up an underlying cube (actually we integrated the cube with the dashboard so that context was maintained moving from one to the other – this was not so easy as the dashboard and cube tools, while from the same vendor, were on two different major release numbers).
There were many iterations of the dashboard, but the one we eventually went live with received general acclaim. I'm not sure what we could have done differently to shorten the process.
The same range of dashboard tools that I mention in the introduction are of course mostly capable of sourcing their data from pretty much anywhere. If the goal is to build a dashboard, then maybe it is tempting to do this as quickly as possible, based on whatever data sources are to hand (as in the diagram above). This is probably the quickest way to produce a dashboard, but it is unlikely to produce something that is used much, tells people anything useful, or adds any value. Why do I say this?
Well the problem with this approach is that all you are doing is reflecting what is likely to be a somewhat fragmented (and maybe even chaotic) set of information tools. Out of your sources, is there a unique place to go to get a definitive value for measure A? Do the various different sources hold data in the same way and calculate values using the same formulae? Do sources overlap (either duplicating data, or function), if so, which ones do you use? Do different sources get refreshed with the same frequency and do they treat currency the same way? Are customers and products defined consistently everywhere?
Leaving issues like these unresolved is a sure way to perpetuate a poor state of information. They are best addressed by establishing a wider information architecture (a simplified diagram of which appears above). I am not going to go into all of the benefits of such an approach, if readers would like more information, then please browse through the rest of this blog and the links to other resources that it contains (maybe this post would be a good place to start). What I will state is that a dashboard will only add value if it is part of an overall consistent approach to information, something that best practice indicates requires an Information Architecture. Anything else is simply going to be a pretty picture, signifying nothing.
So my advice to those seeking to build their first dashboard has three parts. First of all, keep it simple and identify a small group of measures and dimensions, which are highly pertinent to the core of the business and susceptible to graphical presentation. Second, dashboards are not a short-cut to management information Nirvana, they only really work when they are the final layer in a proper approach to information that spans all areas of the organisation. Finally, and partly driven by the first two observations, if you are in charge of building a dashboard, make sure that the plans you draw up reflect the complexity of the task and that you manage expectations accordingly.
I've lived through the 'show me everything' syndrome and can say that it lead to confusion and data inconsistencies across dashboards. The idea of limitation is a good one as it does two things: 1) Clarifies dimensions and data 2) focuses on the purpose.
One thing comes to mind, and I'm wondering if you have encountered this as well. Schemas customized to purpose. I find that a single mega-schema is built and all dashboards are built on that. However, one size does not fit all depending on hierarchy of data and the mega-schema doesn't allow you to analyze based on the angle you need to come in at. Example: Organizational responsibility. Reporting by marketing structure vs. sales structure.
I think it's pretty important to have targeted, manageable schema (at least at the Data Mart level) otherwise it all becomes much too unwieldy.
Thanks for linking this to your post about Maureen's article as I missed it when you first posted it. Your thoughts on dashboards resonnate with me. In my company there's a good amount of buzz around dashboards and I'm trying to ensure we embrace the enthusiasm for these decision tools while taking a practical approach to implementing them. This post is helpful in crystalizing our plans.
Glad that the article was of use to you and thank you for your comments.
This is a great article. I have been doing dashboarding for a while and getting these concepts across to managing/sponsoring members is the "BIGGEST" part of the undertaking… but we still find ourselves having to develop dashboards that don't have any enterprise enforced consisitents measures and targets at common levels across KPI's.
I strongly recommend against using cubes as sources for Dashboards because getting the cube to align and deal with different measures across different grains with targets and actuals that are calculated differently at different levels is more work inside a cube beating up its intended purpose than just managing isolated structures dedicated to serving up metric/KPI oriented content at different levels.
Thanks a lot for taking the time to comment.
Dashboard proliferation worries me. How many dashboards does an aeroplane need?
On KPIs I guess in reality many of them are perhaps just PIs, of interest to some (those who want the dashboard) but not all.
I think that there should be alignment between true Enterprise KPIs and analysis facilities. In the in between world that I think you are describing (please correct me if I am wrong), then I agree that maybe taking too purist a cube-based approach could be tough work.


The study measured the number of problems experienced per 100 vehicles during the past 12 years by original owners of three-year-old model-year vehicles. The 2019 study measures problems in model year 2016. Overall dependability for three-year-old vehicles improved 4% from last year.
So when looking for a new car, look to these brands; then give us a call to determine your insurance premiums.


client is actively engaged and working through his or her own personal issues.
The art provides a physical, symbolic representation of what's happening in the person's life. It provides a frame of reference that enables the client to gain insights, to solve problems and find deeper meaning. Over time the person develops his or her own visual language through which patterns can be observed and progress defined. The client is thus encouraged to take ownership of his or her experience.
-Well adapted people of all ages interested in self-discovery, personal fulfillment, relaxation and stress relief.
-People of all ages with emotional and/or behavioral and/or intellectual challenges.
The expected outcome is a reduction of stress and anxiety, an improvement in self-esteem and self-assurance, an increased ability to problem solve, and more effective coping and social skills.
As an Art Therapist I have had success working with people of all ages with a wide range of emotional, behavioral and at times intellectual challenges. As well as with well adapted highly functioning individuals who are interested in self-discovery.


Yeast leavens loaves of bread, curdles cottage cheese, and ferments wines, beers, as well as every other alcoholic consume. But for some people, medically suggested diet programs restrict all yeast usage. This may be overwhelming to the people who enjoy a bottle of beer or perhaps a window of vino, because there fails to look like yeast infection free liquor.
All alcoholic beverages are fermented through the brewing method. This fermentation is really what brings about liquor being within beers, wine beverages, whiskeys, and so forth. To ensure that this fermentation to occur, yeast infection responds with air and alcohol is definitely the merchandise. Because of this in order to have an alcoholic beverage, yeast needs to be existing.However, simply because yeast can be used within the producing of liquor does not always mean that yeast free liquor fails to be present. Wine makers, for example, ferment their beverages with yeast. But through a number of distillation processes, which include strenuous filtration methods, almost all yeast residues are pulled from the concluded item. This is to guarantee how the red wine is obvious, vibrant, delicious, fragrant, which forget about reactions keep on in the jar. If there was nevertheless Candida harmful bacteria found in finished merchandise, the Candida would carry on and react and increase the risk for wine being far too alcoholic and ruin the taste.
For beers, vodkas, bourbons, rums, and other thegioiwhisky, nonetheless, you must be extra cautious, particularly if the alcoholic beverages are imported. Some breweries are certainly not as specific regarding the yeast information much like wine makers. In Russian federation and also the Czech Republic, for instance, vodkas and beers are unpasteurized and have lots of productive yeast harmful bacteria. The beverages purchase a much different style since they consistently age within the jar.However, legally, all household beers should be pasteurized and filtered. Because of this all home-based-brewed beverages, like Budweiser or Captain Morgan, are instances of Candida totally free alcohol.I'd suggest that you seek advice from a doctor before making any changes to the present diet regime. I'm not really a medically-skilled physician, and might not communicate for those tolerances for each individual; nor can all sorts of alcohol be taken care of as Candida-free of charge, irrespective of regulation or likelihood.


Happy Release Day to T.A. Williams! WHAT HAPPENS IN THE ALPS… is out today. Grab your copy via the links below.
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U Employee Reported Missing, Found Safe in Southern Utah
University of Utah School of Medicine where Lea Kae Roberts is employed. Daily Chronicle photo archives.
By Shaelyn Barber
The 42-year-old Lea Kae Roberts was found safe at a homeless shelter in southern Utah early in the morning of Tuesday, Oct. 2. Roberts had been gone since the previous Saturday night, and a missing person report was filed with the authorities on Sunday morning.
Roberts is found to be in good health with no bodily injuries. There is no sign of any struggle, and no foul play is suspected in the incident.
Roberts was reported missing in western Wyoming on a weekend trip to visit her sister. She was last seen at her sister's house in Evanston, a small town near the Utah-Wyoming border, on Sept. 29 around 6:30 p.m.
Roberts had arrived with two of her children, ages seven and 12, at her sister's house on Saturday morning. Her sister left the house Saturday evening to run some errands, leaving Roberts and the kids to order pizza. When she returned to the house 45 minutes later, Roberts had vanished in her black Toyota Camry. She left the two children behind.
When Roberts still had not returned by Sunday morning, her sister filed a missing person report with the police around 11:00 a.m. Police officers and local hunters searched the surrounding area on Monday — the first day of Wyoming's deer hunting season — but found no trace of her or her vehicle. A member of the church Roberts attended flew over the area in his airplane, but reported to the police that he did not see any sign of her or her car either.
Roberts is employed as an executive assistant at the University of Utah School of Medicine. She had emailed her employer on Friday, saying that she would be taking Monday off from work. Her employer had not heard from Roberts since. U police talked with her fellow employees on Monday in an attempt to discern any information about her disappearance or whereabouts.
Her 17-year-old son chose to stay in Roberts' residence in Morgan, Utah instead of going to Wyoming with Roberts and the other two children. He told authorities that he had not seen his mother since the previous Wednesday.
Roberts' ex-husband, a Wyoming resident, retrieved the two children from her sister's house after the missing person report was filed.
Uinta County Law Enforcement posted an update on Facebook saying, "she was located alive and well in southern Utah by Law Enforcement Officials. She is being re-united with family members at this time."
@shaelynbarber
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Having watched the recent presidential debate, I realized that President Bush is in need of additional help. It seems that constant repetitions of 9/11, terrorism and nucular weapons are no longer as effective at scaring people as they were (at least in so far as portraying the president as the only one who can handle them), and there is urgent need of a new threat.
Fortunately for the president, there is unequivocal evidence that the eruption of Mount St. Helens is, in fact, being caused by Al-Qaeda.
Mt. Canlaon (in the Philippines) erupted in 1988, the same year as Al-Qaeda was founded.
At least one volcano has erupted somewhere in the world each year since Al-Qaeda was founded.
Historically, volcanoes truly are weapons of mass destruction, resulting in massive casualties and property damage, not to mention poisoning the air and environment.
Though somewhat lacking in portability, they have the advantage of already being at the target area, eliminating the need to smuggle them into the country by air or sea.
John Kerry has done nothing to address the potential terrorist threat of volcanoes, leaving the door wide open for Bush to take the initiative.
Afghanistan, the home of Al- Qaeda, is mountainous – the ideal training ground for volcanic warfare.
Clearly, in these final weeks leading up to the election, the vicious terrorist attack at Mount St. Helens is the ideal campaign issue. It will catch Kerry's camp completely by surprise, and by the time they formulate a clear policy on the issue, the dust (or ash) will already have settled.
The Forge of God by Greg Bear: Plenty of volcanoes and cataclysmic destruction in the most depressing rendition of earth's obliteration since the Vogons blew it up to make way for a hyperspacial bypass.
Volcano (DVD) – Toss in a few earthquakes and plenty of fire, this L.A. disaster epic is surely bedtime watching for Bin-Laden and company.
Dante's Peak – Not much for mass casualties, but this volcano must have never listened to scientists, cause it erupts and blows up in just about every way possible.
Our Amazing Volcanoes – Terrorist training kit for Al- Qaeda children, teaches how to construct volcanoes and trigger eruptions. It is truly astonishing that such toys are allowed to be sold.
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Me thinks thou doth strongly (and put great emphasis on the word strongly) wish to be a comedy writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. It seems that comedy is your natural talent besides teaching people. I understand that there is good money in comedy if you can get beyond the standup and move into a TV spot.
Why stop with one natural disaster when there are plenty of others? I guess hurricanes got picked on too much lately, but floods and tornadoes, now there's the ticket.
Hahahah – excellent and funny. Enjoyed meeting you at the conference, and as a close neighbor to the volcanoe that is currently experiencing heartburn, I laughed especially hard when I read this.
Oh, yeah. And then there's all the tourists held hostage by the mere thought of something bigger happening, and chained to a boring wait, until they are released.