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package org.osgi.service.zigbee.types;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.osgi.service.zigbee.ZigBeeDataInput;
import org.osgi.service.zigbee.ZigBeeDataOutput;
import org.osgi.service.zigbee.ZigBeeDataTypes;
import org.osgi.service.zigbee.descriptions.ZCLSimpleTypeDescription;

/**
 * A singleton class that represents the 'Unsigned Integer 32-bit' data type,
 * as it is defined in the ZigBee Cluster Library specification.
 *
 * @author $Id$
 *
 */
public class ZigBeeBACnet
		implements ZCLSimpleTypeDescription {

	private final static ZigBeeBACnet instance = new ZigBeeBACnet();

	private ZigBeeBACnet() {
	}

	/**
	 * Gets a singleton instance of this class.
	 *
	 * @return the singleton instance.
	 */
	public static ZigBeeBACnet getInstance() {
		return instance;
	}

	@Override
	public String getName() {
		return "BACnet";
	}

	@Override
	public boolean isAnalog() {
		return false;
	}

	@Override
	public Class< ? > getJavaDataType() {
		return Long.class;
	}

	@Override
	public short getId() {
		return ZigBeeDataTypes.BACNET_OID;
	}

	@Override
	public void serialize(ZigBeeDataOutput os, Object value) throws IOException {
		ZigBeeDefaultSerializer.serializeDataType(os, ZigBeeDataTypes.BACNET_OID, value);
	}

	@Override
	public Object deserialize(ZigBeeDataInput is) throws IOException {
		return ZigBeeDefaultSerializer.deserializeDataType(is, ZigBeeDataTypes.BACNET_OID);
	}

}

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1. What is an RFID chip and an RFID-enabled credit card?
As you use your credit cards, do you check whether they are chip credit cards or not? Probably, most of you don't recognize that there is an RFID chip in your credit cards. Here's a short chronology of what a chip credit card is; Briefly, an RFID chip is another term used to define an RFID tag. It is a tag, label or card that can exchange data with a reader using radio frequency (RF) signals. It usually has a built-in antenna and an integrated circuit IC. The antenna can send and receive radio waves, while the IC takes care of modulating and demodulating the radio signals, as well as processing and storing data. Also, unlike a bar code reader/label pair, which has to be really close (about a few centimeters), some RFID reader/chip pairs can function from a few meters out. Furthermore, while a bar code label can only be read by a single reader at a time, an RFID chip can transmit data to multiple readers simultaneously.RFID-enabled cards, they are standard-sized plastic debit or credit card that contains an embedded microchip as well as a traditional magnetic stripe. The chip encrypts information to help increase data security when making transactions at terminals or ATMs that are chip-enabled.
2.When was the RFID chip invented?
During this decade, scientists explored the possibilities of advancing Radio Frequency Identification. This new technology was intriguing and people wanted to see what else could possibly come out of it. Also, inventor DB Harris created a different variation of the technology with a passive responding chip.
The IFF long-range RFID system became fully functional and production commenced soon after.
RFID tags were invented in1969 and later patented in 1973; it's only now that they're becoming commercially and technologically viable, with microchips growing essentially tinier and better. Some are only 1/3 of a millimeter across. These chips act as transponders (transmitters/responders), always listening for a radio signal sent by transceivers or RFID readers.
When a transponder receives a certain radio query, it responds by transmitting its unique ID code, perhaps a 128-bit number, back to the transceiver. Most RFID tags don't have batteries (How could they? They're 1/3 of a millimeter!). Instead, they are powered by the radio signal which wakes them up requesting an answer.
3. Who invented RFID chips and how are RFID chips used?
4.How does the chip on credit cards work?
We can know that an RFID chip is another term used to define an RFID tag. How does the chip work? First, we need to know about the functional principle of RFID tags.
In the last article, we introduced that RFID is an acronym for "radio-frequency identification" and refers to a technology whereby digital data encoded in RFID tags or smart labels (defined below) are captured by a reader via radio waves. RFID is similar to bar-coding where data from a tag or label is captured by a device that stores it in a database.
RFID methods utilize radio waves to accomplish this. At a simple level, RFID systems consist of three components: an RFID tag or smart label, an RFID reader, and an antenna. RFID tags contain an integrated circuit and an antenna used to transmit data to the RFID reader (also called an interrogator). The reader then converts the radio waves to a more usable form of data. Information collected from the tags is then transferred through a communications interface to a host computer system, where the data can be stored in a database and analyzed at a later time.
Every credit card holder in America knows the "swipe and sign" checkout ritual. With chip and PIN cards, the credit card data is stored on a tiny computer chip — not a magnetic stripe — and customers punch in a four-digit PIN (personal identification number) instead of signing the screen.
5.Do I have an RFID credit card?
According to the latest estimates, more than 1 billion credit cards and IDs have been released with an RFID chip in the recent past. But how do you know whether your credit card has RFID or not?
To find out whether a credit card has an RFID chip, you can look at the card to tell if it does or not. If you see the marked symbol on the image below, it supports RFID. Also, if the card says PayPass, payWave, or blink, it also has RFID capabilities.
6.How far can an RFID chip transmit?
Ultra High Frequency (UHF) Passive RFID Tags or chips- minimum read distance of over 1 meter or 3 feet. Gen2 tags can have a read range of up to 12 meters or 37 feet, however, a new generation of IC's plus antenna designs are now pushing this distance to over 15 meters! And what's the Maximum Range?
Even within one type of RFID, however, there can be a wide array of reading ranges. A passive ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) handheld reader has a range of about 10 feet, while a model using a beam-steerable phased-array antenna can interrogate passive tags at a distance of 600 feet or more.
7. Can you track an RFID chip?
The answer is yes. But it has limitation. Most countries have assigned the 125 or 134 kHz areas of the spectrum for low-frequency RFID systems, and 13.56 MHz is generally used around the world for high-frequency RFID systems. UHF RFID systems have only been around since the mid-1990s and countries have not agreed on a single area of the UHF spectrum for RFID.
Since most RFID chips or tags are passive, meaning they contain no battery power and can transmit data only when zapped with a reader. A group of hackers at the 2005 DefCon technology convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, used an antenna attached to an RFID reader to scan the information on a tag nearly 70 feet away. In this distance and appropriate frequency range, absolutely you can track an RFID chip.
8.Do US passports have RFID chip and protection?
According to the federal Bureau of Consular Affairs, the passport chip is designed with security features to thwart unauthorized access. Also, it can be "read" only when the passport book is open. When the cover is shut, the information on the chip supposedly can't be scanned by an RFID device.
Luckily RFID tag signals can easily be blocked. This means that you will have the option to use the tag whenever you want, and prevent others from being able to read it.
The signal sent out by an RFID tag is easily blocked by metal. This means that placing the RFID tag inside of a Faraday cage will prevent the information from being read.
Alternatively, if you would rather spend money on something you could build, head over to Think Geek for their RFID blocking wallet and RFID blocking Passport Holder.
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Francis C. Carter Memorial Preserve, Charlestown, RI
November 8, 2018 /in On the Trail /by Mary
On the Trail – Laura Orabone
WildforaRI, Winter 2017
The Francis C. Carter Memorial Preserve, located in Charlestown, is Rhode Island's second-largest nature preserve and is maintained by the state's chapter of The Nature Conservancy. This 1,112- acre property was acquired in 2001 with help from The Champlin Foundations, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and the Cove Point Foundation. The preserve is dedicated to Francis ("Frank") C. Carter, who led the Champlin Foundations for many years.
The preserve encompasses an 11-mile corridor of open space between the glacial moraines of the Ninigret National Wildlife Refuge to the mixed eastern woodlands and grasslands of the state-owned Carolina Management Area. It is easily accessible from two locations: one at its eastern edge off Rte. 112 (also called Carolina Back Road) and another to the west off Old Mill Road. Originally offering more than five miles of well-marked trails, it has recently been expanded; however, since the new trails have yet to be included on official maps of the property, this guide will cover only the original trails.
The Old Mill Road entrance provides two parking areas – one near the trailhead for cars and another large enough to accommodate horse trailers and a manual pump for watering horses. Note that the gravel road leading to the parking area is not always well-graded. Equestrian trails are marked. Near this parking area, and throughout the preserve, you can find pink lady slipper orchids (Cypripedium acaule) in early spring. The ruins of a cellar hole are barely visible to the left, just past the trailhead.
From this entrance, the Narragansett Trail takes visitors through stands of mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia), sheep laurel (Kalmia angustifolia), black birch (Betula lenta), bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum), mockernut hickory (Carya tomentosa), white oak (Quercus alba), white wood aster (Aster divaricatus), and eastern white pine (Pinus strobus). Other notable native plants include pipsissewa (Chimaphila umbellata), spotted wintergreen (Chimaphila maculata), and partridge berry (Mitchella repens).
The Narragansett Trail provides an easy walk to a 35-acre grassland surrounded by pitch pine and quaking aspen. This area, cleared in 2008 with the cooperation of The Nature Conservancy, The National Audubon Society, and the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, was recently expanded. It provides an important example of early successional habitat. Here you can see goldenrods, common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca), bayberry (Myrica pensylvanica), and a variety of native grasses and sedges. The adjacent uplands feature scarlet oak (Quercus coccinea), white oak (Quercus alba), pitch pine (Pinus rigida), and high-bush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum).
On warm spring evenings, when the peepers are in full swing, you can watch woodcocks performing their aerial courtship displays. The area also provides a nesting area for the state-threatened grasshopper sparrow, as well as the eastern towhee, scarlet tanager, and prairie warbler. American kestrels, brown thrashers, blue-winged warblers, and dozens of other birds may be observed here. A complete list is provided at the trailhead.
Off the Narragansett Trail is the short White Trail loop on the right. Before you reach the field, you can take a trail to the left leading through mostly pitch and white pine woods, with the occasional tulip poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera), eastern hemlock (Tsugacanadensis), and American holly (Ilex opaca). You may note an old chimney foundation here. This trail leads out to an open, sunny corridor created by a utility easement. The easement is home to lowbush blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium), huckleberry (Gaylussacia spp.), sweet fern (Comptonia peregrina), and bird's-foot violet (Viola pedata). Vernal ponds provide habitat for a variety of frogs and salamanders.
From the eastern trailhead off Carolina Back Road, you can explore the Yellow Trail and, if time permits, several other trails branching off from it. The Yellow Trail leads past a vernal pond to the right, then west through woodlands to the western trailhead off Old Mill Road. In the fall, small stands of witch hazel (Hamamelis virginiana) come into delicate bloom. The first left is the Split-Rock Trail, which follows a small loop before rejoining the Yellow Trail. The first right is the Red Trail, which meanders to the northeast and then curves back to the west through mixed hardwoods and pine, eventually joining the Blue Trail, which loops twice off the Yellow Trail.
Along both the Red and Blue Trails, there are several water features: trick- ling brooks, swamp areas dotted with skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus), and a pond off to the northeast of a portion of the Blue Trail. The pond is barely visible through the trees, and there is a rough wooden bench at this point to rest and listen. Along the middle section of the Yellow Trail, note the mysterious cairns or "turtle rocks" that dot the gently rolling landscape. Their significance is unknown; some claim they were built by early colonial farmers clearing stones from fields, while others attribute them to the Narragansett people. Also of note are several impressive granite boulders left behind by retreating glaciers at the end of the last Ice Age. Many of these are thickly plastered with rock tripe and topped with lush layers of mosses and ferns.
The Francis C. Carter Memorial Preserve is ideal for both short hikes and longer excursions. Allow 45 minutes for each trail; however, the shorter loop trails are suitable for briefer jaunts, ideal for families with young children. Although the terrain is not generally rugged, a hiking stick can be a helpful thing to have for extra stability.
Observe the following guidelines:
Stay on the walking trails, using marked trails wherever they exist.
Respect the preserve's open hours (one hour before sunrise to one hour after sun- set). Overnight camping is not allowed.
Do not use bikes or motorized vehicles in the preserve.
Do not disturb bird nesting areas.
Do not remove any living materials or disturb any vegetation.
Remove your own trash and, if possible, any garbage that you see left by others.
During the deer bow-hunting season at the preserve (September 15 – January 31), wear a fluorescent orange hat or vest.
Leash your dog at all times.
To reach the preserve:
From Route 1, take the Route 2 exit north. Take Route 112 until you reach Old Mill Road on your left. The gravel road to the western parking area is near the utility easement, to the right where the road turns sharply to the left.
From Route 138 West, take a left onto Richmond Townhouse Road (aka Route 112) at the Richmond Town Hall. Continue south for .2 miles, past the Charlestown Elementary School. The unpaved road leading to the eastern trailhead is to your right. Or drive on a short distance and take the first right onto Old Mill Road for the equestrian parking area and western trailhead.
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Susanna's Woods – Susan B. DuVal Trail, Wakefield, RI
February 5, 2017 /in On the Trail /by Mary
On the Trail — by Clark Collins
WildfloraRI, Spring 2014
The DuVal Trail, located in the village of Perryville on the north side of the Old Post Road is a three-mile network of rustic trails looping through the 240-acre Susanna's Woods nature preserve. The preserve includes 167 acres that are held by the South Kingstown Land Trust either in fee title or conservation easement, and 74 acres that are owned by the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management.
The late Helena-Hope Gammell, a founding member of SKLT initiated this trail system in 1983 with her first land donation of four acres, and continued to add to the preserve by donating other parcels and conservation easements over her land as well as financial assistance the acquisition of abutting properties. The entire project is named Susanna's Woods in memory of Miss Gammell's niece, Susannah Klebovitz. Expansion of the reserve has continued to the present year (2013) with a major land donation of 29 acres bequeathed in the will of Virginia Jones, her neighbor and collaborator. The trail itself is named in memory of Susan B. Duval, whose bequest helped pay for the trail and development. Additional assistance has been received from the National Park Service Rivers & Trails Program.
The DuVal Trail system offers some of the Land Trust's most inviting and unique hiking experiences. The main entrance is located adjacent to the historic graveyard and former site of the Western Meeting House of the South Kingstown Friends (Quaker) Meeting, dating from the late seventeenth to the late nineteenth centuries. George Fox, the founder of the Religious Society of Friends, is said to have spoken at the meetinghouse during his tour of the American colonies in 1672.
From the parking area in front of the cemetery, the marked trail progresses up into the hill country known as the Charlestown Recessional Moraine, a long band of hills and valleys stretching from Wakefield, RI, to Watch Hill and farther down the north shore of Long Island, NY, which accumulated as poorly sorted glacial debris some 12,000 years ago as the edge of the glacier paused in its recession.
Most of the rocks are igneous and metamorphic (granite, schist, gneiss) derived from the bedrock in the surrounding area and to the north. The relief between the hilltops and valley floors range from 20 to 50 feet and slopes are often quite abrupt—between 15 and 30 percent. The soils are droughty, extremely stony and acidic. Due to their poor soil quality and inaccessibility most of these hills generally served as woodlots for the plantations located in the adjoining more fertile coastal plain. Some of the old cart paths from this period are still visible. Some isolated hollows have tillable soils that supported small homesteads in the past, and you may see here and there remnants of stonewalls and foundations.
Almost all of this area is now reforested with white, scarlet and black oak, sassafras, white pine, pitch pine, American beech, hickory and other trees common in the mixed upland forest of southern New England. Areas along the east of the trail head were planted with white pine and hemlock during the 1970s as a tree farm and habitat improvement program sponsored by the USDA Soil Conservation Service (now the Natural Resources Conservation Service), but there has been no tree harvest in this area due to its challenging topography. Linden trees still stand along an abandoned road to the Jones Camp in the western part of the preserve.
There is a dense understory of huckleberry and low- highbush blueberry, with thickets of mountain laurel, Sheep-laurel, inkberry, green briar and ferns. There is little sign of infestation by exotic, invasive vegetation due to its undisturbed condition and to the control of Russian olive that has taken place according to a forest management plan developed in 2003. On the many exposed boulders and stones and trees along the trail there is a diverse population of lichens, mushrooms and fungi.
Throughout the year the charms of the trail system are many. As the trail climbs and descends among the hills and hollows, the visitor sees the landscape from many angles, and the three loop trails off the main trail introduce a diversity of microclimates created by variations in sun exposure to the slopes, differences in soil fertility and water tables, and vegetation. An overlook on the main trail has a clear view to the south over the coastal plain, the Trustom Pond National Wildlife Refuge and, in the distance , Block Island.
In mid-June the trails are spectacularly decorated by blooms of mountain laurel. In late summer birds on their southward migration stop to rest and feed on the berry bushes. The new Jones Camp spur trail passes to the north through well-preserved old stone enclosures and leads to Bull Head Pond, a glacial kettle-hole pond.
Birds common to the area include wood thrush, hermit thrush, whip-poor-will, oven bird, wild turkey, towhee, vireo, yellow-rumped warbler, pine warbler, common yellowthroat, nuthatch, chickadee, and titmouse; also hairy, downy, and red–bellied woodpeckers; red, merlin, and sharp-shinned and Cooper's hawks; ruffed grouse, junco, robin, veery, red tail hawk, great horned owl and barred owl, field sparrow, chipping sparrow, ruby crowned kinglet, brown creeper, and yellow-bellied sapsucker. (I gave up trying to figure which of these bird names should be capitalized. Some of them are a specific species, and some are general.)
We would rate the difficulty of the walk as moderate; the paths are marked with blazes and have location maps at the trail head and at the intersections of loop trails and the main trail. They are kept in a natural state at a cleared width of approximately four to six feet by rotary brush mowers and lopping shears. The trail is designed to avoid steep, erodible slopes and conform to the gentler contours, while seeking out interesting features such as large boulders, stone walls, remarkable vegetation and rare views. Sites that are habitat for rare or endangered plants or animals are avoided.
• Access to the trails by motor vehicle is limited only to the trail head on Post Road, and a pull-off area on Gravelly Hill Road. In few places the trails have climbs of 15 percent, and hikers should watch their footing for slope, rocks and roots. This trail is not handicapped accessible.
• Hunting is prohibited within 500 feet of the trails, but deer hunting in season may be allowed on other off-trail parts of the surrounding properties. Wearing high-visibility orange clothing is recommended on all wooded paths during deer hunting seasons.
• Hikers are advised that this area is likely to have ticks, and that tick repellents and close inspection for ticks after hiking is advised.
• We hope that you will visit this site, and enjoy it is much as we at the South Kingstown Land Trust do. Please contact Clarkson Collins at clark.collins@sklt.org to share any observations or experiences you may have on the trails.
From Wakefield proceed Southwest on Main Street for 1.49 miles to Route 1. Stay on Route 1 South for about 2.9 miles then take the exit marked Post Road / Perryville. Proceed 0.31 miles to a stop sign at the intersection of Ministerial Road (Route 110). Go straight on Post Road for 1.28 miles, passing Moonstone Beach Road on your left, to a parking area on the right at the foot of the Quaker Burial Ground. The trail begins about 50 feet west of the parking area on the same side.
A trail map is available on the South Kingstown Land Trust website, sklt.org.
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It's that time of the year again as some locals are getting antsy to get out and do a little yard work.
However, most of the area soil still isn't warm enough to do everything the average home owner would like.
For example, it's too early to fertilize, cultivate or seed.
Now would be the perfect time to get the yard ready for those tasks and prepare it properly.
"Rake up some of those matted down leaves," said Mankato Golf Club Superintendent Fred Taylor. "If there are any snow mold, which you would see is a white furry matter on top of the leaves, and then also look for any vole damage, some people call them snow mice, get that stuff raked up and then take an assessment of what you got out there that you may need to work on in the future."
Taylor went on to add that the prime time to plant your garden is between April 15th and May 15th depending on the kind of plant it is.


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Q: Use subclass member variable in super class methods? I have a base class and subclass. Base class has common methods and its implementation which I want to use in subclass but I want to use subclass member variable instead of superclass. I do not want to rewrite the same method in subclass. Is there a way in Java to achieve this.

A: You can use a method to access the member and override it in subclasses.
Class A{
  public void DoStuff(){
     int aux = getResource;
     /*cool things with aux*/
  }
  protected int getResource(){
    return internal_member;
  }
  private int internal_member;
}

Class B extends A{
  private int another_member;
  @Override
  public int getResource(){
     return another_member;
  }

}

But take into account that this will not prevent people chaging class A from using the member directly, It might be better to create a base class for the members and the getters.
Another Option, as some people outlined before is to have the data member in the base class as protected and initialize it in the subclass:
Class A{
  public void DoStuff(){
     /*cool things with internal_member*/
  }
  protected List internal_member;
  A(){internal_member = /*Set here a value*/}
}

Class B extends A{
  B(){internal_member = /*Set a different value here! you can even declare a member and assign it here*/}

}

You can use constructors with arguments if you need.

A: You could create a protected setter on the member variable & then override the value of the super's variable within the constructor of the subclass:
class Animal {
   private String voice = "Oooo";

   protected void setVoice(String voice) {
       this.voice = voice;
   }

   public void speak() {
       System.out.println(this.voice);
   }

}

class Dog extends Animal {

    public Dog() {
        setVoice("woof");
    }

}

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Thinking for the future
May 2007 (Magazine)By Liam Kennedy
You do not automatically associate The Netherlands with forestry, but timberland made it to the top of the agenda of ABP's new innovation committee last autumn. Now the fund is looking to purchase real land and trees - something few Dutch, or European, investors have done before.
ABP's innovation committee was brought to life last summer as part of a plan to seek out new classes of assets and to harness internal expertise in order both to seek out ideas and to assist with the various stages of implementation.
To understand the place of the innovation committee it is essential to look at ABP's new strategic investment plan, which was announced earlier this year. This divides up the portfolio into two components - one using liability hedging assets, with cashflows and low volatility to create an "indexation portfolio". The second involves riskier assets that aim to gain the highest possible return — a "return portfolio".
ABP's investment beliefs centre on a willingness to exploit the advantages inherent in the institution's status as a long-term investor: there is a premium for illiquidity. Diversification, as ABP appears to understand it, and which it described in a recent document as a "free lunch", goes beyond an orthodox three-way bonds-equities-alternatives split, hence the work of the innovation committee in finding this hidden treasure. The treasure, or at least the proceeds from return generating investments, will assist ABP in keeping premiums manageable and in granting indexation for pensions.
"One of the reasons for dividing the portfolio into two is to help us search for new ideas," comments Stefan Lundbergh, secretary to the innovation committee. The division highlights more clearly the strategic purpose of different assets and strategies, and makes it easier to identify them.
But essential to the search for new ideas are people and culture, which ABP has described as a critical success factor. With a staff of over 400, ABP Investments is a large organisation and people have a diverse range of backgrounds, which the organisation hopes will spur creativity: "You don't always know what people have done in their previous career," Lundbergh says.
He adds that part of the success is also to foster the younger team members to come up with ideas and says that the 30 ideas put forward so far come from a real cross section of staff - not just from senior or experienced investment personnel.
The innovation portfolio also serves as a bridging role across asset classes and sub-classes, providing a natural home for investments that might not fit in one traditional area. "In the old days when convertibles were new," Lundbergh points out, "the equity manager looked at them and said they were a lot of fixed income and the fixed income manager said that there is an equity part. What we are trying to do is find a home for ideas that are in-between. If it is a pure equity idea we have an equity department with a lot of skilled people so there is no point in pushing the idea through the innovation committee. We are trying to capture the things that are falling between the cracks."
Given the international nature of ABP's staff and operations - a Hong Kong office was recently opened to complement the existing New York presence - it is perhaps not surprising that the committee is international in composition. Stefan Lundbergh, a Swede who joined ABP in 2005, is secretary and it is chaired by Tom Steenkamp. Other members are Jeroen Schreur from the Hong Kong office, Tom Dunn, head of New Holland Capital, ABP's own New York based fund of hedge fund operation, Tarek Saber, who heads the corporate opportunities strategies and Ruud Gilissen, director, investment and information services.
The committee's remit does not solely lie in the area of newer riskier asset classes and ideas are welcome that would be applicable either to the return or to the liability portfolio. In any case, the emphasis is ensuring as short a time as possible from initial assessment of ideas to actual implementing.
ABP has established a multi-stage idea assessment process to reduce the likelihood of wasting staff and management time on ideas that will not come to fruition. This works in tandem with a low entry hurdle - initial submissions, known as insight notes, are only required to be 300 words long or so.
Lundbergh says: "If you want to be innovative you do not want people with ideas second guessing what you want. If you are going to put a lot of effort into something, you do not want to burn a lot of time just to find out that we are not interested. Therefore if you can put down the core of your idea on half a page we can discuss it and if we say 'no' you haven't wasted too much time or effort."
The committee discusses proposals as they pass the various stages, or gates, in the process, from idea to implementation, and decides whether to allow them to proceed or not. Detailed minutes of the meetings are kept and "digestible" summaries are posted on ABP Investments' intranet site so that everybody knows what is going on.
The committee, which meets every three weeks, or more frequently if the agenda is heavy, first screens ideas to ensure that they pass a first initial compliance threshold, or "corporate minimum level". Rather obviously, they must be legal, but they must also comply with ABP's commitment to sustainable investing. Ideas must be scaleable - there would be no point in spending time and resources on ideas that did not hold sufficient capacity to impact on the risk-return profile of the innovation portfolio.
"Also if you look at an idea you need to understand financial logic of it and the risks it will introduce in our balance sheet," explains Lundbergh. "We can take risk in our balance sheet at a certain premium. In order to get a return you need to take some kind of risk but we need to ask ourselves, why are we the natural holder of that risk?"
ne of the factors driving the timber business at the moment is the need for timber companies to make their balance sheets more capital efficient, says Lundbergh. "So you have a natural seller. As a pension fund we have long term commitments and do not need cashflow every quarter; if we can get the long term cashflows linked to inflation this is good to us. [Timber companies] have a different profile and it is natural for us as a pension fund to look into that."
If the committee gives the go-ahead to an idea, the originator is asked to produce a skeleton business plan, outlining such factors as the nature of the market in the asset, the actors in its market and how it would fit in to the organisation.
"Some ideas won't hold but other ideas move ahead," says Lundbergh. "However, at this stage as an organisation we have not spent so much time. Perhaps half day on the first stage and 10 working days on the second, which this could be spread over say ten weeks. So at that point it is not a big loss for ABP or the innovator if we stop something."
If the idea does pass the second stage, the committee sponsors a project for the strategic case, for example checking with the ALM team how it would affect the risk characteristics in the portfolio. "Now you have a project involving a lot of people moving towards the business plan phase," Lundbergh explains.
"With timber the question was, is it a strategic asset for ABP? The second part was to understand as an organisation where it fits and who should manage it - should we do it internally or externally? There is no point in discussing who should manage it before we decide whether we do it or not."
Finally, before the capital commitment, the idea is escalated to the board for final approval. Then follows the commitment of capital and the actual investment. So far eight of the 30 ideas submitted have got to some stage in the assessment process.
The person who produced the idea and who conducted the research is the natural candidate to spearhead the project says Lundbergh. With the strategic case for timberland the process took about three months from beginning to end.
Els Knoope, a senior portfolio manager, headed the project, but the core group involved the US hedge fund and real estate units, who also worked with representatives from ALM and legal. "I was really surprised how few hours they spent given the quality and in those months you had Christmas in between," Lundbergh
Are there fixed risk and return characteristics for investments within the innovation portfolio? No, according to Lundbergh, but ideas should improve the risk-return characteristics in one of the two portions of the portfolio - liability assets and return assets. 'We communicate within the organisation that if you come up with a good idea, you should be able to prove that the risk optimising or the liability portfolio benefits. Either something with long-term stable inflation linked cashflows or something on risky side with high returns."
Unlike some, particularly Scandinavian institutions, ABP is not interested in the separation of alpha and beta, which would involve separating alpha and beta orientated investment teams. "Since ABP is a large institutional investor with a long-term horizon we feel that putting these people closer without having a wall between them will benefit the end result. We are trying to erase these ideas a bit about alpha-beta separation because if you allow the portfolio manager to look at the big picture I think we will get a better outcome than if we strictly separate alpha and beta."
So far, ABP has set a strategic target for 2% of assets, or approximately €4bn, for the innovation portfolio by 2009, but will not spend it unless good ideas come forward.
"We say, challenge our current assets," concludes Lundbergh. "Is the market weighted equity benchmark the best equity portfolio for a Dutch pension fund with our liabilities? If we come up with something better we are moving forward. Defining better is to see how you might improve the liability hedge and risk optimising strategies."
ABP's innovation committee
Tom Dunn (left) is a managing principal of New Holland Capital, a hedge fund advisory company established by ABP that focuses exclusively on the absolute return vehicles. Prior to launching New Holland Capital in 2006, Dunn managed the hedge fund group of ABP Investments from 2002. Tom holds two degrees from University of Chicago: an MBA in Finance (1986) and a BA in
English Literature (1981).
Ruud Gilissen (right) MA is director of investment and information services at ABP Investments. He was quality manager of alternative investments from 2005 to 2006 and co-chief investment officer, global fixed income, from 2003-04. In 2002 Gilissen participated in the international executive programme at Insead and in 2006 he participated in a programme entitled, 'Creating Corporate Advantage: Strategy in the Multi-business Firm' at Harvard Business School.
Dr Stefan Lundbergh (left) is a senior researcher at ABP Investments. He is the secretary of the innovation committee and heads a small team within the strategy and research group. Before joining ABP he worked for Skandia, the Swedish insurance company. He holds a PhD in econometrics from Stockholm School of Econometrics and has published scientific articles in leading academic journals.
Tarek Saber (top left, next page) has been head of corporate opportunities strategies at ABP Investments from 2003. He was global head of convertibles at HSBC, with operations in London, Paris, New York and Hong Kong, from 2000-03. Saber also headed the convertible bond desk at NatWest from 1991-96 and was responsible for trading, sales, research and proprietary trading at Schroders Securities from 1996-2000.
Jeroen Schreur (right) is the president of ABP Investments Asia Limited, which is located in Hong Kong and is responsible for ABP's Asian non listed real Estate
and infrastructure investments. Schreur was CFO/COO of ABP Investments US from 2003-06 and holds a masters degree in econometrics from the University of
Groningen.
Professor Tom Steenkamp (left) is chief investment officer of allocation and research and a member of the board of ABP Investments. He is also chairman of the innovation committee. In 1999 Steenkamp was appointed professor of investment sciences at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) in Amsterdam, a post he still holds. In addition to his professorship at VU. Steenkamp is chairman of the executive committee of the postgraduate financial and investment analyst training institute at the university.


Joint secretary Gopal Baglay was today appointed the Spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). Baglay who belongs to the 1994 batch of the Indian Foreign Service (IFS), earlier worked as the Joint Secretary of Pakistan-Afghanistan-Iran.
He earlier handled media at the embassy in Kathmandu from 2008 to 2010. He has also served as the Secretary at Embassy of India, Kyiv from 1996 to 1999, to Moscow from 1999 to 2002. In MEA he served as the deputy secretary (Central Europe) and deputy secretary and director (United Nations-Economic & Social) from 2005 to 2008.
He has replaced the former spokesperson of MEA Vikas Swarup, who was recently appointed as India's High Commissioner to Canada.


Luna traces constellations which come alive in the night sky. She tries to show her dad, who struggles to understand her imaginary world.
Fiona Ryan graduated from the National Film School in Dublin in 2016 with first class honors. Since then she has worked on a number of projects for TV. Her graduation film, Joining Dots, has screened internationally and won several awards.


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There are many important issues to consider. It is also necessary to build a brand name on the first stage of your business development. If you already have your company logo and name, you can buy the domain name as the first step to building your website. Also, if you are interested in working online, you may set up online profile such as with a Google account that includes email creation and using Google Docs and Google Analytics for monitoring website traffic. A YouTube account is also a useful tool for advertising your shop, products and services via video.
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Daryl Sherman: NEW O`LEANS
By Rhodes Spedale
The artist herself ably states the premise of this recording as follows:
�At dawn on Sunday August 28, 2005 my friends Janice Martin and Rhodes Spedale hurriedly packed essentials into the car and hit the highway to evacuate New Orleans. So did many other folks creating a nightmare of stop & stop traffic. After eleven hours (of what is usually a one hour drive), the car refused to go any further, landing in Donaldsonville, Louisiana. As the overheated vehicle is being pushed to the side of the road, a kind lady and her mother offered to take them into their home for the duration of Hurricane Katrina. They remained displaced for eight months, renting an apartment until a return to New Orleans was safe. (To ease the pain Rhodes even managed to get steady piano gigs in Donaldsonville.)
Monday, August 29, 2005, throughout the storm Houcine Harrabi, George Buck`s trusted assistant, stayed by George`s side at the Jazzology headquarters on Decatur Street in the French Quarter. George`s wife Nina was in Europe and George refused to evacuate. Houcine`s neighbor reached him by phone the next day describing how sewers were making bubbling noises and water started to gush out; how she climbed up to her attic as water rose as high as the gutters; that she witnessed Houcine`s house become totally flooded; that the next sound she heard was a motor boat which came and rescued her.
Houcine lost everything in that house. Finally convinced they should leave, George, with Houcine at the wheel, began an odyssey which also lasted several months. Upon returning, they found important archival material stored in a warehouse had been destroyed. Moreover, it was rather difficult filling orders when postal services hadn`t yet been restored. Nonetheless, The GHB Jazz Foundation was up and running, and their commitment to preserve this music seems to have become even stronger. Live music abounds downstairs at The Palm Court and the in-house studio is busy as ever. After hearing Barbara Lea`s recent recording with a New Orleans band, I was inspired to find my own way to express feelings for NOLA. Thanks to Barbara Motley I got to perform at her lovely boite Le Chat Noir and thanks to George, Houcine, engineer Richard Bird and these terrific musicians, here is the result.�
It`s been said that what is loved most about New Orleans is that one never knows when or where a parade will break out. You can be standing in line at a corner grocery in the French Quarter when a brass band will wend its way along the street. Traffic will be stopped and diverted as you sit in your car at midday, allowing a parade the right of way to celebrate weddings, divorces, supermarket openings or the paving of a street.
It is this SPIRIT of New Orleans that pervades -- yes, enables -- life here. Outsiders wondered how New Orleanians could celebrate Mardi Gras after the Katrina carnage. Not only is it a preservation of the cultural heritage but also an expression of hope and faith for the future. Without that spirit there would
be no romance and history here -- and no Crescent City.
With consummate, tasteful guitar stylings from James Chirillo and some of the best jazzmen in New Orleans, Daryl Sherman captures and preserves the spirit. The songs she`s chosen are more than nostalgic reminiscences. They speak of love, lost love, loss of hope but also weave a broad swath of optimism. The proof is in the listening. The endeavor is grounded in the bass of Al Bernard, a veteran of the Dukes of Dixieland and Al Hirt bands, and you can`t get more New Orleans than that; in fact, his dad was Louis Prima`s bassist for decades. Tom Fischer is one of the most on-call reed players in town, equally proficient on clarinet and tenor, regularly heard with Banu Gibson and Lionel Ferbos. Connie Jones, cornetist, has appeared with the legendary Basin Street Six, Jack
Teagarden, Pete Fountain, Dick Sudhalter, The Dukes and led his own Crescent City Jazz Band. He`s heard only on the Dick Hyman ode to a reptilian.
Though born into a musical family in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, Daryl Sherman is as Manhattan as Gristede`s,
Katz Delicatessen, or the Waldorf-Astoria, where she`s been ensconced at Cole Porter`s piano for over a decade. Her affinity for and proficiency at the art
of jazz has been developed through years of concert and club appearances and a consistent presence on records. A
distinctive singer, Daryl`s phrasing, enunciation and diction tellingly communicate the lyrics of the songs and the composer`s message. Her piano playing as well caught the attention of Marian McPartland who`s featured Daryl twice on NPR`s Piano Jazz. On this CD, Daryl`s composing and arranging talents come to the fore. She enhances the material. Her use of motifs -- even leitmotifs in some instances -- in Way Down
Yonder/Louisiana, Petite Fleur, Mr Bojangles, S`Mardi Gras and Doin The Chameleon are simple, apt, surprising, and satisfying. Her original Wendell`s Cat, for long-time George Buck friend and associate, Wendell Echols, is poignant in both words and music.
S`Mardi Gras
The aforementioned spirit of the City is evoked in this lead-off selection. The French-Italian-Spanish-German-Afro-American cultural heritage demands of New Orleanians to


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