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Every Firm Requires Credible Virtual Data Center

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A virtual data center is a term used to describe a cluster of online data that encompasses a cloud based infrastructure for a specific need of a business enterprise. In other words, it presents a virtual data cluster that is located on a cloud service, which offers a particular advantage for a business or some other organization.

These advantages can include things like increased computing power, larger storage capacity or additional bandwidth.
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But, having a virtual data center in the modern technology environment is not only a simple advantage; it is a required necessity for any company or a firm. With the current state of advances that are being made in the field of Internet technologies, running a regular business based on old IT concepts is not enough.

The ability of a cloud service to move data and applications to the online domain means having more flexibility and more options for everyday tasks. Here are the benefits of having this kind of data center in any business environment.

Enable and Protect Applications traversing the cloud
Cloud technology is becoming more and more popular, but because of this fact, it is also becoming more dangerous for the end users. The increase in its popularity means having more malicious figures lurking around the cloud providers, looking for an opportunity to strike and produce damage.

Virtual data centers have the capacity to include firewalls, control and safety application and other means of countering these threats. By validating applications to the data center, it can block or stop rogue applications, known and unknown assailants, and many other threats, but without losing performance.

SEE ALSO: Cloud Security Measures Increasingly Necessary For Business Growth

Isolating Applications and Data
With a virtual data center, all users can set their most important applications to the status of Zero Trust. This status means that users are never trusted and always need to verify their authenticity before they can continue to access the center or make changes in it.

With this safety measure, the most critical part of any virtual center can be additionally protected so that in a case of a breach of the firewall, the assailants still cannot get complete access. This added layer of safety measures can turn to be invaluable in the case of a cyber-attack.

Safely Enable Applications
While all this security is present in a virtual data center, this does not mean that using its applications is difficult or problematic. By utilizing a very flexible protection system that is connected to firewall standards and application verification procedures, the data center can easily enable applications that are needed by the users.

This is achieved through a very thorough control of traffic, where the data center determines what comes in and what comes out. Because of this, validated application can be run without any problem while potential threats are stopped and isolated.

Centralized Management
At first glance, it could be perceived that a virtual data center is a large an ominous structure with many different branches of management. But, the truth is that all these features are located in a centralized environment, where they can be easily accessed and used.

The same centralized management HQ can also be used to control every aspect of a data center. With this crucial element, the entire virtual data center can be utilized as a single effective tool.

Because of these characteristics of a virtual data center, there is no doubt that using one can bring many substantial advantages for any company.
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You do not have to dedicate a continuous time block by using the RefMux user module. AGND can be routed to the analog buffer output by software.

Even when a continuous time block is used by PGA or comparator, AGND can be routed to the output through the testMux of that block. The only requirement is that the output of the continous time block should be disabled so that the testMux can be routed. Use the following lines of code to bring out AGND. In device editor, turn on the respective analog output buffer.

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UMD Chancellor Kathryn A. Martin and Lake Superior College President Kathleen Nelson were presented the 2010 Sam Solon Legislative Service Award on March 4 at a legislative breakfast in St Paul during Duluth and St Louis County Days at the Capitol. The award was presented by Senator Yvonne Prettner Solon, widow of Senator Sam Solon and his successor to the state senate.

Both women were praised for their outstanding leadership in the growth in size and stature of their respective campuses. Both are retiring at the end of this school year.

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A native of Rhinelander, Wisconsin, Kathryn Martin came to head the UMD campus in August 1995, becoming the first female chancellor in the University of Minnesota system. This school year marks Dr Martin's 15th year as chancellor. Under her leadership UMD has undergone an unprecedented period of growth in size, academic stature and program development.

During Dr Martin's tenure in office, UMD total enrollment has grown from 7,500 in 1996 to 11,300 this current school year. Since 2000, twelve new buildings and major renovations have been completed, or are under construction. Several new degree programs have been added including Civil Engineering and two doctoral programs. This year UMD has submitted a legislative bonding request of $6.6 million to build an American Indian Learning Resource Center.

Martin said, "I have been honored to serve the UMD campus and am a fortunate person to play some small part to provide students and faculty with the facilities they need to do their best. Those buildings would not be that important without the quality of their inhabitants."

Kathleen Nelson became the second president of LSC in 1997. Under her leadership, enrollment has doubled to a current total of 5,521 students. She has been with the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MNSCU) system for 30 years.

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does anybody know is nonnie juice is ok for O's?
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all that has been discussed on noni juice.........enjoy!
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Noni was mentioned in Encyclopedia in Cancer
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ER Encyclopedia lists noni as blood group-
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hiya, thats great to know that noni is beneficial for me :) What about Mangosteen? anyone know? cheers x
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Daily Dothttp://www.dailydot.com/Daily Dot Articleen-usMon, 18 Mar 2013 21:53:15 +0000Indonesian ISPs accused of spying on usershttp://www.dailydot.com/news/indonesia-isp-spying-finspy-control-capture/

 The main Internet service providers in Indonesia are under investigation for spying on their own users.

 Tech in Asia is reporting that Telkom, Biznet, and Matrixnet Global are all under investigation by Indonesia’s information and communications technology (ICT) ministry for the use of FinSpy, a remote surveillance software that’s part of the FinFisher suite, which allows a remote user to capture information on targeted computers.

 According to “You Only Click Twice: FinFisher’s Global Proliferation,” a report by CitizenLab at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs, 25 countries have been found to host command-and-control servers for FinSpy, including Indonesia, the largest Islamic country and the fourth largest in the world.

 “FinFisher products are marketed and sold exclusively to law enforcement and intelligence agencies by the UK-based Gamma Group,” according to the Munk study.

 “Although touted as a ‘lawful interception’ suite for monitoring criminals, FinFisher has gained notoriety because it has been used in targeted attacks against human rights campaigners and opposition activists in countries with questionable human rights records.”

 These activists include Bahrainis, who have been targeted during the Arab Spring protests in that country.

 If the companies are found guilty of the spying, guilty parties could be sentenced to up to 15 years in prison under Indonesian law. According to Tech in Asia, a representative from one of the ISPs, Telkom, said the IP address identified as belonging to one of his company’s servers in reality belongs to a customer.

 Although no government involvement in the Indonesian cases has been established or asserted, the government of Indonesia itself is not innocent of censorship and filtering. In that context, the Munk study’s conclusion gives one pause.

 “(T)he increasing dissonance between Gamma’s public claims that FinSpy is used exclusively to track ‘bad guys’ and the growing body of evidence suggesting that the tool has and continues to be used against opposition groups and human rights activists.”

 In addition to Indonesia, command-and-control servers were found in Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Canada, Czech Republic, Estonia, Ethiopia, Germany, India, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Qatar, Serbia, Singapore, Turkmenistan, United Kingdom, United States, and Vietnam.

 It has disappeared from servers in Brunei, United Arab Emirates, Latvia and Mongolia, where it had previously been detected.

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The following are incredibly expert insights on the kinds of things you post on Facebook and what they say about you, and we're not saying that just because we were on Facebook at work and got caught and then we said it was research for a column, no sir.

1. You are a reactionary. You are the kind of person who is incensed and must reply to every post from your crazy uncle about his fear of gay, atheist, illegal immigrants with guns on welfare and who have leprosy who are going to take your job, even though every time you post a nuanced dissection of his post he only replies with, "THIS IS AMERICA!"

2. You are a troll. You post things just to get reactions from people. You revel in the reactions to your posts about your fake fear of gay, atheist, illegal immigrants with guns on welfare and who have leprosy who are going to take your job.

3. You are a drama queen. You have to tell everyone how there is a lady in front of you at the store who's buying way too many lottery tickets and you are going to be late for your haircut and your new iPad's batteries just ran down and there's no new episodes of "Downton Abbey" on Netflix and there's no olive in your martini and your Lexus's GPS was wrong that one time and your parents are embarrassing you on Facebook by posting old photos of you. You think Facebook is filled with pointless posts by others who don't share your understandable gripes about how your car seat warmer is not working properly. You preceded your sentences with "OMG," an obvious acronym for something we don't feel like googling right now.

4. You are needy. You like to share that you work too many hours and your boss is mean and nobody understands you and you've got the flu and your cat peed on your bed and your kids won't listen to you and your spouse doesn't shower and your taxi is late and your food is cold and there's a cloud over your shoulder raining only on you and people look at you funny at the store when you are in your pajamas buying five-hour energy drinks. Then you spend hours reading and liking all the posts from your friends posting unhappy emoticons and writing that things will get better. Then you'll write a ton of "Thank you guys!" posts, which will be followed by a post that your hands hurt from all the typing.

5. You are an over-sharer. You post tons of photos of your feet, your kids, your pets, your food and yourself. You change your profile picture all the time with self portraits taken at every bathroom you go to, because, obviously, bathrooms are the best destination in Cancun.

6. You don't know what platform you are in. If you are using hashtags and "@" signs and you are not even reposting from Twitter, #youAreDoingItWrong

7. You are too angry. The world is coming to an end. The economy is in shambles and everyone must know how incensed you are by all this and, thus, you are going to 'Like' causes because clicking on things ends world hunger.

8. You are too happy. You post photos of angels with inspirational quotes and sayings and advice from world figures you find online, like "Don't believe everything you see on the Internet - Abraham Lincoln."

9. You are lying. You accept all the event invites you get just to get them out of your notifications. You make a cake and tag all your friends in them as if they were there because you want them to see your cake.

10. You are not lying. It's not OK that your poop is green and it's not OK to share that on Facebook. You shouldn't have eaten that cake.

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The Mosselganger revealed! Kate Moss body double identified as American model and actress Natalie Morris

  • Morris is from Oregon but lives in LA, and is same height as Moss, 5ft 8ins
  • Signed to Storm model agency, same one as Moss and Cara Delevingne
  • Identity revealed online by British Vogue
  • Stood in for Moss in Stuart Weitzman commercial in London on Monday

When Kate Moss was spotted filming a new Stuart Weitzman advert in London this week, it wasn't just the fact she was wearing no knickers and no bra that caught everyone's attention.

The 39-year-old supermodel was trotting about with tousled hair, sporting a whisper-thin beige T-shirt, grey suede thigh-high boots and a cream shagpile coat.... as was her young body double.

Tongues have been wagging ever since, the fashion word abuzz with rumours as to who in the name of Karl Lagerfeld this Mosselganger was. And now we know.

The Kate-a-like has been revealed by British Vogue as Oregon-born, LA-based beauty Natalie Morris, who is signed to Storm agency, the same as Moss herself, Cindy Crawford and Cara Delevingne.

Spot the difference: Kate Moss was seen with a body double while filming an advert in London on Monday, and the model has now been revealed as Oregon-born Natalie Morris

A UK size eight, Natalie is 5ft 8ins - exactly the same height as Moss - and has green eyes, dark blonde hair, long legs and similarly well-defined cheekbones as her lookalike.

Spies at Vogue have unearthed juicy details about Natalie's acting career, too. Not only did she appear in Enrique Iglesias' music video Finally Found You as his hot and heavy love interest, but she has also popped up in TV shows including W, Portlandia and Smallville.

She has also been in comedies including Good Luck Chuck and The A List.

In her spare time she hangs out with her mother and her pet poodle Shabboo, reading 19th Century Russian literature, eating Persian food and collecting Chanel make-up, according to Facebook.

Watch this space.

Mosselganger: Natalie is signed to Storm modelling agency, the same one that looks after Kate Moss, Cindy Crawford and Cara Delevingne

Who wore it best? Kate did her best to give the younger model a run for her money

On show: Natalie Morris was more than happy for her coat to fall open to reveal her vest and knickers

The excitement surrounding Morris kicked off on Monday, when Kate, who rose to fame in the Nineties, stepped out by the restaurant Launceston Place to start filming she kept her body under wraps beneath a large white fur coat.

Apart from her thigh-high boots and a little bit of vest peeking out, Kate didn't appear to be wearing much else.

In fact she was wearing so little that she seemed to have forgotten her underwear as when she stepped out of the car she gave a little too much away beneath her flesh coloured tights, which she wore to create the illusion of flawless skin.

But unusually the star, who is married to Jamie Hince, came over all shy and left the majority of flashing to her body double.

100% Moss? Kate Moss in the Stuart Weitzman Fall Winter 2013 campaign shoot... but where does Kate end and Natalie begin?

Not giving it away: Kate seemed reluctant to open her coat and show her vest beneath

Sneak peak: As Kate got out of the car while filming her coat fell open to reveal her stomach

Too much: It seemed Kate was wearing just a pair of flesh coloured tights without any knickers on

Rising to the challenge of being Kate’s counterpart the fresh-faced model confidently strutted around with the fur coat wide open.

An onlooker who saw the filming taking place near Gloucester Road said: 'It's no surprise Kate had a body double on set as her skin appeared a little ropey. Much to everyone's surprise the usually confident Kate looked a little on the shy side.'

The appearance of a body double raised questions about just how often Kate's body has been replaced in recent campaigns.

Top of her game: It's surprising that the well-known model would choose to have someone act as her body double

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Happy new year! Van Persie, Murray and Haye send their messages as 2014 begins

Robin van Persie, Andy Murray and David Haye were among a number of sports stars who took to social networks to say 'happy new year'.

Boxer Haye posted a picture from Dubai of himself surrounded by four woman, saying: 'Happy new year from Dubai...xxx.'

Andy Murray may have a match to play on New Year's Day at the Qatar Open in Doha but that didn't stop him from joining in the celebrations, saying: 'Happy new year guys and girls! Hope 2014 works out well for you all.. best wishes from doha.'

Style: David Haye is surrounded by four women as he celebrates the new year in Dubai

Dressed up: Andy Murray (right) and fitness trainer Matt Little celebrate the new year in Doha

Message: Manchester United striker Robin van Persie posted this picture on his Twitter feed

Robin van Persie also wished his Twitter followers a happy new year. The Manchester United striker will miss the New Year's Day match against Tottenham Hotspur.

England legend Gary Lineker took in the fireworks in London from The Shard, while Australian cricketer David Warner enjoyed the spectacular display in Sydney ahead of the fifth and final Ashes Test.

Fulham's Bryan Ruiz and Everton striker Arouna Kone also sent their best wishes for 2014.

Good view: England legend Gary Lineker celebrated new year from The Shard in London

Lit up: David Warner brings in 2014 in Sydney with girlfriend Candice Falzon (right) and her friend

Posing: Fulham's Bryan Ruiz (right) celebrates the new year with friends

We are family: Everton striker Arouna Kone brought in 2014 with his children

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Date day with my boys: Danielle Lloyd beams with pride as she takes sons Archie and Harry to The Lorax premiere

He's her little miracle and the family were overjoyed to celebrate Harry's first birthday last week.

And today Danielle Lloyd treated the on-year-old and her eldest son to a trip to the cinema to watch the premiere of The Lorax in Birmingham today.

The 28-year-old model looked every inch the proud mummy as she walked the orange carpet carrying Harry while holding Archie's hand.

Me and my boys: Danielle Lloyd took her two sons to the premiere of The Lorax in Birmingham today

The Liverpudlian stepped out in a summery style for the screening of the children's film at Cineworld Birmingham.

Danielle showed off her trim pins in a pair of beige shorts which she teamed with a cream sleeveless blouse with an embellished collar.

The brunette had her locks pulled back from her face with a half pony tail.

Yummy mummy: The 28-year-old looked lovely in a pair of beige shorts and a cream blouse as she treated her boys to a fun day out

Last week Danielle and her husband Jamie O'Hara celebrated their son turning one.

She tweeted: 'Happy 1st birthday to my little miracle Harry so strong love him with all my heart!' she said.

Little Harry weighed just 4lbs 4oz when he was born 10 weeks early in July 2011.

What a fun day out, sort of : While Harry appeared exhausted Archie didn't look too impressed with his face paint

He then spent five weeks under special care before Danielle and her husband, Tottenham Hotspurs footballer Jamie O'Hara, could take him home.

Danielle wasn't the only WAG in attendance at the screening Chantelle Tagoe was seen with her fiancé Emile Heskey, their two children, and his three children from a previous relationship.

The film's star Danny DeVito also attended the event today and waved to fans as he made his way up the carpet.

The flick, which is based on Dr. Seuss' children's book of the same name opens in cinemas in the UK on July 27.

Big brood: Emile Heskey and fiancée Chantelle Tagoe took their children and his three children from a former relationship to the screening

Corc horror: The film's star Danny DeVito was seen on the orange carpet in some unsightly footwear

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Analysts have valued the company at $9 billion

Rovio Entertainment, the creator of the popular mobile game Angry Birds, is looking to go public in 2013 after a knockout 2011.

Rovio, which was founded in 2003, is looking at an initial public offering (IPO) next year in either New York or Hong Kong. Analysts have valued the company at $9 billion.

The Finnish video game developer launched Angry Birds in 2009, and has seen massive success ever since. The game has seen over 800 million downloads, and had 200 million active users monthly by the end of 2011.

Back in March, Rovio unleashed its latest Angry Birds release alongside NASA engineers called Angry Birds Space. In the first 35 days of launch, Angry Birds Space hit 50 million downloads, making it the fastest growing mobile game ever. The game allows PC, Mac, iOS and Android users to launch various types of birds at the green pigs using a whole new set of moves based on a zero-gravity environment. It offers 60 levels with six new characters and powers.

But Rovio's success doesn't end at the Angry Birds games. Last year, Rovio said one million plush toys and one million Angry Birds T-shirts were being sold on a monthly basis. In addition, the game was locked into a film deal with 20th Century Fox, where Rovio was able to release an Angry Birds "Rio" version based on the 2011 children's movie.

In 2011, Rovio's profit before tax was at $48 million on sales of $99 million. This was a huge boost from 2010's revenues of about $10 million. Rovio also raised $42 million from venture capital firms last year.

According to the Angry Birds maker, 2012 is expected to look just as good. Rovio plans to release many more Angry Birds and non-Angry Birds-related titles, and is aided by an increased cell phone sales outlook. The company has also placed large investments in branding, brand protection and product development.

"2012 looks fantastic," said Mikael Hed, Rovio CEO. "We have had some very strong download numbers over four months."

Rovio hasn't mentioned any other specifics regarding the upcoming IPO, but Rovio head of Investor Relations Anders Lindeberg said the company is preparing itself for a 2013 IPO.

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The Benghazi attack and the echoes of Tanzania and Kenya

Listening to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testify to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the Benghazi, Libya attack and State Department security overseas reminded me of time I spent in Africa in 2000 and a conversation I had with a middle-level career diplomat about appalling security at state department facilities.

 We chatted in a state department property in Maputo, Mozambique about the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya.  That morning in Kenya ,he was giving a morning briefing and usually stood up during the presentation. But for some reason, he decided to remain seated. The explosion blew out windows and he would have been stuck by hundreds of glass shards -- and possibly killed -- had he been standing. As it was, he lost many Kenyan friends who were closer to the blast.

 His takeaway was that diplomats walk the fine line between being accessible to the local citizenry -- a key role of diplomats -- and being extremely vulnerable to attack. His chief complaint was the U.S. Congress has had a long history of underfunding security -- partly because of tight budgets and partly because lawmakers don't really understand the risks diplomats take when they do their jobs. I am sure that security has improved in some countries, but here are the facts -- the host country has to protect U.S. diplomats and there isn't enough money to provide top-flight security in the form of military guards and fortified walls in every corner of the world.

In the sense that the buck should always stop at the top, Secretary Clinton is right to take the blame for not adequately protecting U.S.personnel in the Sept. 11 attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. But the issue is more complex than the Congressional second guessing of "what did the administration know and when did it know it."


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Carl's Jr. to Expand in Texas. After That, Carl's Jr. to Expand Texas.

Dunno, maybe I shoulda gone into the burger biz -- still time, I guess. Because while there's a Carl's Jr. on damned near every block in Los Angeles, there are only three in the Dallas area -- and just one in Dallas proper, at 8800 S. Polk Street. But today comes word that the burger chain's looking to take over Texas by "opening at least 121 Carl's Jr. restaurants in Texas over the next 10 years," with many of those, of course, due to pop up in the DFW. (Again, in 10 years. Or, the time it takes to finish off a Big Al's Monster Burger.) Carl's Jr.'s parent company has signed a franchise agreement with something called RWJP Star Enterprises, which will spearhead the expansion in Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston and so forth.

I know Paris Hilton digs Carl's Jr. burgers. Just trying to remember if I liked 'em back when I briefly lived in L.A. in the mid-1990s. No, wait, that was Fatburger. But that Whataburger I had last week, for the first time since, like, high school? Not gonna lie. Kind of amazing. --Robert Wilonsky

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After the Dallas Chocolate Conference, a Word With Two of Its Chocolate Magicians

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Three words: Dallas. Chocolate. Conference. Just the thought of all that chocolate got me ready to get busy eating. Then I got busy lying down. And I was sweaty. But it's not what you think.

We've all heard of the meat sweats, but Saturday afternoon, at the Dallas Chocolate Conference at Addison Conference Centre, I experienced my first encounter with what I can only imagine were the chocolate sweats. I haven't seen a doctor, but I believe it resulted from too much of a very, very, very good thing.

To find out what went into all that chocolate, I sat down with, well, with my computer, to type some questions that would be read and subsequently answered by two conference participants: chocolate maker Art Pollard of Amano Artisan Chocolate and chocolatier Andrea Pedraza or cocoandré as they sat at their own computers in Utah and Oak Cliff, respectively.

First, a quick lesson in chocolate maker versus chocolatier: the two are different, in that chocolate makers create chocolate from the harvested raw materials, and chocolatiers craft that pure chocolate into delicious little things like truffles, bark, bars and bonbons. See? I actually learned something at the conference.

Anyway, here's what Art and Andrea had to say:

FB: Tell me a bit about your product and why it's so special. Art Pollard: At Amano Artisan Chocolate, we import the world's rarest and most flavorful cocoa beans which we use to make our chocolate from scratch. We work directly with the farmers and pay them handsomely for their very best cocoa. It is amazing when you taste high-quality chocolate made from cocoa grown by farmers who are the top of their craft; it is a completely different experience than what most people are used to. Andrea Pedraza: Ingredients. It starts with top quality chocolate and natural flavors and is handmade daily. This ensures freshness.

FB: What made you want to showcase your chocolate wares at the Dallas Chocolate Conference? Art: There is a great food community here in Dallas. I had the wonderful opportunity to come and exhibit here last year and I was amazed at how much people in and around Dallas love their food -- especially chocolate. Andrea: It is an honor to be able to share what I do with the people who care about chocolate.

FB: What are you most looking forward to during your trip to Dallas? Art: Texas Barbeque!

FB: What do you bring to the table that nobody else does? Art: There are many who say that they use the very best ingredients, but it is rare that it is actually true. Andrea: I named my business CocoAndre Chocolatier, the art of chocolate, because I believe that chocolate is like a canvas and what artisanal chocolatiers do with it is our art.

FB: What do you eat when you're not eating chocolate? Art: I am, of course, a huge fan of anything spelled D-E-S-S-E-R-T. Andrea: Pasta, green salad ... and chocolate cake.

FB: What, do you think, is so unique about working/living in Oak Cliff? Andrea: I love that I know most of my customers by name and when I'm out and about people actually wave or stop and say hello. It's like living in a small town; a melting pot of people who get along and really know one another.

FB: And Utah? What's up with that place?! Art: The dry climate and high altitude of the mountains of Utah help us make our chocolate even better. Only 10-15 years ago, Utah used to be the bastion of all-you-can-eat restaurants. Today, we have an incredible food community with a number of foods that have won national and international awards. We are proud to be part of this exciting food movement.

FB: If you could sum up your product in one word, what would that word be? Art: Absoutely Delicious! Oh, wait, that's two words! Andrea: Heavenonearth. That's one word.

Couldn't agree more. In fact, it reminds me: I've got some leftover chocolates to attend to.

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Finance ministers of the 17-state euro bloc gather just 10 days before the EU’s 27 leaders meet in Brussels, with recent market calm giving them some breathing room after months of turmoil and anxiety over Spain’s future. The meeting will see the formal launch and inaugural board meeting of the European Stability Mechanism, a key step forward in the eurozone’s defences against the debt crisis which has helped push the bloc back into recession.

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s export to United States surged by 49 per cent in the year 2012 from a year ago under the duty free Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) programme.

The US GSP provides duty free access to 3,500 products from Pakistan and 127 other countries. The total import value of US GSP was $19.9 billion in the year 2012.

But the share of Pakistan’s in US total GSP imports is $129 million during the year under review, which is still much below the potential to avail the facility.

During a seminar for members of Pakistani business community, senior officials from the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) here on Wednesday explained how Pakistani exporters can further take advantage of duty-free access to America.

Deputy Assistant Trade Representative Bill Jackson through a live video conference told participants at Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry that Pakistan can grow its duty-free exports to the United States even more. Pakistan exported $3.6bn worth of goods to the United States in 2012, yet only 5.7pc of that amount took advantage of the duty-free treatment available under the GSP Program.

USTR identified all GSP-eligible products and highlighted how Pakistani exporters who are actively looking for potential US buyers can use GSP to increase their exports to the United States.

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Pakistan’s top GSP exports to US in 2012 also include plastics in primary forms and semi-finished and finished products worth $29.8m, followed by $21.1m sugar and sugar confectionery; $19.7m tool and cutlery made of base metals; $13.1m textile articles, used textiles and rags and $10.1m leather goods.

Jackson advised Pakistani exporters of GSP-eligible products that there are several ways to make the most of the available tariff advantage.

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In 2012, unnecessary duties were paid on GSP-eligible products from Pakistan, such as leather sports gloves, mittens, and mitts; certain non-cotton pillows, cushions, and similar furnishings, he explained.

Pakistani exporters in major business hubs including Karachi, Islamabad, Gujrat, Peshawar, Faisalabad, and Sialkot attended this live video-conference presentation by USTR at the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan in Karachi and at many chambers of commerce and industry across Pakistan.

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This was the advice given by US trade experts during a meeting held at the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) here on Wednesday.

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The experts said that US imports from Pakistan stands at around $3.6bn which includes imports of $195m made through GSP which stands 5pc of total imports.

There is an urgent need to diversify exports from Pakistan by capturing new trade opportunities for creating jobs. Around 3,500 different products from Pakistan are eligible to enter the US duty-free under the GSP programme.

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CREATED: 08/17/11 by vatriathlete REPLIES: 10
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Swimming during triathlons, attitudes while doing it
POSTED: 8/17/11 3:57 PM

Ok here is my question, what is your folks opinion on ettiquette during the swim portion of the race meaning the normal incidental contact that is bound to happen during the swim? What do you do in return?

From numerous race reports in the past couple of years from both experienced and new triathlets, many people have been either blatantly or very subtly saying that you should be agressive during the swim, meaning that if you get inadvertently kicked or swam into during the swim that you should "fight back" or "swim offensively" which means "punch elbow" or "give it back to people" basically hit the other person intentionally (meaning there is no accident in the matter at all) whether it be a punch, kick, elbow.

From the experienced and newbie triathletes do you think this approach is necessary and needed with the sport now?

If you think it is necessary why?

Do you think that this type of behavior will make the sport safer in the long run?

morunner66's ravatar morunner66    JOINED: 2/28/09    POSTS: 728
RE: Swimming during triathlons, attitudes while doing it
POSTED: 8/17/11 4:27 PM

As in Basketball - elbows up and remain in a defensive position and just keep swimming.

abbyjs's ravatar abbyjs    JOINED: 4/7/09    POSTS: 699
RE: Swimming during triathlons, attitudes while doing it
POSTED: 8/17/11 4:46 PM

The swim portion is both my nemesis and my excitement. I am *NOT* a fast swimmer, and on a good day, I'm in the bottom half to come out of the water. On a bad day (which hasn't happened since last season), I hyperventilate and panic. Boo. And still: I love that I can and will just jump in a river and start swimmin'.

Frankly, people disregarding my safety in the water pisses me off. I'm often so focused (or trying to be!) while swimming, that someone else's decision to ignore me, swim over me, clobber me--and then just keep on going--has caused me to react quite poorly. I almost always retaliate, and I almost always regret it.

At those moments, when I'm in the water, trying so hard to stay focused and calm and NOT hyperventilate, to keep a rhythm, to remember that I *am a good swimmer* I wish SO MUCH that the DUDES in the WAVE BEHIND ME would have a smidgen of consideration for anyone other than themselves.

But, instead of condoning my own bad behavior (calf-grabbing I think is my worst confession, swearing more common), I would like to plead with the fast, competitive swimmers to reconsider clobbering others in the first place.

This is also where I make an open plea to race directors: do not put the Elite Wave of triathletes doing a Sprint Race *directly behind* the "old lady wave" of the Oly. thankssomuch.

ncrcoach's ravatar ncrcoach    JOINED: 2/28/09    POSTS: 1101
RE: Swimming during triathlons, attitudes while doing it
POSTED: 8/18/11 10:28 AM

Anytime someone brings up a swimming topic, I have to chime in. Not bragging here, but I find myself being an expert when swimming in the open water (expert - yes, but not super fast). My sighting is pretty good and I easily stay on course when I swim. A lot this has to do with practice and exposure in the open water. After having been a beach lifeguard for two summers and heading to Sandy Point even in April, I prefer the open water to the pool anytime.

In no such manner, would I condone intentional contact with another swimmer. To me, it's like spitting on someone during the run or drafting off someone on the bike. Yeah, of course, you're gonna get smacked in the head, swam over by someone or even kicked in the face where your goggles are. And that is not fun when you wear Swedish goggles that don't have padding. It's gonna happen.

People just need to remember that we are all out there trying to do that same thing and sportsmanship is a huge part of it. That's what I teach my students and athletes.

bcfrank's ravatar bcfrank    JOINED: 3/23/09    POSTS: 1098
RE: Swimming during triathlons, attitudes while doing it
POSTED: 8/18/11 11:05 AM

Granted in all of this, I can only speak for myself and how I view the swim, but as one of the faster swimmers in a race, I try not to be aggressive toward other swimmers, only aggressive in how I try to swim my race. It is a race after all, and us stronger swimmers have to build up any amount of lead we can to hold up during our weaker legs of cycling and running. :::^)::

But having said that, Justin's point of "inadvertent" kicks or hits is often overlooked. Just because a faster swim runs over someone doesn't always make it an aggressive offense to the slower swimmer. I have been in a couple races where a slower swimmer just up and stopped right in front of me. Would it be my fault for running into them? I have also tried to swim between two slower swimmers only to have one or both veer into me. I'm still trying to figure out how a swimmer at Lake Placid hit me on the left side of my face even though he was swimming on my right side.

I think intentional aggressive actions by people in triathlon do not occur that often. There are some Type-A a-holes out there who do swim aggressively, but I believe most of the contact between swimmers is unintentional. In almost all races (except the Ironman), you're going off in waves with your competition (your age group), so any people the faster swimmers pass from waves ahead are not even "real" competition. As well, even if a faster swimmer catches someone from a wave ahead and goes on to finish the race at the exact same time, they will realize that they have an overall lead given the wave start difference. Faster swimmers know this and it's not really to their advantage to act aggressively toward other swimmers from other waves.

If I were to really to slam into someone, then I would actually take a moment to apologize. But some minor contact is expected in triathlon, so I don't bother to stop if the contact seemed incidental to me. It's a race and you're in open water. Contact is going to happen.

So then the question is, what's worse: the inadvertent contact by a faster swimmer or the intentional retaliation by a slower swimmer?

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RE: Swimming during triathlons, attitudes
POSTED: 8/18/11 11:33 AM

glad that someone brought up the posting above.

i truly believe that most of the contact in triathlon swims are unitentional.

afterall sighting and swimming in a straight line even for great swimmers is much harder than running/cycling in a straight line even for beginners. so contact will happen even by the best people if for no other reason there are no lane lines and the swims with 1500-2500 people in the water are bound to get crowded as everyone is trying to sight on the same line, afterall we see how crowded the runs and bike course are the swims are no different and tougher to see in top it off.

what i think is that maybe people both experienced swimmers and beginners have to realize that the triathlon swim is a contact sport, not in the sense of it should be approached like boxing or football, but more like motorcycle racing, in that you are not really allowed to contact others but it happens in the course of racing and as long as its inadvertent and doesn't cause an real injury its sorta ok and really agressive actions are not only penalized but dangerious to both parties.

i think a lot of the triathlon contact is not intentional and there are techniques to avoid or mitigate getting hit in th first place that are not only legal but safe for all around that need to be learned by all.

besides i think the faster swimmres will agree they really don't like swimming over or contacting slower swimmers because it actually slows them down in the process and throws off their swim stroke, and they may get hit by mistake in teh process too. so it really doesn't help them too much.

Also, for the record i have been swam over by many faster women at races and its not any more pleasant than when i'm swam over by a faster male swimmer. The saying of "speed is speed" applies.

I personally view any sort of intentional acts that may be truly harmful, such as punches/elbows/kicks to the face and body as very unsportsmanlike and extremely dangerous in the swim.

I agee we all have to be a little more courteous during the swim, faster and slower swimmers alike, as i am in the latter group.

RAFTRI's ravatar RAFTRI    JOINED: 12/22/10    POSTS: 27
RE: Swimming during triathlons, attitudes while doing it
POSTED: 8/18/11 11:38 AM

Having competed in triathlons at all levels up to Age Group Worlds I have had a lot of experience in Open Water Swims and I have found myself both at the front, the back and in amongst the main group during a swim. In my early races as an inexperienced swimmer I once got caught in the "washing machine" area which really spooked me....I ended up on my back gasping for air and trying to get back into some sort of rythm to even complete the swim. That taught me to be very careful when positioning myself on the start line, safety and comfort often overruling race position and speed.
As I became more confident I took more risks and entered the mix with the Big Boys, this resulted in kicks in the face, wetsuit zips getting pulled and generally lots of physical contact. This is what I came to expect, but at the same time I never retaliated, I just accepted it as part of the race. I have swum over weaker swimmers at the start of a race....thats what happened to me and I learnt from it....get in a safe position for your ability of swimming. It is just the same as the person who stands at the front of a road race start line dressed in a Transformers outfit....he will get pushed out of the way and will ultimately be back with the runners who run at his pace!
Strong swimming technique and some physical contact do not justify pulling legs and deliberately punching others around you. The two girls from the wave behind me, at the recent Rocketts Landing triathlon were fast swimmers and the fact that they sandwiched me 100m from the finish didn't really bother me, I just carried on in a straight line and within a few strokes they had gone, no unnecassary physical contact and only fractions of a second lost by all three of us! If you catch up with a slower wave you should be able to swim around peole as they are usually spread out by then, this was very ably demonstarted with the time trial start at the DC Tri, everyone was spread out and there was very little physical contact.
Experience is a great thing and the more experience you have the better you will fare in Open Water Swimming with lots of people around you.

suzkinsky's ravatar suzkinsky    JOINED: 2/28/09    POSTS: 121
RE: Swimming during triathlons, attitudes while doing it
POSTED: 8/18/11 5:15 PM

I've lost count, but x2 on what most people here have said. Strong swimmers are usually skilled at not only swimming but also sighting and maneuvering in the water and, as such, usually have a pretty good handle on the location and speed of the competitors surrounding them. Weaker and/or newer swimmers typically haven't mastered this skill as they are devoting most of their concentration to what's going on with their own stroke and their own body. (I say this benignly, as a generalization, acknowledging that there are plenty of people on both the strong and weak side for whom this doesn't apply.)

Strong swimmers (assuming they are good sportspeople) will always try to avoid swimming into and over another swimmer. Always. It helps neither the stronger swimmer nor the slower swimmer to run into someone. And it's usually not hard to do - if I pick my head up and can see a way around you, I will take it. Unfortunately, despite best efforts, collisions do occur. People swim crooked (strong and weak swimmers like); swimmers sometime appear out of nowhere; people stop to tread water; etc.

But as I'm a fast swimmer and an only average biker and runner, I'm going to swim that first leg as fast as I possibly can, which means I'm going to be gunning it through prior waves. While my pace is intentionally aggressive, my behavior toward my fellow athletes is not. It's unfortunate that it can be interpreted that way. During one race many years ago, I was neck and neck for first place in my wave the entire way, swimming right next to my competitor. Toward the end of the race we made contact with another swimmer - he was swimming quite slow and we overtook him in between sights so he seemed to appear out of nowhere. As I swam by, he stopped swimming, screamed "Bitch!" at me, and punched me - hard - in the kidneys. So let's please don't label just the strong swimmers as aggressive.

abbyjs's ravatar abbyjs    JOINED: 4/7/09    POSTS: 699
RE: Swimming during triathlons, attitudes while doing it
POSTED: 8/18/11 9:53 PM

I don't think an argument between strong swimmers and weak swimmers is a good idea. I think it will always devolve into "Why did you clobber me?" and "You weren't swimming straight and I couldn't avoid clobbering you."

It seems people are trying to place blame--without directly pointing a finger--on either the stronger or weaker swimmers for the "incidental" contact.

I don't think it can be generalized.

Without question, each episode of contact is unique.

Without question, there are times when it is absolutely one person's fault and absolutely not another's. Without question, it is sometimes the faster swimmer's fault, and sometimes the slower swimmer's fault.

There is no singular explanation or rule. There is only awareness--of ourselves and of each other. My hope is that this conversation will for each of us, increase our awareness in the water.

I know I would not feel that rush of anger, that swell of panic if--for once--someone who clobbered me seemed even REMOTELY aware of what they had done.

I know that I will do my best both for my own race and for those around me to avoid any contact with others. I hope you are committed to the same!

HappyRunner's ravatar HappyRunner    JOINED: 1/15/11    POSTS: 281
RE: Swimming during triathlons, attitudes while doing it
POSTED: 8/18/11 10:42 PM

From a newbie's perspective, this has been an amazing thread. It never dawned on me that any contact I've experienced was intentional. I just chalked it up to close quarters and lots of people. Then I read this thread and a Lake Placcid race report talking about punching guys on purpose like a jackhammer. I'm really stunned and a bit disillusioned.

slowtwitchva's ravatar slowtwitchva    JOINED: 2/18/10    POSTS: 207
RE: Swimming during triathlons, attitudes while doing it
POSTED: 8/19/11 8:42 AM

I wish race co-ordinators would organize swim waves according to previously recording swim times, grouping the faster swimmers together and sending them out earlier in a race. Maybe this would avoid any unnecessary roughness.

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"We're green and we can prove it"

Up to now, you pretty much had to take 3PLs' sustainability claims on faith. A new IWLA initiative aims to change that.

By Peter Bradley

Skeptics once may have considered the movement toward sustainable practices in American business to be a temporary detour from business as usual. To make those practices, well, sustainable, they argued, required more than a social conscience. They required a payoff on the bottom line.

That is exactly what has happened. Companies that have embraced sustainability and implemented new practices and technologies in a careful and rational fashion have realized not only environmental and social benefits but financial benefits as well.

"Companies are starting to recognize that things can be done be in a sustainable way ... that could save money and affect the bottom line," says Richard Bank, a director of the Washington, D.C.-based Sustainable Supply Chain Foundation. The organization supports research to identify best practices and technologies aimed at furthering sustainable practices in supply chains.

The companies that continue to take the initiative to adopt sustainable practices and programs across their supply chains are some of the biggest names in international business—companies like Walmart, UPS, and W.W. Grainger.

Now, a major trade group for third-party logistics service providers (3PLs) has joined the cause. Earlier this year, the International Warehouse Logistics Association (IWLA) announced its own program. Called the Sustainable Logistics Initiative, the new program was developed by IWLA in concert with the Sustainable Supply Chain Foundation.

IWLA says the new initiative is the first of its kind. It is not a certification program like LEED, the U.S. Green Building Council's accreditation program, but rather a way for participants to demonstrate their progress toward more sustainable operations. The initiative is designed specifically for warehouses and DCs, not broader transportation and logistics companies. "One of the commonalities of our 500 or so members is that we all operate big warehouse boxes," says IWLA chairman Linda Hothem. "Our focus is inside the box."

Making change, box by box
IWLA announced its initiative in July and subsequently made it available to its membership base. Hothem, who is CEO of Pacific American Group and a senior adviser to Matson Global Distribution Services Inc., says the idea grew out of conversations among the group's executive committee members about the market's increasing interest in all things green.

Third-party service providers are seeing growing demands from customers and potential customers for evidence of sustainability efforts, says Bank. "Companies big and small are asking and in some cases demanding that [3PLs] have sustainability programs before issuing a contract," he says. "This program will give customers some sense of assurance that 3PLs are engaged in sustainability."

Conversations on how to demonstrate that opened the door to developing the program. "We were bemoaning the fact that the industry did not have any metrics [on sustainability]," Hothem says. "The construction industry had LEED, but in logistics, we really don't have any of those metrics or any sort of certification process. We decided to take the initiative to determine what the logical metrics would be."

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Although the program started out as a green initiative, its scope has since expanded beyond environmental stewardship. Hothem credits Dale Rogers, a professor at Rutgers University who has conducted numerous studies on sustainable supply chains, with persuading the group to adopt a broader focus. "Dale steered us away from 'green' and steered us into the sustainability camp," she says. The difference: While green initiatives focus primarily on carbon footprint issues, sustainability also takes into account social responsibility and corporate good citizenship.

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Enrollment in the new program is done on a facility-by-facility basis. Participants first fill out an online questionnaire for each facility they want to register, providing data on energy use, recycling, water consumption, community service, and more. A representative from the Sustainable Supply Chain Foundation will then visit the facility to verify those numbers.

Once the responses have been validated, the numbers provide the benchmarks against which subsequent performance improvements are measured. Facilities will be able to achieve silver, gold, or platinum status by demonstrating progress against their own benchmarks. The program does not use cross-industry—or even cross-company—comparisons.

Hothem explains that this allows for the wide variance in warehouse operations—for instance, energy use for refrigerated warehouses would vary markedly from non-refrigerated buildings. "There are so many variables, it's hard to measure one against another," she says. By allowing members to establish their own benchmarks, the Sustainable Logistics Initiative sidesteps those issues, she says. "You'll measure what you've done on your own rather than versus what your neighbor does."

Immediate benefits
As for the program's cost, ILWA members pay a $200 enrollment fee for the first facility and $50 for each subsequent site. There's an additional $1,000 charge for the assessment by the Sustainable Supply Chain Foundation.

Although the program carries a cost, IWLA leaders believe the initiative will lead to immediate benefits for members. It will allow them to tout their participation in an industry best-practices initiative. And as facilities achieve specific sustainability goals, they can promote their newly attained silver, gold, or platinum status.

Left unsaid, but likely equally important as more business adopt sustainability goals, is that the members can assure their old and new customers that they, too, are on board with the movement.

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Peter Bradley is an award-winning career journalist with more than three decades of experience in both newspapers and national business magazines. His credentials include seven years as the transportation and supply chain editor at Purchasing Magazine and six years as the chief editor of Logistics Management.

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HPS759 - Issues in Professional Organisational Psychology

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This unit will prepare students for professional practice, ensuring they are familiar with ethical, legal and professional practice requirements and responsibilities. The unit covers: the requirements for National registration as a psychologist, requirements of the APS College of Organisational Psychologists, the APS Code of Ethics; issues involved in working with other professionals; the particular role of the organisational/industrial psychologist in different professional contexts; legal issues, including equity and equal opportunity and safety legislation. Furthermore, students will examine the different ways organisations communicate including organisational strategy and values.

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