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A pilot study by Harold P. Katner, M.D., of Mercer University School of Medicine in Macon, Ga., and colleagues assessed the durability of HIV-1 virologic suppression in persons who changed from a lopinavir/ritonavir-based triple highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) regimen once or twice a day to lopinavir/ritonavir monotherapy once daily. This was an observational cohort study to determine the proportion of subjects who sustained virologic suppression through the 48th week following their switch to the daily lopinavir/ritonavir monotherapy. Researchers presented the study at IDWeek 2012, a joint meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), the Society for Health and Epidemiology of America (SHEA), the HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA), and the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (PIDS).
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Maybe this guy is the next Belichick, but that is his resume, that's the guy SOJF who want Rex gone would be ok with?Tomsula has "only" been coaching since 1998, but something about him strikes me as head coaching material. He commands the respect of players, and with the right staff supporting him, I have a hunch he could be an excellent head coach. And of course, he has a 1-0 career record as an NFL head coach, so there's always that!
Good grief, Heckert even looks like Tanny. Bad sign.
So basically the open jobs are carolina, jets, chargers, arizona and jacksonville.
Candidates are gamble, ross, heckert, caldwell and ???
I dont see it happening, but i honestly would be ok with heckert...he built a strong locker room in Cleveland and found some mid round talent in mitchell schwartz and specifically jabaal sheard.
If Ross goes with carolina and heckert to Arizona with Reid, then that leaves Caldwell and Gamble for us. Going to get dicey if one of these guys gets scooped up by jacks or SD.
I'd take Gamble and Tomsula over some slouch and Rex.
As for Heckert, his problem in Cleveland isn't their draft history, but rather their free agent pursuing. They have had a top 10 defense the last few years, alongside the best LT and a top five C and now Richardson, but they've never had anything at WR until this season, or at QB, and Weeden is still a question mark that is now, without Schumur, blowing in the wind. That team wasn't far off this season. Even though they went 5-11 I believe they lost 6 or 7 games by a touchdown or less.
Then again, Heckert's also the guy who passed on RGIII and Julio Jones, who could have had this Cleveland team at 11-5.
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Its almost the same as saying Marc Ross wouldn't have to uproot his family if he went to the Panthers except that SD and SF happen to be in the same state.
He's a product of bad coaching. Brought in the likes of Gordon, Richardson, Haden, and etc. He wouldn't be a bad hire with decent cap space.
I still think the Rams got the better end of that deal; time will tell.
Edit: there was article in Cleveland that alluded to the fact that the previous owner didn't want them spending big money on free agents so the books were relatively clean for whoever he sold the team to.
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Ross sucks... Look at those drafts. People are just so blind to results and ignore the fact that Ross lucked into having Eli at QB.
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Curran, who will face McCloy in a primary on Sept. 10, held the first event, a campaign kickoff at Rockville Centre's Dunns River Lounge on Aug. 8. The Jamaican bar and eatery, which is owned by Curran's Baldwin neighbor Naala Royale, was packed to capacity with supporters, including county executive candidate Tom Suozzi and Village of Hempstead Mayor Wayne J. Hall.
Suozzi spoke on behalf of Curran, who previously worked in communications for Nassau County. He called the Board of Education trustee and former editor of the Baldwin Herald "one of the strongest members of the Democratic ticket," and predicted she would bring energy and an ability to build consensus to the Legislature.
The New York League of Conservation Voters and the Long Island Federation of Labor also recently endorsed Curran, 45, a mother of three and a former reporter for the New York Post and the Daily News. "Laura Curran is the environmental advocate that District 5 deserves," NYLCV President Marcia Bystryn said in a release. "Her knowledge concerning environmental issues in Nassau County proves her capability for the job."
Curran cites Republican mismanagement and the need for new ideas as the cornerstones of her campaign. "Nassau County is a great place to live, work and raise a family," she said. "I want to do everything I can to preserve all the good things while making sure we're on solid financial ground. Under the current Republican leadership, the county has had three bond downgrades and we're mired in debt. We need a fresh start."
Information on the Curran campaign is available at www.lauracurran2013.com.
Just a few days after the Curran launch, Pugliese, a 23-year resident of Baldwin and a marketing manager for the ParSal Vending Co., opened the doors of her campaign headquarters.


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As the academic year came to a close at colleges and universities across the country, the University of Montana Western began preparing for an influx of college students coming to study the unique geology surrounding the Dillon, Mont. campus.
Nearly 20 colleges and universities are scheduled to use Montana Western as a base camp to study the area's geology over the summer, staying in the campus dormitories and eating meals in Montana Western's dining services. The classes depart from the Montana Western campus daily to explore and study the myriad geologic points of interest within a stone's throw of town.
For 20 years visiting groups have also stayed in the Birch Creek Center located just northwest of Dillon in the heart of the Pioneer Mountains. Montana Western manages the Birch Creek Center in cooperation with the U.S. Forest Service.
This year's visiting universities include the University of Montana, Millsaps College, the University of Iowa, Texas A&M, Idaho State University, Washington State University, Montana State University, the University of Arkansas, Georgia State University, California State University Fullerton, Montana Tech, Salem State University, West Virginia University, Eastern Washington University, the University of Washington, the University of Houston, the University of Texas, and the University of Oregon.
University of Oregon (UO) Structural Geology Senior Instructor and Research Associate Professor Marli Miller has been bringing her students to Montana Western for four years. For Miller, locations for teaching geology and geologic mapping don't get any better.
"Geologically, it's fabulous," Miller said of the area. "Most of the significant elements of North American geology are right here."
In 2010, Miller brought a class of juniors and seniors to Dillon to study mapping. Geological mapping studies the distribution of different types of rock on the surface of the earth. Geologists use this data to piece together a "reconstruction" of geologic history in a particular area.
The area around Dillon is famous because so many unique geologic formations are well exposed, making mapping much easier. The area is also ideal because much of the best geologic areas are on public land. Miller calls the Block Mountain area north of Dillon "world-class." "
Block Mountain is very accessible," Miller explained. "It's also a really beautiful place where we see several generations of faults and folds. The rocks are complexly deformed, but at the same time very well exposed and easily distinguished from each other."
Miller said her students' experiences studying geology around Dillon gives them incomparable experience.
"First-time students really have to think for themselves in the field," Miller explained. "They will probably never see a place as comparable. When they've finished with Block Mountain they've created a really beautiful map they can show to employers. When they finish this class they're geologists."
University of Oregon graduate Sammy Castonguay, 25, can attest to Miller's assertion. He first came to Dillon with Miller as a student in 2009. Castonguay had a moment of geologic clarity while standing on a ridge near Block Mountain looking at "The Rat's Nest," a gnarled mess of folded and faulted sedimentary rock.
"It's so complicated in that area that when you figure it out for yourself and draw it on your map it feels like such a success," Castonguay said.
Castonguay's experience compelled him to return in 2010 as a teacher's assistant to Professor Miller, who also shares another connection with Montana Western: she was a fellow teaching assistant and office mate with Montana Western Professor of Geology Rob Thomas at the University of Washington in 1989. The two studied together during a University of Washington geology field camp. While Miller headed south to begin teaching at UO, Thomas headed east, taking a tenure-track professor position at Vassar College in New York. Thomas eventually left Vassar for Montana Western in part based on the geology surrounding Dillon. For Thomas and his students, the world-class geology around Dillon is their backyard laboratory.
"It is great for geology students in the environmental science and interpretation programs at Montana Western to have this natural lab in their backyard," Thomas explained. "Since we use the block-scheduling system [in which students take one class at a time] we are in the field in practically every class, not just during field camp. While students elsewhere are using clickers in mega-classes, my students are using waders to gather stream data in the Big Hole River. Nobody can beat us for quality of experience at the undergraduate level."
In 2009, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education honored Thomas with the Outstanding Baccalaureate Colleges Professor of the Year award. Thomas is the first Montana professor to ever win the award, which he received in part due to his role in helping Montana Western implement its block-scheduling program Experience One.
Montana Western is the first and only public four-year university in the country to use a block program.
Thomas' award has drawn even more attention to Montana Western's environmental sciences program. Still, Thomas credits the national attention to the hard work of faculty from all disciplines on campus.
"I was very honored to be recognized for my work but we have faculty doing cutting-edge teaching using the block system across campus," Thomas continued.
While the opportunities to study geology around Dillon abound, Thomas said he and other Montana Western faculty are also taking advantage of the scheduling flexibility Experience One offers to take their students abroad.
"The number of block classes we have studying around the world is off the charts for a public university," Thomas finished. "I plan to take a class in the fall of 2012 to study geology in the Himalayan Mountains of Nepal. How many students get to do that?"


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|Scalability Rules: 50 Principles for Scaling Web Sites
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First off this book gives you a primer of rules for you to start with depending on whether you are mostly a manager, software developer or technical operations personnel. I'll concentrate on the specifics of the software developer chapter and summarize the others at the end of this review. Also note that aside from some SQL, I only saw PHP code in this book. Luckily there's only a handful of snippets presented and they are easy to follow. Additionally each chapter ends with solid references (usually online resources) to back up the claims listed in those sets of rules.
The first chapter is devoted to reducing the equation and focuses on removing needless complexity from your solution. You can find this chapter here if you want to see how the layout looks. They give a lot of solid reasons for this and also a lot of good examples like understanding what your users care about. Why build a prompt to export a blog post as a PDF if 99% of the users don't care about it? Next up they say the rule to design to scale means designing for 20x capacity, implementing for 3x capacity and deploying to 1.5x capacity. A strength of the book are the grids that illustrate what is low, medium or high cost and impact through the chapters. Every time they discuss options at different parts of the solution development process, the user is given a chart to understand why. The next rule stresses that you can usually identify 80% of your benefit achieved from 20% of the work (80-20 rule). Rule 4 is strangely specific and implores the reader to simply reduce DNS lookups. However — and this is the first of many — they remind the reader that this rule must be balanced with putting your system all on one server just to reduce DNS lookups. Such a strategy can result in that becoming a choke point. Rule 5 quite simply instructs the reader to use as few objects as possible in your webpage.
The final rule of chapter one is the first one I disagree with in the book. The rule says "Don't mix the vendor networking gear." And this goes against every fiber of my being. Why even have networking standards if you are not to mix the vendor networking gear? Looking to upgrade one component? Better stick to brand X no matter how crappy they have become. This results in being nickeled and dimed and vendor lockin. If scalability is your sole goal than perhaps this is sound instructions. But I cannot understand how anyone would indicate lockin to a vendor — especially in today's networking gear.
Chapter two is incredibly short but potent. It covers some basic database concepts like why ACID properties of databases make them difficult to split. This chapter is spot on and calls upon the AKF cube for dimensions of scalability. Three dimensions are: You can clone things, split different things and split similar things (like by country region). This cube reappears throughout the book and it should be noted that the book does a good job of giving examples of when each dimension is a good choice for scaling and when it is a bad choice compared to the other two. In my line of work, massive scaling solutions have implemented all three.
Skipping to the next developer chapter on not duplicating your work, the text ranged from the incredibly obvious "Don't double check your work" to relaxing temporal constraints. The chapter is short like chapter two and didn't offer me a whole lot. A third rule was again oddly specific in saying not to do redirects and even getting down into the very fine specifics of what HTTP codes are and how they affect your response times.
The next chapter for developers is chapter ten on avoiding or distributing state. Rule 40 actually came in useful at my job as it simply states "Strive for Statelessness." There was an easy solution to a problem in one of our projects that involved storing an object in the session to keep track of what was being displayed to the user. Having read the book, I instead made this web application nearly stateless (except user authentication and the like). Later on, as we started testing the application in multi-tabbed browsing and users began opening many search tabs and viewed several objects at once to compare them, I was glad that I had not gone down this path. Doesn't have much to do with scalability but I think all web developers should read this chapter as it really does pay to avoid state when possible.
As the rules grew closer to 50, they lost their potency. The authors did a good job of trying to put a bit of ranking in the appearance to these rules. The final developer chapter on asynchronous communication and message buses is probably the most specific and was the least useful for me. While all the rules in this chapter are true, they again border on the banal with examples like "Avoid Overcrowding Your Message Bus."
Having read this book cover to cover, it is a very short book with extremely succinct and organized summaries (the final chapter is a short review of each rule). The manager and operations chapters didn't really do a lot for me overall but would occasionally have very interesting chapters that opened up a lot of the logic behind content delivery services to me. Occasionally I would take slight issue with some rules but the most egregious rule I read was Rule 28 "Don't Rely on QA to Find Mistakes" and then the chapter opens with calling the title of this rule "ugly and slightly misleading and controversial." Because it is and could probably be replaced with another sentence from the chapter: "You can't test quality into your system." Why rely on sensational headlines when I'm already holding your book? I think this book would have been a solid 9/10 if not for this oddity in the large rule set.
I've given each of these rules a decent amount of thought and will keep them at the back of my mind as I write code in an agile environment. Mistakes made early on can be very costly in scaling terms. This book will definitely be kept around at work when I need a solid argument for those design decisions that might take more work but save in the future when it needs to scale.
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Mon. 10/1/12 7:25pm
the glowing one:
this interview is a bit... different.
Mon. 10/1/12 7:25pm
It's weird to hear Nardwuar being so persistent in whatever wrongness he feels from Ian from a show that happened over 30 years ago...The show sounds like it was successful, so why is he badgering so much about it?
Mon. 10/1/12 7:33pm
Sfrances: Thanks for thee comment! I wanted to get his thoughts on the show as i had just shown him video footage of the concert dug out from the archives so it was even fresher in my mind. The show was actually 22 years ago, and is something that i will never forget and although just one show for Fugazi , it was something that changed my life! Doot doola doot doo ,,,
Mon. 10/1/12 7:36pm
Right on, it was just odd! I'm enjoying the interivew, I was at the Minor Threat /TroubleFunk show, i'm an ex-DC native/have photos in Banned in DC book.
I'm really happy that the show was a life changing experience for you! I felt that way the first time I saw NoMeansNo! ;)
Mon. 10/1/12 7:40pm
there's an SNFU book?!!!
Mon. 10/1/12 7:42pm
Sfrances: INdeed ! http://www.punkbooks.com/snfu.html ps. amazing you were at that Big Boys show!
Mon. 10/1/12 7:44pm
thanks for the link! Indeed, it was a great show! So was Trouble Funk/Government Issue where we got the roads for Trouble Funk to stage dive! (this was pre-Minor Threat show, the guys hadn't seen stage diving before). ps: I miss getting to see NMN ,Show Business Giants (RIP) etc in Vancouver/etc. Did you go to the Incentive /Scott Henderson celebration? (I feel like a Canadian poseur at the moment...!)
Mon. 10/1/12 7:47pm
sfrances: i didn't know about that! you know so much sfrances !
Mon. 10/1/12 7:48pm
it's because i'm friends with Andy (original NMN guitarist) and Scott and the Victoria/Vancouver music mafia: but I didn't know about the SNFU book! ;)
Mon. 10/1/12 7:51pm
sfrances: There is a dayglos and personality crisis book too at the same URL!
Mon. 10/1/12 7:53pm
my god:
Ian is still a douche . go get high Ian...
Mon. 10/1/12 7:57pm
congrats on getting a "doot doot" from Ian! I can understand where he's coming from in terms of interview style vs conversation/etc.
Tue. 12/4/12 2:10am
Good God, I'd almost forgotten about this show. What a clusterfuck it was. That was the first show I remember the mosh pit becoming an actually violent thing. Ian was mightily pissed at the show - just a grouchy fuck about the stagediving and the violent moshing: "This is not a Minor Threat show!" About half the crowd was on board with just digging the show and half the crowd were just there to fight and "be punk" or whatever. So chaotic and bad vibes, but I do recall Fugazi being pretty amazing, when they managed to get through a song. The general vibe was not helped by Grant having stormed offstage about 3 songs into the Smugglers' opening set. Doot doot.
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Derek Jeter has been a major league baseball player for 20 seasons, in the biggest media market in the world, on the most recognizable baseball team in human history. He has given thousands upon thousands of interviews, written two books (with another coming in September) and hosted Saturday Night Live. You have heard Derek Jeter speak more than any other athlete over the last two decades. You couldn't have avoided daily doses of Derek Jeter if you tried.
Yet I'm not sure the average baseball fan could give you more than five biographical facts about Derek Jeter, and three of those would have the word "Yankees" in them. Derek Jeter is a fantastic baseball player, one of the 10 best shortstops of all time and one of the 100 best overall players of all time, but I've always been more impressed by how he has lived in the public eye -- and the dead zero center of the public eye -- and given us nothing about himself. Derek Jeter has played for the New York Yankees for 20 years and somehow generated not a word of negative publicity. Not just that: Nothing has touched him. Derek Jeter has lived through the heyday of the tabloids and TMZ and everything else that has bubbled up from our culture's id, and the worst thing that's ever leaked about him is he looked sort of chubby in a photo once. He has proven a master at coming across as the "Ideal Classy Baseball Player Built Out Of Class."
This is a miracle, arguably more impressive than anything Jeter has ever done on the field. It's sort of baffling how he's done it. I've interviewed Jeter a few times, and he is not forthcoming, flattering or unusually open in any way. He's actually a difficult interview, not because he's so combative, but because he's so empty. He has mastered the art of talking without saying anything. There are words, but there is no meaning: Everything you ask just comes right back to you, smelling of bleach. Derek Jeter makes the act of interviewing seem sort of stupid. (Which it kind of is sometimes.) Interviewing Jeter reminds one of that old Mitch Hedberg line about playing tennis: "The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall." No matter how skilled you are at interviewing, you'll never be better than Jeter's wall.
This has led not to antipathy from the press corps; it has led to its exact opposite. The hagiography of Jeter has been in evidence since his first day in the majors. (The broadcasters called him "brilliant" after his first big-league hit.) My favorite was when ESPN called him "the face of baseball" by having Tim Kurkjian, almost creepily, write "Jeter has a nice face, a rugged face, a handsome face." The Onion memorably skewered the media worship with its "Derek Jeter Makes Easy Play Look Easy" story. (Sample faux quote from Robinson Cano: "Watching him day in and day out, it's easy to lose sight of the fact that everyone makes that kind of play all the time.") Only Jeter gets a "What Makes Jeter Great?" story that features quotes from Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Joe Namath and LeBron James.) This has had the desired effect: Fans adore Jeter not just because he's a great player, but because everyone is always telling them to. They do not react well when someone occasionally argues otherwise, believe me.
Much of this, I suspect, is because we know so little about Jeter that when other players fail -- whether it's Alex Rodriguez using PEDs, or Robinson Cano not being "clutch" or Randy Johnson being surly with the media -- it can't help but make him look better when reflected back in his direction. Every time a person not as skilled at hiding in plain sight as Jeter screws up, Jeter benefits. It's a impressive skill, but it doesn't actually say anything about him. In the absence of any actual information, people of course have speculated and told apocryphal tales. (Gossip abhoring a vacuum and all.) But there's nothing to hang on to.
Which leads to the ultimate question: As Jeter plays out his final season to considerable fanfare, who is this person? It is worth asking what we actually know about Derek Jeter after these 20 years in the public spotlight. Like, what the traits are -- not baseball stuff, no on-field business -- that make up the human organism we call "Derek Jeter." I spent much of the day on Wednesday combing through various biographies and profiles of Jeter to see what I could learn, what Jeter let us in on, what makes him him.
Here is the sum total of my findings:
- He's "a bit of a germ freak" who won't use public bathrooms. (Rick Reilly, ESPN)
- He has dated many attractive women.
- He once asked all the guests at a party he hosted to turn in their cellphones before they came. (Ian O'Connor, "The Captain")
- He is "sensitive to criticism," which some of his friends believe could possibly be because he dealt with some racism in his youth. (Ian O'Connor, "The Captain")
- He can be "cool and distant and suspicious." (Ian O'Connor, "The Captain")
- He once "baptized" Alex Rodriguez in victory champagne. (Ian O'Connor, "The Captain")
- He "looks like a normal guy." (Mike Zimmerman, Men's Health)
- He's "competitive to a fault." (Mike Zimmerman, Men's Health)
- He has his own perfume. (Avon)
- He is "business-like," and the Yankees clubhouse is like that, too, because of him. (Joe Posnanski)
- He's a "genuine, down-to-earth guy." (Seth Mnookin, GQ)
- He doesn't care what people think about him. (Joel Sherman, New York Post)
That's it. That is honestly all I found. That's 20 years of biographical detail, right there. That's thousands of interviews, dozens of profiles, several books, countless television specials and highlight packages. That's all we have.
Rick Reilly memorably wrote about Jeter on Wednesday, "If there was a better man in sports, I never met him." He must know Jeter a lot better than the rest of us.
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Running the Rift
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Running the Rift tells the story of Jean Patrick Nkuba, a gifted Rwandan boy, from the day he knows that running will be his life to the moment he must run to save his life, a ten-year span in which his country is undone by the Hutu-Tutsi tensions. It won the 2010 Bellwether Prize for fiction, a prize awarded for a first novel that has discussed social engagement within its literature.
Naomi Benaron was born and raised in Boston, MA and currently lives in Tucson, AZ. She is a graduate of The Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Antioch University, Los Angeles and Scripps University of Oceanography, San Diego. She is also the author of 'Love Letter from a Fat Man', a collection of short stories, which won the 2006 G. S. Sharat Chandra prize for fiction. Her works extend to poetry which has been published in many acclaimed journals and anthologies. She is also a marathon runner.
She said, "I am both thrilled and deeply honored to have Running the Rift selected for the 2013 Lake Oswego Reads program. I wrote this novel to address the Rwandan genocide in a way that went beyond the news clips that so often flicker unnoticed across our TV screens. For me, this event is like a dream come true; it is a chance for the entire community to share in this story that has become such an important part of my life."
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Though most of its competitors such as Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) and Texas Instruments (NYSE:TXN) are being hurt by the slowdown, AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) has been the worst hit so far, posting negative cash flows for two consecutive quarters amid declining revenues. In addition to macro headwinds, internal factors such as a change in leadership, a manufacturing glitch last year and its slow response to rapidly changing consumer needs has led to a more than 60% decline in AMD's stock price since March 2012. (Read Our Article: Why AMD's Stock Collapsed And How It Can Recover)
Last quarter, AMD suffered a 10% sequential decline in revenues for the second consecutive quarter and posted a net loss of $157 million. The dismal performance was very much anticipated and we expect the declining trend to continue in Q4 2012 as well. AMD is expected to announce its Q4 2012 earnings on Tuesday, January 22.
In an effort to strengthen its competitiveness and reduce its expense base, AMD announced a restructuring plan last quarter. In addition to its restructuring effort, increase in Trinity notebook shipments and introduction of Opteron chips in the server market towards the end of the quarter could have a positive impact on AMD's earnings outcome in Q4 2012.
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AMD's Restructuring Plan To Reduce Its Expense Base
The restructuring plan announced in Q3 2012 was an effort to strengthen AMD's competitiveness and reduce its expense base by 25%, in light of the broader macroeconomic issues.
Apart from controlling mountings costs, the restructuring plan aims to diversify AMD beyond the PC market and target other adjacent markets, including dense serving, new embedded markets and lower-power form factors, where its IP provides differentiation and a better opportunity for it to grow its share. The company intends to drive 40% to 50% of its portfolio to these faster growing markets in the future.
With the change in its operating model, AMD aims to deliver breakeven results with $1.3 billion in revenue by Q3 2013 and deliver consistent profitability thereon. In light of the slow PC growth, we feel a shifting focus to other markets is a welcome move for the company and should augur well for its outlook.
Higher Revenue Contribution From Embedded Processors
AMD is focusing on increasing its share in additional embedded markets including communication, industrial and gaming among others. It intends to leverage the success of its APUs and graphics to tap the growing potential in such markets. AMD targets increasing the revenue contribution from its embedded business to almost 20%, from the current level of a mere 5%. While being extremely discrete about the progress so far, the company did declare in its last earnings call that it has scored significant design wins to meet the target.
Continued Success Of Trinity APU's
As a consequence of lean inventory maintained by its OEM partners, AMD registered a 11% q-o-q decline in its computing solution segment in Q3 2012. Though the lower unit shipments and decline in ASPs translated into lower than expected sales of desktop processors, AMD's Trinity notebook shipments marked a 70% sequential increase in unit shipments.
Trinity notebooks accounted for one third of the total notebook shipments in Q3 2012. Though the Trinity APUs are targeted at the mainstream price points, AMD claims that it is witnessing continued consumer adoption at higher system price points as well and scored significant design wins last quarter. Thus, we expect to witness an increase in Trinity shipments in Q4 2012 as well.
New Opteron Chips Can Revive AMD's Server Market
In December 2012, AMD launched nine new mid-range and entry-level Opteron processors which are ideal for use by cloud providers, web hosts and small as well as medium-sized businesses. Cloud servers represent a high-volume market and any major win could significantly fuel AMD's server business. Delivering 24% better performance per watt compared to its predecessor, the new processors offer a better combination of performance, power and price to its customers. While we do not expect the new processors to have a significant impact on the Q4 results, we believe the same will help fuel AMD's server buisness in the future.
In addition, collaborating with ARM Holdings, AMD intends to launch ARM-based servers in 2014. The new generation server products will make AMD the only processor provider to bridge the x86 and 64-bit ARM ecosystems. (Read: Can The New Opteron Chips Revive AMD's Server Business)
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Elie Wiesel, renowned author and Nobel Peace Prize winner, is a well-known voice for tolerance and justice worldwide. Wiesel spent part of his childhood in the Auschwitz concentration camp. He survived his time at Auschwitz, but lost both of his parents and his younger sister. Wiesel wrote about his memories from the Holocaust and eventually published them in "Night," his critically acclaimed memoir. Since its publication in 1960, "Night" has become an international bestseller translated into 30 languages. Wiesel has written more than 50 fiction and non-fiction books and established the Elie Wiesel Foundation, which combats intolerance and promotes understanding in countries around the world. He also teaches at Boston University.
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PUEBLO, Colo. (GoThunderWolves.com - Aug. 29, 2013) - Colorado State University-Pueblo will increase its athletics offerings to 22 starting in the 2014-15 school year, adding men's indoor and outdoor track and field, men's cross country, men's lacrosse, women's lacrosse and women's swimming and diving.
Announced as part of the University's "On the Move" Foundation campaign, which was unveiled Thursday, the athletics expansion and enhancements includes not only the addition of six competitive sports, but a new soccer and lacrosse stadium, complete with a synthetic turf field, 600-seat grandstand, public restrooms, a concession area, press box, lobby, locker rooms, and offices.
"The stadium will look a lot like the ThunderBowl and be located right next door to it," Dan DeRose, Chair of the CSU-Pueblo Foundation, said. "The soccer and lacrosse facility will be the nicest collegiate soccer facility in the state of Colorado."
Also, a $2.5 million boost to the CSU-Pueblo Athletics scholarship fund is part of the campaign.
"Not only are student-athletes the best students, evidenced by their higher GPA and retention rates, but they also represent the University in the community," DeRose said.
The first step to adding new sports is hiring coaches, and the men's track and field and cross country coach had already been hired in July. Matt Morris, formerly the track and cross country coach at Carroll College (Mont.), will helm the University's men's and women's track and field and cross country offerings. Coaching searches for the men's lacrosse, women's lacrosse, and women's swimming positions will begin soon.
Of the six sports being added next year, three - men's indoor and outdoor track and field and men's cross country - were each previously offered by the University. Before the programs' elimination in 1993, the three programs had a stellar reputation, producing 34 track and field and three cross country All-Americans, including four individual national champions.
"This is another exciting day in the University's history," CSU-Pueblo Director of Athletics Joe Folda said. "The addition of these programs is a final step in this University becoming 'The Jewel of the South' in higher education in the State of Colorado."
Approximately $5 million from the $25 million "On the Move" campaign will be used for athletics expansion, just one piece of a campaign that includes a major renovation to the Occhiato University Center, while another $15 million will be used to boost the University's scholarship offerings for the general student population.
"Our goal of this campaign is to give more young men and women the opportunity to have the transformational experience of receiving a degree from a higher education institution," CSU-Pueblo President Lesley Di Mare said.
For more information on the CSU-Pueblo athletics expansion or its new sport offerings, visit GoThunderWolves.com or call (719) 549-2711.


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Here's the lineups as the A's go for a sweep of Seattle …
A's: Weeks 2B, Pennington SS, Matsui LF, Willingham DH, DeJesus RF, Allen 1B, Sweeney CF, Suzuki C, Sizemore 3B; Cahill RHP.
Mariners: Ichiro RF, Gutierrez CF, Ackley 2B, Carp DH, Smoak 1B, Olivo C, Seager 3B, Wells LF, Rodriguez SS; Beavan RHP.
You'll notice no Michael Taylor in the lineup for the A's. Manager Bob Melvin mentioned Friday that Taylor would start in right field today, but said this morning he had a change of heart. "I put my foot in my mouth on that one," Melvin said with a smile. "I'll ease him in against left-handers. He'll get to play some. I jumped the gun on that one. There's a chance he could get in there (Monday). He's not here to sit, that's for sure." Melvin added that it's not a situation where the right-handed hitting Taylor will play ONLY against lefties.
It's going to be interesting to see how Melvin handles Taylor's playing time through the end of the season. In my book, if you bring a guy like that up in early September, he should be playing regularly. This guy is a big-time prospect, and the A's need to find out what they have in him. But there's logic to choosing the spots for a young guy, playing him when you think he's got the best chance to succeed and build his confidence. Then again, the A's know what they have in David DeJesus at this point. They're less certain about Taylor, which is why I think he needs to play – often.
–Coco Crisp, who fouled a ball off his foot Saturday, is out of the lineup as expected. Melvin said Crisp is doing a little better but that the team is being cautious with him.
–A couple interesting stats from yesterday: Brandon McCarthy became the first A's pitcher to throw a shutout with double-digit strikeouts since Barry Zito struck out 11 in blanking Cleveland on Aug. 20, 2001, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
And this from A's stats guru David Feldman: McCarthy is just the fourth pitcher in Oakland history to throw back-to-back complete games with 10 or more strikeouts. He's the first to do it since Vida Blue in 1971.


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Democrats have handicapped themselves by starting with compromise in talks regarding the economy and deficit reduction, just as they did with health care reform. Negotiations over Medicare-for-deficit-reduction shake down to Republican Ryan's plan to eliminate the program, privatizing it with vouchers on the one hand, and Democrats' agreement to baseline Medicare cuts on the other. The 3 Democrats and 3 Republicans in the "Gang of Six" tasked with deficit reduction, have started with the baseline of Simpson-Bowles Deficit Reduction Plan, which calls for $400 billion in Medicare cuts over a decade (on top of $500 billion in cuts called for in the Affordable Care Act, achieved mostly by ending Medicare Advantage overpayments).
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Ok)dropped out of the "Gang of Six" after demanding and failing to get "immediate and deep cuts" to current Medicare beneficiaries - an additional $130 billion (totaling $530 billion).
What Simpson and Bowles term "increased cost-sharing...to promote informed consumer health choices and spending" amounts to a greater shift of Medicare costs to seniors. The Commission's proposed cuts include elimination of "first-dollar coverage in Medigap plans," establishment of "a universal deductible, a single coinsurance rate, and a catastrophic coverage cap in Medicare." In short, seniors will pay a lot more out-of-pocket, as Medicare is turned into Republicans' pretense of "free market" access, their idealized vision of elimination of social insurance: Health care will be available only to those who can afford to pay outright.
By failing to make the best case for health care reform as essential to economic recovery, Democrats have relinquished to Republicans the narrative surrounding the economy and health care.
Much of Democratic self-talk is self-defeating. On a telephone town hall meeting with Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) last week, the first question was asked by a nurse who had lived in Great Britain for a period of time. Health care is easily accessible and cost-effective in Great Britain, so why don't we have something similar here? Rep. DeGette's quick reply was "There are not the votes in Congress for single payer" - another case of Democrats's folding to self-fulfilling prophesy before the case is made. Republicans relentlessly hammer a position until they achieve their goal. Democrats concede the debate before it begins. The case for Medicare-for-All was never made, in fact was avoided, preceding passage of the Affordable Care Act. The insurance and Big Pharma had the president's ear, not the majority of people who favored at the very least a "public option."
Whatever his leadership style, President Obama has failed to use the bully pulpit where it counts most - on economic and health care reform. He caved on extending Bush tax cuts at a time when a large majority opposed them. At the same time, he jeopardized the future of Social Security by agreeing to Social Security payroll tax cuts. Subsequently, the president was portrayed on Saturday Night Live totally submissive to his Republican hostage takers, suffering from Stockholm Syndrome. Cartoonist Mike Lukovich illustrated "Obama Poker Tips" - showing his cards and cheerfully giving the shirt off his back.
Meanwhile, Republican efforts to eliminate/gut health care in general, and Medicare specifically, exacerbates the deficit about which all profess concern. Republican-designed Medicare Part D is highly inflationary and contributes greatly to the deficit. It denies negotiation of bulk drug rates, while granting billions in taxpayer-funded insurance subsidies for programs like private Medicare Advantage that cost 11% more than traditional Medicare, with no added services. Negotiation of bulk drug rates could have been, but was not added as a feature of the Affordable Care Act.
Done right, Medicare-for-All would significantly reverse the U.S. economic crisis. Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich writes, "Medicare Isn't the Problem, It's the Solution" to economic recovery.
? By expanding the risk pool to include both the healthy young and the sick elderly, Medicare-for-All would save $58-400 billion annually, much of the savings from streamlined administrative costs.
? More Americans would get quality health care, and Medicare-for-All would significantly ease our economic crisis and sharply reduce the long-term budget crisis.
? Medicare & Medicaid should be permitted to use their bargaining power to negotiate lower rates with hospitals, doctors and pharmaceutical companies.
? Reforming payment to reward quality care, not quantity, will also save.
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Whereas members of the Santa Rosa Junior College Republicans targeted 10 faculty members at SRJC by posting Section 51530 of the California Education Code which forbids the teaching of communism "with the intent to indoctrinate or to inculcate in the mind of any pupil a preference for communism" and
Whereas the same aforementioned Republicans taped a copy of this section of the code to the office doors of the aforementioned 10 faculty members - along with a red star to designate "communist" and
Whereas the SRJC faculty members felt under attack, stigmatized and even persecuted for simply promoting the free expression of ideas in the classroom and in their role as teachers and
Whereas the Academic Senate condemns the stigmatizing of faculty members who express ideas, whether they are conventional or unconventional, popular or unpopular and
Whereas the Academic Senate condemns attempts to restrict the free flow of ideas, as well as attempts to intimidate teachers.
Therefore be it resolved that the Academic Senate expresses its support for and solidarity with the 10 targeted SRJC faculty members and wholeheartedly endorses academic freedom.
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Debt—and the shame that surrounds it—is the tie that binds the 99 percent. Can young people reimagine it as something productive, rather than a tool for profiteering?
"ONE, we are the zombies! TWO; we are indebted! THREE; this occupation is... om-nom nom-nom..."
Playfully infusing a familiar Occupy Wall Street chant with the mindless noshing of zombies, last month around 100 costumed protesters undertook a small but significant "Night of the Living Debt" march around the New York University campus and Washington Square Park. The event was organized by All in the Red, an initiative of student activists which grows out of the nocturnal marches that began last month in solidarity with the massive popular mobilization in Quebec against austerity-related tuition hikes. Equipped with an arsenal of felt red squares, red banners, red balloons, red confetti, and pots and pans, the young organizers—recent graduates of the OWS Summer Disobedience School training program—undertook the first coordinated march in New York to translate student-specific struggles surrounding tuition and education debt into a broader discourse concerning the perpetual condition of indebtedness in which the 99 percent currently finds itself. With its necromantic pop-cultural reference, the march suggested that zombie-like servitude to Wall Street creditors is a basic condition of life for the majority of the population—a point driven home with a cathartic "debtors' die-in" at the conclusion of the event.
The Night of the Living Debt march was just one sign that debt is emerging as a connective thread for OWS organizers and their allies as they begin to build toward the movement's one year anniversary of September 17, variously known as S17, Black Monday and Occupy Year One. More than just a commemorative ritual or one-off day of action, many organizers in OWS plan to use the media spotlight surrounding the day and its buildup as what Sandra Nurse calls a "launching pad" for a new kind of political movement in the United States—a movement of debtors identifying themselves as such.
This is not an entirely new focus. Some of the most prominent initiatives of OWS and the Occupy movement more broadly have revolved around the foreclosure crisis, and the Occupy Student Debt Campaign (OSDC) succeeded in drawing national attention to the student debt crisis with 1T Day in April, marking the fact that outstanding student debt has reached $1 trillion. However, these organizing efforts have tended to treat different sectors of debt as single-issue campaigns in isolation from one another. And yet when one looks back to early OWS platforms, such as the 99 percent Tumblr, one finds that indebtedness of all sorts was already a self-conscious motivation for many participants and sympathizers of the movement. As the one-year anniversary approaches, a key question for many organizers is how alliances might be forged among groups suffering from and organizing against different kinds of debt-servitude. As OSDC organizer Pamela Brown put it in a recent article:
We are faced with a broken American social contract, and have reached a critical moment for the 99%. Under these circumstances, it seems obvious that a political movement to build a new dream should take debt as its focus.
A major development in the past month was the staging of the first NYC Debtors' Assembly in Washington Square Park on June 11. The format was simple, and the facilitation was minimal. Seated around a banner reading "Strike Debt," affixed with the red felt square familiar from student struggles in Quebec, those assembled were invited to step up to publicly share their "debt stories" through a cardboard "debtors' mic." Over two hours, several dozen people from a wide range of backgrounds and generations delivered emotionally charged, first-person testimonials about the experience of debt-servitude to Wall Street and its intermediary institutions. Whether speaking of the ruinous effects of student debt, credit card debt, health care debt, or mortgage debt, almost all of the speakers remarked that this was their very first time speaking publicly about their status as debtors.
To speak as a debtor, and to address others as debtors, was an empowering process in its own right; the simple act of speaking built community and solidarity based in a shared experience of breaking with debt-shame—the insidious sense that to be indebted is an individual moral failure rather than an enforced condition of life under contemporary capitalism. As Shyam Khanna put it, the assembly created a space for "debtors to find each other, for debtors to become a political subject."
The Debtors' Assembly was an important development in the overall trajectory of OWS. Lacking a General Assembly or a Spokes Council empowered to make movement-wide decisions, OWS as it currently stands is a dispersed network of working groups, affinity groups and project groups that sometimes overlap intensively and other times remain at a distance from one another. Some have lamented this "structureless" condition as contributing to a deadly lack of focus and dispersion of energies, leading some to claim that Occupy as a both a trope and movement has itself been exhausted. Others have seen the post-May Day interregnum as a fruitful period of reflection and reinvention on tactics, strategy, alliances and goals.
How debt became the focus
Among the most interesting post-May Day experiments were a series of outdoor, outward facing "thematic assemblies" hosted on a weekly basis at Washington Square by the group Occupy Theory (OT), publishers of Tidal magazine. Avoiding the unwieldy decision-making apparatus of the Zuccotti-era General Assembly, as well as the often insular culture of OWS working groups, the OT assemblies prioritized open-ended reflection on specific political problems. In late May, an assembly was held on the concept of global solidarity in light of the intensifying struggles of student activists in Quebec. Among the participants in the thematic assemblies were members of Occupy University, Free University Think Tank, F The Banks and the OSDC; in an organic process attuned to developments in New York and around the world, it was agreed that the subsequent assembly would be devoted to the topic "Education and Debt," with a focus on the building of a political movement specifically around the intersection of these terms.
The initial OT Education and Debt assembly—which preceded the full-scale NYC Debtors' Assembly by a week—was remarkable for the kind of space it opened up. It wove together the testimonial format with a highly focused conversation about the strategies, tactics, messaging and coalition-building it would require to make the condition of indebtedness the galvanizing focal point for a full-scale political movement rather than a single-issue campaign. As indicated in the notes from the meeting, which were circulated online throughout OWS social networks, several major questions that have long preoccupied OSDC are in the process of moving to the forefront of OWS as a whole.
Debt is the tie that binds the 99 percent. Almost everyone in the United States is a debtor of some sort. Even those excluded from mainstream credit systems are still preyed upon by lending institutions, exemplified by payday loan sharks and pawn shops that dot poor neighborhoods. Rather than a supplementary facet of the overall economy, the personal debt system is a primary engine of Wall Street profits, and it is prone to crisis. Indeed, the student-loan bubble is regarded by many analysts as analogous to the subprime mortgage bubble that led to the crisis of 2008, with a trillion dollars in unpayable loans bundled together and resold by banks through exotic financial instruments. The debt system is a highly tangible way in which the predatory logic of Wall Street impacts the lives of families and communities. And yet, as Chris Kasper of the OWS Arts and Labor group put it in the inaugural assembly:
Even as it connects us all to global capitalism, debt isolates, atomizes and individuates. The first step is breaking the silence, shedding the fear and creating a space where we can appear together without shame.
Messaging in the making
In the first assembly, analogies were drawn to the notion of "coming out" in the history of the gay rights movement, in which a new sense of political identity was forged by collectively embracing an otherwise stigmatized individual condition—a play on the famous ACT UP slogan, "Silence = Debt" has been put forward as a meme, alongside the slogan "You Are Not a Loan" coined by student debt activists in earlier phases of organizing. Another well-received propaganda project to emerge from the debt assemblies has been a sticker reading "Hello, My Debt Is...," designed in the manner of the "Hello, My Name Is" identifier that would be worn at a conference or convention. A large banner has also been produced featuring this design; participants in the debt assemblies are invited to sign the banner with the dollar amount they owe to creditors, with each signature in turn supplemented by a safety-pinned red felt square of the sort typically affixed to the clothing of protesters.
According to artist Leina Bocar, creator of the participatory banner:
The felt square is increasingly recognized in New York as a signature not only of student struggles, but of debtors more generally. It mediates between the intimate scale of the body and the collective scale of the banner, the assembly, and indeed the movement as a whole.
Looming over these discussions of debtors' movement has been the question of a debt strike, a deliberate withdraw of consent by debtors from the system designed to keep them paying in perpetuity. Millions already do not and cannot pay their debt anyway, and are by default on strike. These de-facto debt-strikers constitute what has been described as an "invisible army of defaulters" with massive political potential. Debt strike—or debt refusal, as OCSDC describe it in an online pledge—is a significant alternative to the notion of debt forgiveness, which has been advocated by some groups rallying around the Student Loan Forgiveness Act. In the words of OSDC member Christopher Casuccio:
Forgiveness, while certainly a noble idea, implies a guilty debtor asking to be freed from its sin. Refusal, on the other hand, is an empowering, collective challenge to an illegitimate and predatory debt-system.
However, organized collective refusal is a project requiring long-term research, organizing, and support. To simply call for a debt strike without significant groundwork is unlikely to resonate with debtors already living in fear around their credit ratings and day-to-day survival.
An alternative messaging framework that has emerged from these assemblies has been "Strike Debt"—variously telegraphed as #strikedebt and DEBT. Playing on the metaphorical possibilities of the word "strike," in the words of Amin Husain, "Strike Debt opens imaginative space for a wide spectrum of thought and action without limiting a politics of indebtedness to any predetermined model."
Striking debt here can mean many things; it conjures images of a physical blow against a specified target, or crossing out the tabulation on which crippling debt is registered. Strike Debt propaganda has also emerged depicting the striking of a match, an image that lends itself naturally to the spectacle of burning debt-statements in an echo of draft-card burning which began in earnest on 1T Day and is likely to be scaled up in the form of debtors' bonfires later in the summer. Further, an image of the iconic Quebec red square supplemented with the DEBT sign has started to go viral on Facebook.
Even as it carries with it a tone of negation or attack, the call to strike debt also has an affirmative dimension attuned to OWS principles of mutual aid. To strike debt in this context would also be to create infrastructures of support and care—legal, financial, and cultural—for those suffering from indebtedness or deliberately taking the risk of debt refusal. Mutual aid in this sense would be the prefigurative opposite of the atomizing, predatory, and fear-mongering debt system of Wall Street.
An intriguing mutual aid pilot project is the idea of a "debt fairy" campaign in which groups of private citizens would pool their resources to purchase defaulted debt for pennies on the dollar from banks —who typically sell to collection agencies—liberating the debtor from their burden. While not a structural solution — and not applicable to student loans — scaled up it could become what David Graeber imagines as a "moving jubilee" capable of both garnering media attention around debtors' struggles and taking business away from the intermediary companies that profit from hounding and penalizing those unable to pay.
If debt is a gateway into a radical conversation about the capitalist system itself, strategic and analytical questions arise about the role of the state—questions that have always haunted OWS as a movement grounded in anarchist principles. What can we learn from the debt cancellation forced upon the Icelandic government by citizens earlier this year? How do we connect the dots between "personal" debt and the public debt of municipalities and governments subjected to corporate bondholders and credit-rating agencies? How do we link struggles against budgetary austerity with the grievances of the indebted? In the words of Andrew Ross, "How might debt be rethought as something socially productive and collectively managed, rather than as an engine of predatory profiteering for the 1 percent?" Can we think beyond existing models of public finance, planning, and infrastructure toward something closer to the ideal of "the commons"?
As activist and New York University professor Nick Mirzoeff has asked, in a speculative vein, if "slavery" to debt were abolished, what would a subsequent "Reconstruction" process look like? For ordinary people to delve into these questions is empowering in its own right, and for OWS they will continue to be explored through public assembly and direct action of the sort that began at Liberty Square 10 months ago.
Toward September
The debt conversation has figured prominently in the messaging and planning discussions surrounding the September 17 anniversary (S17), which will involve a three-day national convergence in New York City encompassing conferences, assemblies, cultural events, trainings, and disruptive direct action. Organizers of S17 are wary of what F the Bank member Aaron Bornstein calls the "overpromise, underdeliver" expectations exemplified by the May Day general strike call, as well as the risk of falling into a backward-looking, self-referential celebration of Liberty Square. However, S17 and the build-up to it provides a spotlight that organizers are keen to take advantage of in order to roll out a multi-pronged series of documents, media campaigns, and creative actions that they hope will lay the groundwork for a full-fledged debtors' movement that goes far beyond any single day of action or electoral cycle.
The coming months will see an escalation on the part of Strike Debt. The first of several projected non-Manhattan Debtors Assembly was held recently at Occupy Town Squares Bushwick in Brooklyn, where participants grappled with how to articulate the debt conversation with urgent struggles around issues such as the NYPD's stop-and-frisk policy, immigrant worker justice and radical community-based direct actions, such as the rent strike taking place in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Sunset Park. David Graeber will lead a debt-related teach-in at Summer Disobedience School this weekend, and the related action will target NYU as a warm-up exercise for a large-scale casserole march on July 22 called Red Sounds, in which Strike Debt will collaborate with activists from Free University and All in the Red. All the while, organizers will be sharing and strategizing for the S17 convergence and beyond.
While it remains to be seen on what terms OWS will collaborate for S17 with its allies in the "99% Opposition" on the institutional left—ranging from the groups gathering for the Student Power Convergence in August to the 99% Spring network, to May Day partners such as SEIU—there are signs of an emerging consensus across the spectrum of the left that debt, and especially student debt, is a key note to hit for a longer-term vision of social and economic renewal. While some will attempt to yoke the energies of S17 to the timeframe of the electoral cycle and ultimately the established mechanisms of the state, OWS will push back with its own sense of time and priorities. The physical tactic of occupation first deployed on September 17, 2011, is unlikely to be replicated, but the spaces of education, empowerment, and imagination created by Occupy remain open. Debtors—which is to say, the 99 percent—are poised to step out of the shadows and into that space, providing it with the content and focus required for what was once a precarious encampment to evolve into a sustainable social movement.


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I wanted to know if a professional in the field of programming specifically java could answer these questions. If they can't answer these questions could they give me an email of a human resource person in their department. I'm a undergrad and very interested in the java field and I thought these questions might help me in my immediate future.
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Submission + - Goodbye, Cruel Sun (simmons.de)
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I think that need to change might be one of the things that kills a genre
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Community leaders in the remote community of 2,000 asked the federal and Ontario governments to help move all those residents who haven't already been relocated said Andrew Morrison, a spokesman for Ontario's Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services.
"All the residents of Kashechewan will be moved in the course of the next day or so," Morrison said in a phone interview late Sunday.
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The federal and Ontario governments were involved in the efforts to move the remaining residents from the community located on the shores of James Bay, he said.
Community leaders in Kashechewan declared a state of emergency this weekend due to rising waters on the Albany River.
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The community has faced rising flood waters for several days. Last week some residents were forced from their homes and moved to communities further south but were allowed to return as the situation eased.
The situation, however, was expected to get worse, prompting the expanded evacuation, Morrison said.
Kashechewan has a history of spring time flooding, but federal plans to move the community off the flood plain fell through several years ago.
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alveolus - air sac where gas exchange takes place.
angina - chest pain.
aorta - blood vessel that delivers oxygen-rich blood from the left ventricle to the body; it is the largest blood vessel in the body.
apex - top portion of the upper lobes of the lungs.
atrium - one of the two receiving chambers of the heart.
base - bottom portion of lower lobes, located just above the diaphragm.
blood pressure - pressure of blood against the walls of a blood vessel or heart chamber.
bronchiolitis - inflammation that involves the bronchioles (small airways).
bronchoscopy - the examination of the bronchi (the main airways of the lungs) using a flexible tube (bronchoscope). Bronchoscopy helps to evaluate and diagnose lung problems, assess blockages, obtain samples of tissue and/or fluid, and/or to help remove a foreign body.
bronchus - large airways; lung divides into right and left bronchi.
cardiac output - total amount of blood being pumped by the heart over a particular period of time.
catheter - thin, flexible medical tube; one use is to insert it into a blood vessel to measure blood pressure.
constrict - tighten; narrow.
cyanosis - bluish color in the skin because of insufficient oxygen.
diaphragm - primary muscle used for respiration, located just below the lung bases.
diastolic pressure - lowest pressure to which blood pressure falls between contractions of the ventricles.
dilate - relax; expand.
dyspnea - sensation of difficulty in breathing.
edema - swelling due to the buildup of fluid.
endothelial cells - the delicate lining, only one cell thick, of the organs of circulation.
expiration - exhaling; giving off carbon dioxide.
fibrosis - process by which inflamed tissue becomes scarred.
heartbeat - one complete contraction of the heart.
hyperactive - describes a situation in which a body tissue is especially likely to have an exaggerated reaction to a particular situation.
hypertension - abnormally high blood pressure.
hypotension - abnormally low blood pressure.
inspiration - inhaling; taking in oxygen.
lobectomy - removal of an entire lobe of the lung.
lung volume - the amount of air the lungs hold.
mean blood pressure - average blood pressure, taking account of the rise and fall that occurs with each heartbeat. It is often estimated by multiplying the diastolic pressure by two, adding the systolic pressure, and then dividing this sum by three.
palpitation - sensation of rapid heartbeats.
perfusion - flow.
pleura - membrane that covers the outside of the lung.
pneumonectomy - removal of an entire lung.
pulmonary artery - blood vessel delivering oxygen-poor blood from the right ventricle to the lungs.
pulmonary hypertension - abnormally high blood pressure in the arteries of the lungs.
respiration - gas exchange from air to the blood and from the blood to the body cells.
smooth muscle - muscle that performs automatic tasks, such as constricting blood vessels.
spirogram - record of the amounts of air being moved in and out of the lungs.
syncope - fainting; temporary loss of consciousness.
systemic - relating to a process that affects the body generally; in this instance, the way in which blood is supplied through the aorta to all body organs except the lungs.
systolic pressure - the highest pressure to which blood pressure rises with the contraction of the ventricles.
vasodilator - agent that widens blood vessels.
ventilation - movement of air (gases) in and out of the lungs.
ventricle - one of the two pumping chambers of the heart; right ventricle receives oxygen-poor blood from the right atrium and pumps it to the lungs through the pulmonary artery; left ventricle receives oxygen-rich blood from the left atrium and pumps it to the body through the aorta.
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Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel, Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o and Kansas State quarterback Collin Klein were announced Monday as finalists for the Heisman Trophy.
The winner will be announced Saturday in New York.
USC receiver Marqise Lee, who caught a nation-leading 112 passes and is third nationally in all-purpose yardage, averaging 215.7 yards a game, was regarded as a contender to earn a trip to the Heisman ceremony. But Lee finished too far behind the top three in balloting that concluded Monday at 5 p.m. EST.
Manziel, a redshirt freshman, passed for 3,418 yards and 24 touchdowns, with eight passes intercepted. He also rushed for 1,181 yards and 19 touchdowns while leading Texas A&M to a 10-2 record, including a victory at Alabama.
Te'o, a senior, intercepted seven passes and anchored a Notre Dame defense that led the Fighting Irish to a 12-0 record and a spot in the Bowl Championship Series title game against Alabama.


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Archives for: May 2000, 08
A little POTPOURRI for Halloween! :->May 8th, 2000 , by admin
Darn it, Lee, it bothers me no end to tell someone that a favorite element of their local cuisine is a baddie for their type. Here's Peter's column on Blood Groups, Nitrates and Nitrites. I don't have a definitive answer on whether home-smoked = restaurant-smoked = commercially-packaged smoked. What I can tell you are two things: (1) sodium nitrate and/or potassium nitrate ("saltpeter" to you old-timers) are the real bugaboos, and you will find them listed as additives to some commercial sausage and jerky products (they produce the desired red color). Ask the chefs at your eating places if any sauce they use contains sodium or potassium nitrate -- if they do, donchu eat it. (2) Get a nice whopping dose of vitamin C (acerola cherry or rosehip-based only, please) before heading for a dish of kalua-style food. It will help short-circuit any lurking nitrosamines. Enjoy!!
Not a thing as far as I remember, Ann. I'm sure that if Peter felt salt were an issue to be addressed, he'd a' done it. So, I'd suggest moderate use of good sea salt, drink pure water, add some high-solids mineral water now and again to optimize electrolytes, and not to worry. :-)
Hanna, do the best you can! That's what we all do. Tangerine, plaintain, orange, papaya, mango, honeydew, coconut and banana are the only avoids for type A out of the whole fruit list, so keep an eye peeled for any fresh fruits in your local markets now and again, OK? But the tinned ones are fine! Spelt flour is the closest to wheat for making baked goods, although it has a more delicate gluten than wheat so it tends to require a little more leaven and bake up better with only one rising rather than two. You could mix white flour in with the spelt, and add some oat or soy flour for body. The only avoids in the grain department for type A secretors are teff, wheat germ, wheat bran and whole wheat, so search around and see what kinds of flour you can find and keep experimenting! The Gluten-Free site has thousands of recipes. Check the ingredients against the TYPEbase3 database and go to town! :-)
Kevan, write back and tell me your blood type and I'll do my best to help!
Hi, Melanie! Follow your own diet (assuming you're the Mom?). It will ensure your optimal health and the best supply of milk, along with the usual lovely 'surprise' side-effects -- all good! If you notice that the baby is discomfited when you eat certain foods, just limit them somewhat. Every nursing experience is different, and with attention and responsive effort, Mom gets the hang of the little details soon enough. I always get a bit of a thrill when I hear about nursing mothers following the BTD. What a great way to experience this wonderful thing -- and what a fabulous start for the kidling! :-D
Many thanks for this chance to learn so much and share with all of you ~~ and, ^