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Saturday, April 2, 2011
Web Site or Web Application?
19 comments:
- Bob Keeney said...
Without the ability easily generate styled HTML text the number of uses for Web Edition are pretty limited, in my opinion.
- April 4, 2011 at 8:34 AM
- Geoff Perlman said...
I disagree. Like most desktop applications, most web applications do not need the ability to handle styled text. Most web applications are some kind of front-end to a database. Sure the are some that require styled text but they are the exception, not the rule.
Having said that, we certainly plan to support styled text for the TextArea control in the Web Edition just as we support it for the desktop.
- April 4, 2011 at 8:47 AM
- tkaltschmidt said...
Front-ends for databases seems like an excellent fit for Web Edition. But these need not to a dynamic, exciting Web Experience. Certainly not Web 3.0! The Web gets more and more visually, without styled text Web Edition is not very suitable for any other purpose than database front ends.
- April 4, 2011 at 9:10 AM
- Bob Keeney said...
We can agree to disagree, but after having worked on two fairly big web apps (using WE) it (lack of HTML styled text) is a hole that's a pain to work around. Not impossible, but it is tiresome.
A fair number of the desktop apps I've worked on go well beyond the limited RTF support that RS provides in Real Studio (desktop). Think inline graphics. This required me to purchase a 3rd party tool that offers true RTF support.
Hopefully the styled text solution you come up with for Web Edition has better compatibility than the desktop edition. Purchasing a 3rd party library wouldn't be the end of the world for me, though, but I believe most people will expect it sooner rather than later.
- April 4, 2011 at 9:20 AM
- Giuseppe Farese said...
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- April 4, 2011 at 9:24 AM
- Giuseppe Farese said...
I think the web edition can use a famous slogan: don't use a cannon to kill a mosquito.
For me the web edition is great for every dynamic web pages/sites that can't be solved easily with a blog type script.
The web edition is the best thing it could happen to my web app development business, because I generate more income from web apps than desktop apps.
- April 4, 2011 at 9:28 AM
- Joseph Claeys said...
It's clearly limited. The original column even says that if you don't have a lot of dynamic content then it's probably not the solution you're looking for. Ergo it is limited to sites that have dynamic content.
- April 4, 2011 at 9:36 AM
- Joseph Claeys said...
Giuseppe when you say you make more off of web apps than desktop apps are you saying you "sell" the webapplication or are you hosting it and then charging the users?
I ask because it seems like, while WE has a better deployment scheme now, it would still require a lot of support to sell the webapplication outright like we do with desktop apps.
- April 4, 2011 at 9:54 AM
- tkaltschmidt said...
Even in this simple, not so dynamic Blog you can achive something like bold or italic ;-) It's impossible in Web Edition. My opinion: If someone is used to program, it is not so hard to learn some tags...
- April 4, 2011 at 11:16 AM
- Kaleberg said...
I really like the basic idea behind your Real Studio web applications. It's an intriguing technology, and I'll bet I'll be using it in the next year or two.
I'm tutoring geometry this year, so a web application for teaching about triangles and trigonometric functions seemed like a great idea, but I got bogged down trying to use an HTMLViewer to manage an HTML5 canvas element. I'm sure I was doing it the wrong way, and I barely understand HTML5 as it is. If I can get it working, I was considering a trip planning application that would drive Google Maps to produce the actual map and directions. I've done something like this on Apple's IOS which has a Google map user interface element, so it seems like a good idea now.
When I just want to write an application, I tend to do so in Real Basic, but I often want an application that interacts with other web sites, fetching data, updating things and presenting things. Build a web application, rather than mucking around with HTTPSockets and the like seems like a good idea, but I'm not sure if your Web Applications are up for it yet.
It's definitely a move in a good direction. The new Javascript engines are pretty powerful. I can't quite use it yet, but it is definitely something I'll be tracking, and I'm sure it and some application will collide in the near future.
- April 4, 2011 at 11:38 AM
- Giuseppe Farese said...
@Joseph: In the past 12 years more than 75% of company's income had been from designing web apps with PHP/HTML/CSS/JS/JQUERY.
We create the web apps and host them for our customers, or give them the app for them to host.
So far I've only replaced the backoffice of my webstore (PHP) to RS web framework and the result is impressive in terms of development time. Fortunately lots of bug fixes and enhancements will arrive and will make the product solid for me to use it for my clients.
I don't know how I'll handle my first customers when I tell them I'll be using RS and no PHP/HTML, etc.
I think they will be scared and they will offer some resistance to use something not "very standard" like PHP or HTML that anybody else can modify/fix.
But that's a problem I would like to have considering the potential future I see in RS web framework.
That's why I'm working hard on having an excellent web application to show off.
- April 4, 2011 at 12:22 PM
- Unknown said...
I sort of agree with other folks, the direction of the product in my opinion has become more of an "AJAX database form" replacement tool.
Most Web App's these days use AJAX forms to do data entry and build screens around JQuery (or any other AJAX library). This can be very, very useful mind you. But as someone said, "its certainly not Web 3.0"... I think if you want to create a data-entry or database application around your Web Site, WE is perfect.
I just wouldn't use this product for things that are more HTML / dynamic in nature. Its overkill.
However, that does not mean you can't, but you're just going to be limited in what you can do.
The concerns for me are more architecture. Using a private JS library and not standardizing on JQuery, and not being able to control the output, or even intercept it before it hits the browser so you can manage the output is a problem for me. I just have to trust that the JS and HTML output will always work on every browser and on every machine -- thats a lot to ask a company like RS to be able to do. Also, not having hooks into the runtime, well, thats another thing thats going to be a problem... but i digress.
- April 4, 2011 at 1:27 PM
- shahid said...
We are a colour management company, and I would like to say that WE has helped us create a web interface to the postgres backend in a very short time. And that is great.
But, WE is not ready yet I would say, as we have spotted many bugs during our course of development and had to find a work around to achieve a functionality which would have been easy to achive otherwise.
Most of the issues were when you access the app from iOS, the controls do not behave the same way as on desktop. I would regretfully say, its a great product but not tested enough for the platforms it claims of compatibility.
The apps completely hate internet explorer above version 6 on xp. Which is highest used browser and most popular operating system.
I love the product but .....
- April 5, 2011 at 3:00 PM
- Geoff Perlman said...
@ Shahid - Have you reported the issues you had with iOS? We have fixed several issues with iOS for R2 but I'd certainly like to know if there are others.
- April 6, 2011 at 9:55 AM
- Unknown said...
Interesting article, but the real truth is that we serve our customers. When they say, "Make this bold and that red", we say "Yes, sir." Today's websites/web apps, whether it be static or dynamic - is about data presentation. If you still don't want to believe in this truth, just look at this very blog (blogger.com). It's dynamically generated with bold, colors, and what have you. Is blogger.com a website or a web app The lines between what constitutes a website and a web application is quite thin, and what is a website to you might not be a website to my customers. Let's not kid ourselves or make excuses. Today's "websites" are not like the websites of the early days of the web.
When you build a tool like WE, you KNOW that people will use it to build THEIR VERSION of their "web application."
It's very simple really. Give your customers what they ask for or no one will care (eventually). This is both true about meeting my customers' needs and for WE itself.
- April 21, 2011 at 10:29 AM
- Marlon said...
I think you can venture on managing your own blog and use Wordpress as your CMS.
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- July 4, 2011 at 4:34 AM
- Boyd J said...
"I think you can venture on managing your own blog and use Wordpress as your CMS." While this is very much possible, Wordpress has a lot of limitations. Not to mention, each version update seems to bring a bevy of new bugs to a lot of unlucky people.
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- August 5, 2011 at 2:21 AM
- Alexis Preatori said...
While this is very much possible, Wordpress has a lot of limitations. Not to mention, each version update seems to bring a bevy of new bugs to a lot of unlucky people. WordPress has only grants limited features to those who don't have they own web hosting.
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- September 9, 2011 at 1:02 AM
- Finn said...
The limitations in every free CMS exists, especially when people use it to easily build their pages. It all boils down to choosing the right web app (paid or not) that could double as a beginner tool and an expert sidekick.
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A few months back, Anna Marie Hibble wrote about Bay Area IPOs putting the boom back in our local real estate market. Zynga and LinkedIn are now public companies but the mother of all IPOs – Facebook – is still waiting in the wings and the Silicon Valley real estate market is feeling the anticipation.
Articles all over the web report that real estate professionals are gearing up, potential buyers are trying to buy now before the IPO and sellers are trying to determine their best course of strategy. From the local Mercury News :
Realtors say the buzz around Facebook is already sparking the long moribund housing market. Potential sellers want to know whether they should sell now or wait, and buyers are fervently pushing their agents to get into the Peninsula housing market before the IPO, anticipating rising prices as the newly wealthy compete for the hottest neighborhoods from San Francisco to Palo Alto.
The New York Times writes that if you thought housing was expensive in the Valley now, just wait for the Facebook update:
..10 homes in Palo Alto sold for more than their asking prices last month, some by large amounts. Now, with the long-expected Facebook public offering a step closer to reality, Mr. DeLeon said he expected to see several things happen: some sellers may keep their homes off the market until they judge the time is right, some speculators may snap up old houses to tear down and rebuild, and some buyers may feel pressure to make offers before the deluge hits.
While the Valley is bubbling with nervous excitement, the Wall Street Journal notes that the benefits of the Facebook IPO may only reach so far. New potential Facebook millionaires still want a short commute to work.
In communities in the shadow of tech giants like Facebook Inc. in Menlo Park, housing prices are on a tear. Menlo Park led the Bay Area with a 52.7% increase in its median home sales price in the fourth quarter, with prices rising to $1.29 million from $840,000 a year earlier, according to DataQuick. Palo Alto's median home-sales price jumped 12.5% to $1.1 million from $977,750, according to DataQuick.
Cities outside of Silicon Valley didn't fare as well. Sonoma, for example, experienced a 24.1% drop in the fourth quarter in its median home-sales price to $356,000 from $469,000 a year ago, while Walnut Creek prices fell 18.3% to $580,000 from $709,500, according to DataQuick.
Since we live in the Bay Area, we should know what's happening out there. Readers – what have you seen? Are you looking to buy or sell in the Valley? Does the Facebook IPO affect how you're planning to buy or sell?


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Reminder - Digital Publishing Suite (DPS) will End of Life on August 31st, 2019.
by Mark Ellis
Table of contents
27 February 2014
Prerequisite knowledge
User level: Intermediate
Required products (retail)
Note: If you have questions about this article, use the DPS forum. Please don't contact technical support with questions about Adobe Developer Connection articles.
While developing our CMO.com app there were not a lot of ready made resources to help me with this new technology. I hope this article saves you the time I spent developing these habits to save time. I expect that you've already read through Introduction to Adobe Experience Manger Media Publisher and DPS. If not please check it out first as it provides some practical examples on how to make real world magazines with AEM.
For the purpose of this article, the DPS Viewer Shell is the native application that handles the library, downloads, and displays your Issue and corresponding articles inside it. This could either be the Adobe Content Viewer application, a custom branded Single-Folio application or a Multi-Folio application that you created. If this sounds confusing, you can head over to the DPS getting started guide [ https://helpx.adobe.com/digital-publishing-suite/help/getting-started-digital-publishing-suite.html ]
The Three Card Deck
When we created CMO.com we had to think about how users would get from one article to another. Let's say we have 6 articles in our first issue. Let's just call these Articles 1 to 6 in numerical order from start to finish, to help describe what happens when you load an HTML ONLY article and the processes that kick off.
Step 1 – You launch the article for the first time.
Figure 1.
Step 1.1 – As shown in the above diagram, Article 1 enclosed in the green box indicates the current article in view. This article loads, and, any functions that you have in this HTML setup to be dispatched on load get called (For example: body onload, jQuery ready functions, etc ).
Step 1.2 – Article 2 enclosed in the red box indicates the next up article. This article also gets loaded, moments (less than 50 milliseconds) after Article 1. This includes the same ready/loaded functions getting called. This is an important note: this code executes even though the article is not currently in view.
After several hours of searching, I came across an article with a small reference to two custom properties that are added to the window element; window.onAppear and window.onDisappear. These two properties get called when the article comes into view and out of view, respectively. These are immensely important for those things you want to prevent from triggering until the article loads, or even – an animation for example – you want to replay whenever the article comes into view.
Step 2 – You swipe horizontally from Article 1 to Article 2.
Figure 2.
Step 2.1 – The DPS Viewer Shell moves Article 2 into view (indicated by the green box in the diagram). This article has already been loaded and any on load JavaScript has already been called as indicated in Step 1.2.
Step 2.2 - Article 1 moves out of view, but does not get unloaded. Article 1, enclosed in the blue box in the diagram, is still loaded in memory in the DPS Viewer Shell. If you have modified this article through JavaScript or have any code (a timer, setTimeout, setInterval, etc.) still running in this article it will continue to execute. If, for example, you have a timer on Article 1 that started when the article loaded and is expected to change the current article in view to Article 4, the code will execute (as long as it stays within one of the blue, green, or red box as described in the diagram). This can obviously start to cause some problems. Given the current situation where Article 1 is not the current article in view (in the green box in the diagrams) and the code to change the current article in view to Article 4 executes, you will find yourself in a strange position. The user could be looking at a different article and then immediately have their view change. The obvious question here is why not just check to see what is currently in view? – I will answer this later in Things that work, things that don't work, and things that need work section of this article.
Step 2.3 – Article 3 gets loaded as the next up article (the red box in the diagram) following the same rules as described to Article 2 in Step 1.2.
Step 3 – You swipe horizontally from Article 2 to Article 3
Figure 3.
Step 3.1 – Article 2 goes out of view and into the blue box where it is still in memory, but just out of view and Article 4 gets queued up as the next article. The same explanation of what happened in Steps 1 and 2, happens here.
Step 3.2 – Article 1 goes from the blue box and being still in memory but just out of view to being removed from memory. This, as you can imagine, means that any delayed code still pending or anything that had changed in the article is lost.
Step 4 – You swipe horizontally from Article 3 back to Article 2
Figure 4.
Step 4.1 – Article 3 goes from being in view to being the next up article. However, in this case, the next up article has already been loaded, since it just came from being in view, it just remains in the current state that it was just in. Article 2 comes back into view in the same state it was left in, since it never left one of the three boxes of being in memory, but out of view or in view.
Step 4.2 - Article 4 now leaves one of the three boxes and is unloaded from memory.
Step 4.3 – Article 1 re-enters the blue box from being out of all the boxes, which causes it to be reloaded into memory. The same thing applies as if it was being loaded into the red box which means the article gets loaded in the same manner as the next up article. All the onload/ready functions get called, the article comes into view with a fresh state.
I covered most of the common things you are going to run into here. The navigation examples are quite simple, but I wanted to highlight what I call the Three Card Deck of the blue, green, and red boxes. At any given time in your magazine, you will pretty much just have these three as your options as to what state your articles are in. The two main takeaways are:
- Timer/Interval code will still execute if the article does not get unloaded.
- Once your article enters one of the boxes, anything that you have that is supposed to run once the article is loaded, will be run. It does not matter if this is in view or not.
Figure 5.
Things that work, things that don't work, and things that need work
I am going to cover my experiences through trial and error or by in some cases random coincidence with what works or does not. The BIG DISCLAIMER here is that I have tested most of these ONLY on iOS and subsequently the iOS web view. These are not guaranteed to be the same on Android.
For CSS Transforms and Transitions, most of the things I have tried do work and work rather well.
I use CSS transitions/transforms pretty much exclusively for any animations and have found that these work very well. The performance is what you would expect and you can follow the same guidelines as developing for the web in terms of what works and what does not.
webkitRequestAnimationFrame or whatever vendor prefixed version works as well and can really help to boost custom animation performance. You can combine this with the Canvas element, which I have tested by using the basic drawing API associated with it, to achieve some neat animations.
I have not tried WebGL, but if I had to take a guess I would say there is a chance it will work.
I have had mixed results using the HTML
<video> tag. iOS supports it and videos can be played with it rather nicely, however, since this tag is originally designed to be used in the 'Web' world there are some security restrictions associated with it. On any cellular enabled device on iOS the
<video> tag requires human interactions to play. You cannot just auto play it, which makes sense. When you bring this over to HTML powered applications, such as what we are dealing with in articles written in HTML, there is an option to override this forced human interaction if the video is locally included. However, the option to override this is set on the instance of the
UIWebView (at least in the iOS), which is configured on the native application. At the time of this article I have not been able to confirm if this property is turned on, which results in a sub-optimal
<video> tag support.
However that does not mean video does not work. The DPS Viewer Shell supports a multitude of playing videos locally or streaming videos. For more information, see URL schemes here:
One of the intersting things that I had to learn the hard way was some quirkyness of how the body element resizes. Let me explain this with a simple example:
Given the situation where you load an article that, when loaded, ends up 1000px in height. Now, in your article, you have a button that says Load More and an additional 500px of information is appended to body element when it is tapped. The body element should now have a total height of 1500px. Sounds simple, right?
I do not know where the quirkyness of this problem resides, but if you append anything that should adjust the body height, it will not work. The scroll bars will still only scroll to 1000px in height and you will be stuck with the additional 500px of information that you loaded being out of view.
The only solution I have found for this so far, is to identify articles that will be affected by this and wrap the article in a
scroll-wrapper. A
scroll-wrapper is a
<div> element that has a static height/width that matches the resolution of the device and has the overflow-y set to scroll.
This approach also solves a problem with programmatically controlling the scrollbar. In our CMO.com app we wanted a back to the top button at the end of the article. Again, sounds simple enough; animate the scrollbar back to the top. However, if you try to programmatically alter the
scrollTop property of the body element it will scroll the content but not the actual bar. If you touched or tried to scroll after using the back to top button, it would reset the scrollbar to whatever the last position it was in, resulting in a really weird experience.
Programmatically altering the
scrollTop of the
scroll-wrapper results in the correct experience. Setting
scrollTop to 0 and then scrolling normally works as expected.
Make your tap and swipes responsive and prevent the DPS native menu
There are three things here. First off, do not use click events for interaction. Out of the box, listening for click events in your JS/HTML will result in a slight delay between your touch and the action. This gives a really poor user experience and will result in your users getting frustrated and/or crying.
If you do not want to use an external library, then consider using the touchstart, touchend and so on set of events rather than click events.
If you do not already have a preferred touch library here are some that I have found to be pretty useful:
Secondly, the native DPS library overlay, the one that shows up when you tap on an article, is a wonderful way to navigate throughout your magazine, but sometimes it comes up when it is not required.
The definite way to prevent this menu from appearing is to catch the event, then call both
event.preventDefault() and return false. Something like following function on containers will disable the DPS library overlay from appearing:
$('.bottom-bar').on('touchstart', function(event)
return false;
If this was something I actually wanted to interact with (for example, a Load More button) then I would do something like:
//do whatever here
return false;
Third and finally, the navigation paradigm that the DPS Viewer Shell provides is that horizontal swipes navigate you from article to article. By using the same concepts above, you can prevent this from happening further. Please, be careful with this though, there has been a de facto standard for magazine navigation established with horizontal swipes for navigating between articles. Insert classic Spider-man quote here.
I am not 100% sure on the specifics, but I have had success in the past from simply adding listeners for the various touchstart, touchend, and click events onto the body element, then squelching these via the preventDefault/return false combination.
This approach comes in handy and you can start doing neat things with this approach, for example, you could build out a horizontal carousel component that is controlled by swiping horizontally. At the end of carousel, you could add logic to stop preventing default on the function and allow the DPS Viewer Shell to take over navigation to the next article.
It is time to go out and start building your own magazines! If it isn't mentioned here, that doesn't mean it doesn't work.
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Fiction A to Z
February 2018
Recent Releases
Sam Graham-Felsen
What it's about:
It's 1992, and sixth-grader Green is one of the few white students at Boston's Martin Luther King Middle School. After Marlon, a studious black kid from the housing projects nearby, stands up for him, a friendship is born. It's strong enough to weather the typical middle school problems, but it may not be strong enough to survive their differences -- or the increasingly bigger problems they face.
Why you might like it:
you're interested in stories about interracial friendships (and the strains they come under) or you enjoy coming-of-age stories told by imperfect but likable narrators.
A State of Freedom
Neel Mukherjee
What it is:
a set of interconnected stories (each written in a different style), bound together by recurring characters and common themes, and set in modern-day India.
Why you might like it:
A State of Freedom
offers a variety of characters all dealing with disruption; the divide between the haves and have-nots is starkly depicted.
Read it with:
V.S. Naipul's 1971 novel
In a Free State
, which is similarly structured.
The Maze at Windermere
Gregory Blake Smith
What it is:
the stories of five characters, over three centuries, all set in Newport, Rhode Island. Links between them create a rich, layered tale that reveals not only changes in American society but also the vagaries of the human heart.
Is it for you?
Absolutely, if you like historical fiction in which distinct characters -- and the writing style -- clearly reflect their times. Shifting points of view and a complex structure reflect the title, too.
Reviewers say:
"staggeringly brilliant" (
The Washington Post
Red Clocks
Leni Zumas
four very different women in a small Oregon fishing town, all struggling with personal issues in a country where Roe v. Wade has been overturned, single parenthood is soon to be outlawed, and misogyny is on the rise.
Why you might like it:
You've read Margaret Atwood's
The Handmaid's Tale
and are looking for another chilling take on women's reproductive rights, identity, and freedom.
Book buzz:
Red Clocks
, which the author has said draws on real government proposals, has been trumpeted by such diverse media outlets as Amazon,
The Wall Street Journal
, PopSugar, and more.
Best Short Stories of 2017
What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky: Stories
Lesley Nneka Arimah
What it is:
a vividly imagined debut collection by a Nigerian-born author who moved to the U.S. when she was 13.
Why you might like it:
Exploring what binds people together (and their grief when those ties are cut), these stories are set in Nigeria or among Nigerian expats in the U.S. Though they move between genres, with surreal elements that serve to highlight Nigerian traditions and history, these stories will appeal to readers looking for relationship-centered tales.
Difficult Women
Roxane Gay
What it is:
the stories of a diverse array of imperfect, fully realized women haunted by pain and loss in unusual, often troubling situations.
What's inside?
In "The Mark of Cain," a woman pretends not to know that her abusive husband and his gentler identical twin have switched places; women participate in fight clubs in another story, while a priest refuses to feel bad about an affair in a third.
Reviewers say:
With complex characters and straightforward writing, this "
fantastic collection is challenging, quirky, and memorable" (
Publishers Weekly
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
Carmen Maria Machado
What it is:
recognizably realistic yet edging into science fiction and horror, these short stories are a gripping, sometimes horrifying mix of tragic, creepy, and thought-provoking, centered as they are on women's lives and bodies and the violence inflicted upon both.
For fans of:
the genre-bending stories of Karen Russell, the female characters of Roxane Gay, or the twisting inventiveness of Angela Carter.
Five-Carat Soul
James McBride
What it is:
e first short story collection from National Book Award-winning James McBride, featuring a multitude of different voices and settings, often focusing on themes of race, identity, and history.
What's inside:
a grieving Abraham Lincoln; five at-risk youth who form a funk band; a zoo menagerie that communicates through Thought Speak; an antique toy seller and the priceless toy train he seeks.
Reviewers say:
"Every one of them is brash, daring and defiantly original" (NPR).
The Refugees
Viet Thanh Nguyen
What it is:
ight short stories, set mostly in California and portraying Vietnamese refugee experiences in the U.S. But the topics they explore -- relationships, grief, the desire for fulfillment -- "transcend ethnic boundaries to speak to human universals" (
Kirkus Reviews
Author alert:
Author Viet Thanh Nguyen's 2015 debut novel
The Sympathizer
won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Carnegie Medal.
Why you might like them:
Written before
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On Thursday, the panel voted 16 to 0 to recommend approval of the imaging agent, known as Amyvid, with one critical caveat: Manufacturer Eli Lilly and Co. must demonstrate that standards for interpreting brain scans that show amyloid plaques illuminated by Amyvid can be made consistent enough to routinely guarantee an accurate diagnosis.
Amyvid (florbetapir) is injected into patients who then undergo a PET scan; a negative result can help rule out Alzheimer's, according to Lilly.
Experts agreed that the test could become a critical part of spotting Alzheimer's before symptoms have taken hold, but they noted that the clinical reality of that is far from imminent.
"It may well be that amyloid imaging will join colonoscopy, mammography, etc. as mid-life surveillance tests, and that anti-amyloid interventions are most effective in the pre-symptomatic stages of Alzheimer's disease," said Dr. Sam Gandy, the Mount Sinai Chair in Alzheimer's Disease Research in New York City. However, this possibility is years away, he added.
The value for research is clear, Gandy said. "Either a spinal fluid amyloid test or an amyloid scan will help weed out non-Alzheimer's dementias in clinical trials of anti-amyloid agents. The clinical value in the short-term is less obvious."
Current medications are most effective in the early stages of Alzheimer's, and amyloid scans might identify those patients for doctors who don't have access to neuropsychological testing, Gandy said.
"A confirmed diagnosis would enable planning for the future while patients are at an early enough stage to still participate in the discussion," he said. "In the symptomatic patient, the amyloid scan would portend the onset of dementia within the next five years."
However, because there is no cure for Alzheimer's disease yet, the test might be one that is not considered worth its cost, Gandy said.
Gandy noted that the "300-pound gorilla in the room" is whether Medicare/Medicaid will reimburse such a test, even if the FDA follows its expert panel's advice and approves Amyvid. (While the FDA doesn't have to follow a panel's advice, it usually does.) "Medicare may decide that the added value does not merit reimbursement without a meaningful intervention," he said.
Also, Grandy said he doesn't expect approval until there are methods in place to train doctors in how to read these scans.
Another expert, David Loewenstein, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and neurology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, said that the approval of Amyvid "will allow physicians to come to an earlier diagnosis of Alzheimer's."
What is needed is consistency for evaluating scans using the agent, he said, so that physicians "can apply a single standard and there won't be gaps between hospitals because of different readers using different methods."
Loewenstein thinks use of this new diagnostic tool will help in several ways. First, it will help researchers find effective treatments by diagnosing the disease early, although having the plaques does not always mean the patient has Alzheimer's. Second, it will identify people who can take part in clinical trials of new Alzheimer's drugs.
"There is a whole new line of drugs being formulated that will help treat the earliest stages of the disease," Loewenstein said. "We need to know who are the appropriate people with the mildest cognitive problems to get into clinical trials."
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The Libeskind Building
Architecture Retells German-Jewish History
The building zigzags with its titanium-zinc façade and features underground axes, angled walls, and bare concrete "voids" without heat or air-conditioning. With his "Between the Lines" design, American architect Daniel Libeskind did not want simply to design a museum building, but to recount German-Jewish history. Even before the Jewish Museum Berlin opened in the fall of 2001, almost 350,000 people had toured the empty building, which continues to fascinate innumerable guests from Germany and abroad. Today the Libeskind building houses the permanent exhibition, which is currently getting modernized and is therefore not accessible for visitors. The building allows for many interpretations. For some people it brings to mind a broken Star of David; for others it is a bolt of lightning. Many people are left with a feeling of insecurity or disorientation.
"Between the Lines": Daniel Libeskind and His Design Plans
Architect Daniel Libeskind's "Between the Lines" design won the competition in 1989 for the "Extension of the Berlin Museum with a Jewish Museum Department." It was the first time that one of his designs was actually built.
The Libeskind building is outwardly freestanding and independent. To reach the permanent exhibition, visitors must walk through an underground passageway from the entry area in the adjacent baroque Old Building. Daniel Libeskind designed the floor plan based on two lines: the building's visible zigzagging line and an invisible straight line. At the points where the two lines intersect are the "voids," empty spaces that cut through the building from the basement to the roof. The crisscrossing, oblique slashes of windows appear unsystematic and make it impossible to distinguish the individual floors from outside.
Libeskind mentions four different sources of inspiration for his design. Prominent Jewish and non-Jewish Berliners such as Paul Celan, Max Liebermann, Heinrich von Kleist, Rahel Varnhagen, and Friedrich Hegel stand for the connections between Jewish tradition and German culture prior to the Shoah. Libeskind plotted their addresses on a map, and a network of lines emerged from which he developed the structure of the building and the windows. Other ideas came from composer Arnold Schönberg's unfinished opera Moses and Aaron, from the German Federal Archive's The Memorial Book for the Victims of the Nazi Persecution of Jews in Germany (1933–1945), and from the essay "One-Way Street," by Walter Benjamin.
The Libeskind Building
The "Voids"
The voids cut through the entire vertical axis of the building. The concrete shafts are neither heated nor air-conditioned and largely lack artificial lighting. Only some of them can be accessed. In the upper floors of the exhibition space, the voids are clearly discernible from the void bridges, whose walls are painted black. One of the five voids contains the Shalekhet (Fallen Leaves) installation by Israeli artist Menashe Kadishman (further information on the installation is available on our website).
Daniel Libeskind uses the voids to address the physical emptiness that resulted from the expulsion, destruction, and annihilation of Jewish life in the Shoah, which cannot be refilled after the fact. He wanted to make this loss visible and tangible through architecture.
The Axes on the Lower Level
Three axes cross on the lower level of the Libeskind building, symbolizing three historical developments of Jewish life in Germany: the Axis of Exile, the Axis of the Holocaust, and the Axis of Continuity, which leads to a steep staircase. Climbing eighty-two steps, visitors reach the entrance to the permanent exhibition two stories up, the final eight steps ending in front of a white wall.
We display objects along the axes that tell the stories of Jews who were persecuted and killed during the Nazi era or had to emigrate. Until March 2017, the Rafael Roth Learning Center was located at the intersection of the three axes.
The "Holocaust Tower"
The Axis of the Holocaust ends in the "Voided Void," or Holocaust Tower, an isolated building splinter whose sole connection to the Libeskind building is underground. Daylight penetrates the tower only through a narrow slit in the unheated concrete silo and any exterior sounds are heavily muffled by the walls. Many visitors experience a feeling of oppression or anxiety inside the Holocaust Tower.
The Axes and the Holocaust Tower
The Garden of Exile
The Axis of Exile leads to the Garden of Exile, which is located outside the Libeskind building. Forty-nine concrete stelae are laid out in a 7-by-7 square on slanting ground. The Russian olive bushes growing atop the stelae are a symbol of hope. Forty-eight are filled with soil from Berlin and the forty-ninth, at the center, with soil from Jerusalem.
The slanting ground of the Garden of Exile gives visitors a dizzying feeling of unsteadiness and disorientation. The only vegetation is located high out of reach. Libeskind wanted this spatial experience to recall the lack of orientation and instability felt by the émigrés forced out of Germany.
Views of the Garden of Exile
Bibliography on Daniel Libeskind's design plans:
- Dorner, Elke. Daniel Libeskind. Jüdisches Museum Berlin. Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 1999.
- Libeskind, Daniel. Jewish Museum Berlin, Architect Daniel Libeskind with a photo essay by Hélène Binet. Amsterdam and Dresden: G+B Arts International, 1999.
- Libeskind, Daniel. "Zwischen den Linien. Der Museumsbau soll jüdische Geschichte erschließen und sichtbar machen." In: Jüdisches Museum Berlin. Sonderpublikation zur Eröffnung. Spezial der Allgemeinen Jüdischen Wochenzeitung . Berlin: Jewish Culture Edition, 2001, 66–72.
- Pieper, Katrin. "'Between the Lines.' Architektonische Geschichtsreflexionen des Jüdischen Museums Berlin." In: Christina Jostkleigreve et al., eds. Geschichtsbilder. Konstruktionen – Reflexionen – Transformationen. Cologne: 2005, 371–385.
- Willemeit, Thomas, "'Oh Wort, du Wort, das mir fehlt!' Musik und Architektur bei Daniel Libeskind." In: Archithese 28/5 (1998): 18–24.


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For over a decade now, John Brockman has been posting a single question to brilliant people, and gathering their responses. Past questions have included "What will change everything?" in 2009, or "What do you believe is true, even though you cannot prove it?" in 2005. This year's question is particularly important and compelling, as it encourages insights that will help us think better:
"What scientific concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit?"
While you can buy the book to read the responses from economists, artists, philosophers, mathematicians, neuroscientists, and others. You can also read all of their responses online. Pace yourself. It's a bucket-load of brilliance.
Of particular interest to this blog, of course, are those entries that emphasize the arts, or artistic process, as a "way of knowing" and a "way of thinking" in the world. For example, the response from curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, who suggests that curating, itself, is an increasingly essential way of seeing and knowing the world. Says he:
I believe "curate" finds ever-wider application because of a feature of modern life that is impossible to ignore: the incredible proliferation of ideas, information, images, disciplinary knowledge, and material products that we all witnessing today. Such proliferation makes the activities of filtering, enabling, synthesizing, framing, and remembering more and more important as basic navigational tools for 21st centurylife. These are the tasks of the curator, who is no longer understood as simply the person who fills a space with objects but as the person who brings different cultural spheres into contact, invents new display features, and makes junctions that allow unexpected encounters and results.
The evolving world requires all of us in arts and culture to think bigger and think better. But the importance of these reflections goes far beyond that. Artists, arts organizations, and cultural connectors have a rather unique and essential role to play in helping us all think bigger and think better. If you agree, then resources like this one should be the subject of staff meetings, board meetings, community reading circles, and coffee conversations.
Go, get smart.


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This is a guest post by Bob Kaplan, active lender on Kiva Zip and active member of Milepoint.
There is so much more to lending than just sharing our money. After years of lending on Kiva, I discovered Kiva Zip. I was excited by the possibilities of lending directly to people.
From the beginning I have always wanted to personalize the lending process. This makes it more meaningful for me. So, whenever I make a loan, I take time to look at the borrowers' picture and feel my heart connect with them. This moment of feeling my connection has always been very, very important to me. I wouldn't lend without it.
When I took a look at Kiva Zip last year, I noticed the possibility of direct communication between borrowers and myself. After I made some Zip loans, I read my borrowers' updates, made some replies, and started to see some new possibilities. In the U.S., I have seen borrowers inviting lenders to their shops and special events, borrowers and lenders sharing ideas and information, and I have seen collaboration among borrowers with similar businesses.
This past spring, I started to make a lot of Zip loans, especially to Kenyan borrowers. In April one of my Kenyan borrowers said:
"Thank you Mr BOB! May Almighty GOD bless you. I thank GOD for giving me a new friend from far away who is willing to help me. That loan will help me very much in preparing my garden and buying fertilizers. Thanks. Yours Charles."
Charles truly touched my heart, and we started a beautiful dialogue that has continued for many months now, even after his loan has been fully paid back. His kind words have given me so much inspiration.
I have now shared dialogue with many dozens of borrowers. We have shared prayers for each other, good wishes, kind words and more. Their gratitude for these small loans has reminded me, again and again, how fortunate I am that I can make these loans. I feel blessed to receive prayers from borrowers like Nashon: "You came as angels for me and i will always pray for your happiness."
So, now I feel that something magical is happening through these dialogues on Kiva Zip. As one trustee described it: "It's so amazing to find friendship and connect with people who believe in your business even without physical meeting." So, while borrowing and lending money on Kiva Zip is lifting up many businesses, I sense that we are creating a community that can and do share much more. Join the community by making a loan! Then converse with the borrower, other lenders, and the trustee by clicking on the Conversations tab.
Author Bio: Bob Kaplan lives near Asheville, NC. He has lent to friends' businesses at critical times and is an active member of Milepoint and other Kiva lending teams. He enjoys working with other people to help create a better world for all through prayer, lending and healing.


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The latest polls show Hassan and Lamontagne locked in a close race. Thursday night's debate is being televised by WMUR-TV and co-sponsored by the New Hampshire Union Leader and AARP of New Hampshire.
Each candidate has tried to frame his or her opponent's views on key issues for voters.
Lamontagne is using a reliable GOP election strategy of trying to pin a tax-and-spend, liberal Democrat label on Hassan.
Hassan is portraying Lamontagne as an extremist with tea party ties who would take away the rights of women to make health care decisions and the rights of gays to marry.


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The directors of two labor recruiting companies in Cambodia accused of human trafficking by more than 100 victims are on the run and likely hiding outside of the country, authorities said, after several rights organizations pressured the government to apprehend the men.
Rights groups CARAM-Cambodia, Licadho and Adhoc said they have received complaints from 102 victims against domestic labor recruiter T&P Co. Ltd. and Taiwanese firm Giant Ocean International Fishery Co. Ltd. facing charges of human trafficking, rights abuses, torture, and kidnapping.
The three groups jointly appealed to the Ministry of Labor, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, and the Ministry of Justice to order the two firms to compensate the trafficking victims and to arrest their local chiefs.
But according to Anti-human Trafficking Deputy Director General Chiv Phally, who is investigating the allegations, the two directors have fled the country to avoid arrest and questioning by the court.
"T&P Co. is owned by Sam Pisey, a Khmer national," the investigator said. "Sam Pisey is hiding outside Cambodia because he knows that the police have had an arrest warrant out for him since 2011."
The Taiwanese local head of Giant Ocean International "is hiding outside of Cambodia as well," he said, adding that investigations are under way.
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Moeun Tola, the head of the labor program at the Community Legal Education Center (CLEC), said that while Giant Ocean International is headquartered in Taiwan, the company had maintained a branch office in Phnom Penh which functioned as a domestic labor supply firm.
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Moeun Tola said that the CLEC recently had trafficking victims take them to the place they were had been recruited, only to find a vacated apartment building.
He confirmed that the authorities have been unable to identify the branch office's director and that the court is conducting an investigation with the aim of issuing an arrest warrant.
CLEC assisted in the rescue of 10 fishermen allegedly trafficked to Taiwan through Giant Ocean International in 2011 and helped to rehabilitate four fishermen rescued in June from a fishing boat owned by the company that was operating in South African waters.
Moeun Tola charged that T&P Co. was "backed by a high-ranking government official" and that Sam Pisey is only "a small piece of the puzzle," without elaborating further.
Neither Giant Ocean International nor T&P officials could be reached for immediate comment.
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CARAM-Cambodia, Licadho, and Adhoc last week called on the authorities to apprehend the men and to seek compensation for victims who never received their salaries while working as domestic servants in Malaysia or on fishing boats around Southeast Asia.
"The compensation must be on a case-by-case basis. Some victims want compensation, some want the companies' directors to be prosecuted," CARAM-Cambodia Executive Director Ya Navuth told a press conference.
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Licadho President Pung Chhiv Kek said that some of the victims who had worked as maids in Malaysia claimed they had been abused and raped, but that the two companies never sought justice for them.
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A 32-year-old trafficking victim named Mao Sopheak, who said he was sent to work in Fiji's fishing industry in 2011, told reporters that he had been promised U.S. $150 a month. Instead, he said, he was forced to work 18-20 hours a day and was given no financial compensation.
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Reported by Sok Serey and by Samean Yun for RFA's Khmer service. Translated by Samean Yun. Written in English by Joshua Lipes.


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International Astronomy Education and Public Outreach Events List
19 October 2010
During IYA2009 several global events took place. It was very helpful to EPO events promoters to know in advance what they would be and the dates in order to prepare their local community and media. This was part of the success of events like 100 hours of Astronomy. In order to keep this wave going we are preparing a International Astronomy Education and Public Outreach Events calendar. The main purpose is to help people willing to organise their local events to know what is taking place out there, who to contact for more information, and either take part or suggest something else.
Please add any international events to the international astronomy education and public outreach events in this form:https://spreadsheets5.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dEIyME14djRrdHJRd05oUlFpMGpTc0E6MQ#gid=0
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Lost Girl, the Canadian show about a succubus detective, began its third season on Syfy last night with a bang. Spoilers ahead! Our hero Bo got herself locked up in the clink to do some undercover work — but not until after we got to see this awesome "girls in prison" moment. I love all the prison guards dressed in Mad Max gear, and the fact that all the prisoners wear tight red jumpsuits with super tall wedge sandals.
Later, Bo's bestie Kenzi pretends to be Bo's girlfriend so she can pass her a little item that will help Bo escape. But not until after they talk about truckstop thongs and have an awesome kiss. (Is this a first? Kenzi is completely straight so she's never gotten any Bo action before.)
Oh, and in other news? Bo might be going darkside, but she and geeky doctor Lauren are in love for real. Meanwhile, wolf boy Dyson is pining after Bo. And Dyson's former detective partner, Hale, has become the new Ash. That's right — Hale is the leader of the light fae. Or rather, the interim leader. And Trick was wearing a sexy new black shirt.
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Gibraltar Furniture is proud to announce that it has added Driade to our collection of world class international furniture brands.
Driade was born in '68, some decades ago, in the same period as the trends that would have characterized the twentieth century: both the rigor of geometric and rational design and , on the other hand, the recovery of pop art and its influence on pop and radical design.
Today, the "design landscape" is quite different, permeated as it is by the globalization and all- embracing digitization.To understand Driade, you should visit its headquarters in Fossadello, near Piacenza.
In this sense, the headquarters is a perfect "aesthetic laboratory" for it expresses the idea of an overall image where everything contributes to create a work of art; a Wagnerian gesamtkunstwerk, where you can find pieces of architecture, furniture, objects, fabrics and carpets and where designers, photographers, graphic designers, web designers, and workers can meet together. There's something that reminds us of the Grand Duke Ernest Louis of Hesse who called, in 1899, the architect of the Viennese Secession Joseph Maria Olbrich to design the "Colony of artists", Mathildenhöhe, in Darmstadt: made of buildings by Olbrich himself and, among the others, by the young Peter Behrens. It was right Behrens to give the most acute definition of Darmstadt: "celebration of life and art."
It was meant to welcome artists, architects and designers in a place, symbol of aesthetic research, aiming at the popularization of applied arts in Germany, through the design and production of furniture and objects meant for retail.
The epoch of Mathildenhöhe was the early twentieth century, now we are in the XXI century: the age of the avant-garde, of rationalism vs. expressionism, of geometry vs. dreamy figures, has gone. The conflicts that characterized the design of the last century, if not yet disappeared, are certainly vanishing and have acquired a different sense.
This phase is marked by the multiplicity of languages that make it difficult to identify trends or relationships. A variety of authors, not always easily assessable and not all entirely acceptable, is building this century, which is characterized, in art and design, by pluralism, multiplicity of signs, and "idiolects" – as Roland Barthes called the use of language specific of a single author. The "Aesthetic laboratory" of Driade is fully relevant in this new and pluralist twenty-first century, while continuing to pursue its dream of "celebration of life and art". Vanni Pasca
Driade is a complex project about refined aesthetics of living. In its multifaceted and eloquent catalog, Antonia Astori's containment systems dialogue with Aleph collection furnishing: while the former organize space and constitute its skeleton, the latter isa multilingual laboratory of contemporary design.
Over the years, the catalog has displayed and promoted a rich variety of researches, poetries and international trends, portraying Driade as a constantly changing, one-of-a-kind aesthetic experiment. Today, we can clearly see what has implicitly made the difference right from the outset: a predisposition to listening a sort of alertness and close attention to the signs coming from overseas, in order to develop those which can be translated into familiar pieces of furniture.
The modular systems, in their abstract dimension of organizing grids, have always been a kind
of architecture capable of absorbing and redistributing the impact of different languages. Today they have become more precious, often assuming the form of rigorous furnishing. They still guide though the flow of languages that shakes the customs of traditional living.
This permeability to differences makes the Driade project a highly up-to-date proposition, open to the future. It rejects the leveling of globalization, but senses the vitality and freshness arising from a multiplication of places where ideas are developed and products are produced.
Driade multiplies local voices, crosses borders and opens up to different influences coming from various levels of culture. The guarantee lies in high quality standards, starting from the designers' proposals right through to production and communication.Paradoxically, the more Driade grows and evolves,accommodating diverse articulations in its catalog, the simpler it becomes clarifying and laying bare the internal paths that make it possible to create organic and coherent areas of taste. Driade's many personalitiesare organized around a system, and each of them lives its own autonomous and complete life, which can be either orderly or unconventional, neobourgeois or revolutionarily aristocratic depending on the sensitivity and taste of whoever is choosing. Each person finds his or her own individual Driade. The extent of the tonal range, the variety of accents, and the potential to introduce dissonances that accentuate the harmony of the whole: these are the elements that differentiate Driade in the apparently elementary microcosm of living.
More than just a "brand", Driade is thought of as a "global brand", where the aesthetic and promotional richness is due to the character of its authors more than to the logic of a traditional business strategy. From the beginning, thus, the press communication was assigned a strategic and "evocative" role, basically on two levels: the divulgation and the promotion. Both of this functions give rise to a "metalanguage" where the "words" of individual artists are organized within a flow of communications, including publishing initiatives, slogans, events, etc. : in this way, the product's explanation it's told both by the story of an atmosphere and the allusion to a space where individual objects are witnesses and guarantors.
In this case too, you have to look behind effects to find people: Adelaide Astori, who interpreted emphatically the concept of production as collection with her unitary and continuous press direction, imagined a "second life" where objects and ffurnishings were more real than in reality.
As Italo Lupi wrote, Adelaide Astori has been able to "imagine the photo shoot as a true product of the dramatic technique": the "houses" of Driade arise, in fact, from the most "precious" room in the factory of Fossadello, the white room, where things are arranged as an idealized vision, that becomes tangible and concrete though the photographed image.
Communication, therefore, is not only the natural vehicle for the transmission of data: its "virtual" nature acquire, in fact, a structural value which is one with the eclecticism of the catalog : it's a catalog itself, or rather a container where the artists' idiosyncrasies and the producers' individuality are combined into a single image. Virtual and real at the same time.
Fulvio Irace.
"Beauty factory", "agency-enterprise", "creative laboratory" … Many definitions have tried, over time, to define the atypical image of Driade in the landscape of international design. Each of them depict a part of reality, but none describes it all. Behind every company, there are indeed individuals, charisma, intuition and dedication of a unique character that finds, in the outline of work, the most suitable soil for the completion of its personality.
How could you possibly think about "Wiener Werkstätten" without Joseph Hoffmann, Omega Workshops without the extravagant members of the exclusive Bloomsbury group, Memphis without Ettore Sottsass or Alchymia without Alessandro Mendini? Similarly, in 1968, Driade would have never been born if a young graduate in architecture hadn't decided to turn his back to the family business – a solid enterprise of concrete prefabricated – to give shape to a dream very close to an obsession. Producing furniture and furnishings not as "types" – that is, elements of an infinite assembly line- but as individual art objects; to become, therefore, not an entrepreneur, but an art collector. The obsession becomes production, but its rules are not those of the market, but those of many individual choices. Enrico Astori has repeatedly stated that he would have never been able to produce things that wouldn't have liked to give friends or keep at home: it may seem incredible (or naive) to trade analysts but, this is how Driade was developed as a factory of art. It is so that its greedy, irreducible diversity of creative enterprise, focusing on the language of authors, artists and designers, was developed and spread.
The strategy of the collector becomes the company's strategy: the brand is focused on the essence of experimentation and dissemination. Driade collections, in almost half a century, have become something like a logical labyrinth, where everything finds its natural place and talks to us of an endless time when collections, themselves, perpetuate as a family legacy. That's why Elisa Astori has become, since a while, the mistress of a house that needs to be always updated and enriched of the idiosyncrasies and ambitions of the heirs, to remain vital and constantly open to the world.


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Star Syracuse tackle Justin Pugh to skip final season
SYRACUSE - Syracuse football offensive tackle Justin Pugh will forgo his final season of eligibility with the Orange and enter the 2013 NFL Draft.
A 2011 and 2012 All-Big East First Team selection, Pugh started every game he played at Syracuse. The team co-captain was also honored as a 2012 ECAC Division I Football All-Star and 2012 ESPN.com All-Big East Team selection. Pugh has completed his degree requirements in finance.
"Coach Marrone and Coach Adkins have been great throughout my career, including through this process," Pugh said. "I wanted to be honest with everyone as I made this decision and they were the same with me. My Syracuse career was the best four years of my life. My teammates, coaches, the staff and the fans have been great. I would not change anything about my decision to attend Syracuse or my career. I am so happy I came to Syracuse University. I will always be active in the Orange football program and the Syracuse community. I love the Orange. Go 'Cuse."
After missing the first four games of the 2012 season with an injury, Pugh returned to the Syracuse lineup to anchor an offensive line that as has paved the way for 1,000-yard rusher Jerome Smith. In addition, the Orange averaged 187.0 yards per game on the ground, the program's most effective ground attack since 2004. Pugh and the rest of the SU front five allowed just 16 sacks this season.
"Justin is a big part of this program turning the corner," said head coach Doug Marrone. "He came in with us four years ago and gave us everything he had. We are proud of him for earning his degree and for what he has accomplished on the field as a leader of this team. He has earned it. I believe he will be very successful at the next level and in everything he does outside of football. Justin will always be part of the Orange football family."
The Holland, Pa. native was a key player for the Orange offense that ranked eighth nationally and first in the Big East in third down conversion (49.3%) and led the conference in the conference in total offense (476.3).
Pugh blocked for a 1,000-yard rusher all three seasons. Prior to the 2012 season, Pugh was named to the 2012 Rotary Lombardi Award Official Watch List and the 2012 Outland Trophy Watch List, which recognizes the best interior lineman in college football.


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Semantic Lawyering: How the Semantic Web Will Transform the Practice of Law (Part 5)
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