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At the end of a meeting months after Kelly went through The Leadership Challenge Workshop and took the Leadership Practice Inventory (LPI), one of her team members asked, "So Kelly, are you going to ask what can we learn?" The whole team laughed. Kelly had been practicing Behavior #18 on the LPI, "Asks what we can learn? when things don't go as expected." She had posted the Leadership Behavior Ranking (LBR) next to her desk and had circled this behavior, which was ranked in her "Bottom 10". In her role, she felt she needed to be better at asking "what we can learn" in order to create an environment where people weren't afraid to Challenge the Process and take risks. She began asking that question at the end of every meeting with her team. They caught on and began asking the question themselves.
Kelly's story demonstrates the power of utilizing the LBR as a coaching tool, as well as the power of practicing. Of course, Kelly didn't get much response from the team in the beginning, but she kept on asking. She kept on practicing. And when she repeated her LPI, Behavior #18 was in the Top 5 highest ranking behaviors on her LBR!*
Once you've gotten feedback from those around you regarding your leadership behaviors, you may not be sure where to focus your attention. Fortunately, there are a variety of ways that you can use the LBR — a key component of your LPI Feedback Report — to coach yourself as part of your own development journey or to coach others.
Overview of the Leadership Behaviors Ranking (LBR)
The Leadership Behaviors Ranking lists the results of the 30 Leadership Behaviors included in the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI). All of your responses, ranked highest to lowest, are compared to the combined scores of all of your observers. This gives you a great snapshot of your strengths (your "Top 10"), your development areas (possibly your "Bottom 10"), and how well you and your observers are aligned.
- Focus on Alignment
- Which of these behaviors do you think are significant, given my role and our current environment?
- Based on your interactions with me, which of these behaviors do you see as my strengths? Which behaviors do you think are key areas of development for me?
This is a great way to begin to use your LBR. Asterisks placed at the far right of your report (near the Observer scores) indicate leadership behaviors where your scores were significantly different (1.5 points) from those of your observers. These behaviors may be where you want to focus your attention.
As leaders, we want to have the same perception of our leadership behaviors that others do. If we are not aligned with others perceptions of how frequently we engage in leadership behaviors, there is a disconnect in how we lead.
For example, if your Observers tended to rate you higher than you rated yourself, you may have higher or tougher expectations for yourself. How can you recognize the behaviors in your day-to-day interactions? On the other hand, if others tended to rate you lower than you rated yourself, you may be wondering "what's up?" Remember that the LPI measures frequency of behavior, so others aren't necessarily saying that you don't lead as well as you think you do. They may be expecting more frequency in the behaviors, which is where you have the biggest disconnect.
Discuss your results with your manager, trusted peer, or coach
If you'd like to get a better idea of where others feel you need to focus your development efforts, talk to your manager or a trusted peer or coach. Using the LBR as a discussion point, ask them questions such as:
This discussion serves two purposes: it shows those who have provided feedback to you that their thoughts matter; and it helps you focus your leadership development in ways that are beneficial for your organization.
Focus on Your Bottom 10 Behaviors
When focusing on your Bottom 10, recognize that several behaviors of the LPI tend to fall into that category for the population at large. If other leaders in your organization are also participating in the LPI experience, it may be a good idea for the group to focus on those behaviors that you all have in common, such as:
- Inspire A Shared Vision:
#7: Describes a compelling image of what our future could be like.
#12: Appeals to others to share an exciting dream of the future.
#17: Shows others how their long-term interests can be realized by enlisting in a common vision.
Model The Way:
#16: Asks for feedback on how his/her actions affect other peoples performance.
If you participate with a group to focus on these behaviors, you can then determine how you want to focus on the remaining six behaviors in your Bottom 10.
Focus on a Practice
Often leaders find it difficult to develop a particular practice. However, using the LBR to identify each behavior in a practice can help operationalize that practice. Encourage the Heart is a good example of one of the Five Practices that frequently poses challenges for leaders and is especially valuable to consider because it can have such a great effect on the other practices. Sometimes leaders look at the practice as a whole and do not see that each behavior is important. Leaders may think they thank people for the work they do and have celebrations, but wonder why their Encourage the Heart scores are lower than they would like. Maybe leaders are not being as creative as they could be or are not recognizing others based on shared values. You can use the LBR in this case to see which of the behaviors of the practice are ranked highest and lowest. It also may then be helpful to look at the Data Summary in your report for that practice in the LPI to get an idea of what each observer group is saying through the data.
These are just a few ideas to get you started using the Leadership Behavior Ranking in your LPI Report as a coaching tool. Using the LBR can focus your development efforts. It also can help you become more familiar with each leadership behavior so that you can increase the frequency of those behaviors. As you use the tool, remember that Kelly didn't focus on a behavior once or twice; she practiced using the behavior EVERY TIME she was in a situation where she thought it could be used. It's with that practice where we all become better leaders.
*Kelly also focused on Behavior #27, "Speaks with genuine conviction about the higher meaning and purpose of our work" and saw it rise to the Top 5 as well.
Renee Harness is Managing Partner at Third Eye Leadership, where their goal is Inspiring Organizational Strength with Courage and Vision. The partners at Third Eye Leadership are experts in strengthening your bottom-line through evidenced-based leadership experience. She can be reached at email@example.com.


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Covered on ABC News earlier today, the Kraay family of Alberta, Canada decided to set the Guinness world record for the largest Quick Response (QR) code ever created. Created on a total area of fifteen acres with the QR code using seven, the Kraay family contacted a maze designer in order to help them pull off this feat. Regarding the concept for the design, Rachel Kraay stated "We were just sitting around reading magazines and stuff when we saw one of the QR codes on the cover. I thought, 'You know it kinds of looks like a maze, I wonder if we could make one?' and the idea just kind of snowballed from there."
After the corn was removed from specific areas of the field, the family had to darken the path quite a bit more in order to work correctly as a QR code. Once the family thought the QR code would be effective, they used a helicopter to fly over the field and successfully scanned the code with a mobile smartphone.
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Missoula County Sheriff's Office Public Information Officer Paige Pavalone said on Monday, September 16, that the initial report regarding Thompson and a male companion came in to 9-1-1 early Saturday morning.
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Quote:Another component that I think is neglected in the CM style stuff is the effectiveness of hand fighting and the ability to control an opponents structure via wrist, tricep and bicep tie ups as you enter in the clinch.
Quote:Spending all your time sparring with big gloves on I think can breed a false sense of security as to how vulnerable you can be when you punch for it to be latched onto and then pummelled in on.
Quote:JkogasIf you don't mind. I'd like to jump around to different parts of the RAT beginning with what you prefer to call Resolution. Once you've reached the point of trapping range, you literally have a plethora of techniques you can apply. Vu however, prefers to apply the most simplistic, hard hitting of tools(HKE's). Which is part of his street fighter approach vs martial artist. Easier for non MAist to remember and train.
Quote:Its from trapping that you really begin to explore other avenues from different styles in order to expand on your art? Meaning this is where u can employ, your judo sweeps, wrestling take downs, tai chi throws, and bjj submissions. Dealing with an infinite amount of outcomes. Not to say that the Entry and Pressure portion of the RAT is standardized because as you know it isn't set in stone. As you stated that straight blast is not the only way to create pressure. Assuming I am on the right track so far.
Quote:My question then is, how crucial do you consider the thumbing on the eyes prior to any clinch?
Quote:As for me I can only come up with one conclusion after watching so many MMA fights, and how ineffective the clinch can be w/o attacking the eyes, throat, groin, or shins. Borrowing from that small moment in time similar to the way you make your initial Entry. I don't see the clinch being has successful if one of these critical areas aren't attacked first.
Quote:P.S.As a reminder of my background in PFS, I have never trained with an instructor, all of my knowledge have been though article stacks, and instructional DVD's. I have around 35 Vunak DVD's all are consistent with his main stream approach to street fighting. I practice with a small group of friends most are like myself former TKD practitioners.
Quote:Jkogas, I still have questions regarding your bjj and how much of the art you have implemented into your system.
Quote:Your thoughts on Kino Mutai the uninterrupted art of biting and eye gouging, and Vu's fusion of it with bjj.
Quote:more questions to come about CM, there are Rodney King dvd's available to me, however, I have just been so overwhelmed with Vu's material and excited by it, that I don't wanna add more to my plate.I hope your still around to help enlighten me with this stuff. I really appreciate it.-Tek
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Hands-On Review: Softek Performance Tuner
Softek's Performance Tuner is adept at identifying bottlenecks and impending failures.
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Softek Storage Solutions Inc. recently added Performance Tuner to its Storage Manager Enterprise Storage Resource Management (ESRM) suite of products, which also includes Space Optimizer and SANView. The new Performance Tuner product is designed to identify existing, as well as potential, storage bottlenecks and component failures. Performance Tuner should bolster Softek's efforts to keep pace with rivals such as CA's BrightStor Storage Resource Manager, Tivoli Storage Resource Management and Veritas' CommandCentral. But Performance Tuner adds a new capability not commonly found in other SRM suites.
SRM can yield significant benefits: storage utilization improvement, reduced planned and unplanned downtime, and better storage procurement practices and prices.
A growing number of organizations are implementing service-level agreements (SLAs) with end users and suppliers alike. Performance Tuner lets IT organizations measure and monitor storage systems, from the aggregate to the finite, to assess compliance with SLAs and solve performance problems. But SRM tools tend to be so monolithic and complex that they become shelfware over time. There is a need for SRM tools that:
- Are easy enough to use
- Perform essential functions without excessive overhead
- Avoid problems rather than simply providing a postmortem on past problems
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Performance Tuner's easy-to-navigate interface offers a single-screen view of service index, throughput and responsiveness.
Our tests were based on these criteria.
Test setup
Atesting environment for an enterprise SRM product requires a sufficiently diverse configuration to exercise the product's capabilities. Our test setup was provided by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), a Colorado Springs, CO, industry group dedicated to advancing storage technology and deployment. In the SNIA lab, we used three Microsoft Windows XP systems, one Windows 2003 system and a Sun Solaris server. All the Windows servers had Emulex LP10000 host bus adapters (HBAs) connected to an IBM Enterprise Storage Server model F20 via a Brocade SilkWorm 2800 Fibre Channel switch. Additionally, the Sun server had 50GB of direct-attached storage that was being monitored. While relatively modest, this configuration included most of the typical elements found in larger SANs. We also used Iometer, an open-source tool used to induce a sequential access or random access workload on storage systems for testing purposes.
Softek recommends that ESRM and Performance Tuner be installed on a standalone Windows 2000 or Windows 2003 server. Agents must also be installed on each managed server. The agent controls a small local database that stores captured information. Installing an individual agent is quick and easy, but installation across large server farms with hundreds or thousands of servers could involve significant effort. Nevertheless, this architecture is consistent with other products in the category.
Softek also recommends that professional services be engaged for the initial installation. This is sound advice; even with a Softek engineer on site, our total installation spanned nearly three days, although some of that time was spent waiting for materials. SRM systems have complex interdependencies, and grappling with them can eat up a storage administrator's time. For example, we ran into an inconsistency between the Brocade switch and Windows Server 2003 that required a substitution with Windows Server 2000. We should point out that the desirability of professional services assistance is consistent with our experiences using other SRM products.
Performance Tuner is displayed in the Storage Manager console as a separate tab with its own menu items (see "Single screen summarizes data"). The GUI is intuitive, easy to use and lets an administrator build performance data queries without having to know SQL. It should be noted that included runtime versions of SQL Server and MySQL run on the main server. Performance Tuner has a rich set of graphing tools, allowing data and graphs to be exported for further manipulation or inclusion in other documents.
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Performance Tuner lets you select and consolidate performance data to create throughput graphs.
The main drawback to Performance Tuner in a storage area network (SAN) environment is its dependency on the separate SANView product to get an overall performance summary picture. Performance Tuner is excellent for gathering information about data access times, which is a key metric for SLAs. To view information about HBA and switch port performance, however, SANView must also be installed. These two product views need to be better integrated. For example, viewing alerts and SAN hardware status is accomplished via two separate screens, one in SANView for the overall status of the SAN hardware and one in Performance Tuner for the data access metrics. Ultimately, Softek consolidates the information into a concise view by allowing the graphing of HBAand switch performance directly with the data access metrics (see "Graphic view of performance").
Environment and performance
Our test configuration did not challenge the scalability of Storage Manager. Softek boasts an installation scaling to 500 million files, and others with more than 300 servers each. Softek says the agent's impact on each managed server is generally less than 5% of CPU resources. A bigger issue is the time needed to perform a full environment scan. In this respect, the critical factor is the number of files to be scanned; a large number of small files takes longer than a small number of large files. Organizations with a high file count should be prepared for this process to take the better part of a weekend. The server scans occur in parallel, however, so it's really the largest server file count that determines the total scan time.
After the baseline data is gathered, Space Optimizer gathers and reports incremental sets of data from the agents to the main server. These small sets can be collected in a matter of minutes or hours. Although an administrator can set the data collection process for any interval, once per day is typically sufficient.
SRM tools can easily drown an administrator in data. Performance Tuner's primary strength is its ability to summarize data access statistics into three key, easy-to-monitor metrics: throughput I/O, service index and responsiveness. Similar to a person's heart rate, blood pressure and temperature, these three items provide a quick picture of a storage system's health. Throughput is measured by read/write rates in KB/sec; the service index is the ratio of cached data requests to data requests queued to be read from the disk; and responsiveness is the latency delay in obtaining data. Although Softek provides general guidelines for these metrics (such as a service ratio greater than 70% is a best practice), IT organizations should develop their own data over time. The data that's collected by Performance Tuner for graphing and trend analysis can be used to easily identify deviations from the norm and project future system performance.
Of course, a variety of other statistics can also be monitored, four in particular: Windows cache, physical disk, processor and system times. Each of these includes four to 20 different metrics. History, profile and correlation graphing functions are provided so that an administrator can look back in time, match data access metrics to physical HBA and switch port metrics, and do some predictive analysis. Alerts that trigger when pre-set thresholds are exceeded are easy to set, and can generate SNMP traps, e-mails or displays on the application's alerts screen.
Breadth of features
Performance Tuner offers a solid starting point for storage performance monitoring, upon which Softek can continue to build. Although its name suggests it can provide remedial measures, it offers the features that are most critical to SLA monitoring and management without an onerous administrative overhead.
Softek's biggest challenge will be supporting the myriad devices found in ITenvironments. Even in our modest test configuration, we ran into the problem with the Brocade switch due to an API that was not supported by Windows 2003 Server. Of course, it isn't necessarily required that every component in a SAN be supported, but IT organizations should verify their own configurations prior to purchase with a trial of the system.
Rating the product
Here's how Performance Tuner stacks up against our ideal:
- Easy enough to use – After a fairly involved setup, Performance Tuner is simple enough that a junior-level administrator can manage and monitor the product. The powerful graphing and reporting functions effectively summarize a large amount of information into easily understood graphics. In this regard, we would rate Performance Tuner as "very good."
- Performs essential functions without excessive overhead – By providing the three base metrics as the macro view of performance, Softek has crossed our threshold for providing actionable information without obscuring it with irrelevant data. Thus, we give the product an "excellent" rating for this aspect.
- Proactively avoids problems – As a component of ESRM, data gathered by Performance Tuner can be manipulated to create trending and forecast models. As a monitoring and reporting product, Performance Tuner doesn't take remedial action for identified problems. This is the key limitation of most SRM products, so we can't single out Performance Tuner for blame. Other components of Storage Manager, however, do offer some automated capabilities. For this criterion, we give Performance Tuner an "average" rating.
Bearing in mind the adage, "If you can't measure it, you can't manage it," it's surprising that so few IT organizations have deployed an SRM tool. Other performance monitoring methods are available, although mainly from a database or application perspective. Hardware-based monitoring tools are available that deliver precise throughput data, but they don't take remedial action either. Moreover, it's not practical to physically install a device in every data path.
Softek's product offers a unique combination of component-level data gathering that can't be achieved with an application monitor or most SRM products, and a breadth of data gathering and reporting that can't be achieved with a hardware device. The system as configured for our test included Space Optimizer, SANView and Performance Tuner, and has a list price of $58,054, which includes one year of 24x7 technical support.
IT organizations seeking to improve their storage environment performance should begin with an SRM tool, and the Softek suite is a worthy addition to any shortlist of candidates.
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- Tame Beast now tames pets to match the hunter's level, rather than 3 levels below.
- Bloodthirsty no longer generates Happiness.
- Carrion Feeder no longer restores Happiness.
- The Feed Pet ability now instantly heals 50% of the pet's health. Cannot be used in combat. Requires diet-appropriate food.Guard Dog no longer causes Growl to generate additional Happiness.
- The Happiness/Pet Loyalty System has been removed. Hunters will no longer have to manage Happiness for their pets, and the previous damage bonus for pets being happy will now be baseline for all tamed pets.
I was rather dismayed when I saw these patch notes.
One of the things that Vanilla WoW did really well was emphasize the idea that a hunter pet was a separate entity from the hunter. You had to go out into the world and tame your pet from the wild, even the very first pet. The pet had it's own experience bar, and leveled separately. You had to keep your pet happy and feed it with the appropriate food. If your pet grew too unhappy, it would actually run away from you. The pet had a "loyalty" statistic that measured how attached it was to you.1 You had to train your pet with new skills that you learned by taming other beasts.
There was this whole "tamagotchi"/virtual pet aspect to hunter pets at the start of WoW that was very attractive. It was a small mini-game within the class that didn't really have anything to do with combat or raiding or pvp. In many ways, that mini-game has been bled out from the class in the name of streamlining, and I think that is a real shame. The hunter pet has, more and more, become a mere extension of the hunter, rather than something with its own personality.
Obviously, some parts of the old system, particularly training new skills, were a little excessive. The pet talent trees are much better. And your pet running away from you was harsh, because feeding your pet wasn't exactly intuitive at level 10. But I think that rather than going in the current direction with pets, Blizzard should reconsider, and go in the opposite direction and play up the virtual pet aspect more.
If it was up to me, I would keep pet happiness in the game. Indeed, I would remove pet happiness from the talent trees, so your pet wouldn't automatically stay happy. Instead there would be more emphasis on feeding your pet and using the Mend Pet glyph to keep it happy. The hunter should actively control her pet's happiness.
I would also keep the 3 level difference on taming, to emphasize the separate personalities.
I would also not have the hunter start with a pet. Instead, the level 3 hunter class quest should be to tame your first pet from the wild. Though it would still be a guardian, like it is now.
I think Blizzard needs to slow down with its streamlining of classes. Not all inconveniences need to be eliminated. Sometimes the inconvenience adds something. Having to deal with pet happiness is sometimes an inconvenience, but in the long run it makes the hunter class more interesting.
1. Infamously captured in the Loyalty Level 6 controversy. For those who weren't around at the time, Loyalty Level 6 was the highest rank of loyalty your pet could attain. It was also the name of a piece of fan art that depicted a scantily-clad female tauren hunter hugging her pet lion. The WoW community--never high-minded at the best of times--immediately jumped to the most salacious conclusion.


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Help clients focus on the practice Model the Way and build leadership competence in setting a personal example, the behavior identified in item #1 of the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI).
The following statement is the first item in the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI), and relates to the Model the Way practice.
- I set a personal example of what I expect of others.
Based on client feedback and insight from your coaching work, you may determine that your client could benefit from focusing on this particular behavior as part of the Model the Way practice. As you work with your client in a coaching situation, the following suggested questions and activities have been created to stimulate discussion and reflection.
You will note that several of the activities reference a "journal." There is an assumption that your leader will have a personal journal in which to track plans, questions, and desires. A journal is an important tool for reflection on a leader's journey to excellence.
Remember, the value of these activities and discussion questions is not in the doing but in the follow-on discussion with you, the coach. Be sure to allow time to discuss the "so what" and the "now what" that occur as a result of any discussion or activity.
Questions You Can Ask
- What do you think it means to "set a personal example?"
- What are your top three defining values?
- Imagine that you are setting the perfect personal example; what would it look like?
- How will you know what the expectations are? What do you wish leaders you've worked for in the past had done more? Less?
- Who can you relate to that is a good example of setting a personal example?
- Where do you think there might be a disconnect between what you say and what you do?
- Why should someone want to follow you?
- If your team could select its leader, would they choose you? Why do you think that?
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Squeaky Clean Model: As a leader you must model the utmost integrity and professionalism.
- Tempted to pad your last expense report? Don't do it.
- Laughed at the last off-color joke? Don't do it.
- Smiled when someone used a stereotypical comment? Don't do it.
- Told a white lie about why you forgot to do something? Don't do it.
The harm is not in each of the little things that may have tempted you. The harm is in fooling yourself that it's okay. You need to model the highest level of integrity and professionalism for your team members. Setting an example is the most powerful act a leader can do. Besides, you have to live with yourself. This is an excellent topic for you to track in your journal.
Quote to Ponder: Michelangelo said, "Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle." What does this mean to you? How do you translate this to your daily work, your philosophy, and the business you are in? What are the trifles that you deal with? How do these trifles lead to perfection? Which trifles do you need to set a personal example? How do you plan to do that?
Make an entry in your journal. Remind yourself to review the answers to these questions next week after you've slept on it for a few days.
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Be from Missouri: As a leader you must lead by example. You influence your employees' thoughts and behavior -probably more than you think. Regardless of what appears in your job description or in employee handbooks, your behavior is the real performance standard your employees and team members will emulate. They will assume it is okay and appropriate to do whatever they see you do. This means that it is critical that you set the example. You need to model the behavior and performance you expect from others. There's no magic here. It's really quite simple: just pretend that you are from Missouri, the "show-me state." Whether it is attitude, attendance, work ethic, or respect of others, simply show your team members what you expect them to do. Identify areas where you may not be the model that you would like your team members to follow. Then decide what you will do differently. At a future time you may wish to discuss your planned changes with your supervisor.
Adapted from A Coach's Guide to Developing Exemplary Leaders: Making the Most of The Leadership Challenge and the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) by James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner, and Elaine Biech


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A Freshman Heisman Winner? Could Happen Tonight
WSJ's Rachel Bachman and Darren Everson profile the three finalists for this year's Heisman Trophy award, including Texas A&M freshman Johnny Manziel, nicknamed 'Johnny Football' by some. Photo: Getty Images.
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I ... this is a huge weekend in college football with three Heisman trophy finalist are writing in your city ... we have tying themselves from taxes and am a freshman quarterback ... ManTech Teo the linebacker from Notre Dame ... and fallen one another we're back from Kansas State ... so one evening to display ... a skinny man so although I thought was interesting you mention his class ... not anybody else's then a little bit discrimination in what is that that ... well it's here in Utah but it's never happened that I sent the letters pressure ... inside Russia ... that would happen first time or ... mental to be elected ... um I think he's earned forty six hundred yards of total offence of ... about thirty seconds it is ... also very impressive numbers ... but we want is that even when the matter I know I'm I'm still looking for Sep Q what that is a reason not to go with this guy ... these are the square is about where the the um are going for it but just ... the whole idea I think so ... well I will argue for him and you read about depression thing but he's got forty six yards of total opposites in a beat Alabama which is incredible team win the title a few words ... and you simply has given us a reason not to vote for him but he's got it but but when effect ... by beating Alabama Alabama is pre much was with him on the map does remember before this it looks like he was getting deeper Seno Smith there is that I am ... a kid isn't watching on TV ... and then of course look like you can take on why he personally ... what about SEO from Notre Dame I mean ... there's a lot talk about this debt Saul's interceptions ... firstly I really think they use to look its debts with defensive players to love the Islamic context or you don't remember but ... he basically is the best player of the best deepen the country ... no offense Alabama ... and I he's the reason without him than anywhere near the national title I think he deserves to trade ... it's interesting that both of those teams started the season unranked Stuttard and and and and and both reports are ... world beaters at this point ... we love fall and why why are its ... life we can forget about ... it he said a great season there can be in a BCS in the works at the big twelve Conference but ... if you look the universe and sell ... it ends up with a tougher schedule tougher conference in as their numbers ... so there really isn't hard at this point find it look like he has been away ... the band after they lost IQ daylight would close ... the place with all of ... its pillar of course having the worst of the fence and ... awful on time to ... sell its convincing rain saw this weekend


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Wastewater plant no longer pumping raw sewage into water
Exact cause of sudden surge of water unknown
The town's wastewater treatment plant stopped discharging millions of gallons of untreated sewage into the ocean late Saturday night, and the plant is operating again, the Patriot Ledger reported.
But neither town leaders nor plant operators know the exact cause of the sudden surge of water that disabled the plant Thursday morning.
Local environmentalists are concerned about the impact and are questioning whether Hull's sewage treatment is really prepared for a storm and flooding.
"We're still investigating the cause," John Struzziery, chairman of Hull's permanent sewer commission, said Sunday. "The treatment plant had extremely high flow over the past week. There's been snow melt, rainfall and high groundwater, but we've handled this type of water in the past."
On Friday in an effort to keep wastewater from backing up into homes, crews began pumping sewage over the boulders and into the sea just across from the treatment plant at the far end of Nantasket Avenue near Spring Street.
More than 2 million gallons of untreated water gushed into the ocean per day, said Edmund Coletta, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection.
The sewage coming out of the pipe was diluted by the surge of water coming into the system, but it still contained sewer waste, Coletta said.
"It's definitely sewage," he said. "It's solids. It's things that get flushed down the toilet."
Philip Lemnios, Hull's town manager, said town officials and workers from United Water, a private company that runs the plant, will assess equipment damage this week.
Lemnios downplayed any environmental concerns, saying the amount of sewage discharged is small compared to the body of water, Massachusetts Bay. He also said the discharge was miles from the town's popular swimming beaches.
But Anamarija Frankic, a professor of coastal ecosystem management at UMass-Boston and a resident of Squantum, said the plant failure and sewage discharge possibly signals deeper problems.
"Two days of rain and we are dumping our sewage outside? People should be aware that our systems and technology are not ready for big storms," she said Sunday.
Frankic said sea-level rise and the effect of climate change make these problems even more urgent.
Sewer commission member Struzziery said: "We know we're susceptible to storms, and we have frequent discussion about precautions."
Angela Sanfilippo, executive director of the Massachusetts Fishermen's Partnership, said Friday: "My whole feeling is this is not good for the ocean, bottom line."
On Sunday afternoon, a little sunshine beckoned walkers along the Hull sea wall. Many of them were worried that their favorite coastline had just been the site of sewage discharge.
"I think it's disgusting," Nancy Moran of Weymouth said. "People aren't going to want to use the beach."
Debbie Maw of Hull wasn't so worried.
"I'm not happy about it, but they test the water here all the time … and let us know," she said.
Scanning the rocky beach with her new metal detector, Kathy Affsa of Hanover hadn't heard of the sewage troubles.
"I would have gone to Duxbury if I'd known that," she said. "I'm definitely a beach person, and that's really sad to hear."
Nearer to the sewage treatment plant, neighbors Kathy and Ed Petrelli walked down Nantasket Avenue as water pumps rumbled.
"I was hoping they were pumping (sewage) into a connection to the 9-mile pipeline," Ed Petrelli said.
Petrelli didn't seem too bothered: "You cut back on toilet flushes and showers."


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But i can´t imagine a reason to use that in a time-lapsed movie . . . ok: a pathed move over a building, a landscape or so . . maybe.
geraldcor wrote:I'm a little bummed if I purchased the orion and I won't be able to do panning time lapses.
geraldcor wrote:Programmable exposure changing would be on the top of my list as well as far as camera control is concerned.
Have you ever seen Baraka?
That is the reason for panning time lapse photography
jeremyp wrote:We have the opportunity to capture full spherical time-lapse and pan with in that (in post) so in theory panning time-lapse is not required. Personally I like the idea of panning time-lapse, but this was discussed earlier
geraldcor wrote:I am very interested in using this for a timelapse. I purchased an orion because I initially thought papywizard would be able to control the movements for a panning timelapse. Maybe I am confused about it all. I just want to be able to move along the x and y axis and take a shot in between each movement. Isn't that what papywizard is already capable of?
I'm a little bummed if I purchased the orion and I won't be able to do panning time lapses.
klausesser wrote:P.S.: did some global lighting resp. IBL using a hdr-probe in Cinema4D
jeremyp wrote:klausesser wrote:P.S.: did some global lighting resp. IBL using a hdr-probe in Cinema4D
Nice. Soon you'll be able to capture a spherical HDRI with Papywizard and use it to light a virtual scene in Cinema4D
geraldcor wrote:The presets are looking like the answer and actually are what brought me here in the first place. I think everything will be okay with a little bit of typing and simulation running. I just got a little scared by some of the discussions here, but I still think the orion mount will work for me whether I use papywizard or a microcontroller.
2 questions if I may (you all seem very willing to answer questions which makes me very happy and comfortable here). 1. As far as presets are concerned, do I just save a .xml file based on the format of the presets that have already been submitted? Oops Sorry. Just saw this on the users guide. Consider it answered
2. If I do go the microcontroller route, does the Orion head use Pulse width modulation like a regular servo or does it use different commands? I have searched around trying to figure this out but have come up with very little information. EDIT and you may consider this question obsolete because with the stabilization delay setting, and a manually created preset, I think I will be able to do what I want (at least according to the 3D simulations)
Thanks everyone for any help with this project. I will keep you updated on my progress.
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Now nearly three years later, Jaworski and colleagues have published their findings in two journals, including a paper in the January 6, 2014 International Journal of Cancer.
Jaworski's research focuses on gliomas – brain tumors that originate in the glial cells of the brain – and developing therapies to treat these highly malignant tumors. In particular, patients with glioblastoma, which is the most aggressive type of these tumors and accounts for 80 percent of all gliomas, have a median survival of only 14 months. Even with treatments like surgery – not always an option – and radiation and chemotherapy, glioma stem cells are able to rapidly reform tumors. Jaworski and her fellow UVM neurological sciences faculty became closely familiar with this negative phenomenon when their late colleague Bruce Fonda, an anatomy lecturer, succumbed to the disease in 2005.
In the search for sorely-needed new therapies, Jaworski, Long and colleagues examined ASPA (aspartoacylase), an enzyme that breaks down a compound called N-acetyl-L-aspartate (NAA) into the amino acid aspartate and acetate. NAA is the brain's primary storage form of acetate, which plays a critical role in allowing genes to be turned on and off. In glioma, NAA levels and ASPA expression are decreased; thus, reducing acetate bioavailability.
"A hallmark of all cancers is global hypoacetylation," explains Jaworski. "Most notably, the lack of acetate silences tumor suppressor genes, the 'brakes' that limit cell division."
Long and Jaworski wondered if supplementing with NAA could increase ASPA expression, and acetate levels, thereby reducing proliferation. The results of their study, published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry were surprising. NAA and another source of acetate in the brain, N-acetylaspartylglutamate (NAAG), increased, rather than decreased, the proliferation of glioma stem cells. Hence, NAA, or NAAG, would not be an effective therapy.
Jaworski and Long were stumped. "Why was this therapy causing proliferation?" they wondered. The pivotal answer came to them in-flight: Adding more NAA will only generate acetate if ASPA is functional. "We needed another acetate source!" exclaims Jaworski. However, the additional source needed to be able to cross the blood-brain barrier and not require ASPA.
The key solution turned out to be an FDA-approved food additive – glyceryl triacetate (GTA) – used to treat Canavan disease, an inherited disorder that causes progressive damage to nerve cells in the brain.
"Children with Canavan disease die in infancy, because the glial cells that make myelin to cover nerve cells do not have enough acetate, since the NAA can't be broken down due to an ASPA mutation," says Jaworski.
A previous clinical trial using GTA, conducted by collaborators at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md., was fundamental to Jaworski's pursuit of this avenue. "Their work found that both rodents and infants can tolerate GTA very well," she says.
Within a few weeks back in the lab, they had the first promising results that GTA decreased the growth of glioma stem cells, but not normal brain cells, in culture. The next critical test would be to determine if GTA reduced the growth of brain tumors formed in mouse brains. With the help of Jeffrey Spees, Ph.D., associate professor of medicine and director of UVM's Stem Cell Core Facility, glioma stem cells were infected with a virus to express luminescent enzymes called firefly luciferase. Utilizing highly sensitive imaging tools, tumor size and response to therapy can be tracked over time without euthanizing the mice. Andrew Tsen, M.D., a third-year Fletcher Allen neurosurgery resident performing research in the lab, grafted the tumor cells and analyzed tumor volume without knowledge of treatment. The group's second aha moment came when the data were decoded and it was revealed that GTA increased the effectiveness of chemotherapy treatment and increased survival.
Few studies have investigated acetate as a potential therapeutic agent. Jaworski and colleague's preclinical study, reported in the International Journal of Cancer article, focused on glioma therapy. Because almost all types of cancer cells have reduced acetate, Jaworski believes that GTA will not only be effective on glioma cells, but potentially other cancers. Preliminary cell culture results support her hypothesis.
The team's invention shows promise. In addition to its low risk of side effects and minimal toxicity to non-cancerous cells, GTA can be orally administered, is easily absorbed by the stomach and gastrointestinal tract, and is an established therapy for Canavan disease. The next step is a Phase 1 clinical trial.
"The driving force for this project is the fond memories of my friend and colleague Bruce Fonda," says Jaworski reflectively. "I often wonder, what if GTA was available for him? However, I must now focus on the fact that there are other patients receiving the dire diagnosis of glioblastoma every day and GTA may help them. It is through this work that Bruce's legacy lives on."
Information supplied by the UVM Office of Technology Commercialization was used in this article.


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Fred Coyne
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Fred Coyne
by William Spalding, printed by Thomas Packer, published by Howard & Co
chromolithograph, circa 1879-1886
14 in. x 9 5/8 in. (357 mm x 246 mm) paper size
Given by John Hall, 1972
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Current affairsWomen's education continues to grow, with the founding of women's colleges in Oxford. Somerville College took its name from the late Scottish scientific writer Mary Somerville. Lady Margaret Hall was founded by Elizabeth Wordsworth, great niece of the poet, and named after Margaret Beaufort, a medieval noblewoman and mother of Henry VII.
Art and scienceEdison invents the first practical electric light bulb.
The first prehistoric paintings, dating back 14,000 years, are discovered in the Altamira caves in Northern Spain when a young girl notices paintings of bison on the ceilings.
The French actress Sarah Bernhardt, already acclaimed for roles in plays such as Racine's Phèdre and Victor Hugo's Hernani, celebrates a successful season at London's Gaiety Theatre.
InternationalAnglo-Zulu war fought between British forces and the Zulus, after disputes between the Boers and Zulu leader Cetshywayo over the Utrecht border attracted British intervention. The British victory marked the end of the independent Zulu nation, although the Zulu's initial victory at Isandhlwana was a major surprise. The Battle of Rorke's Drift was dramatised in the film Zulu, starring Michael Caine, in 1964.
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Midwest at Risk for Severe Weather
Joe Bastardi, WeatherBell Analytics chief forecaster, joins Lunch Break to look at the potential of severe weather, including a derecho, hitting the Midwestern U.S. Photo: AP.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... I ... high winds and tornadoes battling down on the Midwest racing fans of whether a band called direct show ... will last and so much mall ... right here right now on Lunch bright afternoon and welcome I'm Simon Constable in full Wendy ... she forecast of forty one develop analytical Sonus joins us now from bulls but Pennsylvania on and it's such a fast on the show thank you very much up for being map ... what is this the wretched thing we keep happening that we hearing about ... I really believe was going to occur while ... since last year's direction which currently shooting ... meteorologists that this that most missed it ... there's been what it called Horatio man you see it running in the next one ... so they started to scream utterances and while this can you tell that to go ... this doesn't fit the pattern for that to be but it does fit the pattern so that we can emphasizing whether all ... the major severe weather outbreak of the mid West in the mid Atlantic states ... and by that name into the matter yesterday to show here in Riyadh where we thought to be treated and tomorrow ... in the fifteen to thirty tornadoes and accidentally high amount of traffic activity ... on coming into the eastern part of the United States so there's no question that this is a big ticket severe weather ... the ... members of the native people don't care what blew the roof off their house and sit down or straight line wind direction or tornado ... they can ... be severe weather and it's a little hiking up that day to the huge irrational because ... it was such a standout in the last few most of them no ... don't current happens when it's combined with this storm ... is going to crank out a lot of grain growing areas of the Midwest ... and especially in the areas that were hit by the remnants of a degree last weekend storm a couple of days ago ... see c to four inches of rain Sunday when longtime in northern New Jersey and its economy and ... relatively rare that someone dollar eased Iraq ... I mean when when when the trees full leaks ... and you don't like that in the usually on the winter ... and the water ... brown such great from all the water you may have trees coming down in our actions so that some were concerned about tonight that will not be as severe weather it will be ... the store helping my goal was to be the Fed is close to him by tomorrow night ... on Friday that he needed her sentence to be plan although you call this a possible nor East ... likely in the area women right now they want the snow to Spain wanes and rain and Lance and his lawyer at the sawdust ... and the trees might tell Oprah right ... it's the it's not a coming ice age is no snow coming which always abnormally cool temperatures in the draft of ... the power outages and again it's because of all the leaves on trees Goldwater Reagan on the ground this materializes full force ... to more data on into the Friday morning get to the sixty mile has long Island ... to take on places like that ... could take centuries Daddy Paulson are just ... now people are concerned about drought conditions a couple weeks ago ... does that does that mean that they they missed the soil finds it hard to absorb the war to weaken again so that it did it becomes a problem ... you get a higher rating just a short period time ... these reverse very quickly added a couple weeks ago people were screaming drought wrapped around ... a ... high of ... fifty seven years old and didn't feel quite awhile ... and it seems that no one has memories of how the weather actually works ... most the time to get a prolonged period of normal or average is very unusual usually swing one way or the other way back and forth ... in the GC than normal real real ... good draw for ... is actually a chronic and swings back and forth somewhat extreme but not this particular ... issue you don't see much different from last summer lot more rain the road here is we are very cold spray and setting the stage for what's probably going to be a very differ so ... much ... and so very ... wet Friday thank you Brian much to the study we appreciate the time ... they spent


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Photo 2: Sharecroppers waiting turn for Cotton Gin, c. 1920
(Shields-Ethridge Heritage Farm Foundation)
Questions for Photo 2
1. What time of year does it look like it is at the farm? What time of day do you think it is? What does that tell you about the harvest of cotton?
2. Look closely at the wagon on the far right. Each wagon held about 600 pounds of cotton, or one bale. If the cotton was packed tightly, another bale could be loaded on top of the first. Do you think the wagon on the right is "double loaded"? Does it look like it has more or less cotton than the other wagons?
3. The owner is talking with a friend in the foreground. What do you think they might be talking about?


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With the sentencing this week of two former Rwandan politicians for their role in Rwanda's 1994 genocide, the Tanzania-based International Criminal Tribunal continues its work of trying the masterminds of the violence. In its 17-year history, the tribunal has achieved a number of firsts.
Mathieu Ngirumpatse and Edouard Karemera, president and vice-president of Rwanda?s then-ruling party, will be spending the rest of their lives behind bars for turning a blind eye to the atrocities committed by their party?s youth wing, the Interahamwe.
They join some 21 others currently serving sentences following trials in which they were found guilty of such charges as genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
Seventeen years ago, the United Nations set up the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda to catch the so-called ?big fish,? or high-level organizers, of a methodical, systematic campaign aimed at wiping out the Tutsi ethnic group. An estimated 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed during several months in 1994.
Since its beginning, the tribunal has indicted 92 suspects and has passed down judgments against 72 people. These include former government ministers, army commanders, diplomats, journalists, and other Rwandan elite.
Tribunal spokesman, Roland Amoussouga, says the capture and trials of the genocide?s architects have brought about what he calls a ?credible and on-going process of national reconciliation and healing? in Rwanda.
?If they were not arrested, God forbid, nobody knows what could have happened to the peace and stability in Rwanda. At the beginning, when they were not all arrested, there was trouble in most parts of Rwanda,? he said.
Amoussouga says the tribunal?s efforts have complemented Rwanda?s justice system.
In Rwanda, one of the most prominent justice activities has been the setting up of traditional `gacaca? courts to conduct trials of people accused of committing murder, rape, looting, and other crimes during the genocide. An estimated 1.5 million cases have been heard since 2001, mostly at the village level.
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda has achieved a number of firsts. It was the first international court to convict someone of genocide.
On June 24 of this year, the former Minister of Family and Women?s Development, Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, was sentenced to life in prison. Amoussouga says her conviction sets her apart.
?She was indicted for rape as (a) crime of genocide and she was the first woman to be arrested for genocide, for crimes against humanity. All these made her unique,? Amoussouga said.
She was tried alongside her son, who is also now behind bars for life.
Amoussouga says the tribunal has built up, in his words, a ?substantial body of jurisprudence? on such concepts as ?genocide,? ?crimes against humanity,? and ?war crimes? that can be used in courtrooms in other jurisdictions. He says the tribunal has also built up an extensive databank of historical evidence of the Rwandan genocide.
But the tribunal has had its share of challenges and criticisms.
Carina Tertsakian is senior researcher at Human Rights Watch in London. She says that the process has been, in her words, ?slow and cumbersome,? too bureaucratic, and punctured with many delays.
But, says Tertsakian, the most serious shortcoming is an omission to confront atrocities committed by a rebel group at the time that forms Rwanda?s current government.
?One aspect in which it (the tribunal) has failed is to prosecute cases of crimes committed by the Rwanda Patriotic Front, the ruling power currently in power in Rwanda. The Rwandan government has put very, very heavy pressure on the various ICTR prosecutors over the years to drop investigations into RPF crimes, and one by one, sadly, they have succumbed to that,? Tertsakian said.
At the end of 2008, Human Rights Watch sent the tribunal?s prosecutor, Justice Hassan B. Jallow, a letter urging the court to investigate reports of revenge killings of thousands of civilians by the Rwandan Patriotic Front.
The tribunal is set to wind up its work in 2014.
Rwanda Criminal Tribunal Pleased With Progress
With the sentencing this week of two former Rwandan politicians for their role in Rwanda's 1994 genocide, the Tanzania-based International Criminal Tribunal continues its work of trying the masterminds of the violence. In its 17-year history, the tribunal has achieved a number of firsts.


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Drivers' plan may save Summit Stage from big service cuts
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FRISCO – A new budget plan for the Summit Stage calls for a series of small route and schedule changes that may shield the transit system from far-reaching service cuts proposed in the face of a $300,000 shortfall this year.
A route committee, made up of bus drivers and other transit stakeholders, developed the plan in response to three cost-saving alternatives put forward last month, that might have meant reducing all routes to hourly service, layoffs and significant impact to riders.
"To do away with any of the peak buses would be extremely painful to both locals and visitors," said Bruce Camping, a driver and member of the Summit Stage Transit Board. "Any scheme that cuts the schedule at a given time of day is a brute force way of cutting back and saving money. We figured there would be a more intelligent way to do that."
Members of the route committee studied summer ridership numbers and came up with what they called a more "surgical" cost-saving scenario that would eliminate five off-peak runs, all of which see almost no traffic in the summer.
The plan, dubbed Scenario 6, would also push the start of the more minimal summer service schedule up by two weeks in the spring and reduce the Swan Mountain Flyer – a bus that commutes to Arapahoe Basin Ski Area – to weekend service for several weeks in the spring.
"It's the least impact on riders, it is the least impact on our drivers and it's cutting out the waste as opposed to really cutting service," transit board president Kent Willis said.
The new plan would still call for layoffs, although fewer than required by previous proposals.
But it wouldn't save as much money as previous proposals. The most sweeping service-cut proposals put forward, Scenario 1, would save the Stage as much as $900,000 per year. Scenario 6 would save only about $300,000 annually – approximately enough to cover the shortfall, but not enough to significantly rebuild the system's depleted savings account.
But Scenario 6 would have a much smaller impact on riders – affecting only 1,500 people, compared to the 32,000 passengers who would lose their regular routes under Scenario 1.
But not everyone is receiving the new budget plan with enthusiasm. Scenario 6 calls for the start of the winter bus schedule to be pushed back by two weeks, from Thanksgiving to the second week of December. The change would leave Copper Mountain with less frequent service during the first part of its ski season, which begins Nov. 1.
"We're going to run five weeks on hourly service, which if you look at the whole season, that's a big chunk," said Cindy Gillespie, Copper's representative on the transit board. "Copper has some major concerns about that."
The board was very close to approving the Scenario 6 cuts Wednesday, to take effect when the summer schedule begins in April. But the decision on pushing back the winter start date was postponed for further discussion in March.
Stage officials are also considering selling advertising on the outside of buses as an additional revenue generator.
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Cloud Atlas will premiere at TIFF. Have you read it? As I noted the other day - click here for a refresher - I was nervous about how it could be a film and at the same time, curious about how it would look as a film as imagined by the Wachowskis. Now an almost 6 minute trailer is online. Full Story
Young Victoria in Russia
In Moscow today, Benicio del Toro, Emily Blunt, and Hugo Weaving promoting The Wolfman. As noted last week, Emily's wardrobe on this press tour has been amazingness so far. This stop is no exception. And we've yet to hit America. Many of you wrote yesterday re: Emily being snubbed for a Best Actress nomination in The Young Victoria. Full Story


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ARM Libraries Adopted By IBM, The World's ASIC Technology Leader
IBM selects ARM IP libraries as the foundation for its new low power ASIC offering
CAMBRIDGE, UK – June 13, 2005 – ARM [(LSE: ARM); (Nasdaq: ARMHY)] today announced at DAC (Design Automation Conference), in Anaheim, California, that its ARM® Artisan® MetroTM low-power standard cell libraries, memory compilers and I/Os have been selected for IBM's newest 65 nanometer (nm) application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) product offering. Collaborating with a third-party library provider like ARM is in line with IBM's common platform design strategy and an important component of its first comprehensive low-power ASIC offering for the high-volume wireless, mobile and consumer electronic markets.
"ARM welcomes the opportunity to collaborate with IBM and combining the expertise of both companies will result in innovative low-power solutions for current and future leading-edge consumer applications," said Neal Carney, vice president of Marketing, Physical IP, ARM. "ARM's expertise in low-power design and proven track record of delivering quality physical IP to IBM were critical factors in being selected for IBM's first comprehensive low-power ASIC offering and we look forward to continuing the collaboration for future offerings."
"By collaborating closely with ARM on the new ASIC offering and leveraging ARM Artisan libraries IBM will be well positioned to service the ASIC needs of the fast-growing consumer marketplace," said Tom Reeves, OEM vice president, Semiconductor Products for IBM Systems & Technology Group.
The agreement between ARM and IBM is an expansion of the companies' collaborative efforts announced earlier this month where ARM Artisan Metro products are now a part of the 65nm Common Design Platform for foundry customers of both IBM and Chartered. The physical IP product available on IBM's 65nm low-power process incorporates the combined expertise of IBM and ARM in addressing the complexities of leading-edge technologies, power management and design for manufacturability. This same set of low-power ARM IP is the technology foundation upon which IBM's new low power ASIC offering (Cu-65LP) is built. The IBM Cu-65LP has been created on proven, industry-standard ARM Artisan physical IP libraries and is coupled with IBM's ASIC methodology to enable fast design closure and first pass success designs.
IBM has adopted ARM Artisan IP in support of its foundry customers across multiple generations of technology including 180, 130, 90 and 65nm nodes. With this announcement, IBM has extended the use of ARM Artisan IP in to the ASIC side of its business. The Artisan Metro IP at 65nm will support foundry customers on commercial EDA design flows while IBM build its ASIC methodology on top of this common, industry standard IP. This approach to design and industry collaboration provides clear business benefits to IBM and preserves the key value proposition and differentiation of its ASIC offering.
Specifics of the ARM-based IBM ASIC product were detailed today at the 2005 Design Automation Conference (DAC) in Anaheim, CA. For further information, please visit ARM at DAC in the Anaheim Convention Center, booth number 1309, or go online at http://www-1.ibm.com/press/PressServletForm.wss
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sales of new single-family homes rose last year to the highest level since 2009, a sign the troubled U.S. housing market has turned a corner.
Americans bought 367,000 new single-family homes in 2012, up 19.9 percent from the prior year, the Commerce Department said on Friday.
Sales hit a nearly three-year high in November, before pulling back somewhat in December, it said.
The housing sector has been a point of strength in the economy over the last year, and Friday's data reinforced expectations it will help offset the economic damage from tax hikes enacted this year.
"Overall the stage is set for more home building," said Michelle Meyer, an economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in New York.
Momentum appeared to be growing in the U.S. economy at the close of 2012, helped by consumer spending. A measure of future U.S. economic growth from the Economic Cycle Research Institute picked up last week to its highest level since April 2011.
Still, a government report next week is expected to show economic growth slowed in the fourth quarter as businesses worked off inventories and the trade deficit widened.
The economic data appeared to have little impact on financial markets. U.S. stocks rose, buoyed by sturdy corporate earnings from Procter & Gamble and Honeywell, with the S&P 500 poised for its longest winning streak in more than eight years.
Economists think home building added to economic growth last year for the first time in seven years. That boost was likely quite modest because housing is a much smaller part of the economy than it was before the 2007-2009 recession.
The number of sales in 2012 was still only about a third of the record number sold in 2005, before a housing collapse that helped trigger a financial crisis.
In December, sales dropped 7.3 percent to a seasonally adjusted 369,000-unit annual rate. That was below analysts' forecasts of a 385,000-unit annual pace.
However, the department raised its estimate for sales in November by 22,000 to a 398,000-unit rate, making the pace of sales that month the fastest since April 2010.
Also adding some luster to the report, the median price for a new home rose to $248,900 in December from $245,600 in November, according to figures that are not adjusted for seasonal swings.
"I'd say this is a relatively strong housing number," said Omer Esiner, an analyst at Commonwealth Foreign Exchange in Washington.
In December, sales cooled in three of the four major regions tracked by the government, climbing only in the Midwest.
"This should prove to be a temporary blip as the U.S. housing market continues its gradual recovery," said Andrew Grantham, an economist at CIBC World Markets in Toronto.
Additional reporting by Steven C. Johnson, Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss and Wangfeng Zhou in New York; Editing by Andrea Ricci and Tim Ahmann


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Having chemotherapy can affect your sex life, although not everyone finds this. Side effects like tiredness, or feeling sick or weak can reduce your sex drive and make having sex difficult. Feeling low or anxious can also affect your sex life. You might have worries about the cancer, how your family is coping or about money.
Usually there's no medical reason to stop having sex during chemotherapy. But if you have low platelets, or a low white blood cell count, your doctor may advise you to avoid penetrative sex until your blood count improves.
It can help to talk through any concerns about your sex life with your doctor or specialist nurse. They can often reassure you and support you with any problems. It's also important to try to talk about how you feel with your partner. Cuddling, touching and stroking are good ways of showing your feelings even if you don't feel like having sex.
Chemotherapy shouldn't have a long-term effect on your sex life. The side effects usually gradually wear off after your treatment finishes.


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Sixteen Special Olympics tennis players from Hilton Head Island, Bluffton and Beaufort had their best showing yet at the 2011 annual South Carolina Fall Games, held in late October in Greenville.
More than 1,000 athletes from all over the state competed this year, 75 where there for tennis.
The delegation competed in the individual skills contest as well as singles and doubles matches and won a total of 15 gold, 10 silver and two bronze metals.
In the individual skills category, three gold medals went to Jerkeithia Simmons, Tyreek Wilson, Antwuan Blue; two silver medals went to Tyrisha Young and Taylor Taborand; two bronze metals went to Kayla Garber and Rochelle Watkins.
In singles, six gold metals went to Earl Singleton, Wallace Gamble, Christopher McPherson, Robert Seignious, Suzanne Darveau and Meghan Witherly; three silver medals went to Kayanna Simmons, Steven Cole and Cory McFall.
In doubles, six gold metals went to Earl Singleton, Kayanna Simmons, Rochelle Watkins, Wallace Gamble, Christopher McPherson and Robert Seignious; five silver medals went to Tyrisha Young, Taylor Tabor, Suzanne Darveau, Meghan Witherly and Steven Cole.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 20 (UPI) -- Alex Smith completed 23-of-34 passes and ran for a touchdown Sunday, helping the Kansas City Chiefs improve to 7-0 with a 17-16 win over Houston.
Smith compiled 240 aerial yards with an interception and was backed by a strong defensive effort produced a Chiefs' record five sacks of Houston quarterback Case Keenum.
Jamaal Charles led the Kansas City ground game, picking up 86 yards with a touchdown on 21 carries.
Keenum, filling in for the injured Matt Schaub, managed to make good on 15-of-25 pass attempts with no interceptions, but committed a key fumble on a sack by Tamba Hali with less then 2 minutes left to kill any chance of driving for a late game-winning score.
Running back Arian Foster and linebacker Brian Cushing each left the game with injuries for the Texans (2-5).


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The International Surfing Association announced the recipients of the 2010 ISA Individual Scholarship Program during the Quiksilver ISA World Junior Surfing Championship in New Zealand.
The ISA Scholarship Program has consistently grown since it first started in 2007 due to the generous funding from Billabong, The Quiksilver Foundation and Reef Redemption, and the continued support from ISA member nations.
For 2010 the ISA will be issuing 25 scholarships to Under 18 junior surfers from 20 different countries. The ISA received 77 applications from 29 countries for this year's program.
ISA President, Fernando Aguerre said about this year's Scholarship Program: "I believe the ISA Scholarship Program is a huge step forward for the ISA to contribute to bettering the lives of junior surfers around the world. Together, we are supporting the dreams and hopes of good students who are also good surfers."
After careful review by the Scholarship Selection Committee, the ISA announced the following surfers as ISA Surfing Ambassadors. The recipients are inspirational human beings, great surfers and avid students who want to succeed in surfing and school.
The 2010 ISA Scholarship Recipients are:
Ana Martina Gainza – Argentina
Armani Green – Jamaica
Belko Contreras – Chile
Benjamin de Castro – Angola
Carlos Cervantes – Mexico
Cesar Reyes – Ecuador
Colby Stanley – Spain
Donghoon Kim – South Korea
Hussain Rasheed – Maldives
Ian Ross Schweden – Trinidad and Tobago
Jarred Veldhuis – South Africa
Jean Carlos Gonzales – Panama
Jean Carlos Mendez - Costa Rica
Juninho Urcia – Peru
Mahorahora McLeod – New Zealand
Mamadou Mbengue - Senegal
Marissa Shaw – United States
Miluska Tello – Peru
Naomi Kabayashi – Japan
Nicolas Bulla – Venezuela
Papi Makanyane – South Africa
Roger Vuuanza - Angola
Ronald Hastings – Jamaica
Tassy Swallow – Great Britain
Tobias Ortells – Argentina


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A Houston man is accused of threatening to kidnap, murder and burn U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and his father and also to "blow up" the sun if he wasn't paid $3 million.
Nick Gates was being held Tuesday in the Harris County, Texas, jail on a $10,000 bond. He's charged with making a terroristic threat.
Investigators allege threatening phone calls made June 5 to Cruz's offices in Austin and San Antonio were traced back to Gates.
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Court documents show the 37-year-old admitted to FBI agents he made the calls and that Cruz was told he had a choice: give Gates the money or "lose the sun."
Gates told agents he had previously been hospitalized at the Harris County Mental Health Center.
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God knows it's impossible for parents to do it. Who'd spent time with their kids... bleeeeegh !
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-204_162-57604865/ariz-poison-control-center-reports-first-u.s-cases-of-krokodil-use/It's been all over the news, this Russian drug craze called Krokodil that, when injected, basically immolates your flesh and is apparently highly addictive. I remember accidentally taking a modern Russian lit course in college and one of the books I read was Moscow to the End of the Line by Venedikt Erofeev. It was a very surreal book about a guy who was such a booze addict he would guzzle stuff like shoe polish to try and get a buzz. Life imitating art, no?
As an outsider, the entire situation seems very bizarre.Me thinks all the power went to the wrong people at some point.


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Fox plans to make a movie about Dennis Rodman's visit to North Korea.
Will the FDA approve eugenics? Khaaan!
Ukraine's fugitive ex-president is sought for "mass murder."
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According to a report on movie site Bloody Disgusting, the upcoming Mortal Kombat film will follow the exploits of a "lowly unlucky supermarket employee".
"With Kevin Tancharoen still attached to direct from Oren Uziel's screenplay", the site writes, "we've exclusively discovered that the live-action reboot will follow a lowly unlucky supermarket employee who discovers that he has out of this world powers and must decide between good and evil, even though the evil side has helped him discover his true potential and who he really is."
Fatality, aisle 7.
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Face Transplant
A Face Transplant is the one of the time tested ways to make an image that qualifies for an Uncyclopedia article when the original subjects of the article are rude and refuse to RSVP for their scheduled sitting for the portraiture.
There are two schools of thought on how this can be best be executed, and the quality of the workmanship is always of debate.
Face Transplants, High Artistry[edit]
High artesian Uncyclopedians, such as these Hieronymus Boschs and these Van Goghs are proponents of organizing complex plans to stalk, capture and surgically switch faces of the subject and its proposed outlandish match.
Such plans can take months to hatch and involve a complex network of spies, counter spies and counter-counter spies who spy on the spies spying on the unsuspecting quarry.
While this is going on, the fiends of such diabolical plots are scouring the countryside for the most septic place that that they can find in which to undertake the surgical procedures that will not only graft the face of the victim onto its host body. and occasionally the face of the host onto the victim's body, but will also have a beautiful vista which will serve as the background for the potentially award winning image.
They then go into seclusion, spent on the energies used to create the masterpiece that has come from them, and only then after they have healed, sobered up and consumed a healthy meal of nacho chips, nacho cheese and nacho milk, will they complete another face Transplant again.
It's why I love my whispering eye!
Face Transplants, Cheap Thrills[edit]
Then there are the others, whose shameful ways are quicker, less skilled and, shall we say, cheaper than the performing of the scientific madness that results in much better images - the Potatochoppers. These men and women aren't interested in making the world bow before their evil geniuses like talents. No, these poseurs (like this article's writer) are simply in it for a cheap and quick rush that only a VFP Nomination can provide - Ha!
These low lifes troll the Internet looking for images that look compatible and will only require a quick copy and Photochop, chop, chop to create an unloving, uncomplicated and unskilled image that only pastes on face onto the body of another. Sometimes these masters of sneak will swap the face back onto the body upon which the face originated. Outrageous!
This method has none of the joy that the true masters live for. No intrigue! No need for Bon Ami to scour away the mess and blood! And no hatching of evil plans on to where to deposit the bodies once the experiment is complete! There is also no time for ethical decisions about whether is better to kill the chicken that now sees and breaths and eats with the head of unicorn!
No, these people, like your writer here, aren't interested in the gory - just in the glory of an award - Mu Ha Ha Ha!
But what of the French?[edit]
What of them? Oh, sure they think that they are superior to the rest of the world because they invented tongue kissing and humane human facial transplants that take from the dead and give to the living. Their methods are messy, requiring the gullitotine from which they harvest the whole head - so very messy, no?
Sure it's a nation that can despoil young Americans into the goodness of eating carry-out kittens with their cunning linguistics, but throw a real war and they will be crying to the Brits for help before you can say VICHY!
But I digress...[edit]
Anyway, facial transplants: they exist and they can be done.
This is Magnus Fortesque wishing you a happy facial switcheroo.
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