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Access & Safety
The Falls Park staff makes every effort to ensure your visit is a safe one. Please keep the following information in mind when planning your visit.
Visitors using wheelchairs will find access to Falls Park via a series or paved trails and ramps that continue throughout the park. An elevator also allows quick access to all levels of the park. Public restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Wheelchair accessible trails are viewable on the park map.
Climbing is Prohibited
Rocks located in the Reedy River are slippery due to algae growth and water on the rocks. A fall on the rocks can lead to serious injury. SCDHEC has determined that the Reedy River is contaminated with high concentrations of harmful bacteria that can cause serious infections to humans. For these reasons, wading, swimming, and climbing on the rocks in Falls Park are prohibited.
Public Restroom Hours
The public restrooms and elevator in Falls Park are open 7 a.m. - 9 p.m. for your convenience.
Uneven Pavement
In keeping with the natural landscape surrounding Falls Park several of the park's garden steps were constructed using natural stone. These natural stone steps are uneven and we ask that you use caution when walking up and down them. Concrete steps and ramped walkways are located throughout Falls Park on the Reedy for visitors who may feel more comfortable using concrete surfaces.
Park Curfew
A city ordinance prohibits young people under the age of 18 from visiting Greenville's Central Business District, including Falls Park, after 10 p.m. on Friday and Saturday nights, unless they are with a parent, legal guardian or custodial adult. The ordinance also applies to nights before a holiday, such as Labor Day.
Pets in the Park
For everyone's safety, please keep pets on a leash at all time. Pet owners are expected to clean up messes after their pet; bag stations are found throughout the park.
Garden Etiquette
The City of Greenville curfew - stating children 18 years of age and younger must be accompanied by an adult after 10:00 p.m. on weekends and holidays - is enforced in Falls Park on the Reedy. All federal, South Carolina, and city laws are enforced in Falls Park on the Reedy.
Visitors are Welcome To:
- Use blankets to relax and picnic on the lawn areas
- Admire the gardens – without entering flowerbeds, picking flowers, or allowing pets to dig in soil
- Walk dogs on a leash, on paved areas only, provided you clean up after them
- Place trash in proper receptacles
- Snap souvenir photos of Falls Park memories
- Request information from Falls Park staff
Falls Park Rules Do Not Allow:
- Alcohol or drug use
- Organized sports on the lawn
- Walking pets on the lawn or through landscaped areas
- Harming birds, wildlife, park landscape or park property
- Public events, except by permit
- Amplified music, except by permit
- Performances, except by permit
- Commercial activity, advertising or photography, except by permit
- Obstructing park entrances and walkways
- Open fires
- Feeding the pigeons, geese, or ducks
- Panhandling
- Rummaging in trash receptacles
Visitors violating Falls Park rules will be asked to leave. To report an emergency, call 911.


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The following death notices were received on Monday.
(Obituary postings are a free service from WBIW News. Send an obituary by fax, 279-8046.)
Naomi E. Norman – West Lafayette
Naomi E. Norman of West Lafayette passed away Thursday afternoon, July 1st at the Elizabeth Central Hospital in West Lafayette at the age of 89. Born in 1920 in Norman to Ulysses Grant and Amanda Norman, she was a secretary at Purdue University. She is survived by two sisters, Blanche Maxwell and Florence Todd; as well as several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents; two sisters, Julia Schultz and Katie Norman; one brother, Ernest Norman. Graveside services will be held at 11:00AM on Tuesday, July 6th at Green Hill Cemetery with burial to follow. Visitation will be from 9:00AM until 10:30AM on Tuesday, July 6th at Day & Carter Mortuary.
Patricia T. Kyme Kerr – Bedford
Patricia T. Kyme Kerr of Bedford passed away Sunday morning, July 4th at I.U. Hospital at the age of 80. Born in 1929 in Claremore, Oklahoma to Jester Taylor and Ruth Taylor she married William Kyme in 1952 and Donald Kerr in 1985. Patricia was a teacher at Bedford North Lawrence High School and Bedford High School, was a graduate of Oklahoma State University and from Indiana University, was a member of Pi Beta Phi and Kappa Kappa: Daughter of the Confederacy. She is survived by one son, John William Kyme and his wife Nancy; one sister, Peg Moore; two stepdaughters, Connie Kerr Snapp and Ketherine Kerr Birge; as well as several grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents; one son, George Leonard Kym and both husbands. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, July 7th at 10:30AM at Ferguson – Lee Funeral Home. Visitation will be from 4:00PM until 8:00PM on Tuesday, July 6th at the funeral home.
Maxine Fletcher – Bedford
Maxine Fletcher of Bedford, known to friends and family as "Kay", passed away Friday morning, July 2nd at Garden Villa at the age of 70. Born in 1940 in Jackson County to Curtis and Benza Fisher, she had been married to Joe Fisher since 1980, was a factory worker and had previously attended Davis Memorial Church of the Nazarene. She is survived by one son, Dale Crane; several grandchildren; three brothers, Ellis Fisher, Jim Fisher and Garry Fisher; as well as several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband and one sister, Eva Miller. Graveside services will be held at 10:00AM on Tuesday, July 6th at Liberty Christian Church Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5:00PM until 7:00PM on Monday, July 5th at the funeral home.
Judith Lee Davis – Mitchell
Judith Lee Davis of Mitchell passed away Saturday morning, July 3rd at her residence at the age of 65. Born in 1945 in Lawrence County to Harry and Ruth Williams, she married Max Bryant in 1964 and Roger Davis in 1992. She was retired from Lehigh Cemetery Company, was a graduate from Mitchell High School in 1963, was a member of Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church and was a member of L.I.F.E. Food Pantry. She is survived by her husband, Roger Davis; children, Mark Bryant and Marci Ramey and her husband Kurt; stepchildren, Stephanie Davis and Steve Davis and his wife Tonya; one sister, Jetta Jenkins and her husband John; one brother Jack Williams and his wife Sandee; as well as several grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents and first husband. Funeral services will be held at 10:00AM on Tuesday, July 6th in the Memorial Chapel of Chastain Funeral Home with burial to follow in Spice Valley Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4:00PM until 8:00PM on Monday and from 9:00AM until the hour of service on Tuesday.

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6 S.Ct. 846
29 L.Ed. 952
Filed March 29, 1886.
This was a bill in equity brought by the appellee, Halbert S. Greenleaf, to restrain the infringement by the appellant, the Yale Lock Manufacturing Company, of the first and fourth claims of the reissued letters-patent granted to George Rosner, July 25, 1871, for an 'improvement in permutation locks.' The original patent bore date September 18, 1860. The defense was that the alleged invention, and substantial and material parts thereof, claimed as new, were, prior to any invention thereof by said George Rosner, known and publicly used by divers persons in this country, and that among such persons were D. H. Rickards, of Boston, and the firm of Evans & Watson, of Philadelphia. The circuit court decided that the patent was valid, and that the defendant had infringed, and, upon the report of a master of the damages sustained by the plaintiff, rendered a decree in his favor for $2,968.50. The present appeal brings that decree under review.
Frederic H. Betts, for appellant.
Geo. T. Curtis and Edmund Wetmore, for appellee.
It is conceded that the damages for which the court rendered its decree were allowed for the infringement of the first claim only of the Rosner patent, which, therefore, is alone to be considered upon this appeal. The invention covered by this claim was described as follows in the specification:
'This invention consists in combining with a set of permutation wheels or tumblers, constructed each of a rim and center, an arrangement of bolts or equivalent devices, which fasten and unfasten said rims and centers by the use of a key inserted through holes in the cams in the wheels, by which said bolts or equivalent devices are operated, the effect being to enable the relative position of the rims and centers to be changed so as to make a new combination, by moving the driving pins to different positions relatively to the slots in the wheels. It further consists in the arrangement of parts as hereinafter described. * * *
'Prior to my invention, in order to change the combination, where a single set of wheels only was used, made up each of a center hub and rim, the wheels had to be removed from the lock, and adjusted by hand and then replaced. I obviate this difficulty by the following arrangement: Opposite the center or hub, q, of each wheel, and located in the outer rim, I place a locking device or bolt, r, which, when forced in against the said center or hub, holds the same firmly in place with the outer rim; but, when thrown out, disengages said parts, and allows the centers to turn free while the rims remain stationary. Against the locking device or bolt, r, rests a cam or eccentric, s. Through each or all of these cams, and also through the back plate of the lock, is inserted a key, P, Fig. 6, by turning which it will be seen that said locking or fastening device may be forced in or drawn out at pleasure. When the key is inserted, and the fastening device thrown back, it will be seen that the rims of the wheels are held stationary by the key, while the centers may be turned to any different position by the spindle, thus setting the lock to a new combination. * * *
'The nevelty in the first part of my invention consists in the combination of the fastening devices, r, with the wheels, constructed of three parts each, an outer rim and a center or hub composed of two parts, secured together, so that by inserting the key the parts composing the wheels may be loosened, and the outer rims held stationary, while the centers or hubs are turned to a different position by the action of the spindle, to rearrange the combination, and then the parts locked in place again, and all accomplished without removing the wheels themselves from the lock. In all prior locks with a single set of wheels, (each wheel made up of a rim and center hub,) so far as I am aware, the wheels had to be removed from the lock, and the combination changed by hand. * * *
'What I claim, and desire to secure by letters patent, is, '(1) in a permutation lock, in combination with a set of wheels consisting each of an outer ring or rim and a central disk or hub, a set of fastening devices or bolts, r, r, which is made to fasten or unfasten said parts composing the wheels, by the insertion of a key through each or all of the wheels, whereby the combination of the lock may be changed, substantially as herein specified.'
The testimony showed that on the thirteenth of March, 1852, the D. H. Rickards named in the answer of the defendant filed in the patent office an application for a patent for an improvement in locks, which was either rejected or withdrawn, and that locks made substantially in accordance with the description contained in Rickard's specification were manufactured and sold by Evans & Watson, safe-makers, of Philadelphia, as early as the year 1853. A copy of the application of Rickards is found in the record, and one of the locks made by Evans & Watson in 1853 was produced as an exhibit upon the trial in this court. A comparison of the specification and model of the plaintiff's patent with the application of Rickards and the lock made by Evans & Watson shows that the device of Rickards and the lock of Evans & Watson were an anticipation of the invention covered by the first claim of the plaintiff's patent. It is clear from the statement in the specification of Rosner's patent that he believed that prior to his invention it was necessary, in order to change the combination in a permutation lock, to remove the wheels from the lock-case, and adjust them by hand, and then replace them. But Rosner was in error in making this statement. The evidence shows that what Rosner thought had never been done before had been done by means of the device of Rickards, embodied in the lock of Evans & Watson, which is substantially the same contrivance as that covered by the first claim of Rosner's patent.
The Rickards device embraces a set of wheels consisting of an outer rim or hub and a set of fastening devices or bolts, so constructed as to engage and disengage with a set of cogs on the central hub. When the bolts are in place, the outer rim and the central hub are firmly fastened together; when withdrawn, the hub may be made to revolve without moving the rim. The bolts are withdrawn by means of a key. Each of the wheels has an opening in it for the passage of the key by which the bolts are moved; these openings in the wheels are placed opposite each other, and also opposite a key-hole in the lock-case, so that the key may be passed from the exterior of the lockcase through all the wheels, and thus withdraw the bolts which fasten the rims to the hubs or the wheels, thereby permitting the hubs to be moved, and a change to be made in the combination of the lock. When the change is made, the key is withdrawn, and the bolts are forced back into their places by springs. By this means the combination of the lock is changed without removing the wheels from the lock-case, or even opening the case.
The only difference between the Rosner device and that of Rickards, which the plaintiff's counsel have been able to point out, is thus stated: In the Rosner contrivance the key, in addition to locking and unlocking the fastening devices, performs, when in the lock, the function of holding the outer rims in place while the combination of the lock is changed by moving the hubs. It is insisted that this key is adapted to perform this office by the fact that it fits snugly the series of holes in the rims of the wheels through which it passes, and thereby prevents any motion of the rims. The Rickards device has a key-hole in the lock-case which the key neatly fits. But the holes in the rims of the wheels through which the key passes are irregular apertures, not fitted to the shape or size of the key, so that they allow some motion to the rims of the wheels.
We think this difference between the two locks does not give validity to the Rosner patent, for two reasons: First. Because the shape and size of the key-hole is not mentioned in the claim of the Rosner patent as one of the elements of the combination. The scope of letters patent must be limited to the invention covered by the claim, and while the claim may be illustrated it cannot be enlarged by language used in other parts of the specification. Keystone Bridge Co. v. Phoenix Iron Co., 95 U. S. 274; Railroad Co. v. Mellon, 104 U. S. 112. Secondly. If it were found to be necessary to hold the rims of the wheels rigidly immovable while the combination of the lock was being changed, the idea of changing the irregular aperture in the wheels through which the key in the Rickards' device was thrust to one of the shape and size of the key would occur to the rudest and most unskilled mechanic. The suggestion of such a change could not be called invention, and ought not to be dignified by letters patent. Atlantic Works v. Brady, 107 U. S. 192; S. C. 2 Sup. Ct. Rep. 225; Slawson v. Grand Street R. Co., 107 U. S. 649; S. C. 2 Sup. Ct. Rep. 663; Phillips v. Detroit, 111 U. S. 604; S. C. 4 Sup. Ct. Rep. 580.
We are of opinion, therefore, that the first claim of the plaintiff's patent was anticipated by the application and specification of Rickards and by the locks manufactured by Evans & Watson, and that it is therefore void. It follows that the decree of the circuit court must be reversed, and the cause remanded, with directions to dismiss the bill; and it is so ordered.


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Endorsement of verdict comes amid unconfirmed reports that Egypt President Morsi will be overthrown within hours
An Egyptian appeals court endorsed on Monday a verdict relieving Prime Minister Hisham Qandil of his duties and sentencing him to one year in prison for not executing a court ruling.
The appeals court's endorsement of the verdict against Qandil comes amid unconfirmed reports that President Mohamed Morsi, who appointed the premier, will be overthrown within a few hours.
Qandil was convicted for failing to execute a verdict ordering the reinstatement of employees at Tanta Flax and Oil Company and for annulling the company's sale to a Saudi businessman.


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Air Travel
From New York or Chicago flying time to Panama City is 5½ hours; from Atlanta 4 hours; from Miami 3 hours; from L.A. 6½ hours; and from Houston 4¼ hours.
Copa, a United partner, is Panama's flagship carrier. It operates flights from Boston, Chicago, Fort Lauderdale, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Montreal, New Orleans, New York–JFK, Orlando, Toronto, San Francisco, Tampa, and Washington Dulles. Copa also flies to many Central and South American cities. You can fly to Panama from Houston and Newark on United, from Atlanta on Delta, from Miami, Dallas, New York, and Newark on American, and from Fort Lauderdale on Spirit.
Air Panama is Panama's domestic carrier and serves destinations all over the country, including Contadora, Guna Yala, Bocas del Toro, David, and the Darién. Domestic flights usually cost $100 to $250 round-trip; you can buy tickets directly from the airline or through a travel agent. Air Panama offers charter flights as well, although these tend to be quite pricey.
Airline Contacts
American Airlines. 800/433–7300; 507/269–6022; www.aa.com.
Copa. 800/359–2672; 507/217–2672; www.copaair.com.
Delta Airlines. 800/241–4141; 507/214–8118; www.delta.com.
Spirit Airlines. 801/401--2200; 507/836--7701; www.spirit.com.
United Airlines. 800/864--8331; 507/265–0040; www.united.com.
Airline-Security Issues
Transportation Security Administration. Transportation Security Administration can answer any security question that might come up. www.tsa.gov.
Domestic Airlines
Air Panama. 507/316–9000; www.airpanama.com.
Panama's main air hub is Aeropuerto Internacional de Tocumen (PTY), about 17 km (11 miles) northeast of Panama City. All scheduled international flights land here. The airport underwent a $600 million expansion in 2012 that included the addition of airy, glass-walled corridors; construction of a new terminal began in 2014. Tocumen has two tourist-information booths, shops, a few eating places, ATMs, 24-hour luggage storage, car-rental agencies, and a telephone and Internet center. Arrival and departure formalities are usually efficient. Minimum check-in time is two hours prior to departure; your airline may recommend longer.
Domestic flights operate out of Aeropuerto Marcos A. Gelabert (PAC), more commonly known as Albrook Airport, after the U.S. military base that once stood there. Albrook has a tourist-information stand, an ATM, a small food court, and some car-rental offices.
Airport Information
Aeropuerto Internacional de Tocumen. Av. Domingo Díaz s/n, Achutupo, 507/238–2761; www.tocumenpanama.aero.
Aeropuerto Marcos A. Gelabert (Albrook Airport). Av. Diógenes de la Rosa, 501--9272.
Customs and Duties
You may import 500 cigarettes (or 500 grams of tobacco or 50 cigars) and three bottles of alcohol duty-free. You can import duty-free up to $2,000 of various goods; customs is not overly strict on applying duty to items that are obviously yours for personal use. Prescription drugs should always be accompanied by a doctor's prescription.
U.S. Information
U.S. Customs and Border Protection. 877/227--5511; www.cbp.gov.
Ground Transportation
Taxis are the quickest way into Panama City from Tocumen Airport. The fare is $30 to $40, depending on your hotel's location, but a few hotels offer a shuttle service. Only licensed operators are allowed to offer services as you leave the airport doors. The trip can take between 20 and 60 minutes, depending on traffic and your hotel's location.
The 15-minute taxi ride from Albrook Airport to the city center costs $4 to $6.
Public buses stop far from Tocumen's terminal and take well over an hour to get into the city, so we recommend taking a taxi or shuttle, if your hotel offers one.
Transfers Between Airports
A taxi ride between Tocumen and Albrook airports can top $40, though if you're catching the cab at Albrook, you might be able to negotiate a cheaper price. The trip takes about 30 minutes. Alternatively, buses to both airports start and finish at Plaza Cinco de Mayo.


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Researchers at MIT have found a way to inject into the body a cartilage-laced liquid that, when exposed to light, hardens into cartilage or a kind of "living glue" that connects existing cartilage to bioengineered tissue.
"This substance basically replaces cartilage," said Jennifer Elisseeff, a graduate student in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology and lead researcher on the discovery, which has been done on animals and has implications for tissue engineering, plastic and orthopedic surgery and drug delivery in humans. The work was described in the March 1999 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Photopolymerizations -- creating polymer networks in materials in response to light -- are used for bone restorations, filling teeth and for coatings for artificial implants.
This new method potentially could allow physicians to inject a photopolymer material exactly where they want it before shining light on the exterior surface of the skin to turn the viscous liquid solution into a gel. It takes about two minutes of light exposure to polymerize the material injected beneath it.
This noninvasive method of rebuilding damaged or missing cartilage in the nose, ears or joints may make it easier for physicians to do restorative work. Currently, placing self-hardening gels in the body is a tricky business. Physicians must expose the materials to light in "open" environments such as the mouth or during surgery. They must work in a narrow range of temperatures and environments.
By using an injectable system, physicians can precisely place the material while it is still a liquid, and even suck it out and reposition it if necessary.
"This is a method of cartilage tissue engineering that makes it easier to implant a hydrogel" in the body, Ms. Elis-seeff said. This method could be used to create a variety of new, minimally invasive surgical procedures, or control the release of an encapsulated protein.
She has worked on this research for four years with tissue engineering pioneer Robert S. Langer, the Germes-hausen Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering.
After hearing plastic surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital say they would like to have more control over the polymerization reaction, Ms. Elisseeff pursued the idea that light could be used to polymerize an implant through the skin.
One of the possible applications of this approach is to use the liquid cartilage as a biological glue to hold bioen-gineered cartilage in place and integrate it with existing cartilage. Because the liquid includes cells that form living tissue, it is a kind of living glue that can be used to replace or augment damaged knee cartilage, for instance, in patients with osteoarthritis or sports injuries. The hydrogel acts as a scaffold for engineering the growth of cartilage tissue, which will grow to fit the dimensions of the scaffold, Ms. Elisseeff said.
A version of this article appeared in the April 14, 1999 issue of MIT Tech Talk (Volume 43, Number 26).


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Globesign makes top 10
Globesign, the parent company of Westex Carpets, has reached number nine in a Top 100 SMEs chart compiled by the Yorkshire Post.
Four companies from North Kirklees made it into the profitability index, which ranked SMEs from across the county according to their profit before taxation.
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Hide AdGlobesign was bought out by Victoria plc last month for £16m.
The carpet manufacturer achieved a profit before tax of £3,665,000, according to accounts from February last year. Its turnover was £17,484,000.
Stainless steel fittings wholesaler MRC Flangefitt also made the top 100 list, which was compiled in conjunction with BHP Chartered Accountants.
The firm, also based in Cleckheaton, achieved pre-tax profits of £3,570,000 and turnover of £24,407,000, according to Companies House accounts from September 2012.
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Hide AdHigh Seat Holdings, of Dewsbury, climbed 23 places from its 2013 ranking with pre-tax profits of £1,972,000, reaching 61. Heckmondwike video security firm Vidcon PLC entered the list at number 77, with pre-tax profits of £1,828,000.


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So, I'm leaving my office yesterday to go to court. I close the office door and turn to go down the stairs. When I'm half-way down the psychiatrist who has the office at the bottom of the stairs steps out of her office and stands at the bottom of the stairs, facing me.
"Do you represent prostitutes?"
"Ummmm . . . no."
"Well these two [pause] women came by your office a couple days ago looking for you and they were dressed . . . [look of slight horror]"
"That was my client's mother and girlfriend."
"Really? Because they were dressed very provocatively. One of them had nothing on from here to here." [motioning from about where low-cut jeans would end to where a high halter top would start]
"Yes, that's them. Hopefully they won't dress like that for court."
"You're sure they weren't prostitutes?"
"Yes, I've represented that kind of client before and generally she'll be broke and won't be able to get hold of a car to come here."
The psychiatrist looks none too pleased with that answer and gives me a strange look before heading up the stairs to parts unknown.
And then I leave for court.


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Network: NBC
Episodes: 13 (hour)
Seasons: One
TV show dates: June 7 — August 28, 2010
Series status: Cancelled
Performers include: Chadwick Boseman, Lee Purcell, Jason Wiles, Andy Greenfield, Daisy Betts, Tina Holmes, Alan Ruck, Kate Lang Johnson, Sean O'Bryan, Gerald Kyd, Reggie Lee, Alan Smyth, Joanna Lipari, Kandyse McClure, Victor Alfieri, and Carlos Lacamara.
TV show description:
This mystery drama revolves around a group of strangers who wake up in a strange hotel, then find they're imprisoned in a ghost town and not able to leave. They see that security cameras are following everything they do. Their unknown captors create mistrust within the group by privately offering them freedom if they hurt the others.
Janet Cooper (Daisy Betts) is a San Francisco day-care owner and single mother of a 5-year-old girl, Megan. Janet's mom has now been forced into the role of guardian of Megan, not knowing what happened to her daughter. Janet explains her mother is abusive and that they have a distant relationship. She is determined to get out of the situation so she can get back to her daughter. At one time, she was married and hired someone to find her husband.
Mark Renbe (Gerald Kyd) is a journalist from San Francisco who enjoys a good scandal. He's investigating Janet's disappearance, and receives information about it from a source in a bar but is then forced to give it away.
The natural leader in the group is Joe Tucker (Jason Wiles). He's forceful and direct and mentions he doesn't keep friends, family, or even a girlfriend. He's very secretive with the others, not even telling them what he does for a living or why he may have been chosen to be taken. He knows military hand signals and was abducted in New York.
Charlie Morse (Alan Ruck) is an investment firm's CEO. He was worried from the very beginning about how his wife would cope without him. He states that she's mentally unstable, and emotionally dependent on him. His fighting skills become evident when he is intimidated or threatened.
Moira Doherty (Tina Holmes) is officially a crisis counselor for a teachers' union. She confides to some that, until she was abducted, she'd been a mental patient at a hospital in Sandusky, Ohio. This left her with knowledge of different medications, introverted and trusting. She admits she feigned mental illness at a certain point to stay at the hospital so that she wouldn't be sent to foster homes.
Moira has become close to Tori Fairchild (Kate Lang Johnson), the privileged and manipulative daughter of an American ambassador and former head of the CIA. When she first woke up in this strange hotel, she had thought she'd just partied too much the night before. She thinks her father is behind her abduction, but won't say why. She has a talent for hand-to-hand combat.
Sergeant Graham McNair (Chadwick Boseman) is a Marine. He's also a devout Muslim following his working in a government facility and seeing how alleged terrorists were being treated. Because of this, he can show compassion, but he also tends to make hasty decisions. He seems to be interested in Moira.
Bill Blackham (Sean O'Bryan) put the moves on Tori and beat Graham in a very physical fight. Bill's first priority is always himself, and he doesn't trust others easily. The last thing he remembers before being abducted is being pulled over by the police.
Watching over all the abductees is "The Night Manager" (Andy Greenfield). He's the only worker in the hotel and passes himself off as not knowing any more about the situation than the abductees. They all disagree about whether or not this is true. The captors seem to want to keep him safe.
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Clashes continue in Venezuela
President Nicolas Maduro says he has a peace plan
Three people have been killed in Caracas violence
Young Venezuelans unhappy with the ravaged economy, shortages and rising crime clashed again Friday with security forces who fired tear gas and water cannons.
Hundreds of anti-government protesters blocked traffic on a major highway in Caracas, days after three Caracas protesters died in violence.
The clashes, which have left dozens more injured or detained across the country, have exacerbated an already tense situation.
President Nicolas Maduro, in a nationally televised speech, announced Friday the launch of a "national plan for peace and coexistence."
Maduro said state and senior military officials will work together to reduce violence "from its bases," state media reported.
Authorities on Thursday issued an arrest warrant for an opposition leader on charges including conspiracy and murder in connection with recent clashes.
Leopoldo Lopez, head of Popular Will (known as VP after its initials in Spanish), remained free late Friday. He has accused the government of responsibility for violence during protests Wednesday.
"They won't divide us," Lopez tweeted Friday.
Maduro was elected in April after President Hugo Chavez's death from cancer. He has presided over a sharp decline in living standards and has failed to stem rising violent crime.
Maduro insists he is facing a slow-motion coup.
"I want to alert the world. We are facing a developing coup plan against the democracy and the government that I preside over, orchestrated by a small group of irresponsible leaders, violent, full of hatred and personal ambitions," he said Wednesday.
The U.S. State Department expressed concerns about the state of affairs in Venezuela.
"We are deeply concerned by rising tensions, by the violence surrounding this February 12 protest and by the issuing of a warrant for the arrest of the opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez," said spokeswoman Marie Harf. "We join the secretary general of OAS (Organization of American States) in condemning the violence and calling on authorities to investigate and bring to justice those responsible for the death of peaceful protesters."
Inflation, at 56.2%, is the highest in the world and many basic goods are missing from the shelves. Amid stringent price and exchange controls, Venezuela is running out of hard currency to pay foreign suppliers of goods and services.


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Metro 2033 Ranger Pack DLC
THQ have released details on the forthcoming DLC for Metro 2033.
The pack adds some new weapons, new achievements and the 'Ranger Mode' reduces ammo available to you weapons cause more damage, and to add to the difficulty, say good bye to your HUD.
The new guns are the Heavy Automatic Shotgun and the Volt Driver, Miller's signature gun. The new achievements bring an extra 250 Gamerscore to Metro 2033.
The Ranger Packwill be released on both Xbox LIVE Marketplace and Steam in the near future, with pricing to be confirmed closer to release.


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A British government report admitted this month that one of the major rationales for invading Iraq -- the claim that Saddam Hussein could deploy weapons of mass destruction in 45 minutes -- probably came from a cab driver. Had the public originally been told about this sketchy sourcing, there may have been a more, ahem, forceful mass opposition to preemptive war in the Middle East.
It's a good lesson about the need for transparency. We cannot fully snuff out spin, and we will never be able to guarantee perfect results from policy choices. But we can increase the chances for successful societal decision making when we at least know the facts.
That's the common-sense rationale behind our sunshine laws. Although courts say we can't ban politicians from raising private money, we can force politicians to disclose who their benefactors are so that we know what they really represent. We may not bar sugary foods -- but we do require nutrition labels so we can know what we are eating.
More often than not, this was the American compromise: We fought about regulations and mandates, but there was consensus support for transparency.
"Was," mind you, is the key word -- and the cab-driver-induced war was only the beginning.
In 2008, the New York Times' David Barstow reported that 75 retired military officers regularly appearing on television "have ties to military contractors vested in the very war policies they are asked to assess on air."
Collectively, the group represented "more than 150 military contractors either as lobbyists, senior executives, board members or consultants," and here's the kicker: "Those business relationships are hardly ever disclosed to viewers."
Had networks reacted to Barstow's blockbuster with better disclosure, we could have rested easy. Instead, the deceptions persist.
The Huffington Post recently showed how "major television networks continue to host retired generals as military analysts without alerting viewers to their extensive ties to defense contractors."
Additionally, Wired magazine reports that neoconservative think tankers who directly helped craft the Pentagon's Afghan escalation are now appearing throughout the media as allegedly disinterested analysts of the escalation -- again, without any mention of their concurrent work.
Considering the sometimes murky relationship between advertisers and newsrooms, it's easy to think this opacity is the exclusive transgression of commercial media. Unfortunately, it's not -- it has bled into the country's single most powerful economic institution, the Federal Reserve.
This is the bank currently lobbying against congressional oversight by arguing it must preserve its "independence" -- the same institution whose regional board members are elected by the private banks they regulate and whose chairman, Ben Bernanke, quietly cavorts with the bank CEOs he's supposed to be independent from. Even worse, the Fed is paying many of the ostensibly objective economists who sculpt the debate about Congress' Fed policy.
Huffington Post ace reporter Ryan Grim found that the Fed today doles out roughly $400 million a year for "research" -- much of it to outside economists who then advocate for the Fed's agenda without disclosing their Fed ties. For instance, seven of the eight economists on a recent anti-oversight letter to Congress failed to note they are or were on the Fed's payroll.
That blatant chicanery, though, is not the worst of it. The real subterfuge is how the Fed's shadowy pay scheme bakes an invisible pro-Fed consensus into our public discourse. Through its academic largesse, Grim notes the Fed "so thoroughly dominates the field of economics that real criticism of the central bank has become a career liability for members of the profession."
Ronald Reagan, of course, warned us to "trust, but verify." It was good advice, except for one hitch: What happens when the verifiers are the ones who can no longer be trusted?
© 2009 Creators Syndicate Inc.


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Through interviews with Māori students, their teachers, and whānau, the authors learned about the characteristics of teachers that made a difference. They have drawn these together into the Effective Teaching Profile. Set Research Information for Teachers. Set 2009: no. 2 pp 27-33. New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
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Te Kotahitanga and the addressing of educational disparities facing Māori students in New Zealand. The paper identifies how implementing the Te Kotahitanga Effective Teaching Profile addresses these disparities.
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This book by Russell Bishop and Mere Berryman focuses on what it is like to be a young Māori person in a New Zealand secondary school classroom today. It presents and discusses narratives drawn from the voices of Māori secondary students, their whānau, principals, and teachers.
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When, best of all who give delight,
her rama wandered for from sight,
Kausaaly'a weeping, sore distressed,
The king her husband thus addressed;
'Thy name, O Monarch, far and wid?
Through the three worlds is glorified:
Yet Rama has the praying mind. *
His speed is true, his heart is kind.
How will thy sons, good lord, sustain
With Sita, all their care and pain?
How in the wild endure distress,
Nursed in the lap of tenderness?
How will the dear Videhan bear
The heat and cold when wandering there
Bred in the bliss of princely state,
So young and fair find delicate?
The large-eyed lady, wont to eat
The best of finely seasoned meat--
How will she now her life sustain
With woodland fare of self-sown grain?
Will she, with joys encompassed long,
Who loved the music and the song,
In the wild wood endure to hear
The ravening lion's voice of fear?
Where sleeps my strong-armed hero, where
Like Lord Mahendra's standard, fair?
Where is, by Lakshman's side, his bed,
His club-like arm beneath his head?
When shall I see his flower-like eyes,
And face that with the lotus vies,
Feel his sweet lily breath, and view
His glorious hair and lotus hue?
The heart within my breast, I feel,
Is adamant or hardest steel,
Or, in a thousand fragments split,
The loss of him had shattered it,
When those I love, who should be blest,
Are wandering in the wood distressed,
Condemned their wretched lives to lead
In exile, by thy ruthless deed.
If, when the fourteen years are past,
Ráma reseeks his home at last,
I think not Bharat will consent
To yield the wealth and government.
At funeral feasts some mourners deal
To kith and kin the solemn meal,
And having duly fed them all
Some Bráhmans to the banquet call.
The best of Bráhmans, good and wise,
The tardy summoning despise,
And, equal to the Gods, disdain
Cups, e'en of Amrit, thus to drain,
Nay e'en when Brámans first have fed,
They loathe the meal for others spread,
And from the leavings turn with scorn,
As bulls avoid a fractured horn.
So Ráma, sovereign lord of men,
Will spurn the sullied kingship then:
He born the eldest and the best,
His younger's leavings will detest,
Turning from tasted food away,
As tigers scorn another's prey.
The sacred post is used not twice,
Nor elements, in sacrifice.
But once the sacred grass is spread,
But once with oil the flame is fed:
So Ráma's pride will ne'er receive
The royal power which others leave,
Like wine when tasteless dregs are left
Or rites of Soma juice bereft,
Be sure the pride of Raghu's race
Will never stoop to such disgrace:
Ths lordly lion will not bear
That man should beard him in his lair.
Were all the worlds against him ranged
His dauntless soul were still unchanged:
He, dutiful, in duty strong,
Would purge the impious world from wrong.
Could not the hero, brave and bold,
The archer, with his shafts of gold,
Burn up the very seas, as doom
Will in the end all life consume!
Of lion's might, eyed like a bull,
A prince so brave and beautiful,
Thou hast with wicked hate pursued,
Like sea-born tribes who eat their brood.
If thou, O Monarch, hadst but known
The duty all the Twice-born own,
If the good laws had touched thy mind,
Which sages in the Scriptures find,
Thou ne'er hadst driven forth to pine
This brave, this duteous son of thine.
First on her lord the wife depends,
Next on her son and last on friends:
These three supports in life has she,
And not a fourth for her may be.
Thy heart, O King, I have not won;
In wild woods roams my banished son;
Far are my friends: ah, hapless me,
Quite ruined and destroyed by thee.'


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Mars rover Curiosity takes its first spin on the red planet BY WILLIAM HARWOOD STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION Posted: August 22, 2012 In a major milestone, the six-wheel Curiosity Mars rover took its first baby steps Wednesday, rolling about 15 feet forward, performing a slow 120-degree pirouette and then backing up eight feet to prove the $2.5 billion science lab is, in fact, mobile and ready to rove.
The move came one sol, or martian day, after the rover's four corner wheels passed an initial steering check, wiggling back and forth as commanded. "I'm pleased to report that Curiosity today had her first successful drive on Mars," lead rover planner Matt Heverly told reporters Wednesday. "This drive checkout, coupled with yestersol's checkout of the steering actuators on sol 15, means we have a fully functioning mobility system on our rover." In a black-and-white panoramic image taken by the rover's navigation cameras, Curiosity's tire tracks could be seen in the martian soil, along with scour marks where the vehicle's sky crane descent rockets blasted away topsoil. "In this image you can see our touchdown point, you can see the tracks driving away from that location as well as the scour marks to the right and the left of the rover's initial position," Heverly said. "It confirms our expectations the soil is firm, great for mobility, we're not seeing too much sinkage and we should have smooth sailing ahead of us." Project Manager Pete Theisinger said the short drive was of crucial importance to the mission. "It couldn't be more important," he said. "We built a rover, so unless the rover roves we really haven't accomplished anything. So yes, (it's) tremendous and the fact that we completely exercised it and everything's on track is a big moment, period." The science team voted to name Curiosity's landing site "Bradbury Landing" after the late science fiction writer Ray Bradbury, whose lyrical stories about Mars provided inspiration to countless scientists and engineers. "Today would have been Ray Bradbury's 92nd birthday," said Michael Meyer, director of Mars science at NASA Headquarters. "His books have truly inspired us. 'The Martial Chronicles' have inspired our curiosity and opened our minds to the possibility of life on Mars. "In his honor, we declare the place that Curiosity touched down to be forever known as 'Bradbury Landing.' ... It harkens back to a time when ships landed on the shores of other new worlds to explore. And this place might, in fact, with its water reference, be even more apropos." Curiosity was lowered by its innovative sky crane landing system to a pinpoint touchdown in Gale Crater on Aug. 6. Since then, engineers have been activating, checking out and testing its major subsystems and science instruments. Eight of its 10 high-tech instruments have passed initial checks. The only anomaly so far is a broken wind sensor, one of two mounted on the rover's main camera mast. Engineers must still test Curiosity's sample acquisition system -- a soil scoop and power drill -- and the complex equipment needed to move rock and soil samples to laboratory analyzers in the body of the rover. But so far, so good, and after additional equipment checks are carried out, along with close-up inspections of the rocks revealed by the sky crane landing thrusters, scientists plan to begin a 1,300-foot drive to a nearby target area known as Glenelg, where three different rock types are visible in orbital photographs. "On the way to Glenelg, we'd like to stop as soon as we encounter scoopable fine material to get going testing out the sample handling system and getting sample into SAM and CheMin," said Joy Crisp, the deputy project scientist. The Sample Analysis at Mars experiment -- SAM -- will study atmospheric gases and soil samples to look for signs of carbon compounds using two ovens, a pair of spectrometers and a gas chromatograph. The Chemistry and Mineralogy experiment -- CheMin -- uses X-ray diffraction to identify minerals in soil samples. Both are crucial to Curiosity's mission to search for evidence of past or present habitability. "The first material would be scoopable fines, and we'd be trying to clean out the scoop and sample handling system by doing that several times, just tossing it out on the ground and then taking a sample to put in SAM and CheMin," Crisp said. "When we finally get to Glenelg, we want to study the outcrop there and take a look at the context between the three different terrain types and maybe there is where we would decide to do our first drilling into rock. And after Glenelg, we head for Mount Sharp. That will be a much longer drive with probably a few brief stops along the way. That's going to take several months before we get to that point." Climbing the lower slopes of Mount Sharp, a three-mile-tall mound of layered rocks about 5 miles from Bradbury Landing, is the primary goal of Curiosity's mission. Scientists believe hundreds of thousands to tens of millions of years of martian history are preserved in the ancient rock beds the rover will cross during its anticipated ascent. "It is fantastic how well everything's working," Meyer said. "We have high hopes this is really going to prove out this region and tell us whether or not it was ever potentially habitable." But Theisinger quickly pointed out that testing was not yet complete. "I wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't exercise a little bit of caution here," he said. "We are 16 days into a two-year mission, OK? We haven't put the (robot) arm on the ground yet. We haven't exercised the sample gathering capability, which is a key, key, key element of this rover science mission. So as good as it's gone, as wonderful as it is, we've only checked off about two of the level one requirement boxes -- launch on time, land on Mars, OK? "We've got a long way to go before this mission reaches its full potential. But the fact that we haven't had any early problems is, in fact, fantastic."
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The Team
MySQL to MongoDB replication was a group effort with three people: Flavio Percoco, Stephane Giron, and me. Flavio has worked on MongoDB for a couple of years and is extremely well-informed both on database setup as well as application design. Stephane Giron is a replication engineer at Continuent and has done a substantial amount of the work on data extraction from MySQL, especially row replication. I work on the core execution framework as well as performance.
Getting Started with MongoDB
There were a couple of talks on MongoDB during the first morning of Open DB camp (Saturday May 7th), which Stephane and I dutifully attended to raise our consciousness. We got cracking on implementation around 2pm that afternoon. The first step was to bring up MongoDB 1.8.1 and study its habits with help from Flavio.
MongoDB is definitely easy to set up. You get binary builds from the MongoDB download page. Here is a minimal set of commands to unpack MongoDB 1.8.1 and start the mongod using directory data to hold tables.
$ tar -xvzf mongodb-osx-x86_64-1.8.1.tgz
$ cd mongodb-osx-x86_64-1.8.1
$ mkdir data
$ bin/mongo --dbpath data
(... messages ...)
You connect to mongod using the mongo client. Here's an example of connecting and creating a table with a single row.
$ bin/mongo localhost:27017
MongoDB shell version: 1.8.1
connecting to: localhost:27017/test
> use mydb
switched to db mydb
> db.test.insert({"test": "test value", "anumber" : 5 })
> db.test.find()
{ "_id" : ObjectId("4dce9a4f3d6e186ffccdd4bb"), "test" : "test value", "anumber" : 5 }
> exit
This is schema-less programming in action. You just insert BSON documents (BSON = Binary JSON) into collections, which is Mongolese for tables. MongoDB creates the collection for you as soon as you put something in it. The automatic materialization is quite addictive once you get used to it, which takes about 5 minutes.
The MongoDB client language is really handy. It is based on JavaScript. There are what seem to be some non-Javascript commands like "show dbs" to show databases or "show collections" to list the tables. Everything else is object-oriented and easy to understand. For example, to find all the records in collection test, as we saw above, you just connect to the database and issue a command on the local db object. Collections appear as properties of db, and operations on the collection are methods.
It helps that the MongoDB folks provide very accessible documentation, for example a SQL to MongoDB translation chart. I put together a little practice program using the MongoDB Java driver to insert, referring to the Javadoc for the class library when in doubt about API calls. There are also a couple of very helpful examples, like this one, included with the driver.
All told, setup and orientation took us about 45 minutes. It helped enormously that Flavio is a MongoDB expert, which minimized flail considerably.
Implementing Basic Replication from MySQL to MongoDB
After setup we proceeded to implement replication. Here is an overview of the replicator pipeline to move data from MySQL to MongoDB. Pipelines are message processing flows within the replicator.
Direct pipelines move data from DBMS to another within a single replicator. They are already a standard part of Tungsten Replicator and most of the code shown above already exists, except for the parts shown in red. Before we started, we therefore needed to set up a replicator with a direct pipeline.
We first built the code according to the instructions on the Tungsten project wiki, uploaded the binary to our test host, and configured the replicator. First, we ran the Tungsten configure script to set defaults for the MySQL server (user name, extract method, etc.). Next we ran the configure-service command to set up the direct pipeline configuration file. Both commands together look like the following:
./configure-service -C --role=direct mongodb
The second command created a file called tungsten-replicator/conf/static-mongodb.properties with all the information about the direct pipeline implementation but of course nothing yet about MongoDB.
Now we could start the implementation. To move data to MongoDB, we needed two new components:
- A Tungsten RawApplier to apply row updates to MongoDB. RawApplier is the basic interface you implement to create an applier to a database.
- A Tungsten Filter to stick column names on row updates after extracting from MySQL. MySQL row replication does not do this automatically, which makes it difficult to construct JSON at the other end because you do not have the right property names.
To start using the new MongoDB applier, we needed to edit the service properties file to use this component instead of the standard MySQL applier that configuration adds by default. To do this, you can open up static-mongodb.properties with your favorite editor. Add the following properties at the bottom of the APPLIERS section.
# MongoDB applier. You must specify a connection string for the server.
# This currently supports only a single server.
Next, you need to fix up the direct pipeline so that the last stage uses the new applier. We located the direct pipeline definition (around line 208 in the properties file) and set the applier to mongodb as shown in the following example.
# Write from parallel queue to database.
We then started the replicator using 'replicator start.' At that point we could do the following on MySQL:
mysql> create table foo(id int primary key, msg varchar(35));
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.05 sec)
mysql> insert into foo values(1, 'hello from MySQL!');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
...And within a second we could see the following over in MongoDB:
> show collections
> db.foo.find();
{ "_id" : ObjectId("4dc55e45ad90a25b9b57909d"), "1" : "1", "2" : "hello from MySQL!" }
Meanwhile, Stephane had finished the column name filter (ColumnNameFilter) and checked it in. I rebuilt and refreshed the replicator code, then edited static-mongodb.properties as follows to add the filter. First put in the filter definition in the FILTERS section:
# Column name filter. Adds column name metadata to row updates. This is
# required for MySQL row replication if you have logic that requires column
# names.
Next, make the first stage of the direct pipeline use the filter:
# Extract from binlog into queue.
We then restarted the replicator. Thereupon, we started to see inserts like the following, complete with property names:
> db.foo.find()
{ "_id" : ObjectId("4dc77bacad9092bd1aef046d"), "id" : "25", "data" : "data value" }
That was better, much better! To this point we had put in exactly 2 hours and 45 minutes wall clock time. It was enough to prove the point and more than enough for a demo the next day. The hackathon was a rousing success.
Over the next couple of days I rounded out the MongoApplier to add support for UPDATE and DELETE operations, as well as to implement restart. The full implementation is now checked in on code.google.com, so you can repeat our experiences by downloading code and building yourself or by grabbing one of the Tungsten nightly builds.
Restart is an interesting topic. Tungsten uses a table to store the sequence number of the last transaction it applied. We do this by creating an equivalent collection in MongoDB, which is updated after each commit. There is a problem in that MongoDB does not have transactions. Each update is effectively auto-commit, much like MyISAM table type on MySQL. This means that while Tungsten can restart properly after a clean shutdown, slave replication is not crash safe. Lack of atomic transactions is a bigger issue with MongoDB and other NoSQL databases that goes far beyond replication. For now, this is just how Tungsten's MongoDB support works.
Speaking of things that don't work, the current implementation is a prototype only. We have not tested it with more than a few data types. It only works with a single MongoDB daemon. It does not set keys properly or specify indexes on tables. There are no guarantees about performance, except to say that if you had more than a small amount of data it would be quite slow. (OK, that's a guarantee after all.)
Overall all the hackathon was a great success, not to mention lots of fun. It went especially well because we had a relatively small problem and three people (Stephane, Flavio, and Robert) with complementary skills that we could combine easily for a quick solution. That seems to be a recipe for succeeding on future hackathons.
From a technical point of view, it helped that MongoDB is schema-less. Unlike SQL databases, just adding a document materializes the table in MongoDB. This made our applier implementation almost trivially easy, because processing row updates takes only a few dozen lines of Java code in total. It also explains why a lot of people are quite attached to the NoSQL programming model.
I am looking forward to learning a lot more about MongoDB and other NoSQL databases. It would take two or three weeks of work to get our prototype to work with real applications. Also, it looks as if we can implement replication going from MongoDB to MySQL. According to Flavio there is a way to search the transaction log of MongoDB as a regular collection. By appropriately transforming BSON objects back to SQL tuples, we can offer replication back to MySQL.
There are many other lessons about MongoDB and NoSQL in general but it seems best to leave them for a future article when I have more experience and actually know what I'm talking about. Meanwhile, you are welcome to try out our newest Tungsten replication feature.


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Baseball closes series with 7-1 win over Stanford
Thanks to a magnificent start by Jake Barrett and a power display by Joey DeMichele, the Sun Devils beat the Stanford Cardinal 7-1 on Sunday afternoon to take the weekend series two games to one. Barrett (6-3) was brilliant for eight innings, allowing only a first inning run to earn the win and help ASU improve to 31-10 on the year, 13-5 in Pac-10 play.
Barrett, who threw a complete game shutout last weekend at Cal, was electric all afternoon. He struck out ten and scattered seven hits over eight innings before giving way to Mitchell Lambson. Lambson struck out two in his perfect inning of work to secure the victory.
The Cardinal would draw first blood in the first inning after a wild pitch by Barrett allowed Tyler Gaffney to score from third. After two ASU errors, Stanford had runners at second and third and only one out and looked poised to add to the early 1-0 lead. But Barrett struck out the next hitter and then induced a fly out to work out of the jam.
The Devils would take the lead in the bottom of the second after Joey DeMichele drove a two-run home run to right field driving in Riccio Torrez on the play and putting ASU up 2-1. In the bottom of the second with Matt Newman on third, Austin Barnes hit a sharp single through the right side, driving in Newman increasing the lead to 3-1.
ASU would keep the scoring up in the bottom of the fourth when Johnny Ruettiger singled to left center allowing Barnes to score. In the bottom of the fifth, DeMichele again powered a ball over the right field fence for his second round-tripper of the game. But he was not done just yet as he brought the crowd of 3,226 to its feet in the seventh when he blasted a ball onto Rural Road in right field for his third homer of the game, a two-run shot. DeMichele is the first Sun Devil to hit three home runs in a single game since Jeff Larish accomplished the same feat in the 2005 College World Series against Nebraska. He finished the day 3-3 with five RBI.
Matt Newman, Riccio Torrez and Austin Barnes all collected two hits of their own in the win. The Sun Devils will continue this home stand with a two-game midweek series against the BYU Cougars beginning Monday night. First pitch is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. from Winkles Field-Packard Stadium at Brock Ballpark.


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Contracts awarded in January for future construction in San Diego County were down 78 percent from the first month of 2013, according to new data from McGraw-Hill Construction.
Nonresidential and residential contracts for the month had a total value of $131.7 million. An 88 percent drop in nonresidential projects was partially offset by a 5 percent increase in residential contracts.
January's $63.6 million in nonresidential contracts included office, industrial, retail, educational, government and other nonhousing projects. Residential contracts, covering single-family and multifamily housing, totaled $68.1 million for the month.
The state of California saw January construction contracts drop 28 percent year-over-year, to $2.5 billion. Nonresidential projects were down 62 percent statewide, while residential contracts rose 1 percent.


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Oncologists can use colorectal cancer patients? own immune system to boost the effects of chemotherapy and increase progression-free survival, according to Phase III study results presented at the 102nd Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, held April 2-6. 2011at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida.
Patients with advanced colorectal cancer are typically treated with combination chemotherapy with fluorouracil or the derivative product, capecitabine with or without levofolinic acid with irinotecan (FOLFIRI) or oxaliplatin (FOLFOX) given alone, or with the monoclonal antibodies bevacizumab, cetuximab or panitumumab.
FOLFIRI and FOLFOX
?These combinations have been successful in inducing tumor regression, retarding disease progression and increasing overall survival. However, the average progression-free survival and overall survival are still no more than eight to 10 months and 20 to 22 months, respectively,? said Pierpaolo Correale, M.D., Ph.D., an oncologist at the Siena University School of Medicine in Italy.
This study was started in 2005, before monoclonal antibodies were routinely used. Correale and colleagues added gemcitabine to FOLFOX followed by GOLFIG – granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor and low-dose aldesleukine (Proleukin?/riL2), to boost the immune system in an effort to fight cancer.
The researchers randomized 130 patients to receive GOLFIG or FOLFOX for a maximum of 12 cycles and then receive maintenance treatment until disease progression. The study was designed to follow the patients in both arms until death, but was ended early due to significantly better results seen with the GOLFIG regimen.
So far, the patients who received GOLFIG had a progression-free survival of 16.5 months compared with the 7.5 months recorded in those patients who received FOLFOX.
?Based on our experience and results to date, we believe that the GOLFIG regimen is superior to FOLFOX chemotherapy in terms of efficacy and comparable in terms of toxicity and cost,? said Correale. ?We were very surprised to find such a significant difference in terms of overall survival with this low number of patients.?
The challenge for the future will be to compare GOLFIG regimen with regimens containing monoclonal antibodies, he said.
The study shows that GOLFIG is safe and effective in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer. the study was prematurely terminated due to superior results of regimen.


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So, I've previously talked about what losing 100lbs feels like. And then we followed that up with what losing 200lbs feels like. This post isn't about that.
This post is about the reality of being happy with your body, because you're healthy, and for that reason alone.
That said, I specifically request you not bombard the comments of this post with suggestions on how to tighten my skin with bone broth, improve imperfections you see or discuss anything other than acceptance of ourselves.
We women are our own worst enemies, we are the creators of judgement against our own kind. Most worthy men around us pine for the mere attention we grant them. They look at you with complete adoration and compliment you while you proclaim yourself bloated with bad hair and zits.
It is us who creates the image and standards of ideal women. Barbies exist for female imaginative play, after all. But we need not be ideal to be beautiful.
Laugh lines are sexy.
What matters is the person you are, the person you intend to be, it is the joy you share with the world and what you give back that creates your beauty. No one is physically perfect, but we can have confidence in who we are to bring out the best in ourselves. If you don't believe it, who should?
My favorite pictures of anyone are the guttural laughter showing pure joy. Joy is a must have. And the laugh lines they produce are the marks of someone who has enjoyed life. It is happiness and health that radiates from the inside out. Because when you strive for wellness, it is then your skin clears, your bloating diminishes, your hormones balance to an emotional ideal and the true, best you shines forth.
Nothing and no one is perfect all the time.
I've personally been battling quite a bit of depression since Wesley weaned. I haven't felt that spirit of radiating joy since February 2012. This is sadly normal, but certainly not ideal. Our bodies and the hormones that run women's bodies are made to procreate. Breastfeeding itself produced oxytocin, which provided additional feelings of happiness each time Wesley would nurse.
I'd been pregnant or nursing for 7 years straight when he stopped in February. My body was so confused when all that stopped, then it got hit with a huge whack of stress with our book launch at the same time. And now it's 6 months later and I'm willing to admit I need help, which I'm actively working on.
Part of the journey is emotional recovery.
I've been through life changing events the last 2 years. I've turned my world upside down. I've become a different person. It's changed how people perceive me, it's changed the relationships I have in life, it's changed my career, it's changed our finances; there isn't a single thing that this weight loss hasn't affected in my life. It's been an emotional battle to figure out how I feel about that change, how I want to perceive myself and the new reality.
No matter what I look like (or have looked like), the love my spouse has for me makes him weep. Because we are connected, we are in a partnership, we grow together and work towards being the best for ourselves and the family that we can. He supports me in every capacity he is able, because of the respect we have.
Thus he, my best friend, is unable to understand how when I sit among these ladies in the moment these picture were snapped my thoughts were about how much I would stick out and look unhealthy, while representing a health movement. And his lack of understanding is right, it's an unhealthy thing to think when you're having a blast at the party with friends you adore.
So it's time for a little adjustment in my thought process. It's time for me to have personal therapy, in the way that's always worked best, openly and honestly here. I need to admit how I feel, why I feel it and use that confession as the foundation to move on.
It's not about what I look like, it's about where I've come from.
This was me. This is me.
From something as essential as the ability to embrace people I care about, my body size affects that.
But it's just a body. A body that's got wear and tear, that shows the journey I've taken. And just like laugh lines show joy, my body shows my journey.
I've got extra skin.
I've got, probably, over 20lbs of extra skin – especially on my upper arms, inner thighs and lower abdomen. These unedited photos are my reality. Of course I want to Photoshop the hell out of them. I want to not make this post and hide this reality under a rock. But why. For what? This skin is my badge of honor and success. This is my call to all women I can reach that we have nothing to be ashamed of; we create our own standards of beauty.
My poor body has lost its elasticity and shows the many, many years I spent over 300lbs. This is is what happens when you lose and gain and lose several hundred pounds inside half a decade. Not to mention 3 pregnancies, 3 lower abdominal surgeries, and a gall bladder removal.
I will spare you the horrifying results of nursing 3 boys for 6 years. Although again, what I have to show for that is true beauty, joy and wellness. I have 3 healthy, happy, nourished children.
I am not ashamed.
I will not compare myself to those who had a different journey.
Am I mortified at what I did to my body then? Absolutely. Am I proud of what I've done to my body now? Without a doubt. Can I change what happened as a result? Only with unnatural medical interventions, and then what do I have to show for my journey? More scars, more emotional trauma, and bills.
But guess what? These things make me who I am. And despite the fact that pants never fit me because designers don't plan for extra lower abdominal skin, or the fact that I only feel comfortable wearing Spanx every day, I am learning to embrace this skin, these stretchmarks, as being as beautiful and sexy as the healthful changes they represent.
If laugh lines represent joy, then my extra skin represents wellness.
I've been reminded by some pretty smart women lately (thanks Stefani, Hayley, Liz and Diane) that emotions, even chemically driven ones, can be managed in your brain. If you think certain thoughts and develop habits to support a positive attitude, then you can change your own mental balance.
I might end up going on a strong supplement or medication to help balance my hormones. But the first things for me to do are to refocus on positivity in my own life, as well as continue to dial in my nutrition and stress management.
I am fortunate to have a spouse who supported my journey and still finds me, all of me, sexy and attractive. He encourages me to forgo skin removal and a "mommy lift", to appreciate myself for what I am and what I've done. I now strive to see myself how he sees me.
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How do you feel about yourself?
I guarantee you I'm not the only one who needs to be honest with myself, with what I'm really thinking and worried about, and how to move past the struggles I find myself encountering. I encourage each of you to forgive yourself, embrace joy and develop a strategy to find self peace and love in your future. It is, without a doubt, the most important thing in my life right now and I thank you all for joining me on this journey of utmost significance.
Thanks to Bill Stayley, Henry Fong and Aimee Buxton for some of the photos used in this post.


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Trent Elijah Curtis, 22, of Wheaton was charged with 4th degree sexual assault in addition to marijuana paraphernalia.
On Jan. 8 just before 8 p.m., 4th District officers saw a Curtis follow a woman into a neighborhood around Connecticut Avenue and Weller road, followed by a 911 call for a sexual assault in the same area.
The woman said the suspect came from behind and touched her inappropriately before fleeing on foot. Police found the suspect in the same area.
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Seeing REDD: Brazil, Norway in tiff over forest monitoring
Efforts to produce a global set of rules for protecting forests are being held up by a dispute between Brazil and Norway over who should be responsible for verifying the amount of carbon dioxide absorbed by trees.
Brazil's envoy to the UN global warming talks in Doha said actions to prevent deforestation are national measures that should be governed locally and not by international bodies. Norway is seeking stricter oversight for the program from an international organization.
The disagreement threatens to disrupt efforts to create rules on how to prevent deforestation and forest degradation, known as REDD. The forest talks underway at the United Nations conference are scheduled to finish today. At stake is whether independent experts should measure and verify the emissions prevented by safeguarding forests in exchange for finance.
"No developing country will have international verification of its actions, especially if they are national policies," Luiz Alberto Figueiredo, Brazil's under-secretary for environment, said in Doha. "We'll have a system to check the accuracy of our data, done domestically."
Greenhouse-gas discharges caused by deforestation represent about 20 percent of the world's total emissions, according to the disclosures by the UN's REDD program. Nations have been discussing since 2008 how to incorporate REDD into global action on climate change. Under the program, developing nations protect and manage their forest cover in exchange for funding to support their efforts from developed states.
Donor countries including Norway are keen to have a greater degree of international verification to ensure the emission reductions generated are real and permanent.
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"We are willing to pay as long as we can be sure that we are paying for actual emission reductions," said Henrik Harboe, Norway's chief negotiator. "Donor countries need credible figures as a basis for asking their parliaments for money for this."
Norway today signed a $US30 million financing agreement to support a second phase of REDD activities in Vietnam, according to a statement from the UN-REDD program.
"We don't think international verification is necessary at this stage," Andre Correa do Lago, Brazil's ambassador for the global environment, said at an interview today. "Maybe we will have a special line of finance for forests and maybe we can explore that later."
The disagreement over verification is overshadowing work on identifying additional benefits from REDD activities and ensuring they are reflected in negotiating text, according to Stephen Leonard, the president of the Climate Justice Program who has followed the UN talks since 2009.
Norway "wants a higher degree of verification than Brazil is prepared to give," Leonard said in an interview today. "This causes huge delay while we're losing forests at an alarming rate."


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Log analysis for unconventionals
To understand the petrophysical properties of an unconventional reservoir, well log data are used to investigate the rock properties of the shales in the areas of interest. The petrophysical evaluation comprises quality checking and editing of the available well logs. Additionally, the description of their properties, evaluation of the intervals of interest, and calculations to estimate the shale or clay volumes, TOC content, and brittleness index for the available wells are the main steps that should be followed in the initial log analysis.
Data requirements
- The suite of logs should include gamma ray, dipole sonic, deep resistivity, neutron porosity, and density measurement.
- In addition to log data, at least one well in the study area should contain spectral gamma-ray data.
- Core TOC evaluation is recommended to validate the results.
Shale volume estimation
The estimation of the shale volume in the zone of interest can be performed in the available wells using the normalized version of the Gamma-Ray log (GRn), and using both neutron and density porosity logs.
Using gamma-ray logs
Following the concept that the increase in radioactivity of the organic-rich shales is related to their organic matter content, the GR and spectral GR responses need to be corrected for uranium before estimating clay content. This element forms compounds that sorbs to clays and organic material in both cases where their depositional environment is anoxic marine or oxidizing lacustrine. [2] In case spectral GR data are not available for a particular well (Well A), its correction for uranium should be conducted by means of a linear empirical relationship constructed using both, the corrected spectral GR of another well in the area of interest (Well B) plotted against its original log (Figure 1). The following equation is used for the GR correction for uranium:
Where, GRc = corrected GR, GR = total GR, and U = uranium in ppm.
After correcting the GR for uranium to remove the effect of the organic matter, the normalization of the Gamma log is conducted as a method of reducing mud weight and hole size effects [3] The normalization process follows the assumption that all pure shales in an area have the same GR values, and that all clean sands have the same GR log reading using the following equation:
Where, GRn = normalized corrected GR in API units, GRmin = GR clean sand value to normalize to, GRmax = GR shale value to normalize to, GR = total GR, GRlow = GR clean sand value in the well/zone, GRhigh = GR shale value in the well/zone.
To calculate Vshale from GRn, the following methodology could be applied:
Where, VshGRn = shale volume from normalized GR log, GRn = normalized GR, GR0 = GR log reading in 100% clean zone, GR100 = GR log reading in 100% shale.
Using porosity logs
Given the neutron porosity log and the densities of clay (2.68 g/cc) and shale (2.35 g/cc), the volume fraction of shale (VshNPHI) can be calculated via determination of the clay-bound water by setting values representative of clean sand and pure shale that correspond to the maximum and minimum value of the neutron porosity log, respectively.
Another method for estimating the shale volume uses both the density and neutron porosity logs. The linear interpolation of the separation between these two logs corresponds to the following algebraic formula to solve for shale volume:
Where, VshPHI = Vshale from porosity logs, NPHI = neutron log reading in zone of interest, PHID = density log porosity reading in zone of interest, NPHIsh = Neutron log reading in 100% shale, PHIDsh = apparent density porosity in shale. The density porosity and neutron porosity of pure shale are 0 and 0.4, respectively. The neutron porosity at pure shale is taken from the density neutron cross-plot at the depths of the shales of interest.
In general, the shale volumes calculated should follow the separation trend between NPHI and density (RHOZ) curves: the higher the separation, the higher the shale volume (Figure 2). In cases where the lithology is characterized by dolomites, the separation between the two curves is not a function of shale. [4]
TOC estimation
Total organic carbon (TOC) is an important parameter in the evaluation of kerogen-rich unconventional reservoirs. [5]
Heslop (2010) method
An initial identification of zones with high TOC content can be performed using the Heslop (2010) method. The increase in GR readings and deep resistivity (Rt) can be related to TOC within shales and there is a relationship between the curves associated with these two petrophysical properties. In a clean matrix, the GR typically decreases whereas the resistivity increases. On the other hand, in non-source shales (i.e. low TOC content), the GR increases while the Rt decreases. Since these two curves tend to "hour-glass" when plotted using conventional scales, reversing and selecting appropriate values for the Rt scale causes the GR and the Rt curves to track, except in source shales where both the GR and Rt values increase due to the TOC content. [6]
The crossover between the GR and Rt curves is indicative of the TOC effect in the shale members in which these two properties increase, and the hydrocarbon potential is observed on logs as lower density relative to shale density, "hot" GR response, increased P-wave sonic (DT) relative to shale DT, and increased neutron porosity relative to shale neutron (Figure 3).
Passey (1990) method
Assuming that resistivity logs respond to fluids, while porosity logs (sonic, density, or neutron) respond to kerogen/matrix and fluids, the Passey (1990) method combines these two type of logs to estimate TOC in organic-rich rocks. [7] Using either porosity curve, the method relies on porosity and deep resistivity readings separating from each other in organic-rich rocks, whereas in organic-lean rocks, the two curves overlie. The separation between the two curves or the scaled difference (∆logR) between them is related to the TOC content through the level of thermal maturation (LOM) by the following relation:
Where, ∆logR = scaled difference between deep resistivity and density logs and LOM = level of organic maturity.
Where, RT = deep resistivity log in ohm/m, RTbaseline = resistivity in the organic-lean zone in ohm/m, PHI = porosity log (i.e. sonic, density or neutron logs), PHIbaseline = porosity log reading in the organic-lean zone. The scaling factor is calculated after baselining the two curves in the organic-lean zone.
If the type of organic matter is known, the level of organic maturity (LOM) can be determined from a variety of measurements such as vitrinite reflectance, thermal alteration index (Tmax) or Rock-Eval pyrolysis. In over-mature shale reservoirs with LOM values greater than 10.5, the limit of calibration of maturity to TOC is reached. [5] Figure 4 shows the estimated TOC logs using sonic, neutron porosity, density, and deep resistivity logs. Note the good agreement between the estimations calculated from the density and neutron porosity logs.
Schmoker and Hester (1983) method
Assuming that the change in density of the formation is due to the presence or absence of low-density organic matter, an empirical approach was developed by Schmoker (1979) [8] to quantitatively estimate TOC in Devonian shales from log data. The methodology was then refined for the Bakken black shales which were treated as a four-component system consisting of rock matrix, interstitial pores, pyrite, and organic matter. High-density minerals other, than pyrite, are assumed to comprise a fixed (but unknown) percentage of the rock matrix. [9] The formulation for TOC calculation with the Schmoker method is shown as follows:
Where, ρ = bulk density in g/cc, and the constants were specifically calculated for the upper and lower shale members of the Bakken Formation based on an organic matter density of 1.01 g/cc, a matrix density of 2.68 g/cc, and a ratio between weight percent of organic matter and organic carbon of 1.3. The study reported an average of organic-carbon content in the upper and lower shale members of 12.1 wt.% and 11.5 wt.%, respectively, calculated at 159 locations in North Dakota and 107 in Montana.
Vernik and Landis (1996) method
Vernik and Landis (1996) also proposed an empirical formulation for TOC estimation using the density log [10] as follows:
Where, RHOB = density log, RHOs = clay density and RHOk = kerogen density.
Pitfalls in TOC estimation
- Common TOC from density logs methods are highly susceptible to borehole effects (i.e. washouts) and tend to ignore lithology changes. [6] However, if heavy minerals (e.g., pyrite) are present as trace minerals, there is practically no variation in porosity, and there are good borehole conditions, using density logs could be a good method to estimate TOC.
- Since the Passey formulation utilizes resistivity and porosity logs, and Vernik's method is based on density logs, their associated TOC estimations are conditioned by their response, readings, and implications. Porosity logs incorporate a lithology response in addition to porosity, the noisy resistivity readings might cause underestimation of TOC, and the complication of borehole related errors associated with the utilization of density logs may influence the final calculations (Figure 5).
Brittleness estimation
Finding areas in the shale play that are brittle is important in the development of a fracture fairway large enough to connect the highest amount of rock volume during the hydraulic fracturing process (Perez, 2013). Based on the amount of plastic deformation that the rock undergoes before a fracture occurs, its response to stress can be differentiated between brittle and ductile. Brittle rocks can potentially generate microfractures that could remain open during hydraulic fracturing and therefore they tend to break easily. On the other hand, ductile rocks absorb a high amount of energy before fracturing and as a consequence, they deform plastically. [11]
The measure of stored energy before failure is a function of rock strength, lithology, texture, effective stress, temperature, fluid type, diagenesis and TOC and the analysis to differentiate brittle from ductile rocks has been key to stimulation process in shale oil and gas reservoirs where brittleness is mainly controlled by quartz content and ductility is controlled by clay, calcite, and total organic content. [12]
Since the mineralogy of the shales is often defined by quartz and clay, the response to stress could be difficult to associate directly to brittleness or ductility. Hence, the brittleness needs to be more accurately estimated by a renormalization of Young's modulus (E) and Poisson's ratio (ν) over the zone of interest according to the Rickman et al., (2008) relations: [13]
, ,
Where, EBRIT = normalized Young's modulus, νBRIT = normalized Poisson's ratio, and BIave = average brittleness index.
Since the average brittleness is defined by a subjective and arbitrary renormalization process with defined upper and lower E and ν bounds, it only provides relative information and it should be compared and correlated with an estimation using fractions of brittle minerals or other attributes such the product of Young's modulus and density Eρ (Figure 6). Sharma and Chopra (2015) suggest that Eρ accentuates lithology detection in terms of brittleness and could be useful for the determination of E from seismic data by way of inversion. [14] In this sense, impedance inversion of seismic data takes place using the resulting P and S-impedances to determine Eρ without the requirement of density which is difficult to derive from seismic data unless long offset information is available.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Paris, A., M.S. thesis research, University of Houston. Not yet published.
- ↑ Ahmed, U., and Meehan, N., 2016, Unconventional oil and gas resources exploitation and development: Baker Hughes, 8.
- ↑ Crain, E. R., and Holgate, D., 2014, A 12-step program to reduce uncertainty in kerogen-rich reservoirs: Presented at the CSPG-CSEG-CWLS GeoConvention.
- ↑ Crain, E.R., 2000, Crain's Petrophysical Handbook, http://www.spec2000.net, accessed January 2017.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Charsky, A., and Herron, S., 2013, Accurate, direct Total Organic Carbon (TOC) log from a new advanced geochemical spectroscopy tool: comparison with conventional approaches for TOC estimation: Search and Discovery Article, AAPG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts, No. 41162.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Heslop, K.A., 2010, Generalized method for the estimation of TOC from GR and Rt: Search and Discovery Article, AAPG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts, No. 80117.
- ↑ Passey, Q. R., Creaney, S., Kulla, J.B., Moretti, F.J., and Stroud, J.D., 1990, A practical model for organic richness from porosity and resistivity logs: AAPG Bulletin, 74, 1777-1794.
- ↑ Schmoker, J., 1979, Determination of organic content of Appalachian Devonian shales from formation-density logs: AAPG Bulletin, 63, no. 9, 1504-1537.
- ↑ Schmoker, J.W., and Hester, T.C., 1983, Organic carbon in Bakken Formation, United States portion of Williston Basin: AAPG Bulletin, 67, no. 12, 2165-2174.
- ↑ Vernik, L., and Landis, C., 1996, Elastic anisotropy of source rocks: implications for hydrocarbon generation and primary migration: AAPG Bulletin, 80, no. 4, 531-544.
- ↑ Ruiz, F., 2016, Rock-physics and 3C-3D seismic analysis for reservoir characterization: Marcellus shale, Pennsylvania: M.S. thesis, University of Houston.
- ↑ Perez, R., and Marfurt, K., 2013, Brittleness estimation from seismic measurements in unconventional reservoirs: Application to the Barnett Shale: SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts, 2258-2263.
- ↑ Rickman, R., Mullen, M., Petre, E., Grieser, B., and Kundert, D., 2008, A practical use of shale petrophysics for stimulation design optimization: All shale plays are not clones of the Barnett shale: SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, no. 115258, 21-24.
- ↑ Sharma, K. R., and Chopra, S., 2015, Determination of lithology and brittleness of rocks with a new attribute: The Leading Edge, 34, no. 5, 554.


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The goal of the Pottery Studio is to educate students and artists in the philosophy and practices of sustainable resource development, to involve them in a totally indigenous artistic environment in an academic setting and to assist local communities with the sustainable development of indigenous resources. Saint John's Pottery operates a variety of programs to achieve these goals including: the Apprenticeship Program for undergraduate and post-graduate art students; the Visiting Artist Program for emerging artists; and research and consulting services for local communities seeking to use indigenous natural resources for economic and community development.
The largest wood burning kiln in the United States was dedicated on October 12, 1994. Located across the road from the Pottery Studio, the new kiln is unique in size, design and function. Composed of three chambers, the kiln is 87 feet long, 6 feet 8 inches high, 6 feet wide and has a capacity of 1,600 cubic feet.
The Pottery Studio has been directed by Richard Bresnahan, a 1976 graduate of Saint John's University, since 1979. The artist in residence at Saint John's and the College of Saint Benedict, Bresnahan spent four years studying with Nakazato Takashi Pottery in Japan, whereupon he was declared a master potter.


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The outspoken Forrest Norrod has never shied away from challenges. Previously, as a server chief at Dell, he helped the company's data-center hardware business flourish, and he loved experimenting with new types of servers.
He has a new challenge as AMD's server chief: to bring back the glory days of chipmaker's server business, which is now in tatters. A mega-chip called Naples, which has 32 cores and is based on the Zen architecture, will be the first test of AMD's return to the server market.
The Naples chip will ship to server makers in the second quarter of this year. The benchmarks of Naples are competitive with Intel's chips in head-to-head comparisons, said Norrod, senior vice president and general manager of AMD's Enterprise, Embedded, and Semi-Custom Business Group.
AMD's return will add much-needed competition to the server chip market, which Intel dominates. Intel has more than a 90 percent market share, and AMD's goal is to steadily siphon off customers.
Customers may welcome AMD's server chips because Intel's chips are priced high, with the most expensive chip selling for US$8,898. Lower priced AMD chips could give customers bargaining power.
"If we look at how they price their consumer products, it stands to reason that the versions of Naples will also undercut Intel's pricing," said Nathan Brookwood, principal analyst at Insight 64.
An AMD discount is already happening with the company's new Ryzen desktop chips, which are significantly cheaper than Intel's gaming chips.
The Naples server chips are based on the x86 architecture, but they don't have an official name yet. AMD was once a legitimate threat to Intel, but a series of missteps killed its server business. The decline started with the heavily criticized Bulldozer architecture, and the company later bet its server future on ARM chips, but slow demand knocked the company out of servers.
Naples won't be the only server chip based on Zen. More chips will be revealed as the server chip launch comes closer, Norrod said. Not everyone will buy a 32-core chip, so AMD may release server chips with fewer cores.
The response to Zen has so far been "delightful," Norrod said.
Zen server chips are targeted at single- and two-socket servers, which are used for general-purpose and cloud applications. A two-socket system could have eight memory channels, which could help with in-memory applications like databases, which require more bandwidth.
Naples will have more I/O and memory capacity than comparable Intel chips, Narrod said. Those features should help with machine learning, especially when the chip is paired with co-processors like GPUs. AMD hopes to pair Zen server chips with its upcoming Vega GPU, which will be tuned for machine learning.
The high-bandwidth fabric linking two sockets in the chips is unique, which makes them ideal for two-socket servers, Brookwood said.
AMD has already licensed its new server architecture to THATIC (Tianjin Haiguang Advanced Technology Investment Co. Ltd.), a joint venture in China that is making surrogate Zen chips for the local market. That doesn't mean AMD will hold its Naples chips from the China market, Norrod said.
The Naples chip will take on Intel's Skylake server chips, which are scheduled to be used by Google in its cloud servers. One area where the AMD chips will fall short is in high-performance applications, where Intel chips could excel. Intel's Skylake server chips will have AVX-512 to run vectorized applications, while AMD's chips have only AVX-128.
There are some algorithms that can benefit from AVX-512, and Intel has been in the high-performance computing area longer than AMD, Brookwood said.
"Intel knows where those codes are buried," while AMD is still trying to discover the market, Brookwood said.
There are some applications that will run better on Intel's chips, Norrod said. But AMD's Naples has its own unique features that could help the company come firing back into the server market, he said.
In the end, if AMD's chip is competitive on performance, even if slightly slower, customers will consider using it.
"If you have comparable performance, then pricing's a big deal," Brookwood said.
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