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Exploring Cathedral Cove and Sea Caves of the Coromandel Coast
The Coromandel's gorgeous coast is even more breathtaking from the water. Cathedral Cove Scenic Cruises takes you to the heart of this incredible seascape.
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The rugged northeast coast of The Coromandel is home to some of New Zealand's most breathtaking and iconic views. Cathedral Cove draws visitors from across the globe, Shakespeare's Cliff has inspired sailors for hundreds of years and the majestic bluffs of Mercury Bay provided a striking backdrop for the Chronicles of Narnia film Prince Caspian.
But these iconic vistas are only part of the story: the coast also hides a wealth of secluded sea caves, dramatic cliffs, powerful blowholes and quiet little coves that are only accessible from the water.
After visiting this area several times on land, I recently had the opportunity to take in another angle onboard Cathedral Cove Scenic Cruises. The change in perspective is incredible: instead of looking at gorgeous views from a distance on land, the cruise takes you right into the scenery itself.
Exploring secluded sea caves
Our skipper and guide, Darryl, took us from large-scale vistas such as Cathedral Cove to small unnamed caves and coves. Up close, you can see light filter through an opening in the top of a small cave and hear the water rush out of a blowhole after a wave crashes through it. The boat was originally used by the Coast Guard in Auckland, so it's as safe as they come and a comfortable ride.
Snorkeling with the fish -- or watching them from on deck
When the weather's warm, you can jump right in! The coastline includes the beautiful Cathedral Cove Marine Reserve, a highly-regarded snorkeling destination with abundant sea life and often-clear water. Not up for a swim? An underwater camera lowered from the side of the boat allows you to view the sea life on a monitor while you stay dry on deck.
Capturing unique photos
Experiencing the coastline from the water puts everything in a different scale and allows you to photograph iconic landscapes from a rarely-seen angle. Plus: the water, the waves and the light interact with one-of-a-kind rock formations to create incredible photo opportunities from anywhere on the boat.
Cathedral Cove Scenic Cruises operates year-round, offering quick tours as well as more leisurely ones. I visited on a winter afternoon and loved it. If you're a morning person, head over to the wharf for an early tour. The morning sun reflecting inside the Orua sea cave, Darryl said, is pure magic.
Learn more and book your tour at www.thecoromandel.com.
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Renowned as the number one Kiwi holiday destination, The Coromandel is blessed with hundreds of natural hideaways, making it an ideal place to slow down, relax and unwind. Here you can experience what New Zealanders feel when they are on holiday.


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Director of the government's G-Cloud programme, Denise McDonagh, has hit back at claims that July's sale figures hit a slump, claiming that over £1 million spent through Cloudstore indicates a shift away from traditional suppliers towards SMEs.
Suppliers that were awarded G-Cloud framework accreditation are obliged to provide details of any sales they complete through the framework, which the Government Procurement Service receives monthly.
It was revealed last week that spending in July was just £98,182, compared to £459,730 in June, and £555,187 in April.
Computerworld UK highlighted that G-Cloud suppliers are likely to be hoping that the slump is due to the holiday season, rather than government turning its back on cloud procurements.
However, in a blog post entitled 'A Rebuttal', McDonagh said that whilst some have been supportive and recognise that 75 percent of spend through the framework has been with SMEs, this was not the case for everyone. She even said that some had been "less accurate in their use of the [G-Cloud] data".
McDonagh said: "Some people who don't really understand the landscape we're working in may well look at that figure and assume that has had very little impact on the estimated sixteen billion pounds a year that government spends on IT."
This simply highlights that what they don't understand is the relationship between £1 spent with a G-Cloud supplier, and £1 spent with one of the 20 corporations responsible for delivering 90 percent of government IT at present."
She added: "That is why the fact that after only four months of completed data we can clearly see the shift away from the traditional suppliers to the SME's is such a good thing."
The blog post also highlighted that any suggestion that there has been a drop in interest in supplying to the G-Cloud is 'just plain wrong', as there have been 407 expressions of interest from new suppliers into G-Cloud ii, in addition to the 257 suppliers that signed up to the original framework.
The government launched the G-Cloud ii framework in May of this year, with the hope that it will add to the 1,700 services currently available on G-Cloud i. G-Cloud ii will run for 12 months and is set to be worth an estimated £100 million.
McDonagh added: "As I have always said, this is only the beginning of the journey, our approach to propagation will help and guide us all on our way but we'd appreciate it if people weren't trying to trip us up just as we're getting into our stride."
The G-Cloud team were dealt a blow late last month when the online catalogue for the public sector to purchase the framework's cloud services, Cloudstore, suffered some technical problems, which left users unable to search for suppliers and products.
A Cabinet Office spokesperson said at the time: "The G-Cloud is currently experiencing a system error which is temporarily preventing suppliers and buyers from accessing cloud services.
"We are liaising with Procserve, the platform providers, who are working to resolve the problem and restore normal services as quickly as possible."

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Lowcountry Summer (A Plantation Sequel) (Paperback)
"Frank…writes with genuine adoration for and authority on the South Carolina Lowcountry from which she sprang….[Her] stuff is never escapist fluff—it's the real deal."
—Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Return to Tall Pines in the long-awaited sequel to Dorothea Benton Frank's beloved bestseller Plantation. Lowcountry Summer is the story of the changing anatomy of a family after the loss of its matriarch, sparkling with the inimitable Dot Frank's warmth and humor. The much-beloved New York Times bestselling author follows the recent success of Return to Sullivans Island, Bulls Island, and Land of Mango Sunsets with a tale rich in atmosphere and unforgettable scenes of Southern life, once again placing her at the dais, alongside Anne Rivers Siddons, Sue Monk Kidd, Rebecca Wells, Pat Conroy, and other masters of contemporary Southern fiction.
About the Author
New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank was born and raised on Sullivans Island, South Carolina. She resides in the New York area with her husband.
Praise For…
"Lowcountry Summer has it all: a sassy, lovable narrator; great, believable characters; laugh-out-loud lines; page-turning action; and surprising plot twists. in other words, it's Dorothea Benton Frank at her best!"
— Cassandra King, author of Queen of Broken Hearts
"Seriously hilarious. LOWCOUNTRY SUMMER is also an incredibly poignant story of the relationship between a brother and sister. As only she can, Dorothea Benton Frank shows how we can survive loss, and explores the strong emotions home and family inspire. Get ready to laugh and cry."
— Kathryn Stockett, author of THE HELP
Here's one for the Southern gals as well as Yankees who appreciate Frank's signature mix of sass, sex, and gargantuan personalities…. below the always funny theatrics, however, is a compelling saga of loss and acceptance. When Frank nails it, she really nails it, and she does so here.
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)


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Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research
On-line version ISSN 2219-0635
Print version ISSN 0030-2465
Onderstepoort j. vet. res. vol.79 n.2 Pretoria Jan. 2012
MSc One Health Analytical Epidemiology
M.C. Simuunza
Department of Disease Control. School of Veterinary Medicine. University of Zambia
Course descripition
This exciting new course focuses on provision knowledge in analytical epidemiology and on how to apply this knowledge in the control of diseases in both human and animal populations (One Health Concept). The course has been designed to train a new generation of human capital which will provide the necessary leadership in solving various health challenges using epidemiological tools to improve the health and welfare our communities.
Who should apply?
Applicants for the course should have a degree in medicine, veterinary medicine, or a basic degree in biological sciences. Graduates in health related field of study such as statistics, demography, food science and public health may apply provided they have interest in health and have experience of having worked in an institution dealing with health issues. There are limited scholarships available for this course provided by the Wellcome Trust through SACIDS.
The learning environmemt
The MSc in One Health Analytical Epidemiology will be offered by the School of Veterinary Medicine in collaboration with the School of Medicine at the University of Zambia. All the students will be registered by the School of Veterinary Medicine. The School of Veterinary Medicine was established in 1984 and has some of the best learning facilities in Zambia. The School has long standing experience in conducting postgraduate training and research in diseases of veterinary and public health importance. The School is located within the University of Zambia main campus.
Course delivery will mainly be done by experts from the Schools of Veterinary Medicine and Medicine of the University of Zambia. Experts from other Southern African academic and research institutions within the SACIDS consortium as well as staff from collaborating research institutions in industrialized countries, especially the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) will also participate in course delivery. This will create a blend of professional knowledge and skills in epidemiology and One Health that will provide a unique learning environment.
The southern african centre for infectious disease surveillance
SACIDS is a One Health consortium of southern African academic and research institutions involved with infectious diseases of humans and animals in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia and Tanzania. Staff from these institutions are working in smart partnership with colleagues from LSHTM and RVC - two University of London Colleges which participate in the interdisciplinary London International Development Centre (LIDC). SACIDS also collaborates with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and continues to forge linkages with other institutions from industrialised countries. The SACIDS headquarters is located at the Sokoine University of Agriculture.
"... between animal and human medicine there are no dividing lines-nor should there be."
Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902).
One health analytical epidemiology
This course aims to equip scientists with skills in analytical epidemiology for the efficient prevention and control of human, animal and zoonotic diseases. One health is a scientific concept whose mission is to foster closer professional interaction, collaboration and educational opportunities across the veterinary, medical and allied sciences for the purpose of improving human and animal health.
Course outcomes
Upon completion of the MSc in One Health Analytical epidemiology, graduates will be able to:
- Demonstrate knowledge of the concept of "One Health" and its application in the development of health policy and the control and prevention of infectious diseases.
- Demonstrate knowledge on how interactions between human and animal populations and environmental changes can lead to emergency and re-emerging of infectious diseases.
- Plan, undertake and analyze data from a research project concerning human, animal and zoonotic diseases and be able to monitor and evaluate activities for policy and programme development.
- Apply a scientific style of writing in the presentation of research.
- Apply economic and socio-economic concepts and methods in the design, implementation and evaluation of health delivery services.
- Determine the factors affecting the occurrence and spread of disease through human and animal populations and be able to prevent or control such spread.
Course structure
The course is a two- year full-time MSc programme of the University of Zambia calendar of semesters and academic years comprising of a taught component in the first year and a research project culminating into the submission of dissertation in the second year.
Year one
Students will undertake the following core courses:
- Research Methodology and Computer Applications
- Principles of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Disease Surveillance and Risk Analysis
- Emerging and Re-emerging Diseases
- Infectious Disease Modeling and Geographical Information System
- Advanced Statistical Methods in Epidemiology
- One Health Medicine and Globalization
In addition students will be able to choose one elective course from the following:
- Health Economics, Policy, Monitoring and Evaluation
- Molecular Epidemiology and Bioinformatics
- Environmental Epidemiology
Year two
Year two shall comprise supervised research work culminating into submission of a dissertation and shall be undertaken over a period of two semesters of full-time study. The topic (research proposal) of the dissertation shall be guided by the One Health Theme and shall be approved by the School Postgraduate Committee in the last seven weeks of the second semester of part I.
The One Health Analytical Epidemiology MSc programme is supported by SACIDS through a grant from the Wellcome Trust (www.wellcome.ac.uk) under the African Institution Initiative.
Course Coordinator:
Dr Martin C. Simuunza
P. O. Box 32379 Lusaka, Zambia
Phone: +260 211 293727
Mobile: +260 968808511
Fax: +260 211 293727
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com; email@example.com
Website: www.unza.zm
Source: Author's original material as presented at the conference
Note: Proceedings of the Conference of the Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance 'One Health' held at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, July 2011.


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Back in April, the Kansas City, Kansas, school district was considering a plan to distribute MacBooks to all its high-school students in order to give them more computer opportunities. Well, the district decided to spring for the laptops, and now that it's November, students in the district are now receiving their new MacBooks, according to the Kansas City Star, as are some students in a Louisiana school district, according to AmericanPress.
In Louisiana, two sixth-grade classes from every middle school in the state will be getting MacBooks, beginning with the Maplewood Middle School last week. Roughly 3,700 students, teachers, and district personnel will be given laptops, which apparently also have some nifty new notebook software on them. The state is reportedly paying around $5 million for the program.
But back to Kansas City. The 5,000 MacBook purchase is one of the largest by a school district, and is designed to help students from lower-income families (many without access to computers) familiarize themselves with technology before they get to college or enter the workforce. Sadly, the MacBooks come with software that prevents the viewing of pornography (and probably other illegal materials, as well). They also contain GPS tracking systems and have hard drives which can be destroyed remotely in the event of theft or loss. Still, $25 isn't a huge price to pay for access to a shiny new MacBook. With any luck, the program will be successful, and we'll start to see more schools go on a "learning through technology" kick.


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Speculating about China's possible political futures is an intellectual activity that intrigues some and puzzles many. The conventional wisdom is that the entrenched Chinese Communist Party (CCP), so determined to defend and perpetuate its political monopoly, has the means to survive for an extended period (though not forever). A minority view, however, holds that the CCP's days are numbered. In fact, a transition to democracy in China in the next 10 to 15 years is a high probability event. What stands behind this optimistic view about China's democratic future is accumulated international and historical experience in democratic transitions (roughly 80 countries have made the transition from authoritarian rule to varying forms and degrees of democracy in the past 40 years) and decades of social science research that has yielded important insights into the dynamics of democratic transition and authoritarian decay (the two closely linked processes).
To be sure, those believing that China's one-party regime still has enough resilience to endure decades of rule can point to the CCP's proven and enormous capacity for repression (the most critical factor in the survival of autocracies), its ability to adapt to socioeconomic changes (although the degree of its adaptability is a subject of scholarly contention), and its track record of delivering economic improvement as a source of legitimacy.
To this list of reasons why the Chinese people should resign themselves to decades of one-party rule will be a set of factors singled out by proponents of the theory of predictable regime change in China. Among many of the causes of the decline and collapse of authoritarian rule, two stand out.Enjoying this article? Click here to subscribe for full access. Just $5 a month.
First, there is the logic of authoritarian decay. One-party regimes, however sophisticated, suffer from organizational ageing and decay. Leaders get progressively weaker (in terms of capabilities and ideological commitment); such regimes tend to attract careerists and opportunists who view their role in the regime from the perspective of an investor: they want to maximize their returns from their contribution to the regime's maintenance and survival. The result is escalating corruption, deteriorating governance, and growing alienation of the masses. Empirically, the organizational decay of one-party regime can be measured by the limited longevity of such regimes. To date, the record longevity of a one-party regime is 74 years (held by the former Communist Party of the Soviet Union). One-party regimes in Mexico and Taiwan remained in power for 71 and 73 years respectively (although in the case of Taiwan, the accounting is complicated by the Kuomintang's military defeat on the mainland). Moreover, all of the three longest-ruling one-party regimes began to experience system-threatening crisis roughly a decade before they exited political power. If the same historical experience should be repeated in China, where the Communist Party has ruled for 63 years, we may reasonably speculate that the probability of a regime transition is both real and high in the coming 10-15 years, when the CCP will reach the upper-limit of the longevity of one-party regimes.
Second, the effects of socioeconomic change –rising literacy, income, and urbanization rates, along with the improvement of communications technologies — greatly reduce the costs of collective action, de-legitimize autocratic rule, and foster demands for greater democracy. As a result, authoritarian regimes, which have a relatively easy time ruling poor and agrarian societies, find it increasingly difficult and ultimately impossible to maintain their rule once socioeconomic development reaches a certain level. Statistical analysis shows that authoritarian regimes become progressively more unstable (and democratic transitions more likely) once income rises above $1,000 (PPP) per capita. When per capita income goes above $4,000 (PPP), the likelihood of democratic transitions increases more dramatically. Few authoritarian regimes, unless they rule in oil-producing countries, can survive once per capita income hits more than $6,000 (PPP). If we apply this observation and take into account the probable effect of inflation (although the above PPP figures were calculated in constant terms), we will find that China is well into this "zone of democratic transition" because its per capita income is around $9,100 (PPP) today, comparable to the income level of South Korea and Taiwan in the mid-1980s on the eve of their democratic transitions. In another 10-15 years, its per capita income could exceed $15,000 and its urbanization rate will have risen to 60-65 percent. If the CCP has such a tough time today (in terms of deploying its manpower and financial resources) to maintain its rule, just imagine how impossible the task will become in 10-15 years' time.


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Thin streams of a new dawn's first light poked through the bullet holes in the corrugated doors of the fire truck bays that now served as billeting for the 24th Marine Amphibious Unit's (MAU) headquarters staff. Birds chirped merrily, giving little warning of the horrendous carnage about to be wreaked on Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines of the Battalion Landing Team, 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment (BLT 1/8) asleep 100 yards to the south in the Lebanese Aviation Safety Building at Beirut International Airport.
Sundays meant a more casual routine. Normally, I would begin with a hearty breakfast in the battalion mess hall of made-to-order omelets, French toast, and lots of coffee followed by relaxed conversation. But today—23 October 1983—was different.
I'd been invited to dine later in the day with the French Foreign Legion's 3eme Compagnie, 1er Regiment de Chasseurs Parachutistes (3rd Company, 1st Parachute Infantry Regiment). I pulled my camouflaged "Snoopy" blanket over my shoulders and rolled away from the light to catch a few additional precious moments of sleep.
Twenty minutes later, at about 0620, BLAM!
The loudest, flattest sound I've ever heard shook me full awake as a steel door next to my canvas cot imploded, narrowly missing Rabbi Arnold Resnicoff, Catholic Chaplain Father George W. Pucciarelli, and me. Pieces of mortar and broken glass crashed around us as louvered windows disintegrated from the penetrating blast wave. Unknown until hours later, Lutheran Chaplain Danny Wheeler lay prostrate amid huge blocks of reinforced concrete and rubble praying for God to rescue him or let him die quickly. A suicide terrorist had driven an explosive-laden truck past guard posts and into the lobby off the Aviation Safety Building-the BLT's headquarters as well as barracks. The subsequent blast turned the four-story building into a gray-dust and broken-concrete heap barely 20 feet high.
Six kilometers to the north, the huge blast attracted the attention of French soldiers, who gathered on the balconies of the eight-story building that housed their barracks. About two minutes later another suicide bomber drove into the basement of that building and detonated his truck's explosives, killing 58 soldiers.
I knew none of this as I put on my battle dress and picked my way through debris. A quick check of the Command Operations Center confirmed that this was serious business. Communications wire dangled everywhere like shiny black spaghetti. Across the hall, I found both my local and direct lines to the Pentagon were dead. I then proceeded toward the sound of the blast, running into my press chief, Staff Sergeant Randy Gaddo, who told me, "Major, the BLT is gone!"
What weapon could do such a thing, I wondered. Classified message traffic had told of thousands of Russian "advisers" attached to Syrian forces in the Shouf Mountains to the west, where hundreds of artillery batteries and Soviet SA-5 Gammon missiles capable of long-range targeting were reportedly aimed at our three-quarter-square-mile triangular position. "Have they gone crazy?" I asked myself.
The Marines' First and Second Deployments
Beirut, the capital and chief port of Lebanon, had become a popular tourist destination during the 1950s, but in the summer of 1958, it was threatened by civil war. With 3,700 British troops on standby in Cyprus, President Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered two U.S. Marine battalion landing teams ashore. Among them was 21-year-old Sergeant Dick "Gunner" Driggs, who is now a retired Marine Chief Warrant Officer-5. "Our mission was to ensure there was no interference with the Lebanese government by outside countries," Driggs said. "Our rules of engagement were not to shoot back unless we had a clear target." According to this description, the Marines' 1958 mission was much the same as the one they were ordered to carry out in 1982.
The 1958 operation was validated on 23 October when the Lebanese formed a government that included representatives of all major parties. Ironically, 25 years later to the day, the Corps would suffer its greatest loss of life in a single action since Iwo Jima when its Beirut barracks were blown up.
Eisenhower's initiative delayed the Lebanese civil war until late 1975. Beirut's citizenry quickly aligned along religious lines. As the conflict continued, Palestinians flowed in through Lebanon's porous borders, with the Palestinian Liberation Organization using the country as a sanctuary where it could regroup and refit for hostile incursions into Israel.
In 1982 Israel struck back at the PLO by invading Lebanon. After the Israeli forces closed in on Beirut, the Lebanese government requested a multinational force to oversee the Palestinian fighters' withdrawal from the city and to set up a permanent base of operations for future elements of the international force. U.S. Marines of the 32d MAU, along with French and Italian troops, began arriving in Beirut on 20 August. Israeli forces, meanwhile, dug in outside the city. On 10 September, with the PLO withdrawal accomplished without incident, the Marines headed back to sea.
Back for a Third Time
Four days later, however, Lebanon was again thrown into turmoil when President-elect Bashir Gemayel was assassinated. Israeli forces encircled the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps and allowed Phalangist Christian militia units trained and equipped by Israel to enter them. Within 48 hours more than 700 Palestinian men, women, and children were executed, prompting the Lebanese government to ask the United States to return its troops to Beirut. On 29 September, the Marines arrived back in the city, again joining French and Italian forces.
Relative calm returned until 18 April 1983, when explosives hidden in a delivery van detonated near the front of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, collapsing the building and killing 46 people, including 16 Americans. Fighting between Lebanese Christian and Muslim militias gradually escalated as the U.S. forces trained and equipped the Lebanese Armed Forces, which were increasingly perceived as a pro-Christian, anti-Muslim force.
By late summer, Muslim sniper and mortar fire was targeting the Marines. Battles in Beirut's southern suburbs spilled over into the Marine compound the Sunday afternoon of 29 August. The next day rockets, artillery rounds, and small-arms fire raked Marine positions. Second Lieutenant Donald G. Losey and Staff Sergeant Alexander M. Ortega died instantly from multiple head wounds when a rocket made a direct hit on a supply tent. Fourteen other Marines received shrapnel wounds in the "untargeted" attack.
On 13 September, President Ronald Reagan authorized Marine commanders in Lebanon to call in air strikes in support of embattled Lebanese Armed Forces units fighting Druze militiamen in the Shouf Mountains at Suq el-Gharb. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger vigorously opposed the new policy, fearing it would make American troops far more vulnerable. "I urged as strongly as I could—apparently not strongly enough—that we shouldn't be there, that we should take those troops out . . . at the very least put them on ships offshore," Weinberger later said. "They were sitting in the middle of a bull's eye."
I had begun serving as the 24th MAU's public-affairs officer on 16 August. One month later on 16 September, the unit's commander, Colonel Timothy J. Geraghty, called my attention to a classified message ordering him to place observers at Suq el-Gharb. I advised him that the action might be risky from a public-affairs and strategic viewpoint. It would place Americans in close proximity to the belligerents, thus compromising our stated mission of neutrality. Geraghty agreed and asked me to write a message supporting our conclusion. During a meeting at the U.S. Embassy, its public-affairs officer, Jon Stewart, asked me to prepare a similar response for the State Department. Unfortunately, events rapidly escalated before either the Departments of Defense or State could respond.
A Fatal Step is Taken
At 0845 on Friday, 16 September, small-arms fire had erupted around the Marine positions at Beirut airport. The Marines went to the highest level of readiness—Condition 1—which meant that we would be in full combat gear and hunkered down in our bunkers. At 1105, three rockets slammed into the U.S. ambassador's residence. The USS Bowen (FF-1079) responded by opening fire on belligerent rocket sites, artillery batteries, and command and control centers.
At 0428 on the 19th, the ambassador's residence again came under attack. Condition 1 was ordered at 0935, and at 1004 the USS Virginia (CGN-38), John Rogers (DD-983), and Bowen began a gunfire barrage in support of the Lebanese Armed Forces troops pinned down at Suq el-Gharb. Meanwhile, the USS New Jersey (BB-62) was steaming toward Lebanon, soon to add her big 16-inch guns to the bombardment.
Colonel Geraghty would later testify that "The support that was provided at Suq el-Gharb was, in my opinion, a departure from our neutral peacekeeping role to direct support of the Lebanese Armed Forces." We anticipated some form of hostile response and knew that a sustained artillery barrage could easily pound our positions into dust. A series of grenade fraggings, car bombings, and sniping events that followed resulted in only minor injuries. Then, on 14 October Staff Sergeant Allen Soifert was killed by sniper fire as he drove a jeep on the airport perimeter road.
Staff meetings held the next day stressed increased security as the 24th MAU's deployment drew to a close. On the 16th, helmeted, heavily armed men wearing Syrian camouflaged uniforms and red headbands appeared across from where Soifert had been killed. That evening belligerents probed Alpha Company positions at the Lebanese Science and Technical University building, wounding three and killing Captain Michael J. Ohler.
Friday, 21 October, was a solemn day as Rabbi Resnikoff conducted memorial services for Sergeant Soifert, the first Jewish Marine killed in Beirut. The next day, however, spirits were lighter. A Liberty ship departed for Cairo with Marines, Sailors, and Soldiers on board bent on a bit of R&R. Others gathered along the north ridge behind the BLT building to listen to a country-western "MegaBand," compliments of the USO, and eat pizza prepared by the crew of the USS Iwo Jima (LPH-2). That evening was punctuated by random .50-caliber machine-gun fire along the Shouf Mountains and at Khaldeh Junction to the south. I retired early, hoping to get a good night's sleep before meeting with my French hosts on Sunday.
The Bombing's Aftermath
As I approached the steps leading down to the BLT barracks early on the 23rd, I found myself whispering, "God, how could you let this happen?" Debris four feet deep filled the space between the steps and the base of the building. Body parts were scattered about, 30 feet in the air an ammo box jutted from a palm tree, and a dozen or so Marines who somehow survived the horrific blast stood silently in shock facing the rubble. Pulverized gray cement covered everything as far as one could see. Time and space do not allow a description of the full impact. But within the rubble 241 of America's finest—220 Marines, 18 Sailors, and 3 Soldiers—had been sacrificed in a noble but naive quest for peace. Scores of others were physically wounded, and even more carry psychological wounds to their minds and within their souls. In total, 266 men died and more than 100 were wounded in Beirut before President Reagan ordered our forces home on 7 February 1984.
We were tested. The military was not intimidated or defeated, but our political will was found wanting. Had we been permitted to finish our mission, history may have been much different. "We were making a difference; that's why they had to attack us," said Geraghty. "We were providing the stability that was allowing the various factions in the military and the government to begin to pull together."
Unfortunately, this first skirmish of the United States' long war with radical Islamic terrorists emboldened Osama bin Laden. When interviewed by ABC News in 1998, he said: "We have seen in the last decade the decline of American power and the weakness of the American Soldier, who is ready to wage Cold Wars, but unprepared to fight long wars. This was proven in Beirut in 1983 when the Marines fled after two explosions. It also proves they can run in less than 24 hours, and this was also repeated in Somalia [in 1993]."


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May 19, 2003LOS ANGELES — Angela Gibson, director, external affairs, SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE: SBC), presented Alfred E. Osborne, Jr., Ph.D., director, Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, with a check for $40,000 for sponsorship of the Management Development for Entrepreneurs Program. It is the second of three installments of their $120,000 grant to the MDE Program at Anderson. The SBC Corporation has been a contributor to MDE since the program's inception in 1990.
"SBC has been a dedicated sponsor of the MDE Program for thirteen years. Their generosity and commitment has allowed us to help hundreds of entrepreneurs achieve their goals and build successful businesses. We value our relationship with SBC and sincerely appreciate their support," said Osborne, who is also an associate professor of global economics and management at The Anderson School.
The Management Development for Entrepreneurs (MDE) Program, offered by the Harold Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at The Anderson School at UCLA, is a premiere educational opportunity that enables entrepreneurs to develop essential management skills and strengthen their ability to build and manage effective and profitable organizations. MDE provides participants with a varied curriculum of lectures, case discussions, applied workshops, and business improvement consultation to help them develop management tools to confront issues facing today's growing enterprises.
The MDE Program is offered twice a year - at The Anderson School during the fall and in the Bay Area during the spring. Participants receive instruction in the latest theory and practice in such areas as strategy, marketing, finance, operations, and management. In addition to a varied curriculum of lectures, case discussions and applied workshops, participants work closely with faculty to address the challenges facing today's growing enterprises.
About the Harold Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies
The Harold Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies is consistently ranked among the best in the world for entrepreneurial education and has been rated #1 over the past two years by the Financial Times. The Price Center oversees all teaching, research, extracurricular and community activities related to entrepreneurship at The Anderson School. The Price Center strives to provide academic and extracurricular experiences that advance both the theory and practice of entrepreneurship.
About The Anderson School at UCLA
The Anderson School at UCLA is perennially ranked among the top-tier business schools in the world. Award-winning faculty renowned for their research and teaching, highly selective admissions, successful alumni and world-class facilities combine to provide an extraordinary learning environment. Established in 1935, The Anderson School provides management education to more than 1,400 students enrolled in full-time, part-time and executive MBA programs and doctoral programs.


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Bungie is making history. Halo 3 has proven that a beta made available on consoles can be a great tool for learning what the community wants from your game, and by adding new modes and game types as the beta continues, developers can grab even more information from the players. And now we have even more modes:
Last week in the Halo 3 Beta, we ushered Big Team Training into the fold, and this week we're launching a ranked version of Big Team action. Additionally, we've added a nouveau classique to the Matchmaking Playlist -- Double Team Training. In Double Team Training, players will pair off and square off in 2v2 games of the Slayer and Skirmish variety.
It's rare to find a player with a major issue that deals with gameplay; everyone seems to be happily running around the levels expelling vast amount of ammunition. People are practically begging Bungie to take their money. This is a game that's going to be a hit no matter what happens, but there have been quiet rumblings about the graphics. "Multiplayer is by necessity a more sterile iteration of our graphical style and will always be tuned for performance and elegance rather than jamming the screen full of pixels. We think that the final aesthetic look of our game will be judged at launch in September and in part based on the more intense single player spaces," Bungie's Frank O'Connor told Next-Gen.
O'Connor also lets us know that we're missing lighting effects and the final polish we'll see when the game launches in September. While the graphics may not be able to compete with the best-looking games on the market right now, it's shocking how much can be added in the last few months of development—the best may be yet to come. The weekly update has a good picture of the kinds of information they can glean from this demo and how efficient it is to make sure the maps and play are up to snuff.
We rarely see games this big where the tweaking and testing is so public. Most of the decisions are still being made behind closed doors, and we are still promised surprises in the final game, but it's clear the community is having their say. It's news and information like this that makes a company's following fanatical enough to consider buying a $130 game, and Bungie is doing a great job keeping the intensity high until launch.


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Linux and the storage ecosystem
An open platform for flexible storage
Linux is many things, and its power lies in its ability to flexibly support vastly different usage models. But one of Linux's most important strengths is serving as the workhorse of the storage domain. Thinking about Linux and storage commonly conjures an image of direct-attached disks or the latest file system, but there's much more to storage and Linux than meets the eye. Elements in the Linux are not only stable but also cutting-edge.
This article explores the various storage technologies that keep Linux at the center of the storage universe. Let's start at the bottom—namely, storage architectures—and then work up the stack to features, file systems, and futures (see Figure 1).
Figure 1. Storage stack for exploration in this article
Storage architecture
How the storage attaches to the platform is key to the overall storage architecture. Three general architectures cover the vast majority of models:
- Direct-attached storage (DAS)
- Storage area networks (SAN)
- Network-attached storage (NAS)
Of course, Linux supports all three and has evolved with the changes that are occurring with these models.
Figure 2 illustrates the models, with a focus on the location of the file system and storage. The DAS model covers the direct attachment of storage to the platform and represents the vast majority of storage use. The SAN separates the storage from the platform and makes it accessible over one of a number of block storage protocols. Finally, NAS provides a similar architecture to the SAN but operates at the file level.
Figure 2. Major storage architectures
Direct-attached storage
Linux supports a large variety of DAS interfaces, including old standards like parallel Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA)—Integrated Drive Electronics [IDE]/ATA—parallel SCSI, and Fibre Channel as well as new storage interfaces like serial attached SCSI (SAS), serial ATA (SATA), and external SATA (eSATA). You'll also find advanced storage technologies such as USB3 (Extensible Host Controller Interface [xHCI]) and Firewire (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 1394).
Storage area network
The SAN provides consolidation of block-level storage so that it can be shared among a number of servers. The storage appears local to the servers, where the endpoint storage device may implement additional services for the client devices (such as backup and replication).
Protocols and interfaces for SANs are wide and varied. You can find the typical SAN protocols in Linux such as Fibre Channel as well as its extension over IP (iFCP). Newer protocols, such as SAS, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), and Internet SCSI (iSCSI), are also present, as are more domain-specific protocols like iSCSI Extensions for remote direct memory access (RDMA—iSER) and the SCSI RDMA Protocol (SRP), which extends SCSI over RDMA for Infiniband.
The emergence of Ethernet as a storage protocol has been fully realized in Linux, as it illustrates the power and flexibility of these approaches. Further, 10-gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) is fully supported in Linux, permitting construction of high-performance SANs. You can also find protocols like ATA over Ethernet (ATAoE), which extends the ATA protocol over the ubiquitous Ethernet protocol.
Network-attached storage
Last but not least is NAS. NAS is a consolidation of storage over a network for access by heterogeneous clients at the file level. Two of the most popular protocols, which are fully supported in Linux, are Network File System (NFS) and Server Message Block/Common Internet File System (SMB/CIFS).
Although the original SMB implementation was proprietary, it was reverse-engineered to be supported in Linux. The later SMB revisions were openly documented to allow simpler development in Linux.
Linux has continued to evolve with the various enhancements and extensions made to NFS. NFS is now a stateful protocol and includes optimizations for data and metadata separation as well as data access parallelism. You can read more about the evolution of NFS using the links in Related topics. As with Ethernet-based SANs, 10GbE support in Linux enables high-performance NAS repositories.
Other storage architectures
Not all storage architectures fit cleanly in the DAS, SAN, and NAS buckets. Because Linux is open, it makes it easy to develop new technologies within it, which is why you can find the newest bleeding-edge technologies in Linux.
One interesting storage architecture, which is not new but worthwhile to mention, is the object storage architecture. Object storage architectures split a file from its metadata and store them independently (on their respective data and metadata servers). This split provides certain advantages, such as minimizing the metadata bottleneck (because interactions with this server are only required to locate and open a file). Performance can also be enhanced by striping the data over multiple data servers for parallel access. Object storage is implemented in a variety of ways within Linux, including support for the Object Storage Device (OSD) specification as well as within the Linux clUSTER (Lustre) and Extended Object File System (exofs).
A similar technology exists called content-addressable storage (CAS) that uses a hash of the data to identify its name and address. This technology, also known as fixed-content storage (FCS), is advantageous, because it's easy to identify duplicate data: The hash (if strong enough) will be the same and permit simple de-duplication. The Venti architecture supports this approach and exists within Linux (in addition to the Plan 9 distribution of Bell Labs).
Storage services: logical volume management
Storage virtualization was once a feature unique to high-end storage systems, but it is now a standard feature of Linux. One of the most important services available in Linux is the Logical Volume Manager (LVM). The LVM is a thin layer that sits above physical storage available in the underlying storage architecture (with accompanying user-space tools) and abstracts it to one or more logical volumes that are simpler to manage. For example, while a physical disk cannot be resized, a logical volume can be resized to add or remove space from it.
With the ability to abstract physical devices into logical devices, LVM creates a number of other storage capabilities, such as read-only and read-write snapshots of volumes, data striping across volumes for performance (redundant array of independent disks [RAID]-0), data mirroring across volumes (RAID-1), and migration of volumes (even while online) between physical devices.
For data protection beyond mirroring, Linux includes
md (which stands for multiple disks)
and provides a rich set of RAID functionality. This element implements
software RAID functionality, supporting RAID-4 (striped data with a parity
block), RAID-5 (striped data with a distributed parity block), RAID-6
(striped data with distributed and dual-redundant parity blocks), and
RAID-10 (striped and mirrored data).
The LVM relies on another storage component called the Device-mapper, which provides (among other features) the ability to multipath. For example, in a SAN environment, there are commonly multiple storage interfaces into the SAN fabric. Multipathing is a feature that protects against the failure of a given path, ensuring that storage remains available as long as a path exists to communicate with the endpoint.
Storage features
In the past few years, two relatively simple features have been added to the storage stack that address the evolution of the storage ecosystem:
- Data integrity
- Support for solid-state disks (SSDs)
Data integrity
The first change addresses the use of commodity drives in enterprise storage settings. Although enterprise-class drives (such as SAS drives) are reliable, SATA drives are built with different requirements and with cost as a major factor. For this reason, SATA drives can suffer from a problem known as silent data corruption, where errors can be introduced and not detected when the data is read from the disk. To solve this problem and support SATA drives in enterprise settings, data integrity codes are added to blocks on the disk (where the disk uses 520-byte sectors instead of the traditional 512-byte blocks). In addition, the drive itself can validate the data being written, so that its integrity code matches the data. In this way, errors can be caught as they're written to the disk, instead of detecting the error later when nothing can be done about it.
This mechanism is called the data integrity field (DIF), as shown in Figure 3, and represents an 8-byte trailer that includes a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) over the block of data, a reference tag (typically a portion of the logical block addressing [LBA]), and an application tag that the application defines. The reference tag is useful for catching mis-writes of data to an incorrect block, where the application tag can be used to catch other errors in the software stack. For example, if a PDF document is written, the application tag could be set to a value indicating a special PDF tag. When the PDF is read, each block's application tag can be inspected to ensure that all specify the PDF tag. DIF is supported within Linux as of kernel version 2.6.27.
Figure 3. DIF structure for a 512-byte sector
Growing support for SSDs
The introduction of SSDs is changing the storage ecosystem in a number of ways. These disks remove some of the large latencies found in spinning disks and therefore provide a way to maintain data flow to and from the CPU. But SSDs are different from hard disk drives (HDDs) in that they are consumable. The storage within an SSD can be written a finite number of times (depending on the technology); therefore, it's important to be as efficient as possible when writing data. To make matters worse, the SSD must internally shift data to minimize the introduction of errors in a process called garbage collection or wear-leveling. This process results in writes to the consumable storage and should therefore be minimized.
Another issue with SSDs and traditional storage is that an HDD didn't care whether data on disk was valid. If the file system invalidated the data, the data could remain on disk without any downside. This constraint does not exist with SSDs because of the wear-leveling requirement. For this reason, Linux now supports the ability of the file system to communicate discarded blocks to the SSD (as of kernel version 2.6.29). This ability allows the SSD to remove these blocks from wear-leveling processes and helps to increase the endurance of the drive.
File systems
What truly sets Linux apart from other operating systems is its vast library of file systems. In Linux, you can find traditional client file systems like the third extended file system (ext3) and the fourth extended file system (ext4), but you'll also find the state of the art in distributed file systems, cluster file systems, and parallel file systems. You can find new, cutting-edge file systems based around new ideas and addressing new problems in the storage domain, as well.
In terms of cutting-edge file systems today, Linux supports both ZFS and Butter FS (BTRFS). These two file systems compete with one another and share the distinction of copy-on-write semantics (blocks are never written in place). In addition, both file systems support data de-duplication, internal data protection (RAID-like protection), data and metadata checksums, and other storage features (like snapshots).
Linux is home to many distributed file systems, as well. One example is Lustre, which is a massively parallel distributed file system that supports tens of thousand of nodes and scales to petabytes of storage capacity. Ceph provides similar functionality and, in the past year, was introduced into the Linux kernel. Other examples in Linux include GlusterFS and the General Parallel File System (GPFS).
You can find specialized file systems in Linux, as well, including log-structured file systems like the New Implementation Log Structure File System (NiLFS(2)) and object-based file systems like exofs. Because Linux finds itself in many use models, you'll also find file systems for resource-constrained uses (such as embedded systems) as well as low-latency applications such as high-performance computing (HPC). File systems in the embedded area include the Yet Another Flash File System version 2 (YAFFS2), the Journaling Flash File System version 2 (JFFS2), and the Unsorted Block Image File System (UBIFS). File systems in the HPC space include the Parallel NFS (pNFS), Lustre, and the GPFS.
Linux storage ahead
Linux is and will continue to be the target for file systems and general storage research because of its openness and large community of developers.
One of the latest changes in storage is the use of remote services for cost-efficient storage of archive data. Known today as cloud storage, numerous vendors provide efficient and transparent access to remote, centralized storage with varying service level agreements (covering capabilities like protection and bandwidth). Two examples include Ubuntu One and Dropbox. Another service, called SpiderOak, can be used to back up your local user directories to the cloud for a small fee.
What other features might be on the horizon for Linux? Support for large sector sizes (moving beyond 512-byte sectors), thin provisioning to avoid reserved but unused capacity (where advertised storage exceeds the physical capacity), storage de-duplication (to maximize storage availability), and an even more efficient storage stack to exploit new speeds and efficiencies of drives like SSDs, perhaps? Whatever is coming in storage ecosystem evolution, Linux will be there first.
Downloadable resources
Related topics
- Learn more about the differences in storage architectures in Demystifying Storage Networking: DAS, SAN, NAS, NAS Gateway, Fibre Channel, and iSCSI from IBM Storage Networking.
- NFS continues to evolve with Linux and now supports a parallel form of NFS called pNFS for higher scaling and performance. You can learn more about the evolution of NFS in Linux in Tim's article Network file systems and Linux (developerWorks, November 2010).
- This article referenced the LVM as a means of virtualizing storage in a platform. You can learn more about LVM2 (the second revision of LVM) at the LVM2 Resource Page. LVM2 uses the Device-mapper, which you can find at the Device-mapper Resource Page. This page also introduces you to the user-space tools for multipath operation.
- The T10 DIF provides end-to-end protection within a storage system. You can learn more about the DIF trailer and its justification within the original T10 proposal, T10/03-224r0.
- You can learn more about some of the file
systems mentioned in this article in Tim's other articles:
- Run ZFS on Linux (developerWorks, January 2011)
- Next-generation Linux file systems: NiLFS(2) and exofs (developerWorks, October 2009)
- Ceph: A Linux petabyte-scale distributed file system (developerWorks, May 2010)
- Anatomy of ext4 (developerWorks, February 2009)
- Linux kernel advances (developerWorks, March 2009)
- Anatomy of the Linux virtual file system switch (developerWorks, August 2009)
- Anatomy of Linux flash file systems (developerWorks, May 2008)
- The distributed replicated block device (DRBD) provides a simple way to protect a volume across a pair of servers. It works with a single physical volume and replicates it across a traditional TCP/IP network to a peer host. You can learn more about DRBD in High availability with the Distributed Replicated Block Device (developerWorks, August 2010).
- CAS systems provide an efficient means of storing data given the simplicity of de-duplication. One interesting application of CAS is in the context of virtualization environments, where duplicate data is common. Read more in Experiences with Content Addressable Storage and Virtual Disks (Anthony Liguori and Eric Van Hensbergen).
- Linux provides support for the Enhanced Host Controller Interface (EHCI) as well as the newer xHCI (for high-speed USB 3.0 devices).
- Linux supports the wide variety of disk attachment standards, such as SCSI, IDE/Enhanced IDE (EIDE)/ATA, SAS, SATA, Fibre Channel, and others.
- This article mentioned a number of file systems, including the GPFS, which is a high-performance clustered file system, and Lustre, a massively parallel distributed file system. When it comes to file systems, Linux is the operating system of choice.
- SSDs replace the mechanical internals of an HDD with solid-state memory such as NAND flash. SSDs offer superior performance with lower power requirements than traditional spinning disks. Today, you'll find SSDs in enterprises and in consumer devices.
- In the developerWorks Linux zone, find hundreds of how-to articles and tutorials, as well as downloads, discussion forums, and a wealth of other resources for Linux developers and administrators.
- Evaluate IBM products in the way that suits you best: Download a product trial, try a product online, use a product in a cloud environment.
- Follow developerWorks on Twitter, or subscribe to a feed of Linux tweets on developerWorks.


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Mobile apps would have to tell users when they are tracking location or phone records under a new voluntary code of conduct.
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Experts say nearly all mobile apps are mining users' data and selling it to third parties, without consumers knowledge. Now, app developers and consumer advocates are testing a voluntary code of conduct that would require apps to give notices if they are collecting this information. Proponents of the code say it will increase transparency within the mobile app world since developers will have to divulge whether an app collects specific personal information.
The code is the result of negotiations between the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, app developers and consumer privacy advocates.
Many of the developers who agreed to the code of conduct were likely not doing anything malicious with user data, says Jon Rettinger, president of TechnoBuffalo.com, a consumer electronic site. Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) have not revealed whether they would participate in the code.
"Previously, mobile consumers have been pillaged for information," Rettinger says. "There was no real way to determine what information you were sending to app makers and mobile carriers. There is no need for a flashlight app that just lights on and off to know when I call home or where I live."
Consumers don't even realize they are being mined when apps are running on their phones, he says. For example, on an iPhone, a user may forget to shut down an app, and it will continue collecting geolocation data even if that person isn't actively using it.
"Consumers have been operating under a 'see no evil' mentality," Rettinger says. "They know things are going on, but don't care."
The new code does not detail what data are being collected about them, but instead asks them to either opt in or out of geolocation tracking, for example.
The code impacts app developers more than consumers, according to Rettinger, since they share the mined data and likely sell it to advertisers. "Those who are maliciously using this information weren't the ones pushing for this," he says.
He also says, the new code is the rule and not the exception, and will likely go unnoticed by users.
"It's nice to see proactive steps being taken, but people are largely unaware of the information apps are taking from them," he says.
The Federal Trade Commission, which has pushed for greater consumer protections in the mobile arena, declined to be interviewed by phone about the move, but says it's an important step. Companies that violate the code of conduct would be subject to an investigation of practices by the FTC.
"The Commission has long advocated greater transparency about privacy practices on mobile devices, and the code represents important progress toward that goal. As they move towards implementation, I encourage stakeholders to perform consumer testing of the short form notice to assess its effectiveness," Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Edith Ramirez said in a statement to FOXBusiness.com.


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Editor: To the gentleman (Mailbox, last Sunday) who says the Big Ten is right up there with other conferences, all he needs to do is look at last year's bowl record, in which the Big Ten won two of seven. The reason the Big Ten has so many team in bowls is their tie-in with five bowls.
Editor: To the gentleman (Mailbox, last Sunday) who says the Big Ten is right up there with other conferences, all he needs to do is look at last year�s bowl record, in which the Big Ten won two of seven. The reason the Big Ten has so many team in bowls is their tie-in with five bowls.
You were right to say the Big Ten is a power of one � maybe. I say maybe because while Ohio State hasn�t lost, they really have played nobody. I think they are good but how good is a different story. Ironically, the fact that they were on probation last year more than likely kept their winning streak alive.
Fred Haefner, Hilliard
Mr. Stein: A couple of weeks ago someone wrote to your Mailbox about bringing back Vinny Prospal. I, too, have written about the need to bring a veteran player such as Prospal back to the Jackets organization.
The Jackets are not interested in a trade, so why not re-sign Prospal? Not only could he provide a spark to our offense, but he could be a mentor to the younger players. Last year you saw his great work ethic and determination to get the puck to the net. Marian Gaborik seemed to acknowledge the energy and intensity that Vinny brought and perhaps Prospal�s strengths could bring Gaborik out of his slump.
Trying to build the future, be a strong hockey club for a long time, be committed to improvement � it all sounds like the right approach. But opportunity is now: Win more games, keep your fan base, build more fans, and that is only going to happen with more offense and becoming consistent.
Vinny Prospal might not be the entire answer or for the future, but it surely would not hurt our chances to bring back this veteran to kick-start our team now.
Sandra Bertrand, via email
Mr. Stein: I want to thank you VERY much for the excellent coverage the Ohio State women's basketball team has had so far in The Dispatch this season. It�s really nice to not be the forgotten stepsisters off in the corner.
However, we who follow the team are very unhappy about the new format for player information in The Dispatch on game days. Last year, the entire roster was listed and the players� numbers as well as their shooting averages were given. Now we get a weird listing with the starters and then the major reserves in a little section by themselves, plus there are no player numbers and no shooting stats.
Team members who obviously are considered not important enough are not even listed. If it is an issue of space, why not simply use a smaller font? I�m sure the problem could be solved somehow. The present presentation is unsatisfactory, and we would like very much if you could revert to the form used in previous years.
Inga Smith, Columbus
Mr. Stein: I�m not much of a basketball fan but I was somewhat amazed yesterday at a statistic in the box score of the OSU vs. American basketball game. American University had 7 foul shots, Ohio State was awarded 29 foul shots! Quite a disparity!
I decided to do some amateur research. Going back to past issues of newspapers I discovered that in college basketball the home team always gets more foul shots than the visiting team. However, in the NBA, the number of foul shots awarded is virtual equal between the visitors and the host team.
This leads me to believe that in the pros, the officials travel all the league venues and are more accountable to the league office and team owners while the colleges hire local referees whose job it is to make sure the home team wins and the fans go away happy. This seems to be OK with everyone. The visiting team coaches never complain because it's an accepted situation as long as your own athletic director schedules more home games than visiting ones.
Larrry Boddicker, Columbus
Ray: I have just watched three quarters of the Oklahoma State-Baylor game and am reminded of an item in Friday's Bob Hunter Rumblings. An analyst named Gil Brandt says that Baylor should be ranked ahead of Ohio State because of speed. I wonder what Mr. Brandt thinks now. I submit that motivation, purpose and execution are more important.
Examples: Baylor player extends ball and Cowboy knocks ball away and recovers at goal line. The Cowboys then march the length of the field for a touchdown.
Baylor receiver runs out of bounds and returns to catch pass at goal for what would otherwise be a touchdown. This and the dejected body action of the Bears demonstrated that the Pokes wanted the game more.
Don Denton, Westerville
Editor: I'm curious about the strength of schedule comparison of the football team winning streak. If you added up the wins and losses during the streak in the late 60's and computed the winning percentage and did the same for the current streak, which one is better? Wouldn't this interest your other readers too?
Why is the delivery schedule later on weekends? Today when the paper wasn't delivered until almost 8:00, I didn't have time to get through the Sports section and GameDay before Urban's show at 9:00. I would like to have those sections read before the TV coverage starts.
Ron Stoltz, via email
Mr. Stein: This is just a whimsical email about the "On the air" feature. I always go here first to see what college football games are being televised.
Last Saturday, by happenstance, I watched two fairly good football matchups (and a Premier League soccer match, ho hum) on TV that were not listed in The Dispatch�s listings. Why would those three sporting events not be listed? They were on broadcast TV � channels 4.1, 53.1, and 6.2.
Now, way back when the term "on the air" must have had its roots in the fact that the television station sent its programming via a broadcast tower "through the air" to the viewer. The Dispatch uses that familiar phrase but does not even list sporting events that are still actually delivered to me "through the air." What�s up with that?
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It seems that Google is continuing its push into strange territory with news that the search giant is working on translation software that would see users able to translate speech directly.
Word comes from the Times of the Google project that it believes could well be the early steps of direct speech-to-speech translation, using smartphones as the middleman. This is something that Google has already started pushing towards with the speech recognition technology in versions 2.0 and 2.1 of its Android mobile operating system.


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Strong yet serene brush strokes fill Shinoda's work with blacks and grays, highlighted by her signature touches of red from the cinnabar ink. "Vermillion Breeze," for one, is geometric and bold, with angular shapes in red, black and white, while "In Days to Come" is all optimistic lines stretching up to the sky.
Shinoda has been exhibiting since 1936. Her art is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the British Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Imperial Palace Residence in Tokyo. So Norman Tolman, owner of The Tolman Collection gallery in Tokyo, decided that the perfect present for her 100th birthday would be to put on a series of retrospective exhibitions of her paintings and lithographs. The current show has just opened at Stanford Art Spaces on campus.
About a dozen retrospectives are planned. Already, exhibitions have been shown at the Musee Tomo in Tokyo and have traveled to the Japan Society in New York and the Portland Japanese Garden in Oregon, with a concurrent exhibition at the Lesley Kehoe Galleries in Melbourne, Australia. (Each show contains a different array of artwork.)
The Stanford show, featuring eight paintings and 42 lithographs by Shinoda, will be here through Oct. 17. Later exhibitions are planned for Singapore, Hong Kong, London and other places, Tolman said.
"I have expended great effort as my 100th-birthday present to Miss Shinoda, who has made a great difference in my life," he said.
The Stanford show also marks another milestone: the 50th anniversary of Stanford's Inter-University Center of Japanese Language Studies, an intensive language-training program in Yokohama. Tolman graduated from the center's third class 47 years ago.
While Shinoda no longer does lithographs, she paints every day, Tolman said. Many of the current and upcoming exhibit venues have had long relationships with her art. The Hong Kong show, for example, will be sponsored by a bank that has owned many of her pieces for 25 years. She still paints in the traditional manner, using handmade Japanese and Chinese paper, sumi ink (which is made from plant soot and glue), and vermillion ink from Chinese Ming Dynasty pigments.
Shinoda has been pivotal in Tolman's career as an art dealer. After serving in the Foreign Service, he decided to switch careers and "introduce Japanese contemporary prints throughout the world," as he put it in a foreword to the Shinoda exhibit catalog at the Musee Tomo. He met Shinoda by chance while he was still a budding art dealer, and they forged a friendship and business partnership.
Since then, he estimated, he has sold 10,000 of her lithographs and 1,000 of her paintings over four decades of working together. In turn, the artist has advised him on local protocol, etiquette and organizing exhibitions.
"Many people are unaware that there is really no place to study how to become an art dealer. But it doesn't just happen," Tolman wrote. "I take the greatest pleasure in admitting that I am the only art dealer trained by Toko Shinoda."
Born in Manchuria in 1913, Shinoda concentrated on calligraphy in the early years of her career. In 1953, her work was chosen to be part of "Japanese Architecture and Calligraphy," an exhibition by the Museum of Modern Art in New York that toured the United States. She spent time in the U.S. and was influenced by the Abstract Expressionist movement.
By 1960, she was producing lithographs as well as painting. Murals, too, entered her oeuvre, including a 1964 creation for Yoyogi National Stadium in Tokyo. Her art has become popular with collectors in many countries.
Today, Shinoda's work is still reaping praise as it travels from city to city in the series of retrospectives. In May, Japan Times art critic Jerri Donovan gave the Musee Tomo exhibit a glowing review, writing: "Calligraphy is an art that is unforgiving of ill-made strokes. So too is Abstract Expressionism, the international art movement that influenced Shinoda's work. Her strokes are well and carefully thought out, but executed with a determination, suppleness and immediacy."
What: "A Lifetime of Accomplishment," lithographs and paintings by 100-year-old Japanese artist Toko Shinoda
Where: Stanford Art Spaces exhibits work mainly in the Paul Allen Center for Integrated Systems at 420 Via Palou, Stanford University, with some other pieces in the Packard Electrical Engineering Building and the psychology office in Jordan Hall.
When: Through Oct. 17, open weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Cost: Free
Info: Norman Tolman is scheduled to give a talk about Shinoda's art at 6 p.m. Sept. 9 in the Paul G. Allen building's 101X auditorium. For more information, go to cis.stanford.edu/~marigros or call 650-725-3622.
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The Third Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting of the International Network of Pension Regulators and Supervisors (INPRS) was held on 28 May 2003 in Hyderabad, India. The objective of the meeting was to pursue dialogue on major policy issues related to the private pension reform, regulation and supervision in the Asia-Pacific region. The INPRS meeting preceded the Second Conference on Private Pensions in Asia which was held on 29-30 May 2003. Both events were organised under the aegis of the OECD Centre for Co-operation with Non-Members with sponsorship by the Government of Japan and the International Pension Foundation.
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Video: The Making of Little Baby's Pizza Flavored Ice Cream
Last month, we polled your interest in pizza flavored ice cream after learning about the Frankford Taco (that would be a slice from Pizza Brain topped with a scoop of this irreverent frozen cream from Little Baby's) via Hawk Krall. Now you can get a behind-the-scenes look at how the Philadelphia ice cream shop is making their (by all accounts delicious) savory pizza flavor thanks to Now This News reporter extraordinaire, and former SE intern and contributor, Katie Quinn. I do not doubt that their final product is mind-blowing, but this is a pretty ballsy flavor profile and I imagine their were plenty of missteps along the way to greatness that are best left forgotten. Philly folks, you must go try this and report back.
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In 12 years of coaching mtb skills I still cannot get over how closed minded mountain bikers can be! "Oh, he is a single speeder, they always…", "damn downhiller's with 8″ of travel, of course they can ride that section, no skill, the bike does all the work, bet he can't climb to save his life", "look at that idiot on that fully rigid bike doesn't he know…", etc. Well, we are doing the exact same sport! Riding bicycles off road and guess what? The Core, Fundamental Skills are All The Same no matter what kind of mtb you are riding!
Cornering on a downhill bike is fundamentally the same as cornering on a full rigid bike. There are some advanced skills you can add with 8″ of suspension travel and cornering on a fully rigid bike is harder (because no matter how smooth you are you will have less traction on a rigid bike) but the fundamental, most important skills are the same.
This is true with jumping, climbing technical sections, descending technical sections, riding a bike!
Why is this important to you? Because if you want to improve you can learn a lot from riders that are different from you. The skill it takes for Greg Minnaar and Mitch Ropelato to corner so well is the exact same skill all mountain bikers need, regardless of the bike they are on or the label they give themselves. Think about it, if the best downhill racers in the world need those skills to corner a bike that has way better traction* than most non-downhill bikes, those skills must be extra important on a "xc" bike. So an "xc" rider can learn from the watching a rider like Steve Peat corner even though Steve is on a different mountain bike.
*Downhill bikes have longer travel/better working suspension (which keeps the tires on the ground better than non-dh bikes), downhill bikes have wider tires with likely less air pressure (producing a bigger contact patch), softer rubber compound tires (which grip way better than harder rubber but roll slower, wear out quicker and cost more) and more tread patterns designed for hooking up on the surface they are riding (providing more traction than a general purpose tread pattern).
So open your mind and stop labeling people/riders/things. You can learn from our examples/videos/coaching even if the example we us is on a much different bike that yours. We are fortunate enough to coach many of the best races in the world in all disciplines of mtb racing and we teach them all the same core skills (although in our downhill camps we don't teach climbing skills as climbing on a 40lb bike isn't much fun!). Yes, we taught singlespeed World Champions Ross Schnell and Sue Haywood the exact same cornering skills in the camps they took from us as we taught World Cup downhill racers Mitch Ropelato and Jackie Harmony in their downhill camps.


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"A coincidence is like a magic trick. There is an instant tension between the thrill of an apparent miracle and the urge to debunk it."
A recent episode of the radio show and podcast This American Life was entirely dedicated to exploring coincidences. They ranged from the banal (seeing the same person in two different places in the same day) to the impressive (discovering your grandmother in a baby picture of your current girlfriend). The host of the episode noted her skepticism at the start; that she couldn't help but remind people of the probabilities and statistics underlying some of these "miracle" experiences they had. But by the end of the episode, she too saw the meaning in coincidence. I did too.
Your Lopsided Attention
I have written before about understanding the statistics of coincidences, making the point that even having a dream that seemingly predicted the future isn't all that amazing. Still, coincidences have the staying power to survive attempts to rationally explain them away. Blame it on your attention.
Your attention—the ability to focus your mental life on one problem or conversation or task—is a lighthouse in the night. The illuminating part spins around and around, lighting up important areas but missing most of the sea and land. Of the billions or trillions (choose a large number) of events that happen around the world each day, each second, you are only privy to a few. By the numbers alone, there are bound to be numerous crazy grandmother photobombs that no one will ever recognize. You don't notice all the coincidences that you never see, in a sort of "if a tree falls in the forest" sort of way. What makes these unknown "miracles" any different than the ones you notice?
Like human concepts of good and evil, right and wrong, Kirk or Picard, meaning only arises because of us. If humans were extinguished from the universe, would it still make sense to call an action on Earth good or bad? Similarly, when a bunch of particles interact with another bunch of particles, it takes one of us to grant it meaning. And coincidences have their own special kind of meaning. There is poetry to them; they seem special. If you notice, you hardly ever have coincidences (at least the ones worth telling everyone about) with strangers. The most meaningful coincidences seem to happen between friends or family, or between significant others (or potential ones). I find that coincidences are even a metric for friendship: when is the last time you had a wonderfully meaningful coincidence with your worst enemy, and how many have you had with your best friend?
Coincidences are meaningful. They let us share experiences and come closer together. Great coincidence tales can span generations, or create a family narrative that everyone rallies around. But coincidences are not cosmically meaningful in the way many are taken to be. Coincidences aren't portents of fate or the cosmos slapping you around, and it is still mistaken to assume that a coincidence was too miraculous to have happened if it did indeed happen. Connecting A to B can make for a great story or experience, but remember that you connected those events, not the universe.
As long as we can keep out the egocentric idea that the universe has a plan to connect me with my long lost friend who "was just thinking about calling me," I see so reason for coincidences to be on the same list as ghosts or "The Secret." Ease off that hair-trigger skepticism a bit if it's just a story.
The particles that make you up are bound to bang and bounce against the universe in interesting ways, but the only thing that makes this special is you. Coincidentally, that's a wonderful idea.


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Faculty, Student Group Calls for End to UB Shale Institute | News
By Jon Campbell, Albany Bureau
ALBANY -- A group of faculty members, students and their supporters on Wednesday called on the University at Buffalo to close its controversial Shale Resources and Society Institute.
In a letter sent to the State University of New York's board of trustees, the organization said UB officials refuse to acknowledge the missteps made in creating the institute and accused them of neglecting potential academic bias.
"Making mistakes isn't the issue -- mistakes are a given for scholars," said Jim Holstun, an English professor who chairs the UB Coalition for Leading Ethically in Academic Research (UB CLEAR). "But doggedly standing by mistakes, as have the authors and UB administrators, carries us from the realm of rigorous and legitimate scholarship to the realm of public relations and policy advocacy."
The UB Shale Resources and Society Institute was launched last spring with a goal of producing research on shale-gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing, the much-debated process of injecting water, sand and chemicals into underground formations such as the gas-rich Marcellus Shale.
But it was met with near-immediate criticism from good-government groups and hydrofracking critics shortly after releasing its first report in June. The lead author of the report, which found that "polluting environmental events" associated with gas drilling in Pennsylvania dropped dramatically between 2008 and 2011, was a University of Wyoming professor that had previously received gas-industry funding for studies.
In its letter to SUNY Board Chairman Carl McCall, UB CLEAR requested that the shale institute be immediately closed, its report be withdrawn and that all funding for the institute be made public.
John Della Contrada, a UB spokesman, declined comment Wednesday, referring instead to a previous university report to the SUNY trustees. In September, the SUNY board had requested a report from UB administrators detailing the funding for the institute, as well as addressing questions and criticisms of its initial study.
That report, which was made public earlier this month, provided a vigorous defense of the shale institute, as well as a breakdown that showed all funding was provided by the UB College of Arts and Sciences -- not from the gas industry.
Institute co-director John Martin, however, is paid by the "arts and sciences account" of the UB Foundation, the university's quasi-public fundraising arm.
"As with all research at UB, regardless of the source of funding, it is not the role of the university nor of the funding source to dictate the conclusions drawn by faculty investigators," UB Provost Charles Zukoski said in a statement at the time. "This core principle is critical to the preservation of academic freedom. This core principle is critical to the preservation of academic freedom."
The UB CLEAR letter also points to a lecture series that was promoted by the university last year. The series, which cost close to $13,000 to put on, was paid for by a handful of gas companies and an industry trade group, a Freedom of Information request showed.
"To insist on disclosure is not to engage in a fishing expedition based on speculation," the letter reads. "Given the UB administration's repeated failure to disclose critical information in this matter, there are compelling reasons to insist on full disclosure by the Foundation."


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The last few days the Lipscomb Bisons have been taking steps to be a better basketball team.
"For the last three days we battened down the hatches," Lipscomb coach Scott Sanderson said of the team's response to a 36-point loss at Belmont Thursday. "Sometimes things like that make you completely refocus. I was proud of the way our players and coaches responded and how they conducted themselves."
Monday night the Bisons put together one of their better games of the season with a 92-81 win over Atlantic Sun foe Campbell at Allen Arena. The victory ended a two-season Campbell win record on the Bisons' home court.
"We have not played particularly well," Sanderson said. "We played a little bit better against Campbell.
"We have to get better every single day in practice and in games. Friday we got a little better in practice. Saturday and Sunday we got better. Against Campbell we played a lot better offensively. We have to continue to get better defensively."
The Bisons are 10-7 overall, 5-3 in the A-Sun. Campbell slipped to 9-8, 3-5 in the conference.
Center Adnan Hodzic, who had struggled offensively the past three games, tied his season high with a game-high 33 points. He passed Wade Tomlinson on the Bisons' all-time scoring list and is in 10th place.
"He had 16 shots," Sanderson said. "He shoots almost 60 percent from down there. We have to get him the ball in the low post."
Forward Brandon Brown was five-of-five from the floor and seven-of-nine from the free throw line for a season high 18 points. Guard Jordan Burgason added 20.
"Brown scored 18 points on five shots," Sanderson said. "We had some wrinkles for him. He did some nice things out there. "We need Brown coming on. We need Burgason coming on as well."
The Bisons shot 65.1 percent from the floor, hitting 28-of-43. They were 50 percent from 3-point range, connecting on six-of-12. "I thought our shot selection was very, very good," Sanderson said. "We shared the ball. We turned shots down and got better shots.
"We had 20 assists. We made the extra pass to get a better shot. We had more quality shots. I really liked our rhythm offensively."
The Bisons went to the free throw line 36 times with 15 in the final 1:37. They hit 13-of-15 of those shots.
"We never stopped them at the end," Sanderson said. "Would I have liked to have had more stops down the stretch? Yes. Was I glad we had to make free throws in pressure situations? Yes."
The Bisons out-rebounded Campbell 28-23. Brown and guard Josh Slater each had seven boards to lead the Bisons. Campbell forward Eric Griffin pulled down a game-high eight rebounds.
"Rebounding is Campbell's deal," Sanderson said. "Griffin is a long kid. He is a hard guy to keep off the backboard."
Four Campbell players were in double figures led by Griffin with 21. Guard Lorne Merthie scored 16 followed by guard Junard Hartley with 15 and forward Preston Dodson with 12.
The Bisons are on the road for the next two games. They play ETSU Friday night in Johnson City and then visit USC Upstate Sunday in Spartanburg, S.C.
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In coming back to Windows for a bit I am utterly astonished by the absurdity in the TTS market, and especially that resulting from the private arrangements between SR vendors and TTS companies, and--on the other hand--by SAPI synthesisers that require activation.
What, precisely, is the right way to get Eloquence in NVDA on a portable installation. There has to be a simple answer which:
doesn't require SAPI
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is guaranteed to operate with the latest version of NVDA at all times
I don't mind stepping on somebody's toes or walking the broad path of evil. If you know of a way, please tell me about it. I'll pay whatever fees are necessary to acquire the license for Eloquence--I have no intention whatever of depriving the licenser his little nugget of gold--but I'm utterly dismayed that there doesn't seem to be a simple way to purchase Eloquence for use on any computer you use for a portable NVDA installation with an existing NVDA driver. So any suggestions are welcome. Any at all.


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