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Lewis duPont Smith, 54, of Chestnut Hill, a teacher, political organizer and philanthropist who sat on the boards of Vox Ama Deus and the Waldorf School of Philadelphia, and was an active alumnus of Avon Old Farms, died Aug. 12 in Jefferson Hospital after a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer.
"As a board member, Lewis served with spirited presence and unwavering support," said Valentin Radu, artistic director and conductor of Vox Ama Deus.
A true renaissance man, Smith was a passionate student of history, art, music, literature and philosophy. At their home in Chestnut Hill, Smith and his wife, Andrea, regularly hosted salons where friends were invited to hear classical music and opera, discuss political philosophy and share good food.
Smith often joined his wife in performing operatic excerpts from Mozart's "Don Giovanni." He often entertained his guests with his recitations of Shakespeare and Friedrich Schiller, the legendary German poet and philosopher.
Smith was a founding member of the Philadelphia Forum for Anthroposophy, an organization dedicated to the ideas of Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), founder of the movement known as Anthroposophy, which he described as "a path of knowledge to guide the spiritual in the human being to the spiritual in the universe" and from which biodynamic farming, the Camphill Movement and Waldorf education developed.
As a young man growing up in Paoli, Smith attended the Haverford School, and later the Rectory School and Avon Old Farms where he distinguished himself as a two-time Connecticut state champion, two-time New England state champion and a national prep heavyweight wrestling champion in 1975.
According to Jorge Consuegra, a former teammate from the Avon Old Farms Class of 1977, "It was the finals of our Western New England Prep School Tournament at Taft School, and Lewis got caught in a move by the Taft heavyweight in the finals. Lew was the defending champion. As a young kid on the team, I was devastated that Lew could lose, but he handled the loss with grace and sportsmanship and later came back to win the national championship that same year. And then we found out that Lew had a serious neck injury that he had fought through. He was so tough and determined. He was an inspiration to us all."
"Big Lew," as he was known at Avon, went on to earn a full football scholarship to the University of Michigan, where he graduated in 1979. Smith also attended Camp Tecumseh in Moultonboro, N.H. Throughout his life, Smith fondly recalled stories of his days at Avon and Tecumseh, regaling friends and family with tales of athleticism and adventure.
"The world is a lesser place without Lewis," said George Trautman, former headmaster at Avon Old Farms.
After college, Smith taught English and history at the Hill School in Pottstown and Friends Central in Wynnewood. In the early 1980s, he became actively involved in political organizing. His work led to his association with Lyndon LaRouche Jr.
After meeting his future wife in Philadelphia in 1985, Smith and Andrea married in Rome and later moved to New Hampshire, where Smith ran for Congress.
Although he lost the election, he was not deterred and ran again in 1990 as a candidate from Pennsylvania. After a second unsuccessful attempt, Smith chose not to run again.
In recent years, Smith was lecturing on the life of Friedrich Schiller and was scheduled to teach a philosophy course at Eastern University in the fall.
A consummate competitor, Smith trained daily as a cyclist, riding his bike up to 50 miles a day. His dream was to shadow the Tour de France. Most recently, he said that being sick had one advantage. At 6-foot-4, he finally attained his competitive weight of 210 pounds.
A devoted father, Smith was fiercely proud of his three daughters, Martha, Claire and Sarah, who all attend the Waldorf School in Mt. Airy. He often took them on long hikes along the mountain trails of Mt. Desert Island, Maine, where his family has a summer home in Northeast Harbor.
He encouraged his daughters' love of music and art, having recently taken them to Europe to experience the beauty and ancient culture of Rome. His conversion to Catholicism was a deeply transformative experience, which compelled him to actively take part in his children's religious instruction and Catholic traditions.
In addition to his wife and daughters, Smith is survived by his father, E. Newbold Smith; a sister, Eleuthera Grassi, and brothers Stockton and Henry. Smith's mother, Margaret duPont Smith, preceded him in death.
A funeral Mass was held Aug. 17 at St. Katherine of Siena Church, 104 S. Aberdeen Ave. in Wayne. In lieu of flowers, the family has requested that donations be sent to Vox Ama Deus, P.O. Box 203, Gladwyne, PA 19035.
Edit: The initial post and print version of this story credited Ron Petrou as the author. That credit was a misunderstanding on our part. The author, Valerie Lynch, is Smith's sister.


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The Grid House sits on a parcel of land where walking paths converge, leading away to the jungle and off towards hill tops with views. This protected little valley comprises about 16 acres and it is the only part of the land that has been built on out of 53.24 hectares. Less of a house and more of an open garden, the Grid House is an experiment in connecting with nature. Green roofs, water features, pools, covered pavilions and small gardens become just as much a part of the house as the bedrooms and the kitchen.
Modular grids of timber beams (5.5 m x 5.5 m x 3 m) snap together to form the main house, which includes six bedrooms, the owner's suite, living areas, and a large kitchen. Located away from the main house are tennis courts, the maids cottages, and a garage. Due to the naturally damp conditions of the area, the one-story luxury eco-house was built up on pillars to keep it off of the ground. Grids that aren't used for living areas are used as walkways or even left completely open, to allow visitors to see the ground below and the surrounding forest.
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Slovakia Goaltender Jan Laco Butt-Checks Russian Forward Alexi Tereshenko (GIF)
After the Brooks Laich dating Julianne Hough news, the only natural follow-up is an article dedicated to butt-checking.
Yes, during Sunday's game between Russia and Slovakia, Slovak goaltender Jan Laco left the puck for a defenseman behind the net. Unfortunately for him, Alexi Tereshenko hustled and messed up those plans, sending the goaltender into an existential crisis: Should he go back to the net and defend against a possible wraparound? Or should he try to obstruct Tereshenko?
Laco picked option B. It started off subtle. Then it got really, really unsubtle. Laco sent Teresheko into the boards. With his booty.
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Roman Bioarchaeology Carnival IX
Not much on offer for this carnival as we head to the cold, rainy season punctuated by holiday merriment.
New Finds
Beyond the Romans
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|One of the Cirencester skeletons (photo credit)
- 17 November. A Romano-British cemetery was recently discovered in Cirencester, dated based on pottery to about 70 to 120 AD. The significance of this cemetery is that it may very well be the earliest example of an inhumation cemetery in Roman Britain. Inhumations aren't common until after 200 AD, so the cemetery is quite interesting (although I would argue that just because cremation was the "norm" doesn't mean there weren't plenty of people inhuming their dead for religious or financial reasons). Earlier excavations at the site in the 1960s revealed several dozen cremations, suggesting a change in burial tradition from inhumation to cremation over time. There are a ton of interesting details in the news reports about pottery and jewelry, and excavators even found a decapitated skeleton, with its head between its feet. I can't wait to hear more once the analyses are complete.
- 15 November. An Etruscan tomb dating to the 6th century BC was found near the archaeological park of Vulci, apparently just ahead of some tombaroli who wanted to loot it. There's a neat video at the link above (an Italian news report) as well as a bunch of pictures of the pottery recovered from the tomb. No skeletons or bone fragments, though.
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- 17 November. The Manchester Museum is running an exhibit until March called "Grave Secrets: Tales of the Ancient Nubians." One of the specimens on view is the skull of individual 15A, whose healed wounds suggest he was knocked down, but he got up again (you're never gonna keep him down!). Also on offer is a giant-cell tumor of a humerus, a rare instance of cancer identified in skeletal remains. The remains were uncovered at the turn of the 20th century by Sir Grafton Elliot Smith, an anatomist and early proponent of the study of palaeopathology, but there's no indication in the brief news blurb about when specifically the skeletons date to.
- 22 November. Seen over on one of my favorite blogs, Street Anatomy, photographer Thom Atkinson got permission to photograph some very interesting medical artifacts from the Wellcome Collection in London, including preserved tattoos, a wax model of a decomposing body, Charles Darwin's walking stick, and these assorted Roman votive offerings (below). One of these days, I want to write a post on Roman body part votive offerings and disease. Until then, check out Thom's work at thomatkinson.com.
|Assorted Roman Votive Offerings. Copyright Thom Atkinson.
- 18 November. Over on History in an Hour, Liam A. Faulkner writes about the Plague of Athens (430-426 BC). It's a short summary of our understanding of this disease epidemic based on the writings of men like Thucydides and Plutarch, as well as the Hippocratic Corpus. One day, we may start finding more cemeteries in the Greco-Roman world whose skeletons yield evidence of various plagues and help us reconstruct history better than the eyewitnesses who didn't understand germs or disease ecology.


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Many congratulations to Rodrigo Medellín, co-chair of the IUCN SSC Bat Specialist Group, who has been awarded the 2012 Whitley Gold Award, donated by The Friends of Whitley Fund for Nature, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to conservation.
Rodrigo received his award from Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal (Princess Anne) during a ceremony at the Royal Geographical Society, London, on 9th May, 2012. For the first time, the Whitley Gold Award has been presented to a previous Whitely Award winner in recognition of Rodrigo's continued conservation efforts to protect bats and other animals in Mexico since receiving a Whitely Award in 2004.
"There is arguably no one who has done more for the conservation of bats in Latin America than 2004 Whitley Award winner, Rodrigo Medellin," said Sir David Attenborough, wildlife broadcaster, during a film shown at the ceremony. "His pioneering work to highlight the vital role that bats play in the ecosystem, and their importance to people's lives, has had a tremendous impact on the way bats are perceived in his native Mexico and beyond."
In areas where Rodrigo's conservation action has been put into place bat populations have invariably remained stable or even increased, and due to Rodrigo's dedication, the Lesser Long-nosed Bat (Leptonycteris yerbabuenae) will be the first ever species to be removed from Mexico's Federal List of Endangered Species.
The success was achieved through research and strong conservation education programmes that have presented bats in a more positive way and made people aware of their value. Similar projects have been established in Bolivia, Costa Rica and Guatemala to good success and the Latin American Network for Bat Conservation has also been established.
The Whitley Gold Award is accompanied by £30,000 project funding which Rodrigo will use to continue his conservation work. Upon receiving the award Rodrigo said "This Award gives me an additional reason to strive and surpass anything I've done before."
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Samsung's focus on innovation has earned it more "world firsts" than the Guinness Book of Records. And here's another one for you – the HT-C6930W is the world's first 3D Blu-ray home cinema system, bringing you immersive HD pictures and sizzling 7.1-channel sound in a single box.
The system comes with a pair of tallboy front speakers, four surround satellites, a centre speaker and passive subwoofer. They're driven by a combined Blu-ray player/AV receiver that musters 1330W of audio power and decodes Dolby True HD/DTS HD Master Audio Blu-ray soundtracks.
Samsung supplies a wireless card and receiver unit for the surround speakers, which cuts down the amount of cables you have to conceal – but the surround back pair still have to be connected to the main unit which renders it a bit pointless.
The Blu-ray player section is basically the same as the BD-C6900 standalone deck, which means you get to enjoy its incredible range of features. 3D playback is just the tip of the iceberg – it also links up to the web using a built-in Wi-Fi receiver (802.11b/g/n), allowing you to download BD Live content onto the built-in memory, stream media from PCs and NAS drives or immerse yourself in Samsung's Internet@TV feature. This includes a wide range of time-killing applications like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LoveFilm and Picasa, which are slick and fun to use at first but the novelty can wear thin after a while.
The entire package is immensely attractive in that inimitable Samsung way, and it's surprisingly well-built. The main unit's black finish, touch-sensitive controls and illuminated disc window are a knockout combo, although it's not a great match for Samsung's silver-clad UE46C8000 TV.
On the back you get a 3D-compatible HDMI v1.4 output, two HDMI inputs for switching between other HD kit, an optical digital input and an Ethernet port. You even get a connection for the supplied iPod/iPhone cradle. The front offers a USB port that supports DivX (SD and HD), AVI, MKV, WMV HD, MPEG4, MP3, WMA and JPEG – and pleasingly you can stream the same formats using the DLNA-powered AllShare feature, which is a joy to use.
In fact, user-friendliness permeates entire operating system, from the gorgeous onscreen menus to the foolproof remote. There's even an auto calibration mode that optimises the sound for you using a setup microphone. That said, there's so much in the box that you should set aside an hour just to put it all together.
Disappointingly Samsung doesn't supply 3D glasses in the box – these cost around ?60. We slipped on a pair, fired up the 3D Blu-ray of Monsters Vs Aliens and were generally impressed by the 3D effect. The added depth and beautifully-layered visuals suck you in immediately, and the use of frame sequential full HD 3D means the entire screen is bursting with detail.
But as we got accustomed to the 3D image, our wandering eyes noticed some ghosting crosstalk in certain areas of the image, which is rather distracting. However, we have it on good authority that this is down to the TV (in this instance the UE46C8000). Obvious attempts to project objects towards you don't work either – shifting your focus to view things in the foreground just makes your brain all confused.
Straight-up 2D Blu-ray images are staggeringly sharp and vivid, plus it does a clean and tidy job of upscaling DVDs to 1080p.
The system's sound quality is good if not great, delivering a suitably sharp, detailed and powerful rendition of HD audio tracks, but the sub is a tad boomy and there's a lack of finesse and control with top-end frequencies that sets it apart from a dedicated separates system.?
It's worth noting though that this system boasts Dolby Pro Logic IIz processing, which allows you to move the surround back channels to the front of the room – ideally above the TV – and add a sense of height to the soundstage. It works particularly well with non-directional effects like rain.
We thought Samsung's HT-C6500 was generously equipped, but this 3D-capable system blows it out of the water. With built-in Wi-Fi, comprehensive networking functionality, wireless speakers and tons of other features, it easily justifies its price tag (which, to be fair, is lower than you might expect, especially if you shop around online).
There are issues with sound performance that might tempt some people to pair the BD-C6900 player with a separates system, but on the whole there's no denying that this is an astonishing one-box system.


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As an Account Director, you will manage client relationships while developing and leading multi-faceted digital strategies leveraging our integrated software solutions and digital delivery teams -- all for some of the most recognized brands in the world. You'll identify and drive growth opportunities, fostering innovation that delivers on our clients' business goals. And you'll constantly push the limits of talent acquisition to change the way companies and candidates connect. It's one of the only roles at TMP that allows you to engage with all of our offerings – from software, media and metrics to creative and brand.
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- As a principal point of contact for assigned client relationships, you'll be responsible for helping to build long-term client relationships, anticipating client needs, and working with your supporting teams to coordinate efforts aimed at solving those needs.
- The Account Director is responsible for coordinating the development, management, measurement and presentation of multi-channel digital strategies aligned to client goals.
- The Account Director works with Digital Strategists, Creative, Support and Delivery teams to efficiently deliver strategies, solutions, flawless execution and results for presentation to the client.
- You will lead the integration and/or aide in the sale of our proprietary career site software as a central point of your clients' digital strategy, and will ensure our software platform is a productive part of that strategy
- Staying attuned with your clients' digital presence and the changing digital landscapes, you'll be responsible for managing and anticipating a list of delivery tasks and working with support teams to ensure tasks are being completed in a timely manner. You'll also be expected to work with teams to put processes in place aimed at prevention or timely resolution.
- You will partner directly with the Analytics Team and Digital Strategists to ensure progress towards client goals is actionably measured and that results are incorporated into client deliverables.
- You'll be responsible for leading many client meetings, as well as working with the Client Strategist to coordinate the agenda and presentation materials.
- You'll be expected to mentor Account Executives, as well as participate in exercises aimed at connecting and educating members of other teams throughout TMP.
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- A deep understanding of digital mediums, technologies, and trends
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January 18, 2013
Year of the Snake
5 comments Posted by Kendralee* on 10:23 AM
A bed familiar but not mine; Nostalgic. (Shh, don't tell!) His snoring keeps me on the outskirts of sleep as the sun reveals the promised new year. He cracks the window, letting the cold scrub us- between my toes, behind my ears, around my eyes, massaging my neck and back, Ah! All is sepia- the tree, the sky, the small flakes floating to the ground. It's 2013. It's my year. It's my year to rid myself of anger, jealousy, and bitterness, to enjoy the sun and the couch, to read books and absorb films, to nurture relationships and acknowledge my own needs. It's my year to run the Boston Marathon, to raise money for someone else, to see this new job through, to turn 26 (oh my!), to run an Ultra Marathon. I'll go to Europe. Perhaps reconnect with my Bulgarian love, Maria. Maria! I'll fight this anxiety caused by extreme changes over a few short years by realizing what I love and what I lack. I'll push myself to the core of my insecurity by asking who I am and who I wish I was, and "why"? And when I am forced to act in inexplicable ways, I will in turn force myself to be a part of real conversations with real words and concrete explanations for why I feel the way I do. I will speak. And perhaps I will stop being ashamed. I am proud to be a part of things that even some of the closest people to me don't understand, because these things are a part of me, and though I admit to my sometimes insane insecurity, I love being me. I run far because I love to. I believe in God because I've felt Him, and because I want to. I am with this marvelous man because I love him and he makes life better. I don't paint enough, or make enough music, or climb to a high place and watch the world below enough. But 2013 is my year: A rabbit in the year of the snake. Mine.
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With the Jays' roll-over-Rover routine this week at the Rogers Centre pretty much ending their postseason hopes, sights are beginning to be turned towards next year's edition of the team.
We've heard J.P. say all year that he "likes this team", and that there likely isn't a lot that needs to happen to put this team into contention next year. As Jeff Blair noted in his column this week, we should expect the team to return pretty much intact, for better or for worse.
More over, the hue and cry from the fans (or at least the mental midgets who call in to espouse conspiracy theories on five-year plans to Mike Wilner) seems to be that the key to this team's future rests in the hands of John McDonald, Reed Johnson and Gregg Zaun.
(We won't even touch Dick Grffin's idiotic column on how the Jays are treating Reed poorly at this point, because others - OoLF and the DJF have already done an excellent job of taking him down.)
But here's the thing. As much as you can enjoy Johnny Mac's defense, or Gregg Zaun's grit, you just have to ask yourself: are we settling? Are we accepting a better than expected performance from mediocre players? Are we ready to go into next season with this same lineup, conscious of the fact that 75% of the other teams in the AL will be improved from last season?
And really, as much fun as it was watching Reed Johnson battle for a batting title (for whatever that's worth) and getting plunked a few dozen times per year, the guy runs like a girl and gets on base like our grandma these days. Have you noticed how far RJ stands away from the plate these days? Are we really willing to pay more than $3 million for a .320-something on base percentage just because we like his "grit" and "tenacity".
Seriously, given your choices between standing pat because Reed and Johnny Mac are gamers, wouldn't you rather see the Jays find a way to get an Adam Dunn in the lineup every day?
We can guarantee you this, if mashers like Dunn or Jose Guillen or (let's get fucking crazy here) A-Rod are available, then Boston, the Yankees, the Orioles, Cleveland, Anaheim(ish), Detroit and the White Sox will all be stumbling over one another to try and find a way to fit them into their lineup. If the Jays aren't amongst those off-season players, then they shouldn't be surprised to be looking upwards at them in the playoff race.
Let's hope that J.P.'s musings of complacency aren't indicative of his true intentions this winter. It's time to step on the goddamned gas and run some teams down.
Friday, August 24, 2007
Let's push things forward
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- Darren Priest said...
It sucks to (kinda) know that none of those guys will end up in Toronto.
As Jeff Blair said, at least we are spared giving the hot stove a second thought this winter.
With any luck, there will be reason for the fans at the Rogers Centre to be cheering "Go Leafs Go" in May. Ha!
- August 24, 2007 at 10:05 PM
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In Psalm 37:35, David marvels at the wicked "spreading himself like a green bay tree" (KJV). Young's Literal Translation puts it: "as a green native plant."
We have a schefflera plant, or umbrella tree, in our living room. Because it is not native to where we live, it makes a nice houseplant, growing to 10 feet tall at most. But in a tropical climate such as Florida or Australia, it can grow to 40 feet.
Why should we wonder, then, when we Christians struggle? We are not native plants. The earth is not our home, and we can expect to have rough times. Our Lord promised us that. But we also have this promise: "Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him" (James 1:12, NIV).


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Life can take many twists and turns, Tennessee state offensive coordinator Mike Jones knows this all too well.
Jones was a star receiver for the Tigers from 1979-82, twice earning All-American accolades. The receiver left Nashville as Big Blue's most decorated pass catcher, with a hold of the school record in receptions, receiving yards and overall touchdowns. The Chattanooga, Tenn. native then headed to the NFL and was drafted in the sixth round by the Minnesota Vikings. During his professional football career Jones played for the Vikings, New Orleans Saints, Kansas City Chiefs and New England Patriots. But his journey didn't end there.
Just four years ago Jones was coaching in the Canadian Football League. That was the fourth different professional league Jones coached in and it marked the third country he had spent time in during his coaching career.
Jones' start came in the now ceased NFL Europe as a receivers coach for the Rhein Fire based out of Germany.
"It's great because they knew who you were. They knew their football and they loved their football team, it was just great," Jones said about the European league. "It brings a smile to my face just to say that because of the many people that believed in football there."
The league took note of Jones' talent as well, in his two stints with the Rhein Fire (1998-00 and 2002-03) the club went 33-17 picking up two World Bowls in the span. His success led him to taking the head job with the Frankfaurt Galaxy. Where Jones holds the franchise record for wins (24) and posted the highest winning percentage in NFL Europe history (.600) of coaches with two or more seasons in the league.
"Football to us is always what it's been," said Jones on his international experience. "So for us, we were in a different land but they loved football just as much as we did and it was just an ambassador job on our part because here we are in a foreign country playing football."
Not only was Jones trying to win football games, he also wanted his teams to connect with and embrace the German culture.
"I always told our players, especially when I was with Frankfurt, that we need to be able to say something back to German to (the fans)," Jones said. "So they would scramble the whole training camp trying to figure out what they could say. It was great to see whatever they said; some screwed it up but it was just great cause that showed the fans they really wanted to connect to them."
'Mit den Händen' was the phrase Jones came up with; which in German means: catch it with your hands, a phrase that Jones still says to this day on the sidelines at practice.
It wasn't all just football for Jones during his time in Europe; the TSU graduate was also able to fully take in the culture of the foreign countries he visited.
That included taking a spin on one of the worlds fastest highways: the German Autobahn.
"It's crazy, you're not allowed to be in the left lane if you're not rolling," said Jones of the Autobahn. "It's unreal, when you look in the cars in that lane; you've got Mercedes, BMWs, Porsches, Audis all the cars like that."
The Tennessee State's coach's favorite city and experience took place in the City of Counts, Bacelona, Spain attending soccer matches.
"They're real crazy," Jones said of the Spanish soccer environment. "In the end zones of the stadiums that's where the hooligans, as they call them, stand. And they stand the whole game they don't sit down. It is one place where if our players went to a game they would really enjoy it.
In between Jones' NFL Europe stops, he spent a year in the much talked about XFL as a receivers coach for the Orlando Rage.
"Out of all the leagues that have ever existed I think that was the best one," Jones said of the league founded by WWE business owner Vince McMahon. "It didn't last but for one season but I think that was the best one."
The league itself had many quirks uncommon to most other football leagues, including abandoning the coin toss. Instead each team chose a player to battle for a loose football, with the player who recovers the ball determining which team receives the ball first.
"A lot of guys did get smashed and injured," said Jones of the dangerous opening play. "So we told our guys you go down there you let him fall on it and if he fumbles it you jump on it. Because our first game in Orlando he ran down there dove on the ball a guy dove on him and he separated his shoulder. So it was tough, but I'll say this, there was excitement even to that part of it."
For Jones, that's one thing his career has never lacked. In all his years as a player and coach he's been a part of 164 victories all while traveling the world and now he's back where he started; sharing what he's learned along the way.


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Washington, D.C.
September 4, 2013
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The United Nations Foundation today announced a new partnership with Global Language Solutions (GLS) to expand the Foundation's global reach and enhance communication with the international community.
GLS is a professional translation services company that delivers solutions in over 100 languages, including all major Asian, Eastern and Western European languages, to help its partners and clients better reach diverse multicultural and international audiences. In addition to the UN Foundation, the organization works with leaders in the government, financial, legal, life sciences, healthcare, manufacturing, and technology industries.
"With translation of our digital content into each of the official languages of the United Nations, Global Language Solutions is helping the Foundation advance our goal of tackling the world's most pressing challenges," said Aaron Sherinian, Vice President of Communications and Public Relations, UN Foundation. "Our partnership with GLS will help ensure that we provide effective communication to and culturally authentic interactions with our international networks and counterparts."
The UN Foundation received in-kind web and documents translations from GLS and will have the opportunity to utilize the quality services Global Language Solutions has to offer to not only to engage more deeply with its current international networks but to expand its engagement with new networks that support and desire to contribute to the important initiatives of the UN Foundation.
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The United Nations Foundation builds public-private partnerships to address the world's most pressing problems, and broadens support for the United Nations through advocacy and public outreach. Through innovative campaigns and initiatives, the Foundation connects people, ideas, and resources to help the UN solve global problems. The Foundation was created in 1998 as a U.S. public charity by entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner and now is supported by global corporations, foundations, governments, and individuals. For more information, visit www.unfoundation.org.
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Global Language Solutions (GLS) is a full-service ISO 9001:2008 and EN 15038:2006 certified translation and interpreting firm specializing in over 100 languages. GLS provides culturally and linguistically accurate document translations, website localization, multilingual typesetting/graphic design, cultural and linguistic validation, conference interpreting, voice-overs, and more. The company's clients include leaders in the financial, legal, life sciences, healthcare, manufacturing, and technology industries. GLS is a WBENC-certified Women's Business Enterprise (WBE). For more information, visit www.globallanguages.com. Follow GLS on twitter at http://www.twitter.com/OneStopGlobal.
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Cloud Databases: Platforms, Engines, and Data Stores
The cloud database landscape today is marked by diversity. In that respect it is not unlike the database landscape 20 years ago. Back then there were products that ran on the desktop, on file servers, on mainframes, and on SQL servers. Today we have all of those database types but we also have powerful database engines embedded in mobile devices and client-server databases hosted in the cloud. The cloud database community is experiencing the cornucopia of APIs effect that the SQL database community experienced long ago. New cloud database platforms arrived in recent years, bringing with them disparate programming interfaces for data access.
We're seeing thousands of Memcached and NoSQL deployments. NewSQL platforms are emerging and the largest database vendors (IBM, Microsoft, Oracle) are carving out their share of the cloud computing market.
Moving to the cloud does not require rewriting application code. Organizations can port enterprise applications and databases to the cloud, such as by using Amazon EC2 Relational Database AMIs to operate with EnterpriseDB, IBM DB2, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database 11g, PostgreSQL, Sybase IQ and SQL Anywhere, and Vertica. This strategy moves the data to the cloud without having to reprogram a data access layer that uses ADO.NET, ODBC, JDBC, or proprietary APIs.
Organizations can transport enterprise applications and databases to the cloud while retaining ODBC, JDBC, .NET, and Java data access code. Likewise they can choose to host parts of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) in the cloud, preserving APIs and the logic of data services and XML-based web services.
Developers creating new applications for the cloud not migrating existing code and databases can use the aforementioned platforms or look to other cloud database alternatives. There are too many choices for one article, so we'll look at selected platforms here.
Google App Engine
Developers using Google App Engine have a choice of APIs for data storage, using the built-in Datastore and High Replication Datastore (HRD) for Python and Java development. Besides APIs such as Mail, Images, and Taskqueue, App Engine developers can operate on in-memory data with Memcache. The Datastore Java API supports Java Persistence (JPA) and queries using Java Data Objects (JDO). The HRD provides the advantage of replicating data across data centers using a solution based on the Paxos algorithm. There is also a master/slave replication alternative that supports asynchronous replication across data centers.
Developers can also check the status of Java and Python services using the Google App Engine status dashboard. Google has committed to supporting hosted SQL, full-text search, and MapReduce in upcoming releases of App Engine. All paid users will have a 99.95% uptime service-level agreement, but HRD has achieved 99.999% uptime since its launch.
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
Amazon EC2 developers can use preconfigured AMIs for the database products discussed above or opt for the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) to operate with Oracle and MySQL databases. RDS is a web service that provides pay-per-use capacity and freedom from the overhead of database administration, such as the backups, replication, and the arduous task of keeping up with security patches. With RDS, developers are able to use familiar tools and administrators can use Amazon CloudWatch to monitor storage and computer resource consumption. A principal advantage of RDS is the scalability and elasticity of the cloud, being able to bring resources to bear when you need them.
Amazon RDS for MySQL supports read replicas and deployment across multiple Availability Zones. Amazon RDS for Oracle provides automatic host replacement in the event of a computer instance failure, but it does not currently support replication. Amazon RDS for Oracle also supports provisioned database storage. Each DB Instance can select from 5GB to 1TB for its primary data set at a rate between $0.10-0.12 per gigabyte per month.
Microsoft SQL Azure
Microsoft SQL Azure is a pay-as-you-go solution that enables developers familiar with SQL Server to use familiar tools when they move to a cloud database. SQL Azure integrates with Visual Studio and SQL Server and supports Transact-SQL (T-SQL) and the TDS protocol. Like Database.com, it's built with a multi-tenant architecture, meaning that other users are sharing the database storage. For data access, SQL Azure supports ODBC, ADO.NET, JDBC, and PHP. SQL Azure also provides data synchronization capabilities based on Microsoft Sync Framework technologies. This permits data replication and synchronization within and across data center boundaries.
Developers can create OData feeds from SQL Azure or Microsoft SQL Server. OData, formerly known as ADO.NET, operates with technologies such as HTTP, AtomPub, and JSON, to deliver information from applications and services.
Like Sybase IQ and Vertica, ParAccel is a columnar database. That means its data model is optimal for analytics, not transaction processing. It can operate as a disk-based or in-memory database. According to ParAccel CEO Barry Zane, the sweet spot for the in-memory database is 2 terabytes (TB), whereas it's 25 TB for an on-disk database. ParAccel offers multiple programming interfaces, including an SQL API and Map/Reduce.
Xeround MySQL Cloud Database
Xeround's claim to fame is tailoring MySQL for the cloud environment. The Xeround offering is a distributed database that runs in memory across multiple nodes. It's suitable for transactional applications, not for analytics and business intelligence (BI). One notable aspect of Xeround is it is cloud-agnostic, running on Rackspace, Heroku, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). The sweet spot for Xeround's performance advantages is databases whose size ranges from 2 gigabytes (GB) to 50 GB. Xeround supports auto scaling after you set CPU utilization, memory utilization, and connection upper and lower thresholds. Xeround has published online transaction processing (OLTP) benchmark results that compare Amazon RDS MySQL performance with that of Xeround Cloud Database, for 1 to 240 concurrent users.
DBT-2 is a transaction processing benchmark, similar to TPC-C, with the source code available at SourceForge.
DBT-2 simulates a parts supplier with several workers accessing a database, updating customer information and checking on parts inventories. The test metrics include transactions per second, CPU utilization, I/O activity, and memory utilization. For 60-240 users, Xeround sustained 8000 transactions per minute whereas RDS performance peaked at 15 users and declined between 30-240 users.
Cloudant has emerged as a platform that operates with semi-structured data in a highly distributed, scalable architecture. Although it is NoSQL database technology, CEO Mike Miller has described Cloudant as relationally complete. Cloudant is available as a download or as a cloud database on Amazon EC2. Hosting a large multi-tenant architecture on EC2 proved to be a challenge.
Cloudant users communicate with the database from the web browser, using the HTTP: protocol. Cloudant feels this enables a client to talk directly to the database without going through a middle-tier server. But in my mind this raises questions about the type of application for which Cloudant is appropriate. Without middle-tier servers, application-specific logic such as business rules must be handled in the client or in the database. Since the client is the web browser, that means having to create sophisticated HTML, scripts, and browser add-ins.
The size sweet spot for optimal Cloudant performance is 1 GB to 100 TB. Cloudant has recently introduced a solution that bundles Apache Lucene plus CouchDB, an integration that supports full-text search and real-time analytics.
NuoDB, formerly NimbusDB, is perhaps best-known because its chief architect is industry icon Jim Starkey. Starkey has long been involved in creating database management systems and is the father of multi-version concurrency control (MVCC). NuoDB represents the NewSQL approach of supporting scalability with a radical shift of architecture; it offers support for standard SQL grammar and APIs. NuoDB provides the capability to scale out horizontally without giving up support transactions having atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability (ACID) properties. NuoDB is not generally available yet so there's no empirical data about optimal database sizes. The founders will point out that it's intended more for transactional applications than for big data applications, such as analytics with very large data sets.
Cloud computing has IT organizations thinking about the advantages of computing as an expense that does not require large capital expenses for infrastructure. This tread is behind the interest in database-as-a-Service, such as the Database.com service from Salesforce.com. Developers writing apps for the Salesforce CRM service or for the Force.com platform use a database structure built with a multi-tenant architecture. Because a database can include data from a multitude of Salesforce customers, the architecture provides a very sophisticated security model. Besides authentication and authorization capabilities (found with a robust DBMS), Database.com supports encryption, roles, profiles, sharing rules, and privileges tied to user ID and session. In addition, the validity of database requests can be checked against access hours and originating IP address. Database.com is an SQL database solution. Clients are able to access data using JDBC drivers, ODBC drivers, and REST and SOAP web services interfaces. Developers are able to use a variety of languages and tools, including Java, PHP, Ruby, .NET, Adobe AIR, and Apex.
Not a Slam Dunk
Selecting a database platform, with its associated tools and middleware choices, for deployment in the cloud is a daunting task. The choice is a bit easier when the job is to move an existing database into the cloud, but there are still configuration issues to resolve, such as whether to fail over to a different EC2 availability zone. Not even a move into a private cloud is guaranteed to be a slam dunk due to infrastructure issues, such as storage options, operating systems, and hypervisors.
Ken North is a well-known expert in database technologies and regular contributor to Dr. Dobb's. Read his blog here .


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Ah, pugs. They'll eat just about anything, they'll knock all your bath supplies into the tub, but maybe their most special talent involves going up the stairs.
Note we didn't say walking up the stairs, because that's not how a lot of pugs choose to do it. It's more of a hop, like their little pug legs are attached to little pug springs. We're not sure if other breeds scale the steps like this, but it couldn't possibly be cuter.
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Most of us are aware of the high levels of mercury found in fish. But where does this mercury come from? Humans have been using mercury since before the Industrial Revolution, but it is currently being emitted by coal-fired power plants and artisanal gold mining. And according to researchers at Harvard University, significant reductions in mercury emissions will be necessary because of the element's persistence in surface reservoirs from past pollution.
Mercury particles then end up getting released into the air which end up raining down into water bodies and absorbed into the soil. Eventually these microbes in aquatic ecosystems convert mercury into methylmercury which accumulated in fish and consequently can cause health effects for those who consume these fish products.
"It's easier said than done, but we're advocating for aggressive reductions, and sooner rather than later," says Helen Amos, a Ph.D. candidate in Earth and Planetary Sciences at the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and lead author of the study, published in the journal Global Biogeochemical Cycles.
Their model reveals that most of the mercury emitted to the environment ends up in the ocean within a few decades and remains there for centuries to millennia.
While mercury is naturally released during volcanic eruptions, humans are the main culprit to the pollution.
"Ideally, mercury released by human activities would quickly be sequestered in the environment, but instead what we see is a huge quantity of it bouncing from one reservoir to the next," explains senior author Elsie M. Sunderland, who is the Mark & Catherine Winkler Assistant Professor of Aquatic Science at the Harvard School of Public Health. "This means it continues cycling throughout the environment and persists for much longer timescales than most people realize, which has implications for long-term biological exposures."
"Today, more than half of mercury emissions come from Asia, but historically the U.S. and Europe were major emitters," says second senior author Daniel J. Jacob, Vasco McCoy Family Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Environmental Engineering at Harvard SEAS. "We find that half of mercury pollution in the present surface ocean comes from emissions prior to 1950, and as a result the contribution from the U.S. and Europe is comparable to that from Asia."
Sunderland notes: "Our study reinforces the need for immediate and stringent emissions controls globally, to the extent technologically possible, to avoid future human health risks. Already, the costs of methylmercury exposure in Europe and the United States have been estimated at upwards of $15 billion."
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U.S. Marshal's Service says Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger is out of the hospital and back in jail, where's he's awaiting trial for his alleged role in 19 slayings.
The Marshals Service did not release any additional information to The Boston Globe on Tuesday.
Multiple media outlets reported that the 83-year-old Bulger was taken to from the Plymouth County jail to Boston Medical Center on Sunday after complaining of chest pain. He has a history of heart trouble.
Bulger's trial is scheduled to begin in March, but his lawyers have said they cannot be ready by then because they are reviewing more than 300,000 documents. They have asked for an eight-month delay.
Bulger, a former FBI informant, fled Boston in 1994 and was one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives until he was captured last year in California.


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With a degree in a second language you can easily do useful and productive translation work. Hell, I don't even HAVE a degree in a second language and I am fluent enough in a second language to do medical translating/interpreting, to say nothing of those who majored in another language. And while I give art students a hard time, at the end of the day they can at least create stuff I can appreciate, even if it's on a purely aesthetic level.Gender studies? I wasn't even aware tripe like that is a major until today.


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Each homework grade will consist of two parts: correctness and effort. The correctness grade is a numeric grade equaling the sum of the correctness grades for each homework problem, and roughly measures the fraction of the homework correctly solved. In contrast, the effort grade is a single number from 0% to 100%, and roughly measure the effort level the student has put into solving the homework. This grade will play an important role in the "overall" homework evaluation, so students are encouraged to try as many problems as possible. (Of course, simply restating the problem or intentionally writing "nonsense" as a proposed "solution" might actually lower your effort grade, so only put genuine thoughts and attempts into your solutions.) Generally, I expect the effort grade to be "higher" than the correctness grade.
Additionally, students can increase their total grade by up to 5% by doing well in self-grading their homework, as explained in class. Please make sure you make a copy of your homework before handing it in.
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The Global Black Alliance (GBA) and Blacks Against White America (BAWA) have issued a joint statement expressing relief at the death of racist US army regime terrorist Kristoffer B. Domejj.
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An Army Ranger who was on his 14th deployment to a combat zone — and was part of the team that rescued Private Jessica Lynch from her Iraqi captors in 2003 — has been killed in Afghanistan. Sgt. First Class Kristoffer B. Domeij, 29, was killed Saturday when the assault force he was with triggered a hidden roadside bomb in Afghanistan's Kandahar Province.
"We know he is survived by a wife and two daughters. But mourn not for them. Remember, his wife is a supporter of White Racial Terrorism (WRT) and global Western imperialism. And although his daughters will certainly grow to embrace his racially terroristic values, atleast without him they might stand a chance of acquiring human values."
"Domejj was no hero. He was a warmongering racial terrorist who supported the oppressive agenda of white America, the West and illegitimate Israel. The world of color and all those who value justice and freedom should rejoice in his death." The statement is reported to state.


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HBR/McKinsey M-Prize: Long-Term Capitalism Challenge
Challenge Begins
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Winners announced!
How do we renew the soul of capitalism and fundamentally reimagine it for a new age and a new set of challenges? That was the question we put to a global community of hackers and innovators in the Long-Term Capitalism Challenge. We were looking for depth, originality, clarity, and the ability to inspire and instruct in equal measure. We found those qualities in a remarkable number of the entries—and were hard pressed to narrow those down to ten winners. Here they are:
All the finalists
Re-imagining capitalism for a new age and a new set of challenges is a sweeping undertaking. So it's not surprising that we received a striking diversity of entries. In just two-and-a-half months, we received some 147 entries from leaders, thinkers, and innovators of all stripes, from every corner of the planet. Here are the twenty-four finalists:
It's time to radically revise the deeply-etched beliefs about what business is for, whose interests it serves, and how it creates value. We need a new form of capitalism for the 21st century—one dedicated to the promotion of greater well-being rather than the single-minded pursuit of growth and profits; one that doesn't sacrifice the future for the near term; one with an appropriate regard for every stakeholder; and one that holds leaders accountable for all of the consequences of their actions. In other words, we need a capitalism that is profoundly principled, fundamentally patient, and socially accountable.
This isn't a new challenge, but it's more urgent than ever—not just as an effort to escape reform and regulation from the outside, but to restore the public trust, to repair the moral fabric of the system, and to unleash the innovation required to tackle the world's most pressing and important challenges.
The Long-Term Capitalism Challenge seeks to accelerate the shift toward a more principled, patient, and social accountable capitalism—one that's truly fit for the long term. Specifically, we're looking for Stories(real-world case studies) and Hacks (boldly original ideas) that offer up the most progressive practices and disruptive ideas that tackle the challenge of making our organizations more:
Capitalism degenerates into narrow self-interest without a strong ethical foundation.
- How do we focus the entire organization on a higher purpose and embed such virtues as generosity and selflessness into everyday interactions, evaluations, and reward systems?
- How do we measure the ethical or moral climate of a company, and what is the dashboard?
- What does it mean for individuals at all levels to act as wise stewards of organizational values, resources, and stakeholder well-being?
- What kind of a forum or process could we create that would allow individuals to freely share and discuss ethical dilemmas?
- In what ways might extreme transparency preserve and promote the highest purpose of the organization?
Vision and perseverance are critical to value creation—and highly vulnerable to short-termism.
- How do we stretch management timeframes and perspectives?
- What does it mean to articulate and instill a vision compelling enough to inspire sacrifice, stimulate innovation, and hedge against expediency?
- How might we rebalance compensation and measurement systems to provide incentives for long-term value creation along with short-term performance?
- What tactics or capabilities might we develop to earn some slack from investors?
- What kind of incentives and measurement systems could we devise to encourage internal entrepreneurs and nurture a varied portfolio of opportunities?
Capitalism cannot operate in a social vacuum and profits and shareholder return can no longer be the only measures of a company's value-added.
- How do we eradicate the pervasive zero-sum mentality in business and embed the positive-sum view of stakeholder interdependence into operations at every level?
- How do we build the consideration of social return into every conversation and every decision at every level in the organization?
- How could we embed social goals into an organization's innovation agenda and processes? In other words, how might we encourage not just social responsibility, but social entrepreneurship?
- What kind of measurement and reward systems would give significant weight to social impact created by individuals and the wider organization?
Please join us in this important effort. Share your story, submit a hack, read the entries and M-Prize blog to get inspired, and add your voice to the MIX.
Submissions may draw on secondary source materials but should be based primarily on first-hand experience or an original idea. In every case, be sure to credit all those who contributed to your story or hack and provide citations to external reference material.
The Long-Term Capitalism Challenge will unfold in two stages: a preliminary submission phase (ending May 11, 2012) and a final round for several finalists or finalist teams (ending June 1, 2012).
All entries will be judged by our panel of leading management thinkers and progressive practitioners, including:
Dov Seidman, founder and CEO, LRN and author, HOW: Why HOW We Do Anything Means Everything
Chris Meyer, founder, Monitor Talent and author, Standing On the Sun: How the Explosion of Capitalism Abroad Will Change Business Everywhere
Tom Kiely, Director of Sustainability and Social Responsibility, McKinsey & Company
Eric Hellweg, Editorial Director, Harvard Business Review
Winners will receive significant recognition as management innovators on the MIX, Harvard Business Review and HBR.org, the McKinsey Quarterly and McKinseyQuarterly.com. Winners will also earn the chance to appear at the MIX Mashup on June 19, 2012 in San Francisco. Learn more about the event here.


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Interview with Hong he Gao : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Hong he Gao : People always feel cold when they are handing an umbrella in cold weather. So we design this Warm Umbrella Sheath Basing on the humanization consideration. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Hong he Gao : It is Simple, easy to realize. I want to achieve how to combine Sheath with the umbrella better. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Hong he Gao : I hope to produce it, and serve more people. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Hong he Gao : About one year. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Hong he Gao : I found this problem, and it was resolved not good,so I decide to pursuit an inspiration. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. Hong he Gao : I plan to sell or lease the production rights to any companys. .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. Hong he Gao : responsibility .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. Hong he Gao : Yes,They gave me a lot of help。 .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Hong he Gao : The umbrella manufacturer. .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. Hong he Gao : It is an accessories.it can press on any straight umbrella and easy to manufacture .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. Hong he Gao : I name it based on his function and using status. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Hong he Gao : Rhinocer software,and silica gel. .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Hong he Gao : He is soft, and have different functions according to different need. .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. Hong he Gao : Our team have seven people, They are Ruijiang Gu,Wei Zhang,Jianing Shi,Yafang Chen,Chunxia Han,Mingqi Yu.I work with people with technical? .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. Hong he Gao : Material selection and how to make. .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. Hong he Gao : Yes, We observed the 100 people with umbrellas, there are same problems. .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. Hong he Gao : What materials can do it and how to realize it. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. Hong he Gao : We will further improve the work. .Frank Scott: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?. Hong he Gao : Need to go to test yourself and modify it many times. .Frank Scott: Any other things you would like to cover that have not been covered in these questions?. Hong he Gao : No .
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text: Saccharomyces kudriavzevii Naumov et al. (ATCC® 2601™) Strain Designations: [2601-U] / Product Format: freeze-dried General Information Characteristics Culture Method Specifications History Documentation Print Email Share Share this product Facebook Twitter Google+ Permits and Restrictions View Permits Deposited As Saccharomyces cerevisiae Strain Designations [2601-U] Application Assay of amphotericin B fungizoneAssay of nystatin fungicidinPharmaceutical and Personal Care Biosafety Level 1 Biosafety classification is based on U.S. Public Health Service Guidelines, it is the responsibility of the customer to ensure that their facilities comply with biosafety regulations for their own country. Product Format freeze-dried Storage Conditions Frozen: -80°C or colderFreeze-Dried: 2°C to 8°CLive Culture: See Propagation Section Type Strain no Preceptrol® yes Comments No vitamin requirement Reference strain for assays of amphotericin B fungizone and nystatin fungicidin designated by FDA. RefU.S. Pharmacopeia General Chapters; <81> Antibiotics-Microbial Assays. Rockville, MD: U.S. Pharmacopeia; USP USP34-NF29, 2011 The strain used to be classified as Saccharomyces cerevisiae based on traditional taxonomic characterizations, but a recent molecular authentication convincingly identified it as Saccharomyces kudriavzevii, not S. cerevisiae. The taxonomic update of this strain will not affect its application in antifungal drug testing assays and many other usages. RefSuh SO, et al. Update of USP drug testing reference strain ATCC® 2601™. Pharma. Microbiol. Forum Newslett. 19: 4-11, 2013. Medium ATCC® Medium 28: Emmons' modification of Sabouraud's agar ATCC® Medium 200: YM agar or YM broth ATCC® Medium 1245: YEPD Growth Conditions Temperature: 25°C to 30°CAtmosphere: Typical aerobic Sequenced Data 18S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence; internal transcribed spacer 1, 5.8S ribosomal RNA gene, and internal transcribed spacer 2, complete sequence; and 26S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence; GGTTTCCGTAGGTGAACCTGCGGAAGGATCATTAAAGAAATTTAATAATTTTGAAAATGGATTTGTTTGTTTTGGCAAGAGCGTGAGAGCTTTTACTGGGCAAGTAGACAAGAGATGGAGAGTCCAGCCGGGCCTGCGCTTAAGTGCGCGGTCTTGCTAGGCTTGCAAGTTTCTTTCTTGCTATTCCAAACAGTGAGAGATTTCTCTGTTTTTGTTATAGGACAATCAAAACCGTTTCAATACAACACACTGTGGAGTTTTTATATCTTTGCAACTTTTTCTTTGGGCTGTCGAGCAATCGGAGCCCAGAGGTAACAAACACAAACAATTTTATTTATTCATTAAATTTTTGTCAAAAACAAGAATTTTCGTAACTGGAAATTTTAAAAATATTAAAAACTTTCAACAACGGATCTCTTGGTTCTCGCATCGATGAAGAACGCAGCGAAATGCGATACGTAATGTGAATTGCAGAATTCCGTGAATCATCGAATCTTTGAACGCACATTGCGCCCCTTGGTATTCCAGGGGGCATGCCTGTTTGAGCGTCATTTCCTTCTCAAACATTCTGTTTGGTAGTGAGTGATACTCTTTGGAGTTAACTTGAAATTGCTGGCCTTTTCATTGGATGTTTTTTTTCCAAAGAGAGGTTTCTCTGCGTGCTTGAGGTATAATGCAAGTACGGTCGTTTTAGGTTTTACCAACTGCGGCTAATCTTTTTTGTACTGAGCGTATTGGAACGTTATCGATAAGAAGAGAGCGTCTAGGCGAACAATATTCTTAAAGTTTGACCTCAAATCAGGTAGGAGTACCCGCTGAACTTAAGCATATCAAD1D2 region of the 26S ribosomal RNA gene ATATCAATAAGCGGAGGAAAAGAAACCAACCGGGATTGCCTTAGTAACGGCGAGTGAAGCGGCAAAAGCTCAAATTTGAAATCTGGTACCTTCGGTGCCCGAGTTGTAATTTGGAGAGGGCAACTTTGGAACCGTTCCTTGTCTATGTTCCTTGGAACAGGACGTCATAGAGGGTGAGAATCCCGTGTGGCGAGGAGTGCGGTTCTTTTGTAAAGTGCCTTCGAAGAGTCGAGTTGTTTGGGAATGCAGCTCTAAGTGGGTGGTAAATTCCATCTAAAGCTAAATATTGGCGAGAGACCGATAGCGAACAAGTACAGTGATGGAAAGATGAAAAGAACTTTGAAAAGAGAGTGAAAAAGTACGTGAAATTGTTGAAAGGGAAGGGCATTTGATCAGACATGGTGTTTTGCGCCCTCTGCTCCTTGTGGGTGGGGGAATCTCGCATTTCACTGGGCCAGCATCAGTTTTGGTGGCAGGATAAATCCGTAGGAATGTAACTTGCTTCGGGAAGTATTATAGCCTGCGGGAATACTGCCAGCTGGGACTGAGGACTGCGACGTAAGTCAAGGATGCTGGCATAATGGTTATATGCCGC Name of Depositor NRRL Chain of Custody ATCC <-- NRRL <-- FW Tanner <-- CBS 679 (Zygosaccharomyces priorianus) <-- A Guilliermond Isolation Not available Cross References Nucleotide (GenBank) : KC881068 ITS including 5.8S rRNA gene Nucleotide (GenBank) : KC881065 D1/D2 region of 26S rRNA gene Nucleotide (GenBank) : KC881095 RNA polymerase II largest subunit (RPB1) gene Nucleotide (GenBank) : KC881092 polymerase II second largest subunit (RPB2) gene Nucleotide (GenBank) : KC881097 translation elongation factor 1-alpha gene Nucleotide (GenBank) : KC881100 mitochondrial small subunit ribosomal RNA gene References Suh SO, et al. Update of USP drug testing reference strain ATCC® 2601™. Pharma. Microbiol. Forum Newslett. 19: 4-11, 2013. McGinnis MR. Laboratory handbook of medical mycology. New York: Academic Press; 1980. U.S. Pharmacopeia General Chapters; <81> Antibiotics-Microbial Assays. Rockville, MD: U.S. Pharmacopeia; USP USP34-NF29, 2011 Permits These permits may be required for shipping this product: Customers located in the state of Hawaii will need to contact the Hawaii Department of Agriculture to determine if an Import Permit is required. A copy of the permit or documentation that a permit is not required must be sent to ATCC in advance of shipment. Basic Documentation Product Sheet Certificate of Analysis SDS


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A BIG Thank You goes out to Kilth for figuring this out. I am just the messenger for pictures...
Hopefully you've been processing enough stuff (and interacting with people) along the way that you can interact with an NPC named Ficy located here, in Hiedel.
Talk to her, she will give you a sort of meta quest that makes you do three other quests. Thankfully the three people you have to go to are also right around the fountain area in Hiedel.
I decided to do the Flaviano's quest first. Since he is the material vendor - you need 10 empty bottles for his quest and also buy 2 pick axes and 1 axe if you don't already have one for the other two quests.
Next I did Omella's. If you can, also grab Lebyo's too. The Ash and the Felspar are located in the same area outside the city.
Once all those quests are completed, head back over to Ficy and turn the meta quest in. She will reward you with more recipes you can learn.
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Medical physicists working in industry have some of the best jobs around, claims Thomas Rockwell Mackie. But to get there you need to put the time in at the clinic
I have now been a medical physicist at the University of Wisconsin for more than 20 years. My academic career, like that of most other scientists, revolves around research, teaching and chasing grant money. Unlike most of my fellow academics, however, I am also an entrepreneur. My quest for research money has led me to start two companies, one of which – TomoTherapy Inc. – is a Nasdaq-traded public company with more than 600 employees, many of whom are physicists. This gives me a unique perspective on medical physics – a field that has very close links between hospitals, universities and industry.
Medical physics is one of the fastest growing areas of employment for physicists. They play crucial roles in radiology, nuclear medicine and radiation oncology, while many medical physicists also work in cardiology and neurology. These fields use very sophisticated and expensive equipment, and physicists are responsible for much of its design, testing and quality assurance. Medical physicists can be found in universities doing basic research into topics such as how radiation affects tissues; in industry, using these results to build new imaging and therapy systems; and finally in hospitals, maintaining this equipment and planning radiation treatments.
My first company developed a system for planning radiotherapy treatments that uses data from a computed tomography (CT) scanner to accurately compute the distribution of the radiation dose received by the patient during a treatment. The key feature of the system was dose-calculation algorithms that used data from Monte Carlo simulations of photons interacting with water in order to improve the computational accuracy.
The initial research for this system was funded by the University of Wisconsin Hospital, but it was unable to pay for the work to be brought to market. In 1992 I and three colleagues therefore started Geometrics Corporation to complete the development. After receiving approval to market the product from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), we sold the company to Philips Medical in 1996 and our system subsequently became the best-selling radiation therapy treatment-planning software of all time.
TomoTherapy was started for similar reasons. The TomoTherapy technology marries a clinical linear accelerator (linac) with a CT scanner. A TomoTherapy linac provides both the X-ray beam for treating the patient with radiotherapy and a lower-energy X-ray beam that can be used to obtain a CT scan of the patient. A patient can therefore be scanned with the low-energy X-rays – and thus the tumour precisely located – immediately before the treatment (high-energy X-rays) is administered.
The development of this technology was funded for the three years from 1994 by General Electric Medical Systems. In 1997, however, the firm decided to get out of the radiotherapy business, so I and my colleague Paul Reckwerdt founded TomoTherapy to get the first research prototype built. With the help of some very savvy business people and medical-device professionals, TomoTherapy has grown beyond our wildest dreams. I still serve as chairman of the board, and as a result I have reduced my academic commitments at the University of Wisconsin by 25%.
Getting in
So how can you become a medical physicist in industry? As far as TomoTherapy is concerned, we need staff with a broad range of experience, including those from traditional fields like nuclear physics, particle physics and astronomy. A knowledge of radiation detection, accelerator physics and materials science is sought-after for roles in both product development and customer service. Some medical-physics firms recruit students directly after they finish their PhD because their research topic is relevant to the company. But many organizations – particularly in radiotherapy – tend to recruit medical physicists who have spent a few years working in a clinic because these companies value the real-world skills that such experience instils.
Most older medical physicists entered the clinic through the "back door" – i.e. they were hired by a hospital while working in a basic discipline and then learned on the job. But that is getting rarer and is even being actively discouraged by the American College of Radiology. Instead, training is increasingly being provided via clinical "residencies", during which prospective medical physicists learn the necessary clinical skills under the supervision of experienced mentors. Typically these residencies are two years long and the pay is comparable to a postdoctoral fellowship. These programmes usually require you to have a PhD in physics, although some will accept candidates who have only a Masters degree.
These days, many medical physicists get into the field via an accredited medical-physics graduate programme. In the UK, for example, physics graduates can complete a taught MSc in medical physics either directly or by becoming a clinical-scientist trainee in the National Health Service. These courses – which are accredited by the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine – take about two years to complete and involve lab work and practical experience in a hospital, as well as lecture-based learning. There are similar programmes in the US, which are accredited by the Committee on the Accreditation of Medical Physics Education Programs. Graduates of these courses are often hired directly into clinics as entry-level faculty members or as employees.
Lives in your hands
A major difference between medical physics and most other areas of physics is the level of regulation. Patients' lives are at stake, so the key to success is attention to detail – sloppiness in thought or action cannot be tolerated. A huge fraction of the costs incurred by medical companies stems from the need for stringent quality assurance and testing to make sure their products comply with regulations. The attitude and skills required of a medical physicist are not too different from what is demanded of a good experimental physicist, but the consequences of inaction or inattention may be much more serious.
This level of responsibility is accompanied by many benefits, however. Industrial physicists working in the medical field have many opportunities to advance to a high-level managerial and business role. Potential barriers – such as a lack of business knowledge – can be overcome by taking an MBA or one of the short courses in, say, accounting, finance or marketing that are focused on the career needs of scientists working in industry.
Another attraction of working in industry is the wide variety of people you encounter. A physicist working in a university lab often has a rather narrow range of experiences, often associating only with their group, both at work and socially. This is certainly not true in the medical field. Industrial medical physicists are required to work with doctors, medical administrators and technicians in hospitals, as well as service engineers and assembly personnel within their company.
The financial and personal rewards for physicists in the medical-device business are also high and the quality of the work environment is generally better than in a university. Ultimately, though, nothing can beat the job satisfaction of knowing that your work has an immediate human benefit.
About the author
Thomas Rockwell Mackie is a professor of medical physics at the University of Wisconsin in the US and chairman of the board of TomoTherapy


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Just a quick announcement that I am happy to announce, yesterday the Minnesota Microsoft Business Intelligence (MSBIMN) user group completed the process and is now officially affiliated with the national PASS association. The user group is part of the U.S. North Central region. I am really excited about this and looking forward to another exciting year in 2013 when we resume our meetings. You can check out the content from our 2011 and 2012 meetings here – past presentation content.
The Leadership Team
- Neelesh Raheja, GNet Group
- Dan English, Superior Consulting Services
- Terry McDonald, Pentair Technical Products
- Jin Cho, Microsoft
2013 Meeting Schedule
- Tuesday, March 5
- Tuesday, June 4
- Tuesday, September 10
- Tuesday, December 3
In 2013 we are also planning on organizing a couple of special session meetings, stay tuned for information about those as well and to stay in touch don't forget we also have a group setup on LinkedIn that you can get associated with.
Thanks to everyone on the Leadership Team, the speakers, and the user group for another great year!
Happy holidays to everyone and see you all next year!


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After I updated to pacman 4.1.0, my PKGBUILD for sunflower-hg stopped working for me.
For some unknown reason makepkg fails to clone the needed mercurial repo and src directory turns out to be empty at the time of the build.
What has gone wrong?
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Your PKGBUILD needs to be updated for the new VCS packaging style. Check out the wiki for details.
Sorry, can you point out the right page for me? I looked up the wiki in the first place, but haven't found anything related to the problem.
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Thanks for your help, now I figured it out. Not everything was exactly obvious though, and the change itself was quite surprising.
I think you should, at least, write a news article for those like me out there.
Reading the change log and rereading the manual when there is a major release of a important tool you depend on should be common sense.
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Evil #archlinux@freenode channel op and general support dude.
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OUR Walmart Associates, the 99% Strive to Change Walmart and Change the Economy!
Guest Post By:Treston Davis-Faulkner
This week, as Walmart hosted Wall Street analysts and investors for a week of discussion regarding the company's financial health and outlook, nearly 100 members of the Organization United for Respect at Walmart (OUR Walmart), part of the 99% returned to Walmart's "Home Office" in Bentonville, AR to demand an "open door" meeting, per the company's policy, with CEO Mike Duke. In June of this year, OUR Walmart made its first visit to the corporate headquarters seeking a meeting with the CEO in order to deliver the organization's Declaration for Respect, which members developed in order to identify priority concerns including: a desire for more respect and dignity on the job, more flexibility in scheduling, addressing rampant understaffing and excessive workloads at Walmart among others.
OUR Walmart associates and allies in front of Home Office
As a groundswell of occupations and demonstrations challenging corporate and Wall Street greed continue to gain momentum across the US, the OUR Walmart members approached the front entrance of the Home Office at roughly 12pm on October 12, 2011 carrying signs that read: "Stop Cutting Hours", I Want to Work Full-Time" and "Ask Us How to Solve Walmart's Problems", it was clear the company had called for an increased police and security presence anticipating this visit. The so-called associates, accompanied by allies from social and economic justice organizations across the country, and locally in Arkansas including Jobs with Justice, NOW, National Domestic Workers, the Northwest Arkansas Worker Justice Center, and the United Church of Christ were stopped by police and company security in the parking lot and told that they would not be allowed to send a united delegation of associates to meet with anyone, and that only individual "associates" with the proper company name tags and identification would be allowed to enter the facility. OW members were not going for this game and refused to play while pointing out to the security staff that this is in violation of the company's own "open door" policy that supposedly allows for "associates" and a person of their choosing to meet with management upon request.
All the while, the organized associates and their allies were also being told by security that the parking lot is private property and they need to return to the sidewalk, or be arrested. As this was going on, OUR Walmart member and associate at a Walmart in Crenshaw, CA, Greshriela Green yelled to security personnel, "why don't you ask for our Welfare cards too?", implying that the low wages and sparse benefits the company offers its employees, too often lands "associates" on public assistance.
The members then gathered on the sidewalk and were addressed by Venazi Luna who works at a store in Southern California. Venanzi declared: "Mike Duke and this company do not respect us enough to meet with us after we traveled all the way to Arkansas to talk about how we can work together to improve employee relations, customer service and Walmart's success! What he doesn't understand is that we are not going to stop!" Terry O'Neill – President of the National Organization of Women also addressed the group affirming the leadership the members of OUR Walmart are demonstrating by engaging each other and the company's management nation-wide and vowing that NOW would be with them "every step of the way"!
The associates and their supporters chanted on the sidewalk for roughly 15 minutes holding signs so that those driving by could read them and chanted: What do we Want? Respect! When do we want it? Now!" and "We are the 99%!" As they returned to their buses, they let Home Office know: "We'll be back, We'll be back!"
As OUR Walmart members and allies ate sandwiches after the visit to Home Office, and reflected on what just happened, they were fired up and angry that their employer treated them this way. Angie Rodriguez, an associate from Southern CA, mocked the fact that the Company refers to its employees as "associates": "They call us associates! If we are associates, we would be partners. How they treated us today is not how you treat partners. We are workers! We are the 99%!"
Sarita Gupta, Executive Director of National Jobs with Justice celebrated the courage and leadership being demonstrated by OUR Walmart in taking on the huge task of changing the policies and practices of the countries largest private employer: "In an era of insecurity, OUR Walmart is a part of a fast growing movement of workers who are standing up to rebuild the economy the right way—by creating and maintaining good, union jobs, a strong social safety net, and all at the expense of the banks on Wall Street who stole it from us in the first place." "While Congress debates a jobs program, we stand united, not merely demanding jobs, we are demanding jobs with justice! We want jobs with decent pay, good benefits and jobs with dignity and respect!"
See coverage on Huffington Post
To support this effort:
- Support OUR Walmart's declaration at: http://makingchangeatwalmart.org/get-involved/
- Post supportive messages for OUR Walmart members in Arkansas now by writing on the Making Change at Walmart Facebook page wall: http://www.facebook.com/MakingChangeWMT


text: Special Assistance (SA) provides a cash supplement to help low-income individuals residing in licensed Adult Care Homes (such as rest homes) pay for their care. Adult Care Homes are unlike nursing homes in that medical care is not provided by home staff. Designated staff may administer medications and provide personal care services such as assistance with bathing, eating, and dressing. Medical Assistance (Medicaid) is also provided to Special Assistance recipients to help pay medical bills. A personal monthly allowance is provided for all recipients, in addition to a small exemption on any income. From this, recipients purchase such items as soap, deodorant, snacks, clothing and hair cuts. Aged and disabled adults (over age 18) in Adult Care Homes receive their supplement from State/County Special Assistance. Adults and children who are visually impaired receive their supplement from Special Assistance for the Blind. If you or someone you know require this service, you should apply for assistance at your county Social Work Services. You may send a representative to apply on your behalf.


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Alumna and graduate student named Miss Virginia 2014
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Courtney Garrett, an alumna and current graduate student at Liberty University, was crowned Miss Virginia 2014 on Saturday night at the Roanoke Civic Center.
The Pamplin, Va., native graduated in May with a double major, receiving bachelor's degrees in vocal performance and communication. She is currently pursuing her M.B.A. at Liberty. As the winner, Garrett was awarded a $17,500 scholarship and will represent Virginia in the 2015 Miss America Competition on Sept. 14.
Earlier this year, Garrett was crowned Miss State Fair of Virginia 2014. She was also a finalist in the PRWeek Student of the Year competition this year. Sarah Corder, who also graduated from Liberty in May, was the winner of that competition.
Garrett's community service platform for the pageant focused on raising awareness for people with disabilities, and she plans to continue this endeavor in her career.


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