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Thursday, September 30, 2004
Pharmaceutical regulations enter the 21st century
FDA has just issued a final report, "Pharmaceutical CGMPs for the 21st century — A Risk-Based Approach." If you work in an FDA-regulated industry, you should read it.
What it is
This FDA initiative was launched a couple of years ago specifically to review the good manufacturing practices regulations (CGMP) for the drug industry, which have not been updated since 1978. As such, these regulations do not reflect many of the best practices that have been developed since that time, such as use of a risk-based approach and new technologies, such as process analytical technology (PAT), that improve quality but are difficult to implement under the current regulations. The agency felt that the CGMP as a whole needed to be reviewed.
The working groups of this initiative have done a lot of good work, much of which has already been published in various working papers and other documents that can be found on the FDA web site for the CGMP initiative.
Electronic records and electronic signatures
Of interest to information systems professionals, the final report describes its review of 21 CFR Part 11, the FDA regulation that governs the use of electronic records and electronic signatures. FDA has already issued new guidance on Part 11, which I described last year. FDA has been taking public comments on Part 11 earlier this year. The final report indicates that a draft revision of Part 11 itself will be issued for public comment in 2005.
FDA to practice its own preaching
In the final report, there is one section that caught my attention. Under the heading, "Adoption of Quality Systems Model for Agency Operations," it says, in part,At the outset of the initiative, FDA conveyed its goal of bringing an integrated quality systems orientation to all Agency activities and programs. A specific goal was the development and implementation of a more systematic approach to regulating pharmaceutical quality, as well as more integration and collaboration among the different components of the Agency that are involved in pharmaceutical quality. The Quality Systems Framework Working Group...developed such a model for the CGMP initiative, referencing key recognized external quality and risk management standards....FDA will now be using a quality systems approach to improve the predictability, consistency, integration, and overall effectiveness of our entire regulatory operation. This quality systems model, now incorporated into the FDA Staff Manual Guide, Quality Systems Framework for Internal Activities, defines the essential quality elements to consider as part of any system that controls an internal FDA regulatory activity.As we all know, part of FDA's mission is to develop and enforce regulations that mandate implementation of quality systems in food, drug, and medical device manufacturing. Therefore, it might come as a surprise that, until now, FDA itself has not had a quality system to govern its own internal operations. So now FDA will practice what it preaches.
I'm guessing there are a lot of industry folks that are thinking, "It's about time."
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Tuesday, September 28, 2004
What went wrong with HP's SAP migration?
Computerworld has an interview with Gilles Bouchard, CIO and EVP of global operations at Hewlitt-Packard (H-P), regarding lessons learned from the problematic SAP consolidation at HP's enterprise servers and storage group. CEO Carly Fiorina blamed problems in the migration for a revenue shortfall in HP's performance.
In his interview, Bouchard points to several causes behind the migration problems, all of them internal to HP and not reflective on SAP as a vendor.These problems are in three major categories. One we call "working across silos." The team that was driving this program had to work with other parts of the company. And working across these seams proved difficult. ...Computerworld has the story.
Secondly, there were a lot of data-integrity [problems]. Orders fell out between the legacy front-end system and SAP on the back end, which required a lot of manual intervention. ...
The third element was increased demand. This migration had to do with our Intel-based server business. The demand really increased for those products, and it's still very high right now, which is good news. But it put even more pressure on the whole system. We should have had a contingency plan for four, five or six weeks
At the risk of oversimplifying what was, no doubt, a complex and difficult project, I think that Bouchard's last point is the most important. With any migration of this magnitude, there has to be a fall-back or contingency plan in the event that the migration does not go as smoothly as planned, so that the business is not adversely affected. It's one thing for the project to have a cost overrun. It's another thing altogether to impact the business itself.
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Big three vendors target small companies
In a clear indication that new deals in large companies are getting harder to come by, all three of the major enterprise system vendors--SAP, Oracle, and PeopleSoft--now have special programs for small businesses.
Oracle is the latest vendor to announce such an offering. The new offering, called Oracle E-Business Suite Special Edition, provides functionality for financials, purchasing, inventory management, order management, discrete manufacturing, sales, and business intelligence, bundled with a special deal for Oracle's database.
It sounds like a good deal. According to CNET,Under the new program, Oracle introduced a reduced entry-level price for its database software. The new pricing is $149 per user, or $49.95 per central processing unit, for a maximum to two processors. The price of the E-business Suite Standard Edition is approximately $2,000 per user, according to an Oracle representative.The other Tier I vendors, SAP and PeopleSoft, have small company offerings similar to Oracle's, but Oracle is the only one to offer essentially the same product to large and small customers. SAP's small business offering is its SAP Business One product, which is a totally different code base from SAP's flagship offering, MySAP.
Oracle has also set up a team of partners to market the suite, including Abaris, Baytree Associates, Core Services, Favored Tack, Lucidity Consulting Group, Oto Global Solutions, Vertex Systems and Whitbread Technology Partners.
Licenses are available for a minimum of 10 users and a maximum of 50 users, Oracle said. Its partners, which will implement, host and support the new package, will decide on the pricing.
Similarly, PeopleSoft's approach to small companies is to position its older JDE World product, which runs on the IBM iSeries (formerly AS/400) hardware platform. The product is bundled with hardware and services as an offering dubbed World Express, and it is being offered exclusively through IBM resellers.
But in the small company marketplace, SAP, Oracle, and PeopleSoft will probably find that their greatest competition is not from each other, but from Microsoft. Microsoft's strategy for enterprise applications is to dominate the small company market, and it is not going to sit by while the big three attempt to gain a foothold.
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Friday, September 24, 2004
EU to clear Oracle bid for PeopleSoft?
Citing unnamed sources, the Financial Times of London is now reporting that the European Commission is set to clear the Oracle's hostile bid for PeopleSoft.Mario Monti, the European Union competition commissioner, is expected to announce the clearance before he steps down at the end of next month. Though he still has to consult the EU's national antitrust regulators, it is unlikely that he will change his position.If true, this is one more hurdle cleared by Oracle in its quest for PeopleSoft. Remaining hurdles include PeopleSoft's poison pill, PeopleSoft's civil lawsuit against Oracle, and willingness of PeopleSoft's shareholders to tender shares to Oracle.
People familiar with the case said the Commission had been leaning towards a clearance of the offer for months, long before a US court approved the bid in early September. They said the Commission was still concerned about the possible impact of the takeover on competition but it had realised its case would not withstand a legal challenge in the European court.
The Financial Times article has more.
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Wednesday, September 22, 2004
ERP implementation: putting processes and people first
Yesterday afternoon, PeopleSoft arranged for me to interview Ken Meidell, CIO at Cascade Designs, an early adopter of PeopleSoft's Enterprise One system. But, as it turns out, the interview interesting for me more in terms of implementation lessons learned than it was in terms of learning more about PeopleSoft's software.
Cascade Designs is a manufacturer of outdoor equipment mainly for backpacking, camping, and other outdoor activities. The company first implemented Enterprise One in 1998, when it was known as J.D. Edwards One World. Those that remember know that, to be charitable, JDE One World then was not quite ready for prime time. Nevertheless, Cascade had a well-organized effort and accomplished implementation of the full suite of functionality. They later upgraded to the XE version in 2001 and plan to move to v8.11 in 2005.
I asked Ken what improvements he saw in the business after the implementation, and he described the firm going through three stages:
Ken had a good story to tell regarding effective use of Cascade's investment in new systems. So, as we wrapped up, I asked Ken what advice he might give to companies that were about to undertake implementation of a new system. Here's what he said,
- Visibility of costs. The system gave them a much better understanding of their cost structure. This allowed management to begin making decisions based on fact, instead of gut feel. It also allowed users to move from a "data entry relationship" with the system to the role of knowledge workers. Managers began looking to the system for evidence in decision making.
- Process simplification. Within two years of the initial implementation, the company acquired a competitor that had some expertise in lean manufacturing. Learning from the acquired company, Cascade began an effort to simplify operations on the shop floor and to institute principles of lean manufacturing. Ken feels that the new system was flexible enough to allow the transition to lean manufacturing. He also plans to use some of the new demand driven manufacturing functionality in the new release of Enterprise One to further enable lean manufacturing.
- Automation. Now that operations have been simplified, the focus is on automation, using technologies such as bar-coding and electronic data interchange (EDI). These will provide further cost reduction and closer connection to trading partners.
Although Ken's advice was based on his experience in implementing and maintaining PeopleSoft EntepriseOne, I think that his advice is applicable no matter what system is being implemented.
- Be willing to change your business processes. Software often embodies better ways of doing things. "Build process improvement into your implementation plan, and don't be afraid to change business processes," Ken said.
- Be willing to help people change. The new system will become, using Ken's term, "the heart and lungs of your company," essential to running your business. But getting there can be painful, and people resist change. For example, when implementing the new system in an overseas plant, Ken sent a team of eight super-users from the U.S. to help the new users in their adoption of the new system. "It wasn't that there was anything wrong with the software," he said. But he knew that people would have problems at first. Building practical actions for change management into the implementation plan, such as sending power users to help users in other plants, can make a big difference.
- Appreciate the need for a good user interface. Ken thinks that the traditional way of selecting software puts too much emphasis on features and functions and not enough on ease of use. "The most simple-minded user has used the Web to order a book from Amazon. That's the standard for ease of use that people expect," he said. Therefore, ensuring that the user interface is friendly is important to getting new users to adopt the system.
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Tuesday, September 21, 2004
PeopleSoft trying to shout above Oracle takeover "noise"
I'm attending the PeopleSoft Connect conference this week in San Francisco. Here are some of my impressions from CEO Craig Conway's keynote presentation this morning, and a PeopleSoft press conference that I was able to attend.
Much of the press in attendance has been waiting for some reaction from Conway to the U.S. Federal court's ruling that it would not block Oracle's hostile takeover bid. If so, they were disappointed when Conway indicated that, per instructions from PeopleSoft legal counsel, he could not say anything more on the subject than is in the firm's SEC filings. Conway's only comments relative to Oracle's hostile bid were that the past year has been "like a bad dream that will not seem to end," and that the court's ruling means that the bad dream will continue for now.
Conway, along with other PeopleSoft executives that I spoke to this morning, seem genuinely frustrated that what they see as major accomplishments has been drowned out by what Conway calls "noise" and "static" surrounding Oracle's takeover bid. Too many reporters seem overly focused on the takeover, as evidenced by one reporter who said he expected this week to be more like a funeral than a user conference. PeopleSoft's challenge is to focus on the positive.
In that theme, Conway pointed to several accomplishments that PeopleSoft has made in the past year:
The big news so far in the conference, however, is the announcement of a new joint PeopleSoft/IBM alliance that goes beyond anything the two firms have done together in partnership in the past. PeopleSoft will standardize its applications on IBM middleware, and the two firms will collaborate on several new industry solutions, while working together to ensure interoperability of PeopleSoft's products with other vendor solutions based on open standards. There was some degree of skepticism expressed in the press conference as to whether this alliance was much different than what IBM has done with other application vendors, such as Siebel, Intentia, QAD, and even JDE in the past. But Conway, along with IBM representatives, indicated that the letter of intent spells out specific commitments that the two firms are making to each other in terms of budget and headcount to deliver solutions under this agreement. A figure of $1 billion was mentioned a couple of times, which got the attention of the financial analysts in the room.
- Improving the total ownership experience (TOE). PeopleSoft's vision is to bring innovation not just to product functionality, but to ease of use and cost of maintenance as well. Conway claims that under its TOE initiative, it now takes 25% less time to install the application, 20% less time for implementation and 80% fewer steps to apply application updates. If true, these are significant improvements.
- Successfully integrating the JDE acquisition. Conway looks at the J.D. Edwards acquisition not as a consolidation but as an addition, and points to the subject matter expertise in asset-intensive industries and manufacturing along with JDE's major presence in the mid-market as positives for PeopleSoft. Conway pointed to new functionality for Enterprise One (the JDE One World product), such as RFID, kanban support, incorporation of lean technology through the acquisition of JCIT, and integration with PeopleSoft CRM and supplier relationship management (SRM) products). He also claims to have significantly improved service to JDE World (the JDE host-based product) customers, including roll out of a web front end and 140 enhancements to functionality.
On the other hand, Conway admitted that they fumbled the ball, somewhat, in offering enterprise-based pricing to JDE customers. Many customers interpreted that the new pricing scheme meant that they would no longer be able to pay for the product based on number of users and that it most likely would mean higher maintenance fees. Conway claimed that was never PeopleSoft's intention, but it appears the firm lost some good will with the JDE installed base, at least temporarily, in how this was communicated.
- New products. Conway pointed to PeopleSoft's offering for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance, dubbed "The Enforcer," as well as new functionality for enterprise learning management, CRM, and HR, as evidence that the company is moving forward in a positive way in spite of the threat of the Oracle takeover.
- Service oriented architecture (SOA). A significant part of Conway's keynote address, as well as the press conference, was devoted to discussion around PeopleSoft's move to a service oriented architecture, which in principle should make it possible to build composite applications from a combination of PeopleSoft software components, third party components, and internally developed components, using open standards such as web services. Several analysts after the keynote, however, pointed out that much of the software industry is already moving in this direction, such as SAP with its Netweaver initiative, and, as I pointed out, even smaller vendors, such as IFS, which has been working on such an SOA for at least a year now.
Many of the analysts and users were looking to IBM as a possible "white knight" for PeopleSoft, in light of Oracle's takeover attempt. But as one analyst remarked in the hallway, before the press conference, if that was going to happen, IBM would have announced it was submitting its own tender offer this morning, not that it was doing an "alliance." IBM, which has built its entire strategy around open standards, has a lot to lose if PeopleSoft gets swallowed up by Oracle, a fierce IBM competitor for databases and tools. But it's not clear that IBM's alliance will do much in the way of frustrating Oracle's intentions, unless there is something more to the story than I realize.
Update, Sep. 23: Application Development Trends magazine has a good summary of the PeopleSoft/IBM alliance, and includes a quote from yours truly.
Update, Sep. 27: Sarah Lacy at Business Week is skeptical that the IBM/PeopleSoft alliance really means much.
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Sunday, September 19, 2004
Lawson joins earnings disappointment club
Lawson Software is the latest enterprise system vendor to warn that its latest quarterly earnings would come short of expectations. The company is forecasting that sales will drop almost 7% for the quarter, with new license sales falling a whopping 43%. Lawson stock dropped over 12% on the warning.
Lawson is echoing the rationale of other vendors, claiming that prospects are taking longer to make buy decisions, a weak excuse in my opinion. My experience indicates that many of those deferred decisions will never materialize.
During the anti-trust lawsuit to block Oracle's takeover of PeopleSoft, Lawson boasted that Oracle, in its defense, claimed that Lawson was a viable alternative to Oracle, PeopleSoft, and SAP in the high end financial and HR applications market. This latest earnings warning now takes most of the wind out of Lawson's sails.
Still, as I've indicated previously, only SAP seems to be exempt from a general downturn in license sales in enterprise applications.
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Wednesday, September 15, 2004
Oracle profit up, but applications sales down
Oracle reported quarterly earnings this week, which showed a 16% increase in profit over the same quarter a year ago, on a revenue increase of 7%. Oracle is now a $2.22 billion company.
That's the good news. The bad news is that new license sales of Oracle applications (E-Business Suite) fell 36%. An increase of 18% in sales of Oracle's database software apparently was enough to overcome the drop in application software sales.
Oracle CFO said that the shortfall was not due to Oracle's protracted takeover battle with PeopleSoft. He said that it was due in part to a few deals that didn't close in the first quarter but are expected to close in the second quarter. We're starting to hear this explanation more and more from software vendors. What they never say, however, is whether some deals in the next quarters might also be "delayed."
Oracle's fall off in application sales puts Oracle in the same position as just about every other application software seller lately, except SAP. One big difference, of course, is that Oracle has a huge business in database and tools to counteract weakness in the application business.
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Sunday, September 12, 2004
Infor acquires process ERP vendor, IncoDev
Just a few days after changing its name from Agilisys, Infor Global Solutions is back on the acquisition trail, picking up process ERP vendor IncoDev.
Okay, I'll admit it. Until reading Infor's press release, I had never heard of IncoDev. It just goes to show how many enterprise software vendors there still are out there, in spite of the consolidation currently underway in the industry.
Some background on IncoDev. The company, founded in 1982, is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany. The press release says that it "provides ERP software to large and midsized companies within the chemical, dyes and paints, life science, food and beverage industries." It sells direct in Germany and through partners in other western European countries. It claims over 200 customers
IncoDev's software offering, Blending 5.7, provides functionality for financial management, production planning and inventory management for specific process industries. They also claim that it is "certified for the pharmaceutical industry" (although it is not clear by whom.) The solution also includes integrated quality management, a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) and hazardous materials management.
Addition of IncoDev's offerings strengthens Infor's process industry credentials, which were already established through its original product, Adage, which it inherited from its spinoff from SCT.
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Thursday, September 09, 2004
Flash: Court refuses to block Oracle takeover of PeopleSoft
This news hit the wire just a few minutes ago. U.S. Judge Vaughn Walker has ruled that the Department of Justice (DoJ) has failed to prove its antitrust case against Oracle. He therefore declined to issue an injunction to block Oracle's takeover bid for PeopleSoft.
The court's ruling does not mean the deal goes through, however. There are several reasons:
Nevertheless, this is a huge step forward for Oracle's ambitions.
- DoJ may appeal the ruling. There's no indication yet if DoJ will do so, however.
- The European Commission has opened its own review of the takeover bid, which presents another obstacle to Oracle.
- PeopleSoft has sued Oracle in California state court seeking damages from Oracle for hurting its business.
- Oracle still needs to overcome PeopleSoft's poison pill provisions.
In after market trading today, PeopleSoft is up 15% on the news. I should have bought some PeopleSoft stock earlier this week, when I pointed out that PeopleSoft shares would probably rise no matter how the court ruled.
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Wednesday, September 08, 2004
Agilisys changes name to Infor Global Solutions
Agilisys, which recently acquired European software vendor Infor, is now changing its trade name to Infor Global Solutions. Agilisys, as a trade name, has only been in existence for a couple years, when SCT spun off its Adage ERP system as its own company, and it needed its own name. Since then, Agilisys has made several acquisitions, including Infor, which apparently has a more widely recognized name, globally, than Agilisys.
The new name is certainly easier to spell. In the past, everytime I've written about Agilisys I've had to check whether it is "Agilysis" or "Agilisys." I still get confused.
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Monday, September 06, 2004
Court's decision due regarding Oracle bid for PeopleSoft
The judge's decision should be coming any day now in the Department of Justice's lawsuit to block Oracle's hostile bid for PeopleSoft.
Wall Street analysts are predicting a short term bump in share price for PeopleSoft, no matter which way the decision goes. The reasoning is that if the court blocks the takeover, PeopleSoft deals will finally be free from the uncertainty surrounding a potential takeover. On the other hand, if Oracle gets the green light, its tender offer of $21 per share is at a substantial premium to PeopleSoft's current price of $17-something.
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Friday, September 03, 2004
Rumor: QAD cuts 30 heads
A Spectator reader just sent me the following information regarding headcount reductions at QAD, following disappointing quarterly results last month. The reader stresses, however, that this information has not been verified:I just heard that QAD let go about 30 people in all. Most were long term employees who were at the top of the salary range. I understand that the cuts were largely in the R&D organization. QAD is the process of outsourcing at least some of the development to China. [name withheld], the guy who set up the outsourcing agreements, was one of the people axed.As I've pointed out recently, QAD is not alone among application software vendors in hitting a rough spot in financial performance lately. QAD's action shows just how sensitive publicly held software vendors are these days to short term financial results.
On the other hand, maybe the financial results just gave QAD management an excuse to reduce headcount in the U.S., if in fact QAD is offshoring some software development to China. However, if that were the case, I would expect the reductions to come from lower level developers, not guys near the top of the R&D organization.
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Thursday, September 02, 2004
Microsoft Longhorn cutbacks threaten Project Green
A few days ago, I wrote about Microsoft's decision to scale back the features of its next generation operating system, Longhorn. Now we are seeing the far-reaching consequences of that decision.
Most importantly, for readers of the Spectator, there are serious implications for Project Green, which is Microsoft's program to merge the code base for its four ERP systems: Great Plains, Axapta, Navision, and Solomon. Project Green was, most recently, scheduled for release in 2008, following delivery of Longhorn in 2007. But with the feature set of Longhorn being cut, Project Green's delivery schedule is now uncertain.
The dependencies between Longhorn and Project Green are complicated. Project Green was to be built upon a new set of developer tools and software classes called the Microsoft Business Framework (MBF). MBF, in turn, depends in part on Microsoft's new WinFS file system, which Microsoft just decided to cut from Longhorn.
With WinFS being deferred until some unspecified date after Longhorn, it is uncertain when MBF will be delivered. I suppose it's possible that MBF could be released using elements of existing Microsoft technology, which means that MBF could be released ahead of Longhorn. That might allow Microsoft to release Project Green earlier. It depends on whether delivery of MBF was on the critical path for Project Green prior to Microsoft's decision--I don't know, but I doubt it.
For more details of the impact of Longhorn cutbacks, read Mary Jo Foley's summary.
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Wednesday, September 01, 2004
Sarbanes-Oxley spotlights need for controls in IT
Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) mandates implementation and documentation of internal controls throughout public companies. The information systems function is not exempt from this requirement. Although internal controls in various departments are often automated by means of information systems, IT professionals are just now beginning to understand that the SOX requirement for internal controls also applies to the IT function itself.
Writing for Datamation, George Spafford has a good basic overview of the concept of "controls."
Spafford explains the difference between preventive, detective, and corrective controls, and why all three are needed in IT. He also discusses the need for both manual and automated controls, and he points out that controls must go beyond merely writing IT policies and procedures.
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hi friends
now we finally got somewhere:
according to the latest news it now looks as if
the $100 laptop is going to be reality.
IMHO this is very good news.
I suggest we should team up to provide that
box with a simple database software suitable
for bibliographic and other usage.
The thingy is going to be a linux box with not too
much hardware resources.
Good ole WinIsis is hardly going to run there.
Yet a 500MHz CPU and 128MB of DRAM is much more
than my notebook from 1999 has, which is still
sufficient for all my tasks.
The boxes will provide a lean version of Firefox
(which was meant to be lean in the first place
but is actually not that much leaner than mozilla).
So I'd suggest to follow the approach of Fernando Gomez
to deploy heavy Javascripting, so as to work with
Firefox, which is available on all platforms,
and other browsers where possible.
Besides a capable up-to-date browser there
will not be much room for other fat software.
Javascript should talk directly to the database,
which means the database has to speak HTTP.
This is Selene, beefed up with Lua scripting capability.
I understand this is the PHP list,
and of course it's still possible to use
PHP scripting as an intermediate between
client and database.
Although PHP is awfully slow for big time websites,
it works perfectly well for any personal or low-profile
use, probably even on such a small box.
But maybe you take a look at Lua as an alternative.
humm, so, what do you think?
Especially you Argentinos, you have thight links
to your ministry of education, don't you?
You know of any plans to buy a million of these books?
I am not looking for a single buck, actually it's really
not much I still have to do, we made much progress and
we definitely have some paid-for work during this year
which will include a lot of Selene.
And as you know our links to local UNESCO here are very weak.
But maybe in LAC you can start some UN/UNESCO related projects
with regard to these new facilities?
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Terry O'Neil unsuccessfully tried to steer the audience in an accurate direction.
The question from the former New Orleans Saints executive to those in the Palisades Ballroom in UCLA's Carnesale Commons on Tuesday afternoon was, "How many concussions occurred on NFL practice fields last season?"
He began counting down from 400. The lower he went, the louder the audience voiced he was counting in the wrong direction. O'Neil appeased the disbelieving audience, asking about numbers as high as 600 before ending the exchange with a thud.
"Four," O'Neil said.
Some 2,000 of the most powerful athletes in the world playing one of the most dangerous sports in existence inflicted just four concussions during five months of practice during the 2013 NFL season.
"The games are a separate kettle of fish," O'Neil clarified, but for the majority of the time its players spend wearing helmets, the NFL has virtually eliminated head injuries threatening the future of the country's most popular sport.
As for the vastly larger number of football players in the high school ranks, they face plenty of threats.
Most of those in charge of the 1.1 million young men who will begin high school football season in a month haven't adopted the model set forth by the 2010 NFL collective bargaining agreement limiting full-contact practices.
There is no accurate way to document the amount of head trauma in high school football, where an estimated 12 to 15 percent of concussions are even reported. Of the scattered states that do report concussions, O'Neil estimated somewhere in the vicinity of 100,000 occur across the country every season.
Sports Legacy Institute, one of the leaders in advancing prevention of brain trauma in athletes, estimates that 60 to 75 percent of concussions occur during football practice.
While equipment manufacturers attack the crisis on one front, O'Neil founded Practice Like Pros to address the football that takes place in a controlled environment — practice.
Along with Mike Ditka, Archie Manning and Dick Vermeil among others, Practice Like Pros has developed a clinic that will tour the country in 2015 teaching high school football coaches practice techniques to prevent head injuries.
"The reason we formed Practice Like Pros is we saw that stark contrast between four (concussions) among the players and coaches that have learned how to practice," O'Neil said, "versus more than 100,000 that we find in high school football."
On top of the rule that took effect July 1 in California allowing high school football teams just 18 hours of practice per week, a bill has been proposed to limit full-contact practice time to three hours per week.
Assemblyman Ken Cooley introduced the bill that has already passed the State Assembly and Senate. If Gov. Jerry Brown takes the final step and signs the bill into effect, California would be the 16th state in the past 16 months to restrict contact on the high school practice field.
"I can tell you as the author, the real purpose of AB 2127 is to deal not with the impact in the brain of an athlete," Cooley said, "but the impact of all the adverse concussion news in the brains of parents who love their kids and are looking at that baby boy and are worried about what will happen if my son wants to play football."
By comparison, the governing body of Texas high school football adopted a rule limiting full-contact practice time to 90 minutes per week.
Roger Blake, the executive director of CIF who was also on hand Tuesday at UCLA, vociferously expressed his support for the bill.
"I think 95 percent of the coaches in California will embrace this," Blake said. "They're going to learn new skills how to teach. But we're going to need to help that five percent and I think that's why this bill is so important."
The dissenting coaches will likely have the identical problem. If their players can't practice the same functions they'll perform in a game, how can they improve?
O'Neil's retort is that the quality of play in the NFL doesn't seem any worse than it was before 2010.
"There were a lot of people at the time who said, 'Oh my gosh. This game is changing forever. The quality of the play, the quality of the tackling will drop dramatically," O'Neil said. "If anything, the game is more exciting, more fun, more physical on Sundays than it's ever been. A lot of that is that players are more ready to play. They're fresher. They're not taking practice-field injuries into the game."


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Egypt, reneging on roadmap, to start elections with presidential vote
Jan. 26 - Interim President Adly Monsour says Egypt will hold Presidential elections before parliamentary polls. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION) Egypt will hold a presidential vote before electing parliament, President Adly Mansour said on Sunday, reneging on a roadmap and increasing the likelihood that army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will be elected as head of state within months. Parliamentary elections were supposed to happen first under the timetable agreed after the army deposed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi in July following mass protests against his rule. "I have taken my decision to amend the roadmap for the future in that we will start by holding the presidential elections first followed by the parliamentary elections," Mansour said in a televised speech. Critics have campaigned for a change of the roadmap, saying the country needs an elected leader to direct government at a time of economic and political crisis and to forge a political alliance before a potentially divisive parliamentary election. Opponents say it risks creating a president with unchecked power. Were that Sisi, who is widely tipped to win, it would put the army back in a post controlled by military men until Mursi was propelled to office by the Muslim Brotherhood. A new constitution voted in this month opened the way for a change in the order of the elections by leaving open the question of which should come first.


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by Tom Utescher
The product of a successful high school baseball franchise at Penn Charter, Chestnut Hill native Steve Harrington wasn't a happy camper at the end of his freshman season in college. He didn't see a lot of playing time, and his Princeton University ballclub finished the 2010 campaign with the worst record in the history of the program.
Things turned around dramatically this spring, when the 6'2, 200 lb. Harrington made key contributions for the Tigers and the team knocked off two-time defending champion Dartmouth to win the Ivy League title. The former PC Quaker performed in many roles for the Ivy champs this spring.
"I started seven games in left field, seven games in right, seven or eight games at first base, and an equal amount as designated hitter," Harrington related.
The Tigers went 15-5 during the regular season in the league, with Harrington achieving a .301 batting average. Princeton and Dartmouth split the first two contests of the best-of-three Ivy League Championship Series, then met on the Tigers' Clarke Field for game three on Sunday, May 8.
"I had two big hits in my first two at-bats and helped get some runs across early," said the sophomore slugger, who was cast as Princeton's designated hitter for the pivotal clash with the Big Green. Dartmouth had returned many starters from its championship team the year before, but the youthful Tigers would carry the day.
Harrington doubled in a run in the second inning, then whacked another double in the third, earning two more RBI's. The Tigers left the inning with a 4-1 advantage, and after Dartmouth got back within one at 5-4 in the fifth frame, Princeton piled on three more runs in the bottom of the sixth. The visitors scored once more in the top of the eighth inning, but still finished three runs short.
"It's a good league," Harrington pointed out. "I was watching the MLB draft recently and I saw that a fair number of guys from the Ivy were taken, and that happens most years."
Winning the league crown earned Princeton an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. They ended their season in the NCAA's Austin, TX Regional, winding up with an overall record of 23-24.
After the Tigers' disappointing effort in 2010, Princeton coach Scott Bradley turned loose the young guns, and this year a number of freshmen and sophomores became marquee performers.
"It was sort of a new start for us," Harrington recalled. "From our results in the fall season we knew we had good players. It started to come together early in the spring. We went down to LSU [Louisiana State University] and won a game there, and then the first Ivy League weekend we were 4-0. From then on, we had a lot of team confidence."
Harrington also plays squash for Princeton, having come from a Penn Charter team that won two high school national championships during his tenure. Historically, the Tigers have attracted some outstanding foreign-born players to their racquet program, but the current roster includes some players Harrington has known for many years, such as Chris Callis, a junior who was his teammate at Penn Charter, and Dylan Ward, a freshman from Chestnut Hill Academy.
This winter, Harrington ended up playing in the number nine spot for Princeton at the National Team Championships, helping the Tigers finish third.
"Four days later I was on a plane to start the baseball season," he related. "It was a pretty quick transition this year."
Even during the winter squash campaign, he explained, "I make sure I'm taking some baseball swings now and then."
Comparing the two sports, he said "I think there's a little bit of a crossover in hand-eye coordination, and I'd say I've gained a lot of focus, a lot of mental toughness from squash. Other than that, they're two completely different sports, but so far it's worked out well for me playing both of them.
"An important thing in making the switch," he continued, "is getting stronger for baseball, because you tend to lose a lot of weight during squash season."
Back on the baseball team at Penn Charter, Harrington was an accomplished hitter for the Quakers. He played first base as a junior, then moved to left field for his final high school season. He wasn't personally discouraged by the developments during his freshman year at Princeton.
"I hit the ball well in high school and in the summer leagues I played in," he said. "I was confident in my abilities, and it was just a question of getting more at-bats."
Princeton's location makes it relatively easy for his parents to watch him on the diamond and the squash court.
"It's less than an hour away from my house," he pointed out, "and it's nice to have them come to a lot of my sporting events."
He has two sisters; Shannon, who has just graduated from Stanford University, and Tara, an accomplished squash player who'll start her senior year at Penn Charter this fall.
Harrington is spending much of the summer in Long Island, playing for the Southampton team in the Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League. Most of the games are at night, and he's landed a day job as a squash clinic instructor at a local recreation center.
At Penn Charter his academic interests included mathematics and American History, and he's majoring in economics at Princeton.
"I think I'd like to go into business later on, although I don't know exactly what area yet," he said.
Midway though his undergraduate days at Princeton, he reflected "I enjoy the sports, the schoolwork, the social life, everything. I couldn't be happier with my decision and with how everything's turning out for me."


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Mercury Marine plans to introduce a new sterndrive engine next year as the company moves away from sterndrive engine blocks made by General Motors and strives to shift demand back to the segment.
Were coming out with a new sterndrive with lots of features no consumers ever seen before on a sterndrive, Brunswick Corp. CEO Dusty McCoy told investors and analysts during a conference call on Thursday to discuss third-quarter earnings. We think thats important, as we move away from GM blocks and we own this whole franchise, that we bring something new to the market that the publics never seen, and were confident that well begin to stop the erosion in the sterndrive market.
At least two boatbuilders have indicated that GM will stop producing the sterndrive blocks used by MerCruiser and Volvo Penta, although engine companies and GM have declined to specifically comment.
Despite the consumer shift away from the segment and the engine companys focus on sterndrives, McCoy said Mercury and MerCruiser are well positioned for growth because the switch from sterndrive to outboard engines has largely occurred in freshwater markets where Mercury has a higher market share.
It is unlikely that Brunswicks boat group will actually achieve positive earnings in 2013, McCoy said. Additionally, the sterndrive and inboard products are losing a little market share, he said.
This is according to plan, McCoy said. This is why were taking down the pipeline. If we look at it in the following way, theres a lot of small product where weve just taken models out because we dont make that good of money on those and weve got a lot of great brands moving into those categories. Weve made the decision not to put those [23-foot and under] models into the marketplace.
The boat group has also taken some of the 40-foot range models from the lineup. We carefully chose those models [that] didnt have the margins on the models we kept have.
I would say sitting here today that our modern lineup is not as fresh as we would like and we've acknowledged that, but we're also making enormous investment in boats in that 40- to 65-foot range, McCoy said.
McCoy also indicated that the Bayliner brand also will continue to expand its value offerings similar to the Element. The Element is an outboard product versus sterndrive and yes, we think there is room in the market for well-priced product, and we think the Bayliner brand is a good place to bring that in.
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Wigan forward Mauro Boselli agrees loan switch to Serie A side Palermo
Wigan boss Roberto Martinez has confirmed that Mauro Boselli has agreed to join Palermo on loan.
Last Updated: 30/01/13 9:21am
The Argentine striker has endured a difficult stay with the Latics since arriving in a deal believed to be worth in excess of £6million in 2010 and is still waiting for his first Premier League goal.
The 27-year-old has been loaned out to Genoa and Estudiantes in that time and is now to return to Italy with Serie A side Palermo.
Martinez revealed that the deal had been finalised in his post-match press conference following Wigan's 1-0 win at Macclesfield in the fourth round of the FA Cup on Saturday.
"We agreed a loan deal with Palermo and Mauro will go back to Italy where he had a spell with Genoa until the end of the season," said the Spaniard.
"That was done this morning and that is the reason why he wasn't in the squad."


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Ontario Campus PhD Programs in Technology
PhD in Technology Schools award terminal degrees in majors as diverse as library science, business information systems, cybersecurity and computer engineering. Technology PhD students often spend significant effort in research to develop strong skills in analysis, scholarship and communication. Students who choose on-campus Technology PhD programs may enjoy a supportive academic environment, face-to-face classes and the chance to take part in collaborative research projects.
PhD in Technology Schools: Overview
PhD in Technology Schools may award specific types of degrees, each with their own features and related areas of emphasis. Technology is a vast discipline that spans techniques, skills, methods, and processes which could produce goods and services. Beyond that, technology is a means to various ends. The scientific knowledge gained by those who study it could be channeled into innovation and used to accomplish many functions.
Doctorate Degrees in Technology
The three principal doctorate degrees that explore technology are the (1) Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), (2) Doctor of Computer Science (DCS), and (3) Doctor of Business Administration (DBA). Each type of doctoral degree comes with its own set of courses, requirements and majors.
- A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) is a research degree. Candidates might explore their major with a critical eye, through courses and research methodology. Their goal is to come up with new scholarly input to address dilemmas in their field.
- A Doctor of Computer Science (DCS) is a professional practice doctorate. It is the highest award in the study of the principles and uses of computers. DCS candidates might look to understand technological trends, innovate and problem solve through technical means such as hardware and software.
- A Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) is an applied research, professional
- doctorate. DBA degrees are designed to help executives view technology through the lens of management decisions, business strategy, operational outcomes and organizational change.
Some universities with PhD programs in technology may have multiple campus locations. Also, there are different areas of emphasis available from school to school for each of the above doctorate degrees.
Employment of computer and information technology occupations is projected to grow 13 percent from 2016 to 2026.i
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Applicants to PhD in Technology schools may need relevant prior coursework and experience in the discipline they choose to study. Additionally, a graduate school may require that the applicant's goals and interests match with the program's intent and the active faculty research. That said, the two entry-points to Technology PhD programs are the (1) Bachelors degree and the (2) Masters degree. It is up to each university to set their admission requirements, therefore one should refer to any individual program and school.
Doctorate in Business Information Systems
Several universities may award a DBA in Information Systems Management. Information systems management studies an organization's technology needs to recommend upgrades, keep electronic data secure, and determine IT goals.
Students enrolled in a DBA programs need to satisfy about 60 credit hours, distributed between applied research methods, academic writing, core courses, information systems courses, electives and doctoral research.
Research requirements usually include courses in methods of analysis, as well as quantitative and qualitative research. Students also might choose to further explore advanced statistical methods or an applied research course, depending on their end research goals. In terms of core courses, DBA programs often fully explore business and administrative topics such as:
- Organizational management
- Marketing strategy
- Corporate and Global finance
- Strategy
- Operations management
These core areas could help broaden students' grasp of their major in information systems, and may help them to innovate and apply theories to solve industry-relevant problems. After they complete their courses, students may need to successfully pass an exam before they enroll in doctoral research courses.
Doctor of Computer Science Programs
Schools that offer a Doctor of Computer Science degree may enable students to more fully understand the technical sides of technology. Candidates are shown the basics of how to conduct research that could advance the field of computer science, as well as help them to effectively communicate technical material to non-technical decision-makers.
Students who pursue a DCS degree are required to complete about 96 credits, which target core courses in innovation and prediction and current trends in information systems. Along with these courses, students study basic principles of qualitative and quantitative research methods and design.
Then, once they have completed the technical courses, students take dissertation courses to help them work towards a research proposal and final action research dissertation. To anchor this research, students may pursue a DCS degree in a specific area.
DCS in Emerging Media (EM): Emerging media uses a multidisciplinary approach to examine how social networks, new media, web science and virtual worlds impact business, education, research and entertainment. Along with required courses, students who pursue a DCS-EM degree might study in-depth the following topics.
- Business strategies for social media
- Virtual economy and business
- Web privacy
- Virtual and cloud-computing architectures
- Games and gamification
DCS in Enterprise Information Systems: A focus in enterprise information systems (EIS) is used to develop technical expertise for managing the IT implementation process, tester and user testing. Coursework may cover models such as CMMI and the Baldridge process. Other courses could cover the following subjects.
- Business intelligence
- Enterprise tools
- Strategy, alignment and portfolio management
- Integration of EIS
DCS in Information Assurance: A focus in cybersecurity and information assurance may help persons to develop the theoretical, research and applications skills needed to manage and forecast future issues and developments in this field. Students may be further challenged to demonstrate expertise in a sub-discipline of Information Assurance. Aside from core computer science courses, this emphasis may provide courses in the following topics.
- Enterprise security architecture
- Enterprise tools, concepts, processes
- Security management
- Digital systems security
PhD Programs in Library and Information Science
Schools with PhD programs in Library and Information Science (LIS) cover how you might analyze the information needs of users. Courses examine the diverse tools and technologies used to locate, assess, organize, manage and preserve information and materials as an accessible source of knowledge. PhD students may work closely with faculty and classmates through analytical papers, experience reports, essays, and teaching experiences.
A PhD in Library Science could require students to complete between 36 and 56 credits. While course names vary, some possible topics are as follows.
- Information design technology
- Information systems
- Administrative theory
- Information psychology
Coursework could also include classes in applied statistics for LIS, research methods, and a course in teaching and learning. Students are typically expected to conduct extensive research that contributes to the theory basis of library and information science and links with modern professional problems.
PhD Programs in Computing and Information Sciences
Some PhD in Technology Schools offer a PhD program in Computing and Information Sciences. This type of program has a scholarly focus on the theoretical and practical aspects of cyber infrastructure as applied to distinct problems. Classes address interdisciplinary research skills as they study the integration of hardware, software and communication. A course about interactions analyzes how technology facilitates the interplay between humans and computers. Other topics might cover informatics, where students explore the techniques applied to make sense of data-driven systems.
Take the Next Step
Do you want to find PhD in Technology Schools with programs in a specific subject or a preferred location? These filters that are in tune with your personal and professional goals could help set you up for success. Use them to compare PhD programs, then easily apply to the sponsored schools on your list with the on-page form.
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Heat blast Bulls, take commanding 3-1 series lead
Chicago, IL – There were no ejections or physical altercations in Game 4, but it was another Miami Heat knockout.
Perhaps the short-handed Chicago Bulls have run out of gas and have no fight left.
LeBron James tallied 27 points, eight assists and seven rebounds in the Heat's 88-65 rout of the Bulls to take a 3-1 stranglehold in this Eastern Conference semifinal.
After decimating the Bulls 115-78 in Game 2, the Heat survived Game 3 and jumped out to an 11-2 start in this one and never looked back.
"For the most part, other than the turnovers, we played to our identity," Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra said.
The Bulls tallied a playoff franchise low in points and field-goal percentage (25.7 percent).
The Bulls also scored a franchise postseason-low nine points in the third quarter.
Miami can close out the series Wednesday in South Beach.
Following a 20-point, 19-rebound performance in Game 3, Chris Bosh was the only other Miami player in double figures with 14 points to go along with six rebounds and four blocks.
"He's giving us what we need," Spoelstra said of Bosh. "He's been aggressive and giving us that presence at the rim in a variety of different areas."
The Heat held a 36-20 points in the paint and 19-7 fastbreak points edge.
Carlos Boozer finished with 14 points and 12 boards, but was just 3-of-14 shooting for the Bulls, whose previous playoff franchise low in points (69) came against the Detroit Pistons in Game 1 of a 2007 Eastern Conference semifinal. Their previous low in field-goal percentage (31.1 percent) also came against the Pistons in Game 7 of the 1990 Eastern Conference finals.
"I thought in the first quarter we had some good ball movement, some open shots that we didn't make. I thought that took away from our defensive intesity," Bulls head coach Tom Thibodeau said.
Nate Robinson was 0-for-12 and didn't score.
"He's a tough guy, he'll bounce back," Thibodeau said. "He didn't make shots tonight, but he's a shotmaker."
Forward Luol Deng and guard Kirk Hinrich were again unable to play for Chicago.
Deng underwent a spinal tap two weeks ago to rule out meningitis and has been slow to recover. He had complications from the procedure and tried to take part in Thursday's shoot-around but is still too weak to play. The 28-year-old also missed the first two games in Miami, as well as Games 6 and 7 in the first round against the Brooklyn Nets.
Hinrich hasn't played since Game 4 of the first round against the Nets because of a calf injury.
Chicago missed 11 of its first 12 shots from the field and the Heat jumped out to a 21-15 edge after a quarter of play. Bosh was 5-of-6 from the field and poured in 10 points in the first.
Miami began the second quarter on a 9-2 spurt to vault the visitors to a 13- point edge. Shane Battier and Ray Allen knocked down back-to-back 3-pointers to make it 30-17.
The Heat took a 44-33 cushion into the break and held the Bulls to 26.8 percent (11-of-41) shooting in the opening half. James scored 15 points, while Bosh added 12 in the first 24 minutes.
It only got uglier for the Bulls in the third when they made just two of their 13 shots in the stanza.
A 10-1 surge during the middles stages of the frame allowed the Heat to go on cruise control. Dwyane Wade had a pair of buckets during the swing, including a left wing jumper to conclude it and give Miami a 56-40 cushion.
Norris Cole swished a left wing triple at the buzzer to make it 61-42, and Miami led by as many as 26 in the fourth.
Game Notes
Cole, who was 1-of-2 from beyond the arc, made his first eight 3-pointers in the series ... Miami shot 48.5 percent (33-of-68) from the floor ... Both teams committed 17 turnovers.


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Ready for some good news out of Europe, for a change?
This could be the week where we finally get confirmation that the U.K. economy has returned to where it was before the financial crisis. The first reading on second-quarter GDP is out on Friday and is expected to paint a healthy picture of the country\'s economy.
For the first three months of the year, GDP expanded by 0.8% quarter-on-quarter, taking the measure just 0.6% below pre-recession levels. Any growth rate above 0.6% will therefore mark quite a significant milestone — the economy will be back where it was before the global financial crisis.
But that\'s not the only reason Friday\'s data are worth a calender reminder. As rate-hike talks heat up ahead of the Bank of England\'s August Inflation Report and next monetary-policy meeting, the strength of the U.K. recovery will be \"eyed even more keenly than normal as analysts look to pinpoint how quickly economic slack is being eroded and therefore how soon the BOE will be prompted to tighten policy,\" according to Philip Shaw, chief economist at Investec Securities.
In this context, the BOE minutes on Wednesday could also be a significant event.
U.K. GDP: As described, a U.K. highlight that will provide an important check on the recovery. Consensus is for GDP expansion of 0.8% in the second quarter, which would mark a sixth straight period of growth. The data come out on Friday at 9:30 in London, or 4:30 a.m. Eastern Time.
BOE minutes: Another U.K. event that could rock the markets this week. With the economy possibly back at pre-recession levels and the labor market rapidly improving, expectations for a rate increase this year are building.
However, although some members of the Monetary Policy Committee may have considered raising rates, the vote for the July meeting is still likely to have been 9-0 in favor of keeping policy on hold, Shaw from Investec said.
\"We tend to the view that they will want to see August's new inflation projections first,\" he said.
The minutes come out at 9:30 a.m. London time on Wednesday.
Euro-zone PMIs: It\'s also time for one of the first third-quarter health checks for the euro zone. And it might not be encouraging reading. In June, the euro-zone manufacturing PMI dropped to 51.9, driven by broad slides across the currency union, and HSBC analysts expect another drop in the July reading.
The euro-zone PMIs come out on Thursday at 9 a.m. London time, while the French and German data are released at 8 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. London time, respectively.
\"These will be the first meaningful data relating to Q3/14 and so any news that the PMI reports contain will be important in terms of signaling in which direction the early risks around our forecasts are skewed,\" analysts at RBC Capital Markets said in a note.
German Ifo survey: German business confidence looks set to have declined in July, with the Ifo business-climate index forecast to fall to 109.4 from 109.7 in June. The report comes out on Friday at 9 a.m. London time.
Earnings: Buckle up for one of the busiest weeks in the European earnings season. A flurry of prominent firms report results this week, spanning from airlines over chemical firms to consumer goods. On Wednesday, Dutch paints and coatings company Akzo Nobel , German carmaker Daimler and U.K. drug maker GlaxoSmithKline report quarterly results.
Thursday, it\'s time for earnings from German chemicals giant BASF , consumer-goods major Unilever and Nokia .
Ending the week, Air France-KLM and Danone report results.
— Sara Sjolin
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By Paul Feinberg
Soon after arriving in Los Angeles in 2007, Assistant Professor Bruce Carlin happened to catch sight of a flyer for a meeting about developing a new charter school. Founding families were being sought to help bring a middle school to the Wilshire-La Brea area of West Los Angeles -- an area residents felt was underserved by the local school district. With his new Ph.D. in finance from Duke University, Carlin was a natural to assist the group with its monetary planning and in meetings with real estate developers, so he joined the board of the New Los Angeles Charter School (New LA).
Carlin is now very pleased that New LA opened for classes on January 31. The school is hosting its first class of sixth graders - and plans to enroll seventh and eighth grade students over the next two years.
Watch a video of the ribbon cutting ceremony.
Carlin assists the school with financial planning, a task that goes hand-in-hand with his skills as a finance professor. He considers his work on behalf of the school an extension of his role as an educator and as a citizen of Los Angeles.
"This is a worthy cause. I'm happy to get involved and work pro bono for children in need of an education," Carlin said. "As UCLA Anderson is a leader in the business community and we're facing (tough) economic times, it makes sense for members of our faculty to assist the community."
He also believes that the university as a whole has a stake in the city's public education opportunities -- particularly on the west side of town where many of the faculty and staff reside. He notes that UCLA Chancellor Gene Block has made the improvement of the area's schools an issue for the university and would like to see UCLA back the type of endeavor that New LA represents. Social missions aside, his involvement with New LA gives Carlin a sense of personal satisfaction.
"It just feels good," Carlin said. "The stuff I'm doing is easy. It's a fairly simple budget and I just try to make sure we stay liquid. It feels great now that we're making an impact."


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Several readers have sent in tips pointing to the trailer for Tim Burton's latest animated feature, 9, suggesting the film's characters are homages to Media Molecule's Sackboy of LittleBigPlanet fame. Not the case!
While the characters do bear a certain similarity, what with the sackcloth construction and zippers at their necks, Tim Burton's 9 is actually based off the short film of the same title, created by Shane Acker and released in April of 2005. Seeing as we didn't see the first stirrings of LittleBigPlanet until January 2007, it's more likely designers at Media Molecule took took some inspiration from it, rather than the other way around.
Still, the trailer does look absolutely amazing, and it can't hurt to look a little sackboyish when it sees release come 9/9/2009. I've gone ahead and included the trailer below, because it is pretty damn awesome.
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