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- March 30, 1910: Mississippi Normal College is founded by a legislative act as the state's first state-supported teachers training school. The school's five original buildings are built on 120 acres of cutover timber land donated by H.A. Camp, A.A. Montague and Dr. T.E. Ross.
- 1912: Mississippi Normal College opens for classes and is home to a total of 227 students and 17 faculty members during its first term. This year also marks the establishment of the first football team. Composed of 13 men (two with one arm), the team plays nearby high schools at Kamper Park.
- 1914: The first yearbook for Mississippi Normal College, Neka Camon, is published. The title is a Native American term meaning "The New Spirit."
- Dec. 21, 1918: The first school newspaper, the Normal College News, is published. With the tag line "get there on time and stay to the end," the paper is published every Saturday while school is in session.
Campus development
- 1912: College Hall: The principal academic building which contained classrooms, administrative offices, the library and an auditorium.
- 1912: Forrest County Hall: Three-story dormitory for men and married couples.
- 1912: Hattiesburg Hall: Women's dormitory identical to Forrest County Hall
- 1912: Industrial Cottage: Classroom space for women where sewing and cooking instruction takes place. Now named the Honor House.
- 1912: President's Home: Now the Ogletree House and currently serves as the home of the Southern Miss Alumni Association
- 1922: MNC is authorized to confer baccalaureate degrees. Kathryn Swetman is awarded the first degree from MNC that May.
- 1924: MNC's name changes to State Teachers College through a legislative act of March 7, 1924.
- 1926: The first cheerleading squad is formed.
- 1927: The name of the school news paper is changed to The Student Printz.
- 1928: President Joe Cook is fired and Claude Bennett assumes the presidency.
- 1929: State Teachers College is approved for membership in the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools (SACS).
Campus development
- 1921: World War I Memorial Streetcar Car Station: Built to honor students who served during WWI, it is located at the front entrance to the campus. Funds for the building are donated by faculty, students, alumni and friends of the college.
- 1922: Southern Hall: Academic building, originally called Science Hall, it houses classrooms and the library. Now used as classrooms and home of the school newspaper, The Student Printz.
- 1927: George Hurst Building: Academic building is the original home of Demonstration School, where student teachers are trained.
- 1932: The Great Depression creates a devastating economic downturn in the United States and marks the beginning of a very difficult time for the State Teachers College. The state of Mississippi is forced to refuse funds to all public institutions, and for six months faculty and staff members at STC receive no pay.
- 1933: Dr. Jennings Burton George becomes the institution's third president.
- 1937: State Teachers College celebrates its 25th anniversary. The three-day "Silver Jubilee" celebration features speeches, receptions, reunions and a large parade through downtown Hattiesburg.
Campus development
- 1930: Fritzsche-Gibbs Hall: Original Home Science Nursery School. Now serves as home to the College of Health.
- 1930: Administration Building. Now the Aubrey Keith Lucas Administration Building.
- 1930: Bennett Auditorium
- 1930: The Hub: Is built as the dining hall facility. Now home to Southern Miss Activities Co
- 1932: The Sunken Garden: Decorative garden is built on the site currently occupied by McLemore Hall. Begun in 1929 as a class project, it is completed in 1932.
- 1934: Power Plant: Is built to house facilities for heating the campus. Now home to the Powerhouse Restaurant.
- 1934: Lake Byron
- 1937: Textbook Center: Originally constructed as the Demonstration School Gymnasium.
- 1939: East Stadium: Originally doubling as a men's residence hall and athletic stadium, it is constructed with federal public works funds and college revenue bonds.
- 1940: STC name changes to Mississippi Southern College.
- 1941: Mississippi Southern College posts first undefeated football season (9-0-1)
- 1942: The U.S War Department establishes an Army administration school on campus to train staff for WWII military camps, bringing 1,000 male students to campus.
- July 1, 1945: Dr. Robert Cecil Cook is named the fourth president of MSC.
- 1948: MSC joins Spring Hill College of Mobile, Ala., and seven Louisiana institutions to form the Gulf States athletic conference.
Campus development
- 1940: Kennard-Washington Hall: Now home of Student Services. Named in 1993 for Clyde Kennard, an African American who attempted to enroll at Southern Miss during the 1950s, and Dr. Walter Washington, the first African American to receive a doctoral degree from the university.
- 1946: Gilbert Hartwig Southern Arena Playhouse: Purchased from the U.S. government. Originally called West Hall, it is located behind what is now Cook Library.
- 1947: Weathersby Hall: Originally built as a women's residence hall. Demolished in 2005, its lawn (adjacent to Shoemaker Square) is now used as a gathering spot for students.
- 1949: Health, Physical Education, & Recreation Building
- 1949: Publications and Printing Services: Originally the Physical Plant Building and the former home to the Copy Center, which relocated in spring 2010 to the Thad Cochran Center.
- 1952: MSC joins NCAA.
- 1953: The Dixie Darlings, precision dance team, is formed by band director Dr. Raymond Mannoni. Originally named the Southern Belles.
- 1953: WMS, the 10-watt campus radio station, is established
- 1954: President R. C. Cook resigns
- 1955: Dr. Richard Aubrey McLemore named Acting President
- 1955: Former state archivist for Mississippi, Dr. William David McCain assumes the presidency. His main goal as president is to see the college achieve university status
- 1958: First perfect football season (9-0); United Press International names the team national champion in the "Large College" Division
Campus development
- 1951: Hickman Hall: Women's residence hall named for Alma Hickman, a member of the original 1912 faculty.
- 1953: West Stadium: Originally built as a men's residence hall and stadium.
- 1954: Marsh Hall: Academic/Fine Arts Building named in honor of Frank Earl Marsh, chairman of the Department of Music, 1930-1960.
- 1954: Bolton Hall: Women's residence hall named for Miss Willa Bolton, professor and chairman of the Geography Department, and a member of the original 1912 faculty.
- 1956: McLemore Hall: Originally built as the R. C. Cook College Union, the building's name is changed in 1976 when a new student union is built directly behind the Hub. Renamed for Dr. Richard Aubrey McLemore, Acting President from January-August, 1955.
- 1956: Lake Sehoy: 40-acre artificial lake in Lamar County, donated by the J. J. Newman Lumber Company in 1910.
- 1957: Danforth Chapel
- 1959: Jones Hall: Women's residence hall
- 1959: Scott Hall: Residence hall
- 1959: Walker Science Building: Academic building
- 1959: Van Hook Golf Course: 18-hole golf course that closed in 2004. The land is now used for The Garden, the university's innovation and commercialization park.
- Feb. 27, 1962: Governor Ross Barnett signs the bill that makes Mississippi Southern College The University of Southern Mississippi
- Aug. 14, 1962: First Ph.D. awarded to Eugene Keebler
- September 1965: As Civil Rights movements and integration are sweeping college campus throughout the nation, the first African American students, Raylawni Young Branch and Gwendolyn Elaine Armstrong, are admitted.
- 1966: School of Nursing organizes through a special legislative appropriation.
Campus development
- 1960: Pine Haven Apartments: Married student and family housing complex
- 1960: Joseph Anderson Cook Memorial Library
- 1962: Arthell Kelley Hall: Geography
- 1962: J. B. George Commons: Cafeteria
- 1962: Pulley Hall: Women's residence hall
- 1962: Bond Hall: Men's residence hall
- 1962: Beedie Smith Clinic: Medical facility named for campus nurse, Beedie Smith (1923-1950), affectionately known as "Grannie."
- 1963: Wilber Panhellenic House: Sorority residence hall
- 1964: Hillcrest Dormitory: Women's residence hall
- 1964: Elam Arms: Residence Hall, originally privately owned and named for the owner's daughter, Charlotte Elam. Ownership has since been transferred to Southern Miss.
- 1964: Owings-McQuagge Hall: College of Education and Psychology
- 1965: Reed Green Coliseum: Constructed for general assembly and athletics.
- 1965: Child Development Center
- 1966: Wilbur Stout Hall: Academic lecture hall
- 1967: Vann Hall: Men's residence hall
- 1968: Joseph Greene Hall: College of Business Administration
- 1968: Roberts Hall: Women's residence hall
- Oct. 17, 1970: Southern Miss football team defeats Ole Miss for the first time
- 1972: "Golden Eagles" adopted as nickname for athletic teams
- Oct. 19, 1972: An explosion in the Polymer Science Lab destroys the entire first floor of the Walker Science Building.
- 1972: Gulf Park Campus established at Long Beach. Campus originally built at the Mississippi College for Women
- 1973: Ray Guy becomes Southern Miss' first top round NFL draft choice
- 1975: M.M. Roberts Stadium Expansion: Upper decks added to both East and West Stadiums
- June 30, 1975: President William D. McCain retires
- July 1, 1975: Dr. Aubrey K. Lucas assumes presidency
Campus development
- 1970: Johnson Science Tower: Tallest building on campus (10 stories)
- 1971: Johnson Natatorium
- 1972: Mannoni Performing Arts Center
- 1972: Fountain in front of Administration Building
- 1973: Rose Garden planted by the Hattiesburg Area Rose Society
- 1975: Harkins Hall: Academic building for the College of Nursing
- 1976: William D. McCain Library and Archives: University Libraries Special Collections
- 1976: Howard Gene Henderson Physical Plant Facility
- 1976: Speech and Hearing Building
- 1976: R. C. Cook University Union: New student activities building is built directly behind The Hub to replace original union from 1956. Named for fourth president, Dr. Robert Cecil Cook.
- 1977: C. W. Woods Art Gallery:
- 1979: New President's Home: Two-story brick home built on Jamestown Road in Hattiesburg. The home is constructed under the auspices of the Southern Miss Alumni Association.
- 1981: The Center for International Education is created.
- 1982: Nationally ranked Polymer Science Institute is created.
- March 26, 1987: Men's basketball team wins National Invitation Tournament (NIT) in Madison Square Garden, bringing home the first basketball championship to the state of Mississippi.
- 1988: The university implements a campus wide reorganization. Key changes include: the creation of the College of Health and Human Sciences, the renaming of the College of Arts, a new School of Public and International Affairs and the combining of the School of Engineering Technology with the College of Science and Technology.
Campus development
- 1981: Bobby L. Chain Technology Building: Academic building named for benefactor and former IHL Board President, Bobby L. Chain.
- 1990: Football star Brett Favre ends his career as quarterback for the Golden Eagles.
- 1993: A campus-wide "Celebration of Diversity" was held to signify a breakthrough in race relations on campus.
- April 1995: After 13 years in the Metro Conference, Southern Miss becomes a charter member of Conference USA.
- July 1995: Miss Oseola McCarty donates $150,000 to Southern Miss. She is awarded the university's first honorary degree in 1998 and dies one year later on Sept. 26, 1999.
- August 1995: President Lucas announces resignation, effective Dec. 31, 1996. His 21 years of service make his the longest presidential tenure in university history.
- 1996: A benchmark year for arts program at Southern Miss, as the Symphony Orchestra celebrates its 75th anniversary.
- Jan. 3, 1997: Dr. Horace Weldon Fleming Jr. becomes seventh president.
- 1998: The university is classified as a dual-campus system, offering four-year programs at Southern Miss Gulf Park and Keesler Air Force Base.
- 1999: The Lady Eagles softball team wins the Conference USA championship and the South Regional championship before advancing to the College Women's World Series.
Campus development
- 1990: Shelby F. Thames Polymer Science Research Center: Named for the founder of the Polymer Science Department, who goes on to serve as University president from 2002-2007.
- 1990: Baseball grandstands
- 1993: Payne Center: Physical fitness and recreation center
- 1995: Five-story addition to Cook Library: Expanded study rooms and additional computer terminals are two of the most popular new features.
- 1996: Marshall Bell Track Facility
- 1999: Liberal Arts Building
- 1999: Theatre and Dance Building
- 2000: Southern Miss graduates its 100,000th student, and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching classifies Southern Miss as a Doctoral/Research Extensive Institution, placing it among the top 150 institutions in the nation.
- 2001: President Horace Fleming resigns the presidency.
- May 1, 2002: Dr. Shelby Thames becomes the eighth president. Under his administration, a new academic structure is created for Southern Miss, in which the nine academic colleges are consolidated to five.
- 2002: The University of Southern Mississippi's Gulf Park campus welcomes its first entering freshman, as a four-year institution.
- 2003: A campus-wide branding campaign leads to the new eagle head logo designed by Southern Miss alumnus Rodney Richardson, released on Jan. 29, 2003.
- 2005: Hurricane Katrina hits the Mississippi Gulf Coast. All of the Southern Miss Gulf Coast sites sustain substantial damage, forcing classes on the coast to be canceled for almost six weeks. With more than 120 faculty and staff displaced after the storm and campuses destroyed, Southern Miss comes together to rebuild and rebound for the betterment of the coastal communities.
- May 21, 2007: Dr. Martha Saunders becomes the first female and the ninth university president of Southern Miss.
- 2009: The Golden Eagle baseball team advances to the College World Series and finishes the 2009 season as the nation's eighth-ranked squad.
- 2010: The university marks the 100th anniversary of its legislative founding with a yearlong Centennial Celebration.
Campus development
- 2001: DuBard Language School
- 2001: McCarty Hall: Upper classmen residence hall
- 2002: Southern Miss Athletic Center: state-of-the-art, 60,000-square-foot facility
- 2004: Center for International and Continuing Education: Five-story, 42,000-square-foot center that provides academic space to Southern Miss' international students and the Honors College.
- 2006: Thad Cochran Center: State-of-the-art addition to the Student Union complex, housing Barnes and Noble bookstore, a new dining area known as the Fresh Food Company and a conference facility which includes meeting rooms and a large ballroom.
- 2007: Pete Taylor Park Luxury Boxes and Press Box
- 2007: Power House Restaurant: Transformation of the 1934 campus Power House energy plant into a fast-casual restaurant. The facility receives the 2007 Best Concept Award for Best New Facility from Food Management magazine.
- 2007: The Village: 354-bed residential community for upper-class female students, including honors students, scholarship recipients, sorority members and athletes.
- 2008: Trent Lot Center for Excellence in Economic Development
- 2008: South End Zone Complex at the Rock: Five-level addition to the South End of M.M. Roberts Stadium.


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Kent County SPCA announced today that it has taken over the dog control contract for Kent County after Safe Haven Animal Sanctuary, based out of Georgetown, ceased control of the contract at 4:30 p.m., a week and a half before their contract was to expire.
Kent County SPCA announced that it has taken over the dog control contract for Kent County after Safe Haven Animal Sanctuary, based out of Georgetown, ceased control of the contract at 4:30 p.m. Sept. 20, a week and a half before their contract was to expire.
In July, Kent County Levy Court commissioners canceled the contract with Safe Haven because of alleged financial negligence and infighting among its board of directors. The no-kill Georgetown shelter had taken over the contract in 2012 and was awarded a renewal in 2013 after submitting a winning bid over the KCSPCA.
Safe Haven's contract was scheduled to end on Sept. 30, and Kent County SPCA was contracted to take on the dog control contract effective Oct. 1.
Kent County Levy Court President Brooks Banta confirmed on Friday that the SPCA was to take over the contract that afternoon.
"The SPCA, in this unique situation, stepped up to the plate and has gone above and beyond the call of duty to prepare take over the Kent County dog control contract at 4:30 p.m., today," Banta said Friday afternoon.
According to Kent County Administrator Mike Petit de Mange, he received email communication from the Safe Haven board of directors Friday afternoon, informing him of Safe Haven's decision to end its Kent County dog control services effective Friday afternoon, at which point he worked with Kent County SPCA, which agreed to begin providing its services early.
An email was sent to Kent County officials and leaders of local animal shelters from a member of the Safe Haven board of directors on the morning of Sept. 20, that read "It is with great sadness that Safe Haven announces the closing of its facility on 9/27/2013. The staff will be laid off at end of business that day. There is no money available to continue paying salaries. There are approximately 140 dogs currently at the facility. It is anticipated that all remaining dogs will be turned over to the KCSPCA at that time as there will be no care available at Safe Haven after that date."
However, according to Lynn Lofthouse, a spokeswoman for Safe Haven, that email was sent without the approval from the rest of the Safe Haven board of directors, and that the no-kill shelter has no plans to close until after all of the remaining dogs on the property are placed.
"We are staying open to place the dogs," Lofthouse said. "This is our responsibility and we realize it. We will be staying open to strictly place dogs in good adoptable homes or no-kill shelters. We have donations, so we have money. We are staying open. Nobody should have been sending something out. No one approved closing the doors.
"We are going to par down our staff to only people who directly relate to taking care of the animals and we are going to focus on getting them placed," she added. "Until they are placed, we will not rest."
Lofthouse said that the shelter is working with the KSPCA, but that Safe Haven is working to place the dogs in other no-kill shelters, some in the northern parts of the country.
"If we can get enough shelters, we'll do a big transport and take them up to those," she said. "We're waiting a month or two to take some [animals] there. We're really starting now to be able to reduce our numbers because we won't have them coming in."
Lofthouse did say that some animals may go to Kent County SPCA, but that the organization will try to adopt those dogs out.
"We thank [KSPCA Executive Director] Kevin Usilton, who took over the contract a week early," she said. "The more dogs we get in, the more dogs we have to get placed. He's also offered to take some of our dogs and get them adopted. He's going to work with us. I know I can call him any time. If he has space, he will help us."
Any dog control calls for Kent County should now be made by calling Delaware Animal Care and Control at 698-3006 (option 1 at the main menu). KSPCA asked that callers please be patient as, it is not at full staffing capacity.

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The Sarasota Police Department has named Jude Castro, formerly of Crescent City, as the department's new victim advocate.
According to a press release, Castro has relocated to Sarasota and in her first few weeks of getting oriented, has already reached out to numerous victims of crimes offering assistance.
The Victim Advocate position was eliminated two years ago due to budget constraints; however, after receiving a report from the Independent Police Advisory Panel emphasizing the community-wide need for such a position, the City Commission reinstated it for the 2012-2013 budget, which began October 1.
The Victim Advocate provides services and support for crime victims, and is also the liaison between the Sarasota Police Department, the State Attorney's Office and various community support groups, which work to protect crime victims' rights.
"This position is an essential component in maintaining continuity so that difficult cases can be brought to a successful and timely resolution," said Mayor Suzanne Atwell. "The report really highlighted the critical need to support victims and for one staff person to keep tabs on a case as it winds its way through the process."
In 2012, the Sarasota Police Department investigated 237 domestic violence incidents resulting in 165 arrests.
If you are a victim of a crime committed in the City of Sarasota and are in need of assistance, you may reach Jude Castro at (941) 954-7021
The Sarasota Police Department has named Jude Castro, formerly of Crescent City, as the department's new victim advocate.


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Janet Russell and her father, William, had this photograph taken around 1899 in the studio of a professional photographer in the small town of Turners Falls, Massachusetts. Photographers had sets in their studios that were made to look as close to a gracious upper-class home as possible. This would have been quite familiar to the Russells, who lived a comfortable life. Janet was then about thirteen years old. It was almost certainly summertime when it was made, because her family lived the winters in New York City. There, William Russell was an executive for the International Paper Company. He was born in Sunderland and attended Amherst College, but he kept a summer home in Turners Falls. Janet would come to live in nearby Greenfield, Massachusetts, where she died in 1981.
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December 11, 2010
CHARLOTTE, N.C. In a place where NASCAR history is on display, its future was celebrated as six champions in NASCAR's developmental series were honored during the Night of Champions Touring Awards Gala in the Crown Ballroom at the NASCAR Hall of Fame on Saturday night.
The festivities featured the champions and top drivers from all of NASCAR's North American regional touring series, who gathered for the special year-end celebration in the heartland of stock-car racing.
"It's really rewarding, from our perspective to come to an event like tonight, at a facility like the NASCAR Hall of Fame, in a great city like Charlotte, to recognize so many NASCAR champions," said Steve O'Donnell, NASCAR senior vice president for racing operations. "This year's championship lineup is impressive to say the least."
The 2010 champions included Ryan Truex (NASCAR K&N Pro Series East), Eric Holmes (NASCAR K&N Pro Series West), DJ Kennington (NASCAR Canadian Tire Series presented by Mobil 1), Germán Quiroga (NASCAR Mexico Series), Bobby Santos (NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour) and Burt Myers (NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour).
"We are proud we can call you six drivers NASCAR champions," O'Donnell said. "You've earned it."
Truex, of Mayetta, N.J., collected his second straight NASCAR K&N Pro Series East crown giving him two championships in his only two full seasons of competition in the division.
Holmes of Escalon, Calif., captured his third NASCAR K&N Pro Series West title having also won championships in 2006 and 2008 and becoming the seventh driver in West
Series history to win three or more titles.
Kennington of St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada, earned his first NASCAR Canadian Tire Series championship after finishing second in 2007 and 2009 and third in 2008.
Quiroga of Mexico City, Mexico, picked up his second consecutive NASCAR Mexico Series championship and became the first driver in series history with multiple titles.
Santos of Franklin, Mass., won the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour title and is the youngest champion in the 26-year history of the Tour at 25 years of age.
Myers of Walnut Cove, N.C., won his first NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour with a thrilling win in the season's final race at Charlotte (N.C.) Motor Speedway.
In addition to the championship awards, the Most Popular Driver Awards for each series were also presented during the ceremony. The five drivers honored with the prestigious award were Ted Christopher in the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour, Burt Myers of the NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour, Andrew Ranger in the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series, Moses Smith of the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West and Ryan Truex from the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East. It was the third consecutive year in which Christopher and Smith earned Most Popular Driver honors.
The top 10 drivers and car owners from each of NASCAR's developmental series also were recognized during the gala event which featured Mike Joy and Dr. Dick Berggren of NASCAR on FOX as master of ceremonies. The awards banquet was streamed live online at www.nascarhometracks.com the official online home of NASCAR's developmental series.
Special award winners and year-end contingency award winners were honored Saturday morning at the Grand Champions Breakfast:
The awards celebration capped a week of festivities in the Charlotte area aimed at providing the top drivers and track operators in NASCAR's weekly and touring series an up close and personal look at the hub of stock-car racing. The NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Awards Banquet on Friday honored champions from across North America in the series that is NASCAR's grassroots foundation.
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While many Americans are unaware of it, every country in the world is now struggling, like the United States, to control health care costs. The most striking part of that struggle is that other nations all have that problem regardless of how they are organized. They are beset with three basic underlying drivers of modern health care: aging populations, great but often expensive medical technologies and high patient expectations. Most of the other countries do better than the United States in containing costs in great part because they maintain universal health care systems. But the United States does not have that advantage, and the net result is that it has the most costly system per capita of any other in the world and politically the most troubled.
The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office is charged with laying out plausible short-term and long-term cost scenarios for health care. These are dire and get worse with each future decade. What the C.B.O. cannot do, however, is make political predictions, but now that President Obama has been re-elected we can at least be confident that the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (A.C.A.) will continue.
During the campaign neither candidate wanted to directly confront the cost problem of American health care, particularly Medicare's rising expense. The reason is not hard to uncover, that of the considerable resistance of the elderly—close to 80 percent in the polls—to any significant change in that program. For years the C.B.O. has been saying the same thing: Medicare costs can only be controlled by significantly raising taxes or cutting benefits or some combination of the two, but the electorate does not care for either option, alone or in combination.
The difficulty is that to have a significant impact tax increases aimed at supporting Medicare would have to be applied not just to rich Americans, but to the middle class as well. Increasing out-of-pocket costs should help bridge health care deficits, but under with the present program the average Medicare beneficiary already pays from $3,000-$5000 out-of-pocket each year; some can pay as much as $10,000. Keeping in mind the financial security of the elderly, intertwined with the Medicare coverage, it is not clear how much higher can out-of-pocket charges can be raised.
While the Social Security program is in fairly good shape for the foreseeable future, it will not cover by far the income needs of most beneficiaries (and was never intended to do so); And 75 percent of those over 65 in 2010 were retiring with only $30,000 in personal retirement funds. Some of that small savings must of course pay for the Medicare out-of-pocket costs.
Controlling Costs
In short, aside from the most affluent, there are certain to be great financial burdens on the elderly in the future, well beyond those they already endure with the present Medicare and Social Security programs. How are we even to imagine benefit cuts in that context? Nothing but pain is in store for us and even more for those nearing 65 but not yet there. The A.C.A. will cut costs to a considerable extent over the next decade, particularly because its Independent Payment Advisory Board will be able to enforce automatic cuts in the Medicare program if expenses are not controlled. But beyond that kind of brute financial force most of the A.C.A. cost cutting provisions are speculative in their actual impact and even more so over a 20-30 year period. Wisconsin Congressman (and recent vice presidential candidate) Paul Ryan's proposal remains the most plausible to come from the Republican Party. It gradually shifts more and more of the economic burden on the elderly themselves.
Far more difficult to comprehend is the nature of the cost problem itself, and I want to distinguish between a managerial and a philosophical belief. The managerial belief, by far the most commonly embraced, is that better organization and management can solve it. Our health care system is, among other things, inefficient and wasteful, makes poor use of scientific evidence in patient treatment, offers the wrong kind of financial incentives for physicians and hospitals and is altogether too expensive. But all that can be reformed—or so the argument goes.
But at a deeper level, the problem is also that of the philosophical model and vision of medicine that the health care system is based on—and it is at bottom the reason every country, not just the United States, is struggling. It is the progress- and innovation-driven model. It has made death the ultimate enemy and is dedicated to a utopian vision of medical progress that neither recognizes nor accepts any inherent limits. That is not a vision that can be coped with by better management. It is not our health care failures that are the ultimate problem. The trouble lies with it very success.
To make that view comprehensible, it may be useful to look at some basic data, to examine the leading causes of high costs, and at the place of chronic illness and death in health care. I will focus on Medicare. In 2010 it covered 40 million people over 65, with a projection of 88 million by 2050. The fastest growing U.S. age group are those over 85. Why is there a problem? The three basic cost drivers all come into play in the high cost of caring for the chronically ill, mainly the elderly suffering from hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, cancer and Alzheimer's disease.
The top 1 percent of such patients account for somewhat more than 20 percent of spending ($275 billion in 2009), and the top 5 percent almost half of the spending ($623 billion). The bottom 50 percent cost only $236 per capita; the top 5 percent $41,000; and the top 1 percent $90,000 per capita. It is the success of keeping sick people alive much longer than in the past that is at once a great medical triumph and the source of the health care system's greatest economic stress. An important part of that problem is costly end-of life-care, not just the few days or weeks while patients are obviously dying but the often longer preceding time when it is not certain whether a person is dying or not, when they are vigorously treated with the hope that they are not at death's door.
Tough Prognosis
Here are what I think of as hard medical facts, but ones that hardly anyone wants to accept because they call into question some fundamental values of the modern medical enterprise. Three of them stand out:
Medical research, much cherished, sometimes helps to lower costs but in the aggregate over the years it has increased them. It has done so not by curing the major chronic diseases, which it has failed to do, but by its capacity to keep people with them expensively alive for a longer period of time.
Cures and prevention can have wonderful benefits for individuals but the cure of one disease simply means they will die of another. It is what I call the longitudinal costs that matter for society, the total accumulated costs of each illness incurred over a lifetime. A person's life can be saved from heart disease at 65, from cancer at 75, a repairable stroke at 80 and they will survive to get Alzheimer's at 85. There is a bill for each successive victory over death. We can all think of friends or relatives who have spent their last years in and out of I.C.U.s.
Technological innovations usually yield marginal benefits only but often at a high cost. The emergence in recent years of exceedingly expensive cancer drugs—from $50,000 to a whopping $320,000—that yield only a few additional weeks of survival stand out as startling examples of expensive innovations, not to mention the many less expensive but costly innovations that, taken as a whole, make I.C.U. care so costly. The latter can be called the high altar of innovation, where belief in progress is most pronounced and most costly.
Just as false hope feeds a good share of the costs of chronic illness, so also it feeds a belief in organizational miracles. In the end it is not just the health care system that needs reform, but the way we think about medicine itself. An open-ended belief in progress and innovation led us into the chronic illness morass, and no way out is at present visible. The great biologist Rene Dubos many years ago wrote a book with the prophetic title The Mirage of Health. Illness, decline and death are an intrinsic part of our human nature, never to be overcome, he argued. After years of rising, average life expectancy shows signs of leveling off. Nature may well be reminding us now to take Dubos's analysis more seriously than we have.
A reform of medicine will require a number of steps. Above all it will necessitate a rethinking of medical progress, one that works with finite, affordable goals. The most important goal would be to accept death in old age, to realize that a boundless fight against it may satisfy many of us personally but be financially harmful to us as a community; and in any case extended chronic illness in our last years under the present regime is too often more a burden then a blessing.
The place I would draw the line is 80, not a hard and fast line, but one that should lead us to a shift in perspective. Once one reaches that age, most people have lived full lives and have had the opportunity to enjoy most if not necessarily all of life's benefits. I am now 82 and, while I hope my family and friends will be sorry to lose me when I die, I cannot imagine that I will be an irreparable loss to our common good. Others will take my place. I flatly oppose euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, but I do not consider it an inherent evil that we all get old and die, nor do I believe that Christianity does. It is not an insult to our human dignity that our lives are finite. I do not believe in a level playing field for each age group. Children should have the highest priority, the working adult cohort responsible for running the society and raising the children should come next. The elderly, like myself, should come last. I have six children and five grandchildren, and I worry about a health care system for the elderly that shuts its eyes to the burden on younger people.
Many may find this way of thinking altogether unacceptable. They believe that it is simply immoral to use cost as a sometimes necessary standard for setting health care priorities or that such an accounting reflects ageism at its worst. I believe that society has an obligation to help young people to become old people, but it cannot exhaust public resources to help old people become older indefinitely, nor can it be indifferent to the burden on younger people whose payroll taxes pay for health care for the elderly.
I have an organizational plan to go with the reformed medicine I have in mind. Picture a pyramid. At the bottom would be public health, the next level would be primary and emergency medical care. Above that would be routine hospital care. The next level would be advanced hospital care, including ICU care for those with a good prognosis. At the very top would be the expensive high-technology procedures, and particularly their use with those over 80 with a borderline or poor prognosis for a much longer life thereafter. The aim of the health care system would thus be to make the lower levels affordable and accessible to all, but increasingly curtailed at the highest levels, pushing everything down the pyramid as far as possible.
The elderly would not, under this plan, be neglected. They would require and still receive good primary care, economic sustenance, available and subsidized support from family members or others and the building of aging and assisted living communities integrated into the life of younger people. Cure has been in the medical saddle too long and has lost its way. It should now be better balanced with care. We need, that is, not just better management of health care, but a fundamental change in the goals of medicine and the way we think about aging.
Both Diane and Callahan have nailed it about end of life costs and how to vastly modify them with a truly Christian message.
DC says ." The elderly, like myself, should come last. I have six children and five grandchildren' "
At 80 I am in the same six children boat as Callahan {more grandchildren though...Ha]
My short instructions to my provider are " don't do any procedures that they can't do in a village in Bangladesh" palliative care.. is the ticket.
This Catholic position ought to be promulgated more if we still preach/believe that this life is not the end. With all the gray hairs in the parishes now this message is more relevant than the too usual, 'black helicopters are coming to round up Catholics' Let's put our bodies where our beliefs ought to be.
If the government agencies that run these programs were more trustworthy, I'd vote for universal healthcare in a heartbeat; simply stated they are not. Medicine has been big business for many decades... what a shame.
I was a practicing surgeon at a major NYC medical center for forty years, follwed by a short stint as a volunteer in Africa. These issues of life/death and reasonable terminal care are not as hard as they are made out to be. The most memorable issue in my career did not involve the elderly; in fact they were about a toddler dying and whose parents were struggling with the inevitable. My pediatric (and geriatric) oncologist associates have to deal with this every day 24/7/365.
How would you deal with cases like Rep Kathy Giffords, whose exceptional care cost a fortune, and head wounds to a ghetto kid who deserves the exact same care ?
Costly as the health care system is (18-20% GNP), if I had a say, I'd pay it and cut back on useless, expensive and immoral wars... not likely, the industrial miliary complex wins every time.
When we set up a limit on what we'll pay for a procedure, device, or drug, that reimbursment never goes up - only down. How do people respond? They invent something new and reset the price higher. In a normal market, people could choose the older, cheaper, and more settled solution but when they are not involved in the purchase process, that doesn't happen. We think that a universal system would fix this. Today we have an example of a very large universal payer system in the US - the Defense department. How's cost control doing over there? Even if you take away the uneccesary wars, it's a highly inefficient system. A universal healthcare system would be no better as demostrated by other countries.
We need to separate our intentions from the implementation. All of the good intentions for healthcare have actually brought us the system we have today: high cost, falling quality, and soon a shortage in supply as health care professionals opt out of the system. For the open-minded, another path:
Since "Care" is the lead word of the articles's headline, I would note that the main health care issue in Americal is still the 50 million uninsured, not the 40 million Medicare population. Hopefullly, ACA will reduce the uninsured to 23 million. Then Mr. Callahan's article on the affordability issue will take center stage, since ACA took the politically expeidient step of achieving limited gains by throwing money at the same old dysfunctional American health care "system." Medicare for all could provide a rationally-run, compassionate, universal and cost-effective health care system for America.
The principles and standards in the article ring true. It is especially important that they be championed by us seniors. Perhaps AARP could endorse them.
I am supportive of ACA and appreciate the President and his supporters in facing this long-time issue squarely. Not perfectly, by any means, but at least making progress. I am concerned that "business as usual" will prevail eventually, i.e., that the private marketplace with their economic power will continue to trump broader needs or concerns of the community.
I resonate with Mr. Callahan's comment that medical research is less than effective in keeping costs down. Look at the enormous sums invested not so much to improve quality of care as to develop "kitchy" products - viz. the latest drugs to "improve" quality of life but which mainly serve to enrich pharmaceutical companies and their investors. Also, I question the validity of multiple public solicitations that tout research as their goal. The public has been numbed to this ongoing barrage, accepting the perception that "research" is essentially good when it may not always be productive, efficient or effective.
Ed (#2), while I always admire your Christ-like spirit even when you botch its application in the real world, here I'm not sure whether your comment is saintly or nuts (yes, I know the two are not mutually exclusive). You want the health care that a villager in Bangladesh would receive? I thought we were all working for a better world in which the villagers of Bangladesh don't have to experience the health care of the villagers of Banladesh.
But do we have to have such a procrustean take on things? Who is to say how much life or value an 80 year old has left in the tank? Michelangelo's great sculpture of the Deposition in Milan is one of his greatest works, which he hacked out in his 80's. Why not develop a system in which the individual is allowed to have input? Currently in England a bureaucracy determines how much a year of "quality" life, which quality they, not you, define, is worth, about $50K, and apply this value to how many years of such life an older person can expect to receive from a certain procedure. If said person meets the budget, thumbs up; if not, it's curtains for him. And we are going to have to do something similar, as Mr Callahan implies. Yet why not allow the individual input? Who on this side of the ledger has a better perspective on his life than he does?
For example, previously I had a $5 million limit on what my insurance would pay to sustain my earthly form. I thought that was enough for me to pay for and for the society to sustain. Now I understand that top will come off. Perhaps we could have the option of a basic insurance that would limit the kind of procedures Dan Callahan suggests above a certain age, but have the option to pay for a supplementm which could vary according to controllabe risks such as smoking, age, weight, should we desire more extensive care. The idea would be to involve the individual in his health care choices.
How the person values his own years, including his later years, should be at least a factor in the level of care he receives.
First of all, we should accelerate Medicare's move away from fee-for-service payment and toward approaches that reward health care systems for investing in primary and secondary prevention. There are a number of demonstration projects in the ACA along these lines. We need to identify which approaches work best and move quickly to implement.
Secondly, even with the existing system, there are things we could do better. We could allow Medicare to act like a real insurance company, negotiating better deals with hospitals and physicians in exchange for preferentially routing patients to them. In particular, Medicare should be allowed to use its purchasing power to negotiate better prices for pharmaceuticals. Medicare should also be allowed to coordinate with Medicaid and private insurers in establishing "all-payer" rate setting (Maryland has such a system, and their cost growth has been below average).
Thirdly, we should not simply throw up our hands and despair of being able to change patient preferences. There are many opportunities to use "shared decision making" tools to help patients and their caregivers understand the costs and benefits of certain treatments. While hospice continues to be underutilized, its use is growing. Requiring patients to have living wills and/or durable powers of attorney on file before proceding with surgery is also a good practice. Investing time and energy in these efforts does not make a lot of financial sense for hospitals reimbursed on a fee-for-service basis (or physicians struggling to get everything done in a 15 minute office visit), but they would make sense if we re-ordered the incentives by changing the reimbursement system.
Finally, I would note that Medicare-on a per capita basis-is currently doing a better job keeping costs under control than the private sector. It is the sheer number of new enrollees that are driving the long-term cost projections.
An important factor to consider is that the majority of money spent for health care in an individual's lifetime is spent in the last year or two. We spend a lot of money delaying death by a few months, and it is money that would be better spent providing coverage for everyone. Another interesting thing is that doctors, when faced with a terminal illness, opt for much less treatment than most people. Informed consumers might actually want less treatment than they now get.
You're old enough. You've lived long enough. Die! At least Dr. Callahan has been consistent since there was an article about him, "Examining the Limits of Life," in Time Magazine, Science and Technology, November 2, 1987 (available free online), when he was a lad of 57. When I first read it I was wondering how he would feel when he was a senior.
Next month I will reach the venerable age of 76, a little short of the reasonable limit that Dr. Callahan proposes. I am in virtually perfect health, working out at the gym with heavy bodybuilding five or six days a week, two hours or more a day, and I run. (My prior physical conditioning was an important element in saving my life from myxofibrosarcoma in 2004 and prostate cancer in 2005, along with my orneriness.) I am productive, working as an English teacher and a translator (Portuguese and English). I have a loving family with a two-year-old granddaughter, my favorite English student, Nina, and good friends. I am an expatriate patriot who lives in one of the world's most beautiful cities, Rio de Janeiro. I was here first, and, as long as I am a healthy jock with a sound mind, I will not willingly cede my space to newcomers.
Unfortunately, I can not make use of Stateside Medicare in Brazil, so I have to pay a considerable sum monthly for health insurance for my wife, Denise, and me, but that is not the issue here.
Dr. Callahan wrote, ". . . nor can it [society] be indifferent to the burden on younger people whose payroll taxes pay for health care for the elderly." Lest anyone forget, it was us now elderly who paid payroll taxes for the health care of those who were then elderly when we were youngsters, and we are only collecting our just due now. After all, this is the idea of Social Security and health insurance in the first place. If there is not enough money in the kitty, then the government's – our – priorities have to be rearranged. Let us spend our money on peace instead of war, even if it is less profitable.
Let me make a final point clear. I favor quality and not quantity of life. There is indeed a natural limit, but it need not be a predetermined range of ages. It is all very individual.


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Following in the footsteps of an adorable French Bulldog named Mr. Quiggly that wore Skechers GOrun footwear during last year's Super Bowl, SKECHERS USA, Inc. today released the first commercial for Skechers GOrun 2 performance footwear, which will premiere on TV during Super Bowl XLVII. Fans can now get a sneak peek of the ad ahead of the 100-million-strong audience for Sunday's game.
This year, the fast cat is center stage in a spot that again uses humor and animals to illustrate the speed of Skechers GOrun 2 performance running footwear. The ad is slated to air after the two-minute warning of the first half.
A brief teaser for the Skechers GOrun ad was released on YouTube last week, generating early buzz with nearly 300,000 views. And on Wednesday, Bleacher Report placed the ad at No. 2 in its "Super Bowl Commercials: 2013 Power Ranking". SKECHERS continues to leverage the power of social media with a Facebook sweepstakes tied to the campaign that promotes both the ad and Skechers Performance product.
The 2013 Super Bowl campaign, which also includes a Joe Montana SKECHERS Relaxed Fit ad, marks SKECHERS' fourth consecutive year of commercials on the world's biggest advertising platform. In 2010, the Company first utilized the star power of Joe Montana to launch its fitness division, and then followed up in 2011 with Kim Kardashian in the Company's fitness footwear. Basketball and business icon Mark Cuban joined the adorable Mr. Quiggly in 2012 for SKECHERS' most successful Super Bowl campaign thus far – ranking third on the USA Today Ad Meter.


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Foresight Update 53
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A publication of the Foresight Institute
Foresight Institute Awards Feynman Prizes
Nanotechnology Researchers, Journalists and Student Honored at Molecular Nanotechnology Conference
Foresight Institute awarded four prestigious prizes to leaders in research, communication and study in the field of nanotechnology at the 11th Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology.
The 2003 Foresight Institute Feynman Prizes, named in honor of pioneer physicist Richard Feynman, were presented to Drs. Marvin Cohen, Steven Louie and Carlo Montemagno. The Foresight Institute Prize in Communication was presented to nanotechnology commentators Tim Harper and Paul Holister. Physics graduate student Ahmet Yildiz received the Foresight Institute Distinguished Student Award.
"The Foresight Institute Feynman Prizes in Nanotechnology are given to researchers whose work has most advanced the development of molecular nanotechnology," said Christine Peterson, President of Foresight Institute. "Molecular nanotechnology will be the ultimate manufacturing technology. It will be able to inexpensively arrange the fundamental building blocks of matter. It will allow us to make molecular computers, remarkably light and strong materials, molecular medical devices and a host of other manufactured products that will revolutionize our world."
Foresight Institute Feynman Prizes—Experimental and Theory
The Foresight Institute Feynman Prizes are given in two categories, one for experimental and the other for theoretical advances in nanotechnology. Drs. Marvin L. Cohen and Steven G. Louie of the University of California at Berkeley, Department of Physics, received the theoretical prize for their contributions to the understanding of the behavior of materials. Their models of the molecular and electronic structures of new materials predict and understand properties like structure, surface conditions, and interactions with other materials. Many of these predictions have later been confirmed experimentally.
The Foresight Institute Feynman Prize for experimental work was awarded to Dr. Carlo Montemagno of the University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, for his pioneering research into methods of integrating single molecule biological motors with nano-scale silicon devices, which opens up new possibilities for nanomachines. The controlled movement of nano-scale and molecular parts are fundamental to the development of molecular machines.
Foresight Institute Prize in Communication
The Foresight Institute Prize in Communication was awarded to Tim Harper, President, and Paul Holister, Chief Information Architect, of Cientifica for educating the nanotechnology community about the long-term potential of molecular nanotechnology. The recipients communicate via their electronic newsletter, TNT Weekly, and publish an industry survey, The Nanotechnology Opportunity Report. These two communicators are in constant contact with thousands of scientists, businesses and investors active in the nanotechnology world.
Foresight Institute Distinguished Student Award
Physics graduate student, Ahmet Yildiz, of the University of Illinois of Urbana, Champaign, received the 2003 Foresight Institute Distinguished Student Award for his work in unraveling the motion of the molecular motor myosin V, which will be useful in the design of artificial molecular motors. The Distinguished Student Award recognizes the college graduate or undergraduate student whose work is deemed most notable in advancing the development and understanding of molecular nanotechnology.
Special thanks go to those who provided the funding for the prizes this year: for the Feynman Prizes—Marc Arnold and Jim Von Ehr; for the Communication Prize—Senior Associate Larry Millstein, founder and President of Millstein & Taylor, PC; for the Student Award—James Ellenbogen, Ravi Pandya, Jim Von Ehr.
Students Network at Foresight Conference
For the first time Conference includes special event for graduate and undergraduate students
The first ever Foresight Student Roundtable, held at the 11th Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology, proved to be an enormous success. Dr. Ralph Merkle led an interactive discussion with undergraduate and graduate students about studying nanotechnology and embarking on a career in the field. At the same time, the groundbreaking event served as an excellent networking opportunity for young people interested in nanotechnology and its implications. The roundtable was the pilot effort of a new Foresight initiative to reach out to young scientists and nanotechnology enthusiasts. In order to foster understanding and communication among students of nanotechnology—be they in the realm of science, engineering, business, law, or ethics—the Foresight Institute will promote the overall engagement of young nanotechnologists, including the examination of societal effects and public literacy in the field. For more information about this ongoing project, or to learn how to get involved, please contact Foresight Student Liaison Jordan Amadio at email@example.com.
Nanofactory Proposal Published
A flood of products by rapid assembly of a few classes of "nanoblocks"
Chris Phoenix, Director of Research for the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology, has published a paper arguing that widely useful molecular manufacturing may be developed only a short time after the first basic fabricator is developed, leading rapidly to a flood of molecular manufacturing (MNT) products, and lending urgency to recommendations for public policy to deal with risks and opportunities that will emerge with MNT. "Design of a Primitive Nanofactory" was published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Evolution and Technology. (See http://CRNano.org/bootstrap.htm for a description of the paper and links to purchase or freely download the complete paper as a PDF.)
Phoenix considers how long it might take to go from a working nanofabricator, a nanoscale device to combine individual molecules into useful shapes, to a tabletop nanofactory, a self-contained, automated, programmable appliance that manufactures a wide range of useful human-scale products. He concludes that once you have the nanofabricator, "the rest is pretty straightforward" because current engineering knowledge is already sufficient to enable many people to design and build products, including more nanofactories.
This paper does not specify how the first nanofabricator will be built, but cites Ralph Merkle's design for an encased double-tripod as one possible approach (http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/casing.html). The nanofactory design would work with any "reliable self-contained diamondoid fabricator capable of self-replication from simple feedstock under digital control." Phoenix does not consider mechanical features smaller than 1 nm so that design generally simplifies to filling a given volume with bulk diamond lattice.
Phoenix's nanofabricator would build a nanoblock, approximately the same size as the fabricator. His design uses a nanoblock that is a 200-nm cube of almost solid diamond. Eight nanoblocks would be joined together to make one block roughly twice as big, a process that is easily scalable to tabletop size.
There would be a small number of different types of nanoblocks. Some would be nanofabricators; others nanocomputers; still others would form manipulators for assembling nanoblocks into larger structures. The next step up in the hierarchy of the nanofactory is a production module, which consists of one nanocomputer and a few thousand nanofabricators, and which produces a few blocks, a few microns in size, by combining a few thousand nanoblocks. These larger blocks would be combined to form still larger blocks. Two mechanical innovations to make block manipulation and assembly feasible are described in detail: (1) a thermodynamically efficient stepping drive to drive mechanical devices by a series of digital commands; (2) an expanding ridge joint for mechanical, non-covalent joining of blocks.
The architecture of the factory is also specified:
Considerable attention is paid to the need for redundancy at various points in the nanofactory design to prevent radiation damage from rendering the factory useless. "The maximum workable size of this design is limited by radiation damage. A factory of 16,000 fabricators (a suitable size for one nanocomputer to control, with the program downloaded in stages to save memory) may have a 1% chance of suffering a disabling hit to a single fabricator in a single day." Thus redundancy at many levels of the hierarchy is essential.
To avoid the need to design human-scale products to atomic precision, the design re-uses a few components that can be combined in many ways to make many larger-scale systems.
"The nanofactory can be designed using six levels. First, mechanochemistry creates nanoparts. The parts are combined into nanomachines, which are fitted into nanoblocks. Combinations of nanoblocks specify patterns which are used to fill regions. Finally, folds are built into the product to allow it to unfold and rearrange into more complex shapes and larger volumes. Each of these levels can be designed almost independently of the others, and each can be efficiently encoded into a product specification file and decoded to control the nanofactory."
Thus extensive quantum mechanical calculations will be required to simulate nanoparts and nanomachines, but a wide variety of different nanoblocks could be built from only a few nanomachines, and "a relatively small palette of nanoblock classes, implementing a few basic functions" will be assembled to build a large range of products. "With a working set of predesigned nanoblocks (including standard inter-block connection arrangements), product designers will not need to design new nanoblocks for most new products."
Even within the limitations that Phoenix proposes, the tabletop nanofactory should be able to build products of great complexity and value. He proposes that a massively parallel nanocomputer with a 16-bit architecture would have the same computing power as today's fastest computer (the NEC Earth Simulator, which fills a large building and draws 13 MW), but would require only 2 watts and fit into a cubic mm.
As is often the case with molecular manufacturing, one of the most significant limitations is heat dissipation. "A factory producing 4 kg in 3 hours might need to dissipate approximately 200 kW," requiring about 2 liters/sec of coolant.
The time consuming step in building a human scale product using a nanofactory will be the several hours that it will take for a single nanoblock-sized fabricator to fabricate a single nanoblock. The nineteen convergent assembly stages to assemble the product from quadrillions of nanoblocks will take only a few seconds. Bootstrapping a nanofactory from a single nanofabricator, if every design worked correctly the first time, would require 250-300 3-hour product cycles, about 40 days.
Phoenix has nothing to say here about how long it will take to produce the first nanofabricator, but he argues strongly that inexpensive nanofactories able to make a wide range of useful products will quickly follow that breakthrough. If the nanofabricators use a simple, inexpensive chemical feedstock, and if the speed of the nanofactory is stepped down a bit to lessen the cooling requirements, and if technology licensing and product design fees are not too heavy, then home nanofactories seem a likely outcome.
Institute for Molecular Manufacturing Report
The portion of Update 53 that constitutes the IMM Report is on the IMM Web site: http://www.imm.org/.
"Self-replicating systems" by J. Storrs Hall, PhD.
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Not long ago we'd have this innate reflex to sneer at the sight or even mention of topless versions of high-performance automobiles. The argument being that hacking off the roof causes all sorts of havoc with vehicle dynamics through a structurally compromised chassis.
With its R8 Spyder 5.2, Audi offers a different point of view. You have to drive the car, says Audi product specialist Chaz Murphy, pausing for effect. It can't be put into words. You have. To drive. The car.
A dramatic delivery, sure, but it turns out he's right. Because the R8 Spyder isn't solely about performance, although it'll perform at probably 95 percent of its coupe counterpart's capacity. The point here is more sensory immersion.
We might have laughed at something like that long ago, but we've already driven other convertibles that have challenged the traditional perception in similar waysGallardo Spyder, Boxster Spyder, Maserati GranCabrio. Convertibles ain't what they used to be, and that's a good thing.
Maybe no other geographical location offers a better convertible experience than a sunny Southern California day on the coast. That's where we climb into the 525-horse, V10-driven Spyder 5.2, drop the top, and hit the pavement.
The engine note was a talking point at the launch event, and in Audi's view, it's the main reason you want the top down. The point was well takenat full throttle this thing sings like a Germanic thunder god belting out war hymns as he casts flaming hammers from the sky. Normally a V10 would produce a tighter, much more mechanical sound, but this one has been tuned to have pipes. It growls at low revs, roars as revs climb. And with peak power occurring at 8000 rpm, you're well encouraged to plumb the accelerator pedal to its depths and explore the upper ranges of the engine's voice.
The Spyder weighs about 200 pounds more than the coupe. You might have expected it to be a lot more, but advanced use of the aluminum Audi Space Frame has honed the topless chassis while keeping the necessary rigidity to put the convertible R8 on a close level with the fixed-roof version. Even with its extra weight, the Spyder 5.2 will still run to 60 mph in about four seconds flat, and all the way up to a 194-mph top speed whether the top's up or down.
You can opt for a six-speed manual or a six-speed R tronic automated manual. We'll invariably choose the stick because it always ups the entertainment factor as you clang the shift lever around the naked shifter gate and attempt to match revs on downshifts. Rowing through your own gears has hardly ever been more entertaining.
Audi's signature Quattro all-wheel-drive system is standard, driving power through all four wheels. The R8's system is much more biased to the rear than the system in a typical front-biased Quattro Audi would be, with 80 percent of torque output going to the rear axle, although up to 30 percent can be directed to the front if the electronics deem it necessary. Therefore, the R8's drive system allows a greater degree of lateral slip during spirited driving, which can be further exaggerated by pressing the Sport button.
Even so, unless you're being a total meathead, the slip in most cases feels a lot more dramatic than it would look to an outside observer. Break the rears loose and it's easy to catch and put back in line. But that's the inherent beauty of Quattroincredible mechanical grip in nearly every situation. Break the R8 loose in a four-wheel drift and you're a better man than me. Crazier, anyway.
If engine noise isn't your thing, a 12-speaker Bang & Olufsen audio system also comes standard. We bet it sounds fantastic. But like the top, we never really used it during the drive, so it's kind of hard to say.
Yes, the top. Audi engineers have proclaimed that the R8 coupe is so well sealed and insulated that the engine note is fairly muted, which we experienced with just a smidgen of disappointment during our first go in the original R8 4.2. Audi claims the Spyder's convertible top has been designed to offer a nearly identical acoustic experience as you'd have driving the hardtopthat is to say, mostly silent. Again, hard to say; we put the top down and it never came back up again.
Yeah, that topyou probably aren't going to need it unless it's pouring rain. If it's not, or you know, raining flaming hammers, the top needs to be down. Just an opinion. Because if the day is hot and the sun intense, the leather has been treated with special pigments that help cool its surface by upwards of 60 degrees, even in direct sunlight.
And if it is pouring rain and you're forced to go top-up, there's a power rear window integrated into the rear bulkhead that you can lower independently of the roof, so you can still hear the engine. We sort of liked that touch.
The tiny microphones embedded in the driver's seat belt shoulder strap are also pretty neat. They're intended to pick up your voice when using your Bluetooth-enabled mobile so you can have a clear conversationwith the top down, driving at speed. At 190 mph, say.
The only real downside we find with this car, and this complaint comes up a lot with day-to-day working stiffs like us, is the price. The R8 Spyder 5.2 starts at $161,000 with a manual, $168,000 if you want R tronic. But then again, compare it to a competitor within the Volkswagen Groupthe Lamborghini Gallardo Spyderand the R8 5.2 starts to look like a pretty good deal.
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Author Notes: I remember the first time I ate squid: I was down the Jersey shore, it was fried calamari, and my friend's dad told us it was chicken. My uber-picky nine-year-old self was less than thrilled to learn the truth after polishing off a plate of the stuff. Fortunately, my post-adolescent self has come around on cephalopods. I created this dish as a throwback to my honeymoon in Spain, where the hubby and I polished off plate after plate of pulpo with potatoes, olive oil, and smoked pimenton. Yum yum yum. But since that preparation has already been perfected, I give you this Galician classic with a big ole American twist: octopus potato salad! —MeghanVK
Serves: 8-10
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3-lb octopus, thawed if necessary
medium-to-large-potatoes, peeled and cut into eighths
cup roasted red pepper slices, cut small
salt and pepper, as needed
For the pimenton aioli
egg yolk
tablespoon lemon juice
cup olive oil
cup neutral oil
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teaspoons pimenton (smoked sweet paprika)
garlic clove, minced
salt and pepper, to taste
- Bring a large pot of water to a boil and salt it heavily. With kitchen shears, snip off the spindly ends of the octopus tentacles and slice through the upper webbing. Cut through the tentacles, removing them from the head. Simmer the tentacles for an hour, and then add the potatoes. Cook for fifteen minutes more and then check both the potatoes and octopus for doneness - the potatoes may be done earlier; if so remove from the pot. When the octopus can be pierced easily with a knife, remove and drain.
- Meanwhile, make the pimenton aioli dressing: toss the garlic in a blender with the egg yolk, lemon juice, paprika, and ¼ cup oil. Pulse briefly and then start the motor: slowly pour in the oil through the top hatch in a thin stream. Once the mixture has begun to thicken and emulsify, you can pour faster. Taste for seasoning. Obviously, you may also do this by hand, with a whisk - in that case, crush the garlic into a paste as much as possible beforehand.
- Cut the tentacles into pieces roughly the same size as your potatoes. Combine the octopus, potatoes, and red peppers with pimenton aioli until lightly coated (you will probably only need half - use the rest on sandwiches, roasted fish, as a dressing... it's delicious). Serve warm.
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Saint's coffee needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
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we are importing jamaica blue mountain coffee. blue mountain coffee is said to be the best tasting coffee in the world. we will have the right to place the blue mountain coffee logo on our packages but we also want the saints' coffee logo to stand out.
we had the idea for a simple three color logo, three BLUE mountain peaks with SaintS' engraved in it and a HALO in clouds around the middle peak also serve as dot over the i in saint
world's best coffee is i catch phrase or hook or or saints' BEST COFFEE
Coffee drinkers. people that like organic naturally grown foods and drinks. i like the earthy looks of products in whole foods. i also like to attract people that want the best.
i am thinking three color but could be more
i always write saint and use a halo circle to dot the i
the packages will be most likely brown or something in the brown spectrum.
the word saints' will should probably be written in brown
the mountain blue and the halo Cloud white
but hey, get creative I am open to something that will attract people to the product.
it is blue mountain coffee, so the blue mountain coffee board has to approve the design. Ciboj.org/cib/ this is the board and they have sample of approved logo and they approved. they picture of coffee bags so you can see the look of packages.
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