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How to Track and Measure Buzz about Your Business
The impact of buzz marketing is very hard to measure. Agencies that specialize in generating buzz create ads just for viral marketing. These viral-marketing experts start the process and track it wherever it goes.
There are all sorts of "buzz-meters" that claim to measure buzz by, for example, searching for the popularity of certain words and brands in selected blogs over time. But even companies that consciously do buzz marketing don't necessarily know how buzz works. Word of mouth is hard to track or measure. After all, most conversations are private and ephemeral. Nobody keeps a record.
You can measure buzz in a few ways:
Sales: The most obvious measure is an increase in sales. It probably has something to do with the buzz you've generated.
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Clean Air necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 214 diseños de 38 diseñadores freelance.
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Partners for Clean Air is a coalition dedicated to bringing cleaner air to the Chicago metropolitan area. It unites businesses, organizations and individuals all committed to reducing harmful emissions and improving air quality. The coalition was formed in 1995 by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency and other government bodies, non-profits and businesses. Partners for Clean Air leads a variety of public outreach/education programs, providing organizations and individuals with information and tools to help them better understand how they can take action to reduce air pollution on a local level.
Employers, leaders and individuals living/working in the Chicago
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Partners for Clean Air is seeking a new logo, which will be incorporated into a variety of different materials (print, television, online, etc.). The winning design must also include the organization's full name, "Partners for Clean Air."
The attached sunburst image is currently a part of our logo. Designers can incorporate this image OR come up with a new sunburst image of their own. We generally prefer the colors royal blue and bright yellow, however, we are open to other colors like green and white. Please DO NOT use the colors purple, red and orange, as they have negative connotations when it comes to air quality.
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Firewall Network Threat Defense, Countermeasures, and Controls @ Cisco Live 2012 – San Diego!
The advent of social networking, BYOD implementations, and web interactions has transcended the Internet traffic flows of yesterday. Adversely, the security risks and threat landscape have not only evolved, but become an ever increasing factor in protecting today's information systems. This continued movement has led to the introduction of a new security topic for the upcoming Cisco Live 2012 conference. This topic and subsequent lab session, "Firewall Network Threat Defense, Countermeasures, and Controls" is part of the "Cyber Aikido" security suite of sessions being offered at Cisco Live 2012, and has been developed around threat defense solutions applicable to Cisco Firewalls. The course is largely based on the upcoming "Cisco Firewall Best Practices Guide".
The "Firewall Network Threat Defense, Countermeasures, and Controls" instructor-led lab will provide administrators and engineers of Cisco Firewalls the knowledge and understanding to protect their networks against threats and attacks leveraging industry standard and Cisco Firewall Best Practices. This includes understanding control plane, management plane, and data plane architectures, and applying security features and constructs to secure the traffic traversing and interfacing with your devices or hosts.
The Lab will consist of Security Policy scenarios that will be addressed with Cisco Firewalls. In this instructor-led lab, it is the attendee's responsibility to perform the role of a Security Incident Response Investigator. The attendees must correctly identify, classify, and deter or prevent the nefarious behaviors presented by configuring network threat defense, countermeasures, and controls that will be implemented and deployed on Firewalls. In addition, the attendees will validate their solutions and in turn, the effectiveness of such solutions.
To aid in the unique aspect of the course and subsequent Firewall Best Practices Guide to be released, a Cisco Firewall Best Practices checklist will also be provided as a key takeaway for the attendees.
Come join us at Cisco Live 2012, on Monday morning June 11th, for the Cyber Aikido Academy: Firewall Network Threat Defense, Countermeasures, and Controls session (LTRSEC-2016), it's going to be a Cyber blast!
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Wabash Alumni Hope To Reverse Disturbing Trendby Jim Amidon • August 25, 2005 Share:
More than a dozen influential African American alumni from Wabash College gathered in Indianapolis to explore ways they could have an impact on getting more black men to go to college.
Convened by Daryl Johnson, president of the Indianapolis-based trucking firm Manufacturer's Transport, the meeting sought ways to increase the number of African American men attending Wabash.
Eight representatives from Wabash College, including President Andy Ford, attended the meeting, which was held at the Center for Leadership Development at Indianapolis.
"I look back now, more than 20 years after I graduated, and know that I made the right decision to go to Wabash," said Johnson, who graduated in 1982. "I know that as alumni we can have a significant impact on the men who want to attend. We can make it clear to them how Wabash can change their lives."
Wabash Dean Raymond B. Williams told the group the recent six-year graduation rate for the 3,900 African American men from Indiana who began college in public universities is a scant eight percent. In contrast, Wabash's four-year graduation rate for African American men is higher than 50 percent and is nearly 70 percent after six years.
"It's my job as dean to make sure the students who attend Wabash graduate," said Williams. "It's clear from the data that those men who go to private schools have a much better chance of graduating from college."
The meeting was a continuation of discussions that began more than a year ago when Ford brought together a group of African American alumni from Wabash to address the problem. "We started these lunches a year ago and I hope you have seen some of the results put into action," he said.
Wabash has traditionally ranked among the most successful private colleges in the country in the percentage of enrolled African American students. Wabash ranked eighth nationally among liberal arts colleges according to the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. The statistics are even stronger when considering Wabash is a men's college, and African American women outnumber their male counterparts in college by a two-to-one margin.
"I came away from the meeting with the sense that the alumni in the room want to play a strong role in serving future generations of Wabash men," said Wabash Dean of Admissions Steve Klein. "One of the best ways to do this is through recruiting. I look forward to these men working in the community with other alumni and our staff to make Wabash more visible and accessible."
"This is a process, not an event," said alumnus Steve Jones, director of human resources for the Healthcare Group. "It's not going to happen over night. It's clear that we as African American men are unique and only we can articulate what it's like to attend a private college. But all of us would also agree that it was worth it, that we are successful today because of it."
Wabash alumni in attendance included Indianapolis Deputy Mayor Eugene Anderson '83; Keith Veal '92; Steve Jones '87; former Indiana State Representative Cleo Washington '85; Parker Sawyers '05; Eric Young, MD '83; Alonzo Weems '92; Vincent Scott '85; Milton Turner '05; Franklin Breckenridge '91; John Archie '96; George Lino '96; and Johnson.
"Wabash isn't an institution that traps you into positions; it opens doors and presents opportunities," said Johnson. "Wabash is a family, and the students, faculty, and alumni look after one another and take care of each other. We need to work collectively — as African American alumni — to bring about change, have an impact on the students of Wabash, and help young men from Indianapolis attend Wabash. Because we know firsthand that it will change their lives."
Recent surveys have indicated a steady decline in the number of African American men who attend college, and there has been a corresponding decline in graduation rates. Wabash College, located in Crawfordsville, established the Malcolm X Institute for Black Studies in 1971, the only such center of its kind in the country. A new $2 million MXI was dedicated in 2003 and features classrooms, library, computer lab, den, kitchen, and offices for student leadership.
Horace Turner has served as the MXI's executive director since its founding. "Each of you in this room know the type of education Wabash provides and the Institute is just one aspect of it," said Turner.
Johnson concluded the meeting by pledging his full support to Wabash's administration to work diligently in promoting Wabash as a college option for African American students. "You can't change the past and can't predict the future. I'm concerned with what happens today. So ask yourself as you leave, 'What can I do to help the young men of our community today?' "
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Top: Daryl Johnson '82, recently elected member of the Wabash College Board of Trustees, welcomes a group 12 other African American alumni and eight administrators from Wabash to the Center for Leadership Development in Indianapolis.
Left: Alumnus Keith Veal '92 owns his own Indianapolis business and is a facilitator at the Center for Leadership Development.
Bottom right: Eugene Anderson '83 makes a point during a discussion, while Steve Jones '87 listens.


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We cover the explanation of 3 chapters together: Chapter 17: All guidance is from Allah, Chapter 18: Good and Evil and Chapter 19: The Will of Allah.
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Attorneys for condemned man seek DNA testing in Montgomery County case
Lawyers for a death row inmate set to be executed next month will seek DNA testing under a recent Texas law.
A motion filed Thursday in Montgomery County by the New York-based Innocence Project requests testing of crime scene evidence to support Larry Swearingen's claims of innocence for the 1999 murder of 19-year-old college student Melissa Trotter. Swearingen is scheduled to be executed on Feb. 27.
The motion follows a 2011 Texas law that provides the right to conduct testing on any crime scene that can yield evidence of innocence.
"The Texas Legislature has made it clear that DNA testing should be allowed when there is a possibility it could help prove innocence, and the testing Mr. Swearingen is seeking could shed light on many unanswered questions in this case," said Barry Scheck, co-director of the Innocence Project.
Swearingen was convicted in 2000 in Trotter's death and since filed three unsuccessful motions for DNA testing. In 2010, he was denied by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, prompting the 2011 law that directly addressed the interpretation of the previous statute, according to the motion.
The evidence he is seeking to test includes the ligature used to strangle the woman, fingernail scrapings, items of the clothing that were apparently bunched and torn by her killer, cigarette butts found near the body, and torn panty hose found in the trash outside Swearingen's home.
Trotter's body was discovered on Jan. 2, 1999, in Sam Houston National Forest in Montgomery County with a partial pantyhose around her neck.
Swearingen, 41, has been spared from lethal injection three times after being granted stays of execution.


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A while back I got tired of short barrel and
added a foot on to it. Used breech end of left over
Savage and a sleeve. Lined up rifling and it has
same twist and number of rifling. Hard way to do
it. No need for rifling, or extra line up work.
Run many loads and it adds 150 fps with VV110,
4759, and 4227 powders. Adds about a 100 with
Blue Dot, and HS 7.
Next one will be done different and easier.
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groove diameter, 10-12 inches long, make it one
piece, 1 or 1 1/16" threads,about 1.2" diameter.
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A year ago, Kelly Hetherington ran a personal best to hand Tamsyn Manou a rare domestic defeat over 800m at the 2012 Adelaide Track Classic.
On Saturday night in Adelaide's Santos Stadium, Hetherington picked up right where she left off, running another personal best to win the women's 800m by almost 30 metres.
Hetherington did not improve much on the clock – 2:02.33 this year, as against 2:02.46 last year – but it was still a comeback of some significance.
In between, Hetherington has fought off a bout of the debilitating Guillain Barre syndrome, a virus which affects the central nervous system. The impact of the illness left her unable to run a step for months. She looked a likely Olympian a year ago, she looks a potential World Championships representative now.
Hetherington may have been on the road back, but Melissa Breen keeps right on going. The 22-year-old, Australia's sole individual short sprint representative in London last year, took out the sprint double, though she was pressed hard in the 200m by another emerging youngster in Monica Brennan.
Josh Ross is a 32-year-old veteran and the winner of six national titles at 100 metres. Not surprisingly, the man they call "The Boss" took the 100m, but the promising 19-year-old Nicholas Hough won the 200m in a near personal best 20.71 (1.7m/s).
On the field, 2012 Olympic finalist Alana Boyd and 2011 World Championships finalist Kim Mickle produced solid first-up performances in the Pole Vault and Javelin, respectively. Stiffer competition awaits them – imminently in Mickle's case with the arrival of South Africa's Sunette Viljoen – but they will have been well pleased with their first-up performances.
Hetherington does it on her own
The only one in the field to stick with the pacemaker, Hetherington went through the half-way point of the 800m with a winning lead.
She kept going away, too, drawing 20 then almost 30 metres clear to win in 2:02:33. Her nearest opponent, Eliza Curnow, was four seconds behind in 2:06.33.
When she won in Adelaide a year ago, 23-year-old Hetherington was still spurred on by the unexpected early death of her coach, former Australian international Maxine Corcoran, from a brain tumour.
Back then, Hetherington was using her coach as an inspiration. They had taken a five-year journey together as each of them developed.
What Hetherington did not see coming was the illness which laid her low. Gradually, she has regained health, then strength and finally race fitness. Last month she ran 2:02.20 in a mixed race, now she has streeted her domestic opposition in her first major outing of the season.
To qualify for Moscow, Hetherington must achieve at least the IAAF B-entry standard of 2:01.50. With Manou off the scene, she may be lacking for competition, but she seems certain to run at least that fast somewhere soon.
Breen and Ross stand out in sprints: Brennan and Hough continue to emerge
Adelaide's warm weather – more than 30°C – and hot track promised ideal conditions for the sprinters, though a pesky headwind greeted the 100m fields.
Breen, who had opened her season with an 11.34 (+1.0) in her state championships, instead found herself facing a swirling headwind of -1.7. In the circumstances her 11.59, almost five metres ahead of second place, was a dominating performance.
Ross, who was not selected for the individual London 2012 100m despite winning his sixth national crown earlier in 2012, faced a -1.2m/s wind when the men's field took to the blocks minutes later. He also had to cope with two false starts with London relay teammate Anthony Alozie and Dylan Grant bowing out of the race before it had got under way.
Once a legal start was obtained, however, Ross had few problems, his 10.45 putting him more than a metre-and-a-half clear of Hough (10.61) and Tim Letheart (10.64).
After the announcement this week that Asafa Powell will run the Melbourne World Challenge meeting on April 6, Ross will have two opportunities to compete against the former world record-holder. The first will be when Powell runs the world's most famous handicap sprint – the Stawell Gift – over the Easter weekend, the second a few days later in Melbourne.
Hough came back strongly to win the 200m from Ross, 20.71 to 20.73.
In a pleasing move, the 200m races were turned around so that athletes could finish with the wind down the back-straight. Times in both races were wind legal.
Breen completed a double in the women's race, but was pushed – 23.52 to 23.65 – by 19-year-old Monica Brennan, a World youth semi-finalist in 2011 and World juniors semi-finalist last year.
Mickle and Boyd solid
In her first major competition of the year, Kim Mickle had two throw over 58m and two just under in winning the women's Javelin.
The Daegu 2011 finalist opened with a 57.33m, then followed with a foul, her best effort of 58.74m, another foul, 58.39m and 57.88m.
It was a solid opening competition, but Mickle may have to find a little more when Viljoen, the Daegu bronze medallist and London fourth-place finisher, arrives to compete in Sydney on March 9 and Perth the following weekend.
Boyd had little opposition in the Pole Vault, her 4.20m being enough for the 2012 London finalist to win comfortably. Boyd had a stellar domestic season last year, capped by a national record 4.76m, but could not quite produce that form overseas, despite making the final in London.
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Flying Karamazov Brothers Come to Wabash• October 25, 2012 Share:
Wabash College Visiting Artists Series presents the internationally acclaimed quartet, The Flying Karamazov Brothers. The "vaudevillian comedy-and-juggling spectacle," will perform their show, 4 Play, on Thursday, November 1 at 8 p.m. in Ball Theater in the Fine Arts Center.
Expect the unexpected with The Flying Karamazov Brothers in 4 Play. The self-proclaimed eccentric "lunatics" spice things up with a zany showcase filled with the astonishing juggling feats, laugh-out-loud comedy, and wild theatrics that have taken them to Broadway, television, and the big screen.
Known for consistently testing the laws of physics, The Flying Karamazov Brothers often invites members of the audience to contribute items for juggling. Adept with a wide range of conventional instruments, The Flying Karamazov Brothers amps up the excitement by making its own music, using clubs that are adapted as percussion strikers to allow the troupe to play drums and marimba phones without breaking juggling patterns.
The Wall Street Journal says about the group: "The Karamazov's deliver visual and verbal one-liners, all while creatively tossing about anything they can get their hands on!"
The Flying Karamazov Brothers' wild and physically demanding antics won the ensemble a 1981 Obie Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway Theatre and a 2004 Award of Excellence from the International Jugglers' Association. The group has appeared on the television sitcoms Seinfeld and Ellen and in the film "The Jewel of the Nile."
Seating for Visiting Artists Series events will be by general admission, though free tickets are required.
Contact the Fine Arts Center Box Office by email at firstname.lastname@example.com; or phone: 765-361-6411. Box Office hours are Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 12 noon and 1:30 to 4 p.m. The box office will open 90 minutes before curtain time for Visiting Artists events. Tickets not claimed at the Box Office 10 minutes prior to curtain will be released to the general public.


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Two months after their fifth triumph at the FIFA Futsal World Cup, Aecio de Borba Vasconcelos, President of the Brazilian Confederation of Futsal (CBFS), and two time FIFA Futsal World Cup winner Manoel Tobias, were presented with the FIFA Futsal World Champions badge during a ceremony today at the Palace of the Governor of Ceará.
"Today we're pleased to be able to honour Brazil after a truly remarkable performance at the Futsal World Cup in Thailand last November," said FIFA Secretary General Jérôme Valcke, who handed over the badges in the attendance of Sports Minister Aldo Rebelo, Cid Gomes, Governor of Ceara, Roberto Claudio, Mayor of Fortaleza as well as CBFS Board members Renan Pimentel Tavares, Louise Ane Bede and Silvio Carlos Vieira Lima. "In particular the thrilling final will remain long in all our memories," he added, saying: "To have won five titles is a great achievement. I'm sure the badge will remind the players of this success every time they wear the national team jersey in the [almost] four years between now and the next Futsal World Cup."
Brazil are the first FIFA Futsal World Cup Champions to have received the badge, which features an image of the FIFA Futsal Trophy.
""Futsal is a sport that revealed many successful athletes, some of them chosen as the best players in the world by FIFA. The Brazilian national team is hegemonic in this sport and the title won in Thailand is another confirmation of their success", highlights the Sports Minister of Brazil, Aldo Rebelo.
"This is not an achievement only for the Brazilian Futsal Federation, but for the whole country. Today, with the cities growing faster, there are numerous futsal courts, and the popularity of the sport is providing us with some of the greatest futsal players in the world", said Aécio de Borba Vasconcelos.
"I am honoured to be here today representing all futsal players who impressed the audiences and contributed for this achievement. I would like to remind that this is a team work, starting from that very first generation of 1982, which opened the doors for us. Today is a day to be celebrated by Brazilian futsal", added Manoel Tobias.
The FIFA Futsal World Cup Champions badge is just one in a series of FIFA World Champions Badges awarded to the winners of selected FIFA events. The first side to be presented with the FIFA World Cup™ Champions badge was the Italian men's national team, courtesy of their victory at the 2006 FIFA World Cup™. Spain then had the distinction of following them after their success at South Africa in 2010. The badge is also worn by the Japanese women's national team following their triumph at the FIFA Women's World Cup 2011™ as well as Brazilian club Corinthians by virtue of their success at the FIFA Club World Cup 2012 in Japan.


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Teams may only be short handed by one player in order to start a Search and Destroy Game. A Team will Forfeit the Match if they are missing more than one player than the match specifies by 15 minutes after a Match's default start time (Grace Period). Teams will be forced to start a Game at the end of a Grace Period.
In the event that lag occurs, the game should be completed. The player(s) that are experiencing lag should take video proof, and provide it to tournament
live support
after the game has concluded. If lag is occuring, it is recommended that multiple players provide proof of the lag. Leaving the game prematurely may result in a forfeit of the round or game.
If a player disconnects within the first thirty (30) seconds and/or before the first kill, the game should be ended. All players must leave the match to end the game.
If a player disconnects after the first thirty seconds (30) and/or the first kill, the map must be continued and the missing player should be reinvited to the lobby. If the team with the missing player leaves the lobby, their team may forfeit the round/game in question.
Normal Boundaries:
Players who move their character outside of the normal boundaries of a map may forfeit the game. Moving outside of the normal boundaries of a map includes but is not limited to part of the character's body passing through what should be a non-permeable surface or object, and moving into any area from which your character registers shots on an opponent who is not able to register shots on your character.
Outside Players:
After the match lobby has been created, only eligible players on the two teams and staff members may be invited/join. If an ineligible player joins a game, the game must be ended if the player affects the game and/or doesn't leave within 30 seconds of joining. If a Player is found to have invited an ineligible player to a game, they will forfeit the game.
No Shows:
All no shows must be verified by a tournament official
The No Show grace period time is 15 minutes after the match's original start time. For example, if a match is scheduled for 10:00 PM, the no show time for this match would be 10:15 PM. In order to contact a Tournament Official use
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. If a tournament official isn't available, a ticket must be submitted immediately. The ticket must include proof that their opponent did not show. To dispute your match, select "I'm reporting: my opponent did not show" under "report problem" on the match page.
Time Limit:
Both teams must report the match results within 10 minutes of its completion. Failure to report the match results on time or respond to any messages that you receive from a tournament official may result in your team receiving the loss.
Report Match Score:
In the event that the in game system does not report your match when it has concluded, please report the match results on your match page .To report the match results, teams must report the match score accurately, with overall Games won being reported. For example, the match score can be reported as 2-0, 2-1, 3-0, 3-1, or 3-2 depending upon the match length. Reporting the individual points for each ame is optional.
Breaking any rule and any form of cheating, glitching, abusing in-game mechanics, or unsportsmanlike behavior may result in a forfeit of a game, match, or ban from GameBattles. Cheating, glitching, and abusing in-game mechanics accusations must be verified by a tournament official. In order to contact a tournament official use
Live Support
. If a Tournament Official isn't immediately available, a
must be submitted immediately, along with proof, screenshot or video, of the cheating. Punishable unsportsmanlike behavior includes, but is not limited to, excessive use of foul or degrading language. For all cheating claims, the burden of proof is on the accuser.
We highly recommend that proof is taken with the console's built in recording system to gather proof. At least one member of each team should take a video or screenshot(s) of each game's results in case proof is needed for a dispute. All proof should be clearly visible and contain the game score, all players on both teams, and a time stamp.
In order to dispute game results, players/teams must notify a tournament official, via
Live Support
submission, that they would like to protest the game before a new game has begun. In order to dispute match results, players/teams must notify a tournament official, via
Live Support
submission, that they would like to protest the match no longer than 15 minutes after the end of the Match.
Teams may request that they be allowed to concede victory of a game. Teams may request that their opponent not receive a forfeit penalty. A tournament official must be contacted with these requests. In order to contact a tournament official use
Live Support
Dispute Evidence:
In the event of a dispute, please provide your video / screenshot proof to
tournament live support
. In the event that you are not able to access tournament live support, a
Match: Scores Dispute
ticket should be created The URL for the image(s)/video must be attached to a dispute ticket. The issue must be clearly stated as well as the time in the video in which the issue occurred, and/or what the tournament official should be looking for in the picture/video.
Tickets & Live Support:
Tournament support can be requested by creating a
Support Ticket
Live Support
. For issues with registration, missing tournament achievements, and general tournament questions, a "Tournament Question/Issues" Ticket should be created. For all tournament match issues, a "Solve My Dispute" Ticket should be created.
Live Support Limit:
Only one (1) Player per team should use
Live Support
for in-game issues and that player should stay on live support until a tournament official answers their call.
Listen for Instructions:
If a tournament official is called into a custom game, players must keep the tournament official un-muted at all times.
Verbal and/or written abuse of a tournament official will not be tolerated through any medium. This includes, but is not limited to, voice communications in game, voice messages, live support chats, written messages on GameBattles, Twitter, Facebook, etc. Violators of this rule may be disqualified from the Tournament.
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Decisions Are Final:
Tournament staff have the final decision in all matters related to this competition. If a player feels the decision is unjust and/or goes against the rules listed for this competition, an Arena: Staff Report
should be submitted for review. Please include any information and proof pertinent to the issue.
Restricted Items:
For search and destroy, use of any restricted item(s) will result in the loss of the round(s) the item(s) were used in if it affected game play. If a game is hosted out of order, the hosting team will forfeit that game that was played out of order. For example, if Search and Destroy - London Docks is the second game and played as the first game, the hosting team will forfeit Search and Destroy - London Docks. The correct first game/map will need to be played.
Premature Game Ending:
Teams that force the game to end prematurely by player(s) switching teams, leaving the game, inviting outsite players, and/or the host ending the game may result in the loss of the round and/or game for search and destroy.
Players may not use a Turbo controller, a Button Macro controller or Keyboard/Mouse. Turbo controllers allow Players to press a button that results in their Character performing a set of actions that would normally require the Player to press the same button multiple times. Button Macro controllers allow Players to press a button that results in their Character performing a set of actions that would normally require the Player to press multiple buttons. The team using the ineligible equipment will forfeit that games of the match it was used on.
IP Flooding (DDoS Attacks):
Performing or assisting with a DDoS attack of your opponent will result in immediate disqualification of that team. All players on that team will be suspended from GameBattles for up to seven hundred and thirty (730) days.
Evading a Tournament or Servere Site Ban:
Any player found evading a severe site ban or one related to Online Tournaments will be disqualified from this competition. If that player participates in any part of the match during the first tournament round, that team will forfeit the games that were played. If that player participates in any part of a match after the first tournament round, that team will be disqualified from the competition. The offending player(s) will be suspended from GameBattles for up to ninety (90) days.
Account Recovering XBL or PSN Accounts:
Tournament participants are forbidden to allow others to play in this competition in place of them by sharing XBL or PSN accounts. The offending the team forfeit the entire match. The offending players will be suspended from the site for up to thirty (30) days.
Modified Console/Hacks/Mods:
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Evading a Ban:
If a player is found evading a ban the team will be disqualified from this competition. The offending player(s) will be suspended from GameBattles for up to ninety (90) days.
Lack of Cooperation:
Failing to comply with Support Staff's directions and/or requests may result in the forfeit of round(s), a map, or the entire match. Verbal or written abuse of a staff member will result in a suspension from GameBattles for up to twenty (20) days.
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The best mutual-fund families guided their investors' portfolios through 2011's many dangers without taking undue risk.
The intensity of Europe's sovereign-debt crisis ebbed and flowed all year long but the trouble itself never wholly disappeared, even momentarily. At its worst, it threatened to drag down big banks from Athens to Zurich and trim lending all over the globe. Across North Africa, despots fell or battled their own citizens, helping push oil prices back over $100 a barrel. A devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan killed thousands and destroyed several nuclear reactors, disrupting global industrial supply lines. At home, Washington was unable to reduce the federal deficit, prompting Standard & Poor's to downgrade the U.S. sovereign rating. The Fed and other central banks fell back on the only tool left in their depleted armory -- easy money -- to bolster the markets.
Successful fund managers didn't try to guess where the next problem would pop up; they mostly stayed invested in relatively safe securities, adding to positions they liked when they were cheap. Maybe they didn't enjoy the rallies quite so much as bigger risk takers, but they didn't get so badly hurt in the sharp declines.
Their funds offered a balance of Treasury, mortgage and corporate bonds along with mostly defensive, high-quality stocks that paid dividends or enjoyed substantial market share. A strong year-end rally in riskier assets like small-caps and emerging-market stocks couldn't overcome the benefits of adding to long-term positions that traded at discounts at various times during the year. "A lot of people talk about the risk-on, risk-off, high-volatility environment that we saw in 2011, but risk-off certainly won the battle last year," says Jeremy DeGroot, chief investment officer of Litman Gregory, a firm that specializes in mutual-fund research in Orinda, Calif. "Despite S&P downgrading U.S. government debt, people still view Treasuries as a flight to safety."
The perfect fund manager, says DeGroot, would have stayed in Treasury bonds until Oct. 1 of 2011 and then jumped into high-yield bonds in the fourth quarter. On the equity side, he or she would have bought Apple (ticker: AAPL) or International Business Machines (IBM) in the last quarter. But no one's footwork is quite that good.
A prime example of high-conviction, long-term securities selection is the leader of the Barron's/Lipper annual ranking of the Best Fund Families: Delaware Management. The firm, founded in 1929 and now handling about $167 billion in assets, was followed by four others that didn't hop in and out of markets: Vanguard Group, Neuberger Berman Management, First Investors Management and State Farm Investment Management.
These firms tended to do reasonably well in areas where the vast majority of mutual-fund managers performed miserably, such as large-cap growth stocks, which were down 1.91% last year, and small-cap value, which fell 5.20%, according to Lipper. They also outperformed their peers in fixed-income, including municipal bonds, which provided a remarkable 10.56% return, Treasuries, which boasted an even more remarkable 15.83% return on average, and investment-grade corporate bonds, which were up 4.63%.
Our ranking underscores the changes in risk and reward these days. The top five companies a year ago gained by taking risk. For instance, last year's No. 1, Dimensional Fund Advisors, owns a mind-boggling 13,000 stocks, or about 70% of the world's publicly listed equities. It's a strictly quantitative fund outfit with substantial holdings in small caps and emerging markets, two volatile areas. As a result, it was fully invested in some of the best-performing sectors in the second half of 2010 when equities markets rallied strongly and unexpectedly.
But DFA was also full up on these sectors when they tanked in 2011. The four runners-up -- Nuveen Fund Advisors, Principal Management, Oppenheimer Funds and Waddell & Reed Investment Management -- were active managers that were also aggressive in the second half of 2010.
Finishing toward the bottom of our list this year were Manning & Napier Advisors, Putnam Investment Management and Victory Capital Management.
Although the winners changed, the guidelines of our survey didn't vary much this year. Our ranking, based on one-year results, weighted U.S. equity funds at 38.04%, world equity at 12.77%, mixed equity at 17.36%, taxable bonds at 27.43%% and tax-exempt bonds at 4.40%. (For our complete methodology, click here.)
STEPPING OUT ON A LIMB succeeded in 2010 because so few did it, says Jeff Tjornehoj, research manager at Lipper. By contrast, last year's winners tended to be those who accumulated safe positions on weakness, some via purchases made several years ago.
Delaware's stock-picking focuses on companies whose earnings will grow regardless of Fed policy, new laws from Congress, or even the death of a visionary CEO. That conviction prompted Delaware portfolio manager Jeffrey Van Harte to start buying Apple in October 2007, MasterCard (MA) in December 2007 and Visa (V) in March 2008. They were the three largest stocks in his Delaware U.S. Growth fund (DUGAX), which was up 7.73% in a category that fell 1.91%, according to Lipper.
Apple's stock rose 25.6% last year, despite the passing of co-founder Steve Jobs. And Visa was up 44.3% while MasterCard soared by 66.4% -- even after the Durbin Amendment cut in half the amount that banks could charge merchants for the use of debit cards. Visa and MasterCard, which act mostly like toll collectors in these transactions, emerged largely unscathed from the change following a lot of investor worry. Van Harte took advantage of the concerns to increase his holdings, putting the finishing touches on a concentrated portfolio of companies that he says will generate nearly $60 billion of free cash flow this year.
"These are self-sustaining, self-financing companies. They don't need help from the government," says Van Harte, referring to the Fed's easy money policy.
Philadelphia-based Delaware, part of Australian banking giant Macquarie Group, has spent the past eight years methodically improving its investment performance by lifting out investment teams from other fund-management firms. These include Van Harte's five-person team in San Francisco, which came from Transamerica Insurance and Investment Group in 2005 and has since grown to 12, as well as an international value group originally together at Thomas Weisel Asset Management and later Arborway Capital in Boston in 2006 and a large-cap value unit of Merrill Lynch Investment Managers in Philadelphia in 2004.
President Patrick Coyne isn't after portfolio managers who make bold macro calls. He's looking for investors who research companies from the bottom up, hold them for the long term and keep adding to positions over time. Very low turnover is a hallmark of Delaware funds. The fund's rise is particularly striking because it's also now No. 5 over five years and No. 2 over 10 years, a sign of its consistency.
"Active management really withstood the true test here," says Coyne. "Our professionals believe in being benchmark agnostic and focusing all of their efforts on investing in companies that they have done tremendous research on -- and giving those companies the time and the opportunity to perform to the standard that they think they are going to."
The "dash to trash" that highlighted 2009 and part of 2010 "reversed itself in 2011, when valuation was actually rewarded, and we benefited from that," agrees Gus Sauter, chief investment officer of Vanguard, which runs roughly $1.6 trillion. In a tough year for most active managers, the investor-owned firm's index funds outperformed, its quantitatively focused funds did well and its active funds bucked the tide. It was gratifying to Sauter, who's watched some of the value-oriented funds struggle in recent years. "Last year we really got a lot of that back," Sauter says. "The environment itself has changed."
Among the funds that Vanguard manages in-house, the firm excelled in U.S. equities, mixed equities (that include bonds) and taxable-bonds. The actively-managed Vanguard U.S. Value fund (VUVLX), which employs computer-generated quantitative measures to pinpoint values, was up 3.23% last year in an asset class that fell 2.24%, according to Lipper. And the passively managed Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury ETF (EDV) was up a once-in-a-lifetime 56.17% because of its holdings of 20- and 30-year Treasury bonds.
No. 3 Neuberger Berman, an active stock-picking shop with a loyal high-net-worth clientele, is new to the annual Barron's/Lipper ranking. Previously it didn't have a broad enough product line to be included. A part of Lehman Brothers for several years, Neuberger, with nearly $193 billion in assets, went back out on its own following the investment bank's spectacular bankruptcy in 2008. Notable was the late-2010 launch of the Neuberger Berman Global Allocation fund (NGLAX). Despite 2011's "very treacherous market," the go-anywhere fund posted a credible 3.87% return, notes Joe Amato, the firm's chief investment officer.
Neuberger also did well with its fundamental U.S. equity funds and made a number of well-timed buys for its tax-exempt bond funds last year. The $11.3 billion Neuberger Berman Genesis fund (NBGNX), which invests in small-cap stocks, was up 4.70% while its benchmark, the Russell 2000 index, was down 4.18%. Genesis is always "looking for companies that have very defensible market positions, are consistent generators of cash flow, have low financial leverage," Amato explains. "Those characteristics all performed well during the 2011 market because people were clearly concerned about economic activity, concerned about leverage, and concerned about any companies that were beholden to the capital markets to raise capital to fund their growth."
First Investors also didn't take a lot of risk. The New York firm, which runs $7.5 billion in assets, including 26 mutual funds, made a series of defensive plays. It bought companies that were generating piles of cash, looked undervalued and were ripe for acquisition. It also purchased companies that had more than enough cash on hand to spend freely and still offer dividends to shareholders. (Dividend-paying stocks were, of course, the only reason that the S&P 500 index was able to post a small gain in 2011, notes DeGroot.)
"We appropriately positioned the funds in names that we thought could better weather the volatility around certain unexpected events like the tsunami in Japan and the debt ceiling in the U.S. as the year played out," says Edwin Miska, who is director of equities at First Investors.
Such safe bets drove the $456 million First Investors Total Return fund (FITRX), a balanced fund that fits into Lipper's "mixed-equity" category up by 3.57%, last year. For example, Miska, the fund's portfolio manager, snapped up companies that he expected to post special dividends, like retailer Limited Brands (LTD), the parent of Victoria's Secret and Bath & Body Works. Limited had usually paid a dividend of about 80 cents, but last year, it shelled out two additional special dividends–one for $1 a share and another for $2. That's an annual dividend of nearly $4 on a stock trading at $44 last week. It hiked the normal payout to $1.00 a share in late January.
In addition to analyzing the current valuation of every company in his portfolio, Miska estimates the private-market value of the company. That sometimes puts him in stocks of companies that eventually get acquired. For example, he bought Goodrich (GR), which is being acquired by United Technologies (UTX), and Temple-Inland (TIN), which is being purchased by International Paper (IP).
"In the back of our minds, we knew what those companies might be worth if something like that were to happen," recalls Miska.
State Farm has an advantage over some rivals because the same team that oversees the life insurer's general account also runs its taxable-bond funds. (State Farm funds are available through its thousands of registered agents.) They tend to favor lower-rated investment-grade bonds in the single-A and triple-B range. In other words they get as close as they can without actually diving into junk bonds. The goal is to "avoid blowups" while still getting as decent a yield as possible in a low-interest-rate environment, explains Scott Hintz, assistant vice president of securities products.
"We did not do anything different from what we do in most years," says Joe Monk, chief administrative officer. "We find we don't need to get too caught up in market dynamics."
Like almost all of the top firms, State Farm relies on sub-advisors to run some funds. Delaware actually sub-advises on a Vanguard fund and firms like BlackRock, Bridgeway Capital, Marsico and Northern Trust aid State Farm. It's not a surprise that some of these funds do very well, says Geoff Bobroff, an independent consultant to mutual-fund boards. They operate on a tight leash because they can be fired with as little as 30 days' notice, he notes. That, adds Bobroff, is a lot "easier than firing yourself" for bad performance. Many of the advisors are leading boutiques who run institutional money.
IN OUR FIVE-YEAR RANKING of top performers, Ivy Investment Management and Waddell & Reed, its sister fund family, stubbornly held onto first and second place, respectively. They are separate mutual fund brands for Waddell & Reed Investment Management. Waddell CEO Hank Herrmann explains that these two groups have outperformed partly because they have consistently increased their cash positions in volatile markets. That strategy did not work in 2011. Both firms fell in the Barron's/Lipper one-year roster because there were so few opportunities to sell at good prices. Last year, the portfolios tended to have less than 10% of their assets in cash, compared with 20% to 30% over the long term. "We have been consistent over the last five years, but last year was not a year when we covered ourselves in clover," says Herrmann.
And Franklin Templeton became the supreme leader in our 10-year category, edging out longtime No. 1 American Funds, which fell to eighth place for the decade despite a very respectable 2011 performance.
WITH AN EXCELLENT STOCK-MARKET run to end 2011 and open 2012, are "risk-on" mutual funds ready to retake the lead? It doesn't seem likely, at least not for an extended period.
The Japanese earthquake notwithstanding, the disasters of 2011 still menace fund investors. Even if the euro zone stays intact, a sovereign default could still hit European -- and U.S. -- banks hard enough to trigger a recession in both places, warns DeGroot. The International Monetary Fund already predicts a mild recession (-0.5% economic growth) for the euro zone this year. In the U.S., the IMF foresees a disappointing growth rate of 1.8%, which would be the same as 2011's and slightly more than half the 3.0% rate of 2010. In these fraught circumstances, DeGroot worries that the U.S. stock and bond markets won't be as resilient if gasoline prices jump based on more political unrest in North Africa or the Middle East. And with a hotly contested presidential election in November, Washington isn't expected to provide any bold legislative initiatives to solve the U.S.'s economic problems.
"Our five-year view is that the debt buildup in the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2008 is going to lead to subpar economic growth," says DeGroot.
Investors might want to stick with those fund families that take measured risks. That would be bond funds that invest in securities with moderate or low default risk and offer decent yields, and stock funds that buy shares of companies with good prospects that can afford to pay a dividend. Allocations to riskier assets shouldn't be avoided, just kept to reasonable levels.
"Basically, you need a foot in both camps," says Robert Jaeger, senior investment strategist at BNY Mellon Asset Management. "If you put everything into the risk-off category, you won't make any money. And if you put everything into the risk-on category, you will never sleep." We still think a good night's sleep is important.
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This climate climate zone covers from about 44°N to 50°N latitude mostly east of the 100th meridian in North America. However, it can be found as far north as 54°N, and further west in the Canadian Prairie Provinces and below 40°N in the high Appalachians. In Europe this subtype reaches its most northerly latitude at nearly 61° N. Areas featuring this subtype of the continental climate have an average temperature in the warmest month below 22°C (22°F). Summer high temperatures in this zone typically average between 21-28°C (70-82°F) during the daytime and the average temperatures in the coldest month are generally far below the -3 °C (27°F) mark.
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The average temperature for the year in Waterbury is 43.6°F (6.4°C). The warmest month, on average, is July with an average temperature of 67.4°F (19.7°C). The coolest month on average is January, with an average temperature of 17.5°F (-8.1°C).
The highest recorded temperature in Waterbury is 81.8°F (27.7°C), which was recorded in July. The lowest recorded temperature in Waterbury is -5.4°F (-20.8°C), which was recorded in January.
The average amount of precipitation for the year in Waterbury is 43.2" (1097.3 mm). The month with the most precipitation on average is August with 4.4" (111.8 mm) of precipitation. The month with the least precipitation on average is February with an average of 2.7" (68.6 mm). There are an average of 162.0 days of precipitation, with the most precipitation occurring in December with 16.0 days and the least precipitation occurring in February with 12.0 days.
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Nothing in the world that a good Gorge run with a good friend can't cure. No, I don't claim the problems go away and life becomes easy and beautiful, but for those number of hours it gets pushed aside, and while it is, the wounds in the soul get patched and ready to accept new hits and holes. I love my Gorge outings, I wouldn't be able to live without them, this I can say for sure. Just a day or two before I was looking for a bridge - and now I am stronger and happier and can deal with a weekly dose of stress...at least I hope so:)
We didn't get lost, no, we wandered. We had an original plan, that was twisted on the drive up to the starting point, then it got turned around, and then, both of us known for taking off-trails and routes and admiring the views and a nice chat, we kind of lost track of where we are and how long we are out there. We packed great running on flattish terrain of Wyeth trail with a monster climb later, went for some dip into North Lake, too a bunch of turns that weren't on a radar, made it to Green Point and finished on a long winded nice downhill of Gorton trail. The weather was a bit cloudy and windy at first, and we worried how is the idea we cherished for couple of years of jumping into mountain lake going to stand, but it cleared out and sun came in all glory. Water wasn't all taht cold after all and provided some refreshment. We talked non-stop for the first 4+ hrs, but that Gorton trail...we got quiet, and it was the most wonderful peace on Earth, because it was like each of us owned that trail at the time yet, hearing footsteps of another person, we shared that love and trail with each other. Smooth stride and happy hopping over logs, tears in my eyes, put me unbelievably high, when it hit me: this is harmony for me, only this is serenity, now and here. When I ran in the mountains for hours, got my adrenaline up with pushing the uphills, endorphines with views, feeling sharing with good friend - and then I hit that nice downgrade for miles on end, soft dirt covered with pine needles, in a midst of tall trees with some sun picking out, that floating sensation of completely relaxing and allowing the trail dictate what I do, that total submerging into a soul of a downhill single track in the forest, 3 hrs of sleep, blisters and all - nothing could stop me, that absense of anything mind-numbing in a head...happiness...yep, downhill trail running is better than s*& and I am living there as I AM, not who somebody else wants me to be.
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Transfer news: Manchester City target Isco unsure over his future at Malaga
Malaga ace Isco admits he is in the dark about where his future lies this summer.
By Pete O'Rourke - Follow me: @skysportspeteo
Last Updated: 26/05/13 12:18pm
Isco has been strongly linked with a move to Manchester City should, as expected, Manuel Pellegrini leave Malaga to replace Roberto Mancini at the Etihad Stadium.
Real Madrid have also expressed an interest in the 21-year-old, while big-spending Paris Saint-Germain have also been linked with a move for the playmaker.
Isco, who is under contract at Malaga until 2016, is unsure where he will be playing his football next season and insists his focus is on ending the season well and preparing for next month's European Under-21 Championship.
"We will do what is best for Malaga," said Isco. "Nobody knows where my future lies.
"Right now I am just focusing on the two league games which remain [at home to Deportivo and away to Barcelona] and making sure I am at full strength for next month's European Under-21 Championship."


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The first of four content collections for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is set to be released on Xbox Live March 20. Imaginatively titled Content Collection #1, it contains four multiplayer maps: Liberation, Piazza, Overwatch and Black Box along with two special ops missions titled Black Ice and Negotiator. Apparently this is the first time special ops missions have been made available for download. In Black Ice your goal is to blow up a mine while Negotiator takes players to India where they have to mount a hostage rescue mission, no doubt with very little negotiating.
Call of Duty Elite Premium members will receive Elite Content Drops 4-6 which include Black Ice, Black Box and Negotiator on March 13, because they are both premium and elite, which must be wonderful. Content Collection #1 is merely all the Elite Content Drops bundled into one.
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BY Ralph A. Bradshaw
Colorful fish on the tiles and 50 volumes of the Journal of Biological Chemistry to peruse (while otherwise occupied) in an upper floor bathroom, a winding grand entrance hall and staircase, elegant marble fireplaces (and a decorative half-round window) in some of the offices and meeting rooms, and beautiful gardens and grounds, gloriously in bloom with dogwood and azaleas … all this is a part of Beaumont House, the mansion and grounds that were the home of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology for over 50 years and that I visited on the last Saturday in April. In the following week, the moving vans rolled up to the front door, and the society decamped for more modern digs a few miles farther north on Rockville Pike, leaving the only permanent home it had ever known.
As Barbara Gordon, executive director and by far the member of the ASBMB staff with the most memories (she started with the society in 1972), took me on a poignant tour of some of the more obscure corners of the building, I was struck by the many meetings and activities of historical interest that had transpired there and the myriad scientists of renown who had been involved with them. During the society's occupancy, biochemistry and later molecular biology experienced nearly exponential growth, becoming arguably the central sciences of biological research (1).
Beaumont House was also the home of the Journal of Biological Chemistry during all those years, and it enjoyed the same growth and expansion as the society. Indeed, it was, in the end, a need for more room that really necessitated the move to a space designed for modern office practices and needs. Nostalgia aside, the old house and outbuildings were built for residential purposes, and converting them to office space had produced some interesting compromises that sadly no longer suited the society's needs. As we wandered down the narrow back staircase originally intended for use by servants or stuck our heads in various closets and crawl spaces, it was much easier to imagine it as a setting for some "dark and stormy night" thriller than the home of a learned society.
The Acquisition of the Hawley Estate by APS
The Hawley mansion was the centerpiece of a nearly 40-acre estate located on Rockville Pike less than a mile north of the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda, Md. (Fig 1). It was designed by Irwin S. Porter and erected in 1929. The purchase of the Hawley estate and its conversion to a campus home for societies with biological and biomedical interests were mainly due to the efforts of Milton O. Lee, an individual prominent in the history of both the American Physiological Society and the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (2).
Lee was hired by APS in 1947 as the managing editor of publications and as executive officer of that society. At the same time, APS and the federation moved their offices into space at the National Academy Building on Constitution Avenue at no cost, due largely to the generosity of Detlev Bronk, president of the academy and a member of APS. As a result, Lee also became executive secretary of FASEB.
However, the academy soon decided to collect rent ($12,000/year), and this concerned both organizations. Accordingly, the APS formed a Committee on Society Headquarters and began to look for a permanent home elsewhere. It apparently was the intention of the committee to locate the offices in central Washington (convenient to Union Station and eventually National – now Reagan – Airport), but it was largely stymied by limited options and high prices.
However, after Lee and members of the committee viewed the Hawley estate in Bethesda, a 38-acre property with a fieldstone mansion and outbuildings, the possibilities were clearly evident to most. Ultimately, it was bought outright by the APS at a price of $225,000, with most of the money coming from the APS publication reserves.
A part of the land was then sold to the state (for widening Rockville Pike) and to a developer, who used the land to build residential housing. The APS Board of Publication Trustees then sold the remaining 12 acres and buildings to the federation and loaned it money to close the deal. It cost the federation, then composed of only six societies, $100,000, which was raised from its reserve fund and a mortgage from the Riggs Rational Bank of Washington. K.K. Chen, then president of the federation, also raised more than $24,000 from industry and a few private donors who assisted in the purchase and in the required renovations that followed. The APS and federation took occupancy in August 1954. The first federation board meeting was held there in January the next year.
Professor R.H. Chittenden, the first president of the ASBMB, at the Beaumont Memorial at Lebanon, Conn. (Coleman's Photo Service, New Haven.) p. 83, History of the American Physiological Society: The Third Quarter Century 1937-1962, by Wallace O. Fen. 1963.Photo courtesy of the American Physiological Society.
The eponymous William Beaumont
The name of the building was changed soon after to Beaumont House for physician and pioneering physiologist and biochemist William Beaumont (3). Beaumont was born in Connecticut in 1785 and received medical training as an apprentice in Vermont. It was while serving in the army at Fort Mackinac that he was serendipitously called on to treat a trapper, Alexis St. Martin, who had suffered a shotgun wound in the stomach.
To the surprise of Beaumont, St. Martin survived his injuries but with a fistula in his stomach that never completely healed. Beaumont seized on this opportunity to conduct a series of experiments over several years on digestion and the nature of gastric juices, which established that this process was basically chemical, not mechanical. Beaumont died in 1853 and is buried in St. Louis; St. Martin lived until 1880.
Hanging in the conference room of Beaumont House in what was once the living room is an oil sketch by Dean Cornwell of Beaumont treating St. Martin. The original, larger painting is on permanent display at a museum devoted to Beaumont on Mackinac Island. Cornwell's rendition has looked down on many a meeting as the plans and aspirations of the society were discussed and re-discussed in this room for 50-odd years (Figs 2 and 3).
Enter the ASBC
During the fall of 1953, as the APS committee was considering possible locations for the moving of its headquarters, Phil Handler and D. Wright Wilson, secretary and president of the American Society of Biological Chemists at that time, exchanged several letters about the possibilities for the ASBC in these matters. In a letter dated Nov. 2, 1953, Wilson noted, "I believe last year [1952] the Federation was talking about buying property." He went on to say, "I think probably the Biochemists will be up against a proposition in the near future because I doubt if Universities will agree to donate space for the Journal's Publication Department." He raised the possibility that the ASBC might wish to consider being financially involved in the Hawley deal.
Handler replied that he had just discussed the Hawley estate purchase with Milton Lee, who wanted to know his opinion. Handler noted that he had expressed personal interest but thought that as long as Rudolf Anderson was the managing editor of the JBC, "we … should not want to make a change." However, he also said that after Anderson, a "permanent editorial office might be a valuable thing to have."
Not stated in these remarks was the totally autocratic control that Anderson exercised over the journal and its finances and his unwillingness to consider any change in the way they were managed. Thus, it was the location of the journal activities at Yale University and Anderson's position as managing editor that effectively kept the ASBC from being more directly involved in the purchase of the Hawley estate. However, these events undoubtedly contributed to bringing the Anderson editorship to an end a couple of years later.
In 1955, the ASBC Council, noting the purchase and occupancy of Beaumont House by APS and the federation was complete, resolved to explore the transfer of its pertinent documents and materials to a fireproof vault to be housed in the new federation headquarters (1). The next year, the ASBC Council, now wrestling more directly with the complicated problems engendered by the finances of the journal on the one hand and those of the society on the other and confronted with the realization that "the burden of this office [Secretary] has grown to such an extent that the Society no longer has the right to impose upon one of its members to the extent now demanded," resolved that when a new managing editor was appointed, the headquarters of the society should be located at Beaumont House, including the publication activities, and that "the possibility should be explored of a combined Managing Editor and Executive Secretary" (1).
Indeed, Anderson retired in 1958, and John Edsall of Harvard University became editor of the journal. Edsall made it quite clear that he didn't care for the business end of running the JBC, and Bob Harte was hired shortly thereafter as the first executive officer and managing editor of the journal in part to relieve Edsall of those chores. With those changes, the society set up its permanent office at Beaumont House. When it first moved in, it shared the space with the federation as well as other societies, but this changed quickly when it became clear that more space would be needed to meet the growing demands on the federation facilities.
Thus, the Milton O. Lee building was erected and opened in 1962. Eventually, the ASBC became the sole occupant of the original buildings, as all other FASEB and non-FASEB societies relocated to the more recently constructed buildings on the FASEB grounds, a trend that continued into the next century.
The Beaumont House is now more than 80 years old, and it is beginning to show its age. Although solidly built, chipping paint, water stains and other signs that some serious maintenance and even some restoration is sorely needed are all too evident. Indeed, there were carpenters and painters banging and scraping away as we took our stroll through the halls of Beaumont House one last time. At the risk of being overly palaeolatric, it has served the ASBC (and ASBMB) well, and one can only hope the next tenants will grow and prosper during their residency as the society did.
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Given Capcom's posture toward the franchise lately, you'd think Mega Man was, in fact, forced into a listless retirement devoid of personal fulfilment. With the Robot Wars ended, and no Robot Masters left to fight, how will the Blue Bomber find meaning in his life? He doesn't even have two hands.
This video (by Drew Newman) is a slooooooow burn. But, after the chortle-worthy intro, there's a sight gag and a one-liner that put me in the floor. And the cosplay is solid, too. Mark me down for wanting to see Peacetime Megaman II.
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Category: Phantom of the Opera Reviews Posted by: admin REVIEW: Phantom of the Opera
'Opera' splendidly true to its origins
Article Date: December 21, 2004 | Publication: Charlotte Observer | Author: LAWRENCE TOPPMAN
If you've been seduced by Andrew Lloyd Webber's stage version of "The Phantom of the Opera," you'll fall in love with the gorgeous, splendidly cast film.
If you found that musical an undercharacterized rehash of music by (better) composers of real operas, Joel Schumacher's movie won't change your mind.
And if you know nothing about the "Phantom," currently the longest-running show on Broadway, this unusually faithful recreation will show what the fuss is about. It goes wrong only in its occasional insistence on boorish comedy.
Schumacher and Lloyd Webber share script credit and have decided Gaston Leroux's novel works best onscreen when the action stays at the Paris Opera.
Except for a visit to the cemetery where Christine Daae's father is buried, characters wander about the cavernous theater, honeycombed with secret passages and unseen cellars. This makes the movie feel claustrophobic, but that's the point: For these people, opera is life. Everything comes second to their art, and Christine's burgeoning romance with boyhood chum Raoul threatens that balance and drives the Phantom over the edge of madness.
Except for a few insignificant changes in the lyrics by Charles Hart and Richard Stilgoe, the narrative unfolds in the same way as the stage musical. Orphaned chorus girl Christine (Emmy Rossum) leaps to prominence when diva Carlotta (Minnie Driver) has one tantrum too many, and the younger singer replaces her.
Christine's mysterious, unseen teacher approves, but this unnamed Phantom (Gerard Butler) fears the advances of Raoul (Patrick Wilson) will divert her from her path as a star -- and, perhaps, from someday becoming the bride who could overlook his hideous disfigurement. When she returns Raoul's love and spurns the Phantom's controlling influence, he declares war on both of them.
"Phantom" fans have bickered about casting since the movie was discussed more than a decade ago. (The show opened in London in 1986 and has been running in New York since 1988.)
Incomparable Michael Crawford, now 62, seems too old to me to play the Phantom; Antonio Banderas (my choice) might be distractingly famous, as Schumacher cast lesser-known people in other leads. Butler knows how to use his robust tenor, rising to firm climaxes in "Music of the Night" but often whispering or half-speaking lines for dramatic effect. He conveys pathos, inner turmoil and menace, and he's credible as a would-be lover.
Wilson (who lived in Charlotte as a boy in the 1970s) can't do more than his simplistic part allows, but he sings with a lyrical sweetness and makes the most of the swordfight that has been added to the cemetery scene. (He almost always wears white, the Phantom black. Subtle, this ain't.)
The one character that has changed from the stage version is Christine. The 18-year-old Rossum, best known in America for "The Day After Tomorrow," looks virginally innocent and sings with the small, attractive but untrained soprano of a chorus girl just beginning to explore her potential.
Yet costumer Alexandra Byrne suggests the woman emerging from this girl. When the Phantom first takes the semi-delirious Christine to his subterranean lair, she swoons in the bottom of his boat in a low-cut dressing gown, her white stockings rolled halfway down. (She awakens bare-legged; has something occurred?)
When Schumacher sticks to romance and mystery, he doesn't set a foot wrong. The same is true of pathos: Miranda Richardson is especially fine as Madame Giry, the ballet mistress who has long been the Phantom's only apologist.
Comedy is another matter. Driver delivers lines in a shriek overlaid with a thick Italian accent, and Carlotta's singing is too often ugly. (Some of Driver's vocals were dubbed.) The moviemakers miss the point: Carlotta must be a bad person, not a bad singer, or audiences would not have made her a star.
In case we don't know how disliked she is, janitors put plugs in their ears when she sings, and a stagehand moons her. Luckily, the rest of the film avoids such boorishness, and even the silly scenes have Lloyd Webber's score -- the most sumptuously intoxicating of the last two decades, for my money -- flowing through them.
As all composers do when adapting a stage work for the screen, he has written one extra song to qualify for an Oscar nomination. It drones away over the end credits, a bland mint at the end of a rich but heavy meal, and requires nobody's attention.
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