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It didn't take long for 49ers running back Frank Gore to gaze beyond Sunday's divisional-round playoff win toward San Francisco's next opponent.
"NFL Replay" will re-air the two 49ers- Seahawks matchups from the 2013 regular season:
The Seahawks' 29-3 win over the 49ers from Week 2 will air on Tuesday, Jan. 14 at 3 p.m. ET. and at 10:30 p.m. ET.
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"We have to go to Seattle," he said, per CSN Bay Area. "We know it's going to be a dog fight. But we are built for this."
Seahawks receiver Doug Baldwin sounds equally primed, tweeting Sunday night: "Wouldn't want it any other way."
Niners coach Jim Harbaugh is the first coach in the Super Bowl era to take his team to the conference championship game in each of his first three seasons, doing it this time with a nasty, well-coached defense that shut out the Panthers for the entire second half Sunday.
That defense now faces a Seahawks attack of which Seattle coach Pete Carroll praised Saturday for its balance.
Right now, I disagree. If anything concerns me about the Seahawks, it's their passing game. While their ground attack shined for 174 yards Saturday, Russell Wilson's 103 yards through the air marked the lowest passing total in a playoff win since Mark Sanchez threw for 100 in a Jets divisional-round game in 2009.
Fierce gusts of wind at CenturyLink Field were the "worst factor," said Wilson, but Drew Brees found a way to puncture Seattle's historically epic pass defense for 309 yards and a touchdown strike.
Wilson isn't being asked to save his team through the air the way Brees or Andrew Luck were asked to this weekend, but San Francisco, after holding the Panthers to 93 yards -- Carolina's second-lowest total on the ground all year -- is going to put pressure on Wilson to make plays.
I can't wait to see how this young quarterback responds. Seattle's air attack has been off for weeks, with Wilson throwing for 74 fewer yards per outing over his past five starts. During that stretch, the Seahawks are scoring 8.3 fewer points per game and churning out 98.5 fewer yards.
Seattle's ground game capably picked up the slack against New Orleans, but that won't be a given next week against San Francisco's fourth-ranked run defense.
No team's a tougher out at home than the Seahawks, but the 49ers are the conference's hottest property right now. Gore's right, a dog fight looms.
The latest "Around The League Podcast" broke down all four Divisional Round games and looked ahead to a monster Conference Championship weekend.


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Going to the People: Jews and the Ethnographic Impulse
An International Conference
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Going to the People: Jews and the Ethnographic Impulse
An International Conference
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Dogwood Room, Indiana Memorial Union More.
A Computational Research System for the History of Science and its Connections to Bioinformatics
A Catapult Center Lecture
Tuesday, February 19, 2013, 4:30pm
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A Recital of Hispanic Ballads featuring Tomás Lozano
Tuesday, February 19, 2013, 7:00pm
Ford-Crawford Hall (2nd floor of the Simon Music Center) More.
Forum on Academic Publishing Now and in the Future
Introduction by Provost Lauren Robel
Wednesday, February 20, 2013, 4:00pm
IMU Georgian Room More.
Black History Month Film Screening
Wednesday, February 20, 2013, 7:00pm
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Academic Publishing… But Were Afraid to Ask
A Graduate Student Workshop on Publishing
Thursday, February 21, 2013, 1:00pm
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Situated Learning: A Critical Review
A Lecture by Jean Lave (UC-Berkeley)
Thursday, February 21, 2013, 4:00pm
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Update 17/11/2017: We received a lot of feedback regarding Bid Quality Score, and we've listened. Changes have been made to Bid Quality Score to improve its fairness and accuracy. Please review this article for an in-depth explanation of these improvements.
What is Bid Quality Score?
Bid Quality Score aims to help quality freelancers to win more projects per bid, by giving feedback to freelancers who may be making too many low quality bids.
Since releasing Bid Quality score, we have observed that it has increased freelancers' chances of getting work when placing a bid.
Your Bid Quality Score will be based on a number of factors, including real time feedback provided by employers whose projects you have bid on, our own algorithms and other sources. It is designed to reward legitimate bidders by penalising spammers.
Why have we introduced Bid Quality Score?
We frequently get feedback that some freelancers are placing spammy bids on projects. These bids are often duplicates of previous bids or don't properly address the requirements in the project description. This is bad for employers, who have to sift through irrelevant bids, and it is also bad for you, because your bid might be crowded out by the low quality bids.
Our Bid Quality Score feature has been optimised to reward freelancers who take their time to write accurate and high quality bids, rather than quickly spamming irrelevant or generic bids.
You may notice that your Bid Quality Score will change on a day-to-day basis. This is because it reflects the quality of your recent bids, which will change with your recent activity. We are far more interested in the quality of the bids you are placing today, rather than the bids you placed last year.
This also means that it is possible for you to improve your Bid Quality Score, even if you have a history of low quality bids. However, it is essential to maintain such quality to keep your score high.
We will be using the Bid Quality Score in our other Freelancer.com programs and algorithms, including how we rank bids. It may also be used as part of determining eligibility into our Preferred Freelancer Program.
We hope that you will find this feature useful and that it will result in you being awarded more projects.
What factors determine Bid Quality Score?
The following behaviours will be analysed to help you improve the quality of your bids:
How well your bids relate to the project description. Employers can tell very quickly whether or not a bidding freelancer has taken the time to read their project brief.
That you write bid proposals. If you do not write a bid proposal your Bid Quality Score will be negatively affected.
A demonstrated understanding of project requirements.
That you have described what would need to be done in your own words; breaking down the project into a series of tasks and/or Milestone Payments.
That projects have not been spammed with irrelevant bid proposals that are identical or similar text from previous bids.
Accurate bid amounts have been chosen, based on the information available in the project description, and communication with employers prior to being awarded. Your Bid Quality Score will be affected if project fees are raised after the project has already been awarded.
That your bid proposals are free from spelling and grammar errors. Employers are more likely to award proposals that have been written well.
Whether your profile has been fully completed — this includes a profile photo.
That the relevant skills selected on your Freelancer.com account, accurately reflect your work.
That you have a portfolio of your own work uploaded to your Freelancer.com profile page.
Whether you have NOT encouraged offsiting, by asking the employer to discuss the project via Skype, Whatsapp, or any other third party communication platforms.
That there has been no use of bots or automated bidding tools.
Your accept rate and completion rate. This will only penalise you if you reject a large number of bids you are awarded or fail to complete a large number of projects that have Milestones created on them.
Where can I see my Bid Quality Score?
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Our algorithms have been honed to make Bid Quality Score fairer and less volatile, by more accurately identifying spammers.
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The Task Force for the Implementation of the Environmental Action Programme for Central and Eastern Europe (EAP Task Force), whose Secretariat is located at the OECD's Environment Directorate, is organising its tenth annual meeting of the Environmental Finance Network of experts from Eastern Europe, Caucuses and Central Asia (EECCA). The meeting will be held on 22-23 February 2007 at the OECD Headquarters in Paris.
Since 1995, OECD and EECCA experts have maintained this technical network of the EECCA environmental finance stakeholders to oversee the implementation of a comprehensive work programme on environmental finance. The result-oriented programme has so far produced a number of technical guidelines and practical tools to help EECCA countries better manage their public environmental expenditure and strengthen their public environmental financing institutions. The integrated package of environmental financing tools places a strong emphasis on the practical applicability and on compatibility with international standards of good governance and management. It has been developed thorough several years of a participatory process comprising empirical analyses, policy dialogue and field work on several pilot institutional strengthening projects.
The tenth meeting of the EECCA Environmental Finance Network builds upon experience and results of the previous Network meetings, held in Almaty, Kyiv, Moscow, Tashkent, Yerevan, Warsaw, Chisinau and again Almaty in 2006. The Network provides a forum for facilitating exchange of experience, good practices and tools among the EECCA, CEE, OECD donors, IFIs, independent experts and the NGO community on issues pertaining to environmental finance in the EECCA region. While the major counterparts of the EAP Task Force are the EECCA Ministries/Committees of Environment, representatives of the Ministries of Economy and Finance have been also regularly participating in the meetings of the Network.
At the Fifth "Environment for Europe" Conference, held in Kiev, Ukraine in May 2003, Environment Ministers endorsed the EECCA Environmental Strategy and gave the overall responsibility for overseeing its implementation to the EAP Task Force. In addition, Ministers gave the EAP Task Force a mandate to support and facilitate implementation of the Strategy in a number of areas, including environmental finance. In fulfilling this mandate, and in preparation for the next, sixth, Ministerial Conference which will be held in Serbia in October 2007 within the framework of the "Environment for Europe" process, this Network meeting will seek to discuss the major results emerging from the work on environmental finance and agree on the main messages which will be submitted to the Environment Ministers in Serbia for their consideration.
Thus, the major objectives of the tenth meeting of the Network are to:
Draft Meeting Agenda (English, Russian)
Summary Record (English, Russian)
Meeting Documents and Presentations
SESSION 2 : Environmental Expenditure and Environmental Finance in EECCA
Document 1: Report on Trends on Environmental Finance in EECCA (English, Russian)
Document 2: Draft Category I paper on Mobilising finance for Environmental Priorities: Recommendations for the Future in SEE and EECCA (English, Russian)
Xavier Leflaive, Carla Bertuzzi - Trends in Environmental Finance in EECCA (English, Russian)
Joanna Fiedler - Environmental Financing Trends in South-Eastern Europe (English, Russian)
Craig Davis - Mobilising Finance for Environmental Priorities: Recommendations for the Future (English, Russian)
SESSION 3 : Session of the Project Preparation Committee (PPC)
Document 3: PPC Work programme for 2007 (English, Russian)
Craig Davis - Update on PPC Activities and Prospects for the Future (English, Russian)
SESSION 4 : The Management of Public Environmental Expenditure
Performance Review of the State Environmental Protection Fund of Ukraine (English, Russian)Document 5: Handbook for the Appraisal of Environmental Projects Financed from Public Funds (English, and Toolkit of Training Materials on the Handbook.
Mechanisms for Managing Public Environmental Expenditure in Selected OECD Countries (English) Russian)
Nelly Petkova - Lessons Learnt from the Performance Review of the State Environmental Protection Fund of Ukraine (English, Russian)
Mykola Pilipchuk - Performance Review of the State Environmental Protection Fund of Ukraine: Future Challenges (English, Russian)
Nelly Petkova - Handbook for Appraisal of Environmental Projects Financed from Public Funds (English, Russian)
SESSION 5 : Lessons Learnt from the Financing Strategies in the Waste and Water Sectors
Document 7: Lessons Learnt from Financing Strategies in the Municipal Waste Sector (English, Russian)
Document 8: Rural Cost Functions for Water Supply and Sanitation: Technology Overview and Cost Functions (English, Russian)
Alexandre Martoussevitch - Lessons Learnt from Financing Strategies in the Municipal Waste Management Sector (English, Russian)
Xavier Leflaive - Financing Strategies for Environmental Infrastructure (English, Russian)
Alexandre Martoussevitch - FEASIBLE: Prospects for Further Developments (English, Russian)
SESSION 6 : Wrap-up Session
Document 9: Chapter on Environmental Finance as part of the report on Progress in Environmental Management in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (English, Russian)
Xavier Leflaive - Ways Forward (English, Russian)
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The Tony Robbins Podcast
By Tony Robbins
In addition to excerpts from his signature events and other exclusive, never-before-released audio content, Tony and his team also conduct deeply insightful interviews with the most prominent masterminds and experts on the global stage, including Charles Duhigg (Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times best-selling author and columnist), Tom Bilyeu (CEO and founder of Quest Nutrition), and Peter Diamandis (founder and chairman of the X-Prize Foundation).
Other guests include renowned thought leader in mind-body health, Deepak Chopra, the legendary basketball coach, John Wooden, and marketing expert and business consultant Jay Abraham.
Launched in April 2016, the Tony Robbins Podcast immediately leapt to #2 in all of iTunes, and consistently holds a top position in its category (Education).
The Tony Robbins podcast honors the immutable law of life: that 80% of success is psychology and 20% is mechanics. There will always be challenges and obstacles, but none are insurmountable; if you train yourself to focus on what you can control, achieve the right mindset and obtain the skills you need, you too can take your life to the next level and move from ordinary to "extraordinary."
The Tony Robbins podcast is produced by Robbins Research International.
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Tony Robbins is an entrepreneur, best-selling author, philanthropist and the nation's #1 Life and Business Strategist. A recognized authority on the psychology of leadership, negotiations and organizational turnaround, he has served as an advisor to leaders around the world for more than 38 years, including Fortune 500 CEOs, medical doctors, U.S. Presidents, entertainment legends and championship sports teams.
Author of five internationally bestselling books, including the recent New York Times #1 best-seller "Money: Master the Game," Mr. Robbins has empowered more than 50 million people from 100 countries through his audio, video and life training programs. He created the #1 personal and professional development program of all time, and more than 4 million people have attended his live seminars – world-class events such as Unleash the Power Within, Business Mastery, and Date with Destiny, which was featured in the 2016 Netflix documentary, "I Am Not Your Guru."
Robbins is the chairman of a holding company comprised of more than a dozen privately held businesses with combined sales exceeding $5 billion a year. He has been honored by Accenture as one of the "Top 50 Business Intellectuals in the World"; by Harvard Business Press as one of the "Top 200 Business Gurus"; and by American Express as one of the "Top Six Business Leaders in the World" to coach its entrepreneurial clients. Fortune Magazine called him "The CEO Whisperer" in its recent cover story, and soon after he was named one of the Top 100 Most Powerful People in Global Finance by Worth Magazine.
As a philanthropist, Tony Robbins feeds 4 million people per year in 56 countries. To honor those who helped his family during tough times, he has personally provided 59 million meals to people in the USA and in 2015 matched funds to feed 100 million people through his partnership with Feeding America. He has also initiated programs in more than 1,500 schools, 700 prisons and 50,000 service organizations and shelters. He provides fresh water to 100,000 people a day in India in order to fight the #1 killer of children in that country – waterborne diseases.


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|In this segment, we'll talk with one of the scientists behind a project that used a radio telescope to peer back millions of years in time and make observations of the magnetic field present in a distant proto-galaxy. Writing in the journal Nature this week, the team reported that the magnetic field they found in the distant spinning proto-galaxy, named DLA-3C286, was much stronger than they had anticipated. The strength of the field, they say, calls into question theories about the origin of the magnetic field and the processes by which galaxies form. The field observed in DLA-3C286 was over 10 times the average value.


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Disney On Ice at Wembley in London is always spectacular, and worth a visit if you are in London during spring 2016. Tickets for Disney On Ice in London can be booked here!
Make imagination your destination! Disney On Ice presents Passport to Adventure takes audiences on a fun-filled tour to four exciting destinations filled with favourite Disney friends.
Join Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse on a journey into the magical worlds of Disney's The Little Mermaid , The Lion King , Peter Pan and Lilo & Stitch .
Discover Ariel and Sebastian's enchanting undersea kingdom; visit the Pride Lands with Simba and Nala; soar through starry skies with Peter Pan and his sassy fairy friend Tinker Bell; and say 'aloha' to fun with Lilo and Stitch. You'll be captivated by the music, beauty and laughter in a journey so magical, you'll never want to go home.
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The State of Automation
Technology and innovation inside the four walls are changing the face of inventory management and transportation operations. Are you ready for the brave, new world?
Warehouse in the NewsAvailability of U.S. industrial & logistics real estate rises after 34 months of declines, says CBRE Finding the Right Fit for New Technologies and Automation in your Warehouse/DC Mobile Robotics Descend on Warehouse Operations Warehouse/DC Site Selection: Demand for space has never been stronger CBRE research shows ongoing demand leads construction of new warehouses More Warehouse News
Warehouse ResourceFinding the Right Fit for New Technologies and Automation in your Warehouse/DC In this white paper, Canon Solutions explores the challenges companies face when automating, explain why there's no need to rip-and-replace existing systems
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In August, sister magazine Modern Materials Handling featured , on the cover. At the heart of the DC is an integrated piece-picking solution that combines mobile robots for high-density storage and conveyance; light-directed picking to ensure that the associate picks the right item; and a high-speed conveyor and sortation system to get the product to the packing zone.
While this level of automation has been common on high-speed assembly lines for years, it represents a new level of sophistication in distribution. Although the technology allows Office Depot to get a significant amount of throughput from a relatively small labor force, labor savings within the four walls of the DC wasn't the primary driver behind choosing a highly automated system.
Rather, the solution represents a broader supply chain play; it is an enabling technology that will allow Office Depot to completely retool the way inventory is replenished at the stores serviced by that DC. "We believe that the future belongs to the brave," , told Modern. "We are in a commodity business and the supply chain is a differentiator. We plan to be on the front end of that."
That is a different way to view materials handling automation, particularly in distribution, where the historical approach to system justification was based on a reduction in head count. It got us to thinking: Is Office Depot unique? Or, is something changing in the way the user community looks at automation today? Does the future belong to the brave when it comes to automated materials handling?
Following is what 10 industry leaders had to say about the state of materials handling automation today.
There is a sense that something is happening in the market: Nearly everyone interviewed agreed that end users are taking a harder look at automation than in the past—even if that has not yet translated into more orders. "We may be too early in the cycle to be conclusive about what this interest will mean to the market," says . "But I do believe that end users are looking back at the past three years and concluding that all of the layoffs and downsizing they went through was not fun.
They want to be prepared for another downturn in demand without wondering every day whether they need 10 more people or 10 fewer based on fluctuations in volume." What's more, as companies like Office Depot look to logistics as a profit center and an enabler of their broader corporate goals, "they are trying to use automation as a competitive advantage over their competitors within their industry," says Sean O'Farrell, business development manager for .
Solution providers describe an evolving view of automation among the end user community, especially when it comes to automation in the DC. Traditionally, that has involved conveyor and sortation systems. That perception, however, is changing. "More intelligence is required in the distribution center today than in the past, when it was mostly about moving pallets out the door," contends Larry Strayhorn, president of .
That complexity is driving interest in automatic guided vehicles (AGVs), robotics and automated storage solutions along with semi-automated solutions involving software, lights, and voice. "Every company is trying to drive costs out of its supply chain and the distribution center is the next link in the chain for optimization," Strayhorn says.
However, with so many organizations already running bare-bone operations, new ways to think about labor and automation are emerging at some companies.
"Our customers are gaining confidence, they are sitting on cash, and they have access to cheap capital," says Jim Stollberg, vice president of global product management for . "If you look at the unemployment rate, they clearly are not hiring back people. Many are choosing to put that capital to work in automation."
Stollberg and others believe that many of those empty jobs may not come back even if the economy comes back. Having already eliminated labor, companies are looking at the costs associated with labor in a different way to justify automation. Those include the increasing cost of training new employees given the high turnover rate in many distribution centers and the inability to find enough labor in sparsely populated areas or in urban areas where there are alternatives to working in a DC. "If a new employee goes out to lunch and doesn't come back, which is happening, the cost of bringing a new employee up to speed is now part of the calculation," Stollberg says.
What's more, there's a growing acknowledgment that in distribution, lights out automation rarely makes sense, while there is an ROI in making the remaining workforce more productive. "One of the first automation projects I ever worked on years ago was in a manufacturing setting where we were focused on getting rid of as much labor as possible to the point that we probably over-automated," says The Progress Group's Strahan. "Today, there's a recognition you're still going to have people in the equation, so how do you enhance what your people do with automation."
That may be as simple as adding semi-automated solutions, like voice-directed or light-directed picking, to a manual process. "Voice and light technologies haven't changed a lot over the years, but end users have realized they can make the associate on the floor faster and more accurate," Strahan says. "They're making decisions that affect the product the end customer receives as much as their internal ROI." Those types of technologies also address the diversity of today's workforce. "The fact is, you can put a headset on a Spanish-speaking person while the associate next to him is speaking English, and they can both get the job done," Strahan says. "That's pretty attractive."
That approach might also involve adding a mini-load automated storage and retrieval system (AS/RS) or carousel to deliver product to an ergonomically designed workstation, adds . "The goal is not to eliminate the human component," Coyne explains. "It's to help the associate reach their potential by eliminating walking, eliminating reading, eliminating waiting, or any other extraneous process. The goal is to help the associate rather than eliminate the position."
In that same vein, companies are looking at manual processes and asking how they can eliminate the non-value added labor component. "They justify the project not by eliminating a position but by getting better performance out of their people," says .
For example, Webb installed an AGV system to automatically remove bins of cardboard from workstations over a two-shift operation. "The cardboard had to be removed several times during each shift and each cycle took someone away from the workstation for about 15 minutes," says Busher. "We designed an AGV to handle special trash bins. When a bin is full, a line worker pushes a wireless call button and the AGV takes the trash out for them."
Last, but not least, companies are looking at automation to create a safer and more ergonomic work environment, especially in the context of an aging workforce. This is already an issue in Europe, where regulations are reducing the amount of weight workers can move at any one time, or during a shift. That is becoming a concern to some U.S. facilities. "One of our customers is adding automatic palletizers to their tote handling processes," says . "Because a tote can weight 50 to 60 pounds, there's a big ergonomic and safety factor to putting in a palletizer beyond reducing labor."
While labor remains the No. 1 reason for automation, several other variables are entering into the ROI justification.
One of those is flexibility, says . "We have manufacturing customers that want the ability to pick a solution up and take their investment with them if they need to expand or move their operations," Casey says. That is leading to an emphasis on technologies like automatic guided vehicles and carts in manufacturing rather than traditional conveyor or overhead handling systems that were bolted to the floor. "If something changes, they can reprogram the AGV or cart, or if they move, they can load it onto the back of a truck and set it up at a new location," Casey says.
In fact, the market for AGVs has never been stronger, and not just among manufacturers. "There are whole new markets out there for AGV systems," says Mark Longacre, marketing manager for . and chair of the Automatic Guided Vehicle Systems group at the Material Handling Industry of America. "The cost of the units has come down, software has made them easier and more intuitive to use in the warehouse, and they are capable of handling different scenarios than they did in the past." Longacre points out that in addition to transporting pallets or product from one workstation to another, AGVs routinely put away and retrieve pallets from drive-through and push back rack systems and even load trucks in some distribution scenarios.
"We have designed a fully automated robotic workstation with palletizing and stretch wrapping," says System Logistics' Coyne. "But we have a customer in Europe who implemented the system with manual palletizing to start, with the idea of installing a robot in 2011."
Similarly, TGW has developed a pallet-building solution that combines automation with manual palletizing. In this solution, a conveyor delivers a carton to a workstation at an ergonomic level. The operator, rather than a robot or software system, determines how best to build the pallet. Once a layer is built, the operator steps on a footswitch that lowers the load for the next layer; at the same time a stretch wrapper automatically wraps that layer. "The idea is to flush as much of the materials handling out of the system as makes sense, while still having the flexibility to easily build a pallet in a certain way," says Strayhorn.
As is the case with Office Depot, companies that own their own stores and control their distribution and transportation processes are justifying automation by taking a holistic view of the supply chain, starting with what happens in the store. "In Europe, we are implementing systems in the retail channel where the focus is on improving the materials handling in the distribution center to reduce the cost of operating in the store," says Strayhorn.
In the past, companies have implemented systems that build aisle-ready pallets, meaning that all of the items on a pallet will be putaway in a specific aisle in a specific store. Sophisticated examples can design a pallet so that the top layer will be stored on one end of the shelf with the bottom layer on the other end of the shelf.
Strayhorn is now seeing systems that take that concept one step further, to loading containers—and not just pallets—with product in the order it will go on the shelf. "We've developed a system that picks women's T-shirts by size and places them in store-ready cartons in the order that they'll sit on the shelf in the women's department," he says. "The store associate simple opens up a tote, puts the cartons on the counter, and they're done."
Likewise, one of Witron's customers in Southern California justified the cost of a highly automated system on transportation savings. "The system builds a pallet in an aisle-ready fashion that ends up saving them about half a person per store over several hundred stores in their region," says O'Farrell. "But the automation is able to build a load that is taller than the load they can build manually. That's generating a 20 percent to 40 percent savings on transportation because they're getting more cube on the truck."
The last trend might be called targeted automation: Embracing automation where it makes sense and embracing smart manual processes where they make sense. "One of our rules of automation is that an end user should take a long hard look at a lean approach to operating before they automate," says Strahan. "You don't automate more than you need or automate things that shouldn't be automated at all." Instead of spending $20 million to automate 100 percent of your storage, maybe you can spend $5 million to automate 20 percent of your storage and still get productivity gains from smart traditional processes.
CVS is a proponent of this approach, according to Intelligrated's McKnight. Over the years, CVS has built some of the most highly automated distribution centers in North America. Yet, Intelligrated is working on a project with CVS that involves a traditional wide-aisle, low-bay distribution system. The takeaway: "From working with automation, CVS has learned that it's important to find the right niche," says McKnight. "They will put in lights out automation where it makes sense, but they won't hesitate to put in a traditional solution enhanced by limited automation if that makes sense."
One example is a mobile A-frame developed by SI Systems. "It's designed for the warehouse with anywhere from 16 to 64 fast-moving products and spikes in demand that create bottlenecks," says Casey. "You can move the A-frame into place, lock it down, and do order fulfillment of any fast-moving product that has stackability characteristics, like round bottles or square boxes. If your demand picks up, you can add another unit."
Likewise, Swisslog developed a high-density storage solution that uses bins for storage and robotic extractors that travel on a grid above the bins. "If a user needs to add more throughput, they can add more bins or more robots," says Markus Schmidt, senior vice president of . "You can start small and easily expand."
Over the last several years, tremendous achievements have been made in automated solutions for case picking and palletizing that use automated storage, conveyor and sortation systems, and robotic palletizing.
The next frontier is piece picking. It is, after all, the most labor intensive activity in a distribution center. It is also the process with the most opportunity for error. "Piece picking is what we're all trying to conquer," says TGW's Strayhorn. "There are solutions out there, but I don't know that any of us has solved the problem to the satisfaction of our end users."
The most common approach to automating piece picking is a goods-to-person solution that uses some type of automated storage and conveyor to deliver the products to be picked to an ergonomic workstation. There, lights, voice, or images on a display screen will automatically tell the associate how many items to pick and where to place them. That type of solution is most often used to aggregate a high number of slow-moving stock keeping units into space saving storage and eliminate walking on the part of the associate.
Witron has created a variation of that solution for operations that include case and piece picking in the same order. The systems uses an AS/RS to automatically replenish a pick face; pick-to-light to optimize piece picking; and software to marry the individual items picked to a carton or tote with full case picks for that order at the palletizer.
Other solution providers, such as , have developed robotic piece picking solutions that completely automate the piece picking process in applications that include a consistent product.
Developments like these, combined with the sophistication of software for automation, could lead to a brighter future for materials handling automation. "I think the most important development is that the industry and end users are more in tune with creating a solution than selling equipment," says Strahan. "We're seeing more people who understand automation and applications than in the past."
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Korean designer Jihyum Ryou reimagines food storage without a fridge.
In his project 'Save Food From The Fridge' Ryou uses traditional word-of-mouth knowledge and everyday objects to preserve food in an eco-friendly way, without the use of a fridge to keep the food fresh.
"Observing the food and therefore changing the notion of food preservation, we could find the answer to current situations such as the overuse of energy and food wastage." Ryou wrote on his website.
"My design is a tool to implement that knowledge in a tangible way and slowly it changes the bigger picture of society. I believe that once people are given a tool that triggers their minds and requires a mental effort to use it, new traditions and new rituals can be introduced into our culture."
Symbiosis of Potato+Apple
Ryou keeps apples and potatoes together, as apples emit ethylene gas. Ethyene gas speeds up the ripening process of fruits and vegetables kept together with apples. With apples, the potatoes are prevented from sprouting.
Verticality of Root Vegetables
Ryou also noted that keeping roots in a vertical position allowed the organisms to save energy and remain fresh for a longer time. He made a shelf that had sand, to helps them stand easily. The sand also helps to keep proper humidity.
Humidity of Fruit Vegetables / Fruitbowl with Knowledge
Fruits and fruit vegetables, such as zucchini, aubergine and cucumber, were given a shelf or perforated dish, with a water tray at the bottom, to humidify them and keep them fresh.
Breathing Eggs
With a shelf, eggs can be stored outside the fridge—so that the eggs don't absorb odour of other food in the fridge. To test the freshness of the eggs, Ryou also included a beaker full of water—the fresher the eggs, the further they sink.
Dryness of Spices
To keep spices dry and prevent them from forming lumps, Ryou created containers with rice of the cork—as rice absorbs humidity.
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Katy Perry Reveals Obsession With Japanese Culture, Sister's Banishment + More on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!'
Katy Perry was the couch guest on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' last night (June 25), promoting her movie 'Katy Perry: Part of Me.' She revealed she is excited about her soon-to-be-clear schedule, her obsession with all things Japan and her sister Angela's banishment from the Perry home during their youth. While Perry grew up in a strict Christian home, things were never, ever dull, despite not being able to listen secular music or watch TV.
First, the singer, who doesn't recognize a lot of the jams of her generation since she was denied access to non-Christian music, said she is looking forward to Aug. 1, when she has nothing on her docket. She joked about wanting to put her well-manicured finger on a spinning globe, choose a random location and actually going there. Perry joked about aspirations to be a hunter and a gatherer off the grid for a hot minute when the talk show host brought out a globe. She spun it and landed on Brazil. Maybe they'll be seeing Perry in a bikini in South America soon.
KP also revealed her obsession with Japanese people and culture, which developed as a result of her parents taking in Japanese exchange students when her sister was banished from the family home after taking a five finger discount on some lingerie at Macy's.
Whoa. What?
"I am obsessed with Japanese people," Perry said. "I love everything about them and they are so wonderful as human beings."
Wait, there's more.
She continued, "The reason I am really obsessed is because my sister, who is in the film, you see, she is the angelic figure. She is perfect and sweet. Really, she has sinned once in her life. That one sin got her kicked out and [she] moved to Arizona, because she stole a bra and panties set at Macy's. So she had to go live with another family for a minute, so my parents had another room."
That room was used to host the foreign students.
See what we mean about life being interesting in the Perry home despite the lack of fun stuff like TV and tunes?
Perry recalled that she wanted to borrow the exchange student's clothes, but they were weirded out by that. The singer doesn't keep contact with her former boarders, joking that they would make fun of her, saying, "I'm so obsessed I want to skin you and wear you like Versace."
That statement could seem inflammatory and perhaps not PC to some, but when taken in context, we totally pick up what Perry plunked down.
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AppDynamics Raises $120M, Valued at $1 Billion for Corporate Software
AppDynamics Inc., whose software monitors how applications are performing in order to help companies avoid bottlenecks, has raised $120 million in equity and debt at a valuation of more than $1 billion, the company told VentureWire.
The funding comes as AppDynamics prepares for an eventual IPO and continues its legal battle against competitor CA Inc., where AppDynamics founder and Chief Executive Jyoti Bansal and other AppDynamics executives previously worked.
CA on Monday filed the latest salvo in what has become a series of lawsuits, which started when CA sued AppDynamics for patent infringement in federal court in New York last year.
The dispute has now moved to federal court in California, where CA on Monday filed a counterclaim to AppDynamics' latest claim. In the counterclaim, CA alleges breach of contract, misappropriation of trade secrets and several other charges. AppDynamics denied the charges in a press statement.
In the meantime, AppDynamics continues to expand rapidly, claiming more than 175% growth in bookings for the fiscal year ending January 31 and doubling the number of customers, which now stands at more than 1,300, over last year. AppDynamics' employee number has also grown from about 200 to more than 450 in the last 18 months.
In June, Venture Capital Dispatch reported that AppDynamics had raised $50 million in venture debt from Silicon Valley Bank. The company has now added another $70 million in equity to its coffers.
That funding was led by three new investors--Battery Ventures, ClearBridge Investments and Sands Capital--and includes current investors Greylock Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Institutional Venture Partners.
Total equity raised is now more than $200 million. AppDynamics plans to go public, Mr. Bansal said, although he declined to share a timetable for an IPO.
The company is working on a strategy that Mr. Bansal expects will make AppDynamics as valuable to a customer's business and IT operations as it is currently to developers, he said, with the aim of taking AppDynamics to $1 billion in revenue by 2020.
The company started out as a way for developers to detect application performance problems and bottlenecks in complex IT infrastructures where multiple apps may run across multiple servers. Now the company is expanding into providing corporations with similar tools.
For instance, AppDynamics' software now can help businesses figure out whether their applications are affecting the experience of users on their website, and if so whether the problems are costing that business revenue and how they can be fixed. A shopper who abandons an online shopping cart due to poor application performance, for instance, could receive a coupon for a future purchase.
Lately AppDynamics has been getting more traditional businesses, such as Union Pacific Railroad, as customers because even traditional businesses are putting more of their operations into software.
"The boundary between IT users and business users is getting very blurry," Mr. Bansal said.
The new money will be used to accelerate sales and marketing, geographical expansion and the product. ClearBridge and Sands are public market investors that sometimes invest in private companies and hold shares through an IPO, advising those companies on how to approach the public markest. Sands has invested in other enterprise software companies, including Salesforce.com Inc. and Workday Inc.
Mr. Bansal said the funding was oversubscribed--he took about 30% of the investors who were interested--and didn't seem to be affected by the downturn in public tech stocks in March.
Another application performance management company, New Relic Inc., raised $100 million from late stage investors in March. New Relic targets smaller customers than AppDynamics and declined to discuss the funding or its valuation. New Relic founder Lew Cirne, like Mr. Bansal, is a veteran of Wily Technology, which CA acquired in 2006 for $375 million.
AppDynamics' new funding is part of an overall surge in investments for network and systems management software, a sector that has seen more than $851 million in investment in the first half of this year, after a total of $959 million all of last year.
(Correction: AppDynamics raised $70 million in equity and $50 million in debt for a total of $120 million. An earlier version of this article incorrectly said the company raised $120 million in equity and $50 million in debt. In addition, Sands Capital was an investor in Salesforce.com and Workday, not ClearBridge Investments.)
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Linda Brooks, a retired Arlington high school counselor, marched with the group chanting "More teachers, less test, education at its best."
Brooks, who moved to Texas 13 years ago after working as a counselor in Colorado, said the form of standardized testing in Texas is hurting students' education rather than helping.
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Rod Foreman, a Lipan resident visiting Austin for the high school state basketball tournament, yelled "Go home, hippies," to the group of protesters.
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The % w/ jobs 9 mos after graduation was very impressive in this economy--over 98%. But even more impressive was the number who are getting jobs out of state--almost half the class, over 29 states, as you can see from the link above.
OK. Thanks. So here are the employment #s for MSU: http://www.law.msu.edu/career/placement-rates.html. And here are the #s for WSU: http://www.law.wayne.edu/career-services/2010stats.php. They purport to list graduates employed by type of employer, size of employer, etc.Which of these numbers are lies/pure BS/cannot be trusted? And what information do you have to support your claim?
Toledo fell into T4. (I'll be curious about that story--big fall in 3 years)
Hi FJ:Thanks for the scoop. I was surprised at Toledo's fall b/c the school was starting to make inroads in the Detroit area. In the last year or so I've heard from three partners at mid-sized Detroit firms that they had hired Toledo clerks for the summer and were impressed w/ their work. I suppose Toledo's drop is good for law grads in the Detroit area, since the market here is already bad.


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I was thinking about this the other day, though I'm sure I'm not the first and I dare say discussions abound about it already on this site. I get the feeling I've even posted something about this myself. So apologies in advance.
The internet is, amongst other things, a huge repository of how people write without the filter of teachers, editors, proof-readers and the like. It cuts out the middle-man in other words.Not that I do, but if you wanted to find eggcorns from before the internet, where would you look?
Even so, these were often written in a stilted way that did not lend itself to people taking chances with unfamiliar expressions. Add to that that people were not anonymous user-names caring less about what they wrote.
Can it be said that eggcorns are a product of new technology and new attitudes? The written-down ones at least?
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I don't doubt that the incidence of them has increased, for the reasons you mention, and the ease of finding them is hugely increased. But they pre-existed the new technology, for sure. I was collecting them (though not by that name) in the early days, and did it, as you say, by observing anything I read, and especially by listening carefully to what was said. Still get most of them that way—I'm not good enough (not to mention, too lazy) to think the good ones up and then find them.
The phenomenon is robust even without the new technology, even if it is enhanced by it.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
Some of the slips that are called "folk etymologies" are eggcorns. David B pointed us to a nineteenth-century collection of folk etymologies available on the Internet at http://books.google.ca/books?id=8AcYAAA … &q&f=false
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
Over the years, people posting to the forum have pointed out folk etymologies (historical eggcorns) in Old English and Middle English, and in many of the other languages from which English regularly borrows new words. It's pretty clear to me at least that eggcorning is just one of many pathways of lexical innovation in English—and probably in many other tongues.
The internet must greatly multiply the sheer number of individual instances of eggcorns that one can collect. But I'm not so sure that it would have brought into being many eggcorns that had never been produced before. 5 years of eggcorn-hunting have convinced me that anything that can be reshaped will be reshaped—and I'd bet that that held true long before the 1990s.
And of course, spelling only really started to get standardized in the 18th C—some of the things we on the forum consider contemporary eggcorns are listed by the OED as historical spelling variants. (See for instance my recent comment on Craig C. Clarke's "spare ribs" post.) The standardization of spelling in recent centuries might actually have helped slow eggcornification a little. But I'd stress that "might."
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My suspicion is that eggcorns are all in the realm of the spoken (or sung) word, and only become recognised as "eggcorns" once written down. The classic Australian eggcorn must be from the then national anthem—which until the mid-1970s was the same as the British national anthem. Notoriously, thousands of Australian kids heard and sang the words to the fourth line as "Send her to Victoria", rather than victorious, and entirely logical interpretation as Victoria is the name of one of Australia's states. Growing up as a republican, and in another state, it always seemed an eminent destination to me.
... and though hardly an eggcorn, I always liked the church choir at the remote Aboriginal community who have been reported as singing "pieces of cement" instead of "fishers of men"!


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The New Browser WarsMay 17, 2003
The above two links will take you to some interesting numbers, although nothing you haven't seen before. IE has enjoyed a majority position in the browser market for what's going on 3 years now, and the new wave of standards–compliant browsers are barely making a scratch.
Is this really much of a surprise to anyone? Let's think about how Microsoft pulled this off: IE came bundled with Windows so that your new computer had a browser right from the get–go. The more technologically advanced of us had the option of upgrading, but we will always be a small minority. The path of least resistance in getting on the internet was and is to use the default browser, which is exactly why Microsoft won the last round, and why IE isn't going anywhere.
And we shouldn't forget about how many of us were cheering them on back then, too. What was the alternative? The oft–derided Netscape Navigator 4, which was obsolete almost as soon as it was released. Then it hung on like a bad head cold, years after anyone in their right mind could believe it. Even today traces of its odour still linger like recently disposed fish gut.
So we've come full circle. We were ecstatic to see something better than NN4 replace it, now we're beginning to hope against hope that something will replace its replacement. "IE is the new NN4." I've heard it more than once.
Given the great new browsers in the past year from the Mozilla project, Apple, and Opera, we are finally getting the standards support we've been aching for; but is it doing us any good at all if the rest of the world ignores them? We're trying to hit a moving target, and they ain't cooperating.
What's it going to take to move to the next level? Short of a revolutionary change in technology or mindset, not only are we stuck with the most popular browser vendor dragging its heels on a new release, but we're also faced with a user base that sees no reason to upgrade. The WaSP's recent Browser Upgrade Campaign was an unqualified success in eliminating the remaining few percentage of NN4 users, but will they have to start it up all over again once we see IE7?
Tantek Çelik posts that MSN for OS X came out Thursday with a huge update to the Mac IE5 rendering engine, Tasman. That's a glimmer of hope that something might be around the corner from Redmond for IE itself, but will even that be enough? What if no one upgrades?
This is why I find it hard to salivate over the new offerings of CSS–3, and why I can't be bothered to care about the tiny or major differences between XHTML 2.0 and 1.1. We're not going to be in a position to actually use either of those for a very long time yet.
It's great to have new browser releases to keep the market fresh; it proves that there's hope for the future. But for right now? There's no point in lamenting the most esoteric CSS–2 selectors won't work in any browser but Mozilla. Instead I'm going to take the training wheels off my XHTML 1.1 and CSS–1 and see how far I can go with the tools I have now. Come along for the ride, it'll be more fun.
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I, too, have been feeling that way lately – time to drop the training wheels and hope for the best. I'm sick of writing code that I know is obsolete just because the majority of the Internet users don't know what they're doing (or what they're missing). Glad to see that someone whose opinion is qualified feels the same way. I'm squeaking along right behind you.
That's all well and good for blogs and personal sites - but I think the days of "Best viewed with…" are long gone. How do you tell a client that you want to design for 2% of the browsers out there and leave everyone else hanging?
Maybe I'm just extra sensitive to this issue because where I work 65% of the users on my intranet are using Netscape 4 (and half of those are using a version of Solaris for which no better browser exists). Sometimes designing to the spec just ain't enough. Yes, I validate, but it's getting harder and harder to convince myself that it's worth it when I spend hours figuring out that "margin: -8px" is a valid way of expressing "leftmargin=0…" in Netscape while my coworkers write tag soup and nobody's the wiser.
I've decided that NN4 can go hang - somedays I feel the same about IE6 as well, when I spend a day working up code using Camino and then discover that IE6 mangles it by introduces extra margins, or deciding that paragraph margins aren't necessary, &c. It's not so bad, but I wish it would "just work", like coding for Moz seems to.
My other big beef is PNG support, which I feel is really holding us back (would be great for the garden!) I feel bad for you if you must code for NN4, I'd hate to go back to using tables myself.
Jemal - you design for your audience, of course, and if you know that half of your users are still to this day running NN4, it's an exercise in masochism to drop tables. In a more general, internet-wide sense though, those supporting that far back are pretty much making a 'last stand', given how much more you can do once you drop it.
Alternatively, if you're itching to work on your CSS skills while waiting for these guys to get a clue and upgrade their browser/OS, there's no shame in transitional layouts. I've actually put together a few CSS-only layouts that shift a little bit in NN4 (background images get stuck in the top left corner, rather than bottom right, so I change my image accordingly, for example) that seem to turn out okay, but I've also thrown together sites with one or two main tables that degrade pretty gracefully.
In the grand scheme of things though, it's almost pointless to do that anymore for most regular sites. You don't code for 2% of the population and leave everyone else hanging, which is precisely why NN4 shouldn't be catered to anymore. You're missing out on providing the best possible experience for the majority of the population. IE5/IE6 is at ~93%, Mozilla can be anywhere from 2 to 5% depending on your audience (mine is around 33%, but my traffic is far from an accurate indicator of the regular user), and NN4 is 1% or less. It's safe to say that CSS-based design is a preferable alternative today. Faster download times, easier maintenance, and all the other reasons for using it are something to embrace, not avoid.
Mike, you're killing yourself if you design in a Mozilla browser and then test in IE. I do all my testing in IE first, then make appropriate changes to accomodate Mozilla afterward. It's almost always far easier to make fixes in Mozilla, because you usually know exactly why an element is out of place. "Oh, my text-align: right; moved that DIV over in IE, but it's still flush left in Mozilla. Of course, Mozilla only applies text-align to text. Adjust the margins annnd… there. Fixed."
PNG support would be nice, agreed. But for the time being I'm making due. Creative use of GIF transparency (making sure to dither to the proper matte colour naturally) and precise placement of JPG background images can usually accomplish the same opacity effects that PNG offers, even if they're somewhat faked. It feels like a hack, but at least it works.
Incidentally, have you seen this story on ALA? It's too much work for me to have used seriously yet, but it's a possible way out for you.
Mike, you're killing yourself if you design in a Mozilla browser and then test in IE. I do all my testing in IE first, then make appropriate changes to accomodate Mozilla afterward.
Well, I work on a Mac, so… IE Mac was OK two years ago but Moz based browsers like Camino are the way to go now - and IE Mac behaves quite differently from IE 6 anyway. I generally look at pages in Virtual PC to get a sense of how they'll look, but it's no way to work. As an aside, apparently MS has incorporated some new code into their new MSN Mac client, so perhaps we'll see some improvements to IE Mac finally.
I've basically incorporated most of the bad IE bugs into my work habits now too - for example paragraphs get padded instead of their parent divs. As well, I try to leave things as flexible as possible to accomodate those mysterious extra pixels that IE likes to put in occasionally.
re: PNG article - yes I have seen that one and I agree, it's a little too much work with too many caveats. Another link is PNG Behaviour, a free set-up for using PNGs in your HTML documents, which is considerably easier to use - but doesn't fix background images.
For the past year I have started pushing my designs so that they just start to break in IE6 in hope to show IE's flaws.
I also think we need to educate the "pop based" websites about true CSS and XHTML. If we can convince them to upgrade and show them the neat stuff that may have a big impacted in an a new area.


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Mark Boxer
© John Hedgecoe / Topfoto
Mark Boxer
by John Hedgecoe
bromide print, 1958
16 in. x 18 in. (406 mm x 458 mm)
Purchased, 2000
Primary Collection
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- Mark Boxer (1931-1988), Cartoonist. Sitter in 8 portraits, Artist of 26 portraits.
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- John Hedgecoe (1932-2010), Photographer. Artist associated with 23 portraits.
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- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 71
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- John Hedgecoe: Portraits (24 March 2000 - 18 June 2000)
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Current affairsBritain's first motorway is built. The Preston bypass (M6) was the first road to be built to official motorway standards, although the M1 (opened in 1959) was the first road to be given official status. The road was opened by the Prime minister, Harold Macmillan, and heralded a new age of mass, high-speed motoring.
Art and scienceMichael Bond publishes A Bear Called Paddington, the first Paddington Bear book. This popular character is remembered for being found at Paddington Station by the Brown family, for wearing a floppy hat, duffle coat and Wellington boots, and for his penchant for marmalade sandwiches.
The children's television programme, Blue Peter, is broadcast for the first time.
InternationalFollowing the USSR's successful launch of the Sputnik 1 satellite in 1957, America launches its own space agency, NASA. Under pressure from the Soviets' early lead, NASA began research into human spaceflight. The competition between the two superpowers to explore outer space, send humans beyond the Earth's orbit and land on the moon was known as the 'space race'.
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Tottenham Hotspur v Wolves
Barclays Premier League; White Hart Lane; Sat, 14th January; 15:00 GMT.
Team News
Scott Parker is fighting to be fit for the visit of Wolves, with Sandro also out of action for the Premier League clash. Jake Livermore could continue in their absence.
William Gallas and Ledley King are also defensive absentees, leaving Michael Dawson to continue at the back following his return last weekend.
For Wolves, defender Roger Johnson is an injury concern after picking up an ankle injury against Birmingham in the Cup - both he and Steven Fletcher will face fitness tests.
Nenad Milijas is available after serving his ban for the red card against Arsenal, whilst Dave Edwards has recovered from a groin problem.
Redknapp knows money talks
Harry Redknapp admits the wage structure at White Hart Lane could affect the club holding onto its top players.
The White Hart Lane outfit managed to keep Luka Modric out of Chelsea's clutches in the summer transfer window, but can expect more offers for their top players if the continue to over-perform in the Barclays Premier League this season.
Spurs moved joint-second with a win over Everton on Wednesday, and can move joint-top with Manchester City with victory over Wolves. Redknapp is wary that his players could be lured away from north London by big-money offers, though.
"Players play for a club and they enjoy being there but if someone offers them a contract that could blow their current one out of the water, it's very difficult," said Redknapp ahead of tomorrow's match.
"If someone offers to treble a player's wages, you've got a problem. What do you do? I'd be talking rubbish if I said people wanted to stay at Spurs just because we're playing good football.
"If you want to keep the best players, we have to find a way of doing a deal that's near to what they would be able to earn elsewhere, otherwise it will be a problem.
"There are few players who sign for a club at 15 and stay there until they finish playing. The top players never thought about leaving until late in
their careers but nowadays it's getting tougher.
"If you're a top player and someone wants to give them a fantastic contract, it's very hard to hang on to them."


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Cisco Data Center at Gartner Las Vegas
Do you want to know what's happening at the Gartner Data Center Conference in Las Vegas on the Cisco side ?- Here are a couple of hints, before a more comprehensive report in the following days
–Giuliano Di Vitantonio, Cisco VP Data Center and Switching Marketing will discuss tomorrow Tuesday December 6th at 1:45 pm (room Octavius 23)how Cisco data Center solutions help customers to achieve business agility, financial efficiency and IT simplification. As the pace of business continues to place strains on IT departments Cisco's unified data center solutions bring together computing, networking, storage, and management resources to deliver a more cost-effective, secure, and efficient IT operating environment.
In addition, of this session, Satinder Sethi, Vice President, UCS Solutions Engineering, Ecosystems, and Technical Marketing, will explain on December 7th at 9:00 am (room Augustus 5) why the Unified Computing Systems are the preferred platforms for virtualization and cloud .
If you are at Gartner, don't hesitate to stop on the Cisco booth for numerous demonstrations
Cloud-Ready Infrastructure
Learn how the Cisco Virtualized Multi-Tenant Data Center (VMDC) architecture protects workloads in a highly secure container in a shared environment. Cisco will highlight the "nosy" and "noisy" neighbors and how virtualized workloads are protected from those potential security threats.
Secure Separation with FlexPod
See the highly secure separation of business-critical applications such as Oracle when they are deployed in a bare metal environment. Cisco will also demonstrate protection from potential security risks such as port scanning and ping sweeps.
Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud
Learn how to deploy a private or hybrid cloud using Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud. This product combines the self-service provisioning and service catalog from the Cisco Cloud Portal with the advanced infrastructure automation capabilities of Cisco Tidal Enterprise Orchestrator.
Cisco VXI Solution
See how Cisco VXI: Desktop Virtualization, with Cisco Unified Computing System at its foundation, provides high performance with scalability, operational simplicity, and security. These features are necessary to deliver a new virtual workspace that unifies virtual desktops, voice, and video with an exceptional experience for end users.
Data Center Switching with Unified Fabric and Cisco UCS Manager
The Unified Fabric demonstration highlights the benefits of Cisco's End to-End FCoE and Unified Fabric solutions. The UCS Manager demonstration highlights the following UCS Management capabilities – Cisco's primary differentiator: Stateless servers, logical server mobility and independence from hardware-based identifiers.
Cisco Tidal Enterprise Scheduler
Learn how to integrate the moving parts of batch and event-driven application and database jobs into an efficient workload automation solution. Cisco Tidal Enterprise Scheduler can define and run most j
If you are not at Gartner in Las Vegas, you still can discover the report from Stephen Speirs , who was at Gartner London, then read our report from Las Vegas in the following days.
Please read here the 4 parts of Stephen report
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South-East Asia's mm2 entertainment and mainland Chinese partners have started shooting a feature starring the contestants of TV reality talent show The Voice Of China.
Directed by Singapore's Chai Yee-wei, the film entitled I Want You is produced by Star China Media, Zhejiang Star TV, Beijing Enlight Pictures and mm2 Shanghai.
Principal photography started today (Oct 10) in the city of Sanya in China's Hainan Island, coinciding with the Sanya Beach Music Festival, which will feature in the film. The story revolves around a group of young aspiring singers.
Chai is working with DoP Derrick Loo, who he worked with on his previous three features Blood Ties, Twisted and That Girl In Pinafore. The crew also includes Singaporean music director Eric Ng who is rearranging cover songs and writing the film's theme song.
"The last two seasons of The Voice of China have been closely watched and followed by many audiences outside China for the past two years. We are proud to be associated in this prestigious project," said mm2 entertainment executive director Melvin Ang.
The film is scheduled for Christmas release in China and Jan 2014 in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia.


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Brad and Nick and Mike, Oh My!
Brad and Nick and Mike, Oh My!
By; Obnoxious John
About every 60 days or so, I get the urge to blog. At my age, I'm pretty much grateful for any urge that comes my way.
When we last met (May 19th) the M's didn't have Brad Miller or Nick Franklin or Mike Zunino. The Mariners were not doing so well and I was full of advice and ideas on how to change that. None of my advice or ideas included Msrs. Miller, Franklin and Zunino but still I was full of it. Ideas and advice I mean.
It seems, and in baseball seems is a powerful word, the addition of these young fellows has had a positive effect on the overall performance of the team. However, lest we get too carried away, realize they have fewer major league at bats combined this year than Kyle Seager who himself has only been in the bigs about a year and half.
So it's really too soon to tell if the future of the team is set with the addition of Brad and Nick and Mike, Oh My! But imagine if you will a Northwest version of the longtime Detroit Tiger combination of Alan Trammel and Lou Whittaker. They held down their positions for close to 20 years and anchored a team that gave Detroit fans a reason to pay attention to the pennant race year in and year out.
Also the Mariners have been lacking behind the plate since the end of the Dan Wilson era and Zunino has demonstrated he has the defensive skills required to play at this level. We can only hope he has some pop in his bat. That would be icing on the cake.
Now get out there and take one for the team!


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Your message has been sent! Yass, editor of Vibes doing a photo shoot out by Jay Allen's County Line Saloon. It's way too hard to put it all into words, but Sturgis 2007 was an amazing journey for me. The hectic intensity of the Today Show gig two weeks before, left me little energy to keep pace with what happened next. Så, quick, let's take a 2007 Sturgis journey. This time, it will be a photo journey as it would be too hard to put the whole twisted thing into words. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday We tried to ride but the vicious thunderstorms stole away many hours of potential riding. We did get out to Wyoming a few times. Saw this evil creature at Aladdin, Wyoming. The town of Aladdin ...Læs hele artiklen »
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Your message has been sent! BIKERNET NEWS FLASH – FOURTH AMENDMENT FROM JULIE WEEMS, CHOPPERS ONLY IN HAWAII INFO AND SS IN THE NEWS. LA CALENDAR BIKE SHOW SPONSORED BY BIKERNET.COM– The complete Map and current Exhibitors List is on our website at http://www.FastDates.com/BIKESHOW.HTM. We are very close to sold out now with some 160 Exhibitors and all the big names are in place. Signups are still coming in at a rate of about 2-3 a day, so we will certainly sell out next week and continue to match our previous growth rate of approximately 20% growth per year in Exhibitors and Spectators.. The Queen Mary has worked with us to extend the Exhibitors further into the Catalina Ferry ...Læs hele artiklen »
2007 Big Bear Choppers The Sled ProStreet Road Tested Hot Bike
0704_hbkp_14_z+2007_big_bear_choppers+the_sled_prostreet.jpg At 7,000 feet above the Los Angeles basin, Big Bear Lake is well known for its twisty mountain roads, leisure activities, and breathtaking scenery. It also happens to be the home of Mona and Kevin Alsop's Big Bear Choppers (BBC). For the past 10 flere år, BBC has been testing and pushing the limits in the rarefied atmosphere that encompasses the custom V-Twin market. Siden 2001, BBC has been the leading manufacturer of unassembled bikes. With the company's kits you get everything to put the bike together (except the skill and the paint), and each bike is mocked up before leaving the factory to ensure everything works and ...Læs hele artiklen »
2008 Big Bear Choppers G.T.X. Motorcykel anmeldelse – Ultimate Motorcyklen
2008 Big Bear Choppers G.T.X. | Motorcycle Review With phrases such as impending recession and credit crisis in heavy rotation these days, you would be forgiven for expecting 2008 to be a year of conservative offerings in the luxury-touring market. samlet set, the motorcycle industry saw sales flatten in 2007, after years of steady growth. Upon seeing the audaciously sculpted expanse of Big Bear Choppers' new G.T.X. ProStreet bagger for the first time, you may wonder if Kevin Alsop, the company's Australian-born founder, has allowed his Wall Street Journal subscription to lapse. Despite generally morbid economic news, there appears to be a renaissance afoot in the bagger business, particularly ...Læs hele artiklen »
Australian Road Safety
Australian Roads Australian roads are a lot safer today, compared to the mid-1970s. In the period before this significant juncture in vehicle safety awareness, both vehicle technologies and attitudes were not mature enough to take vehicle safety seriously. Consider the following: Before the 70s – No seatbelt laws in place – Safety in bike design not a priority – Seatbelt regulations implemented – Improved road system and traffic monitoring – Strict enforcement of traffic rules, with emphasis on drunk driving – Crash data becomes source of information for bike design Because of increased awareness in the importance of making bikes safer, the Australian ...Læs hele artiklen »
Big Bear Touring Model GTX Tested
Your message has been sent! California's Big Bear Lake was under several feet of snow as Aussie Kevin Alsop drove me up there from the LA airport and more snow was forecast. The weather gods had definitely determined that I wasn't going to ride the GTX X-Wedge back down the twisty and treacherous mountain road the next day so we resorted to Plan B. After a tour of the busy factory and a look over a swag of BBC bikes ready for export – some to Australia and others to the Far East and Europe – we settled down with a pizza and a few beers to discuss the world economic outlook and its effect on the motorcycle world. The beauty of being a niche manufacturer with a relatively small ...Læs hele artiklen »
Harley Davidson Cufflinks Logo Badge Motor Cycle Super Bike Moto GP Speed…
2000s Founder(s) William S. Harley Arthur Davidson Walter Davidson William A. Davidson Headquarters Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. Key people Keith E. Wandell, CEO Products Motorcycles Revenue Increase US$5.31 billion (2011)[1] Operating income Increase US$829.9 million (2011)[1] Net income Increase US$599.1 million (2011)[1] Total assets Increase US$9.674 billion (2011)[1] Total equity Increase US$2.420 billion (2011)[1] Employees 6,000 (December 2011)[2] Harley-Davidson Inc[3] (NYSE: HOG, formerly HDI[4]), often abbreviated H-D or Harley, is an American motorcycle manufacturer. Founded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, during the first decade of the 20th century, it was one of two major ...Læs hele artiklen »
1955 Triumph T 100 Custom Chopper Terhi's Ride Street Chopper
0605_stcp_12_z+1955_Triumph_t_100_custom_chopper+engine.jpg We flew over to Helsinki, Finland, and hooked up with some friends at KOPTERI Magazine for a little road trip to Sweden to attend the Norrtelje Custom Bike Show, which is held about 100 miles north of Stockholm, Sweden. The Norrtelje show has been put on by Twin Club M.C. for the past 30 years and is by far the most prestigious custom motorcycle show in all of Scandinavia. The winners from Norrtelje are invited to bring their bikes over to Las Vegas for the Big Twin West World Championship Bike Building Competition. We'll have more from the Norrtelje show in a future issue. After we returned to Finland from attending the show ...Læs hele artiklen »
Lot Special – Regional Internet Auto / Car Deals Directory
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Express Oil Change Bellingham – Northwest Honda
Oil Change / Quick Lube At Honda of Bellingham in Bellingham, WA, our Express oil change bays will get you in, out and on the road quickly. Our Express oil change center is open weekdays from 8am to 4:30pm and Saturdays from 8am to 4pm. Our full service oil change includes: Drain oil and replace with new Replace oil filter Top off fluids Lubricate suspension Check the four wheel drive fluids as applicable A courtesy 17-point inspection that includes the condition of your vehicle's vital fluids and a battery test Check your brakes (when visible) Inspect your air filter and cabin filter and replace them as necessary (additional charge for filters) If that sounds good, there's ...Læs hele artiklen »


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Hello everyone!
I'm Anne, a Norwegian "girl" by birth and heart, living in Sweden since ages ago. I'm a romantic and naive person that could easily live in a forest knitting all day from morning to evening. Life's got a hold on me though, I work part-time, live in a suburban area, and need to do lots of boring stuff apart from knitting.
Life has changed a bit for me recently as I used to live in a beautiful, old house in the tiniest village in the countryside, and now find myself surrounded by lots of people everywhere I go. I miss my countryside-life; but there are advantages by living in a modern house - I do not have to spend much time on household or gardening - and that gives me the possibilities of knitting more - and even the time needed to write down my patterns.
I have knitted since childhood, immensly inspired by my 2 grandmothers; one that stood for her fantastic skill in all handicrafts, the other stood for quality and taste. My mother was about the most creative person I have ever known - she worked in all fields of handicraft except for pottery.
I love color, fashion, design, knitting. If you like to look further at my design I have my patterns presented at www.ravelry.com - profile "Asmaloy". If you want to get in contact me you could write me in English, Norwegian, Swedish, French or Spanish throug my letterbox in Ravelry. I will be happy to answer you back - but please forgive my poor Spanish.


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I have had a strange experience this week. I have been following my base training program for about 10 weeks with riding everyday including recovery rides etc.
Then for different reasons I had to take 4 days of from riding over the weekend. Then on Monday 20 minutes into my warm-up, I got extremely sore muscles in my left quadriceps. I had to stop, it was so painful.
Tuesday morning i tried to mount my bike again, but after 5 minutes, I got this extreme pain again and had to stop. Later I visited the chiropractor who thought it was a trapped nerve in the back, but she couldn't find anything, and it had no effect.
Wednesday morning I tried again, but same story. I couldn't even bike to work, which takes 5 minutes. I consulted my doctor who said it was over training, and that I should take 14 days off. I was/am a little skeptical because I have never heard of over training bringing on such severe pain. And I haven't experienced any of the symptoms related to it.
The pain is hard to describe but feel like acid in the legs that burn, and it doesn't go away. Here 24 hours after my short ride to the doctor, my legs are still sore. The pain only comes on when I bike or walk down the stairs, not up.
By accident I found this thread on a danish forum, translated into English here, and the OP basically explains the exact same story. Same symptoms with walking on stairs only biking a few km's etc. it reveals that quite a few people have experienced the same problems, without ever getting a proper diagnose.
Everyone describes how this has started after a few days of rest due to traveling and so on.
Anybody experienced anything like it, or can explain what might cause it. I can not find anything on the english-speaking web.


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