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A fleet of automated guided carriers -- robotic smart carts -- perform a mechanical ballet along the concrete floor of a building once solely reserved for making Harley-Davidson Softail motorcycles.
By August, more than 100 of the orange go-cart-sized bots will snake through on five rows of thin magnetic tape, carrying in-process Trike, Touring and Softail motorcycles through a futuristic assembly line that can be reconfigured within days to meet production demand.
There's change happening at Harley.
By fall, the Milwaukee, Wis.-based motorcycle manufacturer hopes its Springettsbury Township operations, once sprawled across 1.5 million square feet, will fit inside this 600,000-square-foot building.
Passersby along Route 30 notice chain-link fences and mounds of dirt around the building of a new visitors center, set to open in early August next to the renovated production facility.
The constant construction and shiny gadgets, line items in a $90 million local investment, make it easy to forget the people like Rich Reinberg who pour countless hours into a project knowing they may not be around to see the end result.
But the threat of getting laid off doesn't paralyze Reinberg, 48, of New Oxford.
"I couldn't be a leader and lead people with that kind of attitude," said Reinberg, who represents the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Local 175 on Harley's Restructuring Committee. "I'll cross that bridge when I get to it."
In 2009, his union accepted a concession-laden contract, including workforce reduction, to keep the assembly plant in York County.
Today, about 1,200 people work at the plant, down from more than 2,000 in 2009. Two hundred more people will lose their jobs by the first three months of 2012.
If Reinberg, a 14-year employee, makes the cut, he'll be "very, very low in seniority, maybe the bottom 20 or something," he said.
Still, he clocks in. There's more work to be done.
And along with the physical, the company must topple cultural walls held together by a more than 30-year tradition of individualism. Since 2009, the factory's 62 ultra-specific job classifications have dwindled to five.
All eyes are on York County, as Harley facilities in Wisconsin and Kansas City, Mo., prepare to follow suit in the 108-year-old iconic American motorcycle company's race to ride ahead of the pack in the global economy.
"It's a very emotional journey," said Steve Nelson, the plant's continuous improvement manager. "It's not about whether we like what we're doing here. It's about what we're competing against."
It starts at the front door.
As employees clock in, they pass a board with graphs and outlines of six symbols -- a cross, the letter "Q," a motorcycle, the company's logo and the recycling symbol -- each gridded like a calendar into 31 squares.
Each day, management colors in a square representing performance in six key metrics: health and safety, quality, delivery, cost, people and sustainability.
A few weeks ago, the graphics were mostly green, signifying daily goals were met. Some red squares -- unachieved goals -- mean: Do better next time.
"Ten years ago, if your boss said you were doing a good job, you did a good job," said local Harley spokesman Michael DiMauro. "You had no sense of how the company was doing and where you fit in."
Nelson, a 12-year employee, heads this system, called the "continuous improvement" model, which allows workers in six different production areas to track their area's progress and the progress of the entire factory.
"Before, even just the flow of the product didn't make a whole lot of sense," he said. "This is a purposeful design. It's something our employees have been asking for for quite some time."
Pull-cords dangle at 60 stations along a 1,000-foot long assembly line.
Workers spotting problems should pull that "andon cord." It alerts managers, who are required to ask, "What's the problem and how can I help?"
If the problem isn't quickly solved, the assembly line stops.
Initially, the cord met hesitation from employees, trained under the motto, "don't stop the line," said Jason Franklin, assembly area manager for Harley's York County operations.
The "andon," Japanese for "lantern," addresses issues on-spot in many larger manufacturing facilities, including Toyota. The days of Harley's "fix it later" attitude are long gone, DiMauro said.
The assembly line itself seems out of place in a section of the factory where bikes once traveled on conveyer belts entrenched in concrete and overhead hooks that hadn't moved for decades.
The new system, based on overhead modular structures and robotic carts that follow magnetic tape, can be uprooted, unbolted, and re-configured within days to handle increased demand -- or, for example, a newly introduced bike model, Franklin said.
In the first quarter earnings conference call, Harley CEO Keith Wandell said an additional $1 million expense beyond what the company expected was related to the start-up of this system.
"We've spent a ton of time developing the first process," Franklin said. "It is by no means the best process. We're going to be continually improving over the life of what we're going to do here."
In the West Campus, which must be vacated by Oct. 1, workers plow ahead as though nothing has changed.
An invisible for-sale sign shadows that 58-acre property, where a building, home to Harley production since the 1970s, faces demolition.
"Don't ever discount the fact that we're cutting this factory in half," Nelson said. "And that sucks ... This workforce gets beat up a lot for being greedy and lazy, but people just don't know."
Amid the layoffs and chaos, people like Reinberg keep their heads up. He's noticing more senior employees, previously bitter about the contract, volunteering for leadership positions.
"A lot of the people who are leaving voted for the contract to stay in York knowing they would lose their job," he said.
"Where they lost," he added, "they still won."
Companywide, the restructuring is expected to cost between $510 million and $525 million. The price tag includes Harley's "Culture Transformation Rollout," which has included more than 73,000 hours of workforce re-training as of this year.
After the restructuring is complete in 2012, the company expects it will save between $305 million to $325 million annually.
Until that day comes, people like Nelson, Reinberg and Franklin work overtime to address inefficiencies, jetting past the plant's posted orange logos reading, "New Factory York."
If you go
Want a first glimpse at what's new at Harley-Davidson?
Here are some times to remember:
---From mid-June through late July, the company will give tours in the renovated building's "fabrication" areas, where guests watch the making of fenders, fuel tanks and frames.
---The new visitors center is set to open in early August.
---Assembly lines at the restructured factory, formerly the Softail manufacturing building, are set to be fully operational by York Bike Night, Sept. 29 through Oct. 1. Guests will be able to take self-guided tours of the factory, as in previous years.
WHERE: 1425 Eden Road, Springettsbury Township
FOR TOUR INFORMATION: Call 1-877-883-1450 or 717-852-6590 prior to your visit.
Also of interest
·York County chainsaw artist about Harley carving: 'I had an inspiration for the bike and America'
·Breaking down Harley's restructuring numbers


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Prof. Sawicki, who joined the Loyola faculty in 2009, considers the hallmark of a good life to be an openness to ideas and conversations in pursuit of truth. Her areas of expertise, health law and bioethics, provide no shortage of opportunity for such conversations. Prof. Sawicki's research interests include the accommodation of personal and professional beliefs in a pluralistic society; the appropriate use of persuasion by state actors; the law's recognition of legal rights to recovery for invasion of contested harms; definitions of professional roles and ethical norms in medicine; and the state's role in enforcing those norms. She approaches these problems from the disciplines of both law and ethical theory.
Her articles have been published in a variety of law reviews and peer reviewed journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, Maryland Law Review, Cardozo Law Review, Yale Law and Policy Review, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, Journal of Health Care Law and Policy, Virtual Mentor: The American Medical Association Journal of Ethics, and the American Journal of Bioethics.
Prior to joining Loyola, Prof. Sawicki held the inaugural George Sharswood Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she taught bioethics and public health law. Prior to that, she served as a lecturer in History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Arts and Sciences, practiced law with Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen, and clerked for the Honorable J. Curtis Joyner of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
BA magna cum laude, Brown University
M. Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
JD cum laude, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Program Areas
Introduction to Health Law
Constitutional Issues in Health Law
Bioethics, Law & Policy
Selected Publications
Professor Nadia Sawicki's SSRN Webpage
Informed Consent and Societal Stewardship, Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics (forthcoming 2017)
Who Judges Harm? 27 Journal of Clinical Ethics (forthcoming 2016)
Informed Refusal in the Rehabilitation Context: Legal Considerations, 8 PM&R: The Journal of Injury, Function, and Rehabilitation 691 (2016)
Modernizing Informed Consent: Expanding the Boundaries of Materiality, 2016 University of Illinois Law Review 821 (2016)
Mandating Disclosure of Religious Limitations on Medical Practice, 42 American Journal of Law & Medicine 85 (2016)
Informed Consent as Compelled Professional Speech: Fictions, Facts, and Open Questions, 48 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 11 (2016)
Ethical Limitations on the State's Use of Arational Persuasion, 38 Law & Policy 211 (2016)
Complaints to Professional and Regulatory Bodies, in Bill Sage, Glenn Cohen, and Allison Hoffman, eds., The Oxford Handbook of American Health Law (forthcoming)
Clinicians' Involvement in Capital Punishment – Constitutional Implications, 371 New England Journal of Medicine 103 (2014)
Compelling Images: The Constitutionality of Emotionally Persuasive Health Campaigns, 73 Maryland L. Rev. 458 (2014).
A New Life for Wrongful Living, 58 New York L. Sch. L. Rev. 279 (2014).
Patient Protection and Decision Aid Quality, 54 Arizona L. Rev. 621 (2012).
The Hollow Promise of Freedom of Conscience, 33 Cardozo L. Rev. 1389 (2012).
Informed Consent Beyond the Physician-Patient Encounter: Tort Law Implications of Extra-Clinical Decision Support Tools, 20 Annals of Health Law 1 (2012).
The Abortion Informed Consent Debate: More Light, Less Heat, 21 Cornell J. of L. and Pub. Pol'y 1 (2011).
Judging Physicians: The Person and the Professional, 13 Virtual Mentor: Am. Med. Ass'n J. of Ethics 718 (2011).
Book Review: Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition, 18 Ethical Perspectives 702 (2011).
Character, Competence, and the Principles of Medical Discipline, 13 J. Health Care L. & Pol'y 285 (2010).
There Must Be A Means: The Backwards Jurisprudence of Baze v. Rees, 12 U. Penn. J. Constit. L. 1407 (2010).
Doctors, Discipline, and the Death Penalty: Professional Implications of Safe Harbor Policies, 27 Yale L. & Pol'y Rev. 107 (2008).
Without Consent: Moral Imperatives, Special Abilities, and the Duty to Treat, 8:8 Am. J. Bioethics 33 (2008).
Holly Fernandez Lynch, Michele Mathes, and Nadia N. Sawicki, Compliance with Advance Directives: Wrongful Living and Tort Law Incentives, 29:2 J. Legal Med. 133 (2008).
Joanna Bergmann, Arthur Caplan, and Nadia Sawicki, Conceiving the Father: An Ethicist's Approach to Paternity Disestablishment, White Paper, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Emerging Issues in Paternity Establishment Expert Symposium (Jan. 2006).
Wrongful Pregnancy, Wrongful Life and Wrongful Birth, 51:3 Med. Trial Technique Quarterly 283 (2005).

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Carrie Severino, chief counsel to the Judicial Crisis Network, said endorsements by prominent conservatives do nothing to answer the questions about Kagan.
"I don't think that really changes our analysis," Severino said. "We're very interested in finding out what kind of a justice she would be. As of right now, what we see looks very troubling."
Video: Starr: Kagan is 'intellectually honest' Severino's group released a video Friday blasting Kagan for barring military recruiters over "don't ask, don't tell." GOP senators have said the decision casts doubt on Kagan's fitness for the bench.
Other political news of note
Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
House Speaker John Boehner became animated Tuesday over the proposed Keystone Pipeline, castigating the Obama administration for not having approved the project yet.
- Budget deficits shrinking but set to grow after 2015
- Senate readies another volley on unemployment aid
- Obama faces Syria standstill
- Fluke files to run in California
- Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
Thomas Goldstein, a Supreme Court lawyer who writes about the court and nominations for Scotusblog.com, said the support on the right is potentially useful to Kagan.
"When conservative icons strongly endorse Kagan, that knocks the legs out from under the claim that she's either unqualified or a liberal activist. Those arguments end up looking like pure politics," Goldstein said. "The endorsements also give critical cover to moderate Republicans who want to vote for her but worry about criticism from the right."
So far no Republican senator has announced support for Kagan, who received seven GOP votes when she was confirmed as solicitor general last year.
McConnell, who teaches law at Stanford University, agreed with Severino that Kagan's stand on military recruiters was a "dreadful decision." But he said that Harvard was like many other major law schools at that time in seeking to bar military recruiters over discrimination against gays. He said the episode was "not a serious black eye."
He also said that Kagan will be a safe liberal vote in most cases that divide on ideological grounds.
Video: Alter weighs in on Kagan, Obama Yet, he said, "As I chat with other center-right law professors, she's got overwhelming affection and support."
He attributed some of that support to Kagan's openness to arguments across the political spectrum.
"She's a bit unusual in this respect, particularly at this juncture when not just the Supreme Court but the country basically is divided into two camps that often cannot speak to each other," McConnell said. Kagan, who has known McConnell since their days as law professors at the University of Chicago in the early 1990s, wrote a letter of support for McConnell in 2002 urging Senate Democrats to confirm him.
She and Estrada have been friends since they sat next to each other in several law school classes 25 years ago. And Starr held the same job as Kagan, when he was President George H.W. Bush's solicitor general.
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The lunch menu featured on Underbelly's website will soon be amended.
That's because what is now known as the UB Double Double Burger, which goes for $14, will be called the "Cease and Desist Burger."
As reported by Eater, In-N-Out Burger took umbrage with the name of chef Chris Shepherd's burger (double meat, double cheese), which in name is just a hyphen away from the very popular fast food chain's Double-Double burger. (We can't say that the two burgers are all that similar in actual taste.) In-N-Out sent a cease-and-desist letter to the restaurant earlier this week.
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Like the weather lately, the past week has been schizophrenic for me. Handsome Hunk and I took advantage of the great weather to explore the city last weekend and soak up some spring, snapping a few photos of buildings and grit along the way.
On Easter Sunday at sunrise, my book club friend Claudia died after her husband opened the windows to let the spring air in. She'd had enough. Parkinson's had ravaged her body and left it vulnerable to other ailments. I have a feeling that Claudia was a "handful" all her life: she definitely was a
spitfire who always had something unique to contribute to our discussions and much to our delight, she rarely minced words. She served in the Peace Corps, became a social worker and was a creative spirit who loved and participated in all the arts. There have been several times in the past few years that we thought beautiful Claudia was near death, but she always rallied and I never thought of her as sickly. We'll truly miss you Claudia. I bet at every book club someone will sigh and wonder what you would say.
Last Monday I flew to San Antonio on business with two male associates the age of my daughter. It's quite the social experiment all that generational togetherness. We worked 9 hr days and ate Mexican food and drank "Top Shelf" tequilas every night, and they were the ones who declared themselves tired and wanting to head back to the hotel to crash. Personally all that "on time" with the clients wore thin with me too.
So, this week is jam-packed with getting things done to leave on Friday to visit my grandchildren. I have a pile of new little baby and toddler clothes to take with me. I can't wait for some little hugs and grimy-faced kisses. Gigi is on her way!
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Richard K. Armey, the group's chairman and a former House majority leader, walked into the group's Capitol Hill offices with his wife, Susan, and an aide holstering a handgun at his waist. The aim was to seize control of the group and expel Armey's enemies: The gun-wielding assistant escorted FreedomWorks' top two employees off the premises, while Armey suspended several others who broke down in sobs at the news.
The coup lasted all of six days. By Sept. 10, Armey was gone — with a promise of $8 million — and the five ousted employees were back. The force behind their return was Richard J. Stephenson, a reclusive Illinois millionaire who has exerted increasing control over one of Washington's most influential conservative grass-roots organizations.Bottom line: After Dead-Dick Dick's armed takeover, the wingnut who owns the Cancer Treatment Centers of America promised Dick $400K a year for 20 years to return the reins of impotence to Matt Kibbe.
"This was two weeks after there had been a shooting at the Family Research Council," said one junior staff member who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media. "So when a man with a gun who didn't identify himself to me or other people on staff, and a woman I'd never seen before said there was an announcement, my first gut was, 'Is FreedomWorks in danger?' It was bizarre.' "
Maybe the unnamed aide can share a cell with David Gregory.
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George Harvey – Born July 15, 1834 in Kesteven or Holland, Lincolnshire, England. He and his wife, Elizabeth Lowden, farmed in Leoni Township, Jackson Co., MI. He died on February 20, 1901 and is buried in Harrington Cemetery, Henrietta Township, Jackson Co. George is my wife's 2nd great grandfather.
Helen Alice Heim – Born July 15, 1917 in Sylvan Township, Washtenaw Co., MI. Helen and her husband, Wayne Harvey, owned a farm on Harvey Rd. in Jackson Co., MI. She died on April 20, 2000 in Chelsea, Washtenaw Co. and is buried in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Chelsea. Helen is my wife's grandmother.
Nelson Alonzo Harris – Born July 16, 1822 in Greenfield, Saratoga Co., NY. Nelson, his wife, Louisa Cleveland, and their family came to Cato, Manitowoc Co., WI from Indiana in the early 1850s. He engaged in mill business in Cato and Forest Junction. He moved to Florida in 1884 and died in Waldo, Alachua Co. He is buried in Laurel Grove Cemetery in Waldo. Nelson in my 2nd great grandfather.
Dorothy Louise Harris – Born July 17, 1900 in Appleton, Outagamie Co., WI. She was a primary school teacher in Clintonville, Waupaca Co., and Appleton before her marriage to Russell Bernard Weller in July 15, 1929. They lived in Clintonville and owned Weller Hardware. Dorothy died on August 13, 1972 in Clintonville, and is buried in St. Rose Cemetery, Clintonville. Dorothy and Russell are my grandparents.
Joseph Cleveland – Born July 18, 1689 in Chelmsford, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts Bay Colony. He and his family lived in Canterbury, Windham Co., CT where he died on March 11, 1766. Joseph is my 6th great grandfather.
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Charles Russell McConnell – Died July 12, 1898 in Michigan. He is buried in Spaulding Cemetery, Bellevue Twp., Eaton Co., MI. He married Sophia Laib in 1859. Charles is my wife's 2nd great grandfather.
William Bradford, II – Died July 15, 1591 in Austerfield, Yorkshire, England. He married Alice Hanson in 1584. William is the father of William Bradford, Governor of Plymouth Colony. He is my 10th great grandfather.
Katherine Protz – Died July 15, 1910 in Brillion Township, Calumet Co., WI. She was born in Germany and came to America with her husband, Leonhard Seybold, on June 2, 1857. They farmed in Brillion Twp. Katherine is buried in Forest Home Cemetery, Calumet Co. She is my 2nd great grandmother.


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Spain to review train speeds after deadly crash
Spain will review speed limits and security systems throughout its rail network to avoid a repeat of a train crash that killed 79 people last month, a government minister said Friday.
The government also proposed improving rail signs and introducing hands-free phone communication between drivers and the rail control center, Public Works Minister Ana Pastor told a parliamentary transport commission
A court investigating the disaster has said its preliminary findings show the train was going at 195 kph (121 mph) on a stretch where the speed limit was 80 kph (50 mph) when it crashed July 24 on a tight curve outside the northwestern pilgrim city of Santiago de Compostela. The driver, Francisco Jose Garzon Amo, had been talking on a company cellphone to a colleague seconds before the train derailed.
The investigating judge, whose conclusions are not expected for several weeks, has provisionally charged Garzon with 79 counts of negligent homicide pending a possible trial. He has been freed but must report to court weekly.
Garzon has admitted in court that he was traveling too fast but could not explain to an investigating judge why he didnt slow down in time.
Pastor, the government minister whose job includes oversight of the transport sector, said the government also wants to introduce stricter psychological and physical tests for drivers as part of 20 post-crash safety measures.
She said the review of procedures has already started. "The entire network will be analyzed and, in accordance with this analysis, steps will be taken to improve safety," Pastor said.
She said that high-tech signaling systems will be installed on stretches where speeds must be reduced sharply. Those systems are designed to automatically apply the brakes if a train exceeds the speed limit and have been installed along the dangerous Santiago de Compostela curve since the crash happened, authorities have said.
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If more sites receive degraded support in ie6, then people, and managers, will be more onboard with flushing it out of the market. I mean it's not economic exclusion here — browsers are free to upload.


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This wrap dress jumped out at me and I thought it looked fairly simple. Ha! I'll say the good news is that I learned A LOT about clothing construction making this dress (and the pattern is well-written, don't get me wrong). However, in the time it took me to make it, hubby thought I made a matching one for the doll's owner too!
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The bodice is lined and handstitched from the inside - not a strongsuit of mine. But, I'm happy with the end result. It's cute and hopefully easy for three-year-old fingers to put on.
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The matching pants are from a self-drafted pattern using the doll's pajama pants (remember she was here for a sleepover?). I will say I made a bunch of these for our smaller baby dolls and didn't cut the straps on the bias. It made a big difference. Look how happy Chloe is!
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H.A.W.X. 2 PC Benchmark Test Released
The benchmark runs a short in-game scene then reports back with your average and maximum frames per second scores--not the most in-depth analysis but certainly enough to give a fair indication of how it'll run and to compare excitedly with your chums.
Bizarrely, you'll need to log into a uPlay account and have the uPlay launcher open to run the benchmark. H.A.W.X. 2 will indeed be using Ubisoft's wacky DRM scheme.
While H.A.W.X. 2 was release on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in September, the PC version was delayed and is now due some time this month.
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Michael Berger has featured Dr. Mingjun Zhang's team's fascinating work on flesh-eating fungus in a Dec. 18, 2012 Spotlight article on Nanowerk,
"Most studies on naturally occurring organic nanoparticles have focused on higher organisms," Mingjun Zhang, an associate professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, tells Nanowerk. "Given the earth's rich biological diversity, it is reasonable to hypothesize that naturally occurring nanoparticles, of various forms and functions, may be produced by a wide range of organisms from microbes to metazoans."
In his research, Zhang has focused on looking at nature for inspirations for solutions to challenges in engineering and medicine, especially in small-scale, such as bioinspired nanomaterials, bioinspired energy-efficient propulsive systems, and bioinspired nanobio systems for interfacing with cellular systems.
In new work, Zhang and his research associate Dr. Yongzhong Wang have turned their focus to Arthrobotrys oligospora, a representative flesh eater with a predatory life stage in the fungal kingdom.
The researchers have published their work in Advanced Functional Materials ((early online publication behind a paywall),
Naturally Occurring Nanoparticles from Arthrobotrys oligospora as a Potential Immunostimulatory and Antitumor Agent by Yongzhong Wang, Leming Sun, Sijia Yi, Yujian Huang, Scott C. Lenaghan, and Mingjun Zhang in Advanced Functional Materials
Article first published online: 4 DEC 2012 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201202619
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Arthrobotrys oligospora, a representative flesh eater in the fungal kingdom, is a potential source for natural-based biomaterials due to the presence of specialized 3D adhesive traps that can capture, penetrate, and digest free-living nematodes in diverse environments. The purpose of this study is to discover novel nanoparticles that occur naturally in A. oligospora and to exploit its potential biomedical applications. A new culture method, fungal sitting drop culture method, is established in order to monitor the growth of A. oligospora in situ, and observe the nanoparticle production without interfering or contamination from the solid media. Abundant spherical nanoparticles secreted from the fungus are first revealed by scanning electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy. They have an average size of 360–370 nm, with a zeta potential of –33 mV at pH 6.0. Further analyses reveal that there is ≈28 μg of glycosaminoglycan and ≈550 μg of protein per mg of nanoparticles. Interestingly, the nanoparticles significantly induce TNF-α secretion in RAW264.7mouse macrophages, indicating a potential immunostimulatory effect. The nanoparticles themselves are also found slightly cytotoxic to mouse melanoma B16BL6 and human lung cancer A549 cells, and show a synergistic cytotoxic effect upon conjugation with doxorubicin against both cells. This study proposes a new approach for producing novel organic nanoparticles secreted from microorganisms under controlled conditions. The findings here also highlight the potential roles of the naturally occurring nanoparticles from A. oligospora as an immunostimulatory and antitumor agent for cancer immunochemotherapy.
In more generalized language (from Berger's Spotlight article),
"It is really exciting to use a natural microbe system to produce nanoparticles for potential cancer therapy," says Zhang. "Originally, we were trying to understand how the fungus secretes an adhesive trap that can capture, penetrate, and digest free-living nematodes in diverse environments. By doing that we almost accidentally discovered the nanoparticles produced."
Zhang's team investigated the fungal nanoparticles' potential as a stimulant for the immune system, and found through an in vitro study that the nanoparticles activate secretion of an immune-system stimulant within a white blood cell line. They also investigated the nanoparticles' potential as an antitumor agent by testing in vitro the toxicity to cells using two tumor cell lines, and discovered nanoparticles do kill cancer cells.
Berger's article in addition to giving more details about Zhang's current work and his work with ivy and possible applications for ivy-based nanoparticles in sunscreens also provides some discussion of naturally occurring nanoparticles as opposed to engineered (or man-made) nanoparticles.
The University of Tennessee's Dec. 4, 2012 press release is also a good source of information on Zhang's latest work on flesh-eating fungus. For the indefatiguable who are interested in Zhang's work on ivy and potential nanosunscreens, there's also my July 22, 2010 posting.


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After what has felt like an eternity of rehashing the same denim trends over and over...and over, we seem to finally be enjoying a revival of creative jean-ious (sorry, couldn't help it).
Seriously, though, new washes, treatments, and cuts are making this year the most exciting one since the '80s (except this time around, everything is a whole lot prettier). No longer do you only have a choice between distressed and dark denim in the shops — now, the decisions look more like "floral or paint-splattered?" or "high-waisted bottle-green or tapered metallic pink?"
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Diamondbacks activate Gregorius from concussion DL
San Diego, CA – The Arizona Diamondbacks reinstated shortstop Didi Gregorius from the 7-day concussion disabled list prior to Saturday's game against the San Diego Padres.
Gregorius had been sidelined since April 26, when the rookie was forced to leave a matchup against Colorado after being hit in the head by a pitch from the Rockies' Josh Outman.
The 23-year-old had gone 11-for-27 (.407) with a pair of homers in seven games prior to the injury. Gregorius had also missed the first 2 1/2 weeks of the season due to a sprained right elbow he suffered during the spring.
Outfielder Alfredo Marte was optioned to Triple-A Reno to make room for Gregorius. The rookie batted just .186 with four RBI in 22 games to begin the season.


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It has been heartwarming to read the warm responses to Rabbi Waxman's post asking Beliefnet to reconsider its decision to cancel Virtual Talmud. Virtual Talmud offered an alternative model for internet communications: civil discourse pursued in postings over a time frame of days (rather than moments) predicated upon the belief in the value of and respect for alternative viewpoints.
We hope we have showed through our debates that Jewish tradition offers a rich resource that can help us find answers to all of today's questions: from finding contemporary meaning in ancient Jewish rituals, to making sense of the political and cultural issues leading the headlines, to exploring our personal roles in repairing the world.
Well, loyal readers, all good things must come to an end and we've been informed that this particular experiment in blogging as a forum for creating wide-ranging discussion on topics of interest to contemporary Jews has run its course. Maybe it's that blogging doesn't lend itself so well to the longer and more thoughtful reflections we tried to put out, or that multi-person blogs do better when they involve ruthless smackdowns rather than nuanced responses. Whatever the case, I've certainly enjoyed the opportunity to enter into discussion with such thoughtful colleagues and, especially, to read your responses-–both those that were positive and those that were, perhaps, less so.
What I saw is that there is great interest in the topics we discussed, in using our Jewish lenses to look at contemporary life and issues to engage core questions of values and meaning. I saw passionate responses from readers that suggest, as is the case with me, that these questions aren't merely of academic or intellectual interest but are issues that really matter, and the way we in which discuss them matters as well.
There are few times in this blog's history when I have felt that Rabbi Grossman was one hundred percent correct in her criticisms of my ideas. However, a few weeks ago she called me out for citing a few crack websites on Barak Obama's advisors. She was right. I never should have cited those websites–they were wrong and I apologize to my readers for my misstep.
As I intimated in my first post the notion that Obama is somehow bad for the Jews is absurd based on what we know and what we have seen. All we as a community should be focused on is what the person has said and what he has done. While I am still unsure about a few issues and disagree with him on a few others, the more the campaign continues, the more I like what I hear and see from Obama. Many have already praised his talk on race as being indicative of the type of nuanced and complex yet straight and simple kind of thinking that this country needs, I would like add just a few points that have not been addressed.
As a post-baby boomer, it is interesting to me to see how much of today's conversation about racial relations is still rooted in the 1960s experience and rhetoric of the civil rights struggle, and the disenchantment that followed. Many in the black and Jewish communities look to this period either with hope as a sign of what it is possible to achieve, or with disenchantment as proof of the other group's faithlessness. The fact that so much of our dialogue–and so many of our organizations–are still rooted in this 40-year-old narrative makes it extremely hard to move forward: there's just too much past to reconcile.
Obama cannot, as he was finally forced to acknowledge, transcend race. But as a child of the 1970s and 1980s, Obama can at least begin to reframe our conversations about race by bringing them out of that closed framework and into today. Personally, I thought his speech was very powerful and important, not least of all because he finally named some of the realities on the ground today rather than rehearsing old grievances. Yes, we need to recognize history, but we also need to move past it so we can clearly see and address the deep fissures and challenges our country is facing around race right now, rather than replaying the battles and resentments of yesterday.


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Whether you are a wine-lover or a casual wine-drinker, a visit to New Zealand isn't complete without a tour of the Marlborough wine region. Combining wine culture with the warmth and friendliness of New Zealand hospitality, we really enjoyed our visit to the Marlborough region. Making for an even more memorable experience was our private wine tour of the area.
Located on the to of the south island, Marlborough is easily accessible by plane, train, car, bus, or ferry. Once you arrive in Marlborough, you may opt to drive yourself around to the wineries; however, we don't recommend doing that if you plan to sample the wines. It is much more convenient to have a driver who knows where they are going!
There are many options for wine tours in the area. Group tours are a lot of fun because you can meet other travelers with similar interests - and we love making new friends wherever we travel. But if you prefer flexibility in your tour and more personal attention, then a private tour is for you.
During our recent visit, we were taken out on a private wine tour by Chris from Na Clachan Wine Tours. The experience was much better than we ever could have imagined. The tour is extremely flexible, and our guide did an awesome job at getting to know us and our preferences. There was no set itinerary, and as we progressed throughout the day, our guide paid close attention to our preferences as we sampled wines. He modified the tour on the fly to appease our interests…and he was very good at his job!
We absolutely loved every place that we visited, and we found some of our favorite wine that we have ever tasted during our trip (which we will now have to find back home in the States!). Another aspect about the tour which was beneficial was how much we were able to learn. We truly love learning about anything and everything when we travel. So even though we weren't experts with regards to wine, we felt SO much more knowledgeable by the end of our private tour.
Our guide explained the history of the New Zealand wine industry, and unique characteristics about the wine produced in the area. We learned about trimming styles, pressing methods, etc. It was all quite fascinating! Plus, we had a lot of fun chatting with our guide during the day - and he made us feel very comfortable with asking as many questions as we wanted.
Our experience on a Marlborough wine tour is something that we will never forget. And while we would recommend group tours as well, we highly recommend that you splurge for a private tour -- especially if there are a few of you in a group who can split the cost. You will have a wonderful time with your guide and get an experience tailored especially to your interests.
For more details about our day with Chris, our private guide, click here to read our complete review (warning: there is a LOT of wine talk in the article!)


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New Interview, Online MusicJune 01, 2003
The zlog interview, thoughts on Magnatune, and music–industry monopolies.
Ronan's interview with me was posted to zlog this morning. I think I managed to give a few rather good answers.
What I've been noticing is that the more I talk to people about certain issues, the clearer my views become to me and in my answers. Not to say that I'm right, or even close to it, but there's definitely a refinement process happening. Very soon now I'll perfect the art of the sound bite. §
After looking at Derek's CD Baby a few days ago, I've discovered another store doing the same thing. Magnatune goes a step further and eliminates the packaging costs associated with shipping CDs and just lets you download the music. They split the profits 50/50 with the artists, and even let you decide how much you'd like to pay for each album.
It's this kind of innovation that the RIAA simply will not come up with on its own terms. We need to start supporting stores like CD Baby and Magnatune to keep the soul of music alive, and stop treating art like a business.
Note to Canadians: Magnatune lets you get around the heavy customs fee you will pay if you order music from an American store. No physical object means, for now anyway, no additional tax on your purchase.
update: Via Slashdot comes this great article comparing today's recording industry and their strong–arm tactics to the world of Thomas Edison and his own anti–trust suit. Funny how things can stay the same in a century, no matter how much they've changed. §


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Illidan is cool and so is Reliquary of Souls. Kael'thas is maybe the most epic feeling fight in the game. But in my opinion, the most intense and most fun fight for a tank has got to be Gurtogg Bloodboil.
The boss has an ability called Bloodboil that will put a DoT on the 5 people farthest away from him which does 600 damage every second for 24 seconds and he does it every 10 seconds and it will stack if the same people get it every time. So for all of phase 1 there are 3 groups of 5 people rotating so that there are new people getting Bloodboil every time and nobody gets more than 1 stack.
And in the front of the raid the boss tries to apply a debuff to the tank every 2 seconds. The debuff reduces your armor by 500 and has a DoT component that does 300-350 damage. That doesn't sound too bad but of course it stacks up to 99 times. So the idea is to make sure it doesn't stack too many times on the tank. Since there is no way to remove it and it lasts for 60 seconds, the only way to get rid of it is to let it wear off and that means you need two tanks trading aggro. But of course the boss is immune to taunt so you have to do it the old fashioned way. He also Ejects the current tank which is a knockback and a small threat reduction and he can disorient the tank for 8 seconds and go attack #2 on threat.
Every 60 seconds it goes to phase 2 when he casts an ability called Fel Rage on himself and on one person in the raid who isn't a warrior and a debuff called Insignificance on everyone else. The Insignificance debuff makes it so that nothing you do will generate any threat.
Fel Rage increases your armor by 15,000 and your health by 30,000 and it increase healing done by 100% and damage done by 300%. Gurtogg will only attack the person with Fel Rage until that person is dead or the debuff wears off after 30 seconds. Remember Gurtogg casts that buff on himself too (except he doesn't get the armor bonus) so he is going to be beating the crap out of the Fel Rage target. So healers need to heal that person like maniacs while healing the people with the Bloodboil debuff and healing the tanks with the Acidic Wound debuff.
After Fel Rage it goes back to phase 1 for another 60 seconds of aggro trading fun.
It is obviously a dps race because if you can't kill him fast enough the healers will run out of mana because of the massive raid wide damage. There is an enrage timer at 7 minutes but I can't imagine how you would run into it before the healers were all OOM.
As a tank you have to generate enough threat that the dps can kill him before the healers are OOM but you can't generate too much threat or the other tank won't be able to keep up. And you have to stack the crap out of avoidance stats so that you don't take too many stacks of the Acidic Wound debuff. I think that when we were first learning the fight I had a ludicrous amount of avoidance – 36% dodge, 22% parry and 7.5% miss on top of the base 4.4% chance to be missed. Of course that kind of avoidance doesn't help much with threat generation.
The key to this fight is finding a balance in everything. Finding a balance in the gear to keep you alive and generate threat, balance between enough threat to get the kill and not outpace the other tank, a balance between bringing enough healers and enough dps, a balance between squishies to stand in the back but who can easily die to Fel Rage or melee who can't soak a bloodboil but tear the boss apart during Fel Rage. There are two different fights going on in the front and in the back and then it all crashes together in phase 2. There is just so much going on and I love it. I look forward to this fight every week.


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May 26, 2010
By Justin Tang
When it came to looking for work, Sheila Choi ('08) was never the stereotypical MBA student. While her peers and classmates feverishly sent out resumes and attended career fairs in search for their summer internship and post-graduation employment, Choi remained focused on a career plan she laid out before she even entered Anderson.
After receiving her B.A. at UC Berkeley, she worked for ABC News and Disney while pursuing her passion for animals as a volunteer at pet adoption fairs. For most, that would be enough, striking a balance between a promising career and an enjoyable, worthwhile hobby. But that hobby ultimately revealed an unpleasant reality -- the problem of pet overpopulation was far worse in Southern California than she originally believed. She knew being a part-time volunteer would not suffice.
Choi founded The Fuzzy Pet Foundation (TFPF) in 2005. TFPF is a pet welfare group whose goal is to end pet overpopulation by doing three things:
- Rescue and rehabilitation
- Aggressive spay and neuter
- Education that includes community fairs and outreach events.
The organization focuses on going to fairs and schools to promote pet responsibility and holding adoption events to move dogs out of animal shelters. Now that she had a fully operating organization, she needed the business, organization, and leadership skills to lead TFPF and inspire her volunteers.
She enrolled in Anderson's MBA program in 2006. "I needed a better strategy to run the organization. I wanted to market TFPF creatively and treat it like a small business, and Anderson offered the great entrepreneurship curriculum that I was looking for," Choi said.
As an Anderson student, Choi found herself inspired by classes that directly related to how to run an organization like TFPF. For example, she took classes on business development, where groups of students strategized on how to start a business. "By teaming up with students to create a startup company, I learned the key factors to start a business from scratch. The people and the class helped me think outside of the box," said Choi. These classes provided her the education to do price analysis projects and polish her business proficiency, all skills that would be critical to the success of TFPF.
But not everything she learned at Anderson occurred in the classroom. Choi gratefully recalled, "Anderson really helped my networking. I learned how to relate to people from different industries and cultures, and it taught me that you must be resilient out there." She found many Anderson students who were fascinated with her work, so much so that some volunteer with the organization today. An Anderson alumnus does pro bono accounting for TFPF, and a few Anderson employees created the organization's website for her.
Since earning her MBA, she spends the majority of her time managing TFPF and continuing her advocacy work. A typical day will might consist of grant writing and networking socials that range from corporate events to an outing on the golf course. "I don't just network people, I network with rescue colleagues to move dogs out of shelters, and I network with organizations from different states," Choi said.
The organization received international media attention with its most famous case, Scooby-Roo, who was an abandoned puppy born with only two hind legs. After Choi heard about the dog in Los Angeles, she sent out mass newsletters asking for help to purchase a set of wheels that would act as the dog's front legs. Scooby-Roo garnered the attention of Demi Moore, Shannon Elizabeth, Michael Jackson's children, and Alyssa Milano, the dog's "godmother." Through the help of these celebrities, Choi was able to raise funds to build custom wheels for Scooby-Roo.
Currently, Choi is a Master's student at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government (she commutes to Boston for coursework), where she will receive the policy education necessary to bring the problem of pet overpopulation to the national level. Her main goal is to launch large-scale spay and neuter trucks that will provide services effectively and cost-free. Additionally, Choi will be releasing a Scooby-Roo children's book shortly to teach children about pet responsibility.
"Making money doesn't always bring you happiness. I am the most happy when I am reaching out to the needy and following my passion," Choi explained. It is clear that Choi has taken these words to heart and shown many others the joy in following one's passions.
About UCLA Anderson School of Management
UCLA Anderson School of Management, established in 1935, is regarded among the leading business schools in the world. UCLA Anderson faculty members are renowned for their teaching excellence and research in advancing management thinking. Each year, UCLA Anderson provides management education to more than 1,800 students enrolled in MBA, Fully-Employed MBA, Executive MBA, UCLA-NUS Global Executive MBA, Master of Financial Engineering, and doctoral programs, and to more than 2,000 professional managers through executive education programs. Combining highly selective admissions, varied and innovative learning programs, and a world-wide network of 36,000 alumni, UCLA Anderson develops and prepares global leaders.


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The nuclear capabilities of North Korea and Iran pose a "'serious threat to the world," Texas Rep. Ted Poe said today at a congressional hearing.
Poe, chairman of the House subcommittee on terrorism, said the world's ability to stop nations like North Korea, Iran, and Syria from unleashing nuclear weapons rests largely on the United States.
The Republican from Humble, along with several other congressmen, said United States should make a more serious effort to stiffen sanctions and cut off international aid to North Korea.
Fellow Texan Rep. Randy Weber of Pearland later said he felt if North Korea could provoke an all-0ut war if it attacked its southern neighbor South Korea. If that scenario played out, the Texas Republican said he hoped the United States would back South Korea in, what he would consider, a "justifiable" response.
R. James Woosley, a former director of the CIA insisted tough economic sanctions on countries like North Korea and Iran are essential in weakening the regimes, while avoiding using outright force.
The United States has undergone years of tense talks with North Korea and the other two nations on their efforts to dabble in nuclear energy.
Between 1995 and 2008, the U.S. provided North Korea with more than $1.3 billion in assistance, half in the form of food aid and 40 percent for energy assistance, according to a 2012 Congressional Research Service report. The support has been criticized as ineffective, as reports circulate the aid is used to feed the military and not the country's civilians. The Obama administration has used food aid to attempt to talk North Korean leader Kim Jong Un down from building up nuclear capabilities.
Several experts warned the committee that Iran and North Korea are months having capabilities to assemble something that passes as a nuclear weapon.
When lawmakers asked for specifics, Henry Sokolski , executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center said it's no longer years but months.
"We don't know when any longer because it's very close," he said.