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National media face a dilemma when attempting to evaluate the returning personnel for the 2014 Clemson football team. Are the Tigers rebuilding or are they a veteran team?
Clemson must replace a 3,000-yard passer, 1,400-yard receiver and 1,000-yard rusher as Dabo Swinney prepares for his sixth full season as leader of the program. Gone are All-America quarterback Tajh Boyd and his 57 school records, All-America wide receiver Sammy Watkins, the No. 4 pick of the 2014 NFL draft, and All-ACC running back Roderick McDowell and his 1,025 rushing yards.
Additionally, Swinney must find a replacement for wide receiver Martavis Bryant, who averaged 19.7 yards per reception on 42 catches, best in the nation among players with at least 40 catches, and two-time First-Team All-ACC offensive tackle Brandon Thomas. Thomas was a third-round draft pick by the San Francisco 49ers and Bryant was a fourth-round selection by the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Defensively, the Tigers must find two new linebackers to plug holes with the efficiency of second-leading tackler Spencer Shuey (119 tackles, four recovered fumbles) and Quandon Christian, a three-year starter.
Cornerback Darius Robinson had a solid senior year with 37 tackles and three interceptions, while Bashaud Breeland turned professional after notching four interceptions as a junior. He was a fourth-round pick by the Washington Redskins.
On the other hand, Clemson returns 19 senior scholarship players, the most in the Swinney era. The 2014 roster includes 12 players who have played at least 35 games and 17 who have played at least 30.
That senior class has helped bring Clemson to a new level of consistent winning. The 2014 group already has 32 wins in the bank (32-8) and needs just eight wins to tie the school record for a senior class. It would be just the second 40-win class in school history and the first since 1990.
The group has recorded eight wins over top-25 teams, including five top-10 victories. That includes top-10 wins in bowl games each of the last two years, the only school in the nation that can make that claim.
"College football goes in cycles because of the limitations on years of eligibility," said Swinney. "While we lost some celebrated skill-position players who set over 100 records on offense and some productive, consistent team leaders on defense, we do have 38 returning junior and senior scholarship players who have experienced winning.
"A few years ago, people said we were awful along the front seven on defense, and now these same players are two years older and people are saying we might have one of the best defensive lines in the nation.
"I am excited to coach this team because it will be the most veteran team I have had. My biggest concerns are developing depth at the offensive tackle position, getting the young wide receivers up to speed and replacing the consistency of Chandler Catanzaro as placekicker. He made 39 of his last 41 field goals and many of them from long distance and in the clutch."
OFFENSEThe talk of the Clemson football team this preseason surrounds the selection of Boyd's successor at quarterback. They are big shoes to fill, as Boyd started all 40 games between 2011 and 2013, winning 32 of them.
He finished his career with ACC records for total offense and touchdown responsibility. He is the only quarterback in ACC history to throw for at least 3,800 yards in three different seasons. He was outstanding in the clutch as well, leading the Tigers to a 6-0 record in games decided by a touchdown or less over the last two seasons.
However, Swinney has confidence in Cole Stoudt, Boyd's backup the last three years.
"Tajh Boyd has moved on to the next level, but we are not going to lower the standard at this position. The standard is still winning, and I expect us to have a very productive offense in 2014.
"I don't see any reason why we can't be explosive and fun to watch on offense this year. We have different players carrying the ball, but we have recruited well and I expect us to be productive."
Stoudt has played well as Boyd's backup the last three years. A veteran of 22 games, he completed 47-59 passes for 415 yards and five touchdowns against no interceptions in 2013. His completion percentage (79.7) was the best in the nation among quarterbacks with at least 50 attempts.
"Cole has played a lot of snaps over the last three years in this offense and we have won games with him," said Swinney. "His experience running this offense is very important and he has been very accurate when called on."
First-year freshman Deshaun Watson will be Stoudt's backup heading into the season. The Gainesville, Ga. native came to Clemson in January and went through spring practice. He is the all-time leader in passing touchdowns in the Georgia high school ranks, a record he owned before his senior season started. He was listed as the top dual-threat quarterback in the nation by many services.
While the loss of Watkins and Bryant to the NFL draft a year early is significant (combined 2,292 receiving yards and 19 touchdowns in 2013), the Tigers have players returning who caught 48 percent of the passes and gained 41 percent of the yards.
Germone Hopper, Adam Humphries, Charone Peake and Mike Williams lead the cast of returning wideouts.
In 2013, Humphries had 41 receptions, third-most on the team, for 483 yards and two scores. He has 97 career catches for 893 yards, more than any other active Tiger. Hopper had 21 catches from the slot-receiver position for 142 yards and also had two touchdowns.
Williams and Peake are both capable of making big plays on the outside. Williams started three games last season and had 20 receptions for 316 yards, a solid 15.8-yard average, with three scores.
Peake played the first two games of 2013 before suffering a torn ACL in practice the week after the SC State game. He played a big role in Clemson's win over No. 5 Georgia with five catches for 58 yards.
"We have talented players returning at wide receiver," added Swinney.
Three first-year freshmen came to Clemson in January and will vie for significant playing time. Demarre Kitt, Kyrin Priester and Artavis Scott are all wide receivers rated among the top-150 prospects in the nation by various services coming out of high school. They all showed flashes of brilliance during the spring.
Tight end has been an important position in the Tiger offense since Chad Morris became offensive coordinator in 2011. He had the John Mackey Award winner in 2011 (Dwayne Allen) and a First-Team All-ACC tight end in 2012 (Brandon Ford). The 2013 season saw tight ends utilized by committee. Still, Tiger tight ends caught 45 passes for 497 yards and seven scores.
Stanton Seckinger is the returning starter at tight end and had 21 receptions for 244 yards and four scores in 2013. He started the year catching what proved to be the winning touchdown pass against No. 5 Georgia and ended the year catching the winning touchdown pass against No. 6 Ohio State in the Orange Bowl.
Jordan Leggett is a sophomore with big-play potential. He showed that with a 43-yard catch against Ohio State in the Orange Bowl and had 12 catches for 176 yards and two scores in 2013. Sam Cooper is a third veteran back at the position. He overcame a torn ACL in the 2013 Spring Game to make a significant contribution.
D.J. Howard has been injured off and on over his career, but the senior has a team-high 581 career rushing yards and 35 games under his belt. Howard is listed as the starter heading into the fall. He had a strong offseason, including 59 yards on nine carries and a touchdown in the Spring Game.
Zac Brooks is the leading returning rusher from 2013 after gaining 246 yards. The junior from Jonesboro, Ark. also had six catches for 83 yards, including a key touchdown reception in the win over Georgia.
C.J. Davidson is one of the most interesting stories on the team. The original walk-on came to Clemson on a track & field scholarship, but showed breakaway speed in limited duty in 2013 when he totaled 155 yards on 34 carries and four touchdowns.
Red-shirt freshmen Tyshon Dye and Wayne Gallman are in the mix at running back. Dye suffered a torn Achilles injury in February, an injury that will be a setback in his preparation for 2014. Gallman had a terrific offseason, climaxed with 89 total yards in the Spring Game.
While Swinney knows the media will focus on the race to become Clemson's next starting quarterback, he is most concerned about the starting offensive tackle slots.
"We lost Brandon Thomas, our starting left tackle. We also lost Patrick DeStefano and Gifford Timothy due to injury. We can't afford another injury there. It will be important for Isaiah Battle, Shaq Anthony and Joe Gore to step up. Eric Mac Lain and Kalon Davis could swing to play both guard and tackle."
Battle started four games in 2013 after Timothy suffered a season-ending injury. The junior is a gifted athlete at 6'6″ and 290 pounds. He has held his own against some of the top defensive linemen in the nation at Georgia, Louisiana State, Ohio State and South Carolina.
Anthony has five career starts, including three last season. He played 503 snaps on Clemson's record-setting 2013 offense.
Davis and David Beasley both started seven games at guard in 2013 and are considered returning co-starters. Davis, also capable of playing tackle, logged 500 snaps last year and is a veteran of 36 career games. Beasley has 19 starts in his Tiger career.
Clemson is strong at the center position with returning starter Ryan Norton, who replaced All-American Dalton Freeman after the 2013 season. He responded as a sophomore from the first game when he was named ACC Offensive Lineman-of-the-Week against Georgia. He went on to tally a team-high 841 snaps and is on the preseason Rimington Trophy Watch List.
Jay Guillermo played 182 snaps as a reserve center and guard in 2013 and might be too good to leave in a second-team role behind Norton, as he is capable of playing other positions.
DEFENSEWhile Clemson must replace personnel who accounted for a high percentage of the Tigers' 2013 offensive production, the defense returns players who accounted for a high percentage of big plays.
Clemson led the nation in tackles for loss (122) by a wide margin and players who accounted for 96.5 of them return in 2014. There are 12 returning ACC players who had at least 10 tackles for loss in 2013, and five are Tigers.
"We have made significant improvement on defense over the last couple of years, to the point where last year we were in the top 25 in the nation in as many defensive categories as offensive," said Swinney. "When I first came here, I said to reach an elite level we had to be outstanding on defense, and we were in many areas last year."
A look to the roster indicates that the strength of the team will be the defensive line. No less than 12 returning lettermen, six defensive ends and six defensive tackles, return to a defense that finished in the top 25 in the nation in scoring defense and total defense, and was 10th in turnovers forced. Nine returning defensive linemen have combined for 91 career starts.
Leading the group is consensus All-American Vic Beasley. The senior is one of just three returning consensus All-Americans in the nation. A candidate to turn professional, Beasley decided to return for his senior season after a 2013 performance that included 13 sacks, 23 tackles for loss and four caused fumbles. He was second in the nation in tackles for loss per game and tied for third in sacks per game along with tying for 10th in caused fumbles.
"Our biggest signee since the end of the 2013 season was Vic Beasley," admitted Swinney. "Having Vic return for his senior year is a big plus for our defense. He went from being a reserve as a sophomore to being a consensus All-American as a junior. He had an outstanding junior year, but there is another level for him."
Beasley's comrade at the other end position is Corey Crawford, a two-year starter who had more tackles than Beasley (52 to 44) and added 10.5 tackles for loss and three sacks in 2013. Defensive tackle Grady Jarrett was the defensive co-MVP in 2012 and is in his third season as a starter. He was third on Clemson's 2013 defense with 83 tackles, including 11 tackles for loss. Josh Watson, D.J. Reader, DeShawn Williams and Carlos Watkins also return with starting experience.
"We might have the most experienced defensive line in the nation," explained Swinney.
The above listing of players does not even include Shaq Lawson, who had 10 tackles for loss and four sacks as a reserve in 2013, when he was a second-team freshman All-American.
There are two open starting slots at linebacker. Clemson's leading tackler last season was Stephone Anthony, who had 131 tackles, 13.5 tackles for loss, four sacks, five pass breakups and an interception. That theft might have been the biggest by a Tiger in years, as it clinched the victory over Ohio State on the Buckeyes' last possession.
"We will miss Spencer Shuey and Quandon Christian at the linebacker spots, but we do return Stephone," stated Swinney. "He made great strides last year and took ownership of the middle linebacker position. Obviously, this is an area of the team where a couple of young men have a chance to step into a starting role, but I am confident in who we have returning from last year."
Candidates to step up into significant roles are returning lettermen Ben Boulware, T.J. Burrell, B.J. Goodson, Kellen Jones and Tony Steward. Steward has been Clemson's top special teams player each of the last two seasons and is ready to assume a starting position with his classmate, Anthony. He had 37 tackles in just 167 snaps last year and is listed as a starter on the preseason depth chart. Burrell is listed as the starting strongside linebacker entering the fall.
Jones played just two games in 2013 before suffering an injury, but the Oklahoma transfer was the team's top tackler against SC State with 11 stops. Boulware had 18 tackles in 73 snaps.
Clemson returns two starting safeties and nine total lettermen in a secondary that helped the Tigers finish 19th in the nation in pass efficiency defense in 2013. Clemson's 18 interceptions were tied for 13th-most in the nation, and the unit was a big reason the Tigers were fifth nationally in third-down defense.
"I am excited about the secondary because we do have some talented young players coming off a red-shirt year who should be major contributors to the group of returning players," said Swinney.
Robert Smith and Travis Blanks are returning starters at safety. Smith was fourth on the 2013 team with 79 tackles and added five pass breakups. Blanks could play a strongside linebacker or nickel position in 2014. He had 35 tackles in 11 games, missing the last two contests due to a knee injury suffered against The Citadel. Jayron Kearse had an excellent freshman campaign and is listed as a starting safety as well.
Two young players came out of spring practice as starting cornerbacks. Mackensie Alexander red-shirted the 2013 season due to injury but was rated among the top-10 players in the nation by ESPN.com out of high school. Classmate Cordrea Tankersley played sparingly as a first-year freshman but had a terrific spring and is listed as a starter opposite Alexander.
Garry Peters and Martin Jenkins have a great deal of experience at cornerback. Peters played 10 games in 2013 and had 28 tackles, while Jenkins had an interception return for a touchdown against SC State and totaled 26 tackles.
Korrin Wiggins also will be a factor on defense as a nickel back. Wiggins had many timely plays in 2013, including two interceptions and five pass breakups.
SPECIAL TEAMSClemson must replace a four-year starter at placekicker, as Catanzaro graduated after setting 10 school records. He leaves Clemson as its career scoring leader (404 points) and the leader in field goals of 40+ yards (23).
Ammon Lakip scored nine points in 2013 as Catanzaro's backup. He was 6-6 on extra points and 1-2 on field goals and is the top candidate to replace Catanzaro.
Bradley Pinion returns as the starting punter and kickoff man. He had a 39.4-yard average and a strong 37.8-yard net figure. He had a record-tying 24 punts inside the 20 with no touchbacks in 2013.
Adam Humphries is the top returner. As a punt returner, the wide receiver averaged 10.6 yards on 20 returns, 24th-best in the nation in 2013.
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From Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's wife Gursharan Kaur to Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi to celebrities like Nandita Das and Imtiaz Ali, the Dawat-e-Walima (wedding reception) of star couple Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor here Thursday saw the who's who from politics and Bollywood in their finery.
Dressed in elegant sherwanis and colourful ghararas, lehengas and saris, some of the country's noted personalities attended the grand event, hosted by Saif's mother, veteran actress and Begum of Pataudi, Sharmila Tagore. The celebrations marked the culmination of a five-day wedding gala for Saif, 42, and Kareena, 32.
"Bless the couple and join in our happiness," Sharmila, who looked regal and resplendent in a gold sari, told reporters here outside the well-decked government bungalow at Aurangzeb Road here.
Among other attendees at the event were ministers Farooq Abdullah, Rajiv Shukla, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Kamal Nath, Congress' Renuka Chowdhary and Marxist leader Sitaram Yechury, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Arun Jaitley, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia, former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh, and politician-writer Shashi Tharoor with his wife Sunanda.
Celebrities from the world of cricket included Bishen Singh Bedi, Kapil Dev and Ajay Jadeja, while Ritu Kumar, Meera and Muzaffar Ali and Manish Malhotra represented the fashion fraternity.
Malhotra, who took care of Kareena's entire trousseau, only hinted that the new bride, daughter of Randhir Kapoor and Babita, wore a gold gharara with shades of pink for the event. Saif, son of the late Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, is said to have worn a black sherwani by designer Raghavendra Rathore.
Lyricist Prasoon Joshi and sarod player Amjad Ali Khan also came for the extravaganza, and wished the couple "all the best".
With a guest list so eclectic and VIP such as this, the security was upto the mark. At least a force of 300 security personnel were appointed for the event since 6 p.m. Thursday, an official told IANS.
The bungalow was decorated in cream and gold, with mogra flowers and traditional brass hanging diyas. A major attraction at the entrance was an intricately embroidered carpet, said to be an over a century old possession of the Pataudi family.
According to the buzz, the interiors for the function were inspired by the Mughal period, and the set up had several royal artefacts.
This was the last in the wedding revelry of one of the most awaited unions of tinsel town. The celebrations began with a pre-wedding bash at Kareena's Mumbai residence Sunday, followed by a registered wedding at Saif's Bandra residence Tuesday afternoon.
The couple exchanged vows at a Mumbai hotel in the presence of Bollywood's glitterati, including Shah Rukh Khan with wife Gauri, Karan Johar, Tusshar Kapoor, Priety Zinta, Anil Kapoor with daughter Sonam.


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In the last two months, Lightology has partnered with top LED manufacturers, Edge Lighting, Pure Lighting and Philips Lightolier to teach Chicago's architects and designers all about LEDs through educational seminars at our downtown Chicago showroom. Through these presentations, we've collected 5 helpful tips on LEDs that anyone can use to make sure they purchase the right LED for any project!
1) Look for the Lighting Facts Label
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Y'all, it is warm out there, and I am not even really cranky about it because who can possibly be cranky about weather like this in January? Adding to my glee is the fact that it's not just warm, it is record-breakingly warm, and that fills me with joy. DRUMROLL FOR RECORD INFORMATION The high temperature in Wilmington hit 78 degrees today, breaking the previous record of 76 degrees. That record was set in 1898, an astonishing 115 years ago. … Read More »


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Update: Apologies, but the gift count here is just for Team Fortress 2, not Steam. We apologize for the confusion.
Sure, you've probably given a gift or two on Steam. Maybe you saw a game you really wanted your friend to play on sale, and you picked it up and gifted it. But unless you've given more than twelve thousand gifts, you aren't even close to Steam's top gift-giver.
The picture above was tweeted by game developer Rotondo, snapped today during a Valve presentation at their two-day Steam Dev Days conference. The conference has summoned game developers to Seattle to learn more about Steam, Steam Machines, and Valve's vision for the future of PC gaming.
The presentation slide offers no indication of who the generous soul is, nor any specific information about the kinds of gifts given or their value. But to whoever you are: Godspeed.
Note: The original headline of this piece was Someone Has Given Out 12,355 Steam Gifts. We've changed it after receiving feedback that the slide only referred to Team Fortress 2, not Steam overall. Thanks to Martin Benjamins for the heads-up, and to Rotondo for confirming.


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Gene Therapy Makes Small but Promising Early Steps Forward as Potential Form of HIV Treatment
March 1, 2011
The following is our transcript of a press conference that took place on Feb. 28, the first full day of CROI 2011. In it, three researchers -- Jay Lalezari, M.D., Craig Wilen and Paula Cannon, Ph.D. -- summarized the findings of studies they were presenting at the conference related to developments in gene therapies for the treatment of HIV infection. Lalezari begins by referring to an experimental gene therapy approach under development by Sangamo BioSciences, Inc., which essentially seeks to remove the CCR5 gene from a patient's T cells.
Jay Lalezari: What Sangamo has brought forward is a gene modification strategy that for the first time allows us to precisely and permanently disrupt the CCR5 gene. Why that's important is that when you disrupt the gene, you also permanently disrupt receptor expression. And as we know CCR5 is the major co-receptor that HIV uses to gain cell entry. We have the natural experiment from the delta-32 mutation showing that in the homozygote they're protected from infection. The heterozygote has delayed disease progression. And even the Berlin patient further validates that CCR5 is an appropriate target for HIV, although the experience of that individual is less relevant.
What the gene therapy with Sangamo can do is specifically disable the CCR5 gene. Whether we're using peripheral cells or stem cells, the idea is to then give patients back cells which are themselves immune to HIV. I think the potential benefit of that remains to be determined in the coming studies.
What we did in our study is send patients to an outpatient infusion center where they had their blood harvested over a three-hour filtration process. Blood was sent to a manufacturing center. The cells were transduced using the Sangamo vector. The cells were then frozen and shipped back to our site, where we then infused them back into the patients with just a little bit of Tylenol.
The six take-home messages of the study are that, number one, the infusions were well tolerated. Don't appear to be any safety issues.
Number two, we saw a clinically significant increase in CD4 counts: Five of the six patients had T cells that were over 500 that were sustained throughout the observation period.
The third thing was that not only do we see increases in CD4 counts, but we saw a reversion of the CD4-CD8 ratio back to normal in three of five subjects. One of the subjects started with the normal ratio. And that reversion back to normal -- most HIV-negative individuals have a ratio greater than 1. The [inaudible] of HIV is a reversion, or inversion, of that ratio to less than 1. So we normalize that ratio in three of five patients, and that observation continued throughout the study period.
Number four is that in concert with these CD4 counts in normal ratios, we saw engraftment and apparent expansion of these modified cells. So the cells took in all six patients.
One patient had diminished responses because of an antiviral antibody issue. But five of the six showed significant engraftment and expansion of those cells, sort of a threefold increase above what would have been predicted based on the input of cells at the infusion. Engraftment, infusion; the nature of that expansion is open for debate. It's unlikely to be a distribution issue, because we did see the cells traffic normally to the gut mucosa. And whether that expansion is an artifact of the manufacturing process, which does involve T-cell activation, or whether it's real T-cell proliferation, which would be a very good thing, remains to be determined.
Along with the expansion, we saw persistence of these cells in the blood. At day 90, using a PCR assay, we were able to show a total of between 6% and 7% of the cells in the peripheral blood remained modified at three months. And there's a sense that that set point at day 90 predicts what comes later.
Finally, similar to the levels in peripheral blood, we did rectal biopsy and were able to see persistence of the virus in that tissue as well, at levels that were similar.
So: The procedure was safe. We had increases in CD4 counts. We normalized the ratios. We had engraftment of the cells. We had expansions of the cells. There was persistence, and there was good homing and trafficking to the gut.
The only thing I want to say is, though: These results were probably as good as we could have hoped for in this population. What I have been getting a lot of phone calls from people saying, "I want to do an interview with you about the cure research." And I just want to say that that is way overstated, it is an overreach of the data. I would just ask all of you to show a little bit of restraint in reporting these results. Remember, we have to careful when we throw around the C word. There are a lot of folks out there with hopes and dreams attached to that word. I just want to be cautious about that. Thanks.
Scott Hammer: Thank you, Jay. Craig?
Craig Wilen: As alluded to, our long-term goal to this project is to really recapitulate the success of the Berlin patient. While a cure is not near, that is our long-term and ultimate goal.
While the vast majority of viruses utilize the CCR5 pathway, a lot of individuals, particularly those who are treatment-experienced and late-stage, have viruses that can access another pathway called CXCR4. Viruses that utilize CXCR4 are more pathogenic in vitro. And the emergence of viruses that can use CXCR4 heralds progression to AIDS and a poor disease prognosis. So it's possible that disrupting CCR5 may not be sufficient for at least all patients.
Sangamo has developed ZFNs [zinc finger nucleases] specific to the CXCR4 gene, and this has enabled us to genetically disrupt CXCR4 in human T cells. And this disruption is efficient. It's stable. It confers robust survival advantage in the presence of diverse HIV strains in vitro. This is all preclinical development work.
We then performed humanized mouse studies, where we put CXCR4-disrupted human cells into mice and challenged them with HIV. This conferred protection to X4 virus and has given very promising preclinical results.
One thing that did emerge from the mouse study is that virus that utilized the CCR5 pathway actually emerged. What this does is it suggests that we need to, for maximum therapeutic effect, target both CCR5 and CXCR4 in the patients' own cells simultaneously. Future work is going to be addressing optimal ways to disrupt both HIV co-receptors at the same time.
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"You're problem is you're BBC", a colleague remarked recently.
On further investigation, I found this not to be some reference to the British Broadcasting Corporation but rather that I had been "Born Before Computers". Yes, I grew up – in computing terms at least – on the Command Line.
A number of things have changed since those dim and distant days.
Recently, I had a comment from Darryl claiming that chocolate bars had also been gradually reducing in size.
Damning photographic evidence of this scandal has recently come into my possession…
There's more. My phone keeps insisting that I can't spell and arbitrarily replacing words when I'm writing an SMS.
"You're just the breast" took a bit of explaining to a rather skeptical Deb.
Having finally persuaded my phone that I really don't require it's assistance when composing a short missive, I have now turned my attention to SQLDeveloper.
Whilst most modern IDEs have those ever-so-helpful code completion features, I do sometimes find that they get in the way, especially when you know what you want to type. Pause for a second or two, or start going back to change something and that SQLDeveloper feels compelled to interrupt with some "helpful" suggestion of what I might want to put.
To put an end to these annoying interruptions, simply go to the Tools menu and select Preferences…
In the tree on the left-hand side, expand the Code Editor node and click on Completion Insight.
Uncheck the boxes marked Enable Completion Auto-Popup in SQLWorksheet and Enable Completion Auto-Popup in PL/SQL Editor.
No need to re-start, the changes should take effect as soon as you next start typing.
Now, if you should happen to require some assistance, you can simply press CTRL + SPACE and SQLDeveloper will present you a variation on the theme of "helpful suggestion".
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Matches That Matter needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 142 designs submitted by 40 freelance designers.
Logo design and possible follow up work for business cards, signage and letterhead.
Matches That Matter ™ is a premiere social introduction national service for singles based in the United States. Our strategy is to match a group of 6 men and 6 women for dating compatibility and put them on a 3-week series of volunteer projects giving back to their local communities. We also host social, educational and artistic activities spread over three weeks. Multiple, no pressure meetings with a group of eligible singles that were matched by personality, desires and romantic inclinations will allow attraction to organically develop into long term relationships.
WE ARE NOT A DATING SERVICE, NOR ARE WE AN ON-LINE DATING SITE LIKE eHARMONY OR MATCH.COM AS WE HAVE NO PROFILES TO READ, WRITE OR FAKE.
Not only are we matching eligible singles with each other, we're also matching eligible volunteers with social benefit organizations for a potential long-term relationship of a different sort. Volunteerism is growing at an unprecedented rate in the U.S. and has profound societal benefits.
There will be a tagline (TBD) used with the logo. The tagline will evolve as our service expands into new markets.
The service is focused on youthful and active over forty year-olds. Busy professionals find online dating too time consuming and lacks the privacy and enrichment that they crave. We have members in three different decades and the logo should be appealing to all.
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- Convey a sense of style, class and sophistication.
- Logo should be clear, easy to read and understand (don't be overly clever)
- Appeal to both men and women (OK to slightly emphasize male appeal)
- Use words "Matches That Matter" in the logo any way you wish
- Make the brand name pop!
- Leave a logical space for a tagline
Note that there are no color preferences but the logo should also work in B&W.
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- Use hearts, Cupids or bow & arrows
- Imply that it's a dating service
- Be frivolous or silly
- Include number or word "40" as "over-Forty" will be in the tagline.
- Limit us to the over-forty year old market as we plan to expand.
Logo will be used on our website, for business cards, letterhead, event signage and advertising. We have a current "square-ish" shape placeholder logo on our interim website and the new logo should fit and be legible in 223 (w) X 154 (H) pixels. The delivered logo must be created using vectors to keep it scalable.
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Horse's Mouth - Mustang and Ford News and Notes - August 2014
The latest news in the Ford world
Ford Pulls Off Empire State Building Stunt—Again!On April 16, Ford replicated a stunt the automaker performed in 1965. It disassembled a '15 Ford Mustang convertible, carted it to the 86th floor Observation Deck of the Empire State Building, and reassembled the GT for all to enjoy.
"This week, the band is getting back together as Ford and DST Industries bring the all-new Mustang to the Empire State Building to honor 50 years on sale," said Dave Pericak, Mustang chief engineer. "We've taken the new Mustang to new heights of technology and refinement, so we decided to take it to new heights literally for this celebration."
"When our engineers sat down with the DST team to start plotting this out in mid-February, everyone quickly realized that some old-school craftsmanship would be needed to successfully place this car more than 1,000 feet above the crowded streets of Manhattan," said George Samulski, manager, Ford North America design fabrication. "The deck is too high to reach with a portable crane from the street, and the spire that towers more than 400 feet above that narrow deck makes helicopter delivery impossible."
The only other car display on the Empire State Building observation deck happened in October 1965, when a crew from DST, including retired technician Claude Cochran, sectioned a Mustang convertible so that it could be fit into the elevators of the building.
Following a site inspection in New York to meticulously measure all of the elevators and doors, the engineering team in Dearborn sat down with a scale model of the new Mustang and started drawing lines on it with a marker to represent where it should be cut. The Empire State Building is a historic landmark, with original art deco wood and brass trim in the elevators, so it was crucial to ensure everything have plenty of clearance.
The car that would ultimately make the trip to New York was completely stripped down and the surface cleaned up to make sure everything looked perfect before it was sectioned and painted. The fabricators built custom rolling carts and wooden crates for each section.
Getting from the loading dock to the observation deck requires riding a freight elevator and two separate passenger elevators. A wood mockup of the smallest elevator was built in the DST shop in Romulus to verify everything would fit. Each of the loaded carts was then weighed to ensure everything stayed within the weight limits of the elevator and the observation deck.
"The observation deck is open to the public from 8 a.m. to 2 a.m., leaving our crew of six with only a six-hour window to get everything out onto the deck and get the car assembled," said Pericak. "Before we shipped the crates to New York, the crew spent several days practicing the entire assembly process—timing everything down to the minute."
MMD To Give Away the May '14 MM&FF Cover CarModern Muscle Design is giving everyone the chance to own its 589-rwhp '14 Mustang GT—Project MMD—which appeared on the cover of the May '14 issue of MM&FFmagazine.
Featuring over $30,000 in aftermarket parts and the sleek, modern MMD design, this is a one-of-a-kind Mustang can serve as the perfect show car or daily driver. One person will drive home from the annual AmericanMuscle.com Car Show this August in their newly acquired magazine cover car. The GT was also featured in Forgestar's booth for the 2013 SEMA Auto Show.
The winner will be selected August 4, 2014, and will be handed the keys at the American Muscle.com car show on August 16.
'15 Stang To Have Factory Line-LockFord engineers are leveraging state-of-the-art controls software technology to give some of the most avid Mustang customers an industry-first feature—electronic line-lock.
"Competition has been an integral part of the Ford Mustang lifestyle since its earliest days 50 years ago," said Steve Ling, Ford car marketing manager. "We know our customers, and we wanted to provide a unique feature for those wishing to take full advantage of the increased capability offered at the dragstrip by this new Mustang GT."
Mustang has run everything from rally to stock car racing, but with drag racing a particularly popular venue for grassroots competitors, electronic line-lock on every '15 Ford Mustang GT should be a real benefit for customers who like to compete one quarter-mile at a time.
"We're using advanced controls technology for the all-new Mustang to provide some of our most dedicated fans with an industry-first feature they can use when they go to the track," said Dave Pericak, Mustang chief engineer. "With electronic line-lock, customers who drive their Mustangs to work all week and then compete on the weekends will appreciate not having to modify their brake systems."
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Confident Lightning Headed to East Final AgainWith Ben Bishop, Nikita Kucherov and Victor Hedman leading the way, the Lightning are back in the Eastern Conference final again after defeating the Detroit Red Wings and New York Islanders in the first two rounds.
Trade Deadline Done, NHL Teams Gear Up for Playoff PushThe general feeling of anti-climax around the annual deadline reflected the tight nature of the NHL playoff race and the forbearance of executives unwilling to pay the market's high prices for a midseason gamble on team chemistry.
Lightning Say Stamkos Won't Be Traded Before NHL DeadlineThe team announced Monday that the two-time Maurice Richard Trophy winner won't be moved before this month's trade deadline. The announcement ends speculation that the defending Eastern Conference champions might abandon hopes of signing Stamkos, who has twice been the NHL's top goal scorer, to a long-term contract extension.
Lightning Win 7th Straight, End Blackhawks' 12-Game StreakAnton Stralman insisted the surging Tampa Bay Lightning didn't derive any extra satisfaction out of beating the Chicago Blackhawks to end a franchise-record 12-game winning streak for the defending Stanley Cup champions.
Yzerman Says Lightning Still Looking To Trade DrouinTampa Bay Lightning general manager Steve Yzerman says the suspension of Jonathan Drouin will not change efforts to trade the disgruntled forward. "That's where I'm at today," Yzerman said Thursday, one day after Drouin was suspended indefinitely without pay for missing a minor league game.
Tampa Bay Lightning Mid-Season Report CardFriday Night's game against the Edmonton Oilers will mark the halfway point of the 2015-16 Tampa Bay Lightning season and so far the Bolts have yet to live up to this year's lofty expectations after last season's run to the Stanley Cup Final.


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My Week in Azeroth is a weekly post detailing the things I've done in the game which I've found to be, either: A) completely cool, B) worth taking screenshots of, or C) something I know is only cool to me but my ego demands I post it anyways. Nothing in this post is serious; it's a fun thing to do on the weekends when I'm normally very busy. Was your week in Azeroth just as cool as mine? Let me know in the comments!
I love slow weeks, don't you? No hassle, no deadlines to meet, just you and the cold silence. That's what this week has been like for me in WoW. I had no raids (indeed, no raid team), no dailies I have to do, no professions I have to level… which leaves me with time to just enjoy the game. Which is really nice. For the past few weeks I've been almost frantic trying to find a raid team in AIE who needs a hunter and, surprise, we seem to be too numerous. I almost quit the guild to join an afternoon progression guild on the same server, but thought against it when I was told the guild leader was a hunter and they had another one in their ranks. Now, gear isn't everything, but I'd at least like a shot at something when it drops, yanno?
None of that right now, though. I can raid later. For now I've just been getting some classy achievements on Frite that I've been putting off for a while. This mostly included a mad-dash to get the Elder achievements, which I haven't done in three years. The verdict? Make that FOUR years I've let the achievement/holiday slide by me. I'm really bad at this holiday thing. I wanted to do it, I really did, because I want at least one proto-drake, but… maybe next year? *SIGH* Procrastination, you win again.
In happy fun time fuck Tol Barad news:
I dislike Tol Barad. I disliked the Isle of Quel'Danas back in BC. I disliked the Argent Tournament in Wrath. Now, I don't mind dailies, as I need something to do while my DPS dungeon queue ticks ever forward, but something about having a centralized daily hub that you go to every single day irks me. Maybe it's the convenience. Maybe I just hate things for no reason. Either way, I'm not done with Tol Barad dailies, as I've yet to get the tabard/seagull pet/spotlight/ghost wolf. Sadface. I think I may have a problem.
Olim, formerly an Alliance scum, is back where she belongs in the Horde. I had a hard time choosing whether or not to be a tauren or blood elf, but in the end it came down to one thing: which do I think is cooler? To be honest, while I love the Tauren and actually have a few on other servers slowly leveling whenever I get tired of Earthen Ring, I don't think that Olim was meant to be one. She's a scientist. Her knowledge of the Light is academic and precise. I just can't see her being anything but, and the blood elves fit that trope to the letter. The option of gender-changing her was another obstacle, as I think both genders have horrible casting animations. In the end I went with the one who looked less like an idiot: the female.
This means I get to heal again! Yay! And Frite gets free alchemy transmutes/Volatile elements! Yaaay! Everyone wins, but mostly I win!
The prospect of raiding on Olim as opposed to Frite has crossed my mind several times. I'm probably going to end up making her my raiding main because, let's face it, healers are in far more demand than hunters. This was the case in ICC, and it always made me a bit sad not to be playing the character I refer to as my main, but it's a rather small sacrifice to get back into raiding (something I want to do terribly).
I've gotten into it. I really have, guys. Its mindless fun, like fishing but with more time on my pretty new drake. Around 70 I got my first rare dig (Skeleraptor pet! Score!). Because Archaeology hates me, I didn't get enough Fossil digsites to make it until around 145, but make it I did damn it!
He's incredibly adorable and I can't wait to get his older brother, the Skeleraptor mount.
I decided to stop tanking for a few levels on Paz and just quest. No pressure, no key-spamming, no cursing at stupid DPS, just me and kitty form and a love for pouncing.
There are some hilarious quests involving this bloodmachine. A random goblin in Gadgetzan wants you to kill basilisks/rocs/hyenas and summon the small gidget so it can harvest their carcass. The bot loves his job, as you can see, and makes what would have normally been a dull "kill 10 pixels" quest into something I actually enjoyed doing. Blizzard's learning a lot when it comes to quest design and the role that NPCs play in them. This little machine may not be a named NPC who will go on to kill Deathwing, but I'm certainly going to do his quests every time I level a character through Tanaris. Blizzard has been doing this all throughout Cata: Zen'Kiki from the Western Plaguelands (the entire REASON I made my druid a troll :D), Darnell from the Forsaken starting quests, and Orkus the Kingslayer from his quests in Hillsbrad all come to mind when I think of NPCs I won't be forgetting soon.
There's a post about NPCs and how Cataclysm has changed their role somewhere in my head, but Rades can do that post a thousand times better than I can.
How was your week, gang? Any phat loot? Cool mounts obtained? RP gear farmed? I wanna know in the comments!


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Curt Blank wrote:
Thanks, I'll give that a shot when I can schedule an outage, hopefully overnight tonight.
Further info: This is a new ldap server just bought online with v2.2.24, as such is was loaded from scratch using ldapadd without any errors. Then immediately after starting slapd this slapcat problem was there, so I'm just curious as to what the db_recovery is expected to do? I would think the db would be pristine from just being loaded.
Howard Chu wrote:
If slapd is running, stop it first. Then do a db_recover on the database directory, then try it again.
Curt Blank wrote:
OK, this problem is back. It is a real problem I need help!
Whether I do a:
slapcat -f /etc/openldap/slapd.conf -l 20050423-0155-new.ldif
or a:
slapcat -f /etc/openldap/slapd.conf
it hangs and never exits and never returns the command line prompt.
Curt Blank wrote:
Never mind. Now I can't make it fail. I did nothing to fix it. It was there for 3 days and now it's not.
I suspect something else I was running was screwing up my environment/shell or process because I was seeing other weird behavior, I just put two and two together. If/When I see that other weird behavior I will try a slapcat at that point and see, I cannot force that other behavior at the moment either, my fix there was to ^D and su again to make it go away. I couldn't even read man pages when it acted up.
I do not like unexplained anomalies, so I will pursue this.
Curt Blank wrote:
This appears to be some sort of buffer flush issue, even though I see it get to the end the last 4 entries that the debug info shows it processed are not in the output file.
I really could use some help here, this is a show stopper.
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I'm trying to do a slapcat and it dumps all the entries but never exits and returns the command line prompt. I put it in debug mode (-d 1) and it takes under a minute to do the dump and then just sits there. I'm pretty sure it dumped all the entries because I see the entry that is usually the last one dumped. I'm not doing anything fancy just:
slapcat -d 1 -f /etc/openldap/slapd.conf -l 20050419-1326.ldif
and the last thing it outputs after what I know is the last user entry is:
entry_decode: "cn=ldapsync,o=uwm.edu" <= entry_decode(cn=ldapsync,o=uwm.edu) slapcat shutdown: initiated ====> bdb_cache_release_all slapcat shutdown: freeing system resources.
then sits there. Any ideas what is happening? I let it sit for 45 minutes one time and it never came back. I've tried it with slapd running and with it not running, same result.
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Annual or perennial herb, generally fleshy
Stems generally glabrous
Leaves simple, alternate or opposite, sometimes stipuled
Inflorescence various
Flower bisexual, radial; sepals generally 2(8), free or fused at base; petals 318, free or ± fused; stamens 1many, free or inserted on corolla; ovary superior or partly inferior, chamber 1, placenta free-central or basal; styles 28, generally fused at base
Fruit: capsule, circumscissile or 23-valved
Seeds 1many, generally black, generally shiny
Genera in family: ± 20 genera, ± 400 species: generally temp Am, Australia, s Africa; some cultivated (Lewisia, Portulaca, Calandrinia )
Reference: [Bogle 1969 J Arnold Arbor 50:566598]
Family description and key to genera by Dieter H. Wilken & Walter A. Kelley.
Annual or perennial herb, from stolon, rhizome, tuber, or taproot, glabrous, ± fleshy
Leaves entire; basal 0many, rosetted; cauline generally 2, generally opposite, free to fully fused into ± 2-toothed disk or cup surrounding stem
Inflorescence: raceme, terminal, 1-sided; pedicels reflexed, becoming erect in fruit
Flower: petals 5, pink or white; stamens 5, epipetalous; ovary chamber 1, placentas basal, style 1, stigmas 3
Fruit: capsule; valves 3, margins rolling inward and forcibly expelling seeds
Seeds 36, generally black, generally clearly appendaged
Species in genus: 28 species: North America, e Asia
Etymology: (John Clayton, colonial Am botanist, born 1686)
Reference: [Miller 1978 Syst Bot 3:322341; Miller & Chambers 1993 Novon 3:268273]
Some species formerly placed in Montia.
Annual, ± glaucous
Stem 115 cm, erect or spreading
Leaves: basal < 12 cm, ± linear; cauline < 8 cm, linear and free, crescent-shaped and ± fused on 1 side, or fully fused and disk-like
Inflorescence sessile to long-stalked; flowers 315, lowest bracted
Flower: sepals 1.53 mm; petals 25 mm, white or pinkish; stamens maturing ± with stigmas
Fruit 1.52.5 mm
Seed 11.5 mm, elliptic, dull; appendage minute
Ecology: Dry or moist, sometimes disturbed bare clay to sandy soils, often on serpentine
Elevation: < 2000 m.
Bioregional distribution: Northwestern California, Sierra Nevada Foothills, Great Central Valley, Central Western California, Transverse Ranges, Peninsular Ranges
Distribution outside California: to British Columbia


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Faculty & Staff
Both faculty and staff serve as role models of professionals in their chosen fields. The CEC is your partner in the vital work of supporting and guiding students in their career development and learning.
As career development professionals, the CEC staff offers our expertise to complement your efforts within academic departments, as reflected in our mission statement:
A vital link between academic preparation and career readiness, the Career Education Center helps students and alumnae/i develop the skills and knowledge, both of themselves and the workplace, for informed, effective lifelong career management.
Undergraduate faculty are often faced with answering questions such as "What can I do with a degree in ____?" and "Should I apply for graduate education and which program will best connect to career opportunities?" With Simmons' strong emphasis on the Independent Learning Requirement (ILR), you are also charged with facilitating internships, field work, and research projects as part of a student's academic program. The ILR is a valuable advantage to Simmons students as they explore careers and test and build skills important to employers today, skills such as oral and written communication, problem solving, critical thinking, and teamwork.
As outlined here, the CEC is here to provide services, resources, and support to faculty and staff across all these areas.
The CEC also sees its role as an integral part of the broader Student Career Learning Community at Simmons, where students have multiple touch points for career learning. It is important for the whole Simmons community to communicate to our students that career education is both ongoing and lifelong.
The CEC uses a 5 Step Career Development Model that can be integrated within the academic programs just as we do in our own CEC programs. Two examples of this, which can serve as a reference point for faculty, are the STEPS Career Development Plan recommended for all undergraduates, and the Humanities 370 Career Preparation Course that the CEC developed and teaches.
Faculty often invite the CEC staff to teach in-class career workshops that complement their academic programs. You can select topics from a full complement of skill-building, career exploration, and other programs designed to meet your specific needs. Visit the In-Class Workshops page to learn more.
For a full list of the CEC services and resources for faculty and staff, including career development and employer events, job and internship listings, library career resources and services, and more visit the CEC Services page.
Please contact the CEC for any career-related questions or concerns you may have:
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
To contact a specific CEC staff member, see our Meet the Staff page.
We look forward to working with you!


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Energy, Lighting and Climate Change
Energy related issues can be found in a wide range of sustainability topics. When speaking about sustainable energy, universities focus on monitoring and reducing energy consumptions, changing to more energy efficient lighting, reducing carbon dioxide emissions and employing alternative energy technologies. UAF Facilities Services has already done much to move campus toward energy sustainability. Lighting comprises nearly 30 percent of our power plant's output. As a result, lighting has been a focus of many conversion efforts at UAF spanning more than 20 years.
What is UAF doing?
- Utilities meters the power generation, electricity and water usage and provides this information in online reports from Facilities Services, accessible to users. This provides the opportunity for future planning and decision-making.
- The UAF power plant is a "Combined Heat and Power" (CHP) facility that provides electrical power, domestic and firefighting water, and steam for heating buildings.
- Facilities Services began testing and researching potential uses of LED technologies and converting to LED lighting on campus.
- A conversion of 99 percent of campus fluorescent lights was made to the more efficient T-8 and T-5 bulbs (an average 30 percent reduction in energy use).
- Variable frequency drives (VFDs) have been routinely installed in projects for over 20 years, and the majority of our larger motors are operated by VFDs.
- A small photovoltaic (PV) system was installed as part of the Golden Valley Electric Association's (GVEA) Sustainable Natural Alternative Power (SNAP) program, and has established a system where anyone (not just those with an account at GVEA) can contribute money to the SNAP program.
- Motion sensors are being installed across campus to reduce unnecessary lighting.
- CRT monitors are being replaced with more efficient LCD flat panel monitors.
- The power plant is operating a small turbine instead of the PRV (pressure reducing valve) system to generate low pressure heating steam in the winter. This amounts to a savings of about $75,000 in purchased electrical power and fuel.
- The HVAC shop installed mechanical air handling heating coils in Elvey with estimated cost savings of $5,000 dollars in labor and $7,000 in energy savings annually.
- Energy efficient products have been approved for use in the Design Standards. The products improve facility efficiency.
- Facilities Services and Residence Life jointly offer a program for students, staff and faculty to support alternative energy power through Sustainable Natural Alternative Power (SNAP) program. A fillable .pdf form allows for contributions, 100 percent of which go directly to SNAP producers.
- The shuttle station in the Nenana parking lot is powered by solar panels.
Helpful links:
> Sustainability Efforts at Facility Services
> Golden Valley Electric Association Energy Program
> Cooperative Extension Service Energy and Housing Publications