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RIO DE JANEIRO, (Tierramérica).- Brazil is making steady progress mapping out the genome of the coffee plant, with the aim of obtaining a higher-quality product and making coffee bushes resistant not only to pests, but also to climate change, one of the plants worst enemies.
Through the Coffee Genome Project, two teams of scientific researchers are mapping out the sequence of 200,000 of the plants genes, thus making Brazil the only coffee-producing country to have engaged in such an endeavour.
The main objective is to increase the resistance of coffee bushes to disease, extreme temperatures and drought, said Embrapa Café, a branch of the Brazilian Company of Agricultural Research (Embrapa) that specializes in coffee, and is coordinating one of the research groups.
The work is being carried out in equal parts by the Brazilian Consortium on Coffee Research and Development, supervised by Embrapa Café, and a network of 20 laboratories coordinated by the State of Sao Paulo Research Foundation (Fapesp).
Coffee, which is highly sensitive to extreme temperatures, is especially vulnerable to the greenhouse effect.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, made up of experts from a number of countries, predicts that the temperature of the earths surface will rise between 1.4 and 5.8 degrees Celsius from 1990 to 2100.
A three degree rise in temperature over the next 50 years would spell disaster for coffee, and not only in Brazil, the worlds leading producer, Hilton Silveira Pinto, an expert with the Center for Teaching and Research on Agriculture, at the University of Campinas, and the author of a study on the effect of climate change on coffee cultivation, told Tierramérica.
The state of Sao Paulo, for example, would lose 24 percent of the land apt for coffee production with just a one-degree rise in temperature of the earths surface, according to the report by Silveira Pinto and his team of researchers.
Arabica coffee, which accounts for 70 percent of Brazils output, only grows in areas where temperatures average between 18 and 22 degrees, explained Silveira Pinto.
It takes only a few days of temperatures that climb above 34 degrees or plunge to near zero during the season when the plants are in bloom for the quality of arabica coffee to be affected and for at least part of the crop to be destroyed. For that reason, land apt for growing coffee is located between latitudes 20 and 25 degrees, at high altitudes.
Global warming would not keep Brazil from growing coffee, but its plantations would have to move farther south. A three degree increase in the average temperature of the earths surface would reduce the land planted in coffee in the state of Sao Paulo to just 38 percent of the current 97,800 square kilometers.
On the other hand, it would increase the land suitable for coffee-growing in the southern state of Paraná, where coffee is produced today only in the northernmost portion.
However, that risk can be reduced, through the global measures aimed at cutting emissions of greenhouse gases, and through biotechnology.
The Coffee Genome Project will map around 200,000 of the plants genes. Although that is only a small part of the plants total genetic code, which comprises tens of millions of genes, it is enough.
There is no reason to map out the plants entire genome, which is very complex, like that of all plants, Luiz Eduardo Aranha Camargo, with the Luiz de Queiroz Higher School of Agriculture at the University of Sao Paulo, explained to Tierramérica.
The genes to be studied are those that express certain conditions of stress, like leaves infected by pests and roots contaminated by flowers, he said.
The sequence of 200,000 genes being mapped out by Fapesp will be ready by the late 2002 deadline, said Camargo. We have efficient mapping equipment and prior experience with the eucalyptus, whose genome began to be studied last year, he noted.
After the genes have been mapped out, there will still be much to do, starting with comparing the genes in search of possible similarities, and creating a databank. The aim is to pool the information obtained by the two teams, and to make it available to all researchers interested in coffee, said Camargo.
Decoding the genome is only a first step, said the researcher. After that comes a long research process to come up with practical applications in farming, like inducing two flowering seasons a year or modifying them so they do not depend so much on specific weather conditions, he pointed out.
According to José Luis Rufino, technical manager of Embrapa Café, through the Coffee Genome Project, Brazil aims to stay ahead of France, which is involved in a similar undertaking.
The researchers hope the project will also have another positive effect, by renewing scientific interest in coffee plants.
Coffee was one of the first products subjected to research and attempts at genetic improvement in Brazil, but then interest began to wane among young researchers, the experts noted.
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Valentino Rossi's bid for a second podium finish of 2013 in Catalunya tomorrow will start from the third row of the grid after the Italian's difficulties in qualifying continued in scorching hot conditions today.
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Forgive me if I think the worst of you Tetsumo, but you know, you've got previous with suspect posts on here. At least the last time you had some sort of brief pang of morality, and removed the post. Not today though, back to your usual backtracking, squirming self. What "real fan" sits and watches a race hoping a rider doesn't finish? Decent setup? You tit.
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"What "real fan" sits and watches a race hoping a rider doesn't finish?"Not just "a" rider. We're talking about a rider who tries to bully other riders out of their hard-earned jobs. I feel it's my duty.
Just a DNF? And I guess no mechanical or tyre failure either 'cause he'd probably go and bully the mechanics? So you basically sit and watch each race hoping he pulls in at some point and quits? Well, you're thick as fuck; but persistent, I'll give you that. Enjoy the race thicko :-)
As long as you now understand the difference and don't shoot your mouth off like a retard, I'll take that as my service to this thread. No charge for the education (that's my discount for hobos).
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Looking more and more like Old Flo has been on the gravy train for longer than I thought!
He is really lost out there without the DORNA advantage, there's just too much evidence to suggest otherwise.
The worst thing for him now is what to do next, plod on, wsbk, retire? Either way, there's a fkn lot of egg involved.
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I won't pretend to be Rossis biggest fan but i'm certainly not a hater. This year has just been a bit of a shock. I, like most people, was expecting much more. Podiums at least. The odd battle for the lead. Every race you're expecting him to suddenly find his form and it's just not happening. It's all going a bit Schumacher.
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Why would you expect so much from the Rosser in terns of podiums? Is it the lemon haze factor?
Since Pedrosa, Stoner and then Lorenzo hit the field, the old Rosser has been tumbling down the lists. Hell, Stoner was NOT on the podium a total of 31 times in his total premier class career (yes, including '06) from 97 starts, while since the start of '06, Rossi has NOT been on the podium for 50 of his 106 races started.
Or, to put it another way: Stoner WAS on the podium for very nearly 2 of every three races he started, while Rossi WAS on the podium for a bit less of 1 for every 2 races he started.
Don't despair - to keep his average alive, Rossi has this and the next two races to get on the podium. If he manages to get there this race, then he's scrambling back towards Stoner's average - a mighty boost to his reputation. To be held as (nearly) competitive with Stoner would be a great achievement that he currently lacks in spades..
Don't hold your breath though, with 6 faster riders on the grid.
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There is only one answer... RETIREMENT!
does everyone think that qualifying is the race, we know Rossi is always faster in the race and yet you people always base your arguments on his poor qualifying, not his race results, which wouldn't actually be so bad if it weren't for a 'bump' in the road at Le Mans and a 'racing incident' at Mugello. What about Marquez, no criticism for him, he hasn't exactly been very fast this weekend.
"What about Marquez, no criticism for him, he hasn't exactly been very fast this weekend."
The kid's a rookie and has been working on the hard tyres for most of the weekend. He's had four out of five podiums in this rookie year including a win ... What exactly do you expect? A lynching?
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The driver of vehicle pulling a horse trailer escaped injury in a collision with a freight train in Paulden on Sunday.
Two horses and a dog were killed and a second dog was injured.
The driver, a 71-year-old Paulden resident, told Yavapai County sheriff's deputies he did not see the Burlington Northern Sante Fe train or hear the whistle as he crossed the tracks on Verde Ranch Road at about 7:20 a.m.
The driver, who was not named, said that the vision from his vehicle was limited because the windows were iced over, YCSO said. The impact dislodged the trailer from the truck hitch pushing it along the tracks.
The train crew verified a horn was sounded prior to approaching the crossing as required, but the truck did not stop, deputies said. The crew initiated an emergency stop system and continued to sound the horn, according to sheriff's investigators.
The truck made it across, but the horse trailer was still centered over the track and struck by the leading locomotive which carried it along the tracks. The train contained three front-end locomotives, more than 80 cars full of grain and a rear locomotive.
The driver was cited for failure to stop at a railroad crossing. BNSF investigators also arrived at the scene to gather evidence, statements and recorded data from the locomotive.
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Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Treatment (Professional)
General Information About Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL)
The National Cancer Institute provides the PDQ pediatric cancer treatment information summaries as a public service to increase the availability of evidence-based cancer information to health professionals, patients, and the public.
Fortunately, cancer in children and adolescents is rare, although the overall incidence of childhood cancer has been slowly increasing since 1975.[1] Children and adolescents with cancer should be referred to medical centers that have a multidisciplinary team of cancer specialists with experience treating the cancers that occur during childhood and adolescence. This multidisciplinary team approach incorporates the skills of the primary care physician, pediatric surgical subspecialists, radiation oncologists, pediatric medical oncologists/hematologists, rehabilitation specialists, pediatric nurse specialists, social workers, and others to ensure that children receive treatment, supportive care, and rehabilitation that will achieve optimal survival and quality of life. (Refer to the PDQ Supportive and Palliative Care summaries for specific information about supportive care for children and adolescents with cancer.)
Guidelines for pediatric cancer centers and their role in the treatment of pediatric patients with cancer have been outlined by the American Academy of Pediatrics.[2] Because treatment of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) entails many potential complications and requires intensive supportive care (e.g., transfusions; management of infectious complications; and emotional, financial, and developmental support), this treatment is best coordinated by pediatric oncologists and performed in cancer centers or hospitals with all of the necessary pediatric supportive care facilities. It is important that the clinical centers and the specialists directing the patient's care maintain contact with the referring physician in the community. Strong lines of communication optimize any urgent or interim care required when the child is at home.
Dramatic improvements in survival have been achieved in children and adolescents with cancer.[1] Between 1975 and 2002, childhood cancer mortality has decreased by more than 50%. For ALL, the 5-year survival rate has increased over the same time from 60% to 89% for children younger than 15 years and from 28% to 50% for adolescents aged 15 to 19 years.[1] Childhood and adolescent cancer survivors require close follow-up because cancer therapy side effects may persist or develop months or years after treatment. (Refer to the PDQ summary on Late Effects of Treatment for Childhood Cancer for specific information about the incidence, type, and monitoring of late effects in childhood and adolescent cancer survivors.)
Incidence and Epidemiology
ALL is the most common cancer diagnosed in children and represents 23% of cancer diagnoses among children younger than 15 years. ALL occurs at an annual rate of approximately 30 to 40 per million.[3,4] There are approximately 2,900 children and adolescents younger than 20 years diagnosed with ALL each year in the United States,[4] and there has been a gradual increase in the incidence of ALL in the past 25 years.[5] A sharp peak in ALL incidence is observed among children aged 2 to 3 years (>80 per million per year), with rates decreasing to 20 per million for ages 8 to 10 years. The incidence of ALL among children aged 2 to 3 years is approximately fourfold greater than that for infants and is nearly tenfold greater than that for adolescents aged 16 to 21 years.
For unexplained reasons, the incidence of ALL is substantially higher in white children than in black children, with a nearly threefold higher incidence from age 2 to 3 years in white children compared with black children.[3,4] The incidence of ALL appears to be highest in Hispanic children (43 per million).[3,4]
Risk Factors for Developing ALL
Few factors associated with an increased risk of ALL have been identified. The primary accepted risk factors for ALL include the following:
Children with Down syndrome have an increased risk of developing both ALL and acute myeloid leukemia (AML),[6,7] with a cumulative risk of developing leukemia of approximately 2.1% by age 5 years and 2.7% by age 30 years.[6,7] Approximately one-half to two-thirds of cases of acute leukemia in children with Down syndrome are ALL. Patients with ALL and Down syndrome have a lower incidence of both favorable (t[12;21] and hyperdiploidy) and unfavorable (t[9;22], t[4;11], and hypodiploidy) cytogenetic findings and a lower incidence of T-cell phenotype.[8,9,10,11] Approximately 50% of children with Down syndrome and ALL have a recurring interstitial deletion of the pseudoautosomal region (PAR) of chromosomes X and Y that juxtaposes the first, noncoding exon of P2RY8 with the coding region of CRLF2. The resulting P2RY8-CRLF2 fusion gene is observed at a much lower frequency (<10%) in non-Down children with B-precursor ALL.[12,13] Approximately 20% of ALL cases arising in children with Down syndrome have somatically acquired JAK2 mutations,[14,15,16] a finding that is uncommon among younger children with ALL but that is observed in a subset of primarily older children and adolescents with high-risk B-precursor ALL.[17] Almost all Down syndrome ALL cases with JAK2 mutations also have the PAR deletion and express the P2RY8-CRLF2 fusion gene.[12] Preliminary evidence suggests no correlation between JAK2 mutation status and 5-year event-free survival in children with Down syndrome and ALL.[15]
While the vast majority of cases of AML in children with Down syndrome occur before the age of 4 years (median age, 1 year),[8] ALL in children with Down syndrome has an age distribution similar to that of ALL in non–Down syndrome children, with a median age of 3 to 4 years.[9,10] Increased occurrence of ALL is also associated with other genetic conditions, including neurofibromatosis,[18] Shwachman syndrome,[19,20] Bloom syndrome,[21] and ataxia telangiectasia.[22]
Genome-wide association studies show that germline (inherited) genetic polymorphisms are associated with the development of childhood ALL.[23] For example, the risk alleles of ARID5B, a gene that encodes a transcriptional factor important in embryonic development, cell type–specific gene expression, and cell growth regulation, are strongly associated with the development of hyperdiploid B-precursor ALL.[24,25]
Some cases of ALL have a prenatal origin. Evidence in support of this comes from the observation that the immunoglobulin or T-cell receptor antigen rearrangements that are unique to each patient's leukemia cells can be detected in blood samples obtained at birth.[26,27] Similarly, in ALL characterized by specific chromosomal abnormalities, data exist to support that patients had blood cells carrying the abnormalities at the time of birth with additional cooperative genetic changes acquired postnatally.[26,27,28] In one study, 1% of neonatal blood spots (Guthrie cards) tested positive for the TEL-AML1 translocation, far exceeding the number of cases of TEL-AML ALL in children.[29] Other reports confirm [30] and do not confirm [31] this finding; nonetheless, this may support the hypothesis that additional genetic changes are needed for the development of this type of ALL. Genetic studies of identical twins with concordant leukemia further support the prenatal origin of some leukemias.[32]
Overall Outcome for ALL
Among children with ALL, more than 95% attain remission and 75% to 85% survive free of leukemia recurrence at least 5 years from diagnosis with current treatments that incorporate systemic therapy (e.g., combination chemotherapy) and specific central nervous system preventive therapy (e.g., intrathecal chemotherapy with or without cranial radiation).[33,34,35,36,37]
Despite the treatment advances noted in childhood ALL, numerous important biologic and therapeutic questions remain to be answered to achieve the goal of curing every child with ALL with the least associated toxicity. The systematic investigation of these issues requires large clinical trials, and the opportunity to participate in these trials is offered to most patients/families. Clinical trials for children and adolescents with ALL are generally designed to compare therapy that is currently accepted as standard with investigational regimens that seek to improve cure rates and/or decrease toxicity. In certain trials, in which the cure rate for the patient group is very high, therapy reduction questions may be asked. Much of the progress made in identifying curative therapies for childhood ALL and other childhood cancers has been achieved through investigator-driven discovery, and tested in carefully randomized, controlled clinical trials. Information about ongoing clinical trials is available from the NCI Web site.
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Jonathan Bauer, Partner, Head of Strategy, Droga5
Jonny is responsible for building the strategic function at Droga5 from the ground up, and oversees all brand, digital, media and IP thinking for the agency. He has created one of the most respected groups in the industry, which continues to play a pivotal role in the creative and business successes of Droga5.
With a career spanning four continents (and several questionable haircuts), Jonny has helped create some of the most influential, effective and innovative marketing of the past decade. Recent successes include Puma, LVMH, The New York City Department of Education, Prudential, Microsoft, Axe, Johnnie Walker, and Dyson.
A firm believer that brands should create marketing that people want, he has led clients beyond traditional marketing and into content creation (programming, film-making, publishing), NPD and social causes, often for the first time. He is widely recognized for this work, consistently doing well at the major strategic, effectiveness, and creative award shows.
Jonny is passionate about marketing's ability to provide opportunities for emerging and non-traditional creative talent (artists, writers, filmmakers, technologists etc). This commitment is reflected in the 'Vision Labs' program he manages, which he conceived to support and integrate such talent into the agency.
Jonny lives in Brooklyn New York with his wife Jill, their son Linus and Marco the cat.
Carolyn Everson, Vice President, Global Marketing Solutions, Facebook
Carolyn Everson is the Vice President of Global Marketing Solutions at Facebook, where she leads the global marketing solutions team focused on top strategic accounts and global agencies. In addition, she oversees media strategy, advertising sales, and account management.
Prior to Facebook, Carolyn was the Corporate Vice President of Microsoft's Global Advertising Sales and Trade Marketing Teams. Carolyn led the company's advertising business across Bing, MSN, Windows Live, Mobile, Gaming, Atlas and the Microsoft Media Network.
Carolyn spent seven years at MTV Networks. Her last role was as Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of U.S. Ad Sales for MTV Networks where she oversaw strategic planning, operations and finance for MTVN's U.S. Ad Sales department. She also was responsible for MTVN's Direct Response business and the cross platform, cross brand strategic sales and marketing group called Generator.
Carolyn has also worked at Primedia Inc., where she was Vice President and General Manager of several digital businesses, and held business development positions at brands including Zagat Survey and Walt Disney Imagineering. She is a board member of the Effies and dmg.
Carolyn holds a bachelor's degree in liberal arts and communications from Villanova University where she graduated Summa Cum Laude. She also obtained a master's degree in business administration from Harvard where she was a Baker Scholar.
Carolyn resides in Montclair, NJ where she has twin daughters, Taylor and Kennedy and a husband, Doug who works at Merck Pharmaceuticals.
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Eric Hadley, General Manager, Worldwide Marketing BING and MSN Microsoft
Eric Hadley is on his second tour of duty at Microsoft re-joining the company after an 2 year break. Currently Hadley serves as GM Bing Marketing, coming back to the company to launch the new Microsoft search brand and has driven growth thru a mix of direct response, brand and partnership marketing.
Between stints at Microsoft, Hadley was CMO/CRO of Heavy Corporation, managing all Sales, Marketing and business development for the company. In this role Eric re-built the national sales force, increasing revenue in a down market (2007) and positioned Heavy as a leader in the online video space.
In the last role at Microsoft before joining Heavy, Mr. Hadley was general manager of Global Marketing for the Microsoft Advertising Team including MSN, Live.com, Xbox Live and all other Microsoft advertising-funded properties. He also managed the global rollout of Microsoft adCenter, the company's advertising platform.
Over a ten year tenure at Microsoft, Hadley held senior positions across Microsoft, including MSN Marketing, where he developed and launched the iconic MSN Butterfly, and roles in Microsoft's Corporate Group focusing on marketing covering international markets and the company's LCA group in Washington DC.
Hadley joined Microsoft in March 1998 from Ogilvy & Mather. He played a key role in launching the award-winning worldwide e-business campaign that successfully revitalized the IBM brand.
Mr. Hadley has received numerous honors during his career, including Effie's, Cannes Grand Prix Lions, One Show Awards. He was the recipient of the prestigious "Chairman's Award," an internal Microsoft honor bestowed only to exceptional employees. While at Ogilvy & Mather, Mr. Hadley received the "David Ogilvy Award" for his work on the IBM account.
In 2010 Hadley was an Executive Producer on the highly acclaimed Sundance 2010 short Para Furerta.
Eric Hadley splits his time between Seattle, WA and New York City w his wife and two kids.
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Brian Monahan, Managing Partner, Intelligence Practice, MAGNAGLOBAL
Against the backdrop of a rapidly changing media landscape, Brian's team attempts to predict the future of media value. With the rigor of Wall Street analysts, the Magna Intelligence Practice forecasts media ratings and attention levels, conducts ad experience experiments, and predicts buy side demand.
Previously Brian oversaw the R&D arm of the Interpublic Group of Companies (NASDAQ: IPG). The IPG Media Lab helps IPG's marketing agencies and Clients harness emerging media technology. From state of the art facilities in LA and NY; the Lab curates the freshest set of media and marketing technologies.
Before joining the Lab, Brian served as the Social Media thought leader for the UM network. An entrepreneur trapped in a media planner's body, he has launched initiatives like the Rally@UM social marketing practice, the Velociter start-up partner program, the global Digital Fellowship, the Media Optimization & Management Suite (MOMS) enterprise software initiative, and Cadreon -- IPG's demand-side audience marketplace. He launched the interactive capability at Universal McCann SF and has led multinational and cross-platform ad campaigns for Clients like Microsoft, Charles Schwab, and Wells Fargo.
Prior to IPG, Brian founded Inrhythm Marketing – a pioneering analytics and optimization firm. He was a founding employee of Left Field, one of the first San Francisco-based digital ad agencies, and a co-founder the Bay Area Interactive Group. Earning accolades such as "Internet Media Buyer of the Year" and "Media All Star" by trade magazines, he has served on the agency advisory boards of Google, Yahoo, MSN, and AOL.
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Amy Powell, Executive Vice President, Interactive Marketing Strategies & Film Production, Paramount Pictures
Amy brings fifteen years of marketing experience in the entertainment industry. Focusing on Interactive Marketing, she has created, developed and executed integrated marketing campaigns for films including Paranormal Activity, Cloverfield, Star Trek, Transformers, G.I. Joe, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Indiana Jones, Justin Bieber: Never Say Never, War of the Worlds, Mission Impossible and more.
Amy began her career as at CNN in Atlanta while completing her Bachelor of Arts in Art History and Literature at Emory University. Upon graduation, Amy moved to Los Angeles and began her career at Sony Pictures, moving to Paramount Pictures to oversee the Interactive Marketing group in 2004 and launching Insurge Pictures in 2010.
Amy oversees the digital strategy for the studio's film releases, working closely with the studio marketing executives and filmmakers to set the campaigns for Paramount films within the digital environment. She focuses on creating engaging and immersive campaigns for moviegoers to enjoy and share around the world and across multiple digital mediums.
Amy also oversees Insurge Pictures, which is a Paramount Pictures initiative aimed at distributing movies that are unique and invigoratingly fun. The label launched with Paranormal Activity and has since focused on the discovery of new voices and new talent; Insurge strives to revamp the traditional way of telling stories and releasing films. Insurge seeks to create new social and event-based rituals out of the traditional moviegoing experience using innovative and unpredictable ways to reach audiences. Justin Bieber: Never Say Never was the first film released under the new label in 2011.
Amy has received numerous industry awards including Key Art Awards, Webby Awards, OMMA Awards, IAB MIXX Awards and more. She has also been profiled as a 2005 "Next Gen" executive by the Hollywood Reporter and a 2006 "Media Maven" by Ad Age.
In addition to Amy's professional accomplishments, she remains dedicated to her charitable work, focusing on her passion of helping children in need. She participates regularly in mentoring programs and reading to elementary school students as part of Viacom's Viacommunity initiatives. She also regularly volunteers at the UCLA Pediatric Oncology Ward, bringing arts & entertainment to critically ill children.
Amy holds a BA from Emory University and a MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA.
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Iain Tait, Global Interactive Executive Creative Director, Wieden+Kennedy
Iain Tait joined Wieden+Kennedy as Global Interactive Executive Creative Director in April 2010. He's working hard to figure out what that actually means in practice, but in the meantime he's working with the global network and the agency's key clients to continue to evolve W+K's creative product and process, making sure that the opportunities provided by new technology are at the forefront of the agency's offering.
He's excited by what happens when you combine great storytelling with the power and connectivity of the digital world. The Old Spice "Response" campaign hints at what can happen when those two worlds collide.
Prior to joining W+K he was a founder and creative directors of Poke, a digital creative agency with offices in London and New York. He worked on advertising and design projects for a range of clients such as American Express, Orange, Yahoo! and Zopa.
His work has been awarded by lots of industry bodies including D&AD, One Show, Cannes Lions, the Clio Awards, Art Directors Club of New York and Creative Circle. And he's been lucky enough to judge many award shows, including being Jury Chair for One Show Interactive, D&AD and London International Advertising Awards. But nothing makes him happier than when ordinary human beings enjoy using and interacting with things that he's been involved with.
New Media Age magazine named him the most influential person in new media in the UK in 2009. He's also included in the 2010 and 2011 Creativity 50, Ad Age's 25 Media Mavens and Fortune magazine's 2010 40 Under 40. He's also a member of the World Economic Forum Council on the Future of Entertainment.
He has a degree in psychology from the University of Edinburgh and has always been fascinated and motivated by the ever-evolving relationship between people and technology.
He lives in Portland, Oregon with his good lady wife. And he is the father of twin toddlers. Which makes him incredibly proud and terrified in equal measure.
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Hamdi Ulukaya, CEO, President & Founder, Agro Farma
Agro Farma's leader, Hamdi Ulukaya was born and raised in Turkey where his family, who has cheese and yogurt operations spanning throughout Turkey, has an extensive history of dairy farming and manufacturing.
Ulukaya's personal journey in the dairy industry started in the US, where he moved to pursue a MBA at SUNY Albany after earning a Bachelor's degree in Political Science in Turkey. It was during his time in New York that he first realized the opportunity to make high-quality yogurt and feta cheese accessible to consumers in the US.
His vision came to life with the 2002 launch of Euphrates, a wholesale producer of authentic feta cheese located in a state of the art facility in Johnstown, NY. The company takes its name from the Euphrates River that flows nearby Ulukaya's home in the eastern mountains of Turkey.
After reaching quick success with Euphrates, Hamdi started Agro Farma in 2005 and spent almost two years perfecting the recipe for the company's first product offering-a Greek yogurt line called Chobani. The first cup of Chobani hit shelves in September 2007 and has since become America's #1 yogurt brand, growing more than 200% over the past year alone.
Chobani, or "chopani," means shepherd in Mediterranean languages and is a word that holds much meaning for Ulukaya as it's a symbol of giving yet asking nothing in return.
This notion of generosity shines true to the brand, as it donates 10% of its annual profits, through their Shepherd's Gift Foundation, to individuals working for positive, long lasting change.
Hamdi resides in Norwich, NY. His passions include traveling, writing, horseback riding, and sailing. Hamdi is also an avid supporter of independent films and funds several festivals throughout the year.


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She is not smart (unqualified) and merely an affirmative action hire.
John Yoo...JOHN YOO, the man who thinks the United States should torture, had the unmitigated gall to be among the first to weigh in with this charge:
President Obama's nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor shows that empathy has won out over excellence in the White House...Obama had some truly outstanding legal intellectuals and judges to choose from—Cass Sunstein, Elena Kagan, and Diane Wood come immediately to mind. The White House chose a judge distinguished from the other members of that list only by her race...
There it is then. When will a person of color ever gain a position without being dogged by charges of not being good enough?
Sonia Sotomayor has served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit since October 1998. She has been hailed as "one of the ablest federal judges currently sitting" for her thoughtful opinions, and as "a role model of aspiration, discipline, commitment, intellectual prowess and integrity" for her ascent to the federal bench from an upbringing in a South Bronx housing project.Her American story and three decade career in nearly every aspect of the law provide Judge Sotomayor with unique qualifications to be the next Supreme Court Justice. She is a distinguished graduate of two of America's leading universities. She has been a big-city prosecutor and a corporate litigator. Before she was promoted to the Second Circuit by President Clinton, she was appointed to the District Court for the Southern District of New York by President George H.W. Bush. She replaces Justice Souter as the only Justice with experience as a trial judge.Judge Sotomayor served 11 years on the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, one of the most demanding circuits in the country, and has handed down decisions on a range of complex legal and constitutional issues. If confirmed, Sotomayor would bring more federal judicial experience to the Supreme Court than any justice in 100 years, and more overall judicial experience than anyone confirmed for the Court in the past 70 years. Judge Richard C. Wesley, a George W. Bush appointee to the Second Circuit, said "Sonia is an outstanding colleague with a keen legal mind. She brings a wealth of knowledge and hard work to all her endeavors on our court. It is both a pleasure and an honor to serve with her."In addition to her distinguished judicial service, Judge Sotomayor is a Lecturer at Columbia University Law School and was also an adjunct professor at New York University Law School until 2007. Read more...
None of the above matters though. Nor does the fact that Sotomayor battled from a poor childhood in the Bronx to the halls of Princeton and Yale. (I maintain that dumb bunnies don't make it out of urban blight to the Ivy League and the judiciary, particularly when they are Latina.) Yoo and critics on rightwing Web sites like Red State could oppose Sotomayor's rulings, many of which they might logically disagree with. Instead, they brand her stupid:
So since nothing else about the office of the President of the United States is sacred, why would he not use his constitutionally mandated power to nominate to the Supreme Court of the United States a person so desperately lacking in judicial timbre that people of reason stand amazed, mouths open in awe.
...so says some poster on Red State. John Turley, constitutional law professor at George Washington University Law School, tells Fox News:
"I don't believe the body of her work justifies this nomination," Turley said. "I've read about 30 of her most important decisions and they do not suggest someone with a profound understanding of the law. But that does not mean that she will not surprise us." Read more...
She is dumb, you understand. Dumb as a stump! Women like her don't belong on the Supreme Court. She is being handed what good men like Antonin Scalia and John Roberts had to work for.She is angry.
Racewire took The New Republic to the woodshed over implications about Sotomayor's "temperament."
The most consistent concern was that Sotomayor, although an able lawyer, was "not that smart and kind of a bully on the bench," as one former Second Circuit clerk for another judge put it. "She has an inflated opinion of herself, and is domineering during oral arguments, but her questions aren't penetrating and don't get to the heart of the issue." (During one argument, an elderly judicial colleague is said to have leaned over and said, "Will you please stop talking and let them talk?") Read more...
Churlishness is okay if you are, say, Dick Cheney or John Bolton. Not so much for the Latina lady judges.
It occurs to me that these alleged temperament problems may be merely products of race-biased perceptions of Sotomayor. I mean, isn't Michelle Obama supposed to be an angry radical, too, despite ample evidence to the contrary? Latina = fiery. Black woman = angry. Any questions?
She is a racist or a (God, help me.) "reverse-racist."
The right is bringing the faux outrage about Sotomayor's belief that our life experiences, including ones driven by our race and culture, influence our judgments and interpretations. The notion seems so benign and reasonable. But there is something frightening to the mainstream about a WOC who unapologetically claims to do what white men do all the time, and something outrageous about one who claims that her Hispanic heritage and female identity might make her better equipped to ajudicate some cases, particularly those related to racial and sexual discrimination.
Playing on suspicions that colored folk, when given power, will secretly work to tilt things in their favor (Projection?), conservative talking heads like Pat Buchanan, Newt Gingrich and de-facto GOP chairman Rush Limbaugh are angrily decrying Sotomayor's "racist" views and hinting that in choosing the jurist, President Obama has revealed a racial bias of his own. And mainstream media, including Politico and the Washington Post, are abetting their claims. At issue is a 2001 speech that Sotomayor gave at the University of California--Berkeley that was later published in the Berkeley La Raza Law Journal:
In our private conversations, Judge [Miriam] Cedarbaum has pointed out to me that seminal decisions in race and sex discrimination cases have come from Supreme Courts composed exclusively of white males. I agree that this is significant but I also choose to emphasize that the people who argued those cases before the Supreme Court which changed the legal landscape ultimately were largely people of color and women. I recall that Justice Thurgood Marshall, Judge Connie Baker Motley, the first black woman appointed to the federal bench, and others of the NAACP argued Brown v. Board of Education. Similarly, Justice [Ruth Bader] Ginsburg, with other women attorneys, was instrumental in advocating and convincing the Court that equality of work required equality in terms and conditions of employment.
Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, a possibility I abhor less or discount less than my colleague Judge Cedarbaum, our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging. Justice [Sandra Day] O'Connor has often been cited as saying that a wise old man and wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in deciding cases. I am not so sure Justice O'Connor is the author of that line since Professor Resnik attributes that line to Supreme Court Justice Coyle. I am also not so sure that I agree with the statement. First, as Professor Martha Minnow has noted, there can never be a universal definition of wise. Second, I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.
Let us not forget that wise men like Oliver Wendell Holmes and Justice [Benjamin] Cardozo voted on cases which upheld both sex and race discrimination in our society. Until 1972, no Supreme Court case ever upheld the claim of a woman in a gender discrimination case. I, like Professor Carter, believe that we should not be so myopic as to believe that others of different experiences or backgrounds are incapable of understanding the values and needs of people from a different group. Many are so capable. As Judge Cedarbaum pointed out to me, nine white men on the Supreme Court in the past have done so on many occasions and on many issues including Brown.
However, to understand takes time and effort, something that not all people are willing to give. For others, their experiences limit their ability to understand the experiences of others. Other simply do not care. Hence, one must accept the proposition that a difference there will be by the presence of women and people of color on the bench. Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see. Read more...
This is the radical raving that so enrages the right?
At the heart of all this fretting is the notion of whiteness as neutral, as my blogsister Latoya Peterson pointed out on Racialicious. Buchanan, Gingrich and Limbaugh presumably were okay with Ronald Reagan being informed by his Illinois roots, Bush I being a product of his New England WASPiness, and Bush II acting like a big-hatted Texas cowboy. All of these men were as much defined by race as Sonia Sotomayor, though that remains unspoken. During the 2008 presidential election, conservative icon Sarah Palin preached "real" American and values all over the Midwest and South, promising that she and her running mate shared these founding principles and would govern by them. When she talked about Barack Obama being "different from us," she was heralding a certain type of Americanness that is, in part, defined by race. I have many a relative in Sarah Palin's "real" America. I have lived in the Midwest all of my life. Yet, I doubt Palin was thinking about me when she invoked the beliefs and values of the Heartland. My beliefs and values, Sotomayor's beliefs and values--they are "other" and have no place in government. The values of Reagan and the Bushes and the Palinites are simply neutral.
She doesn't belong here.
That is the real argument I am hearing against Sonia Sotomayor. She is a fairly moderate judge who, when nominated for appellate court in 1998 was supported by several Republican senators, including Bob Bennet (R-UT), Olympia Snowe (R-ME), Judd Gregg (R-NH), Susan Collins (R-ME), Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Dick Lugar (R-IN), and Thad Cochran (R-MS). It is hard to paint her as a hard lefty (though the other side will try). It is easier to play on biases against the intellect, temperament and values of people of color. It is easier to blast the pronunciation of her surname. It is easier to play on the notion that a woman like Sotomayor couldn't possibly make it to the Supreme Court fair and square like her white, male counterparts.
As I wrote this post, I recalled an incident from my college years--late 80s/early 90s. To advance in the journalism track, students had to pass an advanced English/writing test in their sophomore year. It was considered a tough exam and a significant number of students would take it more than once before passing. Now, I don't mind saying that I'm a smarty pants. I passed the hell out of that test on the first try, cause that's how I roll, yo. :) One of my white, male acquaintances--roommate to my friend's boyfriend Joe--failed, however. When told that I had passed the required test, Joe was dumbstruck: "How could you have passed on the first try?" (Emphasis all his.) "That test is really hard and X is really smart and he failed it!"
It mattered not to Joe that I came to college an A student and was studying on a full academic scholarship or that I graduated third in my high school class. I did not belong among the star students, not like his roommate with the right pedigree (read: race and gender).
That incident happened nearly 20 years ago, but I remember it well. They tell me things are different now. In the age of Obama, race doesn't matter. It seems, though, that the more things change, the more they stay the same.


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This video was released the other week and is a remix of last year's "Plays on My Phone". I'm sure this isn't the first usage of a phone button tone for a beat, but this is banging regardless. All of the playbook/cell phone provider references going on here makes it fun too.
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fnt - jquery-like templates for the erlang platform
About fnt - efene templates
first the most important, fnt code is hosted at github here:
the documentation is here:
you are invited to contribute by testing it, reporting bugs, improving the documentation, spreading the word and the most awesome of all, by helping with the development.
fnt (efene templates) is an erlang module that allows to compile text templates into erlang modules to be used in the erlang platform (erlang, efene, reia, LFE, etc.)
fnt uses the syntax of jquery templates , this has several advantages, first you have to learn only one template syntax for server and client side templates, second you can reuse the templates to create server and client generated pages, to improve page crawling by search engines and provide non javascript versions of your site without duplicating effort. Also, you have the benefit of more documentation and examples of the template syntax.
fnt templates are compiled into bytecode, you get fast page generation since the template is translated into an optimized function that avoids string concatenations.
your next step should be following the fnt tutorial
Frequently Asked Questions
why the name if it's written in erlang?
I don't want to push efene as a forced dependency to everyone wanting to use fnt in languages like erlang, reia and LFE.
also because it will be in the efene standard library and I'm really bad at names ;)
that said efene is awesome so go and check it out!
more resources
- Website and documentation: http://marianoguerra.com.ar/fnt
- Tutorial: http://marianoguerra.com.ar/fnt/tutorial.html
- Central git repo: http://github.com/marianoguerra/fnt—-efene-templates
really nice DSL for configuration and more…
yesterday reading something about coffeescritpt (an awesome language btw) y decided to try something I saw on the coffeescript page.
after a slight modification of the parser I was able to write the following:
@public run = fn () Awesome = me: name: "Mariano", age: 25, language: efene ,bob: name: "SpongeBob", age: idontknow, languaje: english io.format("~p~n", [Awesome])
this is possible only in ifene, in efene you would have to write the curly brackets, since that's how it works. I hope you like it
congratulations to djui!
djui requested a pull from his repo today, I just pushed the changes to efene master.
with this simple action he became the first official contributor of efene.
when we reach our secret goal* of conquering the world he will be able to point to this blog post with pride ;)
* not *that* secret any more
thanks to him and hurry up! you can be the second contributor!
a little more object oriented
I added the ability to call methods inside structs.
a call to a function inside a struct will pass the struct as first parameter implicitly.
with this we get a behaviour similar to python where methods are just functions that receive an object as first parameter (normally called self).
here are some examples:
@public present = fn (Self) io.format("Hi!, I'm ~s ~s, my email is ~s~n", [@Self.firstname, @Self.lastname, @Self.email]) @public new = fn (Firstname, Lastname, Email) New = { firstname: Firstname, lastname: Lastname, email: Email, show: fn struct.print:1, present: fn present:1} New @public run = fn () P = new("mariano", "guerra", "firstname.lastname@example.com") @P.show() @P.present()
as you can see, the instantiation of the new struct is similar to javascript.
running the program displays:
<struct firstname="mariano" lastname="guerra" email="email@example.com"/> Hi!, I'm mariano guerra, my email is firstname.lastname@example.com
I also added pretty printing of structs in the erlang shell and some more functions to the struct module
>>> P = person.new("mariano", "guerra", "firstname.lastname@example.com") <struct firstname="mariano" lastname="guerra" email="firstname.lastname@example.com"/> >>> @P.firstname "mariano" >>> struct.print(P) <struct firstname="mariano" lastname="guerra" email="firstname.lastname@example.com"/> ok >>> S = {foo: 1, bar: "asd", baz: true, show: fn struct.print:1} <struct foo=1 bar="asd" baz=true/> >>> @S.show() <struct foo=1 bar="asd" baz=true/> ok >>> struct.print(S, true) <struct foo=1 bar="asd" baz=true show=#Fun<struct.print.1>/> ok
more on efene's structs
I've decided that structs are the way to go for efene and removed all traces of "objects" from the code.
The reasons to do this:
- structs are a real data structure and not a closure trick to look like a data structure.
- You can introspect them, operate on them, dump and see what's inside. This allow people to write code that interact with structs in ways I can't imagine now. "objects" were hard to modify.
- structs allow nested structs
- friendly syntax to access and modify a struct
- meaningful and simple error messages
- syntax to define structs ad-hoc
- map 1:1 with JSON
- look like JSON
of course if you liked objects they are 100% implemented as a library so you can get the source from some commits ago and use it.
now some code using new functions in the struct module.
>>> Me = {firstname: "mariano", lastname: "guerra", location: {city: "cordoba", country: "argentina"}} {struct,[{firstname,"mariano"}, {lastname,"guerra"}, {location,{struct,[{city,"cordoba"},{country,"argentina"}]}}]} >>> struct.fields(Me) [firstname,lastname,location] >>> struct.has(Me, firstname) true >>> struct.has(Me, email) false
efene now JSON friendly - introducing structs
if I describe efene as "a javascript like syntax" then it should plain nice with JSON right?
well, from now I can say it does…
introducing structs:
>>> Me = {firstname: "mariano", lastname: "guerra", location: {city: "cordoba", country: "argentina"}} {struct,[{firstname,"mariano"}, {lastname,"guerra"}, {location,{struct,[{city,"cordoba"},{country,"argentina"}]}}]} >>> @Me.firstname "mariano" >>> @Me.location {struct,[{city,"cordoba"},{country,"argentina"}]} >>> @Me.location.city "cordoba" >>> @Me.firstname := "Mariano" {struct,[{firstname,"Mariano"}, {lastname,"guerra"}, {location,{struct,[{city,"cordoba"},{country,"argentina"}]}}]} >>> Me1 = @Me.firstname := "Mariano" {struct,[{firstname,"Mariano"}, {lastname,"guerra"}, {location,{struct,[{city,"cordoba"},{country,"argentina"}]}}]} >>> Me2 = @Me1.location.country := "Argentina" {struct,[{firstname,"Mariano"}, {lastname,"guerra"}, {location,{struct,[{city,"cordoba"},{country,"Argentina"}]}}]} >>> @Me.location.country "argentina" >>> @Me.email exception throw: {attribute_error,"Me struct has no attribute 'email'"} in function struct:get/3 >>> @Me.firstname.something exception throw: {value_error,"firstname doesn't seem to be a struct"} in function struct:get/3 >>> @Me.location.state exception throw: {attribute_error,"location struct has no attribute 'state'"} in function struct:get/3 >>> Me = {firstname: "mariano", lastname: "guerra", location: {city: "cordoba", country: "argentina"}} {struct,[{firstname,"mariano"}, {lastname,"guerra"}, {location,{struct,[{city,"cordoba"},{country,"argentina"}]}}]} >>> Json = mochijson.encode(Me) [123,"\"firstname\"",58,"\"mariano\"",44,"\"lastname\"",58,"\"guerra\"",44, "\"location\"",58, [123,"\"city\"",58,"\"cordoba\"",44,"\"country\"",58,"\"argentina\"",125], 125] >>> io.format("~s~n", [Json]) {"firstname":"mariano","lastname":"guerra","location":{"city":"cordoba","country":"argentina"}} ok >>> Data = mochijson.decode(Json) {struct,[{"firstname","mariano"}, {"lastname","guerra"}, {"location",{struct,[{"city","cordoba"},{"country","argentina"}]}}]} >>> @Data.firstname "mariano" >>> io.format("~s~n", [mochijson.encode(@Data.firstname := "Mariano")]) {"firstname":"Mariano","lastname":"guerra","location":{"city":"cordoba","country":"argentina"}} ok
from the example you can see that the object notation has the same syntax then JSON and python dictionaries.
you should also see that are serialized to and from json without any extra step using mochijson.
also the syntax to access and modify the "structs" is similar to an OO syntax
last but not least, check the descriptive error messages!
let me know what you think. My idea is to put efene "objects" to rest and focus on structs, since they are data structures (not closures), have a nice and friendly syntax and play really nice with JSON
flattr button for efene
I added a flattr button to efene pages so people can "flattr" me if they found my work interesting.
if you have a project, join to flattr, if I find it useful I will contribute (my first flatter was for dpkg :)
Getting legal
I decided to get legal and add all the changes in the code to release efene under the 3 clause BSD license.
this are some needed steps to stabilize the project so people can be sure that efene won't eat their lunch.
next step, define a naming strategy to avoid efene modules colliding with existing and future modules of erlang.
fat arrows - some syntactic sugar for "dicts"
I was thinking on how to make some kind of dict like structure on efene with the things provided by erlang.
I identified a pattern and decided to have some syntactic sugar for it.
a common thing in erlang is to "tag" something with a two item tuple that contains the "tag" that represent what the second item is, and the value.
Things like {error, Reason}, {ok, Value} are really common in erlang.
Another pattern is using lists of two item tuples to represent "dicts", you can see this here:
and here
for some examples.
we can say that the list of two item tuples is used often, also the "tagged value" pattern, so why don't do something about it? well, I did something…
I introduce to you: fat arrow expression!
it's a simple expression that provides a nice looking way to state that we are doing a kind of "dict" or "tagged value", it also allows some nice looking DSLs build on top of efene, let's see some examples:
>>> Nums = [one => 1, two => 2, fourtytwo => 42] [{one,1},{two,2},{fourtytwo,42}] >>> lists.keyfind(two, 1, Nums) {two,2} >>> lists.keymember(two, 1, Nums) true >>> lists.keymember(nine, 1, Nums) false >>> lists.keysearch(two, 1, Nums) {value,{two,2}} >>> >>> error => "you fail at failing" {error,"you fail at failing"} >>> throw(error => "something bad happened") exception throw: {error,"something bad happened"} >>> ok => "hi" {ok,"hi"} >>> SomeValue = ok => "Value" {ok,"Value"} >>> switch SomeValue { case ok => Value { Value }; } "Value" >>> Nums = [one => 1, two => 2, fourtytwo => 42] [{one,1},{two,2},{fourtytwo,42}] >>> dict.from_list(Nums) {dict,3,16,16,8,80,48, {[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[]}, {{[],[],[],[],[], [[one|1]], [],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[], [[two|2],[fourtytwo|42]]}}}
sorry for some one liners there, fn shell needs some improvements :)
as you can see you can do lot of operations using fat arrows.
if you don't like creating dicts from list of tuples at run time you can do it at compile time if the values are known at compile time:
@public run = fn () Nums = $[dict.from_list([one => 1, two => 2, fourtytwo => 42])] io.format("~p~n", [Nums])
translating to erlang with fnc -t erl test.ifn
-module(test). -export([run/0]). run() -> Nums = {dict, 3, 16, 16, 8, 80, 48, {[], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], []}, {{[], [], [], [], [], [[one | 1]], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [[two | 2], [fourtytwo | 42]]}}}, io:format("~p~n", [Nums]).
PS: I wont be adding syntactic sugar to everything I find in efene, I just thought that this case deserved special treatment :D
so there you go, complex and nice looking data structures with no overhead at run time, all thanks to fat arrows and efene meta programming


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