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MorphoSys and Heptares Sign Alliance to Develop Antibody Therapeutics Targeting GPCRs
Feb 13, 2013, 02:14 ET
MARTINSRIED and MUNICH, Germany, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, England and BOSTON, February 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
Collaboration Harnesses Heptares' StaRs® to Open up New Target Space for Therapeutic Antibodies from MorphoSys' Ylanthia® Platform
MorphoSys AG (FSE: MOR; Prime Standard Segment, TecDAX) and UK-based Heptares Therapeutics, the leading GPCR drug discovery and development company, have signed an agreement to discover novel antibody therapeutics targeting G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), which are membrane proteins involved in a broad range of biological processes and diseases.
"GPCRs comprise the single largest class of targets for pharmaceuticals currently on the market. Technical challenges have meant that GPCRs have been largely intractable to therapeutic antibody development. We believe that by combining Heptares' unique StaR® platform for generating stable GPCRs as antigens with our antibody discovery technology, we will be able to unlock the immense potential of therapeutic antibodies against GPCRs," commented Dr. Simon Moroney, Chief Executive Officer of MorphoSys AG.
"By creating StaRs, we believe we have overcome a major challenge facing small molecule and biologics discovery efforts focused on GPCRs. This has enabled us to create partnerships with leading pharma and biotech companies in both areas as well as to advance our own pipeline. We are therefore very excited to sign this new partnership with MorphoSys, one of the world's most advanced antibody therapeutic companies, to further leverage the power of our StaR® technology into the antibody space," said Malcolm Weir, Chief Executive Officer of Heptares.
Under the terms of the agreement, Heptares will generate stabilized receptors (StaRs) for a set of GPCR disease targets proposed by MorphoSys. MorphoSys will then apply its Ylanthia antibody library to discover and develop antibody therapeutics against these StaRs. MorphoSys has the right to sublicense to third parties access to these targets in conjunction with therapeutic antibody candidates. Heptares will receive upfront and research funding payments, plus a share of future sublicensing revenues generated by MorphoSys. Heptares also chose Ylanthia to develop and commercialize one therapeutic antibody created by MorphoSys against a GPCR target selected by Heptares. In this case, MorphoSys is eligible to receive license fees, milestones and royalties on any Ylanthia antibody developed by Heptares.
Heptares' StaRs offer a breakthrough solution to the main challenge associated with making antibodies against GPCRs, namely producing purified and properly folded protein for use as an antigen against which antibodies are raised. StaRs enable antibody discovery by stabilizing the GPCR protein outside the cellular membrane in the correct conformation. StaRs preserve biologically relevant epitopes thereby enabling generation of a diverse panel of functional antibodies. This has previously proved very difficult for GPCRs, which lose their conformational and functional integrity when removed from their natural environment in cell membranes.
MorphoSys's Ylanthia antibody library comprises more than 100 billion distinct, fully human antibodies, which makes it the industry's largest known antibody Fab library. Ylanthia's genetic composition translates into unprecedented structural diversity of the antibodies and offers optimized developability features. The library's diversity is expected to result in antibodies against previously inaccessible target molecules and to provide unique epitope coverage.
The GPCR superfamily is the largest and single most important family of drug targets in the human body. It plays a central role in many biological processes and is linked to a wide range of disease areas. GPCRs are expressed in every type of cell in the body where their function is to transmit signals from outside the cell across the membrane to signaling pathways within the cell, between cells and between organ systems. There are over 375 non-chemosensory GPCRs encoded in the human genome, of which 225 have known ligands and 150 are orphan targets. GPCRs are the site of action of 25-30% of currently approved drugs. Six of the top ten and 60 of the top 200 best-selling drugs in the US in 2010 target GPCRs. Seven of 37 drugs approved in 2012 by the US Food & Drug Administration target GPCRs. By the end of 2012, 37 therapeutic antibodies had been approved and are being marketed in countries around the world. However, to date only one GPCR-targeting antibody has been approved.
About MorphoSys:
MorphoSys developed HuCAL, the most successful antibody library technology in the pharmaceutical industry. By successfully applying this and other patented technologies, MorphoSys has become a leader in the field of therapeutic antibodies, one of the fastest-growing drug classes in human healthcare.
Together with its pharmaceutical partners, MorphoSys has built a therapeutic pipeline of more than 70 human antibody drug candidates for the treatment of cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, and Alzheimer's disease, to name just a few. With its ongoing commitment to new antibody technology and drug development, MorphoSys is focused on making the healthcare products of tomorrow. MorphoSys is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under the symbol MOR. For regular updates about MorphoSys, visit http://www.morphosys.com.
About Heptares Therapeutics:
Heptares creates new medicines targeting clinically important, yet historically challenging, GPCRs (G protein-coupled receptors), a superfamily of drug receptors linked to a wide range of human diseases. Leveraging our advanced structure-based drug design technology platform, we have built an exciting discovery and development pipeline of novel drug candidates, which have the potential to transform the treatment of serious diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, migraine and diabetes. Our pharmaceutical partners include Shire, AstraZeneca, MedImmune, Takeda, Cubist and MorphoSys, and we are backed by MVM Life Science Partners, Clarus Ventures, Novartis Venture Fund and Takeda Ventures. To learn more about Heptares, please visit http://www.heptares.com.
HuCAL®, HuCAL GOLD®, HuCAL PLATINUM®, CysDisplay®, RapMAT®, arYla®, Ylanthia® and 100 billion high potentials® are registered trademarks of MorphoSys AG.
Slonomics® is a registered trademark of Sloning BioTechnology GmbH, a subsidiary of MorphoSys AG.
StaRs® is a registered trademark of Heptares Therapeutics
This communication contains certain forward-looking statements concerning the MorphoSys group of companies. The forward-looking statements contained herein represent the judgment of MorphoSys as of the date of this release and involve risks and uncertainties. Should actual conditions differ from the Company's assumptions, actual results and actions may differ from those anticipated. MorphoSys does not intend to update any of these forward-looking statements as far as the wording of the relevant press release is concerned.
For more information, please contact:
MorphoSys AG
Dr. Claudia Gutjahr-Löser
Head of Corporate Communications & IR
Tel: +49(0)89-899-27-122
Mario Brkulj
Associate Director Corporate Communications & IR
Tel: +49(0)89-899-27-454
Alexandra Goller
Specialist Corporate Communications & IR
Tel: +49(0)89-899-27-332
Heptares Therapeutics Ltd
Mark Swallow, Chris Gardner (Citigate Dewe Rogerson)
Tel: +44(0)20-7282-2948
Malcolm Weir
Chief Executive Officer
Tel: +44(0)1707-358-629
Dan Grau
President (USA)
Tel: +1-857-222-4586
SOURCE Heptares Therapeutics


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John McDonnell has graciously shared with readers of the Victorian Web his website with the electronic text, including scanned images, of the anonymous London Characters and the Humourous Side of London Life. With Upwards of 70 Illustrations apparently by a "Mr. Jones," which the London firm Stanley Rivers & Co. published in 1871. Brackets indicate explanatory material, such as interpretations of contemporary slang, by Mr. McDonnell. — George P. Landow.]
ut to return to our Belgravians. There are those struggling to keep up an appearance to which birth, &c., entitles them; and those struggling to attain an appearance to which nothing entitles them, if the adequate means are not theirs. With some of these the possession of a carriage is the great thing; with others a man servant is the acme of respectability, and (indeed they are to be pardoned for this last idea; for many highly estimable, worthy, substantial, good sort of people, do not deem you respectable, if you do not keep a man servant) others limit their views to a page, or "buttons;" few have the moral courage to keep to the good, clean, useful, waiting-maid, who waits without noise, and does not break a tumbler a day, as most "buttons" must do, since no family who keeps one ever has tumblers enough, although their number is constantly made up.
Some of these strugglers live nine months of the year in London, by letting their house well for the other three. Ten and fifteen guineas a week are easily got for small but well-furnished houses in the immediate neighbourhood of Belgrave Square.
House letting has of late years become so common, the peer even condescending to receive his thousand or twelve hundred guineas for the season, that people now don't take the trouble that the Honourable Mrs. A. B. always does of telling you, in answer to your inquiries about her movements, when she leaves town, &c.
"Oh, soon, I hope; I am longing to be off. I always do, you know, the moment the sun begins to shine. I can't stay in London in hot weather."
The truth being that she remains on until the house is let for the season; when she takes her six children off to some cheap sea-side lodgings, whilst the Honourable A. B., her husband, wanders about from one friend to another, preferring anything to the early dinner and cooking of the lodging-house. His exemplary wife does not murmur at this; she is rather relieved at his absence, and better endures the three months' discomfort without him than with him. She is glad, in spite of the hot weather, however, to return to London at the end of August; but it is quite unnecessary to tell everybody, as she does, that "she always prefers London at this season, when everybody is away." This assertion is needless: because every one knows that her house is empty again, and that is the reason London sees her again.
Numbers of families, like the A. B.'s, cover their rent by letting in the season. Many reduce their rent, when they have a country house also, by letting the London house through the winter. Houses that let from three to five hundred guineas for the season, may be had during the winter at from eight to twelve guineas a week.
Many families coming up to London for the season hire not only their house, but their whole establishment, horses, carriages, coachman and all. Many, even among the residents, take an additional servant for the season. Some so contrive it that they manage always to quarrel with their footman, and discharge him at the end of the season---a shabby plan, which brings its own punishment, as these people never have a good servant, and, when their practice becomes known, have no chance of ever procuring one. "Alas!" exclaims our reader perhaps, "a good servant! where is such a thing to be found in the present day by any one?"
"Ah, indeed!" rejoins Mrs. Oldview; "railroads and penny posts have ruined one's servants. In my young days, if Betty behaved ill, I told her my mind, and she took a good cry, and mended her ways. She knew well enough then, if the Squire discharged her, she might sing for a place: but now Miss Betty writes to her mother or sister, who tell her not to mind; that there are plenty of places in town, and off she goes, as pert as may be."
Mrs. Oldview is right; this easy communication, passive or active, has the effect of unsettling many a household. You have a treasure of a cook, perhaps, and, enchanted, fill your house at Christmas, easy about your entrees, humbly proud of your sweets. Well; your intimate friend's lady's-maid tells her "her talents are wasted on the desert hair ['hair' must be a misprint for 'air'---Thomas Gray's famous 'Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard' has these well-known lines: 'Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.']," and mentions a situation that is exactly suited to her, in the metropolis, and she leaves you without a pang, by the parliamentary train. But we are not now about to bewail the housekeeping troubles of Belgravia out of town; they are in most respects greater than in London; but as far as men servants are concerned, people are better off in the country than in London. The men there, as a class, are far more respectable and better behaved. If steadily disposed, too, they have more chance of remaining so, as they are not exposed to the great temptations that beset the man servant in town. The clubs, the betting men, the bad example, sometimes, of their young masters, the bad society and temptations to drink they are constantly exposed to, when waiting by the hour for their mistress at some fashionable party; all these evil influences surround the young man, without perhaps a single good one to counteract them---without a friend or mother near, to warn, at a time of life when the passions are strongest, and principles weakest, and when from every necessary creature comfort being provided, means are given for indulgence, and habits acquired, which the same man in any other position, toiling for daily bread, would not dream of.
We do not know how it is that even the best masters and mistresses, those who do take an individual interest in their servants, seem to maintain a strict reserve towards their footmen: the very servant that most needs a special surveillance and interest has none of it. They know the family history, perhaps, of every maid in the house. They can talk to the butler, and be interested in his private affairs; but the unfortunate footmen may come and go, and as long as they are honest and clean, and do their work well, no questions are asked, no information is wanted; and John or William leaves at the end of his two years (and we think really he is right to do so), and no one is surprised: he was not expected to become attached to the family, and the family have not become attached to him. He signs a receipt for his wages, and says good-bye, without a shade of feeling being aroused upstairs, whatever there may be below. The departure of a kitchen-maid would cause more excitement, whilst that of a nurse or lady's-maid creates a disturbance, and makes a blank in the family almost as great as the absence of a relative.
And, indeed, good servants in these capacities are often as much and deservedly cherished as if really part of the family; and there are many good ones to be met with, in spite of the outcry of the day. If a lady is worth anything as a mistress at all, she does not change her nurse or maid often. These two servants will stay for years in a place where the cooks and housemaids are perpetually being changed, proving how great is the personal influence, the constant communication with a superior educated mind. The nurse, perhaps, may be retained by the tie of strong affection to the children, but the maid will not stay unless the mistress she serves has those qualities that make her respected and loved. When we see a lady perpetually changing her own maid, we are convinced the fault is all her own. With her other servants, other influences work; with her personal attendants, her own is paramount. Women-servants in London---if we except the cooks, of whom we are afraid we cannot speak so highly---are as respectable and hard-working a class of people as can be met with. For every worthless, ungrateful one, we feel satisfied we could produce two, capable of acts of devotion to their employers that their superiors in station would not dream of. Early isolated from their own families, the loving heart of woman often finds a vent for those affections which her own kindred should claim, in the family of her master and mistress. Their sorrows become her sorrows; their prosperity or adversity is hers also. She will excuse when the world condemns, and ofttimes becomes the best comforter in the hour of trial, and she will rejoice, without a shade of envy or jealousy, when fortune smiles on those whom she might deem already blessed enough. We have known the hard-earned savings of a female servant tendered, without thought of self, to her master's young son in his first trouble, or to her perhaps ill-treated mistress. Then what shall we say of the nurse? Who can contemplate the unselfish devotion of these women to their duties; their renunciation of all liberty and pleasure for themselves; their watchfulness, their self-denial, that their shillings and sixpences may buy a toy for this one, a ribbon for the other, and not be struck with admiration?
We have in our mind one, whose dying hours were embittered by the dread that the loved children might not be well cared for when she was gone. Her mistress, thinking she might like to see their young faces once more, offered to bring them. "Oh! no," she exclaimed; "I could not part again. Let me not see them. Let me not hear their voices." Oh! deep, pure love! How can we, how ought we, to run down, as a body, those amongst whom such characters are found? No, we will not. The material is good, and, as far as women-servants in London are concerned, we are certain a good mistress will make a good servant. The cooks we have excepted. We are sorry to say that their habits are bad after a certain age. Most of them drink, and few stand the temptation of making out of their place. They have much in their power---much they can legitimately dispose of. If they would but stop there, how delightful it would be! Their wages are high, too; so they have no excuse; but the fact is, that servants' code of morals, with regard to what they think they may honestly do, wants a complete revision, or, rather, a remaking. They have chosen to lay down for themselves rules for the disposal of certain portions of their master's property, without ever consulting the lawful owner, and choose to consider any departure from those rules as a breach of privilege. "There," said a gentleman one day to his father's butler---"there is a pair of boots for you."
"Thank you, sir," replied the man; "but they belong to the footman."
"Do they?" returned the gentleman. "I thought they belonged to me. Put them down again." And neither footman nor butler ever got boots from that gentleman again.
People of late years have very properly made a stand against the cook's "perquisites" [casual benefits attached to an employment beyond salary or wages]. Ladies have determined to dispose of their left-off clothes as they pleased, and gentlemen to pay their own bills; and servants will be better and happier when they consider as gifts what they have before looked upon as "rights." The scale of wages in the present day is high enough to place them above these considerations, in Belgravia at any rate.
To begin with female servants. Kitchenmaids and under-housemaids begin at L10 a year, and get on to L12 and L14. Upper housemaids have L16 a year, and in great houses are found, as the expression is, in tea and sugar, besides beer and washing, which are given to all servants. A plain cook in a small family, who does some housework, gets from L18 to L25 a year; whilst a cook and housekeeper, or cook, with one or two kitchenmaids under her, receives from L30 to L40 yearly. This high rate of payment places what is called a good cook out of many people's reach; consequently those who can only afford what is called a plain cook, and think the dinner they eat themselves every day, not good enough to invite their friends to, resort to the expedient of having one sent in by a Gunter or a Bridgeman, if they can manage it, or an inferior purveyor if not. The present fashion of a dinner "a' la Russe" has been a great relief to some other housekeepers. Their peace of mind is not disturbed if the jelly does fall, because it will not appear on the table; and if the capon is not well larded, who, they think, will detect the failure in the delicate slice doled out to them. They regret, it is true, the corner-dishes and epergne [center ornament for dinner-table] it cost so much to obtain, ill-replaced by a few cut-glass dishes and pots of flowers; but then the saving of being able to employ their own cook is a consolation to them, although often none to their friends.
The wages of ladies' maids and nurses are much the same, from L18 to L25 a year; whilst a young lady's attendant has L16 a year, and nursemaids from L8 to L14.
The page, or "buttons," begins with a wage of L8 and his clothes; a footman from L20 to L28, with two suits, and sometimes three suits of livery [distinctive clothes worn by a person's servants] in the year, and so many hats, and so many pairs of white silk hose in "my lord's" house, and so many pairs of black in Sir John's, and so much for powder, and so much for gloves, and everything else, these high, important, and now difficult to-be-got servants, can bargain for. The 19th century considers livery a badge of servitude, or "Punch," with his "Jeames of Buckley Square," has made it ridiculous, or---but it matters little for what reasons---certain it is a man for livery is scarcer than he was, and one of height and figure may command his price, and be almost as impertinent as he pleases.
"Pray, sir," inquired one of these individuals when he was being hired---"pray, who is to carry coals up to the drawing-room?"
"Well," replied the gentleman, "I hardly know; but I don't think I do it myself."
These servants hardly ever stay more than two years in their places. It seems to be an understood thing amongst them that they are to go at the end of the time, even if they cannot get the same advantages elsewhere; and many people are so accustomed to this biennial movement of their footmen, that they look with suspicion on the man that prolongs his stay, and imagine there must be some, not good, but bad reason for his not going.
In what are called single-handed places it is still more difficult to get the man to wear livery, and many families are obliged to put up with a short, ill-looking man when, from having carriage, it becomes necessary that the man should be in livery. A man's height is not a mere matter of fancy. It is an inconvenience if the man cannot hasp the windows without a stool, and if his arms are too short to carry the tray, or put it properly on the sideboard; but, as the strong, well-made men are now off to the railroads, there is no help for it. The single-handed man likes to be out of livery, and to consider himself on the level of a butler; but he is, generally speaking, a much more humble-minded and useful individual than he whom he aspires to compete with. We can easily believe the lady of rank who declared to a friend one day that she had been better served when she had only one man and a boy than she was then, with five men in the house. She knocked at her own door one Sunday morning, unexpectedly, when they all thought she was gone to church, and had to wait more than half an hour before she was finally let in by the under housemaid! The butler was at home, but far too grand to open the door. John, who was also at home, left it to James, who was out, and so on. So, out of the five, not one was at hand. The strictness practised in some great houses, where the establishment is large, seems justified by such instances as this. No order could probably be kept if any fault was passed over.
A lady, hiring a housemaid, asked her why she left her last place. "I was discharged," she replied, "because the fire went out." This was found to be true. She had lighted the fire, but not attended to it well; it went out. The lady complained, and the housekeeper gave her warning, as it had happened once before. No doubt the lesson was not lost on the other housemaids.
If the footman leaves his place every two years, the butler's aim, when once comfortably installed, is to stay. The longer he remains in a family, the more important he becomes, or fancies he becomes, and the less, generally speaking, he contrives to do. How often have we seen this high and mighty functionary at a dinner-party limiting his duties to the handing round the champagne, or putting the claret on the table! Dickens has drawn an amusing picture of a man overawed by his awful butler; and really it is astonishing how these individuals impose upon themselves, if they do not upon others, the idea of their vast importance, and of what, as they consider, is due to themselves.
A gentleman who was in want of a butler stopped to speak to one who came after the place on his way out to his carriage. "Sir," said the man, with an air of great dignity, after a few questions had been asked, "save yourself needless discussion; your situation will not suit me, for I am not accustomed to be spoke to in the 'all." The London butler endeavors to impress upon his master that it is inconsistent with the position of a butler to ask leave to go out. Their morning walk and their evening visit to a friend, or the club, are sources of quarrel between many a master and man. Few masters would deny a man reasonable air and exercise, but all who study their own comfort should fight against any special hour being appropriated by the servant for his outing. His time belongs to his master, and ought to be subservient to his, to say nothing of the danger of a butler, who has so much in his charge, making a practice of being absent at a stated time, and thus giving the opportunity, so soon taken, for many a serious plate robbery.
A very well-known nobleman, it is said, was told the other day by a servant who was leaving him, that the reason was, "His lordship's hours did not suit with his; they were so very uncertain that he found he could not get any regular time to himself!"
Butler's wages are inordinately high, and their habits self-indulgent. The rich parvenus, the cotton lords, and great contractors, who do not mind what they pay to secure a man whom they think will, by his savoir faire [quickness to see and do the right thing], make their table outvie my lord's, have to answer for the preposterous demands of some of these men.
A gentleman (and we think he ought to be ashamed of himself), who gave his butler L100 a year, was rather astonished when a man he had decided to engage stepped back and said there was one question he had forgotten to ask, which was, "What wine, besides port and sherry, he allowed."
In quiet and regular families, where a butler and footmen are kept for instance, we need not say that no wine of any description is allowed; but in the homes of many noblemen, where upper servants are very responsible, and have many under them, they have the habits and indulgences of their masters. In a certain earl's house, who died a few years ago, and was one of England's wealthiest noblemen, the table of the upper servants---the house-steward, housekeeper, butler, countess's maid, &c., was as luxurious as their master's. Four corner dishes and four sweets were put down every day before these fortunate individuals, whilst they were waited upon by a man out of livery.
In many a nobleman's home, it is true that there is greater simplicity and economy in the household arrangements than in many a commoner's; but still the habits and dress of great people's servants, on the whole, are very much out of keeping with their position, and unfortunate for themselves, as they acquire extravagant ideas, that prevent many saving for the rainy day. We must also deprecate the system of two tables; servants are but servants; and this separation at meals does not promote good fellowship, and makes them troublesome visitors, where there is but one.
When the Cornish squire, with a pedigree four times as old as his noble guest, was asked by the latter, "What his valet could do, as he found the squire had no second table for his servants?" he replied, "He really did not know, unless his lordship preferred that the man should dine with them," an alternative which settled the question.
The days are gone by when servants were looked upon as paid machines, and their food and lodging indifferently cared for; but from one extreme we are running into another; and when the enthusiastic nursemaid described her master and mistress, a wealthy stockbroker at Blackheath, as the "best people she had ever known," she founded that opinion on the fact "that their servants' comfort was their constant care." She, like many others of her class, did not stop to consider anything else, or whether Mr. and Mrs. Scrip were wise or kind to provide a table and mode of living for servants which they could not find in many other places. No; if she had been questioned, she would tell you she never meant to take a place where she could not have what she had at the Scrips'. She wouldn't go to mean people like the Hon. Mrs. Bragg, who only allowed her servants a pudding on Sundays, "not for all the gold of the Ingies," &c., &c. In this way a class of servants soon spring up of extravagant pretensions; and a class of people like the Scrips, who, with more money than wit, pique themselves on the peculiar advantages their servants enjoy, foster in them habits of self-indulgence and idleness, to which those in whom intellect is little cultivated are ever prone. Servants are, after all, very like children: overindulgence spoils them; and if we would make them good and useful members of our household, we must train them with all kindness, but in wholesome fear. We want them to think of us, to study our comfort; and not as we now perpetually see, to become in reality the first people in the house: their hours so important, their work so defined, that a master or mistress dare not venture to disarrange one of their meals, or to ask any servant to do anything not precisely stipulated for, without encountering black looks, or, "If you please ma'am, to suit yourself this day month."
But, as we have said before, the materiel is good, as far as women servants are concerned, and therefore the remedy is in the hands of the masters. Men servants are, doubtless, more difficult to manage; but we think here something may be done too. People are too apt to expect from their "men" what is impossible in the nineteenth century---the life of a hermit in the midst of society. He is to have no friends, no family, no failings of any kind; music is discouraged, conversation in the kitchen strictly forbidden, his newspaper is half objected to, and his bird, or his two or three plants outside the pantry window, sometimes considered a liberty. No; plate-cleaning should be his relaxation, folding his napkins his sole delight. Can one wonder that the devilled kidney for breakfast is a treat, and the buttered toast at tea a consolation to those forlorn creatures, who naturally become selfish and self-indulgent from having nobody to think about but themselves?
Why should people object so much to their men-servants being married? Most of them are; and half of them go into their places with a lie on their lips, vowing they are single. They can't help themselves; they might starve, if they spoke the truth, and those dear to them also.
Mrs. L. S. D. is so glad her son is going to be married, because marriage always steadies a man, and "dear Augustus has perhaps been just a little wild," but she won't have a married man-servant on any account, "because, then, you know, I should have his family living out of this house too."
Not if the man is honest, dear Mrs. L. S. D.; and if he is not honest he will pilfer or purloin all the same, whether he has a wife or no; for if he has not, perhaps there is something worse, for men-servants, dear lady, are no better than their betters in les affaires de coeur. If dear Augustus is steadier and better for being married, so I assure you is honest John, and more content to stay at home and save his money, and do his duty, if he is a man at all, for having ties and claims upon him that he is not ashamed to own, than when he was a single man tempted out to the servants' club at the public-house round the corner, where he lost his money at cards, and made a book for the Derby, and sometimes got himself into such straits for money that he just borrowed a few spoons and forks for a time, only a very short time, to help him on until he could get clear again,---which time sometimes never came at all, but ended in ruin to himself and serious loss to his master. Let masters and mistresses weigh well this truth, that their servants have the same passions, affections, and feelings as themselves; let them keep them well in their places, strict to their duties, and endeavour to influence them by the same motives they would employ for the guidance of their own flesh and blood, and they may then perhaps find the key to many a domestic difficulty.
Next to the troubles with one's servants come the troubles of one's tradespeople; but these are more easily overcome, for London is so large, so well supplied, and competition so great, that if discontented with A you have only to go to B, and from B to C, until you are satisfied. All this, provided you are master of your own house: if your cook or housekeeper reigns, you may find that, spite of all you say or do, you return to A, or that difficulties insurmountable prevent your dealing with M if your servant has settled to employ N. The fact is, your custom [business patronage] is large, and the tradesman makes it worth the while of your cook to have him retained. Of course in the end, it is you who pay the Christmas gratuity, or the odd pence which the butler, who pays your bills, always gets, and which amount to a pretty handsome sum at the end of the year. It is only the credit, or first-class tradesmen, as they call themselves, who can afford these retaining fees, and they do it by putting a higher price on their goods, which are often not so good as those of the man who sells cheaper next door, and who, having a ready-money custom and quick sale, has seldom a stale or depreciated article on hand.
All this, however, is well understood by Belgravians; and those who care to study economy pay their own bills, and choose their own tradespeople. It is no longer received as an axiom, that the dearer you pay the better you are served.
The best fishmonger in the neighbourhood of Belgrave and Eaton Squares was Charles, who has made a fortune, left the business to his son, and became a landed proprietor, by selling good fish at moderate prices. To many families he supplied fish every day, or two or three times a week, at sixpence a head; a family of eight, therefore, had an ample dish of fish for 4s., whilst two people were supplied for one shilling. At the close of the day his surplus stock was sold off at reduced prices to anybody who chose to fetch it away. His customers, therefore, were sure of always having fresh fish. We wish the greengrocers would adopt a similar plan, and sell off their stale greens, &c., at the end of the day. Still, how much less have we to complain of here than in former years: railroads and steam bring to this mighty mart of men all that is fit for food, and "good and pleasant to the eyes" also. Our grapes and plums come to us with the bloom on, spring vegetables arrive steeped in the morning dew, countries vie with each other in sending us their best products; in short, let a man travel where he will---to the east for his ease, or the south for his pleasure---if he have but Fortunatus' purse he will find there is no place in the wide world where he can make life more truly comfortable and enjoyable than when he is keeping house in Belgravia.
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Baltimore, MD, October 26-30, 2012
Third Space as an Information System and Services Intervention Methodology for Engaging the User's Deepest Levels of Information Need
Carol Kuhlthau and Charles Cole
Sunday, 3:30pm
The paper discusses overview principles of information system and services intervention strategies for students researching a school assignment, then tests these principles in a field study. The principles are based on Kuhlthau's ISP Model, Cole's theory of information need and Maniotes' concept of Third Space. The six-stage ISP Model describes information barriers that arise for students researching a school assignment while they are exploring information in Stage 3; they must transition to a focus formulation in Stage 4, but information overload and other barriers frequently block their thinking. The theory of information need seeks to explain successful Stage 3-to-Stage 4 transition as the student engaging his or her ways of knowing, which will enable focus formulation. Third Space is an intersection zone between the school curriculum and the student's knowledge and ways of knowing, creating a dynamic conception of the learning space that involves the student's outside-the-classroom knowledge. A content analysis study illustrates a methodology for operationalizing and testing these concepts and principles in a naturalistic setting.


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In this article Alex Devine explains how Java developers can take advantage of Perf4J, an open source toolset for adding code timing statements and for logging, analyzing and monitoring the results.
In today's world of service-oriented architectures and widely distributed applications, detecting the component responsible for a performance bottleneck can be exceedingly difficult:
Consider what happens on the server in the relatively common scenario of a typical web 2.0-style application:
- An incoming web request is dispatched to the component responsible for generating the response.
- The request may need to be authenticated against an LDAP server.
- The controller component makes queries against a database.
- The controller component also makes calls to a third-party web service.
- The controller component aggregates all of the retrieved data into a set of business objects for display.
- The business objects are rendered and the response is sent to the user's browser.
- AJAX code running in the browser causes additional requests to be sent back to the server
Perf4J is an open source toolset for adding Java server-side code timing statements and for logging, analyzing and monitoring the results. As Alex notes:
For those developers who are familiar with logging frameworks such as log4j or java.util.logging, an analogy helps to describe Perf4J:
Perf4J is to System.currentTimeMillis() as log4j is to System.out.println()
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Great Tool!
Doug Ly
This is a great tool to keep track of the performance of our service layer.
My boss definitely like the statistics and how heavy the app is being used :-)
One bad thing is that the Google Chart API gets nuked when the request URI is too long!
Nice Graph
Srinivas Venkatappa
I would like the tool to progress in the direction of analyzing the database calls, as most of the performance problems are seen in the database areas.
Nagios support of JMX?
Keith Doyle
I am curious though on the comment regarding Nagios support of JMX. My investigation shows that this is particularly difficult, unstable and 'hacky' See www.agilejava.com/blog/?p=149 (not written by me btw). Would it be possible to elaborate on the approach used to tie perf4j jmx logs to nagios that has been adopted by Homeaway?
Re: Nagios support of JMX?
Alex Victoria
The basic Nagios/Cacti usage that we have at HomeAway relies on MX4J's HTTP JMX Adaptor. The server exposes the Perf4J data as described in this article using MX4J.
We then use simple command-line bash scripts to ping the XML MX4J interface from Nagios and Cacti. From there its simple to integrate into both of these products. Thanks to Perf4J, we have performance related alerts and historical charts (above and beyond the ones provided by Per4J) in these other applications.
Hope this helps.
Perfect tool
Srinivas Reddy
Thanks for such a nice tool.
Re: Nagios support of JMX?
Philip Gardner
Alex is right; MX4J exposes pretty much all the data we need in an easily consumable format. By adding "&template=identity" to the end of any MX4J url everything is output into XML. We then use a number of simple Perl scripts that consume that XML and run checks against our thresholds specified in Nagios. It's simple, but it works. We do the same thing for Cacti.
I've taken a look at some of the Nagios plugins you've linked to before and basically came to the same conclusion as you, as far as their usefulness.
If you have any other questions let me know.


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Saxo Bank, the online multi-asset trading and investment specialist, today announced the opening of its newest branch in Istanbul, Saxo Capital Markets Menkul Değerler A.Ş.
In May 2012, Saxo Bank acquired 89.54% of Değer Menkul Değerler, a local broker with a securities license. The new branch will support and grow Saxo Bank's existing institutional client base, offering access to Turkish markets as well as providing Turkish investors with access to international financial markets.
The head of the new office is Egemen Kaya, previously Head of Emerging Markets and Precious Metals Desk at Saxo Bank's headquarters in Denmark. Mr. Kaya commented:
"With the new stock exchange structure, Borsa Istanbul, improving technological infrastructure as well as newly established single stocks options market, Turkey has begun to demonstrate to the rest of the world its capabilities and investment potential. Low inflation and interest rates are present in Turkey, and Saxo Bank anticipates an increasing number of Turkish investors to ask for a broader range of international market products such as Forex, international stocks, futures and options. By having a presence in this young and buoyant market, Saxo Bank and its Turkish subsidiary Saxo Capital Markets Menkul Değerler are now positioned well to facilitate these demands."
Kim Fournais and Lars Seier Christensen, founders and CEOs of Saxo Bank, said in a joint statement:
"The opening of the new office in Istanbul is another milestone in Saxo Bank's history and global expansion. Turkey has for many years been tremendously important to Saxo Bank and presents an excellent opportunity for us with its increasingly expanding financial market. Istanbul has the potential to become one of the leading financial centres in the world, and our own presence there will enable us to add direct value for Turkish investors and fully support them with their diverse trading requirements."
Saxo Capital Markets Menkul Değerler A.Ş offers retail investors access to 20,000 financial instruments, including 50+ forex pairs, 8,300 CFDs, Single Stock CFDs on over 21 global stock exchanges, CFD ETFs, Stock Indices CFDs, Futures, Contracts Options and many others. The instruments are available through Saxo Capital Markets' platform available in three versions: desktop version SaxoTrader, browser-based SaxoWebTrader and SaxoTrader app.
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STOCKTON - A planned $30 million resort catering to wine country visitors to Lodi lost a vote at the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday that could have helped the land chosen for the hotel receive a needed commercial use designation.
STOCKTON - A planned $30 million resort catering to wine country visitors to Lodi lost a vote at the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday that could have helped the land chosen for the hotel receive a needed commercial use designation.
Although the AVA resort proposed at Highway 99 and Armstrong Road outside of Lodi didn't get the board's blessing to be included in the next round of the county's years-long process to update its General Plan, even supervisors who voted against it on a split vote said they liked the idea.
Supervisor Steve Bestolarides called it a good project, but good process now means he's voting against it.
"I just think this is way too fast and way too much without process," he said. "I do think that is a great opportunity."
And looking at the specific project right now is like "putting the cart before the horse," he said, using a phrase both proponents and opponents used during hours of testimony at the afternoon meeting.
It was the latest installment of pitches from landowners wishing to change the zoning of their land when the county updates its General Plan - a blueprint for how the county will grow over the next two decades.
Approved pitches will undergo an environmental review and could be included in the updated General Plan, though changed zoning wouldn't prevent any specific project from going through the normal approval process or further environmental review, officials said. And not getting through to the next stage of the General Plan update doesn't necessarily kill a proposed project, either.
The land-use designation change proposed by Diede Construction Inc. was relatively late to the General Plan process and was submitted after the county Planning Commission vetted other requests last year.
The board voted 3-2 to deny the change in land-use designation. Supervisor Larry Ruhstaller and Board Chairman Ken Vogel joined Bestolarides in voting against the plan, while Supervisors Carlos Villapudua and Bob Elliott voted in favor.
Neighbors who were critical of the resort lined up to say how the resort could bring noise and traffic, might taint the groundwater, could conflict with the area's important agricultural operations and represents the loss of more of a dwindling supply of farmland. They gave impassioned pleas about how growth has already changed their lives and cautioned that the project could lead to more development in an area known for farming.
"Once we cement the farm over, we're never going to see it again," neighbor Dennis Regan said.
But a resort like this would help the Lodi wine region grow, said Nancy Beckman, CEO of Visit Lodi! Conference and Visitors Bureau. "We are a burgeoning wine region," she said. "(But) our tourism is pretty much in its infancy. ... We have to continue to support it with amenities and attractions as we move forward."
Supporters said AVA resort would enjoy the kind of boost seen by Lodi's Wine & Roses Hotel Restaurant Spa.
Russ Munson, owner of Wine & Roses, joined those telling the board of their support.
"And I'll be back to support the cart, once you decide what the horse is doing," he said.
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Three times a day, Antwone Price would call his grandmother to make sure she was safe.
"He said: 'I've got to protect you. If they don't kill me, they're going to kill you,'" Myrtis Price said. "He told me that three times a day. He would call the family to find out where I was."
Wednesday afternoon, Antwone Price, 30, and another man, Trevin Hullum, 22, were found dead in price's white Camaro parked about six blocks from where he once lived with his grandmother. Price was a promoter who worked with rapper Chief Keef and others through his company Im On Entertainment.
Officers found their bodies around 3:20 p.m. in the 7100 block of South Oakley Avenue in the Englewood neighborhood. One of the men was in the back seat of the two-door Camaro and the other man in the trunk, according to Police News Affairs Officer Dan O'Brien, citing preliminary information.
Investigators are looking into whether the two may have been killed in a robbery, authorities said.
Following autopsies today, determination of the cause of death of each man was pending further studies, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office, which had not yet officially released the men's identities this afternoon.
Residents said it had been parked a block north earlier in the week and may have been towed from there because of street work. Price's fiancee had reported him missing on Wednesday, according to Myrtis Price.
Price said she saw last her grandson on Tuesday, when she learned someone he worked with in the music business owed him $5,000.
Price said her grandson had enemies in the rap music promotion business. "They were jealous because they wanted what he had," she said.
Although his regular day job was at the Daley Center, he dabbled in the music scene on the side, often traveling, his grandmother said. She said he even took a leave of absence from the Daley Center for a short time so he could concentrate on music.
She said she knew Hullum, but not too well. She believed he was a business associate with Price in the music business.
Price said she raised her grandson at her South Side home, and he attended Leo Catholic High School in the Auburn Gresham community. He later graduated from Quincy University, a Catholic liberal arts university downstate, with a degree in criminal justice, she said.
He leaves behind a 1-year-old daughter.
Myrtis Price said this is not the first she's met such a tragedy. Her son and Antwone Price's father, Anthony Price, was shot and killed in 2000.
Myrtis Price has other grandchildren, but she was especially close with Antwone Price, who had several brothers and sisters.
"I worried more about him because I raised him," she said. "Antwone is a son to me instead of a grandson."
Price had worked at the Daley Center for nearly a decade, according to a friend and co-worker, Tajuana Campbell, 37. She said he was a cashier who handled court record requests in the Cook County civil division.
Campbell said she last saw Price Tuesday, when he told her about a home he had just purchased for his fiancée and their toddler in the south suburbs.
Price would often come to work with a newspaper and talk about coverage of Chicago's homicides. "Every morning he used to come in and talk about ... 'Look how many people got killed,'" said Campbell. "He sure did. And now he's a victim of it."
Police reported no arrests Thursday.
Tribune reporter Peter Nickeas and Tribune photographer Terrence Antonio James contributed
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Ostrum Asset Management has set up a complaint management system aimed at effectively, transparently and uniformly processing complaints from its customers, in accordance with applicable regulations.
Access to the Complaint Department is free of charge and customers can file their complaint according to the case (i) in French or (ii) in the or one of the official languages of the member state in which the UCITS is marketed or in which the service is provided.
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Wallkill, NY
Ann Marie Juk of Wallkill, NY, a resident of the area died Wednesday, July 24, 2013, in New Paltz. She was 67.
The daughter of the late Theodore Lester and Virginia Betzing Bussey, she was born July 31, 1945, in Detroit, Michigan.
Survivors include her husband, Ronald, at home; children: Andrew Juk of Louisa, VA, Mary Karen Wulf and her husband, Joseph of Columbus, OH, Matthew Juk and his wife, Rebecca of Greenfield, NY, Ann Christin Hallmen and her husband, Thomas of Sweden; seven grandchildren: Nicholas, Luke, Grady, Adrianne, Laura, Sabina, and Oliver; sister, Mary Carol Sharer of Troy, MI; and five nephews and a niece.
Visitation will be held from 10 a.m. to 12 noon on Monday July 29th at the Wallkill Funeral Home, 12 Bonaventura Ave., Wallkill, NY 12589. Funeral Services will follow at 12 noon in the funeral home; Deacon John Frohbose will officiate. Cremation will be in Cedar Hill Crematory in Newburgh, NY.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Pelotonia, 351 West Nationwide Blvd., Columbus, OH 43215, www.pelotonia.com.
Arrangements were made by Wallkill Funeral Home; for directions or condolences please visit wallkillfuneralhome.com.


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Now that I've covered the social aspects of the Midwest Family History Expo in Kansas City, it's time to get down to the business of providing a few highlights from the sessions I attended.
The FHE folks compiled a wonderful syllabus (can you say 360 pages?) for the event. What's nice about this is that the web sites and resources the speakers referred to in their presentations are already in the book for later reference. I was able to use my net book computer for taking notes in many of the sessions, so as a speaker talked about a web site, I could access it and add it to my bookmarks right on the spot. I just scrolled through those bookmarks and I have a LOT of sites to visit and search. And that doesn't even come close to everything in the syllabus.
Day 1 - Friday
Sources and Citations: Just Do It
Carol Cooke Darrow, CG
Carol emphasized the importance of identifying your sources and compared primary information and secondary information. One of the books she talked about was Evidence! Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian by Elizabeth Mills, a book I have in my personal library. It was also interesting to learn ways to document online sources.
Mapping Madness
Ron Arons, Author
Ron is a very entertaining presenter - I loved his sense of humor! He compared the differences between Google maps and Microsoft's maps (Bing).
One of the online tools he discussed was MapCruncher by Microsoft. This allows you to layer maps to emphasize or make comparisons in an area you want to show. For example, a historical map can be layered on top of a contemporary map for a comparison of then and now. Here are some examples of what this tool can do.
Everything You Wanted to Know About Footnote.com
Justin Schroepfer
One thing I learned from this session is that genealogists are forgiving people. It's a little tough to do a live presentation about an internet web site when the wireless connection isn't working. But Justin was a real pro and continued to inform and entertain the audience about his product until web connectivity was restored. As a presenter myself, I know how frustrating it can be when the technology doesn't cooperate. Justin - and the audience - handled it all very well.
That said . . . I chose this session because I've been a Footnote subscriber for more than a year and have found their search and navigation a bit cumbersome. And I am far from being a web novice. One thing Justin did was to give me a better feel for the type and breadth - and volume - of information that is on the site. The information that I'm looking for most likely is there; I just need to look deeper and refine my search methodology so I can find it.
He shared information about setting up pages about our ancestors. I'd done a few pages in the past. When I came across information on deceased relatives, I added some photographs. Most of my online genealogy activity is on Ancestry, but I can see the value of adding pages to Footnote, just to throw the net out over a wider area.
Colonial Immigration Genealogy
Beth Foulk
You know what it's like when you buy a new car, then suddenly it seems like all you see on the streets is that make of car? I'm beginning to feel that way as new (new to me, anyway) sources of genealogy resources keep showing up again and again.
One of the resources Beth mentioned is one that entered my life in the last week. That is the vast amount of information on colonial immigrants available at the New England Historic Genealogical Society library. This source is definitely becoming one of my new best friends. Another recommended web site waiting for me to explore is http://www.greatmigration.org/
Combining Historical Research with Your Genealogy
Gena Philibert Ortega
Gena's session was a great way to end the day! She is an enthusiastic and engaging presenter. And she overcame the adversity of a very loud air conditioning system in the meeting room to share a wealth of information with eager learners. Her book, Cemeteries of the Eastern Sierra (Images of America) is one I definitely want to read.
Gena focused on techniques to help us fill in the spaces between those major life events by studying the history of the times our ancestors lived in and understanding how history effected their lives. One of the books she recommended was Hidden Sources (much of which is available on Google Books).
My summary of Saturday's sessions will be in a separate post.


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With fields left unharvested and farmers adjusting cultural practices due to a lack of willing and able employees, agricultural organizations including the California Farm Bureau Federation are working alongside farmworker advocates, asking the House of Representatives to pass meaningful reform to the federal immigration system when Congress returns from its August recess.
During a roundtable discussion with U.S. Department of Agriculture Acting Deputy Secretary Michael Scuse in Sacramento last week, CFBF President Paul Wenger said it is time to "rally the troops" on the issue of immigration reform.
"There are folks who say, 'If they don't get it done this year, there's always next year.' No, there is no next year. This is it," Wenger said. "It is time for folks to put their differences aside and get it done. It's going to take phone calls from our members and talking to folks that they have supported for a lot of years saying, 'This is it.'"
Scuse told the group he is optimistic that, ultimately, the nation will achieve some type of meaningful reform.
"The House of Representatives has elected to divide this up into four different bills and piecemeal it. If they can pass those bills so that they can go to conference and work out the differences, it may be workable," Scuse said.
Wenger and Scuse were joined by representatives from other agricultural organizations as well as United Farm Workers President Arturo Rodriguez, to discuss prospects that the House will pass immigration-reform legislation this year.
"We are at a very critical state. There are 39 days left when Congress comes back into session between now and the end of the year, so that doesn't give us much time," Rodriguez said. "This industry doesn't survive if we keep putting this off. The time has come that we need to act as unified as we possibly can between labor and management to really let our voices be heard."
In June, the Senate passed S. 744, an immigration bill that contains an earned adjustment in status for current, experienced farmworkers and a program to ensure that farmers and ranchers continue to have access to a legal workforce as current agricultural employees move on to other jobs. S. 744 enjoyed wide support from farm groups, particularly the Agricultural Workforce Coalition, a nationwide group of agricultural organizations that collectively developed a set of principles that defined the agricultural immigration program contained in the bill.
The House has introduced multiple bills and is working on additional pieces of legislation that, if passed, would merge as one package to meet the Senate in conference committee.
Rich Hudgins, president and chief executive officer of the California Canning Peach Association, said cling peach growers in California are at the peak of harvest.
"To deliver the peaches that were picked yesterday, it took just over 5,000 workers. That 5,000 farmworkers turns into tens of thousands of jobs in the state, such as in the processing facilities in the Central Valley of California," Hudgins said. "But it is not a question of if your peaches are going to get picked by a foreign worker or not; it's just a question of whether that worker is going to be picking fruit in California, or picking fruit in China or Mexico or Chile or another country as we import more fruits and vegetables into this country."
Bill Mattos, president of the California Poultry Federation, said representatives understand the problems farmers face but that political issues may discourage them from approving immigration reform.
"Somehow, we have to get through the political ramifications here," Mattos said. "The reality is we have to get into the politics and make it happen."
Prior to his meeting with farm-group representatives in Sacramento, USDA official Scuse visited Napa to meet with Francis and Kathy Mahoney, owners of Carneros Wine Co. and past users of the existing H-2A guestworker program. Walking through a vineyard, Scuse heard from the Mahoneys how burdensome, costly and difficult the H-2A program is.
Kathy Mahoney, who handles the H-2A paperwork for the company, noted that the immigrant employees hired through the program "work really hard and want to be invited back again. We are very careful about making sure that we don't displace American workers."
This year, for the first time, the Mahoneys were forced to use a farm labor contractor to hire employees, after their insurance company said it would not cover anyone in California who uses the H-2A program. Francis Mahoney said the farm ended up in a "bidding war" with other farmers for the available employees.
"What happened to us in Solano County is we got in direct competition with the cherry harvest. We finally got into the vineyard in June and July and by then, it was too late. As a result, a lot of the crop is really small; we probably lost 50 tons," he said.
Scuse talked to the Mahoneys about the revised system included in the Senate immigration legislation.
"The way that the Senate legislation is written, USDA will be responsible for rulemaking, and Secretary Vilsack has been very engaged and he understands the importance of real reform," Scuse said. "There will be growing pains. I can't tell you that the minute the regulations are completed, you are going to go into your local (Farm Service Agency) office and it is going to be smooth sailing. This is new and uncharted waters for us at the FSA, but we're going to do everything that we can to make this as good of a program as we possibly can."
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Is your son earning poor grades even though he does well on tests? A new study says that it may be his behavior that's responsible, reports NBC News.
The authors of the study found that boys got lower grades than what their test scores would predict, largely because teachers take into account behavior when grading. "It shows that the gender differences in education emerge very early and it points to one potential explanation for why girls are outperforming boys in years of schooling and academic achievement," Jessica Van Parys, a co-author of the study, told NBC News. "It's a piece to a very big puzzle."
The study drew from research involving roughly 6,000 elementary school students, reports NBC News. The students were evaluated by teachers on both their classroom behavior and their test scores in math, reading and science.
Plus: Help Your Kid Study for a Test
Van Parys and her co-researchers found that when it came down to assessing the students academically, the teachers also took into account the kids behaved in class. Girls scored lower on the tests than the boys, but they earned higher grades because of better behavior. "Our point is that teachers take into account other factors, either consciously or unconsciously, when they rate the child's ability on all kinds of subject areas," Van Parys told NBC News. "It's hard for teachers to be completely objective when they're giving an assessment."
Shaun Harper, an associate professor of education at the University of Pennsylvania and an expert in gender and education, told NBC News that teachers may be biased by longstanding gender stereotypes when they interact with students and evaluate their work. He said that the study "calls attention for the need for deeper conversations, more conscious-raising among teachers, parents and others about the stereotypes and gender expectations that follow girls and boys through all levels of schools."
Plus: The Dangers of Standardized Testing
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From Fr. Laurence Freeman: Dearest Friends, January 1997 WCCM International Newsletter
Meditation is about living in the moment of Christ as John Main understood so deeply. It is not about thinking of Christ as he was or how he will come again but about being with him now and being transformed in his being.
This is not a static historical moment, but a flowing, a flowering and an unfolding of the mystery of Being itself. . . .
To practice meditation is the only way to learn what meditation means and how its meaning is much more than it may seem to those who want to get something short-term out of it; and much much more than those who think that by meditating they are making something happen. By learning to meditate we come to understand how we should say the mantra and the way we say the mantra is very much the way we are, the way we love and the way we love day by day.
We should say the mantra without impatience, without force or any intention of violence. The purpose of the mantra is not to block out thoughts. It is not a jamming device. If thoughts attack us while we are meditating we turn the other check. In saying the mantra gently we learn from Him who is gentle and humble of heart. . . .Our lives will, day by day, become the commentary on our prayer. Our prayer will then no longer consist in endlessly commenting on our lives. We will ourselves permanently have become prayer, which is the goal of the Christian way.
After meditation: Rumi, an excerpt from "Love with No Object," THE SOUL OF RUMI, tr. Coleman Barks (New York: HarperCollins, 2001), p. 168.
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LONDON, England (CNN) -- It is an unwritten rule of all World Cups: if the host nation fails on the pitch, interest in the competition dies off the pitch.
South Africa crashed out of the 2006 African Cup of Nations without scoring a single goal.
As the 500 day countdown to the 2010 World Cup begins, most commentators have focused on South Africa's preparedness, with the country's vast unfinished stadiums causing concern in some quarters.
But far more worrying for the country's fans is the state of the national football team. "Bafana Bafana" -- or "The Boys" - have recently plummeted down the Fifa rankings.
Wednesday's 2-0 loss to Chile in a friendly game at the Peter Mokaba Stadium in South Africa, and the lackluster form the team showed have led many to wonder whether they will be the worst host nation in the tournament's history.
Bafana Bafana has gone from being one of Africa's great hopes in the 1998 and 2002 World Cups, and winning the African Cup of Nations in 1996, to not qualifying for the 2006 tournament in Germany. Since then, they appear to have been on to a losing streak.
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In 2006, they exited the African Cup of Nations without scoring a single goal. Another early African Cup of Nations exit followed in 2008 before the team failed entirely to qualify for the 2010 regional tournament.
The failure was even more embarrassing given that the Confederation of African Football (CAF) had decided to run simultaneous qualification for both the 2010 African Cup of Nations, to be hosted in Angola, and the World Cup.
Although South Africa automatically qualified for the 2010 World Cup as hosts, the team still failed to make it to the final qualification stage.
Will "Bafana Bafana" make it to the World Cup second round? Have your say
It was a low point for the team. After hitting 16th on the Fifa rankings in 1996, their highest ever, 2008 saw the team plummet to 80th.
The decline can be attributed, at least in part, to a constant revolving door of managers and a decline in the number of players plying their trade at the highest level. Since 1997, South Africa has gone through 12 managers in 12 years, with some of the best in the game failing to get the best out of their charges.
Philippe Troussier, who guided Japan to the finals, and Carlos Queiroz, the Portuguese national coach, have both floundered. Brazilian World Cup winner Carlos Pereira fared no better, before quitting last year due to family problems.
"The biggest threat to [the] 2010 [World Cup] is the anemic state of the national football team," explained Achille Mbembe in his column in South Africa's Sunday Independent when news broke that South Africa had fallen to 80th on the Fifa rankings.
"If the current downward spiral persists, the nation's performance in 2010 will be an embarrassment for Fifa and a source of shame and humiliation for the entire continent ... the truth is that South African players are simply not good enough to make it on the world stage," he added.
The team's failure is even stranger given that the game is hugely popular and the national Premier Soccer League is the richest and best organized on the continent.
And yet all hope is not lost and some small, fragile green shoots of recovery are poking through. Current coach, the Brazilian Joel Santana, had presided over five straight victories, before Wednesday's loss to Chile, two of which were against regional powerhouses Cameroon and Ghana. This gave them a boost in the Fifa ranks and they now stand at 74th in the world.
A handful of the team's star players are also beginning to hit form.
Everton's Steven Pienaar has arguably been one of the best players in the Premier League this season, Blackburn's Aaron Mokoena has excelled in a struggling team. Striker Benni McCarthy has been brought back in from the cold after regular arguments with a succession of coaches at both national and international level.
But more will have to be done if South Africa wants to avoid becoming the first nation to be thrown out of their own footballing party.
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When talking about snowboarding many riders say "it's a way of life". This phrase seems to fit to every snowboarder, but even more to riders from Australia who are considered to be laid back, easy going and natural born surfers who love chilling music.
Alex Pulllin combines all those "down under" attitudes with a competitive character summing up in a strong World Cup rider who stormed into the scene over the past two years thus being a strong force to watch on the battle field called snowboard cross course.
But although "Chumpy" has this hunger to win, which is mandatory to make it on top of the world ("I'm focused on being the best I can be."), sheer will does not make a complete athlete. The Eden Cove resident is not only a technical rider and good at starts but also fearless when it comes down to head-to-head situations. In addition, he is able to play with the terrain as he also tries to ride as much backcountry and powder days he can score during the season.
But powder days are not really what come to your mind when thinking of Australia, a country more known for their surfing than snowboarding history. According to this, it had to be a family connection which brought the guitar player of his own band consisting of him, his sister and a friend, falling in love with winter sport. "My parents own a ski and board shop. So I was skiing from a young age and dad hooked me up with a board when I was around nine years old. I quickly became an addict."
Ever since, his first snowboard experience and his family pioneered his path. "My parents have always given me so much support. Coming from Australia, it's a big deal to chase the snow all year round. When I was younger, they always helped me to organize trips up the mountain with older crew, gave me days off school to ride and compete in contests."
Meanwhile Alex, who is also into mountain biking and surfing, has found another back up while being on tour for so many months. Being part of a national team consisting of only one racer, the Aussie squad has joined forces with the Bulgarian team.
That this coalition was the right move is easily to be proven by looking on his latest results. After constantly placing better season after season, the 1987-born brought home several top-10 results, finally winning his first World Cup in his fourth big final appearance (Valmalenco, 2010). While some more top-3 finishes followed including two wins his career's highlight so far was the Gold medal at the 2011 World Championships (SBX) - and the successfully keeping hold to that title two years later.
In 2015, Chumpy is keen to better his 2014 World Cup results, a season full of ups and downs while also aiming for a World Championships title three-peat.


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Windows Server 2008 R2 includes new features that can simplify the way you administer and maintain Active Directory (AD). Besides the AD Recycle Bin—a great feature for AD object recovery—and the AD Best Practices Analyzer—a very valuable tool for AD health checking—one of the most eye-catching new management-related features is certainly the Active Directory Administrative Center (ADAC).
Let's look at this new tool and see how ADAC can help simplify your day-to-day AD administration work. ADAC can be installed only on computers running Server 2008 R2 and is available with Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter Editions, but not the Itanium and Web Server Editions.
ADAC is installed by default when you install the Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) server role. ADAC is also included in the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) feature.
How ADAC Differs From ADUC
ADAC offers administrators a good alternative to the Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in for managing AD objects. As with ADUC, administrators can use ADAC to perform common AD user, computer, group, and organizational unit (OU) object management tasks. Like ADUC, the current version of ADAC is used only for managing Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) instances and not for managing Active Directory Lightweight Directory Service (AD LDS, formerly ADAM) instances.
The key difference is that ADAC is a very task-oriented administration tool that can help you manage AD in fewer steps. The ADAC interface focuses on key AD administration tasks.
For example, two very frequently performed tasks, resetting a password and searching AD for an object, are immediately available when you open ADAC, as Figure 1 shows. With ADUC, to reset a password you first had to locate the object, then right-click it and select Reset Password, and only then you could enter the new password data.
In ADAC you can do all this in a single action from the ADAC opening screen.
ADUC is, foremost, a data-oriented tool: It shows you how the data in AD is organized. ADAC supports this data-oriented view of AD objects as well.
The classic hierarchical view of AD content is available from ADAC's tree view, which I will discuss in more detail below. Besides the ADAC interface's focus on key administration tasks, two other important differences you will notice in the interface are that ADAC is much more customizable, and it lets you simultaneously connect to other domains.
ADUC supported taskpads but these were never a big success, and it required different instances to be able to manage objects across multiple domains. ADAC lets you simultaneously connect to different domain controllers (DCs) in different domains to manage objects across multiple domains within the same ADAC instance.
The other big difference between ADUC and ADAC lies in ADAC's underlying architecture. ADAC is not MMC–based but uses an Explorer-like interface instead.
Under the hood, ADAC leverages Windows PowerShell and the new Active Directory Web Services (ADWS). ADWS is a new Windows service that provides a web service interface to AD.
To use ADAC you need at least one Windows DC in your domain that has an operational ADWS service. ADWS is included in Server 2008 R2, and Microsoft also provides an ADWS add-on package for Windows 2003 SP2, Windows 2003 R2 SP2, Server 2008, and Server 2008 SP2. This package is called the Active Directory Management Gateway Service.
This means that you can also use ADAC to manage AD instances that are running on other Windows server platforms besides Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2008 R2 includes a new set of powerful PowerShell cmdlets for AD administration that are bundled in the Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell.
This module calls on the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5.1 and ADWS for accessing the AD core engine. Server 2008 R2 automatically installs the PowerShell engine, the Active Directory Module for PowerShell, the .NET Framework 3.5.1, and ADWS when you install AD DS.
You also get access to these services when you add the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) feature to a Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7 machine. RSAT is bundled with Server 2008 R2. For more information on RSAT for Windows 7 go to Microsoft support. You can download RSAT for Windows 7 at the Microsoft download site.
Exploring ADAC
You can find ADAC in the Administrative Tools folder of your Server 2008 R2 server Start Menu or you can start it from the command line using dsac.exe. When ADAC opens, it shows the Administrative Center Overview page that's illustrated in Figure 1.
There, you can find three sections: Reset Password, Global Search, and Getting Started. Often these are the three tasks an AD administrator performs most.
You can customize the Overview page by adding or removing certain of these sections. To do so, use the Add Content drop-down button in the top right corner of the Administrative Overview page.
On the left side of the Administrative Center Overview page are the ADAC navigation pane and your personal navigation nodes. Navigation nodes are shortcuts to containers in the local AD domain or its trusted AD domains. When you click a navigation node, ADAC takes you right to the corresponding AD container and displays its content in the right pane, which Figure 2 shows.
To create your personal navigation nodes, use the "Add Navigation Nodes…" on top of the navigation pane. Again, you can customize the navigation pane: When you right-click a navigation node you can rename or remove the node, create a duplicate node, or move the node up or down in the navigation pane list.
You can browse the navigation pane and its nodes using a tree view, which is similar to the ADUC console tree or by using the new list view. If you're used to the ADUC console tree, it's a bit confusing that the ADAC tree view also shows all your navigation nodes.
This means a given AD container can show up multiple times in the ADAC tree view. You can switch between the ADAC list and tree view by using the two tabs at the top of the navigation pane: list view is the left tab, tree view is the right tab.
In the ADAC list view you can use the Column Explorer feature that provides a Start Menu–like view on the AD container hierarchy, which Figure 3 shows. Column Explorer simplifies browsing through the AD hierarchy because it displays all child containers of a given parent container in a single column and adds new columns as you dig deeper in the AD hierarchy.
Column Explorer also provides a Find in this column box where you can type the name of the container object you're looking for. ADAC automatically filters the current view while you type. As you can see in Figure 3, I searched for the Seattle OU, and ADAC automatically filtered the content of the Washington OU to the Seattle and Spokane OUs while I typed the letter S in the Find in this column box.
This can be a very useful feature when dealing with large datasets: You don't need to scroll through the entire list of OUs anymore to locate a particular OU. Another hidden ADAC change that's important for dealing with large AD datasets is that ADAC gets rid of the OU display limit of 2,000 objects per OU that ADUC set.
The list view also has a Most Recently Used (MRU) feature that shows the last three containers you accessed in a particular navigation node. In the example back in Figure 2, my MRU containers for my EMEA navigation node were Belgium\Brussels, Spain, and Germany.
At the top of the ADAC window is the breadcrumb bar. It lets you navigate directly to a specific container in your local domain or in a trusted AD domain by specifying an LDAP path, a distinguished name (DN), or a hierarchical path to an AD container. Figure 2 shows a hierarchical path to the "Active Directory Domain Services\dc-Americas\USA\Washington\Redmond\Tech" container in the breadcrumb bar.
You can use this bar to navigate only to containers that are part of the domain AD naming context of your local domain or a trusted domain. You can't use it to navigate to containers of the configuration, schema, or application AD naming contexts. The breadcrumb bar is a feature that can be very handy when you must administer large AD datasets.
More Customization
When you open the properties of an AD object in ADAC (which you can do by double-clicking the object or by clicking the Properties link in the Tasks pane), you will notice that the property page is very different from what it was in ADUC. This is illustrated in Figure 4 for the Peter Kent user object.
ADAC shows only the most important object properties and groups the properties in sections. To perform common administrative tasks like an object rename or move, or password reset, you can use the Tasks dropdown menu on the top right of the property page.
In case you can't get used to the new property page, the classic tabbed ADUC view of an AD object's properties can be found in the last section of the ADAC property page called Extensions. However, you can only use this tabbed view to administer the object properties that aren't already contained in the other sections.
Again, ADAC lets you easily customize an object's property page: You can display or hide property page sections by using the buttons on the right top of each section or using the Add Sections dropdown menu at the top right of the property page.
For AD administrators, it's paramount to have a powerful AD search engine. The ADAC search engine is called Global Search and is both flexible and powerful. You can access it from the Administrative Center Overview page or by using the Global Search link on the navigation pane.
From the Global Search page, which Figure 5 shows, you can build AD queries using specific keywords and search criteria. You can use predefined criteria such as "Users with a password expiring in this number of days" or "Users with enabled but locked accounts."
When you select the Convert to LDAP option, Global Search converts the search criteria you selected to an LDAP query string that you can then fine tune in the Enter LDAP query window. Global Search also lets you save your queries and re-use them.
To save your query, use the Save button at the top right of the Global Search page. To retrieve a query that you previously saved, use the Queries button.
Impressive Version One Product
ADAC offers a single administration interface for connecting to different domains and provides efficient tools for searching and locating AD objects in a large AD database. However, the ADAC interface is very different from ADUC, and it will definitely take some time to get used it.
One small thing I found missing from the ADAC interface is a refresh option—this can be handy when you're using ADUC and ADAC simultaneously and you add or modify objects in ADUC. Also, for the automation of certain AD administrative tasks it would have been nice to have access to the PowerShell code that's underlying ADAC.
ADAC is an impressive version one product and a welcome addition for AD administrators who must deal with large AD databases and many AD domains.


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