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Florence Anthony (born 1947) is an American poet. She has legally changed her name to Ai, the Japanese word for "love".
She was born in Albany, Texas but grew up in Tucson, Arizona. Her ancestry is part Japanese, Choctaw-Chickasaw, Black, Irish, Southern Cheyenne, and Comanche.
The poems are by default sorted according to volume, but you can also choose to sort them alphabetically or by page views.


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Breaking through resistance and sluggish August sentiment, the S&P 500 leaped to its highest level since early April on Thursday as tech bellwether Cisco Systems surged 10% and concerns about the euro eased a bit.
Today's Markets
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 85.33 points, or 0.65%, to 13250.11, the S&P 500 gained 9.98 points, or 0.71%, to 1415.51 and the Nasdaq Composite jumped 31.46 points, or 1.04%, to 3062.39. The FOX 50 picked up 5.87 points, or 0.56%, to 1061.50.
Wall Street started the day in the doldrums once again, failing to respond definitively to another series of conflicting economic gauges on housing starts and initial jobless claims.
But buying picked up steam late in the morning as the euro advanced on comments from Angela Merkel and tech stocks rallied around an earnings beat and upbeat guidance from Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO).
The rally leaves the S&P 500 at heights unseen in four months and within just a few points of a new four-year high. Also, all three major indexes are now on track to advance for the sixth consecutive week.
"The market is in a good place. We've bottomed here economically. Things have really stabilized," said Jason Weisberg, senior vice president at Seaport Securities.
Most of the Dow's 30 stocks gained ground, led by Home Depot (NYSE:HD) and Cisco. The index's weakest performers were McDonald's (NYSE:MCD) and Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT), which disclosed weaker-than-expected revenue growth.
Trading volume remains relatively quiet, however the New York Stock Exchange broke its three-day slump of less than 3 billion shares traded.
"We're moving up on vapor volume," said Weisberg.
Still, Cisco helped carry Wall Street solidly higher on Thursday after the tech bellwether revealed a 56% leap in quarterly earnings and an unexpected dividend boost. Importantly, the tech giant's outlook met expectations and CEO John Chambers sounded an optimistic tone about the economy, especially in the U.S.
The news helped lift other tech stocks like SanDisk (NASDAQ:SNDK) and Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL).
In Europe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Germany is committed to do what's necessary to maintain the euro, mirroring comments made by European Central Bank President Mario Draghi last month.
The remarks helped send the euro to session highs, rising 0.56% to $1.2355 as U.S. markets closed. Likewise, European stocks rallied, with the Euro Stoxx 50 climbing 1.1% to fresh four-month highs and Spain's IBEX surging 4%.
"The Europeans have been talking since 2008. I think the investment community is getting a little bit tired of the words and they want to see actions," said Weisberg.
Meanwhile, basic materials stocks such as BHP Billiton (NYSE:BHP) received a bid after Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao opened the door to new stimulus. Warning the "downward pressure" on China's economy is "still big" and "may last for a while," Wen said he sees "growing room for monetary policy operation." China's gross domestic product is projected to slow to just 8% in 2012, its weakest performance since 1999.
In commodities, crude oil gained for the third day in a row, jumping $1.27 a barrel, or 1.35%, to $95.60 -- its highest settle since May 11. Gold picked up $12.40 a troy ounce, or 0.77%, to $1,616.10.
Data Deluge Paints Mixed Picture
U.S. stocks hit session lows after the Philadelphia Federal Reserve's manufacturing index came in at -7.1 in August, up from -12.9 in July but missing forecasts from economists for -5 and marking the fourth consecutive contraction. Inside the report, the six-month index was at its lowest level in a year and the employment component tumbled to its weakest level since September 2009.
The weaker-than-expected Philly Fed report comes a day after a New York manufacturing gauge unexpectedly turned negative in August.
Meanwhile, the Labor Department said initial jobless claims rose by 2,000 last week to 366,000, just slightly trailing forecasts from economists for a rise to 365,000. As usual, the government upped its estimate for the previous week to 364,000 from 361,000. Still, the four-week average of claims slipped by 5,500 to 363,750 -- the lowest level since the end of March.
On the housing front, the government said housing starts declined in July by 1.1% to a pace of 746,000, missing forecasts for a lighter decline to 756,000. However, building permits jumped 6.8% last month to a rate of 812,000 -- the highest level in four years.
Home builders like Pulte (NYSE:PHM) and Hovnanian (NYSE:HOV) advanced on the news.
Corporate Movers
Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) narrowly topped expectations with a 5.7% rise in second-quarter earnings. While a 4.5% rise in sales missed forecasts, the world's largest retailer upped its full-year profit targets.
Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) tumbled another 6% and broke through $20 a share to hit new all-time lows as the lock-up period expired, allowing some insiders to start selling. The social network's stock has crumbled 48% from its $38 debut price in May.
Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:EA) rallied almost 6% after the New York Post reported the video-game publisher is exploring a sale. The maker of Madden NFL and Sim City has been approached by private-equity firms KKR (NYSE:KKR) and Providence Equity Partners, the paper said.
Best Buy (NYSE:BBY) climbed 5% after founder Richard Schulze asked the electronic retailer's board to OK a request to form a group to conduct due diligence. Earlier this month Schulze offered to take Best Buy private for $24 to $26 a share.
Dollar Tree (NASDAQ:DLTR) retreated 3% after posting an in-line 26% jump in second-quarter earnings that was overshadowed by a weaker-than-expected outlook for the third quarter.
GameStop (NYSE:GME) narrowly topped estimates with EPS of 16 cents, but suffered a deeper-than-expected 11.1% dive in sales to $1.55 billion. The world's largest video game retailer projected third-quarter EPS of 28 cents to 36 cents, below the Street's view of 41 cents.
Global Markets
The U.K.'s FTSE 100 gained 0.03% to 5834.51, the German DAX advanced 0.71% to 6996.29 and France's CAC 40 jumped 0.91% to 3480.49 -- its highest close since March 26.
In Asia, Japan's Nikkei 225 soared 1.88% to 9092.76 and the Hong Kong Hang Seng declined 0.45% to 19962.95.

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I've written an article here on SQL Team Database Backups in SQL Server. It's a first of two articles on backups and backup strategy
Backing up a database is one of the most important things you need to do when having a database driven application. It 's only all of your data in there, right? But often developers and management don't realize the importance of backups and overall proper backup strategy for the most important side of the business – data and it's consistency.
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French Major Requirements | French Minor Requirements | Course Descriptions
The French program is designed to help students develop practical language skills while they learn about the literature, culture and people of France and the French-speaking world. Knowing French opens the door to all the other cultures of the world where French is widely spoken — in Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Indochina.
French is the only language other than English spoken on five continents. Like English, French is truly a global language. French is the first or second language in over 40 countries, France is the world's sixth largest economy, and is the official working language of the United Nations, UNESCO, NATO, the International Olympic Committee and many more similarly important world organizations. According to the most recent U.S. Census, 1.9 million Americans speak French in the home.
In recent years, the U.S. was the second largest direct investor in France, and in 2002, France was the second largest foreign investor in the U.S. French is the foreign language spoken by our largest trading partner (Canada). In 2000, the United States exported more to countries having French as a national language than to countries having any other foreign language. Exports to Canada alone in that year were greater than the combined exports to all countries south of the United States. Among foreign countries doing business in the U.S., France employs the third largest number of Americans.
The world invests in France: In 2003, France was the second largest destination of foreign investment in the world. France is a leader in science and technology (nuclear physics, AIDS research, automobiles, electronics, aerospace, transportation, telecommunications and more). More tourists visit France than any other country in the world.
The broad training that is part of a program in French studies (including written and oral communication skills, reading and analyzing texts, history, geography and social studies) is an excellent means to personal growth and intellectual enrichment. It is also a fine preparation for entrance into the professional world. French majors have developed successful careers in many areas of business, the service professions (such as law or teaching), and government.
Along with the regularly scheduled array of courses, the French program also offers students the opportunity to earn degree credits while studying abroad. UW-Green Bay sponsors a semester program in Bordeaux and, with faculty approval, accepts credits from numerous other study-abroad programs. On campus, students can have frequent contact with authentic cultural materials both inside and outside the classroom via the internet, the latest multimedia equipment, and international television and radio reception.
French majors will also choose an interdisciplinary minor. Those interested in a broad humanities background often choose the interdisciplinary major or minor in Humanistic Studies. Other interdisciplinary programs in, for example, business, international business, social sciences, education, or the arts, combine with the French major to form a strong, coherent academic program. Students seeking teacher certification must be admitted to the Education Program and should contact the Education Office for information and further requirements.
Students who begin their French studies at UW-Green Bay should enroll in FRENCH 101. The normal sequence of language courses is: 101, Introduction to French I; 102, Introduction to French II; 201, Intermediate French I; 202, Intermediate French II; 225, Intermediate French Conversation and Composition; and 325, Advanced French Conversation and Composition.
Those who have studied French in high school should select a course appropriate to their level by counting a year of high school work as equivalent to one semester of college work, or they should consult a French adviser.
Retroactive or Advanced Placement Credit
Students who have taken French in high school or who have acquired a knowledge of the language elsewhere may earn up to 14 additional credits for their previous French study by completing a course beyond FRENCH 101. With a grade of "B" or better, credit will be given for all French courses preceding the one in which the student has enrolled, to a maximum of 14 credits; with a grade of "BC" or "C," half credit will be given for the courses preceding the one in which the student has enrolled, to a maximum of seven credits.
For example, a student with four years of high school French and who completes FRENCH 225, Intermediate French Conversation and Composition, with a grade of "B" will receive 14 credits for FRENCH 101, 102, 201, and 202 in addition to the three credits for FRENCH 225; a student who completes the course with a "C" receives seven retroactive credits in addition to the three credits for the course.
Requests for retroactive credits in a student's native language are not generally accepted.
Students seeking teacher certification must be admitted to the Education Program and should contact the Education Office for information and further requirements.
Students may study abroad or at other campuses in the United States through UW-Green Bay's participation in international exchange programs and National Student Exchange. Travel courses are another option for obtaining academic credits and completing requirements. For more information, contact the Office of International Education at (920) 465-2413 or see http://www.uwgb.edu/international/.


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Vision held by John Ringling and Owen Burns for St. Armands was one aimed to draw the world's attention, but also one that needed time to develop
It was to have been the crown jewel of Sarasota's Roaring Twenties real estate development, the dream of visionary developers John Ringling and his sometime business associate, Owen Burns, who was vice president and secretary of Ringling Estates.
With wide "alluring" boulevards, pink sidewalks, palm trees and a hotel on south Longboat Key, the lovely isles would draw the world's rich and famous to visit and build fabulous Mediterranean Revival homes.
St. Armands was slated to fill with upscale shops and restaurants, President Warren G. Harding was expected to use the Worcester Mansion on nearby Bird Key for the Winter White House, and the hub of the circle was called Harding Circle in his honor.
Noted landscape architect John J. Watson of Toledo oversaw the project. Four dredges were put into service with four hundred men working on the Ritz Carlton and another four hundred putting in streets, sidewalks, wells, palm trees, the golf course, the Ringling Bridge and infrastructure improvements.
Bunkhouses were built which could house 500 of the workers with a dining hall nearby that offered board for $7.50 a week. The payroll was put at nearly $10,000 a week for the project; money which bolstered the local economy.
The dynamic work of Burns and Ringling on the keys completely transformed the area. (An article in A Historical Geography of Southwest Florida Waterways noted that the keys did not even exist 100 years ago, that Ringling and Burns dredged channels and filled land that would become Ringling Isles.)
The Sarasota Herald ran comprehensive accounts of the progress and what it would mean for Sarasota. As one headline put it: "Millions And Magic Transforming Keys Into Paradise."
The article, particularly colorful in its prose, went on, "As well try to blow out the North Star with the breath of a trade wind or chill the Sahara with a snowflake as to attempt to stem the progress on this great playground city of ours."
At the same time the Chamber of Commerce was promising "Sarasota's Growth Cannot Be Stopped." Throughout the community everything was go-go-go. Sarasota was said to be a magnet for money.
Bridge to paradise
While Burns Construction Company was building the Ringling Bridge to the keys, he wrote to Ringling, "The work on the causeway is proceeding well. I drove out about 700 feet in the Lincoln car yesterday and I want to say to you that it is a beautiful job."
Advertisements assured that "when Owen Burns tells John Ringling his bridge is completed, prices will soar."
Ringling made the maiden trip across the bridge to Ringling Isles in his Rolls Royce, with the paper informing, "Causeway Is Proof Of John Ringling's Courage."
For the public, the big day to cross over was Feb. 7, 1926. Both by car and buses — which left Five Points every half hour — thousands of sightseers and property buyers from all over the state poured onto the key to marvel at the "tropical Utopia." It was said that $1 million worth of property was sold from Ringling's office building.
On hand to add color and excitement to the festive atmosphere was the ornately uniformed Czecho-Slovakian National band, brought to town by Ringling. They provided free concerts from a band shell built for them in the center of Harding Circle.
That summer a bathing pavilion was constructed on Lido Beach, "America's ideal bathing beach." Financed by Ringling, Burns and Sam Gumpertz, it was said to be patterned in the "foreign style," offering fresh water showers and bath houses. For its dedication, Mayor Everett Bacon declared a half holiday, which he dubbed a "beach of a holiday." Two thousand people were on hand.
An editorial in the Herald underscored the importance of Ringling Isles to Sarasota: "To know that Sarasota is going to be a wonderful city, both beautiful and prosperous, one needs only to go on a day's inspection of St. Armands and Longboat keys. They tell the story."
But it would be a story for future generations. The month the bathing pavilion opened, the hurricane of 1926 tore through Miami and put the final nail in Florida's already flagging real estate market. Construction came to a virtual standstill, both on Ringling Isles and the mainland; the Great Depression and World War II followed.
It would be well into the 1950s before Sarasota and its out islands began to fulfill the dream of Ringling and Burns and their generation of builders and developers as, indeed, Ringling Isles has finally been transformed into a "tropical Utopia."


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This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon.
When Hilary Mantel's new book opens, the spark has gone out of Henry the VIII's marriage; second marriage, in fact. Anne Boleyn hasn't given him a son. Now, he finds the sharp remarks she makes that used to charm sometimes come at his expense. His roving eye begins to settle on Jane Seymour, another woman at court. But in Henry's time, a monarch doesn't go to a marriage counselor or divorce lawyer, not when Thomas Cromwell is the king's chief advisor.
"Bring Up the Bodies" is Hilary Mantel's latest novel, the sequel to "Wolf Hall" which won the Man Booker Prize and worldwide acclaim, and the latest in a planned trilogy about Thomas Cromwell. Historically, Cromwell is considered a dangerous and unscrupulous bully. But in Hilary Mantel's books he, like any other man, is more than his reputation. We meet Cromwell in the fall of 1535.
HILARY MANTEL: (Reading) Thomas Cromwell is now about 50 years old. He has a laborer's body: stocky, useful, running the fat. He has black hair, graying now. He never spares himself in the king's service. He knows is worth and merits, and makes sure of his reward: offices, (unintelligible) and title deeds, manor houses and farms. He has a way of getting his way. He has a method. He would charm a man or bribe him, coax him or threatened him. He will explain to a man where his true interests lie, and he would introduce that same man to aspects of himself he didn't know existed.
(Reading) Every day, Master Secretary deals with grandees who, if they could, would destroy him with one vindictive swipe as if he were a fly. Knowing this, he's distinguished by his courtesy, his calmness and his indefatigable attention to England's business.
SIMON: Wow.
SIMON: What a wonderful depiction of a human being, Ms. Mantel.
MANTEL: Thank you.
SIMON: And I guess that's the point, he's a human being. You've taken a character known from portraits and, in a sense, caricature.
MANTEL: He's a work in progress, as far as I'm concerned. I'm far from being able to add him up - I'm not even trying at this point. I seem to have set the mechanism ticking, and now I'm standing back and I'm watching. Some people said to me, when you wrote "Wolf Hall," the first Thomas Cromwell book, that was his rise and the next volume will be his fall, right?
But actually it's not like that at all. He will go on and on rising in the world till he becomes Earl of Essex. And then his fall, when it came in 1540, was very, very sudden. In a few weeks it was all over.
SIMON: Does Cromwell humor or flatter his monarch?
MANTEL: Cromwell knows how to work him. And his methods, as he explains it to the reader is: Give way, give way, give way on every point until you reach the one point where you must stick, and then take your stand. Because in the end, Henry needs to be told the truth and he needs someone strong who can stand up to him. Otherwise, it will be like an animal: if you back away and back away, he will just hunt you down.
SIMON: What drew Henry to Jane Seymour?
MANTEL: It wasn't love at first sight. Henry had known of her for a long time. But contemporaries said maybe it's because she is such a contrast to Anne Boleyn. Anne was flamboyant and beautiful. She was sexy and she knew how to work life her way. Jane was muted. She was soft; a complete opposite sort of woman - meek and demure - someone who would say, yes, Henry. no, Henry.
In Jane, he saw the woman who would reflect him back at twice his size.
SIMON: There's a fascinating section in the middle of the story where Cromwell wants to pass what's called a New Poor Law through Commons. And Commons doesn't see it as their business to create work. It's hard to read that section and not think you're touching on a very contemporary debate.
MANTEL: Yes, indeed. All over England rural unemployment and consequent poverty and disorder are endemic problems. So, Cromwell is saying what are the causes of poverty? It's that people don't have work. They turn to lawbreaking when they can't feed their families. What can we do about this? The country needs an infrastructure; we need road, bridges, harbors. We have men who need work. Let's put the two together, but the state will have to finance it. And the way he seemed to be proposing to finance it was by imposing income tax. But parliament did not like that. They comprehensively trashed his measure. But he was in lots of ways a man ahead of his time in thinking of the relationships between the state and society. It all seems startlingly modern.
SIMON: You know, I'm having such a wonderful time reading your books about Thomas Cromwell. Is there any way you could prevent the end from happening? I don't want to see this guy's head on a stick - if I might put it that way.
MANTEL: Yes. Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could get in like that and change things? I want to challenge the reader to stand in his shoes and say: if you were Thomas Cromwell, what would you have done? So that the reader sees the turning points and they can say at that point it just could've been different.
But I myself think that Thomas Cromwell's end was written into the beginning. He was really in a no-win situation because his position was an affront to the nobility who thought they should be Henry's advisers. He was envied by those on an equal level with him. And to the common people he was an object of suspicion: How had this low-born man got up to such an eminence? Well, it must be because he was a sorcerer. So he had no constituency. He had no family to back him. His only friend, really, was the king, and the moment the king turned against him, then it was all over. But the marvelous thing about it is that he managed to keep on winning for so long. And I hope the reader will take pleasure in watching him do so.
SIMON: Hilary Mantel, her new novel, "Bring Up the Bodies." Thanks so much.
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How to Feel Miserable as an Artist (Or What Not to Do)
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I like how in #10., "by tomorrow" is on its own line.ReplyDelete
I propose #11 (yes, it can go to 11): Don't base the success of your entire career on what others think about your art.
I propose #12: Take yourself very, very seriously.ReplyDelete
I wanna be a miserable artist too! i'm gonna try no. 2 right away!!!ReplyDelete
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ARTS 2316 Painting Foundations (3 semester hours) This course provides a foundation for painting classes. Emphasis will be placed on how to skillfully manipulate color to create convincing form, light and space in a picture, as well as begin an approach to exploring personal ideas in art making. This course will cover an introduction to the materials of painting, color mixing, and the preparation of painting surfaces. Lectures and discussions will address color theory and design as they relate to the process of image making and both the history of painting and current issues in contemporary art. (0-3) Y
While introducing the fundamentals of materials and technique, this class will explore painting as a means of expression for each individual. Classroom assignments, demonstrations, slide lectures and critiques will all be used to develop the observational skills and intellectual questioning necessary to create an effective, satisfying work of art.
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Students will be given a series of assignments exploring a range of traditional and contemporary subject matters for painting. Potential subjects include still-life, self-portraiture, and landscape, as well as some less familiar sources of imagery relating to non-representational and abstract art. The practice of painting is undertaken with a wide variety of motivations, intentions and imagery, all adding up to a unique combination for each artist.
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Research Examines Data Center Security, SME IT Security, Line-of-Business ERP Role, Small Business ERP
Research Examines Data Center Security, SME IT Security, Line-of-Business ERP Role, Small Business ERP
BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - Jan 9, 2013) - Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company (NYSE: HHS), today announced the publication of new research reports from its IT Security and Enterprise Applications research practices.
In "Evolving Your Datacenter? Evolve Your Datacenter Security," written by Derek Brink, Vice President and Research Fellow for IT Security, describes how enterprise datacenters are evolving -- which means that datacenter security should be evolving, too. This report provides examples of how key security technologies and services -- most of which are already very familiar from their traditional use in a physical, on-premise context -- are being re-architected by leading solution providers to work well across a broad range of physical and virtual datacenter deployment scenarios. To obtain a complimentary copy of this report, please visit: http://aberdeen.com/Aberdeen-Library/8311/RB-datacenter-virtualization-security.aspx.
"Security for the Small and Mid-Sized Business - Recommendations for 2013," also written by Derek Brink, describes how small and mid-size businesses (SMBs) that are taking advantage of the compelling benefits of the transformations in IT infrastructure should also be re-thinking how they deal with the associated vulnerabilities, threats and risks. Like all organizations, SMBs should move beyond traditional signature-based approaches (i.e., anti-virus and firewalls) and adopt a more comprehensive, defense-in-depth approach to protecting their endpoints, servers, networks, applications and data. Specifically, email security, web security and secure file sharing should be considered foundational security capabilities for every small and mid-sized business, in addition to anti-virus and firewalls. For a complimentary copy of this report, please visit: http://www.aberdeen.com/Aberdeen-Library/8312/SI-endpoint-network-security.aspx.
"The Line of Business' Role in ERP Success," prepared by Nick Castellina, Research Analyst in the Aberdeen Enterprise Applications research practice, states that as the operational and transactional backbone of a business, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) contains all of the data that is needed for decision-makers to run their business. But those at the top of the organization are not the only employees with data needs. In fact, it is those on the front lines that are most likely to be actively utilizing ERP on a daily basis. The line of business is not only inputting data into ERP, but actively using it to perform tasks and service customers. As such, these employees know best how day-to-day operations are impacted by an ERP solution. Still, some organizations are only making ERP a top-down initiative. This is a mistake; ERP is most successful when it becomes a pervasive part of the organization. Leading organizations are actively involving the line of business throughout the lifecycle of their ERP solution. Additionally, they are more likely to hold the line of business accountable for their ultimate success. This Analyst Insight, based on data from two Aberdeen surveys, illustrates how organizations are involving the line of business in all ERP decisions as well as the capabilities and benefits that are received as a result. To obtain a complimentary copy of this report, visit: http://www.aberdeen.com/link/sponsor.asp?spid=30410182&cid=8282&camp=2.
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Today wife's Symphony AndroidOne (Roar A50) received it's OTA Android 5.1 Lollipop update. It gave error while updating for a few times. We had to remove the battery to restart the phone. After a few times running the update it finally worked. (read more)


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The Boston Celtics announced today that forward Paul Pierce suffered a strained left mid-foot during the first quarter against the Washington Wizards on February 1. He is currently listed as day-to-day.
Pierce, a 6′7″ forward, has played in 41 games this season for the Celtics and is averaging a team-high 18.9 points. He is currently shooting a career-high 46.7% from three-point land and is ranked third in the NBA. The Kansas product netted a season-high 35 points against the Hawks on January 29.


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Name: John Mullins.
Age: 58.
Hometown: Winchester, Tenn.
Occupation: Veterinarian and founder of The Animal Care Center of Ooltewah.
Education: Bachelor of science degree from University of the South and doctorate of veterinary medicine from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
Following the abandonment of animals after the evacuation of areas affected by Hurricane Katrina, Congress passed the Pets Evacuation and Transportation Standards Act of 2006. It requires that states seeking assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency after disasters must provide for the assistance of pets and service animals as part of their evacuation plan.
In the days after Hurricane Sandy ripped across the East Coast, Ooltewah veterinarian Dr. John Mullins was on the phone with a fellow vet on Long Island.
"He said it was cold and miserable and people were really suffering," says Mullins, owner of The Animal Care Center of Ooltewah. "He said they just really needed help and, when somebody asks for help, what makes the system work is if we go and help them."
So he did.
Mullins, 58, is a member of the National Veterinary Response Team, a federal program of about 200 private veterinarians who are called in to provide care for animals affected by disasters. After local resources were exhausted by recovery efforts, Mullins was one of nine response team veterinarians deployed on Nov. 13 to assist sick and injured animals near New York City.
Faced with the Hurricane Sandy bearing down on them, hundreds of thousands left behind their homes to evacuate, but many refused to abandon their pets and stayed. In the storm's aftermath, veterinary clinics were without power like everyone else, unable to treat the animals whose lives, like their owners', were left in tatters.
For two weeks, Mullins and Laurie McCarter, 35, a veterinary tech from Amesbury, Mass., worked out of a mobile clinic in the Rockaways near the borough of Queens, and later in Coney Island.
"Veterinarians are pretty good at being adaptable," Mullins says. "[The mobile clinic] was a little smaller than I'm used to, but it's better than standing outside and freezing."
Despite the cramped quarters, the clinic was equipped with a mini surgical suite, mobile X-ray unit and a pharmacy. During their stay, McCarter and Mullins treated about 120 animals, most with minor ailments such as skin conditions, eye ulcers from debris and diarrhea.
The patients weren't just of the four-legged variety. Because some roads were unpassable, owners brought their pets in by foot, and they often benefited as much as their animals from the treatment, McCarter says.
"We heard a lot of stories about what the owners of the pets were dealing with," she says. "They need to talk to someone. It's a relief to focus on the pets as opposed to their house or other things."
On Nov. 25, Stacey Hodes Nagel of Belle Harbor, N.Y., posted her thanks to Mullins on Facebook for making a house call to treat her dog Roxy, who had an ulcer on her cornea.
"[We] went back to see him today, and she's 99 percent cured," Nagel wrote. "Thank you so much. God bless you for coming here to help."
Because of widespread power outages after Sandy, treating animals meant facing 12-hour shifts with only the heater in their converted ambulance to keep warm, he says. But part of the job, he says, is learning to be resourceful, a skill he began honing in the West African country of Burkina Faso, where he spent two years treating livestock. From 1981 to 1983, he lived in a mud-brick house under a thatched roof, which felt "like working on a different planet," but it taught him to make the best with the available resources, he says.
As a member of the National Veterinary Response Team, Mullins has had plenty of experience dealing with the aftermath of hurricanes. In 2004, he was deployed to Florida to assist with the recovery after Hurricane Charley. The next year, he spent six weeks in Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina, working almost exclusively in the humid late-summer heat of the Deep South without air conditioning.
Even after the long days and the emotional toll of assisting with relief efforts post-Sandy, Mullins says any discomfort he felt pales in the face of bringing relief to people like Nagel and the pets they love.
"I would do it all over again," he says. "In the same circumstances, even knowing what I know now, I would jump on it."


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Joe Reedy, of The Cincinnati Enquirer, reports the Cincinnati Bengals have released PK Sam Swank, CB Rico Murray, TE Kolo Kapanui, OG Andrew Crummey, DT Ventrell Jenkins, OT Augustus Parrish, WR Freddie Brown, LB Dan Skuta, DE Chris Harrington, DT Langston Moore, WR Maurice Purify, FB Chris Pressley, SS Corey Lynch, LB James Maxwell, LB Darryl Blackstock, RB James X. Johnson, DT Clinton McDonald, OG Jason Shirley, FB Fui Vakapuna and SS Marvin White.
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The Cincinnati Bengals have announced they have signed unrestricted free-agent DL Ventrell Jenkins (Bills). Terms of the contract were not disclosed.
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|Bills | More players sitting out Friday
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Chris Brown, of BuffaloBills.com, reports Buffalo Bills TE Shawn Nelson (undisclosed), DT John McCargo (hamstring), DT Marcus E. Smith (undisclosed), FS Dustin Fox (undisclosed), WR Steve Johnson (rib) and DT Ventrell Jenkins (undisclosed) sat out the team's practice Friday, July 31.
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CBSSports.com reports Buffalo Bills DT Ventrell Jenkins (undisclosed), DT John McCargo (hamstring), DT Marcus E. Smith (undisclosed), DE Copeland Bryan (hamstring), WR Steve Johnson (rib), FS Dustin Fox (undisclosed), TE Shawn Nelson (undisclosed), WR James Hardy (knee), WR C.J. Hawthorne (foot) and CB Jairus Byrd (hernia) were not participating in the team's practice Thursday, July 30.
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Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:56:23 -0700
The Associated Press reports Buffalo Bills DT John McCargo (hamstring) missed the team's evening practice Tuesday, July 28, due to a minor hamstring injury. DT Marcus Stroud (hamstring) was able to return to practice after missing two days of action with his hamstring injury. Chris Brown, of BuffaloBills.com, reports TE Shawn Nelson (undisclosed) and DL Ventrell Jenkins (undisclosed) also missed time Tuesday evening.
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Chris Brown, of BuffaloBills.com, reports the Buffalo Bills had the same defensive linemen working as starters when training camp kicked off as they had last season. DL Chris Kelsay, Marcus Stroud, Kyle Williams and Aaron Schobel manned the first-string during workouts. The second-string was manned by DL Ryan Denney, Spencer Johnson, John McCargo and Copeland Bryan. DLs Chris Ellis, Ventrell Jenkins, David Lindquist and Jermaine McGhee rounded out the third-string.
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Chris Brown, of BuffaloBills.com, reports the Buffalo Bills have signed undrafted free-agent DT John Faletoese (California-Davis), OL Nick Hennessey (Colgate), DL Ventrell Jenkins (Kentucky), DT David Linquist (Illinois), TE Travis McCall (Alabama), LB Ashlee Palmer (Mississippi), CB Lydell Sargeant (Penn State), PK Danny Urrego (Portland State) and DE Gerald Washington (Southern California). Terms of the contracts were not disclosed.
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Fetch TV, the online telly-on-demand service, will today send out a firmware update to its SmartBox set-tops to allow viewers to activate Sky's Sky Player software.
Fetch TV offers internet-connected Freeview DVRs which can access Fetch's own movie and TV streaming channels, along with catch-up services like BBC iPlayer, 4oD and, now, Sky Player.
Sky Player presents live feeds from Sky's broadcast output plus on-demand content. It is available to Sky subscribers as part of their package, depending on what channels they have paid to view, while everyone else can either take out a special Sky Player sub, or view individual programmes for a one-off fee.
Fetch TV's Smartbox 8000 has two Freeview tuners, a 160GB hard drive, wired and wireless networking, and HDMI output.
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Partners with Wind River and ESCRYPT to Provide Analysis of Emerging Risks in Automotive Embedded Systems
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 7, 2011 – McAfee, in partnership with Wind River and ESCRYPT, today released a new report "Caution: Malware Ahead," an analysis of emerging risks in automotive system security. The first-of-its kind report examines the security of electrical systems that have become commonplace in today's cars. These embedded devices are used in almost all areas of automobiles including airbags, radios, power seats, anti-lock braking systems, electronic stability controls, autonomous cruise controls, communication systems and in-vehicle communication.
Researchers at several universities have demonstrated that critical safety components of an automobile can be hacked if physical access to the vehicle's electronic components is available. Other researchers have showed that an attack can be mounted to track a vehicle and compromise passengers' privacy by tracking the RFID tags using powerful long-distance readers at around 40 meters.
"As more and more functions get embedded in the digital technology of automobiles, the threat of attack and malicious manipulation increases," said Stuart McClure, senior vice president and general manager, McAfee. "Many examples of research-based hacks show the potential threats and depth of compromise that expose the consumer. It's one thing to have your email or laptop compromised but having your car hacked could translate to dire risks to your personal safety."
The automobile industry is continually adding features and technologies that deliver new conveniences such as Internet access and the ability to further personalize the driving experience. Consumers want to stay connected, even in their cars, which is motivating automobile manufacturers to increase integration between cars and consumer devices such as smartphones and tablets. However, in the rush to add features, security has often been an afterthought. The report highlights examples of how automotive systems have been compromised.
The new report from McAfee examines risks associated with cybercriminal activity including:
- Remotely unlock and start car via cell phone
- Disable car remotely
- Track a driver's location, activities and routines
- Steal personal data from a Bluetooth system
- Disrupt navigation systems
- Disable emergency assistance
"The auto industry is experiencing a convergence of consumer and automotive electronics. Consumers are increasingly expecting the same experiences in-vehicle as they do with the latest connected consumer and mobile devices. However, as the trend for ubiquitous connectivity grows, so does the potential for security vulnerabilities," said Georg Doll, senior director for automotive solutions at Wind River. "The report highlights very real security concerns, and many in the auto industry are already actively designing solutions to address them. Given the development time for automobiles, the industry is finding it essential to start work now by teaming up with those possessing the right mix of software expertise."
For the full report, please visit www.mcafee.com/autoreport.
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McAfee, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC), is the world's largest dedicated security technology company. McAfee delivers proactive and proven solutions and services that help secure systems, networks, and mobile devices around the world, allowing users to safely connect to the Internet, browse and shop the Web more securely. Backed by its unrivaled Global Threat Intelligence, McAfee creates innovative products that empower home users, businesses, the public sector and service providers by enabling them to prove compliance with regulations, protect data, prevent disruptions, identify vulnerabilities, and continuously monitor and improve their security. McAfee is relentlessly focused on constantly finding new ways to keep our customers safe.


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According to Score Watch, my credit score was 726 as of 9/9/12. I applied for a Nordstrom card that day and got denied! The letter they sent says they pulled my Equifax on 9/9/12 which reported a 657 !!!!!! How is that even possible?! That's a 69 point difference. As of 9/12/12 (only 3 days later) Score Watch sent me an alert that my credit was at 791 !!
Why am I paying for this service if it is THAT inaccurate ?! Or did Nordstrom mess up and pull the wrong report or something ?!!! Not sure what happened here or what I should do to appeal to Nordys. I have the inquiry on my credit report so I'd at least like to get a card from them. I had zero inquiries for 2 years before this major bummer.
Best guess is that Nordstrom may have given you a FAKO score or in other words not a FICO score. Did the later state FICO anywhere? How about a score range?
I agree. Many lenders use their own scores (non FICO) so looking to see if the number says FICO or if they provided a score range will be helpful.
Yeah but with a FICO of 726, there's no way the OP should have been denied for a Nordstrom's card. You might have a split file, or the lender otherwise just pulled the wrong report.
Here's an easy way to tell if they pulled the right report: did you get an alert from Scorewatch that you had a new inquiry?
First, I would double check and make sure that Nordstroms pulled Equifax.
Second, did you ever default on an account that might be associated with Nordstroms or the issuer of the account?
I would not agree that a FICO of 726 would be good enough that you can assume automatic approval. That is just slightly above the median score and there are other factors involved. They may have an issue with utilization, length of history, or other factors on your report. These may be included in their scoring model differently.
I ended up getting the card.....and yes I received alerts BOTH times they pulled my credit on EQ ! I still have no idea how the heck they got a 657. I haven't had a score that low in almost a year. When I got denied, I wrote a recon letter and enclosed a copy of the EQ report I pulled just a week later directly from Equifax that showed a score of 714. They pulled my credit again to verify I guess and my EQ score came up as 719 so I got the card. $5k flexible limit but kinda bummed they pulled my score a second time even though I never requested/authorized it. I would think that it would be a soft pull at least but nope......2 hards now UGH. I think Nords inquiries drop after 6 months though so that's better than 2 years at least....but still. I had 0 EQ inq for 3 years !
Your Score Watch FICO score is based on the model used by mortgage lenders. Credit card lenders use a different FICO scoring model, which can give a tremendously different score from what Score Watch gives you.
<< DUMMY. Yeah, I didn't realize....I only pull directly from each CRA now. Next card I apply for I'm going to order directly from each CRA so I can get a more accurate picture of what's going on. I didn't think the scores could be THAT off. 50-75+ is excessive IMO.
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<< DUMMY. Yeah, I didn't realize....I only pull directly from each CRA now. Next card I apply for I'm going to order directly from each CRA so I can get a more accurate picture of what's going on. I didn't think the scores could be THAT off. 50-75+ is excessive IMO.
My highest difference so far has been 45 or so. Not too far off that range.


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A King's Coronation Silences The CriticsSometimes, it's just a superstars' time to finally win a championship. It happened a few years ago in Miami when Peyton Manning won his first Super Bowl title. It happened again as the final buzzer sounded in Game 5 of the NBA Finals and LeBron James was a champion of the world.
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Travel Guide of Central Business District, New Orleans for: InterContinental New OrleansCentral Business District, New Orleans, Louisiana
Central Business District Summary
- Many free activities at Lafayette Square
- Home to Harrah's Casino, the only land-based casino in New Orleans
- Plenty of shopping -- Canal Street offers numerous specialty and souvenir shops, and the District is home to three shopping malls
- St. Charles Avenue streetcar stops at every other block in the District, heading to Uptown New Orleans and the Garden District.
- Within easy walking distance of must-see sights in the French Quarter
- Plenty of authentic eateries within the District
- Family-friendly sites like the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas and the Louisiana Children's Museum
- Not as aesthetically intriguing or pleasing as other parts of the city
- Some instances of panhandling, but police are cracking down on it
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The accessibility of this district is one of its greatest perks. Staying in the Central Business District (abbreviated by locals as the CBD) puts visitors close to the most talked-about places in New Orleans, like the French Quarter, Mid-City, and Faubourg Marigny.
The CBD is the home to various law firms, banks, and corporations. The region's lone Fortune 500 firm -- Entergy -- is also headquartered here. Apart from being the lifeblood of the city's corporate sector, CBD also offers prime sporting events at the Superdome on Sugar Bowl Drive.
Although it's definitely not as charming as the French Quarter or Garden District, restaurants, pubs, and hotels still abound. Plus, the St. Charles Avenue streetcar makes regular stops within the District on its way to more touristy spots. The best part? A one-way ride will cost you just $1.25. And streetcars are a relaxing and reliable way to navigate the city.
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The palace, in town centre, only 100 m far from main street, , and you can either easily walk till the Noto barocco monuments or rest in the peace of the garden.
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The catastrophic crash of an oil-carrying train in the province of Quebec last month, which devastated the town of Lac-Mégantic and killed dozens, has brought the Keystone XL pipeline into the headlines again.
For many environmentalists, the train crash is just one more reminder of the risks of fossil fuel production – that the train was carrying tar sands oil was, as it were, the icing on the cake. Conversely, for many supporters of the pipeline, the train crash proves that we need Keystone.
But first a word on tar sands and the other unconventional oil sources now being extracted such as shale oil. Unlike conventional oil wells, shale and tar sands do not contain liquid oil. Oil must be extracted from them in a process that is quite similar to mining. The development of Canadian tar sands requires vast deforestation in order to dig up and process the sands, and shale oil extraction requires that massive amounts of rocks be mined and processed.
Extracting this oil requires incredible amounts of energy as well: while conventional oil production can produce 25 units of energy for every unit invested (25:1), tar sands perform as poorly as 2.9:1 and no better than 5:1. And this does not even include the entire lifecycle of tar sands: only the extraction and refinement.
Now take this extremely labor and energy intensive oil, ship it on a high-risk oil train, and you get the Quebec disaster. To some, that's exactly why we need the Keystone pipeline. In a Wall Street Journal editorial entitled "Can environmentalists think?", Bret Stephens writes, "When it comes to the question of how best to transport oil, environmentalists tend to act like rabbis being asked for advice on how best to roast a pig: The thing should not be done in the first place. So opposition to Keystone XL becomes an assertion of virtue, indifferent to such lesser considerations as efficiency (or succulence). But the pig will be roasted. The oil will be pumped. What happens then?"
In other words, because pipelines are safer than trains, the only valid position on Keystone XL is to support it.
But there's a compelling point that Stephens entirely ignores. Chapter 14 in State of the World, "Keep Them in the Ground," suggests that even if the problem of spills and accidents, and even air and water pollution could be solved, we should still keep most fossil fuels in the ground. To continue using them perpetuates the fossil fuel-based economy and accelerates climate change. And in the case of tar sands oil, production also requires vast deforestation – which itself contributes to carbon emissions. And it is not one oil field or one pipeline, but the entire fossil fuel infrastructure that must be scaled back. Building Keystone might prevent another train wreck while helping to wreck any possibility of climate stability or a sustainable human civilization.
Viewing the issue more broadly breaks down the glib logic of the Wall Street Journal editorial. The issue is not merely whether pipelines or trains are the better way to roast the planet. Our real choice is one between a chance at sustainability or great risk of ecological disaster. The editorial only makes the building of Keystone XL seem logical – even moral – by assuming that the development of shale and tar sands reserves is inevitable. But it is certainly not inevitable, and it is not even advisable.
It is admittedly uncomfortable to oppose the pipeline if it would really reduce the disasters that often involve oil trains. What happened in Quebec is a tragedy, whatever the causes. But if we are concerned with the future of sustainability as a whole, the long-term costs of Keystone are just too great to ignore.


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The producer behind the upcoming Linda Lovelace biopic was totally blindsided when Demi Moore dropped out due to her recent health crisis, calling the news a "shock and a concern".
The actress had signed up to play feminist icon Gloria Steinem in the film opposite Amanda Seyfried in the title role, but she exited the project shortly after her hospitalisation last week.
After her emergency admission to hospital, Moore was taken to a medical facility to treat exhaustion and "improve her overall health".
The movie's producer, Heidi Jo Markel, has now revealed she was stunned to receive a phone call from Moore's representative explaining why the star had to drop out of the part.
She tells People.com, "It was a shock and concern for all of us. We got a call from (Moore's representative) on Tuesday morning and (the rep) said, 'There's been a personal crisis and we need to let you know that.' And we were clueless. We had no idea what it entailed. We just knew she was out, that there was probably a health concern, and to move on.
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Product design, nature's way
A new breed of inventor is turning Mother Earth's marvels into remarkable real-world products. Business 2.0 reports.
(Business 2.0 Magazine) -- For all their skill and technological prowess, human engineers still can't match Mother Nature's best designs. Take, for example, the toe pads of ordinary house geckos.
Thanks to millions of bristly microfilaments that line the bottoms of their feet, the versatile lizards can scamper up walls and across ceilings on any surface, wet or dry. The intermolecular forces between pad and surface are so strong that geckos can hang comfortably from one toe. The pads also have impressive quick-release capabilities and leave no sticky residue.
Can you imagine tire treads, duct tape, or building materials that could do the same?
An increasingly influential group of researchers and entrepreneurs can -- and they're busy working on the designs. Pioneering a relatively new field called biomimicry, they're taking a close look at nature's marvels and reverse-engineering them into real-world products.
How, they ask, do lotus leaves repel water and stay so clean? How can the ventilation systems in termite mounds be used to cool city buildings? Could the glue that mussels use to adhere to rocky surfaces be adapted to heal broken bones?
Answering such questions could bring great wealth to a new generation of inventors. But it could also do much more. Biomimics, as the practitioners in this field call themselves, see nature's example as the key to combating environmental destruction.
Natural designs, honed through millions of years of evolution, tend to be surprisingly efficient. Products built along those lines could replace the detritus of the first industrial age with cleaner, more elegant, and much more sustainable substitutes.
"Biomimicry has become a methodology for finding answers to engineering or design questions," says Janine Benyus, who wrote one of the first books on the subject and now consults with companies looking to profit from biomimics. "You take an engineering problem like how to lubricate or adhere to something, and you find examples of how nature has solved that problem. If you look carefully, you can always find technologies shaped by natural selection that hold the answers."
History suggests that we've only just begun to crack the market. In 1941, Swiss engineer George de Mestral noticed that the seeds of the burdock plant stuck to his wool socks. Through a microscope, he saw how the tiny hooks snagged fabric so effectively. It took more than a decade of experimentation, but Mestral eventually turned his discovery into the product we call Velcro.
The puzzles that today's biomimics are trying to solve make Velcro look downright primitive. Armed with more sophisticated technology, dozens of research centers have begun putting engineers and biologists together and encouraging them to cross-pollinate.
"The biologists who know their species and the engineers who solve specific problems are finally talking to each other," says John Pietrzyk, president of Biomimetic Connections, a California-based consulting firm. "When universities fully integrate research teams, they're going to produce wonders."
Clothing manufacturers are already selling stainproof garments with self-cleaning coatings based on the design of the lotus leaf. In a few years, we'll see hearing aids that mimic the auditory mechanism of Ormia ochracea, a small yellow fly. And a company called Novomer is transforming carbon dioxide into a kind of biodegradable plastic using tricks it learned from the way plants turn CO2 into sugar and starch.
In the paragraphs that follow, we look at three case studies in which engineers turned natural wonders into products: fans from swirling water, cars from the exoskeleton of the boxfish, glare-proof screens from butterfly wings.
The products themselves might not be world-changing, but lessons can be learned from the techniques that got them beyond the drawing board. "Everyone is trying to jump on the biomimic bandwagon," Benyus says. "But a cork floor is not biomimicry. Neither is using bacteria to clean water. Biomimicry is the process of learning from nature and adapting that knowledge to a new situation or technology. It takes effort and science. And it's not easy."
Case study: Going with the flow
As a naturalist working in the outback for the Australian Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Jay Harman had a lot of time -- 12 years, in fact -- to log his observations of nature. So much so that he began to see double.
The same spiral that caught his eye at the edge of an eddy in a stream showed up in the pattern of smoke rising from his campfire. The twist of a nautilus shell mimicked the shape he saw in spiral galaxies. In his 20s at the time, Harman began to wonder whether these were more than just pretty patterns, whether in fact he was glimpsing something fundamental about the geometry of motion.
Three decades later those early abstractions have spiraled into a new kind of R&D firm whose ideas are all borrowed, in one form or another, from Mother Nature. Harman's company, Pax Scientific, based in San Rafael, Calif., has produced a line of impellers, pumps, and fans whose basic shapes are inspired by natural processes. As a result they require up to 30 percent less energy and produce less noise and heat than parts made by giants like General Electric (Charts, Fortune 500) using traditional engineering techniques.
Pax's patented impellers, for example, can circulate 4 million gallons of water through industrial storage tanks while drawing no more electricity than a couple of 100-watt lightbulbs. As news of such efficiencies has spread, business has begun to pour in. Auto-parts maker Delphi is creating a series of Pax-licensed metal axial fans for commercial heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning systems. Harman has also started licensing designs for ultraefficient cooling fans for everything from PCs to refrigerators.
So how did Harman leapfrog past decades of industrial R&D? He credits what he calls the "streamlining principle."
While human engineers tend to force liquids and gases through straight shoots and pipelines, Harman had an intuitive understanding that nature reduces drag and turbulence by swirling things toward their destinations. Early on, he made a cast of the three-dimensional spiral that water creates as it rotates down a bathtub drain. (He won't divulge just how.) Using the shape as a starting point, he began to design impellers that could create whirlpools in air or water. Even he was surprised by how much more efficiently the new designs moved water.
"The universe is made up of turbulence and movement," Harman says. "At first it looks chaotic, but it's not. The same patterns repeat. If you can understand the movement of the single whirlpool when you pull the plug in your bathtub, then you can understand a great deal about movement in the universe."
Pax's approach to moving fluids and liquids could, Harman says, "quite significantly" reduce the world's energy bill within a couple of decades. "When people heard 'sustainability,' they used to think 'sacrifice,'" he says. "Now people see that it can improve the bottom line."
Creating cool new cooling fans is just the start. Famed Smith & Hawken co-founder Paul Hawken is now CEO of a cluster of independent companies that will license Harman's technology to various industrial markets. One of those startups, called PaxFan, cut the deal with Delphi. "I was skeptical at first about Harman's claims," says Andrew Isaacs, a professor at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. "But once you see the evidence, it appears irrefutable. As the cost of energy goes up, the economic sense of it will become more obvious."
Harman, for his part, still likes to get back to nature to do his thinking, and he'll happily leave the marketing chores to others. "Biomimicry is a gestalt shift of humanity," he says. "If we look at what nature can do and reproduce it faithfully, I think we can solve just about any problem on earth."
Case study: The fish that flies
DaimlerChrysler (Charts) employs thousands of people at its main R&D complex in Sindelfingen, Germany. But even with all that talent in place, managers occasionally dispatch their designers offsite to reel in new ideas. So when Dieter G�rtler, one of the company's top engineers, was asked to start thinking about a new aerodynamic concept car, he took two of his colleagues on a field trip to the museum of natural history in nearby Stuttgart to take a look at the fish.
The group first looked at the fastest, sleekest specimens -- dolphins and sharks -- but quickly discounted their potential for auto design, since their shapes don't accommodate enough interior space. ("Who wants to squeeze into a torpedo?" G�rtler jokes.) The museum's fish specialist then showed the team other promising fish, including a small cast of the comparatively homely boxfish. Fat, and wide in the middle, it hardly cuts an elegant profile.
"It looked clumsy to us," G�rtler recalls. But going over 3-D data results back at HQ, researchers realized that the boxfish was one of nature's most efficient movers: When swimming around its home on coral reefs, the boxfish stops and starts and zigs and zags with ease. It even has a reverse gear to back into small holes. What it lacks in beauty, it makes up in mobility.
Intrigued, G�rtler and his team pursued the boxfish idea, first creating a clay model of the fish and examining the model's friction dynamics during wind-tunnel and water-tank experiments. The results amazed the group. The model's oblong shape performed almost as well as the shape of a water droplet, which is considered the most aerodynamic of forms. The slight bulges on the boxfish's sides, G�rtler adds, actually created small vortices on the top and bottom of the body that helped stabilize it and keep it on course. The next step was to create a clay car model that mimicked the boxfish shape as closely as possible. The team settled on a wedge front and a distinctive raised rear end.
But aerodynamics wasn't the only natural characteristic that interested the group. They were also intrigued by the boxfish's bone structure -- a cluster of hexagonal plates that forms an extremely light but rigid skeleton -- and wound up designing the door panels and parts of the chassis similarly. The engineers and designers spent months using a computer-assisted process for transferring the boxfish's skeletal principles to automotive engineering. They wound up with a honeycomb design that reduced the overall weight of the door panels and parts of the body shell by 30 percent and in testing proved 40 percent more rigid than standard designs.
Encouraged by the team's progress, DaimlerChrysler executives green-lighted plans for a working model -- a two-door compact with a 1.9-liter turbo diesel engine, a panoramic windshield, and a glass roof. On the test track, G�rtler's car didn't disappoint: It went from zero to 60 mph in 7.9 seconds, not quite as fast as a Mini Cooper S (6.7) but light-years quicker than a Prius (about 10).
That acceleration, G�rtler adds, has less to do with the car's turbo engine than with the weight of the car. The car's final drag ratio of 0.19 is lower than that of almost any compact car on the market today.
"The key advantage in working with designs that are in harmony with the laws of nature," G�rtler says, "is that evolution has formed creatures to be very economical with energy. By looking at nature, you come up with ideas you could never have thought of on your own."
Like all automakers, DaimlerChrysler builds many concept cars that never make their way to the production line. But G�rtler's boxfish roadster has already led to more experiments in aerodynamic form and internal structure that will yield changes to future production models. And it has encouraged G�rtler and his designers to lean more heavily on biomimicry.
"There are many advantages in looking to nature to boost your creativity," G�rtler says. "By looking at nature you can often find an engineering solution that has literally never been thought of before by the human mind."
Case study: A new way to see the light
Laid up with a broken leg after a motorcycle accident in 1984, Mark Miles had plenty of free time to catch up on his reading. An electrical engineer by training, he spent his convalescence poring through scientific journals, reading about nanotechnology and the burgeoning field of microelectromechanical systems, or MEMS. At some point during his rehab, Miles began to wonder whether a network of tiny electronic sensors could be programmed not just to activate switches but to reflect light.
He hadn't studied the idea very long before he discovered that a variety of natural creatures had already managed a similar trick. The intense colors that flash off the wings of butterflies like the blue morpho, for instance, are not created through bright pigment. Instead, nanoscale structures on the wings cause incoming light waves to interfere with one another, reflecting only specific wavelengths of brilliant color. (It's one way that butterflies communicate with one another, particularly during mating season.) Beetle wings and the nacreous layer in seashells possess the same property, creating colors that increase in brightness in direct proportion to the light in the environment.
It took more than a decade of development and several million dollars from investors and government grants, but Miles eventually turned what butterflies do naturally into a new type of glare-proof electronic display. Called the interferometric modulator, or iMod, it flashes brilliant colors while drawing only a fraction of the electricity required to power a typical LCD.
Its "pixels" are fashioned from microscopic plates of coated glass laid between reflective membranes. Electrical impulses force the surfaces to move together or apart, modulating the color that is reflected back to the eye. The wavelength of the reflected light can be tuned all the way into the ultraviolet spectrum, which appears black to the naked eye. The brighter the ambient light, the brighter the colors displayed on the screen all achieved without any extra expenditure of battery power. Those are powerful characteristics for PDAs and cell-phone screens, which drain batteries rapidly and are difficult to read in ambient light.
Small wonder, then, that wireless communications giant Qualcomm (Charts, Fortune 500) paid $170 million to acquire Iridigm, Miles's iMod development company, in 2004, and has since put the wholly owned subsidiary on fast-forward by launching a state-of-the-art MEMS research center in Silicon Valley. "The fact that nature had achieved this effect helped us substantiate the claims we were making about the potential for this technology," Miles says.
Demonstrating the brilliance of the screen in full sunlight, Gaurav Sethi, Qualcomm's director of business development for MEMS technology, smiles broadly. "You can turn that screen on and leave it on," he says. "If it's not changing its picture, it's using zero power."
He sees an equally bright future for the technology itself. According to Sethi, as manufacturing costs drop, iMods will scale up to the size of outdoor televisions and could eventually replace power-sucking JumboTrons. Although Qualcomm has yet to announce what type of mobile device will first sport the iMod display, it has already inked a deal with a Taiwanese manufacturing firm to start production.
It's a truism among biomimicry researchers that nature points the way but doesn't provide the blueprint -- something Miles takes to heart. "In the end, the question of whether you were inspired by nature is not as important as whether your product works in concert with nature," he says. "Often what we learned from studying the butterfly wing was which design types we could rule out."
Ethan Watters is a freelance writer in San Francisco.
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Lee Roy "L.R." Sells
Graveside services for Lee Roy "L.R." Sells, 79, of Sweetwater, will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 1, at Sweetwater Cemetery. Rev. Jeremy Thompson, Ken Kerby, and Rev. Mike Sells will officiate with interment to follow under the direction of McCoy Funeral Home.Visitation will be Friday, Nov. 30, from 6-8 p.m. at McCoy Funeral Home.Sells died Wednesday, Nov. 28, in Abilene.He was born Jan. 29, 1933, in Trinidad, Texas. He married Wyvonne Pugh on May 3, 1956, in Sweetwater. L.R. moved to Sweetwater from Rotan in 1952. He had been a carpenter for Alston Construction Company in Sweetwater until he became owner/operator of L.R. Sells and Sons Scrap Iron and Metal Company is 1970. He was Pentecostal by faith. L.R. enjoyed fishing and building and working on race cars in his younger years.Survivors include his wife, Wyvonne Sells of Sweetwater; son, Mike Sells and wife Debra of Sweetwater; daughter, Pam Nichols of Midland; brother, Dean Sells and wife Becky of Sweetwater; sisters, Rosie Brannan and husband Floyd of Sweetwater and Billie Burrow of Abilene; grandchildren, Drew Sells, Haley Nichols and Kourtney Baker.He was preceded in death by his parents, Roy and Cleo Hickson Sells; daughter, Rhonda Sells; grandson, Blake Nichols; brother, Pug Sells; and sisters, Juanita French, Corine Faught and Polly Walton.Pallbearers will be current and former employees.Online condolences may be expressed at www.mccoyfh.com.


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NEW CASTLE, COLORADO -- I got there on the 2nd, Friday, I was going to stay a week. Everything was fine until Sunday, only mild rudeness. I was outside arranging the truck and my kids came out saying they were sick and had puked and that the owner was very angry and yelling at them. One of the kids said they had puked but he took off his shirt & puked in it so it didn't get all over. I walked in the motel to see what was going on, why she was yelling at my kids and entering my room and I smelled a really horrible smell.
I assumed it was the puke smelling and I went & apologized because they were blaming us for the smell and insisted on entering our room to check for sewage. I was very confused by this because I was outside for a while and did not know what had happened. Later I found out the reason they puked and was sick, for some reason there was a noxious smell in the hallway and they opened the door to see what was out there, it made one of them puke, all of them were ill and coughing.
My daughter still is and we had nothing to do with the horrible odor. That night the owner insisted on entering the room and scrubbing it down and vacuum, even though my 3 kids were sleeping and ill. I was so offended by the way I was treated I told her I would most likely be checking out the next morning.
At checkout I told the lady I was mistaken the night before and the smell was in fact not from the puke, their smell caused the puking. She said it had to be us because they never had that problem before us and yelled at us about the broken glass she said was on the bathroom floor. Also I told her I needed to pay cash & she would not let me. She snidely said she was done, I was already checked out. I left out to my truck and said I was going to complain about them, that I have never been treated so rudely. The husband drove up blocking my truck and came to me pointing his finger at my face yelling, threatening me.
My fiance stepped between him and I and the owner said he had my information, my address, all of it and if I make trouble for his business he would make trouble for me, he could find me. He said he was "calling 911 and make trouble for me for threatening his business." I told him I was trying to leave and he was blocking me so go ahead and call the cops.
I have never been treated so rude in my life. In all the times I have stayed in motels, even trashy ones, I have never been treated so rudely. Also, the glass on the bathroom floor, the owner yelled at us accusing us of breaking her things. The only thing we can think of, if it was from us, my daughter dropped her iPhone in there and more of the cracked screen fell out, but I don't know.
They had my whole family very upset when he approached me yelling and pointing his finger at my face and they got defensive and got in between him and I to protect me, he got very close to me, almost touching me. I am actually scared to make this report because he said if I did, he would "make trouble for me" and I believe him. I hope this doesn't happen to anyone else because it really was traumatic for us all. Also, the pool was broke, no heater and the hot tub was empty with a fan in it.
SUMTER, SOUTH CAROLINA -- We have stayed here over the last several years. Had great experience until new management took over. They have a back building which has been drug dealers and prostitution, but now the new management are letting it happen in the front choice building. They are promoting drugs and prostitution by selling blunts and condoms at front desk. Their breakfast has been cut a lot and maid service for long stays cut to one day a week. Cutting their workers' hours and causing poor moral. A great motel being destroyed by the new management.
MONTREAL -- This has been the most dissatisfying, frustrating, service-lacking stay in all our travel experience. It lacked even the most basic level of service, and the staff were discourteous and downright rude, and filled with attitude. Rooms were shabby; one of ours still had dirty towels (and a dirty t-shirt) left by the previous guest, which were not removed until 2 days into our stay, despite being dumped on the floor. There was no wardrobe or rack in the room; absolutely nowhere to hang up clothes or coats.
One of our rooms had a locked minibar (which we wanted to use as a fridge), but no key. The front desk clerk explained that the previous guest must have taken the key, and that he would notify the manager. 24 hours later, we still had no key and, upon inquiry, were informed that it was our job to track down the manager and let him know we wished the minibar unlocked, as the manager will not 'bother us' in case we did not wish 'to be disturbed.'
The free wireless internet did not work a single day of our 5-day stay. When we inquired on the first day when it would be fixed, we were told by the front desk clerk that he "does not know," which was also the answer to our inquiry as to whether they were expecting the tech anytime soon. When we asked about the wireless internet again, on the last day (a couple of hours before check-out - idle curiosity), we were told the same thing. If you want to have your room cleaned past noon, forget it - housekeeping does not work after 12 pm, despite the fact that it is the official check-out time.
Continental breakfast is a joke - upon coming down to the lobby, one must tell the front desk the number of people in the party, and each person will be allocated two small croissants; no more. On days when there are no croissants, guests have to do with Wonderbread. On the bright side, Wonderbread dosage is not regulated, and there is a toaster that comes with. Coffee is available all day long, but cups are not (if they were, we never saw them!); it is bring-your-own for that midday caffeine infusion.
And all that is in addition to the fact that, despite being conveniently located in the center of the city, this Econolodge is actually on a rather sketchy, unpleasantly stinky street. In our experience? Take your money elsewhere.
VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA -- My mom and I had reservations to stay at the Econo Lodge on 03-28-08 on Bonney Road in Virginia Beach. We were to stay there for 2 nights. We checked in around 10:30 on the 28th and were sent to probably one of the filthiest rooms ever! The rooms odor knock you back out of the door upon entrance, my mom came in and said the room smelled very bad and then she began to check the room pulling back spreads, checking sheets and found soiled mattress pads with tobacco encrusted in the seams of the mattress pad, trash behind the beds, cigarette buds behind the dresser, trash behind the dresser and the tub was the filthiest!
It had a ring thicker than my wrist in it, hair throughout the tub and entire bathroom and a razor cap in the drain. My mom called the front desk and that particular clerk response was he would change our room. As I was going to get the keys my mom asked the guard for clean linen and blankets. She said she would clean the room herself if they could supply her with the requested items. She was awfully tired after driving 10 hrs straight. The guard said he would check and came back to said they didn't have any clean towels, linen, blankets, comforters or any cleaning solutions at the front desk.
My mom even said she would go over to Rite Aid which happened to be across the street to see what she could find but I told her let's just move. As we were checking in also the people who rented the room next to us told us they had to plunge their toilet upon entrance because it was filled with feces. This is too much!!! We go to the other assigned room which smelled somewhat better but we were still skeptical but tired. My mom told me not to touch anything in the room, wear shoes at all times and to sleep with your clothes on.
After conversations for about 20 minutes, mom who was dead tired did a brief overall check of the visual room items. She found old dried up chocolate smeared on the dresser, spliced wires connected to outlets trash behind the dresser again. Mom said again "bri just sleep in your clothes"! I said "I am mom, I'll just wear my pj's." Mom had on her shirt, jeans, socks, and jacket when she got under the comforter.
I put on pajamas and pulled back all the covers and snuggled in. After 2 minutes I jumped up screaming that something was biting me. Mom jumped up and immediately pulled back the comforter and there were two bed bugs crawling on the blanket. Mom grabbed her video recorder and filmed them. She called the front desk again and told the front desk about the bugs. He told her he couldn't move her to another room but could move her back to the first room which was filthy. She responded that he could give her money back at this time.
It is now 1 something in the morning and we need a room. My mom had to call around this time of the morning in an unfamiliar area trying to find a room. That is a clean room in a clean environment!!!! Thank God for the Quality Inn in Little Creek!! it was very clean and comfortable. My mom ended up paying a lot more for our two day stay and I believe she should be reimbursed for that given the time of morning we had to locate another hotel after our grueling drive to Virginia Beach. We were there for an event for my younger brother in the Golden Glove Tournament.
My experience at this hotel has left me with a very bitter taste for all Econo Lodges. They also submitted extra charges on my mom's account that no one could explain. My mom called the manager twice before we left and she would not return the call. I have been having nightmares about bugs crawling on me as I sleep since this experience.
My mom was so mad she called the TV station. She said she can't believe that this hotel is still opened. She doesn't know how they passed inspection as she works in the hotel industry also! No one from the hotel has called to apologize and it's been a week already. The quality of service was poor and degrading. This hotel is not fit for even stray animals!!!!!!!!!!!!


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