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Benjamin Franklin Digital Awards
POSTED BY prbythebook ON February 18, 2013
There's a new opportunity for getting your work recognized if its available in digital formats. The IBPA announced the the launch of the new Benjamin Franklin Digital Awards. Below you will find out more about how the new awards program works. Once you get the details, don't waste another minute! Enter here!
The Benjamin Franklin Digital Awards (BFDA) will honor achievement in electronic book publishing by individuals and organizations of all sizes, including publishers, developers, designers, manufacturers, institutions, and technology leaders.
With the help of judges representing all segments of the book industry, the BFDA will serve as a natural companion to IBPA's Benjamin Franklin Awards for print, now in its third decade of recognizing publishing excellence. A unique feature of both Awards is that every entrant receives direct feedback from the judges regarding product improvement.
The BFDA is a rolling awards program–submissions will be welcomed year round and entries will be judged against a standard of excellence in four categories: E-books, Enhanced E-books, Books as Apps and New Technologies. "A rolling awards process without calendar constraints mirrors the "real-time" world of digital publishing and allows immediate access to IBPA's unique brand of publishing education," as our President, Florrie Binford Kichler explains. "Entrants will benefit from direct constructive criticism from each judge."
IBPA will be presenting gold and silver award of excellence honorees with a suite of promotional opportunities, including announcements on IBPA's website and all social media outlets, in the monthly magazine, the Independent, to all industry publications and more. Honorees will also be featured at an event at IBPA's annual Publishing University , to be held April 26-27 in Chicago.
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Naperville residents will get a chance this week to formally voice their opinions about a controversial plan to open a restaurant called Show-Me's, which opponents say will feature scantily clad waitresses who do not fit the city's "family-friendly" image.
An open forum will be held during a Naperville Liquor Commission meeting Thursday.
But a group of about 30 people let their feelings be known during a demonstration Friday. Standing in front of the proposed site, they loudly chanted "Stop the show!" to passing cars.
"[Naperville] is supposed to be kid-friendly," resident Patricia Campbell said, pointing to a Chuck E. Cheese's two doors down from the proposed Show-Me's site at 1126 E. Ogden Ave.

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|Bedrooms 5
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|Age 6-10 Years
|Subd. Cliffs At Keowee Vineyards
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Listing Company: Justin Winter Sothebys Int'l
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-Recently enhanced floor plan! Now totally open to great room, dining area and kitchen with ease of access to screened and open porch. Five bedrooms, four full and one half bathrooms and bright, spacious living areas comprise this 5,400 sq ft waterfront home at the Cliffs at Keowee Vineyards, with good proximity to the clubhouse and golf course and a spacious 3-car garage. - .86 acres of mixed forest and meticulous landscaping with zoned irrigation surround the low-maintenance exterior of this home. - The desirable double slip covered boathouse has electricity available for boat lifts, if desired. - Carefully selected finishes and fixtures include specialty tiling, custom cabinets with rope detail, upgraded plumbing fixtures, including Grohe and Hansgrohe faucets and Blanco sinks, a Jacuzzi tub and Jentle Jet laundry sink, heated bathroom floors, large walk-in cedar-lined closet and cedar sauna, stained glass windows, home gym, hot tub and oversized "bonus" bedroom. - The kitchen is well-equipped with Bosch and Kitchen Aid appliances, including double convection wall ovens and warming drawer and DCS 5-burner gas range by Fisher & Paykel, with custom-built 600 CFM hood. A walk-in closet with etched glass pantry door is both stylish and practical, boosting the natural light from a pretty octagonal window. - Four HVAC zones (two with humidifiers) ensure comfort throughout, storage is both extensive and varied, and the home is outfitted with a lightning protection system. Control 4 home automation system allows lighting, thermostat control, two security cameras, and monitored security system. Audio and video are available in virtually every room of the house.
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Pig farmers could soon have access to a non-antibiotic oral drench for piglets, made from an extract found in pineapples.
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The credit crunch is affecting every investor and every consumer, every industry and every government program, yet few people truly understand how it happened. Subprime mortgages have been center stage, but behind the scenes a conspiracy of greed among bankers, investors, rating agencies and regulators has imperiled everyone's financial future. We need to know what went wrong and how to change the practices that led to this calamity. Bloomberg columnist Mark Gilbert shows how Wall Street's tolerance for extremes made the global credit crunch both foreseeable and inevitable. He offers a blow-by-blow account of what went wrong and what lessons need to be learned from the crisis.
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HAMMOND — Southeastern Louisiana football coach Ron Roberts tried to convey the message to his team before the season began about the potential pitfalls of their past success.
With shiny new credentials that included the school's first gleaming Southland Conference championship, first home FCS playoff victory and one-point quarterfinal loss, the Lions would no longer be viewed in the same light.
Gone were the days of a program fighting for viability and trying to turn the corner toward respectability.
It's the new challenge Roberts feels his program must learn to manage — the ultimate show of respect when opponents are primed and ready and in some cases, exceed their own level of play.
"We have to handle expecting people's best," Roberts said.
Roberts felt the most recent example of that took place in last Saturday's 24-23 last-seconds loss at Southeast Missouri, a team the Lions handled 45-7 a year ago at home.
"They played a little better than what we saw on film," he said.
Instead of cleansing its palate following a loss to FBS member Tulane the week before, No. 11 SLU (2-2) will look to snap a two-game losing streak heading into Saturday's Southland Conference opener at Incarnate Word (0-4, 0-1).
Kickoff is scheduled for 6 p.m. at Tom and Gayle Benson Stadium in San Antonio.
"We like competition," SLU running back Rasheed Harrell said. "Everybody's going to give their best. That's what we expect. We're not running from competition. We hope everybody brings it.
"We're coming with our 'A' game."
Incarnate Word, which is in its second season in the SLC, is still ineligible for conference honors and postseason play.
The Cardinals have struggled offensively since the loss of starting quarterback Trent Brittain to a season-ending knee injury. They've averaged four points and just over 200 yards of offense with Taylor Woods (33 of 72, 351 yards, 1 TD) and Breylann McCollum (16 of 39, 154 yards) splitting the quarterback duties.
"It's conference play," Roberts said. "It's everybody's opportunity to step up and play real hard and play a little better."
UIW is coming off consecutive shutout losses to No. 1 North Dakota State (58-0) and Abilene Christian (21-0), which served as its first SLC encounter.
"They have talent all over the board," SLU senior linebacker Drew Misita said. "Every week we're going to play people that are capable of beating us. We have to play our game and have to execute and do our job. If we don't, then we won't win."
SLU's offense, led by senior quarterback Bryan Bennett, has tapered off somewhat during the team's two-game skid.
After scoring 85 points in its first two games, the Lions have averaged 21 points since, the result of increased competition, turnovers and penalties.
"We have to execute and eliminate penalties," Harrell said. "If we execute and do our jobs, we'll be OK."
SLU ranks either fourth or fifth in all of the SLC's major offensive categories, producing 32 points and 436.8 yards per outing.
Bennett, who is third in passing and total offense, has completed 55 of 104 passes for 948 yards with six touchdowns and five interceptions. Senior Devante Scott (14-293, TD), junior Xavier Roberson (12-148) and Jeff Smiley (11-152, TD) are the team's top targets.
Senior safety Tyler Stoddard leads SLU's top-rated scoring defense (19 points) with a team-high 35 tackles followed by senior linebacker Isiah Corbett with 31.
"I believe that everybody knows what's at stake," Harrell said. "I believe we'll be focused. We're going to take it one day, get better and progress every week."


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SIMI VALLEY, Calif.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--XYPRO Technology Corporation has been named one of Inc. magazine's Best Workplaces for 2017, the publication's second annual ranking in the fast-growing private company sector.
As part of a prominent inc.com feature, the list is the result of a wide-ranging and comprehensive measurement of private American companies who have created exceptional workplaces through vibrant cultures, deep employee engagement, and stellar benefits. Out of thousands of applicants, Inc. singled out just over 200 winning companies.
What does it take to become a company that workers want to be part of? Inc. magazine says it's more than good pay and good perks—it's also about having a clear purpose, a sense of humor, and leadership that makes the two work together.
"At XYPRO, we're not here to mark the time between 8 and 5. Our customers deserve our best effort, as coworkers we deserve each other's best efforts and in a company of our size, everyone plays a part in the success. XYPRO Leadership is responsible for the example we set and the appreciation we show our team & our customers. We take that responsibility seriously. It's always about more than just business," said Lisa Partridge, XYPRO CEO.
The 2017 Inc. Best Workplaces Awards assessed applicants on the basis of benefits offered and employees' responses to a unique, 30-question survey fielded by each of the applying companies. Responses were evaluated by the research team at Quantum Workplace. For its results to qualify, each company had to achieve a statistically significant response rate based on employee count.
While researching the entries, Inc. and Quantum saw distinct themes develop:
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- Workers at the best companies don't view their employers as sugar daddies. They aren't mesmerized by whatever giveaways seem to be the latest fad—be it gourmet lunches or beer fridges.
- When employees feel valued by their organization, they are far more likely to be engaged. This single factor proved to be one of the largest drivers of employee engagement.
- XYPRO has a culture that allows for everyone to excel and grow on both a work level and a personal level. Senior management is approachable and willing to listen to anyone at any level in the company. The management clearly explains decisions when change is required.
"By introducing an employee survey into this year's Best Workplaces selection process, we've really raised the bar. Companies that don't score at the very top of their peer group don't make the cut. So, our hats are off to the winners. They all excelled at engaging their workers, making them feel appreciated, and aligning them behind a mission. And remember, that's not just our opinion: The employees told us that themselves." — Inc. Media
About XYPRO Technology Corporation
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About Inc. Media
Founded in 1979 and acquired in 2005 by Mansueto Ventures, Inc. is the only major brand dedicated exclusively to owners and managers of growing private companies, with the aim to deliver real solutions for today's innovative company builders. Winner of Advertising Age's "The A-List" in January 2015, and the National Magazine Award for General Excellence in both 2014 and 2012. Total monthly audience reach for the brand has grown significantly from 2,000,000 in 2010 to over 40,000,000 today. For more information, visit http://www.inc.com/.
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Quantum Workplace is an HR technology company that serves organizations through employee engagement surveys, action-planning tools, exit surveys, peer-to-peer recognition, performance evaluations, goal tracking, and leadership assessment. For more information, visit www.quantumworkplace.com.


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Peace is… returning to Beijing after a day in Fragrant Hills
24 Oct
There are moments when Beijing can get a bit too much. I for one have days when the twisting hutongs and quirky little street-stalls dissolve into a mire of hysteria, spitting, honking motorbike horns and jabbering stinky tofu salesmen.
Ever since I moved to Beijing in August, people had been raving to me about Fragrant Hills – particularly Fragrant Hills in Autumn. My Lonely Planet guidebook promised "an all-embracing view of the countryside" and a chance to "leave the crowds behind" and see "the maple leaves saturate the hillsides in great splashes of red". Along with two friends – all three of us bumbling, naive laowei with 20 words of Chinese and one phone app dictionary between us – we set about planning a day trip. I packed my battered Nikon zoom into my bag, excitedly anticipating memory cards full of snaps of glowing autumnal leaves and persimmons thudding to the ground. I couldn't wait to smell the spiced smell of the pines in the crisp October air.
We took a taxi from Bagou, it being the furthest West we could be bothered to go by subway. Our taxi driver turned out to be an active member of the Beijing Women Taxi Drivers union, and proudly showed us all her union badges and stickers. She then took us on a scenic tour of the stops on the way to Fragrant Hills. These included the Summer Palace and (apparently) one of Hu Jintao's residences.
Finally, amid swearing and rapid Beijing-accented Chinese, we popped out onto one of those vast Beijing ring road interchanges, boiling with traffic and people from all angles. Our driver flicked her meter off and hurled us into the maelstrom.
Even without the guidebooks and the eulogising, the words "Fragrant Hills" alone conjure up an image of natural beauty and harmony. They do not, however, conjure up the scene that we found – Ibiza-like rows of tat shops, greasy spoon cafes, and bawling vendors hawking drinks, pancakes, roast sweet potatoes, souvenirs, ridiculous fluffy bunny ears to attach to your ipod or head, and umpteen other utterly unnecessary things.
And then there were the tourists. It seemed that all China had decided to come to Fragrant Hills that day – most had bringing their cars, motorbikes, or tin tuk-tuks with them. Hysterical families collided with vehicles speeding up and down the roads, children howled, grandmothers bellowed at their daughters-in-law, and my head began to pound.
It took about half an hour of struggling through the sea of bodies to get to the gate and secure the tickets – luckily only 10 yuan.
Inside the park, we bought a map and reasoned in despair that the part coloured brown and with a dotted line for the path was likely to mean "off the beaten track" and therefore less rammed with people. A hectic scramble up and down flights of stone steps ensued.
All pretences of polite "Britishness" were washed away as we bodily moved people out the way with two hands – the only way of making progress.
A couple of times we attempted a bit of off-piste, only to be brutally stung to pieces by poison ivy. Fearing anaphylactic shock, we sadly returned to the throng.
Then suddenly, just past Shansen Temple, we spotted a dirt track. The people vanished. Aside from one or two couples quietly strolling along, we were the only ones there.
There were our golden leaves and peaceful pine forests. Yet even so, through the trees, a strange bubbling sound was still distinctly audible – an ominous reminder of the crowds lurking a few hundred feet below.
Exhausted, we collapsed onto rocks and brought out our picnics of sandwiches, peanuts and little lunchbox biscuits, naively packed for a hike in the wilderness. Thankfully we also had some whiskey too.
From the upper slopes of the hills, the haze of pollution could almost have been a melancholy Scotch mist. Jingcui Lake came with the requisite drooping golden willow branches, even if the shores were decorated with mac-clad tourists scoffing cold vacuum-packed sausages. We actually found one tree that was orange enough for a few posuer snaps.
At last we gritted our teeth and plunged downhill, getting flashbacks of those blockbuster movies in which the gung-ho hero thunders towards an army of orcs (or similar) that can be heard massing for the attack. As we fought tooth and claw through towards the exit, a volley of – and I kid you not – budget fireworks started exploding not thirty yards from us, scattering empty shells and gunpowder over tour buses.
Darkness had descended by the time we staggered back to the ring road. It then took another half hour or so of fruitless waving before we collapsed into a taxi, feeling that the 60 yuan we were being charged for a 20 yuan trip was an absolute bargain.
Eventually, at about 7pm, I stepped out of the subway at Huixinxijie Nankou. Home sweet home. I almost hugged the biker who honked his horn at me as I crossed the road. It was almost…. quiet.
I had found my Fragrant Hills, my oasis of calm, my harmony – just around the corner from Chicken Feet's King.


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About the composer
Index of compositions by
Rachel J. Burckardt:Download sheet music of
selected psalm settings
St. Cecilia Music
St Cecilia Parish
Boston, Massachusetts
Friends of Wood Harbor Music:
Origin of Wood Harbor
Village of Wood Harbour, Nova Scotia
Back when I was first playing with Bill Desmond's Tone Poem, we were preparing for one of our first gigs, opening for Dorothy Carter, the famous hammer dulcimer player, at a coffee shop in Hyannis. Bill had recently composed a piece name Nova Scotia. But then, he came up with a little 2 minute tag to play at the end of the piece. But what to name it?
Well, I wondered what is at the end of Novia Scotia, so I took out my Rand McNalley road atlas and found Wood Harbour, a small fishing village at the end of the island province Thus was named Bill's composition Wood Harbor.
Fast forward a decade and I needed a name for my "music company" for the tune I recorded for Bill's Christmas compilation CD, Gross Santa's Yuletide Favorites. Knowing that part of my paternal heritage comes from Nova Scotia and wanting to reference the enduring influence of playing Bill's music, I came up with Wood Harbor Music, and named the collection of musicians the Wood Harbor Ensemble.
Welcome to Wood Harbor Music, the portal site for the music of Rachel J. Burckardt and friends. Rachel is a composer and instrumentalist based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her compositions span many styles and many settings, from sacred and liturgical music to instrumental compositions for small ensembles and some jazz tunes.
Rachel serves as a volunteer liturgical musician and composer at St. Cecilia Parish in Boston, Massachusetts.
"Rachel Burckardt has a unique compositional style, personal and always pushing the boundaries of a complex harmonic language. "
(Joe Matzzie, composer and guitarist)
Psalm Settings
Find a listing of over 50 settings of 31 psalms. You can listen to many of my psalm settings on my You Tube channel. Most are very usable as Responsorial Psalms or for other liturgical settings.
Downloads of selected music now available!
Downloads are available for some of my liturgical music is now available on this web site.
13 videos of my compositions are available on my channel on You Tube:
Ave Maria
Psalm 16, You Are My Inheritance
Psalm 18, I Love You Lord
Psalm 25, To You, O Lord
Psalm 31, Into Your Hands I
Commend My Spirit
Psalm 32, Forgive Me the Wrong
Psalm 34, Taste & See*
Psalm 138, In the Presence of
the Angels*
And Very Early in the Morning/
The Mercy of God Endures Forever
How Long*
One Voice
Organ Improvisation in C Major
(The New Dawn)*
Gloria (from Mass of St. Anne)*
* Recorded live at St. Cecilia Church, Boston.
Organ Improvisation in C Major (The New Dawn)
Video based on live recording of improvisation played on the 1999 Smith+Gilbert Organ of St. Cecilia Church, Boston, MA
Rachel Burckardt: Organ
Recorded live by Evan Landry on May 9, 2014 at the New Dawn v2.0 Concert at St. Cecilia Church, Boston, MA.
St. Cecilia Music
Wood Harbor Music www.woodharbormusic.net
©2014 Rachel J. Burckardt. All Rights Reserved.
NEW!! On Chestnut Street
A trio of my jazz tunes featuring the Wood Harbor Jazz Quintet:
Diane Wernick, tenor sax Alex Meisner, alto sax
Diana Fischer, piano Blake Newman, bass
Phil Neighbors, drums
Also includes a solo piano piece I played after the quintet recording. Available at CD Baby: store.cdbaby.com/cd/racheljburckardt4
Liturgical and Sacred Music Recordings:
Order from Wood Harbor Music, or
Download at CD Baby.
You Are My Inheritance
Now available!!
Liturgical and sacred compositions by Rachel J. Burckardt. Order for $15 plus shipping from Wood Harbor Music, or download at CD Baby.
$5 from the sales of each CD is donated to the Women's Lunch Place, which serves poor and homeless women in Boston.
Videos of some of the tunes are available on my You Tube channel.
Praise for the New Dawn
Liturgical compositions of Rachel J. Burckardt, featuring the Choir of St. Cecilia Church, Boston and friends.
To order a CD, contact us at: email@example.com
Listen on Spotify and You Tube.
Digital download and samples at CD Baby
How Long, O God
Re-released on CD!
More liturgical compositions of Rachel J. Burckardt*, featuring the Choir of St. Ann Parish,
Boston, Wood Harbor Ensemble, and friends.
*Acceptance composed by Kevin O'Brien & R. J. F. Burckardt
Order from Wood Harbor Music.
Digital downloads and samples at CD Baby.
Listen at Spotify and You Tube!
Listen to a live version of the title song, How Long, on You Tube!
Video of my setting of Ave Maria


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We spent Sunday morning preparing the beds for two apples trees. I have always wanted apple trees, and finally have the time to get some and plant them. The root ball on the Gala is a bit concerning, as we had to cut it out of the bucket. Not because it was root bound, it looks more like the main root has broken away from the root ball.


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Apex Court sets up panel to study issuance of ads glorifying politicians
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has formed a three-member panel to frame guidelines to regulate government advertisements glorifying politicians in media.
The apex court bench headed by chief justice P Sathasivam said that the existing guidelines of the Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity (DAVP) do not cover such advertisements.
The panel will be headed by Prof NR Madhav Menon, founder director of Bangalore's National Law University. TK Vishwanathan, former Lok Sabha secretary general and senior advocate Ranjit Kumar are the other two members of the panel. The report has to be submitted to the court in three months.
The court has asked Information and Broadcasting Ministry secretary Bimal Julka to coordinate the meetings of the committee.
The court passed the order on a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by the NGOs Common Cause and the Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL) pleading it to frame guidelines. The petition sought issuance of guidelines for curbing ruling parties from taking political mileage by projecting their leaders in official advertisements.
Counsel for Common Cause, Meera Bhatia, had earlier said that the glorification of politicians linked to the ruling establishment, in order to attain political mileage at the cost of public exchequer, was violative of Article 14 of the constitution.
But counsel representing CPIL, Prashant Bhushan, had told the court that there was nothing wrong in issuing advertisements and informing the public about the programmes of the government. However, he had said such advertisement campaigns become arbitrary and malafide when aimed at gaining political mileage.


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ROCKLAND COUNTY -- Rockland County Executive Ed Day and Commissioner of Health Dr. Patricia Schnabel Ruppert confirmed Rockland's first case of Zika virus in a local woman.
The patient recently traveled to a South American country where Zika virus transmission has been documented.
"Zika virus symptoms may include low-grade fever, rash, joint pain, or conjunctivitis," said Ruppert. "Symptoms typically begin two to seven days after being bitten by an infected mosquito. There is no vaccine or specific medicine to treat Zika virus infections. Pregnant women and mothers with newborn babies who have visited affected countries should consult with their health care providers."
It's the second reported case in the Hudson Valley, with the first reported last week in Orange County.
There is no reason to panic, according to Dr. Stuart Feinstein, Infectious Disease Specialist at Vasser Brothers Medical Center.
"A mosquito has to bite someone and we don't have mosquitoes like this here," said Feinstein. "I'm not worried about widespread transmission. I don't believe this will be a source of infection for us locally."
The Zika virus is primarily transmitted through the bite of infected mosquitoes and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a travel advisory for affected countries in Central and South America, the Caribbean and Samoa and Cape Verde. The infection is associated with severe birth defects, including microcephaly (a condition in which a baby's head is smaller than expected when compared to babies of the same sex and age) and other poor pregnancy outcomes in babies of mothers who were infected with Zika virus while pregnant.
The Rockland County Health Department is preparing for additional cases resulting from travelers. At this time there is no risk of acquiring Zika virus in Rockland County. Travelers are encouraged to visit the CDC Travel website - cdc.gov - for the most up-to-date recommendations. Pregnant travelers encountering obstacles from airlines and cruise lines may seek assistance from the Rockland County Office of Consumer Affairs by calling (845) 708-7600.
With the number of reported cases on the rise, the New York State Department of Health's Wadsworth Center Laboratories in Albany will begin to provide free Zika virus testing for all pregnant women who traveled to an area with ongoing Zika virus transmission during pregnancy.
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Theory of in-line deformation of thin, continuously cast steel strip
Project ID: 7210-CA/156Funded under: ECSC-STEELRES 8C
In order to save energy, hot rolling of near net shape cast strip has to be performed in-line. For this, special conditions which are different from those in conventional casting must be taken into account. In-line rolling in the first heat that is rolling without cooling down and reheating leads to a sequence of phase transformations different from conventional hot rolling and, therefore, gives different conditions for the formation of the internal structure. These special conditions during in-line rolling lead to problems which were subject of this project. A series of experiments were performed to investigate to which extent the cross-sectional profile of a strip can be changed by conventional rolling. The metallurgical and mechanical properties of a strip with an as-cast thickness of 10mm and hot rolled (after cooling down to room temperature and reheating) with different reduction ratios were examined. Finally, the influence of hot rolling in the first heat on the austenite grain size investigated. Preliminary trials were performed to develop and to test metallographical preparation and evaluation technique.
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Amazon's Kindle HDX tablets get remote Mayday help
Amazon's latest tablets will include the ability to call up round-the-clock tech support via a video box at the press of a button.
The Kindle Fire HDX's Mayday feature will allow one of the firm's employees to explain how to work the machine or take control if necessary.
There is no additional cost involved.
One analyst said the facility should help Amazon to stand out from other tablets, including Google's Nexus and Apple's iPad.
"The new Mayday feature is a clever way to reach out to new tablet users," said Thomas Husson, principal analyst at tech advisers Forrester.
"Coupled with an affordable price for the lower-end Kindle Fire HD and new entertainment content and features, Amazon is clearly willing to appeal to the masses."
In addition to Mayday, Amazon is also introducing the ability to download selected movies and TV shows from its Prime Instant Video so that they can be viewed when the user does not have an internet connection. Rival on-demand services Netflix and Hulu do not offer this facility.
While the new features should help Amazon attract new customers, one expert warned that some might have security concerns about the firm building in software that allowed a third party to take over the tablet.
"With any device that has any kind of remote access on it, there is always going to be that risk that it could be either hacked or abused," said Chris Green, from the Davies Murphy Group consultancy.
"But it's such a small danger that the benefits outweigh the risks, and the average consumer or business user shouldn't be put off from storing useful information because they fear it could be compromised."
Amazon has said that the Mayday feature can be disabled and stressed that it is a one-way video feed, so that the adviser cannot see the tablet owner.
The firm has not revealed how many assistants it had employed, but said it was aiming for a response time of 15 seconds or less. Chief executive Jeff Bezos added that it would be "ready for Christmas morning" - likely to be one of the busiest days.
Mr Bezos previously told the BBC that his company sold its Kindle devices at cost, but one industry-watcher said investing in pop-up advisers still made financial sense.
"Amazon's strategy has always been not to make profits from hardware sales but from selling content on those devices," said Nitin Bhas from Juniper Research, a consultancy.
"Adding round-the-clock tech support is a winning strategy but a long-term one and provides Amazon with a platform to expand further."
Upgraded system
Amazon also announced it was introducing the third version of its Fire operating system, codenamed Mojito.
The OS is a variant of Google's Android system, but is designed to highlight recently downloaded items on the home screen as well as other Amazon-specific services.
These include:
- X-Ray ,which offers access to synchronised lyrics for songs, details of music played during films, and background information about characters in books
- Whispersync, which keeps content on the tablet synchronised with other Amazon products owned by the same user
- Hardware-enhanced data encryption, which it markets as a facility to encourage sales to business customers
- The new Mayday button
The US firm said that developers would be able to offer software already developed for Google's system with "little to no [additional] work".
But experts warn there may still be snags.
"We know there have been some instances of compatibility problems with apps that wouldn't run on the existing Kindle Fire devices because they were taking advantage of functionality and shortcuts that are in the standard Google build that weren't present or were broken in the Amazon version," said Mr Green.
"It sounds like Amazon has tried to do its best to mitigate the number of instances where this is likely to occur, but the simple fact is that the Android software has forked.
"There will still be issues where applications written for 'normal' Android will be expecting features, functions and more importantly other apps to be on the system that are simply not there and that is going to cause some issues."
The Kindle HDX - which comes with either a 7in (17.8cm) or 8.9in (22.6cm) display - will be released in the US on 18 October.
It is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 quad-core processor, which Amazon said was three times as powerful as the Texas Instruments chip in its earlier model.
It will cost between $229 (£143) and $579 (£362) depending on the amount of storage, screen size and whether or not a 4G data chip is included.
Amazon has not announced when it will become available in other markets.


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By Ben Campbell
The North Star
Dec 15, 2012 – While today's left has frayed into many strands, there was a time when the left presented, or at least aspired to present, a coherent Weltanschauung. This was Marxism, founded on Karl Marx's brilliant synthesis of materialism and the philosophy of G.W.F. Hegel, which led him and his collaborator Friedrich Engels to an unprecedented coalescence of existing human knowledge.
Today's crisis of capitalism has, unsurprisingly, led to a renewed interest in Marxism. Yet any "return to Marx" will not be found in an exegesis of ancient texts but in grounding Marx's materialist dialectic in the present. Just as Marx critiqued 19th-century advances by incorporating them into his thought, so too must the most promising developments of the last century be synthesized into a radical understanding for the present. Unfortunately, today's left has for too long been relegated to social and cultural studies, ceding the "hard" discourse in economics and science to a new generation of vulgar scientistic "quants". The resulting left has too often neglected a dialectical critique, in favor of a dichotomous relation to science.
It was not always so. In an attempt to recover some of the lost spirit of the scientific left, I will be interviewing subjects at the interface of science and the left. I begin today with Helena Sheehan, Professor Emerita at Dublin City University. Her research interests include science studies and the history of Marxism, and she is the author of Marxism and the Philosophy of Science: A Critical History (available on her website).
Ben Campbell: The advances of 19th-century science were inseparable from the rise of "materialist" philosophy. While Marx certainly belongs to this tradition, he was also strongly influenced by German idealism, specifically the dialectical system of G.W.F. Hegel. What did a "dialectical" materialism mean for Marx, and how did he see it as an advance over the materialism of his day?
Helena Sheehan: The materialist philosophy of the 19th century was tending in a positivist direction. It was inclined to stress induction and to get stuck in a play of particulars. Marxism pulled this in the direction of a more historicist and more holistic materialism. It was an approach that overcame myopia, one that looked to the whole and didn't get lost in the parts.
BC: You've written, "It is no accident that Marxism made its entry onto the historical stage at the same historical moment as Darwinism." What do you mean by this, and what do you see as the connection between these two monumental figures?
HS: The idea of evolution was an idea whose time had come. It was in the air. Historical conditions ripen and set the intellectual agenda. Great thinkers are those who are awake to the historical process, those who gather up what is struggling for expression. Marx and Darwin were both great thinkers in this sense, although others were also coming to the same conclusions. Marx and Engels were far bolder than Darwin, carrying forward the realization of a naturalistic and developmental process beyond the origin of biological species into the realm of socio-historical institutions and human thought.
BC: Engels also wrote extensively on science, particularly in his manuscript Dialectics of Nature, unfinished and unpublished during his lifetime. What is it about this document, and Engels more generally, that has been so controversial in the history of Marxism's relation to science?
HS: There is a tension in Marxist philosophy between its roots in the history of philosophy and its commitment to empirical knowledge. For the best Marxist thinkers, certainly for Marx and Engels themselves, it has been a creative interaction. However, some of those pulling toward German idealist philosophy, particularly that of Kant and Hegel, have brought into Marxism a hostility to the natural sciences, influenced by the Methodenstreit, an antagonistic conceptualization of the humanities versus the sciences, which has played out in various forms over the decades.
The critique of positivism has been bloated to an anti-science stance. The tendency of some to counterpose a humanistic Marx to a positivist Engels is not supported by historical evidence, as I have demonstrated at some length in my book.
BC: It seems to me that this synthesis of dialectical philosophy with materialism has always been contentious. On one hand, as you say, there is the danger of reducing an anti-positivist stance to an anti-scientific stance. On the other hand, there is the threat of "the dialectic" being reduced to a mere rhetorical flourish for an otherwise bare scientism. Other writers, like John Bellamy Foster, have argued that Marxism after Marx and Engels split along these lines. Do you agree with this assessment? After Marx and Engels, what or who best demonstrated the potential of a "dialectical" science to transcend this divide?
HS: No, I don't agree with it. There have always been those who synthesized these two streams. Most familiar to me is the 1930s British Marxism of Bernal, Haldane, Caudwell, and others, and post-war Eastern European Marxism. Regarding the latter, it suffered from the orthodoxy of parties in power, but it wasn't all catechetical dogmatism. In the United States, Richard Levins and Richard Lewontin. This would still characterize my own position today.
BC: Yet despite the ability of some to transcend it, there does seem to have historically been much ambiguity concerning what a "materialist dialectic" would really entail. Some, like philosopher David Bakhurst, have traced some of this ambiguity back to the philosophical writings of Lenin. Bakhurst argues that while Lenin appeared at times to advocate a "radical Hegelian realism", at other times his philosophy failed to transcend a rather vulgar materialism. How did any such ambiguities in Lenin's own writings contribute to subsequent debates in Soviet science?
HS: Yes, I would agree with that. Lenin could be very philosophically and politically sophisticated, but I never thought his philosophical position quite gelled. Some of his texts on reflection theory were epistemologically crude. As to the effect on Soviet debates, these were beset by the tendency to deal with writings of Marx, Engels, and Lenin as sacred texts. This rigidified further after the Bolshevization of all academic discipline, when there had to be one and only one legitimate Marxist position on every question. A quote from Lenin stopped any further debate.
BC: Such talk about the rigidity of Soviet science inevitably leads to the specter of T.D. Lysenko. For readers who may not be familiar, could you briefly describe Lysenko's work? How would you respond to those who use Lysenko as a cautionary tale about the danger posed by Marxism or dialectical thinking to biology?
HS: T.D. Lysenko (1898–1976) was a Ukrainian agronomist who came to prominence in the U.S.S.R. in 1927 when his experiments in winter planting of peas were sensationalized by Pravda. He became lionized as a scientist close to his peasant roots who could serve the needs of Soviet agriculture in the spirit of the first Five-Year Plan. He then advanced the technique of vernalization to a theory of the phasic development of plants and then to a whole alternative approach to biology. This was in the context of wider debates in international science about genetics and evolution, about heredity and environment, about inheritance of acquired characteristics. It was also in the context of the Bolshevization of academic disciplines and the search for a proletarian biology and the purges of academic institutions.
The issues were many and complex. There has been a tendency to flatten them all out into Lysenkoism as a cautionary tale against philosophical or political "interference" in science. However, I believe that philosophy and politics are relevant to the theory and practice of science. Lysenkoism is a cautionary tale in the perils and pitfalls of certain approaches to that.
BC: If we turn from the Soviet philosophy of science to that of the non-Marxist West, you see a greater reluctance to mix philosophy with the content of science. Instead, a lot of canonical "philosophy of science" (e.g., Popper, Kuhn, Lakatos, Feyerabend) has more to do with scientific method. What does Marxism, with its emphasis on contradiction, have to say about the scientific method? I wonder specifically about Lakatos' background in Hegelian Marxism and whether there are affinities there.
HS: One big difference between these two traditions in philosophy of science is that Marxism pursued questions of worldview, exploring the philosophical implications of the empirical sciences, setting it apart from the narrow methodologism of the other tradition.
However, Marxism also addressed questions of scientific method. There is an elaborate literature dealing with epistemological questions from a Marxist point of view. There have been many debates, but the mainstream position would be critical realism. What is distinctive about Marxism in this sphere is how it cuts through the dualism of realism versus social constructivism. Marxism has made the strongest claims of any intellectual tradition before or since about the socio-historical character of science, yet always affirmed its cognitive achievements.
The fact that Lakatos had a background in Marxism made him inclined to take a wider view than his later colleagues, but I find that he left a lot to be desired in that respect. Nevertheless, contra Feyerabend, I think that the project of specifying demarcation criteria, so central to the neo-positivist project, is a crucially important task.
BC: Karl Popper famously invoked a "falsifiability" criterion as a means of solving the demarcation problem, which refers to the question of how to distinguish science from non-science (or if that is even possible). Popper's solution has influenced many scientists but has been strongly critiqued in philosophical circles. How does a Marxist approach inform this demarcation problem?
HS: There is a need for criteria to distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate claims to knowledge. The positivist and neo-positivist traditions contributed much to the formulation of such criteria. They did so, however, from a base that was too narrow, employing criteria that were too restricted, leaving out of the picture too much that was all too real, excluding historical, psychological, sociological, metaphysical dimensions as irrelevant. Marxism agrees with the emphasis on empirical evidence and logical coherence, but brings the broader context to bear. It synthesizes the best of other epistemological positions: logical empiricism, rationalism, social constructivism.
BC: Today, Marxism stands at its weakest historically, right as the global economic crash seems to have most vindicated it. Similarly, Marxism has almost no direct influence on 21st-century science, yet discoveries and perspectives seem increasingly "dialectical" (e.g., biological emphases on complex systems, emergence, and circular causality). What do you make of the situation at present? Would it be possible to develop a "dialectical" or even "Marxist" science without Marxism as a political force? Or will science always be fragmented and one-sided so long as there remains no significant political challenge to capital?
HS: Yes, Marxism is at a low ebb as far as overt influence is concerned, precisely at a time when its analysis is most relevant and even most vindicated.
I think that people can come to many of the same realizations and conclusions as Marxists without calling themselves Marxists. However, I don't think there can be any fully meaningful analysis of science that does not analyze it in relation to the dominant mode of production. Such an analysis shows how the capitalist mode of production brings about intellectual fragmentation as well as economic exploitation and social disintegration.
I don't think that left parties having any chance of taking power in the future will be Marxist parties in the old sense, although Marxism will likely be a force within them. I am thinking particularly of SYRIZA, with whom I've been intensively engaged lately. One of the leading thinkers in SYRIZA is Aristides Baltas, a Marxist and a philosopher of science.
Thank you, Helena.
Two points;
1. I think "dialectical materialism" walks on crutches as a scientific framework until and to the extent its logic achieves a more formal expression. For example, a mathematical logic and an optimization model that is reproducible would be especially helpful. Evolutionary theory (and its mathematical techniques (like genetic algorithms)) seems the best, and AFAIK, only candidate for this role. Contradiction, negation and synthesis are all captured and modeled in evolutionary theory, and mathematics. Optimization, cardinality and direction are all aspects of both dialectical materialism and evolutionary theory.
However there is a cost to certain policy and ideological legacies of MarxISM, and LeninISM in adopting evolutionary models — but, IMO, a cost well worth paying. The first is the emphasis in evolutionary theory on variation. Environments that can tolerate the greatest variation produce more successful adaptations. Marx once commented on the need to balance (not negate) the role of competition, vs cooperation, in Darwin's Origin of the Species. But most MarxISM has ignored competition because of its ugly side-effects, especially in the more barbaric phases of capitalism. Yet clearly any post-capitalist society must model both. It is the hope of civilization that some alternative to death or poverty as the penalty for lost competition, some path for losers to become winners, can be found, and be sustainable.
2. The materialist side of dialectical materialism dictates a priority of objective over subjective considerations in social and economic development. For example, capitalist relations can only be superseded or transformed to the extent commodities — and the economics of scarcity in the necessities of life — can be superseded; and this is NOT primarily a matter of political POLICY, but of technological and overall cultural (including scientific) advance of society. Social change will always include both evolutionary (in the political sense) and revolutionary aspects. Institutions will always lag economics and culture, and at times suffer complete failure before they can be transformed or replaced. It is inconceivable that a political system other than Democracy — in the sense of the widest and most varied empowerment of all working people — worldwide — can realize the balance of cooperation and competition envisioned in the ideal of a communist society; and do so without the condition of constant war that the era of scarcity and commodities imposes.


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What a great day! Steph & Brian had a gorgeous day and a fantastic wedding! They are such sweet, wonderful people! They compliment each other in all the right ways and just completely mesh! I love it when people mesh! They also had a great, fun wedding party…that totally allowed me to run them all over city and take a million pictures! They were all such troopers! It was a bit hectic downtown, with about 8 events going on within a 4 block radius of their wedding venue….but we made it around to our various chosen locations and had a really fun time! When I left the reception, their were fireworks going off…and it was the perfect way to end a really fantastic day! Steph & Brian…it was an honor being a part of your day! Hope you are having the time of your lives in Hawaii!!


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Dave Allen 5 March 2008
Blogger, disruptor, musician, iconoclast and online evangelist for Nemo Design
Dave Allen is an iconoclast who is over the status quo. He can be found sniffing around the confluence of the internet, music, branding, marketing and social networking arenas. He is a founding member and bass player for the post-punk band Gang of Four who are currently in the midst of a completely unexpected reunion. His fast-growing blog, Pampelmoose.com, is the place to go to gain insight into his thinking about how the music industry has been derailed by the internet and why he believes in the "feels free" idea of music delivery. He is a strong proponent of the Long Tail theory.
Recently he took the position of Director, Insights & Digital Media for the Portland-based branding and interactive agency Nemo Design where he works on the company's forward thinking strategies especially in the areas of planning, radical transparency and Web 2.0. He works closely with Nemo Design's Interactive team worrying about Electronic Mass Communications. He has determined that we all now have our 15 minutes of fame elongated over the Long Tail. He gets to think about that.
His past career includes being an integral part of the team that built Emusic.com back in the late 90′s. It was a fun rollercoaster ride destroyed only by Napster but then you can't compete with free…. It was where he fully embraced the idea of the online distribution of music. He then spent two years at Intel honing his thoughts and ideas before leaving and founding Pampelmoose. He is regularly invited to appear on and moderate panels at conferences such as South by Southwest, CMJ, Webvisions, Future of Music Coalition and many more. He believes that music will eventually be the commodity that feels free. He has lived in Portland, Oregon since 2000.
What are you up to?
I am trying to get musicians to give away their music in the knowledge that by doing so they will sell more music. I am also experimenting with Facebook Pages and Groups as I'm inclined to think that the job listings companies such as Monster, Krop and Linked In shouldn't be charging for a job posting when we can essentially all be connected through social networking. I run Nemo Design's Facebook Group and I posted an open position there. We'll see how it goes but so far the results are encouraging. Disruption in action.
Otherwise I'm up to about 5 ft 9 inches….
What are you into?
Writing and thinking mostly. Food and fine wine – My third place is defined by my two favorite restaurants, Tabla in NE and Alba Osteria in SW; it is not defined by Starbucks. Architecture is on my mind these days as I want to build a guest house/studio in my back yard so I'm looking into Rocio Romero's LV Series of prefabricated modern kit homes. How about that Oscar© for Daniel Day Lewis? And Sassy's down the road from the Nemo Design building has its charms.
What do you like most about Portland?
Everything except the suburbs – oh and the Doug Fir because it attracts those suburbanites who think the Doug Fir is the place to be – I've had to stop going. Of course now that Bay 13 has opened in the Pearl and Grand Central Lanes opened on SE Morrison their trifecta is complete. I also have a problem with those fixies or fixed wheel bikes too as that seems to be an unseemly way to die.
Who else do you know that gets paid to blog?
Perez Hilton.
Why did you never marry Cate Blanchett?
I never found the time.


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Learn what a Shielded VM is, what security assurances they offer and whats required to deploy them. We walk you through what is possibly the world's first production-ready Hoster deployment of a guarded fabric (one that runs Shielded VMs). You'll leave with an understanding of the hardware and software requirements, any of the not-so-obvious gotchas […]Read More
Speaker: Dean Wells
Maintaining strong separation between Hyper-V administrators and sensitive VM-workloads is highly desirableseparation that today isnt achievable. However, we know that customers virtualize sensitive workloads anywayrunning content servers and even domain controllers in VMs is now commonplace. In doing so, additional attack vectors are exposed and the overall security of the workload is weakened. Hosters want […]Read More
In today's environments, hosters need to provide security assurance to their tenants. "Harden the fabric" is a Windows Server and Microsoft System Center vNext scenario, which includes enhancements in Hyper-V, Virtual Machine Manager, and a new Guardian Server role that enables shielded VMs. Technologies which ensure that host resources do not have access to the […]Read More


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The knockout phase of the Europa League gets underway this evening.
Red Star welcome C-S-K-A Moscow to Belgrade for the first leg of their last-32 tie.
That kicks off at 5 O'clock.
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I create fashion-inspired portraits of non-models, amateur & professional models.
I work on the margins of a number of genres; I'm more interested in creating dramatic images than I am in conforming to preconceived notions of fashion or glamour.
If you'd like to work with me then please do get in touch.
I am passionate about skilled human movement, particularly in a non-competitive arena, and circus & contemporary dance in particular. My photography is rooted in my own performance practice as a juggler, acrobalancer & stilt dancer.
I am interested in the dichotomy between the long, painful, mundane and often solitary hours of training and the true spectacle of a performer giving a brief explosion of a performance at the height of their skill. I often look for moments of transition, the point milliseconds after the peak of a movement, when the performer's mood and movement changes.
Do drop me a line if you're a dancer and would like to make something special.
Similarly, if you wish to purchase or license one of my images then please do get in touch.
My own circus background and love of acrobatics, acrobalance and aerial circus skills in all their various forms has found a new outlet in this series of photos.
I often work with professional and amateur acrobats, cabaret and circus performers. I seek to use light and shadow to emphasise shape, musculature and the human form and to explore the spaces around my subjects
I strive to recreate those rare moments of ease which occur during a performance at the same time as recording some of the contemplative approach which a performer must achieve during the endless hours of training.
I am interested in showing real people demonstrating extraordinary skills with consummate ease and naturalness. The results often show strength and ability in an atmosphere of calm control.
If you'd like to work with me then please do get in touch.
I'm interested in the methods of the Hollywood portrait photographers of old, from film noir to vintage glamour.
The photographers of that era didn't have access to modern softboxes and flash units. Instead they became expert at using hard light sources - traditionally regarded as unflattering - to produce the most enchanting of images.
I use modern equipment and techniques to recreate these most exacting styles.
Please do get in touch if you'd like to create something along these lines.
I particularly enjoy using my performance background to create dramatic portraits of everyday folk, performers & models alike.
If you'd like to join me in creating something unique then please do get in touch.
Some time ago Frankie Dubery and I began work on a project about exploration and change. When we started we had no real idea where we were going or what we'd make; it evolved significantly as it went on.
The idea was to stage a series of shoots around a central character in her wedding dress. We were planning to allow the dress to deteriorate naturally in a way which mirrors the current vogue for 'trash the dress' photoshoots.
The underwater scene was intended to be a transformational moment - everything which was to come after was going to be much more dark & surreal, and involve numerous other characters.
We managed 5 shoots over 2 years before some unfortunate events brought the project to a premature close; this is what we made.
The human body in all its forms has long been of interest to artists and photographers.
In this series I'm interested in using light to emphasise musculature & shape, exposing a raw but controlled physicality.
Some of my subjects are professional artists' models; others are ordinary people with an interesting approach or physical skill.
Do drop me a line if you'd like to create something along these lines.
This gallery shows some of the unprocessed results of some lighting tests & modifier comparisons I did a while ago. I was seeking to challenge the maxim that it has difficult to produce portraits with a white background in a small space.
I've left them here in case they're of use to other photographers. Please see the accompanying blog post for more details.


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14/09/2016 7:31:24 Catwalk Catwalk
What is Catwalk ?
Catwalk is (noun) 1. a long raised area down which models walk to show off clothes The model on the catwalk gave a twirl of her skirt. Fashion editors stared at the models on the catwalk. 2. an open metal structure for people to walk on, built along the outside of a ship or tall building He stepped confidently onto the catwalk.
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Roger Federer believes the uncharacteristic play of Novak Djokovic in the fourth round wasn't the product of 'bad luck' alone, but also the skills of French veteran Gilles Simon.
Djokovic punched his ticket to the quarterfinal round of the Australian Open but not before surviving a five-set duel with Simon. The match saw the Serb committing 100 unforced errors.
Federer didn't seem very surprised to learn Djokovic having a hard time fending off Simon, knowing the playing style of the Frenchman after years of battle with him on the ATP Tour.
"How many did Gilles Simon play? I'm just wondering, because I think people miss the point of him. He plays every match, like, that. He forces you to make mistakes. He makes you go for the lines and he runs down a lot of balls," Federer told reporters via Tennis World USA.
Federer, who dropped his first two encounters with Simon before winning the next six games, thinks Simon should also be credited for giving Djokovic a tough fourth-round match. He insists the 100 unforced errors committed by the world's top netter in the match weren't products of bad luck, but Simon's ability as well.
"The question is if you have 50, 100, at the end of the day it doesn't matter as long as you win. I just listen to people talking like he had a horrible day. Of course he can play better, but on the other side, you have somebody who has the fastest legs and who knows exactly what he's doing out there, and it worked almost to the very end. So it was very close for Novak, and he knows that."
Federer and Djokovic are one win away towards setting up a much anticipated Australian Open semifinals. Federer will face Tomas Berdych while Djokovic takes on Japanese star Kei Nishikori in the other quarters pairing.
Photo courtesy of AFP