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SANTA CLARA, Calif., AND CAMBRIDGE, UK - April 13, 2005 - Magma® Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq: LAVA), a provider of chip design solutions, and ARM [(LSE:ARM); (Nasdaq:ARMHY)], today announced the availability of a complete RTL-to-GDSII, low-power implementation solution for system-on-chip (SoC) designs. The solution uses Magma's Blast Power™ product to enable designers to create a single integrated implementation that provides significant power reduction when the SoC is in asynchronous mode, while maintaining optimal performance when operating synchronously.
This low-power extension to the existing ARM-Magma reference methodology utilizes Magma's Blast Power to implement a number of power reduction techniques. These include support for designs with multiple supply voltage domains, concurrent multi-VT optimization, power gating with MTCMOS, clock gating and multi-mode analysis and optimization. In addition, Blast Rail™ has been incorporated to provide static, dynamic and transient power and voltage drop analysis. The presence of multiple voltage islands in the design is handled automatically with physically aware level shifter and isolation cell insertion coupled with automatic power grid synthesis and voltage domain-based optimization.
This solution has been enabled with an ARM® Metro™ standard cell library and provides customers with the ability to rapidly implement low-power designs with minimal manual intervention, thereby significantly reducing time-to-market for power sensitive SoC designs.
"A complete, low- power implementation solution is critical to our customer's success," said Neal Carney, vice president of marketing, ARM Physical IP. "By enabling Magma to develop a comprehensive low-power solution with our IP products, we are together ensuring the success of our mutual customers by enabling the rapid implementation and deployment of advanced, energy efficient IP."
"Magma has been working with key customers for several years to develop a comprehensive low-power solution," said Premal Buch, general manager Magma's Design Implementation Business Unit. "Magma's integrated flow lends itself well to enabling the power versus timing versus area tradeoffs throughout the RTL-to-GDSII flow. We are seeing a clear momentum from our customers toward adopting this solution to help meet the needs of their low-power designs, especially at 90 nanometers and even more advanced processes."
"Magma is pro-active in developing a total solution ahead of designers' needs," said Michael Ma, vice president, Foundry and IP Relationships at Magma. "This implementation flow with the ARM Metro low-power library continues our drive to enable designers to tackle 90-nanometer and newer design challenges."
Blast Power, Blast Rail and the low-power design methodology are available from Magma.
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ARM designs the technology that lies at the heart of advanced digital products, from wireless, networking and consumer entertainment solutions to imaging, automotive, security and storage devices. ARM's comprehensive product offering includes 16/32-bit RISC microprocessors, data engines, 3D processors, digital libraries, embedded memories, peripherals, software and development tools, as well as analog functions and high-speed connectivity products. Combined with the company's broad Partner community, they provide a total system solution that offers a fast, reliable path to market for leading electronics companies. More information on ARM is available at http://www.arm.com/.
About Magma Design Automation
Magma provides leading software for designing highly complex integrated circuits while maximizing Quality of Results with respect to area, timing and power, and at the same time reducing overall design cycles and costs. Magma provides a complete RTL-to-GDSII design flow that includes design planning, prototyping, synthesis, place & route, and signal and power integrity chip design capabilities in a single executable, offering "The Fastest Path from RTL to Silicon"™. Magma's software also includes products for advanced physical synthesis and architecture development tools for programmable logic devices (PLDs); capacitance extraction; and characterization and modeling. The company's stock trades on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol LAVA. Visit Magma Design Automation on the Web at www.magma-da.com.
Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters set forth in this press release, including statements about the features and benefits of Magma's system and ARM's low power processor solutions, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially including, but not limited to, Magma's and ARM's decision to continue working together, abilities to keep pace with rapidly changing technology and each company's products abilities to produce desired results. Further discussion of these and other potential risk factors may be found in Magma's latest filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission on form 10-K, and any subsequent updates thereto on form 10-Q. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof. Magma disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
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It is not unusual for students to have to make adjustments coming into college. Most students have to make the transition from living with their parents to only a few hours away from home, but this is not the case with K-State field and track thrower Sara Savatovic.
The sophomore Serbian native came to K-State her freshman year and has seen great success in the past two years.
"It was a big decision," said Savatovic. "I just wanted to come to the United States and try something new because I had an opportunity here and there are much better conditions than my home country and we have amazing facilities here."
Savatovic holds the Serbian national record in the hammer throw and continues to challenge it as the season progresses.
"I just wanted to come here because it is very hard in my home country to go to school," said Savatovic. "You have to decide if you want to go professional or if you want to go to school and here it is amazing, so I just wanted to try and see."
The thrower has not only had to adjust to moving more than 5,000 miles away from her family, but also had to make adjustments to a new coach this season.
"He has really motivated me. He believes in me and that I can go far," said Savatovic on new coach Greg Watson.
"Being my first year, I know this an adjustment for them, but my philosophy in training and in throwing always has been that we throw a lot and we lift to supplement all the throwing that we do," said Watson. "Technically, I try and emphasize all the technical points that I feel is going to make them throw farther. I think that the more throwing that we do the farther they can go. I know it is an adjustment from what they were doing before, but I think they are good adjustments. We are having success already through the indoor season and we will be there for outdoor as well."
Savatovic has placed first in the weight throw in every meet except the Iowa State Classic, in which she placed third throwing 19.83m (65-00.75). She also won the Big 12 Championship with a mark of 19.29m (63-03.50), but her best throw this indoor season was at the Bill Bergan Invitational with a mark of 20.59 m (67-6.75).
"It is good, because I am not a weight thrower, I am more concentrated on the hammer," said Savatovic.
"It was a big surprise. In the beginning, I did not even think about winning the Big 12 because I just wanted to throw as far as I can. As the season was moving, I was expecting more and more of myself, so I got prepared. I think it was more of a mental battle."
Watson has also been impressed with Savatovic's progress in the weight throw.
"We have emphasized a lot of technical points with her now that were not necessarily different than what she has been told before, but I think that I might be pickier than maybe what she is used to," said Watson. "She has made good progress and we saw the results with the weight. She had not thrown until she got to K-State last year and we knew that her progression would be quick in that."
Savatovic has shown great improvement just from her freshman year to her sophomore year. While there is always room for improvement, this field thrower has already seen so many great accomplishments with high hopes for future seasons.
"She is now at a level in the hammer too where we have to be picky with the technique because certain little things are going to make big adjustments," said Watson. "The training at this point cannot just carry us through. We have to have the training and the technique has got to be right also. We are always trying to emphasize those things her in technique that may be flaws right now but we can turn into her strengths."

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I want to capture you, Chloe, less than a week into your ninth year, because I know soon the next phase will blow in, pushing this one to the far corners of my mom brain. Here's who you are right now.
What people notice first is that you are tall – the tallest kid in your grade – regularly mistaken as a fourth or fifth grader. You are the picture of how every basketball player or supermodel describes themselves a kid: gangly, some parts of you playing catch-up with others, experimenting with odd style decisions. You seem to like your height, and I hope you always will, never slouching or being embarrassed of towering above others like I was.
You have a spray of freckles over your nose that just totally slays me. Please never ever cover them with make-up.
Your father and I sometimes joke that you are 8 going on 18 when you're in the midst of a mood swing, but it's not really true. You are still so wonderfully innocent, with just the teeniest cracks of tween peeking through. You dance to Justin Beiber songs, but are totally weirded out by his screaming fans, and would never want people to think you like him. You're much more interested in female voices and the women behind them, like Pink, Katy Perry and Taylor Swift. Instead of One Direction magazine spreads, you've got torn-out pictures of horses taped up in your bedroom. Boys are gross, kissing even grosser.
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The one boy who isn't gross is Daddy. You still like him to pick you up for a hug, and you wrap your legs around him and bury your face in his shoulder. It's so tender I almost have to look away.
You're more like him every day. You've inherited his thirst for squeezing every last drop out of every experience. You always want to do one more run down the ski hill, no matter how cold it is. When you go to a baseball game, you gotta stay until the end. When you're old enough, I have a feeling you'll be closing out bars. I'm glad your dad has a buddy to do that stuff with now so I can just go home and get in bed with my book. You've also picked up his low-drama, sure-footed way of moving through life. I watched in amazement as you started in a new school in a new city in a new country last fall without batting an eyelash. You take so many new experiences in stride that I figure we must be doing something right.
I'm sorry to say from me you've gotten a tendency to occasionally catastrophize. The other day, you threw your hairbrush on the floor, and cried that your hair was ruining your life. I wanted to smirk and tell you were being ridiculous…but then I remembered the low-grade funk I've been in all week because I need a cut and color. Sorry about that one, Sweetie.
The irony is that your hair is usually an in-your-face mess, and your outfit a hot mess. To you, a hockey jersey is dressing up. Nothing really matches. You wear leggings and sneakers almost every day, like you want to be ready in case a track meet breaks out. Despite the hair drama, you don't seem particularly obsessed with looking girly. I love that, and yet sometimes I wish you'd just let me style you into one of the untouched dresses in your closet. But I guess true style is not being afraid to like what you like, even if what you like is wearing two different colored socks.
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Your free time is spent pogo-ing, riding your bike, doing handstands off every available surface, and creating new dance moves. You are pretty much Michelle Obama's dream. You've made friends who like this stuff too, plus art projects and American Girl dolls. You have the most wholesome playdates ever.
You're a great sleeper, eater and traveler. You're so easy in so many ways that it always shocks me how much I need to nag you to get just stuff done already. I can't tell you how many times it's been time to leave for school, and you're puttering around with no shoes or socks on, remnants of breakfast dirtying your face, homework splayed across the coffee table instead of in your backpack. I keep drilling it into you: do the stuff you need to do, so you can do the stuff you want to do. We've tried chore charts and docking your allowance and letting natural consequences happen. They work for a day or two, and then I'm back to asking you three times before you comply. I'm not sure if you're stubborn or really just can't remember well. I know kids your age can be spacey, but I don't know if it's normal to be this spacey. After all, I've never had an 8-year-old before.
We're going to keep an eye on it. In the mean time, your father and I are putting our heads together on Operation Own Your Sh*t, so get ready.
Honey, I love the person you're becoming. When I saw photos of Martin Richard, also age 8, with the same skinny limbs and crooked teeth as you, I just could not imagine the black hole of a person that could see that potential and set the backpack down anyway. Eight is the age of promise, with reading, maturity and growing independence just opening up new worlds.
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The Who, Roger Waters, Billy Joel and Alicia Keys have also signed up for the December 12 event, which its producers said is shaping up to be a showcase of rock royalty.
"The response from the entertainment community to help those most affected by Hurricane Sandy has been nothing short of astounding," the Madison Square Garden Company, Clear Channel Media and Entertainment and The Weinstein Company said in a joint statement.
"We expect to announce additional legendary performers in the near future and we are confident that the event will ensure those in need will not be forgotten, and vital aid will be directed to rebuilding our communities along the East Coast."
More than 130 people were killed when the superstorm pummeled the east coast of the United States late last month. Thousands more were left homeless as the storm tore through areas of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, causing an estimated $50 billion in damage.
Donations raised from the one-night event concert will go to the Robin Hood Relief Fund, which will provide money and materials to groups helping people hardest hit by the storm.
The organizers of the concert also produced the 9/11 benefit "The Concert for New York City" in 2001, which raised more than $30 million.
A concert and telethon on NBC earlier this month raised almost $23 million for people affected by the storm.
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Raised in San Francisco, Sigal worked in the family commercial real estate business after completing master's degrees in art history (University of Chicago) and in business (Northwestern University). From 1975 to 1977, she lived in Portland, where she held an internship and later worked in education and public relations at the Portland Art Museum.
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Don't forget to attend the Jamestown Community Chorus' spring concert Saturday night at 7:30 and Sunday afternoon at 3 at the Central Baptist Church. Tickets are $10 and $7 for seniors and children. They can be obtained at the Secret Garden, Jamestown Hardware, Baker's Pharmacy or at the door.
Set design and lighting are too often taken for granted, but are the basis for the success of any theatrical production. In charge of both those essential ingredients in the upcoming Jamestown Community Theatre's presentation of "Little Women" is A.O. Gutierrez. We asked him his thoughts on his end of the play. Here's what he said:
"I was brought into the current production as lighting designer based on my having done the last two shows, "Into the Woods" and "Song Man, Dance Man." My training at the undergraduate and graduate levels was primarily in set design and stagecraft with the required forays into lights, costuming and the odd acting assignment. I was asked to sit in on a design meeting with the JCT's Dan and Jane Wright with the result that the current design has become a team effort. Dan was very gracious about altering his initial design to accommodate some of my observations. Jane has taken the role of set dresser, piecing together furniture, props and drapery with an artist's eye for shape and color.
"My big mouth and background in stagecraft have landed me in a lead position in the construction of the scenic elements. The minimalist design requires a number of free hanging windows to give shape to the interior of the March's house which is fleshed out by the set dressing. One primary element is a raised loft, stage left that will play as the character Jo's garret where she writes her stories.
"If the lighting does what it's supposed to, the set will provide the grounding to give the audience a sense of time and place without intruding upon or overpowering the story the actors are playing out.
"The design phase is done and we are coming down to crunch time for execution. We have a few people committed to help out so far but could use a few more. My e-mail is email@example.com if anyone would like to volunteer.
"Just a short note on how I view these things. I feel that the technical elements should be approached with the same commitment and dedication to craft which the cast bring to their roles. The only elements that are seen throughout the entire play are the sets and lights. The sets, props, costumes and lights are actors in the finished production in the same way as individual cast members. They can heighten the audience's acceptance and enjoyment of the play or they can interfere with the necessary suspension of disbelief. Like the cast, it is necessary that we do our best to produce an artistically unified end product."
Thanks Tony.
Kudos to islanders David Howe and Kevin Barry who participated in and finished the 113th Annual Boston Marathon.
*** R.I.P. Fred Clarke.
Considering the deplorable condition of our local roads, shouldn't they get priority over a bike path?
*** Pam Lis and Robyn Borges both had the answer to last week's poser from J.C. Pease. It is "Jessie's Girl" by Rick Springfield.
No takers on the location of Ivy's Restaurant. Here's a clue: it originally was called Frances' Diner.
Our many thanks to Scott Sherman of Jamestown Hardware who literally bailed us out of a wet situation Sunday afternoon on his own time.
Ken Lombardo, Paula Noll, Marlene Murphy and John Wright all responded that Gene Barry was Amos Burke in "Burke's Law." Amos was a rich detective who drove around in a Rolls Royce. Marlene and John both recalled that Gene Barry went on to portray Bat Masterson in another TV series.
So, who is John Wright? He wrote, "I was born and raised in Jamestown and joined the USAF in 1950 and enjoyed a career serving the greatest country in the world. Coley Tefft was one great guy. He served me one of my first beers. I remember him telling a bunch of new sailors that he squeezed more water out of his bar rag on a daily basis than they would ever see. He didn't take any lip from anyone. I also grew up with his daughters Jackie and JoAnn. Another of my favorite haunts was the Narragansett Cafe. Scottie Santos was the owner and Hiram Beers was the day bartender. Hiram loved to share WWI stories over shots of Teachers Scotch. A lot of fine people have passed over the bar in good ole Jamestown. There are still some folks there that might remember me and I them. I plan on coming to Jamestown in late August to attend my 60th high school reunion from Rogers High School. I really enjoy the internet version of the Jamestown Press. I'm a retired USAF CMSgt(E-9), former clam digger and Jamestowner and now a converted Buckeye."
Thanks, John.
If I had a nickel, I know what I would do.............
Larry Lewis asks who was the local personality who sang these lyrics:
When I first met Midge,
Down on the Jamestown Bridge,
In old Narragansett Bay,
She stole my heart away,
'Twas on a bright and summer's day.
We went canoeing,
And we did some wooing,
As we watched the gulls at play,
'Twas on that Jamestown strand,
That I won her hand.
Down in Narragansett, Oh you loving "Gansett, Down in Narragansett Bay." Thanks Larry.
Next Wednesday is No Homework Day.
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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Playing the piano at age 5 certainly wasn't Vadym Kholodenko's idea, but after his mother took him to a music school, he quickly grew to love it while growing up in Kiev, Ukraine.
"She thought I had potential in music, but she never pushed me, which is very important in childhood," said Kholodenko, 26, who now attends the Moscow P.I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where he also is an assistant teacher.
On Sunday, Kholodenko won the 14th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, which is among the top showcases for the world's best pianists.
Beatrice Rana, 20, of Italy, placed second and also won the audience award, and Sean Chen, 24, of Oak Park, Calif., placed third. The other three finalists were Fei-Fei Dong, 22, of China; Nikita Mndoyants, 24, of Russia; and Tomoki Sakata, 19, of Japan.
The winner receives $50,000, a live recording of his or her competition performances, a studio recording and performance attire. The second- and third-prize winners both receive $20,000 and a live recording of their competition performances. The other three each receive $10,000, and all six finalists receive three years of concert management.
The competition held every four years started May 24 with 30 competitors. Some Fort Worth teachers and residents who wanted to honor Cliburn created the contest in 1962, four years after he won the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. His 1958 victory helped thaw the icy rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union, and Cliburn gained worldwide fame and rock-star status.
Cliburn died in February at age 78 at his Fort Worth home after battling bone cancer. He was never a judge in the competition bearing his name but presented awards to winners.
"This competition continues to be what Van wanted: support to young, excellent artists who want to share their art with wider audiences," said Cliburn's president and chief executive Jacques Marquis. "They bring to the classical world a new voice."
People around the world watched performances online, and fans raved on social media about their favorite competitors. During the entire contest, the Cliburn's webcast had about half a million page views, more than twice the amount in the previous competition, in 2009, according to competition officials.
Kholodenko said he was glad his mother in Kiev could watch all of his performances online and his pianist wife could watch as she remained in Moscow with their toddler daughter.
"She tried not to criticize too much because she understood the pressure," he told The Associated Press after winning Sunday night, referring to his wife. "She was supportive, like all of my family and friends. ... Before the Mozart (performance Sunday) I had to turn my phone off because I was getting so many calls and texts."
Kholodenko, who had wowed the audience Sunday with his last performance, Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, also won Cliburn awards for best performances of a new work and chamber music. Before entering the Cliburn, he won the International Schubert Competition in Dortmund, Germany, in 2012 and the Sendai International Music Competition in 2010.
Rana also won the Cliburn's audience award, voted on by visitors to the contest website. Rana, who started playing the piano at age 4, graduated from the Nino Rota Conservatory of Music and now studies at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover. Last year she released her first CD of works by Scriabin and Chopin. She won the 2011 Montreal International Musical Competition, the Muzio Clementi and Bang & Olufsen piano competitions. She has performed with several orchestras and performed solo recitals.
Chen, the competition's first U.S. finalist since the 1997 contest, earned two degrees from The Juilliard School after turning down offers to attend Harvard and MIT. He won second place at the 2011 Seoul International Music Competition and has won awards at various competitions.
Chen, who now studies at the Yale School of Music, said he thinks social media and education will help keep younger audiences interested in classical music.
"A lot of my friends who were not in music watched the Cliburn ... and it's because they had me as a friend and I exposed them to it," Chen said. "People don't hate classical music; they're never introduced to it. So education and encouraging the study of it" will help.
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I never know which direction this weekly adventure known as the iPod Devotional will take me. The usual procedure is to grab dog friend Hannah, set the trusty iPod to shuffle and head out for a morning walk. I just walk until a song hits my heart or sense of humor. Today was both. The song that popped up is meaningful but recent context made me smile.
My pastor at Waterbrook Bible Fellowship in Wylie, Texas decided to preach a four week series from 1st Corinthians, chapter seven. For reasons unknown Pastor Jeff Denton chose this on purpose. The text deals with sex in marriage, the sin of sex outside the marriage and the always fun topic of divorce. So when Andrew Peterson's song "Dancing in the Minefields" cued up on the iPod today I thought of Pastor Jeff and chuckled. He has truly been dancing in cultural and relational minefields by addressing these difficult verses unflinchingly. His messages have been full of truth and grace. Both are needed in full measure to address such loaded topics. Have I mentioned he chose this series on purpose? But seriously, if the church cannot honestly and gracefully address these topics then our faith is limited in its relevance. I can assure you that Scripture does not shy away from tough topics. We are the squeamish ones that prefer Biblical texts that don't meddle in our actual lives.
A good marriage is hard work. A great marriage is the hardest of all because it requires the equally selfless devotion of both parties. Peterson's lyrics are powerful.
"I do" are the two most famous last words
The beginning of the end
But to lose your life for another I've heard
Is a good place to begin
'Cause the only way to find your life
Is to lay your own life down
And I believe it's an easy price
For the life that we have found
Laying down your life for another does not dovetail very well with a culture that screams that we "deserve" to be fulfilled and have a "right" to personal satisfaction and happiness. The cruel irony is that fulfillment, satisfaction and happiness are ultimately found in sacrifice, serving and giving. Andrew Peterson poetically captures the difficulty of this journey.
And we're dancing in the minefields
We're sailing in the storm
This is harder than we dreamed
But I believe that's what the promise is for
One of the points that Pastor Jeff made during his most recent message continues to rattle in my heart and mind. He has counseled hundreds of couples over his years of ministry. One of his observations convicted me not only in my marriage but in all of my relationships. Jeff noted that "it is never productive to be critical of your spouse". I think most of us would agree that is true. But it is so easy when you spend so much time together to become critical of differences and idiosyncrasies that your mate possesses. The danger is mortal. Being critical of your spouse creates an opening for Satan that he will rarely pass up a chance to roar through.
It is not just marriage that criticism destroys. I can also do incredible damage in my community of believers by being critical. This has been a struggle for me because being critical comes quite easily to this wounded sojourner.
Grace is changing me. Slowly. Emphasis on slowly. I am learning to look at others through lenses of grace. To quote my friends from the book "The Cure" I am beginning to see my community of believers not as "sinners trying to become saints by more right behavior but saints who still sometimes sin". It is an important distinction. We are all saints who are righteous because of Christ alone. We still sin. We need grace. All of us. So when my brother sins grace compels me to run toward him and not away. Grace does not allow me to condemn and judge. He needs grace to be restored as I will need that same grace soon. Likely very soon.
Paul wrote to the Church at Corinth about hardships and the message he received from the Lord.
"My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness." (2 Corinthians 12, NLT)
I have come to know some of my fellow believers well enough to see what lies behind the Sunday morning mask. I see that they are insecure, needy, selfish and unpredictable. They are just like me. Jesus told the story of a father who runs to embrace his child who has made terrible mistakes. He doesn't wait for them to crawl back and grovel. At the first turn of repentance he sprints to them and throws a party. That is grace. That is what a critical spirit destroys. Paul wrote this in the Epistle to the Colossians about having a spirit of love based on understanding the Good News.
For we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and your love for all of God's people, which come from your confident hope of what God has reserved for you in heaven. You have had this expectation ever since you first heard the truth of the Good News. This same Good News that came to you is going out all over the world. It is bearing fruit everywhere by changing lives, just as it changed your lives from the day you first heard and understood the truth about God's wonderful grace. (Colossians 1, NLT)
So I will dance in minefields of relationship with my bride, my family and my community. It is a dangerous place at times. And there is no place I would rather be.


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February 28. 2013 1:33AM
Politico: Bob Woodward in war of words with White House
By MIKE ALLEN and JIM VANDEHEI
Link to Politico's interview with Bob Woodward
Bob Woodward called a senior White House official last week to tell him that in a piece in that weekend's Washington Post, he was going to question President Barack Obama's account of how sequestration came about - and got a major-league brushback. The Obama aide "yelled at me for about a half hour," Woodward told us in an hour-long interview yesterday around the Georgetown dining room table where so many generations of Washington's powerful have spilled their secrets.
Digging into one of his famous folders, Woodward said the tirade was followed by a page-long email from the aide, one of the four or five administration officials most closely involved in the fiscal negotiations with the Hill. "I apologize for raising my voice in our conversation today," the official typed. "You're focusing on a few specific trees that give a very wrong impression of the forest. But perhaps we will just not see eye to eye here. … I think you will regret staking out that claim."
Woodward repeated the last sentence, making clear he saw it as a veiled threat. " 'You'll regret.' Come on," he said. "I think if Obama himself saw the way they're dealing with some of this, he would say, 'Whoa, we don't tell any reporter 'you're going to regret challenging us.' "
"They have to be willing to live in the world where they're challenged," Woodward continued in his calm, instantly recognizable voice. "I've tangled with lots of these people. But suppose there's a young reporter who's only had a couple of years — or 10 years' — experience and the White House is sending him an email saying, 'You're going to regret this.' You know, tremble, tremble. I don't think it's the way to operate."
A White House official said: "Of course no threat was intended. As Mr. Woodward noted, the email from the aide was sent to apologize for voices being raised in their previous conversation. The note suggested that Mr. Woodward would regret the observation."
Woodward — first in "The Price of Politics," his bestseller on the failed quest for a grand budget bargain, and later with his opinion piece in The Post — makes plain that sequestration was an idea crafted by the White House. Obama personally approved the plan and later signed it into law. Woodward was right, several congressional officials involved in the talks told us.
And that contention has made Woodward, once Public Enemy Number One to a generation of Republicans, the unlikely darling of the right wing. Conservatives suddenly swoon over him, with his stepped-up appearances on Fox News and starring role in GOP press releases. And while White House officials are certainly within their rights to yell at any journalist, including Bob Woodward, this very public battle with a Washington legend has become a major distraction at a pivotal moment for the president.
The feud also feeds a larger narrative because, like many others, Woodward thinks this is a very thin-skinned White House that does not like being challenged on the facts. He said that explains the senior aide's in-your-face email. "I think when they get their rear end in a crack here, they become defensive," he said. "This could be a huge issue if the economy takes a hit. And people are going to go back and say exactly what happened and who did it and so forth."
The Woodward reporting has caused the White House spin machine to sputter at a crucial time. The president was running around the country, campaign-style, warning that Republicans were at fault for the massive cuts set to hit Friday. What Obama never says: it was his own staff that proposed sequestration, and the tax hikes he now proposes – aimed at replacing half of the cuts — were never part of that very specific plan.
The White House instead has, with great success, fudged the facts. The administration has convinced a majority of the country that Republicans are more to blame by emphasizing that Republicans voted for the plan. Which they did — after Obama conceived it.
The truth is that Obama and Republicans supported it because everyone believed it was a such a stupid idea that the grown-ups in Washington would never actually let it happen. They thought Obama and Congress would come up with a grand bargain on spending, entitlement cuts and tax increases, instead of allowing the sequestration ax to fall. They were wrong.
So the blame game is full swing – and Woodward is smack in the middle of it. The Obama White House is out to discredit him. Behind the scenes, Obama allies are spreading word that the Woodward book broadly — and his reporting on sequestration specifically — are misleading because Republicans, especially House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia, were so clearly among the chief sources.
It is no secret on Capitol Hill that Cantor and his staff cooperated extensively with Woodward. It is fairly obvious as you breeze through the opening chapters of the book. But we have talked with many Democrats and Republicans who cooperated with the book. And all of them say that while they might dispute some of the broader analytical points Woodward makes, the play-by-play is basically spot on.
Watching and now having interviewed Woodward, it is easy to see why White House officials get worked about him. He clearly is skeptical of Obama's approach to the job. "I'm not sure he fully understands the power he has," Woodward said. "He sees that the power is the public megaphone going around to these campaign-like events, which is real, but the audience he needs to deal with is on this issue of the sequester and these budget issues is John Boehner and Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi."
Woodward also said that based on his reporting for the book, Obama deserves more of the blame for scuttling the grand bargain of 2011 that would have put sequestration to rest long ago. "He changed the deal and it blew up," Woodward said. "I mean, you look at the facts, and even by the White House accounts by his aides, he was making a last-minute change."
Woodward thinks there is still a grand bargain to be had between Obama and Boehner, with tax reform as a huge component. "Sit down and work through this," he said. "I can see exactly how you come up with a deal that would dispose of lots of things." Woodward, who helped bring down one presidency and has written instant history on every one since, added: "Color me a little baffled. I don't understand this White House. Do you?"


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Samardzija talks about turnaround with Cubs
If Jeff Samardzija winds up starting for the Cubs on Opening Day, no one will savor the irony more than Samardzija himself.
"That would be a 180, for sure, right?" he said when I asked about that possibility at last month's Cubs convention. "To go from maybe wondering if you're going to put a Cubs jersey on two years ago to maybe being the opening-day starter, it means a lot to me.
Samardzija's splitsRight-hander Jeff Samardzija had a 9-13 record, an ERA of 3.81 and a WHIP of 1.22 last year in his first full season as a major-league starting pitcher. Here is how his splits looked month by month:
April 2-1, 4.13 ERA, 1.42 WHIP
May 3-2, 2.48 ERA, 1.05 WHIP
June 0-4, 10.41 ERA, 2.06 WHIP
July 2-1, 1.91 ERA, 1.03 WHIP
August 1-4, 3.52 ERA, 1.10 WHIP
September 1-1, 1.69 ERA, 0.81 WHIP
"I'm not a selfish guy, not when I'm out there. But I have goals. I have things that I want to shoot for, things that are important to me when it comes to that. Obviously, the team comes first. If we're a better team if I pitch second or third behind a lefty or whatever, then so be it. That's the way it goes. But it doesn't mean you don't have it in the back of your mind that you want to strive for something like that."
To say that the 28-year-old Samardzija has come full circle in his Cubs career would make anybody dizzy because there have been too many circles to count.
To wit:
• Samardzija was a surprise fifth-round pick in 2006 out of Notre Dame, where he was known more for his skills catching the ball as a football wide receiver than he was throwing it as a pitcher in baseball.
• Former Cubs general manager Jim Hendry signed him to a multiyear major-league deal to keep him away from pro football.
• Samardzija bounced between starter and reliever, major leagues and minor leagues, before finally putting in a full big-league season in 2011.
• New management took over and didn't tender Samardzija a contract last off-season before re-signing him to a lesser deal.
• Samardzija then went out and went 9-13 with a 3.81 ERA and a WHIP of 1.22 before being shut down after his final start of the season because the Cubs were worried about his innings pitched during his first full year as a major-league starter.
Naturally, there was no prying the ball from Samardzija's right hand on Sept. 8 at Pittsburgh, where he tossed the team's only complete game of the season in a 4-3 Cubs victory.
Samardzija's season ended with him having pitched 174 innings. Although Samardzija played the good soldier, he'd rather have been out there pitching to finish the season.
"I want to pitch, period," he said "But again, I don't make those decisions. We answer those questions in the future, at the end of this year, at the end of the year after that. If I'm strong and healthy and ready to go, then obviously, it's going to be a great decision.
"I don't ever think when you're healthy and not playing that it's a good decision. I don't care what sport it is, anywhere you're at. You only get so many opportunities to play the sport you're playing. You need to take advantage of every chance you get. But I do understand why they did it and the reasoning for it. Because I'm a reasonable man, I understand that that's OK."
As spring training gets under way, Samardzija has a roster spot assured, as opposed to every year in the past, when he had to fight for a job.
Now a veteran, Samardzija says he knows he'll be looked at to lead, both on and off the field. But with a nod toward his recent past, he says there's no pressure in that.
"I tell you what, it's not going to be any more pressure than having to have 12 clean innings in spring training to make the team," he said. "What I went through last year and the year before that essentially kind of hardened me, just taught me to learn to deal with myself and getting myself ready to play and the team ready, too.
"The older you get, the more veteran of a role you have, it's part of it. It's an important part for me, going out there every fifth day and making sure this team gets off to a hot start. If it doesn't work out, I'll be the first one to tell you it's my fault."
As for the future, Samardzija says he'd like to remain a Cub. Free agency won't come until after three more seasons, and Samardzija told reporters Tuesday in Mesa, Ariz., that another long-term contract can wait.
"We were talking, and we both have the same interests in mind," he said. "We both want me to be here, and we want to be a part of this team for a long time. When we feel we're on the same page with that, then we'll get it done. That was off-season talk, that's what happened at the end of the year.
"I still haven't proven myself to where I want to be as a player. I was happy with last year, but I don't want to stay there. I want to improve and get better. I think the more I show them that, the more comfortable they'll be with getting a deal done. (Talks) are not even close to the front of the burner right now. It's so far on the back, it's history, to tell you the truth."


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A divide exists between Chinese literature and movies written, produced, read or viewed in the West, and those written and produced in mainlaind China. Witness the controversy surrounding the publication of Ha Jin's Waiting and the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Gao Xingjian (author of Soul Mountain and One Man's Bible)–works produced by Chinese expatriates living in America and France. Or note the Chinese objection to the banning of Zhang Yimou's films in China and their popularity in America. Mainland Chinese critics and readers often accuse expatriate artists of pandering to Western values and politics or "orientalizing" images of China.
This divide with a new twist is revealed again in a sensational libel case against Hong Ying's new novel, K: The Art of Love, which has played itself out in mainland Chinese courts over the past year. Hong Ying, an expatriate author now living in England, fled China after the Tiananmen violence of 1989, a turning point in Chinese political and cultural life. She is just the kind of writer America and England love to love and China loves to hate. She has had what the Chinese call "the curse" of an interesting life, beginning with her early years of poverty in Chongquing, a depressing river town as revealed in her moving autobiography, Daughter of the River.
Hong Ying appeared in the Changchun, Manchuria, court (where the periodical Writer is published) last fall to face allegations that her novel K slandered the reputation of Ling Shuhua (1900-90) and Chen Yuan, well-known intellectuals and writers in the Republican period. Chen Xiaoying, the daughter of the couple, also living in London, objected to fictionalized pornographic descriptions of her mother engaged in Daoist sex rituals with Julian Bell. In listserv discussions, Hong Ying has denied the charge, asserting that Lin (thus fictionalizing Ling) is a composite character. She contends that all she wanted to express in the novel is that "Woman is not by nature passive in sex."
Some of the book's best-written passages, if we can judge from translation, are Hong Ying's sensuous descriptions, her articulation of desire in that Chinese bed now spinning in international fictional space. If there is a dominant, surrealist image in Hong Ying's book, it is this bed, "a bed that seemed to have expanded to fill the universe, to be actually moving in space." It is what happens out of bed, or in the minds and cultures of the protagonists, that remains, unfortunately, opaque in her novel. If fiction's focus is this development of the inner life of characters (as opposed to history and biography, which describe another reality), it is here where this novel fails.
Erotic pop fiction like Hong Ying's finds a market both in China (mainland and Taiwan) and abroad. In 2001 Wei Hui's Shanghai Baby was banned in China, and 40,000 copies were burned because of its eroticism. In fact, a "banned in China" blurb is often the best advertisement for sales in the United States. Predictable polarities are set up in Wei Hui's novel as in Hong Ying's: East-West lovers; love versus desire; impotent-potent. Both novels tout sensationalized sex with Western men as female liberation. In Wei Hui's novel, Coco (after Chanel) is involved with Tian Tian, her impotent artist soulmate, but passionately drawn to Mark, a sexy, married German businessman. It became an international bestseller when the rights were sold in nineteen countries. Japan alone printed 200,000 copies. Similarly, K had large sales when it was first published in Chinese in Taiwan in 1999; when parts of it were serialized in the mainland periodical Writer and a digest in Sichuan Youth Daily; when Dutch and Swedish editions appeared in 2000; and when it was published in the United States in 2002.


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Editors: Asir S. Vedamuthu, webMethods and Mary Holstege, Mark Logic Corporation
This is the official Last Call issues list for XML Schema Component Designators.
This document contains a list of issues regarding the XML Schema: Component Designators working draft. All comments or issues regarding the specification or this document must be reported to firstname.lastname@example.com (public archives).
An XML version of this issues' list is also available.
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|lc-1 : rfc2396bis
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|lc-2 : simple barenames for schema component designators
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|lc-3 : QA review of XML Schema: Component Designators
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the  update to RFC2396 Now that RFC 3986 has been published, please remember to update this to RFC3986 at the next revision. You might also consider whether the IRI to URI conversion described in section 3.1 of RFC 3987, which replaces the copy-and-past versions found in assorted W3C specifications including the Schema definition of anyURI, should also be referenced. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3987.txt
ACTION 20050429-03: Editors to start drafting responses to comments and updating SCD draft as appropriate, bringing substantive issues to WG as necessary.
Editors to start drafting responses to comments and updating SCD draft as appropriate, bringing substantive issues to WG as necessary.
Please allow barename fragments to be used as schema component designator right hand sides. For example #over17 in http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/NOTE-daml+oil-walkthru-20011218/daml+oil-ex-dt#over17 If they're already allowed, please make it more clear that they are; my reading of 3.1 Schema Component Designator Syntax http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xmlschema-ref-20050329/ is that they're not. We discussed this in March 2004... [[ DC: Most pressing use case is pointing at user-defined datatypes. First design that occurs to me is #sku. Why not? MSM: Multiple top-level symbol spaces. #sku could be type, element, attribute, notation, attribute groups, named model groups... DC: OK, so don't do #sku to do that. Advise users to not have two top-level things named the same. ... ]] http://www.w3.org/2004/03/02-tag-summary.html#abstractComponentRefs-37 There seems to be little or no acknowledgement of the case case of user-defined datatypes in OWL. The only thing I see is: "RDF assertions about types, etc". Please cite this section of the OWL recommendation among your requiremenets... "Because there is no standard way to go from a URI reference to an XML Schema datatype in an XML Schema, there is no standard way to use user-defined XML Schema datatypes in OWL." -- http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-owl-semantics-20040210/syntax.html#2.1 And acknowledge this example from the DAML+OIL submission among your use cases: <xsd:simpleType name="over17">   <xsd:restriction base="xsd:positiveInteger"> <xsd:minInclusive value="18"/> </xsd:restriction> </xsd:simpleType> <daml:Class rdf:ID="Adult"> <daml:intersectionOf rdf:parseType="daml:collection"> <daml:Class rdf:about="#Person"/> <daml:Restriction> <daml:onProperty rdf:resource="#age"/> <daml:hasClass rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/NOTE-daml+oil-walkthru-20011218/daml+oil-ex-dt#over17"/ > </daml:Restriction> </daml:intersectionOf> </daml:Class> -- http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/NOTE-daml+oil-walkthru-20011218/#9 I still can't see why the design chosen in DAML+OIL shouldn't be standardized in the XML Schema Component designators spec, so as I say, please change the design too.
MH to draft note to DC to get clarification of requirement wrt barenames.
Whatever LHS we use, a problem arises -- namespace->as above, schema->identity pblms ... So we should draw up a by-cases analyses of how it doesn't work in each case. ACTION: MH to draft such an analysis
ACTION: MH to ask DanC if he thinks #foo:baz is a cool barename fragment
It's partly based on the QA specification guidelines [1]. A) Section 3.1 EBNF notation of the Schema Component Designator Syntax directly links the definition of URI to RFC 2396 [2]; I think this is problematic for various reasons: * RFC 2396 has been obsoleted by RFC 3986 * I think given past experiences with URIs, giving more details as to what exact type of URI is allowed would be good; I guess what is really meant is the "absoluteURI" construction, but I'm not really sure. B) section 3.2 links to RFC2396bis, which is now RFC 3986 C) section 4.1 reads "This is because we cannot distinguish between individual annotations". I think the "we" is misplaced here. D) The definitions of the designators (absolute, canonical, relative) should use the verb "identify", since that's what URIs do; e.g. absolute schema component designator An absolute schema component designator identifies a particular component of a given assembled schema; it consists of two parts: a designator for the assembled schema (a schema designator), and a designator for a particular schema component or schema components relative (a relative schema component designator) to that assembled schema. E) The conformance section has a subsection entitled "Schema Component Designator Conformance", while it in fact defines conformance for Schema Component Designator processor. Also, it mentions the "behavior defined in this specification", while no behavior has been defined. I suggest instead: "must identify the schema component as defined in this specification" (see also XPointer terminology [3]) Maybe defining conformance for the designator itself is a good idea too; but it isn't done in the spec as of today. F) The references section doesn't follow the guidelines from the Manual of Style [4], nor are the labels defined in the references section used anywhere in the prose. G) XSCD obviously re-uses the XPath syntax spirit; could some of the definitions re-use (at least partially) their XPath counterpart (e.g. for step, axis)? H) Are there been any attempt at validating the EBNF proposed in the text to ensure it is correct? e.g. to validate the examples of XSCD given in the document I) one of the requirements state "it should be possible to designate any schema component within a schema. However, some exceptions will be made for certain of the helper components."; I haven't seen (but maybe have I missed it) an assessment of what exceptions have been made; also, I'm interested to know whether the fact that the requirement has been met has been formally proved. (not that I doubt it does, but since going to Last Call means having met the initial requirements, I'm curious to know whether this has been proved or only believed to be true) J) SpecGL suggests having the following information as part of your conformance clause: * what type of wording is used for conformance requirements, and how to distinguish them from the rest of the text; I have to say I can't really tell what the conformance requirements are in the current text, so you may want to consider making it clearer * are any of these conformance requirements optional? I don't think so, but you may want to clarify that as well * is the proposed syntax extensible (e.g. using new axis names)? Again, I don't think it is, but clarifying it may be helpful Dom 1. http://www.w3.org/TR/qaframe-spec/ 2. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt 3. http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-xptr-framework-20030325/#terminology 4. http://www.w3.org/2001/06/manual/#References
ACTION 20050429-03: Editors to start drafting responses to comments and updating SCD draft as appropriate, bringing substantive issues to WG as necessary.
Editors to start drafting responses to comments and updating SCD draft as appropriate, bringing substantive issues to WG as necessary.
Comments on XSCD http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xmlschema-ref-20050329/ Hi A fine document. I was asked by the Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment WG to review your document. Unfortunately I was tardy in my review, and the WG has not had time to consider my comments (only a few of which are specific to SWBPD WG concerns, particularly: #j100, #j062, #j020, #j110 below). Thus these remain personal comments, and not WG consensus comments. I would suggest that if it becomes important as to whether any specific comment has SWBPD WG consensus that the XML Schema WG could ask directly. As a participant in the I18N IG, I have also drawn the attention of I18N Core WG to comment #j050. As well as the comments below, I also have a question, which I hope for a quick answer to, since I may make further comments in response: The question is: Some of the examples show the use of a namespace prefix in a component designator, others omit the namespace prefix. Please summarize when the namespace prefix is necessary, and when it can be omitted. (Related comment #j090) My comments are: (numbered for convenience, non-consecutively) #j010 Section 1, final number list, points 3, 4 and 5. I found these slightly opaque, which is unsurprising. I wondered if it would help to appropriately hyperlink into other documents, for example, XML Schema 1; for example with terms, "locally scoped element", "anonymous type definitions", "redefinitions". #j020 Section 2.2 Other, 3rd Bullet Suggest expand "RDF assertions about types, etc." to two bullets e.g. [[ + Using XML Schema simple types as the datatype of RDF Literals + Describing XML Schema Components within RDF, including the use of XML Schema simple types as RDF classes ]] #j030 Section 3, eighth para, "a missing component cannot be used .." suggest hyperlinking "missing component" to somewhere else (maybe XML Schema 1) allowing the interested but ignorant reader (such as myself) to better understand this issue. #j040 Section 3, final para before 3.1 "It must not be used .... schemes" seems too strong. Suggest weakening to "It is not designed to be used ..." (A future XPointer scheme may be designed to work in combination with xscd) Also unclear whether the "must" has RFC 2119 force or not. #j050 Section 3.2 first para, and normative refs Suggest update ref to RFC 2396bis with ref to RFC 3986, or maybe 3987, since the names of schema components can and often do use characters outside the ASCII set supported by 3986, and the IRI RFC (3987) is closer to the xs:anyURI type (minor differences to do with spaces etc) #j060 Section 3.3 Two comments: #j061 Suggest adding text "(see section 4.4)" useful for people using a printout of this document rather than the hypertext version. #j062 "cannot be used" is too strong see section 6 of RFC 3986 In particular, RDF implementations would be likely to compare using simple string comparison. #j070 Section 4.1 first para "An assembled schema consists of a graph" Suggest clarifying the nature of the graph e.g. "rooted directed acylic graph" (I am not sure if this is true) probably avoiding issues to do with whether the graph is labelled or not. #j080 Section 4.1 end, defn of default axis On first reading this is surprising since one expects a single default. Suggest adding "Appendix A includes a summary of which default applies when." #j090 Section 4.2, second line The syntax shows ns-prefix as obligatory, but many of the examples omit it. Suggest the syntax should be modified to acknowledge that there is not always an ns-prefix. #j100 Section 4.2 near beginning. "in the context of an XML document .." Suggest following change: [[ in the context of an XML document the namespace prefixes will be bound in the conventional way (using the [in-scope namespaces] property of the element information item); other host languages will define their own namespace binding rules ]] to [[ in the context of an XML document the namespace prefixes will usually be bound in the conventional way (using the [in-scope namespaces] property of the element information item); other host languages and some XML applications will define their own namespace binding rules ]] rationale: within RDF/XML the use of the in-scope namespace prefixes is likely to be problematic. #j110 I find it slightly confusing what is the secondary resource identified by these fragIDs. Section 2.2 seems to suggest that types (etc) are identified. Whereas section 6 seems to suggest that type definitions (etc) are identified. I found Michael Sperberg-McQueen's presentation to the SWBPD WG in Boston useful in this regard, particularly the discussion of the compositional and explicit semantics behind the scheme.
ACTION 20050429-03: Editors to start drafting responses to comments and updating SCD draft as appropriate, bringing substantive issues to WG as necessary.
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Wrt e.g. the example //quantity in section 4.2.17 the prose says "This path designates global or local element declarations whose local name is quantity" The use of the phrase "local name" introduces at least a confusion and at worst a big. I can't immediately detect whether you rule out using the default namespace (I think you should, because you _can't_ declare it using the xmlns() XPointer scheme), but lets suppose you did or do rule it out, then the above should read: "This path designates global or local element declarations whose name is 'quantity' in no namespace" or words to that effect
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Ky. schools close due to illness
Ky. schools close due to illness
BEREA, Ky. —
Officials have canceled classes at Berea Community schools because so many students are out with illnesses.
Superintendent Mike Hogg told WKYT-TV that attendance dropped below 90 percent on Thursday "and that's too low to continue school."
Hogg says classes were called off on Friday, but will resume on Monday. He says hopefully the extra day off will give students some time to get better and give custodial staff time to go through and disinfect everything.
The school system is the latest in the region to close for illness. School districts in Laurel and Whitley counties, as well as in the city of Corbin, have also canceled classes in recent weeks due a high number of absences caused by illness.


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Thomas Jefferson's book boxes became the foundation of the Library of Congress.
By Christopher Schwarz
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From the June 2011 issue #190
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I like to think of Thomas Jefferson's personal library as America's first "bookmobile."
When the British burned down the nation's capitol in 1814, the inferno took with it many of the books owned by the government of our young nation. Lucky for us, Jefferson had a personal library of about 6,700 books – an astonishing accomplishment for the time.
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Health Groups Sue Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon Over Isaac Action
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Two health care groups have filed a lawsuit against Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon, over an insurance coverage change he made after Hurricane Isaac.
The lawsuit by the Louisiana State Medical Society and the Louisiana Hospital Association was filed in Baton Rouge district court late Monday, challenging an emergency rule Donelon issued on Sept. 4.
The emergency rule affected health insurance policies in 23 parishes.
It required that emergency out-of-network medical care be treated like an in-network claim, a move that eliminates higher charges for patients and sidesteps existing contracts between health providers and insurers.
The medical society says Donelon exceeded his authority, interfered with contractual arrangements and restricted the rights of doctors to bill patients for services.
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Two teams with a total of six financial advisors have left Morgan Stanley for rivals, just as the wirehouse firms rolled out several new twists to their advisor compensation plans.
One group left Morgan Stanley's (MS) office in Short Hills, N.J., to join Merrill Lynch's (BAC) operations and a former team member: James Rohmann and Steven Filiaci, who have combined fees and commissions of about $2.6 million and nearly $190 million in client assets, started at Merrill this week in Summit, N.J.
They are now working with a former team member from the Suburban Financial Advisory Group at Morgan Stanley, Francis Dunn, who moved to Merrill from Morgan Stanley in October 2012, according to a Merrill source. The three had been with Morgan Stanley, which is led by James Gorman, since 2006.
The combined asset level for the three Merrill advisors is $238 million, while their total annual production is $3.14 million.
"Our strategy is to attract the industry's best talent for our clients and to size our advisor population to meet market opportunity," Merrill Lynch said in a statement.
"Top advisors joining our company most often cite the strength of the Merrill Lynch platform and the broader capabilities of Bank of America, such as lending, as key reasons for joining," the firm said.
Also, a team that included James Schwarz, Donald Rosenthal, Rachel Schwarz and Susan L. Fanburg and that had roughly $2.8 million in annual fees and commissions left Morgan Stanley for UBS (UBS), according to Morgan Stanley, which recently moved to cut its workforce by 1,600.
These four advisors had been part of the Short Hills Group at Morgan Stanley. James Schwarz had been with Morgan Stanley and its predecessor firms since 1962; Rosenthal joined Morgan Stanley in 1991, while Rachel Schwarz came on board the firm in 1994; and Fanburg became part of Morgan Stanley in 2000.
Bank of America-Merrill Lynch will report its fourth-quarter earnings on Thursday. Morgan Stanley will do so on Friday, while UBS makes its latest results public on Feb. 5.


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Michigan Technological University Announces Creation of Pavlis Honors College
By Marcia Goodrich | Published
Recognizing Frank E. Pavlis as a longtime friend and advocate, Michigan Technological University announces the creation of the Pavlis Honors College.
The new College was approved Feb. 21 by the University's Board of Trustees. It will unify many of Michigan Tech's high-impact academic programs, including the Enterprise Program, the Pavlis Institute for Global Technological Leadership, the Honors Institute and the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program. In addition, the College will house the office of National and International Scholarships and Fellowships.
The Pavlis Honors College, the first named college at Michigan Tech, will provide a home for these signature programs in leadership, research and service. It will attract and support students who are motivated to pursue the highest standards of academic excellence.
"Over the course of the past 16 years, Michigan Tech has created some of the most exceptional academic offerings in the country. As their success caused them to grow, it became clear that we needed to bring these programs together," said Max Seel, provost and vice president for academic affairs. "Under the leadership of a new dean, the Pavlis Honors College will create synergies across campus that will expand these plus-factor programs and develop new ones that build upon the same tradition of quality."
Pavlis's support of these programs began in 2005, when he underwrote the Pavlis Institute for Global Technological Leadership. His aim was to give participating students an innovative entrepreneurial spirit; communications, technical and people skills; and a global vision. Since then, the Pavlis Institute has enrolled nearly 200 students. Their studies have taken them to Argentina, India, Malta and Ghana, where they have worked on projects ranging from establishing a mobile health clinic to addressing solid waste disposal problems. The Pavlis Honors College will provide a launch pad for even more students interested in developing a global outlook and a sustainable world.
"It has never been more important to understand the impact of globalization," Pavlis said. "Through the Honors College, Michigan Tech will establish itself as a leader in educating scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs who can be global leaders in the management of innovation."
The Pavlis Honors College is the latest in a lifetime of meaningful accomplishments. Pavlis earned his Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering at Michigan Tech in 1938, graduating at the top of his class. Subsequently, Pavlis earned a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan, and several years later participated in the Advanced Management Program offered by Harvard University. His education and hard work resulted in a highly successful career, which began in 1940 when he was one of the founders and the first employee of Air Products and Chemicals. Pavlis held many official positions and was a member of the Board of Directors for many years during his career at Air Products. Today Air Products is a Fortune 500 company with more than 20,000 employees, operates in over 50 countries and has annual sales in excess of $10 billion. Pavlis retired in 1980 as vice president of world trade and currently resides in Allentown, Pa. His wife, Ethel, passed away in 2002.
"Nine years ago, we modeled the Pavlis Institute on Frank's extraordinary experiences," said Michigan Tech President Glenn Mroz. "The skills he developed and seeks to pass on will be even more critical to today's students enrolled in the Honors College, given the competitive global economy and the needs of the developing world. We are grateful for his exceptional contributions and extremely proud that he is part of the Michigan Tech family."
A longtime supporter of the University, Pavlis is a member of Michigan Tech's McNair and Hubbell giving societies. In 2009, he received Michigan Tech's Distinguished Alumni Award.
Michigan Technological University is a public research university, home to more than 7,000 students from 54 countries. Founded in 1885, the University offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in science and technology, engineering, forestry, business and economics, health professions, humanities, mathematics, and social sciences. Our campus in Michigan's Upper Peninsula overlooks the Keweenaw Waterway and is just a few miles from Lake Superior.


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As of Oct. 1, 2006, Arizona had 336,000 head of cattle on feed for the slaughter market, up 6 percent from a year ago but unchanged from last month, according to a report from the Arizona office of the National Agricultural Statistics Service.
Placements totaled 28,000 head during September, 1,000 head less than a year ago. During September, 26,000 head were marketed, up 2,000 head from last year.
On Oct. 1, 2006, California had 525,000 head of cattle on feed for the slaughter market, down 2 percent from last year but up 5,000 head from last month. Placements totaled 72,000 head during September, up 4,000 head from last year. During September, 64,000 head were marketed, up 7,000 head from last year.
NASS reported cattle and calves on feed for slaughter market in the United States for feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more head totaled 11.4 million head on Oct. 1, 2006. The inventory was 9 percent above Oct. 1, 2005, and 8 percent above Oct. 1, 2004.
This is the highest Oct. 1 inventory since the series began in 1996. The inventory included 7.20 million steers and steer calves, up 5 percent from the previous year.
This group accounted for 63 percent of the total inventory. Heifers and heifer calves accounted for 4.12 million head, up 16 percent from 2005.
Placements in feedlots during September totaled 2.23 million, 5 percent below 2005 and 6 percent below 2004. Net placements were 2.16 million head. During September, placements of cattle and calves weighing less than 600 pounds were 725,000, 600-699 pounds were 412,000, 700-799 pounds were 450,000, and 800 pounds and greater were 645,000.
Marketings of fed cattle during September totaled 1.77 million, 3 percent below 2005 and 2 percent below 2004. This is the second lowest fed cattle marketings for the month of September since the series began in 1996.
Other disappearance totaled 68,000 during September, 19 percent above 2005 and 11 percent above 2004.


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People with a common type of abnormal heart rhythm were more likely to die within several years if they had been prescribed digoxin, a drug used to help control abnormal heart rates, in a new analysis.
The research involved 4,060 people with atrial fibrillation, in which the heart's upper chambers quiver chaotically instead of contracting normally. More than two-thirds of the participants were treated with digoxin at some point either shortly before or during the 3.5-year study.
Dr. Samy Claude Elayi, from the University of Kentucky in Lexington, said digoxin - which is widely available in generic form - may benefit some people who have heart failure in addition to a heart arrhythmia.
"But in patients that have no heart failure and (have) atrial fibrillation, I think there is no reason to use this drug as a first line," added Elayi, who worked on the study.
Another cardiology researcher, however, said the new study isn't robust enough to warrant changing treatment strategies, and that earlier studies have shown digoxin is safe.
Elayi and his colleagues re-analyzed data from a past trial of people with atrial fibrillation and a high risk of stroke that were treated with a variety of drug combinations, including beta blockers and calcium channel blockers.
Over the study period, 666 people died, according to results published in the European Heart Journal.
People who had taken digoxin in the previous six months, the study team found, were 41 percent more likely to die of any cause and 61 percent more likely to die from a heart rhythm problem, in particular.
That increased risk of death was seen in people with and without heart failure, and in both men and women.
Dizziness, fainting
Digoxin works by helping to stabilize the upper heart chambers affected by atrial fibrillation, Elayi said - but it can also cause problems by creating a bad rhythm in the heart's lower chambers. That can lead to dizziness, fainting and heart palpitations.
The researchers noted that they didn't have data on what dose of digoxin people were prescribed - or how closely they stuck to those prescriptions.
Because the trial wasn't originally intended to measure the negative effects of digoxin, and people weren't assigned randomly to one arm or the other, the analysis also can't prove that digoxin caused the extra deaths.
Dr. Ali Ahmed, who has studied digoxin at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, called that a major limitation of the new study.
He said an earlier randomized controlled trial - considered the gold standard of medical research - did not find more deaths among people with heart failure taking digoxin. Other research, Ahmed added, has suggested that low doses of the drug can actually lower the risk of death among some patients.
An analysis like this one can't fully account for the likelihood that sicker patients are prescribed certain drugs more often, he said.
"When you do non-randomized studies, you always wonder, was it really digoxin or was it the other confounders" such as patients' chronic diseases, that led to more deaths.
"This should be taken with extreme caution, because of the potential for confounding and bias from a variety of sources," Ahmed, who wasn't involved in the new research, told Reuters Health.
"The fundamental thing is you cannot overrule the findings of a randomized controlled trial with non-randomized data."
'Not a killer'
Digoxin can be bought for about $10 for a month's supply. It's been used worldwide for decades to help control heart rate, the researchers said.
Elayi said the findings don't mean that people with heart failure and atrial fibrillation shouldn't be taking the drug.
But based on his team's study, he said he would recommend other heart medications before digoxin for people without heart failure. However, if an atrial fibrillation patient also has very low blood pressure - which makes drugs such as beta blockers and calcium blockers unsafe - digoxin might be a reasonable second choice, he added.
In that case, doctors should prescribe digoxin at low doses and keep a close watch on the amount of the drug in patients' blood, Elayi told Reuters Health.
In addition, he said, "From the patient perspective, if doctors put them on the drug they should check their rationale for that."
But according to Ahmed, patients and doctors shouldn't worry about taking or prescribing the drug because of this study. Digoxin, he said, "is not a killer."


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New Deal Between NFL Giants, Timex Is On The Clock
June 18, 2009: The New York Giants have signed a long-term deal with Timex Group USA that includes naming rights for the Giants' new training facility and corporate headquarters, designation as the official performance equipment of the New York Giants and brand integration into the Giants game day experience at Giants Stadium in 2009 and the Giants' new stadium, set to open in 2010. The facility will be named the Timex Performance Center. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Timex said the 15-year partnership with the Giants is part of the company's ongoing initiative to increase the awareness of its state-of-the-art sports and fashion products. "I am excited that we have secured a partnership between two great American icons—Timex Group and the New York Giants—both with great families behind them," Hans-Kristian Hoejsgaard, Timex Group president and CEO, said in a statement. "Like Timex Group, the Giants organization operates at the highest level. I look forward to many years of collaboration."
Additional branding programs include a major sponsorship with New York Giants Radio Network, Giants.com, the Giants GameDay show on WNBC, and placement within the Giants' health and fitness magazine, Giants Health Monitor, which is distributed in more than 10,000 doctors' offices around the New York metro area. An advisory board, comprised of Giants medical and strength and conditioning personnel and Timex athletes and coaches, will also be formed. This board will meet quarterly to share insights, discuss the latest trends in athlete training, and provide input on new product development and review product usage and testing. Back to Home Page


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Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg says he will push in his final year in office for more recycling and electric vehicles, a curbside food-composting program and a ban on Styrofoam food packaging. Plastic foam, he says, is "something that we know is environmentally destructive and that may be hazardous to our health, that is costing taxpayers money and that we can easily do without, and is something that should go the way of lead paint." [Bloomberg News]
A federal judge in Denver rules that the federal Bureau of Land Management must reveal the names of companies or individuals nominating public land for oil and gas drilling. The ruling, which overturns 18 years of policy, involves a lawsuit filed after the bureau refused to disclose the identities of the entities that nominated 30,000 acres of public lands in Colorado's North Fork Valley for oil and gas development. [The Denver Post]
Environmental groups plan a major rally on Sunday in Washington to urge President Obama to take strong action on climate change. The first step, they argue, should be vetoing construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. [Sierra Club]
Wild perch living in water that scientists dosed with a human anti-anxiety drug became more aggressive, took more risks and shunned other fish, new research shows. While the implications are far from clear, the study highlights the potential ecological effects of even trace amounts of psychiatric pharmaceuticals that are excreted in human urine and survive wastewater treatment. [Reuters]
The Eastside Trail, part of an ambitious proposal to transform old railroad tracks in Atlanta into a park loop known as the Beltline, is open and drawing cyclists and joggers. But some wonder whether the city will ever raise the money to complete the 22-mile loop — and ask whether the idea is wrongheaded to begin with. [The New York Times]


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Oil Painting: Capture the Beauty of Nature
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Oil Painting: Capture the Beauty of Nature
Saturdays, (6 week sessions):
January 14 – February 18
February 25 – April 1
April 8 – May 13
May 20 – June 24
1:00pm – 3:30pm
Ron Pettie, Instructor
$69 Arboretum members / $79 non-members (includes Arboretum admission)
All materials are included.
Capture the beauty of nature! The instructor will guide a beginner to draw and paint with confidence. More advanced students will be able to paint independently at their own pace and will be able to choose their own subjects.
Each subsequent six-week class will explore other areas of painting such as landscape, still life, domestic animals, structures, deserts, and seascapes. Master artist Ron Pettie will guide you on this adventure.
At the end of a six-week session students will learn the following:
- Composition styles
- How to read a color chart
- Color mixing
- How to use the grid system and the rule of thirds
- Use of dark and light values and gray scales
- Learn a variety of techniques for painting , including using different brushes and the palette knife for texture and depth
- How to use the magic frame on photographs
- Self-Critiquing – Standing back and squinting
- Choosing a signature
Reservations REQUIRED; To register please call the Education Department at 626-821-4623.
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PIC: Lindsay Lohan gets another tattoo!
January 9, 2012 | Celebrity News, Lindsay Lohan, tattoo | No Comments|
Lindsay Lohan loves to tattoo phrases on her boday. Just a few months after she got a Billy Joel song lyric tattooed on her rib cage … she got a much smaller saying on her left wrist.
According to our sources, LiLo hit up a tattoo parlor on Friday night to get the work done. The impetus for the new ink, we're told, was Lindsay's feeling that she's at a great point in her life … and she wanted to do something she'd always remember.
Our sources say Lindsay is excited for March 29 to come, because that's the day she will be done with her court-ordered community service.
Perhaps from then on, she won't do anything anyone would regret.
It's nice she has no regrets… I guess? Really? None?


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Government in America: People, Politics and Policy, Brief Study Edition, Election Update
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The brief Study Edition of this highly lauded text with a public policy approach and politics matters theme has been updated to include important current topics such as the 2004 election and American foreign policy in the Middle East. The brief Study Edition includes a booklet of test questions for each chapter bound in at the end of the book. Framing its content within a politics matters theme, the authors of Government in America illustrate the impact government has on the daily lives of each and every American, motivating students to become active participants in all aspects of political culture. In this latest update, all material has been completely updated throughout the text.
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