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2012: It's all mobile
Smartphones have gone mainstream. 65% of mobile subscribers in the U.S. now have them.
As more and more people make the switch and an increasing number of devices become wireless, everyone and everything is becoming mobile. But until now marketers and their money have not been keeping up with this trend.
Hang on to your seats folks, 2012 is the year everyone really dives in. From major retailers to financial services, insurance providers, healthcare companies and medical device manufactures'… a whole new crop of businesses and services are now tapping the "social, mobile, local" movement, and poised to launch major mobile initiatives in 2012.
Businesses increasing focus on mobile means this is the year you will finally see fully flushed out mobile marketing programs make a real impact, across a broad range of industries.
We're talking about the kind of super strategic, smart, creative thinking that takes branding, engagement and reach to a whole other level. Using mobile payments, mobile instant messaging, augmented reality, location based tagging, micro-targeting, push notifications, image recognition technology and social media promotions that connect with consumers right at the point of action.
We're not the only ones who think this way. Gartner (IT)recently predicted "brands will increasingly shift their marketing budget to the mobile channel and experiment with cutting-edge apps to capture new marketing and sales opportunities." In fact, mobile app developer Bitzio (BTZO) claims worldwide, more than 14 billion apps have been downloaded to iPhones, Android, Windows, Nokia, Blackberry and other smaller mobile platforms.
But if you're only thinking about apps, you're missing the next big thing.
In 2012 you're going start see an increasing number of people walking around with all sorts of ATTACHMENTS coming out of their phone…as everybody and their brother begins using credit card readers like Square or Intuit's GoPayments (INTU ) to accept and process credit cards payments on the spot. Meanwhile companies like Qualcomm (QCOM) are using mobile and wireless technology to reshape the healthcare landscape. Making it possible for hospitals and medical device manufactures or health and wellness companies to launch attachments that turn your phone into an ECG reader that fits in your pocket, a sonogram machine that can be used anywhere or a wireless diabetes monitor that safely stores, analyzes and instantly connects your medical information to your doctor, caregiver or hospital anytime or place you happen to use it and sends alerts back and forth as needed.
Companies, technology and service providers, that embrace the latest mobile developments have a real opportunity to use the mobile channel to make their products stand out from the pack, enhance brand image, retain user loyalty and actually improve quality of life. Now how often do you get to say that?
From mobile payments, to mobile couponing, to innovative location based mobile marketing programs and digital outdoor promotions that enable consumers to wirelessly interact with a brand message, instantly upload or share information across social media, text with digital billboards and connect with a brand message through augmented reality experiences that allow advertisers to speak with consumers at the point of transaction…2012 is going to be the end of the world as we've known it…and the start of some crazy, awesome stuff in mobile.
The total user base of consumer location-based services to reach 1.4 billion users by 2014.
Gartner expects mobile e-mail users worldwide to increase from 354 million in 2009 to 713 million in 2014, to account for 10.6 percent of the global mobile user base.
You guys are on top of it!! Very true. Mobile is the way of the (very near) future.
Nice article. The implications for health care and mobile payments (perfect for many types of entrepreneurs) especially are quite exciting. I do have concerns about privacy when it comes to location-based services. Do I really want companies (or anyone else) to know where I am at all times?


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At the Santa Clara Valley Water District, we have the privilege of serving the very diverse community of Santa Clara County. As the organization responsible for management of county's water resources, we serve all of the county's businesses and residents. To best serve the community, it is important for our workforce to mirror the diversity of the community. Therefore, we have made it a priority to build a diverse and inclusive organization; to value individual diversity; and to promote and practice inclusion.
The water district is committed to the quality of work life. Our employees are our most valuable resource. We promote inclusion, first because each individual deserves respect, but also because it strengthens the organization to better serve the community. In an inclusive environment, individual differences are valued and different perspectives are leveraged. This helps the district to make better decisions, be sensitive to diverse community, communicate effectively and improve our service to our community.
As our local and global environments continue to change, a diverse and inclusive water district will be ready to respond quickly to change, and to harness innovation to optimize our contribution to a safe and healthy Santa Clara County.
Diversity mission statement To enhance employees' quality of worklife and promote an inclusive workforce based on respecting and valuing individual differences. This will improve workplace productivity and increase the quality of services delivered to the community. Diversity vision statement We are an organization that creates, promotes and sustains an inclusive work environment where every District employee is treated with respect and dignity.

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Installing Redis on Linode.
"RequestBin lets you create a URL that will collect requests made to it, then let you inspect them in a human-friendly way. Use RequestBin to see what your HTTP client is sending or to look at webhook requests." Which is very useful.
"It's sort of a no-brainer. And a fascinating way to think about creating a sustainable source of income to allow, even in part, artists to produce works are genuinely expensive in time and cost to create. It should also prove to artists, and anyone who frets over the illusion of print rights, that they've got nothing to worry about. This stuff is an entirely other material and colour made of light, it turns out, doesn't just magically translate to colour made of pigment the way that, say, a word-processing document does. And if anyone is really going to lose sleep over the people who are already predisposed to print things out on their shitty homes printers my only advice is to give up now. Let them and understand that there are more interesting problems to solve and if projects like 20×200 are any indication there's a whole world of people who want to help with not only their moral support but their wallets." Aaron on the Hockney show, subscription app art, and drawing on iPads.
"This gem is a C binding to the excellent YAJL JSON parsing and generation library." Ooh, JSON stream-parsing.


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It's not that they think she's a ditz
And their hearts are not soon to be Mitt's
But to have her ignore
Her professional corps?
Bachmann's Granite State team calls it quits!
Headline: Bachmann staff in New Hampshire quits
When a ship is sinking, the rats are the first to leave.
Don't worry, Michele; Fox News loves telegenic losers! Don't think of today as the harbinger of doom; that's not a death knell, that's a very slow "ka-ching!".


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I have a problem mounting nowadays, not too sure what happened. It has been working for me all along. here's my entry within /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0
#sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cd iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom1 /mnt/dvd udf ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/floppy/0 /mnt/fl vfat user,noauto,unhide 0 0
#/dev/sda1 /mnt/thumb vfat rw,user,umask=022 0 0
#/dev/sda1 /mnt/hd2 vfat rw,user,umask=022 0 0
/dev/discs/disc0/part1 /mnt/win_c ntfs ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/discs/disc0/part2 /mnt/win_d vfat rw,user,noauto,umask=022 0 0
/dev/discs/disc0/part3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/discs/disc0/part6 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/discs/disc0/part5 /boot ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/discs/disc0/part7 /home ext3 defaults 0 1
If i put a CD in my CD and type 'mount /mnt/cd' it returns: no medium found.
If i put a CD in my DVD-ROM, and type 'mount /mnt/dvd', it returns:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdroms/cdrom1,
or too many mounted file systems
Anyone have an idea what's going on? I've managed to mount any CD all this time with similar entry, and now I'm stuck with no clue whatsoever. Please help[
there is another thread with the same problem i guess:
can you mount DVDs & CDs as root?
I've seen this post before, but it doesn't solve my problem. I'm not using udev or anything by the way.
This might not be all that useful a suggestion but:
1. did you try mouting them as root?
2. try changing your fstype to "auto" under you DVD setting. not sure if listing FS as udf is going to work when you are tyring to read iso9660.
your /mnt/cd entry error sounds like it is searching the wrong drive. are you sure you have the cdrom numbers correct?
Did you compile your own kernel? If so check you have the file systems built.
Mount a CD if you have a data CD inserted.
If using audioCD disc, you cannot mount the CD. It is recognized without mounting.
Prediction...This year will be a very odd year!
Hard work does not kill people but why risk it: Charlie Mccarthy
A man is not complete until he is married..then..he is finished.
When ALL is lost, what can be found? Even bytes get lonely for a little bit! X-ray confirms Iam spineless!
The CD you're trying to read is knackered, unless you're trying to read a few different CDs, in which case I would revert a kernel version at least.
tell us at least if you are able to mount it as root. that' somwhere to start.
Thanks all for the input, let me answer few of you to help me troubleshooting
1. I did try to mount as 'root'
2. I've changed the 'udf' to 'auto', even the iso9960 to 'auto' as well. To no avail, it didn't work
3. Yes, I tried to mount a data CD
4. I haven't mount any CDs since I upgraded to kernel 2.6.8.
The last time I was on kernel 2.6.6, i was still able to mount any CDs. I wouldn't know how to compile my own kernel, everything comes straight from the build package. If there's any suggestion for me to start compiling my own kernel, I would appreciate it.
I don't think it's a kernel issue, because I was still able to mount other my windows partition, correct me if i'm wrong.
you did add yourself to the optical group? even if you are using devfs you have to do this unless you have instructions to the contrary in your devfd.conf
AKA uknowme
I am not your friend
An observation: perhaps you have no /mnt/cd and /mnt/dvd directory in /mnt
Prediction...This year will be a very odd year!
Hard work does not kill people but why risk it: Charlie Mccarthy
A man is not complete until he is married..then..he is finished.
When ALL is lost, what can be found? Even bytes get lonely for a little bit! X-ray confirms Iam spineless!
You could try mounting it in the DVD drive, but with the iso9660 filesystem (instead of udf or "auto"). Also try mounting other CDs, or testing your optical drives in windows (I guess you have windows since you have a windows partition).
And where were all the sportsmen who always pulled you though?
They're all resting down in Cornwall
writing up their memoirs for a paper-back edition
of the Boy Scout Manual.
what are the permissions of /mnt/cd & /mnt/dvd ?
ok, to my shock I found that I have similar problems. here's the deal:
I have 2 fstab entries for cdrom (/dev/hda)
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 blah 0 0
where /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 is symlinked to /dev/hda
2: (for gvm)
/dev/hda /media/cdrom auto blah 0 0
here is the strange part:
when I type (as user or root)
mount /mnt/cdrom , it mounts it fine and everything works
when I try it with GVM or likeso:
mount /dev/cdroms/cdrom0
mount /dev/hda
I get
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda,
or too many mounted file systems
wtf? anyone know what is going on? I checked permissions and everything seems to be ok.
You have exactly the same problem with GNOME as I have with KDE. It means that when you are in console you can mount like mount /mnt/dvd for exmple and it works but while you use graphical desktop it doesn't well for now you can look at my last post and temporarily solve it just that you would be able to use CD,DVD etc.. I'll try and search other forums if I can find something that would help to solve that.
my permission is all for root, and i do have those cd and dvd dir under the /mnt directory. As I said before, this thing worked well until last week when I noticed it won't mount anymore.
I am going to start with one that seems highly suspect to me and that is your "No medium found" when you try to mount your /mnt/cdrom. Assuming that the mount command is ok, this indicates that it's searching the wrong drive to me (and I said as much when I posted the first time). so if you have not already checked it could you check and make sure
ls -l /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 is pointing to the correct /dev/hdx (ie. you cdrom?) . your DVD sounds like it's pointing correctly. did you also try mounting it manually like so:
#mount -t udf /dev/cdroms/cdrom1 /mnt/dvd
(This doesn't go through /etc/fstab BTW, so it's worth a try)
I don't know how the kernel is configured so I am going to guess: you did install the correct version of the kernel right? kernel26 instead of kernel26scsi?
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Gold farmers! They're everywhere, right? We get spammed by them, we run into them farming Dire Maul, we put them on ignore. Lazy people with too much disposable income buy gold from them in a show of crass consumerism. Blizzard has done their best to stamp out gold-farming services, but litigation is difficult due to the fact that most of the major gold-farming companies are based in China or other parts of Asia. They've instead opted to try to control and stop gold farmers from being able to complete transactions via other methods.
This time, though, it looks like Blizzard may have an unlikely ally in, of all things, the Chinese government. They announced today that the trading of virtual goods for real money is now illegal in China. This ruling reaches farther than just gold farming, though. It also bans the sale of prepaid time cards for MMOs or other online games, as well as numerous technicalities we're sure to hear about in the weeks to come.
To give you an idea of how much an economic impact this will have on China, gold farming alone generates nearly one billion dollars a year worldwide, with China's specific numbers growing at a reported rate of 20% per year. It's estimated that 80 to 85 percent of gold farmers reside in China, so this ruling is massive and, to be frank, pretty troubling.
From a gamer's perspective, yes, it'll be nice to worry about this kind of service a little less, but from a human perspective this places hundreds of thousands of Chinese people in one of two kinds of serious trouble: the first is financial hardship from the "honest" gold-farming companies that will close down after this ban, and the second is legal issues from the companies who don't close down because they can't afford not to do what they've been doing.
It's not my intention to defend gold farming as an industry, because I used to have to deal with its more nefarious effects every day -- compromised accounts stripped of gold and gear, keyloggers, disruptive spam, all of that. But life isn't easy for many Chinese people working jobs like this. Many gold farming centers are much cleaner and safer, in relative terms, than other places in China where one on the bottom rung of the financial ladder might seek work, so while I appreciate the change as only a white first-world male can, I worry about what will happen to the underprivileged working-class Chinese people behind the spam ads and dead gnomes when this law starts getting enforced.
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Groundwater and Glaciers
Subglacial lakes in Antarctica might have nutrient-rich groundwater flowing into them, say scientists investigating the origin of the water in ice streams.
Ice streams are huge, fast-flowing glaciers that meander across Antarctica. They are responsible for nearly all of the Antarctic's contribution to sea-level rise, yet scientists have little understanding of where the water flowing through them comes from. This means that the contents of the subglacial lakes which lie underneath these streams is also a mystery.
The new research, published in Geophysical Research Letters shows for the first time where the water going in and out of these ice streams – their hydrologic budget – comes from.
'It's important to understand and quantify the hydrologic budget of these ice streams, as this can control the lubrication and ultimately how fast these ice streams move,' explains Dr Poul Christoffersen of the Scott Polar Research Institute, lead researcher on the study.
'Some of these glaciers are slowing, some are speeding up and that's all in response to changes in the configuration of sources and sinks of water. If we're trying to understand what they'll be doing in future we need to understand how they have behaved in the past.'
Photo of Antarctica - Paradise Harbor via Shutterstock.
Read more at Planet Earth Online.


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Beverly Dunlap, program coordinator with the Department of Human Services Division of Aging and Adult Services, said the wellness designation is given to centers focusing on a holistic approach and trying to address the whole person. She said out of 190 senior centers statewide, the PCSAC is one of only 16 taking this type of approach to wellness.
"We are very proud to announce that the Pope County Senior Activity Center is now number 16, has been issued a certificate and we are now officially the Pope County Senior Wellness and Activity Center (PCSWAC)," Davis Gateley, PCSWAC site coordinator, said. "We are extremely proud to be offering many varied programs to enhance the quality of life of those we serve."
Dunlap said there are seven dimensions of wellness: intellectual, vocational, environmental, spiritual, emotional, social and physical. Many programs can combine elements from more than one dimension of wellness. Travel can combine the social and intellectual dimension and gardening can combine the social, physical and spiritual dimensions.
"We know that these dimensions fit together like a jigsaw puzzle," Dunlap said. "If one piece is missing, the puzzle is not whole."
Once a center has been given an assessment by the Division of Aging and Adult Services and it has been determined the center provides the seven dimensions of wellness, then the center is issued a certificate of that determination.
"As the first Baby Boomers began entering their 60s in 2009 and the number of those entering their 60s continues to increase, we need to do all we can to create wellness circles within our centers," Gateley said. "We need to provide for all the dimensions of wellness and to draw in the younger and more active members of our older adult population. Our goal is to keep people as healthy and active for as long as possible."


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ALX720 - Minor Research Project
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Students wishing to submit film production proposals (e.g. from A718) as research projects must have successfully completed ACC707 and ACM713 or equivalent undergraduate units.
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This unit enables students to undertake a two credit point research project on a topic of their choice negotiated with their supervisor.
Students will determine the content of their Minor Research Projects through negotiation and consultation with their supervisors. Projects may involve creative projects combined with an exegesis, or may constitute a 9000 - 10000 word report which is based on primary and secondary sources. They may also draw on fieldwork or other data and will involve theoretical, interpretative and analytical work.
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Carrasco throws bullpen; Giambi set to be activated
By Adam Berry / MLB.com
ST. PETERSBURG -- Indians manager Terry Francona said Jason Giambi should be activated before Tuesday's game against the Yankees at Progressive Field.
Giambi opened the year on the disabled list with a back injury, which has worked out for Cleveland as it awaited the end of Carlos Carrasco's six-game suspension.
"I think he's going to be fine," Francona said of Giambi. "He's able to be activated on Tuesday, and I don't see any reason that won't happen."
Francona said he was already thinking of ways to work Giambi into the lineup, though he won't make it a priority until the Tribe heads north for Cleveland. Francona would like to start Giambi against a right-handed starter, but said the Yankees rotation is "in flux" and noted that lefty Andy Pettitte is scheduled to start Tuesday. The Yankees' rotation is currently aligned so that right-handers Ivan Nova and David Phelps will start Wednesday and Thursday, however.
"I certainly don't want him to sit a week," Francona said. "I'm going to do with him just like I do with everybody."
Carrasco, meanwhile, joined the Indians on Saturday and threw a side session in the bullpen. He is scheduled to be activated and start Tuesday's game against the Yankees. Francona said Carrasco had one more day remaining on his six-game suspension, but he should be able to watch Sunday's series finale alongside his teammates in the visiting dugout at Tropicana Field.
"Once we're done here [with Saturday's pregame workouts], we've got to dispose of him," Francona said. "He can be in the dugout starting tomorrow."
Marson pulled from game after collision with Jennings
ST. PETERSBURG -- Indians catcher Lou Marson left Saturday night's game against the Rays after the third inning with a cervical/neck strain after getting hit hard in a collision at home plate.
Marson said after the game that he did not sustain a concussion on the play, but his neck was still sore, making it difficult to look from side to side or up and down. Indians manager Terry Francona said the club would continue to evaluate Marson, who didn't expect the injury to keep him off the field for long.
After drawing a leadoff walk then stealing second and third, Rays center fielder Desmond Jennings sprinted toward home on Matt Joyce's grounder to third base. Lonnie Chisenhall fielded the ball and fired it to Marson, and Jennings ran straight into the 26-year-old catcher, resulting in a violent collision that clearly shook up Marson. Both sides agreed it was just a good, clean baseball play and that Jennings had no other way of getting to home plate.
"Neck's a little sore. He got me pretty good. It was clean, absolutely. He had nowhere to go," Marson said. "I had the plate blocked pretty good. But just my neck's a little sore. No concussions."
Marson held on to the ball to record the out and save the Indians a run, and he remained in the game to finish the third inning after taking a few warmup throws from right-hander Trevor Bauer. But Francona took Marson out of the game before the Tribe took the field for the fourth inning.
"If there's a gray area, I'd rather be accused of being overly cautious," Francona said.
Carlos Santana moved from designated hitter to catcher as the Indians gave up their DH, which resulted in Bauer assuming the ninth spot in the lineup and eventually getting an at-bat.
That was the risk Francona took in starting Santana at DH on Saturday after he caught all of the Tribe's first four games. An injury to Santana at that point would've resulted in Ryan Raburn lining up behind the dish.
"I think it's the right thing to do as far as our team goes, but you run the risk of that when you do that," Francona said.
Albers ejected after arguing call at second
ST. PETERSBURG -- Indians right-hander Matt Albers was ejected from Saturday night's game against the Rays at Tropicana Field for arguing with second-base umpire CB Bucknor at the end of the sixth inning.
After Ben Zobrist grounded out to Nick Swisher for the final out of the sixth, Albers shouted as he walked toward Bucknor and pointed at second base, clearly upset about a call Bucknor made earlier in the inning. Bucknor quickly ejected Albers, who tossed his glove as he walked toward the dugout.
Rays shortstop Yunel Escobar led off the sixth with a hit to center field and hustled around first base, extending his foot as he slid into second base. Michael Bourn got the ball to Jason Kipnis in plenty of time to make the tag, but Bucknor ruled that Escobar safely slid around Kipnis' glove.
Asked about the ejection, Indians manager Terry Francona responded, "[Albers] said something to CB after the inning" about the call.
The Indians protested the call to no avail. Escobar came around to score on Shelley Duncan's RBI single to right field, giving the Rays a 4-0 lead.
Kipnis, Indians put extension talks on hold
ST. PETERSBURG -- Indians second baseman Jason Kipnis confirmed Saturday that he and the Indians have tabled their discussions regarding a long-term extension until the offseason.
Kipnis said both sides had agreed that they would negotiate until Opening Day then not discuss it again until the Indians' season ends. The Cleveland Plain Dealer first reported Friday that those negotiations had ceased.
"Neither side wanted it to be a distraction," Kipnis said Saturday. "We both agreed that we'd put up 'til April 2. Deal gets done, it gets done. If not, it doesn't. It's not the end of the world, either way. I think both sides felt comfortable putting the deadline there."
Kipnis, 26, has registered just more than a year of service time in the Majors, and 2012 was his first full big-league season. He will make $509,400 this year and doesn't figure to become arbitration-eligible until after the 2014 season, at the earliest.
Kipnis posted a .257/.335/.379 batting line in 152 games last season, hitting 14 homers with 76 RBIs and 31 stolen bases. When this season ends, he would be open to resuming talks about a multiyear deal that would keep him in Cleveland.
"There's definitely always a possibility. Always going to keep an open ear to something like that," Kipnis said. "I have no reason not to. Anyone would love to, so we'll just see what happens after this year."
Bourn lives up to expectations to begin season
ST. PETERSBURG -- Michael Bourn had a slow spring, but he's off to a quick start to the regular season.
Bourn recorded the Indians' only two hits in Friday night's 4-0 loss to the Rays, one of them a leadoff infield single in the first inning and the other a double to right field. He also ran down several fly balls in center field, prompting Cleveland manager Terry Francona to note that Bourn's speed is starting to become a factor for the Tribe.
"I think during Spring Training ... he's smart enough to know that he's going to get beat up during the year. I think he got himself ready like a professional," Francona said. "But I think we all felt like that would be the case, and I think as the season progresses and he doesn't get beat up, I think you'll see his speed continue.
"He's all over the place. That's why we got him. That's impressive."
Bourn went 7-for-18 with two doubles and two runs scored in four games. The Indians signed him to a four-year, $48 million contract this offseason with a $12 million vesting option for 2017, hoping to improve their lineup with a dynamic leadoff man and their defense with a speedy center fielder. The season is still in its infancy, but that's exactly what Bourn has been so far.
"He's been setting the table great for our offense so far. I wish other bats would follow his lead," second baseman Jason Kipnis said. "The value he brings up at the top of the lineup is something that we haven't had in a while. The guy's just a table-setter for us and wreaks havoc on defense and pitchers alike, and hits lefties and righties just as well as each other.
"He's great to have. So far, he's as advertised and a great guy to have in the locker room, too. He's been the whole deal."
Smoke signals
• About three and a half hours before Saturday night's game, the Indians officially made the roster move they've discussed the past few days. Scott Kazmir was placed on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to April 2, and Trevor Bauer was recalled from Triple-A Columbus in time for his Indians debut.
• Rays manager Joe Maddon said Saturday he enjoys some of Bauer's unique behavior, like the hopping heave Bauer makes before warming up each inning and the pole-to-pole long toss, as well as his pitching profile. Maddon, of course, is no stranger to ideas that fall well outside the traditional baseball box.
"When it comes to eccentricities, I'm kind of a fan. So I'll probably like him without even seeing him," Maddon said. "Stuff-wise, it reads really well for him. There's a lot of things that he's capable of doing as a pitcher."
• The Tribe's 4-0 loss to the Rays on Friday marked the third time over the past 21 years that they've been shut out within the season's first four games. The other two came on Opening Day in 2005 and '10, both against the White Sox.
Quote to note
"That's a year and a half for some of us. ... I wish I could say I know the feeling, but I have no idea what that feels like."
-- Indians manager Terry Francona, on Orioles first baseman's Chris Davis' 16 RBIs through Baltimore's first four games.
Adam Berry is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter at @adamdberry. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


text: Products/ Synthetic Biology Overview/ Custom Gene Synthesis/ Related DECODED Articles Synthetic Biology Synthetic Biology Synthetic Biology Overview gBlocks Gene Fragments Custom Gene Synthesis Megamer ssDNA Fragments Related DECODED Articles All posts Exploring and Exploiting Ion Channel Function Using MiniGenes™ to Make Peptides The Critical Role of Channels in Cellular Signaling and Homeostasis Intracellular Ca2+ release channels, gap-junctional channels, and hemichannels regulate the flux of important signaling molecules, such as Ca2+ and ATP [1,2]. Hence, they play a critical role in how cells behave, differentiate, and signal one another. Misregulation of these ion channels can affect cellular homeostasis and function, resulting in uncontrolled cell survival and death that can lead to disease [3]. Using Peptides to Study Ion Channel Function After his post-doc with Dr Cyert (Stanford, CA) [4], Dr Geert Bultynck joined the Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Signaling (Drs Himpens, Parys, Missiaen, De Smedt; Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium). The central paradigm of Dr Geert Bultynck's research is based on the finding that the function of ion channels is critically regulated by proteinprotein interactions and formation of multiprotein complexes [5,6,7]. Together with an extensive network of national (e.g., Dr Leybaert, Ghent University, Belgium) and international collaborators (e.g., Dr Distelhorst, Case Western Reserve University, OH), his team works to identify and characterize the key molecules controlling channel function, to elucidate how changes in these complexes are involved in human pathologies, and to develop novel therapeutic strategies by exploiting or restoring these molecular determinants [8]. The lab focuses on the role channel complexes play in polycystic kidney disease, B-cell lymphoma, and ischemic reperfusion in the brain and heart. They do this by developing channel peptide fragments to identify their critical determinants. While the laboratory uses chemically synthesized peptides from commercial sources (Thermo Fisher and LifeTein), these peptides are expensive. Since each sequence requires a new synthesis reaction, costs accumulate rapidly, especially when several variants or modifications of the same peptide are needed. Prices typically go down for larger batches, but stability can become an issue for some peptide sequences due to deterioration during prolonged storage. Figure 1. Development of BH4-domain Peptide Fused to TATand HA via Custom MiniGene™ Synthesis. IDT provided a custom MiniGene (IDT) in which the nucleotides encoding the TAT sequence (YGRKKRRQRRR), HA tag (YPYDVPDYA), and BH4 domain of Bcl-2 (RTGYDNREIVMKYIHYKLSQRGYEW) were tandem fused and cloned into the BamHI/EcoRI-restriction sites of the pGEX6p2 vector (GE Healthcare). A short linker (GG) was inserted between all functional domains. This vector contains a PreScission-protease recognition site (LEVLFQ¦GP), separating the GST from the protein/peptide of interest, and allowing removal of the GST tag (¦ symbol = protease-cleavage site). It is important to remove these proteases (or at least inactivate them) from the purified peptide preparation. Some amino acids will remain attached to the expressed peptide (e.g., as when using a TEV-cleavage site). Additional tags provide for further purifications (e.g., a 6x His tag). Here the GST tag allowed purification of the GSTfusion peptide. The other tags were used to promote cell entry of the purified peptides, to perform immunolocalization experiments using anti-HA antibodies, or to perform interaction studies with purified fragments of the IP3R, an intracellular Ca2+-release channel. The researchers developed these tools for the BH4 domain of the antiapoptotic Bcl-2 and Bcl-Xl. Custom Genes to Study Protein:Protein Interactions Custom MiniGenes—plasmids synthesized by IDT—now provide an alternate approach that is more cost effective and allows greater experimental flexibility. Researchers can remake peptides at any time, the renewable stock alleviating stability issues. Mutant variants are easily made and, if designed properly, the peptides can be used for affinity purifications, immunofluorescence approaches, binding studies, and western-blotting approaches. Custom Gene Synthesis IDT offers a confidential custom gene synthesis service that includes miniGenes (up to 400 bp) and Genes (401–1500 bp). By ordering MiniGenes and Genes from IDT, researchers not only save money spent on reagents necessary for construction, cloning, and sequencing but can also save time by outsourcing the manufacturing of hard-to-clone gene sequences which often result in repeated failures. At IDT, all genes are constructed using Ultramer™ Oligos, the highest fidelity next generation synthesis technology available. MiniGenes and Genes arrive in a plasmid cloning vector and are ready for use in a variety of applications. Generating Peptides Dr Bultynck's group cloned the MiniGene (117 bp), encoding a wild type or mutated peptide sequence of interest into a bacterial expression vector (Figure 1). The backbone vector (pGEX6p2; GE Healthcare) contained a GST-tag for purification on Glutathione-Sepharose 4B beads. The MiniGene sequence included three functional units: a TAT sequence (to promote cellular uptake of the peptides), an HA tag (to facilitate detection in western blotting assays or in immunofluorescence assays) and the BH4 domain of Bcl-2. The group also included a short flexible sequence between all functional units. This vector allows removal of the GST-tag from the peptide using the PreScission Protease (GE Healthcare), yielding the peptide of interest: TAT-HA-BH4-Bcl-2. As indicated in Figure 1, additional protease-cleavage sites may be introduced as can other tags (e.g., FLAG, 6xHis, etc.). The rapid turnaround for delivery by IDT, plus the endless possibilities and flexibility of the Custom Genes are all great advantages. This method does require additional laboratory time, including affinity purification from BL21(DE3) E. coli strain extracts and subsequent protease digestion. Furthermore, the lab performs additional controls to address, for example, whether the resulting peptides are expressed in inclusion bodies. For other research groups considering a similar approach, Dr Bultynck highly recommends using a control construct that contains the reverse or scrambled sequence that has undergone all the same processing in the bacteria. Despite this extra hands-on time, Dr Bultynck notes, "The MiniGenes-to-Peptide" approach is an excellent alternative to chemical peptide synthesis, providing the researcher a lot of freedom and flexibility. One can easily create new mutations, or change or insert a removable tag. And by subcloning the construct into a mammalian expression vector or adenoviral vector, the peptide can be delivered to and expressed in mammalian cells". Using Peptides to Intervene with Cellular Signaling The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven team has treated cultured cell lines and primary cells from living animals or human patients with these peptides, and studied Ca2+ signaling dynamics and cell survival/cell-death responses [8]. Currently, they assess Ca2+ responses in peptide-treated cells using the FlexStation3 (Molecular Devices), an automated 96-well plate reader [9], and are implementing this method for ATP-release experiments. This is quite unique, as this research group is among the few that have implemented this technique in their routine laboratory studies. In the future, these scientists also plan to apply this method to analysis of apoptosis and autophagy. Figure 2. Results Obtained Using GST-TAT-HA-BH4. (A) GST-fusion peptides were expressed in BL21(DE3) after IPTG induction and were purified from the bacterial lysates using Glutathione-Sepharose 4B beads (GE Healthcare). GST-TAT-HA-BH4 was eluted using reduced Glutathione and dialyzed against PBS. Purified proteins were analyzed via SDS-PAGE and stained using SyproOrange™ (BioRad). Molecular weight markers (Mark12; Invitrogen) are indicated on the left of the gels. (B) Sample treated with PreScission Protease™ to remove the GST tag from the TAT-HA-BH4 peptide. (C) First, purification using Centricon® Centrifugal Filter Units (Millipore) with a 30 kDa cut-off. Second, concentration of the remaining sample using a cut-off of 3 kDa. The presence of the HA-tag was confirmed using western blotting analysis and anti-HA antibodies. A Specific Example: The BH4 Domain Dr Bultynck is currently using the MiniGene-to-peptide approach to study the BH4 domains of Bcl-2, an accessory protein that inhibits ER Ca2+ release and apoptosis by binding the regulatory and coupling domains of the IP3 receptor channel [4]. He has found the expressed BH4 domains to be insoluble in aqueous buffers (like their commercially purchased counterparts), making them difficult to work with, but Dr Bultynck is working on ways to overcome this problem. He notes, "We knew from the chemically synthesized peptides that this system would be a challenge, but certainly the MiniGene-to-peptide approach is valid for peptide stretches typically soluble in aqueous solutions." Nevertheless, Giovanni Monaco, a PhD student of the lab, was able to express and purify the GST-TAT-HA-BH4 domain and to remove the GST-tag using the PreScission Protease™ system (Figure 2). Using this method, they obtained the TAT-HA-BH4 peptide at ~ 0.2 μg/μL and a purity of ~70%. Other Approaches: qPCR Screening and RNA Interference In addition to the peptide targeting work, the group is systematically screening cancer cell lines for different channel proteins using IDT PrimeTime qPCR Assays. "The IDT qPCR system generates very reliable results, is cheaper than the other supplier we were using, and we are totally happy with the data we are getting", explains Santeri Kiviluoto, a PhD student in Dr Bultynck's lab. "We also use IDT oligos as sequencing primers and for cloning—we get them quickly and the quality is very good." Dr Bultynck uses RNA interference to knock down expression of channel accessory proteins in mouse embryonic fibroblasts from knockout mice, as well as HeLa and 293HeK cells, which contain high levels of anti-apoptotic proteins, where siRNA interference is easily and very accurately detected. Recently, with the help of Dr Vanoevelen, the group introduced zebrafish as a model system for studying the development and differentiation of evolutionarily conserved proteins that regulate Ca2+ signaling. Looking Ahead… As it becomes clearer which proteins are regulating intracellular Ca2+-release channels, polycystins, and connexin channels, and how they are involved in the control of cellular homeostasis, proliferation, differentiation, and death, novel therapeutic strategies will evolve. Here, the access to samples from human patients via the University Hospital (UK) Leuven (Dr Levtchenko, Dr Janssens, Dr Vandenberghe) and U.Z. Ghent (Dr Offner) is crucial and provides the lab with a translational approach. Cells from blood samples from chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients, and urine from patients diagnosed with polycystic kidney disease allow the lab to address how channel accessory proteins contribute to fundamental signaling processes and how they influence the diseased state and the efficacy of drug regimes. Researcher Profile Prof. Geert Bultynck received his PhD in 2001 for work on binding of immunophilines to intracellular Ca2+ release channel proteins (Humbert De Smedt laboratory). After several postdoctoral fellowships, including one at Stanford University (USA), to address calcineurin and apoptosis targets and Ca2+ channels in neurons, he returned to Belgium to start his own research group. In October 2008, he was appointed Professor at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, in Belgium. His recent work involves the characterization of i) anti-apoptotic Bcl-2-family members in pro-survival Ca2+ signaling, ii) Bax Inhibitor-1 in ER Ca2+, iii) IP3R/Bcl-2 complexes in cancer cells, iv) IP3Rs in autophagy, and v) connexin hemi-channel activity. Along with 3 other principle investigators, Dr Bultynck leads a very motivated team of 2 post docs, 5 PhD students, and 2 technicians. His work is supported by numerous competitive grants from The Research Foundation Flanders and The Research Council of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Dr Bultynck is on the left end of the first row. References 1. Sammels E, Parys JB, et al. (2010) Intracellular Ca2+ storage in health and disease: a dynamic equilibrium. Cell Calcium, 47(4):297−314. 2. D'hondt C, Ponsaerts R, et al. (2011) Pannexin channels in ATP release and beyond: an unexpected rendezvous at the endoplasmic reticulum. Cell Signal, 23(2):305−316. 3. Decuypere JP, Monaco G, et al. (2010) The IP(3) receptor-mitochondria connection in apoptosis and autophagy. Biochim Biophys Acta. Epub. 4. Bultynck G, Heath VL, et al. (2006) Slm1 and slm2 are novel substrates of the calcineurin phosphatase required for heat stress-induced endocytosis of the yeast uracil permease. Mol Cell Biol, 26(12):4729−4745. 5. Ponsaerts R, De Vuyst E, et al. (2010) Intramolecular loop/tail interactions are essential for connexin 43-hemichannel activity. FASEB J, 24(11):4378−4395. 6. Rong YP, Aromolaran AS, et al. (2008) Targeting Bcl-2-IP3 receptor interaction to reverse Bcl-2's inhibition of apoptotic calcium signals. Mol Cell, 31(2):255−265. 7. Sammels E, Devogelaere B, et al. (2010) Polycystin-2 activation by inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate-induced Ca2+ release requires its direct association with the inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor in a signaling microdomain. J Biol Chem. 285(24):18794−18805. 8. Zhong F, Harr MW, et al. (2010) Induction of Ca2+-driven apoptosis in chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells by peptide-mediated disruption of Bcl-2-IP3 receptor interaction. Blood, 117(10):2924−2934. 9. Tovey SC, Sun Y, Taylor CW. (2006) Rapid functional assays of intracellular Ca2+ channels. Nat Protoc, 1(1):259−266. 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Clarkson University Plans to Welcome First Physician Assistant Class in January 2012
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Clarkson University plans to begin offering classes a year from next January for one of U.S. News & World Report's 50 Best Careers of 2010.
A chair has been hired for a new Master of Physician Assistant (PA) Studies program, which is slated to admit its first class in January 2012.
Physician assistants are health professionals licensed to practice medicine with physician supervision. PAs perform a comprehensive range of medical duties, from basic primary care to high-technology specialty procedures. They often act as first or second assistants in major surgery and provide pre- and post-operative care.
Michael B. Whitehead DHSc, RPA-C, who is currently clinical coordinator in the Department of Physician Assistant Studies at Wingate University in Wingate, N.C., has been appointed chair of Physician Assistant Studies and clinical associate professor at Clarkson. He starts this July 1.
In 2008, Clarkson's board of trustees approved the new program, which complements the University's successful Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) program and will be housed in the same facility, Clarkson Hall.
"This new program has the full backing of our board of trustees and is a logical progression from our physical therapy program, which was established more than a decade ago," said Clarkson President Tony Collins. "We have excellent working relationships with our regional health care providers and the right facilities to provide training in this fast-growing field. We hope that our graduates will assist in filling the need for additional medical professionals in northern New York and beyond."
Relocating to the North Country will be a homecoming of sorts for Adams, N.Y., native Michael Whitehead, who graduated from South Jefferson High School and received his associate's degree from Jefferson Community College in Watertown, N.Y. before continuing his education elsewhere.
"I'm excited about coming home to northern New York," says Whitehead. "This program will have the reputation for quality that people expect from Clarkson University. PAs are an important part of improving health care access in northern New York and the U.S. I'm anxious to get started."
The New York State Education Department Board of Regents must first approve the PA program's curriculum, and then the University expects to receive provisional accreditation from the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA) in fall 2011.
Whitehead says that successful applicants to the program will possess a bachelor's degree with a strong background in the sciences, as well as clinical experience. Specific prerequisites will be released at a later date.
Whitehead is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Academy of Physician Assistants and a certified physician assistant. He holds a doctor of health science degree from Nova Southeastern University, a master of physician assistant studies from the University of Nebraska, a bachelor of science in applied science from Creighton University, a bachelor of general studies from Chaminade University of Honolulu, and is a graduate of the U.S. Army Academy of Health Science Physician Assistant Program at Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
In addition to his duties at Wingate University, Whitehead is also a PA at Concentra Medical Centers in Charlotte, N.C., and an adjunct faculty member in the doctor of health science program at the Arizona School of Health Sciences in Mesa, Ariz.
Information about the Master of Physician Assistant (PA) Studies program is available at http://www.clarkson.edu/pa . Inquiries may also be made e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Clarkson University launches leaders into the global economy. One in six alumni already leads as a CEO, VP or equivalent senior executive of a company. Located just outside the Adirondack Park in Potsdam, N.Y., Clarkson is a nationally recognized research university for undergraduates with select graduate programs in signature areas of academic excellence directed toward the world's pressing issues. Through 50 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, arts, sciences and health sciences, the entire learning-living community spans boundaries across disciplines, nations and cultures to build powers of observation, challenge the status quo, and connect discovery and engineering innovation with enterprise.
Photo caption: Michael B. Whitehead DHSc, RPA-C, has been appointed chair of Physician Assistant Studies and clinical associate professor at Clarkson. The new Master of Physician Assistant (PA) Studies program is slated to admit its first class in January 2012.


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Cruach nam Miseag
Loch Fyne to Firth of Clyde and The Kyles of Bute
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The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) will work on SR-138 daily Monday, September 10, through Friday, September 14.
In Segment 5 (Little Rock), from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m., between 77th Street East and 82nd Street East and 85th Street East to 87th Street East, the work will take place in the center of the road way. In Segment 12 (Llano), from
7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., between 165th Street East and 190th Street East, the work will take place on the shoulder of the of the highway.
Local businesses will remain open throughout the duration of construction; however minor delays in traffic and access are anticipated.
Detours will be posted for motorist convenience. The new median turn pockets, new sidewalks, the drainage system improvements and new traffic signal and signal upgrades will enhance safety and reduce congestion.
Completion is estimated for spring 2013. Toro Enterprises Inc. of Oxnard, California is the contractor on this $11.6 million project.
Caltrans advises motorists to "Slow For The Cone Zone."
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I see Sanchez "overthinking" more and more. To me, this comes from above. Schit flows downstream. When your OC is a high strung neurotic full of tight, negative energy, the players do more thinking than reacting.
Sanchez isn't a football dunce. When he's running the two minute drill, or escaping a broken pocket, he actually makes pretty good, quick decisions. These are the "reaction" situations. It's only within the context of a pretty schitty offense that he's forced to play to avoid mistakes, rather than play to make plays.


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SCORE counsels start-up business
More than 40 retired business professionals offer free business counseling to start-up, small business owners.
Through the Lowcountry chapter of Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE), the organization combines the knowledge of retirees to business owners who seek help in making a company or product become successful.
SCORE is a nonprofit association dedicated to entrepreneur education and the formation, growth and success of small businesses nationwide.
The Lowcountry chapter began in 1989 with just a few volunteers, but now staffs about 40 people and helps about 30 clients per month. To expand its services such as marketing strategies, business models advice and financial guidance, SCORE decided to make a goal of hosting 1,200 counseling meetings a year.
Through workshops, the goal is achievable. To help the efforts of nonprofits, a six-week workshop series will begin July 11 specifically to counsel nonprofit leaders. Jim Perry plans to lead a few of the mentoring meetings.
As a retired teacher at George Washington University, Perry decided to join SCORE as a way to continue his love of teaching.
"I've loved the opportunity to continue teaching and combine it with my business experience," Perry said. "These workshops let me teach other business owners how to be successful and ways to build a business model."
Perry said SCORE also hosts high school and college seminars at Hilton Head High School and Technical College of the Lowcountry. The seminars walk students through the steps of what it takes to be a business owner.
When not hosting workshops, SCORE mentors visit clients one-on-one for as long as the business owners feel the need to receive advice. Whether it is restaurants, nonprofits, or spas, SCORE offers free counseling to anyone in need.
R.J. LeTourneau brings more than 40 years of sales and marketing to SCORE with hopes of encouraging his clients to take chances.
"I joined because I wanted to stay active after I retired, but I've come to love helping people take a chance on opening a new business," LeTourneau said.
Steven Roth joined SCORE's efforts because he wanted to give back.
"It's easy to start a business, but a lot of people don't have the education or experience to follow through," Roth said. "To see the look on people's faces after you've helped them carry out their plans of marketing, pricing and making that product successful is amazing."
Jim Montag delved into SCORE three years ago because he wanted to help people achieve their dreams and do it in a way that they're successful. And Ron Baker agrees that helping people pursue a dream of owning a business is worth the hours of mentoring.
"We help small businesses become successful which creates jobs and eventually grows the economy," Baker said.
What: SCORE workshop for nonprofits
When: 5-7 p.m. July 11
Where: Hilton Head-Bluffton Chamber of Commerce, 1 Chamber of Commerce Drive
Details: For more information, call 785-7107 or go to scorehiltonhead.com.


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Bad ideas for party election broadcasts, number 1 in a hopefully very infrequent series: Borrowing the concept of Dr. Pepper adverts, we go for 'vote Liberal Democrat – what's the worst that could happen?'
I guess we need to wait till the final week for the Daily Mail to do their 'welcome to Nick Clegg's Britain' fantasy to find the answer, but I expect it to be one of the so-bad-it's-good classics. I'm predicting starring roles for Lembit Opik and Evan Harris as Chancellor and Secretary of State for Destroying Everything Britain Stands For, while Buckingham Palace probably gets closed down and moved to a field outside Brussels to serve as Herman von Rompuy's holiday home.
So, the first votes of the election have been cast and are now sitting in post boxes, delivery vans and sorting offices waiting to be delivered. I still vote in person, mainly because I live very close to my polling station and thus always seem to be the person who gets volunteered to do the first hour or two of telling there, which means I can normally be the first person to vote there too. There's something about the experience of going into a polling station and putting my cross on a piece of paper or two that makes me think 'is that it? Next time I vote, I want to be using a decent electoral system.'
Still, at least I won't be trying to place a cross on the ballot paper while holding my nose, unlike Polly Toynbee, who's doing her bit for the environment by recycling ideas from 2005. I have the feeling that if the Government depicted in Torchwood: Children of Earth was a Labour one, Polly Toynbee would still be arguing that they needed to be supported. Yes, they may have wanted to hand over 10% of the country's children to the 456, but that at least helped to create more vacancies at Sure Start centres. Anyway, James Graham said everything I wanted to say on this without introducing drug-addicted aliens into the argument.
Meanwhile, today's 'Really? Wow! Thank God you mentioned that, we'd never have thought of it ourselves' award goes to Sunny Hundal for this piece of advice to the Liberal Democrats:
Identifying Lib Dem pockets of voters and organising activists to start knocking on doors on polling day to get them out would be another strategy Cowley Street is or should be thinking about.
Yes, fellow Lib Dems, we're going to have to stop spending our election days sitting on the sofa drinking beer and catching up with all the exciting developments we've missed on Doctors during the campaign. Apparently – and I know this will be news to all of you out there – if we had some way of finding out which voters were likely to support us, we could then spend polling day making sure we get them to go out and vote. I'll be sure to mention this brand new idea to the campaign team at the nest meeting.
For today's campaigning, we got to pretend to be postmen in a sorting office, taking the large numbers of letters that have been addressed and stuffed over the past few weeks and arranging them ready for delivery. Another of those dull jobs that doesn't get reported on as part of campaigning, but helps get a lot of people voting.


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Farrell will rotate DH spot while Ortiz is out
By Ian Browne / MLB.com
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- With David Ortiz all but certain to spend the early portion of the season on the disabled list, manager John Farrell indicated that the Red Sox will probably use a committee of designated hitters during the slugger's absence.
"Those conversations are starting," said Farrell, "and it's just talking about the combination of guys who might be in a bench slot to more regular at-bats DH-wise. We're by no means at a point of saying, 'This is who our DH is going to be or this is who else is going to be on the roster,' but those conversations are happening more in earnest."
Daniel Nava, Lyle Overbay, Mike Carp, Ryan Sweeney, Brock Holt and Pedro Ciriaco are all players battling for roster spots and perhaps at-bats while Ortiz is out of the mix.
"We envision it as being a little bit of a rotation, so not to say one person would be strictly a DH," Farrell said. "That's an initial approach. To say that it would be a drastic shift to a player's routine or staying loose in between at-bats to what they might not otherwise be accustomed to, we haven't pinpointed one guy. We don't have another David Ortiz."
There are still too many moving parts for Farrell to have a clear idea of what his lineup will look like during Ortiz's temporary absence.
"Again, we've got competition that's going on in camp," Farrell said. "We've got probably three or four different options and combinations that we can fill that out with. Obviously it's a good question, but until we know who that personnel is, we'll respond accordingly."
Wright among latest round of cuts
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- The Red Sox had their second round of cuts on Tuesday, sending five players to the Minors, including knuckleballer Steven Wright.
Wright has spent time during camp working with 200-game winner Tim Wakefield, and the club is still confident Wright can help at some point -- perhaps even this season.
The 28-year-old Wright converted to a knuckleballer a couple of years ago.
"He is someone who is still working to repeat his delivery, to gain some control over the knuckleball, which I know is a little bit of a contradictory type of statement, but as we mentioned to Steven on the way out, he's in the right place," manager John Farrell said. "He's in an organization that embraces the knuckleball and a knuckleball pitcher -- and yet he's still a work in progress."
Wright and outfielder Alex Hassan were both optioned to Triple-A Pawtucket. First baseman/outfielder Mark Hamilton was re-assigned to Minor League camp, as were outfielders Jeremy Hazelbaker and Juan Carlos Linares and right-hander right-hander Pedro Beato.
Worth noting
• Right-hander Alfredo Aceves, who returned from the World Baseball Classic on Monday, will get back into a game for the Red Sox in a Minor League game on Wednesday, an off-day for the team. Aceves will throw an inning in the Minors and pitch for the Red Sox on Saturday in Port Charlotte against the Rays.
• Stephen Drew's symptoms have lessened from the minor concussion he suffered last week, and Farrell said the shortstop could resume baseball activities by Thursday, provided he passes the mandatory concussion test provided by Major League Baseball.
"He's improved today; he'll go through some exertion tests on the bike," Farrell said. "We're hopeful that he'll be back on the field for a day of work on Thursday. There's improvement being made."
Ian Browne is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Brownie Points, and follow him on Twitter @IanMBrowne This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Every neighborhood has a homeowner who goes all out for the holidays. And in most cases, they don't do it for themselves. They do it for us.
The effort, time and expense it takes to create the fun house on the block come from devoted decoration collectors who take it over the top for Halloween.
We love the scary houses. Scary offers a whole new meaning to a single piece of candy when you think of the spooky passages we endure to get it.
Halloween hasn't gotten scarier over the years. If anything, it has gotten tamer over the centuries.
Halloween's roots are with the Celtic festival of Samhain that celebrates the end of the harvest. What's more, Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 divide the year between the light and dark seasons. The Gaels believed that the spirits came Oct. 31 to claim victims for the next year.
The Gaels knew that weaker villagers wouldn't survive the dark winter ahead. So costumes were worn to scare ghosts away from the village.
Fortunes were told, bonfires were set and food and wine were offered from door to door. Gourds and turnips were hollowed out to hold embers from the fire.
More than a million Irish and Scots immigrants brought a version All Hallows Eve to North America in the 1800s during the potato famine. Today, Halloween is second to Christmas in sales of costumes, candy and decorations, according to the History Channel.
This week, we take a look at some of the themes in neighborhoods around Orange County.
Haunted manor
Michelle Zamora in the Floral Park area of Santa Ana says Halloween is her favorite.
"It's always fun to be scared," she said.
Her English-manor-style house on Park Avenue is a perfect backdrop for her graveyard theme, complete with a giant ghoul over the door.
"It reminds me of the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland," she said.
Yo, ho, ho
Todd and Martha Thompson on 19th Street in Costa Mesa built an elaborate pirate ship in their front yard.
"My husband has an affinity for ships," Martha said. "He lived on a fishing boat in Newport Beach during his high school years."
The Thompsons always have gone all out for the holidays. When their son dressed up as "Pirates of the Caribbean's" Jack Sparrow and surrounded himself with tiki torches to give away candy five years ago, they were inspired to take their pirate ideas over the top.
The whole family pitched in to help build the ship that they store on the side of the house in the off-season. Every year they add more to the scene.
"We met a little girl and her mother," Martha said. "The mother told us that they drove by our house every day after school because her daughter wanted to see the ship.
"Then one day she asked her mother for a pirate costume for Halloween. Her mother asked why, and the girl said because the sign out front said 'Pirates Only' and she wanted to trick-or-treat at our house."
They stopped counting trick-or-treaters last year when they hit 2,000, Martha said.
Having the popular house in the neighborhood can get expensive. Martha said friends and neighbors donate candy to offset the expense.
Hauntingly romantic
Designer Diane von Gerichten and her husband, Robert, on Palmyra Street in Old Towne Orange have a different take. Theirs is a romantic and hauntingly beautiful scene that works with their Victorian home.
"We don't want to make it too scary for the kids," Diane said. "We like to make happy memories for them."
The von Gerichtens put a lot of their efforts into the lighting. And their collection of antiques means it doesn't take much to make a spooky scene.
"We're just about done with our Halloween décor, but we add more crows every year," she said. �
Diane has always loved dressing up. Her mother was a seamstress. And Halloween was her favorite dress-up day.
"Walking up to a door and not knowing what to expect was the best part for me," she said.
The von Gerichtens estimate they get about 1,500 trick-or-treaters on Halloween night.
"In fact, there are so many fog machines on our street, it's positively spooky," she said.
Cute and coastal
Donna Hood on Coral Street on Balboa Island leans toward cute for her eight grandchildren who celebrate Halloween at her house.
"The island is a great and safe place for trick-or- treating," Hood said. "We get hundreds of kids here."
Donna favors pirates for her coastal home, and her daughter adds the spooky spider accents.
"It's a party night for us," Hood said. "The parents come by, we serve chili, and we all sit on the porch and enjoy the children. Everybody on the island is welcoming."
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This morning, Audi won their second 24 hour race in a week at the Nurburgring 24 hour race. Right now, I'm waiting for my parents to arrive with my groceries and such.
I don't have much else planned, though I do plan on watching the NASCAR race later on, as it's also on a road course, as well as some gaming and such. Probably no or not much fan fic work tonight, since I do have work tomorrow.
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As is the case with adults, some babies sleep on their backs, some on their stomachs and some on their sides. Beckett is now doing it all, and it's freaking me out.
Up until the last couple weeks, our little boy has always been a back sleeper with his favorite position being the one with his arms curled up around his head, his legs spread wide apart and his mouth slightly agape. It's a sight to behold and there's something about the purity and innocence that touches my heart whenever I find him in his crib in this position. It confirms for me all is well in his world, which essentially revolves around eating, sleeping, jumping, screaming, giggling and playing. I'm jealous.
Unfortunately, what's putting the fear of you know what in me these days is the fact he is tossing and turning in his sleep and seems to prefer his stomach to his back. He does not seem to have much interest in sleeping on his side. It's either the back or the stomach for our son, and we are still trying to overcome the anxiety associated with the facedown sleeping, which has become the norm.
The problem here is we have read too much, specifically about Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), the rate of which can be severely diminished by having your child sleep on his or her back. Additionally, we have come across too many horror stories about babies suffocating in their cribs because they were placed on their stomach and were not strong enough to roll over on their own.
Consequently, my wife and I have been over-educated and become a tad neurotic. I fully admit I have a tendency to be compulsive when it comes to certain things, but my wife has me beaten on the obsessive front, particularly when it comes to our child. Of course, there is nothing wrong with this, it's just a sign of overwhelming love and a natural instinct of wanting to protect. That's a good thing, so long as one of us maintains a grip on reality and keeps some sanity in the house.
It's for this reason the baby video monitor stays on my side of the bed at night. After a few nights of letting my wife keep it on her side, we soon realized that would not work. She was unable to refrain from staring at the monitor incessantly, listening for the reassurance of breathing sounds and watching to ensure his chest was moving up and down. Therefore, we keep the monitor on my side of the bed.
What's happening these days is Beckett has transitioned into an active sleeper. One night last week I woke up and looked over at the monitor to get a status update and he was gone. There was nothing to see but an empty mattress, resulting in pure panic on my end and a quick leap out of bed to see what he was up to in there. I knew better than to think he had gotten out of his crib, reminding myself he's just now sitting up by himself and beginning to crawl.
I had to explore what the little guy was up to and I was shocked at what I saw. He had somehow managed to get to the end of the bed and was sleeping sideways with a leg propped up on a side of the crib, a pacifier in his right hand and a railing in the other. The good news was he was sleeping on his back, but he had managed to get himself to the end of the crib and arranged so that he was taking up the entire width of the crib. None of this could be seen on the video monitor, leaving a lot to the imagination.
On another occasion, around 4 a.m., I checked out the video monitor to see only a little butt in the air and two legs kicking with vigor. Again, it goes without saying that I needed a look. When I walked into the room, I discovered Beckett sticking his little arm out through the opening of the side of his crib in an effort to reach his trusty pacifier that had fallen to the floor. It seems his depth perception is a little off because he was a good two feet away and did not stand a chance of getting a mitt on it, but I admire his tenacity.
There he was butt up in the air, feet kicking, arm through the railing and head perched against the side of the crib in the wee hours trying with all his might to reach the pacifier he had probably thrown on the floor minutes earlier. It was a strange and funny scene, to say the least. Once I came to his rescue, he rolled over on to his back, opened his mouth for the bink and fell back asleep immediately.
By the time I had gotten back to bed, I looked at the video monitor and found he had rolled over to his stomach, bringing me back to his room, on my knees, peeking through the crib to make sure his nose was not flat down on the mattress and determining if I could put a finger between his nose and the mattress. I feel at peace when I can slip my finger between his nose and the mattress It's silly, yes, but necessary, absolutely. Did I say my wife was a bit obsessive? Obviously, the same goes for me.
All in all, slowly but surely, I have become comfortable, or at ease as much as I ever will be, with his new sleeping habits. It took some getting used to, but once I realized he was able to breath just fine on his stomach I was okay. It sounds crazy, I know, but it's a lot to deal with at first. My wife, on the other hand, is still struggling with it. It's that whole neuroses thing flaring up again, but she will soon be fine and adapt.
The best news out of all this is he's sleeping better than ever, most nights 12-plus hours. That's another adjustment, but Pam and I have come to terms with this change immediately. That was not difficult to accept, but no surprise there.


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Conference "Europe of Citizens - The Political Architecture of Europe and Citizens' Influence on its Shape"
14th May 2005 - Information Office of the Council of Europe
The Political Architecture of Europe and Citizens' Influence on its Shape", co-organized with the Representation of the H.Böll Foundation in Poland, under the auspices of the President of Poland, Mr. Aleksander Kwaśniewski, and the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Mr. Terry Davis.
The conference is topically linked with the Summit, at which heads of state and government will be discussing the future role of the Organization, its new goals and tasks, and new principles of European co-operation.
The conference agenda includes a discussion on the future political architecture of Europe - and the role and influence of Europe's citizens in determining its democratic shape and development.
The debate will take into account the perspective of both the "new" and "old" countries of the European Union, as well as Council members that are outside the Union's new borders.
Those invited include the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, the Foreign Ministers of Poland, Ukraine and Germany, as well as representatives of non-governmental and academic organizations from various European countries. It will be held at the Belweder Palace in Warsaw, on 14th May 2005, with representatives of the scientific, legal and political communities of Poland and neighbouring states among the invited participants.
The promotion of a book titled "Poland and the Council of Europe, 1990- 2005" will take place during the conference.


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For example if we use the current equation for a possession using last years numbers.
*All per game league averages
pts per game = 96.3 FGA = 81.4 FTA = 16.9 TO = 14.6 OREB = 11.4
So what we currently get is 96.3/[81.4 + 16.9(0.47) + 14.6 - 11.4] = 1.04 pts per possession
Using the equation I offered we get 96.3/[81.4 + 16.9(0.47) + 14.6 = 0.93 pts per possession
So the league currently averages 104 pts per 100 possessions. Using the equation I offered we get 93 pts per 100 possessions. You can ofcourse do the above and calculate each individual teams average possessions, rebounds per possession, assists per possession etc etc etc. Then compare against the league or another team etc.
Its the same method, with a different equation and therefore different results. So one can still get per possessional efficiency, its just going to be different than what it currently is. (each action per possession will on average be less valuable than how its currently calculated)
I'd argue that accuracy is more revealing than convience. Personally I think measuring the equation by using -OREB is definetely more convient. 1) its always been that way, so continually measuring it that way is convient (especially when comparing against historic numbers). 2) it makes possession equal (in any given game) which makes it easier to compare at a game level.
BUT, if its less accurate than thats not really an excuse. Or atleast shouldn't be. It would be an absolute ton of work to go back and 'correct' old data - yet if we can make that work more accurate, its benificial in the long run
Bold 2 - I'm not saying its necessarily better (I mean I DO think it is, but thinking it is and it being so are two different things). What I really want to know is why does a possession need to be considered over only when the ball changes hands as opposed to when the shooting team gives up control? Or why is that a more reasonable way to value it? It seems rather arbitrary when we consider the rules of the NBA. Its not illogical, after all in most sports we consider a possession over when the ball changes hands. But NBA basketball, with its unique limit on how long one can control the ball (ie. the shot clock) may demand a different view.
Both equations I provided are simple measure of the number of possessions. The say nothing other than 'how do we measure a possession'. But this is also what all box score stats are derived from - its from here they get the estimated value of any actions. So if the average number of possessions per game changes, it will definetely effect the value of all statistics in a game. (as I showed by pts/possession)
Bold 3 - I kind of addressed this already, but it most definetely will effect how each individual players action is valued. Without going into too much detail, how rebounds and missed shots are measured are signficantly different, resulting in much different values (it is one of, if not the, greatest inconsistency between metrics). This would completely alter how PER or WP goes about measuring those particular statistics. I can go into alot more detail into that, but it would have to be extensive and so I don't want to do that without you (or anyone) interested in a more extensive explanation.


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Housing: The council discussed the latest Association of Bay Area Governments housing projections. Action: None
Council Finance Committee (July 19)
Garbage: The committee recommended adding a $4.62 fee to residential trash bills effective Oct. 1. Yes: Unanimous
Board of Education (July 20)
Facilities: The board approved contracts for construction of a new gymnasium at Gunn High School and the installation of six portable classrooms at Jordan Middle School. Yes: Unanimous
Utilities Advisory Commission (July 20)
Gas supply: The commission recommended continuing the current policy of keeping gas rates flat for a year and changing rates only once a year. The commission also specified that supply rates should change by no more than 20 percent in any one year. Yes: Berry, Eglash, Foster, Keller, Melton, Waldfogel Absent: Cook
Calaveras: The commission recommended using all funds in the Calaveras Reserve for electricity projects and rejected a staff proposal to split the reserve and to use some of the funds to reimburse ratepayers. The commission also recommended establishing guidelines to determine which projects should be funded by the reserve. Yes: Berry, Eglash, Foster, Keller, Melton, Waldfogel Absent: Cook
Officers: The commission elected Jonathan Foster as its chair and William Berry as its vice chair. Yes: Berry, Eglash, Foster, Keller, Melton, Waldfogel Absent: Cook
Human Relations Commission (July 20)
Updates: The commission heard updates on Project Safety Net and on Youth Recognition and discussed its upcoming retreat with the City Council. Action: None
Council Rail Committee (July 21)
Caltrain: The committee discussed Caltrain's planned electrification and considered the city's position on the project. The committee recommended questions for Caltrain to consider, including whether the federal and state laws mandating environmental analysis for the project override each other. Yes: Unanimous
Architectural Review Board (July 21)
2875 El Camino Real: The board reviewed 2875 El Camino Real, a proposal by Ken Hayes of Hayes Group Architects for a new 3,250-square-foot, one-story retail and office building. The board voted to continue the project to a later date because the noticing period for the environmental analysis has not concluded. Yes: Unanimous
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