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Massey Ferguson is part of AGCO Corporation and is one of the biggest names in farm equipment throughout the world with a 150 year history
Massey Ferguson is part of AGCO Corporation and is one of the biggest names in farm equipment throughout the world with a 150 year history
In a humble tool shed in New Castle, Ontario, Daniel Massey begins manufacturing simple farm implements.
The company entered a period of rapid growth, with the acquisition of proven American innovations such as the Ketchum grass mower and Massey combined hand rake reaper mower.
The company's proprietary advances in harvesting equipment were chosen for display at the International Industrial Exhibition in Paris, France.
Canada's top two farm equipment companies merge to form Massey-Harris Limited.
Harry Ferguson patents the 3-point hitch. In various forms, it is still used on virtually all tractors today.
Massey-Harris produces the General Purpose (GP) which was the first tractor designed and built by Massey-Harris.
In Canada, Massey-Harris perfects the first self-propelled combine, with its own engine and power train.
During World War II, Massey-Harris manufactures tanks, howitzers, wings for mosquito fighterbombers, 40mm shells, naval gun mounts and bodies for ambulances and troop carriers.
Harry Ferguson opens the Banner Lane plant in Coventry, England, which grows to become the world's largest factory devoted solely to the production of tractors.
Massey-Harris and Ferguson merge.
Introduction of first 4-wheel drive tractors, MF1500 & MF1800, powered by a Caterpillar V8 diesel engine.
Introduction of the first V8-powered, fixed frame row crop tractor - the MF1150.
The company's first compact tractor, the Massey Ferguson 205, is introduced. In the same year, Massey Ferguson pioneers the electronic 3-point hitch.
The "Equipment Manufacturers Institute" recognizes the Massey Ferguson selfpropelled combine as one of the "100 Most Significant Contributions" to the mechanization of agriculture.
Massey Ferguson showcases its exclusive Autotronic and Datatronic Systems, designed to enhance tractor control.
Massey Ferguson combines offer optional yield meters operating in sync with the Global Positioning System, making it possible to map yields while harvesting.
Massey Ferguson introduces the Dyna-6 transmission. Developed in Germany, it becomes the forerunner of today's Dyna-VT™ – the most advanced Continuously Variable Transmission available and the world's only clutchless, stepless CVT.
Massey Ferguson introduces the 8780 Class VI rotary combine, designed to satisfy the increasing demand for high performing, mechanically simple, reliable machines.
Massey Ferguson adopts ISOBUS technology, becoming a leader in achieving "plug & play" capability with other ISOBUS- compatible equipment.
Massey Ferguson and Hesston join forces to produce the new Hesston Series complete line of hay equipment.
Perfected in France, the company's new Dynamic Tractor Management (DTM) system is introduced, allowing the engine and transmission to work as one, by monitoring engine and transmission ratios to achieve an optimum match for any given task.
Massey Ferguson introduces the model 9250 DynaFlex combine. It features the industry's first draper header with a fully flexible cutterbar, delivering increased performance and capacity in soybeans and small grains
Massey Ferguson brings the new 7600 Series mid-frame row crop tractors to market, with higher horsepower, new cab options and significant advances in efficiency and productivity.
With the introduction of its state-ofthe- art 9500 Series combines, Massey Ferguson brings North American harvesters ultimate capacity without complexity.


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"I hadn't felt that alive - and I didn't realize it, for 15 years. Because like I said, I was content, but when I heard the song with Robin Zander, I was just so excited to be alive - it was a pivotal moment in my life, and that's when I knew. 'Count me in - let's do this thing, let's do something - that's when it happened."
Jake E. Lee is kind of like the Garbo of rock 'n' roll. On top of the world one minute, then gone with little more than a trace for the next fifteen years. But, unlike Garbo, Jake came back - how long will he stay? Well, that remains to be seen, but in the meantime it's damned good to have him back treading the boards and playing as well as ever. His new band is Red Dragon Cartel, and after a rough start, they look like they'll be just fine.
I can only imagine what Lee was feeling like after being dragged across the coals of the fiery and impersonal Internet after the band's lead singer, Darren James Smith, got a bad case of the nerves before the band's first show and a few cocktails became something of a drunken brawl. But, hey, it's rock 'n' roll, and Smith showed his mettle by being humble and putting on a helluva show a few nights later in San Diego. One things for sure, it can only get better from here, and I'm of the opinion that this band has a very cool future.
I caught up with Jake two days after the San Diego show, and in spite of being in promo/press tour hell, he was in good spirits and we had a bunch of laughs about it all.
Jake E. Lee: "I'm great - you're my 47th interview, but other than that! It's cool, it's gotta be done, a necessary evil, I suppose."
I asked if he was having as much fun as it looked like on Sunday evening at the Brick By Brick club in San Diego:
Jake E. Lee: "I did have a much better time on that second show, haha! Because now, everybody knows about that first one. Yeah, yeah - the good part is that we'll never be scrutinized and under the magnifying glass as much as at that first show again, and there's no way we'll ever be that bad again.
"Darren told me later he was really nervous, which I never even considered. I probably should have given him some words of encouragement beforehand, but he's a singer! Singers are usually cocky!"I offered that most singers aren't following in the footsteps of Ozzy Osbourne and Ray Gillen - even if it was years ago:
Jake E. Lee: "Yeah, that's true."
But, he fucking blew the first show, that was pretty clear, but he came back and had a great show in San Diego:
Jake E. Lee: "Yeah, he did, and he helped to redeem himself.
"Because I caught a lot of shit about the first show, too. All those comments, 'What was Jake thinking?'"I mentioned that the comments were, par for the course of the Internet, very harsh and nasty. I may have used the word vituperative:
Jake E. Lee: "Well, that's because it's not face to face, and they don't have to worry about getting their ass kicked!
"But yeah, I got a lot of, 'What was Jake thinking' - obviously, I wasn't thinking that! It's not like he showed up to the audition and he was drunk and didn't know the words, and did that.
"C'mon, I've been around this for a long time, there's a reason I picked him as our lead singer. It may not have shown through on the first gig, but it'll be obvious, and it was obvious at that second show - that's why I picked him."
I guessed that by summer the band will be out kicking ass on the Festival circuit and it will all be forgotten:
Jake E. Lee: "Yeah - I hope so, because it was brutal! Just brutal comments on that first show.
"We did our worst show ever. Now, we don't have to worry about that! We took care of that right off the bat!"
I have to give Jake great credit for standing by his guy, and facing things head on - he laughed about what could only really be laughed about, and moved on - grace under fire. I moved forward, asking how Ron Mancuso got the ball rolling for Red Dragon Cartel:
Jake E. Lee: "Well, I was in retirement, basically, and maybe not happy, but content.
"Because I had a great run - I was with Ozzy, I had Badlands, I made music I was proud of, got to play with a lot of great people, and I figured my time was up, so I was cool with doing anything anymore. But when I moved to Vegas, I didn't really have that many friends, or know that many people - I just wanted to get out of LA, and get a change of scenery.
"One of the few friends I did have was Pete Reveen from Salty Dog, and he knew Ron. He said, 'Hey, Ron wants to hook up with you again, because I hadn't seen Ron in twenty years. So, I went down, and me and Ron reconnected - he said, 'By the way, I'm doing a video for Beggars & Thieves in a couple of days and I'm having people do some cameos, would you do one?'"
"So - I checked the TV schedule to make sure there weren't any important shows on that night! There weren't, so I said, 'Sure, why not? I'll come down and do a cameo,' no big deal.
"They did the video, and they put it out, and then Ron called, and he said, 'Hey, have you checked out the video?'"
"I said, 'Uh....no. He said, 'Well, it's on YouTube,' so I said, 'Yeah, maybe I'll check it out.
"And he said, 'No - check it out. And read the comments.' I was like, 'Huh? Yeah, whatever.'
"So - I went and I checked out the video, and I started reading the comments, and there were so many about my little appearance in that video. 'Oh my God, he's still alive.' 'Oh, he didn't get fat and bald!' 'Look, he can still stand on two feet and hold a guitar!'
"There was a lot of people saying, 'Oh, does this mean something?' and it didn't, y'know?
"It was a casual thing, but there was a lot of people, a lot of support, like, 'Jake's coming back, he's doing something again!' - and that was never the intent, but there were so many comments. So, I read all these heartwarming comments."
I asked what happened next:
Jake E. Lee: "A couple of days later, Ron called, and said, 'Can you come down? Me and Kevin Churko want to talk to you.
"Ron has a studio, and it's right next to Kevin's and obviously having worked with Ozzy, Kevin knew who I was, so I came down and Kevin and Ron sat down, and said, 'Look - apparently, there's a lot of interest, a lot of love for you out there, do you want to do something?'
"And I was like, 'Eh....not really. I mean, I'm not really doing anything, but no - I don't have any strong desire to like come back out and do something.'
"They said, 'Well, let's just take it really easy - why don't you just come down to the studio, bring some ideas with you, and you and Ron....' Because Ron actually helped write Rock 'n' Roll Rebel for Bark At The Moon. So we already had that relationship. 'Why don't you come down, you and Ron write some songs together, and see if you get some chemistry going, and take it from there? No commitment, just see if it feels good to you.'
"So, that's what I did. I went down to the studio and I'd show him some ideas, because I had been writing music the whole time - the 15 year absence was more of a 'done with the business' thing. You know, I didn't need all that shit - but music is still in me.
"Especially with computers, and all that - it gave me a fresh approach where you could write it all yourself, which was kind of hard to do before that without a home studio. You could do it with a computer, so I continued to write throughout that 15 year period, and I had a lot of ideas. I had complete songs even.
"I brought them to Ron, and we started working on them - the first song we finished was Feeder, and still the point was like, 'Are we doing anything?' 'We're writing songs let's see what happens - I'm not making any promises, or anything.'
"And they were cool about that - we did Feeder, Ron sang the vocal melody on it, and Ron's a horrible singer! So we're listening to it, and I said, 'You know what? Robin Zander would be great on this song, I wonder if there's any way we could get Robin Zander to sing on it?'
"Ron knows (Cheap Trick bassist) Tom Petersson, so he said, 'I'll call Tom and see if Robin would do anything like that.' And Robin got a copy of the song and he said, 'Oh, I'd love to do that.' He recorded it in Florida, and sent the tracks back to us here in Vegas. Ron put Zander's vocals into the song that we had finished, and he said, 'Hey - why don't you come down and listen to this?'
"So, I came down, and it was a pivotal moment.
"I hadn't done anything in a long time, hadn't worked with other musician in a long time. And to hear a song we had written, and hear Robin Zander on vocals, and Jeremy from Five Finger Death Punch on drums, Tom Petersson on bass - listening to the song....
"I hadn't felt that alive - and I didn't realize it, for 15 years. Because like I said, I was content, but when I heard the song with Robin Zander, I was just so excited to be alive - it was a pivotal moment in my life, and that's when I knew. 'Count me in - let's do this thing, let's do something - that's when it happened."
Now that there was a project, it was time to find a band - Lee and Mancuso turned to the Internet, asking for applicants, which led to the selection of Darren James Smith on vocals and Jonas Fairley on drums. I asked what it was like to have hundreds of applicants for the role of lead singer:
Jake E. Lee: "Yeah, we had a lot! You know how it is with the Internet, people sending in videos of their dogs singing.
"Ron went through most of them, because there were so many applicants - that, I was surprised about. So, I had Ron go through them, and he narrowed it down to like 20-25, and one of the first one's he showed me was Darren's. And before that, he had asked me, 'What are we looking for?' I told him that I didn't have any pre-conceived notions of what we're looking for, I'll just know it when I see it.
"As soon as he played me Darren's, I said, 'That - we're looking for something like that.' Ron said, 'Well, we've still got another 20, or so to go,' and I said, 'Oh, I'll watch them all, but right now that's what we're looking for, and that's what we'll compare everybody else to.'
"We went through all the other videos, and there were some really, really good singers, definitely, that would have had a shot except they had to go up against Darren. We compared them all, and Darren just always won out. So, in the end, one of the first guys I saw ended up being the singer."
Darren James Smith makes his presence known immediately on Red Dragon Cartel's opening cut, Deceived. It's also the cut on the album that most closely resembles Jake's signature riffing on Bark At The Moon. I asked Jake if this was an old chestnut he had kept around:
Jake E. Lee: "No! Actually, it's the opposite - of course, I know what you're saying, but it was the last track we wrote for the record.
"I was coming to the studio and listening to the radio, and Bark At The Moon came on - I'm listening to it, and it had been a while since I had heard it. I was like, 'Wow! That was a really significant song, it has a very particular guitar pattern. I'm listening and thinking, I never wrote anything else like that, and that the first song most people heard from me was Bark At The Moon!
"It's weird that I never wrote another song in that vein with Ozzy. Thirty years on, I'm like, 'Eh, it would be really cool to write another song like that, at least using that particular guitar pattern.
"We went into the studio, and I said, 'Bark At The Moon. I want to do something along those lines, because it's been thirty years now, and I think it would be really cool.'
"So, we came up with some new chords and a new way to do it, so yeah, it does reference Bark At The Moon, but it was the newest song we wrote."
I asked if Darren had contributed to the writing, or if it was done before he had landed the gig as lead singer:
Jake E. Lee: "Darren was the last guy in - we got Jonas first and by the time we finally got Darren, most of it was written.
"In fact, Jonas came down from Canada when we auditioned Darren, and we already had most of the songs written. We were actually still working on Deceived and War Machine. But, Darren could only stay a day, or two because of something to do with visas, or whatever. Jonas has more time with us - he stayed a little longer and he contributed to those songs.
"So he was the only one except for me and Ron that contributed to the writing, at least tom the band - we also had Kane Churko helping with the writing.
"So, Darren wasn't able to contribute to this record, but if there is another record - and I'm not saying that ominously, obviously the record company expects there to be another record - but it all depends on how I feel at the end of all of this. Maybe there will be, maybe there won't.
"Yeah, walking away was a lot easier than you'd think. It just involves sitting in front on the couch and watching TV."
Jake E. Lee is a unique guitarist - his style is idiosyncratic, and not at all static - it's easy to understand how it might be tough for a singer to write alongside. In fact, though not many know it, Lee was briefly the guitarist in the formative version of Dio, and Ronnie found the business not to his liking, preferring bigger block chords to sing over:
Jake E. Lee: "Hmmmm.....well, that might be true - and Vivian is a great player, but he did songs I jammed on with Ronnie and Vinnie, with Ronnie playing bass. One in particular was Holy Diver, and my parts, I remember my parts to this day, were more intricate than what Vivian ended up playing, and I think Ronnie was looking for that, just a simple rhythm and that's kind of hard for me to do."
Looking back at LA in the mid-80s with players like Eddie Van Halen, Randy Rhoads, George Lynch, Warren DiMartini, and Lee, I wondered if there was something in the water - there hasn't been a group of players that great to come from one scene since:
Jake E. Lee: "Yeah, that is funny - I mean it's weird. Because there was Van Halen in '78, then Randy in '79/80. LA, as far as California, LA was the only place to be. Warren and I grew up in San Diego, and I moved to LA first, because you were never going to get anywhere in San Diego.
"I needed to move up to LA, but first I had the same thought, like, 'Shit, Eddie Van Halen came out, shit, Randy Rhoads came out, are they all fucking great up there? What's the deal?
"So, I asked a friend who lived up in LA to name me the top 5 guitar players in town. I wanted to check out their bands before I moved up there - I remember George was one, Carlo Cavaso, another guy from a band called Seagull, so anyway, I went and saw all these guitar players, and said, 'Yeah, they're good, but I'm not going to say that they're better than me. I'm moving up!
"Yeah, I don't know what the deal was, it was like Southern California in a short period of time produced a lot of really great guitar players."
We were running out of time, and Jake had to get on to interview #48, so I wrapped things up by asking if he had heard about the Randy Rhoads Remembered show that Brian Tichy was organizing for January 25th at The Observatory in Santa Ana:
Jake E. Lee: "Yeah! Actually, I just got an e-mail from Tichy about it!
"I'm not sure about our touring schedule right now, but I did e-mail him back, and said, 'Hey, don't count me out - let me see what's going on,' so I might get to participate in that!
"I did one before, way back, probably in '88, or something. I played in that one with Glenn Hughes, Dimebag - that was where I met Dimebag, and it was a fun time! So yeah, there is a possibility that I'll do something in that, as long as our touring schedule permits. Tichy - I've never heard him play drums, and I hear he's an amazing drummer - I've only seen him play guitar in S.U.N. with Sass (Jordan), and he's a really good guitar player! He's just one of those multi-talented motherfuckers, hahaha!"
And, so it was, that Jake is having fun, staying humble, and currently cool with being back in the thick of it:
Jake E. Lee: "Yeah, it's actually very cool doing it - it's better than I thought it would be. It's just really, really cool."
Thanks to Jake E. Lee, Red Dragon Cartel, Kevin Chiaramonte at PFA, Dustin Hardman, and Peter Noble at Noble PR.
Pre-order Red Dragon Cartel Here!

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Consensus Report
The Potential Consequences of Public Release of Food Safety and Inspection Service Establishment-Specific Data (2011)Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources
Each report is produced by a committee of experts selected by the Academy to address a particular statement of task and is subject to a rigorous, independent peer review; while the reports represent views of the committee, they also are endorsed by the Academy. Learn more on our expert consensus reports.
Report in Brief >>
The release of food safety data gathered during federal inspections of meat, poultry, and egg product processing establishments such as slaughterhouses, warehouses, and retail stores would help increase transparency and could lead to improvements in public health. For example, purchasers, consumers, and public interest organizations could use the data to identify companies with performance records consistently above or below the industry average, potentially creating economic pressures on food processing establishments to improve food safety. However, in order to maximize its effectiveness and minimize unintended adverse consequences, data release should be guided by a carefully designed information-disclosure strategy.
Key Messages
- During the course of its testing, sampling, inspection and enforcement activities, the Food Safety and Inspection Service collects large volumes of food safety data, some of which are made publicly available on its website. However, most of these data are aggregated, for example by geographic region, production type, establishment size, and pathogen, and in most cases there is insufficient information provided to link data to specific food industry establishments. While the public can obtain some disaggregated data through the Freedom of Information Act, initiating and responding to Freedom of Information Act requests can be time-consuming and costly for the requester and the Food Safety and Inspection Service.
- In recent years there have been efforts to facilitate openness in government, including an administration requirement for federal agencies to publish information online in a timely manner and in a format that can be easily retrieved, downloaded, and indexed by the public without the need for Freedom of Information Act requests. As part of these efforts, the Food Safety and Inspection Service is now considering giving the public access to its establishment-specific food safety data.
- The concept of publicly posting government-generated data is not new. In response to calls for increased transparency and information provision, several government agencies, including regulatory agencies responsible for protecting human health and safety, now regularly post detailed data on the Internet. There is a substantial body of literature documenting the impacts and uses of publicly released data, showing that public access to facility-specific performance data can have both benefits and costs. The previous experiences of other agencies can help predict the potential benefits and adverse impacts of posting Food Safety and Inspection Service establishment-specific data.. In addition, the Food Safety and Inspection Service could build on effective practices developed by other agencies when designing a public-data release program.
- The public release of establishment-specific Food Safety and Inspection Service data would increase transparency by supporting the public's "right to know," and providing improved information to support decision-making. Releasing Food Safety and Inspection Service establishment-specific data could also potentially motivate individual companies and sectors of the food industry to improve their overall food safety efforts, for example by providing incentives to protect brand reputation in food safety in order to protect and enhance customer base and profitability.
- Evidence of adverse effects resulting from the public release of establishment-specific data by other government agencies is insufficient to predict what might occur were the Food Safety and Inspection Service to release similar data. The committee identified a number of potential costs and unintended consequences that public release of establishment-specific data might have, including the financial commitment associated with designing and maintaining a useful data disclosure system, and the potential for drawing inappropriate conclusions as a result of misinterpretations of the data, particularly if appropriate context is not provided to the user.
- Some parties may be negatively impacted by public data disclosure, but different parties may have different perspectives on what constitutes a negative impact. For example, although company might suffer initial reductions in the stock market prices following the release of data by the Food Safety and Inspection Service, ultimately this might serve as an incentive for improved performance, constituting a benefit for the public.
- To maximize effectiveness and minimize the potential for adverse unintended consequences, data disclosure needs to be guided by a carefully designed information disclosure strategy that considers the utility of the data to be released, the presentation of data, and the means by which to assure that data are continuously updated and improved.
- Seeking input from stakeholders—for example, from industry, academia, and consumer groups—would provide the Food Safety and Inspection Service insight on their needs and concerns. This would facilitate continuous improvements to data disclosure as users gain a better understanding of how the data might be used, and as the agency responds to stakeholder input.
- Currently, there are no direct measures to quantify how public access to establishment-specific food safety data will translate to specific food safety improvements. However, insights into the relationship between data release and food safety can be gained by monitoring outcomes from the release of establishment-specific food safety data (such as increased compliance with regulatory requirements) and the usage of the data (through metrics such as the number of web downloads or peer-reviewed reports citing the posted data).


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Chelsea star tempted by PSG move
Brazilian centre-back David Luiz could be tempted to swap Chelsea for Paris Saint-Germain in the transfer window after being talked into a move by some of his Confederations Cup teammates during this summer's tournament.
Reports in France suggest, Thiago Silva and Lucas Moura - twelve months on from their multi-million pound recruitments by PSG - have discussed the Parisian project with the defender several times whilst competing for the Brazil national team.
Luis Felipe Scolari's side have been training together since before their friendly against England at the Maracana Stadium on June 2 and, tomorrow, take on world champions Spain in the final of the eight-team event at the aforementioned ground.
Silva, Luiz's defensive partner who captains both Brazil and PSG, is thought to have confirmed the Parc des Princes as a perfect base for the 26-year-old - amid reports that he is not very highly regarded by new Blues boss Jose Mourinho.
The Brazil squad, which contains four La Liga players including Marcelo of Real Madrid, could also have shared their mixed views on Mourinho.
Meanwhile, Luiz representatives reportedly met PSG's director of football Leonardo - another fellow Selecao favourite - to discuss potential terms before arriving in Brazil for the major competition.
PSG are yet to formally submit a bid for the Blues star but it is believed to be only a matter of time until incoming manager Laurent Blanc agrees to meet the £40million asking price.
The Ligue 1 holders, whose title-winning coach Carlo Ancelotti departed for Real Madrid last week, are particularly keen on a defender to replace Alex.
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Farmingdale State - 2, Buffalo State - 0
Farmingdale, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State women's soccer team defeated non-conference opponent Buffalo State, 2-0, this afternoon in Farmingdale, N.Y. The Rams improved to a perfect 3-0, while the Bengals fell to 2-1.
Farmingdale State freshman midfielder Andrea Kiefer (Centereach, N.Y.) put the Rams ahead 1-0 as she scored off freshman Sam Johrden's (Deer Park, N.Y.) pass right in front of the net 24 minutes into the contest. Farmingdale State was outshot 7-4 in the first half, but took a 1-0 advantage into the break.
Late in the second half junior forward Jamie Smith's (Ronkonkoma, N.Y.) shot hit the post and redirected in front of the net where junior forward Corine Magee (Mastic, N.Y.) scored, giving the Rams a 2-0 lead. Farmingdale would hold the Bengals scoreless over the final 13:44 to secure their third consecutive shutout to start the season.
Senior goalkeeper Amanda Maass (Mastic Beach, N.Y.) recorded six saves in the win, while sophomore goalie Linda Banfield (Honeoye Falls, N.Y.) made three saves in defeat for Buffalo State.
The Rams next will host Manhattanville in a non-conference game on Wednesday, September 7th at 4:00 p.m.


text: PISTOLSMITHING Alex Hamilton THE INSIDE SCOOP ON PISTOLSMITHING TECHNIQUES Ground-Breaking Tripp K-1 Sight Simple is always best, and Tripp's K-1 does away with springs! he two most important words in advertising are "New" and "Improved." The firearms industry ain't much fond of the "improved" word because it kinda says, "There was something wrong with the bloomin' thing in the first place, and Lord knows we sure couldn't admit that." However, the word "new" is splattered around like paint on some scary piece of modern art. If you don't believe me just go to the lobby at SHOT Show and look at everything on the "new products" table. Most are labeled new but have nothing newer than a polished hammer or some other barely detectable mark, yet there they are for the entire world to see. "Hey, this year you can get it in blue!" Now enters one of the firearms industry's greatest inventors and most talented men, Virgil Tripp, inventor of the world renowned STI polymer handle, steel rail 2011 pistol and Cobra magazine. Virgil, president of Tripp Research in the beautiful little west Texas town of Alpine, has come up with a "new" patent pending adjustable rear sight quickly to become an industry gold standard. Virgil's innovative rear sight is designated "K-1" and is truly unique in every aspect of its design. enough, but for the most part the sight will fit right into the low mount BoMar cut with no alteration. To correct this infrequent problem, the rear slot will have to be milled about .040" forward with a ¼" mill cutter. The rear blade is beautifully serrated with sharp 40 LPI serrations designed to give you a nice, non-glare black sight picture. The front sight used with the Tripp sight mounted in the low position should have a height of between .185" and .200" to keep the elevation adjustment in the proper range. Tripp Research's new K-1 has rocked the boat when it comes to innovation in sighting systems. T irst of all, the Tripp Research rear sight has no springs, yet has positive click adjustments for both, and self-contained windage and elevation screws. Yep, that concept is hard to imagine, but you heard right! There are no springs to jump out of place to be lost forever if the elevation screw is raised so high it loses its grip. Gunsmith note: There is no "confounded" spring-loaded detent for click No SpriNgS! F elevation adjustment such as in the Bo-Mar and Bo-Mar clones. Another feature you will notice immediately in the exploded drawing is the base. The dovetail base is stationary, with the rear blade assembly moving vertically on a dovetail. The entire assembly is a masterwork of the inventor's mind. An additional appealing attribute of the Tripp rear sight is the fact it will fit into most Bo-Mar low mount cuts. I have run into a couple of exceptions when the deep cut made for the rear of the sight body is not cut forward Future Fun O verall design is a strikingly thin body, straight line angular one that sits flat and blends well into the rear of the 1911 slide. It's the perfect complement to today's modern 1911 pistols. For now the sight is only offered with a flat serrated square notch rear blade, but future blades such as white dot, fiber optic or possibly Tritium will be presented. Virgil Tripp is the international guru of the model 1911 so this sight is designed specifically for that pistol. However, it could be made to work on others. If you like what you see here and would like to buy a K-1 for $118 please contact Virgil at Tripp Research. And by the way, if you think the K-1 is out of this world, wait 'til you see what the great mind of Virgil Tripp has on the drawing table for you later! * For more info: www.americanhandgunner.com/productindex 22 WWW.AMERICANHANDGUNNER.COM • SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER2010


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Can You Fully Recover After a MCL Injury?
My son, 13 years old, is a very gifted athlete who has a grade 2 mcl injury. We have heard that wearing a brace for a while and riding his bicycle are good options during recovery. Are there other exercises he can do to strengthen his leg/knee during recovery? What is a timeline for recovery? Can an athlete recover 100% from a grade 2 MCL if there is no meniscus damage?
MCL injuries in young athletes can be somewhat tricky to recover from if the patient is not fully compliant. The reason we need to take our time to allow the ligament to heal in young people is the ligamentous insertion is near the growth plate in the tibia.
However, most do recovery fully from this injury, especially if there is not meniscal damage. Most of these injuries will fully heal in 8-12 weeks from time of injury.
In addition to using the brace for protection and the bike to help with range of motion, your son could benefit from performing some exercises to maintain his quad and hamstring strength.
I would suggest you consult with an athletic trainer or another therapist at a local sports medicine center who can design and instruct your son in a home exercise program that incorporates motion, strength and balance exercises. Additionally, the AT can follow up after several weeks and instruct your son in return to play exercises (specific to his sport).
Good luck!
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March 26, 2007
LOS ANGELES – A new health awareness training program for 5,000 Head Start and Early Head Start families will get underway in New Mexico this September. The program will be directed by the UCLA/Johnson & Johnson Health Care Institute for Head Start and UCLA Anderson's Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies.
"The Health Care Institute has demonstrated that health literacy training is a useful tool in reducing health care costs," says Dr. Ariella Herman, program founder and senior lecturer at UCLA Anderson School of Management. "Since its inception, the program has positively impacted thousands of lives; children are healthier and families are leading happier, more productive lives."
The training program was first launched via nationwide pilot sites in response to a study conducted by Dr. Herman at UCLA Anderson School of Management. The 2001 study revealed that many parents were uneducated or misinformed about several aspects of their children's health and relied heavily on the ER and local clinic for help when their children got sick, contributing to soaring health care costs and Medicaid spending, and overuse of emergency rooms.
Since 2002, the UCLA/Johnson & Johnson Health Care Institute has trained over 10,000 low-income families in 55 Head Start programs nationwide. Parents who have participated in the program's pilot and follow-up training sessions have become better informed about their child's health, reducing the number of unnecessary trips to an emergency room by 58 percent and visits to a clinic for common illnesses like a cold, cough, or mild fever by 42 percent. This also translated to a dramatic drop in the number of lost days at work (42 percent) and missed days at school (29 percent).
As part of the training program, parents also receive a 180-page book called, "What To Do When Your Child Gets Sick," covering more than 50 common childhood ailments, from a cough to head lice to asthma and chicken pox, with information on how to tell the difference between ailments that are treatable at home and those that need a doctor's care.
The UCLA/Johnson & Johnson Health Care Institute training program for New Mexico is the first program to be endorsed by a State government and will be working in conjunction with the New Mexico Head Start Association and the New Mexico Head Start Collaboration Office. The program will train families in New Mexico over a two-year period and is supported by a $360,000 grant from Pfizer, Inc.
Head Start and Early Head Start provide comprehensive services to low income children from birth through age five. The program was established in 1964 and serves primarily four year old children in a comprehensive setting. Head Start fosters school-readiness, while supporting the needs of the whole child including physical, dental, mental health, and nutrition. Family involvement is critical to the success of the program and is encouraged at each site. Head Start is responsive to the child's culture, ethnicity, and language.
About the UCLA/Johnson & Johnson Health Care Institute for Head Start
The Health Care Institute is designed to better prepare parents to address the health care needs of their children. The Institute strives to provide Head Start agencies tools and the resources to lead an effective health care training program through empowerment and dissemination of knowledge. Visit Web site.
About the Harold and Pauline Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies
The Harold and Pauline Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, a recognized leader in entrepreneurial education, oversees all teaching, research, extracurricular and community activities related to entrepreneurship at UCLA Anderson School of Management. The Price Center strives to provide academic and extracurricular experiences that advance both the theory and practice of entrepreneurship.
About UCLA Anderson School of Management
UCLA Anderson School of Management, established in 1935, is regarded among the very best business schools in the world. UCLA Anderson faculty are ranked #1 in "Intellectual Capital" by BusinessWeek and are renowned for their teaching excellence and research in advancing management thinking. Each year, UCLA Anderson provides management education to more than 1,600 students enrolled in MBA, Executive MBA, Fully-Employed MBA and doctoral programs, and to more than 2,000 professional managers through executive education programs. Combining highly selective admissions, varied and innovative learning programs, and a world-wide network of 35,000 alumni, UCLA Anderson develops and prepares global leaders.


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This is the project page for the integration of SELinux policy into RPM 4. Specifically the project is focused on adding infrastructure to RPM to install and manage SELinux policies and reduce the error-prone scriptlets that have been used up to now to install policy from RPM's.
Getting the Code
First clone the upstream RPM git repo. Instructions are available on the RPM get source page.
The current patch set XXX CURRENT PATCH SET LINKS XXX
Apply the patches to the RPM repo.
Building and installing the code
- ./autogen.sh --noconfigure
- ./configure CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include/nspr4 -I/usr/include/nss3 -I/usr/include/db4" --with-external-db --prefix=/u sr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --with-lua --with-selinux
- make
- make install
Adding a policy to an RPM
You'll want a source module with the te, if and fc files. You can get one from the Reference Policy or use the one in the repo at rpm/tests/data/SOURCES/poltest-policy-1.0.tar.bz2
Add a Source line to your RPM:
Source1: poltest-policy-%{version}.tar.bz2
Build the policy during %build:
make -f /usr/share/selinux/devel/Makefile -C poltest-policy-%{version}
and specify the policy options using a %policy block:
%policy %module poltest-policy-%{version}/foo.pp Name: foo
The name field is required and must match the name declared in the module.
Installing an RPM with a policy
Installing an RPM will also install its policy.
# rpm -i <rpm>
Verifying the policy is installed
# semodule -l | grep foo foo 1.0.0
Specifying policy type
If your policy only works with a specific policy type (eg., targeted, mls, etc) you can specify that with Types:
%policy %module poltest-policy-%{version}/foo.pp Name: foo Type: mls
This will only install the module if the current active policy type is "mls" (you can check by looking at the SELINUXTYPE variable in /etc/selinux/config.
If Type is omitted the policy will install on whatever the current policy type is.
Obsoleting a policy module
To obsolete a module you specify which modules are obsoleted with Obsoletes:
%policy %module poltest-policy-%{version}/foo.pp Name: foo Obsoletes: baz
This will remove the baz module at the same time as installing the foo module.
Multiple modules
You can specify as many modules as necessary in the %policy block
%policy %module poltest-policy-%{version}/foo.pp Name: foo Types: default %module poltest-policy-%{version}/bar.pp Name: bar Types: mls targeted
You can specify a dependency that is used only when policy is being installed with %PolicyRequires
%PolicyRequires policycoreutils
nopolicy and root
If you specify the --nopolicy flag when running RPM the policy will not get installed. Additionally if you are installing RPM's into a chroot with --root the policies will be installed in the chroot but the policy _will not_ be reloaded.


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CDC ramps up its Ebola response effort as new cases are confirmed in Nigeria
- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has placed their emergency operations center in Atlanta on the highest response level due to the worsening Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the agency reported Wednesday afternoon.
The move comes as more cases of the deadly virus have migrated from rural villages and towns in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone to densely populated urban areas in Nigeria where it could spread more quickly.
The CDC is sending 50 additional disease control experts to the four affected African nations to help treat patients and contain the disease. As of Monday, August 4, six CDC officials have already been deployed to Guinea, 12 to Liberia, four to Nigeria and nine to Sierra Leone.
On Tuesday, the CDC issued an Alert Level 2 Travel Notice for Americans visiting Nigeria. Travelers to Nigeria are being asked to practice careful hygiene and avoid contact with blood and body fluids of people ill with Ebola.
A Warning Level 3 Travel Notice is also in effect for Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. The CDC is advising Americans to avoid nonessential travel to these countries.
Upon request from the World Health Organization, the CDC is taking a more active role in providing technical assistance to the Ebola response effort.
"The bottom line with Ebola is we know how to stop it: traditional public health. Find patients, isolate and care for them; find their contacts; educate people; and strictly follow infection control in hospitals. Do those things with meticulous care and Ebola goes away," said CDC Director Tom Frieden, M.D., M.P.H. "To keep America safe, health care workers should isolate and evaluate people who have returned from Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone in the past 21 days and have fever or other symptoms suggestive of Ebola. We will save lives in West Africa and protect ourselves at home by stopping Ebola at the source."
President Obama will address the growing Ebola crisis at news conference that just began at the State Department.


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Giraldo upsets second-seeded Robredo at U.S. Clay Court Championship
Santiago Giraldo upset second-seeded Tommy Robredo 6-3, 6-4 on Thursday to advance to the quarterfinals of the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championship.
Giraldo will face Alejandro Gonzalez on Friday at River Oaks Country Club. Gonzalez advanced when fifth-seeded Feliciano Lopez retired because of severe allergies. Gonzalez led 6-3, 2-0.
Earlier, Donald Young Jr. beat former champion Juan Monaco 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-3. Young will face fourth-seeded Fernando Verdasco, a 6-0, 4-6, 6-3 winner over Steve Johnson
Jack Sock also won, beating Benjamin Becker 6-4, 6-3. Sock will play third-seeded Nicolas Almagro, a 6-2, 6-3 winner over Michael Russell.
On Wednesday, Sam Querrey and Dustin Brown set up a quarterfinal match. Brown beat top-seeded John Isner in three sets.
The 24-year-old Young has won consecutive matches on clay for the first time in an ATP World Tour event. Both Young and Sock are through to the quarterfinals for the first time on clay.
"Definitely the biggest win for me, (beating) a former top-10 guy who wins most of his matches on clay," Young said. "Happy to move through, to be honest. I'm competing well and my shots are falling. I'm feeling good and confident."
Monaco, the 2012 winner, said he was bothered by a sore shoulder but praised Young's play.
"He was strong today," Monaco said. "He deserved to win."
Monaco missed the last three months of the 2013 season because of a strained wrist.


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Actors Salma Hayek Pinault, Melissa McCarthy, Liam Neeson and John Travolta will present on the Oscar telecast, show producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron announced Monday.
Hayek Pinault earned an Oscar nomination for her leading performance in "Frida." She will be seen next in "Grown Ups 2."
McCarthy earned a nomination for her performance in a supporting role in the 2011 hit film "Bridesmaids." She stars in the recently released film "Identity Thief" and will be seen next in "The Heat."
Neeson received an Oscar nomination for his leading role in Best Picture winner "Schindler's List." His other credits include "Taken," "Batman Begins," "Love Actually," "Gangs of New York" and "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace."
Travolta has been nominated twice for Actor in a Leading Role for "Saturday Night Fever" and "Pulp Fiction." His other credits include "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3," "Hairspray," "Be Cool," "Swordfish," 'Face/Off" and "Grease."
Hayek Pinault, McCarthy, Neeson and Travolta join a stellar list of previously announced Oscar presenters, including Ben Affleck, Jessica Chastain, Jennifer Lawrence, Halle Berry, Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Mark Wahlberg, Ted and "Marvel's The Avengers" cast members Robert Downey Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, Chris Evans, Jeremy Renner and Mark Ruffalo; returning 2011 Oscar winners Jean Dujardin, Christopher Plummer, Octavia Spencer and Meryl Streep; "Chicago" cast members Richard Gere, Queen Latifah, Renée Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones; special guests Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Daniel Radcliffe, Channing Tatum and Charlize Theron; and performers Adele, Dame Shirley Bassey, Norah Jones and Barbra Streisand.
Oscars for outstanding film achievements of 2012 will be presented on "Oscar Sunday," Feb. 24, at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center, and will be hosted by Seth MacFarlane live on the ABC Television Network. For more information go to Oscar.com or download the official Oscars app.


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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) Aaron Thomas scored 22 points as top-seeded Florida State opened the National Invitation Tournament with a 58-53 win against Florida Gulf Coast, last year's NCAA tournament darlings.
Thomas carried the Seminoles in the second half, scoring 14 consecutive points during one stretch.
Bernard Thompson led the Eagles with 16 points and Jamail Jones chipped in 11.
Okaro White scored 17 for Florida State (20-13) and Montay Brandon finished with eight.
Neither team could find an offensive groove for most of the night. The teams combined for 35 turnovers and the Seminoles led 24-19 at halftime. The 19 points were the second-lowest scoring half of the season for Florida Gulf Coast (22-13).
The Seminoles used a late 8-2 run, including six from White, to grab and hold onto the lead.
WASHINGTON (AP) – D'Vauntes Smith-Rivera had a season-high 32 points and 10 rebounds, and Georgetown won a cozy matchup of former conference rivals.
Markel Starks added 14 points, and Jabril Trawick scored 12 for the Hoyas (18-14), who pulled away in the second half in the cramped confines of Georgetown's 2,500-seat practice gym. The game was played on campus because the circus is in town, occupying the Hoyas' usual home court, the Verizon Center.
Juwan Staten scored 23 points to lead the Mountaineers (17-16), who had a five-game winning streak over the Hoyas come to an end. The schools hadn't met since West Virginia left the Big East to join the Big 12 in 2012.
ASHWAUBENON, Wis. (AP) – Craig Bradshaw scored a career-high 25 points and Drew Winkler added 15 as Belmont beat short-handed Green Bay.
Belmont (25-9) had a slim 37-33 first-half advantage before ending the half on a 12-4 run to go up 49-37. The Bruins increased the lead to 58-39, and Green Bay (24-7) got no closer than seven late in the game.
Belmont will next face Robert Morris in the second round.
The Phoenix were without leading scorer and Horizon League player of the year Keifer Sykes, who hurt his left ankle in the conference semifinal loss on March 8 and was a scratch just before this game.
It was apparent Green Bay was missing its floor leader, committing a season-high 21 turnovers. While the fourth-seeded Phoenix were giving up the ball, the fifth-seeded Bruins gradually built their lead.
Greg Mays scored 15 points to lead Green Bay.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Maverick Ahanmisi scored a career-high 21 points, leading Minnesota past High Point.
Joey King had 14 points and seven rebounds, Mo Walker and Andre Hollins each pitched in 13 points and the Gophers (21-13), the top seed in their quadrant. They will host a second-round game against St. Mary's.
Austin Hollins hit a 3-pointer to stretch Minnesota's lead to 47-32 early in the second half, but High Point pushed back with Gophers point guard DeAndre Mathieu out because of a lower-body injury and pulled within 60-55 inside the 8-minute mark. Mathieu was hurt early in the game after a hard foul on his way to the hoop. He played a little bit after that but was pulled for good after halftime.
The Gophers hung out without him.
CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) – K.J. McDaniels tied his career high with 30 points and had 14 rebounds to lead Clemson to its 10th straight home NIT win.
The Tigers (21-12) will play either Illinois or Boston U. in the second round, also at home. It was the 29th game McDaniels has hit for double figures, 13 of those with 20 or more. He matched his previous best set in a double-overtime loss at Notre Dame last month.
Georgia State (25-9) came in having won Sun Belt Conference regular-season crown and 22 of its past 24 games. But like other Clemson opponents, the Panthers couldn't ground the high-flying McDaniels.
Georgia State trailed 50-49 on Ryan Harrow's basket with 12:03 left. Then Clemson took off on a 22-10 run to take control.
R.J. Hunter led five Panthers in double figures with 15 points.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) – Anthlon Bell set a career high for the second straight home game, finishing with 28 points as Arkansas pulled away from Indiana State.
The win is the first in the NIT for the third-seeded Razorbacks (22-11) since 1997, the last time the school was in the tournament. It's also Arkansas' first postseason win of any kind since a first-round win in the NCAA tournament in 2008.
Bell, who had 23 points in his last home game, had 18 points in 17 first-half minutes to carry Arkansas. Six players scored in double figures for the Razorbacks, and Bobby Portis had 10 points and 13 rebounds.
Manny Arop led the Sycamores (23-11) with 12 points.
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – Jabari Brown scored 30 points and Earnest Ross added 16 to help Missouri hold off Davidson 85-77 in the opening round of the National Invitation Tournament on Tuesday night.
After trailing most of the game, Brown converted a free throw with 1:17 remaining to cap a 10-2 Missouri (23-11) run and give the Tigers an 81-74 lead. Davidson's Tyler Kalinoski hit a 3-pointer to end the streak, but the Wildcats could get no closer than four points the rest of the way.
With the win, Missouri advances to face the winner of Wednesday's matchup between Southern Mississippi and Toledo.
De'Mon Brooks led Davidson (20-13) with a career-high 29 points. The Wildcats ended their season with two consecutive losses after winning 13 in a row to win the Southern Conference regular-season title.
NEW YORK (AP) – Karvel Anderson scored 38 points and Lucky Jones added 25 to help Robert Morris beat St. John's.
Robert Morris improved to 22-13 and will play Belmont in the second round.
Jamal Branch scored 22 points to lead the Red Storm (21-13).
The Colonials led by as much as 25 in the first half and had a 49-27 advantage at halftime.
Robert Morris' lead grew to as much as 26 points in the second half before the Red Storm used its press to go on a 24-6 run spanning 6 1/2 minutes to cut the lead to 74-66.
Anderson's 3 from the left corner increased Robert Morris' lead to 11 and effectively sealing the win.
MORAGA, Calif. (AP) – Kerry Carter scored 10 points over the final 5 minutes and Saint Mary's stormed back from 10 points down in the second half to beat Utah 70-58 on Tuesday in the first round of the NIT.
Carter missed his first five shots before making a pair of 3-pointers, recording a steal and scoring on a fast break layup to complete the remarkable comeback for the Gaels (23-11) after guard Stephen Holt fouled out. Holt, Saint Mary's second-leading scorer, had 15 points.
The fourth-seeded Gaels will play against Minnesota in the second round.
Jordan Loveridge scored 16 points for Utah (21-12), which led the entire first half and was up 41-31 with 12:30 remaining before collapsing down the stretch.


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Brussels, 24 May 2011
Orphan works – Frequently asked questions
1. What are orphan works and why is a proposal to deal with them needed?
As part of the Commission's IPR Strategy adopted today, the Commission adopted a proposal to establish common rules on the digitisation (the conversion of analogue data, for example images, video, and text into digital form) and online display of so-called 'orphan works'.
Orphan works are works like books, newspaper or magazine articles that are still protected by copyright but the copyright holders cannot be located to obtain copyright permissions. They include cinematographic or audiovisual works. Orphan works are found in the collections held by European libraries.
The digitisation and dissemination of orphan works pose a particular cultural and economic challenge – the absence of a known right holder means that users are unable to obtain the required authorisation, e.g. a book cannot be digitised. Orphan works represent a substantial part of the collections of Europe's cultural institutions (e.g., the British Library estimates that 40 percent of its copyrighted collections – 150 million in total - are orphan works.
That is why common rules on how to deal with such works are needed in order to proceed with large-scale digitisation projects, such as the Commission's Europeana portal.
What does the proposal for a Directive on orphan works say?
The Commission's proposal, which takes the form of an EU Directive, rests on three pillars. First, the proposal contains rules on how to identify orphan works. It provides that the user has to conduct a diligent search to find the copyright holder. In this search, the user should rely on sources such as databases and registries. One such tool that exists in the book publishing sector is ARROW, the Accessible Registry of Rights Information and Orphan Works. It is hoped that other sectors will also develop similar central rights information databases. Doing so would greatly simplify and streamline the conduct of a reliable diligent search.
Secondly, the proposal establishes that if the diligent search does not yield the identity or location of the copyright holder, the work shall be recognised as an orphan work. This status shall then, by virtue of mutual recognition, be valid across the European Union. This implies that once a work is recognised as an orphan work, it shall be recognised as such across the European Union. The proposal also foresees that there will be a generally accessible record of all recognised orphan works.
Thirdly, the proposal establishes the uses that can be made of the orphan works and the conditions for such uses depending on their nature. Thus, the current proposal should make a major contribution to the development of various European digital library initiatives and their accessibility for everyone throughout the European Union. Clear rules on what works can be posted online as orphan works will also provide the beneficiaries of the Directive – not only libraries, museums and archives but also film heritage institutions and public service broadcasters - with a sound legal framework that safeguards them against claims of copyright infringement. In this respect, a degree of legal certainty can be achieved that will exceed the one that can be achieved on the basis of existing private agreements.
On the other hand, the envisaged rules provide for clear methods of redress by which a reappearing right holder can assert his copyright and thereby end the orphan work status.
What more can be done to promote digital libraries?
Orphan works, while important, are only one of the issues that digital libraries face in their quest to make Europe's cultural heritage available online. The other issue is obtaining copyright permissions for the online display of out-of-commerce books.
Books are out of commerce when publishers or authors decide not to publish new editions or when no copies are sold anymore in the customary chains of commerce.
Nevertheless, as with orphan works, out-of-commerce books are still protected by copyright and copyright permissions have to be obtained before they are posted online as part of an online library project. It is of crucial importance for a digital library project that out-of-commerce books are not left behind.
The Commission has therefore convened a stakeholder dialogue on out-of-commerce books. This forum commenced work in November 2010 and will aim to produce model forms of collective licensing agreements that allow large-scale digitisation as part of a digital libraries initiative. Libraries, authors, publishers and collecting societies active in the field of reprography are participating in this dialogue.
See also IP/11/630
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An outpost of Wooster in the Mojave celebrates today's basketball victory!
Mark Wilson March 18th, 2011
(Guest post from Lindsey Bowman.) After an afternoon of rewarding trilobite collecting, nothing was more welcome than the news this afternoon from Salem, Virginia. Our basketball team advanced to the NCAA Division III finals after defeating Williams College by two points. We listened live from Meagen Pollock's cell phone to Woo91 updates, it was a dramatically close game. Best of luck in the final match tomorrow!


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September 2002
Editor's Note: A comprehensive, original paper on LUCA by A.M. Poole is also provided on this website as a supplement to this article.
Cells are so small that even a cluster of these cells from a mouse only measures 50 microns. Image from wikibook Cell Biology textbook, John Schmidt.
In the study of early life on Earth, one name towers above the rest: LUCA. LUCA is not the name of a famous scientist in the field; it is shorthand for Last Universal Common Ancestor, a single cell that lived perhaps 3 or 4 billion years ago, and from which all life has since evolved. Amazingly, every living thing we see around us (and many more that we can only see with the aid of a microscope) is related. As far as we can tell, life on Earth arose only once.
Answers in the genetic code
Life comes in all shapes and sizes, from us humans to bacteria. So how do we know that all life has evolved from a single cell? The answer is written in the language of the genetic code (Image A).
Image A: Table of standard (universal) genetic code. Source: NIH.gov.
- The genetic code is the language in which most genes are written into DNA.
- Such genes are recipes for making proteins.
- Proteins are what make the cell tick, doing everything from making DNA to digesting the food we eat and extracting the nutrients.
- Incredibly, the exact same code is used in humans and bacteria, so a gene from a human being can be put into a bacterium, and the bacterium will make the human protein — this is how insulin is made.
That the genetic code is universal to all life tells us that everything is related. All life regenerates itself by producing offspring, and over time small changes in the offspring result in small changes to the protein recipes. But because the recipes are written in the same language (the genetic code), it is possible to compare these recipes (and other genes) to build the equivalent of a family tree.
Family trees
Image B: Cluster of cells of Halobacterium sp. strain NRC-1. The Archaea are a group of single-celled microorganisms. Photo: NASA
Image C: Scanning electron micrograph of Escherichia coli bacilli bacteria. Image: NIH.
In this way, biologists have succeeded in making the mother of all family trees — the tree of life. The tree aims to establish the relationships between all living things, and has already revealed some surprises. Most striking is the discovery of the archaea (image B).1 These are simple organisms that, to look at them, are indistinguishable from bacteria (image C). 2 Before the prototype tree of life was built in 1977, it was thought that life had two major branches, the eukaryotes (e.g., plants, animals & fungi) and the prokaryotes (bacteria, and what are now known as archaea). The decision to split life into two branches was largely based on the visual difference between cells. Eukaryotes all possess a cell nucleus (image D) while prokaryotes (image E) don't. But despite appearances, archaea and bacteria are as different from one another as either is from eukaryotes. So, the tree of life is now known to consist of:
- Archaea
- Bacteria
- Eukaryota
It is astounding that as recently as 25 years ago we were blissfully unaware that we and bacteria shared the planet with a third form of life!
Reconstructing LUCA
Image F: A phylogenetic tree of life. The very center represents LUCA. Pink represents eukaryota; purple-blue, bacteria; green, archaea. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
The tree of life is without doubt one of the great achievements in biology (image F). But for some researchers it is merely a means to an end. These researchers are trying to reconstruct LUCA, the cell from which all life has evolved.3 The question they are asking is, "which features of the archaea, bacteria and eukaryotes can be traced back to their common ancestor, LUCA?" This should be a very simple task — simply compare all three groups and choose the features that are common to all. By rights, LUCA's reconstruction should be a done deal what with 70 or so complete genomes across the whole tree having been deciphered. (A genome houses all the genes in an organism, and a 'catalogue' of these genes is obtained by sequencing the organism's DNA.) Unfortunately, it's not that simple, for two reasons:
- genes get lost
- genes get swapped
How can we tell if a gene is ancient?
The implication of genes being lost is that when we compare genomes to see which genes are common across all life (that is, which are 'universal'), we underestimate how many genes were originally in LUCA. Some of the genes that are not universal can be added to LUCA because clues to their origin can be found by looking at what they do. While we can make an educated guess as to whether a non-universal gene was in LUCA, most genes that are not universal are probably 'new inventions', specific to one of the three major branches of the tree. In fact, many may only be specific to one small group of, say, the archaea.
Another way to check if a gene is ancient is to look at whether it is a recipe for protein or RNA. This is an important clue because some RNAs date back to an even earlier period than the time when LUCA lived. The logic goes thus: if an RNA is older than LUCA, then LUCA had it too, even if that RNA is no longer universal.4,5
While dealing with gene loss is tricky, it is not an insurmountable hurdle — it just means reconstructing LUCA will be peppered with a lot of educated guesswork, and probably a few gaps. But gene swapping is another matter altogether — it threatens to fell the tree of life, and consign LUCA to the dustbin.6,7,8
Horizontal gene transfer
Gene swapping (or horizontal gene transfer as it's often called by biologists) has been known about for decades. What biologists are only now beginning to look at is the extent to which genes are transferred between organisms. Comparing two bacteria from the same species reveals major differences.9 For example, Escherichia coli is a common gut bacterium that is part of our natural gut flora. But the O157:H7 strain causes severe gastrointestinal ailments. The genomes of both a harmless variant (K-12) and the O157:H7 strains have been deciphered and compared, and the result is striking.
- 1387 of the 5416 (26%) genes in O157:H7 are not in K-12.
- 528 of K-12's 4405 (12%) genes are not in O157:H7.
Many of the O157:H7 genes are arguably foreign genes that have been borrowed from elsewhere. If we compare two people, or even a person with a chimpanzee, there's nowhere near this kind of variation — humans all share the same genes, and humans and chimps may well have only a handful of genes that are different between our two species.
On a broader level, a now famous comparison of Escherichia coli K-12 to Salmonella enterica (another species of bacterium often responsible for food poisoning) concluded that:
- At minimum, 17% of the K-12 genome has been borrowed since these two bacteria split from a common ancestor around 100 million years ago.10
- LUCA would have roamed the Earth 3-4 billion years ago, so if all genes are so easily swapped, any evidence for LUCA would have effectively been scrambled because genomes are so severely shuffled.6
So where does this leave LUCA? A pessimist would say that LUCA is out of reach. However, it is far from obvious that all genes are equally swappable. Some, like genes for antibiotic resistance, are the gene equivalent of gypsies:
- when there is antibiotic present, they provide a bacterium with resistance11
- once the antibiotic disappears, they too are often lost
Other genes produce proteins that lock together with other proteins into large protein complexes, much like a 3D jigsaw. The ability for one jigsaw piece to be swapped with the equivalent jigsaw piece from another organism will depend on how similar the jigsaws are. Escherichia coli K-12 and O157:H7 could probably exchange such genes with relative ease, but a bacterium and an archaeon probably wouldn't have a hope of doing so, even though such jigsaws perform the same biological role.12 Is gene swapping as common across other branches of the tree? We animals don't tend to swap protein recipes like bacteria do, but we have done this in the past. There is now overwhelming evidence that we are part bacterium.13,14
- Our bacterial ancestry comes in the form of mitochondria (image G, tiny power plants housed in our cells.
- The DNA of your mitochondria is miniscule, with only a handful of genes. But mitochondria were once full-blown bacteria that took up residence in and struck up a partnership with one of our distant single-celled ancestors.
- Since then, much of the DNA from the original bacterium has been thrown away, but a lot of it has ended up in the DNA of our nucleus (image D).
The good news for LUCA biologists is that we seem to be pretty successful at identifying which bits of our nuclear DNA came from the mitochondrion, and which bits were already there. So to some extent, it might be possible to disentangle parts of the tree of life. But is it enough to save LUCA?
One or many LUCAs?
Carl Woese, one of the key players in the bid to reconstruct the tree of life, has added another twist to the LUCA puzzle. He has got researchers fired up by suggesting that:
- LUCA was also into gene swapping, and on a much larger scale than what we observe in modern bacteria
- gene swapping was once more important than inheritance from parent to offspring, and that early archaea, bacteria and eukaryotes each emerged independently from a 'sea' of gene transfer8
It's not clear how his claims could be tested, but they are certainly food for thought — if he's right there never was a single LUCA, but more of a community of genes loosely associated with cells.
The jury is still out as to how to reconstruct LUCA, and whether horizontal gene transfer will turn this task into a futile one. However, if not all genes are equal in the game of horizontal gene transfer, biologists stand an outside chance. Either way, there are plenty of exciting challenges, and many unknowns for those trying to build the tree of life and reconstruct our origins. For instance, just this year a member of a new group of microscopic archaea has been identified from a deep-sea trench.15 To give you some sense of perspective as to the significance of this discovery, it is roughly equivalent to discovering the first plant! Whether there was one or many LUCAs, these are definitely exciting times.
Editor's Note: A comprehensive, original paper on LUCA by A.M. Poole is also provided on this website as a supplement to this article.
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The most reliable studies suggest that as many as fifteen million Americans suffer from some form of drug dependency, a figure that is remarkable both for what it says and what it doesn't. First, and obviously, fifteen million is a big number; those fifteen million drug addicts constitute almost five percent of the United State population, and speak to the centrality of drug rehab programs in shaping the country's future. At the same time, though, statistics alone could never tell the whole truth about drug addiction and rehab.
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VIDEO: Wirral golfer gets civic approval
2:44pm Thursday 7th August 2014
FACTORY worker John Singleton, who secured a place in the Open Golf Championship at Royal Liverpool with borrowed clubs, has been given civic recognition for his achievement.
The Open Championship in numbers
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AS with any big event, a lot of planning and organisation went in to Hoylake's staging of the Open Championship. Here we look at some of the statistics behind the tournament.
Railway was the fairway to go to the Open
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More than 60,000 people used the railway to travel between Liverpool and Hoylake and, with the same numbers travelling back to the city, more than 120,000 journeys were made using the Merseyrail service during the four days.
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"There has been an unprecedented amount of positive media interest in Hoylake and Wirral as a result of the championship and feedback has been overwhelmingly positive." - Cllr Phil Davies.
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MERSEYSIDE Police has thanked the golf spectators who attended the Open Championship for helping to make the event a huge success.
RE-READ: The Open: The fourth and final day
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Live coverage of the final round of the Open at Royal Liverpool.
The Open: What made it special
AS Hoylake says farewell to the 143rd Open Championship, we look back at some of the highlights of the tournnament, captured by Globe photographer Paul Heaps.
Rory celebrates by drinking red wine from Claret Jug - but now sets sights on more major success
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Rory McIlroy celebrated his Open triumph by drinking red wine out of the Claret Jug, but was also quick to target more major success following his hard-fought win at Royal Liverpool.
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Rory McIlroy is the winner of the Open 2014 at Hoylake.
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For Bloomberg News, history professor Carl Wennerlind writes about "The Worst Debt-Crisis Solution a Country Ever Concocted." An excerpt:
"As the U.S. government lurches from crisis to crisis in resolving its long-term debt problems, Congress has debated a number of bad ideas, from indiscriminate spending cuts to minting a $1 trillion platinum coin. Plenty of countries have taken even less honorable roads to resolution, from devaluing their currency to outright default.
But arguably no country can match either the ingenuity or despicableness of the British when they tackled their own fiscal woes in the early 1700s. Faced with a ballooning national debt, English policy makers combined a complex debt-for-equity swap with promotion of the trans-Atlantic slave trade."
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Seeing as how we like to think of ourselves as the unofficial home of all things Archer and Olyphant, here's some news I don't think enough people are aware of: tomorrow night's Archer is the Tim Olyphant episode. That's right. Get excited. You know it's a highly anticipated guest spot when both the creator and the executive producer can't hide their Olyphanaticism.
Our good friends at Floyd County and FX were nice enough to provide us with preview images of Olyphant's character, a fellow spy who is also very, um, Archer-y, as you may have gathered. This is going to be a good episode. And in the spirit of that let's review real life Raylan Givens' underrated history of TV guest spots. In chronological order…
Timothy Olyphant showed up in the fourth episode ever, "Valley of the Twenty-Something Guys," and — as you've probably inferred — portrayed a twenty-something guy who SOMEHOW managed to seal the deal with Carrie Bradshaw, giving him "firsts" over approximately two thousand other actors.
In the Season 1 episode, Dad's Car, Olyphant guest starred as Billy Reed, a car-loving redneck who Earl lost his dad's Mustang to as a kid. Highlights include the above hair and makeup, early stage male pattern in a flashback scene, and El Camino drag-racing.More like Samantha WhoRemembersThisShow, amirite? Tim O. did a guest stint in the 2008 Christina Applegate sitcom that's still on your mom's DVR. Although Wikipedia claims his Winston Funk role was re-cast with Billy Zane, but I distinctly remember seeing a preview and thinking Hitman was a bad idea. Also, I would have totally made a "You should listen to your friend, Billy Zane. He's a cool dude" joke had it not been Olyphant. I don't know what to believe any more.
We all remember disappearing salesman Danny Cordray who didn't call Pam back because he thought she was a dork. He showed up in Season 7 so of course he was completely underutilized and disappeared with no explanation. Olyphant apparently had a deleted Dundies scene later in the season that may have provided a little closure to the character. Unfortunately the Erin/Gabe/Andy love triangle was so compelling that no time could be spared.
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Every caption-less Danny Cordray GIF you could possibly want here.
Olyphant as a white Japanese chef and the return of Rafi highlighted a top three episode from this past season of The League.
I'll let the Foxy Grandpa comment thread from yesterday's Olyphant on Conan post take it from here.
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The Education of a Statesman
John Adams was a leading voice for American independence, writing pamphlets, making speeches, and arguing on the floor of the Continental Congress. He earned a reputation as a forceful advocate and a sharp-elbowed combatant. After America declared its independence, however, the advocate had to become a diplomat, learning courtly ways and restraining his argumentative pen. In 1784 Adams joined Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson in Paris, assigned to negotiate treaties with European powers. When their orders from the Congress of the Confederation arrived, Franklin noted that their work was cut out for them. "Treaties to be made with I think twenty Powers, in two Years, so that we are not likely to eat the Bread of Idleness; and that we may not surfeit by eating too much, our Masters have diminish'd our Allowance."
While Adams was in Europe, his friends across the Atlantic kept him posted on the latest developments in American politics, and the diplomat freely expressed his often undiplomatic views in reply. Adams eagerly sought appointment to the prestigious position of American ambassador to Great Britain, but his American critics tried to block him by making his outspoken letters and diaries public. Elbridge Gerry, a friend and member of the Continental Congress, warned Adams that his unvarnished opinions did him no favors; Gerry stressed "the Necessity of your co-operating with those who are determined to support You on this Side The Atlantic, in putting a Stop to, or at least in checking such ruinous Intrigues." In February 1785 Adams did win the long-sought appointment, but, despite the prestige, he knew that whoever represented his nation to its former colonial ruler would have neither "a lucrative Employment nor a pleasant occupation."
Adams' experiences in Europe, like those of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin in Paris, reflect an important time in American history. These leaders of revolution had to become government officials.
This transition is reflected in the latest volume of the Adams Papers, one of the largest long-running editorial projects currently supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Begun in 1954, based at the Massachusetts Historical Society, and under the direction of C. James Taylor, the project is publishing a comprehensive edition of material written by John Adams and his family, including spouses and children, through 1889. To date, the project has published forty-five of the planned 100 volumes. The series includes diaries, letters, and legal papers, revealing four generations of Adamses as statesmen, parents, writers, children, and politicians. The Adams Papers open a window on the development of American self-government and on the education of a statesman.


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Cisco WAAS: Setting the Record Straight
There has been recent speculation on Cisco's WAAS business, but let's set the record straight: to paraphrase Mark Twain, rumors of WAAS' demise have been greatly exaggerated. Cisco is fully committed to the WAAS business. We have made some changes in our go-to-market approach, but our engineering teams remain fully engaged and working against our long term roadmap to drive application awareness into the network. To better leverage the capabilities of the teams, Cisco integrated the WAAS teams directly into our access router group, which now allows us to leverage a large set of developers and to focus on our Cloud Intelligent Network architecture, Cloud Connect Solutions and the L4-7 technologies which support the cloud transition.
We've said it before, and we'll continue to say it again: Cisco WAAS is the most powerful WAN optimization system in the market today. You can be assured that Cisco is committed to WAAS for the long-term, and we remain fully engaged and working against our long term WAAS roadmap to drive application awareness into the network
Recent comments from our customers speak volumes about how Cisco WAAS has been able to help their businesses:
According to Tom Bres, CIO, Sparrow Hospital and Health System, "We knew we would need robust, high-speed connectivity across the WAN, not only for EMRs and images, but for the numerous other applications and web-based services we use. WAN acceleration and optimization with WAAS was the solution, and it has worked great for us from the day we brought it online."
WAAS helped enable Sparrow to get 90% of their physicians meeting meaningful use requirements in a matter of months, which is pretty impressive when compared with the 11% of physicians overall meeting the requirements in 2011.
Rob Raffaele, Enterprise Infrastructure Architect, American Water, also is singing WAAS' praises: "Where WAAS is installed, the network's effective capacity is running two to two-and-a-half times what it was before WAAS."
American Water deployed Cisco WAAS to double its WAN capacity, and WAAS did exactly that. Empowered with the optimized WAN, the firm will now take on an even more ambitious business transformation: deploying new ERP and CRM applications from SAP.
As we build out the Cloud Intelligent Network architecture and enhance application awareness in the network, WAAS will continue as a fundamental component of our strategy. As the most powerful WAN optimization system in the market today, Cisco WAAS is here to stay
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