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Wishing on a star: the frustration of fusion
It turns out that thermonuclear fusion, the elusive energy source that could solve many of the world's problems, is a pinky-purple colour.
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We're in the control room of JET, the 30-year-old Joint European Torus tucked behind the thatched houses and winding country lanes of Oxfordshire, which holds the world record for coming the closest to proving fusion's commercial viability.
A bunch of engineers and physicists tap at their computers and gaze up at a dark video screen.
There is a countdown, then a pause. A ghostly, rosy halo flickers into existence on the monitor, illuminating the inside of a hollow, airless metal "doughnut".
The doughnut would fit into half a basketball court, though you can't tell from here, on the other side of three-metre concrete walls and a verging-on-paranoid security cordon.
The glow fills the tunnel, hugging the walls, and its base thickens into a bright stream that seems to pour along the bottom of the device in a river of light.
Inside that halo, trapped by an intense magnetic field that saps 1 per cent of Britain's national electricity grid to switch on, is a swirling plasma that is, at this moment, the hottest place in the solar system. Then, seconds later, with a last flourish, the glow sputters and vanishes. The plasma has escaped its bonds. Show over.
And that's it, until the next try an hour later, and over and over again, as scientists chase the dream of igniting a tiny star that could power human civilisation for a million years.
"We are trying to do something nobody else has ever done before," says Professor Steven Cowley, CEO of the UK Atomic Energy Authority, with infectious enthusiasm. "[If fusion is proven to work] it's one of those historic moments in science, like the Wright brothers taking off."
In a way, fusion has already been proven to work. Just look up - it's what makes the sun shine. Here on Earth, fusion (hot, not the discredited cold variety) is - on paper - the ideal way to generate power.
The fuel is a bit of seawater, which contains a trace element called deuterium, plus a bit of lithium. And I mean a bit: the lithium in one laptop battery and the deuterium in a barrel of seawater could power a typical Western household for a decade.
The exhaust is helium, an inert, lighter-than-air gas. There's also eventually a little radioactive waste but it has a short half-life and is safe to handle after a couple of decades.
And - unlike nuclear fission - there's no risk of a meltdown. Due to the tiny quantity of fuel and the difficulty keeping a reaction going, if there were a major incident at a fusion reactor you'd be perfectly safe a few hundred metres away (at least, safe from the reactor).
Just thinking about how this could change the world is a mind-blowing exercise. No greenhouse gas emissions. No Fukushimas or Chernobyls. Practically limitless desalinated water for the parched throats of the Third World. An end to the geopolitics of oil: the wars and invasions and standover tactics. No more need for "ugly", endangered-bird-killing wind turbines, if that's your beef.
The problem is, the basic principles have been known since the heroic age of physics a century ago but no one has yet figured out how to make it commercially viable.
There is a whole category of wry fusion "jokes", such as "fusion is the power source of the future, and it always will be".
In his new book A Piece of the Sun, Science magazine journalist Daniel Clery describes how it was the insight of two Australians last century that laid down the path to harnessing fusion power.
In the early 20th century, lightning (a form of plasma) hit the chimney of the Hartley Vale kerosene refinery near Lithgow in NSW. G.H. Clark, a worker at the refinery, noticed something odd had happened to the sturdy copper pipe that served as the chimney's lightning conductor: it had been crushed by some massive force "like a toothpaste tube".
This was dubbed the "pinch effect" and considered a mere scientific curiosity for 40 years until a Sydney University postgrad, Peter Thonemann, realised it might be used to contain and compress plasma (hydrogen or deuterium stripped of its electrons) enough to ignite a fusion reaction - a straitjacket of pure force able to withstand heat beyond the limits of any physical material.
(The physics of fusion are probably too complex to go into here but, essentially, tiny particles are pushed together until they fuse, releasing relatively huge amounts of energy.)
Thonemann left Sydney for Oxford University, arriving in 1946. He figured that if you put plasma into a doughnut-shaped ring and applied an electric current, you'd get fusion. He presented his idea to the lab director, an old confidant of Winston Churchill, and was given the green light for a series of experiments that earned him the title of Britain's "father of fusion".
They were heady days. Teams of pipe-smoking, white-lab-coat-wearing professors pushed the boundaries of science during the day and drank beer in the evenings.
They barely understood what they were achieving. Even today, a lot of what goes on inside a fusion reactor is beyond the power of the smartest minds or the fastest computers to predict. It's a case of suck it and see: tweak your machine, turn it on and see what happens.
In those days, it was like playing with the fire of an unhappy god. They soon hit trouble. Magnetically imprisoned plasma is turbulent stuff. It strains and stresses and bubbles inside its shackles, in a bewildering array of instabilities that still plague JET 30 years after it was first switched on, and after significant modifications.
There is "kink instability". There are "disruptions" when the plasma current suddenly collapses, unleashing hundreds of tonnes of mechanical force that literally rocks the reactor on its foundations. There are "ELMs", tendrils similar to the flares that erupt from the surface of the sun, curling out of the plasma and melting the reactor walls.
At JET they deliberately trigger disruptions to try to understand them. Fairfax witnessed one: only moments after the rosy glow appeared on the monitors it swirled as if hit by a stiff breeze and snuffed out. A loud "bang" came over the speakers from the reactor room. It was just a small one, we were told: 50 tonnes to 60 tonnes of rogue force.
"A pattern began to emerge in fusion research," Clery writes. "Scientists would build a new machine: when it was working they would make progress towards fusion conditions but not quite as much as they had predicted.
"This could be because the machine underperformed or they encountered some new, unforeseen type of instability. The way forward was to build another bigger and better machine, and so on. Fusion got a reputation for promising a lot but never delivering."
JET's moment of glory was in 1997. Its best shot produced 16 megawatts. It was only 70 per cent of the power pumped in to heat the plasma and it lasted just a couple of seconds. No fusion reactor has ever done better.
Paul-Henri Rebut, the flamboyant, now-retired French physicist who designed and built JET, admits he's disappointed.
"I would prefer to have a better result," he says. "Fission didn't take very long and we expected [fusion] would not take long. I thought it would take 30 years or so. But the physics is much more complicated. It's almost an impossible problem."
So the cycle goes round again. Europe and a syndicate of other countries including Japan, Russia and the US, are now building JET's successor, ITER, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, in the south of France.
Twice the diameter of JET and powered by superconducting magnets, it should - should - put out 500 megawatts of power, 10 times what was put in, for minutes at a time. This would prove the viability of fusion power. This is the moment that Cowley is waiting for.
"In late 2020 it will reach fusion burn, pouring out energy like a little star," he confidently predicts.
David Campbell, a bearded, plain-spoken Scot who will direct plasma operations at ITER, admits there are a lot of risks and unknowns in ITER, some of which JET can model but many of which will be faced only once the machine is switched on.
For example, the force of disruptions in such a machine is going to be "pretty meaty", he says. Another of the problems is the prosaic matter of dust - the neutrons shot out by the plasma will erode the reactor's inside and leave deposits inside the tube. It's already been seen in miniature in JET. "We really don't know how this extrapolates to ITER," he says.
But one of the biggest concerns is, quite simply, cost. ITER will be the most expensive scientific experiment on Earth, at a currently estimated $14 billion just to build.
As each of the member countries is providing key components, any one of them could delay the entire project. In the US, Congress has put increased scrutiny on the country's contribution to ITER. And its own major fusion experiment at the National Ignition Facility, which is trying a different technique using lasers, is being told that if it doesn't produce results soon it may have to go back to its original focus on nuclear weapons research.
Some predict only China has the combined money, size and determination to push all the way to commercial fusion.
"The past few years haven't been very comfortable for us," says Niek Lopes Cardozo, chairman of the European Fusion Education Network governing board.
In a Europe concerned about austerity and debt, there is serious debate over big capital investments at the expense of social welfare.
"Fusion just sounds too good to be true," one EU bureaucrat told Fairfax. "It always seems a little too far away."
In a way, Europe is already showing the best way to harvest energy generated from fusion: in solar power cells, in the wind and tides, whose ultimate motivating power is the sun.
But fusion experts disagree. Francesco Romanelli, head of the European Fusion Development Agreement, says the world needs a portfolio of energy solutions and fusion can play a specific role within a realistic time frame.
"We are not looking for perfection, for the ultimate technological solution, but for something that works. We don't need to build a Rolls-Royce."
Late in the evening, after the experiments are done, we go inside the reactor room itself, through an airlock and a concrete tunnel. The reactor core, that metal doughnut, is hidden behind a mass of laser detectors, ion heaters, electromagnetic generators, sensors, cooling systems and gas injectors. There is a loud roar of machine exhaust.
It's impressive - stories high, bulging with power. It feels industrial. It feels real.
"This is terra incognita," our guide says. "This is what scientists do. It's our duty."
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Gifts for travelers
Spy jackets, hammocks, 3-D books on wish list
The question is as soul-stirring, hotly contested and universal as the chicken or the egg, Darwin versus intelligent design, Connery versus Moore, chunky versus creamy.
What do travelers love more: travel or all the cool stuff to buy that goes with it?
We're pretty sure we know the answer, but being that the money spent on travel-related gear, clothing, gadgets, apps, guides and gewgaws would easily dwarf the GNP of several South American countries, we're hedging our bets that some of you would happily stay home so long as there's a safari pith helmet with solar-powered fan under the tree.
Here, we offer our annual Traveler's Gift Guide, our staff picks of items to consider for the traveler on your holiday shopping list. The picks come from the reviewers who write the Chronicle's weekly Gear column - Jennifer Blot, Bill Fink, John Flinn, Jill K. Robinson and myself - and are products that we actually used, often on the road.
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Chicago: Theatre Capital of America Past, Present, and Future
A scholarly symposium presented by the Theatre Department of Columbia College Chicago – the largest and most diverse private arts and media college in the nation with more than 120 academic programs and nearly 12,500 students.
Dates: May 18-22, 2011
Place: Columbia College, Chicago, IL
"For the poet Carl Sandburg it was the 'City of the Big Shoulders.' Architect Daniel Burnham called it 'the Paris of the Prairies.' That mix of raw energy and refined aestheticism makes Chicago one of the world's great cities—and
the current theatre capital of America."
Michael Billington, The Guardian, 2004
The rise of Chicago as a center of theatrical creativity over the past half-century is a signal development in the history of modern theatre. From the development of Second City-style improv and sketch comedy to the Story Theatre experiments of Paul Sills, from the intimacy of Chamber Theatre literary adaptation to the dazzling epic visions of Frank Galati and Mary Zimmerman, from bold reimaginings of classic American and Shakespearean drama to the development of risky new work by emerging writers, from the freewheeling fantasy of Stuart Gordon's Organic Theatre to the gritty naturalism of David Mamet and Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago's distinctively ensemble-focused theatre movement has had an extraordinary impact nationally and globally.
Professional non-profit theatre in Chicago continues to grow and diversify, as new generations of artists build on the work of their predecessors while incorporating rapidly evolving new technologies and international influences. However, the causes, nature, and effects of the Chicago theatre phenomenon are little written about by scholars, teachers, and even theatre professionals. Moreover, because the founders of the earliest theatres in the "off-Loop theatre movement" of the past half-century are now in their sixties and seventies, the days approach rapidly when scholars will no longer have opportunities to learn directly from the founders' experiences. The archival, theoretical, and pedagogical foundations for mature, useful scholarship about Chicago theatre must still be built, and the future of Chicago theatre as a force in world theatre must be charted.
By creating the first forum for scholars from Chicago and the Midwest, around the U.S., and overseas to consider these and related issues, Columbia College Chicago's 2011 symposium on "Sustaining Chicago Theatre: Past, Present, and Future" can significantly influence scholarship about--and the future of--the performing arts on local, national and global scales.
Request for Proposals
The organizing committee invites 300-word abstracts (including up to 10 low res images or up to 2 minutes video where relevant) addressing the past, present, and/or future of professional theatre in Chicago in relation, but not limited, to the following topics (other side):
1. Theory and Praxis; Workshops; Master Classes (acting, auditioning, casting, directing, designing, dramaturgy, ensemble, improvisation, narrative, writing, criticism);
2. Education, Training, and Access (schools, colleges, programs, teachers, economic strata, social circles, professional networks);
3. Classical and Contemporary (Shakespeare, Loop, off-Loop, fringe, mainstream, musicals, genders, sexualities, ethnicities, abilities, presence/absence of international influences);
4. Management and Development (funding, patronage, boards of directors, unions, producing, marketing, sales, social media, audience development, government relations, public policy).
Proposals from emerging scholars and artists and attendance by graduate students are particularly encouraged.
Proposals should include the following items:
1. Your name, title, status (e.g., artist, faculty, independent scholar, management, student) and academic and/or professional affiliation (if applicable).
2. Your contact information (particularly email).
3. The title and abstract for your paper, panel, workshop, master class. Please limit abstracts to 300 words. Proposals for panels of two or more scholars and for workshops and master classes with multiple leaders are welcome. Please include the above information for each participant.
4. The technical requirements of your presentation.
Deadline for submissions: September 1, 2010
In your e-mail, please write "Sustaining Chicago Theatre Proposal" in the subject heading and in the body of the message include the title of the proposal, your name, address, telephone, email address and affiliation (if applicable).
Receipt of your submission will be confirmed via email and you will be informed of the committee's decisions by November 15, 2010.
E-mail proposals to: email@example.com
For information on the conference see http://www.colum.edu/TheatreSymposium. You may also contact Albert Williams, Senior Lecturer, Columbia College Theatre Department, at 312-369-6141, email@example.com, or Dr. John Green, chair of the Columbia College Theatre Department, at 312-369-6160, firstname.lastname@example.com.
Date of issue: March 3, 2010
Tara Mallen and David Zak have kindly provided biographical information to the database.Reporting for these entries was done by Tabbi Koller, a student in the Chicago theater history class of Professor Andy White at Valparaiso University
Molly J. Neylan, co-founder of GroundUp Theater, has provided biographical information for her entry in the project's database. The information was collected by Alison Wojahn, a graduate student and member of Prof. R. Andrew White's class, Theatre 390-B Chicago Theater. This term, 17 students in the class are collecting biographical information about the founders of Chicago's professional non-profit theaters. Professor White is a member of the project's advisory board.
Jim Lasko, Redmoon Theater's artistic director for 17 years, announced his resignation on January 13. In his announcement he assessed Redmoon's mission:
"My travels have revealed to me the power of public art and I realize now that advocacy for accessible art and activating public space has been a large part of my drive with Redmoon. I hope to continue my work as an advocate for public art. I don't know what form that will take but it is a conviction that I must act upon. If the foundation of democracy is a healthy exchange among its citizens, then there is no more important medium than public space, a place where people from diverse backgrounds and situations gather to witness their commonality. The vitality of that essential democratic experience, one constantly undermined by commercial interests, can be best assured by high quality, well conceived art. I want to promote that exchange however I can.
"Redmoon was founded in 1990 to promote a unique brand of performance committed to the highest quality artistic product and to civic well-being. Pulling with equal conviction from contemporary art forms and ancient theatrical forms, Redmoon has created a performance style that is equal parts pageantry, gadgetry, acrobatics, and ephemera. Over the past decade we have garnered international attention for our theatrical productions like Hunchback, and our site specific performances which have been seen everywhere from the Jackson Park Lagoon to the facade of Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art. Over recent years Redmoon expand its International profile, participating in projects in Holland, Ireland, and Australia."
To read the full statement, click here
Ira Nadel, Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, and a member this project's advisory board, has written a biography titled David Mamet: A Life in the Theater. The book has been published in North America and the United Kingdom by Palgrave Macmillan.
The subtitle, Nadel writes in his introduction, is "misleading. While it summarizes [Mamet's] commitment to the theatre world, it discounts his efforts in other genres. A striking feature of Mamet's long career is his sucess with forms outside the theatre, while never really leaving it. . . . The challenge is to balance artistic clarity with moral honesty, which occasionally requires the use of the con. Mamet's artistic diversity is not so much the evolution of an aesthetic as the need to try something new, one of the themes of this narrative."
Mamet's quest, ballasted by a strong work ethic, has deep roots in his Chicago experiences where theatre was a "'popular entertainment. It was very close to blue-collar amusement, like going to see the Cubs,' . . . The theatre was both a spectacle and a show and rarely thought of as intellectual as it was in New York . . . Similarly, playwriting, like acting, is no mystery for Mamet. It emanates out of the Chicago tradition of 'writing as a legitimate day-to-day skill, like bricklaying . . . you need a script. Well, hell, figure out how to write one.'"
At the end of the introduction, Nadel suggests the challenges he faced while further defining the book's aims: "Mamet is keenly aware of what theatre can reveal, though he rarely permits self-exposure on any personal level. He protects his private life partly because he believes 'biography makes rotten drama' and partly because he distrusts it. People get things wrong. Facts go astray. Events are forgotten. But at the end of his newest collection, Bambi vs. Godzilla, he addresses the artistic responsibility of biography, explaining that it is difficult to 'engross the audience . . . as the end is known. It calls for greater skill and imagination on the part of the writer in finding an internal story within the generally known historical moment.' This is not quite a call for psychoanalysis but the need to identify inner stages of development that unite outward events. . . . The aim of this account is to align the outer story of Mamet's life with the inner, while not losing sight of his primary rule for good writing: telling the audience 'WHAT HAPPENS NEXT.'"
The director of this project extends congratulations and thanks to Professor Nadel on the successful completion of this challenging task. The book achieves it aims and advances our understanding of both Mamet's artistry and the development of theater in Chicago.
Jeffrey Sweet, playwright and member of this project's advisory board, will celebrate the publication of an anthology of his plays with a reception on Monday, June 30, at the Victory Gardens Biograph space, 2433 North Lincoln Avenue, in Chicago. Sweet is a member of the Playwright's Ensemble at Victory Gardens which will produce his new play, Class Dismissed, next March.
The title of the anthology is The Value of Names and Other Plays. Northwestern University Press's website says: "The title work, first mounted in 1982, is a comedy-drama about the aftermath of the blacklist whose continued relevance makes it a frequently produced play today. The family drama Porch suggests larger social changes through the interaction of a small-town shopkeeper and his defiant daughter. The lauded American Enterprise, set in the Chicago of the robber barons, is a song-filled true story about a millionaire whose stubborn idealism leads to disaster. Stay Till Morning is a rueful comedy about sex and accommodation in the Florida Keys. The three plays that grew out of his fascination with the effects of World War II, Berlin 45, Court-Martial at Fort Devens, and The Action Against Sol Schumann dramatize the ways in which that conflict transformed private fates. Each script is accompanied by an extended introduction from the playwright as well as complete performance notes." To order a copy, click on this link: http://nupress.northwestern.edu/title.cfm?ISBN=0-8101-2395-9
The director of this project is glad to see American Enterprise included. The "robber baron" is George Pullman and the play concerns the Pullman strike and the events leading up to it and its aftermath. It premiered at the Organic Theater on March 6, 1991, directed by Wesley Savick, with Gary Houston as Pullman. It was orginally published in 1991 by Chicago Plays, Inc (isbn 1-56850-012-2). Based on Sweet's research, and including his songs, the play successfully braids history, music, and action into a work of theatrical art that deserves a much wider audience.
Albert Williams, drama critic for The Reader and advisory board member for this project, is rallying support for the founding of a Chicago Performing Arts Museum. Williams has been been encouraging this project for more than a year but now has placed the issue squarely before the theater community via his blog, On Stage. Click on this link to read Williams' case and the numerous comments it drew from a cross-section of the theater community. http://blogs.chicagoreader.com/onstage/2008/06/06/chicago-performing-arts-museum-why-not/
On June 20, Williams posted an update: "A public 'town meeting' of persons interested in the creation of a museum and archive devoted to Chicago theater and dance will take place Monday, August 4, at the Mercury Theater, 3745 N. Southport. Contact Jason Epperson, email@example.com, for more information.
On June 27, Williams announced the launch of the website for the Chicagoland Theater and Dance Foundation, organized by Jason Epperson. The website says that " mission of the foundation is to fund the preservation of Chicago's rich and diverse performing arts history, with the specific goal of developing a performing arts museum and archive in downtown chicago." The website's address is http://chicagoperformingarts.org/default.aspx
Check Williams' blog regularly for news about Chicago Theater.
Paul Sills, son of Viola Spolin and a pioneer of improvisational theater, has died at age 80. Links to obituaries can be found under Sills' name in the database.
Please use this site as a place to send information about:
1) the lives of the founders of Chicago theatres;
2) changes in theatre ensembles and artistic philosophies;
3) changes in address and specifications of performance spaces;
4) the locations of archival materials, including, but not limited to, manuscripts, prompt books, notes, drafts, design sketches and plans, props, images, sound recordings, subscriber lists, board minutes and related administrative records and correspondence, however ephemeral and insignificant they may seem now. Any document or object associated with your work, especially if its provenance and context is well documented, potentially lights the paths of historians and teachers. Please see the Bibliography section for suggestions on developing plans for your archives.
Updated: 8/27/07
The research supporting the Chicago Theatre History Project is made possible in part by the $10,000 Philip and Miriam Kapfer Endowed Faculty Research Award conferred by the Creative Work and Research Committee of Valparaiso University.
"What is done interests me more than what is thought or supposed. Every fact is impure, but every fact contains in it the juice of life. Every fact is a clod, from which may grow an amaranth or a palm." --Margaret Fuller, Summer on the Lakes in 1843


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If Alan Turing Were Still Alive today, he would have turned 100 tomorrow. Or if he lived in Australia, he'd be 100 right now. That's why the Aussie iteration of Google is paying tribute to the pioneering computer genius with a Google Doodle that simulates the behavior of a Turning machine.
Turing conceived of his famed machine in 1936, which in essence was a mechanical computer with what turing called "infinite memory." His machine would scan the tape, looking for specific cues (in the form of symbols) which would alter the state of the machine. Though capable of processing the logic of any computer algorithm, the Turing Machine is not seen as an actual solution for real-life computing. Rather, it has become a standard way to conceptualize the behavior of CPUs.
Today's doodle challenges you to use the virtual Turing Machine to spell out Google in Binary code. Are you up for the challenge? [Google]


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China Investment Treaty "a Straitjacket" for Canada: Exclusive Interview with Trade Investment Expert Gus Van HartenRead time: 15 mins
Carol Linnitt | October 17, 2012
By Carol Linnitt • Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - 14:23
This post is the first of a series on the Canada-China Investment "Straitjacket:" Exclusive Interview with Gus Van Harten. You can access Part 2 here and Part 3 here.
I recently picked up a copy of Francis Fukuyama's 2011 book, The Origins of Political Order. Sitting on the bedside table at the house I was staying at, the book made for some 'light' bedtime reading. I heaved the enormous tome onto my lap and, opening it to a random page, read this alarming passage:
There is no rule of law in China today: the Chinese Communist Party does not accept the authority of any other institution in China as superior to it or able to overturn its decisions. Although the People's Republic of China has a constitution, the party makes the constitution rather than the reverse. If the current Chinese government wanted to nationalize all existing foreign investments, or renationalize the holdings of private individuals and return the country to Maoism, there is no legal framework preventing it from doing so. (Pg 248)
My concerns with China's treatment of foreign investments arose in light of China's recent bid for Nexen, a Canadian company with large holdings in the Alberta tar sands. Since Canada is having trouble with the management of the tar sands now, what would it look like if we had Chinese state-owned enterprises like the Chinese National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC) in the mix?
It turns out the problem is of magnitudes greater than I had originally conceived, and concerns not only Canada's management of its resources, but its sovereignty, its democracy, and the protection of the rights and values of its citizens.
Perhaps most strikingly, Canada is embracing this threat, showing telltale signs the real culprit in this dangerous deal isn't China at all.
In order to untangle the web of an international trade deal as complex as the China-Canada Investment Treaty, which establishes the terms of the Nexen deal - the biggest overseas takeover by a Chinese company - I spoke with Professor Gus Van Harten of Osgoode Law School, an expert on foreign investment deals of this sort.
Below is Part 1 of our interview:


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We had the pleasure of interviewing Mr. Ray Bugg, a local Sprint 360 racer and legend in the Midwest. Ray is 75-years-old and is still kickin' butt and taking names. From Iuka, Mississippi, Ray has been racing for 55 years and is still going strong. Bugg is a funny, down-to-earth man with his awesome wife Velma, who doubles as his crew chief. Here's a look into Sprint car racing from a man who has been in the industry for over five decades.
When did you first start racing Sprint Cars? Were you hooked from the start?
1958. Back then they were called A-cars. I started right out in an A-car.
Did you first start out racing on a dirt track or asphalt?
It was dirt. It was at "The Ditch" in West Memphis, Arkansas.
What was your favorite moment during that time?
Actually, it was a few years later when I started racing on asphalt.
Do you prefer asphalt or dirt racing?
Actually, I prefer asphalt racing. There's not any tracks close by. I would have to travel a long ways. This is my 55th year racing these Sprint cars. In the '60s I ran asphalt. I built an asphalt car. Back then you built your own cars. I built an asphalt car and I ran with all the Allison's – Bobby, Donny, Red Farmer – but back then they called them Super Modifieds. For about five years I ran asphalt. At that time I was living in Memphis. They had a circuit going on in Memphis, Mobile, Pensacola, and Nashville. I ran that circuit.
So this is your 55th year racing. Do you plan on quitting any time soon or do you plan to keep on truckin'?
Well, I just built a new car and I ran it over the weekend. I need to get some things worked out. If it turns out good, I may run another year.
During your time racing has the sport changed for better or worse?
Well, it has gotten really expensive. The guys come up with big sponsors and that kills guys like me. The motors they are running now are between $50,000 – 60,000. Over the years I just managed to keep going and build my own car. I go down here to J&J and buy a frame kit. Some of these hot shots come in and you think, boy here comes Earnhardt with everything in the world, the most expensive stuff you can buy and the driver is about 13 years old and has never drove before. I keep a close watch, and before the year is up they end up selling everything. I have a real good wife (Velma) that helps me out and she's my crew chief. She won "crew chief of the year" the year before last, and she's up for it again this year. Just her and I – we run about nine states.
So you travel a lot for these races?
Yes, I do. Before I was hired from my job I couldn't travel around like this, but I retired out of the elevator business in '93 and since then I've been running in circuit.
What's the furthest you've traveled for a race?
Well, we go all the way to Florida. The weekend before last I went 900 miles round trip for the first asphalt race in 46 years. We got one coming up in Atlanta and I'm already locked in for it. It's at the end of next month, the same weekend as the Atlanta 500. They are going to run us on the short track. ESC is running that.
Do you have any advice for anybody just starting out with Sprint racing?
Well, yeah I do. They need a little bit of experience before they start jumping into these sprint cars. Some of these guys have been racing for a long time. This one kid is only 13 years old and has probably been racing about ten years. He started out in go-karts and then moved on up.
Any keys for success and longevity?
I've run with the best of them. I've broke a lot of those guys in. Over the years it has been fun. It has just gotten so expensive it's hard to compete. I built my own motors and do my own cars. At this time it's hard to compete with the guys who just pull up and get whatever they want. Money is no problem and the drivers have no idea of what anything costs. It makes it rough because they are out of control. They are fast and you just have to watch them because they'll be spinning out and tearing it up.
So you're pretty much going to wreck at some point, right?
I've been in some bad wrecks. In 1967 I crashed at Mobile, Alabama on a half-mile track. I crushed six vertebrae in my back and broke my chest bone in two places. I'm lucky to be able to still do this. I have a lot of friends and they can't believe I'm still racing and doing good. I'm still competitive.
Have you raced anything else besides Sprint cars?
Nope, I've never raced anything else before. I was raised around here in Iuka, Mississippi and I went to Memphis and got a job, and went to the races over there and said "I love this, I got to get me one."
So if all goes well, you plan to continue another year?
I believe I will. I just got a towing home that has all of the living quarters in it. I should have got one about 30 years ago. When you're on the road it's just hard to find a motel that you can get in and out of with a truck and trailer. With these homes they just let you park it wherever.
How fast do you usually go during these races?
I actually run about 150 mph. These cars don't weigh but 1300 lbs. with 700 horsepower. They are really a thrill to drive. They get real wild when you bump them against another car.
Anything else you'd like to add?
I love it. Even if I had to quit racing due to health reasons, I would still own one. I never had a sponsor. I just picked up my first sponsor last week, Gant Concrete Pumping. He's going to buy my tires. Those rear tires are over $200 a piece.
I raced with my son Danny Bugg for ten years, but he doesn't race anymore. My nephew Marshall Skinner races with me and we borrow parts. We've been hanging out since he was two years old. He lives in Arkansas and when I retired I moved back to Iuka, Mississippi.


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OAKLAND -- How much deeper is the Mariners lineup this season with the addition of some key veterans and the improvement of their young core of hitters? Deep enough that Dustin Ackley, the No. 2 overall selection in the 2009 First-Year Player Draft, was hitting eighth in Monday's Opening Day lineup.
Ackley, who batted .365 this spring, hit first or second almost all last season. He was in the No. 2 spot between Chone Figgins and Ichiro Suzuki in last year's opener. But manager Eric Wedge now is going with a healthy Franklin Gutierrez and Michael Saunders in the top two spots, followed by newcomers Kendrys Morales and Michael Morse.
"I think you look up and down our lineup, we've got guys that can hit about anywhere," Ackley said. "It's good to be in a lineup where guys are going to be on base when you get up to bat, especially from top to bottom. It's going to be fun to watch."
This is the kind of depth and balance Wedge has been aiming for since arriving in Seattle in 2011.
"It's different, obviously in a good way," Wedge said. "We've talked about trying to spread out our lineup and be solid from one through nine and we feel we're a lot closer to that. It's a combination of all our young kids continuing to improve and bringing in these veteran guys that have done it. We feel good about it."
Ackley expressed optimism coming out of a spring in which the Mariners led all of baseball in home runs and were second to the Royals in runs and OPS.
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WASHINGTON (AP) � The Obama administration and civil rights groups are defending a key section of the landmark voting rights law at the Supreme Court by pointing reformed state, county and local governments to an escape hatch from the law's strictest provision.
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In a New York Times Economix blog post, David Barboza suggests that things are looking better in U.S.-China trade because America's exports to the People's Republic are increasing.
Barboza cites a U.S.-China Business Council study that shows American exports to China soaring 32% last year, to a record $91.9 billion. The Council says China is now the world's fastest-growing destination for American exports and that American exports to China have jumped 468% over the past decade.
Sounds good, right?
Actually, there's a bit of a hidden problem. As Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) Executive Director Scott Paul commented, the export data to China is misleading not only because of price inflation but also because it doesn't reveal what those exports really are:
Some of our fastest growing exports to China are scrap metal, scrap paper, and raw unprocessed commodities. Moreover, very few other goods we export to China are finished goods that end up in the hands of Chinese consumers. We are exporting capital goods to build factories (that will compete against us), as well as components that will be assembled into finished products and shipped back to the U.S. Barboza also fails to point out that our trade deficit with China continues to grow. It was a record last year.
What this really means is that:
1. U.S. exports to China very much resemble those of a third world country: scrap and recycled materials along with agricultural products.
2. These exports do not support job growth in the U.S. Ie. farm employment in not booming, and the U.S. is not hiring workers to make scrap material and recycled paper.
3. The U.S. trade deficit with China reached a record in 2010 of $273 billion. Exports may be increasing, but imports are climbing at a much greater rate–which represents a continuing drain on U.S. jobs.
Barboza essentially acknowledges all of this, saying, "much of what China imports is used to make goods that are then re-exported, like the Apple iPhone."
And, in addition to these turnarounds, Barboza also acknowledges that "exports of crops to China jumped to $13.8 billion last year," and that "China is hungry for other resources as well, like recyclable metals and paper." He cites New York state's biggest export to China in 2010: "waste and scrap."
This is not how to make trade work for the U.S.
The U.S. competes head-to-head with China in autos and auto parts, energy-intensive industries (steel, glass, paper, etc.), clean energy goods, high tech goods (like semi-conductors), machine tools– the list goes on. Those are the sectors of value-added products that need to be exported. They support good-paying jobs, they drive innovation, they balance the trade ledger.
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Yes, believe it or not, this year marks the 10th Annual Alibi Short Film Fiesta. For an entire decade, the Alibi has labored to present a showcase for homegrown independent filmmakers and to show off that talent to local film-loving audiences.
Alibi Short Film Fiesta Lineup
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Saturday, Oct. 16 (3, 6, 9 p.m.)
Total run time of program: 101 minutes
"Date 1.0"
Directed by: Ryan Denmark
Length: 13 minutes
In this sci-fi/romance/comedy, two mad scientists engage in a bizarre form of flirting: engaging in a high-tech competition to see who can build the most heartbreaking dating simulation robot.
Directed by Jeff Drew
Length: 7 minutes
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Ferrari Sporting Spirit – A "Speciale" show at Maranello
The Museum in Maranello has curated a very interesting show that has as its theme, Ferrari's sporting spirit, whose exhibits include the very latest 458 Speciale.
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Among the single-seaters, apart from the Formula 1 cars that won the World Championship from 1999 to 2008, in the entrance hall there are models that tell the story of Ferrari: from the modern F60 to the F1-89, driven by Mansell which featured the first ever steering wheel-mounted gearchange invented at Maranello, which became known as the "tipo F1." Going further back one can find the two most important turbo cars in the history of Ferrari, the 156-85 driven by Alboreto and Villeneuve's 126 CK.
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But maybe the most interesting chapter for those who love Ferrari, is to be found on the upper level where the history is told of the cars that took part in GT races from the 70s to the present day. Indeed, surrounding the new 458 Speciale are all the GT cars that raced and won in that period. Working backwards, one starts with the 458 GT2 which Fisichella, Bruni and Vilander took the 2012 GT2 world title, the 430 GT2, equally successful at world level and in the Le Mans 24 Hours, as was the 360 on show alongside it.
The collection of GT racing cars, for which Ferrari also availed itself of the skills of the specialist company Michelotto from Padua, continues with a rare example of the 575 GT1 and the IMSA version of the 348. Finally, there are two very interesting versions of the 308: the one fitted with a longitudinal engine which predated the development of the GTO Evoluzione and the Group 4 version which dominated international rallying for many years with drivers of the calibre of Andruet, Toivonen and Waldegaard.
The show runs to March 2014 and is open every day from 9.30 to 18.00. Other shows running at the same time are "Da Cinecittà a Hollywood, la Ferrari nel cinema" and " Ferrari dell'altro mondo: Mulotipi e Avventure".


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Say this for the Dodgers, they may not win a lot, but when they do, they tend to make it interesting.
They seemed all set to win a routine game Saturday -- getting great starting pitching, a spurt of timely hitting and even a game-saving defensive play -- when things went astray in the bottom of the ninth inning.
Kenley Jansen, the newly appointed closer who had been pitching very well, gave up a game-tying home run to pinch-hitter Travis Snider.
Only this time the Dodgers shook off the disappointment and rallied for a pair of runs in the 11th inning to pull out a 5-3 victory over the Pirates at PNC Park.
The Dodgers scored off reliever Vin Mazzaro. Andre Ethier doubled to open the inning and was sacrificed to third base on a bunt by Mark Ellis. Juan Uribe singled home Ethier with the go-ahead run. After a wild pitch, pinch-hitter Nick Punto doubled in Uribe.
The Dodgers then had to survive a sketchy bottom of the inning. The Pirates had the tying runs at second and third bases with one out on a pair of infield hits and a wild pitch from former closer Brandon League.
But Andrew McCutchen bounced out and Gabby Sanchez lined out to Skip Schumaker in left to end it. And earn League his 14th save.
Schumaker had already made a leaping catch at the left-field wall to steal a three-run homer from former Dodger Russell Martin in the sixth.
For a Dodgers team that has lost five of its last six games, a victory of any sorts, counts plenty.
Clayton Kershaw started for the Dodgers, but got in early trouble when Alex Presley led off the bottom of the first inning with a double and, after a sacrifice bunt, he walked the bases loaded. Martin then bounced a perfect double-play ball to Hanley Ramirez at shortstop.
Ramirez stepped on second base and then threw the ball somewhere in the vicinity of the Allegheny River, as Presley scored.
Meanwhile, right-hander Brandon Cumpton –- making his major league debut –- was making it look easy for the Pirates. He struck out five of the first six Dodgers he faced.
With Kershaw seemingly getting stronger, the Pirates clung to the 1-0 lead until the fifth inning when A.J. Ellis singled, was sacrificed to second by Kershaw and scored when Schumaker lined a single to right.
The Dodgers took the lead in the sixth behind the middle of their lineup. Adrian Gonzalez hit a ground-rule double and took third on a single by Ramirez. Andre Ethier lined a basehit up the middle to score Gonzalez, and after Bryan Morris took over for Cumpton, Mark Ellis lifted a sacrifice fly to score Ramirez and give the Dodgers a 3-1 lead.
In the bottom of the inning, the Pirates had runners at first and second when Martin lined a drive to left. Schumaker retreated to the 6-foot fence, jumped and caught the ball clearly over the top of the wall.
Kershaw went seven strong innings, holding the Pirates to one run on three hits. He walked three and struck out eight.
The Pirates got one run back in the eighth inning against Chris Withrow, making his second major league appearance. Withrow gave up a basehit and a walk before getting consecutive strikeouts. Paco Rodriquez relieved Withrow, giving up a run-scoring single to Neil Walker.
Things still seemed all neat and comfy for the Dodgers when they sent Kenley Jansen in to close the 3-2 lead.
But with one out in the bottom of the ninth, Snider jumped on a fat Jansen fastball. It was one of those no-doubters, the homer tying the score and sending ithe game into extra innings.
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It's week two of Hometown Pasadena's campaign to root out good, inexpensive little restaurants in a diverse range of neighborhoods. This week's recommendation is a find in Montrose:
India's Flavor
It's easy to become blind to the array of international cafés that cram into our strip malls; you keep meaning to stop and try that little Thai, Vietnamese, Central American or Indian joint but somehow never get around it. I've driven by the tiny strip mall that holds India's Flavor (and a neighboring Indian market) for a couple of years and finally went in after it was recommended by two friends who don't live in the neighborhood, and who know their Indian food. They were right: It's a sweet little spot that gives a lot of bang for the buck.
India's Flavor is a shoebox-size room jammed into the corner of a strip a couple of blocks south of La Cabanita and Bashan, with a decor that's pretty much limited to (sound-off) Bollywood movies on the flat-screen TV and the exuberant smiles of the two women who wait on the handful of tables. Those tables are typically full at lunch during the week, thanks to the $8.45 all-you-can-eat buffet, which includes tender tandoori chicken; one of several chicken curries; saag paneer (Indian creamed spinach), which may not look beautiful after sitting on the buffet for a while but which tastes great; delicious chana masala (saucy, ginger-infused garbanzo beans); a vegetarian curry or yogurt-based dish; and the usual rice and pappadum (crisp cracker bread).
If you're not up for a buffet, or you're visiting for dinner or weekend lunch, the menu has all the northern Indian standards: naan breads, biryani rice dishes, pakoras, salads and an array of vegetarian, chicken, lamb and beef curries. Dishes roasted in the tandoor oven are served as "Sizzlers" on little cast-iron platters, like Indian fajitas. The dishes are generously served, carefully prepared and quite reasonably priced.
Besides the lunch buffet, the best deals are the combinations, especially the dinner combination — for an extra $6 on top of your entree (they run from $8 to $15) you get soup or salad, a vegetable, rice and tender, puffy naan bread. And the kids' meal for $6.95 is a great value, too.
3303 N. Verdugo Rd., Glendale/Montrose, 818.957.5500. L & D Mon.-Sat. Indian. No booze. MC, V. $ – $$ indiasflavor.com


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RAVE REVIEWS BOOK CLUB is a virtual book club made up of the most supportive authors and readers on the planet! {The reviews of the Book Club members are not necessarily the same as the reviews of the author, Nonnie Jules, and vice versa}. We encourage each of you to JOIN, especially if you are an author, as we expect that the books we select, will be profiled and hopefully propelled to new heights via the support of the club. The greater our membership numbers, the more successful and stronger our collective voices will be. For more info on the club, please visit our FAQ page.
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For those of you who are new to book clubs, here is how this one works: Once the club has made selections (our selections are posted over to the right), members are encouraged to get their copy of the selected books, read and then post their reviews on Amazon, B&N.com or whatever forum they use for reviews. Then, once the club meets on it's scheduled meeting date, all members are invited to join in the discussion. The authors of the books of the month are always invited for Q & A. Please be mindful of the club's selections, as it is our hope to support, and propel the awareness and sales of each author during their selection period.
{The Mission and Goal of the RAVE REVIEWS BOOK CLUB are to Profile, Promote & Propel the careers of Indie authors. The only way that we can do that, is by supporting each of our authors with book sales and HONEST reviews. If you are an individual who is in the habit of skimming through the FREE sample that is given by Amazon, and then "claiming" to have purchased and read, this may not be the club for you. We encourage and hope that each of our members will run out and purchase (either in e-book or paperback format) the selected author's books AND when finished with the complete read, post an honest review. When it is your turn and your book is in that wonderful seat of being Profiled, Promoted & Propelled, you will want the same courtesy extended to you. We proudly work on the HONORS SYSTEM here at #RRBC}.
Our mantra at RRBC is those that are most supportive here, are the ones who are most supported here. Those who are expecting to add their name to our roster and then just disappear without making any connections within the club, or without supporting any of their fellow members, probably won't get out of it, what they are expecting. What you put in here, is what you'll get out here.
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Discover Artsmark - 13 June 2017
The Discover Artsmark session will introduce the new award and give you a step-by-step guide to all the stages of the process. You will have an opportunity to explore the rationale behind the refreshed Artsmark, find out about the benefits for your school and look at the essential documents. There will also be time to ask questions and exchange ideas with peers.
Suitable for all school phases, and for existing Artsmark schools as well as newcomers to the award.


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Peter J. Krumholz (Hale Westfall, LLP) has published The Case for Greater Public Access to Oral Argument Recordings in the Tenth Circuit, 89 Denver U. L. Rev. 395 (2012).
The author lists the D.C. Circuit among the minority of "laggard" circuits that have failed to follow the Supreme Court's example of publishing audio recordings of oral arguments online. Continue reading


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What is the Best Treatment for Chronic Low Back Pain?
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When it comes to treating patients with chronic low back pain (cLBP), doctors of chiropractic commonly use a multi-modal approach that involves manual therapies, like spinal manipulation and mobilization, combined with supervised and/or home-based exercises. Why is that? In many cases, the superficial paraspinal muscles of patients with back pain will tighten as a reflex [..]


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2012 and the Maya: It's Not the End of the World main content.
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Did the Maya really predict that the world would end on December 21, 2012? Learn the true story behind this rumor, as noted hieroglyphics expert Mark Van Stone, author of "2012: Science and Prophecy of the Ancient Maya," unlocks the secrets of the complex Mayan calendars.
The talk, which took place at the Museum on October 10, 2012, was hosted by Hayden Planetarium Director Neil DeGrasse Tyson.


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Since this is my first blog post I thought that I would start off by introducing myself and letting you know a little bit about what I will be focusing in future posts.
My name is Bill Zack and I am an Architect Evangelist in the Developer & Platform Evangelism group at Microsoft. Although I live in Connecticut I am based out of Microsoft's New York office. I have written a few books and assorted magazine articles. Most recently I was a contributing author to the book Programming SQL Server 2005. I currently focus on presenting on the architecture of current and future Microsoft technologies at Microsoft events.
I am also pretty active in the area user group community, both as a user group leader and as a supporter of the local user groups. Before I joined Microsoft I founded several user groups myself including the New York Enterprise Windows User Group and the New York City .NET Developers Group which I currently still run together with several other community leaders. I also founded the New York City Chapter of the International Association of Software Architects (IASA) and am on their International Board of Directors. I started these groups before I joined Microsoft and still do run them even though I have "swallowed the blue pill". In fact my stock answer to people who asked me why I joined Microsoft is "I have been an unpaid evangelist for Microsoft for over 15 years. I just decided that it was time I got paid." 🙂
And that brings me to the focus of my blog. There are two things that I am passionate about 1) Solving interesting architectural problems using Microsoft (and other) technologies, and 2) Helping to legitimize the IT Architecture Profession. My posts will probably alternate between the technical issues that confront Architects and the issues that affect the IT Architecture Profession as a whole. The later will include topics such as: What is the difference between an Architect and a Developer? (And yes I have heard the joke: "about 10K a year" That's not it. :-)); how does a Developer who aspires to become an Architect map out a career path to get there and what skills does an Architect have to have? Indeed helping Aspiring Architects (and Developers) advance their careers is why I started the IASA chapter and this whole user group thing in the first place.
More to come later.
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Oracle Practice Manager - Food and Beverage Vertical - NetSuite Services in Herndon, Virginia
This manager-level position is responsible for a segment within a given practice focused on a specific industry, service line, technology center, specialty area or region. Responsible for managing the three main pillars of a practice: people management, portfolio/delivery management and sales enablement. Has profit and loss responsibility or financial/expense management of practice.
Accountable for operational/financial metrics and overall business results of practice. Responsible for maintaining practice direction, ensuring quality of consulting delivery, and maintaining customer referenceability. Ensures that operational policies are followed and that business objectives are achieved by focusing on best practices and process improvements. Develops plans to successfully implement operational policies and achieves business plan. Is accountable for managing and growing a revenue stream and customer base. Typically manages individual contributors. May serve as advisor for moderately complex engagements.
8 years of experience relevant to this position including 4 years of consulting experience and 2 years of project management leadership experience. Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience. Can lead, engage, mobilize and motivate multiple teams to accomplish goals. Product, technology or industry expertise relevant to the practice focus. Ability to travel as needed.
Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans status or any other characteristic protected by law.
Oracle is an Affirmative Action-Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veterans status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Why Oracle NetSuite?
One word - transformation.
At NetSuite, we believe the cloud is here to stay and so do our 20,000 customers. We believe businesses should not be bogged down by the overhead of bulky data centers and expensive personnel to run it all. Businesses need to be lean, efficient and agile. NetSuite is literally transforming business around the globe by providing a cloud-based, unified system that delivers unprecedented capabilities to drive business forward. Founded in 1998 as THE cloud ERP pioneer, today Oracle's NetSuite global business unit has transformed the business operations of our customers without the high costs and inefficiency of on-premise systems.
Transform your career at NetSuite
At NetSuite we work hard and we work smart. We hire fierce competitors. We hire individuals that are fearless trail blazers. NetSuite employees take the hill, we prefer action over inaction, we are tireless in our mission and we pause only to celebrate our success. And we DO celebrate, because if you don t have fun along the way, then what s the point?
The Practice Manager, Professional Services - Delivery is responsible for attaining quarterly Professional Services (PS) revenue targets, in the form of delivered billable hours. Additionally this role is responsible for the scoping and positioning of new services engagements. The incumbent will act as a key point of contact for Sales and Solution Consulting on opportunities within designated vertical. This role directly supports the sales cycle via internal knowledge transfers, solution reviews and executive-level prospect meetings. The successful candidate will excel at expanding NetSuite s footprint with existing customers through upsell of services opportunities. They will manage a team of resources, as well as handle all resource planning and staffing for teams on a broad range of services engagements, maximizing billable utilization. Furthermore, the role will manage project portfolio and ensure that quality standards for delivery are exceeded. The Practice Manager, Professional Services - Delivery will serve as an escalation point for services engagements. As well as being a key resource for internal practice development efforts, will train and mentor new and experienced resources.
Detailed Responsibilities include:
Achieve and Exceed PS Revenue and Profitability Objectives
Ensure team billable utilization targets are met
Attain quarterly PS revenue targets
Support the sales cycle through scoping and approval of PS engagements, Executive-level prospect meetings and Solution reviews
Manage project portfolio to ensure quality, on-time and on-budget implementations using a mix of global resources
Increase the Value of the NetSuite Application for Customers
Expand PS sales in existing customer base
Become trusted adviser to the Customer through implementation lifecycle and beyond
Team with Account Management and Client Management teams to promote user adoption and effective use of NetSuite, and support renewal efforts
Collaborate with NetSuite partners during services engagements
Ensure High Customer Satisfaction and Referenceability
Responsible for adhering to highest quality standards in project delivery
Manage executive-level customer relationships and provide team oversight through NetSuite implementation
Serve as Steering Committee member on strategic projects
Responsible for project staffing and resource scheduling on a broad range of consulting engagements
Contribute to company s focus on verticalization through participation in internal cross-departmental initiatives
Increase Engagement and Capabilities of PS Resources
Hire, train and manage team of new and experience resources to fulfill Practice objectives
Provide coaching and mentoring to assist in resources career development
Build team s expertise and confidence in project delivery work
Handle day-to-day administrative tasks such as: vacation scheduling, expense reports, time
*Preferred Qualifications/Skills include: *
8 years of experience in systems applications consulting, with a consulting firm or software provider.
Proven Professional Services Delivery Practice leadership including significant revenue responsibility and staff management experience.
Strong Food and Beverage industry vertical and/or application solution experience.
Demonstrated experience in translating customer business requirements into workable software solutions
Exceptional verbal and written communication is required with previous experience creating Statement of Work for new and existing customers
Strong experience in Change Management and Business Process Mapping
Excellent client management skills and the ability to work with customers to develop and manage an implementation plan
Previous services sales experience; comfortable interacting at the C level
Consulting and management experience in a SaaS environment is a plus
Experience implementing packaged enterprise application solutions such as Netsuite, Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards or Dynamics
Job: *Consulting
Organization: *Oracle
Title: Practice Manager - Food and Beverage Vertical - NetSuite Services
Location: United States
Requisition ID: 19001AXW
Other Locations: CA-CA,Canada-Toronto
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Each show, CHA holds its Innovations Showcase, which serves as a combination media event and buyer preview. The top 20 entrants in the Innovations Showcase (as pre-determined by a panel of celebrity media judges) take part in a speed round of presentations to the audience, and then attendees get a few minutes to visit each entrant's booth around the outer edge of the room to talk to the various manufacturers about their products. (At CHA Winter 2013, Craft Critique's own editor Nancy Nally was one of the celebrity media judges!)
Needless to say, we arrived with our cameras and notebooks in hand to get the most information possible in the short amount of time allowed for our readers. Our first stop was to see Julianna C. Hudgins demonstrating her new jewel loom from Beadalon.


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Pet Grooming
Dog Grooming Shears
Dog groomers have specialized needs when it comes to shears. To do this job, you need many different, specialized, high quality tools, that also need to remain affordable for two reasons:
- Groomers need many different tools.
- Dogs have a lot more hair than people, and so a groomer's tools see more use, and wear out quicker. The hair is also quite different.
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When you buy an ultra expensive shear from these retailers, you are paying for many marketing teams all over the world, for ad space, both digital and traditional, and for traveling trade show sales people to buy expensive booth space, hotels, flights, and of course their salaries. We have none of those things, and pass all the savings onto you.
Beautiful packaging, logos, and ads cost a lot of money. Seriously consider whether you really care about buying that part before you spend your money.
With us, you can pay a quarter of the cost here on our website, to get the same high quality shears that you normally buy from the premium brands of the industry.
What you Need to Look For
Grooming shears are different from regular hair cutting shears. The extremely fine hair, the lack of cooperation from the fluffy clients, the angles, and the significantly higher volume of hair means that certain important quality requirements need to be met, and ergonomic features need to be included in order to make a shear useful for dog groomers.
Quality Requirements
A grooming shear needs to have certain features in order to be effective.
- 440C Steel: A grooming shear needs to be either 440C steel in order to be hard enough to hold a good edge for an acceptable amount of time. Even better options are proprietary Japanese steels, like the Hitachi steels.
- Beveled Edge: The best grooming shears have a beveled edge. Good shears are normally sharpened with either a bevelled edge, or a convex edge. The convex edge makes a gentle curve from the spine of the blade down to a razor sharp edge. The bevelled edge is honed into the blade in a straight line, making a clear delineation between the blade and the edge. While the more expensive convex edge is often preferred by stylists because it has a smoother cut, the bevelled edge holds up longer to the high volume of coarse dog hair that groomers have to deal with.
- Adjustable Screw: A good grooming shear will have a screw that you can adjust by hand or with a tool in order to change the tension on your scissors. Be careful with this, as over tightening your scissor can create unnecessary wear on your scissor blades and affect the life of the tool.
- Weight: Even a small difference in weight can make a big difference when you're holding a tool at strange angles for eight or more hours a day.
Groomer's Features
You might see some of these features in a hair salon shear, but they are much more important for grooming pets. Groomers are at great risk of inflammation, seized muscles, and carpal tunnel, so it is very important to minimize stresses on your body and posture in this line of work.
Here at Shears Direct, we have everything you need. Hundreds of different kinds of shears, of different lengths, different handle and thumb options, and even a great selection of left-handed options, so that everyone can get the quality they need at a price that they can afford.
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I've been a busy bee the past couple of days generating a big pack of rpm updates. udev is about fixed for the printers so I'm happy about that. There is a problem with cd symlinks especially for cdrw devices but the udev mailing list shows this is being addressed and a new version of udev will be out shortly.
Cybercfo is building an Amarok livecd based on a stripped down version of pclinuxos. I updated all the gstreamer rpms as well as amorak from their cvs build last night so he would have some new packages to work with for his project. You can find out more information about this exciting project at:


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Season 2 premiere
Loved it!! So glad to have GoT back!! QueenBuffy 04:33, April 2, 2012 (UTC)
- Likewise, strong return.--Opark 77 13:42, April 2, 2012 (UTC)
To do
We have lots to do as a new episode airs. Please strike through any completed tasks. The aims for the moment are:
Update the lead to change the tense of the premiere date Ensure the writer and director are listed Ensure that the relevant writer and director articles have been updated Check that the synopsis is correct Update Template:Episodes to reflect the correct episodes Write a recap Check that the notes section is in place and includes an explanation of the title reference where possible Compare the episode to the source material and note the relevant chapters in the notes section Ensure the characters section is in place and note first appearances and deaths Ensure all new characters have an article Consider adding new characters to relevant family tree and navbox templates Ensure all deceased characters articles are updated to reflect this Ensure the cast section is in place and matches the credits of the episode Ensure all new cast members have an article. Ensure all relevant cast articles are updated to reflect the cast members work in the current season and credit in this episode Ensure all relevant character articles are update to reflect the character's appearance in this episode Complete the cast notes section noting changes to the starring cast, credits order and significant uncredited appearances Update Season 2 Cast with information from the episode. Ensure all relevant character articles are updated with a summary of their role in this episode and a reference citing this episode as the source of the information Work through the recap creating articles for Red Links Ensure the appearances section is in place and notes the houses, creatures, items and locations that appear in the episode--Opark 77 (talk) 08:51, August 24, 2012 (UTC)
- Ensure the relevant house articles are update with a summary of their role in this episode and a reference citing this episode as the source of the information
- Ensure all relevant location articles are updated with a summary of their appearance in the episode and a reference citing this episode as the source of the information
- Add Memorable Quotes from the episode
- Add screenshots of new characters to the image gallery
- Consider whether plot developments warrant changing any of our navboxes (see Category:Template (Navigation))
- Add screenshots of key moments to illustrate the recap and ensure they are also present on the relevant related articles
--Opark 77 13:52, April 2, 2012 (UTC)
Who was that?
Anyone know who the "bloodied prisoner" whom the watch dragged in to identify Mhaegen and Barra was? --22.214.171.124 05:52, April 10, 2012 (UTC)
- No idea. I think we are to assume that he is someone who knows about Barra's lineage and where she lives. The actor was uncredited.--Opark 77 09:24, April 10, 2012 (UTC)
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Lave Creek Marriage Demographics and Statistics
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The American Community Survey (ACS) conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, publishes detailed estimates of the population each year, subdivided by a wide variety of characteristics—including their marital status. "Married" includes people who are separated.
Unlike the Census—which is an exact count of people and households every ten years—ACS statistics are estimated based on a representative survey sample.
For locations with populations under 60,000, the ACS is only available in 5-year estimates, rather than single-year periods. The 5-year estimates provide more geographical granularity by using survey data from a less granular time period.
What is the marital status of men and women in Lave Creek, Arkansas?
Note: Use the time-slider beneath the chart to see data from different 5-years period.