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Government Cloud Computing on Ulitzer
The President's budget for fiscal year 2010 (FY10) includes $75.8B in information technology (IT) spending, which is a 7-percent increase from FY09. Of this, at least $20B will be spent on IT infrastructure investments. [1] The FY11 budget for IT is projected to be nearly $88B. The government is actively seeking ways to reduce IT costs, and the FY10 budget request highlights opportunities for the federal government to achieve significant long-term cost savings through the adoption of cloud computing technologies:
"Of the investments that will involve up-front costs to be recouped in outyear savings, cloud-computing is a prime case in point. The Federal Government will transform its Information Technology Infrastructure by virtualizing data centers, consolidating data centers and operations, and ultimately adopting a cloud-computing business model. Initial pilots conducted in collaboration with Federal agencies will serve as test beds to demonstrate capabilities, including appropriate security and privacy protection at or exceeding current best practices, developing standards, gathering data, and benchmarking costs and performance. The pilots will evolve into migrations of major agency capabilities from agency computing platforms to base agency IT processes and data in the cloud. Expected savings in the outyears, as more agencies reduce their costs of hosting systems in their own data centers, should be many times the original investment in this area." [2]
The language in the budget makes three key points: (1) up-front investment will be made in cloud computing, (2) long-term savings are expected, and (3) the savings are expected to be significantly greater than the investment costs.
Booz Allen Hamilton has created a detailed cost model that can create life-cycle cost (LCC) estimates of public, private, and hybrid clouds. We used this model, and our extensive experience in economic analysis of IT programs, to arrive at a first-order estimate of each of the three key points in the President's budget. Overall, it appears likely that the expectations highlighted in the budget can be met, but several factors could affect the overall degree of economic benefit.
Economic Implications
The government's adoption of this new IT model warrants careful consideration of the model's broad economic implications-including the potential long-term benefits in terms of cost savings and avoidance as well as the near-term costs and other impacts of a transition from the current environment. Factors such as the number and rate of federal agencies adopting cloud computing, the length of their transitions to cloud computing, and the cloud computing deployment model (public, private, or hybrid) all will affect the total costs, potential benefits, and time required for the expected benefits to offset the investment costs.
Booz Allen developed a first-order economic analysis by considering how agencies might migrate to a cloud-based environment and what the costs and potential savings might be under a variety of scenarios. Specifically, given long-standing efforts to protect the privacy and security of the federal government's data and systems, a key variable will be whether agencies take advantage of public clouds, build their own private clouds, or adopt a hybrid approach., The focus was on Cloud Computing infrastructure services as these tend to represent a relatively more consistent set of costs/investments/operating requirements across all agencies. We made some high-level, simplifying assumptions in our initial analysis:
- There is an existing data center(s) currently operational that is a baseline for economic comparison of migrating to a cloud environment.
- Existing application software will migrate with the infrastructure to the cloud. Application software support costs remain out of scope.
- Migration decisions will be made at the department or agency (rather than bureau) level in order to aggregate demand and drive scale efficiencies.
- We assume the perceived sensitivity of an agency's mission and data will be a primary factor (though by no means the only factor) driving its decisions on which path to follow..
Next, we developed three high-level scenarios that represent potential migration paths. The three scenarios are as follows:
Scenario 1: Public Cloud Adopters
Key Agency Characteristic: Migrates low-sensitivity data to an existing public cloud.
Assumptions: Transition to the new cloud environment will occur steadily over 3 years; workload remains constant (i.e., no increase in capacity demand).
Scenario 2: Hybrid Cloud Adopters
Key Agency Characteristic: Uses a private cloud solution to handle the majority of its IT workload; also uses a public cloud solution to provide "surge" support and/or support for low-sensitivity data.
Assumptions: Seventy-five percent of the IT server workload will migrate to a private cloud, and the remaining 25 percent will transition to a public cloud; transition to the new cloud environments will occur steadily over 3 years; existing facilities will be used (i.e., no new investment is required in physical facilities); workload remains constant (i.e., no increase in capacity demand).
Scenario 3: Private Cloud Adopters
Key Agency Characteristic: Builds its own private cloud solution or participates in an interagency cloud solution (i.e., community cloud). Broad mission sensitivity results in the need to maintain control of infrastructure and data.
Assumptions: Transition to the new cloud environment will occur steadily over 3 years; existing facilities will be used (i.e., no new investment is required in physical facilities); workload remains constant (i.e., no increase in capacity demand).
Agencies publicly report only their "consolidated" IT infrastructure expenditures, which include end-user support systems (e.g., desktops, laptops) and telecommunications. Additional spending on application-specific IT infrastructure is typically rolled up into individual IT investments. In an effort to isolate data center costs, we extrapolated findings based on our experience with actual federal data centers. Specifically, we developed a "representative" agency data center profile that serves as a useful proxy for other agencies and enables us to explore the potential savings of a migration to cloud computing under the scenarios described above. Although agencies of similar size can have very different IT infrastructure profiles, we modeled an agency with a classic standards-based web application infrastructure. For our representative agency, we began with an assumption that a Status Quo (SQ) data center containing 1,000 servers with no virtualization is already operational. [3] The results at different scales are shown in our analysis.
Using a Booz Allen proprietary cloud computing cost and economic model that employs data collected internally, data from industry, and parametric estimating techniques, we estimated the LCCs for our representative agency to migrate its IT infrastructure (i.e., its server hardware and software) to the cloud under each of the three scenarios described above. We compared these costs to the LCCs of the SQ scenario (i.e., no cloud migration). [4] We also calculated three common metrics to analyze each scenario's potential economic benefits. These metrics allowed us to evaluate the three elements of the business case in the President's budget and estimate the absolute and relative benefits, as well as the time over which the outyear savings will pay back the investment costs.
The three key metrics in our analysis are as follows:
- Net Present Value (NPV) is calculated as each cloud scenario's discounted net benefits (i.e., the cloud scenario's reduced operations and support [O&S] costs relative to the SQ environment's O&S costs) minus the cloud's discounted one-time investment costs. A positive dollar figure indicates a positive economic benefit versus the SQ environment. NPV is an absolute economic metric.
- Benefit-to-Cost Ratio (BCR) is calculated as each cloud scenario's discounted net benefits divided by its discounted investment costs. A number greater than 1.0 indicates a positive economic benefit versus the SQ environment. BCR is a relative economic metric.
- Discounted Payback Period (DPP) reflects the number of years (from FY10) it takes for each scenario's accumulated annual benefits to equal its total investment costs.
The top portion of Exhibit 1 shows the analysis results. This exhibit presents the one-time investment phase costs as well as the recurring O&S phase costs for each scenario with a 13-year life cycle (3-year investment phase and 10-year steady-state O&S phase) from FY10 through FY22.
Assuming a 3-year transition period for each scenario, investment costs are expected to be incurred from FY10 to FY12 and include (depending on the scenario) hardware procurement and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software license fees; contractor labor required for installation, configuration, and testing; and technical and planning support (i.e., system engineering and program management costs) before and during the cloud migration. Because the SQ reflects an operational steady state, no investment costs are estimated for that scenario. Although the public cloud scenario does not present any up-front investment costs for hardware or software procurement, it does require program planning and technical support, support for porting applications over to the new cloud environment, and testing support to ensure programs and applications are working correctly in the new environment.
Recurring O&S costs "ramp up" for all cloud scenarios beginning in FY10 and enter steady state in FY13, continuing through FY22. For private clouds, these costs include hardware and software maintenance, periodic replacement/license renewal costs, system operations labor support costs, and IT power and cooling costs. For hybrid clouds, the O&S costs include the same items as the private cloud (albeit on a reduced scale), as well as the unit consumption costs of IT services procured from the public cloud. For public cloud scenarios, the O&S costs are the unit costs of services procured from the cloud provider and a small amount of IT support labor for the cloud provider to communicate any service changes or problems. In all three cloud scenarios, a significant portion of the O&S costs are incurred while phasing out the SQ environment during the transition. The SQ phase-out costs "ramp down" from FY10 to FY12, dove-tailing with the ramp up of the new clouds' O&S costs. Not surprisingly, the total LCCs are lowest for the public cloud scenario and highest for the private cloud scenario, with the hybrid cloud scenario's LCCs falling in the middle.
The economic analysis confirms that the projected NPV and BCR for all three scenarios are significant relative to the SQ environment. Once the cloud migrations are completed, our model estimates annual O&S savings in the 65-85 percent range, with the lower end corresponding to the private cloud scenario and the upper end corresponding to the public cloud scenario. These percentages can be applied to overall federal IT spending for data centers to estimate the potential absolute savings across the federal government. (As part of the Information Technology Infrastructure Line of Business [ITI LoB] initiative, General Services Administration [GSA] is coordinating a benchmarking effort across the government. If those figures are made public, a total dollar savings estimate will be possible).
Our model shows that the net benefits and payback periods for agencies adopting the hybrid cloud scenario are closer to those for the private cloud than the public cloud. This variation is largely a result of our assumption that 75 percent of the current server workload would migrate to a private cloud and only 25 percent would transition to the public cloud. If we were instead to assume the opposite mix (i.e., 25 percent of the workload migrating to a private cloud and 75 percent to a public cloud), the hybrid scenario economic results would be closer to the public cloud results.
We conducted a sensitivity analysis on several of the variables in our cost model to determine the major drivers for cloud economics. The two most influential factors driving the economic benefits are (1) the reduction in hardware as a smaller number of virtualized servers in the cloud replace physical servers in the SQ data center and (2) the length of the cloud migration schedule. Exhibits 2, 3, and 4 show the results of varying these factors.
In practice, several factors could cause agencies to realize lower economic benefits than our estimates suggest. One factor is underestimation of the costs associated with the investment or O&S phase for the cloud scenarios. Another factor is server utilization rates (both in the current environment and the new cloud environment). Our analysis assumes an average utilization rate of 12 percent of available CPU capacity in the SQ environment and 60 percent in the virtualized cloud scenarios. This difference in server utilization, in turn, enables a large reduction in the number of servers (and their associated support costs) required in a cloud environment to process the same workload relative to the SQ environment. Agencies with server utilization rates that are already relatively high should expect lower potential savings from a virtualized cloud environment.
The charts indicate two key takeaways:
- Scale is important: The economic benefit increases as virtualized servers replace larger numbers of underutilized servers.
- Time is money: Because of the cost of parallel IT operations (i.e., cloud and non-cloud), the shorter the server migration schedule, the greater the economic benefits.
These findings, in turn, lead us to the following recommendations for agencies and policymakers contemplating a cloud migration:
- It is more cost-effective to group smaller existing data centers together into as large a cloud as possible, rather than creating several smaller clouds.
To reduce the cost of running parallel operations, organization should properly plan for and then migrate to the new cloud environment as quickly as possible. The three lines in Exhibit 5 show (in this case, for the public cloud) that the BCR goes down rapidly and the DPP increases as the transition time increases.
Budgeting Implications
A few agencies are already moving quickly to explore cloud computing solutions and are even redirecting existing funds to begin implementations. However, for most of the federal government, the timeframe for redirecting IT funding to support cloud migrations is likely to be at least 1-2 years, given that agencies formulate budgets 18 months before receiving appropriations.
Specifically, an agency develops IT investment requests each spring and submits them to OMB in September, along with the agency's program budget request, for the following government fiscal year. OMB reviews agency submissions in the fall and can implement funding changes via passback decisions (generally in late November) before submitting the President's budget to the Congress in February. Theoretically, the earliest opportunity for OMB to push agencies to revise their IT budgets to support a transition to the cloud will be fall 2009; however, agencies typically only have about 1 month to incorporate changes to their IT portfolios during passback. To give GSA and OMB time to develop more detailed guidance, as well as necessary procurement mechanisms and vehicles, it is more likely that OMB will direct or encourage agencies to plan for cloud migrations during the FY12 budget cycle (starting in the spring of 2010).
Other Considerations with Potential Economics Effects
When deciding on moving to the cloud, agencies need to consider some additional technical aspects of cloud computing and their potential impact on their organization. Such areas include but are not limited to data security, software migration, technical architectures, and the skill set of the IT workforce.
Data Security
All government organizations struggle with ensuring that the data they have remains secure and adheres to current policies and regulations. Because data security is such a critical issue, cloud providers will be required to address it in their products and services, and should be able to tailor the level of security to meet demand. Additionally, by centralizing data and servers, a cloud environment will allow for easier detection and investigation of incidents, and allow enabling IT staff to replicate and address them efficiently.
However, there are currently no security standards for cloud computing, and until such standards have been developed, and used effectively to measure provider services and enforce accountability, any failures will fall on the agency's in-house IT organization. In awareness of this reality, organizations should be careful about putting mission-critical and core processes into a public cloud, and private cloud architectures should be designed to minimize any security concerns while realizing the benefits of cloud optimization.
Service Oriented Architecture
As the government moves towards embracing Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), cloud computing will optimize the benefits of those investments. Cloud computing is inherently a Service Oriented Architecture and implementing the private clouds will provide for more control over data, security and privacy.
Migration of Applications to the Cloud
This article identifies the financial benefits of migrating the IT infrastructure to the cloud.
Cloud architectures and service delivery models will lead to changing needs for technical skills amongst agencies' IT workforces. CIOs will need to plan to conduct or refresh workforce assessments and training, as well as set aside the necessary funding, to ensure technical staff are trained on cloud architecture, implementation and operations.
Economic Influence on Policy
From an economic perspective, GSA and OMB can take a number of steps to maximize the probability that the cloud computing business model can work in the federal government; i.e., that it can achieve its objective of enabling significant cost savings. These steps promote information sharing and transparency in the realistic costs and benefits of various cloud models, as well as establishing the necessary policy and contracting frameworks. Because scale is a key variable affecting both costs and benefits, policy guidance regarding scale considerations will be particularly critical (e.g., determining how much flexibility, if any, agencies and departments have to create private clouds at the bureau and/or interagency level).
As a cloud "storefront," GSA should conduct due diligence reviews to establish that public cloud providers, once identified, indeed offer highly efficient, highly scalable (both up and down) usage-based pricing beyond traditional managed services (e.g., by comparing proposed rates against commercial benchmarks). GSA should also work with potential providers to ensure agencies can readily understand service definitions, service levels, terms, conditions, and pricing. These steps will provide transparency to facilitate agencies' ability to compare potential provider pricing against their legacy operations costs-an essential component of building a credible business case for any type of cloud migration. In earlier shared services initiatives, such as financial management, the lack of such standardized information on pricing and service levels in the first few years proved a major impediment to progress, as agencies faced decisions about alternative solutions that were often based on unreliable cost data from potential vendors.
Finally, GSA will need to establish and communicate its own schedule for cloud services founded in the pricing for the services with different cloud venders..
Summary of Key Observations
Although cloud computing offers potentially significant savings to federal agencies by reducing their expenditures on server hardware and associated support costs, chief information officers, policymakers, and other interested parties should bear in mind a number of practical considerations:
- It will take, on average, 18-24 months for most agencies to redirect funding to support this transition, given the budget process.
- Some up-front investment will be required, even for agencies seeking to take advantage of public cloud options.
- Implementations may take several years, depending on the size of the agency and the complexity of the cloud model it selects (i.e., public, private, or hybrid).
- It could take as long as 4 years for the accumulated savings from agency investments in cloud computing to offset the initial investment costs; this timeframe could be longer if implementations are improperly planned or inefficiently executed.
Given these observations, we offer the following recommendations:
- OMB, GSA, and other organizations, such as National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), should provide timely, well-coordinated support-in the form of necessary standards, guidance, policy decisions, and issue resolution-to ensure agencies have the necessary tools to efficiently plan and carry out migrations to cloud environments. As the length of the migration period increases, the potential economic benefits of the migration decrease.
- OMB and GSA should seek to identify those agencies with the highest near-term IT costs and expedite their migration to the cloud.
- To encourage steady progress, OMB should establish a combination of incentives and disincentives; e.g., consider allowing agencies to retain a small percentage of any savings realized from cloud computing for investments in future initiatives. To monitor progress and heighten transparency and accountability, OMB could incorporate cloud-related metrics into the new government-wide IT dashboard.
- Agencies should consider which of the high-level scenarios described in this article best suits their needs, with the understanding that regardless of scenario chosen, proper planning and efficient execution are critical success factors from an economic perspective.
- Given the significant impact of scale efficiencies, agencies selecting a private cloud approach should fully explore the potential for interdepartmental and interagency collaboration and investment (consistent with emerging OMB and GSA guidance). This, in effect, leads to the fourth cloud deployment model-the community cloud. A community cloud is a collaboration between private cloud operators to share resources and services.
- Agencies should identify the aspects of their current IT workload that can be transitioned to the cloud in the near term to yield "early wins" to help build momentum and support for the migration to cloud computing.
Cloud computing has received executive backing and offers clear opportunities for agencies to significantly reduce their growing data center and IT hardware expenditures. However, for the government to achieve the envisioned savings, organizations charged with oversight, such as OMB, NIST, and GSA, will have to facilitate progress, and departments and agencies will have to carefully select and plan for future cloud scenarios that yield the best tradeoffs among their respective costs, benefits, and risks.
- Figures from INPUT data for the FY10 President's budget; of the $20B in expenditures categorized as office automation and IT infrastructure spending, about $12.2B is spent on major IT investments, with the remainder on non-majors. Additional expenditures on application-specific IT infrastructure are typically reported as part of individual IT investments.
- President's budget, FY10 (Analytical Perspectives).
- The 1,000 servers are broken down in our cost model by server processing capacity (small, medium, and large) based on proportions consistent with our experience.
- Our model focuses on the costs that a cloud migration will most likely directly affect; i.e., costs for server hardware (and associated support hardware, such as internal routers and switches, rack hardware, cabling, etc.), basic server software (OS software, standard backup management, and security software), associated contractor labor for engineering and planning support during the transition phase, hardware and software maintenance, IT operations labor, and IT power/cooling costs. It does not address other costs that would be less likely to vary significantly between cloud scenarios, such as storage, application software, telecommunications, or WAN/LAN. In addition, it does not include costs for government staff. Further, for simplicity we removed facilities cost from the analysis
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Baltimore-- The 21st-ranked UMBC men's soccer team broke through with three second-half goals to defeat Loyola 3-1 and extend its unbeaten streak to 16 games in front of 768 rain-soaked fans at the Ridley Athletic Complex Saturday night in a battle of two local unbeaten teams.
Junior midifelder Geaton Caltabiano (Lothian, Md./Mount St. Joseph) led the UMBC (7-0-0) scoring charge, recording a goal and his national-best seventh assist of the season. Senior midfielder Kadeem Dacres (Rosedale, N.Y./Mercer County CC) also added a goal and an assist, and classmate Pete Caringi III (Perry Hall, Md./Calvert Hall) scored his ninth goal of the season -- another national best-- this season in the win.
After a scoreless first half, UMBC jumped in front just 2:28 into the second half. Dacres received a pass at the midfield from Caltabiano and took the ball into the box on the left, juked a defender and moved to the middle of the box. Dacres took a shot that deflected off of a Loyola (5-1-1) defender and bounced right to Caltabiano, who gathered the ball and buried it into the empty net.
The Retrievers added to their advantage just 7:05 later. Junior back Spencer Williams (Germantown, Md./Watkins Mill) raced down the right side and entered the box and sent a cross in front to Caringi that the senior easily headed home for a 2-0 lead.
Loyola answered back in the 62nd minute when Stephen Dooley converted on a penalty kick after a handball in the box on UMBC.The two teams battled at that score until Dacres found the back of the net in the 84th minute.
After a Loyola turnover in the their own end, the Retrievers ended up with a deep throw-in. Caltabiano eventually came up with the ball on the right side and served up a beautiful cross into the box for Dacres. The senior then headed it in for the 3-1 lead.
The first half didn't provided any goals, but it did provide several chances for both teams UMBC had the most opportunities, though, as in the 12th minute, junior Mamadou Kansaye (Baltimore, Md./McDonogh) took a long shot from about 25 yards out. But Loyola keeper Zach Kane got a hand on it and knocked the ball away.
In the 20th minute, junior Stephen Ho (North Potomac, Md./Wootton) served a perfect cross into the box for Dacres who was all alone, but his header sailed over the crossbar.
Dacres finished with seven of UMBC's 17 shots on the game. Loyola held a 6-3 advantage in corner kicks in the first half, but the Retrievers dominated in the second half and finished with a 9-7 advantage in corners and an overall shots advantage of 17-10.
Senior goalkeeper Phil Saunders (Perry Hall, Md./ Perry Hall) picked up the win despite not recording a save.
UMBC gets a few days rest before welcoming George Mason to Retriever Soccer Park for Wednesday night game under the lights at 7 p.m.

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A 645D Mini Review w/ Downsized Samples (in 2MP)
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Just click on each of the pictures in the review to enlarge (in 2 Mega-Pixels), a new tab/window will be opened.
Here is a quick capture of all the samples posted (one of them is missing, though):-
This time, I like the colour response and textural feel of those 645D pictures, which I think both aspects are somehow better than all those current DSLRs with CMOS imagers (brand regardless) and the differences and advantages can actually be seen.
As for the bokeh of the 645D kit lens, it is of the typical Pentax FA prime alike, i.e., the bokeh / blurred background is not completely dissolved or very creamy or silky smooth (or whatever you like to call it) but we can see the outlines of the blurred objects, which are still rendered in a somehow smooth way but not too harsh - this is actually an unique characteristic and style of most of the Pentax primes, which will also result in the so-called "bright ring" bokeh and may still cause some "roughness" under some circumstances, e.g., for bright highlights or contrasty objects in the background. Indeed, I found that my FA* and FA Limited lenses just have a very similar response for the bokeh rendition. Well, whether you like it or not is just a matter of personal preference and taste after all!


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Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today rejected BJP's charge that the party is doing a 'U-turn' on the Insurance Bill, saying that there are "no double standards" by it on the issue.
"I think, there are no double standards on the Insurance Bill by the Congress," Gandhi told reporters in Parliament House. The opposition party has kept the government guessing on the crucial bill asking it to take on board all stakeholders and favouring the Select Committee route even as it insisted that the measure is its own "baby" and it is a "misnomer" that the party is opposed to it.
The controversial Insurance Bill, which was listed in Rajya Sabha yesterday, was deferred for consideration for the time being after a meeting of the government with opposition leaders failed to break the deadlock in the face of the demand to send it to a Select Committee.
The meeting, convened by Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu yesterday, could not iron out differences with the opposition despite Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's plea that the current bill has virtually the same language and content as the previous bill of the Congress-led UPA.
"We are totally in favour of FDI. It is our baby and it was the BJP which was opposed to the bill in 2008. We were given to understand that our bill is going to be passed in the House. But the NDA government has made some substantive amendments to the bill.
"We have recommended that the substantive issues like the FDI, which have been diluted by the FII, along with other issues should be discussed, examined dispassionately and objectively by the Select Committee. The bill can be passed in the Winter Session and we will ensure its passage," Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad had said yesterday.
Rejecting suggestions that it was doing a "flip-flop" on the Insurance Bill issue, party spokesperson Randip Surjewala had said, "If investments of lakhs of people are going to be jeopardised, then the necessary balancing has to be done."


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Over 250,000 Fans visited Ferrari Myth Exhibition at the Shanghai Italian Center
The "Ferrari Myth" exhibition – officially inaugurated last May at the Italian Centre in the Shanghai Expo Park – has been attended by 250,000 visitors in its first 5 months, becoming one of the city's main attractions.
Covering an area of 900 square meters, the exhibition is divided into five, constantly updated, areas: Ferrari in China, Green, Product, Design and Racing. The texts, images and videos on display, as well as the large number of priceless objects that have been brought in from the Ferrari Museum in Maranello, enable the visitors to conceive a vivid idea of Ferrari's glorious history.


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Jeff Elton is managing director and global head, Predictive Health Intelligence at Accenture. He has over 20 years of experience as a global executive and consultant in the biopharmaceutical and healthcare sectors. Prior to Accenture, he was global COO and SVP Strategy for the Novartis Institutes of BioMedical Research overseeing R&D operations in the US, Europe and Asia.
Prior to Novartis Jeff was a senior partner at McKinsey in the Medical Products & Pharmaceuticals practice, focused on R&D. He was also founding CEO, board member and senior advisor to five early stage companies in personalized oncology management, oncology diagnostics, protein therapeutics, neurodegenerative diseases, diabetes and nanotherapeutics.
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- In a medium bowl, flake salmon with a fork. Add egg, celery, 2 tablespoons chives, parsley, breadcrumbs, and pepper, and mix well. Use hands to form into 4 small patties.
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Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho has said that striker Ronaldo should have won this year's Ballon d'Or and not Barcelona's Lionel Messi.
Messi was La Liga's top scorer with 50 goals last season, four more than Ronaldo, and capped his season by winning a third Ballon d'Or title.
"For me, the best player of a season must be one that won. What (Ronaldo) did helped the team to win something big and I don't think in the history of the Ballon D'Or, one player won it without winning a big thing," Mourinho told ESPN.
"So I don't think Messi without winning the Champions League, without winning the Spanish League, how can he be the Ballon D'Or?"
Barcelona finished second behind Real Madrid who set records for most La Liga wins in a season with 32, most goals scored (121) and best goal difference (plus-89) en route to a first league title in four years, Sport24 reports.
Mourinho also remained confident for the new season despite no new signings.
"The team is really full of talent and we have lots of solutions and we can play in different ways, in different systems, in different philosophies. So, what I have in my hands in terms of human capital, human resources is very, very hard," he said.
Real Madrid and Barcelona will play in the Spanish SuperCup on August 23 and 29, with the first of two La Liga clashes set for October 7. (ANI)
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A Florida International University fraternity has been suspended and is being investigated after screenshots of Facebook posts revealed photos of naked women, suggestions of possible drug use and hazing.
Screenshots of Facebook posts allegedly made by FIU's Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity or "Pike" brothers were distributed to the Miami New Times and to the university through an anonymous email. Pi Kappa Alpha is a frat that historically prides itself on community service and leadership.
"I think it's a good thing they got in trouble because they deserved it," said freshman Cynthia Rodriguez, who is interested in pledging a sorority.
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"That's the only frat that I've ever heard about. I went to a party and it was like nasty," said Laura Gonzalez, who remarked that the fraternity had a reputation.
Several posts referred to a "pike pharmacy."
"30 mg of addy 10 starting tomorrow," another post reads, referring to Adderall. The drug prescribed for ADHD is sometimes abused by college students to pull all-nighters.
FIU released a statement that read in part, "The university is taking this information very seriously because it suggests possible Student Code of Conduct violations. The university took prompt action and placed the fraternity on interim suspension pending the outcome of investigations by appropriate university departments, including the police."
The Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity's national headquarters in Tennessee said the FIU chapter would fully comply with the temporary suspension and subsequent investigation.
Campus police will also look into posts that seem to suggest hazing was going on. "Make a pledge wash your car – hazing is amazin" one of the posts read.
And students said they were offended by photos of naked women that were shared, likely without the women's permission or knowledge. A comment on one of the pictures suggested the person in the photo was underage, and only 17 at the time it was taken.
"That was really messed up and me being a girl – whatever happens to them they deserve it," said Rodriguez.
The freshman went on to say that one group of people's mistakes shouldn't reflect poorly on all Greek life.
"Just because they did that doesn't mean every frat is like that," she said.
When asked how much of what the screenshots suggest is part of greek culture, Josh Labrada, who is in a different fraternity, broke it down.
"Parties yes, drugs no, smacktalking yes. It's a little bit of yes's and no's," he said.
He added that the brothers in the fraternity are known as the "popular jockey party boys."
It's supposed to be social media 101 that what you share online, regardless of your privacy settings, doesn't necessarily remain private. One group of college students may have learned this the hard way.
"You guys shouldn't have done that and you're stupid for posting it online," Gonzalez said.
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Public Radio International today announced that it will begin offering content to Web sites via NewsGator-powered widgets. Available for download now via the PRI site, the widgets let users embed audio and news streams on blogs, Websites, and social networks.
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Is it supposed to spark?
I really liked this phone, until it started to freeze up randomly and during the middle of conversations. Call quality was great with T-Mobile service, although it did have the occasional dropped call. Ringtones get really loud and downloading new ones was quick and easy. Texting on the other hand was confusing at first, having only texted on a Sanyo 8100 before this, but after a while you get used to it.
What made this phone 'explode' is still a mystery to me...I finished a call, placed the phone normally on a countertop, then I heard a quiet beep I haven't heard on the phone before, the screen got really bright and started to spark from the center. I turned it off and while it still worked afterwards, with a large burn in the middle of the screen, I didn't want that to happen while it was next to my face, so I took it to T-Mobile. They claimed that it had water damage and then they said a week later that this was a common problem with the circuitry and were willing to replace it with a different model with a contract extension, but my family had only a month left in the one-year contract, so we switched.
Ehh.. got rid of it in 2 months
I got this phone in April thinking it was going to be awsome. Its OK. I think that my T300 was better.
~Large Screen
~Great pictures in Large Mode
~night mode for camera and self timer
~easy to use joystick
~very business like
~bluetooth (i never used it)
~ very clear calls
~if you didn't lock the keypad the joystick would go up or down and call someone in your phonebook
~bad picture quality in small mode
~ "volume" buttons on side are not for volume
~30 second pause when turn on phone
~ casing easily dented
~ INTENNA = BAD RECEPTION, EVEN WITH ANTENNA BOOSTER, my Siemens with the loop antenna had better service and my Motorola with intenna.. w.o antenna booster! (all t-mobile phones)
Its an OK phone but def not what it is cracked up to be
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You can do almost everything on this, EXCEPT make calls!
I love everything about this phone except for a few things.
First and worst off, it get TERRIBLE signal reception. People who have said that they get good signals must either work for Sony Ericsson or have metal plates implanted in their skulls.
Secondly, the UI is too complicated. Example, let's say you're on a call and need to look up a # in your phonebook, as I'm sure any one of us has had to do more than once before. Here are the steps:
In contrast to the old Samsung I used to own:
1. PRESS DOWN ARROW (this puts you directly into the phonebook)
What's even worse is trying to setup speed dial. It's a SUPER PITA!!
All in all, these UI shortcomings don't warrant such a low 2 star rating, but the reason why I give this phone 2 stars is because the signal quality on this phone is EXTREMELY BAD. I've had friends in the same basement where I get zero bars and my friends w/their Samsungs and Nokias have plenty 3+ bars, all on Tmo service.
Other than that I really like the size and features of this phone, but the one feature that it can't do well at all is the one feature that it was primarily made for...to make phone calls.
Not Good Not Bad
'm using this phone for the past one year, All the features are good and tiny, good looking phone, But onlu problem is the signal.
In wireless industry "signal reception" is the key to succees. This phone signal is not that good, I always like the phone with full signal,
So To be frank, i don't recommend you to buy this phone.
I am gonna buy this PHONE!
I have been looking around for soooooo long to get a small fone and alot of FEATURES!
This fone has got everything in it>>> I im buying this phone from ebay.... and the current price for this is around £50......
for the ppl that don't trust ebay! /its used to be same wiv me... but i buy loads of stuff!
The Ultimate fone for now
When i saw what this phone could do i was hooked! i upgraded and found that this fone had more features than even Sony Ericsson knew of!
i am able to connect my phone to the PC and remote admin my PC, as in changing the volume, looking for my next track, making movies full screen on winamp and even shut down my PC when i am done, so i don't have to get outa bed!
it is the best phone atm, but the way Sony Ericsson is going they can only get better!
its just an AMAZING phone!!
would have to say that 2 megs are not enough
My heart was broken... by a cell phone :-(
I give this phone a rating of 4 for design and features, and a zero for usability. When a phone's reception is so weak that it doesn't pick up a signal in some areas of downtown DC, it has a problem. Much to my dismay, I had to return it after only 48 hours, as it became evident that I wouldn't be able to talk from many of the places I frequent, so I replaced it with the much-less-sexy Nokia 6610, which will tide me over until my dream phone comes along.
I LOVED the display, the joystick action, the keypad back-lighting, and the nice, solid feel of the phone. The size and shape were exactly what I was looking for: something no larger than a compact powder case. The display, although sometimes hard to see in the sunlight, was most attractive. The camera resolution isn't as good as on my old Sprint Sanyo 5300, but it does the basic job. I loved the picture ID on incoming text messages as well as phone calls.
- Overall design and construction: metal case, nice, solid feel
- Features such as Picture Message ID, voice dialing, phone directory options.
- Built-in camera makes it a fun accessory as well as a portable communications tool.
- Beautiful MMS and SMS interface
- EXTREMELY POOR reception.
- EXTREMELY POOR reception (oh, sorry, I repeat myself)
- Proprietary headset plug. When will manufacturers learn to equip all their handsets with mini jacks, which are far less fragile and a lot easier to replace?
- Poor visibility in bright sunlight.
If this phone had an antenna as good as my Nokia 6610, it would be indeed the PERFECT phone.
T616, Cingular
I'm on my second T616. I use Cingular's GSM service in Austin, TX & the Round Rock area just north of Austin.
My first T616 gave terrible sporadic feedback. After sometime it became such a nuisance, I had to replace the phone - with a $40.00 Best Buy performance service plan the new phone didn't cost me a dime.
I talked to Cingular's technical support, and the guy I talked to had never heard of that problem before. I also asked my friend who works for cingular, who has the T616 and he had never heard of such a problem.
Anyhow, the new phone seems to be doing quite well except for the fact that Cingular mis-construed my number. That's another story.
Back to the phone. The zoom function is quite cool. The shortcuts are so many, it's a breeze to get around the menues with or without the joystick. I also like the stylish look of it, and the backlight on the number pad. It's loud and clear everywhere I use it. The only problem was that loud feedback on the old phone. And the new one seems to be free of that, so it's all good.
T-Mobile T610
Phone has great features, especially for its size. Its nice and small. However, the reception lacks behind other phone, for example Samsung phones. Yet makes up for it in other features, such as Bluetooth and Infrared. The battery life is very good. If you are a Mac user, specifically OS X.2 or higher, the phones interoperability with Apple's free iSync, iCal and Address Book is incredible. It updates itself via Bluetooth and there are applications such as the $10 Sailing Clicker, which lets you use the phone as remote control. From watching and controlling MP3's, CD's and DVD's to using the phone as a distant 2-button mouse and controlling PowerPoint presentations. I am extremely happy with the phone, and have not had much of a problem with reception. Alot of people on the other-hand will say that the T610 sucks for reception, its not true, the reception does lack, yet it isn't terrible or anything like that. I've been using the phone since August and have no plans to change, and YES, I am a Mac user, and have no plans to switch from that either! hehehe... I love the T610, and so will you. Also, I have sold lots of T610's to customers coming into my store, and i have not heard any complaints from them ever since. That isn't to say that there is always one bad phone group. However, yet 1 other problem I see with the T610 is that its menu options are kind of slow, as compared to other phones. Yet, its nothing to really cry about, its just a bit slower when switching menus, but it doesn't really get in the way! On the other hand, the phones design, makes up for its flaws and adds to the many benefits that you get with the T610.
Great Phone!!!
Everyday I find something new with this phone. It has everything you could need in a phone. The Bluetooth connectivity is great. If you have an Apple Laptop with Bluetooth, they interface flawlessly. The screen is great in dark areas, but a little hard to see in the sun. The sound and signal quality are great in Boston with T-mobile. People say that they hear me much clearer with my T610 than my old Sprint Samsung A460.
Organizer Features
Easy to use interface
Alarm is great if you are on the road
Aesthetically pleasing
Multiple Picture options
Hard to find the speaker when holding it to your head
Night Mode on the Camera seems useless
Screen hard to see in direct sunlight


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An ESA-supported project is showing how satcoms can help farmers, voters and educators in rural Africa.
The three elements of the Sway4edu project are helping to run elections, educate teachers and improve radio programming.
Satellite terminals provide Internet connectivity, with solar panels and batteries (where needed), laptops, tablets, a projector with screen, and loudspeakers.
Sway4edu is led by Openet Technologies, a small Italian company active in using satcoms for eGovernment services, working with Luxembourg's SES and supported by ESA's Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems programme.
The Rural Radios element is developing a satellite-assisted radio service to support farmers, workers and the population of the Democratic Republic of Congo on food security, rural and farmer subsistence, and climate change.
Through the online Openet eLearning platform broadcasters can take courses, developed with the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation, on delivering better radio programmes.
Feedback from broadcasters during pilot tests was highly positive: "Very good initiative to provide this tool for the use of rural radios in the bid for community development," commented one.
Last September, Openet Technologies was contracted to provide Internet access for three years to 10 rural stations in DR Congo with the Federation de Radio de Proximité, which manages 400 such stations. By the end of this year, the contract could be extended to 100.
In October 2013, the company began providing a year of Internet and multicast connectivity for 26 rural radio stations in Mali. The contract was signed with the Fondation Hirondelle in Switzerland, which manages a group of 62 stations in Mali – the rest are expected to subscribe to the service by the end of this year. The multicast service is provided via the Astra-4A satellite.
Electoral eTraining is creating a core of local accredited trainers and experts in the Electoral Management Bodies of the Economic Community of Central African States to support elections.
Feedback from staff during pilot tests was very positive, as 40 completed the online courses for certification.
In August 2012, SES Broadband contracted with the Electoral Management Body of Burkina Faso to deliver connectivity and videoconferencing facilities, including installation and support for 40 provinces to support their December elections.
By mid-2013, the European Centre for Electoral Support, based in Belgium, had a contract to support Electoral eTraining in 14 African countries.
Space4education is providing local teachers with interactive training and qualification via satellite. The system also opens up the Internet to local communities outside of school hours.
The ambitions go well beyond demonstrating that satellite can deliver the Internet everywhere: the aim is to assist local communities by raising the quality of teaching in difficult-to-reach schools.
Better teachers will lead to better students with wider options, and to empowered communities. The potential gains are huge.
Teachers and local stakeholders are very enthusiastic about the project and around 25 teachers have achieved online literacy certification.
The provision of Internet services following the end of the pilot activities is being discussed with several schools from that scheme.
All three elements of Sway4edu have something in common: they are building capacity to prepare for launching sustainable services.
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My thoughts are with the victims of today's tragic attack, including Congresswoman Giffords, and all their families. I hope for a speedy recovery for the congresswoman and all of the wounded, and that those responsible will be brought to justice quickly. This is a sad day for our country, and acts of senseless violence such as this one affect us all. Congresswoman Giffords is one of our most dynamic members of Congress. As a representative of a neighboring state, I have watched her career closely and admired her work on behalf of the state of Arizona. I know she will be in the thoughts of every American – and in particular those who dedicate their lives to public service as she and her staff have.
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Dozens of volunteers took time on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to honor the slain civil rights leader by cleaning up the community.
Students from the Jackson Appreciation Club and Belhaven University said the day of service follows Dr. King's teachings. They said they used the holiday to serve and better the community.
"He was active in the community, so it's up to us to be active in the community as well and do something positive," said Kehinde Gaynor, of the Jackson Appreciation Club.
The volunteers, armed with gloves and trash bags, canvassed several Jackson neighborhoods picking up what they said was years' worth of trash.
Organizers of the cleanup event said their grassroots movement began after they started noticing more and more trash in a Jackson neighborhood that was once thriving.
"Trash just accumulates because people don't have respect for the neighborhoods," Gaynor said. "It's going to take someone to do something. If you just sit around, it's just going to get worse and worse."
Volunteers said they hope their day of service will influence others to do better, but they said events like this one can't be limited to one day.
"I think it's really good that a lot of people are joining together and doing good work, but I do believe that it's something we should do every day -- not just one day of the year," said volunteer Justin White.
City of Jackson employees also participated in the day of service in what Mayor Harvey Johnson said was a nontraditional way.
"City of Jackson employees decided this year that they would try to make a difference in the lives of the people who are being served at Stewpot Community Services," Johnson said. "So, we collected about 1,000 canned goods and put together 250 care packages with toothbrushes, toothpaste, lotion and things like that, for distribution by Stewpot."
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Before the final awards were handed out at the 2015 Emmy Awards Sunday night, a surprise presenter was waiting backstage.
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"I miss you guys so much," Morgan explained after receiving a standing ovation from Tina Fey, Kerry Washington and the entire audience. "Jimmy Kimmel said on this stage that we'll see you back here next year Tracy Morgan. Well, thanks to my amazing doctors and the support of my family and my beautiful new wife, I'm here standing on my own two feet."
Morgan was severely injured in a deadly bus crash back in June 2014. He suffered a traumatic brain injury that forced him to be in a coma for eight days until regaining consciousness.
"I was just ecstatic to learn that I wasn't the one who messed up," Morgan joked of waking up.
"Only recently have I started to feel like myself again," he continued. "Which means a whole lot of young women are going to get pregnant at the after party." Zing!
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Can we surmise that the rise in world temperatures associated with climate change has an effect in supercharging allergy producing pollens?
You bet! We now have pretty good data to support the fact that greenhouse gases, specifically a rise in carbon dioxide, are a potentially major driver in the increase of allergy sufferers throughout the country. Higher outdoor temperatures appear to be lengthening the pollen season for some plants and trees, increasing pollen levels.
Remember, warm, windy, and dry days can increase local pollen levels as well. Thirdly, over planting male plants (i.e. trees) is responsible for nearly all of the pollens that lead to "allergy misery."
It is essential to stay tuned and check out the pollen count so you can plan ahead, especially during the upcoming spring allergy season. The National Allergy Bureau reports daily pollen and mold spore levels.
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- Plan outdoor activities after checking pollen levels. (Even better, get tested so you know which pollens wreak havoc).
- Don't forget to change or wash the A/C filters at home on a regular basis to assist you indoors.
- Wash your hair nightly and change your clothes before entering your bedroom to prevent outdoor pollens from being transferred into your bedroom and bedding.
- Visit an allergist for a successful allergy treatment plan and pre-treat before your allergy symptoms make you ill.
- Watch out for various foods that can worsen seasonal allergies — in at least one third of seasonal allergy sufferers, these include apples, pears, carrots, celery, almonds, hazelnut, and stone fruits (plum, peach, nectarine, cherry, etc). The most common symptom is itchiness of the mouth, tongue, lips, and throat after ingesting "cross-reactive" proteins in the foods.
Stay tuned for the next installment in practical and proven advice for seasonal allergies. You may even save money by using fewer tissues!
Dr. Clifford W. Bassett is an assistant clinical professor of medicine at the Long Island College Hospital and on the faculty of NYU School of Medicine. He is the chair for public education committee of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology and a fellow of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. No information in this blog is intended as medical advice to any reader or intended to diagnose or treat any medical condition. For more allergy and asthma tips you can visit his website: www.nyc-allergist.com.


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Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008
men's results (pdf)
>>>full women's results (pdf)
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. - The Georgia College & State University cross country teams hosted the Peach Belt Conference (PBC) Championships today (Oct. 25) on the West Campus Cross Country Course, with the men taking third and the women fourth.
Pacing the Bobcats and finishing two slots from All-PBC status was freshman Rob Manning (Lawrenceville, Ga.), taking 12th in 28:48. The next four Georgia College runners finished within 20 seconds of each other, as sophomore Erik Ottoson (Suwanee, Ga.) was 19th (29:32), freshman Colin Conroy (Dacula, Ga.) took 21st (29:37), sophomore Tim Cary (Monroe, Ga.) took 23rd (29:46) and rookie Travis Knight (Oxford, Ga.) crossed the line in 29:51, good for 25th.
Columbus State University's David Marley set the pace for the men's competition. The junior was the surprise winner of the men's race, covering the 8k course in 27:18 for his first win of the season.
CSU won their third-straight PBC Championship with the effort and had their best team score of the three with 26 points. Clayton State University was second with 42 and GCSU third with 100.
Columbus State became the first men's team to win three-straight PBC Championships since Kennesaw State University won four in a row from 2001-04.
For the women, the Lady Cougars won their fourth-straight PBC title on Saturday, becoming the first team to win four in a row since Kennesaw State won seven straight from 1994-2000. Like the men's team, the women had their best score on Saturday of their four titles with 33 points. Augusta State University finished second with 54 while North Georgia was third with 110 and GCSU fourth with 126.
Junior Bonnie Ueltzen (Blairsville, Ga.) finished 20th in 21:37, making the top-20 by just one second. Junior Heather Raines (Lawrenceville, Ga.) and sophomore Dani Destiche (Snellville, Ga.) ran in a pair, taking 23rd and 24th at 21:58.0 and 21:58.9, respectively.
Finishing three slots later was freshman Victoria Dobson (New Hamburg, Ontario) with a 22:19. Rounding out the top five for the Bobcats was her classmate, Karissa Ekstrom (Alpharetta, Ga.) toeing the line 32nd at 22:29.
Clayton State's Allison Kreutzer was named the PBC Individual Champion, becoming the fourth woman in conference history to win the award twice. Kreutzer also won as a freshman in 2004. On Saturday, the senior covered the 5k course in 19:25, 19 seconds ahead of second-place.
The muddy course provided challenging slopes and each runner was sure to work extra hard for good times. The second-place finish for the men mirrors last year's spot, and is the second-best finish in program history to runner-up in 2006.
Next, the programs will compete at the NCAA Division II Southeast Championships, hosted by Wingate University Nov. 8.
The GCSU Department of Athletics sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, GCSU prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Follow the Bobcats and their positive impact on the Milledgeville community at www.gcsu.edu/bobcats.


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All residents now have the opportunity to sign up for:
- The hall in which they prefer to live; and
- The theme of the hall or area in which they want to live.
This allows residents to not only sign up to live with others within their unit, but with other groups that prefer to live in the same theme area.
The following themes are being offered:
- Wellness Communities: Wellness areas of halls will be for residents who choose to live with other groups who value physical, academic, spiritual and psychological balance. Groups will be able to choose whether they prefer to live in an area that is alcohol violation-free.*
- Academic Communities: Academic areasor halls will be for residents who value living in an area where academics are stressed and free from interruptions that may impede their academic potential. Again, groups may choose to live in academic areas that are alcohol violation-free.*
- Global Communities: Global areas or halls are for residents who choose to explore other cultures and live with residents from across the world. These areas are not meant to be exclusively international but a mix between international and domestic students who value the rich diversity such interaction brings.
- Other Communities: Residents will have the opportunity to create their own themes in order to live with others who choose the same. If enough groups or individuals choose similar themes we will consider such an area or hall.
- ALCOHOL VIOLATION-FREE means that if someone is found responsible for two alcohol violations, they may be asked to leave that area or hall.
How to apply for a theme: Mark which theme interests you on your housing application. If you have any questions, please contact us at 920-565-1521 or .


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Heading out the door to photograph author Richard Kelley for his new book Deathstroke, I had no idea that I would be kicking it with him on the coast of Mexico just a few weeks later. Networking, and asking questions have served me well during my young career, and this was the crown jewel of examples. During the photo shoot with Richard, it came up that he has an incredible home called The Sandcastle, in Ixtapa Mexico that he spent over 10 years building. As I was asking questions, it turned out that Richard needed photography of his house in Mexico for some upcoming projects and articles, and he asked if I would be interested in photographing it. Yes. No need to really think about that one.
I spent 5 days in June photographing the Sandcastle and relaxing. I mean working. I have never experienced a place as amazing as this one. Most people never get an experience like this, and I am truly grateful for it. But I am even more grateful, because this winter I was able to go back with my wife and family for a week of sunshine while it was raining in Seattle.
There is no front door to the house. Just a spiral staircase that winds up to the pool deck, passing several other rooms along the way. The thought and care that went into designing and building the house really is amazing. It took one man 2 solid years to paint the house to give it an old worn look. Most of the floors on all seven levels of the house are carved stone. There is a perfect half inch groove between every stone, and the grooves in each room run into a drain. This makes it possible to walk anywhere in the house soaking wet. A brilliant little feature that I think we will start to see more of in new suburban homes in the States…
Below is a slide show of some of my pictures from both of my trips, as well as my portrait of Richard Kelley who made this whole thing possible. Many thanks Richard!
* If you are using a blog reader, you may need to visit my actual blog to see the slide show.


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Admittedly, puff pastry is one of my favorite ingredients. Besides the obvious - it's innate buttery goodness - it is quick to bake with and can transform something as simple as asparagus into something extravagant. Not there is anything simple about these local asparagus. At present, the farmers market is teeming with these young and tender spears. It will be worth your trip there.
Asparagus Tart
Serves 4
1/2 pound fresh asparagus1 sheet frozen puff pastry
1/2 cup ricotta cheese
1/2 cup grated cheddar
freshly ground black pepper
1. Set the oven to 400 oF. Roll out the puff pastry onto a baking sheet. Using a sharp knife, lightly score the pastry one inch from the edges to make a inner rectangle. With a fork, pierce this rectangle at 1 inch intervals and bake for 15 minutes.
2. Remove the pastry from the oven and spread the ricotta evenly across the inside of the pastry shell, followed by the cheddar and the asparagus. Sprinkle lightly with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Bake for 10 to 15 minutes until the cheese is melted and lightly golden brown.


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hi all, total newby here, got my first decent rc, i wanted to crawl so i got the summit, luv it so far, totally stock, got a set of 5000mah lipo thats the only mod so far. i pretty much only want to crawl and go slow, what mods would best suite that style of driving, would a brushless benifit me at this point? longer run times intersts me, i am also looking at some more lipo batteries, would u suggest a higher voltage single or stick with the 2 lower voltage? like i mentioned not intersted in speed always in low range so if a single gives decent runtime in low i would be all over that. thanx for any tips, luv this toy
best mods i have done,that work for me were getting new tires(rc4wd mudslingers). Brushless setup Tekin 2000kv. I am able to crawl in high and low. Much longer runtimes. Stay with 2-2s batteries. Your able to get them in higher mah. Higher mah=longer runtime. If you go brushless, take the time to shim your diffs, they will last much longer. Brushless motors will have alot more torque.
First thing I upgraded on mine were the rear springs to double orange to help stop the rear sagging so much.
Then tyres were next. Tyre choice is very dependant on the type of terrain you'll be driving on. I fitted Pro Line Trenchers as I tend to trail drive and found the standard tyres easy to rip on sharp rocks.
Would recommend sealing your tyres if you're going to be doing any driving in wet conditions to save ruining the foam inside them.
A brushless setup is also a great upgraded with vastly improved run times and top speed. You just have to be a bit careful with the throttle and a well setup clutch and you wont break too much.
If you want to reduce the rear squat of the Summit, a switch to double-orange springs on the rear shocks will help.
Stock pinion is 14-tooth. Switching to a 12-tooth pinion will make the motor happier and cooler-running.
Alt-248 on the number pad = °
awsome, thanx soooo much for the tips, ill try a 12t pinion first as that sounds the least expensive haha, i think i would like to try a brushless for the run time, i will look in to the tekin 2000kva. my local shop should carry those, do u guys have any prference for batteries? do some work and last longer than others? i was looking at the venom lipo line up. are they pretty decent, thanx for the replies so far
You could also look into the castle mamba monster x setup. You'll want a sensored motor and controller for crawling. I went with Tekin because at the time it was the only well known sensored setup. Had to waterproof myself. If I had to do it again I would look at the castle system, is already waterproof and now available as sensored operation plus cheaper. Should be good quality because Traxxas has used Castle in their products. For the venom batteries ? I have traxxas. I have read good things on SMC batteries, they offer high capacity at good price. Stay stock and enjoy it for a while, then see what you want to upgrade. You might be happy with just getting bigger batteries or keeping the batteries you have and different motor setup.
I did a brushless summit. It was alot of fun. But it was not a sensored setup and with that it kind of lost the ability to be slow and precise. I can say that even shimmed i still broke alot of diffs untill i put the full lem diff setup in it. With those it would pull standing backflips. A good sensored brushless setup would give you great crawl controll and make it pretty fast in high gear. Yet with that much power comes alot of broken parts. And as far as im conserned with a brushless summit lem difs are a must. They are not cheap, but standing backflips on 6s will not break them.
If it still moves, it aint broke enough!
A sensored brushless motor has sensers in it that tell the speed controller where the motor is at rotation wise. Think of it as hands on a clock. The clock has hands you can see where they are. A sensorless brushless motor is like a clock with no hands. The speed controller does not know where the motor is at so it just starts firing untill it gets it right giving you a very jerky cogging like slow start. A sensored motor and speed controller knows where its at so it can start exactly where it needs to giving you a smooth start. Thats my understanding anyway. Not sure if i explained it very well or not. If anybody knows better please chime in and correct me. Im all about learning something new.
If it still moves, it aint broke enough!
For super slow crawling I have had very good luck with the old castle MMM ESC and an 18v drill motor. Tons of torque and will crawl slower than a snail with proper gearing. Ive got mine geared @ 18/68 at the moment and it is a torque monster!! Not so much a speed demon, but enough to work well for me in high gear. In low gear it will pull 2-3 kids on a garden wagon made of steel. Not a problem to pull them around the entire block! At any rate. If I had to chance to get a good sensored system I most likely would not unless I did some work to the diffs. Ive got plenty enough low end torque with the current setup and also plenty of tuning options with the use of the MMM ESC. I also run an external BEC and it makes the ESC not have to work as hard.
As far as good upgrades, the aluminum toe And steering links are a great upgrade as well as some better tires for all around use. Servos for steering and also shifting are good points to upgrade as well. The Summit is a pretty darn tough truck all in All!!
That is very true. A bone stock summit is really tough. In stock form its really not fast enough to break much. Now locked in low with diffs locked and the slipper set to tight it has enough power to break driveshafts. Yet i never broke a diff on stock setup.
If it still moves, it aint broke enough!
Ill get some pics up today of my setup. Its nothing special. But as I said by using the castle MMM ESC along with a drill motor I have the capability of still tuning things through castle link and it helps a lot doing it this way. For me it does anyhow.
Northern Adventurer did a nice guide on shimming diff's. Works on stock parts as well as aftermarket parts,just need to remove all excessive slop.http://forums.traxxas.com/showthread...Shimming-Guide
I would highly recommend body/road armor from RCarmor (not sure if there is another band)!!!
Well worth the cost for the protection at the price of losing 1/4-3/8 inch of clearance. The extra wide bumpers are a blessing; but the A-arm protectors have most certainly prevented a few repairs
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Under Jeff Zucker's guidance in the last few years, NBC Universal's USA Network has become a powerhouse on cable, Bravo and Syfy have become branded destinations with their own distinctive programming and MSNBC has emerged as the liberal counterpoint to Fox News.
So why does everybody in television just want to talk about Jay Leno?
Mr. Zucker, who was a lightning rod in the television business long before he became chief executive of NBC Universal in 2007, now finds himself at the center of one of the biggest deals in media — the $30 billion plan to shift control of the company from General Electric to Comcast . His success with the cable channels, which are expected to produce more than $2.3 billion in operating profit in 2009, made the deal attractive to Comcast, which is looking for more control over the content that flows through its pipes.


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This article first appeared in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report.
The U.S. Navy is looking at building an alternative deckhouse for DDG-1002, the final proposed Zumwalt-class destroyer.
The current Zumwalt deckhouse is uniquely designed and constructed of composite materials at a special facility owned and operated by Ingalls Shipbuilding, a Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) unit.
Indeed, the special deckhouse has been one of the main selling points for the Zumwalt, with its specially designed composite construction that the Navy has touted as cutting down on weight and bolstering the ship's stealth.
Weighing in at 900 tons and bigger than half a football field, the deckhouse packs the ship's bridge, radars, antennas and intake/exhaust systems into a structure designed to provide a significantly smaller radar cross-section than any other ship in today's fleet.
But in a Jan. 3 solicitation, Naval Sea Systems Command (Navsea) says it "has a potential requirement for design and construction of a steel deckhouse and hangar superstructure, and aft peripheral vertical launching system (PVLS) modules for DDG-1002. This requirement will be solicited without full and open competition … from the only two sources in the Navy's destroyer shipbuilding industrial base: Bath Iron Works (BIW) … and Ingalls Shipbuilding."
HII officials declined to discuss the solicitation specifically, but they note that it comes just as the Navy and Ingalls have begun negotiations on building the ship's deckhouse.
The Navy solicitation says, "This limited competitive procurement is an alternative to construction of composite deckhouse, composite hangar and aft PVLS for DDG-1002 by Ingalls … in the event a contract is not awarded non-competitively to Ingalls."
Navsea spokesman Christopher Johnson says, "The notice was published as part of a risk-reduction strategy to provide the DDG-1002 composite deckhouse, composite hangar and steel aft peripheral vertical launching system to support the ship construction schedule.
BIW and HII will be given the opportunity to compete in a limited competition for the production of the components should the Navy and HII be unable to reach an affordable, fair and reasonable price for the DDG-1002 composite and steel components. Deckhouse construction material has no impact on the stealth characteristics of the ship."
Ingalls is building the composite deckhouse and hangar for the DDG-1000 class at the company's Composite Center of Excellence in Gulfport, Miss.
Made almost exclusively using cored composite construction processes, the deckhouse and hangar take full advantage of the properties of carbon fiber materials and balsa wood cores.
When cured, the composite structure is as strong as steel but requires little maintenance and is very lightweight.
These attributes reduce maintenance costs over the lifespan of the ship due to its corrosion resistance in the marine environment and allow for improved hull stability, more payload and increased ship speeds, the company contends. The Gulfport facility also builds composite masts for the Navy's LPD-17 San Antonio class of amphibious ships.


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In 6 days only from 1666 Egyptians have been killed. Oh yes in one week 1666 Egyptians were killed including 1311 in one day alone ; Bloody August 14 !!
Wiki Thawra , the amazing website did a great work and gather all the details of those killed, injured, detained and are missing.
According to Wiki Thawra detailed Spreadsheet of the fatalities "Ar" :
- 1666 Egyptians were killed from 14 to 22 August 2013 across the country including civilians, police and military.
- 1311 were killed on 14 August alone.
- 869 civilians were killed in Rabaa sit in dispersal alone. "The number is not final"
- 42 policemen were killed on 14 August including 7 policemen were killed in Rabaa sit in.
- 6 journalists were killed on that day.
This is far more than those who were killed on Friday of wrath on 28 January 2011. This spreadsheet is the most updated list of the victims.
For the record also according to the minister of interior himself 10 automatic rifles and 29 air rifles were found in Rabaa sit in. "They did not find the chemical weapons Al Akhbar newspaper was speaking about"
Anyhow Wiki Thawra is a website that documents the Egyptian revolution of 25 January up till now or as it describes itself on Facebook "Statistical Database of the Egyptian Revolution". This amazing work is made by a group of dedicated true revolutionaries and human rights activists who spent day and night in morgues and prosecution offices as well police stations to get the dead , injured and detainees as well the missing's full details.
It is worth to mention that the human rights activists and organizations are being attacked now day and night in the Egyptian mainstream as well social media now. Those human rights activists were the ones who exposed the human rights crimes committed during Morsi's rule as SCAF's rule.
Of course not all the human rights organizations are bad , you got Ibn Khaldun center of Dr. Saad El Din Ibrahim that believed the dispersal of the Rabaa Sit in was in accordance of the international standards of dispersing sits in !!!
Police officers say that this number is so low considering that they did not use excessive force !! what if they had used excessive force , how many people had been killed then!!?
Up till now media and public care less for the majority of the victims especially from Rabaa square because they are Muslim brotherhood members and supporters who are rotting in hell from their point of view. If you dare and speak about human rights , even the human rights of enemy POWs as mentioned in Islam you will be attacked.
"They are terrorists not enemy POWs!!" , "Look how the United States treat terrorists and then come and preach us about human rights" are the most spread common answers I have been hearing for days.
Yes our people thanks to the media believe that they should do what is wrong because the US is doing it !! I do not care what the States or Europe is doing or how they fight terrorism ; hell they invade other countries and kill millions of innocent people for the sake of that stupid fake war. I do not care how the Muslim brotherhood or Islamists think and how they do not respect other people's rights, all what I care for now is that I do not want to turn in to a monster while I fight monsters.
It is not idealism , it is the truth. We are turning in to monsters.
Those 1666 are all Egyptians whether they are Islamists or military , they are Egyptians and above all they are all humans. BY the way I know that their rights are going to be lost as usual and I doubt if we are going to have any justice soon. My only belief now is in divine justice.


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friend's Forever
If you had a choice,
would you be my best friend forever?
If forever was a day.
would you spendit with me?
If forever was an hour.
would you've told I was your best friend?
If forever was a minute,
would you give me a hug?
If forever was a second,
would you be glad I was your best friend?
This poem is Dedicated to my best friend Heather


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Mike Napoli Reaches Out to Crying Fan
People are pretty great sometimes. To those who say society is corrupt, money rules the world and we're going to be damned when the Four Horsemen come riding into town, I say, "Ye of little faith."
Of course there is awfulness in the world. There will always be awfulness, but I strongly believe that for every evil act, there is a wealth of good. Good is always better when the bad is there to balance it out.
The world of sports shows the human condition better than any other. In sports, we see every aspect of life: victory, heartbreak, tragedy, life and death. When those aspects become evident, namely the negative ones, the sports world rallies together and proves that people are full of love and support.
Which brings us to Cade Johnson.
Cade, who is five years old, had his young heart broken when his father informed him his favorite player, Mike Napoli, was no longer a Texas Ranger, but a member of the Boston Red Sox. Napoli played the last two years in Texas before free agency landed him in Beantown.
Cade wanted none of this. The viral video of Cade crying caught enough attention to where Mike Napoli found out. Napoli proceeded to prove to the world that not all athletes are money hungry, evil humans, and that people are inherently good. He sent Cade two signed jerseys with a note that read,
"I didn't like seeing you cry in the video, so I hope these two autographed game jerseys will make you smile. From one catcher to the other, Mike"
Sports do hurt one's soul a lot, but they also bring people together to celebrate the large victories in life, as well as the small ones. Cade says that he is now a Red Sox fan, which unfortunately means this won't be the first time he cries over sports. But for now, Cade's all smiles.