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Has your Ferrari lost its country club edge? Do you need something with more pizazz while cruising Miami looking for girlfriends-with-boyfriends? Then maybe you need Premier4509's new Ferrari F430 kit.
The photos below feature Premier4509's latest body kit, this time modifying the soon-to-be-replaced Ferrari F430. They've replaced the front and rear fascias with some aggressively designed sculpture with a bit of 430 Scuderia-like style and also given the cooling duct on the side a bit of Lamborghini LP640-like design cues. According to the talented guys at Premier, all pieces shown in black will in fact be hand-laid carbon fiber bits while everything else will be laid in fiberglass.
Not only will the Premier4509 receive a tastefully agrol body kit, it'll also feature a lowered, sportier stance while perched on a new set of shiny five-spoke alloys. Look for the kit to arrive around early June, right about when the economy turns its ugly head around (*crosses fingers). (Hat Tip To Ray!)
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Roses always seem to give people trouble when they try to draw them. As with everything art, the easiest way to learn how to create anything is by sketching it. This tutorial will definitely give you helpful tips and tricks on "how to sketch a a rose". It's good to get yourself familiar with drawing the basic essentials of a rose. You'll need to prepare yourself with a few essential tools that's needed for quickly sketching something. Now, here is how I tackle sketching roses.
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Indiana Tool and Die Maker Growing by Leaps and Bounds
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C&A Tool Engineering, Inc., Churubusco, IN, has acquired the former Dana engine-parts facility in Churubusco, to accommodate future company growth. The company, which operates a 200,000-sq.-ft. headquarters and production machining facility as well as a newly acquired 105,000-sq.-ft. facility in nearby Auburn, IN, employs 530, and manufactures molds and dies, specialty tooling and tightly toleranced precision machined parts from prototype runs to production runs.
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The Ulsan Metropolitan Library
April 2018 The Ulsan Metropolitan Library recently opened it's doors near Samsandong. This modern library is a great addition to Ulsan and an extremely functional space for the public. What makes this library great is the fact that they made great use of the space making something that is enjoyable for all ages with modern up-to-date features. Getting a Library Card In order to take books home, you will need a library card. You can use any computer in...Read More
How to Renew Your Passport in Ulsan
There may come a time when you have to renew your passport. Being in Ulsan, makes this a little more difficult than places like Seoul or even Busan. If you are travelling to countries like China, you will need 6 months or more on your passport to get a visa. Thus, you may find yourself trying to figure out how to renew your passport easily in Ulsan is a must. This will be an ongoing article as we collect...Read More
Staying Warm in Korea
Winter in Korea is no laughing matter, even for those of us from Canada. Heating an apartment no matter the size can get extremely expensive. Not to mention, the Korean floor heating system or "ondol" can also be a bit confusing. Hopefully this guide can help you stay warm this year and keep your bills in check. Mastering the Ondol One of the hardest things to master in Korea beyond the language is the heating system. When I first...Read More
Guide to Online Shopping 2017
A lot has changed in the time that I have been here. One of the biggest changes (and a welcomed one) is the recent ease that one can order items off the internet and have them shipped right to your door. While Korea is arguably lightyears ahead of many places with regards to domestic online shopping and their amazing taek-bae delivery system, as foreigners we often suffer when trying to order items from home. In recent years, things have...Read More
Ulsan: Then and Now
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We're Back Online!
I just wanted to update everyone on the fact that we are back up and running. It was a stressful time as this has quite possibly been the worst hack that I have ever had to deal with. It cost a lot of money and took a long time to find the right people to fix the site. What Exactly Happened? To the best of my knowledge it was a perfect storm of events that caused the downfall of...Read More
Important Dates for 2017
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The Best Places to Take a Date in Ulsan
Words and Photos by Ashley Hatcher Although Valentine's Day is over, that doesn't mean the romance doesn't need to stop. You could take your date to the typical coffee shop or dinner and a movie but where's the fun in that? I've compiled a list of unique ideas to take a date around Ulsan, but of course all of these activities are perfect to do with friends as well. Dog Cafe/Cat Cafe There are many around Ulsan but my personal...Read More
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Creative Taekwondo
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As the world celebrates good results of an HIV/Aids drug trial conducted in Kenya and Uganda, the country once a role model in the fight against HIV/Aids, has for the last 10 years not made any progress in reducing the incidence of the disease.
The announcement early this week in the US that the use of certain ARVs among discordant partners had cut infection by 73 per cent is dampened by reports that the number of new infections every year is exceeding the number the government can treat. At the same time, donor money for the fight against the pandemic is dwindling.
Fresh alarm
Though infections in Uganda, which once had the highest, incidence rate in the world, dropped from 30 per cent in the early 1990s to around 7 per cent to date, Centre for Disease Control (CDC-Uganda), a bilateral partner within the US mission to Uganda has raised fresh alarm over increasing HIV/Aids infections.
Dr Wuhib Tadesse, the director CDC-Uganda at a news conference in Entebbe last week, said Uganda was the only country where HIV incidence has remained unchanged for more than 10 years. "In Uganda, for every person started on antiretroviral therapy, there are three new HIV infections and this is unsustainable," Dr Tadesse said.
Dr Tadesse said there are no clear-cut answers to explain this trend, but added concerted efforts will be needed to stop new infections. "We are investigating what has caused this stagnation in the fight against HIV/Aids in Uganda and we are very concerned," Dr Tadesse said. "But complacence could be part of the problem. Young people nowadays no longer see people dying; they see people on ARVs but getting children. We need to re-examine our strategies in the fight against HIV/Aids. Leaders at all levels are spending a lot of time in workshops than in the communities to sensitive the people and this must stop."
According to Dr Tadesse, in the past 10 years, Uganda appears to have turned a corner in the opposite direction as more people continue to get infected. CDC figures show that there are 1.2 million Ugandans with the virus. However, according to Dr Tadesse, only about half of those who are in need of the life-saving drugs under the new treatment guidelines were receiving them by the end of last year. He said unless government deals with new infections through effective prevention strategies, achieving the universal treatment coverage of 80 per cent will be difficult.
Much of Uganda's HIV/Aids programmes are being funded through the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the Global Fund.
Dr Tadesse said under PEPFAR, Uganda has received over $1.2 billion between 2004-2010. Globally, as of September 2010, PEPFAR supported ART for 3.2 million people, care and support to 11 million people, counseling and testing to 33 million and provided $5.1 billion to Global Fund initiative.
However, with more than 110,000 new infections occurring every year, more funds will be required to help Uganda regain its reputation in the fight against HIV/Aids. But health experts at CDC-Uganda are concerned that if these new infections continue the way they are, it will be hard for Uganda government to cope with the cost of offering treatment to all. The number of Ugandans on ARVs has risen from 10,000 a decade ago to 200,000. But figures from the Uganda Aids Commission indicate that an extra 300,000 Ugandans in need of ARVs do not have access to the drugs because they cannot afford them.
In his response to the crisis, Dr Kihumuro Apuuli, the director general of the UAC, has since warned that the rising number of new infections will cause a critical challenge in the future, suggesting that more focus should be put on prevention and that the government should stop over relying on donor monies in its battle against the HIV/Aids pandemic.
A senior official in the Ministry of Health who preferred anonymity in order to speak freely, said even those on ARVs receive treatment largely as a result of American generosity. "We are guilty," she said, adding: "As government, we have not taken prevention seriously. We have concentrated so much on treatment and care yet more Ugandans are getting infected each year and the number of those who need ARVs is increasing. It is time we reviewed the old-fashioned prevention because it has flopped. The few people in Uganda are using the "ABC"- abstain, be faithful and use condoms strategy".
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Covering US broadband "policy" is a bit like digging a trench, in the rain, with your bare hands—sure, you don't get mud jammed up under your fingernails, but it's not much more enjoyable. That's because the US broadband strategy is not to have a strategy. Not only will the market's invisible hand dig those trenches for us, and then lay down the necessary wiring (thanks, ghostly fingers!), but it will ensure that speeds shoot ever upward, and US broadband is the envy of the world. Not only should the government butt out of the process, it shouldn't even set aspirational goals.
How has this plan been working out? According to the Communications Workers of America and the Fiber-to-the-Home Council, not real well. This week, they called on Congress to pass a pair of resolutions that would set national goals, and come up with at least some plan for attaining speeds of 100Mbps (symmetrically) by 2015.
The resolutions in questions are H.Res.1292 and S.Res.191. Both call for the same thing: a baseline goal of universal, symmetrical 10Mbps access by 2010, increasing to 100Mbps in five more years. The resolution also asks relevant Congressional committees to talk with the President, and develop a plan by the end of 2009 to actually make the idea a reality.
Much of the US remains far from these goals as 2008 winds down. The Communication Workers of America's 2008 study on broadband speeds shows, for instance, that Ars' home state of Illinois has tested median download speeds of 2.5Mbps this year, with an abysmal upload speed of 485Kbps. And numerous rural counties in the state get less than 700Kbps down.
Half the states in the US are doing worse even than this, though Rhode Island takes the top spot at 6.7Mbps. As reports have indicated, this isn't good enough to keep us from falling behind the rest of the world.
Getting to symmetrical 10Mbps connections, whether through market forces or government intervention, looks unlikely in the next 18 months. Verizon FiOS customers can do it, and those whose cable companies roll out DOCSIS 3.0 should get closer to the goal (uploads might still be an issue, but download speeds should rise quickly), while most DSL users will have trouble getting to 10Mbps for either uploads or downloads. Even AT&T, which is rolling out an expensive fiber-to-the-node upgrade, plans to use most of the bandwidth to deliver its IPTV service, U-verse, and it will have little headroom to boost Internet speeds without stringing fiber to the home.
Getting to 100Mbps is clearly in the interests of the FTTH council, as fiber is necessary for most such deployments (even cable companies deploying DOCSIS 3.0 generally use a hybrid fiber-coax system to make those speeds possible). But getting it done with Congress' help is unlikely this year, not least because—as you perhaps have heard—Congress is scheduled to wrap up today and has a couple of other small matters to work out.
Next year?
Nothing will happen this year. If you're the cynical type, you might single out the telecom lobbyists who work hard to kill such measures.
But a set of insistent voices has stood up over the last year to say that something needs to be done unless we simply want to cede total tech superiority to Japan, the only country that appears ready to capitalize on the future.
EDUCAUSE, the group that represents higher education IT staff, has also called for 100Mbps "big broadband," and various states are launching public/private programs of their own to boost broadband.
President Bush hasn't made a speech or issued a single press release on tech policy since 2004, clearly indicating its low-priority status for his administration. But these ideas could meet with more success next year. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), for instance, was the sole cosponsor of the Senate resolution discussed above and has made broadband upgrades a centerpiece of his tech plan. And a Democratic-led FCC might well be open to taking more of a leadership role with such issues.
It's less clear how a McCain administration would handle broadband issues, though discussion with campaign surrogates shows that the focus remains on a light regulatory touch, open markets, and promoting private investment.


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Thursday, May 31
TB patient's father-in-law is TB specialist
Bush takes stand on global warming
Is Chicago the greenest U.S. city?
The woman behind Barack Obama
Billy Graham library dedicated
Chicago's got cicada fever
Wednesday, May 30
A case of missed communications?
How did infected man return to U.S. undetected?
What are the health implications of TB case?
U.S. to admit more Iraq refugees
Should you take the buyout?
Did whales make it safely home?
China has a new knack for knock-off art
Tuesday, May 29
TB carrier may have exposed passengers
On the ground in Iraq
Deadliest month for U.S. troops this year
Will U.S. sanctions make U.N. crack down on Sudan?
State of change in health care
Whales move closer to home
What if JFK had lived?
Monday, May 28
U.S.-Iranian talks promising
Bush honors fallen veterans
Home for graduation
Venezuela's clampdown on dissent
Whales approach ocean, but still have obstacles
Waiting for the Taliban
Sunday, May 27
Ambassador warns against great expectations
GOP pressure on Bush mounts
Lebanon fighting continues
Ethanol demand causes rising food prices
Americans remember war dead
Undocumented immigrants strain health care system
Cities turn tires into sidewalks
Getting married? Better learn to dance
Saturday, May 26
Six U.S. soldiers, Iraqi killed in bombing
Bush administration set to tackle next issue
Marine weapons program has big problems
Lebanese siege continues
Holiday travel more crowded than you might think
Summer travel season kicks off
The legacy of Star Wars
Friday, May 25
Congress approves war funding
Holiday travelers will pay the price
'Education bridge' sparks controversy
Lee Iacocca on Chrysler's future
A golden retirement for chimpanzees
Thursday, May 24
Bush: 'We need to strengthen sanctions' against Iran
Will it be summertime blues in Iraq?
Live report from Lebanon
9/11 claims another victim
Fond memories of slain soldier
In Louisiana, not all roads lead home
Immigration impacts onion farmers
When you're sick, they're quick!
Bad Karma for little boy?
Wednesday, May 23
Bush: Bin Laden saw Iraq as staging ground
Body of missing GI found?
U.S. flexes muscles off Iranian coast
Exodus continues as truce holds in Lebanon
FAA hopes to minimize summer travel delays
This is not your father's baking soda volcano
Web Extra: Making friends at the science fair
A museum for the medal of honor
Tuesday, May 22
Forecasters predict busy hurricane season
Some areas seeing historic drought conditions
Congress nears Iraq funding agreement
International pressure builds over captive scholar
Birth control — the next generation
Can this car slash your gas costs?
Chinese angered over family planning law fines
Monday, May 21
Diabetes drug linked to heart-attack risk
Lebanon lays siege to refugee camp
President Bush voices support for Gonzales
Online religious observance gains a foothold
Wayward whales headed in the right direction


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North Carolina sheriff says newborn girl buried in yard may have died from blood loss
LOUISBURG, N.C. – North Carolina authorities say a newborn baby found buried in the yard of a suburban Raleigh home may have bled to death after a botched home delivery.
Franklin County Sheriff Jerry Jones said preliminary autopsy results showed someone may have cut the baby girl's umbilical cord too closely and then failed to stop the child's bleeding. But Jones says the medical examiner may never be able to find the exact cause of death.
Investigators say the baby's 16-year-old mother gave birth to the girl late last month.
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The FreedomYachts.org forum is about to undergo a change in how it looks. This will be a minor change and won't effect functionality, but the layout will be a bit different.
Q: What does this mean to you?
A: Not much, except that you'll notice a new look to the forum when you access it online.
Q: What's the major change that I'll see?
A: You can only access the "View New Posts" and "View Active Topics" links from the Board Index. These links don't appear when you're reading posts. To see these links you need to click on the "Board Index" link which appears under the Freedom logo.
Q: Why are you doing this?
A: Unfortunately I need to make this change because the "skin" (a skin controls how the forum is presented) which I've been using for the forum is no longer supported and all new development is being targeted towards a different skin. I need to make this change so that I can easily update the forum software to take advantage of new features and address security issues.
Q: What should I do if I have questions or problems?
A: Please post any issues as a reply to this topic.
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John Hussman can generally be counted on for a bearish take on the stock market. But his latest weekly commentary letter is a doozy, with some particularly pointed remarks aimed at investors who continue to believe valuations are fair in stocks.
The economist runs Hussman Funds, and since the financial crisis he's been a prominent critic of Federal Reserve policy. His investment choices are concentrated in "defensive" positions in stocks and U.S. Treasurys. And if you take a look at his writing, it's no secret why. Here's the money quote from the latest commentary:
"Make no mistake – this is an equity bubble, and a highly advanced one. On the most historically reliable measures, it is easily beyond 1972 and 1987, beyond 1929 and 2007, and is now within about 15% of the 2000 extreme. The main difference between the current episode and that of 2000 is that the 2000 bubble was strikingly obvious in technology, whereas the present one is diffused across all sectors in a way that makes valuations for most stocks actually worse than in 2000. "
Hussman couches his bubble call in references to the cyclically-adjusted price to equity ratio pioneered by economist Robert Shiller, as well as the ratio of nonfinancial market capitalization to GDP (below). MarketWatch's Brett Arends has some more on his investing methodology.
Given what Hussman sees to be such stretched valuations in stocks, he writes, "My sense is that investors have indeed abandoned basic arithmetic here."
And here's where the Fed comes in. Investors are willing to abandon what some simple math might otherwise make obvious due to the role of the central bank in the markets. He writes:
"The simple fact is that the primary driver of the market here is not valuation, or even fundamentals, but perception. The perception is that somehow the Federal Reserve has the power to keep the stock market in suspended and even diagonally advancing animation, and that zero interest rates offer "no choice" but to hold equities. Be careful here. What's actually true is that the Fed has now created $4 trillion of idle currency and bank reserves that must be held by someone, and because investors perceive risky assets as having no risk, they have been willing to hold them in search of any near-term return greater than zero. What is actually true is that even an additional year of zero interest rates beyond present expectations would only be worth a roughly 4% bump to market valuations. Given the current perceptions of investors, the Federal Reserve can certainly postpone the collapse of this bubble, but only by making the eventual outcome that much worse."
Hussman may be particularly bearish, but he's not the only one talking about bubbles, as this tweet notes:
Hussman's funds have missed out on much of the strong equity gains in recent years, prompting some criticism of his investing style. The Hussman Strategic Growth Fund is down 1.5% this year, compared to 7.2% gains on the S&P 500 index , according to Morningstar. The other funds have fared a bit better: The Hussman Strategic Total Return Fund is up 6.8%. The Hussman Strategic Growth Fund is up 1.9%, while the Hussman Strategic Dividend Value is up 0.2%.
The investor adds in his commentary: "Though I've also always had a tendency to back away from risk too early in conditions where awful consequences have historically followed (and we've done a great deal of research to shorten that lead), both our bullish and bearish views have been vindicated in cycle after cycle, and were nicely reflected in our record by 2009."
– Ben Eisen
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Max Born
Born: 11 December 1882 in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland)
Died: 5 January 1970 in Göttingen, Germany
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Max Born was born into a Jewish family. His father, Gustav Born, was a distinguished medical professor of embryology at the University of Breslau. Max's mother, Margarete Kaufmann, came from a Breslau family who were in the textile industry. It was from his mother that Max inherited his love of music, but sadly she died when he was four years old. Gustav then appointed governesses to look after Max and his younger sister over the next four years until 1890 when he married again. The family provided a cultured and academic background for Max as he grew up but, although Max's new mother looked after the family well, neither Max nor his sister formed a particularly loving relationship with her.
Max attended the König Wilhelm Gymnasium in Breslau, studying a wide range of subjects such as mathematics, physics, history, modern languages, Latin, Greek, and German. He showed little promise at school and in particular he showed more interest in the humanities than in the sciences. Entering the University of Breslau in 1901 he took a wide range of science subjects, mainly to go along with his father's wishes (his father had died shortly before Max left school). The list of courses he took in session 1901-02 was certainly impressive, including mathematics, astronomy, physics, chemistry, logic, philosophy, and zoology.
Max's favourite subjects from the ones he studied were mathematics and astronomy and he thought of specialising in astronomy. Students in Germany at this time moved from university to university and Born was no exception spending 1902 in Heidelberg, then 1903 at Zürich. In Zürich he attended his first course on advanced mathematics, a course by Hurwitz on elliptic functions.
Back in Breslau he talked to his fellow students Toeplitz and Hellinger who told him of the great teachers of mathematics, Klein, Hilbert and Minkowski, at the University of Göttingen. Born was soon in Göttingen attending lectures by Hilbert and Minkowski. He became Hilbert's assistant in 1905, continuing to attend lectures by Klein and Runge on elasticity and a seminar by Hilbert and Minkowski on electrodynamics. Perhaps the most benefit he derived from his famous teachers was during walks he would make in the woods with Hilbert and Minkowski where all manner of fascinating subjects were discussed in addition to mathematics, such as problems of philosophy, problems of politics, and social problems. However he annoyed Klein by only making irregular attendances at his lectures, so Born decided to substitute astronomy for geometry as one of his doctoral subjects. He attended Schwarzschild's astronomy lectures and successfully obtained his doctorate in 1907 for a thesis on elastic stability.
In addition to the mathematicians mentioned above, Born was in contact with Courant, Schmidt and Carathéodory around this period. After the award of his doctorate, Born undertook compulsory military service, but because he suffered from asthma he served for much less than the standard period of one year. It was enough to make him loath all things military, however. After this he visited Caius College, Cambridge, for six months but made less of Larmor's lectures than he might because he had difficulty with Larmor's Irish accent.
Leaving Cambridge, Born returned to Breslau. Around this time Born read Einstein's 1905 papers on relativity and was immediately captivated. His work on combining ideas of Einstein and Minkowski led to an invitation to Göttingen in 1909 and he began a collaboration with Minkowski who died only weeks after the collaboration had begun [8]:-
Born relates how cast down he was by what he felt was the ruin of his hopes, how he again fell foul of Klein, but managed through the good offices of Runge to convince Hilbert of the soundness of his ideas.In 1912 Born was offered a post in Göttingen and, once on the teaching staff, he began a research project with von Kármán. This work was on lattice dynamics where they identified the degrees of freedom of a crystal with the normal modes of vibration of the whole body. Their work uses three dimensional Fourier analysis and periodic boundary conditions. Born married Hedwig Ehrenberg, the daughter of a Professor of Law at Göttingen, in 1913. They had one son and two daughters.
In 1914 Born was offered a chair at Berlin where he became a colleague of Planck. Of course this coincided with the start of World War I and, although Born had already developed a loathing for the military, he had little choice but to contribute to the war effort. His first contribution was as a radio operator in the German air force, but soon he was involved in research in sound ranging in the artillery. This took him away from active duty, and he continued to request that his former colleagues and students who were serving on the front join him so that they likewise could avoid active duty. The war years were ones of exceptional difficulty for Born, eased by his friendship with Einstein. They shared a love of music and they would play violin sonatas together, Einstein on the violin and Born on piano.
In April 1919 he moved to a chair in Frankfurt-am-Main also becoming Director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics there. Two years later Born was back in Göttingen as Director of the Physical Institute. In 1921, the year he became Professor at Göttingen, he reformulated the First Law of Thermodynamics. Beginning in 1926, Born collaborated with Pauli and Heisenberg, who was a student of Born's, on quantum mechanics (the term "quantum mechanics" is due to Born). He recognised Heisenberg's approach to quantum mechanics as being matrix algebra.
Born produced work of fundamental importance in quantum mechanics beginning with this collaboration. His treatment replaced the original quantum theory, which regarded electrons as particles, with a mathematical description representing their observed behaviour more accurately.
However, as a Jew, Born was forced to flee Germany in 1933 and, after a short while in the north of Italy, he accepted an offer to became Stokes lecturer at Cambridge [3]:-
He later spoke very warmly of the way in which he had been received and made welcome in [Britain]. For the next few years he and his wife devoted much effort to giving help and advice to others from Germany and Austria who had to emigrate.After a short time in India, in 1936 he became Tait professor of applied mathematics at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. There he introduced a continental style research group comprising mostly of refugees from Europe. One of his research students described Born's days in Edinburgh:-
When Born arrived in the morning he first used to make the round of his research students, asking them whether they had any progress to report, and giving them advice, sometimes presenting them with sheets of elaborate calculations concerning their problems which he had himself done the day before. ... The rest of the morning was spent by Born in delivering his lectures to undergraduate honours students, attending to departmental business, and doing research work of his own. Most of the latter, however he used to carry out at home in the afternoons and evenings.After he retired in 1953 Born returned Germany making his home in Bad Pyrmont, near Göttingen. Soon after he received his greatest honour when he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize for his statistical studies of wave functions. During this period he became interested in the philosophy of science as well as the impact of science on human affairs [3]:-
He was deeply concerned about the danger to the world from future war and mass destruction, and took the initiative in 1955 to get a statement on this subject signed by a gathering of Nobel Laureates.Born received many honours, far too numerous to name more than a few: he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1939 and awarded its Hughes Medal in 1950:-
... for his contributions to theoretical physics an general and to the development of quantum mechanics in particular.He received the Stokes Medal from the University of Cambridge, two German schools were named after him and he was made an honorary member of academies in Russia, India, Romania, Peru, Ireland, Scotland, Denmark, Sweden and the USA.
Born wrote many textbooks and monographs, mostly for students or experts in the subjects but some are excellent popular accounts of science. His publication list includes at least 360 items.
In [3] the following tribute is paid to Born:-
He was respected and honoured for many important contributions to his subject and for his wisdom and success as a teacher. He was widely known for his exposition of the ideas of physics to the layman, and he was held in affection by his many colleagues and pupils for the warmth and simple directness of his personality.
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Storage budgets are lower this year, forcing storage managers to think creatively and act strategically.
Storage budgets are lower this year, forcing storage managers to think creatively and act strategically.
What do archiving, thin provisioning, data deduplication and network-attached storage (NAS) gateways have in common? They help you shoehorn a lot of data into a little space without breaking the bank. And in 2009, that bank appears to be a little less flush than in recent years, so more creative approaches to storage management will be essential.
It's been said that there's always a budget crisis in IT, but 2009 might prove to be a particularly memorable year. For the first time in the seven years we've been conducting our Storage Purchasing Intentions survey, respondents indicate they'll have less money to spend on storage than they did last year. On average, budgets will dip nearly 2%, more than a five point swing -- the biggest change we've ever seen -- from the modest but positive increases we saw last spring and fall (see "Storage budgets dip in 2009"). Over the years, we've seen lower budget indications in our spring surveys, with budgets bouncing back a bit when we field the fall version of the survey.
While 29% of the respondents surveyed say their company's storage budget will actually rise this year, the number falls far short of last spring's 46%. At the other end of the budget spectrum, 37% say their storage budgets will be lower than last year's, a big jump from the 16% and 17% reported on the 2008 surveys. And you're bound to feel the pinch, whether your shop serves a small, midsized or enterprise-scale company.
Hilary Tullier, business systems manager at Houston-based ACT Pipe and Supply Inc., hopes to see an increase in his storage budget this year. "Last year it was pretty much static," he said. "It was just break and repair." He's evaluating arrays to replace more than 10 TB of direct-attached storage (DAS) and is favoring iSCSI over Fibre Channel (FC) because "it doesn't really break the budget."
Similarly, Jason Jed, network manager in the Office of the President at the University of California (UC) in Oakland, expects to push ahead with a project to add approximately 12 TB of storage and move his systems to a local collocation facility while mirroring to another UC site in San Diego. "For this year, the budget is still OK," he said, "but they don't want to commit to next year or the year after that."
But for some, plans may have to be deferred for now. Lance Wyatt, information systems manager at United Steelworkers in Pittsburgh, said he was evaluating a move from DAS to networked storage "before the economy tanked." While DAS is serving the company well for now, any significant changes will have to wait. "We're probably looking at maybe third quarter [of] 2010, probably 2011," he said.
In an ironic twist, the average storage budget of $2.9 million is approximately 12% higher than last fall, but about 9% lower than spring 2008. For a lot of companies, a storage budget of that size would be the stuff of dreams; however, the majority of our survey participants (56%) make do with one-third of that amount or less.
That's why archiving, thin provisioning, data dedupe and NAS gateways drew particular interest from this year's respondents, as they all address using existing storage resources more efficiently while perhaps delaying or scaling back new purchases.
Not everything is down
Budgets may be tough to predict year over year, but storage managers can make one prediction with 100% certainty: Their need for disk capacity will continue to grow. This year, respondents will add an average of 43 TB to their existing disk environments, which is approximately 10% more than what they planned on last fall, but lower than the 47 TB they predicted in spring 2008 (see "Expected new disk capacity"). Either way, it's a lot of capacity to add and the second highest number we've seen in the surveys.
Larger companies (those with revenue of $1 billion or more) expect to add a whopping 75 TB in 2009. But smaller companies, with their more modest capacity requirements, expect to add an average of just 23 TB.
With more than 300 TB of disk capacity already installed, Troy Downing, systems analyst II at Rain and Hail L.L.C., a farm property insurance firm in Johnston, Iowa, will be looking to add more disk. "Right now we've been figuring about 10% to 15% growth per year," he said. "My guess is that probably toward the end of the year we may end up adding another array." Some of that expansion is due to a virtual desktop infrastructure project slated to roll out this year.
At Horace Mann Educators Corp., an insurance company for the education community in Springfield, Ill., Thomas Janssen, director of IT, expects the company to add some capacity to a few of its installed EMC Corp. arrays. "The disk storage that we would be purchasing in 2009 is primarily going to be for tier 2 storage for the Clariion," said Janssen. "We're probably looking at another 30 TB this year."
Regardless of how much money is available to spend and ever-rising capacity needs, over the years we've seen little movement in how storage managers break down their budgets. This time, it's more of the same, with the biggest budget chunk (39%) earmarked for disks and disk systems. With diminishing budgets and rising demand for capacity, one would expect that percentage to grow year to year, but those conditions are largely offset by the dramatic price cuts we've seen for disks and disk subsystems over the past few years.
No skimping in some areas
The types of disk systems our respondents will shop for hasn't changed a lot. Midrange systems have broad appeal for companies of all sizes and still grab the most attention, with 45% of those surveyed opting for this system class. Over the past several years, midrange systems have managed to increase their turf by going "down market" to offer smaller companies enterprise-class features while extending further into enterprises as cost-effective, high-density alternatives.
While it might be a sign of the times that one respondent said their primary disk storage vendor for 2009 would be eBay, it doesn't appear that many storage managers are ready to cut corners when it comes to arrays. Fibre Channel arrays and NAS systems top the currently installed list, with 65% and 64% of respondents, respectively, saying they have those types of storage. iSCSI, once touted as the rising star of storage, has indeed risen, with 32% of respondents saying they've deployed iSCSI arrays vs. 27% last spring. iSCSI doesn't appear to be riding the coattails of server virtualization as some predicted, as more than 50% of those surveyed are using FC for their virtual server environments vs. approximately 12% using iSCSI -- numbers virtually the same as those we saw last fall.
But there's not much evidence that iSCSI storage will emerge as a low-cost alternative to Fibre Channel during these tough times. That said, one of iSCSI's strongest selling points is still its price, with 33% of those surveyed going for iSCSI because it's cheaper than FC, and another 15% just looking for cheaper storage in general. The bottom line for storage buyers is still the features and functions that disk systems offer; 33% of respondents say that was their key purchasing criteria, which is the highest number we've seen in two years. Surprisingly, price was the prime consideration for just 16% of those surveyed, which is 12 points lower than reported a year ago.
About 40% have already or will install iSCSI storage this year, no real change from the last two surveys. Whatever territory iSCSI storage is winning, it's picking up an inch or two at a time, with only modest increases in those saying they have plans for iSCSI compared to last spring. Midsized companies seem to show the most interest, with 44% saying they're going with iSCSI vs. 38% a year ago.
ACT Pipe and Supply's Tullier hopes to add two iSCSI arrays. "We have a DR site right now that's really a cold site, and I'd like to make it more of a warm or even hot site by putting in two iSCSI arrays and having them do continuous replication," he said.
There doesn't seem to be a knock against iSCSI for its performance or reliability: only 18% say performance deterred them (the same as last fall), while 11% state it was reliability (vs. 14% in the fall). In fact, 44% of respondents who have deployed iSCSI say they have mission-critical applications running on their systems -- a jump of 13 percentage points vs. spring 2007, with much of that increase coming from large companies (see "How iSCSI storage will be used").
More efficient storage
If there's any silver lining to this economic cloud, it's that storage managers are redoubling their efforts to run their storage more efficiently. While proponents of storage virtualization have long extolled its greater efficiencies, most shops have shied away from often difficult and costly implementations. Twenty-seven percent of the current survey respondents have virtualized at least some of their storage (up one point from last fall) and another 21% plan virtualization evaluations this year.
A one-point hike isn't statistically significant, but other indicators suggest storage virtualization is being considered a little more seriously these days. Compared to last fall, the number of respondents with planned 2009 purchases was up in four of the five storage virtualization technology categories. Software solutions were favored, with 14% of those surveyed planning to acquire software to run virtualization in their array and 10% opting for host-based storage virtualization. Plans to buy storage virtualization appliances dipped to 11%, a mere point lower than last fall.
Thin provisioning -- another very effective way to conserve disk dollars -- is also getting more interest. On another survey (Storage Priorities for 2009, fielded late October 2008), thin provisioning was the top pick among disk-related technologies, with 55% of respondents planning to deploy or evaluate it in 2009. Thin provisioning is a relatively low-cost array option considering its potential benefits; in some cases, thin provisioning capabilities are built in and just waiting to be turned on. Rain and Hail's Downing is particularly interested in Hewlett-Packard Co.'s new Enterprise Virtual Array 8400 (EVA 8400). "It's my understanding that they're going to have some thin provisioning," he said.
Just getting data on the right type of storage can reap significant savings and free up prime high-performance capacity. For Horace Mann's Janssen, that'll be a key project in 2009. "We'll be doing a lot of migrating off tier 1 into the appropriate tier this year," he said. This will require some additional storage shelves for the firm's Clariions, but no array acquisitions are planned. "Those all came at the very end of last year," said Janssen.
Archiving can also free up expensive primary storage capacity by moving less frequently used or unused data to cheaper disk or tape. Like thin provisioning, archiving is more of a cost-reduction maneuver than a cost avoidance one, but with the prices of very high-capacity disks so much lower than those of primary storage-capable drives, it's no wonder that 63% of respondents are using some form of archiver (email, file system, database, etc.), a jump from the 56% who reported using them a year ago. Email archiving, in particular, has been picking up steam, with 38% using it now vs. 28% last spring. And while purchasing plans are being scaled back across all product categories, it looks like cuts in spending for archiving applications will be less drastic than in some other areas (see "Archiving apps: Using now and plan to buy").
"We're starting to do some archiving with our email system," said Downing. "Right now we're in the beginning phases of implementing that." The farm property insurance firm uses Symantec Corp.'s Enterprise Vault and expects to expand its scope. "The next step is to go to our file stores and start doing that," he said.
Data still needs to be protected
Data protection is one storage management area that can't be derailed because of belt tightening, and it looks like storage managers may have to resort to robbing Peter to pay Paul to ensure their data is appropriately safeguarded. Peter, in this case, is tape. Spending plans for tape libraries, drives and media have been dwindling, as indicated in the last few surveys. A few years ago, 47% of respondents planned to increase tape spending while another 34% expected to maintain previous spending levels. Today, only 19% will increase their spending (vs. 32% last fall), while 29% will decrease it. Half the group anticipates spending at 2008 levels, which were already relatively low.
Sixty percent won't buy any tape libraries in 2009, which is the highest number we've ever seen. And those who are making library purchases will opt for smaller units with an average of 101 slots; last fall, the average number of slots was 117 and in spring 2006 it was 159. Clearly, less reliance on tape is anticipated, but higher-capacity tape drives like LTO-4 also contribute to the downsizing of tape library purchases (see "LTO-4 adoption on the rise"). Still, 80% spin off some or all data to tape, which is down somewhat from 86% one year ago.
But declining tape usage is an old storage story as the focus has shifted to finding more efficient uses of disk in backup environments. And any discussion of efficiency in backup has to start with data deduplication. Dedupe is arguably the hottest technology in storage these days, but that doesn't make it immune from reduced spending. Still, dedupe's numbers are up, with 19% already deploying it vs. 14% in spring 2008. New deployments might slow a bit in 2009, as 10% will decrease their dedupe spending. While not a huge portion of respondents, it's a considerably larger segment than the 1% reported last spring. But 55% will either increase dedupe spending or maintain it at 2008 levels; that's about 12 points lower than both of last year's surveys.
A dedupe project is underway at Hail and Rain, according to the firm's Downing. "We're in the middle of the research for that and hope to have something chosen by the third or fourth quarter of this year," he said.
Horace Mann's Janssen has spoken with a number of vendors about their dedupe products. "We will probably be considering that, but at this point, we aren't doing anything along the lines of deduplication," he said. Meanwhile, he's begun evaluating dedupe product alternatives. "But next year, I would say [it's] 90% certain we'll be doing something with data deduplication," he said.
Virtual tape library (VTL) and continuous data protection (CDP) products offer operational efficiencies that may also translate into bottom-line savings. We've seen some renewed interest in VTLs, with 29% (vs. 23% last fall) of respondents using them now and 23% planning to deploy them this year. One of the reasons for the minor resurgence in VTLs may be that many of these products now incorporate deduplication technology.
CDP might benefit from more convenient deployment, too. Thirteen percent of respondents currently use CDP vs. 8% in last fall's survey.
CDP adoption received a boost when many backup application vendors integrated the capability into their suites over the past year or so. Fifteen percent of the current survey's respondents say they'll add CDP this year.
One area where our survey numbers are trending upward is outsourced backup. The "cloud" has been grabbing headlines with a seemingly endless stream of service announcements and rollouts. We first asked about outsourcing backup in our spring 2007 survey and, until now, respondents have been mostly cool to the offerings. Back in 2007, 89% said they weren't using any outsourced backup services; this time, that number has been whittled to 79%. Since last fall, the number of outsourcing users has risen from 14% to 21%. Email backup services are used the most (12%), with backup services for user files not far behind (10%); the number of users of these services has doubled or nearly doubled across the board (see "Increased interest in cloud backup services"). Cloud storage services can be very cost-effective, especially considering their utility nature that allows users to pay for what they need when they need it without making any capital expenditures.
Demanding times
All in all, 2009 is shaping up as a challenging year for storage professionals who will have to find creative ways to stretch their budgets, add needed capacity and ensure the safety of their data. But there are some positive signs that initiatives begun in the past aren't falling by the wayside in a withering economy.
For the first time, we received more "ayes" than "nays" when we asked if respondents had deployed storage security: 51% said they are, with most methods (encryption with appliances, at the drive or in backup apps) all gaining two or three points. In most of our surveys and interviews, encryption is consistently near the top of storage managers' to-do lists.
We conduct purchasing surveys twice a year and have found a pattern of adjustments that occur between the spring and fall, which is, no doubt, storage managers resetting priorities to the realities of doing storage in the real world. So we look forward to this fall's edition, and hope the results are just a bit more encouraging. In the meantime, some hunkering down is probably in order. "The economy has pretty much tanked a lot of what I call our 'sexy initiatives,'" said United Steelworkers' Wyatt.
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It began at the Jersey Shore in 1998, where my niece Jessica often filled my sketchbook with doodles. While I stared at them, I wondered if color, texture and shading could be applied for a 3D effect. As a painter, I made cartoons look three dimensional every day for the likes of Marvel and DC comics, so why couldn't I apply those same techniques to a kid's drawing? That was it... no research, no years of toil, just the curiosity of seeing Jessica's drawings come to life.
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What is AFRALO?
Welcome to the online home of the At-Large (individual Internet user community) for the African region, providing news, key resources and interactive features for information sharing for individuals and end-user groups in the African region interested in ICANN and shaping the future of the Internet.
- What is ICANN?
- What is At-Large?
- How do I get involved?
- What type of groups can be At-Large Structures?
- Why become an At-Large Structure?
- AFRALO ALSes
AFRALO Dakar Events: nextmeeting [Thursday,08September2011at1700UTC|https://community.icann.org/x/yAGHAQ]">AFRALO Dakar Events: next meeting Thursday, 08 September 2011 at 1700 UTC
04 June 2011: The ExCom has requested that each RALO prepare a statement summarizing its thoughts on the Draft FY12 Operating Plan and Budget. The deadline for the ALAC's statement on this topic is 17 June, so the regional comments will need to be complete well before then -- please target the week of 6 June for the completion of regional commetns. Click here for the AFRALO workspace for working on this: AFRALO comment on Draft FY12 Operating Plan and Budget.h4. _20 April 2011In its last meeting, the ExCom requested feedback from each RALO about its current communication needs and its interest in collaborating on them with ICANN Communications. For examples, please see the At-Large material on [ICANN's E-Learning page|http://icann.org/en/learning/]. Staff will contact each RALO about this.
16 March 2011: African ICANN Community Adopts a Statement of the ICANN African Community on ICANN Geographic Regions Review
AFRALO and AFrICANN adopted a Statement from the African ICANN community during their meeting at the ICANN Silicon Valley Meeting in San Francisco on 16 March 2011. The Statement of the ICANN African Community on ICANN Geographic Regions Review (EN, FR) was submitted to the ICANN Board by Tijani Ben Jemaa on behalf of the African ICANN Community.
25 January 2011: Please contribute to the SWOT Analysis of At-Large Improvements WT C
5 January 2011: AFRALO releases Draft Action Plan for 2011 (pdf)
7 December 2010: African ICANN Community Publishes Statement on New gTLDs and Volunteer Participation in ICANN
AFRALO and AfrICANN endorsed two Statements from the African ICANN community during theirjoint meeting in Cartagena on 7 December 2010: The Statement in Support for New gTLD Applicants - Cartagena and the Statement on African Participation were submitted to the ICANN Board by Tijani Ben Jemaa on behalf of the African ICANN community. They were also endorsed by the ALAC and added to the ALAC Chair's report to the Board of ICANN. In addition to that, the Statement on new gTLDs was also submitted to the public consultation on the Draft Final Guidebook for new gTLD applicants and the Joint SO/AC Working Group on new gTLDs.
- Next AFRALO Teleconference: 07 September 2011
- AFRALO Dakar Events: 03 August 2011
- Latest AFRALO Teleconference: 13 July 2011
- AFRALO Geo Regions Teleconference: 25 January 2011
- AFRALO/AfrICANN Preparation meeting for San Francisco: 21 February 2011
- AFRALO Secretariat Monthly Reports
- Older Announcements
- Policy Development Schedule - See what Policy Statements the At-Large Community is currently working on.
- List of certified ALSes
- List of certified AFRALO ALSes
- ALS applications being reviewed (Google Docs account needed for access)
- AFRALO MOU and Organising Documents
- AFRALO Regional Officers
- AFRALO Participation Criteria (Français)
- [Miscellaneous]
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- At-Large Advisory Committee Meetings
- ICANN International Meetings
- At-Large Policy Working Groups
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Investors Skeptical Over More M&A for Kirin
Investors understand the need for Japanese companies to pay up for growth overseas. But Kirin Holdings shareholders, remembering the bitter taste of an earlier acquisition, don't like the sound of an imminent deal in Singapore.
Kirin said Friday that it has decided to tender its 15% stake in Singapore's Fraser & Neave Ltd. after a company owned by Indonesia's Riady family lobbed a higher bid for F&N at S$9.08 each, compared to an earlier S$8.88 bid from Thai billion Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi. It would then buy Fraser & Neave's food and beverage business for about S$2.7 billion.


text: Red Bulls U: NCAA Tournament Update | Five teams with RBNY Academy products advance to Third Round Tweet Mael Corboz - Maryland © Eleven teams, made up of 24 New York Red Bulls Academy products, qualified for the NCAA Soccer Championship which kicked off on Nov. 19. Since then, five teams with Academy products remain in the tournament: Akron (Adam Najem), Georgetown (Brandon Allen, Arun Basuljevic, Alex Muyl, Christopher Lema, Ethan Lochner, Kyle Zajec), Maryland (Mael Corboz), UCSB (Dugan Zier) and Wake Forest (Steven Echevarria, Kevin Politz). 2015 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship Bracket Some of the top performers include former New York Red Bulls II forward Juan Sebastian Sanchez (Tulsa), MAC Hermann Watch List player Adam Najem (Akron), Mael Corboz (Maryland) and Brandon Allen (Georgetown). Sanchez scored his first career postseason goal in the First Round and found the back of the net again in the Second Round. Najem tallied two assists in Akron's opening victory, Corboz provided the game-winning assist to send home defending National Champions Virginia, and Allen recorded his 50th career goal for the Hoyas, setting a new program record. The following is a list of New York Red Bulls Academy products in the 2015 NCAA Soccer Championship: No. 4 Akron: Adam Najem (MID) – Adam Najem and Akron hosted Rutgers in the Second Round of the NCAA Tournament after earning a First Round bye. Najem recorded two assists in a rout, 6-1. The Zips will take on SMU in the Third Round on Nov. 29. Boston University*: Anthony Viteri (MID) – Anthony Viteri started and played 84 minutes in Boston's First Round matchup with UCONN, but fell on the road, 3-1. The midfielder recorded three shots in the game, enough for second most on the team. Charlotte*: Harrison Steadman (FWD) – Charlotte won their First Round matchup with Radford, 2-1, to advance to the Second Round against No. 1 seed Wake Forest. Although Harrison Steadman did not play in the First Round, he played 14 minutes as a substitute against the Demon Deacons. Charlotte battled, but Wake Forest edged out the 49ers with an 83rd minute goal, 1-0. No. 3 Georgetown: Brandon Allen (FWD), Arun Basuljevic (MID), Alex Muyl (MID), Christopher Lema (MID), Ethan Lochner (FWD), Kyle Zajec (MID) – Georgetown, who earned a First Round bye, defeated Hofstra in the Second Round of the NCAA Tournament, 3-0. Arun Basuljevic opened the scoring for the Hoyas against Hofstra in the 5th minute, a lead they took into the break. Brandon Allen doubled Georgetown's advantage in the 87th minute with his 50th career goal for Georgetown, a new program record. Alex Muyl finished off the scoring in the 90th minute to put his side through to the next round. Georgetown will face Boston College in the Third Round on Nov. 29. No. 10 Maryland: Mael Corboz (MID) – Maryland kicked off their College Cup campaign on a high note, earning a win against defending National Champions Virginia in the Second Round, 1-0. Mael Corboz started and played the full 90 minutes, earning the game-winning assist in the 38th minute. Next up for the Terps are No. 7 seed Notre Dame on Nov. 29. Rutgers*: Erik Sa (MID), Brandon Tetro (DEF/MID), Dante Perez (MID/FWD), Ross Tetro (DEF/MID) – Erik Sa and Brandon Tetro started for Rutgers in the First Round shootout victory against LIU Brooklyn. After playing out a draw, 1-1, through double overtime, the Scarlet Knights won in penalty kicks, 3-2. Brandon Tetro converted the fourth and final penalty for Rutgers. Ross Tetro also saw action in the match, coming on as a substitute. In the Second Round game against Akron, Rutgers was eliminated from the tournament, 6-1. Brandon Tetro and Sa both started in the match. Tulsa*: Juan Sebastian Sanchez (FWD) – Tulsa, fresh off winning the American Conference Championship, earned a First Round victory against FIU, 3-2. Juan Sebastian Sanchez started and played 76 minutes, scoring Tulsa's opening goal in the 52nd minute. In the Second Round, the Hurricanes took on No. 7 seed Notre Dame. After conceding an early goal, Sanchez leveled the match for Tulsa in the 62nd minute, his second goal of the tournament. The match remained tied, 1-1, after double overtime and headed into a shootout. Notre Dame prevailed in penalty kicks, 3-0. Sanchez did not shoot in penalty kicks. UCONN*: Jacob Wagmeister (GK) – UCONN opened up in the First Round with a win against Boston University, 3-1. They were eliminated in the next round against No. 16 Indiana, 1-0. Wagmeister, a redshirt senior, did not play in the NCAA Tournament. No. 15 UCSB: Dugan Zier (DEF) – Dugan Zier's UCSB hosted South Carolina in the Second Round of the College Cup. Scoreless after 90 minutes, the match headed into overtime and was ended early when UCSB scored the game-winning goal in the 93rd minute. Zier, a freshman, did not play in the match. Virginia*: Derrick Etienne (MID), Nate Odosute (DEF), Wesley Wade (FWD), Scott Thomsen (DEF), Malcolm Dixon (FWD) – The defending National Champions kicked off their NCAA Tournament with a First Round victory against Rider, 2-0. Derrick Etienne, Nate Odosute and Scott Thomsen all started in the win. In the Second Round, Virginia traveled to College Park to take on Mael Corboz and Maryland. The Cavaliers fell on the road, 1-0. Odosute and Thomsen started, while Etienne came off the bench and played 45 minutes. No. 1 Wake Forest: Steven Echevarria (MID), Kevin Politz (DEF) – The top-seeded Demon Deacons began their College Cup campaign with a Second Round win against Charlotte, 1-0. Steven Echevarria came off the bench and played 30 minutes in the victory. Wake Forest will face No. 16 seed Indiana in the Third Round on Nov. 29. * – Eliminated from NCAA Tournament Back to news


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The Dell Inspiron i580-5108NBC is an ideal match for users with computing habits that lean toward general applications like simple Internet surfing, word processing, and light media editing. Its 3.2GHz Intel Core i5 560 CPU is well equipped to handle applications like iTunes and Photoshop, and it excelled against the competition in a multitasking environment as well. Dell includes a decent 3D graphics card for casual gaming, but keeps the system affordable with an $830 price tag. If you haven't figured it out by now, we recommend this versatile system for shoppers on a flexible budget that want more functionality than what a low-grade budget computer can offer.
Unfortunately, spending the extra money for this i560-5108NBC will net you the same basic tower case that you get on the cheaper Inspiron i560-4000NBK, but we're not complaining too much. The simple black finish is elegantly subtle, if not a little bland, especially compared with a competing Asus tower. Aesthetics aside, the PC's front panel offers quite a bit of utility via a media card reader with two USB ports and a couple audio jacks, in addition to a dual-layer DVD burner on top and an additional optical drive below.
For $70 more, the HP Pavilion Elite HPE-112Y and its AMD CPU gives you two more physical cores than the Dell, but it steps down to a 2.8GHz clock speed that hurts its capability to compete in all four performance tests including the multithreading Cinebench test that usually caters to systems with more cores. HP includes a Blu-ray drive as a consolation prize, and though it's a reasonably well-rounded system overall, we think most general PC shoppers will favor the faster Dell.
The Dell i580-5108NBC jumps to the front of the pack in single applications, like the iTunes and Photoshop tests, as well as the multimedia multitasking test, thanks to its relatively new Intel Core i5 560 chip, another dual-core processor similar to Core i3 that can shift to a four-threaded design when needed. The only test where Dell steps out of first place is the single and multicore Cinebench test, where its faster processor isn't enough to outgun the HP Pavilion Elite p6320y's four physical cores, although this score should only sway your decision if you use video-encoding programs that demand full use of a multicore chip.
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Optimism, questions loom as Brewers begin camp
Pitchers, catchers report Saturday, marking start of Spring Training
PHOENIX -- So long, polar vortex. Hello, pitchers and catchers.
While Wisconsin continues to weather the winter, Phoenix is in the midst of a heat wave, with the high temperature pushing above 85 degrees when Brewers pitchers and catchers formally reported Saturday for the start of Spring Training. After undergoing physical exams on Sunday, the group will gather at Maryvale Baseball Park first thing Monday morning for the first official workout of the 46th season in franchise history, and the Brewers' 45th season in Milwaukee.
"I've pitched against [the Brewers], I know what they can bring," said right-hander Matt Garza, Milwaukee's most notable newcomer. "I know what type of threat a healthy [Ryan] Braun and a healthy [Aramis] Ramirez is. It's going to be an exciting year for us. We've got a great rotation, we'll have a solid bullpen and I think we'll put up runs."
That sense of optimism permeated Brewers On Deck, the team's annual fanfest in late January, but even manager Ron Roenicke concedes that many observers will view the Brewers as underdogs in a tough National League Central. Last year, sunk by a 6-22 month of May and Braun's suspension beginning in July, the Brewers ran fourth behind the Cardinals, Pirates and Reds.
If the Brewers are to climb up the standings, they will probably need good health from Garza, whose four-year contract guarantees $50 million and is the richest free agent deal in franchise history. Braun will have to return to form after a disastrous 2013. Ramirez will need to avoid the knee woes that hobbled him all year and return to being a run producer in the cleanup hole. And Jim Henderson will have to prove he can handle closer duties over a full season.
"I don't worry a lot about preseason rankings," said catcher Jonathan Lucroy. "We know those teams are all good but we're going to be good, too. I'm excited about it and I really don't care about the rankings at the beginning of the season, because it's the end of the season that counts."
All of the Brewers' pitchers and catchers are expected in the Phoenix area on Saturday, with two exceptions. Reliever Francisco Rodriguez, who just signed a one-year deal with the Brewers last week, will be delayed 7-10 days while awaiting his work visa, general manager Doug Melvin said. And left-hander Miguel de los Santos remains on the restricted list while Major League Baseball investigates questions about his identity, and is not expected to be part of the Brewers' plans for the foreseeable future, according to Melvin.
The Brewers' exhibition debut is March 27 on the road against the A's, and the Maryvale opener is Saturday, March 1, a split-squad game against the D-backs. For the first time, all of the Brewers' home Cactus League games will be televised on FS Wisconsin as part of a Spring Training broadcast schedule that also includes radio broadcasts on the statewide Brewers Radio Network, and webcasts on Brewers.com.
Tickets for games at Maryvale Baseball Park are on sale now at brewers.com/springtraining.
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First base: Juan Francisco is back after a so-so Brewers debut that saw him hit 13 home runs in 240 at-bats after a trade from Atlanta, but also strike out 95 times. He is still just 26 and the Brewers love his power potential, but to avoid another year being shorthanded at the position, the team picked up veterans Mark Reynolds and Lyle Overbay on Minor League contracts. Reynolds appears to be the clear frontrunner to start Opening Day, but the Brewers will use Spring Training to evaluate all options.
Second base: Rickie Weeks is the $11 million incumbent, but he is coming off a hamstring injury that created opportunity for 23-year-old Scooter Gennett, who capitalized by batting .324 in 69 games. Roenicke said at the Winter Meetings that the everyday job was Gennett's -- "To say, 'Scooter, you're on the bench and Rickie is our everyday guy right now,' I don't think that's real fair to Scooter," Roenicke said -- but that stance has since softened a bit. Perhaps the Brewers will try a loose platoon. Perhaps they will find a team willing to trade for Weeks.
Bullpen roles: Henderson, Brandon Kintzler, Rodriguez and Will Smith are good bets to fill key bullpen jobs, and Tom Gorzelanny will join them if his shoulder is 100 percent by Opening Day. That leaves two openings and many interesting arms, from Rule 5 pick Wei-Chung Wang, who has never pitched above Rookie ball, to veteran non-roster invitee Zach Duke to returning players like Rob Wooten, Michael Blazek, Alfredo Figaro and others. Assuming the projected starters stay healthy, would the Brewers consider putting a prospect like Tyler Thornburg in the 'pen? Stay tuned for answers.
Playing time: Roenicke and Melvin have spoken this winter about the need to avoid the sort of early season slump that marred last May. That could mean more playing time for certain players, and a more laser-like focus on fundamentals. It will be interesting to see whether Roenicke and his coaches bring anything new to the age-old routine of Spring Training.
Braun: He has made a series of public apologies and done his time, but how will Braun be embraced by Brewers teammates? How will he be treated by opposing pitchers? Those matters figure to follow the Brewers all season.