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Redesigned Cadillac CTS to debut at New York auto showSun, 10 Feb 2013
Cadillac will debut the redesigned CTS sedan at the New York auto show in late March and put the car on sale this fall. The redesigned Escalade SUV is set to arrive in early 2014.
The brand is targeting a retail sales jump of about 35 percent this year, General Motors executives told dealers Sunday at the National Automobile Dealers Association convention in Orlando, Fla.
Cadillac marketing chief confirmed the rollout plan for the CTS before the meeting.
Cadillac is expecting a slew of new and redesigned vehicles to sharply boost sales this year, after losing market share in each of the last two years. In 2012, overall sales slipped 2 percent, to 149,782, versus industry growth of 13 percent.
"Our sales growth needs to be in double-digits percentage increases, month over month," Butler said, declining to specify a target. "We've got the product, and now we need sales growth commensurate with that product."
Dealers who attended the meeting said Cadillac is targeting retail sales of 190,000, which would mark a 35 percent gain from the roughly 140,000 retail units it sold last year. GM told dealers it plans to cap fleet sales at 5 percent.
Cadillac expects its reloaded portfolio to drive growth, including the ATS compact and XTS large sedan, which arrived in showrooms last summer.
Butler said Cadillac's marketing budget would grow this year with the launch of the redesigned CTS and continued support for the ATS and XTS. He said the next-generation Escalade will be unveiled later this year. Dealers at the meeting were told that the SUV would arrive in early 2014.
Butler addressed the dealers along with Bob Ferguson, Cadillac's global vice president, and Chase Hawkins, vice president of sales and service.
Ferguson said that recent accolades for the ATS, including its pick as North American Car of the Year, have fueled buyer consideration for the sports sedan. He said more than 70 percent of ATS buyers are new to Cadillac.
Dealers expect to get their first look at the CTS and other future models during a meeting in Las Vegas in April.
By Mike Colias- Automotive News


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Exercise a Likely Tool for Parkinson's Patients
Mobility improved with regular activity, study finds
URL of this page: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_131187.html
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Friday, November 9, 2012
Difficulty walking is a hallmark of this central nervous system disorder, and current treatments don't preserve mobility as the disease progresses. Moderate exercise may help preserve mobility, the researchers said.
"This study shows that treadmill training and resistance exercise are both effective to improve walking in Parkinson's disease," said lead researcher Dr. Lisa Shulman, medical director of the Neurology Ambulatory Center at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, in Baltimore.
"Walking problems are among the most disabling symptoms of Parkinson's disease," she said. "The study suggests that the combination of treadmill and resistance training may be a particularly good approach in Parkinson's disease."
The report was published in the Nov. 5 online edition of the journal Archives of Neurology.
To see if exercise would be of benefit, Shulman's team randomly assigned 67 patients with Parkinson's disease who had trouble walking to high-intensity treadmill walking, low-intensity treadmill walking or stretching and resistance exercises. All groups exercised three times a week for three months.
All three groups showed improvement. The most effective exercise, however, was low-intensity treadmill walking, which increased six-minute walking distance by 12 percent. High-intensity treadmill walking improved distance by 6 percent, the researchers found.
Both treadmill groups improved cardiovascular fitness, while stretching and resistance exercises improved muscle strength by 16 percent, they noted.
"Different types of exercise result in different types of improvements in Parkinson's disease," Shulman said.
"People with Parkinson's disease do not need to perform very strenuous exercise to obtain important benefits," she added. "Walking at a normal pace for longer periods of time -- 50 minutes three times per week -- is effective."
Another expert, Dr. E. Ray Dorsey, director of the Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Center at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, in Baltimore, said exercise can give people with Parkinson's disease greater control over their health.
"This adds to increasing evidence that exercise improves walking, and when they stop they tend to do worse," said Dorsey, co-author of an accompanying journal editorial. "I hope this study adds to the evidence that exercise should be the standard of care."
Other treatments also are improving motor function in patients with Parkinson's disease. A study published in the June 20 issue of the journal Neurology showed that deep brain stimulation, which involves implantation of wires that deliver an electrical current to the brain, could improve motor function for at least three years in people with advanced Parkinson's disease.
According to Dr. Mark Stacy, professor of neurology at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., about 1 million people in the United States have Parkinson's disease, and about 5 percent of them could be candidates for deep brain stimulation.
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The 14 Training Mistakes You've Been Making for Decades
The science around strength training has changed in the last decade. You're older, stronger, and hopefully, smarter now. Don't make the same mistakes you made in your high school weight room.
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The bad news? There are a lot of exercises you grew up doing that are dead wrong for building power. If you want to get stronger faster, you'll need to embrace the new science. The good news? The fixes for those old mistakes are fairly simple. We enrolled two of the country's leading fitness experts, Rob Shaul of Mountain Athlete in Jackson Hole and Ben Bergeron of CrossFit New England, to get you back on track.
Mistake #1: Light Weights with Too Many Reps
Doing eight to 12 reps, the numbers so many of us have come to associate with proper weight training, is an aerobic exercise that mostly builds endurance. To gain strength and push your body hard enough to burn fat, you need to lift heavier weight and perform fewer reps. "You won't get huge and bulky—that's a common myth," says Ben Bergeron, owner of CrossFit New England in Natick, Massachusetts, "but training this way will make you stronger and leaner."
The Fix
Lift no more than five reps. Bergeron says to start with slightly heavier weights than you've been using to do eight to12 reps. "The fifth rep should be very slow and difficult to lift," he says. "Each time you go to the gym, try increasing the weight a little more."
Mistake #2: Exercises That Isolate Muscle Groups
Lifts that isolate muscle groups—exercises like hamstring and bicep curls—aren't movements that are used in everyday life. "If you're great at leg extensions," says Bergeron, "it doesn't mean you'll be able to do something athletic, like ski or snowboard."
The Fix
Do exercises that employ multiple muscles at once. Bergeron says squatting, which works everything from your legs to your shoulders, is a great place to start.
Mistake #3: Avoiding the Things You're Bad At
Can't do pull-ups? Don't avoid them; that will just create an unhealthy asymmetry in your body that could lead to injury. "I see it a lot," says Bergeron. "A guy will have a really strong chest but weak lats and it pulls everything forward, rounding his shoulders and limiting his range of motion. Next thing you know, he's hurt."
The Fix
Bergeron says it' easy to identify what you're bad at: "It's the last thing you want to do when you walk into the gym, " he says. "Just start doing them. Practice the movements every time you walk into the gym. A lot of it is just mastering the technique."
Mistake #4: Too Many Long Runs
Pounding the pavement is great for your heart, but doing too much can tighten muscles and decrease the flexibility you need to lift properly.
The Fix
Sprinting taps into the same energy systems (ATP and glycogen) used in weight lifting and will help build the explosiveness needed for lifting. Bergeron recommends mixing eight 200-meter sprints with a 1-minute rest between efforts into your running routine.
Mistake #5: Going to the Gym without Specific Goals
"If you don't have a goal, there's really no motivation to work out," says Bergeron. "You walk around the gym with no direction grabbing weights here and there and you won't see results. Every normal person still has things they strive for. That could just be losing five pounds, but there are specific ways to lose five pounds."
The Fix
Bergeron says to make your goals SMART: specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound. If your goal is to do 20 pull-ups, figure out how many you can do now, set a specific date for achieving that goal, and implement a plan that will help you achieve it. When the date rolls around, re-test yourself. If you've made it, set a new goal.
Mistake #6: Skipping the Olympic Lift
"No other movement involves as much pure athleticism," says Bergeron. "Strength stamina, speed power, accuracy, agility are all tested during Olympic lifts. It's a great way to build explosiveness through the hips, which is key in almost all sports. Think about how a skier drives through the turn, there's a lot of hip explosiveness there."
The Fix
Start with the power clean, using just a broomstick until you dial in your form.
Mistake #7: Starting a Workout Tired
You won't be able to perform to the best of your abilities. You won't see results.
The Fix
If you simply can't get more sleep, try hitting the gym when you're most awake. If that's first thing in the morning, go then. Lunchtime? Grab a sandwich on your way back to work. If going to the gym when you're most awake just doesn't work with the rest of your schedule, grab some caffeine. Several studies have found that around 100 milligrams of caffeine (a cup of coffee) will perk you up and improve your strength.
Mistake #8: Wearing the Wrong Shoes
When you lift, the rubber in your running shoes compresses, throwing off your balance.
The Fix
Lifting shoes, which have a solid-wood soles, will provide a steady platform for weight lifting. Bergeron recommends both Risto and Adidas.
Mistake #9: Using Machines
"In the real world you don't do anything sitting down," says Rob Shaul, the owner of Mountain Athlete in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. "You need to get out of the chair and do things that emulate real-life activities."
The Fix
Use barbells and dumbbells. "Free weight training is more athletic, engages the core, is more functional, yields better gains, and is simply more interesting and fun," says Shaul.
Mistake #10: Lifting Alone
Not only is it hard to motivate yourself to train alone and push yourself during workouts, it's also dangerous to lift heavy weights without a spotter.
The Fix
None of your buddies lift? Tell the gym you're looking for a workout partner. They'll usually be able to hook you up.
Mistake #11: Fearing Injury
Statistics show that playing basketball, soccer, football, and skiing all have much higher injury rates than weight training. Don't use the possibility of getting injured as an excuse for not lifting.
The Fix
Hone your technique with light weights. If you're technically sound, the chance you'll get hurt goes way down.
Mistake #12: Not Working Hard Enough
Weight lifting should be intense. Don't do a set, talk to your buddy, then go back for another set. "You'll see much better gains if you work so hard that your heart is exploding," says Shaul.
The Fix
Shaul says to do five rounds as fast as possible: 8 Front Squats, 8 Box Jumps, 8 Push ups.
Mistake #13: Skipping the Deadlift
The thing humans do more than anything else? Pick things up. The deadlift trains that movement so that you prevent injury when, say, you go to grab your kid when he or she is about to grab that electrical socket. Or when you want to impress someone by picking up a heavy box.
The Fix
"We do a Romanian deadlift (how to do it) because we find it saves backs and works hamstrings better," says Shaul. "Studies have found that people who do this lift have fewer lower back issues."
Mistake #14: Avoiding the Gym Because You're Weak and Self-Conscious
"Here's a secret for anyone who didn't grow up in a weight room," says Shaul, "those big guys don't care how much you can lift. Most of these guys started out as weak skinny guys, too."
The Fix
"If you work hard, be humble, and ask questions," says Shaul, "the big strong guys will give you a hand and help you become stronger."


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Rewind back to 2006. Fresh off of verses about Jay-Z [click to read] Blue and business, man, the Hip Hop world was in a literal fervor upon hearing that one Shawn Carter was going to end his short retirement. And just as these things tend to go, Jay-Z had to ask himself – once again – "What more can I say?"
Upon the release of 2006's Kingdom Come [click to read], something happened that not even Hov could've entirely expected: for the first time since he garnered near-universal (if not critical) acceptance on Vol. 2… Hard Knock Life, Jay-Z's album was met with modest fanfare at best. Some criticisms were unfounded, and some were not. But one thing was certain: Jay wasn't quite comfortable in his own skin on Kingdom Come, not knowing how to consistently reconcile his newfound subject matter with rhymes and production to create a well-executed album. In a rare act of self-consciousness, Jay-Z took these criticisms – and his own doubts – to heart. As a result, he allowed his subject matter to regress to street tales on the excellent American Gangster [click to read]. While Jay used the movie of the same name as an excuse, it's clear that he wanted to re-instill both himself and his fans with confidence that a product by S. Dot was a worthwhile one.
All this is very important to consider when one realizes that The Blueprint 3 – follow-up to Jay's 2001 classic [click to read] and its 2002 not-so-classic sequel [click to read] – is the album that Kingdom Come was meant to be. "I'm talking 'bout life…and all I hear is 'Oh yeah he keeps talkin' bout crack!" Hov rhymes in the album's intro, "What We Talkin'About," affirming his commitment to progressing this time around.
The show continues with the somewhat-controversial "D.O.A. (Death Of Auto-Tune)" [click to view], a condemnation of not only Hip Hop's latest and favorite crutch, but of all over-saturated trends that get run into the ground. No I.D. [click to read] is at his best here, marrying a heavy electric guitar loop with intermittent Klezmer clarinet. Blueprint 3's Rock influences extend onto "Run This Town," featuring Kanye West and Rihanna. Here, the multi-platinum trio claims the throne – but no one does a better job of it than Kanye's beat. As the very best producers know, and Kanye is certainly among that group, the best production is that which tells a story before the first verse drops. The epic drums, piano keys and guitar practically evoke Jay's famous "I will not lose" mantra. On "Empire State of Mind" [click to listen], far and away the album's gem, Jay-Z's expertly-told Horatio Alger story and the pure emotion evoked by Alicia Keys' chorus over Shux' soulful keys and drums ensure an instant classic that enters Hip Hop's annals alongside previous Jay-Z triumphs "Hard Knock Life" and "Izzo."
After "Real As It Gets," which ends up being a disappointment relative to previous Jay-Z/Young Jeezy [click to read] collaborations, Swizz Beatz [click to read] provides an effective change-of-pace song in "On To The Next One." While the track's usefulness will be relegated solely to the clubs, it opens the door for a few futuristic, synth-laden cuts. "Off That" [click to listen], "Venus Vs. Mars" [click to listen], and "Reminder" [click to listen] all helmed by frequent collaborator Timbaland are three such examples. The first of the three features an energetic Jay spitting with Drake on the chorus in what turns out to be another one for the clubs, while the latter two are a bit darker. Although the production by itself for the cuts isn't terrible, the tracks rate among the worst Jay-Z/Timbaland works (and rate nowhere near "Dirt Off Your Shoulder," "Hola Hovito," "Big Pimpin" and "Snoopy Track," for example). And although they afford BP3 a little more range, they're certainly not on the same level as the rest of the album. The Kanye-produced "Hate" [click to listen] is also fairly forgettable, falling in line with Timbaland's offerings.
Not to be forgotten is "Already Home," which vies for best cut on the album. Not only does Kid Cudi assist with a stellar chorus, but Jay comes back down to Earth to show some indignation: "And really the fact is/ We're not in the same bracket/ Not in the same league, don't shoot at the same baskets/ Don't pay the same taxes, hang out with the same bitches/ So how am I in the way? What is it that I'm missing?" Jay concludes Blueprint 3 with an assist from Mr. Hudson on "Forever Young" (double-meaning, perhaps?). The song takes Jay into ethereal nostalgia territory, much like Kingdom Come's "Beach Chair," and he manages again to handle it without being contrived. It's an effective closer, albeit a bold cover of the Alphaville 1984 hit. "Bye-byes are not for legends," rhymes Hov, leaving promise of more music to come.
Some may criticize Jay-Z for completely buying into his own mythos with this album. But unless you've disliked him since he first came on the scene in '96, that thinking is flawed. Jay's number one fan has always been Jay – and that's not going to change. Whether he's spinning street tales or casting off Hip Hop's latest overdone trends, Jay-Z's self-confidence is always going to be a central theme at the forefront of his music – it's nonsensical to suddenly start holding it against him now. Blueprint 3 may not stack up to the storied first entry in the series, but it's certainly a worthwhile contributor. And for those that want the "old" Jay-Z back: "Hov on that new shit/ Niggas like 'how come?'/ Niggas want my old shit/ Buy my old album."


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State to Shutter Costly Fuel Testing Lab
FRANKFORT, Ky. - Describing it as a waste of taxpayer dollars, Agriculture Commissioner James Comer said he will shutter a $3 million gasoline quality testing lab that was opened under his predecessor Richie Farmer.
Comer said Wednesday that the lab "hemorrhaged'' tax dollars while failing to handle the 500 random tests of gas station fuel Kentucky conducts each year. The closure will eventually save taxpayers about $600,000 a year, Comer said. The state is already contracting with a private company in Texas to conduct the
The closing is yet another mark against the record of Farmer, a onetime college basketball star. Last month, the Executive Branch Ethics Commission charged Farmer with 42 ethics violations for misusing state funds and state employees during his time as commissioner. Farmer's lawyer denies all charges.


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Raw egg
Uncooked, unpasteurized egg. Salmonella enteritidis, a harmful bacterium, can be transmitted from infected hens directly to the interior of their eggs before the shells are formed. Even eggs with clean, uncracked shells can be infected. The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) now estimate that 1 egg in 20,000 may be contaminated. Although the number of eggs affected is quite small, there have been a number of cases of foodborne illness related to infected eggs.
A person infected with Salmonella enteritidis usually has fever, abdominal cramps, and diarrhea beginning 12 to 72 hours after consuming the contaminated egg. The illness usually lasts 4 to 7 days. Although most people recover fully, the diarrhea may require hospitalization. The elderly, infants, and those with impaired immune systems may have a more severe illness. In them, the infection may spread from the intestines to the blood stream, and then to other body sites and cause death unless the infection is treated promptly with antibiotics.
If eggs are thoroughly cooked, the Salmonella are destroyed. Many dishes made in restaurants or commercial or institutional kitchens, however, are made from pooled eggs. If 500 eggs are pooled, one batch in 20 will be contaminated and everyone who eats eggs from that batch is at risk.
Shell eggs are safest when stored in the refrigerator, individually and thoroughly cooked, and promptly consumed. The larger the number of Salmonella present in the egg, the more likely it is to cause illness. Keeping eggs well refrigerated prevents any Salmonella present in the eggs from growing to higher numbers, so eggs should be held refrigerated until they are needed.
Cooking reduces the number of bacteria present in an egg. Undercooked egg whites and yolks have been associated with outbreaks of Salmonella enteritidis infections. Both should be consumed promptly and not be held in the temperature range of 40 to 140 degrees F for more than 2 hours, according to the CDC.
The CDC also recommends discarding cracked or dirty eggs; washing hands and cooking utensils with soap and water after contact with raw eggs; avoiding eating raw eggs as in homemade ice cream or eggnog; and avoiding restaurant dishes made with raw or undercooked unpasteurized eggs. (Knowing whether a restaurant has used raw eggs may not be easy.)
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IF you're new to a language, there are some basics you will have to learn, whether you're eight years old or 80, on business abroad or a tourist on holiday. Talk Now! Latin offers a simple-to-use method for you to start learning the language, whoever you are.
Will it work for me?
Lots of people have difficulty learning languages. Why? Most have been put off at school, don't have time to learn, or think they are too lazy to do it.
Talk Now! Latin answers these problems:
- It lifts the language off the page. There are no dull exercises; just encouraging games that award you points for progress.
- It fits easily into short ten-minute sessions. But if you want to push yourself you can learn the basics in a weekend.
- if you think you're lazy, think again! You'll be amazed how motivated you can be when you enjoy the experience of learning!
What will I learn?
To speak and understand enough to "get by".
You're just starting, so we won't drop you in at the deep end. There are some things you'll want to say in any language: you'll want to say 'hello', order a drink, ask for directions and so on.
This beginners program gets straight to the point. It covers food, colours, shopping, parts of the body, numbers, telling the time, countries, greetings and essential phrases.
How does it work?
Talk Now! Latin gives you easy-to-achieve goals. Learning a new language is far too big a task to tackle all at once, so we have broken it down into a series of rewarding challenges.
Play interactive language games. Talk Now! feeds you new words, along with pictures to reinforce your memory. It then tests your knowledge with fun quizzes. As soon as you start playing you start learning.
Earn points for every game you play. High scorers can go on to win bronze, silver and gold awards, which you can print out as a record of achievement.
You will hear Latin all of the time and, using the recording games, you can start speaking straight away, then compare your voice to a native speaker.
You can learn on the move. Carry on learning in the airport lounge or the ferry without a computer. Just print out the phrasebook sheets included in the program and take them with you, or upload the program's sound files onto an iPod.
System Requirements
- Windows 2000 or later
- Mac OS X 10.3.9 or above
- CD ROM Drive (+ computer microphone)
- You can also upload words onto your iPod


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Epson artisan 835 is made for the home use. It is compact and easy to carry anywhere. This artisan-835 has many special features which makes the users to buy it and to recommend it for their circumstances. The special features are as follows:
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An inscribed limestone block appears to solve one of history's greatest mysteries: who fathered King Tut?
"We can now say that Tutankhamun was the child of Akhenaten," Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, tells Discovery News.
Hawass discovered the missing piece of limestone block a few months ago in a storeroom at el Ashmunein, a village 150 miles south of Cairo. Once reassembled, the slab has become "an accurate piece of evidence that proves Tut lived in el Amarna with Akhenaten and he married his wife, Ankhesenamun," while living in el Amarna.
The finding offers evidence against another leading theory that the minor king Smenkhkare was King Tut's father.
Tut Married His Half-Sister
The text also suggests that the young Tutankhamun married his own half sister.
"The block shows the young Tutankhamun and his wife, Ankhesenamun, seated together. The text identifies Tutankhamun as the 'king's son of his body, Tutankhaten,' and his wife as the 'king's daughter of his body, Ankhesenaten,'" Hawass said.
"We know that the only king to whom the text could refer as the father of both children is Akhenaten, himself. We know from other sources that Ankhesenamun was the daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti. Now, because of this block, we can say that Tutankhamun was the child of Akhenaten as well," Hawass said.


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Integrating clamav Anti-virus and anti-spam system into Fedora default firewall which will create complete Fedora internal internet security system.
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- Email: <firstname.lastname@example.com>
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- Targeted release: [[Releases/15> | Fedora 15 ]]
- Last updated: 2010-12-10
- Percentage of completion: 0%
Detailed Description
ClamAV integration with Fedora system it self will reduce the virus,rootkit,Hackers,etc. problems for new users who just started using Fedora. Will also bring more security to the Fedora System itself.
Benefit to Fedora
Will bring more security in Fedora system and more users will start using Fedora as their primary operating system because of its internal robust security.Fedora will become better distribution by providing in-built security functions.And it will be useful to both desktop and server users.
This can grow into full fledge integrated security system best available.Only integration to already in-built function of firewall is required.Developers need to integrate clamav base to firewall GUI.
How To Test
No special hardware requirements.
Packages required will be clamAv-0.96.5-1400.fc14.
User Experience
This feature will be great change to fedora distribution.Users will be notice great change in security concerns.
Contingency Plan
The fallback is pretty much not to do anything


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This page documents the art/design workshop run by Zack Denfeld and Cathrine Kramer with Yashas Shetty and the ArtScienceBangalore iGEM 2011 team.
Costume & Design Fiction Inspiration
Before we can create we observe and learn. The following is a collection of the material that led us to our project.
When The Future Was Ultramodern
A collection of costumes that explores what future fashion coould be like.
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Object For lonely Men
Branching from Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless (1960) is an assemblage of objects from the film that spoke to the artist.
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Lucy and Bart
Pushing the envelope of fashion. Watch it bend.
Costume & Short Story Workshop
Put images and short stories here.
2012 by Biswajith Manimaran
Slaves. Again after sixty-five years of independence we were slaves, albeit this time, everyone was a slave. The events that led to this are sundry and interweave in strange ways; most are lost to historians' blindness. The most notable was the inception of the iGEM competition in 2004: a synthetic biology competition aimed at undergraduate students all over the world. In three years there were a total of fifty-four teams participating, each searching for ways to improve the world. One team (which shall go unnamed lest they be hunted down and stoned to death) worked on engineering bacteria that could detect the presence of heavy metals in water. The project was a partial success but was abandoned when the monetary feasibility of the biosensors came into question. What happened over the next few days is unclear, however, it is safe to say that the remnants of the projects were negligently disposed (almost definitely into a lake or river). The happenings of the next couple of years are even less clear and it this point it is barely safe to theorize. Yet theorize we must. The bacteria, once in an open water body, began to reproduce rapidly – as is a common habit amongst microbes – and continue seeking out heavy metals. Certain radioactive isotopes of Plumbium and other heavy metals are present in almost all our planet's waters, although in concentrations too small to have an appreciable effect on lifeforms of any kind. The genetically modified microbes gathered these elements and compounds and brought them together until the local concentration of these isotopes had increased by several orders of ten. Of course, it was still not high enough for us humans to take note of. The concentrated radiation and high reproduction rates, along with numerous modes of communication quickly developed a community of microbes around the world. Individually the microbes were nothing, together they were unstoppable. They possessed an intelligence borne of accelerated evolution induced by the radiation. Unlike the intelligence that we are familiar with theirs was non-centralized allowing them to form a global metabeing that was impervious to local retaliation. The worst (sorry to depart from objective nature) part of all this is that there can be no revolution. All life is dependent on these microbes. To destroy them is to destroy all life on Earth. The Mayans were not wrong, just misinterpreted. 2012 did not mark the apocalypse, just the end of the human era. 5 x 10^30 organisms of over a dozen million species all coming together to form one massive supercreature; It was inevitable that we would be enslaved.
2030 by Biswajith Manimaran
In 2010 a certain iGEM team worked on producing microscopic organisms that could target cancer cells and attack them. Their project was unremarkable by itself, however, it laid the foundation for the apocalypse. Several large corporates saw the value in this medical tool. After almost a year of research and experiments there was significant progress. At this point the corporates opted for a collaborative project. Within four months cancer was the least of anybody's problems. The world average life expectancy shot up to over a century. With the human population already rising exponentially, this medical breakthrough proved disastrous for the Earth's inhabitants. By 2019 the planet's natural resources were consumed. Several people attempted to mount exploratory spacecrafts that would seek out planets capable of harbouring life. Without adequate building materials and an abundance of haste every single launch resulted in an explosion soon after. The humans left on Earth ascended into anarchy. By 2025 the only life on Earth were microbes and a few thousand humans organized into cannibalistic clans. By 2030 the last sentient being had died, leaving the Earth an orb of great beauty that no one could appreciate.
=== A Glimpse Of The Future by Pranav and Durga. ===
Cat Kramer
Anvita and Manasa
THE FUTURE OF THE BIOBRICK while we are working in the lab today (5th september 2011), a torn diary entry flies in from the future, its from me...
20th September 2023 Pompeii Dear Diary, Its been 12 years since we've started our soil collection and bacteria sequencing. My sister and I have traveled a lot. Money being scarce we've started selling our little sketches on the way. Now were famous, the traveling sisters. Braces, white scarf, glasses and our little bag. We go around collecting soil samples and putting it up on the portal. Everyone is hooked on today, everyone. It's the new cool thing. People have said goodbye to facebook and twitter. Its rather funny, who would've ever thought that even one third of the world would've been even slightly inclined towards scientific drama. Bacteria of various types have started to prove their majority on this planet. Our neighbors, the so-called extra-terrestrials, have been living amongst us. Would we have discovered this if we hadn't started this bacteria mapping? Sounds cool right? Well about 4 years ago, a high school cheerleader discovered it. Of course she was using our little map, it's the new baking soda volcano in science projects. One day she took a sample of the muck under her shoe, and voila. She became the first to discover our little friends. They've been amongst us for the longest time and we didn't even know it. How do you think the Egyptians managed to build the massive great pyramids in record time? It was not magic for sure. Well these extra terrestrial bacteria come together in such a way that they form a massive structure, like in cartoons. It is pretty neat. But then last spring, a scientist researching the visitors discovered something crucial. Our friends have been inhibiting our growth while they are developing at a much higher rate. They were planning on a slow destruction where they grow to be better than us and then crush our existence. I won't lie, just the thought, scares me. It reminds me of a movie I watched years ago about alien abduction. Goosebumps. Is it all part of the master plan I wonder? Another big bang coming our way. Then again it's just another theory. Like the missing Holy Grail. Who knows? We have facts some true and some untrue. A stereotypical question being thrown your way again, was it a boon or a bane? And now a line of debating will happen. By ignoring what's happening we will get nowhere. But we humans do not understand that while we waste our time questioning what we are unsure of, if it were true they're already doing something. Is it time to tighten the belt? YES. We are no colony and this is our land. Maybe one day we come across something that can help us get over this situation. So I say its time to buckle up and do something. NOW. Lets get all those who aren't part of this yet to be a part of it and lets work together. Time is running out and the only stitch in time would be increasing our knowledge and finding a way to understand the outsiders better or getting to the shortest way, a way to kill them. This is quite stressful and tiring, but I know we will emerge victorious. Because now it's easier and faster now that we have everyone here with us on the map. Sit down. Log in. Discover. Update. Now the traveling sisters are on a quest to engulf more knowledge and collect more samples in the hope that someday we would be as famous in science as the high school cheerleader. More places to see, new people to befriend and new species to discover.
Sohil Bhatia
Report 2028
Soldier : MANIACS 6587ZD aka Rogue
Date and Time of Report : 18 July 2029, 5:30 A.M
Its 2011, a group of well skilled, brilliant young minds have come together to create a new path in technology. They study the brainwork of radioactivity, they learn about its abilities, its repercussions. They test them on the oldest living form – bacteria. The studies were going well, beautifully actually; radiation could be contained AND be used as the main source of energy all over the world. This had the newspapers constantly wanting to grab more details, the governments went crazy. They were independent all having the resources of upholding their countries population. But with power greed grew again, fast flowing, carried by words, by the wind. Now it became a battle of who could buy (or more likely sabotage) the other countries power. It was soon not only a silent squabble between two countries it was an all out war between all of them. No allies and definitely no "Switzerland's". Radiation itself was used as a weapon. Each country turning it to another. It was massacre, soon with ease and the mark of the devil on its face, earth was in a post apocalyptic state. The only survivors were the ones that made it to the secured army bases built as defense.
This was the time of complete horror. Even the young teams of inventors were taken aback; the radioactive weapon had caused gene mutation to everything outside the wall of secured bases. Everything was different – deadly, scarier and a whole lot bigger. Nothing looked the same, not the trees, animals the landscape itself had decided to back to Jurassic days. Rations were all they had enough to last them forever. They were prepared, but claustrophobia soon caught hold of their hearts and leaving the war behind they now contacted the closest of the bases, rivalries forgotten they agreed to send out two of their best agents out. To meet at given co-ordinates, their orders were to collect samples as they went from base to base recruiting members. Not only that but collecting samples so that this problem could be solved, resolved or just improved.
This skilled group of soldiers (the MANIACS) were taught and studied for three weeks before their departure. Gifted with nerves of steel, sharp brains and lightning quick reflexes, they set out ore ready tan they could ever be. They carried minimal weaponry because for some unknown reason metal attracted these strange creatures, it was a tough hand to blood battle out there. With an array of knives and bows these warriors were brought down to the level of primitive men. Camouflage fatigues, heavy rubber soled shoes, black t-shirt dog ties, a ring that in case of a dire emergency had to be bitten and would give out a signal, giving the bases their current location and rations in form of pills.
To be updated...
2025 by Prakrithy Pradeep
Location: India
Date: 5th September 2025
Once upon a time (not so long ago that your author wasn't born then, but long enough for her to have enough excuses for not remembering all the details), there was a competition. It was a forum for students interested in synthetic biology, and "improving the world".
It was one of these teams (they shall stay unnamed, as this author fears the repercussions of naming them) that came up with a ground-breaking method for production of bio-fuels. Everyone went "Wow!" No one considered the consequences.
The catch in their bio-fuel production technology was that their fungal entity would flourish best in moist tropical and sub-tropical climates. The climate of their area was unsuitable for their fungi. Also, the genetically modified fungi wouldn't be able to reproduce in their climate, and would perish as their life cycles are greatly reduced by the genetic modification.
That was the downfall, of the developing countries that had the suitable climates. History repeated itself. Colonisation. Forced labour. This time, by the country that had claimed to be "leading the free world". An institute from the same country is using these colonised areas as experimentation grounds for all their testing – microbial, animal and human.
I stand today on soil that has been polluted, beyond recognition, possibly beyond repair, by the BioBricks, the mutations, that have taken over the world. And I vow. To work from within, alongside a few of my unnamed comrades, to bring them down. To try and give this country back its freedom.


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Ironic Effect
"Break a Leg! The Ironic Effect, Choking, and Other Mind Games." (Article)
The author discusses the cognitive substrates of performance failures known in the sports world as "choking" but known to performers as "stage fright" by considering psychological research of the phenomenon dubbed "The Ironic Effect." (posted 3:08 PM, March 7, 2015)


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1 June 2021 - FAW First Aid Award
Price: £40.00
- Region: North East Wales
- Location: Colliers Park Training Ground
- Course Date: 1st June 2021
- Course Time: 6.00pm - 9.00pm
No spaces available
Course Dates1st June 2021 (Practical)
This 3-hour practical based award is accredited by Agored Cymru, offering everybody who completes the course a nationally recognised first aid certificate, specifically tailored to football.
The course incorporates the current first aid guidelines recommended for emergency treatment, including basic life support, treating unconscious casualties, using a defibrillator, as well as treating choking, bleeding, head, bone, muscle and ligament injuries.
All participants are required to complete an on-course practical assessment to ensure competency in dealing with simulated emergency situations. Additional post-course resources are provided for each candidate in order to support learning.
Please Note: All FAW Coach Education awards require candidates to be a minimum age of 16 before accessing any of our resources, modules or practical contact days.
To support the alignment of Coach Education, Club Accreditation and the COMET Coach Registration process we will me moving the expiry date of our FAW Grassroots Awards. Currently our awards are valid until the 31 December, this will change on the 1 April 2020 to a new expiry date of the 31 May.
This course can no longer be purchased.


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Monday, November 12, 2012
Acme-Indochine owners aiming to take over Lucky Cheng's space
We now know who the unnamed applicant is for the Lucky Cheng's space on First Avenue. According to documents on file with CB3, the owners of the new apparent hipspot Acme on Great Jones — Jean-Marc Houmard (co-owner of Indochine) and Jon Neidich (who used to manage the bar at the Standard Hotel's Boom Boom Room) — are aiming to open a still-unnamed restaurant-lounge.
Per CB3 paperwork, the establishment will serve Asian cuisine, with planned hours of noon to 4 a.m. Hui Chi Le, an owner of Indochine and Republic, is the other partner named in the new project.
The applicants will appear before the CB3/SLA licensing committee next Monday at 6:30 p.m.
Lucky Cheng's recently relocated to Times Square.
Posted by Grieve at 1:26 PM
Labels: Acme, Lucky Cheng's
5 comments:
Local entrepreneurs, Asian cuisine, I think we have a winner.
- November 12, 2012 at 1:37 PM
- agranddayout said...
*gasp* TIMES SQUARE!
- November 12, 2012 at 1:37 PM
Aren't these the same guys that are now running Heather's?
- November 12, 2012 at 3:36 PM
Kinda sounds awful.
- November 13, 2012 at 2:03 PM
Unfortunately, another tourist restaurant/bar, not for the locals, but neither was LC. Moving on.
- November 15, 2012 at 1:27 PM
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Dracula's Daughter
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|Count Dracula's daughter, Countess Marya Zaleska, heads to London supposedly to find the cure to a mysterious illness. Instead she finds she has a taste for human blood, especially female blood. She also finds a man, falls in love, and tries to keep him by casting a spell on him. A good script and cast keep this sequel to Bela Lugosi's "Dracula" entertaining.
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|Lambert Hillyer
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|Gloria Holden, Otto Kruger, Marguerite Churchill, Irving Pichel, Edward Van Sloan, Nan Grey, Hedda Hopper


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Tucked into the fatty, flabby folds of the nearly $1 trillion alleged "stimulus" bill foisted upon us (and our children, and their children, with interest) in 2009 was $7.2 billion for broadband Internet projects.
And from what we've learned, it's been executed just as spectacularly well as has all the rest.
Large swaths of at least $2.5 billion of that coin were quintessential Washington – outmoded, redundant, and outright destructive of the private sector.
That heap went to the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) for its Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP). Which was more slop in an already existing federal trough – the Rural Broadband Access Loan and Loan Guarantee Program. Which was created by the 2002 Farm Bill – and then reslopped in the 2008 Farm Bill before again being reslopped in 2009. It's supposed to provide loans to help bring Internet broadband service to rural communities that do not yet have it.
And here we have the problems with government involvement – with which we've become all too familiar.
The government is tremendously good at screwing up the private sector with their myriad attempts at "helping" it. The Leviathan fundamentally fails to grasp the Law of Unintended Consequences – or basic economics.
In order to remove a pebble from a private sector roadway, the feds implement a program – that digs a ten foot deep hole. They then propose another program to fill it back in – only that program makes the hole twenty feet deep. They then propose another program to rectify the previous programs' problems and….
Lather, rinse, repeat.
Government attempting to "assist" the private sector is the D.C. version of the elementary school game Red Light-Green Light. If the government has given itself the Green Light – and is lumbering and lurching around the free market, blindly and ignorantly throwing around laws, regulations and money – the private sector freezes in place, afraid to move in any direction for fear of the next federal anvil to fall. The overactive government has thusly emplaced a Red Light in front of the private sector.
Rarely if ever has the federal government been more active than they have been these past two plus years. And as a result the private sector has been exceedingly timid – which explains why our "recovery" has been so pathetic – if not non-existent.
And so it is with large chunks of the broadband "dim-ulus" money being blithely pitched about. Private sector companies – who have spent the large currency necessary to build out broadband connections – are now watching government-funded competitors parachuted in to obliterate their businesses.
Take what is happening in Hays, Kansas and its surrounding areas. Eagle Communications, a small broadband provider, had already invested its own considerable coin to build out broadband Internet access for and to their customers in these parts of the state.
Only now the government has given $101 million to another provider – which they are going to use to "overbuild" – on top of Eagle's network. "Overbuild" meaning – build service with government money to Hays, Kansas – an area that already has access to service via Eagle.
Again, the purpose of RUS-BIP money is to deliver service to people who don't already have it. What the feds have done instead here is establish a government-subsidized competitor to an existing private sector company.
Eagle is now facing a newly government-dug ten-foot hole, and looking at possible bankruptcy – which will cost 277 employees their gigs.
So what? some may say. Those gigs will be replaced by the government-funded broadband provider. Not so fast.
Leaving aside that it is worse than pointless to spend $101 million to replace private sector jobs with government-funded ones – Eagle's built a proven, successful business model, so the employees they have are confirmed to be permanently necessary to the effort. Not so with the government-funded entity – when the federal money runs out, who's to say there'll be privately generated coin coming in behind it?
In short, the government money may last just long enough to wipe out Eagle, and then sink its recipient as well.
And this Hays, Kansas government buffoonery has negative ramifications throughout the industry and the nation (and there are several other just as absurd RUS-BIP Hays-like situations). Private broadband companies that were considering building out to un- or underserved areas will now most likely not do so – for fear of a government-funded competitor coming in and landing on their heads.
Government "investment" doesn't augment private investment – it drives it out and eliminates it. Which then leads to calls for more government "investment" to fill the hole created by the last "stimulus."
(How many times from how many people have we heard the $1 trillion "stimulus" wasn't big enough, and that we now need even more "stimulus" to augment all of it?)
Two quick additional follies that need to be highlighted.
We as a nation are already approaching 98% access to broadband – in just over ten years – thanks to the hundreds of billions of dollars in private sector investment. So why is the government at all necessary here?
And with the advent of 4G wireless service, we are at the beginning of the end of broadband being the predominant mode of high-speed Internet delivery, as we will begin to transition to the much cheaper to build and deploy wireless way.
So the government has chosen the wrong ways to do the wrong things – and has chosen the wrong technology with which to do it all. Par for the federal course, of course.
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Lexus' Says Safests Accidents Are Ones That Never Happen
Historically shunned but acknowledged more and more every year by car markers is the inevitable fact car accidents happen. Following VW's most recent entry with its dramatic crash ads comes this work (one, two) by Team One and visual effects company A52 for Lexus in which an interesting approach is taken to illustrate the ability of Lexus vehicles to help you avoid accidents. Each of the two spots takes a reverse look at an accident and, through a set change, takes us from the accident to a world in which the accident never occurs.
Recently, the Danish Road Safety Council took a similar but more dramatic approach with a couple ads that reverse the filming of an actual accident. The Lexus campaign imagines a world without accidents/injury because cars are designed to be safer. The Road Safety Council imagines the same thing but by urging people to drive more safely. Each uses trauma to illustrate trauma doesn't have to occur in the first place.


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TitleSmith patent notebook (#314)
Catalog Number102723039
DescriptionThis volume contains a detailed typed "Table of Contents" listing for this volume as well as Rice (307) and (429). Most of the book comprises specifications for two computer systems SYMBOL (pp. 19-75) and NIMBLE (pp. 76-123). Other items include an asynchronous 12-bit register with photo of board (pp. 8-10); and ideas on PCB connectors, power distribution and system packaging.
AuthorSmith, William R.
Biographical NotesWilliam R. Smith (Ph.D.) joined Fairchild circa mid-1963 from the Electrical Engineering Department, Engineering Experiment Station at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, where he performed research into tunnel diode logic circuits. A 1966 R&D Lab organization chart identifies him as a member of Technical Staff in the Digital Systems Research Dept reporting to Rex Rice where he was a principal contributor to the architecture for the SYMBOL IIR high-level time-sharing computer system. SYMBOL eliminated extensive machine instructions with hundreds of commands and replaced them with a simpler set of instructions composed in English. This made programming the Symbol IIR fast, simple and efficient. One system was shipped to the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University in 1970.
PublisherFairchild Semiconductor
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ExtentApproximately 107 dated entries over 152 pages.
Dimensions12 x 10 inches
PatentsThe author is named as inventor on 4 U.S patents, including 4 patents assigned to Fairchild:
U.S. patent 3577130, "Means for limiting field length of computed data." Filed 1969-10-03. Issued 1971-05-04.
U.S. patent 3643225, "Memory control system." Filed 1969-04-02. Issued 1972-02-01.
U.S. patent 3643227, "Job flow and multiprocessor operation control system." Filed 1969-09-15. Issued 1972-02-05.
U.S. patent 3647348, "Hardware-oriented paging control system." Filed 1970-01-19. 1972-03-07.
Collection TitleFairchild Semiconductor notebooks and technical papers
PublicationsThe author contributed to the following R&D Technical Reports (TR) and papers in professional publications during his service at Fairchild:
TR146 Logic function usage in a large data processor (1963-12-13).
Seeds, R.B., Smith, W.R. and Nevala, R.D. Integrated complementary transistor nanosecond logic. Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 52, iss. 11 (1964): 1584-1590.
Smith, W. R. and Pohm, A. V. A new approach to resistor-transistor-tunnel-diode nanosecond logic. IRE Transactions on Electronic Computers, vol. EC-11, iss. 5 (1962): 658-664.


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Cam and I took off for Texas last week to visit AMVT, a company that sells optical sorter machines. People's eyes start to glaze over when I start talking about optical sorters until I mention that it could greatly improve the quality of our chocolate and decrease the amount of time it takes to prep beans before we roast them (maybe about half snap back to attention—and 100% of the Dandelion production team!).
Imagine a world where a machine with six eyes and a thousand lights is scanning the beans, rejecting anything cracked, moldy, flat, or foreign material. Then a chocolate maker can make sure nothing slips through rather than spending 20-30min per 5 kilos of beans like we do now (keep in mind batches are 30 kilos each and we are prepping roughly 65 kilos of beans per day). As a person hand sorts beans in the chilly bean room, attention can wander, and we miss things that a machine will be able to catch. This can help us make better chocolate by selecting only the best beans!
We flew into Austin and stopped by La Barbecue to fuel up for the drive to Houston. We made it just in the nick of time to be their last late, late lunch customers of the day and got to sample some mighty fine brisket and pulled pork. It came with the most amazing sweet and tangy sauce and was just the ticket to kick off our Texas adventure. The AMVT lab had several machines and we were warmly welcomed by David and his colleague, Gary. There were several tests to try and we had brought an overweight checked bag (shh!) full of raw beans from a two different origins to play with.
David and Gary had calibrated the machine with a previous sample we had sent. We worked with them to understand the priorities around rejecting beans based on color, size, and shape. The machine has a set of cameras facing each other (so it can "see" both sides of the beans) and is fed from the top using gravity and slight vibration to move the beans down. The beans fall past the camera and then, if rejected, are blown into a different chute with compressed air. All simple in concept, complicated to achieve, and amazing to see in action.
David and Gary were incredibly knowledgeable and helpful and we both learned a lot during our visit. On our way out of town, we decided we needed one last barbecue fix before heading back to SF. We hit up Micklethwait Meat Company where we tried their pulled pork, pork shoulder, and brisket. These were accompanied by outstanding homemade pickles, jalepeño cheesy grits, and crisp coleslaw. The meat was delicious and the grits were amazing!
To top it all off, we stopped by Hay Elotes, a permanent structure version of a Mexican street cart selling all things corn and delicious ice cream/icees. Ivan helped us out and let us sample a few things and explained how they seek out the best corn in Mexico to import. He told us, "in Mexico, corn is life." We were too full to sample the corn or the chicharones, but we both enjoyed mango, lime, and tamarind icees (kind of like sorbet). Ivan promised to come visit the factory next time he's in SF.
All in all, a productive and illuminating trip to learn about some pretty amazing technology. Though we are still in the research phase, we are excited about the possibility of integrating this machine into our process.


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IRVING, Texas – Jason Garrett nailed his audition. He gets to remain coach of the Dallas Cowboys.
A person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press that Garrett will be announced as the new head coach at a news conference at Cowboys Stadium on Thursday afternoon. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the team had not announced the decision.
Team owner Jerry Jones peeled the interim label off Garrett and made him — officially — the eighth head coach in the history of this proud franchise. He's the first head coach who also played for the Cowboys, as he was a backup to Troy Aikman in the 1990s.
Garrett made the choice easy for Jones by going 5-3 during his half-season in charge. He took over a club that had been 1-7 and was asked to merely make them competitive. He not only compiled a winning record, but his losses were by a total of seven points.
Having seen what Garrett could do, Jones didn't even interview him. He considered receivers coach Ray Sherman and Miami assistant head coach Todd Bowles. Bowles could still join the staff as defensive coordinator.
The Cowboys needed new leadership when a season that began with legitimate aspirations of becoming the first team to play in the Super Bowl at their home stadium went rotten very quickly. Jones fired Wade Phillips at midseason and turned to Garrett, the 44-year-old assistant head coach and one of the highest-paid assistants in the league.
The deck was stacked against him. The team was coming off consecutive blowout losses, playoff hopes were gone and quarterback Tony Romo was out with a season-ending injury. It also was Garrett's first time as a head coach on any level. And, as offensive coordinator, he was partly to blame for the mess.
But the Princeton grad had spent years preparing for the opportunity and knew exactly what he wanted to do.
He started the workday earlier, added hitting to midweek practices, required players to jog between drills and cracked down on rules, including ones he added. He had huge digital clocks installed around the locker room to avoid any excuses about being late to a meeting. He was constantly upbeat.
The Cowboys responded, cutting down on turnovers and penalties, and began forcing other teams into mistakes. They won four games with 38-year-old backup quarterback Jon Kitna and another with third-stringer Stephen McGee making his first start.
Jones believes the Cowboys have enough key players in place to bounce back quickly. Despite the lousy record, Dallas had five players make the Pro Bowl, most from any team.
Garrett will have a say in who stays and who goes, including the coaches. The defense is especially likely to be overhauled after allowing the most points and yards in franchise history. Jones remains committed to a 3-4 alignment.
The NFL labor uncertainty and possibility of a lost season played into Jones' decision. Whenever players return — as scheduled this offseason, or whenever a new collective-bargaining agreement is done — they already will be familiar with Garrett. Starting over could slow the turnaround Jones expects.
"We have to look at the positive things that happened this year and build on them, we have to look at the things that weren't quite as good and we have to rectify them, and we have to go forward and stay in the short term, take it day by day and put our best foot forward," Garrett said Monday.
Garrett is well aware of the challenges and pressures of this job, one of the most high-profile in pro sports. He's spent 12 years with the organization as a player or coach. His brothers John and Judd also are part of the organization, and his father, Jim, was with the club more than 20 years, working for every head coach in team history except Phillips.
Garrett's coaching background includes working with many top offensive minds, including Norv Turner and Sean Payton. He's also consulted with his first coach with the Cowboys, Jimmy Johnson.
Dallas has appeared in a record eight Super Bowls and won five. However, the club is in the midst of its longest drought — 15 years since reaching the big game, and counting. Dallas has won just two playoff games since its last championship, in 1996 and 2009.
Jones can't afford any more bad seasons because he needs to sell seats, suites — and perhaps naming rights — for the team's $1.2 billion stadium that opened last season.


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Newsmakers of the Year - Central
Central Florida Newsmakers
Lake Nona, David and Jacqueline Siegel, The Villages and Theme Parks
» Lake Nona
The development, home to Medical City, is helping to transform central Florida's economy.
The year just past marked a milestone for the evolution of central Florida's economy. At Lake Nona, the Nemours Children's Hospital opened, and Lake Nona's developers announced deals with corporate heavyweights GE, Cisco and Johnson & Johnson that will brand Lake Nona nationally as a nexus for medical research and a community to watch.
The man behind the vision that has shaped Lake Nona — Joe Lewis — and his investment company, Tavistock Group, own businesses and property worldwide, including Lake Nona and the exclusive Isleworth development in Orlando, where Lewis has a home.
Lewis was the linchpin in Jeb Bush's initiative to implant a bioscience industry in Florida. Blindsided by Scripps Institute's decision to locate in Palm Beach County, Lewis retrenched and quietly went about creating a bioscience core on the Lake Nona property. He and Tavistock executives put together a set of deals that created a "Medical City" at Lake Nona that now includes the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, UCF's College of Medicine, a UF research institute, an M.D. Anderson research institute and the Nemours hospital.
The nation's biggest VA hospital will open on the site late this year. In the meantime, 2012 established Lewis and Lake Nona firmly as the key drivers in the emergence of a true, three-dimensional regional economy that no longer derives its identity predominantly from the world of theme park tourism.
» The Villages
In a state awash in slow growth, diversity and complexity, the Villages stood out in 2012 by bucking most of the trends. The giant retirement enclave straddling Sumter and parts of two other central Florida counties — now with some 80,000 residents — is a tea party stronghold that remains mostly age-segregated (fewer than 2% of residents are under age 45) and 98% white. No housing downturn here: Unlike many areas, the Villages has continued to grow. Forbes magazine ranked it as the fastest-growing small town in America.
» Theme Parks
The tourism industry boomed in 2012. South Americans came in droves, and despite the lingering recession, many Americans decided they could afford a vacation. Disney integrated Starbucks into one of its eateries, will serve alcohol inside the Magic Kingdom for the first time and was to open a new attraction, the Legend of Captain Jack Sparrow, by year's end.
» David and Jacqueline Siegel
The 77-year-old founder of timeshare firm Westgate Resorts and his 46-year-old wife became icons of excess after they launched construction of a 90,000-sq.-ft. mansion just outside of Orlando, then had to abandon it after the recession clobbered Westgate. A 2012 documentary, "The Queen of Versailles," chronicled their over-the-top lifestyle and the saga of the extravagant home that they meant to become the largest residence in America. A Reuters story in July reported Siegel's assertions that his company was "more profitable than we've ever been" and that he would be resuming construction on the mansion. After threatening to lay off workers if President Obama won re-election, Siegel later switched gears and gave employees a raise.


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Wi-Fi infrastructure vendor Aruba Networks will buy Avenda Systems to expand its network security offerings and help enable BYOD (bring-your-own-device) strategies in enterprises.
Aruba announced the deal on Thursday as it reported financial results for its first fiscal quarter ended Oct. 31. Pending regulatory approvals, Aruba expects the acquisition to close during the second quarter of its 2012 fiscal year, which ends Jan. 31.
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The acquisition of privately held Avenda, for which the companies did not disclose financial terms, is intended primarily to help serve enterprises that want to let their employees bring their own smartphones and tablets to work. To safely do so, employers need to ensure that those devices are secure and comply with enterprise policies.
Avenda sells an authentication and authorization platform, called eTIPS, that includes a server and a set of applications. With that technology, Aruba said it will be able to extend its own MOVE access control architecture to all access types and other vendors' network gear. MOVE can identify users, device types, applications and locations, and apply network access policies using that information.
Avenda's technology also includes locally deployed or cloud-based software to make it easier for users to connect their mobile devices to secure Wi-Fi networks without help from the IT department. The software works on many Windows, Mac OS, Apple iOS and Google Android client systems.
Aruba plans to hold a conference call about the acquisition for media on Friday at 7 a.m. Pacific Time. Aruba is based in Sunnyvale, California, and Avenda in nearby Santa Clara.
For its fiscal first quarter, Aruba reported revenue of $119.4 million, up 44 percent from a year earlier, but a net loss of $500,000, or roughly break-even. In last year's first quarter, the company had posted a profit of $2.1 million, or $0.02 per share.
Stephen Lawson covers mobile, storage and networking technologies for The IDG News Service. Follow Stephen on Twitter at @sdlawsonmedia. Stephen's e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com


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Privacy Policy
Online tax preparation has never been safer or more secure.
At JTH Tax, LLC, doing business as Liberty Tax Service® ("Liberty," "we," or "our"), we recognize the importance of protecting your personal information. We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of your information and want you to know the protective measures we take.
This Website Privacy Policy concerns the information we collect when you view our websites and our affiliated companies' websites, including www.esmarttax.com, www.esmarttax.com/ffa, www.freetax.com, www.libertytax.com, www.taxbrain.com, www.britetax.com and www.libertytax.com/online (collectively, our "Websites"). It also describes your choices regarding use, access and correction of your personal information. If you come to one of our offices for tax preparation you will be subject to a separate privacy policy disclosed to you when you use those services.
Liberty may also offer the ability to apply for financial products through various affiliated and non-affiliated companies. Our privacy policies, and those of our non-affiliated partners, may vary depending on the type of service or products offered. This privacy policy applies solely to our Websites.
If you have an unresolved privacy or data use concern that we have not addressed satisfactorily, please contact our U.S.-based third-party resolution provider (free of charge) here: https://feedback-form.truste.com/watchdog/request.
Tracking Technologies
If you use our Websites, we collect the following types of information:
- We and our partners use cookies or similar technologies. These technologies are used in analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual as well as aggregated basis.
- We use cookies for online customer support and analytics service providers. Users can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some features or areas of our site may be limited.
Behavioral Targeting/Re-Targeting
We partner with a third-party ad network to either display advertising on our Web site or to manage our advertising on other sites. Our ad network partner uses cookies and Web beacons to collect non-personal information about your activities on this and other Web sites to provide you targeted advertising based upon your interests. If you wish to not have this information used for the purpose of serving you targeted ads, you may opt out by clicking here: https://preferences-mgr.truste.com. Please note this does not opt you out of being served advertising. You will continue to receive generic ads.
We use Google AdSense to publish ads on this site. When you view or click on an ad, a cookie will be set to help better provide advertisements that may be of interest to you on this and other Web sites. You may opt out of the use of this cookie by visiting Google's Advertising and Privacy page: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads.
Log Files. As is true of most web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information may include Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and/or clickstream data. We do not link this automatically collected data to other information we collect about you.
HTML5. We use local storage such as HTML5 to store content information and preferences. Third parties with whom we partner to provide certain features on our site or to display advertising based upon your Web browsing activity use LSOs such as HTML5 to collect and store information. Various browsers may offer their own management tools for removing HTML5 LSOs.
Personal Information We Collect. If you choose to submit your contact information to indicate an interest in either a franchise or tax course, we receive from you your name, address, telephone number and e-mail address. If you choose to submit your e-mail address to indicate an interest in our electronic newsletter, we receive from you your e-mail address. We may receive your personal information (which includes, without limitation, your name, address, email or phone number) if you participate in any of our surveys or contests or if you request a service from us. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information.
Our website does not currently support "do not track" settings on your browser or have any similar mechanism that allows you to opt out of or otherwise control the collection of certain information about your online activities.
Tax Filing Information. If you choose to file your taxes with Liberty, we collect your SSN and DOB, as required, to complete your tax return.
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our website, we will ask you for your friend's name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the website. JTH Tax, Inc. stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the performance of our referral program. Your friend may contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com to request that we remove this information from our database.
Geolocation by 3rd Party Vendors
Cellular geolocation services in calls made to Liberty Tax® toll-free numbers are provided by AdGeo, Inc. Information about this service, the vendor's terms of use and the vendor's data retention policies may be found at http://www.adgeo.com/mobile-terms-of-service. Information about the vendor's privacy policy for this service may be found at http://www.adgeo.com/privacy-policy. Your use of and explicit or implicit consent during the toll-free calls indicates your acceptance of the vendor's terms of use and privacy policies.
How We May Use the Information
We may use your information collected in the Websites to provide the services or products you requested, to process transactions that you initiate, to improve our services and Websites, for marketing or promotional purposes and to contact you regarding our services or your use of the Websites.
Information We Disclose
We will share your personal information with third parties only in the ways that are described in this privacy policy. We do not sell your personal information to third parties.
Affiliated and non-affiliated third parties may be given access to your information only as permitted by law or upon your express authorization to process the transactions in which you have engaged us to perform. Our affiliated and non-affiliated third parties may offer you the opportunity to receive information concerning their products and services. If you elect to receive such communications from these third parties, we may share your name and contact information.
If you have inputted information into our website to express an interest in being contacted about tax courses, your information is transferred to a local Liberty Tax Service® office, most of which are franchised, so the office may contact you. Also, we may contact you directly about a tax course in one of our offices, or an online tax course, or we may contact you about franchise opportunities with us.
If you entered your contact information into our website to express an interest in being contacted about a franchise opportunity, we use your information to contact you about this opportunity.
If you submitted your e-mail address to sign up for our electronic newsletter, we use your e-mail address to e-mail our newsletter to you and we may contact you about franchise opportunities with us. Out of respect for your privacy, you may choose to stop receiving our newsletter or marketing emails by following the unsubscribe instructions included in these emails, accessing the email preferences in your account settings page or you can contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
If you submitted your e-mail address to us for any purpose, we may contact you to invite you to prepare your tax return with us and send you marketing messages.
We may disclose or use the registration information that you provide when creating an account to show you tailored advertising or to send you marketing messages. We may disclose your registration information to non-affiliated third parties that perform operational, marketing, financial or accounting services for us. These companies are authorized to use your registration information only as necessary to provide these services to us. Such sharing will be done in accordance with applicable law.
If you submit your personal tax return information for the purposes of preparing and filing your tax returns, our use or disclosure of that information may be limited by the Internal Revenue Code, §7216, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, and other law. We will not use or disclose to third parties your personal tax return information for any other purpose other than the preparing, assisting you in preparing, or filing your tax return, unless you authorize us by providing to us written consent to use or disclose or unless expressly required or authorized by law or pursuant to a court order.
We may disclose your information to non-affiliated third parties that perform operational, marketing or accounting services for us and who are required to use such information only to perform services on our behalf. Our sharing of information may be with a financial product provider with whom we have a joint-marketing agreement or non-financial companies that provides technical services such as software services. These companies are authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services to us. Such sharing will be done in accordance with applicable law. We also may share aggregated, or de-identified information, which cannot reasonably be used to identify you.
In certain situations, JTH Tax, LLC. may be required to disclose personal data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.
We may also disclose or transfer your information in response to legal process such as to comply with a subpoena, or similar legal process or when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request, where required by applicable law, or if we are acquired by or merged with another company. If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, you will be notified a prominent notice on our Website(s) of any change in ownership or uses of your personal information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personal information.
Updating Your Information
Upon request, we will provide you with information about whether we hold, or process on behalf of a third party, any of your personal information. You may access, correct, or request deletion of your personal information by logging and going to the My Account tab.
If you are using our Websites to prepare and file your tax returns, you may update your log-in and password information by logging into your account or by contacting customer support at firstname.lastname@example.com. Other information we collect as described in this privacy policy is not stored in an online-accessible format or does not identify you personally. For all other inquiries related to your information, including updating or deactivation, deleting or no longer using your submitted information, please contact us via firstname.lastname@example.com or by postal mail to JTH Tax, LLC. c/o Privacy, 2387 Liberty Way, Virginia Beach, Virginia 23456. We will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe.
We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services or as required under applicable law. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
Do Not Call (DNC) Policy
At Liberty, we recognize the importance of protecting your personal information. We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of your information and want you to know the protective measures we take.
Liberty will adhere to all applicable and enforceable federal and state laws and regulations governing outbound telephone calls for the protection of the privacy of telephone consumers. The National Do Not Call Registry is managed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the nation's consumer protection agency. Liberty will not call any number appearing on the federal or state do not call list (unless permitted by applicable law) or the number of a person who requests not to receive telemarketing campaign calls made on the behalf of Liberty Tax Service®.
If you request not to receive calls from us, you will be placed on our internally maintained DNC list and will not be called for any future telemarketing campaigns. Upon your request, Liberty will document immediately. Please allow up to 30 days for your telephone number to be removed from any campaigns that are currently underway. You will remain on Liberty's "Do Not Call" list for 5 years, unless you ask to be removed. Also, some states have Do Not Call laws that require Liberty to honor such requests for a longer period of time, and it is Liberty's policy to comply with those laws when applicable. When submitting a request via phone to be placed on the DNC list, all calls may be monitored or recorded. Liberty reserves the right to revise this "Do Not Call" policy.
All employees that engage in outbound telephone solicitation are trained in this policy and are made aware of these procedures before they are allowed to place campaign calls to consumers. Management reviews the policy with employees on a seasonal basis. If a consumer requests a copy of our "Do Not Call" policy, Liberty will send a copy via U.S. mail or electronic mail. The "Do Not Call" policy is also posted on the Liberty intranet site under "Owned and Operated Customer Care Center – DNC Policy".
Information Security
We maintain physical, electronic and procedural security measures that comply with applicable legal and regulatory standards to safeguard your personal information. Access to such information is restricted to those employees who are trained in the proper handling of client information and have a legitimate business need to access that information. We follow generally accepted standards, such as encryption and secure socket layer technology, to protect the personal information you submit to us, whether that information is in transit or at rest. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can contact us at email@example.com.
Additional Information
Links to 3rd-Party Sites. Our Website(s) includes links to other Web sites whose privacy practices may differ from ours. If you submit personal information to any of those sites, your information is governed by their privacy policies. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy policy of any Web site you visit.
Blogs. Our Web site offers publicly accessible blogs or community forums. You should be aware that any information you provide in these areas may be read, collected, and used by others who access them. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your personal information, in which case we will let you know if we are unable to do so and why. Our blog is also managed by a third-party application that may require you to register to post a comment. We do not have access or control of the information posted to the blog. You will need to contact or login into the third-party application if you want the personal information that was posted to the comments section removed. To learn how the third-party application uses your information, please review their privacy policy.
Social Media Widgets
Our Web site includes Social Media Features, such as the Facebook Like button, and Widgets, such as the Share This button, or interactive mini-programs that run on our site. These Features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the Feature to function properly. Social Media Features and Widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Site. Your interactions with these Features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.
Acceptance of These Terms
You understand that any information you provide to us through any of the Websites shall be governed by this privacy policy. If you do not agree with these terms, you should not use the Websites. Your continued use of the Websites indicates your acceptance of these terms.
This privacy policy is effective November 10, 2017.
Because privacy is important, we pledge to work with you to protect and safeguard the security of your personal customer information. If this privacy policy changes, we will notify you of the changes by posting a notice on our Websites. If we make any material changes we will notify you by means of a notice on this Site prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, you may contact us by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com or by mail at Privacy, Liberty Tax Service, 2387 Liberty Way, Virginia Beach, Virginia 23456.


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Neil Pryde Set to Retire
Neil Pryde has set that he wil retire as Managing Director of Pryde Group, effective December 31st, 2013. Neil Pryde will become the Chairman of the company after retirement and will devote most of his time in promoting and supporting the company's business activities around the world.
Patrick Pender, currently Deputy Managing Director, will become Managing Director and Peter Lui, currently CFO for the company, will become Chief Operating Officer. George Poon from Shriro Pacific Limited will be heading the financial functions and all new appointments will be effective from 1st January 2014.
Patrick Pender has 30 years of experience in management, brand building, manufacturing and retailing. Having been a part of management teams at the Gaastra Group, Guess Watches, Oozeeki and Bvlgari, he brings with him a broad range of experience and an understanding of the European, American and Asian markets. Mr. Pender is also a world-class sailor with first hand understanding of the sports the Pryde Group is involved in.
In making this announcement, Neil Pryde commented:
"The decision for me to step back from active management of the company that I founded 43 years ago is obviously a significant milestone in the company's history and in my life. Pryde Group represents my life's work and I am extremely proud of what we have been able to create in one of the world's leading action sports companies with market leading brands in Windsurfing and Kitesurfing.
I certainly could not have achieved anything we have done without the support of an incredibly loyal group of colleagues and employees and I will not forget the effort you have made on behalf of the company. I wish you well for the future.
I am confident that Patrick with his experience and leadership will bring us greater success and I hope you will give Patrick the same support you have given me over many years.
Peter Lui has been my close associate for more than 13 years and I am delighted to see him in his new role as Chief Operating Officer and I am sure he together with Patrick will be instrumental in the future success of the company.
As you are aware, I will become the Chairman of the company and remain as a member of the Board of Directors. You may be assured, I will continue to maintain a very strong interest in all of the company's activities and the progress of its employees."
Vasco Fung, Group Chief Executive Officer of Shriro Pacific Limited, the controlling shareholder in Pryde Group, commented on Mr. Pryde's retirement:
"We have enjoyed a very successful partnership with Neil Pryde since 1986 and are very grateful for his considerable contributions to the success of the company.
Neil has shown strong leadership since founding the business in 1970 and successfully transformed the company into an international sports group with operations in Asia, USA and Europe.
We all wish Neil a very happy retirement and surely he will continue to provide valuable support and advice to the new management which will be important to the continuous success of the company."