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|13 Nov 2010
Prior drive - sharing
Hey all, new here and did some searching but my problem is unique and hope there's a work around.
My prior PC failed about 2 weeks ago. Would not boot. The HD in that PC was partitioned 4X (300 GB Maxtor) with pics and music stored on the partitions but because other family come over and share the PC, I have admin account and guest to where guest doesn't have access to our pics/music etc (folders not shared and protected). I did try a new video card thinking that was it but no luck so I gave up and put together a barebone and just received it this week.
So I pulled the HD from the old PC into the new one (SATA worked) and do get the partitions (E, F and G drives in explorere). I was happy at 1st! Here's the problem. I can't view the files in the unshared folders of the slave even if I am the admin on the new PC. I can open all folders etc but can't save downloads to the drive, open any of my old pics, files etc, only getting basic "you don't have permissions to access this file/information" as if I'm guest on my old PC. I go and try to enable sharing but it does not work (it goes through the process and it shows the admin as having sharing access but when I try - nada). I even tried booting up from the old drive but it flashes "Windows XP" as if going to install then reboots and starts up from new drive Windows 7 (possibly the old HD boot partition was the original problem with the old PC, just a thought).
So my question is how do I access my slave drive partitions that were enabled NOT to share on my prior PC?
I hope this makes sense.
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|13 Nov 2010
This is a common issue when accessing an old drive formatted with NTFS from a new install of windows .
you need to go to the root of the drive (partition), take ownership of the drive, and then set suitable permissions from the new system.
This is especially true since Vista since the dual token system of UAC can exacerbate the issue, but the problem has been present since NT days, it is due to the fact that although the old and new user name may be the same the SID is actually different
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|13 Nov 2010
Okay so I'm not an expert but when I go to allow "full control" for all the users I get an error. This error is E: which happens to be the partition from the deceased.
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|14 Nov 2010
This is, from what I can see, an old system folder, in this case an old local recycle bin, which can be troublesome.
you can normally OK the error and ignore the folder (which should be hidden), once you start using the drive day to day, it should error saying theat the recycle bin on drive x: is corrupt, click to solve the problem....
To force remove this type of folder I have in the past had to resort to the hidden administrator, I think the issue is caused by the actual state of the recycle bin when the old system is stopped and if this is in a state of flux, (especially likely in the case of system crashes).
If you receive this type of error with a data folder OK through and after completion navigate to the folder and repeat the ownership and permissions routine on the sub-tree. Again here you may need to resort to the Hidden administrator account for particularly stubborn areas.
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|14 Nov 2010
So I OK through and there are a couple more of these errors in different 'hidden' folders. How do I become Hidden admin so I can delete some of these. Anyway after giving ownership of the drives folder to all users, the folders are still green text and not being shared...
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|14 Nov 2010
Built-in Administrator Account - Enable or Disable
Once logged in as the hidden administrator set the Ownership of the drive to your user name and let it propagate down the tree
Once this is complete go into the permissions and add full control for the administrators group and your user name. Give full control permissions for the everyone group to those folders that you wish to be available to all users.
The green text reference is confusing me, has there ever been any compression used on this drive?
|My System Specs
|14 Nov 2010
The E: drive partitions on the slave I'm trying to share from my old PC has names of folders/files in green as below indicated it is NOT a shared drive:
Still unclear how to be a "hidden admin"?
|My System Specs
|14 Nov 2010
OK the green colour appears to indicate that the folder and it's contents are encrypted.
This may be re-set by right clicking on the folder clicking the advanced button and unchecking the encrypt this folder to protect contents checkbox.
As for the Hidden administrator follow the instructions in Brinks tutorial - log off and log back on as the Administrator shown in the selection screen
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|14 Nov 2010
Thx. I get this menu when going to properties for the drive. Where is the advanced option?:
Note the "read only" is always checked. I uncheck it and when I go back into options, it's read only again. Does the dark filled square mean it's checked in Windows 7?
Are you referring to the "Built-in Administrator"?
|My System Specs
|14 Nov 2010
The advanced options are the button at the bottom right
You will need to have full control of the drive to actually use the advanced options to reset the encryption state.
The shaded box on the read only attribute is an indicator that some of the files in the tree are read only, this would likely be the system files that you were getting errors on
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Reports are circulating through all major news outlets and social media networks that baseball general managers are talking to each other. Sources indicate that major discussion points include: baseball players, the salaries of said baseball players, the service time and arbitration statuses of said baseball players, potential transactions involving some combination of baseball players and currency between teams, how these baseball players feel—both physically as well as mentally—and also local weather patterns and perfunctory health inquires and whatnot. Oh it's been raining here for the last few days, what about there? and I'm feeling fine, how about yourself? things of that nature. Standard social politeness and all that.


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Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 Preview - Conroe Performance
The New Conroe Processor
UPDATE: We have published a full review of the Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 and now the Core 2 Extreme 6800 (running at 2.93 GHz) on the Intel 975X platform. You can read the complete article by clicking over to here!!!
An Architecture Born for the Spotlight
Since Intel first admitted that their NetBurst architecture in the Pentium 4 line of processors was going to die, the biggest name in Intel's desktop marketing and discussions has been Conroe. Nearly a year ago, Intel unveiled the first bits of information on the new core architecture design that became known as "Core Architecture" during the 2005 Fall IDF conference. In that article, you can see that Intel was already forth-coming with information on the future of Intel processors, even a year or more out from its release.
At the Spring 2006 IDF, Intel was in full Conroe-fronting-force as they unvieled just about all the details of the new processor family. Conroe was to be the codename for the desktop processor lineup, Merom was to be the name of the mobile parts and Woodcrest was to be the server codename. All of these new families of processors are based on the same Core Architecture with some minor changes to perfect them for their corresponding markets.
During the show, I wrote up a detailed look at the new architecture from a CPU architects view, revealing information such as the new wider execution units, 128-bit SSE support and fully integrated smart-cache. If you would like all the details on what makes the Conroe processor such a power house, this article is the place to start.
Not only was Intel willing to share technical details about the architecture, but they were even willing to share some performance numbers as well. This is pretty unusual to get hands-on with parts this early into their production, but Intel was confident in their new product and wanted to put some pressure on AMD's Athlon X2 lineup until Conroe was ready. I was able to get some quick benchmark numbers on a select few tests and share them with you all back on March 10th; not surprisingly they showed the Conroe system with a big performance advantage over the overclocked AMD FX processor used for comparison.
It has been a while since those tests, but while in Taiwan for Computex this month, someone dropped an engineering sample of a Conroe processor in my pocket. After getting home and getting some motherboards in with Conroe support, I set out to test this CPU and see what numbers Intel was preparing for enthusiasts in July.
The Processor
If you didn't know any better, the processor below would appear to be just another LGA775 Pentium processor we have played with numerous times. The fact that the face has been lapped clean should indicate that someone didn't want us to find out where it came from, but regardless, what we have here is an engineering sample of the upcoming Conroe core processor.
Intel has already officially announced the name of the upcoming desktop branding for these processors, the Intel Core 2 Duo processor.
Loading up the latest version of CPU-Z, we see that we have a Conroe processor running at 2.67 GHz, with a model number of Core 2 Duo E6700. According to information circulating around the web, this will be the top speed grade of the Core 2 Duo processors; though there will be a 2.93 GHz Core 2 Duo Extreme Edition CPU released as well.
These processors are built on the 65nm technology that Intel has been ramping up, with a 266 MHz quad-pumped front side bus for a total bus speed of 1066 MHz.
On-board cache on CPU-Z indicated we have the correct 4MB of L2 cache on board this chip as well as the 32KB L1 data and instruction caches.
The memory is running at DDR2-800 MHz or PC2-6400 speeds, with a CAS Latency of 4.0. We'll get into more detail on the test setup on the next page.
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There was a question recently of how the cast on is supposed to look for Stephanie van der Linden's magical Harika socks, and Stephanie was generous enough to send along some photos so knitters can see her innovative treatment in action.
Step 1: Holding the yarn as usual, drop or twist the right hand needle down behind the work.
Step 2: Bring the Right Hand needle under the work and up in front so that there is a twist in your fabric.
Step 3: Knit the next stitches normally, forgiving the gap that will form around the twisted fabric. That gap will disappear as you knit the following row. Have faith: the ribbing makes it all look right again. The result is lovely and inspiring. Stephanie recommends this treatment with a four or five stitch repeat for a sweet edging on mittens and children's sweaters as well.
I know a number of knitters are smitten with the socks in the colours as they appear in the magazine, but are having a challenging time locating solids to coordinate with their self-striping yarn. I have a consolation to offer you: perhaps even more beautiful than the first stained-glass pair she sent to us, Stephanie has an orange version that I have to admit just takes my breath away, orange-loving knitter that I am. Suddenly that ball of Trekking XXL I scored a few years ago has a new purpose. Can't you see bright green or cobalt blues against that white too? I want them so much I have to go cast on now so that I don't fall over. If I don't post (or pass out) in the meantime, have a Happy New Year!


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Introduction to the Screen Innovations Black Diamond Zero Edge Projection Screen
When designing a home theater, the screen is often the last consideration in the plan. After all, it's much more interesting to research electronics and their associated specs than to look through screen material samples and frame designs. Other than size, few of us think much about our choice of screen. And what about aesthetics? Many theater designs hide the screen behind curtains so it isn't even seen until movie time. And then there's the lighting. Not everyone wants to watch movies in total darkness. And if you want to have a few friends over to watch sports, you'll most likely want the lights on.
- Design: Front Projection Screen
- Available Gains: 0.8, 1.4. 2.7
- Available Sizes: Custom Sizes and Aspect Ratios up to 144" Diagonal, 2.35:1
- As tested: Gain 1.4, 80″ W x 45″ H (92″ Diagonal)
- Half-Gain Angle: 550
- Mounting System: Tongue-in-Groove (wall bracket included), 1.5" Stand-off
- MSRP: $3,099 USD (92" Diagonal Size)
- Screen Innovations
- SECRETS Tags: Projection Screens, Screen Innovations, Front Projectors, Projectors
Enter Screen Innovations. SI has always been a company that pushes the envelope with projection screen technology. Their Black Diamond material helped put them on the map by making it possible to use a front projector with the lights on. Now with the Zero Edge, they've created a screen that actually looks great too. Whether in use or not, the Zero Edge is a guaranteed conversation piece and will make any media room look expensive and high-end.
Two years ago, I reviewed a Black Diamond screen and found it very impressive in the area of contrast and image quality with some ambient light. SI is constantly striving to improve their products so I was quite happy to check out their latest effort with the Zero Edge. It also gave me a chance to sample my first rigid one-piece design. Let's break the packing straps and see what we have!
Design and Setup of the Screen Innovations Black Diamond Zero Edge Projection Screen
After arranging this review with Screen Innovations, the first question they asked me was, can you get this screen in your front door? This is not a trivial issue because the Zero Edge is a one-piece panel that does not come apart. I requested a 92-inch diagonal model which matches the size of my reference Carada. Fortunately, I was able to maneuver the enormous box up to my second-floor theater. It's not terribly heavy, just awkward.
The packaging is quite substantial and gives no indication that the screen would arrive in anything but perfect condition. The entire thing is a rigid panel, about a half-inch thick, with the screen material permanently bonded to it. The bezel is a mere quarter-inch wide and consists of a wraparound piece of black crinkle finished metal. On the back is an aluminum bracket, permanently glued on, which is channeled for easy mounting. In fact, it hung right on my existing wall bracket. One caveat – the channel is about a third of the way below the screen's top edge. That means you'll have to lower your mounting point, about 15 inches in my case, to place the screen at the same height.
Once hung, the screen sits off the wall about 1½ inches which makes it look like a giant, high-end flat panel. This combined with the slim bezel makes a very striking statement. The silver color of the screen material only adds to the sexiness of this product. It certainly redefines the projection screen as I know it, at least aesthetically. Another mounting option offered by SI is to hang the screen from the ceiling. This is undoubtedly the reason for the placement of the rear mounting point. That way, it will be perfectly vertical when suspended from cables (see below). To this end, SI can provide some nice machined cable anchors for those choosing this option. If you do this, you might have to cover the back of the Zero Edge since it's essentially unfinished. Another benefit of the wall gap is you can install lighting if you wish. SI has a slick LED system available which can be adjusted to virtually any color and brightness level. It even includes a sophisticated controller for a myriad of effects and patterns.
Of course the main reason to use this screen is Black Diamond projection surface. This material has unique reflective qualities that allow you to preserve a projected image with the lights on. It does this by focusing the image straight back to the viewer rather than scattering light around the room. This approach rejects ambient light which hits the screen from a multitude of angles. Only the light from the projector, the light that is aimed straight at the screen is reflected back to the viewer.
The Screen Innovations Black Diamond Zero Edge Projection Screen In Use
I'll put it out there right up front – the image on the Zero Edge is stunning. The contrast performance is unmatched with any screen material I have ever seen. Granted, I'm using a projector with extremely high contrast but this screen absolutely does increase dynamic range. I was immediately captivated when I turned my projector on and could barely see a black field. My Anthem LTX-500 is dark but with a typical screen, you can tell it's on. With the Black Diamond, I could hardly tell. It took my eyes a few seconds to adjust to the darkness before I could see that the projector was indeed functioning.
The holy grail of front projection, for me at least, is to, as closely as possible, equal the image quality of the best plasma TV. I am fortunate to see that every day when I turn on my ninth-generation Pioneer Kuro, a PRO-111FD. This latest iteration of the Black Diamond screen achieves this. I can truly say this screen looks like a high-end plasma panel. It even looks like a high-end TV when there's no image! The rigid construction and its floating off the wall look make for a very striking appearance.
I started with two unfamiliar Blu-ray titles, Fast Five and The Rite. Fast Five is an action-packed crime caper with lots of bright saturated color and razor-sharp detail. I wondered if dark scenes would give up any detail but they did not. Remember that I did not adjust my projector in any way. Higher contrast screens like this can sometimes skew the gamma curve forcing a change but the shadow detail was well-preserved and I didn't have to make any adjustments to enjoy all my viewing. The rich accurate color I'm accustomed to was also unaffected by the Black Diamond. Hues were even bolder and deeper thanks to the increased dynamic range.
The Rite has lots of dark content which is a challenge for just about any screen/projector combination. I had no issues with this film at any time. Watching a movie like this makes me glad to have a light-tight room. Even though the Black Diamond lets you watch with the lights on, it still works best in total darkness. The color palette of this film is more muted than Fast Five but it never looked flat. Dimensionality was preserved throughout.
Moving on to some of my display review standards, I lined up Toy Story 3, Live Free or Die Hard and I, Robot. Toy Story 3 is a great example of Pixar's fanatical attention to textural detail; something which no other animated film-maker has yet matched. The finest detail popped right out giving the image a real 3D feel. Bright scenes, dark scenes; it didn't matter; no elements were crushed in either the darkest shadows or the brightest highlights. And color was superb of course.
Live Free or Die Hard is one of my favorite tests of contrast performance. Several scenes early in the movie have very intricate shadow detail that only the best displays can render properly. I can say I have never seen a better presentation of this Blu-ray. Blacks were truly black yet even the most subtle elements like folds of clothing or gritty walls in a run-down apartment building looked exquisite.
My final selection, I, Robot, has always been a benchmark for me as one of the very best Blu-ray transfers ever. There are basically no flaws whatsoever in this release and it will make nearly any display look good. In the case of the Black Diamond, it looked sensational. I couldn't help but marvel at the fantastic contrast, depth, and richness of the image. It really was a sight to behold.
Now that I've spent seven paragraphs extolling the wonders of this screen, I have to point out one minute flaw. The last Black Diamond screen I reviewed was in 2009 and at that time, I noticed a texture artifact that looked like fine sparkles in the center of the screen. It could be classified as a hot spot and it seemed to be more visible as the screen gain increased. Knowing that SI constantly works to improve their products, I wondered if they had reduced or eliminated this effect with their latest offering. I am happy to say it is almost gone, but not quite. In the brightest, continuous toned images, I could still see the most subtle sparkling. It's not concentrated in any one area of the screen. It's more of a slight texturing. This is an extremely minor criticism – you have to look pretty hard to see it and it's only in the brightest highlights.
The Screen Innovations Black Diamond Zero Edge Projection Screen On the Bench
In measuring the Zero Edge Black Diamond I wanted to know two things – how close does it come to color neutrality and does it achieve the advertised gain. To do this, I simply measured color and grayscale from my Anthem LTX-500 and compared those numbers to the reference numbers generated by my Carada screen.
First up are the color measurements. I used my usual setup of an EyeOne Pro spectrophotometer taking reflective readings from 10 feet back. You can see the CIE and luminance charts are nearly identical. Only cyan and white dip slightly towards blue. This is similar to the last Black Diamond screen I reviewed in 2009 which was also biased toward blue but to a greater degree. Luminance is also slightly affected but not visibly so.
The grayscale charts tell the rest of the story. You can see that blue and red ride a few percent above green in the tracking graph. The Delta E numbers are high enough that the error was visible but in my viewing I didn't find the slightly cooler color temps to be a big deal. The gamma also affected with a slightly brighter average value. Again, this will be barely visible. Still, any time you change a screen, you should re-calibrate. I would do this no matter what.
As far a screen gain, the peak white measurement of 18.03 foot-Lamberts is within a whisker of the same measurement off the Carada screen which is also rated at 1.4. This tells me that the Black Diamond 1.4 gain material has an actual gain of 1.4. Contrast performance however, is clearly superior to the white screen material used by Carada. The minimum black level was not measurable by my instruments but I could plainly see a zero-percent signal was darker on the SI screen than on the Carada.
Conclusions about the Screen Innovations Black Diamond Zero Edge Projection Screen
There is no question that SI takes the word innovation very seriously. They have created their own category of projection screen without any gimmickry or pretense. The Black Diamond Zero Edge offers seriously good performance and is easily the best-looking front projection screen I've seen to date. The $3099 price tag is right around similarly-sized products from other high-end manufacturers like Stewart and Da-Lite. Ease of installation can't be beat either. You just unpack it and hang it up like a picture. The look is truly stunning and the image quality is too. Add to that the ability to turn the lights on and still enjoy the presentation and you have real winner. The SI Black Diamond Zero Edge receives my highest recommendation.


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January 2014
Analyzing price movements within the Producer Price Index Final Demand–Intermediate Demand aggregation system
Since the late 1970s, the Producer Price Index (PPI) has employed the Stage of Processing (SOP) system as its main publication structure. The SOP system is composed of price indexes for goods (1) sold to households, (2) as capital investment, and (3) as business inputs. The Final Demand–Intermediate Demand (FD–ID) aggregation system was introduced on an experimental basis in January 2011 and will become the PPI's main publication structure in early 2014. The FD–ID aggregation system includes price indexes for goods, services, and nonresidential construction sold to final demand (households, government, exports, and capital investment) and to intermediate demand (business inputs). This article presents and analyzes limited historical data on the basis of the FD–ID system. As background to this analysis, the article reviews economic and commodity price trends from November 2009 through June 2012, the period for which the new aggregate data are investigated. The article then analyzes historical price movements for the final-demand indexes and the intermediate-demand-by-commodity-type portion of the system, provides a description of the intermediate-demand-by-production flow treatment, and examines price transmission within the production flow portion of the system.
Since the late 1970s, the Producer Price Index (PPI) has employed the Stage of Processing (SOP) system as its primary form of data analysis. The SOP system is composed of price indexes for goods and organizes these data by type of buyer and level of fabrication. Goods destined for households or capital investment fall under the finished goods SOP, while processed and unprocessed goods for business demand (excluding capital investment goods) fall under the categories for intermediate materials, supplies, and components or crude materials for further processing. Domestic production for government purchases and domestic production for export and are excluded from the SOP system.1
Over time, the PPI has expanded to include coverage of the majority of the services sectors of the United States economy and a portion of the construction sector. PPI coverage now includes indexes for trade services, distribution and warehousing services, and other service areas, such as professional services, insurance and annuities, banking, and health care, as well as indexes for selected nonresidential construction and maintenance and repair. PPI currently covers approximately 72 percent of services and 34 percent of construction as measured by 2007 Census revenue.2 As a result of this expansion, the PPI plans to enhance its primary aggregation system for data analysis. The restructured system, named the Final Demand–Intermediate Demand (FD–ID) system, was introduced on an experimental basis with the PPI release of data for January 2011. At that time, the majority of indexes from the FD–ID system were published with historical data beginning in November 2009. The new system combines data on services sold to households, exports of goods and services, nonresidential construction, and government purchases of goods and services with data on finished goods to provide coverage of final-demand inflation. The PPI program also has developed two treatments tracking price movements for intermediate-demand goods and services. One treatment replicates the current SOP system by tracking changes in selling prices for processed and unprocessed goods to intermediate demand, but adds categories for services and construction to intermediate demand. A second treatment breaks down intermediate demand using a production flow approach, separating intermediate demand into four stages.3 The shift from the SOP system to the FD–ID system with the release of data for January 2014 in February 2014 will greatly expand PPI coverage as a percentage of the U.S. economy. Currently, using relative importance figures, the final-demand index represents a fourfold increase in coverage compared with the finished goods index, while the expanded treatment of intermediate demand provides for roughly a doubling in coverage of the U.S. economy.4
This article presents and analyzes limited historical data from the new aggregation system. (An earlier article provided a detailed explanation of the methodology used to develop the new aggregation system, as well as a more detailed description of its structure.5) Data for this analysis are not seasonally adjusted. As a background to analysis of the new aggregate indexes, the article includes a section that presents economic and commodity price trends from November 2009 through June 2012, the period for which the new aggregate data are analyzed. The paper also includes sections that analyze historical data for the final-demand, intermediate-demand-by-commodity-type, and intermediate-demand-by-production-flow portions of the new system. This is followed by concluding remarks.
1 For more information on the SOP system and how PPI calculates SOP indexes, see http://www.bls.gov/ppi/ppisopallo.htm.
2 Important areas not included in the PPI are education, residential rent, and residential construction.
3 All PPI aggregate indexes, including the SOP indexes and FD–ID indexes, are constructed from producers' output prices. In both the SOP system and FD–ID system presented in this article, commodity prices are aggregated according to the type of buyer, and producer output prices are used as a proxy for actual prices paid by the buyer. In many cases, the same commodity is purchased by different types of buyers and is therefore included in more than one aggregate index. In these cases, the same PPI commodity index often is used in all aggregations. For example, regular gasoline is purchased for personal consumption, export, government use, and business use. The PPI program publishes only one commodity index for regular gasoline (wpu057104), and this index is used in all aggregations regardless of whether the gasoline is sold for personal consumption, as an export, to government, or to businesses.
4 As of December 2011, the relative importance of finished goods as a percentage of final demand was 23.952 percent. Within intermediate demand on a gross-weighted basis, services slightly outweighed the combined weight of processed and unprocessed goods as of December 2011. On a net-forward-flow basis, the production flow system of intermediate demand allocated services inputs to intermediate-demand stages as follows: stage 4, 48.082 percent; stage 3, 44.584 percent; stage 2, 41.155 percent, and stage 1, 40.353 percent.
5 See "A new, experimental system of indexes from the PPI program, Monthly Labor Review (February 2011), http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2011/02/art1full.pdf.


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One Piece - Chapter 695 [manga]
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Hey guys, it's time to kick off the new year with a new chapter thread! Credit goes to the usual guys at AP for the spoilers:
-Chapter title is "Leave it to me". The ministory involves Caribou receiving travel directions from the old lady (who seems unaware of the recent theft).
-Franky is still battling Dofla's minions, and is overpowering them. In fact, it reaches the point that they both try to escape, but it's at this time that Luffy and Law's group return.
-Law is prepared to catch the enemy duo, but Luffy says to let his crew handle it instead. Nami and Usopp then combine their abilities to catch the enemy pirates, using storm clouds and Usopp's plants. The combo is successful in capturing B5 and Buffalo, and with Caesar present, the Straw-Heart alliance has neutralized all of their current enemies!
-However, it would seem that Doflamingo isn't the only person making a journey to Punk Hazard: A new mystery person is shown in the middle of the sea at the end of the chapter.......
Well, this is an interesting way to kick off the new year. We get to see the Straw-Hats prove their strength even further, and yet another mystery man pops up at the chapter's end! I'm not gonna bother speculating that he's a preexisting character, though. I mean, we still don't know whether he's friend or foe yet.
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Mysterious person= Sabo .
Look at the hat .
P.S. Before every one says green book, Oda has been asked about Sabo and he didn't confirm it ( something like, I will leave it to viewers to decide).
P.S.S. He is there to save Luffy and the co from DD
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Also,i don't think it's Sabo,it looks more like Mihawk's style to travel this way,but probably not him either.
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I don't think even the Yonkou's should be able to beat the entire Strawhat crew on their own. I mean what's the use of the time skip if the entire crew can be overrun by a mere shichibukai even though they prepared for admiral and yonkou level opponents.
But damn what a Superrrrrr chapturrrrr. The general isn't just for show.
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I'm pretty sure thats Mihawk.
There's a connection between him and Doflamingo and you can see his sword in the silhouette.
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How about instead of focusing on the new guy we know nothing about (and immediately start saying it's Sabo like people do with every obscured character that shows up) we focus instead on how awesome the Strawhats were this chapter?
Franky was just overwhelming, even against two of Donfla's crewmembers, which is actually surprising. I expected him to beat one, or at least have a very hard time beating both but I never expected him to just bash them around so easily. It was awesome how he adapted the Gaon Cannon, a cannon that can propel a large ship through the air through a long distance, into his Shogun effectively making it into a deadly weapon.
The guys vs the girls reactions to the Shogun was a priceless moment for me xD
Both Nami and Usopp's cowardice reached the peak, though they did display their skill really well.
Nami's attack looked strong but it didn't have much going on for it in terms of being cool for me. Yea, she made a large thundercloud and redirected lightning, it looks and is strong but it's still just a large cloud throwing down lightning at the enemy. If only she gave some sort of special shape to the cloud or something, that would be neat.
Usopp on the other hand had a very fun display this chapter. The fact that his weapon seems to also be a plant was surprising (Gonna miss the dials but still) and that it can eat and shoot out everything in one go was really cool (I just wonder where the seastone cuffs came from but still...cool). I'm really loving Usopp's use of plants.
But the highlight of the chapter (barely passing by the everyone's reactions to Shogun) was simply the rape face everyone put on when Law said they were enemies just...just look at it!
Tell me everyone doesn't look awesome in this once panel?
Overall great start to 2013, never would have expected that the new One Piece year would start with Franky, Nami and Usopp being badasses xD
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Im pretty sure that mysterious figure is one of the good guys. So in that case either some wanderer with his own story or more likely a Revolutionary.
There is already enough trouble as it is with bad guys as Flamingo is about to land on island. Plus no matter how hard they try they cant slay Flamingo right now.
We dont even know his actual DF abilities nor name. It would be a VERY non-flashy way to end this Shichbukai right now on this island that nobody knows.
Also so many crazy motives for him to move forward. But I guess that moment is upon us in next 3-4 chapters.
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Franky is just so awesome!!! He said the General Cannon was the 1000 sunny's ultimate weapon, so is the Shogun the 1000 sunny transformed? Or do they have both the ship and the robot? I'm not sure which would be cooler, two sets of General Cannons or a ship that can transform....
Couldn't Nami just make a localized rain and paralyze the DF users? I guess lightening is cooler but it's nothing we haven't seen before.
Usopp with his wonder plants. Is there anything they can't do? And why only enemies with their backs turned? With his bag of tricks I think he could take on guys head on, especially if he can launch sea stones.
The new guy: oversleeping sounds like a trait from someone familar.... But the only one that comes to mind is Ace and he's dead. I was thinking Mihawk too as his first appearance was also sleeping and drifting into a battle.
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's Mihawk, as well. He is known for riding the oceans on ridiculously small boats.^^ I guess Oda wants to deal with the Shichibukai now and remove that sense of untouchability from them, before he moves on to even bigger guys. I just don't see what Mihawk would want to do on Punk Hazard.
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The mystery person could be jimbei....you guys forget about the new straw hat crew member? he id say he would join them asap, this seems like a perfect time to do so but he isn't one for napping and he wouldn't need to float in the ocean just swim...so I'm not sure. Would be excellent if its hawk eyes.
This is an amazing chapter to kick off 2013, frank, nami and ussop owned this chapter. The Shogun is amazing even if the girls don't think so.....baka.
Is there only doflamingo left to defeat in his crew then? surely there must be more to his crew than those already defeated by Law, Smoker and the straw hats?
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Mixed feelings about Usopp and Nami showing off... Sure, those were some impressive attacks but why stress the fact that they're brave in the face of running foes?
Loved the triple stare (Nami, Robin, Tashigi) in response to the robot reactions.
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See, I was 100% correct in my assessment that Baby 5 and Buffalo are considerably weaker than Vergo. Franky alone, who is in the middle trio of the strawhats, was enough to overwhelm this duo, whereas monster trio caliber fighters struggled against the vice admiral.
Anyways, I'm really intrigued as to who this mystery guy is.
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Ph.D research conducted at the Bodega Marine Laboratory
My studies are concerned with the role of hormones in regulating physiological processes in decapod Crustacea (crabs and lobsters). Hormones are chemical mediators that regulate physiological processes such as growth, reproduction, and osmoregulation. I am interested in the mechanism by which hormones such as ecdysteroids, methyl farnesoate, and molt-inhibiting hormone regulate growth and reproduction in decapod crustaceans. The majority of crustaceans that I study are commercially important crabs. These include Dungeness crab, Cancer magister, snow crab, Chionoecetes opilio, and king crab, Paralithodes camtschaticus.
Ecdysteroids are crustacean hormones that function to regulate the molt cycle and therefore the growth of these animals. Methyl farnesoate is a sesquiterpenoid hormone derived from the mandibular organ that functions in both reproduction and growth. Methyl farnesoate also may be critical during crustacean larval development and morphogenesis. Methyl farnesoate is structurally similar to the insect juvenile hormones, which regulate insect development.
Other studies related to crustacean physiology involve the effect of endogenous crustacean hormones on ectoparasites. Specifically, I have an interest in how hormones (ecdysteroids, methyl farnesoate) can be exploited by certain parasites. The model for these studies is the infection of the Dungeness crab, Cancer magister by the nemertean worm, Carcinonemertes errans.
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My general interests are in evolution, ecology, and conservation biology. My focus is on understanding the evolutionary and ecological dynamics of natural populations using demographic and genetic models, molecular genetic data, and field data. I have long-standing interest in combining population genomics and demographic information to infer important evolutionary and demographic parameters for wild populations. More recently, my post-docs and I have focused upon the role of phenotypic plasticity in adaptation.
I have used models based on likelihood and approximate Bayesian computation to infer demographic vital rates or effective population size with the goal of providing useful results and tools for conservation and evolutionary biology. As an example, some collaborators and I have recently developed an approach to infer effective size of a population using a single sample of microsatellite data and approximate Bayesian computation.
We focus on a number of different taxa in my lab, with current work on a handful of terrestrial and marine vertebrates and invertebrates, including: coastrange sculpins, giant Pacific octopus, red king crab, spruce grouse, file dogwinkles, ringed seals and boreal toads. I enjoy working with students who are highly-motivated, broadly interested in evolution and conservation, and focused on understanding population-level process using descriptive and manipulative approaches. Prospective grad students should read more here.Curriculum vitae
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How does natural selection maintain phenotypic variation within marine species? What role do ecological interactions like predation and competition play? My research interests are broadly concerned with these questions. More specifically, I investigate (1) how ecological interactions in the ocean orchestrate relationships between form, function, and fitness, (2) the ecofunctional implications of bilateral asymmetries, and (3) the impact glacial melt-water has on estuarine fish communities. I explore these topics with a variety of techniques, including morphometrics and behavioral observations, field experiments, multivariate statistics, stable isotope analyses, and experimental assessment of fitness.
I currently have two main research projects underway. The first of these is the evolution of body asymmetry in flatfish. Flatfish exhibit remarkably derived body morphology. They undergo metamorphosis as pelagic larvae, where one eye migrates over the dorsal midline so that both eyes are on the same side of the head, and they lie on the ocean floor, eyed-side facing up. While the vast majority of the 715 flatfish species contain all left-eyed or all right-eyed individuals, 7 species contain both morphs. To date, we don't have a good understanding of the evolutionary trajectory flatfish took to become asymmetric, or the significance of asymmetry direction. One polymorphic species, the starry flounder, exhibits a cline in the north Pacific in the relative frequency of left- vs. right-eyed individuals, and the two morphs show evidence of ecological segregation. It is one of the first demonstrations of the ecological significance of polymorphism in a marine species, and contributes to our understanding how asymmetry evolved across the flatfish order.
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The biological communities along most of the rocky shores of Alaska are defined by the marine plant associations. A major portion of the primary production throughout the year is provided by the benthic plants in the nearshore. These communities are often disturbed not only by natural phenomena, such as winter storms and ice, but also by anthropogenic disturbances such as harvesting and pollution.
My research has concentrated in both basic and applied aspects of the biology and ecology of marine benthic plants and on the effects of disturbances on this community. My associates and I have investigated the effects of harvest and pollution on the intertidal and subtidal seaweeds. We have also developed techniques fore using remote sensing to map floating kelp beds in SE Alaska.
We have conducted applied research on the commercial exploitation of seaweeds. In addition to performing seaweed resource assessments for potential commercial harvest, we have investigated the potential of mariculture as a means to enhance exploited algal resources. There are many organisms that can be cultured which have potential to be developed as a high value product. Among these are seaweeds such as Macrocystis(giant kelp), Nereocystis (bull kelp) and Porphyra (nori). My lab has worked out the procedures for the successful mariculture of the kelps Macrocystis. Alaria,andSaccharina. We have researched the physiological ecology of Porphyra as it relates to its culture. This plant can be marketed both as nori for the sushi and health food market and as black seaweed for the Native community. Our latest project is investigating applied aspects of the mariculture of Saccharina latissima (sugar kelp). I am also involved in kelp ecology and mariculture studies in South Africa in cooperation with colleagues at the University of Cape Town.
Other "non seaweed" projects have involved the effects of pollution on salmon and herring. We completed research on the potential impacts of mining activities on the nearshore benthos, and have investigated the effects of common ions (hard water) from mine wastewater on the growth and development of coho salmon. Other projects have been research on delayed effects of oil exposure on zebra fish as a model for salmonid exposure and the toxicity of creosote pilings to the development of herring embyros.
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Ph.D., Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 2008
Go here to learn about my marine mammal research lab, BREACH, and read the latest updates from the field.
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Research interests include prenatal programming metabolic and reproductive disorders, programming of the stress axis, neuroendocrine regulation of reproductive behavior and fertility, and the physiology/epidemiology of gestational weight gain in humans. I am interested in the physiological consequences that environmental disruption during important developmental stages can have on adult health. In particular, I am interested in how the hypothalamus is programmed during its development.
Abbott DH, Bruns CR, Barnett DK, Dunaif A, Dumesic DA, Tarantal AF (2010) Experimentally-induced gestational androgen excess disrupts glucoregulation and stimulates growth in fetal and neonatal female rhesus monkeys J Clin Endocrinol Metab 95:2038-2049
Dumesic DA, Patankar MS, Barnett DK, Lesnick TG, Hutcherson BA, Abbott DH. (2009) Early prenatal androgenization results in diminished ovarian reserve in adult female rhesus monkeys. Hum Reprod 2009.
Abbott DH, Barnett DK, Levine JE, Padmanabhan V, Dumesic DA, Jacoris S, Tarantal AF. (2008) Endocrine antecedents of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) in fetal and infant prenatally androgenized female rhesus monkeys. Biol Reprod Jul; 79(1):154-63.
Barnett DK, Bunnell, TM, Millar RP and Abbott DH. (2006) Gonadotropin-releasing hormone II stimulates female sexual behavior in marmoset monkeys. Endocrinol 147(1):615-23.
Abbott DH, Bruns CM, Barnett DK, Dumesic DA (2006) Fetal programming of polycystic ovary syndrome. In: Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, 2nd Edition. W.G. Kovacs and R.L. Norman (eds). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 262-287.
Abbott DH, Barnett DK, Bruns CM, Dumesic DA. (2005) Androgen excess fetal programming of female reproduction: a developmental aetiology for polycystic ovary syndrome? Hum Reprod Update 11(4):357-74. Review.
Abbott DH, Fong SC, Barnett DK, Dumesic DA (2004) Nonhuman primates contribute unique understanding to anovulatory infertility in women. ILAR 45(2):116-131.
Barnett DK, and Abbott DH. (2003) Reproductive adaptations to a large-brained fetus open a vulnerability to anovulation similar to polycystic ovary syndrome. Am J Hum Bio 15:296-319.
Abbott DH, Barnett DK, Colman RJ and Schultz-Darken NJ. (2003) Aspects of basic biology and life history of common marmosets important for biomedical research. J Comp Med 53:339-350.
Barnett DK, Kimura J, Clayton MK and Bavister BD. (1997) Glucose and phosphate toxicity in hamster preimplantation embryos involves disruption of cellular organization, including distribution of active mitochondria. Molec Reprod Dev 48:1-11.
Barnett DK and Bavister BD. (1996) Inhibitory effect of glucose and phosphate on the second cleavage division of hamster embryos: is it linked to metabolism? Human Reprod 11:177-183.
Barnett DK, Kimura J, Bavister BD. (1996) Translocation of active mitochondria during hamster preimplantation embryo development studied by confocal laser scanning microscopy. Dev Dynamics 205, 64-72.
Barnett DK and Bavister BD. (1996) What is the relationship between metabolism of preimplantation embryos and their developmental competence in vitro. Molec Reprod Dev 43, 105-143.
Barnett DK and Bavister BD. (1992) Hypotaurine requirement for in vitro development of golden hamster one-cell embryos into morulae and blastocysts, and production of term offspring from in vitro fertilized ova. Biol Reprod 47, 297-304.
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M.S. Biology University of St. Joseph (Focus: Human Biology) 2008
Special Recognition:
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BIOL 111 Human Anatomy & Physiology I
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Microbiology, Natural History of Alaska, Intertidal Biology, General Biology, Biology & Society,
I'm originally from Northern California and lived in Bethel and Skagway before moving to Sitka in 1992. I enjoy helping students build a firm foundation in the topic that will serve them well in their careers. I am active in the Human Anatomy and Physiology Society (HAPS). As part of HAPS I helped develop standards for undergraduate human anatomy and physiology courses taught in the US and Canada. I am committed to quality eLearning opportunities and developed and delivered the first distance science courses offered by UAS. As Sitka's lab director I currently help oversee the lab support portion of UAS Sitka Distance Science courses which have grown to involve multiple faculty members and currently serve over 200 students each semester. I believe it is important to give back to my community by doing what I can to enrich science literacy, assist in community-based scientific research, and help create science-related opportunities for everyone, especially K-12 students.
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I am particularly interested in the ecology and functional anatomy of intertidal organisms, especially with respect to predator-prey relationships. I am also very involved in marine invasive issues and research, particularly with respect to invasive tunicates. I am a member of the Alaska Marine Invasive Species subcommittee and the Didemnum vexillum Rapid Response Team.
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Anne Arundel Community College president Dawn Lindsay puts her money on empowering people
At Anne Arundel Community College, where two out of three students are women, women's history is a forward-heading story. Dawn Lindsay continues a two-decade tradition of female leadership, following Martha Smith, who served 18 years as college president.
Lindsay took over in August, 2012, leaving Glendale Community College in California, where she was also president, for "the place I'd had my eye on for some time, an amazing college with a great national reputation."
Back then, with the economy going nowhere fast, Anne Arundel Community College was near an all-time high, with 17,649 students, measured in full-time equivalent terms.
Colleges roll with the economy's punches. The better the economy, the lower enrollment. By last fall, Anne Arundel's enrollment was down seven percent to 16,463.
What's a president to do? Look to where jobs are needed.
One of Anne Arundel Community College's growth engines is Maryland Live! The new dealer school has trained, graduated and placed more than 600 dealers since table gaming began last April. Salaries there, Lindsay told me, can reach $50,000 to $60,000.
Community colleges make education open, accessible, affordable and, often, exciting. They're also a path to a livable income. The average Anne Arundel occupational program graduate was earning $40,574 in three years, according to a 2011 report. That was up from $19,479 a year before graduation.
For Women's History Month, I chatted with President Lindsay about success, her college and its role in the community.
Bay Weekly As a college president, what do you do?
Dawn Lindsay I protect the external boundaries of the college. My job is to make sure the experts inside have the resources and the connections they need to do a better job. They tell me what they need. I don't tell them what to do.
Bay Weekly While you're protecting the boundaries, what's going on inside?
Dawn Lindsay We empower people. We empower people to be successful, independent, to have options and opportunities. We empower lifelong learning. We empower people to get degrees. We empower personal development.
One of the reasons for my passion for community college is that our mission is so broad. My 25-year-old son, James, graduated from community college, and my 90-year-old father takes classes at Anne Arundel.
With kids' camp, dual enrollment programs with high schools, partnerships with business, articulation agreements with four-year colleges, lifelong learning and much more, we educate people from the time they're little to their senior years.
Bay Weekly One of your odder study programs is casino training …
Dawn Lindsay Most people would never assume a community college and a casino would be related. But there was a need. Rob Norton, general manager of Maryland Live!, needed to get people trained. For us, that was a workforce opportunity. It took us going into the casino to find out what their training needs were. We took our training to Arundel Mills where the casino is located. We have four dedicated labs for dealer training, including one for blackjack and another for poker.
Matching our hospitality program with gaming has been an incredibly winning partnership. Maryland Live! won an award as Business Partner of the Year through the Maryland Higher Education program.
Now we're expanding to the old Marley Station Mall to meet the demand for training. We're going to be the new tenant, so we're a force in community redevelopment, too.
Bay Weekly How has that deal worked out for your students?
Dawn Lindsay We had 625 students begin in contract training to open the table games at Maryland Live! We've added 100 since and many more to come.
In about 600 hours, in a semester, people could go from being unhappy or unemployed or under-employed to a position of about $50,000 or $60,000 a year.
Bay Weekly Still, you probably don't want us to think of Anne Arundel Community College as Maryland's college for card dealers …
Dawn Lindsay We go from casino training, to cybersecurity partnerships with the military and defense contractors, to hospitality, to business, to paralegal, to dental, to nursing, to transfer, to continuing education. It's huge what we do.
A lot of what I do is going out in the community to find out what's needed, then going back to campus to find what resources we have that can be the answer — or if we need to go to the local experts — to make it happen. We pride ourselves on being incredibly responsive to the business community. If we don't do it and somebody needs it, we'll make it happen.
Bay Weekly How much of your training leads to jobs?
Dawn Lindsay Greater than 50 percent, because we help people attain jobs not only through our credit program. Noncredit, where people are learning specific skill sets, is half if not more of our enrollment. Slightly more than 20 percent of our students are 18- to 21-year-olds coming in to transfer. Our average student age is 28.
Bay Weekly As college president, you've got a job with relatively few peers. You're one of 55 presidents of Maryland colleges and universities, 16 if we narrow the field to community colleges. How did you go about getting a job so rare — and presumably hard to get?
Dawn Lindsay Community colleges hire discipline experts. As an experienced therapist in a Howard County police program that had a lot of success with young first offenders, I was courted to work with the community and teach counseling skills at Dundalk Community College.
Bay Weekly Sounds like your path wound upward, propelled by education, experience, hard work, multiplying opportunities and good contacts. How do you translate your experience for other job seekers?
Dawn Lindsay Take jobs nobody else wants and be successful at them. I took the jobs I knew were important to the institution. I believe we have personal responsibility to make ourselves valuable to the institution we're working for.
Be humble enough to realize that if you want to move ahead in life, it requires listening, being respectful, understanding what other people do, building consensus, collaborating in teams.
You're only as good as the people you're working with. So if you're part of a winning team, you've got a great opportunity to be successful.
Bay Weekly How do you avoid dead-ending in a job nobody else wants?
Dawn Lindsay Sometimes people don't know their options; they don't know what's available. I think this is where mentoring and networking come in.
I believe there's always a way to get where you want to be — depending on what you're willing to sacrifice and what you're willing to do to make it happen. Believe in yourself, and if you know where you want to go, find someone doing it and ask how they got there.
Bay Weekly Tell us about a time that approach worked for you.
Dawn Lindsay I fell in love and moved to California, where nobody knew me. It was a huge state. Not sure where to take my career — law school, nursing? — I zoomed in on wanting to be in education and at a community college. I applied for a staff position in a community college's reentry center for women who were re-careering, as I had just done. From there, I was invited to apply for a tenure-track faculty position.
Bay Weekly And from there?
Dawn Lindsay I decided I wanted to be a college president, and I knew that would take getting a doctorate. I earned mine at Pepperdine University in organizational leadership. I learned a servitude style of leadership, where basically the higher you go in an institution, the lower you go because the more people you serve.
I was hired to be a dean; then my career just kind of took off, from vice president to executive vice president to interim president to president. Anne Arundel Community College was the next step. It's the college I wanted to come to, and it was the only position I applied for.
Bay Weekly You've made your way very successfully. What's your advice to people seeking their own way?
Dawn Lindsay Come to Anne Arundel Community College. We've got a variety of programs that can help you reach your educational and workforce goals. We're here to help you succeed and empower you to move forward.


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Syneos Health is searching for a results oriented and collaborative sales professional with a proven track record of success. The ideal candidate will have deep experience working with a wide range of customers to promote and support a complex therapeutic delivery system.
Along with executing all sales promotional activity in their geography, they will have a key role in leading, developing, and executing the territory sales strategy; analyzing key business drivers and trends; building effective cross-functional and cross-regional partnerships; and ensuring execution of their business plan. This position requires adaptability and the capacity to find success through ambiguity, problem solving and project management in an innovative manner with a willingness to take appropriate risks.
Roles and Responsibilities
Promotes a customer-centered culture that strives to exceed customer needs, requirements, and expectations by educating and developing rapport with external customers.
Demonstrates thorough understanding of disease state and treatment options and their impact on patients, payers, institutions, health systems and healthcare providers.
Analyzes the market to understand the local healthcare environment (reimbursement, coverage, healthcare delivery models, transitions in care and patient pathways) and uses this knowledge to identify and leverage business opportunities.
Development and execution of territory sales business plans that are aligned with meeting corporate and commercial business objectives.
Deliver business results ensuring all sales promotional activities are fully compliant with Company policies and Legal and Regulatory guidelines.
Collaborates with matrix teams (KAMs, Market Access, Trade, Marketing, etc.) to execute on strategies and pull through.
Ability to think critically to navigate complexities in patient care pathways and sites of care.
Problem solver and willingness to take appropriate risk in order to seek solutions.
Job Requirements
Experience and Skills
Must thrive working in a fast-paced, innovative environment and have excellent interpersonal skills. The ability to develop important relationships with key stakeholders and have good conflict management skills is crucial to this role. Demonstrated ability to translate strategy into action; excellent analytical skills, ability to lead without authority, and communicate complex issues in a simple way and to orchestrate plans to resolve issues and mitigate risks.
BA/BS degree required.
A minimum of 5 years of experience in Pharmaceutical sales environment.
A minimum of 2 years of experience in specialty sales.
Experience in calling on OBGYN or CSN physicians is preferred.
Consistent track record of top sales performance.
Local market knowledge.
Ability to create territory plans to engage customers in areas of mutual interest; aligns internal stakeholders on plans of action and coordinates account and company resources to execute.
Strong team player that has a customer service approach and is solution oriented.
Attention to detail and the ability to work individually, within a multi-disciplinary team, as well as with external partners and vendors.
Possesses strong written and verbal communication skills.
Syneos Health companies are affirmative action/equal opportunity employers (Minorities/Females/Vets/Disabled)
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Key West Vandenburg dive
Posted 04 April 2012 - 09:09 AM
The wreck was great! We were lucky with no current, but visibility was a little limited... about 40-50 feet.
Unfortunately, we chose the wrong dive shop for our purposes. For good or bad, we are used to making our own way through wrecks unless we penetrate, which we didn't want to do this time. We dive the wrecks in the Keys all the time and certainly don't need a guide.
Dive Key West is going to make sure that their liability insurance remains virginal. Diving with a guide was absolutely mandatory. If you became separated from the guide, they would go into "missing diver" protocol and would abort the dive for everyone. So to you photogs, NO LOITERING! You had to keep up with the group, which was from 4-6 divers per guide. You had to have a snorkel ( we borrowed them from a guide). You could not go below 100'. Lots of rules to follow!
We knew we weren't going to keep up with a large group, so we paid an extra $100 for a personal guide. We told him he was now our model. Nice guy, he took it well. The point at which annoyance turned to infuriation was when we found out that the dives were limited to 20 minutes bottom time, no exceptions. We could deal with the rest of the rules, but this was a show-stopper. My computer showed another 19 and 15 minutes left before deco on both dives before ascending, and I came up with 1800 lbs of air. It was a pretty expensive trip for just 40 minutes of bottom time.
My conclusion: if you are a new diver or a nervous diver or a not too bright diver, you might appreciate the anal handling of Dive Key West. However if you are an experienced diver and photographer, you may want to look at the other dive operators. We sure will the next time we visit the Vandenburg.
Nikon D800, Subal, Sea&Sea D1's
Posted 04 April 2012 - 09:55 AM
Posted 04 April 2012 - 12:32 PM
Paid for a dive trip .. got put on a boat with 8 snorkellers including 2 under 8 year olds, was promised we would be doing two proper dives.
We went to two 25ft max not very good sites. Perfect for snorkellers.
Complained when we got back, they had vouchers out on the side waiting for us. We gave the vouchers away as we didn't want to even bother again.
Oh and nice photo of the wreck!
Posted 04 April 2012 - 06:23 PM
Thanks for adding your comments regarding places to avoid. Considering diving that area later in the yr and will use your advice.
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Nauticam D7000, Inon Z-240's, 60 micro, 105 micro, Tokina 10-17
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Posted 27 August 2012 - 07:11 AM
Some type of index for positive dive shop feedback and negative shop feedback might be useful for this site. Rather turns it into a diveadvisor type of arrangement. Many of us have had great trips...many terrible service. So far, search and read is the only way I know of to sort it out.
Thanks for adding your comments regarding places to avoid. Considering diving that area later in the yr and will use your advice.
Man, i would so agree! Something like undercurrent offers, but an index to look up all reviews. Undercurrent has saved me from several bad operators...


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It�s been 30 years since members of this community promised not to forget those killed in the Oct. 23, 1983, Beirut bombing, and one area group continues its mission to honor those lost.
It�s been 30 years since members of this community promised not to forget those killed in the Oct. 23, 1983, Beirut bombing, and one area group continues its mission to honor those lost.
The Beirut Memorial Advisory Board has been meeting regularly since August to plan this year�s ceremony. The annual service helps community members, veterans and family members of the fallen to mark the solemn day that claimed 241 service members, mostly Marines and sailors from Camp Lejeune, who were sleeping in their barracks.
�There was no one in this community of Jacksonville that didn�t feel some kind of pain when it happened,� said board chairman Abe Rosen. �We knew the people, an awful lot of the people. Our kids went to school with their kids, they went to our churches. It was just a terrific shock to Jacksonville and Onslow County.�
Rosen told The Daily News that in early 1986 a task force of area business leaders was formed to have a memorial built by Oct. 23 that year, the third anniversary of the attack. Rosen was a member of that original Beirut Memorial Task Force, which oversaw fundraising for and the construction of the memorial that stands today in the Lejeune Memorial Gardens.
They raised the needed $250,000 in a little more than four months.
�We were fortunate enough to raise the money because the base said that we could not start the project unless we had all the money in the bank. So we went from there,� Rosen said.
Rosen said that when he first got involved with the task force he felt that it was his responsibility to do so, so he handed the reins to his business, The Housing and Insurance Center, to his wife for a year so he had the time needed.
�Once we got it completed, I didn�t want to walk away. It was very, very important to the community as well as the base,� he said.
The seven-member board starts meeting in August to plan each year�s ceremony, including who to invite as a guest speaker, coordinating the ceremony and dividing the tasks among the board members, according to Fernando Schiefelbein, the board�s military liaison. Ron Bower, Mike Ellzey, Woody Myers, Wayne Morris and Reinhild Huneycutt round out the board.
The board also determines who lays the wreaths that symbolize the connection between the military and civilian communities in Jacksonville, the men lost in Beirut and Grenada, and in commemoration for the lives of local troops killed in training accidents, Schiefelbein said.
�We�ve done it for so many years now that once you get the meat and the potatoes of the event, of who�s going to be participating, then everyone kind of gets on automatic pilot,� he said.
Part of this year�s ceremony will be the official announcement of plans to build the Beirut Memorial Grove in partnership with the City of Jacksonville.
In March 1984, Bradford pear trees were planted along N.C. 24 to honor the troops killed in Beirut. But over the years, some of the trees have been removed because of construction, damaged or died. The grove was conceived as a permanent place to house a sturdier stock of tree that should be in bloom at the time of the anniversary. The living monument will soon consist of a grove of 273 autumn flowering cherry trees on 16 acres at the intersection of U.S. 17, N.C. 24 and Wilmington Highway across from Camp Geiger.
Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Transportation Tony Tata will officially announce the plans during this year�s memorial ceremony.
This year�s guests include Gen. James Amos, commandant of the Marine Corps; Retired Col. Tim Geraghty, who was the 24th Marine Amphibious Unit commander at the time of the bombing; Brig. Gen. Robert Castellvi, commander of Marine Corps Installations East; and Col. Timothy Salmon, commanding officer of New River Air Station.
Schiefelbein said that the members of the board, which he�s been a part of for eight years, are devoted and dedicated to their cause.
�All those folks that have been there since the beginning, it took a lot to get this off the ground,� he said. �These folks went through all the paperwork that needed to be done to obtain the monies to make this memorial happen, of donations from all businesses and all the fundraising and the base at that time gave the advisory board I think it was 4.5 acres to create or build the memorial, so that�s why it�s government property but open to the public ... It�s near and dear to their hearts, it�s become their mission. It�s something you just don�t give up.�
The remembrance ceremony is a benefit to both Jacksonville and Camp Lejeune, according to Rosen.
�It�s something that we promised from the start that we would not forget,� he said. �We still have an awful lot of people who come out, I�m talking about veterans and family members who lost members in the explosion, they still show up and we�re talking 30 years. It�s a big thing for the community and we have some dedicated people that still spend plenty of time on the memorial and the ceremony itself.�
The ceremony will be held at the Beirut Memorial in Lejeune Memorial Gardens Wednesday at 10:30 a.m.
Beirut Observance ceremony
This year�s Beirut Observance ceremony, marking the 30th anniversary of the terrorist attack on Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 23, at the Beirut Memorial. General James F. Amos, commandant of the Marine Corps, is scheduled to deliver the address at the ceremony, which honors the fallen service members and survivors who served in Lebanon from 1958 to 1984 and in Grenada.
Parking will be at the Veterans Cemetery. In the event of inclement weather, the ceremony will move to the Trinity United Methodist Church off of Marine Boulevard in Jacksonville.
Amanda Hickey is the government reporter at The Daily News. She can be reached at email@example.com.