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Microsoft has once again ignored Crispin Porter + Bogusky, its official agency, to do a major ad for its new Surface tablet. The new "launch" commercial for Surface was created by Jon M. Chu, director of "Step Up 2," and "Justin Bieber: Never Say Never."
CP+B is the shop behind its Windows 8 and Windows Phone campaigns. But previously Microsoft went with unknown director Caleb Slain for a teaser spot for the Surface earlier this year.
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Tower Defense is, essentially, simplified real-time strategy. Waves of enemies come at you and you must juggle your resources to build towers in places you deem appropriate in order to protect your base. All of that is true of Trenched, the latest game from Tim Schafer's Double Fine studios (the Psychonauts team) and Microsoft Game Studios. To keep things interesting, you control proceedings from a huge, mobile trench. Hence the name. Clever, eh?
Your trench isn't just for running about and looking at the battlefield though, oh no. Instead, it's from here that you deploy turrets (gotta get close in your trench to do so) and even dispatch the evil enemies with guns installed on the thing - all of which is customizable, right down to the paint job.
Gameplay is presented from a third person perspective - far enough out to give you a reasonable idea as to what is currently of utmost importance for you to focus on, close enough to see the glorious artistic flourishes that everything in the game is embellished with. It might be a download-only game and it might be lacking in terms of high-res textures, and rendering technology, etc, but like true artists, the team at Double Fine have managed to achieve genuine flair and personality with their limited palette. Characters, enemies, and even environments all have their own, unabashed, and unique visage that really brings them to life.
The story is a cool, alternate World War II affair, in which survivors of a mysterious and deadly radio wave find themselves suddenly incredibly able-of-mind, despite being disabled in body. One of the pair uses his new powers for good (inventing the trench / mechanical legs for disabled veterans) while the other... he goes a bit loopy. A new war, then, is formed - you and yours versus the evil mastermind and his "tube"-based minions. It's exciting, retro-themed stuff and creates a narrative compelling enough to provide more than just context for the gameplay itself.
In addition to upgradeable turrets, as is the norm for the TD genre, there are also loot boxes to collect, which can contain "random" items (it's not clear if they're random or not, but they seem randomish) with which you can upgrade your trench. Items can also be purchased from a vendor, however you generally find the best items out in the field. They use World of Warcraft-like colour coding, with the particularly good / rare item drops conjuring up that indescribably compelling desire to keep playing just for a chance at a shinier gun.
The difficulty seems set about right, with levels challenging you to think a bit without frustrating you by requiring that you adhere to exactly the designer's layout or placement sequence if you want any chance of success. As you progress, the required strategic thought and twitch finesse ramps up, of course, but it does so at a reasonable pace without spiking as quickly as you might have experienced in a hardcore TD game.
Whether the gameplay is for you or not is something that's quite hard to predict. Tower Defense purists will likely feel encumbered by the close-in camera (compared to the more usual top-down affair) and the need to run around to place turrets etc, while action people might wonder what all this turret nonsense is about. If you're in either camp, looking for a bit of that green grass over the fence, Trenched manages to leverage the best bits of both worlds well, adding action into Tower Defense about as well as it adds strategy into Action.
As for me? I consider myself something of a TD nut (I have literally dozens of the things, on pretty much every single one of the many gaming-capable systems I own) and I love it. It doesn't replace TD for me but it provides a nice variant on the same experience, down in the trenches as it were.
It's not perfect but, instead of the faults (little things like visual glitches, etc) piling up to become an unbearable thorn in your side, they're more like the eccentricities of a favorite uncle. It's whacky, weird, and wonderful. If you're at all interested in Tower Defense, you absolutely must give this one a go.
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ARTS, BRIEFLY; Elton John Documentary To Open Tribeca Festival
By DAVE ITZKOFF
Published: March 3, 2011
If Cameron Crowe could make a memorable scene with just a couple of verses of Elton John - as he did when the ''Almost Famous'' cast sang ''Tiny Dancer'' in the back of that tour bus - imagine what he could do with an entire movie about him? Audiences at the Tribeca Film Festival will be among the first to find out: the festival's organizers said on Wednesday that their 2011 program will open on the night of April 20 with a free outdoor screening of ''The Union,'' Mr. Crowe's documentary about Mr. John, followed by a performance from that best-selling pop performer.
''The Union'' chronicles the making of that 2010 album of the same title, on which Mr. John collaborated with the singer-songwriter Leon Russell, and which also featured contributions from T-Bone Burnett, Bernie Taupin, Neil Young and Brian Wilson, among others. Press representatives for the Tribeca Film Festival said in a news release that the premiere event for the documentary will be held at the North Cove at the World Financial Plaza in Lower Manhattan. The full festival is scheduled to run April 20 through May 1.
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It's no easy tour of duty for Lt. Nova Whiteside when her interstellar transport is taken by pirates, and she is then tagged for termination. Could it have something to do with the mysterious alien they were transporting? Having gone from merely MIA to technically AWOL, any chance of escape leaves her no choice but to rely on Sethran Kada, a former lover, for help. Unfortunately, she realizes, they are now on opposite sides of an escalating war between the Commonwealth Union of Planets and an increasingly dangerous rebel organization.
In trying to find who is threatening her life, they discover a plot to destroy a distant planet - a world inhabited by creatures that are the key to Nova's survival - and a conspiracy that threatens the stability of the Union Commonwealth. Can Nova go beyond her strict military training to cooperate with people whom she is sworn to destroy?
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Sam Houston State University will give families a taste of the college life with their students during the 2008 Bearkat Family Weekend Nov. 14-16.
Activities will kick off on Friday at 8 p.m., when families will have the opportunity to view the Program Council's showing of "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," starring Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett and Shia LaBeouf, in the Lowman Student Center Theater.
Saturday's festivities will begin with the Kats for the Kause 5k Charity Run/1-mile Walk, with registration at 7:15 a.m. and an 8 a.m. shotgun start, beginning in the Bowers Stadium west parking lot.
Participation in the SHSU- and Zeta Tau Alpha-sponsored event, with proceeds benefitting breast cancer awareness and education, is $15, which includes a T-shirt. Runners are encouraged to wear pink and can register online at http://www.shsu.edu/~slo_sad/katsforthecause/ through Nov. 14 or on the day of the event.
After check-in on Saturday, from 8:30-11 a.m. in the Lowman Student Center Mall Area, students and their families can tour SHSU's first and oldest building, Austin Hall, from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
At 9 a.m., guests can meet university president Jim Gaertner and other administrators while having a continental breakfast in the LSC Ballroom. The Bearkat Marching Band will also play and the SHSU cheerleaders will lead chants to bring "a little bit more fanfare" to the "Welcome Extravaganza," according to Dean of Students' Office program coordinator Kimberly Spradlin.
"The idea is to get them excited about being here at Sam and get them ready for a great day," she said. "We already have approximately 2,200 registered participants, which is up from the 1,800 who came last year. It's going to be a lot of fun."
Bearkat Family Weekend will include more activities than previous years, including a carnival, with games and activities sponsored by different departments, from noon to 2 p.m. at the Intramural Field No. 1.
Parents will have the opportunity to discuss volunteer opportunities and tailgating with the Parents' Association during its meeting, open to all parents, at 10 a.m. in the LSC Theater. The association will also introduce its officers and announce its scholarship recipients.
A barbecue lunch will be served to families from noon to 2 p.m., also at the Intramural Field No. 1.
On Saturday, from 11 a.m. to noon, alcohol educator Mary Hill will discuss "Empowering Millennials to Change the Social Culture" in the LSC Room 320, and from 2-3:30 p.m., families can learn about the different approaches SHSU takes to handling various alcohol and drug-related issues during a roundtable discussion in the LSC Room 320.
Other activities families can participate in on Saturday include the historic spinning and weaving demonstrations, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the front porch of Gen. Sam Houston's home, located on the Sam Houston Memorial Museum grounds; a criminal justice open house, from 1-3 p.m. in the Criminal Justice Center foyer; a presentation of what the Bearkat Learning Community has "been up to," from 2:30-3:30 p.m. in the Randel House; and a foreign languages open house and information session, from 3-5 p.m. on the third floor of the Evans Complex.
As families cruise in to Bearkat Alley on the north parking lot of Bowers Stadium before the football game, so will a number of classic cars. The classic car cruise-in will begin at 3:30 p.m., followed by the pre-game tailgate party from 4–6 p.m.
At that time, families can head inside the stadium, where they will see the Bearkat football team take on Southeastern Louisiana for SHSU's annual "Pink Out" game, for which fans are encouraged to wear their "Kats for the Cause" pink T-shirts.
Shirts will be sold near the ticket booth before and during the football game for $10 and breast cancer information will also be disseminated.
Sunday will round out the weekend with an interdenominational Christian worship service from 10:30-11:30 a.m. in the Farrington Pit.
Tickets for the football game will be sold separately for $20 for seats with a chair back and $10 for general admission. Children ages 5 and under are admitted to all Bearkat sporting events for free.
Game tickets can be purchased online at www.gobearkats.com/tickets, at the gate on game day or at the field house until 4 p.m. on Friday.
While registration for Bearkat Family Weekend has been transferred over for those who paid for the original event, scheduled Sept. 12-14 but canceled due to Hurricane Ike, football tickets will not.
Families who purchased football tickets for the original family weekend game must trade in the tickets for Southeastern Louisiana tickets as soon as possible by calling 936.294.1729.
For more information or a complete schedule of events, visit the Bearkat Family Weekend Web site at http://www.shsu.edu/~slo_www/weekend/, or contact the Dean of Students' Office at 936.294.1785.
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In today's ever-changing and often-volatile business landscape, adaptability and creativity are more crucial than ever. It is no longer possible - or even desirable - to learn one set of job skills and work your way up the ladder. Rather, today's entrepreneurs and business leaders must anticipate change to create opportunities for professional success and personal satisfaction. In Disrupt Yourself, Jay Samit - a digital media expert who has launched, grown, and sold startups and Fortune 500 companies alike - describes the unique method he has used to invent new products and grow established businesses throughout his career.
Samit has been at the helm of businesses in the ecommerce, digital video, social media, mobile communications, and software industries, helping to navigate them through turbulent economic times and guide them through necessary transformation so that they stay ahead of the curve and profitable. In Disrupt Yourself, he reveals how specific strategies that help companies flourish can be applied at an individual level. By challenging assumptions, pinpointing one's unique value, and identifying weaknesses in the structure of current industries, anyone can achieve success and lasting prosperity.
Incorporating stories from his own experience and anecdotes from other innovators and disruptive businesses - including Richard Branson, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, YouTube, Circ du Soleil, Odor Eaters, Iams Dog Food, Silly Putty, and many more - Samit shows how personal transformation can reap entrepreneurial and professional rewards. Disrupt You! offers clear and empowering advice for anyone looking to break through; anyone with a big idea but no idea how to apply it; and for anyone worried about being made irrelevant in an era of technological transformation. This engaging, perspective-shifting book demystifies the mechanics of disruption for individuals and businesses alike.
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1. The insight provided by author Jay Samit2. Real life examples of industries that have been disrupted by small startups. Amazon, PayPal, YouTube, Cirque Du Soleil and Iams Dog Food all disrupted established once successful industries many of whom are now gone.
Jay Samit, the author and narrator of the book, is my favorite character. Jay brings first hand experience, entirely of knowledge and contagious enthusiasm to the book. If you ever wanted to disrupt anything you absolutely MUST read this book! I have been in business for 40 years and seen many things but what Jay is teaching has made me realize there more opportunities available today than ever before.
"Disrupt Yourself, then Disrupt an Industry!"
I cannot wait to read Jay's next book. If you are interested in success through disruption you owe it to yourself to read or listen to this book! You never know. You might just disrupt yourself enough to disrupt an entire industry!
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Life transforming read. An authentic author with real life stories and the scars to proof it.
"This is an excellent guide to win"
Audio is clear and author (narrator) shows lots of interest and passion for the topic.
The examples he used and how you can apply these.
The case of McDonalds and the downloads from Sony. How Jay solved the $3 Million block.
A new pattern to win
This is not just a book, but also a guide on how to overcome many years of paradigms and poor business decisions. Disrupt you is truly disrupting the business book category in a way that brings something that looks impossible and unimaginable into regular life examples and anecdotes that you can put in place. Kudos to the Disrupt You team!
"Disrupt You Disrupt me"
Great book, practice advise from Jay who has been there and back.
50 year old executive who's days are number in corporate America this book is for you
This book will inspire, direct and help you thing outside the box, a fresh perspective on the new world. It will also act as a catalyst for the next new idea.
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You'll read it again and again
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Loved the book. Filled with great information to make you brainstorm more. About ones own business and how to disrupt it. Or if your thinking about entering a business, how u could/might disrupt it. Great history on how some businesses have come and gone though out time by people doing that exact thing, "DISRUPTING".
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Money well spent. This is a must read. It's a book you want to finish and not put down until you finish. Love this book.
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This book should be read by anyone in business or thinking about creating more streams of income.
"Nothing wrong with his take on entrepreneurship"
Nothing wrong with his take on entrepreneurship and disruption – but he keeps referencing to news stories, anecdotes, cases, ad nausea. It's the Malcom Gladwell recipe. To me, it's just less applicable and practical.
This book is for Entrepreneurs, Intrapreneurs or anyone with the Will & Desire to Succeed in Life or Business by Creating Massive Value in the world.
Buying any other book will be a waste of your Time, Money and Attention if you wanna Play a Bigger Game.
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A week remains for hopefuls to turn in their job application for the post of Hale County special projects/emergency management coordinator.
Jerry Morphis, who has held the post for the past 2 1/2 years, told county officials in May of his plans to retire at the end of the year.
As of mid-day Thursday, five individuals had returned applications for the post. "We have had a pretty good number of people pick up applications," explained County Auditor Maretta Smithson, who is overseeing the application process. "So we expect several more to be completed and returned."
The original deadline was today. However, Smithson said the application deadline was extended to Sept. 7 due to a delay in getting the job opening posted and advertised.
County commissioners plan to schedule interviews with job applicants beginning Sept. 10. They hope to announce their selection by Oct. 1 with the new employee reporting to work Nov. 1. That way, commissioners said, the new person can work side-by-side and train with Morphis for two months.
In addition overseeing special projects and emergency management duties, Morphis takes care of rural septic system inspections, makes sure the courthouse elevator and various alarm systems are working and tends to the flags at the veterans' memorial.
County Judge Bill Coleman said the position has evolved into a "catch-all" post, with new tasks added to the job description from time-to-time.
"It seems like whenever something new comes along, Jerry ends up being saddled with something else to do," Coleman said.
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Hello everyone! I'm so happy to be blogging here today in celebratation of LASR's anniversary. Anniversaries are such wonderful milestones, aren't they?! With the passing of every year, we learn more, experience more, and grow a little wiser. A while back on my blog, I posted about the idea of an "animoon" … a trip like a honeymoon except to celebrate a wedding, an animoon celebrates an anniversary! What do you think? If you were going to take an animoon to celebrate an anniversary of some kind, where would you go?
I'm celebrating a milestone of my own this summer. My first novel, Finding Felicity, is being released August 7 by Eternal Press. I'll blog more about the book a bit later, so stay tuned. If you just can't wait, check out my blog at http://www.monicamarlowe.blogspot.com/
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It was the night when a teenage Jack Wilshere stood tall against Andres Iniesta and Xavi, the night when Robin van Persie embraced Arsene Wenger so tightly that you could never imagine them being parted and the night when Lionel Messi was shackled by Laurent Koscielny.
Two years on from Arsenal's iconic - but ultimately futile - victory over Barcelona, much has changed.
Bayern Munich have seen to it that Xavi and Iniesta are no longer the yardsticks for midfield excellence, Van Persie now shares his goal celebrations with Sir Alex Ferguson, while Koscielny has gone from a defender capable of occasional excellence to one of the driving forces behind his side's pursuit of Champions League qualification – and Pep Guardiola has taken note.
|EXCLUSIVE: The Arsenal defender is the subject of an enquiry from Bayern Munich
A defender once considered fragile of mind and body would not appear to be the most obvious answer but, such has been Koscielny's improvement since he returned to the team in place of Thomas Vermaelen, it is little wonder that Europe's heavyweights are beginning to register interest.
Reassuringly, Arsenal appear intent on being bullied no more by those who come calling for their elite performers, just as Koscielny now refuses to be intimidated by some of the Premier League's more agricultural opponents.
The 27-year-old has long been considered a centre-back of class and composure, a defender who pickpockets opponents rather than silences them with the sledgehammer approach. While he has struggled against the roughhouse methods of Andy Carroll and even Grant Holt in the past, he has regularly excelled against many of the game's more nimble-footed attackers.
Indeed, in one-on-one situations there are few better currently plying their trade in England's top flight. Vincent Kompany, widely acknowledged as the Premier League's beacon of defensive dominance, boasts a tackle win rate of 80 per cent which is bettered by the former Loirent man.
Koscielny has won a mightily impressive 73% of his ground duels this season (10% more than Kompany) and despite a significant height disadvantage boasts a higher aerial duels win percentage (62%) than the towers of power, Rio Ferdinand and Jan Vertonghen, the two centre-backs who were voted into the PFA Team of the Year last week.
Crucially, the lapses in concentration that undermined much of his good work in the early part of his Arsenal career – the error that gifted Birmingham City the League Cup being the highest profile example - appear to have dried up.
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In possession, Koscielny stands as one of the most accurate defensive distributors in the league. Although his pass-completion rate is lower than that of Vertonghen, Ferdinand and Kompany, that can be explained by the fact that he attempts significantly more forward passes than that triumvirate.
It would be churlish to suggest that Arsenal's vastly improved defensive record - they have conceded just four goals in the eight games since the France international returned to the starting line-up, only one of which came from open play – but certainly he has taken a lead role in ensuring that his side are no longer a soft touch. Learning the language has certainly helped.
"Yes [I shout more now]! My English is better so I talk more on the pitch," Koscielny told club's official website in April.
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Half active. Half social. That's the not-so-secret formula behind the Seattle Bocce league.
The Seattle Bocce is a locally operated social sports league that's out to revolutionize the way Seattle newcomers and natives meet, socialize and have fun.
Each Seattle Bocce league consists of once a week league games, post-game parties and specials at local bars, socializing with other league members and lots of fun.
Seattle Bocce is designed and operated so that anyone, of any athletic and physical ability can play and enjoy themselves while meeting new people.
"We are league player ourselves, we've played in leagues that were great and others that weren't as fun," said founder Giovanni Marcantoni. "When everyone is able to participate no matter their skill, that's when people are the most social and have the most fun."
Registration for all leagues can be found on San Francisco Bocce's website http://www.seattlebocceball.com and costs $50 per person depending on the league.
Each league registration includes: eight weeks of league play, t-shirts, end of season free beer parties, weekly bar specials, prizes for league champions and other league member perks.
This spring Seattle Bocce will offer three different locations and nights: Tuesdays at Ballard Commons, Wednesdays in Ravenna Park and Thursdays at Gas Works Park.
Seattle Bocce got its start as a couple of guys from Baltimore, MD wanting to bring the fun they had in Washington D.C. playing in Kickball and Bocce leagues with them to Seattle.
"We played in a number of different sport leagues while going to school and working in D.C., but our heart has always been out West and we decided we'd try our hand running leagues back West," said Marcantoni.
Last summer the league got off the ground for its inaugural season in Capital Hill with about 100 people playing. The league kept things rolling with a special glow-in-the-dark league that was widely popular and sold out.
"We have had so much success last season we decided we thought it was time to start growing the league and bringing social bocce to everyone in Seattle," said Marcantoni.
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Great node! In fact, one of my first nodes on perlmonks was about teaching perl to children. You might want to review it: [id://356475]
One resource not mentioned here is an effort to teach Java to children.
Like many others here, I was introduced to programming when it was a new and exciting field. Computers were mysterious boxes that few understood. Today, children carry around small games that have more processing power than 200 lunar modules from 1967.
On a whim, I attempted to verify my statement above. I found the specifications for an Apollo Guidance Computer but the design is so old a proper comparison is really not possible.
As is often the case I did find some amusing subjects along the way including this Virtual AGC project. It is amusing to see the actual code compute a checksum, time events, and display a few simple calculated results used by Apollo astronauts during landing.

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Aamir Khan was on a promotional spree for his upcoming flick, '3 Idiots'. He has been traveling to various parts of India in costume to promote his film. Newly, when he was traveling in an auto-rickshaw in the look of an old man, his vehicle collided with another three wheeler and luckily, Aamir Khan escaped unharmed. But two of his co-passengers continual several injuries. Aamir with his two colleagues were taken to hospital.
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Chanel, Nazi's Mistress, Spied for Germans: Lewis Lapham
Coco Chanel liked being cosseted by high-born rich men, who helped her rise in business and society. When Hitler marched into France, Chanel took a German lover.
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Baron Hans Gunther von Dincklage was a charming, handsome man, who became the last great love of Chanel's life. He was also a spymaster reporting directly to Goebbels.
As the French starved and suffered, Chanel and Dincklage lived the high life, residing in the Hotel Ritz, going to Maxim's, eating pheasant and drinking Chateau Latour.
During their affair, the baron recruited her for German military intelligence. In 1941, the Abwehr enrolled Chanel as Agent F-7124, code name Westminster (after her ex-lover, the Duke of Westminster), and began sending her on missions.
After the liberation of Paris, Chanel was brought in for questioning about her collaboration with the enemy. She was allowed to go home, saved by the intervention of an old friend. "Churchill had me freed," she said.
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- 1792 The downcast eye, the rosy blush, the retiring grace, are all proper in their season; but modesty, being the child of reason, cannot long exist with the sensibility that is not tempered by reflection — Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
- (music) Pertaining to the well-tempered scale, where the twelve notes per octave of the standard keyboard are tuned in such a way that it is possible to play music in any major or minor key and it will not sound perceptibly out of tune.
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Smith was raised as a Catholic and went to Notre Dame Middle School and St. Wilfrid's Comprehensive School in Crawley. He was an accomplished student who maintained high marks, but after he began playing guitar at the age of 11 his primary focus quickly became his music. He was influenced by The Beatles, Nick Drake, Jimi Hendrix, The Stranglers, The Ink Spots, Syd Barrett and David Bowie.
When The Cure was first formed, Smith did not intend to become the lead vocalist; he only began singing after the original singer left and the group could not find a suitable replacement. From the late 1970s and into the 1980s, Smith composed some of The Cure's songs on a Hammond organ with a built-in tape recorder, including a complete demo of the song "10:15 Saturday Night".
Smith has written or co-written the bulk of the band's music and lyrics over its 30 year lifespan. With Lol Tolhurst, Smith wrote such songs as "The Lovecats", "Let's Go to Bed", and "The Walk". He wrote the album The Top between stints as Siouxsie and the Banshees' guitarist. Smith has co-produced most of the band's material.
In the band's earliest period, Smith used a soft vocal style on the demos of "10:15 Saturday Night" and "Boys Don't Cry", and a frenetic punk style on "I Just Need Myself". Both of those styles were left behind as a third emerged during the production of the band's debut album, Three Imaginary Boys. This new sound, which can be heard on most of the final versions of songs from that period, became the signature Smith sound, which he generally employed until the 2000 album Bloodflowers. Around that time, Smith said he wanted to improve his singing, the opposite of his goal in 1984: he remarked in the documentary Ten Imaginary Years that he tried to sing badly on the album The Top.
Despite the gothic "gloom and doom" image often tagged onto Smith, he has proven himself to be able to sing up-tempo songs well. Examples include "Friday I'm in Love" and "Mint Car".
Smith has also been involved in other musical projects, including stints in 1979 and 1982–84 as guitarist with Siouxsie and the Banshees, and a side project in 1983 with Banshee bassist Steven Severin called The Glove.
In 1980, Smith sang backing vocals on the song "The Affectionate Punch" on the Associates' debut album The Affectionate Punch. At the time, the Associates were also signed to Fiction Records. The Cure song, "Cut Here", is about the Associates' singer Billy MacKenzie's suicide.
In 1998, Smith formed a "one-off" side project with Jason Cooper and Reeves Gabrels under the name COGASM, releasing the track "A Sign from God" for the film Orgazmo. In 2000, Smith contributed to the track "Yesterday's Gone" on Reeves Gabrels' solo album Ulysses (Della Notte).
In 2003, Smith collaborated with the pop punk band Blink-182 on the track "All of This" on their self-titled Blink-182 album. He also provided vocals for Junior Jack for the club hit "Da Hype".
In 2004, Smith co-wrote and supplied vocals for the Tweaker song "Truth Is". Smith collaborated again with Junior Jack on a remix of "Da Hype", featured on the album Trust It. Blank & Jones remixed "A Forest" featuring Smith on vocals. He was also featured as a vocalist and co-writer on JunkieXL's "Perfect Blue Sky".
In 2005, Smith teamed up with Billy Corgan, lead singer and lead guitarist of both The Smashing Pumpkins and Zwan, to do a cover of the Bee Gees' "To Love Somebody" on Corgan's first solo release, TheFutureEmbrace.
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I recently watched a 1999 film called 'The Straight Story', where the main character travels from Iowa to Wisconsin (a distance of at least 255m / 480km) on a lawn mower to visit his estranged brother who had suffered a stroke, this film was based on a true story. The thing that struck me about the film was the shots of miles and miles of empty, country road ahead of him.
Roads have been the subject of many song titles, such as The Road to Nowhere (Talking Heads, 1985) and The Road to Hell (Chris Rea, 1989). Roads are also often used in art to signify journeys both physical and mental. So we have collected a beautiful selection of road photography, both rural and urban from all around the world. If your journey is along the 'road to success', or it feels like the 'Road to Nowhere', you will surely be inspired by these photographs.
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An army veteran is being hailed as a hero after being shot seven times while attempting to subdue the perpetrator of yesterday's mass shooting in Oregon.
Thirty-year-old Chris Mintz, a student at Umpqua Community College, charged at gunman Chris Harper-Mercer in attempt to stop the massacre which killed 10 people. Despite being wounded numerous times, none of the bullets struck any of Mintz's vital organs. Family members say both of his legs were broken in the attack, but he is expected to recover.
"He could have very easily died," Wanda Mintz, the victim's aunt, told a local Fox affiliate. "I really think that if he wasn't such a strong, young guy, he may have died."
Previously, Mintz has spent ten years in the U.S. Army, but had recently moved to Oregon to help raise his son, who had just turned six.
"It's my son's birthday, it's my son's birthday," witnesses heard Mintz saying as he waited for help to arrive.
According to the gun-control advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety, this was the 45th shooting at a U.S. school so far in 2015, and the 17th specifically on a college campus. It was the 142nd school-shooting since the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in 2012.
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IBM Implementation Services for Geographically Dispersed Open ClustersIBM United States Services Announcement 606-029
December 12, 2006
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IBM Implementation Services for Geographically Dispersed Open Clusters will help you with:
- Implementing and managing data replication across sites
- Automating data, system, and workload recovery
- Wide-area failover or switchover at a secondary site
- Managing, monitoring, and testing your disaster recovery solution from a single console
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IBM Implementation Services for Geographically Dispersed Open Clusters (GDOC) is a multi-vendor solution designed to protect the availability of critical applications that run on UNIX®, Microsoft Windows, or Linux operating system based servers. GDOC is based on an Open Systems Cluster architecture spread across two or more sites with data mirrored between sites to provide high availability and disaster recovery. It is designed to provide you with similar functionality for open systems that GDPS provides for the IBM System z mainframe. This type of solution can provide a much shorter recovery time for critical business applications, and is easier than recovering from tape backup, or replicating data with manually initiated recovery processes.
GDOC is a services framework and methodology that includes the integration of Veritas Cluster Server and associated software modules from Symantec Corporation. The solution comes with a base set of implementation services including:
- Consulting and planning
- Design
- Solution build
- Testing and deployment
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Hardware requirements:
- One or more servers that support AIX, Hewlett-Packard UX, Linux, Microsoft Windows, or Solaris at the recovery site
- Sufficient storage at the recovery site
- Network connectivity
- Replication technology may require additional hardware
Software requirements:
- Veritas Cluster Server with the Global Cluster Option
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IBM Implementation Services for Geographically Dispersed Open Clusters addresses the automation, testing, and management requirements of a disaster recovery solution using proven methods and automation software from Symantec. GDOC provides the mechanisms to automate, test, and manage disaster recovery, while allowing some flexibility in the product selection for storage and replication technology. It is also designed to assist you with:
- Implementing and managing data replication across sites
- Automating data recovery (wide-area failover and switchover) at a secondary site
- Managing, monitoring, and testing your disaster recovery solution
GDOC supports the following platforms:
- Hewlett-Packard UX
- Linux
- Microsoft Windows
- Solaris
- Red Hat Linux and SUSE Linux
The GDOC solution is designed to provide you with similar functionality for open systems that GDPS provides for the IBM System z mainframe. The solution typically begins with a cluster of servers that provide high availability within a data center and is extended by adding additional copies of data and additional servers at a geographically remote data center. While clustering within a data center provides high availability, clustering across data centers, with an additional remote copy of data, provides important disaster recovery capability. The end result is an improved ability to recover from a disaster quickly with minimal data loss. This type of solution provides a recovery time, for critical business applications, that is typically much shorter and easier than recovering from tape backup or replicating data with manually initiated processes.
The GDOC solution is designed to coordinate data consistency and recovery for multiple vendor operating system platforms (AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, and Microsoft Windows) between data centers. Data between the data centers is kept in sync using a data replication solution. The GDOC solution allows for different replication technologies including but not limited to: IBM DB2® HADR, IBM Metro Mirror, Hitachi TrueCopy, EMC MirrorView, Network Appliance SnapMirror, EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility, and Veritas Volume Replicator. The GDOC solution is applicable when the high availability and disaster recovery requirements are not met by solutions like IBM Continuous Availability for AIX, IBM Continuous Availability for Microsoft Windows, and IBM Tivoli® Systems Automation.
GDOC is a services framework and methodology that includes the integration of Veritas Cluster Server and associated software modules from Symantec Corporation. The GDOC implementation service is designed to deliver an end-to-end solution that may provide:
- Server and data disaster recovery planning
- Business impact analysis
- Risk analysis
- Bandwidth analysis
- Enterprise architecture design
- Network design
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- GDOC conceptual, logical, and physical design Designs the solution infrastructure to meet the business requirements and objectives. It also provides the technical definition for the physical infrastructure.
- GDOC non-production solution build and test Takes the conceptual, logical, and physical design, including prototype and proof of concept if applicable, and implements it in the customer's environment in a test capacity.
- GDOC solution roll-out and deployment Takes the prototype and test implementations and builds an enterprise-wide roll-out strategy that enables you, with IBM, to begin a production roll-out in your environment. IBM will educate you so that you can continue this roll-out process independently.
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Social media developer Syncapse just got $25 million in venture funding from ABS Capital Partners, which has closed all but $5 million of the transaction.
Based in Toronto, Syncapse has some big-name customers like Electronic Arts and Research In Motion using the platform and analytics that incorporate Facebook and a wide assortment of social media and online publishing outlets.
The company's press release calls ABS Capital a growth equity investor that has placed partners Ralph Terkowitz and Deric Emry on Syncape's board of directors.
Syncapse also calls ABS the first institutional investor in the development company; the latest transaction brings total funding up to $30.3 million. Previous investments have included a $3.3 million Series A round in May 2010, plus a $2 million Series B round from the Business Development Bank of Canada this past October.
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On 14 November 2012, the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) published Part I (CP1) of its two-part consultation paper series on implementation of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) in the UK. The consultation period for CPI closes on 1 February 2013.
CP1 covers the following topics:
Part II of the consultation (CP2) will cover remaining topics relating to the AIFMD's implementation (see further below).
Context of Consultation and Implementation
The FSA's consultation is taking place in the context of significant reform of UK financial regulation due in the first part of 2013, when it is expected that the FSA will be split into, and succeeded by, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA). Under the draft reform legislation, the FCA will be both the conduct and prudential regulator for AIFMs. Transposition of the final rules implementing the AIFMD is intended to be located primarily in a new FCA rule sourcebook, "FUND".
In addition, HM Treasury will be consulting on legislative measures covering particular AIFMD matters, including options to apply differentiated regimes to certain smaller firms under the AIFMD, changes to the scope of activities which are regulated in the UK and the marketing requirements to be applied to AIFMs established outside the European Economic Area (non-EEA AIFMs) marketing AIFs into the UK by private placement.
Implementing measures also are being developed currently at the European level. Because the provisions in the European Commission's forthcoming implementing regulation (the Level 2 Regulation) will be directly applicable in each EU member state, the FSA will not be consulting on it once it is published, and will incorporate the Level 2 Regulation into the FCA's rules in large part by reference rather than strict copy out. Firms therefore will be responsible for ensuring that they are complying with the detailed provisions of both the FCA's rules and the Level 2 Regulation, and should familiarise themselves with the Level 2 Regulation detail when it is published.
Additionally, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) also is tasked with developing certain implementing measures; for firms, the two most important will be:
Provided that the various consultations and drafts are published as expected, the FSA intends that CP2 will cover issues arising from the forthcoming Treasury and European consultations.
Scope and Types of AIFM
While matters concerning the scope and regulatory perimeter of the AIFMD are still the subject of continuing work at the European level and therefore not covered in great detail in the FSA's consultation, the FSA has set out its views on a few notable issues.
Authorisation Issues
The FSA has indicated that the Treasury will be proposing the following new regulated activities:
Establishing and operating a collective investment scheme (CIS) will remain a regulated activity but only in relation to CISs that are not AIFs or UCITS, which in practice will be very narrow in reach. This means that firms authorised to carry out the new regulated activities of managing an AIF or UCITS will not need permission to establish and operate a CIS in relation to the AIF or UCITS managed.
The FSA also has clarified its position on the transitional provisions. Firms currently not authorised by the FSA but which anticipate becoming AIFMs may wish to consider becoming authorised to operate a CIS before 22 July 2013 so as to take advantage of the transitional provisions in the AIFMD allowing up to a year to apply for authorisation as an AIFM, as these are not available to firms that will not be managing or marketing AIFs before that date. Firms that currently carry on business as an AIFM without needing to be authorised by the FSA – such as internally managed investment companies – also will be able to benefit from the transitional period.
The FSA also is considering establishing a "grandfathering" process to applications for variations of permission for firms currently holding permission to establish and operate a CIS, and will notify firms in due course of its intentions.
Finally, contrary to its previous publications, the FSA now does not expect that the FCA will be in a position to accept applications for authorisation (or variations of permission) until 23 July 2013.
Regulatory Capital Requirements
The FSA has noted the following changes in relation to the AIFMD's prudential requirements:
Disclosure, Transparency and Reporting Requirements
Much of the detail regarding the disclosure, transparency and reporting requirements in the AIFMD will be supplemented by the Level 2 Regulation. In particular, disclosure requirements relating to portfolio company holdings, which will be of interest principally to private equity fund managers, will be discussed in CP2.
The following is noted in CP1:
The FSA has proposed, in conjunction with the Treasury, a "private equity AIF depositary" model applicable to particular types of closed-ended AIFs, which will typically be private equity funds. The FSA proposes that firms other than just professional firms (such as lawyers and accountants) should be allowed to perform depositary activities. These depositaries would be authorised to act as depositary of an AIF with a limitation to private equity AIFs, and would generally not hold assets in custody but would be permitted to do so if necessary. The FSA intends for these depositaries to have lower regulatory capital requirements than depositaries acting for other AIFs, recognising their more limited role under the AIFMD and the need for such limited depositaries to provide competitive pricing to smaller fund managers. Taken together, the FSA proposals potentially open the way to new entrants into the custody/depositary market.
Next Steps and Timing
For both private equity fund managers and managers outside the EEA, most of the detail is still to come in CP2. The FSA currently expects to publish CP2 in February 2013 but the precise timing will depend on the timing of the Treasury's consultation, expected in January 2013, as well as further European progress on AIFMD measures. According to the FSA, the European process for the adoption and agreement of Level 2 had not yet begun by 14 November 2012, and so a delay to the publication of the Level 2 Regulation is anticipated, possibly into December 2012 or early 2013. ESMA's draft RTS and related material on key concepts and types of AIFMs is expected to be published in Q4 2012, with final guidelines on remuneration policies expected to follow in Q1 2013.
Provided the timing of these various publications proceeds as expected, the FSA intends to cover additional topics relating to AIFMD implementation in CP2, including the following:
The FSA expects that a final policy statement covering both consultations will be published in June 2013.
In the interim, firms would be wise to consider their positions in relation to the FSA's first set of articulated views. Firms currently authorised to operate a CIS may want, for example, to examine their current funds in light of the FSA's proposed regulatory capital rules and revisit their fund documents to ensure that investor disclosure is properly addressed. Firms not currently authorised but which anticipate becoming AIFMs should consider in particular whether they want to become authorised as CIS operators before 22 July 2013 to take advantage of the AIFMD's transitional provisions.
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Parque Nacional Barranca del Cupatitizio
Uruapan, Mexico
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Beautiful nature Aug 31, 2011
When I was in Uruapan downtown I could not believe this city could have such a wonderful park. The Parque Nacional Barranca del Cupatitizio is also known as the Parque Nacional Uruapan and Parque Nacional "Eduardo Ruiz". It's a marvelous sanctuary for almost 90 varieties of plants, reptiles, owls, frogs and many other animal species. You could bring your family and spend a wonderful Sunday walking by its many waterfalls and fountains.
I was surprised by how well taken care of is this park. Everything is impressively clean. Unfortunately I didn't have much time, so I basically ran through it, but it really deserves at least one full morning to really enjoy it and appreciate it. This place is the best thing to do in Uruapan and really a wonder.
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Farm Bots and Two-Month-Old Bread: Innovations in Food and AgricultureIra Sager
Agriculture isn't exactly an industry that conjures up images of robots toiling away in the field or high-tech sensors that identify crop-eating insects. "The image most people have of agriculture is Green Acres," says Andrew M. Ziolkowski, a managing partner in Cultivian Ventures, a venture capital fund that invests in technology companies specializing in the food and agricultural sectors. "It's a huge industry and a lot of innovation goes into it."
Agriculture, as any farmer knows, is much more complex than it seems. There's an inexhaustible number of unpredictable events that have to be constantly monitored. The work is highly repetitive and, for a lot of tasks, manual labor is the only means of production, methods that haven't changed in decades, or longer. Meanwhile, the planet's population continues to outstrip our ability to produce enough food. In other words, the $500 billion agriculture industry is perfect for automation.
A new generation of entrepreneurs, more comfortable writing algorithms than planting alfalfa, is applying its digital knowhow to make farming more efficient, food safer, and agriculture more sustainable. Below are brief profiles of just a few innovative ag-tech companies.
How Do You Like Your Steak? Lawson Hembree signs his e-mails: "Have a tender afternoon." The company he co-founded, Agricultural Food Systems, sells a device that measures the tenderness of beef. TenderID is a handheld device with three blades that are stuck into a beef carcass at the processing plant. The device produces a tenderness rating (based on U.S. Department of Agriculture standards) by calculating the resistance the blades encounter. The technology was developed at the University of Arkansas. Hembree says TenderID would allow processors to earn up to an additional $24 per carcass by helping them more accurately assess tenderness. A three-year lease for one device will run about $10,000. By the middle of this year, Hembree says, beef at the local market could say "tender" or "very tender" on the package, thanks to his device.
More Water Please
Bruce A. Moeller describes the product AquaSpy offers as "a cell phone service for crops to phone home and tell growers when they're hungry or thirsty." AquaSpy helps farmers monitor and regulate the amount of water they use to increase crop yields, save energy, and lower pesticide use. The system uses 15 probes buried four inches apart, 60 feet into the ground. The sensors send signals to a cell tower that transmits the data to an iPhone or PC. The service is available for $2,100 annually, including the installation and removal of the sensors. (The sensors come out at harvest time.) Moeller, AquaSpy's Chief Executive, likens the way the system tracks water levels in the ground to the gas gauge in a car. Knowing how much water is in the ground in the spring helps farmers decide the best crops and seeds to plant for a good yield, he says.
A Weed-Whacking Bot
You won't find many Silicon Valley startups interested in agriculture. But in the valley of Apple, Google, and Facebook sits Blue River Technology, founded by two former Stanford University classmates. The startup has raised $3.1 million from Khosla Ventures and others to build a weed-identifying bot that helps farmers cut down on pesticide use. Blue River's robot, pulled behind a tractor, uses computer vision and fine-tuned algorithms to identify and kill the nasty vegetation.
For now, the company has a more modest goal. It is testing a lettuce-thinning robot in several local fields. Farmers typically plant lettuce seeds two inches apart, then bring in crews of 10 to 30 people to manually pull every fourth or fifth plant to thin the crop and give the plants room to grow. Blue River automates that task. Its bot identifies the plants to eliminate, then drops fertilizer on the plants, which kills them. Labor required: one person to operate the tractor. Ben Chostner, vice president of operations, says the company plans to have a commercial product ready by midyear. The technology can be used with other crops, he says, but the company hasn't settled on its next area of focus.
The Orange Picker
Sometime this winter you could have a glass of orange juice made with oranges picked by a robot. Energid Technologies is testing a prototype robotic picker in a Fort Myers (Fla.) orange grove this month. A truck-mounted arm with several pneumatic tubes guided by a camera locates the oranges for picking. A clipper attached to the tube snips the oranges off the tree, according to Chief Technical Officer James English. The robot is designed for juice oranges only, because it's rough on the fruit. The company hopes to have a commercial robot ready within two to three years at a cost of about $200,000 to $300,000 per robot.
This Harvey Is Real
Harvey, or Harvest Vehicle HV-100, weighs 80 pounds, is 2.5 feet tall, and works in greenhouses and plant nurseries moving potted trees and shrubs all day. It runs on batteries and is the first agricultural robot from Harvest Automation, started in 2008 by the developers behind iRobot's Roomba vacuuming robot. Harvey uses cameras and sensors to identify plants to pick up with its grippers. Harvest started shipping Harvey—one robot costs $30,000—this fall, according to Chief Executive Officer John Kawola. So far, three customers have purchased about 20 robots. The plant-handling robot can automate 40 percent of the tasks handled by manual labor in a garden nursery or greenhouse.
Waste Not, Want Not
How do you help restaurants, institutions, and food-service companies cut the amount of food wasted every day? LeanPath developed a scale connected to a touchscreen terminal that is placed in the kitchen near where excess food is dumped. Before food is discarded, it's placed on the scale, where kitchen staff record the type of food and why it's being tossed. The terminal then records the date, time, and weight, and sets a value for the item. That information helps the chef or manager adjust food supplies accordingly. LeanPath co-founder and President Andrew Shakman says customers typically achieve 4 percent to 7 percent savings on their food purchases. So far, 150 restaurants and food-service institutions use the LeanPath system. A single scale is $3,600 and an annual maintenance contract costs $1,350.
A Bug Zapper for Food
What if a loaf of bread could last two months without turning into a science experiment? MicroZap uses microwave technology developed at Texas Tech University to make food safe by killing E. coli, salmonella, and listeria. A combination of thermal and non-thermal microwaves creates a "cold pasteurization" process that destroys bacteria without cooking the food, says Don Stull, the company's CEO and co-founder. A byproduct of the microwave treatment: Some foods last longer. In tests, the company was able to keep bread mold-free for 60 days. (Bread typically lasts 10 days.) Stull hopes to have commercial systems in use early this year at several food companies, including a maker of dog food. Depending on the task, a machine could cost anywhere from $150,000 to $1 million. This isn't your typical kitchen appliance: The mold-killing bread machine is a 12-foot-long contraption that includes a 5-foot conveyor-fed chamber (where the zapping happens) and stands 8 feet tall.
Fingerprinting Insects
Z-Trap is a digital Roach Motel for farm pests: Insects check in and they don't check out, but they do leave an electronic fingerprint. That fingerprint, according to Tom Puterbaugh, vice president of products for Spensa Technologies, is used to distinguish between an innocent ladybug and a crop-eating locust. The electronic traps are placed in the field, creating a wireless sensor network that collects data on the type of insect, density of the infestation, and location in the field, all available via a PC or smartphone. The technology, developed at Purdue University, provides real-time monitoring of insect populations, letting farmers reduce the use of harmful pesticides by targeting only problem areas. Spensa is testing Z-Trap on crops in the U.S., as well as in South America and Australia. Puterbaugh says the company isn't ready to disclose pricing but says it is "on the doorstep" of having a commercial product ready and plans to begin sales to U.S. apple growers this year.
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Leaders rarely get to choose their defining moments. The issues that will eventually define their reputations are most often thrust upon them...and usually those issues are far, far different from what the leaders would have chosen if it were up to them.
And so it is with Mary Barra. Only three months into her CEO stint at
When departing CEO Dan Akerson announced why he had recommended Ms. Barra for CEO, he said that she had an uncanny ability to "make order out of chaos." Today we surely wonder if he had any inkling of just how much chaos there would be in her first 100 days. Let's hope he did not.
Rewriting the Crisis Playbook
But, beyond crisis and beyond chaos, there is also great opportunity – Ms. Barra has the chance to write the playbook for how to handle a huge corporate crisis in the 21st Century, when news, information, and misinformation travel at the speed of electrons.
The Tylenol Crisis
Whenever you mention business crisis, invariably someone will cite the 1982 Tylenol product poisoning and recall as being the state of the art in how to handle a crisis. But in reality, the Tylenol crisis happened over 30 years ago. And if a company were to do today what Johnson & Johnson did then, the effort would be judged a dismal failure, not best practice.
Why? Because once the tampering was discovered, it took five days for the company to institute a recall. During that time they were consumed by fact gathering, internal meetings, and indecision, even though eventually they took a courageous and bold path. Today, if a consumer product goods company were to go silent at the advent of a tampering crisis, they could survive doing so for, oh, possibly five hours, but never five days. And best practice might even dictate some acknowledgement in at least an hour.
The world just moves too fast. Trust is shattered in a blink of an eye, and the public demands quick and decisive action be taken to guard its safety. Any failure to do that will reverberate around the globe in nanoseconds.
So while the world still quotes Tylenol as best practice, business is calling out for a new best practice in terms of crisis management, a new gold standard.
Enter Mary Barra
This brand-new CEO of a formerly iconic American company, now reputation and bankruptcy-ravaged, has walked into the leadership challenge of a lifetime. Not only the first woman CEO in an infamously male-dominated industry, facing the expected challenge to rebuild the car company and its product line, now she must address the company's extraordinary dirty laundry, which seemingly has just come to full light.
Many people have died, families have been treated reprehensibly, the facts have been buried or obfuscated, wrong decisions have been made over and over again by executives who apparently just don't talk to one another, liability is extraordinary, shareholder value at risk, and the breach of consumer trust is almost unprecedented. Plus we still don't know why this has just come to light, or if Ms. Barra or her predecessors really knew about it.
Yet, she is doing everything right so far.
Perfect Pitch
So far, Ms. Barra has faced every challenge with perfect pitch. She has expressed human emotion and regret first, and then a steely resolve to get to the bottom of what happened. She has taken the helm solidly, calmly, and apparently in total control.


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September 11, 2013
Drugs Used To Treat Hepatitis C May Also Treat MERS
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online
A pair of drugs frequently used to help treat hepatitis C patients could be used to help treat Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coronavirus, according to research published online earlier this week by the journal Nature Medicine.Administering a combination of interferon-alpha 2b and ribavirin to monkeys infected with the virus that causes MERS reduced viral replication, subdued inflammation and helped promote lung repair, the authors explained.
The infection is caused by the coronavirus (MERS-CoV) that is closely related to several coronaviruses that infect bats, they said. According to the most recent data from the World Health Organization (WHO), the virus has killed 54 people of the 114 so far infected. There is no proven effective treatment at this time.
However, the new study, which was led by Darryl Falzarano of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases' Rocky Mountain Laboratories, suggests that interferon-alpha 2b and ribavirin could be an effective treatment option.
Dr. Angela L. Rasmussen, a research scientist in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Washington, explains that unlike most conventional antivirals, these hepatitis C medications do not directly target the virus. Instead, they moderate the body's immune response to the infection and help promote the repair of any lung tissue damaged by the disease.
"Rasmussen and her colleagues watched how the lung cells responded to the new treatment by tracking their gene expression profiles," the Seattle-based university explained. "They did this by studying RNA extracted from the infected monkeys' lungs to track changes in what is called the transcriptome."
"When a cell needs to use a gene, it copies the gene's DNA-encoded instructions into RNA. That RNA transcript is then read to direct the assembly of a protein," they added. "By using a 'lab on a chip' technology, called a microarray, it is possible to detect and measure RNA transcripts from all the genes in a population of cells."
Scientists can track how cells or tissues respond to a stimulus, such as an infection or a drug, by analyzing the transcriptome. In the case of MERS, it allowed them to study the host's response to MERS-CoV in the context of the entire biological system, rather than focusing on one gene at a time, the researchers explained.
Treatment with a combination of interferon-alpha 2b and ribavirin appeared to increase the transcription of genes that fight viral infections, while reducing the transcription of those that promote inflammation, the authors reported. Specifically, they found that the hepatitis drugs increased the transcription of genes that assist in regulating a protein called sonic hedgehog, which helps moderate immune response to more precisely target the virus.
"This honing in reduces collateral damage from broader, less discriminate attack, and helps stimulate repair and growth of lung tissue," the university explained. "During infection with many severe respiratory viruses… much of the damage is done, not by the virus, but by the body's uncontrolled immune response to the virus."
"The findings of this new study suggest that, in the case of MERS-CoV infections, interferon-alpha 3b [sic] and ribavirin may work primarily by reducing damaging inflammation of the lung and promoting healing by altering the host response, rather than directly targeting the virus," they added. "If that is the case, other drugs that can similarly modulate the body's reaction to viral infections may also prove to be effective against MERS-CoV."


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WARSAW, Poland - 21 Nov 2008: The Green 500 report (www.green500.org) announced yesterday found that the most energy efficient supercomputer in the world is the IBM system installed in the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling (ICM), at the University of Warsaw. "Nautilus" is a development system for hybrid computer architectures - runs on Linux and it is based on QS22 Blade servers. It produces more than 536 Mflops (millions of floating point operations per second) per one watt. Nautilus has been ranked 221 in the latest Top500 list (www.top500.org) of supercomputers, which was announced earlier this week.IBM has already installed the two-rack system which is now up and running. ICM will use Nautilus for high-end computer-intensive research projects in the areas of computer visualisation, medical imaging, astrophysics, bioinformatics, fluid flow simulations and weather forecasting. Hybrid computing machines, based on PowerXCell8i processors like Nautilus are 'smarter' than the usual systems, because they are able to reach greater performance while reducing the power consumption.
"Together with IBM, we are starting in Poland a new trend, which I would call green revolution in high-end technology. We believe that the world should be greener. That is why we decided to build our supercomputer with that idea in mind, choosing technology, similar to the one used in world's fastest supercomputer Roadrunner." – said Professor Marek Niezgódka, ICM Director.
One of the first technical prototype activities was working with DDR InfiniBand on the QS22 blades as well as tuning the PowerXCell8i processors to operate at a clock-speed of 4Ghz which results in further increase of the theoretical peak performance of the cluster to 30 TFlops. Future plans include further development of hybrid computer architectures in which PowerXCell8i processors are used as accelerators for traditional x86 based nodes (i.e. AMD Opteron based BladeCenter LS21 blades).
"According to some recent reports, the energy losses in conventional systems range between 40 and 70 percent. On average, for every 100 units of energy piped into a data centre, only 3 units are used for actual computing. More than half goes to cooling the servers. Nautilus, based on IBM technology, makes supercomputing smarter - greener and more efficient. We at IBM are pleased to have the lead in this project" – said Krzysztof Bulaszewski, Systems and Technology Group Manager, IBM Poland.
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Athena Yang tied for third in the Florida High School Ahtletics Association Class 2A girls state tournament on Wednesday, not bad for a 14-year-old golfer in her freshman year of high school.
Athena Yang tied for third in the Florida High School Ahtletics Association Class 2A girls state tournament on Wednesday, not bad for a 14-year-old golfer in her freshman year of high school.
"To be honest, I'm really happy that I played well,'' said Yang, a ninth-grader at Winter Haven High School.
"In every round, there's positive and there's negative things. I'm just a bit disappointed because I could have done better. But I'm happy with where I finished,'' she said.
Sam Horsfield, a 16-year-old sophomore at Ridge Community High School in Davenport, tied for fourth in the s 2A boys tournament.
"I played OK. It could have been better, but it could have also been worse,'' said Horsfield, a native of England.
"I'm pretty happy. It's a good finish."
Yang and Horsfield were the only players representing Polk County in the state tournament, playing at different sites.
Yang shot 2-over-par 74 Wednesday at Harbor Hills Country Club in Lady Lake after a first-round 76 to finish 10 shots behind the winner.
Carly Goldstein of Coral Glades won the championship by four strokes with rounds of 71-69. Paige Lyle of Timber Creek in Orlando posted a pair of 72s to take second. Yang tied for third with Madison Lellyo of Orlando Olympia.
"Athena played her game,'' said Winter Haven coach Robin Elkins. "She had about four holes that she could have birdied, but they just didn't go in.
"To be a ninth-grader and to be third overall, that's outstanding."
Horsfield shot even-par 72 at Deer Island Golf and Lake Club in Tavares, two strokes better than his first round.
"It's pretty good, since I barely made it past the regionals,'' Horsfield said. "I did better than last year (ninth).''
Horsfield finished five strokes behind the champion, John MaGuire of St. Petersburg High, who shot 73-68 to win by two over Brad White of Tampa Plant. Jimmy Stanger of Tampa Gaither was third.
"He hit the ball well. He just couldn't make any birdie putts,'' Ridge Community coach Bob McKnight said.
Horsfield started with bogeys on No. 1 and No. 5, but got back to even par with a chip-in birdie on No. 10 and a 20-foot putt on the 18th hole.


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Uncertainty surrounds the future of Nayland Post Office, which has been described as the hub of the community.
Residents fear the service may be relocated or even closed due to the imminent retirement of current postmistress Patsy Ford.
The parish council is keen to ensure the facility is not lost and is working to set up a meeting with the Post Office to find out exactly what the situation is.
"We do not really know what is happening at the moment," said Mary George, chairman of Nayland Parish Council.
"The postmistress is planning to retire so the Post Office is reviewing the location."
Mrs George said the council had requested further information about the details of what the review could mean and wanted to hold a public meeting with Post Office officials.
"The post office is the hub of the community and it not only covers Nayland, but some of the surrounding villages," she said.
Gerry Battye, a fellow councillor, said it was crucial that the High Street business survived.
"We discussed the matter at a council meeting last week and there is an upswell of opinion in the village that we must keep the service," said Mr Battye, from Elm Grove.
Last year, the village was named among the top 101 places to live in Great Britain by a national newspaper, with residents highlighting the post office as one of its major plus points.
Andora Carver, a member of Nayland with Wissington Conservation Society, said every effort would be made to keep the service.
"The society is very concerned, as is the whole community," she said. "We are looking to clarify the situation."
A Post Office spokesman said it hoped the service would remain.
"We are aware that the sub-postmaster at Nayland has expressed an interest in leaving," he said.
"Customers should be assured that we are committed to maintaining a service in Nayland and will work hard to ensure that the post office can change hands without loss of service to customers."