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Nobody wants to be the general manager of the New York Jets. This is weird.
"They can't give the position away," Fox Sports insider and NFL Network contributor Jay Glazer reported Sunday. "They are now calling back candidates that turned them down, saying please reconsider."
The Jets come off like the pimply-faced teen unwilling to take no for an answer in their doomed search for a prom date. Calling candidates back and asking them to reconsider? That's a pungent whiff of desperation right there.
(We'll now give Jets fans the appropriate time to digest just how close you were to the Super Bowl two short years ago. Take however long you need. We'll be here.)
Though we didn't feel this sort of thing needed to be pointed out, it's intrinsically insane that a GM job in the NFL would be ignored. After all, there are only 32 of these gigs on the planet. Many a loyal team employee has gone to the grave without reaching the top rung of professional football's personnel ladder.
You can make the argument that the Jets' job is the best on the market right now. Seriously. Here's why:
» Rex Ryan is not a problem: Yes, you're stuck with him next year, but you'll have every right to kick him out the door if the team stumbles again. He's a built-in mulligan. And who knows, you might even learn to love the big galoot.
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» Woody Johnson is not a problem: The Johnson era has been marked by some obvious grabs at the spotlight, but he doesn't strike us a man unable to listen to reason. Make good decisions and deliver results and even the most meddlesome of owners (in the non-Jerry Jones division) will back off.
» You can manage with Mark Sanchez for now: Like Ryan, you're only handcuffed to Sanchez for one year. Then again, is having Sanchez on the roster such a bad thing? Think about it: Say you select a QB early in the draft. Sanchez allows you the option to ease your hypothetical rookie hotshot into the lineup. If Sanchez somehow manages to turn his career around, great, maybe he has some trade value after all. If not, the future becomes now.
» There are some pieces on this roster: Darrelle Revis needs to get healthy (not to mention paid), but don't be surprised when the training camp stories surface about the star cornerback looking better than ever. Nick Mangold is a top-shelf center in his prime. Antonio Cromartie, D'Brickashaw Ferguson and David Harris are quality pieces to the puzzle. This is a roster that needs plenty of work, but let's not pretend an incoming GM is inheriting the 2008 Lions.
» Salary-cap hell is more like purgatory: ESPN reported the Jets are currently $19.4 million over the salary cap, the worst such figure in the league. But they go $8.3 million under the moment the team says goodbye to Bart Scott, Jason Smith and Calvin Pace, according to the New York Daily News. Yes we can!
» The bar for success remains shockingly low: The Jets haven't appeared in the Super Bowl since 1969. They're 0-4 in AFC Championship Games. They have exactly two AFC East titles in their history. If you can build a culture of winning, you're the second coming. Which reminds us ...
» There's no better place to win than New York: It's cliche but true. This is a city and region that loves and remembers its winners. Bring the Lombardi back to Gang Green and you're practically knighted. You'll also never pay for another wing at the Hooters in East Rutherford, so there's that.
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Glassy eyed: Artists reveal their fragile outlooks
Artists from Down Under are serving up art all over Charlottesville this month. Australian painter Reko Rennie has transformed a room at the Kluge Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, collaborated on a mural at The Bridge, and hopped up empty downtown storefronts with huge pink kangaroos. Meanwhile, New Zealander Garry Nash and Australian Keith Rowe shine in Warm Springs Gallery's blown-glass exhibition, "Illuminations."
Featuring work by six internationally recognized artists, "Illuminations" showcases pieces that marry form and function. The concept of "vessel" may be the common launch point, but each hand-blown bowl, vase, and platter reveals the distinct aesthetic of its maker. For instance, Carrie Gustafson etches her symmetrical vases with uniform patterns so meticulous in their execution that just thinking about the focus required is headache inducing. In contrast, Jim Vollmer fuses parallel ribbons of candy-colored glass and folds them to create freeform bowls reminiscent of striped fabric.
But it is the artists from Down Under, along with Americans Jeffrey P'an and Fred Kaemmer, who offer the most intriguing work. Garry Nash's color-saturated pieces range from two small opaque vases, with crackled and dotted surface designs, to a clear orange bowl inlaid with scattered millefiori circlets to an oversized vessel swimming with yellow, blue, and green shapes. Drawing inspiration from The Great Barrier Reef, he imbues many of his objects with a sense of the ocean.
Keith Rowe also responds to the sea in vessels from his "Reef" and "Coastal" series. On the other hand, his "Moonlight Series" evolved from Rowe's motorcycle rides along tree-lined roads at night. On the frosted exterior of "Moonlight Series Orb," cloudy circles of gold, deep red, and white drift in random clusters across a cobalt blue background. A glimpse inside the vase's circular mouth, however, surprises with an altogether different experience; the milky interior seems self-illuminated and almost alive with blood-red cells.
Jeffrey P'an, for his part, takes advantage of what transparency enables in his party-colored vessels that incorporate glass mosaic work, as well as etching and other textural enhancements. Colors and patterns show through from the opposite sides of his pieces, adding even more motion to P'an's already active surfaces. Meanwhile, Fred Kaemmer fuses blown glass with overlays of metallic leaf, creating reflective luminosity and teasing the eye with what is hidden and revealed in his bowls and vases.
Collectively, the pieces in "Illuminations" sparkle with their makers' varied responses to making beauty useful.
"Illuminations: An Exhibition of Hand Blown Glass" runs through February 28 at Warm Springs Gallery, 105 Third St. NE. 245-0800.


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What is your favorite thing about working for Marquette University?
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How would you rate your Marquette experience?
Marquette has been a great place for me to work. I've been given the opportunity to develop my career in more ways than I ever imagined when I started. I really like the people I work with and there is always a new challenge to keep me growing and learning. The tuition remission benefit provided an incredible opportunity for me to complete my MBA in December of 2005. Every day I take concepts I learned in class and apply them to my work.
What do you feel Marquette University contributes most to Milwaukee?
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Rollins, Lee lift Phils over D'backs
Phoenix, AZ – Jimmy Rollins accounted for two of the three Philadelphia runs and Cliff Lee pitched seven stellar innings as the Phillies edged the Arizona Diamondbacks, 3-1, at Chase Field.
Rollins delivered the game's first run on a sacrifice fly in the fifth inning and provided some insurance in the seventh with a single up the middle. Ben Revere went 2-for-3 and scored twice while Lee laid down three sacrifice bunts, the first Phillies pitcher to accomplish such a feat since Chad Ogea in 1999.
Lee (4-2) tossed seven scoreless and struck out three but was lifted after throwing 114 pitches, 78 of which went for strikes. Jonathan Papelbon entered with one gone in the eighth and recorded his sixth save of the season.
"[Lee] pitched great, that's not the last game he's going to throw that way, he's thrown a lot like that before," Arizona manager Kirk Gibson said. "He had total command of the strike zone, threw the ball wherever he wanted to, in or out, up or down. It was just a great job by him."
Trevor Cahill (2-4) yielded just one run on three hits but walked five in five innings of work.
After four scoreless innings, Rollins put the visiting Phillies on the board with his sac fly to deep center field. Revere worked a walk, advanced to second on Lee's sac bunt, and took third on a Cahill wild pitch.
Rollins extended Philadelphia's lead two frames later, once again plating Revere after a single and Lee sacrifice, this time on a single to right.
"I usually have success when I get runners on. Not so much yet this year," Rollins said. "Tonight I did what was needed. I was put in a good position and I got a sac fly and a single."
Dominic Brown provided the third run in the eighth, plating Michael Young with a single to center. Carlos Ruiz followed with a single off Will Harris to load the bases, but pinch-hitter Laynce Nix struck out looking.
Antonio Bastardo started the eighth for the Phillies but walked A.J. Pollock and surrendered a one-out single to Paul Goldschmidt, putting runners on the corners. Papelbon then relieved Bastardo and allowed a sac fly to Cody Ross for the lone Arizona run but struck out Miguel Montero to end the threat.
Papelbon put two on in the ninth but fanned pinch-hitter Eric Hinske and Pollock to earn his first save of more than one inning this season and 36th of his career.
Game Notes
Ryan Howard went 0-for-5 tonight with four strikeouts. He has not recorded a hit in his last 14 at-bats ... The Phillies are 5-for-28 with runners in scoring position through three games this series ... Arizona saw its five-game win streak come to an end... Pollock doubled twice while Gerardo Parra went 3- for-4.


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The Palmetto and Its South Carolina Home
Jim Harrison
A celebration of paintings and images exploring the beauty and strength of South Carolina's state tree
With its fanlike evergreen fronds, soft trunk, and strong root system, the palmetto is a wind-adapted palm that can bend with strong sea breezes without breaking or being uprooted. Emblematic of survival against opposition, the palmetto tree has captured the imaginations of South Carolinians for generations, appearing on the state seal since the American Revolution and on the state flag since 1861. The palmetto was named South Carolina's official state tree by Governor Burnet R. Maybank in 1939, and in 1974 Governor John C. West commissioned acclaimed South Carolina artist Jim Harrison to paint the official palmetto tree portrait for the State of South Carolina, an image that adorns the State House to this day. The Palmetto and Its South Carolina Home showcases the timeless, natural beauty of the state tree in marshland and coastal landscapes in the popular Harrison style.
Appearing on glassware, stationery, jewelry, and many other decorative and functional objects, the palmetto tree is an omnipresent symbol in South Carolina culture. For Harrison the palmetto remains foremost an icon of the wondrous Carolina coastal habitats. Sweeping images of the coast have been part of Harrison's art since the beginning of his career, and he continues to illustrate his love of the South Carolina coast by capturing the beauty of the state tree amid the many stunning and enchanting scenes included here.
The Palmetto and Its South Carolina Home also explores the historical background of the tree and its many ties to South Carolina's heritage as a symbol of strength and beauty worthy of this artistic celebration.
Jim Harrison describes himself as a mood realist artist. Through his work he seeks to evoke in the viewer the same deep appreciation he holds for America's scenic heritage. Harrison has devoted much of his life and art to the preservation of the past. He studied art at the University of South Carolina and launched his professional career in 1971 on the sidewalks of New York's Greenwich Village. Harrison's first book, Pathways to a Southern Coast, was published by the University of South Carolina Press in 1986 and was brought back into print in 2009.
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"The South Carolina coast is quite a special place. My artwork represents my southern heritage with a wide range of images from coastal to rural Americana scenes. Recently I have refocused on capturing the timeless beauty of our state's coastal areas and South Carolina's tree in particular. The palmetto tree is an image that is very much a part of our state's past, present, and future, and it represents not only the beauty but also the strength of our state and its people."—Jim Harrison


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The first step to growing a good career in the face of Asperger's Syndrome is to recognize that this is a social skills deficit, by definition, and work, by definition, is a social skills decathlon.
I have written before that for me, the biggest problem at work stems from my own sensory integration dysfunction — something that typically tags along with an Asperger's diagnosis. But for someone with Asperger's, it's not enough to deal with sensory integration dysfunction; in order to succeed at the workplace, you need some guidelines for bridging the gap between other peoples' social skills and your own.
So, based on my own experience, here are some concrete rules for doing better at work if you have Asperger's, and maybe if you don't.
1. Spend limited amounts of time with people.
One of the things that is alarming to non-Asperger's people is how few friends and relationships people with Asperger's have. But I have never heard anyone with Asperger's lament this. (Temple Grandin is a good example.) It's not something we feel a loss about. We only need a small amount of closeness in our life. What I do hear Asperger's people sad about all the time is a lack of employment opportunity.
The way to improve this is to spend less time with people. We can be normal in small spurts. We can look charming and quirky in small doses but in large doses, it's overwhelming. So go out to dinner, but then go home. Go to the company picnic, but just talk with people for a little bit. Then leave.
At work you do not need to spend tons of time with people. You can be the weird, smart one. As long as you're not too weird. Get along with people for a little. Then go back to your cube.
2. Don't tell your boss.
People don't care about your random, personal crap. I know, that's crazy to say on this blog. But I'm entertaining or useful, and when I'm at my best, I'm both. Also, your boss won't know what to do. She can't read 400 pages on Asperger's.
Instead, ask your boss questions about social situations. For example, at Brazen Careerist, we just closed a small round of funding. And my boss, our new CEO, sent a thank you to the investors. I emailed him to find out: Should I send a thank you as well? And he said yes. So I did.
When you ask specific questions about social situations, your boss will appreciate that you know you don't know. And your boss will think you're coachable. That helps when your boss sees you being a social moron. The biggest problem with people who have poor social skills is that they don't know what they're missing, so they are not coachable. You will differentiate yourself from this crowd when you ask for help.
Ryan Paugh has great social skills. So I ask him a lot of questions, and I watch him. When Ryan Healy's parents came to visit, I knew I needed to talk with them, because I was the CEO. I know that's a social rule. But I absolutely completely could not figure out what to say. I listened to Ryan Paugh go first. He said, "What do you have planned for the weekend?"
That was a great line. I wouldn't have thought of it. But I know for next time.
People who are typical will think this is an easy conversation to have. They've had it before, in another form. People with Asperger's cannot generalize social rules. We have to learn the thing to say in every single situation.
3. Be great at what you do, and a little odd.
I write obsessively about how important it is to to be a star. It is actually more important for people with Asperger's. This is the only way to stay employable. You will always be difficult to deal with. You need to make it worth everyone's time.
Often, people who are really likable don't have to be good at what they do. People just love being around them. And it's fair, because someone who everyone likes actually does make the team more productive.
Many people who work with me know that I'm weird. The first thing Ryan and Ryan said when they got to Madison was that I am totally eccentric. They put up with it. They stayed because I have built such a good career for myself. They wanted to work with me because of that, so they excuse the poor social skills.
By the time you get to the mid-point in your career, it's clear that the people who stand out as great at what they do are also weird, and they are thinking in odd ways. It's what makes them stand out. So the more successful you are in your career, the more okay it is, and the more expected it should be, for you to be odd.
4. Do office politics by being totally direct.
There is office politics in every office. Because office politics is about how people get along. If you have Asperger's, there is not a good way for you to know all the nuances—we don't understand mean, vindictive, passive aggressive, these are all way too complicated. So we don't do them. This should make people like us, if we do it right. Unfortunately, I've noticed that much of how I act comes off as mean, even if this is not my intention.
So you need to really look at peoples' faces. And if you get a bad reaction when you say something, even if you think it's not a bad thing to say, you need to stop and ask if you hurt someone's feelings. I ask this four or five times in any given day. "Are you angry?" Most of the time people are surprised that I don't know. But I keep asking. There is no other way to find out.
5. Don't get frustrated by the rules.
Recently, I've been reminded about how hard it was to learn business rules because I had to learn dating rules. I got frustrated about dating. Like I'll never learn. For four dates I didn't understand why people drink on a date. I don't understand why you don't say at the beginning of the date if you want to have sex at the end, so you know what you're leading to. But I tried to just do what other people are doing. It doesn't make sense to me, but I just try to fit in.
There are rules like this for the office, as well. Just follow them. Don't ask for any rationale. It won't make sense. That's okay.


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It took one Instagram photo to shake up the sports industry.
The morning after April Fools' Day, Jay-Z's entertainment company, Roc Nation, posted a picture of the rapper-turned-mogul signing New York Yankees star Robinson Cano to a contract as the first client of his newly announced full-service sports management company, Roc Nation Sports. Partnering with established sports representatives Creative Artists Agency, the joke appeared to be on other agents, who suddenly faced the prospect of losing clients to one of the biggest entertainers in the world, a tastemaker whose particular brand of cool has minted money for associated clothing lines, nightclubs, beer brands, record labels and fellow artists.
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Jay-Z, aka Shawn Carter, once rapped that "I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man." If his latest vision succeeds, the branding opportunities provided by Roc Nation could very well give his clients the capability to say the same thing, something that scares his newest competitors.
"Agents are going to be terrified of Jay-Z," Maxx Sports & Entertainment founder and former NFL player agent Mark Lepselter told USA TODAY Sports. "He'll be a legitimate threat."
Would you hire Roc Nation Sports? Join the conversation.
While the principals behind Roc Nation Sports continue to remain secretive about their long-term strategy, details have started to emerge about the roster of talent the company is assembling, as well as the partnership with CAA. Wednesday, New York Jets rookie quarterback Geno Smith announced that he had hired Roc Nation Sports as his representative. Smith joins Cano, New York Giants receiver Victor Cruz and the Tulsa Shock's Skylar Diggins, the third overall pick in last month's WNBA draft. If the perks of signing with Roc Nation Sports weren't clear to other potential clients, the company and Diggins made sure to tweet out photos of her Notre Dame graduation gift from Jay-Z, a new white Mercedes.
Renowned baseball agent Scott Boras, whom Cano fired in order to sign with Roc Nation and CAA's Brodie Van Wagenen, is critical of the whole endeavor.
"To suggest that somebody is going to walk off the street and say, 'I am a fan, I enjoy sports, so I can do this,' is no different than somebody watching the Discovery channel and saying, 'I'm a fan of medicine, I like surgery, so I'll start operating on people,'" Boras told USA TODAY Sports. "This is a profession. It's a different environment. If you're not singularly committed to this game, it's a very ugly song."
Boras' criticism might be valid when it comes to representing veteran Major League Baseball or NFL players looking to solely increase the dollar value of their next contracts. But that is going to be a tough argument to make to rookies or younger players trying to make a name for themselves off the field.
"It's the rock-star thing," said former NFL all-pro Trevor Pryce, who started a record label and sold several television scripts while playing for the Denver Broncos and the Baltimore Ravens. "I'd say probably 70% of all athletes in America would sign with Jay-Z. It has nothing to do with business.
"If you're one of his guys, it affords you a lot of opportunity to do things off the field. If you're James Harrison, none of that appeals to you. 'I'm a football player and this is what I do, and I'm not worried about going to nobody's stupid-ass party. None of that is of any use to me.' But If you're a good-looking 21-year-old Notre Dame graduate girl with a supermodel build and cute face, absolutely."
Baltimore Ravens cornerback Corey Graham agrees.
"Jay-Z is Jay-Z," Graham said. "He's done so much in that rap industry, and he's got a lot going on outside of rap. He's a businessman. He does a great job. I could see a lot of guys going to him. He's just an unbelievable businessman."
A fresh approach
Since the announcement of Roc Nation Sports, there have been the inevitable comparisons to rapper Master P's foray into the sports agent business in 1999. The New Orleans musician represented Heisman Trophy winner Ricky Williams in his dealings with the New Orleans Saints, as the rookie signed an incentive-laden seven-year deal that is seen as one of the worst in history for a pro athlete.
ESPN analyst and former NFL player agent Andrew Brandt represented Williams before the running back dropped him to sign with Master P. He sees Jay-Z becoming a formidable presence in the industry.
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"Master P was not affiliated with experienced and sophisticated agents, therefore the Ricky Williams (deal) was not done well, and that caused problems for him," Brandt said. "In this case, Jay-Z is not going to be the one poring over contract language and dealing with structure of a contract. Ricky was turned on, as I'm sure a lot of athletes will be with Jay-Z, by the opportunity to enter markets beyond football: entertainment, music, music productions, all those kind of things. That's hard to compete against."
While the company is in its early stages, Jay-Z seems to be following the model of building a stable of athletes much like another icon-turned-entrepreneur did. Nike's Jordan apparel brand selected a team of marketable personalities from various sports (Russell Westbrook, CC Sabathia and Andre Johnson, for example) who seem to exude a similar cachet as the brand's namesake.
Indeed, many players rushed to Jay-Z after the announcement expressing interest in signing on, according to a person close to the agency who spoke to USA TODAY Sports on the condition of anonymity because player procurement details are confidential. Nearly all of the players were turned away, as Roc Nation Sports is taking a more selective approach, the person said.
"Jay-Z is a pretty private guy, and I think that helps that sort of exclusive-club feeling that he's going out and hand-selecting those athletes and he wants to make them feel special, and that's his M.O.," said Matt Delzell, managing director of The Marketing Arm. Delzell works in his agency's senior celebrity endorsement group and has negotiated hundreds of deals for brands and clients. "But he's there to make money. He wants to make his athletes money; it's just a slightly different approach at the beginning."
Just how that will be done and how Jay-Z's involvement will mesh with existing league rules regarding agents remains to be seen. Before signing Smith, Roc Nation Sports hired relative unknown attorney Kimberly Miale, whom Smith chose as his contract agent. Jay-Z is not certified by the NFL Players Association, so Miale, who has not responded to multiple calls and e-mails from USA TODAY Sports, will have to represent Smith in negotiations with the Jets.
Agents have been furious with Jay-Z's role in recruiting Smith and Cruz, pointing to the NFLPA's "runner rule," which was put in place last year. The rule dictates that only certified agents can recruit players.
But a person informed of discussions between CAA and the NFLPA told USA TODAY Sports the agency checked with the union before CAA's Tom Condon signed Cruz. The person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the NFLPA hasn't addressed the issue publicly, said the union told Condon that Jay-Z wasn't a runner in this case because of a longstanding relationship between the parties. It remains to be seen whether the NFLPA takes issue with Jay-Z's recruitment of Smith. The union did not reply to inquiries seeking comment.
Casting a wide net
Jay-Z sold his small percentage of ownership shares in the Brooklyn Nets last month in order to free up the company to sign prospective NBA clients. While his counsel might be valuable in urging Cano, who is set to become a free agent at the end of the season, to remain in pinstripes, it is Van Wagenen who will be sitting at the negotiating table with teams.
Seth Jones, likely to become the first African-American player picked first overall in the NHL draft, has been mentioned as one of the next potential signees with Roc Nation Sports. He's represented by CAA agent Pat Brisson, who counts Sidney Crosby and Patrick Kane among his clients and emphasizes that Jones is only exploring possible opportunities with Roc Nation.
"I'm not going to change (agents) any time soon. I hope to stay with (Brisson) for a long time," Jones said. "But people got confused about what Jay-Z would do if I was to sign with him; he'd just handle my marketing, and that's it. He wouldn't be my agent. He wouldn't talk to general managers in the NHL and sign deals for me."
Lepselter sees Jay-Z best using his clout to get prospective athletes in the door, then leaving the contract and endorsement negotiations to representatives at CAA or the people behind the scenes at Roc Nation.
"He'll be the face (of Roc Nation), the Mariano Rivera of closers," Lepselter said.
Are agents concerned about the company poaching their clients? That depends on whom you talk to.
"I never worry about that (cherry picking), because if a kid wants to talk to another agent, then either I'm not doing a good job or he's not as loyal as I think he is," said Joe Linta, whose client, Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco, signed a then-record six-year, $120.6 million deal in February.
"Hey look, do I worry about my wife cheating on me? I may not be the best agent, and I'm not the best-looking guy. But I'm not worried about my wife cheating on me. And I'm not worried about my players cheating on me, either."
Brandt doesn't buy it.
"Everyone's worried about their clients; everyone's protecting their clients," he said. " But if Jay-Z becomes a factor, there's going to be even more worry about that, especially if there's a buzz around him in the locker room, the other players or friends are talking about him. That's when you worry as an agent."
Now that the initial Roc Nation Sports roster is taking shape, how will individual athletes maximize their involvement with the company? It's no coincidence New York-centric Jay-Z chose Big Apple-based athletes as his first three clients. But how successful the company is in branding Diggins could measure how much of an impact it can have in and beyond the sports world.
"Jay-Z's looking at this as entertainment first, sports second," Pryce said. "It's great for the WNBA and women's sports in general. I have two daughters, and they are tennis players. That's great that someone like him would sign someone like her. She's been the apple of the hip-hop community's eye for a long time. She's good looking, she's young, Lil Wayne wants to marry her. All those things come into play when you think about signing athletes to your company. Are you going to get rich negotiating her $125,000-a-year contract? No, you're going to get rich making her a spokeswoman for H&M. That's the power he has."
Reporting by Jim Corbett, Mike Garafolo, Jeffrey Martin and Bob Nightengale


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Cooper Bussmann, St. Louis, recently announced it will offer new free educational and training presentations for electrical inspectors, contractors, engineers, electricians, trainers, and other interested parties.
Available at www.bussmann.com/services/training/, the first two presentations cover new 2002 NEC requirements for Secs. 110.16 and 240.85. The new Sec. 110.16 is intended to reduce the occurrence of serious injury or death due to arcing faults involving people who work on electrical equipment. This regulation includes switchboards, panelboards, industrial control panels, and motor control centers in other than dwelling units, which are likely to require examination, adjustment, servicing, or maintenance while energized. Sec. 240.85 has two new additions relating to overcurrent device applications. These changes relate to slash voltage ratings and single-pole interrupting capabilities.
You can view narrated presentations 24 hours a day as well as download non-narrated text or PowerPoint versions. Cooper Bussmann plans to add more presentations to the site in the future, so stay tuned.
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Quick: Name an American woman who's made a fortune by founding a technology company. Ex-eBay's Meg Whitman?
It's Judy Faulkner, the founder and chief executive officer of privately-held Epic Systems, which sells electronic health records. If you've never heard of Faulkner, it's because she wants it that way. Ensconced in the tiny town of Verona, Wisconsin, she shies away from the press, rarely giving interviews. When I got in touch with her back in early December for a profile in the magazine, she refused to tell her story, insisting the spotlight should shine on her customers. They make up the upper echelons of U.S. health care, and include Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins, Cedars-Sinai, and HMO giant Kaiser Permanente. They are willing to shell out millions to install Epic's digital patient records. In that world, Faulkner is simply known by her first name Judy--like Madonna or Oprah.
Her influence on U.S. health care is substantial. The company says that by next year, nearly 40% of the U.S. population will have its medical information stored in an Epic digital record. Mine is. Faulkner is also the only head of a company to sit on a government-appointed committee that makes recommendations on issues that will affect not only Americans, but her own company. They include setting standards for the exchange of patient medical information.
Faulkner founded Epic in 1979, with the original name of Human Services Computing. A computer scientist, she wrote the code for those early patient databases, and built the company without outside capital. She has never raised money from venture or private equity investors, rejecting a request in 2003 from her biggest client Kaiser Permanente to get a piece of equity when her company was much smaller.
Last year, Epic generated $1.2 billion in revenues—double four years ago; it won't disclose earnings, but says it's profitable and has no debt. Faulkner remains the biggest shareholder, with no plans to go public. Forbes estimates her net worth at more than $1.5 billion, making her the only woman to reach the rank of billionaire by founding her own technology company. Faulkner says she's not a billionaire. "That is factually incorrect. We are a private company and don't share private information about stockholders or percentages. I can confirm that Judy holds less than 40% of the stock," says her spokesperson.


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New York mayor aims to ban large sugary drinks
New York City Beverage Association criticizes proposal as 'zealous'
New York City plans to ban the sale of large sodas and other sugary drinks in an effort to combat obesity.
The proposed first-in-the-nation ban would impose a 16-ounce – or 473 millilitres — limit on the size of sweetened drinks sold at restaurants, movie theaters, sports venues and street carts. It would apply to bottled drinks as well as fountain sodas.
The ban, which could take effect as soon as March, would not apply to diet sodas, fruit juices, dairy-based drinks or alcoholic beverages. Nor would it include drinks sold in grocery or convenience stores. Food establishments that don't downsize would face fines of $200 US.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Wednesday that he "thinks it's what the public wants the mayor to do."
A spokesman for the New York City Beverage Association, Stefan Friedman, criticized the proposal as "zealous." He said officials should seek solutions that are actually going to curb obesity.
The proposal requires the approval of the city's health board, which is considered likely because its members are all appointed by Bloomberg.
Under the three-term mayor, the city has campaigned aggressively against obesity, including outlawing trans fats in restaurant food and forcing chain restaurants to post calorie counts on menus.
The Bloomberg administration has tried other ways to make soda consumption less appealing. The mayor supported a state tax on sodas, but the measure died in Albany, and he tried to restrict the use of food stamps to buy sodas, an idea federal regulators rejected.
City hall's latest proposal does not require outside approval, according to The New York Times, although public hearings will be held.


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I. George Miller, Jr, MD
John F. Enders Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Disease) and Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry; Section Chief, Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Departments & Organizations
Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
School of Public Health: Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases
Molecular Virology: Virology Laboratories
Yale Cancer Center: Virus and Other Infection-associated Cancers
Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Biochemistry, Quantitative Biology, Biophysics and Structural Biology (BQBS) | Microbiology
Yale Medicine
Office of Cooperative Research
Dr. Miller's laboratory studies the mechanisms underlying the switch between latency and lytic replication of two oncogenic herpesviruses, Epstein-Barr virus and Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus. Current experiments explore how viral and cellular transcription factors that selectively bind to methylated DNA control expression of viral and cellular genes, how cellular gene expression is selectively inhibited while viral gene expression is enhanced, and how viral DNA replication is regulated by cellular proteins. Recent studies focus on a new class of anti-viral agents that inhibit reactivation of Epstein-Barr virus from latency into lytic infection.
Education & Training
|Harvard College (1968)
|Harvard Medical School (1962)
|Research Fellow
|Children's Hospital, Boston
|Research Fellow
|Harvard Medical School
|Intern & Assistant Resident
|University Hospital, Cleveland
|Board Certification
|AB of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine (1972)


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The issue of Science magazine published today, June 13, contains an important commentary about how the intractable nuclear waste problem might be solved. Isaac J. Winograd and Eugene H. Roseboom Jr, retired senior scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey, suggest creating the proposed repository for high-level nuclear wastes at Yucca Mountain in stages, starting with a pilot facility. Their views have some weight inasmuch as they take credit--or blame?--for having conducted the studies that led to the selection of the hugely contested Nevada site in the first place.
There are at least two ways of recounting the history that led to the current impasse. If you asked me, I'd tell you that in 1989 Luther J. Carter, a respected former news writer for Science magazine, wrote a book for Resources for the Future in which he said essentially this: if we're ever going to solve the nuclear waste problem, we have to just pick a site more or less arbitrarily, and then--damn the torpedos!--ram it through. What better location than the place where the United States had tested nuclear weapons all through the fifties, a place already thoroughly contaminated by radiation? (That's a caricature of Carter's views, to be sure, but I believe he put it pretty much like that to me personally, when I discussed the situation with him a few years later.) What Carter and RFF failed to take into account, in any event, is the degree to which Nevada opinion would rally in the interest of blocking a Yucca Mountain facility. As a result, Nevada's congressional delegation could be counted on to block creation of the repository at every opportunity, and any presidential candidate vying in a Nevada primary would be sorely tempted to pledge opposition to the project.
Winograd and Roseboom tell the story a little differently. More than a quarter century ago, they say, they proposed storing wastes "in areas with deep water tables, specifically within the several-hundred-meter-thick unsaturated zones common to the arid and semi-arid Southwest USA." That led directly to a focus on the Great Basin and, within it, to Yucca Mountain. Nonetheless, when Congress passed legislation in 1987 selecting the site for a repository, the bill immediately became known, as the authors say, as the "screw Nevada act." Technical study followed upon technical study, it soon becoming clear that scientists and engineers would never reach full agreement about long-term risks. Then came a virtual death knell on July 9, 2004, when the generally conservative U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that the integrity of the site would have to be guaranteed not just for 10,000 years--the standard up to the then--but for as much as a million years.
The appeals court decision put nuclear waste strategy into a dead-end. To get out, Winograd and Roseboom argue, "it behooves the earth science community . . . to inform the courts, the public, and legislators that . . . the fate of HLWs over times frames of hundreds of millennia is not knowable." To win back public confidence, they suggest, build a succession of repositories at Yucca Mountain, evaluate them one at a time, retrieve wastes as necessary, and ultimately SOLVE THE PROBLEM.


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NASA's X1 Robosuit Designed to Live Dual Lives
Oct 16, 2012 2:22 PM PT
NASA and IHMC (Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition) have jointly developed a new robotic exoskeleton, dubbed the "XI," that could help astronauts in space stay in better physical shape, while also helping humans on Earth walk.
The 57-pound wearable device is in essence a robot that fits over a human body to either assist or inhibit movement in leg joints. For astronauts, the inhibit mode would be used in space as an exercise machine to supply resistance against leg movement and help combat muscle atrophy.
On Earth, the very same technology could be used in reverse as an assistive walking device for rehabilitation, gait modification, and even for offloading large amounts of weight from the user.
Most impressive of all, it could allow people who have suffered spinal injuries to walk again.
Degrees of Motion
Astronauts in zero gravity need to exercise to keep from losing muscle mass, but exercise equipment can be large and bulky. The X1 offers a notable advantage in that it is just 57 pounds and can be worn, thus freeing up space.
"While devices like treadmills and the Advanced Resistive Exercise Device are already helping astronauts combat the negative effects of long-duration spaceflight, X1 has a few unique differences," said Dan Huot, spokesperson for NASA at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
"It is very lightweight and relatively small compared to current exercise devices," he pointed out, "which would be very important on future long-duration exploration missions."
The device has 10 degrees of freedom, or joints -- and features four motorized joints at the hips and knees, as well as six passive joints that allow for additional movement including sidestepping, turning and even flexing a foot. All this could be helpful in providing exercise options for astronauts.
The X1 is designed to help astronauts battle the effects on the body resulting from long durations spent in microgravity, Huot told TechNewsWorld. "The device could potentially be used for astronaut exercise to improve crew health, as studies have shown that without proper countermeasures, astronauts undergo losses in bone density and muscle atrophy."
To Infinity and Beyond
NASA has noted other uses for the X1 -- some that may seem long-term indeed. These include its possibility as a robotic power boost that could help astronauts work in hostile environments.
"X1 could also provide astronauts with a way to consistently exercise while having the ability to perform different tasks," Huot added. "It could also serve future planetary explorers with a robotic power boost during any surface operations, expanding the ability of individual astronauts to complete large tasks."
The technology could be developed with fail-safe measures built in.
"From a technological standpoint there could easily be circuits that cross-check each other, so there are redundant systems to ensure that it won't break down," said Derin Sherman, associate professor of physics at Cornell College. "In the long term, that isn't as much of a problem."
Back on Earth
The functionality of the X1 is also notable in that it can be used as an assistance device back on Earth, where it could help those who have difficulty walking. With the X1's unique dual functionality, it could help pave the way for more compact exoskeleton designs.
"All the potential users of exoskeletons fall into two groups," said Jacob Rosen, Ph.D., director of the Bionics Lab in the Department of Computer Engineering at UCSC.
"There are those who can recover from their injury, and there are those who will not. Both can use an exoskeleton, but those who can recover can use it as a form or rehabilitation, while those with permanent injuries could possibly need an exoskeleton indefinitely."
For the latter group, the exoskeleton becomes a walking wheelchair, Rosen told TechNewsWorld.
What makes this possible is the availability of lighter yet stronger materials to create the exoskeleton -- but what remains an issue is fueling the machine.
"The biggest problem that we were looking at is very mundane, as it is the power source," said Sherman. "It is the most mundane thing you can think of. Power seems to be the problem. In comic books you can dispense what you need from some unexplained energy source. It is all well and good to develop a suit, but how do you power it?"
Improvements in battery technology could make this less of an issue.
"This is a matter of energy density," said Rosen. "This comes down to how much energy you can encapsulate into the device given its weight. Batteries have come a long way recently with their ability to store energy. This has allowed them to become mobile devices that are not tethered."
Cutting the cord could allow wearers of exoskeletons to walk. The experience might not be quite like that of Iron Man, who can take flight and fight super villains, but for individuals otherwise confined to a wheelchair, it might come close.


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Yogurt Whey in a sourdough = No gluten?
So I made yogurt last night, and I had about a cup and a half of whey after I strained it. My girlfriend used a half cup in muffins, leaving a cup left over. About to make a loaf of sourdough, I replaced a cup of water with the whey. I did about 1.5 cups of 8-hour old starter. I mixed those straight into the final bread, adding around .5 kg of bread flour and .25 kg of whole wheat partial malt bread flour, and enough water to hit what felt like 65-70% hydration. I let it ferment overnight, and in the morning, it was weird.
The gluten just never wanted to develop. I make this sourdough loaf weekly, and the starter is supposedly at least 13 years old. I started with a couple of stretch & folds, but the dough was just tearing. I kneaded it hard for about 2 minutes, and it still never came together. To proof it, I just lumped in a loaf pan. I baked it at 400 for 40 minutes, and it split around the rim, and had unsightly holes all around the sides.
I blame the whey. I've never used it before, and it seems to have just made the dough too slack. Probably all of those yogurt bacteria proteases. No me gusta.
Still tastes real good, just not pretty in the slightest.