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Interviews with People Who Make a Difference: Frontier Science
Interview with Beverly Rubik PhD
as interviewed by Daniel Redwood DC
Beverly Rubik is a leading spokesperson for research in consciousness studies, subtle energies, and alternative and complementary medicine, frontier areas that challenge the dominant biomedical paradigm.
Trained as a biophysicist at the University of California at Berkeley (Ph.D., 1979), she conducted postdoctoral research and supervised graduate student research at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory while also serving as a faculty member at San Francisco State University from 1979 to 1988. In l988 Dr. Rubik relocated to Philadelphia to become founding director of the Center for Frontier Sciences at Temple University. The Center facilitated global information exchange, networking, and education on frontier issues of science and medicine. Two important foci of the Center were alternative/complementary medicine and the matter-mind-spirit interrelationship. The Center was the first of its kind in the world linked to a major university and spawned sister centers at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico and the University of Milano, Italy. A journal,
Frontier Perspectives
, was founded in 1990 by Rubik and was published and distributed semi-annually to over 3,500 affiliates of the Center in 58 countries.
From 1992 to 1994, Dr. Rubik served as a member of the Advisory Panel to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Alternative Medicine and was Panel Chair on Bioelectromagnetics. She presently serves on the editorial board of several journals, including the
Alternative Health Practitioner; Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine;
and the
Journal of Complementary Therapies in Medicine
(UK). She is a member of the advisory board of the
Journal of Subtle Energies
and the
European Journal of Classical Homeopathy
. She also serves as an advisory board member to the John Templeton Foundation and the Society for Scientific Exploration, and has served the MacArthur Foundation as a nominator of fellows.
In late 1995 Dr. Rubik left Temple University to continue her work as an independent scholar and consultant and founded the Institute for Frontier Science, a nonprofit corporation. She is presently writing a book on the frontiers of science and medicine. An anthology of her writings,
Life at the Edge of Science
, was published in 1996. Rubik is also an advisor for HealthWorld Online, a consultant for corporations involved in the nutrition and bioelectromagnetic industries, lectures widely at universities and conferences in the United States and abroad, and has a new appointment as Visiting Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Arizona at Tucson, in the integrative medicine program under Dr. Andrew Weil, and is an adjunct faculty member at Union Institute, California Institute for Human Science, and the University of Creation Spirituality.
In this interview with Dr. Daniel Redwood, Dr. Rubik discusses the limitations of the mechanistic worldview underlying conventional medicine and the emerging research that may constitute the basis of a more inclusive paradigm. In particular, she feels it essential that health researchers and practitioners consider the role of energy flows in living systems rather than limiting their purview to molecular biochemistry. Moreover, she believes the new paradigm must take into account recent research on the role of the mind in healing (including healing at a distance).
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You are trained as a biophysicist, but are best known as a proponent of "frontier science." What is frontier science, and what led you in this direction?
It's a term used to differentiate it from mainstream science, which is most academic science, and also to differentiate it from fringe science, which is very unconventional stuff. Frontier science is science that is outside of the mainstream but has a significant number of scholars asking questions within its domain. Topics such as consciousness studies and the science underlying alternative medicine are examples of what I call frontier science.
What do you see as the primary features of the dominant scientific paradigm, and how does frontier science challenge it?
The dominant biomedical or biological paradigm is where life is viewed mainly as a bag of biomolecules, and a human being is a collection of organs, tissues, and other things that it can be reduced to. In that paradigm, the whole is considered the sum of its parts. It's also a mechanistic or materialistic worldview. For example, in the dominant paradigm consciousness is nothing but brain processes or the results of brain processes. Some of its chief features are materialism, reductionism, and fragmentation.
What are the problems with that paradigm?
I don't think that a molecular view of life is sufficient for understanding holistic medicine or the whole human being.
What other factors need to be included to create a larger or more applicable paradigm?
We need to consider energy flows in biology, the subtle energies that can't really be reduced to molecules. A good example is acupuncture. I'm aware that some features of acupuncture have been reduced to molecules, such as the analgesic effects that have purportedly been explained in terms of endorphin release. But the nonlocality of acupuncture, and why stimulating at the crown of the head might cure hemorrhoids, is beyond anybody's comprehension from a molecular view. The specificity of that point for hemorrhoids and other points on the body for other internal organs certainly challenge it.
Why do you think conventional medicine became so focused on the biochemical, molecular level as opposed to the other possibilities?
I think it's pretty obvious. We have a pharmaceutical industry that has grown up in the last 50 years that has been highly profitable and somewhat successful in dealing with acute diseases. So the approach has been to look for magic bullets in medicine. That approach works well with acute diseases, but it does not work for chronic degenerative disease. So we see the failure of that approach. Also, conventional medicine has failed to treat the whole person. It tends to reduce the person to their diagnosis, to the disease. In hospitals, people are even referred to as their disease [i.e. the pancreatic cancer in room 205]. Increasingly, people are upset at this. Patients want to be treated as whole persons, whose minds and spirits have something to do with their healing.
There's a body of evidence from frontier science that leads us to believe that mind is more than brain function, because conscious intention and prayer operating over even long distances can have beneficial effects on people. There have been experiments on distant healing and prayer, showing that people can have effects on other people as well as on microorganisms. I myself have conducted some of these experiments.
What are some of the important studies in the field?
There was a recent study that came out of California Pacific Medical Center, published in December 1998 in the Western Medical Journal. It was a study on AIDS patients who were treated over long distances by various types of spiritual healers with different religious orientations. The healers were not acquainted with the patients. They simply had the name of the patient. The outcome of that study, which went on for some weeks, was that those patients who were prayed for, unlike the control group, had fewer infections and better prognoses. I don't think there were any deaths in the prayed-for group as opposed to the control group. These were pretty advanced AIDS patients, so deaths would have been expected in both groups. This study is just one example. There are experiments on microbes that I began doing 20 years ago, which showed that consciousness can have beneficial effects on the growth and motility of simple cells, which probably don't have consciousness as we do. So there's something more going on beyond the placebo effect, which might result from believing that you're being prayed for.
How do you think that works? How does that connection, that effect, occur?
For local healing, where people hold their hands near test tubes of cells, or around patients, there may be a different mechanism than in distant-healing experiments. Let me first talk about local healing, with which I've had the most experience. It's possible that there may be an energy emission (even if it's a very low level energy that the human body emits). That information may be extremely coherent and meaningful to the receiver, able to alter their energetics and promote healing. In the distant-healing experiments, we can't invoke energy as an explanation because the weak energy field around the body would dissipate greatly over distance. So we have to consider other possibilities.
Such as?
We talk about mind in frontier physics as if it were a nonlocal phenomenon, a la Bell's Theorem. In other words, in the quantum world everything is fundamentally interconnected. And mind has this property that when intention is applied it can be highly specific toward another person, even on the other side of the planet, and effects can be seen. We really don't fundamentally understand consciousness, but we can make an analogy to the world of quantum mechanics since we see evidence of this nonlocality in the realm of particles. In other words, if particles were once connected and later become separated from each other, they remain correlated even if they're on opposite ends of the universe. Humans apparently have the same kind of holistic interconnectedness that remains. We don't understand consciousness, but we can invoke the possibility of nonlocality from quantum physics. Perhaps it is how prayer and intention to heal work successfully over long distance. Again, these phenomena are not fully explained by science as we know it. I would say the experimental evidence is certainly strong, but our theories are weak.
Does the lack of a well-developed theory to explain these measured effects cause difficulty in allowing the data to be broadly accepted? That is, if you've got the clinical data showing that the effect is there but you don't yet have an acceptable theory to explain it, does this cause political problems in allowing people who might otherwise accept the clinical data to accept it?
Yes, but it's even worse in this case, because it's not just observations lacking a theory, but something deeply challenging a whole paradigm, and even the foundations of science. If consciousness can interact with physical or material reality, that challenges one of the premises of science itself -- that mind is passive and can only observe nature. So it's much deeper than the lack of a theory. Certainly the lack of an appropriate theory is part of the fear and loathing that some people feel about this topic, but the deeper problem is that it seriously challenges the foundations of science.
What kinds of experiments do you think could move this process forward, to catalyze a paradigm shift?
First of all, no single study can catalyze a paradigm shift. According to the history and sociology of science, there is a growing body of data that challenges the paradigm that's swept under the rug, and when the heap of data gets so big that you can't hide it under the rug, it gives birth to a new paradigm.
The types of experiments that I've been involved in are key in promoting this shift. There's only one conscious entity involved, the researcher, or in some cases also a healer. But the recipients of the healing are cells, which are not conscious like people are. They don't know about the nature of the experiment. If cells respond in such an experiment where healers are laying hands on them, or talking to them, or communicating with them across distances, then there is a pretty strong bet that consciousness is interacting with a physical reality. Whereas if people are involved, such as in the AIDS experiment I mentioned, and they are told that they might be in the prayed-for group, or that they might not be, they may have high expectations, such as, "Gee, someone's praying for me, I feel better already." So there's the placebo effect at work, and not necessarily direct physical intervention by another conscious being.
Is the electromagnetic field of the body involved in human health? Can there be external influences that impact upon it negatively and thereby cause disease?
I think that both are true. We have some epidemiological evidence that humans, especially children, placed in schools or homes around power lines, have higher incidences of leukemia, lymphoma, and brain tumors. There were also reports about ten years ago that pregnant women sleeping under electric blankets (at least the older ones) had higher rates of miscarriages and birth defects in their offspring. It's not so clear for adults, however. The electropollution from our environment poses yet another stressor on our lives. The way stressors act upon us is that one plus one plus one may equal nine, and then you snap and get sick.
So it's very hard to point the finger to say bioelectromagnetics directly causes a particular tumor. It's not so simple, unfortunately. Our bodily systems don't work linearly; they're more like chaotic systems. They can absorb stress, they're somewhat resilient, but they get to the point where there's only so much stress they can take, and then they break. So the causal relationship is not clear. It's not like classical mechanics and physics, because once again, I'm considering these things from a new paradigm perspective, not from na•ve, simple causality. Everybody would like simple causal relations in medicine, but unfortunately, it's not so clear-cut. For chronic degeneration, it's impossible to point to a single cause. This is also true of electromagnetic influences "causing" disease.
I'm certain, however, that the evidence for the other side of the coin -- electromagnetic medicine -- is clearer. There are many devices on the market, some of them FDA approved and most of them not, that can enhance or accelerate healing, lift mood, and can help broken bones heal faster.
Why do you think they are not more widely used?
That's a puzzling question, especially when they're FDA approved. For example, the bone healing device has been on the market for about 20 years is FDA approved and is used in only about 20 percent of the cases for which its use is indicated. It's probably because doctors don't learn about the possibilities of using them. They're focusing mainly on chemistry, biochemistry, and drugs, and very little on physics, electromagnetics, and other ways of healing. So it's simply not within the scope of the dominant biomedical paradigm. And I don't think doctors have teams of salesmen pushing electromagnetic medical devices like they have drug salesmen knocking on their doors.
Do you have an opinion on the therapeutic use of magnets?
I do. I've seen some studies and I'm impressed that the anecdotal reports I've heard all over the place are bearing true in clinical trials in terms of pain relief and reduction of inflammation. I once sprained an ankle and used some magnets obtained from an Oriental health shop in San Francisco. I had some amazing results with the swelling going down quickly and the pain disappearing. It's hard to say how the magnets work on the body. From physics, there's the Hall Effect, whereby if you have charged particles in a stream moving near a magnet, they will be altered in their flow because of the magnetic field. This might explain changes in the flow of blood and lymph, which contain a lot of charged proteins, ions, etc., and that may explain why swelling, pain, and inflammation are reduced.
What questions is complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) posing that conventional medicine may have the most difficulty answering?
Most people are using multiple modalities of CAM for a chronic condition. That is, they may be taking dietary supplements, doing biofeedback, going for acupuncture treatments, and practicing relaxation techniques. These may be acting synergistically, and they may also be tailored for the individuality of the patient. Conventional medicine uses more standardized procedures, largely ignoring patient individuality. So, here we see one major clash between conventional medicine and CAM: standardized scientific approach vs. individualized treatment.
Secondly, in CAM, optimization of self-healing is the goal; whereas conventional medicine throws out any self-healing response and maintains that the cure is something contributed by the drug or other medical intervention. What this means is that the gold-standard of conventional medicine, the controlled clinical trial, is much less meaningful as a test for CAM, since it does not address individuality of patients, nor does it respect self-healing.
What are your views on parapsychology research?
In parapsychology research, they're using old paradigm methodology to look at these phenomena, which I think are elusive and largely confined to particular life contexts. Experiments can't capture the richness of those contexts or maintain them. I have been interested in this area for a long time, but I soon learned the difficulty in creating experiments with meaningful contexts for people to get high scores repeatedly.
In other words, the dominant parapsychology paradigm requires you to do repetitions over and over again. You do many repetitions so you can calculate statistics. But by that time fatigue has set in, the person is bored, and their overall score is low. If you average all the data together, you get something statistically significant, but humanly insignificant. That's one of the difficulties of the old "repeat and replicate" inquiries with a lot of data points.
What's a good alternative methodology?
Trying to design an experiment that has a meaningful outcome, that has high social value rather than just some number crunching. Parapsychology research often involves number guessing, card guessing, remote viewing of targets, and similar tasks. Unless there's money being given away for correct answers, such as at a casino, it's not very meaningful to the participants. It doesn't have any survival value for life. Whereas for example, if a doctor had some tough cases, say, in radiology, such as ambiguous mammograms that would require the women to go for further lab tests -- if a medical intuitive or psychic diagnostician could successfully diagnose these people, that would have high social value. Moreover, it would be extremely helpful to both the doctor and the patient. So I think that would be an interesting experiment, to test medical intuitives. To set up something with radiologists and women who have ambiguous first-level mammograms, with follow-through to see if something like that would work. If it did, this might add a dimension of diagnosis that could assist radiologists or other doctors in interpreting the status of these women before they go on for surgical biopsies.
Aside from issues of politics and money, do you feel that it is significantly harder to study these frontier science areas than it is to do biomolecular research? Is it more difficult to create a good methodology?
I certainly think it's challenging to create a new methodology. "Difficult" is a tricky word, because for some people in science, like myself, frontier science is my calling. So I don't find it more difficult. By contrast, I would find it rather difficult and boring to do molecular biological tinkering. So to me this is so fascinating that it's not hard work. It requires some cleverness, but science is much about developing appropriate methodologies. In order to do so, sometimes we have to go places where no one has gone before.
What projects are you most focused on these days?
I have a rather eclectic career of writing, lecturing, consulting, and research. I'm consulting in part for corporations involved in holistic or alternative health care, from the nutrition industry to the bioelectromagnetic industry. I give many public lectures; for example, I'm giving a seminar in December 1999 at Stanford University at their complementary medicine center, and I give presentations around the US and abroad. I have a new appointment as Visiting Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Arizona at Tucson, in the program in integrative medicine under Dr. Andrew Weil. So I'm going to be working more closely with them, next year especially. I'm gearing up to go to Tucson, where I hope to engage in some research and give seminars to the medical fellows there.
I'm an adjunct faculty member at a number of schools, for example, Union Institute, California Institute for Human Science, and the University of Creation Spirituality. Typically these programs involve distant learners who come in for a week or two for an intensive class, and then continue their studies at home.
I'm also conducting research through the Institute for Frontier Science. We have a microscope, and I'm performing live blood analysis observing the effects of intention on blood, as well as studying certain energy medicine modalities. IÕm looking in particular at white cell chemotaxis, the movement of white cells.
Do you have a book in the works?
Yes, but I don't have a title yet. Many people have asked me to explain my energy view of life. It's not just about energy, but also about the organizing field of mind-body and information. One of the problems we face in moving toward integrative medicine in the West is the Cartesian split between mind and body, and the resulting splits between the various fields of complementary medicine, such as energy medicine and mind-body medicine.
Let me say a bit more about that. I'm involved in a committee formed under MITI, Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry. As I understand the concept of qi (or ki, as it's called in Japanese), it's not just energy. It's really an intelligent energy, with consciousness attached to it. In other words, in Eastern philosophy, they never suffered a Cartesian split. So when they're thinking about an energy field around the body, it's not just physical electromagnetic or biophotonic fields, it's imbued with mind. It's something much more profound and not quite part of Western science. Not yet, that is.
So one problem we face in the West is our split between the energy view of the body and the mind-body view. And all the biology of mind-body interactions, and mind-body medicine -- these have become distinct areas of pursuit. But in the Orient, it's all one. It's beautifully one. One of my goals is to develop a concept in science that would bring together energy and consciousness. I've sometimes referred to it as "intelligent information." We need to recover the wholeness of mind and body in our thinking in the West, and in our medicine. It doesn't help to have energy medicine over here, subtle energy over here, and then mind-body interactions over here, with the various experts never talking to one another, especially as we try to move forward with a concept of integrative medicine and a view of the whole person in biology. We don't have a good grasp of these things in science, because Western science has been based on fragmentation of concepts, fundamentally. We need to put Humpty Dumpty together again!
Daniel Redwood is a chiropractor, writer and musician who lives in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He is the author of
A Time to Heal: How to Reap the Benefits of Holistic Health
(A.R.E. Press), and is a member of the editorial board of the
Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine.
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- A heavy focus on corporate training. Swiftly changing technology (electric cars, big data initiatives, healthcare advances) and new global regulations require professionals to continuously learn and grow their skillsets.
- The market for Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, has exploded. Several leading online education platforms, (Coursera, Udacity, Udemy) have started licensing courses to businesses.
- Business are replacing learning platforms that are 4-7 years old. Rapid advancements in functionality and deployment have led to more advanced collaboration and knowledge sharing platforms, and business are eager to upgrade.
The sheer volume of LMS options on the market makes workforce training and learning more accessible than ever. If a company is dissatisfied with their current system (or lack thereof), they needn't look far. Finding learning platforms that can be tailored to your specific business needs is relatively easy— it's narrowing the options and choosing between them that proves most challenging.
The Best Learning Management Software
LMS deliver and manage educational and instructional content, as well as identify and assess individual and organizational learning or training goals. The system then tracks employee progress towards meeting those goals, and collects and presents data for analyzing the entire process. Additionally, the best learning management software will integrate with other critical platforms, such as HR, accounting, or even ERP software, which enables management to measure impact, effectiveness, and overall cost of training initiatives.
Talent development and skills management is the most straightforward motivation to adopt a training system. However, if your business must track employee training to uphold industry, government, or company standards, then a LMS can streamline this process. An LMS can help:
- Centralize and automate learning administration
- Consolidate training initiatives through employee self-guided services
- Customize learning or training content and enable knowledge reuse
- Document and report learning activities
Learning management software is typically quite customizable; it's paramount that training spans topics which enable the growth and success of each employee, and in turn, the business. To determine which system best fits your company, identifying the programs you'll offer is necessary. Common topics include:
- Certifications and compliance
- Workplace safety, diversity, and inclusion
- Management, supervisor, and leadership development
- Communications, computer, or sales skills
Learning Management Software Comparison
If you've already tried to compare learning management software, you've likely discovered it's an involved process— it swiftly feels like if you've seen one, you've seen them all. In fact, e-learning expert Charles Severance stated,2
"There's a lot of parity between the systems. You can almost throw a dart at a dartboard and pick an LMS, and it won't be that bad."
Though the dartboard method might sound tempting, it's far from necessary. Learning management systems may seem indistinguishable on the surface, but they vary significantly from vendor to vendor— if you know what to look for.
Plus, you don't want a system that's 'not that bad.' You're reading this guide because you want to choose the best learning management software for your business. When systems start to blur together, don't let one single dart control the fate of your entire workforce.
Instead, decide which features are non-negotiable for your LMS. Then, after you've created a checklist of requirements, examine the following key factors to further evaluate each option.
Integrations and Suites
There's no gentle way to say it: standalone learning management systems are fading. HR software market leaders continue to buy out smaller LMS vendors, and many LMS providers now offer full talent management suites. This is not surprising when you acknowledge the overlap between recruiting, administration, payroll, and performance systems. On average, companies manage over eight HR and payroll systems. However, over 33 percent would be willing to "sacrifice features in order to get a single vendor solution".3
Of course, there is nothing inherently wrong with purchasing a standalone LMS. But as companies grow, having one end-to-end HR suite can eliminate duplicate data entry and paperwork, as well as consolidate reporting processes. Overall, your unique business needs will determine which type of systems you choose. When conducting a learning management software comparison, a system that integrates with your existing business software and processes, and easily syncs data between them, should be higher on your list than similar solutions that don't.
System Demonstrations
Who doesn't love to take a test drive? Set up a software demo (or register for a free trial) so you can see each LMS in action. It's important to experience the software for yourself— you may discover things you didn't know you wanted, or realize that clunky functionality lies behind a pretty interface. Experience the software for yourself before you sign a contract.
Vendor Specialties
When selecting software, it's important to consider a vendor's familiarity with your market. Do their sales representatives only care about enterprise companies, or do they cater to small business? Do you need a vendor that specializes in your industry? Can you trust your payroll provider with your learning solution?
In addition to simply posing these questions directly to vendors, the following resources can help you find the answers you need:
- Client testimonials and recommendations
- In-depth case studies and use cases
- Industry recognition or awards
Remember, choosing a vendor is not a popularity contest— there are many lesser-known or niche players that offer reliable functionality and a solid user experience. But it's important that vendors have a proven track record, strong customer support, and standard integrations.
- Which Learning Management system is right for your business?
- Find out now
3 Tiers of Learning Management Software
Though the core functions of all learning management software are similar, there is additional functionality or vendor qualifications that different business sizes might look for. Let's examine some of those differentiators below.
I. Enterprise
For large organizations, a learning management system that integrates with existing HR or ERP systems is necessary. A full HRIS or HCM system from a single vendor generally has a lower total cost of ownership when compared to implementing and integrating systems from separate vendors. With such large workforces, enterprise organizations benefit from suites that incorporate multiple modules in order to standardize internal processes and connect data.
At minimum, an enterprise LMS vendor should offer a full talent management suite. If a vendor doesn't offer HR administration functionality as well, then integration with a common HCM system is critical. Additionally, enterprise managers will need strong collaboration features that facilitate sharing employee data across departments. Enterprises may also prefer an LMS that offers a customizable or white-labeled learning portal interface.
Market Leader: Saba Software4
Saba Software pioneered the enterprise LMS business. They serve complex, global customers and offer a full talent management suite. Saba's "Learning@Work" solution provides personal and relevant class recommendations, internal instant messaging, and is available in over six languages. For companies that do not create their own learning content, Saba's system integrates with major content providers like Skillsoft. Saba has a sophisticated compliance and certification system, along with collaborative and social learning features— all available through on-premise or SaaS deployment. Their LMS was ranked in eLearning 24/7's Top 50 Learning Management Systems for 2015.
Case Study: BayLearn5
BayLearn is an initiative of the Bavarian Government that provides an extensive centralized education portal for training and higher education organizations to manage learning initiatives. Prior to adopting Saba, managing all instructor-led or blended training was a mostly manual, time-consuming process. As a result, BayLearn initiated a major learning transformation to improve their learning technology and to achieve the organization's vision for education. To do this, BayLearn needed to establish a centralized, highly secure, and Internet-accessible next-generation learning and talent management platform for all Bavarian authorities and state-owned enterprises.
They chose Saba to support the learning transformation. Saba enables BayLearn to address the full spectrum of learning needs on a single, easy-to-use, enterprise-grade platform. The solution operates on a state-owned data centre in Munich and is easily accessible via the internet and intranet. The Saba system meets all the expectations and requirements including security, scalability and usability. After implementation, BayLearn experienced the following benefits:
- A next-generation learning and talent management platform for over 300,000 employees of Bavarian authorities and state-owned enterprises
- Standardized, easy-to-use training and access via the web for all employees state-wide
- Reduction in travel costs associated with classroom training
- Efficient management of compliance certifications
- Effective delivery of over 150 courses and 1,100 offerings for training and higher education institutes across Bavaria
II. Mid-market
Thanks to cloud-based software, medium-sized companies can get all the functionality of enterprise systems at a lower cost— and without the infrastructure. These companies often benefit from faster implementations and integrated solutions that meet all of their talent management needs. Companies will find large vendors that often create a "one stop shopping" solution tailored to mid-market needs, as well as vendors that were designed for the medium sized businesses from the start. Mid-market buyers must be extremely thorough when requesting proposals and signing contracts, as many vendors may only offer critical functionality in tiers or as an add-on.
Market Leader: SilkRoad
Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, SilkRoad is a leading global provider of end-to-end cloud-based HR software solutions. The company has over 1,800 corporate clients, primarily SMBs, though their larger customers include IBM, eBay, and L'Oréal. SilkRoad provides six talent management modules available in an integrated suite or as touchpoint solutions. Greenlight, the company's learning management solution, earned the Brandon Hall silver award for excellence in the Best Advance in Learning Management Technology. SilkRoad's goal is to create a "start anywhere" architecture so companies can implement the complete suite or begin with one product and add functionality as needed.
Case Study: VMS6
Founded in 1995, VMS is a biomarketing leader in medical education and healthcare meeting management. Since the biotech and pharma industry is highly regulated, VMS' clients depend on them to be extremely knowledgeable about policies. The company was tracking complex policies through Excel spreadsheets, which meant handling and filing an enormous amount of paperwork. If clients required proof that VMS' employees were properly trained in a specific area, VMS would manually track down the paper record. The process became overwhelming and inefficient as the company grew.
Their unscalable processes lead VMS to search for a LMS to handle their training and tracking, as well as facilitate a paperless process that quickly pull records for clients. VMS vetted more than ten vendors over a two month period and selected SilkRoad's learning management system for its flexibility to handle all of the company's needs. With SilkRoad, the company has been able to create in depth classes that are specific to particular jobs. SilkRoad Learning courses offer more streamlined and thorough follow-ups to basic courses, which employees say is extremely beneficial.
VMS now tracks every employees' individual training plans (ITPs), which includes orientation training for all new hires, training specific to starting a new job with a client, critical training to VMS or one of its clients, and core trainings specific to individual jobs. After implementation, VMS experienced the following benefits:
- VMS is now able to track every employee's individual training plans and pull reports in a matter of seconds, previously it would take several hours to sort through paperwork
- Along with time-savings around scheduling, there has been time-savings around the administration of paperwork
- The company can be more strategic in the rollout of course training and offer more streamlined and in depth follow-up courses
- They no longer have to work around schedules for training and can train all employees quickly
- VMS and its clients avoid any penalties that come with not being able to prove your workforce is compliant, which can include fines
III. Small Business
In 2015, sixty percent of firms with fewer than 100 employees plan to invest in human resources technology software7. These companies are generally young and aren't weighed down by a lot of custom designed legacy HR systems that need to be phased out or integrated. Just like medium sized companies, they can take advantage of the SaaS boom and find low cost, enterprise level functionality.
Small businesses benefit from a LMS in the same ways as their larger counterparts, but they often need simpler and more economical systems. Small companies with very specific talent management needs may prefer to take an à la carte approach and build an HR system from independent, stand-alone cloud-based vendors. However, with this method, companies are likely to outgrow their tools. Be mindful of this ahead of time and be sure you can export your data when the time comes.
Market Leader: SumTotal
SumTotal is a Florida-based HR software company that offers features and delivery specifically designed for small companies with big goals. When it comes to talent management strategies, SumTotal gives small businesses the opportunity to compete with much larger organizations through their scalable services. SumTotal's 'Learn' LMS provides personalized, contextual learning, offline access, social learning, and content management. Their partnership with SkillSoft, a leading provider of online learning courses, gives companies access to competency-mapped and vertical-specific content bundles for small and medium business— all available on a mobile app. For small companies looking for end-to-end solutions, SumTotal offers both talent management and HCM suites.
Case Study: Pharmacy Systems, Inc8
Pharmacy Systems is a leader in hospital pharmacy management and clinical consulting services in Dublin, Ohio. Their client base includes acute care hospitals, rehabilitation hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, specialty hospitals, and long-term acute care facilities. In the rapidly changing healthcare industry, Pharmacy Systems needed their employees to stay current on new care procedures, technologies, and regulations.
To ensure that competency and compliance are being appropriately documented, Pharmacy Systems created the Pharmacy Systems Resource Center using the SumTotal's learning solutions. They needed a system that would improve communication and distribution of knowledge, deliver training, measure the competency of team members, and track the organization's compliance requirements.
With SumTotal, Pharmacy Systems used widgets, i-frames, navigation configuration options, and role-based logins to deliver unique online experiences for corporate and field employees at all levels. The results:
- Enabled a single-stop for employees to access learning and communication, measure competencies and track the organization's compliance requirements
- Ongoing savings of more than $2,000 per quarter by eliminating hard copy distribution of company's proprietary assets
- Expedited communication with corporate and field employees
Embraced by end users who say the solution is part of their daily workflow and makes them more effective in their jobs
- Which Learning Management system is right for your business?
- Find out now
- Bersin, Josh. "The Red Hot Market for Learning Management Systems." Forbes, August 28, 2014. http://www.forbes.com/sites/joshbersin/2014/08/28/the-red-hot-market-for-learning-technology-platforms/
- Straumsheim, Carl. "The Post-LMS LMS." Inside Higher Ed, July 18, 2014. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/07/18/analysts-see-changes-ahead-lms-market-after-summer-light-news
- Fairchild, Micha. "HR System Integration: Suites Versus Best-of-Breed." HR Lab. Accessed March 18, 2015. http://www.hrlab.com/hr-suites.php
- Bersin, Josh. "Is Saba Coming Back?" Bersin by Deloitte, April 13, 2014. http://www.bersin.com/blog/post/2014/04/Is-Saba-Coming-Back.aspx
- "Saba Helps BayLearn Transform Bavarian Authority Education Portal." Saba Case Study 2014. http://www.saba.com/media/1038601/cs_baylern_web_english.pdf
- "VMS Gives the Green Light to Learning Management with SilkRoad." SilkRoad Case Study, accessed March 18, 2015. http://www.silkroad.com/hr-resource-center/vms/
- Gale, Sarah Fister. "Smaller Companies on an HR Tech Buying Spree." Workforce, March 10, 2015. http://www.workforce.com/articles/21161-smaller-companies-on-an-hr-tech-buying-spree"Navigating the Challenges of the Dynamic Healthcare Sector." SumTotal Case Study, accessed March 18, 2015. http://www.sumtotalsystems.com/casestudy/pharmacy_systems.html


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5 Ways to Make Thanksgiving Meaningful
Thanksgiving is wonderfully full of traditions, with favorite recipes, rituals, and loved ones all around us. We look forward to these familiar ingredients to our celebrations, but sometimes they might become so familiar that we may not be able to recognize and appreciate them as fully as we could. Here are five new suggestions for deepening our Thanksgiving celebrations and others experience the profound gift of thanks giving that makes our lives radiate with love.


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Judge sets conditions of John Hinckley's expanded time outside a DC mental hospital
WASHINGTON – John Hinckley will soon be spending more time outside a Washington mental hospital.
Hinckley was found to be insane when he shot and wounded President Ronald Reagan in 1981. Since 2006, he has been allowed to leave the hospital to visit his mother's Virginia home. The length of those visits has increased over the years with the goal that Hinckley ultimately live outside the hospital full time.
In December, a judge ruled that Hinckley should be allowed to make visits of up to 17 days, an increase from previous 10-day visits.
The judge laid out the parameters of the monthly visits in an order Tuesday. Hinckley's lawyer says he expects the 17-day visits to start in March. His lawyer calls a "milestone."


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*9 - [[Ossomer]].[[LIAB Text 47]]
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*8 - [[Artemis]], warlord for [[Unaroyal]].
*8 - [[Artemis]], warlord for [[Unaroyal]].
*7 - [[Pierce]], [[Healomancer]], Chief [[Caster]] of Jetstone.[[LIAB Text 41]]
*7 - [[Pierce]], [[Healomancer]], Chief [[Caster]] of Jetstone.[[LIAB Text 41]]
*5 - [[Warlord]] [[Sir Webinar]], Commander for [[Jetstone]],[[TBFGK 50]] unsure of himself as leader in the tunnel action.
*5 - [[Warlord]] [[Sir Webinar]], Commander for [[Jetstone]],[[TBFGK 50]] unsure of himself as leader in the tunnel action.
*2 - [[Warlord]] [[Dora]], Webinar's comrade.[[TBFGK 50]]
*2 - [[Warlord]] [[Dora]], Webinar's comrade.[[TBFGK 50]]
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Proposed Canon
Level is a statistic of Units. Units increase in Level by gaining experience.[1] When a Unit's Level increases, it is called "leveling".Erf-b1-p065 Leveling increases a Unit's power by increasing statistics and granting access to new abilities. The Unit's power increases linearly relative to Level.[2] The (theoretical) experience requirements for leveling are exponential, requiring croaking many more enemies (or enemies worth more experience) to increase a Level than the previous level.[3] Although there is no maximum Level, levels beyond 10 or 11 are extremely difficult to attain.[4] Because of the immense Experience requirement, surpassing Level 20 is very rare.
Perhaps separately, the term level is also used as a statistic describing the defensive difficulty of a city. Improving fortifications increases a city's level; damage to a city's fortifications can reduce the level. The range for the level of a city is from 1 (weakest) through 5 (strongest).
Known Values
- 10 - Prince Ansom, probably the most powerful warlord in the Coalition during the Battle for Gobwin Knob. He kept his level after being decrypted.Erf-b1-p145
- 9 - Warlord Jillian Zamussels, Royal, Barbarian, Mercenary, one of the best Warlords of the coalition.TBFGK 50
- 9 - Ossomer.LIAB Text 47
- 8 - Artemis, warlord for Unaroyal.
- 7 - Pierce, Healomancer, Chief Caster of Jetstone.LIAB Text 41
- 6 - Lady Sylvia Lazarus, the warlord who led Unaroyal's army of the Coalition. She was Croaked in the event of Volcano Uncroaking during the Battle for Gobwin Knob and later Decrypted by Wanda
- 5 - Warlord Sir Webinar, Commander for Jetstone,TBFGK 50 unsure of himself as leader in the tunnel action.
- 2 - Warlord Dora, Webinar's comrade.TBFGK 50
- 2 - Parson, though he is "special"
- 1 - ZhopaLIAB Text 48
Estimated Unit Levels
- Bogroll levelled twice after killing Ansom, a level 10 Chief Warlord, and so at the time of his death, was at least level 3.
- Sizemore also gained 2 levels during the Battle for Gobwin Knob and another while rebuilding conquered cities, and so is a minimum of level 4.
- Pierce is the highest-level Caster in Jetstone,LIAB Text 41 so
- Ace Hardware,
- Cubbins, and
- Lloyd are each a maximum of level 6.
It was implied by Stanley that Uncroaked Warlords can continue to level, at least until they fully decay.Erf-b1-p055
- 8 - Theoretical level of Gobwin Knob once defensive bonuses are consideredFirst Intermission 2. As Gobwin Knob is the toughest defensive position in the known worldErf-b1-p23, presumably no cities have higher level.
- 5 - Base level of the Capital and lone city of CharlescommFirst Intermission 46; however, its effective level might be supplemented by the additional "truly murderous defenses".
- 5 - Level of the Jetstone city of Dhrystone
- 5 - Base level of Gobwin Knob without defensive bonusesFirst Intermission 2, and the apparent natural maximum level of a city.
- 5 - Level of the Jetstone city of Spacerock
- 4 - Technical level of Transylvito First Intermission 17 due to the minor outer walls, although the difficulty of approach might make for an effective higher level.
- 4 - Level of the capital city of Faq
- 3 - Level of the Jitterati city of Kona before it was sacked by Faq
- 2 - Level of the Transylvito city of Aqua Velva
- 2 - Level of the Transylvito city of Chocula after being seized from Carpool
- 2 - Level of the Faq farming city of Otoh
- 2 - Level of the Faq farming city of Kibo
- 2 - Level of the Jitterati city of Valdez before it was conquered by Faq
- 2 - Level of the Unaroyal city of Warchalking just before Gobwin Knob retook it
- 1 - Base ranking of Gobwin Knob at the nadir of the Battle for Gobwin KnobErf-b1-p133</ref>
- 1 - Level of Pantstown, a city disputed by Haggar and Jetstone.
Jillian Zamussels described herself, Sir Webinar, and Dora as "a 9," "a 5," and "a 2," respectively.Erf-b1-p050 However, these numbers were not specifically identified as levels, and may refer to some other trait such as leadership. However, since a) Level is the basic benchmark everyone seems to use when talking about a unit's ability, and b) known values of both Level and Leadership point to Level = Leadership (for the immediate stack), it makes the most sense that Jillian was referring to Levels.
Golems and basic uncroaked infantry may not have Levels.
Wanda Firebaugh confers a bonus of 8 to Decrypted in her stack. If this bonus mirrors level as Leadership bonuses seem to, that would put her at level 8, which seems about right.
Caesar Borgata, Viscount of Vitalis, Chief Warlord of Transylvito, has a high Leadership bonus and is a capable combatant, and would seem to be in the 8-10 range. He also rather effortlessly held off Jillian's attack, which, considering she's a Level 9 focused on melee, may put him at level 10.
It's possible that leveling is based on groups of 8. As an example: Bob, a Level 2 stabber, would need to croak 8 Level 2 Gobwins to reach Level 3. Alternatively, if Bob were fighting weaker Level 1 Marbits, it would take 16 to level. Alternatively if, via Luckamancy perhaps, Bob managed to croak a level 5 Warlord, he would immediately level from that single opponent.
If this is true, Bogroll would've gone from level 4 to level 6 when he croaked Ansom, as each 3 levels of difference between opponents accounts for 1 full level in terms of experience gain.


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Needle Insertion
The insertion of an acupuncture needle is not a painful experience. Patients sometimes sit with eyes closed and teeth clenched asking, 'When are you going to put the needles in?', and are often surprised to learn that the needles are in place before they have finished asking the question. It would be wrong to suppose that the insertion of an acupuncture needle is devoid of any sensation, but those who experience acupuncture do not usually describe it as a painful sensation.
Needling Sensation
The Chinese state that if acupuncture is to achieve its maximum
effect it is necessary for the acupuncturist to obtain a 'needling sensation', over each acupuncture point that is used. This involves the needle being moved slightly while it is in the skin, and the sensation experienced by the patient will vary. Needling sensation is not painful but it is a dull, bursting or numb sensation around the site of the inserted needle. The sensation may also travel up or down the channel being treated; the stimulation of an acupuncture point on the right knee may precipitate the experience of a strange burning or numb sensation in the right ankle. Needling sensation is probably best defined by the statement, 'When needling sensation is experienced the needle no longer feels like a needle!'
Some acupuncturists use an electrical stimulator to excite acupuncture points as a substitute for obtaining needling sensation. Electro-acupuncture causes a tingling sensation over the acupuncture points that are being stimulated, but the Chinese believe that this does not replace the need to obtain needling sensation. If the stimulator is mistakenly turned to a very high intensity then the patient will experience some discomfort, so it is wise to be cautious when using electrical stimulators, and to adjust the intensity slowly and carefully.


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(a) A minimum of one separate toilet facility shall be provided for each 20 employees or fraction thereof of each sex. Such facilities may include both toilets and urinals provided that the number of toilets shall not be less than one half of the minimum required number of facilities.
EXCEPTION: Where there are less than 5 employees, separate toilet facilities for each sex are not required provided the toilet facilities can be locked from the inside and contain at least one toilet.
(b) Under temporary field conditions, not less than one toilet shall be available.
(c) Where the provision of water closets is not feasible due to the absence of a sanitary sewer or the lack of an adequate water supply, nonwater carriage disposal facilities shall be provided. Unless prohibited by applicable local regulations, these facilities may include privies (where their use will not contaminate either surface or underground waters), chemical toilets, recirculating toilets, or combustion toilets.
(d) Toilet facilities shall be kept clean, maintained in good working order, designed and maintained in a manner which will assure privacy and provided with an adequate supply of toilet paper.
(e) The requirements of this section shall not apply to mobile crews having readily available transportation to nearby toilet facilities.
NOTE: Authority cited: Section 142.3, Labor Code. Reference: Section 142.3, Labor Code.
1. New section filed 7-12-74; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 74, No. 28).
2. Repealer and new section filed 1-7-75; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 75, No. 2).
3. Repealer and new section filed 9-27-85; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 85, No. 40).
4. Amendment of subsection (d) filed 1-26-94; operative 2-25-94 (Register 94, No. 4).
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The Asus VH236H is available for around $190 from e-tailers. For that price you not only get HDMI and DVI support, built-in speakers, a headphone jack but also great movie and game performance. We'd prefer to have more ergonomic options and a less frustrating OSD menu, but with its great performance and affordable price, it's difficult to balk at such a sweet deal. The Samsung SyncMaster P2370 has the same screen size, is more stylish, and has comparable performance, but its $285 price tag makes it a less desirable deal considering its lack of connection options and other missing features.
Design and features
With a glossy black bezel, juxtaposed with its black matte finish on the back, the 23-inch Asus VH236H has a fairly plain design. The panel measures just 1.25 inches in depth; however, when you add in the ventilation system, the full-panel depth is 2.5 inches. That's considerably thicker when compared with the 23-inch Samsung SyncMaster P2370, which measured just more than an inch deep.
The bezel measures 0.75 inch on its left and right sides and 1.25 inches on its bottom, where a silver Asus logo resides. The bottom of the bezel sits about 2.5 inches from the desktop, but unfortunately, the screen height isn't adjustable and there isn't a screen rotation or pivot option for portrait mode. The capability to tilt the screen back 25 degrees is the only included ergonomic feature. The circular footstand measures 4.25 inches in diameter. When knocked from the sides, the display wobbles a considerable amount, though not as much as the slighter P2370.
Connection options include DVI, HDMI, and VGA–all three ports are easily accessible to the right of the display's neck. Built-in speakers sit on the top of the display's back side.
The orange power button sits in the bottom-right corner of the bezel and to its left is the five-button OSD array. The array consists of Menu, Audio/Down, Brightness/Up, S/A, and Source. The S/A button toggles through five presets: Standard, Theater, Game, Night View, and Scenery.
Pressing Menu activates the onscreen display (OSD), which includes additional controls for Contrast and Overdrive. By sending out bursts of voltage to the liquid crystals that increase the crystal's transitions speeds, Overdrive can effectively reduce the amount of noticeable ghosting effects. In our tests, taking Overdrive from 0 to 100, we saw no difference in the amount of ghosting in movies or games, so we can't confirm that the feature actually does anything useful. Nor did we see a difference in power consumption.
There are also controls for color temperature and the ability to manually set the red, green, and blue values.
Navigating the menu is frustrating at times, as some of the controls are inconstant in function. Once you press the Menu button, you are required to press the S/A button to exit the menu. Likewise, pressing S/A brings up the preset menu that requires that you press Menu to exit. More consistent controls would be less confusing and frustrating. Calibrating in the dark is also a challenge as there is no illumination for the buttons.
The Asus VH236H's 16:9 aspect ratio supports a "Full HD" native resolution of 1,920×1,080. This continues the trend of more and more monitor vendors moving toward 16:9 from 16:10 because high-definition content–in particular 1080p movies–can fit onto a 1,920×1,080-pixel screen without distorting the image.
Manufacturer's specs:
Resolution: 1,920×1,080
Pixel-response rate: 2ms
Contrast ratio: 20,000:1 (Dynamic)
Brightness: 300cd/m2
Connectivity: DVI-D, HDMI, VGA
HDCP compliant? Yes
Included video cables? DVI, VGA
Backlight: CCFL
Panel type: TN
Aspect ratio: 16:9
We tested the Asus VH236H with its DVI connection. The display posted a composite score of 92 on CNET Labs' DisplayMate-based performance tests, right behind the Samsung SyncMaster P2370's 93. The Asus tested well in our color tests, but it had particular problems in the color-ramping tests, which illustrate an LCD's capacity to render gradations of primary colors smoothly and consistently. As such, the Asus could not consistently render the colors smoothly during the test.
The VH236H achieved a brightness score of 283 candelas per square meter (cd/m2)–just a few points shy of Asus's claimed 300 cd/m2 max. The Samsung SyncMaster P2370 achieved a lower brightness with 239 cd/m2, but was right under Samsung's 250 cd/m2 max. On our dark-screen test, both monitors exhibited significant backlight bleedthrough on the top and bottom edges of the displays, but the Asus performed slightly better.
Our "Kill Bill Vol. 1" DVD test yielded minimal ghosting on the Asus, thanks to its dark blacks when in Theater Mode, which makes the ghosting difficult to see. Conversely, the Samsung's movie mode looked light in comparison with much shallower blacks. Also, the colors on the Asus seemed to pop a lot better than the Samsung.
Unreal Tournament 3 looked great running at 1,920×1,080 pixels. Although the Asus' color had the most pop, neither the VH236H nor the P2370 were able to display the game as vibrantly and colorfully as the Acer G24. Yet, I think we're spoiled by that monitor's game performance.
The optimal viewing angle for a monitor is usually directly in front, about a quarter of the screen's distance down from the top. At this angle, you're viewing the colors and gamma correction as they were intended. Since most monitors are made to be viewed only at that angle type, picture quality at nonoptimal angles varies depending on the monitor. Like most monitors, the Asus VH236H uses a TN panel, which gets overly bright or overly dark when viewed from nonoptimal angles. When we viewed the Asus from the sides or below, the screen appeared to darken only a couple inches from optimal. From the sides and below, text is still readable until viewing from about 70 degrees. Of course, when viewed from the optimal angle, we had no problems.
In the power consumption tests, the Asus VH236H drew a significant 39.58 watts in its Default/On mode–compared with the Samsung SyncMaster P2370's lower, 29.44 watts. Where the Asus really ate up the juice was in its standby mode, which drew 2.7 watts compared with the P2370's 0.85 watts–more than three times the difference. Based on our formula, the VH236H would cost $13.68 per year to run, compared with the P2370's $9.37 per year.
In audio tests, sound from the built-in speakers was muffled, but we reached the maximum volume easily without any noticeable distortion. Sound from the headphones was good, but the max volume was not quite as high as we'd like.


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New lineup for second France test
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — Coming off of the first victory against France in team history, the next group of Women's Eagles has been selected to try and build on the historic win. Eleven new starters fill the lineup that will try and replicate the success realized in the opening test.
Four returning starters will be joined by five reserves who saw game time in the first France match.
"I'm interested to see how we do in the match because it is, for the most part, a completely different lineup," remarked Pete Steinberg of the number of changes to the roster. "How we do on Tuesday will determine exactly what kind of depth we have in moving forward."
Kickoff for the match is set for 5:00 P.M. PT at Oxnard College Soccer Facility.
Out of the four returning starters, only two return to the position they held during Friday's match. Sadie Anderson moves to the flyhalf position from fullback, while Meya Bizer moves to fullback from the outside center position.
Of the two remaining at their original positions, Kittery Wagner stays at hooker and Sarah Walsh positions at lock.
"We are trying to evaluate different people at different positions and it's best for our team development if we see these combinations in action," said Shaina Turley, who will be on the bench for the second test.
Replacing Turley at captain for the match is Ashley Kmiecik. Wagner gets the nod at vice captain.
Although the number of alterations would cause concern to most, Steinberg points out that the experience of players is still very much present.
"There is only one new cap on the starting roster [for this match], so that means that everyone has at least some international rugby experience," he said. "There are actually fewer new caps this match than the opening match."
Seven players claimed their first caps in the win against France. Jessica Davis, Molly Kinsella, Ryan Carlyle, Megan Bonny, Anne Peterson, Erica Cavanaugh and Amanda Street earned the first Women's Eagles caps of their career Friday.
Gaining her first cap with the start in the second match is Erin Overcash. She will step in at wing for the test.
In reserve, and hopeful for their first caps, are Hope Rogers and Carmen Farmer. Rogers positions in at prop, while Farmer competes at lock.
Off the bench as well, Jamie Burke is in search of her 37th cap as a Women's Eagle.
In the opening match against Les Bleus, the Women's Eagles were able to score a late try to overcome the French, 13-10. Sadie Anderson was able to connect on two penalty goals and conversion in the win.
Sarah Chobot dotted down for the Women's Eagles' only try, which proved to be the winning score of the game.
The victory against France is the first such win in Women's Eagles history.
The final match between the Eagles and France will take place June 14 at the Home Depot Center campus. The test will take place at 5:00 P.M. PT prior to the Men's Eagles' Pacific Nations Cup match against Tonga.
Universal Sports is scheduled to air both matches played in Carson, Calif. Air times have yet to be determined.
Women's Eagles | vs. France
1. Naima Reddick
2. Kittery Wagner
3. Jessica Davis
4. Sarah Walsh
5. Sharon Blaney
6. Mel Denham
7. Kristen Zdanczewicz
8. Kate Daley
9. Carrie White
10. Sadie Anderson
11. Ashley Kmiecik (C)
12. Anne Peterson
13. Erin Overcash
14. Amanda Street
15. Meya Bizer
Women's Eagles | Reserves
16. Devin Keller
17. Hope Rogers
18. Jamie Burke
19. Carmen Farmer
20. Shaina Turley
21. Jennifer Lui
22. Hanna Stolba
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The Arizona Cardinals held their "Fan Fest 2012" during their minicamp practice on Wednesday night, drawing an estimated 15,000 fans.
The offense had its moments. The defense did, too. And the fans let Kevin Kolb know that he needs to create more positive moments in 2012 to gain their approval.
The Cardinals fans booed Kolb, according to Darren Urban of AZCardinals.com. In June. At minicamp. Yikes.
Urban tweeted out the news, and the response was telling. Some folks were disappointed in their fellow fans. Others ... felt differently:
@Cardschatter @_Fresh90s Kolb's got a lot of work to do to win the fans over, 2 wins doesn't cut itâ Kevin Sweet (@SportsByKMS03) June 14, 2012
@Cardschatter @_Fresh90s Can't blame the fans...for what he's worth...he really hasn't produced...injured or not.â Youri (@YouriPhx) June 14, 2012
The draft picks and the contract that the Cardinals gave up for Kolb put a target on his back. No one expected him to be a battle with John Skelton for the starting job. That includes coach Ken Whisenhunt.
"If it was up to me, I'd prefer we had a quarterback resolution two years ago," Whisenhunt said. "But obviously that hasn't happened."


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And while some people simply refuse to respond to Evite invitations, countless others find themselves composing clever detailed responses that require so much effort, they end up R.S.V.-Peeved.Ha. You don't sound too "bloggerlike" to me. The article goes on to print the chirpy regret she took 20 minutes to write and how much personal vanity she invested in the project. I suspect that the author of this NYT "Style" piece is friends with Fitzpatrick, heard her tale of tiny woe and then got the idea to concoct the "Style" piece.
Just last week Carolyn Fitzpatrick, 32, a retired lawyer from Wollaston, Mass., spent 20 minutes drafting a "no" response to an Evite.
"Twenty precious minutes," said Ms. Fitzpatrick, the mother of a 3-month-old and a 2-year-old. "Do you have children? You don't understand what 20 minutes to yourself is."
So why bother?
"There's pressure," Ms. Fitzpatrick said. "You're on stage."
Well, do people want to go to parties or not? Why not send out invitations for parties that will never even exist and just create a forum for everyone you know to write a message bragging about all the things they are so busy doing this time of year?


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HUS dual-controller array muscles into the mid-range
ASICs, FPGAs and four NAS controllers
Not your average dual-controller array: that's the conclusion after a canter through HDS's new HDS Unified Storage (HUS) 100 series array controller architecture.
There are three different controllers in the series for block access and two for file access – NAS heads. Both types use non-commodity hardware.
For block access all three models have symmetric, dual active-active controllers with mirrored cache. The HUS110 and 130 have 2U controller enclosures and the 150 has a 3U one.
A block controller contains a dual core Xeon processor with 3.5GB of RAM. This is responsible for all I/O operations for that controller for the group of LUNs on its management list. It is accompanied by a Data Control ASIC handling RAID control and cache memory, which has associated NVRAM and DDR3 cache.
There is a PCIe 2.0 bus within the controller, with 8-lane connections. There can then be two host I/O Module controllers; one for Fibre Channel and the other for iSCSI. HP calls these Tachyon processors.
At the back end there can be two SAS controllers, each with 8 x 6Gbit/s links to local storage and to expansion trays connected via 16 x 6Gbit/s redundant SAS links.
The HUS 110 supports only 8 SAS links on the back end: a slower processor, a smaller cache and fewer host channels than the HUS 130, which has 16 SAS lines but fewer disks than the HUS 150.
The 2U HUS 110 and 130 controller enclosures can contain 12 x 3.5-inch hard disk drives or 24 x 2.5-inch disk or solid state drives.
For capacity expansion there can be 2U enclosures, holding 24 x 2.5-inch SAS disk or solid state drives or 12 x 3.5-inch 7,200rpm SAS disk drives, or 4U trays holding 48 x 3.5-inch 7,200rpm SAS disk drives.
The HUS 110 only supports the 2U expansion enclosures, and 120 disk drives in total,while the HUS 130 and 150 support both types of expansion tray, with the 130 supporting up to 264 disk drives and the 150 up to 960.
A Josh Krischer white paper (PDF) on HUS provides much more speeds and feeds information.
In principle, any host port can be used to access any LUN managed by either controller, without any need to change LUN ownership. This is the basis of a load-balancing capability whereby LUNs are moved from an overburdened controller in an active-active pair to the other, less burdened one.
Krischer's white paper also states:
A host accessing a LUN through a Controller-0 can actually have most of the I/O request processed by Controller-1 with little intervention by the processor in Controller-01. This function allows the use of host-based operating system path management and load balancing such as Microsoft Windows MPIO, Solaris MPxIO/traffic manager, IBM AIX MPIO, Linux Device Mapper, Veritas DMP or Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager with minimum overhead penalties. This feature is in particular useful in automated failover.
Files and objects
Contrary to the way El Reg storage desk outlined it in the history of HUS story, the file controllers are essentially BlueArc-based NAS heads using that HNAS product's FPGA hardware architecture and SiliconFS object-based file system. The HUS 110 and 130 use the 3080 HNAS controller as dual modules that are cluster-capable. The HUS 150 uses the HNAS 3090 with dual-node and 4-node clustering.
The HUS intelligent file tiering feature can move selected files or folders to an appropriate tier of storage, both internally to HUS or, if they are inactive, to an external tier, using content-aware rules and a policy manager. This has the happy benefit of decreasing the size of the overall HUS dataset and thus reducing its data protection resource requirements.
Object storage on the HUS arrays is handled by the NAS heads. Objects are stored as files with specific metadata, which cannot be added to by customers. They are not stored with hash addresses, erasure coding or any addressing scheme related to their content. So these are quasi-objects. Nevertheless they exist as a single logical searchable object pool as HDS's Data Discovery software can search their metadata and content along with object content and metadata on the HCP true object storage system.
HUS objects cannot be exported to HCP; the HUS automatic tiering system can't do this, says HDS. Its EMEA chief technical officer Bob Plumridge wouldn't commit to HDS making this possible. Clearly such a development would be in line with HDS's ambition to provide a seamless single file, block and object storage facility.
Plumridge said he had seen more change at HDS in the past two years than in the previous 10. It's apparent that the product range has and is broadening. As well as the low-end F-series filer being added to the HDS product set, a high-end scale-out file product based on Parascale technology should arrive before the end of the year, taking HDS into Isilon territory.
VMware integration
The HUS arrays boast a comprehensive set of VMware integration points. They:
- have a vCenter plugin for storage management;
- support the vStorage API for Storage Awareness (VASA);
- have a vStorage API for Site Recovery Manager (SRM); and
- support the vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI).
- The vStorage API for Multipathing (VAMP) works with HUS and
- the vStorage API for Data Protection (VADP) is supported.
Performance improvements
The Krischer white paper mentions several areas where HUS performance exceeds that of the replaced AMS arrays, due to more powerful controller processors and larger memories. The SAS links to the disks have doubled in speed from 3Gbit/s to 6Gbit/s. There are faster internal busses and faster DDR3 cache modules. THe DCTL chips have been redesigned from their AMS state and feature faster internal paths as well as double the number of DMA ports.
Using RAID 1+0 and a 50:50 random read and write mix, a HUS 150 was 30 per cent faster than an AMS 2500 product. It was 87 per cent faster doing sequential reads and 158 per cent faster doing a 50:50 sequential read and write mix. There are similar improvements with a RAID 5 configuration.
Competition notes
Krischer states that the HNAS 3090 – and therefore the HUS 150 file controllers – supports much higher scalability with better throughput than comparable products from EMC and NetApp (the VNX5500 and FAS3270 respectively).
The FAS3270 is comparable to the HUS 150 and is optimised for file access, but Krischer notes that it supports a 2-controller configuration only rather than the four seen in the HUS 150.
He says that EMC's VNX supports up to eight NAS heads (x-blades), but does not support a single namespace as HUS does.
Also, he adds: "The VNX supports FAST VP and the IBM V7000 supports Easy Tiering, which are sub-LUN, automated storage tiering for blocks, but don't support equivalent functionality for files without additional software."
All in all, Krischer thinks the HUS 100 products are strong competitors in the unified storage space and should help HDS grow its business there. European value-added distributor Zycko is of a similar frame of mind. Pricing is going to be important and it will be interesting to see how that compares to that of the competition.
Storage players, listen up: what HDS wants to do is to take its leadership with VSP in the enterprise storage space, which it claims it enjoys, and use HUS to parlay that into leadership in the mid-range unified storage space. Expect a barrage of marketing messages from the other unified storage players putting forward a contrary view. ®


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Claremont McKenna College (CMC) is fully committed to fostering a campus with a diverse student body. To help achieve this goal, the Office of Financial Aid is dedicated to helping students and parents manage the cost for CMC once admitted.
The price of higher education can be costly. CMC recognizes this and encourages all eligible students to apply for assistance.
If you are seeking financial aid from CMC, know that aid eligibility differs among new students, transfer students, and international students. If assistance is needed, you are highly encouraged to apply for financial aid. We also encourage you to use our Net Price Calculator for an idea of the financial aid package you could receive if you attend CMC.
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Texas air travelers will encounter longer lines, cancelled flights and shuttered airports, in some cases, if Congress fails to act before the looming March 1 deadline.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced today that major cuts will be made to the Federal Aviation Administration if the budget sequester takes affect on March 1. In preparing to reduce its expenditures by $600 million, LaHood outlined four major changes that would be made:
- Furlough 47,000 employees for approximately one day per pay period through September
- Eliminate midnight shifts in over 60 towers
- Close over 100 air traffic control towers
- Reduce preventative maintenance and equipment provisioning and support for all NAS equipment
The budget cuts will also affect the larger state airports like George Bush Intercontinental and DFW International through flight delays.
"Flights to major cities like New York, Chicago, and San Francisco could experience delays of up to 90 minutes during peak hours because we will have fewer controllers on staff," the letter reads.
Texas towers where overnight shifts could be eliminated are:
- Abilene tower
- Austin tower
- Corpus Christi tower
- El Paso tower
- Meacham tower (Fort Worth)
- Lubbock tower
The airports to be eliminated all have fewer than 150,000 flight operations or 10,000 commercial operations per year. Facilities that could be cut include:
- Waco Regional
- New Braunfels Municipal
- Jack Brooks Regional (Beaumont)
- Brownsville/South Padre Island International
- Easterwood Field (College Station)
- TSTC Waco
- Lone Star Executive (Houston)
- Fort Worth Sprinks
- East Texas Regional (Longview)
- Arlington Municipal
- Grand Prairie Municipal
- Georgetown Municipal
- San Marcos Municipal
- Dallas Executive
- Sugar Land Regional
- Stinson Municipal (San Antonio)
- Collin County Regional at McKinney
- Tyler Pounds Regional
- Victoria Regional
Facility shut downs and furloughs will begin in April.
No decisions have been finalized. The letter says final decisions will be made based on conversations between FAA, unions, and airspace unions.


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Legislative pet-sale task force split
A task force studying possible restrictions on the sale of puppies and kittens seemed deadlocked Tuesday, divided between animal rights activists and the pet shop industry.
During its next-to-last meeting, it seemed less likely that a consensus will emerge to recommend particular legislation to the General Assembly's Environment Committee, although the co-chairmen Rep. Brenda Kupchick and Sen. Bob Duff are still holding out hope.
"The greater public wants change in Connecticut," said Kupchick, R-Fairfield, during the two-hour meeting.
"Ultimately, at the end of the day, there's a philosophical difference," said Duff, D-Norwalk. "I think it is (best) for us to try to work on issues that we can at least agree on."
Annie Hornish, a former House member who is the state director of the Humane Society of the United States, said that pet stores "abide by very weak standards" to ensure puppies and dogs get proper exercise and veterinary care. "They don't see that as part of their purview."
"Bad breeders are largely unlicensed," said Charles Sewell, executive vice president for external affairs of the Pet Shops of America. "The people in the best position to judge are the vets. They are the professionals who provide us the reasonable assurance for the health of the animals."
The Sale of Cats and Dogs Task Force has held two public hearings, in which the state pet shop owners have said they only purchase puppies from reputable breeders. But animal rights activists cite incidents of abusive conditions among some Midwestern breeders, so-called puppy mills, as the reason to ban them from Connecticut.
But last year similar legislation failed, because of federal laws protecting interstate commerce.
Sewell warned that if pet shops are prohibited from selling puppies, their sale will go underground, onto Internet sites, including Craigslist.
"No one feels stronger than me that animals have to be protected," said Rep. Auden Grogins, D-Bridgeport, another task force member. "But how are we going to regulate these out-of-state breeders? That's the big issue here."
The panel's final meeting is scheduled for Jan. 23.
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Petition of the day
The petition of the day is:
Issue(s): (1) Whether the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services correctly calculated psychiatric-hospital reimbursement payments in fiscal years 2003 through 2008 based on a permissible interpretation of 42 U.S.C. § 1395ww(b)(3)(A)(ii) and the agency's implementing regulation; and (2) whether the Court should revisit the rule articulated in Auer v. Robbins, of deferring to an agency's interpretation of its own regulations.
Recommended Citation: Mary Pat Dwyer, Petition of the day, SCOTUSblog (Mar. 15, 2013, 10:44 PM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2013/03/petition-of-the-day-418/