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Application software or what we more commonly refer to as apps – computer software designed to help users perform specific tasks – continues to explode.
As one proof point, Apple, the largest purveyor of apps via its App Store, announced at its Worldwide Developer conference earlier this month that its customers have downloaded more than 30 billion apps. Apple's App Store now offers more than 650,000 apps, including 225,000 for the iPad.
And this is just in the consumer space! We are also seeing significant development of productivity services and apps in the enterprise. At Cisco, we've introduced more than 100 apps and services (see my previous blog on this topic), dramatically simplifying business processes for our employees. Internally, we call these our productivity apps. Employees can access the apps directly from our collaboration platform, formerly known as Cisco Quad – now rebranded as WebEx Social. We're also moving apps onto mobile devices, which for many employees, particularly those in sales and who travel frequently, is an enormous time saver. Mobile apps are available from the Cisco App Center.
I am absolutely thrilled with the progress we're making in developing these productivity apps for work. Many, many new apps are in the pipeline and there is clear commitment to continue to make more applications available for our Cisco workforce.
Here are some of the apps that are new or will be enhanced in the first half of July:
My Cases – Allows users to view their open and closed IT support cases, review case details and update case notes, all through a single application.
My Paid Time Off (PTO) – One of our most popular apps, My PTO will expand to seven additional countries (Argentina, Brazil, Ireland, Mexico, Portugal, Sweden and Switzerland). This is our first entry into Latin America with My PTO.
Cisco Management Metrics Center (CMMC) – This has been enhanced to offer people managers the capability to directly monitor and track relevant program metrics, such as performance and development progress and PTO requests related to Cisco's year-end shutdown.
My Timecards– Provides employees with a simple way to view, modify and submit their timecards. Employee PTO balances are also displayed in the application for easy reference.
And let's not forget mobile apps! Coming in July, they include:
My Approvals is now offered for iPhones, allowing employees to view and manage all of their approval notifications in a single view. My Approvals for the iPad and Android will be available in July.
My Paid Time Off for mobile will also expand to seven countries – Argentina, Brazil, Ireland, Mexico, Portugal, Sweden and Switzerland.
My Expenses for mobile offers employees with a simplified interface for preparing their expense reports and an at-a-glance summary of expense report status. It includes the ability to scan and attach receipts to expense reports – a big time saver!
In addition, here is a preview of even more apps that are scheduled for introduction over the next year:
Notifications and Announcements – This will be a consolidated view for employees to receive reminders and notices for cyclical and event driven items.
My Health and Wellness – This offers an employee view of available health and wellness related programs as well as convenience services available to our workforce.
Cisco Maps – Based on an employee's location, this app will let you view a Cisco building floorplan, check-in/out of a workspace as well as book a conference room. Also integrated will be the capability to click-to-call, click-to-mail, click-to-WebEx and click-to-chat.
Click-to-Chat Support – This new app will enable employees to request click-to-chat support from the relevant Cisco help desk.
My Stock – Employees will be able to view their Cisco equity details, manage their Employee Stock Performance Plan enrollment and select a broker with this app.
HRIQ for Employees – This app will enable direct employee access to information commonly supplied by the Human Resources Connection.
My Travel – This is a new app for viewing past, current and future travel.
Stay tuned for more updates as we continue to break new ground with our productivity apps. In the meantime, I'd love to hear what you are doing in your company to make business processes easier.
Happy Collaborating!
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Well I am so happy to read about these newly introduced and improved versions of Cisco Apps. Personally I love hearing about the Cisco Maps App this is really handy for employees working in offices with large premises and I also admire Click to Chat App and My Cases that is very beneficial for the employees. I would appreciate some more innovative apps hitting the stores soon.
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I've been using a few of these new apps internally, and they are so handy. They really help make IWE a "one stop shop" for information when I need it. Looking forward to more!


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MACON, Ga. (February 6, 2007) - Over a two day span this past weekend ETSU's Enrique Olivares posted a combined 8-0 record and propelled the Buccaneers to the top of the A-Sun standings. For his efforts on the courts, Atlantic Sun officials selected Olivares as the Atlantic Sun Athlete of the Week today.
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Sunday would see much of the same for Olivares, who turned in wins over Lipscomb's Jeff West (6-0, 6-1) and Virginia Intermont's Milan Kosicky (6-0, 6-2).
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For concrete and quarry company Local Mix, increasing productivity was simply a matter of finding the right drill rig. By all accounts, they've found it.
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Drilcorp Ltd based in Seaham, County Durham has been awarded a de-watering contract in Aberdeen AB12 3QA in the north east of Scotland, consisting of 220 boreholes to a total depth of 7,5 m. The site has between 5 m and 7 m of overburden comprising sand and gravel of mixed lithology's and large to very large granite cobbles and boulders then onto granite bedrock. Some excavated boulders have been recorded at over 1 m in diameter. These strata's have proved problematic to the drillers on site.
"John was so impressed with our equipment and helpfulness that he agreed to purchase a second Symmetrix system including a second COP 54 hammer based on our recommendations, on the spot."
The Director of Drilcorp Ltd, John Gowans, asked me to propose a solution to the situation on site, the obvious choice was our new Symmetrix Retrievable N-model R168/10-132 complete with a new Secoroc COP 54 hammer to run it. I put the package together and had it delivered to site. On Thursday 19/6/14 I attended the site in Aberdeen to commission the new system and check that the operators were using it correctly. The rig was a Massenza MI6 with a tilt out head and 3,6 m stroke and the compressor was an Ingersoll Rand 400 cfm/200 psi custom tracked unit. We set-up the new system and began drilling at 12:10 pm, running the compressor at 10 bar with low rotation speed (no gauge on the rig) and encountered numerous large boulders which were no match for the system.
The operators were slightly apprehensive using the new kit in front of an Atlas Copco employee but still managed to have the borehole to the total depth by 12:40 pm. The operator joked that it would take him longer to pull out the casing than it would to drill the hole (it did). I have personally drilled similar ground conditions using the old design of retrievable Symmetrix system N-model and did so for some years, and I can confirm that the new Symmetrix design "is a weapon!". The increased flushing capabilities dramatically improve the system and from a quality point of view it should be able to sustain a lot more punishment than its predecessor. Even just drilling to 7,5 m on this site I could see a vast improvement. The latching in and out of the ring bit has also dramatically improved with less rotation required due to the 5 no latching points. It seamlessly glides into latched and unlatched positions effortlessly and this was also noted by the operators from Drilcorp Ltd.
During the site visit I had numerous telephone discussions with John Gowans regarding the progress in which we were making. John was so impressed with our equipment and helpfulness that he agreed to purchase a second Symmetrix system including a second COP 54 hammer based on our recommendations, on the spot. This second system is currently being prepared to ship to site, tailored for a Berreta T44. The trial has also produced some extra consumable orders including our Matex environmentally safe hammer oil. It has also helped to build a strong, successful relationship with the customer and helped secure future orders. I currently have interest for this system from three other contractors including Greencat renewables based in west Lothian, Geodrill Ltd from county Durham and both the Scottish and England based offices of Soil Engineering. I will be making plans to get these other contractors to trial and purchase this system as soon as suitable sites are available.
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INDIANAPOLIS — A gruesome injury that left Louisville guard Kevin Ware with a broken leg plunged Lucas Oil Stadium into horrified silence, with coach Rick Pitino wiping away tears and shocked teammates openly weeping during Sunday's Midwest Regional final.
Ware's right leg bent in such an awkward and frightening angle that CBS stopped showing replays shortly after the fall in the NCAA tournament matchup against Duke.
"The bone's 6 inches out of his leg and all he's yelling is, 'Win the game, win the game,'" Pitino said. "I've not seen that in my life. … Pretty special young man."
Viewers who watched the injury on TV reacted on social networks and (hash)KevinWare shot to one of the top worldwide trending topics on Twitter. Video of the injury was posted on YouTube — CBS initially replayed it twice before changing course.
With 6:33 left in the first half, Ware tried to contest a 3-pointer by Tyler Thornton. Ware's leg buckled when he landed, bending almost at a right angle.
School officials said Ware was taken to Methodist Hospital with a broken lower right leg. Louisville spokesman Kenny Klein said hospital officials told the school that Ware was "resting comfortably" and that the pain was "under control."
Klein said a team of doctors was being assembled.
One of Ware's teammates and closest friends, Chane Behanan, spoke with Ware at halftime.
"He said 'Don't worry about me, I'm good, I'll have my surgery tonight,'" Behanan said. "Go win it for me."
Pitino said Ware's leg broke in two spots.
"Basically, the bone popped out of the skin," he said. "It'll take a year to come back."
Pitino said it was the same injury former Louisville running back Michael Bush had in football. Bush, now with the Chicago Bears, has recovered to have a productive NFL career.
Ware was taken off the court on a stretcher.
The injury happened right in front of Pitino and the Louisville bench, and several Cardinals were overcome with emotion.
Louisville forward Wayne Blackshear fell to the floor, crying, and Behanan looked as if he was going to be sick on the court, kneeling on his hands and feet. Peyton Siva sat a few feet away, a hand covering his mouth.
Luke Hancock patted Ware's chest as doctors worked on the sophomore and Russ Smith — who is from New York City like Ware — walked away, pulling his jersey over his eyes.
Someone finally pulled Behanan to his feet, but he doubled over and needed a few seconds to gather himself. As Ware was being loaded onto the stretcher, the Cardinals gathered at midcourt until Pitino called them over, saying that Ware wanted to talk to them before he left.
In the immediate aftermath, those who saw the game on television took to social media to express their concern. Former Washington Redskins quarterback Joe Theismann, who famously sustained a broken leg on "Monday Night Football" in a game against the New York Giants, tweeted that, "Watching Duke/ Louisville my heart goes out to Kevin Ware."
Louisville, the top overall seed in the tourney, went more than 3 minutes without scoring after the injury but regained its composure to take a 35-32 halftime lead and went on to an 85-63 victory.
"We won this for him," Pitino said. "We were all choked up with emotion for him. We'll get him back to normal. We've got great doctors, great trainers. We talked about it every timeout, 'Get Kevin home.'"
Ware, a 6-foot-2 sophomore from the Bronx, was instrumental in Louisville's victory over Oregon in the regional semifinals. He scored 11 points on 5-for-7 shooting in 25 minutes off the bench.
Behanan switched into Ware's No. 5 jersey near the end of the game.
Afterward, he kept on it and the Cardinal players led the heavily partisan Louisville crowd in chants of "Kev-in, Kev-in." Behanan then took the jersey off and continually held it up next to and underneath the Midwest Region championship trophy.
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Dozens of lawsuits and investigations emerged after Facebook's initial public offering on the Nasdaq Stock Market last year. One investigation, initiated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, focused on technical errors in Nasdaq's system that inadvertently delayed trading that first day.
Now, word has it that Nasdaq may be able to settle the debacle with the federal regulators, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Sources familiar with the matter have told the Journal that Nasdaq has been in preliminary settlement talks with the SEC. If the two sides do make a deal, it will most likely include a financial penalty that could be as much as $5 million. Additionally, the stock exchange will probably be required to take steps to avoid future technical errors.
The SEC initiated the investigation after Facebook's Nasdaq debut last May when technical problems delayed trading for 30 minutes. This delay caused confusion and uncertainty among investors, and some traders were not able to confirm changes or cancellations made to Facebook orders until later in the day. All and all, the glitch cost traders an estimated $500 million in losses, according to the Wall Street Journal.
While Nasdaq has been dealing with angry investors and the SEC, Facebook has been sorting out its own issues. Approximately 50 lawsuits have also been brought against the social network regarding the botched IPO. Defendants in the lawsuits, many of whom are investors, claim that Facebook failed to disclose in the critical days leading up to the IPO that there was "a severe and pronounced reduction" in forecasts for Facebook's revenue growth.
Facebook has maintained it's innocent of wrongdoing and instead placed the blame on Nasdaq, charging that the technical glitches were the source of the decline in share price. Nasdaq's chief executive responded to these claims by saying that "arrogance" and "overconfidence" among the stock exchange's staffers contributed to Facebook's mishandled IPO.
Nasdaq officials have said that the exchange is working on a redesign of its IPO systems in the wake of the Facebook IPO. Aside from possibly paying the SEC a penalty, Nasdaq announced in June that it would also compensate traders and investors for any losses incurred as a result of the glitch.
Even if the SEC settlement talks are happening and moving along, there most likely won't be any conclusion for weeks or months, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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WEST — In this small, shattered town 80 miles south of Dallas, residents awaiting word on missing loved ones spent most of Thursday finding hope in not knowing for sure.
But Thursday evening, officials finally laid out what they knew so far: that eight to 10 bodies had been recovered in the devastated areas around Wednesday's horrific explosion at West Fertilizer Co. and that they expected to find about a half-dozen more inside the facility.
Although the death toll remained uncertain, it's a far smaller number than the 35 to 40 that West Mayor Tommy Muska had calculated earlier. "It's very good news," Muska told The Dallas Morning News. "I'm very relieved that it's not that high."
But for many in West, a close-knit town of about 2,800 from which more than 160 people were taken to hospitals with injuries, other answers would have to wait. Many spent the day unsure whether their homes survived the sudden, devastating explosion, so powerful that it registered on seismographs hundreds of miles away.
And determining the cause of the fire at West Fertilizer that triggered the explosion could take a while, more uncertainty for a town searching for answers.
Muska's fatality estimate included four EMS members, five volunteers with the West Fire Department, an off-duty Dallas fire captain who lived in West and two volunteers who had seen the fire and stopped to help.
One resident of West Rest Haven, a nursing home across from the fertilizer company, died from injuries suffered in the explosion, according to the state agency that regulates nursing homes and David Moon, the home's former board president and a co-owner.
The rest, Muska guessed, were residents who lived within a few blocks of the fertilizer company. Their homes took the full impact of the explosion, with windows blown out, roofs ripped off, walls toppled, with some burning brightly into the night.
Many homes and other buildings were said to be flattened. Through the day Thursday, search and rescue crews moved carefully from house to house near the site of the explosion, the buildings so fragile that they had to shore up damaged ceilings and walls before they could search for survivors.
"It's a very slow and methodical search," Waco police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton said Thursday morning. "There are some true heroes out there that aren't police, that aren't firefighters."
Condolences poured in from around the world, including from Pope Francis, along with help from around the state. President Barack Obama called Gov. Rick Perry to offer federal support, and the governor quickly declared McLennan County a disaster area as a preliminary step to receiving federal aid for cleanup and reconstruction.
"We greatly appreciate his call and his gracious offer of his support, and very quick turnaround of the emergency declaration that will be forthcoming, and his offer of prayers," Perry said of Obama.
Later, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst told CNN that the cause was still a mystery and could remain so for weeks.
"Unless we know something else, right now it's an industrial accident," he said. "But we're going to get to the bottom of this to find out what happened because we don't want to see this ever happen again."
Search incomplete
Officials initially said there were no environmental concerns. But later, inspectors from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and the federal Environmental Protection Agency tried to determine whether it was safe for rescuers to be on the site.
Muska said the Texas Forest Service, which helped coordinate the search and rescue operation, told him late Thursday that crews had searched 80 percent of the devastated area of town, including a nursing home and a 50-unit apartment complex. The teams found the eight to 10 bodies in that search but hadn't entered the fertilizer company building yet.
Residents were eager to get back into their homes, to see if there was anything to salvage. The state's U.S. senators, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, planned to visit Friday to tour the damage and show support. But Sgt. Jason Reyes of the Texas Department of Public Safety said it was unclear when the affected area would be opened to residents.
"It's still a very volatile situation," added McLennan County Chief Sheriff's Deputy Matt Cawthon.
In a town like West, almost everyone knows the missing and the presumed dead, among them, Joey Pustejovsky, West's city secretary and a member of the volunteer fire department.
"We have a mayor and we have Joey," said resident Laura Bettge, who said she spent Thursday morning praying and crying. "He's a friend to everybody, but he's also our leader.
"'Secretary' doesn't really describe what he does," she said. "We don't have a city manager, so he kind of just helps run everything."
The only victim publicly identified Thursday was Capt. Kenny Harris of Dallas Fire-Rescue, a 52-year-old father of three grown sons who lived in West and had volunteered to help fight the fire.
"He was one of the most genuine people I've ever met," said Presley Hoffman, 18, who said she knew Harris' son.
At least two people with family members in the West Fire Department said they were told their loved ones were missing and presumed dead.
But even in the most terrible hours West has ever known, residents banded together, helping one another get through that first night and the hard day that followed.
Outpouring of help
Hundreds of residents hauled cases of bottled water, bags of food and other supplies to the West Community Center. Volunteers said they were so inundated with supplies they had to open other drop-off locations at nearby schools and churches.
"It's been a nonstop flow of goods," said Dwayne Young, a volunteer who guided traffic outside the community center.
The Red Cross opened a shelter for displaced residents but quickly realized no one was waiting for help.
"We really didn't need it because they stayed with family and friends," said Dan Halyburton, a public affairs volunteer with the Red Cross. "That says there's something special about this community."
Volunteers from nearby towns, and some from as far away as Dallas, flooded into West early Thursday, eager to help in any way they could.
"People from all over have been here," said Derek Phipps, a Dallas insurance adjuster who arrived at dawn to volunteer. "They don't even know where to go. They just drove into town."
Asked what survivors needed most when they arrived at the community center, Phipps smiled sadly.
"Right now, they just need a hug," he said. "Everybody is stone-faced and in shock. So we try to smile, give them a hug, ask how we can help."
Members of San Antonio's fire department helped put up an inflatable medical tent at the community center, and chaplains and traumatic stress counselors waited around at the library Thursday afternoon, but families weren't coming in as they had expected.
"I'd say there are more people here to help than in the town, I'd guess," said Chuck Bridge, a member of the Austin Disaster Relief Network. "It's just unusual, but it's early yet."
Perry, who grew up in an even smaller community, said, "This tragedy has most likely touched every family, has touched practically everyone in that town."
Along the edges of the blast area, the people of West were beginning to put things in order again. Shop owners cleaned up the broken glass. School officials started sorting out the challenges ahead, with their intermediate school largely destroyed.
West is the sort of town where people pitch in, said Wesley Adcock, who had been delivering concrete for a road project south of town when he heard the explosion.
He ended up ferrying three residents from the nursing home to the hospital in Waco, one on each trip.
The third asked a special favor. When Adcock got back to town, she said, maybe he could go to her room and pick up her Bible, her prayer book and her bingo winnings and bring them to her.
West, he said, is the kind of place where people do things like that, where helping neighbors comes naturally.
"That's what this town is all about," Adcock said.
Staff writers Matthew Watkins, Eva-Marie Ayala, Tristan Hallman, Robert T. Garrett, Karen Brooks Harper, Christy Hoppe, Todd J. Gillman and Michael E. Young contributed to this report. Brandon Formby reported from West and Matthew Haag from Dallas.
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Elva Quiring, 94, of Goessel died Dec. 19 at Bethesda Home in Goessel. She was born Feb. 23, 1918, in Henderson, Neb., to Henry J. and Anna Janzen Ratzlaff. She worked as a teacher.
She was a member of First Mennonite Church in Mount Lake, Minn., where she was a Sunday school teacher and superintendent. She also was a founder and member of the board for Minn-Kota MCC Relief Sale.
She married Sam E. Quiring on Sept. 1, 1949, in Henderson. He preceded her in death in 2008.
Her parents; three sisters, Malita Friesen, Zella Huebert, and Elfrieda Ratzlaff; and two brothers, Lee and Marvin Ratzlaff, also preceded her in death.
She is survived by a son, Dennis of Newton; two daughters, Grace Bartel of North Newton, and Clarice Hostetler of Dodge City; three sisters, Alvina DaVolt of Henderson, Leanna Peters of Henderson, and Violet Ratzlaff of Henderson; eight grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Services were to be at 11 a.m. Dec. 29 at Alexanderwohl Mennonite Church, rural Goessel. Burial was to be at Alexanderwohl Mennonite Church Cemetery.
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"Verizon says that the judgment "should send a clear message...""
And that message is: "Make sure you use enough shell corporations and aliases that nobody can collect the judgment."
Verizon has been awarded $33.15m in a cybersquatting lawsuit against a shady domain aggregator that registered hundreds of websites using the telco's name and trademarks. In a default judgment this week, a federal court in Northern California ruled this week that OnlineNIC should pay $50,000 for each of the 633 domains Verizon …
It is probably one of those companies that is "Crazy Like a Fox" ads that show up on late night TV. They always have a different URL at the bottom of the ad, or some such. Yes, you can "make money fast"! Often is it one of those schemes that propose to make you a small fortune, only after you had a large fortune to start with.
Maybe they should go "up the food chain". Oh, sorry it is InterNIC, they don't do anything!
"That teenage boy at at a Western Union" can be made to give up what he did with the cash trail real easy. Take the judgment, and take his parent's house, car, and all of their possessions. Unless he can prove that he is not the person that they just won against in court. This is shaping up to make Verizon the new RIAA.
Frankly, they don't even have proof that the same person was behind each of these domains, and they still need to prove service of the proper process. Good luck doing that in China.
I don't have that much of a problem with this issue. Why?
This issue isn't about Verizon wanting to buy up domain names which it could use, such as in case of people guessing the URL, and still being directed to their site.
So people googled Verizon, and inadvertently went to one of his sites, and he made a bit of money out of doing it. Big deal. The user would then just go back to the search engine and continue to seek out the official Verizon site. No harm has been done and Verizon haven't lost any revenue.
It's really a copyright/trademark issue that this guy was creating site names using the word Verizon which is presumably trademarked and using without authorisation.
But I understood you could use a trademarked name as long as you put the "TM" in superscript at the end, and have the phrase "All trademarks recognised".
But it's hard to do that in a domain name isn't it!
I suppose the guy could have recognised the trademark on the website itself.
But I don't think this is what the case was about.
Good luck collecting the money from this company. It's a chinese company, probably ran by the Chinese Government. We attempted to do business with this company a number of times and their true identities were always elusive.
Let's hope that GoDaddy is next in these types of lawsuits. They do the same thing with domains.
"The firm also allegedly deletes infringing domains within five days and then re-registers to avoid paying registration costs and to avoid detection by trademark owners."
This capability should be abolished. The ability to use a domain free for 5 days results in much spam and scam. Use of a domian should not be enabled until payment is received, should be for a minimum of 2yrs and should be non refundable.
Since when did it fall on major corporations or companies to serves summons? I was always under the impression that a court was supposed to do this. I guess if i want to bring suit against someone, all i have to do is say i tried to contact/serve them, was unsuccessful, and i'm guaranteed to win my argument.
Somewhere in the whole money collecting process there will be a teenage boy at a Western Union franchise collecting cash, and he can be grabbed by the authorities and used to follow the money trail. The only reason cyber crooks are "untraceable" while billion dollar drug cartel kingpins are "traceable" is that the authorities actually care about catching the billion dollar drug cartel kingpins.
Most of the ads will be Google ones.
And thus one way to collect is to get the court to allocate all the funds Google would have paid to OnlineNIC to be to Verizon.
This would pretty mush crush OnlineNIC without even finding out who they are - they'll lose their revenue stream.
Doesn't matter if someone is collecting cash, they've got to be handing it to someone. No punk collecting cash is going to do jail-time over his involvement, not if faced with a backpayment of $33M to pay off, and he must be passing it on to someone. of course, the guys behind this could stop operating, break off all contact with middlemen and thus cover their tracks entirely - but they won't, they like money too much.
More to the point, what sort of rubbish vetting do ICANN run, that lets this happen? Phoney names? Book-and-cancel fraud? Don't they do /any/ KYC checks? Heck, and people call Wall Street lax and sloppy.
What happened that was illegal? Someone bought a domain name before a big corporation... and somehow that's damaging the big company? Oh that's right... big companies are also big contributors to legislators' campaigns.... I remember... <slaps forehead>
Aliens, because they know how to regulate commerce... and they need to abduct some US senators...


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A new report published in the Economist magazine gives Tennessee an "A" rating for its overall friendliness to small business.
This comes as no surprise.
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By: Thomas L. Knapp
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New York Times trend pieces elicit a fair share of mockery for being patronizing and late to the game (just look at their incessant bumping on millennials).
Their latest piece was no exception. Its premise, in not so many words, was something like, "OMG newsflash: College girls are having no-strings-attached sex. On purpose."
Reporter Kate Taylor's "Sex on Campus: She Can Play at That Game, Too" dominated Sunday's Style cover with an accompanying illustration of a naked thigh and a girl buried in bed sheets and shadows. The 4,800-word totally un-groundbreaking feature read like a do-over of this, this, this and this, as Slate points out in a critique of the hook-up culture beat. It follows the sex lives of several women on the UPenn campus, who trade emotionally invested relationships for forward-looking aspirations like career, grad school upward mobility. Somewhere in the middle, the tale switches from sexting, booty calls and virginity loss to one of rape, regret and a lack of fulfillment.
So now the author is running the media circuit to defend her piece, acting all surprised at the vocal opposition to her story's characterizations, which fit nicely into the common archetypes we see in virtually every other hook-up trend piece (the Texter, the Lady Bro, the Woman Who Secretly Wants a Boyfriend, and so on).
In a roundtable discussion on MSNBC's Morning Joe, Taylor says her piece, which she worked on exclusively for an entire school year, isn't representative of the whole campus (no kidding: No mention of LGBT or male students at all). Taylor explains:
"What I came away with…is that this has been a profound social change that has happened over the past several decades and things have really changed since the time when my mom was going to college, when women, even if they were going to college and they were a minority then, kind of expected to get married soon after college and if they were pursuing a career, they were not going to be the breadwinner…"
Things have changed, but, as Jezebel points out, that's not necessarily a bad thing. And the message can stop getting transmogrified into a narrative of casual sex as a cautionary tale of date rape.
Says Jezebel's Kate Dries: "… but that continuing to write "deep investigative pieces" about women's sex lives while interviewing men and lesbians and bisexual women and leaving them out of the piece, makes this a woman's issue, in a way that Salon's Anna North explains is "intended to worry" the audience reading it."
For a more accurate (and less sensational) glimpse inside UPenn's hook-up (and relationship) culture, read this student's account of what Taylor got right and where she missed the mark.
Find Jennifer Wadsworth on Twitter at @jennwadsworth.


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My husband and I have taken a liking to biking, both mountain and road. I call it the 35+ form of exercise. When your joints start to hurt and your body begins to ache, it's time to get back to basics and on a bike! This started happening to me once I hit 35 years old.
We're not professionals. We aren't ultra hard-core bikers. (ok, I am on Strava, and I do tend to get competitive, but it's all in good fun!) I apologize for this "sultry" looking photo, the sun was in my eyes, not trying to look tough! I am merely trying to explain why biking and memory keeping go hand in hand.
We live at the base of one of the most beautiful mountains in Utah. We love to get out and breathe the crisp mountain air while enjoying the quiet sounds of nature (no fighting children)!
We're also so lucky to live in a time where technology allows us to capture everything around us with little pocket sized mobile devices!
Top 3 reasons why I carry my phone while Biking
- Emergencies. I may need someone to change a flat!
- Strava. This GPS based iPhone app charts incline, miles, time, and calories. Sure, there are lots of apps that do this, but the fun part- riders can compete via location "segments". Strava lists fast riders in order by gender and overall. Climb to the top and gain a crown, called the King/Queen of the mountain. This app just makes biking fun. Set goals, achieve & conquer with Strava.
- Photo Opportunities! Bikes can take us places we've never seen before. Singletrack trails are winding throughout the world waiting to show us the hidden majestic beauty that awaits. I love looking through my biking photos reclaiming the exultant feelings and challenges of certain climbs. Some of my most favorite shots have been on bike rides, all with my iPhone.
These 4x4 9-up pocket pages from We R Memory Keepers make it easy.
Many of my photos are posted to Instagram, and are already formatted square. I print them all up and organize them into my 12x12 albums. (sheet protectors on Amazon)
And then, I thought I should share. [download here]


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Here's my contribution to 'The Movie Show' (http://the-movie-show.blogspot.fr/) at Maghen Gallery Paris (France) - http://www.danielmaghen.com
The groupshow will run from June 28 - July 30, 2013.
Posted by Charles Santoso at 11:30 PM
Labels: groupshow, illustration, pencil, tribute
Wow! This is just gorgeous. Well done.
The mighty sky!!!! Yup, don't forget us, bloggers...
Wow, you've been gone a LONG time. Good to see you come back occasionally, Sir. That's really cool, shades of Nausicaa.
Quite a few bloggers are focusing more on Tumbler lately. I tried Tumbler a bit but since the site encourages the reposting of your art it kind of freaked me out that my hard-earned gag ideas were being taken so easily, and posted to other people's sites.
I couldn't understand the benefit of that.
Shawn: Thank you!
miniPau: Thank you. I won't :)
Ted: Thank you, good sir :) Regarding tumblr, I see the reposting as further exposures for the work. I think as long as we post our website or name on the image..then it should be fine.. i hope :)
very nice illustration : )
Very nice illustration : )


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Houston had its warmest year in 2012 and, according to NOAA, the United States did too. And it wasn't really close.
The following table shows the ten warmest years on record for the contiguous United States:
According to the table, 7 of the 11 warmest years on record in the country have occurred since 1998.
The 2012 annual temperature was 1.0 degree warmer than the previous record warm year of 1998, a remarkable disparity considering that the rest of the top 10 is pretty closely clustered together.
Since 1895, the continental United States has observed a long-term temperature increase of about 0.13 degrees per decade, NOAA reports.
Also during 2012, of the 48 contiguous United States, 19 recorded their warmest years on record. Texas tied its record high (1921) for an annual temperature by finishing 2.4 degrees above normal.
Finally here's a map, including Houston and Galveston, showing which cities set records for annual high temperatures (and cold ones, see Hawaii).
The bright spot in the report released by NOAA today is this: Tornado activity during 2012 was below the 1991-2010 average of approximately 1,200 twisters. This year's count will be less than 1,000.


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The first episode I watched, "The Christmas Invasion," did little to assuage my fears. In this story, a race of alien invaders called the Sycorax attack Earth on Christmas Day. I won't complain that this is yet another Whovian invasion-of-Earth story (which I once calculated compromises a whopping 26 percent of the original series..) because every Doctor must broach "his" invasion tale in his own way (like every James Bond must go through his paces). Besides, the story was borderline inventive in spots, particularly the aspects regarding alien "blood control" of all A-positive people on Earth. Disappointingly, the Doctor was sidelined for a good part of the tale, still recovering from his latest regeneration. When he did return to full health, it took our hero about five minutes to defeat the straw men Sycorax (who arrive in a very cool and very menacing spaceship). I don't remember the Doctor being quite *that* powerful that he could defeat aliens in such short order.
And frankly, I thought Tennant was a little over-the-top in these climactic scenes. It wasn't all his fault. It was written that way: as though the writers wanted to establish in a very, very brief amount of time that the Doctor was still funny, still charismatic, still smart, still a fighter, still our champion, and on and on. I understand fully and completely the need and desire to accomplish all that with a new lead actor. But I guess the upshot is that I still had some doubts about Tennant as Time Lord. I discussed the episode with my wife Kathryn, who loved it, and I attempted to clarify my feelings. Ultimately, I felt "The Christmas Invasion" was fun, fast-moving (it really moves at a breakneck pace...) but somehow more deliberately and overtly campy than I remember the original Doctor Who series being. I laughed out loud two or three times during the episode, but it was silly humor that undercut the seriousness of the situation at points. I love the scene with the malevolent Christmas Tree on the attack but I'm not convinced it really fits with the Sycorax narrative. It is a great image, and a great scene, however.
The second episode "New Earth," I watched with the same level of anxiety, though I found much more to enjoy and appreciate in this installment. There's a delightful body-switching subplot that is legitimately funny (especially in a scene set in an elevator shaft...), and overall the episode is an interesting (and ingenious...) variation of the Night of the Living Dead ethos. The episode occurs in a futuristic hospital facility on New Earth (in the amusingly-named New, New York City) and involves the age old "science-gone-awry' concept. In this instance, the physicians at the hospital (a race of sentient cat people...) have overreached in their desire to cure human diseases and have created a whole race of "plague people." In short order, these plague people are on the loose and with one gnarly touch, they can infect you with every disease known to man. Again, the pace of the episode is breakneck, the science fiction concepts are strong, and there's a lot of humor. I liked this show a lot; and especially the enigmatic material about the million-year old Face of Boe.
And Tennant was growing on me.
By the end of "Tooth and Claw," the third episode I watched, all my trepidations and reservations had begun to disappear. The series was winning me over. This is a great - even classic - episode. Again, I had what I suppose are snobbish reservations when I saw the preview trailer. A Doctor Who episode about a werewolf? Oh boy! How lame! But this impression was flat-out wrong. The episode (by Russell T. Davies) was brilliant, original and totally inventive, involving a werewolf cult in 1879 that is attempting to replace Queen Victoria and usher in The Empire of the Wolf. I loved the isolated setting (a rural mansion...), admired the discussions about mythology vs. science and history (involving the arrival of the monstrous "werewolf" on Earth), and in particular dug the surprise ending, which I won't reveal here, but which fans of the Royal Family will no doubt enjoy.
The next Who episode was "School Reunion" and by golly, now I'm hooked and absolutely in love with this show. This episode involves the return of two beloved companions from series history, the "tin dog" K-9 and journalist Sarah Jane Smith (Elizabeth Sladen) from the early Tom Baker (Fourth Incarnation) years. This episode managed to put an entirely fresh spin on the Doctor/companion relationship and reveal new aspects of it. For perhaps the first time, the audience can understand why the Doctor chooses to live how he does. I must admit, I unexpectedly found myself moved by this story. I may have even shed a tear or two, especially at the end. In terms of story, this tale pits the Doctor against a fascinating enemy called the Krillitane (given human face by Rupert Giles, Anthony Stewart Head), which "assimilates" the best qualities of all the races it conquers. Here, the Krillitane stratagem is beautifully explained, and one senses the Doctor is even tempted at one point, to sign on. At least until dependable (and still gorgeous Sarah Jane) reminds him of the "human" side of the equation. Great stuff. Perhaps it was in this episode that I fully accepted Tennant as the Doctor. When the episode started, I realized I wasn't seeing Tennant anymore, but rather a character I loved. A character with humor, and importantly - history.
I'm looking forward to the next episode, "The Girl in the Fireplace." When do the Cybermen show up? I can't wait.


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Getting firmware updates for Hewlett-Packard's servers are about to get a little more difficult. HP says that beginning next Wednesday, February 19, it will effectively start charging for access to firmware updates through the company's support centre.
Only customers with an active warranty, an HP Care Pack subscription, or support agreement will be able to download the updates directly from HP.
Previously, HP firmware updates were freely available.
"This decision reinforces our goal to provide access to the latest HP firmware, which is valuable intellectual property, for our customers who have chosen to maximise and protect their IT investments," HP's Mary McCoy vice president for technology services said in a blog post.
It's not clear if HP will restrict access to critical firmware updates that are sometimes necessary to keep a device from misbehaving.
As ZDNet's Ed Bott--who first reported this story--pointed out, a flaw in ProLiant servers prevented them from running Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2, and resulted in the system hanging when it tried to boot with those operating systems installed. A firmware update eventually fixed the issue, but under the new HP policy, the critical fix would only be available to new ProLiant owners and people paying for an extended updates, as HP's ProLiant software warranty is limited to 90 days after purchase.
Pay to play
Paying for access to support services is nothing new for enterprises, but the ProLiant line offers cheaper MicroServers that appeal to small businesses and PC hobbyists running their own servers at home.
At this writing, for example, you could get a ProLiant N54L MicroServer for less than $350 that comes with a 2.2GHz AMD processor, 2GB of RAM, and space for four hard drives. On top of the cost of the server box and extra hard drives, you'd have to tack on at least another $126 for the cheapest three-year Care Pack subscription available if you want access to future firmware updates--at least after your warranty runs out.
That extra $126 may not break your wallet, but why bother paying at all when, say, Dell offers free access to firmware updates for its entry-level server?
In her blog post, McCoy says HP's decision to restrict access to firmware updates was not about beefing up the company's bottom line. "We are in no way trying to force customers into purchasing extended coverage," she said. "That is, and always will be, a customer's choice."


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NCLB Update
BTS: High Schools
Striving Readers
Visions 2020.2
ACT Scores
New Listserv
Quote to Note
Upcoming Events
NCLB Update (http://www.nochildleftbehind.gov/)
On August 24, Secretary Spellings kicked-off her first Back-to-School season by visiting Capitol View Elementary School (a "90-90-90 school," meaning 90 percent of the students are minority, 90 percent are disadvantaged, and 90 percent are meeting state standards in reading and math) and speaking at the Atlanta Press Club in Atlanta, Georgia. "It's my first back-to-school as Secretary of Education," the Secretary told the Press Club audience, "but I've been doing these for well over a decade as a mom. It's a return to the school year routine. And that means putting away the video games, checking up on homework, talking to teachers, and, of course, asking lots and lots of questions. I always like to say that back-to-school isn't just for students and teachers. It's back-to-school for parents, too." Her message was one of progress. "The news is good. We've gotten assessment results from over half the states, and we're seeing higher reading and math scores in almost every one. In other words, more students are learning. The [student] achievement gap is starting to close. And No Child Left Behind is working." But, "We still have room for improvement," she noted. "It's no coincidence that nine- and 13-year-olds made the biggest gains on the Nation's Report Card (see http://www.ed.gov/nclb/accountability/achieve/report-card.html), and scores for 17-year-olds stayed pretty flat. The first round of No Child Left Behind reforms focused on younger students. We must extend the benefits of high standards and accountability into our high schools." For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/news/speeches/2005/08/08242005.html.
During her address, the Secretary also announced the launch of a new Internet feature, called "Teachers Ask the Secretary." This site allows teachers to ask questions and read answers to questions that have already been posed. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/teachers/how/reform/teachersask/.
Meanwhile, earlier this week, Standard & Poor's Evaluation Services unveiled a list of 203 school districts in 13 states (AZ, AR, CA, DE, IN, KS, KY, MA, NY, PA, SD, VA, and WA) that have significantly narrowed the achievement gap between African-American, Hispanic, or economically disadvantaged students and their high-performing classmates while simultaneously raising the average proficiency rates of the groups being compared (such as black and white students). For more information, please go to http://www.schoolmatters.com/App/SES/SPSServlet/
BTS: High Schools
A special back-to-school edition of "Education News Parents Can Use" (September 20, 8:00-9:00 ET) will focus on high schools. With participation by Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education Henry Johnson, the broadcast will feature back-to-school information for parents (i.e., advice for keeping students on track, questions to ask teachers and principals, tips on course selection, etc.); showcase teachers and administrators from high schools that are successfully applying No Child Left Behind principles of high standards for all students and evidence-based approaches to learning; and spotlight Advanced Placement, Community College Access/Dual Enrollment, International Baccalaureate, State Scholars, and other key initiatives designed to increase the rigor and relevance of high school. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/news/av/video/edtv/. (You can watch live and archived webcasts at http://www.connectlive.com/events/ednews/.)
Also: To prepare for the new school year, the Department has released a checklist of questions and tips for parents, schools, and the community. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/parents/academic/involve/
Striving Readers
The Department is accepting applications under the $25 million Striving Readers program. The program seeks to raise the overall level of reading achievement in middle and high schools by enhancing the quality of literacy instruction across all subject areas, providing intensive, targeted interventions for all struggling adolescent readers, and building a strong, scientific research base around specific strategies that improve adolescent literacy skills. To be eligible for a grant (the Department expects to make eight awards, ranging from $1 million to $5 million over a five-year period), school districts must have Title I schools of sixth-grade and above. A notice of intent to apply is due by September 14; full applications are due November 14. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/programs/strivingreaders/. (Note: The Department will conduct a series of briefings on this competition via conference call to clarify the purposes of the program, the selection criteria, and the competition process. Check the web site above for dates and times of the pre-application meetings.)
Visions 2020.2
On August 21, NetDay, a national education technology group, released a new report, "Visions 2020.2: Student Views on Transforming Education and Training Through Advanced Technologies," developed in partnership with the U.S. Departments of Commerce and Education. The report stems from NetDay's Speak Up Day for Students 2004, an annual online event where students across the country spoke out about technology for learning and their futures. A unique feature of the 2004 survey was an open-ended question: "In the future, you will be the inventors of new technologies. What would you like to see invented that you think will help kids learn in the future?" Over 55,000 K-12 students from all 50 states responded, and the Department of Commerce identified the following four themes:
- Digital Devices, particularly small, voice-activated, multi-functional devices.
- Access to Computers and the Internet, with each student having a computer with high-speed, wireless Internet access for his or her use in school and at home.
- Intelligent Tutor, providing help with homework, particularly math, as well as access to a single, all-knowing information resource.
- Ways to Learn and Complete School Work Using Technology, including e-books, online classes, digital teachers, virtual world experiences, and personalized learning.
For more information, please go to http://www.nationaledtechplan.org/documents/
ACT Scores
The national average score for the ACT exam is 20.9 (on a scale of 1 through 36), unchanged from last year, despite a record-number of test takers and a sizable increase in minority test takers. (Since 2001, the number of ACT-tested students has increased 11 percent, with black students up 23 percent and Hispanic students up 40 percent.) At the same time, the scores indicate that "too many students" are not ready for college-level courses. In fact, just 41 percent earned a score of 22 or higher on the math test, while only one in four earned a score of 24 or higher on the science test. (Students who have these scores have a high probability75 percentof earning a "C" or better and an even chance of earning a "B" or higher in college algebra and biology courses, respectively.) What is causing this disconnect? Graduates are still not taking the right courses in high school to prepare for college. In the Class of 2005, about half (54%) of test takers reported taking the recommended "core" curriculum, including four years of English and three years of math (algebra and higher), science, and social studies. For more information, please go to http://www.act.org/news/releases/2005/8-17-05.html. (Secretary Spellings' statement is available at http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2005/08/
Also: The second-annual High School Survey of Student Engagement, conducted by Indiana University, offers a detailed look at high school students' attitudes and expectations. A notable finding: only slightly more than half (53%) of the 80,000 respondents agreed that they put forth considerable effort in their school work. For more information, please go to http://ceep.indiana.edu/hssse/pdf/hssse_2005_report.pdf .
New Listserv
The Department's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) has created a new listserv. Subscribers interested in education research, evaluation, and statistics will automatically receive periodic notification of information available on the IES web site. The listserv will focus on such topics as funding, recent publications, and facts and figures from the well-known National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ies/signupform.html.
Quote to Note
"It's a simple formula. Students rise to the challenge of high expectations. You get more when you expect more. What gets measured gets done.... We're hearing [success] stories all across the country. Schools are doing whatever it takes to leave no child behindfrom Saturday help sessions in Chatham County, NC, to free tutoring for struggling students at Mollie E. Ray Elementary School in Florida, to a longer school day in Sioux Falls, SD. Think about it. If it weren't for No Child Left Behind, I'm not sure we would even be talking about how to educate every child."
Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings (8/24/05)
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As you may have seen on our blog yesterday, Robert J. Shiller, a professor at Yale University, has won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics along with Eugene Fama and Lars Peter Hansen.
Shiller is the author of several PUP books, including Irrational Exuberance, The New Financial Order, The Subprime Solution, Animal Spirits, co-written with fellow Nobelist George Akerlof, and his most recent book, Finance and the Good Society, which was published just last year.
Recently, Shiller was interviewed on "The World at One" about his Nobel Prize and about some of his books. The program can be found here and Shiller's interview starts about 41 minutes in.
We're sure this is just the first of many interviews for him and the other winners, so stay tuned!


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1999-06-02-18 Twin embolization syndrome © Silva www.thefetus.net/
Twin embolization syndrome
Sandra Rejane Silva, MD2, Luís Flávio de Andrade Gonçalves, MD1, Philippe Jeanty, MD, PhD3
[1] Florianopolis, SC Brazil [email protected] , [2] Sao Paulo – SP [email protected] [3] Nashville, TN [email protected]
Adapted and reproduced with permission from TKI Medcon Inc. http:/www.tki.com/
Twin embolization syndrome is a complication of monozygotic twinning following in utero demise of the co-twin. It results from the embolization of placentary and fetal thromboplastins or to the direct embolization of necrosed fragments of the placenta from the dead fetus, disseminated intravascular coagulation causing embolization, or even an infectious endarteritis.
The emboli damage predominantly highly vascular organs such as the brain and kidneys, but can affect almost all organ systems. In the central nervous system these emboli can result in ventriculomegaly, porencephaly, cerebral atrophy, cystic encephalomalacia or microcephaly
Extracranial abnormalities include small bowel atresia, gastroschisis, hydrothorax, aplasia cutis and renal cortical necrosis
Sonographic features
Dead twin associated with a surviving twin with:
Cystic encephalomalacia in the surviving of a stuck twin syndrome
Differential diagnosis
The presence of any of the above mentioned anomalies in the surviving twin with a dead co-twin should raise the suspicion.
Associated syndromes
Twin-to-twin transfusion (cause)


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S-Voice is Samsung's Bizarro-like clone of Apple's Siri voice assistant service, and like any Bizarro worth its chalky skin, it seems to be hugely conflicted about it's progenitor. Alex Dobie of Android Central reports:
On the international Samsung Galaxy S4 (and some other Samsung phones -- we've had varying results), asking S Voice if it's ever used an iPhone prompts the response "No, I have standards." Ask it "Are you Siri?" and it's a little more coy -- "I like to think I am."
In my tests, Siri has no opinion on, or frankly any idea what a "Galaxy S" or an "S Voice" was, but helpfully offered to perform a web search if I really wanted to find out. Serious question, though: Any advantage to using S Voice over Google's phenomenal Voice Search and Google Now features anyway?
Source: Android Central


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by Tyler Peck, sports information graduate assistant
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga.- The Georgia College & State University women's cross country team rests at the sixth spot in the U.S. Cross Country Coaches Division II Southeast Regional Rankings. The poll came out yesterday (Sept. 16) three days after the women placed third at the Pre-Region Meet in Wingate, N.C.
Three other teams from the Peach Belt Conference (PBC) were in the top-10. The Bobcats remained at the sixth spot after an impressive showing at the Pre-Region Meet by freshman Karissa Ekstrom (Alpharetta, Ga.)pacing the Bobcats for the second-straight meet, finishing the 6K course in 26:02, good for 13th place. Supporting Ekstrom was junior Heather Raines (Loganville, Ga.) in 22nd (26:27) and classmate Bonnie Ueltzen (Blairsville, Ga.) in 27th (26:40).
Senior Sarah Hakala (Jacksonville, Fla.) was 36th at 27:13, and freshman Sarah Balkcom (Fayetteville, Ga.) came in one spot later at 27:16.
The Bobcats are back in action Saturday, Sept. 20 at the University of Alabama-Huntsville for the Fleet Feet Sports/Earl Jacoby Memorial.


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What might be left for us to fathom now is the scopeof knowledge that is going to be used by individuals for better survival, and by the society for optimally planning itself for its further development. In other words, the question is how big our knowledge should be and how far it should go in order for us to make a survival. In my opinion, we need education for acquiring the knowledge which is fit to give us a high quality of life. Knowledge is valued only in case it is translatable into our well-being. I don't believe in the knowledge which is idle and cannot make a living. Based on this plain and straightforward statement, spontaneous and desultory acquisition of knowledge will not make any sense and might be considered a sheer loss of time, especially in the era of unrestricted proliferation of information, in which one could drown as in the breakers of a raging ocean. In the new world of the outrageous info-technological explosion the implication of an 'educated man' is altering. A generally-well-educated man might not mean much any more. What seems to be more appreciated is not an encyclopedically generalized education, but the education fraught with specificity of knowledge which is directly conducive to the result, indicative of progress and prosperity. So let us no longer boast about our good and wide education per se, but be proud of our specialized learning with a potential to create a pattern of good life and to contribute to the universal progress in an expressly specific way. I am not eliminating the importance of tradition and teaching as we have always known them: a fruitful lesson, a consequential training, a timely instruction, a proficient coaching, and an academic schooling – this is all still valuable and valid. What I am trying to perpetuate is our readiness to refrain from being carried away by futile, unwanted and impracticable knowledge. We cannot embrace all the knowledge of the world; we can and should only strive for as much as it is thought to be possible and necessary. Going after knowledge mechanically and aimlessly would not do any good to us. My philosophy of this renovated attitude to knowledge in general is not restricting anybody in getting acquainted with opinions, in learning and analyzing the facts, in juxtaposing the data, in brainstorming the ideas, in studying science and culture. I am not against familiarity with what the contemporary world is suggesting as part of our knowledge. As a matter of fact I am for awareness and comprehension in every walk of life. What I am rejecting is a vain and impotent edification which often takes our life away without any remunerative values. There is a lot of stupid tutoring around which has nothing to do with learning the indispensable. Brainpower does not depend on the quantity of information stuffed into our skulls. It depends on the level of marketability of the acquired knowledge, never excluding presence of intelligence as well as skill of perception and judgment. In a word, no shining invention is good enough unless it is sellable, is it?


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Farm Journal Associate Field Agronomist Missy Bauer shared tips with farmers for planter preparation on AgriTalk.
Bauer says taking care of the basics is still fundamental in producing high yield corn.
Bauer suggested first inspecting the transmission system. She says it's a good idea to inspect and run the planter in the shop with a drive motor or hydraulic drives to check all chains, drives and main drive shafts. This will help identify any problem area that could potentially cause vibration back in the seed units themselves.
It's also important to spend time focusing and inspecting the row units for lose or wore out bolts, bushings and gauge wheels.
"Sometimes farmers forget how much movement there actually is on the planter as it runs through the entire season, so we can get a lot of play just over time, through the planter running across the field," says Bauer.
Bauer says to inspect the bolts and bushings and if threads are worn off, to replace them and tighten them all, if already in good shape. To check for loose gauge wheels, pull out on them to make sure there is no space on the inside of the gauge wheel and disc opener. Bauer says if they are even a little loose, dry soil can get inside the gauge wheel and then drop back in the seed trench before it's closed.
"Even though we might have good moisture that we are planting into, we can have dry soil next to the seed which can cause a lot of problems with lack of uniformity and emergence out in the field," says Bauer.
For more tips on planter preparation, listen to Bauer's full interview on last week's AgriTalk. Bauer's interview begins at the 12 minute mark.


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Bucknell houses four species of primates that are available for instructional purposes in several undergraduate and graduate courses as well as for research on social behavior and cognitive abilities. Students have the opportunity to observe the naturalistic behavior of the primates and, in some cases, aid in noninvasive behavioral experiments. These courses include General Psychology, Animal Behavior, Research Methods in Animal Behavior, Primate Behavior and Ecology, Animal Behavior Research, Senior Thesis, Graduate Research, Graduate Thesis, and other courses.
- Lion-Tailed Macaque Macaca silenus
- Hamadryas Baboons Papio Hamadryas
- Brown Capuchin Cebus apella
- Squirrel Monkey Saimiri sciureus
Lion-Tailed Macaque (Macaca silenus)
The Bucknell macaque colony consists of three adult males that are housed in an indoor/outdoor enclosure at the animal behavior lab. This group was established in 2002 and is on loan from the San Diego Zoo in California.
General Research Topics:
The macaques are involved mostly in studies of nonhuman primate cognitive ability. Using touchscreen computers, the macaques have recently been involved in studies of numerical ability, picture recognition and reversal learning. An ID sketch used for distinguishing similar individuals by Katie Larkin.
Representative Publication:
Judge, P.G., Kurdziel, L.B., Wright, R.M., & Bohrman, J.A. (2012). Picture recognition of food by macaques (Macaca silenus). Animal Cognition, 15(3), 313-325..
Hamadryas Baboons (Papio Hamadryas)
The Bucknell hamadryas baboon colony consists of one adult male, several adult females and their offspring. Ages range from less than a year to over 20 years old. All adult females in the colony and their offspring are descendants from original group members purchased from Primate Imports in Port Washington, N.Y., in 1968. The adult male was acquired from the Mannheimer Foundation in Homestead, Fla., in 1996.
Principal Investigators: Peter Judge and Regina Paxton Gazes
General Research Topics:
Most studies of the baboons involve behavioral observations of their social interactions in order to learn the complexity of their behavior. Of particular interest are the interactions that occur immediately after aggressive conflicts. Animals tend to reconcile with one another following conflicts in order to preserve preferred relationships and/or prevent future conflicts. Recent work observing the behavior of bystanders following conflicts indicates that they, too, are affected by fights between their group mates and are involved in the conflict resolution process.
Representative Publication:
Judge, P.G., & Bachman, K.A. (2013). Witnessing reconciliation reduces arousal of bystanders in a baboon group (Papio hamadryas hamadryas). Animal Behaviour, 85(5), 881-889.
Brown Capuchin (Cebus apella)
A social group of capuchin monkeys contains two adult males, several adult females and their infant offspring. The group was established in 2000 from six individuals acquired from the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta.
General Research Topics:
Capuchins are highly intelligent primates and, as such, are involved in several tests of the limits of their cognitive abilities. Researchers at Bucknell have used their ability to operate a touchscreen computer to test their numerical competence and their picture-recognition abilities. As capuchins are versatile tool users, researchers have conducted several studies of tool-use ability. Most recently, researchers determined that the capuchins are capable of selecting the appropriate tool for a particular tool-use task.
Recent work has investigated their cooperative behavior and shown that two capuchins will work together so that both receive a reward. Several capuchins have learned to barter with an experimenter. Researchers also found that the capuchins will attribute value to inanimate objects such as tokens and barter to trade for more valued items. Such behavior indicates a degree of self-control and planning, which is a necessary component of advanced social cognition.
Representative Publication:
Judge, P.G., & Bruno, S. . (2012). Transport of functionally appropriate tools by capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella). American Journal of Primatology, 74(3), 199-209.
Squirrel Monkey (Saimiri sciureus)
The squirrel monkey colony is a social group of two adult males and several females living in an indoor-outdoor enclosure at the animal behavior laboratory. The group was donated to Bucknell by Stanford University in 2008.
General Research Topics:
Bucknell researchers study post-conflict reconciliation behavior in the squirrel monkeys as a cross-species comparison to baboons. Recent work has also included investigation of their tool-use ability. The squirrel monkeys are currently being trained on a touchscreen apparatus to test their cognitive abilities.
Representative Publication:
Zander, S.L., Weiss, D.J., & Judge, P.G. (2013). The interface between morphology and action planning: A comparison of two species of New World monkeys. Animal Behaviour, 86(6), 1251-1258.


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Yesterday, I received the September issue of Commentary. It features an excellent piece by Joshua Muravchik called "The Neoconservative Cabal" that I don't think is available on the net at this time. I hope to discuss Muravchik's piece in some detail within the next few days. Tonight, though, I just want to highlight this passage that deals with a New York Times article about the "cabal's" alleged Straussian connection:
"The New York Times claimed extravagently that [the American Enterprise Institute] consists in its entirety of Straussians, whereas a little checking yields, out of 56 scholars and fellows, exactly two who would count themselves as Straussians and a third who would acknowledge a significant intellectual debt to Strauss. The Times also identified [Richard] Perle as a Straussian — which is false — while erroneously stating that he was married to the daughter of the late military strategist Albert Wohlstetter, whom it likewise falsely labeled a Straussian. Even after an initial correction (explaining that Perle had merely studied under Wohlstetter at the University of Chicago and had not married his daughter) and a second correction (acknowledging that Perle had never studied under Wohlstetter or attended the University of Chicago) the paper still could not bring itself to retract its fanciful characterizations of either Perle's or Wohlstetter's ties to Strauss."
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AVT, Inc. Releases Financial Case Study
AVT released an internal case study regarding the financial potential of their company-owned Marley Coffee Automated Stores, and the division's impact on total company revenues.
The systems allow consumers to obtain a freshly ground and brewed cup of the highly prized Marley Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee, and are being built and owned by AVT for placement in high-traffic locations throughout the nation.
The report bases its primary assumptions on the following:
- Each Marley Coffee Automated Store will generate an average of $2000 revenue per month (range of $1500-$2500 per unit is expected). Assumption (1) is based on AVT's years of experience in both vending manufacturing and owning one of the most well regarded vending routes in the nation. This combined experience with similar name brands and products (beverage and coffee dispensing) allows AVT management to conclude that the $2000 per month figure is both realistic and attainable.
- AVT plans on placing 1,000 company-owned units during 2013. These units will be built continuously throughout the year, and installed on a monthly basis. Revenues will ramp up in a linear manner, with a year-end division revenue rate of $2 million per month.
- Forecast for year-end 2013 is that the Marley Coffee systems will add $12 million in new revenues. Forecast for year-end 2014 is that the Marley Coffee systems will add $24 million in revenues. New units will continue to be added as deemed appropriate for 2015 and beyond.
- Costs to build, deliver and market the full run of 1,000 systems is estimated at $5 million.
- Projected company revenues are forecast to be $50-$60 million by year-end 2014. AVT management believes that as the company reaches a critical mass, growth within the foreseeable future will continue at a similar pace.
- Total company revenues account for the following:
- Existing and projected orders from current customers.
- A conservative expectation to receive the same amount of new business that "walks in the door" as in recent years.
- Revenues from the new Marley Coffee division.
- Revenues from new licensing and financing divisions
According to financial analyst Francis Gaskins, Editor-in-Chief of IPOdesktop.com and frequent contributor to Bloomberg Television and CNBC, AVT is currently under valued and should be trading around $10 based on the above. Additionally, if the company can meet their stated goals, the company's stock should be in the $15-$20 range.
"AVT's Top line revenue has grown on average 45% per year for the past five years, and continues to increase on a quarterly basis as of the nine months ended September 2012," Gaskins stated. "The company continues to generate solid quarterly profits, and based on AVT's industry leadership role and backlog, IPOdesktop believes AVTC is undervalued at the current price."
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AVT's stock is traded through the OTC Markets, Ticker Symbol: AVTC
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