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Gary S. Vasilash
Unless you are an adherent, proponent or even zealot (yes, there are these) about the subject, "Six Sigma Quality" is something that you might otherwise skip. Which is probably something the aforementioned partisans don't mind, as it leaves the competitive arena more open to their improvement-focused maneuvers. Asked whether he finds it to be a competitive advantage, Scott Stanley, vp-Operations, AlliedSignal Friction Materials (Troy, MI), who not only has responsibility for the operation's 13 plants in nine countries, but also holds the charters for quality, purchasing and Six Sigma, answers, simply, "You bet." But he goes on to amplify by stating that just having Six Sigma training performed doesn't make things happen, that it is up to the people within the organization to take action on an on-going basis.
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On the subject of training (Stanley was trained by a Motorola trainer, and Motorola, which started its Six Sigma journey in 1987, is generally considered to be a foundation of the practice), he observes that it is largely about providing people with the tools that they need to do a job. He points out, "Sometimes, people who are not trained in Six Sigma see the problem and understand what they need to do, but they don't have the right tools to resolve the problem." But it is not just about passing out the tools: "If you stop there, you don't get the results. If you train people and don't apply the training, you'll never get improvement you're looking for." Application is everything.
So as he puts it, Six Sigma is a competitive advantage "if we choose to deploy it. It allows us to create change, focus on issues, find a way to become more cost competitive, find a way to deliver a better product to our customer, streamline our supply chain, and take out scrap in our plants—you can go and touch anything with it." If they choose to deploy it.
Management Matters
And there is another important point that he makes germane to making things happen, which is the fact that so far as he is concerned, Six Sigma will not get anywhere unless it has thoroughgoing support from the top of the organization. "To be successful, has to have top management support. If not, it won't work. I've seen companies try to grow it from bottom up." It didn't work. Six Sigma, he explains, is "too structured, too disciplined, and requires too much commitment and focus to have it percolate up."
He candidly admits about the operations he manages, "If I'm not committed to making Six Sigma work, it's not going anywhere. I can undermine it and say we're not going to do it in a plant, not resource it." (But of his commitment, there can be no doubt.)
What's more—and what is at the heart of it—is that Six Sigma, as it is being realized throughout AlliedSignal, as well as within organizations including General Electric, is not merely a means by which quality is improved. It is about changing business processes and how you run your business. That, of course, is the concern of top management. If it is going to happen, then management is going to make it happen. Period.
Changing the Soul of GE
How important is Six Sigma Quality? Well, let's put it this way. Of all of the CEOs out there, GE's Jack Welch is probably the one whose actions speak as loudly as his words. And when it comes to what he has to say, people listen intently. In the 1998 GE annual report Welch lays out three initiatives that, he tells the company's shareholders, are "fueling powerful growth in your Company and transforming its culture and its soul." These are Globalization. Services. And Six Sigma.
How important is Six Sigma at GE? Well, according to the annual report, the program started in 1995, at which time the operating margins "were in the 13.6% range" and the working capital turns were at 5.8. "At the end of 1998, margins hit 16.7% and turns hit 9.2." In addition to which, from the standpoint of the ratio of plant and equipment expenditures to depreciation, they've found that through Six Sigma efforts "'hidden factory' after `hidden factory'" is being uncovered, thereby driving that number way down.
GE is getting returns on the order of billions of dollars from its Six Sigma initiatives. Today and into the future its products are DFSS: Designed for Six Sigma.
At AlliedSignal/Honeywell
The individual leading Six Sigma throughout AlliedSignal is corporation chairman and CEO Lawrence A. Bossidy. Bossidy joined the company—which, in addition to automotive products, produces aerospace products, specialty chemicals, performance fibers, plastics, and advanced materials—in 1991. Prior to that—since 1957, in fact—he'd been with General Electric. His last position with that firm was vice chairman and executive officer. In other words, he worked closely with Jack Welch.
In June, 1999, AlliedSignal and Honeywell Inc. (Minneapolis, MN) announced that they are merging to form a $25-billion company that will be known as Honeywell. The new company—which will be initially chaired by Bossidy (he'll retire April 1, 2000)—cites as one of its competitive advantages as its "Six Sigma process discipline." AlliedSignal's program, which has been formalized since 1995, is known as "Six Sigma." Honeywell's program is known as "Honeywell Quality Value." They will be morphed into "Six Sigma Plus."
A Common Language
What the program is called is really not as relevant as what it does. According to AlliedSignal's Stanley (who spent 11 years at GE), "One of the big benefits of Six Sigma is that we can all talk a common language and build a common protocol about going out and attacking issues, whether it's relaying out a manufacturing process, launching a new product, reducing scrap in production line, or solving problems." At Friction Materials—which has annual sales of approximately $1-billion, and which produces disc brake pads, drum brake linings, and other brake-related products for OEM and aftermarket customers—because there are employees in places ranging from Brazil to Thailand, commonality is key.
Getting people to speak that language is a matter of training. At AlliedSignal (as well as at other firms, including Motorola and GE), people are actively trained so that they obtain levels of mastery, or "belts." Stanley explains that in the case of AlliedSignal, there are "green belts," who have been trained in basic tools, including process mapping, quality function deployment (QFD), and failure mode and effects analysis (FEMA). The goal is to have all salaried personnel certified as green belts by the end of 2000. Next up there is the "black belt." This individual has spent six to nine months in training (although it should be noted that this training is concurrent with performing one's regular assignments) and has mastery of what Stanley calls "advanced tools." Of these tools, he says that design of experiments (DOE) is the most critical. Finally, one can achieve the level of "master black belt." This person not only knows all of the tools, but can train others in the tools. This is far from being a rubber-stamped position. In the Friction Materials operations in the U.S., which includes headquarters, engineering, and four manufacturing plants, there is only one master black belt. A person must really work at achieving mastery.
At all times there are Six Sigma projects underway throughout Allied Signal. The one thing that all of them have in common is that there is at least one person with a belt on the team.
Focusing Outward
Historically, initiatives of various sorts have tended to be inward-focused, something trying to improve operations—and those operations are more than likely factory operations. But Stanley says that as he's observed and participated in Six Sigma over the past few years, he has seen it changing so that there is a tie in not only to other departments within an organization (engineering, marketing, finance), but also a focus on the customer. The customer interface is one thing that he says they are putting increased emphasis on at AlliedSignal. "You can be very good internally"—low scrap, high productivity—"but if you're not passing through to the customers' needs, then it might not matter."
Three of the measures taken at Friction Materials are the internal performance, the customer interface and the supplier interface. About the latter, Stanley says that although they don't insist that the suppliers have a Six Sigma program, they must provide Friction Materials with a measure of their fundamental capabilities. "We're looking at their Cpk, at their process variation." He says they're trying to get everyone to a 1.3 Cpk level, and once that's accomplished, they'll ratchet it up higher. Purchasing at Friction Materials, he explains, is "going beyond" getting a good deal on price and having someone show that they can meet the specs. They want to know that the suppliers have the capability to do the job day in, day out.
So what if you're considering Six Sigma, thinking about instituting your own program? What does Stanley suggest you do? "I think they ought to start talking with practitioners. GE, us. People in industry that are doing it well. Not those with a theoretical point of view, but people doing it. Find out have they tried, what didn't work well."
Six Sigma is about action, not just about bell-shaped curves.
*This calculation comes from General Electric Corporate Research & Development. It is based on playing 100 rounds of golf per year at a Six Sigma Quality level.


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Hampden-Sydney received four first place votes on the way to 46
total poll points to lead the 2012 ODAC Football Preseason Poll.
The top of the rankings are tightly packed, with Randolph-Macon
clipping at H-SC's heels with 44 tallies including three top nods.
Washington and Lee rounds out the top three with 37 points and the
remaining first place selection from the annual coaches'
View the 2012 ODAC Football Virtual Media Guide and listen to ODAC Football Media Day news conference interviews with coaches and players.
The 2011 season marked the third conference crown for reigning ODAC Coach of the Year Marty Favret's Tigers. Their victory over Washington and Lee in week 10 proved crucial as H-SC was tripped up in week 11 by R-MC, leaving the Tigers' head-to-head advantage over W&L as the deciding factor in securing H-SC's ninth overall league crown. Hampden-Sydney's season continued with a NCAA first round game at Centre, where the Tigers were out-gunned, 51-41.
The path to the 2012 ODAC championship will be longer for all teams in the league as Shenandoah opens conference play, increasing the league's football membership to eight schools. SU, previously a member of the USA South for the majority of its sports, became the ODAC's 14th full-time member institution in July, completing a process that will see the Hornets compete in each of their 20 sports under the ODAC flag.
Hampden-Sydney (8-3 overall, 5-1 in the ODAC in 2011) begins its third title defense in the last five years as it tries to become the first team to win back-to-back titles since Bridgewater College won five straight crowns from 2001-05. Known for a high-octane offense, the Tigers must replace standouts from each area of its offense positions. Coach Favret will look to sophomore transfer Nash Nance (University of Tennessee) to win the quarterback job out of camp. He'll have senior running back Evan King (161 yds, 4 TDs) helping him in the backfield. H-SC's defense should be a team strength with senior linebackers Kenny Fryman (102 tackles, 2.5 sacks) and Alex Price (78 tackles) and junior cornerback Zach Morgan (67 tackles, 7 INTs) leading the charge.
Randolph-Macon (8-2, 4-2 ODAC) is bolstered by the return of 2011 ODAC Rookie of the Year, quarterback Zac Naccarato (2105 yds, 14 TDs passing; 6 TDs rushing). He's supported by senior running back Drake Sanders (711 yds, 6 TDs) and junior wide receiver Christian Cook (48 rec for 592 yds, 4 TDs). Defensively, junior linebacker Abel Simpson (50 tkl) was the Yellow Jackets' second leading tackler in 2011. He's joined by senior cornerback Brandon Harrison (49 tkl, 6 PBUs). Senior kicker Josh Storm (12-of-16 FG, 38-of-40 PATs) is on the watch list for the Fred Mitchell Award as the nation's best place-kicker among FCS, Division II, Division III, NAIA and NJCAA football teams.
Washington and Lee (8-2, 5-1 ODAC) begins its first season since 1995 with a new leader as Scott Abell was promoted from offensive coordinator to take over the head coaching reins from long-time mentor Frank Miriello, who retired following the 2011 campaign. Although he'll be breaking in a new starting quarterback this season, Coach Abell welcomes back all three of his starting backs from a multiple option offense that has set numerous ODAC rushing records the past few years. Senior Luke Heinsohn (900 yds, 13 TDs) will serve as the option back, while classmates Brett Murray (1,561 all-purpose yards, 867 rushing yards, 12 TDs) and Russell Stewart (511 yards of offense, 5 TDs) will man the slotback positions. The defense is led by preseason All-American senior safety Jake Pelton (76 tkl, 2 INTs, 7 PBUs).
Bridgewater (6-4, 3-3 ODAC) will look for newcomers and young returning players to take the next step on offense, led by senior quarterback Carlos Gonzalez (140-of-269, 1788 yds, 15 TDs). The defense will again be stout with several standouts along the defensive line. Interior linemen, seniors Danny Grogg (40 tkl, 2 sacks, 3 forced fumbles) and Joel Francis (32 tkl, 1.5 sacks, 7 TFLs) spearhead a unit that also showcases senior linebacker Todd Harris (47 tkl, 2 forced fumbles).
Emory & Henry College (5-5, 2-4 ODAC) features standouts on both sides of the ball, led by reigning ODAC Defensive Player of the Year, senior linebacker Devan Sproles (107 tkl, 6 INTs). He's joined by senior defensive backs Jason Hill (64 tkl, 2 INTs) and Anthony Jones (49 tkl, 2 INTs) and junior defensive back Tyler Houk (61 tkl, 3 INTs). The offense is led by junior signal-caller Kyle Boden (256-of-398, 2569 yds, 21 TDs).
Catholic University (5-5, 1-5 ODAC) returns a potent offensive quartet in senior quarterback Greg Cordivari (321-of-505, 3282 yds, 25 TDs), junior running back Mike Pitsenberger (889 yds of offense, 7 TDs), and a pair of wide receivers in senior Alonzo Cooke (37 for 539 yds, 5 TDs) and junior Andrew Ouellette (54 for 661 yds, 5 TDs). The defense is led by junior linebacker Conor Stueckler (95 tkl, 2 INTs, 2 fumble recoveries).
Guilford College (2-8, 1-5 ODAC) sports a trio of sophomore defensive standouts in linebacker Robert Smith (64 tkl, 2 forced fumbles) and defensive backs Hunter English (65 tkl, 3 sacks, 2 forced fumbles) and Satiir Stevenson (51 tkl, 2 INTs, 5 PBUs). The offense will look to junior signal-caller Zac Halbert (158-of-296, 1877 yds, 15 TDs) and junior wide receiver Lawrence Blake (55 for 634 yards, 4 TDs) to lead the way.
Shenandoah (6-4, 5-2 USA South) must replace plenty of firepower on offense, with senior running back Carl Joseph (720 yds, 3 TDs) and senior wide receiver Qiydaar Murphy (58 for 609 yds, 4 TDs) looking to do just that. The defense is highlighted by the return of top tackler, junior linebacker Josh Rogers (87 tkl, 14 TFLs, 3 forced fumbles), senior lineman Nick Erdman (35 tkl, 12 TFLs, 5 sacks) and junior safety Byron Mitchell (79 tkl, 4 INTs).
(#) Denotes first place votes
|1. Hampden-Sydney (4)
|46 pts.
|2. Randolph-Macon (3)
|44 pts.
|3. Washington and Lee (1)
|37 pts.
|4. Bridgewater
|32 pts.
|5. Emory & Henry
|23 pts.
|6. Catholic
|20 pts.
|T7. Guilford
|11 pts.
|T7. Shenandoah
|11 pts.

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Alexander Klatt, former Fisker Automotive Inc. vice president of global design, has been appointed as MFA chair of Transportation Design at the College for Creative Studies.
In this position, Klatt will be responsible for the oversight of the transportation design's graduate curriculum and the development and implementation of master of fine arts-specific marketing and promotional strategies, summer programs, workshops and courses for graduate students, according to a news release from the university.
At Fisker, Klatt led a team of designers, modelers and fabricators to develop three variations on the Karma, the luxury hybrid electric car. Prior to joining Fisker in 2008, Klatt held leadership roles in design at BMW DesignworksUSA and BMW Group in Germany, according to the release.


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Anthony Hylick (alumni)
Overview and Interests
Restructuring architecture designs and operating systems to adapt computing for performance AND sustainability.
Publications - Show all
1. Anthony Hylick, Ripduman Sohan, Andrew Rice, Brian Jones, "An Analysis of Hard Drive Energy Consumption," 16th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS) 2008, IEEE, Sep 2008
2. Anthony Hylick, Andrew Rice, Brian Jones, Ripduman Sohan, "Hard Drive Power Consumption Uncovered," ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 54-55, Dec 2007


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Why Warby Parker Can Sell $95 Glasses
Warby Parker is shaking up the glasses industry by offering home try-ons, online ordering and prescription frames for under $100. Co-founder and Co-CEO Neil Blumenthal discusses.
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Potato fries may have originated in Europe, but Americans have certainly embraced them as their own.
After all, nearly 8 billion servings of french fries were sold in U.S. restaurants during the 12 months that ended in June, according to statistics from NPD Group, a global market research firm. That represented 15.5 percent of all restaurant orders.
Despite those high numbers, servings of fries—a particularly profitable menu item—fell 2 percent from the same period a year earlier, a decline that began in 2006, before the ongoing economic malaise began. Some of the falloff is due to fewer combination meals being bought by adults and healthier products being added to kids' meals.
In an attempt to counter this trend, restaurants have started giving customers more options through the use of multiple potato varieties; different cooking oils; additional seasonings, spices, dips, and dressings; and even other fried veggies.
"There is a lot of innovation going on right now to build more interest in fries" as a side or a snack, says Bonnie Riggs, NPD's restaurant industry analyst. "Consumers have become adventuresome, and they are looking for new flavors and something different."
Seasonings and dipping sauces are efficient ways to accomplish that, she says.
Statistics from Technomic Inc., a Chicago-based research and consulting firm, found that preferences rose last year for dips and sauces with fries and onion rings. Even ketchup, the traditional favorite with fries, jumped five points to 70 percent as a preferred dip.
Ranch dressing edged past cheese sauce into second place, 33 to 32 percent, respectively, while mustard's preference rate nearly doubled from 10 percent to 19 percent, good for fourth best.
Just as importantly, Americans by more than a 2-to-1 ratio prefer their fries to be seasoned with pepper, Cajun spices, or other flavorings.
"It seems customers are willing to go out of their way for the fries they want," says Kelly Weikel, consumer research manager at Technomic. And that's important, since fries "are still the go-to side item" at most quick-service restaurants.
The nation's biggest burger chains offer traditional french fries, while a number of other quick-service operations, including Checkers/Rally's, Bojangles' Famous Chicken 'n Biscuits, and Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, serve up seasoned varieties.
One of Arby's long-time signature items is curly fries, a spiral-cut fry coated with a secret combination of salt, pepper, garlic, onion, and other savory seasonings.
"Youngsters find them really fun, and older adult eaters recognize us for having a very flavorful product that is unique in the quick-serve segment," says Brian Kolodziej, vice president of product development and integration for Atlanta-based Arby's.
The coating of seasonings not only provides a different taste, but it also helps keep the fries crisp and provides their color. Additionally, he says, the fries' shape encourages dipping them in Arby's sauces, including cheese, horseradish, and barbecue.
Another signature item is Potato Oles at Taco John's. This quarter-sized fried disc of shredded spud has a proprietary savory seasoning with a touch of heat, and it was designed years ago to give the chain a potato product to compete with burger chains.
"It's the No. 1 identifying item on our menu," says Bob Karisny, vice president for menu strategy and innovation for the Cheyenne, Wyoming–based chain. The company's nacho cheese sauce is the most popular condiment, he says.
Fry-related items should increasingly show up in restaurants' new-product pipeline, as research and development for taters gets back on track after being placed on the back burner so that restaurants could focus on healthier frying oils.
"The switch in oils took a lot of money that normally would have gone into R&D," says Don Odiorne, vice president of foodservice for the Idaho Potato Commission. Operators "have now turned back to the potato because it is such a cost-effective choice."
Idaho is the nation's top potato-producing state with 11.5 percent of the 41.3 billion pounds of spuds grown in the U.S. Washington is next with 9.3 percent, while other states trail far behind, according to 2008 statistics from the Agriculture Department.
Not surprisingly, many of the nation's restaurants use Idaho potatoes, particularly the solid, flavorful Russet Burbank variety, which grows heartily in the Northwest climate and stores well. This low-moisture tuber also fries particularly nicely, says Odiorne, who as "Dr. Potato" answers questions about potatoes on the commission's website.
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Web's cacophony of ACA opposition
The ire at #brokenpromises is beating the push to #getcovered.
Anger is contagious on social media, and it has been easier to use Twitter and Facebook to stoke opposition to Obamacare than to implore people to sign up. Social media experts say supporters of the president's health law just haven't been as effective as the seething anti-Obamacare forces in getting out sharp, clear messages.
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The online war of words could play a role in enrollment for 2014: The deadline is March 31.
"We're rapidly reaching the tipping point where social media opinion will simply be 'public opinion,'" said Rob Key, CEO of the social strategy company Converseon. "A relatively small percentage of the population helps influence the agenda and opinions of the rest of the society. Social media is now providing these key influencers a supercharged pulpit to influence others exponentially … in ways not possible even just two years ago."
( PHOTOS: 25 unforgettable Obamacare quotes)
Hard data back this up. In fact, the messaging field isn't even close to level.
In analyzing emotion-laden words used in connection with the health law over the past year, the social media analytics firm NetBase Solutions found that words or terms like disaster, hate, blame, not want and not like were used 60 percent more than words like good, love, great, best and like.
And the momentum is no accident. The House GOP strategically includes social media tips in its messaging playbook, urging members to use #brokenpromises as well as #fairnessforall in tweets about the law. The guide suggests using Facebook, Twitter and Instagram posts to link to graphics, photos and videos illustrating how Americans have been hurt by Obamacare.
"The administration has allowed the crowd to control the message, and I would argue the Republican side — at least from a volume perspective — is much more vocal than the blue side," said Malcolm De Leo of NetBase.
( PHOTOS: Obamacare online glitches: 25 great quotes)
Numerous polls have shown much of the American public remains down on the health law or ignorant about key components — and that includes people who could get help getting covered. The Obama administration needs to sway public opinion toward the law in order to get millions more Americans signed up by the end of next month and to soften opposition before the 2014 elections. Reaching out through the Internet — through blog postings, videos, direct appeals and more — could make a difference, particularly with young adults who are not yet enrolling in the numbers the health plans require.
The White House characterizes the most vitriolic social media conversations as just hot air, involving people they are never going to win over anyway. Officials involved in Obamacare enrollment efforts say that what's important on social media is not driving a broad, overarching message, but rather highlighting stories of people who have acquired coverage for the first time.
Yet those stories are competing in the cacophony of cyberspace. Take a look at how online participants talk about the law — with hashtags from #obamacareisworking to #defundobamacare and tweets alternatively pleading with people to enroll or blaming the law for all sorts of social and economic woes. Images also come into play via Instagram, with one of the most widely circulated showing actress Nina Dobrev, topless, with a well-positioned sign reading #getcovered.
It's not surprising that opponents have taken the upper hand whenever Obamacare — or #Obamacare — is invoked. Although the label is now a synonym for the Affordable Care Act, it carries far worse connotations among the general public — which makes it the term of choice for those who dislike the law.
But the anti-Obamacare crowd is also ahead in conversation around neutral language. In December, Converseon found, 33 percent of "ACA" mentions on Twitter were negative, compared to 26 percent that were positive.
The administration and its allies are fighting back. The White House launched a Tumblr called whathasobamacaredoneformelately that features good-news tales from newly insured Americans, in addition to enlisting celebrities and athletes to record videos touting enrollment or tweet on Obamacare's behalf.
Obama's political arm, Organizing for Action, released a 2½-minute Web video Friday featuring a Chicago couple who said that, through Obamacare, they had acquired health insurance for the first time in years.
"We will continue to urge Americans to get covered, and continue working with partners ranging from Magic Johnson to local community groups to get the word out," a senior administration official said.


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Sunday Sweets: Totally '80s
Heyyoooooou guuuuuuuys!
That's right: put your hair in scrunchies and peg your jeans; it's about get all eighties up in here!
Sorry if I got your hopes up for a Goonies cake just now (that would be an entire post in itself), but how about an awesome Gremlin cake to whet your '80s appetite?
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It's sweet little Gizmo! (This movie terrified me as a child. Possibly as an adult also).
I was born and raised in the '80s (and the U.S.A! Bruuuuuuuuuce!) so I totally remember getting a Rubik's Cube in my Christmas stocking ... aaand throwing it against the wall ten frustrating minutes later. Obviously mine was defective.
Submitted by Mira C; baker unknown. Photography by bunchofpants.
But there's nothing puzzling about this great cake, because it's hip to be square!
And speaking of squares ...
Submitted by Kim D. and made by The Cake Shop of San Jose
...that was the only thing I could ever produce on my Etch-a-Sketch. Well, that and stairs. Ahh, memories! I love the Superman logo here, it's a double dose of nostalgia!
If you were also a child of the eighties, I bet you can't look at this next cake without the theme song to Super Mario Bros plinking through your head.
(Bing ding ding, da-ding da-ding!) I know you know what I'm talking about.
Or, if you preferred to get your video game fix by hoofing it down to the Qwick Stop with a pocket full of quarters, this might look familiar to you:
Submitted by Jenn F-S and made by Sweetest Perfections
Dragon's Lair! A total classic, and if that cake is life-size it could easily be the raddest thing I've seen all year.
And here are some familiar faces — Tom & Jerry, Spider-Man, Superman, and Looney Tunes to name a few. And Thundercats! HOOOOOO!
Submitted by Melissa K. and made by The Ladygloom
Although,I do see a few stowaways from the '90s getting a little ahead of themselves in there (I'm looking at you, SpongeBob). But to be fair, do you remember Pillow People? Pretty sure those were the early ancestors of SpongeBob.
These colorful confections are sure to make you smile:
Submitted by Jennifer V. and made by The Ladygloom
"Friendship is magic!" And so is cake! Especially when it's this cute! Wasn't Pinkie Pie everyone's favorite My Little Pony? (Or did you prefer that seahorse spin-off thing, Seawinkle? That one was weird).
Hey, Color Kids! Remember Twink, the loveable sprite sidekick of Rainbow Brite? Of course you do!
By Lisa A.
This wasn't made by a professional baker, but it's a) ten zillion times better than I could ever do, and b) so adorable I want to give it a hug!
Hang on a sec. I have to make a call. Because there's something strange ... in my neighborhood.
Slimer! Check out all the great details on the Ectomobile here: that logo is spot-on perfect. I ain't afraid of no ghosts!(Ok, I admit ... I was also terrified of this movie as a child.)
And if you are craving more '80s hit movie cakes, may I present: Raiders of the Lost Ark!
Submitted by Shannon and made by Cakes by Jeanine
At least ...I think that's the movie this cake represents. Is this the one with the torture pit of lava? And the little snakes coming out of the big snake for people to eat? Yeah, still having nightmares.
Maybe I'll go cuddle my Cabbage Patch Kid for comfort.
Submitted by Jen M. and made by Charm City Cakes
OutSTANDING. Ha, get it?!
Yup, anyway you slice it,
By KAMI Cakes
...the '80s like, totally rocked!
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Welcome to OzMS
Multiple Sclerosis in Australia
Australia has a very good public health system, we really are very lucky compared to some countries around the world, we have quite a few options to treat our MS that have been approved by the "Therapeutic Goods Administration" (TGA) and were placed on the "Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme" (PBS). Sure we have the typical "wait list" for elective surgery but as with any public ran entity there will always be some problems, overall though Australia's health system is top notch.
Australia is a vast nation, we have widely varying climate zones from tropical to temperate, living in Melbourne is quite good as a MSer, of course we still have some warm temperatures but mostly the weather averages out to be quite mild.
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I documented my Lemtrada (Alemtuzumab) first intravenous infusions experience through my Blog, only posts tagged with "lemtrada" will be listed...
Below is an RSS feed gadget that picks up feeds from Australian web sites involved with Multiple Sclerosis, guess what there is only one that I can find, none of the Australian Multiple Sclerosis Society web sites including the state web sites have RSS feeds, they really do very little to allow other web sites to feed their articles and news, so much for spreading awareness, only one site has RSS feeds, the Multiple Sclerosis Research Australia web site is the only one and well worth adding and it's interesting to read what they post! You will need to scroll within the box below to the latest nine stories!


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LONDON (Reuters) - Roche Holding AG believes it has moved into pole position in the race to develop an Alzheimer's drug that can change the course of the disease after its rivals suffered setbacks in the past month.
The Swiss drugmaker has more than doubled the size of a clinical trial of its experimental drug gantenerumab in patients who have yet to develop dementia, putting it in the vanguard of attempts to catch the disease in its early stages.
"The playing field has changed dramatically and gantenerumab is now the most advanced monoclonal antibody in early Alzheimer's and the next big news to read out in this space," Luca Santarelli, Roche's head of neuroscience, said in an interview.
A successful Alzheimer's treatment could reap multiple billions of dollars in annual sales. However, many experts believe that treatment would have to be delivered before patients show signs of dementia because brain damage may be irreversible after that point.
"We targeted this space four years ago and our trial started at the end of 2010, so we are way ahead," Santarelli said.
Results from the study in early, or prodromal, Alzheimer's patients who do not yet have dementia are expected in 2015. The decision to increase the number of patients to 770 from 360 has made it a pivotal, or final-stage Phase III, trial.
While the project is high-risk and the approach unproven, Roche is hopeful that it will see an effect because previous brain scan tests have shown that gantenerumab can reduce amyloid plaques in the brain, which are linked to Alzheimer's, more rapidly than other drugs.
If the results are very strong, Roche may be able to file for marketing approval based on a single trial, given the high medical need, though regulators normally require further tests.
Roche has three other drugs in clinical tests, including crenezumab, which has been chosen for a U.S. government-backed trial in a group of Colombians with a genetic mutation that leads to Alzheimer's in their forties.
The failure of rival antibody drugs bapineuzumab, from Pfizer Inc, Johnson & Johnson and Elan Corp, and solanezumab, from Eli Lilly and Co, has dashed hopes for an immediate breakthrough against Alzheimer's.
Both drugs were tested in patients who already had dementia.
Details of the unsuccessful trials with bapineuzumab will be presented at a medical conference in Stockholm on Tuesday, while results with solanezumab - which showed interesting but inconclusive signs of improvement in patients with mild disease - will be set out at a meeting in Boston on October 8.
The tentative signs of an effect with solanezumab has prompted some industry analysts to suggest that it could be an option for patients with mild Alzheimer's or in the early stages of the disease. However, this would almost certainly require further trials, which would take about three years.
Santarelli said that a key strength of his team's approach with gantenerumab, which is partnered with Morphosys AG, was the decision to set rigorous selection criteria for patients, including diagnostic testing of spinal fluid.
The Roche study uses both cognitive testing and sampling of spinal fluid to ensure that all patients in the trial truly have pre-symptomatic Alzheimer's and not some other memory problem.
The decision to link treatment to a diagnostic test follows the highly successful pattern adopted by Roche in cancer medicine, where it is the world leader in terms of sales.
That makes it a somewhat onerous process for patients, who have to undergo a lumbar puncture, though Santarelli said that this had not discouraged patients who are aged 50 to 85 and have memory problems.
"I had some skepticism, but it turns out the mandatory lumbar puncture is not a major hurdle in recruiting patients," he said.
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Living Water Garden on the Fu and Nan Rivers
A look at China's living water garden in Chengdu. This floating ecological living machine—a gorgeous botanical garden—is restoring open sewage canals.
The Living Water Garden, located in the city of Chengdu in Sichuan Province, China, is a 5.9 acre inner-city natural water treatment system that treats 200 cubic waters of polluted water every day from the Fu and Nan Rivers.
Although the amount of water treated is not enough to improve overall river water quality, the garden provides education and inspiration—the park even has its own environmental education center. Every part of the park is accessible to visitors.
Since its completion in 1998, the garden has become Chengdu's most popular park.
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offshore of Northern California, measuring 6.9 on the magnitude scale. It took place about fifty miles offshore of Ferndale, Eureka, and Arcata at 10:18 PM local time. It was apparently felt all over northern California, as far south as the Bay Area. There haven't been any reports of damage or injuries.
The quake took place in a complicated region where the San Andreas fault system intersects with the Cascadia subduction zone. It is close to the Mendocino Triple Junction where the Pacific, North American, and Gorda Plates are in contact with each other. Moderate quakes are not at all unusual in the region, with quakes measuring between 6.4 and 7.2 in 1923, 1932, 1954, 1980, 1992, and 2010. The Cascadia subduction zone generated a quake of around magnitude 9 in 1700, although it was farther north in Washington and Oregon.
A tsunami warning was not issued, presumably because the ocean floor was not lifted enough to cause one. Tsunamis are most commonly produced during compressional earthquakes in subduction zones, events that cause hundreds or thousands of square miles of seafloor to suddenly rise or subside. A quake the size of this one was either on a predominately strike-slip fault, or just didn't disrupt enough of the seafloor a sufficient distance.
As I write this, there have been half a dozen aftershocks recorded, mostly around magnitude 3, with one magnitude 4.6 event. There were also a few magnitude 3 events that could be considered foreshocks. Latest information from the U.S. Geological Survey can be found here: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc72182046#summary, although I like the SCEC earthquake maps at http://www.data.scec.org/recenteqs/Maps/125-41.html as well.
I'll post updates if I get more information. I can hardly wait to see if the new seismograph at school was working this weekend!
UPDATE: A good synopsis of the geological circumstances of the quake has been posted at http://seismo.berkeley.edu/blog/seismoblog.php/2014/03/10/the-strongest-california-earthquake-in
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Magnitude 6.9 Earthquake Offshore of Northern California
Posted by Garry Hayes at 11:22 PM
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Thank you, Gerry Hayes for your update. When I first learned of the quake this morning, I wondered, Cascadia? I worked for years in earthquake info and emergency preparedness in Del Norte Public Health, so am very familiar with the Subduction Zone, on a very deep gut level. I'll be watching for more information.
- March 10, 2014 at 8:37 AM
I've been trying to determine the fault system on which this occurred - it certainly felt different than other quakes we've experienced from that area. No tsunami warning makes me think transform rather than subduction. Keep us posted, and thanks!
- March 10, 2014 at 10:40 AM
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Friday, March 26, 2010
MGH Center for Faculty Development restructures
ADVANCING CAREERS: From left, back row, Rigotti and Stern. Front row, Hasan, Klibanski and Lawton
Dedicated to the career advancement of hospital faculty members, the MGH Center for Faculty Development (CFD) has been a vital resource for MGH faculty in support of their careers. Since its establishment in 2005, the CFD has offered a variety of seminars, programs and events -- approximately 60 each academic year -- aimed at enhancing the professional careers of clinical and research faculty. Over the past year, the CFD engaged in an extensive and thoughtful restructuring process and approved several new appointments to further enhance its comprehensive program.
Anne Klibanski, MD, chief of the Neuroendocrine Unit and director of the Neuroendocrine and Pituitary Tumor Clinical Center, has been appointed director of the CFD. Klibanski has long been dedicated to faculty development, as well as the mentoring of junior faculty. She begins her new role April 1, while continuing her current roles at the MGH and Harvard Medical School. Donna Lawton, MS, has been promoted to executive director of the center. As a committed CFD administrator, Lawton was a vital contributor to the CFD restructuring process.
Another significant change is the establishment of a new CFD component, the Office for Clinical Careers (OCC), created to facilitate the career advancement of MGH clinical faculty. Directed by Theodore Stern, MD, chief of the MGH Psychiatric Consultation Service, the OCC aims to enhance overall job satisfaction and increase the number of clinical faculty promoted by academic criteria as well as the retention of clinical faculty.
The Office for Women's Careers (OWC), another office of the CFD, also undergoes a change with the appointment of Nancy Rigotti, MD, director of the MGH Tobacco Research and Treatment Center, as the director. Rigotti has a deep interest in women's health and careers and in mentoring in general.
"The appointments of Drs. Rigotti and Stern as OWC and OCC directors will enable the center to support the career development of many talented clinical and women faculty members," says Klibanski. "Dr. Tayyaba Hasan will continue as director of the Office of Research Careers, thereby allowing the CFD to provide comprehensive support for the diverse career faculty pathways at MGH."
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Sept. 12, 2012 — Seven-year-old Brooke Mulford and her family just returned to their Salisbury, Md., home after an action-packed West Coast tour, which included visits to Disneyland, Sea World, and the San Diego Zoo.
Brooke has visited the Magic Kingdom many times over the years, but this trip was even more special than previous ones (and not just because she loves Space Mountain). The family was celebrating Brooke's three-year anniversary of being free from an aggressive form of cancer known as neuroblastoma.
Thanks to participation in a clinical trial, Brooke is doing much better today than anyone could have hoped. Her story is one that puts a face on some of the progress made in the fight against cancer. The 2012 American Association for Cancer Research Progress Report highlights stories of survivors, including Brooke, as well as some of the challenges facing researchers. The report will also be published in Clinical Cancer Research.
Lots of New Cancer Drugs, More Survivors
According to the new report, 2012 was a big year for cancer researchers, patients, and survivors. The past 12 months have ushered in a new drug for precancerous skin lesions, eight new drugs for several types of cancers (including two new classes of drugs), and four new uses of approved cancer drugs.
"It is an exciting time for oncology," says Anna Barker, PhD, one of the authors of the new AACR report. "Acceleration in progress is exponential and we can't predict what will happen from week to week."
Just last week, the FDA approved Pfizer's Bosulif for the treatment of chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), a type of leukemia more commonly seen in adults.
The number of cancer survivors like Brooke continues to rise every year. There are about 13.7 million cancer survivors in the U.S., the report states.
This is a "new day for cancer patients," says Barker. "It's a culmination of a decade's worth of work."
She cites the decoding of the human genome as a watershed accomplishment. "We now use that information to tailor treatment."
This is the type of information that may help patients like Brooke in the future. While Brooke is cancer-free, she still has many issues related to her treatment, including vision and dental problems, and permanent hair loss. She has tests every six months since completing treatment in April 2010.
Her mom, Amy, hopes that a more personalized, targeted approach to cancer treatment could help limit side effects and help choose treatments that are more likely to work based on a tumor's genetic makeup.
"I hope they can personalize treatment as opposed to just hitting it with everything possible," Amy says.
We are getting there, Baxter says. "In the next five to 10 years, we will see some real change in how patients are diagnosed and treated, as well as how we prevent cancer by changing lifestyles."
Fully 30% of cancer deaths are related to excess weight and lack of regular physical activity, according to the new report.


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As a senior (2013): Competed with the second varsity eight in all nine spring races…that includes four races in the stroke seat, three races in the seven seat, and two races at bow…has yet to miss a spring race during her two-year career with the Hornets thus far…also sat at bow in one race with the second varsity four…helped the second varsity eight to a 7-5 dual-meet record.
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Divided Consciousness: Multiple Controls in Human Thought and Action
Wiley, May 12, 1986 - Psychology - 313 pages
A seminal work on the unconscious and its mechanisms. Examines the interaction between voluntary (conscious) and involuntary (unconscious) human control mechanisms in terms of dissociation of divided consciousness. Delineates a neodissociation interpretation that recognizes historical roots without requiring commitment. Presents a wide range of data on possession states, fugues, multiple personalities, amnesia, dreams, hallucinations, automatic writing, and aggressions.
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What is the easiest way to have a nice dinner with friends immediately ruined? How about being told your expensive Dutch super car just burned itself to the ground while you were enjoying your meal.
That is exactly what happened to a German man Thursday night when he returned to his Spyker C8 Spyder after dinner. While the former Spyker owner had been eating, the parked car inexplicably set itself on fire. As you can see from the burnt out remains, there wasn't much left of the car by the time firefighters in Großensee, Germany were able to extinguish the blaze.
Although the cause remains unknown, the devastated owner of the charred automotive mess told the Hamburger Morgenpost he had recently had the car in the shop to have the battery replaced.


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January 30, 2007
My New Song
Back with a song…
It's been a while since I last wrote
A letter for the sake of good old times
So I came to Uni and cleared my throat
To write a letter - a verse that rhymes
A year and a half has whistled by
With time we grow in mind and age
Time has been in short supply
To notice the world beyond my hedge
A faster life has always bred
Little time for the creative mind
Tutes and tests that plagued my head
Would never let the brain unwind
Through strife and bliss I've lived to tell
A tale of joy and humble pride
One of gratitude for at times I fell
Many have helped me keep my stride
I hope that life has been good to you
Through many days that kept us apart
But memories of the things you do
I have always carried in my heart
This is a hint – an alarm bell
To warn you of an impending threat
In a few weeks I'll fly from hell
And land in paradise – it's time to fret
November 6, 2006
Hearing Mozart Getting back in shape one step at a time.
I remember turning 40 in Richmond, Virginia and on the eve of my 40th birthday doing two back to back sessions of Bikram Hot Yoga which was 180 minutes in a 105 degree temperature room. But I weighted what I weigh now. Maybe I'm not in too bad of physical shape. It's just my back hurts, that all. Just walked for 1 hour and it's 96 degrees outside. I'm soaked with sweat. I want to get back to where I was at 40 and each step, every small portion of food is bring closer to my goal.
Maybe my yoga will never be the same after the injuries, but that's okay you know. It takes quite a bit of acceptance. I'll keep drinking tea, meditating and doing what I can of the mat. I'm not hurting with grief so much like I was months ago when I was really in a lot of pain.
Someone asked me to me him for coffee. I don't really want to go to Union City, NJ this afternoon, but maybe I'll have a good time. People think enough of me to call. But not too many AA people unfortunately, or maybe fortunately. The one's that do usually turn me off with their advice or narrow-minded opinions. Get this through your thick skull! If I want advice I'll ask you for it.
Cockroaches and attachment
There's a story my dad loves to tell about something he saw at work one day. There was a army of ants struggling to get a rather large piece of bread up a wall to their nest and he observed this activity throughout the day. At about lunchtime they were almost to the top of the wall. Then a large cockroach came out of a crack in the corner and taking the piece of bread from the ants. I think of this story from time to time and it is so much like life. When will the roach show up and takes what we've worked so hard for. There's a Zen master that said once that life is like walking down to the dock, getting into a boat, sailing off into the sunset and eventially sinking. It occured to me this morning that is important to me to that I renew my comittment to non-attachment and living freely and happily. My money, my health, my youth [I'm 42 haha] my relationships….. It will all end someday you know and you really don't own anything when you really think about it. The cockroach will eventially, someday, somehow, have his day.


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It's been a long time since I've bothered to purchase an official Dungeons & Dragons product. Since the debut of third edition in 2000, there has been nothing that WOTC has produced that has interested me, as the game is not the D&D that i know and love. I have never been able to make that leap. I like my D&D old school, thank you very much. I haven't paid much attention to the new 5th edition, but tonight I downloaded the basic rules to see what the new version is like. That's when I ran across this...
Finding a Hidden Object When your character searches for a hidden object such as a secret door or a trap, the DM typically asks you to make a Wisdom (Perception) check. Such a check can be used to find hidden details or other information and clues that you might otherwise overlook. In most cases, you need to describe where you are looking in order for the DM to determine your chance of success. For example, a key is hidden beneath a set of folded clothes in the top drawer of a bureau. If you tell the DM that you pace around the room, looking at the walls and furniture for clues, you have no chance of finding the key, regardless of your Wisdom (Perception) check result. You would have to specify that you were opening the drawers or searching the bureau in order to have any chance of success.
Why in the world would you need to roll for a perception check to find a key "hidden" under some folded clothes? If you searched the drawers, I'd rule that you found it, period.
Next I came across the spell lists, and that's when my jaw just hit the ground. Here's the list of Magic-User ( sorry, it's now Wizard) cantrips. Remember cantrips, those useless little spells you used for about a week before realizing they were pointless?
Cantrips (0 Level) Acid Splash, Dancing Lights, Fire Bolt, Light, Mage Hand, Minor Illusion, Poison Spray, Prestidigitation, Ray of Frost, Shocking Grasp
And these are just the cantrips, three of which can be cast by a 1st level wizard! And it gets even worse...
You prepare the list of wizard spells that are available for you to cast. To do so, choose a number of wizard spells from your spellbook equal to your Intelligence modifier + your wizard level (minimum of one spell). The spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots. For example, if you're a 3rd-level wizard, you have four 1st-level and two 2nd-level spell slots. With an Intelligence of 16, your list of prepared spells can include six spells of 1s or 2nd level, in any combination, chosen from your spellbook.
I had to read that a few times just to make sure I was understanding it correctly. Six second level spells for a 3rd level wizard, plus three "cantrips"?!
This is still not the D&D I know and love.


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I have never seen Mad Men, but I thoroughly enjoyed this review which appears in this week's Catholic Key. Whether or not you're familiar with the show, I highly recommend reading through to the end of this piece by our very own Santiago Ramos. I think he's really hit on a wound in the American psyche shared by, pretty much, all of us.
Mad Men
Review by Santiago Ramos
Too much of the hubbub and fanfare concerning the AMC television series Mad Men has been, literally, superficial. One of the main attractions of the series — which follows the lives of men and women working at a Madison Avenue advertising firm in the early 1960s — are its sets and costumes, which meticulously reproduce the colors and contours of that ever-fascinating decade: the pastels in the suits and ties, the typewriters, the horn-rimmed glasses, the chinoiserie, the turtlenecks. Many reviews —including one appearing last year in the Star — have focused almost exclusively on this impressive but screen-deep dimension of the show.
I say almost exclusively, because there is another main attraction which is mentioned more often than are the sets and costumes, and that is the banal observation that Mad Men shows us "the changes of the 1960s." Season one takes place in 1960 and ends with the election of John F. Kennedy; Season two takes place in 1962 and ends with the Cuban Missile Crisis; Season three, which is currently in session, takes place during 1963. All throughout the series, smaller signs of those times appear: a polio survivor on crutches; mute, marginalized African-Americans working the elevators; a woman — Peggy —becomes the first female adwoman; a Jesuit priest starts playing guitar in his room; a middle aged Brooklynite Irish Catholic lady mourns the death of John XXIII.
But in order to hone in on what makes this show worth watching, we have to move beyond the sensuous appreciation of its surfaces and the frisson that everyone seems to get when we recall the exciting events of the 1960s. What makes this show worth watching is the dilemma that it creates for its characters, all of who have to choose between being good and having fun. This, of course, is a false dilemma, and it causes problems for anyone who wants to live a truly happy life. One wonders how many people really see things in this way. This show is a case study in a way of seeing the world that makes happiness impossible.
The main character of the show, Don Draper (played by Jon Hamm) is a high-powered adman who heads the creative department in the Sterling-Cooper Ad Agency. He married Betty (January Jones), once a model in Manhattan now a housewife in a nice home in suburban Ossining, New York. He has two kids, a car, and a lawn. Of course, that's not the whole story. We are shown his private, secret side from the first episode onward: his affairs with the independent, Beatnik artist; his other affair with a Manhattanite Jewish woman who thus far is the only serious, well-adjusted character in the show; his heavy drinking; and his greatest secret of all, that his name is really not Don Draper, but that D.D. is a name he stole from a corpse when he was fighting in Korea.
For Don to stay at home with his family is "good." Seeking out illicit adventures in the Manhattan high-life is "fun." Duty or anarchy; neither is fulfilling. And the greatest sadness is that Don doesn't even seem to be striving for something close to happiness — he just shuttles back and forth from duty to "fun," and no one is able to articulate for him the idea of fulfillment. The structure of the story is set against the characters. But it's not a universe we have to believe in. Indeed, it's a universe we have to confront.
One character who actually is striving for fulfillment is Peggy Olson (played by Elisabeth Moss, who previously played the president's daughter on The West Wing). She starts off as Don's secretary, but her intelligent comments during a focus group study for a brand of lipstick got her a job on the creative staff. By the third season, she has her own office and secretary. At first, we root for Peggy Olson, because she is hard-working, guileless, and honest. That she abandoned her child to her mother and sister is problematic to her character. But more problematic, I think, is that as she fights a noble fight for equal treatment and pay, she also takes on some of the bad habits of the Mad Men — as if proving that to succeed, you have to be like them.
Roger Sterling, one of the partners of Sterling Cooper, when forced to choose between duty and fun, tries to have both. He divorces his wife and marries a secretary barely 20 years old. The third season is partially about this misadventure, and the fact that he has lost his old friend Don's respect is something that, so far, doesn't faze him. But we can be sure that it eventually will. All plans fall flat in this show, all the characters fall on their face.
With such a bleak set of stories, no wonder most reviewers focus on the sets and costumes. The show depicts life in a certain way, and if you really think that life is like this, then you don't want to spend too much time thinking about life.
But the life we really want is one where we don't forsake the things we know are good — family, fidelity, honesty — but where we find meaning in them, a meaning that leads to happiness. Finding the meaning of the events of life, learning how to judge the events of life in order to find a meaning, is something that no character in Mad Men does. Who can teach them how to do it? Who can propose a different way of looking at life that doesn't pit duty against fun, a life that is an integrated whole? Unfortunately, the priest in the show, while well-intentioned, doesn't have many interesting things to say.
Producer Matthew Weiner and his team of writers have accomplished a remarkable achievement in bringing to life an era of prosperity and artistic and social ferment. But more than a period piece, this is a tragedy; the age that it depicts is one in which we Americans started thinking of life as game that must be played alone and won in secret.
Santiago Ramos is a graduate of Rockhurst University in Kansas City and has written for First Things (online), Commonweal, The Pitch, Traces, Image Journal and various blogs. He is currently studying toward a Ph.D. in Philosophy at Boston College.


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The study of infectious diseases requires a different approach than other acquired or hereditary diseases. There is no possibility of eliminating infectious diseases; microorganisms will continue to evolve and produce disease. Therefore, the best strategy is to combine efforts for understanding evolution, prevention and treatment of infectious diseases. The Division of Infectious Diseases at UNC represents many scientists with different approaches who are all united in this common goal.
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Hi guys! I'm so pleased to be back here with another project! I loooooved putting this quilt together. Super quick and easy, perfect for a beginner quilter such as myself. I have an obsession with scallop bunting at the moment, and have been making quite a bit of it for my own home and those of friends and family. This quilt combines that love, with my need to make some baby gifts for friends who are expecting babies. I can see myself making quite a few more of these, so sweet and soft…
4 x fat quarters in the fabric of your choice
2 yards white (or light) fabric for your background
2 yards white fabric for your backing
1 yard white fabric for binding
2 yards batting
Fabric glue
1. To begin with you will need to cut out your scallops. My scallops measure 5″ wide and 5″ long, including the seam allowance. To get perfectly rounded edges, I used an appropriately sized dining plate as a guide.
2. Cut your first piece of white fabric into five strips measuring 10″ (which includes 2 x 1/4″ seam allowances) by 30″, and one strip of 5″ by 30″.
3. Attach four scallops to each strip, using fabric glue (alternatively, attach scallops to interfacing and skip this step – pinning them to the strips instead). Make sure each scallop sits right up against the top edge of the strip and snug against each other – but not overlapping. You will want to make sure that you have rotated the colours for each one (though a random mix would also look lovely). You will need to leave approximately 5″ on each end of the strip, which will be covered with binding.
4. For those of you with fancy machines (or anything made in the last few decades ;-)) you will now applique your scallops using a tight & wide zigzag stitch, or whatever your fancy machine does. For me and my antique machine (which has no zigzag option – I make do), I did two single seams about a 1/4″ apart, with one as close to the edge of each scallop as I could safely get. There will still be some fraying (for me), but the fabric glue will help keep that to a minimum.
5. Next place two strips (ensuring you have them in the right order) right side to right side, with the top piece facing upside down. See image below for clarification.
Attach the two strips using a 1/4″ seam allowance, and then repeat with each of the rest of the strips.
6. Take the 5″ by 30″ strip and attach it to the top of your quilt top (see image of final quilt).
7. Sandwhich, pin or baste, and then quilt your… erm… quilt!
8. Attach binding, and you're done!
Like I said, this is a super easy quilt to make, and would be a perfect wee quilt to gift to an expectant mom (or just keep for yourself – something I was tempted to do!). I think you could have a lot of fun playing with the colour scheme and pattern. I'm eager to have another go with some different fabric and see what I can come up with!
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Line: Asia's Answer to WhatsApp?
Line, a smartphone chat application developed in Japan, has rapidly expanded in Asia since its debut last year. One of its major competitors in Asia and elsewhere is WhatsApp Messenger, a popular instant-messaging app from a Mountain View, California-based startup by the same name. But their business models are very different.
NHN Japan Corp., the Tokyo-based company behind Line, is a unit of South Korea's NHN Corp. As part of the NHN group, Line gets most of its funding from the parent firm, which operates South Korea's dominant search engine and Internet portal called Naver.
NHN Japan says its culture blends the freedom of a startup with the resources of an Internet conglomerate. Line's success is due in part to strong support from the South Korean parent, it says.
"It's a great advantage to have many people (at the NHN group) who have experienced both successes and failures in launching various online services," said Chief Executive Akira Morikawa.
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Dr. Anees Chagpar
A member of the New England Division Board of Directors for the American Cancer Society, Dr. Anees Chagpar is a Professor in the Department of Surgery at Yale School of Medicine, and the Program Director of the Interdisciplinary Breast Fellowship at Yale University. Born and raised in Canada, she completed her BSc in Honors Biochemistry and MD with Honors in Research at the University of Alberta, and her general surgery residency training and MSc at the University of Saskatchewan. She went on to complete the Susan G. Komen Interdisciplinary Breast Fellowship at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, an MPH at Harvard School of Public Health and an MA in Bioethics and Medical Humanities at the University of Louisville.
After fellowship, she joined the University of Louisville as an Assistant Professor of Surgery, rising rapidly through the ranks to become an Associate Professor with tenure, and also served as an Academic Advisory Dean. She built the first nationally accredited Breast Center in the state of Kentucky at the James Graham Brown Cancer Center prior to being recruited to Yale in September 2010 where she led the effort for Yale to become the first NCI designated Comprehensive Cancer Center in the Northeast to have a nationally accredited breast center. She has taken on leadership positions in a myriad of professional organizations, and her clinical practice and research interests are dedicated solely to breast cancer. She is a busy breast surgical oncologist who participates in investigator-initiated and cooperative group clinical trials, as well as translational and clinical research. She has NIH funding to evaluate markers of non-sentinel node metastases, and is the principal investigator on the SHAVE trial to evaluate optimal surgical management of breast cancer patients undergoing partial mastectomy.
She enjoys teaching and mentoring medical students, residents, fellows and junior faculty, and is the Director of the Surgical Oncology Clerkship at Yale. In her spare time, Anees enjoys reading, traveling and being physically active.
Dr. Steven Gore
Dr. Steven Gore, Director of Hematologic Malignancies at Smilow Cancer Hospital, is an internationally known hematologist. Dr. Gore's national leadership on clinical trials for patients with leukemia and meylodysplastic syndromes and focus on translational research elevates the Hematology Program at Smilow Cancer Hospital. He has just opened a national trial for transfusion-dependent patients with low-grade myelodysplasic syndrome, and is in the process of opening other trial for patients with more advanced or relapsed disease. He is actively recruiting more physicians with particular expertise in clinical trial development. The goal is to have high-impact clinical trials open for patients with all of the major hematologic malignancies at all stages, while maintaining the current level of outstanding personalized care.
He is a member of the American Society of Hematology, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, and the American Association for Cancer Research. Dr. Gore is a member of the Leukemia Core Committee and the Leukemia Correlative Science Committee of the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group. He also Chairs the Hematologic Malignancies Committee of the Mayo Phase 2 Consortium.
Dr. Gore received his undergraduate degree from Yale College and his medical degree from Yale University. He completed his internship and residency at the University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinics and his fellowship in oncology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on hematologic malignancies and myelodysplastic syndromes.


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Jabari Parker was reflecting Friday on a high school career that is nearing its final month, and it was a good week for such an examination. Simeon knocked off nationally ranked foes Oak Hill and Young last week and retired the jerseys of Parker and teammate Kendrick Nunn.
The Duke-bound Parker took some time after his number was retired to talk about his father's influence, his faith and a surprising dream job for one of the nation's top-ranked basketball players.
What does it mean to you to have your jersey retired?
It was very special for me because I've been here four years, to cap off my career so far. It's been good but it's also unsatisfying because I haven't finished what I need to do.
First basketball memory?
I was 5 or 6 years old at the James Jordan Boys and Girls Club, watching my dad (Sonny Parker) and his summer league. Me playing at halftime. That was one of my earliest memories when I had a love of the game, when I really enjoyed it. Just shooting around.
Biggest influence in your basketball career?
My dad, just his example and his role that he plays in my family. And also what he's done. It gives me an extra boost to try to make him proud and get to where he was, which was being on the top.
What are you most proud of in your career?
I don't like individual awards because it always takes a team to get those honors. Our state championships we got here, they came from hard work and dedication and blood, sweat and tears. It wasn't just me that was out there. It was everybody else contributing.
Best opponent you've played?
Julius Randle, of those in my age group. He's always on attack, constantly on attack. And he's strong.
Pregame rituals?
I always pray before the game. I have a big-time belief in that. It just gives me that extra boost, the confidence, the faith that I'm going to play and be safe. I know at some points I'm afraid of getting reinjured, but with my faith in God, he helps me to endure.
And you lead the team in a prayer too?
Yeah, it's my first year doing it.
You talk about your faith a lot. How do you make that a part of your everyday life?
More than anything it's service. I want to always serve other people. It could be the youngest guy in the gym that looks up to me or the oldest fella. I just want to be there for them. I try to work on that now, even though I get caught up in myself sometimes, trying to get back to what I need to do. But I also have to realize there have been people that have been following me and supporting me, so I have to give them a little love too.
Any younger players on the team you've tried to take under your wing?
D.J. (Williams). I see a lot of potential in D.J. Edward (Morrow) is always going to be good because of his work ethic. But I want D.J. to be just as good as me because I see a lot of similarities in his game. … He's starting to get it.
Food: Italian food or any kind of sandwiches.
Movie: "'How the Grinch Stole Christmas.'"
TV show: "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" or "Family Matters."
Book: "My Antonia" by Willa Cather.
Class: Probably art. I love spilling my creativity on paper. I just draw. I've been doing a lot of doodling in my classes, but there I can just get it out.
Team: Boston Celtics.
Player: Kobe Bryant.
Dream job: Work at a zoo. I love animals. I don't (visit often), but when I do I'm like a kid at a candy store. They can't move me out of the exhibits. … I like the tiger (as a favorite animal).
Three people you'd like to have dinner with: John Wooden, Martin Luther King Jr., Bill Russell.
Hobbies outside of basketball: Sleep. I love sleep. I find sleep to be a hobby.
Best memory at Simeon?
Every year before the season we have the prelude for Nike. They usually cater us food. That's one of my favorites because it brings together our team. All of the hype, we forget about that and just have fun as a team."
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52: Necessary But Not Sufficient
- Facebook Paper's gesture usability, in-app tutorial videos, and the design challenge of gestural interface.
- RootMetrics testing real-world wireless speeds.
- Despite constant effort to improve usability, what if computers just aren't for everyone? (There's a similar long-standing debate with programming. See 4GL.)
- The Flappy Bird saga: Whether it's a good game and why the developer pulled it. (See also: Super Hexagon.)
- Is free-with-in-app-purchase ruining the game industry?.
- Comcast buying Time Warner and the implications on U.S. broadband competition.
- The stupid new top-level domains (TLDs).
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