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NYU's Spring show for the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) featured over a hundred awesome projects with a noticeable shift towards students incorporating a broader range of body parts and senses to interact with. Recent advances in the Arduino platform and Kinect hacking fueled much of the technology in prototypes built almost exclusively with 3D printing, CNC milling and laser cutting.
Take a look through the gallery for our highlights from the show and don't miss Brett Murphy's tabletop surround sound mixer for young children SoundStage, Minette Mangahas' Sonic Physiognomy that uses facial scanning to create a series of musical scores based on the topography of the human face and unique patterns of the iris, and Benji Canning-Pereira's crazy thermochromic hair gel that changes color in seconds—he thinks it's safe.
You might recognize the aesthetic of this project, as Yugo Nakamura is the Tokyo-based consultant designer that was tapped by Uniqlo to do their interface design. Nakamura's latest project (done in conjunction with Interior/Product Designer and fellow Tokyoite Yoshihiro Saitoh and Taiwan's Om Inc. design & engineering firm) is called...
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Firefighters were called to help rescue a dog who had fallen into an outside swimming pool and had got caught up in the pool cover.
The incident took place in Church Road, Corringham, at about 9am this morning and one unit was dispatched to help the stranded pet.
Axel, the large Alsatian, had suffered a fit and was unable to use his back legs so was unable to get out himself.
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A Study to Evaluate Safety and Immune Response of Novartis Meningococcal ACWY Conjugate Vaccine In Adolescents
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|A Phase 3, Single-Center, Open-label, Controlled, Randomized Study to Evaluate the Safety and Immunogenicity of Novartis Men ACWY Vaccine Administered Either Alone or Concomitantly With a Combined Tetanus, Reduced Diphtheria Toxoid, Acellular Pertussis Vaccine and Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus [Types 6, 11, 16, 18] Recombinant Vaccine in Healthy Adolescents
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Deferred texturing
ATEFred replied to Reitano's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingThis will not help with your performance issues. Sub pixel triangles (even sub quad triangles) are going to hurt you, and your pre-pass won't be a fast depth only pass either. What you describe though sounds very close to Oxide's Image Based Lighting. They effectively build up UV unwrapped Gbuffers for their different meshes (offline), then at runtime do the lighting and shading in image space (uv unwrap space), and then the actual scene rasterization happens at the end with in theory the most simple of shaders. It allows decoupling the resolution of rendering (rasterization pass) from the lighting/shading resolution. You could also update the shading at a lower frequency, but you might then get issues with view dependent effects like reflections / specular.
Deferred Decal Skinned Meshes
ATEFred replied to Alundra's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingThere are many options: you can generate the decal geometry in a GS, or on CPU, or you could render out the decal in texture space for your skinned mesh and apply it straight on the model depending on how your UVs are setup, etc.
What is the best indirect lighting technique for a game?
ATEFred replied to LHLaurini's topic in Graphics and GPU Programmingthe best technique is highly dependent on your exact requirements. i.e. scene type, scale, amount of dynamic objects, lighting complexity, how many bounces you want, how many months or years you want to spend researching this, what your target HW is, etc. I think it is safe to say no GI technique is trivial to implement in a way that looks good in real life scenarios and runs fast (no light leaking, bugs, etc.) It's an area of active research, so you won't find ready made solutions. Maybe it's best just to start by implementing some of the building blocks techniques, like basic RSM or lightmap baking, and taking it from there. If you want to read up on modern approaches for dynamic GI, Remedy just released a paper going over their approach. Not miles apart is Ubi's solution used on Far Cry 3/4. Another trendy approach I have not seen used in commercial larger games yet is Voxel Cone Tracing. Google will lead you to a bunch of papers for all of these, but realistically this is not the type of thing where you just follow the paper and will get awesome results fast.
3d file format with skeletal animation and normal mapping
ATEFred replied to Triad_prague's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingI use collada (dae) format models, I then wrote a converter that uses Assimp to read the data in and spit out my own optimized format. Collada is kind of a bloated format but I don't use the daes at runtime so it doesn't matter. Most people I know now use FBX, but I have not tried that so I can't comment on it.
Terrain tesselation and collision
ATEFred replied to KaiserJohan's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingIn some cases you might not be able to get the same level of detail on your physics terrain and tessellated terrain mesh (for reasons xyz). On one project I worked on some clever guys at NV came up with an approach which would evaluate height of the ground on GPU at the positions of the various character bones, and then offset the bones if needed, to make sure that there was no issues with the characters sinking into the ground. Overall it worked really well. (technically not correct since you would have cases were one leg would be shorter than the other for example, but not very noticeable in game)
I heard of it. I will try to get hang of the theory explained in your provided link. That was just the first link I found on google. It's pretty simple in practice: sample your depth buffer for the point your are shading and the surrounding points, compute how much variance there is over the kernel, and this will tell you if you are on/close to an edge or not. You can then shade the point differently based on that. Kernel size will impact how wide your filter is. (though you can control the thickness in other, more performance friendly ways as well of course)
A pretty effective and simple way can be analysing your depth buffer. Using a sobel filter is pretty common for that kind of operation. http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/HIPR2/sobel.htm
Visual Studio 2013 graphics debugger vs Nvidia Nsight?
ATEFred replied to KaiserJohan's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingIf you are referring to stepping through shader code, this is no longer the case. You can now do everything on one single (nv) gpu machine. I think NSight is way superior to the vis graphics debugger. If you have an NV gpu, it is really worth it. It also works with OGL if that is of any use to you.
glDrawElements invalid operation
ATEFred replied to syskrank's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingLatest version of NV Nsight also supports ogl 4.x ( 4.2/4.3? can't remember exactly ). Was really helpful figuring these kind of errors out ( gl event list with highlighting for the dodgy calls ). Highly recommended if you have the required hardware.
Geometry Shader for a quad or not ?
ATEFred replied to Alundra's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingIt does depend heavily on HW. ATI gave a presentation at gdc this year that showed that on their hw using the GS was somewhat slower than calling DrawInstanced with 4 verts per quad and doing the work in the VS instead, whereas on recent NV hw it was pretty much the same.
You don't need position, you can reconstruct it from the depth and pixel positions when you need it. (allows you to not require 32bit per channel additional RT in your gbuffer). other than that, you have a good starting point. Normals, material properties like spec power, spec factor / roughness, albedo colour and depth of course. gamma correction only really makes sense if you support HDR (or you would get quite bandy results I think). The idea is to get your colour texture samples and colour constants in linear space (either doing the conversion manually or using the api / hw for textures and rendertargets at least). then do lighting, then hdr resolve and conversion back into gamma space.
There are commercial game engines that use all of these approaches. Frostbite 3 uses the tiled CS approach, the Stalker engine was the first to use the deferred shading approach that I know of, loads of games have used light prepass ( especially 360 games to get around edram size limitations / avoid tiling ), Volition came up with and used inferred in their engine, forward+ seems to be one of the trendier approaches for future games, not sure if anything released uses that already. The main thing is for you to decide what your target platforms are and what kind of scenes you want to render. (visible entity counts, light counts, light types, whether a single lighting model is enough for all your surfaces, etc.) For learning purposes though, they are all similar enough that you can just pick a simpler one (deferred shading or light prepass maybe), get it working, and then adapt afterwards to a more complex approach if needed. As for docs / presentations, there are plenty around for all of these. I would recommend reading the GPU pro books, there are plenty papers on this. Dice.se has presentations on their website you can freely access for the tiled approach they used on bf3. GDC vault is also a great place to look. You can also find example implementations around, like here: https://hieroglyph3.codeplex.com/ (authors are active one this forum btw)
The best way will depend on the type of scene you have and your target hw. They are mostly pretty similar, but here is an overview of a few of the popular ones: - deferred shading, based on generating a gbuffer for opaque objects with all properties needed for both lighting and shading, followed by light pass typically done by rendering geometrical volumes or quad for each light and a fullscreen pass for sunlight, followed by composite pass where lighting and surface properties are combined to get back the final shaded buffer. This is followed by alpha passes, often with forward lighting, and post fx passes, which can use the content of the gbuffer if needed. Full or partial Z prepass is optional. Advantages include potentially rendering your scene only once and - light prepass/ deferred lighting involves the same kind of steps, only with a minimal gbuffer containing only what you need for the actual lighting ( often just depth buffer + one render target containing normals + spec power ), the same kind of light pass, but then another full scene rendering pass to get the final colour buffer. This means loads more draw calls, but much lighter gbuffers, which can be handy on HW with limited bandwidth, limited support for MRTs, or limited EDRam like the 360. Also gives more flexibility than the previous approach when it comes to object materials, since you are not limited to the information you can store in the gbuffer. - inferred rendering, which is like light prepass, only with a downsampled gbuffer containing material IDs, downsample light pass, but high res colour pass which uses IDs to pick the correct values from the light buffer without edge artifacts. Kind of neat way of doing gbuffer and light pass much faster at the cost of resolution. Can also be used to store the alpha object properties in the gbuffer with a dithered pattern, and then excluding the samples you don't want / not for that layer during the colour pass. So no more need for forward lighting for alpha objects (up to a point). - tiled deferred involves not rendering volumes or quads for your lights, which can be pretty extensive when you get alot of light overdraw, especially if your light volumes are not super tight, but instead divide your screen into smaller tiles, generate a frustum per tile, cull your lights on gpu for each tile frustum, and then light only the fragments in the tile by the final list. Usually done in CS, no overdraw issues at all, overall much faster, but requires modern HW and also can generate very large tile frustums when you have large depth discontinuities per tile. The last part can be mitigated by adding a depth division to your tiles ( use 3d clusters instead of 2d tiles ). - forward+ is similar, but involves z prepass instead of gbuffer generation, then pass to generate light lists per tile, same as above, but instead of lighting at that point, you render your scene again and light forward style using the list of lights intersecting the current tile. Allows for material flexibility and easy MSAA support at the cost of another full geo pass. There are loads more variations of course, but these are maybe a good starting point.
Light rays through windows
ATEFred replied to RealtimeSlave's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingYeah, these look like billboards. Other than billboards which are somewhat limited, and the screen space approach agleed mentioned, you can do the following: a screen space pass where for each pixel you march through your shadowmap(s). So for each pixel cast a ray which you march along for N steps, get light space position for the step world or screen space position, and do a shadow map check. This tells you if that point of your atmosphere is lit or not, accumulate and job done. You can do this at lower resolution with some depth aware upscaling if you want for performance. Downside is you can get banding if you don't do enough steps (and more steps equals bigger perf cost). NV where talking about doing some kind of mesh extrusion for this using the tessellation stages at gdc this year, but I haven't looked into that approach. I think the slides are publicly available on the gdc vault.
how to draw a moving object trace path?
ATEFred replied to JohnnyCode's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingOne approach is have attractors on the start and end of your trace creating object ( such as the hilt and tip of a sword ), and create bands of geometry every frame from these attractor positions. Simplest form of that is one band being 2 verts, one for each attractor / end of the band, have a dynamic vertex buffer which you fill up with all active band vertices, from newest to oldest ( or the other way around ). You can use vertex colours for fading it out. Then render it as a tri strip, and job done :)


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A Little, Aloud for Children has been read in an amazing number of places since its publication last year – in libraries, on reading relays and in many of our Get Into Reading groups, including our Hope Readers groups at Liverpool Hope University with the primary school teachers of the future. Now, the magic of the stories and poems within the book are being shared with enthusiastic young readers in North Wales courtesy of children's author Helena Pielchaty.
Helena is Patron of Reading at Ysgol Esgob Morgan in St Asaph, Denbighshire – a role that shares many of the aims of The Reader Organisation, primarily to get children enthused about reading and sharing reading for pleasure. Helena was featured reading at the school on BBC Wales Today last week and guess which book got a wonderful close-up on camera while it was being read aloud? That's right, none other than A Little, Aloud for Children.
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Iran's Volleyball Federation President, Mohammad Reza Davarzani and his U.S counterpart signed memorandum of understanding in Los Angeles on Monday in order to expand cooperations.
"This would be a good beginning for both parties, improving the U.S. and Iran's Volleyball but also the world's standards," President of Iran's Volleyball Federation, Mohammad Reza Davarzani said.
"This agreement will strength the relations between the two Federations, in addition to boosting the Volleyball standards in both countries," President of U.S. Volleyball Federation Douglas Bill added.
Iran's men national volleyball team is in California for a four-game tour against the U.S. The host defeated Iran 3-1 in the opening match at USC's Galen Center on Saturday night.
Group photo of Iran and US volleyball teams
The remaining three matches are scheduled to be held at the Anaheim Convention Center on Aug. 13, San Diego State on Aug.15 and UC Irvine on Aug.16.
Iran and the U.S. will prepare for the 2014 Volleyball World Championship, which will be held in Poland from 30 August to 21 September 2014.
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JSU Board Votes to Keep Tuition Level for 2014-2015 Academic Year
JSU Board Votes to Keep Tuition Level for 2014-2015 Academic Year
The JSU Board of Trustees voted at their April 21 meeting to keep tuition level for 2014-2015. This is in keeping with the commitment the board and university leadership made to our students earlier this year.
At the January 2014 meeting, the board voted to keep tuition level if state appropriations increased. Recently, we learned that JSU would receive $35.5 million from the state, which includes a modest increase of $245,768 over last year. Unfortunately, that increase will be offset by a loss of more than $450,000 due to a $702,000 increase in the cost of employee insurance.
The board must still determine how the university will resolve the difference in the employee health insurance costs. This will be addressed at the July board meeting.
Read Resolution 559 Regarding 2014-2015 Tuition and Fees
In other business, the trustees:
• Heard a presentation by Dr. Rick Davis and Mr. Mark Hopwood of JSU's Center for Applied Forensics. The Center for Applied Forensics took the place of the state forensics lab at JSU that closed in 2011 and furnishes crime scene processing for law enforcement agencies in Cherokee, Etowah, Calhoun, St. Clair and Cleburne Counties. Additionally, CFAF offers continuing education for the agencies and instructs current JSU students as well as high school students in the latest forensics investigation techniques.
• Postponed action on the proposed recreational zip-line at Little River Canyon Center.
• Were introduced to new SGA executive officers by outgoing SGA President Jade Wagner. New SGA officers in attendance included SGA President Brett Johnson, SGA VP for Student Activities Kalyn Cabral, and SGA Chief Justice Andrew York. Other officers whose finals schedules prevented them from attending are SGA VP of Student Senate Tyler Brown, SGA VP of Organizational Affairs Ariel Tolson and SGA Director of Publicity Courtney Curtis.
• Approved the minutes of the January 27 meeting. (Read them here)
• Received the following reports (click each report to view online):
President's Report
Provost's Report
Athletics Report
Vice President for University Advancement's Report
The next quarterly meeting of the Board of Trustees will be Monday, July 21, 2014 at 10 a.m. on the eleventh floor of the Houston Cole Library.


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Abdurahmanov was the only independent correspondent to cover the whole of Karakalpakstan, whose people have already lost the sea, fish, jobs, prosperity and health, and are now losing their last hope for the future.
(CPJ/Freedom House/IFEX)
Mr. Islam Karimov
President of Uzbekistan,
ul. Uzbekistanskaya 43,
Rezidentsia prezidenta,
700163 Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Fax: +998 71 133 1395325.
E-mail: [email protected]
Dear President Karimov,
We, the undersigned, journalists, human rights activists and citizens, ask you - at a time when the international community has been marking World Press Freedom Day on 3 May - for your help to release 58-year-old Uzbek journalist Salijon Abdurahmanov from prison.
Abdurahmanov has worked as a local correspondent based in Karakalpakstan for the international broadcasters Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Voice of America; the London-based Institute for War and Peace Reporting; and the independent news Web site Uznews over the past few years. He was arrested on 7 June 2008, on trumped-up charges of drug possession and drug use. Packets of marijuana and opium were found in his car during a police search. According to CPJ sources in the region, the drugs were planted on Abdurahmanov.
After a medical commission established that Abdurahmanov had not taken any drugs, investigators from Nukus police changed a charge of drug use to a more serious one - attempting to sell drugs in large consignment.
Abdurahmanov's guilt was not proven either during the investigation or at the trial. When the defense team asked the question: "Why didn't police take fingerprints from the surface of the packets of drugs found from the car?" investigators answered that the packets were covered in dust, even though the car had been left in the sun for a long time.
In general, the investigators admitted that there had been no reason for sentencing Abdurahmanov on this charge. Moreover, they did not even try to conceal their interest in his journalistic activities: they seized his computer and all books and periodicals in his house, although this seemingly had nothing to do with the charge of selling drugs.
In October 2008, Abdurahmanov was sentenced to 10 years in prison and has since been serving his term in Karshi's prison.
Mr. President, jailing independent journalists on unsubstantiated charges does not benefit the reputation of your country. It undermines people's trust in their government and sows pessimism and apathy among people, which has the potential to turn into radicalism.
Mr. President, at the end of April you took part in the summit of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea in Almaty. You are very well aware of the appalling conditions the environmental disaster in Karakalpakstan has created and the grave consequences of the drying Aral Sea that its people are facing now.
Abdurahmanov was the only independent correspondent to cover the whole of Karakalpakstan, whose people have already lost the sea, fish, jobs, prosperity and health, and are now losing their last hope for the future.
Articles written by Abdurahmanov talk about the problems of people living in the Aral Sea region and help them to be heard. These articles could help your subordinates draft government policy in Karakalpakstan.
Abdurahmanov has pursued only one aim: turning his country - your country, Uzbekistan - into a better place to live.
As the globe marks World Press Freedom Day, we, the undersigned members and supporters of the international press freedom and human rights community, call upon you to release Abdurahmanov and allow him to do his job without fear of reprisal. Journalists should never be imprisoned for their work.
Thank you for your attention to this urgent matter.
Adil Soz, International Foundation for Protection of Freedom of Speech, Kazakhstan
Algerian Centre for the Defence and Promotion of Press Freedom (CALP), Algeria
Associação Brasileira de Jornalismo Investigativo (ABRAJI), Brazil
Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM), Serbia
Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR)
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE), Canada
Cartoonists Rights Network, International (CRNI), U.S.A.
Center for Human Rights and Democratic Studies (CEHURDES), Nepal
Center for Media Studies and Peace Building (CEMESP), Liberia
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), U.S.A.
Ethiopian Free Press Journalists Association, (EFJA), Ethiopia
Freedom House, U.S.A.
Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa (FLIP), Colombia
Independent Journalism Center (IJC), Moldova
Initiative for Freedom of Expression (Antenna -TR), Turkey
Institute of Mass Information (IMI), Ukraine
Institute for Reporter Freedom and Safety (IRFS), Azerbaijan
Institute for the Studies on Free Flow of Information (ISAI), Indonesia
Instituto Prensa y Sociedad (IPYS), Peru
Maharat Foundation, Lebanon
Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA), Australia
Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Ghana
Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA), Namibia
Media Watch, Bangladesh
Media Rights Agenda (MRA), Nigeria
Observatoire pour la liberté de presse, d'édition et de création (OLPEC), Tunisia
Pacific Islands News Association (PINA), Fiji Islands
Reporters sans frontières (RSF), France
Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA), Thailand
World Association of Newspapers (WAN), France
World Press Freedom Committee (WPFC), U.S.A.
Individual signatories:
Galima Bukharbaeva, Editor-in-Chief of Uznews.net and Chairwoman of the Real Union of Journalists of Uzbekistan (RUJU)
Bahtiyor Hamrayev, Head of the Human Rights Society of Uzbekistan's Jizak Region branch
Markus Bensmann, journalist from Germany
Shakhida Yakub, Uzbekistan Initiative, London
Freedom House


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When you're alone, life can be a little rough.
It makes you feel like you're 3 foot tall.
When it's just you, well times can be tough.
When there's no one there to catch your fall.
(Ay ay ay ay)
3 foot tall
Like you're 3 foot tall
3 foot tall
When there's no one there to catch your fall
(Ay ay ay ay)
[Verse 1:]
I am from the cross roads, off roads
Dodgin' all of the pot holes, in my auto-mobile hollerin' out watch out
We lost hope like Bob Hope, so what are we supposed to follow?
I'm a leader not an apostle, but I believe in the freedom that God holds
(sh*t) I'm on the top rope, ready to jump so watch close
Been criticized and boxed out since I was a snot nosed kid
We ain't livin' for tomorrow we live for the lord though
Everybody tryin' to fit in the crowd like wheres Waldo?
I freeze time like photographs livin' for the moment
I'm taking mental pictures reminiscing while I'm smokin'
When I see the the light of day right away ill ride away
Cause things I write and say give me direction like Michael Bay
I need somethin' in my life because my plans, they never work out
Like when I make plans to work out cause everything
Don't always turn out like you want them to, honest truth
Nahh ain't nothin' wrong with Luke go walk this path alone
But I need somebody here to talk me through, but who?
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When you're alone, life can be a little rough.
It makes you feel like you're 3 foot tall.
When it's just you, well times can be tough.
When there's no one there to catch your fall [x2]
3 foot tall
Like you're 3 foot tall
3 foot tall
When there's no one there to catch your fall
[Verse 2:]
I know I have my unity, community,
But everyone that I did music with over the years disappeared,
When they're ain't too many still doin' this
Feeling like I've gone to war, lost my soldiers on the journey
Feeling like we built a team but ONLY I WEAR THE JERSEY yea
Everything comes and goes, I dealt with the undertow
Keeping my head above the water, pushed on, now I run the show
I know this situations never perfect deal with what you got
Never bite your tongue, tell your piece don't let them shut you up
They say everything about money, nah only business
If your friends think that, then you hang round money hungry b**ches
The world is hollow y'all need to eat up I'm makin' a pot roast
These people are all over themselves and I ain't in to feeding no cockroach, ah
Wrong or right, I know the type don't be a dick head
Cause everything comes full circle jerk get it?
I ain't looking for the exit, I'm tryin' to show you where my head is
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MENLO PARK, Calif., Oct. 31, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Versartis, Inc. (NASDAQ:VSAR), an endocrine-focused biopharmaceutical company that is developing somavaratan (VRS-317), a novel, long-acting form of recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) for growth hormone deficiency (GHD), today announced that Jay Shepard, President and CEO, is scheduled to present at the 25th Annual Credit Suisse Healthcare Conference on November 7, 2016 in Scottsdale, AZ and the 28th Annual Piper Jaffray Healthcare Conference on November 29, 2016 in New York City.
Event: 25th Annual Credit Suisse Healthcare Conference
Date: Monday, November 7, 2016
Time: 9:00 am MST
Location: The Phoenician – Scottsdale, AZ
Event: 28th Annual Piper Jaffray Healthcare Conference
Date: Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Time: 2:30 pm EST
Location: Lotte New York Palace – New York City
An audio webcast of the Company's presentations will be available on the investor relations section of the Versartis website at www.versartis.com. A replay of the presentation will be available for 90 days.
About Versartis, Inc.
Versartis, Inc. is an endocrine-focused biopharmaceutical company initially developing somavaratan, a novel, long-acting form of recombinant human growth hormone in late-stage clinical trials for the treatment of GHD in children and adults. Somavaratan is intended to reduce the burden of daily injection therapy by requiring significantly fewer injections, potentially improving compliance and, therefore, treatment outcomes. For more information on Versartis, visit www.versartis.com.
Cautionary Note on Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include statements regarding our intentions or current expectations concerning, among other things, plans and timing of our clinical trials and the potential for eventual regulatory approval of somavaratan. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results and events to differ materially from those anticipated. We discuss many of these risks in greater detail under the heading "Risk Factors" contained in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2015 and in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the three months ended June 30, 2016, which are on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and our actual results may differ materially from the forward-looking statements contained in this press release. Any forward-looking statements that we make in this press release speak only as of the date of this press release and we assume no obligation to update our forward-looking statements after the date of this press release.
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text: 1. Meghan Trainor. You've heard her "All About the Bass" hit that went viral this summer. Nice message, terrible song, goodbye Meghan. 2. Magic! - Rude. Catchy, but what else can these guys do? This group is golden one-hit-wonder quality. 3. Jesse Helt - Miley Cyrus' VMA Date. "The young man Miley Cyrus chose to represent homeless youths at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday faces arrest in Oregon" Yep. 4. Bobby Shmurda and his Shmoney Dance. Okay, maybe you hear about him, but you won't hear about him again. 5. Stephen Colbore. Gwen Stefani presented the 2014 Primetime Emmy Award for Best Variety Series, but managed to butcher Stephen Colbert's name so badly that his next episode was called the Colbore Report. 6. Mitchell Murphy, of the Kim Kardashian: Hollywood game, is a writer with a white suit and gold chains whose D-List status is especially enticing for an E-List social-climbing wanna-be celebrity like yourself. But once you're on the B-List, Mitchell becomes pedestrian and you can do way better than a lowly writer. See ya, Mitchell! 7. Vee of Orange is the New Black. SPOILER ALERT, she died. In case you couldn't tell from her getting hit by a van and her body spiraling into the air.


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Category: Fiction
Authors: Lucas Christopoulos and Kirby Record
Publication date: November 2014
Amazon e-book: $5.99 USD / printed title (4-colors, 6×9): $20.95 USD
Pages: 106 pp.
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Blending essay, fable, fiction and poems, The Mysterious Frog boldly addresses the greatest evils of our time and the source of evil for all times. Quite different from anything previously written, its blurring of genre lines and narrative voices are postmodern in approach, but its message is classical. Lyrical, philosophical, historical and fanciful all at once, it is a call for action, and an admonition to those people and forces that are threatening our planet with extinction. It is also filled with humor and hope for the potential goodness still residing in the collective hearts of humankind. The advice in the poem that closes the book is simple: "Find what you bring to this mountain within/echoes of autumn, echoes of Self." That is to say, the solution lies within you.
Book illustration credits: Cover background image licensed by Can Stock Photo, Inc., © JM Creation; cover frog image licensed by Can Stock Photo, Inc., © Alptraum; book illustrations © Lucas Christopoulos and Kirby Record. The kingfisher and butterfly photos are © and used with the permissions of Junko Kamada. The frog photo in the book is © and used with permissions by Ray Hamilton.


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I want you to very carefully soak up the words that I say, as if you are a sponge and you are absorbing my words. You live the sort of life that is mediocre. You go to work and then you come home and you buy videos and watch them, jerking off to them in the process. What is there to your life other than doing as your told. You do this with your Goddesses, your boss, your co-workers, usw.. Your life is plain. SSDD. You don't do anything extraordinary. There's nothing else for you. No grand plan. No changing or fixing you. You're just here. You just live your life. Das ist es für Sie. =spoken in a low, normal voice=
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Anyway, it's Jeff Weaver (!) for St. Louis and Justin Verlander for Detroit, Game 5, World Series, 3-1 St. Louis lead. We won't believe this is all actually happening until we see it for ourselves.
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Rohde & Schwarz presents new vector network analyzer calibration equipment: the R&S ZN-Z32 and R&S ZN-Z33 inline calibration units. These calibration units are ideal for satellite component testing in thermal vacuum chambers (TVAC) and for multiport component testing on production lines.
Munich – Unlike conventional automatic network analyzer calibration units, the new R&S ZN-Z32/33 inline calibration units from Rohde & Schwarz are permanently connected to the test setup. This makes them an ideal solution for test setups that require frequent recalibration, especially where the test setup is inaccessible.
Easy calibration of DUT under vacuum conditions The new inline calibration units are the only solution available for testing in TVAC chambers where it is not possible to access the test set under vacuum conditions. After a basic calibration, carried out under ambient environmental conditions, the test set components are brought inside the TVAC before the vacuum is applied and testing starts. Once the vacuum is applied, recalibration is required after every temperature change due to thermal drift effects. With the calibration units in place and linked by a CAN bus, this recalibration can be easily performed.
Efficient multiport calibration for production tests For multiport applications that are typical in production testing, accuracy and reproducibility suffer due to limited phase stability when cables are moved. Repeated calibration with conventional equipment involves extra effort and wastes test time. In contrast, the R&S ZN-Z32/33 units allow calibration of a high number of test ports via a single keystroke in the control software tool, cutting recalibration time down to seconds. Users benefit from dramatically increased efficiency on the production line.
The R&S ZN-Z32 covers the frequency range from 10 MHz to 8.5 GHz and can be used in ambient conditions from +5 °C to +40 °C. The R&S ZN-Z33 covers the 10 MHz to 40 GHz range in ambient conditions from +5 °C to +40 °C or in TVAC conditions from –30 °C to +80 °C. The calibration units are controlled by an R&S ZN-Z30 CAN bus controller, which supports up to 48 units. With multiple controllers, a virtually unlimited number of inline calibration units, and therefore test ports, are supported. The R&S ZN-Z3ASW application software guides the operator through the system configuration and the calibration process.
The new R&S ZV-Z32/-Z33 inline calibration units, R&S ZN-Z30 CAN bus controller and R&S ZN-Z3ASW software are now available from Rohde & Schwarz and can be used with every R&S ZNB(T), R&S ZVA and R&S ZVT vector network analyzer.
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Today's challenging economy has faced many financial institutions, investors and owners with nonperforming or underperforming assets. The holders of these nonperforming assets are in immediate need of guidance that will address the workout, restructuring and recovery of distressed commercial real estate loans and assets.
"We have seen a shift in the real estate industry, where the primary stakeholders have moved from investors to creditors, debtors and trustees," says Randy Buddemeyer, managing director, asset services group, CB Richard Ellis Florida. "The needs of these clients are more urgent and require greater in-depth knowledge of all aspects of commercial real estate and lending. Professional guidance is essential if anyone is to see a positive outcome from the situations they are faced with."
Smart Business asked Buddemeyer to discuss how the influx of distressed assets is being dealt with by both property owners and their capital sources.
What defines a 'distressed asset'?
There are three types of distressed assets: assets in distress due to fundamental deterioration (reduction in net operating income due to weakening tenancies and/or increasing operating expenses); assets in distress due to capital markets constraints (fundamentally sound assets that are in distress due to the inability to refinance an asset when a loan comes due); and assets with some combination of the first two, which are often assets that are overleveraged at initial underwriting and fall into default due to a covenant default or the unwillingness on behalf of the developer to fund future capital commitments because the asset is deemed to be far too underwater from an equity standpoint to justify further investment.
Due to the combination of excess utilization of leverage, overly ambitious cap rates based on proforma NOI (net operating income) growth and the difficulty of renegotiating securitized loans, we have seen a rise in distressed properties and properties under foreclosure order.
What property types are distressed and where are they mostly located?
Distressed properties have already appeared in almost every significant commercial property market in the United States. The West has the largest value of both distressed and potentially troubled assets, and the Southeast contains the largest number of individual distressed properties.
Construction financing was the first and the hardest hit. Retail assets have the largest exposure of potentially troubled properties. Apartments, including failed condo conversions, have the largest number of potential troubled assets, and hotels could see the most dramatic increase in the coming months. Total inventory of distressed assets exceeds $106 billion and is growing rapidly.
How are distressed assets affecting those who invest in commercial real estate?
With the rise in foreclosures comes a swift change in property owner interest. When a lender forecloses on an asset, it assumes the property's debts. By contrast, when a court places a property in receivership, responsibility for the property's debts remains with the borrower. A court-appointed receiver is charged with taking guardianship of the asset's finances, property management and leasing. The receiver will either retain other specialists to handle these responsibilities or manage them on its own.
To effectively manage the role of receivership, several phases of the distressed asset's life cycle need to be addressed. For instance, restructuring services from a professional should include consultative recapitalization strategies, realistic market analytics and timelines, and exit strategies. As court-appointed receiver, the restructuring services provider will gain control of the asset, its cash flow and all related accounts and will advise in asset stabilization, like project management and development services along with transaction management.
The goal is to reposition the property for the highest and best use and then strategically position the troubled asset or loan through all phases of disposition through either increased steady-state operations or speed-to-sale. Each transition plan needs to be carefully tailored to stabilize asset value and to elevate service benefits and operational efficiencies. Without professional guidance, managing a distressed property can leave property owners, lenders and occupants of the property in great turmoil.
How is this translating into opportunity for investors?
We are seeing investors change in their analytical approach and decision-making regarding sound investments. This distressed asset can be a profitable new opportunity to a new investor who might not have previously considered this investment. It is not always the case that the property itself is performing poorly but that the borrower entered into financial terms that it is unable to sustain or has little potential for restructuring. Due to the change in core economic fundamentals, we will continue to see a change in the investor's approach to new opportunities and willingness to assume risk.
As stated by Anthony Buono, the executive managing director for CB Richard Ellis Retail Services: 'In five years we will look back to this period as the ideal time to have acquired core retail.' This is a statement that could most likely be applied to most property investment types.
Randy Buddemeyer is the managing director of the asset services group at CB Richard Ellis Florida. Reach him at (813) 273-8412 or [email protected].


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One mistake that many people make when they go to buy something expensive is that they look on the manufacturer's website for reviews. What they may not realize is that many of those reviews are filtered, and only the positive ones are allowed through.
They are far more likely to find unbiased reviews and a better review spread if they go to a website that specializes in reviews or guides for that particular product. That's just as true for tactical flashlights, as the market is big enough to support a number of sites dedicated to reviewing this product and similar ones for the outdoors enthusiast.
Sites like tactical flashlight reviews give consumers in-depth looks at the options that are available to them, covering most of the popular or well-reviewed tactical flashlights and other tactical equipment on the market today. Since they don't make any tactical equipment themselves, consumers know they can trust their reviews. They aren't in any way affiliated with tactical gear manufacturers, which means that their motives are not driven by sales. It's in their best interest to write unbiased reviews and not to pander to manufacturers by writing glowing reviews for products they can't stand behind.
Consumers would be wise to use multiple review sates and guide sites to find out which flashlight would be best for them. The more tactical flashlight reviews they read, the better idea they will have of how one flashlight compares to another and which one will be right for them. They shouldn't take the word of a single reviewer, but should instead source reviews for the products they are interested in and compare what the reviewers have written to come to their own conclusions.
After all, if they are shopping online, they won't have a chance to hold the flashlight in their hands before they buy it or otherwise try it out. They have to trust what others are saying about the item, so they should be doing their research and forming their own conclusions based on the information they have found.
It's a good idea to read at least three reviews about any given tactical flashlight before buying it. These are expensive flashlights after all, and they are meant to be an investment, which is why it is so important to take time and choose the right one.


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Communication Studies
A Master's degree can lead to doctoral or other professional education, or to advanced positions in business, public service, or government. The graduate program in Communication Studies is guided by two interrelated goals. First, that each student has the opportunity to study and conduct original communication research consistent with individual interests and abilities. Second, that each student develop and follow a coherent, rigorous plan of study within the field of communication. Accordingly, a structured advising procedure has been established in the Department to help accomplish these two goals (see "The Graduate Document," available from the Department, for details). As an integral part of a plan of study, each student will designate a series of courses to be completed for their degree with the assistance of their advisor and the approval of the Graduate Committee.
A statement outlining the logic of the chosen courses will be required and will be reviewed by the Graduate Committee. Areas of faculty expertise include (but are not limited to):
- Mediated Communication
- Organizational Communication
- Instructional Communication
- Rhetoric and Criticism
- Political Communication
- Intercultural/International Communication
- Social Interaction
As mentioned above, this program, culminating in the Master of Arts in Communication Studies, is designed for the student who subsequently will pursue a doctoral degree or a professional career. The program is NOT designed for students who wish to train in production or presentational skills which are taught at the undergraduate level in the Sacramento State Communication Studies Department.
Admission as a classified graduate student in Communication Studies requires:
- a 3.0 overall GPA or 3.25 GPA in the last 60 undergraduate units;
- a grade "B-" or better in COMS 167, COMS 168 or COMS 169; and COMS 170, COMS 171, or COMS 172 (or equivalent courses);
- a clearly written statement of purpose for pursuing this particular MA degree. This statement is part of the application to the graduate program and should explain the applicant's career and academic goals, specifying how the program will help to accomplish these goals, and explain the applicant's motivation for pursuing those goals;
- three letters of recommendation indicating the applicant's abilities and potential for completing graduate work successfully. These letters should assess at least the student's abilities to perform well in academic courses; to conduct research independently; to express ideas well in writing and orally; and to think critically, analytically, and creatively;
- Graduate Record Exam (GRE) verbal, quantitative, and analytical scores;
- an earned baccalaureate degree, and
- two examples of writing that indicate research, analytical, and/or creative abilities.
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Oh Lord have mercy--it only took me two weeks, but I am finally posting about our wonderfully fantastic cookie exchange of December 11. I have been off of work this past week and, whenever I'm not working, time kind of stops. That is, I have so little to do that I can't seem to do anything and so nothing gets done. It's very odd and disconcerting and scares the crap out of me but here we are! (I have no similar excuse for the week before last other than sheer laziness).
We had a wonderful get together, full of food, drink, white elephant gift exchanges and, of course, COOKIES!!!! Folks kindly brought appetizers and I know I am going to forget to list a whole bunch of them because I am lame for not posting. So, please post in the comments or edit this post to add what you brought. I seem to recall some fabulous onion dip from Mary S, veggies and dip from Cheryl, a Rice Krispie mix from Mary B, and oh crap! See? I can't remember what all else. So please help me out here, ladies! I made latkes, because it was the first night of Hanukkah. Actually, Mary B. saved me on that as she womanned the frying pan for me.
We may have had some alcoholic beverages as we ate. We then exchanged our "white elephant" gifts and there were some awesome gifts! I coveted Tricia's ice shaver and the cookbooks that folks got. However, I was quite happy with my egg whipper that I got from Nidhi. I've already used it a few times and it is great! (The pretty purple wrapping that it came in still lives on my stereo).
As always, the cookies were fantastic! Of course, I forget much of what was brought except that it was all delicious! We had gingerbread cookies, molasses cookies, Russian tea cakes, Oreo bastards (and their sisters Lemon Bastards and Nutter Butter bastards), chocolate crinkles, sort-of rugelach (that was mine...they only sort of turned out), iced sugar cookies, awesome cookies that had some sort of jam inside, awesome cookies that were extremely light and had some sort of chocolate between them, the official cookie of New Mexico, muffins (that were my breakfast at least one day), the lavendar cookies, the thumbprint cookies, cookies with sprinkles...ack! What else?? They were all fantastic...for real.
In fact, take a look at Kate's picture:
Here is the aftermath:
It was a great time and it was great to see old friends and new faces! Looking forward to our next adventure...and the third annual cookie exchange!
Friday, December 25, 2009
2nd Annual Cookie Exchange
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- DESS said...
merry christmas and happy new year
- December 25, 2009 at 7:09 PM
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Other standards that recommend EKOenergy
EKOenergy is renewable electricity. The label also proves that the electricity comes from power plants which fulfil extra sustainability criteria. And for each MWh sold, the seller pays at least €0.10 to the EKOenergy Climate fund, to finance new renewable energy installations.
Widely used standards, such as Greenhouse Gas Protocol and LEED, appreciate our approach and encourage consumers to buy electricity with the EKOenergy label.
LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is a rating system for the design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings, homes and neighbourhoods. It is developed and managed by the U.S. Green Building Council and is increasingly popular in Europe.
In most European countries, there is a national Green Building Council overviewing the implementation of the LEED Standard.
The European versions of the LEED Standard explicitly recommend the use of EKOenergy labelled electricity. Buildings aiming at LEED certification can get extra points if the electricity used in that building is EKOenergy certified.
The text LEED 2009 BD+C Supplemental Reference Guide with Alternative Compliance Paths for Europe gives EKOenergy the same status as Green-e certified RECs in the US. On page 82, we read "Within Europe, EKOenergy is considered an acceptable equivalent to the Green-e program for electricity. EKOenergy is a network of European environmental NGOs promoting the consumption and production of renewable electricity. The EKOenergy electricity certification scheme represents the best available pan-European option for the sustainable and additional consumption of renewable electricity within Europe. EKOenergy certifies renewable electricity that goes beyond the regulations of European directives and national governments of Europe."
The same is mentioned on page 37 of the standard for Existing Buildings – Operations and Maintenance Guide (EBOM).
Online course 'Green Power – buying renewable electricity for LEED and carbon accounting', on the website of Education@USGBC
Leaflet 'EKOenergy for LEED', with basic information for LEED certifiers (pdf, 2 pages, version June 2014)
Greenhouse Gas Protocol
See the Chapter on carbon footprinting.
CDP works with 3000 of the largest corporations in the world to help them calculate their carbon emissions and to help them develop effective carbon emission reduction strategies.
On page 15 and 16 of its technical notes for accounting of scope 2 emissions (i.e. emissions related to the production of purchased electricity), CDP explains how companies can do more.
"Ecolabels are a way for companies to do more with their purchases. EKOenergy, mentioned by the GHG protocol Scope 2 guidance, is such an option: it is a mark of quality which comes on top of tracking certificates. Electricity sold with the EKOenergy label fulfills strict environmental criteria and raises funds for new renewable energy projects. Involvement, transparency and 'deeds not words' are important principles of EKOenergy's work."
WWF Green Office
The WWF Green Office program recommends the purchase of ecolabelled green electricity. In most countries, EKOenergy is the only available ecolabel for electricity.


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Windows 8 has the ability to create a bootable USB flash recovery drive that can be used to troubleshoot a Windows 8 computer that is unable to start. A recovery drive is the same as a startup repair disk, but instead of being on a CD/DVD it is on a bootable USB drive. Once you boot up a Windows 8 computer with a Recovery Drive you will have access to a variety of diagnostic and troubleshooting utilities that can help resolve issues you may be having.
It should be noted that a recovery drive is not the same as a Windows 8 DVD and you cannot use it to install Windows 8. It is also important to create the recovery USB drive on the machine with the same bit-type as the one you need to repair. If you create the drive on a 32-bit machine you will only be able to repair 32-bit versions of Windows 8. The same goes for 64-bit versions of the recovery drive. Last, but not least, Windows 8 will format the USB flash drive that you use to create the recovery drive. Therefore, make sure you backup all your data before beginning this process.
To create the Recovery Drive, type Recovery Drive at the Windows 8 Start Screen. When the search results appear, click on the Settings category and then click on the Create a recovery drive option. This will display a User Account Control prompt, which you should click on Yes to continue. This will open the Recovery Drive program.
Make sure you have a USB flash drive that is at least 256MB inserted into the computer and then click on the Next button. You will now be presented with a screen where you will prompted to select the USB flash drive that you would like to use for the recovery drive.
Select the USB flash drive that you wish to use and then click on the Next button. You will now be shown a warning stating that your USB flash drive will be erased.
If you are ready, click on the Create button and Windows will turn your USB flash drive into a bootable recovery drive.
When it done you will be shown a screen that states that the recovery drive has been created.
You can now remove the flash drive and store it in a safe place.
In the future if you need to use the recovery drive to start Windows, you can insert it into a Windows 8 machine and boot off of it. If you are unable to to boot off the USB drive then you will need to go into your BIOS and enable it as the first boot device. Once your computer starts booting up off the USB Recovery Drive, you will be presented with a screen asking what keyboard layout you would like to use.
Select the keyboard layout you wish to use by left-clicking on it once. You will now be at a screen where you can choose an option to perform.
You can either choose to Continue booting Windows 8, Turn off your PC, or use a variety of tools to Troubleshoot your Windows 8 installation. As you most likely are using the recovery drive because Windows 8 is not starting correctly, click on the Troubleshoot option. This will open the Troubleshoot screen that contains various tools that you can use to repair Windows 8.
The Refresh your PC option allows you to reinstall Windows 8 while retaining your data. More information about this process can be found in this tutorial:
How to reinstall Windows 8 while keeping your data using Refresh your PC
The Reset your PC options will perform a clean install of Windows 8 on your computer. This option will remove all the data on your computer, so please be sure to backup your data before performing this option. More information about the reset process can be found here:
How to perform a clean install of Windows 8 using Reset your PC
If you click on the Advanced options choice a new screen will open that contains other tools that you can use to troubleshoot Windows 8.
The tools on this screen allow you to perform a variety of diagnostic and repair processes on your computer. These options are described below.
System Restore
This option allows you to use System Restore to restore your computer back to a state when it was working properly. For more information about this process, please see this tutorial:
How to use System Restore from the Windows 8 Recovery Environment
System Image Recovery
This option allows you to restore a system image that you may have created in the past. For more information about System Image Recovery, please see this tutorial:
How to use System Image Recovery in the Windows 7 and Windows 8 Recovery Environment
Automatic Repair
Automatic Repair tries to automatically detect and fix problems that may cause Windows 8 not to start. For more information on how to perform this procedure, please see this tutorial:
How to automatically repair Windows 8 using Automatic Repair
Command Prompt
The Recovery Command Prompt is a very powerful tool that provides access to your file system as well as a variety of repair tools. For more information on how to use the Windows 8 Recovery Command Prompt, please see this tutorial:
How to use the Windows 8 System Recovery Environment Command Prompt
When you are done using one of these tools, you will automatically be back at the Choose an option screen where you can continue to use these tools or continue to boot to Windows 8.
If you have any questions about this process, please ask in the Windows 8 Forum.
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