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There are two ways you can go about converting your website to mobile: add a responsive layout or create a separate website. Each choice has pros and cons that need to be carefully evaluated in order to avoid overhead costs and headaches. Creating a separate website is going to be easier, but a responsive layout might be the better choice.
How to do the conversion
The biggest difference between a desktop computer and a mobile device is screen size. To convert a website to mobile you need to change how the website looks on small screen sizes. You want to trim some content, by showing to your mobile users only the most important parts of the website. You also want to make your images smaller in order to increase the speed of your website (since a lot of mobile phones do not always have a fast internet connection).
You can choose one of two ways to convert a website to mobile:
- Use a responsive layout approach. This is simply a modification of your existing website to support different screen sizes, smaller images and display fewer content. The website will "change" its look depending on the size of the screen that it's currently viewed on.
- Create a separate website specifically for mobile users. This is an entirely separate website and users are redirected to it if they are using a mobile device.
Here are the differences:
|Responsive layout
|You keep a single website. You don't have to worry about consistency issues between the desktop and mobile version when adding a new page or new content.
|Making a unified experience for both mobile and desktop users can be challenging. For some websites it's not even an option. Since a full version of the website is always sent through the internet, certain speed optimizations can be difficult or impossible.
|Separate website
|You can tailor the mobile experience of your users without ties to the desktop version. Sometimes users on mobile devices want to accomplish different tasks compared to desktop users. For example, on a bank website users are unlikely to start a loan application. It's more likely that they want to check their account balance.
|You now have to deal with two separate websites. If you update one, you have to make sure that the content is consistent in the other.
Can I do it myself?
It depends on your skills and your approach, but yes, there are some ways you can do it yourself. Let's see the two cases:
Case 1. Responsive layout
A responsive layout is achieved by using targeted media queries. These queries allow the website to change its look depending on the size of the screen. You will need to know how to use CSS, HTML and sometimes little bit of JavaScript.
Let's make an example:
You have your desktop website, which features a side menu and a main content area. This works fine on your large desktop screen, and perhaps even on your tablet. What about on a mobile screen? So you decide the setup your responsive layout using the following rules:
- When using a desktop or tablet, show the side menu.
- When using a phone, hide the side menu and show a button to expand the menu upon request.
You would have something like this in your HTML:

Here is my awesome side menu

<button id="show-menu-button">Show Menu</button>
And you would create media queries as follow:
/* Default */
display: none;
/* Phone portrait */
@media only screen and (max-width: 481px){
display: none;
display: block;
Note the max-width expression. That translates in "when the maximum width of the screen is 481 pixels (a common size for phones held in landscape orientation), apply the rules contained within the brackets".
For more in targeted media queries, here's a good technical introduction.
In addition to the responsive layout, you will want to have a mechanism to serve smaller images to mobile users. See jQueryPicture.
Case 2. Separate website
If you do not know how to code and you want to get started quickly, I recommend trying a mobile website builder. They will take your existing desktop website and attempt to generate a mobile version that you can tweak to your liking. You will have to pay some fees for the service, however. Here's a quick list of them:
- www.dudamobile.com
- www.weebly.com
- www.strikingly.com
- www.gomobi.info
- www.activemobi.com
- www.mobdis.com
- www.zoho.com
On the other hand, if you are comfortable with CSS, HTML and JavaScript, there are many frameworks out there that can greatly facilitate your task of creating a mobile website. Some of my favorites are Bootstrap and Foundation.
Keep in mind these rules when building a mobile website:
- Design with a user-centered approach. How are users going to interact with the mobile website? What's important to them? Do not assume that users will interact with your mobile version the same way they interact with the desktop version.
- Always include a link to switch between mobile and desktop site. By convention, the link should be placed at the bottom of the page.
- Trim, trim and trim some more. If you have a lot of content, collapse it or hide it entirely. See how Wikipedia does it (open the link on a mobile device).
- Make your mobile website available as a subdomain. By convention, you should use the "m" subdomain, like in m.myawesomecompany.com.
The benefits of converting to mobile
Since the beginning of 2014, the number of mobile internet users has surpassed that of desktop users.
- If your website doesn't display nicely on mobile, you are giving a sub-par experience to more than half of your users.
- You are also penalized in terms of ranking on search engines. When people search from their phones and tablets, search engines know which websites provide a mobile-ready experience and tend to rank those websites higher than those who don't provide mobile-readiness. This has been confirmed by Google.
Re-design or convert?
Depending on the existing layout of your website, one thing that you might want to consider is to simply have your website re-designed from scratch. There are some layouts that are particularly difficult to adapt to mobile, and in those cases, the cost of a conversion can cost just as much as a new design. In that case, you might want to simply take the opportunity to refresh the look of your website by having it re-designed.
Especially if you are on a budget, make sure you don't get sold a new re-design when all you really needed was a simple conversion! A lot of companies out there would love to make the most money by suggesting you that the website has to be re-designed from scratch! Ask multiple opinions and decide accordingly.
Do I need separate versions for Android, iOS, etc.?
Generally a website that is properly designed to work well on modern mobile devices will not need to be adjusted for different platforms. So no, you will not need separate versions.
What About Fonts?
While mobile users might benefit from a more "mobile friendly" font face like Droid Sans, usually a unified font face between your desktop site and your mobile site will be a better option. The one thing you should care about is the font size. On mobile you might want to use bigger font sizes to make up for the smaller display.
Optimize Google AdSense
If your site displays Google AdSense advertisements, make sure that Google is serving you ads that display nicely on mobile (banner size of 320×50 usually works best). If not, you will have to generate new code snippets from the Google AdSense console for your mobile site.
How much would it cost to have a professional do it?
It depends on the website. Adding a custom responsive layout to an existing website can cost anything from $950 to $10,000+. Certain layouts are easy to scale down, like a grid layout with little or no graphic elements. Others, like fixed layouts with pixel perfect graphics require more work. So it is essential to examine the existing website in order to provide an accurate estimate.
Ask for an estimate
Simply send the URL of your existing website. It should be sufficient for a company to provide you with a preliminary estimate and give you an idea of the price range. Make sure you specify which approach you are interested in using: responsive layout or a separate website.
Remember the pros and cons of a responsive layout vs. a separate website. The wrong choice could lead to unnecessary costs and headaches. If you don't know which approach would work best, ask the professional!
Get in touch
At MasseranoLabs we specialize in website conversion to mobile, and we are always looking for new exciting work. We have been designing and coding mobile websites from scratch since 2009. Feel free to ask us for an estimate and we'll get back to you as soon as possible!


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3D Stock modelling
The 3D rappresentation is the effective result of all toolpath movements applied to the stock model.
Fast Shapes
Is possible define the most common and recurrent geometry profile by just insert some parameters.
Create slot, slot d on circle, text , regular polygons and much more without touching any cad tool.
The purpose of TIMELINE feature is too see at glance , what operations are taking most of the machining time.
Every operation has a different colour , if you hover it with mouse cursor you can see the related operation in the viewport.
Setup Sheet
Create documentation for the shop floor with a click.
Containing all the information to setup the cnc machine . The setup sheet is an html file, so you can view it through your internal company LAN.
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You can control the animation speed . It shows the current position and the current values of feed and speed.
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Check tool rapid collision and see the effective result of the tool movements on the stock.
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Facial recognition software is virtually inescapable.
The technology has become a critical tool for government agencies and law enforcement. The Trump administration recently announced an expansion of the technology's use in airports for international travelers and along the border using drones. Some local police departments already use facial recognition technology, and the feature is expected to be added to body cameras. Even consumer electronics companies are building facial recognition into everything from smartphones to video games.
As facial recognition software continues to expand into our daily lives—major retailers use the technology to measure customers' happiness—so to does the need for a privacy solution.
Since you can't change your facial structure quite as easily as a password, the startup D-ID — short for "de-identification" — offers a solution if your facial data is ever compromised.
The company promises a "firewall for your identity" using tools that scramble image data so that facial recognition software detect a likeness to the original image rather than the exact one.
The company was founded in 2016 by three former Israeli military special forces and intelligence officers who had to be mindful of facial recognition software when photo-sharing first became popularized 10 years ago, TechCrunch reported.
"We couldn't share our photos and profiles over the web because of sensitive positions. Even after we finished our service, we couldn't share our photos when we traveled in South America," D-ID's CEO Gil Perry told TechCrunch.
"Now everyone needs to be aware of it. Streets today are covered by cameras, we all carry smartphones. We are being photographed all the time. When you combine all the cameras and face recognition technology, privacy is actually gone."
D-ID's technology makes it so that the image facial recognition software reads and stores isn't an exact replica of an individual's face, just similar. That way, if the data is ever compromised, a person's true face and identity is still private. According to the company's website, "once an image or video has been secured with D-ID's solution, protection is complete. The image's new version becomes the permanent, irreversible one, while maintaining visual similarity to the human eye."
Facial recognition software is controversial because of its imperfections and its tendency to be used on people without them being aware. The technology is prone to false positives and, thanks to the limits of cameras and image processors, disproportionately implicate people of color because of the software fails to accurately detect facial features on darker skin complexions.
Those problems have broad implications as law enforcement agencies increasingly use the technology. About half of all Americans are included in law enforcement databases, even if they don't have a criminal history. Facial recognition carries a 15 percent error rate.
There also very few guidelines in place to protect individuals' data. The lack of protections has led to legal challenges. In Jacksonville, Florida, Willie Allen Lynch, who was arrested for drug dealing after undercover officers took a photo of him last year, challenged the sheriff department's use of the technology in court. The case exposed the Jacksonville Sheriff Department for relying on the technology when making arrests without disclosing it. In Lynch's case, the department said it manually picked the photo from a line-up.
Law enforcement agencies have used facial recognition technology to scan crowds of protesters and individuals without reasonable suspicion, much like license plate scanners. (These indiscriminate scanners were in the news earlier this month after Florida State Attorney Aramis Ayala was pulled over in Orlando after a police officer scanned her plates. When she asked what the reason for the stop was, the officer replied, "oh, we run tags all the time.")
This catchall approach to gathering data has recently extended to border security, as the Department of Homeland Security rolls out the tech in airports across the country. When citizens raised concerns about the program, the agency said those worried about privacy and facial scans should "refrain from traveling," ZDNet reported.
Some locales have offered stiffer resistance to the technology. Biometric programs are being disbanded because of their overly broad use in places like Vermont, where the Attorney General deemed the state's Department of Motor Vehicles' use of facial recognition software illegal and suspended the program indefinitely.
"We concluded that the facial recognition program used by the Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles is not fully compliant with Vermont law and should remain suspended until the Vermont legislature provides specific authorization for DMV to use biometrics," Attorney General T.J. Donovan told NPR's Vermont affiliate.
The review found that the DMV database directly violated a state law that prohibits the agency's use of biometric data. The Attorney General also found the database was disproportionately used to search for individuals of color.


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Chugai began in 1925 when Juzo Ueno founded Chugai Shinyaku Shokai, a pharmaceutical importer. Anguished by the tragedy of the Great Kanto Earthquake, Mr. Ueno adopted a mission: "Creating drugs that benefit the world." That determination spurred him onward.
March 1925
A Wish to Expand Overseas Incorporated in the Company Name
In March 1925, two years after the Great Kanto Earthquake, Juzo Ueno established an import agent for products from the German pharmaceutical company Gehe. Mr. Ueno named the company Chugai Shinyaku Shokai, with the ambition not simply to distribute high-quality pharmaceuticals from overseas throughout Japan, but eventually to provide Japanese pharmaceuticals overseas as well. (Chu-gai means, "in" and "out.") At the time, Mr. Ueno was 32 years old and began operations with seven employees.
December 1937
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Since the Meiji Era, many people had suffered from tuberculosis in Japan. In 1930, at a time when Japan still lacked the technology to manufacture tuberculosis treatments, Chugai developed Salsobrocanon, an analgesic, antiphlogistic and antipyretic. When supply of its raw material calcium bromide, which depended on imports, became difficult following the Manchurian Incident in 1931, Mr. Ueno led efforts to develop the material, and succeeded in producing calcium bromide in-house in 1937.
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Products from Swiss-based pharmaceutical company Roche, first arrived in Japan in 1904. Faced with poor sales from consignments through trading companies, Roche decided to begin direct sales, and dispatched Rudolf Ebeling, a surgeon, to Japan. Dr. Ebeling employed Shohei Ninomiya, a pharmacist who was trained in medicine and fluent in German. Mr. Ninomiya thus became the first forerunner of what are now called medical representatives (MRs).


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Dropping anchor on Phuket
By Jules Kay
In the last 10 years Phuket has developed into one of the world's top yachting destinations. Sailing holidays are now a popular choice for visitors from around the world, whether arriving on their own private boats or chartering vessels from one of the island's marinas to explore the beauty of the dramatic Andaman Coast and experience the many deserted offshore islands from a unique, personal perspective.
Phuket's four full service marinas are busy for most of the year with berths booked well in advance and boating enthusiasts blowing through in large numbers during the high season. The marinas vary is terms of size and facilities, some catering more to recreational sailing enthusiasts, others focusing on luxury onshore amenities. Superyachts up to 60 metres in length can now regularly be seen filling Phuket's private berths and the range of services and facilities on offer to these floating palaces is expanding all the time.
Phuket Lifestyle Marinas
Boat Lagoon was the first full service marina to be built on Phuket some 15 years ago and has since developed into a self contained waterfront community complete with apartments, villas and a range of dining and entertainment options. Ideally situated on the east coast of the island just 20km from the airport, the marina offers berths for 180 boats. Onsite amenities for visiting yachts include a high pressure washing service, fuel delivery, shoreside electricity, water and wireless internet. The marina also offers a choice of dining options, including the award winning Watermark Restaurant, while for the more active, Boat Fitness Gym is well equipped and also offers yoga or martial arts classes, while tennis lovers can avail themselves of the onsite courts and those in need of down time can spend a lazy day basking in the hotel's free form pool or jacuzzi, while the children play in the kids zone or games room.
Almost next door to Boat Lagoon, Phuket Royal Marina is an award winning high-end lifestyle marina that combines sailing, sports and leisure with luxury residences and top brand dining and shopping facilities. The marina can accommodate 81 vessels from 10 metres to 35 metres and the serviced berths are complemented by a fuel dock and sewage pump out service. The Boardwalk at RPM offers a range of shopping, dining choices with gourmet restaurants and specialty stores, boating services, water sports equipment. Royal Phuket Marina is also offers a choice of super luxury residences for wealthy investors. Contemporary designs include a range of unique features including private swimming pools, rooftop gardens and Jacuzzis. The marina's unique penthouse 'Aquaminiums' even come with their own private basement yacht berth and entertainment lounge with pull down movie screen.
More modest in terms of luxurious amenities, but very popular with the global sailing community, Yacht Haven Marina on Phuket's northeast coast offers extensive shoreside facilities and deep water access with a capacity of 300 vessels plus alongside dockage for 30 superyachts measuring 80 ft. The marina overlooks Phang Nga Bay and enjoys fresh sea breezes throughout the year. Standard berthing facilities include shoreside electricity and water, fuel delivery and 24-hour security, with additional benefits such as phone lines at selected docks, a good restaurant and the popular Living Room coffee shop, which provides a pleasant dockside gathering point. On the practical side, there's also a chandlery with mechanics, electricians, woodworkers and dayworkers available, as well as care-taking and yacht management services. One of the features that helps makes Yacht Haven stand out from other marinas is a relaxed, personable approach. Marina managers Nick and Zara Wyatt are always available to provide help and advice to owners and crew and have become something of a local legend in the regional yachting fraternity.
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The promotional video entitled The Great Escape for Mango's Fall 2011 collection features Kate Moss and Terry Richardson on the run in a van racing through iconic locations of Paris such as the Mini Palais, Place de la Concorde, Place de l'Alma, Champs Elysées and the Centre Pompidou. And yes they are wearing a mask with Terry's face on it (say what?). The final scene -sees them arriving at their destination- was shot and broadcast live during the Mango Fall/Winter 2011 fashion show at the Centre Pompidou last month.
Mango Fall/Winter 2011 fashion show final walkthrough.
'Working with Mango was incredible, as was working with Terry Richardson. I loved working with him in the video. It was fantastic both of us being in front of the camera, it's a completely different sensation. I loved not being alone and having somebody to share ideas with.' -Kate Moss
I think this was easy money in the bank for Kate and Terry. I totally don't get the concept of the video, and the collection was only seen briefly, too briefly. With that being said, I think incorporating fashion with video is a lot harder than it seems. First of all, you got to have a clear concept, a good one and then find the perfect scenes to showcase the collection because let's face it, it has always been about the clothes. Easy? What do you think? All glitz and no substance.
This was probably one of the worst videos I've seen ever. The concept and collection must go hand in hand and this one was way off. Kate Moss? Terry Richardson of all people? I mean at least the leading role should have gone to the face of Mango, no? Scarlett Johansson if I'm correct. It's just common sense. And for the record, Terry didn't have to be in it. Maybe Mango needs a shakeup in their creative direction.
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Though the real estate industry is full of business opportunities, very few people succeed to embrace these opportunities and turn them into a successful business. You will come across a profusion of realtors and real estate companies in Greater Los Angeles but very few of them are actually capable of surviving in the competition. Sillemon Group is one of the realtors who has attained great success in their career and is now known as one of the successful entrepreneurs. Starting his career as a realtor to becoming an entrepreneur, Lee has gained enormous experience throughout his journey.
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A quarter century after the collapse of the USSR, the NATO alliance not only survives, it thrives, continuing to expand, participating in wars, and boosting its presence in Eastern Europe. Explaining the alliance's contemporary raison d'être, Professor Joan Roelofs says that European nations have been captured by the US military-industrial complex.
In her article, published by the US monthly magazine CounterPunch, Roelofs, a professor emerita of political science at New Hampshire's Keene State College, suggests that that many questions surrounding the North Atlantic Alliance as an institution, including its true purpose, and the sovereignty of its European members, 'remain in the shadows'.
Roelof's questions, and the conclusions she reaches, may be controversial, but they are not without merit. NATO, she points out, "is not an egalitarian organization," with "the United States dominat[ing] every aspect of it. Are these supposedly social democratic [Western European] countries really democracies, or are they banana republics? The traditional banana republic has democratic institutions, but is controlled by military and financial elites which are vassals of the United States." The same, she suggests, may be true of the Old Continent's NATO members.
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Officially, Roelof recalls, NATO is a 28-member defensive alliance charged with defending one another on the basis of the NATO Charter, whose Article 5 states that "an armed attack against one or more [member] shall be considered an attack against them all."
"However," in practice, she suggests, "NATO is a vast empire with an expanding group of full members, plus networks, partnerships, associates, and guests."
This includes the so-called Partnership for Peace (PfP), a 22-member program of cooperation with Europe's non-NATO countries, plus the former Soviet republics in the Caucasus and Central Asia. "These nations choose from a 'menu' how far they want to go with NATO. Options include joint missions, combatting terrorism, crisis response in the NATO Reaction Force (NRF), controlling mines and small arms, disaster rescue, war games, and scientific cooperation."
Cooperative Bridge 94 was #NATO's 1st Partnership for Peace Training Exercise #alliedstrong #ukraine #poland #czech pic.twitter.com/uEGN3J3EIh
— EU today (@EU_today) January 5, 2016
"PfP members aspiring to full membership," the political scientist notes, "must have: weapons interoperability (e.g., Eastern European countries had to get rid of Russian and old Warsaw Pact arms in favor of Western ones), increase military spending to 2% of GDP, purge 'politically unreliable' personnel from military, defense and security posts, train abroad in NATO military academies, host military exercises, and instruct the officer corps in English for joint overseas operations."
Other NATO associates include the 7-member 'Mediterranean Dialogue' countries in North Africa and the Middle East, the 4-member 'Gulf Cooperation Council' of Persian Gulf countries, individual cooperation agreements with Afghanistan, Australia, Iraq, Japan, Pakistan, South Korea, New Zealand, and Mongolia, and informal cooperation with Colombia, Honduras, and El Salvador.
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— Oana Lungescu (@NATOpress) September 18, 2015
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— NATOSource (@NATOSource) October 29, 2015
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The alliance's 'out of area' operations, Roelof recalls, "have been multilateral, with willing participation of NATO members. The official military operations have been in Bosnia (1992-1994), Serbia and Kosovo (1999-present), Afghanistan (2001-present), counter-piracy off the coast of Somalia (2008-present), Libya (2011), [and] Turkey defense (2012-present)."
In effect, "NATO [has] created a global army; the war in Afghanistan was fought by the largest military coalition in history. Finnish and Swedish troops (not full members) have died there…The defeated countries of World War II, which had constitutional provisions and laws against offensive military activity, including sending troops abroad, were also there. Italy and Germany sent troops and Japan provided support activities."
Rebranding From a War Machine to an 'Organization of Democratic Nations'
NATO, Roelof notes, has downplayed "its military nature and claims that it is simply the 'premier organization of democratic nations'. This claim was part of the inducement for Eastern European countries to join. The new idea of both the US military and NATO is that security is no longer a territorial issue…Any policy of any nation anywhere in the world, concerning economics, human rights, the environment, secession movements, etc., may be a cause of terrorism or create an external threat that needs to be thwarted in advance, by NATO."
Italian personnel from EU Training Mission train Malian Armed Forces against terrorism #EUTM https://t.co/7KtQrRbcWb pic.twitter.com/IYVokeae2s
— Italy at NATO (@ItalyatNATO) January 27, 2016
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Furthermore, "NATO is closely connected to military, political, scientific and corporate elites. Europe now has a huge military-industrial complex. BAE Systems, the largest military firm, is British owned, and has factories in New Hampshire, US, and many other places. The major Italian arms manufacturer Finmeccanica and the French Thales are heavily government-supported. EADS is a conglomerate headquartered in the Netherlands, with subsidiaries in France, Germany and Spain…Sweden also has a significant high-tech military industry."
"The European Union," Roelof emphasizes, is "closely enmeshed with NATO. During its formative period, the original nations sent NATO ambassadors to Paris, its early headquarters. They developed a pro-NATO view which often [clashed] with their governments. Currently, the EU executive and NATO both have headquarters in Brussels."
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— Michael Voolaid (@michaelvoolaid) November 18, 2015
Grants, Education, Training & Bases: The Weapons of Influence of the 21st Century
NATO's massive new headquarters, the political scientist suggests, is entirely "suitable for a global empire."
"Among [the alliance's] diverse activities are grants for many types of science research…Now that everything affects security, NATO sponsors research in [fields as diverse as] women's reproductive choices, sustainable development, leather tanning effluent toxicity, landscape architecture, and stained glass preservations. Many projects are conducted jointly by teams including NATO member and PfP nationals, facilitating the mentoring of initiates.
Furthermore, "economic, political, educational and social activities" are meant to "give NATO a friendly face," with the alliance offering internships in Brussels to students of political science, security studies, engineering, IT, and journalism, among other fields. "It gives grants to environmental and other organizations just like a philanthropic foundation. On the other hand, citizens who protest the 'out of area' aggressions are often branded as extremists or simply ignored."
The alliance's training, of course, also includes "massive war games, in which all members and many partners participate. For example, in 2013, 'Steadfast Jazz', a live-fire exercise, included partners Ukraine, Finland, and Sweden."
With NATO members' soldiers trained at a broad network of institutions, colleges and universities across Europe and the United States, Roelof highlights that some of these institutions "[educate] civilian leaders and potential leaders as well as military personnel."
"The US Department of Defense/State Department joint report to Congress for 2014 states that 52,600 people from 155 nations were trained – but this does not include NATO members, Australia, Japan, or New Zealand, because they are not required for the report."
Effectively, the professor suggests, NATO-funded and supported educational programs have captured students from most of the world. "The relationships acquired through training, conferences, seminars and joint exercises are a source of considerable power, as these experiences help younger people to move up the ladder to civilian and military leadership in their countries."
Finally, Roelof notes, "bases are also a source of influence. At one time there were more than 800 in Europe; now it is estimated that there are about 350…Everywhere, bases generate economic activity and also enable surveillance and influence," as explained in Catherine Lutz's The Bases of Empire.
To Understand NATO Today, It's Necessary to Know Its Origins
Conceptually, Roelof explains, NATO sprang from the idea, formed in the late 1940s, "that the Soviet Union was poised to invade Western Europe," and was disseminated with the aid of the newly formed CIA, the FBI, and various foreign intelligence services.
With much of the foreign press becoming involved, "the CIA and private foundations [also] created new publications, such as Encounter Magazine in London, and others in France, Italy, Germany and elsewhere. Conferences, such as those of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, were held to lure European intellectuals away from socialist and pacifist ideologies."
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Christian Democratic parties, "bulwarks against communism and prime advocates of the 'Atlantic alliance'," sprang up out of nowhere in many countries, "[becoming] governing parties, with an especially strong hold in Italy. The massive CIA funding to defeat the Italian Communist Party is well documented; there is evidence that similar activities were in place elsewhere in Europe."
Additionally, in the early days after WWII, "there was fear that Germany might develop an independent military, so embedding any future German army in a US-led coalition was reassuring."
Throughout the Cold War and in its aftermath Roelof recalls, NATO's organizational and operational secrecy has often kept important information not only outside the view of ordinary citizens, but even of member countries' democratically-elected representatives.
"When information came out about the secret 'Gladio' armies, about the thousands of nuclear weapons formerly and some still in Europe, nuclear waste dumps, and testing and use of DU [Depleted Uranium] weapons, it became clear that crucial NATO activities are unknown not only to the ordinary citizen, but also to parliamentary representatives and even prime ministers, if they are not part of the inner circle," the professor noted.
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Ultimately, Roelof notes, the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union in the early 1990s led many to believe that NATO had become an obsolete institution, with the attacks of 9/11, the US-led invasion of Iraq, the NATO campaign in Afghanistan and recent counterterrorism efforts seeing public support for the alliance swing up and down.
However, what many observers seem to miss, the professor suggests, is that perhaps more than anything, NATO is an organization charged with maintaining US control over the European continent.
"In the classical 'banana republic'," Roelof writes, "the United States controls crucial foreign and/or domestic policies of another nation through ties with its military and intelligence institutions. Only now, there is resistance in the lands where bananas [figuratively] grow, while 'social democratic', 'neutral', and reputedly 'pacifist' countries of Western Europe are slipping into bananazation."
And unfortunately, while "ordinary citizens [may] have strong anti-war feelings and continue protesting…the military, political and corporate elites of Europe have increasingly become dependents or confederates of the US military-industrial complex," the political scientist concludes.


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Jumeirah Group will bring its luxury hospitality experience to the third and final tower within the Marina Gate development under its Jumeirah Living brand. The design-led luxurious living destination will include 104 serviced apartments, 389 branded residences and 15 villas and will offer an exclusive range of facilities and amenities including a temperature controlled infinity pool, a dual-level gymnasium, residents' lounge and business centre.
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This July as part of the European-funded Open Out Arts project , of which Theatre Bristol is a partner member, two Bristol companies, Pangottic Circus Theatre and Search Party, had the opportunity to present shows at Les Tonnerres de Brest, in Brittany, France.
So there's this man… Immo. He's from Germany. He's really funny. He can juggle five ping pong balls in his mouth (into a head wind), memorize a list of twenty words almost instantly, make us think he's smashed an unsuspecting Frenchman's watch into tiny pieces, juggle with fire atop of a six foot unicycle, all whilst being utterly charming, funny, likable, witty, and spontaneous. And he's next to this other man who has built a life-size, remote controlled, fire breathing horse called 'Rusty' – the horse, not the man (he's called Paka). Next to them are Tina and Ken; they can perform death-defying acts of aerial acrobatics, swinging on a trapeze, whilst cracking jokes with smiles on their muscular faces. Oh, and Tina can hula-hoop with what looks like just the fifty hoops. And of course there's this handsome, French speaking American, dressed as a crow, who is seamlessly fired twenty feet in the air out of a cannon during an hour-long, anarchic musical extravaganza.
I'm in Brest, performing Search Party's durational semaphore conversation Save Me at what I'm told is the biggest maritime festival in Europe. We've performed outside the UK on many occasions, we've recently performed this show outside the UK, a task made ever so slightly more complex by the need to translate our words into other languages, but this feels different. As a result of Theatre Bristol's participation in a European project called Open Out Arts, we've been curated within a 'street arts' context – a first for us. We're working with Le Fourneau, one of nine regional centres for street arts in France, and I get the impression that having artists like us is a bit new for them as well.
What do I mean 'artists like us'? Are we so different? And if so how and why? For me, there are clues are in the language. Upon a quick re-read of our contract (written in French) I notice how our work is described. The front page of the contract reads 'Titre du spectacle – SAVE ME'. It's this word 'spectacle' that stands out. In French, I'm told it just means 'show' or 'performance' – the thing that we do that other people watch. But for me it comes loaded with uneasy connotations.
Thinking back to my new friends Immo, Paka, Tina & Ken and the crow – their acts are fundamentally and unashamedly engineered around the spectacular. They most definitely have the 'wow' factor – and I mean that with all sincerity; on several occasions, even on second viewing these shows make me audibly gasp with delight. To my untrained eye I feel like I am watching virtuosic performers, at the peak of their powers, display their skills for me to enjoy.
In these 'spectacles', the thing that I see is the virtuosic. This is where the uneasy relationship between Search Party's work and this festival is manifested. I want to make it abundantly clear that I'm not trying to place any negative value on the virtuosity of these shows, the opposite in fact – but simply identify this key difference in approach, and what the implications of that may be for the presentation of our (and other experimental) work in these contexts. Neither am I trying to present some kind of exclusive, us and them culture, there are many similarities between our approach and that of my new friends, not least a studious attention to detail, a clarity of aesthetic and obvious care for the watcher. Clearly there is an audience for these more traditionally spectacular street performances (I'm gladly one of them), as there is for Search Party's work – but is it the same audience and what happens when we're on the same street?
Search Party's work, Save Me especially, is purposefully approached with a low-key sense of virtuosity. The 'skill' is not the thing that you're watching. In fact we try to down play any sense of virtuosity, a conscious strategy to bridge the gap between performer and spectator, we're not so different from you – and that feels important. Don't get me wrong, I think we're good at what we do, but that skill isn't on display, it doesn't separate us from our audience, separating the 'cans' from the 'cannots'. I can't juggle ping-pong balls from my mouth, I can't dangle precariously from a trapeze, I can't ride a motorized fire-breathing horse and I most definitely cannot fly out of a cannon dressed as a crow. But therein lies the joy in witnessing these feats of excellence. So, extra-daily are these feats that they come with either an implicit or often explicit 'don't try this at home' caveat. Whereas, for us the whole premise of Save Me is structured around a 'do try this at home', in fact try it here, try it now, here's a semaphore alphabet, it only takes a little bit of practice and while you're at it, why don't you write the text for the show as well, here's a little yellow tag and a biro. So it seems as if we're asking for something very different from our audience, and in this context, we seem to be the only ones who are asking for something very different – which feels both exciting and a little tricky.
On our last night in France, as we're saying goodbye, Jeremy – the charming, articulate, experienced stage manager strikes up a conversation with me (in English) questioning some aspects of our performance. He's concerned that the audience don't know what to do, don't know how to behave, and don't know how to watch. It's a rare and welcome conversation (maybe an inherent nervousness of plagiarism in the street arts restricts these conversations), but badly timed – I'm leaving and I could talk about this all night. I want to tell him that that's ok. That's kind of what we want, audiences that don't feel like audiences, audiences that don't 'behave' like audiences, audiences that have to renegotiate their own relationship to this performative offer as a fundamental part of their experience of it. It's a conversation I've not had to have for a long time. When we're within Home Live Art's alternative village fete, or Forest Fringe's compilation of disparate experiences, or experimental festivals like Wunderbar or Mayfest these principles are taken for granted. But, my demi-conversation with Jeremy, and my experience of this festival in general, remind me of those unspoken contracts we make with ourselves about how, why and what, as artists, we choose to make. And any experience that challenges these core principles, shifts them, or brings them back into focus, is for me, extremely valuable.
Now I'm back in England. Immo, Paka, Tina & Ken and the handsome crow are still on the busy street arts summer circuit. And I know the question that Theatre Bristol are going to ask me; does Search Party's work feel appropriate for the street arts sector? Firstly, it's much better for me to say 'yes', I (like any artist/maker) am constantly looking for new opportunities to show my work (it is a 'job' after all). And I think it does. The length of the work engages with the fluctuating and sprawling nature of outdoor audiences, the piece provides an interesting contrast to the high impact, high octane, spectacles also on show, you're asked to engage with the work in a different rhythm, with a different part of yourself. But, being the only diversion from an established and accepted norm, can feel isolating and vulnerable. As is often the case, the conversation is probably the most important thing, the one between us and the festival – the 'this is what we do, is this what you want' conversation. And perhaps, in my limited experience, there appears to be a little bit of an 'off the shelf' culture in the outdoor arts – which I suppose is fine if your work is on the shelf in the first place, but if, like Le Fourneau, you're keen to experiment with different types of performance that takes place outdoors a slightly more bespoke approach is required. We've always found it hard to describe what it is we do, we can do it, it takes a bit of time and a lot of talking and, hopefully, when the work is shown, it's worth it.
And now I'd had time to think about it, I'd love to pick up my conversation with Jeremy. I'd say that actually, I think audiences do know what to do, how to watch and how to behave – they're a pretty resourceful bunch in my experience, as long as you take the time to think about them, to care about them, to make them feel like a crucial part of this thing. We've performed Save Me in eight different cities, from Bristol (UK) to Almaty (Kazakhstan), in English, French and Russian, on seafronts, city streets, bridges and battleships and every time, wherever we are people leave messages, hundreds of messages. It's just a different type of engagement.
Save Me and our other outdoor works like Search Party vs… exist in public space, not in a 'street-art' context, but these works are for the same audience. And, I'm sure that for some of these audiences other types of engagement, perhaps smaller, more intimate, more unconventional offer new and engaging experiences, creating alternative relationships between them, the work and the place that it happens. Perhaps both types of work, our slightly unusual intimate exchanges and more traditional street art spectacles, being placed next to each other in the same street is an exciting prospect for street performers working in live art festivals and vice versa. I look forward to learning more about the street arts sector, and to meeting the festivals and programmers who are interested in re-thinking how they might engage with their audience.
By Pete Phillips
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- Facilitate weekly concert ticket giveaways
- Add advertiser info/photos/promotions to newsletters
- Work with Marketing Manager and Sales Director to develop strategies for increasing and retaining newsletter subscribers
- Manage newsletter subscriber list
- Assist with WW event planning and production, from renting porta potties to curating vendor lists to dreaming of fun promotion strategies
- Attend the Best of Portland Party (July 13), MusicfestNW (August 27-28), and WW's Beer Pro/Am (September 24), among other events that pop up to assist with onsite event production
- Research various event prep facts, contacts and venues as need arises
- Assemble photos, content, text, video and logos to build one sheets, sponsorship pitches and events recaps using InDesign + Illustrator.
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Photography internships
Photo internships at Willamette Week include a wide range of opportunity from the back of the book—music, movies, and food, to the front of the book—news, people, places, and cover stories. Ideal candidates have creative curiosities, technical savvy and communication know how.
Willamette Week internships are a three month unpaid commitment with once a week in-person check ins at our headquarters, in Northwest Portland. The schedule is flexible; the deadlines are not.
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- Computer experience using the Adobe suite, specifically InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat and Bridge.
- Eye for page and Web design. Understanding how art and copy fit together and help tell a story.
- Knowledge of image sizing, color correction, and file types.
- Creativity and motivation to succeed within tight boundaries. Responding well to criticism and providing the best solution for our art director.
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We have this strange convention in our culture. We get T-shirts everywhere we go - restaurants, sporting events, special locations. He have T-shirts that announce our participation is community charitable, recreational, and cultural events. So, invent an imaginary t-shirts advertising your participation in the behavior that constitutes the main event of your slip. Imagine wearing that T-shirt for the rest of the day
What might the T-shirt say?
"I just had sex with a 17 year old prostitute"
"My boss yelled at me so I got him back. I masturbated while thinking about his secretary."
"If I feel blue I look at women I don't know and imagine they are my obedient sex slaves."
"I spent six hours last night looking at porn while my kids did their homework alone, again."
Try the Imaginary T-Shirt intervention. I may get you back on track.
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Joe Sumner about The old record company, the cd Left Side Of The BrainWatch more videos at http://www.faceculture.com and follow us on http://www.twitter.com/_FaceCulture. Video interview with Fiction Plane. FaceCulture spoke to singer/bass player Joe Sumner from Fiction Plane about science, cycling, their first album Everything Will Never Be OK, their latest album Left Side Of The Brain, Two Sisters, the album title, James Brown, Rage Against The Machine, his father Sting, The Police, playing live, Snoop Dogg, smoking pot, girls, speaking Dutch and much more. (01/06/2008)
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Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) is a member of the family of endogenous serine protease inhibitors (serpins) that controls the activation of plasminogen into plasmin by tissue and urokinase type plasminogen activators (tPA and uPA, respectively). In the past, PAI-1 was considered to be anti-tumorigenic. However, in the late 1990's multiple clinical studies revealed that cancer patients whose tumors have a high content of uPA and PAI-1 have a poor rather than a favorable clinical outcome, suggesting that PAI-1 may promote rather than inhibit tumorigenesis. One explanation for the paradoxical role attributed to PAI-1 in cancer has been its pro-angiogenic function. During the past funding period of the grant, we have published two fundamental observations that further elucidate the pro-tumorigenic function of PAI-1. We first reported that PAI-1 exerts its pro-angiogenic activity in part through a novel mechanism whereby PAI-1 protects endothelial cells from Fas-mediated apoptosis through inhibition of the shedding by plasmin of a soluble mFasL pro-apoptotic fragment. Secondly, we demonstrated that PAI-1 also protects tumor cells from apoptosis, but that the mechanism is only partially dependent on plasmin and Fas. Emphasizing the role of the tumor microenvironment, we also demonstrated that stromal-derived PAI-1 compensates for a lack of tumor-derived PAI-1, and that PAI-1 contributes to the recruitment of macrophages by tumor cells. The overarching hypothesis of this application is that PAI-1 exerts its pro-tumorigenic activity through a combination of effects on endothelial cells (pro-angiogenic activity), macrophages (promotion of migration) and tumor cells (promotion of survival) that involves specific PAI-1-receptor interactions. We will test this hypothesis in vitro in several human cancer cell lines of different origins and producing variable amounts of PAI-1, and in vivo by combining genetic approaches with a pharmacologic approach.
In Aim 1, we will investigate the mechanism by which the interaction between PAI-1 and one of its cell surface receptors, the low density lipoprotein receptor-like protein 1 (LRP1) signals and protects tumor cells from spontaneous and drug-induced apoptosis.
In Aim 2, we will determine whether PAI-1 is necessary to allow tumors to promote angiogenesis, recruit macrophages and exit dormancy in immunodeficient PAI-1 null mice implanted with human tumor cells in which the suppression of PAI-1 expression is controlled by doxycycline. We will also investigate the effect of PAI-1 suppression on tumor initiation in PAI-1 null mice crossed with transgenic NB-Tag mice that have a 100% penetrance in neuroblastoma tumor formation.
In Aim 3, we will test the effect of pharmacological inhibition of PAI-1 by newly developed small molecule inhibitors of PAI-1 in pre-clinical mouse models of tumorigenesis and tumor initiation. These studies will provide not only a better fundamental understanding of the mechanisms responsible for the pro-tumorigenic activity of PAI-1, but also a more definitive answer on the potential therapeutic value of targetin PAI-1 as part of cancer treatment strategies.
The serine protease plasminogen activator (PA) and its natural inhibitor (PAI-1) have been proven to be among the most reliable biomarkers of unfavorable outcome in cancer patients. The fact that an inhibitor of protease predicts a poor outcome is counterintuitive but well explained by the pro-tumorigenic activity of PAI-1 demonstrated by many laboratories, including our group, and suggests that targeting PAI-1 could be part of cancer treatment strategies. The recent development of small potent inhibitors of PAI-1 deprived of toxic effects on hemostasis provides a unique opportunity to test their potential anti-cancer activity in preclinical cancer models.
|Kubala, Marta H; DeClerck, Yves A (2017) Conditional Knockdown of Gene Expression in Cancer Cell Lines to Study the Recruitment of Monocytes/Macrophages to the Tumor Microenvironment. J Vis Exp :
|Placencio, Veronica R; DeClerck, Yves A (2015) Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor-1 in Cancer: Rationale and Insight for Future Therapeutic Testing. Cancer Res 75:2969-74
|Placencio, Veronica R; Ichimura, Atsuhiko; Miyata, Toshio et al. (2015) Small Molecule Inhibitors of Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor-1 Elicit Anti-Tumorigenic and Anti-Angiogenic Activity. PLoS One 10:e0133786
|Fang, Hua; Declerck, Yves A (2013) Targeting the tumor microenvironment: from understanding pathways to effective clinical trials. Cancer Res 73:4965-77
|Fang, Hua; Placencio, Veronica R; DeClerck, Yves A (2012) Protumorigenic activity of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 through an antiapoptotic function. J Natl Cancer Inst 104:1470-84
|Fang, Hua; Harned, Theresa M; Kalous, Ondrej et al. (2011) Synergistic activity of fenretinide and the Bcl-2 family protein inhibitor ABT-737 against human neuroblastoma. Clin Cancer Res 17:7093-104
|Bajou, Khalid; Peng, Hongjun; Laug, Walter E et al. (2008) Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 protects endothelial cells from FasL-mediated apoptosis. Cancer Cell 14:324-34


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They're not like Mama used to make: These succulent meatballs are formed from lean ground turkey instead of beef, and they're served in a light broth with escarole, not perched on top of spaghetti. (If you really miss that pasta, boil about a quarter pound of your favorite kind and stir it into the soup before serving.) Plus: More Soup Recipes and Tips
How to Make It
In a medium bowl, mix together the turkey, eggs, garlic, onion, bread crumbs, Parmesan, parsley, 1/2 teaspoon of the salt, and the black pepper until thoroughly combined. Shape the mixture into twenty meatballs.
In a large frying pan, heat 1 1/2 tablespoons of the oil over moderate heat. Add half the meatballs to the pan and cook, turning, until browned on all sides, about 3 minutes. Remove the meatballs from the pan and drain on paper towels. Repeat with the remaining 1 1/2 tablespoons oil and the rest of the meatballs.
Put all of the meatballs, the escarole, broth, water, vinegar, red-pepper flakes, and the remaining 1 teaspoon of salt in a large pot. Cover and bring to a simmer over moderate heat, stirring occasionally. The meatballs should be cooked through by the time the broth comes to a simmer.


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Having left my husband and two young children at home, I arrived in Skyros emotional and exhausted. My husband had booked me on a workshop called "creative change", bless him. I lasted two days on this course, as it really was not for me at that time. I changed courses and moved to the other side of the island, where they offered windsurfing and yoga.
The yoga was practised outside under the pine trees and while practising yoga you would occasionally be hit on the head by a stray pine cone. The smell of pine takes me right back to that outdoor shala.
Now to my first teacher and class... The teacher on that two week course was the Ashtanga yoga teacher David Swenson. Although I had worked in fitness for a fairly long time before this, nothing came close to my first class. I clearly remember my arms shaking while doing the downward facing dog and had to sit out a lot of the practice and observe the experienced yogis flow through their practice.
David was a fantastic, kind and gentle teacher who encouraged everyone to be with their own practice. We would do yoga twice a day and a morning meditation which included tree hugging (this was a first for me too, but I haven't pursued this though). The power of breath and movement was amazing. The creative change had come, but not through the course, but rather through the introduction to yoga. Watching my mum take her last few breaths was in a way the instigator to me connecting to my own breath through yoga; thus opening a new chapter in my life.
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The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory's expertise and leadership in extreme-scale computing will be on display at SC17, the International Conference for High-Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. This year's event will take place Nov. 12–17 in Denver, Colorado.
As home to the Mathematics and Computer Science (MCS) Division and the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, Argonne has long been a driving force in developing the technologies, tools, and techniques needed to enable scientific breakthroughs on the high-performance computing systems of today and tomorrow.
Argonne is also a key player in the nation's efforts to deliver future exascale computing capabilities. In addition to working on application development, software development, and hardware technology projects for DOE's Exascale Computing Project, a collaborative effort of the DOE Office of Science and the National Nuclear Security Administration, laboratory researchers are helping shape a new paradigm for scientific computing—the emerging convergence of simulation, big data analytics, and machine learning.
At SC17, more than 40 Argonne researchers will share their work and knowledge in these areas through a wide range of activities, including technical paper presentations, invited talks, workshops, panel discussions, and tutorials (see the full schedule of Argonne's contributions). Some notable activities by Argonne experts are highlighted below.
Boosting code performance with hybrid MPI/OpenMP algorithm
Yuri Alexeev, an Argonne computational scientist, will present a technical paper detailing an effort that significantly improved the performance of the GAMESS (General Atomic and Molecular Electronic Structure System) code for systems powered by Intel Xeon Phi processors, including Argonne's Theta supercomputer.
For this study, Alexeev and his collaborators proposed a hybrid MPI/OpenMP implementation of the Hartree-Fock method in GAMESS. The team found that the modified code reduces the memory footprint by approximately 200 times compared with the original code. The MPI/OpenMP hybrid was also found to run up to six times faster on a large number of Theta nodes.
"We expect these code optimizations to be applicable to all current and future generations of Intel Xeon Phi processors," Alexeev said. "In addition, the lessons learned from our effort can be used to improve the performance of other hybrid MPI/OpenMP codes."
The team's work is also featured in a technical poster that is nominated for best poster at SC17.
Minimizing overheads with MPI-3.1
Ken Raffenetti, an Argonne software developer, will present a technical paper that provides an in-depth analysis of the performance of MPI-3.1.
Co-authored with several colleagues from Argonne and other institutions, the paper explores the software overheads in the MPI performance-critical path and exposes performance overheads that are unavoidable based on the current MPI-3.1 specification. After studying a highly optimized version of the MPI-3.1 standard and analyzing the root cause of performance-related issues, the team identified changes that can help minimize the impact of the overheads.
"By studying the limits of MPI performance, we better understand the software overheads imposed by the MPI standard specification. The changes we propose could virtually eliminate those overheads, giving users access to the full performance of the hardware," Raffenetti said.
Providing committee leadership
Several Argonne researchers are serving as chairs or co-chairs of many of the major committees.
- Applications Committee Chair – Anshu Dubey
- Clouds & Distributed Computing Chair – Kate Keahey
- Emerging Technologies Chair – Franck Cappello
- Keynote Committee Chair – Rick Stevens
- Awards Committee Vice Chair – Paul Hovland
- Panels Vice Chair – Lois Curfman McInnes
- SCiNet Vice Chair – Linda Winkler
- Edge Network Team Co-Chair – Kevin Hayden
- Network Research Exhibition Team Co-Chair – Corby Schmitz
Highlighting next-generation computing
Argonne's scientific computing research will also be featured at DOE's conference booth, which will highlight the national laboratories' efforts in five key areas: next-generation code development; next-generation architecture and software development; next-generation hardware; data science; and industry partnerships. These focus areas will be emphasized through HPC visualization videos, electronic posters, and featured speakers from each national laboratory.
At the DOE booth, Argonne Distinguished Fellow Ian Foster will present a talk, titled "Going Smart and Deep on Materials at ALCF." The presentation will include a demonstration of how researchers can use large collections of materials science data to build machine learning models that can guide simulations, improve their accuracy and reduce their cost, and launch new computations on ALCF resources.


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Mom to Olsby Charlotte
January 11, 2013
Lakewood, California
My husband and I are high school sweethearts. As kids, we imagined having a daughter one day, and naming her Charlotte. When we finally married 15 years later, we were so excited to start a family. On May 10, 2011, we had our first child, a girl. But we didn't name her Charlotte. We named her Kira Belle. It was a difficult pregnancy, but the joy of her birth and her presence in our lives make it a million times worth it. When she became 16 months old, we wanted her to have a sibling. Three months later, I was pregnant! My husband made fun of me because I took more than 25 pregnancy tests leading up to the very faint pink line. My heart was overjoyed. The instant I saw that positive pregnancy test, I was deeply in love with my second baby.
We had an ultrasound at 7 weeks and the baby was on the screen, with her heart beating for us to see! My husband and my daughter were there, too. I am so glad I brought my daughter because that would be the only and last time we would see our baby alive. The baby measured small, at 6.5 weeks, but my worries were pushed aside by my doctor since the heartbeat was there. They changed my due date so at what would have been 11 weeks, I went for my second ultrasound with my husband.
I will never forget that day. I had told my doctor my concerns that I had been throwing up much less than with my first pregnancy and that I was worried that baby was continuing to grow small. She told me not to worry, that the baby would be fine. We talked about my birth plan and the 20 week anatomy ultrasound,. At the very end of the visit, she checked for the baby's heartbeat. The worst words in my life were uttered. "I'm so sorry, I don't see a heartbeat". She checked with a Doppler, then a vaginal ultrasound. There, in that cold room, with my legs in stirrups, I saw my baby on the screen. No more blinking heart, no movement. Just a still screen and a still baby. My heart broke into a million pieces in that very second. I knew my baby was gone. So tiny and fragile and gone. My husband and I cried in that room for 45 minutes and I felt like my heart was dying.
We decided to take pills to induce my miscarriage because we wanted to see the baby and bury her. She was very real and we wanted to honor her as much as we could. This was one way we could show love to our baby. While waiting for the contractions and cramps, my husband and I decorated a tiny wooden casket to bury her in, full of pictures of us and words of love. We wrote letters to her, lit candles for her, cried and cried and cried for her. I do not regret one bit of the emotional and physical agony in trying to wait 47 hours to pass her at home, but she never came. It felt like my body was trying so hard to keep her. My body wanted so much to nurture this baby.
I had a D&C several days later and by a small miracle my wonderful doctor was able to retrieve the baby's body to give to us. I was able to see her tiny body, and I am grateful. She was beautiful and heartbreaking to see. She is in a close by cemetery that I visit every week and I leave flowers for her and other unborn babies buried there.
When I was pregnant with her, we nicknamed her Olsby for "Our Little Summer Baby". I know in my heart now that she was a girl. There are signs everywhere that maybe she was meant to be our Charlotte after all. I will always grieve my angel and I will always say that I have two children until God hopefully gives me a third baby I can keep on earth, a rainbow. I will continue to find ways to love her every day. She was real. My baby.
My heart will always yearn for her and I will never be the same. I am trying to enjoy more and more good moments within my bad days and I am hopeful that one day I will be enjoying more bad moments within a good day instead. And though her heart stopped beating, her life necessarily did not. My husband and I have never felt so connected, so in love and so alive–because of her. She lives on in us and her older sister. Her heart will always be beating in our hearts.
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I'll be one of the panelists, representing MySQL AB. Other panelists are from OpenOffice.org, Citrix, the Zope user group, and the Free Software Foundation.
For the book, I wrote a chapter called "Architecture of Participation: Taking part in Open Source at MySQL". It describes our attempts at MySQL at increasing the level of participation by our community in the development of MySQL, which has traditionally been very centralistic in its development model.
If you read German and want to have some fun at the cost of other business models than that of MySQL AB, I recommend you to read the comment "Windows Closed Source Yearbook appears at CeBIT" on heise closed.
Links (all in German):
- The Open Source Yearbook home page: http://www.opensourcejahrbuch.de/
- Blog note on the CeBIT panel: http://www.opensourcejahrbuch.de/blog/207
- Newsticker item at heise online: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/103860/from/rss09
- Fun comment on Closed Source Yearbook: http://www.heise.de/ix/news/foren/S-Windows-Closed-Source-Jahrbuch-2008-erscheint-zur-CeBIT/forum-132986/msg-14504436/read/
- My article "Architecture of Participation: Teilnehmende Open Source bei MySQL": http://www.heise.de/open/The-Architecture-of-Participation-Teilnehmende-Open-Source-bei-MySQL--/artikel/104253