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Posted by thecastlegroup on May 28, 2009
PRGN, our international network of outstanding independent PR firms just got a little bigger (see below). Our network now has 43 members around the world, which is beginning to feel more and more like an international virtual firm, as the number of queries, information requests, new business opportunities and suggestions increases every day.
In the last 24 hours, I have been in contact with members from Singapore, Poland, Spain, Atlanta, San Francisco, South Africa, Ireland and India. Last month, the group's agency principals met in Sao Paolo, in November we convene in NYC, and next spring it's Brussels. I never did a semester abroad when I was in college, but I feel like I am making up for that now.
Every day I learn about not just what is happening in PR in other vital cities, but about how those cities are being affected by the global economy, digital and social media, sporting events, weather and even the swine flu. This insight is helpful to my clients and to my staff, and is a daily reminder of how things are both different and the same in other cultures.
If we accept that PR is about reaching audiences, there is no better eye-opener than hearing about how different methods and approaches work in different cultures. The European members tend to be more collaborative, as different countries obviously have their own languages and cultures to contend with; in the US there is less client collaboration, as the agencies don't typically have those barriers when representing national clients. Although it is fun to work collectively on clients that have local market needs, we learn that what works in Atlanta might not work in Boston, and vice versa. I admit I'm slightly jealous that in London it is still acceptable for journalists and PR people to discuss their pitches over drinks.
Joining the ranks of PRGN are:
CooperKatz & Company (New York)
Ground Floor Media (Denver)
The Harrell Group (Dallas)


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Annelisa Luong is the Senior Community Organizer at Chinese Progressive Association. Annelisa was born and raised in San Francisco by her parents who are refugees of the American War in Vietnam. She learned about CPA while organizing around access to education alongside studying environmental justice and ethnic studies at UC Berkeley. As an Eva Lowe Fellow in 2012, she learned about the changes we can make in our communities when workers are empowered and united. She has also worked as an organizer for political and contract bargaining campaigns with AFSCME 3299, organizing majority people of color frontline service workers and patient care workers at the University of California and airport workers. These organizing experiences affirm her belief in the resilience that exists in our community as well as her ongoing passion to uplift healing justice work, whether through coaching circles, expressive arts, or body movements as forms of resistance. Her favorite things include cheese, noodles, plants, and cats.

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Alison Currie, The Substation, Newport, until August 18
In Concrete Impermanence, choreographer and dancer Alison Currie builds and deconstructs her environment using large fans of corrugated cardboard (designed by Stephanie Forsythe and Todd MacAllen) that stretch out like accordions or fold into tiny cubes.
Currie and her fellow performers Harrison Ritchie-Jones and Stephen Sheehan use these modular props to hug and support their bodies, or as tools to frame or obscure parts of them from sight.
Even as a new architecture is arranged around the space, Currie and Ritchie-Jones repeat reaching and folding movements and end up sprawled on the ground or folded in half.
Sheehan's role, however, seems to revolve around tidying and organising the space in the wake of the dancers' abstract movements. He peers over the top of an enormous wall of pleated fabric, or perches on a makeshift cardboard chair.
There's something amusing about the addition of these domestic moments in a work that otherwise focuses on its movement vignettes, but it is also hard to make sense of why Sheehan's character matters in a world of Concrete Impermanence.
The most pervasive element in Alisdair Macindoe's sound design is static, which reflects the video content on a small screen above the stage. Some images and sounds feel familiar - like the booms and crackles of fireworks - but they appear to reference a different perspective than the clean lines of the dancers.
At the end, Macindoe cues us to the central theme of the work by sampling newsreaders talking about earthquakes and fallen infrastructure.
While there's much to appreciate about the way in which Currie has used her props, the work fails to draw its disparate ideas together and really make a statement.


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The topic of research data is a major feature of current conversations about science and scholarly communication. Governments and funders are promoting policies and mandates that aim to ensure that research data is properly managed and openly shared. Doing so aids in the validation and reproducibility of results and creates opportunities for reuse of data across disciplines, which, in turn, advances science. The principles and benefits of data sharing are easy to understand, but putting them into practice presents many challenges. These are not specific to chemistry and are shared by other disciplines across the globe.
The CINF symposium in San Diego "Global Initiatives in Research Data Management and Discovery" brought together thought leaders and practitioners from a variety of scientific domains who are engaged in tackling research data challenges on a global basis. This two-day symposium highlighted the experiences of scientists, international and national scientific data organizations, tool vendors, and service professionals. They brought their perspectives on issues of globalization, standards, community practice, technical infrastructure, and cultural shift. One general sentiment that emerged was that chemistry touches every area of science and initiatives in this arena can benefit and contribute to collaborations among a wide variety of stakeholders.
Global organizations and international initiatives represented included the Research Data Alliance; CODATA and the World Data System, both of which were established by the International Council for Science (ICSU); DataCite; FORCE11; and the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). Attendees also heard about disciplinary initiatives, including NIF (neuroscience), the Resource Identification Initiative (biomedicine), and DataOne (earth sciences). Recurrent themes revolved around data publication, interdisciplinary interoperability, persistent identifiers, certifying trust, machine actionability, community engagement, cooperation among initiatives, training, and service support.
Examples of scientific community standards of practice in depositing and managing collections of chemistry related data featured a number of proven data systems, including PubChem, the National Institute of Standards and Technology Thermodynamics Research Centre (NIST/TRC), the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC), the STRENDA and MIRAGE community standards developed by the Beilstein Institute, and the CODATA Nanomaterials project. An emerging theme was the expressed need for best practices for establishing and sustaining guidelines and for engagement with the research community around data reporting and citation: could this be a role for the global initiatives?
Perspectives on digitally managing scientific data and practically addressing some of these issues "where the rubber meets the road" were presented by a group of researchers, including Henry Rzepa, Simon Coles, Stuart Chalk, and John Kitchin; tool developers, including MestraLab and Dotmatics; and research service providers, including the the California Digital Library (CDL), the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), and the Pistoia Alliance. They emphasized development of capabilities and supporting services for data analysis before, during, and after experimental documentation, including downstream scientific use of the data. Such practices involve publishing 'live' data; supporting compilation and integration at scale; and supporting workflows that allow individual scientists to manage their data at capture, assembly, analysis, and publication, as well as subsequent organization, delivery, discovery, and functionality for reuse of the data by the broader community.
Many tractable solutions are emerging across this diverse scientific community. The challenges facing academia are fairly similar to those addressed by industry and government, and there is precedent for worldwide, crosssector collaboration on common issues. Is it time for an international chemistry data interest group to tackle the digital data challenges particular to chemistry standards and community practice and to unpack questions about which data and metadata can be contributed to the pre-competitive, collective chemistry data pool for the benefit of the global enterprise? Are there lower-barrier, higher-impact opportunities for improving usability of chemical data in both research and business, such as machine-actionable and extensible chemical identifiers and -accessible patent documentation? Do we need to change the chemistry research and reporting culture to enable researchers to share data, or align funder expectations and publishing workflows to scientific workflows? The newly formed RDA Chemistry Research Data Interest Group (CRDIG or DIG Chemistry) aims to connect and promote these conversations through widely spread symposia, networking, workshops, and other venues.
The "Global Initiatives in Research Data Management and Discovery" symposium established the context for the San Diego meeting's program track on chemistry data, which included many other data-related symposia that covered the impact of funder policies on the research data and publication landscape, the challenges of incompatibilities in scientific data, opportunities for linking chemical and biological data, and the role of semantic technologies in enabling richer representation of chemistry data and knowledge. The topic of data management is at once timely and timeless for the field of chemistry, and the conversation is set to continue in several venues, including at the ACS national meeting in Philadelphia, PA, in August 2016, and during International Data Week in Denver, CO, in September 2016.
|Ian Bruno Cambridge
Crystallographic Data Centre
|Leah McEwen
Cornell University
I (Stuart Chalk) agreed to organize this symposium because it was exactly the area I am interested in, the representation of chemical knowledge using semantics and ontologies. I came up with the title on the spur of the moment and had not even thought about exactly whom I would invite. Luckily, I started talking with Stephen Boyer from IBM about the workshop he and Evan Bolton were planning for October 2015 in Basel, and it wasn't long before Evan was on board as co-organizer. It turns out that Evan knows some people.
We invited over 50 speakers to participate in the symposium and in the end we had forty-three speakers present over three days in San Diego, organized into the six sessions below.
Looking back on it now, I am still floored by how many experts in their respective areas contributed to the quality and rigor of the sessions, to the wonderful audience questions (during the sessions and at the breaks), and to the size of the audience. We had audiences of up to eighty for some sessions, and there were even forty on the last day (Thursday). Since the end of the conference, there have been many requests to do more symposia like this at future meetings, and we are certainly working on that.
It would impossible to report about each and every talk at the six different sessions that made up the symposia, so we will not try here. We are planning to write up an editorial with contributions from many of the speakers so there will be more to read about the perspectives of the presenters and the outcomes of the symposium, but it is appropriate to report the "pain points" that the speakers and the audience contributed. Many folk took photos of the pages we had up on the walls of the conference room (that is how important the issues were), so below is a cleaned-up list of the issues articulated.
To wrap up, if you missed the symposium, you missed an invigorating, stimulating, tour de force of talks addressing all the issues around data and how to glean knowledge from it. We truly believe this symposium, and what follows on from it, will be the catalyst for a lot of activity that will end up changing how we store and represent chemical data and knowledge. Bring it on!
Stuart Chalk
University of North Florida
This session brought together a mixture of presentations with a central theme: namely, the authors had a particular interest in using structural data from either 2D or 3D sources to tackle key problems in the drug design arena. The presenters were a mix of end-users of data and providers of data and applications.
3D Methods in Drug Discovery & Development
The session began with a presentation by Marcel Verdonk, who used PDB data to analyze the relative likelihood of atoms being involved in protein binding, given their degree of exposure or flexibility. He highlighted how such information could be useful in ligand design applications. The talk was interesting, very current, and challenged the audience to consider how such information could be used in future to produce better scoring functions.
Matthew Segall (Optibrium) then gave an exposition of how the StarDrop platform can be useful in drug design programs by providing a powerful system for visualizing and understanding data from both 2D and 3D sources, and Christian Lemmen (BioSolveIT) presented an analysis of how their platform, in particular, Hyde scoring, can aid and abet the interpretation of protein structures, specifically focusing on solvent molecules.
Matthias Rarey (University of Hamburg) presented recent work on ASCONA and SIENA, methods for protein binding site alignment and protein ensemble selection respectively. The methods were shown to be useful in tackling complex alignment and selection problems where current sequence-alignment-based methods generally fail.
Tobias Brinkjost, a third-year PhD student from Oliver Koch's group at the Technical University in Dortmund bravely presented his PhD work using secondary structure information to facilitate searching for ligand sensing cores. His graph-based methods allow very fast comparisons of pockets, not driven by sequence, but based on secondary structure assignment. Tobias showed that his methods could predict cases of non-homologous cavity similarities.
On a different tack, Colin Groom of the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) presented the results of the recent CCDC Crystal Structure Prediction blind test and described how structural knowledge from the CSD can be used to aid and abet predictions of crystal structures, a field that still challenges computational chemists. He highlighted how this technology is coming of age and may now be becoming more relevant to the pharmaceutical industry, particularly in drug development.
2D Methods in Drug Discovery & Development
2D methods were illustrated by a number of speakers during the day. Susanne Stalford from Lhasa showed how collaborative efforts between pharmaceutical companies can help in risk assessments associated with mutagenic impurities. Valery Polyakov showed how better random forest algorithms could be applied to large QSAR data sets to derive more meaningful models. In particular, Valery and co-workers have carefully assessed 'novelty' to show the true worth of an underlying model, and have defined methods for picking the best training sets to improve the prospective outcomes of models generated. The results appeared promising; it was surprising (at least to the chair) how much change one could observe in the value of a model by removing seemingly small biases in the underlying training data.
Data Provisioning
Barry Bunin showed how the Collaborative Drug Discovery (CDD) vault was aiding collaborative efforts between research groups across the globe with a number of examples of projects. He explained how data sharing and data security are not necessarily mutually-exclusive.
We had an excellent presentation from Marian Brodney. She has been deeply involved at Pfizer with integrating the disparate data from many projects and many sources in a useful and coherent platform. This presentation really highlighted the challenges faced by large pharma to produce a coherent system that serves a large community with very disparate needs. It also highlighted the breadth of data sources that an information provider has to consider in a large organization.
Finally, despite some technical difficulties, Asta Gindulyte showed how we all could be making far better use of Google for finding chemically-relevant results. The presentation included a demo, where Asta created an on-thefly search engine to search PubMed in a more targeted way. The session chair will certainly be trying to create his own customized engines in the future!
Jason Cole
Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre
In the last few years, there has been a renewed emphasis from funders worldwide on making research results more widely-available. In the United States, the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released a memorandum in 2013 requiring federal agencies to develop public access plans to federally funded research. Likewise, the Research Councils UK (RCUK) has an open access (OA) policy for the publication of peerreviewed articles, and Canada recently introduced the Tri-Agency policy, which mandates OA to articles funded by the country's major research agencies. Some private foundations, such as the Gates Foundation, also have OA policies for publications and data.
Roughly coinciding with the third anniversary of the OSTP memorandum, the ACS Division of Chemical Information held the symposium "Driving Change: Impact of Funders on the Research Data and Publications Landscapes" to explore how these new policies and requirements are shaping scholarly communications. Organized by Andrea Twiss-Brooks (University of Chicago), and Elsa Alvaro (Northwestern University), the symposium was part of the CINF program of the 251st ACS National Meeting, and took place on Tuesday, March 15, 2016. The goal of the symposium was to foster a conversation between the stakeholders involved in scholarly communications and to discuss the challenges and opportunities posed by these new policies and requirements.
The symposium opened with talks outlining the public access plans of several US federal agencies. Neil Thakur discussed NIH's public access policy, which requires all peer-reviewed journal articles arising from NIH funds to be posted to PubMed Central (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/). Dr. Thakur explained the different submission methods that currently exist and how to track compliance at the institutional level. Carly Robinson of the Department of Energy (DOE) explained how public access to DOE publications happens through Public Access Gateway for Energy & Science (PAGES, http://www.osti.gov/pages/). PAGES has centralized metadata, but it has decentralized distribution of full-text articles and manuscripts, relying instead on a partnership with publishers (CHORUS; http://www.chorusaccess.org/) or, in the cases where publishers do not provide public access, a link to the author-submitted, full-text, accepted manuscript. Dr. Robinson also talked about the digital research data management plans, and DOE Data ID Service (http://www.osti.gov/home/doe-data-id-service). Leah McEwen of Cornell University described NSF's open data policy, and her participation in a series of workshops aimed at understanding the community's views on public access to research data in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) directorate.
These initial presentations on federal agencies' requirements were followed by talks from different stakeholders, including librarians, publishers, researchers, and tool-makers. Sharon Kipphut-Smith of Rice University and Betty Rozum of Utah State University described an ongoing project aimed at understanding how libraries and research offices are supporting compliance with federal mandates. According to their results, institutions are leveraging existing resources, and there is a general recognition that campus collaboration is important. Ho Jung Yoo of UC San Diego described how the University of California is facilitating public access to scholarly publications and how the Research Data Curation Program (http://libraries.ucsd.edu/services/data-curation/) of UC San Diego Library is supporting public access to research data.
Judy Ruttenberg or the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) talked about SHARE (http://www.shareresearch.org/). SHARE's mission is to build a free, open data set about research and scholarly activities across their life cycle. Ms. Ruttenberg gave an update on the progress of SHARE Notify, and discussed the progress of Phase II of SHARE, which involves expanding the number of providers, and enhancing the metadata. ARL's partner for the development of SHARE is the Center for Open Science (COS). Sara Bowman of COS talked about the Open Science Framework (OSF; https://osf.io/), which is a Web application to manage the research lifecycle, including data archiving and dissemination. Dr. Bowman also gave an overview on the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP; https://osf.io/9f6gx/) Guidelines and their adoption by different journals.
Darla Henderson of ACS and Ann Gabriel of Elsevier represented the publishers' perspective. Darla Henderson discussed ACS Open Access strategy (http://acsopenaccess.org/), which encompasses the OA journals ACS Central Science and the new ACS Omega, and the programs ACS Editors' Choice, ACS AuthorChoice, and ACS Author Rewards. Ann Gabriel described Elsevier's efforts to comply with the new mandates; their new content types, including data, software, methods articles, and more; and the importance of supporting new workflows (https://www.elsevier.com/about/open-science).
Jeremy Frey (http://www.southampton.ac.uk/chemistry/about/staff/jgf.page) of the University of Southampton addressed the challenges posed by the new landscape from the perspective of the UK researcher. He discussed how this new situation is placing new obligations on the researchers who are securing funding but also is opening up new opportunities.
Bringing the perspective of the data center and database, Amy Sarjeant explained how the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC; http://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/) is supporting researchers who wish to comply with mandates. Dr. Sarjeant outlined the principles of data management, as well as its challenges, including maintaining quality, attribution, funding acknowledgments, and flexibility for the future.
Maryann Martone talked about FORCE 11 (https://www.force11.org/), which is a grassroots movement aimed at accelerating the pace of scholarly communications through technology, education, and community. The membership of FORCE11 includes all stakeholders of scholarly communication, including publishers, scholars, tool builders, and librarians.
Finally, the tool-makers' perspective was represented by Dan Valen of Figshare (https://figshare.com/) and Kortney Capretta of Altmetric (https://www.altmetric.com/). Mr. Valen emphasized that Figshare is building tools that align with funders' requirements to support publishers, researchers, and institutions storing and sharing research outputs. Ms. Capretta introduced the approaches that Altmetric is using to measure and to track the impact of research.
Elsa Alvaro
Andrea Twiss-Brooks
This symposium was concerned with linking disparate sources of database information, primarily linking chemical molecule (drug or toxin) bioactivity and structural information with biological pathway (disease) information and genomic information. There is an increasing amount of genomic information and with growing interest in "personal medicine," there is significant emphasis on correlating genomic information, disease-causing mutations and biological pathway information, with protein targets and drug development. In the past few years there has been significant growth in the number of databases connecting and correlating this type of information, including pathway and network-based processes, prediction of toxicity and bioassay information, and target linkage to disease. This symposium addressed these issues with a group of researchers representing the major database developers on the cutting edge of correlating this type of information: the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, NCBI's PubChem, Elsevier, EMBL-EBI-ChEMBL, IUPHAR/BPS, and others.
Ian Bruno from the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Center (CCDC) spoke regarding "Connecting 3D Chemical Data with Biological Information" and discussed the CRESTANO project – a Common REST API for Structural Annotation. This is a collaboration between the PDB (Protein Data Bank) and the CCDC to improve the smallmolecule information within the PDB. He also discussed the CCDC's APIs and linking crystal structures to Pub- Chem's data, as only 8% of the structures in the Cambridge Structural Database are currently present in Pub- Chem. The Cambridge Structural Database will also have links to ChemSpider and OpenPHACTS, which will help answer questions regarding the biological pathways with which an entry in the Cambridge Structure database is associated. There are now Biovia Pipeline Pilot components based on the Cambridge APIs.
The talk by YanLi Wang of NCBI, "PubChem BioAssay: Link Chemical Research to GenBank and Beyond," discussed the chemical structure and connectivity information available within PubChem. She discussed data types, metadata, and linking the chemistry data in PubChem to genomics, to the NIH Molecular Library Small Molecule Chemical Probes, and to the biological pathways from KEGG and MedGene. Using NCBI's tools, it is now possible to map BioAssay data to target structures. Assay targets can be aligned to structure, and it is possible to visualize the binding site and interactions between the ligand and protein structure. RNAi BioAssay records and Gene target IDs and kinase selectivity profiling assay are included. There are APIs available to link to CHEMBL ontology, genes, and IUPHAR and KEGG data. PubChem BioAssay data can also be linked to Entrez Gene to verify gene function with RNA data.
James Rinker (Wuxi Business Development) discussed "Predicting Adverse Drug Events Using Literature Based Pathway Analysis," based on work that he had done while at Elsevier. Elsevier offers Pathway Studio and Reaxys as tools to provide mechanism-based information regarding drug toxicity and targets, including factors influencing adverse events. Pathway Studio (an Elsevier product) can be used for text mining. James presented an example of text mining for JAK kinase family inhibition with a biological target and failed compounds and adverse events. Reaxys can be used to understand target families and to build a network for a target or target class in pathway studies. The literature can be scanned for possible adverse events related to the target with these tools. James gave an example, scanning the literature for possible adverse events related to target modulation by JAK2.
Chris Southan of the International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology (IUPHAR) discussed "Intersecting Different Databases to Define the Inner and Outer Limits of the Data Supported Druggable Proteome", where he discussed the curated druggable databases sources: BindingDB, ChemEMBL, DrugBank, and the IUPHAR Guide to Pharmacology. UniProt chemistry cross-references and collates these curated sources with complementary selectivity. The IUPHAR/BPS Guide to Pharmacology has curated quantitative interactions between 1300 protein targets and 6000 ligands. The NIH launched the Illuminating the Druggable Genome (IDG) program and the private-public partnership to unlock the untargeted genome, which spearheaded advances in this work.
"Applications of Drug-Target Data in Translating Genomic Variation into Drug Discovery Opportunities" was the topic of a talk by Anne Gaulton (EMBL/EBI), which discussed linking ChEMBL druggability and drug-target data with results of genome-wide association studies to facilitate drug discovery repurposing. She discussed the application of using the combined information to identify non-active site pockets within drug targets, broadening their druggability, and using drug target information for the design of new genotyping arrays around the druggablegenome.
"How Can Genomic Databases Be Linked to Chemical Structural Information?" was the topic of the talk given by Rachelle Bienstock, in which she focused largely on a discussion of the Cancer Genome Atlas project and the NCI cancer genomics cloud pilot projects. Three project awards were given by NCI to develop cloud pilots: one to the Broad Institute, one to the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB), and one to Seven Bridges Genomics. The objective of these cloud projects will be to develop tools to navigate the genomic information and link the molecular basis of cancer to cancer target drug discovery and the cancer therapeutics response portal to correlate specific genomic characteristics of tumors with drug treatment outcomes.
Robin Haw (OICR, Canada) spoke about "Reactome Pathway Knowledgebase: Connecting Pathways, Networks and Disease" and presented a systems biology graphical notation, a pathway browser, and protein and chemical structures with external data linkages to ZINC and ChemEMBL. The reactome knowledgebase (http://www.reactome.org) is an open access, public domain bioinformatics resource with reaction and biological pathway information. This data set visualizes interactions of gene products and the application of bioinformatics tools to find patterns in genomic data sets. ReactomeFIVIz is a Cytoscape application which utilizes FI (functional interactions) to correlate pathway and network analysis to identify genes. An example of clustering and annotating The Cancer Genome Atlas Breast Cancer mutations was shown.
Huijun Wang of Merck discussed the "Competitive Intelligence Workbench," a tool developed and used within Merck to integrate multiple sources of data through project dashboards. "Using Systems Biology in Computational Drug Design Workflows" was the topic of the presentation by George Nicola from Afecta Pharmaceuticals, which is a drug repurposing company. Afecta uses KNIME workflows to enumerate derivatives from patents and generates a combinatorial library of analogues and fingerprints to profile compounds and screen them within a virtual library.
In "Combining Semantic Triples across Domains to Identify New and Novel Relationships and Knowledge," Michael Clark concluded the session by presenting some of the Elsevier Pathway Studio tools to link chemical compound data with biological pathway information.
In summary, the symposium provided state-of-the-art information regarding database searching and linking of diverse chemistry activity and structure information with bioactivity, biological pathway, and genomics information and the use of workflow tools and APIs to integrate and use the data effectively.
Rachelle J. Bienstock
This symposium on March 16, 2016, had an exciting variety of presentations focused on collaborative work between libraries and researchers. Some of the topics included new services in libraries, the future of libraries, scholarly communication trends, 3D printing, data visualization, researcher profiles, and chemical safety.
In the morning, Jeremy Garritano (University of Virginia; formerly University of Maryland) first presented "Expanding the Research Commons Model into Disciplinary Instances." Jeremy discussed the ongoing development of learning and research commons from one small space to multiple-location spaces enhanced by virtual portals at the University of Maryland Library. The renaming of the physical space to Research Commons eliminated silos and facilitated collaborations among a variety of disciplines. The virtual presence not only provided integrated library services but also enabled campus partnerships with the Division of Research, IT, and the Library through a virtual portal, Integrated Research Resources on Campus (IRRoC). The challenges of establishing the research commons included no consensus on key terminology, such as research versus search, steep learning curves with grant-funded research for some collaborators, and communication obstacles across units.
Jeremy Frey (University of Southampton) discussed "Libraries for the Future: A Digital Economy Perspective." Jeremy started with a comparison between the traditional view of the library and the current and future roles of librarians and libraries. Researchers turn to libraries for guidance in efficient and accurate access to information, in handling data, and in using information and data. However, libraries can no longer handle the scale required to be the sole quality control center for information. To address this issue, librarians should continue curating information, while teaching other people to curate information, as well. In addition, librarians can help establish amongst researchers a mindset of sharing research, starting from the very beginning of the research process. Libraries will continue to be the focal point of universities and provide connectivity to all.
Kiyomi Deards (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) presented "Leveraging the Interdisciplinarity of Chemistry: Building Interdisciplinary Collaborations." Kiyomi introduced the SciPop Talks! outreach program and other efforts to create collaborations with Nebraska STEM literacy programs. Ensuring speaker-audience engagement and good publicities were key to the success of the science outreach program, SciPop Talks! She also demonstrated how librarians could be involved in state-wide initiatives to facilitate STEM literacy, such as organizing a statewide survey and retreats for supporters to create an opt-in STEM directory, hosting it on a sustainable Web site of a statewide, nonprofit organization.
Ye Li (University of Michigan, U-M) presented "Predicting Local Trends in Scholarly Communication for Decision-Making in Collection Development: An Exploration Beyond Citation Analysis." Ye analyzed a large set of research articles (61,269) from U-M researchers working on chemistry-related topics as an aid to understanding the research community and developing collections. The bibliographic data were retrieved from the Michigan Expert system provided by Elsevier. The analysis revealed the top journals in which U-M chemists choose to publish, due to campus research focus and journal scales, and provided quantitative evidence of the broad distribution of chemistry-related research across campus. The network plot of publications and research themes could help identify units with which to consult for decision-making about a specific journal and to identify the best journals to recommend to local researchers working on a specific field. Ye also attempted to classify journals using time-series clustering in an attempt to predict those journals in which U-M chemists would tend to publish more in the future. The current research suggests increased publishing in PLoS ONE, as the growth of publications in this open access journal was extremely large in recent years.
Vincent Scalfani (University of Alabama) presented "Academic Technologies: A New Library Service to Offer Advanced Software Training." Vin introduced the partnership between the library and other campus divisions in offering robust software training. All science librarians share the responsibility of delivering software trainings for tools, such as MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, QtiPlot, Adobe InDesign, ChemDraw, 3D Printing, MatLab etc. Vin took opportunities to include cheminformatics skills and promotion of library resources into the training, too, including preparing scripts in MatLab to allow interaction with chemistry databases through APIs and performing text analysis with MatLab and Mathematica. The major challenges for the library in hosting the software training were access, licensing, maintenance of software, impact measures, and time limitations.
Amy Sarjeant (Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre) presented "Enhanced Chemical Understanding through 3D-printed Models." Amy introduced how the partnership among CCDC, librarians, and faculty could help develop 3D-prints of molecules to facilitate research and learning. Amy showcased several 3D prints of mechanicallyinterlocked molecules, molecules with rotatable bonds, and molecules with flexible bonds, all of which could be helpful with real 3D models. Amy also discussed the challenges in converting the 3D models exported from the Cambridge Structural Database System into an appropriate format for a local 3D printer and how librarians could help in the process, aside from providing easy access to 3D printers.
In the afternoon, Danielle Bodrero Hoggan (The Scripps Research Institute) presented "Leveraging the VIVO Research Networking System to Facilitate Collaboration and Data Visualization." VIVO is a Web platform research networking system initially developed at Cornell University that supports searching, browsing, and advanced visualizations. Danielle and her colleague, Michaeleen Trimarchi, used the VIVO networking system to create profiles for Scripps faculty members. Several interactive graphics were created, including a co-author network and a network of scientific discipline areas. The Science of Science (Sci2) Tool was used to plot the VIVO data into networked visualizations that showed faculty-department collaborative connections.
Grace Baysinger (Stanford University) presented on "Stanford Profiles Created to Support the University's Scholarly Community." Stanford Profiles is a Web platform that allows faculty, students, staff, and post-docs to create personal profiles highlighting their research, teaching, and publications. The system auto-populates names, appointments, courses, advisor names, and publication citations. Users are able to search Stanford Profiles via name and keyword queries for research area, thus making communication and collaboration easier. Stanford Profiles also enables users to easily generate a CV, and Stanford University developers to access the data via an API.
Linda Galloway (formerly of Syracuse University; now at Chapman University) presented on "Managing Researchers' Reputations throughout the Research Life Cycle." Linda discussed the changing landscape of scholarly communications and how discovery of literature is changing (e.g., discovery via social media). Social networks such as Academia, LinkedIn, Mendeley, and ORCID are becoming very popular with researchers, as they allow control over shared materials and help to promote scholarship, but Linda discussed some drawbacks to social media platforms: users must monitor them frequently, be aware of copyright policies, and understand their metrics. Finally, best practices for managing social media profiles and accounts were highlighted.
Leah McEwen (Cornell University) presented on "Anatomy of the Chemistry Research Enterprise in the Academic Sector: Serving the Underserved in a Large Research Institution." Leah talked about creating a digital data culture. Interestingly, much of the chemistry data is still typed manually and organized by researchers (e.g., NMR shifts, mass spectral data). Workflows and systems should make this process easier and more efficient for researchers. How can service groups (e.g. instrument labs, health and safety, and libraries) support researchers with digital management of data? Different levels of chemistry data management were discussed, including highly- curated post-publication data, at-publication data, and pre-publication laboratory data. Lastly, several case studies were discussed highlighting potential methods of supporting chemistry data management. The future will likely need to focus on methods that improve accuracy of data collection, verification of data, streamlined report generation, and increased communication.
Ralph Stuart (Keene State College) presented "The Safety Use Case for Chemical Safety Information." Limitations in finding chemical information were discussed, including the use of generic safety information in textbooks followed by the notation, "see MSDS," outdated links on Wikipedia, and no clear description of the rationale for choosing a particular source. Ralph discussed a project on which he is working, comparing the safety information in Wikipedia to PubChem using the following methodology: locating chemicals in the PubChem Laboratory Chemical Safety Summary (LCSS), converting the PubChem CIDs into InChI keys, and using these InChI keys to compare the LCSS to Wikipedia data. Future directions include studying the Wikipedia chembox structure, developing a Wikipedia-PubChem link for safety information, and evaluating which chemical safety data should be included within the Wikipedia chemboxes.
Yanli Wang (NCBI, NLM, NIH) presented "PubChem BioAssay: Grow with the Community." Yanli discussed the current PubChem BioAssay tools and how PubChem has grown in depositions since 2005. Usage of the PubChem database and citations to PubChem also continue to grow. Next, Yanli discussed the benefits of data sharing, such as increased discoverability, value-added integration, data management, and building collaborations. Finally, the PubChem data submission tool was discussed, as well as the increasing number of journal publishers requiring deposition of data into PubChem.
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Nottingham Forest visit Preston North End in the Sky Bet Championship clash on Saturday 1 April (kick-off 3pm).
Nottingham Forest make the trip to Deepdale on Saturday looking to build on the last-minute equaliser that heralded a 2-2 draw against East Midlands rivals Derby County last time out. The international break has given Mark Warburton a chance to work with his side and he will be looking for three points to ease any relegation fears.
Preston have had a great season and are still in with a shout of the play-offs. North End are five points off the top six, sitting in ninth place, and Simon Grayson's side will be looking to build on an impressive run of five wins in the last six outings at home.
Matt Mills and Eric Lichaj are expected to return from injury for the trip to Lancashire, and Jamie Ward is also available after serving a two-game suspension. The match is likely to come too soon for Jack Hobbs though as he continues his comeback from injury.
Simon Grayson's injury problems are starting to clear up. Right backs Alex Baptiste and Marnick Vermijl are both fit after overcoming their respective knee and hernia problems. Tyias Browning is about a fortnight away from returning and Calum Woods is close to a full return to training after missing the whole season, but John Welsh is still unavailable.
Nottingham Forest
Sheffield Wednesday (H) - Lost 2-1
Wigan (A) - Drew 0-0
Brighton (H) - Won 3-0
Brentford (H) - Lost 3-2
Burton (A) - Lost 1-0
Derby (H) - Drew 2-2
Preston North End
Wigan (A) - Drew 0-0
QPR (H) - Won 2-1
Fulham (A) - Lost 3-1
Derby (A) - Drew 1-1
Reading (H) - Won 3-0
Blackburn (A) - Drew 2-2
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Irish winger Aiden McGeady has been in scintillating form of late as he leads PNE's charge towards the top six. He struck the late-gasp equaliser against rivals Blackburn last time out and also was in fine form as North End dispatched Reading at Deepdale the week previously as his technical ability and trickery light up the Championship.
The Republic of Ireland international is on loan at North End from Everton having started his career with Celtic. After six years and more than 150 league appearances, he made the bold move to Russia with Spartak Moscow but things didn't go as planned. He moved to Everton in January 2014 and spent the second half of last season on loan at Sheffield Wednesday before becoming one of Simon Grayson's key men this term.
Preston manager Simon Grayson said: "We are down to eight games now and you talk about an eight game season where there is a lot still riding on it for us and a lot of other clubs.
"It is the business end of the season that everyone talks about. We are looking forward to it, looking to embrace it, and ultimately just see where it takes us.
"If we get to where we really want to get to then absolutely fantastic, if we drop short, then it's still been a very good season but what we can guarantee for everybody is that we will give it our utmost to try and get to where we want to get to as we keep mentioning."
Tickets are on general sale and are priced as follows:
Adults - £24
Seniors (65 years of age and over) - £16
Young adults (17-21 years of age) - £16
Under 17s - £8
Under 8s - £2
Tickets can be purchased in-person at the ticket office, online at tickets.nottinghamforest.co.uk or by calling 0115 982 4388.
Live audio commentary of the game will be available on Forest Player HD from 2pm while there will also be live text commentary available on the Forest Wall and on the club's Twitter page from 2.30pm. Forest Player HD will also have extended match highlights from 12pm on Sunday, as well as all the reaction from the Forest camp after the game.
To win:
Preston North End - 87/100
Nottingham Forest - 3/1
Draw - 51/20
To score first:
Jermaine Beckford - 41/10
Jordan Hugill - 17/4
Britt Assombalonga - 21/4
Zach Clough - 6/1
Fixtures to be played at 3pm on Saturday unless otherwise stated.
Derby v QPR (Friday, kick-off 7.45pm)
Barnsley v Sheffield Wednesday (kick-off 12.30pm)
Aston Villa v Norwich
Brentford v Bristol City
Brighton v Blackburn
Huddersfield v Burton
Ipswich v Birmingham
Newcastle v Wigan
Rotherham v Fulham
Wolves v Cardiff
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The only deer pic from September
The cameras are not doing well in the woods. The spots that traditionally shoot a lot of deer are not getting them. I am going to try a new approach next week see if the other spots are just as dead.
Wildgame Camera hasn't been working well either, so that's a factor.
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Engine Maker With a Head of Steam
Cummins is a tech company masquerading as a heavy-equipment manufacturer.
Based on most analysts' opinions, the shares of engine-maker Cummins are running on fumes. Both the company and the shares have had a remarkable run, they'll concede, but the stock is now awfully expensive. It's up 14-fold since March 2003, and the price-earnings ratio is three times its historical level. On the other hand, Cummins is growing like kudzu, and most analysts have underestimated its technological prowess. Even at $140 a share, Cummins is worth a look.
One of the few bullish analysts is former Cummins employee Charlie Rentschler, of Wall Street Access. To start with, Rentschler says, "No other American company has done such an incredible job of sticking its roots down into China and India." When most other U.S. companies were sticking up their noses at joint ventures, Cummins was busy finding partners in both countries. It was in India in the 1960s and in China in the 1970s. Two of the three new engine plants Cummins is building are in China. Many Beijing buses, part of the biggest bus fleet in the world, run with Cummins engines.
Such engines are Cummins's bread and butter. The company makes diesel and natural-gas-powered engines for trucks, buses and RVs. But the company also has an important and growing business making generators for factories, offices, hospitals and the like. Generator sales are growing particularly briskly in countries where the electric grid crashes regularly.
Cummins's biggest advantage, says Rentschler, is superior technology. The Columbus, Ind., company is in the vanguard of developing car and truck diesel engines that must meet increasingly tight pollution controls. And passenger cars with diesel engines -- already popular in Europe -- could be a key to lessening U.S. dependence on foreign oil, says Rentschler. In 2009, Chrysler will introduce a light pickup truck with a Cummins diesel engine, he says.
What could go wrong? Well, a lot of big, well-managed companies, such as Caterpillar and Deere, make engines. And most of CumminsUs sales go to companies, such as big-truck makers, that also produce their own engines. Morningstar analyst Ben Butwin sums up the strategic case against Cummins: "The company's recent results are impressive, but we don't see any sustainable competitive advantages."
That's a good point. Cummins's clean-diesel technologies won't be on the leading edge forever. But Cummins keeps coming up with new technologies and new markets, so it can hone new edges.
Analysts see a 19% earnings gain, to $9.13 per share, in 2008. Rentschler thinks Cummins can earn $14 to $15 a share by 2011. That could mean a near-doubling of profits from 2007 levels. So although the stock (symbol CMI) is not likely to produce a 14-bagger over the next few years, earnings growth should keep the shares chugging along nicely for the foreseeable future.


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Are you a first-time mother or is this your third or fourth baby? No matter what your story may be, it is always good to know how to take proper care of a newborn. These little humans have just entered the world and are extremely weak and helpless and need to be cared for, 24 hours of the day. They are not only extremely weak but since they cannot communicate their needs, all they do is cry. It is easy to get frustrated because of this, but you must understand that you were once just as helpless, you had a lot of kind, loving people take care of you and you can now take care of yourself. So whether it is your own kid or if it was your best friend or maybe even your sister that gave birth, read the tips below on how to care for a newborn so that you may help them.
If your newborn isn't eating, he or she is probably preciously sleeping. You can hire a photographer who specializes in newborn baby photography from Perth to have some beautiful photos taken of your baby that you can later look at and cherish when they're older. Believe it or not, new born babies can sleep up to sixteen hours a day! But sadly, they do not sleep at a stretch and keep waking up every hour which can be extremely exhausting for us as mothers because we have to constantly be alert. One of the best things you can do for yourself at this stage in your infants' life is to accept that you are going to be constantly tired. Once you accept this, you will find that you are far less irritable because you're not constantly expecting to feel rested. Right now, your main concern must be your baby. But that does not mean you must stay awake all day and all night as this will affect your health adversely. You must take shifts. Allow your husband or maybe even your parents, if they live with you, to take care of your baby for a few hours as you shower and maybe nap.
One of the best things you can do to soothe your newborn is to mimic the womb and create the same movements. Keeping your newborn warm and cozy can also help. You can try warming up the wet wipes you use to clean them, and when they are a little bit older, you can even take a warm bath with them. This will calm you as well. A trick that a newborn photographer uses while photographing babies is playing music that will soothe them and make them relax.So treat your newborn with love and care and help them grow just as your parents helped you so that they can become strong individuals that will one day do great things and make you proud.


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Dear designers managers and readers.
It is with some sadness but also a great joy that I am sending this notecard to you.
After almost three years blogging I believe it's time to stop.
It has been difficult for me to follow the pace of blogging accompanied by the rhythm of RL work and I also feel that my mood has been changed and I can and SHOULD give up my place to good and new bloggers that we have on the grid.
I will not go sad because it was a wonderful experience and I thank you all for the trust and support given during this period …. Without your doors open I would never have conquered everything that I did! ♥
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Maybe in the near future I will blog again but for now it will be better to take an indefinite break to rest, organize and enjoy a little more of this life.
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We had 35 students finish the semester. It is exciting to see the changes in the students over the past six weeks. And to hear about lessons that they've learned in class being implemented at their churches, organizations, and in their personal lives.
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UAE UPS Market Future Outlook to 2021
The report titled "UAE UPS Market Outlook to 2021 – Rising Number of SMBs and Enhancing Commercial Sector to Foster Growth" provides a comprehensive analysis of UPS market in the UAE. The report focuses on overall market size for sale of UPS systems. Market is segmented based on product type and sub segmented based on their essential features and technical specifications. Segmentation is also done on the basis of KVA Ratings. The report also covers customer's buying decision parameters, competitive landscape of major players in the UAE UPS Market and import scenario. The report concludes with market projection for future and analyst recommendation highlighting the major opportunities and trends.
This report helps readers to identify the ongoing trends in the market and anticipated growth in future depending upon changing market dynamics in the coming years. The report will help existing distributors, manufacturers along with end users in UPS division to align their market centric strategies according to ongoing and expected trends in the future
The sector has been witnessing significant growth in recent years, supported by several drivers such as the surging number of SMBs and rising commercial establishments in the country. The industry is represented by major international players such as APC by Schneider Electric, Emerson Network Power/Vertiv, Eaton, TrippLite, Socomec, AEG Power Solution and others. The market for UPS market was evaluated at USD ~ million during 2015, grown at a CAGR of ~% during 2011-2016.
UAE UPS market thrives majorly from the import of tools from countries such as China, the Philippines, Germany, Italy, US, India, France, Slovakia and others. Almost all the manufacturers present in the industry are importing their goods from these countries. The custom duty on import of UPS systems in the UAE is ~% due to which all the major players are importing their products and saving on various investment costs.
Below 10 KVA have gathered ~% share in the UAE UPS market during 2016, by revenue. Majority of SME's in the UAE use UPS systems with KVA rating below 10.
Line Interactive: Line interactive type has been the most popular UPS type in the UAE due to high reliability, ideal for rack/distributed servers and for harsh power environments. These types of UPS systems are demanded by majority of commercial establishments in the UAE due to which it has gathered the largest share in the market. It has accounted for a share of around ~% during 2016.
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Standby UPS: Standby UPS is the most common type of UPS used for personal computers. The systems are considered as best value for personal workstations, however for other applications, line interactive and online are better.
UAE UPS market is led by three players, APC by Schneider Electric, Vertiv/Emerson Network Power and Eaton. These three players accounted for a combined revenge share of ~% in the market during 2016. As of 2016, there are around ~ players present in the UAE UPS market.
UAE UPS market has been anticipated to grow at a significant pace over the coming five years. The market growth will be witnessed majorly on the grounds of growing number of SMB's in the UAE. Growing number of SMB's in the country will provide major boost to the market over the period 2016-2021. Apart from this the growing IT market in the UAE which demand for technologically advanced expensive UPS systems will also supplement the growth in the industry over the period 2016-2021. UAE UPS market has been projected to grow to USD ~ million by 2021, posting a expected CAGR growth of ~% from 2016-2021.


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If this sounds familiar to you, I understand. It can be hard to take that first step toward trading (even if you're just planning to trade on a casual basis), only because the risk seems enormous!
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What I mean is this: Get-rich-quick trading strategies are everywhere. Chances are, you know someone who thinks they have a "foolproof" plan for making millions in the stock market overnight.
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But, try to find a methodical, well-tested approach for repeatedly making money from your trading efforts, and you're probably going to end up empty-handed.
Either way, the result is the same. You either put off getting started (and rob yourself of your dream), try out a few "miracle strategies" and then get out when you start seeing losses, or try it again for quick riches and end up losing your entire investment (and sometimes even more!)
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Anyone know if Diet Cherry Coke is a seasonal thing? How about Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper?
I try not to drink too much soda as I write, but when I do, these are my top picks. In the last month or so, they've become harder and harder to find...no luck at Stop & Shop, Hannaford, Star Market, or even Target (which I can always count on for replenishing my soda stash.) Is there a cherry-flavoring shortage when the leaves change? Help!
In better news, I heard back from my editor about my novella, Last Stand. (She's speedy! Of course, it hits the shelves in May 2008--in publishing time, that's pretty quick--so she needs to be speedy.) She liked it and had only a few suggestions, all easy to work into the story. I promised to get it back to her by Tuesday or Wednesday.
I may be forced to delve into my limited supply of Black Cherry Propel water as I work.
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[SatNews] TeamCast and Integrasys have now combined their technologies and expertise for testing and demonstrating new opportunities offered by CID insertion and spectrum monitoring.
CID stands for Carrier Identification. The purpose of this new technology (referenced under ETSI TS 103 129) is to allow the quick identification of any carrier causing interference to other signals. The system has been optimized for satellite applications including DVB-S, DVB-DSNG, DVB-S2 and DVB-S2X. The minimum content of the Carrier ID is the DVB-CID Global Unique Identifier (GUI), based on the MAC address of the equipment (Modulator) and fixed by the equipment manufacturer. It consists in adding, inside the satellite modulator, a very low power RF signal combining with the useful signal (S/S2/S2X) on the transmission site. Being robustly coded and modulated, this identification signal can be easily retrieved at the reception site, even when its power is low compared to the useful signals. The insertion of such identification signals will become mandatory in the forthcoming years in the USA, as soon as 2016 for DSNG applications and 2018 for all applications, and later on in other parts of the world.
In this common test, the VYPER satellite modulator from TeamCast is used for generating a DVB-S2X compliant signal with the embedded DVB-CID compliant identifier, while a VectorSat Carrier Monitoring and Interference Detection System from Integrasys is used to visualize, measure and detect the CID signal on the transmission. VectorSat shows the new capabilities offered to satellite operators and service provider to monitor their carriers and possible interferences from other satellite users, for maximizing the quality of service and interference free service.
Gerard Faria, TeamCast's CTO, said, "This is a clear illustration of the new CID insertion capabilities of our new VYPER modulator, moving towards the next market requirements for DSNG and other applications in the US market" he adds.
Alvaro Sanchez, Sales & Marketing Manager at Integrasys, said, "Integrasys has been working actively on Carrier ID initiative since 2013 supporting IRG; nowadays Integrasys in the technology leader for Interference Prevention and Mitigation systems offering a wide range of Carrier Monitoring products and Interference prevention tools to automate the LineUps because Preventing is the Key."


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Viacom (NYSE: VIA), which purchased online gamer community Xfire for $102 million four years ago, is offloading the business to Titan Gaming. It's likely that Viacom is getting just a very small fraction of what it paid, considering that Titan Gaming, which is launching a platform that lets game publishers and content sites set up tournaments, has raised only $1 million in funding.
Xfire provides members with a free downloadable tool, which automatically shares with friends what games they're playing online; they can use it to message friends and share screenshots and files. The service claims 16.7 million registered users, although it's not clear how many are active in total. Xfire hadn't made any press announcements since last December, when it announced a partnership with Livestream, although the Xfire blog shows that the site was still very much being updated.
When Viacom bought Xfire, it said it hoped that the site would grow quickly, and indeed the ranks of Xfire's registered users have quadrupled over the last four years. There were concerns, however, starting the day the deal was announced, that Viacom had overpaid.
It's unclear what the divestiture says about Viacom's other online game holdings, which include AddictingGames.com, Shockwave.com, Neopets, GameTrailers, and Nick.com Games. We've asked for comment about why Viacom is selling Xfire and will update when we hear back.
Titan Gaming says in a short statement on its site that the "Xfire services will continue uninterrupted" and that it intends to "build upon (Xfire's) tradition and utilize the Xfire platform to help gaming companies better engage their users and monetize their games." The company says it's changing its name to Xfire.


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This summer, I've been introducing myself to my new congregation in the weekly newsletter. Last week, I began sharing about my spiritual journey. I thought this might be helpful to share portions of these articles on my blog as well.
I grew up in a pastor's home and sometimes being a "preacher's kid" was difficult emotionally. The other kids teased me and I didn't always like that. I did the things that kids do growing up, and I'm not proud of all of them. But at the same time, I had this ever-present sense that God loved me. Only later did I know that this was what I'd call the experience of prevenient grace. There was never a moment when I didn't know God loved me. Even when I felt miserable.
I have already shared with you an experience but I would like to say more about it this week. When I was ten years old, my daddy was leading a youth retreat for our church at Camp Lee in Anniston, Alabama. He was the pastor, so I got to go because I was his kid (I was not old enough for youth group yet). I remember getting to sit in the laps of the teenage girls. But most of all, I remember that these youth talked about their relationship with God in their own language. It did more than impress me … it touched me.
I asked my dad toward the end of the retreat if I could say something at the closing service. Without asking what I wanted to say, he called on me during our Vespers the next day. I remember it like it was yesterday. I said, "All my life I've been going to Sunday School and Vacation Bible School, and I've learned the stories of Jesus. But this weekend, I have realized that Jesus is more than just a story book character. He's real. And I want everybody to know that I am going to serve him with my whole life."
Little did I know at the time I would become a preacher. I'm glad God didn't reveal that to me yet … I might have run the other way! It has been a great adventure.
Little did I know at the time I would become a preacher. I'm glad God didn't reveal that to me yet … I might have run the other way! It has been a great adventure.
Pictured is the prayer trail at my former church with one of the "stations of the cross" in the distance


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Hope you have some spare change handy as a piece of DLC for the recently released Gal*Gun Double Peace might end up breaking the bank.
Called Pheremone Z this item is available for purchase in the PS4 and Vita store for the low price of only $89.99 which is $30-50 more than the retail price for the game.
The item when purchased allow players to see through the clothes of all characters in game who all happen to be Japanese Schoolgirls.
Also available for $9.99 each are the Devil's Cutting Board and the Devil's Meat Buns which decrease and increase bust size of all the characters in the game.


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The Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP blog has started a series Feature of the Day posts for Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 R2; as the most recent versions have been, these posts are in the form of PowerPoint slides; I am reposting them here so they can be read more easily.
The series index for this series of posts is here.
The fourteenth Feature of the Day is Payroll Admin can print W2 using Self Service report.
With this feature of the day, the W2 can be printed without using the pre-printed forms.


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My wife planted three 8-foot rows of strawberries last year and now we are harvesting buckets of strawberries.
In fact, we can't eat them fast enough. Most are going into the freezer.
My genius spouse selected varieties that will keep us in berries till fall. There's Earliglow, which, as the name implies, starts making berries in spring. Cavendish is an "early mid-season" bearer. Then there's Mara des Bois, a so-called ever-bearing strawberry that labors on through the end of summer.
Still, the strawberry expert is not satisfied. She intends to plant additional rows with additional varieties that will fill any gaps in the calendar that might exist. In other words, excepting those months when the farm is covered in snow, we will be eating strawberry shortcake till our stomachs burst.
But wait! Since we have all those frozen strawberries, there's no reason we can't pig out on them all winter long.


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But company is leveraged over its eyeballs — 128%. I'll give it a miss but OCBC's analysis is worth a read in giving one the facts on which it bases its call.
OCBC Investment Research, March 9
ROXY-PACIFIC Holdings is a specialty property and hospitality group in Singapore. It primarily develops domestic residential projects, and also owns two investment properties and a hotel, Grand Mercure Roxy Hotel (GMRH). In FY10, 77 per cent of revenues and 59 per cent of earnings were derived from the property development segment. The investment properties segment and GMRH constituted 1.5 per cent and 20.5 per cent of revenues respectively. We expect future earnings in FY11 and FY12 to be underpinned by recognition of revenue at 12 projects that are mostly sold out.
We believe Roxy enjoys a strong reputation for quality small to mid-sized projects in the East; and in recent years, it has expanded successfully to other regions and larger projects, ie, Spottiswoode 18 at Tanjong Pagar. Management has indicated a soft target of $300 million in acquisitions this year and would also look closely at commercial and retail deals. The current balance sheet shows a high net gearing of 128 per cent. If we revalue GMRH to $188 million (currently held at $71 million book value), net gearing falls to 61 per cent..
We have valued Roxy at $0.55 per share – a 25 per cent discount to its RNAV sum-of-the-parts value of $0.73.We have valued GMRH both on discounted cash flow and net operating income-cap rate bases, and derived a fair value of $188 million. At Roxy's current market cap of $283 million, if we account for our conservative valuation of GMRH and include the net present value of already sold-out projects, we find the market is pricing in an expected value destruction of $144 million ahead.
We think this is unrealistic given Roxy's limited investment asset exposure, the four landbank sites that will launch in FY11-12, and management's plan to deploy $300 million in capital in FY11. We estimate the market price of Roxy roughly translates into an expectation of a 30-40 per cent likelihood of a catastrophic 30 per cent plunge across property prices. Given current datapoints in the property market, we think this is unrealistic.
We think the four landbank projects (expected to launch in FY11-12) will add at least $20 million to RNAV. In our opinion, results at these launches will cause the market to re-calibrate its share price upwards. Also, given the recent share price performance, we think the market is overly pessimistic on acquisitions performance.
Thoughtful risk-weighted acquisitions in FY11 will also be catalysts for further share-price upside. Finally, with the fundamental value held in GMRH and already sold-out projects, the downside is likely capped for patient investors who take on prudent exposure. Initiate with a 'buy' and a fair value of $0.55 (at a 25 per cent discount to RNAV of $0.73).


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The Environmental Product Declaration is in accordance with ISO 14025 and describes the enviromental features of the construction of ceramic tiles used by Ceramic Solutions. This declaration is based on the "Ceramic Tiles" PCR document, version 08-2011.
Ceramic Solutions suppliers are in accordance to this declaration, which promotes the manufacture of products that are environmentally safe. German manufacturers have long shared a passion for preserving the environment. By setting domestic standards, investing in environmental technologies and setting up partnerships to promote their green products.
Environmental protection during manufacturing stages:
No contamination of water or ground is made during the manufacture of Ceramic Solutions tiles. The process is entirely free of waste water, with mixing water released in the form of steam during the drying process or redirected into the internal water circuit where it is reused. A brief description of the environmental protection measures are listed below, and are aligned towards low energy consumption, low-emission waste air and recycling of materials.
1. Broken ceramic material or other clay refuse are recycled.
2. Glaze and other waste water are being collected in a special water treatment facility. Solid matters are separated from water and then dried, recycled and put back to the baking process as a stabilizing ground offset.
3. Up to 75 % of the operational water demand is generated from in-house.
4. Filter waste from the flue gas treatment is brought to recycling and then reused 100 % in the production of concrete or gypsum raw material.
5. Products are packed on eco-friendly standardized pool pallets and wrapped up by recycled or recyclable plastic packaging film.
6. Packaging material consists at least of 80% eco-friendly recycled paper.
7. Thermal Recycling: Process related waste kiln heat is recycled and economical used for drying.
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Ceramic Solutions German tiles have a life expectancy of 50+ years. With an end-user focus, ceramic tiles are expected to have a lifespan the same as that of the service of the building in which they are used. No expensive or environmentally damaging maintenance or remedial work is required for correctly specified ceramic tiles.
In comparison, commercial facilities using vinyl flooring only has a life expectancy of 10-15 years. In areas of high foot and wheel traffic, it is expected that maintenance will need to occur within the first 3 years. Consequently the issue of disposing PVC flooring becomes a huge environmental burden. Whilst many vinyl manufacturers promote the recyclability of vinyl, this only refers to unused off-cuts. Vinyl containing adhesives end-up in landfill. As mentioned by Inhabitat's Green Building guide, PVC has been repeadedly linked to many health concerns and has been listed as one of the worst materials for cancer related impacts. So, you may ask yourself, what is the environmental and human harm when considering the end-of-life disposal for your flooring. It should be noted that the Australia's Green Building Council offers a credit for PVC minimization.
Ceramic tiles are inert and do not present any hazards if they are landfilled. Ceramic tiles can be recycled after they are removed e.g. crushed for use as inert fillers.
Environmental Benefits using HT Ceramic Tiles
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Scientific analyses prove that a HT facade surface of 1000m² cleans the air as effectively as 70 medium sized deciduous trees. The antibacterial surface also helps decompose algae, fungi and moss. Rainwater flushes dirt and residue down the surface thereby creating low maintenance, self washing cladding, reducing the need for detergents. HT coated products ensure an ageless appearance and long term minimum maintenance.
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Pamplico CRAiLAR Facility Update
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The Pamplico CRAiLAR facility continues to be readied for the delivery of our first containers of machinery. We're still in process to get all certifications complete and the rigging installed, so very soon we will see this grand space buzzing with activity.
The last pile of recycling ready to be carted away
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Historical Photos on Display
We have a large number of high quality framed historical photos of notable people and places concerning the Chermside & Districts area. These photos have been displayed at the Chermside, Zillmere & Banyo (pictured) libraries, as well as at the Kedron-Wavell RSL.
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Far sooner than later, most fakes emerge in their true colours…but whereas it's usually good to be in on the first blunder of every counterfeit politician, in some cases the ramifications for the victims are so disgustingly unjust, one gets only anger from pointing out the amoral compass involved. The Slog explains why Theresa May's attitude to the female State pension heist will go down in history as a defining hypocrisy….and Waspi politics let her get away with an unparalleled political abuse of citizen rights.
The arguments put forward over time against pension restitution for so-called 'Waspi' women – UK females born after 1950 who are already being asked to wait for their pensions, and those from later years who face the same fate – have ranged from cold and cruel to petty and just downright untrue. These women have, variously, been told that "this was all made very clear 20 years ago" (a lie) "their contributions could never have afforded the pensions they're due on the private market" (rubbish) "the most you'll wait is two years" (a lie) "you breezed through life without paying attention" (patronising, petty and untrue) and the worst one of all, "there is no money left" (utter nonsense).
Do the pensions we get really represent value for money – ie, more than one could get from the private sector? No, they don't.
The Government doesn't invest our money, it pays pensions out of current account. See what would've happened had you invested the money yourself.
At a simple 5% interest rate ( for many of the years involved, rates were at 12% – but 5% is less than Britain pays on the money it borrows from overseas), by the age of 58, you would be able to withdraw 3% per annum to live on…and pocket nearly £27,000 a year.
You could easily afford to do that, because the capital sum you'd have would be a shade under £900,000. Even with Zirp in play, the pension would last 45 years.
So you see, the female State pension isn't generous: it's appallingly low because governments didn't invest what you gave them – they spent it – and any excess funds from early death weren't ringfenced.
That's how fraudulent the Government's case is.
But when it comes to "no money left", it's simply a convenient lie.
There is no such thing as "no money left"
Back in March, I went through the Government's own guidebook accompanying the last Budget, and showed in detail how the money could be found. Last week I stressed that £3 billion was sitting there in unclaimed pension benefits. Now – via sources, and then handed to me by Waspi members – monies have come to light from actuaries in the past overestimating the survival rate of State pensioners after 55.
According to official statistics, the rate among women likely to be dependent on the State Pension who die beforehand is 10%.
At today's prices, that would equal a sum in the area of £30bn.
Employers and employees contributed to the pensions involved, at a rate of 15% before tax charges. Together – even on a salary as low as £15,000, it comes to a sizeable sum – around £190,000. It was paid to the Government. It was never used in support of female pensioners: it was not ringfenced…..those monies were spent elsewhere.
Taking money under false pretences. Embezzlement. Call it what you like – it isn't justice.
There is no money left because the DWP/Treasury axis chose not to give it back to pensioners on the breadline. It has gone because of a policy decision about priorities, not because the government gave all it had to give
That's what these women have become….a low priority. Lower than bankers, lower than Whitehall civil servants, lower than migrants, lower than big donors to the Conservative Party, lower than trade unions, and lower than male pensioners.
The Government refutes that. Let's look at the evidence of the last 48 hours.
The despicable relegation of a Civil Rights abuse to beneath Cabinet level
Harken not unto what the buggers say – watch instead what they do. A selection of tweets from FT journalist Josephine Cumbo yesterday:
It's the usual dissembling and total lack of respect Waspis have come to expect. We start off with lies about priorities, but then demote pensions – one thing that almost every UK citizen will one day need – to below ministerial level and well outside the Cabinet. May gives the job instead to a wet behind the ears Oxbridge Lawyer with neoloiberal views. Not exactly what you'd call a new Prime Ministerial broom sweeping clean….more an I'm Alright Jack anti-democratic monster who wants to sweep 3.2 million women under the carpet.
Camerlot may be dead, but the Mayflower is on its way and plotting a very clear course. None of it suprises me. Waspis fed up of being ignored can now consider themselves relegated to the AOB of political life. The Waspi Executive can blather on until the Moon turns green, but events, discussions, rallies, meetings and membership totals are – as I predicted six months ago – of no use whatsoever against a cruel Establishment that treats its best citizens as if they might be alcies in the gutter of Skid Row.
I stated in these columns over the weekend that such things are merely symptoms of a malaise that runs far deeper than one ruthless woman. For women born after 1950, it is of course one of the biggest – if not the only – things in the way of them having the decent life they were promised for 40 of the 60 years during which one lying politician after another told them their pensions were safe. But for commentators engaged in a long and thankless trek towards a more just life for the State citizen, attacking the symptoms isn't going to cut it. Decent people have to be shown the road map, so they can make their own minds up whether it's for them, or not.
In terms of taking this fight to another level, there's nothing more I can do to help the victims of this Citizen abuse until they decide en masse to help themselves. In large sections of the Waspi movement I'm not welcome anyway, and many of those worst affected are the least equipped to conduct such a war against indifference.
This much, however, is obvious:
- The current leadership has persisted with a strategy thar has failed utterly to produce any redress whatsoever for those left destitute by the SPA 'reforms'
- It is censorious and élitist in almost everything it does, and this leaves large sections of Waspi frustrated and angry
- It is in denial about splits and petty infighting at the top, but evidence of it is already available on several websites regionally
- The results of its softly-softly approach are there for anyone with an objective, functioning brain to see: the women they represent have been fed hope and given nothing; as of yesterday, they do not represent a concern at Cabinet level.
That is a catalogue of failure no Executive should expect to survive. But if the rank and file allow it so to do, then the Government will simply carry on treating Waspis as if they were excrement on the sole of a shoe.
In the communications sector and the media, the direction of the Waspi Campaign has become a byword for amateurism. When dealing with sociopaths, there is no room for those who think it's likely to be a tickling contest….or even worse, a hobby.
The choice is yours. I will continue to post at the Waspistinger Facebook page and leave it up as an open communications channel. But neither I nor anyone else can help you until your own internal politics are banished forever.


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Sassy and Sporty
Lace Top (similar): Loft/ Tank Top (similar): Hollister/ Necklace (similar): Charming Charlie/ Joggers (similar): TJ Maxx (store) Rebecca Minkoff (designer)/ Heels (similar): TJ Maxx (store) Franco Sarto (designer)/ Purse (similar): Macy's (store) Michael Kors (designer)
A major trend for the spring is sporty details on clothing and accessories, so I wanted to put a look together that encompassed the sporty vibe with a feminine contrast. Joggers are a staple for the season and I love that these ones are tailored perfectly and are in a grey-blue color, which makes them very versatile. Since the joggers are looser, I wanted to put something more structured on top, such as this lace blouse and tank top layered under it, to add variety to look. Keeping the colors in pastel shades, I slid on these nude heels that have perforated details, which also is a nod towards the sporty feel of this outfit. A cream quilted handbag lent another ladylike touch, while a long spikey necklace threw in a perfect amount of edge. What are your favorite ways to style sports inspired pieces for the spring and summer? Let me know in the comments below!
Stay Classy!
xoxo Emily
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