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WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO REFEREE WARD-DAWSON By Steve Smoger as told to Doveed Linder
Referee Steve Smoger discusses his experiences as the third man in the ring for last Saturday's Andre Ward-Chad Dawson super middleweight world championship fight, which Ward won via tenth-round technical knockout. STEVE SMOGER: As a referee who normally works on the east coast, I was delighted that the California Commission selected me to work the Andre Ward-Chad Dawson fight. It was a dual title fight, as Ward�s WBC and WBA [168-pound] titles were both on the line. Everything was handled beautifully by everyone involved. Kathi Burns and chief inspector Che Guevara with the California Commission treated me with a lot of respect and professionalism, as did [sanctioning body supervisors] Peter Stucki with the WBC and Bob Mack with the WBA. Being that I was being licensed as a professional referee in the state of California for the first time, I had to get a complete physical which was conducted by Dr. Smithson, the chief physician of the fight. The weigh-in and pre-fight ceremonies took place in downtown Oakland. Andre Ward had a strong crowd out there to support him. It was his first fight back in Oakland since he won the Super Six, so this was something of a homecoming. The Dawson camp was very happy to see the involvement of east coast officials like myself and Julie Lederman, who was one of the judges. They commended the California Commission for their fairness. Before the fight, I went into the fighters� dressing rooms to give instructions. Andre Ward was all business, but he was very respectful. I congratulated Andre and his trainer Virgil Hunter on winning the Super Six. I had the privilege of working Andre�s last fight with Carl Froch and I told him that I was looking forward to working with him again. The last time I worked a Chad Dawson fight was in 2005 when he defeated Carl Daniels. [Trainer] John Scully, who reunited with Dawson somewhat recently, was in Dawson�s corner for that fight. I actually worked a few of John Scully�s fights in New England back when he was a youngster coming up, so I was very familiar with everyone involved. For this fight, HBO requested that both referees wear 'ref cams', meaning we were going to wear a small camera throughout the fight that was supposed to show the referee�s perspective of the action. I tentatively agreed to wear the camera. My only concern was that I didn�t want anything to impede my ability to move around the ring. As it turned out, there was no need for concern, because I didn�t end up wearing it. Before Ward-Dawson, I took a seat in the official�s dressing room to watch [the preceding bout] Antonio DeMarco- John Molina. That fight, of course, ended in forty-four seconds. HBO only had one 'ref cam', which was worn by referee Jack Reiss who was working DeMarco-Molina. I thought we would have a little time between fights so I could put the camera on, but before I knew it, the chief inspector told me it was time to get in the ring. When I got into the ring, the whole atmosphere had a certain intensity about it. I attribute that to the fact that we were in Andre Ward�s hometown. When I worked the Ward-Froch fight in Atlantic City, it didn�t have the same electricity as Ward-Dawson. The bell rang and both fighters were focused and determined. Chad gave a good account of himself in rounds one and two. In the third round, Andre caught him and dropped him. It was a good clean punch. Chad popped right up and shook his head, letting me know he was able to continue. In round four, Andre caught him again and Chad went down. As Andre was circling away, he tripped over Chad�s feet and he went down as well. However, I saw his punch land, so of course, I ruled it a knockdown. This time when Chad got up, he didn�t have the same energy and eagerness that he did in the third round. I could see that he was dazed by the punch. In round five, I saw a change in strategy from Chad. When they got close, he started clinching. I�m used to Andre working inside with one hand free, but Chad was clinching with both hands. I stayed out of it as much as I could, but I had to break them a few times, because Chad was using the clinches to stall the action. From rounds six through nine, Andre imposed his will and his skill and he began to wear Chad down. There were certain energy bursts from Chad where he would open up and throw a combination, but Andre would stifle Chad�s aggressiveness with moves of his own. The beginning of the end came in the tenth round when they were along the ropes. Andre let go with a series of uppercuts at close quarters and I could hear the impact of the punches. Chad went backwards, got caught, and dropped to a knee. He got up at the count of three and I continued to give him an eight-count. At the count of six, I asked him how he felt. At that point, he told me he was done. I told him I was going to stop it and he nodded in agreement. I am a referee who does everything he can to allow a fight to come to its natural conclusion. That being said, I can tell you with absolute certainty that Chad gave me everything he had. This was not an instance where he quit or said �no mas�. He did his best and when he got up from the third knockdown, he didn�t have a realistic opportunity of winning the fight. I embraced him, walked him back to his corner, and called the doctor in. I then went over to Andre�s corner and congratulated him. I said, �Let me raise your hand before HBO gets you.� He smiled and we took a walk with his hand in the air. As Andre said before the fight, the last piece of his puzzle was to work on finishing his opponent and that was apparent. He did a beautiful job and it�s a pleasure to watch him perfect his craft. In my view, Chad Dawson�s next bout is crucial. He needs to successfully defend his light heavyweight title [which was not on the line vs. Ward] and I believe he can do it. If he gets a win, people will easily forget this fight at 168 and he will be right back where he was after the Hopkins fight. At the weigh-in, I thought Chad looked a bit gaunt. I don�t want to say he was drained, but he didn�t look quite as healthy as I�ve seen him in the past. It could be that the seven-pound difference from 175 to 168 made a big difference. However, I don�t want to take anything away from Andre Ward�s victory, because he is clearly one of the best fighters in the game. No question. Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao are at the tail-end of their careers, but we have a lot to look forward to with fighters like Andre Ward and Chad Dawson who are now making their mark. 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Why Use a NoSQL Database?
NoSQL databases were born mostly from web-centric companies needing to solve problems out of the reach of modern relational databases. For those of us who are not running web-centric companies, are these NoSQL databases useful? I think they could be. Although the problems that motivated the NoSQL database movement may be quite different from ours, these databases offer benefits that may be a good fit for several situations. From my perspective, there are three features of NoSQL databases that are attractive for internal and even commercial applications:
- Cost: Most of the NoSQL databases are open source and can be used freely. Moreover, they are designed to run on commodity x86 hardware with locally-attached disk. Compared to scaling a modern commercial relational database, which typically requires expensive "big iron" boxes, SAN storage, and other expensive components, NoSQL databases can manage a large set of data at a fraction of the hardware and software costs.
- Performance: Because of their special purpose, NoSQL databases tend to be "lean and mean", often supporting read/write rates an order of magnitude faster or more than relational databases. Many NoSQL databases can be classified as "persistent hash tables", optimized for performance and availability at the expense of other features.
- Availability: NoSQL databases use replication and sophisticated fault tolerance algorithms such as Phi Accrual Failure Detection to maximize availability when a node fails. Many NoSQL databases allow new nodes to be dynamically added, after which data–and work–are automatically redistributed. Since field/column semantics are enforced by applications, NoSQL databases don't require table-level schema changes. Even upgrades to new software versions are typically supported via "rolling restarts", which keep the overall database available.
Before you get too excited about a new class of database that is cheap, fast, and highly available, be aware that, compared to relational databases, you're going to give up a lot. Keeping in mind that features of each NoSQL database vary and that this new genre is evolving quickly, consider some things we take for granted from relational databases but we'll mostly find absent with NoSQL databases:
- SQL: Some NoSQL databases provide a subset of SQL or an SQL-like query language, but these languages are very limited compared to full ANSI SQL. NoSQL databases favor small update transactions and quick queries with little or no support for ACID transactions (see below). Many NoSQL databases provide a way to use MapReduce-style processing for data analysis, but this bulk scan approach facilitates long-running, read-only applications.
- Data integrity: NoSQL databases don't have a detailed schema – you declare only the major data pools (tables) that will be used. Each row can have a large, variable number of columns, each storing any type of value. NoSQLs have no foreign key support or referential integrity, and they don't have triggers or similar features that help enforce data rules. Instead, you must enforce all data integrity rules within your applications.
- ACID transactions: Because of their eventual consistency model, NoSQL databases have little or no locking, which means you can't perform multi-record, atomic updates. (Some NoSQL databases allow a single transaction to atomically update a limited number of records in the same partition, but not across partitions.) As a result, updates require strategies such as application-level locking, "soft" transactions, and idempotent algorithms (a subject for another post).
- Stability: Most of these NoSQL databases are shipping an 0.x release, meaning they haven't yet reached 1.0. They are essentially experimental, which means lots of things: they aren't as stable as production databases, upgrade compatibility isn't guaranteed, and, well, they crash more often than commercial databases. Among other things, this means they're not ready for mission-critical, production databases.
- An ecosystem: Similarly, because NoSQL databases are so new, you won't find a rich array of tools, add-ons, and even consulting expertise for them. (Though companies such as Riptano are starting to emerge for professional support.) As with all new technologies, it will take time for this field to mature.
Despite their current limitations, NoSQL databases may be a suitable match for certain applications. Especially with the continued decline in storage costs and our end users' growing appetite for Google-like access to information, we are increasingly compelled to make more data available at sub-second speed. This makes the speed and availability factors of NoSQL enticing. Here are some example applications that I think might be good candidates:
- Capture and report: Consider applications that capture data from their environment such as events or log records and then provide various forms of reporting. For these applications, records are typically stored once and not updated thereafter. Their challenge is making an ever-expanding data pool accessible for online searching and data analysis. Using a NoSQL database for storage may enable these apps to store more data, more quickly, and more cheaply than with a relational database.
- Distributed storage: Today, we would typically use a file system to manage a large number of unstructured objects: documents, images, logs, etc. A large SAN with RAID is one option, but as an alternate solution, a NoSQL database's sharding and replication features may provide dynamically expandable storage at lower cost.
- Single updater/copious readers: NoSQL databases were born from social web applications such as Facebook and LinkedIn. These applications experience high update volumes (and even higher fetch volumes), but typically any given object is updated by a single user. In other words, ACID transactions are not a strong requirement while massive scalability and availability are. Correspondingly, collaboration and similar applications that store a large number of objects that are seldom updated by more than one user at a time are also good fits for NoSQL databases.
- Hybrid scenarios: Some relational database applications manage a large number of tables, but only a few tables experience large growth. Often, the number of records in the high-growth tables is limited by the performance that can be reasonably provided. That is, records are purged or off-loaded above a certain threshold to avoid response degradation. NoSQL databases offer a new choice where off-loaded records can be stored. In some cases, it may make sense to move the high-volume tables entirely to a NoSQL database, allowing the application to use a hybrid storage approach.
Most companies have a wide range of applications that warrant a database for persistent storage. For a vast majority of these applications, relational databases will continue to be the right solution. Any application whose data fits on a single computer or requires complex transaction processing has little reason to consider a NoSQL database. But for many applications such as the examples above, a NoSQL database may be a good fit. And, as the NoSQL field continues to expand and mature, the range of suitable applications will undoubtedly expand.


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Space Studies Board: Annual Report 2007
A Performance Assessment of NASA's Astrophysics Program
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Astronomy and astrophysics is in the midst of a period of unprecedented discovery, yielding new understanding of phenomena ranging from dark energy and extrasolar planets to supermassive black holes, as well as insights about the birth of the universe. Revolutionary discoveries in the field have been recognized by the awarding of four Nobel Prizes, the most recent being the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery, by NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer satellite, of the seed inhomogeneities in the matter density which ultimately led to all structure in the universe. Some of the breakthroughs were made by NASA missions, and some by ground-based instruments and telescopes. Always, the coordination of ground- and space-based resources has been critical to the rapid advances made in understanding the universe.
Today the field of astronomy and astrophysics is poised for more breakthroughs. Stunning opportunities for the decade of 2000-2010 were identified in the 2001 National Research Council (NRC) decadal survey Astronomy and Astrophysics in the New Millennium (AANM; National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 2001) and expanded on in the subsequent NRC report Connecting Quarks with the Cosmos: Eleven Science Questions for the New Century (Q2C; The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., 2003). Together the two reports laid out an ambitious program of ground- and space-based projects to turn these grand opportunities into exciting discoveries, and NASA's 2003 Astrophysics Program plan responded effectively. In particular, the 2003 plan properly addressed the stated priorities and was well optimized among mission goals, mission types, and mission sizes.
However, the implementation of the 2003 plan has been severely limited by circumstances and events both internal and external to NASA, including the Columbia disaster, mission cost overruns, smaller budgets than anticipated by the astrophysics community, and significant changes at NASA in both management and mission focus. As a result, the 2003 plan was dramatically descoped, and NASA's 2006 program plan addresses the goals of the NRC reports much less effectively than did the 2003 plan.
The sudden slowing of progress toward the exciting science goals laid out by the AANM survey and the Q2C report led to the creation of the NASA Astrophysics Performance Assessment Committee, which in this report considers how well NASA's current Astrophysics program addresses the strategies, goals, and priorities outlined in the two NRC reports; evaluates progress toward realization of those goals; and suggests mechanisms by which the scientific value of the implemented program can be optimized.
At present, NASA's Astrophysics Division does not have the resources to pursue the priorities, goals, and opportunities described in the NRC reports and has chosen to concentrate its resources on the highest-priority large and medium missions recommended by the AANM survey and those in development from the previous survey, to the detriment of the Explorer line and other small initiatives. As a result, NASA's current Astrophysics program is no longer well balanced across a desirable range of scientific areas, mission sizes, and mission-enabling activities, thus falling short of the AANM survey's specific recommendation that NASA maintain a diverse mission portfolio.
The Astrophysics Division's adopted strategy comes at a steep scientific cost, substantially reducing the prospects for future contributions to astrophysics by NASA missions. Moreover, because there will be fewer space missions, there will be fewer opportunities for coordination between space- and ground-based initiatives, and as a result the entire astronomy and astrophysics enterprise has been and will continue to be negatively impacted.
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in the 2001 decadal survey Astronomy and Astrophysics in the New Millennium and (b) investing in the work required to bring science missions to their full potential: e.g., technology development, data analysis, data archiving, and theory.
The most important step in implementing this recommendation is a reevaluation by the Astrophysics Division of the program's mission balance, with the goal of restoring the Explorer line to the launch rate achieved in the early part of this decade. The division should also identify structural mechanisms (e.g., firewalls, cost caps, constraints on the concentration of resources in single programs) to protect small programs and mission-enabling activities such as technology development that are critical for optimizing the science return from missions and are particularly vulnerable to cost growth in large missions, changes in accounting systems, or project budget instability.
NASA should also seek to limit cost growth in all missions by exploring ways to provide less expensive launch services (particularly for smaller missions), re-examining mission safety and assurance requirements to achieve an appropriate match with mission size, relaxing deorbit requirements for smaller spacecraft in low-cost missions, and finding improved ways to establish and maintain effective international collaborations on missions of all sizes.
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Alnwick Garden is tended to by Cravens
Leeds agency Cravens have just launched a new website for Alnwick Garden.
The Alnwick Garden website has been designed to create a contemporary online presence whilst encouraging sustainable relationships with family audiences and garden lovers.
As part of an ongoing awareness-building campaign targeting regional and national visitors, the new site gives green-fingered visitors the chance to grow their own mandrake plant – complete with live weather feed to ensure the plant is tended to accordingly. Incentives for growing the largest plant include a two-for-one voucher as well as dinner for four and evening tours of the Poison Garden – one of the Garden's most popular and intriguing attractions - for the overall winner.
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Young Boris Johnson - the comicbook
The current edition of Time Out London includes the third installment of advertising agency Mother's Four Feet From A Rat comic. Created in collaboration with graphic novel publishers Mam Tor, the comic offers a quirky insight into London life, with one story, illustrated by German artist Roger Langridge, focusing on London's ebullient mayor, Boris Johnson.
The story, titled Young Boris, sees our intrepid mayor cast as a heroic adventurer, fighting off the dangers of the commies, pesky picaninnies, and the evil Livingstone, natch.
Read more on the CR Blog
DADIs 2008 - Code computerlove
I am on the train back up to Edinburgh after a great night at the DADI awards.
Congratulations to agency of the year, code computerlove. Glad it went to a worthy bunch.
Back to nursing my hangover now!
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NOISE 08 - the olympics for young creatives
NOISE is a Europe-wide media showcase for young creative people aged 25 and under, is open for submissions. Just head here to register, create a profile and upload work.
During the festival in October 2008, the website spotlights the best of the work submitted towww.NOISEfestival.com. NOISE talent will hijack the UK and international media through our partners MTV, BBC, MSN and loads of creative print publications will provide features, profiles and programmes.
NOISE is a not-for-profit charity which aims to help young people with talent, to gain opportunities in the Creative Industries, so it is free to take part!
Lily loves Handbags by Atomic
Atomic launches www.lily-loves.co.uk a new online designer handbag and home accessories shop.
Adam Hinton - Photography for British Airways
What a great photographer, have a look at the other images in the set.
They have really made an cracking campaign.
Still buzzing from absorbing the wealth of great photography collected together in our Photography Annual, we spotted a brand new, photography rich, campaign for British Airways that features shots by one of the photographers featured in said Photography Annual, Adam Hinton.
Actually, the ad agency behind the new campaign, Bartle Bogle Hegarty, enlisted the services of Hinton (represented by Wyatt Clarke & Jones) and also four Magnum photographers: Peter Marlow, Steve McCurry, Stuart Franklin and Olivia Arthur – asking them to explore cities beyond the usual guidebook stuff and capture the real essence of the places, the idea being that it's the things we observe off the beaten track on our travels that really enrich our holidays. Here are a selection of outdoor ads from the campaign.
Saw it on the CR Blog
Adam Hinton - photogrpahy for British Airways
Still buzzing from absorbing the wealth of great photography collected together in our Photography Annual, we spotted a brand new, photography rich, campaign for British Airways that features shots by one of the photographers featured in said Photography Annual, Adam Hinton.
Actually, the ad agency behind the new campaign, Bartle Bogle Hegarty, enlisted the services of Hinton (represented by Wyatt Clarke & Jones) and also four Magnum photographers: Peter Marlow, Steve McCurry, Stuart Franklin and Olivia Arthur – asking them to explore cities beyond the usual guidebook stuff and capture the real essence of the places, the idea being that it's the things we observe off the beaten track on our travels that really enrich our holidays. Here are a selection of outdoor ads from the campaign.
Read more on CR Blog
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How the 'crunch' will effect UK design agencies
The DRUM have a great article on the effect of the credit crunch on the design industry in the UK.
Looking at the entire sample we can see that turnover has increased during the last six months for almost half of all respondents, 47.1% to be exact. However, a quarter (25.5%) of businesses have experienced a decrease in turnover during their last six months of trading.
Slightly more than a quarter (27.5%) of companies have seen their turnover remain static over the last six months, something they will no doubt be aiming to at least replicate during the following months.
While the financial chaos is making headline news in the newspapers, how it impacts on the real economy is most evident in terms of jobs and recruitment.
Again, looking at the entire sample of 200-plus companies, we can see that 60.7% of companies are planning to maintain their current number of staff employed, with 27.5% of company bosses planning to actually increase the number of staff they employ during the next six months. We will see which areas of the marketing community are feeling the most positive about staff recruitment later. With regards to downsizing in terms of staff, some 11.8% of company bosses are already considering reducing their staff numbers from present levels. This statistic also does not take into account those who may be forced to downsize thorough loss of business, bad debts etc.
It is sometimes hard to imagine how the stories of financial mismanagement we read in the newspapers will translate into the 'real' economy, but 88.2% of respondents feel that the current credit crunch will hit the 'real' economy.
Read more on the drum
2008 UK internet usage statistics
Always worth reminding yourself that not everyone is addicted to the internet! But check out those 65+ statistics, go granny go. View the statistics
Conchango launch ireland.com
Essentially a portal, but a really nicely built portal with lots of AJAX goodness. Worth a look Interactive media agency Conchango, today announces the launch of a new digital business, and search and content aggregation site for the Irish Times, www.Ireland.com. Conchango was tasked with developing a pioneering, semantic website for Irish internet users around the world that would both create an international brand identity, and become the default homepage for Ireland. Conchango was engaged to create a contextual site which specifically caters for Irish users, both acting as a search portal and providing content from multiple sources through games, RSS feeds and partnerships with the likes of PA, Sports 365, GoldenPages.ie business directory, Entertainment.ie, and Myhome.ie property website. Dynamic navigation was developed throughout based on user intent, making the site feel even more contextual and relevant to the user. Mash-ups with Google Maps, YouTube and Flickr, plus UGC throughout add to the Web 3.0 experience on Ireland.com. Visit ireland.com
Design thoughts are on hold for a week
I am on my way to the airport for a weeks holiday. Cancoon, Fiji, San francisco, Milan?
Nope, Belfast.
Going to visit friends and family and relax.
Afraid posts will be scarce, but check back in a week. I am sure there will be plenty to catch up on!
It needs to be .... big
Creative review has a great article on how banks of changed their brands to suit markets in the past and how for many banks its time to make a change.
I love the advert above, imagine that advert coming out now. Sheeesh.
After monumental errors, nosediving share prices and the humiliation of nationalisation, the banking world has changed forever. So will their corporate identities and advertising adapt to fit the new realities?
It might seem that logos, commercials and colour schemes should be the last thing to occupy the banks right now, what with global financial meltdown and all, but surely campaigns and brands developed for a very different time (ie last week) can no longer be appropriate? Ever since the early 90s, banks have been attempting to project a friendlier, less formal image. Heraldic devices and serif type were steadily ditched in favour of rounded edges and updated typography. Everything became shinier, more colourful, less forbidding. It was all about innovation and modernity as banks started to project themselves as dynamic global brands, reflecting a shift in their management style and business aims – the upshot of which we are now experiencing.
Read more on the CR blog
100 Years of the London Underground emblem
Great article on Creative Review this morning:
To celebrate 100 years of London Underground's iconic roundel emblem, Art on the Underground has commissioned 100 contemporary artists to create artworks based on the symbol.
The artworks are currently on show at the Rochelle School in Shoreditch, London, until October 30 and a number of them will also appear as posters on the Underground network. Here is a selection of our favourites.
See more artwork on the CR blog
An interview with the MD of BBC.com
The team at fivebyfive have posted a podcast interview with the managing director of bbc.com. Some very interesting view on the industry.
On learning from others in the digital space
"I think there's lots that we can learn from some of the things that are coming off those sites around the way they use semantic search, around the way they talk to their users, around the way they're inclusive, around the way they're using social networking to broaden the experience. I think all of those things are things we can take away and learn from. That's part of being in the web space. It's a symbiotic relationship: once somebody's learned something, everyone's learned it."
On the future
"I think that some of the next big pieces are going to be around the true convergence of what we've been talking about for ten years. Things like iPlayer are going to lead the way to do that, you know, how to get those things on to the home TV. At the moment it's a pretty solitary pursuit doing things in front of your computer – how are we going to open that up and share it with friends in a mainstream way?"
Click here to check it out on Five by Five
Stiff Rowlands - Manchester International Festival
Stiff Rowlands recently launched a site for the Manchester International Festival.
Its clean, confident and to the point. Can't really complain about that.
Our redesign of the Manchester International Festival website launched last Thursday, 9 October with the announcement of the first three events from their 2009 programme. Our approach was definitely "less is more". With world-class acts such as Rufus Wainwright and Zaha Hadid, we really didn't need the design to shout. We hope it provides a great online presence for all the brilliant shows and events taking place next summer.
MIF Marketing Director, Cathy Gallagher said:
"We chose Stiff Rowlands for their range of experience but also for their attitude and approach. They had an intuitive understanding of what we wanted and an appreciation of the particular challenges that an artist-led, commissioning Festival is likely to present. They're particularly good at keeping calm and coming up with appropriate solutions. It's been a great experience working with them."
Visit the Manchester International Festival Website
Adobe CS4 in Edinburgh
I am not sure whether to attend this, would I be giving up an afternoon to listen to salesmen? Or is this a case of keeping up with the latest developments in the industry... Book your seat now to see the all-new Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 in action and learn how to create ground breaking work across every medium. Discover shortcuts for designing, building and distributing amazing creative experiences in every media – print, web, interactive, rich internet applications, video and mobile. All of our six suites have been enhanced with exciting new versions of your essential design tools. It's going to be brilliant! Who should attend? Graphic designers, print professionals, production and layout artists, web designers and developers, interactive designers and application developers, cable and network broadcasters, post-production professionals, corporate and event videographers, independent filmmakers, visual communication trainers and educators. Click here to find out more and register at Adobe Events
Whitespacers have had the time of their lives
Created as a present for two long standing agency staff, hilarious japes from the Edinburgh agency.
View the post on the Whitespace blog
Creative Review New Brand Identity
Creative Review® unveils its new brand identity which will advance our positioning across media platforms.
Following a universal brand audit instigated in the wake of an immersion expedition led by a cohort of leading brand ideators, we engaged in a thoroughgoing knowledge accumulation programme to facilitate blue-sky thinking and empower Creative Review® in the vanguard of world class best practice in thought-leadership. The following brand muscles were established: innovative, dynamic, square-shaped.
The compelling brand truth uncovered has been articulated in this brand statement: "Creative Review®: Leading ideation infonauts in a media neutral world".
They are taking the piss, but its funny.
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Super Monkey Ball Touch And Roll Nintendo DS Cheats
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Special International Project Management Day 2012 with Dr. David Hillson
Understanding Risk Appetite!!
One of the most important decisions for any business, project or individual is how much risk to take in a given situation. Risk appetite is often used to describe this level of acceptable risk, but there is no agreed definition for this term. Even worse, there is confusion between risk appetite and other risk-related terms, especially risk attitude.
This presentation clarifies the relevant risk terms and shows how they relate to one another. David shows how both risk appetite and risk attitude have complementary and central roles when individuals or organisations decide how much risk can be taken in a risky and important situation. He goes on to describe the RARA Model, explaining how these two factors work together to ensure that we take the right amount of risk safely, and optimise our chances of achieving our objectives.
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Dr David Hillson PMI-Fellow HonFAPM FIRM FRSA CMgr FCMI
Dr David Hillson is The Risk Doctor and Director of Risk Doctor & Partners. He is recognised internationally as a leading thinker and expert practitioner in risk management. He writes and speaks widely on the topic, with eight books and many papers.
David received the PMI Fellow Award and the PMI Distinguished Contribution Award from the Project Management Institute (PMI®), both for his work in developing risk management over many years. He is currently a leader of the PMI Risk Community of Practice, and has been a core author for the PMI Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBoK® Guide) and the PMI Practice Standard for Project Risk Management.
David is also an Honorary Fellow of the UK Association for Project Management (APM), and was Chairman of its Risk SIG and a core author of the APM Project Risk Analysis & Management (PRAM) Guide. He has also been elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Risk Management (IRM), the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), and the Chartered Management Institute (CMI).
PMI chapter has arranged specially with Rsordillo, TAXI Driver to plan shuttles to the venue from the Geneva Airport between 5 pm to 6pm. The Grey Mazda Taxi will wait with PMI Switzerland Chapter sign in front of Departure gate.How to use the service: Send an Email with Title PMI Nov 19th to E-Mail with your name and time of arrival. Rsordillo, the taxi driver will plan the shuttle with 4 people. This costs around chf 7.00 per person. Please send the email prior to 15 November.
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Artist Reception Saturday FEB. 7th, 7:00 pm 10:00pm
Show runs FEB 7th FEB 29th, 2004
Artist Reception Saturday FEB. 7th, 7:00 pm 10:00pm
Show runs FEB 7th FEB 29th, 2004
MINNEAPOLIS, MN If having a Ph.D. or an M.D. gets you called doctor, what do they call you when you have a BFA? George R. Thompson IV doesnt mind, as long as he gets to keep producing artwork at the impressive pace hes kept over the past decade or so.
In what he calls his skateboarding, angst, death period, in high school, Thompson was mainly influenced by magazines, old record covers, and graffiti, and had a mind to eventually producing skateboard graphics. He peddled hand silk-screened t-shirts at concerts and in local Chicago stores and just kept pushing his talent, hoping that maybe somewhere down the line youll get thrown a bone, but mostly you just keep doing it because you like it so much. After earning his BFA at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, thats pretty much how things have ended up.
On the day to day level, Thompson has become established as Fobias art director for the last three years, with important projects including the branding for the entire Iota line of skateboards and clothing. He is a founding member of Life Sucks Die Magazine, a nine year old publication out of Minneapolis, and a designer for Burlesque Design of North America. He is currently working with Rhymesayers Entertainment, Real, Consolidated and Iota skateboards, contributions to a new book from Design Is Kinky, Semi Permanent 2 and a Qee brand toy for traveling exhibition. Thompsons local art credits stretch as far back as group shows at Intermedia Arts in the 1990s, including We Exist in 1998, as well as a four person showing at the Rogue Buddha gallery curated by Anthony Pugh. In addition, Thompsons work has been shown in Ox-Ops Big Bang group show and Legal Tender in St. Louis in 2003, an exhibition at L.A.s Ghetto Gloss gallery and a San Diego show sponsored by Toyotas Scion. His first solo show, a City Pages A-listed installation titled Business Casual, was presented in St. Pauls AND Gallery in 2003.
BFA is a series of 20-some new paintings straight from the mind of George R. Thompson IV, but try not to be on the lookout for clear themes. Being grouped into the new, popular urban street art promotions is an uncomfortable position for him, as is the idea of being a fine artist the labels are just too confining, placing limiting parameters on the direction of his art. I just dont define everything like, This is graffiti, This is art, This is crash art. Its almost pretentious to lump it in with some movement; I dont want to be lumped in with this thing because, when they move on to the next thing, then its just played out. For the time being, this has resulted in Thompson painting exactly what he likes: I dont put too much stock into symbolism in paintings. For instance, the stuff Im doing right now: I like birds, I like naked ladies, and I like mitre saws, and Ill put that all in a painting. It makes sense on a different level, I guess.
The Ox-Op Gallery cordially invites you to view the new works of George R. Thompson, IV, Bachelor of Fine Arts.
OX-OP is open to the public Tuesday through Friday 4-8pm, Saturdays 1-5pm as well as by
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1111 Washington Ave S.
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Minneapolis, MN 55415
Ph. 612-259-0085
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Aesthetic Apparatus-"2nd Annual Kindling & Litter-Box-Liner Sale"
"Rome is Burning/The New School"
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Gary Baseman- "MOD Manifestations Of Desire"
Mark Mothersbaugh-"Postcard Diaries"
Gary Taxali-"Chumpy's Specials"
Nathan Jurevicius-"Tunnel Vision"
Shepard Fairey "Visual Disobedience"
Jaime Hayon: "Mon Cirque"
Derek Hess: "Descent from Grace"
Shag-"Push Your Luck"
Billy Childish-Paintings, Prints, Poetry & Performance
Kii Arens-"The Yard Sale"
Burlesque of North America: First Blood, Part III
"Triangulated Fire" paintings by Naoto Hattori, Ryan Kelly & Chris Ryniak
BuffMonster-"Dulces Locos"
Dalek- "The Return of the Space Monkey"
Yumiko Kayukawa & Oksana Badrak
Glenn Barr-"New Paintings & Prints"
KRK Ryden-"The Atomic Glob Show"
Camille Rose Garcia-"Works on Paper"
Frank Kozik-"All Your Base Are Belong to Us"
Bwana Spoons & Martin Ontiveros "Like Sqeezing Juice from a Stone"
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George Thompson-"Bachelor of Fine Arts"
Mark Mothersbaugh-"Beautiful Mutants"
Charles S. Anderson Design-"Awful Pretty: Original Art"
Jeff Soto-"Complete Domination"
Dave Burke-"New Paintings"
Tim Biskup-"The Phantom Thread"
Shag-"Tell No One: Paintings and Prints"
Niagara-"Paintings,Prints and General Artistic Mayhem
Shepard Fairey -"Prints and the Revolution"
Gary Baseman-"Open Wounds (and other paintings about vulnerability)"
Dalek-"Two Fingers of Milk"
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Wdw annual/seasonal florida resident passes – 01-26-2012,02:32 PM
I have been looking online to try to find a website/forum that had posted this before and found nothing.
What I am wondering is what would be the break even point on a seasonal florida resident pass. I did find online how many times it would take to break even and it would take 10 seperate days to break even on the florida resident discounted annual pass but nothing on the seasonal. Does anyone know this info by any chance or does anyone know a website in which I can find it posted? I wanted to see if it was worth buying the triple play florida resident tickets for $99. They are 3 day tickets with no other add-ons or purchase the seasonal passes?
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Based on AAA pricing the Florida Resident Season Pass is the same price (+/- $3) as the 8 day Florida Resident, Park Hopper, w/ Never Expire option.
So if I understand your question correctly, the answer is 8 days. And looking at the Florida Resident Annual Pass, the break even is more then 10 days.
The 10 Day Park Hopper Never Expire is $262 (or $26.20 per day).
The Florida Resident Annual Pass is $368 (or $36.80 per day based on 10 days, or $26.29 per day based on 14 days).
Thank you pecosbill! Thats exactly what I was trying to look for but couldnt figure out a way to do it. So if im not going to disney at the least 14-15 days in the year its not worth getting an ap and if I dont go atleast 8 days its now worth getting the seasonal pass. I think im going to go with the 10 day park hopper with no expiration option as I just want to go a few days a year maybe like 2 weekends here and there! Maybe more. Lol! Hmmm ill see what I do.
If I get the water parks and more option does that mean I have 10 days of the theme parks and 10 days of water parks or disney quest?Last edited by DiZ NeE 08; 01-27-2012 at 09:50 AM.
We alternate from one year to the next. One year well purchase the Florida Resident Seasonal Pass, when we know we are going to go often. The next year well get the 10 Never Expire Park Hoppers. Or a combination thereof, for example we get the Florida Resident Seasonal Pass, after it expires we use a few days off of the 10 Never Expire Park Hoppers (for day trips here and there), and then if we have a big trip planed we purchase another Seasonal Pass. We never renew the season pass when it expires; we try to stretch the time between expiration and renewal as much as possible.


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Bishop Rubin writes in the Diocesan Izindaba (No. 24) about the Chrism Eucharist:
On Thursday (7th June), the deacons, priests and bishops of the diocese gather together in our cathedral to renew their ordination vows during a service called the Chrism Eucharist. It is called that (Chrism, a Greek word meaning anointing) because at this service the oil that is used to anoint the sick and the oil that is used to anoint (Chrism) the confirmation candidates, are blessed by the bishops. The service also provides the bishop with an opportunity to thank the clergy in general for their dedicated ministry, to recognise those who have served as deacons and priests for every five years of their ordination with certificates, to welcome new clergy, and to bid farewell to those who will be retiring or already have retired since the last Chrism Eucharist. Lunch is served after the service. It is a special and deeply moving service, and I am truly sorry to be missing it. I am on long leave. By the way, if you are not familiar with this liturgy, you can read the words in An Anglican Prayer Book, page 177.
Judging by the scores of books that are being written for and on the ordained (deacons and priests), it is evident that the nature of our calling and ministry are evolving. It is not what they used to be! I have more than 20 titles that are trying to address the changes in my study. Here are a few: Vocations and their Formations Today; Diversity of Vocations; This is our Calling; Simple Priesthood; Parish Priests for the Sake of the Kingdom; Renewing Faith in Ordained Ministry –New Hope for Tired Clergy; Callings; Collared or Called – an alternate approach to vocation. One of these books has the catching Chapter entitled "Called or Culled"!
Of course, the nature of our calling and ministry is changing because both the church and the society we seek to serve are going through a time of tremendous change and transition. However, we cannot, in fact we dare not, turn our backs on these changes. We must rather face them, analyse them wrestle with them, enter into conversation with them, interrogate them, but at the same time allowing the Holy Spirit to lead us to make the necessary changes, changes that may disturb and disrupt our present understanding and practice of ministry. After all "the Spirit blows wherever the Spirit wills".
That said, there are a few fundamentals about a priest's calling and ministry that should be non-negotiable. They are based on the underlying fact that what we do is not a career but a calling (vocation). My Collins dictionary defines "calling" as "a strong inner urge to follow an occupation". Christians, of course, understand this inner urge to be the voice of God.
What are some of these "non-negotiables"? Well, they are set out in the ordination service and include:
- to be faithful and diligent in prayer, including the saying of Morning & Evening Prayer.
- to believe the holy Scriptures as uniquely revealing the word of God and to read and study them.
- to minister (preach and teach) the word of God and God's sacraments.
- to help God's people to discover and use to God's glory the gifts and ministries he gives us.
- to pastor God's people – to care for them.
- to promote unity, peace and love.
- to fashion our own lives and that of our house-holds according to the way of Christ.
- to strive for balance in our lives: God, Church, family, self.
- to be holy.
"Calling" requires dedication and sacrifice, going the extra mile – words that we tend to shy away from and concepts that we think are outdated. But are they outdated? St. Paul reminds us to "Present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God." Whereas 'career', is not so much about service and giving, but more perhaps about clock-watching, getting a salary, allowances and holidays etc.
I wish to end with these words from the Ordination Service, which the bishop says just before the moment of ordination:
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The Wildcats have earned seven LSC Field Athlete of the Week citations since the start of 2012 outdoor season. Jones is a three-time winner this spring, while triple jumper Amanda Ouedraogo has twice been recognized. Hammer throwers Lakey and Baptiste Kerjean have each received the award once. Top-ranked 800-meter runner Banjo Jaiyesimi was named LSC Track Athlete of the Week lat Thursday.
Jones today was hailed by the conference after he launched a personal best discus throw of 203 feet, 3 inches (61.95 meters) at UTEP's Kidd Field. His effort moved him up to third place on the all-time NCAA Division II performance list, and only ranks behind former Wildcat and 1996 Olympian Andy Kokhanovsky, who recorded the DII record of 211-5 (64.44m) at the Abilene Invitational on May 9, 1996, and 1988 Olympian Randy Heisler (204-1, 62.22m), who posted his top mark with the University of Indianapolis at the 1984 NCAA Championships.
Kokhanovsky pupil and six-time All-America Mason Finley of Kansas was among those Jones beat in the discus. Jones also defeated several more DI opponents from Boise State, New Mexico and Rice by more than two meters to win the shot put with a push of 61-5.50 (18.73m).
Jones this spring has won two shot put and discus titles, and has finished among the top five two other times. He is one of four Wildcat NCAA automatic qualifiers along with Ouedraogo, Kerjean, and long jumper Levance Williams.
Lakey earned a share of LSC's Women's Field Athlete of the Week title with Angelo State's Jayda Spencer after recording a personal best and NCAA provisional qualifying throw of 163-7 to place fourth in the hammer at the UTEP Invitational. Lakey registered this distance on her sixth and final attempt, finishing behind three DI throwers from Kansas and Boise State. Lakey is the first Wildcat on the ACU women's team this season to record a NCAA provisional mark in the hammer.
Lakey and Kevin Johnson were the only new Wildcats to add their names last week to ACU's growing list of NCAA provisional qualifiers, which now stands at 18. Johnson made the cut as part of a 4x100-meter relay that recorded an altitude-adjusted time of 41.13. Dennis Bain, Paris Robertson and Jordan Geary ran the relay's first three legs.
The Wildcats return to action Saturday for the 2012 Michael Johnson Dr Pepper Classic at Baylor University's Hart-Patterson Track Complex. The event will feature multiple Olympic hopefuls and top runners from TCU, North Texas, Texas State, UT Arlington, Stephen F. Austin and Angelo State, among 25 schools competing.


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Jane Marie Ostertag, 74, passed away Saturday, Nov. 24, 2012, due to complications from lung cancer.
She was born Dec. 30, 1937, in Waltham, Mass.
Jane spent most of her life in Massachusetts before settling in Port Charlotte, Fla., after her husband's retirement from the U.S. Air Force and Polaroid. She is known best as the other half of the "golden girls," and always made people laugh with her witty sarcasm. Jane was a devoted Catholic and enjoyed nothing more than entertaining family and friends. Her passions included reading, playing bingo, taking cruises, and enjoying Riesling and hot tea. But what made Jane the most proud was her only grandson, he brought a special joy that filled her heart.
She is survived by her son, Joe (Nicole) Ostertag; grandson, Logan Ostertag all of Winter Park, Fla.; sister, Carol O'Rourke; nephew, Dennis (Tami) Grant; nephew, Michael Grant; niece, Denise (Jason) Miles all of Olympia, Wash.; cousin, Marie Pellerin, Lisa (Brian) Pellerin, Joan DiIorio all of Port Charlotte, and Sandra Pellerin of Tampa, Fla.; sister-in-law, Carol O'Rourke; nephews Kevin, Brian, and Sean O'Rourke; niece, Karen O'Rourke all of Clinton, Mass.; several great nieces and nephews; and numerous other loving relatives and friends. Jane was preceded in death by her husband, George Ostertag; and brother, Ritchie O'Rourke.
There will be a memorial service at 1 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30, 2012, St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made in Jane's name to the American Cancer Society.
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Drifter Accused in Orland Rape Arrested at Least 60 Times
The homeless man accused of preying upon an 83-year-old woman has traveled the country, breaking laws wherever he goes.
Drifter Dennis Dodson — accused of attacking and raping an elderly Orland Park woman who was only trying to show the homeless man some kindness — has run afoul of the law more than 60 times in 15 states since leaving his native Iowa more than 15 years ago.
What brought the vagrant to Orland Park? A bicycle.
What would compel him to attack an 83-year-old woman so violently?
Not even his mother knows.
Teresa Dodson, who hasn't seen her 34-year-old son in years, assumed her son had been jailed for drugs. His drug-addled life took a turn for the worse after he and friends were arrested in Iowa years ago for stealing hog tranquilizers from a veterinarian.
"None of them were quite right after that," Teresa Dodson told Sun-Times Media reporter Lauren FitzPatrick, who tracked down the homeless man's mother and delved into his lengthy prison record following the Sept. 23 attack on an elderly Good Samaritan, who saw Dodson sleeping behind Home Depot and tried to help him.
Occasionally seen bicycling around Orland Park before the attack, Dennis Dodson's troubled travels have taken him to California, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Florida, Iowa, Utah, Missouri, Washington, Colorado, Ohio, Nevada ... with a few stops in Illinois. On his last journey through the south suburbs, Dodson scored a state ID using the address of Together We Cope in Tinley Park, according to FitzPatrick's reporting.
His mother said she couldn't keep him in school and couldn't control him.
"Denny just sort of did what he wanted to do. I had no control," she said. "I did what I could do."
Arrested soon after the attack by Orland Park police, this is the first rape charge to land on Dodson's lengthy rap sheet, which includes charges for auto theft, drugs, public drunkenness, thievery, trespassing and fighting with police.
The 83-year-old woman who tried to help Dodson did what she could do, too. Getting close enough to smell the booze on his breath, she brought Dodson food and a few dollars, and she tried to get her church to help the wanderer.
And he repaid her kindness with violence.
You'll find more details in FitzPatrick's report, "Homeless Man Accused in Rape Had History of Drifting, Arrests," on SunTimes.com.
Also read FitzPatrick's court story, "83-year-old details sex assault by homeless man in Orland Park."
Jennifer D.
6:48 pm on Monday, October 17, 2011
What the hell!!! That is crazy that this man is allowed to walk the streets. Seriously, if someone has been arrested that many times for any reason, they do not know how to comply with laws and should be locked up for life or at least until they are mentally fit (rehabilitation!!). At what point does a judge realize the guy is not fit to live on his own? There are laws that say if you get 3 moving violations within a certain amount of time, you lose your license. If you drive on a suspended license, you go to jail. There should be a law in place that if you get arrested so many times in a certain amount of time, that you lose your right of freedom. He obviously is unfit in one way or another to live a healthy lifestyle. Whether he is a drug addict or just crazy, the answer is to let him live on the streets! I am the first one to hand a meal to a homeless person, or to give them money but the thought of so many of them being centrally located in the suburb next to ours and so close to Morton Gingerwood School is appalling to me!! The scary part is not the shelter being there. The scary part is the people who show up drunk or under the influence who they will not allow into the shelter will now be roaming our community. Thanks Mayor Welch for another NOT-SUCH-A-GOOD-IDEA!!!
6:05 pm on Tuesday, October 18, 2011
This is really dumb. there is no punishment for crimes any more, like that 20 year old that was killed in Arkansas. this scum isn't worried about the law. Lets start shooting people.
7:49 pm on Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Dodson sounds like he has some serious mental issues .I don't think the 83 year old was using her best judgement approaching this homeless man unaccompanied in an isolated area.
2:20 pm on Wednesday, October 19, 2011
I don't think the home depot parking lot is an isolated area!
2:48 pm on Wednesday, October 19, 2011
According to the second linked story ,it was a shortcut path behind the Orland Park Home Depot.I have never been there but,it sounds like it could be isolated to me.
9:44 am on Saturday, November 12, 2011
Wow...her lack of good judgment huh? Well then I guess it's partly her own fault right? Her good judgment was to try to help out a fellow human being. He has been arrested over 60 times and this means that many, many judges didn't use their best judgment. This man should never be allowed to take another free step in his life. However, I'm sure due to his mental illness, he will spend some time inside taking his meds and then when he's stable again, he'll be out eventually again, just waiting for someone else to not exercise "good judgment."
10:42 am on Saturday, November 12, 2011
Yes, she is a good Samaritan which is very commendable,but I still stand by my previous comments.If she thought the man was in danger she should have let the police handle it. If you read her account of what happened (above hyperlink 83 year old details sex assault) you might agree.She woke up a drunken homeless man to tell him she called the police.I don't know about you ,but to me that sounds like a lack of good judgement.
Deb Melchert
2:39 pm on Saturday, November 12, 2011
Russ, I have to agree with you. Missy, no one is saying the woman deserved this or it was her fault. She was attacked in a "wooded area" behind the store, not in the lot. To go into an isolated area to help a complete stranger is not the wisest of choices, regardless of how old you are. Her heart was in the right place and I believe her compassion got the best of her common sense. And we all need to remember, people of her generation grew up in a totally different world, where coming to the aid of a stranger was rarely dangerous. Not so today.


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