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Covering all aspects of industrial automation
Industrial Ethernet refers to networks that use Ethernet supplemented by mechanisms for assuring quality of service, for the purpose of networking nodes in automation systems.
Industrial Ethernet describes variants that use Ethernet with modifications or that use radio technologies.
Various manufacturers and associations have expanded their fieldbus variants to include an Industrial Ethernet variant, in which automation applications known up to now in fieldbus networks can continue to work.
One of these is Profinet, which covers all aspects of industrial communication.
There are three approaches for Industrial Ethernet. We can distinguish them by their different adaptations to Ethernet and the TCP/IP protocol.
1. Use of standard Ethernet as defined in IEEE 802.3 and TCP/IP
This approach precisely corresponds to implementations in the office world. The office-specific applications exchange to automation-specific applications on the application layer only. This type of solution can work in environments whose performance requirements are equivalent to those in the office world.
2. Use of standard Ethernet as defined in IEEE 802.3 and prioritization according to IEEE 802.1Q, as well as TCP/IP and specific automation protocols, on OSI layers 3 and 4
Dependent on the performance requirements for automation communication, this approach provides different "communication channels"—one TCP/IP channel for applications whose performance requirements are equivalent to those of the office world (Best Effort), and one real-time channel that bypasses or replaces the TCP/IP protocol to enable use of applications with more stringent real-time performance requirements.
3. Use of optimized Ethernet stack, as well as TCP/IP and specific automation protocols, on OSI layers 3 and 4
This approach is required for automation systems if applications with deterministic data transmission and maximum real-time performance requirements are necessary, like axis control. However, this approach also covers all communication types by offering various communication channels that can work in parallel: Based on adaptation of the Ethernet stack and scheduling, one TCP/IP channel and one or more real-time channels that bypass the TCP/IP protocol are available. Determinism is by the use of a time slot procedure (scheduling) that provides fixed transmission cycles of the highest performance class and through cyclic synchronization of all nodes. This approach normally requires use of special switches.
Profinet conforms to variants 2 and 3 and works for many different automation scenarios that require real-time performance. Profinet includes all aspects of industrial communication and is an open system per IEC 61158.
Communication in parallel
The modular Profinet concept distinguishes among different types of communication for satisfying various response time requirements:
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Maximum performance requirements—Isochronous real time (IRT)
In addition, Profinet distinguishes between different types of communication according to the nodes to be connected:
Profinet IO implements communication between controllers and IO devices with RT and IRT requirements.
Profinet Component Based Automation is suitable for communication among controllers via TCP/IP, as well as additional RT requirements.
It is possible to use all types of communication in parallel on the same network, and proxy components can work for transition to nodes in traditional fieldbus topologies, like Profibus and others. Likewise, Profinet supports communication via radio technologies, like WLAN, for connecting IO devices.
Most Profinet communication occurs via Ethernet and TCP/IP packets without any modification. This enables integration into a common network with office applications without limitations.
RT communication not only uses prioritization of Ethernet packets but also an optimized protocol stack on OSI layers 3 and 4. This protocol stack does not have any routing capability. This means RT communication is restricted to one logical subnet. However, a layer 3 topology enables parallel TCP/IP communication with centralized computers on the overall network.
IRT communication for maximum real-time requirements, especially for isochronous applications, is based on an extension of the Ethernet stack for the purpose of synchronizing all communication partners and on the use of scheduling, i.e., a time-slot technology.
IRT communication requires the relevant network area to be equipped with special IRT switches that reduce the integration into the overall network to the connection of closed communication areas based on layer 2.
The topology can have a transition to the overall network and can enable parallel TCP/IP communication.
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Because I was hoping someone might know of a distro that would be rather efficient on the lapdog... I decided to go ahead and toss suse 10 on and give it a shot. I'll let everyone know how it goes.
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i've been running FC3, it's the only distro i've tried on my Laptop and it seems to be the best so far. i've been thinking of installing FC4 but i think i'm going to try redhat or another distro i haven't tried yet. it'll be fun to use something new. It's fun.
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Another option is one of the Knoppixes... I have been running Knoppix 3.8 on an old amd K6-III 533Mhz for over a year - it is awsum - never crashes.
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Conference USA announced its 2011 Players of the Year today, as selected by the league's 12 head football coaches. C-USA is completing its 16th football campaign by sending five teams to bowl games, including two that are ranked in the top 20.
Houston senior QB Case Keenum was named the recipient of the Conference USA Most Valuable Player Award, becoming the first two-time winner. The MVP award adds to a history-making senior season for the Abilene, Texas, native. Keenum broke NCAA records for career passing yardage (18,685), total offense (19,572), touchdown passes (152), total touchdowns (175), completions (1,501) and 300-yard games (38). He owns virtually every NCAA career passing mark and is the first player in NCAA history with three career 5,000-yard seasons. In 2011, Keenum was the country's top passer, throwing for 5,099 yards and 45 touchdowns. His yardage and TD totals led the country, while his completion percentage (71.7) and passing efficiency (177.9) ranked among the top six in America. Keenum won the Sammy Baugh Award, given to the nation's top passer, on December 1, becoming just the second two-time winner in the history of that award. In addition to this honor, Keenum won the C-USA MVP award in 2009, the Offensive Player of the Year award in 2008 and Freshman of the Year honors in 2007.
Houston senior WR Patrick Edwards was named Offensive Player of the Year, marking just third time in the last 14 years that a non-quarterback has won the award and the first time in league history that it has been given to a wide receiver. Edwards led the FBS with 18 receiving touchdowns, the third-highest single-season total in C-USA history. He also ranked among the national leaders with 1,524 yards and 19.3 yards per reception. Edwards owns the nation's top receiving game with his seven catches for 318 yards and five touchdowns vs. Rice.
Defensive recognition went to Marshall senior DE Vinny Curry, who becomes the second Thundering Herd player to win that honor, joining DE Albert McClellan in 2006. A finalist for the Ted Hendricks Award, Curry is second nationally with 21.5 tackles for loss, tied for second nationally with six forced fumbles and tied for fifth with 11 sacks. His 48.0 career tackles for loss is also tops among all active FBS student-athletes, while his 26.5 sacks rank him seventh. The senior captain also has 72 tackles on the season, one fumble recovery, three blocked extra points and one tackle for safety. Curry, who was also selected to the 2012 Senior Bowl, was named Bronko Nagurski National Defensive Player of the Week following his 4.0 TFL, 3.5 sack performance in the 24-20 homecoming win over Rice on Oct. 15.
The Special Teams Player of the Year award went to Houston senior kick returner Tyron Carrier. An All-Conference performer at both wide receiver and kick returner, Carrier averaged 124.9 all-purpose yards per game. He returned 28 kickoffs for 695 yards, an average of 24.8 per return. Carrier also had a 100-yard kickoff return for a touchdown against Rice for his seventh career kickoff return for a TD, tying the all-time FBS record set by Clemson's C.J. Spiller.
The league's Freshman of the Year honor went to East Carolina LB Jeremy Grove. Grove turned in the best campaign by a freshman defensive player in ECU history. He paced the Pirates with 122 tackles, 45 solo hits, 77 assists, 85 stops on rushing plays and 36 passing tackles. Grove currently stands third in Conference USA and 10th among all FBS players with 11.1 stops per game and is the only freshman among the FBS's top 88 tacklers.
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And so we begin 2013 back where we were at the end of 2011, with Julia Gillard giving us another demonstration of that famous political judgement of hers and pissing off a large swathe of the Labor Party.
Back then it was her petty, vindictive and undeserved shafting of Kim Carr from the industry portfolio that had many Labor folk shaking their heads. This week, of course, it was the petty, vindictive shafting of Northern Territory Senator, Trish Crossin.
If I were a Labor member the choice between Crossin and the Prime Minister's "Captain's pick" of Nova Peris, would be a difficult one. Crossin has been in the Senate since 1998, with the peak of her career being a spell as Deputy Opposition Whip between 2001 and 2004. The best that her colleagues seemed to be able to say of her is that she has been a tireless campaigner for the Northern Territory.
"Tireless campaigner for their electorate" is a politician's way of saying "seat-warming hack".
Peris, on the other hand, is there because she was once a champion athlete, which, the Prime Minster seems to think, is enough to qualify you as a legislator in this sports-mad nation of ours.
Peris's post-running career as listed in Who's Who, includes "Contestant 'Celebrity Overhaul' 2006" alongside her less exciting but more exacting positions as patron of National Sorry Day, International Indigenous Rights Ambassador at the Manchester Museum and board member of Beyond Blue.
Strangely, although the PM on Tuesday singled out Peris's passion for education as reason why she should replace Crossin, Who's Who is silent on the subject of her own education.
As I said, the choice between an undistinguished hack who's had a good run and a retired celebrity sports star is a hard one. Too hard to be left in the hands of ALP members apparently.
For as we know Labor members will not be given a say in who gets to run for the Senate in the Northern Territory because Julia Gillard has decided it should be decided by the party's National Executive - a body on which the Top End is not represented.
It would be a mistake to think that the anger and despair being vented over Gillard's high-handedness is confined to disenfranchised NT Labor members, or people concerned about the fate of Crossin.
Or even the fear her actions strike into the hearts of MPs wondering if they might be next. It's much deeper than that and goes to the heart of what has gone wrong with the Labor Party in the past few years.
Labor's National Executive has always has had the power to intervene in the affairs of state branches but like all extraordinary powers it was only used extremely rarely. When Gough Whitlam removed the moribund leadership of the Victorian branch in 1970 federal intervention was only achieved after a close vote following years of argument.
Likewise federal intervention in Queensland in 1980 was years in the making. The idea that the National Executive would just take over a local pre-selection out of the blue was inconceivable.
But as with so many things in the Labor Party, the rot set in under Kevin Rudd. In 2010 he used the National Executive to overturn the Senate pre-selection of a trade unionist called Kevin Harkins in Tasmania. (It later turned out Rudd may have mistaken him for a trade unionist from Western Australia called Kevin Reynolds. Seriously.)
It was a capricious use of power that set an ugly precedent. But as ugly as it was that's nothing to Gillard's performance this week ringing up a senator without warning and telling her she was announcing her successor at a press conference the next day.
Doubtless there were ways that Crossin could have been used eased out her slot if the consensus was that she had served the Territory for long enough that didn't involve such an ugly use of power.
But it's not her high-handedness that is so objectionable about her actions this week. The real reason to object to it is that it will make a power that only ought to be used in emergencies into a commonplace.
Because as we have seen from the New South Wales Liberal Party, where the use of emergency powers has become so routine as to be a farce, once you start down this path it becomes very difficult to stop.
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Achmed says:
Just as Queenslanders voted against Labor/Gillard for the sacking of a favourite son, Rudd, I have no doubt NT voters will make their feelings about Nova being "parachuted' in well known.
This is a disgraceful poorly managed episode.Crossin will stand as an Independent and retain her seat
R White says:
"Before joining the paper he worked as an adviser to the State Opposition in Victoria."
Come, now. No need to be quite so coy, James.
You mean "Adviser to a Liberal Party Shadow Minister in Victoria".
Nothing like a little perspective, eh.
Daz says:
And this is the party that represents the working class. The blue collars, the honest, decent toilers. The salt of the earth types who just want to do an honest day's work for an honest day's wages. The guys who struggle to bring up good families and just want to know they will be able to put bread on the table tomorrow. Who just expect some loyalty from their employers in return for the sweat that drips from their brows.
Mik says:
Nova was never backward in coming forward in her sporting days. She'll come out swinging enough to make Mundine look like a learner if she feels she has been used or abused.
Rob says:
Karma's a bitch, isn't it? When I look at how many things Gillard did wrong here… like not consulting any of the relevant people; like tossing a Senator out of a job she loved doing; like overlooking another Aboriginal woman who was already a potential replacement in the seat… I tend to have little sympathy for her. And, as the refrain will go all year… bring on the election!
Kipling says:
James it would be very encouraging to see another article of equal length articulating more thouroughly the NSW Governments uses of emergency powers rather than relegating it to anon sentence throw away in a comment highlighting more of the Federal Governments apparent ineptitudes.
Don Shimoza says:
Sigh. When will the leftist nitwits see this person for what she really is? A cynical political fixer. Politics in this country has really taken a turn for the worse since this Gillard/McTernan combo has taken the reins.
Ladyjane says:
If Nova has any sense, she'll do what Mal Meninga did and get herself out of there before she gets eaten alive. Yes, he looked like an absolute idiot for a while there, but he saved himself a lot of heartache. Then again, I have to wonder about Nova's own intellectual capacity and/or character. Anyone with a modicum of intelligence could have predicted this shitstorm would happen, yet she still put herself in it.
stephen says:
It is still a good idea putting her in Federal Parliament.
Aside from her education, she has experience in different fields which politicians generally do not have.
Another voice, another way.
OzTrucker says:
You have gotta love Gillard. Just watch. Anyone who has anything to say will be called racist or misogynist.
Nova ticks all the boxes. Indigenous, female and a gold medal winner. Divorcee and single mother. She has at times done it tough, just like a lost of others.
Forget the fact that she can't string two words together and has no political experience at all.
No doubt she will be a real asset to the political process. I feel certain that labor will provide several advisors to her so she can vote the right way in the senate.
There are just no limits are there.
Bill of Queensland says:
What is the point of being PM if you cannot appoint and fire whoever and whenever you like? No amount of SPIN or Weasel Words will alter the fact that this is a DESPERATE sociocultural gimmick which distracts attention from the merits of the individual and labels them perjoratively as affirmative action appointments without credibility even within the Indigenous community! Senators represent the electorate, not just one group in the electorate. Australians have the right to demand that representatives be selected on the basis of competency, not on the basis of their gender or skin colour! Fundamentally flawed policies cannot be remedied by such appointments. Current policies have led Aboriginal people into a dead end! Aboriginals have to become part of mainstream society to enjoy the benefits it provides. Benefits packages perpetuate dependence by changing the form of welfare. Aboriginals are not marginalised by Australian society, they marginalise themselves! Aboriginals will not move forward while their leaders and lobby groups focus on the past! Current Aboriginal apartheid policies are fundamentally flawed and no amount of money or effort will remedy the resulting problems.
Palzy says:
James who?....you hacks just can't help yourselves, can you. You write an article that has no relevance whatsoever to the Liberal party, but somehow find space to lay the boot in to the Liberals to finish off the article. Pathetic!!!
Greg says:
A race based appointment replaces a gender based appointment. And the decision is made by another gender based (Emily's List) appointee.
It's just standard ALP procedure.
Merit based apppointments are clearly unfair, given that some people have more ability than others.
More evidence that free people are not equal and equal people are not free.
People have to choose between freedom and equality, because they cannot have both simultaneously.
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If you'd spent a few seconds doing some research, James, then you would have found that in just the last 15 years, Nova Peris has worked in the roles of:
Promotional & advocacy campaigns for domestic violence, youth, depression, youth suicide
Delegate to the National Constitution Convention
National patron for Beyond Blue
National Treaty Ambassador and facilitator
International Indigenous Rights Ambassador – repatriation of human remains at Manchester UK Museum
International Ambassador for – World Health Organisation & Griffith University – Youth Suicide Prevention
National Ambassador for Reconciliation Australia
International Ambassador for 'Hepatitis Australia' – "World Hepatitis Day'
DoHA - Development of Communications Strategy and implementation strategy of the CHC
'Strong Community Life' alcohol responsibility implementation strategy
NSW 'Good 4 Kids – Good 4 Life' - NSW Hunter Valley healthy eating campaign
Worked with FaHCSIA – Economic Development and CDEP reform branch
Worked with 'Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies' Media, Marketing & Events coordinator
KLC – Dampier Peninsula Land & Sea Planning Project – Land Tenure reform/ Governance and Land Use Planning
Co-ordinated the 2011 – Long Walk; coordinated with the 'Dreamtime at the G'
Co-ordinated the'Learn – Earn - Legend' Careers Expo
Set up 3 'Girls Academies' on behalf of the Northern Territory Government – Nightcliff, Sanderson & DripstoneNova Peris has also been the Vice President of Northern Territory Hockey, is acknowledged in the Aboriginal and Torres Straight Island Hall of Fame and has written an autobiography "Nova – My Story".
Nova Peris was named Young Australian of the Year in 1997 and was also awarded an Order of Australia Medal.
But finding all that wouldn't suit your agenda of trying to represent Nova Peris as nothing more than a "retired athlete", would it James? I can see why you wouldn't want to do even a few seconds of research.
Nice crocodile tears for Trish Crossin, by the way.
DocBud says:
"Peris, on the other hand, is there because she was once a champion athlete, which, the Prime Minster seems to think, is enough to qualify you as a legislator in this sports-mad nation of ours."
No, Peris is there because she is Aboriginal, other than that Gillard doesn't care what her abilities might be.
VJR says:
I feel concerned for Ms Peris after what the ALP has done to another famous drop in's - it left them high and dry. The ALP is full of very anxious and worried people who wouldn't see Ms Peris as an out standing aboriginal candidate but someone who has been pushed ahead of the pack for the sake of looking good in the NT where Labor got hammered in their last election. Ms Peris might be wise to say thanks but no thanks and leave her run for another s election cycle that would give her time to cement her place in the NT Labor team as a person who is worthy of pre-selection by her own peers and not by a PM who's on the way out the door later in the year.
Trevor A says:
Is this story fair dinkum. Does the Heraldsun, Telegraph do similar reports on every person that nominates for parliament.
Do they have record of the active but modest gay men, or the married men that have mistresses or visit massage parlours?
These gay men are known and keeping it discreet is the message.
I feel sorry for people who get their living writing these biased pieces but surely enough is enough. read the last line of his article.
Daz says:
As an afterthought if I was Trish Crossan I'd be seeking out the services of a good Labor law firm like Slater and Gordon seeking to bring an action before Fair Work Australia. For surely she has been unfairly dismissed by her employer Julia Gillard.
Ben says:
What makes me cringe is the racial overtone - Nova Peris gushing with gratitude at the invitation of the benevolent white woman to come and work in the Big House.
I couldn't see Bess Price or Marion Scrymgour falling for a stunt like this. In any event either would be too outspoken for Gillard's liking.
M.Mouse says:
Peris doens't even live in the NT, but in Canberra, apparently. Why didn't the encumbent ALP ACT senate "seat warmer" get the boot if Gillard was so desperate to say "me too" to having Indiginous people in her government?
Tokenism, racism and paternalism at its very worst.
She's even stabbing fellow EMILYs Listers in the back now, that's an interesting development.
Shame on Peris for getting involved in this farce, all my respect for her as an athlete has gone.This is like accepting a gold medal from a crooked referee when you haven't even competed! Where is her pride?
Meredith says:
What an accomplished journalist you are using your posiiton to lambast the PM over what former PM's have done since Parliament was first formed in this country. How dare you take issue with the PM doing her job. Getting the best candidate who will represent Labor in the North End. They have not been well served by past members who were tired and lacklustre. I am fed up that everytime Julia Gillard makes a decision (as all PM's before her) for some reason she is being nasty or vindictive or whatever. It's the whole thing of the "little woman daring to have her say".
Jason says:
What's wrong with you James and all the wingers, we are the best country in the world, the best government ever, we didn' have the recession we had to have, we have low unemployement figure, the sun is shining everywhere….
She has been elected to run the country, can you please let her run the country and stop whinging like a spoil kid for God sake.
Zack says:
The ALP under Gillard is destroying itself and rotting from the inside out. No LNP politician could have done the damage to the ALP which Gillard has done. Things were bad and just when you think Julia can't make it any worse, she does.
Chillin says:
What we are going to do is take a 15 year veteran Aboriginal Senator and replace her with a unqualified, naive political hack candidate purely on the basis that she is white.
Imagine the reaction.
aka anon says:
One has to feel sorry for Nova Peris, she wasn't selected as an ALP member, she wasn't selected on merit, she was solely selected on the colour of her skin. PM Gillard appointing someone for an important senate position by colour of skin is a shameful act and is discrimination at its worse.
It is no wonder there is anger amongst all ALP members, party values of a fair go for all has been trashed by Gillard.
ramases says:
I see she admitted to driving under the influence and wonder, did she use the " I was young and naive" excuse , like her mentor or the "race card" as she is quickly learning is the biggest weapon in her limited arsenal to explain her lapse of judgement.
Sinbad says:
Ms Nova Peris clearly has a fair bit of white blood in her. Why do we automatically call people with some aboriginal blood an aborigine?
porloc says:
Give MissGillard a break, she has the Worst Prime Minister Ever title to defend and on current form is well ahead.
Wakey Wakey says:
This is a no-brainer long overdue good move by Gillard. In progress there is sacrifice. Indigenous representation will never be achieved thru "due process" - systemic racism and career politicians prevent it. Trish Crossin needs to move over for super-Nova. Labor need to get behind it.
Bryan says:
This whole thing is Abbotts fault and the sooner we realise this the better.
Mr Negative (Tony Abbott) had his hand in this just like he has had a hand in every bad decision that Ms Gillard has made. This uncharitable, overbearing, uneducated, misogynistic fool should open his eyes and get involved in the community and experience what most other Australians do instead of sitting in his ivory tower looking down at people and making bad decisions that are either morally wrong or wholly undemocratic.
Abbott, Abbott, Abbott - surely EVERYTHING must be all his fault why can't he just be quiet and stop criticising all the bad decisions. I mean wouldn't Australians be better off if all of Gillard's decisions were rubber stamped as true, correct and good for everybody?
Bryan says:
This whole thing is Abbotts fault and the sooner we realise this the better.
Mr Negative (Tony Abbott) had his hand in this just like he has had a hand in every bad decision that Ms Gillard has made. This uncharitable, overbearing, uneducated, misogynistic fool should open his eyes and get involved in the community and experience what most other Australians do instead of sitting in his ivory tower looking down at people and making bad decisions that are either morally wrong or wholly undemocratic.
Abbott, Abbott, Abbott - surely EVERYTHING must be all his fault why can't he just be quiet and stop criticising all the bad decisions. I mean wouldn't Australians be better off if all of Gillard's decisions were rubber stamped as true, correct and good for everybody?
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He was injured yesterday on a hit from St. Louis' David Backes.
A six week absence would mean that he would return in the beginning of December.
In his place, Martin Skoula will be making his Penguins debut on Friday night against Florida.
Start Spreadin' The Blues. PENS WIN.
On a night where the Penguins were aware of fighting cancer,
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Very rarely do you see a team so completely unprepared to play a hockey game.
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Sergei Gonchar left the game in the second period and did not return.
Using e-mail correspondence from people at the game and our own DVR,
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It kind of blew up everywhere and reached Grover on The X post-game.
What a mistake. We're ne'er to do it again.
It's not anyone's fault; just a perfect storm.
The Pens are expected to announce something on Wednesday.
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We wanted to clear something up.
We were at the game, and watched Gonch go to the locker room. Several people emailed us that it was a broken wrist.
They said they heard the doctors who rushed by them mention it.
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5 NCAA Basketball Programs That Need to Open the Vault to Hire Brad Stevens
By Scott Polacek ,
Brad Stevens has been to more Final Fours in his five-plus seasons as a young head coach than the majority of college basketball programs have in their entire histories.
Clearly, he must have inherited a great job at a school that attracts blue-chip prospects in its sleep like a Duke, Kentucky or Kansas right? Nope, he's actually done it at Butler University, a small and quaint school right outside Indianapolis that has fewer students than Big State U. has in some individual lecture halls.
Stevens is at it again this season, and his Bulldogs are ranked No. 13 in the country and already count victories over Marquette, North Carolina and Indiana on their resume.
It's only natural in today's collegiate athletic atmosphere of conference realignment and bigger is better to ask if Stevens will always be the head man at Butler or if he should take on a new challenge at a power-conference program.
Read on to see five programs that should open the vault to land his services. Remember, these are not rumors or even suggested career moves for the excellent Stevens (who is frankly better off at Butler than just about all these schools), just down-on-their-luck programs that could really use his coaching abilities.
We start off with the school that just so happened to fire its coach Kevin O'Neill within the past week.
Basketball may not be a priority at USC, but it really should be better than a Pac-12 bottom dweller. The school is located in a bustling metropolis that is defined, at least in the world of sports, by its hoops success.
The Lakers are one of the two most storied franchises in professional basketball, UCLA has more national championships than any other college program and even the Clippers are the current flavor of the month. Yet somehow a USC program that should have every recruiting advantage in the world has only been relevant recently when it cheated to land O.J. Mayo.
A dynamic young coach like Brad Stevens would be just the shot in the arm this dormant basketball team needs. He would bring stability, class (read, not Lane Kiffin) and a winning pedigree, which would finally help the Trojans consistently challenge the Bruins and Wildcats of the Pac-12 world.
Longhorn fans questioning Rick Barnes after an earlier than expected NCAA tournament exit has officially become an annual tradition in Austin.
Heck, Barnes had A.J. Abrams, D.J. Augustin and Kevin freaking Durant on his team in the 2006-07 season and couldn't even reach the Sweet 16.
To be fair, Barnes does have a better resume than plenty of coaches, including all the other ones on this list, and it even includes a trip to the Final Four. However, things have certainly trended downwards in the 10 years since.
Texas is stuck in a bit of a rut and currently sits on the bottom of the Big 12 standings even though it was considered a borderline Top 25 team at the start of the year. I know losing Myck Kabongo definitely hurts, but if one suspension cripples a season this drastically, the program wasn't in the best place to begin with.
Brad Stevens, just like Barnes did 15 years ago, can provide some energy to a program that has failed to reach its lofty goals in the past few seasons. Another Final Four would probably be the result.
This is going to sound a bit robotic, but the reality of the situation for the Scarlet Knights is fairly simplistic.
Rutgers is joining the Big Ten in the very near future. The Big Ten is the best basketball conference in the country. Rutgers will not be able to compete in the Big Ten as currently constructed.
Rutgers would benefit from a change.
It's probably not fair to current head coach Mike Rice, who considering the historical precedent set at Rutgers has done a decent job in his three years there, but the only way the Scarlet Knights have a chance to avoid battling for last place with Penn State and Nebraska in the Big Ten is hiring a program-changer like Brad Stevens.
Granted, it wouldn't make a ton of sense from Stevens' point of view, but if Rutgers really opened the vault he would have to at least consider it right?
Wake Forest—the program that counts Chris Paul and Tim Duncan among its recent players, has a Final Four trip and used to be a perennial thorn in the side of the Dukes and North Carolinas of the ACC—has fallen on some hard times recently.
Frankly speaking, the Demon Deacons have been terrible under head coach Jeff Bzdelik. They did not make the NCAA tournament in either of his first two seasons and finished with records of 8-24 and 13-18, respectively.
This season Wake has already lost to the likes of Iona, Richmond, Nebraska and Seton Hall. It also lost to Connecticut, but that is much more understandable.
Sure, the Deacons won five more games last season than they did the season before, but since when is Wake Forest a program that is fine with minor progress in the face of consecutive losing seasons? Don't be surprised if that record is once again below .500 this year.
It wasn't that long ago that Wake Forest was challenging for ACC titles. If it hired Brad Stevens, that would once again be the case sooner rather than later.
Just like Wake Forest used to challenge Duke and North Carolina, there was once a time not long ago when Boston College would at least pose a threat to the top of the ACC. From the 2000-01 season to the 2008-09 season, the Eagles went to seven NCAA tournaments and were consistently ranked in the Top 25.
However, the Eagles have languished recently under head coach Steve Donahue and have failed to reach the level they played at under Al Skinner.
Most troublesome is the fact that Donahue went 21-13 in his first year and then drastically fell to 9-22 the following season. His squad isn't off to a great start this year either, currently sitting at 9-7, a record that includes losses to the College of Charleston, Harvard and Bryant.
The ACC is just going to get stronger in the coming years with the additions of powerhouses like Syracuse and Louisville, so the Eagles may not sniff an NCAA tournament for the foreseeable future.
That is unless they pony up and hire someone like Brad Stevens to turn things around.


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Posted: 10:35 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013
By Jen Bilik
How to deal with the difficult people problems that come along with being CEO.
There's a reason that CEO is the No. 1 job title for gainfully employed sociopaths--those who literally lack empathy. It's a lot easier to endure the job if you can let things roll off your back and don't care about others' feelings. According to Jon Ronson, author of The Psychopath Test, CEOs are well served by "lack of empathy, lack of remorse, glibness, superficial charm, manipulativeness."
That's not me. My name is Jen, and I am a thin-skinned CEO.
Over the course of my company's 11 years of existence, I have probably spent less time worrying about our bottom line than I have obsessing over the following:
And then I would obsess over follow-up subjects, such as ways to effectively make amends or how I might school the wrongdoers in proper conduct so that they see the error of their ways and never do to others what they've done to me.
This--shocker!--turns out not to have been a good use of my executive time. Plus, I suspect the emotional stress has taken years off my life.
Though I don't think I'll ever be able to achieve the glorious heights of full-on sociopathy, there are five things that help me break out of my unproductive and overly personalized tailspins of worry:
1. Don't take it personally. I remind myself that one of the roles of leaders is to be the blank screen upon which others project their neuroses and issues with authority. Deep down inside, my self-image ranges from schlub to fraud. So part of how I've come to own my role as CEO (and to stop apologizing for my inexperience) has been acknowledging that people, especially employees, do treat me differently because of my position. This doesn't always mean they treat me better. In fact, as far as I can tell, there have been more than a few who assume I have no feelings because I'm in a position of power and achievement.
2. Apologize when appropriate. When I'm to blame, I try always to apologize. I hope that my employees appreciate seeing their CEO take her lumps when appropriate, and I expect the same from them.
3. Make use of your college Psychology 101 class. When someone else is the problem, I think of the immortal words of my godmother, Wini, "If it's that hard to be with them, imagine how hard it is to be them." The worse people behave, the worse they generally feel. Sometimes this helps me with empathy, but other times it just makes me feel vindicated that they're suffering, too. I am an avid subscriber to schadenfreude.
4. Prepare for some complete jerks. I don't know how I got the idea that people behave only from good intentions, and that there aren't bad people in this world. But somehow I am always astonished when I come across people who are truly trying to damage me or my business for their own gain. When faced with one of these (sometimes powerful) losers, I remind myself that these people do exist--but they're not the majority.
5. Don't try to fix everyone. I must frequently remind myself that I will almost never be in a position to school these harm-doers and they may never understand the consequences of their actions. They may never be unhappy or remorseful. Karma may not exist. I just have to handle my encounters with them with as little emotion as possible and get away from them as fast as I can. I cannot take responsibility for their evil.
Ultimately, when I obsess over my or others' poor behavior, I am the only one who pays the cost in unhappiness and stress. Now that I've moved beyond the early, life-threateningly stressful years of my business, sloughing off those things I can't control is even more important to me. I want inner peace. I want better self-control. I want thicker skin.
Maybe I do want to be a sociopath after all.


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Bemidji State University Student Senate strives to provide a safe, healthy environment for students, faculty, staff and visitors. The U.S. Surgeon General has published findings that tobacco use in any form active and/or passive, is a significant health hazard. In addition, environmental tobacco smoke has been classified as a Class A carcinogen, and that there is no safe level of exposure.
Reducing the amount of second-hand smoke on our campus will improve our community health. It also demonstrates our community support for individuals who are extremely sensitive to second-hand smoke for health reasons (i.e. asthma, respiratory problems). Is is anticipated that many campus community members will be pleased when second-hand smoke is moved away from common areas.
No, a tobacco free campus policy is not a violation of an individual's civil rights. There is no state or federal law that provides a "right" to smoke or use tobacco. In addition, the University has the authority to govern and regulate the use of its facilities and properties.
No, the policy governs use of tobacco products, not possession of tobacco products.
Efforts will be made to ensure that faculty, staff and students are aware of the policy. Responsibility for complying with the policy rest first and foremost with the individual. Individuals who violate the policy will be referred to the appropriate campus administrative unit for disciplinary action.
Students are encouraged to contact the Student Center for Health and Counseling. Faculty and staff are encouraged to contact their health care provider(s) for tobacco cessation options, or to visit quitplan.com for additional information. Additional resources may be found on the Supporting Documents page of this Tobacco Free BSU site.
Bemidji State University does not have jurisdiction over the use of city owned streets, sidewalks and right-of-ways in regard to tobacco use or related activities. Please note, however, that many streets and sidewalks adjacent to the campus are university property. To avoid confusion, those wishing to use tobacco should do so on a site that is clearly not university property. It is also really important to respectful of the owners of that non-university property.
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Though students living on campus may find it more difficult and inconvenient to adhere to the tobacco policy, allowing tobacco use outside of the residence halls on university property would not align with BSU's goal of creating a healthy, clean and safe environment for the campus community.
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Morningside theatre department to present "Spoon River Anthology"
The Morningside College theatre department will present "Spoon River Anthology" at 7 p.m. Thursday to Saturday, April 14 to 16, and at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 17, at Klinger-Neal Theatre, 3700 Peters Avenue.
The play is from the Charles Aidman adaption of the Edgar Lee Masters book "Spoon River Anthology," a collection of short poems that describes life in the fictional town of Spoon River, named after the real Spoon River that ran near Masters' home town of Lewistown, Ill. The collection included 212 separate characters and 244 accounts of their lives and losses.
The actors in the play will perform multiple character roles and most will also sing. The director is Bette Skewis-Arnett, professor of theatre. Michael Rohlena, visiting assistant professor of theatre & dance, is the scenic and lighting designer. Stephen Lundberg, a member of Morningside's adjunct faculty, is the musical director and accompanist.
Cast members are Michael Bryant, a senior from Farragut, Tenn.; Brianna Carter, a senior from Sioux City; Tasha Drey, a freshman from Storm Lake, Iowa; Brittney Foxhoven, a senior from South Sioux City, Neb.; Donna Habinck, a freshman from Mapleton, Iowa; Cristina McCrystal, a sophomore from Sloan, Iowa; Haleigh Pigott, a freshman from Sioux City; Jennifer Kinzey, a sophomore from Sioux City; Maddie Mardesen, a junior from Elliott, Iowa; Andrew Poeckes, a freshman from Remsen, Iowa; Athena Riesenberg, a senior from Sioux City; Jake Sandvick, a senior from Sioux City; Nathan Schwartz, a senior from Sioux City; Nancy Seeman, a sophomore from Stanton, Neb.; Annalise Tecken, a freshman from George, Iowa; and Elijah Wolf, a freshman from Denison, Iowa.
The assistant director is J.J. Sitzmann, a senior from Sioux City. Other members of the crew are Juliene Brown, a freshman from Omaha, Neb., light board operator; Andrew Curry, a junior from Urbandale, Iowa, back stage manager; Laura Krengel, a junior from Wyoming, Minn., stage manager; Aimee Little, a freshman from Louisville, Ky., props mistress; and Melissa Richter, a freshman from Rock Valley, Iowa, house manager.
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