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It's now Professor Tressel.
Former Ohio State coach Jim Tressel will teach a course this fall at the University of Akron, where he has worked in an administration role for the past two years. He will instruct students in ''General Principles of Coaching'' with former Zips coach Jim Dennison, who was Akron's coach when Tressel began his coaching career at the school as an assistant in 1974.
''He gave me my first opportunity to coach,'' Tressel said, ''and he provided guidance that has lasted me a lifetime.''
The three-credit course, which will be held once a week and run into December, will be open to Akron students and the general public.
Tressel was forced to resign at Ohio State in 2011 amid a scandal involving several players. He spent 10 years as coach of the Buckeyes, winning a national title in 2002. Tressel became Akron's vice president of strategic engagement in 2012. In a release from the school, Tressel is referred to as the school's Vice President for Student Success.
As one of the conditions of a show-cause sanction by the NCAA, Tressel was banned from coaching for five years.
Tressel plans to have current Akron football coach Terry Bowden and men's basketball coach Keith Dambrot as guest lecturers.
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COLUMBUS, OHIO - NOVEMBER 24, 2012: Former head coach Jim Tressel of the Ohio State Buckeyes reacts to being carried off the field on the shoulders of his former players during a game between the Ohio State Buckeyes and Michigan Wolverines at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. The Buckeyes won 26-21. (Photo by David Dermer/Diamond Images/Getty Images)

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IBM has moved to establish its dominance in the middleware space, with what the company claims are new record-breaking benchmark results for WebSphere middleware on a single server representing the highest performance in the information technology industry.
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In an interview with eWEEK, Dave Klavon, director of development for IBM's WebSphere, said IBM set new records for speed of operation in Java-based software on a Power 780 server and on Power 730 Express as validated by independent SPECJ testing group. SPECjEnterprise 2010 is an industry-standard online transaction processing benchmark that is commonly used to compare the performance of middleware software for online transaction processing applications.
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IBM has invested significantly in ensuring that its products provide the best performance value for our customers. IBM software and hardware components used in attaining these results include WebSphere Application Server, DB2 and Power Systems. The result is that companies have more responsive business applications and serve their customers more quickly and efficiently, Klavon said. Clients can save substantially with higher performance due to decreased investment in hardware and data center space, energy costs, software license and support costs. That helps explain why IBM is the market share leader for application infrastructure middleware, Klavon said.
"We want to make the distance between us and any competitor even larger," Klavon said. "With Oracle, it's a dog-eat-dog world. They set this game into motion and came out saying, 'I am IBM.' But we have such a head start on them because we established the model. Price/performance is what we're all about."
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Yet, IBM claims more than 1,000 businesses have selected IBM middleware over Oracle in 2010 as part of IBM's DeFUSE project, citing real business benefits from the superior performance of IBM middleware. The DeFUSE project is an IBM effort to get customers to move from or select IBM's offerings over Oracle's Fusion middleware and related offerings.
For example, with DB2 running as low as one-third the cost of Oracle Database, more than 700 SAP clients chose DB2 over Oracle last year, IBM said. And, demand for DB2 spurred IBM to help more than 2,000 Oracle users gain DB2 skills last year.
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Also, IBM recently rolled out a new advertising campaign that speaks to its self-stated performance edge in application server software and points to IBM's leadership in database and data warehouse appliance capabilities as compared to Oracle.
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IBM sets SPECJ benchmark for WebSphere on Power Systems with 70-plus percent greater performance than Oracle
The Netezza data warehousing appliance is up and running in 24 hours versus 24 days or more for Oracle Exadata
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Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, said, "It's interesting in that Oracle appears to be attempting to deflate IBM's numbers. In the last several market share reports from Gartner and IDC, IBM has been the clear global leader in middleware. And in part that's due to the fact that the IBM mainframe has been such a dominant platform in the online transaction processing space and Oracle seems to want to downplay those numbers."
Joe Clabby, president of Clabby Analytics, told eWEEK of Oracle's middleware claims, "My issue is that I don't know where they are getting their data from (they don't source it). And if they can't identify where the data is coming from, that is tantamount to making up market share claims in my book."
Oracle did not respond to a request for comment by the time this story posted.
IBM claims that it is consistent performance that attracts many clients around the globe to IBM such as QVC, CSN Stores, Deutsche Postbank UK, Korea's National Health Insurance Corp. (NHIC), Portland General Electric, Italian banking group UniCredit and China's Sichuan Seismic Bureau, among many others.
For example, QVC, one of the largest multimedia retailers in the world, has selected IBM Netezza to analyze user-generated content from its Web forums. In addition, CSN Stores, the third largest online retailer of home goods in the United States, chose IBM Netezza to help its customers mine terabytes of data to monitor profitability and customer satisfaction trends.
Deutsche Postbank UK is using a new IBM Smart Analytics System to help improve the quality and accuracy of its business reporting for risk monitoring, portfolio and collateral analysis. Portland General Electric, Oregon's largest utility, has realized $18 million in annual operational savings using IBM's WebSphere software to help speed business processes such as the replacement of 850,000 energy meters with smart meters and billing processes.
NHIC consolidated its integration information system with IBM's Tivoli and WebSphere software, reducing the number of core processors needed to run their operations. Italian banking group UniCredit reduced back office response time from one day to minutes with an intelligent, paperless model using IBM's virtualization software.
And China's Sichuan Seismic Bureau automatically captures data recorded by seismic monitoring stations, processing 100,000 messages accurately using WebSphere.


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Prof. Yamir Moreno (Havana City, 1970) got his PhD in Physics (Summa Cum Laude, 2000) from University of Zaragoza. Shortly afterwards, he joined the Condensed Matter Section of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy as a research fellow. He is the head of the Complex Systems and Networks Lab (COSNET) since 2003 and is also affiliated to the Department of Theoretical Physics of the Faculty of Sciences, University of Zaragoza. He is the Scientific Secretary of the Institute for Bio-computation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI) and member of its Government Board and Steering Committee. During the last years, he has been working on several problems such as: the study of nonlinear dynamical systems coupled to complex structures, transport processes and diffusion with applications in communication and technological networks, dynamics of virus and rumors propagation, game theory, systems biology (the TB case), the study of more complex and realistic scenarios for the modeling of infectious diseases, synchronization phenomena, the emergence of collective behaviors in biological and social environments, the development of new optimization data algorithms and the structure and dynamics of socio-technical
and biological systems. He has published more than 135 scientific papers in international refereed journals and he serves as reviewer for around 30 scientific journals and research agencies. His research works have collected more than 6600 citations (h=34), including the most cited Physics Reports of the last ten years on Complex Networks and their applications (Phys. Rep. 424, 175-304 (2006), 2600+ citations). Prof. Moreno has supervised 8 undergraduate and 5 PhD Thesis at the University of Zaragoza. Currently, 5 more PhD thesis are being supervised. At present, he is a member of the Editorial Board of Scientific Reports and Academic Editor of PLoS ONE. Prof. Moreno also belongs to the Executive Committee and Council of the Complex Systems Society (CSS) and of the Future and Emerging Technology Advisory Group of the European Union's Research Program: H2020. Besides, he is a member of the Advisory Board of the WHO Collaborative Center "Complexity Sciences for Health Systems" (CS4HS), whose headquarters is at the University of British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, in Vancouver, Canada. Recently, he has been elected Vice-president of the Complex Systems Society.
Awards and Honors
- Institute for Scientific Interchange (Turin, Italy) Fellow. June 2013.
- Member of the NetSci Society Board. Since June 2013.
- Member of the Advisory Board of the WHO Collaborative Center "Complexity Sciences for Health Systems" (CS4HS), which is based on the Division of Mathematical Modeling at the University of British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Since March 2013.
- Elected member of the Executive Committee and Council of the Complex Systems Society.
- Author of the most cited paper from University of Zaragoza (Physics Reports 426, 175-306, 2006).
- Editorial Board Member of Nature Scientific Reports. Since September 2011.
- Scientific Secretary, Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI), University of Zaragoza, Spain. Since February 2011.
- Academic Editor of PLoS ONE. Since January 2011.
- ISI WoK Highly Cited Scientist (i.e, within the top 1% of most cited scientists in Physics).
- Member of the Board and Steering Committees of the Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI), University of Zaragoza. Since 2007.
- Head of the Research Lab: "Complex Systems and Networks", Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI), University of Zaragoza. Since 2003.
- Outstanding American Physical Society Reviewer (2009).
- Article "Evolutionary Game Dynamics in a Growing Structured Population", New Journal of Physics, 11, 083031 (2009), selected "Best of 2009" by IoP.
- Plenary Speaker for the prestigious Conference Cycles of Cosmo-Caixa. Barcelona, October 2009. Subject: Natural Selection and Evolution.
- Outstanding Europhysics Letters Reviewer (2008).
- Member of the European Physical Society.
- Member of the European Complex Systems Society.
- Ramón y Cajal Fellow, 2005-2010.
- Guest Editor for the Special Issue of the New Journal of Physics "Complex Networked Systems: Theory and Applications".
- Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal "Nova Scientia".
- Editor of the Journal of Complex Systems in Science (2010-).
- PhD Fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1997-2000.
- 1997 Outstanding Teaching Award of the Minister for Education, Havana, Cuba.
PhD Thesis supervised
- Dr. Jesús Gómez Gardeñes, "Complex Systems: Nonlinearity and structural complexity in spatially extended and discrete systems" (2006).
- Dr. Pablo Echenique, "A bottom-up physical approach from small peptides to proteins. Methods and ab initio potentials" (2006).
- Dr. Julia Poncela Casasnovas "Evolutionary Games in Complex Topologies: Interplay between structure and dynamics" (2010).
- Dr. Sandro Meloni, "Complex Technological Networks: Structure, Dynamics and Algorithms" (2011).
- Dr. Carlos Gracia-Lázaro, "Dynamics and Collective Phenomena of Social Systems" (2012).
- Dr. Raquel Álvarez Baños "Collective behavior and information structure in socio-technical networks: Analysis and models" (2014).


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In the 1920 and '30s, cinema was slowly reaching its maturity as an art form. The introduction of sound added a chaotic new element just as existing elements like editing, shot selection, and the Hollywood production system were refined. The medium was gloriously, almost frighteningly, alive.
And so, in 1934, the Motion Picture Production Code, known as The Hays Code was introduced. Named after the censor and Republican National Committee chairperson Will Hays, the Code was intended to stop film's ability to display girl-on-girl kissing, fervent voyeurism of the young female body, and successful gangland crime, among other things. The Supreme Court-approved censorship laws prohibited the distribution of films with such content or forced them into costly re-edits.
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Until the waning and ultimate demise of the production code with the advent of the MPAA rating system, some 20 years later, artists were forced to carefully maneuver around outright expression of a character's homosexuality. Hitchcock's Rope, to take one example, is very literally about homosexuality. This was clarified explicitly, many years later, by the film's writer, Arthur Laurents, who was also gay, in the documentary short Rope Unleashed. But this fact is never stated in the film itself. The nature of the intense relationship between the main characters was communicated subliminally through selective omission, because it had to be.
While there is no modern Hays Code equivalent in contemporary American video games (the ESRB rates but does not censor) the manner that LGBT characters are being introduced to a broader audience in major games is through this same blowback-wary method of diligent self-policing. The writers allow space for an audience member to overlook or deny the homosexuality of a particular character if that's the way they would prefer to see things.
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Revitalizing American Manufacturing
Sridhar Kota
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
Dr. Kota said he would describe the Obama administration's priorities for advanced manufacturing, beginning with the assertion that "the President 'gets it' in terms of the importance of manufacturing." He noted the topic's high position among White House priorities, and quoted President Obama from the Report to the President on Ensuring American Leadership in Advanced Manufacturing that had been released by the White House in 2010: "When new technologies are developed and new industries are formed, I want them made right here in America. That's what we're fighting for." This report was written by PCAST, the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, in response to the President's request.10
He referred also to A Framework for Revitalizing American Manufacturing, a report issued by the White House in December 2009 that laid out fundamental platforms for a revitalized manufacturing, including cost drivers, access to capital, training and education, tax policies, and investments in technology. In terms of technology investments, he identified in particular several items in the NSF budget to pursue funding for manufacturing technology and the creation of advanced manufacturing centers.
10According to the PCAST report, "Advanced manufacturing involves the manufacture of conventional or novel products through processes that depend on the coordination of information, automation, computation, software, sensing, and networking, and/or make use of cutting edge materials and emerging scientific capabilities." Executive Office of the President, A Framework for Revitalizing American Manufacturing, Washington, DC: Executive Office of the President, 2009.
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PROCEEDINGS 37 Revitalizing American Manufacturing Sridhar Kota White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Dr. Kota said he would describe the Obama administration's priorities for advanced manufacturing, beginning with the assertion that "the President 'gets it' in terms of the importance of manufacturing." He noted the topic's high position among White House priorities, and quoted President Obama from the Report to the President on Ensuring American Leadership in Advanced Manufacturing that had been released by the White House in 2010: "When new technologies are developed and new industries are formed, I want them made right here in America. That's what we're fighting for." This report was written by PCAST, the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, in response to the President's request.10 He referred also to A Framework for Revitalizing American Manufacturing, a report issued by the White House in December 2009 that laid out fundamental platforms for a revitalized manufacturing, including cost drivers, access to capital, training and education, tax policies, and investments in technology. In terms of technology investments, he identified in particular several items in the NSF budget to pursue funding for manufacturing technology and the creation of advanced manufacturing centers. 10 According to the PCAST report, "Advanced manufacturing involves the manufacture of conventional or novel products through processes that depend on the coordination of information, automation, computation, software, sensing, and networking, and/or make use of cutting edge materials and emerging scientific capabilities." Executive Office of the President, A Framework for Revitalizing American Manufacturing, Washington, DC: Executive Office of the President, 2009.
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38 STRENGTHENING AMERICAN MANUFACTURING ADVANCED MANUFACTURING AS A PRESIDENTIAL PRIORITY The PCAST report, Dr. Kota continued, had been shaped by the President's request to explore and identify opportunities and challenges in advanced manufacturing. He said that the report distinguished two common aspects of advanced manufacturing: the use of new abilities to create new industries, and the use of new abilities to strengthen existing industries. He emphasized that while these two aspects are not truly different, but tend to merge in response to innovative ideas, they provide a convenient framework to discuss technologies that are truly new from those that develop incrementally through the application of new techniques. Many of the most innovative ideas, he said, including radical new technologies, were emerging from universities and federal labs, and leading to technology-based start-ups. For this process of innovation to create new industries, it usually must evolve through the stages of discovery, invention, technology development, scale-up, manufacturing, and finally commercialization. A serious challenge faced by start-ups as they attempt to prove and scale up their technologies is to raise the financing they need to reach the marketplace. This is the familiar "valley of death," or investment gap, that must be traversed if a promising idea is to become practical and profitable. This journey can be speeded by early adoption by federal agencies or by partnerships with larger firms, but few other resources are available to even the most promising small firms. The second aspect of advanced manufacturing, technology that sustains business growth that is more incremental in nature, is the more common use of R&D and the process that actually leads to most new products and practical solutions. Dr. Kota cited four "essential elements to grow and sustain existing industries." These include technology innovation, which may include both incremental and radical innovation; business innovation, which may influence adjacent markets and adjacent products; tools and resources, which include a skilled workforce at all levels and tools to improve quality, flexibility, and efficiency; and low structural non-production costs, such as taxes and regulations. AN EROSION OF THE INDUSTRIAL COMMONS Dr. Kota returned to the concept of innovation. A recent National Academies report, he said, has suggested that innovators are defined by three achievements: they are the first to acquire new knowledge, the first to apply it through world-class engineering, and the first to introduce it to a commercial or
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PROCEEDINGS 39 other market.11 Traditionally, U.S. firms had excelled in being first to acquire knowledge, he said, thanks to the steady emergence of good ideas and "the best innovation infrastructure in the world." This excellence was fueled by the substantial ongoing investments by the federal government in basic research. U.S. policy has been less successful in supporting the application of new ideas through engineering and the commercialization of new products in the market, Dr. Kota said. The United States has lost out in many cases to foreign competitors whose governments have devoted more resources and policy support for these two stages of innovation. For advanced manufacturing, the latter two stages of innovation require complex and enduring partnerships among universities, technical colleges, firms, research institutes, financing entities, and other links in the supply chain, known collectively as the industrial commons. He noted that the U.S. industrial commons is in decline, leading to the recent trade deficits in advanced technology products. In the realm of manufacturing, the weakening of the industrial commons was reflected in some loss of the knowledge base, skills, and technology to make certain competitive products. He listed many products invented and developed in the United States that are no longer made here;12 some of them cannot be made here, he said, because U.S. firms no longer have the engineering and application skills needed to scale them up and develop prototypes. Many other products in which U.S. companies were once dominant are today at risk, including LEDs for solid-state lighting, next-generation "electronic paper" displays for portable devices, thin-film solar cells, blade servers and mid-range servers, and carbon composites components for aerospace and wind energy applications.13 THE 'MISSING MIDDLE' OF INNOVATION: TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT If technology development is viewed schematically as a process beginning with scientific knowledge and culminating in output to the market, he said, the kinds of developmental skills needed to develop products for market 11 National Academy of Sciences/National Academy of Engineering/Institute of Medicine, Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited—Rapidly Approaching Category 5, Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2010. 12 Examples include products in the categories of semiconductors ("fables" chips), lighting (compact fluorescent bulbs), electronic displays (LCDs for monitors, TVs, and handheld devices), energy storage and green energy production (lithium-ion, lithium polymer, and NiMH batteries for cell phones, portable consumer electronics, laptops, and power tools), computing and communications (desktop, notebook, and netbook PCs; low-end servers; hard disk drives; consumer networking gear); and advanced materials (advanced composites used in sporting goods and other consumer gear; advanced ceramics; integrated circuit packaging). Gary Pisano and Willy Shih, "Restoring American Competitiveness," Harvard Business Review, July 2009. 13 Ibid.
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40 STRENGTHENING AMERICAN MANUFACTURING are the "missing middle" of innovation. He showed an illustration indicating the strength of the U.S. federal investment in basic research, led by agencies such as NIH, NSF, and DoE. But this investment weakens in the stage of applied research, where the NSF virtually disappears, and in the development stage, where the DoD, NASA, and DoE are significant investors. By the stage of prototype and systems development, virtually all federal funding goes to the DoD, primarily for weapons testing. One way to view this imbalance, he said, was to tally the total federal investment in S&T—about $100 billion—with the annual trade deficit in advanced technology products—about $80 billion. Dr. Kota cited the common misconception that the United States is falling behind in advanced manufacturing primarily because it has higher labor costs. While this might be true for many products, he said, from shoes to T- shirts, it is seldom true for high-technology products. He said that this point becomes clear in a comparison between the United States and Germany, which has higher wages than the United States. While German taxes are slightly lower than U.S. taxes, its energy and other infrastructure costs are about the same or higher. While the United States spends six times as much as Germany does in R&D investment, a significant distinction is that Germany spends six times as much as the United States on what is called "industrial production and technology." A result was that in 2008, the United States recorded an $800 billion deficit in manufacturing, while Germany had a $200 billion surplus.14 "I think if Germany can do that, we should be able to do that, too." CLOSING THE GAP THROUGH A CLUSTER APPROACH Dr. Kota showed some global models for technology development, pointing out again the stage of basic discovery, "which is essential for the pipeline" and comes from the universities and federal laboratories. An important model for activities that occur in the "missing middle," he said, is the German Fraunhofer Institutes, which begin with research ideas and develop them through scale-up and prototyping to technological maturity. It uses a cluster approach with pilot production centers to close the gap between research and products. A variation of that model is seen in Taiwan, which does a "fabulous job of taking the best ideas from around the world and maturing them into commercially mature innovations ready for bio-sector investment." 14 Sources: (1) Bureau of Economic Analysis; (2) Daniel S. Hamilton and Joseph. P. Quinlan, Germany and Globalization, 2008; (3) NSF Science and Engineering Indicators 2010; (4) World Development Indicators database, World Bank, 2005; (5) Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Main Science and Technology Indicators, 2008; (6) Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2010; (7) Jeremy A. Leonard, "The Tide Is Turning—An Update on Structural Cost Pressures Facing U.S. Manufacturers"; (8) Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI and the Manufacturing Institute, November 2008.
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PROCEEDINGS 41 He returned to the PCAST report on advanced manufacturing, and one of its basic tenets: The maturing of an idea into a commercial product requires the participation of private industry; therefore, said Dr. Kota, the transition from ideas to products is expedited by public/private partnerships. This tenet, he said, lies behind some of the key PCAST recommendations, which grew out of more than a year of consultation with experts from the public and private sectors. LAUNCHING AN ADVANCED MANUFACTURING INITIATIVE Of the three recommendations, he said, one was to recommend that the S&T investment tax credit become permanent—a suggestion that has been made but not implemented for decades—and the other concerned the need to train more people for jobs in an advanced manufacturing workforce. The third recommendation was to launch an Advanced Manufacturing Initiative to support innovation through applied research—the "missing middle." In particular the Advanced Manufacturing Initiative would support: Innovation in advanced manufacturing through applied research programs for promising new technologies; Public-private partnerships around broadly-applicable and pre-competitive technologies; The creation and dissemination of design methodologies for manufacturing; Shared technology infrastructure to support advances in existing manufacturing industries. In response to the report, the president announced an Advanced Manufacturing Initiative in June 2011. It contained a series of "commitments" representing a combination of ongoing and new initiatives to speed technology adoption and commercialization. These commitments, known collectively as the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership, include the following: Critical national security industries, including technologies "that will jumpstart domestic manufacturing capability essential to our national security"; Materials Genome Initiative, which would invest more than $100 million in research, manufacture, and deployment of advanced materials; National Robotics Initiative, a multi-agency effort to support research in next-generation robots that will "work closely with human operators— allowing new ability for factory workers, healthcare providers, soldiers, surgeons, and astronauts to carry out key hard-to-do tasks"; Innovative Manufacturing Initiative of DoE, to enable companies to cut costs of manufacturing while using less energy;
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42 STRENGTHENING AMERICAN MANUFACTURING DARPA's Open Manufacturing Initiative to reduce a factor of up to five the time required to design, build, and test manufactured goods; NIST's Advanced Manufacturing Technology Consortium (AMTECH) to identify public-private partnership to tackle common technological barriers to the development of new products; DoD-Online Marketplace, to increase domestic manufacturing capacity in industries critical to national security; National Science Foundation's Accelerating Innovation Research program to support the transition of promising ideas into commercial reality, and the Innovation Corps (I-Corps), a public-private partnership to link NSF- funded researchers with technological, entrepreneurial, and business communities. "Our good news," he said, "is that we have all this together. This is a good start." Most important is to bring all the other universities and companies under the tent, he said, which was being stimulated by a series of four Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP) workshops at Georgia Tech, MIT, University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Michigan. "This is a call to action to come together and look at the structural challenges," he said, "to see how we can collaborate on technology development and what the skills and educational opportunities we need to tackle." Dr. Kota reviewed manufacturing competitiveness in terms of the tools and resources needed. In 2009 the government launched an interagency report on modeling and simulation tools to determine what was available, what was being used, and what the barriers to their use by companies were. The study found that modeling and simulation (M&S) tools had the potential to improve all three key manufacturing metrics: cost, quality, and time to market. However, it was found that the majority of SMEs do not use M&S tools because of two key barriers: they are expensive, with an M&S software program alone costing about $40,000, and they require staffing by a masters-level technician. It was difficult for SMEs to see this as a value proposition. 'DEMOCRATIZING' THE USE OF ADVANCED MANUFACTURING TOOLS In response, OSTP launched a pilot program, working with the Economic Development Administration (EDA) in the Midwest. Known as the National Digital Engineering and Manufacturing Consortium, this public-private partnership was begun with a modest investment of $2 million by the EDA, matched by $2.5 million from P&G, Lockheed, Boeing, GE, and John Deere. The goal was to set up a program to "democratize" the use of M&S tools by SMEs. It began by using a simulation program based on software originally developed by Los Alamos National Labs that had allowed P&G to save over
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PROCEEDINGS 43 $500 million in the last decade in its diaper manufacturing process. The program created a web-based tool using cloud computing and making open-source codes for the SMEs that are easy to use, along with interactive applications and templates developed by a manufacturing company that was launched recently. This new "software-as-service" business model is expected to make it a lot easier for small firms to run model simulations, use the tools, and see the value of M&S. The model uses a standard graphical user interface across applications, requires no software to download or install, allow sharing of live work sessions, and offers easy access to supporting content. "That's just the tip of the iceberg," he said. "Democratizing digital manufacturing is what this initiative is about, and in Ohio and Indiana there are some really great companies that are poised to take advantage of it." Reviewing the MEP centers, Dr. Kota said that their role was more critical than ever in providing the "glue" between the SMEs and the resources that are being developed by the new manufacturing initiative. MEP centers can be the first to identify challenges and then find the resources to address these challenges, he suggested. He added, in closing, that MEPs can play an expanded role as well, in two ways. First, to advance manufacturing competitiveness, the MEP can help democratize and accelerate the use of modeling and simulation tools by SMEs. Second, to advance manufacturing skills, the MEP can help bridge the skills gap by engaging with community colleges, the Manufacturing Institute, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM), and SMEs. In other words, the MEP can have an even more important role in strengthening the innovation clusters that are seen by many as central to the revitalization of U.S. technological leadership. DISCUSSION Dennis Chamot, of the National Research Council, said that in the past, the major suppliers of skilled workers were the trade unions. He asked whether they would be able to do so again, despite their diminished role in manufacturing. Dr. Kota said that he was not a labor expert, but acknowledged that "labor surprises" of various kinds were likely. When the National Robotics Initiative was launched, for example, many people thought that the robots would displace workers. That was not the case, he said; the robots turned out to be "co- workers," supplementing the abilities of the human workers. The labor unions recognized this and in fact had written letters of support for the National Robotics Initiative. "Without these robots," he said, "you wouldn't have any of those jobs." The unions came forward to help train workers and help to advance the development of robotics technologies. Dr. Shapira said he was impressed by the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership, but that with so many federal agencies involved, it was not clear where the SMEs fit into the picture. The MEP, for example, already has an infrastructure that is national in scale, and offers direct assistance to SMEs. He wondered how this ongoing program was related to the DoE's new $120 million
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44 STRENGTHENING AMERICAN MANUFACTURING initiative to expand energy partnerships with companies—an initiative that would be required set up its own new infrastructure. What consideration, he asked, was given to scaling up a selective number of SME resources instead of distributing resources across a variety of federal agencies? Investments Aimed at the Innovation Gap Dr. Kota agreed that there was not enough money to spread it widely, and he added that the importance of a program lies not in how much it spends, but in how strategically it allocates its resources. The investments he had mentioned, which were recommended by the PCAST report, were aimed at the "missing middle," the innovation gap. The DoE's objective would be to develop strategies for moving ideas into commercialization. "One of the things DoE will do is set up public/private partnerships to develop the manufacturing technologies and shared infrastructure for nanotechnology and other advanced manufacturing. That's a different focus than the MEP, which enhances the competitiveness of existing companies." Dr. Wessner said that a perceived advantage of MEP is its distributed nature and engagement with local and regional firms. He asked whether there would also be advantages if MEP were adapted to help manufacturing with "heavy, direct investment" or with incentives to strengthen manufacturing clusters. He noted that one barrier to collaboration among separate agencies is that "everyone wants to act separately so they can control how their funds are spent." The MEP's Unique Role in Adding Value Dr. Kota suggested that the MEPs play a unique role, "and they're the only ones that can play that role, and they do it very well." Other agencies have other roles in helping the translation of technology, he said, and were focusing on the clusters and the public- private partnerships that develop the technologies. "Once you have a technology, the MEPs play an important role in terms of business and technical assistance. The MEPS do even more in adding to the value chain, simulation, prototyping, and thinking about scaling. We already have MEPs, and they can help us." Dr. Wessner asked what level of funding would be needed to fully fund a robust advanced manufacturing sector, and whether the United States should build some version of the Fraunhofer Institutes. Dr. Kota said that PCAST had suggested investing $400 million per year in advanced manufacturing. He also said that the United States could build its own public-private partnerships, deciding which if any elements of the Fraunhofer model might be helpful here.


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This family are very dear to my heart… having photographed them a couple of times before (here & here).
I love watching them grow from one year to the next, giving them the gift of memories of their family life, to enjoy in the future.
I'm itching to photograph your family… to give you memories… I can capture your life, look for what's beautiful in your story and preserve it. I'll capture photos of you in all the glory, so you can sit and reminisce with your family in years to come.
I sometimes get replies to enquiries saying they can't afford a session or they don't feel fit/pretty/thin enough for photos right now… but I tell you – your wonderful life is happening right now, it's passing by like a speed train changing all the time – I feel it this so deeply as I watch our two boys grow up!
Can I provide you with photos of what's really important?…right in this moment. Please…
So, if you've ever thought of having photos by me… do get in touch… tell me your budget, tell me about you & your family. Let me come and hang out with my camera. Don't wait any longer… trust me.
Yesterday, I shared a family session with two adorable little girls… It's easy to think that the time to capture your family is when the kids are young… but I think any age is important to document. There's always a story to tell as family life is constantly changing.
It's about making time to freeze this 'day in your life' to remember the everyday things and what you did or where you lived at this stage in your family life… plus all the connections and love that a family has, no matter the age of the children.
These guys were fantastic – they laughed, shared stories with me… and their dog, Biscuit was always trying to be part of the action.
The boys showed me their favourite things to do – Sasha even wrote me a poem! that's a first for me.
Here are a few of my favourite frames.
If you're interested in a family session with me… contact me – I'd love to tell your stories.
I love to just hang out with a family during a photo session at their home.
We play and chat….I'm grateful to be invited into their world.
They don't have to be doing anything special – just their everyday stuff will make for great memories in the future.
I remember many mornings like this with our boys, when they were younger.
Recently I went to play with this mama and her two adorable girls – They played, read, drew pictures, had snacks… just the regular stuff that happens in a home with a family like this. I was even entertained by songs from the Frozen soundtrack – what a treat!
They now have this "day in their life" preserved forever – a Time Capsule of memories of how their life is, right at this moment. I think that's pretty special.
Here are a few of my favourite frames.
Interested in booking a session? Contact me & I'll send you the details. x.
I love photographing families.
Submerging myself into their family life. Quickly spotting the connections that can be captured and recognising the moments that are worth remembering.
Taking photos that families didn't know they needed. The in-between moments.
The sibling love or the fighting. The way their feet dangle from the chair. The cheesy grin. The favourite story book, treasured toy or cuddly friend. The way they run. The way they sit on your hip or on your shoulders. The curls. The cuddles. The smiles. The way they laugh together or cry. The non-stop, can't sit down, always on-the-go stage. The blue eyes. The jumping. The flower picking.
The joys of family life.
I see all these things… and more.
I've captured them with our boys and the many children that have been in front of my lens.
I want to tell your story as a family. Sure, we can do the photos that Granny wants – the smile "look at me", so she can put it on the mantel. But there are all the moments that surround it, that show the true personality of your family… these are what we'll discover if you invite me to capture your family, in your home or your favourite place.
I will play, I will run, I will read books, I will chat with the kids, I will get down on the floor to play lego… hey, I'll even sing if necessary… although I can't promise I'll know all the words.
But most of all we'll have FUN… and I'll bring my camera.
For more details about my family sessions and how I can capture your loved ones…
Contact me - xantheb [at] mac.com, I'd love to meet your family.
More family portrait sessions here & here…
This fabulous "job" of mine means I get to do a wide variety of work. But lately here on my blog, it's just been sharing our adventures, life in London, my family, personal projects like color//colour lovers, my films and info about my e-courses…
Thankfully, I do get commissioned and asked to photograph families too – and I love it!
I've got so behind blogging the various family & maternity portrait sessions I've done so far this year. So here's a selection from my favourite sessions, as I'm due to update my portfolio site soon. (If you're a fabulous designer and you'd like to work with me – please let me know!)
It's always an honour to capture these precious times… it's so cliché and I know every photographer says it. But it's true, I love capturing these special times, freezing the connections & the fleeting moments as a family grows. It's a privilege to know these images will be the key to unlocking these memories in the future.
The summer is a great time for portraits… if you'd like a session with me – please get in touch… tell me about your family, so we can get together & tell your story.
Have you been meaning to have some family photos taken?, but just keep putting it off…
How about we make it happen this summer?
I have just a couple of slots for weekend sessions available in the next few months… so if you've been thinking about a session with me, so I can capture your family in all it's glory this summer… Let's make it happen.
I can come and hang out at your home…
See the children's rooms, or you all playing in your kitchen, lazing in your sofa or hanging out in the heart of your home.
Show me what you all love to do there…
We could have breakfast together,
or bake a cake,
or sit on the doorstep,
or jump on the beds & run up the stairs,
pretending to be bears.
We could make paper aeroplanes & lego houses,
dance in the hallway (in tutus if you like),
or roll around on the rug… while having a hug.
Eat snacks & have chats,
or read books. The favourite one of the moment.
We could go outside…
Play in the summer sunshine,
visit your favourite playground… park or secret locations with long grass and summer flowers…
Roll down hills, skip holding hands,
or jump in puddles (because there's always the chance of rain),
make daisy chains & have picnics.
Take me gardening at your allotment or for a hike through the woods,
or let's go on a bike ride… or perhaps a stroll in the neighbourhood.
We could go anywhere – I love an adventure!
We can DO what you LOVE to DO… and we'll have fun together whatever we do, and I'll shoot some pretty photos for you print & share. Forever.
Let's tell the story of your family now… for you to treasure for years to come.
Contact me - xantheb [at] mac.com and let's have some fun.
I'd love to meet your family…
I've been reflecting A LOT these past few days… with the 10 year anniversary and turning 40 around the corner, my head is full of memories & feelings. As I sort through boxes of photos and hard drives, I'm seeing the stories of my life flash before me.
Do you get ever get that? Like when you scroll through your Instagram feed, dip into old blog posts or open pages of old journals.
I want to create a photo wall/montage something, of friends & family at the 40th party I'm having with two of my bestest oldest girlfriends. This project seems daunting because of the sheer volume of photos I have, but I'm also thankful that I have all these memories either shot myself or commissioned of my family as we've grown up.
As I sift through my photos, I began thinking about every person/family/child I've photographed – they've had that time in their life frozen by my camera, with the joy of images to experience now by scattering around the home or sharing with friends and family.
The real gift, I always tell them is in 10 years, when these photos instantly transport you back to that time and place. Feelings wash over and emotions run high. Yes, sometimes there are tears – but I'm that kinda girl. I'm sat at the moment with a pile of photos taken before and after when our first baby was born. Life was so different… Weren't we young? It seems like only yesterday, yet so much has happened and changed. Look, my once baby, is now in secondary school! Wtf?!
Lately, enquires for my family, maternity & newborn portrait work have been thin on the ground… January is a tough month apparently. But you see I'm itching to photograph! to give memories… I can capture your life and preserve your story. I'm good at seeing what's beautiful in your story and I'll capture it and you in all the glory, so you can sit and reminisce with your family in years to come.
Just like I've been doing lately…
I get replies to enquiries saying they can't afford my fee or they don't feel fit/pretty/thin enough for photos right now… but I tell you, your wonderful life is happening right now, it's passing by like a speed train changing all the time – I feel it deeply just by looking at our cubby cheeked bundle of a boy… he used to bounce non-stop on my lap, now his legs stretch for miles.
Can I provide you with photos of what's really important?… please…
So, if you've ever thought of having photos by me… do get in touch… tell me your budget, tell me about you & your family. Let me come and hang out with my camera. Don't wait any longer… trust me.
Take a look at these stories. These are the gifts that just keep giving.
As this week is all about PINK for the color // colour lovers project…
I thought I'd share this beautiful event from last year… as it's packed with PINK!
When Jessica asked me to photograph her third daughter's Dol – a celebration for a baby's first birthday… I knew it would be an interesting affair, as I'd heard of the traditions that accompany such an occasion. What I didn't know was how beautiful the setting would be, with gorgeous decorations and delightful details everywhere… and how warm & loving this family would be, with all the wonderful people & children they brought together to celebrate.
Thank you for having me capture this special day.
Venue – Beach Blanket Babylon :: Macarons - Anges de sucre :: Balloons – BonBon Balloons
I just knew when I saw Jeanine's new home-to-be, there had to be a photo shoot…
Especially having photographed Jeanine before.. and having followed the beautiful story of her and Joe's journey together…
This is the next chapter in their lives… this shell of a house will be shaped into their first proper home together. I remember what that feels like. It's lovely to have memories of these milestone relationship moments to look back on… and besides, look at the graffiti & wallpaper – who could ask for cooler backdrops?…
They brought a picnic, read poetry to each other, the sun beamed in (this place is going to have killer light!) and they made plans… together.
A few of my favourites frames…
I wish them all the best with this renovation project… it's cool to think that maybe this time next year, their home could be ready… yay!
Looking back… part three…
What you'll often find when visiting here – is our life – who we are, the things we do and love… no, it's not the nitty gritty of dirty laundry, grumpiness, arguments, unclean bathroom, tears… Yes, we have plenty of that going on here on a daily basis, but I don't feel the need to capture that, let alone share it.
Here lies the beauty of using a camera… I focus on the good, look for the light, seek out the colour, gravitate towards the movement & the details of stuff that mean something to me… the little things now, but what will be amazing memory triggers as time passes.
These are some of my favourite moments with my boys this year…


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Depending on the fuel pump and tank location, you can get fuel flow by gravity into the carb or engine. Fuel in the oil from a bad fuel pump is also a common cause. The vacuum/pressure operated pulse pumps are just as likely to go bad as the mechanical pumps but you can't tell it except by the fuel in the oil.
I can tell you from my experience it is only a matter of time before an engine, any engine pulls that crap.
Yes it's happened to me, yes it's happened to me with Kohlers but also with Briggs, and maybe none other but then
I really only have two engines that are neither of those out of a good dozen or more...
So I can also tell you that EVERY time it happens you HAVE to change the oil or it will cause premature wear to the engine,
and you won't notice right away but I almost guarantee she'll blow smoke before long, so change the oil (and filter).
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Several oil changes and an engine or two later...
It is the reason why I ALWAYS shut down my machines by turning off the fuel,
wait for it to starve out, then turn off the ignition.
Matter of fact I went one step further and made it to where most of mine can ONLY be cut off by shutting down the fuel.
Why, because I'd forget to do it that way...
Yup, two or three more oil and filter changes and one more engine that smokes.
I am telling you this stuff makes hair go gray.
Now I just have to remember to turn the fuel back on when starting.
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When it comes to reviving the middle class and reducing the country's widening income gap, President Obama in his second term has so far offered little more than a classic bait and switch from the strong promises he made during his successful reelection campaign.
While the president has provided leadership on issues that don't challenge the economic status quo, like immigration reform and same-sex marriage, his administration is still not bucking the bankers and the austerity hucksters peddling their scams.
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When Republicans floated that myth during the Reagan administration, Democratic officials howled. Now they fall in line, with a barely a peep as issues of longtime unemployment, falling incomes, the growth of lousy, low-income jobs and rising health care costs ? without any proposals to address them, at the same time his administration pursues a massive secret Pacific trade deal that dwarfs NAFTA – which was a disaster for jobs in the U.S.
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ELKO, Nev. and BOISE, Idaho, March 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Thunder Mountain Gold, Inc. (the Company) (TSX-V: THM; OTCQB: THMG), a U.S.-based exploration company focused on discovering and defining high grade, high quality precious and base metal resources, is pleased to announce it has entered into a strategic Agreement with Newmont Mining Corporation that will advance the Company's Trout Creek Project in Lander County, Nevada.
Jim Collord, President of the Company, said, "We are pleased to have this exploration agreement in place with Newmont on what I feel is one of the best remaining pediment plays in Nevada. The Trout Creek claims were staked in 2007 on a very positive regional geophysical target located in the Reese River Valley pediment, and our arrangement with Newmont substantially enhances our geologic target. The data package from Newmont substantiates our interpretation of the subsurface structural setting and will help guide our future drilling program."
With Newmont's private mineral package covering about 9,565 acres added to the 60 unpatented mining claims (1,200 acres) staked in 2007 by the Company within the thirty-square mile Area of Influence, the Trout Creek Project has been significantly expanded. The exploration area is situated on the Eureka- Battle Mountain trend in the Reese River Valley to the east of Newmont's operating Phoenix Mine and past producing Cove-McCoy Mines.
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