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Those big trucks hurtling down the highway burn a lot of fuel, in part because the boxy trailers they pull just aren't very aerodynamic. ATDynamics, Inc. of Hayward, Calif., won for a simple origami-like apparatus that fits to the back of most trailers, reducing drag and improving average fuel efficiency by 6%.
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That may not seem like much, but consider: The U.S. trucking industry consumes more than 50 billion gallons of fuel a year.
One reason for trucks' poor fuel efficiency—they average about six miles a gallon—is drag caused by the chopped-off back of the trailer, which causes turbulence that requires the engine to work harder to maintain speed. ATDynamics TrailerTail is a lightweight, thermoplastic composite structure that channels wind currents and reduces drag. When not in use, the tail folds flat against the trailer's doors and opens automatically when the doors are closed. It can be retrofitted to existing trailers, and the company says the device will last the life of the trailer.
Andrew Smith, ATDynamics' founder and chief executive, designed the first prototype out of cardboard on his living-room floor while at Dartmouth College Tuck School of Business, and started the company with winnings from a Rice University business-plan competition. The company completed its first order in early 2011; since then, more than 20 trucking companies have outfitted their entire fleets with the device. More than 120 are using the technology.
"All the focus tends to be on the cab or even the front end," says Barry H. Jaruzelski, a senior partner at Booz & Co. and an Innovation Awards judge. "The trailer is viewed as a box, so actually doing something on that is relatively novel, though you would think obvious."

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Get an exclusive look at Janet Elizabeth Jones' new paranormal series romance, Incubus, as the powerful vampire known as the Alchemist, who transformed the novel's hero into an incubus, speaks to the host of Night Raven News.
Night Raven News: Welcome to another Night Raven News interview with the cast of Janet Elizabeth Jones' paranormal romance Incubus, new from Harlequin Nocturne. If you missed the first two interviews, you can find them here and here. As promised, Night Ravens, we've saved this very special, very elusive guest for last. Please welcome Benemerut Neshi, aka the Alchemist.
In his human life, Ben was a physician in ancient Cairo. As a vampire, he's the closest thing to a druggist that vampires have, but his efforts to find a way to transform vampires into incubi and succubi have made him an outcast among his own people. It's a deadly process, and only one vampire, Meical Grabian, has survived it. Night Raven News wants to take a closer look at the vampire who made Meical's incredible, if perilous, transformation possible.
Ben, you don't look a day over twenty-five, but I've been told that you're the oldest and most powerful vampire in the New England enclave.
The Alchemist: I fear it's a dubious distinction. One cannot claim to be the oldest and most powerful of any vampire society. We don't know exactly how many Ancients live on in this world, maintaining a dormant state to escape their intense hunger. That is a compassionate act on their part; if they were to wake, their need would be so extreme that neither human nor vampire would survive it. As for the New England enclave, I'm hardly considered a member of their family. I am, and always will be, an outlaw among them.
Night Raven News: Because you experiment on your own kind?
The Alchemist: One would think that would suffice to make me heinous in their eyes--it is deservedly reprehensible, though unavoidable in my work--but the fact is, their queen has a personal grievance against me, and that is my crime. She has despised me for a thousand years, and I believe, she will for a thousand more.
Night Raven News: That's a long time to hold a grudge. What did you do to her?
The Alchemist: Perhaps you'd better ask her that question.
Night Raven News: For the benefit of our audience, I'd like to explain, that even though your methods have made you out to be a monster, what you're trying to accomplish is a way to enable vampires to sustain themselves on human passion rather than blood. If they survive the transformation, ideally they'll even be able to withstand sunlight.
But during your work with Meical Grabian, there were unexpected results, and though we know the experiment wasn't exactly a failure, something definitely went wrong. We're not trying to give away spoilers, but we'd love to hear your side of it.
The Alchemist: I think it best that the readers find out for themselves.
Night Raven News: Oh, come on, we won't think less of you. You're among friends here.
The Alchemist: Until I get hungry again. And that's not intended to titillate your audience. This is the legacy of my long existence: uncontrollable hunger. And it will only get worse, as I live on, unless someone intervenes on my behalf.
Night Raven News: Someone like Shelby Mackleroy?
The Alchemist: It remains to be seen. She has her whole life ahead of her. She needs time to grow and live and be happy, to come to herself, to find her place in this world. Her world. Not mine. Regardless of the fact that she holds my life in her hands, it must always be her decision to choose me, or not. Until she is able to do so, the best thing I can do for her is stay out of her life.
In the meantime, I'll use what sanity I have left to keep working. But if I am to achieve a peaceful and pleasurable symbiosis between human and vampire, I must have subjects with which to test my findings. I claim the vampires who are unwanted, unprotected, hunting where they shouldn't be, preying on humans who are not their rightful prey, or trespassing on another vampire's domain. Regrettably, these are most often the young and weak of my kind: the fledgling vampires.
And before you ask me the next question on your mind: no, I don't allow them to suffer, though everyone thinks otherwise. I do have a heart, such as it is. It lies in pieces spread from one end of this earth to the other, and Shelby is the only person alive who can make it whole again, if I can survive my hunger enough to still be fit for her.
Night Raven News: But if you can give vampires the chance to feel the sun again, like you did for Meical Grabian, I'd think they'd be flocking to you, even though there's a risk.
The Alchemist: It depends on the vampire. Some love the night; others still long for the sun. But even if they want what I can give them, they have to trust that the process is worth the danger. They have to trust my methods. They have to trust me--their worst nightmare.
Night Raven News: Thank you for your honest answers to my questions, Ben. I'd like to know how things work out for you and Shelby. Maybe we'll be reading your book soon, and everything will turn out alright for you both.
The Alchemist: That is the hope that sees me through every long night of my existence, but only time will tell.
Night Raven News: Well, night ravens, this wraps up another Night Raven News interview. We welcome your questions and comments. Thank you so much for being here.
We hope that you enjoyed this special interview with Incubus's Benemerut Neshi, also known as the Alchemist, the misunderstood mastermind behind the transformation of vampire Meical Grabian into an incubus in this month's new series romance by Janet Elizabeth Jones!


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NEW YORK â?? Many people who live in this city define "car" as a yellow vehicle with a light on top, whose driver collects a fare.
Oddly enough, this city also is the top market in the world for Land Rover's Range Rover Sport, the entry-level model, if you will, of the Range Rover line of high-dollar, high-content, forever-rectilinear SUVs. And in the U.S., Sport is the best-selling vehicle of parent company Jaguar Land Rover.
Sensible, then, for Land Rover to put on the dog for the launch of the 2014 Range Rover Sport, which goes on sale this fall. The dog, in this case, is showy drive Tuesday night up usually packed 8th Avenue (but blocked off and cleared of parked vehicles for the video), ending with a left turn onto 33rd Street and into a party of Range Rover loyalists.
Oh, and the driver is Daniel Craig, the star who plays James Bond in today's films.
The drive-in event is one of the events in the show before the show, the events hosted by automakers ahead of the media preview days for the New York International Auto Show, which begin Wednesday.
There's no direct tie-in with the next Bond movie; he doesn't drive a Range Rover Sport, the automaker says. But if you need a touchstone, Craig's Bond is more like a regular guy than previous film portrayals of Bond; certainly one who gets his hands dirty.
And that is at least tangentially related to the theme for the new Sport: A classy machine moving ever-so-slightly into the mainstream, at least by Land Rover standards.
Range Rover Sport earned its No. 1 standing in the U.S. within Jaguar Land Rover company by attracting a mere 16,491 buyers. Mazda, no market powerhouse, sold that many Mazda5 mini-minivans last year. Ford sells that many F-series trucks every nine days, on average.
So, Land Rover is small, its Range Rover sub-brand minuscule and the Sport version of Range Rover somewhere beneath tiny.
Thus, it won't take a huge jump in sales to start sneaking out of sub-niche and toward mainstream. And Sport has some features that could broaden its appeal.
It abandons the current Sport's steel frame attached to a unibody structure â?? the auto equivalent of belt and suspenders; vehicles almost always either are body-on-frame, or they are unibody, not both. Instead, it uses the full-fledged Range Rover's aluminum body and chassis, shedding some 800 pounds in a fell swoop.
Range Rover was new last December, but doesn't get JLR's new line of engines until this fall, same time the 2014 Sport makes its debut with the new engines: A 340-horsepower supercharged V-6 and a 510-hp V-8. Both are mated to eight-speed automatic transmissions.
Beyond the aluminum construction and new drivetrains, Sport's other salients:
Range Rover Sport will come in four models. Prices include $895 shipping:
V-6 models: SE, $63,495. HSE, $68,495
V-8 models: Supercharged, $79,995. Autobiography, $93,295.
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Your post is timely, as the term "socialprise" just celebrated its three month birthday on June 18th. (Not counting a roughly three month gestation between December '07 and our March '08 launch of SalesView.) I hope you're right and that the term socialprise grows well beyond InsideView's initial definition. And in many ways, it already has. Within the first few weeks of introducing the team, I saw the term "socialprise" being used all over the place to describe everything from enterprise applications to social platforms to organizational behavior to a variation on Enterprise 2.0.
On your final point about socialprise potentially replacing the more widely known and well defined term Enterprise 2.0, I have to admit that was never my intention. For me "socialprise" means a mash-up of data from both OUTSIDE and INSIDE of the organization – i.e. the convergence of social media (outside) and enterprise applications (inside). Meanwhile, the most widely accepted definitions of Enterprise 2.0 are really focused on the use of traditionally consumer-based Web 2.0 tools within the organization. In other words, Enterprise 2.0 describes the use of tools like wikis, blogs, social tagging, crowd sourcing, and social networking INSIDE an organization. So the resulting data set is still siloed within the organization rather than being part of the overall cloud.
So a concrete example might be social networking tools being implemented behind the firewall to enable social interaction between employees of a given organization. That would be Enterprise 2.0. Now let's say we have a solution that allows you to integrate social networking functionality from the cloud (like Facebook, LinkedIn, Xing, etc.) directly within an existing enterprise application like Outlook or LotusNotes. It is a mash-up of the data (i.e. contacts, profiles, etc) and the user experience from both INSIDE and OUTSIDE of the organization. That would be socialprise.
But hey, that's just my definition.
I look forward to your thoughts.
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Dean, your post from June 20th got me thinking (and writing). I put together a post outlining our original definition of "socialprise", the different uses we've come across to date, and the extremely viral nature of the term.
Back to the viral adoption/infection rate — it is tremendous and keeps accelerating. As measured by Google search… 0 hits on March 18th, 22,500 hits on July 10th, 53,000 hits on July 15th!
So regarding your original thought that the "socialprise" term would grow beyond our definition? I'd say it has… in a very big way!
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3:35 PM, Aug 9, 2012 • By LEE SMITH
To Hell in a Handbasket
Ruthie Blum, former columnist and senior editor at the Jerusalem Post, is not optimistic about the Arab Spring and what it means for American interests and allies in the Middle East, Arabs as well as Israelis. Nor does she believe that many Americans or our elected officials understand the consequences of the struggle, consequences that may in turn affect our way of life. In To Hell in a Handbasket, a well-reported and researched and elegantly written book, Blum argues that the outcome of these recent political upheavals may prove "to be more like that of the Iranian Revolution than the American one."
Blum sees a straight line between the 1979 Islamic Revolution, that toppled the Shah of Iran and brought Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to power, and the recent uprisings that have brought down Arab rulers (including longstanding American allies such as Hosni Mubarak) in favor of Islamist parties. The similarities connecting the two episodes, Blum argues, are manifold. First, there are the region's own political energies, where the Islamist movement, even if it does not necessarily represent the majority, has the advantage over secular, or liberal, parties. In Iran the Khomeinists, and in Egypt the Muslim Brotherhood, were not simply better organized than the competition; they were prepared to push their agenda through any means necessary when the time was ripe.
And yet, both the Khomeinists and the Brotherhood only employed a minimum amount of violence in their revolutionary capture of power. What facilitated their ascent in both cases, Blum argues, was the foreign policy of the president of the United States. As Blum writes: "While it was Jimmy Carter who opened the door to this radicalism in Iran three decades ago, it is Barack Obama whose policies are laying out the welcome mat for it to flourish in the rest of the Middle East today."
The first, and longest, part of Hell in a Handbasket is a detailed account of the Khomeinist takeover in Iran, the American response, and the hostage crisis that crippled Carter and ended his presidency. The revolution took American policymakers by surprise, but shouldn't have, writes Blum, since American allies knew that something was brewing: "I didn't know what, but I knew it would be substantial," Israel's last ambassador to Iran, Uri Lubrani, told Blum. "Later the Americans interrogated me to find out where I had gotten my information, and I couldn't explain to them that it was an accumulation of information, experience, and feelings. Intelligence services don't like this, because they want proof of everything."
In fact, there was evidence of imminent danger, documented in Khomeini's own writings. As Blum explains, Bernard Lewis at Princeton had read the Ayatollah's works and concluded that he represented a very serious problem, for Iran and the United States. Lewis tells Blum how, in 1978, he tried to publish an op-ed about Khomeini's writings in the New York Times, but the editors couldn't certify the authenticity of the books under discussion. Neither could the CIA, which assumed the writings were part of a disinformation campaign meant to make Khomeini look bad!
If American officials were unprepared for the revolution, the immediate aftermath made plain American policymakers' post-Vietnam lack of resolve. When Iranian students stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran in November 1979, and took hostages, the Carter administration was flummoxed. Even as the president ordered plans to be drawn up for a rescue attempt, the men tasked to carry out the prospective operation never believed it would come to pass.
William "Jerry" Boykin, who would later command Delta Force, was at the time one of the outfit's operators and tells Blum that his unit lacked faith in the president: "We trained with intensity and passion and great hope, but not with expectations," he explained. "As the months went on, we reached the point at which we didn't believe Carter would launch the operation." When Carter finally gave the order in April 1980, Operation Eagle Claw ended in catastrophe, with a helicopter crash, eight American soldiers dead in the Iranian desert -- and the hostages still held captive by the Islamic Republic.
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A new and important ally has arisen in the struggle against unfettered capitalism and wealth and income inequality.
In his "Apostolic Exhortation," published on Nov. 26, Pope Francis warns the world against the idolatry of money and the false promise of trickle-down economics.
I think people of all religions can share Pope Francis' commitment to economic justice and learn from the wise assessment of how modern civilization, in its relentless pursuit of profit and its dependence on "the market" to make final valuations of what is good, has lost touch with the ethical imperatives that should guide our society.
In his groundbreaking screed Pope Francis denounces "the new Idolatry of money" when he writes:
"The worship of the ancient golden calf has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the idolatry of money and the dictatorship of an impersonal economy lacking a truly human purpose. The worldwide crisis affecting finance and the economy lays bare their imbalances and, above all, their lack of real concern for human beings."
Pope Francis' thoughts on income inequality are also searing when he writes the following:
"How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points? This is a case of:exclusion. Can we continue to stand by when food is thrown away while people are starving? This is a case of inequality."
Of course, the pope's screed on "the economy of exclusion and inequality" will disappoint the fanatic Ayn Rand "free-market capitalists," but they would do well to listen to his message. Francis gives form to the emotion and injustice of our post-financial crisis outrage in a way that has been rare since Occupy Wall Street. When 53 percent of financial executives say they can't get ahead without some cheating, there's a real problem.
The bottom line, which Pope Francis correctly identifies, is that inequality is the biggest economic issue of our time - for everyone, not just the poor. Nearly any major economic metric - unemployment, growth, consumer confidence - comes down to the fact that the vast majority of people in the world, not just Americans, are struggling in some way.
You don't have to begrudge the rich their fortunes or ask for redistribution. It's just hard to justify ignoring the financial problems of 47 million people who don't have enough to eat. Until they have enough money to fill their pantries, we won't have a widespread economic recovery. You can't have a recovery if one-sixth of the world's economically leading country is eating on $1.50 a day.
It's only surprising that it took so long for anyone - in this case, Pope Francis - to become the first globally prominent leader to figure this out and bring attention to income inequality.
In his historic and bold statement, Francis also exposes the big lie of trickle-down economics when he writes:
"Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naive trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system. Meanwhile, the excluded are still waiting."
Money has always been at odds with religion, going back to the times when God had a fighting chance against Mammon. Moses grew enraged by the golden calf, Jesus by the money changers in the temple, Muhammad by lending money at interest, or usury. The Bible tells us it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to go to Heaven.
Francis is speaking out at a time when outrage against the financial sector is lurking so close to the surface that the U.S. government can extract a $13 billion fine from the nation's largest bank, throwing it into its first financial loss in nine years, and find the public's enthusiastic approval.
I hope that other religious leaders will also focus on matters of economic justice and speak out from the context of their own respective traditions.
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Earlier this year, Cassandra Thomassin advised a solar thermal energy conversion startup company in India how to narrow its target market, and how to impress investors with a past success to win funding for a future product.
She also helped an entrepreneur in Ohio realize that his volunteer-matchup business model could be expanded far beyond his initial projections.
Oh, did we mention that Thomassin is a 27-year old MBA student at Santa Clara University?
Thomassin is one of about a dozen MBA candidates who each have been mentoring a dozen "social entrepreneurs" from some of the most remote regions of the world. Social entrepreneurs are those trying to meet a dire social need with innovations in technology or business models, many of them for profit.
This mentoring - which is largely done online - is part of Santa Clara's prestigious Global Social Benefit Incubator program (GSBI), a competitive program of the Center for Science, Technology, and Society that invites hundreds of social entrepreneurs from around the world to apply for one of 20 spots. Winners get eight months of training and mentoring by volunteer Silicon Valley executives and SCU faculty, including an intensive two-week in-residence program over the summer.
This year's GSBI class will be announced soon, and will be coming to campus August 7-19. They will present a summary of their newly honed business plans at an August 18 event.
Even those who don't get into GSBI get rigorous mentoring by students like Thomassin.
The student mentors have all recently taken a social entrepreneurship course taught by SCU business professor Eric Carlson. In class, he teaches the students the elements of the social-entrepreneur value proposition, market segmentation, and business model -- then sends them off to share what they've just learned with the entrepreneurs applying through Social Edge (a Skoll site) to get into GSBI.
Through this process, Carlson and his students have mentored hundreds of entrepreneurs over the years.
The students, who recently finished their mentoring for the 2011 GSBI program, say it's an amazing experience they wouldn't get otherwise. They say it has put their business and startup learning curve on rapid fast forward.
"Pretty much everything I've learned in my social entrepreneurship class at SCU, I'm using now," said Thomassin, who this summer will also help mentor some of the 20 businesses that were recently awarded GSBI scholarships.
"GSBI is a world-class program that makes a tremendous difference in the lives and organizations of the entrepreneurs who participate, and to the students who take my MBA class," says Carlson. "It's exciting to be part of this movement."
He adds that half the applicants who don't get accepted nevertheless thank GSBI mentors for the valuable experience of applying, because of the feedback they receive in the process.
Sometimes the students help prepare the entrepreneurs to shift to a for-profit business model, rather than relying on grants.
"A lot of entrepreneurs in this social-change environment, they are very passionate and can tug at your heartstrings, but when it comes to the bottom line you want something more concrete," said Amy Clogher, another student working on GSBI mentoring.
"We like their causes and we want them to succeed, but really, we're looking at this like a business," agreed Beena Sadasivan, another MBA student.
The work is giving students immense confidence. Thomassin said when she first started advising GSBI applicants, she didn't think she had anything to offer. But this year, she plans to work alongside the 20 entrepreneurs and share her training in things like formulating a value proposition, writing a compelling business plan, and defining a target market segment.
"More and more companies that come through GSBI are becoming big names in social entrepreneurship," she said. "It's exciting to be at the center of that change."
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Ankama launches a new strategy game dedicated to the emblematic sport of its universe. The international open beta will take place from the 8th to the 18th of September.
AnkaBox is a messaging service available to all the owner of an Ankama account, is available since today. This new internal mailbox has been designed for private communication between members as well as in-game gifts management.
The game Islands of WAKFU, developed by Ankama Play, just received an important update, which offers in particular new difficulty modes and the possibility to unlock items in the MMORPG. Islands of WAKFU was released on the 30 March on Xbox LIVE Arcade. The Initiate mode of this action adventure game was a real challenge for some players.
A strategy game on iphone, ipod and ipad, set in the dofus universe. DOFUS: Battles, Ankama's first iPhone and iPad game, is now available via the App Store.
In preview during the last Ankama Convention, the strategy game DOFUS: Battles will be released on the 13th of May in English, French and Spanish.
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After several months of closed beta, the MMORPG WAKFU finally opens its doors to all players. They only need to have an Ankama account to play it for free (except for North American players).
The Masqueraiders and Rogues have arrived in the World of Twelve. After months of previews and appearances in comics and TV episodes made by Ankama, Rogues and Masqueraiders are available to every DOFUS players, subscriber and free-to-play. Officially released more than 6 years ago, the online game DOFUS offers today two new classes on top the 12 already available.
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James Posey and Eddie House signed autographs for about 2 hours today at the Borders in downtown Boston, according to the Associated Press. The two free agents were promoting the new Celtics championship DVD, which premiered last night at the TD Banknorth Garden.
According to the AP, fans made their way through the line and told the players they hoped to have them back for a repeat, with Posey telling one fan: "Me, too. Me, too."
Speaking of the premiere, several Celtics fans in attendance chanted "Bring back Posey" when the players were introduced before the screening. Posey was clearly uncomfortable being on stage during the chant, flashing a sly smile before ducking out behind the curtain to watch the DVD with the team in a private room.
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Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce share a laugh at the team's DVD premiere Monday night. (Josh Reynolds / Globe)
- Kevin Garnett says he still hasn't gotten a full night's sleep since the season ended.
"A lot of cat naps," KG said. "I'm the No. 1 spokesman for cat naps."
As he was talking, Celtics GM Danny Ainge came by and punched Garnett in the arm.
"That's as hard as he can punch, too," KG joked.
- Ainge, Posey, Garnett, Rondo, and House sat at the same table in the VIP room of the Lexus Club last night to watch the DVD. Posey and Ainge spoke for a bit, but the Celtics GM spent most of his time talking to Garnett.
- Rajon Rondo says he's gained a little weight since the season ended at the end of June. The spindly point guard says he's at 180 pounds, up from 174 pounds during the season.
- Paul Pierce sat next to his fiance Julie at the the Garden's Lexus Club last night and watched the championship DVD intently. He was really into it. As he watched, the captain sipped some red wine.
Pierce offered the comment of the night as highlights of the Cavs series were shown.
"LeBron's a beast," Pierce said to a Celtics staffer next to him, explaining how physically beat up he was after the series.
Pierce also had his infant daughter Prianna with him. He says he's been reading her one of the books that was published about the Celtics after the won the championship.
"It really hits me, sitting with my daughter on the couch, what this is all about," said Pierce. "It's been great, being a father and winning a championship."
The Celtics captain said he's taken the Finals MVP trophy with him to a couple of restaurants and even a nightclub.
- Celtics players reacted to many moments in the DVD, but one of the best reactions came when a clip of Doc Rivers talking to Garnett during practice was shown.
"You know I'm right," Rivers says to Garnett in the clip, causing KG to howl with laughter.
At another point, the players seemed to gasp collectively when a shot of Philips Arena in Atlanta was shown. The Celtics lost all three games there during the playoffs.
- Leon Powe said he is staying out of the Posey recruiting process.
"I stay out of grown folks' business," said Powe.
- Gary Washburn, NBA writer
- Baxter Holmes, Celtics beat writer
- Gary Dzen, Boston.com senior sports producer


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After Pinoy rock band Rivermaya's engaging set and almost an hour of setting up the main attraction's instruments and other stage equipments, Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford, Joey Kramer, and David Hull (pinch-hitting for regular and original bassist Tom Hamilton)—collectively known as the Aerosmith—took the stage of the SM Mall of Asia Arena last night, May 8, to start the Philippine leg of their Global Warming Live Tour.
The already warmed up concertgoers—a mixture of locals, American expats, and other nationalities—were screaming and cheering in unison when lead singer Steven and lead guitarist Joe appeared onstage with their bandmates and started playing their 1989 hit "Love In An Elevator."
Tyler—wearing a hat with purple feathers, a blue bandana, long blue-sequened coat, a shirt printed with Jim Morisson's face, and white pants—sang, danced and strutted as the band's P2,600-P20,000-paying audience cheered and held their photo/video capturing gadgets to record every bit of the ex-American Idol judge's performance.
The event, after all, was historic not only for the fans but also for Aerosmith.
A few days ago, Indonesia would have been the first Southeast Asian destination of the legendary band cited as "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band."
But one report says the local promoters from that country decided to cancel the band's concert there because of "safety concerns."
It was not clear though if the decision was connected with an alleged bomb plot targeting the Myanmar's embassy in Jakarta.
Philippines then became Aerosmith's first-ever Southeast Asia country to perform in.
After singing their first song, Steven then greeted the Arena crowd with "Manila, mabuhay!"
The crowd altogether answered back with a loud cheer.
Perry, then broke into the opening riff of their 1977 hit song "Draw The Line" which kept the cheers and screams at steady level.
For a 65-year-old, Tyler can still deliver the performance expected from him by his followers.
It was as if age and the injuries he accumulated through years of stage acrobatics and reckless motorcycle accidents had no effects on his ability to electrify and entertain his audience.
He swayed, swaggered, danced, ran, and twirled while holding his trademark scarfed microphone stand. He interacted with the audience by shaking hands with them, having a photo op with them, and even kissing one female concert attendee.
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text: Rapping terrorist accused of not writing his own jihadi rhymes Politics 25 February 13 by Spencer Ackerman It's not enough that the most famous US jihadist in Somalia is a terminally wack rapper. Now Omar Hammami stands accused of not even writing his own lyrics.And in what may be a face-saving abandonment of the jihadi rap game entirely, a Twitter account close to Hammami -- possibly even operated by Hammami himself -- is pretty much conceding that Hammami used a ghostwriter. #FlexbombIt's like the terrorist version of P Diddy's famous "If I don't write it well, I recite it well" concession. Except Omar Hammami did not even recite it well.To back up: Omar Hammami, or Abu Mansour al-Amriki, is one of the highest-profile Americans to ever join an al-Qaida affiliate. He quickly established himself as a unique sort of English-language propagandist for Somalia's al-Shabab. "Land by land / and war by war / only gonna make our black flag soar / drip by drip / shot by shot / only gonna give us the death we sought," he rapped in 2009. In 2011, the Alabama-bred rapper spat, "It ain't do or die/ it's do or paradise" on a track called "Send Me A Cruise" (as in cruise missile). And Hammami had the unmitigated gall to flip Tupac's "Hail Mary" on "Make Jihad With Me". ("Attack America now / martyrdom or victory / we takin' Nairobi to Addis [Ababa]".) Pretty terrible, but still good enough for WorldStar. But last year, Hammami had an abrupt falling out with al-Shabab. He recorded a YouTube clip in March warning that his "life may be in danger" by his former allies. For the better part of a year, it's looked like Hammami's life was touch and go: In January he recorded another video, ominously titled "Final Appeal". But while Shabab put Hammami on notice thereafter that he had 15 days to turn himself over to them -- in the words of the Outlawz, they got an APB out on his thug family -- it appears that a Somali tribe is sheltering him.Now, however, Hammami's old allies aren't just trying to end him. They're trying to end his rap career.A 17-page PDF circulating online by an apparent former colleague calling himself Abu Hamza Al-Muhajir terms Hammami a fraud in every way. "A brittle mental construct of his own making" is one of the nicer descriptions. He's militarily incompetent; he even got his metaphorical chain snatched. (That is, his gun and $200 were allegedly stolen once.) He spends too much time on Twitter. But not only is Hammami a fake thug, he's a fake emcee."Worth noting here also is that the Jihadi rap Nasheeds, 'Send Me A Cruise' and 'Make Jihad With Me,' that are often erroneously attributed to Abu Mansur are the work of another Muhajir -- another American Mujahid -- but, of course, Abu Mansur would never say otherwise since the Nasheeds 'perfect' and complement his projected self-image," Abu Hamza Al-Muhajir wrote. Even the best rappers sometimes use ghostwriters. But Omar Hammami is no Nas. Except when it came time for his camp to respond, they conceded.As terrorism expert J M Berger noted, a figure that may be Hammami himself. At the very least, a Twitter account called @AbuMAmerican frequently speaks in Hammami's defense. On Thursday, he tweeted: "Thank God the shabab got those awful raps off my back. They were attributed to amriki without permission."That's not exactly a total confirmation of the general ghostwriting allegation -- except in one case, "Send Me A Cruise," which @AbuMAmerican says Hammami did not write. In any event, with that, Hammami's friends -- perhaps Hammami himself -- effectively delivered Hammami's resignation from rap.Berger notes that there may be something deeper going on. Between the accusations of Hammami's ineptitude at jihad and AbuMAmerican/Hammami's repudiation of the jihadist raps, Hammami appears to be rehabbing his image as a bit part in the jihad, although he's not renounced his jihadi beliefs."The raps were pretty terrible," Berger tells Wired. "If he's not responsible for even one, that's a black mark erased from his record."This story originally appeared on Wired.com. Edited by Liat Clark Latest on wired.co.uk


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- The full-report Black Beauty Betrayed is available in pdf format here.
- There are two slideshows with commentary revealing conditions at the slaughterhouse: Feb 2008 and Apr 2008
- You can view some of the earlier footage here.
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Shakespeare's Othello is one of his finest and most famous tragedies. This highly acclaimed performance, which ran between November 2007 and February 2008 at the Donmar Warehouse in London, features Chiwetel Ejiofor as the Moor Othello, Ewan McGregor as the scheming Iago, and Kelly Reilly as the gentle Desdemona. This recording features music written specifically for the stage production which enjoyed huge success - each performance was a sell-out.
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According to an article I read on the live performance of this play in London, some critics gave Ejiofor positive reviews while McGregor and Reilly did not fare as well. Whip me such foolish critics! Others there are who recognize McGregor's rendition of Honest Iago as nearly flawless; who can see that he pulls off the relentlessly ruminative diabolical genius with precision. And such a one do I profess myself. I've listened to many audible dramatizations of Shakespeare, and this one is probably the best.
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(a) the controlled substance is produced incidentally in the manufacture of substances other than controlled substances; or
(b) the controlled substance is incidentally present in a mixture, a product or equipment.
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Citing a recent spike in local flu cases, Floyd County Health Department officials urged residents Tuesday to get vaccinated and to take precautions to avoid catching the virus.
Floyd administrators acted after Indiana state health officials issued a dire warning noting that the flu had been blamed for seven deaths reported since November, compared with no deaths this time last year. Experts recognize that with seven deaths, the outbreak overall is very widespread, Dr. Tom Harris, Floyd's health officer said.
It's not too late to get a flu shot, he said. Symptoms include fever of 100 degrees or higher, headache, fatigue, cough, muscle aches and sore throat. Frequent hand washing with soap and water is recommended, and those who become ill should stay home from work or school to avoid spreading the virus.


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Pakistan strike early blowsComment on this story
Cape Town – South Africa made a tentative start to their first innings and were 65/2 at tea on Friday, in the second Test against Pakistan in Cape Town.
Before they had a run on the board, Smith was dropped by Younus Khan at second slip.
It was a regulation catch which went straight through his hands after Smith got a thick outside edge to an Umar Gul delivery.
Having survived the early chance, Smith, on 19, was given out leg-before to off-spinner Saeed Ajmal, after the Pakistan captain called for a review on a turned-down appeal.
Ajmal also removed Alviro Petersen (17), when he was brilliantly caught by Asad Shafiq at short leg.
Faf du Plessis came in ahead of Jacques Kallis, who bowled more than his fair share of overs in the morning session after Morne Morkel was taken off as a precautionary measure.
Kallis felt a tightness in his left hamstring and was withdrawn as precautionary measure for treatment.
Du Plessis joined Hashim Amla at the crease and the pair steered South Africa to tea, unbeaten on 3 and 17, respectively.
Earlier, Pakistan were all out for 338 after Vernon Philander took another five-wicket haul at his home ground.
It was Philander's ninth five-wicket haul in only his 15th Test and his third out of four Tests played in Cape Town.
Resuming on 253/5, Pakistan were soon in trouble with the ball being only 10 overs' old.
Once again, it was Philander who made the inroads into Pakistan's tail and, opting to bowl from the Wynberg End, he picked up the huge wicket of Shafiq with his first ball.
He pitched in the perfect area and, as the ball moved away slightly, it took the edge and Shafiq was on his way without adding to his overnight score of 111.
Petersen, at third slip, took a magnificent one-handed catch to dismiss Sarfraz Ahmed for 13, giving Philander his fourth wicket.
With a wicket in each of his first three overs of the day, Philander had new batsman Umar Gul trapped lbw, before he was able to get off the mark.
Philander's three wickets cost just six runs as Pakistan had gone from a decent overnight score to 268/8 in a matter of six overs.
However, South Africa's pacemen were unable to finish the job as quickly as they would have liked once the shine had gone off the ball.
In a defiant ninth-wicket stand, Tanvir Ahmed and Ajmal added 64 runs off 110 balls, until the former holed out to Philander, standing at mid-off for 44.
Mohammad Irfan made his Test debut coming in to bat at number 11 and faced 12 balls for his six runs before he played onto his stumps. Ajmal was unbeaten on 21. – Sapa
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Frequently Asked Questions About History Day
- What grade levels can participate?
- Can a student not enrolled in a public school participate?
- What is this year's theme?
- How do I start my research?
- How do I find out about categories and contest rules?
- How does a student compete in a regional competition?
- How does a student take part in the state competition?
- How does a student take part in the national competition?
- Is there an entry fee?
- Who pays for travel to the national competition?
- Are there prizes for the winners?
- How do I apply for scholarships?
- Useful links
What grade levels can participate?
There are three age divisions: Youth (grades 4-5), Junior (grades 6-8), and Senior (grades 9-12). Regional and state competitions are open to all age divisions. The national competition is for junior and senior divisions only.
Can a student not enrolled in a public school participate?
History Day is open to all the students of Idaho. Public, charter, private, and home schooled students are all encouraged to participate.
What is this year's theme?
Every year the competition is based around a unique theme. The 2014-2015 theme is "Leadership and Legacy."
How do I start my research?
In a nutshell, you will choose a topic that is appropriate for the annual theme, research your topic using primary and secondary sources, choose a category to show your findings, and present your project to judges for evaluation. Check out the Getting Started page for more information.
How do I find out about categories and contest rules?
Students may choose to present their topics in one of five categories: Documentary, Exhibit, Historical Paper, Performance, or Web Site:
- Rules for All Categories
- Rules for Web Sites
- Rules for Documentaries
- Rules for Performances
- Rules for Historical Papers
- Rules for Exhibits
How does a student compete in a regional competition?
The first step in the competition is to participate in a regional competition. There are currently six History Day regions in Idaho. To find out more about your local competition, contact the regional coordinator closest to you.
- Regional Contact Information
- Regional Entry Form
How does a student take part in the state competition?
The 2015 National History Day in Idaho contest will be on Saturday, April 11 at the College of Idaho. To be eligible for the state competition, a student must first compete in one of the regional competitions. Top finishers in each category at the regional contests can compete in the state competition held at the College of Idaho. For more information contact your state history day coordinator or go to the State Contest page.
History Day Coordinator
Idaho Historical Museum
214 Broadway Ave
Boise, Idaho 83702
(208) 780-5190
How does a student take part in the national competition?
Top finishers in the junior and senior divisions of the state-level competition are eligible to compete in the Kenneth E. Behring National History Day Contest held on the University of Maryland campus at College Park, MD. Qualifying students will receive registration information for the national competition at the state awards ceremony.
Is there an entry fee?
There is an $8.00 fee to enter a regional competition and a $12.00 fee to enter the state competition.
- REGIONAL HISTORY DAY ENTRY FEES: Checks for Regional History Day entry fees may be made payable to your area's Regional History Day Coordinator. Please indicate on the "memo" line that the check is for History Day and the name of the student(s) being paid for.
- STATE HISTORY DAY ENTRY FEES: Checks for the State History Day competition ONLY should be made payable to the Idaho State Historical Society. Please indicate on the "memo" line that the check is for History Day and the name of the student(s) being paid for.
Who pays for travel to the national competition?
All registration fees and travel expenses such airfare, lodging, and meals are the responsibility of the student and their family. Students may apply for small travel scholarships sponsored by the Union Pacific Foundation. The state coordinator will proved winners the information on how to apply for these scholarships.
Are there prizes for the winners?
Students may win a wide variety of prizes during National History Day in Idaho. Most regional contests award ribbons and/or medals as prizes. First and second place winning entries from each regional level contest of the National History Day in Idaho program are eligible to compete at the state level competition. Awards presented at the state contest include ribbons, medals, scholarships, cash prizes, gift certificates, books, organization memberships, etc. To be eligible for any of these awards, students must first compete in a regional program. First and second place entries from the junior and senior divisions of the Idaho state competition may advance to the Kenneth E. Behring National History Day Contest held at the University of Maryland the second week of June. For a complete listing of available Student Awards and Special Prizes, see the Awards and Scholarships page.
Useful Links
Rules of all categories:
Documentary Rules
Exhibit Rules
Historical Papers
Scholarships and Prizes – for Teachers as Well as Students
National Special Awards
History Channel Teacher Award
Patricia Behring Teacher Award
Getting Started - How to Start & Regional Contacts
Creating a History Day Entry
Teacher Guide to Implementing History Day in the classroom
Resources for Teachers
Idaho Regional Contacts
Regional Entry Form
Research – This Year's Theme, Tips on Research and Ideas for Idaho Themes
This Year's Theme is Leadership and Legacy
Idaho Topics to consider
Research Tips
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Due to the substantial increase in mobile devices within varied academic, research, residential and clinical care environments, the University of Miami and its health system—UHealth-University of Miami Health System—have selected Aruba Networks Inc. for an organization-wide wireless network upgrade.
The network will cover 200 buildings and 11 million square feet of the University's three main campuses, as well as UHealth's three hospitals and two dozen outpatient facilities. Serving more than 15,000 students, as well as the fast-growing medical center—which includes 40 buildings across 72 acres—the organization's primary challenge was to meet the connectivity needs of all these differing facilities.
"We completed multiple pilots in high concentration areas with students, as well as dense areas on our Medical campus, and the Aruba access points were clearly the best-performing in these high density situations," said Stewart Seruya, Assistant VP and Chief Network Officer for Information Technology, University of Miami. "The Aruba APs handled the different hand-off scenarios we posed—particularly in our medical environment where there are lots of wireless devices being used by the nurses, staff, and physicians—and they passed all of our stress tests."
Expanding Mobile Capabilities
The University has deployed Aruba mobility controllers, the Aruba 130 Series APs and the AirWave Network Management system. To date, the institution has installed approximately 2,300 Aruba APs, with another 4,000 planned over the next twelve months. They are also in the process of configuring Aruba's ClearPass Access Management System to enable BYOD.
The University of Miami and UHealth have begun a deployment schedule that will eventually result in the Aruba infrastructure covering its entire campus and medical facilities. Currently, the main University buildings, hospitals and specialty practices are all outfitted with the new gear and over the summer of 2014, the key residential colleges will be upgraded.
The organization intends to open a new, 200,000-square-foot outpatient facility that will be upgraded with the wireless infrastructure. The institution will also provide wireless network coverage for major new buildings on campus including a School of Music, a Marine School, and a unique research and science facility that incorporates three stories of water to study weather patterns and storm impact.
"Mobility is crucial for all of our institution's academic and medical staff, students and patients, and strategic to the success of the University and UHealth," said Brad Rohrer, Associate Vice President and Deputy CIO for Information Technology, University of Miami. "We suspect that more than 25,000 devices are connecting to our network daily and we've seen peaks as high as 18,000 devices simultaneously on the network. The expectation is to keep all of these users connected reliably and without disruption, anytime and anywhere across the entire organization. The infrastructure is absolutely critical in making this happen."
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Alketas Pazis in Athens. His passion for collecting objects and furniture from 1900-1950 is obvious however the interiors aren't overwhelmed. In fact this is pretty much my dream house. The interiors have filled with sentimental objects, every piece different with its own story to tell. I love that. As much as I adore the 'design classics' they can become a little predictable in interiors sometimes so it's so refreshing to see some beautifully curated pieces that you don't instantly know the designers name, you know what I mean? This looks like a home with personality with a 'one-of-a-kind feel and not bland like a showroom.
I love how the walls are painted that dark sludgy grey to the bottom half of the walls, to give those high ceiling spaces an intimate feel. The grey walls also prevent the spaces from feeling like an art gallery and that floor, it's gorgeous. In Australia we are obsessed with timber floors so it's interesting to consider tiles especially when they are covered with gorgeous rugs. An inspirational interior.
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Sunday, 18 March 2012
Art Interior
In 2008 his work consisted of a runner sprinting the length of Tate Britain's neo-classical sculpture galleries. He said that he sometimes finds walking around galleries to be quite a laborious task and "Art doesn't have to be in a frame separate from you." Stephen Deuchar, director of Tate Britain said "In lifting an everyday activity out of its usual context and dropping it into the central galleries of Tate Britain, it upsets any preconceived ideas of how to move appropriately through an art space. At the same time it asks us to reassess a mundane activity as if it were a theatrical event."
This all gets us thinking about art in new ways and I love that. But now I must admit that I'm confused. Creed has recently completed his work in the restaurant of one of my favorite place in London, Sketch (I blogged it back here). I don't like it, there I said it. I love Sketch because they collaborate with artists and it is packed with artworks, it's a beautiful place to be. An art installation is one thing, but interior design is another. There are many practical requirements of a restaurant, one of which is aesthetics which I feel has been ignored here and it is hard to tell from the photo how the space planning works and that would be interesting too.
This space is so chaotic that I wouldn't want to spend longer than 5 minutes there, not to mention dining for a few hours enjoying a beautiful meal with friends. Not one chair is the same which is a novel idea so you can feel like Goldilocks until you find one that you like but it all looks like a thriftstore. Every wall is different so there is no focal point so you don't know where to look, there is no unity so I imagine it could feel quite unnerving. Panadol anyone?
It looks amateurish to me. In such a beautiful space the basic principles of design have not been considered. The proportion is out, the grand scale of the space has not been used to the best advantage and what about lighting and acoustics? This isn't your average cafe, the chef French Master Chef Pierre Gagnaire and pretty fancy food.
The floor is a mix of 96 different marble types in a chevron pattern because Creed couldn't decide which one he liked the most, so he just threw them all in. I don't see how this decision adds to the meaning of the artwork. I am all for artists collaborating with designers and architects, the results can be absolutely amazing, the key word being 'collaborating'.
What do you think? If this restaurant didn't have the artists name associated, would it be acceptable and would people go there? How does the cross-over between art and design/decoration work in this case? Can an artist install his work in a restaurant successfully whilst still being an artist and not a designer? So many questions???
Information from The Telegraph, The Independant, Sketch and Dezeen
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Tuesday, 6 March 2012
Supermarket Sweep
Today at the office kitchen bench we chatted about how much we hate doing the supermarket shopping. Wandering around the aisles aimlessly just searching for dinner inspiration is so exhausting. I try to shop at the Prahran Market and it's a real pleasure, I love the atmosphere and the service. However it's not always convenient so inevitably I find myself at the Supermarket. Wouldn't it be fabulous if our supermarkets were a little more inspiring?
Quarter 21 (above) opened at Westfield Sydney a few months ago and reminded me of some of the beautiful food retailers I visited in Japan last year so I've dusted them off to share. Quarter 21 is a food store, cookery school and restaurant with a focus on locally sourced produce. Such a great concept and since you can't turn on the tv these days without seeing a celebrity chef or cooking show it was only a matter of time until a cookery school opened in a shopping centre. This idea isn't a new one, I saw a cookery school at Tokyo Midtown last year. ABC Cooking Studio is a beautiful space designed by French architect Emmanuelle Moureaux Architecture + Design where students can learn about cooking and baking
Dean & Deluca Toyko Midtown. This is such a beautiful shopping experience. It felt luxurious and exclusive and although it isn't the kind of supermarket that you buy your everyday groceries, there are elements in the design that we can apply to our major supermarket monsters. It has more of a market feel with designated areas for different produce with pendant light fittings and different floor finishes, not just aisles and aisles that all look the same. Perhaps if this way of thinking was applied to other supermarkets consumers could find what they want easier?
Isetan Shinjuku. What can I say? We had died and gone to heaven. A truly luxurious shopping experience. Luckily we had our Japanese friend show us here otherwise I don't know how we could find it, shinjuku station is the largest station in the world! Amazing.
Photos by Lauren Macer except ABC Cooking Studio and Quarter 21.
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Friday, 2 March 2012
Apartment On Oscar Freire Street
I love the openess of the spaces, no walls or partitions. The dark timber clad hall opens out to a large light living space, which is just perfect for entertaining friends. I only wish I could find some images of the kitchen or bathroom as it would be interesting to see how these spaces integrated with the living area.
The designer of this project states ''this apartment is an example of urban living in the heart of fashion in the most vibrating district, bringing calm and comfort to the interiors thanks to the materials, the art works & the objects''.
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Rule No. 175
Source: From Neil Senturia's book "I'm There for You, Baby: The Entrepreneur's Guide to the Galaxy," which has more than 200 rules for entrepreneurs
Lean startup is one of the hot new trends in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. It either means the founder is living on ramen and about to drop 10 pounds or that he is highly focused on figuring out what the customer really wants before he raises a bunch of dough and foolishly uses it up before he knows that answer.
So about two years ago, San Diego State University started adopting this philosophy into its entrepreneurship curriculum. At the same time, SDSU revamped its annual business plan competition to focus on "the real world of no or little money, learning to create a prototype, repeatedly interfacing with the customer and pivoting when necessary to create a solid business model," said Bernhard Schroeder, director of Lavin Center Programs, Lavin Entrepreneurship Center at SDSU.
During the inaugural two-day LeanModel competition in March, the 19 student teams (from 11 California universities) competed in an event that was not mock-court. The teams had to tell the judges how their company had evolved and pivoted based on customer feedback and how they tested their product in the field.
"I learned the importance of always being on your toes," said Gabby Igel, a member of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo's Luna Light team that is developing a solar rechargeable LED light and cellphone charger. "When we were setting up our booth, we were told that in 20 minutes we would be making a two-minute elevator pitch to the judges and that the top three teams would each get $500."
In addition to winning that $500, Luna Light placed second overall and was awarded an additional $3,500 that will be used to pay for producing 100 prototypes. Igel said their target consumer is the 1.6 billion people who don't have access to electricity, and the first prototypes were tested in Kenya.
The top three "elevator pitch" teams advanced to "Tiger Tank," for which they made 10-minute presentations. That winner as well as first place overall was Bosse Tools, started by Stephen Walden, a first year MBA student at Loyola Marymount University. In the summer of 2011, Walden was working for his parents doing construction and home and garden chores. Out of his exhaustion came the idea to create a double-handle shovel — Bosse's first product — that Walden contends increases working power while decreasing stress and pain.
During the competition, Walden said he learned that "we need to move faster and get more products in the hands of more people who can test them out so we can get more feedback, and we also need scientific research to quantify the benefits."
Third-place winner Epsilon Micro Devices, started by a San Diego State team, already has paying customers and more than $10,000 in revenue, according to co-founder Pieter van Niekerk, a senior majoring in bioengineering. The idea for the company originated when a scientist at another university asked John Waynelovich, a Ph.D. student at SDSU in biomathematics, to develop an inexpensive way to replicate a piece of research that required a clean room and costly equipment. Tanja Muetze, the third member of the team, provided the business expertise.
The company's new products are being designed in conjunction with the SDSU machine shop and produced in a campus lab. They sell for about $1,000 and are being used by researchers in the U.S., Europe and Asia. The company's goal is to bring the booming field of microfluids to biologists who did not have prior access.
"Through the competition we learned that we were on the right path regarding incorporating customer feedback into our products," van Niekerk said. "I also learned that I need to use simpler language when I pitch to investors. My language is too technical, and I lose more than half my audience in the first two minutes."
Two good books about the lean startup model are "The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses," by Eric Ries (who grew up in San Diego) and "The Lean Entrepreneur: How Visionaries Create Products, Innovate with New Ventures, and Disrupt Markets," co-authored by San Diegan Brant Cooper.
George Foreman has the "lean mean fat reducing grilling machine." No entrepreneur should leave home without one.
Neil Senturia and Barbara Bry, serial entrepreneurs who invest in early-stage technology companies, take turns in writing this weekly column about entrepreneurship in San Diego. Please email ideas to Barbara at firstname.lastname@example.com


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(October 27, 2011) The Sam Rayburn Tollway (SRT)/Dallas North Tollway (DNT) interchange closures scheduled for tonight, Thursday, October 27, include the southwest-bound SH 121 frontage road and Headquarters Drive in Plano. The closures begin at 9:00 p.m. tonight and will end by 5:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. The details of each closure are described below:
The southwest-bound SH 121 frontage road will be closed between Parkwood Boulevard and northbound Dallas Parkway. Southwest-bound traffic will be detoured north on Parkwood Boulevard, west on Gaylord Parkway, and south on Dallas Parkway to return to SH 121.
Headquarters Drive in Plano will be closed between the Dallas Parkway frontage roads. Therefore, Headquarters Drive cannot be used tonight as an alternate route for traffic diverted off of the SH 121 frontage road.
Motorists are urged to use caution in the construction zone and to choose an alternate route in advance.
These road closures are part of NTTA's interchange construction project which is prompting a series of overnight closures that will occur each night in October and November. Depending on the contractor's schedule, a different combination of main lanes and/or frontage roads will be closed each night. Daily updates of each closure are available on www.ntta.org by clicking on "general lane and ramp closures" and the City of Frisco will announce each night's closure as the information becomes available.