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Business IT Alignment and Technology Adoption; the Case of RFID in the Logistics Domain
van de Wijngaert, Lidwien, Versendaal, Johan, Matla, René, Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is increasingly applied in the logistics domain. As with other emerging technologies it is complex whether, when and how an organization should invest in RFID. In this paper the decision to adopt RFID in the logistic domain is explored. The authors take a business/IT-alignment approach and investigate the relation between business/IT-alignment principles and preference for RFID applications. A comparison of thirteen organizations that operate one or more warehouses shows that managers and decision makers in companies are not necessarily in sync with the business/IT-alignment principle which implies to further mature in the areas/domains that are least developed. Organizations were more prone to invest in business/IT areas that are already well developed. We conclude that other factors influence decisions to apply this type of new technology. Yet, the framework offers the opportunity to analyze and prepare a technology decision; it provides insight in and arguments for possible RFID adoption.
Key words: Business/IT-Alignment, Logistics, Maturity, RFID
1 Introduction
1.1 New technology of Radio Frequency Identification
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is an upcoming wireless technology that enables items to be identified through radio waves. Typically, RFID can be described as a reader communicating with a tag, holding information in a microchip. An object or good is equipped with the tag and a reader can identify the object.
After a rather turbulent period in which RFID's possibilities have been promising, [5] states that the technology is over its hype, and into the 'trough of disillusionment'. RFID applications in asset management and tagging of cases however are application fields that are hitting the 'slope of enlightment'. This means they are becoming more and more popular and companies are finding ways to make sound business cases out of these applications [14]. Still a lot of challenges have to be overcome in areas like technology, standards, costs, ROI etc. before RFID can become a widespread technology [11], [27].
According to [9] there are two important drivers that motivate companies to start experimenting with RFID applications. The first driver is the mandate by some major channel masters and procurement agencies that foresee operational efficiencies when applying RFID. This mandate is a clear example of buyer power through great volumes as identified by Porter in his five-forces model [17]. Examples are Wal-Mart and the US Department of Defense; they demand that their preferred suppliers comply with their RFID application. In practice this means that crates and pallets are tagged with RFID chips so they can be traced through the supply chain. The second driver for RFID diffusion is the collection of immediate benefits that can be gained from implementing the technology. Companies try to gain competitive advantage by being a first-adopter. They use RFID to innovate their business and to gain strategic leverage. Research question and outline
As with many new technological innovations, companies may not be ready to take full benefit from RFID's possible advantages. From a Business/IT-Alignment (BITA) perspective, the introduction of new technology in an organization may unbalance business and IT, bringing them out of sync; [25] argue that continuous strategic alignment is needed. [10] identify four basic concepts in BITA: 1) business strategy, 2) organizational infrastructure (both related to the business domain), and 3) IT strategy and 4) IT infrastructure and processes (both related to the IT domain). Their assertion is that in an organization all four concepts should have the same level of maturity in order to realize value from IT investments. Another much cited scholar on this topic is Porter [18] who argues that business and Internet strategies should coincide. Also [26] and [8] argue that IT innovation should come in careful consideration with the business processes. …


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Dr. Henry Lee and Kathy Romine Hayes announce the engagement of their daughter, Rachel Michelle Lee, to Heath Alan Sowers.
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The bride-elect graduated from A.C. Reynolds High School. She is a tag and title clerk with Fletcher Motor Company, Fletcher.
The bridegroom-elect graduated from West Henderson High School. He is a mechanic with Sara Lee, Arden.
The wedding will be held Saturday, May 20, 2006, at Innisfree Farm.
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David Lowery's "Ain't Them Bodies Saints" finally has a trailer, so that everyone who wasn't lucky enough to see it at Sundance or at Cannes, where it's coming off a set of special screenings that were part of Critics' Week, can get a hint of what the fuss is about.Read More »
The first trailer for David Lowery's lyrical Western and festival favorite "Ain't Them Bodies Saints" has landed. The film, which hits theaters August 16 and VOD August 23 via IFC Films, stars Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara and Ben Foster in a tale centered on an outlaw's dangerous ordeal to reunite wit...Read More »
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At the Cannes Film Festival this week, members of the press will get a special screening of "Ain't Them Bodies Saints," the Sundance smash that stars Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara as a husband and wife with a criminal history (he's an escaped convict, she's his former partner-in-crime, together they...Read More »
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Crime is one of the great story hooks that movies have to offer us, playing some key role in any number new releases on a regular basis. Blockbuster formula tends to gloss over criminal activity in favor of black-and-white dualities: Good prevails over evil. The aliens are vanquished. The Avengers ...Read More »
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In Kirk's case, moreover, the script has him simply taking over and then alternating between making bad decisions (the wormhole scene) and making none at all.
Kirk rushing the Enterprise arguably led to the transporter accident.
I agree with you that Spock really is the protagonist, though, and Kirk is more of a supporting actor. Spock is the character who makes all the breakthroughs in understanding V'Ger. Everyone else just reacts to this.
The closest Kirk comes to steering the plot is his verbal sparring with the Ilia probe. Kirk merely uses the insights gained from Spock to decide how to communicate to V'Ger.
TMP really is not an ensemble movie the way Trek should be. I read a recent review of TMP not that long ago that mourned how Spock supplanted Uhura. Uhura could have figured out how to communicate with V'Ger. Uhura also could have figured out the whale-song in Trek IV. After all, she's a communication's officer, right? Shouldn't she know how to do more than merely open and close communication? Shouldn't she know something about language and data encoding and things like that?
Same with Kirk. Kirk could have been given more opportunities to show his unique leadership abilities. He certainly "cheated death" in Trek II.
The novelization of TMP supposedly goes into more back-story on Kirk's subconscious anguish over not steering a Starship and how it made him kind of an A-hole. The novelization posits that McCoy quit starfleet when Kirk accepted promotion as an act of protest. Certainly Decker's dialogue points towards Kirk's dysfunctional personality, but there's more to it in the novelization that didn't get filmed.
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As Dean, Maureen A. O'Rourke has overseen the construction of the 93,000- square-foot, state-of-the-art Sumner M. Redstone Building and gut renovation of the adjacent law tower. This project is the culmination of decades of planning and provides students with first-rate community spaces, high quality classrooms, and amenities.
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She is a co-author of one of the leading copyright casebooks in the US, Copyright in a Global Information Economy (Aspen Law & Business). She has published articles in the law reviews of Columbia, Duke, Iowa and Minnesota, the technology journals of Berkeley, Harvard and Boston University, and other publications including the Journal of the Copyright Society. She was the associate reporter on the American Law Institute's (ALI) Principles of Software Contracting project and is a member of the ALI.
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Bikes: One new Konga Miyata Randoneur (for the old guy); one new Rivendell Atlantis (mid brother) and one used mid 80's $40 Miyata Path Runner with bio pace gearing (for the young guy). All with front and rear panniers.
Biking Experience: Some (Randoneur); Quite a bit (Rivendell) and virtually none (Miyata).
Gear: Took camping gear and each had his own tent, bag, mattress although we only camped about 6 times when caught out between towns.
Mechanical Problems: Randoneur (none); Rivendell (2 flats); Miyata (2 flats).
Food: Ate lots, often, large quantities etc and still we all lost weight; at least 10 pounds each.
Best Part: Spectacular scenery; lots of wild life; bears one night when we camped and still there in the morning.. Mossies not bad.
Worst Part: Sore butts the entire way.
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SEX HEALTH CRISIS AS INFECTIONS ON THE RISE; INVESTIGATION: IRELAND IN THE GRIP OF AN STI EPIDEMIC 341 People Diagnosed with HIV - a 7% Increase Hundreds More Catch Chlamydia and Gonorrhoea
Byline: EXCLUSIVE BY MARIE KIERANS
A SILENT sexual disease epidemic is sweeping the country as the number of harmful infections sky-rockets. Frightening figures for the first six weeks of this year show a sharp rise in most sexually transmitted infections, the Irish Sunday Mirror can reveal.
Data from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre shows a surge in cases of chlamydia, up by 142 to 736 compared to last year.
Experts have also warned that young people are ignorant of the risks of deadly HIV as many were not even born when it came to prominence in the 1980s.
There has been an alarming jump in the number of HIV infections, from 28 to 44. And the rate of herpes is also on the increase, up from 85 to 139.
The statistics follow damning research warning that cases of gonorrhoea have risen a third in recent years - with the incidence rate at a record high.
Between 2011 and 2012 there was a 33% spike in gonorrhoea cases, with young men and women aged 17 to 29 identified as being most at-risk among the 1,110 cases diagnosed.
And the gonorrhoea crisis shows no sign of abating, with 167 cases reported in the first six weeks of 2014, up 29 on the previous year.
iceberg The latest in-depth information on STI trends reveals over 70% of all cases in 2012 were in people aged under 30, with 59% in the 19-20 years age group and 11.3% in those 19 and under.
Almost 13,000 STDs were recorded during 2012, but that figure is just the tip of the iceberg.
A further 341 people were newly diagnosed with HIV, a 7% increase compared to 2011.
Experts have warned that many people are going about their daily business unaware that they are carrying a potentially lethal infection.
Excessive drinking, a failure to use protection and an increase in casual sex has been blamed for the epidemic.
A sexual health specialist at the coalface of Ireland's STI emergency revealed that in the month of January alone he diagnosed four patients with HIV.
And he warned that despite what many people think, it is not just gay men being told they have the condition.
Dr Shay Keating, who runs a clinic at Dublin's Harold's Cross Surgery, said: "It never happened here before. It is very upsetting. One of the patients was a heterosexual male. There's no shame in producing a condom.
"It'd be much worse having to ring somebody up to tell them that you've chlamydia or some other infection."
Dr Keating said that many of today's young people were ignorant about the risks posed by HIV.
"The young sexually active weren't even born when there was the whole strong media 'don't die of ignorance' campaign surrounding HIV/AIDs during the 1980s," he added.
And Dr Derek Freedman, a leading expert in STIs, said that services were struggling to cope with demand.
"Certainly in the Guide Clinic at St James's Hospital (Dublin) we have been inundated with cases," he told the Irish Sunday Mirror. "It has been extremely difficult to cope with the workload."
He added that the numbers flocking to the screening clinic had been "building up steadily" over the autumn. "It was one of the first signs of the economic upturn, because when people are more at ease in their financial constraints, they go and party," Dr Freedman said.
"The vast majority of cases we would see would be people who have been risk-taking because of alcohol.
"Sometimes they have so much alcohol, they can't remember if they had sex. Basically, if you're looking for quality sex, you need to look for quality drinking."
The gonorrhea outbreak, he stressed, was not confined to men who have sex with men. Dr Freedman, who founded the Society for the Study of Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Ireland, said: "It's spreading out to the wider community. …


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In the top of the seventh, Vernon Wells hit a two-run homer to give Anaheim a 2-0 lead.
A two-and-a-half hour rain delay and change of pitchers hasn't helped Boston's bats -- as the Angels have a combined no-hitter through six innings.
Starter Ervin Santana didn't allow a hit in the first four innings, striking out seven Red Sox batters in four innings before the rain delay at Fenway Park. Rich Thompson replaced Santana after the delay and held the Red Sox hitless for another 1 2/3 innings.
Thompson was pulled for left-hander Scott Downs, who came in to face Adrian Gonzalez with two outs in the sixth and Jacoby Ellsbury on third base. Downs got Gonzalez to ground out to short.
Josh Beckett gave up just one hit in 4 1/3 inning before the rain delay. Matt Albers allowed two more in his 1 2/3 innings, but no runs have scored.
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Connie Bisaccia of Yonkers is a regular slots player at Empire City at Yonkers Raceway, where she was playing last week. / Tom Nycz/The Journal News
The addition of a $4 billion video slot machine operation at Yonkers Raceway has pumped millions into harness racing, attracting higher-caliber drivers. / Tom Nycz/The Journal News
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YONKERS Video slot machines have brought Yonkers Raceway back to life, with a $4 billion casino operation that has rejuvenated the dying harness track.
One year after it reopened with a Vegas-style casino, Empire City at Yonkers Raceway is a cash machine, drawing more than 90,000 patrons a week and netting nearly $40 million a month.
Though that's less than raceway officials had hoped for, the video slots have radically transformed a 97-acre property that spent several years on the selling block.
"We would've sold to one of those developers," said Bob Galterio, raceway general manager.
"If we were not allowed to have done this, the raceway would be some sort of mixed development with retail, housing and office space," he said, likening it to a controversial $600 million mega-project slated elsewhere in Yonkers. "We would've been Ridge Hill."
Local traffic concerns remain, as do doubts about the full benefit to Yonkers schools. But the long-debated slots are doing the one thing they were promised to do: make money.
Yonkers Raceway is already the most lucrative among eight horse racing tracks statewide featuring video lottery terminals, accounting for 49 percent of the slot machine revenue played at all the tracks combined last month.
In the past six months, the raceway also has produced half of the money the tracks are required to contribute to an education fund overseen by the New York Lottery.
About $471.2 million was bet on its machines in September alone, with 92 percent of that going back to players in payouts. Of the rest, $22.9 million was earmarked for education, $9.94 million for the track as a commission, $1.53 million for marketing and another $3.82 million for state lottery administration.
And Yonkers Raceway's financial growth is destined to continue: Raceway operators have installed 5,478 video slot machines but are approved for 7,500.
Uncertain future
Yonkers Raceway was in rapid decline before the video slots, according to statistics from the Raceway and the New York State Racing and Wagering Board.
In 1994, the historic track attracted 457,148 patrons, who placed nearly $87 million in bets.
Simulcasting later boosted the raceway's operations, and by 2001, more than $127 million in on- and off-track bets were placed.
Yet attendance kept dropping sharply, with just 167,000 people visiting the raceway that year.
In 2004, the last full year of operation before the raceway closed for retooling, Yonkers Raceway drew 115,763 visitors and collected $99.5 million in bets, a 22 percent drop in just three years.
Galterio said raceway owner Tim Rooney had tried to revive it by seeking state approval for casino gambling, a lobbying push that fell short in Albany in 1997.
"At that point we said, 'Look, you know what? Harness racing is just not making it here anymore,'" Galterio said. "'Let's look to develop the property.'"
In 2001, Rooney was on the verge of signing a deal to develop the property with a mixed-use project. Then word came from Albany that state lawmakers had passed slot-machine legislation, a move prompted by the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks and the resulting fear that they would cripple the state economy. The Rooneys put everything on hold.
After a two-year legal battle, the move was approved by the state Legislature. Yonkers Raceway had a green light for the casino it had long sought.
Local concerns
Not everyone loves the glitzy new Empire City casino.
Helen Lesko, a longtime Yonkers resident, said the new gambling hub has wreaked havoc on local traffic. Patrons routinely park on nearby residential streets, she said, while increasing traffic in once-quiet neighborhoods.
"It's so sad to be involved with this now, after so many years of sort of a peaceful residential area," Lesko complained.
Police activity in the neighborhood also has increased.
The raceway has its own 300-strong security force. But the video slot salons are patrolled by state police, not the Yonkers police department. Since opening day one year ago today, state troopers have made arrests on 27 felonies and 70 misdemeanors and issued summonses for 87 violations.
Of nine felonies in August, most were for larcenies and drug possession, Lt. Glenn Miner said.
Yonkers police had responded to 50 calls for service from Oct. 11, 2003, until Sept. 30, 2004, before the raceway closed for renovations. Today they patrol the area around Yonkers Raceway and have seen calls more than quadruple - to 221 - since the opening of Empire City.
But that coincided with a meteoric rise in attendance, and city officials said traffic and crime have not been major concerns.
"The greatest fears of the people in the neighborhoods did not seem to be realized," Yonkers Mayor Phil Amicone said.
Amicone said more development likely will occur at the raceway, including the addition of retail space designed to create pedestrian traffic in the area and boost patronage of surrounding businesses.
Kevin Cacace, executive director of the Yonkers Chamber of Commerce, said that process already has started, with Empire City improving area real estate values.
"You don't see vacancies in stores, and each time there is a vacancy it fills almost immediately," Cacace maintained. "That tells you something."
'Impressive start'
Yonkers Raceway officials don't keep attendance, but Galterio estimated the number of weekly customers at 92,000 to 95,000. They include a steady flow of regulars who already have made the casino their stomping ground.
Dorothy Cephas, a home-care aide from the Bronx, said she visits the slots three times a week.
"I lose all my money," she joked. "I don't know why I keep going. I'm hoping to win some money back. Maybe someday."
For the most part, the casino and the racetrack just outside remain separate operations, though some of the video lottery money has significantly boosted horse racing purses.
Connie Bisaccia of Yonkers, a regular at the casino, was typical of the gamblers interviewed there by The Journal News.
"I don't know how to bet on horses," she admitted.
Most said they also were unaware that the proceeds from their gambling help increase funding for education.
The law requires state racetracks with slot machines to contribute at least half of the net proceeds to a lottery education fund.
Yonkers Raceway contributes at a higher rate than the other tracks - the same rate that will apply to Aqueduct Raceway when it adds slots next year.
Under that formula, Yonkers contributes 54 percent of its receipts for starters, compared with 50 percent for other tracks.
A sliding scale tops off at $150 million in receipts per fiscal year, a threshold Yonkers already met last month, less than halfway through the current fiscal year.
The racetrack casinos, or "racinos," are immensely lucrative for the lottery - each track also puts 10 percent of slot proceeds aside for lottery administrative costs.
The raceway ends up with 32 percent to 26 percent, depending on the net revenues, with some of that money going toward the purses.
So far, it has meant big profits. The question is whether those numbers will continue.
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text: Especially if you see yourself using graduated filters in the future, I would recommend using square (rectangular) ones. 4x4 inch the most common industry standard. Somehow Lee managed to get it into still photographers' heads that they make the best filters, but 4x4 filters are also standard in the movie industry, where Tiffen and Schneideroptics are well regarded. In Germany, for example, there are countless professional production rental companies that put filters up for sale with just micro scratches on the sides, nothing you would see in photographs, for 30-50 USD a piece. I would assume that similar deals can be had in the U.S. Well worth a look! Also the filter holders (matte boxes) from arri, and schneider come up for cheap on ebay from time to time, quality on these is phenomenal, compared with the Cokin and Lee plastic mounts.


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"You ought not to post more than once a day to your blog, John — you'll turn people off and nobody will read your stuff."
Lots of people post multiple times throughout a day and if people want to read they are going to and if they don't they wont but my mind is much too busy to settle for one sitting at the keyboard every day so —– I am going to have to live with it.
Now I am hearing that despite a little more than $16-billion dollars being pumped into the Veterans' Administration Medical Centers and Services, the old complaint about excessive times to wait to be seen for problems hasn't changed a bit since the problem with VA wait times was first brought to light.
Well if that is what's happening right now, I can't wait to see what happens if the crazy-asses in the right wing radical political circus manage to get us into a war with Iran — can you? — That ought to prove interesting if you think VA wait times are bad now just wait until we have another useless f**cking war!
I read an article on the front page of a newspaper where it said the convicted Boston marathon bomber could get the death penalty. When I read that I thought to myself, "Duhhh! and what happens if he doesn't? — nothing! Right? — Isn't that how America rolls these days? — Maybe instead of sentencing terrorists to death or prison terms we ought to follow the advice of some of our politicians and seek to "Understand" what motivates them and show some "Sympathy/Empathy" instead of being so quick to prosecute and punish. — I swear I do not know where some of our politicians' heads are sometimes. — Happily most of the politicians still have their heads attached to their bodies even if they don't tend to use them all that much. — But that may change someday if the same politicians keep on trying to deal with terrorism by "Empathy" instead of by an eye for an eye. — I have to ask myself, "Would I vote for somebody for President – (Or for any office for that matter) – who sounds to me like they might take a soft line on f**king terrorists?
I see a report where some more of our Afghani "Friends and Allies" have been shooting and killing American Soldiers again. — I have to ask myself the question, "Is that some kind of coincidence — (I keep on remembering what happened at Fort Hood) — or is it simply a sort of "Normal" thing for some of the alley-blockbarz? — something that might be cured if only somebody in America could see their way to trying to "Understand" what the terrorists must have suffered as young children and young adults and show a little compassion, consideration and "Empathy?" — Am I going to set out treats for the roaches in my apartment hoping that once they have eaten their fill of the candy and sugar and left-over beef stew they will pack their little bags and go find another apartment to infest? — Probably not! — I tried that with a cute little mouse once and it ended up costing me a fortune to try to get rid of all the mice that finally arrived with their little whiskers waving in the wind and their little paws outstretched to receive of my generosity. — Can we "Emphasize" terrorism into docile pacifism? — I can't see it myself. — Maybe some rich politician can see it, but I can't.


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Instead of words or numbers being the tick labels of the x axis, I want to draw a simple drawing (made of lines and circles) as the label for each x tick. Is this possible? If so, what is the best way to go about it in matplotlib?
I would remove the tick labels and replace the text with patches. Here is a brief example of performing this task:
This results in the following figure:
It is key to set
If you have specific image files that you want to use for the symbols, you can use the
producing this image:
Then I created a BboxImage at the location I want the tick label and of the size I want:
Noticed how I used the
Now I read in the image using the
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Barney Ross vs Floyd Mayweather/ Winner?
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Yeah, it was a bit harsh. Sorry.
You make some good points, although I don't agree with them. Neither McLarnin nor Canzoneri fought similar to Mayweather and they are both better than PBF in my opinion. In fact I think they both proved to be a class above him - yeah, I know strong claim but my opinion. The thing is Mayweather was so cautious and defensive at welter that I can't picture him beating any of the atgs there - and Ross is one, no doubt - and especially not one who matches and even surpasses him in terms of skill. Add to that his higher workrate and faster pace and I don't see Mayweather beating him. Yeah, Ross was "workman-like" where Floyd made it look easy and natural but nevertheless Ross was more refined in a traditional way.
I agree that it will go to the cards. And yeah Mayweather will land his jab and lead right but not often enough for this fight being close enough to win it.
I don't think this will be close on the scorecards and neither is it ion terms of talent or ability. Mayweather IS more talented than Ross. Ross, however, has clearly more ability. Mayweather does not embrace his talent, instead of going for greatness he settles with making money and keeping his "0" fighting mediocre to average opposition, with some good ones in-between. Ross on the other hand did more than he had talent for and made the best out of the abilities he developed in his career. Mayweather is an underachiever by his own choosing. Ross is an overachiever by his choosing.
1. No worries. Just wanted you to see that my pick wasn't based upon a bias against older fighters, but rather by virtue of an examination of the styles.
2. Don't get me wrong, Ross is by far and away the more accomplished of the two fighters, and as a result rated a hell of a lot higher on my ATG list the last time I made one (and that's taking into account the fact that I don't hold Mayweather's failure to face the likes of Cotto and Margarito against him as much as others on the site).
In this case we're dealing with two fighters who came up from lower weights, neither of whom are exceptionally powerful punchers. Ross may well be in possession of a more fundamentally sound style, and would certainly be more active; but if Mayweather knows that he's not at risk of being hurt as he might be in other fights, and finds himself presented with a fighter who can come close to matching him in terms of speed, he'll be inclined to become more agressive and take a few more chances (the Judah fight was an indication of that).
I think Ross certainly
win this fight, or at the very least do enough to convince at least one of the three judges that he deserved to do so, and I don't see him getting whitewashed. But I don't see Mayweather getting schooled either, simply by virtue of the talent that he displays, and the fact that he would likely be too elusive to catch clean with more than one shot at a time.
In my opinion, this is the type of match-up where both fighters would impress in their own way, and I think it would come down to what the judges would like more.
Either way, I see your point now, and can understand where you're coming from even if I don't necessarily agree with it.
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J. S. Thomson
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J.S. Thomson was a rugby union international who represented Scotland in the first international rugby match in 1871.[1]
Early life[edit]
Little is known of J.S. Thomson's early life. He is recorded as having played for Glasgow Academicals in 1871[2][3][4][5] and 1872.[6] At that time the club did not have open membership and had only been formed three years previous as a club for old pupils of Glasgow Academy. The strong implication is that he therefore attended Glasgow Academy, and given this was not a boarding school, lived in Glasgow. Some records suggest he also played for St Andrews University[7][8] and therefore may have attended that university also.
Rugby union career[edit]
J.S. Thomson was selected to play in the first international rugby match in 1871 between Scotland and England. This was played on 27 March 1871 at Raeburn Place, Edinburgh and won by Scotland. Certain records for the match indicate that he played for Glasgow Academicals[2][3][4][5][6] at the time, whilst others suggest that he was a University of St Andrews RFC player.[7] It is possible that he was not exclusive to one or the other and therefore may have played for both.[8] In Francis Marshall's 1892 publication, Football; the Rugby union game, he is listed as playing for St Andrews as well, although on one occasion he is referred to as J Thompson in a picture of the 1871 Scotland side[9] and on another occasion he is referred to as W Thomson.[10]
In 1872 J S Thomson was also part of another historic first rugby encounter when he was selected as part of the representative side of Glasgow, to face a representative side from Edinburgh.[6] This was the inaugural inter-city match between Glasgow and Edinburgh, that today is known as the 1872 Cup and has the distinction of being the oldest inter-city rugby competition in the world.[11]
- ^ a b c d e Profile of J.S. Thomson at scrum.com
- ^ a b Rugbyfootballhistory.com Scotland
- ^ a b St Andrews Alumni rugby club
- ^ a b Allan Massie, A portrait of Scottish rugby, (Polygon), 1984
- ^ a b Glasgow (Scotland). Academy, The Glasgow academy: the first hundred years, (Pub. for the Glasgow academy by Blackie), 1946
- ^ a b c The balance inclines to the city possessing a successful and dominating club team. at Glasgow Hawks.com detailing the first 1872 Cup match
- ^ a b [E. H. D. Sewell, Rugby football up to date, (Hodder and Stoughton, limited), 1921
- ^ a b Glasgow Hawks records Thomson as having played for both, though gives his initial as W not J S
- ^ Marshall, Francis, Football; the Rugby union game, p201, (1892) (London Paris Melbourne, Cassell and company, limited)
- ^ Marshall, Francis, Football; the Rugby union game, p144, (1892) (London Paris Melbourne, Cassell and company, limited)
- ^ Glasgow Accies official site - 1872 and all that


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LAS VEGAS (AP) - Authorities say levels at Lake Mead are expected to drop this year because of drought conditions.
KLAS-TV reports the western slope of the Rocky Mountains would need at least seven years of normal snowfall to bring southern Nevada out of its 12-year drought.
A Southern Nevada Water Authority spokesman says he expects the Colorado River will end up at just 46 percent of its average flow.
Most of Las Vegas' drinking water comes from Lake Mead. It rose 30 feet last year because of record snow pack in the West. Officials couldn't say how far lake levels would drop this year.
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A Valentine Sonnet in ProgressLester : February 11, 2014 6:07 pm : Announcements, Poetry
A couple of weeks ago, I offered a free, personalized Valentine's Day sonnet for the first person who could "pique my interest." My Georgian buddy John Cochrane responded with this intriguing premise:
Valentine's Day poem from man to wife. At the stage of life when bodily frailities really start setting their teeth in, kids are pulling away, individuating, will be out of the house sooner now rather than later. Both parents' circle of old friends dispersing in a widening gyre, no new friends being made to take those relationship slots. Money manageable but always tight. Still very much in love with each other, but a dwindling number of life's major moments to look forward to. Hope this snags somewhere, even if only on your pants cuffs like a stickleburr.
And here's a first plan of attack—what my day job calls the "prewriting" phase of the project—based on that description:
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Jami Austin may be a first year coach with the Gilmour Academy girls basketball program, but she is quite familiar with the Lancer coaching philosophy, having played for 10th year head coach Bob Beutel. A 2009 graduate of Gilmour, she was a contributing member to the Lancer squads which went to the district finals in 2008 and the regionals in 2009 – the same year the team went on a 19-1 run to finish the season. Austin was a Lancer Award recipient for basketball and also received the school's Dennis Hoynes Award for being an outstanding scholar athlete.
Austin holds a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Purdue University and is a project engineer for The Lubrizol Corporation. The longtime Highland Heights, Ohio, native is engaged to Ed Pomnea. The couple will marry in September 2015.
Deborah Suba is in her first year as an assistant coach with the Gilmour Academy girls basketball program, working with both the varsity and junior varsity teams. She spent one season helping out on a part-time basis several years prior.
Her relationship with 10th year head coach Bob Beutel dates back to her playing days at Eastlake North High School when she earned All-Ohio honors for his regional qualifying Rangers. She also earned All-Ohio honors as a volleyball player before earning a scholarship to compete in the sport at Cleveland State University. While in college, she earned the Viking Award as the team's most valuable player in 1986 and 1987, and was invited to try out for the United States National Team. She also was a member of CSU's fastpitch team, earning the most valuable player award in 1987.
Suba earned a bachelor's degree in art education and then later returned to Cleveland State to earn a master's degree in administration. She became an art teacher at Perry High School and has held the position for 27 years. During that time, she was a 20-year head coach for the Pirate varsity volleyball team, a five-year head coach for the Perry Middle School volleyball team and a two-year assistant girls basketball coach at her alma mater, Eastlake North. Additionally, she spent 25 years as a Junior Olympic volleyball coach and served as the Perry Middle School athletic director from 2006-2014.
She is a 27-year member of the Ohio Education Association (OEA), a 25-year member of the Ohio Art Education Association (OAEA) and a 20-year member of the Ohio High School Coaches Association. She currently resides in Painesville Township, Ohio.


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The prevalence of narcolepsy: An epidemiological study of the Finnish Twin Cohort
Article first published online: 8 OCT 2004
DOI: 10.1002/ana.410350612
Copyright © 1994 American Neurological Association
Annals of Neurology
Volume 35, Issue 6, pages 709–716, June 1994
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How to Cite
Hublin, C., Kaprio, J., Partinen, M., Koskenvuo, M., Heikkila, K., Koskimies, S. and Guilleminault, C. (1994), The prevalence of narcolepsy: An epidemiological study of the Finnish Twin Cohort. Ann Neurol., 35: 709–716. doi: 10.1002/ana.410350612
Publication History
- Issue published online: 8 OCT 2004
- Article first published online: 8 OCT 2004
- Manuscript Accepted: 16 NOV 1993
- Manuscript Revised: 27 OCT 1993
- Manuscript Received: 19 JUN 1993
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We investigated the prevalence of narcolepsy using a well-defined white population previously used for epidemiological investigations: the Finnish Twin Cohort. The Cohort consists of 13,888 monozygotic and dizygotic twin pairs born before 1958. There were 16,179 individuals who participated in the study, with a 77.3% response rate. The study methodolgy included a questionnaire covering sleep and alertness, the Ullanlinna Narcolepsy Scale (UNS), a scale specifically developed and tested for the study, telephone interviews, and finally, clinical evaluation, polygraphic recording, and HLA blood typing. Seventy-five subjects were selected for telephone interviews and laboratory evaluations based on data from both questionnaires. Five of them were strongly suspected of narcolepsy, but laboratory data identified only 3. All were dizygotic (fraternal) twins discordant for the disease with a negative family history and presence of DR2 DQw1 (i.e., DRw15 DQw6, new World Health Organization classification). The prevalence of narcolepsy in the Finnish population is 0.026% (95% confidence interval, 0.0–0.06). This prevalence is lower than that reported in studies performed without polygraphic recording and is close to that reported in 1945 in the black U.S. population. The tools developed to perform this study, the largest population study of its kind yet performed, can now be used for other population investigations.


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We've given you three days to watch last week's How I Met Your Mother, "Right Place Right Time," and we no longer feel guilty about discussing the surprise ending. Sarah Chalke reprised her role as Stella.
In his latest spoiler column, Ausiello confirms that Stella is not the mom. I mean, duh, they showed what Ted's kids would have looked like if he married Stella.
However, Carter Bays did tell him that, "We haven't talked to her or her people about it yet, but there's something very exciting about next season [involving Stella] that will sort of be alluded to in next week's episode."
Bays continues, "We're excited to see how it'll play out next season."
As far as next episode goes, Bays teases, "It's a real good, classic How I Met Your Mother. There are a few episodes of this show that, when we were shooting it, felt like an old movie. You just want to put it in black and white. Next week's episode felt like one of those."


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