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Antitrust and Consumer Law
As the importance of consumer and antitrust law grows, the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies readies today's lawyers for the challenges of tomorrow with a deep and broad curriculum, externship opportunities, and a unique Student Fellowship Program for JD and graduate students at Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
This course treats in depth many aspects of the Sherman and Clayton Acts. Emphasis is placed on an understanding of the policies and objectives underlying the antitrust laws and the extent to which enforcement of the antitrust laws has fulfilled those objectives. Areas examined include monopolies, price fixing, division of markets, exclusive dealing arrangements, boycotts, resale price maintenance, and mergers. Recent trends in sports and health care industry antitrust cases may be discussed. The impact of economic analysis in the antitrust area is also examined. (Sennett, Waller)
This course will cover the full range of antitrust issues affecting the activities of all participants in the healthcare field, including different types of healthcare service providers (hospitals, physicians, and ancillary service providers), payors (government and commercial), and suppliers of products to providers and their patients. Following an introduction to the antitrust laws generally, the course will specifically address the competitive issues posed by mergers and joint ventures involving competing healthcare providers or payors, the formation and operation of provider networks (including Accountable Care Organizations) and managed care contracting, the activities of trade associations and group purchasing organizations, medical staff privileges and credentialing, single firm conduct, and specific statutory provisions (e.g., Robinson-Patman Act), exemptions and immunities.
This seminar focuses on the interface between Intellectual Property (IP) and antitrust law. Patents, copyrights and trademarks and other IP regimes confer exclusionary rights. Exclusive rights provide incentives and serve other ends, but their exercise can also impede competition distort otherwise competitive markets. This seminar will address the intersection of IP and Antitrust with respect to issues such as standard setting, licensing, corporate strategy, product design, efforts to increase market share and mergers and acquisitions.
Prerequisite: Intellectual Property, Copyright or Antitrust Law or instructor permission
The course surveys consumer law from a transactional perspective, beginning with issues of deception, including false advertising, related to consumer purchases. There is coverage of the law of consumer credit, including issues of discrimination, overpriced credit and deceptive credit practices, and standard form contracts of adhesion and recent Supreme Court rulings covering binding arbitration and class actions. Consumer remedies and special issues of consumer fraud on the Internet complete course coverage. The course is especially recommended for students interested in public interest law. (Amato)
The course will cover the elements necessary to implement a basic compliance and ethics program in a company. Students will become familiar with the basic principles of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines that define an "effective" compliance program. Students will learn the fundamentals of the job of Chief Compliance Officer by working with compliance issues in the media, commercially available compliance training programs and compliance techniques used in major corporations.
The emergence of the Internet and digital technologies that enhance human abilities to access, store, manipulate, and transmit information has brought with it a host of new legal issues that lawyers preparing to practice in the 21st century will need to understand and address. This survey course will introduce and explore specific problems in applying law to issues arising on the Internet. Topics expected to be covered include the bounds of jurisdiction, privacy, governance and regulation, online commercial transactions, content protection (through intellectual property, contract, and technological means), and cybercrime. There are no prerequisites. Grades for the course will be based on a take home exam and class participation. (Das)
The course is an introduction to the law of intellectual property. This course is a pre-requisite for advanced courses in IP, but also a good survey of the area for students interested in pursing other legal careers. The focus of the course is on understanding the distinctions and similarities between the various aspects of intellectual property law. The predominate focus on the course is on trademark, patent and copyright law (in about equal proportions), with some attention also devoted to the law of trade secrets. No technical background is expected or required. (Ho, Das)
This a unique course offered once a year to a select group of students from Loyola and Chicago-Kent. Enrolled students read and discuss draft articles of nationally renowned professors in the field of intellectual property; the articles are typically draft law review articles. The discussions are focused on helping the professors to refine and improve their articles, such that a strong foundation of intellectual property is expected, even though there is no official pre-requisite. This course meets every week, but the students only meet in person roughly half the time, with the other half of the sessions done by videoconference. Three of the in-person classes will be at Chicago-Kent; for those days, the class will begin at 4:10 pm and end by 5:50pm to allow students adequate travel time. There is no final exam or research project required for this class. Instead, students are required to attend and actively participate in all classes. Students are selected based on an application that is available at www.chicagoip.com.
Perspective Elective
This seminar will begin with a brief baseline description of some of the most significant features of United States labor and employment law. Comparative materials will then cover the basic employment laws of Canada and Mexico. We will then look at the regional regime established in the NAFTA labor side accords. Next we will move to Europe to study the employment laws of the United Kingdom, Germany and France, followed by the regional employment laws generated by the European Union. Following that, we will look at the employment laws of Japan, China and India. The final focus of the seminar will be on International labor law, particularly the International Labor Organization. (Zimmer)
Perspective Elective
An introduction to the legal aspects of international business. The course emphasizes the legal problems associated with international trade in goods and foreign direct investment, and covers regulation at the private, national, and international levels, and also may include an extended treatment of international litigation problems and/or the role of the multinational enterprise in world business. (Haney, Heard, Moses, Walker)
This course is designed to familiarize the students with the regulatory system of international trade. Through the materials discussed in the course, focusing on the case law and jurisprudence of the WTO/GATT, the course is aimed at understanding the institutional framework of that system and the ways in which it functions. In addition the course deals with a large number of substantive issues on the international trade agenda.
While the course is focused on legal theory and doctrine of international trade, we will approach each and every topic from economic and social perspectives. Thus, the course is designed to follow a truly interdisciplinary tour of the relevant subject-matter.
The issues covered in the course include: Theory and Policy of International Trade; The Legal Structure of the GATT/WTO System; Dispute Settlement; The Most-Favored-Nation (MFN) Principle; Multilateralism and Regionalism; The National Treatment Clause; Escape Clauses and Safeguards; Article XX Exceptions and whether they include human rights rationales for deviating from otherwise binding obligations; Dumping and Antidumping Law; Subsidies and Countervailing Duties; Trade and Intellectual Property Rights: the TRIPS Agreement and access to essential medicines in particular; Trade in Services: the GATS; Trade and the environment; as well as Trade and development. (Gathii)
This course focuses on the application of economic principles to legal analysis. The course provides an introduction to basic economic principles and math concepts. (Langenfeld, Ramirez)
This course will introduce students to the issues that arise in merger and acquisition transactions. Students will study the legal framework within which m&a transactions and the negotiation and documentation of such transactions take place. Students will analyze the considerations involved in selecting various structural alternatives for m&a transactions, examine the dynamics of the m&a transaction negotiation process, investigate the various stages of m&a transactions and focus on the lawyer's role in adding value to such transactions. Students will also have the opportunity to study, evaluate, draft and/or negotiate various types of documents that are commonly encountered in m&a transactions (such as, confidentiality agreements, employee retention agreements, investment banker engagement letters, letters of intent and purchase and sale agreements). There will be a take-home final examination. Students taking this class would benefit by having previously taken Business Organizations and Securities Regulation; these classes are not, however, required to take the course. (Slaughter)


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Mick Fanning didn't wrap up the 2013 world title in Portugal, but he did wrap this turn. So much for consolation prizes.
How long until this paint job starts surfacing at your homebreak? John John Florence and his signature spin.
Jacob Wilcox beat Kelly Slater in Round 1 at the Rip Curl Pro in Peniche. Suffice to say, the young Aussie was on a natural high.
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TUCSON, Ariz. – Madi Kingdon recorded a match-high 17 kills to go with 12 digs and three service aces to lift Arizona (17-8, 7-6 Pac-12) to a 3-0 (25-18, 25-14, 26-24) sweep over Washington State (16-11, 3-11 Pac-12) on Thursday night inside the McKale Center.
The Wildcats continue to impress at home as they improved their record to 13-1 on the season inside the McKale Center. In addition, they are now a perfect 5-0 at home in Pac-12 play.
Arizona hit a solid .266 for the match, while holding Washington State to just a .110 attack efficiency. The Wildcats are now 15-2 on the season when hitting over .200 in a match. Arizona out-dug Washington State, 40-31 but the Cougars did finish with a 10.0 to 6.0 advantage in blocks.
In addition to Kingdon's 11th double-double of the season, Penina Snuka recorded her league-best 13th double-double of the year as she dished out 35 assists to go along with 11 digs. Jane Croson also finished with double-figure digs as she added 12 to go with six kills. Taylor Arizobal had eight kills and Halli Amaro recorded seven kills on .417 hitting for the Cats.
The Wildcats jumped out of the gate by reeling off the first four points of the opening set. Arizona remained in control as it pushed the lead to 10-4, forcing Washington State to burn a quick timeout. The timeout proved beneficial for the Cougars as they went on an 8-2 run to tie the score 13-13. The two teams battled to a 16-16 tie before Arizona went on a 6-0 run to take a comfortable 22-16 advantage. The Cats cruised to a 25-18 victory in the set behind seven kills from Kingdon. Arizona held Washington State to just a .022 attack percentage in the set.
Arizona got off to a quick start for the second straight set as the Wildcats took an 8-2 lead to start the frame, forcing the Cougars to burn an early timeout. Washington State could never cut into the lead as UA rolled to a 25-14 victory to take a 2-0 lead in the match. The Wildcats hit an impressive .467 in the set, while holding Washington State to just .171 hitting.
Washington State came out strong in the third set as the Cougars took a 6-2 advantage. However, Arizona responded with a 7-2 run to take a one-point lead. After some back and forth play with both teams battling to a 24-24 tie, the Wildcats got a kill from Kingdon followed by an attack error by WSU to clinch the set and match.
The Arizona defense frustrated Washington State's top offensive threat all night as Kyra Holt recorded just nine kills on
-.065 hitting. Jaicee Harris led the Cougars with 12 kills on the night.
The Wildcats return to action on Sunday as they host No. 3 Washington at 2 p.m. The match will air live on the Pac-12 Networks.
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Internet Explorer: Should You Stay or Should You Go?
French and German government agencies have told people they should ditch Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, at least temporarily, because of a security hole that hackers are thought to have exploited on recent cyberattacks against Google and other companies. What should you do?
Switching to an alternative Web browser like Firefox or Google Chrome is one possibility. For now, security companies like McAfee have only identified the latest security exploit as an Internet Explorer issue, but there's no guarantee that they won't find vulnerabilities in other browsers that were involved in the broad attack on Google and others.
Generally speaking, a browser switch is going to be a lot easier for an individual than it will be for corporate users, where IT policies often dictate which browser people use on their computers. Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant and security firm Sophos, said in a blog post Monday that companies may cause "more problems than it's worth by summarily switching browsers" because of the potential for employee confusion and Web site compatibility problems caused by the new software.
"My advice is to only switch from Internet Explorer if you really know what you are doing with the browser you're swapping to," Mr. Cluley said. "Otherwise it might be a case of 'better the devil you know.'"
For people who don't want to or can't move to another browser from Internet Explorer, they should upgrade to the latest version of the software, Internet Explorer 8. While that version of the browser is also technically vulnerable to the security flaw it contains features that minimize the threat, Microsoft says.
And if switching to IE 8 isn't an option, users with earlier versions of the browser, like IE 6, should adjust their security settings to "high," which also reduces the risk of running malicious code, Microsoft says. There's more in blog posts from Microsoft and McAfee describing the hack and precautions for users.
The Journal also posted a list of other common sense security tips on staying safe on the Internet.


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5 Surprising Things About Julianne Moore
From her years as Frannie/Sabrina on As the World Turns, through early film roles in Nine Months and The Hand that Rocks the Cradle, to unforgettable star turns in classics like Boogie Nights and The Kids Are All Right, and now, starring as Sarah Palin in Game Change on HBO, Julianne Moore inhabits the screen in such a natural way it's easy to feel you know her.
But as WebMD learned when we sat down with her in her Greenwich Village apartment for her WebMD the Magazine cover story, a few things might surprise you about the flame-haired four-time Academy Award nominee and mom of two:
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1. She falls off the exercise wagon.
"This summer I couldn't get myself to do anything. We have a place on Long Island and I'd take my paddleboard out, and I'd get in the pool and splash around, but that was it. So there will be a couple of months here and there where I'll just stop working out."
2. She's scared of skiing.
"I don't like balls, I don't like sports, I don't like to dive into the water or ski fast," she says. "My husband [director Bart Freundlich] loves snowboarding, and so do my son and daughter, but I'm terrified. Every year we go, and I spend the day with the instructor. My second or third year, I got on skis and I just had a panic attack. So Bart got me and shuffled me out of the line and calmed me down and got me through it. But I'm not afraid of the dark, and I like scary movies. Bart's afraid of spiders, so I pick up the spiders in our house."
3. She nursed her kids past a year.
"In fact, I had only one working boob with Liv," she says (daughter Liv is now 9 and son Caleb is 13). "With my son, one breast never functioned as well as the other, but then with Liv, I just had one superboob. And of course then they prefer that one, and there you are. So when I was at the Oscars that year, I had one whole kind of massive fake thing in my dress to even it out."
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Computex Taipei 2013 - Ok, so here I was at Computex thinking that I saw it all with a few multi-monitor setups, but we walked into the Sapphire room at Computex and they had a mind- and wallet-blowing 18-monitor setup.
The 18 monitors were running from three FirePro W9000 graphics cards, and it truly is a sight to behold. Seeing that many monitors setup together running from a single system was glorious, and makes me jealous of it. How do you think gaming would be on that many monitors? It would be hard, but it would look truly incredible and you'd probably get 3 FPS, too.


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Feb. 23, 2002
In the Bruins opening match of the UC Santa Barbara Tournament, UCLA defeated Cal Baptist 14-5. Natalie Golda led the Bruins with three goals. Robin Beauregard and Ashley Stachowski each scored a pair of goals in the win. Kelly Heuchan, Jessica Lopez, Kristyn Pulver, Leah Wilson, Eleanor Murphy, Maureen Flanagan and Thalia Munro also scored a goal in the match.
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In the seven seasons Walt Drenth has guided the Arizona State cross country program, the Sun Devils have established themselves as one of the premier teams in the west each year. Entering his eighth season at the helm of the distance corps, Drenth and his harriers have raced toward the front of the pack on both a national and conference level and again are poised to advance the growing history of the ASU cross country program.
Since 1996, the women have finished fourth or better in the conference five times, placed in the Top 3 four times at the west region meet and advanced to the national meet five times. The men also have fared well, placing in the Top 4 in the Pac-10 five times and in the Top 5 regionally four times.
What is more impressive about the program's rise to success was what happened prior to Drenth's arrival. Before 1996, ASU's women had never made a team appearance at nationals, never earned a national ranking and never produced an All-American. For good measure, the Sun Devil women had yet to finish higher than sixth at regionals since 1986 and had only mustered three finishes better than seventh at the Pac-10 meet.
Since taking the reins, the ASU women have made trips to the NCAA Championships five years in a row (1998-02) including a school-record sixth-place finish in 2000. They also have been regional runners-up twice and Pac-10 runners-up three times which all began in 1999, the same time the team was a stronghold in the national polls, including a program-best No. 3 in the 2001 season. They also began a streak of four years (1999-01) in which a Sun Devil earned All-America honors (Priscilla Hein in 1998, Kelly MacDonald in 1999 and Lisa Aguilera in 2000 and 2001).
The revival of ASU's men's program is no less impressive. Like the women's program, the men had never made a team appearance at nationals, had never earned a national ranking, had finished higher than seventh at the Pac-10 Championships only three times and higher than seventh at regionals only once prior to 1996.
The Sun Devils made their first appearance at nationals in 1999, finishing 14th with Fasil Bizuneh becoming the third All-American in school history with a 19th-place finish. Bizuneh added a 22nd-place finish at the 2001 national meet to claim his second All-America honor. The Sun Devils were ranked for the first time in 1999, staying in the polls all year and climbing as high as ninth. At regionals, the Sun Devils smashed the school record in 1999, finishing third, including an individual school record second-place finish by Isaiah Festa. In the Pac-10 meet, ASU has established a school record with fourth-place finishes each of the last three years, including 2000, only to see that fall when the host Sun Devils took second in 2001.
"I went out and recruited Coach Drenth for this position with the vision of ASU cross country becoming a conference and national contender," said ASU head track and field coach Greg Kraft. "That's exactly what has happened. He obviously is one of the hardest working and most knowledgeable middle distance/distance coaches in the country."
With the All-Americans gone from the women's side and young squads on both fronts, Drenth found a winning combination in 2002. The women set school records for lowest points at the Pac-10 Championships (59) to take second place before finishing second at the regional meet with 70 points. The squad, made of mainly freshmen and sophomores, advanced to the NCAA Championships where they captured 23rd place. Jessica Scalzo, a true freshman, earned Pac-10 Newcomer of the Year honors while Amy Hastings, another rookie, placed 20th overall and was the fastest American finisher at the 2003 World Junior Cross Country Championships.
As his teams steadily improved, several firsts for the program became reality. Prior to his arrival, ASU had two All-Americans total between the men (2) and women (0). Not only did he guide the program's first female All-American, he also mentored the first two-time winners for both genders in Aguilera and Bizuneh. Aguilera also was the first Sun Devil harrier to be named Pac-10 Athlete of the Year (2000) and NCAA West Region Athlete of the Year (2000). Scalzo (2002) and J.J. Duke (2001) also earned the program's first Pac-10 Newcomer of the Year awards. Before 1996, six Sun Devils have earned all-conference. Since then, 14 student-athletes have earned 17 selections to the first or second team.
Drenth also has made an impact on the track at ASU. In his tenure, 12 school records in distance events have been established with several of them having been set multiple times. He also has molded the Sun Devils into a force in the 3,000m steeplechase. The Pac-10 added the event to its championship meet three years ago with MacDonald winning the inaugural race and Aguilera taking the next two. Jeremy Rasmussen also won a title on the men's side, giving ASU four of six possible titles. He also has guided his athletes to three other conference crowns. On a national stage, Drenth has seen 14 All-American finishes on the tracks, including Aguilera (steeple) and Desiree Davila (5,000m) in 2003.
In the classroom, the ASU women have also showed improvement. Aguilera led the way with Verizon Academic All-America honors in 2000 (first team) and 2001 (second) in cross country and in 2001 (third) and 2003 (second) in track. She joined Garrett Jensen (second in 2000) as the first national academic award winners for the Sun Devils.
During Drenth's tenure at ASU, 14 of his student-athletes have earned a spot on the first or second-team Pac-10 All-Academic squads and combined for 20 honors. From 1997 through 2002, the women's cross country teams were named Academic All-America squads by the Women's Intercollegiate Cross Country Coaches Association and in 2000 and `01, the women compiled the highest cumulative GPA for any women's team on campus while the men did the same in 2000.
Such success may be new to ASU, but not to Drenth, who has been a head cross country coach for 16 seasons. He has been honored as a conference coach of the year nine times (including back-to-back Pac-10 women's honors in 1999 and 2000) and district coach of the year four times, while taking nine teams to the NCAA Championships, and capturing seven conference championships and two district crowns. In addition, he has tutored six cross country All-Americans and 18 All-Americans on the track.
Before coming to Tempe, Drenth led the William & Mary Tribe to five Colonial Athletic Association cross country titles and two track and field crowns in six years (1990-95). He was named CAA Cross Country Coach of the Year on five occasions, including each of his last four seasons in Williamsburg. He also was tabbed as District II Coach of the Year in 1990 and 1995. W&M was the District II champion in cross country in 1990.
Drenth's harriers also fared well at the NCAAs. The Tribe took 15th at the national meet in 1990, finished 18th in 1994 and placed 17th in 1995. Drenth tutored two All-America harriers in Paul Vandegrift in 1990 and Steven Swift in 1991. On the track, Drenth led W&M to two CAA titles, in 1992 and 1993. He tutored five All-America distance runners in his six seasons in Williamsburg, including 1991 NCAA 1,500 meter runner-up Vandegrift. One of Drenth's other All-Americas, Brian Hyde, represented the U.S. in the 1,500m at the 1995 World Championships and the 1996 Olympic Games. Drenth has coached four additional Olympic Trials qualifiers. He also coached three IC4A champions and three runners-up.
Prior to his stint at W&M, Drenth was the head cross country coach and assistant track coach at his alma mater, Central Michigan University, from 1985-90. He was named District IV Coach of the Year in 1989 after leading CMU to the District IV title. He led the Chippewas to two Mid-American Conference titles, in 1988 and 1989 and was named MAC Cross Country Coach of the Year both years. Drenth also led CMU to three successive Central Collegiate Conference titles from 1987-89, and was selected Central Collegiate Cross Country Coach of the Year all three years. He coached two All-Americas on the track.
Before heading back to CMU, Drenth was an assistant coach at two Michigan high schools, Charlevoix and Ypsilanti.
He earned his bachelor's degree in psychology and political science from CMU in 1981 and his master's in physical education from CMU in 1990. Drenth and his wife, Cara, have two children, Emma and Gerrit.


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Ames Laboratory is taking its show on the road, so to speak, from December 2010 through April 2011 as a coalition partner in the prestigious "Making Stuff†program.
Making Stuff is a four-part PBS prime-time television series from the award-winning producers of NOVA, developed in partnership with the Materials Research Society. Slated to begin airing on January 19, the series will present dramatic stories about the materials that are transforming our world. "Making Stuff" will show how materials have changed history and are continuing to shape our future.
Ames Laboratory is one of only 20 sites around the country selected to be Making Stuff coalition partners. To become a coalition member, the Lab wrote a proposal, which included finding partner organizations that were willing to cooperate on Making Stuff educational outreach events. Some of those partners include the Science Center of Iowa, Science Bound, Valley West Mall, Ames Public Library, Ames and Des Moines Public Schools, and the Iowa State University chapter of the Materials Research Society and Material Advantage.
The Lab's first outreach event will be held on Thursday, Dec. 16 in cooperation with the Science Center of Iowa. Tom Lograsso, division director of the Lab's Materials Sciences and Engineering program, will present a Café Scientifique on rare-earth materials (details below). The event is free and open to the public. Lograsso's Café Scientifique presentation will be one of two the Lab has planned in cooperation with the Science Center of Iowa.
In addition, the ISU MRS chapter will be providing hands-on science activities for numerous interactive outreach events at malls, schools and other venues. One of those is slated for Feb. 22 from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m. at Valley West Mall in West Des Moines. This event will also be free and open to the public. To see a full schedule of events, click here.
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Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011
Valley West Mall
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For more information on Making Stuff go to: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/education/making-stuff.html


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Richard Prince Wins Appeal; Court Overturns Infringement Ruling
A federal appeals court has ruled that artist Richard Prince did not infringe photographer Patrick Cariou's copyrights by reproducing several dozen of Cariou's images without permission. The appeals court said 25 out of 30 works by Prince at the center of the dispute made fair use of Cariou's photographs.
The decision reversed a lower court ruling that held Prince liable for infringement.
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Fall Camp Central is your official source for the Crimson Tide as they prepare for the 2014 football season.
With practice reports, photo galleries, exclusive videos, special features, one-on-one interviews with the players, and live broadcasts of Coach Saban's press conferences, you'll go inside Fall Camp with the Tide like no where else.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - The football team practiced for roughly 90 minutes Friday afternoon in shells at the Thomas-Drew Practice Fields with the first game of the season just eight days away.
Today's workout marked the 23th of 28 practices leading up to the season opener against West Virginia on Aug. 30, at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. The Chick-fil-A Kickoff game is slated for a 2:30 p.m. (CDT) kickoff on ABC/ESPN2.
Temperatures reached the upper 90s with the heat index topping out at 102 degrees. Alabama will be in full pads on Saturday before taking Sunday off and starting game-week preparations on Monday.
The coaches All-SEC team was released by the conference office late Thursday with seven players on the first team, including Landon Collins, Amari Cooper, Trey Depriest, O.J. Howard, Christion Jones, Arie Kouandjio and A'Shawn Robinson. T.J. Yeldon was on the second team, while Ryan Kelly and Austin Shepherd were named to the third team.
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I am self-studying Euclidean Geometry, and I want to solve the following exercise.
Let $ABCD$ a trapezoid with bases $AB, CD$, and $AC, BD$ are the lateral sides. If $E$ is the point of intersection of its diagonals, then we have $$\sqrt{A(ABCD)} =\sqrt{A(ABE)}+ \sqrt{A(CDE)}$$ where $A(ABCD)$ denotes de area of the trapezoid $ABCD$, $A(ABE)$ denotes the area of the triangle $ABE$ and so on.
I was not able to prove that. I would appreciate any help.


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In early 2012, hedge fund assets under management (AuM) surpassed $2 trillion globally, exceeding for the first time the precrisis peak of $1.9 trillion observed in late 2007. Institutional investors seeking absolute returns have been the primary drivers of this growth. Compound annual growth rates of around 15 percent are expected though 2015, lifting hedge fund AuM to about $3.3 trillion. Moreover, convergence is expected to take hold, putting hedge fund managers and traditional asset managers in competition for the same pool of assets.
The shift of the hedge fund investor base toward institutions, combined with recent regulatory changes, has had some notable consequences: investors are expecting their hedge funds to bring to the table higher levels of transparency, lower levels of operational risk, less complexity, and strong reputations. Operational due diligences are increasingly becoming the norm among institutional investors.
It is against this backdrop that the hedge fund industry has reached an inflection point. Indeed, as the alternative-investments industry matures and becomes more competitive, consistent returns will no longer suffice. Investors are demanding that solid returns be accompanied by a robust operating model and a lower overall risk profile. A world class operating model will become a source of competitive advantage.
Of course, hedge fund managers can pursue this goal in many ways, including investing in world class core infrastructure, adopting solutions based on application service providers, making use of prime-brokerage relationships, and outsourcing aggressively. There is no one-size-fits-all solution for better operational performance and a brighter future. Yet the key challenge that most hedge funds face today is creating an operating model that is aligned with the fund's strategic vision and flexible enough to enable the front office to evolve along critical dimensions. These dimensions include AuM growth, asset class mix, trading strategy, trading volume, investment vehicles (such as separately managed accounts, or SMAs), products (such as 40-Act and UCITS), and geographic expansion.
Fortunately, there are steps that hedge funds can take to build such an operating model and put themselves on a strong, positive trajectory. But first, it is important to understand how the industry has evolved in recent years.
Beginning around 2000, institutional investors—insurers, pension funds, corporations, governments, and other entities—began to aggressively increase their allocation to hedge funds. They saw hedge funds as good vehicles for delivering risk-adjusted returns and enhancing investors' ability to control portfolio volatility. These institutional mandates differed from those of high-net-worth (HNW) individuals, who sought outsize returns on what they had already set aside as risk capital. Over time, institutional assets overtook HNW assets as the primary source of hedge fund assets and growth.
Hedge funds initially responded to this "institutionalization" by adapting their investment and service strategies to meet client demands. For example, some hedge funds expanded the availability of SMAs and accepted the process of working with investment consultants as intermediaries. By 2010, however, the financial crisis had ushered in a new level of scrutiny both from institutional investors and regulators. Thus began the current era in which institutional investors must focus not just on risk-adjusted returns and volatility but also on effectively managing operational risk.
A recent survey conducted by SEI Knowledge Partnership and Greenwich Associates found that 70 percent of institutional investors reported lack of transparency as their greatest worry (up from 56 percent in 2009). The Alternative Investment Management Association confirmed this trend, revealing that 90 percent of hedge fund respondents to a different survey reported greater investor demands for transparency as a top concern. Moreover, as scrutiny increased, hedge funds expanded in size and complexity, with many outgrowing legacy operating models. Currently, hedge funds with more than $1 billion in AuM represent less than 20 percent of all hedge funds—but they hold 90 percent of hedge fund assets. (See the exhibit below.) Since such funds are driving a disproportionate share of industry growth, this concentration of assets is expected to increase.
As the height of the crisis faded further into the past, funds that had survived by remaining relatively small found themselves hitting size and complexity thresholds that required more sophisticated infrastructure and more rigorous management. Institutional investors began demanding not only greater transparency but also robust operations and strong risk management. Ultimately, the institutionalization of the hedge fund investor base signaled a far-reaching need to significantly upgrade the industry's infrastructure.
Obviously, the need for more-robust operations, higher levels of transparency, and stronger infrastructure is not new to most hedge-fund managers. Nonetheless, we have seen many managers surprised by the present inadequacy and inefficiency of their own operational setups. Many hedge-fund chief operating officers face serious difficulties in ensuring that their back and middle offices are capable of the following:
Supporting current trading strategies and being able to introduce new asset classes without adding operational risk
Absorbing a 50 percent (at minimum) spike in volume
Delivering the transparency and reporting required by clients and regulators (either directly or through administrators)
Operating efficiently in terms of people, processes, and technology costs
Providing seamless connection to the front office in order to minimize operational risks (such as erroneous trades)
Challenges such as these are increasingly giving hedge fund managers reason to pause and take hard looks at their operating models. They realize that these weaknesses are increasing the likelihood of failures that could put their entire organizations at risk. Managers are asking themselves what the financial and reputational cost would be of an error on a multimillion-dollar trade or on a net asset value or fee calculation. They are even wondering what the consequences would be if they were unable to trade for a full day—a less likely scenario but one that we have nonetheless observed in the past.
As management teams discuss the impact of these types of potential operational failures—and the growing probability that they could occur—they will see a clear need for action.
The first step in the journey toward a better operating model is to clearly define the strategic vision for your fund—"What does the fund want to be when it grows up?"—and to place your answer within the context of implications for the back and middle offices. You will have to take a detailed look at what is working and what is not working in your operations. This strategic lens, along with input from your clients, will help you make the leap from planning incremental changes that don't really accomplish much to planning a broad transformation program that will create true competitive advantage.
Once aligned on the strategic vision (the "what"), you will then need to define the "how" by analyzing key target operating-model decisions. These choices will vary by fund but they typically include the following:
Scope/Configuration. How deeply do you need to transform standard operations functions such as back office, valuation, and cash and collateral management? What needs to happen to more complex middle-office functions such as risk analytics and client reporting? And what about front-office operations and infrastructure (for trade execution, for example)?
Sourcing/Technology. What is the more appropriate approach—building a brand new solution from scratch or choosing avenues such as vendor solutions and outsourcing?
People/Organization. Do you have the right people in place to preside over the transformation and run the new operating solution once it has been rolled out? If not, how can you acquire and retain the talent you need in your organization?
What does a world class hedge-fund back office look like? Again, there is no one-size-fits-all answer. There are, however, a set of capabilities that virtually all winning models share:
Agility. The ability to add new asset classes and make strategic moves in a very short time frame
Flexibility. The capacity to customize operations within existing systems without having to reengineer processes
Fast Access to Data. The ability to access, manipulate, and analyze data at any point across the organization—front office, client services, sales, back office, and middle office—and to do this in real time (or close to it)
Automation. The ability to use straight-through processing for simpler operations and end-to-end workflow for more complex ones
Integration. The ability to ensure seamless system and data integration throughout the front office, middle office, and back office
Standardization. Internally, the ability to run basic processes in a consistent way; externally, the ability to communicate with the investment community in a fashion that is consistent with industry standards
Once the "how" has been established for achieving the envisioned target operating model, hedge fund managers need to define a migration path for getting from point A to point B. For some, this journey will be short and relatively straightforward. But for most, the transformation will be a longer, more winding road. For large, complicated funds with legacy technology and processes to cope with, a true transformation is typically a 12- to 36-month endeavor involving stakeholders from across the organization.
What differentiates hedge funds that have successfully reworked their operating models to adapt to the increasing demands of institutional investors from those that have lagged behind? These are some of the main attributes:
Commitment from the Top. True transformation requires substantial resources (both financial and human) and involves major issues that mandate the support and hands-on participation of senior management.
Cooperation Among Departments. The change program also requires substantial support from internal clients—such as those in the front office and the sales force—who will need to feel that they are a part of shaping the new solution and that the solution will create value for them.
Client Communication. The upgrading of operations and infrastructure will be a major attribute in the eyes of institutional clients. Still, there will likely be bumps in the road. It will be critical to clearly communicate with clients about the elements and timing of the transformation program and manage their expectations along the way.
Keeping a Business-Driven Focus. The quest for a new operating model is a business endeavor enabled by technology, not the reverse. Key roles and decisions, especially in defining and implementing the new model, should therefore be driven by the business.
Using Your A-Team. For a project of this scope, each hedge fund will need its very best resources. If you feel you lack seasoned executive capability for a large-scale transformation, you will need to look outside the organization to find the help that you require.
Forging Beneficial Partnerships with Third Parties. Whatever solution you choose to pursue, you will likely need to lean heavily on third-party vendors. They will be critical to your success. Finding the right partners should be a top priority.
Given the current operational and cost challenges in the hedge fund industry, now is the time for leading funds to design and implement an operating model that will bring true competitive advantage. Players that fail to tackle operational challenges will find themselves under severe pressure from investors and regulators. They may also have to cope with a loss of investor confidence and a loss of talent as top staff move to more advantaged platforms.
Yet hedge funds that are willing to invest—to define their vision and cascade that vision into a scalable and flexible operating model—will be well equipped to handle changing market and investor dynamics. These players will be positioned to turn a very tall challenge into an opportunity to become market leaders.
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How to Install Read and Write 11
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- Text reading in quality computerized voices.
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- An MP3 converter to convert text into files for later playback in an MP3 player.
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- A pronunciation tutor, fact-finding tool, fact mapping graphic organizer tool.
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1) To make sure you have what you need, check to see if you have these two programs installed on your computer*.
a) Adobe Acrobat Reader
b) Microsoft .NET Framework 4
2) Navigate to mymtech.mtech.edu
a) Access the MyMtech webpage provided on the Montana Tech home page located in the top right hand corner.
b) Sign In to your account using your MyMtech login located in the top right hand corner.
3) Once you are signed in, select the tab labeled "Read Write Gold" This will take you to a second tab.
a) Select the "RWG PC Setup Files" link to start downloading the necessary files.
i) Download both the Setup.exe file and the Setup.ini file to your computer. Save them to a location that will be easily accessible.
ii) Browse to the location where you saved the Setup.exe and Setup.ini files. Double-click the Setup.exe file and click "Run" if you are prompted.
iii) The Read and Write 11 software installation wizard will begin. The installation time will vary depending on your computer.
4) Once the software installation is finished, an icon for the Read and Write 11 software will be created on your desktop as well as a Start Menu program called Texthelp. The Texthelp folder contains a shortcut to the Read and Write 11 software.
i) Launch the Read and Write 11 software by double-clicking the program icon created on your desktop or by choosing the Read&Write 11 program shortcut in the Start Menu under the Texthelp folder. You will be asked to activate the software before you begin using it. Click the "Activate" button to begin the Read and Write Set Up Wizard.
ii) The Read and Write Set Up Wizard will begin allowing you to customize the software setup to your tastes. On the first screen of the Set Up Wizard, click "Next" to proceed. If you wish to use the default settings for Read and Write 11, click the "Cancel" button. You can always change the settings later from within the program.
iii) The appearance of the Read and Write 11 toolbar is the first customization option you are presented with. Click the different radio buttons and see how the appearance of the toolbar changes with each option. Once you have chosen the desired appearance, click "Next" to proceed.
iv) You will now choose which buttons on the toolbar are visible. Click the different radio buttons and see how the features included on the toolbar change with each option. Once you have chosen the desired appearance, click "Next" to proceed.
v) You will now choose how the built-in dictionary with Read and Write 11 functions. Click the different radio buttons and see how the detail of the definition changes with each option. Once you have chosen the desired appearance, click "Next" to proceed.
vi) You will now choose how the built-in speech feature of Read and Write 11 works. You can choose between a female or male voice and the speed at which the voice reads a word or sentence. You can also choose to have every word spoken as you type it. Click the different radio buttons to switch between female and male voices. Slide the bar to adjust the speed of the voice. Click the "Speak" button to listen to the changes you have selected and listen to how they change with each option. Once you have chosen the desired speech settings, click "Next" to proceed.
b) Finally, you will chose a default search engine that will be used by the Fact Finder feature included in Read and Write 11. You can choose between different search engines by clicking the drop-down arrow and selecting from the list. Once you have chosen the desired default search engine, click the "Finish" button to begin using Read and Write 11.
5) The Read and Write toolbar will now launch and you can begin using the program.
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London. 3,000 tubes, 1,500 double-decker busses, the Eurostar, the Javelin shuttle and several ferries on the Thames all have two things in common: they are all fitted with Voith technology and will ensure that millions of spectators and over 10,000 athletes get safely and soundly where they want to go during the Olympic Games.
Voith drive technology as well as various technical services for numerous busses and trains will make a key contribution to smoothly running traffic systems operating around the Olympic Games over the next few weeks.
Getting quickly and safely from one venue to the next
A sophisticatedly planned traffic concept for visitors was one aspect of the bid for this major event. Busses and trains are already the most important means of transport for London's eight million inhabitants and are at the heart of the city's local public transport system. Around 1,500 red double-decker busses are fitted with Voith DIWA automatic transmissions. Voith is also involved at four bus depots in the daily maintenance and cleaning – inside and outside – of around 600 busses. Couplings "Made by Voith" secure the mechanical, electrical and pneumatic connections of all 3,000 of London's world famous tubes. Several Thames ferries in the southern district of Woolwich are powered by Voith-Schneider propellers. Diverse components such as the drives, cooling systems or couplings of local and long-distance trains are also serviced in Voith service centers in Croydon and Greenford.
What is more, Voith technology not only ensures smooth-running local passenger transport, the "Javelin" shuttle, the UK's first high-speed train and the Eurostar – which brings visitors from Paris or Brussels through the Channel Tunnel to London – are also fitted with Voith couplings and other products.
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Caldwell helps exonerees pick up the pieces after prison
By: Deirdre Kennedy
In Lewis Towers' Regents Hall, a blues band tears through the last notes of "Freedom," their signature song. The audience claps and cheers, but they can't grasp the meaning of the song quite the way the band itself can.
The members of the Exoneree Band were all convicted of crimes and served time in prison - then later cleared and declared innocent. Between them, the members of the Exoneree Band have served 87 years in prison, some on death row. And some of the members have one woman to thank for their new lives.
Laura Caldwell is a civil litigation lawyer and the author of 14 novels and one non- fiction book, but her largest influence is not on the best-seller lists. In 2009, she founded the Life After Innocence Program, which works to help wrongfully imprisoned individuals regain control of their lives and re-enter society after prison.
"She is trying to leave her mark on this earth," says one of her exonerees, Jarrett Adams.
Taking a moment to regroup after the successful fundraising concert for her cause, Caldwell spoke candidly about the project she created. She became interested in the topic when she represented Jovan Mosley, who had been wrongfully imprisoned for six years. Eventually Mosley was declared not guilty, but his struggles did not end there. Once out of jail, he had virtually no resources to get his life back on track. "He started out with nothing and I was just so taken by how hard it was for these exonerees to start over," said Caldwell.
Caldwell explained that an exoneree is someone who is charged with a crime, convicted of that crime, convicted of that crime, does prison time, and is later shown to be innocent. "We looked at Illinois in general and noticed that we have more wrongful convictions than any state in the union. More than Texas," Caldwell said. Once exonerated, there are few services to help the former prisoners.
In Illinois and the rest of the country there are innocence projects dedicated to freeing wrongfully convicted persons. However, there had never been a project for helping the exonerees once they were out of jail. "Illinois is pretty good about having resources for parolees and ex-offenders. The same is not true if you're innocent," Caldwell said.
In 2009, Loyola University's Life After Innocence program, the first in the world, was born. According to the program's website, it helps those who have been negatively affected by the criminal justice system to re-enter society and reclaim their rights as citizens.
Life After Innocence, run by students and volunteers at Loyola, assists the exonerees in getting jobs, housing, financial aid, and more, according to Caldwell. "It's social acclimatization, it's litigation so that we're getting official declarations of innocence," she said.
Additionally, technology plays a large role for exonerees adjusting to life after prison. The clinic teaches them how to use laptops, e- mail, Google, and so on. "Everyone has such a hard time keeping up with technology in the everyday world—well, imagine what it would be like if you had been in jail for 10 years, or 25," said Caldwell
Perhaps what speaks the most about Caldwell's impact is the effect she has had on the exonerees' lives. Alton Logan, a 59-year- old exoneree involved with the program, was wrongfully imprisoned for over 25 years.
"They left me with nothing," he said about his experience after getting out of jail. Logan began working with Caldwell after his criminal attorney introduced them. "I met Laura, and I fell in love with her. I love her dedication," Logan continued. "She has no problem helping individuals if they honestly need help."
Jarrett Adams, 31, also had positive things to say about Caldwell. Adams was exonerated and released from prison in 2007 and is currently attending Loyola Law School. "The reason I'm at Loyola is because of Laura," Adams said. "Most people work to get where they want to be and then they become complacent. With her, it's not about that."
Adams knows that he has to work hard to make up for the years he lost in prison. "I'm 31, but I'm really 22 in the years they didn't take away from me," he said. "I would love to be in the club, you know, what do they call it? Poppin' bottles. But I'm in law school. And it's for a reason." Adams now wants to ensure that no one has to go through what he endured.
"I can't get my 21st birthday back," Adams said. "I can't get any of it back."
"My maxim is this: don't be pissed. Do something to piss them off," Adams said. He explained that getting his law degree is a way to break stereotypes:
"I'm showing you all that I'm totally not what you thought I was."
Adams' wrongful conviction motivates him to create a better future for himself. Caldwell's passion for the project lies in the unbreakable spirits of the exonerees. "They try so hard to be positive and grasp the present and take hold of it and be grateful for it," she said. "I love when I see them because I pick that up."
While the exonerees inspire her, she has a similar impact on them. "She showed us that we can have trust again," said Antoine Day, an exoneree who served ten years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of first- degree murder. He was released unceremoniously to the streets of Chicago, in the rain, wearing another prisoner's clothes because his had been lost.
"She took the time to help us regain things that are necessary for someone to move forward in life," Day continued. "It's an episode of my life that I'm excited about."
Caldwell's success in Chicago is just the beginning. According to The Innocence Network, other cities have followed her lead and created their own "after innocence" programs. Life After Innocence is also working with legislation to better the services given to people who are declared innocent, making those whose convictions are overturned more of a priority for government services.
Caldwell thinks it's a matter of raising awareness. "You come and spend time with these guys and you're just overwhelmed with this joy, this passion and this energy," she said. "It's cleansing and it's healing and it's just…it's amazing."
To learn more about Life After Innocence and its clients, visit us on the web at luc.edu/law/lifeafterinnocence.


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The Parthian Empire (247 BC – 224 CE), also known as the Arsacid Empire (Persian: اشکانیان) after the eponymous founder, was a major Iranian political and cultural power in the Ancient Near East. It was founded in the mid-3rd century BCE by Arsaces I of Parthia, leader of the Parni tribe, when he conquered the Parthia region ("roughly western Khurasan" in Iran's northeast), then a satrapy (province) in rebellion against the Greek Seleucid Empire. Mithridates I of Parthia (r. c. 171–138 BCE) greatly expanded the empire by seizing Media and Mesopotamia from the Seleucids.
At its height, the Parthian Empire stretched from the northern reaches of the Euphrates, in what is now eastern Turkey, to eastern Iran. The empire, located on the Silk Road trade route between the Roman Empire in the Mediterranean Basin and the Han Dynasty in China, quickly became a center of trade and commerce. The Parthians largely adopted the art, architecture, religious beliefs, and royal insignia of their culturally heterogeneous empire, which encompassed Hellenistic, Persian, and regional cultures.
For about the first half of its existence, the Arsacid court adopted Greek culture, though it eventually saw a gradual revival of Iranian traditions. The Arsacid rulers were titled the 'King of Kings', as a claim to be the heirs to the Achaemenid Empire; indeed, they accepted many local kings as vassals where the Achaemenids would have had centrally appointed, albeit largely autonomous, satraps. The court did appoint a small number of satraps, largely outside Iran, but these satrapies were smaller and less powerful than the Achaemenid potentates. With the expansion of Arsacid power, the seat of central government shifted from Nisa, Turkmenistan to Ctesiphon along the Tigris (south of modern Baghdad, Iraq), although several other sites also served as capitals.
The earliest enemies of the Parthians were the Seleucids in the west and the Scythians in the east. However, as Parthia expanded westward, they came into conflict with the Kingdom of Armenia, and eventually the late Roman Republic. Rome and Parthia competed with each other to establish the kings of Armenia as their subordinate clients. The Parthians soundly defeated Marcus Licinius Crassus at the Battle of Carrhae in 53 BCE, and in 40–39 BCE, Parthian forces captured the whole of the Levant, excepting Tyre, from the Romans.
However, Mark Antony led a counterattack against Parthia and several Roman emperors invaded Mesopotamia during the Roman-Parthian Wars. The Romans captured the cities of Seleucia and Ctesiphon on multiple occasions during these conflicts. Frequent civil war between Parthian contenders to the throne proved more dangerous than foreign invasion, and Parthian power evaporated when Ardashir I, ruler of Estakhr in Fars, revolted against the Arsacids and killed their last ruler, Artabanus IV, in 224 CE. Ardashir established the Sassanid Empire, which ruled Iran and much of the Near East until the Muslim conquests of the 7th century CE, although the Arsacid dynasty lived on through the Arsacid Dynasty of Armenia.
Native Parthian sources, written in Parthian, Greek and other languages, are scarce when compared to Sassanid and even earlier Achaemenid sources. Aside from scattered cuneiform tablets, fragmentary ostraca, rock inscriptions, drachma coins, and the chance survival of some parchment documents, much of Parthian history is only known through external sources. These include mainly Greek and Roman histories, but also Chinese histories prompted by the market for Chinese goods in Parthia. Parthian artwork is viewed by historians as a valid source for understanding aspects of society and culture that are otherwise absent in textual sources.
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247 BCE - 224 CEEmpire of the Parthians.
141 BCEPersis passes from Seleucid to Parthian domination.
129 BCEParthians conquer Mesopotamia. The Silk Road to China is now controlled by the Parthians.
100 BCECtesiphon becomes Parthian capital.
53 BCEBattle of Carrhae. Crassus is captured and executed by the Parthians.
195 CEFirst Parthian war.
197 CE - 198 CESecond Parthian war.
203 CEArch of Septimius Severus built in Rome to commemorate victories over the Parthians.
c. 211 CEArdashir, king (malakh) of Persis, revolts against the Parthians and founds the Sasanian Empire.
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I have a friend (yes, really ) who is taking his first tentative (bless him) steps into 'hi-fi'.
What he is looking for is a nice looking, decent sounding minimalistic mini / micro system that will allow him to play his iPod through his headphones and through speakers (ideally not built-in). He has a budget to about £ 4 - 500, new or second hand and has so far looked at the Pro-ject Dock Box (variable output), Head-Box, Pro-ject Amp (power) combination (because it looks right) with Q Acoustics speaks to give you a flavour.
Does anybody have anything different (or even similar) that they would like to sell.
Thanks for the help guys.


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Disrupting the Pathways to Cancer
Dr. Yolanda Sanchez is discovering novel compounds that shut down the molecular pathways leading to cancer
The mutated cells—cancer cells—ignore the normal signals, causing them to grow uncontrollably. But where does the communication fail?
In normal, non-cancerous cells, researchers have discovered many of the complex pathways that allow signals to be transmitted from outside the cell surface all the way into the cell's interior and nucleus, which houses the genes. The nucleus interprets a signal by turning on and off genes that create proteins to carry out the response to that signal. For example, if a cell receives the signal to divide, the nucleus interprets the signal by turning on the genes that make the proteins that drive cell division. Mutation of the pathway genes can lead to a faulty signal along these pathways. Some mutations short-circuit the pathway so that the signal to divide is stuck "on" inside the cell, which will ignore any signals from the outside. In recent years, scientists have been intensely studying chemical compounds that disrupt these complex signals when they go awry, which may lead to a new type of cancer drug.
One pathway, known as "RAS," is a major signaling pathway in cell growth and proliferation—and mutations in the RAS pathway are likely responsible for several different cancers. Dr. Yolanda Sanchez, an associate professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology at Dartmouth Medical School and Director of the Cancer Center's Molecular Biology Shared Resource, is refining our understanding of the RAS machinery to effectively shut down faulty signals in cancer. To accomplish this, Sanchez and her colleagues model cancer-associated mutations of the RAS pathway in common brewer's yeast cells, which have similar behavior to cancer cells. Specifically, Sanchez studies changes in the RAS pathway known to be associated with certain cancers. Called 'driver mutations,' these are "mutations that the cancer cell can't live without," explains Sanchez. The cancer cell must have these mutations to survive and uses them to disrupt cell growth, division, and death, which makes them 'immortal' and able to grow unchecked, as in a tumor.
Because yeast cells have similar pathways to human cells but divide more quickly, Sanchez can rapidly study many compounds that could disrupt the faulty RAS pathway by using "high throughput" screening tests to look for compounds that can inhibit cells with a faulty RAS signal. The beauty of these compounds—called "hits" in these screens—is that they don't affect the growth of normal cells, which makes them attractive starting points for new cancer therapeutics. The action of these compounds on the cell is "like hitting the red 'kill switch' on a motorcycle when you are in danger," Sanchez says. "This immediately kills the cell or shuts down its division."
Since 2006, Sanchez and her collaborators have screened approximately 11,000 compounds that could inhibit cells with this mutation to stop the growth of cancer. The trick is to find the most potent chemicals that inhibit the mutant cell, but not the normal cell. To date, Sanchez and her colleagues have narrowed their search to about 50 of the most potent molecular compounds in the yeast model. The same compounds are studied in human cells by their partners at the Children's Hospital Medical Center at the University of Cincinnati.
There are several cancers that could be targets for these compounds. Faulty RAS pathways play a "driver" role in cancers of the nervous system, pancreas, and lung, and right now there are no effective ways to treat those cancers. "The project's initial goal," Sanchez says, "is to identify molecules with the potential to be developed as the basis for cancer therapeutics."
Much more work remains for Sanchez and her colleagues. So far, the potent compounds discovered have shown great promise in the yeast and human cancer models. Because it is possible to identify specific mutations in tumors, "inhibiting cells with mutations in cancer pathways is expected to be far more effective and less toxic than currently available therapies based on cytotoxic agents that damage both the cancer and normal cells," Sanchez says. Her research and the work of others in this area are showing significant promise for developing potent effective anti-cancer therapy in the coming years.
April 15, 2010
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Scientists refer to this new region as a magnetic highway for charged particles because our sun's magnetic field lines are connected to interstellar magnetic field lines. This connection allows lower-energy charged particles that originate from inside our heliosphere, or the bubble of charged particles the sun blows around itself, to zoom out and allows higher-energy particles from outside to stream in. Before entering this region, the charged particles bounced around in all directions, as if trapped on local roads inside the heliosphere. The Voyager team infers this region is still inside our solar bubble because the direction of the magnetic field lines has not changed. The direction is predicted to change when Voyager breaks through to interstellar space. The new results were described at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco on Monday. "Although Voyager 1 still is inside the sun's environment, we now can taste what it's like on the outside because the particles are zipping in and out on this magnetic highway," said Edward Stone, Voyager project scientist based at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. "We believe this is the last leg of our journey to interstellar space. Our best guess is it's likely just a few months to a couple years away. The new region isn't what we expected, but we've come to expect the unexpected from Voyager." Since December 2004 when Voyager 1 crossed a point in space called the termination shock, the spacecraft has been exploring the heliosphere's outer layer, called the heliosheath. In this region, the stream of charged particles from the sun known as the solar wind abruptly slowed down from supersonic speeds and became turbulent. Voyager 1's environment was consistent for about five and a half years. 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Spacecraft data revealed the magnetic field became stronger each time Voyager entered the highway region; however, the direction of the magnetic field lines did not change. "We are in a magnetic region unlike any we've been in before -- about 10 times more intense than before the termination shock -- but the magnetic field data show no indication we're in interstellar space," said Leonard Burlaga, a Voyager magnetometer team member based at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "The magnetic field data turned out to be the key to pinpointing when we crossed the termination shock. And we expect these data will tell us when we first reach interstellar space." Voyager 1 and 2 were launched 16 days apart in 1977 and at least one of the spacecraft visited Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Voyager 1 is the most distant human-made object, about 11 billion miles (18 billion kilometers) away from the sun. 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OK, so here is the project - it is 90% other people's work. The basis for the physical design was taken from a guy named Phil from Germany. I modified it to use extra touch sensors (he used a very nice mechanical system to get one sensor to do two functions but I didn't need to as I have enough sensors).
I also changed the chip feeder so it is more reliable.
http://s97.photobucket.com/albums/l235/ ... nnect4.flv
The Lejos code came from a group of German (these kids are clever!) students who build a robot called FourRowBot. I just changed it to use the new NXT Color sensor instead old the old light sensor. Then I changed the variables in the motor control class file to suit the smaller board size, and changed the speeds to suit the new gearing. Dead easy.
Currently the design uses a touch sensor to know when the human player has finished his turn. You simply press the button when you are done. This could very easily be changed to use one fo the NXT buttons if you are short of touch sensors, or, as was used on the original design, a US sensor that sees when your hand had been at the top of the board.
I knocked this up on LDD last night. No masterpiece! Never used it before. I had to replace the 4x1 gear racks with red 4x1 flat tiles as they don't exist in LDD. Because of this I could not mount the scanning arm, nor the chip feeder, so I just made them separate objects by the side of the main model. It's all very obvious where everything goes
Oh - there is a JAR executable and an image file. This is the PC application. The robot will run fast and good without it but the PC app lets you connect to the NXT and play at more advance levels, plus you can see the board on your screen, which is very useful when debugging adjustments you may have made in the source code (i.e are the chips falling in the right places etc). You just launch the NXT app and then select "connect to PC" in the options on teh NXT menu. Then click connect in the PC app.
Here you go!
http://www.filefactory.com/file/b0e7ga1 ... RowBot.zip


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Asian Collection
Covered Box with Molded Peony DesignCovered Box with Molded Peony Design
Covered Box with Molded Peony Design
Song dynasty (960–1279)
13th century
Porcelain, transparent glaze with pale blue gray tint (Qingbai ware)
H. 3 1/8 in. (7.9 cm); Diam. 5 11/16 in. (14.5 cm)
Qingbai ware, prized for its elegant restraint, was produced near the great ceramic center of Jingdezhen in Jiangxi province, in south China. These delicate porcelains are distinguished by a clear, bluish white glaze over incised, combed, or molded decoration.
Tea CaddyTea Caddy
Tea Caddy
Southern Song or Yuan dynasty (1127–1279/1279–1368)
13th–14th century
Porcelain with yellow glaze and iron oxide pigment (Jizhou ware)
H. 4 3/4 in. (12 cm); Diam. 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm)
This charming container was originally made as a medicine or cosmetic jar, but this type of Chinese ceramic was highly prized by Japanese tea masters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, who adapted a variety of domestic wares for use in the tea ceremony.
Chola period (c. 850–1310)
13th century
33 3/4 x 13 3/8 x 12 7/8 in. (85.7 x 34 x 32.7 cm)
The Cholas originated a tradition of large-scale, cast-metal Hindu sculpture in the round. These sculptures were carried in ritual processions through the temple and adjoining precincts––the lugs and holes on the base were used for the insertion of poles to support the image.
Standing Shaka BuddhaStanding Shaka Buddha
Standing Shaka Buddha
Japanese (active c. 1185–1225)
Kamakura period (1185–1333)
c. 1210
Gilt and lacquered wood
54 7/16 x 19 1/4 x 13 1/2 in. (138.2 x 48.9 x 34.3 cm)
AP 1984.01 a,b,c
Kaikei, the great master sculptor of the Kamakura period (1185–1333), established the primary school of sculpture that produced statuary for the major temples in Nara and Kyoto.
Seated Nyoirin KannonSeated Nyoirin Kannon
Seated Nyoirin Kannon
Kamakura period (1185–1333)
c. 1230–50
Wood with traces of gilt and pigment
19 x 18 x 10 in. (48.3 x 45.7 x 25.4 cm)
Kannon is the Japanese name for the Indian Buddhist deity Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva of compassion. Because of the boundless love he offered to all beings, this was the most popular of all the Buddhist deities throughout Asia.
Bamboo and RocksBamboo and Rocks
Bamboo and Rocks
Attributed to Tan Zhirui
Chinese (active late 13th to early 14th century)
Yuan dynasty (1279–1368)
c. 1275
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
39 1/2 x 14 15/16 in. (100.3 x 38 cm)
This delicate ink painting of bamboo and rocks, a recurrent motif in Chinese painting, has recently been attributed to the Yuan-dynasty (1279–1368) painter Tan Zhirui. The elegantly inscribed poem was added by the Buddhist priest Yishan Yining (1247–1317).
En no GyojaEn no Gyoja
En no Gyoja
Kamakura period (1185–1333)
c. 1300–1375
Polychromed wood
54 15/16 x 32 x 26 in. (139.6 x 81.3 x 66 cm)
En no Gyoja was the legendary founder of the Shugendo sect, which emphasized the practice of religious austerities, and he thus came to represent the archetypical ascetic recluse. He is said to have died in the early eighth century after living a hermetic life in the mountains.
Seated ArhatSeated Arhat
Seated Arhat
China, Shaanxi province
Late Yuan to early Ming dynasty (1279–1368/1368–1644)
c. 1300–1450
Cast iron, traces of pigment
30 11/16 x 19 7/8 x 16 in. (78 x 50.5 x 40.7 cm)
This engaging portrait of a monk represents an arhat (in Chinese, lohan), one of a group of "perfected beings" who, in the Buddhist faith, were the original disciples of Shakyamuni Buddha.
Twenty-Five Bodhisattvas Descending from HeavenTwenty-Five Bodhisattvas Descending from Heaven
Twenty-Five Bodhisattvas Descending from Heaven
Kamakura period (1185–1333)
c. 1300
Pair of hanging scrolls; gold and mineral pigments on silk
39 x 15 3/4 in. each (99 x 40 cm each)
AP 1986.11 a,b
In this pair of paintings, twenty-five small music-making divinities, bejeweled and richly dressed in gold, float down from the heavens on diaphanous clouds. The divinities are bodhisattva attendants to Amida Buddha, who inspired in his followers the hope of eternal life in his Western Paradise.
Arhat Taming the DragonArhat Taming the Dragon
Arhat Taming the Dragon
Yuan dynasty (1279–1368)
Early 14th century
Hanging scroll; ink and mineral pigments on silk
48 1/4 x 20 3/4 in. (122.5 x 52.7 cm)
Arhats (in Chinese, lohans) were the original disciples of the Buddha, enlightened beings of exceptional wisdom, endowed with supernatural powers. One of their primary roles is to serve as guardians and advocates of the Buddhist Law (dharma).
Meiping VaseMeiping Vase
Meiping Vase
Jiangxi province, Yuan dynasty (1279–1368)
first half of the 14th century
Porcelain with pale greenish blue glaze (Qingbai ware)
H. 12 1/2 in. (31.8 cm); Diam. 7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm)
Qingbai wares of the Yuan dynasty continue an earlier tradition of porcelain wares covered with a transparent glaze, which began as early as the tenth century. The name qingbai (bluish white) refers to the faint bluish tint of the glaze in areas where it thickens.
Pink and White LotusPink and White Lotus
Pink and White Lotus
Yuan dynasty (1279–1368)
14th century
Hanging scroll; mineral pigments on silk
53 9/16 x 23 7/8 in. (136 x 60.7 cm)
The grandeur of this depiction of lotus blossoms, leaves, and seed pods is eloquent testimony to the considerable position accorded the genre of flower painting in China.
Vase with Fish and Foliate Scroll DesignVase with Fish and Foliate Scroll Design
Vase with Fish and Foliate Scroll Design
Yuan dynasty (1279–1368)
14th century
Stoneware with brown slip and green glaze (Cizhou ware)
15 3/4 x 11 13/16 in. (40 x 30 cm)
Cizhou is the designation for a large and varied group of cream-colored stonewares decorated with painted designs under a transparent glaze, or by incising, stamping, or carving into a colored slip.
Returning from a VisitReturning from a Visit
Returning from a Visit
Zhu Derun
Chinese (1294–1365)
Yuan dynasty (1279–1368)
c. mid-14th century
Handscroll; ink on paper
11 1/8 x 46 15/16 in. (28.2 x 119.3 cm)
The Yuan dynasty (1279–1368), during which time the Mongols dominated China, was one of great distress for the Chinese. For the first time in their history, the entire country was under foreign control.
Vimalakirti Scroll Used for a Yuima-e Service at Tônomine TempleVimalakirti Scroll Used for a Yuima-e Service at Tônomine Temple
Vimalakirti Scroll Used for a Yuima-e Service at Tônomine Temple
Nambokucho period (1336–1392)
c. 1350
Hanging scroll; color and gold on silk
35 1/4 x 9 1/2 in. (89.5 x 24.1 cm)
Vimalakirti Scroll Used for a Yuima-e Service at T"nomine Temple has been retitled to reflect new information that came to light in the course of recent restoration and cleaning carried out in Japan.
Bowl with Secret DecorationBowl with Secret Decoration
Bowl with Secret Decoration
Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
Early 15th century
Porcelain with transparent glaze (White ware)
H. 4 in (10.1 cm); Diam. 8 1/4 in. (21 cm)
APx 1971.20
In the Ming period, white ware reached a peak of refinement, achieving a thin, fine-grained, pure white body and a glaze that was transparent and glossy, without any tinge of color.


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If a write on log shipping transaction backup gets corrupted on one of the transaction file due to network or media issue, and hence the log shipping chain gets broken, is there any other way to restore the database to the point in time ? I understand one could do full backup or diff backups but to restore to point in time, how can we get the consecutive tran logs to be restored? Any pointers on this will be beneficial. Thanks (Even if the solution is to contact Microsoft or only God can help you, I will buy that :-))
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If you are saying your actual backup file is corrupted (the .trn file) but that the backup was successful from SQL Server's perspective, and the source DB is still online, I would take a full backup as soon as possible so you don't lose any data.
You will have to rebuild your log shipping if you've got a corrupt .trn, but your main concern should be having the ability to restore your source data at all if you've got a bad .trn in your chain.
You can create a full backup of the database in a trn file, using right-click Database->tasks->backup.
You should save that .trn file where your logshipping is saved to.
Then manually restore that on the destination DB, remembering to leave the DB in either a standyby\readonly or restoring state.
The log shipping restore job will then start failing as it will be trying to restore the database to a point prior to where the DB is. So to move that process so it works on the correct file, update the entry in the table
The job should then run correctly.
I had the same issue, see Resume log shipping from a specific transaction


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A wave of energy will move through the Clarksville area this weekend and will bring the risk for a shower or thunderstorm to the Clarksville area. The risk for precipitation will start today with temperatures warming into the upper eighties. The risk for precipitation will continue into the day Saturday as the wave moves through the region with temperatures remaining in the upper eighties. The temperatures heading into the upcoming workweek will continue to warm as the trough over the eastern United States begins to lift to the Canadian border. High temperatures for Monday will warm into the upper eighties and highs will warm into the lower nineties by the middle of the upcoming workweek. As the temperatures warm, the humidity levels will also remain high as a southwest flow continues from the Gulf of Mexico, causing temperatures to feel warmer that what they actually are. Conditions will remain dry through much of the upcoming workweek until the next system moves into the region by next Friday. With the temperatures increasing and staying around for a longer period of time than we have this summer, remember to stay hydrated and take plenty of breaks in the shade if you have to be outside.
Here is the Clarksville area forecast:
Friday: A mix of sun and clouds with a slight risk for a shower. Chance of precipitation 20%. High: 87
Friday night: Partly cloudy. Low: 63
Saturday: Partly to mostly cloudy with a slight risk for a shower or thunderstorm. High: 88
Saturday night: Partly clear. Low: 63
Sunday: A mix of sun and clouds. High: Upper 80s Low: Middle 60s
Monday: Mostly sunny. High: Upper 80s Low: Middle 60s


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Busch Brothers Both Wreck At Kansas Speedway
Kyle Busch and his big brother Kurt both crashed in Saturday morning practice for Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Kansas Speedway.
Just after the practice session started, Kyle Busch crashed his No. 18 Toyota on his first practice lap. About 25 minutes later Kurt Busch backed his No. 78 Chevrolet into the wall.
Neither driver was hurt but there was enough damage to both race cars to force them to both go to backup cars for Sunday's race.
By switching to backup cars, both drivers must start Sunday's race from the rear. Based on Friday's qualifying times, Kyle was originally scheduled to start 18th and Kurt 19th.
Other Chase for Championship contenders had trouble during practice too. Just before the Saturday morning practice ended, points leader Matt Kenseth spun out but did not hit anything. Similarly, in Friday's practice session, Jimmie Johnson spun off of turn four but kept his car from hitting the wall.
Kevin Harvick won the pole for Sunday's race – his first since 2006. Here is the complete race lineup.