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The Pittsburgh Panthers are the only team in the Big East that has yet to win a league game. Jamie Dixon's team hasn't won a game since Dec. 20 against St. Francis, but is surprisingly riding a small wave of confidence. The Panthers have played much better in the last couple of games and are finally getting healthy. Pitt played Syracuse nearly as tough as any team has all season. They also played very competitively with Marquette last week. Louisville and Pittsburgh are tied 5-5 in their previous 10 meetings. Three of the last four games have been decided in overtime. Three of the Cards' losses to Pitt have come in the Big East Conference Tournaments. Pittsburgh is the only team in the Big East that Coach Pitino doesn't have a winning record against since joining the league. Rick is just 5-9 all time against Pittsburgh. (1-3 at Providence, 0-1 at Kentucky, 4-5 at Louisville). The Panthers are led by Big East preseason player of the year, Ashton Gibbs, who is averaging 16.5 points ...
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Sky crane touchdown system lowers Mars rover "Curiosity" onto surface, artist rendering provided by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- NASA's most ambitious and expensive Mars mission begins this weekend with the arrival of the smartest rover ever built.
Like an Olympic gymnast, the rover must "stick the landing."
It won't be easy. The touchdown for the rover called Curiosity is so risky it's been described as "seven minutes of terror." That's the time it takes to slow down from a blazing 13,000 mph to a complete stop with the help of a parachute, heat shield and rockets.
In a new twist, the rover will be lowered by cables from a hovering spacecraft.
Scientists on Earth won't know for 14 minutes whether Curiosity safely landed Sunday night.
If all goes well, Curiosity will spend two years trying to figure out if the Mars environment was once suitable for microbes.

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Winner of the 2009 Lemkin Award, Institute for the Study of Genocide
Winner of the 2008 Best Book, Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association
"Rejali's approach is to track the different behaviors, trends and traditions in torture throughout history to see who influenced whom and what they did...Rejali, a leading expert on government interrogation techniques, reaches key conclusions. First, monitoring by human rights groups doesn't stop torture, it simply causes torturers to resort to techniques that don't scar...Second, most contemporary torture traditions were passed on like crafts from teacher to apprentice...Third, Rejali writes, a person being tortured is likely to say whatever he thinks his captors want to hear, making it one of the poorest methods of gathering reliable information."--Laurel Maury, Los Angeles Times
"Torture and Democracy immediately lays claim to be the most compendious and the most rigorous treatment of the subject yet written. Saul Bellow used to say that we are constantly looking for the book it is necessary to read next. On torture, this is it...Torture and Democracy is the anatomy of sneaky. Rejali regales us with tales of every technique of torture known to man...Rejali's analysis of efficacy is exemplary: at once prudent and trenchant, historically alert and morally sentient."--Alex Danchev, Times Higher Education
"[A] magisterial study of torture and how it has developed as a social and moral issue with a focus on developments through the last century."--Scott Horton, Harper's Magazine
"An exhaustive study of...'clean tortures,' or tortures that leave no permanent scars. Electrotorture, water tortures, stress and duress positions, beating, noise, drugs and forced exercises all make an appearance. The book is a towering achievement, a serious work of social science on an urgent topic that is too frequently surrounded by assumption and myth. It should be read and disseminated widely...The book is devoted to exploding one myth in particular: that clean tortures can casually and reliably be traced to the ancients, or, failing that, to the Nazis. Rejali's provocative thesis is that most clean tortures were actually born in democracies, especially imperial Britain and France."--Michael O'Donnell, San Francisco Chronicle
"Torture and Democracy is a much-needed attempt to put our discussions on a firmer historical and conceptual footing while showing us the realities of what torture is and what it does. Based on a decade of research and approximately 2,000 sources in 14 languages, Torture and Democracy is really several books in one. It is a methodical history of what Rejali calls 'clean' or 'stealth' torture (torture that leaves no marks) in the 20th century; a sociological examination of torture's relationship to democracies; a psychological exploration of torture's impact on societies and individuals; a practical consideration of torture's effectiveness; a philosophical musing on the ethics of torture and interrogation in general; an exhaustive cataloguing of tortures used throughout the ages; and what Rejali calls 'a reliable sourcebook' for those who speak out against torture anywhere."--Michael McGregor, The Oregonian
"[Creates] what essentially amounts to an epidemiology of torture. Just as scientists were able to show how HIV traveled around the world by mapping the locatino and date of each outbreak of AIDS, Rejali similarly documents the global transmission of major torture techniquest by drawing up a chronology of their occurrence . . . Rejali's accomplishment--and it's a considerable one--is to lay out this vast amount of information to demonstrate patterns few had noticed before."--Brian Zabcik, American Lawyer
"Documenting modern torture techniques, [Torture and Democracy] is both horrifying and compelling. The consequences of torture are always unpredictable and Rejali argues that torture fails when it's needed most--in last-minute, ticking bomb scenarios."--Karen J. Greenberg, Financial Times
"Dozens of books about torture have been published over the last five years. But none compare to Torture and Democracy for its richly detailed comparative analysis, and its synthesis of historical, psychological, medical, forensic, sociological, and political information to explain what torture is, what it does to victims and perpetrators, and why and how it spreads. . . . Rejali has earned the right to speak authoritatively about the most important question of all: Does torture work? His answer, like his book, is profound, complex, and supported by a wealth of empirical detail."--Lisa Hajjar, Arab Studies Journal
"Torture and Democracy, the fruit of a lifetime's study should dispel much ignorance and frequently facile assumptions about the subject."--David Bentley, World Today
"Darius Rejali's Torture and Democracy, a decade in the making, will be the canonical source text for information on, and the historical confirmation of, the democratic pedigree of tortures that leave no mark."--Aziz Z. Huq. World Policy Journal
"Sprawling, essential. . . . A massive dictionary of the unspeakable."--Gary Bass, Dissent
"Rejali's consolidation of the available data on torture is certainly an admirable and relevant task. What is especially provocative and essential about Rejali's scholarship is that he forces readers to retreat from the minutiae of political debates surrounding torture and asks us to examine the larger contextual picture."--Shana Tabak, Democracy & Society
"This book is quite simply the most authoritative study of torture ever written. Twenty-five years of painstaking research in the making, it will serve the human rights movement for decades to come."--George Hunsinger, Theology Today
"The book suits well as an introduction to the topic of torture (techniques) throughout the world from the 20th century until today. . . . [T]he first two parts of the opus offer a vast amount of information on the historical and technical development of torture across many different states."--Daniela Kaschel, Journal of International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict
"Torture and Democracy by Darius Rejali is arguably the most impressive and most important book to be published on torture in the past few years. A monumental achievement of meticulous documentation, theoretical testing, and reasoned argumentation, it is certain to become the yardstick against which future research on torture will be measured. . . . It should be required reading for any scholar or student of torture, and more importantly, for every policy-maker and counter-terrorism practitioner considering whether torture could or should be used to deal with the current terrorist threat."--Richard Jackson, Critical Studies on Terrorism
"A brave and disturbing book, this is the benchmark against which all future studies of modern torture will be measured."--World Book Industry
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"Darius Rejali has written a superb genealogy of modern torture. Meticulously researched and filled with surprising insights, Rejali's indictment derives its power from thoughtful analysis and deep historical grounding. It is the best book on the subject that I have encountered. No one should debate the merits of torture without having read it."--Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch
"Darius Rejali has given the world an extraordinary work of scholarship and personal passion that no one wants to hear about but that everyone must learn about. Torture and Democracy exposes the core issues facing every nation whose deepest values of human dignity are defiled by its state-sanctioned 'violence workers.' Beyond platitudes, this pioneering expert descends into the torture dungeons around the world to reveal the strategies and tactics secretly used to break human will to resist. A vital book for anyone wanting to understand the whys and hows of torture being practiced today by our own government."--Philip Zimbardo, author of The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
"Monumental. Definitive. Devastating."--Sidney Blumenthal
"Torture and Democracy brings the fact of torture straight home to democratic societies--societies that are the most reluctant to acknowledge the presence of torture in their midst. Darius Rejali's theme is the appeal of stealth forms of torture in democracies, but he also illuminates the culture of disinformation, self-deluding euphemisms, and outright mythology that accompanies these kinds of torture. Rejali's research has been truly formidable. He has read more widely in more disciplines than any analyst of torture that I know of."--Edward Peters, author of Torture
"This is a timely and extraordinarily important book, an unprecedented study of torture and its technologies, and of the relationship between torture and types of political systems. The research that went into this book is beyond impressive; it is thorough beyond belief. Torture and Democracy will become a reference for anyone who wants to understand torture. Darius Rejali is to be congratulated."--Martha Huggins, Tulane University
"Torture and Democracy is a provocative, state-of-the-art consideration of what Rejali calls 'stealth' or 'clean' torture. He makes a powerful case that democracies tend to be laboratories for these forms of torture and that one of the unintended consequences of democratization is that torture, rather than being eliminated, becomes harder to identify and document."--Austin Sarat, Amherst College


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A 3-D carbon nanotube mesh enables rat spinal tissue sections to reconnect in culture.
Surprising Similarities in Divergent Genomes
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Researchers find genome-wide evidence of convergent evolution between bats and dolphins.
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Researchers find genome-wide evidence of convergent evolution between bats and dolphins.
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Researchers characterize drug-resistant tuberculosis by analyzing the genomes of more than 500 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from around the world.
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Thunder in the Valley Motorcycle RallyJohnstown, Pennsylvania
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The Thunder in the Valley is held in the Johnstown, PA area, which is only about an hour east of Pittsburgh. The motorcycle rally is thrown by the Johnstown Convention and Visitors, so the city, businesses and locals welcome the riders. With over 200,000 motorcycle enthusiasts, the event is the biggest of the Pennsylvania motorcycle rallies and on the 2016 Lightning Customs' Major Bike Rallies List.
Johnstown Thunder General Info
Johnstown is located in the Allegheny Mountains region, so there are a lot of scenic rides through winding roads in the mountains. There are both guided tours and also self-guided rides where routes are mapped out and provided to the riders.
Rally's Attractions
Attractions are held throughout downtown venues as well as at the bars and dealerships in the Johnstown region. Some of the highlights at the Johnstown, PA Rally are the Welcome Party, bike show, poker run, stunt show, live music, Thunder in the Valley Grand Thunder Parade, nighttime parade, demo rides, vendors, fireworks, and activities for the kids.
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Staying in paradise at Marigot Bay: Brand new 3 bedroom bayview apartment at Marigot Bay, one of the most beautiful bays in the Caribbean. Overlooking the marina & bay, the apartment spreads out over two floors and has its very own plunge pool. The apartments at Capella at Marigot Bay are exquisite & finished with the ultimate luxurious touch. Each of the bedrooms has fantastic views from their own balcony over the marina & Marigot Bay, leading each into a gorgeous bathroom. The apartment has beautiful modern stylish dark wooden furniture, a fully equipped kitchen with state of the art Italian appliances, utility room and spacious dining area. The living room with a flat screen TV, DVD, WIFI & ethernet access offers lovely views over the marina and Marigot Bay. The resort with its marina, spa, shops, restaurants & swimming pool offers a frequent ferry service to the famous sandspit beach, a near 2 minute from the marina. Come & enjoy heaven on earth!
Restaurants and Bars: The Rainforest Hideaway: A fine-dining fusion restaurant & champagne bar. A 2 minute ride across the bay on the resort's own ferry. This is the ultimate romantic retreat with a gentle jazz ambiance, tropical blossoms, vines and fairy lights, situated on its own dock out over the water.
Hurricane Hole Bar: Experience the original bar, famous among yachtsmen worldwide, restored to its former glory, with a panoramic view of the bay.
The Boudreau Restaurant: Named after Walter Boudreau, the legendary schooner captain who sailed into Marigot Bay & built the first hotel fifty years ago, the elegant restaurant showcases Boudreau memorabilia & historical pictures. Open for breakfast, lunch & dinner.
Pink Snail Bar: Chic cocktail bar, themed around the original Dr. Dolittle movie.
The Coffee Dock: A European-style coffee shop, serving breakfast, snacks & sandwiches around the hotel dinghy dock.
The Bakery: Ice cream parlour & patisserie in the Marina Village Garden.
On Site facilities: Swimming pools:
An infinity edge swimming pool overlooking the bay
A hillside lagoon pool with a swim up bar and a children's pool next to it
Private plunge pool at the apartment
From the lovely marina a two minute shuttle service ferries guests all day long to and fro to the fantastic sandspit beach across the bay, offering sun loungers for complete relaxation
Charter service
Yachts to almost any places in the Caribbean can be chartered from the Marina Village
Diving and Snorkeling
The resort borders St. Lucia's famous marine park with great coral reefs
Lapli Spa
The fantastic Lapli Spa (Lapli meaning 'Rain' and 'blessing' in the Creole language), featuring a Zen garden with ofuru wooden soaking tubs offers a wide variety of treatments
Fitness Rooms
With state of the art cardio and weight lifting equipment
Marina Village
picturesque Caribbean style courtyard with a full range of facilities including banking and shopping, a bakery
What to do: Beach
Sunbathe and swim from the famous sandspit beach, just a few hundred yards across the bay from the hotel with an all day ferry shuttle service
Diving and Snorkeling
the resort borders St. Lucia's famous marine park
Surfing and Kite Surfing
On the Atlantic coast, the other side of the island
Bird Watching and Fish Watching
Marigot has a wide variety of bird species and the bay is teeming with colourful fish
Climbing: St. Lucia is mountainous, with hills and mountains ranging from challenging climbs requiring some mountaineering experience, to vigorous walks, all with wonderful views.
Rainforest Hiking and Walking: Access to nearby bays and hillsides as well as deep rainforest trails.
Visiting the volcano and bathing in the hot springs; A short drive or boat trip away
Yoga, Tai Chi and exercise classes: as well as meditation and tess management groups.
A perfect week! I cannot say enough good things about our experience at Capella! We are a group of 6 and a half, my husband and I , our 2 adult children with spouses and a one year old grandson. The accomodations were perfect and allowed us privacy, as well as living spaces to hang out together. The villa itself is beautifully, tastefuly decorated with many amenities, as well as daily maid service. The advantage of being at the resort was wonderful. We took advantage of all the resort offered, and enjoyed all the pools, the spa, the boat service to the nearby beach (Anse Conchon, which had excellent snorkling and lovely beach and restaurant). The resort grounds are stunning and so well maintained. The resort staff were so friendly and helpful( they would bring out a bowl of blueberries to my early-rising grandson every morning, while they were preparing the dining room for breakfast!). The concierge service was also great, and with their recommendations, we tried several of the surrounding restaurants. (The Rainforest Hideaway and Masala Bay were 2 favorites). The villa owners were incredibly gracious and so responsive (the nicest experience I have had with VRBO).
I initially had some concerns about coming off-season, but after our experience of 8 days of glorious weather and, best of all, no crowds to contend with, I would highly recommend it!
My entire family agreed that it was our best vacation to date and we would enthusiastically return!
We had a fabulous time on our vacation and could not have been more pleased with the apartment and with the Capella Resort. We have rented vacation villas before, and when we rented this apartment we thought that we would enjoy the apartment, but wouldn't really make use of the resort. We were wrong! First about the team running Capella Marigot Bay. They were friendly and welcoming and extremely professional. The standard of service was exceptional. We were always greeted by everyone we crossed paths with. The cleanliness of the resort and your unit was better than anywhere else I have visited. We loved the free samples of smoothies and appetizers that were brought around to the pool area. We were also very pleased with the temperature of the water in the pool. It is unusual to come across a heated pool at a Caribbean resort. The apartment was lovely. It was so comfortable that it was difficult to pull ourselves away. We actually did make dinner ourselves one night and we had all of the dishes and cookware that we needed. We loved the high ceilings, hardwood floors. spacious and luxurious bathrooms and the deck space. We also appreciated the location that we chose - both in Marigot Bay itself, and in St. Lucia generally. My husband and I would go walking in the hills every morning and we were happy that we had not decided to rent a villa further up in the hills where it would be more of an ordeal to go out for dinner or run to the grocery store. We rented an SUV and made day trips to Anse Chastenet, Anse Couchon, Rodney Bay and the Gros Piton - and then enjoyed all of the conveniences in Marigot Bay in the evening.In sum, I don't think we could have had a better vacation in St. Lucia.
We loved our time at this property, and we found the owner to be absolutely perfect in email communications. We were a group of 6. All three bedrooms are large, have a king bed, lots of storage, and a private bathroom. The doors and walls are solid, so noise doesn't travel easily. Two bedrooms are downstairs, where the hot tub is located, and the third bedroom is upstairs, adjacent to the main living space. There are a lot of steps, so keep that in mind if steps are an issue for you. This property is part of the Capella Resort, and you are treated as a resort guest with full benefits. There are two great pools with a swim-up bar and attentive staff. The unit is cleaned daily. The hot tub is checked twice a day. There is a decent fitness center, free yoga classes, and free water equipment rental (kayaks, paddleboards, etc.) at the neighboring beach. Many restaurants are in close proximity, meaning you can walk to the resort restaurants, take a short ferry to the marina ones, or use a complementary shuttle to the ones in the neighborhood. We would not hesitate to stay here again! This property has it all. You don't need a car. We did three excursions from here. Two picked us up in a boat right at the marina and the third picked us up at the front entrance via tax. Tip: bring a book light if you like to read at night.
I can't begin to explain how relaxing yet adventure filled our vacation was at ST Lucia and especially at Marigot bay. The villa is private but very accessable to all the amenities of the resort and is even more beautful than we expected. The (hot tub) or plunge pool was especially wonderful after an afternoon of hiking Gros Piton. The staff at the resort could not have been more accomodating from our arrival at the resort, celebrating a special birthday, arranging a water taxi, having refreshing drinks at the pool & our daily maid service. The resort treated us like royalty. The restaurants at the resort were delicious and service exceptional. We also enjoyed many of the resturants the owner recommended. In the morning we watched the humming birds while enjoying breakfast on the balcony before heading out for a day of Zipline-ing, hiking, snorkeling, kayaking, ATV adventure, or deep sea fishing (dad & son both landed their first Marlins & released both all in a morning of fishing). In the late afternoon we would relax at the resort pool or our private pool with a drink and then a late dinner. The bedrooms allowed for a comfortable and relaxing night sleep. The extra bedrooms gave our young adult children their own private & spacious bedrooms and bathrooms too. Wish we could have stayed longer and would love to return again.
A group of 5 of us stayed here at the Discovery in Marigot Bay at this WONDERFUL 3 bedroom villa. We did not expect such a luxurious accomodation for the price. The villa is absolutely gorgeous with beautiful dark brown wood and HIGH ceilings. All of the bedrooms came with a large, beautiful bathroom (where you could hear the birds all day) and a private balcony/porch. There was definitely no fighting over the rooms and each room was very lovely. The beds were more than comfortable and the service at the hotel was impeccable. It took a little while to figure out how to use the European appliances in the fully stocked, modern kitchen (so nice!) and it was great to find out that there was a washer/dryer in the villa as well. Marigot Bay is beautiful, full of great dining options and entertainment. I would recommend taking the ferry across the bay to rent a kayak (for free if you are a guest) and paddling down the river. It was an overall great time and every one in our group said they would definitely come back in a heartbeat to the same property! If you are looking for a place to stay in St. Lucia, this is definitely one of your best options!
The resort on the west coast of the island is located about 5 miles south of the capital Castries (20 minute drive). It has convenient access to Hewanorra International Airport (about one hour) in the south and George FL Charles regional airport at Vigie (Castires). Marigot Bay itself is one of the region's safest, most beautiful and best-known yacht harbours. Trips around the lush tropical island and its various highlights like the Pitons are at easy reach from the resort.
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Olympic Games (8 medals - 3 gold, 5 silver)
- Individual dressage: 1st (2000, 2004, 2008), 2nd (1996)
- Team event: 2nd (1992, 1996, 2000, 2008)
World Equestrian Games (7 medals - 2 gold, 5 silver)
- Individual freestyle dressage: 1st (1994), 2nd (1998)
- Kur Grand Prix: 1st (2006)
- Special Grand Prix: 2nd (2006)
- Team dressage: 2nd (1994, 1998, 2006)
European Championships (15 medals - 5 gold, 8 silver, 2 bronze)
- Individual dressage: 1st (1999, 2005), 2nd (1995, 1997)
- Kur Grand Prix: 1st (2007), 3e (2009)
- Special Grand Prix: 2nd (2007)
- Team dressage: 1st (2007, 2009), 2nd (1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2005), 3rd (1991)
World Cup (11 medals - 9 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)
Dressage: 1st (1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008), 2nd (1998), 3rd (2009)
Dances with horses
Dutch rider Anky van Grunsven is the undisputed Queen of the dressage scene having won gold at the last three Olympics.
Only the Americans Carl Lewis in the long jump (1984, 1988, 1992, 1996) and Al Oerter in discus (1956, 1960, 1964, 1968) have won four straight gold medals, so Van Grunvsen could be one of the stories of the Games.
She and her mount Salinero set a world record score of 87.925 at a German Grand Prix in 2007, thanks to fabulous artistic impression as understanding between horse and rider hit a peak in the run-up to her third straight Olympic crown.
That title at the Beijing Games was actually won in Hong Kong's Shatin facility, where van Grunsven and Salinero edged Germany's Isabell Werth and her mount Satchmo for gold in a tightly contested event.
In 2010 van Grunvsen became involved in a row over a training technique formerly used by her husband and Dutch national dressage trainer Sjef Janssen. Authorities have now banned this rollkur method as too aggressive.
London will be van Grunsven's seventh appearance at the Games when she will be 44, and given the fact Britain's Lorna Johnstone competed at the Munich Games of 1972 aged 70, the likeable blonde may have another five in her.
All her previous horses, Prisco from the 1988 Seoul Games, Bonfire, on whom she won silver (team dressage) at Barcelona 1992 and Atlanta 1996 before finally claiming gold together at Sydney, and Joker, who had shown promise before injury and is her favourite horse, are all still present and doted upon in her personal stables at the family farm.
Her father and brothers are all committed horse people and there are some 30 horses on the farm including the Hanoverian gelding Salerino (who will be 14 at Beijing), and who is 2004 Olympic, 2006 world and 2007 European champion.
A second great horse
Van Grunsven is not in the business of breeding but prefers to buy horses of proven appetite at around the age of six.
She was born in Erp, January 2, 1968 and had her first pony at the age of six and though not taking riding very seriously until maturity, won the first of her 13 national dressage titles in 1990.
She is married to a horse trainer with whom she has two children and as well as running a very busy stable and gallivanting around the world to equestrian events, she also runs a riding clothes company.
Van Grunsven says that after Bonfire she never expected to have a second great horse, but Salinero would seem to be even better than his illustrious predecessor.
Salinero is now competing with stablemate Upido to be van Grunsven's mount at London, and the veteran came back from a two-year injury lay-off in fine form meaning that if the horse keeps its fitness, he will be 18-years-old at London.
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Robert Guerrero (31-2-1, 18 KO's) talked his way into a fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr last year in May, but unfortunately, he came up empty in losing by a 12 round unanimous decision. Guerrero feels that he didn't fight the fight that he could have, and he now would like to get a rematch against Floyd in order to show some different parts of his game.
Guerrero has worked on his conditioning in the year that he's been out of the ring, and he believes that with his conditioning and his technical skills, he could beat Mayweather.
Before Guerrero can start talking rematch with Mayweather, he needs to get by his next opponent Yoshihiro Kamegai (24-1-1, 21 KO's), who Guerrero will be fighting on Showtime this Saturday night from the StubHub Center, in Carson, California, USA.
When asked by Ellie Sechback from enewsreporting.com, who he would like to fight next, Guerrero said "Of course, Mayweather, man. That's who everyone wants. I want another shot at it. I felt like I could have given it a lot more, especially with the new training regimen I'm doing. I want to showcase everything I'm doing and try to get back in position again [for another Mayweather fight]."
Guerrero will need to beat Kamegai and look good in doing so. Guerrero isn't much of a knockout puncher, but he's going to need to in order to impress Mayweather enough and the fans for him to be able to get a second fight against Mayweather. It's not entirely up to Mayweather whether he gives Guerrero a rematch or not.
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Report NEP-AGE-2009-04-25This is the archive for NEP-AGE, a report on new working papers in the area of Economics of Ageing. Claudia Villosio issued this report. It is usually issued weekly.
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- Laura Romeu Gordo & Andreas Motel-Klingebiel & Susanne Wurm, 2009. "SOEP as a Source for Research on Ageing: Issues, Measures and Possibilities for Improvement," SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research 173, DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP).
- Adrian Kalwij & Arie Kapteyn & Klaas de Vos, 2009. "Early Retirement and Employment of the Young," Working Papers 679, RAND Corporation.
- Barthel, Jens, 2008. "Can age discrimination be justified with a lower productivity of older workers?," MPRA Paper 14682, University Library of Munich, Germany.
- Lambrelli D & O'Donnell O, 2009. "Why Does the Utilization of Pharmaceuticals Vary So Much Across Europe? Evidence from Micro Data on Older Europeans," Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) Working Papers 09/06, HEDG, c/o Department of Economics, University of York.
- Feng, Jin & He, Lixin & Sato, Hiroshi, 2009. "Public pension and household saving: Evidence from China," BOFIT Discussion Papers 2/2009, Bank of Finland, Institute for Economies in Transition.
- David Love & Paul A. Smith, 2008. "Pension Freezes and Household Saving Over the Life Cycle," Department of Economics Working Papers 2008-21, Department of Economics, Williams College.
- Masaya Yasuoka & Naohisa Goto, 2009. "Pension and Child Care Policies with Endogenous Fertility," Global COE Hi-Stat Discussion Paper Series gd09-054, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University.
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IBM® Rational® Insight performance management software helps decision-makers to better monitor software development projects that are critical to their organizations, thus to govern projects better, too. It does this by providing development intelligence from a combination of information sources. There are flexible options available to deploy Rational Insight for a large enterprise that needs to run information-intensive reports that use a large amount of aggregated data. This article will walk you through the key steps for installing Version 184.108.40.206 in an enterprise-scalable topology that uses IBM® DB2® Version 9.7 and IBM® WebSphere® Application Server 7.0.
Considerations for an enterprise deployment architecture
Regardless of the size of your enterprise, Rational Insight users in your organization need quick-running, responsive reports and dashboards.
Typical use considerations
To meet their needs, be sure to consider the following as part of your deployment planning:
- Average (and maximum) number of concurrent users that you expect to be using Rational Insight. Take into consideration any expected growth rates in your user community.
- Amount of data that typical reports will require.
- Variety and heterogeneity of data sources from which user reports will need to extract information.
Component installation considerations
Rational Insight provides the option to install and deploy various components across a distributed topology. In doing so, the deployment architect or engineer can address those considerations by capitalizing on the division and specialization of available computing resources.
There are three components that you can deploy onto separate machines:
- Data server (which contains the Data Warehouse and the Content Store databases)
- Extract, transform, and load (ETL) server
- Report server
Consider all of these factors in deciding how you will install these components:
- Weigh the option of installing the data server onto a separate machine if you expect your organization to store large amounts of data for reporting.
- If you expect frequent scheduled jobs and requests to extract large amounts of data from various stores, consider deploying your ETL server on a dedicated machine.
- Finally, if you believe you will have a large number of concurrent users making report requests, install your report server on a separate machine, as well.
For this article, assume that all three of those situations are factors, so you will install all three components on separate machines.
Rational Insight enterprise deployment architecture
End-user report authors can separately install a few Rational Insight client packages onto their desktops to design, generate, and schedule reports. (Note: This article does not provide a detailed description of the steps to install the client packages for the Rational Insight report authoring capabilities.)
Figure 1. Enterprise Rational Insight deployment topology
Figure 1 outlines the overall enterprise deployment topology that you will create, using a separate physical machine for each of the key Rational Insight components: the data server, the ETL server, and the report server.
From Figure 1, there are a couple of important items for your awareness:
- Each of the machines in this architecture uses a 64-bit operating system; however, Rational Insight v18.104.22.168 runs in 32-bit mode only. You will need to install 32-bit versions of all of the prerequisites for Rational Insight (for example, DB2 and WebSphere Application Server).
- The report server requires a permanent license, which is installed into and accessed from the IBM Rational License Key server v8.1.1 (or greater). You can install the Rational License Key server on a machine that is remote from the Rational Insight servers shown in Figure 1. You will not discuss further how to install and consume the licenses required by Rational Insight.
Before you start
To perform the steps in this article to achieve the target deployment topology shown in Figure 1 you will need:
- Three physical machines to create our enterprise deployment of Rational Insight
- An installation of DB2 Enterprise Server Edition v9.7 on the machine designated as the Rational Insight data server
- An installation of DB2 data server Client v9.7 (32-bit) on the machine designated as the Rational Insight ETL server
- An installation of DB2 data server Client v9.7 (32-bit) on the machine designated as the Rational Insight report server.
- Both the ETL server and report server require the DB2 data server Client for remote database communication with the DB2 Enterprise Server Edition hosted on the machine that will host the Rational Insight data server.
- The Rational Insight report server requires an installation of WebSphere Application Server v6.1 or v7.0 on the same physical machine. You have a number of options on how you wish to install the Rational Insight report server with WebSphere Application Server. You can:
- Have Rational Insight install WebSphere Application Server along with the Rational Insight report server component
- Install the Rational Insight report server in an existing WebSphere Application Server installation
- Indicate that you want to manually deploy the Rational Insight report server to WebSphere Application Server yourself
- In this article, you will select the first option and let Rational Insight install both WebSphere Application Server v7.0 and deploy the Rational Insight report server to WebSphere for us.
- In carrying out the steps of this article, you will assume that you have root user access for Linux/UNIX and Administrator user privileges for Windows.
Install the Rational Insight data server
You will use a DB2 Database Server, v9.7, to store two important databases that the Rational Insight data server uses:
- The Rational Insight Data Warehouse
- Stores aggregated data used by reports. This database is subject to scheduled refreshes to keep the information up-to-date.
You will also install and use a data warehouse that comes with sample data (SAMPLEDW) so that you can run some of the reports included with Rational Insight to get an idea of the valuable development intelligence that this tool provides.
- The Rational Insight Content Manager
- Contains metadata for the Rational Insight software's inner workings.
Installation steps
You are installing the data server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Edition 5.5, using the root user.
- From the disk1 folder, run:
- ./launchpad.sh (for Linux or UNIX)
- launchpad.exe (for Microsoft Windows 32-bit OS)
or launchpad64.exe (for a Windows 64-bit OS)
- In the Launchpad window, click Install IBM Rational Insight.
- After the IBM Installation Manager launches, select IBM Rational Insight 126.96.36.199, and then click Next.
If Rational Insight 184.108.40.206 does not detect a full version of Installation Manager on your machine, it will attempt to install version 1.4.3 of a complete Installation Manager.
- Close running programs, disable or shut down any running or active antivirus software, and click Next.
- Select the I accept the terms in the license agreement radio button, and click Next.
- Either leave or change the default for the Shared Resources Directory value to a location that you prefer, and click Next.
- Leave or change the default for the Rational Insight Installation Directory value to a location that you prefer, and click Next.
- Select check boxes for any additional language translations that you need, and click Next.
- On the "Select features to install" page, choose all of the items under the Database Server package (and only those), as shown in Figure 2, and click Next.
Figure 2. Installing the Rational Insight database server packages
To validate the installation and run some of the available sample reports that Rational Insight provides, you are installing the Data Warehouse with the Sample Data component. You might also want to install it for training purposes or choose not to install it all. It will require 3 GB of space on your file system (on Linux).
- For "Fill in the configurations for the packages:"
- From the Installation mode drop-down menu, select Automatic: Create the databases for me.
- From the Database type drop-down menu, select DB2 9.7.
- In the "Database application location" field, enter the location of your DB2 installation". (The default location for a Linux installation of DB2 is usually /opt/ibm/db2/V9.7 and for Windows, it is normally C:\Program Files\IBM\SQLLIB.)
- Enter the DB2 administrator user OD and password. For Linux, the administrator user ID is normally
db2inst1, and for Windows, it is usually
- Click Next.
- On the "Review the summary information" page, click Install".
- You will receive notification that all of the packages installed successfully, click Finish.
- Close the Launchpad.
Post-installation steps
(Optional) Inspect DB2 to ensure that the SAMPLEDW, Data Warehouse, and Content Manager databases were created.
Install the Rational Insight ETL server
The Rational ETL server is the component that carries out these important data-warehousing functions:
- Performing extractions periodically from various data sources
- Transforming data for both storage and up-to-date, real-time reports
- Loading transformed data into the warehouse for future reports
Installation steps
You are installing the Rational ETL server on Windows with a user account that has Administrator privileges.
- Repeat the Installation steps 1-8 from the section "Installing the Rational Insight data server section.
- On the "Select features to install page, choose all of the items under the ETL Server package, as shown in Figure 3, and then click Next.
Figure 3. Installing the Rational Insight ETL server packages
Installation of the Data Manager client package will occur due to a dependency from the ETL server packages.
- On the "Review the summary information" page, click Install.
- After you receive notification that all packages were installed successfully, click Finish.
- Close the Launchpad.
Post-installation steps
Because Rational Insight and the IBM® Cognos® Business Intelligence server access DB2 through the call level interface (CLI), you will need to create a DB2 alias for the SAMPLEDW, Data Warehouse, and Content Manager databases. You can create these aliases in at least two different ways: either through use of the DB2 CATALOG DATABASE command or through the DB2 Configuration Assistant tool (see the Resources section in this article for links to both)
Install the Rational Insight report server
The Rational Insight report server component packages and extends he Cognos Business Intelligence server, and key packages deploy and run under a Java-based application server. This component hosts your deployed reports for your users to run.
Rational Insight license
The Rational report server component is also responsible for validating and enforcing license entitlement.
During the installation of the Rational report server component, you have the opportunity to provide your Rational License Key Server information. This information includes the hostname and port where the license server is running. You need to install the appropriate licenses for Rational Insight onto the server for successful license validation.
If you would like a dedicated Rational License Key Server installation to host your Rational Insight license, or you do not have an existing installation of the license server, Rational Insight also includes version 8.1.1 for you to install.
Installation steps
You are installing the Rational ETL server on Windows with a user account that has administrator privileges.
- Repeat the installation steps 1-8 from the Installing the Rational Insight data server section.
- On the "Select features to install" page, choose all of the items under the main Report Server package (see Figure 4), and click Next.
Figure 4. Installing the Rational Insight report server packages
- On the "Fill in the configurations for the packages" in the directory tree panel on the left, under the Common Configurations entry, you should see two entries: Common Licensing and Application Server.
- Select the Common Licensing entry.
- Here, you can enter the host name and port of one or more Rational License Key servers that will host your Rational Insight licenses. You can also leave these values empty and enter this information after the installation or at the end of your 180-day trial license, which will activate until you enter valid License server details.
- Click Next to advance to the Application Server leaf of this page:
- In the drop-down menu for choices of server installations, select WebSphere Application Server 7.0 (new installation).
- Leave the port that WebSphere will use as 9080 unless it poses a conflict.
- Check the Enable administrative security check box, and enter a user name and password to use to make any necessary future administrative changes within the WebSphere Administrative console.
- Click Next.
- On the Review the summary information page, click Install.
- After you receive a successful installation notification, click Finish.
- Close the Launchpad.
Post-installation steps
- Copy the following DB2 driver files from the DB2 data server client installation directory:
- db2java.zip
- db2jcc.jar
- db2jcc_license_cu.jar
- db2policy.jar
- Insight installation directory\cognos\webapps\p2pd\WEB-INF\lib
- Insight installation directory\AppServer\profiles\RationalReport\installedApps\hostnameNode01Cell\IBM Cognos 8.ear\p2pd.war\WEB-INF\lib
- The Rational Insight report server also requires that you repeat post-installation step 1 from the Installing the Rational Insight ETL server section.
- Launch the IBM Cognos Configuration utility by selecting Start > IBM Rational Insight > IBM Cognos 8 > IBM Cognos Configuration, and enter these values (also shown in Figure 5:
- Select Content Store found under Data Access > Content Manager.
- Select DB2 database for the Type entry.
- For the database server and port number, enter the hostname and port for the DB2 server that is located on the same machine as the Rational Insight data server.
- Change the value for the "Database name" field from CM to
RICMfor the Content Manager (on case-sensitive platforms, you might need to use lowercase: ricm).
- Save your changes by selecting File > Save.
- Close the IBM Cognos Configuration utility.
Figure 5. Setting the Content Store values
- Start the Rational Insight Server: Start > WebSphere > App Server v7.0 > Profiles > RationalReport > Start the Server. Wait 5-10 minutes for start-up and initialization to occur.
- Use the web-based IBM Cognos Administration tool to update the data source for the Data Warehouse to provide correct connection details for Rational Insight to reach the SAMPLEDW.
- Launch Rational Insight: Start > IBM Rational Insight > Open Rational Insight
- On the right hand side, within the IBM Rational Insight ribbon, click the Launch arrow and follow these instructions to update the connection string to provide the correct host and port information to the DB2 server that co-exists on the same machine as your Rational Insight data server.
Run sample reports
Your deployment of Rational Insight for the Enterprise is finished. Test out your distributed installation by running some of the available reports and dashboards that Rational Insight includes.
- Launch Rational Insight: Start > IBM Rational Insight > Open Rational Insight.
- Under the Public Folders tab, select Sample Report Definitions.
- Browse and run the reports under the Dashboard Reports or Data Warehouse Reports folder.
Figure 6 is the Defect Distribution across Component report, an example of the many reports Rational Insight provides that you can use. You can find this report by selecting Public Folders > Sample Report Definitions > Dashboard Reports > Project Level Reports.
Figure 6. The Defect Distribution across Component report
In deploying Rational Insight to your enterprise, consider installing various components across a distributed topology to capitalize on the division and specialization of available computing resources. This article showed, step by step, how to install Rational Insight components across three separate machines to allow certain functions of Rational Insight to benefit from exclusive use and specialization of hardware resources.
The author would like to thank Arthur Ryman for his review of this article.
- For more information, start with the Rational Insight page on developerWorks, which provides links to all related important information. For additional questions relevant to this article, you might also want to check the Enterprise-level deployment of Rational Insight user assistance.
- To learn how to create a DB2 alias, see either the CATALOG DATABASE command or the DB2 Configuration Assistant tool instructions.
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BNY Mellon Assets Reach Record on Stock Market Rebound
Bank of New York Mellon Corp. and State Street Corp., the two biggest independent custody banks, said client assets rose to a record last quarter, helped by higher stock markets and acquisitions.
BNY Mellon, the largest custody bank, said assets under custody and administration rose 12 percent to $25 trillion, lifting revenue and fueling a 15 percent gain in fourth-quarter net income. State Street said assets under custody increased 15 percent to a $15.9 trillion, also a record. Net income fell 84 percent because of costs stemming from job cuts and the sale of securities to bolster capital.
Both companies signaled they aim to restore dividends this year, after spending at least $4.4 billion in total on acquisitions last year. BNY, led by Robert Kelly, bought PNC Financial Service Group Inc.'s investment-servicing business for $2.31 billion, and State Street acquired the securities-servicing unit of Italy's Intesa Sanpaolo SpA for 1.28 billion euros ($1.72 billion).
"Management know their shareholders want dividends and most likely will try to move forward with dividend increases" in the first and second quarters of this year, Tom Lewandowski, an analyst at Edward Jones & Co. in St. Louis, said in an interview.
BNY Mellon fell 54 cents, or 1.7 percent, to $31.48 at 4:15 p.m. in New York Stock Exchange composite trading. State Street declined $2.06, or 4.1 percent, to $48. Northern Trust Corp., which reported a 22 percent decline in profit, fell $3.15, or 5.7 percent, to $52.49, the most since Oct. 21, 2009.
Job Cuts
BNY Mellon's net income climbed to $679 million, or 54 cents a share, from $593 million, or 49 cents, a year earlier. Analysts had expected the New York-based company to report a profit of 56 cents a share, according to the average of 14 estimates in a Bloomberg survey.
State Street's net income fell to $81 million, or 16 cents a share, from $498 million, or $1, a year earlier, the Boston-based company said today in statement. Operating profit of 87 cents a share beat the 86-cent average estimate of 20 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.
Net income was reduced by $156 million, or 21 cents a share, because of restructuring costs connected to its decision to cut 1,400 jobs. The move will save as much as $625 million annually before taxes by the end of 2014 while triggering $450 million in restructuring expenses over four years, the company has said.
Basel Rules
BNY Mellon and State Street said they should be able to raise payouts to shareholders, even as they prepare to comply with tougher capital requirements under the Basel III banking rules agreed to last year. The new rules more than triple the highest-quality capital banks must hold.
State Street sold $11 billion of mortgage-backed and other asset-backed securities in December, replacing them with less-risky investments, to boost its capital ratios. The sale reduced earnings by $344 million in the fourth quarter, or 67 cents a share.
The firm's tier 1 common ratio was 18 percent under current rules and an estimated 9.4 percent under Basel III requirements. Basel III rules require banks to have a ratio of tier 1 common equity to risk-weighted assets of 7 percent by 2019, according to BNY Mellon.
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"We're in a position to comply with Basel III requirements far ahead of their implementation dates," State Street Chief Executive Officer Joseph "Jay" Hooley said during a conference call with analysts. Raising State Street's dividend to the pre-crisis level of 24 cents a share is his "first priority," Hooley said.
The firm cut the quarterly dividend to a penny in February 2009 to preserve capital as deteriorating global credit markets created unrealized losses in the company's investment portfolio. BNY Mellon lowered its dividend to 9 cents a share from 24 cents in April 2009.
"We are well-positioned for the new capital regime," Chief Executive Officer Robert Kelly said in a telephone interview. He said the company could comply by the end of this year and should still be able to return cash to investors.
Both companies are waiting for permission from the Federal Reserve before taking action to boost dividends or start stock buybacks. Kelly said he hoped to hear back from the Fed in the first half of the year.
Custody banks have been squeezed for the past two years by record low interest rates, which reduce the profit margins they earn when investing or lending cash deposited by fund clients, and when lending securities. The Fed has kept its benchmark lending rate at between zero and 0.25 percent since December 2008.
Kelly estimated that every 1 percentage point increase in short-term interest rates would add almost $500 million to his company's pre-tax income.
BNY Mellon and State Street have compensated for low interest rates through acquisitions. In addition to the PNC deal, Kelly last year bought BHF Asset Servicing GmbH for 253 million euros ($341 million) to expand in Europe. State Street finished the purchase of Mourant International Finance Administration in the U.K.'s Channel Islands in April.
Northern Trust, which hasn't been able to offset the impact of low interest rates with acquisitions, reported a 22 percent drop in fourth-quarter net income. Assets under custody rose 12 percent to $4.08 trillion.
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Northern Trust derives the highest portion of its revenue, 26 percent, from net interest income among the three largest independent custody banks. For BNY Mellon, that number is 20 percent.
Rising markets helped all three banks as the average value of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index in the fourth quarter was 11 percent higher than a year earlier. Fee revenue at BNY Mellon jumped 16 percent to $2.97 billion. Fee revenue at State Street rose 14 percent to $1.74 billion.
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Yeah he looked good, was a bit of test for him really and he came through. Shailezov seemed to know a few tricks, that Froch-style jab from low was catching Tso a lot. He was getting hit early but Shailezov was always most dangerous early on.
Tso has a good engine, throws a lot and doesn't mind a bit of a fight. Good for the crowd.
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An Obscure Enzyme May Help Predict Which Cancers Will Spread
Most cancer patients don't die of their initial tumor. It's metastasis —or spread of the cancer to other organs — that ultimately kills them.
That's why a lot of researchers are looking hard for chemicals that predict whether a particular patient's tumor is likely to metastasize. A team of federal researchers claims to have found such a marker — and they say early tests show it's very promising.
The new marker was a surprising find because researchers didn't think it had any relation to cancer. It's a molecular variation of an enzyme that's involved in activating insulin and other hormones.
Biologist Y. Peng Loh of the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development and her colleagues call it "a major breakthrough in biomarker discovery" and say it will prove "invaluable" in predicting cancer recurrence. Their report was released today in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
The claim is based mainly on 99 patients with liver cancer and another 14 who had rare endocrine tumors called pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas.
Patients whose tumors had high levels of the new marker were much more likely to have cancer recurrence than those who had low levels.
In the liver cancer patients, for instance, a high level predicted metastasis in nine cases out of 10. When levels of the marker were low, patients had a 76 percent chance of being cancer-free two years later.
For now, the use of the marker to unravel cancer is strictly experimental. But Loh says the team was particularly impressed that the new marker was a better predictor than standard "staging" of the liver cancers, based on the size of the primary tumor, the presence of cancer cells in nearby lymph nodes, and evidence of distant spread.
For instance, among 18 patients with early-stage liver cancer, five had high levels of the new marker – and four of these had cancer recurrence within two years. "These patients would normally be told their cancers are not likely to recur and they do not receive further treatment after the surgery," Loh says. But the preliminary marker results suggest such patients should be watched closely for recurrence – despite their favorable early stage.
On the other hand, Loh says, "we found in 12 liver cancer patients with stage IV (advanced) cancer, five of them with very low levels [of the market] did not show recurrence of their cancer two years after surgery." Such patients might not need to be treated aggressively.
Other cancer experts were interested in the new results, but not yet convinced.
"The striking difference in recurrence rates is certainly intriguing," Dr. Barbara Burtness of Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia told Shots. "But I don't think there's enough here to draw the conclusion that this is a new biomarker."
Burtness would want results from more patients, and a lot more detail on them than the current study provides.
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