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Police said that five people died and about 30 were
unaccounted for after the early morning blaze ripped through
the Residence du Havre in the small community of
L'Isle-Verte, about 230 km northeast of Quebec City.
A police official said severely cold weather was making
working conditions difficult, and he did not know how soon
police would be able to update the death toll.
"So many things could happen that we can't plan on - the cold
is extreme, the equipment could freeze, we could run into
other issues," said Guy Lapointe, spokesman for police in the
eastern province of Quebec.
The ice formed after firefighters, working in temperatures
that dropped as low as 22 Celsius, spent many hours dousing
the building with water. In some cases the resulting ice is
30 to 60 cm thick.
"The method that we're using now with regards to melting the
ice is we're using steam," Lapointe said.
"The steam is being used for us to be able to advance at the
scene, being able to preserve the integrity of potential
The cold was so intense that teams of police, firefighters
and coroner's office officials could only work in 45-minute
Police have not managed to track down all the residents who
might have been in the building, and Lapointe said it is
possible that nonresidents had been in the building.
Officials said they do not know what caused the fire and
Lapointe appealed to local residents to provide any videos or
pictures they may have taken after the fire started shortly
after Wednesday midnight (local time).
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-- Catholic University of America
"With critical acumen, Craig Keener presents a comprehensive account of the study of the historical Jesus. It will be a boon for all readers -- inquisitive laypeople, pastors, students of the Gospels, and biblical colleagues."
James H. Charlesworth
-- Princeton Theological Seminary
"Keener proves why the Evangelists' view of Jesus is preferable to most modern constructs: the Gospels, as ancient biographies, reflect eyewitness accounts of Jesus and provide the only valid sources for reconstructing the historical Jesus. . . . This book is exceptional for its breadth and its captivating prose."
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-- University of Heidelberg
"Historical Jesus research has developed in the last decades from a 'postminimalism' concerning the authenticity of Jesus traditions to a new 'moderate confidence' in the historicity of the Gospels. Craig Keener's book is both a milestone and a boundary stone in this development. By contextualizing the sources of Jesus research and Jesus himself, Keener succeeds in increasing the historical plausibility of the Gospels to a degree that is exceptional among critical exegetes. Therefore this book must be read and taken seriously -- both by those exegetes who are reluctant to support this 'historical-critical maximalism' in Jesus research and by those reluctant to contextualize Jesus in such a way. But both will enjoy reading what Keener has written with an open and critical mind."

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We were visiting our grandson for his birthday and decided to stay over so we could see them the next day...booked online with Super8.com that is where the fun ended. Everything about our stay was horrible (other than seeing the grandchildren)! Because we visited as late as possible we arrived at the hotel very late so we didn't leave but should have.
The night staff was friendly but very unprofessionally dressed to be greeting hotel guests!
Our room had no phone so we had no way to communicate with the front desk other than to get dressed and go all the way back up front!
The electrical outlets sparked when you tried to plug things in (great for our electronics I'm sure) and most didn't have covers on them at all.
TV was unplugged so my husband had to maneuver around the heavy chest to get to the cord and plug it in (again it sparked) so he could watch the television.
Toilet wouldn't flush properly.
Bathroom door knob was coming out of the door.
Outside in the light of the morning we could see that the landscaping and shrubs were a mess.
There were doors to the outside from the rooms but we were told they were exit doors only.
No wireless internet had to use the connection for the Holiday Inn which I never saw in the area so I'm not sure what that was all about.
Bed was horribly uncomfortable...woke up with a back ache.
Security was a concern since the safety chain (yes they still had the old style chain) was broken.
Pictures depict most of this but we managed to miss the door knob issue when we were taking pictures.
On checkout we were refused a receipt. The staff stated that is they way it was done since we booked on-line. We told her we booked on-line a lot and never had been refused a receipt but it didn't help she still refused.
There were crickets crawling all over the place but specifically on the floor and walls in the room.
A mysterious spider showed up on the bed the next morning.
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SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt - President Bush said Saudi Arabia's small increase in oil production will not solve soaring U.S. fuel prices, but he defended the wealthy kingdom Saturday against American lawmakers "screaming the loudest" for Riyadh to open its spigots.
Bush also encountered bitter Arab criticism that he favors Israel too heavily and was bluntly questioned by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak about whether he is serious about peacemaking. Bush said he was "absolutely committed" to reaching an Israeli-Palestinian agreement by the end of his presidency next January. But there was no sign during Bush's five-day Mideast trip that the two sides are moving closer toward an accord.
"It breaks my heart to see the vast potential of the Palestinian people really wasted," Bush said. Pledging the creation of an independent homeland, Bush said, "It'll be an opportunity to end the suffering that takes place in the Palestinian territories."
With Israel's occupation of Arab lands captured in the 1967 Mideast war entering its fifth decade, most Palestinians live in dire poverty.
On the last stop of his travels, Bush held a rapid-fire series of diplomatic meetings at this posh Red Sea resort, famous for its brilliantly clear waters and sea-snorkling reefs. After talks with Mubarak, Bush saw Afghan President Hamid Karzai and had dinner with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. On Sunday, he will confer with the leaders of Pakistan, Jordan and Iraq. He said every meeting advances prospects for peace.
As oil prices hit another record high on Friday, Saudi King Abdullah rebuffed Bush's request for higher oil production to take the pressure off prices.
The high prices are a political nightmare in a presidential election year for Bush and his would-be Republican successor, Sen. John McCain. Bush said he cautioned the king about the repercussions of skyrocketing prices.
"I said very plainly, I said, 'You've got to be concerned about the effects of high oil prices on some of the biggest customers in the world. And not only that, of course, high energy prices (are) going to cause countries like mine to accelerate our move toward alternative energy."
Saudi officials said the kingdom was pumping all the oil that its customers want and that production had been increased by 300,000 barrels a day earlier this month.
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Banco do Brasil, Bradesco, JBS, MMX, Randon: Brazilian Stocks
The following companies are having unusual price changes in Sao Paulo trading. Stock symbols are in parentheses and prices are as of 9:14 a.m. New York time. Preferred shares are usually the most-traded class of stock.
The Bovespa stock index decreased 0.5 percent to 69,145.69.
Lenders fell after Brazil's central bank raised reserve requirements on cash and time deposits to slow consumer lending that's growing 20 percent annually and prevent a credit bubble.
Banco do Brasil SA (BBAS3 BS), Latin America's largest bank by assets, fell 2.4 percent to 32.69 reais.
Banco Bradesco SA (BBDC4 BS), the second-biggest bank by market value, dropped 1.7 percent to 34.08 reais.
Banco Santander Brasil SA (SANB11 BS), the Brazilian unit of Spain's biggest bank, lost 2.4 percent to 22.79 reais.
Itau Unibanco Holding SA (ITUB4 BS) plunged 1.8 percent to 39.41 reais. Brazil's largest bank by market value raised $7.1 billion in credit lines from the U.S. Federal Reserve from 2008 to 2010 to stimulate lending in Brazil during the financial crisis, Sao Paulo-based newspaper Valor Economico reported, citing a U.S. Congress report released yesterday.
JBS SA (JBSS3 BS), the world's biggest beef producer, declined 1.5 percent to 6.63 reais. Standard & Poor's Ratings Services assigned a 'BB-' corporate credit rating to Greeley, Colorado-based Pilgrim's Pride Corp., owned by JBS.
MMX Mineracao & Metalicos SA (MMXM3 BS) gained 1.3 percent to 12.66 reais. The companies controlled by Brazilian billionaire Eike Batista -- MMX, LLX Logistica SA and Portx Operacoes Portuarias SA -- bought land in Rio de Janeiro state to allow them to potentially double iron-ore shipping capacity at a port.
Randon SA Implementos e Participacoes (RAPT4 BS), the Brazilian auto-parts maker, tumbled 2.4 percent to 13.09 reais. Brazil's treasury will end a subsidy on interest rates charged by the state development bank, BNDES, on purchases of equipment and machinery, Valor Economico reported, citing Finance Minister Guido Mantega.


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Compressive Cooperative Obstacle Mapping in Mobile Networks
In this paper, the authors consider a mobile cooperative network that is tasked with building an obstacle map in an environment. They propose a framework that allows the robots to build the obstacle map non-invasively and with a small number of wireless channel measurements. By extending their previous work on sparse obstacle mapping, they show how the nodes can exploit the sparse representation of the map in order to build it with minimal sensing. The paper allows the robots to efficiently map an area before entering it. They propose two approaches based on random and coordinated wireless measurements. Their simulation and experimental results show the superior performance of the proposed framework.


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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Former Auburn star Nick Fairley is
trying not to get stressed out by fluctuations in his NFL draft
The Lombardi Award-winning defensive tackle went from buzz that
he would be the first player picked to being forecast as a likely
top-10 choice amid questions about his work ethic.
Fairley says it "would be a very stressful deal for me" if he
paid attention to that talk and says his work ethic is fine.
He has had private interviews with Denver, Buffalo, Cincinnati,
Cleveland, Tennessee and Washington. All six teams pick in the top
ESPN draft analyst Todd McShay says there are concerns about
Fairley's work ethic and the fierce pass rusher's ability against
the run. McShay also says Fairley has the talent to be an impact
NFL player.
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Texas's businesses think the state's tax system is mediocre and best and disastrous at worse.
Business owners and lobbyists on Tuesday shared their views with the House Ways and Means Committee on how to improve the way the state taxes businesses.
The Texas margins tax, also known as the franchise tax, levies a tax based on company's revenue, after some exclusions. Big capital-intensive businesses say the current tax is barely acceptable, while service industries complain the system is unfair to them.
Since the Texas Constitution bans income taxes, that means some companies that lose money have to pay taxes anyway.
Democratic lawmakers complain that because the business tax consistently underperforms. Republicans have promised to improve the system. The Legislature meets again in January, when they will likely amend the tax.


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Georgia Slowe (born 3 June 1966 in North London) is an English actress.
Georgia grew up in a Jewish home as the daughter of parents, Michael and Zsuzsi. Georgia has one sister, Tania, who is three years older.
Her Hungarian-born mother, Zsuzsi, was hidden in a cellar during the Second World War after her mother, Litzy, was murdered by Hungarian soldiers. Her father had been taken to Russia by the Hungarians as a slave labourer. Her grandfather survived the Holocaust and was reunited with his daughter after the liberation. Zsuzsi escaped the country after the 1956 revolution at the age of 16.
Georgia's father, Michael, is of Russian descent.
Georgia began acting when she was a child and in a career that has spanned nearly 30 years, she has worked alongside Angela Lansbury (The Company of Wolves), Jenny Agutter (Secret Places), Oliver Reed (Black Arrow) and Richard Chamberlain (Wallenberg). As a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Georgia has starred in numerous theatre productions, including Romeo & Juliet, where she played the doomed heroine twice, alongside Mark Rylance and David Harewood. She and David had a short relationship during the production. In 1989, Georgia was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for her performance in Romeo & Juliet.
She made a guest appearance on The Family Channel's Zorro as the Native American maiden, Keenona, in its episode "Rites of Passage".
Her Jewish heritage allowed Georgia to bring some authenticity to her roles in two productions based on the Holocaust; The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank with Mary Steenburgen and Wallenberg with Richard Chamberlain
In 2006, Georgia appeared in the long-running serial drama Emmerdale as the new lady of the manor, Perdita Hyde-Sinclair.[1] Her final appearance was broadcast on 22 July 2008, an episode which, for the first time in over three months, beat BBC soap EastEnders in the ratings battle.
In 2011, she appeared in the short film Lab Rats.
Georgia is currently writing a script for a television sitcom with comedian and actor Alistair Barrie.[citation needed]
Georgia has set up a film production company Slowe Motion Film She has made a short film Four Tails which she wrote, produced and appeared in. It has been accepted into film festivals all over the world. She is currently working on her next project.
Personal life[edit]
Georgia married fashion designer Ray Kelvin, the founder of the Ted Baker clothing chain, in May 1993. They have two sons together. She and Kelvin divorced in 2000. She currently lives with portrait photographer Stuart McClymont.
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Apple TV: The Latest of Many Viewing Options
Over the past year, electronics manufacturers, content providers and rental companies have made a number of partnerships that give consumers more viewing options.
TVs, Blu-ray DVD players, game consoles and cellphones, among other devices, have the ability to download and play movies or stream them online.
The new Apple TV, which consumers can order now for delivery this fall, further expands the field.
The $99 device will stream content from Netflix, YouTube or via iTunes on a synced computer or devices such as the iPad or iPhone. Apple also will extend its rental offerings with 99-cent TV episodes and $4.99 new-release movies.
Although only Fox and ABC have signed up to offer TV-episode rentals, other studios are likely to follow suit. Many already offer free full episodes online for days or weeks after the original air date, so moving to a paid model would be attractive. Yet the cost is low enough that consumers with selective TV-watching habits are unlikely to balk -- and may even see renting their TV shows via Apple TV as a good alternative to a cable subscription and DVR.
Despite its allure, consumers may want to pause before shelling out for an Apple TV, which offers pretty much what you'd get from a web-connected TV or Blu-ray player. Depending on the technology you already own and your current movie-rental habits, the device may be one you don't need.
Here's a look at some of the Internet-connected viewing technology currently available:
Digital Video Players: These players, which instantly stream videos from websites like Netflix, are some of the best deals around for content and ease of use. Models including Roku and Apple TV work with existing home-theater systems and computers and are plug-and-play.
High-Tech TVs: Plenty of people already have a big, high-definition television set, so manufacturers are using features like 3D 7 and Internet connectivity to drive sales. Best Buy, for instance, sells many TVs that connect with a variety of services, including Netflix and online rental and streaming service CinemaNow.
Gaming Systems: Consoles can be a good choice even for nongamers. For example, the PlayStation 3, with a $300 price tag, is on par with some of the better Blu-ray players, and offers high-definition streaming through Netflix as well as on its own online store. The player also is rumored to have a partnership with video website Hulu in the works. The Xbox and Wii gaming systems also offer Netflix content.
Cellphones: The iPhone offers rented and streamed content from the Apple store, as well as apps for Netflix and Hulu. The Samsung Epic 4G, available later this month through Sprint, will have a service to buy or rent TV shows and movies.
-- Kelli B. Grant
Single Ladies, High Earners
The earning power of young single women has surpassed that of their male peers in metropolitan areas around the U.S., a shift driven by the growing ranks of women who attend college and move on to high-earning jobs.
In 2008, single, childless women between the ages of 22 and 30 earned more than their male counterparts in most U.S. cities, with incomes that were 8% greater on average, according to an analysis of Census Bureau data released last week by Reach Advisors, a consumer-research firm.
The greatest disparity is in Atlanta, where young, childless women were paid 121% the level of their male counterparts, according to Reach Advisors.
Women have gotten a leg up for several reasons. Among them: They're more likely than men to attend college, raising their earning potential. Between 2006 and 2008, 32.7% of women ages 25 to 34 had a bachelor's degree or higher, compared with 25.8% of men, according to the Census data. And men have been disproportionately hit by heavy job losses in blue-collar industries.
While these particular women earn more than their male peers, women on the whole haven't reached equal status in any particular job or education level. For instance, women with a bachelor's degree had median earnings of $39,571 between 2006 and 2008, compared with $59,079 for men at the same education level, according to the Census data.
And women tend to see wages stagnate or fall after they have children.
-- Conor Dougherty
The Wall Street Journal
Women on Wall Street
Wall Street has long been called a boys' club. That label has become even more accurate over the past decade.
Women are disappearing from the ranks of finance workers, despite a decrease in sexual-discrimination charges and a rash of new corporate programs to attract and retain them. Meanwhile, the number of men in the business has surged.
In the past 10 years, 141,000 women disappeared from the industry, while the ranks of men in the industry grew by 389,000, according to a review of data provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Women currently make up 54% of the country's financial work force -- down from 57% in 2000.
The discrepancy is particularly pronounced at brokerages, investment banks and asset-management companies.
It's possible women bore the brunt of finance-industry layoffs in the recent recession and sexism is still a problem in U.S. banks, insurance companies and real-estate firms. But other forces may be at play.
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Falcondance (The Kiesha'ra Series #3)by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
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Nicias has never felt completely at home among the avians and serpiente in Wyvern's Court, despite his loyalty to Oliza Shardae Cobriana, the heir to both thrones. He is a falcon, the son of two exiles from Anhmik–and images of this distant island have always haunted his dreams. But when Nicias's visions become more like reality, his parents have
Nicias has never felt completely at home among the avians and serpiente in Wyvern's Court, despite his loyalty to Oliza Shardae Cobriana, the heir to both thrones. He is a falcon, the son of two exiles from Anhmik–and images of this distant island have always haunted his dreams. But when Nicias's visions become more like reality, his parents have no choice but to send him back to the homeland–and a royal falcon–they've tried their best to forget.
If Araceli won't bind Nicias's newfound magic, it could destroy him. In a place where everyone is a pawn, only one other woman has the potential to save Nicias. But she holds the keys to a dangerous power struggle that will force Nicias to choose between his duty–and his destiny.
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- Random House Children's Books
- Publication date:
- 05/08/2007
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My breath stilled for an instant as I watched the blade slice a hairsbreadth from the fair skin of Oliza Shardae Cobriana, nineteen-year-old princess of Wyvern's Court.
"Relax." The reassurance came from the cobra beside me, Oliza's only cousin, Salem Cobriana. "I've seen her perform this blade dance a hundred times in the nest." He shot me an amused look as he added,
"With dulled blades."
The dagger went up once more as Oliza sank to the ground, closing her eyes and bowing her head before clapping her hands behind her back to catch the weapon one final time.
Members of the audience approached the dais, where Oliza remained perfectly poised as her fans placed flowers and small gifts in front of her. This had by no means been her debut, but it had been her first time performing the jaes'falnasthe blade dances that her parents had almost forbidden her to learn.
After seeing her perform, and seeing just how sharp the performance blades were, part of me wished they had.
A serpiente dancer could, and often did, risk her life in pursuit of her trade. Oliza Shardae Cobriana, however, was not just a dancer, but heir to two thrones. Her mother, Danica Shardae, was the avian Tuuli Thea, and her father, Zane Cobriana, was Diente to the serpiente. Oliza's reign would mean the merging of two monarchies that had, until our parents' generation, been at war for thousands of years. But first Oliza had to choose her king, a decision for which all of Wyvern's Court waited anxiously, and one that had led many a young man to try to court her.
Oliza smiled at me, meeting my gaze just long enough to express her exhilaration before a petite golden-haired girl managed to slip through the crowd to stand next to me. Surprise washed over Oliza's face when she saw the unexpected guest, and she quickly came toward us.
"I can see why your parents objected to your studying these dances," Sive Shardae remarked, admiration clear in her voice despite her chastising words. "My mother would never have allowed it." Sive was three years younger than Oliza, but was the younger sister of Oliza's mother. Though still very avian in her mannerisms, she had made a point of stepping away from her avian tutors and spending more and more time with the serpiente in the past few years, learning their ways. She had not bridged the gap between the two cultures as completely as Oliza had, but that she was here at all spoke volumes. Twenty years earlier, a young avian woman would not have been permitted to walk alone through the marketmuch less watch the "scandalous" dances of the serpiente.
She's not quite alone, I thought as I scanned the crowd. Sive's alistair, Prentice, was standing just beyond the edge of Oliza's audience, his gaze never leaving his charge. I watched him carefully, for out of this group, he was always the most likely to cause a disturbance.
The raven had made his distrust of serpents very clear, and he became especially irritable when Sive insisted on spending time with the dancers. Serpiente hugged and flirted casually with almost everyone, but Sive's alistair bristled at having to tolerate that kind of attention being paid to his pair bond.
Salem, leaving on his way back to the dancers' nest, greeted the raven politely. Prentice nodded curtly at the serpiente. He had argued with Salem in the past, but that day they managed to walk by each other without raised voices.
Progress, at least.
"Ridiculous," Oliza said to Sive, oblivious to the frosty moment between the two men. "No one has died performing a blade dance in sixty years."
Sive looked at me as if seeking reason, before realizing that Oliza was teasing her. Sive's scandalized expression made her appear even younger than her seventeen years.
It made me think back to when I had been a child and my parents had first brought me to see Wyvern's Court. I remembered the day fifteen years before as vividly as if it was playing before me that moment.
I stood beside my parents, trying to mimic their careful attention as they watched Oliza and her family. My mother, Kel Silvermead, was captain of the Royal Flight, one of the elite guards who protected Oliza's mother, the Tuuli Thea; my father was her second-in-command. Their attention never strayed from their charges, but mine shifted momentarily to the rolling hills and gentle valley where architects had been laboring for years.
Oliza's grandmother, Nacola Shardae, was there, with a nurse next to her holding the sleepy infant Sive. Salem, exactly twenty months older than Oliza, suddenly pulled away from his mother and father to whisper something in the princess's ear.
Without warning, both royal children took off down the hill. Adults tried to follow, but Oliza and Salem thought it was a great game to hide in the empty market stalls from their parents and guards, deaf to all the worried shouts.
Oliza touched my arm, startling me from my memories.
"You look skies away," she said softly. I realized suddenly that the crowd had dispersed.
"I was thinking about our first day here," I said, though I knew that wasn't enough of an explanation. It was not my habit to let my mind wandernot when I was with Oliza. I looked around uneasily and tried to account for the missing minutes.
"I hardly remember it," Oliza admitted, not noticing my disquiet as she led us from the market. This was our ritual; we walked and talked until we reached the woods, and then, beyond the edges of the court,
we changed shape and spread wing. "We were so young. I just remember you finding me, after I got lost in the woods. No matter what kind of trouble I got into, it seemed you were always there."
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As the WorldWide Director of our Supply Chain Solution Areas, I'm glad to welcome you to Microsoft's Supply Chain blog. You'll see from the Bios of many of our contributors, that I've enrolled some very experienced supply chain professionals to discuss how Microsoft technologies and applications, and our Partners solutions can help you address your supply chain challenges. In the current economic climate, the supply chain discipline is more important than ever – right balance between supply chain cost and customer service will mean short term survival, and long term growth awaits those with supply chain smarts to get the right balance between supply chain cost and customer service, while those that don't will succumb ('crash and burn', seems a bit harsh, but perhaps a more apt description).
In this inaugural blog, I'll share 10 Supply Chain Megatrends that we've compiled from discussions with our key customers, ISV and SI partners, and the Industry Analysts. I'd encourage feedback as we believe that each one of these Megatrends has an implication on Enterprise Architecture – or without giving away too much about future blog entries, "Multi-Enterprise" Architecture – and shape our investments in enabling the supply chain technology to address them.
The Challenges Facing People, Processes and Technology
First, a summary of the supply chain challenges that customers tell us they are struggling to address with their current people, processes and technology:
· Increased pace of Flat-World operations. In a global, networked economy, and 'Flat-World' operations. Supply chain cycle times continue to decrease, while the pace of business change continues to increase.
· Shorter product lifecycles. Global competition and increased customer demands are forcing manufacturers to bring products to market faster and cheaper.
· Product proliferation and complexity. Product differentiation strategies have led to increasingly complex products, produced in numerous configurations, often engineered assembled or manufactured 'to order'.
· Global, networked supply chain. To deal with product proliferation and complexity, today's manufacturers outsource much of their production and logistics and participate in a multi-enterprise networked supply chain that requires constant communication and collaboration with their supply chain partners.
· Risk created by increased demand and supply volatility. Today's 'Flat-World' provides consumers with transparency of availability and costs that can create massive fluctuations in demand for products, while extended global supply chains can often be less responsive, creating supply shortfalls..
· Increased regulatory oversight. Manufacturers face escalating regulatory compliance requirements that include full auditability of the source, content, movement, use and disposal of their products, across their increasingly complex and distributed multi-enterprise supply chains.
· Focus on cost reduction and increased efficiency. Despite the increased complexity and reduced cycle times in today's supply chains, continued cost reduction and constant improvements in operational efficiency are certain for today's manufacturers.
Ten Supply Chain MegaTrends
Given these challenges, executives (thankfully) no longer equate the Supply Chain Management discipline as simply sourcing materials at the lowest cost. Microsoft Industry and Supply Chain Solution Management teams, in surveying its customers, ISV and SI partners, and consulting with independent Industry Analysts has identified the following Supply Chain investment Megatrends:
1. Supply Chain Performance has become synonymous with business performance as most CEOs recognize the strategic value of supply chain. Supply chain dashboards are being created that provide real-time visibility of end to end supply chain performance, assembling data from internal and trading partner systems
2. Multi-Enterprise collaboration in real-time is becoming a necessity as end-to-end cycle times continue to compress, and partner performance increases supply chain risk. Demand, cost, quality, compliance, delivery and capacity data is being shared through multi-enterprise portals, and aided by unified communications for real-time collaboration on operational events
3. Sensor Enabled Supply Chain, whether through barcodes, mobile devices or RFID, is critical to providing real-time visibility of end-to-end supply chain compliance and performance. Automated data collection is no longer driven by customer mandates. Manufacturers are instrumenting their supply chains in the same way that they automated their production facilities, to increase productivity, flexibility, accuracy, and real-time visibility, that yield positive ROI.
4. Demand Driven Supply Chain leaders are achieving superior financial performance by sensing, shaping and responding to demand faster than their competitors. While there are many cultural and architectural steps to becoming 'demand-driven', one of the most prominent are new 360 degree, event driven Sales, inventory and Operations Planning processes that provides multi-enterprise collaboration that facilitates joint value creation with supply chain partners in dealing with inevitable demand and supply spikes
5. Lean Supply Chain thinking is being modified as traditional lean thinking creates increasingly brittle supply chains in today's complex and highly volatile demand-driven economy. Technology is being adopted to scale lean practices across the enterprise, and adapted to leverage smart math to deal with the complexities introduced by high product mix, high volume manufacturing and highly distributed supply chains. Mobile technologies, RFID, supply network design and modeling, and lean planning and execution are helping achieve the balance between lean and agile supply chains.
6. Supply Chain Business Continuity is being put into sharp focus as outsourcing, talent shortage and increasing demand volatility increase supply chain risk. Supply network design and inventory optimization tools are now run routinely to tune supply chain configuration and operating parameters. Supply chain 'War Rooms' are providing highly visual and interactive monitoring of overall supply chain performance and early warning of risks.
7. Low Cost Country Sourcing continues to rise, but decisions are increasingly balanced by consideration of associated increased lead times, poor product quality, and increased supply chain risk. Manufacturers are implementing more rigorous SLAs that require suppliers/contract manufacturers to electronically provide real-time performance data that is monitored on Supplier Scorecards that provide early warning of potential risks.
8. Supply Chain Outsourcing continues to rise. Over 92% of companies surveyed already outsource some aspect of their production, and over 40% intend to expand their supply chain outsourcing, particularly as the complexity of logistics increases, and the supply chain talent shortage grows. Collaboration between trading partners and their outsourced service providers is driving B2B integration between on-premise back office systems and hosted or cloud-based supply chain services.
9. Shifting Demographics are forcing a major redesign of global supply chains. Across all industries, there's whole-scale redesign of supply chains to balance low cost sourcing opportunities with new regions of high growth. Beyond investment in supply network design tools, the scarcity of supply chain talent is driving investment in global dashboards to maximize productivity of scarce experts, while new intuitive people ready supply chain planning and execution applications are required to guide the workforce through increasingly complex supply chain operational decision making.
10.Green Supply Chain designs are becoming a reality as fuel costs and increased consumer focus on sustainability allow alignment of corporate social and fiscal responsibilities. Manufacturers and Retailers have been quick to recognize the financial benefits that can be achieved from reductions in fuel costs from supply network re-design and more efficient supply chain execution. Some are integrating supply chain design with their product design and carbon footprint reporting, driving the need for enhanced collaboration and reporting from their supply chain partners.
A(nother) Call to Action
I'll dig deeper into each of the Megatrends in subsequent articles, but I think I've provided enough hints in this introduction, that I don't believe these Megatrends will be well addressed by legacy ERP systems designed for streamlining processes within a single enterprise; or Advanced Planning systems that can't keep pace with the continuous adaptation and compressed cycle times of today's supply chains. While we can leave and leverage those investments with the Microsoft Supply Chain Platform (which we'll also describe in future blogs), there's a real need for a new class of "Multi-Enterprise Business Applications (MEBA)", which is where Cloud Computing, Software plus Services and Windows Azure provide some exciting new opportunities. Let's not fall into the trap of allowing Enterprise Architects (and that usually means ERP Architects), to dictate how we meet the critical real-time multi-enterprise supply chain collaboration needs of our businesses.
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Urban painter, sculptor and creator of monumental land art, Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada is an artist working against the divisive forces that are pulling contemporary society apart. His most recent mural in Barcelona, called "Panorama", is a composite portrait that combines features from 10 women in the city's Sant Martí neighbourhood. The result, an "everywoman", represents and celebrates the contributions of women to community life.
Sara Shamsavari's Dastaar: Fitting In and Standing Out exists to highlight this generation of male and female Sikhs as individuals who contribute to the richness of British society. They exemplify the idea becoming part of society whilst remaining visibly Sikh as they wear turban. Yet their style reflects Sikh culture, British culture and an array of popular cultural influences.
The project aims to emphasise the complexity of identity in a cosmopolitan city like London where cultures influence each other and like Shamsavari's previous projects Dastaar is inspired by the idea of transforming prejudice and misunderstanding in to something new and beautiful.
Before opening his own restaurant in his hometown, Madrid, DiverXO, David Muñoz had work experience in several other restaurants, including Asian venues in London. This variety of experiences along with Muñoz's creativity to channel all his knowledge into shaping his unique style, lead him to conquer three Michelin Stars.
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What It Takes To Cure Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
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Followed by at least 20 months with 5 drugs
|Total drugs consumed
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|13,664 pills swallowed, 244 shots taken
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|Rashes, nausea, liver failure
|Permanent hearing loss, permanent dizziness, kidney damage, psychosis, liver failure, nausea, rashes
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|5 to 10 percent have mild to serious side effects
|At least 33 percent of patients have serious side effects
We recently chatted with Dr. Mel Spigelman, the president of TB Alliance, and he answered five common questions about tuberculosis. We edited his responses for length and clarity.
- How contagious is TB? Can you get it by being near someone when they sneeze? Probably not. TB requires relatively close contact for transmission. You really need to be around somebody for a good amount of time. That's why it spreads in families.
- An estimated one-third of the world has TB. How could that be? Not everybody who is infected with the TB bacteria gets sick. In many cases, the body walls off the microbes, usually in the lungs, and you never know they're there, kind of like the bacteria in your mouth or nose.
- Does the TB bacteria always break out of this friendly relationship and make you sick? A person has about a 10 percent chance during their lifetime for a latent TB infection to become an active one and cause problems. That risk increases if your immune system is compromised.
- If you test positive for TB with a skin test, do you always need treatment, even when you're not sick? Yes. In the U.S., people with latent TB infections traditionally take two antibiotics for six to nine months.
- What's the difference between regular TB and drug-resistant versions in terms of treatment? Regular TB takes about six to nine months to cure, with four antibiotics daily. Drug-resistant TB takes about two years to cure, and the treatment is much rougher. The drugs are more toxic, and only about 50 percent of people recover. That rate may be a little higher in the U.S.
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Kyle Baker finished all 12 pages of his Hawkman strip in two weeks. The fifth week of Ben Caldwellâs Wonder Woman strip will have about 65 panels â in one page. And editor Mark Chiarello has three one-page strips in the drawer ready to go, just in case someone doesnât meet their deadline.
At last weekendâs Comic-Con International, a host of creators from âWednesday Comicsâ shared not only these interesting facts about their work on the latest weekly series from DC Comics, but also the trials and successes theyâve faced working in a format thatâs different from what theyâre used to.
The panel was moderated by Chiarello and included Dave Gibbons (Kamandi), Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Conner (Supergirl), Vinton Heuck and Dave Bullock (Deadman), Lee Bermejo (Superman), Eddie Berganza (Teen Titans), Mike Allred (Metamorpho), Ben Caldwell (Wonder Woman), Paul Pope (Adam Strange) and Kurt Busiek (Green Lantern).
âIâm astounded at the group on stage,â Chiarello said. He also showed the audience Allredâs original art for his and Neil Gaimanâs Metamorpho strip, as the artist brought new pages to the panel to turn in to the editor. The pages were enormous. âIâve never seen artwork this big.â
âTheyâre for sale,â joked Allred.
âBy the yard,â said Gibbons.
Chiarello asked Conner if she was drawing her strip that large. âTo do that large, I would have to do it on the floor,â she said, adding âMy arms are too short.â
âIâve never worked that big before,â Allred said. âBut itâs something Iâve always wanted to do.â He said the pages wonât fit on his drawing table, so he ends up rolling the paper across the drawing board. âIâm standing up a lot, and I have to make sure I donât lean against the table because I donât want to crease the artwork. Itâs difficult, but Iâm loving it.â
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Allred said heâs always wanted to work in the bigger format since seeing an original Hal Foster âPrince Valiantâ strip at Matt Wagnerâs house. âIt was gigantic, and it was actually taped together,â Allred said. âRight then and there, I thought, âSomeday.â But what would be the point of it, and this fit the bill.â
Pope, who typically works in a larger format than most artists, said he was âpretty impressedâ with Hal Foster originals he saw at the comic research library at Ohio State University. âThey were drawn that way for tabloid publishing, which is what weâre doing,â he said. âIn the old days, these would have been shot by cameras, so it wasnât really a problem, but now, to shoot stuff with cameras, thereâs a few places in New York that can do it, but they shoot stuff for billboards or for museums. And I think weâre all discovering that itâs a real pain in the butt to have to scan these things to put them back into the proper page format.â
Gibbons said he drew the Martha Washington series he did with Frank Miller in the larger format. âItâs a different experience,â Gibbons said. âItâs like youâve got a landscape, and it feels very spacious and you can really draw; rather than drawing small, youâre drawing at a comfortable size.â
Caldwell, meanwhile, took a different approach to the strip. âIt might come as a surprise to people that I drew it really small,â he said, showing some of his originals.
âThatâs amazing, because in a regular comic book thereâs an average of six panels a page, and a bigger publication like this, thereâs an average of 14,â Chiarello said.
âPeople have been saying Iâve been doing like 80-90 panels, and thatâs crazy,â Caldwell said. âBecause Iâve only done 65 at the most.â Chiarello said to watch for page five of the Wonder Woman strip to see 65 panels on one page.
Chiarello asked if it was daunting for any of the panelists to see who else was working on âWednesday Comics.â âSomebody must have dropped out, thatâs why I got this gig,â Palmiotti joked. âAnd then I realized, oh, itâs because of Amanda.â
Conner said the first pages she saw were Bakerâs. âI thought to myself, âAlright, Iâve got Kyle Baker, Iâve got Joe Kubert, Iâve got all these amazing people here that Iâve got to keep up with, whatâs going to be my angle?â And I was like, âI know, Iâm just going to make it as absolutely vomitously adorable as I possibly can,â and that was my angle.â
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Bullock said he initially told Chiarello that he didnât want to know who else was working on strips. âI had a feeling a guy like Risso would be involved, and I swore I would outdo him with the amount of black I wanted to put on the page.â He added he wanted to utilize the format as much as possible. âYou donât get the opportunity to work in sort of an inky news strip style often, let alone in such a big format. Bullock said he waited until he had four strips done before looking online to see what his peers were doing.
When Chiarello asked Busiek how he approached writing his Green Lantern strip, the writer joked, âI wrote the script in 18-point type.â
Busiek added that he also avoided looking at anyone elseâs work until he was done. âI have seven years of copies of Leonard Starrâs âOn Stage Sundayâ strips, and I would just spread them around the office, and look at the pacing, and look at the way he established a scene, and how heâd get an important character point into a panel and half â something that if it was happening in an issue of a normal superhero comic would take three pages. When youâve got this kind of space to work with, youâve got to do it much, much more concisely.â
Allred asked him how he met artist Joe Quinones. âHeâs amazing,â Allred said.
Busiek said he met Quinones at Stumptown two years ago. âI was looking for someone to work on another project of mine, and I saw Joeâs stuff, and I thought it was wonderful.â
Quinones was already talking to Chiarello about doing something for âWednesday Comicsâ before Busiek was involved. âI didnât get Joe into âWednesday Comics,â Joe got me into âWednesday Comics,ââ the writer said.
Chiarello said his daughter went to camp in Maine, and the art teacher was Quinonesâ girlfriend. âHe showed me his artwork, and it just completely knocked me out.â
Chiarello then asked Gibbons about the comparisons his Kamandi strip was getting to âPrince Valiant.â âItâs absolutely deliberate,â Gibbons said, adding that he wasnât excited about creating a Kamandi strip -- at first. âI never in a million years would have thought of going anywhere near Kamandi,â but Chiarello sold him on the strip when he suggested doing it in the âPrince Valiantâ style.
|"Wednesday Comics" #2 on sale now
Gibbons said the charming thing about âPrince Valiantâ and the old âFlash Gordonâ comic strips was that âthe storyâs told in narrative rather than balloons, which immediately gives the artist a huge ability just to compose unencumbered illustrations.â
In regards to Ryan Sook, Gibbons said, âI couldnât be happier that Ryanâs drawing it because he just gives it that grandeur. I mean, talking tigers is kind of stupid, but he makes it look mythic.â
âI had a fan come up to me yesterday and ask me if Ryan was on steroids,â Chiarello said. âHe was always a really good artist, but heâs really ramped it way up.â
Chiarello asked if any of the creators looked at old Sunday comic strips, and Palmiotti said he didnât look at anything. âAll I was worried about was, âCan I get the whole idea on one page? Can I get something thatâs continued, but it can sit alone?â I was really worried about if someone picked up the second one, was it going to stand, even though itâs continued?â
Palmiotti said the format had its own pace, and writing one page was kind of like writing three pages of a regular comic book. âI grew up reading newspaper strips, but they were mostly comedy. For Supergirl, it works well, because we kind of lean toward comedy.â
When Chiarello asked Allred what it was like to draw a Neil Gaiman page, Allred responded, âNeilâs been torturing me,â which got a laugh out of the audience. âYouâll actually be able to play a game of âSnakes and Laddersâ with that page,â he said, referencing one of the pages heâd brought Chiarello. Allred also mentioned that pages eight and nine of his strip will feature the entire periodic table of the elements, with little elemental men and women running around on them. âNeil says thatâs really why he wanted to do Metamorpho. Heâs hoping it will replace all the charts you have in your science classrooms around the world.â
Allred added that he thought some of the most creative comics ever were done in the Sunday pages. âIâm thrilled that Neil is in this kind of spirit with this, because thatâs what I wanted to do. â
|Supergirl page by Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Conner
âWhen something special and unique happens, and it gets ignored or it doesnât get the support you hope it does, like â did anybody see âSolo?ââ Allred asked. âSoloâ was a DC title published from 2004 to 2006. Edited by Chiarello, it was an anthology that spotlighted a different artist each issue, and the artist was free to tell whatever stories they chose. Contributors to its 12-issue run included Allred, Pope, Sergio Aragones, Darwyn Cooke and Brendan McCarthy, among others. âFor me, itâs a shame that series isnât still going.â
âIf you see Paul Levitz downstairs, tell him you want him to collect it,â Chiarello said, adding that he was very proud of âSolo,â even if the sales âwerenât phenomenal.â
Chiarello asked Bermejo what it was like seeing the Superman strip he was drawing show up in a paper with the circulation of âUSA Today.â
âItâs flattering and humbling,â Bermejo said, âbecause Iâm sitting here right now at this table and Iâm looking at these guys, and I donât know why mine is in USA Today other than the fact that itâs Superman. So yeah, itâs awesome.â
âItâs because itâs gorgeous,â Conner said.
Later in the panel, Chiarello credited two members of DCâs public relations team, David Hyde and Alex Segura, with getting the strip into the paper. âI think they hooked up with a guy at âUSA Todayâ who was a big comics fan, and it was pretty smooth.â
Someone asked how long it took Chiarello to get the project approved. âI canât answer that question,â he joked. âNow they think Iâm a genius, but for the four years I pitched it, no.â
Chiarello said he was recently interviewed and was asked where the initial idea came from. âI just ripped off the 1930s; I mean, itâs so obvious.â
The editor said he came up with a wish list of creators he wanted to work with on the project, and they all said yes. âIt was really cool. You know, one or two guys dropped out in the beginning for weird reasons.â He said one of them dropped out because he didnât want to wait for Gibbonsâ script while Gibbons was promoting the âWatchmenâ movie. âYou canât wait three weeks? Thatâs crazy.â
Pope said Chiarello sent him an email close to Christmas, asking if he wanted to participate. âI didnât even know what it was, but I was like, âYes.ââ
From a sales perspective, Chiarello said the project is doing well. Preorders from retailers for the first issue were 48,000, but he said Bob Wayne, VP-sales at DC, suggested they overprint it by 10,000. All 58,000 copies sold out, as did the second issue. âHopefully weâll be able to do another one next summer,â Chiarello said.
Someone in the audience asked if retailers were increasing their numbers. âThey certainly are,â Chiarello said. âA lot of retailers didnât kind of get it when we did prerelease press on it, so they under-ordered initially.â
Another fan asked how DC planned to collect âWednesday Comics.â âI think size matters,â Chiarello said. âI think itâs an immersive reading experience, but we donât want the price to be prohibitive. Weâre really looking at that now.â
Another fan related a story about reading âWednesday Comicsâ on a bus. He had several people ask him what it was and how to get it. âNot only is the format and the art amazing, but itâs bringing in more people into comics, and thatâs a key thing and an amazing thing youâre doing with this,â he said.
Another fan asked if the creators were surprised at how their artwork looked printed on newsprint. âVery much so,â Bermejo said. âI really was curious how mine specifically was going to come off.â He said he looked at a lot of British artist Frank Bellamyâs work before he started and seeing it printed on newsprint has taught him âa couple of things by failing. It definitely was a good learning experience for that.â
Another audience member asked what each creator learned from the experience or what they would do differently next time. âIâd like to get Dave Gibbons to draw the next one, thatâs for sure,â Chiarello said.
âThis project has taken a lot more thought and effort than I think, seriously, any page-by-page project Iâve ever worked on,â Pope said. âI think in my case, the Adam Strange pages are taking literally five days to finish, per page.â
|"Wednesday Comics" #3 on sale now
Pope added that âthereâs a real mystery to this format,â calling it the opposite of manga. âI canât quite say what it is exactly, but instead of having 100 pages to tell one scene, or like Kirby and Lee would have done in five pages, you have to do one page that is like an entire issue. Thereâs something weird, because you find yourself cutting out everything thatâs superfluous. Itâs a very elegant and brutal way to do comics, this weekly thing.â
Chiarello asked Eddie Berganza, an editor at DC, how he found the time to write the Teen Titans strip. âI didnât sleep a lot,â he said, adding that Chiarello is an excellent editor for keeping the project on schedule. âYouâve seen how late we can make monthly comics, so imagine that on a weekly basis.â
âWhen I was a kid growing up in England, we used to have weekly comics, so the idea of telling a weekly story feels pretty natural to me,â Gibbons said. He added his grandfather used to give him old Sunday comic strips he got from Americans at a close-by Air Force base. âYou couldnât read the whole story, but you could treasure each page; it was a big piece of art. You could spend a week just looking at one page. And this has the same feel to me, that it doesnât give itself up immediately.â
Gibbons said he read something on the Internet that âchilled me to the marrowâ â that the average amount of time a reader spends looking at a page of a comic is seven seconds. âWith this, you canât just look at it in ten seconds.â
Pope said each of his strips has what he calls the âshowcaseâ panel. âI do realize I try to consciously approach one particular panel, which is the showcase panel -- itâs either the splash page panel or the payoff. Even though inch per inch, every panel of the thing Iâm working on gets the same love and attention, thereâs one that has to be the showcase, it has to be the one people linger on.â
Chiarello asked Conner if she considered one of the panels the âmoney shot,â and she told a story about her father looking at her strip. âNot every damn panel has to be the Sistine Chapel ceiling,â he told her.
|Unlettered Sgt. Rock page from "Wednesday Comics"
âSo I get lost in each and every panel,â she said. âI just get obsessed with it. I think the most important thing for me is for the whole story to have a beat to it, and have sort of a flow.â She said she will occasionally have a showcase panel, but she thinks the storytelling experience is more important.
Chiarello then asked her what happens if her husband, Palmiotti, writes something she doesnât want to draw. âI make him change it,â she said.
âShe definitely does her own thing,â Palmiotti said. âWeâre all teams here, and we trust the other person. The great thing about writing is to see what the artist does.â
In regards to the showcase panel, Busiek later added that for him, there are two â the first and last panel. âFor me, what I work on the hardest and takes me the most time and what I find the most satisfying is getting the beginning right and getting the ending right. And I think Iâm pretty good at it.â Busiek noted that when he writes âAstro City,â if he has the beginning and ending right, the middle will take care of itself.
âI went into doing âWednesday Comicsâ thinking, âThis is gonna be fun.â Itâs 12 one-page chapters, itâs a little story, itâs a nice story. If it was told in a regular format, maybe it would be 32 pages,â Busiek continued. âWhat I didnât realize going into it was that there are 12 beginning and 12 endings, and thereâs only like two or three panels in between the beginning and ending every time. So the hard part took up the whole page, and the easy part was just three panels in the middle of each page.â
Busiek said it took him a day to write each of the first few Green Lantern strips, but was able to write chapters 7-12 all in one day.
One fan asked if the âWednesday Comicsâ creators considered making self-contained one-page comics, instead of continuing series. Chiarello said he had three one-page strips ready to go in case someone âscrewed upâ and missed their deadline. âWell, then I think one of you better screw up, because Iâd like to see them,â Gibbons said.
A fan asked about the possibility of DC taking more risks along the lines of âWednesday Comicsâ in the future. âYouâre always willing to do something really different,â Conner said about Chiarello.
|Karl Kerschl page from "Wednesday Comics'
âWeâre gonna bring back radio next,â Chiarello joked.
Gibbons pointed out that newspapers originally started running comic strips to attract new readers. âWith newspaper sales going down, it would be interesting if newspapers started running this stuff to try and boost their sales.â
A fan asked what artist each of the panelists would like to see contribute to a future edition of âWednesday Comics.â The panel mentioned Aragones, Cooke, Jordi Benet, Brian Bolland, Charles Burns, George Perez and Walt Simonson, among others. In terms of characters for a future edition, the panel mentioned Jonah Hex and Martian Manhunter.
âWhen I went in, Mark wanted me to do Dr. Fate,â Pope said. Pope wanted to tackle Kamandi, but when he heard Gibbons was doing it, he said he didnât mind. Allred said heâd like to create a Doom Patrol or New Gods story, while Busiek said heâd like to write The Witching Hour.
Chiarello said a lot has been made about the uniqueness of the projectâs format. âIt absolutely was created as a reading experience; thatâs the impetus for it, thatâs the whole thing. I donât care if people are upset that itâs not mint.â He said his main concern was that people were reading it and enjoying it. In terms of price, Chiarello pointed out that newsprint is more expensive than other paper because itâs a rarity. He also said he had to pay the artists double their rate âbecause theyâre drawing so big.â
âI was a little daunted by the almost $4 price until I started reading it,â Conner said. âItâs a lot of reading. Itâs a good read. Itâs a meaty read. You get a lot out of it.â
âItâs just a nice object to own,â Gibbons said. âMost comics are okay, but this is something special.â
âYou can wrap a fish with it,â Berganza joked.
One consistent theme running the panel was the respect the creators have for Mark Chiarello. âI want to say this for the record, [there are] very few editors like Mark in the business,â Palmiotti said. âAnd this gig for me, itâs about making Mark happy. Other than Amanda, obviously, because weâre working together, all I worry that is Mark going to like this, and I donât really worry about every editor like that. I can honestly say that, for me, because I knew [the late] Archie Goodwin, itâs like the baton was handed over to Mark on this for me. And working for Mark is the same thing as Archie. I just wanted to please Archie when I worked for Archie. I just want to please Mark at this point.â


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- 1 How active is WordNet?
- 2 Background information on WordNet
- 3 WordNet as an ontology
- 4 WordNet & Wiktionary
- 5 List of WordNet APIs
- 6 API List
- 7 Wordreference.com
- 8 Anomic hierarchies
- 9 External links
- 10 Extensions and Linked Data, Related Projects
- 11 Incorrect Definitions
- 12 WordNet local file for GoldenDict
How active is WordNet?[edit]
I would be interested in any info about the activity of WordNet. The last publication was in 1998. The last wordnetforum post was in 2008, with the last announcement in 2005.
Is this project still the best one for this info? Are there other related projects that are more up to date?
dfrankow (talk) 17:05, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
Background information on WordNet[edit]
An article from the New Jersey "Star-Ledger" that gives background information on WordNet, its developer (Professor George Miller), and its future.
- Link to article seems not to work anymore. 126.96.36.199 09:14, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
WordNet as an ontology[edit]
I think this page needs to focus more on WordNet being an ontology. The feature linguists and those in the field of NLP usually find most useful is the hypernym and hyponym relationships for nouns. This is also where most of the work was put into WordNet, which made it different than other dictionaries. There has been work in the other areas mentioned, but by far the biggest contribution from this resource is the "ontology" of nouns.
- This is an interesting remark, has. Could you give a reference to an article or a paper which illustrate your remark? Hirzel 08:57, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
- Plenty of them, just Google for them. For example, the WordNet::Similarity Perl package contains a number of implementations of word similarity algorithms that uses WordNet as an ontology. --unkx80 18:10, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
WordNet & Wiktionary[edit]
Is it possible to relicense WordNet's database to GNU FDL for Wiktionary? —Tokek 03:31, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
- BSD license would imply that, yes. --maru (talk) contribs 05:07, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
- As explained on the user's talk page (on 04:06, 5 May 2006 (UTC)), this is a bad idea because the synonym-grouping makes the definitions very inaccurate, and overall Wordnet is a psychology or artificial intelligence project, not a sound dictionary project. —Centrx→talk • 20:10, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
List of WordNet APIs[edit]
There are a number of "see also" and external links that point to products or sites that use or extend WordNet, including WordWeb, Wordnet.Net, TheFreeDictionary, Titiland Dictionary, and Online Synonymous Thesaurus. There are also some notable ones that are not mentioned. I propose to remove those individual product links and instead link to http://wordnet.princeton.edu/links#extensions which is the list of such efforts maintained by the WordNet group at Princeton. If that is too controversial, I will add some of those other projects to the external references instead.
Tono-bungay 21:06, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
API List[edit]
I've restored the section that refers to Princeton's list of recognized APIs after someone else removed it recently. I think it's appropriate to include the link for two reasons: first, people who are interested in WordNet APIs are more likely to choose to use one that has been recognized by Princeton, and second because Princeton's list is significantly larger (dozens of APIs versus five) than the ad-hoc one found here. If you can provide some reasonable justification for removing the link to Princeton's list then please provide it; however, at this point I don't see the logic in removing the link to the "official" list of dozens of APIs and leaving an ad hoc list of five whose only special significance is that some people cared enough to add them to Wikipedia. If anything, the ad hoc list should be eliminated and the link to Princeton's list should remain.
Anon -- February 13, 2008.
Wordreference.com uses WordNet extensively. Since it's a relatively popular site, perhaps it should be added in related projects and/or external links.
Kozmefulanito (talk) 16:38, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
Anomic hierarchies[edit]
I had considerable difficulty making sense out of the second sentence in the following paragraph (the first in the section titled "Psychological justification"). I think it needs reformulation, but since I'm not sure what it means, maybe amputation would be the kindest cut.
The goal of WordNet was to develop a system that would be consistent with the knowledge acquired over the years about how human beings process language. Anomic aphasia, for example, creates a condition that seems to selectively encumber individuals' ability to name objects; this makes the decision to partition the parts of speech into distinct hierarchies more of a principled decision than an arbitrary one.
The paragraph appears to be saying that there are more or less good reasons for "hierarchies" in WordNet. The section in which it appears does not clearly make or establish such a claim, and I'm still wondering what anomic aphasia has to do with hierarchies. Also, of what is anomic aphasia an "example"? Of knowledge about how human beings process language? By studying aphasia, neurologists have acquired knowledge about how human beings process language - but aphasia is not that knowledge.
The "decision to partition the parts of speech into distinct hierarchies" is a decision taken by the creators of WordNet. The word "this" following the semicolon apparently refers to "anomic aphasia". So what the writer seems to be saying is that the creators of WordNet, when deciding to define "distinct hierarchies", based that decision on their knowledge that there is such a thing as anomic aphasia. I wonder if they did in fact do that? The writer may merely be offering his own justification for the "distinct hierarchies" systematics, no matter what the considerations were of the WordNet creators.
In any case, "more of a principled decision than an arbitrary one" is less of a justification, than a damning with faint praise. If the WordNet creators took anomic aphasia into account, then as far as that goes they took a principled decision, tout court. If they took an arbitrary decision (highly unlikely), then they took an arbitrary decision, tout court. If the writer is not sure what their reasons were, or what he himself thinks are justifications for "hierarchies" in WordNet, then he should say so clearly.
There are many competitive theories about what might be involved in "cognition", "speech" and "knowledge" (I am deliberately using scare quotes here). Hierarchies do not cut a large figure in each and all of these theories. Also, the (itself quite old) idea that inspection of "boundary issues" can contribute importantly to knowledge about "central issues" is nowadays widely accepted, and deliberately employed to guide research. A dysfunction such as anomic aphasia is a "boundary issue" inasmuch as most people are not afflicted with it. However, for over 150 years since the late 1700s, what was known about brain function was primarily derived from examination of soldiers with head injuries. Leibniz' regarded his idea of "the best of all possible worlds" as supported by considerations of mathematical boundary problems (maxima and minima).
Stuart.clayton.22 (talk) 00:37, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
External links[edit]
"providence Journal Article" note (actually note #6) doesn't work anymore... I didn't remove it because the site still exists, and maybe the article has another location in there -- Massic80 in italian wikipedia —Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.108.40.206 (talk) 22:52, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
Brinerustle (talk) 08:23, 30 May 2009 (UTC)== Implementation for Windows ==
I think WordWeb (free dictionary for Windows) to be one of the bests dictionaries for the windows machine. but it isn't listed on wordnet page, though, nor easily found. my suggestion here, is, since wordweb isn't mentionned on wordnet front page, to mention WORDWEB http://wordweb.info/free/ in the list of external links? Twipley (talk) 23:03, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
- AKA MBG (talk) 08:24, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
+1 --
- I would question the existence of the WordWeb article, as it could simply be merged here, with equal time given to an open-source crossplatform alternative: Artha.Brinerustle (talk) 08:23, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
- Well now too bad, WordWeb 6.0 is released, it relies on multiple dictionaries, and not just on WordNet, sometimes too much is like not enough. For those still interested, stay with the version 5.52. Twipley (talk) 17:21, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Extensions and Linked Data, Related Projects[edit]
This is only a partial list, a more complete version of which is maintained on Princeton's WordNet web site. Wikipedia isn't a link aggregator and including a partial copy of a list maintained by Princeton doesn't seem appropriate. I suggestion that these sections should be removed unless someone can provide a reasonable counter argument.
(anon) 6:40, 31 August 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 126.96.36.199 (talk)
Incorrect Definitions[edit]
Over the last five years, I have worked extensively with WordNet. Along the way I have encountered a huge number of definitions that are obviously wrong, e.g. the troy ounce as a unit of weight in the apothecary system, which it is not. I am not counting borderline cases, e.g. megabyte defined as a million bytes instead of 2 to the exponent 20, since both definitions could be considered valid (although it would have been nice to include the original definition). The point is, WordNet's error rate is extremely high. It's as if the Wikipedia allowed anyone to contribute, but only authorized 2 or 3 people to error check and make corrections. The increasing reliance on WordNet reminds me of the story of the large commercial jetliner that had to taxi back to the gate in order to reboot Windows.Zyxwv99 (talk) 17:06, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
- Wikipedia notes that a troy ounce is closely related to the ounce in the Apothecarie's system, so in fact wordnet's rather short definition seems to be correct at the level of granularity being considered (although it could not doubt be improved). I think the rate of actual errors, as opposed to sub-optimal definitions is not particularly high: I have parsed every definition sentence to extract various information, and done the same for several other published dictionaries, and did not notice any clear difference in accuracy. Francis Bond (talk) 15:14, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
WordNet local file for GoldenDict[edit]
I realize that it is not the right place for practical advice, but I will take the risk...
Well, you can go here and get the app, e.g. the portable version. But you can also read as follows: If you need a good English dictionary with a clear and free license, get this one, a full version of WordNet 3.0 specially formatted for GoldenDict. Ok, but how to make the dictionary file to be seen by GoldenDict? To do so, just unzip the WordNet file. You will get a folder with several files. Put that folder (with files of course) in the ...\GoldenDict\content\. You will get ...\GoldenDict\content\WordNet_3.0. And that's all you need. Enjoy :-) 188.8.131.52 (talk) 22:35, 19 February 2015 (UTC)


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Ive setup the API correctly, but Im getting an error that it is not setup correctly. However the link to the XML product listing is generating data and the link to my store is correct. Any suggestions?
Ive setup the API correctly, but Im getting an error that it is not setup correctly. However the link to the XML product listing is generating data and the link to my store is correct. Any suggestions?
Getting the same error but my link and API is configured correctly.
Has anyone gotten this plugin to work?
So both of you can see the product text at http://YOURSTOREURL.COM/net/webservice.aspx?api_name=generic\all_products ?
If so, then your hosting may not have support for the function
simplexml_load_string() - check with them to make sure that function is supported.
I can't get it to work either. I know my API is set up correctly as it feeds just fine with my Facebook page that has the Volusion Social Store integrated. I talked with Volusion and they said the above mentioned function was a PHP-based function that won't run on Volusion. Why can't this just work??
I can see my site and the XML information in WordPress.
I have released Version 1.1.2, which I think should fix this issue. Please upgrade, re-save your Volusion settings and let me know if it works.
Ive updated the plugin and I still get the same error that the API settings are not configured correctly. I even tried a fresh install and still nothing. Id love for this to work, but so far I can't get past the errors.
Have you confirmed that
http://yourstoredomain.com/net/webservice.aspx?api_name=generic\all_products shows a bunch of text?
It should look like this.
Yes I get the list that has all the products listed and I have my address in the URL box, but it still is giving me the error code saying it is not configured properly. Any other suggestions? Thanks for the help.
Please either post here or email me your store's URL.
One possibility is that your server doesn't support something in the plugin. You should also make sure your server is running PHP 5.
So the issue is that it's taking too long to download the products list. Increasing the "timeout" time makes getting all the products work, but the list of your products is also too large to store in a cache (as the plugin is currently set up).
I am not sure how to fix the caching issue, but I can fix the timeout issue.
Hi Zack,
Love this plugin! We get the same error from time to time. Our store is at store.fabrics.net and we have a couple thousand products so maybe we're getting the timeout issue due to too many products?
Also, when this happens I do confirm that our API shows the text and that our store is up and running.
Hi Sam - I'm having the same trouble integrating to the Volusion API. I'm wondering if this has to do with the fact that I'm developing the site under a beta folder? Of course, at Volusion the store is configured at the root. I'd just like to get your take before moving the site to the root (something I would rather avoid if possible).
Er... Sorry, ZACK, not Sam
I can't be sure unless you email me your credentials: email@example.com
I am having the same problem. The settings are correct as my webpage pulls up but I can't get to the settings page.
Zack - Will you share the link to some WordPress sites using Volusion? I have a client using Volusion who would like to integrate into WordPress.
Is a GOLD volusion account required for this? I don't think I can turn on the xml stuff unless I upgrade.
You need an XML products API set up. Check out how to here: http://support.volusion.com/article/where-do-i-find-information-volusion-api
Is there a fix to this error yet? From reading the above I believe the problem to be the plugin timing out as my API is setup right, but I have a large product base and it takes the XML a bit to load. I'd love to be able to use the plugin.
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