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Acute infectious respiratory diseases are a significant preventive medicine problem for military populations living in close quarters. Crowded conditions are often found at training centers, dormitories, tent cities, and deployment-staging areas. Other potential transmission environments include recruit training centers, classrooms, dining facilities, and areas where items, such as resuscitation mannequins and water fountains are shared.
Over the past 10 years adenoviruses have affected about 15,000 military basic trainees annually, with 3-4 days of illness per event and 1-2 deaths occurring per year due to the virus. The United States military processes thousands of recruits each year who arrive from all regions of the country as well as some foreign countries, and from a variety of different environments. The recruits are then formed into close-quartered military units. They may arrive as hosts or with mild cases of respiratory infections endemic to their own particular region of the country; they are housed in close contact with individuals from other parts of the country who may be susceptible. New recruits may also be exposed to respiratory infections that are endemic to the recruit training center. Close contact, coupled with the unique stressors of military operations, often put military recruits at a greater risk for respiratory disease than other cohorts.


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iPhoto for Mac lets you do more than you ever thought possible with your photos. It gives you easy ways to find, sort, and rediscover your favorites. Simple but powerful editing tools let you turn good shots into magnificent ones. And you can share your photos in all kinds of great ways, including fun slideshows, Facebook, and Twitter — even professional-quality prints, photo books, cards, and calendars. iPhoto isn't just a collection of pictures. It's a collection of possibilities.
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Really disappointed with iPhoto'11: I was a user of iPhoto, don't know which version. Last month I bought a new MacBook Pro, which comes with iPhoto'11 bundled installed. I migrated all my data thanks to Time Machine. This option is available when you first start a new Mac. Unfortunately, iPhoto'11 is unable to open my previous photo library. No solution from apple other than creating a new (EMPTY) library and importing all again, which means that I have lost lots of time saving, and classifying my photos, creating albums,... and right now, I have tons of photos without any order or classification. REALLY ANNOYING!!!
Is this better (faster, less cpu hungry) for photo-browsing-only comparing to Aperture 3?
In my opinion they have screwed the photo exposure slider in iPhoto 7. It has a different behaviour compared to iPhoto 6.
iPhoto seems to have colorspace issues on my machine. Everything ends up too warm and oversaturated when viewed in iPhoto (vs Preview on the same machine).
If I try manually adding a color profile to the images with "sips", the image's appearance in changes in Preview, but not in iPhoto.
As a non-professional user I tried Aperture and came back to iPhoto. There is nothing I miss in iPhoto and it has basic support for image enhancing, cropping etc.
What I really HATE on iPhoto is the storage of files. I decided to disallow iPhoto to rearrange my photos and move them around the hard disk. I prefer to create directories on my own, since a filesystem is a good enough database for me, I don't want applications to do it. Good that this optin can be choosen in iPhoto.
It's one of the best photo application I found all around. I use iut together with iView which does the archiving, tagging, seaching for me. iPhoto does the quick presentation etc.:
+ easy to use
+ easy to categorize pictures (KeywordManager and iPhotoLibraryManager and some other apps help a lot)
+ manages all my photos (>50.000)
+ GPS-plugins available for GoogleEarth
+ slide shows easy & quick
+ good&quick tools to correct photos for slide show
- managing of duplicates
- no update feature to add photos in the folders directly and not in iPhoto
- could be mor stable
(list is not complete)
Very nice slideshow feature, the albums and UI are generally very user-friendly. Kind of wish there was a way to avoid the replication though, as iPhoto Diet doesn't quite work for me and it'd be good if the option was simply built-in.
Painful to use for anyone who switched from Windows and knows how much better and faster Picasa is :/
While it is pretty good feature-wise, its terribly slow on my 1.9GHz G5. It takes about 40+ seconds to load my library, 2,000 3000×1900 pictures. I hope Picasa for OS X is out soon.
I can't stand this. I just have to wait for Picasa to get ported to OS X.
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Holocaust Denial on Trial, Trial Judgment: Electronic Edition, by Charles GrayTable of Contents
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Irving's case in summary
7.8 As it was originally formulated, the case advanced by Irving was that no convincing evidence exists that gas chambers were at the material time in existence at Auschwitz and that there is no evidence that such chambers were commissioned. Further, said Irving, there is no convincing evidence that any Jew at Auschwitz lost his or her life as a result of being gassed (though he conceded from the outset that many died as a result of the epidemics which, due to the appalling lack of hygiene, regularly swept the camp).
7.9 The reason why Irving originally adopted that stance was that he was enormously impressed by a report compiled in 1988 by a Mr Fred Leuchter, described by Irving as a professional consultant who routinely advised penitentiaries on electric chair and gas-chamber execution procedures. His report entitled "An Engineering Report on the Alleged Execution Gas Chambers at Auschwitz, Birkenau and Majdanek Poland" concluded that no gas chambers operated at Auschwitz. Irving regarded that report as an important historical document and he adopted its major conclusions. He contended that subsequent tests had replicated the results obtained by Leuchter.
7.10 At this trial Irving appeared to place less reliance on the Leuchter report than he had done in his written statement of case. He advanced a variety of arguments for discrediting the evidence relied on by the Defendants. He relied heavily on the argument that the roof of morgue 1 at crematorium 2 (which is where on the Defendants' case in excess of 500,000 Jews were gassed to death) shows no sign of the wire-mesh columns through which the Defendants maintain that the gas was introduced into the chamber below.
7.11 In the course of the trial Irving modified his position: he was prepared to concede that gassing of human beings had taken place at Auschwitz but on a limited scale. However, he continued to assert that it was not a death factory (totesfabrik). He maintained that there is certainly no question of 500,000 Jews having perished in morgue 1 of crematorium 2 as the Defendants contend.
7.12 In support of his modified denial that Jews were put to death in the gas chambers on any significant scale, Irving relied on the fact that in all the surviving contemporaneous archival and other documentary records of the Third Reich, there is no reference to the commissioning, construction or operation of the gas chambers. He emphasised that amongst the voluminous documentary material relating to Auschwitz, there is only one document which contains what might be regarded as a reference to the genocidal use of the crematoria. Irving argues that the lack of (as he put it) incriminating documents is extraordinary, if indeed gas chambers were in operation on the scale alleged by the Defendants.
7.13 Amongst the arguments advanced by Irving in support of his case that killing by gas took place at the camp on no more than a limited scale was the fact that the top-secret daily reports sent from the camp to Berlin in cypher, which purport to record the numbers of inmates, arrivals and 'departures by any means', including deaths, make no mention of any inmate having been gassed, although they contain many references to deaths from illness, by shootings and hangings. The number of deaths recorded in these reports is far smaller than the number of those who, on the Defendants' case, lost their lives in the gas chambers. Moreover, asked Irving, if so many were led to their deaths in the gas chambers, what has become of the cadavers. Why, Irving continued, should Eichmann, whose diaries were remarkably frank in regard to the killing of Jews, omit to mention gas chambers when recording his visit to Auschwitz in early 1942.
7.14 According to Irving the evidence simply fails to establish that Jews were killed in gas chambers at Auschwitz on anything approaching the scale claimed by the Defendants.
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China: Balancing competing factors
Asia Pacific Economic Outlook, December 2013
The Chinese authorities seem to be trying to balance competing factors: They're worried about inflation and a housing price bubble, yet they're concerned that restrictive policies will slow growth.
Awaiting reform
As this is being written, the third plenary meeting of the Chinese Communist Party is about to begin. In the past, major policy changes have come out of third plenary sessions, and it is expected that this meeting will be similar. Once we go to press, the meeting will have ended, and more will be known about what the leadership intends to do. The widespread expectation is that the leadership will focus on financial reform (possibly allowing deposit interest rates to move freely), fiscal reform (shifting the balance of spending and taxation between the central and regional governments), and deregulations that permit more competition in various industries. On the other hand, the leadership is not necessarily expected to take significant action to privatize state-run companies or banks. One area that the leaders have spoken about, but where reforms will be challenging, is residency permits and further rural-urban migration. However, it is not clear what exactly the leadership intends to do. In addition, China's leadership has historically taken a gradualist approach to reform, so it is not expected that anything radical will be announced in the meeting.
Meanwhile, in a speech in October, Premier Li Keqiang stated that the economy requires growth of 7.2 percent in order to keep unemployment stable. He said this growth rate would allow an increase in employment each year of 10 million workers. He also said that the government is reluctant to utilize fiscal or monetary stimulus to boost growth. Referring to the credit-tightening episode in June, he said that the government did not panic, nor use stimulus to resolve the problem. Specifically, he said that such policies would have been like "trying to extinguish a fire with wood"—that is, they might create an even bigger fire.1 Meanwhile, China's central bank said that, although inflation is not high (3.1 percent in September), there is a danger of higher inflation going forward. Thus policy must be vigilant. It said, "The foundation for stable consumer prices is not solid. Annual consumer inflation may rise in the fourth quarter."2 In addition, rising house prices are a continuing concern for the central bank.
Thus it appears that the authorities are attempting to balance several competing influences. On the one hand, they are worried about inflation and a housing price bubble. On the other hand, they are concerned that more restrictive policies will slow growth too much. On the one hand, they want to keep the economy growing, even if it means perpetuating excessive debt-fueled investment. On the other hand, they want to focus on reforms that will enable more sustainable growth in the future—including growth not based on investment in fixed assets.
Meanwhile, China will be left with plenty of empty homes.
Banking and housing
China appears to be facing a housing bubble. House prices in China rose 9.1 percent in September. In China's four major cities, prices jumped in September at the fastest pace since 2011. Prices were up 17 percent in Shanghai, 16 percent in Beijing, and 20 percent in both Shenzhen and Guangzhou. Moreover, prices were up in 69 of 70 major cities. The authorities are clearly torn between a desire to keep the economy growing and a desire to avoid a housing-related financial crisis.
The relatively strong economic growth of the third quarter was partly driven by construction, which itself was fueled by the rising prices of houses. It reasonably can be inferred that loans to property developers have been rising rapidly. There are two problems stemming from this excessive investment. First, it could lead to problems servicing the loans, thereby hurting banks and requiring government bailouts. When prices eventually fall, troubled mortgage holders will not be able to simply sell their properties in order to pay off their mortgages. Meanwhile, China will be left with plenty of empty homes. Second, the rising prices of homes are reducing the number of people who can afford to purchase homes. This in turn could lead to frustration on the part of lower- income households.
Where do Chinese banks stand? It has been reported that the top four banks in China experienced a 3.5 percent increase in the volume of nonperforming loans in the third quarter.3 This was the biggest increase since 2010. Although bank profits continue to rise, this cannot go on forever if the volume of bad debt continues to increase. Indeed, markets are already reacting by pushing down the equity prices of Chinese banks. The surge in bad debts is related to many factors, such as excess capacity in many industries, slowing economic growth, local government investments in poorly performing projects, and private investments in properties that have not been resold (including so-called "ghost towns" of unoccupied apartment complexes). The result of all this borrowing is that interest payments on debt have increased from 7 percent of GDP in 2008 to 12.5 percent today, according to rating agency Fitch. Moreover, Fitch expects this number to continue to rise, creating a potentially unsustainable situation.4 China's leaders face a huge problem in dealing with the unwinding of this massively unbalanced economy.
Large Chinese banks have substantially increased the pace of write-offs of bad debts. This is likely being done in order to prepare for a fresh wave of defaults on loans. Also, regulators lately have eased rules regarding write-offs. Interestingly, bank profitability has not yet been hurt because the banks had already set aside large loan-loss reserves. While they had been told to set aside 150 percent of bad debts as reserves against losses, they have actually gone beyond this, setting aside 272 percent. The authorities continue to encourage these reserves. However, the authorities have also told the banks to set aside 2.5 percent of all loans—a goal that has not yet been reached. Given the huge increase in debt in the past few years, and given that much of it was used to finance loss-making projects, there is a widespread expectation that defaults are going to increase substantially, and soon.
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- Bloomberg News, "Li says China needs 7.2% expansion to maintain job growth," November 5, 2013, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-05/li-says-china-needs-7-2-expansion-to-create-jobs-as-party-meets.html.
- Reuters, "China premier warns against loose money policies," November 5, 2013, http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/05/us-china-economy-idUSBRE9A403L20131105
- Bloomberg News, "Top Chinese banks post biggest bad-loan surge since 2010," October 31, 2013, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-30/top-chinese-banks-post-biggest-bad-loan-surge-since-2010.html.
- Ibid.


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Founded in 1981To improve lives and seek cures for those affected by ichthyosis and related skin types.
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International collaborative project that enables health care professionals, parents, and patients to access high quality dermatology images
Through the Coalition of Skin Diseases, we have learned of a book that might be helpful to children. The book is Different Just Like Me and it was written by Lori Mitchell, whose daughter has vitiligo.
There is no mention of vitiligo in the book, only meeting people who are different than the main character, April. The story is told from the point of view of a little girl anticipating a visit to her grandmother's house. Each day that she is waiting for the trip, the little girl encounters someone who is different, someone who is either older, speaks another language, has a disability, or is of a different race, But, in each situation, that person is doing the same thing that April is. The book is available on Amazon and most likely also at your local library.
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The Inside-Out of Skin
FIRST Medical & Scientific Advisory Board members Drs. Mary Williams and Peter Elias have embarked on a project to write a book for the general public about the skin and its most critical function, the permeability barrier. They have also developed a website: www.eliasandwilliams.com, that provides reliable, scientific information on the skin, its permeability barrier and its disorders.
Ethiopian Encounters
Drs. Peter Elias and Mary Williams have published a book about their experiences from time spent in Ethiopia. This volume contains reflections on their experience - in haiku-form poems and in photographs that illustrate these experiences. They are graciously donating a percentage of the sales of this book to FIRST. You can preview the book here.
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FIRST is very excited to announce that Medical & Scientific Advisory Board members Drs. Peter Elias and Mary Williams, along with Debra Crumrine and Dr. Matthias Schmuth, have published a book on ichthyosis titled ICHTHYOSES Clinical, Biochemical, Pathogenic and Diagnostic Assessment. The authors hope that the book will prove to be a useful resource for families who would like to learn more about their condition. It will also be a useful tool for the staff at FIRST and is available on amazon.com for purchase. Throughout their careers, Peter and Mary have been tireless advocates for patients with ichthyosis. FIRST is very grateful for their efforts on behalf of those affected with ichthyosis.
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A Shawnee police officer clocked a vehicle without a license plate traveling 84 mph on Interstate 40 Wednesday morning, which resulted in a traffic stop, a K-9 alert and the discovery of two pounds of marijuana. Two arrests were made.
Shawnee Police Chief Russell Frantz said he had a full crew of officers on duty so they were working enforcement in the safety corridor areas.
That's when Cpl. Darrell Williams spotted a Nissan Maxima traveling westbound on the highway, Frantz said, with radar showing the driver was going 14 miles over the posted speed limit. The officer then noticed the vehicle had no tag.
A traffic stop was conducted, with the driver exiting onto Harrison Street in Shawnee.
Cpl. David Gonzales and his K-9 partner also were involved in the stop, Frantz said, with the police dog alerting to the presence of drugs in the vehicle.
The officers, including Cpl. James Woods, searched the vehicle and discovered nearly two pounds of marijuana, the chief said.
As a result, officers made two arrests. A child who was traveling with them was taken into protective custody and placed in the Hope House shelter until relatives could be located, Frantz said.
Along with the marijuana, Frantz said $1,720 in cash was seized, along with a 9mm pistol. Officers seized the vehicle as well.
The two suspects were being held on complaints of trafficking in controlled dangerous substance, possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony, driving under suspension and speeding, the chief reported. Police weren't releasing any names Wednesday, but Frantz said the group was reported to be from California.
The preliminary investigation revealed they were allegedly traveling back to California from Alabama, with information from the probe indicating they were "making runs back and forth," the chief said.
Formal charges have not been filed in this case.
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1. In transit: 19:53
There's a certain kind of sadness among standby passengers. I've overheard stories of missed connections and early-morning vigils, long-distance calls to tell family that they might be back early on a standby flight but that the family shouldn't go to the airport yet because it was just a number on a piece of paper, not a boarding pass, not a guarantee.
A woman's flight reservations could not be found anywhere in the system. The airline agent flipped through all the papers and receipts the woman received from a travel agency in Iowa, but was firm: no ticket, no flight. It wouldn't be the first or last time a travel agency's missed something in the rush and stress of holidays. The woman is advised to buy another ticket and ask the travel agency for a refund. I don't know if she'll be able to afford to. I don't know how responsive the travel agency will be.
It's always hard travelling, especially on flights going home. Looking around at the airport lobby and guessing who's scraped and saved to earn enough for a ticket home, who hasn't been home in a year or two--or a decade or two. Hearing them speak, argue, plead. Watching the airline agents, seeing exasperation flash across their faces until they school their expressions into at least curtness.
I would've been on the next flight out of here, number 12 in what will no doubt be a very long line by the day's end. There's plenty of time for me to watch and learn, though. My luggage couldn't be found in time to get me onto the next flight. I've asked them to keep looking for it; maybe I'll make it to the next flight. Or the flight after that. Two more flights before my confirmed trip home, two more chances to share more time with family and friends than with all these strangers in an airport.
I savor the chocolate truffles a friend gave to me, letting them melt. I don't know how long I'll need to make the truffles last. It seems almost cruel to use them to get me through the hours and the sadness--these chocolates deserve more than that!--and incongruous to lift them out of the gold foil box in the middle of all these little tragedies and trials. There is nothing else I can do but wait.
The tinny jingles playing over the public announcement system remind me that it is Christmas, and I will be home soon.
2. At the Hong Kong International Airport: 21:17
I'm at the Hong Kong International Airport, and have just polished off breakfast. I have four hours before I need to check with the transfer desk about chance passage on the next flight to the Philippines. What would be the best way to spend that time?
I could take a shower. That would be nice. USD 10.00 for the privilege of feeling nice and clean, hmm. I don't have any extra clothes right now, though.
Shopping is boring.
I think I'll write my letters for 2006. I've got my writing stuff, anyway. =) I can address and stuff the envelopes, and then get to work on writing notes...
Maybe I'll write in my journal, too. I've got quite a lot of stuff to think about...
3. Best thing to do at the HKIA: 21:24
... is to park yourself in a chair and use the free wifi to chat with friends. =D
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AKA Belly Up Tavern and the Glass House
I will be attending both of these shows and, since I didn't think these two cities would get much coverage, I figured it would be good to combine them.
Who else is going!
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I'll be at pomona for sure. Just realized there was the belly up tavern show now...what do I do?! I think I gotta go.
Mon Jun 07, 2010 3:37 pm
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there's a very good chance that benjy
will make an appearance at the belly up, one of
the best venues in sd county, if not
all of california - or at least anywhere south
of the cultural bastion that is fresno
Mon Jun 07, 2010 5:41 pm
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I've been hearing a lot of good things about the Belly Up venue. This'll be my first time there, so I'll get to find out if some of them are true.
The infamous Benjy
will be making
an appearance! Maybe I'll
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Dsodreams! Hope to see you 'round pally pal.
Mon Jun 07, 2010 6:00 pm
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he MAY be willing to divulge
his motivations/reasons, yes :-D
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Location: Burbank, Ca
I'll be at Pomona. Was at the show last night at the Henry Fonda in Hollywood. Fun show!
Mon Jun 07, 2010 8:52 pm
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I had originally planned to hit both of these shows.
I recently moved to Oceanside CA. which is about 15 minutes up the fwy from belly up tavern in solana beach.
And here I am.. in my PJs.. about to go to bed so I can go to work early in the morning..
I bet B.dolan is smashing it right now.
I'll be at the Pomona Glass house show.
Especially if Sage isnt going to be touring or playing as many shows from here on out.
(Sage @ the glass house 2005 was one of the BEST live musical performances I have ever seen. ever.)
Mon Jun 07, 2010 11:48 pm
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No kidding benjy the Belly Up was a freakin sweet place to see a show. Glad I went last minute. The glass house is always good to me and i'm sure tonight will rock.
Wed Jun 09, 2010 1:20 pm
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The Solana Beach show was fantastic. I just want to say, for my first Sage show, it was a memorable experience that I will never forget. My friend and I were really lucky to be standing there in the front row, too. I don't know how many people will come away from these shows realizing that this is what it's all about; these special nights and moments, coming out with your friends, finding beauty in experience.
I just want to say thank you Sage, Dolan, and if they frequent the board FMA for putting on such an amazing, high-energy show. These dudes rip it up. See you all tonight in Pomona!
PS: B., did you drop the peice about Laika from your set?
Wed Jun 09, 2010 4:07 pm
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that piece is being written... won't be ready for awhile. i haven't performed it ever because it's not even close to ready for that...
that one's gonna be another 'border crossing' i think... i have ambitious plans for it.
Wed Jun 09, 2010 4:43 pm
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Location: Burbank, Ca
Pomona show last night was great. Better than Hollywood. Kind of bummed that it was pretty much the same set, but everything seemed a lot tighter tonight. Besides, my favorite part of a Sage Francis show is usually the off the cuff banter between songs (no one beats Sage on this, except for maybe Fat Mike). The band seemed to be having a lot better time tonight too, at least from the crowd perspective. Sad to hear that this might be the last CA show for a while.
Has the setlist stayed the same for the whole tour? I would have loved to have heard the band take on tracks like "Runaways" "Bridle" or "Slow Down Gandhi"
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Philippines International Autism Conference – Day 4
The International Autism Conference in the Philippines officially kicked-off this morning with a bang! President of the Philippines Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and the First Gentleman Atty. Jose Miguel Arroyo gave poignant speeches, both expressing their strong support to address the growing problem of autism that exists in the Philippines. Over 500,000 individuals living here have autism and only a small fraction of those are receiving the services they need. President Arroyo thanked all the participants for being active in the autism community and applauded the efforts of groups like the Autism Hearts Foundation and Autism Speaks. In fact, President Arroyo specifically noted the Philippines' collaboration with Autism Speaks in launching the Global Autism Public Health Initiative to help address the needs of all Filipinos struggling with autism. It was really an honor to be a part of this touching opening ceremony that included a special performance by a gifted young boy with autism who sang a song in Tagalog about hope and love. In addition, there was a hand lighting moment that truly showed how all the groups – professionals, advocates, and government – are coming together, hand-in-hand, to address autism in the Philippines. Autism Hearts Foundation, the event organizers, provided beautiful Filipino clothing to all the speakers for the opening ceremony. Women wore Kimonas and men wore the barong.
The first day's speakers addressed the audience of nearly one thousand teachers, parents, doctors and policy makers. The turnout was terrific, giving us an idea of just how strong the desire to learn more about autism is among the Filipino community. Lucky for them the conference speakers are some of the most experienced and well-respected researchers in the world. Their discussion topics today included the changing nature of autism diagnosis, co-morbidities seen with autism, the importance of early identification and evidenced-based treatments.
On a more personal note, we met a young mother today who was attending the conference as part of her education on autism. She is working on her earning her Master's degree to enable her to better care for her six year-old daughter with high-functioning autism. Her daughter recently put together a 500 piece jigsaw puzzle … with the picture side down! While individuals with autism face many challenges they can often also have many gifts.


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The AVENUES Domestic and Sexual Violence Advocacy Services' annual book sale and indoor yard sale has to relocate due to the Admiral Coontz Armory being flooded. The event will be held at the Hannibal American Legion Hall located at 3819 Highway MM in Hannibal.
AVENUES 8th Annual Book & Media Fair will from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Friday, April 26; from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 27; and from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.
In addition to the book sale, this year's event will also feature a large indoor yard sale.
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Vertica Systems
Analysis of columnar data warehouse DBMS vendor Vertica Systems. Related subjects include:
An idealized log management and analysis system — from whom?
I've talked with many companies recently that believe they are:
- Focused on building a great data management and analytic stack for log management …
- … unlike all the other companies that might be saying the same thing …
- … and certainly unlike expensive, poorly-scalable Splunk …
- … and also unlike less-focused vendors of analytic RDBMS (which are also expensive) and/or Hadoop distributions.
At best, I think such competitive claims are overwrought. Still, it's a genuinely important subject and opportunity, so let's consider what a great log management and analysis system might look like.
Much of this discussion could apply to machine-generated data in general. But right now I think more players are doing product management with an explicit conception either of log management or event-series analytics, so for this post I'll share that focus too.
A short answer might be "Splunk, but with more analytic functionality and more scalable performance, at lower cost, plus numerous coupons for free pizza." A more constructive and bottoms-up approach might start with: Read more
21st Century DBMS success and failure
As part of my series on the keys to and likelihood of success, I outlined some examples from the DBMS industry. The list turned out too long for a single post, so I split it up by millennia. The part on 20th Century DBMS success and failure went up Friday; in this one I'll cover more recent events, organized in line with the original overview post. Categories addressed will include analytic RDBMS (including data warehouse appliances), NoSQL/non-SQL short-request DBMS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, NewSQL and Hadoop.
DBMS rarely have trouble with the criterion "Is there an identifiable buying process?" If an enterprise is doing application development projects, a DBMS is generally chosen for each one. And so the organization will generally have a process in place for buying DBMS, or accepting them for free. Central IT, departments, and — at least in the case of free open source stuff — developers all commonly have the capacity for DBMS acquisition.
In particular, at many enterprises either departments have the ability to buy their own analytic technology, or else IT will willingly buy and administer things for a single department. This dynamic fueled much of the early rise of analytic RDBMS.
Buyer inertia is a greater concern.
- A significant minority of enterprises are highly committed to their enterprise DBMS standards.
- Another significant minority aren't quite as committed, but set pretty high bars for new DBMS products to cross nonetheless.
- FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) about new DBMS is often justifiable, about stability and consistent performance alike.
A particularly complex version of this dynamic has played out in the market for analytic RDBMS/appliances.
- First the newer products (from Netezza onwards) were sold to organizations who knew they wanted great performance or price/performance.
- Then it became more about selling "business value" to organizations who needed more convincing about the benefits of great price/performance.
- Then the behemoth vendors became more competitive, as Teradata introduced lower-price models, Oracle introduced Exadata, Sybase got more aggressive with Sybase IQ, IBM bought Netezza, EMC bought Greenplum, HP bought Vertica and so on. It is now hard for a non-behemoth analytic RDBMS vendor to make headway at large enterprise accounts.
- Meanwhile, Hadoop has emerged as serious competitor for at least some analytic data management, especially but not only at internet companies.
Otherwise I'd say: Read more
Using multiple data stores
I'm commonly asked to assess vendor claims of the kind:
- "Our system lets you do multiple kinds of processing against one database."
- "Otherwise you'd need two or more data managers to get the job done, which would be a catastrophe of unthinkable proportion."
So I thought it might be useful to quickly review some of the many ways organizations put multiple data stores to work. As usual, my bottom line is:
- The most extreme vendor marketing claims are false.
- There are many different choices that make sense in at least some use cases each.
Horses for courses
It's now widely accepted that different data managers are better for different use cases, based on distinctions such as:
- Short-request vs. analytic.
- SQL vs. non-SQL (NoSQL or otherwise).
- Expensive/heavy-duty vs. cheap/easy-to-support.
Vendors are part of this consensus; already in 2005 I observed
For all practical purposes, there are no DBMS vendors left advocating single-server strategies.
Vendor agreement has become even stronger in the interim, as evidenced by Oracle/MySQL, IBM/Netezza, Oracle's NoSQL dabblings, and various companies' Hadoop offerings.
Multiple data stores for a single application
We commonly think of one data manager managing one or more databases, each in support of one or more applications. But the other way around works too; it's normal for a single application to invoke multiple data stores. Indeed, all but the strictest relational bigots would likely agree: Read more
MemSQL update
I stopped by MemSQL last week, and got a range of new or clarified information. For starters:
- Even though MemSQL (the product) was originally designed for OLTP (OnLine Transaction Processing), MemSQL (the company) is now focused on analytic use cases …
- … which was the point of introducing MemSQL's flash-based columnar option.
- One MemSQL customer has a 100 TB "data warehouse" installation on Amazon.
- Another has "dozens" of terabytes of data spread across 500 machines, which aggregate 36 TB of RAM.
- At customer Shutterstock, 1000s of non-MemSQL nodes are monitored by 4 MemSQL machines.
- A couple of MemSQL's top references are also Vertica flagship customers; one of course is Zynga.
- MemSQL reports encountering Clustrix and VoltDB in a few competitive situations, but not NuoDB. MemSQL believes that VoltDB is still hampered by its traditional issues — Java, reliance on stored procedures, etc.
On the more technical side: Read more
|Categories: Clustering, Clustrix, Columnar database management, Data warehousing, Database compression, In-memory DBMS, MemSQL, NewSQL, NuoDB, Specific users, Vertica Systems, VoltDB and H-Store, Workload management, Zynga
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Wants vs. needs
In 1981, Gerry Chichester and Vaughan Merlyn did a user-survey-based report about transaction-oriented fourth-generation languages, the leading application development technology of their day. The report included top-ten lists of important features during the buying cycle and after implementation. The items on each list were very similar — but the order of the items was completely different. And so the report highlighted what I regard as an eternal truth of the enterprise software industry:
What users value in the product-buying process is quite different from what they value once a product is (being) put into use.
Here are some thoughts about how that comes into play today.
Wants outrunning needs
1. For decades, BI tools have been sold in large part via demos of snazzy features the CEO would like to have on his desk. First it was pretty colors; then it was maps; now sometimes it's "real-time" changing displays. Other BI features, however, are likely to be more important in practice.
2. In general, the need for "real-time" BI data freshness is often exaggerated. If you're a human being doing a job that's also often automated at high speed — for example network monitoring or stock trading — there's a good chance you need fully human real-time BI. Otherwise, how much does a 5-15 minute delay hurt? Even if you're monitoring website sell-through — are your business volumes really high enough that 5 minutes matters much? eBay answered "yes" to that question many years ago, but few of us work for businesses anywhere near eBay's scale.
Even so, the want for speed keeps growing stronger.
3. Similarly, some desires for elastic scale-out are excessive. Your website selling koi pond accessories should always run well on a single server. If you diversify your business to the point that that's not true, you'll probably rewrite your app by then as well.
4. Some developers want to play with cool new tools. That doesn't mean those tools are the best choice for the job. In particular, boring old SQL has merits — such as joins! — that shiny NoSQL hasn't yet replicated.
5. Some developers, on the other hand, want to keep using their old tools, on which they are their employers' greatest experts. That doesn't mean those tools are the best choice for the job either.
6. More generally, some enterprises insist on brand labels that add little value but lots of expense. Yes, there are many benefits to vendor consolidation, and you may avoid many headaches if you stick with not-so-cutting-edge technology. But "enterprise-grade" hardware failure rates may not differ enough from "consumer-grade" ones to be worth paying for.
|Categories: Benchmarks and POCs, Business intelligence, Cloud computing, Clustering, Data models and architecture, Data warehousing, NoSQL, Software as a Service (SaaS), Vertica Systems
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Notes and comments, March 17, 2014
I have ever more business-advice posts up on Strategic Messaging. Recent subjects include pricing and stealth-mode marketing. Other stuff I've been up to includes:
The Spark buzz keeps increasing; almost everybody I talk with expects Spark to win big, probably across several use cases.
Disclosure: I'll soon be in a substantial client relationship with Databricks, hoping to improve their stealth-mode marketing.
The "real-time analytics" gold rush I called out last year continues. A large fraction of the vendors I talk with have some variant of "real-time analytics" as a central message.
Basho had a major change in leadership. A Twitter exchange ensued. Joab Jackson offered a more sober — figuratively and literally — take.
Hadapt laid off its sales and marketing folks, and perhaps some engineers as well. In a nutshell, Hadapt's approach to SQL-on-Hadoop wasn't selling vs. the many alternatives, and Hadapt is doubling down on poly-structured data*/schema-on-need.
*While Hadapt doesn't to my knowledge use the term "poly-structured data", some other vendors do. And so I may start using it more myself, at least when the poly-structured/multi-structured distinction actually seems significant.
WibiData is partnering with DataStax, WibiData is of course pleased to get access to Cassandra's user base, which gave me the opportunity to ask why they thought Cassandra had beaten HBase in those accounts. The answer was performance and availability, while Cassandra's traditional lead in geo-distribution wasn't mentioned at all.
Disclosure: My fingerprints are all over that deal.
In other news, WibiData has had some executive departures as well, but seems to be staying the course on its strategy. I continue to think that WibiData has a really interesting vision about how to do large-data-volume interactive computing, and anybody in that space would do well to talk with them or at least look into the open source projects WibiData sponsors.
I encountered another apparently-popular machine-learning term — bandit model. It seems to be glorified A/B testing, and it seems to be popular. I think the point is that it tries to optimize for just how much you invest in testing unproven (for good or bad) alternatives.
I had an awkward set of interactions with Gooddata, including my longest conversations with them since 2009. Gooddata is in the early days of trying to offer an all-things-to-all-people analytic stack via SaaS (Software as a Service). I gather that Hadoop, Vertica, PostgreSQL (a cheaper Vertica alternative), Spark, Shark (as a faster version of Hive) and Cassandra (under the covers) are all in the mix — but please don't hold me to those details.
I continue to think that computing is moving to a combination of appliances, clusters, and clouds. That said, I recently bought a new gaming-class computer, and spent many hours gaming on it just yesterday.* I.e., there's room for general-purpose workstations as well. But otherwise, I'm not hearing anything that contradicts my core point.
*The last beta weekend for The Elder Scrolls Online; I loved Morrowind.
Vertica 7
It took me a bit of time, and an extra call with Vertica's long-time R&D chief Shilpa Lawande, but I think I have a decent handle now on Vertica 7, code-named Crane. The two aspects of Vertica 7 I find most interesting are:
- Flex Zone, a schema-on-need technology very much like Hadapt's (but of course with access to Vertica performance).
- What sounds like an alternate query execution capability for short-request queries, the big point of which is that it saves them from being broadcast across the whole cluster, hence improving scalability. (Adding nodes of course doesn't buy you much for the portion of a workload that's broadcast.)
Other Vertica 7 enhancements include:
- A lot of Bottleneck Whack-A-Mole.
- "Significant" improvements to the Vertica management console.
- Security enhancements (Kerberos), Hadoop integration enhancements (HCatalog), and enhanced integration with Hadoop security (Kerberos again).
- Some availability hardening. ("Fault groups", which for example let you ensure that data is replicated not just to 2+ nodes, but also that the nodes aren't all on the same rack.)
- Java as an option to do in-database analytics. (Who knew that feature was still missing?)
- Some analytic functionality. (Approximate COUNT DISTINCT, but not yet Approximate MEDIAN.)
Overall, two recurring themes in our discussion were:
- Load and ETL (Extract/Transform/Load) performance, and/or obviating ETL.
- Short-request performance, in the form of more scalable short-request concurrency.
Entity-centric event series analytics
Much of modern analytic technology deals with what might be called an entity-centric sequence of events. For example:
- You receive and open various emails.
- You click on and look at various web sites and pages.
- Specific elements are displayed on those pages.
- You study various products, and even buy some.
Analytic questions are asked along the lines "Which sequences of events are most productive in terms of leading to the events we really desire?", such as product sales. Another major area is sessionization, along with data preparation tasks that boil down to arranging data into meaningful event sequences in the first place.
A number of my clients are focused on such scenarios, including WibiData, Teradata Aster (e.g. via nPath), Platfora (in the imminent Platfora 3), and others. And so I get involved in naming exercises. The term entity-centric came along a while ago, because "user-centric" is too limiting. (E.g., the data may not be about a person, but rather specifically about the actions taken on her mobile device.) Now I'm adding the term event series to cover the whole scenario, rather than the "event sequence(s)" I might appear to have been hinting at above.
I decided on "event series" earlier this week, after noting that: Read more
|Categories: Aster Data, Business intelligence, Data warehousing, EAI, EII, ETL, ELT, ETLT, Platfora, Predictive modeling and advanced analytics, Teradata, Vertica Systems, Web analytics, WibiData
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Things I keep needing to say
Some subjects just keep coming up. And so I keep saying things like:
Most generalizations about "Big Data" are false. "Big Data" is a horrific catch-all term, with many different meanings.
Most generalizations about Hadoop are false. Reasons include:
- Hadoop is a collection of disparate things, most particularly data storage and application execution systems.
- The transition from Hadoop 1 to Hadoop 2 will be drastic.
- For key aspects of Hadoop — especially file format and execution engine — there are or will be widely varied options.
Hadoop won't soon replace relational data warehouses, if indeed it ever does. SQL-on-Hadoop is still very immature. And you can't replace data warehouses unless you have the power of SQL.
Note: SQL isn't the only way to provide "the power of SQL", but alternative approaches are just as immature.
Most generalizations about NoSQL are false. Different NoSQL products are … different. It's not even accurate to say that all NoSQL systems lack SQL interfaces. (For example, SQL-on-Hadoop often includes SQL-on-HBase.)
Notes and comments, July 2, 2013
I'm not having a productive week, part of the reason being a hard drive crash that took out early drafts of what were to be last weekend's blog posts. Now I'm operating from a laptop, rather than my preferred dual-monitor set-up. So please pardon me if I'm concise even by comparison to my usual standards.
- My recent posts based on surveillance news have been partly superseded by – well, by more news. Some of that news, along with some good discussion, may be found in the comment threads.
- The same goes for my recent Hadoop posts.
- The replay for my recent webinar on real-time analytics is now available. My part ran <25 minutes.
- One of my numerous clients using or considering a "real-time analytics" positioning is Sqrrl, the company behind the NoSQL DBMS Accumulo. Last month, Derrick Harris reported on a remarkable Accumulo success story – multiple US intelligence instances managing 10s of petabytes each, and supporting a variety of analytic (I think mainly query/visualization) approaches.
- Several sources have told me that MemSQL's Zynga sale is (in part) for Membase replacement. This is noteworthy because Zynga was the original pay-for-some-of-the-development Membase customer.
- More generally, the buzz out of Couchbase is distressing. Ex-employees berate the place; job-seekers check around and then decide not to go there; rivals tell me of resumes coming out in droves. Yes, there's always some of that, even at obviously prospering companies, but this feels like more than the inevitable low-level buzz one hears anywhere.
- I think the predictive modeling state of the art has become:
- Cluster in some way.
- Model separately on each cluster.
- And if you still want to do something that looks like a regression – linear or otherwise – then you might want to use a tool that lets you shovel training data in WITHOUT a whole lot of preparation* and receive a model back out. Even if you don't accept that as your final model, it can at least be a great guide to feature selection (in the statistical sense of the phrase) and the like.
- Champion/challenger model testing is also a good idea, at least if you're in some kind of personalization/recommendation space, and have enough traffic to test like that.**
- Most companies have significant turnover after being acquired, perhaps after a "golden handcuff" period. Vertica is no longer an exception.
- Speaking of my clients at HP Vertica – they've done a questionable job of communicating that they're willing to price their product quite reasonably. (But at least they allowed me to write about $2K/terabyte for hardware/software combined.)
- I'm hearing a little more Amazon Redshift buzz than I expected to. Just a little.
- StreamBase was bought by TIBCO. The rumor says $40 million.
*Basic and unavoidable ETL (Extract/Transform/Load) of course excepted.
**I could call that ABC (Always Be Comparing) or ABT (Always Be Testing), but they each sound like – well, like The Glove and the Lions.


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DETROIT -- The Toyota Corolla is getting a facelift. But the jury is still out on how extreme its makeover should be.
Toyota hinted at a new, edgier style for the staid compact at the Detroit auto show on Monday. The cautious Japanese automaker unveiled a car that could become the blueprint for the 2014 model. It ditches the current Corolla's soft, bland styling in favor of sharper lines, a dramatically sloped windshield and more aggressive headlights.
The redesign could ultimately get incorporated into the next Corolla, or get dropped. It all depends on how people react to the changes.
Still, the world's largest automaker knows it needs to update the Corolla if it wants to attract younger buyers, who have been flocking to newer, more stylish rivals like the Ford Focus and Hyundai Elantra. The Corolla was last revamped four years ago.
Even though Corolla's U.S. sales rose 21 percent to 290,947 last year, they trailed the Honda Civic, which was new in 2012. Civic sales jumped 44 percent to 317,909.
It's risky to toy with one of the best-selling cars in the world. Toyota has sold 200,000 Corollas every year in the U.S. for nearly two decades.
Meanwhile, after scoring a hit with its CR-V compact SUV, Honda on Monday offered a glimpse at what the automaker's new, even smaller SUV might look like when it hits streets.
The "Urban SUV Concept" made its debut during press previews at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Honda Motor Co. plans to launch a small SUV based on that concept vehicle in Japan by the end of the year and in the U.S. in 2014.
The concept SUV is 9 inches shorter than the CR-V, and hidden rear door handles give it a smooth, coupe-like presence. When it goes on sale in the U.S. it's expected to be priced below the existing CR-V, which starts around $22,700 for a 2013 model.
"We believe there is a good market potential for this vehicle," Tetsuo Iwamura, president and chief operating officer of Honda's North American Regional Operations, said in an interview with reporters at the show.
The new SUV is expected to fill a place in Honda's lineup between the subcompact Fit and the CR-V, and Iwamura said he anticipates it will draw new buyers -- not poach sales from Honda's existing vehicles. He said the concept for the new SUV is "completely different" than its existing offerings.


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Panos Cosmatos' moody sci-fi head trip is set within the confines of a stark and sterile laboratory circa 1983, where Dr. Barry Nyle is conducting tests on a young subject, a quiet and stunned girl named Elena. This human guinea pig is becoming aware of a power hidden deep inside of her—but is it her secret, or the work of Dr. Nyle? Is the good doctor the key to Elena's salvation or the cause of her wild visions, fuzzy recollections of a world that seems to coalesce and disintegrate around her with violent intensity?
Kubrick and Tarkovsky are clear influences on Cosmatos' overall vision, but the bold style he employs here is ultimately his own. The brilliant soundscape, however, was created by Black Mountain's Jeremy Schmidt, who used vintage analog synthesizers to seal the time capsule. Beyond the Black Rainbow dares you to tune in, turn on, and see what's waiting for you on the other side.
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As we continue to celebrate Parkinson's Awareness Month with our recent Medicines in Development for Parkinson's Disease report and our Conversations forum with leaders from the Parkinson's community, today we also have a guest post from another voice in the community.
The Catalyst
Parkinson's is chronic and progressive, meaning that symptoms continue and can increase over time. The progression of Parkinson's disease varies and is different for everyone. No one can predict which symptoms will affect an individual, and the intensity of the symptoms also varies. With April being Parkinson's Awareness Month part of our efforts include reaching out to the community to hear their Parkinson stories.
I was grateful to have an opportunity to explain in a guest blogpost for Global Genes how the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) recent draft guidance on social media could have a direct impact on the ability of me and other patients to get i
Following is a guest blog from Mark Elliot, Executive Director of the Global Intellectual Property Center, where he discusses the importance of intellectual property in global trade agreements and how the U.S. has a full agenda in dealing with IP issues this year.
Tomorrow, April 26th, is the YMCA's Healthy Kids Day, which promotes the important role an active and healthy lifestyle plays in the overall wellbeing of every child. Through various events during the day, the YMCA will emphasize how beneficial it is to stay active throughout the summer.
It's conference season!
When #PhRMA14 concluded last week, we walked away from our 56th Annual Meeting with new ideas and perspectives to keep pushing the industry forward. The speakers and attendees discussed a number of important topics, and this week we focused on the value of and access to innovative medicines for patients in need.
The IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics released a new report titled, "Medicine use and shifting costs of healthcare: A review of the use of medicines in the United States in 2013." The study assessed the utilization of key health care services
For the last 20 years, the federal 340B has helped biopharmaceutical companies and hospitals partner to share treatments and medicines at a discounted price with those who could not otherwise afford them. The program has helped millions of uninsured and vulnerable patients gain access to the treatments necessary to lead fuller — healthier lives. Unfortunately, the 340B program lacks an effective oversight mechanism to ensure the discounted treatments are reaching their intended recipients.
Last Friday marked another successful PhRMA Annual Meeting where the biopharmaceutical and patient community, policy makers, academics, and more, came together to discuss challenges and opportunities facing patients today. The Annual Meeting covered an array of topics all centering on the theme of: How we can convert hopes into cures for our nation's patients.
As the debate around the cost of Hepatitis C treatment rages on, a Bloomberg article yesterday highlighted other potential Hepatitis C medicines on the horizon and the many benefits they could provide for patients living with this debilitating disease. What's more, many of the potential new medicines mig
"Mac," as just about everyone in Portland knows him, is a pharmacist and pharmacy teacher deeply concerned about a dangerous new practice in which several companies appear to be selling non-FDA approved and potentially adulterated medicines to Maine patients.
Collaboration was rightly a focal point of #PhRMA14 because it is incredibly important to developing new medicines. As PhRMA CEO John Castellani said at the meeting, the industry is changing rapidly and we continue to compete by "joining hands…building new strength and breadth…[and] adapting and leading." One of the most important ways to accomplish this is by incorporating the patient into everything we do.
The final day of #PhRMA14 concluded with Celgene CEO Bob Hugin passing the Chairman's gavel to Pfizer CEO Ian Read. It has been a successful three days and our current momentum will undoubtedly propel us into another year of research and innovation. Governor Terry McAuliffe said it best this morning by noting that innovative solutions often happen through collaboration.
As the twelve countries negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) approach the finish line after years of hard work on an ambitious agreement, there remains quite a bit of work left to be done. Now that all the low hanging fruit has been picked, the most difficult issues remain to be finalized., Much of the criticism of TPP from outside groups is based on flawed or false assumptions that severely understate the role of intellectual property in developing new and lifesaving medicines.
Day two of #PhRMA14 was chock full of insightful conversations focused on the current state of the biopharmaceutical industry and what it will take to continue to innovate.
The following is a guest blog post from Information Technology and Innovation Foundation President Rob Atkinson, who participated on a panel today at #PhRMA14 that discussed the value of medical innovation.
The guest post below by Robert Hugin originally appeard on The Hill. Hugin is the chairman and CEO of Celgene Corporation and chairman of PhRMA.
America's status as the research lab for the world is no longer secure.
Day one of #PhRMA14 was a success! Celgene CEO and PhRMA Chairman Bob Hugin set the tone for the meeting by emphasizing the industry's commitment to the patient. It is because of that commitment that we have seen tremendous progress and a real prospect of producing dramatic breakthroughs. Yet, there are still challenges that must be addressed, and discussions tomorrow will speak to six key initiatives to help address them.
After many months of planning and hard work, I'm excited for the kick-off of PhRMA's 2014 Annual Meeting tomorrow afternoon at 4pm. I think we have a great meeting planned – and I'm thrilled to announce that nearly all of it will be live-streamed on our website.


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AIA 50th Annual Year-End Review and Forecast Luncheon
Year-End Review and Forecast
Marion C. Blakey, President and CEO, AIA
December 17, 2014
Year-End Review and Forecast
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December 17, 2014
Arlington, Va. — The Aerospace Industries Association released data today from a study conducted on their behalf by Harris Poll showing that after discussing present and future security threats facing the United States, more than two thirds of registered voters (69 percent) say that given the evolving and increased threats to America's security, the U.S. government should increase spending on America's national security relative to the caps set more than three years ago. The same number (69 percent) says they would be more likely to support a candidate for public office who supports increased spending on national security. The study was conducted by telephone in November among over 800 registered voters.
Arlington, Va. — F. Clifton "Clif" Berry, Jr., a long-time journalist, author and public relations professional in the aerospace and defense field, has been selected to receive the 2014 Lauren D. Lyman Award for outstanding achievement in aerospace communications.
Timothy Keating, Senior Vice President, Government Operations, The Boeing Company
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Arlington, Va. — The Aerospace Industries Association presented its first Wright-Curtiss Legacy Award December 2 to U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), in recognition of his longtime support of the aerospace and defense industry.


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On Tuesday Gypsum Town Council members had a meeting quite different from the usual routine - they convened at the gun club.
Four council members - just enough for a quorum - met at the Gypsum Shooting Sports Park at 6 p.m., an hour earlier than usual. Official business was light duty. The meeting was scheduled as an opportunity to get a tour of the facility and shoot some trap. The trap shooting was canceled due to the rain, however.
"This is the first Tuesday night we've had rain since April," said Mayor Pro Tem and Gun Club President Dick Mayne. "I know because we have a (shooting event) every Tuesday."
Nonetheless, the other three council members - Beric Christiansen, Tom Edwards and Pam Schultz - received a history lesson from Mayne about the Shooting Sports Park and plans for its new facilities.
"We meet at places like the gun club about every other year," said Town Manager Jeff Shroll. "We had it at the sewer plant the year before, after its $4.5 million expansion. It's a chance for the council to see parts of the town they normally wouldn't."
What is now the Shooting Sports Park was literally a dump when people started using it as a shooting range in the 1950s, Mayne said.
"I used to work in the one trap house and set up targets for the old-timers," he said.
The land was owned by the Bureau of Land Management and leased to the county until it was annexed by the town in 2000.
"Until then, the gun club didn't want to invest much sweat equity into the place because the property could change hands at any time," Mayne said.
Since then, the club has installed sewer and water connections and a variety of shooting ranges among other things. There are currently five trap houses, two pistol ranges, at least two rifle ranges and an archery range. There are also lights for nighttime trap shooting.
"It's a pretty unique club," Mayne said. "The town philosophy is to try to accommodate as many shooting sports interests as we can. People stop in from all over the country during hunting season and some people come up from Denver regularly."
Mayne said most of the improvements at the site have been made in the last 10 or 12 years since it was annexed. The next grand plans are to scrap the current club house and build a new one with two stories.
"We hope to have construction drawings by November so we can apply for grants by December and maybe start building next spring," he said. "The Division of Parks and Wildlife conducts hunter education classes here and the new building would allow us to host two events at the same time."
The club has about 250 active members and another 200 that are inactive. A diversity of professions, trades and skills are represented among that group, which has been the main reason the club has been able to make many of the improvements.
"We have members who are excavators, masons electricians and plumbers," Mayne said.
A few Eagle Scout projects have also improved the park.
The current clubhouse was built in the '50s. It's made of cinder blocks and the foundation is cracking. Mice used to get in until a new door, windows and roof were added in recent years.
"We also want to re-orient the parking," Mayne said.
The town helps fund the bigger projects and club membership fees and donated labor cover the routine maintenance. Membership costs $100 for a calendar year. Members who contribute labor earn $50 renewals.
The unusual location of the council meeting was naturally the source of a few laughs.
At one point, Gypsum Creek Middle School teacher Torrey Kadetz addressed the board about the school's upcoming Civil War battle reenactment. He told the board he would be requesting a few thousand dollars to help about half the eighth-graders cover the cost to participate.
Last year's Battle of Shiloh in Maloit Park in Minturn was quite a success, Kadetz said. The students dressed in full costumes and fired plumes of flour from fake muskets as pyrotechnics sent debris flying through the air.
"This year's class is already asking if they get to do that this spring," Kadetz said. "Half of them are on the free-and-reduced lunch program, so I know they'll need help to afford this."
Shroll asked how many parents had a problem with their children using fake weapons.
"Not here in Gypsum," Kadetz said. "Upvalley had a few, though."
Shroll laughed.
"I guess we are the town having a meeting at the gun club," he said.
In other business:
• Leaders from the Eagle County Ambulance District and Western Eagle County Ambulance District presented their plans to merge as one entity under the banner of ECAD within the next year. The merger will ultimately have to be approved by a special district election but WECAD manager Chris Montera doesn't anticipate a problem, as the mill levy will drop by 3 mills. For more details on the merger, search "ECAD, WECAD" on the Enterprise website, www.eaglevalleyenterprise.com.
• The council approved a donation of $250 to the Eagle River Watershed Council for the annual river cleanup. The cleanup will cover about 70 miles of river this year on Sept. 29. See page 10 for more information about the event.
• The council passed the first reading of an ordinance to further define the municipal code regarding parks and playgrounds.
• The council discussed the recent acquisition of property at 461 Railroad Ave. The town paid approximately $136,000 for four lots and two buildings that have been vacant for a long time. Shroll said there are no specific plans for the property at this time except to revitalize business in that area of town.


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