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About the Book
"Bottom of the 33rd is chaw-chewing, sunflower-spitting, pine tar proof that too much baseball is never enough." —Jane Leavy, author of The Last Boy and Sandy Koufax
"What a book—an exquisite exercise in story-telling, democracy and myth-making." —Colum McCann, winner of the National Book Award for Let The Great World Spin
From Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Dan Barry comes the beautifully recounted story of the longest game in baseball history—a tale celebrating not only the robust intensity of baseball, but the aspirational ideal epitomized by the hard-fighting players of the minor leagues. In the tradition of Moneyball, The Last Hero, and Wicked Good Year, Barry's Bottom of the 33rdis a reaffirming story of the American Dream finding its greatest expression in timeless contests of the Great American Pastime.
On April 18, 1981, a ball game sprang eternal. What began as a modestly attended minor-league game between the Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings became not only the longest ever played in baseball history, but something else entirely. The first pitch was thrown after dusk on Holy Saturday, and for the next eight hours the night seemed to suspend its participants between their collective pasts and futures, between their collective sorrows and joys—the ballplayers; the umpires; Pawtucket's ejected manager, peering through a hole in the backstop; the sportswriters and broadcasters; a few stalwart fans shivering in the cold.
With Bottom of the 33rd, celebrated New York Times journalist Dan Barry has written a lyrical meditation on small-town lives, minor-league dreams, and the elements of time and community that conspired one fateful night to produce a baseball game seemingly without end. Bottom of the 33rd captures the sport's essence: the purity of purpose, the crazy adherence to rules, the commitment of both players and fans. This genre-bending book, a reportorial triumph, portrays the myriad lives held in the night's unrelenting grip. Consider, for instance, the team owner determined to revivify a decrepit stadium, built atop a swampy bog, or the batboy approaching manhood, nervous and earnest, or the umpire with a new family and a new home, or the wives watching or waiting up, listening to a radio broadcast slip into giddy exhaustion. Consider the small city of Pawtucket itself, its ghosts and relics, and the players, two destined for the Hall of Fame (Cal Ripken and Wade Boggs), a few to play only briefly or forgettably in the big leagues, and the many stuck in minor-league purgatory, duty bound and loyal to the game.
An unforgettable portrait of ambition and endurance, Bottom of the 33rd is the rare sports book that changes the way we perceive America's pastime, and America's past.
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Winner of the 2012 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sportswriting —
Dan Barry has crafted a loving and lyrical tribute to a time and a place when you stayed until the final out...because that's what we did in America. Bottom of the 33rd is chaw-chewing, sunflower-spitting, pine tar proof that too much baseball is never enough. — –Jane Leavy
"What a book -- an exquisite exercise in story-telling, democracy and myth-making that has, at its center, a great respect for the symphony of voices that make up America." — –Colum McCann
"Dan's Barry's meticulous reporting and literary talent are both evident in Bottom of the 33rd, a pitch-perfect and seamless meditation on baseball and the human condition." — –Gay Talese
"A fascinating, beautifully told story... In the hands of Barry, a national correspondent for the New York Times, this marathon of duty, loyalty, misery and folly becomes a riveting narrative...The book feels like 'Our Town' on the diamond." — –Los Angeles Times
"An astonishing tale that lyrically articulates baseball's inexorable grip on its players and fans, Bottom of the 33rd belongs among the best baseball books ever written." — –Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Meticulously researched and tremendously entertaining!" — –Columbus Dispatch
"[Dan] Barry does more than simply recount the inning-by-inning-by-inning box score. He delves beneath the surface, like an archaeologist piecing together the shards and fragments of a forgotten society, to reconstruct a time and a night that have become part of baseball lore." — –Associated Press
"Whether you're a baseball aficionado or a reader who just enjoys a good yarn, you'll love this book." — –Minneapolis Star Tribune
"A worthy companion to Roger Kahn's classic Boys of Summer ...[Dan Barry] exploits the power of memory and nostalgia with literary grace and journalistic exactitude. He blends a vivid, moment-by-moment re-creation of the game with what happens to its participants in the next 30 years." — –Stefan Fatsis, New York Times
"Brilliantly rendered...The book is both a fount of luxurious writing and a tour-de-force of reportage." — –Washington Post
"[An] heroic conjuring of the past." — –New York Times Book Review
"[A] masterpiece...destined for the Hall of Fame of baseball books." — –Publisher's Weekly
Product Details
- Imprint: Harper
- On Sale: 04/12/2011
- Trimsize: 6 in (w) x 9 in (h) x 0.93 in (d)
- Pages: 272
- List Price: 26.99 USD
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Definition of chambré in English:
(Of red wine) at room temperature: the French believe that Cabernet tastes best chambré
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1950s: French, past participle of chambrer 'bring to room temperature', from chambre 'room' (see chamber).
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Intel to Offer More Custom-Tailored Server Chips
Intel, long known for cookie-cutter computer chips, is stepping up efforts to let companies customize its processors.
The Silicon Valley giant is using an industry conference in San Francisco Wednesday to announce an unusual plan to package its standard server processors alongside a different class of chip, which can be electrically programmed to handle specific calculating functions. Intel says the combination can let Web companies and other customers achieve dramatic performance gains on some tasks.
Intel is offering other customizing options for its widely used Xeon line, including building in specialized circuitry that customers design themselves. But that process could take many months.
The company says the new two-chip combination–which includes what the industry calls an FPGA, for field programmable gate array–allows customers to quickly adapt the functions of those chips in a speedy process akin to changing a piece of software. They can also modify those programming instructions after the servers are installed with no hardware modifications, if their software or business problems change.
"The pace of software innovation is crazy fast," said Diane Bryant, a senior vice president who is general manager of Intel's data center group. "This is a great way for the silicon to keep up with software innovation."
FPGAs have been sold for years by chip makers such as Xilinx Inc. and Altera Corp. Ms. Bryant declined to disclose Intel's partner on the latest effort, or when the resulting products would hit the market.
Some customers already plug FPGAs into server systems to accelerate certain workloads. That can bring a tenfold speedup in some jobs, Bryant says.
But placing the FPGA and a server's central processor together in the same package can be twice as fast, she says, because they exchange data on a faster kind of connection and share memory more efficiently.
Bryant says some customers she won't identify are trying out the dual-chip offering. Last year, Intel disclosed that it has modified Xeon models to benefit customers that include Facebook and eBay, with a total of 15 customized products developed. This year, Bryant vows to deliver more.
Meanwhile, Intel on Wednesday is also disclosing the official name–Xeon D–for a new multi-function version of the product line expected out next year. Where Intel has such "systems on a chip" for low-power applications already, based on its Atom family, the Xeon D will be beefier "SoC" and will use the company's latest production process.
Why all the effort? After all, Intel commands roughly 97% of industry shipments of server chips.
For one thing, big Web companies including Google and Facebook have made noises about experimenting with new chip technologies, including the Power line that originated at IBM and the ARM Holdings designs that many companies sell for mobile devices.
For another, Bryant is pushing to get standard processors from Intel into networking, data storage and other applications that now typically use chips based on Power or MIPS designs (MIPS Technologies, once a high-profile Silicon Valley company, fell by the wayside in the mainstream computer market and was purchased by the British company Imagination Technologies Group last year). Backers of ARM are racing to grab those same applications.
"As we have seen many times during our history, times of disruptions call for a choice for organization to embrace innovation or risk losing their position in the market," Bryant noted in a blog post drafted to accompany her announcement, which came during an appearance at the Gigaom Structure conference.


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Council records sharp drop in rent arrears
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Croydon Council has seen rent arrears amongst its tenants drop by 9% in the last year.
Unpaid rent levels in the borough fell over four weeks in March by more than £51,000, bringing arrears for the last financial year down by nearly £150,000, from £1,596,709 in April 2013.
The rent collection rate for 2013/14 was at 99% of the £82 million due - better than the average for the last five years.
The council has credited the drop in arrears to the range of support itself and its partner organisations have provided, including helping tenants to find work and manage their finances, advise on welfare benefits, reduce living costs and move to smaller homes in the wake of the bedroom tax.
Councillor Dudley Mead, cabinet member for housing, said: "The reduction in rent arrears over the last four weeks is an excellent achievement.
"I'm also delighted to see arrears are almost £150,000 lower than they were at the start of the year, which is all the more commendable given the challenges posed by the introduction of the welfare reforms last year.
"But now we must make sure this good work continues as we begin 2014/15."
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Morning Links: Dow 20000 Calls Have Already Begun
Dow vaults over 15000; investors finding this four-year rally increasingly irresistible – WSJ
Dow 15000, what's next? — Morning MoneyBeat
"Putting Dow 15000 in perspective" — The Reformed Broker
Dow 15000: Nobody cares — Mark Gongloff
Exuberance? Euphoria? Hardly — Barry Ritholtz
Here come the Dow 20000 calls — Dragonfly Capital
Americans are borrowing again, but still less than before the credit crunch – WSJ
Pleased by its friendly shareholder plan, Einhorn raises his bet on Apple Inc. – Dealbook
Weeds in market's yield of dreams — Heard on the Street
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Definition of food baby in English:
food baby
A protruding stomach caused by eating a large quantity of food and supposedly resembling that of a woman in the early stages of pregnancy: a very small bump was visible in the tight frock, although it could easily have been mistaken for a food baby
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- I woke up, went downstairs to get in the shower, looked at myself in the mirror and was just horrified at the state of the food baby.
- The days you do feel like you've got a food baby going on, get some exercise and write about what you feel and see if you can find a pattern.
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on July 15, 2012 - 12:01 AM
Thursday at 8:15 p.m. was rough enough. I had three children scrambling around upstairs, sneaking out of bed for their "justs," "Just a glass of water," "Just have to go to bathroom." Just. Just. Just. Then the doorbell rang. My guard was up, but only because they were two males, early 20s, holding pamphlets, standing on my front porch. This was not what I wanted to deal with, but I am a people pleaser, a kind person and, apparently, a sucker.
They put me immediately at ease assuring me they were not selling anything. They were "just" neighbors and wanted a minute of my time. They were good. They opened up a discussion, appealed to my charitable side, mentioned specific neighbors and streets, and I lowered my guard. They observed and listened and created a story to entice me. I wanted to believe them. I wanted to help. Within two minutes they knew I had been a social studies teacher and hence they were dean's list local college students raising funds for a London internship with BBC. At my neighbor's house they were a baseball team looking for funding for a championship game. I'm guessing my neighbor was wearing a baseball hat or jersey.
While they were convincing, there were clues that this was not legitimate. They never gave specific names, showed no identification and offered an out-of-date receipt for selling magazines, telling me their new receipts had not arrived and the magazines were from their last fund-raiser. Moreover, the pamphlet was their only copy, and laminated sloppily at that. Yet I still sat there listening and answering questions.
They offered nothing for me to keep short of the incorrect receipt and a fuzzy memory that they wanted the check payable to something like Collective Community Service. I did not give money, but don't give me credit yet. I didn't give them money because they wanted a minimum check donation of $75, not cash. I was willing to lose $5 cash to get them off my porch.
I was upset all night wondering if it was a scam and thinking about my neighbors, since his envelope of checks was pretty thick. I called the college the next day and confirmed that such a program did not exist as the boys had claimed. The whole thing was a scam. I immediately called the police and confessed my naivety. Both State Police officers I spoke with told me to not feel guilty about buying their story. After all, these traveling scam artists know what they are doing.
Next time I will be saying no, not opening the door wide, and notifying the authorities. Saying no does not mean I'm not charitable. I can still donate money, but I have to be cautious.
Scams like this are all too common. I've learned these scam artists come into an area for a day or two, spread out their "salespeople," and then move on out. They could be selling magazines, asking for your support for a competition, offering landscaping, roofing or even driveway paving. You don't know who to trust, but there are always ways to get what they are selling in a slower, more legitimate way, even from them if they are sincere and willing to wait for you to contact them later while you investigate.
I just hope an experience like this does not discourage me from taking advantage of other opportunities at my front door, namely Boy Scout kettle corn or Girl Scout Thin Mints. The door is still open, just not so wide and welcoming as before.


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Definition of dimity in English:
A hard-wearing, sheer cotton fabric woven with raised stripes or checks.
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Late Middle English: from Italian dimito or medieval Latin dimitum, from Greek dimitos, from di- 'twice' + mitos 'warp thread'; the origin of the final -y is unknown.
Words that rhyme with dimityanonymity, equanimity, magnanimity, proximity, pseudonymity, pusillanimity, unanimity
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Polish Treasury Learns From Experience
Poland's Treasury Ministry seems to finally have gotten it, at least in terms of how to privatize through the Warsaw Stock Exchange. Friday it sold a 10.8% stake in oil refiner Grupa Lotos for 406 million zloty (US$141 million) at 29 zlotys a share — triple the price from a year ago. The sale comes two weeks after another successful privatization deal, the sale of a 10% stake in copper miner KGHM Polska Miedz for over 2 billion zloty (US$703 million) at near a 19-month high.
The strong start to 2010 consolidates the success of share issues by state-owned power group PGE and coal miner Bogdanka, which didn't allow the government to pocket any money, but will enable the Treasury to sell stakes through the stock exchange in the future. They also attracted attention from new domestic and foreign retail investors.
Treasury Minister Aleksander Grad seems to appreciate the "get out of jail free" card handed to him by his boss, Prime Minister Donald Tusk, when his attempt to privatize the Polish Gdynia and Szczecin shipyards ended in fiasco last summer after the hyped, but elusive, Qatari bid failed to materialize.
Given the shadiness of the Qatari-shipyards sales debacle, the pressure was on for Grad to accomplish something, so he came up with the ambitious privatization plan worth 37 billion zloty in 18 months to plug a ballooning budget deficit.
These latest successes contrast sharply with two failed privatizations aimed at strategic investors, of the Warsaw Stock Exchange itself and of power group Enea. Poland's Treasury expected to have a bidding war, but ended up with just one, cold-footed suitor in each case. Now, the ministry believes the stock exchange is the only place to off-load assets fast and is considering selling another 16% stake in Enea and another 15% stake in Lotos through the bourse.
Analysts and voters seem to be willing to turn a blind eye to Enea/WSE sale false starts, or even the fact that 2009 privatization revenue came in at only 60% of plan. Grad's track record contrasts sharply with the policy of Poland's previous government, led by the conservative Law and Justice party, which committed the sin of neglect, failed to sell of state assets before the global crisis when investors had much easier access to financing. So everyone, including the rest of the government, must be eager to give him a E for effort and encourage him to keep plugging along. The unsavory alternatives are benefits cuts to millions of poor voters or tax increases for wealthy ones.
Equally surprising, from a sociological point of view, is the lack of union and opposition criticism about selling "the crown jewels" of the Polish economy.


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Amsterdam is a gem of a city. Europeans are lucky to have a city like Amsterdam, easily accessible, where on can spend a long weekend and be entertained, fed, and culturally stuffed. From Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport it's a short journey into central Amsterdam Central Station where trams, subways and canal boats await to carry you off to your hotel or to the many interesting sites Amsterdam has to offer. Even the Cruiseship Terminal is a short walk to Amsterdam's Central Station. The Amsterdam street map from STREETWISE® contains all the updated mass transit you'll need to navigate around Amsterdam like native. Amsterdam tram routes, subway lines and the 3 main canal water bus lines and stations are featured on the map. A complete list of hotels and all major points of interest are pinpointed and indexed on the map.
Walking is great fun because Amsterdam is a compact and visually stimulating city. Amsterdam was made for walkers. Between the canals you can walk and appreciate the elegant buildings along Herengracht, Prinsengracht and Keiergracht. These streets are are part of "the nine streets" one of the prime shopping areas of Amsterdam. The area is filled with designer boutiques, and cafes.
The tranquil Begijnhof in the heart of Amsterdam is a small village square in a metropolis accessible off the Spui. Our Central Amsterdam map inset drawn at a scale of 1:9,000 is enlarged to capture the detail of Amsterdam's tiny network of streets and alleyways. Many of the major Amsterdam sites are drawn in architectural 3d for easy identification.
Its also fun to stroll around the neighborhood of De Jordaan. Jordaan is a funky place with vintage clothing, small boutiques and galleries. Haarlemmerstraat is a bustling street for walking because of its diversity of shops and eateries.
All three canal water bus lines will take you to the Museum Quarter on the Stadhouderskade where you can visit the Van Gogh Museum with the largest collection of Vincent van Gogh's paintings in the world. There is also the Van Gogh Museum and Stedelijk Museum nearby in the Museum plain. Nearby is the neighborhood of Oud Zuis (Old South) an upscale neighborhood with trendy shopping along Van Baerlesstraat, Cornelis Schuytstraat and Beethovenstraat. Pieter Cornelisz Hoofstraat is known as the 5th Avenue of Amsterdam.
KNSM Island is cool for modern design shopping. You'll note tram line 10 on the STREETWISE® Amsterdam street map will take you from Central Amsterdam direct to Azart Plein on the island.
On a pretty little canal called Spiegel along the street named Nieuwe Spiegelstraat you'll find numerous antique stores filled with art, furniture, books, etc. More antiquing is to found along the cross street Kerkstraat.
The Singel flower market is one of the most colorful and fragrant places of interest of Amsterdam in all full seasons. Its unique in that the merchandise is displayed on floating barges in the Singel Canal.
Amsterdam's red light district, the Rossebuurt, is famed for its brothels and adult shops all situated along winding narrow cobbled streets amidst wonderful 14th century architecture. Here is where Amsterdam prides itself on its wholly liberal and tolerant attitude toward prostitution and drugs. Instead of criminalizing these human activities, the Dutch let the criminals run and profit from the vice markets. Make no mistake about this neighborhood, It's a stink hole of vermin overseen by Russian and Chechen gangsters who traffic in international sex slaves and drug markets. Long gone are the cute Dutch girls sitting in windows beckoning customers into their safe retail living quarters. All you find now are exploited girls from all over eastern Europe forced to work in miserable conditions. The drug addicts staggering around and vomiting on the streets add more to the foreboding atmosphere of Amsterdams liberal red light district. If you wish to wander the streets and visit Oudekerk or Old Church visit in the morning after the streets have been washed.
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Election Thins Blue Dog Coalition
The Blue Dogs, the fiscally conservative Democrats who have seen their ranks swell in recent years, lost at least half their members in Tuesday's elections.
Tuesday night, 22 members of the 53-person coalition were defeated in their re-election bids. Another five members retired, and their districts elected Republicans to replace them. And three races involving Blue Dogs have yet to be called.
That leaves just 23 members who are definitely coming back next Congress.
Who's out:
Bobby Bright of Alabama (defeated)
Harry Mitchell of Arizona (defeated)
Marion Berry of Arkansas (retired)
John Salazar of Colorado (defeated)
Betsy Markey of Colorado (defeated)
Allen Boyd of Florida (defeated)
Jim Marshall of Georgia (defeated)
Walt Minnick of Idaho (defeated)
Brad Ellsworth of Indiana (who lost a bid for Senate)
Baron Hill of Indiana (defeated)
Charlie Melancon of Louisiana (who also lost a bid for Senate)
Gene Taylor of Mississippi (defeated)
Travis Childers of Mississippi (defeated)
Scott Murphy of New York (defeated)
Michael Arcuri of New York (defeated)
Earl Pomeroy of North Dakota (defeated)
Zachary Space of Ohio (defeated)
Charles Wilson of Ohio (defeated)
Kathleen Dahlkemper of Pennsylvania (defeated)
Patrick Murphy of Pennsylvania (defeated)
Chris Carney of Pennsylvania (defeated)
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin of South Dakota (defeated)
Lincoln Davis of Tennessee (defeated)
Bart Gordon of Tennessee (retired)
John Tanner of Tennesee (retired)
Glenn Nye of Virginia (defeated)
Who's in:
Mike Ross of Arkansas
Adam Schiff of California
Loretta Sanchez of California
Mike Thompson of California
Dennis Cardoza of California
Jane Harman of California
Joe Baca of California
David Scott of Georgia
John Barrow of Georgia
Sanford Bishop of Georgia
Joe Donnelly of Indiana
Leonard Boswell of Iowa
Michael Michaud of Maine
Collin Peterson of Minnesota
Heath Shuler of North Carolina
Mike McIntyre of North Carolina
Dan Boren of Oklahoma
Kurt Schrader of Oregon
Tim Holden of Pennsylvania
Jason Altmire of Pennsylvania
Jim Cooper of Tennessee
Henry Cuellar of Texas
Jim Matheson of Utah
Who knows?
Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona
Jim Costa of California
Ben Chandler of Kentucky


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Definition of comprehensive in English:
1Complete; including all or nearly all elements or aspects of something: a comprehensive list of sources
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- From a comprehensive list of nearly 1,600 daily newspapers, 500 newspapers were selected using standard interval sampling.
- The Guide contains a comprehensive list of businesses and services in the town and contains a very useful street map of Ballinrobe.
- Its Explore Kodiak guide has a comprehensive list of outfitters and free activities.
1.1Of large content or scope; wide-ranging: a comprehensive collection of photographs
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- Its thorough research and comprehensive scope should prove invaluable for anyone seriously interested in the subject.
- The design phase is comprehensive in scope, tackling everything from content and design to functionality and user interface.
- The Senate Inquiry into mandatory sentencing was broad-ranging, thorough and comprehensive in terms of scope and evidence.
inclusive, all-inclusive, complete;
thorough, full, extensive, all-embracing, exhaustive, detailed, in-depth, encyclopedic, universal, catholic;
far-reaching, radical, sweeping, across the board, wholesale;
informal wall-to-wall
1.2(Of automobile insurance) providing coverage for most risks, including damage to the policyholder's own vehicle: comprehensive and collision insurance
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- Some cost items will differ for different vehicle types, notably comprehensive insurance, but in the main it is reasonable to use fleet size.
- Is it possible to take out one insurance policy, preferably comprehensive, that would cover us all to drive either of the cars?
- The good news for motorists with fully comprehensive insurance is that they are covered if their car has water damage.
1.3 (also comprehensive examination or comp) An examination testing a student's command of a special field of knowledge.
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- The reality of life in Wereilu and in Ethiopia is that few students are able to pass the comprehensive examinations with a high enough mark to continue with tertiary education.
- Currently in our program, a senior comprehensive examination is given, but is not required for either graduation or as eligibility to take a national certification examination.
- As an example, one student who by his own admission did not study for, nor pass the senior comprehensive examination, took a job that required that he have national certification.
noun(in full comprehensive school) British
A secondary school catering to children of all abilities from a given area.
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- About 12,000 pupils went on to study at the same 400 selective grammar schools or top-rated comprehensives.
- The majority of these producers did not attend fee-paying schools; more went to grammar schools or comprehensives.
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Oct. 4, 2002 -- Early research suggests that a commonly used cancer drug could also be effective in the treatment of lupus. The drug, Rituxan, targets specific white blood cells that prompt the immune system to attack healthy tissue.
As many as 1.4 million Americans are believed to have some form of lupus; 90% of patients are women. Symptoms vary and can include fatigue, arthritis, and damage to the kidneys, heart, lung, brain, blood, and skin.
Although the cause of lupus is not well understood, it is known that immune system cells called B cells play a major role in the chronic rheumatic disorder. Depleting the body of B cells has proved effective in the treatment of certain leukemias and lymphomas, and research from the University College London recently showed the treatment to be effective in rheumatoid arthritis patients.
In their latest study, the researchers used this form of treatment -- called B lymphocyte depletion therapy -- to treat six women with advanced lupus who had no other treatment options. The findings were published in the October issue of the journal Arthritis and Rheumatism.
Patients received two infusions of Rituxan over a two-week period, along with infusions of the cancer drug Cytoxan, which is also used in the treatment of lupus. They also received high-dose oral steroids -- a common treatment for lupus.
While one woman did not complete the study, the remaining five had significant improvement in symptoms such as fatigue and joint inflammation six months after the treatment. Kidney and lung function also improved, and the treatment was well tolerated.
According to lead researcher Maria J. Leandro, MD, two of the women are still doing well, with few lupus symptoms, more than two years after treatment. She tells WebMD that it is unclear whether patients will benefit from repeated infusions and whether the treatment protocol used in this study is optimal.
"There are many unanswered questions and we need larger, formal trials to answer them," she says. More than 250,000 cancer patients have been treated with this therapy, and many have had repeat infusions. Theoretically, there is no reason why we could not retreat lupus patients."
Lupus expert Joan Merrill, MD, tells WebMD that it remains to be seen whether B lymphocyte depletion therapy offers a true advance for the treatment of lupus. She says much of the current research is aimed at targeting the specific B cells that cause the immune system to turn against healthy tissue, but several once-promising therapies have been abandoned because they performed poorly in clinical trials. Merrill heads the clinical pharmacology research program at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation.
"We don't yet have the kind of drugs for lupus that are anywhere near as sophisticated as what we have for other rheumatic diseases like rheumatoid arthritis," she says. "We need drugs that target the specific problem without having a lot of global side effects." -->


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Can you tell how fast Julius' tail is wagging?!?
He was excited to get this delivery from Del Real Foods, and so was I!
Cheese and Green Chile Tamales…
…Rice + Refried Beans…
We suddenly had an excuse to have friends over. I had melon + miso as an afternoon snack, then went out and bought some stuff to bulk up the party in a box. Heirloom mini tomatoes dressed in olive oil, cider vinegar, salt, and pepper…
…simple guacamole, chips, and lime wedges.
Even though everything is microwavable, I used the stovetop…
…served with some salmon that Adam + Star brought.
Two plates for me – everything was tasty! I especially dug the tamales.
(The salsa is pretty spicy!)
For dessert – frozen grapes, Lindt Dark with Sea Salt + the leftover Yogurt Jam "Pie."
(I skipped the chocolate.)
Want a chance to get your own party in a box – and much more – for yourself? Del Real Foods originally offered to send me their meat products, but I knew those would just sit around in this household. If one of YOU is willing to talk about your carnivorous experience over the phone with me in a future episode of The Actor's Diet podcast – that's the only mandatory entry – leave a comment saying you're willing to be interviewed. Lots of extra ways to win below!


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Ski Holidays in Alpe d'Huez, France
The Annalise is a contemporary chalet-apartment sitting on the third floor of the Etendard building. The property shares an entrance hall with Chalet Christian, offers its own separate ski storage room.
The property has been recently refurbished to a good standard and boasts beautiful views across the resort from the spacious lounge/dining area. The chalet also benefits from a sauna and additional shower.
All bedrooms are under the eaves (two more so than the others - £50 discount per person for these rooms) and have skylight windows.
Chalet Annalise Prices 2016-17
Second Floor
Shared entrance with Chalet Christian. Ski & boot room with boot warmers.
Third Floor
Large lounge and dining area with balcony. Sauna and shower.
Room 1 Small twin, under eaves with en suite shower and WC
Room 2 Small twin, under eaves with en suite shower and WC
Room 3 Twin under eaves with en suite shower and WC
Room 4 Twin under eaves with en suite shower and WC
All En-suite / Private FacilitiesSauna / Steam Room AccessTowel/s providedWIFISki &/or Boot Room (Heated)
For six days of the week the chalet staff prepare all your meals, as described below. On their one day off, they will prepare a Continental-style breakfast for you to help yourselves, and that evening you can eat out in one of the local restaurants.
Provided will be cereals, fruit juices, plentiful tea and coffee, bread ( plus croissants in France), cold meats, cheeses and preserves. This is normally presented buffet-style for you to help yourself. We also cook a hot dish of the day 6 days of the week, such as sausage and bacon or pancakes with fresh fruit, individually served.
Afternoon Tea:
The traditional 'welcome home' after a day on the slopes will be laid out for you, ready for your return, every day except on the staff's day off. A good cup of tea or coffee is the perfect accompaniment to a delicious slice of freshly home-baked cake and keeps hungry skiers happy until dinner is ready.
A tasty and innovative, freshly cooked dinner will be prepared for you six nights per week by your chalet host - or by a qualified chef in larger chalets - and served with a choice of wines. Wine is unlimited during the meal service.
Our four-course dinners start with canapés and an aperitif, followed by an appetiser, main course and dessert and coffee with chocolates.
Vegetarian options are always on our 'Culinary Choice' menu in our Chalet Hotels, and are available in our chalets if you advise us in advance.
Other special diets can generally be catered for at a cost of £35 per person per week. Any dietary requirements must be advised to us at the time of booking in order for us to be fully prepared
Children and High Tea: Chalets do not allow children (under 13 years) to stay, unless you have booked a chalet hotel, a whole chalet for your exclusive use, it is a peak holiday week or this has been agreed in writing prior to booking. If this is the case, the following applies:
Children's High Tea is provided at 5.30pm as the main evening meal, and is tailored more towards children's normal tastes than our adult-only dinner menu, and includes plentiful soft drinks. Children under 13 are not permitted to join the adult dinner unless you have booked this chalet for your exclusive use, when the choice of dining separately or together is entirely up to you - please let us know at the time of booking. For children receiving a child discount, there is a £39 supplement to upgrade from child meals to the adult menu.
Newly renovated chalet
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Approx. 2 minutes' walk (200m) to the nearest ski lift
5 minutes' walk to the 'Palais du Sport'
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Buffet breakfast with hot option and afternoon tea/coffee and cake
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New England Law | Boston provided what seemed like countless organizations that could cater to anyone's interest. I immediately gravitated to the Women's Law Caucus, a student group, and from there I learned of the volunteer position with the Domestic Violence Institute at the Boston Medical Center. This project provided an opportunity to be trained to recognize issues of domestic violence in a variety of different contexts and how to be an advocate for a woman being abused. I was able to attend a variety of trainings that would enable me to become a better advocate for a woman in a crisis situation. I continued with this project throughout my 1L year. Through this project we were able to provide women facing violence with an advocate for a restraining order as well as resources to escape from their situation.
After my experience with the Boston Medical Center Project, I went in an opposite direction in order to broaden my horizons and found a summer internship with the Public Defenders in Connecticut with help from the Career Services Office at New England Law. My time there was spent with the high crimes division. Although my experiences beforehand fell primarily on the victim's side, this was an eye-opening experience in learning more about the offender. I truly enjoyed my time with the Public Defenders. I was able to assist in a probable cause hearing for murder, wrote memoranda to my supervisors on motions drafted by inmates to correct illegal sentences, and participated in many trips to forensic labs in order to understand the evidence being admitted against our clients.
With the research I performed for one attorney, I helped in having the charges dropped against someone convicted due to an illegal search and seizure. The experience that I received in doing this internship was extremely worthwhile.
As a 3L I participated in the school's clinic program. I enrolled in the Family Law Clinic and was placed at the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center in Boston. This internship was very rewarding because I was able to handle a variety of different clients and was solely responsible for their cases, with my supervisor there for any questions that should arise. I assisted clients in obtaining housing and financial assistance primarily lost or jeopardized due to domestic violence. This clinic was excellent for me because of the high client interaction and independence that was allowed.
New England Law affords students wishing to pursue public interest a variety of opportunities to do so. With the school's resources, clinic programs, and organizations I have had a broad spectrum of public interest internships, volunteer opportunities and clinics. All were extremely rewarding and eye-opening and have helped me to become a better advocate for the future. (March, 2010)


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Hyderabad | Mumbai: The Essel Group has temporarily halted accumulation of shares in IVRCL, handing the infrastructure company's founder, Sudhir Reddy, a reprieve while warning him that his moves are being watched closely.
Essel, controlled by media baron Subhash Chandra, also implied that IVRCL's promoters led by Reddy were initially keen to sell their stake but at a price that was not acceptable to it. Essel said in a statement that it is "disappointed" to know through an investment bank that the promoters are now "neither interested in selling their stake nor willing to partner with Essel as strategic investors".


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Scene Asia: A Contemporary Chinese Opera House
This post first appeared on WSJ's Scene Asia blog.
By Christopher DeWolf
Bing Thom has a confession to make about his design for Hong Kong's new Xiqu Centre.
"I broke the rules," says the 72-year-old Canadian architect, who was in the city last month to unveil his winning proposal for the 1,780-seat, HK$2.7 billion (US$350 million) center for Chinese opera, set to be the first of 17 West Kowloon Cultural District venues when it opens in late 2015.
That rule-breaking may well have been why Mr. Thom and his Hong Kong-based partner, Ronald Lu, won out over 50 other firms competing for a piece of the cultural district.
The original brief called for two opera theaters, a 280-seat teahouse and educational facilities. Mr. Thom added a large public courtyard with open access from each corner of the building, which he says will make the Xiqu Centre a space for the kind of rich street life that he feels is becoming increasingly rare in major cities.
"In today's society there is a tendency towards specialization and a tremendous amount of balkanization," he says. "There is no opportunity for the accidental meeting of things that are different."
By contrast, Mr. Thom's design for the Xiqu Centre is meant to foster serendipitous encounters, with people moving between its venues by means of shortcuts.
"The transition between the spaces is what's important," he says. "It's the space between the notes that makes the music."
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW) -- As part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month in April, Georgia Regents University, Paine College and Rape Crisis and Sexual Assault Services have multiple events planned to spread awareness.
News 12's Meredith Anderson will be on hand at the kickoff for the Take Back the Day 5K Run/Walk on Saturday, April 20.
Information on the 5K
- Registration: 7:30 to 8:30 a.m.
- Kickoff: 8:30 a.m.
- Race begins: 8:45 a.m.
Entry fees (nonrefundable)
- Runners: $25 in advance, $30 day of race
- Walkers: $5 for students, $10 for individuals, $15 for families.
- Complimentary T-shirts will be given to all pre-registered runners and walkers. Day of shirts available on a first-come, first-served basis
Click here for more information.
Race/walk route
The 5K route will begin at the Georgia Regents University Ampitheatre (Summerville Campus), continue down Central Avenue, through the campus of Paine College and the Health Sciences Campus of GRU and end in front of University Hospital at 1350 Walton Way. Shuttles will be available to take walkers back to ASU. Families, strollers and dogs on leashes are encouraged to attend.
Awards will be given to the overall top male and female finishers, as well as the top two male and female finishers in each division. Age divisions are: 14 and under, 15-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60 and up.
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Wildlife Scientists use a variety of techniques and tools to study the ecology of wild animals. Biologists regularly rely on traps or nets to capture, mark and release research animals. Some species, however, are difficult to sample or perhaps endangered so handling the animals is not the best option to answer research questions. In these cases, scientists are now relying on new technologies to sample the environment where the animals live, that is, they sample eDNA.
Listen to the latest Got Nature? podcast on Using the DNA Animals Leave Behind to learn from Dr. Stephen Spear of the Orianne Society about how he can study the ecology of rare and endangered animals simply by testing water from the streams where animals live. The podcast will highlight Dr. Spear's research on the genetics of North America's largest amphibian, the eastern hellbender. Dr. Spear is interviewed by a special guest host, Dr. Steve Kimble.
Resources:The Orianne SocietyHelp the HellbenderITunes-Got Nature?Got Nature? Podcast Series
Steve Kimble, Post Doc Research AssistantDepartment of Forestry & Natural Resources, Purdue University
Rod Williams, Associate Professor of Wildlife ScienceDepartment of Forestry & Natural Resources, Purdue University
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|VORTEX ANNOUNCES RoK SHIFTER ENGINE RENTAL AND AWARD PROGRAM
|Monday, 16 December 2013 07:37
Vortex and Formula Kart Productions, Inc announce an awards / support / rental program that will see the addition of the Vortex RoK Shifter engine package to the engines allowed for use in the Open Shifter and Masters Shifter classes at all 2014 FWT Formula Kart Racing events.
The new Vortex Rok Shifter motor package has already been enjoyed by such USA shifter aces as Nick Neri and Daniel Formal, as well as Formula 1 Star Rubens Barrichello.
VORTEX RoK AWARD
The FWT Open Shifter class will be designated as a points-paying RoK Cup category, and the highest placing Open Shifter driver using exclusively a RoK Shifter engine in the FWT Points Championship will receive a complimentary entry at the 2014 Rok Cup USA Championship Event. Award to include entry, motor rental, tires, and fuel.
Officials from Vortex and Rok Cup USA will be on hand at the FWT Formula Kart Racing events to assist drivers with the Vortex Rok Shifter.
Engine specifications can be found here
Entries are currently being accepted with Florida Winter Tour at www.FloridaWinterTour.com. Any driver who registers for all-three Formula Kart Racing event-weekends prior to January 3, 2014 will receive a $100 discount off the regular price.


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Defense team in John Wiley Price investigation battled-hardened
Neither the FBI and nor U.S. attorney's office have said yet what exactly they believe embattled Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, his assistant Dapheny Fain or chief political strategist Kathy Nealy have done wrong since agents began serving search warrants Monday. The warrants are vague, leading to much speculation.
Anticipating a long legal battle, Price's defense team represents decades of experience in handling high profile trials. They also have won some acquittals in federal court, which is notorious for its very high conviction rate and penchant for slam-dunk cases.
Here's a who's who:
Billy Ravkind, 76, attorney for John Wiley Price
Law School: Southern Methodist University, 1960
Career: Ravkind started in the tax division of the Department of Justice under Robert Kennedy. He then did civil litigation in the private firm of former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark.
In private practice since 1972, Ravkind in the 1980s represented the former chairman of Empire Savings, who was charged in the Interstate 30 condo fraud investigation. The fraud resulted in one of the largest savings and loan failures in history. Ravkind's team got a hung jury, but the government prevailed in a retrial.
He represented former Dallas City Councilman Al Lipscomb in 2000 when he was charged with taking bribes from a cab company owner. An all-white jury convicted Lipscomb in Amarillo, but the charges were thrown out on appeal.
Analysis: A lion of the Dallas defense bar, he's adept at handling high-profile cases. A strength is the pretrial stage, where he holds mock trials to road test defense strategies. His long-standing relationship with FBI Special Agent Don Sherman, a veteran of the public corruption squad, helped him negotiate a deal for Kathy Nealy in the Don Hill bribery case. Nealy narrowly avoided being indicted, and in 2009 testified against Hill. Sherman is the lead agent in the Price investigation.
Shirley Baccus-Lobel, 65, attorney for John Wiley Price
Law School: University of Texas, 1970
Career: Baccus-Lobel started at the Department of Justice in Washington D.C. in the criminal appellate section, helping defeat attempts by reputed New York crime boss Carmine Persico to obtain a reversal of his conviction. In 1977, she returned home to Dallas as a federal prosecutor.
In private practice since 1985, she focuses on white collar defense. She worked to free Antrone Lynelle Johnson from prison. In 2009, he freed after the state's highest criminal court ruled that information about the rape he was accused of committing was withheld from the defense.
She was an adjunct faculty member at SMU law school, teaching trial advocacy and criminal procedure.
Analysis: Baccus-Lobel is known for her appeals work. With Ravkind, she convinced an appeals court to throw out Lipscomb's 65 bribery convictions on the grounds that the trial judge did not have a good reason to move the trial to Amarillo.
Cheryl Wattley, 57, attorney for Kathy Nealy
Law School: Boston University, 1978
Career: Wattley began as an assistant U.S. attorney in the District of Connecticut working civil litigation. In Dallas as a federal prosecutor, she specialized in white collar crime and served as chief of the economic crime unit.
In 1985 she joined Ravkind's firm, and worked on the Interstate 30 condo fraud case. Wattley secured a mistrial for Danny Faulkner, the lead defendant. He was convicted in a retrial.
She works with the nonprofit Centurion Ministries, which helps wrongfully convicted inmates get out of prison. She is a professor at the University of Oklahoma College of Law, teaching criminal procedure, criminal law, litigation skills and trial techniques.
Analysis: She is a widely respected former prosecutor known to be tough, fair and with a sharp eye for finding weaknesses in huge white collar cases.
Tom Mills, 64, attorney for Dapheny Fain
Law School: University of Texas, 1972
Career: His criminal and white collar defense work has been diverse. He once represented a manager of Muhammad Ali. He secured an acquittal for former Dallas Independent School District trustee Dan Peavy in 1996 after he was accused of taking $459,000 in kickbacks.
In 2000, his client Gary Karr was acquitted of kidnapping charges in the death of infamous atheist activist Madalyn Murray O'Hair. Karr was, however, sentenced to life in prison for interstate theft. In 2003, Mills helped a former aerospace executive beat charges that he funneled bribes to former Ohio Congressman James Traficant.
In 2009, Mills was appointed to represent James McDaniel, the ex-con who got a life sentence for supplying drugs that led to the 2007 fatal overdose of SMU student Meaghan Bosch.
Analysis: Judges regularly appoint Mills to represent clients in tough, hard-to-win cases, knowing that they will get a solid defense.


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PReconditioned Iterative MultiMethod Eigensolver
Version 1.2.2 (Oct 13, 2015)
Available now at GitHub:
Lesser GPL license
Documentation available in the distribution. Also here in
Symmetric and Hermitian eigenvalue problems enjoy a remarkable theoretical structure that allows for efficient and stable algorithms for obtaining a few required eigenpairs. This is probably one of the reasons that enabled applications requiring the solution of symmetric eigenproblems to push their accuracy and thus computational demands to unprecedented levels. Materials science, structural engineering, and some QCD applications routinely compute eigenvalues of matrices of dimension more than a million; and often much more than that! Typically, with increasing dimension comes increased ill conditioning, and thus the use of preconditioning becomes essential.
is a C library to find a number of eigenvalues and their corresponding eigenvectors of a
Real Symmetric, or Complex Hermitian matrix A
and finding
largest, smallest or interior
eigenvalues is supported.
PRIMME is a multimethod eigensolver.
Based on the Davidson/Jacobi-Davidson main iteration, it can transform to most known preconditioned eigensolvers by the appropriate choice of parameters. Preset methods are also provided, including the nearly optimal eigensolvers GD+k and JDQMR (see [1, 2]).
method, the software alternates between DEFAULT_MIN_TIME and DEFAULT_MIN_MATVECS to estimate the parameters of a cost model, and identify the method that minimizes execution time for the given problem.
multi-layer user interface
allows efficient use by non-expert end-users, and a powerful experimentation testbed for eigenvalue research experts.
PRIMME is both parallel and sequential,
based on an SMPD type of parallelization.
has many features such as
blocking, locking, locally optimal restarting,
and a host of others that make it extremely robust and efficient.
Full interface to
is provided.
The software has been tested extensively on a variety of architectures, systems, and applications.
Changes in Version 1.2.2
Fixed wrong symbols in libdprimme.a and libzprimme.a.
primme_set_method sets JDQMR instead of JDQMR_ETol for preset methods DEFAULT_MIN_TIME and DYNAMIC when seeking interior values.
Fixed compilation of driver with a PETSc installation without HYPRE.
Included the content of the environment variable INCLUDE for compiling the driver.
Changes in Version 1.2.1
MATLAB interface to full PRIMME functionality.
Support for BLAS/LAPACK with 64bits integers (-DPRIMME_BLASINT_SIZE=64).
Simplified configuration of Make_flags and Make_links (removed TOP variable and replaced defines NUM_SUM and NUM_IBM by F77UNDERSCORE).
Replaced directories DTEST and ZTEST by TEST that has:
  (a) driver.c: read matrices in MatrixMarket format and PETSc binary and call PRIMME with the parameters specified in a file; support complex arithmetic and MPI and can use PETSc preconditioners.
  (b) ex*.c and ex*.f: small, didactic examples of usage in C and Fortran and in parallel (with PETSc).
Fixed a few minor bugs and improved documentation (especially the F77 interface).
Using Sphinx to manage documentation.
Changes in Version 1.2
Version 1.2 implements performance improvements and bug fixes that have been reported over the years by PRIMME's users, who the authors are indebted to.
A Fortran compiler is no longer required for building the PRIMME library. Fortran programs can still be linked to PRIMME's F77 interface.
Fixed some uncommon issues with the F77 interface
PRIMME can be called now multiple times from the same program.
Performance improvements in the QMR inner solver, especially for complex arithmetic
Fixed a couple of bugs with the locking functionality. In certain extreme cases where all eigenvalues of a matrix were needed. The order of selecting interior eigenvalues. The above fixes have improved robustness and performance.
PRIMME now assigns unique random seeds per parallel process for up to 4096^3 (140 trillion processes)
For the DYNAMIC method, fixed issues with initialization and synchronization decisions across multiple processes.
Fixed uncommon library interface bugs, coordinated better the set_method() and the user setting of parameters, and improved the interface in the sample programs and makefiles
Other performance and documentation improvements
Older versions are availabe at
Version 1.2.1 (Sep 7, 2015)
Version 1.2 (Dec 24, 2014)
Version 1.1 (October 2006)
Besides comments left on GitHub, consider contacting the developers with questions, bug reports, or requests.
Contact: ANDREAS at CS dot WM dot EDU
The following papers describe the research that has led to this software. To cite PRIMME, please cite paper [1].
The work has been supported by a number of grants from the National Science Foundation.
Versions 1.2 and 1.2.1 were supported by NSF CCF 1218349 and ACI SI2-SSE 1440700.
James R. McCombs, Eloy Romero, Andreas Stathopoulos, Lingfei Wu
A. Stathopoulos and J. R. McCombs,
PRIMME: PReconditioned Iterative MultiMethod Eigensolver: Methods and software description
, ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, Vol. 37, No. 2, (2010), 21:1--21:30.
A. Stathopoulos,
"Nearly optimal preconditioned methods for Hermitian eigenproblems under limited memory. Part I: Seeking one eigenvalue",
SIAM J. Sci. Comput., Vol. 29, No. 2, (2007), 481--514. [
A. Stathopoulos and J. R. McCombs,
"Nearly optimal preconditioned methods for Hermitian eigenproblems under limited memory. Part II: Seeking many eigenvalues",
SIAM J. Sci. Comput., Vol. 29, No. 5, (2007), 2162-2188. [
J. R. McCombs and A. Stathopoulos,
"Iterative Validation of Eigensolvers: A Scheme for Improving the Reliability of Hermitian Eigenvalue Solvers",
SIAM J. Sci. Comput., Vol. 28, No. 6, (2006), 2337--2358. [
A. Stathopoulos,
"Locking issues for finding a large number of eigenvectors of Hermitian matrices",
Tech Report: WM-CS-2005-09, July, 2005, submitted. [
A. Stathopoulos and K. Wu,
"A block orthogonalization procedure with constant synchronization requirements"
, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Volume 23, Number 6, (2002), 2165--2182. [
A. Stathopoulos
"Some insights on restarting symmetric eigenvalue methods with Ritz and harmonic Ritz vectors",
in Iterative Methods in Scientific Computation IV, D. R. Kincaid & Anne C. Elster (eds.), pp. 297--311, Series in Computational and Applied Mathematics, IMACS, NJ (1999). [
A. Stathopoulos and Y. Saad,
"Restarting techniques for (Jacobi-)Davidson symmetric eigenvalue methods",
special issue on eigenvalue methods, Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis, Vol. 7, (1998), 163-181.
K. Wu, Y. Saad and A. Stathopoulos,
"Inexact Newton Preconditioning Techniques for Eigenvalue Problems",
special issue on eigenvalue methods, Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis, Vol. 7, (1998), 202-214.
A. Stathopoulos, Y. Saad, and K. Wu,
"Dynamic Thick Restarting of the Davidson, and the Implicitly Restarted Arnoldi Methods",
SIAM J. Scientific Computing, 19, 1, (1998) 227-45. Copyright © 1998 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. [
A. Stathopoulos, Y. Saad, and C. F. Fischer,
"Robust Preconditioning of Large, Sparse, Symmetric Eigenvalue Problems,"
the Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 64 (1995) 197-215. [
A. Stathopoulos and C. F. Fischer,
"A Davidson Program for Finding a Few Selected Extreme Eigenpairs of a Large, Sparse, Real, Symmetric Matrix,"
Computer Physics Communications, 79 (1994) 268-290. [
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Many biopharmaceutical companies are transitioning from a strict R&D focus to one that incorporates manufacturing and supply-chain management capabilities, and it is critical they start thinking about operations excellence.
Increased competition, long development and production lead times, a shortage of qualified personnel, challenging compliance requirements, the high cost of quality, and the notion that biogenerics are only a few years away are shaping this industry trend of world-class operations development. Operations excellence will be essential to developing and maintaining a competitive edge and capitalizing on new product opportunities.
Until recently, biopharmaceutical companies concentrated on the consistent manufacture of their difficult products. Now, after proving their capabilities, they are attempting to improve overall performance, mostly as it relates to supply-chain management and quality systems and processes.One indication of this trend is the formation of the BioPharma Operations Excellence Consortium (www.tefen.com/consortium). This cross-functional group of industry executives and managers, representing manufacturing, the supply chain, quality assurance, and quality control, meets regularly to informally benchmark operational challenges and propose solutions.
Operations Excellence Consortium The consortium was founded in April 2002 and serves as a forum for addressing the most effective and efficient cross-functional business processes related to product development and delivery. This group's purpose, as stated in its charter, is "to share experiences and surface key challenges facing biotech manufacturing companies and to use the group's collective knowledge to drive each member company, and the industry as a whole, to world-class levels of operational effectiveness and efficiency."
Tefen Ltd., an operations consulting firm specializing in the biopharmaceutical industry, was selected to lead and facilitate the consortium's efforts. The group of representatives from more than 25 different companies meets quarterly for a full-day conference hosted by one of the member companies. To date, Genentech, Amgen, Bayer, Baxter, and Chiron have hosted the consortium.
Each meeting is devoted to a central theme, such as lot release cycle time reduction, contract manufacturing, corrective and preventive actions (CA/PA), and human errors. The forum atmosphere is informal, and the agenda combines case study presentations with brainstorming sessions, panel discussions, and vendor demonstrations. Time is always set aside for networking and open discussions.
Human Errors Reduction Chiron Corporation hosted the Consortium's most recent meeting (May 2003), during which members addressed the challenge of human errors and their effect on cycle time, manufacturing costs, compliance, and overall company performance.
Consortium members agreed that one category of human errors — document errors — has a significant impact on performance. Reducing such errors and establishing measures to identify nonconformance were a central part of the discussion.
Tefen presented the results of its recently-conducted industry survey on human errors. Different bio/pharmaceutical companies revealed that the most effective efforts in resolving human errors includes:
The survey revealed that the most common methods for increasing visibility and publicizing operator errors is by reviewing them in shift and area management meetings and posting quantities and trends in highly visible public places. It also indicated that in most organizations, there is a lack of personal accountability in terms of operator error. Only a small portion of the surveyed companies currently considers errors in the annual employee performance review.


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A Mexican businessman from Ciudad Victoria was indicted in the U.S. on Tuesday for acting as a front for politicians and candidates for office in his home state of Tamaulipas.
Fernando Alejandro Cano Martinez was charged with conspiracy to launder money and conspiracy to commit bank fraud. The indictment, handed up in Brownsville, Texas, charges Cano with using an array of corporate entities in Texas to launder portions of bribes paid by a drug cartel to elected officials and political candidates in Tamaulipas.
The bribes, according to the indictment, were paid in exchange for little or no police interference in the drug cartel's activity within the state. They were paid directly to corrupt officials throughout the state beginning in 1998 or earlier, and the total is unknown but prosecutors estimated it to be in the millions of dollars.
Cano received and controlled bribes destined for the elected officials in Tamaulipas, and established corporations in Texas to be used as fronts to hide the nature of his activity, the indictment said.
"We remain steadfast in our commitment in targeting not only the drug cartels but those who allegedly provide support and service to them," said Kenneth Magidson, U.S. attorney for Texas' Southern District, in a statement.
Millions of dollars in assets, comprised primarily of Texas real estate, were allegedly acquired in the scheme using the laundered proceeds. Prosecutors are seeking $40 million in forfeitures from Cano.
Cano is a fugitive, and a warrant is outstanding for his arrest, the statement said. It couldn't be determined whether Cano has a lawyer. On the money laundering charge, he faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted.
Prosecutors said in related civil filings that Tomas Jesus Yarrington Ruvalcaba, a former governor of Tamaulipas who ran for president of Mexico, took millions from drug organizations, and ran bribery and extortion schemes.
He wasn't charged with a crime.
One filing said he, Cano and others purchased a property in 2006 in San Antonio for approximately $6.6 million in illicit funds. A separate filing in Corpus Christi, Texas, said Yarrington used illicit proceeds to buy a condo in South Padre Island, using a third party to conduct the $450,000 transaction and hold title.
Prosecutors filed the civil complaints to seize the properties.
Yarrington's party, the Institutional Revolutionary Party, said Wednesday it was suspending him until the allegations were cleared up.
Joel Androphy, Yarrington's lawyer, told the AP on Wednesday that his client doesn't own the properties in question, and is innocent of the allegations. He suggested that other targets of federal investigations implicated Yarrington to improve their own situations, the AP reported.
"Obviously desperate people say desperate things and obviously there are desperate people using his name for some sort of their own personal gain and that is just not true," Androphy said to the AP.
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SEBRING — As Sebring's Community Redevelopment Agency looks toward the future, the emphasis is likely to be on promoting the residential section on the business district, CRA board members and Sebring City Council members indicated during a special meeting.
But that may be a challenge because some people feel that the downtown is an undesirable place in which to live.
Even the board's chairwoman, Kelly Cosgrave, said that while she would have no problem in living in downtown, her husband is less interested.
The City Council and the CRA agreed to form a committee to develop a proposal on how the CRA can move forward getting that goal accomplished.
They said they believe that a lot of people have a wrong perception about what it's like to live downtown.
Lora Todd, a CRA board member, said a man lives above her downtown business and enjoys living in that area.
"I really think that part of the problem is a public relations problem," said Lorrie Smith, a CRA board member.
The CRA board members discussed the possibility that vacant lots owned by the CRA could be offered at no cost to a developer.
Part of the problem, some said, is that Realtors appear to put more focus on homes in other areas. They said they want to meet with Realtors to discuss that.
Mark Gose, a CRA board member, said now may be the time to be focusing on plans to support building residences in the downtown.
Gose said there has been a trend of increasing development on the coasts of Florida. He predicted that within 18 months, some of that will come to Highlands County.
"Now is not too early to get prepared for that," he said.
Sebring Mayor John Shoop said that besides residential development, the CRA should consider looking at dealing with blight.
For example, he said, the former Bank of America building is a major source of blight for people to see when they head into the downtown .
Recently, the building was put up for auction and the high bidder wants to use it as a university. Should that not be finalized, Shoop suggested that the CRA may one day consider buying the building and then demolishing it with the hope someone will construct a new building on the land.
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This man, Louis Salvatore… he has killed many of my men… many PROUD men of the Mordino family. He... butchered them in the street like... dogs."— Senor Mordino
Assassinate Boss Salvatore for Big Jesus Mordino is a side quest in Fallout 2.
Quick walkthroughEdit
|Side Quest: Assassinate Boss Salvatore for Big Jesus Mordino
|Complete Collect tribute from the Corsican Brothers quest.
|Go to the Salvatores' bar.
|Kill Mr. Salvatore with violence.
|Swap Louis' oxygen tank with poison tank or simply steal his oxygen tank.
|Inject a super stimpak into him.
|Return to Big Jesus Mordino.
|Accept Mordino's offer.
|Reward: $500, 750/2000 XP, M3A1 "grease gun" SMG, .45 caliber x30, Made Man rep, Leather armor Mk II
Detailed walkthroughEdit
Salvatore can be murdered in three different ways. The Chosen One can use a super stimpak on him, resulting in a heart attack. The other way is by stealing the oxygen tank that Salvatore's breathing is reliant on, and optionally replace it with the poison tank found in the Desperado Basement. Thirdly, they can simply attack him, having to deal with his bodyguards and employees. You'll need to be careful if you're taking the third option; Mason and all of Salvatore's men are armed with Wattz 1000 laser pistols, and the bartender has a shotgun.
After cleaning out Salvatore's bar, head back to Big Jesus and accept your reward. You'll get some chips for your troubles, unless you've got Charisma 6, in which case Big Jesus will offer you a loaded SMG and a suit of MKII leather armor. Remember to thank him, and he'll also make you a made man of the Mordinos. If you don't thank him, you can still get in with CH 9.
Note that this quest is not available if you've killed Boss Salvatore prior to finishing Big Jesus' other quests.
Mordino's made manEdit
If you complete this task you can become their made man, which however prevents you from completing other families' tasks. If you want to end this last task without becoming their made man, talk to Big Jesus while sneaking. This will not trigger combat but will check the task as done. Alternatively, accept and return later to kill Big Jesus (and his men) when ready.
- The poison tank is bugged, see item page for details.
- 750 XP for killing him normally.
- 1000 XP for stealing the oxygen tank or using a super stimpak.
- 2000 XP if properly assassinated by replacing the oxygen tank with a poison tank.
- 500 dollars.
With Charisma check:
After politely accepting the Charisma reward or with Charisma 9:
- Made Man reputation for Mordinos.
- Another 1000 XP.


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Athletic spokesman Steve Fink said Thursday the athletic compliance office talked with Clowney and reviewed visits between he and Jay-Z. Fink said the school found Clowney had not received any impermissible benefits.
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East Troy — The Big Foot/Williams Bay boys tennis squad entered Monday's Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Division 2 subsectionals with the best of intentions, but three big road blocks, Madison Edgewood, McFarland and Monroe, stood in its way.
In a meet where it's lose and your season is over, only freshman Adam Kolnik at No. 1 singles was able to advance to sectionals. All other flights failed to move on to sectionals Wednesday at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Big Foot coach Jim Karedes said it was a tough subsectional.
"We played near our ability," Karedes said Monday night. "But we would've liked to see a little bit better showing. But it was tough with Edgewood, McFarland and Monroe."
Kolnik played well beyond his years, winning his only match over Edgerton's Jesse Guisleman, 6-1, 6-2.
"Adam is on to the sectional and needs one win to qualify for state," Karedes said. "He is very self-reliant right now and is making us proud."
Karedes added Wednesday's sectional will be difficult, but he believes Kolnik has a good shot at making state and even winning the whole thing.
"I'm excited to see Kolnik," Karedes said. "He has the ability to win the sectional. He is playing great tennis and has enough experience to do it. He will probably have to beat a Madison Edgewood or Monroe kid. It's exciting for a freshman to make sectionals."
At No. 2 singles, Sebastian Lauterbach won his first match, 7-5, 6-1, over Whitewater. But in his next match, Lauterbach fell to top-seeded Patrick Carney of Madison Edgewood, 7-5, 6-1.
"Carney was better today," Karedes said.
At No. 3 singles, Sean Kivlin won his first match over Monroe, 6-1, 6-0. Then, Kivlin's season ended with a 6-0, 6-2 defeat to McFarland.
"McFarland is pretty good," Karedes said. "Sean had a great season. He is a senior I will miss a lot."
At No. 4 singles, Gerald Leslie lost to Jefferson, 6-3, 6-3. Leslie beat Jefferson for third place at the conference tournament last Thursday. Karedes said Leslie wasn't at the top of his game in the contest.
At No. 1 doubles, Brad Craddock and Ben Gauger lost to Jefferson, 6-3, 4-6 (10-2). The team of D'Jalen Evans and Randy Brock fell at No. 2 doubles to East Troy, 6-3, 6-1. Karedes was impressed with the boys.
"D'Jalen and Randy finished on a high note," Karedes said. "They are playing their best tennis of the season. But they just were outmatched by a tougher opponent."
At No. 3 doubles, Cole McGarry and Lucas Patten were ousted by Delavan-Darien, 6-1, 6-1. Karedes said McGarry, a senior, will be missed.
Kolnik wins conference
Last Thursday at the Rock Valley Conference meet at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, the Big Foot boys nabbed third place with a total of 16 points, a vast improvement from finishing last a year ago.
"I'm pleased with the whole team," Karedes said. "From last place to third is big. It helped to have three freshmen on the team."
Kolnik was the team's lone conference champion. He went 2-0 on the day and beat McFarland, 6-3, 6-1, in the championship match.
"Adam is playing at the top of his game," Karedes said. "He is dictating points out there and controlling everything."
Lauterbach and Kivlin both took second place with 2-1 records on the day. At No. 4 singles, Leslie took third place, defeating Jefferson in the third-place match and ending up 2-1 on the day.
All three doubles flights finished fifth, with each one beating Whitewater in consolation matches.
"Everyone scored a point," Karedes said. "That hasn't happened on the boys team in four years."
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SAN JOSE -- A woman accused of being an accessory in the murder of a Monte Sereno man killed during a home-invasion robbery of his 7,000-square-foot mansion pleaded not guilty Thursday, according to prosecutors.
The case against Raven Dixon, 22, was also combined with the case against three men accused of killing Raveesh Kumra, 66, who was bound, blindfolded and gagged during a robbery on Nov. 30, 2012, police say.
A Santa Clara County judge approved prosecutor Kevin Smith's motion to add a gang enhancement against Javier Garcia and Deangelo Austin, both of Oakland. Lukis Anderson of San Jose, also accused of homicide, is not facing a gang enhancement allegation.
All four defendants are next scheduled to appear in court on March 19 for a status update, Smith said.
Police documents unsealed last week provided several details surrounding the violent home-invasion robbery, which ended with Kumra dead on his kitchen floor of asphyxiation and his ex-wife in the hospital with a gash on her lip.
On the night Kumra died, three intruders bound, blindfolded and gagged him with packaging tape. They next woke up his ex-wife, hit her in the mouth with a cold, hard object and dragged her into the kitchen beside her husband.
"Be quiet if you want to live," one of them told her before tying her up, too, and ransacking the house.
The DNA of Garcia, Austin and Anderson were discovered at the home, the reports say. Anderson's DNA was found under Kumra's fingernails, the report alleges. DNA from Garcia and Austin were discovered on latex gloves discarded in the Kumras' kitchen sink, the report says.
Kumra, who once owned Saratoga's Mountain Winery concert venue, has hired prostitutes in the past, according to the report. One of those women was Dixon, who prosecutors say has ties to two Oakland street gangs with a history of robbing the homes of Asians and East Indians. Dixon's pimp and boyfriend is a member of one of the gangs, police say, though he has not been charged in the case.


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The Star Trek license is expanding into the land of tabletop gaming via WizKids' HeroClix line, according to a press release from the gaming company. The games will be both physical, collectible HeroClix figures and "digital" games as well, related to the HeroClix franchise.The license agreement with CBS Consumer Products allows the games to pull from all of the television shows and feature films, spanning over 40 years of characters, vehicles, and more. "Star Trek changed the way people think about the future," said WizKids/NECA President Lax Chandra in the press release. "We are thrilled at the opportunity to marry our innovative game design and exceptional miniatures with the incredibly rich Star Trek franchise. We believe HeroClix and the Star Trek Universe are ideally suited for cooperative gaming and table top miniature simulation and will speak to gamers in a new and compelling way."


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Winter 2010 Edition of the New York Coherence SIG
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Announcing the next meeting of the New York Coherence Special Interest Group (NYCSIG). Whether you're an experienced Coherence user, or new to Data Grid technology, the NYCSIG is the community for realizing Coherence-related projects and best practices.
Please email the NYCSIG directly to register for this event.
Your Full name and Company name are required for building security.
We are very excited that Taylor Gautier from Grid Dynamics, Shaun Smith & Doug Clarke from the Oracle TopLink Grid team, and Noah Arliss form the Coherence Incubator team will be presenting. See the presentation details below. We hope to see you at our next meeting.
Date: Thursday, Jan 14, 2010
Time: 5:30pm-5:45pm ET social and 5:45pm-8:00pm ET presentations
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"Extreme Transaction Processing - Leveraging Oracle Coherence as a SEDA-based Scalable Event Transaction Processor" - Taylor Gautier (speaker bio) Principal Client Architect (Grid Dynamics)
Modern telco billing processing systems face huge challenges in the search to move from mostly offline, or batch, processing of billing events to handling huge volumes of events in near-real time. The challenges for an architect of such a system are: how to handle the high throughput processing of near real-time events with low latency while maintaining strict transactional semantics and provide high availability and scalability of the service.
We present our extreme transaction processing solution leveraging Oracle Coherence as an in-memory-data-grid (IMDG) which provides reliable messaging, data storage, and asynchronous write-back to RDBMS. The system follows the staged event driven architecture (SEDA) design pattern providing for a flexible and manageable design that is both highly available and scalable. We discuss lessons learned during performance tuning and profiling plus best practices that are applicable for any Coherence user.
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JPA, the Java Persistence API, is the Java standard for relational database access. But as is the case for many technologies, scaling JPA applications into large clusters is a challenge. In this session we'll introduce Oracle TopLink's new "TopLink Grid" feature, which supports scaling JPA applications through Coherence integration. We'll also introduce the new TopLink Grid enabled "JPA on the Grid" application architecture in which the underlying relational database is replaced by Coherence and all standard database operations, including JPQL query execution, are handled by Coherence. In this session we'll demo how easy it is to leverage Coherence from JPA using TopLink Grid and how to build standards compliant Java EE applications that scale.
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