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Between 1957 and 1982, Jack Heuer built up the eponymous watch business started in 1860 by his great grandfather, Edouard Heuer, into an internationally recognised brand before a severe economic downturn caused him to relinquish his shares and change professions in order to help the company survive. In 2002, at the age of 70, he was persuaded to return to the firm – by then known as TAG Heuer – as its honorary chairman, advisor, ambassador and historian. He retired last year, publishing his autobiography, The Times of My Life. In it, he reveals his top tips on how to successfully navigate your way through the watch industry.
1.Great oaks from little acorns grow
"In 1957 I was a young Swiss graduate, aged 25, champing at the bit to begin a career with a prestigious American global consulting firm in Boston. This was my ticket, so I thought, to freedom, challenge, excitement, money and status, far from Switzerland and what was then my father's tiny watchmaking business. My father, however, urged me to postpone the consulting career and devote just one year to learning the ropes of the family business. Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined that half a century later, I would be fêted as an innovator in the global watch industry and the honorary chairman and spiritual father of the company bearing my family name and now employing 1,000 people around the world."
2. Learn from experience – the story of the Autavia
"In 1958, my first year at Ed Heuer & Co SA [Heuer's American subsidiary], I participated in two Swiss car rallies. In the second one, I took over as co-pilot, partly because I was quite good at map reading, thanks to my time in the Scouts. We were doing fine until, close to the finish, I misread the dial of the Heuer 12 Autavia dashboard stopwatch by a minute. The result was our team came in third place instead of first. This error infuriated me and I realised the dial of the Autavia stopwatch was unclear, confusing and very difficult to read correctly in a speeding rally car. Back at the Heuer factory we created a new stopwatch with a large central minute hand, mounted it into the dashboard case and called it the 'Auto Rallye'."
3. Pick your partners carefully
"A major weakness of HTC [Heuer Time Corporation] in the US was that we had no salesmen on the road. In an attempt to rectify the situation we started co-operating with Eterna USA, which had an eight-man sales team that travelled nationwide selling watches to jewellers. We optimistically thought we could double our sales by working with the Eterna sales team and organised a motivational trip to Switzerland, where we laid on a sales training seminar. When the time came for them to return home they were all bursting with enthusiasm to sell our products. Unfortunately, this exercise turned out to be a real flop and we quickly stopped working with Eterna. The salesmen preferred to spend their time pushing expensive Eterna watches rather than our inexpensive stopwatches and complicated Heuer chronographs, the technical workings of which many of them were uncomfortable explaining."
4. Sometimes, trust to luck
"Cult movie Le Mans was filmed during the 24 Hours of Le Mans race in 1970 and had an unplanned effect on Heuer's fortunes. The day before shooting was about to start, one of the film's production executives went up to Steve McQueen [who was starring in the film] and said: 'You've got to settle on how you want to look.' McQueen pointed at champion driver Jo Siffert and said he wanted to look exactly like him, so Siffert ran to his caravan to fetch one of his white racing overalls, which had the Heuer logo on, and handed it to McQueen. Don Nunley [props manager] then said: 'Now you have to choose a watch – here's one.' McQueen handed the big-brand watch back to Nunley, saying: 'Not that one, they might use my name', and instead chose a Heuer Monaco – never having heard of us."
5. Prepare for the bad times
"In 1975, exports of Swiss stopwatches to the US, our key market, dropped by 53 per cent in units and 48 per cent in value, a much stronger decline than anyone could have foreseen. Even our sales in Switzerland dropped by 38 per cent, and overall our order book was just getting thinner and thinner. At the end of 1975 we felt helpless, lost and frustrated, since sales had dropped by a staggering 40 per cent. Here was a company with a history going back more than a century – and with an excellent client base in over 100 countries – balancing on a knife edge."
6. It's never too late to bounce back
"The turmoil in the watch industry in the years 1975-1985 saw a great number of privately-owned watch companies subsequently taken over by the Swatch Group or Richemont. At TAG Heuer, I had no operational authority [as honorary chairman] but I stand in front of the media as someone who had been creative and successful in the period before the downfall of our industry. This made me a sought-after figure for the specialised media covering the watch industry. Over the past 12 years I must have given well over 500 one-to-one interviews. This role has been one of the most important I have been able to play for the company.


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While I was in San Francisco I got the opportunity to talk to three diverse sets of app developers. One was musical and came about almost purely off the back of the iPhone's launch, the second was an 30-year Mac and PC program developer which had an unplanned for success with apps, and the other was an internet-based women's vintage clothing chain that has engaged deeply with iPad. I will also write about the other two at more length.
But the first company office we visited was Smule's San Francisco office (according to Smule's site, there's another in Palo Alto). The name 'Smule', by the way, turns out to be a contraction of 'Sonic Mule'. Of course.
Way back when, soon after the iPhone first came out, I had a chat with Sam Ing from the iPhone team at Apple, based at Cupertino. We discussed Smule's first app, as it happens, since it was so ingenious. That was Ocarina, which used the friction over the microphone to generate a tone you could play with keys on the touch screen. This was one of many examples of developments using iOS that seemed to both surprise and vindicate Apple's iOS team.
Ocarina is sensitive enough to detect tonguing as with a flute (it's now up to Ocarina 2).
Smule was founded in 2008 by CEO Jeff Smith and Stanford University assistant professor Dr Ge Wang, who is listed as Chief Creative Officer.
The tousle-haired Jeff showed us some footage of apps in use and gave us a tour of the office. It seems everyone has a geek side to their musical side - Jeff is the co-author of sixteen patents in the field of email security. The first thing that came up in discussion was the design of Smule's apps - skeuomorphism might be out with the next iOS (7) as announced at the 2013 WWDC, but when your apps are sometimes based on real musical instruments, where does that leave you? Not that Smule's apps look like real instruments that much, but it's clear lots of interface designs will need to change. Many developers will be in the same boat. Smule's CEO Jeff Smith says they're in deep discussions about how deeply to integrate the new iOS look into the smule apps.
Without the iPhone Smule would never have happened, and while things must have been crazy at the outset, and Jeff said but now Smule has 100 million users.
For sound apps, he says the iPhone was already so powerful by 2009, with impressively low enough latency, that Smule's I Am T Pain app could do its auto tune in real time. This app puts voice tuning in the palm of your hand, with scrolling lyrics and T-Pain beats including Buy You a Drank, I'm on a Boat and Blame It! Basically, it takes any speech and turns it into rap-like music. We saw a demonstration using a speech by President Obama, which was pretty funny. Look out Winston Churchill. Or I guess you could go unintelligible and use John Key. I don't know whether this is an indictment on the simplicity of rap or a tribute to the cleverness of Smule; thanks to the visit, I'd sway towards the second, but I guess it lies where your musical interests are.
Smule's chief scientist Parag Chordia reckoned the iPhone 5 has the same power as a Cray supercomputer did in 1984. Parag has a PhD in artificial intelligence and music at Stanford University and a BS in Mathematics from Yale. He is also the founder of BolRecords, an Indian classical music record label, and he's an actively performing Indian classical musician and electronic music composer.
Songify was developed by Atlanta, Georgia-based Kh.ush, which also made the app La Di Da. Kh.ush was Smule's first acquisition; the synergies are clear.
Sing! lets you share songs online including via Facebook, plus in an interactive globe interface where you can sing along with anyone else taking part anywhere around the world. A billion songs have been created already, Jeannie Yang, Chief Design Officer, told us. Her own background is at Yahoo! where she helped start its first social media research lab. She's also a house music DJ with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley and an M.S. in Information from UC Berkeley.
Sing was so popular so fast, it caused network traffic problems the company had to scramble to deal with by upgrading its servers.
When it first launched, anyone could join. This led to group collaborations, ie between the Pryde family in the US and a group called the Nesians from Indonesia.
We toured the office, with the almost de rigeur post modernist exposed ventilation and other ducting under the ceiling, and in tribute to its cause of making music available to everyone, guitars, other instruments and even a drum kit. Almost all the staff seemed have masters or PHDs in computer music and other subjects from Stanford University; a couple were even taught by the other co-founder of smule, Dr Ge Wang. I felt like saying 'I don't have a Masters, but it's not from Stanford'. Luckily, I restrained myself.
A guitar app (it's called Guitar!) uses the touch screen interface to have you play along with an animated bar chart, using impressive physics to create tone, depth and strength. The music is created in Apple Logic (on Macs of course - I didn't see any PCs in this office) by a team of five.
Other staff cover full time Google analytics, marketing, the server back-ends to data and more.
Income for Smule's projects, development and staff (the company seems always to be looking for more staff) comes from people subscribing to extra song content, licensed from around 200 publishers around the world. Another third comes from ads. Magic Piano, for example, is a free virtual app for the iPad, iPhone and iPad Touch, but Smule sells the songs for it at US$2.99 apiece, and licensed tracks are available for purchase for Guitar! which conceivably help you learn to play tunes on a real guitar.


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Did you take any pictures of the 23 Panthors?
I would love to have the He-Man & Jet Sled 2-pack!
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Can I ask what shutter time you used?
I got this homework that I´ve been struggeling with. I should in some way get the strawberry from the .jpg extracted as it is in the other picture. I managed to extract it through Cutout Lab, but...
HOLY CRAP!! That´s alot of Horde Troopers! :hmeek::hmeek:
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The book is on my "Must Read" books, my sister have read it and recommended it..
I think the most I paid was around 60 for a heap of classic motu figures, and some vehicles some were complete, other loose.
And pay attention to what the name is backwards, a friend of me and my girlfriend named their baby Lana, and then 8 months later they realized what it is backwards...They did not find it funny at...
When I looked at some of the collections of members of CrazyCollectors.de, I noticed that one member had NA MOC figures on "Classic" cards.
Are these rare, and why were they released on classic...
I only watch Idol, the Finnish version...
Lubic was indeed a great character in the movie! :hmgrin:
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LI: North vs South
I have been sailing the south shore out of Bay Shore and Freeport. I spent some time on the north shore today. I toured through the Stony Brook, Port Jefferson, Mt Sinai area. The sailing community seemed thriving in Port J even this late in the year.
I was amazed at the beauty of both land and sea in this area. Rolling hills and fall trees lined the shore. The view across was CT just 20 miles off. The south shore looks like a swampy wasteland most of the time and I only see freighters 20 miles off. I am seriously considering jumping the island and mooring in the north next season.
Which shore do you sail and what are the pros/cons you have identified? Does anyone have experience with both? If I jump, what Ports or Marinas should I look at?
I've done both, and they have their separate attractions. I sailed a twenty foot sloop out of W Babylon and Copaigue for eight years. Going east the water is wide, but not deep. There are interesting islands, and creeks to sail into. The ocean is never far off, for mighty dreams. The real benefit is that the wind blows every day, spring til fall. Unless a cold front or a low overrides it, the sea breeze starts mid morning and blows til sunset. It's beautiful. For eight years now I've sailed from Mt. Sinai. I get out into the Sound quickly, plenty of room horizontally and vertically (depth). The shore east is unbroken for many miles. West there is Port Jeff, sometimes fun to look in. After that not much until Northport. Cross the Sound, small towns to see on a cruise. The western Sound has many harbors and islands, also shoals. But the wind on this side, especially to the west, can be fluky or absent in summer. That same sea breeze struggles to cross the heat barrier of the island. Some days it comes between three and five. Sometimes not at all. My current solution is to keep the bigger boat on a mooring, and a trailer boat in the driveway.
I learned to sail while growing up on the north shore of LI on Hempstead Harbor so that is my personal bias. John/Wandering Star has wrapped up the comparison of the north and south shores nicely. I was always amazed at how much wind they had on the south shore in the summer when the north shore remained calm and windless.
For me one of the biggest issues of keeping a boat on LI is the summer road traffic which can be horrible. This is true for both the north and south shores.
I'd recommend you take a look at the Hempstead Harbor Club in Glen Cove Hempstead Harbour Club - Since 1891
It is a working club so the costs are much less then a commercial marina or yacht club (Brewers etc.). They only have moorings though so if you want a slip you'd have to look elsewhere and there are plenty of other places to check including Oyster Bay, Hunitington, Northport, PJ and even John's home port of Mt. Sinai harbor. If you are interested in HHC I know a few members who might sponsor you for membership. There are even a few SN members from HHC.
Thanks, great feedback from both WS and CD.
My Pearson sits like a tank in the water and does well in the strong south shore winds. Also, I enjoy navigating the narrow channels. I do spend way to much time waiting for the loop bridge to open but outside of that headache I think I will keep her there. The H23 on the other hand, is light, fast and sails well with very little wind. She could also be easily trailered across the island. Based on your feedback, it sounds like the H23 would be a good boat for breaking into the sound? What do you guys think?
I have talked to Old Man and Ralph's in Mt. Sinai. Both seem like good options but I will look into HHC as well. Does anybody have experience working with these Marinas? Are there any others that I should look into? Should I consider Bridgeport or would the ferry be to much hassle?
Sounds like a pretty good plan to me. You would have the best of both worlds (north & south shores) and keeping your P27 on the GSB makes sense if you are thinking of poking your nose out of Fire Island Inlet. Your H23 should be fine for the LI Sound in most conditions (I've seen it with 50 knot gusts on it and it ain't pretty). An ideal situation would be to find a yard that has a boat ramp and would allow you to keep the H23 with the rig up, essentially dry sailing this boat. The constraint here is tidal range.
One difference between the north and south shores is tidal range. The GSB has around a 3' tidal range while parts of the sound can have an 8' + tidal range. Many boat ramps on the north shore are fairly useless at low water in my experience.
I would also check out Oyster Bay The WaterFront Center, Oyster Bay, NY - Long Island Sound: Sailing, Boating, Marine Education, Field Trips, Recreation, Kayaking, Summer Programs
I'm not sure if they have the facilities for keeping your H23 on the trailer or not though.
Did you take a pass on that nearly 'free' Morgan? Did you get to see it?
Thanks CD. I will look into all.
I did see the Morgan. Big project.
Above posts pretty much cover things. A point if you
bring your lighter, light air H23 up to the sound. You
might want to consider the larger western bays such as
Northport/Huntington Bay or Oyster Bay/Cold Spring Harbor. Reasoning being that in light/med wind conditions...sail out to the sound and enjoy. In heavy winds you can still sail all day in the protected bays.
Out east Pt Jeff offers similiar situation, but smaller
and with ferries.
And if no wind in the sound, you have your Pearson
on the south shore.
Also in the west you have many close by destinations,
bays and great small towns both on the LI side and the closer Ct. side, and some great views and landscape.
Nothing against the eastern options (I love to sail the eastern sound).
Good luck, it's great to have options. Hugo
NYC is an archipelago
Only one of its five boroughs is on the North American mainland. Surrounded by water, we've got Lots of opportunities.
That said, traffic is a whole 'nother issue. Me, I'd rather be sailing than crawling along behind a Hamptons-bound beemer on the Southern State.
From Brooklyn, figure out shortest drive times, if you drive. If the Sound sounds appealing, consider Manhasset Bay, or City Island. If LIRR, moorings in Port Washington are a short walk to the rail station. If you can do Metro North out of Grand Central, the Mamaroneck train station is less than a mile to some great, well-protected marinas and moorings.
Best bet: ActiveCaptain - The Interactive Cruising Guidebook - Marina Reviews, Fuel Prices, Anchoragesto map-read and scope out possibilities.
All good points. I like living close to my boat, but sometimes it would be great to have one out east for cruising there.
Old Man's and Ralph's are both reputable family businesses that have served Mount Sinai for decades. If you do come out here, look me up.
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Spectral inequality and optimal cost of controllability for the Stokes system∗
Universitéde Nice Sophia-Antipolis, Laboratoire Jean A. Dieudonné, UMR CNRS
6621, Parc Valrose, 06108 Nice cedex 02, France.
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Accepted: 7 June 2016
In this paper we present a new proof of the null controllability property for the Stokes system. The proof is based on a new spectral inequality for the eigenfunctions of the Stokes operator. As a consequence, we obtain the cost of the null controllability for the Stokes system of order eC/T, when T is small, i.e., the same order in time as for the heat equation.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 35K40 / 35Q30 / 49J20
Key words: Stokes system / null controllability / Carleman estimates / spectral inequality
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Marsh retires after 22 years with Brainerd YMCA
All good things must come to an end.
For Brainerd resident Linda Marsh, 22 years worth of good things will draw to a close today.
With more than two decades under her belt and hundreds of kids having been under her care, Marsh is retiring from her job in the child care center at the Brainerd Family YMCA.
"It just doesn't feel real," Marsh said Wednesday.
Marsh started at the YMCA as a substitute for the child care center while she was at home raising her own children. "They just kept calling me, so I kept coming back," Marsh recalled. She said she has always been in the infant or toddler rooms at the center and has made it her goal to make the children in her care feel as much at home as possible.
"I'm trying to give them the second best day if they can't be home with their mom," Marsh said.
Pastor Kristin Oltmann's son Kyle spent much of the first year of his life in Marsh's care, something Oltmann said meant the world to her.
"As new parents, both with full-time jobs, to be able to drop our infant off with her and be completely confident that he would be loved, nurtured, and safe was invaluable," Oltmann said in an email.
Oltmann's son, Kyle, now nearly 2, is somewhat of a picky eater, and Oltmann said it's Marsh's words of wisdom that assured her Kyle was going to turn out just fine.
"She said she had never seen a grown man only eat cheese, crackers, and pears, so at some point, some time, Kyle will start eating a variety of foods," Oltmann said. "She always shared her wisdom in a very kind and compassionate ways."
During her 22 years at YMCA, Marsh said she has had multiple sets of siblings and now even works with one young lady who was once in the infant room and is now a junior in high school and works at the front desk at the YMCA.
"It used to make me feel old," Marsh laughed. "But I'm not surprised by anything anymore."
Marsh said she has learned many lessons over the years from working with small children. "I learned that everybody gets teeth, everybody gets out of diapers and everybody walks eventually," she said. "But if we see them walk first, we never say a word."
Marsh said she has also learned that children like to play with each other rather than grown-ups and they fall down. A lot. "They always look to you to see if they got hurt," she said. "They're very different but they're all the same."
Marsh said 22 years of working with children has helped her discover some tricks to make things run smoothly. She often shares her lunches with the kids in her care, has an arsenal of diapers and back-up clothing and she said she has every pacifier ever made.
"It's taken years," she said. "But I finally have it down."
Marsh said on of the things she has appreciated throughout her years of working at the Y is the way her co-workers have worked together and the bond they share.
"My co-workers are just wonderful," Marsh said. "Hopefully we'll still get together."
Marsh said in retirement she plans to continue subbing for the child care center at the Y. Along with her continued presence at the Y, Marsh has other plans as well. "I have a list three feet long and in fine print," she laughed. On her list is reading books — lots of books, playing video games and continuing adding to her collections of house and baby dolls. "I'm hoping to complete some of my collections," Marsh said.
Marsh said she is still having a difficult time grasping the idea of not coming to work on Friday.
"I'm going to miss the kids," she said. "I'm going to really miss my co-workers."
Child Care Director Christa Andersen said she is proud of the impact Marsh has had on the lakes community and her departure from the YMCA is bittersweet.
"She's raised a lot of babies in this community," Andersen said. "She's been a great asset to our infant room and a great friend — it's hard to lose someone you've seen everyday for 22 years.
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Paul Rusesabagina (Don Cheadle) at first appears a smooth operator. Always impressively self-collected in crisp his white shirts and shined shoes, Paul shuttles between the swank and seedy sides of town, namely, Kigali, Rwanda. It's 1994, and he manages the Mille Collines, a Belgian-owned luxury hotel. His employers are distant, his clients privileged, and neither can imagine how he must wheel and deal each day to maintain their sense of comfort.
But at the beginning of Hotel Rwanda, you get a clue: en route to the black market warehouse where he purchases beer, lobster, and soda pop "for the children," he must reassure his driver, the quietly loyal Dube (Desmond Dube), made understandably anxious by reports on the car radio that the Hutus mean to exterminate the "Tutsi cockroaches." For Paul—a Hutu married to a Tutsi, Tatiana (Sophie Okonedo)—the conflict is both old news (existing since before the Belgians occupied, divided, and finally abandoned Rwanda in 1962) and now painfully percolating to the surface. Though he's just seen a crate full of machetes break open at the warehouse where he's picked up the week's supplies, Paul refuses to believe violence will erupt. "Time is money," he insists, and rushes back to work.
This faith in his own work ethic keeps Paul from acknowledging the turmoil erupting all around him. Even as Paul is telling Dube not to worry ("It's just business"), an agitated demonstrator stops their vehicle and attempts to grab the Tutsi Dube. Paul appeases the assailant by waving a "Hutu power" shirt given him by his black marketer, George (Hakeem Kae-Kazim); shortly thereafter, Paul is again mollifying worries, this time voiced by his wife's sister and her husband, insisting that they just go home and wait for the seeming hysteria to dissipate.
He will regret his words in a matter of hours. What Paul does not anticipate is the relentlessness of the brutality. By the time the treaty-signing Hutu Major General Juvenal Habyarimana is assassinated and the Interahamwe (Hutu militia) begin hacking away at the designated "cockroaches" with machetes, it's too late for Paul or any of his relatives to escape. (The eventual toll will be close to a million murdered in 100 days.) And so, he brings Tatiana, their three children, and a van full of neighbors to the hotel, where he spends a series of desperate days wheedling angry would-be killers into letting 1200 Tutsis and moderate Hutus survive.
Based on the real Paul Rusesabagina's experiences, Hotel Rwanda tells a crucial, horrific, and altogether too familiar story, of one man's courageous efforts against seemingly inexplicable devastation and cruelty, as the Hutu power-grab turns swiftly into a kind of implacable madness. At least one viewer has praised it as an "African Schindler's List," an assessment that's partly right: the film turns historical tragedy into personal drama, only indicating the appalling details of the mass murders and focusing instead on the hero's emergence. Paul's initial calculations reveal early his capacity to placate the fears of both the victims and the perpetrators of the rampage; it is precisely his skill at negotiation, haggling over niceties, that allows him essentially to "get over" on the oppressors, long enough to save some few, forever grateful people.
He has some help in this endeavor, to be sure. His primary ally is the Canadian-born Colonel Oliver (Nick Nolte), an increasingly frustrated United Nations "peace keeper," which means, in his words, that he is unable to "make" peace, only stand by and watch as the mostly faceless Hutu thugs roar through the city in jeeps, wearing colorful wigs and waving their bloody weapons, taking aim at anyone who even "smells" like a Tutsi. Colonel Oliver and his men roll through the film occasionally, each time long enough to show the UN's (and by extension, the world's most powerful nations) refusal to take responsibility or any action against the carnage. The similarities to other situations—say, the current one in Darfur—are plain, as tv and radio report official quibbling over use of the word "genocide" to describe what's happening. As Oliver bluntly informs Paul (who appears stunned to hear it), the Rwandan crisis is not on any Western radar screen, because those involved are "not even nigger[s]," but merely Africans.
The film emphasizes the racist framework for the genocide by showing white hotel guests being evacuated (some with their dogs in tow), as the Rwandans hover in the rain behind, knowing their fates. It also offers, in addition to Oliver, three other instances of white folks who speak for or embody a specifically raced sense of shame: the Belgian hotel owner (Jean Reno), who frets for Paul by phone and, at one point, calls "the French," who have supplied weapons to the Hutus; a steadfast Red Cross worker, Pat Archer (Cara Seymour); and a couple of journalists, Jack (Joaquin Phoenix) and David (David O'Hara, recently excellent as well in Stander). The former's role is generally to arrive at Paul's doorstep with truckloads of frightened orphans, commiserate briefly with him, then set off again in search of more innocents to save, the latter are granted slightly more complicated parts. Hardened carousers and war-coverage veterans, they undergo a transformation that reflects both the magnitude of the violence and the knowledge that their own work—bringing such images to U.S. and European tv screens—will have little effect. As Jack puts it, "If people see this footage, they'll say, 'Oh my God, that's terrible,' and they'll go on eating their dinners."
At the same, symmetric time, Hotel Rwanda offers particular incarnations of the Hutu bullies, including one of Paul's employees, Gregoire (Tony Kgoroge), who takes the occasion of Paul's harboring of Tutsis for personal abuses, like drinking champagne and sleeping in suites with beautiful, voiceless women; a local general, Augustin Bizimungo (Fana Mokoena), whom Paul regularly placates with cigars and booze; and George, who casually encourages Paul to join up with the cause, if only to save himself. Paul, of course, takes up the opposite cause, almost in spite of himself. And yet, the film argues, once he finds his calling—to resist the genocide—Paul never looks back.
Hotel Rwanda is an ambitious film in its way, particularly as it appeals to a wide (PG-13) audience, exposing this repressed history by not showing too much. This strategy is often very effective, as when Paul and Gregoire drive one foggy night over a road filled with corpses, their tires crunching bones and squashing flesh before they even realize what they've done. Though these images remain both too vast and too abstract to comprehend fully, the next scene is all about the effects of such horror. Back at the hotel, Paul begins to change his shirt, only to rip it off in a very intense, very private display of agony, makes clear the severe toll taken by what we don't see.
The movie's insistent focus on his experience, with only a few glimpses of the chaos outside the hotel grounds, makes the story comprehensible and tragic, but also barely references the broad structures that create such atrocity. While the scene is extreme, it is also not unique, born of years of poverty, "humanitarian crisis," rage, and exploitation by Western powers. For all its occasional melodrama and emotional roller-coastering, Hotel Rwanda is an important film, for its commitment and engagement, as well as its insistence that viewers, like Paul, make real choices.
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I do have the 7 round magazine, no issues.
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How does this extension affect pocket carry?
I just got one this week. They run from $539 - $550 in my area, Georgia. The grip has to be squeezed from the back too when you fire it.
If you use the 7 round mag it gives you more room for your little finger without getting a grip extender. But it isn't as compact so I'll use it as a second mag.
Thanks for posting this, this is exactly what i was looking for for my XDS. I bought 2 of them and just installed them. I absolutely love the new feel. I feel like this is how they should have come standard from the factory. Thanks again!
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GK: Our next guest has come a long way to be with us. (TR OFF: HO HO HO HO HO. JINGLE) And it's a pleasure to welcome him at this very busy time of year for him, I'm sure. (TR OFF: HO HO HO HO HO. JINGLE) As he comes up through the audience here at the Town Hall and patting boys and girls on the heads and spreading his good cheer (TR OFF: HO HO HO HO HO. JINGLE). And we're going to bring him right up here on stage? Watch out for that step, Santa. It's a little (CRUNCH. TR CRY OF PAIN. OHHHH OHHHH OHHHH OHHH.)
GK: You okay, Santa? You're all crunched up. I tried to warn you about that step there.
TR (SANTA): Ohhhhh. My back. Ow ! My god, the pain.
GK: Would you like to sit down?
TR (SANTA): I can't sit. Holy balls of holly it hurts.
GK: Oh boy. You were going to come on and deliver a message of Christmas cheer.
TR (SANTA): Yeah that's not happening.
GK: I'm so sorry about that step.
TR (SANTA): I'm going to have to go sit in a hot bath.
GK: Couldn't you just laugh your famous laugh for the boys and girls out there? They were counting on it.
TR (SANTA): Ohhhh, it hurts when I laugh-----
GK: Here's a gentleman coming up from the audience-----
FN (OFF): Hi. I'm a chiropractor. The name's Chip. Chip Magnuson.
GK: Come on up, Dr. Magnuson.
TR (OFF): I don't know. (FOOTSTEPS) You're really a chiropractor?
FN: Wow. I had no idea I was going to get to make adjustments on Santa.
GK: He needs help.
FN: Would you mind taking a picture of me and Santa? Okay, Santa?
TR (SANTA): Oh boy. Just hurry up.
FN: Would you mind? Here. Just aim and shoot.
GK: Okay. This the shutter here?
FN: No. It's the switch in front. ---- Okay. Mind if I scootch up close here? Okay?
TR (SANTA): Just do it and get it over with.
FN: You get it?
GK: I don't know. The flash didn't go off.
TR (SANTA): Hurry up. I'm dying here.
FN: You have to click that little clicker in back to turn the flash on.
GK: Okay. Smile, Santa.
TR (SANTA): Smile!!!!???? I'm calling my lawyer.
GK: Try to smile. (CLICK) There. Got it.
FN: I'm just going to come around from behind here, and get you in a big bear hug, okay? (LIGHT JINGLING)
TR (SANTA): Ow.
FN: And when I count to three, you're going to let all your air out, and I'm going to twist you like a pretzel. That okay with you?
TR (SANTA): Just do it.
FN: Ready? Here we go. One—Two—
TR (SANTA): God have mercy.
FN: Three! (HUGE CRACKING BACK ADJUSTMENT)
TR (SANTA): AaaaaaaaahhhhhHHHO HO HO HO HO! (BIG JINGLING) HO HO HO HO HO! HO HO HO HO HO!
GK: Thank you, Dr. Magnuson.
FN: My pleasure. (BAND PLAYOFF)
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Oopsy. It's bad enough that ammo prices are going up, but when something like this happens...doh.
Boss: Driver took wrong turn into Juárez with load of ammo
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Oopsy. It's bad enough that ammo prices are going up, but when something like this happens...doh.
Boss: Driver took wrong turn into Juárez with load of ammo
In the words of the Boone County Sheriff "Boy you're in a heap of trouble". Had it have been me I would have found somewhere to make a u-turn legally or otherwise no way would I take even one round of ammo to Mexico.
There are numerous sign prior to international entry points,you are entering MEXICO,no guns or ammunition allowed.I don't give a crap,I am not driving into Mexico with a load of ammo,If I can't turn around,I'm parking the truck where it is and it's not moving anywhere until Cops show up and clear traffic so I can back the hell up.
The driver should use the "Eric Holder made me do it defense!":rofl:
I'm with Ret. Could be one of Eric's boys.
Or just someone who turned off their common sense just to see what would happen.
The trucking company's name is Demco. Fast and Furious weapons are useless without ammo...
"The owner of United Nations Ammo in Phoenix, who identified himself only as "Howie," said...the media was calling it cartel ammo, but we paid for that ammo, it's really our property." Only if it was FOB Shipping point.
The name of the company buying the ammo makes me suspicious. What ammo company uses "United Nations" in their name?
I have been a truck driver for many years and have yet to see a truck with reverse. they are looking for a way to get something from the US for the return of the driver and shipment
Man, talk about a bad day lol. Of all things to accidentally take in to Mexico, ammo would be at the worst end of the list.
I don't trust my GPS. It's one of those skills a man should know by adulthood, how to read a map. I've taken plenty of wrong turns in my lifetime, but not with a $110K worth of ammo into Old Mexico......!?!
If it were me I'd made a "Fast and Furious" (pun intended) uturn.... or at the very least put 'er in reverse and crawfished outta there one way or another!
I can't get the link to work....anyone else have this problem?
Boss: Driver took wrong turn into Juárez with load of ammo - El Paso Times
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by An Oil of Olay Representative September 15, 2003
The male version of a cocktease a man who leads the women who like him to believe he wants to have sex with them, but doesn't intend to deliver the goods.
Ben: I've emailed you a picture of my abs, i thought you might like em ;)
Nancy: omg you're such a moisturiser!
Nancy: omg you're such a moisturiser!
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girls who wouldnt hav a fuken clue how to judge the size of a penis because they hav never even touched or seen 1.
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diks who think they r cool cause they have started to go out HALF WAY THRU 6TH FORM yeeah real cool,most ppl start maybe at the latest 4th form.
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a name given to a group of chikz bcos once upon a time one of them brought sum good ol moisturiser to skool!HEY Y DONT WE GET ALL CARRIED AWAY AND CALL THAT GROUP OF BOIS THE 'LITTLE ONES' BCZ EVRYDAY THEY BRING ALONG A TINY LITTLE SUMTHING!!!!!! AND THEY THINK ITS LIKE SOOOO BIG
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the name moisturiser started when a group up us were drunk something the moisties dont do we decided which girls were goin 2 b da moisties and then it stuck. the original meaning of moisty was 'the girls who dont drink or go out, the frigid girls, the girls who we couldnt stand 2 b around, the immature then 5th form girls and the girls whos sentences werent complete without the trade mark OH MY GOD!!!!' the moisties apdpted this name & r now proud of it & as a girl i wouldnt b proud of it. it never really had 2 nething 2 do with moisturiser except the name
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How many moles of gas are present in 6.2L of C2H2 at STP?
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The volume V of n moles of an ideal gas at pressure P and temperature T is given by V = (n*R*T)/P where R is a constant equal to 8.3145 J/(mole*K). At standard temperature and pressure one mole of an ideal gas occupies a volume equal to 22.4 liters.
In the problem, the gas C2H2 has a volume 6.2 L. The behavior of the gas can be approximated to that of an ideal gas. This gives the number of moles of C2H2 that occupy 6.2 L at STP as `6.2/22.4 ~~ 0.2767` .
0.2767 moles of C2H2 occupy 6.2 L at STP
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September 26, 2016
Scientists at ETH Rehabilitation Engineering Laboratory in Switzerland have invented a robotic system that they say could fundamentally change the daily lives of stroke patients.
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The EU and the US are to announce tighter Russia sanctions on Friday (5 September), with the EU's draft legal texts - seen by EUobserver - targeting state-owned banks, oil technologies and defence goods.
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More peace talks are scheduled in Minsk on Friday, but a much-talked-about ceasefire has so far failed to hold.
"In view of the gravity of the situation the Council considers it appropriate to take further restrictive measures in response to Russia's actions destabilising the situation in Ukraine," the EU's draft text says.
More names and companies are to be added to a blacklist, which has been expanded to "natural or legal persons, entities or bodies conducting transactions with the separatist groups in the Donbass region of Ukraine."
In addition to an existing ban on Russian state-owned banks from raising funds in Europe and the US, the EU will also ban "Russian entities in the defence sector, and Russian entities whose main business is the sale or transportation of oil" from its capital markets.
The threshold ban for bonds issued by Russian banks has been lowered from 90 to 30 days. EU businesses will not only be prohibited from acquiring such bonds, but also from taking up loans from Russian state-owned banks.
The EU also aims to ban "the direct or indirect sale, supply, transfer or export of certain dual-use goods and technology to any person in Russia or for use in Russia by nationals of member states or from the territories of member states or using their flag vessels or aircraft."
So-called dual-use goods are items that can have both a military and a civilian function. Funding, providing technical assistance or maintenance of these goods will also be prohibited.
The same applies for oil-drilling technologies, both a ban on selling directly or indirectly, as well as funding projects, servicing or maintaining these technologies.
For is part, Ben Rhodes, US leader Barack Obama's deputy security advisor, told press on Thursday that America and Europe fine-tuned their response in the margins of a Nato summit in Wales.
"The president and his fellow leaders in that meeting agreed that there needs to be additional costs imposed on Russia for what they've done in Ukraine … Because when we move together, it has the maximum impact in imposing economic costs on Russia", he said.
"We have broad authorities to look at a range of different sectors. So the United States is preparing our own additional sanctions … I think the key point is that Russia must continue to face costs for its own escalation. If Russia escalates, we stand prepared to escalate our pressure".
An annex to the EU legal text lists the banned oil drilling equipment:
Equipment required to produce fuels that meet EURO IV requirements – hydrocracking and desulphurisation units and components thereof, as well as related services.
Technologies that reduce sulphur, particulate matter, benzene and aromatic and unsaturated hydrocarbon content in automotive fuels - such as:
Alkylation and isomerization units
Aromatic hydrocarbon production units
Atmospheric-vacuum crude distillation units (CDU)
Calatylic reforming / cracker units
Delayed cokers
Flexicoking units
Fractionation units
Heat exchanges
Hydrocracking reactors
Hydrocracking reactor vessels
Hydrogen generation technology
Hydrotreatment technology/units
Naphtha isomerisation units
Reactor vessels
Refining heaters
Sulphur production units
Sulphuric acid alkylation and sulphuric acid regeneration units
Thermal cracking units
[Toluene and heavy aromatics] Transalkylation units
Vacuum gas oil hydrocracking units


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William Paterson University is striving to provide facilities that contribute to excellence in teaching, learning, community involvement, and creative expression.
Capital Projects
University Commons - The Heart of Campus Life
William Paterson's University Commons—which includes the redesigned John Victor Machuga Student Center, Wayne Hall, and a Conference Center—was created to accommodate the pace of an increasingly active, round-the-clock campus experience. It is the newest example of the University's commitment to providing opportunities for students to learn and develop leadership skills in a nurturing and enjoyable environment—in classrooms, labs, studios, and residence halls, and throughout our ever-changing campus.
The University Commons continues to be the focus of a unique fundraising campaign sponsored by the William Paterson Foundation. This campaign offers the ability for individuals and businesses to partner with the University, not to provide funds for bricks and mortar, but to develop valuable programs and services for students that enhance college life and develop our future leaders.
Science and Health Building
The University has begun work for a newly renovated Science Building that will provide classrooms and laboratories that enable students to learn in modern facilities from science faculty who, for the first time in many years, will have facilities that match their teaching and research excellence. All students at the University benefit from the resources of Science Hall. Students have hands-on access to scientific and laboratory equipment. This level of access — often reserved for graduate students at research universities — provides invaluable training and research skills that are central to the experiential learning component of a strong liberal arts curriculum. Built in 1972, the Science Hall facilities are long overdue for a physical overhaul that will ensure current and future generations of scientists educated at William Paterson University will continue to excel in their careers.
Hobart Manor
Since 1951, the William Paterson University campus has been built up around the lands of a former historic country estate. Called Ailsa Farms, the property was owned by the family of Garret Hobart, the 24th vice president of the United States who served under William McKinley. Its stately 40-room mansion, nestled in a hollow at the southeastern end of the estate, served as the setting for numerous holiday parties and important social events, a place where dignitaries and prominent business people of the time gathered. The Tudor-style mansion, Hobart Manor, with its public reception rooms partially restored nearly 20 years ago, continues to serve as a historic attraction. Today, Hobart Manor is our most treasured campus hallmark. Serving as the central point for University receptions and as the headquarters of the president, Hobart Manor is in need of artful reinvigoration to bring it back to its original elegance and pristine condition. Read about the Hobart Manor Revitalization Campaign.
Recreation Center
Long-range plans include a renovation of the Recreation Center as a venue for our intercollegiate athletic programs that will also meet the growing needs of our students. An updated and expanded Recreation Center will serve the entire campus community by providing space for intramural sports and other recreational activities, as well as an expanded fitness center.


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a. It was already established one of the root causes was our lack of understanding the physics. And he pointed out we can't yet solve the 3-body problem.
No it wasn't established. The only issue is a mathematical one. We understand the physics of the 3-body problem perfectly.
But the issue at hand is whether we can have an accurate simulation of a physical system, not if we can understand it perfectly.
At any given point we know the gravitational forces between any of the bodies.
And we don't know how to integrate them.
You simply don't understand this.
Now you are being rude and I stopped reading.
Please, somebody close this thread: It had little promise to begin with and I can't imagine anything good coming from it at this point.


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There's less than a week to take advantage of the early bird discount to attend this year's Executive Summit.
The early bird deadline is June 28. CLICK HERE FOR REGISTRATOIN INFORMATION AND TO REGISTER.
The ASCA's 2013 Executive Summit takes place Aug 7-9 at Loews Don CeSar Hotel in St. Pete Beach, Fla.
For those unfamiliar with this annual event, the ASCA's Executive Summit is a unique educational experience that addresses the high-level topics that impact your business. Speakers engage and educate attendees on industry trends and business growth. The conference brings high-end education to snow professionals and provides networking opportunities to engage with colleagues and leaders.
This year's educational itinerary includes discussions on risk mitigation and liability, fighting slip-and-fall claims, the impact of the Affordable Care Act, leadership building, and other business management topics.This year's itinerary taps into many of the top business concerns professional snow and ice managers are facing.
"Without a doubt, snow contractors are operating in a challenging business environment," says ASCA's Executive Director Kevin Gilbride. "So we did our due diligence and really gathered a lot of feedback to determine where our focus should be with this year's educational offering. I'm happy to say the conference schedule reflects what contractors indicated they needed regarding education."
In addition, the ASCA and Snow Magazine announced this year's leadership award winners. This year four professional snow and ice managers will be honored.
This year's Leadership Award recipients include:
• Dick Churchill, The Groundskeeper, Ashland, Mass.;
• Steven Jomides, Lawns By Yorkshire, Westwood, N.J.;
• Stephanie Sauers-Boyd, Sauers Tree & landscape, Dresher, Pa.; and
• Jack Wieske, Cedar Springs Landscape, Ancaster, Ontario
"So many snow and ice managers are committed not only to their company's success, but also to the industry at large, as well as the communities that they work and live in," Gilbride adds. "This is a testament to the rich and deep sense of professionalism that is pervasive throughout the snow industry."
Leadership Awards winners will be honored at a special gala dinner the evening of Aug. 8.


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I'm working with the Charlson co morbidity ado program. Does anyone
know if ICD-9 procedure codes should be included as well as ICD-9
diagnosis codes? The original Charlson reference (J Chron Dis v 40,
373-383, 1987) only used diagnoses, however Romano's modification that
allowed ICD-9 usage(J Clin Epi v 46, 1075-1079, 1993) does. I'm not
sure which method the writers of the ado file used and could not find
any documentation in the help file.
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Fletcher Allen Healthcare
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WQXR Hosts Share Their Festival Tips
Summer is festival time, even for our hard-working WQXR hosts. Here they reveal a few of their favorite spots for your summer travel planning.
Elliott Forrest
On Bard Summerscape, Annondale-on-Hudson, NY
I'll never forget the first time I visited the Hudson Valley. I was awestruck. It is hard to believe that just an hour or two from Times Square is some of the most beautiful countryside in America. The rolling hills and vistas of the Hudson River are spectacular. If you can find a way to venture north (rent or borrow a car, if you don't have one) make sure to visit Bard Summerscape, a six week festival on the campus of Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson.
This festival includes dance, theater, operetta, film, cabaret, family shows and classical music. This year the Music Festival portion (from August 13-22) focuses on the 20th Century composer Alban Berg.
Bard is the summer home of the American Symphony Orchestra lead by Leon Botstein, who also happens to be the long time President of Bard College.
Go for the music, but the campus is a draw anytime of year for the Richard B. Fisher Center designed by one of great classical music hall creators, Frank Gehry. As you may know, he also designed Disney Hall, the home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The Fisher design includes large warped brushed stainless steel roof pieces which reflects the constantly changing sky, time of day and country side. The inside just as inviting, with great acoustics.
Check the website and I'll see you upstate!
David Garland
On the Amherst Early Music Festival (New London, CT) & the Utrecht Early Music Festival (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
I don't expect to have time to attend any music festivals this summer, so that leaves me free to fantasize about it, unhindered by practical concerns. This is what I'd do, if I could: I'd go to two early music festivals, one close to home, the other across the pond.
The Amherst Early Music Festival takes place at Connecticut College, New London, CT, July 11-18 and 18-25. It looks like a lovely mix of concerts, workshops, and presentations.
And then, sure, toward the end of the summer why not fly over to Holland, one of the early music capitals of Europe, to experience the venerable Utrecht Early Music Festival, August 27-September 5th.
Naomi Lewin
On the Shaw Festival, Niagra-on-the-Lake, NY
One of the most idyllic spots on earth is Niagara-on-the-Lake--the perfect place for a summer festival...or two. The town is charming: two main streets bursting with flowers and shops; lovely, tree-lined side streets, full of historic houses.
Niagara-on-the-Lake is home to the Shaw Festival, a theatrical extravaganza with nearly a dozen productions running in repertory from April through October. In addition to George Bernard Shaw, the Festival presents work by a host of other playwrights, old and new--plus musicals. At the height of the season, you can choose from as many as four different productions a day.
The Festival has four theaters, ranging from a modern proscenium, to a World War I vaudeville stage, to an 1840's courthouse. Niagara-on-the-Lake is also home to Music Niagara--a chamber music, jazz, and cabaret festival that takes place in churches, parks, and wineries.
Yes, wineries. The climate of Niagara-on-the-Lake (which lies between Lake Ontario, the Niagara Escarpment and the Niagara River) is perfect for producing ice wine--dessert wine made from grapes left on the vine until they freeze. So the area is full of wineries, which also produce some fine regular wines. When you're not taking in a matinee, you can spend the day visiting one vineyard after the next, tasting to your palate's content. Since the terrain is flat, the best way to do that is by bicycle; if you don't have a bike, you can rent one. Along with all the wine, there are also some really great restaurants.
But wait! There's more! Needless to say, about half an hour south, there's a pretty famous waterfall. But don't stay in Niagara Falls. Stay in one of the charming inns or bed and breakfasts in Niagara-on-the-Lake. Theater, music, wine, food, natural beauty--all within an easy day's drive of the City. And it's in Canada, so you get the fun of being in a foreign country, too.
Terrance McKnight
On Festival-Going--New York-Style
For those who enjoy bright sunshine and 80-degree temperatures to musical accompaniment, New York is the place to be during the summer. Not only is the range of music staggering but many of classics heard around the city were intended for outdoor performance in the first place.
This is my third summer living in New York and I've represented the radio station at several festivals so far, including the River to River Festival and Celebrate Brooklyn. I'll be back out at both this year and will add to that Summerstage in Central Park. These festivals around the city and state are often at discounted rates, free or donation, which makes them affordable and family oriented.
Last year as part of River to River, I heard New York City Opera performing outdoors and was astounded by the level of appreciation for the music given by audience members who sat and stood at full attention. While I am looking forward to representing WQXR in Brooklyn and in Manhattan, I'm also looking forward to expanding my summer festival horizons by checking out the Caramoor Festival in Katonah New York. We'll preview that festival in The Greene Space on June 24th. Hope to see you outdoors this summer.
Midge Woolsey
On the Caramoor Festival - and one for the "to-do" list
Last summer, I was invited by Michael Barrett for my first visit to the Caramoor Festival in Katonah, New York. I had an amazing time! From the moment my friends and I arrived on the grounds, we were welcomed with enthusiastic smiles from everyone. Michael prides himself on the contentment that prevails. The weather was perfectly suited for a summer evening of picnicking followed by music under the tent. I was impressed by the acoustics which are often difficult to handle in outdoor settings. And, the audience was a lovely mixture of age groups all of whom shared a love of classical music. What could be better?
My brother, Robert, has lived in Sitka, Alaska since he graduated from college. He is busy raising two children with his wife, Stacey. And, he is a newsman for the public radio station there. Each summer, he and his family enjoy the Sitka Summer Music Festival which is--as I understand it--a quiet festival where musicians gather to work on their artistry in a relaxed atmosphere. Recently I discovered--much to my delight--that cellist Zuill Bailey has been named Artistic Director Designate. Needless to say, I would love to go there someday.


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FEATURE - Dawn of the "Solar Salon" in US Living Rooms
Date: 02-Nov-06
Country: US
Author: Timothy Gardner
The topic of the evening was not 1960s music or world hunger, but solar power.
Across the United States, at similar gatherings, bankers and hedge fund managers rub shoulders with philanthropists and solar panel installers. These "solar salons" are orchestrated by Travis Bradford, a former fund manager and corporate buyout specialist, in an effort to hasten what he calls the inevitable uptake of solar power.
"My guess is the US will have one of the fastest growth rates over next five years. One of the interesting things about the US when compared to other industrialized countries is that it has more sun per capita," Bradford said in an interview [ID:nN27368312] with Reuters.
Bradford is founder of the Prometheus Institute for Sustainable Development, a group based in Cambridge Massachusetts that promotes the use of sustainable technologies.
In his book, "Solar Revolution," Bradford argues that the high price of oil, advances in solar technology and an easing in the cost of silicon used to make panels will combine to make solar the cheapest source of power within the next 20 years.
Skeptics say short supplies of silicon will cap output of solar panels. But panels use less silcon every year, and plants coming on line will ease supply in 2008, Bradford said.
The shift from fossil fuels to solar energy will take place not for environmental reasons but as a result of self-interested economic decisions made by individual users, according to the book, published by MIT press this fall.
As a slice of the total energy pie, solar is almost insignificant, producing just 0.1 percent of electricity in the United States, the world's largest energy consumer. But it is growing 30 to 40 percent a year while the cost of making solar panels has been dropping about 7 percent annually.
Solar power is likely to get more attention as governments look at ways to cut emissions of gases that cause global warming. Ministers from almost 190 governments meet in Nairobi from Nov. 6 to Nov. 17 for annual UN talks about ways to speed up the fight against global warming.
Environmentalists and many financial analysts envision a not-too-distant future when the 35 cent per kilowatt hour cost of power from solar panels will halve to equal the average cost of power from fossil fuels.
"Whether it's 2010, 2012, or 2015, I think everyone can see the writing on the wall," said Jesse Pichel, solar industry analyst with investment bank Piper Jaffray in New York. When costs become equal, "solar power demand is infinite," he said.
David Smith, an analyst at Citigroup in New York wrote in a research report in October that solar power has "crossed the tipping point and is on the cusp of a significant expansion between now and 2010."
Environmentalists agree a height has been cleared. "The general public hasn't been this interested in solar and renewable energy since the days of Jimmy Carter," said Alan Nogee, the clean energy director at the Union of Concerned Scientists. During the oil-starved late 1970s, then President Carter introduced an energy conservation plan as the "moral equivalent of war."
In terms of the financial community, "There hasn't been this much interest ever," Nogee said.
A big factor is the risk of an aging electricity infrastructure that is clearly overstretched by demand for air conditioning. Memories of exploding transformers, blackouts and brownouts from the last few summers are fresh.
Solar panels could keep the grid stable and cut the need for new power plants in the future as electricity demand rises at 2 or 3 percent per year.
"If you put solar on the roof, essentially you've hedged electricity prices for the next 20 years," said Pichel.
Although President George W. Bush pulled the United States out of the Kyoto Protocol in 2001, the states have taken up the fight to cut greenhouse gas emissions at power


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Bad firms do not design and develop chains of breakthrough drugs. Serendipity exists, no doubt about it, but it has no role in Vertex' (VRTX) accomplishments. Vertex' products are backed by plenty of science and technologies that are highly appreciated by academia and by well regarded scientists. The time has come for the market analysts to let Vertex' shareholders share the benefits this firm has offered AIDS patients, patients infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV), and now, as we have just learned from the news, cystic fibrosis patients.
In the news, Vertex' investigational drug VX-770 has demonstrated in Phase III trials significant improvement in lung function of patients suffering from cystic fibrosis. The results showed VX-770 improved lung function by 10.5 percent compared with a placebo and achieved all secondary goals of the study. VX-770 appears to have actually modified the disease. Compared with placebo at 24 and 48 weeks, patients on VX-770 showed a mean improvement in lung function of about 17 percent from baseline measurements. The patients were 55 percent less likely to require antibiotics for infection, and had significant reductions in sweat chloride (salt in the sweat), another indication that the drug modified the disease.
Investors did not wait this time for articles that would mislead them about the value of the promising drug. They rushed on their own to buy VRTX, guided by their logic and natural instincts. The stock has been boxed for more than four years despite the many signs and symptoms of the successful outcome of its lead drug Telaprevir (VX-950) as a breakthrough cure for HCV infection and other products for other diseases. The news about the cystic fibrosis drug was accompanied by Vertex's announcement that it has decided to file for U.S. and European approval of VX-770 in the second half of 2011.
This is, indeed, good news. Cystic fibrosis is a debilitating, life-threatening disease that causes chronic infection and progressive lung damage. The accumulation of abnormally thick, sticky mucus plugs in the lung bronchioles of cystic fibrosis patients results in chronic pulmonary obstruction, chronic cough, and severe difficulty breathing. The disease is caused by defective or missing CFTR proteins, which result in poor ion flow across cell membranes, including in the lung.
The positive results of VX-770 are not Vertex' only good news. The very good news about this firm is its determination to look carefully at each aspect of the various pathological pathways of a single disease and design and develop drugs that manage the responses of the different aberrant pathways. In cystic fibrosis, for example, VX-770 is useful for patients with the G551D mutation, where CFTR proteins do not function normally at the cell surface. VX-770, known as a CFTR potentiator, increases the function of CFTR proteins by increasing the gating activity, i.e. the receptor's ability to transport ions across the cell membrane. In another group of cystic fibrosis patients who carry the F508del mutation, the CFTR proteins do not reach the cell surface in normal amounts. For this group, Vertex developed VX-809, known as a CFTR corrector, which boosts CFTR function by increasing its movement to the cell surface.
Vertex is also conducting a Phase II safety and tolerability study that evaluates multiple combinations of VX-770 and VX-809 in people with two copies of the F508del mutation. Another goal of this study is to evaluate the effect of the drug combination on CFTR function as measured by sweat chloride. Elevated sweat chloride level is a diagnostic hallmark in CF patients and results directly from defective CFTR function in skin's sweat glands.
As in the development of its cystic fibrosis drugs, Vertex has not stopped at developing only Telaprevir for HCV infection. The company's scientists have designed and developed additional drugs that might enhance Telapravir's efficacy, or be improvements over the first-generation product such as ease of use. In addition to Telaprevir, which will soon be approved for marketing, Vertex' pipeline of HCV products comprises:
VX-222, a small molecule non-nucleoside inhibitor of HCV NS5B polymerase;
VX-985, another HCV protease inhibitor in Phase I clinical trials; and
VX-759, a small molecule non-nucleoside inhibitor of HCV NS5B polymerase; this drug has completed Phase 1b clinical trial.
The depth of Vertex' vision, its strategy, determination, and capability to execute its plans lead us to believe this firm is on its way to becoming a successful full-fledged drug developer. In addition to the HCV and cystic fibrosis therapeutics, the pipeline includes:
VX-509 is a novel Janus kinase 3 (JAK3) inhibitor for multiple immune-mediated inflammatory diseases. In cell-based assays, it has demonstrated 1000-fold greater affinity for JAK3 than non-JAK kinases. It also showed approximately 25- to 150-fold greater affinity for JAK3 compared to other JAK isotypes.
VX-765 is a novel caspase-1 inhibitor for epilepsy.
Vertex is filled to the brim with other activities aimed at improving the treatment of many diseases that lack adequate therapies. For example, together with a global network of scientific and clinical tuberculosis (TB) experts, Vertex is exploring ways to apply expertise in cellular signaling to TB drug discovery and development. Vertex' goal is to discover novel compounds that could potentially undermine the ability of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to survive within infected host cells, thus offering new treatment options for TB, including multidrug resistant TB.
We cannot write about all of Vertex activities in this short article. We remind you that the FDA independent committee will review Vertex' protease inhibitor Telaprevir for HCV infection in April. We believe that the drug will be approved.
What do we expect?
We expect a NDA for VX-770 to be filed this year with approval in 2012, and to generate around $1 billion in revenues for Vertex. Also, we have hope that the combination of VX-770 and VX-809, which is aimed at a subgroup of patients, will prove beneficial for all cystic fibrosis patients, a possibility that would take the cystic fibrosis revenues to $3 billion annually. Added to the revenues coming from Telaprevir, Vertex could generate over $5 billion in revenues by 2013.
We also expect the firm to become a target for acquisition. The fact is, though, that , acquisition or no acquisition, we believe Vertex will become, as we keep saying, a full-fledged, first-class pharmaceutical company generating multibillions of dollars in revenues.
We long VRTX.


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Swap Shop
Every Fort Lauderdale chap whos into boardshorts, sandals, skateboards, Vans, wetsuits, surfboards, helmets, and/or Billabong, shops at BC Surf and Sport (1701 N. Federal Highway, Fort Lauderdale). And now from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday, BC wont only provide the goods during a giant clearance sale, theyll take your goods AKA those boards you havent touched in years, even accessories and sell those, too, at their first Board Swap event. A consignment sale goes like this: You hand over your item to BC, and, if it sells, BC gets a percentage and you get the rest either in check form or store credit. This is the time to take in that old skateboard, skimboard, or boogie board and start earning store credit toward purchasing your own stand-up paddleboard so you can guzzle beer on your own personal floating device during BCs next full-moon board session. In the lot outside, a barbecue will be set up, and companies such as Billabong, Quicksilver, and Volcom will be giving away free swag. No cover to peruse. Call 954-564-0202, or visit bcsurf.com.
Click here for a titillating, board-swap love story -- AKA BC's commercial for this event.
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The education sector remains abuzz with cost-cutting expectations despite pressures to increase services. Automation of costly manual tasks could save funds for many of these institutions, specifically in data protection.
The IT departments of schools and universities can take advantage of a proven cost-savings opportunity in data protection that also will increase their new data recovery expectations and school safety.
Data recovery solutions always should include all three major areas for ensuring restores: backup, archive and disaster recovery. Buying technology to perform these three key functions separately creates huge divides in management and implementation. And, skipping out on any one of these areas will leave a facility vulnerable and out of compliance with school safety measures.
All three functions of data recovery have taken a giant leap in automation over the past few years as a result of a single technological development: backup appliances. Beyond bundling all of the components needed to handle data recovery, IT shops now can purchase all-in-one data recovery designed for enterprise-class operations.
Universities are not the only enterprises in education. Even the smallest school districts take on the school safety requirements of enterprises: multiple platforms, remote offices, large numbers of users (at every level), separate retention expectations from different departments and a host of legal rules to follow.
The net result of an appliance is automation for all of these enterprise requirements and the inclusion of every data protection technology an IT department could want. The largest savings come to schools and universities, though, in the areas of pricing (sizing and configuration), implementation and operation. Not only can these facilities save money in adopting an appliance strategy, but also they will get all of those new technologies and enterprise capabilities at incredible savings.
Size Matters
Granted, costs are not the only thing IT is thinking about when buying data protection. Sizing for an appliance shifts conversations from hardware and software (compatibility and preferences) to simple decisions around how big and how fast (scalability and performance). Users should be able to see the prices upfront. Consider the life cycle for such a purchase, typically three to five years, and decide based on how much the current data backup solution costs.
When configuring and pricing an appliance, think about the following details. Rather than giving the appliance vendor only the "ideal" expectations, give them a minimum and maximum. This will help immeasurably during appliance manufacturer comparisons. Do not let a manufacturer or their reseller undersize or oversize your solution:
How much data does the facility have?
- Data files in terabytes.
- Databases that are run in terabytes.
Software licensing structures:
- Pricing by the amount of data backed up or archived, or pricing by the number of machines or databases being backed up.
- General retention policies.
- Number of days to be able to restore everything.
- Number of machines to be able to restore immediately.
- Number of years to keep archives.
- Size and number of each remote office.
- Some facilities will not need a localized appliance, just software.
- Remote office solutions are based primarily on network pipes.
Based on the above, it is easy to see that the configuration and sizing for an appliance shifts from talking about server size, storage arrays, etc., to the practical details of the environment, which is good news.