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Know your 'Old Salts'
Capt. (Dr.) Peter Soballe Age: 66 Time in service: 45 years, 6 months Branch: Medical Corps Current command: Naval Medical Center San Diego Career highlights: Chair of the surgery department at NMC San Diego. Capt. John Schultz Age: 58 Time in service: 40 years, 6 months Branch: Surface Warfare Current command: Submarine Group 7 Career highlights: Rose to master chief, then commissioned. Has commanded three ships. Capt. James Brokaw Age: 57 Time in service: 39 years, 7 months Branch: Information Warfare Current command: Navy Information Operations Command Georgia Career highlights: A former chief crypotologic technician, he took command of NIOC Georgia in August 2012. Capt. Marc Waterman Age: 66 Time in service: 40 years, 7 months Branch: Dental Corps Current command: 11th Dental Company, Camp Foster, in Okinawa, Japan Capt. Rupert Lindo Age: 57 Time in service: 39 years, 5 months Branch: Medical Service Corps Current command: NATO Allied Command Transformation in Norfolk, Va. Career highlights: Commanded a deployed medical support company during Operation Desert Storm. Cmdr. Rafael Perez Age: 58 Time in service: 40 years, 7 months Branch: Medical Service Corps Current command: Branch Medical Clinic, Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego Career highlights: Deployed with Marine unit to Fallujah, Iraq, and served as medical officer for Combat Logistics Group 15 in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
The Oldest Salt works in a nondescript office in San Diego.
His active-duty career spans nine presidents, six major conflicts, the fleet's shrinkage three times over. He has been a Navy captain for a quarter-century.
When he was commissioned as an ensign, the current chief of naval operations was 14 years old.
So why has Capt. (Dr.) Peter Soballe stayed in the Navy for 45 years and six months?
"It's fun," said Soballe, 66, the head of the surgery department at Naval Medical Center San Diego. He went on to tell a sea story.
He and a resident surgeon had finished an appendectomy one night — in the 1980s, Soballe recalled — when the resident said: "'Gee, I hope the Navy never finds out that they wouldn't have to pay me to do this. I'd probably pay them!'" Soballe recalled with a laugh.
"You know, sometimes it gets serious, don't get me wrong, but most of the time, you're helping people, and you get instant gratification."
Everyone knows a sailor who's counting down the years, months, days — even minutes — until he hits the 20-year retirement mark … and hits the door running. But there are those like Soballe who stay much longer — by choice. Among these Navy stalwarts is an even more standout group: the six officers who have served nearly four decades or more, according to Navy Personnel Command. Some of them initially joined for a tour or to pay for college, but ended up staying because of the work, the camaraderie, the possibility of command.
These officers aren't traditionally recognized for such an achievement. There is no Navy-wide "Order of the Old Salt" or handoff ritual, like there is within the surface fleet, no Pentagon photo-op. Soballe learned he was the longest-serving active-duty person when he was contacted by Navy Times.
The doctors and dentists on the list are part of a special program that waives their high-year tenure rules. And the other three officers served for years as enlisted, time not tallied toward their seniority as officers — but which nonetheless imparts considerable authority and insight. Any of the old salts over the age of 62 must apply for a waiver to continue serving, up to the age limit, 68.
All of these old-timers joined the Navy while the Vietnam War was raging and have weathered two drawdowns. They have been in the Navy longer than the Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (AW/NAC) Mike Stevens, who enlisted in June 1983, or the longest-serving admiral, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jon Greenert, who was commissioned in 1975. All four officers interviewed for this article — two could not be reached by press time — come from different Navy branches and have different perspectives, but agree on one point: Sailors should think again before leaving the Navy.
"We have so much talent that punches out at their 20-year mark," said Capt. James Brokaw, an information warfare officer who has served nearly twice as long: 39 years, seven months, to be exact. "There can be success after the 20-year retirement-eligibility point."
The Oldest Salt
Soballe, the head of surgery, was considering retiring from the military in the mid-1990s. He'd been in long enough to qualify for retirement and could go into private practice, where more money could be made. The only problem: Soballe kept looking for jobs like the one he already had.
Then he came across the Retire-Retain program. It exempts officers in fields where professional degrees are required from HYT ceilings. This includes those like chaplains and doctors, whose senior billets don't require as much stamina for their work and who often grow more skilled — and valuable to the Navy — later in their careers.
There are only two catches to Retire-Retain, as Soballe saw it: You have no fitness reports, and you won't get promoted.
"I said, 'Well, that's cool,'" said Soballe, who had preferred to remain a practicing surgeon. "This is a wonderful thing."
In his view, things have gotten easier ever since. He's grown better as a surgeon. He's gotten better jobs, including serving as the senior medical officer at the Expeditionary Medical Facility in Djibouti. Even the physical readiness test has gotten easier.
"It was relatively difficult to score outstanding back when I was 40, but it's basically show up and fog the mirror now and it's an outstanding," he said, chuckling.
And Soballe believes his experience is how the Navy's Medical Corps should work, arguing that the key to success in medicine is to develop an expertise and stick with it. High-year tenure rules, he says, are "counterproductive."
"If you talk about up-and-out or high-year tenure, in this particular area of the military, I think it's a serious mistake and it's led to a lot of weaknesses we don't need to have in the Medical Corps," Soballe said. "Most surgeons are just hitting their stride at age 50."
Having been a department head more than half his life, Soballe believes the most essential element of success is being a self-starter. Part of this involves not needing constant approval.
"I think one reason people move on after such a short period is like, 'Well, I've got my medal for this, I'm going to go on and do something else,'" Soballe said. "They never, kind of, get over the need for that outside approval. And by the way, that's built into the military hierarchy, isn't it?
"Nobody, but nobody, knows all of those things that you do everyday," continued Soballe, who plans to retire in June. "So you yourself have to feel like this is worthwhile, that you're doing a good job, or you might as well move on."
'Keep pressing forward'
John Schultz didn't plan to make the Navy a career. He enlisted Aug. 18, 1972, and became a sonar tech.
"I never actually intended to stay in, but every time it was time to get out, an opportunity presented itself and I stayed," said Schultz, now a 58-year-old captain. "That may seem odd. I never came in to make the Navy a career, but here I am."
Schultz served as a sonar tech aboard one sub and two ships and rose rapidly through the ranks. After 14 years, he advanced to master chief. A few years before, he earned his bachelor's degree from Chapman College and was chosen for limited duty officer in 1987.
Schultz said his choices over the decades distilled down to one drive: To command a warship.
In an unusual career move, Schultz shifted over to surface warfare and got the opportunity he had sought: he commanded coastal patrol craft Monsoon, coastal minehunter Cardinal and the frigate McClusky. He finished his major command tour as the commodore of Yokosuka, Japan-based Destroyer Squadron 15 last December.
"Having been a chief and then advancing through the chief ranks, I knew what I was up against," recalled Schultz, who became a SWO as a lieutenant j.g. 25 years ago. "Basically, it was just try to learn as much as I could. Do the best I could do. I was lucky that the leaders that I worked for understood what my background was. As you would expect, they expected more out of me."
Schultz admitted he'd experienced a setback early in his career — "Not something I would want published," he said — and recalled that it was all too easy to give up.
"For the young guys, when it gets hard, don't give up," Schultz advised. "Keep pressing forward."
Schultz found inspiration in the leadership mantra of Hall of Fame football head coach Vince Lombardi.
"In his terms, you don't play football to come in second place," said Schultz, who adapted this to his command philosophy. "And in the military, I think that's exactly right on the money for us. We don't play to come in second place in the Navy."
Schultz is the only unrestricted line officer among those with four decades of service. He plans to keep going. He has four more years until he hits his high-year tenure — 30 years of commissioned service.
The Navy was also a great opportunity for Rupert Lindo, a Jamaican-born man raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., who enlisted Sept. 20, 1973, and became a hospital corpsman. Lindo advanced to petty officer first class and was commissioned into the Medical Service Corps after 12 years in. As a lieutenant, he commanded a collecting and clearing company with Second Medical Battalion, 2nd Force Support Group that supported Operation Desert Storm. And in the Navy, Lindo earned a bachelor's and three master's degrees.
Lindo, now a captain assigned to NATO Allied Command Transformation in Norfolk, Va., said his success stemmed from self-discipline, courage, perseverance and personal faith.
So why has he stayed in for so long?
"Forty years," he pondered in an interview, pointing out that he has submitted his retirement papers for October. "It's really hard to just put it in a few minutes like this. But it has been a very good experience. I've enjoyed the camaraderie.
"You don't think about doing 40 years or 30 years or whatever," he added. "Take it one day at a time."
'It's not about you'
The Navy was supposed to be a quick ride for Brokaw, the information warfare officer. When he was a teenager, his brother was stationed in the Philippines. Thinking this sounded far out, Brokaw enlisted July 26, 1973. He was 17, so his mother signed the papers.
"I thought a hitch in the Navy would allow me to gain some maturity, save some money, get the GI Bill, and after one term in the Navy I go back home and go to college," recalled Brokaw, who now commands the 1,300-person Navy Information Operations Command in Augusta, Ga. "But things changed. I fell in love with first the sea and then the Navy."
Brokaw, who trained as a Russian linguist at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, Calif., enjoyed duty aboard submarines, where pride and professionalism still reigned amid a fleet suffering from cuts and demoralization. He enjoyed working at sea, known in the lingo of cryptology branch as "direct support" missions.
Brokaw rose through the ranks. After nine years, he'd made chief and had his sights set on master chief when an officer convinced him to submit a package for cryptologic limited-duty officer. He was picked up.
Transitioning from the chief's mess to the wardroom was difficult, one that required "introspection," Brokaw said. But a mustang officer brings a fuller understanding of how things get done on the deck plates — an advantage that can help him be more effective than other leaders.
One lesson Brokaw took away from his enlisted years was the centrality of the leading petty officer.
"I've always felt that it's the chiefs that make the Navy run, but LPOs are truly the linchpin because they connect the chiefs with the deck-plate sailors," Brokaw said, calling this an insight that's helped him throughout his career. "I focus a lot of attention on the LPOs because it really is the LPOs ... particularly at a command this large, that know or need to know their sailors."
Seeking additional command opportunities, Brokaw transferred to the Information Warfare community. As a commanding officer, Brokaw said he spends a lot of time asking his chiefs about their LPOs, noting that they will be the next of chiefs. He believes the key to success is devotion.
"It starts with commitment to service," Brokaw said. "Accept the fact that it's service; it's not about you. You've got to be ready to do or go whenever our Navy calls you; that's [a] great start."
Take that attitude to heart by dedicating yourself to the job you have, treating it as the best job the Navy offers, Brokaw advises his officers.
Much of Brokaw's enlisted career was during the post-Vietnam drawdown. At the time, drug use and racial tensions were common onboard ships, he recalled.
"After my first two surface-ship deployments, I was wondering what I got myself into," he said, adding that he changed his mind and decided to stay in once he served aboard subs, where discipline was higher and sailors were more professional.
The Navy again faces budget woes as it did in those days, including the specter of a "hollow" force, unable to meet its missions. But today's Navy is in a much better state than it was then, Brokaw said.
"In my view, the good old days weren't. We are a much better Navy now with just incredibly bright, educated and dedicated sailors. And we do a much better job taking care of them now."


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PlayFeed's E3 2005 Coverage
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Alright guys, we are excited to be at E3 this year, and we plan to make the best of it by hooking you up with a bunch of content straight from the show floor. If you want to know what is happening at E3, be sure to keep PlayFeed bookmarked. Here are some of the features you can expect from us over the next few days:
- Live E3 Moblog: Our editors will have their camera phones snapping images of the coolest sights at the show. Games, cool booths, hot booth babes…all updated in real time. Wanna check it out? The moblog can be seen here.
- On location video coverage of the event. We will even optimize it so that you can download it straight to your PSP or mobile video device.
- Podcast interviews with tons of influential people in the industry, including a couple of surprises. Be sure to subscribe to the Gear Live Podcast feed. We will be putting up a lot of exclusive audio content over the next few days.
- Coverage of the big three press briefings, along with interviews with Microsoft executives and an exclusive look at the Xbox 360 games.
- A phone number will be posted which you can use to give us a call to tell us what you would like to see covered.
- A lot more that we don't want to give away just yet!
Seriously, we are stoked to be at E3 this year. We plan to bring you all a nice representation of the whole E3 experience.
Playstation 3 and iPod To Team Up?
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Rumors have been circulating that Sony and Apple are working together to tie in iTunes and the ever popular iPod into Sony's next Playstation. The alleged plans are for users to be able to play their music on their iPods through the PS3, and even including the ability to integrate iTunes into the GUI so that PS3 owners may purchase and download music from the store and transfer it to their iPods - all without needing a personal computer. The next generation of gaming is gonna be an all out war - we will all be the winners.
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Xbox 360 Press Release Continues The Hype
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Microsoft has finally released an official press release to hype their X360. The company keeps referring to a "new era in entertainment"; stating that their new console will completely change gaming in general. Will the next Xbox really usher in a new era in gaming? Only time can tell, however, the answer lies in the software we'll soon see.
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The 2006 Revolution From Nintendo
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Nintendo's next generation console, code named Revolution, will launch in mid 2006 according to an earnings report by the system's memory technology provider. This information was obtained during an earnings call with executives and analyst.
"Then, according to a transcript of the call, Voll said, "We are excited to be a participating member of the Nintendo team once again, as Nintendo will roll out and success game console to the GameCube in mid-2006." (Emphasis added.) Presuming that the transcriber misquoted Voll saying "a successor game console" as "and success console," it means that Nintendo's next-gen console will arrive just over a year from now."
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Nuclear Power Batteries for the Masses
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Would you believe it? Think about the possibilities this holds for the tech sector… No more replacing the battery in your laptop… your cell phone… your gameboy… Just one battery that lasts and lasts, thanks to the modern implementation of nuclear power by way of harnessing the power of radioactive decay. I keep hoping that nuclear power will someday become a viable alternative to traditional power sources, and with the knowlege we have now I think it may happen within my lifetime.
A new type of battery based on the radioactive decay of nuclear material is 10 times more powerful than similar prototypes and should last a decade or more without a charge, scientists announced this week.
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Hiring A Professional Web Developer
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Did you know?In Yeoville you will hear a multitude of African languages being spoken, from isiZulu, Swahili and Yoruba to Amharic, Ibo and Wolof.
Yeoville was born in 1890, after gold was discovered on the Witwatersrand and Johannesburg – the City of Gold – was founded.
UK-born Thomas Yeo Sherwell advertised his suburb as a 'sanitarium for the rich' because he claimed that Yeoville's air was cleaner than in the dusty streets of the mining town below. But his promises failed to lure the wealthy and Yeoville became – what it is and has always been – a melting pot of class, creed and culture.
Once a Jewish suburb, filled with early immigrants, Yeoville took on a new identity in the 1970s, as the hippy, happy, thriving centre of music, bars, restaurants and clubs.
By the 80s, it had started its downward economic slide, but also became a hotbed of liberalism, where whites and blacks mixed defiantly in the face of draconian apartheid laws.
One legend goes that in the early 1960s, Nelson Mandela, on the run from the police, found refuge in a Webb Street flat belonging to one of his white comrades.
But that is all in the past. What is Yeoville like today?
Don't expect glitzy or stylish. However, if you want a taste of the real Africa, in all its colours, moods and aspirations, make your way to Rocky and Raleigh streets, the epicentre of pan-African life in Johannesburg.
If you're hungry, try local mphokoqo (corn porridge), attieke from the Ivory Coast (similar to couscous), or injera (pancake) from Ethiopia, and wash it down with African beer or Ethiopian coffee as music blasts from car stereos, clubs, bars and restaurants – kwasa kwasa, highlife, kwaito and jazz battle for supremacy over your ears.
Travel tips & Planning info
Who to contact
Yeoville Bellevue Community Development Trust
Cell: +27 (0)82 373 7705 (Maurice Smithers)
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
How to get here
Yeoville is off Louis Botha Drive, adjacent to the suburb of Houghton, and is well-served by taxis and buses.
Best time to visit
Any time, although the area roars into life in the evenings.
Tours to do
Past Experiences offers excellent walking tours in and around the city, including a tour of Yeoville.
Length of stay
A few of hours, longer if you plan to eat.
What to eat
Mystic Yeoville/Sanza Good Food has great vegetarian food. Ekhaya Pub & Restaurant specialises in traditional South African dishes such as pap and vleis (mealie porridge and meat), mogodu (tripe) and, if you're very brave, isikop (ox head).
Best buys
African music, much of it hard to find anywhere else, is everywhere. Excellent – and cheap – fabrics from all over Africa. An African outfit of your choice can be made in just a few hours.


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The new course "Introduction to Immunology and Principles of Vaccination" is designed for individuals working in animal health who want an overview of the immune system and how vaccines work. Individuals watch a series of online video lectures (average of 15 minutes each) and use printed study materials.
"This introductory course should be useful to individuals who work with scientists and want to learn the fundamentals of immunology and vaccinology,including professionals in administration, marketing, sales, legal, human resources, finance and other areas," said Dr. Jim Roth, DVM, PhD, DACVM, and executive director of the IICAB. "The course also serves as a useful refresher for any professional involved in animal health who wants an update in immunology. Factors that can sometimes lead to problems with vaccine safety and efficacy are also covered."
"Introduction to Immunology and Principles of Vaccination" is priced at $325 for 60-day access to 18 online video lectures in segments totaling 4.5 hours. Participants receive course notes and PowerPoint handouts. A sample lecture and accompanying course notes are available at http://VetImmunology.org. Individuals and groups can register for the course at this address, with group rates available for ten or more participants.The course is approved for seven hours of Continuing Education (CE) credit as approved by RACE (Registry of Approved Continuing Education of the American Association of Veterinary State Boards).
The course was developed by the Institute for International Cooperation in Animal Biologics (IICAB)."We have delivered a longer course for the last 17 years to veterinarians and other professionalsneeding more in-depth information," said Dr. Roth. "This new course provides a brief overview on the topic."
Individuals or companies interested in the more in-depth training should consider the "Veterinary Immunology and Principles of Vaccination" at http://VetImmunology.org.
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Six days ago, we were sitting in the press conference room and John Tortorella was talking about losing Brandon Dubinsky, on top of losing all these other players including Ryan Callahan, and during the game that night the Rangers would also lose Ruslan Fedotenko.
And that was the first game of a stretch of five in seven nights. I wrote that the Rangers just need to keep their heads above water until the all-star break, a six-day vacation for the Rangers, after which Callahan comes back. And I was thinking if they win two of the five, that would be pretty damn good. And then in the third game, they lost Dan Girardi. And Brandon Prust — who had three separate injuries.
Well, what in Holy Hell? Here they are at home tonight in Game 5, against the Florida Panthers, with a chance to go 4-1! With minor-leaguers and third and fourth-liners all over the roster! They have 17 points out of games in which they trailed entering the third period. That number is off the charts.
1) Is there anybody out there who didn't think the Rangers were at least going to get a point in Washington when they were down 1-0 in the third period?
2) All said about the lineup and all, and the comeback, and the shootout … I thought the Rangers dominated the game, particularly on defense. Imagine if they ever learn to win faceoffs or ever figure out how to have even an average power play?
3) I thought Marc Staal, Michael Sauer, Matt Gilroy and Ryan McDonagh were sensational, and I don't mean to slight Steve Eminger or Michael Del Zotto … who looked just fine coming back from his Whaling.
4) Rangers=Monster. That was suggested by my friend and yours, Mr. ilb. Even if I disagreed, I'd write that out of respect for him. But I do agree. Completely.
5) How you likin' those Staal-Ovechkin battles? Unfortunately, Versus showed Staal taking out Ovechkin on that drive to the left side of the net but didn't bother showing the Ovechkin elbow to the back of Staal's head or Staal's retalliation. That was hockey. And Ovechkin still=Monster.
6) Brandon Prust=Monster, too. He's playing with at least three busted-up body parts, and he was on Ovechkin a lot. Even got him to dive … and the refs caught it.
7) Matter of fact, anybody noticing that the Rangers are getting some calls their way lately?
8) Versus also totally missed the Gaborik goal going off the defender's stick before it hit Gaborik's glove. Never mentioned it.
9) How about that ZuccarELLO being cool as ice on the shootout goal, then plugging Avery's bar on the post-game show?
10) I've thought for a stretch of games now that Gaborik and Wolski's offensive games are looking pretty decent. Maybe those two can carry the load for a while until Dubinsky and Christensen and Fedotenko can get back. That skills-competition goal by Wolski was sick. Actually, all three goals were pretty nifty.
11) How good was Martin Biron? How good was that signing?
12) Liked what I saw from Grachev again. Involved. Or, in Torts-speak, "engaged."
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On Day 1 of the CIBC National Cricket League, the Western Stallions have produced a dominating perfomance over the Ashish Bagai led Eastern Fury. Batting first the Stallions registered an imposing 272 run total on the back of a Parveen Saroye century (102*) and strong middle order contributions from Hamza Tariq (43 from 48) and Usman Limbada (57 from 74). In response the Fury batsmen were pegged back with regularity by a seam attack led by Canadian opener Henry Osinder (3-16) and his battery mate, Stallions skipper Khurram Chohan (1-8). Parth Desai (3-5) continued the assault with which decimiated the middle order leaving the Fury in shambles. In the end the Eastern Fury scrapped to 93 runs (27.4 overs) leaving them well short of the required total.
In other action, Rizwan Cheema and the Central Shield held their nerve against Hiral Patel and the Prairie Fire. Batting first, the Fire ammased a sub par total of 124 with the only noteable batting resistance coming from Winnipeg's Jatinder Mathuru (35 from 43). The lions share of damage came from the arms of Kenny Kamyuka (3-13) and Cecil Pervez (5-23).
In reply, the Central Shield reached the total with some difficulty registering a 2 wicket win.
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Holiday 2012 Workstation Buyer's Guideby Zach Throckmorton on 12/10/2012 3:20 AM EST
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meyerkev248 - Monday, December 10, 2012 - linkIf you're going to stick anything bigger than that GeForce 210 into the 650D, I'd strongly recommend getting the mesh side panel for it. and mounting some extra fans. The default fan setup is fairly terrible, and I was basically losing a part every month before I got the mesh panel. Great case otherwise though.
/I also was stupid enough to stick 2 6970's into a case with a bad fan setup, and then wonder why every single card I stuck between the graphics cards was dying in a week. I lost a sound card, a tv tuner, a wireless card, my motherboard, and one of the graphics cards inside 3 months. 4 120mm fans later, I' haven't lost a thing since last Christmas. Reply
UnderscoreHero - Friday, September 20, 2013 - linkI've got 2 windforce 670's in SLI, I have had no cooling issues at all. What is your fan configuration like? I have the stock 200mm fan in the front for intake, and the other on top for exhaust. Rear 120mm, and a push/pull Hyper 121 Evo with Corsair SP120's. Those SP's push the air out the back pretty quickly. I also don't have drives in the bottom cage, only the top. Is your fan filter all dusty? Room temp too hot? Reply
UnderscoreHero - Friday, September 20, 2013 - link* Hyper 212 Evo Reply
Dustin Sklavos - Monday, December 10, 2012 - linkAMD's workstation cards can be a little hinky on the driver side, but if you're just working with Maya they can be a killer bargain.
If you're editing video masters, the i7-3930K is going to be a good choice, HOWEVER...if you're editing video that's going to go up on YouTube, you may actually be better served by an i7-3770K and QuickSync. There's a clear performance hit in initial render time when you do the master, but I know that for my burlesque performance videography, QuickSync has been absolutely invaluable.
Finally, either way, video editors are going to want at least a pair of mechanical drives (or a very large SSD) in some form of striped RAID to use as a scratch drive. Reply
Next9 - Monday, December 10, 2012 - linki7-3770K is absolutely inappropriate for Workstation, since it lack Vt-d support. In addition what is the point of buying i7, if the real Xeon E3 v2 costs the same? Reply
Dustin Sklavos - Monday, December 10, 2012 - linkIf you're editing video. A lot of the prosumers overclock their workstations because video editing is so CPU intensive (check the Adobe Premiere Pro forums). Vt-d isn't a major loss for these users. Reply
Next9 - Monday, December 10, 2012 - linkonly kids "overclock"....
Workstation means rockstable, 24/365 reliable machine. Where is ECC RAM with i7-3770K? Proffesionals edit video on XEON workstations running RedHat using Autodesk Smoke.
overclocked i7-K with Adobe is hobbyist market :-) Reply
GrizzledYoungMan - Monday, December 10, 2012 - linkWrong. Premiere Pro and FCP (less so, since the FCP X debacle) make up the majority of the professional video editing market. Autodesk software is only used in very high end applications.
I do technology consulting for lots of low and middle tier video editing houses in NYC, the sorts of guys who pump out the content that fills up cable and broadcast TV and professionally produced internet video. They all use Premiere Pro and FCP.
Even advertising is quickly adopting lower cost commodity editing systems like the one described here. Which leaves only high end cinema and very high end television for Autodesk - a small fraction of the market.
As far as "only kids overclock," that's also wrong. Yes, professionals place a much higher emphasis on stability, especially in large corporate environments where procurement procedures take forever and gear has to last just as long.
But for a lot of high performance SMB applications, I see overclocking being done all the time. Lots of independent and smaller media/design operations overclock to gain a performance advantage or save costs, and I've even seen a few software vendors buy overclocked servers (which are pretty easy to find from grey box resellers) for applications that are very sensitive to single threaded performance. Reply
AstroGuardian - Monday, December 10, 2012 - linkTotally agreed. Reply
twtech - Monday, December 10, 2012 - linkMy official work machine is a dual processor Xeon workstation. It's very stable. I think I've only gotten a BSOD once in 3.5 years, and that's was the driver for a failing consumer-class GPU.
However, I also do some work from home, and in that case I'll do work on my 3930K to which I applied a 800MHz OC to 4GHz. It's also very stable with a closed-loop watercooler, having gone a year so far running 24x7.
Is the Xeon workstation more stable than my home machine? Objectively, probably yes. On the other hand, is my hand-built home workstation stable enough to depend on? I'd say also yes.
Of bigger concern really is that I should get a beefy UPS. While my overclocked processor has never failed me, the power has gone out a couple times while I was using the machine. Reply
Next9 - Tuesday, December 11, 2012 - linkthere is another important argument - NBD on site warranty.
If there is any problem with your real workstation, you call the vendor and next day, you have functional machine.
If there is a problem with you do-it-ourself consumer grade so-called workstation, you are left on your own. Reply
PCMerlin - Monday, December 10, 2012 - linkI have to agree with you Next9. The stability of ECC and raw power of Xeon, along with the Quadro or Fire series video cards should be the only combination for a serious CAD or other graphics workstation.
I would NOT want to be the tech that has to answer the call when a designer wants answers to why the drawing he/she just spent the better part of the day working on just got "zapped" when his/her system blue-screened.
In the regular workplace, the helpdesk guy can be the "hero" by restoring a crashed system back to life. CAD designers and engineers, on the other hand, would be perfectly happy if they never saw anyone from the IT world during their day-to-day work. Reply
zebrax2 - Monday, December 10, 2012 - linkWhat happened to the workstation GPU review? Reply
A5 - Monday, December 10, 2012 - linkIs that what the kids are calling it these days? ;) Reply
GrizzledYoungMan - Monday, December 10, 2012 - linkWhile I agree with you on some points (see below), I'm still deeply skeptical of the usefulness of quick sync for professional video encoding. The image quality of those Intel commodity hardware encoders is really poor relative to any halfway decent software encoder. And pros tend to value quality over a few minutes (or even hours) of encoding time, as it so heavily affects the perceived overall quality of their product.
But maybe that's changed? Perhaps a comparison article is in order? Reply
JarredWalton - Monday, December 10, 2012 - linkI believe the point is that if you're uploading something to YouTube (which will futz with the quality, so there's no point in ultra-high rendering quality in the first place), Quick Sync is awesome. E.g. "Here's a preview clip -- it encoded in one minute on my little Ultrabook with Quick Sync, and since it's on YouTube the loss in quality doesn't matter." Reply
GrizzledYoungMan - Monday, December 10, 2012 - linkI don't want to nitpick, but the fact that youtube generally recompresses any video delivered to the site isn't a justification for skimping on the quality of video delivered to youtube, it's a rationale for being even MORE careful about what you deliver to youtube.
Speaking from experience, it's definitely possible to get video up on youtube that looks great, you just have to deliver at the highest quality possible. If memory serves, youtube accepts files of up to 20GB in size with no practical limit on bitrate, so I usually max out bitrate (via high quality settings, larger frame size, frame rate, etc etc) as much as possible relative to the length of the clip and the file size limit.
In general, the rule when encoding is that good video put through bad compression gives you mediocre video. Mediocre video put through bad compression gives you bad video.
To put it another way, the more information (by way of better quality compression) delivered to the youtube encoding pipeline, the better the overall result. Reply
Next9 - Monday, December 10, 2012 - linkWhat is the point of using garbage consumer grade boards like ASUS or ASrock?
ASUS boards usually lacks proper VT-d, ECC, AMT and other professional features support. BIOS/UEFI interface is complete piece of shit with GUI targeted at 10 year old kids full of stupid tawdry "features" with no real value to usability. Reply
Rick83 - Monday, December 10, 2012 - linkI was about to say the same - This review lacks consideration of S1155 Xeons, C216 chipsets, ECC...basically all that makes the distinction between a desktop and a workstation.
And even the C216 ASUS Board does not support AMT.
With th current price of these components, you would only add around 200 dollars to the mid-end machine, to bring it up to workstation spec.
ECC-UDIMMs are only mildly more expensive than non-ECC-UDIMMs, S1155 Xeons are only marginally more expensive than the i7, and come with all features unlocked, and the Supermicro X9SAE(-V) (the only boards for the S1155 workstation market, that can be found in retail) go below 200 dollars, if you shop around - twice the price of the bargain bin B75 board, but you get so much more for your money....
There's little use in going higher end, as anything that requires more performance should probably not be at your workplace, but rather in a server room.
The AMD route is an interesting way of getting ECC at a slightly cheaper price. But only if you can stomach losing remote management. Reply
Ktracho - Monday, December 10, 2012 - linkWhat motherboard(s) would you recommend for for ECC and full VT-d support? I built a system with 3 Tesla cards with the idea that one or two of them could be dedicated to a virtual machine, but I didn't realize the motherboard also needed to support VT-d. I have no idea how to find out what motherboards have this feature. Reply
Rick83 - Monday, December 10, 2012 - linkWith 3 Teslas, you definitely want a C606 based chipset, otherwise you'll run out of PCIe fast. Haven't looked intensely at that market yet, because it's outside my needs/budget. Reply
Next9 - Tuesday, December 11, 2012 - linkWhat about Supermicro? They have plenty of single socket and dual socket LGA2011 motherboards? Even with onboard audio and USB 3.0. Or there are also C32/G34 alternatives if you prefer Opterons. Reply
Ananke - Monday, December 10, 2012 - linkI absolutely agree. Workstation path is Supermicro/Tyan/Intel motherboard with Xeon, ECC RAM, etc. and NVidia GPGPU. If you use mostly Maya, than you can cheap with some consumer Radeon. Eventually, redundant PSU. Such system can go as high as $50k though. Reply
Next9 - Tuesday, December 11, 2012 - linkCheap Radeons are also great in Virtualized environment (Vt-d/IOMMU). Consumer grade GeForce cards have often problems with direct HW passthrough. Reply
Penti - Monday, December 10, 2012 - linkWorkstation features and text-mode firmware is what you want, not to be reminded about the GUI BIOS's of 486 computers of the past. It wasn't a good idea then and isn't now. Working implementations is all that matters.
I guess high-end should be something like a LGA2011 Xeon machine. Of course something like a Supermicro board will have it's own (third party) IPMI and KVM over IP embedded BMC/stack. Or a 4P Opteron Piledriver machine. For high-end enterprise type stuff. (Boxx sells systems with dual processor Opteron or Xeon, I guess dual processor Opteron will give a boost for some, at least with G34 quad-channel and 2/4P on top of that). At least those systems where you have the choice to go 2P or 4P is what you would call actual workstations. Which performs better or fit other uses then a say clocked 3770k any how. Between a six core SB-E and Ivy Bridge quad-core there just won't be a lot of difference to justify the shift. If you want VT-d you could find Z77 boards with support for it if your looking. Just not Asus boards. Provided you choose a CPU that as support for it too, like 3770 (non-k). Probably Q77 vPro/AMT supported boards too if you look for them. If you do any creative multimedia type stuff you probably want a much more powerful graphics card then GF210 btw. In the terms of supporting stuff like Adobe's Mercury Playback Engine, CUDA acceleration or professional CAD or modeling software.
All depends on need. If you need it a good machine will probably be worth it. Reply
Olaf van der Spek - Monday, December 10, 2012 - linkWhat's up with the Radeon 5450 suggestion? With only 64 bit DDR3 it's seriously low on memory bandwidth, which might even cause trouble on the desktop. Reply
DanNeely - Monday, December 10, 2012 - linkI've ran a 2560x1600 and 1200x1600 monitor simultaneously on significantly slower cards without trouble before. You're not going to be able to do anything GPU heavy on them but the desktop's requirements are so low virtually anything can handle them. Reply
slatanek - Monday, December 10, 2012 - linkjust wanted to add, for all adobe cs6 users (premiere pro especially) go with nvidia for the graphics. amd's gpu's get limited support and it's osx only (mercury engine mostly).
for the lack of ecc, v-td etc. I understand that Zack stated/advised that if your work is critical (thats where you'd use ecc after all) you'd be better off with pre-build systems that come with full service. thats why, I assume, no mention of the pro features. Reply
ggathagan - Tuesday, December 11, 2012 - linkAre you sure about that?
In CS5, the Mercury engine only supported CUDA.
As I understand it, however, Mercury has been modified in CS6, dropping CUDA support in favor of OpenCL and OpenGL
"MGE is new to Photoshop CS6 and uses both the OpenGL and OpenCL frameworks. It does not use the proprietary "CUDA framework from nVidia." Reply
TeXWiller - Monday, December 10, 2012 - linkThat is an inappropriate selection for a workstation. Try the W-series instead. And since we are talking about entry-level workstations, the E3 Xeons and AMD based ECC-supporting consumer boards should have been included, like the other commenters have pointed out. The A300s don't support ECC but would have been an interesting point of comparison. Reply
Kristian Vättö - Monday, December 10, 2012 - linkI don't personally find the Intel SSD 520 to be a good value anymore. Sure, it comes with a 5-year warranty but so does almost all high-end SSDs nowadays. Its performance isn't worth any extra either because to be honest, it's slow compared to other high-end SSDs. Especially if you're dealing with incompressible data, SandForce really isn't the best choice and I think it's important for workstation users to have consistent performance, which SandForce cannot provide.
If Samsung SSD 840 Pro is out of reach, I would recommend either Corsair Neutron GTX or Plextor M5 Pro. At 120/128GB, they cost around as much as the Intel SSD 520 but if you go for the 240/256GB model, you'll be able to save a few bucks. Both also come with 5-year warranty if that's a concern. Reply
mrdude - Monday, December 10, 2012 - linkI came in here to post this but I'm glad I'm not the only one.
The Intel drives really don't offer anything special anymore, particularly since Corsair's LAMD acquisition. Plextor also offers a 5 year warranty and they've got the best Marvell in-house firmware on the market with rock solid stability and fantastic performance. Since their M3 they've been my SSD of choice and the drives I recommend to everyone, but now it's a toss up between Corsair's Neutron and Plextor's drives. Of course, if we're talking power consumption in a laptop then it's pretty one-sided.
As far as quicksync and video editing goes, it highly depends on the software involved. Some software responds well to CUDA/openCL and blazes through with GPU assist and shows no signs of even slight distortion or muddiness while other software maintains great image quality via fixed-function units like QuickSync. The most consistent as far as image quality goes will always be a straight CPU approach, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it's the only viable solution. Reply
Doctor Z - Monday, December 10, 2012 - linkYou do realize that for most users who need power, dual and quad-CPU server motherboards make better workstations. Why didn't you include those Zach? Because they're in the $10,000-$30,000 range fully-loaded? Reply
A5 - Monday, December 10, 2012 - linkIf that's what you need, you aren't building your own. You're either part of a company that will buy it for you (and therefore your IT department will want something serviceable with a warranty) or you're running your own business (and can deduct the expense) and need something that is rock-solid reliable. Reply
JDG1980 - Monday, December 10, 2012 - linkIf it doesn't have ECC RAM, it's not a workstation. Period. Not one of the builds showcased in your articles includes this basic feature - an inexcusable omission. Reply
Pityme22 - Monday, December 10, 2012 - linkFirst, you have to identify the programs used by the workstation to even begin commenting. I.e. You dont mention CAD programs which for use of all features require a Quattro or FirePro graphics cards. Anand, I am very surprised that you let this "article" be posted as it is very much below normal AnandTech standards. Shame, Shame. Reply
jamesgor13579 - Monday, December 10, 2012 - linkI completely agree with many of the other posters here. If it does not have ECC is isn't a workstation. I work in R&D for a large tech company. There is a reason ALL of our desktops have ECC. RAM just isn't that reliable.
Here is an excellent example of why:
I am an ASIC designer. We have to run a lot of simulations of the logic and timing to make sure everything works. Once our design is layed out, modeling all of the timing takes a lot of memory. Dozens of GB just to simulate part of the design. Someone was cheap and built a three "workstations" out of desktop motherboards and 64GB (8x8GB in a socket 2011) non-ECC memory. Well less than a year later when it was crunch time on the project and the machines were running week long simulations, two of them started randomly crashing. Guess what, it was the RAM. Replaced one DIMM and the machine worked again.
If you need your system to work, Non ECC RAM is not OK. Reply
Makaveli - Monday, December 10, 2012 - linkDoesn't that just mean you had a bad stick of memory?
And your telling me that can't happen with ECC memory? Reply
smpltn - Monday, December 10, 2012 - link650D paint chips easily Reply
Kevin G - Monday, December 10, 2012 - linkDepending on the task at hand ECC is a requirement. The graphic artist or video editor would likely only encounter a pixel being off color for a memory error. Those types of fields can generally tolerate such errors. The CAD, research or financial markets for example absolutely need to have ECC due to the need for continual data integrity.
As such, more consideration should have been put into AMD motherboards (the FX line supports ECC but not all motherboards do) as well as socket 1155/C200 series chipsets for the low end and midrange builds. Even if the use-case doesn't need ECC, I'd have still opted to include such a motherboard with the AMD FX build. High end socket 2011 build I'd recommend the Gigabyte X79S-UP5 motherboard supports ECC memory as it is really based upon the C606 chipset. This motherboard would cover a wide range of workstation uses. Only those wanting dual sockets would have to look else where.
The graphics card choice is also 'interesting'. For simple 2D work, a low end consumer card is more than enough for some use-case scenarios. For things like image editing, getting a low end FirePro or a Quadro would make sense for superior drivers and 30 bit color support. Other use-scenarios are starting to use GPU's for some heavy processing: video editing applications for example for accelerating some effects. High end consumer cards are often equal to midrange workstation cards due to artificially crippling GPGPU performance on the consumer side. Selecting between cards often boils down to specifically what applications the workstation will be running.
Power supply selection is a bit weak. A workstation tends to be expandable and I'd provision some room for future expansion. Upgrading the lowend builds here with a midrange or better consumer GPU would entail a PSU upgrade as well. The article does mention getting bigger PSU's with bigger video cards but I see it wiser to provision a PSU with these possible upgrades in mind before purchasing them. Only with the niche GPGPU workstation area I can see multiple video cards being worth considering so that does put a reasonable upper bound on PSU requirements.
For a workstation I always recommend that a pair of hard drives are setup in a RAID1 array to protect your data in the event of a disk failure. A five year warranty won't help you when your drive is dead and you have to pay for downtime and recreating work from your most recent backup. Speaking of which, including good backup software/external storage and a solid UPS would be wise for a workstation regardless of use-case scenario. When you're using a system for work, you want it to work continuously. Reply
Blibbax - Monday, December 10, 2012 - linkWhat made you pick the i7-3770 over the cheaper Xeon E3-1230V2? Reply
stickmansam - Monday, December 10, 2012 - linkYeah I was wondering about that too Reply
slatanek - Monday, December 10, 2012 - linkFrom what I read on the 1st page of this guide I understand it's a guide focused on consumer/enthusiast grade workstation where your work is not involved in serious money/critical appliances. I mean, c'mon guys is that so hard to get? It's written right there in the introduction. So stop just outsmarting each other out with statements about what is and isn't a workstation. Nowadays a workstation doesn't even mean that much - what is that different in a modern workstation vs. enthusiast PC? Frankly, not much. It's basically the same architecture, layout etc. As I've said before - go and read again, it's written right there:
"If your computer is more than important (i.e. mission critical), DIY is rarely a good idea."
Am I the only one who read the whole article before posting a comment? I get the impression that some of you just looked at the components choice lists and went on trolling.
As a reply I say:
"anything that runs ECC is not worth writing about, cause guys using those "things" are too focused on their job to even bother reading about it".
Nah, just kidding ;-)
Cheers Reply
JonnyDough - Monday, December 10, 2012 - link"Though Piledriver chips don't match Intel's highest-end performance processors, at certain price points, Piledriver CPUs are worth consideration because they can outperform equivalently priced Intel products (with a few qualifications)."
However, the difference in power usage may make the Intel system still a better deal. Reply
beaker7 - Monday, December 10, 2012 - linkCupcake article. The parts in the high end build are neither high-end nor workstation class. A 3930k could be used in a budget situation, I suppose.
Current high end is:
E5-2687w Xeons
SuperMicro dual LGA 2011
1600 Mhz ECC RAM
etc Reply
lunadesign - Friday, December 14, 2012 - link+1000 (I totally agree) Reply
Uncognoscenti - Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - linkWould appreciate some elaboration regarding criteria for selecting Windows 7 over Windows 8 in this application. Reply
kadajawi - Wednesday, December 19, 2012 - linkI find it hard to believe that you do not specify a CPU cooler in that build. The Intel stock heatsink is loud, and sometimes even inadequate. I have had i7 overheat/slow down because the CPU just gets too hot. Switched it with a Xigmatek Gaia, and the thing was not only silent, but also so cool that the thing could be overclocked from 2.66 to 3.8 GHz (I did also switch the lousy case for a Xigmatek case).
Also the 3570K can be an interesting CPU for a workstation. All 3D workstations I have built use the 3570K on a Z77 board by Asus (P8Z77-M), cooling is provided by a CoolerMaster 212 EVO, encased in a Xigmatek Asgard XP, power supply is a Seasonic S12-II Bronze 620 (one of which died within a few months). The systems run pretty good and are rock solid at 4.2 GHz. For OS and software the Intel 320 SSD was used. Impossible to hear unless under full load. The performance easily rivals the i7 PCs that were already there. Reply
harth234 - Friday, August 09, 2013 - linkMore guides please!
It's been half a year! Reply


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EXTON, Pa., Jan. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ViroPharma Incorporated (Nasdaq: VPHM) today announced that Vincent Milano, president and chief executive officer of ViroPharma, will provide an overview of the company's business, including additional maribavir clinical trial data, during the 31st Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. The presentation will be webcast live at 6:30 P.M. ET (3:30 P.M. PT) on Tuesday, January 8, 2013 and may be accessed via the company's website at www.viropharma.com. The conference is being held at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco. The company expects to release full-year 2012 financial results later in the first quarter of 2013.
"2012 represented a new beginning for ViroPharma. We believe our execution and achievements throughout the global organization during the year position the company very well for not only success in 2013, but also provides the opportunity for tremendous growth for our shareholders in the years ahead," stated Milano. "ViroPharma has moved beyond Vancocin® (vancomycin hydrochloride capsules, USP)and now has a geographically diverse commercial portfolio and a robust, maturing development pipeline. The continued success of Cinryze® (C1 esterase inhibitor [human]), with unaudited 2012 U.S. net sales of approximately $321 million, driven by over 900 active patients on prophylactic therapy, led the way. The commercial launches of Cinryze, Buccolam®(midazolam, oromucosal solution) and Plenadren® (hydrocortisone, modified release tablet) in Europe are also beginning to gain traction, and we believe that these products will ultimately become strong contributors to our overall growth in the years ahead."
Milano continued, "As we advance through 2013, we believe that our progress will clearly show ViroPharma to be well along the path that we laid out in our analyst day event this past September. The financial guidance we are providing this morning reflects strong enthusiasm for our products from our patients and their caregivers. We expect 2013 will also be a significant year in the advancement of our development programs. Success in 2013 could position us to be entering into phase 3 development of several products in 2014. As always, our global team embraces the challenges in front of us and is poised to continue executing on our long term plans which are designed to ultimately drive tremendous growth for our shareholders."
As a reminder to our shareholders, the 2012 Cinryze net sales estimate of approximately $321 million is an unaudited amount, of which approximately $311 to $312 million represents actual patient demand and the remainder represents increase in channel inventories. The company also anticipates that the remaining channel inventory increase to complete return to normalized levels will occur in the first quarter of 2013.
Looking ahead in 2013 ViroPharma is providing guidance for the year 2013 as a convenience to investors. The following guidance provided by ViroPharma are projections, based upon numerous assumptions, all of which are subject to certain risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of the risks and uncertainties associated with these forward looking statements, please see the Disclosure Notice below.
For the year 2013, ViroPharma expects the following:
About ViroPharma Incorporated ViroPharma Incorporated is an international biopharmaceutical company committed to developing and commercializing novel solutions for physician specialists to address unmet medical needs of patients living with diseases that have few if any clinical therapeutic options. ViroPharma is developing a portfolio of therapeutics for rare and Orphan diseases including C1 esterase inhibitor deficiency, Friedreich's Ataxia, and adrenal insufficiency, cytomegalovirus (CMV); and recurrent C. difficile infection (CDI). Our goal is to provide rewarding careers to employees, to create new standards of care in the way serious diseases are treated, and to build international partnerships with the patients, advocates, and health care professionals we serve. ViroPharma's commercial products address diseases including hereditary angioedema (HAE), seizures, adrenal insufficiency and C. difficile-associated diarrhea (CDAD); for full U.S. prescribing information on our products, please download the package inserts at http://www.viropharma.com/Products.aspx; the prescribing information for other countries can be found at www.viropharma.com.
ViroPharma routinely posts information, including press releases, which may be important to investors in the investor relations and media sections of our company's web site, www.viropharma.com. The company encourages investors to consult these sections, and the risk factors included in our periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission for more information on ViroPharma and our business.
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Certain statements in this press release contain forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements provide our current expectations or forecasts of future events. Forward looking statements in this press release include our financial guidance for 2013, our ability to successfully execute our business plans and if successful, to provide the opportunity for growth for our shareholders in the years ahead, the rate of future growth, the rate at which we are able to identify new Cinryze patients in the United States, our ability to continue to successfully commercialize our products in the United States and Europe, our ability to conduct additional clinical studies in the timeframes we anticipate, whether the results of such clinical studies will support additional studies, and the timing of channel inventory fluctuations.
Our actual results may vary depending on a variety of factors, including:
There can be no assurance that we will conduct additional studies or that we will be successful in gaining regulatory approval of Cinryze for additional indications, routes of administration or in additional territories. The entry of competing generic products following FDA approval in April 2012 has and will continue to significantly affect our sales of Vancocin and our financial performance. Biologics such as Cinryze require processing steps that are more difficult than those required for most chemical pharmaceuticals, and as a result, Sanquin, our manufacturer of Cinryze has received observations on Form 483 which require us to continue to meet commitments made to the FDA related to various manufacturing issues. In the event Sanquin fails to meet these commitments, the FDA may take actions that limit our ability to manufacture Cinryze. In the event Sanquin is not able to manufacture the anticipated volume of product at the industrial scale as a result of either FDA requirements, batch failures, variability in batch yields, required maintenance or other causes, we may not be able to satisfy patient demand or build safety stock. Our inability to obtain adequate product supplies to satisfy our patient demand may create opportunities for our competitors and we will suffer a loss of potential future revenues. These factors, and other factors, including, but not limited to those described in ViroPharma's Annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011 and our subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the periods ended March 31, 2012, June 30, 2012 and September 30, 2012 could cause future results to differ materially from the expectations expressed in this press release. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release may become outdated over time. ViroPharma does not assume any responsibility for updating any forward-looking statements.
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It's our vision to work for a world in which all humans respect and live in harmony with all other members of the animal kingdom.
Every day, with the help of our people and our generous supporters, we take steps to achieve our mission. From rescuing a stranded deer to changing the law, we've already achieved so much and come so far.
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Untitled: The Art of James Castle
September 26, 2014 – February 1, 2015
- Browse artworks by Castle in our online gallery, and let us know what you think in the comments
- Buy the book!
- Watch a webcast of the "Exploring Castle" panel discussion
- Attend exhibition-related public programs
- Who is talking about the exhibition?
In 2013 the Smithsonian American Art Museum acquired 54 pieces by James Castle (1899-1977). With this acquisition, the museum now holds one of the largest public collections of Castle's work. Untitled: The Art of James Castle features this representative selection of the artist's immense oeuvre, including drawings, handmade books, texts, and constructions.
Castle spent his formative years in remote Garden Valley, Idaho and his adult life at locations near Boise, where, for nearly seven decades, he devoted himself daily to intensive art-making. Castle worked with materials that were immediately available, including a wide range of ephemera—advertisements, periodicals, and packaging—that he manipulated with soot, sticks, string and improvised colors to create an elaborate and unmistakable representation of his world. Subjects range from the farms of Garden Valley and interiors of homes, to family members, household objects, and snippets of popular culture. Other works move beyond the documentary to include invented words and symbols, fantastical calendars, and books with cryptic pictorial narratives.
Since Castle's work first came to light in the 1950s, attention has focused primarily on the unusual circumstances of his life: Castle was born profoundly deaf, remained illiterate, and never acquired a conventional mode of communicating with others. He is often assumed to have lived a form of extreme isolation. This exhibition seeks to move beyond such biography, to appreciate the remarkable quality of Castle's vision, and to question how the works themselves can elucidate the world of one of the most enigmatic American artists of the twentieth century.
Nicholas R. Bell, the Fleur and Charles Bresler Senior Curator of American Craft and Decorative Art, organized the exhibition.
A lovely catalogue accompanies the exhibition, with a foreword by Alexander Nemerov, the Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities at Stanford University, and essays by exhibition curator Nicholas Bell, and Leslie Umberger, curator of folk and self-taught art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The book, co-published by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and D Giles Limited, is for sale ($49.95) in the museum store and online.
Free Public Programs
Thursday, October 2, 2014, 6:30 p.m. – "Exploring Castle" Panel Discussion
Tuesday, October 21, 2014, 2:30 p.m. – "James Castle: Draw and Discover" sketching session with Nicholas Bell
Wednesday, November 12, 2014, noon – "Conservation of Our Collection – The Art of James Castle"
Tuesday, November 18, 2014, 2:30 p.m. – "James Castle: Draw and Discover" sketching session with Leslie Umberger
Monday, December 1, 2014, 6:30 p.m. – Film Screening - "James Castle: Portrait of an Artist"
Wednesday, December 10, 2014, noon – "Conservation of Our Collection: James Castle" Gallery Talk
In the News
Washington Post, November 21, 2014, James Castle, subject of Smithsonian show, put 'taught' in self-taught by Menachem Wecker
Smithsonian, October 17, 2014, A World of His Own: The Art of James Castle by Natasha Geiling
National Tour
Untitled: The Art of James Castle is available for tour after closing at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. If you are interested in hosting the exhibition at your museum, please visit our traveling exhibitions page for contact information.
Untitled: The Art of James Castle is organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum with generous support from the William R. Kenan, Jr. Endowment.


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If you are using a ClearableComboBox widget on the second tab of a dialog, the widget is rendered with 0px width after selecting a value, which means the value is hidden/clipped.
-Install attached package into a CQ instance, it's a modified dialog for the text component
-Open /content/geometrixx/en.html and drag a text component to the parsys
-Open the dialog for the text component
-Click on the tab "Bug Test" and select a value from the Combobox "ClearableComboBox"
-Important: Click on the tab "Text" to move away from the "Bug Test" tab
-Close the dialog with OK and open it again (usually just switching between tabs also shows the issue)
-Click on the tab "Bug Test"
Result: ClearableComboBox is rendered with no width, so value is not visible
Expected: ClearableComboBox to be rendered correctly so value is visible (ComboBox works fine)
Using the ClearableComboBox widget on the 1st tab in the dialog, works fine.
You must add a new property hideMode to the dialog tab (not the combobox) in your custom text component, and set it's value to offsets. See the following screenshot for more details.
With this property set, the combobox width is maintained even when the dialog tab/panel is not visible.
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WYCHAVON District Council joined community groups, charities and fellow local authorities in raising a flag for the commonwealth.
A special ceremony took place at the Civic Centre in Pershore yesterday (Monday) to mark Commonwealth Day.
The ceremony was one of more than 500 which took place across the UK, the largest single raising of the flag since this celebration began in 1977.
At the ceremony, a specially written Commonwealth Affirmation was read out by the Chairman of Wychavon District Council, Councillor Gerry O'Donnell.
He said: "Joining together as members of one worldwide Commonwealth family, we raise this flag as a symbol of the ties of friendship we cherish, affirming our kinship and common purpose in building for the future towards shared goals of development and democracy, and commit ourselves afresh to working alongside one another in a spirit of respect and understand exploring new ideas and rising to fresh challenges, with all our sisters and brothers, wherever we may live, learn or work."
Wychavon's ceremony was also be attended by councillors, local schoolchildren from Westacre Middle School, in Droitwich, and children from the crèche at the Civic Centre, in Pershore.
Cllr O'Donnell said: "In this year of the Commonwealth Games, it is particularly appropriate that we recognise the importance and significance of the Commonwealth, and voice Wychavon's expression of commitment to its values and opportunities.
"When there is so much strife and division in the world, it is reassuring to have the cloak of the commonwealth family around us, working together for a better future in the spirit of friendship."
Charity teams marked the day by taking Commonwealth Flags to the top of the UK's four highest National Peaks and used the occasion to raise funds for their worthy causes.


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"Stories, streams and pocket-size screens. This is where marketers meet today's consumer," according to Allison Johnson, former marketing communications head at Apple and founder of West, a San Francisco-based marketing. Hear more from Allison on where the role of marketing is headed.


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Darmstadt, Germany, 3/20/2013
Software AG's (FRA: SOW) Executive Board and Supervisory Board will recommend paying out a dividend of €0.46 per share for fiscal year 2012 at the Annual Shareholders' Meeting on May 3, 2013. This dividend would equal that of the previous record year (prev. year: €0.46). On the basis of outstanding shares, this would increase the payout ratio compared to Group net income 2012 (€164.7 million) to 24% (prev. year 22%).
Software AG's dividend policy is aligned with the company's long-term growth. Software AG sets its dividend payment on the development of net income and free cash flow on the one hand and the company's financial requirements for continued growth on the other. Since fiscal year 2012, Software AG's strategy has focused heavily on growth in the BPE division. Therefore, the company will invest in the global expansion of sales and marketing. Despite this investment program focused on long-term growth – which will, as already announced, burden profit in the current fiscal year - Software AG's Executive Board and Supervisory Board recommend a dividend equal to that of the previous record year. In addition to investing in growth, the objective is to allow shareholders to participate in Software AG's high profitability with a continued dividend.
In addition to the proposed dividend, Executive Board and Supervisory Board decided already in February 2013 to initiate a stock-buyback program of up to €180 million. Approximately 1.7 million shares have been acquired as of March 18, 2013. Shares held by the company are not entitled to a dividend payment and serve to reduce the dividend payout. The proposed dividend of €0.46 per share is not affected by this.
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Software AG (FRA: SOW) helps organizations achieve their business objectives faster. The company's big data, integration and business process technologies enable customers to drive operational efficiency, modernize their systems and optimize processes for smarter decisions and better service. Building on over 40 years of customer-centric innovation, the company is ranked as a "leader" in fifteen market categories, fueled by core product families Adabas and Natural, ARIS, Terracotta and webMethods. Software AG has more than 5,400 employees in 70 countries and had revenues of €1.05 billion in 2012 (IFRS, unaudited).
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Lea Michele Has a Bikini-Filled Holiday Away From High School Drama
Lea Michele and her boyfriend, Theo Stockman, stripped down to their swimsuits and hit the waves in Hawaii yesterday. She's kicking back on a well-deserved vacation following Glee's North American Summer tour — you can see Lea, Cory Monteith, Chris Colfer, and the whole cast on the big screen when Glee 3D hit theaters Aug. 12. Lea's future on Glee is still up in the air after news broke last week that her character will graduate at the end of the show's next season. However, it seems she'll still be a part of the show, just perhaps not as a student. It was also unveiled during a Comic-Con panel over the weekend that Chord Overstreet won't return to the show, as writer Brad Falchuk commented that the actor is looking to pursue other opportunities.


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A COUPLE say their lives are 'on hold' after being told it will be months rather than weeks until they can return to their flooded Williton home.
Christine and Doug Human are living in a holiday home in Watchet while they wait for their 300-year-old cottage to dry out following the severe floods of late November.
Christine said: "Our insurers (NFU) originally estimated we would be out of our house for six to eight weeks but after doing a proper survey they realised things were worse than they had initially thought.
"The support we have received from the NFU has been tremendous. They are always available and very comforting as they deal with all our issues.
"We haven't actually progressed much because we haven't been able to dry the house out fully. It is just a question of waiting because this continuing wet weather isn't helping.
"We have had three flood alerts in the two months since the worst of the flooding and every time that happens we have to rush down to the house and lift all the electricals off the floor.
"We moved into the property in 2005 and we had just got it how we wanted it; suffice to say, it's not any more.
"It's really all we think about. Our lives are on hold for now. We are hoping to be back in by June."
The Humans were just two of dozens of villagers who attended a meeting organised in the wake of the floods by Williton Parish Council, chaired by Cllr Robert McDonald.
Representatives from the Environment Agency, West Somerset Council, Somerset County Council and the Wyndham Estate formed a panel gathered to answer people's questions.
Several potential solutions to prevent future flooding were debated, including attenuating the water upstream of Williton – claimed to be the most effective but expensive option.
But agency representatives said there was no money available to carry out the work needed and that villagers would have to work together to make things happen.
Christine added: "I found the meeting very helpful and appreciated all the agencies turning up but overall it seems that the only people who can help are the villagers.
"At the end of the day, unless they do something significant to the river, this will keep on happening."
Mr McDonald said: "Yes, we have got a problem and yes, it looks like we have to do things ourselves. We have to look seriously at where we can get funding from.
"As far as I am concerned, it was a very good evening and it achieved what we wanted it to achieve.
"We will set down an emergency village plan because I have never felt so helpless in all my life as when I walked around the village during the worst of the floods.
"Hopefully in the months or years to come we may be able to come up with a plan whereby we can do something about the flood water. Even if it's self-help, we will roll our sleeves up and get stuck in."


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SAINT LEO, Fla. – The Saint Leo women's lacrosse team stunned Belmont Abbey College on Saturday afternoon from University Turf Stadium, defeating the Crusaders by a score of 14-12 in overtime. The win gives the Lions their second-straight victory, and advances their mark to 2-4 on the season, while Belmont Abbey drops to a record of 3-3.
It was a team-effort for the Lions, with all areas of the field firing on all cylinders. A total of eight players contributed to the Lions scoring efforts on the day and were led in goals by Alyssa Viscomi and Joanna Chadwick who each netted a hat trick. Stephanie Marran led the team in overall points, scoring two goals and adding two assists for four points.
Christina Minneci, Alix Murray, and Cassie Miller found the back of the net two times each to wrap up the goal scoring, with Minneci, Callie Porcher, and Allie Sheftall dishing out one assist apiece.
Brittany Millsap had a big day between the pipes, making 14 saves and earning three ground balls on the afternoon to help give the Lions the edge. For the Crusaders, Danielle Ruffalo made 12 saves, including one in extra time.
The Crusaders were headed up by Lindsay Connolly, who had a big afternoon with four goals and two assists.
The Lions found themselves in a three goal hole after the opening five minutes, but a goal from Marran with 25:15 on the clock put the Saint Leo on the scoreboard. Belmont Abbey answered back a minute later to pull back out to a three-goal lead, 4-1, but the Lions finally kicked things into high gear and posted five consecutive goals between the 20:14 and 5:32 marks to set the score at 6-4 in favor of the Green and Gold.
Belmont Abbey closed out the half with two goals within 25 seconds of each other, knotting the score at 6-6 at the break.
The Lions came out of the half and rattled off two quick goals, but a four goal run from the Crusaders put Belmont Abbey back in the lead with a score of 10-8 with 18:05 to go in regulation. Saint Leo fought back and netted four goals, putting the Lions back in the lead with a score of 12-10 and 2:23 left in the second half.
Despite the Lions' best defensive efforts, Belmont Abbey scored two goals to pull even by a score of 12-12 with 54 seconds left in regulation. On the ensuing draw control, Saint Leo gained possession, but with the time quickly falling off of the clock, were unable to capitalize on any of their offensive opportunities.
The Lions entered into the overtime period cool, calm, and collected, utilizing their time with the ball wisely and making smart decisions despite the high-pressure situation. Marran netted a goal at the 3:01 mark, and then Cassie Miller helped secure the victory with an unassisted goal with 25 seconds left in extra time.
Both teams were even on the overall shot count, 32-32, but Saint Leo had the edge in ground balls, 22-19, and draw controls, 15-14. The Lions were successful on 15-of-18 clear attempts and converted 2-of-4 free-position shots, all from Viscomi.
The Saint Leo women's lacrosse team returns to action on Monday, March 11, when they host Tiffin at University Turf Stadium. Game time against the Dragons is slated for 4 p.m. Fans who cannot make it to the game can catch all of the action live on the Saint Leo Sports Network at saintleolions.com. For the latest news, updates, and information, fans can 'Like' the Lions on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.


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Give Me an RLanguage brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
Give me an R and I will flatten hills, knock down trees, and uproot stumps.
Give me an N, and I will be twelve.
Leave me alone, and I will sleep.
AnswerThe word DOZE
DOZE + R = dozer: another word for bulldozer
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++ STOP PRESS ++ 28/8/13 21.00 Live Results now available HERE
Start with SPEED
Yesterday evening was the Opening Ceremony. As promised by the organiser, a short one, but effective. In front of the podium with all the flags flying, we had speeches from local dignitaries, the sponsor of the event, the owner of the club and Graeme Windsor - and then we had a parade of the athletes behind their National Flags and each athlete was introduced by the announcer. This was followed by the Competitors' briefing from the meet organiser and then the Chief Judge explaining the rule clarification detailed on the Notice published in the competitors tent from the Jury. The jump order was given and each group of 4 then decided what aircraft exit order they would take.
This morning, sun and an 8.00 start with the first Speed round. If all works as planned, the results will be posted at the end of each round on our website - follow the link
It is now 9.10 and we are close to the end of Round 1 Speed. The plan is to continue with Speed and do all three rounds this morning. The conditions here are great.
Three rejumps and then the Judges will break to check all the scores so that they can be posted for the first 2 rounds - at the moment anything is unofficial!. 2 rejumps were caused by cutaways and one by equipment malfuncion.
The one rejump (equipment failure) from Round 3 is done. Unfortunately the best laid plans .... failed. As yet we are unable to post the results as promised (even though they would be unofficial) and are currently working on it with the organiser's technical guy. PD have the solution - they have posted two people opposite the scoring station. One with a set of binos and one with the jump order - and they read and write down the results as they happen - and can then post them. Of course these are very unofficial/unapproved - but they have some idea of what is going on. Meanwhile everyone has gone to lunch continues ill continue after lunch with first round of Distance.
Things are going so fast here - in more ways than Greg's new World Record. We have just had a 15 minute call for the second round of Distance!! There will then be a pause as we are to be treated to an Air Show I hear. (I heard wrongly - just a short standby).
We are on standby for the moment - due to an external air show. We should be recommencing with 2nd load Round 2 at 17.45. We had an exciting round of Distance with the female world distance record being exceeded twice, first by the current record holder, Jessica Edgeington and then by Cornelia Mihai.
Load 2 Round 2 Distance in the air.
Round 2 completed - and we are now preparing for Round 3. Just a short break whilst the judges check the results entry.
At the end of Round 2 David Maleze of France is in first place in the European Championships and 2nd in the World Cup to Nick Batsch, USA in first. Jessica Edgeington is in 4th place and Cornelia Mihai in 6th. Will publish the final results (unconfirmed as soon as I have them).
|Making distance
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|Carving on the speed course
|The Australian Team
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You exercise your body to stay physically in shape, so why shouldn't you exercise your brain to stay mentally fit? With these daily exercises you will learn how to flex your mind, improve your creativity and boost your memory. As with any exercise, repetition is necessary for you to see improvement, so pick your favorite exercises from our daily suggestions and repeat them as desired. Try to do some mentalrobics every single day!
Previously, we have discussed several different mnemonics (Link, Loci, Peg) that rely on your ability to visualize an association between two different items. These visualizations are easy to produce when the items to remember are concrete nouns such as frog, rose, or moon, but they become more difficult when you need to memorize abstract words such as wealthy, tired, or attention. Try one of these three techniques to make effective visualizations from abstract words.
Visualize something related to the word
If you need to memorize the word "wealthy," you might visualize a bag of money or a pile of gold coins. To memorize "Abraham Lincoln," you could visualize a stovetop hat.
Visualize a cause or effect of the word
To memorize the word "tired," you could imagine a bed with fluffy pillows. For the abstract word "strong," you could visualize some barbell weights.
Visualize something that sounds like the word
For the word "look," you could use the rhyming word "book" instead. For the word "attention," you could use "a tent + nun."
Once you have created a concrete image from an abstract word, you can then use the other methods to remember this image.
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Making the Connection
I recently had the opportunity to take part in a training with our partner organization, the International Association of Forensic Nurses (IAFN). We traveled to the Western region of the US and provided guidance to communities on developing a sexual assault forensic exam protocol. I've done this on previous occasions, and it is always a rewarding experience. A little background about me: I began my career in the anti-sexual violence movement by proving advocacy services for victims going through the forensic exam process at the hospital, and I eventually helped lead the response team in my community. But as I have gotten more into a prevention frame of mind over the past several years, I find that I am more removed from that direct service work. So, it's always a good reminder to me about how both intervention and prevention work are so connected. Sometimes I get in my prevention bubble and that's all that exists – I eat, sleep and breath prevention. But what I've seen with these trainings and others like it over the last few years is that participants are actively seeking ways to incorporate prevention into their response work. They, too, want to see an end to sexual violence and want to know what part they can play in that endeavor.
So, even though I was there to talk about intervention and response, I also found opportunities to talk about prevention. It made me so glad to see that the connection is being made. No matter what type of work we are doing in the anti-sexual violence movement, our work is connected and intertwined and we all have a role to play in ending sexual violence. I am so thankful to have been reminded of this once again.
What are some reminders you see in your work that connect prevention and intervention?
If you want talk about intervention and prevention work as it relates to Sexual Assault Response Teams, feel free to join the conversation on our SART Listserv!
A thoughtful PCAR staff member always reminds me that in puzzle of prevention, strong intervention and response is a key piece! It's great when both prevention and intervention support one another!
Absolutely, Laura! There are many levels of prevention, and they all go hand in hand in providing comprehesive services!