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Testing Turing's test
Chatbots have been around forever, or at least since the birth of ELIZA back in the 1960s, and we all know how that worked out:
ELIZA's key method of operation (copied by chatbot designers ever since) involves the recognition of cue words or phrases in the input, and the output of corresponding pre-prepared or pre-programmed responses that can move the conversation forward in an apparently meaningful way (e.g. by responding to any input that contains the word "MOTHER" with "TELL ME MORE ABOUT YOUR FAMILY"). Thus an illusion of understanding is generated, even though the processing involved has been merely superficial. ELIZA showed that such an illusion is surprisingly easy to generate, because human judges are so ready to give the benefit of the doubt when conversational responses are capable of being interpreted as "intelligent". Thus the key technique here which characterises a program as a chatbot rather than as a serious natural language processing system is the production of responses that are sufficiently vague and non-specific that they can be understood as "intelligent" in a wide range of conversational contexts. The emphasis is typically on vagueness and unclarity, rather than any conveying of genuine information.
There are, of course, examples that don't actually involve software. For instance:
Think of the way the average politician responds to the average reporter's question about a scandal in which he or she is involved. The responses are in the form of regular human speech, but they are pre-scripted and designed to carry the form of human speech without fulfilling its function, i.e., explain why campaign contributions got spent at a strip joint. They are instead designed to divert attention from the scandal in the same way that a chatbot is designed to fool people that it is a real live incredibly attractive member of the opposite sex who wants to interact with you and lives just a few miles away.
Some people disparage lower-level members of the current administration as "Obamabots." This is, however, exactly those members' designated function; operatives have had this function in administrations nearly as long as there have been administrations.


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THE age of the global law firm is dawning. Just as US firms moved into Europe, so the major players in the UK realise that they must start an invasion of the US if they want a slice of the global market place. The rewards could be phenomenal, but there are risks.
It is uncharted territory and many predict that the next few years will fundamentally change the world's corporate legal landscape after a frenzy of transatlantic mergers. Others question whether a truly global law firm will actually be successful – or necessary.
Clifford Chance, the UK's largest firm, is poised to become the first of the UK's key players to take the plunge and merge with a US legal practice – Rogers & Wells.
The choice of Rogers & Wells has surprised many because it is a second division firm, not considered to be in the top 15.
Philip Brown, senior consultant at Hodgart Consulting, thinks the US firm looks attractive because UK firms must tap into US international capital markets and Rogers & Wells represents many top rank investment banks and boasts a very close relationship with Merrill Lynch. In addition, Rogers & Wells is obviously smaller than Clifford Chance and does not pose a threat to its autonomy, whereas merging with a larger firm would mean more power sharing.
But linking up with a smaller firm does carry its share of risk. "Maybe Clifford Chance are hoping that Rogers & Wells will be a kind of 'Clifford Chance US'," says Brown. "One major problem could be that if Allen & Overy link up with Shearman & Sterling, or if Freshfields merge with Davis Polk & Wardwell, Clifford Chance could suddenly find themselves way behind on the US side because Rogers & Wells, while a very fine firm, are not that big."
Stephen Fiamma, partner in charge of the London office of Jones Day Reavis & Pogue also has concerns about the choice of Rogers & Wells. He says: "If Clifford Chance's goal is to have a Wall Street securities-type practice, a focused firm might very well make sense. If they want a general US practice, perhaps they wouldn't be the right firm."
Others, though, insist it would be a mistake to have chosen Rogers & Wells simply because of its clients.
Eddie Kling, dual partner at the US-UK alliance firm Titmuss Sainer Dechert, which could complete a full merger at any time, thinks the reason is broader. "Rogers & Wells are a very, very fine firm and they have a particular base of skills which would be an excellent centre in New York for Clifford Chance," he says.
So what is in it for the two firms? According to Stephen Rodney, managing director of recruitment consultancy QD Legal, the merger would "have a very positive effect on recruitment to Clifford Chance because, in terms of US coverage, the firm will be able to say it is the most extensive in the market. Candidates wanting to go to the US will be attracted to them."
Although the merger would give Clifford Chance a powerful toehold in the US, Rogers & Wells would seem to be the net gainer. Signing on the dotted line would catapult the firm over its larger US rivals to become a world player and enable it to offer a service to US clients who are beginning to realise there are big bucks to be made in European trade. Clifford Chance has that European expertise, as well as size.
European firm Salans Hertzfeld & Heilbronn, whose clients include Amoco, McDonald's and Coca-Cola, was the first to carry out a transatlantic merger when it joined with New York firm Christy & Viener on 1 January this year.
Salans Hertzfeld senior partner Jeffrey Hertzfeld says the main advantage of a link-up for UK firms is the ability to offer clients a seamless, integrated service around the world, and this is only possible by having a base in the US.
"For the US firms, they know the UK firms are ahead in dealing with Europe, with the euro and the single market, which is now becoming attractive to US companies," says Hertzfeld.
"The US firms may be powerful nationally but some are now feeling the need to be international and are looking for partners in Europe."
This view is echoed by Joseph Blum, managing partner at US firm Latham & Watkins' London office, who says that although it is difficult to break into Europe, the benefits of doing so eventually outweigh the costs.
There are, of course, areas of possible conflict in a merger. Choosing the right merger partner is difficult. Hertzfeld thinks firms should aim to share a common goal, common management and a common identity.
"You certainly should not merge because of the other firm's client base," he says. "You need to look at how they do business and whether their skills are ones that will enhance your company and not hinder it."
The human element is also very important, he argues, because the other firm's lawyers should be people with whom you get on and have got to know beforehand – without this there will be conflict.
Another type of conflict – conflict of interest – can be a major problem when two firms bed down together. Hodgart Consulting's Brown says there can be legal conflict which means one of the merged firms cannot act against the interests of one of its partners' clients.
"There is the commercial conflict for mergers when a client, a car manufacturer, for example, may say it does not want the law firm to act for another car company. This could mean one of the firms has to drop one of their clients."
There is also the potential for a culture clash, with two firms from different countries, used to doing things a particular way, thrust together for the common good.
Jones Day's Fiamma warns it would be foolish merely to pay lip service to what he calls "a tremendous cultural gap" between firms on either side of the Atlantic. "It won't be easy in so many ways – compensation, management, billable hours. There are many, many areas where it's extremely difficult to meld the cultures of firms. These things are underestimated in the enthusiasm to expand."
It is more difficult for law firms to overcome these obstacles than other businesses because they are partnerships and not corporations.
Getting everyone to agree on something is therefore more problematic, although not insurmountable, thinks Ian Coles, managing partner of the London office of US firm Mayer Brown & Platt.
Firms must therefore invest a huge amount of energy in improving internal communications to help foster a feeling that everyone is on the same side and going in the same direction.
There are also physical problems in building a business across several time zones. Firms have to rely far more on technology to enable offices separated by thousands of miles of ocean to talk to each other if an integrated and seamless service is to be provided.
Kling says the alliance that created Titmuss Sainer Dechert demanded facilities such as videoconferencing, new databases and the dove-tailing of two different billing systems into one computer system. He adds: "It was very, very difficult and expensive to set up, mainly because of the mechanics of putting two systems into one."
Exasperation can follow once the system is up and running as the technology quickly becomes outdated and needs upgrading. "It is a real chore," says Kling.
Even if all these conflicts are resolved, there are other potential consequences of US-UK mergers. For example, client fees from UK firms could increase because US lawyers are generally paid more than their UK counterparts, so the new super-firm may have to increase its fees structure. This could alienate some European clients not used to the new scale, unless they believe it is a price worth paying for the "global service".
If the US is the world's largest market, it appears odd, on the face of it, that UK firms have waited until now to start seriously considering mergers when their multinational clients began the globalisation process many years before.
Most large firms, though, have spent the past few years rapidly building up their European networks before turning their sights on the US. Fiamma says this has been for a good reason: "They want to establish a Europe-wide firm. When they have got that off the ground they would feel able to approach a US firm for a merger of equals. Many feel that, at present, for many firms it would be a merger in name only – they would in effect be taken over."
This is a view disputed by Steven Blakeley, managing partner of Wilde Sapte, who thinks UK firms do have the clout – in terms of skills, if not size – to team up with US firms.
"Comparative size doesn't matter as long as each firm has a sizeable role to play in the merged entity," he says. "It becomes a takeover if one firm needs another simply as a source of resources, such as staff or offices. If they need each other for their skills, and can help each other to grow, it will work."
But is it all worth it and should firms be thinking global in the first place? It may work for the large accountancy firms, such as KPMG and Arthur Andersen, but there are question marks over whether the partnership-based profession of law is suitable for global expansion.
Hertzfeld says his firm's merger was client-driven and teaming up was essential to match clients' expectations – law firms have to mirror what is happening in industry.
"Our clients are global and we want to follow our clients and provide a fuller service," he explains.
Jim Boynton, his counterpart at Christy & Viener, the firm with which Salans Hertzfeld merged, says the US firm linked with the UK one for the same reason. "We had to react to the clear trend in the industrialised world of globalisation," he says.
Brown's legal consultancy strongly advises suitable candidates to seek a merger in the US. He says: "UK law firms which hope to achieve a global position in higher value work must merge or have closer links with US firms because the market demands it."
Kling says merging to provide an integrated service offers a faster and better service. He explains: "Previously, lawyers used to work through people in the UK and the US whom they knew and had a close and friendly relationship with.
"It just isn't the same as merging to form one larger company where one individual can pursue a deal or case around the world. This makes all the difference."
The concept of global law firms should be capable of offering global clients a one-stop shop simplifying management, instructions, information, communications and the retention of corporate memory and a common professional standard, according to Peter Coleman, management consultant at Independent Corporate Mentoring.
"There is a perceived need for this but not a proven need," he says. "Will it prove to be the value-added option and where is the evidence that it will work? Is it ultimately being driven by the needs of clients, or is it being done for the benefit of the firms who naturally want to expand?"
Only time will tell whether firms can adapt to being global and still provide a high-quality service. They may reach a critical mass when they become so big that service deteriorates and they become almost impossible to manage.
"I think looking at the US is on all the big UK firms' agendas and if the Clifford Chance merger goes ahead, it will move the issue much further up their agendas," says Brown.
Observers say a Clifford Chance merger could be the catalyst for others to start putting their plans into action. Where this will all end up throws up many intriguing scenarios.
"There will be more mergers over the next few years," says Brown. "It could end in a few globally dominant firms, as happened in accounting, and they will be Anglo-American based."
Equally, the globalisation of law firms could, according to many partners, open the way for a new breed of "niche firm" in areas such as telecommunications, insurance and construction.
What is certain is that if the merger does go ahead the legal world map will never be the same again.

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- Wireless & Device Learning: We have constructed a wireless environment within the building to enable and demonstrate how Learning can work with new form factors, including wireless handhelds.


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Durban gives business a new focus on resultsFebruary 2012
At this winter's UN Climate Conference (COP17) in Durban, I was pleased to be a member of the largest private sector contingent to attend a COP to date. And there was a great deal for business to engage with and digest, especially given the fact that a 'Durban Platform' was agreed, against expectations, effectively extending the Kyoto Protocol.
By committing to an "outcome with legal force" that, for the first time, includes all major emitters, business has, in a broad sense, secured greater certainty around future regulation and investment opportunities as the international community signalled its intention to progress the climate change agenda.
The private sector will be challenged to respond, from complying with continuing market-based mechanisms and reporting guidelines to exploring a positive role in the financing and delivery of initiatives that address climate change. Critical developments for business include progress around the Green Climate Fund (GCF), which aims to mobilise $100bn annually to help developing nations reduce emissions and adapt to the effects of a warming climate.
I was pleased to have my concerns that the private sector would be sidelined allayed when Durban confirmed that, as well as sourcing funds from the private sector, the GCF will be able to lend to business.
Corporate mitigation and adaptation activities, funded by the GCF, have the potential to generate significant change in developing countries, tackling climate change, as well as building green industries, creating jobs and improving infrastructure.
Another crucial output, somewhat linked to the GCF, is the suggestion that a robust emissions reduction monitoring reporting and verification (MRV) system could be developed. This reason for the importance of progress on MRV is that it could help to increase the flow of private sector capital. If business is to invest at scale, it will seek robust international frameworks to assess the performance of investment projects.
So it's unsurprising that activities funded by the GCF are intended to be subject to "regular monitoring for impact, efficiency and effectiveness" – in other words, it will be results focused.
A significantly advanced framework for the reporting of emission reductions for both developed and developing countries was also agreed. Developed countries must report on their emissions and reduction projects while developing countries must submit information about their nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs) and low-emission development strategies, in order to obtain financial and technical support by developed countries. This represents movement on a subject that has been resisted by developing countries viewing it as a breach of their sovereignty.
Though many details are outstanding, business can and should take away from Durban the fact that the climate agenda took a big step forward. The private sector will do well to address the impact of this on their operation, and to approach sustainability strategically.
Vincent Neate is KPMG's UK head of Climate Change & Sustainability
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The SF Chronicle's Tom Abate attending a round table in Santa Clara the other day. The topic was one familiar to Shifting Gears, the lopsided competition between the US and Asian nations that have no inhibitions using subsidies, incentives and tariffs to boost their manufacturing bases.
"We've brought a knife to a gunfight," said Bill Watkins, chief executive of Bridgelux, a Livermore maker of light-emitting diodes.
Silicon Valley business leaders are shopping for federal support, but they're not alone on this side of the Pacific. Suntech Power, a Chinese firm with North American headquarters in San Francisco, plans to open a solar module manufacturing plant in Arizona by years end. It anticipates putting 75 people on the payroll.
"We did that in part to compete for federal stimulus projects," said Wei-Tai Kwok, Suntech Power's VP for marketing in SF.
• When billionaire super-investor Warren Buffett retires as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, it looks like a 44-year-old Chinese hedge fund manager with three degrees from Columbia may take Buffett's place.
Li Lu saw Buffett speak at Columbia in 1993 and was inspired to start trading stocks. By 1997, he set up his first hedge fund, and eventually began investing for Buffett's right hand man Charlie Munger. In 2002, Li discovered BYD, a Chinese green tech manufacturer and a regular on these pages. Berkshire bought into BYD to the tune of $230 million, an investment now worth $1.5 billion. But, as the Journal points out, BYD is Li's one big "home run."
• A big think piece on nj.com notes defense contractors are going green - at least in terms of bidding for federal contracts. All those engineers and scientists at Lockheed Martin, Honeywell, Pratt & Whitney et al are pushing pushed their employers to bid on clean energy development projects from the Department of Energy and other agencies. (That, and cutbacks of $100 billion in defense spending, as well as the retirement of the space shuttle and other NASA programs have encouraged defense giants to diversify their portfolios.)
• Solyndra finally has a big contact to add to the short-hand identifier that always follows its appearance in a news story ... "recipient of a $535 million loan from the DOE." Southern California Edison has awarded Solyndra (through subsidiary Photon Solar) a bundle of 20-year power purchase agreements to build rooftop photovoltaic systems atop 15 commercial and industrial buildings.


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by Sam Collins | July 30, 2012 11:27 pm
The late-July rally was precipitated by ECB President Mario Draghi saying it "is willing to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro." However, the public isn't buying. Volume and breadth have declined, and the July 17 AAII sentiment survey had the "bulls" at just 22.19%, indicating that the public is out of the market.
Even though AAII's bulls rebounded by 5.9% last week, the mutual fund figures confirm the public's fear of stocks. This month, retail investors will likely redeem over $5 billion of equity-based funds, bringing year-to-date liquidations to the highest number since 2008.
In such an uncertain environment, it is best to stick with high-quality stocks. This month's picks are based on proven performance with above-average dividend yields. Here are your top stocks to buy for August:
Large-cap oil well services company Baker Hughes (NYSE:BHI[2]) rose to a new high in late July, following better-than-expected quarterly results. A reversal from under its 50-day moving average and a breakaway gap through its 200-day moving average are strong technical signals that target the stock at the mid-$50s.
Other supporting technical signals include a close above its bearish resistance line (red dotted line) and a strong buy signal from the MACD indicator.
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Global pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE:BMY[4]) has had many of its core patents run out. However, new drugs are in the works, and the company is expected to announce a dividend increase and an acceleration of its stock buyback policy soon.
On the chart, note the break from a triple-top, the new MACD buy signal, and the recent increase in volume. BMY has a trading target of $42.
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Stability has marked the history of Dominion Resources (NYSE:D[5]), one of the largest producers and transporters of energy in the United States. The company also operates the largest natural gas storage system serving retail energy customers in 15 states. It is expected to earn $3.47 in 2013 versus $3.20 in 2012.
On July 27, the stock broke from a quadruple-top to a new high as it sprang from support at its 50-day moving average and was supported by a MACD buy signal. The target for D is $60.
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Harmony Gold Mining Co. (NYSE:HMY[6]) is engaged in underground and surface mining. It has increased sales over the past five years from a growth rate of 6.45% to 19.49%, and net margins have improved as well.
Recent moves by the European Union to shore up the euro have driven investors to hard assets, and HMY jumped from under $9 to over $10 from July 24 to July 27.
HMY is a highly volatile and speculative investment, but if the euro turns strong it is likely that it could jump to the mid-teens.
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Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM[7]) is a leader in developing products and services based on its advanced wireless broadband technology. And the stock's performance had been outstanding until it was hit with a shortage of chips from Japan. That and profit-taking drove it from its March high of over $68 to under its 200-day moving average.
QCOM appears to have found support at a quadruple-bottom just under $54, where eight sessions ago, it reversed with a breakaway gap. The gap was covered, and the stock quickly reversed up and closed above its 50-day moving average (blue line) and then its 200-day moving average (red line). Its MACD indicator is on a strong buy signal.
Analysts have a target of between $70 and $81 within 12 months. Long-term buyers should add this premier tech stock to their portfolios now, and traders should expect a rebound to $63 to $65.
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Real estate investment trust (REIT) Simon Property Group (NYSE:SPG[8]) has benefited from strong cash flows and pursues a policy of increasing dividends, with a current yield of 2.6%.
SPG is strong in the Washington, D.C., area, and is also one of the largest owners and managers of shopping centers in the United States. Its leases are for 5 or 10 years and include some of the top blue-chip U.S. retailers.
Barclays recently raised its price target based on fundamental analysis from $180 to $183.
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Open review on-line, a new model in publishing conference abstracts.
I wanted to start a discussion about whether OWW could be used for people to edit their abstracts that they submit to the conference BioSysBio & Young Bioinformaticians Forum that I'm involved with (Manchester 2007). I anticipate if it were used then about 150 accounts would need to be created and abstracts could be submitted under a namespace like BioSysBio. It could work like this, we have a submission deadline, then an open review session using the wiki to communicate with people about their abstracts, then we have a second submission where delegates submit their final version. (this would then go on to be published, or a selection of the total). I think it would be great for people to submit an abstract and then for it to go through open review on OWW. It would be a test of a new model in publishing. It would also allow people to link to extra material, perhaps unlimited extra material. Whilst only the front page would be published, on-line would be a whole bunch of background on the topic.
I think it would also be good exposure for OWW, as once people see how easy it is, they might move their lab page onto the site.
Please let me know what you think of the idea, --Johncumbers 01:34, 27 March 2006 (EST)
- Sri Kosuri 17:46, 28 March 2006 (EST): Are people going to be willing to put there abstracts in for public viewing so far ahead of the meeting? Also, what about those abstracts that are rejected, are their abstracts still up for viewing?
--Johncumbers 15:39, 3 April 2006 (EDT) yes, I was thinking about these issues too, the meeting is in Jan 07, the current date for abstract submission is Sep 06, but maybe with an open review period it could be closer to the date of the conference. A formal review would follow the open review period. All abstracts could be written individually e.g BioSysBio07:abstracts/cumbers07 and then accepted ones could be linked from a main page. In theory, with open review, more abstracts would be accepted (at least for posters)
So this type of thing is being done in Biology Direct. For a conference, to me it seems an awful lot of work having two rounds both to be peer-reviewed.


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CHICAGO – She scoured the streets day and night, venturing into strange and sometimes dicey neighborhoods. She wore a hat, sturdy shoes and a camera, always a camera, around her neck and at the ready.
A woman in a white fur stole and evening dress drifting in the darkness toward a '56 two-tone Chevy.
A curious little boy, undaunted by his size, using an empty window frame as a ladder so he can peek into a giant box.
A huddled coil of a man defeated by life, his clothes soiled and tattered, his head hanging in despair.
Fractions of seconds, captured by Vivian Maier a half-century ago or more.
Maier observed it all without judgment. This was her hobby, not her job. But over five decades, it also was her life. She shot tens of thousands of photos. Most were never printed. Many weren't even developed. And few were seen by anyone but her.
Vivian Maier guarded her privacy so zealously that she didn't even want people to know her full name.
She and her photos seemed destined for obscurity until a young man paid an auction house about $400 for a huge grocery box stuffed with tens of thousands of negatives.
He knew only that they came from a repossessed storage locker that had been rented by an elderly woman.
He didn't expect much — maybe just some illustrations for a history book he was co-writing about his Northwest Side neighborhood. He didn't find any.
But he did unearth a far bigger treasure.
John Maloof had stumbled upon an undiscovered artist whose photography is now being compared to the giants, a reclusive woman who, in death, is attracting the kind of acclaim she would have shunned in life.
Maloof knew nothing about photography — he was a real estate agent — but when he started scanning some of the negatives in his computer, even a novice could see they were special:
Striking scenes of every crane and every beam as Chicago's John Hancock skyscraper went up. Captivating cityscapes of the elevated tracks in New York.
Maloof wanted to meet Maier, but someone at the auction house said she was ill. And he didn't press.
Instead, Maloof decided to collect as much of her work as he could find. He contacted folks who'd bought Maier's other possessions at the auction that day in late 2007. Soon, he owned 1,000 rolls of her film. But it would be expensive developing them all.
So Maloof peddled about 100 negatives on eBay to raise cash. Some went for $5. Others for $12. One for $80.
One buyer happened to be Allan Sekula, a prominent photographer, critic and teacher. He offered some advice: Stop selling the negatives. The work was good enough for an exhibition and shouldn't be dispersed.
Maloof set out to learn more about Vivian Maier. His first Google searches had fizzled, but in April 2009, he spotted her name scrawled on the envelope of a roll of developed film. He tried again.
This time, he found an obituary in the Chicago Tribune.
Vivian Maier had died just days earlier.
"Vivian Maier, proud native of France and Chicago resident for the last 50 years died peacefully. … A free and kindred spirit who magically touched the lives of all who knew her. … Movie critic and photographer extraordinaire. …"
Her 83 years on earth, summed up in 96 words. But one sentence stood out: "Second mother to John, Lane and Matthew." Maloof wondered. Perhaps she was their stepmother?
Maloof called the Tribune, but soon ran into some dead ends.
Then a serendipitous moment: As he was filing loose negatives and about to throw out a shoe box that had been stuffed in the larger box, he spotted an address in north suburban Highland Park.
Bingo. A starting point.
The address led Maloof to Lane and Matthew Gensburg, two of the brothers who had posted the obituary.
And so the mystery of Vivian Maier's life began to unravel.
Vivian Maier, it turned out, had two distinct identities: a nanny for the Gensburgs and other families in a 40-year career on the affluent North Shore. And before, during and after work, a photographer who chronicled the gritty drama and tender moments of street life in and around Chicago.
Maloof, now 29, and his college-buddy-turned-business partner, Anthony Rydzon, tracked down families Maier had worked for, hired genealogists and chronicled her path from New York to France to the Chicago area.
A picture of Vivian Maier slowly emerged: Fiercely independent. Eccentric. Opinionated. Private, yet confrontational.
She was a Mary Poppins who took her young charges on adventures such as strawberry picking, topped off with an ice cream-making session. A collector of everything from Marshall Field's bags to railroad spikes. A frugal shopper who told the homeless where to buy bruised fruit for a few cents.
Her style was distinctive. So, too, was her look.
Maier, a big-boned woman with a high-pitched French accent, covered her shortly cropped hair with hats. Her face was free of makeup. Her clothes were matronly and usually second-hand. Her shoes were mannish.
She did not mince words.
"She came on strong," Maren Baylaender says of Maier, who was hired by her husband to care for his disabled daughter during the late 1980s and early '90s. "Whatever she had to say was more like a statement than a discussion."
She had opinions about everything: American Indians? They'd gotten a raw deal. Women? Just as capable as men. Marriage? No thanks.
As a nanny, Maier tended to move often, but she remained with the Gensburgs more than 15 years, becoming a beloved family member — and staying in touch long after she departed.
The three Gensburg sons, now in their 50s, helped Maloof by opening a giant storage locker packed with Maier's trunks, clothes, negatives, 8-mm films, audiotapes — and a birth certificate showing she'd been born in 1926 in New York (not in France, as the obituary said) to a French mother and Austrian father.
Lane Gensburg's voice softens when he recalls life with Vivian.
"I think she could actually communicate with children much better than she did with adults," says Gensburg, a lawyer who was just an infant when Maier arrived. "She did amazing things with us, things out of the ordinary" — like staging plays for the neighborhood kids, taking them to a Chinese New Year's parade, visiting a cemetery.
"She was a free spirit — that's the only way you can really describe her," Gensburg says. "She had no real interest in material possessions."
Maier's photos range from 1949 to the mid-1990s. Mostly, her black-and-white images depict the poor, women (especially well-dressed dowagers) and children. After switching to color in the mid- to late '70s, she turned to graffiti, inanimate objects — and garbage.
So what makes her work special?
"She had an open and inclusive and very fundamental idea of what constituted 'America' that was missed by a lot of photographers in the 1950s and '60s," says Allan Sekula, the photographer who bought some of her negatives and teaches at the California Institute of the Arts.
"It's both the variety and a kind of quirky democratic energy of street life," he says. "She connected herself through the camera to the street in a way that gave her a charmed presence."
Maier made 3,000 to 4,000 prints. Maloof owns about 100,000 negatives and so far, has scanned just about 10 percent of them. (Another collector has about 12,000.) About a third of Maier's work remains in the rolls.
This winter, Maloof succeeded in getting a one-woman show for Maier at the Chicago Cultural Center — her U.S. debut. Maier's photos already have been displayed in Denmark, Norway and Germany and in magazines in England, Poland and Italy, among others.
Maloof is now working with Sekula to assemble a book of her photos. He's also joined his partner, Rydzon, and a Danish filmmaker to produce a documentary, "Finding Vivian Maier."
He is not, he insists, looking to make money on her legacy. He says he merely wants to bring her photos to the world, and bring credit to an unsung artist.
The Gensburg brothers remained devoted to Maier in her final days.
They rented her an apartment. And when she fell in late 2008 and was hospitalized, they were there, too. Maier wasn't strong enough to return to her apartment, so they moved her to a nursing home.
She was so unhappy, she pretty much stopped communicating.
After Vivian Maier died in April 2009, the Gensburgs returned to the North Shore woods where their adventurous nanny had taken them to pick strawberries.
This time, they read Psalms and scattered her ashes in the spring air.


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Functional characterization of a novel protein, CDK5RAP2, in microtubule organization and regulation
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|In animal cells, centrosome is the primary microtubule organizing center (MTOC) which plays a key role in the control of the temporal and spatial distribution of microtubule (MT) networks. Typically, centrosomes are positioned at the focus of a radial array of MTs during interphase and are incorporated into spindle poles during mitosis. MT nucleation and organization by the centrosome require γ-tubulin, a protein that exists in a macromolecular complex called the γ-tubulin ring complex (γ-TuRC). There is a large cytoplasmic pool of the γ-TuRC, which is recruited to the centrosome and incorporated into the pericentriolar matrix (PCM). Several proteins, including Pericentrin/Kendrin, AKAP450, Ninein, Ninein-like protein (N1p), and NEDD1/GCP-WD have been implicated in the integration of the γ-TuRC with the centrosome. Their collaborative efforts are required to proper γ-TuRC function at the centrosome. CDK5RAP2 was discovered in a yeast two-hybrid screen for proteins that interact with the neuronal p35 activator of Cyclin dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5). Although CDK5RAP2 is highly expressed in the brain, its RNA transcript has been detected in all human tissues examined. Genetic mutations of CDK5RAP2 cause autosomal recessive primary microcephaly (MCPH), a cell cycle disorder of neural progenitors during neurogenesis. Moreover, CDK5RAP2 was found in human centrosome. In my study, we found that CDK5RAP2 localizes throughout the PCM in all stages of the cell cycle. When over-expressed, CDK5RAP2 assembled a subset of centrosomal proteins including γ-tubulin onto the centrosomes or under the MT-disrupting conditions into MT-nucleating clusters in the cytoplasm. CDK5RAP2 associates with the γ-TuRC via a short conserved sequence present in several related proteins found in a range of organisms from fungi to mammals. The binding of CDK5RAP2 is required for γ-TuRC attachment to the centrosome but not for γ-TuRC assembly. Perturbing CDK5RAP2 function delocalized γ-tubulin from the centrosome and inhibited centrosomal MT nucleation, thus leading to disorganization of interphase MT arrays and formation of anastral mitotic spindles. Taken together, we identified CDK5RAP2 as one of the key γ-TuRC anchoring proteins which is required for regulating γ-TuRC function at the centrosome. To further explore the function of CDK5RAP2, we conducted the yeast two-hybrid screen by using human adult brain cDNA library to identify novel CDK5RAP2 binding proteins. We fished out End Binding protein 3 (EB3) as a novel CDK5RAP2 binding protein. EB is the prototype of MT plus-end tracking proteins (+TIPs) which plays essential role to control MT plus-end dynamics. CDK5RAP2 was also shown to bind to EB1, which is ubiquitously expressed protein whereas EB3 is preferentially expressed in brain and muscle. The EB1 binding site in CDK5RAP2 was defined as the conserved Leu938-Pro939 dipeptide. We demonstrated for the first time the MT plus-end tracking behavior of CDK5RAP2 by employing the time-lapse microscopy of live cells stably expressing GFP-CDK5RAP2. Either mutation of EB1 binding sites in CDK5RAP2 or depletion of eb1 by RNA interference abolished CDK5RAP2 plus-end tracking ability. Besides, CDK5RAP2 acted with EB1 to promote MT polymerization in vitro and facilitated the formation of EB1 induced MT bundles in vivo. To sum up, we identified CDK5RAP2 as a novel +TIP and characterized CDK5RAP2 function to cooperate with EB1 to regulate MT dynamics in the MT plus-end. To conclude, CDK5RAP2 exists in PCM of the centrosome that functions in γ-TuRC attachment and therefore the MT organizing function of the centrosome. In addition, CDK5RAP2 is able to bind to EB1 and cooperates with EB1 to regulate MT plus-end dynamics.
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Police arrest four in Anchorage home invasion, then arrest victims: Anchorage police reported Sunday that they had arrested four people in connection with an Airport Heights home invasion and robbery, and also arrested the two residents of the home on charges of child neglect. According to the Anchorage Police Department, two armed individuals entered a home on the 3200 block of Penland Parkway by kicking in the door early Sunday morning. One of the inhabitants was struck multiple times, before "(t)he residents fought back and were able to successfully relieve one of the robbers of his weapon, causing the robbers to retreat from the residence," police wrote in a release. Four men -- identified as Chantel L. Rushing, 21; Jacobi Stephens, 22; Demitri Scott, 21; and James Griffin, 23 -- were arrested after police stopped a suspicious vehicle in the area. They were charged with one count each of robbery and burglary, while Rushing and Stephens were each charged with one count of assault and Scott and Griffin were charged with three counts of assault each. "Additionally, the victims of the home invasion robbery, identified as 25-year-old Amanda Loyd and 24-year-old Jonah Robinson, have each been charged with Child Neglect due to placing a 3 1/2-year-old child, who was inside the residence at the time of the robbery, in danger," police wrote. Loyd and Robinson reportedly admitted to growing and selling marijuana in the home, and had conducted a transaction with the suspects in the home invasion, police said. All were taken to the Anchorage Jail, and the child was placed with family members, police said.
Trooper identified in Homer shooting death: Alaska State Troopers have identified the trooper whose gun was reportedly obtained by a suspect in a scuffle Wednesday -- and used by the suspect to fatally shoot himself -- as David G. Chaffin, a five-year veteran stationed in Anchor Point. Troopers initially reported that Chaffin was responding to a domestic violence call in which 24-year-old Aaron Michael Rael-Catholic of Homer had assaulted his ex-girlfriend and rammed his vehicle into hers. When Chaffin attempted to arrest Rael-Catholic, a confrontation ensued and Rael-Catholic allegedly got hold of Chaffin's gun and used it to fatally shoot himself in the head. Troopers said Saturday evening that the medical examiner had determined that Rael-Catholic had indeed died of a single gunshot wound to the head, and a civilian witness had seen Rael-Catholic shoot himself with the trooper's weapon. The investigation into the incident was ongoing.
Iditarod musher Lance Mackey arrested in Fairbanks: Four-time Iditarod and Yukon Quest champion Lance Mackey was arrested in Fairbanks Saturday for violating conditions of release related to a 2013 DUI charge, Alaska State Troopers reported Sunday. According to troopers spokesperson Beth Ipsen, Mackey was arrested for not having a valid driver's license or proof of vehicle insurance, both conditions related to his release on the previous DUI charge. Mackey was reportedly taken to the Fairbanks Correctional Center. Mackey sat out this year's Iditarod in part due to lingering health problems related to his 2001 battle with throat cancer. Ipsen said that Mackey's 2013 DUI case is still open.


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MEXICO CITY, Nov 11 (Reuters) - A Mexican consulting firm plans to raise up to 21 billion pesos ($1.26 billion) through public offerings of certificates for an infrastructure and energy investment vehicle, according to a prospectus seen by Reuters on Wednesday.
The move comes as Mexican finances have been hammered by sinking oil prices and output, prompting the government to seek a larger role for private investors in the country's infrastructure projects.
Consulting firm Ainda, which will manage the vehicle, will seek 6 billion pesos through the sale of series A certificates, starting with an initial offering of up to 1.2 billion pesos. No date has been set for the first issue but a source familiar with the plan expects it to take place in the first quarter of 2016.
Additional funds will be raised through capital calls. The firm plans to issue 15 billion pesos in series B certificates that will be held in its treasury and may be bought exclusively by series A holders.
The instrument will target investments in oil, electricity, water and transportation projects, according to the prospectus, which is expected to be published by the Mexican bourse this week.
In September, Mexico's government announced plans to allow a new kind of fund known as a Fibra E that can be backed by assets ranging from energy pipelines to jails.
Ainda's CKD will have the option to convert into a Fibra E or shift specific projects to such a fund, as it seeks to entice private and institutional investors at home and abroad, including Mexican pensions, called Afores, and insurers.
The certificates will be valid for 15 years and local bank Invex will serve as trustee while brokerage Finamex will underwrite the initial offer.
$1 = 16.7221 Mexican pesos $1 = 16.7130 Mexican pesos Additional Reporting by Tomas Sarmiento; Editing by Andrew Hay


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Designing and building a new research laboratory is a challenging feat in itself, but when you are a company involved in manufacturing life-saving prognostic tests, the project becomes much more than just a challenge. This was the situation Aureon Laboratories faced six years ago.
Based in Yonkers, N.Y., Aureon develops personalized, predictive cancer tests and provides contract research services to assist biopharmaceutical companies in developing effective cancer treatments. Aureon incorporates a team of scientists and medical doctors who are specialized in molecular pathology, sophisticated image analysis and advanced mathematics in order to apply a systems pathology approach to better understand and determine which patients' prostate cancer will recur, how aggressive their disease will be and patient response to treatment. Although Aureon's initial tests focus on the prostate cancer market, future tests shall address other solid tumors such as breast, lung, colorectal and bladder cancer.
Testing the Water
The water used in clinical testing and research must be extremely pure. Tap water often contains particles, dissolved organics and dissolved inorganics that can have a negative effect on the results of critical laboratory test methods. In order to remove these contaminants, the water must be treated with a combination of technologies to meet the laboratory's final purity level. Depending on the application, the water may require further treatment to establish an even greater level of purity.
Aureon's laboratory water is used for research and development and it prognostic testing purposes, and must meet the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) Type I reagent-grade water specifications. ASTM specifies that Type I water must have a resistivity of 18 megohm-cm, a maximum bacteria count of 10/1,000 mL and an endotoxin level less than 0.03 EU/mL. The water Aureon uses for general purposes, such as washing and rinsing glassware, can be ASTM Type II water quality.
"We require high-purity water for our many molecular pathology, DNA, RNA and protein applications, including the diverse tissue processing technologies," said Dr. Charles J. DiComo, director of laboratories for Aureon. "We also carry out commercial processing and contract work, so we have to consistently hit our specifications."
The Central System
Aureon purchased a complete laboratory water treatment system in August 2002 to meet its water specification requirements. Incoming city water is fed to a central treatment system that consists of multimedia, carbon and softening pretreatment systems, 1-micron filtration and a 75% recovery reverse osmosis system feeding a 250-gal storage tank.
The water from the tank feeds two 25-gpm distribution pumps and is then sent to two parallel (four total) mixed-bed tanks, a 25-gpm ultraviolet system (UV) and 0.2-micron filtration. The entire system is controlled and monitored by a central programmable logic controller that monitors all operational functions.
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system, the water is sent through a 1-in. polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) loop piping system, which feeds two glassware washers, a high-purity clean steam generator and 10 point-of-use (POU) faucets and laboratory water treatment systems located in various labs.
A PVDF gooseneck faucet is at the sink in each lab and supplies general-purpose deionized Type II water, while the POU system supplies Type I water. There also is a POU system installed in a walk-in freezer box where the temperature is only 33°F. An extended loop feeds tissue staining devices and a darkroom.
DiComo turned to Siemens Water Technologies to provide the entire treatment system. In addition to requiring a system that could produce the specified water quality, DiComo also needed equipment that could fit into a tight space. Of the 15,000 sq ft available, 8,500 sq ft was for lab space and even less room available for the central water treatment system.
The polishing systems are the compact PURELAB Ultra systems, designed to produce ASTM Type I ultrapure water for critical biological and analytical laboratory techniques. This system incorporates DI, UV and ultrafiltration (UF) technologies. Pretreated water from the central water treatment system enters the PURELAB system and flows through the DI cartridge pack, which consists of two DI cartridges. A dual-wavelength (185-nm and 254-nm) UV sterilizer between the two DI cartridges oxidizes the organics that made it through the first DI cartridge and kills bacteria and reduces the total organic carbon.
The water then enters a 5,000-nominal molecular weight UF cartridge that removes pyrogens. The quality of the water exiting the system is 18.2 megohm-cm. A PURELAB system was installed in the walk-in freezer box so that scientists performing nucleic acid- and protein-purification protocols would not have to leave the area to get high-purity water or worry about the water purity degrading in transit from another lab. To prevent the water from freezing, the system remains in recirculation mode at all times.
Superb Performance
In order to ensure that the equipment performs at its peak level at all times, Aureon has a preventive maintenance agreement that covers the lab water equipment. "With a laboratory our size, which is the life blood of our business, we need to maintain these systems," DiComo said. "Who better than the experts who designed and installed the system to come in and service it?"
Under this agreement, the services Siemens provides include system and loop sanitization, cartridge replacement and water quality testing. Aureon lab personnel, as well as an outside firm, test the final product water for bacteria in addition to the testing that Siemens does to ensure it consistently meets specification.
An article on Aueron's laboratory appeared in R&D Magazine, December 2007.


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BYU Rugby: rugby team joins Varsity Cup Championship
UU32 Bountiful, UTJuly 18, 2012 10:31 a.m.
The Headline should read: "BYU and Utah Rubgy: . . . "
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This is a huge step in the right direction, legitimizing the game, giving the tournament and season more structure and best of all, developing the players. Good on BYU, UofU, and Cal for pushing this through.
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This is great news for Utah and BYU Rugby!
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In 1983 "The Lord looked down from heaven and said, 'Where can I find the weakest, littlest, lowliest and most useless and unwanted man on earth?'
Then He saw me and said, 'I've found him. I will work through him, I will put my word and my passion with in Him to reach millions, and then he won't be proud of it. He'll see that I am only using him because he is useless without me....., then the vision was born to reach millions.
In 1994 when God found that young boy willing to forsake everything and follow Christ alone and knows not how to survive without God……. then CALVARYMISSION is born with the vision to empty the Hell.
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Help me to do nothing less nothing more nothing else.
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based off the name and the fact that the item lore is written in broken ogre english, this mask was probably intended to be the original ogre mask (before visage of the brute).
the spell chill sight has the spell ID number of 539
the spell illusion ogre has the spell ID number of 593
so it seems that the wrong spell ID was attached to this item making what could have been a cool item back in the day a total piece of junk.


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According to sources, the government is likely to go ahead and encash the Rs 350 crore bank guarantees submitted by Bharti Airtel reports CNBC-TV18's Malvika Jain quoting sources.
The battle between the government and telecom companies is only intensifying over 3G intra-circle roaming pacts. According to sources, the government is likely to go ahead and encash the Rs 350 crore bank guarantees submitted by Bharti Airtel reports CNBC-TV18's Malvika Jain quoting sources.
Also read: India asks Vodafone, Idea to stop 3G pact, imposes fines
Encashing would be done to realise the penalty which the government has imposed on the company for entering into 3G inter circle roaming arrangement. On Monday, the Supreme Court will be deciding whether a stay should be granted on 3G inter circle roaming pact ban.
This hearing will be significant for all the telecom companies and not just for Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea who have entered into a 3G roaming arrangement because it directly impacts the 3G operations of the entire sector.
Vodafone and Idea are also going to jointly argue with Bharti given the fact that they have been issued notices yesterday by the government to discontinue 3G operations where they do not have spectrum.
The other crucial hearing at the Supreme Court on Monday will be that of Bharti's case. Sunil Mittal has approach the Supreme Court seeking quashing summons that have been issued by the Patiala house court in additional spectrum grant case.
Even though the CBI had not named Mittal in the charge sheet, the trial court felt that there was enough evidence on record to summon Mittal along with Essar's Ravi Ruia and former MD of Hutchison. This hearing will not only be tracked by Bharti, but by the entire telecom sector because it directly affects several companies and also Mittal who is one of the captains of the telecom sector.


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It is shown that the binary de Bruijn multiprocessor network (BDM) can solve a wide variety of classes of problems. The BDM admits an N-node linear array, an N-node ring, (N-1)-node complete binary trees, ((3N/4)-2)-node tree machines, and an N-node one-step shuffle-exchange network, where N (=2/sup k/, k an integer) is the total number of nodes. The de Bruijn multiprocessor networks are proved
de Bruijn multiprocessor network; versatile parallel processing; sorting network; VLSI; N-node linear array; N-node ring; binary trees; one-step shuffle-exchange network; tight lower bound; layout area; fault tolerant computing; multiprocessor interconnection networks; parallel processing; VLSI.
M.R. Samatham, D.K. Pradhan, "The de Bruijn Multiprocessor Network: A Versatile Parallel Processing and Sorting Network for VLSI", IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 38, no. , pp. 567-581, April 1989, doi:10.1109/12.21149


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Ramona Falls is a trail leading to a shady glen where a spilling torrent of water appears 100 feet above, cascading down to the creek bed below. Ramona Falls is also Brent Knopf's first solo venture – although you may know him through his extensive musical resume as part of Portland trio, Menomena*.
Named after his favorite childhood hiking trail on Mount Hood in Oregon, Ramona Falls was, to Knopf as a boy, a refuge from the world and a gathering place within it, an ideal of what a forest should be. As a music project, Ramona Falls serves both as a sanctuary, as Menomena eased into a period of rest, and a community, as Knopf collaborated extensively with musicians in Portland and New York. Knopf limited time with his cohorts to bouts of three hours each (and should they ever need Knopf for three hours to play keyboards, or mow their lawn, all they need do is ask.)
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From the screenwriter of The Full Monty comes Blow Dry, an equally daft comedy about hairstyling and the sometimes eccentric personalities that wield combs and scissors. Simon Beaufoy, an Oscar nominee for The Full Monty, focuses on England's National Hairdressing Championships, being held in a tiny Yorkshire village. The provincial residents aren't prepared for the glamor, cutthroat deceit and hairspray fumes that follow. Blow Dry includes some familiar faces: Alan Rickman (Galaxy Quest), Natasha Richardson, above, (Nell), Rachel Griffith (Hilary and Jackie) and Rachael Leigh Cook (She's All That). Opened Wednesday at Channelside 9 in Tampa.
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It is shown that the difference in behavior of the high-energy (>450 Mev c.m.) total photoproduction cross sections for π+ and π0 can be explained by the presence of the retardation term in the case of the π+ production. The analogy with the behavior at the (3/2, 3/2) resonance is noted. The discussion naturally provides an explanation for the difference in center-of-mass energies of the lower high-energy peak found in π--p scattering and the corresponding peak in the π+ photoproduction. It is felt that the discussion contributes some evidence for the resonance nature of the peaks.
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GOODYEAR, Ariz. – There was definitely a championship feel surrounding the Peoria, Ariz.-based AZ Athletics 18u squad that played this holiday weekend in the 18u PG WWBA West Memorial Day Classic, and that feeling certainly carried over into the Memorial Day holiday itself.
With a veteran lineup made up exclusively of recently graduated seniors from the class of 2014 – with the exception of one difference-making 2015 – and an Arizona state high school championship head coach, it sure seemed likely the AZ Athletics 18u would overcome a disappointing loss early in pool-play.
On Monday evening at Goodyear Ballpark – the Cactus League home of the Cincinnati Reds and Cleveland Indians – the AZ A's 18u captured the championship at the 18u West Memorial Day Classic with a dominant 12-0 win over their Peoria neighbor All-Star Baseball Academy 17u; it was the AZ A's 18u's second straight title at the 4-year-old event.
They finished the tournament with a 6-1-0 mark, just a shade better than ASBA 17u's final tally of 5-1-1. Both teams played three games on Monday in 100-degree heat and after beginning play at 11:30 a.m. (PDT), they didn't finish-up until after 8 p.m.
"It's a grind anytime you play this many games in (four) days … and our kids did a good job of battling the heat and persevering through some things," AZ Athletics 18u head coach Matt Denny told PG at the end of the long day. "We're a pretty talented group and they play baseball the right way. Even though this is kind of a showcase tournament, I think they still play for each other and play pretty educated baseball."
The AZ A's 18u scored a single run in the first inning, added five in the third and then six in the seventh in their 12-0 white-washing of ASBA 17u in the championship game. The A's 18u totaled 10 hits – all singles – to the All-Star's four, and were never threatened.
Paul Bryniarski, the only 2015 on the A's 18u roster, was 2-for-3 with three RBI and a run scored, and his older brother Andrew Bryniarski (2014) was 2-for-3 with an RBI and two runs. 2014 Antony Race also had a pair of hits and scored twice.
2014 outfielder/middle-infielder Jayden Eggimann from Mesa singled, drove in a run and scored in the title tilt to put a nice cap on his weekend's performance. He finished the event 6-for-19 (.316) with a double, three triples, seven RBI, eight runs and an OPS of 1.076, and was named the tournament Most Valuable Player.
"This was a great experience, just coming off the high school season and getting back into the (swing) of things with some great guys that I grew up with," Eggimann said. "Overall, Perfect Game has always been good to us and (the tournaments) have been fun to play; I wouldn't want to play with any other team."
Fellow 2014 Nate Easley from Glendale also enjoyed a terrific four-day weekend, hitting .389 (7-for-18) with a double, triple, 10 runs scored and a 1.006 OPS.
AZ A's 18u left-hander Brandon Browne from New River, Ariz., got the start in the championship game and worked six shutout innings, giving up four hits and striking out 10, a performance that earned him the Most Valuable Pitcher Award. His closest competition for the honor came from teammate Corey Wilson, a lefty from Peoria who pitched a complete game one-hitter with 17 strikeouts earlier in the tournament.
All-Star Baseball Academy 17u's Tommy McCarty, a 2015 from Camp Verdea, Ariz., also had an MVP consideration-worthy tournament by hitting .526 (10-for-19) with a double, seven RBI and a couple of runs.
The championship here on Monday capped quite a week for Denny, who is the head coach at Greenway High School in Phoenix which last week captured the Arizona Division II-AIA state championship. AZ A's 18u roster members Cody Westcott and Zane Butts were part of that championship Greenway team.
"We did a good job last Tuesday night and won the state championship -- it still hasn't really sunk in quite yet -- and I was pretty pleased with what our guys did there," Denny said. "This is so different than spring (high school) ball. You put a lot of time and hours into the spring and this is nothing like that. Here, you just kind of put the lineup together and let these guys do their thing."
That lineup accomplished a lot over the past four days and, quite honestly, no one associated with the AZ A's 18u team was the least bit surprised that a second straight 18u PG WWBA West Memorial Day Classic title came this team's way.
"Honestly, we did (expect to be here) because we're always chilled-back and relaxed and just having fun doing what we do," Eggimann said. "It's pretty awesome that we came out on top of everything; it's humbling and it's a very awesome experience."
The AZ Athletics 18u advanced to the championship game behind a gem of an outing from 2014 right-hander Cody Westcott from Glendale, Ariz., in the semifinals.
Westcott threw a complete game two-hitter with five strikeouts and four walks and made a single run scored in the top of the first hold-up for a 1-0 win over Canyon Thunder (5-1-0) from Phoenix. The AZ A's 18u scored their only run when Nate Easley started the game with a leadoff triple and scored on a wild-pitch with the next batter at the plate.
The day's other semifinal was a much more explosive affair and featured a family feud with the All-Star Baseball Academy 17u topping the All-Star Baseball Academy 18u, 11-7. The 18u's held a 6-4 lead after three innings of play, but the 17u's rallied for three in the top of the fifth and four more in the top of the seventh to put the game out of reach.
ASBA 17u's Tommy McCarty was 4-for-4 with an RBI and three runs scored; Anthony Wade went 3-for-3 with two runs driven in and one scored and Sean Schoffstall also had three hits, drove in two and scored one.
Despite coming up short on the scoreboard, the 18u's out-hit the 17u's, 14-12. Jack Peck was 3-for-4 with a pair of doubles, two RBI and a run and Jax Pokuta was 2-for-4 with a couple of runs driven in.
The quarterfinal round was nothing short of a good, old-fashioned backyard brawl, with six of the eight teams calling Peoria their home base, with one from Phoenix and another from Goodyear.
When the neighbors finished up their tightly wound tussles, it was Peoria brothers All-Star Baseball Academy 17u and All-Star Baseball Academy 18, along with the AZ Athletics 18u from Peoria and Canyon Thunder from Phoenix that moved on to the semifinals.
2014 18u WWBA West Memorial Day Classic runner-up: All Star Baseball Academy 17u
2014 18u WWBA West Memorial Day Classic MVP: Jayden Eggimann, AZ Athletics 18u
2014 18u WWBA West Memorial Day Classic MV-Pitcher: Brandon Browne, AZ Athletics 18u


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wikiHow to Dress Like a Gothic Fairy (Adults)
Do you love the dark fairy goth look but feel your too old for it? Wondering how to continue the Gothic fairy look when working in an office or prepping for a job interview? Read on!
1Keep eye makeup very simple and classy. Examples : Black cat eye eyeliner, small black flicked eyeliner, brown eyeshadow/ liner, brown/ black mascara, a tiny bit of moss green/purple/black/ grey/ smoky eye.
2Base makeup: A pale, but still realistic looking foundation {one or maximum of two shades lighter than your natural skintone}. You can seal this with a fairly pale powder. RIMMEL stay matte transparent 001 is an excellent compact powder which reduces appearance of pores, giving younger looking and naturally pale looking skin. It is also very inexpensive.
3Use darker lip colors. Perhaps a toffee coloured/ plummy/dark brown lipstick. If you can pull off black lipstick, go ahead, but be warned: If it looks wrong don't wear it! If you like you could simply wear a transparent gloss.
4Shirts and tops: A simple vest in black or tawny can be embroidered with feathers {black} or black roses. A nicely tailored waistcoat looks excellent with this. Shirts can also be lightly torn to give a handkerchief-like look.
5Wear "professional" clothing in darker colors. A good example might be a long, flowing velvet skirt, with a subtle net underskirt in a red/black/purple/dark green hue. A more grown up take on torn, holey tights often worn by younger goths can be black tights patterned with gray flowers and Tim Burton-esque curlicues!
6Look for dark pixie boots or short heeled little boots. Understated pumps can be lovely too, especially subtly accessorized with black feathers or small black/ other colour fake flowers or glitter.
7Accessorize your outfit with period costume items such as: Fascinators or bracelets in brown and other earthy colours. Dragonfly/ black butterfly earrings are pretty. Black cross necklaces are nice also. If fairy wings aren't your thing, you could adorn the back of your waistcoat/ top with two black feathers or even peacock feathers!
8Choose older hair styles. An elegant topknot is always a good look. Long, loose, flowing hair is ever popular. Hair can be adorned with perhaps a black rose, a black dragonfly clip?
9Music dark fairies may enjoy: Dead Can Dance, Emilie Autumn, Karen Kay, Rising Shadows, The Changelings.
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Johannesburg - Three gold mining companies and three trade
unions signed an agreement expected to end a prolonged strike in the gold
mining sector, National Union of Mineworkers' spokesperson (NUM) Lesiba Seshoka
said on Thursday.
"Yes we have already signed that, basically," said
"We are feeling very good about it. We expect that
everybody else in the gold sector will return," he said.
Trade unions the NUM, Solidarity and Uasa, and mining
companies AngloGold Ashanti [JSE:ANG], Gold Fields [JSE:GFI] and Harmony Gold
Mining Company [JSE:HAR] signed the agreement at the Chamber of Mines on
Thursday morning.
The agreement relates to clause 11 of the pay deal struck
last year that addresses the lowest categories of workers and rock drill
It was a separate clause that had to be dealt with and it
was escalated after workers started going on unprotected strikes in September
at these mines.
Terms of the new agreement were not immediately available.
Leshoka said that around 80% of workers who had been on
strike were already back at work.
Harmony Gold's Kusasalethu workers went back in time for
their 6am ultimatum on Thursday to avoid being fired, the company said.
The company would provide an update later on when operations
would restart, but in the meantime it was doing procedural medicals and safety
"A large percentage of our workers have returned,"
said spokesperson Marian van der Walt, as workers arrived en masse before the
cut-off time to make sure they keep their jobs.
AngloGold Ashanti said it had not yet served dismissal
letters to the 12 000 miners who did not heed an ultimatum to return by noon on
Wednesday, hoping that further talks and the chamber agreement would get them
In the meantime, workers at the company's Kopanang, Great
Noligwa and Surface Operations returned to work on Monday and those at Moab
Khotsong, near Orkney, ended their unprotected work stoppage on Tuesday.
Gold Fields spokesperson Sven Lunsche said 7 300 people out
of 8 100 were dismissed at its KDC East mine on Tuesday. Their appeals started
on Thursday morning and would take place over the next week.
Operations at Gold Fields' Beatrix mine was "back in
full swing" last week, Lunsche said.
At KDC West, they started hoisting off this week, and full
production was expected early next week. KDC East remained closed.
They'll backtrack on this agreement soon enough. R5,000 is a long way off the R12,500 they were looking for. How long can the extra R160 placate them for?
They did not get paid for a while too, everyone lost money.
I have read this five times and can't see anything about R5000 or R160.
Am I blind? It says "Terms of the new agreement were not immediately available" Now I know how rumours start!!!


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Hi:I am using the ORCAD Capture - Allegro flow. I have a VertexIV FPGA, and lot of differentialpairs. To sucessfully routed the PCB, those differential pairs have to be swapped. I don't want pin-pin swap, since this is very easy to make mistakes. Does anybody have the ideahow can I get pair-pair swap in my design flow(with pair polarity) ? I cannot make manyhomogeneous parts at schmatics side since this is not my job, it seems to me once I got thisby device file, but rightnow I keep getting error message. It will be very thankful if anybodycan give a hint on this.Thank you in advance.
You are looking for 'function' swap which is well documented in the OrCAD and Allegro literature.


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- Dear WorldNetDaily(By Pete Fettig)----- Original Message -----From: The NetProphetCc: jail4judges@...Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 9:14 PMSubject: Letter to the Editor(s)Dear Editors at WorldNetDaily:I recently read the August issue of Whistleblower, which discusses judicial tyranny in all of its "glory". I was flabbergast that the issue did not even mention, much less discuss, possibly the one most promising way OUT of this tyranny, that is, the Judicial Accountability Initiative Law or J.A.I.L. for short. (See www.jail4judges.org for more information.) This is possibly the most promising way to "Take Back America" from these tyrants that are running it now.Start with the judiciary...when someone can actually get a fair and impartial trial, it means jurors can decide trials on both facts and law, there will cease to be this legislation from the bench crap, bad laws will be held unconstitutional, legislators will quit making bad laws, the people will force government to obey the laws written for it, and suddenly, we have our republic back!I read and devour each issue of Whistleblower. It is a fantastic magazine, but given that Joseph Farah, and I'm sure most of the rest of the writing staff, David Kupelian, Vox Day, etc., know of JAIL4Judges, yet did not include any mention or discussion in this issue, is indeed a travesty and a tragedy.You need to do another "Take Back America" type of issue and/or a "Judicial Tyranny" issue and give a mondo section on JAIL4Judges alone.Or...do you fear these tyrants will try to wreak havoc on WND for bringing this worthy initiative to light?
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One of the greatest aspects of March Madness is that hoops fans get to watch the giants of college basketball compete with—and occasionally lose to—teams they've never heard of.
Apparently, some of the stars on the big-name teams have never heard of the little guys either.
After interviewing BYU's Jimmer Fredette, UCONN's Kemba Walker and Duke's Nolan Smith, ESPN's Rece Davis asked if any of them could name their opponent's mascot (Wofford, Bucknell and Hampton, respectively).
The result was lots of awkward smiling and laughter until an unsure Smith came up with the correct answer of Hampton Pirates, saving the other two from having to confess to ignorance on the matter.
As Yahoo! Sports points out, Smith had the definite advantage considering he grew up in Upper Marlboro, Md, only a few hours from Hampton. But we doubt that'll give Duke any extra advantage come tourney time.
Watch the fumbling ballers below, starting at the 4:20 mark:
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Burnquist Portrait
A portrait of Bob Burnquist, one of several different paintings I did for a video cover of his career. I think the video came out 2 years ago.
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"We want to embed just a little bit of the IT manager directly into each piece of silicon we develop and ship into the marketplace."
"It is still not as fast as today's silicon chips, but we can make it orders of magnitude better. We have a very clear picture of how to move on. Developing the first car is much harder than making a car that can go faster."
"Stretchable silicon offers different capabilities than can be achieved with standard silicon chips."
"There are now more IT orientated brains in Bangalore than in Silicon Valley. That's where things are moving. That's where innovation will develop."
"[Silicon Valley Bank, founded in 1983, focuses its efforts on serving high-tech and biotech businesses. It also makes a fair amount of real estate and commercial loans and caters to religious organizations.] Through the niche approach, we bring value-added knowledge of the industries, ... We are known as the bank that lends to emerging growth companies."
"Hubris is an issue at every one of these Silicon Valley companies that are successful. I don't know if it's any worse at Google than it's been at other highly successful technology companies."
"Silicon Valley has done a great job of taking the best minds from Stanford and Berkeley and turning them into companies. Other geographies have these great minds but not the local machinery that turns them into companies."
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HARTFORD — — Top-level opponent? Check. Tournament atmosphere? Check. Tight-game situations? Check. Victory? That one eluded Capital Prep on Saturday.
Junior guard Aaliyah Jones scored 29 points, hitting 6 of 11 three-pointers, and Bishop Ford of Brooklyn, N.Y., defeated Capital Prep 66-64 in a matchup of highly ranked girls basketball teams.


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Australia will bring 29 athletes as part of their Shooting team to Glasgow 2014 which boasts both Commonwealth and Olympic Champions.
The nations shooting body, Shooting Australia, nominated a team with mixture of both youth and experience which was then officially named by the Australian Commonwealth Games Association in early May.
From former Olympic champion Michael Diamond, who has a fourth Trap gold in his sights at what will be his fifth games, to 16-year-old debutant Jack Rossiter who will compete in the 10m Air events, there is much expectation that the nation will continue its rich shooting history.
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Another former Commonwealth champion named was Alethea Sedgman. Rifle shooter Sedgman was only 16 herself when she won gold at Delhi 2010 in the Women's 50m 3 position event and despite an up and down few years since she harbours ambitions of retaining her title at the Barry Buddon Shooting Centre in July.
"I had a lot of dramas after that competition, which led me to lose confidence within my ability however with the assistance and support of my family and my partner, I am confident that I am heading in a positive direction," she explained.
One of those dramas was sleeping through her alarm at London 2012 causing her to almost miss her early morning start time at the Royal Artillery Barracks. She recovered to shoot well but still missed out on the Gold medal final.
A hectic schedule in the run up to the Games is leaving little time to spare for the student from Horsham in Victoria but she remains focused on the games.
"With university, two jobs, training and competitions I don't really have much time for myself. It's busy but I am trying to manage it.
"My preparations are going well and I'm looking forward to aiming to defend my title," she stated.
Sedgman will be joined by Shotgun shooter Laetisha Scanlan. The 24-year-old is in great form following a successful year in the sport climbing to number two in the world ranking for Women's Trap and winning an International Shooting Sport Federation World Cup gold in the United Arab Emirates.
Scanlan is now relishing the prospect of competing in Scotland this summer saying, "I've had a relatively good 14 months internationally. There won't be any added pressure because I now realize in shooting anything can happen.
"The Commonwealth shooting has such strong competitors, it will be tough competition. I am really looking forward to the experience."
The Trap shooter form Melbourne is also excited to be competing on Scottish soil at the updated Barry Buddon Shooting Centre in Angus.
"I am really looking forward to shooting at the new range that is currently being built. It's always exciting to travel to new places and discover the culture. Hopefully I have time to do some sightseeing either before or after I compete."
Sedgman is also enthusiastic about shooting in Scotland even if apprehensive of the summer climate here.
"I am fearful of the weather, I hope it's not too cold however I am so excited as I have never been there (to Scotland). I hope we are able to see a few places, my parents have been and said it is one of their favourite places because the people are welcoming and the landscape is spectacular."


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