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After allowing the league-worst 150 sacks over the past three seasons, the San Francisco 49ers finally addressed their biggest need. Before yesterday, the highest the 49ers have ever drafted a guard post-merger, was David Baas as the 33rd pick in the second round. In their entire history as a franchise, they've only drafted an offensive lineman in the first round four times. When considering Kwame Harris was the last of that group, it's easy to understand why they'd be so hesitant to go that direction.
By now, you've read all about new acquisitions Anthony Davis and Mike Iupati. I'm sure the majority of fans love the selections, as it speaks volumes about what the front office thinks about the current team. It's not every year a team with two first rounders chose to focus solely on one aspect of the offense. The time time I can remember a team dedicating the draft to shoring up the offensive line is the Jets in 2006, when they took Tackle D'Brickashaw Ferguson and Center Nick Mangold. How'd that turn out for them? Well they finished fourth in the NFL in rushing last season, after finishing ninth the year before. I'd say they're pretty happy with the results.
The selections of Davis and Iupati was a message. Not just the support Alex Smith receives for the first time in his career, but the real direction the team wants to go. With two 6'5", 320+ pounders, the o-line is looking to be the over-powering force a running game needs to be. Frank Gore should be the happiest about the new guys because he'll no longer have guys in his face right after he takes the hand-off. Ideally, we won't see many plays like this:
1st and 10: Frank Gore rushes up the middle for no gain.
2nd and 10: Frank Gore rushes to the right for a 2 yard loss.
3rd and 12: Alex Smith is sacked for a 5 yard loss.
4th and 17: Andy Lee punts.
The defense is already the best in the division. Now with the power running game Mike Singletary covets, and a pass attack headlined by Vernon Davis and Michael Crabtree, the 49ers are evolving into the team that can conquer a weak division that got weaker when Kurt Warner retired.
For those wondering why the 49ers traded up two spots to get a tackle who probably would have been on the board at thirteen, sources have reported that they were paranoid that other teams, most notably, the Dallas Cowboys, would sneak in and snake the guy they wanted. For us fans who dream about being general managers, and run our fantasy teams like they matter, you know when you really want a guy, you have to do what is necessary to get him. Even if it's questioned, the end result is you got the player you wanted.
The draft continues tonight, and for those that wanted Jimmy Clausen, well there's still hope for you. But I think a pass rusher and a corner back are higher on the list of needs. There's already three quarterbacks on the roster, and those that want to draft a quarterback are probably the same ones that wanted Nate Davis to get a shot last season. I think Davis is a fine third stringer, and he is the reason a quarterback doesn't need to be drafted. Quite honestly, I think the team just needs depth at some spots like all teams, and they're ready to win the west with the squad they have now. Shawntae Spencer covered his guys like a true cover corner. If Nate Clements can rebound from a horrid year, the top two corners should be fine. Also, if Walt Harris can make a comeback, they'll be good at the nickel as well. Harris is older, but he's been getting by on smarts and technique over athleticism for the past few seasons now.
Isn't this three day draft extravaganza great? After one day, there's still six more rounds to watch. What's even more exciting is there is still, what people thought to be first round talent still available. If Trent Baalke and the front office continue to make smart decisions, we'll be looking at the first winning season in eight years.
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amavisd-new & clamav socket permissions
Hello guys,
I could use the help of some extra eyes here , since I'm surely missing something obvious , I installed amavisd-new & clamav from Sbo ( on slack x64 14 ) and I m hitting this problem :
May 24 14:33:43 mail amavis[2777]: (02777-03) (!)connect to /var/run/clamav/clamd.socket failed, attempt #1: Can't connect to UNIX socket /var/run/clamav/clamd.socket: No such file or directory
root@mail:/etc/httpd/extra# id clamav
AllowSupplementaryGroup yes
this is the socket :
root@mail:/etc# ls -la /var/run/clamav/
May 24 14:39:53 mail clamd[3196]: clamd daemon 0.97.8 (OS: linux-gnu, ARCH: x86_64, CPU: x86_64)
May 22 16:40:55 mail amavisd-signer[2892]: 2013/05/22-16:40:55 AmavisSigner (type Net::Server::Multiplex) starting! pid(2892)
chmod 777 the socket the problem is "solved" but first is not as intended and also I would have to script it at startup ....
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We have a team of bakers who produce loaves with quality ingredients, taking time to create dough of good structure and taste by using long, slow fermentation methods.
Our most popular loaf – named after Peter Havard, the last Miller before the building fell derelict is made from 70% white and 30% Talgarth Mill rye flour.
Our location within the Mill equals zero food miles when it comes to buying a loaf. The wholemeal flour is milled a matter of yards from where it is baked and sold as bread. That's fairly unique!
We bake Tuesday and Thursday-Saturday and as well as our 'staple' loaves, we produce bread rolls, baguettes, flavoured breads and pastries. We make sourdough bread with our own rye starter, it makes great toast and is available on a Friday and Saturday. We do not bake on a Sunday - bakers need a day off too.
We are members of the Real Bread Campaign. We won a Gold and three Silver Awards at the 2014 World Bread Awards and two first and one third prize at the Royal Welsh Winter Fair in 2014. W also won a 1 star at the 2015 Great Taste Awards for our Bara Felinwr, and a Silver at the 2015 World Bread Awards for Country Sourdough.
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Bloomberg issued his long-expected veto Tuesday. He vehemently opposes the plans to create a watchdog for the department and a broader path for lawsuits claiming discriminatory policing.
The City Council passed both measures in June with enough votes for an override. But the lawsuit piece passed with just exactly the needed number, and Bloomberg has indicated he'd keep trying to persuade lawmakers to take his side.
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The 21st 'Newt Fest', located between Taunton and Bridgwater, will kick off this Friday, July 13, from 2pm until 1am and continue on Saturday, July 14, from 12 until 1am.
This year will see 24 bands play over two stages - with headline act and Rolling Stones tribute band The Rolling Clones playing on Friday night, followed by U2 tribute US4/U2 on Saturday evening. For a full band list visit www.newtfest.com.
There will be over 100 real ales from breweries across the country, along with Somerset cider, wine, bottled lagers and a selection of other alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks. Plus, this year there will also be a cider marquee, with a Yard of Ale Contest on Saturday at 3pm.
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Dead Star, one of the PlayStation Plus free games for April, is a game about upgrades.
And space.
Yeah, upgrades and space, pretty much those two things.
Armature Studio's Dead Star can best be described as a cross between a twin-stick shooter and a MOBA. You go 5-on-5 or 10-on-10, take outposts, shoot enemy ships, and you have a victorious team after about 5-15 minutes of cool-looking space lasers, missiles, and explosions.
At its core, Dead Star is a fairly accessible top-down twin-stick shooter, in which you fly around a simple map looking for enemies to shoot, outposts to take over (after shooting them a bunch), and resources to collect (also after shooting them a bunch).
You also upgrade things. Constantly and relentlessly.
As you bring resources to your team's base, you level it up and upgrade its defenses. That, plus basically any other action you take earns you XP, which you can use to level up your own ship's abilities for the rest of the round. Then after the round is over, you earn components ("drops," or "loot," if you will) which can in turn be used to upgrade your ship(s) permanently.
That's basically the whole game. There are technically two game modes, but there's essentially only one. We'll get into that later. First, let's talk about Conquest mode.
Conquest mode is a "capture the points" game mode with two win conditions: either push the other team back so far as to capture the enemy's home base, or hold onto a majority of points and upgrade them enough to win on points over time.
In my experience, the latter win condition is the more common one, as games tend to get bogged down while both sides build impenetrable defenses.
To try breaking these deadlocks, you have different classes to choose from. There are only nine ships to choose from, three variations each of a speedy scout ship, a massive assault frigate, and a mid-size scavenger that excels at upgrading outposts and providing defense.
The ships are fairly well-balanced, especially between the classes. And while nine ships doesn't seem like very many, they each come equipped with four completely unique abilities, which makes the sense of balance even more impressive.
Some of the weapons are simple gun and missile weapons, some are lasers. Other ship abilities include time bombs, healing beams attack fields, shields, cloaking devices, and EMP fields. To name a few.
Obviously, there's a variety of playstyles, and none of them appear overpowered. Better still, each player can take three different ships into each match as their "loadout." So if a situation arises where a player needs to, say, switch to a larger ship to have enough firepower to take down a heavily-fortified base, they don't have to worry about being stuck with a scout ship's low attack and defense power.
The game does a decent job of telling you what situation to use what type of ship in, but it generally doesn't matter because this isn't a game you can play effectively just freelancing on your own – and unfortunately, that's mostly what happens.
Executing any sort of strategy in this game requires extensive communication. Even the weakest of outposts left undefended can be difficult to take over independently. It's clear the foundation of the game is built for efficient team play, where all the different ship types are supporting each other.
So that's great, if you have a team of five or ten people that you want to practice strategies with for dozens of hours at a time.
But if you're just looking to jump online and play a few rounds, Dead Star is probably going to wear on you quick. Despite an effective tutorial and accessible controls, the learning curve is very steep, especially when it comes to strategy.
The result is that most matches devolve into a race to take and upgrade bases quickly in the early game, and then sit back on defense as both teams fail to make any further progress. It's hard to say if Dead Star is very defensively-based, or if offense just requires a level of coordination it isn't getting.
That would be fine, normally – online multiplayer is always a tough thing to get into. But it is particularly harmful to Dead Star because there simply isn't enough content here.
Remember how I said there were two game modes, but really there was only one? Well, the one game mode is Conquest. The other is called "Escape Run."
Escape Run is a really interesting-sounding mode where you have to escort a hijacked ship as it performs lightspeed warps through other players' games. Unfortunately, I didn't play it and neither has anyone else I've seen.
You see, to play Escape Run, you have to trigger a rare drop. And after 60+ matches, I never got that drop. So that game mode is just sort of… locked, I guess. It looks incredibly cool, but I don't know. Maybe I never will.
As for the rest of it, it's… pretty good, I guess. The ships control smoothly, and there is a realistic-feeling difference between the way a small, agile ship handles compared to a big frigate. The twin-stick controls make sense and even the gun turrets have some weight to them on the bigger ships. So the mechanics are certainly solid
But there isn't anything special here, and the problem is that there are both better twin-stick shooters and better MOBAs. Once you've played a couple rounds, there isn't anything new to see. It's just repetitive, with ship upgrades being pretty much the only thing that changes over time.
If you're a PS Plus subscriber, there's no reason to NOT play the game. It isn't busted, and it does some interesting things. There is a fair amount of depth for those willing to put the time in. I'm just not sure Dead Star has enough going for it to justify that kind of time commitment. There's no endgame, no story – a backstory, sure, but nothing substantive to keep you wanting to play.
You could make the argument that the same is true of Rocket League, but there's a difference – Rocket League is undeniably very fun at every skill level.
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Washington Square Building, Lansing, MI 48933; (517) 373-0714.
September 23, 1997
No. 184181
LC No. 94-026341-FC
Monroe Circuit Court
Before: Smolenski, P.J., and Fitzgerald and Gage, JJ.
Defendant was convicted by a jury of two counts of felonious
assault, MCL 750.82; MSA 28.277, and possession of a firearm
during the commission of a felony, MCL 750.227b; MSA 28.424(2),
arising out of a drive-by shooting. Defendant was subsequently
convicted of being an habitual offender, second offense, MCL
769.10; MSA 28.1082, and was sentenced to a prison term of four
to six years for each of the assault convictions and to a
consecutive two-year term for the felony-firearm conviction.
Defendant appeals as of right. We remand.
In a supplemental information, defendant was charged as a
second offender based on an Ohio conviction for aggravated
assault. Aggravated assault is a felony in Ohio. Defendant
contends that because aggravated assault is only a misdemeanor in
Michigan [1],
the Ohio conviction cannot be used for enhancement purposes.
In People v McIntire, 7 Mich App 133, 139, 140; 151
NW2d 187 (1967), this Court noted that the habitual offender act [2] refers
to a prior conviction "under the law of any other state,
government or country, of crimes which if committed within this
State would be felonies." The act requires that the offense
be a felony in Michigan under Michigan law, irrespective of
whether the offense was or was not a felony in the state or
country where originally perpetrated. Hence, the facts of the
out-of-state crime, rather than the words or title of the
out-of-state statute under which the conviction arose, are
There is no information in the record concerning the facts of
the Ohio conviction. Consequently, this case must be remanded to
the trial court to allow the prosecutor to show that the facts of
the Ohio conviction would support a felony conviction in Michigan
[3] or,
in the alternative, to allow the prosecutor to proceed under a
different prior felony. [4]
Remanded for further proceedings consistent with this opinion. [5]
Jurisdiction is not retained.
/s/ Michael R. Smolenski
/s/ E. Thomas Fitzgerald
/s/ Hilda R. Gage
[1] Aggravated assault is
punishable by imprisonment for a period of not more than one
year, or fine of $1000, or both. MCL 750.81a; MSA 28.276(1).
Specifically, MCL 769.10 – 769.12; MSA 28.1082 – 28.1084.
[3] The information necessary to
make such a showing should be available in the lower court
record, police report, or presentence report of the out-of-state
[4] The presentence report reveals
that defendant has at least three other valid prior felony
convictions from Ohio and Texas.
argument regarding the proportionality of his sentence need not
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what about creating a thread about the repaint status of the AA-American livery? I assume that this will take a longer time (hopefully not like UA, who still had battleship-grey when starting the UA-CO-mixed-livery)
also, which planes will definitely NOT get the new livery? MD80s? (this fleet is now smaller than the 737-fleet, which is growing and growing, and the first AA A319 is in production)
so, for the start: (I hope these short letter-codes will help this thread to remain easily understandable for everyone....
repainted from AA to A = aaA
delivered as A (new livery) = A
delivered as transitory-basic-paint = tA
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The latest adventure of the French comic strip heroes, Asterix and Obelix, has been published today Wednesday across Europe.
It's the first time in five years that the two Gallic heroes have pitted their wits, and their magic potion, against their Roman occupiers, and the new book comes forty years after their original adventure.
Throughout their home country, France, fans have been packing bookstores to get their hands on Asterix and Latraviata, in which Asterix is bewitched by a seductive Roman actress. Many couldn't even wait to get home to read the story, but sat down in the bookshop to catch up. The Asterix adventures have become one of the biggest publishing phenomena, selling over three-hundred-million copies in almost a-hundred countries.
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Monday, July 28, 2014
DIY Daybeds with Trundles
Last week, we built two daybeds with trundles for the cottage. The beds are styled after Donald Judd's daybed design. Apparently, beds built during the architect's lifetime now go for $100-150,000 at auction! They are the real deal!
I am soo happy with ours. I love the size! We assembled them in the room, and they will never come out.
We started with the trundles, making them a perfect fit for our mattresses. I didn't want any extra space between the mattress and the sides of the box. We followed Ana White's plans, changing the sides to 2x6's from her 2x8's, and 1 1/2" casters (not 2"). It's a perfect fit, not too tight - still easy to change the sheets.
Then we designed the daybed around the trundle, leaving 1/2" on the sides of the trundles to slide them in and out. We used 2x4's for structure (holding up the main bed), and maple veneer core plywood for the walls. The plywood has a good side and a knotty side, which was fine by me!
We bought everything from Home Depot (not sponsored), and had to rent a van to get the backboards home (48" x 71.5"). All the cuts were done at Home Depot.
The total cost, including van rental, but not including the clear coat was $105 for the trundles and $215 for the beds (plus tax). Compare these costs with IKEA Flaxa, $90 for the pull out bed and $149 for the bed frame. We could have done it differently and saved:
Potential Savings, overall: $132
1) We could have used the off cuts from the plywood base as the front face of the trundle bed. Making it all match and saving the cost of two 2x6's. Savings: $17
2) We could have used a cheaper plywood. The cost per board was $55 each, you could get away with the 3/4 inch fir ply ($35-40) if you like a busy grainy look (like the base of the trundle). Savings: $60-$90
3) You could make the height compatible with your SUV. Seriously. Measure your truck first, you could save $25 and some hassles by making them 46" tall instead of 48" tall.
4) If you are in the USA, my numbers probably won't mean much since you can get everything for less!!
ps. There was a version of this bed in last month's Canadian House and Home Magazine and I first saw it in Sofia Coppola's living room.
pps. I am not really great with writing a step by step tutorial because I will probably forget steps and you will fail and blame me. Plus my mistakes would live forever online! and my boys are hopping on the back of my chair..so here are some photos I took during, in case you want to try it out. Also, you can get ideas from the assembly instructions for the Ikea Flaxa Daybed:
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Fantastic! Very much your style!ReplyDelete
Very cool. Amazing actually. With good notes. I can see this having a second life as sofas in a casual living room a la Sofia.ReplyDelete
Can't believe you did this yourselves - they look so awesome! May have to steal this idea...ReplyDelete
oh, the memories your kids will make here! :)ReplyDelete
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An Annotated Bibliography is the result of a critical review of sources of information and the organization of those sources in preparation for writing the Research Project. The description and evaluation of sources allows students to choose specific sources of information that are most relevant to the topic. This evaluative process goes beyond simply collecting and listing references and requires students to review the specific content of each source. Students will submit an organized list of at least eight sources and an accompanying summary for each in order to explain, assess, and evaluate their relevance to the Research Project.
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Provide a descriptive summary of at least 150 words for each reference.
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Conventional wisdom says the techniques that help today's technology startups get to market fast—or, just as likely, fail fast, freeing the founders to start over—don't work in the life sciences. Rapid product iteration based on agile software development methods; continuous business-model adjustments using customer feedback; cloud outsourcing to increase capital efficiency—all these strategies are seen as somehow inapplicable to the life sciences and healthcare.
Which means companies developing drugs, medical devices, or diagnostic tools are stuck with a slow, expensive, hyper-regulated, insanely high-risk development process. And from this perspective, it's no wonder that venture investors are getting out of the business, and that first-round funding for life sciences startups is increasingly scarce.
But what if the conventional wisdom is wrong? What if the real problem is much simpler: that life sciences entrepreneurs haven't been taught how to connect their lab-bench breakthroughs to real customer needs?
That's the big hypothesis behind Lean Launchpad for Life Sciences & Healthcare, a first-of-its-kind course underway this fall at the University of California, San Francisco. It's built around the Lean LaunchPad curriculum originally developed by startup guru Steve Blank to help teams of university-based entrepreneurs get their hardware and software ideas to market. But this time around, it's customized to help teams gain experience turning ideas into companies in the areas of therapeutics, diagnostics, medical devices, and digital health.
The course, which includes teams from several area universities as well as local companies, got underway October 1. The 28 teams admitted to the course met for the second time yesterday at Genentech Hall on the UCSF Mission Bay campus in San Francisco. Competition to get into the course was fierce, and one Arizona-based team drives 12 hours each way to attend class, Blank says.
Blank is directing the course, with teaching and mentoring help from veteran entrepreneurs and venture capitalists such as Abhas Gupta of Mohr Davidow Ventures; Allan May of Emergent Medical Partners; Karl Handelsman of Codon Capital; Jim Hornthal of Hornthal Investment Partners; Todd Morrill of Venture Management Group; Stephanie Marrus, director of the UCSF Entrepeneurship Center; and Jerome Lester, founding director of the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship at UC Berkeley.
The funny thing about the new course is that until pretty recently, Blank himself didn't believe the startup-building methodology he'd developed—which goes by the loose moniker "customer development"—would work for biotech or medical device companies.
"One thing I say in the The Startup Owner's Manual is that customer development works for everything except the life sciences," Blank says. The book, which Blank co-wrote with Bob Dorf in 2012, is a hands-on guide to taking a technical innovation and figuring out whether anyone genuinely wants it. What it actually says is that there are two kinds of early-stage startups: those built around "customer/market risk," where the question is whether customers will adopt the product, and those facing "invention risk," where the question is whether the product will even work. Blank and Dorf aimed the advice in the book at companies taking customer/market risk, rather than companies dealing with invention risk, "where it may take five or even 10 years to get a product out of the lab and into production (e.g. biotech)."
But Blank says that in recent conversations with actual life-sciences entrepreneurs and investors, he's come to think that was an oversight. The UCSF course represents a bet that the customer-development methodology can help companies developing drugs, medical devices, or diagnostic devices evaluate their own markets more realistically, so that they can make better decisions early on about whether and how to proceed.
Essentially, Blank is saying that if early-stage life sciences companies don't tackle questions about customer/market risk, they may never get a chance to answer the questions about invention risk—or by the time they do, years down the road, they may find that there's no business case for their product.
"It turns out that the issues are almost the same," Blank says. "Eventually, it's about the science—like in semiconductors, where eventually it's about the process technology or the chip architecture—but if you don't have a customer, it doesn't matter. Just as in everything else, entrepreneurs and VCs are wasting enormous amounts of time and money and expertise pursuing the wrong things."
What's the solution? Blank calls it "evidence-based entrepreneurship," a riff on the idea of evidence-based medicine, where epidemiological data informs clinical decision-making.
In technology transfer circles, there's an understanding that an idea needs to reach a certain "technology readiness level" before entrepreneurs try to take it to market. But it should also have to reach an "investment readiness level," Blank says. And the process of gauging investment readiness isn't all that complex or mysterious. It mainly means "getting out of the building," to use Blank's signature phrase—talking to actual customers and gathering data. "Do you have a business model? Do you have product-market fit? Do you have validated early orders? Partners? FDA approval? Now, all of a sudden, you have a proper series of metrics."
Of course, getting to investment readiness is only part of the challenge, especially for biotech startups. Even if it looks like you have a great product, an interested market, and reliable partners, the complexity and distorted incentives of the healthcare industry can blindside you, as Xconomy's national life sciences editor Luke Timmerman detailed recently in a story about Bexxar, a failed cancer drug that started out as a tantalizing science concept. But some percentage of such failures might be prevented if biotech startup founders took more time early on to study the market, Blank argues.
Blank and his fellow instructors have developed an elaborate syllabus for the 10-week course, which follows the flipped-classroom model: students watch the lecture material online from home, and spend class time discussing the lecture material and presenting the customer feedback they've gathered about their startup ideas. (Anyone can watch the lectures, which are drawn from an eight-part video series on Udacity called How to Build a Startup.)
The 28 teams—roughly equally divided between therapeutics, diagnostics, medical devices, and digital health cohorts—are expected to use the time between classes to develop a "minimum viable product" such as a device prototype or a mobile app or website. Each week, they're required to conduct 10 to 15 in-person or online video interviews with customers. (That's the "get out of the building" part.) They use what they learn to fill out and update their business model canvas, a graphical tool for visualizing all the internal and external elements needed to build a viable company. In class, they split into cohorts for advanced lectures, weekly presentations, and critiques from instructors and fellow students.
It's roughly the same structure Blank and other instructors have been using since 2011 for the Innovation Corps, a National Science Foundation program designed to help more NSF grantees get their ideas to market. The Innovation Corps, in turn, grew out of the Lean LaunchPad course Blank co-taught at Stanford University with Jon Feiber of Mohr Davidow Ventures and Ann Miura-Ko of Floodgate in 2010.
In a blog post, Blank writes that what finally convinced him of the need for a dedicated Lean LaunchPad course for life sciences companies was watching a few biotech, device, and digital-health companies go through the Innovation Corps program and successfully navigate major pivots—-changes to their business model canvas or even their core technology. A big pivot can end in catastrophe if a startup waits until after it's already raised and spent tens of millions of dollars. But an early course change can save years of wasted effort.
Blank admits that digital-health companies and medical-device are probably more agile when the time comes to pivot. "Therapeutics and diagnostics are not on the same level because they're science-based," he says. "But on the other hand, what you can learn in 10 weeks is whether the damn thing is worth doing at all. Just teaching PI's [principal investigators] how to think about partners and targets and markets would be a major accomplishment."
More than 65 teams applied to join the UCSF course, and the 28 teams selected include 115 students overall. "There are just some amazing teams," Blank says. "One guy showed up to the interview in surgical scrubs. Turned out he's the head of surgery at UCSF."
Blank has briefed officials at the National Institutes of Health about the course. If the teams do well, it could lead to discussions about "franchising" the UCSF course at a number of campuses with heavy NIH funding, the same way the National Science Foundation helped to scale up the original Stanford course.
"Our goal is to get them to start thinking about adopting this as a standard for how you teach commercialization," Blank says. "For devices and digital-health startups, this is a no-brainer. We'll see how much benefit we can get out of it for therapeutics and diagnostics—the question is how much getting out of the building is going to help there. But the NIH already believes in at least 50 percent of what we're doing."
Already, the reception to the class from student teams and venture investors has been "amazing," Blank says. "Even more amazing, to be honest, is what an unfilled need this seems to fill. I was the last guy on earth who got it—I just had to show up."
Here's a great video interview on customer development in the life sciences between Steve Blank and Iodine co-founder Thomas Goetz, former executive editor of Wired. The interview was part of Rock Health's Innovation Summit on August 8-9, 2013.
UPDATE 10/11/13: And here's a video clip from the Oct. 8 session of the UCSF course.
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As the regular baseball season wound to a close, the Catholic catcher and first baseman of the Kansas City Royals made two brothers' day by granting them an interview in the historic confines of Yankee Stadium. The man who was a top 10 hitter in the American League during the 1999 season spoke with Mike Pieczynski, 15, and his brother Steve, 11.
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Sweeney: I first got the idea when I was five years old. I've played baseball every day ever since.
Who was your favorite player as a kid?
Brian Downing of the California Angels, and I met him just like you're meeting me today.
Who do you look up to now?
On earth, my dad — he's got a strong backbone, he's a good role model, has real integrity and great faith in Jesus. But my main, true hero is Jesus himself. He's the one who can save us, as well as pick us up when we're down.
What's a good leader?
Someone who can inspire others to do the right thing even when others are doing something wrong. Some good guys who are this kind of leader in pro baseball right now are Joe Girardi of the Yankees and John Wetteland of the Texas Rangers. Some guys will say "Hey, let's go to the bars, get drunk and run around on our wives." Well, Joe or John would say "Hey guys, let's not." Maybe not everyone would go along with them, but some would. These guys are also the first to say, "Don't miss Church."
Is it important to set goals?
Very important.
What separates people who succeed from those who don't?
Discipline — for example, you've got to sleep and eat right if you want to play well consistently. Also, faith — faith in Jesus gives you strength and discipline.
What role has your Catholic faith played in your success?
I'll give you an example. For two days before Ash Wednesday this year, I thought I might be sent down to the minor leagues or traded. I was the Royals' third-string catcher. I went to Mass on Ash Wednesday and cried my eyes out. Up to that point, I had surrendered my life to the Lord, but not totally, so I said "Lord, six weeks from now (Easter, and opening day of the baseball season), I'm going to rejoice in your name, no matter what." For the first time I totally surrendered my will to His. I felt total peace and freedom, no matter what was to come. As it turned out, I wasn't traded or sent down. In fact, I've had my best year yet.
Did you have to go to Church when you were a kid?
Yes, and I loved it. Now, as an adult, my relationship with the Lord is even more intimate. I'm even happier to go to Church now. You've got to make a choice to follow Jesus or not. Once you make that decision for Him, you're going to want to read your Bible and help others and go to Church. Jesus is number one in my life.
How does Christ make a difference in your professional career?
In pro baseball, I won't kid you guys, there are lots of temptations — girls, parties — but Christ gives me a foundation to build my life on. My teammates now know me and respect me so they don't ask me to do stuff that would compromise the integrity of my walk with the Lord.
What's the best part of being a pro?
It me a chance to be a role model for kids. Also, because professional baseball puts me up on a pedestal in people's minds, it gives me a good opportunity to deflect praise from me to Christ. When I sign autographs, I always put a Bible inscription on it. The kids will say, "What's this?" And I say, "Do you have a Bible at home?" They say, "Yeah," and I say, "Well, go home and look it up!"
Can pros be good examples, and how?
Sure. You have to conduct yourself in a way pleasing to Christ, because I may be the only "Bible" that someone "reads." Be a good Christian man, and you may help lead someone to the Lord — to make a decision to follow Jesus throughout their life, no matter what comes.
Any advice to Catholic youth who want to be the best at what they do?
If you want to be the best, think of Jesus standing with you at all times, because He is. Some people wear "WWJD" bracelets as a reminder. That stands for "What Would Jesus Do?"
Do other players know about your Catholic values, and do you think you can influence them?
My friend, another pro ballplayer, had been sleeping with his girlfriend. I talked to him and he ended up taking a vow of celibacy. He told her, 'The next person I sleep with, if anyone, will be my wife." So I think you could say that the Lord used me to influence him.
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The Metropolitan Police say they have identified 38 persons of interest in a review of the evidence in the case, the London Daily Star reported. They will be interviewed by Portuguese police.
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Members of the Ulster Farmers' Union (UFU) met with environmental health officers (EHOs) and the Food Standards Agency (FSA) to raise concerns about the mislabelling of red meat.
In April this year new European legislation on country-of-origin labelling for lamb was introduced meaning that all packaging of fresh lamb had to be labelled with the country where it was reared and slaughtered.
UFU members have already identified and reported a number of examples where lamb found in major retailers was labelled 'Produced in the UK from New Zealand and Australia'.
At the meeting this week, the UFU highlighted to the FSA and EHOs that this was seen as a "very serious issue" for farmers who already complied with the strict requirements.
The UFU has urged the authorities to monitor this issue carefully and take firm action against those who break the law.
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The sole reason I bought this release (second hand, really cheap) was because I was still looking for a CD quality version of the split EP with S.O.B. I already had the other releases so I waited for this album to come available for a good price. I am not going into the individual songs nor the quality since I did that on the 'original' releases. I'm here to judge a compilation.
What's good about this album is that it has some releases that have been out of print for a long time now. So for those who didn't buy those releases back then, this is a great opportunity to get their hands on this material.
Personally I would have liked it a lot better if this had been a double album including their Peel Sessions as well or even the Hatred Surge and From Enslavement demos. Yet this album only has the more hard to get stuff from the 1989-1991 era. And it's all here. Almost no songs left out. There were a few obscure Dorrian-era recordings but some of those songs were later released on the 'Noise For Music's Sake' album.
Best release here is the Mentally Murdered EP. But Honesty, that EP has been released on 12", on CD and also as a bonus on the first pressing of Harmony Corrpution. So in the end, the real collector has got 4 different versions of it. When hearing the songs from the split 7# with S.O.B. it becmes quite obvious these songs have been recorded around the same time and possibly even the same session. Guitar sound and vocals are very alike. Only difference being the length of the songs. But for more on that, check my review of that EP.
It's a nice addition if you only have the full length albums from ND from that period and don't want to spend much time searching for the EP's. It's hard to give a retrospective release like this a rating but for completeness I'll give it 85 points.
Much has been written and said about the Napalm dudes. 'Scum', described as a collection of cacophonous conmotion, introduced the planet Earth to a new breed of animal in 1987. Things were somewhat different in the following years after line-up shifts. In fact, 'Death by Manipulation' stands for a pivotal point where the testimony of two eras are recorded.
This release is rather a compilation of songs featuring two different incarnations of the mighty Napalm Death. The songs found here show that in spite of any facelifts or moves into the death metal territory, the band hadn't lost their rabid bent for the blast burst.
Tracks 1-4 are solid and even wiser than the rest of this collection. The riffs are more focused and production is almost flawless. In fact, the re-done versions of 'Unchallenged Hate' and 'Social Sterility' are far away form the original found in 'From Enslavement to Obliteration' (1988).
Tracks 5-7, from 'Suffer the Children' (1990), are interesting but unnecessary. The re-worked version of 'Siege of Power' (originally found in 'Scum') is the only worthy track because of the new arrangements and better riffs.
Tracks 8-13, from 'Mentally Murdered' (1989), made up the legacy of the Dorrian-Steer affinity. These are a raw, anti-music mindset. The blast is ever present and the lead work is corrosive. Dorrian spews out lyrics as if he was possessed while the band spearheaded higher levels of aural evisceration.
The rest are bonus tracks that add little to this collection of tracks spanning the period of transition in the process of Napalm Death's evolution.
Even though there are many bands with the obsessive bent for the blast that it's just the norm today, Napalm Death is an entity that shape-shifted without losing its stamina and 'Death by Manipulation' is the record to prove it.
Okay, so there's 3 EPs on this, which I'll go ahead and break down into sections:
I: "Mass Appeal Madness"
First 1 1/2 songs are kinda boring, but it gets progressively better. The production is certainly a step up from " Harmony Corruption" as the guitars are actually audible and the drums don't sound so damn cheap. Better songs as well. They remake one of the tracks from "FETO" with Mick Harris doing most of the vocals (interesting). Rating: 75
II: "Suffer The Children"
Features tracks from the "Harmony Corruption" sessions. In other words, when fast playing is going the guitars are 100000% non-existent in the mix. Vocals and drums over-power everything (the drums sound like utter crap, that snare head must've cost about $1!!!). They completely butcher "Siege Of Power" from "Scum" and the outro never seems to end. The title track has some good riffs that actually sound like old JP (somewhat anyway), I'm only giving it an 11 because of this (would've gotten a big fat ZERO otherwise!!). Rating: 11
III: "Mentally Murdered"
The last recording with Lee Dorrian and Bill Steer. Clearly, you can see the "morphing" in their style taking place. Songs are more structured yet still fast/aggressive/semi-short. Dorrian's voice clearly got help with a vocal harmonizer, but I still think it was his best vocal performance in the band. The solo on the 4th track was also probably the best solo Bill Steer ever did with any band. Easily the best production on the album as well, the only thing not very audible is the bass (all distorted bass sounds lame anyway). I'd actually have to say this is ND's finest moment!!! Rating: 90
So, I combined the 3 numbers to get my average, though I'd say the third EP alone makes this worth owning!!!
Such an awful, directionless album. At times they do a decent job of keeping the riffs in the foreground, and generally uptempo (without resorting to stupid br00tal tricks)... then they forget they ever knew how to play their instruments and they totally resort to said tricks. It is grindcore, after all.
Greatest example of this schizophrenia... Unchallenged Hate - they start off with probably the best opening riff of the entire album. Some solid death growls and the song seems like it's heading somewhere pretty good, and even when they speed it up at 0.29, it becomes a total fucking headbanger. It's similar to March of the S.O.D. in how it alternates fast and midpaced sections. More solid thrash riffs come along, and nifty growls and overall, this is a great song... so far...
Then, at 1.16, it's like they spliced in an entirely different song. Total grindcore drumming, and it's a new vocalist... a raped ferret or something from the best I can tell. What the fuck is up with that interlude?? It just turns into some mindless crap that is at best tolerable, at worst annoying.
The rest of the album doesn't quite match either extreme. They have their fair share of decently long songs... though even they suffer through flaws. They all seem to need a "br00tal" section with really tickticking drums - Mass Appeal Madness, Suffer the Children, etc etc. What would be decent death-thrash is ruined by the core shit.
The highlight... Siege of Power because it stays away from that shit and just ends up being a thrasher in the end. If the whole album were like this, it would be decent. Not spectacular, but kinda decent. It sounds a bit uninspired, and I'm not sure if that's a fault of the mix being a bit blurry or the songs being very samey... not great stuff, but I'm sure I could find a way to bang along to it. If only the whole album were like this, of course - none of this core shit, or the stupid interlude "Harmony Corruption" (I mean what the fuck, man??).
There's a real stretch of songs after that that kinda blur together because they all have a bunch of "urrgghs" and a bunch of random grindcore sections, and maybe one memorable riff (Walls of Confinement, 1.28).
Then there's a matter of the last six songs on the album, which take a total of under 8 minutes... that's Regurgitated Cow Fetus territory, and it's clearly marked, so stay the fuck off the property. It's just pretty much unadulterated crap. Especially "Understanding". SEVEN seconds? Gimme a break.
So, the album does have its redeeming moments... it's not ALL crap, but even the good stuff is missing something, and the terrible stuff is just terrible!


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By Jenifer Langosch / MLB.com
There will be no needed explanations, no descriptors, no additional commentary. There will be little in the way of sympathy for Jerry Meals, who is now not just from Pennsylvania but known throughout the western part of it.
Fathers will tell their sons about Daniel McCutchen and Cristhian Martinez and Michael McKenry. And they will brag about having stayed up to 1:50 a.m. ET to see a game-ending play at the plate that ranks as the most memorable in franchise history since, well, The Slide.
It was a game "dripping with drama," manager Clint Hurdle said afterward. True, indeed, but the ending was also oozing with irony.
Only a couple hundred yards away from Turner Field's home plate, visitors can find an outline of where Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium once stood. The ballpark was torn down in August 1997, nearly five years after it tore apart a franchise.
Of course, no one could have imagined that The Slide would be followed by 18 straight losing seasons in Pittsburgh, that one play -- Sid Bream scoring from second to win Game 7 of the 1992 National League Championship Series -- would go on to define the franchise for a generation of fans. From Bream's sprint to Meals' safe call, heartache, frustration, anger and apathy have taken their turns within a fan base.
That 1992 club and this 2011 one, though, hope to be linked by more than just game-ending plays at the plate in Atlanta. This Pirates team wants to be what that club was -- winners -- and be sure that many members of that team are pulling just as hard.
"I have a loyalty to the Phillies, because the Phillies gave me a chance to play, but I am a Pirate at heart," said former catcher Mike LaValliere, whose lunge at Bream was a split second late. "It's the most fabulous thing that the people of Pittsburgh can enjoy baseball again."
Since moving to within one out of the World Series in 1992, this Pirates franchise has not posted a winning season. Before them, no team in professional sports history had ever gone this many years without playing at .500.
But sitting at 54-49 as the first week of August nears, the Pirates have a chance at snapping that skid. This marks only the second time since '92 that the club has been above .500 this late in a season.
"It's funny now with the way we're winning again, I watch home games at home if I'm not going to the ballpark, and I'm ready to throw things through the TV because I care," said John Wehner, a member of that 1992 Pirates team who now serves as a color analyst for road games.
"When I take my kids to games, I ask the other kids, 'Who is your favorite team?' and I hear the Yankees or the Cardinals. Their heroes are Albert Pujols or Derek Jeter. That, to me, is unimaginable to not have the youngsters in the Pittsburgh area rooting for your own team or not having your heroes be from Pittsburgh. That's starting to change."
|-- Former Pirate and current broadcaster John Wehner
"Just to think growing up, I used to jump on the bus and come downtown to watch games with my friends. Every game I went to, it seemed like it meant something. To have a whole generation of kids not experience that is mind-boggling to me."
Not everyone gets a front-row seat that Wehner does, but he is not alone in his enthusiasm about a club that few expected to compete this year.
Jim Leyland never will shake the Pittsburgh from him -- he still makes the city his offseason home -- and when he's not occupied with Tigers games, he continues to check in on the Pirates. And know that he'd gladly give up the distinction of being the last Pirates manager to lead the team to a winning season.
"It's great," Leyland said. "It's a great story, great for baseball. My buddies call me, and of course, they've been on fire. They've got a lot of energy and they're for real, because they pitch good."
LaValliere is keeping his eye on the Pirates from Florida, where he helps run a baseball instructional facility. He has already traveled to Pittsburgh once to see the Pirates play and said he might make an effort to return before the end of September.
His proximity to the Pirates' Spring Training facility affords him the chance to stay well-connected to the organization, and his familiarity with Hurdle -- the two were teammates in St. Louis in 1986 -- had LaValliere convinced early on that the Pirates had the right man leading the turnaround.
"What I see is, I see a manager that has made a huge impact on a ballclub," LaValliere said. "Everybody was all rosy in Spring Training like most teams, but there was sincerity. This wasn't just a company line and we're giving it our best. They believed they had some guys to work with here and that they could be a solid team."
Doug Drabek, LaValliere's batterymate in Game 7 of that '92 NLCS, has seen the highlights and heard the chatter surrounding the Pirates' season all the way out in California, where he currently serves as the pitching coach for the D-backs' high Class A affiliate.
While he is obviously more invested in Arizona's success, as well as that of his son, Kyle, who is in the Blue Jays' organization, Drabek feels for the fans in Pittsburgh. And he was thrilled to learn that a much-improved Pirates team is drawing fans back to the ballpark.
"The thing is getting people out to the ballpark and building that atmosphere again that was there before," Drabek said. "They are good sports fans. I really enjoyed the people there."
Wehner is simply relieved just to hear people around town talking baseball. He is getting ticket requests much more regularly, and even his kids, whom Wehner said never really embraced the sport, are becoming more interested.
A Pittsburgh native, Wehner remains very much invested with the organization. His hope -- and it's one that is echoed by his '92 teammates -- is simply that this franchise can get to where it remains relevant. It's about bringing a generation back to Pirates baseball, Wehner will tell you, and then keeping them invested.
"When I take my kids to games, I ask the other kids, 'Who is your favorite team?' and I hear the Yankees or the Cardinals," Wehner said. "Their heroes are Albert Pujols or Derek Jeter. That, to me, is unimaginable to not have the youngsters in the Pittsburgh area rooting for your own team or not having your heroes be from Pittsburgh.
"That's starting to change."
Jenifer Langosch is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, By Gosh, It's Langosch, and follow her on Twitter @LangoschMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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We're pretty sure you can guess which of the world's museums gets the most visitors annually. But some of the others on this top 10 list, compiled by the Canadian website Canoe.ca, may surprise you. The rankings are based on 2012 data from the Themed Entertainment Association and the AECOM management firm.
1. Louvre (Paris): 9.7 million
2. Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History (Washington, D.C.): 7.6 million
3. Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum (Washington, D.C.): 6.8 million
4. Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York): 6.1 million
5. British Museum (London): 5.6 million
6. Tate Modern (London): 5.3 million
7. National Gallery (London): 5.2 million
8. Vatican Museums: 5.06 million
9. American Museum of Natural History (Washington): 5 million
10. National History Museum (London): 4.9 million
— Linda Zavoral, email@example.com. Follow at Twitter.com/buh_byeTravel.


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As football players, most of our weekends are spent giving you something to cheer about. It's what many of these men do every other day, however, that should make you proud.
For years, professional organizations have had community programs to give back, stay in touch, and promote.
For the most part, they rely on voluntary player participation, outside of football requirements. It is based purely on the fact that players want to get involved.
Over the past 11 years, I have witnessed the Lions' community involvement evolve from sporadic hospital and school visits, to an impressive organization that last year alone saw well over 100 total visits and appearances by players at various schools, hospitals, and charitable events. We're not just talking about local visits either. The club's programs aim to cover most of the province.
We usually travel in groups of three; go on two to three-day road trips, reaching sometimes up to six schools in that span. This is our free time, and this is what many of the players choose to do with it. Giving back isn't part of our job as players; it's simply the right thing to do.
Yes, it is made easier when the club is so committed, and the programs are put in place but, believe me, there is a waiting list among players to get involved. That's impressive.
Some players take things even further. These guys are the real super heroes. Participating in team community programs is one thing. To start your own, well that's another. Far removed from his hard-hitting, trash-talking play, all-star Korey Banks has quietly built 'H.O.P.E 24' (Helping Other People Elevate), a foundation in Atlanta dedicated to making sure that no youth is denied playing high school sports for financial reasons.
Korey saw a need, and did something about it. "You see how a little money can help change the path someone might take," he says. H.O.P.E 24 is in its third year and sponsors around 30 youth right now. Korey's goal is to get to 500. We all cheer for him because he makes great plays on the field but we all should look up to him because of the difference he's making in his community.
Money can get the ball rolling but guidance and encouragement is the next step. I've had the honour of listening to J.R LaRose speak. If you ever get the chance to hear him, do so; he's very impressive. Some speakers have a great story, others just know how to command your attention. J.R has both. Lucky for the youth around this country, he's out there telling his story, and telling it well.
J.R has created LaRose Athletics, a travelling workshop that tours the country aiming to educate, empower and encourage the youth of today. It's an impressive feat to put something like this together on your own. J.R. cares about the youth and puts his time and effort where his heart is. The LaRose Athletics program now reaches thousands of youth each year.
These stories are endless. Most you'll never read about. Your BC Lions are out there, getting involved and making a difference. This is not part of their job, this is just the kind of people they are. It's everywhere, every day.
Geroy Simon coaches youth football, Rolly Lumbala and Jamall Lee work with Pathfinder Society, helping at-risk youth. One day this week, Jason Arakgi and Solomon Elimimian quietly stopped in at Children's Hospital after practice to put smiles on some children's faces. Even our great wives get involved and are doing a Food Bank drive before our game Saturday against Winnipeg at Empire Field. The list and examples are endless.
Whether you're happy when we're winning, or upset when we're losing, you can always take pride in the players of this organization and their constant efforts to continually improve the community around them. I am personally proud of all my teammates who demonstrate such great leadership and passion on the field and in their communities. It makes me proud to be a Lion.


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Whatever happens tonight, it can't be as bad as last week's stiltwalker challenge. Amirite?
Please keep all discussion in here until 10:30PM PT/1:30AM ET.
"Let's start the show!"
Whatever happens tonight, it can't be as bad as last week's stiltwalker challenge. Amirite?
Please keep all discussion in here until 10:30PM PT/1:30AM ET.
"Let's start the show!"
"Whatever you are, be a good one." Abraham Lincoln
What is an "MFWalkoff?"
So, what's happening? Who's making it work and who's effing it up?
I'm not sure anyone is making it work....after Nina went through the workroom after they got back from Mood I think I would opt for a root canal without novocane
IMO Julie has for me turned out to be the biggest dissappointment....I was so impressed with her rack during the first show but the things she keeps doing are not living up to it
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I might have to watch this tomorrow on the computer. Is anyone doing even a bit OK?
I think they made a mistake in sending Julie home..not because of her design but the other lady that they let stay had an awful attitude and pretty much made it clear she didn't want to be there anymore
as for the outfits...I really liked the green dress but other than that I didn't see anything I really liked...the winning look was good...just not for me...but it was total Nina and it worked for her
Thanks ButterflyFaery. I'll try to catch the episode soon
I had to laugh when Micheal Kors said that the green chiffon blouse looked like something a Mom would wear while home pureeing baby food (or something like that). I guess I must hang around more with the t-shirt and sweats crowd, but I don't know any Mom who purees baby food wearing a chiffon blouse. Maybe I'm out of touch and that's how they do it in NYC...but not up here in Maine !
Speaking of Michael - I see on the news that he got married recently. I hope he and Lance will be very happy together.


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Analysis of extremely huge volumes of data to create a new kind of value for industry and end users.
Development of demanding security solutions for all users, devices, data and channels based on the principles of "security by design".
Customer next generation gateways serve as control and interaction points for its users' personal and working lives and enable new value-added services in areas such as home, health and transport.
To identify and initiate cloud computing developments with the potential to optimize operational processes and create entirely new offerings and business models.
To enable competitive and cost-efficient broadband fixed, wireless and mobile Internet access for making the Gigabit society happen.
Driving standardization in order to generate or save licensing fees, and to protect existing investments.
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Earlier this year the government announced a new strategy for a more efficient and sustainable use of water. This would involve a reduction in per capita consumption from 150 litres per day to 130 litres per day.
A new Economic and Social Research Council publication, 'Behavioural Change and Water Efficiency', which accompanied a seminar organised jointly with UK Water Industry Research Ltd, looks at future water management from a social science perspective. Professor Elizabeth Shove, University of Lancaster, says that the current focus on reducing per capita consumption does not recognise the diverse ways in which water is used in everyday life.
'Demand for water should not be seen as the consumption of a uniform substance but as a consequence of the things that people do that require water, such as washing, laundry, growing vegetables or children's parties,' she explains. 'A sociological perspective tries to understand how routines like the daily shower and frequent laundering have developed and why it has become normal to value 'freshness', 'fitness' and instant relaxation. We need this information to work out which practices associated with water will respond to metering and price signals.'
Professor Joe Morris and Dr Richard Franceys, Cranfield University, look at the economics of water pricing and discuss whether it is possible to bring together the guidelines of economic efficiency and fairness and equity. They pay special attention to the development of rising block tariffs, which have had mixed success in some overseas countries and are currently being trialled by a number of UK water companies.
Richard Franceys explains that charging for water is designed to ensure that water companies can meet the long-term costs for capital maintenance while at the same time ensuring that the right amount of water goes to the right people and uses. He says the introduction of differential, rising block tariffs, requires more information about customer water consumption habits: 'Somewhat surprisingly for an industry promoting variable tariffs and 'intelligent' metering, there is a relative dearth of knowledge about how and why households use water the way they do, and how they might respond, not only to variable tariffs, but an array of initiatives which can encourage people to use water wisely.'
Water companies not only have a statutory responsibility to minimise withdrawal from existing water resources and promote water efficiency, they also have to demonstrate the cost-effectiveness of these measures. In his presentation on the industry perspective, Luke deVial, Head of Resources, Wessex Water, explains a new peak seasonal tariff, is being trialled by his company. He acknowledges that water companies could do more to encourage efficient water use but argues that economics does not always tell the whole story.
The report also includes an overview of government policy by Helena Busby, senior policy adviser, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and explains why an independent review of charging for water is necessary. Launching the new strategy, Future Water, Hilary Benn said: 'Our current system of charging, based largely on the value of people's homes 35 years ago, is archaic and rife with anomalies. We need a fairer system that offers incentives to conserve water. In areas of serious water stress it's pretty clear that this will mean near universal metering before 2030.'
Helena Busby concludes: 'The important message for consumers is that if you save water, you can save energy and you can save money.'
Source: Economic and Social Research Council
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Our cover design by Nanette Black features an image from a series of photographs by Gregory Spaid on rural America soon to be published by Safe Harbor Books under the title Grace, with an essay by Wendell Berry.The photograph on our cover was made in 1997 at the Harrison Grange in Knox County, Ohio. Spaid's work is in the permanent collections of such public and private institutions as the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian, and the Chase Manhattan Bank. Spaid, a professor of art at Kenyon College, received a Fulbright research fellowship to Italy and numerous fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council.
Editor's Notes
The Spring 2001 edition of The Kenyon Review will, I'm delighted to announce, be produced in collaboration with the Nobel Museum in Stockholm and with Stand, the most influential literary magazine in England. In celebration of the one-hundredth anniversary of the Nobel Prizes, the issue will contain new work by living laureates as well as interviews and special articles about their work. It will represent a conversation about the nature of creativity in the different fields that receive Nobel Prizes, from literature to the sciences and even to the hugely varied and often dangerous pursuits of peace around the world.
You'll note that I hesitate to name names. In these early, rather frenzied days of planning and soliciting contributors for such an ambitious collection, we face an embarrassment of riches and a careful diplomatic dance. Whom should we invite to contribute? Far more difficult—whom should we not? Even with a significantly increased number of pages, not all living Nobel laureates can be featured. Such a vexing problem! Stay tuned—in my notes for the Winter 2001 issue, I should be able to fill you in.
A major exhibition mounted by the Nobel Museum to mark the centenary of the Nobel Prizes will also debut next March. Its tour of the globe, including Japan and Australia, will last four years, and with it will travel the Spring 2001 issue of KR.
The prospect, the challenge before us is, of course, both exhilarating and a bit daunting. It will be a signal moment for The Kenyon Review: not simply another issue of this magazine but a literary event of wide resonance.
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In the issue you now hold is a stunning, challenging, rather disorienting essay on the nature of time and our human place in it, out of it, watching it, as defined by it, and our striving to manipulate it through art. "Broken Dates: Fiction and the Century" by Michael Wood is based on a talk he gave at the National Arts Club in New York on October 12, 1999, to mark the sixtieth anniversary of The Kenyon Review. The sense of celebration, of intellectual excitement among a large crowd that evening in Gramercy Park, suggested the larger national community of readers and writers whom we serve and strive to please. Such is both our joy and responsibility.
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ST. GEORGE, Utah — Freshman guard Brandon Simister scored 15 points in the second half leading Dixie State College to an 87-78 win over the Chaminade Silverswords in Pacific West Conference play Monday night at the Burns Arena.
McKay Massey led Dixie State (5-2, 2-0 PWC) with 17 points. Dalton Groskreutz added 16 points in 27 minutes, and Zach Robbins chipped in 12 points and eight rebounds.
The Silverswords (3-4, 0-1 PWC) were led by the guard duo of Lee Baily and Bennie Murray, each with 15 points.
"Our guys battled," head coach Jon Judkins said. "We need to learn how to close out halves and games. Overall, I'm happy with the effort."
Chaminade jumped out early to an 8-2 lead behind a pair if three pointers from Oregon State transfer Rhys Murphy.
After the Swords took a 15-14 lead, Dixie State made a major run with 10 straight points. Triples from Groskreutz and Massey combined with free throws and a Kimball Payne driving layup gave DSC a 24-15 lead.
After another late eight point DSC spurt pushed the lead to 14 with 2:01 left, Chaminade outscored the home club 8-1 to minimize the deficit to seven, 37-30, at the break.
Dixie State would extend the lead to as many as 18 points at the 8:46 mark on a pair of Derek Owen free throws. Chaminade lived by the long shot, but also died by it. Three shots from distance put CUH within 10 points before an empathetic Groskreutz left-handed dunk brought the crowd to its feet.Comment on this story
Simister took over as the Storm iced away the game. His first three pointer with 3:37 left in regulation allowed DSC to take a 10-point lead. A few minutes later, Simister drained a contested wing ball as the shot clock expired.
Simister, Massey and Groskreutz knocked down the final eight points from the foul line.
Dixie State shot over 60 percent from the floor for the third game this year (61.7%, 29-47), while hitting 7-of-12 from beyond the arc. Payne finished an assist shy of his career-best with eight.
The Red Storm continues Pacific West Conference play Saturday at Fresno Pacific beginning at 5:30 p.m. MST.
John Potter is the "Voice of the Red Storm" and an athletic media relation assistant at Dixie State College. Contact him at email@example.com.


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There are few things more exciting or fun for one of our Richmond VA area pet sitters than to be assigned a new puppy to take care of. The sitter goes a couple of times each day to let the puppy out, clean out the crate if necessary, feed the pup and spend lots of play time on each visit.
All puppies are cute and adorable, but where did that puppy come from?
Some people consider themselves breeders although all they are really doing is increasing the number of puppies when there are already tons that can and should be adopted from animal shelters and rescues. In that situation, they have a female mixed breed who has never been spayed and she runs loose and the inevitable happens — she becomes pregnant!
Surprise, Surprise!! Now the people have a pregnant dog and chances are, she will give birth to around 6 puppies that the owner will need to find homes for. They have no idea who the father of the puppies is or anything about the size, temperament, etc. of the dad. But these people see themselves as "breeders." You'll spot them sitting outside pet stores and other busy shopping centers on Saturday afternoon giving puppies away for free. Will they go to a nice family or will they end up in an animal research facility or become bait at dog fights? [click to continue…]


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By Josh Boyd
July 23, 2002
On the same day that Kenny Rogers vetoed a trade that would have brought him to Cincinnati for three prospects, Reds general manager Jim Bowden turned around and dealt for his second veteran starter in two weeks. The Reds picked up Brian Moehler and minor league outfielder Matt Boone from the Tigers for shortstop prospect David Espinosa and two players to be named later. Detroit also will cover part of the remainder of $2.4 million salary for 2002.
The Reds are in second place in the National League Central, 4½ games behind the Cardinals, who bolstered their rotation by adding Chuck Finley four days earlier. Moehler, a 30-year-old righthander, will replace the injured Joey Hamilton in a Cincinnati rotation consisting of Elmer Dessens, Chris Reitsma, Jimmy Haynes and the recently acquired Ryan Dempster. Moehler had been a steady workhorse for Detroit from 1997-2000, averaging 193 innings per season, before tearing his labrum and rotator cuff and making just one start in 2001. After surgery, he made six rehab starts in 2002 before rejoining the Tigers and going 1-1, 2.29 in three outings. Moehler throws a sinker, cut fastball, slider and changeup, relying on location more than pure stuff. In 131 big league games, he has gone 48-52, 4.44 with 446 strikeouts in 809 innings. Moehler will be eligible for free agency after the season.
Had Rogers not turned down the opportunity to join the Reds, Espinosa would have headed to Texas along with righthander Josh Hall and outfielder Alan Moye. Drafted with the 23rd overall pick in 2000, Espinosa signed an eight-year major league contract worth a guaranteed $2.75 million, which didn't include a signing bonus because Cincinnati was strapped for cash. After batting .262-7-37 in his pro debut for low Class A Dayton in 2001, the 20-year-old Espinosa was moved up to high Class A Stockton this year and moved from shortstop to second base. He committed 48 errors at Dayton, and the Reds also didn't believe that his footwork and actions were a natural fit at shortstop. He has made 26 errors in 95 games at second, and some scouts believe his ultimate destination will be center field. An aggressive switch-hitter with power potential from the left side of the plate, he's hitting .245-7-44. He has made some strides with his plate discipline, drawing 64 walks, but his 104 strikeouts point to his need to make more contact. If he can do that, he's a potential leadoff hitter. Espinosa has good speed, though he's still a work in progress on the bases as well, having been caught 17 times in 43 steal attempts.
Boone, 23, joins his brother, third baseman Aaron, and father, manager Bob, in Cincinnati. His brother Bret plays for the Mariners, and their grandfather Ray is a former big league all-star. Matt's family connections are the most notable part of his baseball résumé, as he hasn't gotten past high Class A since being drafted in the third round out of a California high school in 1997. He has moved from third base to the outfield this year, when he has hit .246-3-19 in 51 games at high Class A Lakeland.
August 30 update: The Dayton Daily News is reporting that low Class A Dayton outfielder Gary "Noochie" Varner will join the Tigers as part of the Moehler trade. Varner, 21, was a 10th-round pick in 2000 out of St. Catharine (Ky.) JC and hit .351 while repeating the Rookie-level Pioneer League in 2001. This year, he has batted .310-10-69 with 37 steals in 41 attempts and set Dragons franchise records for average, hits (160), triples (12) and steals. He was named to both the midseason and postseason all-star teams in the Midwest League. Varner's plate discipline (32 walks, 117 strikeouts) could use some improvement, but he's regarded as a competitive player who hits the ball where it's pitched. His speed, arm and outfield defense are positives.
September 24 update: The deal was completed with the Tigers receiving righthander Jorge Cordova. Cordova, 24, initially was signed by the Yankees out of Venezuela in 1995. He was released and signed by the Marlins in 1997 before being dealt to the Reds for righthander Manny Aybar at the 2000 trade deadline. Cordova was moved to the bullpen at high Class A Stockton this year because he has a lively 92-94 mph fastball but not much else to go with it. He went a combined 9-2, 2.73 with 13 saves and a 59-20 strikeout-walk ratio in 53 innings this year. Cordova spent much of the season at Double-A Chattanooga and had a brief stint at Triple-A Louisville.


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If a movie crammed front-to-back with bad news, woeful stats and glaring injustice can be considered inspiring, well, then, "Inequality for All" — starring the diminutive, indefatigable Robert Reich — is that movie.
A must-see documentary about America's widening income gap and shrinking middle class, "Inequality for All" shadows the former secretary of labor (in the first Clinton administration) and current UC Berkeley economics professor as he drives his Mini Cooper around, meeting with families struggling to live paycheck to paycheck, faced with mounting expenses, day care costs, rents, mortgages — household budgets in the red, no matter how hard they try. Directed by Jacob Kornbluth and deploying nifty animated graphics (pie charts and bar graphs, oh my!), "Inequality for All" should be required viewing in high schools, colleges and on Capitol Hill, where the Trickle Downers keep denying that the system is broken.
I'm sorry, but this film makes an absolutely convincing case that the system is, indeed, busted. "Today, the richest 400 Americans have more wealth than the bottom 150 million of us put together," Reich says at one point, having contrasted the typical male worker's salary in 1978 with that of the average wage earner in the top 1 percent back then — and how that gap has exploded now.
"Think about it," he says. "Four hundred people have more wealth than half the population of the United States."
One of those 400 is Nick Hanauer, a Seattle pillow manufacturer and venture capitalist (and early investor in Amazon), who gives the lie to the belief that the wealthy should be left alone in a free market system because they are the "job creators" — their success means more commerce, more people with money in their pockets.
In fact, Hanauer argues, it is the middle class who are the real job creators — the consumers who keep the economy going. Even "a person like me," he says, can only buy so many pairs of jeans, so many pillows, so many houses. If the middle class continues to get smaller, the economic engine that powers the country sputters and stalls.
Reich teaches a "Wealth and Poverty" course at Berkeley. The large hall is packed, and his lectures are excerpted in the film. It's easy to see why the class is so popular: Reich is funny, poignant, passionate. And Kornbluth gets Reich to talk about his childhood, the challenges he faced growing up when his body refused to grow (the 4-foot-10 Reich suffers from a rare genetic disorder, Fairbanks syndrome). When he was a kid, Reich looked for friends to protect him from the bullies. One of his protectors was Michael Schwerner. In 1964, as a civil rights activist, Schwerner joined the "Freedom Summer" campaign and was killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan in Philadelphia, Miss. The loss of his friend changed Reich's life, inspiring him to fight bullies and protect the powerless.
Another fateful friendship — with Bill Clinton — began when the two students were among a troop of Rhodes Scholars, heading for Oxford in 1969. In those days, they crossed the Atlantic by boat, and Reich, suffering from sea sickness, was curled up on his bed when there was a knock at the door. The tall guy from Arkansas had heard Reich was sick, and brought him a bowl of chicken soup.
So, yes, in "Inequality for All," it's impossible not to come to like the self-deprecating economist and his stories of triumph, tragedy — and chicken soup. Chicken soup for a nation's soul?
'INequality for all'
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Rating: PG (adult themes)
Cast: Robert Reich, Nick Hanauer, Ladd and Nancy Rasmussen
Director: Jacob Kornbluth
Running time: 1 hour, 22 minutes