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WD and Xyratex discuss future tech roadmap for disk drives
Heat-assisted magnetic recording product could arrive by 2014
It seems the disk drive industry has decided which future technology to use and in which order, judging by recent Western Digital and Xyratex discussions with investment analysts.
The current perpendicular magnetic recording technology (PMR) is running out of steam as continued size reductions in the magnetised bit area lead to unreliable data storage. There are two long-term technologies suggested as a way to defeat this: heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) and bit-patterned media (BPM) plus a short-term boost to areal density improvements with PMR by using partially overlapping tracks in Shingled write technology.
WD's CFO, Wolfgang Nickl, presented to financial analysts yesterday and provided a three-step technology roadmap. He anticipates a move to Shingle writing in 2013, HAMR, which he called Energy/Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording or E/HAMR, in the 2014-2015 period, and BPM in 2020 or so. as noted by Stifel Nicolaus analyst Aaron Rakers noted that these dates were later than previous predictions.
At the same event, Harold Lehon, Xyratex's EVP for the storage infrastructure part of its business, said that recent areal density growth had been at the 40 per cent per year rate and that it was now slowing, possibly heading towards a 25 per cent rate. Lehon said he thought that Shingled writing could be realised through 2015, two years later than WD's data.
Apropos Shingled writing: Lehon thinks it could enable areal densities to reach 1.5TB/in2 and, because of the large data reading, storing and rewriting operations needed when tracks are re-written, will require NAND flash on the disk drive on-board controller.
The hard disk drive industry could begin to implement HAMR technology in 2014, working on developing it before then. It would enable 4TB/sq2 areal density levels.
Xyratex has said before that vendors could increase the number of platters and heads in drives to compensate for slowing areal density growth and still offer higher capacities year on year.
Given that WD is a partner of Seagate and others in the Storage Technology Alliance, which was set up to agree an industry-wide approach to technology developments, the implication is that HAMR has been decided as the main approach to take, with BPM following on afterwards. There was a seeming consensus that Shingled writing was feasible, but no agreement between Western Digital and Xyratex about its possible introduction.
Flash impact
Regarding the flash impact on PC hard disk drives sales, Nickl said that about two per cent of PCs bought are using solid state drives(SSDs) and that a 256GB PC SSD costs about 17 times more than the same capacity hard drive. He reckoned that SSD areal density curve was increasing at 33 per cent a year through to 2020 while the hard disk drive areal density increase rate was 33 per cent.
Nickl predicted that WD would have an enterprise-class SSD product in the fourth quarter of 2011. WD is looking at the hybrid drive market, meaning Seagate's Momentus XT with an onboard flash cache, but did not say whether WD had decided to make a similar product.
The net of this is that we'll have another PMR generation and could see HAMR product introduced in 2014 with a possibility of Shingled writing extending PMR's capacity the year before. ®
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The former FLOTUS also explained to Ellen Degeneres how Barack stepped in and saved the day.
WASHINGTON (AP) — After winning the 2010 Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, Mo'Nique noted that she was wearing a royal blue dress, along with a gardenia in her hair, because that's what Hattie McDaniel wore 70 years earlier, when she became the first African American to receive an Academy Award.
"Ms. Hattie McDaniel, I feel you all over me, and it's about time that the world feels you all over them," said Mo'Nique, the Baltimore County actress and comedienne who is producing a film biography about McDaniel.
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The tribute renewed an old mystery: Where is McDaniel's own, historic Oscar?
It belongs to Howard University's theater department, which has spent years trying to figure out what happened to the Oscar that disappeared decades ago — though nobody knows exactly when.
"It's a never-ending mystery," says Tom Gregory, a Hollywood memorabilia collector. "Where is it? It's really an unbelievable story."
McDaniel was named Best Supporting Actress in 1940 for playing the servant Mammy in "Gone With the Wind," a performance that earned praise even as McDaniel was criticized for perpetuating negative stereotypes.
When she died of breast cancer in 1952, McDaniel bequeathed her Oscar to Howard's drama department, which had honored the pioneering actress with a luncheon after her win. (McDaniel had no academic affiliation with the school.)
Howard archivists say there's no official record that the university ever received the award, which was a plaque, not one of the iconic Oscar statuettes. (Supporting actor and actress winners didn't get statuettes until 1943.) But former students vividly recall seeing it in the school's fine-arts building, Childers Hall.
Charles "Buddy" Butler, a theater major who graduated from Howard in 1968, says he saw the plaque displayed in a glass-enclosed case in the Childers greenroom. The university's drama chairman at the time, Owen Dodson, "was so proud of having it at Howard," says Butler, who now teaches theater at San Jose State University in California. "Dodson talked about it as something we, as African American students, could aspire to."
Sometime after Butler graduated, though, McDaniel's award vanished. Gone, as it were, with the wind.
Was it taken by student protesters to repudiate the subservience of McDaniel's Mammy? The Wikipedia entry on McDaniel states as fact that her Oscar "disappeared during racial unrest (at Howard) in the late 1960s." (One version of that popular theory has students tossing the award into the Potomac.)
Other theories abound: Maybe the plaque was moved for safekeeping during a period of black-power protest and never made it back to its display case. A professor might have walked away with it. Perhaps it was stolen, then sold to a collector. Any of this could have happened in 1968. Or was it 1973?
"Sometime in the early '70s — I can't recall the exact date — I was back on campus and went into the greenroom, and it wasn't there," says Donal Leace, a professional singer and former Howard student who remembers holding McDaniel's Oscar in his hands sometime in the '60s.
Leace is convinced that the award — among the most valuable and historically significant artifacts in African American film history — was stolen. By whom, he has no idea. "It's odd; these things usually get out," he says. "Somebody fesses up to having seen it."
"Nobody knows when it went missing — that's partly why nobody knows where it might be," says Leslie Unger, spokeswoman for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Five years ago, Joseph Selmon, Howard's theater chairman, asked the academy to issue a replacement Oscar for McDaniel. Citing a long-standing policy, the academy said no, sending instead a framed photo of McDaniel and a sheet of commemorative McDaniel postage stamps. "We do not create replacements for heirs or whomever may have come into possession of an award following the winner's death," explains Unger.
Interest in McDaniel has been rising. The U.S. Postal Service issued a stamp in her honor in 2006, and a musical, "Hattie . . . What I Need You to Know," has played off-Broadway. Producer Re'Shaun Frear is also petitioning for a replacement award. "I'm trying to get the African American film community behind it so the academy has no choice," he says.
Mo'Nique's planned biopic comes as scholars increasingly argue that there was more to the pioneering actress than Mammy — and that her best-known performance was atypically forceful for a black female in 1930s Hollywood, anyway.
"Through Mammy, she was offering a thickly veiled critique against stereotypes," says Jill Watts, a history professor at California State University at San Marcos and author of "Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood." ''People have been coming around to that in the last 10 to 15 years."
In the 1960s, though, as the civil rights movement soared and social turbulence swept across Howard's campus, many students viewed McDaniel with disdain.
"I was too radical to truly appreciate the genius of Ms. McDaniel," says writer Pearl Cleage, who studied at Howard in the mid-'60s. "I was conditioned to be angry because she won the award for playing Mammy. Politics trumped the art of her amazing performance."
Vera J. Katz, a former drama professor, recalls the day Butterfly McQueen, who also played a servant in "Gone With the Wind," came to campus and was booed by students: "They felt she was a Thomasina — an Uncle Tom. They were upset with her for playing a sweet, stupid servant."
Could the same students who booed McQueen have taken McDaniel's Oscar in protest?
"There were a lot of things — a lot — that ended up being stolen or 'went missing,' because there was an attitude to try to get rid of the past," says Geoffrey Newman, a Howard alumnus and theater chairman who is now a dean at Montclair State University in New Jersey. Newman is certain the Oscar "was stolen by an irate student who wanted to erase Hattie McDaniel."
Gregory, the Hollywood collector, thinks the award, which he values at more than $550,000, was thrown into the Potomac in a final act of erasure. "I spoke to a guy who told me it was heaved into the river — he was there," Gregory says, though he cannot recall his informant's name. "Why would you do that? It's like heaving a diamond ring into the river because you're mad at somebody."
That story "makes for an interesting legend, but I would have to think that is not even remotely true," says Richard Wesley, who studied at Howard in the '60s and now teaches at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Few students outside the drama department knew Howard had the Oscar, Wesley says. "And certainly no drama student at Howard would have done something as disrespectful as that, even if we were still willing to fuss about the symbolism of Mammy."
He has another theory: "I am pretty certain that Owen Dodson took the Oscar with him. He was very protective of his artifacts."
But Dodson didn't have the Oscar when he died in New York in 1983, according to James Hatch, author of "Sorrow Is the Only Faithful One: The Life of Owen Dodson" and literary executor of Dodson's estate. He "never saw at any time an Academy Award in Owen's apartment" and "never heard him talk about it."
Butler, the San Jose State professor, has a theory involving a different Howard instructor. "I've heard on more than one occasion that it was taken by Mike Malone," Butler says. "I heard from a couple of former students that they had seen the award in Mike's apartment" in Cleveland, where Malone became artistic director of the Karamu House theater company.
But Reggie Kelly, who was a Malone protege at Karamu House, says he never saw the artifact during frequent visits to Malone's apartment and that Malone, who died in 2006, "never mentioned anything about Hattie McDaniel or the award."
Selmon has settled on yet another narrative: The award was put into storage, perhaps in an unmarked or mismarked box. He remains optimistic it will be found. Eventually.
It's hardly uncommon for things — important things — to be misplaced at large universities, including Howard. Consider the case of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. For years, a bronzed pair of the great tap-dancer's shoes sat in the same display case that held McDaniel's Oscar. Then, the shoes vanished. "Everybody thought they were gone," says Selmon. "But they were actually just in a box somewhere."
The bronzed shoes are now in the same locked library storage room where a Howard employee recently discovered more McDaniel material.
But excitement quickly evaporated. The find was not the Academy Award, but an old photo of McDaniel. In a file cabinet nearby, there was also this: An old memo with an ageless title: "Where Is Hattie McDaniel's Oscar?"
Copyright 2010 The Associated Press.
The former FLOTUS also explained to Ellen Degeneres how Barack stepped in and saved the day.
"When my teacher asks me a question thinking I'm not paying attention, but I get it right."


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A Beautiful Mind: Brain Twist's Larry T is Back
By Ray Latif
Larry Trachtenbroit is nearly two decades into a career in the beverage industry that has brought him cash from Coke – twice – and the respect of his peers. He's demonstrated a near-legendary ability to produce wildly innovative products on a regular basis. Of course, legend can be tough to live up to, particularly when compared to profit and loss sheets. On the one hand, Trachtenbroit – or Larry T, as he's often called – has been lauded as an innovator with a knack for off-the-wall originality: he's put everything from cereal to pastries to pure sensation into a can and sold them all as beverages; he's developed brands for sale to big companies and he's shown surprising flexibility with the ones he's kept for himself. But, while his talent as an innovator has translated into a long and profitable career, his products have struggled to find solid footing in the market. In fact, with the exception of Slap Energy, a line of highly caffeinated drinks, his brands have all been discontinued, none lasting more than five years.
Nevertheless, there was Trachtenbroit, marching across the stage at a recent industry conference – along with none other than a supermodel – to introduce his latest product, Halo. According to Trachtenbroit, Halo, due out in April, is an aloe juice-focused drink that incorporates other on-trend features like coconut water and energy in a low-sugar package. According to the rest of the world, Larry T, whose decidedly un-supermodelesque figure is typically swathed in New York Jets Jerseys and Hawaiian shirts, is working with none other than Petra Nemcova.
Oh, that Larry T. He's just full of surprises. Here's another one: when contacted by BevNET about the launch, the normally verbose Trachtenbroit had to be coaxed into the conversation, initially only allowing that he was using aloe because he thought it had a lighter and crisper flavor profile than other natural and functional beverages, and that some of the profits would benefit Nemcova's foundation.
"It's a great emerging category, one that wasn't as polarizing as, say, acai or coconut water," Trachtenbroit said.
If the absence of joking, of gloating, of dwelling on the partnership with Nemcova seems odd – after all, this is an industry where half the publicity seems to surround which product is being sipped by either Alex Rodriguez or one of the Real Housewives of New Jersey – then it should now be stated that many of Trachtenbroit's encounters with the beverage industry have been unconventional as well. Call them the stuff of legends.
Let's review:
In the early 1990s, Trachtenbroit was the owner of a busy one-hour photo store in Hampton Bays on Long Island. The shop was known to be popular among local A-list actors who loved the service, if not the bustling throng of other customers waiting for their photos. Ever the one to please, Trachtenbroit built a back room where his high-profile clients could wait for their photos in a relaxed environment and even enjoy a cup of coffee.
Trachtenbroit – an entrepreneur to the core – eventually transformed the back of the photo store into a full service, high-end coffee bar, and the small business became a launching pad for a chain of coffee shops called Planet Java. Within a couple years, Trachtenbroit also started a premium coffee supply business for fast food franchises, and by 1996 he was distributing coffee to hundreds of restaurants in metro New York.
Armed with a successful retail and distribution business, Trachtenbroit believed that there was even greater potential for the Planet Java brand, particularly after Starbucks launched its line of ready-to-drink Frappuccino products in a joint venture with PepsiCo. Trachtenbroit saw space in the developing category, and offering consumers a premium alternative to the Frappuccino brand was his point of entry. Trachtenbroit began working with Dallis Brothers, a local roaster in Queens, NY, to formulate and bottle an RTD iced coffee under the Planet Java name.
"Larry is very forward thinking; his idea was to upgrade, to give people better-quality coffee than they were used to," said Herb Dallis, the former chairman of Dallis Brothers.
Of course, creating a premium iced coffee was only half the story. The wily entrepreneur saw the massive growth of the Frappuccino brand and knew that Coca-Cola would attempt to the level the playing field with a similar product of its own. After months of discussions, Trachtenbroit eventually convinced Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) – Coke's second largest bottler in the U.S. at the time – to distribute Planet Java in New York and New Jersey. By the end of 2000, the brand was moving an estimated 100,000 cases.
The numbers weren't eye-popping, but they were enough for Coke to see Planet Java's potential as a national brand. The cola giant purchased Planet Java in January 2001 at a price reported to be less than $10 million. Coke also gave Trachtenbroit a three-year contact to create a new innovation unit with relatively free reign to develop new beverage brands quickly and without the long lead time commonly associated with other Coke products.
Trachtenbroit named the unit "Brain-Twist" and described it as an entrepreneurial farm league for Coke, one that would target younger beverage consumers, including teens and college graduates. The mantra was simple: "If it looks good and tastes good, we'll sell it… it could be bubble gum juice," Trachtenbroit said.
The only problem was that while Trachtenbroit had done well in selling Planet Java to Coke, Coke hadn't done a good job selling Planet Java to consumers. In fact, around the same time that Trachtenbroit's contract ended, in 2004, the cola giant discontinued the brand. It had fallen out of favor with Coke's independent bottlers, many of which preferred high volume, less complex beverages that could maximize production runs.
"We just didn't see the opportunity," said Ron Wilson, the former president of the Philadelphia Coca-Cola Bottling Co.
When Trachtenbroit's contact with Coca-Cola ended, he formed Brain-Twist as a legally separate and independent entity, yet still remained close to the company through collaborations and partnerships with Coke-affiliated bottlers
and emerging beverage divisions. Over the next seven years, Brain-Twist would create a unique and diverse – albeit mostly unsuccessful – mix of beverages.
In 2005, Trachtenbroit took another shot at the RTD coffee category with Cinnabon Coffee Lattes, a line of coffee drinks licensed through an agreement with Focus Brands Inc., the parent company of Cinnabon Inc. As with Planet Java, Trachtenbroit enlisted a major Coke bottler, this time Coke Consolidated, to distribute Cinnabon Lattes. Yet while contemplating distribution plans for the line, the bottler decided that it would be more prudent to purchase the brand outright. Trachtenbroit agreed and sold the Cinnabon Latte brand, along with licensing rights from Brain Twist and Cinnabon Inc., to Coke Consolidated's new BYB division, a brand-focused subsidiary specializing in new beverage innovation.
Shortly after that purchase, Coke Consolidated also snapped up two other innovative Brain Twist products: Defense Vitamin Drinks, a pioneering line of so-called "immunity boosting" beverages, and Respect: Mind and Body, a line of natural, New Age beverages with the tagline, "You're not artificial, why should your drink be?"
Brain-Twist continued to push the envelope with unique and inventive beverage brands. The company followed its introduction of Cinnabon and Defense drinks with Liquid Cereal, a shelf-stable blend of crushed cereal and fat-free milk, and Fair Warning, a beverage line designed to create heating or cooling sensations when consumed, though without any actual differences in temperature.
Here's the thing, though: although those new brands garnered a great deal of interest and critical acclaim throughout the industry, each would be swept off shelves and discontinued within two years of their launch amidst a lack of distribution partners, weak sales, and weaker than expected consumer interest.
Despite the failure of these brands, Ken Sadowsky, the executive director of the Northeast Independent Distributors' Association (NIDA) and a longtime beverage investor, noted that Trachtenbroit has been and continues to be successful because of his innovative and creative approach to new beverages, and, more importantly, he has a buyer for his ideas.
"We need more beverage innovators, and he's definitely one of them," Sadowsky said. "The jury's still out [on his products], and he's got assets and liabilities, but he's got a buyer for his mind. If you're sitting in the chair of [Coke CEO] Muhtar Kent with his incredibly speculative portfolio, expectations aren't that high for a company like Brain-Twist, and Larry's found a great little niche."
Indeed. Soon after its formation in 2007, Coke's Venturing and Emerging Brands (VEB) unit purchased a 20 percent stake in Brain-Twist, reportedly at a cost of $5 million. VEB President Deryck van Rensburg hailed VEB's first investment as
one that would garner ''access to a pipeline of innovative ideas and products."
Before the Halo presentation, that pipeline could be summed up in one word: Slap.
With the VEB investment in hand, Trachtenbroit sets his sights on the rapidly developing energy drink category and launched Slap, a so-called "multi-stage energy supplement," with a formulation and branding that once again showcased Trachtenbroit's ability to think outside the box. The line included an innovative green tea and energy hybrid, and a "Frost" flavor that encompassed elements of Brain-Twist's Fair Warning products – each sip gives consumers a purported cooling "sensation." Trachtenbroit also pumped 100 mg of caffeine into each 8 oz. serving of Slap drinks and claims that the products contain "25 percent more energy" than leading energy drink brands.
Though VEB did not require Brain-Twist to place Slap in the hands of Coke bottlers, the brand grew quickly as it gained presence within the Coke system. Slap was sold alongside Coke's Full Throttle and NOS energy drinks and by early 2010, CCE was distributing the product in most of New York state, with a number of smaller Coke bottlers selling Slap in the Midwest. Trachtenbroit was optimistic about expanding his distribution lines in the Coke system as Brain-Twist made a strong push into the West Coast and began testing a value-based marketing strategy with pre-priced $0.99 cans. Trachtenbroit was quoted as saying that Slap's volume could approach 1 million cases in 2010, up from about 100,000 in the previous year.
Later in the year, however, Brain-Twist found a new and unusual source of distribution as the company aligned itself with Anderson Merchandising, a so-called "rack jobber" that distributes a diverse array of products including magazines, newspapers, DVDs, and books. Anderson initially tested Slap in 1,000 Wal-Mart stores and – positioning the brand as a value alternative to Red Bull and Monster – priced the product at $0.98 per 16 oz. can. The strategy was largely successful and led to Slap gaining chainwide distribution at all 3,600 Wal-Mart stores across the country.
Using a similar value proposition model, Slap also scored a direct distribution deal with Casey's General Stores. Casey's, which operates a chain of 1,600 convenience stores in the Midwest, sells Slap for $1.79 per can and 2 cans for $2.22.
He's continued to innovate behind Slap as well and plans to launch a new frozen energy product called Slap Frozen Energy. Set to launch this April, the slushie-like product contains the same energy formula as Slap Energy and is packaged in a resealable pouch with the tagline, "Freeze It. Squeeze It. Get Slap'd." Trachtenbroit said that Slap Frozen will initially be distributed in all Wal-Mart and Casey's stores as well as in a number of smaller retailers in 10 Northeast states through a budding DSD network of ice cream distributors.
Slap has shown traction in Wal-Mart and Casey's, but thus far Trachtenbroit says he has not tried to leverage any of the knowledge or distribution power from his partners at VEB to try to help the brand grow. He said that VEB "doesn't do much for" Slap and, when asked to elaborate, Trachtenbroit said that Coke simply holds an equity position in Brain-Twist. VEB declined to comment for this article.
It appears that he's keeping Coke hands-off when it comes to Halo as well. Despite his longstanding relationship with the cola giant, Trachtenbroit told BevNET that VEB has no direct involvement with the project.
It's a far cry from the glowing comments that Trachtenbroit made about Coke in a 2002 article in Brandweek, when he was asked a similar question about the extent of Coke's influence and involvement in Brain-Twist.
"We can do anything we want as far as drinks go, and we have Coke's resources available," Trachtenbroit told the magazine. "They'll help us with any issue we have."
While VEB may not be involved in Halo, when it goes into production it will mark the first time that a Coke-affiliated company gets involved with an aloe product domestically. As a brand, it does have some on-trend characteristics – aloe has been gradually moving into the mainstream, and L.A. Libations, another innovation-focused brand house recently launched a similarly low-calorie aloe water, Aloe Gloe.
Danny Stepper, the co-founder of L.A. Libations, said that he is hoping Halo will be "a massive success," particularly as Aloe Gloe is currently the only American-made aloe drink on the market. Having another such product would enhance mainstream exposure for aloe and benefit the category as whole, he said.
"I'm bullish for them," Stepper said. "We need a good competitor [for aloe beverages] that's made in the U.S. There will be a lot of room for winners."
As for Nemcova, the celebrity supermodel known for her appearances in Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit Issue and Victoria's Secret catalogs, Trachtenbroit declined to say whether she is a financial investor in Halo. He did say that she had a significant role in the naming, formulation and branding of the beverage. Nemcova will also play an important part in promoting the aloe drink and its relationship with her Happy Hearts Fund, a non-profit foundation that rebuilds schools in areas struck by natural disasters.
But Trachtenbroit said that Nemcova will not be the focus of Halo's marketing campaign. Instead, the company will focus on a message of "good for you, doing good" – a reference to the healthy qualities of the beverage and the company's philanthropic endeavors. Trachtenbroit was quick to point out that while there is a vast amount of scientific research on aloe's health benefits, Halo will make no specific claims about the ingredient.
Instead, he focused on the products' market segmentation: he said that Halo will attempt to leverage the growing interest in ingredient against longstanding beverage platforms in sports and energy, a key point of differentiation from other aloe drinks currently on the market. Halo will initially roll-out in two varieties: Reboot, an isotonic-focused drink made with 5 percent coconut water; and Bounce, an aloe/energy hybrid with natural caffeine derived from guarana. Each beverage will contain 30 calories and 15 percent aloe juice.
Though Trachtenbroit said that some tweaking would be likely, early images of the product show Halo packaged in a 16 oz. hourglass-shaped plastic bottle with a white wraparound label. The label features an image of several overlapping green and blue circles (presumably meant to look like halos) at the top and an aloe leaf near the bottom. Multi-colored swaths adorn the front of the label to differentiate between each variety (violet and blue for Reboot, and peach and yellow for Bounce).
Trachtenbroit said he is aiming for an May 1 release for Halo – and while he said that he and his team are identifying Halo's target demographic and deciding on the most appropriate retail channels for the drink, he estimated that the company will have a "plan of attack" completed soon.
Considering the growth potential for aloe drinks – and the lack of any established leadership in the still-nascent category – establishing a leadership position with a strong brand could redefine Trachtenbroit's career. A hit would make for two solid brands in a row, and move him from inconsistent "enfant terrible" to consistent performer, from innovator to brand-builder. Of course, if it doesn't – or even if it does – chances are Trachtenbroit will move onto another project soon enough.


text: PhD Programme The Chair of Chinese Culture and Society participates in doctoral supervision and training. Prof. Daria Berg welcomes applications on topics related to Chinese culture, literature, history, art, gender and so on. Please make sure your proposal explores issues related to Prof. Berg's research fields. Please apply through the formal channel here to the DOK programme at the University of St. Gallen, listing Prof. Daria Berg as your potential supervisor. Current PhD students: Arda Leibundgut (expected completion date: 2021) "Environmentalism in China: How China's Environmental History Prepared the Country for Its Environmental Challenges, 1911-2016" By looking at the history of environmentalism in China, Mr Leibundgut's research asks how Chinese culture and philosophy shape environmentalism in the country; what environmental lessons China learnt from Mao's "war against nature"; how post-Mao environmental protection ministries and institutions contribute to China's growing efficiency in pollution prevention; and how contemporary Chinese film-makers such as Chai Jing contribute to environmentalism. Mr Leibundgut holds a MSc in Anthropology and a BA in Biology (University of Zurich). Dominique Ursprung (expected completion date: 2020) "Innovation in Vocational Education and Training among Swiss companies in Shanghai" Since the establishment of systematic surveys among Swiss companies in China in 2007, "finding and retaining talent" has been consistently named as one of their most important challenges. This research aims to answer the question which approach has proven to be the most successful to solve this skill shortage problem? The scope of the project is limited to the situation in Shanghai, where half of the estimated 500 Swiss companies in China are located. Mr Ursprung holds a MSc in International Management for Japan (SOAS, UK) and a MA in International Relations (Graduate Institute, Geneva). Past PhD students: Sergio de Eccher (graduated in 2017) "The Role of Internet in Chinese Cyber-space: The Struggle between Internet Censorship and Digital Dissent in Chinese Society" Katrin Geiseler (graduated in 2016) "Voices on Chinese Higher Education: An Analysis of the Cultural Discourse in Early 21st Century"


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Why ISO/ANSI didn't standardize C++ at the binary level? There are many portability issues with C++, which is only because of lack of it's standardization at the binary level.
Don Box writes, (quoting from his book Essential COM, chapter COM As A Better C++)
C++ and Portability
Once the decision is made to distribute a C++ class as a DLL, one is faced with one of the fundamental weaknesses of C++, that is, lack of standardization at the binary level. Although the ISO/ANSI C++ Draft Working Paper attempts to codify which programs will compile and what the semantic effects of running them will be, it makes no attempt to standardize the binary runtime model of C++. The first time this problem will become evident is when a client tries to link against the FastString DLL's import library from a C++ developement environment other than the one used to build the FastString DLL.
Are there more benefits Or loss of this lack of binary standardization?


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Lord Lu Xun wrote:When they don't shoot they're still charging and aiming their arrows. It's just that they tend to shoot at the same time.MistroPain wrote:Well the only time i shout stuff in DW is when theres a lot of dammed archers shooting me, its weird cause sometimes they dnt EVER shoot and then sometimes there shooting like crazy and you cant even get back up.
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Day 7: Starz Denver Film Festival
I lost count of days somewhere along the way. Not a good sign. Using the Auraria wi-fi between screenings at the Starz Film Center at the Tivoli. Just Saw "Undefeated," a very strong documentary about a high school football program in the economically depressed area of North Memphis, TN. If this were a pitch, codirector's Dan Lindsay and TJ Martin's film might be characterized as "The Blind Side" meets "Hoop Dreams." It's moving and revealing and scrappy the way sports narratives can be. Headed in two minutes to one of the First Look programs of film student shorts.


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U.S. Win Pick Up Key Win Over Brazil
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LONDON (July 30, 2012) – In the much anticipated Olympic Games Pool B match, the No. 1 U.S. Olympic Women's Volleyball Team defeated No. 2 Brazil 25-18, 25-17, 22-25, 25-21 on Monday afternoon at Earls Court in London.
The U.S., now 2-0 with six points in Pool B, continues Pool B competition on Aug. 1 versus No. 3 China (2-0, 6 points) at 8 p.m. local time (noon PT). Brazil is now 1-1 with two points.
Team USA has now won the last six matches against Brazil, including twice in the recent 2012 FIVB World Grand Prix, once in the 2011 FIVB World Cup and in the final of the 2011 FIVB World Grand Prix.
The U.S. rallied from a 10-8 deficit in the first set with a 6-1 scoring to take a 14-11 advantage as the Americans finished off the set 25-18 with five of the final six points. After Brazil held an early 2-1 lead in the second set, Team USA erupted for a 16-7 lead by the second technical timeout and cruised to a 25-17 victory. The Americans produced a .460 hitting efficiency in the second set to the Brazilians' .243. The U.S. battled back from an 8-3 lead in the third set to take a 16-15 lead, but Brazil scored four of the final five points for a 25-22 victory. Team USA built a 9-5 lead in the fourth set and maintained at least a two-point advantage the rest of the way for a 25-21 victory.
Team USA first-time Olympian Destinee Hooker (San Antonio, Texas) scored a match-high 23 points with 22 kills on 45 swings and a block. Jordan Larson (Hooper, Neb.), also a first-time Olympian, contributed 18 points with 16 kills on 36 attacks and two blocks. Four-time Olympian Logan Tom (Salt Lake City, Utah) charted 12 points, all on kills from 27 attacks with just one error.
"There were some ups and downs, but we played really well," Larson said. "We had a tough start, but we found our rhythm. Brazil is always battle, but we came strong for the win."
"As a team we played well and improved from the first match," Tom said. "Brazil is good technically and is fiery, so when they got ahead it was hard to catch up."
Foluke Akinradewo (Plantation, Fla.) tacked on nine kills on 19 swings, while Christa Harmotto (Hopewell Township, Pa.) chipped in five points with four kills on attacks and a block. Lindsey Berg (Honolulu) rounded out the scoring with three kills on six attacks.
Nicole Davis (Stockton, Calif.) paced the defense with 18 digs and a team-high 23 excellent receptions on 33 attempts. Berg, who had 14 digs, set the offense to a 46.2 kill percent and .350 hitting efficiency (66-16-143). Tom added 18 excellent receptions on 23 attempts and 13 digs, while Larson recorded 12 digs.
U.S. Olympic Women's Volleyball Coach Hugh McCutcheon (Christchurch, New Zealand) started Tom and Larson at outside hitter, Akinradewo and Harmotto at middle blocker, Hooker at opposite and Berg at setter. Davis is the designated libero for the tournament. Tamari Miyashiro (Kaneohe, Hawaii) was a serving sub in all four sets, while Tayyiba Haneef-Park (Laguna Hills, Calif.) was a sub in all but the second set. Courtney Thompson (Kent, Wash.) was a sub in the first and third sets.
Brazil held advantages in blocks (7-4) and aces (3-0), but had 12 fewer kills than the Americans (66-54). Further, the Team USA defense held Brazil to a .269 hitting efficiency (54-15-145). The Americans held a 71-55 margin in digs and produced a higher service reception percent (74.6 to 71.6).
"There are lots of different styles being played at the tournament and everyone has a different method to their madness and plays to different strengths," Larson said. "The Russians are big and tall and very powerful, whereas teams like Korea are very clever and run combos. They're both difficult to play against, but it's probably more difficult to play against big sides like Russia."
Brazil's Sheilla Castro led her team with 15 points, while Thaisa Menezes added 11 points. Both Fabiana Claudino and Paula Pequeno tallied 10 points each.
In the other Pool B match played today, China (6 points, 2-0) edged Turkey (1 point, 0-2) 25-20, 25-20, 29-31, 25-22 and Korea (3 points, 1-1) topped Serbia (0 points, 0-2) 25-12, 25-16, 16-25, 25-21. Earlier today in Pool A, Russia defeated Dominican Republic 25-23, 25-15, 24-26, 25-22. The day concludes with Pool A matches with Japan (3 points, 1-0) facing Italy (3 points, 1-0) and Great Britain (0 points, 0-1) hosting Algeria (0 points, 0-1).
The preliminary round consists of a six-team round robin played every other day. The top four teams in each of the two pools advance to the Aug. 7 quarterfinals with the pool winner facing the crossover fourth-place team. The second- and third-place teams drawn into quarterfinal lots against the opposite pool. The semifinal round takes place on Aug. 9, followed by the medal round on Aug. 11.
Team USA gained the first two-point separation of the first set at 6-4 with Larson kill and Brazil error. Brazil reversed the lead at 8-7 at the first technical timeout with three straight points including two USA errors. Brazil scored a fourth straight point out of the break to reach a 9-7 advantage. The Americans leveled the score at 10-all on a Hooker kill and Larson block. Harmotto took a quick set for a kill after a Brazil service error the U.S. 12-11 advantage, then Brazil attacked into the net for a 13-11 American lead. Out of a Brazil timeout, Hooker put up a block for a fourth straight point on Akinradewo's serve at 14-11. Brazil chipped off two points of the deficit at 14-13. Team USA answered with a Brazil service error and Larson block to go into the second technical timeout leading 16-13. The U.S. extended the lead to 20-16 with a Tom kill and Brazil setting error prompting a Brazil second timeout. Hooker powered down a kill and Larson followed with three consecutive kills to extend the American lead to 24-17 on a 4-0 run of Tom's service. Larson ended the set with seven points as the Americans connected on 15 of 36 attacks for points with a 3-0 block advantage.
The U.S. reached a 4-2 lead in the early stages of the second set with an Akinradewo kill and consecutive kills by Larson. Team USA expanded its lead to 6-3 with a Harmotto kill and Berg setter dump leading into a Brazil timeout. Hooker notched kills on each side of the first technical timeout to increase the lead to 9-5. Team USA built a 14-7 margin with two Hooker kills around two Brazil attack error. Out of a Brazil timeout, Akinradewo pounded an overpass and Tom spiked an attack for a sixth straight point on her own serve to go into the second technical timeout leading 16-7. The U.S. lead reached double digits at 20-10 consecutive power spikes by Harmotto and Hooker. Brazil sliced two points off the deficit at 22-14. Brazil saved two set points before Hooker ended the set at 25-17 with a kill. Hooker scored six points in the second set, while Larson and Tom added another five points. Team USA held a .460 hitting efficiency in the second set.
Brazil took a 4-2 lead in the third set with a service ace and increased its margin to 6-3 following a USA attack error. After a USA timeout, Brazil stretched the margin to 8-3 with its fourth straight point going into the first technical timeout. Brazil committed a service error and attack error to bring the U.S. to 8-5. Hooker nailed an attack after a Brazil error to trim the deficit to 9-7. Tom and Hooker slammed back-to-back kills to close the deficit to 11-10. Brazil expanded its lead to 15-12 with an American attack error. The U.S. responded with a Hooker kill after a Brazil service error to return within one at 15-14, then Tom hit off the block to level the score at 15-all. Harmotto put a block to put the U.S. into the lead at 16-15 on a fourth consecutive point on Larson's serve. Brazil reversed the lead at 20-19 and then broke a 21-all tie with four of the final five points for a 25-22 victory. Hooker scored eight points in the third set to lead the Americans.
Team USA grabbed a 3-1 lead in the fourth set with an Akinradewo kill and Brazil attack error. Team USA expanded the lead to 7-4 with a Tom kill and Larson spike after saving a digging a couple hard spikes. The Americans expanded their advantage to 9-5 with a Brazil service error and Hooker spike off the block. Brazil scored back-to-back points to cut the gap in half at 10-8, then pulled to within one at 11-10 on an attack error by the U.S. Hooker pocketed consecutive kills to yield a 14-11 cushion going into a Brazil timeout. Out of the break Berg tipped for a kill for a 15-11 lead. Brazil cut the gap in half at 18-16, but the U.S. responded with kills from Larson and Hooker to regain a four-point edge at 20-16. Brazil collected consecutive points to move to within two at 21-19. Team USA reach set and match point at 24-21 on a service error, then Tom rolled a shot over the block for the winner at 25-21.
2012 U.S. Olympic Women's Volleyball Team
# - Name (Position, Height, Hometown, College)
2 - Danielle Scott-Arruda (MB, 6-2, Baton Rouge, La., Long Beach State)
3 - Tayyiba Haneef-Park (Opp, 6-7, Laguna Hills, Calif., Long Beach State)
4 - Lindsey Berg (S, 5-8, Honolulu, Hawaii, Minnesota)
5 - Tamari Miyashiro (L, 5-7, Kaneohe, Hawaii, Washington)
6 - Nicole Davis (L, 5-4, Stockton, Calif., Southern California)
10 - Jordan Larson (OH, 6-2, Hooper, Neb., Nebraska)
11 - Megan Hodge (OH, 6-3, Durham, N.C., Penn State)
13 - Christa Harmotto (MB, 6-2, Hopewell, Pa., Penn State)
15 - Logan Tom (OH, 6-1, Salt Lake City, Utah, Stanford)
16 - Foluke Akinradewo (MB, 6-3, Plantation, Fla., Stanford)
17 - Courtney Thompson (S, 5-8, Kent, Wash., Washington)
19 - Destinee Hooker (Opp, 6-4, San Antonio, Texas, Texas)
Head Coach: Hugh McCutcheon (Christchurch, New Zealand)
Assistant Coach: Karch Kiraly (San Clemente, Calif.)
Assistant Coach: Paula Weishoff (Irvine, Calif.)
Assistant Coach/Technical Coordinator: Jamie Morrison (Dana Point, Calif.)
Technical Coordinator: Giuseppe Vinci (Casteggio, Italy)
Team Manager: Ken Sullivan (Laguna Beach, Calif.)
Consultant Coach: Marv Dunphy (Malibu, Calif.)
Athletic Trainer/Medical Support: Jill Wosmek (Silver Lake, Minn.)
Doctor: Dr. William Stetson
2012 Olympic Games Women's Volleyball Schedule
Pool A Standings:
Russia (6 points, 2-0)
Japan (3 points, 1-0)
Italy (3 points, 1-0)
Dominican Republic (0 points, 0-2)
Algeria (0 points, 0-1)
Great Britain (0 points, 0-1)
Pool B Standings:
China (6 points, 2-0)
USA (6 points, 2-0)
Korea (3 points, 1-1)
Brazil (2 points, 1-1)
Turkey (1 points, 0-2)
Serbia (0 points, 0-2)
July 28: Japan def. Algeria 25-15, 25-14, 25-7
July 28: China def. Serbia 16-25, 25-18, 25-13, 25-12
July 28: Russia def. Great Britain 25-19, 25-10, 25-16
July 28: Italy def. Dominican Republic 25-17, 23-25, 25-19, 25-15
July 28: USA def. Korea 25-19, 25-17, 20-25, 25-21
July 28: Brazil def. Turkey 25-18, 23-25, 25-19, 25-27, 15-12
July 30: China def. Turkey 25-20, 25-20, 29-31, 25-22
July 30: Korea def. Serbia 25-12, 25-16, 16-25, 25-21
July 30: Russia def. Dominican Republic 25-23, 25-15, 24-26, 25-22
July 30: USA def. Brazil 25-18, 25-17, 22-25, 25-21
July 30: Italy vs. Japan, 8 p.m.
July 30: Great Britain vs. Algeria, 10 p.m.
Aug. 1: Dominican Republic vs. Japan, 9:30 a.m.
Aug. 1: Algeria vs. Russia, 11:30 a.m.
Aug. 1: Serbia vs. Turkey, 2:45 p.m.
Aug. 1: Great Britain vs. Italy, 4:45 p.m.
Aug. 1: USA vs. China, 8 p.m. (noon PT)
Aug. 1: Brazil vs. Korea, 10 p.m.
Aug. 3: Brazil vs. China, 9:30 a.m.
Aug. 3: Japan vs. Russia, 11:30 a.m.
Aug. 3: Turkey vs. Korea, 2:45 p.m.
Aug. 3: Great Britain vs. Dominican Republic, 4:45 p.m.
Aug. 3: USA vs. Serbia, 8 p.m. (noon PT)
Aug. 3: Algeria vs. Italy, 10 p.m.
Aug. 5: Algeria vs. Dominican Republic, 9:30 a.m.
Aug. 5: China vs. Korea, 11:30 a.m.
Aug. 5: Great Britain vs. Japan, 2:45 p.m.
Aug. 5: Italy vs. Russia, 4:45 p.m.
Aug. 5: USA vs. Turkey, 8 p.m. (noon PT)
Aug. 5: Brazil vs. Serbia, 10 p.m.
Aug. 7: Quarterfinal Matches at 1 p.m., 3 p.m., 7 p.m., 9:30 p.m.
Aug. 9: Semifinal Matches at 3 p.m., 7:30 p.m.
Aug. 11: Women's Bronze Medal Match, 11:30 a.m.
Aug. 11: Women's Gold Medal Match, 6:30 p.m.
Aug. 11: Women's Gold Medal Ceremony, 8:20 p.m.


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A sailor's life – 75. Sniffing Stockholm tar
In my sailor grandfather's footsteps I have blagged my way into an oil refinery and onto a Shell tanker, I've crossed the Atlantic by container freighter and dropped a wreath into the night black sea at 49° 35'N, 19° 13'W where he and his final crew were lost – I have even traced and befriended the last old man of the U-boot crew that killed him.
For nearly 20 years I have read letters and diaries, rooted through archives, pored over photographs and asked damn fool questions of elderly seafarers who have shared their yarns with gentle amusement. But I remained an armchair sailor, sitting in the warmth, reading about a life beyond my understanding.
It was on a wet day in Liverpool docks that I ran into the Stavros S Niarchos, a dinky, modern sail training brig – square rigged on two masts, a charity venture providing outdoor challenges to young people.
And also, it transpired, to the not so young. Anyone up to 80 could have a go, said a grey-haired woman on the quayside. Was I too old to climb out along the yards, I asked – to try to experience what 16-year-old Bertie Sivell had seen and felt when he first went aloft a hundred years ago? Certainly not, she said, she had.
Anyone who ever read Treasure Island under the bedclothes and fell asleep dreaming of clambering among the spars of a tall ship will understand (and we who read by torchlight in the old days before duvets and Kindles know who we are). To swing up the swaying ratlines and out along the foot-ropes, and see "my" ship splice the waves 120ft below; to roll along a pitching deck, at one with the swell, dodging sheets of spray; and to lie down each night tired but buzzing and be rocked to deepest sleep?
I signed on.
Stavros is not Monkbarns. For a start she is smaller, with two masts not three and fewer yards and sails. She also has two engines, GPS, refrigeration – and heat and light and hot showers and plenty of fresh water and good food. In fact, my grandfather would scoff that my so-called experience in sail bears more resemblance to glamping than the conditions he endured when he began his career at sea as an apprentice in Monkbarns in 1911.
What a difference 100 years makes. The barrels of pork and beef gristle in brine are gone. The yawning cargo hatches and mountains of coal or guano, or slimy stone ballast, that had to be winched in or out basket by basket are gone. Nowadays safety lines snake up the ratlines and along the yards, where there was once only a boy's own grip. The old cry of "One hand for the ship and one for yourself," is not quite so scary when you're wearing a stout harness and clip-on carabiners. Monkbarns suffered countless injuries, as well as losing two young lives overboard in just three years in the early 1920s – Laurence O'Keeffe off the jib-boom and apprentice Cyril Sibun in a fall from the fore upper t'gallant. They were 18 and 19.
On Stavros clean, dry pipe cots with reading lights and lockers fill the t'ween decks where Monkbarns' apprentices would have shovelled and sweated to trim (balance) the cargo, and out along her bowsprit net "sailor strainers" prevent accidents. But working a sailing ship is still not for the faint hearted.
I have shuffled out along the yards, muscles cracking as I wrestled to haul up and lash down the heavy clew of the sail high out over the waves. I have swung one-armed under the great steel yards, groping for gaskets blowing in the wind, and tied knots one-handed up and down the jackstays.
I have tailed on and hauled "with a will" among ill-assorted strangers until my shoulders strained in their sockets and the hairy hemp lines blistered my office softy palms, and rolled into my bunk sound asleep at 8pm to rise again fully clothed at midnight, to relieve the watch on the open bridge, donning gloves, scarf and waterproofs against the cold summer night. In a week the motley novice "crew" – paying travellers of all shapes and sizes – find themselves fused into a team. A ship's crew. (Although our professional merchant navy officers probably think fondly of the days when a sailing ship cargo lay inert in the hold for the duration and didn't need wetnursing.)
Together we have seen sails silhouetted against the stars – more stars than most of us city dwellers ever imagined, and the milky way arching overhead from horizon to horizon. We have sailed into the sunset and watched for dawn, eyes peeled for the pin prick lights of the fishing fleet. We have learned the ropes, and the buoys and the markers.
So far I have not been out of sight of land for more than a week, much less braved day after relentless day of gale-force winds, or icebergs round the Horn, but I have felt the pitch and roll of a tall ship doing 10 knots under sail and watched the horizon tilt and tip under the solid curl of the mainsail. I know the sound of the seas crashing past the scuppers and have tasted salt in the spray.
I may be just paddling in the shallows of my sailor grandfather's life, but I have sniffed Stockholm tar.
Suddenly, the dusty records have colour and movement. This winter I shall abandon the archives again and join the paint gang aboard Stavros in Liverpool docks, chipping and cleaning, learning "my" ship from the rivets up, and next spring with a crisp CRB certificate in my pocket I hope to sail as volunteer crew – as cook's assistant, if that's what the ship needs.
Somewhere, my grandfather is laughing.
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The Daily Word in Occupy Wall Street, Mitt Romney on free trade, Val Kilmer selling out
Occupy Wall Street marches onward as protesters maintain hold of Lower Manhattan park.
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Pearland shooting leaves man dead, his ex injured
A man apparently shot and wounded his ex-wife inside her Pearland home Wednesday before fatally shooting himself, authorities said.
Brazoria County Sheriff's deputies responding to a shooting found the two about 3 p.m. at her home in the 2400 block of Woodbury.
The man was dead and his estranged wife was taken by Life Flight helicopter to Memorial Hermann Hospital. Her condition wasn't known Wednesday night but deputies said she was still alive.
Detectives said the case remains under investigation and they have not officially confirmed a possible motive. But, they believe it was an attempted murder-suicide. There were no signs of forced entry into the woman's home and the estranged couple was found together with a weapon.
Next-door neighbor Joe Wright said he was stunned by what happened inside the two-story home with its festive Christmas decorations on the front lawn.
"They were good people. I never knew that anything was going on," Wright said. "I never heard them arguing with each other."
The couple had a son, about 8, who wasn't home at the time of the shooting and is now with family members, neighbors said.
Sheriff's deputies did not identify the couple. Neighbors said the man was apparently in his early 50s while his ex-wife was in her early 40s.
They were divorced, but the man was a regular visitor. On weekends, he'd often come over to watch Houston Texans football games on television, Wright said.
Patricia Sims, another neighbor, said the woman allowed her ex-husband to watch their son when she was away on business.
"I never would have thought he'd hurt her because he loved her. And he loved that little boy," Sims said.
But he was also seen driving up and down the street near the home, neighbors said.
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Since Harvard is the nation's first college (established in 1636), it is only appropriate that many athletic firsts are also traced back to the school. Here's a look at some of them:
August 3, 1852- Harvard inaugurates intercollegiate athletic competition when its crew rows against Yale on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire. Harvard wins the two-mile race by open water. Today, the crews hold an annual four mile race on the Thames River in New London, CT. Harvard leads the all-time series, 77-51.
Fall 1859- The first college racing "shell" built in America was the Harvard, a 40-foot, six-oared pine shell with iron outriggers, but without coxswain or rudder. Built for Harvard in the fall of 1857 it is first used against Yale in 1859.
April 12, 1877--The first baseball catcher's mask is used in a Harvard game. Inventor Fred Thayer adapted a fencing mask for Alexander Tyng, the starting catcher for the Crimson. Tyng makes only two errors in his first game with the mask, an exceptionally low number for even a professional in that era.
October 31, 1881--Harvard football plays in the first East-West intersectional game when it hosts the University of Michigan at the South End Grounds in Boston. The Crimson takes a bite out of the Wolverines, 4-0, as part of a 6-1-1 season.
Spring 1883--Harvard tennis player Joseph Clark wins the sport's first-ever intercollegiate championship in a tournament held at Hartford.
March 14, 1889--Harvard football holds what is believed to be the first-ever spring football practice when captain Arthur J. Cumnock leads the team in drills on Jarvis Field.
November 30, 1893 - The first football scoreboard is used. The Harvard Athletic Association unveils this invention of Arthur Irwin, a Bostonian and a professional baseball player and manager, in the Crimson's 26-4 win over Pennsylvania on Thanksgiving Day.
May 5, 1894 - Harvard fencing wins the first IFA Championship, and goes on to capture six of the first seven titles.
Summer 1896 - A Harvard man wins the first gold medal of the modern Olympics in Athens. James B. Connolly '99 takes the first event-the hop, skip, and jump-to earn his place in history. To make the trip, Connolly was forced to resign from the college at the time, but was rewarded in 1949 when he received a major H for his Olympic feats. By that time, he was a celebrated author of sea stories such as "The Seiners" and "The Gloucestermen."
January 19, 1898- Harvard plays in its first college hockey game. The contest, held on Franklin Field in Boston, is won by visiting Brown, 6-0, and begins the oldest active rivalry in college hockey.
August, 1901- Field hockey is first introduced to America at Radcliffe by Miss Constance Applebee. The student demonstrated the sport, which was popular in her native England, to classmates outside of the Radcliffe Gymnasium.
October 31, 1902- - Glenn S. "Pop" Warner, coach of the famed Carlisle Indians, introduces the hidden ball trick in a game against Harvard. The ploy was unleashed during the second half kickoff, and the resulting touchdown moved Carlisle ahead, 11-0. Harvard collected the Halloween Day treat, however, by rebounding for a 12-11 victory.
November 14, 1903 - Harvard Stadium introduces a new era into football, as it is the first permanent reinforced concrete stadium of its kind in the country. The sport eventually adopts the forward pass because of the stadium's structure.
April 1, 1905 - Harvard plays in the first intercollegiate soccer match against Haverford. The Crimson falls to the Pennsylvania school, 1-0, at Soldiers Field.
Summer 1914--Harvard's junior varsity crew becomes the first American entry to win the Grand Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta.
Winter 1923 - Radcliffe College meets Sargent College in the first-ever women's intercollegiate swim meet.
October 11, 1947--Chester Pierce '48, a standout tackle for the Harvard football team, becomes the first African-American to play against a white college in the South when the Crimson meets the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
December 27, 1952 - Harvard men's hockey wins the inaugural Beanpot Tournament, defeating Boston University, 7-4, in the championship game at the old Boston Arena.
Summer 1958 - The Harvard lightweight crew finished its best season to date by winning the Henley Royal Regatta for the first time. The Crimson went undefeated in 1958, including an impressive win at the EARC Sprints, to start a three-year run of unbeaten seasons.
August 14, 1960 - The first-ever American Football League game is played at Harvard Stadium. An exhibition contest between the Boston Patriots and Dallas Texans is won by the visitors, 24-14, in front of a crowd of 11,000. The Patriots will play their entire 1971 home schedule at Harvard before relocating in Foxboro.
Spring 1975 - After merging athletic departments with Radcliffe College, Harvard presents varsity letters to female athletes for the first time.
August 28, 1982--Women's swimming captain Sharon Beckman becomes the first New England woman to conquer the English Channel. She crosses from the White Cliffs of Dover, England to Cap Gris Nez, France in 9 hours, 16 minutes.
May 11, 1985 - Harvard's Clifford Sheehan becomes the first New England collegian to break the four-minute mile, running a 3:59.2 at the Penn Relays. He betters a 17-year-old Harvard and New England record held by Jim Baker '68.
May 15, 1988 - Charlotte Joslin becomes the first female athlete in Ivy League history to be named First Team All-League in three unrelated sports. The versatile sophomore earns the honors in field hockey, ice hockey, and lacrosse.
June 2, 1989 - Meredith Rainey becomes the first female in Ivy League history to win an NCAA individual title. She runs a school-record time of 2:03.90 to take first place in the 800 meters at the Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Provo, UT.
June 22, 1991- Harvard Stadium hosts the first Japanese collegiate football game ever played in the United States. Keio University, coached by the Harvard staff, defeats Yale-led Waseda University, 21-19.
August, 2008 - Emily Cross '08-09 became the first ever Harvard fencer to medal at the Olympics when she earned a silver medal in the women's team foil.
March 20, 2010 - J.P. O'Connor capped off the first unbeaten season for a Harvard wrestler. The senior won the 157 pound title to finish his last year at Harvard with a perfect 35-0 record.
March 6, 2012 - The Harvard men's basketball team earned its first NCAA tournament berth since 1946. The Crimson finished the season with the program single-season record for victories with 26.
June 9, 2012 - Katey Stone, the Landry Family Head Coach for Harvard Women's Ice Hockey, was officially announced as the head coach of the U.S. Women's Olympic Hockey team, becoming the first ever female head coach to lead Team USA on the ice. Stone eventually led the Red, White and Blue to a silver medal in Sochi.
March 21, 2013 - Despite being a No. 14 seed, the Harvard men's basketball team made history by defeating third-seeded New Mexico, 68-62, in the second round of the NCAA tournament, the first postseason victory in program history.
March 17, 2014 - Harvard women's basketball becomes the first team in Ivy League history to earn an at-large bid to a postseason tournament, winning its first-round WNIT game at Iona on March 20.
November 22, 2014 - For the first time in program history, Harvard football hosts ESPN's College GameDay before the 131st playing of The Game. The Crimson comes out victorious in one of the most memorable contests in recent memory, scoring with just 55 second remaining to best Yale, 31-24. Yale seemed to have an answer in the last minute, but Scott Peters picked off Morgan Roberts' final pass to seal the victory.
April 24, 2015 – The women's golf team became the first in Ivy League history to win four straight conference championships as it defeated Yale by just one stroke at Saucon Valley Country Club. Sophomore Anne Cheng and junior Courtney Hooton tied for fourth place in the individual competition to earn first team All-Ivy honors, while senior Brenna Nelsen tied for eighth place and received second team All-Ivy accolades.
May 10, 2015 - Harvard women's track and field team wins back-to-back Ivy League Heptagonal Championships for the first time in program history. The Crimson tallied 157 points to defeat runner-up Princeton by 39.
November 20, 2015 - The women's volleyball team punched its ticket to the NCAA tournament for the first time with a 3-1 win over Princeton in the Ivy League Playoff. The Crimson would face eventual national champion Nebraska on its home floor in the first round of the tournament, and shocked crowd of 8,000-plus by taking the first set.
November 26, 2016 - Harvard men's water polo made its first-ever NCAA Championship appearance, hosting No. 12 Bucknell at Blodgett Pool. The Crimson went on to earn a 13-12 sudden-death overtime victory over the Bison to earn another NCAA play-in game against No. 9 UC Davis in Berkeley, California. Harvard went on to defeat No. 9 UC Davis in overtime, 16-15, securing a spot in the Final Four for the first time in program history. The Crimson also won the first conference championship in school history on Nov. 20, taking home the Northeast Water Polo Conference (NWPC) Championship with tournament wins over MIT, then-No. 13 Princeton and then-No. 10 Brown.
December 8, 2016 - Harvard field hockey head coach Tjerk van Herwaarden becomes the first leader of the Crimson to be named NFHCA Northeast Region Coach of the Year. van Herwaarden also earned the first Ivy League Coach of the Year honor for a Harvard sideline general after leading the Crimson to a 12-6 record, a 7-0 Ivy record, an Ivy title and a berth into the NCAA Tournament.
March 22/24, 2019 - Marking its ninth WNIT appearance in program history, the women's basketball team hosted its first two tournament games in program history on March 22 and March 24 against Drexel and Georgetown, respectively. The Crimson defeated Drexel, 69-53, to advance to the second round of the WNIT for the fifth time in program history.
November 10, 2019 - The Harvard men's water polo team defeated MIT 14-5 at Blodgett Pool to move to 27-0, securing it's first ever undefeated season in program history. The Crimson would go on to be crowned NWPC Champions, earning a berth in the NCAA Tournament.
November 17, 2019 - Hosting college rugby's premier contest at Mignone Field, Harvard women's rugby rallied behind stellar defense to defeat Army West Point 18-7, securing its first varsity NIRA National Championship in program history. First-Year Brogan Mior was named Most Valuable Player.


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Need Help with 2014 SCM Pratix S15 Handheld Controller12/9
We are in a tough spot. We have a 2014 SCM Pratix S15 CNC Machine and the wires of the handheld device came unsodered. We are willing to send a check to somebody for $50 via Paypal to send us a photo of the inside of the controller. We just need a photo of the schematics so we can resoder the wire. SCM is not being very helpful.
Thank you!
Had the EXACT same thing happen to us. Chord got twisted and ripped all the solder connections out. Luckily it was under warranty and they sent us a new one. I opened up the new one and took a lot of pictures. I'm happy to send them to you and you don't need to worry about the $50. Send me your personal email and I'll get them out ASAP.
We are a few months out of warranty unfortunately.
Thank you for the help.
Hard to believe SCM wouldn't help. I got schematics from them to do the same thing on an old machine about 15 years ago. Sad to hear that.
I have a Busellato Easy Jet- which is the exact same machine with different stickers. I've had a couple of wires rip out too. This handheld device is not built for the rough and tumble of the shop. It's a nice machine but this is one major drawback.
I agree. However, since the incident I have my guys focus on not letting the chord get too twisted. We also frequently check the "pressure nuts" at the bottom of the controller to make sure both of them are tight.
Thank you all for your help on this. Both PDub and John have been very helpful and have spent a lot of their time trying to help us out after going through the exact same problem. Your willingness to help has been amazing.
Unfortunately, it sounds like we have the exact same problem as Pdub and our controller is fried. We are 6 months out of warranty so it looks like we will have to pay to replace all these parts.
The design of this controller is terrible, to allow it to not only break itself but to fry the controller seems like there was no thought put into it at all. We manufacture lighting in addition to cabinetry and millwork and put more design and protection into our strain reliefs on a $90 pendant than the cheap plastic cord lock they put on this controller from SCM.
To address Pdubs point, we rarely ever move this piece. Our tech who set the machine up told us it was expensive so we leave it on the base 99% of the time.
Overall this has been a great machine for us. But to have to spend nearly $10,000 in replacement parts, in addition to the down time this causes. And unless SCM can somehow remedy the situation, I cannot recommend this CNC to anyone.
If this had been a cheap import CNC, this would not have been a surprise. We own 4 large SCM tools including a gang rip from the early 90s that is still running strong. We expected similar quality in this, but this has not met their previous standards.
In regards to their tech support, Johnathan at SCM has been a great help and I have no complaints there.
I agree Peter. Ironically, in the background, the techs call this machine the "Practice" machine!
As an update, I received the new controller and remote. The good news is that it is working order again, so we can continue on with production. However, I noticed something from a few people who responded to this same problem. They changed manufacturers from the old remote to the one they sent me. Along with some minor cosmetic issues, I noticed that all of the electronics and wiring are different inside and look "less" likely to rip out of the circuit board.
From speaking with a few people at SCM and on here, it seems like they have been aware of this problem for some time, and are just hoping their customers warranties run out before this happens. It is disappointing to see that this is how they treat their loyal customers. I have a call and messages in to some of their managers and really hope they will do something to remedy this issue. If not, I for one will not continue to purchase their tools, and will continue to spread this word about their CNC's. I wish I had known about it before we purchased ours.
And I thought I was the only person with an axe to grind against SCM. The more I hear, the more I think they are selling lemons for the price of gold, and leave us stuck with serious issues, some of which seem to be unresolveable even for pay. The post processor issues (forum discussions abound), the lack of good diagnostics, the lack of thought in the features and work process, the inconsistant tech support. So many good features buried in the machine with no one to show us how to use them. The list goes on. See my postings on some of the forums on Woodweb. I think it's time we all rallied together and demanded the service, support and attention we deserve after putting our trust in one of the biggest global manufacturers. Let's face the truth: we are a GROUP of scm users facing the SAME problems. Let's start making some waves and getting the attention of the manufacturer in Italy. We should be demanding DIRECT support, and not be dependant on the competance of each locality, or lack thereof. I believe it all begins with the philosophy of the manufacturer, and they are ultimately responsible for product design, quality and function, and customer support alike. I am still waiting for answers from SCM NA and Italy to my very simple and standard operational questions in this post:
I'm not sure what you have in mind, or how good it will do, but it's not a bad idea. However, you might want to start a new thread about it. Most people won't see it in this one.
Peter and group,
Now to the issue at hand. With regard to Peters post, I hope we have helped you resolve your immediate issue and youre back up and running; Im told that you are. Id like to address a couple of the main points brought out here so we can all be on even ground.
Our technical support number is below and we are here for you. Please call us at this number if there is anything we can do for you. As our customers, we appreciate your business and thank you for choosing SCM products. If for any reason, you feel like you arent getting the support you need, you can ask for the group leader for your specific product line or for me directly.
SCM Group NA: 866.216.2166
Thanks for your direct response to this Brent. As I said in a previous post, I have had great success with your department when I have needed them. All of the techs and Jonathan have been great.
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Frederick Co. cat tests positive for rabies
Orange shorthair cat found acting strangely on East Church Street
The Frederick County Health Department said it has confirmed that a stray cat that was picked up Sunday in Frederick has tested positive for rabies.
Officials said the adult orange domestic shorthair cat was picked up in the 500 block of East Church Street after people in the area said it was behaving strangely.
The Health Department is recommending that anyone who may have had contact with the cat between Nov. 28 and Sunday visit a doctor and notify the Health Department at 301-600-3342. Anyone who thinks their pet may have had contact with the cat should talk to a veterinarian and call the Health Department at 301-600-1717.
Rabies is spread through saliva, usually via a bite, and it is nearly always fatal in humans without proper treatment. Officials said cats account for the majority of rabies in domestic animals in Maryland.
Officials urge people to protect themselves by not playing with wild or stray animals and by making sure their pets are property vaccinated.


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Man delivers baby fawn from roadkill
Minnesota man saw something kicking at the deer's stomach from
It sounds unbelievable, but a fawn in Minnesota is alive thanks to a good Samaritan and his pocket knife.
Bill Schulte saw a deer get hit by a car on his way home from church Sunday.
He stopped to move the dead animal off the road when he noticed something peculiar.
Something was kicking at the deer's stomach from the inside. Grabbing his pocket knife, Schulte sliced into the deer's belly and delivered a baby fawn to freedom.
"I felt where the baby was, opened up, and pulled the baby out because the baby wanted to slide right out, and I cleared his throat, his airway, rubbing it, and it starting breathing; everything was cool," he told Minneapolis TV station KSTP.
The fawn was taken to a wildlife rehabilitation center, where it's expected to make a full recovery.
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[Castle of BIRON]
The GONTAUT-BIRON have been the undisputed masters of the south of Périgord, for nearly a thousand years!
Their genealogy can be traced back to 926, when a cartoon from the Abbey of Cadouin mentions a certain GONTAUT. The castle, over the years, has been redesigned, according to the events of this illustrious family.
Biron is an architectural lesson, presenting today diverse buildings from different era, witnesses of the past power of the GONTAUT-BIRON. It also shows the extraordinary talent and the fantastic inspiration of the best builders of all times.
We can still perceive three stages in the evolution of this home which has experienced changes in taste, setbacks fortunes or sometimes even lack of time.
The first stage corresponds to the Middle Age; a second castle wrapped around in the XVI century; at the extreme end of the same century, nearly collapsed.
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I have an old Dell laptop that I use just for traveling with. It has win98se installed (which I hate) and I was looking at installing a new OS. I realy don't want to pay for the winxp license so I was looking into some of the free OS's out there such as Ubuntu. Only problem is that this laptop is running a PII 233, 80m memory (upgradable to 144 if I can find it) and a 4 gig hdd. Ubuntu states that it needs at least 256m ram and 4 gig hdd space, so this is out.
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Audrey Helderman necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 45 diseños de 11 diseñadores freelance.
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It's a badge of honor to be an ambassador
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Stories offer unique perspective of LBJ
Mark Updegrove is the director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum in Austin, and the author of "Baptism by Fire" and "Second Acts." His latest book is "Indomitable Will: LBJ in the Presidency," a portrait of Johnson through the stories and recollections of the people who were with him during his presidency. Updegrove recently talked with Chronicle reporter Joe Holley in the office Johnson used at the library.
Q. How do you describe the format of the book, and what were you hoping to achieve by taking that approach?
A. I think it's very difficult to know Lyndon Johnson, to get to know this enigmatic man, and I think the best way to understand who he was and how complex he was is by seeing him through the eyes of those who knew him. It's my view that there were as many LBJs as there were people who knew him.
Q. Who was it in your book who observed how Johnson during a typical day made a huge number of crucial decisions?
A. It was Yoichi Okamoto, his photographer, who had unlimited access to him, and he would see these decisions that he had to fire off at any given moment and how incredibly important they were. I think he exercised power with reflexive ease, but you could see the burden it would take on any human being. You could certainly see the toll it took on Johnson.
Q. When you see photos of him, it's hard to realize that he was still a relatively young man in the White House. He was only 64 when he died, but he always seemed old to me.
A. He was 55 when he took office, and he died less than 10 years later. As Larry Temple, who was his White House counsel, will tell you, he was the oldest man in town when he came back to Austin. He looked old. And that's the reason that he didn't run for office again.
And there's a great misconception about that. People think that he was beleaguered and embattled, or he just sort of waved the white flag and said, "I'm done, I'm outta here," but that's not it at all. He decided well before that he wasn't going to run again, because he was concerned about his heart. He had a genetically weak heart. He didn't want to put the country through what might have been a health crisis, as did Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt.
Q. Someone described him as a 'creature of excess' - planes, cars, TVs ...
A. Appetites.
Q. Could anyone, whether it was Lady Bird or anyone else, temper those appetites?
A. With Lady Bird, I think that they were a package deal, and you can't understand one without the other. They had a very symbiotic relationship, and as I said in the book, I think her equanimity helped to calm his storms. Her grace helped to smooth out his rough edges.
Q. How did those gargantuan appetites affect his presidency?
A. He had a penchant for micro-management and an ability to process and collate so many things in his mind on a current basis. He would watch three television sets. He had a teletype machine in the Oval Office. He would monitor news intensely. It manifests itself in his presidency by his manic energy and his sheer capacity for work, for getting things done.
Q. It seemed also that he had to do everything right then.
A. In my office is a shadow box containing all the pens that he used to sign bills into law throughout one year, 1965. And it is unbelievable what is in that box. Elementary and Secondary Education. Higher Education. Medicare. Voting Rights. The Immigration Act. Arts and Humanities. Clean Air. Clean Water. Highway Beautification. I don't know of anyone, including FDR in 1933, who had a year like that, because he knew that his political capital and ability to get things done was ephemeral, and he was absolutely right.


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