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LinkedIn Handily Tops Street in 4Q, Shares Climb
LinkedIn (NASDAQ:LNKD) revealed stronger-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings and sales on Thursday, fueled by new products such as Talent Solutions and an increase in premium subscriptions.
The Mountain View, Calif.-based professional social network with more than 200 million members posted net income of $11.5 million, or 10 cents a share, compared with a year-earlier profit of $6.9 million, or 6 cents.
Excluding one-time items, LinkedIn earned 35 cents a share, topping average analyst estimates of 19 cents in a Thomson Reuters poll.
Revenue for the three-month period climbed 81% to $303.6 million, from $167.7 million, beating the Street's view of $279.5 million.
"2012 was a transformative year for LinkedIn," said CEO Jeff Weiner. "The products we delivered throughout the year drove member engagement and financial results to record levels in the fourth quarter."
Shares of LinkedIn climbed more than 10% after hours to $136.88. It shares are up 55% over the last 12 months.
The growth in sales was largely attributed to revenue from Talent Solutions products that jumped 90% to $161 million. Revenue from marketing solutions grew 68%, while sales from premium subscriptions climbed 79%.
In the current quarter, LinkedIn sees revenue in the range of $305 million and $310 million, above the consensus view of $301 million.
Looking toward fiscal 2013, it anticipates sales between $1.41 billion and $1.44 billion, mostly in-line with the Street's view of $1.44 billion.


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L.L.Bean: Modernizing the IT architecture at a 105-year-old retailer
About L.L.Bean
L.L.Bean, founded in 1912, is a privately held, family-owned apparel and outdoor equipment retailer. The company launched its ecommerce site in 1995 and operates stores and outlets across the United States and in Japan.
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Fearless Technology Group helps retailers modernize their technology architecture, solve critical business problems, and capitalize on business opportunities in an evolving landscape.
L.L.Bean modernized its IT infrastructure by moving capabilities from its on-premises systems to Google Cloud, improving customer satisfaction and IT efficiency across multiple sales channels.
Google Cloud results
- Improves customers' online experience with faster page loads and transaction histories
- Enables focus on delivering customer value, rather than managing infrastructure
- Supports rapid delivery of cross-channel services by cutting feature release cycles
Helps deliver an omnichannel retail experience
Freeport, Maine-based retailer L.L.Bean is as famous for its boots as its mail-order catalog, which dates back to 1912. The family-owned company has 51 stores, kiosks, and outlets around the United States. Its ecommerce engine is particularly robust, accounting for $1 billion of the company's $1.6 billion in annual revenues.
Like many retailers, L.L.Bean is embracing omnichannel sales by reaching out to customers across multiple channels—print, brick-and-mortar stores, website, app, and social media. Delivering a positive omnichannel retail experience has become essential for large retailers today, as 73% of consumers use multiple channels when shopping, according to Harvard Business Review.
"We didn't want customer experience to be limited to a specific channel. We wanted them to experience L.L.Bean as a dynamic, innovative brand, regardless of the channel."
—Randy Dyer, Enterprise Architect, L.L.BeanTwo years ago, L.L.Bean set out to improve its omnichannel experience. "We didn't want customer experience to be limited to a specific channel," says Randy Dyer, Enterprise Architect at L.L.Bean. "We wanted them to experience L.L.Bean as a dynamic, innovative brand, regardless of the channel."
In practical terms, L.L.Bean wanted to remove as much friction as possible from customer transactions, whether it's offering ecommerce pages that load quickly on mobile or desktop devices, or quickly providing long-term customers with their extensive purchase histories on demand.
But in its drive toward agile, cutting-edge omnichannel experiences, L.L.Bean faced a considerable hurdle. Different, loosely connected IT systems—some of which had been in use for 20 years—supported each of the retailer's customer channels. While the systems shared some similar capabilities, they relied upon separate applications that performed in their own way.
Much of the retailer's IT system consisted of on-premises mainframes and distributed servers, an environment in which upgrading clusters and nodes was overly cumbersome. "The company wanted to leverage the cloud for new capabilities, faster time to market, better online performance, easier upgrades, and the ability to give customers more capabilities," says Peter Brumblay, Cloud Architect for Fearless Technology Group, a retail technology consultancy hired to help L.L.Bean modernize its IT architecture.
Achieving those goals with the retailer's on-premises IT system would have been too cost-prohibitive, Randy adds. So, L.L.Bean turned to Google Cloud to help modernize its IT system. Google Cloud has helped the company integrate data from multiple sources and systems, handle peak website loads more efficiently and cost effectively, innovate and deliver new online features to customers faster, and improve its website and mobile experiences.
"Unlike the enterprise version of the other container solution L.L.Bean tested, Google Cloud offers a pay-as-you-go licensing model that doesn't require a large capital outlay."
—Chris Cummings, CEO and Founder, Fearless Technology GroupStreamlining upgrades and software
In partnership with Fearless Technology Group, L.L.Bean's IT team experimented with containers, which provide a dedicated virtualized environment for applications to run in. After researching available options, the team decided that Kubernetes, Google's cloud-native, open source system for containerized applications, would best meet their needs.
"We really liked the capabilities of Kubernetes and the direction it was going," says Randy. "We looked at where we could get Kubernetes in the cloud, and we were very happy with what we saw with Google Cloud." Google Cloud includes Google Kubernetes Engine, an open source-based managed environment for deploying containerized applications. L.L.Bean already had a successful relationship with Google, via Google AdSense and its paid search products.
"Google Kubernetes Engine has significantly streamlined the process of upgrading nodes and masters. By comparison, upgrading even minor releases of another container solution that L.L.Bean tested resulted in the need to rebuild that solution's clusters four times," says Randy. Additionally, L.L.Bean would have had to apply more people time to manage the clusters that Google Kubernetes Engine handles in the background.
The seamless integration of Google Kubernetes Engine with Google Persistent Disk, the block storage for Google Cloud, was another benefit, as it was key in getting new software development up and running quickly.
In addition, the cost of the solution better mapped to the company's short- and long-term goals. "Unlike the enterprise version of the other container solution L.L.Bean tested, Google Cloud offers a pay-as-you-go licensing model that doesn't require a large capital outlay," adds Chris Cummings, CEO and Founder for Fearless Technology Group.
"We won't have to pay for peak capacity to have it available during peak shopping times. We just scale capacity up or down as needed."
—Randy Dyer, Enterprise Architect, L.L.BeanScaling as needed
L.L.Bean plans to use Cloud Spanner, a fully managed relational database service in Google Cloud, to solve some of its database scaling challenges.
The retailer's Product Availability service must take constantly streaming updates on inventory positions that flow from multiple backend data systems. At the same time, the service must handle continuous requests for available inventory as customers place orders on the front end. "Because Cloud Spanner is a horizontally scalable and ACID-compliant database system, it can handle the heavy volumes of concurrent writes and reads and is a great fit for this application," says Randy.
The ability to quickly scale capacity to meet changing usage patterns, such as during holiday shopping, as well as to rapidly perform load tests to test capacity, are "night and day" with Google Cloud compared to L.L.Bean's legacy on-premises IT system. Says Randy: "We won't have to pay for peak capacity all the time like we used to, to have it available during peak shopping times. We just scale capacity up or down as needed."
Speeding up online experiences
In partnership with Fearless Technology Group, L.L.Bean has six development teams migrating applications to the cloud. Two teams are moving all llbean.com pages over time into a new web architecture dubbed Front-End Architecture (FEA), which is based on React. This new customer-facing architecture runs entirely on Google Cloud. All applications supporting the FEA are to be deployed as containers with Google Kubernetes Engine, with the goal of completing the vast majority of the project during fiscal year 2018.
The teams have already migrated the llbean.com homepage, category pages, and specialty product landing pages to the FEA. The result has been significantly faster webpage renderings. In turn, that's translated into lower bounce rates for those pages, and customers are less likely to get frustrated by slow load times and click off the site after viewing only one page.
"When you can get customers to click through to other pages, you've got a much better level of engagement, and ultimately, that feeds into customer conversion opportunities and direct revenues from customer acquisitions," Randy explains.
Showing long-term customers their detailed, lengthy purchase histories is another way that Google Cloud is helping L.L.Bean be more responsive to its customers online. "Because of the complexity of our legacy IT system, that data comes from multiple sources and it gets integrated in real time," says Randy. "Plus, we decided to increase the amount of history we kept for our customers."
As that data volume started growing, and as more customers accrued longer histories, those queries became expensive to deliver and unsatisfying for users to experience. For example, lengthy customer history queries would sometimes timeout on the L.L.Bean website. Today, the company is automatically pre-aggregating purchase history data from multiple sources and storing it in Google Cloud eliminating timeouts and providing much more consistent response times to customers.
"With Google Cloud, we can run experiments, learn from the results, and deliver new capabilities into production much faster."
—Randy Dyer, Enterprise Architect, L.L.BeanBuilding new capabilities
With Google Cloud, teams have much more automation at their disposal, such as automated build processes and testing, resulting in greater development efficiencies. "With Google Cloud, we can run experiments, learn from the results, and deliver new capabilities into production much faster," says Randy. The company's IT teams are able to move to an agile software development approach, enabling them to react quickly, deliver more capabilities in a shorter time frame, and continuously innovate.
For example, the Frontend Architecture team was looking for a lightweight tool to test network load balancing. The team chose Locust, spun it up in a container, spun up a swarm of workers (which are a type of node), and were performing automated load tests within two weeks. With Locust successfully containerized, the Product Availability team started using it to test their inventory services—and added their own functionality to it as well.
The two teams were able to build capabilities they didn't have before, quickly and efficiently, thanks to the flexible architecture in Google Cloud. In the past, adding a new functionality often required developing within a rigid, eight-week release cycle. But the development practices enabled through Google Cloud allow teams to deploy new features whenever they're ready to go.
There are plans to employ the FEA for internal user-facing systems, too. "We plan to share the technology base as much as possible, to leverage what we've done and bring consistency to things like the website and call center operations," Randy explains.
Building a customer driven IT system
Storing customer and other data in the cloud can keep some IT people awake at night with worry. But Randy says L.L.Bean's teams appreciate Google's end-to-end security model which was built into Google Cloud from the ground up. L.L.Bean also layered its security best practices and tools onto the platform to help ensure that data is safer, highly secure, and audited.
Over time, L.L.Bean will transition completely to a microservices architecture deployment. The goal is to move application services away from legacy on-premises systems, extract the functionality out of all its separate customer-facing systems, and reposition them as shared application services running as container deployments on Google Cloud.
"The shift to Google Cloud is helping us stay competitive in the rapidly changing retail landscape. With the help of Fearless Technology Group, we're doing a lot of cool stuff these days with the cloud, agile practices, and containerized applications."
—Randy Dyer, Enterprise Architect, L.L.BeanL.L.Bean is experimenting with other Google Cloud services, including BigQuery and Dataflow as the foundation for a marketing data analytics platform, and Pub/Sub for event handling. The long-term strategy is to continue building a multi-cloud IT architecture, giving the retailer the flexibility to add and integrate components from other systems as needed. Google Cloud and Google Kubernetes Engine will serve as the foundation, especially (but not exclusively) for its customer-facing systems.
It was clear that L.L.Bean's legacy on-premises system was only going to constrain its ability to be innovative and responsive going forward. At the same time, there's been an overall company-wide effort to modernize.
"The shift to Google Cloud is helping us stay competitive in the rapidly changing retail landscape," says Randy. "With the help of Fearless Technology Group, we're doing a lot of cool stuff these days with the cloud, agile practices, and containerized applications that are improving our speed to market and helping us deliver a better customer experience—regardless of sales channel."
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Contact usAbout L.L.Bean
L.L.Bean, founded in 1912, is a privately held, family-owned apparel and outdoor equipment retailer. The company launched its ecommerce site in 1995 and operates stores and outlets across the United States and in Japan.
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Fearless Technology Group helps retailers modernize their technology architecture, solve critical business problems, and capitalize on business opportunities in an evolving landscape.

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Interview: Limitless Star Abbie Cornish
When you've got a movie about a guy on drugs, what better way to show his softer side than to give him a girlfriend? Well, not only does Abbie Cornish do just that for Bradley Cooper's character in Limitless, but her own has quite a bit of depth as well – and a heck of a fight sequence.
Cooper is Eddie Morra, a guy who gets hooked on a new illegal drug called NZT. The little clear pill gives the user the ability to use their brain's full potential ultimately making them smarter and stronger. Cornish's character, Lindy, is Eddie's former flame. She ditches Eddie after he hits an all-time low, but the two reunite when Eddie becomes super Eddie courtesy of NZT. However, Eddie's new life isn't entirely noble and he gets mixed up with some shady characters and, of course, Lindy gets a little too involved for her liking.
With Limitless hitting theaters on March 18th and Sucker Punch arriving on the 25th, Cornish is in full press mode and came ready to spill on anything and everything from her awe of Robert De Niro to her tactics when choosing roles. Check out all of that and much more in the interview below and be sure to keep an eye out for Cornish's big moment in the film. You won't believe the lengths she goes to!
Can you tell us about the character of Lindy and how you came to this project?
Abbie Cornish: Neil Burger sent me the script a while back and he really wanted me to do it and I thought it was a really interesting film and I felt like the character had room to grow and evolve within the scenes that were already written because it is a small part. So, as an actor, you always want to have a journey to go on, you want to have something where you can sink your teeth in and get your hands dirty. And so I felt like that was possible with this role and I was a fan of Bradley Cooper's. We had never met and through the process of making the film, we became really good friends and I just thought Neil, as a director, would be a very present and caring and collaborative director. The genre of the film was something I hadn't explored before and also the idea of this drug and what it could do and the possibility that it could really exist in our everyday lives. Even though it's far-fetched, at the same time it kind of felt possible and real.
How does it feel to have your name above Robert De Niro's name on the poster?
It's interesting, I remember when we did the script read-through, the seats were very much like this, but close together so if you imagine the seats being like this (pulls the chairs closer together) and there's a little card that says "Abbie Cornish," there's one here that says "Robert De Niro" and one here that says "Bradley Cooper," and Bradley sits down and I sit down and we were talking over Bob De Niro's chair to each other like this and then all of a sudden I look and I saw his placard and I said to Bradley, "Look, in a moment this chair will be filled by Robert De Niro." I said, "How surreal is that?" He goes, "I know, I can't believe it," and it was just that moment of realizing that. We were leaning over his chair and that moment of realizing and all of a sudden we were making sure his chair was ready for him. [Laughs] It was just the most amazing thing for me because, as an actor, his performances are incredible. He's such a talented and amazing actor and has had such a wonderful career. I think when you meet him, for me, it was like this fog for a moment, or more so, it sounds silly [laughs], but when people talk about near-death experiences, their life flashes before their eyes; when I saw Robert De Niro's face, all his characters and his performances flashed before my eyes and then that and I saw this man who is Robert De Niro. It is, of course, surreal and wonderful and amazing and awesome.
Would you ever take NZT yourself?
I think if you could have the ability to take a drug like that without any side effects, without any consequences, without having to face addiction and all that sort of stuff; if you can just go on an adventure with it and feel what that is like. If you could open your mind and utilize 100% of your brain for a moment and feel that. I feel like so many of us have these infinite lists of things to do. I want to learn a language, I want to learn how to play the piano, I want to evolve as a painter, I want to run faster. Whatever it is, I feel like we always have these aims and aspirations and so the idea of taking a drug where within half an hour you could read a novel or within two hours learn a language or learn how to play the piano overnight and read classical music, it's kind of fascinating. Imagine that. I don't know why I would ever say no to the concept of that.
There's also a very serious side to this concept because we've got kids today taking drugs to perform better in school. Can you weigh in on that topic?
Yeah, that was something I was talking about today actually. The closest things to it that I can think of are things like Ritalin and Adderall are these drugs that make you focus that are meant to accelerate the process of study and learning and all that. It's interesting. For me, I very much feel that each is to their own. I feel like you can have a debate about it and you can express your own personal opinion on whether you yourself would want to do it or not do it or whether you're against it or for it, but at the end of the day, how much can you really judge someone else's existence and their life and what it is that they choose to do? I think as long as it's not harming anyone else, I don't know how much judgment can be placed upon it. I kind of feel like that with a lot of things in life. You know, I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice, but at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle. The only time where my hair stands up on its ends is when someone is very ill-informed, when they're arrogant, when they haven't educated themselves and they feel like they know what is right, but at the same time, they haven't explored the truth of the situation.
How do you choose what roles you do and does it affect you personally if a movie does or does not do well commercially?
I'll answer the second question first; I feel like I've been really blessed with the career that I've had and the work that I've been able to do as an actor because it originated from a place of films like Somersault where it's a smaller budget film, great director, very hard working crew and you make that film with your heart and your soul. You don't even think about what's going to happen with it. I remember making Somersault and I didn't even think about what was going to happen with the film when it was actually a film. I just thought about the film we were making.
Was that the first movie you made?
That was the first lead role in a feature film. I'd done a couple small roles in films and I'd done a bit of television, so it felt like the first time. And I remember when that film finally came out and then I got this phone call that said we were going to Cannes, I couldn't believe it. It's the most amazing, awesome thing that we went to Cannes, then we went to Tokyo and we went somewhere else. It was so beautiful and so amazing. And so I think that is always alive within me where, for me, the process of making a film is where all the energy goes and what's really important and I feel that if you're passionate, if you pour yourself into it and you're surrounded by people doing the same thing that it doesn't matter. And not a lot of people have seen Somersault, but I'm so proud of that film. That, for me, I don't really think of things in those terms. Even with Sucker Punch, it's a $100 million dollar film, it's Warner Bros., I've never done a film like that, I've never been in a movie of that budget and you see big billboards everywhere and it's on the internet, it's on the television; it still feels the same to me. The process of making it was the same and I really care about the people I made it with.
Then the first question, choices that I make, yeah, it's kind of the same thing. I make choices based on my instinct, I make choices based on the story, the character, the people that I'll be working with. The more I work actually, the more I realize how important it is the people you make the film with.
So the decision-making process doesn't correlate with the work you've just done?
No, not at all. And you know what? In the last couple of years, I've worked with some really, really awesome people and developed friendships and relationships that I will take with me for the rest of my life. For example, on Sucker Punch, the five of us girls bonded like you wouldn't even believe and Zack Snyder and Deb Snyder, just the way they make films. I don't know if you guys have done conferences with them, but you just get a sense very fast that they're like a team and so when you work with them, it feels like you're part of their family. We were all so sad when we wrapped on that film, because we felt like the family was sort of breaking up and I still stay in contact with everyone. For example, Jena Malone, she's one of my best friends. It's wonderful that feeling to me. Sometimes I call it play, sometimes I call it work, because it's not defined just as work because it's so enriched.
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A more poetic way to say someone is dead. Term comes from the practice of digging down six feet below the surface to place coffins.
by Moondog January 19, 2004
A offbeat HBO series about the Fishers, a dysfunctional undertaker family in Los Angeles. It's easily one of the best shows TV has to offer. The writing and acting is not only fantastic, but the show has many different moods; it can be sad, quirky, touching and sometimes hilarious.
by Kyle March 10, 2005
A black comedy/drama program on HBO (Home Box Office). It centers on the Fisher Family who own an operate a funeral home in California following the death of the family patriarch Nathaniel Fisher in the first episode. Although dead, he frequently comes back to talk to each member of the family. In the family are the mother Ruth with sons Nate, David and daughter Claire.
An unbelieveable show with beatifully real and intricate characters. Funny, touching, brilliant. Further evidence that HBO is invincible.
An unbelieveable show with beatifully real and intricate characters. Funny, touching, brilliant. Further evidence that HBO is invincible.
Sorry man, I'd love to go hang gliding, but the season premire of the final season 5 of Six Feet Under is on tonight!
by kwashia February 1, 2005
1. Term used for someone's well-being if they are dead.
2. Decent Death Metal band formed in the mid 80's.
2. Decent Death Metal band formed in the mid 80's.
1 - What do you mean you thought Lois would be six feet under by now and we could catch a movie?
2 - I recommend the album Haunted by Six Feet Under
2 - I recommend the album Haunted by Six Feet Under
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Excellent and an original-for-its-time death metal band created in the mid 80s by Chris Barnes, ex-vocalist from Cannibal Corpse. Their music is more slow-placed (for a death metal group) and the cookie monster vocals are pretty understandable- which is pretty rare from such a group.
by Rockin' Ruler of Metallic Meyhem June 13, 2007
A death metal band formed in the mid-'90s. Considered by many a joke rather than a credible band, SFU plays slow and heavy death metal with gory lyrics. They have also covered the whole of AC/DC's Back In Black album, death metal style. The band is fronted by ex-Cannibal Corpse cookie monster growler, Chris Barnes.
Try to listen to Chris Barnes growl "You Shook Me All Night Long" all the way through without laughing.
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The Evolution Of Kelly Clarkson
Kelly Clarkson has wowed the world for the past decade. She first appeared in the spotlight back in 2002 when she auditioned, and eventually won, the first season of American Idol. She continues to catch the interest of people by finding love and just newly being engaged to Brandon Blackstock. I believe people should be judged on their talents and capabilities, rather than their appearances, however people all over seem to focus on Kelly's fluctuating weight. I think her incredible voice and confidence on stage will always stand out more than any other factor. Since I'm such a big fan of Kelly I made a gallery of the evolution of her from when she was just a kid to her rocking the stage recently at her appearance on the season finale of The Voice.


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By Jennifer Stewart
Corn growers need to scout their fields to determine wireworm populations before planting so they don't miss the optimum treatment window, a Purdue Extension entomologist says.
Wireworms, or click beetle larvae, feed on corn seed germ and may prevent plants from sprouting. The pest becomes active when soil temperatures warm into the upper 40s.
"There are two trapping methods to determine the potential risk from wireworm to this year's crop, but they will need to be implemented very soon," Christian Krupke said.
Growers can bait the pests with either solar or flour bait stations. With either method, traps should be placed in at least five representative areas of a field, Krupke said.
Solar bait stations are created by digging holes in the soil 9 inches in diameter and 6 inches deep. Each hole should have a handful of untreated corn and wheat seeds, then be refilled with soil, covered with a piece of black plastic (holding down the sides with soil) and marked with a flag or stake.
"The black plastic acts as a solar collector, warming the soil surrounding the bait, providing heat for germination of the corn and wheat seeds," Krupke said.
The second method is similar but replaces the corn and wheat seeds with flour. The black plastic isn't necessary, but marking the spot is.
"Gasses given off during fermentation of the flour are attractive to the wireworms and they will move to the bait to feed," Krupke said. "The bait should be left in the fields as long as possible (2 week maximum) up to the time of planting. At that time, the bait at each station should be dug up and examined for wireworms. If they are in the field, you will find them feeding on the flour ball."
Once growers know whether their corn crops will be at risk and the extent of the risk, they can decide on management strategies.
According to Krupke, one or two wireworms found per bait station might warrant higher rates of seed-applied insecticides possibly at the rootworm rate. Higher populations could render seed-applied treatments ineffective.
Krupke also pointed out that while seed-applied insecticides will protect the crop, they often do not kill wireworms, causing populations to build up over the years.
"In this scenario, granular soil insecticides would afford better protection of the corn seed and seedling, especially during slow-growing environmental conditions after planting," he said.
Another option would be to plant soybeans where wireworm populations could be higher. While the pest feeds on soybeans, the plants are typically planted a little later, into warmer soils and also have the ability to compensate for thinner stands with higher seed production - unlike corn.
The bottom line, Krupke said, is to keep in mind that pre-planting is the last opportunity to manage wireworms.
"Remember that there is no rescue treatment for wireworms once the crop has been planted," he said.


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Colorado v. Bannister, 449 U.S. 1 (1980)
Colorado v. Bannister
No. 79-1901
Decided October 20, 1980
Shortly after a police officer observed a speeding automobile, he heard a police radio dispatch which reported that a theft of motor vehicle parts, including chrome lug nuts, had occurred in the area, and which described two suspects. A few minutes later, he again spotted the speeding automobile and followed it into a service station for the purpose of issuing a traffic citation. As he approached the car, respondent and his companion stepped out of it, and during an ensuing conversation with the car's occupants, the officer observed chrome lug nuts and lug wrenches in plain view in the car. Recognizing that the car's occupants met the description of the suspects, the officer arrested them and seized the lug nuts and wrenches. Before respondent's trial on charges of stealing motor vehicle parts, the trial court granted his motion to suppress the seized items, and the Colorado Supreme Court affirmed.
Held: The circumstances in this case provided probable cause for the officer's seizure of the incriminating items without a warrant. Cf. Carroll v. United States, 267 U. S. 132; Chambers v. Maroney, 399 U. S. 42.
Certiorari granted; 199 Colo. 281, 607 P.2d 987, vacated and remanded.
In the early morning of October 15, 1979, an officer of the Colorado Springs Police Department observed a blue 1967 chanrobles.com-red
Pontiac GTO automobile moving along a road at a speed above the legal limit. Before the officer could pursue the vehicle, it disappeared from his sight. Shortly thereafter, the officer heard a police radio dispatch reporting that a theft of motor vehicle parts had occurred in the area he was patrolling in his car. The radio dispatch announced that a number of chrome lug nuts were among the items stolen, and provided a description of two suspects. A few minutes after hearing the report, the officer spotted the same automobile he had seen earlier, still speeding. He saw the car enter a service station, and followed it there for the purpose of issuing a traffic citation to its driver.
As the officer approached the car, both of its occupants, including the respondent, stepped out of it. A conversation between the officer and the respondent ensued, just outside the closed front door of the automobile. At this time, the officer observed chrome lug nuts in an open glove compartment located between the vehicle's front bucket seats, as well as two lug wrenches on the floorboard of the back seat. These items were in plain view, illuminated by the lights of the service station. Recognizing that the respondent and his companion met the description of those suspected of stealing motor vehicle parts, the officer immediately arrested both of them. He then seized the lug nuts and wrenches.
Before the date scheduled for his trial on charges of stealing motor vehicle parts, the respondent moved to suppress the items that the arresting officer had seized. The trial court granted the motion, and its decision was affirmed by the Supreme Court of Colorado. [Footnote 1] The State subsequently filed a petition for certiorari in this Court.
The provisions of the Fourth Amendment are enforceable against the States through the Fourteenth, and it is axiomatic that
"searches conducted outside the judicial process, without prior approval by judge or magistrate, are per se unreasonable
under the Fourth Amendment -- subject only to a few specifically established and well-delineated exceptions."
Katz v. United States, 389 U. S. 347, 389 U. S. 357 (1967). One of these exceptions, recognized at least since Carroll v. United States, 267 U. S. 132 (1925), exists when an automobile or other vehicle is stopped and the police have probable cause to believe it contains evidence of a crime. See Arkansas v. Sanders, 442 U. S. 753, 442 U. S. 760 (1979). Carroll upheld the legality of a search that was conducted immediately after a vehicle was stopped. Since Carroll, warrantless searches have been found permissible even when a car was searched after being seized and moved to a police station. Texas v. White, 423 U. S. 67 (1975); Chambers v. Maroney, 399 U. S. 42 (1970). In each of these latter cases, the search was constitutionally permissible because an immediate, on-the-scene search would have been permissible. Texas v. White, supra at 423 U. S. 68; Chambers v. Maroney, supra at 399 U. S. 52.
At issue in the present case is a seizure that occurred on the scene shortly after a speeding car was stopped. Thus, if there was probable cause "that the contents of the automobile offend against the law," Carroll, supra at 267 U. S. 159, the warrantless seizure was permissible. [Footnote 2]
Probable cause in this case is self-evident. Indeed, the Supreme Court of Colorado acknowledged that there was probable cause, but mistakenly concluded that a warrant was required to open the car door and seize the items within.
The officer could not stop the vehicle the first time he chanrobles.com-red
detected it speeding, but he accosted it at his next opportunity, when it entered the service station. His subsequent approach to the side of the automobile in order to issue a traffic citation to its driver was entirely legitimate. [Footnote 3] Standing by the front door of the car, the officer happened to see items matching the description of some of those recently stolen in the vicinity, and observed that the occupants of the car met the description of those suspected of the crime. These circumstances provided not only probable cause to arrest, but also, under Carroll and Chambers, probable cause to seize the incriminating items without a warrant. [Footnote 4]
The petition for certiorari and the respondent's motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis are granted, the judgment of the Supreme Court of Colorado is vacated, and the case is remanded to that court for proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion.
It is so ordered.
199 Colo. 281, 607 P.2d 987 (1980).
Another factor that contributes to the justification for the absence of a warrant in such a situation is that "the circumstances that furnish probable cause to search a particular auto for particular articles are most often unforeseeable." Chambers, 399 U.S. at 399 U. S. 50-51. See also Cardwell v. Lewis, 417 U. S. 583, 417 U. S. 595 (1974). This factor applies with particular force in this case. As the reason for the stop was wholly unconnected with the reason for the subsequent seizure, it would be especially unreasonable to require a detour to a magistrate before the unanticipated evidence could be lawfully seized.
There can be no question that the stopping of a vehicle and the detention of its occupants constitute a "seizure" within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment. Delaware v. Prouse, 440 U. S. 648, 440 U. S. 653 (1979); United States v. Martinez-Fuerte, 428 U. S. 543, 428 U. S. 556-558 (1976); United States v. Brignoni-Ponce, 422 U. S. 873, 422 U. S. 878 (1975).
The respondent does not dispute that the items seized were illuminated by the lights of the service station, or that they were in the plain view of the officer as he spoke to him beside the front door of the car. There was no evidence whatsoever that the officer's presence to issue a traffic citation was a pretext to confirm any other previous suspicion about the occupants.


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GOSLING, WILLIAM GILBERT, businessman, politician, and author; b. 8 Sept. 1863 in Paget Parish, Bermuda, second of the six sons of Charles Gray Gosling and Elizabeth Gilbert; m. 2 Jan. 1888, in Halifax, Harriette Armine Nutting* of Waterloo, Que., and they had two sons and two daughters; d. 5 Nov. 1930 in Paget Parish.
Gilbert Gosling received his early education at the Pembroke Grammar School in Hamilton, Bermuda. He arrived in St John's on 22 June 1881 to work as a clerk with the fish-exporting firm of Harvey and Company, whose owners had a long commercial and family connection with Bermuda [see Augustus William Harvey*]. Gosling was given charge of the wholesale side of the business and, as his future wife, Armine, would later write, "from the first he showed a . . . marked aptitude for it, setting himself with characteristic patience and thoroughness to master every detail connected with his work."
Not long after his arrival in St John's, he met Armine, the headmistress of the Church of England Girls' School there. They had a lengthy engagement, during which she returned to her native Canada for some time. In his leisure hours Gosling sought solace in reading. "I find it helps me a lot in my work," he told her. "It takes my mind off business troubles." Thus began his life-long passion for books and book collecting, which Armine shared. His other recreational pursuits included photography, painting, and golf.
Before 1900 Gosling's main interest was English literature, especially the works of Shakespeare, and his purchases reflected this preoccupation. In 1899 he published his first literary work, an article on The tempest in the London periodical Literature. Paid nine guineas for this piece, Gosling earned as well the respect of St John's author and judge Daniel Woodley Prowse*, who addressed him as "my literary brother." The money was naturally devoted to Gosling's library. He had become especially interested in rare and first editions, though he could seldom afford them.
In 1906, along with Prowse and others, Gosling helped to revive the Newfoundland Historical Society, which had been moribund since 1881. At this time as well he took up historical writing when Dr Wilfred Thomason Grenfell* asked him to contribute a chapter on the history of Labrador to a book he was publishing on his experiences as a physician there. The chapter became Gosling's own Labrador: its discovery, exploration, and development (London, 1910), which stands to this day as the most comprehensive work on its subject. Gosling drew upon documents he had obtained from both British and Canadian archives. Indeed, his research would prove invaluable to Sir Patrick Thomas McGrath, who in the 1920s prepared Newfoundland's case in its legal dispute with Canada over the ownership of Labrador. At the same time Gosling had undertaken a biography of Sir Humphrey Gilbert*, published in London in 1911.
Active in the local business community, Gosling in 1909 played a prominent role as organizing secretary in forming the Newfoundland Board of Trade, of which he became president in 1913. In that year as well he was made a director of Harvey and Company, an office he would retain until his retirement in 1927. His concern for Newfoundland's commercial interests led him to oppose the colony's confederation with Canada. In 1907 he had corresponded with the London Spectator, arguing the view of his fellow St John's merchants that the basis of Newfoundland's well-being was its freedom of trade. Newfoundland neither consumed what goods it produced nor produced what it consumed, and "must therefore have absolute freedom to sell in the highest and best market, and with the gold thus obtained to buy in the cheapest. To tie ourselves down to buy from any one country would be to sacrifice a portion of our national income." Gosling's standpoint was shaped by the years he had spent as a commercial traveller to Canada, the United States, Britain, and the European continent.
Gosling is best remembered for his contributions to the public life of his adopted city. In 1902 he had served as honorary secretary of a fund-raising committee for rebuilding the Anglican cathedral, part of which had been destroyed by fire in 1892. In 1908 he helped form, and became vice-president of, the Association for the Prevention of Consumption, which did much to encourage the battle against tuberculosis [see Ella Campbell*]. After 1911, however, his interests concentrated on municipal government.
He was greatly influenced by civic reform movements in Canada and the United States and their emphasis on administrative efficiency and social improvement. Using the prestige of his presidency, in December 1913 he had the Board of Trade organize a citizens' committee to ascertain what reforms could be effected in St John's, whose council dated from 1888. The result was that in 1914 the legislature replaced the elective council with a 12-man appointed commission. Under Gosling's chairmanship it governed the city for two years, instituting a number of reforms in the method of collecting and disbursing revenues and reorganizing the city's water and sewage services. It also drafted a new municipal charter, giving the council broader powers and more independence from the legislature. The legislature refused to pass this charter in 1916, however, claiming that more study was needed, and instead restored the elective council.
A civic election was thus held in June 1916, and Gosling was returned as mayor. The following year he succeeded in securing legislative authority for the city to initiate a public housing program and revise its system of taxation. In 1920–21 he was again made chair of an appointed commission, which administered St John's until the charter became law and provided for elected government. His years in local politics were difficult ones for Gosling. "Gone are the lighter avocations of former days, – the painting, the photographing, the adventures in search of old books," his wife had written to her sister in 1914, " – and when there are no meetings he spends his evenings absorbed in light literature dealing with the most approved methods of the disposal of garbage, and kindred topics." His health deteriorated, and in 1921 he declined public demands that he again stand for the mayoralty, withdrawing from civic life for both business and health reasons.
Gosling's efforts at civic reform represented one aspect of a larger social-reform impulse at work in Newfoundland during World War I. Its most obvious manifestation was the organization by William Ford Coaker* of the Fishermen's Protective Union in 1908 and its entry into active politics in 1913. What both reform elements held in common was a strong belief in improving social conditions, which was the subject of a congress held in St John's in October 1917 by local religious and political leaders and featuring Social Gospel reformers from Canada and the United States, among them John George Shearer and Thomas Albert Moore* of Ontario. Mayor Gosling welcomed the participants, saying that he was a "social worker himself, in a measure, because the government of a city touched in hundreds of ways upon the lives of the people." Concerned about the "disgraceful rate of infant mortality in Newfoundland," Gosling had initiated efforts to promote a child welfare service, and in 1918 he helped to fund the salary of a community health nurse from his emoluments as mayor. After 1919 the Women's Patriotic Association, of which Armine was an executive member, took up fund-raising for this cause and its efforts led to the formation in 1921 of the Child Welfare Association under the presidency of Mary Meager Southcott*. Gosling also supported the women's suffrage movement in St John's, which included his wife as one of its strongest proponents [see Fannie Knowling]. The St John's Municipal Act of 1921 reflected this influence by giving women the right to vote in civic elections.
In September 1927 the Goslings retired to Bermuda, where Gilbert died in 1930. His wife later donated his extensive collection of books to the people of St John's to form the basis of the city's first public library, the Gosling Memorial Library, which opened in 1936. The establishment of just such a library had been one of Gosling's cherished dreams before his retirement from public life.
Evening Telegram (St John's), 8 Oct. 1917, 7 Nov. 1930. Melvin Baker, "The government of St. John's, Newfoundland, 1800–1921" (phd thesis, Univ. of Western Ont., London, 1981), 367–71; "Prominent figures from our recent past: William Gilbert Gosling," Newfoundland Quarterly (St John's), 81 (1985–86), no.1: 43; "William Gilbert Gosling and the charter: St John's municipal politics, 1914–1921," Newfoundland Quarterly, 81, no.1: 21–28; and "William Gilbert Gosling and the establishment of the Child Welfare Association, 1917–1921," Newfoundland Quarterly, 77 (1981–82), no.4: 31–32 (the texts of the articles are also available on the author's web site, http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~melbaker/stjohns.htm.). Melvin Baker and G. M. Story, "Book collectors in Newfoundland: the case of W. G. Gosling," in "The book disease": Atlantic provinces book collectors, ed. E. L. Swanick (Halifax, 1996), 83–92. A. [E.] N[utting] G[osling], William Gilbert Gosling: a tribute (New York, [1935]).
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This is fine for applications and applets but can cause a performance problem with servlets. With servlets you can have a heavy load on the connection. If you have several threads performing queries then each but one will pause, which may not be what you are after.
To solve this, you would be advised to create a pool of connections. When ever a thread needs to use the database, it asks a manager class for a Connection. The manager hands a free connection to the thread and marks it as busy. If a free connection is not available, it opens one. Once the thread has finished with it, it returns it to the manager who can then either close it or add it to the pool. The manager would also check that the connection is still alive and remove it from the pool if it is dead.
So, with servlets, it is up to you to use either a single connection, or a pool. The plus side for a pool is that threads will not be hit by the bottle neck caused by a single network connection. The down side is that it increases the load on the server, as a backend process is created for each Connection. It is up to you and your applications requirements.


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Diagnostics for the Solar Interior
The Sun releases energy. The processes that make this energy take place in the center of the Sun. We can't see past the surface of the Sun. But scientists use indirect ways (diagnostics) to figure out just how the energy is produced.
One way scientists research the inside of the Sun is to study helioseismology. Helioseismology is just a big word that means the study of the vibrations of the Sun and the waves these vibrations make. (If you were that hot, you'd shake a little too!)
Another important diagnostic is neutrino detection. Neutrinos are produced in the nuclear reactions that take place in the core of the Sun.
If scientists look at neutrinos and the waves made by the Sun vibrating, they can piece together how the Sun makes its energy. They can also start to figure out what will happen to the Sun during its life cycle.


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Prophecy Timeline
1st Day
Peace covenant between Israel and enemies arranged by America, Daniel 9:27, Revelation 6:2, 8:1. Construction of temple begins. Days of religious, political deception will be shortened when Russia invades within 1,230 days, Matthew 24:22. Rapture is history, body of Christ in Heaven, Revelation 4. Jesus comes in 2,520 days.
220th Day
Temple construction allows for sacrifices and oblations to begin. Taken away in 1,010 days by Russian-Syrian leader. Jesus comes in 2,300 days. Temple site then cleansed, Daniel 8:13-14.
869th Day
Two witnesses begin 1,260 day ministry, Revelation 11:3. They will be warning the Jews of the imminent Russian-Syrian invasion. Their ministry will be during both halves of the 70th Week because of Revelation 11:6, which shows God's judgment of water to blood, which occurs in last half; and Revelation 11:10, which shows world rejoicing at the death of two witnesses. If they ministered only in the last half, the world would be terrified and mourning at sight of returning Lord, not rejoicing. If they minister only first half, how can waters turn to blood, which is God's wrath? Witnesses preach against beast and harlot church and for the coming of Jesus in power and glory. Jesus comes in 1,651 days.
Days of religious, political deception (world peace) will be shortened or elect would be deceived. Days shortened by Russian confederacy invading the Middle East sometime between the 869th and 1,230th day, Ezekiel 38, Daniel 11. World War III erupts, probably nuclear and conventional. Takes peace from earth, Revelation 6:4.
1,230th Day
Russian-Syrian leader takes away sacrifices of Jews, Daniel 8:11, 11:31, 12:11. Within 30 days the first of seven trumpet judgments begin as God destroys Russian-Syrian armies, Ezekiel 38:22, Revelation 8:7. Days of war and sudden destruction shortened or all flesh perish, (nuclear war) Matthew 24:22. Jesus comes in 1,290 days, Daniel 12:11)
1,260th Day
Midweek. Antichrist from America has been resurrected from the dead. Armies of America and Western Europe have invaded and now occupy Israel and the Middle East. Antichrist causes sacrifices to cease. Makes temple desolate by saying he is God, Daniel 9:27, 12:11. Antichrist or beast given power over all nations, and persecutes the saints, Revelation 13:7. Jesus comes in 1,260 days.
Wrath of God meets wrath of Satan for 1,260 days. Days of Great Tribulation and days of Jacob's Trouble. Great days of real revival through two witnesses and 144,000 Jewish evangelists, Revelation 7. Trumpet and then bowl judgments poured out by the angels of God. Harlot church hated by antichrist and burned.
1979th Day
5th trumpet sounds. 5 months (150 days) demon locusts torment unsaved, Revelation 9:5. First 4 trumpet judgments covered approximately 719 days. Jesus comes in 541 days.
2129th Day
6th trumpet sounds for 3 1/2 days. Two witnesses complete 1,260-day ministry. Killed by antichrist from America. Bodies left in streets of Jerusalem for 3 1/2 days, Revelation 11:8, 11. Antichrist will order their bodies to be untouched as a mockery to the prophecy of their resurrection. Their death and display of bodies angers God. Judgments will intensify. Last hour, day, month, year (391 days) of bowl judgments result of God's anger. Fullness of God's wrath, Revelation 9:15, 10:7, 15:7. Jesus comes in 391 days.
2132 1/2 Day
Two witnesses rise from the dead, ascend to Heaven before multitudes, probably watching on satellite television, Revelation 11:11-12, 15. 7th trumpet sounds announcing the beginning of the 7 bowl judgments. Last 387 1/2 days begin.
2,520th Day
Fire from Heaven has destroyed America or Babylon the Great, Revelation 18. Jesus Christ appears in the skies for all eyes to see Him. Antichrist and false prophet are cast in to Lake of Fire, Revelation 19:20. Jesus first destroys all world's armies at Armageddon, who have been gathered by beast and false prophet to fight against Him, thinking He is an alien invading force, Revelation 1:7, 19:11-21. Satan is cast into the bottomless pit for 1,000 years, Revelation 20:1-3. All saints who were in Heaven come with Jesus. Judgment of surviving people of the nations begins. Temple cleansed of antichrist. 2,300 days completed, Daniel 8:13-14. 1,000-year reign of Jesus Christ begins. Praise God!


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Education is one of humanity's universal endeavors. It is essential for all ages, as both a part of formal institutions, involving schools, universities, etc., and informal ones, involving socialization, acculturation, etc. Education is central to both cultural survival and change, and thus invokes deeply held beliefs which can, and do, conflict with one another. Reflecting these characteristics, educational research is voluminous and varied, with points of agreement embedded in contesting theories and views. It must address such fundamental considerations as well as guide governmental institutions and, as a result, cannot escape the demands to be practical, empirical, and theoretical. These demands can conflict but also invite scholarship that is deep and wide-ranging, making the endeavor both exciting and important.
As a field of study, education draws widely from other disciplines while constituting a discourse all its own. It is simultaneously a field of study, a set of social and professional practices, and a range of social institutions. Educational researchers are concerned with the purposes of education, how people learn, the implications of various ways of teaching, the pedagogical and social effects of organizational and institutional arrangements, and ultimately with improvement in all these. They examine education's relation to and effect upon culture, socialization, politics, national and international development, social change, social maintenance, and conflict. Educational researchers study informal learning, public pedagogies, technologies, social problems and social contexts. They are also charged with sorting out various schemes to improve effectiveness and efficiency, distinguishing between fad and improvement, hype and substance.
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The IMF holds around 90.5 million ounces (2,814.1 metric tons) of gold at designated depositories. On the basis of historical cost, the IMF's total gold holdings are valued at SDR 3.2 billion (about $4.8 billion), but at current market prices, their value is closer to SDR 73.8 billion (about $113.2 billion).
The IMF has acquired its gold holdings through four main channels:
Role of gold. The Second Amendment to the Articles of Agreement in April 1978 fundamentally changed the role of gold in the international monetary system by eliminating its use as the common denominator of the post-World War II exchange rate system and as the basis of the value of the Special Drawing Right (SDR). It also abolished the official price of gold and ended its obligatory use in transactions between the IMF and its member countries. It furthermore required the IMF, when dealing in gold, to avoid managing the price of gold, or establishing a fixed price.
Transactions. The Second Amendment to the Articles of Agreement limit the use of gold in the IMF's operations and transactions. The IMF may sell gold outright according to prevailing market prices. It may accept gold in the discharge of a member country's obligations (loan repayment) at an agreed price, based on market prices at the time of acceptance. Such transactions require Executive Board approval by an 85 percent majority of the total voting power. The IMF does not have the authority to engage in any other gold transactions—such as loans, leases, swaps, or use of gold as collateral—nor does it have the authority to buy gold.
Over the last six decades of the IMF's existence, there have been several instances when the IMF has voted to return gold to member countries, or to sell some of its holdings. The reasons for this are varied: between 1957-70, the IMF sold gold on several occasions to replenish its holdings of currencies. During roughly the same period, some IMF gold was sold to the United States and invested in U.S. Government securities to offset operational deficits.
In December 1999, the Executive Board authorized off-market transactions in gold of up to 14 million ounces to help finance the IMF's participation in the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative. Most of the gold was sold in transactions between the IMF and two members (Brazil and Mexico) that had financial obligations falling due to the IMF.
On September 18, 2009, the Executive Board approved the sale of 403.3 metric tons of gold (12.97 million ounces)—one-eighth of the Fund's total holdings of gold at that time. This move was part of a new income model agreed in April 2008 to help put the IMF's finances on a sound, long-term footing. Key to this new income model was the creation of an endowment funded by the profits from the sale of this gold.
The first phase in the Fund's gold sales was exclusively off-market transactions to interested central banks and other official holders, at market prices . In October and November 2009, the Fund sold 212 metric tons of gold in separate off-market transactions to three central banks: 200 metric tons were sold to the Reserve Bank of India; 2 metric tons to the Bank of Mauritius, and 10 metric tons to the Central Bank of Sri Lanka.
In February 2010, the IMF announced the beginning of sales of gold on the market. At that time, a total of 191.3 tons of gold remained to be sold. In order to avoid disrupting the gold market, sales were phased over several months.
In December 2010 the IMF concluded the gold sales program with total sales of 403.3 metric tons of gold (12.97 million ounces). Total proceeds amounted to SDR 9.5 billion (about $14.4 billion), of which SDR 6.85 billion constituted profits over the book value of the gold and SDR 4.4 billion of this was used to establish an endowment as envisaged under the new income model.
In February 2012, the Executive Board approved a distribution of SDR 700 million of reserves from windfall gold sales profits (realized because of a higher gold price than the assumed price when the new income model was endorsed by the Executive Board), subject to assurances that at least 90 percent of the amount would be made available for the Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust (PRGT). This distribution, which became effective in October 2012, was part of a financing package endorsed by the Executive Board to boost the IMF's lending capacity.
In September 2012, the Executive Board approved a further distribution of SDR 1,750 million of reserves from windfall gold sales profits, subject to the same assurances that at least 90 percent of the amount would be made available for the PRGT, to ensure a longer-term sustainability of the PRGT. This distribution became effective in October 2013.
The successful distributions of gold windfall profits were a key step toward making the PRGT sustainable over the medium and longer term. As a result of the additional subsidy resources pledged, the PRGT now has sufficient capacity to accommodate annual lending of about SDR 1¼ billion on average on an ongoing basis.


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HCA's parents move to Klingenberg no. 646, now known as the childhood home in Munkemøllestræde. The small rental house was shared by 3 families (12 persons in all). Here, HCA's parents had a small living room and a kitchen at their disposition.1807 is also the year the English bombed Copenhagen.
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Eggs (also called ova or oocytes), and sperm are called "Sex Cells". A single egg cell is called an ovum, and a single sperm cell is called a spermatozoon (plural spermatozoa).
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The process of producing sperm or eggs is called meiosis. Readers who have some background knowledge in biology may recognize a similar term: "mitosis". Mitosis is the separation of a cell into two new cells, each with a complete set of DNA.Mitosis is in other words somatic. In meiosis, however, the resultant cell has only half the necessary DNA: 23 chromosomes, one from each pair. During conception, the 23 chromosomes from the sperm and the 23 chromosomes from the egg are combined to create a human fetus with 46 chromosomes.These are also called body cells.
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Sperm are produced in vast quantities in the testicles, and sperm production is a constant cycle in the body. One of the 23 chromosomes in a sperm cell may be shaped slightly differently than the rest - this is referred to as a Y chromosome. A sperm cell with all 23 chromosomes the same shape is said to have an X chromosome. A child resulting from fertilization of an egg by a sperm with an X chromosome will be female, and a child resulting from fertilization of an egg by a sperm with a Y chromosome will be male.
There are sperm-sorting processes available to increase the likelihood of a particular sex for couples using intrauterine insemination to achieve pregnancy. Some in vitro fertilization clinics offer couples the option of sex testing before choosing which embryos to transfer. For couples seeking pregnancy the traditional way, however, there is no way to control which type of sperm fertilizes the egg.
Eggs[edit | edit source]
Egg cells are released from the ovaries, usually one or two per menstrual cycle. Every egg has an X chromosome.
During fetal development, a female fetus will have developed between 6 and 7 million eggs by the fourth or fifth month of pregnancy. Most of the eggs gradually waste away; by puberty, the average female has 300,000 eggs remaining. During menopause, the body stops releasing egg cells.
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Fertilization, also called conception, happens when a sperm cell combines with an egg cell, usually in the uterus. Once the first sperm enters the egg, the egg's cell membrane solidifies, to prevent multiple sperm from entering.
As the egg cell begins to divide, it is called a zygote.
Typically, fertilization occurs in the fallopian tubes. For couples that need to use in vitro fertilization to achieve pregnancy, fertilization occurs in a laboratory, and the resulting embryos are later placed in the uterus.


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Metformin Lowers Breast Cancer Risk
Metformin is the aspirin of the diabetes world, an almost-wonder drug that proves itself again and again the longer it's around. This time, a new study shows that postmenopausal women with diabetes who have taken metformin for several years are 25 percent less likely to develop breast cancer than nondiabetic women.
The study, conducted by the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, analyzed data on 68,000 postmenopausal women who had participated in the Women's Health Initiative, a massive 15-year federal study of women past childbearing age.
The researchers found that women who had taken metformin for more than a decade had a statistically significant lower risk of invasive breast cancer than women who did not have diabetes. They also found that women with diabetes who took drugs other than metformin ran a slightly higher risk of developing breast cancer than their nondiabetic peers.
The UCLA study joins other research suggesting that metformin may have anti-cancer properties, including capabilities against pancreatic cancer. Why the drug reduces the risk of cancer is unclear. One possibility is that metformin increases the activity of AMP-kinase, an enzyme that detects cellular energy levels and may be able to cause cancer cells to self-destruct.
The researchers reported that the 25 percent lower risk figure took into account such factors as body mass index, exercise level, and mammogram frequency, all of which affect breast cancer risk.
Because the new study does not establish a cause-and-effect link between taking metformin and lowered breast cancer risk, the National Cancer Institute will be sponsoring a five-year trial in which nondiabetic women with early breast cancer will receive either metformin or a placebo over the study's duration.
The study was published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
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Have you ever played with Mega Bloks ©? They are big, chunky blocks! Or have you seen the megahit movie, Finding Nemo? Megahit means it was a really popular movie! When you put mega in front of a word it means BIG!Mexico City, where MILAGRO takes place, is a "megacity." A megacity is a BIG city! More exactly, a megacity has over 10 million people living in it.
When someone lives in an urban setting, he or she lives in a city. When someone lives in a rural setting, he or she lives out in the countryside. Do you live in an urban setting? Around the world, more people live in cities than do not. In 2000, the world had 411 cities that each had more than one million people.
People are moving from the countryside into cities in hopes of making more money in the cities. Sometimes cities cant handle so many more people living there, resulting in too much growth and more pollution, too.


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[Alvaro Ferrán Cifuentes] has built the coolest motion capture suit that we've seen outside of Hollywood. It's based on tying a bunch of inertial measurement units (IMUs) to his body, sending the data to a computer, and doing some reasonably serious math. It's nothing short of amazing, and entirely doable on a DIY budget. Check out the video below the break, and be amazed.
Cellphones all use IMUs to provide such useful functions as tap detection and screen rotation information. This means that they've become cheap. The ability to measure nine degrees of freedom on a tiny chip, for chicken scratch, pretty much made this development inevitable, as we suggested back in 2013 after seeing a one-armed proof-of-concept.
But [Alvaro] has gone above and beyond. Everything is open source and documented on his GitHun. An Arduino reads the sensor boards (over multiplexed I2C lines) that are strapped to his limbs, and send the data over Bluetooth to his computer. There, a Python script takes over and passes the data off to Blender which renders a 3D model to match, in real time.
All of this means that you could replicate this incredible project at home right now, on the cheap. We have no idea where this is heading, but it's going to be cool.


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--Finding could lead to new diagnostic tests or asthma treatments
June 29- , 2010A gene that encodes a protein responsible for determining whether certain immune cells live or die shows subtle differences in some people with asthma, a team led by Johns Hopkins researchers reports in the June European Journal of Human Genetics.
The protein, known as Siglec-8, has been studied for more than a decade by a team led by Bruce S. Bochner, M.D., director of the Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Siglec-8, whose name is an acronym for sialic acid-binding, immunoglobulin-like lectin number 8, is present on the surfaces of a few types of immune cells, including eosinophils, basophils and mast cells. These different cell types have diverse but cooperative roles in normal immune function and allergic diseases. When functioning correctly, they play a valuable role in keeping the body healthy and infection-free. However, in conditions such as allergic reactions and asthma attacks, the cells unleash an overwhelming response that can harm the body more than it helps.
The researchers found in previous studies that when they bound antibodies or specially engineered sugar-coated polymers to the Siglec-8 protein on eosinophils, the cells promptly died, an effect that might be useful in stemming an allergy or asthma attack. Indeed, the Bochner lab is interested in pursuing the possibility of developing new therapies based on treatments that activate Siglec-8.
Natural sugar-based molecules in the body fulfill a similar role in keeping eosinophils in check in healthy people, explains Bochner. However, he and his colleagues hypothesized, if Siglec-8 were compromised — perhaps through a mutation in the gene that produces this protein — people who carried such a mutation might be more susceptible to getting asthma or other immunological diseases because they might end up with extra eosinophils.
To test this idea, Bochner and his colleagues used data from Genomic Research on Asthma in the African Diaspora (GRAAD), a group of National Institutes of Health-funded studies of asthma in pediatric and adult African-American populations and one study of healthy African-Americans. The team examined DNA taken from 464 asthma patients and 471 healthy individuals who participated in these studies. They looked for single-letter differences in the genetic code, mutations called single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs, pronounced "snips"), that might be associated with a higher risk of asthma. Their results turned up a single SNP, called rs36498, which was associated with a significantly higher susceptibility to asthma.
To confirm these results, the researchers performed a similar investigation on two racially different populations: 822 individuals among 356 nuclear families, each with at least one child with asthma, recruited from the Conde District of Bahia, Brazil, and 468 volunteers with asthma and 457 without asthma recruited from a pulmonary clinic at Hokkaido University Hospital in Hokkaido, Japan.
The researchers found that the same SNP, rs36498, was found in significantly more Brazilian individuals with a history of wheezing in the last 12 months or had a lifetime history of asthma than those without these characteristics. A different SNP, rs10409962, was found in higher numbers in the Japanese asthmatic volunteers compared to the healthy ones.
To see if either of these SNPs might be involved in other conditions that affect eosinophils, the researchers examined 166 Caucasians who each had a condition called eosinophilic esophagitis, an inflammatory condition that affects the walls of the esophagus, and 132 healthy Caucasian volunteers. Neither SNP appeared prominently in these populations. The results suggest that these SNPs affect asthma susceptibility, but not susceptibility to eosinophilic esophagitis.
"Our results suggest these mutations in the Siglec-8 gene may play a role in asthma. It's reasonable to assume that efforts to target Siglec-8 might be able to influence this disease and others associated with eosinophils," says Bochner. "If we're able to understand these mutations better, we might be able to use them to develop a diagnostic test or new treatment."
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This just in from Nordstrom:
On June 26, 27 and 28, Nordstrom and Summit Entertainment invite Twilight fans to take advantage of a special opportunity to meet select cast members of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse at select Nordstrom stores. The cast appearances are being held to celebrate the highly-anticipated June 30 release of the third movie in Summit's Twilight film saga. Nordstrom launched an exclusive clothing and cosmetics collection inspired by the film in early June.
Beginning Saturday, June 19, at 8:00 a.m., customers can acquire VIP access to be one of 200 customers to take photographs with cast members (visit nordstrom.com/eclipse for specific details).
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse cast members will visit the following Nordstrom stores:
– Sat., Jun. 26: Elizabeth Reaser (Esme Cullen) and Nikki Reed (Rosalie Hale) at Nordstrom Downtown Seattle
– Sat., Jun. 26: Cameron Bright (Alec) at Nordstrom Downtown Portland (Ore.)
– Sat., Jun. 26: Jodelle Ferland (Bree) at Nordstrom NorthPark Center (Dallas)
– Sun., Jun. 27: Alex Meraz (Paul) at Nordstrom Montgomery Mall (Bethesda, Md.)
– Sun., Jun. 27: Justin Chon (Eric) at Nordstrom Stoneridge (Pleasanton, Calif.)
– Sun., Jun. 27: Tyson Houseman (Quil Ateara) at Nordstrom Fashion Valley (San Diego)
– Mon., Jun. 28: BooBoo Stewart (Seth) at Nordstrom Oakbrook Center (Oakbrook, Ill.)
The BP. department at select Nordstrom stores is offering customers advance movie screening passes as gifts with purchase (see nordstrom.com/eclipse for participating stores and details), and all stores will host Twilight styling parties on June 19 and 20. Customers can visit nordstrom.com/eclipse to learn what events are taking place and sign-up for email alerts.
The fashion collection, created by Awake, Inc., reflects the style of two of the film's main characters, Bella and Alice, by combining pieces that include screened tees and hoodies, fashion tops, mini skirts, dresses, skinny jeans and cardigans. Prices range from $30 T-shirts to $52 dresses to $58 for a pair of jeans. Nordstrom is also selling exclusive life-size cutouts of characters, Edward, Bella, Jacob, and Alice. In addition, Nordstrom offers customers Luna Twilight, a full cosmetics collection, including Twilight Lip Venom, which reflects the mood and spirit of the film.


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Arctic Monkeys Play 'I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor' and the Beatles' 'Come Together' at 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony
The 2012 Summer Olympics officially kicked into high gear in London this evening (July 27). The celebration began with the opening ceremony, which was flavored with plenty of hearty rock 'n' roll, including a high-octane, unforgettable performance by the Arctic Monkeys. The band performed their chart-topping song 'I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor' along with their cover of the Beatles' 'Come Together.'
While playing at the Olympics in your home country is a major resume builder (to put it mildly) and a serious milestone for any band, the fact that the Monkeys played 'Come Together' is of particular significance. Not only did the boys perform the song before the Queen of England, but perhaps more importantly, they played the song in front of one of its songwriters, Sir Paul McCartney. That's the really big deal here, since McCartney is considered one of the greatest living songwriters.
You can check out the performance of 'I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor' and 'Come Together' below. One of the clips is just audio, but as clips have already been getting pulled from YouTube, it's good enough. Allow this footage to make you feel like you were across the pond in London, enjoying the festivities.
The Arctic Monkeys sure have racked up some high profile gigs this summer, between the 2012 Olympics and a slot on Metallica's first-ever Orion Music and More Festival.
Watch Arctic Monkeys Perform 'You Look Good on the Dancefloor'
Listen to Arctic Monkeys Perform 'Come Together'


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When I log in to our Myspace band page and use the "linked networks" function to link the Myspace profile to a Facebook profile it always uses my personal Facebook profile. What I want to achieve is that updates posted to the Myspace page (which is the band's primary online presence) are automatically posted to the Facebook band page as well.
How can I specify a Facebook page as the target for the link?
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To build exascale systems, power is probably the biggest technical hurdle on the hardware side. In terms of getting to exascale computing, demonstrating the value of supercomputing to funders and the public is a more urgent challenge. But the top roadblock for realizing the potential benefits from exascale is software.
That title is probably controversial to most readers. It is likely that if you asked members of the supercomputing community what is the single biggest challenge for exascale computing, the most common answer would be "power." It is widely reported, widely talked about, and in many places, generally accepted that finding a few orders of magnitude improvement in power consumption is the biggest roadblock on the way to viable exascale computing. Otherwise, the first exascale computers will require 60MW, 120MW or 200MW — pick your favorite horror figure. I'm not so convinced.
I'm not saying the power estimates for exascale computing are not a problem — they are — but they are not the problem. Because, in the end, it is just a money problem. For most in the community, the objection is not so much to the fact of 60-plus MW supercomputers. Instead, the objection is the resulting operating costs of 60-plus MW supercomputers. We simply don't want to pay $60 million each year for electricity (or more precisely we don't want to have to justify to someone else — e.g., funding agencies — that we need to pay that much). But why are we so concerned about large power costs?
Are we really saying, with our concerns over power, that we simply don't have a good enough case for supercomputing — the science case, business case, track record of innovation delivery, and so on? Surely if supercomputing is that essential, as we keep arguing, then the cost of the power is worth it.
There are several large scientific facilities that have comparable power requirements, often with much narrower missions — remember that supercomputing can advance almost all scientific disciplines — for example, LHC, ITER, NIF, and SNS. And indeed, most of the science communities behind those facilities are also large users of supercomputing.
I occasionally say, glibly and deliberately provocatively, if the scientific community can justify billions of dollars, 100MW of power, and thousands of staff in order to fire tiny particles that most people have never heard of around a big ring of magnets for a fairly narrow science purpose that most people will never understand, then how come we can't make a case for a facility needing only half of those resources that can do wonders for a whole range of science problems and industrial applications?
[There is a partial answer to that, which I have addressed on my HPC Notes blog to avoid distraction here.]
But secondly, and more importantly, the power problem can be solved with enough money if we can make the case. Accepting huge increases in budgets would also go a long way toward solving several of the other challenges of exascale computing. For example, resiliency could be substantially helped if we could afford comprehensive redundancy and other advanced RAS features; data movement challenges could be helped if we could afford huge increases in memory bandwidth at all levels of the system; and so on.
Those technical challenges would not be totally solved but they would be substantially reduced by money. I don't mean to trivialize those technical challenges, but certainly they could be made much less scary if we weren't worried about the cost of solutions.
So, the biggest challenge for exascale computing might not be power (or your other favorite architectural roadblock) but rather our ability to justify enough budget to pay for the power, or more expensive hardware, etc. However, beyond even that, there is a class of challenges for which money alone is not enough.
Assume a huge budget meant an exascale computer with good enough resiliency, plenty of memory bandwidth and every other needed architectural attribute was delivered tomorrow, and never mind the power bills. Could we use it? No. Because of a series of challenges that need not only money, but also lots of time to solve, and in most cases need research because we just don't know the solutions.
I am thinking of the software related challenges.
Even if we have highly favorable architectures (expensive systems with lots of bandwidth, good resiliency, etc.) I think the community and most, if not all, of the applications are still years away from having algorithms and software implementations that can exploit that scale of computing efficiently.
There is a reasonable effort underway to identify the software problems that we might face in using exascale computing (e.g., IESP and EESI). However, in most cases we can only identify the problems; we still don't have much idea about the solutions. Even where we have a good idea of the way forward, sensible estimates of the effort required to implement software capable of using exascale computing — OS, tools, applications, post-processing, etc. — is measured in years with large teams.
It certainly requires money, but it needs other scarce resources too, specifically time and skills. That involves a large pool of skilled parallel software engineers, scientists with computational expertise, numerical algorithms research and so on. Scarce resources like these are possibly even harder to create than money!
Power is a problem for exascale computing, and with current budget expectations is probably the biggest technical challenge for the hardware. In terms of getting to exascale computing, demonstrating the value of increased investment in supercomputing to funders and the public/media is probably a more urgent challenge. But the top roadblock for achieving the hugely beneficial potential output from exascale computing is software. There are many challenges to do with the software ecosystem that will take years, lots of skilled workers, and sustained/predictable investment to solve.
That "sustained/predictable" is important. Ad-hoc research grants are not an efficient way to plan and conduct a many-year, many-person, community-wide software research and development agenda. Remember that agenda will consume a non-trivial portion of the careers of many of the individuals involved. And when the researchers start out on this necessary software journey, they need confidence that funding will be there all the way to production deployment and ongoing maintenance many years into the future.
About the Author
Andrew is Vice-President of HPC Services and Consulting at the Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG). He was originally a researcher using HPC and developing related software, later becoming involved in leadership of HPC services. He is also interested in exascale, manycore, skills development, broadening usage, and other future concerns of the HPC community.


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