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I am a snackmat. I am smaller than a placemat but bigger than a mug rug. I am great at keeping your table clean while your little one eats.
This construction themed snackmat has images of construction gear like ear muffs, cones, paint rollers, fork lifts, ladders, goggles, light bulbs and more as well as warning signs that say things such as "Warning wet paint," "Beware slippery surface," "Safety goggles must be worn at all times," "Warning falling objects," and more in colors of orange, white, green and yellow set on a navy blue background while the other side is a bright solid construction cone orange color.
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pigmies, turquets,1 nymphs, rustics, Cupids, statues moving, and the like. As for angels, it is not comical2 enough to put them in anti-masques; and anything that is hideous, as devils, giants, is, on the other side, as unfit; but chiefly, let the music of them be recreative, and with some strange changes. Some sweet odours suddenly coming forth, without any drops falling, are, in such a company, as there is steam and heat, things of great pleasure and refreshment. Double masques, one of men, another of ladies, addeth state and variety; but all is nothing, except the room be kept clear and neat.
For justs, and tourneys,3 and barriers, the glories * of them are chiefly in the chariots, wherein the challengers make their entry, especially if they be drawn with strange beasts, as lions, bears, camels, and the like; or, in the devices of their entrance, or in bravery * of their liveries, or in the goodly; furniture of their horses and armour. But enough of these toys.
'These things are but toys . . . .'
Bacon seems to think some kind of apology necessary for treating of matters of this kind in the midst of grave treatises. But his taste seems to have lain a good deal this way. He is reported to have always shown a great fondness for splendour and pageantry, and everything that could catch the eye, and make a'display of wealth and magnificence. This may bo accounted, in such a great -philosopher, something frivolous. It is worth remarking that the term ' frivolous' is always applied (by those who use language with care and correctness) to a great interest shown about things that are little to the person in question. For, little and great,—trifling or important,—are relative terms. If a grown man or woman were to be occupied with a doll, this would be called excessively frivolous; but no one calls a little girl frivolous for playing with a doll.
1 Turquets. (Probably) Turks.
- Comical. Comic .
a Tourneys. Tournaments.
'Not but the mode of that romantic age,
The age of tourneys, triumphs, and quaint mosques,
Glared with fantastic pageantry which dimmed
The sober eye of truth, and dazzled e'en
The sage himself.'—Mason.
* Glory. Splendour; magnificence. 'Solomon, in'all his glory, was not arrayo! like one of these.'—MatOieio.
5 Bravery. Finery. 'In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet.'—Isaiak iii. 18.
'A stately ship, with all her bravery on,
NATURE is often bidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. Force maketh nature more violent in the return; doctrine and discourse maketh nature less importune;' but custom only doth alter and subdue nature. He that seeketb victory over his nature, let him not set himself too great nor too small tasks; for the first will make him dejected by often failing, and the second will make him a small proceeder, though by often prevailing. And, at the first, let him practise with helps, as swimmers do with bladders or rushes; but, tifter a time, let him practise with disadvantages, as dancers do with thick shoes; for it breeds great perfection if the practice be harder than the use. Where nature is mighty, and therefore the victory hard, the degrees had need bo, first to stay and arrest nature in time; (like to him that would say over the four-and-twenty letters when he was angry); then to go less in quantity; as if one should, in forbearing wine, come from drinking healths to a draught at a meal; and, lastly, to discontinue altogether; but if a man haTe the fortitude and resolution to enfranchise himself at once, that
is the best:—
'Optimua illo animi vindex, Uodentia pectus
Neither is the ancient rule amiss, to bend nature as a wand, to a contrary extreme, whereby to set it right; understanding it where the contrary extreme is no vice. Let not a man force a habit upon himself with a perpetual continuance, but with some intermission, for both the pause reinforceth the new onset; and if a man that is not perfect be ever in practice, he shall as well practise his errors as his abilities, and induce one habit of both; and there is no means to help this but by seasonable intermission. But let not a man trust his victory over his nature too far, for nature will lie buried a great time, and yet revive upon the occasion or temptation; like as it was with JJsop's damsel, turned from a eat to a woman, who sat very demurely at the board's end till a mouse ran before her; therefore, let a man either avoid the occasion altogether, or put himself often to it, that he may be little moved with it.;
1 Importune. Importunate; troublesome. Soo pogo 105.
2 'Ho is tho best nssertor of the soul, who bursts the bonds that gall his brosot, and buffers all, nt oucc.'—Ovid, It. Amor. 293.
A man's nature is best perceived in privateness,1 for there is no affectation in passion; for that putteth a man out of his precepts: and in a new case or experiment, for there custom leaveth him. They are happy men whose natures sort2 with their vocations ;3 otherwise they may say, 'Multum incola fuit anima mea/ * when they converse5 in those things they do not affect.6 In studies, whatsoever a man commandeth upon himself, let him set hours for it; but whatsoever is agreeable to his nature, let him take no care for any set times; for his thoughts will fly to it of themselves, so as the spaces of other business or studies will suffice. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other.
Pro. Contda.
'Consuetudo contra nftturom, quasi 'Cogitamus secundum nntnr.un; lo
tyrannis qua>dam est; et cito, ac levi quimur secundum prajecpta ; sod agimus
oeeasione corruit . secundum eonsuetudinem.
'Custom, when contrary to nature, is a 'We think according to our nature;
hind of usurpation over it; and is quickly we speak according to instruction; but
overthrown on the most trifling occasion.' see act accordiny to custom.'
'Privateness. Privacy. Sec page 116. 'Sort. Suit. See page 82.
3 Vocation. Calling in life. See page 23.
* • My soul has been long a sojourner.'
s Converse. To have one's waij of life in. See 'Conversation,' page 302. 'Let your conversation be as becometh tho Gospel of Christ.'—I'hil. i. 27. 'Octavia is of a holy and still conversation.'—Shakespere.
* Affect. To like.
'Dost thou affert her ?'— Shakenpere,
* Neither is the ancient rule amiss, to bend Nature as a wand, totk contrary extreme, whereby to set it right.'
This 'ancient rule'1 needs to be qualified by a caution against 'bending the wand' too far: an error sometimes committed by well-intentioned persons. If A. confesses, and with truth, that he is conscious of a natural tendency towards parsimony, and B. that his natural leaning is towards careless prodigality, it is yet possible we may find, in practice, —greatly to the astonishment of some—that A. errs, when he does err, generally on the side of profusion, and B. on that of parsimony; each having guarded exclusively against a danger on one side, and thinking that he cannot go too far the other way. So,' also, one who is excessively in dread of over-deference for some highly esteemed and venerated friend, may, perhaps, in practice, 'bend the, wand' too far the other way. His veneration will then be theoretical and general; while, practically, and in almost every particular instance, he will be cherishing, as a matter of duty, a strong prejudice against every proposal, decision, measure, institution, person, or thing, that his friend approves.
I have noticed in the 'Annotations' on Essay VI. a like error, in carrying to a faulty excess the endeavour to repress all 01 feelings towards one who has injured one's self: the error, namely, of breaking down, in his favour, the boundaries of right and wrong, and treating a man as blameless or laudable, because it is to us he has done a wrong.
'A man's nature is best perceived in privateness; .... in passion: . . . . and in a new case or experiment'
To this excellent list of things that show nature, Bacon might have added, in small things rather than great. 'A straw best shows how the wind blows.' The most ordinary and unimportant actions of a man's life will often show more of his
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Compelling, engaging, fun-loving and intelligent.
Those are just a few of the many adjectives used to describe Bob Roseberry, longtime planning commissioner who died in a snowmobile accident on Feb. 15 on a trail near Bear Valley Village in Alpine County.
Doctors are trying to determine whether Roseberry suffered a heart attack before the snowmobile he was driving hit a tree and ejected him and his wife, according to the couple's daughter, Andrea.
Roseberry died at the scene of the accident. His wife, Paulette, suffered major injuries and was transferred from Doctors Hospital Modesto to UC-Davis Medical Center.
Andrea said her mother is in a stable condition and is in an induced coma so doctors can monitor the pressure on her brain. Doctors will wake her once the pressure has stabilized, she said.
All plans for Roseberry's funeral are on hold until Paulette awakens, Andrea said.
Roseberry, 60, served nine years on the planning commission, according to city manager Mark Linder. He was vice chairman at the time of his death.
Paul Resnikoff, chairman of the commission, said Roseberry was liked and respected by his peers. New commissioners frequently looked to him for guidance, he said.
Commissioner Phil Reynolds described Roseberry as a leader and a mentor.
"He had a personality that drew people to him," he said. "He's going to be missed–tremendously missed."
Resnikoff said Roseberry's low-key demeanor and knowledge of issues facing the commission helped to bring the group to agreement.
"He was a consensus-builder," he said.
Gary Filizetti, President of Devcon, said Roseberry worked at Devcon for about 12 years before taking a break and working elsewhere. He returned to Devcon four or five years ago.
Roseberry first worked as a superintendent in the field before becoming a project manager and eventually a senior project manager. San Jose City Hall and the Gilroy Library were two of his significant projects, Filizetti said.
Andrea said her father retired from Devcon about two or three weeks before his accident. She said he was planning to find another job but was enjoying some leisure time.
"He was 60 but he thought he was really 35," she said.
Andrea said her parents met each other at Devcon. Paulette began working at Devcon when she was 19 and is now a senior project manager.
Andrea, 18, described her father as a hilarious person who always had something encouraging to say. He told his daughter to pursue whatever made her happy.
"He always wanted to help me out. He was always there for me," she said.
Andrea is taking pre-med classes at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Ore.
Roseberry's father was a career military officer, and Roseberry lived all over the world during his childhood. He was born in Japan, according to his cousin Ed Roseberry, of Saratoga.
Roseberry graduated from University of Virginia in the mid 1970s, Ed said. The cousins headed west to California together in 1978.
"We were two intrepid travelers on an adventure, seeking our fame and fortune," Ed said.
In the late 1980s, the pair bought a house together in Sunnyvale and remodeled it "from stern to stem." A year and a half later, they sold their house and used their money to fund their weddings.
Ed said he met his wife Michelle at the same time Roseberry met Paulette. The cousins bought houses at about the same time, Roseberry in Campbell and Ed in Saratoga.
Ed said Roseberry was a "super" water skier in his youth. He took tight curves, could throw a tail of water with his skis and could get so low that he was almost parallel with the water, Ed said.
"It was unbelievable. … He handled the water like it was second nature to him," he said.
Roseberry also loved winter sports, such as hockey, skiing and snowmobiling. The last time Ed saw Roseberry was when they attended a Sharks game together over the holidays.
Ed said the Roseberrys hosted parties frequently.
"They have a very large extended set of friends, many of whom are also like family," he said.
His 60th birthday party in September was "jam- packed," Ed said. "People flew in from out of town." Roseberry lived life to the fullest, in a responsible way, Ed said. Roseberry "wasn't afraid of adventure" and enjoyed doing things. The cousins balanced each other, as Ed was more laid back, he said.
"For me, it was a real pleasure to be part of his adventures," Ed said.
Jay Alman, of Sebastabol in Sonoma County, met Roseberry in 1975 when they were working construction for a hospital in Charlottesville, Va. Alman ended up renting a house from Roseberry and they became close friends.
Alman moved to California in 1979. The friends spent every New Year's Eve together except one year, when Alman went to his brother's wedding in Peru over the holidays.
"As close as you can be, that's how close we were," he said. The pair were in each others weddings and were like uncles to each other's kids.
Alman described Roseberry as compelling, engaging, fun-loving and intelligent.
"The only thing bad I can say about him is that he lived too far away from me," he said.
Alman said Roseberry absolutely adored his wife.
"He was very good at sharing and living. He was a great father, and his kids reflect that," he said.
"The only thing that would have been worse than losing him is never knowing him at all," he said.


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The Bonehunters: A Tale of the Malazan Book of the Fallen
The weighty and grim sixth installment of Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen (chronologically following 2006's House of Chains , with references to 2007 tie-in Midnight Tides ) is named for a newly minted company in the Malazan 14th Army, forged in a daring and nearly fatal effort to escape a city destroyed by fire by burrowing through its skeletal underbelly. The Bonehunters' return from the dead is a theme that appears throughout this volume, as the prophetess Sha'ik dies and is reborn as a plague maiden, warriors recover from hideous wounds, and seer Ganoes Paran strikes a bargain with the dread god Hood that just might end up saving the world. Erikson brings the bulk of his enormous cast together in one volume for the first time, an effort designed to keep fans engaged as myriad plot lines tangle and sprawl over an increasingly bleak and war-ravaged landscape. (Sept.)
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Infantile Inventions
This story appears in the October 2001 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
Parents aren't the only ones delighted when a baby is born. Entrepreneurs are, too. Grandparents, friends and other relatives are eager to shower gifts on the newborn. And because infants turn life upside down, moms and dads are always searching for new and innovative ways to save time and make life easier-no matter what the cost.
No wonder the baby-products market is the most popular one for individual inventors. And that's not just because there's a huge base of parents ready to spend their hard-earned dollars on new products. Often, becoming parents inspires moms and dads to invent new baby products. And because there are so many babies around, inventors in this category have ample opportunity to test products and determine ahead of time whether they'll fly in the market.
Of course, it also helps that three relatively easy and straightforward avenues exist to help new inventors enter the baby-products market: catalogs, buying groups and trade shows.
Calling All Catalogs
Have you ever gone shopping with a baby or two? If you have, then you understand why baby-products catalogs are so popular (and profitable): They promise a more convenient shopping experience for parents.
That's good news for inventors. There are dozens of baby-products catalogs out there, and they're always looking for new and innovative additions. To find a listing of catalogs in this category, simply visit your local library and peruse a directory of mail-order catalogs. For example, check out the Directory of Mail Order Catalogs (Grey House Publishing) by Richard Gottlieb.
Like many entrepreneurs, Jim Moritz, 32, and Greg Nieberding, 44, of Baby B'Air successfully introduced their product through catalogs. (See "Vested Interest" below.) According to Nieberding, "The main advantage of catalogs was [that] we didn't need retail packaging."
The Dallas company's founders got their initial list of catalogs by simply asking moms what catalogs they received. Says Moritz, "Once we had the catalog names, we just kept contacting them. Our product [a safety vest for babies to wear on planes] was unique and had a useful benefit, so the catalogs were ready to give it a try."
Some of the catalogs they sell in include Bye, Bye Baby; One Step Ahead; and the Right Start Catalog. But although the catalog option opens doors for inventors, you won't succeed unless you're able to keep your commitments. Cautions Moritz: "You can't afford to miss a delivery date. The catalogs have a big expense including your product in the catalog, and they expect your product to be there when their customer orders."
|As with most baby
products, the idea for the Baby B'Air Flight Vest stemmed from
a real problem faced by a new mother.
Back in 1996, Greg Nieberding's younger sister complained about the difficulty of carrying baby car seats onto planes. Yet she felt uneasy about holding a child on her lap during flights, as rough turbulence could send a small baby flying.
So Greg partnered with Jim Moritz to find a solution. They developed a vest the child could wear that would attach to a parent's seat belt. The design meant mom or dad no longer had to hold the baby tight. Says Moritz, "We weren't trying to replace the car seat as a safety device in a plane. We just wanted to provide some safety for the 85 percent or so of babies and toddlers that ride on their parents' laps."
To get their invention on store shelves, the partners started by researching the market. They asked friends, relatives-anyone they knew with a baby-what they thought of the Baby B'Air. Positive feedback prompted them to approach American Airlines, whose safety personnel also liked the idea. Unable to secure financing, the Dallas entrepreneurs launched a Web site, www.babybair.com, and built a base of initial sales. Based on that success, they moved the product into catalogs and mass merchants.
Today, the product seems to be taking flight: It was voted best of show at last year's Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association show, and Nieberding and Moritz expect 2001 sales to hit $1 million.
Look Who's Buying
If you want to get your baby product in retail stores, try contacting buying groups. Individual baby stores frequently band together to form buying groups, not only to get better name recognition, but also to negotiate better prices from big vendors.
When Shawn Boice started In Touch LLC in Bothell, Washington, in 1999, she first sold her Carseat Companion to individual stores. Boice, whose product is a mirror that helps parents keep tabs on their babies while driving, says, "The product was a big hit at every store, and some of the store owners told me I should contact corporate headquarters for bigger orders."
The first major event where Boice met representatives of buying groups was the Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association (JPMA) show in Dallas. Not long after returning home, Boice, 39, she used success at the JPMA show to get the attention of other buying groups, too.
According to Boice, buying groups gave her an advantage by opening the other two avenues into the market. Groups offer a catalog of products that member stores can buy from, and they host their own trade shows where store owners can place orders.
|Before finally becoming
an entrepreneur, Shawn Boice was employed as a pediatric nurse,
where she met new parents all the time. "I heard complaints
from my patients about rear-facing car seats, but I never realized
how big a problem it was until I had my own child [in 1998],"
she says. "I wanted so badly to see how my child was doing,
and I didn't like only seeing the back of the car
So in 1999, she developed the Carseat Companion, which retails for $24.95. It comes with a mirror that attaches to the back seat so that a driver can look through her own rear-view mirror to see a baby in the rear-facing car seat.
Boice started her business cautiously at first because she was funding the invention on her own. She began by making a few of the mirrors at home and selling them in the pediatrician's office where she worked. After finding success there, she sold on consignment at a local baby store. When that lot sold out, Boice took her product to other local baby stores and eventually started marketing through baby-products buying groups.
"Sales have been wonderful," says Boice, who's bringing in $125,000 every three months. "I need 5,000 new Carseat Companions every two to three months."
Showing It Off
As Boice learned from experience, trade shows-whether sponsored by buying groups or other organizations-are a great way to get products to market. "I landed lots of new stores, and I didn't have to follow up for orders-people gave me the orders right at the show," she says. Virtually every juvenile-products retailer and manufacturer attends the JPMA show, scheduled for October 5 to 8 this year, and it's a great spot for introducing items. For details, call the JPMA at (856) 439-0500 or visit www.jpma.org.
Although Nieberding and Moritz didn't sell to many retailers when they attended their first JPMA show, they still recommend the event. Says Moritz, "We met a lot of other small manufacturers, learned lots of marketing information and found out which customers we could trust."
At its second JMPA show appearance in 2000, Baby B'Air started to pick up more retail store orders. Today, the product is carried by independent baby stores nationwide and has just been picked up by Babies "R" Us.
Boice, too, attended last year's JPMA show and expects to introduce several new products this year. Says Boice, "JPMA is really the one big show in the industry, and it's one where you want to make a splash."
As the experiences of those inventors show, finding success in the baby-products arena is not only possible, it's easier than in many other industries. So if you have a great idea for a product, don't just daydream about what could be-make it happen! You just might find yourself joining the ranks of million-dollar baby-products entrepreneurs.


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Trade Deadline Today
Trade rumors have been rampant. Websites pound out the rumors 24 hours per day. The game of baseball is a game among websites as to who breaks the story. Got to get the scoop first.
Once the 4 o'clock trade deadline passes this afternoon, we'll know who went where for what. Then, the final two months of the season start on Wednesday. Players can still be moved but waivers must be obtained first. The rumor mill will slow down immensely.
For the third time this season, the Phillies and Nationals hook up in a three-game series. Two more such series remain on the schedule, including the last three games of the regular season in Nationals Park.
Washington has won four of the six games so far. In those four wins, they've given up seven runs.
Down On The Farm
Lehigh Valley was nipped by Syracuse, 2-1. RH Jonathan Pettibone, in his AAA debut, allowed 2 runs in 5 innings but was not involved in a decision. LF Domonic Brown had a 6-game hitting streak end.
Reading wasn't scheduled.
Clearwater bowed, 8-3, to St. Lucie. 1B Chris Duffy, who hit .384 in 60 games at Lakewood, rejoined the Threshers and went 3-3 with 2 RBI.
Lakewood blanked Delmarva, 8-0, behind RHS Colin Kleven (6-7) who allowed only second-inning and seventh-inning singles in 8 innings of work. RH Chris Nichols completed the shutout.
Williamsport lost its fourth straight, 7-4, at Hudson Valley. Crosscutters have lost 10 of their last 12.
Gulf Coast League Phillies beat the Pirates, 5-3. OF Andrew Pullin hit his second homer.
July 31, 1982: 2B Manny Trillo's major league record for consecutive errorless games ends at 89 when he makes a seventh-inning error in a 2-0 win over Chicago. He also sets a ML record for consecutive errorless chances, 479, during the streak.
July 31, 1994: LHP Steve Carlton is inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Visit www.phillies.com/alumni for more flashback moments in Phillies history.


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General Motors unveiled a revamped Corvette in Detroit on Sunday, the first new version of the iconic sports car in nine years.
The 2014 model, so new that it shares only two parts with the current model, has dramatic new styling that picks up cues from the 1963 Sting Ray and newer Corvettes. GM promised it would perform better than the current model yet will get better gas mileage. The new version of the two-seater arrives at showrooms in the fall.
UNDER THE HOOD: New version of GM's 6.2-Liter small-block V-8 with 450 horsepower takes the car from zero to 60 mph in under four seconds. That's at least a few tenths of a second faster than the current base model. The engine has high torque, or rotational power, at low and high revolutions. It's more efficient because it has computer-controlled intake and exhaust valves and direct fuel injection. That means the gas and air are mixed in the combustion chambers surrounding the pistons, so less fuel is used. Engine also can run on four cylinders at highway speeds to use less gas. Buyers have choice of seven-speed manual or six-speed automatic transmissions. The manual senses when the driver is going to shift and prepares the car for the change.
GAS MILEAGE: GM says testing is still being done for the window sticker, but it'll be better than the current base model's 16 mpg in the city, 26 on the highway and 19 in combined driving. Chief engineer says the window sticker highway mileage won't reach 30 mpg, but he wouldn't be surprised to see some drivers get that or more.
PRICE: Not released, but the car's chief engineer says people who can afford one now will be able to buy a new one. The current Corvette starts at $49,600.
GM Shows Off Stylish New Corvette
Model marks the first new version of the iconic sports car in nine years
General Motors unveiled a revamped Corvette in Detroit on Sunday, the first new version of the iconic sports car in nine years.


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Among economists, Pay-as-you-Drive (PAYD) automobile insurance has been an intriguing idea for a number of years. The idea is straightforward: Drive more, pay more. Proponents say PAYD can lower the social costs of driving—think carbon emissions and traffic congestion—by leading people to shoulder the true burden.
On the industry side, Progressive has been one of the most aggressive innovators with PAYD insurance. It first began offering a voluntary PAYD program called MyRate in six states in 2008. Three years later, thanks to inexpensive, if not quite cheap wireless technology, the idea is now available nationwide through an initiative called Snapshot. Progressive gives a discount to policyholders based on information about their driving habits collected over a month-long period. Drivers put a sophisticated little tracking device in their cars for six months. At the end of the first month, certain "good drivers" may be eligible for a discount of up to 30 percent based on that "snapshot" of driving behavior. (At the end of the six months, Progressive uses all the data to calculate a renewal rate.)
As Steven Levitt notes, the interesting part of PAYD insurance programs, which are voluntary, has always been how to structure the incentives for participation. The concern is that only low-mileage drivers will sign up.
The clearest winners are (low-mileage users), who can drive the same distance they used to drive and pay less. What's less obvious is whether Progressive will be a winner; there are, in fact, a couple of situations in which Progressive could lose out. If all (PAYD) accomplishes is to give Progressive's low-mileage customers the rate cut they deserve, then Progressive is doing little more than lowering its own revenues. It could, of course, try to compensate by raising rates on all its high-mileage (drivers), but then there's nothing to stop (them) from buying…insurance elsewhere. (Of course, losing its riskiest customers to other companies might also prove profitable for Progressive.)
Where Snapshot is most likely to give Progressive an edge is if it can help the company better forecast the future liabilities it will be on the hook for. That means better predicting accidents. To do that, however, Progressive needs to get all kinds of drivers, not just low-mileage users, to try it and feed the data back to home base. To appeal to all drivers, Progressive has had to move beyond traditional economics and consider behavioral economics as well.
To encourage customers to test out Snapshot, Progressive draws from the lessons of overconfidence and loss aversion. Humans are overconfident creatures, especially when it comes to driving. Ninety three percent of people think they are above average drivers. Even among bad drivers, accidents are not the modal driving experience, and there's always someone else to blame for them.
Snapshot is primarily a program about usage, but it's sold as a program about "good driving."
On its web site, Progressive doesn't shy away from calling Snapshot "usage-based insurance." But its media advertisements headlined by cheery customer service rep "Flo," refer to driving behavior more generally. "Just plug it in and it keeps track of your good driving habits," Flo explains. "So the better you drive, the more you save."
What makes a good driver? The speed you drive at and the locations you drive to and from are not part of the equation. Taking speed off the table eases some customer fears since speeding is the most salient mark of good (or bad) driving. Taking driving location off the table eases fears of those who worry about privacy and whether Progressive is tracking their every move. The device doesn't have a GPS.
Instead, "good driving" depends on 1) Time of day you drive, 2) Number of miles you drive, and 3) How hard you brake ("bad drivers" brake hard). What's common about all three items? Drivers have very little control over them. When and how far your drive depends largely on where you live and work, which are both quite sticky in the short term. And how hard you brake is primarily an automatic reaction built up over years of commuting. For any single braking experience you can push the pedal more smoothly, but maintaining that consistency over an entire month if you are a hard braker is a bit like trying not to blink for a minute.
According to the Wall Street Journal, a Progressive executive admitted that one of these items predicts accident potential as well as all the usual demographic markers like age, gender and marital status. Although the executive didn't say which one, the peak time for accidents is between midnight and 4 a.m. If there is one habit worth trying to change over your month with Snapshot, it could be the itch to party. At least think about taking a taxi or hitching a ride with your friend.
Progressive doesn't think overconfidence, by itself, is enough to get people to try out Snapshot. So it has to remove any risk of losses by promising drivers they won't pay any more for insurance than they are paying now. Freed of potential losses, overconfidence can kick in, prompting "good" and "bad" drivers to give it a shot and see what kind of a discount they get. After all, they can't be penalized for any "bad" behaviors. But since Snapshot is about "good" and "bad" driving risk, not "good" and "bad" driving skill, Progressive doesn't even care if you are involved in an accident while using the device since your risk profile is determined by calculations based on driving patterns. (Theoretically, you could be involved in a minor fender bender with Snapshot and Progressive would never know.)
In essence, Progressive doesn't want a snapshot of your driving habits. It wants a snapshot of its overall customer base, assuming that base looks a lot like the overall car insurance market. It wants Snapshot to work less like a camera and more like a random sample. From that perspective, the success of economists' preferred auto insurance depends on whether some non-economists can get the behavioral economics of offering the product just right.
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I recently bought an ice cream truck with an older Bally cold plate freezer. It has a top mount condensing unit with a Copeland compressor 1/2hp. the freezer went to minus 2 after my first overnight charge now goes to 0 and loses a couple degrees per hour after that... it is a 3 bay freezer with a fourth bay fridge(Closest to the compressor) There is moisture that drips down from the fitting that is into the compressor(I think the pipe from the compressor into the freezer gets frost on it. There is rust that follows the path of the moisture. In the Fridge bay there is rust on the floor on the rear half of the compartment. There is no rust in the freezer bays but this unit is supposed to go to -20. The condensing unit overall looks old with rust the compressor seems to be resealed and is loud...makes a lot of noise at start up then quiets down. I believe it has R12 but no proof...
Questions: Any thoughts as to why it won't go to -20?
How long does it usually take for one of these freezers to charge to reach -20?
Should the compressor always be running? 10 hours straight? or is it supposed to shut off?(Mine runs all night...I suppose to fight to reach temp)
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RIM's BlackBerry rapidly lost Verizon share to AndroidJust over a year ago, Research in Motion's BlackBerry made up more than 90 percent of Verizon's smartphone sales. Its share is now below 20 percent, thanks to the heavily promoted launch of Android smartphones on the carrier.
According to a report by John Paczkowski of the Wall Street Journal's "Digital Daily" blog, RIM's slip at Verizon was documented by ITG Investment Research analyst Matthew Goodman, who charted RIM's decline at Verizon at the hands of new Android models (chart below).
The startling speed at which RIM plummeted from being Verizon's number one selling smartphone platform to being a minor player neck-and-neck with Verizon's top four Android licensees closely mirrors the timing of the "Droid" ad campaign Verizon began at the release of Motorola's first major Android smartphone last winter.
Prior to the launch of Verizon's Motorola Droid, Android had a negligible share of Verizon's smartphone mix throughout 2009, with all Android licensees together amounting for less than a ten percent share of the provider's smartphone sales. Most of those licensees were also making a number of Windows Mobile phones for Verizon last year.
The imperfect Storm
Verizon's big push to sell Android devices in 2010 was motivated by a desire to sell more lucrative data contracts, something that RIM's existing BlackBerry models (and the Windows Mobile phones of Verizon's current Android licensees) had failed to do in 2009.
The problematic launch of RIM's iPhone-like BlackBerry Storm in November 2008 did little to slow the rapid decline of BlackBerry at Verizon, and likely emboldened the carrier to shift its efforts to Android, which did manage to sell well as an alternative to the AT&T-exclusive iPhone.
The Storm's failure at Verizon wasn't evident in the company's press releases, which claimed at the time, "customers across the country lined up to purchase the new BlackBerry Storm. The Storm offers customers the reliability of the Verizon Wireless 3G network and the full power of a revolutionary touch-screen, multimedia smartphone with global connectivity."
Despite Verizon's enthusiasm, the Storm launch was plagued with bugs and failed to generate more than a fifth of the sales of the iPhone 3G at Verizon's US rival, AT&T. A second Storm2 model released late last year was given only minor attention by Verizon as it flexed its 2010 marketing muscle behind the new crop of Android 2.0 phones, led by Motorola's Droid.
Commenting on the last year of sales, Paczkowski wrote, "with sales of the [BlackBerry] Tour/Bold series dwindling and no Storm refresh in sight, BlackBerry sales at Verizon are in serious decline." Verizon reportedly believes that RIM's latest BlackBerry OS 6 will not have a "material impact" on its business.
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While RIM's smartphone sales at Verizon have crashed, the Canadian phone maker is still the second largest of Verizon's herd of smartphone vendors. That's because, while Android now collectively makes the majority of the provider's smartphone sales, the installed base of Android smartphones is split between a variety of competing hardware manufacturers.
Motorola's Android smartphones only decisively surpassed RIM at Verizon late this summer; Motorola had been selling more phones overall (outside of smartphones) than RIM throughout the entire year. Behind Verizon's first place Android vendor Motorola, its second is HTC, which was just below RIM at Verizon in November, and threatening to surpass it for the number two smartphone spot at the provider overall.
LG, Verizon's third place Android vendor, sells the most Verizon phones overall outside of smartphones (nearly a third of all Verizon phones). It just began selling Android smartphones at Verizon this summer.
Similarly, Verizon's fourth place Android vendor Samsung also sells a large share of the company's non-smartphone models (more than a quarter). It too just recently began selling Android smartphones in the third quarter. Just last month, Samsung also began selling its iPad-alternative, the Galaxy Tab.
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The school, kindergarten and nursery provide a complete education from birth through to 16 years, and is one of over a thousand organisations around the world which educates children according to the principles of Rudolf Steiner.
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Childhood is the most important time of our lives. The experiences, feelings and education of our early years will greatly colour and shape the adults we go on to become and the part we play in the world.
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Alderon Iron Ore Corp. (TSX: ADV) (NYSE MKT: AXX) ("Alderon") is not reliant on the proposed CN rail service in the Labrador Trough and CN's decision to terminate the feasibility study for an integrated multi-user rail and terminal does not affect the scheduling or the time-lines of the Kami Project. One of the greatest advantages of Alderon's Kami Project is its proximity to the existing common carrier rail line owned and operated by the Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway ("QNS&L"). Alderon's feasibility study capital and operating cost projections are based on using the QNS&L Railway which has been the central case rail solution for our Kami Project since its inception.
"The QNS&L Railway is a common carrier that operates with the legal obligation to accommodate third-party traffic. It currently has ample surplus capacity and runs within 15 km of the Kami Property," says Tayfun Eldem, President and CEO of Alderon. "Alderon will continue its rail tariff discussions with QNS&L."
CN announced today that its feasibility study for a new rail line in Northern Quebec is terminated amid anticipated delays in mine development projects in and around the Labrador Trough. The proposed rail line and terminal handling facility were to serve the Quebec/Labrador iron ore corridor.
Alderon has always viewed CN's integrated rail and terminal development project as a potentially high value alternative option and as a result signed on to participate in CN's feasibility study. Now that the feasibility study is canceled, under Alderon's agreement with CN, they are obligated to refund the $1.5 million Alderon contributed to the study last year.
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Alderon is a leading iron ore development company in Canada with offices in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Labrador City and St. John's. The 100% owned Kami Project is located within Canada's premier iron ore district and is surrounded by four producing iron ore mines. The Alderon team is comprised of skilled professionals with significant iron ore expertise to advance Kami towards production.
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Walter Ledermann
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Walter Ledermann was born in Berlin into a Jewish family. His father was William Ledermann and his mother was Charlotte Apt. He entered the Köllnisches Gymnasium in Berlin in 1917, progressing to the Leibniz Gymnasium in the same city in 1920. There he learnt classics, studying Latin for nine years and Greek for six years. The school also taught French but, as was usual at this time, not much science. Although very little mathematics was taught in German schools in general, Walter had the advantage that the Leibniz Gymnasium taught more mathematics than other schools as a mark of respect for Leibniz after whom the school was named. He writes [2]:-
Although I was fond of the classics, especially Greek with its wonderful literature, I was fascinated by mathematics immediately after my first lesson at the age of eleven, and I decided there and then to make mathematics my career.In 1928, when he was seventeen years old, Ledermann graduated from the Leibniz Gymnasium and received the necessary certificate which allowed him to study at any German university. He remained in Berlin and entered the University there (now the Humboldt University) to study for the State Examination which was the qualification necessary to enter secondary school teaching.
At the University of Berlin Ledermann was taught by many famous mathematicians including Schur, Schmidt, von Mises, Planck, Schrödinger, Hopf, Feigl, and others. As one might imagine given this array of famous names, he found it a stimulating experience. Ledermann was most influenced by Schur and, in [3], he describes attending Schur's lectures:-
Schur was a superb lecturer. His lectures were meticulously prepared... [and] were exceedingly popular. I remember attending his algebra course which was held in a lecture theatre filled with about 400 students. Sometimes, when I had to be content with a seat at the back of the lecture theatre, I used a pair of opera glasses to get at least a glimpse of the speaker.His main subjects were mathematics and physics, but he also had to study chemistry to a lower level and to take an oral examination on philosophy. Ledermann spent one semester in 1931 in Marburg but other than this all his courses were taken in Berlin.
On 30 January 1933 Hitler came to power and on 7 April 1933 the Civil Service Law provided the means of removing Jewish teachers from the universities, and of course also to remove those of Jewish descent from other roles. All civil servants who were not of Aryan descent (having one grandparent of the Jewish religion made someone non-Aryan) were to be retired. However, there was an exemption clause which exempted non-Aryans who had civil service appointments before the end of World War I. Although Schur qualified under this clause he was initially expelled from his professorship and was only reinstated after the intervention of Schmidt. He was not, however, allowed to lecture but he examined Ledermann before the end of 1933.
Ledermann was nearing the end of his studies for the Staatsexamen (which would allow him to teach) when Hitler came to power and began passing the anti-Jewish legislation. In order to complete the course he had to write a dissertation and be given an oral examination. Schur gave him the topic for his dissertation On the various ways of expressing an orthogonal matrix in terms of parameters and conducted his oral examination in November 1933. At the oral he was examined by Schur and also by Bieberbach who was wearing Nazi uniform.
It was quite clear to Ledermann that he had to leave Germany to escape the Nazi persecution of the Jews. He had already made many strenuous efforts to find a way to leave Germany before his oral. He won a scholarship from the International Student Service in Geneva to study at the University of St Andrews in Scotland and they supplied him with the necessary papers to allow him to travel to St Andrews in January 1934. Ledermann writes [5]:-
I have a deep affection for St Andrews. For it was the students and the people of St Andrews who saved my life by helping me to escape from the Nazis. It became my home in a real sense.At first it appeared that he might get caught up in the University of St Andrews' regulations. The problem was that the State Examination was just that, in that it was awarded by the Ministry of Education, not by the University of Berlin. Therefore it was not a degree but a diploma. Fortunately Ledermann was spared the stupidity of having to take the undergraduate courses at St Andrews, and, as Ledermann writes in [2]:-
... for the first time in the five hundred years history of the university a person with a German state examination was admitted as a research student.Ledermann's doctoral studies were supervised by Turnbull and he was awarded his Ph.D. in 1936. Under Turnbull, Ledermann studied the problem of finding the canonical form for a pair of real or complex n × n matrices under simultaneous equivalence. He also worked on the problem of classifying the stabiliser of the pencil which is a linear combination of the two matrices.
In 1937 he became a temporary lecturer in Dundee but the most fruitful work he undertook during this period was as a private assistant to Professor Sir Godfrey Thomson at the University of Edinburgh. Thomson headed the Moray House Group at Edinburgh which was undertaking research into intelligence testing. Ledermann was able to use his expert knowledge of matrix theory to put the work of this group onto a sound mathematical footing. As well as matrix theory he was involved in using statistical methods and he retained this interest in his later research publications. The quality of the work Ledermann undertook at this time is clearly shown from the fact that Edinburgh awarded him a D.Sc. for it in 1940. While in Edinburgh Ledermann also worked with Max Born and A C Aitken.
In 1938 Ledermann returned to St Andrews. The letter [6] from Turnbull to Ledermann offers him a one year post as an assistant, capable of renewal, at St Andrews for the academic year 1938-39 at a salary of £350. Turnbull writes [6]:-
It will involve from 8 to 10 lectures or tutorials a week in mathematics pure and applied; and the Court understand that I have looked out for one who is competent to teach particularly in Analysis and Applied Mathematics. Your special knowledge of the applications of mathematics to problems involving matrices and statistics is an advantage; but you will realise, Walter, in view of the needs of this Department, that proficiency in teaching Applied Mathematics and the functions connected therewith will be important.In fact Ledermann remained at St Andrews from 1938 until 1946. During this time he became a British citizen (1940) and also undertook some war work. In [5] he describes his association with Freundlich during this period:-
... Freundlich was very close to me. He was a fatherly friend of whom I have many fond memories, most especially because he introduced me to my wife [Ruth Stefanie (Rushi) Stadler], whom I married in 1946. During the war Freundlich and I taught navigation at the Initial Training Wing of the RAF which was stationed in St Andrews. We also published a joint paper in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1944 ... . We had other interests in common apart from mathematics: Freundlich was a keen cellist, and we frequently played chamber music where I played the violin or viola. Once we went on holiday together to the West coast of Scotland, when Mrs Freundlich was unable to come. ... he was a tall impressive man, and when we walked side by side through the streets of St Andrews people would say: "Here come the Sun and Moon".Ledermann's wife Ruth (known as Rushi) was a psychotherapist and the newly married couple decided to move to a bigger city so that Ruth might be able to pursue her work. Ledermann accepted a lectureship at the University of Manchester in 1946. He writes [4]:-
The sixteen years we spent in Manchester were stimulating and fruitful.Particularly of note during his time in Manchester was the fact that he was secretary to the first British Mathematical Colloquium which he organised in Manchester at the request of Hodge, Henry Whitehead, and Max Newman.
By the time he left Manchester, Ledermann had been promoted to a Senior lecturer. In 1962 he accepted a readership at the newly established University of Sussex and three years later he was promoted to professor. He retired in 1978 and was made Emeritus Professor. For many years after retiring he continued to teach at Sussex, giving both tutorials and seminars.
As well as work in matrix theory which we have commented on above, Ledermann was especially known for his work in homology theory, group theory, and number theory. As a result of Schur's teaching he [4]:-
... developed a liking for "concrete" mathematics and a distaste for "abstraction" for its own sake.This is evident, even in his work in what is usually thought of as one of the most abstract of topics, homology theory.
First I [EFR] will make some comments on Ledermann's book Introduction to the Theory of Finite Groups (1949). It is the book from which I learnt group theory and, although it was not the only influence on my choice of research topic, it was a major factor in my decision to work on group theory problems for my doctoral dissertation. The topics covered in the book look fairly standard but one has to remember that in the 1940s there were few group theory texts and the concept of standard material for such courses did not exist. The little book (152 pages) discusses the group axioms, isomorphisms, cyclic groups, coset decompositions, Lagrange's theorem, permutation groups, normal subgroups, quotient groups, homomorphisms, the first and second isomorphism theorems, and the Jordan-Hölder theorem. The simplicity of the alternating groups is proved and the Sylow theorems, p-groups and finitely generated abelian groups are discussed. Ledermann succeeds admirably in meeting his own aims in that he:-
... never hesitated to sacrifice completeness for breadth or to reject more modern methods when [he] considered alternative presentations to be more intelligible.Other books which Ledermann has written for undergraduates include Complex numbers (1960), Integral calculus (1964), Multiple integrals (1966), Introduction to group theory (1973), and Introduction to group characters (1977). This last volume, which still shows Schur's influence, strikes a good balance between the abstract approach to representation theory emphasising modules, and the concrete approach built around matrices. It is an outstanding text from which to teach the topic.
Among the editorial work undertaken by Ledermann is his editorship of the Journal of the London Mathematical Society (1968-71) and of the Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (1974-77). He is the chief editor of the Handbook of Applicable Mathematics which consists of nine volumes, an index volume and a number of guide books. This project, again very much in line with Ledermann's approach to mathematics, is designed for the "professional adults" who:-
... find themselves needing to understand a particular mathematical idea... will then be able to turn to the appropriate article in the core volume ... and find out just what they want to know.Ledermann has received honours for his work which include election to the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1944) and an honorary doctorate from the Open University (1993).
His son writes (May 2009):
It is with great sadness that I am writing to let you know that my father passed away peacefully this morning. His energy, enthusiasm and dry humour were with him almost to the end. We shall miss him very much but we all have wonderful memories of his long and fulfilled life.
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A Poster of Walter Ledermann
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- Ledermann's memoir: Encounters of a mathematician
- Ledermann's St Andrews interview
- Ledermann: Finite Groups
- Ledermann: Complex Numbers
- Library of Mathematics
- Ledermann's Introduction to the theory of finite groups - some notes
- Obituary: Independent
- Obituary: Times
- Ledermann on D'Arcy Thompson
Honours awarded to Walter Ledermann
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|Lecturer at the EMS
|Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
|BMC morning speaker
|1954, 1967, 1991
Cross-references in MacTutor
- Ledermann's memoir: Encounters of a mathematician
- History Topics: Ledermann's St Andrews interview
- History Topics: The abstract group concept
Other Web sites
- Mathematical Genealogy Project
- MathSciNet Author profile
- zbMATH entry
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The Big Piece, Ryan Howard's nickname as authored by his manager, picked up the pieces of a slumbering offense last night and the seven-game lead in the NL East remained there.
A lot is being said and written about another blown save. Remember, the top of the ninth, runners on second and third with no outs? We didn't score and Madson didn't have any room for error in the bottom of the ninth. Until the game-winning homer, the Phillies didn't have a hit with runners in scoring position.
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Brett Myers threw two relief innings last night at Reading, 0 runs, 0 hits, 1 walk, 5 strikeouts. 17 of his 24 pitches were strikes. He faced 7 hitters and threw strike one to all 7 . . . CF Anthony Gose stole 2 bases, giving him 72; fellow teammate, 2B Harold Garcia, stole his 39th . . . Reading closer B. J. Rosenberg struck out the side for his 21st save (Lakewood/Reading total), tops in the organization . . . Reading RF Domonic Brown had an 11-game hitting streak end . . . Williamsport RHP Austin Hyatt (3-0) pitched 6 shutout innings for a victory. His 18 outs: 7 ground balls and 10 strikeouts.
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I've mentioned to someone that watching the Jersey Shore is like watching Animal Planet. It's like watching the mating habits of a cheetah, or something like that. There's no doubt in my mind that this is true.
Where to begin? The douchebagginess of the cast leaves you speechless. There are no words to describe these self-professed guidos and guidettes. In tonight's episode, the cast is reunited after making their way to MIA, which is Miami, a careful Mike explains. Sparks fly as soon as the girls realize that Angelina is here. Jenni and Snooki don't like her. Sammi is still caught up with Ronnie. In case you didn't know, they split up, but all in all, it looks like they were never apart.
Sammi loves Ronnie. Ronnie hates Sammie. Needless to say that they will have sex a few times this season. Ronnie is really angry about this whole thing. I love how The Situation tries to egg Angelina on to confront the bitchy behavior she keeps getting from the other girls. In the previews, we see that both Pauly and Vinny hook up with Angelina, while Vinny also hooks up with Snookie. This is after he promised his sex-obsessed uncles that he would only hook up with classy girls.
I love how aggressive Jenni gets when she's a bit drunk and amped up. You don't want to mess with her. In the last season, she threw a few punches, not just at girls, but at the boys, so you better watch out. Angelina is on everyone's shit-list.
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The Sequence of the Human Genome: Coming A Lot Sooner Than You Thought
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The Sequence of the Human Genome:
Coming A Lot Sooner Than You Thought
September 1999
Francis S. Collins on behalf of the International Human DNA Sequencing Consortium:
Until less than a year ago, the Human Genome Project (HGP) projected that completion of the 3 Gb human DNA sequence would not happen until 2005. Several recent developments have led to a dramatic acceleration of that timetable. These include both technical advances, such as capillary sequencers and the automation of several steps in sequencing, and advances in the organization of large-scale data production efforts. The success of several large-scale, pilot, human sequencing projects and the completion of the DNA sequences of important model organisms such as C. elegans add growing confidence of the ability to carry out large-scale sequencing in a cost-effective manner.
Fundamental changes in the scientific approach to the public sequencing effort have occurred in 1999, many in the past three months. Consequently, the accrual of human sequence information has dramatically increased. By September 24,1999, 821 Mb of human sequence had been deposited in GenBank in finished (428.6 Mb) form or as "working draft", and the total should reach a billion base pairs in a matter of weeks. The first complete sequence of a human chromosome is anticipated before the end of the year. By next spring, 90 percent of the human DNA sequence should be freely available as a working draft. The working draft of the human sequence will be derived from BACs of known map position, sequenced to 4 to 5X coverage, with an average expected contig size of 10 to 20 kb. As useful as the working draft will be, the unswerving commitment of the international sequencing consortium remains the completion of the finished sequence, at an accuracy of at least 99.99 percent (error rate equal to or less than 1 in 10,000 bp), and with no gaps other than the few areas that are unclonable in current vectors.
To achieve this accelerated timetable, the participants in the effort have organized themselves into an integrated team, and several additional resources of broad general utility have been generated. The genome has been completely allocated on a regional basis to the 16 international genome centers that have the capacity to rapidly carry out high throughput sequencing. Bacterial Artificial Chromosomes (BAC), seeded at roughly 0.4 Mb spacing, have been identified across the genome and are the first to be sequenced. As of September 1, 1999, restriction enzyme fingerprints of more than 267,000 clones from a deep, human BAC library (RPCI -11) have been generated; more than 169,000 have been fully analyzed and collapsed into a total of 10,470 contigs (containing 2 or more BACs), of which 8,287 have been localized using radiation hybrids or other methods. In addition, sequencing of all the ends of this BAC library and another (Cal Tech D) has almost been completed. The BAC end sequences and the fingerprint data provide a resource for rapidly walking out from the seed BACs. A central server, established by NCBI, keeps track of the status of individual BACs, in order to assist in project coordination and avoid duplication of effort.
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Pierzynski Takes His Talents To Texas
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The offensive losses suffered in Arlington were becoming very real for the days leading up to December 20. Former starting Catcher Mike Napoli, U/DH Michael Young had left for the East coast, and CF Josh Hamilton left for the West. It seemed as though GM Jon Daniels was in no hurry to make any moves, and the fans in Texas were eager to get the bitter taste of the previous season out of their mouths. So to their surprise and pleasure, the front office signed one of the best Catchers on the free agent market: Anthony John Pierzynski. Some teams considered him a liability because of his age, but the 35 year old's numbers in 2012 are actually quite astounding. The Texas front office obviously did their homework.
Most Ranger fans considered Napoli to be an offensive force. If this is the case, Pierzynski is a megaforce. The backstop hit 27 HRs with a .278 batting average in 2012 compared to Napoli's 24 HRs and .227 Batting Average. The south side of Chicago counted on the offense of Pierzynski, which is exactly what the clubhouse in Texas needs. Another factor that makes the Catcher a good fit for the organization is his reliability. Pierzynski has played in at least 128 games in each of his eight years in Chicago, while the former starter only played in 108 in his last season as a Ranger. The slugger has an incredible dedication to maintaining his health, something Texas fans have been concerned about with previous players.
Looking forward to the 2013 season, the left-handed batter will most likely move lower in the batting order than he is used to of the offensive-heavy Rangers lineup, somewhere around where current LF David Murphy is. He will become, for now, the starting backstop and possible designated hitter for Texas with Geovany Soto and newly claimed Eli Whiteside as backups. Soto spent some of the 2012 season in Arlington and will be more comfortable behind the plate with the current rotation, but the offense of Pierzynski will make him the starter. There is hardly a comparison between the two, the knowledge and power of the new Catcher would run circles around his backup. However, the current Texas roster is known for their tight-knit, comedic attitudes and it is unknown how the Catcher will react to this. Pierzynski has a history of being heavily disliked outside of Chicago, and partially in Texas for his commentary during the 2011 World Series about the organization. But former teammates had nothing but good things to say about the Catcher and how he can be the stable ground of a ball club. Ranger fans are attracted to players with character, and the Catcher will add plenty of entertainment value.
Daniels has clearly been working to replace the errors of the previous three seasons with success. With the addition of Pierzynski, Daniels brings in a catcher with great postseason experience. The slugger has played in seven postseason series (including the 2005 World Series), and of that he has 5 HRs, 19 RBI, and has posted a .520 Slugging Average. He is a player with enormous devotion to baseball, a type of heart-and-soul and win-at-all-costs attitude that fans complained Hamilton didn't possess in 2012. This will be well-respected with his new organization and especially with the fans. Bottom line: the Texas Rangers got a steal in landing Pierzynski at 7.5 Million for one year.
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