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STOCKTON - Sidney Stockman isn't quite ready to become a pediatric neurosurgeon yet, but she's working on it.
STOCKTON - Sidney Stockman isn't quite ready to become a pediatric neurosurgeon yet, but she's working on it.
Part of that training is learning to share, to be generous, to give of herself, to be a leader.
Sidney, also known as "Sid," is taking another step in the right direction this holiday season.
"I like helping people," she says simply from her midtown home.
Stockman, 13, is an eighth-grader at Annunciation School and the head of a 4-H Club project that will bring toys and other gifts to the Shriners Hospital for Children in Sacramento next month.
"No one was signing up for this project in my club," Sidney said. "It's worthwhile, and I like doing it. It's worth it to help little kids."
Sidney and a team of eight Annunciation 4-H Club members are part of a larger Shriners Toy Drive.
They got a late start on fundraising when another club member backed out, Sidney said.
On Dec. 15, Sidney and her friends will deliver whatever they've raised to the hospital on Stockton Boulevard. She's already made one trip to Sacramento.
"I talked to the director," she said. "The hospital is big - and pretty."
Her task also is big.
The Shriners have issued a list of the patient needs. It includes socks and underwear, baby toys, items for teens and adolescents, books, personal necessities, school supplies and family support items such as phone and gift cards.
"It's a lot of work," Sidney admitted, but she is no stranger to fundraising on behalf of others.
When she was 2, her parents, Beth and Eric Stockman, got her started. They involved Sidney, their only child, in Toys for Tots, the Marine Corps' annual holiday fundraising project.
And the family has adopted two military families each of the past two Christmases - one in Modesto and the other in Manteca.
"We got to take stuff to their house and meet them," Sidney said. "It felt good to help someone. It's better than Christmas morning, it feels better knowing that I helped."
All of the benevolence is part of her long-term goals. Sidney wants to attend Stockton Early College Academy, located not far from her home.
After that, she wants to attend Stanford University and eventually become a pediatric neurosurgeon.
"I've already told her she will need to help at a free clinic," said Beth Stockman, who is employed at WorkNet. Eric Stockman is a history teacher at Cesar Chavez High School.
She's a well-rounded student who likes math and science, and excels in sports - volleyball and fast-pitch softball. "She's a really good first baseman," Beth Stockman said.
Mother and daughter are close. Beth Stockman's email address - email@example.com - is Sidney spelled backward.
Since Sidney's toddler years, they've tried to "nudge" her in the right direction. "But once she gets it, she takes off," Beth Stockman said.
For the next three weeks, that means looking for ways to collect toys for the children at Shriners. And another life lesson for Sidney.
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World Alzheimer Report reveals negative perceptions about people with dementia
Seventy-five (75) percent of people with dementia and 64 percent of caregivers believe there are negative associations for those diagnosed with dementia in their countries, according to a survey fielded by Alzheimer's Disease International and published today in the World Alzheimer Report 2012: Overcoming the Stigma of Dementia. The report was released on Alzheimer's Action Day as part of World Alzheimer's Month activities engaging people in the cause and raising awareness about the disease.
In response, Alzheimer's Association® Early-Stage Advisors, men and women from across the United States living with the disease, and their caregivers developed tips on how to cope with the stigma surrounding Alzheimer's based on their personal experiences.
"The report reveals that people with dementia and their care partners often feel disconnected from society, and sometimes even by their own friends and family members," said Beth Kallmyer, MSW, vice president of constituent services at the Alzheimer's Association. "The misconceptions and stigma create unnecessary barriers to progress such as improving care and support services and increasing funding for research."
In the current report, nearly one in four people with dementia (24 percent) who responded to the survey said they hid or concealed their diagnosis, citing stigma as the main reason. They expressed concerns that their thoughts and opinions would be "discounted and dismissed," and that they would be "treated more positively" if they did not reveal their diagnosis.
The authors noted that, social exclusion was a "major theme" with 40 percent of people with dementia in the survey reporting they have been avoided or treated differently because of their dementia. Respondents said their friends and family "say they don't know how to behave 'normally' around me anymore," and many have "drifted away."
A survey respondent with dementia from the United States said: "It's very interesting to see how people close to me act. It's almost as if they are afraid of bringing up the subject. Being a cancer survivor, I know that I was constantly asked how I was doing while I was going through treatment. With Alzheimer's, no one asks."
The report found that when people with dementia are able to make new connections, it is often with people in similar circumstances. Sixty-six percent of survey respondents who have dementia said that they have made friends who are connected to dementia, often finding each other through community-based support groups, online chat or bulletin boards, or through Alzheimer's associations.
"People with dementia, especially in the early and middle stages, can take part in many everyday activities. They have the same needs as everyone else for social interaction and engagement in meaningful activities, even in the later stages of the disease. We encourage people living with Alzheimer's or another dementia to be involved in making decisions that affect them for as long as they can, to help maintain their autonomy, dignity and self-esteem," Kallmyer said.
Facing Stigma
In response to the report and to honor of World Alzheimer's Month, the Alzheimer's Association is unveiling tips for coping with stigma created by people living with the disease. Current and former members of the Alzheimer's Association National Early-Stage Advisory Group developed these tips based on their personal experiences:
- Be open and direct. Engage others in discussions about Alzheimer's disease and the need for prevention, better treatment and an eventual cure.
- Communicate the facts. Sharing accurate information is key to dispelling misconceptions about the disease. Whether a pamphlet or link to online content, offer information to help people better understand Alzheimer's disease.
- Seek support and stay connected. It is important to stay engaged in meaningful relationships and activities. Whether family, friends or a support group, a network is critical.
- Don't be discouraged. Denial of the disease by others is not reflection of you. If people think that Alzheimer's disease is normal aging, see it as an education opportunity.
- Be a part of the solution. Advocate for yourself and millions of others by speaking out and raising awareness.
The Alzheimer's Association also recently launched ALZConnected™, a social networking community designed specifically for people with Alzheimer's disease and caregivers. After becoming a member (at no cost), ALZConnected users can connect and communicate with people who understand their challenges, pose questions and offer solutions to dementia-related issues and create public and private groups organized around a dedicated topic.
The report released today includes 10 recommendations to enable governments and societies to tackle stigma, including encouraging greater public education. Nearly half of the survey respondents pointed to increasing education and raising awareness about Alzheimer's and dementia as a much-needed, high-priority action. Other recommendations are to provide more opportunities for people with dementia to share their experiences and ensure that they are included in everyday activities.
In addition to the survey results, the World Alzheimer Report 2012 includes essays by people with dementia, care and social science researchers, and legislators, and multiple examples of "best practice" programs from around the world, including:
- Alzheimer's Association National Early-Stage Advisory Group
- Know The 10 Signs: Early Detection Matters
World Alzheimer's Month 2012
September is World Alzheimer's Month, and the Alzheimer's Association is encouraging everyone to "Go Purple." Visit www.alz.org/WAM to learn ways to "Go Purple," including:
- Wear purple on Alzheimer's Action Day, Friday, Sept. 21. Purple T-shirts, hooded sweatshirts and a limited-edition CJ Free bracelet benefiting the Alzheimer's Association are available.
- Turn Facebook purple using an END ALZ graphic as your profile picture.
To learn more about Alzheimer's disease and overcoming stigma, call 800.272.3900 or visit www.alz.org/WAM.
More about the ADI World Alzheimer Report Survey
ADI states, "The World Alzheimer Report 2012: Overcoming the Stigma of Dementia shares results from a worldwide survey conducted with people with dementia and [caregivers] on their personal experiences of stigma." The anonymous online survey was conducted in June 2012 and completed by more than 2,500 people with dementia and caregivers from 78 countries; 2,068 responded in English; 519 responded to versions of the survey in Spanish (282), Greek (94) and Chinese (143).
According to ADI, of the 127 (6 percent) of respondents with dementia in the English language survey, most reported that diagnosis (or discovery of dementia) had occurred within the last five years (51 percent). Sixty-one percent (71) of respondents indicated they were female and 39 percent (46) male. Diagnoses included Alzheimer's disease (55 percent), vascular dementia (12 percent), mild cognitive impairment (10 percent), and fronto-temporal dementia (7 percent). The largest group of respondents with dementia indicated they were between 63 and 72 years of age, with a little over half of the participants (56 percent) being at or over age 65. Individuals with dementia responded from 13 countries including Australia, Canada, Finland, United Kingdom and the United States, with the United States having the most at 55 percent.
ADI acknowledges that the survey respondents were not a representative sample noting, "results from the survey indicate that a majority of participants completed secondary education or above with nearly 50 percent of participants in the English, Chinese and Greek surveys completing college or graduate school. This indicates that survey respondents are a select group of people with dementia and informal carers with a mostly high level of education. In addition, over half of respondents in all four surveys also participate in programmes with Alzheimer's organisations, societies, support groups or day centres."
ADI, an international federation of 78 Alzheimer's associations around the world, including the Alzheimer's Association, has produced an annual World Alzheimer Report since 2009, previously covering topics including global dementia prevalence and global cost of dementia care.
Alzheimer's Association
The Alzheimer's Association is the world's leading voluntary health organization in Alzheimer care, support and research. Our mission is to eliminate Alzheimer's disease through the advancement of research; to provide and enhance care and support for all affected; and to reduce the risk of dementia through the promotion of brain health. Our vision is a world without Alzheimer's. For more information, visit www.alz.org.
Contact: Alzheimer's Association
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Resin PDF Health Reports
When attempting to diagnose application errors or performance issues, the single best tool Resin makes available are the Resin PDF Health Reports. They are also the first things we request when addressing customer support questions.
Resin can generate two slightly different PDF health reports: Snapshot and Watchdog reports. A Snapshot Report captures a "snapshot" of Resin at the current point in time. A Watchdog Report aggregates as much information as available about Resin at a previous point in time. Watchdog reports can also be thought of as a "post-mortem" or "restart" report, as they usually are generated immediately after an unexpected server restart.
Snapshot reports can be generated on the command-line:
via REST:
or via Resin-Admin on the PDF Page:
Watchdog report are usually generated automatically after any unexpected server restart. Check your logs directory for Watchdog-*.pdf files. However you can always regenerate a Watchdog report from Resin-Admin on the Watchdog Page:
The Resin Administration Console video on YouTube provides an excellent overview of Resin-Admin and PDF Health Report content.


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A missing skipper, whose salmon boat washed ashore near Ocean Beach, California, may likely be hiding - not dead - according to a prosecutor's investigator who said there's an outstanding warrant for his arrest.
San Francisco District Attorney Investigator Hansen Pang did not immediately disclose more details on why he believed Timothy Lybrand was possibly running from authorities. But he did say that he thought the skipper made it to shore because he only had 25 yards to swim.
However, Santa Clara County Sheriff Sgt. Kurtis Stenderup said that Lybrand, 51, was arrested in 2010 on drug charges, and a $75,000 warrant was issued for his arrest when he failed to appear in court in 2012. He also has a case stemming from Santa Cruz, but those exact charges aren't known.
NBC Bay Area obtained copies of Lybrand's booking photos from Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties. Authorities also said they searched two possible addresses for Lybrand on Monday night - in Morro Bay and Santa Cruz.
Virginia McDermott used to live in the house where Lybrand lived on Escolona Drive in Santa Cruz. She told NBC Bay Area that three police officers came to her home on Monday night looking for Lybrand. "It was serious," she said.
The new information came to light on Tuesday, as crews were poised to haul away his boat, the Paloma, from the shores of San Francisco near the Cliff House. The vessel carried a 400-gallon tank of gasoline, and crews were also worried about leaking diesel spilling into the ocean.
Coast Guard officials said Lybrand called a friend on another boat - the Sunrise - about 3:30 a.m. on Monday to say he had just hit rocks and was planning to jump ship about 25 yards from shore.
But after scouring the shoreline and the waters for Lybrand for nearly eight hours on Monday, the Coast Guard suspended the agency's search at noon.
Originally, San Francisco Battalion Chief Denise Newmann said Lybrand could have died of hypothermia if he was still in the water, and the search had become a recovery mission. "It's very cold out there," she said, noting temperatures were in the 50s.
The only way Lybrand could have survived, Newmann said, was if he had somehow swum to shore.
Lybrand's friends stood by, hoping for the best.
"We're all worried," said Larry Collins of the San Francisco Community Fishing Association. "Timmy's good people."
The Outside Lands Festival is fast-approaching, and officials have a Friday deadline to get the boat removed. The National Park Service is footing most of the bill by covering $98,000, while the Coast Guard is kicking in about $20,000.
Tim Parker of Parker Diving Service is running the salvage operation. "We would like to take it up in fairly large pieces and break it up further up the beach," he said.
Anyone with information regarding the Paloma or Lybrand is asked to contact the Coast Guard Sector San Francisco Command Center at 415-399-3547.
NBC Bay Area's Stephanie Chuang contributed to this report.


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New York Mets 1B Brandon Allen, P Chase Bradford, 3B Eric Campbell, P Joel Carreno, P John Church, OF Dustin Lawley, P John Leathersich, SP Cory Mazzoni, 3B Danny Muno, OF Brandon Nimmo, C Kevin Plawecki, INF Anthony Seratelli, P Miguel Socolovich, OF Cory Vaughn and P Logan Verrett are among a long list of non-roster invitees to spring training.
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The New York Mets signed free-agent INF Anthony Seratelli (Royals) to a minor league deal with an invite to spring training Friday, Nov. 8. He spent the last two years at Triple-A Omaha with the Kansas City Royals.
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The Kansas City Royals reassigned Ps Blaine Boyer, Michael Mariot, Brian Sanches and Yordano Ventura, C Adam Moore, SS Christian Colon, 3Bs Anthony Seratelli and Brandon Wood and OF Willy Taveras to minor league camp Monday, March 18.
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The Kansas City Royals invited Cs Adam Moore, Manny Pina, Max Ramirez and Julio A. Rodriguez; INF Christian Colon, Anthony Seratelli, Miguel Tejada and Brandon Wood; RPs Blaine Boyer, Sugar Ray Marimon, Michael Mariot, Brian Sanches, Atahualpa Severino, Yordano Ventura, Ryan Verdugo and Dan Wheeler; and OFs Endy Chavez, Luis Durango, Xavier Nady and Willy Taveras to spring training.
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Kansas City Royals IF Anthony Seratelli (personal) has left camp after learning his father was killed in an auto accident near the family's home in New Jersey, reports Bob Dutton, of The Kansas City Star.
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Kansas City Royals IF Kurt Mertins was promoted to Triple-A Omaha, and IF Anthony Seratelli was promoted to Double-A Northwest Arkansas, according to the Northwest Arkansas Naturals' official Twitter page.
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Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:04:49 -0700
Correcting a previous item, Dick Kaegel, of MLB.com, reports Kansas City Royals IF Anthony Seratelli is playing in the Colombian Winter League during the offseason.
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Alan Eskew, of KansasCity.Royals.MLB.com, reports the Kansas City Royals signed IF Anthony Seratelli Tuesday, Feb. 27. Seratelli was the only player out of 88 signed from the team's open tryout camp.
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In search of singularity (I suppose), I was wondering whether there is anyone in this forum that has jumped over a whale?
Whilst I have no video evidence to prove it, I managed to do it 6 times on Saturday. (A friendly pod of whales just hung out in the bay..)
It was mind blowing and terrifying and absolutely the best kiting experience of my 10 years on the water.
Has this been done by anyone else?


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Fergus Cullen: The Christmas card many of us wish we could send
December 19. 2013 7:50PM
Dear Tom and Sue: Thanks for your cheery Christmas letter and photos documenting, in tedious, self-centered detail, what a truly unbelievably good year your family of overachievers had. Each of you, even toddler Hillary and Davos the dog, leapt from one achievement to another with nary a setback. It's obvious that you have awesome careers, a perfect family, indeed a better life than me. You win!
Our family's 2013 reality was a bit more nuanced, to be honest. Our kids are nothing to brag about, and we can't afford your vacations. No amount of garland can disguise the fact that most days Liz and I are too worn out by the grind of raising kids and putting food on the table to attempt half the things your family seems to do.
Congrats to your daughter Mercedes on her election as treasurer of the Spanish Club, her field hockey team for making the playoffs, her marching band playing in the Rose Bowl parade — all while finding time to work the Hollis soup kitchen and read to the deaf. I'm pretty sure Brown admissions will see through all that. Maybe I've become cynical, but is it possible the February vacation trip to Costa Rica was motivated more by the allure of tropical beaches than building a school for orphans? There are orphans in cold climates, aren't there? Just asking.
Our hopes for Stevey going to Dartmouth have faded to black. Our fallback goal is to get him through high school on time without being arrested or smashing the family car. He was such a sweet little kid, it's been hard to see him turn into a disrespectful, back-talking teenager, especially for his mother.
It's great that Krugman placed fifth in the 200 meter backstroke for the Little Manatees swim team and plays for Souhegan Septic in Cal Ripken. But there's nothing here to suggest he's on his way to a college scholarship or the 2024 Olympics, is there? As for his getting third place in the Cub Scout Pinewood Derby, were there more than three competitors, or did you buy his car pre-made from a kit? Because winning a trophy in the Pinewood Derby is prima facie evidence the kid didn't make his own car.
Mercedes does seem to be a precocious three-year-old, what with playing the violin, Mandarin lessons, competing in the Miss Charm pageant, and already reading the third Harry Potter novel. Sign her up for Smith. We're hoping our three year old will be potty trained before first grade.
That picture of you summiting Kilimanjaro is inspiring, and congrats to Sue for doing the Tough Mudder half marathon. You have not only stopped, but reversed, the aging process. Alas, the evidence is mounting that I'm not as young as I used to be. I'm so stiff in the mornings I have to sit on the stairs to put on my socks. I got kicked out of my CrossFit group for bringing a Boston Crème donut for snack. I'd consider taking up golf, but if I took four hours off once a week my wife would divorce me before I reached the back nine.
Liz spends $20 a month at Planet Fitness so she can pretend she goes to the gym. Buying yoga pants has not made her look like the women in the Athletica catalogue. She says the increasing gray in my receding hair makes me look distinguished, but I think she's only trying to make me feel better.
Neither of us loves our jobs, but we keep working because our investments trailed the S&P. Twice the market gave me the opportunity to buy Apple for less than $400 a share this year, and twice I waited for it to bottom out first. I sold my Netflix $100 ago and my conservative buy-and-hold strategy is killing me on Blackberry and Zynga.
We did not tour Australian vineyards like you did, but we did go camping at Gunstock. An afternoon at the Kahuna Laguna indoor waterpark in Conway sort of feels like going to Florida. The only thing our garden produced is inedible bloated zucchinis even the backyard chickens wouldn't touch. A raccoon ended that experiment anyway.
We'll try again next year.
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The Baltimore Sun reports Baltimore Orioles C prospect Wally Crancer is now hitting .205 with one home run and five RBIs in 13 games for West Oahu. Despite the low batting average, he has hit successfully in seven of his past nine games.
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Dean Jones Jr., of The Baltimore Sun, reports Baltimore Orioles IF Wally Crancer is playing in the Hawaiian Winter League this offseason.
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STERLING – The Sterling Park District Board unanimously approved its 2013-14 fiscal year budget Tuesday.
The $6,837,350 budget, $543,800 more than last year's, includes funds for additional trail work, repairs to the Westwood Fitness and Sports Complex and Americans with Disabilities Act compliance work.
The budget was approved by a 4-0 vote. Commissioner Jennifer Campbell was absent.
While the budget includes a $207,000 deficit, Park District Executive Director Larry Schuldt said that's because revenue for a trails project was included in a previous fiscal year's budget.
"When we received the money, we had to record it in the budget," Schuldt said. "And then when we expend it, that money has already been recorded, so it appears that we're in the red. If that trail had been done, and we weren't doing it this year, we'd actually break even."
The trail work consists of a switchback, for Americans with Disabilities Act compliance purposes, and laying asphalt along a 1.1-mile stretch of trail between Sinnissippi Park and Martin's Landing behind the Dillon Home. The work will cost $475,000, which came from donations and grant money from the state.
Schuldt said he expects the work to be done by the fall.
Another major project included in the budget is repairs to the Westwood Fitness and Sports Center, 1900 Westwood Drive.
The center was evacuated May 6 when a fire broke out in a maintenance room, causing smoke damage to the fitness center and tennis courts, among other facilities. No one was injured.
The Park District's insurance company, Park District Risk Management Agency, will pay for much of the repair work directly; some smaller repairs or equipment replacement will have to be paid for by the Park District, but will be reimbursed.
The budget includes $211,000 in revenue from the insurance company. The repairs are budgeted at $212,000. The insurance policy has a $1,000 deductible.
The cost of all the repairs could be between $1.8 million and $2 million, Schuldt said.
More than 25 Westwood assets will receive some sort of repair work, including the weight rooms, tennis courts and break room. The only Building 1 asset that wasn't damaged was the track room.
Most of the work, Schuldt said, should be completed sometime in the fall. Most of the facilities still are open, except for the indoor tennis courts, the batting cages, the racquetball courts and the aerobics room.
The Park District has plans to sell or tear down Building 2, although it won't likely happen until 2018 or 2019, Schuldt said, as the communication and transmission lines from Building 1 to Building 3 run through Building 2.
The Park District needs to bury the lines underground, which could cost between $100,000 and $150,000, Schuldt said.
Also, Field 7 at the Gartner Park Baseball Complex will receive work to become compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Of the $6,630,350 of projected revenue, $2,367,250 (35.7 percent) will come from personal property taxes, $1,938,250 (29.2 percent) from fees and charges and $1,265,000 (19 percent) from bond proceeds.
The remaining 16.1 percent is projected to come from contributions, replacement taxes, insurance reimbursement and miscellaneous funds. The Park District also has $735,704.05 cash on hand.
The Park District is a government agency independent of the city. It has 21 full-time and more than 200 part-time employees.
To attend
The Sterling Park District Board next meets at 6:30 p.m. Aug. 19 at the Duis Recreation Center, 211 E. St. Mary's Road.
Go to www.sterlingparks.org or call 815-622-6200 for an agenda.


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16-foot joint added to store's museum on 4/20
VENETA, Ore. - April 20 is celebrated by some recreational marijuana users as "four twenty," a holiday of sorts.
For a Veneta business, 4/20 offers an opportunity to add to a very unique museum - of joints.
"Getting customers involved so that I'm not just a drive by. you know," said Caryle Hearte at Canna Royal. "I want to be a destination."
"I think that joint rolling is a lost art," Hearte said. "There's stories with every one of these and that's what makes it cool."
Hearte and her coworkers and customers rolled a 16-foot joint which now hangs proudly in the storefront.
Hearte hopes to one day have joints covering every single wall in her store.
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Pop star Jessica Simpson is set to star in a new sitcom based on her life.
The singer welcomed her first child, Maxwell, with fiance Eric Johnson last May, and she recently announced she was pregnant again – but that isn't keeping Simpson from slowing down.
The busy mom is teaming up with the executives behind her American reality series Fashion Star, on which she serves as a mentor, for a semi-autobiographical scripted comedy.
TV boss Ben Silverman tells TVGuide.com, "Having gotten the opportunity to work with Jessica on Fashion Star and see how funny she is firsthand, it seemed natural for her to end up in a situational comedy. She has gone through her own life journey, now becoming a mother. Her unique yet totally accessible approach to family is something I think America will love and laugh at."
Her father and manager, Joe Simpson, will co-produce the project with Silverman.
And Simpson, who made her acting debut in 2005's The Dukes of Hazzard, is excited about the venture: "I often find myself thinking that no one could ever make up the things that actually happen in my life – so between the real-life elements and a great team of writers, I think we'll have people laughing!"
Pop star Jessica Simpson is set to star in a new sitcom based on her life.


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Physical Internet Initiative: Pipedream or Possibility?
Some researchers are asking what the real world of distribution and logistics can learn from the digital world of the Internet.
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Isn't there a better way to do this?
That simple question has been the starting point for any number of innovations in the materials handling world. It was also the starting point for the Physical Internet Initiative, a major supply chain project that has the potential of changing the way we handle, store, package and transport goods across the supply chain.
Pi, as it's also known, was the brainchild of Benoit Montreuil, a professor in the department of operations and decision systems at the Universite Laval in Quebec and a member of the College-Industry Council on Material Handling Education (CICMHE). Back in 2006, Montreuil began wondering how distribution and logistics would be improved if we applied some of the principles of the digital Internet to the physical movement of goods. Since then, he has been joined by other researchers in the U.S. and abroad to explore that possibility.
So, just what is Pi? The short explanation is that the Physical Internet would mimic the way information is packaged, distributed and stored in the virtual world to improve processes.
The group has a manifesto: Transforming the way physical objects are handled, moved, stored, realized, supplied and used, aiming towards global logistics efficiency and sustainability.
That description, however, only goes so far in explaining how a Physical Internet might operate. The PowerPoint on Montreuil's Web site (physicalinternetinitiative.org) runs 72 slides.
While at first it sounds a little far-fetched—or a little like an academic exercise—the academics have been joined in their research by retailers Wal-mart and Walgreens; solution providers like RedPrairie and the American Truckers Institute; and the Material Handling Industry of America (MHIA). The project currently has funding from the National Science Foundation as well as nearly $60,000 in contributions from MHIA and CICMHE. Yes, it's a big idea, but talk to Montreuil for a little while and it all sounds very possible.
Isn't there a better way?
The idea for a Physical Internet took shape in June 2006, when Montreuil picked up a copy of The Economist magazine. The issue included a series of articles about contemporary logistics titled "The Physical Internet."
"After that first reading, I lost sleep thinking about the idea of a Physical Internet," Montreuil says. "I wondered what would it do that we can't do now and why would we even need it?"
As he thought about the development of the Internet, a concept for logistics took shape. "If you think about the early days of computers, people loved using them, but they had no way to connect their computers to a community," he says. "To get connectivity, we looked to transportation for a model and the information superhighway became the metaphor for the Internet."
Montreuil wondered whether supply chain professionals could use the Internet as a metaphor for a new way to move physical objects through the supply chain.
"The Internet and the physical world are different," he says. "Data moves at light speed. If you lose data, you can often retrieve it and there is no great incremental cost to ship more data." In the physical world, on the other hand, "the equipment can only move so fast, it's terrible if I lose a carton, and there's an additional cost every time someone touches an object."
The big picture
Despite those differences, Montreuil concluded there had to be an alternative to how things are done today. "The way we handle physical objects is no longer efficient or sustainable economically, environmentally or socially," he says. To justify the need for a Physical Internet, he focused on a few key areas.
Economically, logistics accounts for 10% to 15% of the GDP for most countries in the world and it's growing faster than the overall growth of world trade. "The cost to ship something from China is too high and it's getting higher," Montreuil says.
Environmentally, logistics and transportation are among the largest consumers of energy in the world. "Greenhouse gas emissions from logistics are climbing year after year at a time when the target of most countries in the world is to reduce them," Montreuil says.
Socially, most companies are struggling to recruit and retain employees in their distribution and transportation operations. "Truck drivers don't want to be away from their families for weeks at a time and in many distribution centers, employees speak languages other than English, which discourages Americans from working in those facilities," says Montreuil. "Those are just facts the industry is dealing with."
Last, but certainly not least, logistics and transportation as they are currently practiced are inefficient and wasteful. "Even with routing and scheduling software, there is a lot of empty travel," Montreuil says. "Most storage and production facilities are underutilized most of the year and products are unnecessarily crisscrossing the world as part of the production process." Norwegian salmon, for instance, is often shipped to China where it's packed before it's shipped to a border country like Finland for consumption.
There's got to be a better way.
Enter the Physical Internet
After identifying the inefficiencies associated with distribution and logistics, Montreuil decided several lessons could be learned from the way digital information is packaged and moved across the Internet.
"We wanted an open, global logistics system that contrasts with the proprietary or closed systems that are common today," he says. "It's founded on the idea of physical, digital and operational interconnectivity enabled by encapsulation, protocols and smart interfaces for increased efficiency and sustainability."
That sounds complex, but it can be boiled down to a few simple principles.
Interconnectivity: In the world of logistics today, many countries have unique standards. The 48 x 40-inch pallet may be ubiquitous in the U.S., but there are different standards in Europe or Asia. Similarly, one supplier's conveyor may not connect with another supplier's conveyor. "We're aiming for universal connectivity," Montreuil explains. "We think this container should click with that container, no matter what product is inside. It should go easily on the conveyor and easily on the lift. Handoffs throughout the supply chain should be easy."
Encapsulation: The Physical Internet won't deal with freight. It will only deal with packages of goods, much like ports only deal with containers. "When you get outside of the ports, distribution centers and logistics providers are dealing with hundreds of different kinds of boxes and they're not easy to handle," Montreuil says. "The Internet, on the other hand, only deals with packets of information that are formatted very precisely."
Montreuil envisions a portfolio of standard size containers that will be used around the globe. They would begin with standards for maritime containers and truck trailers. Shipping containers and cartons would be sized to maximize the space inside those standard containers and trailers. Regardless of the size, they would be environmentally sustainable, trackable by bar codes or RFID, and modular. "We'll talk with the rack and conveyor people to come up with containers that are easy to handle and designed for logistics," says Montreuil.
Secure: Whatever their size and design, containers in the Physical Internet will be sealable for security in the same way as a shipping container is sealed today.
Say so long to pallets: In Montreuil's vision, pallets as we know them would no longer exist. Nor would it be necessary to stretch or shrink wrap a load. The shipping platform would be the container. It may have wheels, which would make it easy to load and unload. Or, it may work with a clamp truck.
Forget about storage as we know it: Eliminate the pallet, and Montreuil believes that you could also eliminate a lot of storage rack by stacking containers in a DC the way containers are stacked in the port. Or, they might snap onto a grid. "We could reinvent materials handling technologies so they could be adapted to a world standard container," he says.
Nodes on the supply chain: In the Physical Internet, the role of the DC will change. A facility may have a portion of the warehouse that is off-line and used for reserve storage or order fulfillment. But the portion of the facility set aside for shipping and receiving would no longer be dedicated to just one customer. Instead, it would serve as a hub, transit point or gateway to deal with containers moving through the supply chain.
"A DC will be open to receive and crossdock containers from other companies just like a port," says Montreuil. "Our goal is that freight will no longer be stuck in a yard for a few days or weeks. Within an hour or so of arrival, a container will be on another truck and moving in another direction."
Keep it moving
Keeping product in motion is one of the biggest benefits of the Physical Internet. To illustrate his point, Montreuil describes the way a truckload of product moves from Quebec City to Los Angeles.
In today's world, it takes about 120 hours for a driver to pick up and deliver a load by truck. Like a marathon runner, the driver probably completes the trip alone. Meanwhile, the driver will be away from home for a week or more and may return empty for at least a portion of the trip back from Los Angeles.
In the Physical Internet, the delivery process would resemble a relay race. Each driver would hand off a load at a transit hub every 250 miles. There, another driver would pick up the load within an hour or so and move it another 250 miles on its journey. Meanwhile, the original driver would pick up a back haul and return home in time for dinner. Or, the load may get shuttled onto and off of a multi-modal rail car. Instead of 120 hours, Montreuil calculates the delivery could be made in 60 hours.
Similarly, LTL shipments could be reconfigured with other shipments at transit hubs to maximize trailer loads. Since all of the containers would be the same size, just like maritime containers in a port, the contents of a container would be irrelevant.
Making this model work would rely on all of those components described earlier along with open and connected data collection and software systems. "Everything from the warehouse management system (WMS) to the routing, slotting and asset tracking systems will be open and connected, like the Internet," says Montreuil. It also requires more collaboration than happens in the supply chain today.
Pipedream or possibility?
As the Physical Internet began to take shape, Montreuil shared the idea with colleagues at other institutions. "Ben had this epiphany that he'd talk about over dinner at CICHME meetings," says Russell Meller, a professor at the University of Arkansas and the director of the Center for Excellence in Logistics and Distribution (CELDi) at the university. "He was the inspirational leader, but he also realized that he'd need other people and ideas to make it happen." CELDi is a consortium of nine universities and 30 organizations funded by the National Science Foundation focused on research in logistics and distribution.
Along with Meller, Montreuil recruited several other researchers here and abroad, including Kimberly Ellis, an associate professor and the site director for CELDi at Virginia Tech.
To get the project off the ground, Meller says, they realized they would need grants. Meller and another researcher already had a nearly $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a virtual organization using digital Internet technology that would allow engineers to work collaboratively on a big project. The catch: They needed a big project. The Physical Internet Initiative seemed to fit the bill.
In addition, Meller and Ellis received a $197,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to use CELDi as a resource to take real world numbers from leading shippers like Wal-mart and Walgreens to establish the potential of the Physical Internet.
That project is now underway. The CELDi team is taking real-world facilities, and network and shipping data to model how the supply chain is working now and how it might work in a Physical Internet with standardized containers and a sharing of trailers and other resources across a network of facilities. "We have weekly teleconferences with the participating organizations and they're guiding us with the scenarios they want us to model and the questions they want to answer," says Meller.
Those include questions such as how much fuller would trailers be—how much air would be removed—using the Physical Internet model? Is there a negative impact from using standardized modular containers? Would the number of times a product is handled change as it moves through the system? If your shipments resemble a relay race, how quickly do you need to crossdock a container through a facility so that you don't increase the amount of time for a shipment?
While CELDi is answering those questions, Virginia Tech's Ellis says the next step is to define what type of containers and materials handling systems are required for the Physical Internet. "What it might look like is an open question," she says. "Ben certainly has ideas. We have submitted another research proposal that would allow us to work on the design of containers."
So, is the Physical Internet a pipedream or is it a possibility? According to Montreuil, the technology is "a piece of cake. There's no science fiction and nothing to invent in terms of software and data collection." He believes the companies within MHIA could come up with the handling innovations to make this happen very quickly. In Montreuil's definition, quickly is about a decade.
The real challenge, he says, is overcoming the reservation of businesses to collaborate with one another to make the Physical Internet work. "Companies will need to come up with new business models," he says.
The other challenge is convincing a group of shippers to do it now, rather than later. While it may take a decade to get a global Physical Internet up and running, Montreuil believes that a consortium of companies, or even an entire industry, could do it now.
"I think the biggest hurdle is the reluctance of companies to do this until everything is in place to operate on a global scale," he says. "I see it as something that can be phased in now and grow incrementally."
That could be the industry that is asking the question: Isn't there a better way?
About the AuthorBob Trebilcock Bob Trebilcock, editorial director, has covered materials handling, technology, logistics and supply chain topics for nearly 30 years. In addition to Supply Chain Management Review, he is also Executive Editor of Modern Materials Handling. A graduate of Bowling Green State University, Trebilcock lives in Keene, NH. He can be reached at 603-357-0484.
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Subject: Editorial, General Tech, Motherboards | November 16, 2011 - 03:12 PM | Ryan Shrout
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Cows on a pasture, who, among other mammals, could experience immense suffering from the New World screwworm. (© Creaturart/Fotolia)
Combining CRISPR genome editing with the natural phenomenon of gene drive allows us to rewrite the genomes of wild organisms. The benefits of saving children from malaria by editing mosquitoes are obvious and much discussed, but humans aren't the only creatures who suffer. If we gain the power to intervene in a natural world "red in tooth and claw," yet decline to use it, are we morally responsible for the animal suffering that we could have prevented?
The scenario that may redefine our relationship with the natural world begins with fine clothing. You're dressed to the nines for a formal event, but you arrived early, and it's such a beautiful day that you decided to take a stroll by the nearby lake. Suddenly, you hear the sound of splashing and screams. A child is drowning! Will you dive in to save them? Or let them die, and preserve your expensive outfit?
The philosopher Peter Singer posited this scenario to show that we are all terrible human beings. Just about everyone would save the child and ruin the outfit… leading Singer to question why so few of us give equivalent amounts of money to save children on the other side of the world. The Against Malaria Foundation averages one life saved for every $7000.
But despite having a local bias, our moral compasses aren't completely broken. You never even considered letting the child drown because the situation wasn't your fault. That's because the cause of the problem simply isn't relevant: as the one who could intervene, the consequences are on your head. .
There is a critical difference between Singer's original scenario and the one above: in his version, it was a muddy pond. Any adult can rescue a child from a muddy pond, but a lake is different; you can only save the child if you know how to swim.
Few would disagree with either of these moral statements, but when they are combined with increasingly powerful technologies, the implications are deeply unsettling. Given the power to alter the workings of the natural world, are we morally obligated to use it? Recent developments suggest we had best determine the answer soon because, technologically, we are learning to swim. What choices will we make?
Gene drive is a natural phenomenon that occurs when a genetic element reliably spreads through a population even though it reduces the reproductive fitness of individual organisms. Nature has evolved many different mechanisms that result in gene drive, so many that it's nearly impossible to find an organism that doesn't have at least one driving element somewhere in its genome. More than half of our own DNA comprises the broken remnants of gene drives, plus a few active copies.
Scientists have long dreamed of harnessing gene drive to block mosquito-borne disease, with little success. Then came CRISPR genome editing, which works by cutting target genes and replacing them with a new sequence. What happens if you replace the original sequence with the edited version an encoded copy of the CRISPR system? Gene drive.
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Information gives us a powerful new framework for thinking about the world. Sometimes it perfectly fits the problem at hand; other times it's not an exact fit, but still extremely useful. This essay has only scratched the surface of information theory – there are major topics, like error-correcting codes, that we haven't touched at all – but I hope I've shown that information theory is a beautiful subject that doesn't need to be intimidating.
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Claude Shannon's original paper on information theory, A Mathematical Theory of Communication , is remarkably accessible. (This seems to be a recurring pattern in early information theory papers. Was it the era? A lack of page limits? A culture emanating from Bell Labs?)
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Once upon a time, yelling "fire" in a crowded theater was the recipe for a stampede. But as a New Yorker, I can attest that these days you could probably achieve the same result with a shout of "bedbug," particularly since one highly trafficked Times Square movie theater was briefly closed in August to spray for the pests. Maybe theaters showing Piranha 3-D or Vampires Suck could spin a bedbug infestation as an enhancement of the cinema experience, but I don't think any others could. Eh, maybe The Expendables, too, for different reasons.
The resurgence of bedbugs in U.S. cities has people spooked but, in the New York Times, Donald G. McNeil Jr. neatly transcends what he calls "the ick factor" long enough to write about two of the more interesting scientific questions about the outbreak: Why are bedbugs making a comeback now, decades after the use of pesticides that once controlled them stopped? And why are bedbugs, unlike so many other blood-drinking parasites of humans, apparently not vectors of disease?
Read on to learn more from McNeil about those subjects. I, instead, will point out two passages in the article that help to illustrate why you just have to love parasitologists.
Exhibit A (emphasis added):
…The classic bedbug strain that all newly caught bugs are compared against is a colony originally from Fort Dix, N.J., that a researcher kept alive for 30 years by letting it feed on him.
But Stephen A. Kells, a University of Minnesota entomologist, said he "prefers not to play with that risk."
He feeds his bugs expired blood-bank blood through parafilm, which he describes as "waxy Saran Wrap."
Coby Schal of North Carolina State said he formerly used condoms filled with rabbit blood, but switched to parafilm because his condom budget raised eyebrows with university auditors.
Oh, those university administrators. You can order a tank car full of rabbit blood and they don't bat an eye, but you ask for one gross of condoms ribbed for the bedbugs' pleasure….
Exhibit B, McNeil's exchange with Mississippi State entomologist Jerome Goddard:
Well, he was asked — can you feel them bite?
"No," he said. "If I put them on my arm and close my eyes, I never feel them. But I once got my children to put them on my face, and I did. Maybe there are more nerve endings."
Why in the world, he was asked, would he ask kids to do that?
"Oh, you know," he said. "Bug people are crazy."
No, bug people. You are crazy wonderful.