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Commencement Speaker
Farooq Kathwari, Chairman, President and CEO of Ethan Allen Interiors Inc.
Download an audio version of Farooq. Kathwari's commencement speech. (12.6MB .mp3 file).
Farooq Kathwari's Commencement Speech - May 18, 2008
I am delighted and honored to be here today. Let me first congratulate the grandparents, parents and graduates. It is quite a feat to go through a college education today. When I was a full-time night student at NYU in the late 1960s, I worked full-time, had a monthly salary of $400, and with that supported myself, paid my tuition – about $600 a semester – and even bought a new car – a Mustang. Those days are definitely over. So congratulations to parents and graduates for their hard work. This is truly a day to celebrate!
A question on the minds of many of the graduates is the challenge of entering a new phase of their lives in an environment that is increasingly referred to as a globalized world.
I reflect on my own journey when at the age of 20, with a B.A. in English Literature and Political Science, I traveled from the mountains of Kashmir to the hustle and bustle of New York, especially the unique experience of going underground in the subway system. I wondered how people could go under the ground while still alive and then how once there they could actually survive the deafening noise.
The amazing thing about humans is that we adjust to new challenges, even with all the apprehensions. A few months back, I was visiting the University of Kashmir and shared some of my experiences in coming to the new world. One that got quite a response was when I recounted my first experience in New York going to a self-service restaurant called an automat and asking for tea. They gave me a cup of hot water and two bags – a tea bag and a sugar packet. I looked at them and started to open the tea bag to get the leaves out. Someone was kind enough to tell me that all I had to do was put the bag in the water. So I did that and then also put the unopened sugar packet in the water. The students in Kashmir had a good laugh.
When I left Kashmir, I had never seen television. Today they have tea bags and sugar packets, TV channels from all directions, and the Internet. This is one global world. We are all much more connected.
The new world has brought us many opportunities and also the potential for many conflicts. Globalization has raised the expectations of people all around the world — and if the expectations are not reasonably met, we will have more conflicts. And today conflicts even in faraway places impact our lives here at home.
I am sure the question on your minds is how to compete and succeed in this big 'small world.'
As one who has had to bridge the old and the new world, I am happy to reflect briefly on some of my experiences and share some thoughts that you might find helpful.
During my college days in Kashmir, I was deeply involved in sports. I was the captain of the cricket and aquatic teams. Well, you don't have to play sports to know how important teamwork is in almost every aspect of work and life. I have learned the value of pitching in and doing what was necessary for the team. And in leading teams, I've learned the value of listening, of prioritizing, or recognizing and developing talent and of motivating by sharing my enthusiasm.
I was fortunate enough to take the helm at Ethan Allen at a fairly young age. I mean I was quite young; Ethan Allen wasn't. It was a bit stuck in its ways. But today it is a 75-year-young company. When I took charge, the company had 90% brand recognition, and was respected for quality and service. However, the company needed reinvention, as its products, factories, stores and many of the leaders were not compatible with the needs of the future.
We started the reinvention of Ethan Allen with two convictions. First, that there are fundamental principles of good leadership and dealing with human beings that have intrinsic value and that have remained the same from time immemorial. Second, that techniques and technology continue to change and those changes needed to be embraced.
We first started by focusing on core values that would guide us. We call them our Leadership Principles.
My inspiration for the Leadership Principles was twofold. First, I have long been impressed by the universal principles of ethics that are part of all religions of the world and that are also enshrined in the principles that founded this great country. Second, in college in Kashmir, I was a Political Science student and focused on studying the American Constitution and History. I was particularly moved by the inspiring message, "We the people …
During the last 20 years at Ethan Allen, we have made a point of discussing our ten Leadership Principles throughout the year. Periodically, our Senior Managers evaluate themselves on their implementation of the principles. Compensation for Senior Management is based on their adherence to those principles.
Today I would like to focus on these principles.
- Leadership by example
- Accessibility: Be accessible and supportive, and recognize the contributions of others
- Customer Focus: Our first responsibility is to our customers
- Excellence and Innovation: Have a passion for excellence and innovation
- Self confidence: Have the self confidence to empower others to do their best
- Change: Understand that change means opportunity and it is to be managed, not feared. I lived in the mountains of Kashmir in my youth, and hiking is still a hobby of mine. The mountains teach us that reaching the summit requires an appropriate pace. Climbing too fast often results in altitude sickness, which can be fatal. The solution is: If you climb too high and can't breathe, come down a little, stabilize yourself, and then climb again – or not. Unfortunately, most people don't like to accept that they have gone too far, and do not want to climb down. They end with a disaster. If only they had managed the change.
- Speed: Maintain a competitive advantage by reacting quickly to new opportunities
- Hard Work: Establish a standard of hard work and practice it consistently
- Prioritize: Establish priorities by clearly differentiating between the big issues and the small ones.
- Justice. Always make decisions fairly. Justice is not a word often used in business. Yet we know that injustice results in conflicts and lack of motivation. Justice, on the other hand, builds confidence and trust, which, in turn, encourages motivation and teamwork.
Bottom line, in my experience good governance is good for profitability. At Ethan Allen, during the last fifteen years, we have consistently performed at the highest levels of profitability for our industry and, in fact, for most industries.
Once our core values were in place we made other changes to survive and thrive in the global economy, namely:
- We energized our U.S. manufacturing by focusing on 9 major plants in the U. S. and one in Mexico, and by consolidating smaller plants. Even with global manufacturing, we are very pleased to say that we still manufacture over 60% of our products in the U.S.
- We developed a strong diverse Leadership team. Today out of about 400 managers at Ethan Allen, more than 75% are women.
- We molded our enterprise to cater to the busy American consumer by focusing on providing interior decorating solutions. Our design centers are staffed with about 3,000 interior design professionals.
- We redesigned our product lines to reflect the diversity of design that has been brought to America from all corners of the world.
- We have embraced the major tools of technology that are needed to operate a business enterprise in today's competitive environment.
In my view, by following the time-tested principles of treating people with dignity, and by working hard and with passion, we create a competitive advantage — be it for an individual, an enterprise, or a nation. In addition, when we embrace knowledge, technology, and new skills we are able to differentiate ourselves in a positive manner.
Finally today, I would like to dispel some of the myths about today's graduates:
We often hear that "young people lack motivation;" or that "today's generation does not have passion and lacks understanding of the interdependent world;" or that "young people lack critical thinking skills." I believe these are all myths.
Today's young people are more knowledgeable and understanding of diversity than previous generations. And they want to work with passion. They need to be motivated. In my view people all over the world want to be treated with dignity and work in an environment that will help them show their passion. I am gratified by the passion, drive to excellence, and hard work that young people are capable of when given an opportunity. It is the responsibility of leadership to help create an environment that brings out the best in our people young and old – fresh graduates and those who graduated in earlier generations.
So my advice to the graduates is to work hard, work with passion — irrespective of the task and job — treat your teammates with dignity, and do not be afraid to attempt an adventure even if you are only 70% ready.
I am deeply honored and humbled by this interaction and recognition. I am proud of our long-standing association with Western Connecticut State University. In fact, we are neighbors. It is doubly gratifying to be recognized by members of our own family – Westconn is part of our extended family. Again, many thanks and congratulations to all.


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Arnold Schwarzenegger, who rose to international fame as a bodybuilder and action-movie star, has always loomed large, and now he will have a permanently oversized presence in the California Capitol.
On Monday, he unveiled his official gubernatorial portrait, a hyper-realistic painting that is more than 6 feet high. It's at least 1,000 square inches bigger than the portrait of former Gov. Gray Davis — whom Schwarzenegger ousted in the 2003 recall election — making it the largest among those of recent California governors.
In fact, size was the theme throughout Monday's ceremony.
Schwarzenegger described California as a place where people "refuse to think small."
"We were never afraid to dream big," he said. "It is in our DNA as Californians."
Schwarzenegger, an immigrant from Austria, chose Austrian-born artist Gottfried Helnwein to paint the portrait and paid for it himself.
In a statement, Helnwein described Schwarzenegger as "larger than life." Creating the portrait "was quite a challenge, and I enjoyed every moment of it," he said.
The image — described by observers as "regal" and "huge" — shows a smiling, younger-looking Schwarzenegger in front of the governor's seal.
The unveiling, held in the ornate Capitol rotunda, was a reminder of the circus-like atmosphere that surrounded Schwarzenegger's administration. Introducing Schwarzenegger, Gov. Jerry Brown took stock of the crush of television cameras and joked, "Arnold, you've still got it."Brown summed up Schwarzenegger's seven turbulent years in office by saying, "You did a hell of a lot. Just like everybody else, you had your flaws."
Monday marked Schwarzenegger's first trip to Sacramento since Brown's inauguration in January 2011. He's spent the intervening years traveling the world, creating an eponymous think tank at USC and starring in more action movies.
Earlier in the day, he had been at a climate change conference hosted by the California Environmental Protection Agency, where he highlighted his work combating greenhouse gas emissions.
Some of the biggest initiatives being advanced by Brown today — the $68-billion bullet train and the cap-and-trade program that imposes fees on polluters — were started during Schwarzenegger's administration.
"While the politicians in Washington can't get anything done because they're stuck in these ideological foxholes, we here in California have two governors from two different parties in the same room fighting for the same green energy future," Schwarzenegger said.
He recounted battling naysayers who thought cap-and-trade, which aims to lower pollution by charging fees to polluters, would harm the economy and cost California jobs.
"They were wrong," he said. "We were right."

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Who needs Green power when we've got them?
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At Last...
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I have put this on my blog as l think everyone shoud live by it.ReplyDelete
I watched it all day in the UK and he was in his office at 7 this morning and all his guys had to be there as well, he means what he says,
Jill xx
"Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it′s not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won′t. It′s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere."
Our whole nation just seems so full of hope, and this man has instilled in us so much anticipation and happiness, despite the troubling news all over TV and in our lives now. (I wrote on flickr, too, that I was amazed no one I saw on TV even mentioned the significance of the music they danced to-- "At Last." Such an appropriate choice, and beautiful. Glad you pointed it out, Carol!) They're a lovely couple. I'm so glad they're where they are!ReplyDelete
So wondefulReplyDelete
What a pair of fabulous people.
Tears in my eyes.
- diane10:11 AM
I am happy for you that you got the President you wanted. I didn't wantReplyDelete
either candidate who ended up in the race. I am a conservative.
I know this is probably an exciting time for you. What I like about your
website is that it isn't political--it is, for the most part, about Paris.
About half of the country voted for Obama and half of the country didn't.
As soon as you bring politics in, you please half of the people and
displease half of the people. It is your website, obviously. However, I
just ask that politics be left out, or be neutrally presented. I know I can
just delete the days which contain politics, but they do get me off on the
wrong foot, rather than that little moment of happiness when I get to think
about Paris, breakfast, chocolate, pastries, tea cups, etc.
Anyway, I am not meaning to offend. I am just giving another point of view
and making a request.
By the way, I love my Angelina's watercolor I got from you. It is proudly
displayed on my "kitchen eating area" wall. Thanks again.
Thanks for the AT LAST link.ReplyDelete
I giggled with happiness watching them dance together.
The power of LOVE, indeed!!!
- marie-laure11:31 AM
And in his speach he quoted fromReplyDelete
the best dancer of all!
- etta j.12:06 PM
At Last Lyrics by Etta JamesReplyDelete
At last, my love has come along
My lonely days are over
And life is like a song
Oh, yeah, at last
The skies above are blue
My heart was wrapped up in clovers
The night I looked at you
I found a dream that I could speak to
A dream that I can call my own
I found a thrill to rest my cheek to
A thrill that I have never known
Oh, yeah when you smile, you smile
Oh, and then the spell was cast
And here we are in heaven
For you are mine
At last
I should have gone there!!!! It was an historical moment for sure!ReplyDelete
Despite your living in France, I have never seen such an attractive couple, where one of them led an important country. Pretend English is not my first language to best understand this sentiment.ReplyDelete
I cried the whole day. It was so great.ReplyDelete


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A woman has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a man was injured at a house in Matlock.
At about 11.45pm yesterday (Thursday, April 24) emergency services were called to a house in Linden Grove, Matlock.
A 22–year–old man was found to be suffering from serious stab wounds and was taken to hospital for treatment. He is currently in the Queen's Medical Centre, in Nottingham.
An 18–year–old woman was arrested shortly afterwards on suspicion of attempted murder.
A 15–year–old girl was arrested for assisting an offender and a 28–year–old man is also under arrest for obstructing police in the execution of their duties.
All three suspects are still in custody and will be questioned during today.


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The slippery slope of foie gras
Chicago has become known as perhaps the most innovative, exciting food city in the U.S.
It's also the first U.S. city to ban the sale of foie gras, the fattened liver of a duck (or, less commonly, a goose) produced via force feeding. The result is that the high-end restaurants that serve the pricey delicacy must, by force of law, remove it from their menus within 60 days.
The City Council unanimously passed the bill after its sponsor, Ald. Joe Moore (49th), distributed to all members a video depicting the graphic mistreatment of ducks at a foie gras farm. This video was cut together by members of one of the many animal-rights groups pushing hard for foie gras bans across the country. The only other one to pass was the state of California's, which doesn't take effect until 2012.
I'm guessing that Moore received the video that was shot at Sonoma Foie Gras a couple of years ago and edited by a guy named Bryan Pease, co-director of the Animal Protection and Rescue League. Pease told me about taking volunteers on secret nighttime raids onto the property, where they got footage of, among other things, garbage cans of dead ducks and a defenseless, obese duck having his rear end munched on by a rat.
Sonoma Foie Gras owner Guillermo Gonzalez has complained that this "horror video" – excerpted for California TV news reports during the state's debates – misleadingly focuses only on the rare lame ducks, and he speculated that the rat footage might have been staged. Pease responded to this accusation by calling Gonzalez "a psychotic animal torturer."
Also, you may recall, Charlie Trotter accused fellow Chicago 4-star chef Rick Tramonto (of Tru) of being "not the smartest guy on the block" – and suggested that Tramonto's liver be served up as "a little treat" – after Tramonto called Trotter's restaurant ban of foie gras "a little hypocritical" because Trotter continued to serve veal, game and other members of the formerly living club.
Trotter, by the way, said last year that he didn't support legislation against foie gras, and he referred to the animal-rights activists as "idiots."
As you can see, this controversy is not for the faint-hearted.
So I'll be curious to watch the City Council deal with the ramifications of its vote, which already has been sarcastically dismissed by Mayor Daley, who's quoted in the Sun-Times as saying:
"We have children getting killed by gang leaders and dope dealers. We have real issues here in this city. And we're dealing with foie gras….Someone talks about foie gras this week. What's next week? What's on your menu…"
Daley is probably on target in anticipating the fallout from the council's actions. Have any of the council members actually been to one of the three U.S. foie gras farms? Did they consider the animal rights groups' political calculation in targeting a food with no industry or broad constituency rather taking on one of the mega-meat industries backed by deep pockets, formidable lobbying forces and popular support?
I'm not defending the practice of force-feeding, but I did travel to Sonoma Foie Gras for an extensive tour last spring, and I couldn't say definitively that the ducks there were treated worse than your average supermarket chicken (which I've never observed at an industrial farm). The Sonona Foie Gras ducks live their first 12 weeks in spacious barns and outdoors before the 2 ½-week period known as gavage, during which they are fed corn formulas via copper tubes dropped all the way down their throats.
There's little scientific agreement on whether or how much the ducks suffer from the force-feeding – and aside from those hobbling ones on the verge of being slaughtered, the ducks show no outward signs of distress during or after the feedings. They also don't appear particularly eager to swallow that long tube.
Foie gras defenders note that ducks lack gag reflexes and are biologically programmed to process large amounts of food at once, like whole fish. Foie gras critics contend that the birds obviously suffer but have no mechanism (or evolutionary reason) to cry out.
At any rate, Michael Ginor, co-owner of the U.S. market-leading Hudson Valley Foie Gras, told me last year that a typical supermarket chicken lives eight or nine weeks before slaughter and a duck you'd find in Chinatown has a 10-11-week lifespan. So what's worse, getting whacked at eight or 10 weeks or living 12 relatively comfy weeks plus an additional two-to-four week period that gets decidedly less idyllic?
Even in their gavage pens, the ducks appear to have more maneuvering room than your average cooped-up chicken. And it's not like pig farms are known for their humane conditions.
We're getting into a tricky game of moral relativism here. How can you decry the treatment of foie gras ducks when more commonly eaten animals exist under conditions that may be arguably as bad or worse? But then, the flip side: If force-feeding ducks is cruel, then how could the lousy treatment of pigs, cows and chickens possibly justify it? Isn't that like saying sniper attacks aren't so bad because suicide bombings are worse?
We all draw our own lines in regards to how kindly we believe the animals we eat should be treated before they're slaughtered. For the most part, the anti-foie-gras animal rights groups support the most consistent position here: that no animal killing is humane and thus people should become vegans.
But most of us aren't that consistent. We generally choose not to question whether the chicken on our plate ever saw the light of day or could flap its wings without hitting five feathered coopmates.
Yet we do expect consistency from the law. So if the City Council is taking a stand on foie gras, isn't it also now on the hook to act against other cruel animal practices?
Shouldn't council members be assuring us that all of the chicken, pork, beef and veal served in Chicago restaurants comes from animals that have been humanely handled? And if they receive evidence that, say, veal calves are being dealt losing hands – or that most commercially bought chickens live shockingly unsatisfying lives – shouldn't these items be forcibly removed from local menus as well?
What about fur? Should it really be sold in Chicago? Have you seen those pictures?
My guess is that Ald. Moore and his fellow council members have just signed themselves up for a Netflix-like plan of animal-cruelty videos.


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2013 Adelaide Festival Music Events
Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet: Landfall
Two legendary forces in new music unite: iconic performance artist Laurie Anderson and Grammy Award-winning sonic adventurers Kronos Quartet.
Neil Finn & Paul Kelly Free Concert
Australia's greatest pop poet and New Zealand's most celebrated songwriter and performer kick off Adelaide Festival with a free concert.
2001: A Space Odyssey
One of the greatest films ever made accompanied live by the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and a 60-voice choir.
Jordi Savall
One man and a strangely beautiful instrument have changed how the world hears early and baroque music and enraptured audiences.
Calder Quartet & Iva Bittová
Pairing Hungarian folk songs with Fred Frith's composition, the Calder Quartet and Iva Bittová present an eclectic evening of music.
Goran Bregović & the Weddings & Funerals Orchestra
Welcome to the party that is celebrated composer and Balkan rock star Goran Bregović and his 20-piece orchestra!
Into The Bloodstream
Australia's beloved singer/songwriter Archie Roach has found a renewed inner strength and expressed it through this new live show.
Van Dyke Parks & Special Guests
Decades before the term Americana was even invented, Van Dyke Parks' all-embracing musical vision expanded far beyond folk and country.
Glen Hansard
Glen Hansard takes to the stage with The Frames in a thrilling show drenched with passion and honesty.
Kronos Quartet, JG Thirlwell's Manorexia, Bryce Dessner
International favourites Kronos Quartet are joined by indie superstar Bryce Dessner of The National – and New Yorker JG Thirlwell's Manorexia.
Brassland & Friends: Deerhoof, Buke and Gase, Jherek Bischoff
Get set for a sonic celebration as the Brassland community come together on stage with their friends Deerhoof.
Doveman, This is the Kit
Doveman transports his monthly in-the-round Le Poisson Rouge residency direct from New York to Adelaide, performing desperately beautiful music.
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Severed Heads with special guest ATOM TM
Thirty years after their inception, this game-changing super-group reform especially for Adelaide Festival for the last time. Promise.
Unsound Adelaide
From Krakow, Poland to New York and now Adelaide, the hugely successful Unsound Festival showcases new electronic music and visuals.
Ben Frost and Daníel Bjarnason celebrate the 50th anniversary of writer Stanislaw Lem's novel with this narrative of sound.
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Tim Hecker, Actress and Hype Williams
Make your ears happy with acclaimed electronic acts playing minimal, glitch, and ambient gone weird, wild and wonderful.
Lustmord, Demdike Stare, Pole & Ben Frost
Low frequencies, dark ambient, post punk, black metal and noise – things get dark and spooky on Unsound Adelaide's last night.
SOUL II SOUL (Soundsystem)
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Two of the world's greatest guitarists, Karin Schaupp and Pavel Steidl, perform together for the first time.
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Australian String Quartet
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"Elegant" (compact) programs, "good" (fast) programs : The notion of "simplicity and elegance" appears informally in Knuth and precisely in Chaitin:
Chaitin prefaces his definition with: "I'll show you can't prove that a program is 'elegant'"—such a proof would solve the Halting problem (ibid).
Algorithm versus function computable by an algorithm : For a given function multiple algorithms may exist. This is true, even without expanding the available instruction set available to the programmer. Rogers observes that "It is . . . important to distinguish between the notion of algorithm , i.e. procedure and the notion of function computable by algorithm , i.e. mapping yielded by procedure. The same function may have several different algorithms". [32]
Unfortunately there may be a tradeoff between goodness (speed) and elegance (compactness)—an elegant program may take more steps to complete a computation than one less elegant. An example that uses Euclid's algorithm appears below.
Computers (and computors), models of computation
: A computer (or human "computor"
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that blindly follows its instructions.
Melzak's and Lambek's primitive models
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Minsky describes a more congenial variation of Lambek's "abacus" model in his "Very Simple Bases for
Minsky's machine
proceeds sequentially through its five (or six, depending on how one counts) instructions, unless either a conditional IF–THEN GOTO or an unconditional GOTO changes program flow out of sequence. Besides HALT, Minsky's machine includes three
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Rarely must a programmer write "code" with such a limited instruction set. But Minsky shows (as do Melzak and Lambek) that his machine is Turing complete with only four general types of instructions: conditional GOTO, unconditional GOTO, assignment/replacement/substitution, and HALT. [42]
In terms of scope, note that there is a closely related, additional, important, discussion emerging about the melding of algorithms and robotics (for example, autonomous vehicles of various types, or drones) and questions about accountability and transparency, as well as fundamental assumptions, in these systems, particularly when they are intended to harm humans, or are forced by events to choose which humans to harm. I will leave such questions as out of scope; the issues here are very complex and raise many new considerations. My focus here is on systems that simply process data and produce informational outputs as opposed to animating robotic devices; though they may have real-world consequences, these consequences are not instantaneous, and perhaps not as dire.
The "Age of Algorithms"
Algorithms have been, of course, familiar to mathematicians for centuries, indeed millennia. Euclid devised an algorithm for factoring prime numbers in classical times (though he did not use the term); my understanding is that the term derives from medieval Arabic [
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In the twentieth century, predecessor disciplines growing out of mathematics towards computer science (such as the theory of computability) adopted the concept, both in very theoretical work (Turing, Gödel, , though to the best of my knowledge they did not use the term "algorithms," speaking instead about questions like "halting problems" and "computability" that are in fact essential parts of what constitute algorithms) and in more applied bodies or work such as that of John von Neumann. The great computer scientist Donald Knuth was perhaps most central (though certainly not the first) in making both the concept and the actual term widely adopted in applied computer science in his magisterial work (Knuth, 1997); the first edition of the first volume of this work, , was published in 1968. The first chapter of this work contains a wonderful brief history and discussion of the definitions of algorithms and cannot be more highly recommended to interested readers. Again, in Knuth's work, algorithms here were characterized as fairly modest things: well-specified computational procedures that could be proved to complete in a finite number of steps with a correct result [ 2 ].
During the second decade of the twenty-first century, legal scholars, public policy experts and regulators, and social scientists appropriated the term "algorithms" to mean something different, much broader and more amorphous [
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In China, insulin is more widely used to treat patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) compared with many Western countries. Chinese patients with T2DM are characterized by a relatively young age of diabetes onset, low bodyweight, and early β-cell dysfunction combined with insulin resistance. Furthermore, progressive deterioration of β-cell function is known to contribute to the increasing difficulty of achieving glycemic control experienced during the T2DM disease course. Therefore, interventions to preserve β-cells are recognized to be effective and, considering the early β-cell dysfunction which characterizes Chinese T2DM patients, can be especially effective in this population. However, challenges for implementing insulin treatment in China include lack of patient education, limitations of medical resources, inadequate health care systems making patient follow up difficult, and suboptimal blood glucose monitoring. Therefore, Chinese physicians often prefer to initiate intensified treatment regimens in an inpatient setting to allow close control of treatment, and monitoring of effectiveness and safety. Given this situation, early initiation of insulin treatment in an inpatient setting is often favored in China for the treatment of patients with T2DM. Several studies in Chinese patients with newly-diagnosed T2DM have shown that early intensive insulin treatment preserves β-cell function and leads to glycemic remission. Furthermore, a meta-analysis of previous studies showed that 46.3% of Chinese patients with T2DM who received intensive insulin treatment achieved glycemic remission after 12 months, without the use of anti-diabetic medication and relying solely on lifestyle modification to control blood glucose levels.
Basal insulin is recommended as a convenient way to initiate insulin treatment by most international treatment guidelines, and by the Chinese Diabetes Association. ( see the International Diabetes Federations Diabetes Atlas, 7 edition ) As reported by the large, observational ORBIT study, insulin glargine is the most popular basal insulin for the initiation of insulin treatment in Chinese patients with T2DM (71%), followed by detemir (13%) and neutral protamine Hagedorn (NPH)(16%) insulin. In China, there are two available versions of insulin glargine; the originator Lantus® (Sanofi), and the biosimilar Basalin® ( see Gan Lee Pharmaceuticals history page ), which has been commercially available since 2005 in China, Egypt, Pakistan, South East Asia, and countries in Latin America. Basalin was the first biosimilar of insulin glargine marketed in China, and has since become a commonly used treatment option for many Chinese physicians. However, while biosimilars are developed to be highly similar to originator therapies, due to the degree of natural variability inherent to biological drugs, which are produced using living organisms, and because of differences in manufacturing processes between products, they are not identical to the original therapy. Results from a previous head-to-head study of Basalin and Lantus in Chinese people with T2DM showed equivalent glycemic control and safety, and a further crossover study in Chinese people with T2DM using a continuous glucose monitoring system (CGMS) reported non-inferiority of Basalin to Lantus for mean blood glucose, blood glucose fluctuations and rates of hypoglycemia. However, other than these two previous reports, there are no further confirmatory studies in real-world clinical practice. In addition, a local-language case report described improved blood glucose control and reduced insulin dose in three Chinese patients with T2DM who switched from Basalin to Lantus due to suboptimal glycemic control. Given this situation, it is important to further verify the findings of this case report in a larger population of patients who switched from Basalin to Lantus in a real-life clinical practice setting. We therefore hypothesized that patients with diabetes who switch from Basalin to Lantus in a real-world setting may achieve improved control of blood glucose with a similar safety profile.
This was a retrospective chart review conducted based on the electronic medical records (EMRs) of patients hospitalized at the Qingdao Endocrine and Diabetes Hospital from 2005 to 2016. Qingdao Endocrine and Diabetes Hospital is a public, non-profit, tertiary hospital that was established in 2002 and is located in Qingdao city, one of the biggest cities on the east coast of China. The Hospital is the only specialist diabetes hospital, not only in Qingdao, but also throughout the region, with a catchment area of approximately 100 kilometers, which covers 7.2 million people. The majority of the patients treated in the Hospital are Han Chinese residing in Qingdao city and the surrounding regions. Less than 1% of patients are national ethnic minorities or of foreign origin. In general, patients are hospitalized due to suspected acute diabetic complications including ketosis, ketoacidosis, diabetic hyperosmolality, uncontrolled hyperglycemia and at least one chronic complication, or significant worsening of chronic complications of diabetes (including rental hemorrhage, significant elevated albuminuria and/or serum creatinine, acute myocardial infarction, etc.).
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SEATTLE – Adrian Peterson lacked the extra gear that hurt Seattle's defense last season.
Greg Jennings was unavailable because of an Achilles tendon injury.
And Christian Ponder reverted to the turnover-prone quarterback that has made the position a revolving door in Minnesota this season.
That's not a good combination facing the best team in the NFC.
"Really felt like going into that fourth quarter we were in pretty good shape, needed to get another score and the way our defense was playing they were going to keep us in the game, that we were going to get it turned," Vikings coach Leslie Frazier said.
"Turnovers in the fourth, the game got out of whack for us. But right until that moment, that first turnover that led to a score, we were there. That's the way it goes."
Russell Wilson had two touchdown passes, Marshawn Lynch had two touchdowns running and one receiving, and the Seahawks pulled away in the fourth quarter for a 41-20 win over the Vikings on Sunday.
Former Vikings star Percy Harvin made his highly anticipated Seattle debut after missing the first 10 weeks of the regular season following hip surgery.
While he was mostly a decoy offensively, he provided two of the biggest plays as the Seahawks improved to 10-1 and stayed on top of the NFC heading into their bye week.
Harvin pulled in a juggling third-down conversion for 17 yards in the second quarter that led to Lynch's second TD run and gave Seattle the lead for good.
Then came a 58-yard kickoff return in the final minute of the first half that led to Wilson's 19-yard touchdown pass to Doug Baldwin with 10 seconds left in the second quarter and gave Seattle a 24-13 lead at the break.
"I didn't want to get out there and play out of whack or try and make plays I couldn't make," Harvin said. I just wanted to stay calm and just play within the system and let the plays come to me."
Peterson rolled through the Seahawks for 182 yards rushing last season, but a lingering groin problem bothered him all day Sunday.
He finished with 65 yards on 21 carries and felt there were a number of potential big plays where he lacked acceleration.
"There were a couple plays that first half that I knew if I was able to explode the way I normally do, I could have gotten some big chunks, even taken it to the house," Peterson said.
Even with Peterson slowed, Minnesota only trailed 24-13 headed to the fourth quarter. That's when Ponder's carelessness with the ball returned. He'd gotten away with one pass earlier in the second half when Seattle linebacker Bobby Wagner dropped a potential interception.
He didn't get away with it a second time, throwing behind Peterson and into Wagner's hands early in the fourth quarter. The turnover that led to Wilson's second TD pass, a backhanded flip in between two Vikings defenders that Lynch grabbed for a 6-yard TD.
Three passes later, Ponder threw into the belly of Walter Thurmond and he returned the interception 29 yards for his first career touchdown. The Vikings did not run a play in Seattle territory on their first five drives of the half.
"Just got to be smarter with the football. This was going to be a tough game, we knew that, unfortunately it didn't work out the way we wanted it," Ponder said.
"But games like that are unfortunately, are going to happen. It doesn't make it any easier, but good thing is we have another game next week."
Ponder was replaced by Matt Cassel for the final 12 minutes, and he was intercepted by defensive tackle Clinton McDonald off a deflected pass on his first possession. Frazier said personnel decisions would be discussed on Monday.
"We'll sit down on Monday and talk about the things we've got to do for this next opponent and what we want to do game plan wise," Frazier said. "We'll talk about personnel as well, sit down and talk things through."
Jarius Wright, making the start with Jennings out, had three receptions for 69 yards and two touchdowns, including a 38-yarder in the first half where he badly beat Seattle cornerback Richard Sherman.
Wilson was done early in the fourth quarter after completing 13 of 18 passes for 230 yards and a career-best passer rating of 151.4. Coming off consecutive games rushing for more than 100 yards, Lynch was held to 54 yards on 17 carries.
Notes: TE John Carlson, who started his career with Seattle, had five catches for 69 yards to lead the Vikings. ... Seattle's 24 first-half points matched a season high also against Jacksonville in Week 3. ... Vikings C John Sullivan left in the fourth quarter with a concussion.
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Solution Features Industry's Largest Working Distance at Highest Resolution to Advance Industry and Science
Solution Features Industry's Largest Working Distance at Highest Resolution to Advance Industry and Science
PLEASANTON, CA--(Marketwire - Jun 20, 2012) - The editors of R&D Magazine have bestowed the prestigious R&D 100 Award on Xradia's breakthrough VersaXRM™ 3D X-ray imaging solution. Winners of the 50th Annual R&D 100 Awards honoring the 100 most technologically significant products unveiled during 2011 were announced today, recognizing innovation in diverse industry sectors such as telecommunications, high-energy physics, software, manufacturing, academia and biotechnology.
The VersaXRM-500 is advancing industry and science with a versatile combination of world-leading resolution and contrast, sample flexibility and the large working distance required to address emerging research challenges. In establishing new industry benchmarks, the VersaXRM-500 addresses crucial gaps facing diverse market segments such as semiconductor, materials science, geo sciences and life sciences.
The VersaXRM family builds on the superior resolution, contrast and flexibility inherent in Xradia platforms. The VersaXRM-500 supports high resolution at large working distances suitable for in situ studies using environmental chambers or load cells, studies over time and under varying environmental conditions. The solution extends beyond the boundaries of traditional microCT imaging, overcoming historical limitations that forced researchers to choose between conducting non-destructive imaging at insufficient resolution or destructive imaging at higher resolution.
Rod Browning, CEO of Xradia, says, "We are honored to receive this prestigious recognition for the VersaXRM-500. This award affirms the cutting-edge nature of what has become one of our most successful products across multiple market segments in academia and industry."
Since 1963, the R&D 100 Awards have celebrated revolutionary technologies newly introduced to the market. Winning innovations such as the automated teller machine (1973), liquid crystal display (1980), and HDTV (1998) became household names, shaping everyday life in America. Winners are selected by an independent judging panel and the editors of R&D Magazine serving research scientists, engineers, and members of technical staffs at companies and research laboratories around the world.
This is the third R&D 100 award for Xradia, the first in 2003 for the TXM-54. The second was jointly awarded to Xradia and Argonne National Lab for the hard X-ray nanoprobe in 2010.
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Since its founding in 1959 as Industrial Research, R&D Magazine has served research scientists, engineers and technical staff at laboratories around the world, providing timely, informative news and useful technical articles that broaden readers' knowledge of the research and development industry and improve the quality of their work. R&D Magazine is a publication of Advantage Business Media (www.advantagebusinessmedia.com).
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Xradia designs and manufactures 3D X-ray microscopes (XRM) for industry and academic research applications. Xradia's solutions offer unparalleled high contrast and high resolution imaging capabilities for a large range of sample sizes and shapes. The company's heritage began in the synchrotron and extends to the laboratory. Xradia's two laboratory product families, the UltraXRM-L and VersaXRM, together offer a multi-length scale solution delivering full volume 3D imaging with resolution down to 50 nm. Energy-tunable, ultra-high resolution 3D X-ray microscopes for synchrotron facilities include the UltraSPX™ and the UltraXRM-S. Additional information can be found at www.xradia.com.
Xradia is a registered trademark, and UltraXRM, VersaXRM, and UltraSPX are trademarks of Xradia, Inc. © 2012 Xradia, Inc. All rights reserved.
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For many Corvette owners, their first experience with "America's Only True Sports Car"-or, at least the one that made a lasting impression on them-was an electronic one. In the early '60s, it was via CBS-TV and the drama Route 66 on Friday nights. In the late '90s, it was via a top-selling game for a state-of-the-art video game system.
That's how Andrew Mancuso Jr. first saw the distinctive colors of the '96 Corvette Grand Sport. "When Gran Turismo came out on PlayStation, that was one of the cars on the game," he says from his West Babylon, New York, home. "Then I read up on it and found out how rare they actually are."
As a last hurrah for the fourth-generation Corvette, the Grand Sport package (RPO Z16) was limited to 1,000 '96 Corvettes. Each of the 810 coupes and 190 convertibles had the same Admiral Blue/Arctic White color scheme and distinctive red hash marks on the front fender. All Grand Sports were equipped with black-painted 17-inch five-spoke wheels with Goodyear Eagle tires and special red-with-silver-lettering brake calipers. Rear fender flares were added to the coupes to cover their big (P315/35ZR17) rear tires. Inside, they all got perforated-leather sport seats with "Grand Sport" lettering on the headrests to match the "Grand Sport" badges on the outside.
Under the distinctive color scheme was the all-new 5.7 liter LT4 small-block V-8. It had higher compression (10.8:1) than the preceding LT1, plus upgrades like newly designed aluminum cylinder heads, roller rockers, and a new camshaft profile. All of these improvements worked in concert to bump the LT4's horsepower rating to 330. Also under the hood was a new throttle body with red "Grand Sport" lettering on it, which appeared on every Corvette that year, regardless of model. Even base-level, LT1/automatic cars got it. Plus, all '96 Corvettes (and every other '96 model car and truck) had the new OBD-II onboard diagnostics system.
Making its only appearance on C4 Corvettes in '96 was RPO F45, Selective Real-Time Damping. Replacing the previous RPO FX3 Selective Ride/Handling option, F45 used four shock absorbers that were adjusted continually-via the car's PCM-thanks to information supplied by wheel sensors. The result was a set of shocks that adjusted themselves to changing road conditions about every 10-15 milliseconds, or about every foot the car traveled at 60 mph.
The C4 Grand Sport you see here was built with Z16 black seats and the F45 suspension option (one of just 206 Grand Sport coupes equipped that way), but that wasn't necessarily what Andrew was looking for when he went Corvette shopping in 2001. "I was looking for just any Vette at the time," he recalls. "A friend of mine said that a guy down the block from him had a Corvette Grand Sport that he was looking to sell. When I went to go see it, I fell in love with it, and I knew that I couldn't resist it."
It turned out that guy was the Grand Sport's original owner, and he hadn't put too many miles on it in the six years he owned it. Before long, the deal was made, and Andrew became its second owner. He still has the car today.
The odometer reads just over 18,200 miles, and the car is in original, unmodified condition. Andrew intends to keep it that way. As he puts it, "I left it stock. I have never touched or altered it in any way. I don't want to disturb the perfection." That means, aside from trips to Vette shows and nearby cruise nights, this C4 stays close to home.
Need we ask what it's like to drive? "It's fun!" says Andrew without hesitation. "It's really a fun car to drive. The way it handles is incredible. I've never had a car handle the way that one does." He adds that it's a car to see and be seen in. "Everybody looks at you, and not everybody knows about it," he adds. "A lot of them think that I painted the car that way."
Regardless of whether or not you're looking for a rare Corvette, Andrew lists two things that will come in handy when you go looking for your first-or next-Corvette. "Patience and luck, without a doubt." He says. "I was patient when I was looking. I did see a couple of Corvettes in that year-range ('95-'96) with that coupe body style, and I knew that I liked that body style. I was just in the right place at the right time."


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P0543 Engine Trouble Code
Meaning of P0543 engine trouble code is a kind of powertrain trouble code and theoretically you can drive for a few weeks or even months with a broken MAF sensor. You will notice a decrease in gas mileage and over time the car will eventually start stalling a lot. At a shop, the replacement cost is between $240-$400 depending on the car, but that's usually the cost of parts because the labor is relatively simple.
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Disconnected, dirty or fouled spark plugs are common causes for engines that won't start. Spark plugs typically need to be replaced every season or 25 hours of use. You should also check that the spark plug gap is set properly. If your spark plugs look good, problems with your ignition system can also preventing a spark. These can range from a faulty spark plug lead, shorted kill switch or flywheel key damage.
P0543 Code Meaning :
|OBD-II Diagnostic Powertrain (P) Trouble Code For Engine
|Intake Valve Control Solenoid Circuit Low
|Fuel Composition Sensor Circuit Malfunction
|Injection lump Fuel Metering Control 'B' High (Cam/Rotor/Injector)
|Exhaust Gas Recirculation Sensor B Circuit High
The poor running symptoms are consistent with a MAP sensor malfunction. In addition, in some cases, a bad MAP sensor will not throw a code. Again, the ELD code likely represents a separate wiring issue.
P0543 OBD-II Diagnostic Powertrain (P) Trouble Code DescriptionP0543 OBD-II Trouble Code The Engine Control Module ( P0543 code.
Main reason For P0543 CodeThe reason of P0543 OBD-II Engine Trouble Code is Fuel Composition Sensor Circuit Malfunction.
Parts or components should not be replaced with reference to only a P0543 DTC. The vehicle service manual should be consulted for more information on possible causes of the fault, along with required testing.


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Manchester CrimeWatch: City man charged with stealing UPS driver's cell phone
September 13. 2013 8:40PM
MANCHESTER — A city man sought on burglary, criminal threatening and theft charges in connection with an Aug. 22 incident at a Village Circle Way apartment was arraigned Friday in Circuit Court-Manchester District Division on those and other charges of theft by unauthorized taking, receiving stolen property and resisting arrest.
Jonathan Dearborn, 20, who says he is homeless, allegedly stole a cell phone from a UPS driver's truck near Chase Way Thursday and fled, with the driver in pursuit. The driver briefly caught Dearborn, but Dearborn escaped near 1220 Elm St.
Moments later, police received a report of a person matching the thief's description crawling through a window at a nearby Prospect Street address and police, including Officer Jake Tyler and his K-9 Bud, searched the building and found Dearborn.
In addition to the new charges of resisting arrest and theft, Dearborn was arrested on burglary, theft and threatening warrants stemming from a burglary and fight with a victim on English Village Road Aug. 22, as well as charges of theft and receiving stolen property stemming from thefts of cell phones from an acquaintance and from a store at the Mall of New Hampshire, and from retaining money received for sale of a stolen phone.
Police prosecutor Carrissa Pelletier requested $25,000 cash/surety bail, saying Dearborn was convicted in February of theft and receiving stolen property for which he received a suspended 12-month sentence and has prior convictions that include stalking, willful concealment and criminal trespass.
Dearborn protested the bail amount as too high, but Judge Thomas Barry increased it to $33,000 cash/surety — $6,000 on each of the five felonies and $1,000 on each of the misdemeanors. Barry said: "I think 33 is a little low myself."
Because no plea can be entered to a felony charge in Circuit Court, a probable cause hearing was set for Sept. 26 and trial on the misdemeanors was set for Oct. 17.
Car window smashed
Owen Plausky, 18, of 394 Second St., pleaded innocent Friday in Circuit Court-Manchester District Division to misdemeanors of criminal mischief and resisting arrest and a violation of unlawful possession of alcohol.
Plausky is accused of smashing a car window in a vehicle he and his friends apparently thought had splashed or was going to splash him and his friends.
The driver told police she was on Second Street, behind a car that had splashed three young men on the sidewalk. She said the trio approached her car, one of them hitting her windows with what she thought was a bat and another holding his hand behind his back, saying he had a gun.
She said the men ran off and when police, including Officer Joe Ryan and K-9 Cooper, began a search, flushing one man out of a wooded area.
Plausky, who police said appeared to have been drinking, matched the description of the window smasher and he had an expandable baton in his possession.
Police prosecutor Carrissa Pelletier requested $2,000 cash/surety bail, saying Plausky is on probation. He has a July trespass conviction and previous convictions for criminal mischief and drug possession. Trial was set for Oct. 21.
Prostitution arrest
A Massachusetts man was arraigned Friday in Circuit Court-Manchester District Division on a misdemeanor prostitution charge that alleges he offered to perform a sex act on an officer for $150.
Police said they were alerted by a staff person at Sheraton Four Points, 55 John Devine Drive, about suspicious activity in one of the rooms as a result of online activity.
Police said their investigation into the activities of Patrick Benson, 23, of Mattapan, led to the arrest.
Police prosecutor Carrissa Pelletier requested $2,000 cash/surety bail for Benson, who she said is facing a larceny charge in Massachusetts. Trial was set for Oct. 17.
Returned after release
A bail revocation hearing is scheduled Monday in Circuit Court-Manchester District Division for Jeffrey Gagnon, 47, of 55 Cedar Hill Drive, who is accused of returning to the Cedar Hill address in violation of bail conditions.
Gagnon is accused of grabbing his wife by the head and neck and trying to stuff paper down her throat.
After he was released on bail on the simple assault charge, police said he returned to the Cedar Hill address, despite bail conditions barring him from doing so, and entered the residence.
Trial was set for Oct. 17.
Bail conditions bar alcohol use
Eugene Gabriel, 54, of 253 Lake Ave., pleaded innocent Friday in Circuit Court-Manchester District Division to a charge of violation of a domestic violence protective order and trial was set for Oct. 17.
Gabriel is accused of going to his wife's residence and calling her several times to ask her to drop the protective order.
Police prosecutor Carrissa Pelletier requested $1,000 cash/surety bail for Gabriel, who was convicted of breach of bail Aug. 30.
Judge Thomas Barry set bail at the requested amount and told Gabriel the conditions include all the conditions that are part of the DVP, plus no use of alcohol.


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CHAMPAIGN – Illinois ran out of the gate to start this season, a hot-shooting surprise that opened 12-0 just months after imploding in a way that made observers wonder whether the Illini might carry the effects for some time.
They were in those opening weeks one of the best shooting teams in the country. Just about everybody, it seemed, could hit a jump shot.
Since then, though, Illinois' shooting has been a miss as often as it's been a hit. In their last four games, the Illini have hit just under a third of their shots, and lost three of four.
The one player capable of carrying the team offensively over that span has been Brandon Paul.
The senior guard from Gurnee in suburban Chicago has averaged 20 points over those four contests. He hit the jumper at the buzzer that delivered the only win, in the Big Ten tournament opener over Minnesota.
Illinois, as first-year coach John Groce said, has several players who could get hot. But Paul is the shooter most likely to make seventh-seeded Illinois (22-12, 8-10 Big Ten) dangerous when it opens the NCAA tournament Friday in Austin, Texas, against the East Region's No. 10 seed, Colorado (21-11, 10-8 Pac 12).
If a team's shooters can find their touch, "That's always dangerous this time of year," Groce said.
In his four seasons at Illinois, Paul has often been the player with that hot hand. He lit up Ohio State for 43 points last January, the third-best game in Illini history.
In his first three seasons at Illinois, Paul has been a charismatic shooter, an entertainer equally capable of a dazzling night or a big miss that ends an important possession just a few seconds in, rather than the leader and consistent producer fans have begged him to be.
He produced a humorous YouTube video about life as a student-athlete that has been viewed almost 90,000 times. His Twitter account is popular among Illini fans, in part for jabs at his Twitter-averse teammate Joseph Bertrand.
But there is a real sense with Paul that this team better get something good done in his one last shot. While sticking to the one-game-at-a-time mantra when they speak publicly, Paul and his teammates have quietly worn wrist bands all season stamped with the date of the NCAA tournament's first game: 3-19-13.
"We have prepared ourselves for this the whole season," he said.
His motivation might lie in what happened a season ago.
The win over Ohio State proved to be the high point, just before the nightmare began. The Illini won only twice more while losing a dozen, and Bruce Weber paid with his job.
Paul said he didn't pay much attention Sunday night as Weber's Kansas State Wildcats became a No. 4 seed in the West region. Paul was still too busy waiting for Illinois' name to be called. But he said he talked with his old coach last week.
"He's done a great job with that program over there," Paul said. "I'm glad that everything worked out for them."
As it has for the Illini.
Last season's long, slow slide brought Groce to town.
And it set up a dynamic between coach and players that quickly cured most concerns. Inheriting a team of jump shooters – Paul, D.J. Richardson, Bertrand and Tyler Griffey, among others – he told them to shoot. And keep shooting, even when they miss.
"Our coaches wouldn't let us doubt ourselves," Paul said. "They've trusted us the whole time."
That trust then brought Illinois through another tough stretch this season.
After that hot start, the Illini slumped hard. Their defense softened, that shooting went cold and the Illiniopened the Big Ten season 2-7. They fell so far back in the pack that, in a year when the conference is even tougher than normal, many wondered whether another collapse was about to happen.
Instead, Illinois piled up five straight wins, starting with an unthinkable 74-72 upset of then-No. 1 Indiana.
That trust, Groce said, paid off in the turnaround – though this time with players trusting their first-year coaches.
How'd the Illini bounce back?
"Not changing a single thing," Groce said. "We kept preparing the same way. We didn't change our offense, we didn't change our defense.
"I said, 'You guys are just going to have to trust us.' "
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The mass shooting issue in the United States, from the outside, probably seems easily solvable. First of all, the United States has mass shootings regularly and with a much higher frequency than other western democracies. Additionally, the United States also has the most guns (a little more than one gun per citizen). At this point it would be hard for anyone, understandably, to stop themselves from drawing the lines of causation. But, we should not be so hasty. Before we get excited about gun violence and dream up some legislation, perhaps there is a more nuanced approach to understanding mass shootings in America. Such an approach would have to weigh the already known facts about the issue: How is gun regulation handled already? Which guns are legal? Which guns are used most often in mass shootings? What is the mental health situation of the shooters? What is the commonality between all of these shooters?
The article that I am sharing provides some answers to these questions. It is, so far, the most interesting perspective I have heard on this issue. Far too often we hear people either demonize mass shooters as reactionary machines of hate carrying out the unspoken will of the far right, or people dismiss them completely as being mentally ill. I have, admittedly, tended towards the dismissive side. I would often think, "You can't be right in the head to wake up one day and decide to follow through with something like that." While I still maintain this, the statement is different from "the shooter was mentally ill." Indeed my statement, thanks to the article I am sharing, has been refined. I now will say, "the shooter has been socially neglected."
I imagine that this narrative won't be well received. There are those who hold that "making the shooter a victim subtracts from the justice of the victims." Frankly, I don't give a damn. Part of my lack of sympathy with people who hold this opinion is due to my stance on the "justice system" as a whole: it should not be about justice, but rather rehabilitation. Society does not benefit from prisons as they have been, criminals should be given a chance to start over and improve themselves so that they can one day rejoin the people and share their gifts. Secondly, on my lack of sympathy, the view that holds shooters as a victim (in some light) is optimistic; perhaps there are attitudes and practices that we can implement from day to day life that can prevent this behavior.


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Microsoft is frequently dinged for having insecure products, with security holes and vulnerabilities. But Symantec, no friend of Microsoft, said in its latest research report that when it comes to widely-used operating systems, Microsoft is doing better overall than its leading commercial competitors. The information was a part of Symantec's 11th Internet Security Threat Report. The report, released this week, covered a huge range of security and vulnerability issues over the last six months of 2006, including operating systems.


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This is the first view you get of the Legendary Banked Slalom course. And when the sun's out on Day 1, it doesn't get any better than this.
Time after time
The air is always heavy around the huddle at the timing sheets.
Kevin Pearce
Kevin Pearce was looking fast around the first turn of the course. You can't keep KP down.
Jason Robinson
Jason Robinson making a turn in the trees. Robinson went on to take third place for the Pro Men.
Dustin Anderson
Dustin Anderson finding his line through the lower section of the course.
Tucker Andrews
Tucker Andrews putting down a proper Andrecht during the Lib Tech Banked Handplant contest that was hosted outside the Raven's Hut lodge during the salmon bake.
Leanne Pelosi
Leanne Pelosi showing off her Airblaster Ninja speed suit on Saturday.
Jen Tofe giving the late, great and much-loved Mt. Baker local Sean "Donnkie" Mansfield some love.
Laura Hadar
Laura Hadar getting low. Hadar took second in the Pro Women's race.
Waxing poetic
Josh Dirksen talking wax tech in the trenches. Waxing is serious business at the Legendary Banked Slalom.
Josh Dirksen
Josh Dirksen with a textbook frontside attack on the last turn.
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Jeff Fulton, Jamie Lynn and Jeff Galbraith, left to right, are three of the Pacific Northwest's finest. Lynn was the recipient of the Craig Kelly Thunderbird award this year.
Maelle Ricker
Maelle Ricker won the Pro Women's race and added another roll of Golden Duct Tape to her collection.
Seth Wescott
Seth Wescott was the fastest man on the mountain this year.
Isabella Gomez
Isabella Gomez, right, took top honors among the groms, winning the Next Generation race with a time of 1:52.081. Keep an eye out.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Futures are following overseas markets higher and U.S. indexes could be heading for new multi-year highs.
Dow Jones industrial futures are up 29 points to 13,955. The broader S&P futures have added 3.3 points to 1,515.70. Nasdaq futures are up 5.5 points to 2,777.50.
The Standard and Poor's 500 hit a five-year high Friday and it appears set to reach for new heights Monday.
The Dow, after breaking the 14,000 barrier on Feb. 1, may near those levels again.
Europe is still a worry and Central Bank President Mario Draghi is warning that if the euro continues to rise, the trading bloc's monetary policy could shift.
Still, the EU passed a new 7-year budget Friday, and markets in Europe and Asia are rising.
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Interview: We recently got to sit down with Jay Wilson, lead dev on Diablo III, and pitched some burning community questions his way...
Last week, we got to sit down and have a good chat with Jay Wilson, Lead Developer guy on Blizzard's upcoming Diablo III. He's a great guy, and was super-passionate about the game - especially for a guy who'd just flown all over the place (twice to Korea, oddly) just to get to Sydney and get grilled by a bunch of game journos.
Previously, we'd also posted to our forums and gathered a mess of community questions for Jay, figuring that if there was stuff the die-hard fans of the series didn't know, then they'd be good topics to cover.
And here's what we got!
[once_i_was_a_maggot] What is there to do at end game?
Well, one of the things we focused on with Diablo, these have all been cooperative games; they've always had a server/client architecture. For Diablo 2, its end-game was always about adding multiple difficulties, but the problem is that player power eventually overwhelms the challenge of the game, to the point where the only point of going on was sheer tenacity. A player good say 'Look, I've made it to level 99!", which is, like, crazy dude... It was a time investment, but one without any real challenge or fun.
So one of the things we focused on for Diablo 3 - and we weren't interested in making super long gruelling levelling up process - what we wanted was, the fun stuff, searching for gear, and fighting against monsters who are challenging. So we created a fourth difficulty that we call Inferno that is ALL max-level. Max-level for a player is level 60, and so all the monsters at the start of Inferno are level 61, in Act Two they are level 62, in Three and Four they're level 63. And there are items that ONLY drop at level 61, at level 62 and so on; and they're not small number! There's a whole tier of armour in each one.
So even to be able to play viably in Inferno, you're going to have to play and fight in Hell for a little while, to get your items up to the quality so that you'll be able to fight through. And then to move from Act to Act you'll need to do that. We just wanted to take the idea of what was fun about Diablo, and make it challenging so that it would stay fun, and put the the time investment into more combat and loot-hunting, and less into meaningless time-investment to prove that you're more committed than your friends.
[Gharphield] There's been a lot of backlash from the community in regards to the need for a contact internet connection during gameplay, which Blizzard have explained is purely so that Character / Item building is done in a legit fashion, but many have claimed is more so for DRM control. Is this Blizzards direction for all future releases? And will LAN play ever be part of another Blizzard game ever again? (This was an epically long question, so we might have paraphrased it a bit...)
You know, every project is different - and for us, we're focused on trying to solve some of the issues that Diablo 2 had. The reason why we've moved away from LAN play towards online was that we felt the experience that we could provide for players would be FAR better if they were online. We see it as a natively cooperative game, and we had a lot of problems with people in Diablo 2 playing the game offline and not realising that there even was an online component; or, once they discovered there was an online component, not being able to transfer their character over to the official Battle.net. That was a break-point for a lot of people, and they just left the game. Those are bad problems that we wanted to fix.
Diablo 2 also had a lot of security problems, and a lot of them were related to the fact that it's a server/client architecture where gave players the server; so it was very easy to hack that server. It's a lot harder to hack a server that you don't have.
Security's probably one of the biggest criticism's of Diablo 2, so we felt it was one of the things that it was important to try and fix.
[mudg3] Cows - where are they?
There's cows in there I think... somewhere...
Actually, there is a REALLY big easter egg in the game, but I'm not going to tell you what it is...
[neowulf] There have been a number of comments made about the skills interface. Could you provide some clarification on Blizzards thoughts on the interface design? Some have suggested it was done to make the interface easier to navigate for the future console port.
The interface has been changed so players can understand the combat system more. One of the things, or criticisms, that we had on the skills system from our more dedicated players really comes from the fact that they ARE more dedicated, or more savvy, players; they've really learnt a lot about the game's structure. What we found time and time again, internally, when we put even very hardcore players in front of the game, was they would not know how to interact with all the systems. They'd say 'It feels like there's a way that you want us to play, but you're not giving me any hints as to what that is.' It's almost like they're saying 'If I could put the skills in categories I'd be able to understand them.'
Well, hey, we have those; when we designed the classes and the combat model, every class had these different categories of skills. Some of them were really hard categories, like defensive skills, or movement skills, or AOE skills; some of them were more soft, like single target versus area damage. So when we showed people internally our backend categories, a lot of people were like 'Oh, now I get what you're trying to do - why aren't you showing that to the player?'
It comes back to this kind of core philosophy that we have at Blizzard; what we really want to get away from is what we call 'the test', which is putting a skill, or putting anything in a system in front of the players, that there's a right answer for... but where we're not going to help them find it. I think some of our more dedicated, more hardcore users say that that's alright, that's where the fun is. But I actually don't think that's the case; I think the fun is in playing the game, not working out how to play it.
That said, I think there's an enormous amount of capacity in the game for crazy builds, to try and actually break the conventions of the combat model. We've given a lot of power to the player to strain it, and test it, and to come up with whacky combinations.
To me, that's what's fun. There's nothing wrong with understanding the categories to begin with; so you take all that, and take all the challenges of making a game that is... you know, we make games that are very hardcore, but we still want them to be approachable, and it's one of those situations where you're never going to make both camps completely happy.
But I think that'll change once people can actually play the game. There's a lot of stuff going on right now on the forums where our community members will say we've really got to address this problem, or whatever, you know... they're just excited. They just want the game to come out, and they're looking for anything to talk about, or to debate or argue; anything they can, because they just want to play the game.
In fact, one of the great things about Blizzard is that it's really easy for us to put is in our customers shoes (stage whisper) because we ARE them (/stage whisper). We're right in the same situation when one of our favourite games is about to come out, we're the same ones, pounding on forums, saying 'You've ruined the game!', and then it comes out, and we're all like, 'Yay!' and all's forgotten!
You've got to remember, as a developer, that all that feedback comes from love.


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Geoffrey Rush is an Australian actor and film producer who most recently starred in the 2010 movie "The King's Speech". For his role of Australian speech therapist Lionel Logue Rush received Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations as well as a British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actor.
He began his acting career with the Queensland Theatre Company (QTC) in 1971. Over the next four years he appeared in 17 different stage productions put on by the company, including Wrong Side of the Moon, Juno and the Paycock, and Hamlet on Ice. During the 1980s Rush became a vital member of the State Theatre Company of South Australia and showed an equally strong range in such productions as "Revenger's Tragedy," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "Mother Courage...and Her Children," and "Blood Wedding." Also in 1981 a then-30-year-old Geoffrey made his big screen debut in the Australian picture Hookwink.
In 1996 Geoffrey Rush became the first Australian-born actor to win an Oscar, taking home the honor for his role in the movie Shine.
Starting in 1998, his American film career took off, the Australian actor securing roles in Les Misérables, Elizabeth, and Shakespeare in Love. Then, between 2001 and 2003, he had nine films released, including the super popular adventure film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. As Captain Hector Barbossa, Rush would would appear in the next three sequels, including Dead Man's Chest (2006), At World's End (2007), and On Stranger Tides (2011).
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PANAMA CITY, FL--(Marketwire - Feb 7, 2013) - iSirona, the leading provider of simplified solutions for medical device integration, today announced it has been named one of America's Most Promising Companies by Forbes Magazine.
Each year, Forbes Magazine reviews thousands of applications from high-growth, private companies in order to identify companies with the greatest potential. iSirona ranks 29th on this year's list, along with companies such as Anytime Fitness and popchips. The companies are ranked based on growth, quality of management teams and investors, market size, and strategic partners.
"We're honored to have been named to Forbes Most Promising Companies list," says Dave Dyell, iSirona founder and chief executive officer. "Our strong growth is due to the success of our software solution, which helps hospitals channel patient data into the electronic medical record and allows clinicians to spend more time with their patients. We're proud that we're helping to improve patient care and safety."
Forbes bases its rankings on complex data-mining software developed by CB Insights, a Manhattan-based data research firm that monitors private, high-growth companies. The list of America's Most Promising Companies was released in the magazine's February 11, 2013 edition and can be viewed here. Forbes Magazine reaches nearly 5.5 million readers every two weeks, and Forbes.com attracts an average of 18 million unique visitors every month.
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Panama City, Florida-based iSirona (http://www.isirona.com) helps clinicians make more informed decisions about patients by providing an easy-to-use approach to medical device integration. Using iSirona's software solution, hospitals can connect virtually any medical device to their CIS, providing clinicians with faster access to more accurate patient information. In 2011 and 2012, iSirona was ranked #1 by KLAS for medical device integration systems. Inc. Magazine recently identified iSirona as the 82nd fastest-growing private company in America and the 5th fastest-growing health company in the country.


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MANDAUE CITY, Philippines, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- A parent of a Filipino high school student has accused a math teacher of forcing the class to eat notebook paper for being rowdy, an official said.
Benjamin Tiongzon of the education department in the central Philippines Mandaue City said the parent filed a formal complaint against the teacher with the Office of the Ombudsman, Gulf News reported Tuesday.
Gulf News said filing of the complaint was revealed by The Freeman, a daily broadsheet published in the central Philippines.
The teacher, whose name has not been released, asked for forgiveness during an investigation conducted by the education department's regional office, Tiongzon said.
One of the pupils in the class told a television interviewer that the teacher threw a chair at her because she refused to swallow paper.
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Mass. man suffers serious injuries after fall from ledgeBy PAUL FEELY
New Hampshire Union Leader
October 16. 2017 10:02PM
ALBANY — A Massachusetts man suffered serious injuries Saturday after falling 50 feet off Woodchuck Ledge in Albany.
According to New Hampshire Fish and Game Conservation Officer Sgt. Alex Lopashanski, shortly before 1 p.m. on Saturday a man identified as Keith Rehermann, 35, of Wakefield, Mass., was rock climbing about 50 feet up the cliff at Woodchuck Ledge in Albany when he fell. Several pieces of gear he had placed to stop his fall failed, and he landed at the base of the climb.
His climbing partner called 911 for help. The cliff is located over a half mile from the nearest road, and rescue personnel along with nearby climbers arrived on scene to offer assistance.
Rehermann suffered injuries to his right side and officials were concerned for his spine. He was immobilized, placed in a litter and lowered from the ledge, then carried out to a waiting ambulance. He reached the ambulance shortly after 4 p.m., and was transported to Memorial Hospital in North Conway for treatment.
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Epping man dies in motorcycle crash in Portsmouth
July 13. 2013 9:30AM
PORTSMOUTH — An Epping motorcyclist died Friday after he lost control and struck a guard rail coming out of the Portsmouth Traffic Circle, authorities said.
Anthony Facella, crashed on Route 16 north just north of the traffic circle in a single-vehicle accident around 5:15 p.m., according to state police
Facella's motorcycle struck the guardrail that separates the northbound and southbound lanes. The motorcycle then slid along the breakdown lane and came to rest on the northbound side of the highway.
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Bracero Guest Worker Program
Ana Elizabeth Rosas
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. Please check back later for the full article.
On August 4, 1942, the Mexican and U.S. governments launched the bi-national guest worker program, most commonly known as the Bracero Program. An estimated five million Mexican men between the ages of 19 and 45 separated from their families for three-to-nine-month contract cycles at a time, in anticipation of earning the prevailing U.S. wage this program had promised them. They labored in U.S. agriculture, railroad construction, and forestry, with hardly any employment protections or rights in place to support themselves and the families they had left behind in Mexico. The inhumane configuration and implementation of this program prevented most of these men and their families from meeting such goals. Instead, the labor exploitation and alienation that characterized this guest worker program and their program participation paved the way for, at best, fragile family relationships. This program lasted twenty-two years and grew in its expanse, despite its negative consequences, Mexican men and their families could not afford to settle for being unemployed in Mexico, nor could they pass up U.S. employment opportunities of any sort. The Mexican and U.S. governments' persistently negligent management of the Bracero Program, coupled with their conveniently selective acknowledgement of the severity of the plight of Mexican women and men, consistently cornered Mexican men and their families to shoulder the full extent of the Bracero Program's exploitative conditions and terms.
The Society of American Indians
K. Tsianina Lomawaima
In 1911, a group of American Indian intellectuals organized what would become known as the Society of American Indians, or SAI. SAI members convened in annual meetings between 1911 and 1923, and for much of that period the Society's executive offices were a hub for political advocacy, lobbying Congress and the Office of Indian Affairs (OIA), publishing a journal, offering legal assistance to Native individuals and tribes, and maintaining an impressively voluminous correspondence across the country with American Indians, "Friends of the Indian" reformers, political allies, and staunch critics. Notable Native activists, clergy, entertainers, professionals, speakers, and writers—as well as Native representatives from on- and off-reservation communities—were active in the Society. They worked tirelessly to meet daunting, unrealistic expectations, principally to deliver a unified voice of Indian "public opinion" and to pursue controversial political goals without appearing too radical, especially obtaining U.S. citizenship for Indian individuals and allowing Indian nations to access the U.S. Court of Claims. They maintained their myriad activities with scant financial resources solely through the unpaid labor of dedicated Native volunteers. By 1923, the challenges exhausted the Society's substantial human and miniscule financial capital. The Native "soul of unity" demanded by non-white spectators and hoped for by SAI leaders could no longer hold the center, and the SAI dissolved. Their work was not in vain, but citizenship and the ability to file claims materialized in circumscribed forms. In 1924 Congress passed the Indian Citizenship Act, granting birthright citizenship to American Indians, but citizenship for Indians was deemed compatible with continued wardship status. In 1946 Congress established an Indian Claims Commission, not a court, and successful claims could only result in monetary compensation, not regained lands.


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NEW YORK (AP) — The price of oil slipped to just under $95 Friday but still finished the week with a gain of $1 a barrel.
Benchmark U.S. crude for January delivery fell 60 cents to close at $94.84 in trading in New York. The weekly increase from $93.84 a week ago was largely due to an improving U.S. jobs picture, which would mean more drivers making the daily commute.
Brent crude, an international benchmark used to price oil used in many U.S. refineries, rose 97 cents to $111.05 in London. Brent has risen 4 percent since Tuesday as nuclear talks with Iran have dragged on without a deal that could relieve sanctions that have kept a substantial amount of Iranian crude from world markets.
Meanwhile, gasoline prices in the U.S. are in the midst of an unusual increase for this time of year.
The average price of a gallon of gasoline rose 2 cents Friday to $3.24 according to AAA, OPIS and Wright Express. The price has risen 5 cents a gallon over the last 10 days, but is still 10 cents cheaper than a month ago and 20 cents cheaper than a year ago.
Tom Kloza, Chief Oil Analyst at GasBuddy.com, says the rise may continue for a few more days, making travel a bit more expensive for holiday drivers next week. But he doesn't expect the rise to last long, or be very dramatic.
"This has nothing to do with the holiday," he said.
A handful of refinery problems in the Gulf Coast have slowed output, an increase in exports has reduced supplies, and the price of ethanol, which is blended into gasoline, nearly doubled over the past two weeks.
In Geneva, negotiators are trying to reach an agreement that would limit Tehran's atomic program. In exchange, the U.S., Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany are offering a gradual easing of sanctions that has prevented Iran from selling as much oil as it wants. A senior U.S. official has told reporters that Iran is losing $5 billion a month in oil sales.
In other energy futures trading on Nymex:
— Wholesale gasoline slipped 2 cents to $2.73 a gallon.
— Heating oil rose added 3 cents to $3.04 a gallon.
— Natural gas rose 7 cents to $3.77 per 1,000 cubic feet.
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I have studied Ancient Greek and Latin at school, aeons ago. I remember that once a sentence popped up in a translation, and it was something along the lines of TODAY'S YOUNG PEOPLE PREFER LISTENING TO A DISC RATHER THAN TO A PHILOSOPHER (a throwing disc was meant here).
Since then, this quote has been a favourite of mine and it keeps popping up in conversation whenever we get to talking about how the younger generation is going down the drain. I like to point out that this has been a common complain since ancient times.
Now, I would really really like to know who wrote this and perhaps even have the quote in the original language! And sorry, I can't remember if it was Greek or Latin.
Any pointers??