What is special about cat nutrition?
As a balanced diet plays a vital role in maintaining your cat's health and vitality, it is important that you familiarise yourself with some of the basics of cat nutrition.
Cats' nutritional requirements are very different from those of dogs or humans - what is good for us is not necessarily good for your cat. Cats must eat a significant amount of meat and cannot tolerate a low protein diet. They also need high dietary levels of certain amino acids (parts of proteins) such as taurine and arginine. These particular amino acids (which are not important in human nutrition) aren't found in plant proteins, such as soy or bean protein, and this is one reason why it is impossible for cats to survive in the long-term on a vegetarian diet. Vegetables do not play an important role in a cat's diet - many constituents of plants which are good for us, such as carotenes, simply cannot be used by a cat's body.
Although cats can digest and metabolise many carbohydrates (including some sugars), they do not need to eat them, and instead normally obtain the energy they need from protein. In fact some sugars, such as one type found in cows' milk, cannot be properly digested by cats and, as a result, those cats that often drink milk are prone to diarrhoea.
Cats also have different vitamin requirements from humans. For example they need a lot more vitamin A than we do, (but not too much, as this can lead to severe health problems such as deformities of the skeleton). On the other hand, unlike us, cats do not need any vitamin C in their food.
A cat's sense of taste also seems to be different from our own - they appear to be very good at differentiating different flavours of meat, but unable to taste or differentiate between sweet foods.
There are many special diets available to help cats with certain types of disease such as kidney problems or arthritis. Many such foods are available only on prescription as their nutrient content can be very different from that of normal food - this is similar to the situation in humans who have certain health problems and who have to keep to a strict diet. So while to us most cat foods look and smell alike, there can be vast differences in their quality and content. Please contact us for advice if you are unsure about what to feed your individual cat.
Despite many years of domestication, cats are still adapted to live on small prey such as mice or birds, and most pet cats would still be perfectly content to live on such a diet. If you have a 'mouser' it poses no great problem, except to say that such cats are more prone to getting worms and other parasites and can also get infectious disease through their prey, some of which can potentially be transmitted to humans (See Zoonoses in dogs and cats information sheet). Most cats like the easy life, however, and prefer to be supplied with regular meals by their doting owners!
The easiest and safest way to cater for all your cat's nutritional needs is to feed a complete diet - such diets are available in moist form (tins, pouches) or as dry food. The large pet food companies do a great deal of research to develop cat foods that are aimed at optimal nutrition and, as a result, many cats eat a more balanced diet than the majority of humans! Feeding a complete diet is what we strongly recommend, and these days it is easy to find excellent food for different life stages, lifestyles and even breeds of cats.
It is very difficult to prepare a well balanced diet for cats at home. Cooking destroys some of nutrients which cats need - for example the amino acid taurine (see above), but on the other hand feeding raw food such as fish can also lead to serious health problems. Table scraps should never be fed to cats because they are not nutritionally balanced and usually have a salt content which is much too high. Some common ingredients can even be toxic to cats, e.g. onion powder (which is often used in ready-made sauces and spice mixtures) can cause severe anaemia in cats.
Any good quality complete food, whether wet or dry will provide everything a cat needs in its diet.
Dry food comes in kibbles of various shapes and sizes. Crunching hard kibbles can help to slow down the development of dental tartar and tooth decay. There is even dry food specifically manufactured to clean teeth during eating. Unlike wet food a dry diet is very concentrated and a little goes a long way - this can sometimes lead owners to feed too much of a dry diet, thinking that the advised amount cannot possibly be enough.
Cats usually drink more when they are on dry food, but in total they still tend to take in less moisture than cats eating wet food, as wet food contains a large amount of water in itself. As a result some cats (e.g. those with certain urinary problems) should be fed a wet diet. A drawback of wet diets is that they tend to encourage the development of tartar, so dental hygiene measures such as tooth brushing are recommended for cats on moist food.
Once you know the advantages and disadvantages of dry and wet food, you can decide (or in many cases your cat will decide!) what you prefer. Providing a good quality, appropriate food is chosen, your cat will get a balanced diet on wet, or dry food or a mixture of both.
How often do cats need to be fed?
Cats prefer to eat many small meals a day rather than one or two big ones. A cat's stomach is relatively small and eating too much food at a time can sometimes lead to gastrointestinal problems. In an ideal world food should always be available for cats to ensure they can eat in many small portions. However, modern cat food tends to be very tasty and rich and many of our cats are not very active animals. As a result many cats become overweight if they have continuous access to food, and in such cases regular small meals are a better option.
Water should be available at all times. Many people feel that their cat never ever drinks. This is not the case, cats do drink, but they need to drink a lot less than dogs, especially if they are being fed a moist diet, and because they drink daintily it is easy to miss the fact that a cat is having a sip from the water bowl. In addition, many cats prefer to drink outside from puddles or garden ponds, or have other unusual ways of getting a drink.
My cat is too heavy. Is this a problem, and if so, what can I do?
Unfortunately obesity is all too common in cats in the UK these days. Overweight cats are more prone to health problems such as heart disease, arthritis and diabetes mellitus (sugar diabetes) - the latter is a rare disease in slim cats. Occasionally diabetes in cats can be controlled by weight loss only. In many cases however, lifelong injections of insulin are necessary. Overweight cats that stop eating because they are unwell or in pain, can also develop very severe liver function problems within a very few days because of the special way a cat's metabolism works.
As with people, slim cats generally live much longer then overweight cats. It is therefore important to keep an eye on your cat's waistline.
Cats do not automatically become overweight after spaying or when they live indoors, they only become overweight when they take in too many calories. Many owners feel that the advised daily amount a cat should eat cannot possibly be enough - it does not look like much when it sits in the bowl. It is important to remember that cats are much smaller creatures than we are - they should not and cannot eat an amount that looks sufficient to us! Cat food also tends to be quite concentrated and a little goes a long way. Many feeding guides on food packets overestimate what a cat needs, so you may find that your cat needs to eat considerably less than is advised on some packets.
Once it is obvious that your cat is too heavy it is advisable to discuss the situation with your veterinary surgeon. There are numerous ways to reduce your cat's weight and it is necessary to find one that fits in with your life and suits your cat. In some cases just a reduction of the normal food can be enough, in others specific diet foods may be advisable. As already mentioned it can be dangerous and even life-threatening to 'crash-diet' an obese cat, so a slow gradual approach is important. While it is possible to increase the activity of a cat to a certain extent by playing with him or her, or providing more toys, it is impossible to slim an overweight cat just by increasing its activity. The best thing is to work out a diet plan with your vet, and to keep in regular contact with the vet to adjust the plan as necessary. As cats are very individual, the dietary approach and calorie restriction that causes significant weight loss in one cat may not help another cat at all. Do not be disheartened in that event, it just means that your cat needs a different approach. There is no such thing as a cat that cannot lose weight!
My cat is ill, should I change the food?
Diet can play an import part in the treatment and management of disease. It is therefore possible that we will advise that you change the food or avoid certain products if your cat is ill. What changes should be made and for how long depends very much on what is wrong with your cat. Many prescription diets are manufactured to help cats with very specific problems, and they may not be appropriate for a healthy cat. In multi-cat households it may therefore be necessary to separate cats with different nutritional needs during meal times.
While a change of diet is often necessary, it is important to introduce a new diet gradually and to make sure that your cat keeps eating throughout and does not refuse to eat food for significant periods of time. Cats can be a bit difficult when it comes to changing their food, but there are several ways to achieve this, and we are happy to advise you how to encourage your cat to eat a new diet.
If you have any queries or concerns regarding your cat's diet, please do not hesitate to contact us.


Mistalee How to Make Liquid Soap- completely homemade, not from commercial bar soap. Has recipes for Moisturizing Hand Soap, Moisturizing Shampoo and a All-Around Home Cleaning Soap that she uses for laundry, dishes & in the dishwasher as well. how to make popies style fried chicken Whether you�re making them for yourself or to sell or give as gifts, shampoo bars are a great product, and our melt and pour base makes them incredibly easy to make. You can include them in gift baskets along with other soaps, conditioner , or even perfume for a great Valentine�s Day, Father�s Day, or Mother�s Day gift.
Thank you for this! I have been trying to think of ways to make my melt and pour bars more attractive.
These DIY Melt and Pour Shampoo bars are quick and easy to make; not to mention they are less expensive than the spa store brands. Great for traveling!
Whether you�re making them for yourself or to sell or give as gifts, shampoo bars are a great product, and our melt and pour base makes them incredibly easy to make. You can include them in gift baskets along with other soaps, conditioner , or even perfume for a great Valentine�s Day, Father�s Day, or Mother�s Day gift.
The recipes below are all based on basic melt and pour soap making. (Though you can easily use the same essential oil blends in a cold process soap recipe as well.) Since you're not bathing your dog every day, a few bars of dog soap will probably last a while, so it's often not practical to make an entire batch of cold process soap .
Melt and pour soap bars will last quite a while, but they need to fully dry after using them. I really recommend using a soap dish. I really recommend using a soap dish. I use a metal one similar to the one on Amazon.


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Lana just got back from her Oregon regional tour, where she worked with actors from Medford and Bend on audition technique and the business of acting.
Many thanks to Teresa Pollman and IMD in Medford, and Derek Sitter and The Actors' Realm in Bend for hosting!
We can't wait to do it again!
Washington actors: stay tuned. It looks like a Tools for Actors regional tour may be in the cards for your neck of the woods.


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GIORGIO VIGNA Different Natures
A site-specific project developed by Giorgio Vigna (Verona, 1955) especially for the Wabi-Sabi in the middle of the third floor of Palazzo Fortuny. Once again, experimentation with the potential of materials – glass, copper and gold as well as waste materials – are at the helm of the artist's research, in which the natural and artificial, the highly imaginative and the sublime meet and clash in works that are suspended somewhere between the possible and imaginary. The exhibition is divided into eleven moments, eleven different "stations" or moments of meditation in which the material becomes either light or heavy, incandescent in colour, taking on a deceptive consistency or ancestral forms.
Curated by Daniela Ferretti.
DIFFERENT NATURES presents itself as a journey, which is spherical and a-temporal, articulated in ten moments: groups of works which synthesize and exemplify different aspects of the artist's work, where material becomes at times light, at times heavy, may turn into pure incandescent colour, or adopt deceptive consistency or cestral forms. A contemplative break begins the exhibition's journey, an invitation to sit on big sculptures, a sonorous void wrapped in metallic segments, unexpected and cathartic. Combinations of contradictory materials manifest themselves in the first passageway, where copper has been made manageable and wrapped in smooth forms, as translucent solid water drops.
Enigmatic glass vases emerge from darkness letting flowers on copper stalks explode, a clear allusion to the blowpipe from which, the glass masters of the Venini' furnace have always created works from its extremity, material that is seized from the unpredictability of its transformation. A large size paper work created with a personal printing process, "acquatipo", presents itself as a large window open on a rich and fragmented cosmic life. A totem composed of bracelets made of the most varied metals, real and not, emerges as a stalagmite surfaced by mysterious underground cavities. The path ends with a last contradictory contact, the perfect form of a transparent glass sphere, containing a fragment of rough metallic material, as if it was frozen water that inside includes fire, an incandescent form which evokes the explosion of sea volcanoes.
Giorgio Vigna, born in Verona in 1955, is an artist who expresses himself through multiple ways, from sculpture to jewellery, from drawing to installation, creating forms that are able to combine his imaginative strength with natural elements caught in their primary and primordial aspects. Experiencing the potentiality of materials –glass, copper and gold as well as waste matters- he supports their nature and at the same time investigates their ultimate limits, revealing hidden possibilities up to the point of creating paradox and making them lose their first coordinates. Water, earth, fire, wind, shadow, light, transparency, are hinge elements of his search, in which natural and artificial, magnificence and sublime, meet and clash in works which are suspended between possible and unreal. Macro and microcosm get along and enrich one another, through the collision provoked within the same series of works.
His work is part of public and private collections such as those the Museum of Arts & Design and The Olnick and Spanu Collection of New York, the Indianapolis Museum of Art of Indianapolis, the Museo Internazionale delle Arti Applicate Oggi of Turin and the Museo degli Argenti of Palazzo Pitti in Florence. After important personal exhibitions hosted by international institutions, for example, the Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci of Prato (1993), the Museo Correr of Venice (2002), the Designmuseo of Helsinki (2007), and having participated in collective ones, for instance, at Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica of Rome (1986), at Basilica Palladiana of Vicenza (1991 and 1993), at Palazzo Bricherasio of Turin (2002), at Museo Nazionale di Arti Decorative of Buenos Aires (2002), at Museum of Art and Design of New York (2006), at Museum of Art of Toledo (2007), at Kunstgewerbermuseum of Berlin (2007), at Centre Pompidou of Paris (2008), at Museo Sforzesco, at Fondazione Stelline (2008) and at Triennale of Milano (2009) and at Indanapolis Museum of Art (2009).
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Sport Print ads are part of sports marketing that has become quite big these days. Most of the print ads are ads from some of the world renowned sport equipment companies, but apart from sport there are also some non-sport items that are also being promoted using sport print ads. You might have seen some of these ads from posters at sport shops. Some of them are hilarious, while others have deep meaning within.
A lot of people spend quite a few hours of their lives watching sports at stadiums or from TVs or internet. Sport has quite a good amount of influence on our lives. For these reason expenditure of making a print ads for product relating to sports is not small.
The ads sometimes promote sports that require the product or sometimes simply promotes products that are not directly related to sports. For example we have included sport ads that actually promotes milk, TV channels, radio channel, electronic products, game websites etc. The creativity in the usage of sports to promote products that has only slightest relation with sport is really astounding in some cases.
Aside from promoting products some Sport prints ads are inspiring. Sometimes, it also motivates people to be more active and healthy. For these reasons sports get high priority whenever advertising companies start to plan their product advertisements. For people who love sports, also love to see their favorite players on posters. Nike, adidas, ESPN and others have always used this trick to promote their products.
But, what makes the ads more special is the creativity within. Some ads crosses the boundary of being just another ad and become something even more. The theme, words and images in some ads carries meaning so deep that some ads being massively accepted, touches the heart too. And that should be the goal of advertisement, as there is only space to describe so many things.
To draw the viewer's attention, many companies try to make their print ads eye-catching and attractive, because a single image have to hit the goal at the first view of the consumers. For this reason, it should be eye catching, attention grabbing and obviously creative in the manner of ideas or images into it.
Statistics shows that sport advertising represents 2.7% of total advertising in the world. Surprisingly 48% of the total rate is related to non-sport companies. So, it can be easily said that sport ads can fulfill interest of many products or services. The rest of the percentage is greatly contributed by four segments such as: sports tourism, sports facilities, sports medicine, corporate advertising and sportswear.
In this post you will see 40 examples of creative sport print ads and clever messages that these ads present.


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\section{Model parameters}

\begin{figure*}[t]
\includegraphics[width = 14.5cm]{fig5.pdf}
\caption{Bandstructure and density of states for the model of
  Cd$_3$As$_2$ with the particle-hole asymmetric part
  \eqref{eq:ph_asymmetry} included. Top row is for the pseudomagnetic
  field $b=4.25$T (corresponding to $\alpha=0.04$, stronger strain than in
  the main text), and bottom row is for real magnetic field $B=4.25$T. From left to right -- bandstructure for spin up band, bandstructure for spin down band, and normalized total DOS.
}\label{fig5}
\end{figure*}

We model Cd$_3$As$_2$ using the Hamiltonian \eqref{h1} with parameters
taken from the first principles band structure calculations
\cite{cano16,pikulin2016} and with the lattice constants corresponding
to the actual material, $a_{x, y} = 3$\AA, $a_z=5$\AA. This implies
that the constants used in \eqref{h3} are: $\Lambda = 0.296$eV, $t_0 = - 7.4811$eV, $t_1 = 1.5016$eV, and $t_2 = 3$eV. Additionally, we model the particle-hole asymmetry of the real Cd$_3$As$_2$ using
\begin{align}
\epsilon_{\bm k} = r_0 + r_1 \cos a_z k_z + r_2(\cos a_x k_x + \cos a_y k_y),\label{eq:ph_asymmetry}
\end{align}
with $r_0=5.9439$eV, $r_1=-0.8472$eV, and $r_2=-2.5556$eV.

The results
for the dispersion and DOS for the realistic particle-hole asymmetric
case are shown in Fig. \ref{fig5}. We note the similarity of the
results with those displayed in the main text and in
Fig. \ref{fig5}. Specifically, both the real magnetic field $B$ and
the strain-induced pseudomagnetic field $b$ give rise to pronounced
Landau levels. We thus conclude that all our predictions remain valid for this realistic Dirac semimetal.

\section{Conductivity calculation}

First we obtain the analytical expression for the conductivity of
Dirac-Landau levels in the bulk and in the continuum limit. From the dispersion relation \eqref{lan1} we obtain the velocity in $y$ direction,
\begin{align}
v_n^{s}(k_y) = \frac{1}{\hbar} \frac{\partial E_n^s}{\partial k_y} = s v_y \frac{k_y}{\sqrt{k_y^2 + n \Omega}},
\end{align}
where $s$ is the sign of the energy and $\Omega = \frac{2 e B}{\hbar c} \frac{v_x v_z}{v_y^2}$.
Then we use the familiar formula for the DC conductivity $\sigma_{yy}$
due to the $n$'th Landau level in the relaxation time approximation
\begin{align}
\sigma_n^s(\mu) = e^2 \int \frac{dk_y}{2\pi} \tau_n^s(E_n^2(k_y)) (v_n^s(k_y))^2 \left(- \frac{\partial f(E - \mu)}{\partial E}\right)_{E_n^s(k_y)}.\label{eq:sigma}
\end{align}
Here $f(\epsilon)$ is the Fermi function. We assume zero temperature,
angle-independent relaxation time, and substitute the dispersion
relation to obtain
\begin{align}
\sigma_n^s(\mu) = e^2 \tau_n^s \int \frac{dk_y}{2\pi} \frac{v_y^2 k_y^2}{k_y^2 + n \Omega} \delta(E_n^s(k_y) - \mu).
\end{align}
After the change of the integration variable from $k_y$ to $E_n^s(k_y)$ and integration we find
\begin{align}
\sigma_n^s(\mu) = \frac{e^2 \tau_n^s v_y}{\hbar \pi} \left.\frac{\mathrm{Re}\sqrt{E_n^2 - n \hbar^2 v_y^2 \Omega}}{E_n^s}\right|_{E_n^s=\mu},
\end{align}
and the total conductivity is
\begin{align}
\sigma = \frac{2e^2 v_y}{h}\sum_n \tau_n(\mu) \mathrm{Re}\sqrt{\frac{\mu^2 - n \hbar^2 v_y^2 \Omega}{\mu^2}}.
\end{align}
Finally, we estimate the relaxation time in the lowest order Born approximation
\begin{align}
\frac{1}{\tau} = 2\pi D(\mu) n_{\rm imp} C,
\end{align}
where $D(\mu)$ is the density of states at the Fermi level and $n_{\rm
  imp}$ is the impurity concentration. Constant $C$ depends on the details of scattering from impurities. Thus the final formula we use for the conductivity computation in Fig. \ref{fig3} is
\begin{align}
\sigma_{yy} = \frac{e^2 v_y}{\pi h D(\mu) n_{\rm imp} C}\sum_n\mathrm{Re}\sqrt{\frac{\mu^2 - n\hbar^2 v_y^2 \Omega}{\mu^2}}.
\end{align}

Numerically we use the same formula \eqref{eq:sigma}, but input the actual velocities and energies into it.

\section{Quantum oscillations above Lifshitz transition}

\begin{figure*}[t]
\includegraphics[width = 0.8\linewidth]{fig6.pdf}
\caption{a) QO above the Lifshits transition due to ordinary magnetic field and due to the gauge field. Period difference by more than a factor of 2 is seen. The low-energy analytics does not apply anymore, as expected. b) Corresponding hypothesized quasiclassical trajectories of electrons in the Brillouin zone. Green -- for $B_y$ field, and red -- for $b_y$ field.
}\label{fig6}
\end{figure*}

In this section we present the results for QO at energy $28$meV, above the Lifshitz transition (at approximatly $20$meV). In Fig. \ref{fig6}a we see that the area of the Fermi surface causing the oscillations in $B$ and $b$ fields is different by slightly larger than a factor of 2. For the external magnetic field case the effective area of the Fermi surface is approximately doubled as compared to the gauge field. Strain couples only to the linear part of the Hamiltonian as a gauge field, therefore only the oscillations around each of the Weyl points are possible. Notice also that the electron in the pseudmagnetic field  travels clockwise around one of the Weyl points and counterclockwise around the another. The precise nature of the corresponding quasiclassical trajectories above the Lifshitz transition is therefore an interesting open question which we leave for further study. We speculate that they include tunneling between the opposite points of the Fermi surface as depicted in Fig. \ref{fig6}b. Such trajectories would define an extremal area consistent with our numerical results.
\newline
\section{Equivalence of external and gauge fields}

\begin{figure}[t]
\includegraphics[width = 0.8\linewidth]{fig7.pdf}
\caption{Normalized density of states for both fields present, $B=1$T and $b=0.0184$T. Each of the DOS peaks due to ordinary magnetic field splits due to torsion thus proving the equivalence of the external and gauge fields. Inset gives closer view of the first two peaks.
}\label{fig7}
\end{figure}

In this section we additionally substantiate the proposed equivalence of $b$ and $B$ fields and suggest an additional experimental test. We propose to apply external magnetic field of fixed strength and then slowly turn on strain (or vice versa, whichever is more convenient in a particular experimental design). This will result in splitting of the first peak in DOS as seen in Fig. \ref{fig7}. This happens because the two Weyl cones will feel different effective magnetic fields, $B+b$ and $B-b$, which result in two independent sequences of peaks in DOS. Observation of the splitting would prove the identical nature of the gauge and external magnetic fields in each of the Weyl cones, and establish that the two cones feel opposite effective field due to $b$.

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Spartans plan to crank up the defense
Joe Rexrode
EAST LANSING – There's no single explanation for what Michigan State's defense did at Ohio State, just as there was no single issue on the Saturdays of this season when the Spartans didn't get it done.
But that 17-14 victory, which featured the fewest yards gained by an Urban Meyer-coached team (132) and the most dominance by an MSU defense since at least 2013, should mute the one obvious lament after each of this season's feeble performances.
Pat Narduzzi isn't walking through that door. And his successors, Harlon Barnett and Mike Tressel, aren't going anywhere. The co-defensive coordinator arrangement put in place after Narduzzi left to become head coach at Pittsburgh just came up with a masterpiece.
"I think they've grown immensely," Dantonio said of the in-season improvement from two assistants who have been with him since 2004 at Cincinnati.
The No. 6 Spartans (10-1, 6-1 Big Ten) will try to crank up that defense against Penn State (7-4, 4-3) on Saturday at Spartan Stadium (3:30 p.m., ESPN) and get a victory to clinch the Big Ten East. That would put MSU in the Dec. 5 Big Ten title game in Indianapolis against West champ Iowa, and further the Spartans' mission of making the four-team College Football Playoff.
Best defensive line on MSU's schedule? It might be Penn State
And it would continue the momentum of Barnett and Tressel. Barnett calls defensive plays from the coaching box and Tressel runs things from the sideline. And though they've been in this defensive system for more than a decade, being in charge is different.
"It's one thing to coach a position and it's another thing to call it and have consequences that you have to deal with," Dantonio said. "It's not easy because you always want the bad calls back. It's just not easy. It's about timing. It's about being able to get it out quick, being able to make quick decisions. Both of those guys have done an outstanding job of doing that, and they have grown, because the more you do something the better you're going to get at that."
And Dantonio said earlier in the season and reiterated again this week that growth was essential.
"You try and make the perfect call early in the season to make sure nothing bad happens," Dantonio said. "I think you try and protect players sometimes with your calls, but you can't do that. You just have to make calls that are aggressive calls and players have got to play. You can't look at things and say that 'I've got to protect this player, so I have to make this call.' I think a little bit of that might have been going on."
After MSU's 39-38 loss at Nebraska on Nov. 7, those Big Ten and playoff hopes were in peril. And Barnett and Tressel were obvious targets.
The Spartans responded with a blitz-crazed 24-7 win over Maryland, and then got right to preparing for the game they'd been pointing to for more than a year – after MSU's Narduzzi-coordinated defense gave up 49 points in a 2014 home loss to the Buckeyes.
Some MSU players had been doing extra work on the Buckeyes since the offseason. Some said after the Maryland game that they were getting right to the film. Individual player preparation was part of a performance at OSU that seemed to be nearly lapse-free.
"Studied up - no doubt," MSU first-year linebackers coach Mark Snyder said of the extra work MSU players did to get ready.
And MSU players were guided that week by two coordinators who always take the Ohio State game personally. Barnett is from Cincinnati and Tressel's uncle Jim was the head coach there from 2001 until his 2011 resignation under fire.
"They treated it just like Michigan week," MSU sophomore linebacker Jon Reschke said of Barnett and Tressel. "Maybe another level. They prepared us so well, it was awesome."
But it's still about players making plays. Reschke made a bunch on his way to Walter Camp national defensive player of the week honors.
MSU's defensive line created disruptions all day and stuffed Ohio State's running game, which was the Buckeyes' only hope – in part because of bad weather, in part because OSU has struggled in the passing game all season, and in part because MSU was pressuring J.T. Barrett when he did try to pass.
Late in the game, MSU middle linebacker Riley Bullough made the play MSU's defensive staff is still talking about this week. With the game tied at 14-14 and less than 5 minutes to play, OSU tried a sweep with Braxton Miller (technically a short pass from Barrett) on third-and-9 from its own 8.
MSU, in its nickel defense and expecting a pass, was outflanked. But Bullough managed to get through blockers to the edge, turning Miller back inside where Spartans converged to bury him after a 3-yard gain. MSU won the game on the ensuing drive.
"We do a drill that is coach Dantonio's drill that I had never seen until I got here, it's one of the ones he invented since we left each other," said Snyder, who worked with Dantonio at Ohio State from 2001-03. "Shock the edge drill. And Riley shocked the edge and recaptured the edge and all the bodies were back inside. That was huge. We've had good laughs about that one."
Tressel downplayed the coaching angle this week, saying: "I'm not worried about who's left or who's here, I'm just happy when our guys play above their potential."
They did so because "it wasn't just 'Do your job,' it wasn't just 'Go play football,'" Tressel said.
"We played with some anger, some violence, and that's what defense is about," he said. "Hopefully our guys recognize that now."
They certainly recognized the narrative they helped bury in tandem with the title chase they helped revive.
"We're playing for them too, because we love them as coaches and father figures and want them to be the best they can be and have the most opportunities as they can," MSU senior linebacker Darien Harris said of Barnett and Tressel. "That's why I've been so adamant about the fact that it hasn't been scheme, it hasn't been any of that. We've just got to go out there and execute what the coaches tell us to do. Because they put us in great positions to win, day in and day out."


Dr. Jan Buzydlowski, Assistant Professor, Dr. Don Goeltz, Associate Professor, and Dr. Bernice Purcell, Associate Dean and Associate Professor of the School of Business Administration, presented at the 39th Annual Northeastern Associate of Business, Economics, and Technology (NABET) Conference on October 27-28 in State College, Pa.
The Northeastern Association of Business, Economics, and Technology, formerly known as The Association of Pennsylvania University Business and Economics Faculty, originated in the late 1970s, providing an opportunity for interested economics and business professors to meet and discuss their research and controversial issues in business education and in the state government of Pennsylvania. NABET offers opportunities, primarily in the Northeastern states, for the faculty of colleges and universities to engage in the exchange of their research by presentation at the NABET Conference.
Dr. Buzydlowski presented with James Pomykalski of Susquehanna University. Their presentation, "Comparing and Contrasting Systems Analysis Methodologies with Data Analytic Frameworks," described the parallels between the systems development lifecycle and similar lifecycles common for data mining and data-exploration systems for the purpose of developing a hybrid methodology and supporting modeling tools for a more comprehensive and rich developmental environment for data analytics.
Dr. Don Goeltz and Dr. Bernice Purcell presented a paper in process entitled "Critical Thinking in Capstone Courses." Their presentation detailed their efforts to judge course inputs—particularly textbooks—with regard to how well the texts support development of critical thinking capabilities in students.
"This conference is a growing regional conference that provides a chance to present to our peers from colleges and universities similar to ours," the group said. "The collegiality, sharing of experiences, and opportunity to learn from each other made this an excellent experience."


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Good practice › Beacon case studies ... › Case Study: New Plymouth District Council - Supply Chain Leadership
This case study details New Plymouth District Council's supply chain leadership approach that focuses on developing long-term supplier partnerships, prioritising safety and protecting the financial health of its contractors.
New Plymouth District Council transitioned from using traditional and transactional procurement processes to a supply chain leadership approach to maintain and improve the quality of New Plymouth's infrastructure – allowing it to deliver projects that prioritise safety and protect the financial health of its contractors.
Beacon Projects logo.
Construction work noises.
Drone footage of New Plymouth.
New Plymouth District Council logo.
Text on screen: New Plymouth District Council aims to be a supply chain leader, inspiring performance amongst its contractors. It changed its approach to procurement, no longer using the Lowest Price Confirming tender method and focusing on long-term partnerships.
Exterior shots of New Plymouth District Council building.
David Langford in the Council offices.
Shots of Council staff in meeting room talking.
David Langford: The things we talk about are the things that are important to us. So when we tender our contracts lowest price conforming, the signal we're sending is the most important thing to us is getting the cheapest possible price. And as a result, things that add value like health and safety, training and good quality are all sacrificed in order to achieve that lowest price. And our contractors play the game that we set for them and they give us a cheap price. They compromise on those other things in order to win the jobs.
Shots of roading upgrade work.
David Langford: Being a supply chain leader is also about having some more mature conversations around how we define value for money and it's not just about delivering our services for the lowest possible cost, but also what's the extra value we can create for our community when we spend our ratepayer's money.
Downer logo
Text on screen: In 2019 Downer won the Council's maintenance contract. The Council took more responsibility to support the contract, such as lowering risk by coordinating road closures to reduce the use of stop-go signs.
Shots of road workers in high vis talking in office.
Shots of staff working on roading upgrades.
David Langford: So the new maintenance contract, one of the big differences is the, the 10 year term. Uh, this is the longest contract this Council has ever tendered. How that helps our contractors is it actually gives them a really good stable platform of certainty so they can invest in their business, invest in their subcontractors and their people.
Craig Stevenson in the Council offices.
Shots of road workers in meeting about project.
Craig Stevenson: There's an $8 million premium attached to this contract, this 10 year contract. There's $156 million over 10 years and $8 million premium over the next highest contender, if you like. I think it's probably about, about courage. I mean there's a bold rethink of a fundamental approach that the sector has been doing for many, many decades.
Craig West in Downer's offices.
Craig West: When New Plymouth District Council placed sustainability, diversity, and health and safety ahead of lowest cost, what it told us as Downer as an industry that they really cared about us and they were prepared to invest in our safety and our people.
Shots of road workers on site.
Downer logo.
Text on screen: Investing in new machinery allowed elimination of reversing trucks – a leading cause of workplace incidents. Road closures and less use of stop-go signs led to reduced costs, lower health and safety risk, and increased productivity.
David Langford: For me, success in the future looks like when we've got a good strong culture of supply chain leadership across all local and central government in the future where we're no longer tendering our work to lowest price conforming and we're actually having those mature conversations around the trade-off between cost and the additional value we can create by taking a, a smarter approach to procurement.
New Plymouth District Council found that traditional and transactional procurement processes were not delivering high quality, cost-effective projects for its ratepayers. Suppliers were kept at arm's length and relationships were only managed according to contract terms, which meant each party was bound to what was written down and there was little flexibility to achieve anything outside of the contract. The Council needed to develop longer-term relationships with partners across its supply chain – based on a better understanding of each supplier's needs and goals.
The Council will always be held accountable by the public for the outcome of a project – no matter the reasons for successes or failures. Therefore, it needs to embrace its accountability by playing a more influential role and launching a supply chain leadership approach. To help achieve this, the Council removed itself from the role of 'client' and instead allocated this to the New Plymouth community. The team learned how to become the leader of its supply chain that's made up of various separate, yet dependent, links.
David Langford, the Council's Group Manager of Infrastructure and Planning, motivated his team to try a different approach while procuring infrastructure maintenance services that focused on understanding its suppliers' needs, instead of forcing them to meet Council requirements.
Project goal: To maintain and improve the quality of New Plymouth's infrastructure, while delivering projects in a way that prioritises safety and protects the financial health of its contractors.
Project value of $156 million
Scope includes resealing, street cleaning, marking, bridge and road maintenance, vegetation control, and reticulation renewal.
Applies to: Any client responsible for delivering new construction or maintenance works throughout its supply chain.
Increase productivity – A productive, value driven and efficient construction sector able to produce more for each dollar spent
Restore confidence, pride and reputation – A high performing, transparent and trusted sector we can all be proud of.
Trusted and respected professions
An environment that supports thriving mental health and wellbeing
Greater pipeline certainty and confidence to invest for the future
All our people home safe every day
Profitability and strong balance sheets
Fair risk allocation
Better whole-of-life value for taxpayers.
Accord principles:
Acting with empathy and respect
Focusing on delivery quality
Being transparent on the value and allocation of risk
Working in a collaborative and inclusive way
Prioritising health, safety and mental wellbeing.
Project stage: The 10-year maintenance project is currently in progress and due to be completed in June 2028.
Beacon monitoring process: The Beacons team will monitor the project and the implementation of supply chain leadership across other organisations to understand how it can be further improved and more widely adopted.
The case for supply chain leadership
New Plymouth District Council is responsible for delivering construction, maintenance and upgrade works for roads, three waters infrastructure (drinking, waste and stormwater), and other services and networks that support the Taranaki region. The supply chain required to achieve this includes a broad range of contractors, subcontractors and professional services.
For a business to survive it needs customers, an ability to transact, a healthy and capable workforce, and supporting processes and systems – all delivered through a profitable business model. With these foundations in place, businesses can consider less fundamental needs, such as increasing employee engagement, achieving a positive brand and attaining professional recognition, acquiring a leadership role within the industry, and giving back to their community.
The typical tender process does not require a client, such as the Council, to empathise with its partners. The process is designed to determine whether the organisation is suitable to deliver on the client's needs and complete a project on time and on budget. Research, such as in the McKinsey report from 2016, suggests that construction projects procured in this manner rarely achieve these objectives – so the Council was motivated to try something different. The supply chain leadership concept requires a client to understand the needs of the businesses it partners with before forming a relationship that will benefit all parties and help achieve shared goals.
Management skills, such as planning, organising and coordinating, are different from leadership skills, such as defining a vision, inspiring, influencing and changing culture. The same can be said about the difference between supply chain leadership and supply chain management.
Traditional procurement models are deeply rooted in transactional management behaviour and focus on clearly defining task parameters and supervisory controls to manage performance. The use of rewards and/or penalties to improve productivity is common, and is often combined with 'management-by-exception', where a client only intervenes if a supplier's performance drops below the expected standard.
Supply chain managers (clients) that are more transactional typically make no effort to assess or improve the values or practices of the organisations they work with and only focus on their contractual relationships.
Supply chain leaders possess a transformational skill set that focuses on fundamentally changing the aspirations, goals and values of their supply chain partners. These leaders will articulate a vision, express high-performance expectations, provide intellectual stimulation and understand the needs of each supply chain partner. Performance specifications are often less defined than those of a supply chain management organisation. However, the influence of a supply chain leader will be present throughout the supply chain – inspiring and motivating partners to focus on the larger goals of the supply chain and the end customer's needs.
To become a supply chain leader, the Council needed to learn how its procurement processes and systems contributed to each partner's challenges and understand the delivery failures of its projects. The team needed to ensure that its partners were set up to thrive and deliver excellent services for the community.
The Council started applying its internal leadership skills – to motivate, inspire and care for its own team – to the organisations within its supply chain. Applying the psychology framework of Maslow's hierarchy of needs helped the team to better understand its partner organisations and how they could help them to evolve.
The Council also analysed some of the common features of its procurement approach and the likely impact. It found that the approach was having unintended consequences on the timeliness, quality and safety of its delivery. As a result, they implemented a number of measures to put supply chain leadership at the forefront of its procurement process.
Redefining 'value-for-money'
One element of the internal review considered how the Lowest Price Conforming evaluation method and its application might be contributing to poor outcomes. Lowest Price Conforming is a tender evaluation methodology that prioritises proposals that meet the minimum requirements at the cheapest value. The Council found that the culture of 'lowest price' led to a destructive cycle that stripped all of the added value that it could receive from its partners and undermined the sector's long-term sustainability.
Many contractors were experiencing the effects of low margins, inappropriate risk allocation and underinvestment in skills and quality control. This contributed to project delivery challenges – resulting in high levels of realised risk, rework and reduced profitability, which in turn contributes to poor practices and increased risk for workers, and then cycles back to project delivery challenges.
In more extreme cases, organisations use debt to cover their losses – locking them into a cycle of chasing greater volumes of work to sustain cash flow and service an ever-growing pile of debt.
The Council redefined its interpretation of value for money. Instead of basing its value benchmark on a supplier meeting the minimum requirements for the lowest cost, the team started to look for opportunities to maximise the added value partners could create for each dollar spent. This included a particular focus on creating positive social, environmental and economic outcomes.
Rethinking contract terms
Issuing infrastructure maintenance contracts with an initial three-year term and two renewal options of two years each was meant to encourage good performance, but it wasn't obvious to the Council that this approach wasn't having the intended impact on their projects. The Council found that the initial three-year period was spent mobilising and stabilising service delivery, and the relationship was still focussed on meeting the needs at the bottom of the hierarchy. As performance levels headed towards their peak, the first extension option came up and the supplier was reset to the bottom of the pyramid as they apply for the extension.
While tendering for its $156m infrastructure maintenance contract, the Council set a 10-year term to be awarded in a single block without any performance-based extensions. Performance was instead safeguarded by contract provisions that allowed it to reduce the term of the contract if the supplier significantly underperforms.
The approach provided confidence and surety for the contractor and delivered value in other ways including:
Capital investment recovered over a longer period – making it more affordable for the contractor to invest in modern, safer equipment – such as chip sealing trucks that can spread chip in forward gear (eliminating a critical risk of workers being hit by reversing trucks on sites).
Greater job security for people working on the contract and a larger incentive for contractors to invest in training and developing their workforce.
Investment by contractors and others further down the supply chain in key facilities that support service delivery, for example a bitumen import facility was developed at Port Taranaki so that bitumen could be delivered directly into the region rather than trucked in from another port in the North Island. This created jobs and boosted regional economic activity, while also cutting greenhouse gas emissions by removing long haulage trucks from the roads.
Adopting more collaborative standard contract forms
In searching for a contract that aligns with this change in behaviours, the Council adopted NEC4 as its standard form. NEC is a family of contracts that help apply good project management principles and practices, while fostering trusting and collaborative relationships between the parties.
The contracts include:
Measures to stimulate good management of the relationship between two parties, including a balanced allocation of risk.
Clear and simple language to ensure all parties have a good understanding of their obligations.
Early warning processes that require parties to work together to mitigate emerging risks before other contract measures are applied.
The market's response to the Council changing its standard contract form of was positive. Suppliers acknowledged the simplicity and clarity of the contract, which helped them become familiar with NEC.
Removing the tension between profitability and safety
The Council removed key safety controls from the activity schedules that contractors price during the tender stage. Instead, these items are included as a provisional sum and are paid for on a cost reimbursable basis, as well as a fixed-fee percentage for overheads.
This ensured that there is no commercial advantage to be gained by under-pricing these items to become the cheapest bid and win the tender. If the successful contractor gets into difficulty delivering the project, the cost of key safety controls is always covered and safety isn't compromised by commercial tensions.
Traffic control hierarchy
As a Road Controlling Authority (RCA), the Council regulates the Code of Practice for Temporary Traffic Management and approves all temporary traffic management plans for contractors wanting to work on the District's roads. After engaging with local roading contractors, the Council developed the Temporary Traffic Management Hierarchy to model different traffic management approaches and the impact it has on productvity and risk.
The traffic hierarchy prioritises the use of full road closures because they completely isolate the workforce from moving traffic risks, while also being highly efficient and often a lower cost option. Conversely, Stop/Go traffic control, which exposes workers to the risks of standing and working close to moving traffic, is seen as a last resort option.
Reducing the reliance on Stop/Go traffic control, which is inherently labour intensive, has also freed up workers so they can be re-trained into higher skilled roles in construction works.
The Council was concerned about the safety and social impacts of out-of-region teams working extremely long hours (between 60 and 70 hours per week) and spending long periods away from home, so the team re-evaluated how it delivered its road re-sealing programmes. The first step was to set a limit on the number of hours per week the Council would allow its contractors to work. Considering that this change would reduce contractor productivity and utilisation of plant and equipment, the Council worked with its suppliers on an open-book basis to re-price the work and mitigate any negative commercial impacts.
The second step was to incorporate the chip sealing programme into the new 10-year maintenance contract. When included in a larger programme of different types of seasonal work, the contractor has enough flexibility to deliver this work through multi-skilled operators that are New Plymouth residents – rather than relying on transient, out-of-region work crews.
The Council has measured the productivity impact of this new approach with its project reconstructing the Dawson Street Roundabout in New Plymouth. Contractors originally bid for the work under the assumption it would use a Stop/Go traffic control. After the Council awarded the contract, it requested that the successful bidder switch to using a full road closure and offered to cover traffic control on a cost reimbursable basis.
As a result of this change:
The project was delivered two weeks ahead of schedule (on what was originally a nine-week programme)
Costs were reduced by 15%, compared to the original tender price
Operators increased labour productivity on the site by 39%, due to removing the non-productive Stop/Go traffic control (measured as total project cost per person, per hour worked).
Using a more collaborative contract form has increased innovation, including a trial to use recycled household plastic as a bitumen substitute in road asphalt. The initial trial saw the equivalent of 83,000 plastic yogurt pots shredded and mixed into the new asphalt road surface.
In addition, the Council has worked with contractors to use bitumen emulsions as a substitute for traditional bitumen road binders. These emulsions don't include volatile and flammable agents, such as kerosene, and can be sprayed at much lower temperatures – typically about 80 degrees Celsius compared to 140+ degrees for normal bitumen.
The risk of truck fires and workers getting serious burns from hot materials were significantly reduced, and the lower application temperature means less heat energy is required. The Council estimates that the switch has reduced its CO2 footprint by about 500 tonnes of carbon per annum.
Lessons learnt
Getting a mandate from senior leaders
Gaining support from the Council's elected members and making sure they understand the case for change was key to getting a mandate to do things differently. Once confronted with the challenges faced by the construction sector and how the Council's historic procurement practices were perpetuating negative outcomes, elected members were quick to accept the new ways of working.
Making the case for the role of the client as a 'change agent'
To get senior leaders onboard, the Council had to present a clear story about why leading change was its responsibility as a client organisation and why suppliers couldn't fix many of the issues in the industry themselves. As the head of the supply chain, the Council controls critical factors, such as risk allocation and the flow of revenue through the supply chain. This means clients can influence the way businesses invest, for example facilitating investment in workforce capability and capacity. This type of investment is difficult in a competitive, lowest-price tender environment.
Working with suppliers to explain the change in approach
Suppliers appreciated the opportunity to discuss the change in ethos with the Council before implementation. However, some suppliers still saw the changes as a threat rather than an opportunity. Discussions with suppliers allowed the Council to explain the purpose of the approach and ensure all parties' values aligned, which created a foundation for better working relationships.
Starting small with low-risk opportunities
The new approach was trialed on small projects, allowing the Council to test its thinking with suppliers and their comfort with the implementation. For example, the rollout of the new contract form NEC4 meant carefully choosing an appropriate project to test its implementation. This approach contributed significantly to the adoption of the new contract form and now the Council estimates that NEC-type agreements make up more than 90% of the Council's infrastructure contracts.
https://www.constructionaccord.nz/good-practice/beacon-projects/case-study-new-plymouth-district-council-supply-chain-leadership/


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Lake Huron Medical Center Leaders Named Blue Water Woman
News 2016 February Lake Huron Medical Center Leaders Named Blue Water Woman
02-05-2016 By Trisha Hernandez-Foster
Lake Huron Medical Center is proud to announce Rebekah Smith, RN, President and CEO of Lake Huron Medical Center has been named Blue Water Woman's Health Care Executive of the Year. In additional to Smith's recognition, Sushma Reddy, MD, Endocrinologist and Director of Population Health at Lake Huron Medical Center, has been named Blue Water Woman of the Year.
Blue Water Woman magazine presents the awards annually to honor and recognize the accomplishments of local women and to encourage and inspire other women in our community.
Smith has been the President and CEO at Lake Huron Medical Center, formerly St. Joseph Mercy Port Huron since 2012. She began her career as a registered nurse at the hospital and has held multiple leadership roles throughout her career. In addition to her work at Lake Huron Medical Center, Smith previously taught nursing at St. Clair County Community College.
Smith is active in the Blue Water community through volunteerism on many local non-profit boards, lending her leadership experience and passion for health care and the community in which she grew up to improve our area. "As a young woman, Becky's leadership and mentoring have made a profound impact on my life; her legacy has opened doors of opportunity for women in my generation who aspire to make a meaningful impact" commented her nominator.
Dr. Reddy has been on staff at Lake Huron Medical Center for nearly 25 years. As a local endocrinologist, she has led a thriving practice and provided guidance, education and medical care to a large number of our community members. Recently, Dr. Reddy became the Director of Population Health at Lake Huron Medical Center. In this role, she is dedicated to creating a fundamentally different culture and perspective focused on wellness. Dr. Reddy is leading our community to refine and improve the way in which health care is delivered through collaborative partnerships and prevention programs, properly addressing the health care needs of our community in a cost-effective manner.
"It is a privilege and honor to be selected as Blue Water Woman's Health Care Executive of the Year. I am truly humbled to receive this recognition and have to credit my team and colleagues who day-in and day-out provide high-quality and compassionate care" comments Smith. "I am equally honored to be recognized alongside Dr. Sushma Reddy, who as a physician and dedicated community volunteer, is leading the way in the development of innovative programs tailored to the needs of our community that I am confident will improve the health of our population." Congratulations are extended to both Dr. Sushma Reddy and Rebekah Smith for their awards!
Blue Water Woman is a locally published, quarterly magazine for women working, living and thriving in the Blue Water Area. The Blue Water Woman Awards are hosted annually to recognize the unique talents of the women in the Blue Water Area. All honorees will be celebrated on February 19, 2016 at McMorran Theatre. For more information about this event contact Patti Samar at 810-987-1256.
Learn more about the services offered at Lake Huron Medical Center by visiting mylakehuron.com. You can also stay up to date on events and educational services by following us on Facebook and Twitter.
Lake Huron Medical Center welcomes new surgeons Mehta and Overly
Lake Huron Medical Group Welcomes Dr. Robert Sachs
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Lake Huron Medical Center Welcomes Dr. Doru Bali, Emergency Department Medical Director


Discussion in 'Server Operation' started by wwparrish, Feb 17, 2006.
I think Ubeimiau is conflicting with group-office application. I installed webmail using the ISPconfg interface but offhand dont see a way to uninstall it.
Any tips on uninstalling Ubeimiau webmail ?
any other config files anywhere else ?
First, a webmail program that is installed in a different folder then your group office application cant conflict!
Thank you, you are of course exactly correct. The problem was something else.


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The head of the diaspora organization was a candidate in the municipal elections in Finland
The candidacy of our compatriot living in Helsinki, Finland, chairwoman of the "Azer-Turk" Youth Organization, coordinator of the Coordination Council of Scandinavian Azerbaijanis on Finland Ulviya Jabbarova was registered in the municipal elections of the Kirkkonummi community of Uusimaa province.
Although the election was scheduled for April 18, it was postponed due to a coronavirus pandemic. Municipal elections are scheduled for June 13.It should be noted that Ulviyya Jabbarova, who is actively involved in the socio-political life of Finland and the Azerbaijani diaspora movement, works at the reception center for migrants in Helsinki and is fluent in several foreign languages. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Finland. For 16 years, she has been particularly active in promoting the truth, culture and art of Azerbaijan. Last year, she was awarded the Medal of the Republic of Azerbaijan "For Service to the Diaspora."
The leadership and staff of the State Committee on Work with Diaspora welcome the participation of Ulviyya Jabbarova a in the municipal elections and wish success to our compatriot.


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Very powerfully began year of Honda, BMW, Yamaha. The most growing segment in a new season of steel of the scooter which thanks to electric versions return former popularity.


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The Yesterworld Podcast #003 – Talkin' Harry Potter Coaster Updates, Jurassic World & More!
The Yesterworld Podcast #005 – Talkin' Universal Studios New Theme Park & More with Alicia Stella!
Exploring the history behind abandoned & extinct Disneyland restaurants.


By Will Yurman and Scott Norris.
Pick multiple camera angles from today's liftoff.
By Jim Ray, Ashley Wells and J.J. Wright.
UPDATE Jul 21: Very exciting news out of Redmond. It appears that you can now see their slideshows on Firefox and Safari on Macs WITHOUT installing this extension.
For all of you who installed the extension, uninstall it and get over to TWIP.
OK, at this point I've had 3 people email me to ask what's up with MSNBC's slide shows now that they've redesigned the site. You see, they don't work on Macs in Safari or Firefox. I suspect they work on IE, but I haven't opened IE on a Mac (other than to test something) in 18 months, so I'll have to assume it works there.
I haven't worked at MSNBC since 2003 but I strongly believe that their picture editors are some of the best of the web. I want to see their work.
So I've made a Firefox extension that bypasses the problem and links directly to the slide shows. Hopefully this extension's usefulness will be short and we'll have our Week in Pictures back soon.
For those on Safari, sorry. I got nothing.
Macromedia - Flash Player : Macromedia Flash Player Public Beta: "Welcome to the Macromedia Flash Player Public Beta. This Public Beta is a pre-release version of the next major release of Flash Player. It is being made available for developers and consumers to test their content to ensure existing content plays back correctly and that there are no compatibility issues."
Monthly visit to the NYTimes multimedia section ... as always, tons of good work.
Though I think I'm to the point where the thought of listening to another phoner interview with the bureau chief of _fill in the blank_ is too much to take unless I'm really smitten with the topic.
Divas of the Gridiron (washingtonpost.com): "The National Women's Football Association has grown in popularity since its inception five years ago. Thirty six teams now compete for the women's all-tackle league title. Washington's own D.C. Divas is one of the league's powerhouses. This year the Divas finished the regular season 8-0 -- their second straight undefeated regular season -- and are heading into the playoffs with their eye on the championship."
"Last January, Mark Pike and Blaise Dipersia, friends and former roommates, became co-proprietors of a model 21T color photo booth."
Here's a first for a big newspaper site ... a front page embedded video player. Displaying a cell phone captured video clip no less.
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Levinas, Adorno, and the Ethics of the Material Other
Eric S. Nelson - Author
SUNY series in Contemporary French Thought
A provocative examination of the consequences of Levinas's and Adorno's thought for contemporary ethics and political philosophy.
This book sets up a dialogue between Emmanuel Levinas and Theodor W. Adorno, using their thought to address contemporary environmental and social-political situations. Eric S. Nelson explores the "non-identity thinking" of Adorno and the "ethics of the Other" of Levinas with regard to three areas of concern: the ethical position of nature and "inhuman" material others such as environments and animals; the bonds and tensions between ethics and religion and the formation of the self through the dynamic of violence and liberation expressed in religious discourses; and the problematic uses and limitations of liberal and republican discourses of equality, liberty, tolerance, and their presupposition of the private individual self and autonomous subject. Thinking with and beyond Levinas and Adorno, this work examines the possibility of an anarchic hospitality and solidarity between material others and sensuous embodied life.
"Eric S. Nelson's most recent work is timely, provocative and substantively novel, arguing for a connection between Levinas and Adorno that is seldom made … Nelson has produced a highly commendable, superb guide and introduction to continental political philosophy of history in a new key." — Symposium
"This is an extremely impressive, original, and thorough treatment of two key twentieth-century thinkers and their applicability to the most pressing social and political issues of our time." — Jeffrey A. Bernstein, author of Leo Strauss on the Borders of Judaism, Philosophy, and History
"This book is an excellent and timely contribution to political and environmental philosophy, located around a nuanced historical and philosophical approach to Levinas and Adorno. It will be of great interest to anyone concerned with these figures or with the current moment." — Martin Shuster, author of Autonomy after Auschwitz: Adorno, German Idealism, and Modernity
Eric S. Nelson is Professor of Philosophy at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is the coeditor (with John E. Drabinski) of Between Levinas and Heidegger, also published by SUNY Press, and the author of Chinese and Buddhist Philosophy in Early Twentieth-Century German Thought.
Introduction: On the Way to an Ethics of Material Others
Part I: After Nature: Ethics, Natural History, and Environmental Crisis
1. Toward a Critical Ecological Model of Natural History
2. Natural History, Nonidentity, and Ecological Crisis
3. Communicative Interaction or Natural History? Aesthetics, Ethics, and Nature
4. The Trouble with Life: Life-Philosophy, Antinaturalism, and Transcendence in Levinas
5. An Ethics of Nature at the End of Nature
Part II: Unsettling Religion: Suffering, Prophecy, and the Good
6. Religion, Suffering, and Damaged Life: Nietzsche, Marx, and Adorno
7. The Disturbance of the Ethical: Kierkegaard, Levinas, and Abraham's Binding of Isaac
8. Ethics between Religiosity and Secularity: Kierkegaard and Levinas
9. Prophetic Time, Materiality, and Dignity: Bloch and Levinas
10. Ethical Imperfectionism and the Sovereignty of Good: Levinas, Løgstrup, and Murdoch
Part III: Demanding Justice: Asymmetrical Ethics and Critical Social Theory
11. Equality, Justice, and Asymmetrical Ethics
12. The Pathologies of Freedom and the Promise of Autonomy
13. The Limits of Liberalism: Cosmopolitanism, Tolerance, and Asymmetrical Ethics
14. Recognition, Nonidentity, and the Contradictions of Liberalism
Epilogue: Nourishing Life, Unrestricted Solidarity, and the Good
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Best of the Rest.
Strongback
Hammersmith harrier
hazharrison
TRUSSMAN66
The v2 Forum :: Sport :: Boxing
by ShahenshahG Fri 13 Feb 2015, 7:56 pm
Greetings Hoes of the boxing world
Can you please list your top 20 fighters for the following decades. Failing that, we need numbers 11-20 of your top 20. Just going to play around with a few ideas.
The decades in question are, 70's, 80's,90's and 00's.
Re: Best of the Rest.
by TRUSSMAN66 Fri 13 Feb 2015, 8:01 pm
1. Spinks
2. Leonard
3. Chavez
4. Sanchez
5. Duran
6. Hagler
7. Hearns
8. Pryor
9. Curry
10.Galaxy...
by hazharrison Fri 13 Feb 2015, 8:19 pm
TRUSSMAN66 wrote: 80s
I'd go:
4. Tyson
7. Holmes
10. Sanchez
hazharrison wrote:
I thought about Holmes but Norton and Shavers 1 were 78/79...........and I thought Witherspoon beat him.....
He's certainly close..
But the rest of your list isn't something I'd disagree too much with........
90s would be Jones/Whitaker
00s would be Pacquiao
TRUSSMAN66 wrote:
Maybe Chavez should be higher?
This is surreal
He went 84 to 90 unbeaten................Rosario was a wonderful win...........
I picked Edwin..........
Think Sal maybe higher on your list...............Gomez, Nelson....Two greats....and a top fighter in Lopez twice.........
May be a bit better than Pryor...
But it's splitting hairs..
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TRUSSMAN66 wrote: He went 84 to 90 unbeaten................Rosario was a wonderful win...........
The 80s were something else. Great fighters/great fights.
by Hammersmith harrier Fri 13 Feb 2015, 8:30 pm
In no particular order for the 80's possibly
Pedroza
McCallum
Saad Muhammad
ShahenshahG wrote: This is surreal
We've totally missed your point haven't we?.....!!
Arguello, Galaxy and Pryor are all on the cusp but think the former did just enough to sneak top ten for the 80's.
11. Pedroza
12. Nelson
13. Whitaker
14. Holyfield
15. Galaxy
16. McCallum
17. Chandler
18. Fenech
19. Nunn
20. Pintor
Mancini, Rosario, Camacho, Bramble, Lopez, Hagler, Hearns, Leonard, Duran, Mccallum,Cchavez, Chandler, Pintor, Curry, Spinks, Qawi, Holy, Whittaker, Pazienza, Haugen, Paul, Arroyo, Arguello, Pryor, Sanchez, Pedroza, Mcguigan, Tyson, Taylor, Honey, Starling, brown, Breland, Lora, Gomez, Cuevas.....
I was spoilt growing up.......................Hard act to follow..
Yes Haz. Haha. I need the best of the rest list because I want to gauge the strengths in depth in each of the four decades and create enough threads to cover a broad set of skills, styles and knowledge.
Always been split on the 80's Truss, consider it the decade when America finally started to reclaim dominance below light heavyweight. The 70's wasn't bad but seeing Monzon, Napoles, Duran, Cervantes, Locche, Arguello and the rest of the world dominating meant that Hagler, Hearns, Leonard and co stopping the rot was massive.
hazharrison wrote: 11. Pedroza
Couldn't have Pedroza above Nelson...........Nelson wiped out Gomez in 84..............Better win by itself than Pedroza ever achieved......Plus a 130 title chucked in !!
I'd have Nunn higher also...............Tate, Kalambay were cracking wins.........Chuck in his other five defences to the pot..
Suppose it's about your thoughts on longevity v quality.....
Splitting heirs really...........
Rosario top 20 though for me perhaps.............Won the title three times.................Bramble, Davis jr, Ramirez..and a contentious Camacho battle...
Hammersmith harrier wrote: Always been split on the 80's Truss, consider it the decade when America finally started to reclaim dominance below light heavyweight. The 70's wasn't bad but seeing Monzon, Napoles, Duran, Cervantes, Locche, Arguello and the rest of the world dominating meant that Hagler, Hearns, Leonard and co stopping the rot was massive.
Wonderful era too..........
Too young to really enjoy it............
HBO, ABC NBC, CBS, ESPN.................Young fan's dream the 80s...
Was watching Hearns - Shuler the other night...........Funny thing was by the time Steele counted to nine the Doctor was standing next to him....
What kind of p**ck couldn't see Shuler was out cold..........
Guy was a prize clown...........
Back on topic...
998. Alfredo layne
999. Jeff Harding
1000. Darrin van horn........
TRUSSMAN66 wrote: Was watching Hearns - Shuler the other night...........Funny thing was by the time Steele counted to nine the Doctor was standing next to him....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAsV5-Hv-7U heres ya reward
I remember Barkley terrorising Van Horn. And then Benn was scheduled to face DVH after winning the WBC belt - he'd have killed him!
hazharrison wrote: I remember Barkley terrorising Van Horn. And then Benn was scheduled to face DVH after winning the WBC belt - he'd have killed him!
He was scared crap-less.........
Then again the way Barkley used to stare..........I'd have given him my wallet before he even asked for it !!
1. Jones
2. Whitaker
3. Holyfield
4. Lopez
5. Trinidad
6. Oscar
7. Barrera
8. Morales
10. Toney
11. Hopkins
13. Tszyu
14. Lewis
15. Tapia
16. Carbajal
18. Mark Johnson
19. Bowe
20. Quartey
Was clutching at straws with the last two.
After Benn ambushed him - knocking him down three times - Barkley asked him to go outside at the post fight presser. Nails.
by Strongback Fri 13 Feb 2015, 10:09 pm
1. Pacquiao
2. Mayweather
3. Hopkins
4. Marquez
5. Mosley
7. Calzaghe
8. Wright
9. Cotto
10. Morales
11. Calderon
12. Vazquez
13. R.Marquez
14. Wlad
15. Darchinyan
16. Hatton
18. Donaire
19. Jones Jr
20. Pavlik
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by milkyboy Fri 13 Feb 2015, 11:20 pm
Who'd your money be on in the carpark? I think benn wasn't averse to a bit of extra curricular himself.
For anyone who hasn't seen it... Benn barkley was 3 minutes of fun... From the very first punch
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yoq_keFIpSI
milkyboy
by 88Chris05 Wed 18 Feb 2015, 10:01 am
1) Ray Leonard 2) Duran 3) Mayweather 4) Whitaker 5) Jones Jr 6) Chavez 7) Pacquiao 8) Arguello 9) Michael Spinks 10) Monzon 11) Hopkins 12) Hagler 13) Sanchez 14) Nelson 15) Hearns 16) Napoles 17) De la Hoya 18) Foster 19) McCallum 20) Lopez
Tough, tough, tough. Loads of placings I could switch over or deliberate on and I'd come up with a different order tomorrow, no doubt. Just missing out are the likes of Holyfield, Trinidad, Calderon, Toney, Holmes, Marquez etc. Hopefully I haven't forgotten an obvious name.
88Chris05
Location : Nottingham
Hang on, just thought - is that what you were after, Shah? A top twenty across the four decades? Or a top twenty for each of them?
by ONETWOFOREVER Wed 18 Feb 2015, 10:20 am
Tyson is a cert for both the 80's and 90's era.
How so called boxing fans have him outside the top 2 in each is beyond me.
ONETWOFOREVER
Unfortunately Tyson is behind Larry Big Pants in my Heavyweight estimations, OneTwo. A shade behind Lewis as well, possibly. That's not to mention Foreman. As it's arguable whether or not he even gets on the medal podium at Heavyweight in the past forty-five years I cannae accept that he's a nailed on top two across all weights.
Lads, I know that as I've stirred up OneTwo's ire and made him mad this could well be my last post on here. If I should mysteriously disappear, it's been a pleasure.
by ShahenshahG Wed 18 Feb 2015, 10:35 am
Each of em Chris. Best of rest ot gauge strengths in depth. Also acts like qualifiers in that it sorts the wheat from the chaff in terms of boxing knowledge. ..and like the host nation I am exempt from such scrutiny.
Day-umn. Better get thinking again then.
by milkyboy Wed 18 Feb 2015, 10:38 am
Breaking news. "Nottingham boy found dead. Police appeal for witnesses to the 'spinning back fist murder'. UFO spotted in the area.
by Guest Wed 18 Feb 2015, 10:38 am
88Chris05 wrote: Unfortunately Tyson is behind Larry Big Pants in my Heavyweight estimations, OneTwo. A shade behind Lewis as well, possibly. That's not to mention Foreman. As it's arguable whether or not he even gets on the medal podium at Heavyweight in the past forty-five years I cannae accept that he's a nailed on top two across all weights.
Wouldn't worry about it, ONETWO's mouth is as big as Lar's pants but that's the sum total of this God botherer's gansta-dom
by TRUSSMAN66 Wed 18 Feb 2015, 10:51 am
milkyboy wrote: Breaking news. "Nottingham boy found dead. Police appeal for witnesses to the 'spinning back fist murder'. UFO spotted in the area.
I always liked to soften my opponent up with a check-hook before landing the spinning back fist..
Police will spend months initially searching for Taz the Tasmanian Devil
What's a check hook? Hopefully strongy will drop by and explain it to me.
milkyboy wrote: What's a check hook? Hopefully strongy will drop dead explaining it to me.
DAVE667 wrote:
They'll never get taz. If they couldn't find him after the JFK assassination, they're not going to get him for this. Besides, word is he teamed up with hong king phooey to hijack a Malaysian airliner.... currently being modified for time travel in an underwater volcano in the Indian Ocean
by 88Chris05 Wed 18 Feb 2015, 1:14 pm
Alright fellas, this one has been cleared up now. Cut the crap out for us, please, as we'd like this thread to be able to stay. A few of you are just taking the mick now, so for everyone's sake just keep it as on-topic as you can.
by captain carrantuohil Wed 18 Feb 2015, 1:32 pm
Let me have a go at the 70s, my equivalent of Truss's misty-eyed affection for the 80s. I've tried to keep it to those whose deeds really shone in that decade, so no place for Ray Leonard for example, although I accept that he won his first crown at the very end of the 70s.
1) Monzon 2) Duran 3) Ali 4) Napoles 5) Foster 6) Arguello 7) Zarate 8) Canto 9) Foreman 10) Olivares 11) Frazier 12) Wilfredo Gomez 13) Ohba 14) Galindez 15) Jofre 16) Danny Lopez 17) Cervantes 18) De Jesus 19) Benitez 20) Buchanan
Slightly controversial number 20, perhaps, but you'll excuse an ageing fan his partiality, I'm sure!
Probably should have included Holmes, but he splits two decades more exactly than most, so it's tough on him.
captain carrantuohil
by TRUSSMAN66 Wed 18 Feb 2015, 1:41 pm
We both share a high regard for Galindez............
If I recall there were a few posters on here who had Conteh higher....
Can't fault your list..........Though think that Foreman, Frazier twice, Norton twice, Quarry, Shavers, Lyle and Young would be much better victories than Monzon and Duran acquired in the 70s.........
Splitting hairs......
80s is probably the most difficult.
1) Leonard 2) Spinks 3) Chavez 4) Hagler 5) Hearns 6) Sanchez 7) Holmes 8) Galaxy 9) Tyson 10) Nelson 11) Duran 12) McCallum 13) Pryor 14) Arguello 15) Whitaker 16) Fenech 17) Pedroza 18) Curry 19) Holyfield 20) Wilfredo Gomez
The very good flyweights, Laciar and Chitalada, miss out narrowly, as do Rosario, Saad (another whose briefish spell of greatness straddles two decades), Qawi and Nunn (brilliant fighter; if he hadn't split the 80s and 90s, he would certainly be here).
Think you're right about Ali's victories, Truss. To set beside them, though, we have losses to Norton and Spinks, which have to be taken into account, as well as the one against Frazier, for which he drops no house points at all.
Duran and Monzon basically lorded it over their divisions for about 8 years of the decade - Monzon didn't lose at all, seeing off Benvenuti, Griffith and Valdez twice each, as well as Briscoe and Napoles, among others, and never tasted defeat. Duran'e CV is similarly accomplished, but does contain the single black mark against De Jesus, which is all that separates the two for these purposes. Basically the two most accomplished fighters of the decade, for me, with Ali clear third best.
captain carrantuohil wrote: 80s is probably the most difficult.
Curry behind Pedroza..............Longevity has doubled in value lately........
Quality list..........Wouldn't have Holy on there........
As far as Galindez is concerned, I'm guilty of a certain inconsistency here. If I'm asked to rank Galindez and Conteh as light-heavyweights, I have a habit of taking into account who I think was the better fighter, of which some part is given over to assessing how I think a fight between the two of them might have panned out. In that regard, I give Conteh the edge and tend to sit on the fence by giving them a more or less equal ranking.
However, if we're talking about achievements, or CV, within a time frame, 10 defences trumps three and Conteh's lapses against Parlov and Burnett finally tip the scales against him, seeing as Galindez's star burned for longer. Conteh wouldn't be a million miles off the top 20, certainly as far as ability is concerned. As I say, not that consistent really, but it contains a certain pretzel logic with which I'm comfortable!
Very close between Curry and Pedroza in terms of achievements. Curry the better reign, Pedroza the longer one. However, the 80s also saw the Don beaten by Rene Jacquot, which does have to weigh in the balance more than somewhat. Pedroza's losses to nobodies only started after he'd faded as a championship force; I have to give him the nod over a man who had it all, but slid so alarmingly when he still should have been at his peak.
captain carrantuohil wrote: Very close between Curry and Pedroza in terms of achievements. Curry the better reign, Pedroza the longer one. However, the 80s also saw the Don beaten by Rene Jacquot, which does have to weigh in the balance more than somewhat. Pedroza's losses to nobodies only started after he'd faded as a championship force; I have to give him the nod over a man who had it all, but slid so alarmingly when he still should have been at his peak.
Curry faded badly for sure.............But he was undisputed champ and a two weight champ.........I imagine many feathers could have beaten the guys Pedroza beat.....Best fighter he fought took his title..........Lockridge was decent but he lost two contentious decisions..............Taylor got a draw in a stinker...and Olivares was an old bantam......Never rated Laporte..
Pedroza wasn't even the best at that weight............
Not sure many welters could have beaten a young Starling and Mccrory back then...........
Overrated paper champion for me............but what do I know...
We all see different things..............and I am biased..
You're well entitled to that bias. As I say, it's close and I'm not going to argue too fiercely - might try this for the 1940s and see how I go. Off the top of my head, I'd start with Robinson, Charles, Pep, which is a scarily impressive top 3.


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A recommendation on a hardware solution for WLAN packet caputer. Is Airpcap the way to go?
An experienced & patient individual who can teach me the nuts and bolts on packet analysis and troubleshooting at that level. I can only absorb so much from Youtube videos and online tutorials and would be happy to pay for the expertise of a network guru.
Our North American field team uses Airmagnet and my European colleagues like Ekahau for site survey and interference measurements. These are professional tools and cost a lot of money. I have one of the MetaGeek devices and it is fine for quick-check work but for anything series, you might need something better.
I specifically would not recommend AirPcap. They are not capable enough and they are not keeping up with technology. For real work, you will want OmniPeek with the WiFi adapters - they have bundles for both 802.11n (3ss) and 802.11ac(2ss) capture. This will meet demands of most devices today but even this is ageing - newest laptops are 3 spatial streams for 802.11ac. Alternatively, if you have Linux skills, that can be a solution to a point. 802.11n with 3ss is doable, but 802.11ac is tough. It's possible, but I need a PCIe or M.2 card to do it, and having a mobile solution with a bunch of M.2 cards is not that easy to put together. Plus these devices all crash often in Linux. The Windows ones do too, but not as often. Its to the point that if I REALLY need the wireless capture, I will use a minimum of two, sometimes three, separate systems for capture redundancy.
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