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Solutions and Tools
We mentioned different types of problems that might occur during migration from 32-bit to 64-bit architectures. Below we suggest various approaches, define some rules and show how those rules can be enforced with static analysis tools. Here we will describe solutions that can be enforced through static analysis. The implementation of the rules may vary across different static analysis tools.
Integer Types Discrepancies. While some of these defects may be found by compilers and produce warnings, you can write a rule that catches all explicit and implicit casts (conversions) flagging those which are subject to change between two systems. Specifically, all casts to long may be reported as architecture-dependent. In most of the cases using appropriate types defined in system headers, would produce more stable and consistent code regardless of the architecture where the code is compiled.
Casting Between Pointers and Integers. Previously, we recommended avoiding these casts as much as possible and even offered safe macros that get access to a pointer's numeric value strictly through pointer arithmetic. If this technique is accepted, all size discrepancies will be reduced to integer conversions described in the paragraph above.
If conversion to new style macros is not feasible, we can still rely on compiler's abilities to catch casts between integers and pointers. Since various compilers differ in their ability to catch problematic conversions, commercial static analysis tools also can be used to catch this type of errors.
Structures for Inter-program Communications. Once again, the goal here is to make sure that when the same structures are compiled on two different architectures, the displacement of each field stays the same regardless of the architecture. Essentially this means that each field in the structure has exactly the same size regardless of whether it is a 32-bit or 64-bit architecture.
There are two major approaches to reach this goal:
- Use preselected types with explicit size, like uint8_t, uint16_t, uint32_t, uint64_t, etc. While each of those types might be typedef-ed to different base types, each of those types is guaranteed to have the same size within the structure.
- Make sure all types are typedef'd only to architecture-independent basic types, like char, short, int and long long, but not long.
Any combination of these approaches is feasible. For example, using Coverity or Klocwork it is possible to write a rule that does the following:
- In all structures passed to predefined I/O functions, check for all prohibited typedef-s. This would normally include size_t, uid_t and others that have different sizes on different architectures. All usages of such elements within I/O structures are flagged as non-portable.
- Check for all allowed typedef-s. This includes uint8_t, uint16_t, etc. Those are trusted typedef-s and they are unconditionally allowed.
- For any other integer type we find its base type and flag it if it is architecture-dependent (like long).
Most of the potential problems with migration to 64-bit architecture are well known and understood. Various tools may be used to automatically detect those defects. Here we list a few of the rules that we have developed that have helped companies detect problems statically. Using static analysis enables companies to find problems early and to detect them fast and comprehensively throughout the entire codebase.
- All unguarded integer truncations where a longer integer type is assigned (casted) to a shorter one without range checks.
- All implicit casts from unsigned integer to signed integer.
- Casts between pointers and integers (except for constant 0).
- Checking preselected structures or structures passed to preselected I/O functions for fields that are unsafe to migrate.
- Checking structures alignment for consistency.
Some companies defined certain naming conventions and private types for their codebases. Sometimes it is needed to get into the root of those conventions and extend them in the way that they encompass rules to accommodate 32-bit to 64-bit migration. It might be different for a given company, but there is a field-tested methodology that allows achieving smooth migration from 32-bit to 64-bit architecture.


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It's pretty clear News of the World was wrong. Exhibit A: This pic of the couple making out at the Super Bowl.
The tabloid published a report January 24 that Pitt and Jolie had called it quits and agreed to custody and property division.
The London lawyers for Pitt and Jolie, Keith Schillings, called the report a "false and intrusive allegation."
Schillings said News of the World refused to retract the story.

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In one respect, cotton producers have never had it so good. Thanks to boll-weevil eradication and genetically altered cotton, two of the biggest bullies of cotton — boll weevils and caterpillars — have been effectively cut down to size. Even so, a few pint-sized predators remain.
"We're moving from an era in which there were a couple of dominant pests into one in which we have five or six less dominant pests," says Ron Smith, an Alabama Cooperative Extension System entomologist. "None of these are nearly as dominant as those we've encountered in the past, but all of them can cause yield reductions in cotton."
In the past, producers relied on broad-spectrum insecticides such as pyrethroids to combat these pests. These chemicals, in addition to eliminating the targeted pest, offered one other advantage.
"In the process of cleaning the insects targeted by the chemicals, we also cleaned up a lot of other pests at the same time," Smith says. "That's why we referred to these chemicals as broad spectrum insecticides."
However, under stringent new guidelines outlined in the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996, broad-spectrum pesticides such as pyrethroids and phosphates will become increasingly unavailable to producers. Instead, producers will have to rely on newer classes of insecticides that are designed to be both "target specific" (designed to eliminate only one insect) and safer for the environment.
While many of these newer insecticides are highly effective against pests, they will require producers to think and act in an entirely different way.
"In the past, producers went out with more of a preventative approach, applying a broad-spectrum chemical at predetermined intervals within the growing season to knock out a wide range of pests," Smith says. "But in the future, we'll be taking a more reactive approach, targeting specific chemicals to specific pests only when they're detected in the field."
The wide array of pesticides available under the new approach will afford producers far more adaptability. It also will reduce the risk of insecticide resistance — a recurring concern under the old approach. On the other hand, the sheer number and variety of chemicals also means growers will have to become more knowledgeable about pesticides than ever before.
"We're moving into a new era — a more expensive era — in which growers no longer will have the luxury of making preventative applications," Smith says. "They're going to have to know what the problem is in the field and target their spraying just to that insect."
This will involve monitoring each field on a regular basis in order to determine which pest is at an economically damaging level. Once that determination is made, growers, working from a list of up to 10 different chemistries, must decide which one is best suited to eliminating this particular pest while leaving the other pests alone.
Needless to say, the demand for highly trained cotton scouts will be more important than ever.
"In the old days, it was easy to focus on one dominant pest in the field, knowing that when you reacted to one pest using broad-spectrum chemicals, you would be taking care of others as well," Smith recalls.
"However, this new approach will require a trained professional who can go into a field and look for the pest that is most likely to pose a threat during that particular week in the growing season," he adds.
"That's where experience will count. Inexperienced scouts are simply not going to be what a grower needs. It's going to require an experienced person who can guide an inexperienced scout through the field."
Unlike many broad-spectrum insecticides, which tended to work immediately on contact with the pest, many of these newer chemicals are slower-acting stomach poisons — far less dangerous to birds and aquatic life but far more costly to producers.
"We will have to do a better job of applying these chemicals and making sure they're ingested," Smith says.
The slower-acting nature of these new chemicals also will affect the way fields are monitored after spraying.
"With this new approach, some of these pests are likely to linger for a few days after these applications," Smith says. "So, a good rule of thumb is to wait a few days before returning to the fields to evaluate."
Producers also aren't going to have to spray their cotton as often, Smith says.
"In the past, growers typically made applications at certain intervals," he says. "In the future, he may go two, four even six weeks without applying any chemicals."


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DONETSK, Ukraine – Ukraine's new president-elect promised Monday to negotiate an end to a pro-Russia insurgency in the east and said he was willing to begin talks with Moscow. Yet he described the separatists as "Somali pirates" and authorities in Kyiv launched an airstrike against the militants occupying a major eastern airport.
Russia quickly welcomed Petro Poroshenko's offer for talks, raising hopes that his election will indeed ease the protracted crisis that has fueled tensions unseen since the end of the Cold War.
The airstrikes against the separatists in control of Donetsk airport appeared to be the most visible government military operation yet since it started a crackdown on insurgents last month.
In Donetsk, a city of one million, sustained artillery and gun fire was heard from the airport. Fighter jets and military helicopters were seen flying overhead and dense black smoke rose in the air. Many flights to or from Donetsk were delayed or cancelled and access to the airport was blocked by police.
Vladislav Seleznyov, a spokesman for Kyiv's anti-terrorist operation, wrote on his Facebook account that the military had given an ultimatum to the gunmen at the airport to lay down their arms. He said the gunmen didn't comply and the military launched an airstrike.
An Associated Press journalist saw several vehicles full of dozens of heavily armed separatists arrive near the airport. Half an hour later, several flatbed trucks full of reinforcements came in.
Denis Pushilin, a separatist leader in Donetsk, said they had sent their men to the airport after some supporters were detained.
Donetsk media, citing an unnamed health official, said Monday that one person was killed and two others wounded by machine-gun fire at the city's main train station. Further details were not immediately available.
In Kyiv, international observers hailed Ukraine's presidential vote as a "genuine election," saying it was held freely and fairly Sunday.
Candy magnate Poroshenko, known for his pragmatism, supports building strong ties with Europe but also has stressed the importance of mending relations with Moscow. Upon claiming victory, he said his first step as president would be to visit the Donbass eastern industrial region, where pro-Russia separatists have seized government buildings, declared independence and battled government troops in weeks of fighting.
"Peace in the country and peace in the east is my main priority," Poroshenko said Monday, signalling that he would end the Ukrainian army's much-criticized campaign to drive out the separatists.
The tycoon looked decidedly composed Sunday night when the exit poll results were announced but he got emotional Monday when asked about the crisis in the east.
"The anti-terrorist operation cannot and should not last two or three months," he said. "It should and will last hours."
The president-elect also had harsh words for the pro-Russia gunmen, comparing them to Somali pirates.
"Their goal is to turn Donbass into a Somalia, where they would rule with the power of machine-guns. l will never allow that to happen on the territory of Ukraine," Poroshenko said, adding that he hoped Russia would support his efforts to stabilize the east.
Poroshenko's spokesman told the Associated Press that the date for his inauguration has not been set yet.
In Moscow, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Russia appreciated Poroshenko's statements about the importance of Ukraine's ties with Russia and his pledge to negotiate an end to fighting in the east.
"We are ready for dialogue with representatives of Kyiv, with Petro Poroshenko," Lavrov said at a briefing, adding it was a chance that "cannot be wasted." He emphasized that Moscow saw no need for any involvement by the United States or the European Union in those talks.
"We don't need any mediators," he said pointedly.
Lavrov also noted Russia's longstanding call for the Kyiv government to end its military operation in eastern Ukraine.
Less than 20 per cent of the polling stations in eastern Ukraine were open Sunday after gunmen intimidated residents by smashing ballot boxes, shutting down polling centres and issuing threats. But nationwide, about 60 per cent of Ukraine's 35.5 million eligible voters turned out, and long lines snaked around polling stations in the pro-Western capital of Kyiv.
Joao Soares, special co-ordinator for the OSCE observer mission in Kyiv, hailed Sunday's vote even as he said monitors saw multiple threats, intimidation and abduction of election officials in the east.
"Ukrainian authorities should be commended for their efforts in the extraordinary circumstances to facilitate an election" which was held in parts of Ukraine's volatile east, Soares said.
With votes from 80 per cent of the precincts counted Monday, Poroshenko was leading with about 54 per cent of the vote in the field of 21 candidates. Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was running a distant second with 13 per cent. Election officials confirmed that Poroshenko had avoided a runoff.
Poroshenko struck a tone of unity Monday, saying he had no "rivals or political opponents in the race" and all of the other main candidates had congratulated him.
"More than ever, Ukraine now needs to be united," he said.
The election, which came three months after pro-Moscow President Viktor Yanukovych was chased from office following months of street protests, was seen as a critical step toward resolving Ukraine's protracted crisis.
Since Yanukovych fled in February, Russia has annexed Ukraine's southern Crimea Peninsula, the eastern regions of Luhansk and Donetsk have declared independence, and the interim Ukrainian government has launched an offensive to quash an uprising.
The interim Kyiv government and the West have accused Russia of backing the separatist uprising. Moscow has denied the accusations.
President Barack Obama praised Ukrainians for participating in the voting "despite provocations and violence." He said the U.S. supports Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity and is eager to work with the next president.
Vasilyeva reported from Kyiv. Associated Press writers Vladimir Isachenkov and Lynn Berry in Moscow and Laura Mills in Kyiv contributed to this report.


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Bacillus subtilis
Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.
Related to Bacillus subtilis: Pseudomonas fluorescens
Ba·cil·lus sub·ti·lisThe species name subtilis is correctly pronounced sub-tī'lis.
a bacterial species found in soil and decomposing organic matter; some strains produce the antibiotic subtilin, subtenolin, or bacillomycin; it has been associated with human infections primarily of immunocompromised patients, and with food poisoning. It is the type species of the genus Bacillus.
Synonym(s): grass bacillus, hay bacillus
a genus of bacteria that are gram-positive, aerobic, spore-forming rods. With the exception of B. anthracis and the occasional wound contamination and bovine mastitis caused by B. cereus, the organisms are largely saprophytic and do not cause disease. However, they may invade devitalized tissue. They do have importance in the area of food preservation.
Bacillus actinoides
Bacillus aneurinolyticus, Bacillus thiaminolyticus
are thiaminase-producing bacteria which may proliferate in the rumen and contribute to the cerebral lesions in carbohydrate engorgement and polioencephalomalacia in cattle.
Bacillus anthracis
characterized by its capacity to form spores when exposed to the air and to survive for long periods in soil and other inert materials. Has a characteristic appearance with McFadyean's stain. Causes anthrax in all species.
Bacillus brevis
the source of tyrothricin.
Bacillus cereus
a species causing food poisoning, occasional cases of septicemia and bovine mastitis and abortion.
Bacillus circulans, Bacillus coagulans, Bacillus stearothermophilus
very heat-resistant bacteria which cause fermentation of cereals in canned meat foods. They cause souring but no gas production so that the can does not bulge. Called also flat sour. B. stearothermophilus spores are used to test efficacy of autoclaves.
Bacillus larvae
the cause of American foulbrood in honeybees.
Bacillus licheniformis
reported as a cause of abortion in cattle, sheep and pigs, and also isolated from suppurative lesions of horses and cattle.
Bacillus piliformis
the previous name of clostridiumpiliforme, the cause of tyzzer's disease.
Bacillus polymyxa (Bacillus aerosporus)
strains of this organism are the source of the antibiotic polymyxin.
Bacillus subtilis
a common saprophytic soil and water form, often occurring as a laboratory contaminant, and rarely, in apparently causal relation to pathological processes, such as conjunctivitis.


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Raspberry Tart
*crust is adapted to be gluten-free from Patricia Wells' At Home in Provence
preheat oven to 350 Farenheit. Grease a 9 in fluted tart pan with removable sides.
Almond crust
8 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and then cooled
1/2 cup sugar
pinch of sea salt
1/8 tsp almond extract
1/9 tsp vanilla extract
2 Tbsp ground blanched almonds
1 cup gluten free flour blend (I use Dove's Farm, availble in the UK) mixed with 1/4 cup coconut flour
2 Tbsp raspberry jam
Creme d'amande filling
1/2 cup sugar
3/4 c finely ground almonds (or whole blanched almonds to be ground in the food processor)
1/4 teaspoon salt
8 Tablespoons butter
2 eggs
2 cups raspberries
To prepare the crust:
Mix softened butter, sugar, salt, ground almonds, almond extract and vanilla extract with a wooden spoon.
Add enough flour in to make the mixture crumbly, but still moldable by hand- not too dry. (This took the whole 1 1/4 cup for me.) Press the crust into the tart pan and bake for 10 minutes or until light golden. Once the crust is somewhat cooled, spread raspberry jam in a layer over the base.
To prepare the filling:
Mix the sugar, ground almonds and salt in a food processor (or small chopper) until it's blended. Add the butter, then add in the eggs one at a time until well mixed.
Once the crust is somewhat cooled, spread 2 Tbsp raspberry jam on it. The sprinkle in the raspberries. Over the berries, pour in the almond filling.


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|Allegro CL version 9.0
Unrevised from 8.2 to 9.0.
8.2 version
Arguments: &key type start-sampling-p count count-list except-processes interpret-closures verbose
This function starts the collection of runtime analyzer data. Data collection is stopped with a call to stop-profiler. The macro with-profiling wraps its body in a call to start-profiler at the start and a call to stop-profiler at the end.
When started, the runtime analyzer creates two new files in a temporary location for saving sample data and initializes the runtime analyzer data structures. These files are removed after analysis. See Further points, including information on temporary files in runtime-analyzer.htm.
The type keyword argument specifies the type of profile data to be collected. The choices are
|collect CPU time data (but not space data)
|collect space data (but not time data)
|collect call-count data but no time or space data
You can collect either time data or space data but not both in a single run, but you can have call-counting data collected while collecting either time or space data. Or you can have call-counting data only collected. So the choices are:
and both count and
count-list should be
or unspecified.
and either count or
count-list (or both) should be non-
nil. (Appropriate
nil values of count and
count-list are given below.)
:space and both count and
count-list should be
or unspecified.
:space and either count or
count-list (or both) should be non-
nil. (Appropriate non-
nil values of count and
count-list are given below.)
:count-only and either count
or count-list (or both) should be non-
nil. (Appropriate non-
nil values of
count and count-list are
given below.)
If no value is specified for type, it defaults to
:count-only if either count or
count-list (or both) are non-
nil and it defaults to
:time if
both count or count-list are
nil or unspecified.
The count and
count-list arguments control whether
call-counting information should be collected during the run. Call
count information is collected if either argument is true. Both
default to
count can be a positive integer or t. If it is a positive integer, a hash table with that many entries is created. If it is t, a hash table of 1000 entries is created. The table is filled with function objects specified by count-list, if any. New function objects (beyond what is specified in count-list) are added to the table as the associated function is called until the table is filled. No information is collected on function objects called for the first time after the table is filled.
count-list, if specified, should be a list of function objects (not symbols -- thus elements should be #'foo rather than foo). The hash table mentioned in the description of count just above is filled with the elements of count-list, in order, until the hash table is filled or the list is exhausted. Specifying a value for this variable ensures that functions you are interested in are call-counted. Note that if the length of the list is greater than the value of count, only the first count elements are entered in the hash table; the rest are ignored. If count-list has a true value but no value is specified for count, count defaults to 1000 (even if the length of count-list is greater than 1000).
If the start-sampling-p keyword
argument is true or is not supplied then sampling is started
immediately. If it is specified
nil, sampling
is not started until start-sampling is called. The functions
start-sampling and
stop-sampling can be
used to control the gathering of samples while the runtime analyzer is
running. The default value of this argument is t.
The except-processes keyword argument
should be a list of processes or
nil. This
argument causes the runtime analyzer to not record data about the
processes listed in this argument. Use of this argument is a good way
to narrow down the extent of an analysis, if multiprocessing is being
used. (In earlier releases, there was an
except-stack-groups argument, which applied to
certain platforms. That argument is no longer supported and a value
provided for it is assumed to be a value for
except-processes. A warning is signaled if
except-stack-groups is specified.)
The interpret-closures argument controls
the handling of closures. When interpret-closures
nil (the default) the closures are not saved
and analyzed separately. When true,
closures are saved and analyzed as separate profile entries, even
though they may use the same template function. A function
specialization called
prof:closure has been added. This
is valid whenever an analyzed profile exists and identifies the
closures which the runtime analyzer has seen.
The specialization is
(prof:closure n) where n is a small integer enumerating
the closures in the profile. This allows the user to grab the closure
object and to do a prof:disassemble-profile on it without
having to know what symbol holds its
fdefinition (which
is sometimes very hard).
When flat analyses and call-graphs are reported, closures are
identified by
(prof:closure n), followed by the printed
representation of the closure object itself.
Note that if you use the Emacs-Lisp interface or the IDE (on Windows), you are using multiprocessing. The :processes top-level command lists active processes. The Process Browser in Allegro Composer (on UNIX) and the one displayed with View | Processes in the IDE (on Windows) also list processes and provide a graphic interface to include or exclude a process from profiling.
The verbose argument, if true (default
nil), causes messages about what the
profiler is doing to be printed to
during data collection.
Data can be collected for only one analysis at a time. Calling this function while data is already being collected will signal an error.
The macro with-profiling starts and stops a profing run while executing the code specified as the body of the macro calling form. See runtime-analyzer.htm for general information on the runtime analyzer.
Copyright (c) 1998-2017, Franz Inc. Oakland, CA., USA. All rights reserved.
This page was not revised from the 8.2 page.
Created 2012.5.30.
|Allegro CL version 9.0
Unrevised from 8.2 to 9.0.
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For farmers who already have an AutoFarm AutoSteer system on their tractor or sprayer, a new add-on kit is available that extends no-hands steering capabilities to a combine.
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Finish: Gold Lacquer
Mouthpieces: GR65, Superchops 4, 6
At the recent ITG 2012 conference, I had the opportunity to play a wide variety of trumpets from the various manufacturers at the conference in Columbus, GA. After playing a few different trumpets, I ended up focusing on an Adams A5 trumpet. I wasn't looking to buy a new trumpet, but found the A5 - FG (Frank Greene model) was exactly what I was looking for in a "lead" type of trumpet. Here's my initial review after playing 3 concerts over the past days. I hope others find this review helpful.
Build Quality / Design
The overall construction of this trumpet is immaculate with the exception of one or two minor gold lacquer finish defects on the lead pipe and bell. The thin profile valve tops combined with the nickel plated valves allow for a very fast valve response. Although not quite as good as my Getzen valves, they are almost as good on my A5. My A5 had metal valve guides, and when compared to an A5 with plastic guides had a better slotting characteristic above the staff during my test playing of the other A5 trumpets at the ITG display. The 3rd valve slide finger ring is comfortable and easy to adjust.
My A5 has an adjustable brace between the 1st slide assemble and the crook of the bell. I've adjusted this feature, and have found a location that lets me have the right amount of "feel" when playing this trumpet. I have found that moving in one direction or another changes the resonance/sound of my playing. The 3rd valve slide has a similar brace to my CG Benge (wide brace), and does not have a spit valve.
The Adams case is a great sturdy case, and have found it light weight and at the same time providing a protective case. One unique feature is the durable bottom when setting up right.
Intonation / Tone / Sound
My gold lacquer A5 is a great trumpet that I use for playing a wide variety of musical groups, including a community concert band, and some regional professional big bands/jazz groups. Compared to my other trumpets, it is the lightest weight trumpet I own. Here's my other trumpets, and their respective weights/bore combination. I would guess a silver plated A5 would be similar in weight to the Kanstul 1070 model.
|Getzen 3001MV - Gold Plate
|2# 6.9oz.
|Kanstul 1070 - Silver Plate
|2# 0.6oz.
|Adams A5 - FG - Gold Lacquer
|2# 0.2oz.
I have had the opportunity to play this new A5 at a few concerts this past weekend, and find it very easy to have an "edge" to my playing in my big bands I play in. I find it easier to play if I back off a little, and let the horn shine in it's tone & overtones all with very good intonation across both the lower and upper registers. It has a very full sound, and a very classic "lead" type trumpet sound for me.
I've now played 3 gigs with this trumpet, and have found it just what I was looking for.
A 9.5 out of 10. Would have a perfect 10, except for the minor finish/lacquer imperfections. Finally, dont think this horn is outrageously expensive - it is not much more than other trumpets such as Bach, Schilke, etc. Do yourself a favor and try one of these trumpets, if you have the opportunity. In my opinion, Adams trumpets are going to be popular moving forward here in the US. I would recommend anyone looking for a new "lead" trumpet, try this one out.
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An annual wrestling event that occurs at New Bern High was back Saturday.
An annual wrestling event that occurs at New Bern High was back Saturday.
The Swiss Bear Wrestling Tournament, featuring eight teams competing, ran from 9 a.m. until about 5:30 p.m.
New Bern, Havelock, West Craven, Jacksonville, Dixon, Southwest Onslow, West Carteret and Richlands each brought grapplers to the tournament.
The Dixon Bulldogs won the team portion of the tourney with 158 points.
Havelock placed second with 135, West Carteret third with 125, Southwest Onslow fourth at 124 and Jacksonville rounded out the top five with 117 points.
New Bern scored 106 for sixth place, West Craven 79 for seventh and Richlands brought up the rear with 45.
The Bears� 220-pounder De�Andre Jones recorded the tournament�s fastest pin at 11 seconds and was named Most Outstanding Wrestler by the coaches.
Josh Hawkins was the other champion for New Bern at 132 pounds, pinning his opponent in just 32 seconds.
Ryan Davis brought home a first-place medal for the Havelock Rams, winning the 145-pound weight class.
Several freshmen for New Bern impressed as Tyquan Baucom placed second at 182, Cedric Boyd was fourth at 120, Patrick Laureigh third at 195 and Jurante Graham was fourth in the heavyweight class.
Southwest Onslow had the most individual champions with five.
Deonte Whitfield (126), Joby Armenta (138), Lance Armenta (152), Zach Winegardner (160) and Nick Ruiz (Heavy) won for the Stallions.
Havelock produced five runner-up finishes and Dixon took home four second-place medals.
Perhaps the match of the day was the 113-pound final between Blaine Mainz of Jacksonville and Tanner Johnson of Havelock.
The bout went to ultimate overtime, in which Mainz had choice because he scored the first points of the match.
Mainz chose to go on top and held Johnson down for the 30 seconds needed to secure the 3-2 win.
Championship results:
106-pounds � Malique Johnson (West Carteret) 20-3 tech fall over Lamonte Frazier (Havelock). 113 � Blaine Mainz (Jacksonville) 3-2 ultimate overtime over Tanner Johnson (H). 120 � Dustin Smith (W. Cart.) p. Owen Edwards (J). 126 � Deaonte Whitfield (SW Onslow) p. Zack Khal (Dixon). 132 � Josh Hawkins (New Bern) p. Teva Smith (D). 138 � Joby Armenta (SWO) 7-0 over Javar Godette (H). 145 � Ryan Davis (H) 10-4 over Kevin Cagle (D). 152 � Lance Armenta 7-2 over Robert Baker (W. Craven). 160 � Zach Winegardner (SWO) 4-2 over John Ellis (H). 170 � Spencer Clark (J) 13-8 over Seth Schoonover (D). 182 � Brad Shoenecker (D) 14-6 over Tyquan Baucom (NB). 195 � Tyler Hudson (D) 4-1 over Ben Dixon (H). 220 � De�Andre Jones (NB) p. John Helmick (W. Cart.). Heavyweight � Nick Ruiz (SWO) p. Jaqua Williams (Richlands).
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Heating Coil greatly reduces distance
Heating Coil greatly reduces distance
There is no gas engine to warm up in an electric car so the heat starts pumping almost as soon as you turn it on.... however I have never entered my car without pre-warming it up from the APP. The car is 70 degrees when I get in.
I've only had a few 15-20 degree days and I have lost about 25% of my range on those days. I haven't had a chance to take the car on a long trip since last February and that day was around 32 degrees. It seem a few people have noted significant range loss in cold weather in the single digits.
Today it is warm in the 40s for me and my range is typical. Not anything worth reporting on lost range.
As far as warming the battery... there isn't really anything that effects you except you loss regen until the battery warms up. Maybe is the future Tesla will add a warm battery feature to the APP for those that require regen.
I meant to say I haven't had a chance to take the car on a long trip in the cold since last February.
No cold car--an electric heater kicks in right away and then the heat pump takes over once the battery is warmed up. The only downside is the heater hits the battery pretty hard--if the car is plugged in, suggest using the app to warm up the car using shore power instead of your battery pack.
With the app, its manual. I am not sure if you can automate it via the API.
@omarsultan - of course you can automate it via the API, since you can emulate starting HVAC from a mobile device. You can even compute the time needed to achieve the desired temperature and start at the right time.
Personally, I found leaving the HVAC on range mode keeps the cabin reasonably comfortable even around freezing and doesn't impact range too much.
Over on TMC a developer volunteered many many hours and created a Java-based app that will run on your PC or Mac and replicates + extends the functionality of the Tesla mobile app. One of the extra functions is that you can program the app to start the HVAC at a specific time of day (and stop at another specific time). If you leave for work at the same time every weekday, this would automate the warming of your Model S (battery and cabin) using shore power .. you just have to remember to leave the app open. I've been a happy user, and the developer has been responsive when I've written to him with questions.
Latest version of the app is here (scroll to the bottom):
Here's what I do not understand, so maybe you super brainers can fill me in. When I fill up at a supercharger to max range, not even 3 miles from leaving I have lost 10 miles?. The range just calls off like a stop watch. Is it the 21" wheels?, it's not the heater.
@GDH - my guess is the battery is hot and it is running the heat pump to cool it down.
For the OP, some airports have plugs. Like one near me in Baltimore, only six of them however. Airports need dozens of 120V sockets for the upcoming EVs and not J1772 plugs. Lobby your airport management for 120V for long term parking. Nobody needs more than 120V at 12A even an MS 85 if they are parked for five days on a fly away week. Imagine my surprise seeing a plug in Prius at the BWI plugged in. Could they be taking up an EV space for daya even though they charge only 4-5 kWh and have 11 miles of AER. Even Volts could take up a space for days blocking out BEV access. It is one reason I have not thought about swiching from my Volt to a Model S yet due to lack of viable infrastructure.
Cool--one of these days, I am going to have to block off a weekend and go play with the the API.


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Tall waves' impact on frozen ocean hints at trouble in tempestuous future
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Towering waves that rise from cyclones can pummel the frigid waters around Antarctica, potentially wrecking sea ice critical to maintaining global climate. Because researchers predict climate change will bring more and stronger storms in the future, the thrashing swells could help ferry in an ice-free future.
Around Antarctica, sea ice is forming in some places and disappearing in others, says sea ice researcher Alison Kohout of the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research in Christchurch, New Zealand. Because the ice reflects the sun's rays, thereby shielding Earth from solar heat, and because the ice also insulates the ocean below, the frozen rafts influence global temperatures, storms and ocean circulation. But, Kohout says, scientists don't know enough about sea ice to predict its changes.
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from The Convergence Zone is a series of author readings, and artist talks and performances, sponsored by the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics at the University of Washington Bothell.
from The Convergence Zone brings together sometimes peaceable, sometimes combustible, fronts of discovery and experiment.
from The Convergence Zone brings to the Seattle metropolitan area exciting writers and artists who "cross" and "trans" genres and media.
from The Convergence Zone discusses and performs written arts in an expanded field.
from The Convergence Zone is open to all members of the UW Bothell community and the community at large.
A mixed-media show that challenges our concept of the art installation and performance. It features installations, live performance, video, physical objects, and audio by artists from diverse backgrounds, stages in their careers, and artistic practices. Each artist has responded to a hypothetical installation written by Julie Carr in her mixed-genre work Real Life: An Installation (Omnidawn, 2018). Of Real Life, Carr writes:
I'm curious about how we negotiate the concrete, factual, often painful truths of our world with and through the imagined, dreamed, hoped for, or made spaces of story, dream, possibility and art. In the end I wanted to make a book that focuses on the imagination's relationship to the "real." The blurring or erasure of the imaginary line (between how we live as mothers or families and the realities of so many lives being destroyed by war, poverty, racism, and male power) is what I wanted my book to keep in mind.
I'm curious about how we negotiate the concrete, factual, often painful truths of our world with and through the imagined, dreamed, hoped for, or made spaces of story, dream, possibility and art. In the end I wanted to make a book that focuses on the imagination's relationship to the "real." The blurring or erasure of the imaginary line (between how we live as mothers or families and the realities of so many lives being destroyed by war, poverty, racism, and male power) is what I wanted my book to keep in mind.
Eleni Stecopoulos is the author of Visceral Poetics (ON Contemporary Practice, 2016), Daphnephoria (Compline, 2012), and Armies of Compassion (Palm Press, 2010). She is completing a book of essays, talks, and poems drawing on her curation of "The Poetics of Healing: Creative Investigations in Art, Medicine, and Somatic Practice" with the San Francisco State University Poetry Center. A new manuscript of place-based essays from travels in Greece explores ecology through performance, healing, violence, and the sacred. In 2018, Stecopoulos was in residence as a poet and Artaud scholar with the Outsider Writing Project at the University of Chicago. She has taught at Bard College, the University of San Francisco, the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, and in San Francisco Bay Area community workshops. Originally from New York, she lives in Berkeley.
Forest-time|Transmissions from a Future Forest: Sasha Petrenko
Tuesday, February 19• 8:00PM • UW2-021 Dance Studio
Forest-time|Transmissions from a Future Forest is an eco-feminist sci-fi that begins as a power-point presentation on fire ecology, past, and present, that gradually devolves into a primal live-cinema performance about sticky entanglements across ecologies, economies and time-scales.
Sasha Petrenko will be performing Forest-time in dialogue with an MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics seminar on the Gothic and new materialism, taught by Joe Milutis. See details here.
May 10, 2018 • 8:00PM • UW1-261 with Jennifer Scappettone, Guest Artist
Jennifer Scappettone works at the crossroads of writing, translation, and research—on the page and off. She is the author of the cross-genre verse books From Dame Quickly and The Republic of Exit 43: Outtakes & Scores from an Archaeology and Pop-Up Opera of the Corporate Dump, and of the critical study Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice, which was a finalist for the Modernist Studies Association Annual Book Prize.
Her translations of the polyglot poet and musicologist Amelia Rosselli were collected in Locomotrix: Selected Poetry and Prose of Amelia Rosselli, which won the Academy of American Poets' Raiziss/De Palchi Prize. Recent writings can be found in journals such as Asymptote, Boston Review, boundary2, Critical Inquiry, Jacket2, and Nuovi argomenti; in the collections The Fate of Difficulty in the Poetry of Our Time, Terrain Vague: The Interstitial as Site, Concept, Intervention, and The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics; and in the upcoming catalog for the US Pavilion of the Venice Architecture Biennale, Dimensions of Citizenship.
She has collaborated on site-specific works with a wide spectrum of designers and performing artists—including Judd Morrissey, Abraham Avnisan, Mark Booth, Caroline Bergvall, Marco Ariano, Kathy Westwater, AGENCY Architecture, and Paul Rudy—at locations ranging from the tract of Trajan's aqueduct below the American Academy in Rome to the São Bento Monastery in Porto—and most recently, at 6018|North for the Chicago Architecture Biennial. Installations of her visual poetry were exhibited most recently at Una Vetrina in Rome and WUHO Gallery in Los Angeles. She is Associate Professor at the University of Chicago.
May 24, 2018 • 8:00PM • UW1-261 with Shawn Wen, Guest Artist
Shawn Wen is a writer, radio producer, and multimedia artist. Her writing has appeared in n+1, The New Inquiry, The Seneca Review, The Iowa Review, The White Review, and the anthology City by City: Dispatches from the American Metropolis. Her radio work has broadcast on This American Life, Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Marketplace, and her video work has screened at MoMA and elsewhere. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships, including the Ford Foundation Professional Journalism Training Fellowship and the Royce Fellowship.
February 2, 2017 • 6:00-8:00PM • UW1-041
A poetry reading and conversation with Dawn Lundy Martin and Layli Long Soldier.
Dawn Lundy Martin is a poet and activist, author of three books of poetry, and co-editor of The Fire This Time: Young Activists and the New Feminism (Anchor Books, 2004), which uses a gender lens to describe and theorize young activist work in the U.S. In 2016, Martin co-founded with poet Terrance Hayes, the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics (CAAPP) at the University of Pittsburgh. A creative think tank for African American and African diasporic poetry and poetics, CAAPP brings together a diversity of poets, writers, scholars, artists, and community members who are thinking through black poetics as a field that investigates the contemporary moment as it is impacted by historical artistic and social repressions and their respondent social justice movements. She is the co-founder of the Third Wave Foundation (New York), an organization, which was for 15 years the only young activist feminist foundation in the U.S. Martin continues her work in collaboration with foundations and activist organizations to research and strategize about protecting the lives and freedoms of women and girls. Her latest collection, Life in a Box is a Pretty Life, (2015) won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry. Good Stock, Strange Blood is forthcoming from Coffee House Press in 2017.
Layli Long Soldier holds a BFA in creative writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA from Bard College. She is the author of the chapbook Chromosomory (Q Ave Press, 2010) and the forthcoming Whereas (Graywolf Press, 2017). Her work interrogates poetic form and the legacy of a history of brutality and extermination. Her collection, Whereas, continually asks questions of both the reader and the author as Long Soldier considers the way Native American identity can be expressed on the page—what language should be used, what rules should be followed? What does authenticity or authorship mean when so much of one culture has been wiped out by another? She has been a contributing editor to Drunken Boat and is poetry editor at Kore Press; in 2012, her participatory installation, Whereas We Respond, was featured on the Pine Ridge Reservation. In 2015, Long Soldier was awarded a National Artist Fellowship from the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation and a Lannan Literary Fellowship for Poetry. A citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation, she resides in Tsaile, AZ on the Navajo Nation and is an English faculty member at Diné College.
Thursday, January 28, 2016 • 5:45-10:00PM • North Creek Event Center
Rodrigo Toscano • Reading and Q&A • 5:45-7:45 PM
Rodrigo Toscano will read from his most recent book, Deck of Deeds (Counterpath Press, 2014), seventy poetic prose image captions (without images) whose titles are inspired by the popular Latin American loteria card game. Written by a poet who logs in an average of ten thousand miles of air travel each month working as a union trainer and coordinator throughout the U.S., the "cards" reflect a dizzying array of cultural-geographic locations, each one acting as a scene-setter for highly dystopian portraits of "people" caught in a tangle of industry-specific "predicaments." The author of seven books, Toscano has appeared in numerous anthologies, including Against Expression, Diasporic Avant Gardes, Poetic Voices without Borders, and Best American Poetry. Toscano's Spanish language poetry appears as a book, Globo-Exilio-Ejercito, and in the anthology, Malditos Latinos, Malditos Sudacas. His books have been a 2007 National Poetry Series Selection, a recipient of a 2005 New York State Fellowship in Poetry and two Fund for Poetry grants. Toscano has been involved in labor movement politics for over fifteen years.
Francesca Capone • Artist's Talk and Experiment • 8-10:00 PM
Artist Francesca Capone will discuss her work at the confluence of visual art and experimental literature, following her talk with an hands-on experiment. Her most recent exhibition and book, Writing in Threads, explores contemporary and historical relationships between weaving and writing, and was shown at 99c Plus Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. She is the author of Primary Source (Gauss PDF, 2015) and was included in the visual poetry anthology The New Concrete (Hayward Press, 2015). Capone was the recipient of the Emergency Grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, as well as Brown University's Frances Mason Harris Prize for a book length manuscript of poetry. She has done residencies at the Anni and Josef Albers Foundation as well as the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. She currently lives in Portland, OR.
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore reads from her book The End of San Francisco, a genre-bending memoir about the myriad ways in which people fail each other. Touching upon queer activism, AIDS, sex work, ACT-UP, and the hopes of the 90s, the book asks what it means to be left in the wake of gentrification, loss, and the failures of politics. The End of San Francisco is the winner of a 2014 Lambda Literary Award.
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the author of two novels, So Many Ways to Sleep Badly (2008) and Pulling Taffy (2003) and the editor of a number of anthologies: Why are Faggots so Afraid of Faggots: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification and the Desire to Conform (2012), Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity (2008), That's Revolting: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation (2005; 2008); Dangerous Families: Queer Writing on Surviving; and Tricks and Treats: Sex Workers Write about their Clients.
Following the lead of theorist Rosalind Krauss in her classic "Notes on the Index" essays, Andy Fitch will give a participatory public reading sampling from various indexical texts, most notably his recent Sixty Morning Walks and Sixty Morning Talks.
"Andy Fitch's Sixty Morning Walks joins a long parade of literature in a line that stretches back at least to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's dreamy promenades and counts among its number Henry David Thoreau's plain-style walking, Charles Baudelaire's sketchy flânneries, and Thomas de Quincey's back-alleyway quests for a Northwest Passage. That tradition includes strolls as different as the country excursions of the Wordsworths, Gérard de Nerval's peaceful and serious crustaceous cake-walk constitutionals, and the nocturnal perambulations of the Surrealists—not to mention the fictional stalking by Edgar Allen Poe's "man of the crowd" and the intersecting paths tracked by the wandering citizens of James Joyce's Dublin." --Craig Dworkin, from the Introduction to Sixty Morning Walks
Andy Fitch's most recent books are Sixty Morning Talks and (with Amaranth Borsuk) As We Know. With Cristiana Baik, he is currently assembling the Letter Machine Book of Interviews. He has a collaborative book forthcoming from 1913 Press. He edits Essay Press and teaches in the University of Wyoming's MFA program.
Ryan Boudinot is the author of The Littlest Hitler (stories), a finalist for the Pen/USA Literary Award and two novels, Misconception and Blueprints of the Afterlife, the latter a finalist for the Philip K Dick award in 2012. A former writer in resident at Hugo House, Ryan is the guy behind Seattle, World City of Literature. He is a member of the MFA in Writing Faculty at Goddard College, Port Townsend, Washington.
Karen Mac Cormack is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry, most recently AGAINST WHITE (Veer Books, London, 2013). Her poems have appeared in a number of anthologies including Moving Borders, Out of Everywhere, Another Language, and Prismatic Publics. Her texts have been translated into French, Portuguese, Swedish, Norwegian. Of dual Canadian/British citizenship she lived in Toronto for many years and currently lives in the USA where she teaches at the State University at Buffalo.
Steve McCaffery has been twice nominated for the Governor General's Award and is the author of more than 40 books and chapbooks of poetry and criticism. An ample selection of his poetic explorations in numerous forms can be savoured in the two volumes of Seven Pages Missing (Coach House Press). As well as Panopticon (1984, revised edition 2011) and The Darkness of the Present: Poetics, anachronism and the anomaly (University of Alabama Press, 2012). His book-object-concept A Little Manual of Treason was commissioned for the 2011 Shajah Biennale in the United Arab Emirates. Four new books are forthcoming: Tatterdemalion (Veer Books, UK); Alice in Plunderland (Book Thug, Toronto); Dark Ladies (Chax Press) and Revanches, a collection of visual and concrete poetry (Xexoxial editions). English born and a long-time resident of Toronto he was a co-founder of the Toronto Research Group (TRG), the sound poetry ensemble Four Horsemen and the College of Canadian 'Pataphysics and since 2004 has been the David Gray Endowed Professor of Poetry and Letters at the University at Buffalo.
Dr. Phoebe Ching Ying Man is a conceptual artist, media sculptor, independent curator and devoted teacher. She is a communicator and believes that the "personal is political." Her works have been shown extensively in international exhibitions, including the Venice Biennial, Shanghai Biennial, Gwangju Biennial, European Media Art Festival, Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival, Impakt Festival, and others. She is an Assistant Professor at the City University of Hong Kong. http://www.cyman.net
Chris Kraus reads from Lost Properties, a pamphlet written as part of the independent press Semiotext(e)'s participation in the Whitney Biennial.
Kraus follows artist and Rolling Jubilee co-founder Thomas Gokey as his work evolves from demonstrational sculpture to direct intervnetion upon the culture of debt. She argues that as art worlds and markets shift, blurring definitional boundaries, and as artists undertake activist projects, conceptual art is the ideal medium through which to engage with capital's flows.
Chris Kraus is a writer, critic, and coeditor of Semiotext(e). Author of two books of art and cultural criticism and four novels, Krause writes for various art magazines, teaches for the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, and lives in Los Angeles.
Dr. Jackson 2bears is a Kanien'kehaka (Mohawk) multimedia artist, cultural theorist and the Audain Professor of Contemporary Art Practice of the Pacific Northwest at the University of Victoria. He has presented his works in art exhibitions and media arts festivals around the world, most recently at Musée d'art Contemporain de Montréal; Vancouver Art Gallery (Vancouver, BC); Futur En Seine Festival (Paris, France), Bbeyond (Belfast, Ireland), and Digital Art Weeks (Zurich, Switzerland).
2bears is a member of Beat Nation [Live]—a First Nations artist collective that combines hip hop, live music and digital technology as a way to celebrate the spirit of contemporary Indigenous culture. He is also a co-founding member of Noxious Sector—a communal forum dedicated to the exploration of interdisciplinary artistic practice and creative expression. 2bears' writings have appeared in CTheory and the Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) as well as in numerous catalogues and exhibition monographs. For more, visit www.jackson2bears.net.
Jena Osman is an exciting documentary poet. Much of her recent work is written between poem and essay, and she also incorporates many images. Her books of poems include Public Figures (Wesleyan University Press, 2012), The Network (Fence Books 2010, selected for the National Poetry Series in 2009), An Essay in Asterisks (Roof Books, 2004) and The Character (Beacon Press, winner of the 1998 Barnard New Women Poets Prize). Other publications include Jury (Meow Press), Amblyopia (Avenue B), and Twelve Parts of Her (Burning Deck Press). Osman will read from her new book, Corporate Relations, forthcoming from Burning Deck Press in 2014 (25 years after they published her first chapbook!). Her reading will be followed by a Q&A for students and faculty of the MFA program, and invited guests.
Julie Carr and K.J. Holmes present a performance of their collaborative work HIC SVNT DRACONES, and give a presentation and screening of historical dance/text collaborative works, including some of their earlier collaborations.
Selah Saterstrom is the author of the novels The Pink Institution, The Meat and Spirit Plan, and forthcoming, Slab, all published by Coffee House Press. Her prose, poetry, and interviews can be found in publications such as The Black Warrior Review, Postroad, Tarpaulin Sky, Fourteen Hills, and other places. She is the director of the Ph.D. program in Creative Writing at the University of Denver, and teaches and lectures throughout the United States.
Richard Chiem is the author of YOU PRIVATE PERSON, YPP, a collection of short stories published by Scrambler Books. His work has appeared in Thought Catalog, elimae, and Everyday Genius, among other places. In 2008, he survived a car accident. He is currently living in Seattle with his fiancé and their loud cat.
Robert Glück is the author of nine books of poetry and fiction, most recently Denny Smith, Jack the Modernist, Margery Kempe, Elements of a Coffee Service, and Reader. His poetry and fiction has been published in New Directions Anthology, Best New Gay Fiction 1988 and 1996, Best American Erotica 1996, The Faber Book of Gay Short Fiction, and other anthologies. Critical articles have appeared in Poetics Journal, The London Times Literary Supplement, Artforum International, and The Review of Contemporary Fiction. Glück also has joined the MFA faculty as an additional thesis advisor.
Bhanu Kapil, Jennifer Calkins, Sarah Dowling hold a roundtable discussion on "Hybrid Forms, Organisms, Biologies," moderated by Jeanne Heuving, MFA Academic Director. This roundtable is part of the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics 2013 Spring Festival.
Bhanu Kapil is the author of three full-length works of poetry/prose: The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers (Kelsey Street Press), Incubation: a space for monsters(Leon Works), and humanimal [a project for future children], (Kelsey Street Press). She teaches thinking and writing at Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and for Goddard College's low-residency MFA program.
John Beer and MFA faculty member Joe Milutis will open this Convergence Zone event with a discussion of experimental translation. Following the discussion, Beer will read from his work. Beer is the author of The Waste Land and Other Poems (Canarium, 2010), which received the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. His chapbook Lucinda is just out from Spork Press. Beer earned his MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, and his PhD from the University of Chicago. He teaches creative writing at Portland State University.
Doug Jarvis presents Gut Re-Actions, an ongoing series of performance actions that explore the potential of the human belly-brain as an instrument to engage in a relationship with ghosts and avatars. Drawing on his research into "ghosts and other non-material entities as audience for his work" and his participation in the avatar performance art group Second Front, and the art collective Noxious Sector, Jarvis will perform a new action, followed by an artist talk and public discussion.
Kate Greenstreet's new book Young Tambling is just out from Ahsahta Press. Her previous books are case sensitive and The Last 4 Things, also with Ahsahta. Her poetry can be found in Colorado Review, Boston Review, Volt, Fence, Chicago Review and other journals. Her videos can be viewed in Medium, Slope, Trickhouse and TYPO. More about Greenstreet's work can be found at her website.
Jordan Scott is the author of Silt (New Star Books 2005) which was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and Blert (Coach House Books 2008). Blert, which explores the poetics of stuttering, was adapted into a short film for the Bravo Network and was the subject of an online interactive documentary commissioned by the National Film Board of Canada. Scott acted as writer in residence at the International Writers' and Translators' Centre in Rhodes, Greece, and has lectured and performed at festivals in the U.S., Norway and Slovenia. His areas of poetic inquiry are speech disfluencies, interrogation, found archives and decompositions. Scott is a member of the Kootenay School of Writing. http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/scott/
Alexandra Chasin is the author of Brief, an interactive book published as an app for iPad; the medium is an integral part of the storyline. She received a PhD in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University in 1993, and an MFA in Fiction Writing at Vermont College in 2002. She is the author of Selling Out: The Gay and Lesbian Movement Goes to Market, a study of the relation between the LGBT "market" and the LGBT social movement. Her other books include Kissed By, a collection of formally innovative short fiction. Chasin is a past recipient of a Bunting Fellowship at Radcliffe, a Whiting Dissertation Fellowship, and a 2012 Fiction Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Chasin teaches in the Literary Studies Department at Lang College, The New School.
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Director and Head of Decision Support and Management for Canadian Banking Scotiabank
Scotiabank mines data to generate leads
Targeted campaigns, improved customer service equals increased annual growth of 80,000 to 100,000 accounts
Scotiabank has about 20 million customer accounts across its different business lines. To gain more wallet share through effective marketing to its existing client base, Scotiabank's challenge is making sure customers get the right product or service offer at the right time, over the right channel.
In the past, Scotiabank ran one-off customer campaigns for a total of five or six campaigns a year. Now, with SAS® Marketing Optimization, the bank has increased exponentially the number of campaigns it runs per year, which is helping generate more sales.
"We're now running between 30 and 60 campaigns per year; these go out to half a million customers every month and help us generate about six million leads over the course of a year," said Vic Moschitto, Director and Head of Decision Support and Management for Canadian Banking at Scotiabank. "Finding those customers would have been a major hurdle under our old methodology, where every campaign was its own little island."
Moschitto's analytics team is responsible for helping the bank's business lines identify where they can improve customer retention. They use predictive modeling and optimization methodologies to provide campaign execution and decision support. The business line managers develop goals for the year related to account growth and analysts help them allocate leads on any given month – while balancing the needs of the different business lines so customers are not bombarded with marketing messages.
Using SAS Marketing Optimization, the analytics team is able to mine through the bank's seven million customers – and up to 18 months of data – to derive insights for more targeted customer campaigns. The SAS solution helps maximize campaign outcomes by helping refine individual customer communications; it increases marketing return on investment by determining the best offers for individual customers, while delivering analytic insight into the value of business constraints (such as channel capacity and contact policies).
For example, if Scotiabank has marketing budget allocated for 500,000 leads and two million customers are eligible, using SAS to model different scenarios based on available data helps business line managers determine the best bang for their buck.
"A customer's business is an opportunity for all our business lines and we have to decide which offers we should be putting in front of that specific customer," said Moschitto. "SAS Marketing Optimization allows us to see which offer is most relevant for a particular customer at a particular time. It also helps with customer service because we're able to take relevant offers and bundle them together into one campaign so we aren't inundating customers with offers."
By using SAS, we're getting an ROI in excess of 100 percent – a significant return for the cost of the solution. The way we're able to integrate the software within our overall campaign and customer contact strategy is giving us a significant edge over our competitors.
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Moschitto added, "A customer might only be contacted three times a year, with three products that are highly relevant to them at that time; if we approached customers all the time, they'd shut us out. We want to make sure that when we do approach a customer, we have a high rate of return."
SAS Marketing Optimization is helping Scotiabank achieve impressive results within its customer marketing strategy. Thanks to more targeted campaigns and improved customer service, annual growth is 80,000 to 100,000 incremental accounts more than what the bank would gain by simply waiting for customers to come through the door. "By using SAS, we're getting an ROI in excess of 100 percent – a significant return for the cost of the solution," said Moschitto. "The way we're able to integrate the software within our overall campaign and customer contact strategy is giving us a significant edge over our competitors."
With SAS, Scotiabank is able to make better use of its resources and speed up the time it takes to optimize a marketing concept, send leads or make trade-offs between business lines. These processes are also more automated, so the analytics team isn't constantly rewriting new campaigns.
SAS offers flexibility so analysts aren't forced down a single path to achieve their goals. They can use SAS for raw programming in terms of sorting and mining through their customer base, or they can use statistical modeling to predict customer behavior through marketing optimization. Using other front-end tools, they can deliver messages in PDF or HTML format to customers and send reports back to the business lines.
"I've never felt pigeonholed using SAS, and I've yet to find another software package that allows you to get your business where you want it to go as well as SAS does," said Moschitto. "It is quite simply the best software package on the market today."
Scotiabank mines through data from about seven million customers on any given month to generate leads and create targeted marketing campaigns.
More targeted campaigns and improved customer service are helping Scotiabank achieve annual growth of 80,000 to 100,000 incremental accounts more than what the bank would gain by simply waiting for customers to come through the door.
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Sentinel Node Labeling
What is sentinel node labeling? Can it be done AFTER an excisional biopsy of an invasive intra-ductal solid breast tumor or must this be done before the surgery?
Carolyn Vachani, RN, MSN, AOCN, OncoLink's Nurse Educator responds:
The lymph system's role is to fight infection or invasion by foreign materials in the body. This system runs like a chain throughout the entire body, draining lymph fluid and flushing the body of foreign cells. Unfortunately, cancer cells can use this system as a means to spread in the body. The "sentinel node" is the first node lymph drains to, in the chain closest to the cancer. The theory is that the cancer cell enters a lymph node near the tumor and spreads through the chain, ultimately to other parts of the body (metastasize). By injecting a substance (that can be seen with radiologic tests � usually technetium Tc-99m sulfur colloid, also called a tracer) into the tissue surrounding the tumor, doctors can follow the path the cancer cells would take. Sometimes a blue dye is also used to improve the doctor's ability to see the nodes. The tracer material drains first into the sentinel node, that node is identified, removed and tested for the presence of cancer cells. If the test is positive, then the patient would undergo a complete axillary node dissection to determine how many other nodes are affected. If the sentinel node is negative, then it is thought that the cancer had not yet spread to the lymph nodes and the patient is spared the larger surgical procedure.
To answer the second part of your question, the procedure can be done after a biopsy. After an excisional biopsy, the tracer is injected in the area the tumor was removed from.


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The X FactorBy Racer X
The X Factor
Hot summer days are here, and it is time for moving your feet at your favorite outdoor summer festival. Whether you are making the trek to Sado Island for Kodo's drumbeats or moshing it up at Fuji Rock, these items will help keep you cool, dry and stylin'.
Sanuk Shoes and Sandals
They just look like shoes.
Climber Chris Sharma is sponsored by Sanuk which got my attention, as I've been a fan since seeing the documentary "King Lines" at the Banff Film festival in Tokyo last year. Sanuk shoes and sandals are all about comfort. The moccasin-like shoes feature textured canvas with a loose fit and an ultra-cushiony foot bed. They are not made for long walks or carrying a pack unless you add an insole. I like the Kingston model with subtle Rasta accents and a hidden compartment for money, a bicycle lock key or other small stuff. The "Yoga Mat" flip-flop sandal is especially popular with surfers.
Coleman Backyard Shade & Screen Sunshade
UV Protection so you can relax under the sun.
Coleman's 4-pole "Backyard Shade" sets the standard for flea markets, outdoor DJ setups or beach front shade that won't collapse with a stiff onshore wind. Stay cool and lounge under water-resistant fabric with a 40+ UV rating.
Great common space for group camping when you want a place to share meals or if it is too hot to be inside a tent. The "Screen Sunshade" is light, easy to set-up and makes a good changing room on the beach. Excellent for young kids and, unlike tents, most lifeguards in Japan will allow them on the beach.
Ice Mule Cooler
Life's too short for warm beer.
The Ice Mule cooler will make sure your favorite beverages (up to 18 350-ml. cans) and imported cheeses are chilled for the show. Padded carrying strap and backpack design distributes the load evenly. When turned upside down, the welded seams and roll-down airtight closure (no zippers or sewing) ensures no leakage, so you can use real ice. Recommended for fishing, group camping and outdoor events. Available via the Internet, although expect to see it on a shelf in Japan soon.
Ortlieb Waterproof Bags for Cameras and Phones
Bags that stay dry, period.
Made famous by bicycle couriers the world over, Ortlieb bags are not cheap but neither is the equipment you put into them. Check out the "Protect" model bag for smaller cameras, GPS systems and two-way radios. The square-shaped, waterproof bag has a unique four-point fastening system that can be easily attached to bike bags or packs. There is also an optional harness system for a completely hands-free approach when you something missing here. The Ortlieb "Mobile Phone Bag" is spray-proof and dust-proof. It comes in three sizes for mobile phones, PDAs or mini-computers. Recommended for hiking, cycling or every-day use but not for water sports.


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Morning Five: 12.12.11 EditionPosted by nvr1983 on December 12th, 2011
- As you may have heard, there was a small fracas at the end of the Xavier–Cincinnati game on Saturday. The two schools suspended four players each for their actions with the suspensions ranging from six games (for Yancy Gates and Cheikh Mbodj) to one game along with unspecified community service obligations. While there are a handful of fans and media members who are saying that the schools did a good job handling the punishments, it seems like a vast majority have been quite critical of the relatively light suspensions especially after what they believed they were hearing from Mick Cronin in his post-game press conference (a topic we wrote about yesterday). Although it has been discussed ad nauseum within the college basketball world, don't be surprised if this is one of the major stories on sports radio and all the talking head TV shows even if does get buried under Tebow-mania.
- It took him long enough, but Ben Howland finally decided to kick Reeves Nelson off the UCLA basketball team on Friday. It does not appear that there was another specific incident that led Howland to finally get rid of Nelson, but instead it appears that it was more the result of a series of discussions that Nelson had with Howland and how Howland felt Nelson was responding to his punishment. We are not sure if this decision will finally spark a lifeless Bruin team as they struggled on Saturday to beat a mediocre Penn team at home. We aren't sure where Nelson will end up next or if he will ever live up to his potential (our guess: no), but it might be instructive to see how he responded to his dismissal.
- On Saturday, Georgetown announced that highly touted freshman center Tyler Adams would be out indefinitely while undergoing tests to work up a potential cardiac abnormality. While we don't know what Adams is being worked up for, the most likely reasons are for hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy or an arrhythmia. We probably don't need to tell you that cardiac conditions can be serious, but if you missed our prior post on the increased incidence of sudden cardiac death in Division I men's basketball players it is worth a read. It goes without saying that basketball should be a distant secondary concern for Adams at the time and we hope that whatever triggered this work-up was an isolated event and not a significant medical problem not so much for his basketball career as for the rest of his life.
- While Kansas picked up a big victory at home on Saturday against a Jared Sullinger-less Ohio State team, they also suffered a blow when it was announced that Tyshawn Taylor had torn his meniscus in his right knee earlier in the week and would be undergoing surgery. According to reports, the surgery, which is a fairly simple procedure, went well and Taylor is expected to be out for three weeks. Until he returns a relatively young Jayhawk team will have to learn to adjust to life without their talented, but mercurial leader, who himself has had trouble with turnovers this season. This majority of the point guard duties will probably be handed over to Elijah Johnson or one of the younger players on the team like Naadir Tharpe. Fortunately for the Jayhawks, they don't really have another tough opponent until January 16 (five weeks from now) when they play Baylor.
- We are always surprised when a coach resigns in the middle of the season and even moreso when it is an established coach so when Northern Arizona's Mike Adras abruptly announced that he was stepping down on Friday we were shocked. Adras, who compiled a 193-170 record in 13 seasons at the school, led the team to its second NCAA Tournament appearance ever in 2000, but had not been back to the NCAA Tournament since then and his team started this season 2-7. Adras had very little to say in the school's official release other than the usual generic stuff about being proud of what he accomplished and leaving to pursue other undisclosed opportunities. Interestingly, Adras never actually told his players about his decision to leave and as of this writing apparently has not talked to the team about it, which makes it seem like he may have actually had a little push from the administration to help him with his decision to resign. For the time being, 70 year-old Dave Brown will act as the interim head coach while the school begins its search for a permanent replacement.


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4. Liam Hendriks, RHP, 23 years old
2011 stats: 12-6 with a 3.36 ERA in 139.1 innings, with 111/21 K/BB for New Britain & Rochester
Last Year's Rank: 6
Acquired: Signed out of Perth, Australia in February 2007.
Fun fact about Liam Hendriks. He has only walked 60 guys in 375.2 minor league innings. That's 1.4 an inning. That's amazing! He's also struck out 343. That's an incredible 5.72 strikeouts per walk. In a system that preaches throwing strikes, Hendriks fits the Twins mold very well. It seems many Twins prospects fit a similar mold. On #6 Adrian Salcedo I wrote, "His other numbers have remained solid, but it is disturbing how much his K rate has dropped. Has he turned into a typical Twins pitcher". On #16 Tom Stuirbergen I wrote, "Stuifbergen always has a really good walk rate (Twins kind of guy) but his strikeout rate plummeted in 2011". On #32 Pat Dean, "He has four pitches including a low 90s fastball and doesn't walk too many guys. He definitely fits the Twins mold of pitching prospects". It isn't hard writing about Twins pitching prospects, many of them have similar abilities. Having said all of the, Hendriks is the best of the bunch and the most major league ready.
The Australian hurler made his debut in the GCL at 18 years of age, striking out 52 and walking 11 in 44 innings. After back surgery derailed his 2008 season, he came back from injury and made the 2009 Australian roster in the World Baseball Classic. After the WBC, he split the season between Elizabethtown and Beloit. He had a decent year with a 3.55 ERA, 75 strikeouts and 19 walks in 83.2 innings. In 2010, Hendriks returned to Beloit and dominated In 6 starts, (34 innings) striking out 39 and walking 4. He also only gave up 16 hits. This earned him a quick promotion to Fort Myers. In 74.2 innings there, he struck out 66 and walked 8. Hendriks was good again in 2011 going 8-2 with a 2.70 ERA with a 81/18 K/BB ratio in 90 innings for New Britain. The remainder of the year he started 9 games for Rochester, striking out 30 and walking 3 in 49.1 innings and he also made his major league debut.
Hendriks has been good at every level in the minors. He strikes out 8 per 9 innings and walks 1. His WHIP is always around 1.1. He is the Twinsiest of the Twins pitching prospects. Hendriks has 4 pitches, but no single dominating pitch. His fastball touches the low 90s and he also has a decent curve and change-up. He did get roughed up in his major league debut. He went 0-2 with a 6.17 ERA with 16/6 K/BB in 4 starts, but he was only 22 with less than a year above AA. He has looked pretty poised in his 2 starts this year but has had trouble sustaining success throughout the games. Hendriks will be counted on a lot this season. He's only 23 and he is going to have to be fine with his pitches to be successful, but his track record suggests he should be able to do it.
Ideal Scenario: Hendriks will probably spend most of the season in the majors due to injuries and ineffective options. He will take some lumps this year, but if he can maximize his abilities and continue to control his walk rate, he could be a middle rotation starter. He may be the de facto ace going into next season with all of the turnover expected in the off-season.
Path to the majors: Hendriks passed Gibson, Wimmers and Bromberg in the pecking order of Twins pitching due to injury and ineffectiveness. He's a major leaguer.
Hendriks seems like a pretty good dude and always has that "what me worry" look on his face, so I will root for him even more. Check out Hendriks prospect adoption on TwinsDaily and check out his "singing" with James Beresford
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