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12 are multiple choice and 8 are true/false.

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1. Determining the maturity and type of funds raised in financial markets is part of the:
A. Investment decision
B. Capital budgeting decision
C. Financing decision
D. Both A & B

2. Which of the following does not cause accounting profits measured in a period to differ from cash flow in the same period:
A. Adjusting entries
B. Payable liabilities
C. Prepaid expenses
D. Depreciation

3. Bonds are quoted in:
A. Real interest rates
B. Nominal interest rates
C. Annual percent rates
D. Effective annual interest rates

4. Which of the following is not a function of an underwriter:
A. Providing pricing and timing advice
B. Securing venture capital
C. Selling the stock issues to the public
D. Buying the stock issues from the company

5. Which of the following is not a disadvantage of having too much invested in working capital:
A. Current assets may be insufficient to cover short-term obligations to suppliers
B. The profitability of assets is lowered if too much cash assets are idle
C. Too generous credit terms may bring losses
D. Inventory investments are unable to earn their opportunity rate of return

6. Pro forma financial statements result from which component of the financial planning model:
A. Inputs
B. The planning model
C. Outputs
D. None of the above

7. Total cash flow from a project includes cash flows from:
A. Cash flows associated with new investment in plant and equipment
B. Cash flows associated with preexisting overhead costs
C. Neither A nor B
D. Both A & B

8. Projects that have high fixed costs usually have:
A. High variable costs
B. High cash outflows
C. High project betas
D. None of the above

9. The theory that expected real interest rates in different countries are equal is known as:
A. Interest rate parity theory
B. International Fisher effect
C. Expectations theory of forward rates
D. Law of one price

10. In a tax-free acquisition:
A. The selling shareholders are viewed as selling their shares.
B. The firm is taxed as though it had always been together.
C. The assets of the selling firm are revalued.
D. A gain or loss may be produced which affects future depreciation.

11. Which of the following is not true about Chapter 11 bankruptcy:
A. Senior creditor tend to favor liquidation
B. Junior creditors tend to favor reorganization
C. Creditor receive interest payments while the company is in bankruptcy
D. This process allows the company to continue to function as an ongoing business

12. As it relates to corporate governance, agency problems can generally be controlled by:
A. Monitoring of management
B. Contracts that relate management compensation to firm performance
C. Competition in the market for managerial employees
D. All of the above

13. T/F____ According to GAAP, assets and liabilities are usually "booked" at their book value.

14. T/F____ Cash flows occurring at different time periods are not comparable for financial decision-making.

15. T/F____ The average tax rate is the relevant tax rate for financial decision-making analysis.

16. T/F____ The actual rate of return earned on the bond investment or the realized holding period return on the bond may be higher or lower than the yield to maturity.

17. T/F____ Lower after-tax costs of debt lowers the WACC and increases the present value of stream of asset cash flows.

18. T/F____ The net present value of a project is zero when the discount rate equals the internal rate of return.

19. T/F____ Sunk costs are relevant in the analysis of a project's cash flow.

20. T/F____ Variability of returns is a measure of total risk.

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Which statement is incorrect about the classification of amino acids?
a. Alanine and valine are neutral, nonpolar amino acids.
b. Lysine and arginine are basic amino acids.
c. Tryptophan and phenylalanine are aromatic amino acids.
d. Aspartic acid and aspargine are acidic amino acids.

Which of the following amino acids is the least water soluble at pH 7.0?
a. Tryptophan
b. Glutamic acid
c. Cysteine
d. Histidine

Which amino acid would migrate the furthest toward the anode (positive electrode) during paper electrophoresis at pH 7.0?
a. Aspartic acid
b. Alanine
c. Lysin
d. Glutamine

Which of the following functional groups, attached to an inert matrix, could function as a cation exchanger?
a. Diethylaminoethyl-
b. p-aminobenzyl-
c. Carboxymethyl-
d. Trimethylammonium-

Which of the following amino acids would make the best buffer at pH 4.5?
a. Histidine
b. Alanine
c. Glutamine
d. Aspartic acid

Which fact is incorrect about stereoisomers?
a. A diastereomer is a nonsuperimposable non-mirror image.
b. An enantiomer is a nonsuperimposible mirror image.
c. Diastereomers have different melting points.
d. Diastereomers rotate plane polarized light in equal but opposite direction.

Which statement is incorrect about L-isoleucine?
a. Its enantiomer is named O-isoleucine.
b. It contains a total of two asymmetric or chiral carbons.
c. It can also be named as (28, 38)-isoleucine using the (R,8) system.
d. Its diastereomer would be named O-alloisoleucine.

An isoelectric amino acid was dissolved in water and the resulting pH was approximately 7.6. What amino acid would possess this property?
a. Alanine
b. Glutamic acid
c. Histidine
d. Lysine

What volume of NaOH is required to adjust the solution of monosodium aspartate to pH 9.8?
a. 1 ml
b. 2 ml
c. 3 ml
d. 6 ml or more

What volume of 2 N Hel is required to completely titrate the 4 mmol of monosodium aspartate?
a. 2 ml
b. 3ml
c. Aml
d. 6 ml or more

Which statement is correct about the peptide ala-ser?
a. Alanine is at the N-terminal of the peptide.
b. There are a total six atoms that lie in the plane of the peptide bond linking alanine to serine.
c. The alpha-carbon of alanine is sp3 hybridized d All the above are correct statements.

What is the product formed from the acid hydrolysis of a simple amide?
a. Acid & base
b. Aldehyde & alcohol
c. Acid & amine
d. Ester & alcohol

The complete acid hydrolysis of the peptide ala-gln-trp-ser would yield:
a. Ala, gin, trp, ser
b. Ala, glu, ser
c. Ala, glu, trp, ser
d. Ala. ser

Fibrous proteins, such as collagen, have which of the following properties?
a. Highly soluble in water
b. Their hydrophilic residues are directed into the interior of the protein
c. Exhibit enzymatic activity
d. Serve structural roles in the cell

Quaternary structure is associated with:
a. The overall shape of a polypeptide chain
b. The sum of the secondary and tertiary interactions
c. Simple proteins with only one subunit
d. The relative orientation of one polypeptide to another polypeptide in a multi-subunit protein.

The information needed to define the structure of a protein is essentially contained in:
a. Amino acid composition
b. Amino acid sequence
c. Secondary structure
d. Tertiary structure.

Insulin is a polypeptide hormone that contains two short polypeptide chains linked by two interstrand disulfide bonds. The most logical order of events to perform in order to sequence this protein would be:
A: The peptides are reduced with mercaptoethanol.
B: The peptides are sequenced using Edman chemistry .
C: The peptides are separated by chromatography techniques. 0: The peptides are alkylated with iodoacetamide.
a. A, D,C, B b.C,A, 0, B
c. C, B, A, 0
d. A, B, C, 0

Which statement is incorrect about the peptide val-asp-trp-asn-ser?
a. This peptide would show a strong absorption band at 280 nm.
b. Reaction with chymotrypsin would yield two peptides.
c. To synthesize this peptide using the solid phase method of Merrifield, the amino acid directly attached to the resin would be serine.
d. After the second round of Edman chemistry using the reagent PITC, the PTH -amino acid residue released would be PTH-asn.

Which statement is incorrect about the reaction of the peptide ser-Iys-asp-trp-cys-metasn-phe-ala with the following reagents?
a. Reaction with cyanogens bromide would yield two peptides.
b. Reaction with trypsin would result in three peptides. The smallest of three peptides would have the highest pi of the three.
c. Reaciton with chymotrypsin would result in the peptides ser-Iys-asp & try-cys-met-Iysasn-phe-ala .
d. Reaction with chymotrypsin would yield a different set of peptides that overlap those obtained with tryspsin

Determine the amino acid sequence of the following oligopeptide from the experimental data below:
The amino acid composition is found the be ala, Iys, phe, met, cys plus some
decompsition products.
2. The peptide has a molecular weight around 700 Da and absorbs at 280 nm.
3. Treatment with carboxypeptidase results in tryptophan and a peptide.
4. CNBr treatment yields a tetrapeptide and a dipeptide.
5. Trypsine digestion produces an amino acid and a pentapeptide with met on the amino end.
6. Chymotrypsin digestion yields a dipeptide and a tetrapeptide.
a. trp-Iys-met-cys-met-ala
b. Iys-met-cys-phe-ala-trp
c. trp-ala-phe-cys-met-Iys
d. Iys-ala-cys-phe-met -trp

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50.0 g of N2O4 is introduced into an evacuated 2.00 Litre vessel and allowed to come to equilibrium with its decomposition product, N2O4(g) = 2 NO2(g). For this reaction Kc=0.133. Once the system has reached equilibrium, 5.00 g of NO2 additional is injected in to the vessel, and the system is allowed to equilibrate once again. Calculate the mass of NO2 in the final equilibrium mixture.

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Moles N2O4 = 50.0 g/92.01 g/mol = 0.543 mol

Initial concentration of N2O4 = 0.543 mol/2.00 L = 0.272 M

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MSK I haven't yet had the chance to see My Sister's Keeper, the new movie based on the bestselling book by Jodi Picoult, but I understand that it is an important film in the ongoing discussion of bioethics.

The film deals with the real issue known as "savior sibling." In the U.S. today it is legal to select an embryo so that it will be most compatible genetically to a sibling who may need medical attention. The first documented case in the U.S. was with Adam Nash in 2000.

Of course, there are not only ethical issues involved with using a child as a donor, but also the ethical issues involved in what happens to the many embryos who are not "selected." We euphemistically dodge those. We'll be featuring a great article on the subject in the next few days from Jennifer Lahl, the Director of the Center of Bioethics. In the meantime, I was reading a fascinating interview with author Jodi Picoult about how she came up with the storyline for the book. Here's what she has to say:

I came about the idea for this novel through the back door of a previous one, Second Glance. While researching eugenics for that book, I learned that the American Eugenics Society -- the one whose funding dried up in the 1930s when the Nazis began to explore racial [hygiene] too -- used to be housed in Cold Spring Harbor, NY. Guess who occupies the same space, today? The Human Genome Project… which many consider "today's eugenics". This was just too much of a coincidence for me, and I started to consider the way this massive, cutting edge science we're on the brink of exploding into was similar… and different from… the eugenics programs and sterilization laws in America in the 1930s. Once again, you've got science that is only as ethical as the people who are researching and implementing it -- and once again, in the wake of such intense scientific advancement, what's falling by the wayside are the emotions involved in the case by case scenarios. I heard about a couple in America that successfully conceived a sibling that was a bone marrow match for his older sister, a girl suffering from a rare form of leukemia. His cord blood cells were given to the sister, who is still (several years later) in remission. But I started to wonder… what if she ever, sadly, goes out of remission? Will the boy feel responsible? Will he wonder if the only reason he was born was because his sister was sick? When I started to look more deeply at the family dynamics and how stem cell research might cause an impact, I came up with the story of the Fitzgeralds.

You can read the rest of the interview here. A trailer for the film is below the jump.

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"Will the boy feel responsible? Will he wonder if the only reason he was born was because his sister was sick? "

Now that sounds like Serenity but in a different sense. In the Movie it was his sister's suffering because she was someone else's tool that made Simon choose to become more then a "spoiled rich kid".

I finnally did get to watch the movie and it was a great one. But it was the self-sacrifice I liked best.
Tangential to the thread yet perhaps not. For the "lesson" of the movie was a warning about the peril of hubris.

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    August 25 2015 by Roman Gabriel III, BR Sports Q&A

    Don Davis held an 11-year career in the National Football League (NFL) that included four teams: New Orleans Saints, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, St. Louis Rams and New England Patriots, where he was a two-time Super Bowl champion. Davis believes his long tenure in the league can be attributed to his call to minister to athletes. After retiring as a player for the Patriots, he transitioned to an assistant strength and conditioning coaching position under the leadership of well-known head coach Bill Belichick. Davis also served as the team’s chaplain.
    Sensing a call from the Lord to pursue full-time ministry, Davis began directing NFL programs for Pro Athletes Outreach in 2008. The outreach program is a conference-based ministry for professional athletes. He was hired as regional director of the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) in 2010. Davis also speaks regularly for organizations like Iron Sharpens Iron, as well as local churches. He hopes his integrity will allow many to see God shining through him.
    Q: It’s been awesome to see how God has used you as an NFL player, coach, chaplain and now NFLPA representative.

    A: It really has, my passion and purpose in God’s plan have aligned. Because of that it’s giving me a tremendous amount of focus, so I am in a sweet season of life right now.
    Q: You won two Super Bowls as a player with the Patriots. What is the “Deflate-gate” situation like right now inside the Patriots’ locker room as they prepare for the 2015 season?
    A: The number one enemy of greatness is distractions. Belichick is the reason why the New England Patriots have been on top for so long. They tend to be there in the end of the year for the championship because they have been able to handle and eliminate distractions. This is a huge distraction because it has to do with one of their star players in New England, Tom Brady. It’s all anyone wants to talk about. It takes away from the preparation of the work that goes into the season. Whenever you focus on the past you can’t move into the future.
    Q: What is Belichick’s specific message coming off a Super Bowl championship year?

    A: His message is that whether you won the Super Bowl or not is irrelevant. That was last year. Belichick hates hearing words that defend Super Bowl champions, because you’re not defending anything. The team is starting all over again. The Patriots have been in these kind of situations before, and it will all pan out in the end.

    Q: I have had the opportunity to talk with Brady on several occasions, and last year I noticed a new maturity in his life. You have spent time around him as a teammate and chaplain, where is he in his spiritual journey?
    A: When it comes to Brady, I think there’s been some growth when it comes to faith. He claims Catholicism. It’s his background. Our background, experience and what we’re exposed to all three come together as our spiritual experience. Those things come together to form our spiritual foundation. There is a spiritual foundation with Brady.

    Q: What is the biggest challenge to spiritual awakening and growth for a professional athlete?
    A: The athlete – including Brady – is no different from anyone else. There are things that you want. There are things that you wish you could have, and there’s a lot of distractions out there. So what you find yourself doing is seeking things that are solid, and sometimes the only thing that is solid is our relationship with Jesus Christ. We need to pray for Brady and all the other athletes, that they would come to know who Jesus is and exactly what He wants to do with their life.
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A Matter of Conscience

It is impossible to learn overnight what one has spent a lifetime in ignorance of, and so it was perhaps not shocking to see demonstrators at a recent protest against the military action in Afghanistan hoisting placards reading: U.S. OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST, apparently unaware that Afghanistan is in fact in Central Asia. Not shocking, but dismaying, as it is dismaying to read the innumerable articles and fliers, and listen to the innumerable conversations, that display subtler variations of the same indifference. Reducing an entire region of the world that consists of its own infinity of conflicts, histories, and aspirations to a cipher that tremors only in response to America, a country it antedates in its modern religious, ethnic, and cultural forms by more than a thousand years.

In the last months the question, it seems, has been “Why do they hate us?” Some say the Muslims (or Arabs, these words are used interchangeably) are angry about Israel; some say they are angry about sanctions on Iraq or about the American forces stationed on Saudi soil; some say they are angry about the effect American popular culture has had on their own, and some say they are angry because of their religion. (This religion, vaguely understood, is made much of. It is not, all agree, an intolerant one, or a violent one, and the vision of it that has warped so many souls is, all agree, an aberrant one, unrelated to its core values.) All this is true enough, so far as it goes; what dismays is the presumption that it is all that matters, and that the question to which these are answers is the most important one. To many, it would seem the Muslim is incapable of thought, and is only capable of reaction, and fanaticism. These same people are generally unaware that the part the West plays, and has played, in the East is in many ways less as a group of nations characterized by attitudes and actions than as an idea, one that has a place in a broader context of ideas, all of which are focused upon a fundamental question: In what sort of society to do we wish to live? Trying to understand the clerical fascism of Iran, the secular fascism of Iraq, and all that ranges between them, simply as variations on the same belligerent postures towards America is absurd, yet it is what is done every day in our lecture halls and newspapers. Posing the question simply as: “Why do they hate us?” locks even intelligent, educated people, into an empty rehearsal of rituals that affords no insight.

By trying to understand what Fouad A. Ajami has called the Arab predicament, we understand actions and ideas in the terms of their own context, rooted in the ideals and events that have birthed and nourished them, and we come to much different conclusions than one in which the Muslim world twitches, like tissues responding to electrical shock, to various American policies. We can to learn that, broadly, the debate in Riyadh, in Damascus, in Islamabad and Kabul, is whether to modernize or westernize; that is, whether to continue to merely import the ideas and the products of the West, as has been done for hundreds of years, or to adapt the attitudes towards philosophy and science—towards knowledge—that produced them. It is a debate with a long history, and Bernard Lewis’s new book is an indispensable guide to understanding that history.

Lewis begins in 1699 with the Treaty of Karlowitz. One might begin earlier, in 1492, with the expulsion of the Moors from Spain, but it is the treaty between the Ottoman Empire and Austria that truly marks a significant shift in the relations between Islam and Christdendom. Besieged in the east by Persians, the Ottomans could not fight the Austrians in the west, and so were forced to cede victory—the first time they were to do so to a Christian power. Ninety-nine years later Napoleon made his way deep into the heart of Egypt, and the military history of Islamdom in the interceding century can be read as a series of attempts to come to grips with the threat posed by Western technological advances, particularly by nautical engineering. For the first time Muslims traveled extensively, and scholars were petitioned to find Islamic precedent for using the weapons of the infidels (It was decreed that it was acceptable under Islamic law, so long as the weapons were used against the inventors.)The common assumption, however, was that although the primitive European may have devised useful goods such as the gun, the mechanical clock, and the printing press, this did not make them any less primitive. There was, for one thing, the arrogance of empire. For another there was the belief that Christianity was nothing but an earlier, inchoate, embryonic version of the Islamic civilization. The question among the Ottomans had little to do with the West. It was, as Lewis puts it, a question of “What have we done wrong?” Western advancement was not seen as advancing from the strength of Europe, but from a weakness of the empire. It was not thought that there was anything worth learning from the Europeans; it was assumed that it would be enough to master their new weapons and devices to resume the position of unbridled superiority. This turned out not to be so, and it is not difficult to determine the reasons why.

Lewis, at one point gives a listing of western items in 18th century Ottoman wills. Of five hundred total items, there are 147 clocks and watches, 76 pistols and muskets, and only 5 books. While Europeans were setting up chairs of Arabic in their oldest universities, and establishing permanent diplomatic missions in Islamic land, the Ottomans were making no such inquiries into the nature of Western societies. Even Shakespeare was not translated into Arabic until the mid-19th century. As Lewis puts it, “Knowledge was something acquired and stored, if necessary, rather than grown or developed.” This attitude towards knowledge implies the practicality with which Arab and Muslim scholars studied the West: in Lewis’s telling there was no interest in Western literature, history, or philosophy, simply a desire to know as much as necessary to operate its machines. Here precisely, we see how the history relates to the present: what Lewis describes is just what recurs today, when we see Saudi Arabia importing the technology of Western oil firms to tap its resources without undertaking the development of a sustainable science of its own, or Iran importing prefabricated nuclear reactors from Russia, complete with operating staff. The elites in the Middle East are largely educated abroad and the region’s own universities, despite the money poured into them, do not produce the advances in research similarly endowed Western institutions do because they have reproduced that form, and not the substance, of their models. There is little essential difference between the House of Saud importing engineers from Texas, and the Ottomans employing Greeks as diplomatic translators, relied upon to the point where they actually negotiated with Western nations for their retainers.

The Islamic world failed to see that it was a change in the European mode of apprehension, in their very values, that had produced their technological advances. The Islamic world became, and largely remains, content to merely import the end products of the Western spirit of scientific inquiry, never truly appreciating that its spirit, its attitude towards logic and the value given to knowledge for its own sake, is what drives the ever increasing technological prowess of the west, or that it is more than a method by which to attain tangible ends—it is indeed an entire world view from which no Westerner can escape. Western scholars of Islam have, on the whole, done a questionable job. Too often they present the Arab and Muslim world as a monolith of ignorance and superstition, but it is sobering to think that until fairly recently they had no analogues in the Muslim world. It was not merely that no one cared about the Renaissance; for a long time no one knew it had happened.

Ever since Napoleon the Arab world has essentially been playing catch up with the west; its recent history has been in some ways a series of manglings of western ideas. What Lewis documents in the time between Napoleon and now, and the changing of the question from “What went wrong? to “What was done to us?” are powerful, all encompassing ideologies that have sprung up since the withdrawal of the French and British in the early 20th century. First, pan-Arabism, and now fundamentalist Islam, have seized on the discontents of the people and focused them on corrupt regimes, on secular elites, and on the West. But this is to be understood as rhetoric in many ways. What is at stake is not, ultimately, specific political power so much as it is epistemology. The question of westernization is not a matter of policies, or programs, or cultural agendas. It is a matter of whether the Arab and Islamic worlds will accept or reject the legacy of enlightenment. Just as Europe, in struggling to accept the implications of its ideals, fostered fascism and socialism, giving play to the far ends of its political and moral spectrum, so the Arab and Muslim world is playing out the broadest ends of its politics, in some instances to see where they lead, and in some cases simply as a barbaric reaction to the death of the past.

            This, at least, is the issue as Lewis poses it. The inherent difficulty in responding to his position is that he has become, as Harold Bloom has in his field, a figure so polarizing that one must address not only the facts he presents and the interpretation he offers but also his motivations in so doing, and the rhetorical framework within which they are understood. The most persistent criticism of Lewis addresses not what he does or thinks, but what he is: it is, even when voiced by others, the criticism of Edward Said, which says that Western scholars are inherently incapable of understanding the Middle East and are, by their natures, apologists for colonialism and Zionism. Lewis, many would say, is the last of the Orientalists, and the debate which centers around him is more or less between those who mourn the fact and those who cheer it; between those who would study the Middle East with the classical techniques of Western history and those who would study it from oblique angles; between those who would study history from above and those who would study it from beneath. It is an issue that pits those who believe history is best understood as the interrelation of a series of facts against those who understand it as rhetoric. We should look, then, at criticisms made of Lewis by Said; there have been many, but they are of three basic sorts. The first is well-represented in Orientalism, his 1978 study of Western scholarship on the Middle East, in which Said famously wrote of Lewis that his work “purports to be liberal objective scholarship but is in reality very close to being propaganda against his subject material…[meant] to debunk, to whittle down, and to distract the Arabs and Islam.”

The criticism, insofar as it is not merely specious (if Lewis’s work is not propaganda but merely dangerously close to being so, why bring the point up at all?) reflects Said’s ideological framework more than it does anything else. It has it origins in Nietzsche’s concept of slave morality, and the implications of which led to the series of movements among historians seeking to resurrect the viewpoint of those who had not been properly represented in history. Michel Foucault, a self avowed exegete of Nietzsche, reasoned that if official history was written by the victors, an unofficial history could not go by the facts as commonly understood, and had instead to go by the facts that had gone previously unexamined: medical archives, diaries of the insane, newspaper clippings, anything the historian could lay his hands on. With this technique the historian becomes an artist and a rhetorician; the classical principles of harmony, balance, and cohesion, that have governed Western history since Herotodus (and to which Lewis pays implicit homage) are rejected as restrictive, and as in fact imposing a certain morality that inherently sympathizes with the powerful, who according to Nietzsche’s ideas, are not necessarily better, or worthier than the powerless. Foucault’s technique imposes a certain morality of its own, in which any historical conflict must be viewed as being between the powerful and the powerless, and in which the powerless, in any given situation, are assumed to be morally superior to the powerful. It is a socialistic morality in which the mass is perceived to be more important than the individual, and the individual is judged by how well he exemplifies the traits of his class, or the race the historian is trying to demonstrate. It is Said’s technique as well—he is as explicitly a disciple of Foucault as Foucault is of Nietzsche—and it is one that is diametrically opposed to Lewis’s technique. Said cultivates a personal voice, constructs a narrative, manipulates rhetoric, and carefully chosen facts with artistry; he is a fine essayist, but not a dispassionate one. He does not believe that Lewis’s is “liberal objective scholarship,” because he does not believe in liberal objective scholarship at all. He rejects dispassion; his idea of the intellectual requires that it be in opposition to power, that it be “committed.” It requires contrarianism, and rejects the reason that forces one to always judge each issue on its merits. He is always a critic, and never a historian.

Lewis, conversely, is a historian and nothing else. He manipulates his narratives with the skill of an artist, and his facts are at least as carefully chosen as Said’s, but it is facts that are his métier: the sequence of them, their weight in relation to one another, what they reveal and do not reveal. He is as fine for the odd bit of information tucked away in some dusty government archive as Said, but he does not make use of such points exclusively, nor for their own sake. Facts are what he presents, and their arrangement constitutes his argument—it is striking to read "What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity" and realize that there are no more than two or three points at which he intervenes in the narrative. He is more a historian than a writer, but as a writer, he reminds one of Tolstoy more than of anyone else.

More recently, in a well-circulated article, Said wrote of Lewis’s influential 1990 article “The Roots of Muslim Rage” that in it “the personification of enormous entities called “the West” and “Islam” is recklessly affirmed, as if hugely complicated matters like identity and culture existed in a cartoonlike world.” This is an example of the second sort of criticism Said made of Lewis, and it is a more valid one—at least as regards that sort of article. In writing a polemical essay such as “The Roots of Muslim Rage” (or Orientalism), one naturally simplifies and distills the large and complex dissonances of heterogeneous societies into abstract conceptions; using such abstractions is what allows man to think about matters more complex than from behind which bush his next meal is coming. What Said finds missing in Lewis—the “internal dynamics and plurality” of societies—is not necessarily accurate. By saying that to speak of “Islam,” one is oversimplifying complex realities is a tautology, and a disingenuous one. In fact it is the internal dynamics and plurality of societies that Lewis excels at depicting, in the work at hand, and in others.

There is, finally, a more general charge, that he omits facts, that he selects only those that present the Arab as something “other,” something vile, something worthy of oppression; but even this is insubstantial. It is a given that someone who views the writing of history, because some facts are always omitted, no matter who is writing. It is a given that he will, in his dialectical view of the world, find fault in those who aspire to serve an abstract notion of truth rather than the dispossessed of the earth; and in truth, Lewis does not attempt to give voice to the feelings of oppression that Middle Easterners now feel, something required of him as a man of conscience by Said’s notion of the intellectual. He takes those feelings for granted; he assumes they are something that does not have to be explained to his audience. He is probably right. No one who will read this book is unaware of the Saudis who are watching their country decay at the hands of foreign oil interests and the decision of their fathers to raise an entire generation not to do manual labor, or the Iranians striving to rid their country of its despotic ayatollahs through the establishment of free and open elections, or the innocent Palestinians watching the streets where they live turned into hell. Given that Lewis’s stated task is not to document their suffering but to explain how these crises came about and what their context is, the criticism is another tautology.

 Reading Lewis, reading Said, and meditating on these issues—reading history in an engaged fashion—should, if we are equal to it, have a broader effect on us than to simply stuff us with what are ultimately ephemeral opinions and information. The crises of the day pass, and new ones arise, but how we make sense of our past and our present, and whether we are willing to discard the striving for objectivity in favor of passion, personal bias, and rhetoric, are what should matter most if we are to try and discern what is really going on in the world. What we can ultimately learn from examining the history being written in our time is that ideology, when it infects the very reason upon which debate is founded, cancels out the mutual sympathies that naturally exist between all people of conscience.

Tim Marchman

TIM MARCHMAN is a contributing writer for the Brooklyn Rail.


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Some Thoughts on Eva Hesse

H. Landshoff, Eva Hesse in her home/studio at 134 Bowery, New York, c. 1968. © The Estate of Eva Hesse, courtesy Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, London

I first learned about Eva Hesse while I was in undergraduate school at University of the Arts through a former teacher, Ree Morton, who would talk about Hess and her work profusely in class. Morton identified strongly with Hesse’s radical spirit of invention and play—letting things hang out, running things up the flagpole, breaking the rules. I saw that Hesse had opened up something for Morton; she was given permission to raise the stakes. It was a compelling experience for me to see Morton having a dialogue with Hesse’s legacy. When you are young, you learn to identify intuitively with the artists (of all ages) who are pushing it, trying new things, artists who have decided to work in the present. Everything is up for grabs, anything is possible. Year after year students and young artists relate to Hesse that way. They can see that she had discovered her own way of connecting with the materials and forms by having her feeling and thought work in unison, by working in the moment from a place of deep inwardness.

Whenever I’m asked to give a slide presentation of my work, I never miss the chance to include Hesse’s masterpiece “Repetition Nineteen III” 1968 (nineteen fiberglass cylinders, each one subtly different from the next, arranged casually in a group) as a touchstone that has had an profound impact on my thinking as a sculptor. Hesse’s cylinders are objects from her mind, conceived in fiberglass, extracted and placed outside herself. Serial form, “This, then this, then this. Over and over again, approaching, getting closer, getting nearer. Letting go, standing back…things recede, they diminish,” in her case, emphasizes her particular way of relating to what was the pervasive trope being practiced in Minimal, and process art at the time. Not involved with a cool, calculated look, Hesse had the capacity to entertain doubt, be vulnerable and see absurdity, giving her the ability to pare away and reduce things, to find the place that simultaneously expands and contracts, a place that is, and is not. Hesse walked an exquisitely defined edge joining proportion and emotion. It is a place full of contradictions, and all the more powerful for them. Looking at her work is invariably inspiring, gripping, challenging, and forceful.

Eva Hesse, Untitled, 1966, ink wash and pencil on paper. Private collection, New York. © The Estate of Eva Hesse. Hauser & Wirth Zürich London

There is the myth frequently cited in popular reading that Hesse had to pay for her work with her life. Her materials killed her. Although quite toxic, polyester resin doesn’t automatically give people tumors. Plenty of boat builders will testify that their livers paid a price over a long period of time until they started wearing respirators, or using fresh air systems. Robert Mallory, a sculptor, wrote an article about his body’s complete rejection of polyester resin. Beyond the technical facts, many people find something tragically appealing or darkly appropriate about the notion that Hesse died for her work, a victim of her passion. I have never understood this- what is tragic is not having the result of the entire arc of her production. I would have loved to see what she would have done, who wouldn’t? But the idea of paying the price of greatness as an artist with your life is a niggling way to value her achievement and her ambition.

I worked for the sculptor and painter Nancy Graves for a number of years. She told me Hesse came back the day after a party Nancy had thrown to get an umbrella she had “forgotten.” Hesse wanted to further her acquaintance with Graves. Nancy said this was how ambitious artists did things—make sure you meet the people you want to meet, and get to know them, by whatever means necessary. Nancy gave Hesse plaster gauze to try out. She had tremendous respect and a some envy of Hesse—that envy was new to me too. I realized that no matter what artists had accomplished, no matter where and how they had exhibited their work, this was a competitive field. Everyone was straining for more, working on getting more of what they felt they deserved.

Today’s climate is biased towards spectacle and entertainment, journalism and discourse. A discourse of “referencing” and naming in a dumb, literal, flat-footed way. Hesse’s work is rooted in invention, and looking at form as a way of tracing thought. Or, as a friend of mine, Bo Berkman says: “asking unanswerable questions in a non-existent language.” As viewers we have to be willing to enter a mental state predicated on empirical looking and seeing: a slow state, a meditative state, a state involving small differences and subtle connections. The meditative state allows us to leave the world by thinking about something harder and longer than usual. By letting the object of meditation into our thoughts it takes us away from our thoughts. It becomes the center for a short time, the thing against which we measure and compare, the thing that lets us see our thoughts and ourselves. These used to be implicit assumptions everyone had when making and looking at art. Doing otherwise was incoherent and chaotic. Hesse’s work always reminds me of the deep pleasures and ample rewards of this way of making and viewing. Her work profoundly inspires and gives me courage to continue.

Tom Butter

Tom Butter is a fine artist from New York.


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STEPHEN ADLY GUIRGIS with Michael Benjamin

Although he enjoys acting far more than writing, Stephen Adly Guirgis is best known for his work as a playwright with the LAByrinth Theatre Company in New York, of which he has been a company member since 1994. Guirgis, Yul Vasquez and Mimi O’Donnell recently replaced Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Ortiz and John Gould Rubin as Co-Artistic Directors of the company.

The Rail caught up with Guirgis and playwright/actor Melanie Angelina Maras during a rehearsal for Maras’ new play, Kiss Me on the Mouth, which Guirgis directs. The play is being produced by InViolet Repertory Theater and premieres at Center Stage this month.

Michael Benjamin (Rail): You started out as an actor, is that right?

Stephen Adly GUIRGIS: I’m still an actor, but I started out just acting, and then, when I joined the LAB, we embraced the idea of multidisciplinary pursuits. So actors became writers, directors, designers, producers, and so on. One thing I really like about InViolet is that they’re doing the same thing. Melanie was an actor, and now she’s writing also.

I taught a class called Playwriting for Actors at the Maggie Flanigan Studio. A lot of the InViolet company members were in it, so I guess I had a hand in encouraging multidisciplinary work. The company in part grew out of that class, which is great.

RAIL: Did you work with those students in a specific way because they were all Meisner-trained actors?

GUIRGIS: Well, because we had all studied Meisner, I think we had a common language. I try to encourage the notion that writing can be just like another form of acting—that some of the same tools that make you a good actor can also make you a more exciting writer.

RAIL: Can you talk specifically about what those tools are?

GUIRGIS: Well, I think actors can have a lot to offer in terms of writing because they have experience being on stage. They know the stage, right? Sometimes writers, they go through grad school, and they never really have a lot of practical experience in the theater. And actors sometimes have the benefit of living in theaters—they can have an inherent sense of what’s exciting on a stage, what’s theatrical.

Also, I think actors are inherently courageous people. You have to have a lot of courage to be an actor—to deal with the amount of rejection that you go through, to be cast in a role and be asked to go out and play it, to become someone else and go out in front of an audience. It’s a profession where courage is like a prerequisite. And sometimes I find, in contemporary writing, a little bit of an absence of courage. Sometimes you see a lot of plays that are like ‘safe’ plays. They’re nice plays, you know, they’re safe. Whereas a good actor already has that willingness to risk.... So why not apply that courage to other disciplines? To writing? Or directing? You know, use those muscles. Not wait around for a job. Create work for your friends as well.

RAIL: Can you talk a little bit about your approach as a director?

GUIRGIS: Whether I’m seeing a play, writing a play, or acting in a play, I’m always most interested in what the actors are doing on the stage, what’s going on—if there’s something at stake and how the actors are going about achieving it. That’s always what’s most exciting to me. And as a director I’m looking for that as well—I’m looking for what ignites the actors’ sense of need. And then I try to activate their passion in getting it.

And then, I guess because I’m a writer, I’m looking for that in the script. Working with Melanie has been great because she has a real sense of who she is as a person, and also who these characters are as people. So she’s not a pushover, but she listens, and she’s been pretty fearless, I think, both in terms of what she’s writing, and then in her willingness to go back and refine and refine and look over it and drop scenes, add scenes. I think that when you’re producing a play at this level, that’s what it’s about. It’s about developing the play.

RAIL: Melanie, can you talk a little bit about the play? What is it about?

Melanie Angelina MARAS: The play is about loneliness. And about all the things that we do and say and convince ourselves of so we can feel a little bit less lonely for whatever amount of time.

RAIL: You and Stephen have been working on this together for a while. Can you talk about how he’s been useful to you as a collaborator and a teacher?

MARAS: Stephen has always set the bar super, super high for me. So if I bring something in, I’ll be like “Yay, I wrote a play! I’m so proud of myself!” Then Stephen’s like, “You know, actually the bar is just up here, it’s not down here where you, like, deposited this work. It’s a little higher.” And then I come up with some other stuff, and he’s like “Well, it’s just another step. It’s just gonna be a little bit more, a little bit higher.” [laughs]

GUIRGIS: But it’s not just that. I think what we try to do when the new pages come in is read it, explore it, and then that will lead to a series of questions which we would then pose to the writer.

MARAS: Right

GUIRGIS: Sometimes I think at a certain point when you’re comfortable with each other, you can speak in shorthand. But, you can’t tell an actor, “This is what it is, this is what you have to do.” Because then they’re just trying to recreate a result. And I think it’s the same thing with a playwright. You can’t say like, “This is what it is, this is what you have to do.” You might give suggestions or questions or thoughts but it has to come out of the writer. Otherwise, you know, then any one of us could write the play. You want it to—it has to—come out of them. If you overstep that line, then you’re not helping to facilitate someone else’s journey. You’re like trying get them to move over, and you’re going to steer.

[addressing Melanie] Would you say that that’s fair? That I haven’t really…

MARAS: That you haven’t steered?

GUIRGIS: Yeah. Think back. [laughs] Not just the past…week.

MARAS: [laughs] To your backseat driving techniques on my play. No, definitely. All the questions Stephen proposes to me are always like, to expose loopholes or things that don’t make sense, that I hadn’t seen, because I’m just one person looking at it one way.

RAIL: Can you talk about the nature of those questions you ask the writer?

GUIRGIS: Well I think there are probably two types of questions at the end of the day. And usually the first questions are like, “What is this character doing?” “What does she want?” “How does she want to affect the other person in this moment in order to get what she wants?” So there are the ‘what’ questions, and then there are the ‘why’ questions—the same for writers as for actors.

It’s like I want to… [looks around for a target and finds Kiss Me’s Assistant Director Jennifer Makholm, who is drinking coffee] get that coffee cup from Jen. Why? Uh, because I’m…because I don’t want her to have it. Why? Well, because….

With acting, usually you ask yourself a series of ‘why’ questions until you get to the very bottom of it, and usually the very bottom of it is just like, “If I don’t get it, I’m gonna fuckin’ die.” And it’s the same thing I think with writing.

That’s something that I sometimes do as a writer when I get stuck—it’s like, “Alright, why did I start writing this play?” “Well I wrote this play cuz blah blah blah.” “But why?” “But why? “But why?” And if you keep backing up those ‘whys’ long enough you get to a point where your response becomes emotional, not intellectual. And that’s what we try—what we all try—to do, I think, in our work.

RAIL: You’re an established playwright and actor, and you’re now co-artistic director of the LAB, one of the most highly regarded theater companies in NYC. What made you decide to take on this project with this young company and this young writer?

GUIRGIS: Well, as an artist I think it’s important that you change things up and try different things. The idea of helping a young writer to give birth to a play, and then to direct a young company of actors and help them realize part of their vision of, you know, of having a theater company that produces their own work is exciting to me.

And then, secondarily . . . it’s important that there are people at all stages of their careers working together. I gain a lot from working with a new writer. Young writers haven’t been brainwashed with what’s right and what’s wrong. So they can come up with things that are really fresh because nobody told them the rules. Young producers are inspiring because they help remind you that it’s about the act of creation. So working with enthusiastic people united for a purpose is just, it’s all to my benefit, but then also to pass it on.

What do they say? “It takes a village to raise a child.” If I can have some small part in helping to raise the child that’s Melanie’s play, and if in a few years Melanie will help someone else too, and meanwhile there’s someone else that’s helping me to raise my next child—my next play with LAByrinth—then everybody…we’re all connected. We’re all connected whether we acknowledge it or not. So that’s the reason to do something like this, right? I mean, what’s the reason to start a company? What’s the reason for producers to choose a new writer as opposed to like—you know, there’s a lot of writers out there. It’s about making commitments to each other and taking risks, and taking ownership. That’s really, this is really exciting. So why wouldn’t I want to be part of it?

Now I’m gonna go talk to the actors.

Kiss Me on the Mouth, by Melanie Angelina Maras, directed by Stephen Adly Guirgis, produced by InViolet Repertory Theater, runs November 3-21 at Center Stage (48 W. 21st Street, Manhattan). For tickets, visit invioletrep.com or call 212-352-2101.

Michael Benjamin

Michael Benjamin is an actor, musician, and occasional writer who lives in Brooklyn.


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September 2018

Welcome back to nursery to all returning children and a big welcome to all our new children. We have all settled back into the nursery routine and are looking forward to learn and have fun at nursery.

We have discussed and agreed that we will visit the Woodies together with Nursery 1 every second Thursday for  outdoor learning. Parent helpers are required for these trips to the Woodies. Please add your name on the sheet (Parents information board) if you can help us.  Every other Thursday we will join Nursery 1 for outdoor play in the playground using our wheel toys. Please remember your helmets for these days.  We are also going to join together with nursery1  for short gym sessions once a week and will visit their garden on Mondays each week.

Scotty and Ribbons-our weekend bears have started their visits to the children homes. Please remember to return them the following Monday so we can all share and enjoy their adventures with your children.

Stay and play sessions will be available again  later this term or beginning of term 2, you are all welcome to come and play with us.

Term 1-we are still supporting the new children who joined us, and reminding the returnees  the nursery rules, how to be a good friend and how to and when to wash our hands-personal hygiene.

We are also concentrating on fine motor skills development, so there will be a different fine motor skill activity on offer each day for the children to take part in.

As always if you have any concerns, ideas or feedback-please speak to a staff member or use the suggestion box provided (parent information board).

Thank you.

Nursery 2 team


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Monthly Archives: August 2014

Team Building

From last month you may remember that by 1990 we had moved into our new office in the Wayland Professional Building. We had started a tradition of education and technology that has carried over to this day. The 90’s became … Continue reading

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Common Core Take-aways

Over the Thanksgiving break I finally got caught up on a couple of issues of School Library Journal.  In them I noticed ads for a series of webcasts they’re doing about the Common Core specifically for librarians.  Two of the three have already gone by, but I decided to register for the third in January and view the archived ones I missed.  (The link below will get you there.  You have to register in order to view the archived sessions.  Once you register you’ll get an email with the webcast link.)

I especially enjoyed the first one with Marc Aronson and Sue Bartle.  Called Getting Real it focused especially on the shift in the CCSS to more informational text.  The second dealt with how librarians can take the CCSS and use them as a way to start conversations and collaborative efforts.  Here are my takeaways from both of the sessions:

How you read shapes how you will write

The third “C” in CCSS needs to be collaboration

We need to be talking to each other (teachers and librarians) to assure that major shifts are happening

Librarians are well poised for helping kids to be active questioners

How well do I know my non-fiction collection?

The issue for kids (in reading a text) is “Do I care?”

I need to approach non-fiction in new ways–aim, approach, point of view, voice/style

Spend more time with non-fiction elements and structures

Do the “heavy lifting” for teachers–unpack the standards and show how I can help

Less content, but more meaningful learning

Process is the emphasis;  content will be learned as a result

Why I’m Excited about the Common Core

The more I delve into the Common Core State Standards the more I’m excited about the prospect for librarians.  Close reading of quality texts, the 4th R-research, reading across multiple texts, writing about what you read, etc. are areas where I know we can shine!  The timing for conversations around complex texts and  informational texts is perfect, too, with Candlewick’s “We Believe in Picture Books” campaign. I maintain that picture books are often the perfect choice for direct instruction of lots of literacy concepts, right up through middle school.  So if CCSS gives me more ammunition to “sell” picture books to my teachers I’m all over it!

(I have a feeling the CCSS will provide me with blogging ideas as well, and that’s another good thing!)  Please leave a comment and tell me how these new standards are impacting you.


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Eliot Pattison Adds to the Inspector Shan Series with SKELETON GOD

How many bibliophiles do you know who anxiously await the publication of a new book in a series? The reader’s longing for the next instalment exemplifies the efficacy of narrative to expand meaning for the human experience. For often a fictional world becomes so real for the reader that she grieves when the story has ended.

That’s why I’m pleased to announce that Eliot Pattison’s 9th book in the Inspector Shan Tao Yun series was published in March. It is entitled Skeleton God (2017). Pattison’s first novel of this series, The Skull Mantra (1999), won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel in 2000. The series has been translated and published in over twenty languages. His work can be read on so many levels, from the cultural to the political to the spiritual. I read the Inspector Shan mysteries as fictional imaginings of lived religion in Tibet under Chinese occupation.

Here’s what readers can expect from Skeleton God:

Blurb: “In Eliot Pattison’s Skeleton God, Shan Tao Yun, now the reluctant constable of a remote Tibetan town, has learned to expect the impossible at the roof of the world, but nothing has prepared him for his discovery when he investigates a report that a nun has been savagely assaulted by ghosts. In an ancient tomb by the old nun lies a gilded saint buried centuries earlier, flanked by the remains of a Chinese soldier killed fifty years before and an American man murdered only hours earlier. Shan is thrust into a maelstrom of intrigue and contradiction.

The Tibetans are terrified, the notorious Public Security Bureau wants nothing to do with the murders, and the army seems determined to just bury the dead again and Shan with them. No one wants to pursue the truthÐexcept Shan, who finds himself in a violent collision between a heartbreaking, clandestine effort to reunite refugees from Tibet separated for decades and a covert corruption investigation that reaches to the top levels of the government in Beijing, China. The terrible secret Shan uncovers changes his town and his life forever.”

Praise for Skeleton God:

“Pattison‘s ninth installment provides an important history lesson little understood in the West with authority, nuance, and genuine suspense.” – Kirkus Reviews

“Edgar winner Pattison remains without peer at integrating a fairplay whodunit into a searing portrayal of life under an oppressive and capricious regime, as shown by his ninth Insp. Shan Tao Yun mystery. Even readers unfamiliar with the physical and cultural devastation China has wrought in Tibet will find themselves engrossed—and moved—by Pattison’s nuanced portrayal.” – Publishers Weekly *Starred Review*

About Eliot Pattison:

“An international lawyer by trade, Pattison spent many years in the backwaters of Asia, fascinated by how Buddhism shapes all aspects of people’s lives. He recently received the prestigious “Art of Freedom” award from the Tibet House, an international non-profit organization devoted to the preservation of Tibetan culture, founded by Columbia University professor Robert Thurman, actor Richard Gere and composer Philip Glass at the behest of the 14th Dalai Lama.

For more information on Eliot Pattison and his focus on Buddhism, visit http://eliotpattison.com/why_i_wrote_about_tibet.html

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First quarter analysis: Bills' red zone defense holds again

Miami took 7:28 off the clock on its 15-play, 79-yard opening drive but couldn’t punch it into the end zone as the Bills’ top-rated red zone defense held again, forcing a 36-yard Andrew Franks field goal. Running back Jay Ajayi had gains of 9, 10, 11 and 12 yards on the first drive.

Brandon Tate put the Bills in great field position for their second drive with a 30-yard punt return that set the Bills up on the Dolphins’ 30. Receiver Justin Hunter, who started with Robert Woods out, hauled in his first non-touchdown reception of the year, but the Bills had to settle for a Dan Carpenter field goal that tied the game at 3-3.

Coin toss magic: In the NFL, the visiting team gets to call heads or tails on the opening coin toss. The Bills have managed to win the coin toss in all seven games this season. The odds of that happening (0.5^7) is 0.78125 percent.

McCoy starts: ESPN reported during the week that LeSean McCoy’s hamstring injury would keep him out of the game, but McCoy dressed and started on the Bills' opening drive. He ran three times for 7 yards in the first quarter.

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Microsoft is constantly working to improve and add new features / services to the Microsoft Azure platform. Among the latest of these changes is to support a 99.9% SLA with SINGLE instance VMs. While this isn’t a replacement for multi-instance VM configurations, this offers enhanced reliability for workloads where a single VM instance works.

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There are a few requirements that need to be met in order to achieve the 99.9% SLA guarantee for a single instance VM. The storage used for the VM Operating System and Data disks must be using Premium Storage. Premium Storage offers a much higher level of availability and performance with 5,000 IOPS per disk, versus 500 IOPS per disk with Standard Storage. The way Premium storage offers this is by utilizing SSD storage drives within the data center that are located on the same server hardware where the VM is running. Premium storage also offers a much higher throughput rate per disk of 2 Gbps.

Single Instance VMs must use Premium Storage to obtain 99.9% SLA guarantee.

Benefits of Multi-Instance VM Configuration

While it may sound appealing to configure your workloads to use a single instance VM, after all you can now get the 99.9% SLA guarantee, it’s still more adventagous to configure your workloads to use a multi-instance VM configuration instead. Among these is a higher SLA guarantee for multi-instance VMs of 99.95%.

Multi-Instance VM workloads achieve a higher 99.95% SLA guarantee.

For the vast majority of workloads it’s best to use a configuration consisting of multiple VM instances for added availability, reliability, and scalability. The best way to achieve all three of these is to use the Microsoft Azure service that is VM Scale Sets.

For more information on the SLA guarantee for Virtual Machines within Microsoft Azure, you can read the official SLA for Virtual Machines details page.

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  2. What’s the SLA for a single-instance VM that *doesn’t* use premium storage? I’ve Binged high and low, but haven’t turned up a direct answer.

    1. Chris Pietschmann January 28, 2018 at 6:25 pm

      There is NO SLA for a Single Instance VM what is not using Premium storage. That is why you have been unable to find any information. To get an SLA with VMs in Azure you need to either host a multi-instance VM or a single instance VM using Premium Storage.

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Fujifilm aims to double revenue from medical systems in India

Fujifilm aims to double revenue from medical systems in India

New Delhi : Japanese photography and imaging company Fujifilm is confident of doubling revenues from its medical systems business to over Rs 1,000 crore, buoyed by opportunities in tier II and III cities.

Fujifilm, a leader in the diagnostic imaging space, is also actively engaged in various Public Private Partnership projects floated by government agencies to provide its products and services.

“We are growing at 15 to 20 per cent in the (medical systems) segment. My hope is that we would grow more than double in the next five years,” Fujifilm India Managing Director Yasunobu Nishiyama told .

Medical health care products account for about 50 per cent of the company’s Rs 1,000 crore turnover in India, a nascent but growing market for the company, accounting for about 2 per cent of its global business.

Its other businesses in the country include photo imaging (30 per cent), graphics systems (15 per cent) and industrial products and others (55 per cent).

Nishiyama said Fujifilm is keen on exploring opportunities in the existing healthcare centres in the country, where the old conventional analogue X-ray machines are being replaced with digital ones.

“We want to promote better medical equipment systems in tier II and III cities. The world is going digital and in India too, analogue machines are being changed to digital X- ray,” he added.

He further said: “Now the demand is very huge, specially in PPP and private hospitals. So we are collaborating with them.”

Fujifilm addresses product categories like computed radiography, digital radiography, digital mammography, dry imager, film and screen, endoscopy and point-of-care testing products/clinical chemistry system in India.

The Japanese firm has also started collaborating with the local players which are integrating its system and software in their mobile X-ray units.

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A new cabin bag policy on Ryanair flights meant to be rolled out in November has been delayed until January 15 “to allow customers time to adjust to the changes” over the Christmas period.

The new policy has already seen Ryanair cut checked bag fees from €35 to €25 and increase hold baggage weight from 15kg to 20kg in a move the airline says hopes will encourage less carry-on luggage.

However, from January 15 only priority boarding customers – including Plus, Flexi Plus and Family Plus – will be allowed to bring two carry-on bags. All other passengers will only be permitted to bring one small bag into the cabin, while second bags will be placed in the hold free of charge at the boarding gate.

Ryanair’s Kenny Jacobs claims the volume of passengers bringing two carry-on bags is to blame for late-running services and says the new policy “will speed up the boarding of flights and eliminate flight delays”.

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After arriving at Jack Edwards Thursday evening, an out of the blue phone call to Gary Berdeaux of Beachflight Aviation brought him out to the airport within 15 minutes. Gary went out of his way to assist finding space in his hanger for the BZIM and then insisting in taking me for a meal and a drink at a local restaurant. Not usually a fish person, Gary recommended the Mahi-Mahi. I loved it. A very meaty chewy fish.

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A storms a coming.

Gary could not be more helpful, picking me up on Friday, taking me to his hanger, for me to collect some items, and then to the FBO to get a car hire. Gary further dropped everything, meeting me at his hanger on Sunday and then early morning Monday for my departure. There is something about Trike pilots in America. All have gone out their way to help basically a stranger.

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