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Tom Pedersen<|fim_middle|> restoration manager in Oregon. Tom is pleased to be carrying on the tradition as an MCC Board member today. | | Helena, MT
For nearly four decades, Tom Pedersen has lived in Helena, Montana, teaching, coaching, mentoring and leading youth. Tom currently teaches at Capital High School and was named Montana Teacher of the Year for 2012. With a focus on science education that uses nature as a classroom, he designed a Senior Science Seminar program that takes students on learning adventures to Glacier and Yellowstone National Parks. Tom enjoys taking students into the forest to learn about water quality, forestry and stewardship. He currently spends summers working for the United States Forest Service Youth Forest Monitoring Program (YFMP) as a crew leader, taking crews of high school students into stream sites to monitor water quality and to share their findings and concerns with the Forest Service.
Tom's son, Tyler, after graduating in 2006 from UM with a degree in Ecology, served as a MCC crewmember and credits this valuable experience for launching his career as a riparian | 193 |
Contador: A lot can still happen at the Tour de France
Patrick Fletcher 2017-07-17T19:<|fim_middle|> hard for this, to arrive in top shape here. Three days before coming here I broke my own record on a climb in Madrid that I've been doing my whole life. Without the crashes, I believe I'd now be fighting for the yellow jersey."
Two chances in the Alps
As he has done on a number of occasions recently, Contador professed his desire to create spectacle on the bike, to make people watching on television sit up and say 'wow', insisting he values those sorts of days more than actual victories.
He felt a twang of that when he went up the road with Landa on the hugely entertaining and finely balanced stage to Foix on Sunday, but if he manages it for real in one of the two remaining mountain stages, he'd consider this Tour at least a partial success.
"I wouldn't be here if I wasn't thinking about trying to do something or other," said Contador, explaining that, physically, he's feeling better and better each day.
"It's true, there aren't too many options, there are only two stages, but two stages where I think I can do great things."
Asked, slightly cheekily, if the final podium was still out of the question, Contador initially replied, "What do you think?" before giving his fans a slice of hope, however faint.
"A lot can happen. Sincerely, if you impose limits on yourself, you're going to slow yourself down. My objective isn't to get on the podium – my objective is to enjoy what's left of the race, chase a stage win, and if the podium comes, then great," he said.
"But if you say to me that it's impossible, I say to you, sincerely, that there are still a lot of things that can happen." | 25:00Z
Spaniard hopes to do something special in the final week of what has been a bruising Tour so far
Alberto Contador (Trek-Segafredo) after stage 15 (Image credit: Jonathan Devich/epicimages.us)
Alberto Contador (Trek-Segafredo) after the stage 14 finish (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alberto Contador (Trek-Segafredo) with the press post-stage (Image credit: Jonathan Devich/epicimages.us)
Alberto Contador and Mikel Landa on the attacks during stage 13 of the Tour de France
Most aggressive Alberto Contador (Trek-Segafredo) (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
There's a sense of bathos surrounding Alberto Contador as the Tour de France pauses for its second rest day. Here is a rider who, with the exception of his debut in 2005, has never finished outside the top five in a Grand Tour, but who has been blunted here, reduced to a bit-part role in the greatest show in cycling.
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The Trek-Segafredo team still organised a rest-day press conference for their leader on Monday, but at times he spoke more like a pundit, analysing the riders and the stages that will be pivotal in the fight for the yellow jersey, but from a distance, uninvolved.
Stage 17, which goes up the Col du Galibier, will be more decisive than the Izoard summit finish the following day, we learned. Mikel Landa (Team Sky) should think carefully about his next team.
But as for Contador himself, ninth overall and nearly six minutes down on Chris Froome (Team Sky), the objectives he's setting his sights on for the moment are trying to enjoy what's left of the race, hunting a stage and hopefully capturing the imagination of the public.
"People said I would head home, but that never crossed my mind at any point. I'm going to keep trying. I'm realistic and I'm aware that there are many riders ahead of me – riders who've gained a lot of time – and at the moment my most realistic options could be other ones, like a stage victory," he said.
"The truth is I have the opportunity to do what I want, to enjoy it, to enjoy racing my bike."
It's almost sad to see a seven-time Grand Tour winner (he'd tell you nine), in what is likely his final bid for the yellow jersey, reduced to stage-hunting and "having fun".
But this isn't necessarily a case of a dying of the light. Contador feels physically capable of winning the Tour de France but, as has been the theme in recent years, crashes have thrown him off course. He lost time after crashing twice on stage 9 in the Jura mountains, but the worse ones came on the flat stage to Pau, and he lost four minutes the following day on the first outing in the Pyrenees.
"I don't believe in luck or bad luck but there are moments, with the crashes, where you're near your limit, psychologically," said Contador.
"I don't want to look back, but the truth is I'd worked so | 756 |
Music – The Universal Language • Pass It On!
Welcome to the New Fully Digital Pass It On!
Music is the universal language that embraces children of all nationalities and cultures and encourages young children and their parents to melt away boundaries as children embark on a journey to discover their own inner musicians.
"The melody communicates one thing, the words another, and adding movement to a song provides the thread that binds it all together," says Stephen Michael Schwartz, a children's artist who has been sharing his gift of song and music with audiences for more than thirty years.
This gift has guided Stephen on a journey across the world where he finds environments may change, but parents, anywhere he travels, all want the same thing for their children. Music brings joy, laughter, and song into children's hearts and they are able to get caught up in that music as they hear familiar notes or melodies. Stephen, best known as a member of the popular children's group Parachute Express, is currently performing solo in more than sixty shows in thirty cities across China, utilizing children's music to break down barriers.
Stephen encourages educators and performers of children's music to sing with the children, not at them, and to guide the children to the music as well as to connect visually through familiar movements and actions. Music provides the opportunity for an artist to create a dialogue between children and parents of all different cultures through the song being sung or performed.
Call-and-response songs also work very well in the international language of children's music. Singing a verse and having children echo the verse back allows the children to interact with the singer and learn the song more effectively in a playful manner. For children who don't speak the language, this technique is essential in teaching the words and meaning.
Stephen also recommends using syllables such as "la, la, la" in the lyrics of a song, which enables young children to sing along with ease.
Animal sounds are universal as well. The "mooing" of a cow, "quacking" of a duck, or "barking" of a dog, provide something familiar when learning a new song, and also facilitates children's ability to join into the song when language is a barrier that needs to be overcome.
Although children may not fully understand the lyrics of a song, they are able to translate the sounds, to visually understand different movements, and to<|fim_middle|>. It has the power to connect each and every one of us. Without it, our world would be very different.
Stephen is the recipient of many awards, including but not limited to the National Parenting Award, the 2013 Mom's Choice Award, and the 2013 Creative Child Magazine Award. | thus discover the amazing international language of music that speaks to them through rhythms, notes, and movements.
Makes everything in the whole world grow.
A song that communicates love might be Stephen's song "Gotta Lotta Love," about the love a child has for each member of his or her family.
Those are my sisters, I'm their brother.
Got a lot of love surrounding me.
Whether singing songs to children in America or in China, Stephen recognizes he is playing an essential role in children's futures by exposing them to the wonder of music. Drawing inspiration from his childhood experiences of sitting around a campfire and singing along to the folk songs of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, Stephen knows he is helping to plant a love of music in children and to make music a part of their everyday lives.
Now, after such a long career doing what he loves, Stephen also gets to experience the children he inspired years ago as parents who return to see him with their children and express gratitude for the impact he has had on their lives.
The importance of music as a universal language defies all boundaries and erases all borders | 225 |
75th Anniversary of the sinking of HMAS Armidale
Published on December 02, 2017 by Department of Defence (author), LSIS Kayla Hayes (photographer)
Members of naval cadet unit TS Armidale stand<|fim_middle|> Byrne (photographer)
HMAS Darwin flies her decommissioning pennant as she sails toward Fleet Base East for the final time as a commissioned ship.
Twelve former Commanding Officers have sailed onboard Royal Australian Navy frigate HMAS Darwin today as she transited through Sydney Heads into her home port for the last time.
Historic helicopter captured for Memorial
Published on November 26, 2017 by Ms Dallas McMaugh (author and photographer)
Leading Seaman Daniel Crowe, Chief Petty Officer Michael Bryan, Warrant Officer Brian Pashley, Ms Stephanie Boyle, Mr Ian Parrott, Lieutenant Caleb Muggeridge and Lieutenant Commander Damien Liberale with the Australian Navy's S-70B-2 Seahawk helicopter fondly known as 'Christine'.
With the retirement of the Australian Navy's Seahawk Bravo S-70B-2 helicopter from service scheduled for 1 December, aircraft 872 (fondly known as 'Christine') will be taking up a new home at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
Rapid start for Navy engineers
Published on November 25, 2017 by Department of Defence (author)
A group of future Navy engineers who are at various stages in their studies from Naval Officer Year One through to the final year of their engineering degrees have spent a few days in the new Fleet Base East Centre for Innovation, rapid prototyping and 3D printing their way to a thrilling career start.
A group of future Navy engineers have had the opportunity to spend a few days in the Navy's Centre for Innovation, rapid prototyping and 3D printing their way to a thrilling career start.
Offshore Patrol Vessel announced
Published on November 24, 2017 by Mr Pup Elliott (author)
An Offshore Patrol Vessel, designed by Lürssen.
The much awaited announcement for the replacement to the current Armidale Class patrol boats was announced by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull at Russell Offices in Canberra today.
Maritime medicine in the Middle East
Published on November 24, 2017 by LEUT Holly Murphy (author), ABIS Nicolas Gonzalez (photographer)
Medical Officer Lieutenant Holly Murphy stands in the sickbay of HMAS Newcastle whilst on Operation Manitou in the Middle East region.
With a ship's company of 230, HMAS Newcastle's small medical team of three health care professionals has been kept busy while recently deployed in the Middle East. | shoulder to shoulder with crew members of Darwin-based patrol boat HMAS Armidale (II) for the 75th anniversary commemorations of the sinking of HMAS Armidale (I) in the township of Armidale.
On the 75th anniversary of the final action of HMAS Armidale (I), the Royal Australian Navy has again paused to mark the loss of 100 servicemen.
Straight shooter is top gun yet again
Published on December 07, 2017 by CPL Sebastian Beurich (author), Unknown (photographer)
Chief Petty Officer Aircraft Technical Airframes Steve Atkins, right, accepts his award as High Gun (overall top shot) of the ADF Clay Target Association Interservice Carnival.
Navy's Chief Petty Officer Aviation Technician Aircraft Steven Atkins walked away from the Australian Defence Force Clay Target Association Interservice Carnival as the overall top shot for the sixth time in seven years.
Navy Tiger Sharks play it cool
Published on December 03, 2017 by FLTLT Eamon Hamilton (author)
LAC Samantha Smith, playing for Navy, takes on an Army player during the ADFIHA tournament in Newcastle.
Navy gave their Army colleagues a tough fight, but the Army Knights clinched their third consecutive title in the recent Australian Defence Force Ice Hockey Association tournament.
Navy netballers New Zealand bound
Published on December 02, 2017 by LEUT Will Singer (author), LSIS Bradley Darvill (photographer)
(L to R) Able Seaman Maritime Logistics - Chef Kristie Bryden and Able Seaman Communication Information Systems Stacy Creamer from HMAS Stirling have been selected to play for the Australian Defence Force team in a netball competition held in New Zealand, 2018.
Navy sent a signal to the selectors when two HMAS Stirling-based sailors represented Western Australia in the recent Australian Defence Force Netball Championships held in Darwin.
Second destroyer enters sea trials
Published on November 29, 2017 by Department of Defence (author), AWD Alliance (photographer)
The second Air Warfare Destroyer 'Brisbane' heads out for its first phase of sea trials.
The second Hobart class destroyer, NUSHIP Brisbane, has commenced her first phase of sea trials, which will test the ship's hull, propulsion and navigation systems.
Darwin sails into Sydney Harbour for final time
Published on November 27, 2017 by LEUT Ben Willee (author), AB Tara | 528 |
PRACTICE DEVELOPMENT
Meyners Mines Its Talent
A firm realized it had to have systems in place for growth and did something about it.
BY PHAEDRA BROTHERTON AND MICHAEL HAYES
Firm Practice Management
The JofA will track the progress of a practice-development initiative under way at Meyners and Co., LLC, an 80-person, seven-partner, 45-CPA firm in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The firm saw training its people in a range of communication, focus-sharpening and goal-setting methods as the first, essential step to increasing business. This is part one.
WHEN MEYNERS AND CO. LOST one of its rainmakers, it decided to spread the responsibility of getting clients and new business by training nonrainmakers in the art of marketing professional services.
THE FIRM FIRST NEEDED TO INCREASE its capacity to handle more business. To get employees to commit to taking on new accountabilities and learning additional skills to do this, it found a consultant that could help them with a cultural makeover.
MEYNERS PROVIDED INFORMATION on finance, operations, administration, marketing, growth and business goals as well as its specialty and niche market affinities to help the consultant identify where potential barriers to practice development existed.
TO GET STAFF WORKING TOGETHER the consultant gathered feedback to refine the firm's core values and mission and make sure everyone had a clear understanding of what the firm's values are.
TO HELP DO THIS THE CONSULTANT conducted training named after and based on The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen R. Covey. The interpersonal and leadership skills the seven-habits principles engender are the underpinning for Meyners' meeting new demands for employee focus, smooth communication and, ultimately, outreach to clients.
THE TRAINING GAVE EMPLOYEES processes and tools to help them put the habits into practice and hold themselves accountable for using them.
PHAEDRA BROTHERTON is an Arlington, Virginia-based business writer who specializes in career, management and workplace issues. Her e-mail address is Phaebro@aol.com . MICHAEL HAYES is a senior editor on the JofA . Ms. Hayes is an employee of the AICPA and her views, as expressed in this article, do not necessarily reflect the views of the Institute. Official positions are determined through certain specific committee procedures, due process and deliberation.
This article should not be construed as legal advice or a legal opinion on any factual situation. As legal advice must be tailored to the specific circumstance of each case, the general information provided herein is not intended to substitute for the advice of professional counsel.
any firms have a "rainmaker" or two who bring in the bulk of new engagements. For Meyners and Co., LLC, it was an arrangement that worked just fine as long as its stars stayed put. Alas, in June 1999 one of the firm's major business generators—a tax partner with a long client list—retired abruptly after suffering a disability. His departure highlighted a need that had been brewing and led the firm to take a hard look at how it would improve its pipeline to new business. To win more work and find the resources to service it ultimately would prove to be a two-steps-forward, one-step-back saga of determination.
"Our partner group was working at capacity," recalls Meyners' litigation services partner Thomas Burrage, CPA. "Between client management<|fim_middle|> in accordance with them."
Using e-mail to communicate from her office in Illinois, Rice took the staff through the core values. She sent them out, one at a time, to all staff members, requesting each to reply within a week's time with a definition of what that value meant to him or her. Staff members also were asked to describe behavior that demonstrated a particular core value. Employees e-mailed their definitions and descriptions back to Rice. For each value, the consultant compiled the group's input into a unified definition with examples and ran them by the partners for an OK.
Applying the same steps, the group worked out what acting on a core value looked like at different levels in the workplace hierarchy. For example, for "collaboration," staff came up with specific behaviors for each level of employee, from entry-level to partner.
Level 1 collaborative behavior was expected of all employees, and was defined as sharing knowledge or ideas about a particular task or subject with another employee. That might be as simple as a person at the front desk telling another staff member when an express mail package had been picked up.
Meyners and Co.'s Corporate Values Poster
Level 2 collaborative behavior applied to midlevel or professional employees (team leaders/senior accountants) and consisted of delegating responsibilities and communicating expectations to team members.
Level 3 collaborative behavior applied to executive-level or partner-level employees and consisted of activities to encourage communication between departments, both to share ideas and to minimize friction among staff. For example, a partner might ask his or her managers to consult with employees to plan the staff members' continuing education for the year. To come to a decision, they would discuss what skills the firm wanted strengthened as well as what each employee wanted to learn.
LEARNING TO LIVE THE VALUES
Once Meyners' people agreed on what the firm's core values looked like, the next step was to internalize them. To help do this the consultant conducted training named after and based on The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen R. Covey (Simon & Schuster, 1989). The seven-habits principles of personal and communal effectiveness are closely aligned with the firm's values, Rice says. The interpersonal and leadership skills they engender are the underpinning for Meyners' meeting new demands for employee focus, smooth communication and outreach to clients.
"The course teaches processes and skills that allow individuals to organize their lives using their own set of values. Training our staff in these skills and principles will help us develop our desired corporate culture," says Burrage. In addition, when staff perceive themselves as empowered, they clear away obstacles to doing an outstanding job, he says.
The habits—a series of steps (each one is precursor to the next)—are
1. Be proactive.
2. Begin with the end in mind.
3. Put first things first.
4. Think win-win.
5. Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
6. Synergize.
7. Sharpen the saw.
Periodically during the training, which consisted of two one-and-a-half-day workshops, the consultant divided staff into groups to discuss the concepts being taught at the moment. This brought together individuals from different parts of the firm and expanded their sphere of contact beyond the confines of their day-to-day activities.
The first session covered the first three habits, which focus on personal- and leadership-development skills. Employees learned to develop an individual mission statement and a process for managing time and setting priorities. "After learning each habit, we discussed how to apply it to our lives," says Burrage.
"Be proactive," for example, touched a nerve for Terisa Blunt, CPA, a Meyners audit manager who recognized a need for more assertiveness in her daily life and incorporated habit one as part of her mission. "Being proactive means focusing on things I have influence over," says Blunt. Staff members could choose a reciprocal mentoring relationship with another employee—tantamount to an in-house personal coach—and Blunt has found the reinforcement and feedback helpful. She says some of her enthusiasm for the seven habits is because they fit her outlook.
Janet McHard, CPA, supervising senior accountant, cites "put first things first" (habit three) as most meaningful to her for help in balancing day-to-day work, career and family. Burrage, too, has found "put first things first" particularly valuable for reminding him to schedule time with his kids and permit himself a weekly trip to the library. For long-term goals, McHard says that "begin with the end in mind" (habit two) helps her set priorities and deal effectively with daily pressures.
The second part of the training covered habits four through seven, which address how people interact. To put them into practice, employees participated in large and small group sessions, playing a variety of games in teams and taking part in role-playing exercises that emphasized empathetic listening, team building and collaboration.
Finding personal applicability in the habits helped persuade staff that the cultural housecleaning they were going through was more than a rhetorical exercise. Stephen P. Comeau, JD and manager of litigation and valuation services, had participated in leadership seminars in the past and was a skeptic. But the program presented techniques and insights that "help you to focus on the right things in trying to mature as an individual and as an organization," he concedes.
The seven-habits training was designed to give Meyners' employees tools to use on an ongoing basis and procedures for "holding themselves accountable for engaging in the process," says Rice. One practical exercise takes people through a series of six steps to determine their priorities, for example. It helps them connect with their mission by reviewing their roles, defining their goals, planning their weekly activities and assessing how well they do each week.
When the training was completed, Meyners asked participants to evaluate it anonymously. Out of 65 people, only two or three said they didn't find it useful, Burrage says. Overall, employees were optimistic about the changes in the company and about their abilities to contribute. One employee who has been with the firm for several years and watched it grow to 80 people from 35 finds the training an antidote to the distance that occurs when companies get bigger. Others are encouraged that management has exerted itself to get them involved. "In the past, many of us have waited for change to come from the top down. Now we're each encouraged to help effect it," says Blunt. "Success is up to us."
Meyners appears to be succeeding in getting its employees on board with the changes. In January the partners held their annual Focus Day to update staff on the firm's progress, its market position and strategic plan. The staff's reaction was positive, says Burrage. Senior accountant and CPA Annie Grubelnik sees a wide range of benefits and says, "With this, we all can go down the same path together in trying to improve our work and personal lives."
But much still needs to be done. The firm let everyone know that there would be demands to learn fresh skills and take on new roles, such as marketing services and responsibilities in new niche areas. To accomplish this, the firm will give employees the training they need to do their redesigned jobs. These changes will require modification of Meyners human resources systems to evaluate and compensate staff for meeting the objectives.
"Our next step en route to bringing in and servicing new business is to finalize our job descriptions and develop performance-review and pay-for-performance systems," says Burrage. "In my opinion, we're a much healthier organization as a result of the efforts so far, but the proof will come when we begin marketing and see profitability improvements." Meyners' partners and staff will put the new compensation system in place over the next 12 months, and the JofA will take another look at them then. | , the marketing we already were doing, human resources issues and other business matters, there was no time or energy left for any additional clients or roles." The firm decided it would spread the responsibility of recruiting clients by training and assisting its nonrainmakers in "the art of marketing professional services," says Burrage.
What You Pay For
In 2001 there were 53,651 U.S. CPA offices with total receipts of $38,601,265,000. Payroll as a percentage of receipts was 39.3%.
Source: Employee productivity statistics, BizStats.com .
A FALSE START
For its first try, Meyners turned to a nationally known professional-services consultant, which held an all-day marketing training session for the firm's partners and managers. As part of implementing those newly acquired sales skills, each participant was to describe his or her activities and successes to the consultant, who would record them and report progress back to the group, thereby reinforcing what worked. Unfortunately, because there was no real shift in outlook, there weren't many successes—and the project failed.
"The same individuals who had been producing results prior to the training continued to produce. Those who hadn't didn't begin to," says Burrage. In addition, the process of keeping the consultant informed took time away from other important business activities. Meyners dropped the operation.
BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD
A year or so later, managing partner Bruce Malott was at a seminar where a presentation by a practice-development company caught his attention. He and his colleagues took a closer look and concluded that the Swansea, Illinois, Growth Partnership (TGP) understood the challenges unique to a CPA firm. "Its members were formerly marketing directors of substantial firms," Burrage explains. Meyners hired the outfit to help the firm design a plan to grow. The project is long term and has been under way for more than a year.
TGP's protocol involved first compiling information about Meyners, its employees, clients and systems. To do this, the consultant asked Meyners to answer its preaudit kit, consisting of a 60-item questionnaire for the managing partner—which covered finance, operations, administration and marketing—and a shorter set of practice-development-related questions for the other partners. The purpose of the preaudit was to get a feel for the firm's culture, identify "where potential barriers exist" and prepare for a first visit.
Next, TGP went to Meyners to interview partners and employees alike and learn more about who they were collectively and as individuals. The consultant also gathered data about the firm's growth and business goals as well as its specialty and niche market affinities. The next step was a retreat attended by Meyners' partners and TGP to discuss the findings and take an in-depth look at the firm's competitors and where it stood in relation to them.
LIGHT DAWNS
With the groundwork done, TGP presented its marketing plan and strategies for growing the firm. One tactic it suggested was to prepare a list of prospective clients from a targeted industry, and then contact them through a series of three to four mailings prior to making a cold call. Although Meyners liked the idea, it hit the partners that this would bring in more work than they could handle. It was then they fully realized they didn't have the time, the people or the systems in place to put the consultant's ideas into action. There would be no quick fix.
In the give-and-take of the moment, the partners aired their concerns about putting pressure on themselves to bring in and service more business. The consulting company recommended that Meyners think about how to use the talent it had in-house. Its advice: Develop a firmwide system to encourage growth efforts by getting all employees involved. Motivate and nurture staff to play a more active role in marketing the firm's services and supporting the additional business.
Meyners needed to start by looking at two important aspects of practice development. These were
Specific firmwide marketing goals and strategies, such as getting an engagement team to work together to identify what other services a client might need.
A system to train, inculcate firm values in and create incentives for the staff people who do the work and carry out the strategies.
DO YOU TAKE THESE VALUES?
Meyners already had developed its core values and mission (see exhibit , below) with help from Practice Development Institute (PDI), a Chicago-based marketing/communications firm. In alphabetical order, its core values are
Collaboration.
Commitment to balancing self, team and client responsibilities.
Commitment to quality and responsive customer service.
Commitment to the greater good.
Continuous and never-ending improvement.
Innovation.
Mutual respect, honesty and trust.
Profitability.
Risk taking.
Meyners needed to ensure that staff members embraced the firm's values and goals as their own to prepare for the intense activity ahead. Making sure both staff and partners clearly understood them was the first step. Coral Rice, a TGP partner who specializes in organizational development, says: "The core values hung everywhere in the firm, but often there were misunderstandings about what they meant. Everyone had his or her own interpretation of how to act | 1,060 |
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Expanding your knowledge of sciences with fun
Every young kid has a dream of future. When I was a kid, I once hoped to become a scientist, which was not a computer scientist like what I am pursuing now, but a scientist that solves puzzles of the nature. From the starring sky to the mysterious atoms, all things were so fascinating to the younger version of me.
Apparently the later part of the story did not go as it was planned originally. I somehow realized that computers were more fascinating, and they could bring me a better career path, compared to<|fim_middle|> clearly explain scientific facts and concepts in an easy-to-understand way.
"Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey", a TV show presented by Fox and National Geographic Channel. You will be exploring the universe and the histories of many other things with Neil deGrasse Tyson, an American astrophysicist. This TV show is actually very similar to the Bill's book in many aspects. They both refer to some history stories to explain why and how people finally found answers, such as the public-health concern on leaded gas. And they use similar metaphors, such as imagining an atom as a church to demonstrate the sparse space between electrons and the centron. That is the correct way to explain complex concepts to the general public.
Readings Sciences | becoming a scientists in nature sciences. In other words, I became realistic as most people around expected. However, those dreams had never gone. They were concealed deeply in my heart, and waiting for a fire to let them be shining again.
After years of search for the fire, I have read many scientific books, and watched various scientific TV shows. Here are the top two items that I would like to recommend to all of you who are seeking for answers of the nature in a casual way 🙂
"A Short History of Nearly Everything", a book written by Bill Bryson. Actually I do not remember when I first started reading this book, but I do know that I have read it for many many times. It does include nearly everything: from tiny things like atoms, to large things like the earth and other planets; from old mysteries like the origin of life, to the nearer ones like the evolution of humans. The use of many history stories and metaphors can | 193 |
Suzi Quatro engages four-wheel drive
Posted by: Tom Dixon in Album Reviews, Reviews April 17, 2019 0
It's Thursday, it's seven o'clock…it's Top of the Pops! (Crackerjack was Fridays at five, but seemed like a relevant misuse of their catchphrase).
It was 1973, the time of the hormonal youth of fourteen, and ToTP was a must see each week… most of the music was crap as I'd already adopted heavy rock, but Pans People were not to be missed! In (I think) June of that year I witnessed the birth of a legend… a girl in a leather cat suit with a bass slung way down low singing a rock song called 'Can The Can'. That was when I first saw and fell in love with Suzi Quatro. OK, her stuff was more glam than rock and some of it (as the Chinn/Chapman machine wrote most of her initial output) was anodyne, she still injected a fun, sultry and capable sheen to the songs. It was later in her fifty years plus career when the true nature of her rock, blues and Detroit soul roots manifested themselves. I'm delighted to say that, after the rather average Quatro/Sweet/Slade release of last year, she has now released an album of power that suits her still magnificent pipes.
No Control is eleven tracks of blues-rock and soul. It is actually very, very good despite a calypso slip on 'Love Isn't Fair' which is OK, but feels out of place with the rest. The others are strong, 'Going Home' is blues-rock with a driving beat and subtle chord work and the bonus of neat B3 work after the bridge. 'Strings' is funky blues with harmonies and horns. 'Macho Man' could have been straight from '73 with its Quotro (not a misprint) feel. Best of the lot is the slide and harmonica laced 'Don't Do Me Wrong' where Suzi pulls all of the elements together in a bass driven blues-rock song of quality. 'Heavy Duty' and 'I Can Teach You To Fly' are glam-rock Suzi with more brass slotted in and, although the latter is a bit Coz I Luv You, they're still great fun. Closer 'Going Down Blues' is a blues rocker, with a combination of guitar, brass and piano in the staccato intro and then the straightforward groove of Chicago blues giving added weight, and a clever shift of pace to the fade.
This is an album of depth and skill that may not be apparent on first listen but given time it reveals Suzi's<|fim_middle|>4-17
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North East born, South West domiciled music lover - mainly heavy rock & blues but not averse to other genres. I'm fortunate to have retired early & I can now take full advantage of the 40+ years I have spent collecting, listening, watching & playing (badly) & have enjoyed researching how blues in particular has shaped the music we know & love today. Now if only I could get my Strat & Musicman to sound in reality how they do in my head! | true capabilities as writer, player, singer and all round performer. No, it won't set the world alight but it is a damn sight better than a lot of the so-called rock out there at the moment…plus, her sense of fun runs through the whole album and takes you along with it.
It's Thursday, it's seven o'clock…it's Top of the Pops! (Crackerjack was Fridays at five, but seemed like a relevant misuse of their catchphrase). It was 1973, the time of the hormonal youth of fourteen, and ToTP was a must see each week… most of the music was crap as I'd already adopted heavy rock, but Pans People were not to be missed! In (I think) June of that year I witnessed the birth of a legend… a girl in a leather cat suit with a bass slung way down low singing a rock song called 'Can The Can'. That was…
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Higher, Further, Faster (Captain Marvel, 2019)
Set in the 1995, Vers is a Kree<|fim_middle|> (Split Second, 1992) | warrior. She struggles with no memory of her life past six years. The Kree are in a war with the shape shifting Skrulls. Vers and a few Skrulls end up on earth, and Vers is in a race against time to locate the MacGuffin. She finds herself allied with S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Nicholas Fury.
Vers starts to put her life back together with the aid of Fury as the Skrulls close in, all while Vers awaits the arrival of her fellow Kree.
The film is action packed. Captain Marvel (Vers) is one of the more powerful of the Marvel Cinematic Universe heroes, but hardly over powered. The action sequences are pretty exhilarating with good effects. The Skrulls are pretty cool looking, matching fairly closely their comic book counterparts. I really liked their transformation process.
The Relationship of Vers (who learns she if from earth and was named Carol) and her fellow pilot Maria works quite well. In fact, I really like the little team the film assembles. And then there is Goose the cat. Greatest movie cat ever.
The film has Stan Lee's final cameo and it has an extra layer if you are especially observant. Since this is set after Captain America the First Avenger and before Iron Man, there is a slight bit of prequelitis, where the film acknowledges some stuff that happens in later films. You know…answering the questions we never had. For the most part, these are unobtrusive. But there was really only one bit that really made me groan. The film is largely self contained, so it does not lose to much focus from that.
Captain Marvel has faced some definite hurdles. It got pushed from 2017 to 2019 to make room for other films. The one other film to get moved (the Inhumans) actually went through a drastic change into a television series. Add to that a campaign against the film by certain folks who saw it as the opportunity to send a message to Disney and Marvel about "SJW Politics". These folks also went on a crusade against star Brie Larson. Larson made a reasonable concern over a lack of diversity in journalists at press junkets, only to have people twist her words into a caricature and accusing her of saying things like she "hoped white men did not see Captain Marvel". On Jimmy Kimmel, she joked about how she and Sam Jackson "hate the same people" and this was made out to be a reference to fandom (she made no mention of fandom).
Add in attempts to review bomb (put negative reviews of a product in order to create a false view of a majority of negativity. Often this is done to new product from creators who have committed the crime of having opinions) and the film had a bit of an uphill climb.
So…is Captain Marvel a hardcore Feminist and SJW screed?
No. In fact, if that is your perception of the film? Actual Feminism will kill you.
What the film actually is? Quite a lot of fun. No, it does not rewrite the script on the MCU. But I had a great time and the audience I saw it with were very into the film, even clapping after it ended.
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For the JHU team's experiment, increased force (arrow pointing down) applied on the material led to more electrical charges, and thus, more mineralization. Credit: Pam Li/Johns Hopkins University
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Inspired by how human bone and colorful coral reefs adjust mineral deposits in response to their surrounding environments, Johns Hopkins researchers have created a self-adapting material that can<|fim_middle|>, or require active maintenance when they are created and are limited in how much stress they can bear. Having materials with adaptable properties, like those of wood and bone, can provide safer structures, save money and resources, and reduce harmful environmental impact.
Natural materials can self-regulate by using resources in the surrounding environment; for example, bones use cell signals to control the addition or removal of minerals taken from blood around them. Inspired by these natural materials, Kang and colleagues sought to create a materials system that could add minerals in response to applied stress.
The team started off by using materials that can convert mechanical forces into electrical charges as scaffolds, or support structures, that can create charges proportional to external force placed on it. The team's hope was that these charges could serve as signals for the materials to start mineralization from mineral ions in the environment.
Kang and colleagues immersed polymer films of these materials in a simulated body fluid mimicking ionic concentrations of human blood plasma. After the materials incubated in the simulated body fluid, minerals started forming on the surfaces. The team also discovered that they could control the types of minerals formed by controlling the fluid's ion composition.
The team then set up a beam anchored on one end to gradually increase stress from one end of the materials to the other and found that regions with more stress had more mineral buildup; the mineral height was proportional to the square root of stress applied.
More stress placed on one end of the beam led to more mineralization. As stress gradually decreased across the beam, so did the amount of mineralization. Credit: Sung Hoon Kang
Their methods, the researchers say, are simple, low-cost and don't require extra energy."Our findings can pave the way for a new class of self-regenerating materials that can self-reinforce damaged areas," says Kang. Kang hopes that these materials can someday be used as scaffolds to accelerate treatment of bone-related disease or fracture, smart resins for dental treatments or other similar applications.
Additionally, these findings contribute to scientists' understanding of dynamic materials and how mineralization works, which could shed light on ideal environments needed for bone regeneration.
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Nanoparticles: Acidic alert | change its stiffness in response to the applied force. This advancement can someday open the doors for materials that can self-reinforce to prepare for increased force or stop further damage.
A report of the findings was published today in Advanced Materials.
"Imagine a bone implant or a bridge that can self-reinforce where a high force is applied without inspection and maintenance. It will allow safer implants and bridges with minimal complication, cost and downtime," says Sung Hoon Kang, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute, and Institute for NanoBioTechnology at The Johns Hopkins University and the study's senior author.
While other researchers have attempted to create similar synthetic materials before, doing so has been challenging because such materials are difficult and expensive to create | 152 |
<|fim_middle|> it was cooling off), I decided to add my missing miles to this weekends runs (probably tomorrow).
Today was my big Detach testing day! I drank a bottle 30 minutes before my run, kept a bottle of Coconut+ in my hydration pack, and made a post-run smoothie/shake with it as well! Check out my blog post from last week about this light, crisp coconut water based pre/mid workout beverage 🙂 You can even save a little ordering online!
Not a bad thing at all to spend the time home with your family!!
I love reading training recaps that include being flexible with the schedule. Too many people (myself included) push through to get all the miles and end up stressed out, tired, and injured. This is a great example for new runners!
Family time is the best! Still a lot of miles this week! Great job!
You had an impressive week of mileage. And, spending extra time with the family is always a good thing. Good luck with pacing your race this weekend. Thanks for linking! | Today is a day off – a welcome day off since I probably pushed a little too hard in my run last night (Garmin told me to rest for over 40 hours…ouch – but it felt good!!). I went for a cold, snowy walk to the store and then back to work.
Ice. Snow. Slick… While the temps were manageable, the slippage was a little more interesting. I wore my trail shoes rather than my road shoes to try and limit the amount of slipping – and it worked out well!
I hit the trails over lunch today. It was a beautiful afternoon and I didn't want to miss it! Since I didn't get as far with little man on the bike (and | 147 |
Wonderland (übersetzt "Wunderland") ist der Titel einer US-amerikanischen Fernsehserie aus dem Jahr 2000.
Die von der Kritik hoch gelobte Serie aus der Feder von Autor und Regisseur Peter Berg wurde in den USA beim Sender ABC nach nur zwei Folgen eingestellt. Zu einer kompletten Ausstrahlung kam es erst Jahre später beim Sender The 101 Network.
Handlung
In der psychiatrischen Notaufnahme des New Yorker Rivervue Hospital kümmern sich Robert Banger und sein psychiatrisches Är<|fim_middle|>8: Hello Goodbye: Finale
Synchronisation
Die Serie wurde bislang nicht auf Deutsch synchronisiert. Das Schweizer Fernsehen SF-1 strahlte die Serie in der deutsch untertitelten Originalfassung aus.
Weblinks
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Fernsehserie der 2000er Jahre | zteteam um krisengeschüttelte Patienten – und kämpfen privat mit eigenen Problemen, die sie selber an den Rand des Wahnsinns bringen.
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By trapping debris at the deck with LeafVac and QuikSkim, before it can reach the pump, the pump impeller is less likely to be damaged by floating or heavy debris. It can operate more freely and efficiently. That can save both time and money.
Due to the patented design of the powerful QuikSkim and the efficiency of LeafVac your pool will seem as if it is operating with two pumps instead of one. That maximum cleaning and circulation. That's Quik | 344 |
Today we look at a game that was actually a huge part of my childhood that I spent many<|fim_middle|> or multiplayer mode. As well as an arcade mode there was also a story mode which had different elements to the arcade version as you had to battle bosses throughout the game.
You had the option of playing as different people as well – some of the characters include Bub and Bob, Cleon and Madame Luna who also all have a special attack as well.
I remember playing this a lot in our family growing up and it is a fun little addictive game – it is not just that it is also the music as well – it was really addictive as it had a great little tone to it! Great fun! | a time playing with my family and getting very competitive against with. Bust A Move 4 or Puzzle Bobble 4 was released in 1998 on the PlayStation – it was Developed by Taito Corporation and Published by Taito Corporation as well.
The computer game originally was an arcade game which, if you play it you can totally see that the elements in the game are very themed in this way. The game is sort of platform game where you have to use coloured bubbles to hit the same coloured bubbles off the chain that is moving towards you. The game was one of the first games like this and is probably the reason you play very similar style games now on your smartphones or tablets.
The game had a total of 640 levels and you had the option to play as a solo | 163 |
"Comprehensive" is the first word I would use to describe this book. It addresses so many nuances of every aspect of data quality assessment and improvement—-things that would go unmentioned by more superficial treatments. Bravo!
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This book presents a valuable reference for not just data professionals, but also project managers and business representatives interested in or responsible for establishing, maintaining, and/or improving data and information quality.
What sets this book apart from others in the field is the business impact-driven approach to assessing and improving data quality, and the specific steps and techniques it provides every step of the way.
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In today's world of instant global communication and trends that turn on a dime, up-to-date and reliable information is essential to effective competition.
Executing Data Quality Projects: Ten Steps to Quality Data and Trusted Information™, provides a systematic approach for improving and creating data and information quality within any organization.
This is not just a book. It is a "How To" manual. Danette's book fills a real gap in the Data Quality literature.
It delivers a methodology that combines a conceptual framework for understanding information quality with the techniques, tools, and instructions for improving and creating information quality.
Every company is different, yet the underlying approach to data quality described in the book applies to all types of data, whether finance, research, development, procurement, manufacturing, sales and marketing, order management<|fim_middle|> of putting quality improvement in context and narrowing her focus. Make no mistake. This book is specially written for project managers, who must lead improvement teams over often-confusing terrain, and for team members who must do the work. This book is clearly written. It is richly detailed and chock full of templates that will help project teams move rapidly. It gets my heartiest endorsement."
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"As an Enterprise DQ Operations Manager, "Executing Data Quality Projects" is a must that details the "how to" methodology to execute data remediation projects. Following the "Ten Steps" methodology provides guidance on a step by step approach to establish trusted information. I used the material to create an Enterprise Level Data Quality Operations plan that was very well recieved by senior management. Danette's book is easy to follow and excellent reference material for data quality. I highly recommend it to any DQ manager, Operations Manager, etc. in any industry."
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NHIS' GIFSHIP touches down in Edo State
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Following the national launch of the Groups, Individuals and Family Social Health Insurance Programme (GIFSHIP) by Dr Osagie Ehanire, the Minister of Health, in Abuja, last year, the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) has launched the scheme in Auchi, Edo State.
The scheme, which is aimed at achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) within a set timeline through its various service platforms, has become the major driver of enrollment especially in the non-formal sector of the economy.
Prof Mohammed Sambo, the Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), in his address at the occasion stated that GIFSHIP was redesigned to extend healthcare coverage to various organisations, political office holders, donor agencies, multinational corporations, philanthropists as well as Nigerians in the diaspora to ensure that every Nigerian has access to quality and affordable healthcare<|fim_middle|> of NHIS, while speaking at the occasion said the programme would pave the way to better health amongst citizens. "GIFSHIP would provide a pathway to accelerated achievement of Universal Health Coverage in Nigeria as it represents a bold and decisive strategy that is sensible for everyone, to get health insurance cover that leaves no one behind," He said.
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He asserted that Auchi was the first location outside Abuja where the launch of the programme would take place whilst also noting that the event was made possible through the support of prominent citizens of the town.
Representing the NHIS boss, Emmanuel Ononokpono, the Head of Media and Public Relation, stated that the mandate of the Scheme was to ensure financial access to quality health services for all Nigerians through social health insurance.
Dr Mustapha Lecky, a former Executive Secretary | 100 |
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Perversion And Artificial Intelligence
dericiousknitty December 13, 2015 December 13, 2015 Eyes to See
The world is ending. The sports fields are empty, the science labs closed. No babies have been born for years. Cut to a split screen of human and robots kissing passionately. "They're trapped!" says the narrator, voice like gravel. "Trapped in a soft, vice-like grip of robot lips." Words slam against the screen, a warning. "Don't. Date. Robots."
Except Futurama's 2001 episode "I Dated a Robot", with its post-apocalyptic world of silvers and blues, wildly overestimated how long it would take before this fear became flesh. It's November 2015, and in Malaysia, where humidity is at 89% and it is almost certainly still raining, David Levy, a founder of the second annual Congress on Love and Sex with Robots, is free to talk on the phone – he is less busy than planned. "I never expected to end up here," he says. I hear a shrug.
The Congress on Love and Sex with Robots was meant to begin on 16 November, but was deemed illegal days after Levy arrived from London. "There's nothing scientific about sex and robots," inspector-general of police Khalid Abu Bakar told a press conference, explaining why. "It is an offence to have anal sex in Malaysia [let alone sex with robots]."
"I think they thought people would be having sex with robots or some strange thing like that," Levy's co-founder Adrian David Cheok said afterwards, explaining that they had planned a series of academic talks about humanoid robotics. But some strange thing like that, some strange thing like a human having sex with a robot, is what Levy, Cheok and others are predicting is almost our reality. They have seen the future of sex, they say, and it is teledildonic.
Hyped as the new wave in erotic tech, tele-dildonics are smart sex toys connected to the internet
Teledildonic. The word rolls around the mouth like a Werther's Original. While there are a variety of romantic tech-sex developments appearing weekly – from the ocean of Oculus Rift possibilities to an invisible boyfriend who lives on your phone, each new development rich as a Miranda July story but as doom-laden as one of Margaret Atwood's – it's teledildonics that are exciting not just the porn industry, but scientists too. Long hyped as the new wave in erotic technology, these are smart sex toys connected to the internet. And while they started life as vibrators that could be operated remotely, today the term has expanded to loosely include the new generation of robotic sex dolls.
Is virtual reality the future of porn?
Cultural analyst Sherry Turkle warns we're rapidly approaching a point where: "We may actually prefer the kinship of machines to relationships with real people and animals." Certainly we have long had a fascination with these half-women, from The Bionic Woman in the 1970s to Her in 2013, where Joaquin Phoenix fell in love with his computer's operating system. This year, Ex Machina's Ava seduced, killed and killed again. In 2007 Ryan Gosling starred opposite a "RealDoll", Bianca, in the indie romance Lars and the Real Girl. The film ends with him gently drowning her in a lake.
A recent study by Stanford University says people may experience feelings of intimacy towards technology because "our brains aren't necessarily hardwired for life in the 21st century". Hence, perhaps, the speed at which relationships with robots are becoming a reality.
Today the RealDoll team, infamous now for its lifelike sex dolls (of which they claim to have sold more than 5,000), is extending its range to develop an artificial intelligence system capable both of following commands and talking back to its user. A Realbotix head (reports the New York Times) which can be attached to the existing RealDoll body will cost around $10,000, and will be available in 2017. In a piece entitled "Is This the Dawn of the Sexbots?", the company's owner David Mills explained the appeal of these warm-to- the-touch dolls, telling Vanity Fair he loves women but "doesn't really like to be around people".
"Women have enjoyed sex toys for 50 years," he said (after introducing his first model, which arrived at his home in what looks like a customised coffin, head not yet attached), "but men are still stigmatised. We have to correct that. I want to be the Rosa Parks of sex dolls. Men are not going to sit in the back of the bus any more."
Pinky and perky: an assortment of nipple choices that customers can order from RealDoll. Photograph: Jonathan Becker/Contour by Getty Images
The people leading us into the future of sex had other lives before (RealDoll's Mills, for instance, is best known for the book Atheist Universe, which Richard Dawkins cites as "admirable work"). David Levy is a British international master of chess. With his white hair and a sharp eyebrow, he has the look of a cynical Einstein. It was chess that led Levy to computing, consulting in the late 1970s on the development of a chess module for home computers. In 1997, and again in 2009, he won the coveted Loebner prize, which awards the programme that is best able to simulate human communication.
"What do you do when you're not doing the Loebner prize?" asked Judge 3 to Levy's chatbot, Do-Much-More (the offspring of his first winner Do-A-Lot). "Oh, I do much more than I intended to do at first. I got more interested in the job as I went along." Judge 3: "Is that difficult?" Do-Much-More: "No, it isn't at all difficult. It is as peaceful as a platypus playing with a potato pudding."
In 2007 Levy published Love and Sex with Robots, a book that one USA Today critic found "troublingly arousing". Just as same-sex love and marriage have finally been embraced by society, he argued, so will sex with robots. "Love with robots will be as normal as love with other humans," he wrote. The dream is, as one would expect, utopian. Prostitution will become obsolete. Artificial intelligence will be the answer to many of the world's problems with intimacy. "The number of sexual acts and lovemaking positions commonly practised between humans will be extended, as robots teach us more than is in all of the world's published sex manuals combined."
Levy predicted "a huge demand from people who have a void in their lives because they have no one to love, and no one who loves them. The world will be a much happier place because all those people who are now miserable will suddenly have someone. I think that will be a terrific service to mankind."
When you have a robot at home, for cooking or sex, wouldn't it be nice to be able to have a chat with it?"
Unless… Unless… One chilly night in February I was chilled further by The Nether by American playwright Jennifer Haley. The story is set in a dystopian future in which people, so disillusioned by real life, decide to abandon it altogether, "crossing over" to spend all their time online in virtual worlds such as The Hideaway. Here, protecting their anonymity by living as avatars, they are able to do whatever they want. They rape children. The online world is sunlit and quaint, with a jolly host called Papa, who, when they enter, offers his guests a little girl. After they've had sex with her, they are invited to slay her with an axe. There are "no consequences here", assures Papa.
And in this play is one of the questions that arises when we stare into the near-future of sex, with its machines and its promises, its employment of the technology used for shoot-'em-up games now reinvented for fucking. Porn actor Ela Darling, when asked by Vice in a discussion about tech and sex: "What would you do if someone fully scanned you and could do whatever they wanted with you?" answered: "That's probably the future. And that's OK with me." Is it a robot's role to do the things that humans can't, or won't? Will they be the solution not just to the problem Levy discusses, of loneliness, but to the problem of people whose desires are illegal? And then what does this mean for the rest of us?
Robots are evolving fast. They were invented in Bristol in 1949 by William Grey Walter, who was investigating how the brain works. It is fitting then, that down a wooded slope on the University of the West of England campus, the Bristol Robotics Laboratory is today considered a world leader in its field. The lab covers an area of 3,500m2, its vast yellow-lit space divided into glass sections littered with hard drives and disembodied prosthetic limbs. In the centre is a house. This is their "assisted living" smart home, where researchers are testing systems that could help people with dementia and limited mobility. By the sofa is a "sociobot" that can respond to facial expressions. The most human-looking of the systems, over by the dining table, is a robot called Molly. She has a tablet in place of a chest, for displaying photographs, and "She'll say, for instance," my guide explains: "'Do you remember Paris?'" In that echoing space I found myself suddenly breathless.
When David Levy was 10 he visited Madame Tussauds waxworks museum with his aunt. "I saw someone," he said, "and it didn't dawn on me for a few seconds that that person was a waxwork. It had a profound effect on me – that not everything is as it seems, and that simulations can be very convincing."
Levy has rarely left the air-conditioned confines of his lab since he arrived in Malaysia. There are no windows. The door leads on to the forecourt of a small shopping mall, and next door, looming yellowly beside the river that marks the border with Singapore, is Legoland. On Google Maps it looks as though a giant child has discarded a toy on her way in for tea. In his lab Levy is working on the new Do-Much-More, a chatbot that, he says, after two weeks is already better than last year's Loebner winner. "When you have a robot around the home," he tells me, "whether for cooking or for sex, wouldn't it be nice to be able to have a chat with it?"
Levy has very little time for jokes. Or, it turns out, for philosophy. "Are humans machines?" I ask him. He tells me he's learned not to try to answer philosophical questions. Ethics, however, he's interested in. "People ask: is it cheating? Only if women using vibrators are cheating. Will sex workers be put out of business? It's possible." What about bigger issues though – what about sex and empathy? And: can a robot consent? "When AI advances, robots will exhibit empathy. People will feel towards them as they do towards animals."
He pauses: "Look. One has to accept that sexual mores advance with time, and morality with it. If you had said a hundred years ago that, today, men would marry men and women women, everyone would have laughed. Nothing can be ruled out." Nothing? "You think that's scary? Millions of scary things rely on technological advances. Toy drones, for example. That you can buy on the high street and attach anthrax to, and kill hundreds of people. This, this I find frightening." It took some time (we continued our discussions on email) before Levy was prepared to answer a question about the thing that had been troubling me – if robots are his solution for men who can't have relationships, does he think they're also the ethical choice, say, for a man who wants a relationship with a child?
He was reluctant to discuss this, pointing me to a keynote talk he did in Kathmandu called "When Robots do Wrong". Which was fascinating, but didn't answer my question. Eventually he responds, his email a sigh. "My own view is that robots will eventually be programmed with some psychoanalytical knowledge so they can attempt to treat paedophiles," he said. "Of course that won't work sometimes, but in those cases it would be better for the paedophiles to use robots as their sexual outlets than to use human children."
Dr Kathleen Richardson, director of the Campaign Against Sex Robots.
However evolved they become, robots will always be distinguishable from humans. They call it the "uncanny valley" – the point at which humans become uneasy at a robot's humanness. So, even as the technology evolves, scientists will ensure there will always be something. Not a glitch, necessarily, not a ding, but a something. "And because of that, robots will never replace humans. They'll simply become an extension of our lives." Levy's main thesis is that the advent of sex robots will help the lonely. The people who find it impossible to form relationships. "If that were me, I'd rather have sex with a robot," he says, "than no sex at all." Robot sex, it's implied, could save humanity. His wife, he tells me, is sceptical about the idea.
So is ANTHROPOLOGIST Kathleen Richardson. She says: "Levy is wrong." Richardson is a senior research fellow in the ethics of robotics at De Montfort University and director of the Campaign Against Sex Robots. "David Levy is taking people's insecurities and offering a solution that doesn't exist," she explains. "Paedophiles, rapists, people who can't make human connections – they need therapy, not dolls."
She perches on the edge of an armchair and explains the recent history of robots. Over the past 15 years, the purpose of robots developed for domestic use quietly changed. In South Korea they have set a goal for every home in the country to have domestic robots by 2020. But will they really be tools to help around the house, or will their main appeal be as a companion?
"This move," towards socialised robots, "is happening in hyper-capitalist societies driven by neo-liberal ideas." Where people, she says, are becoming distant from each other; where in warm living rooms families sit together but apart, each concentrating on individual screens. It's a direct path, she believes, from the way we communicate through machines, from social networking, to robots. And this, she says, is dangerous.
Happy to help: Molly the Robot at Bristol Robotic Laboratory. Molly is designed to help elderly or vulnerable people who live alone
Richardson looks at how we attribute sociability to objects. She showed me a silent animation from 1944, in which two triangles and a circle move around a diagram of a house. To me, it was clear both that this was a tragic love story, and also that I was being moved by anthropomorphised lines. "A robot is not just a developed vibrator," she laughs, the sort of laugh that does not necessarily follow a joke. As the sex trade with machines grows, and these objects take on increasingly humanoid forms, Richardson will be asking: "What does this mean? And is it harmful?"
As I explore the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, I realise that each glass-partitioned<|fim_middle|> sale later this year – in May they'd had 4,000 pre-orders at £635 each. "She doesn't vacuum or cook," says Douglas Hines, Roxxxy's creator, "but she does almost everything else."
When I heard about Richardson's Campaign Against Sex Robots, I sniggered. It conjures up every Giles Coren-esque description of the most furious feminist imaginable, charging into the future with a mallet and a frown. Richardson admits it's not… unfunny. But then she shrugs. What else is she going to call it?
Richardson and Levy stand on opposite sides of a busy road, watching technology speed past towards a clouded horizon. If the future of sex (as all arrows seem to point) is in robotics, then Richardson is right: it requires a thoughtful discussion about the ethics of gender and sex. But while she identifies the relationships that appear to be emerging as modelled on sex work – the robot as passive, bought, female; the man as emotion-free and sex-starved – surely rather than calling for a ban on them, to forlornly try stalling technology, the pressure should be to change the narrative. To use this new market to explore the questions we have about sex, about intimacy, about gender.
I agree with Kathleen Richardson on many things, especially that robots should not be the prescription for those who struggle with the otherness of people (something she said in the context of relationships with robots – that humans become human through interacting with other humans – I've thought about most days since we met). But until the internet becomes the Nether, until it becomes so immersive that our grasp on reality becomes slippery, I think it's a mistake to fear it, and to fear them. Because this is what we know: the sexbots are coming.
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An apology. I thought this article would be a bit of fun, honestly. A romp through the kinky silliness that'll be marketed at our grown grandchildren, their poor glazed eyes consensually replaced with tiny computers. A funny toy, a cheeky app maybe. A widower watching TV with his unseeing doll, more of a carer than a wife. And then I went and spoiled it all by asking questions. Assuming technology doesn't start rolling backwards, people will be having sex with robots in the next five years. Before RealDolls manages to refine and sell its robots, with their lubricated mouths and their custom eye colours, there are entrepreneurs who are competing right now to market their own versions first.
Paedophiles and rapists, people who can't make connections – they need therapy, not dolls
While buyers of Pepper – a robot engineered to be emotionally responsive to humans – have signed user contracts promising they won't use it for "acts for the purpose of sexual or indecent behaviour", sex doll company True Companion is developing a robot that will be "always turned on and ready to play". Roxxxy is due to go on | 381 |
At early times the universe was both denser and smoother than it is today. Superposed upon this smooth background were small fluctuations, both in the temperature of the cosmic microwave background and the density of matter. The cosmic microwave background anisotropies that we see are a snapshot of the universe at an early time when the fluctuations were extremely small: 1 part in 100,000. What we see around us today in redshift surveys are highly concentrated structures (galaxies, clusters of galaxies, ...). How do we link the early time picture provided by the CMB to what we see today?
Under the action of gravity the small fluctuations in the matter density grew. Regions which were slightly overdense (compared to their surroundings) had a slightly larger than average gravitational potential and so accreted matter from the surroundings, in the process becoming even more overdense. Similarly the slightly underdense regions grew more underdense. This constant amplification of the intially very small fluctuations gave rise to all of the structures we see in the universe today.
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Bill Arnsparger
(1926-12-16) December 16, 1926 (age 93)
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William Stephen "Bill" Arnsparger (born December 16, 1926) is a former American college and professional football coach.
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Arnsparger was born in Paris, Kentucky in 1926. He attended Paris High School, and became connected with the school's longtime football and basketball coach, Blanton Collier. The relationship would have a major impact on his future career.
After serving in the United States Marines during World War II, Arnsparger attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he was a member of Sigma Chi Fraternity (Alpha Chapter). After graduating from Miami in January 1950, Arnsparger remained in Oxford to work as an assistant for the Miami football team during the 1950 season.
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On February 21, 1951, Arnsparger was hired by new head coach Woody Hayes of Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. He served as the Buckeyes' line coach until 1954.
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In 1954, Arnsparger re-connected with Collier, who had been hired as head football coach at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky. Arnsparger remained at Kentucky for the next eight years until Collier was fired on January 2, 1962. During the 1959 season, he was joined on the coaching staff by a young coach who had served at the University of Virginia the previous year. That coach was Don Shula, with the two coaches forging a strong bond that would tie them for much of the next quarter century.
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Arnsparger moved on to an assistant position with Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1962. After two years, he resigned the post on March 6, 1964 to become the defensive line coach for the Baltimore Colts under Shula.
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In 1964, Arnsparger became the defensive line coach for the Baltimore Colts. That season, the Colts reached the National Football League (NFL) Championship game and remained one of the strongest teams of the 1960s, competing in Super Bowl III on January 12, 1969.
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When Shula left to become head coach with the Miami Dolphins after the end of the 1969 NFL season, he brought along Arnsparger. In just two seasons, the formerly moribund team had reached the Super Bowl, with Arnsparger fashioning what became known as the "No-Name Defense." World championships in each of the next two seasons, including an undefeated season during 1972, made Arnsparger a prime candidate for a head coaching position.
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Following the Dolphins' 24–7 victory over the Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl VIII, Arnsparger was named head coach of the New York Giants. However, the success he had enjoyed as an assistant evaporated in his new role, with the Giants managing just seven wins in his thirty-five games. Arnsparger had the daunting task of leading the Giants in three different stadiums in his tenure: the Yale Bowl in New Haven, Connecticut in 1974; Shea Stadium, home of the cross-town rival New York Jets in 1975; and finally, Giants Stadium in 1976. Arnsparger was fired in the middle of the season on October 25, 1976, with the team having lost all seven of its games on the year.
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Just two days after his dismissal, Arnsparger was rehired by Shula as Miami's assistant head coach in charge of the defense. In the team's first game under his leadership, the Dolphins won a 10–3 defensive battle with the New England Patriots, who had averaged thirty points per game entering the contest.
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Name Arnsparger, Bill
Alternative names Arnsparger, William Stephen; Arnsparger, William S.; Arnsparger, William
Short description American college football coach, professional football coach, college athletic director
Place of birth Paris, Kentucky, United States
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Football Personel | the next two seasons, the Dolphins reached the postseason, but dropped their first playoff game. During the strike-shortened 1982 NFL season, Miami finally put things together and reached Super Bowl XVII, but dropped a 27–17 decision to the Washington Redskins. Bill Arnsparger again had created an elite defensive unit, known as the Killer B's (so named because of the number of surnames beginning with "B" on the Dolphin's defense).
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On December 2, 1983, Arnsparger was hired as head coach at Louisiana State University, but finished his season with the Dolphins. Spending three years as the Tigers' head coach, Arnsparger led his 1986 squad to the school's first Southeastern Conference title since 1970, as well as a berth in the Sugar Bowl. Shortly after the final regular season game in 1986, Arnsparger announced he was resigning to become the athletic director at the University of Florida.
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In 1989, Arnsparger's new school became embroiled in a series of controversies when it was revealed that head football coach Galen Hall had committed NCAA violations and that two players on his team had admitted gambling on college football games. In addition, questions about the school's men's basketball program also surfaced, allegations that led to the forced resignation of Gators basketball coach Norm Sloan.
Despite seeing both teams put on NCAA probation, Arnsparger was able to extricate himself from the football problem by hiring Steve Spurrier, then the Duke University head coach and the Gators' Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback in 1966. The appointment set the stage for one of the most successful runs for a program during the 1990s.
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On January 13, 1992, Arnsparger resigned to become the defensive coordinator of the San Diego Chargers. During his four years, the team's defense showed marked improvement, culminating with an appearance in Super Bowl XXIX. Just days after the team's appearance, Arnsparger announced his retirement, citing the prostate cancer surgery he had undergone the year before.
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LSU: 26–8–2 13–3–2
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The Canadian Electronic Ensemble was founded in 1971. It is the oldest continuous live-electronic group in the world.
The CEE first toured Canada in 1975. Their first European tour was in 1979. In the years since, the group has toured extensively throughout North America and Europe. Beginning in 1974 the CEE has presented Toronto concerts that have become a major venue for new electroacoustic works by artists from every province in Canada, as well as international artists from Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, England, France, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, and the United States.
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Wright glider of 1902
Wright glider of 1902, biplane glider designed and built by Wilbur and Orville Wright in Dayton, Ohio, during the late summer of 1902. Tested during the autumn of 1902 and again in 1903 at the Kill Devil Hills, four miles south of the village of Kitty Hawk on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, the 1902 glider demonstrated that the Wright brothers had solved the key problems blocking the route to heavier-than-air flight.
The glider was based on the Wrights' experience in 1899 with a kite designed to test their "wing-warping" control system, on two less-successful gliders tested in 1900 and 1901, and on information gathered during the course of wind-tunnel tests conducted in the fall and winter of 1901–02. It featured a forward monoplane elevator, a horizontal surface projecting in front of the wings in order to provide control over pitch and a bit of extra lift. In order to compensate for unequal drag when the wings were warped, a two-surface vertical rudder was fixed at the rear of the glider. The most important modification was made during October 4–6, when, on the basis of flight testing, the Wrights replaced the fixed rudder with a single-surface movable rudder linked to the wing-warping system. This further improved the degree to which the device counteracted the problem of yaw.
Wilbur Wright executes a banking turn to the right in the Wright brothers' first fully controllable glider, at the Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, October 24, 1902. Wright State University, Archives & Special Collections
The Wrights completed 700–1,000 flights with the glider between Sept. 19 and Oct. 24, 1902. The aircraft enabled the brothers to make longer flights at shallower angles than anyone before them, covering distances up to 622.5 feet (189.74 m) and remaining in the air for up to 26 seconds. It thus proved the value of the Wrights' control system and confirmed that their wind-tunnel data had yielded accurate performance calculations. Indeed, so important was this flying machine that the basic Wright patent covered a glider featuring the all-important control system of the 1902 glider, rather than a powered airplane.
The brothers stored the glider in a shed at the Kill Devil Hills during the winter of 1902–03, renovated it following their return in September 1903, and made an additional 60–100 glides with the machine that fall before making history's first powered, sustained flight in their<|fim_middle|> area 305 sq ft 28.3 sq m
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Access Date: July 17, 2019 | 1903 flyer. The Wrights made no attempt to preserve their most important and historic glider, abandoning it in the shed when they left for home that December.
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Williams was born in Lynwood, California, a suburb of Los Angeles, on June 17, 1980, the fourth of five daughters born to<|fim_middle|> Compton Childhood, Attends Ric Macci's Academy, Makes Her Debut At French Open, Turns Tables On Hingis - CONTACT INFORMATION | Richard and Oracene (nicknamed Brandi) Williams. Sister Serena, the last of the five Williams sisters, was born in September 1981. Her father ran a private security firm in Compton and was a dedicated fan of tennis, who became hooked on the game by watching televised coverage of professional tournaments, told his wife that he wanted to make tennis stars out of his daughters. He had little luck with his older girls—Isha, Lyndrea, and Yetunde—none of whom showed any particular aptitude for the game. His efforts proved far more successful with Venus and Serena, both of whom turned out to be naturals on the court. The girls learned the game on nearby Compton municipal courts, frequently having to take cover to avoid being hit by stray gunfire from the gang violence that gripped the city. As Richard Williams schooled Venus and Serena in the finer points of the game, their mother,
a devout Jehovah's Witness, home-schooled her daughters, all of whom adopted her faith and became active members of the church.
Venus began playing tennis when she was only 4 years old. By the time she was 7, she had come to the attention of tennis great John McEnroe and Pete Sampras, both of whom encouraged her to continue to pursue the game. At the tender age of 10, Venus was ranked the number one player in the keenly competitive under-12 division of Southern California, a ranking inherited not long thereafter by younger sister Serena. So strong was Venus's game as a pre-teen that she won 63 consecutive matches without a single loss. Word of her talent reached the media, and in the summer of 1991 both Sports Illustrated and Tennis ran stories about the amazing tennis prodigy from the mean streets of Compton. All the publicity was accompanied by growing criticism of Richard Williams' singleminded focus on making Venus into a tennis star with little regard for giving her any semblance of a normal childhood. The criticism hit home with Venus's father, who told Sports Illustrated: "I'd like for the racket to stay out of her hand for a while. Venus is still young. We want her to be a little girl while she is a little girl. I'm not going to let Venus pass up her childhood. Long after tennis is over, I want her to know who she is." In 1991 Williams pulled both Venus and Serena out of junior tennis competition and moved the family to Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.
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Karl Wilding has stepped down as the CEO of the National Council<|fim_middle|>.
"Karl's decision to leave is rooted in his integrity and a genuine desire to do the right thing for the organisation he loves. He goes with our very best wishes."
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In a statement released today, Wilding said "sometimes leadership is about knowing when to pass the baton on" and that the umbrella body requires a new leader, not someone who is 'part of its past'.
His resignation follows a huge year of change for the organisation, which has just completed its strategy review and organisational restructure.
Wiling will be replaced by interim CEO, Sarah Vibert, who is currently director of membership and engagement until a permanent replacement is found.
"It has been the highlight of my career to serve as CEO for the last 18 months and work with such fantastic and dedicated colleagues," Wilding said.
"With the strategy review, organisational restructure and the first part of our work on EDI complete, now is the right time for me to step away. Sometimes leadership is about knowing when to hand the baton on and I know I am leaving NCVO in safe hands.
"I believe that new leadership will be able to lead the necessary cultural change NCVO is determined, rightly, to achieve. That requires someone new, not part of the past.
"I will leave with real sadness, but I know it's the right and responsible decision for NCVO."
Wilding will leave the post at the end of March, during which time he will work with the board and interim CEO to provide support during the transition. It is not yet clear what role Wilding will be moving onto.
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Onto Innovation Inc (ONTO) Q3 2021 Earnings Call Transcript
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Good day, and welcome to the Onto Innovation Third Quarter Earnings Release Conference Call. Today's call is being recorded.
At this time, I'd like to turn the call over to Michael Sheaffer, Investor Relations. Please go ahead, sir.
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Michael Sheaffer -- Senior Director of Investor Relations, Corporate Communications and Marketing Research
Thank you, David, and good afternoon, everyone. Onto Innovation issued its 2021 third quarter financial results this afternoon shortly after the market closed. If you've not received a copy of the release, please refer to the company's website where a copy of the release is posted. Joining us on the call today are Michael Plisinski, Chief Executive Officer; and Steven Roth, Chief Financial Officer. As always, I need to remind you of the safe harbor regulations. Any matters today that are not historical facts, especially comments regarding the company's future plans, products, objectives, forecasts and expected performance consist of forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities cation Reform Act. These estimates, whether expressed or implied are based on currently available information and the company's best judgment at this time. Within these is a wide range of assumptions that the company believes to be reasonable.
However, it must be recognized that these statements are subject to a range of uncertainties that can cause the actual results to vary materially. Thus, the company cautions that these statements are no guarantees of future performance. Risk factors that may impact Onto Innovation's results are currently described in Onto Innovation's Form 10-K report for the year ended December 2020 as well as other quarterly filings within the SEC. Onto Innovation does not update forward-looking statements and expressly disclaims any obligations to do so. Today's discussion of our financial results will be presented on a non-GAAP financial basis, unless otherwise specified. And as a reminder, a detailed reconciliation between GAAP and non-GAAP results can be found in today's earnings release.
I will now go ahead and turn the call over to Mike Plisinski. Mike?
Michael Plisinski -- Chief Executive Officer
Thank you, Mike. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining Onto Innovation's Third quarter Earnings Call. The Onto Innovation team delivered a strong quarter, exceeding the high end of our revenue guidance and improving both growth and operating margins. While supply chains continue to be challenging, we expect demand to increase in the fourth quarter with revenue growing 5% to 10% over the third quarter. But let's begin with highlights from the third quarter, starting with the advanced nodes market, which grew by 10%, driven by [Indecipherable] spending in the quarter. Smaller geometries and new 3D transistor structures are creating an increase in capital intensity for high sensitivity, high-speed optical metrology systems. As an example, metrology applications to support the next-generation FinFET structures could increase as much as 50% over prior structures. Customers indicate that our combination of greater sensitivity and AI-enhanced modeling software is proving to be a powerful differentiator in these applications. In the third quarter, more than half our revenue at Advanced Logic came in support of investments for pilot lines for transistor structures below 5-nanometer.
Our strategy to grow share in integrated metrology is also progressing well with another leading DRAM manufacturer selecting onto integrated metrology to support their production ramp of next-generation high-bandwidth memory starting the first half of 2022. This year, we've already added six new customers for integrated metrology and each are expected to move to volume production next year. In addition to being positioned for those future expansions, we've seen a strong increase in demand this year from existing customers. In the first nine months of the year, integrated revenue increased 50% over the same period in 2020. The IMPULSE five technology further improves our value proposition as we believe it is the only system capable of speeds matching the latest CMP tools while maintaining required sensitivity below 30 angstroms. This capability allows customers to increase line productivity by reducing rework due to over polishing and CMP. Now turning to our largest market. Revenue from our specialty and advanced packaging customers was comparable to the second quarter and 43% greater than last year's third quarter. Within these markets, demand for our inspection technology continued to accelerate, and for the second straight quarter, our inspection revenue increased by over 20%.
The strongest demand is coming from the top IDMs to support investments in new heterogeneous packaging, micro bump and 3D TSV technologies. We uniquely meet these challenges by augmenting our inspection platforms with advanced analytics, leveraging artificial intelligence to provide actionable information to our customers. For example, DRAM memory customers have been challenged by micro cracks induced by stress in the sawing process. These cracks can become costly reliability issues, especially when several dier stacked into single HBM or high-bandwidth packages. Increase in sensitivity would find the cracks, but also thousands of nuisance defects resulting in overkill of good die or shipping die with potential reliability issues. By leveraging our proven machine learning algorithms, we're able to detect the critical defects of interest while eliminating the noise, which resulted in a more robust solution and improved yield. In addition to our tool-centric solutions, we see stronger demand for our enterprise software, particularly from the specialty device markets, including power and RF customers, which represented 50% of our enterprise sales in the quarter. The combination of enterprisewide revenue and expanding tool-centric applications helped set a new record for the business in the third quarter.
We also see leverage for the software to enable enhanced productivity services to our fleet of installed equipment. Since the merger, we've been steadily transitioning our services business from a traditional break-fix model to a more customer-focused recurring revenue model with an emphasis<|fim_middle|> anymore, Dave. So we don't -- actually, we don't publish that -- we haven't published backlog in a long time.
Okay, OK. You mentioned that you got, I think, orders for six more JetStep. Could you remind us, I think in the last few conference calls, you've mentioned how many JetSteps are in the backlog to be shipped. Could you share that number with us now?
Last time, we mentioned -- we gave an indication it could be around $30 million, and this would be on top of that. But keep in mind, these are -- with these were commitments. So some of them are dollars to reserve the slot, some purchase orders. So formal commitments.
Okay. And as far as the -- are you seeing any activity from the ARM hyperscaler type guys? Has that started to creep up into where those guys are starting to order tools or starting to move the needle on any sort of purchasing?
You're speaking specifically about JetStep or generally?
Just generally. If you want to answer on JetStep, that would be fine.
No, I think generally, Apple has been -- I'm not sure exactly where you're going with this, but will have their latest processors going through kind of an ARM architecture that's doing very well. And Everyone's aware of who they're using to manufacture those. That's obviously a large customer for us. So yes, we've definitely seen activity in that regard.
One reason I asked is the AMDs of the world, and there's some, I think, new companies coming to market and some of the traditional hyperscalers are developing their own chips. I've seen some of the chips, pictures of them. They're a huge. So I was wondering if you're starting to see any activity in the lithography area from some of these ARM-based processors.
Yes. From the packaging side, we understand our customers are supporting multiple logic design, foundry customers. So it's reasonable to assume we are seeing that if they're developing advanced microprocessors that we're seeing it.
Okay. And then I think you mentioned your inspection business was up 20% sequentially for the second quarter in a row. Now that you've given guidance for Q4, could you share with us what you think the size of your inspection business will be in 2021? And do you expect inspection to grow in 2022?
We don't break out the inspection per se by size. We talked about advanced nodes, specialty AP, etc. So we try and tie it to markets. But we do expect inspection to grow ahead of if the market is going to grow by 10% next year, our expectations would be inspection grows more than that based on what we're seeing from like I mentioned, the specialty device and AP customers growing fairly significantly.
So just to kind of recap, I guess, you expect growth in the your JetStep business, there's growth in the inspection business, which is kind of the old Rudolph business. And then there's growth in the advanced nodes, which is the combination of both the Rudolph and the Nanometrics business. So all kind of -- all the buckets are growing in the upcoming year?
Yes, that's, I guess, an impact when there's chip shortages. There's a lot of customers trying to fill that demand, and we're seeing the demand across -- right across the markets we serve, which are not just the leading edge logic and DRAM and NAND, but also the RF and power customers and compound semi and MEMS for automotive, Yes, and with everybody announcing expansions, we're seeing some pretty decent demand for our solutions.
Well, excellent. Congratulations on nice results, and it looks like the future is going to be quite bright as well.
We hope so Thanks, Steve.
Well, excellent. Congratulations on nice results. And it looks like the future is going to be quite bright as well.
That concludes today's question-and-answer session. Mike Sheaffer, at this time, I will turn the conference back to you for any additional or closing remarks.
That concludes our remarks for the call, David. We'd like to thank everyone for participating in the call today and for your continued interest in Onto Innovation. Please go ahead and wrap up the call.
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Onto Innovation Inc. (ONTO) Q1 2020 Earnings Call Transcript | on contracted services aligned with customer performance metrics. As a result of these efforts, contract revenue has increased each of the last eight quarters. Over the last several years, our software and services business has grown by about 30% and is roughly 20% of our revenue today. And we believe leveraging our software will provide additional future growth opportunities for this business. So it's certainly an exciting quarter across several areas of our portfolio, but perhaps most exciting is the progress being made on our latest JetStep lithography platform for advanced packaging. The first tool has been installed in the starting process qualification for panel-sized heterogeneous package technology. We shipped our second tool in the third quarter, and we received commitments for six additional manufacturing slots for delivery mostly in 2023. In order to support the commitments for 2020, we're expanding the manufacturing capacity at our Wilmington facility and with our key suppliers.
Now I'll turn over the call to Steve to discuss the financial highlights.
Steven Roth -- Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Thanks, Mike, and good afternoon, everyone. In my remarks this afternoon, I'll provide some details on our Q3 results and then follow with our guidance for the fourth quarter. Let's get started. Our third quarter revenue was $200.6 million, up 59% over the same period last year and up 4% over last quarter. The sequential quarter-over-quarter increase was mainly driven by inspection sales and our software group, which Mike mentioned, had a record quarter. Breaking down the revenue by market, 45% of our sales were from our specialty devices and advanced packaging markets, which continue to strength from the previous quarter. Advanced node market represented 35% of sales in the quarter and increased 10% over the prior quarter. That increase was driven by logic sales, which grew 80% quarter-over-quarter, offset by weakening in memory. Finally, software and services increased slightly in the quarter and represented 20% of revenue. Our gross margin continued its strong quarter-over-quarter performance, increasing to 55.1% compared to 54.5% in the second quarter. Higher revenues, including stronger software sales, offset supply chain and logistic cost increases in the quarter and drove the gross margin improvement.
Third quarter operating expenses were $51.6 million, a decrease of $4.2 million from $55.8 million in the second quarter and lower than our guidance. The decrease is primarily due to variable compensation plan adjustments, which were recorded in the second quarter, which increased operating expenses in that quarter. In addition, there were lower stock-based compensation expense in the third quarter. Those decreases were partially offset by an increase in head count in the quarter to support our revenue growth. We continued our quarterly operating margin improvements each quarter since the merger with third quarter operating margin of 29%, achieving our published $800 million long-term operating model on a quarterly run rate basis. We also remain confident in our $1 billion operating model, which calls for gross margin between 56% and 57% and operating margins between 31% and 32%. Net income increased in the third quarter was $48.7 million or $0.98 per share and at the high end of our guidance. In the second quarter, we reported net income of $45.9 million or $0.92 per share. Moving to the balance sheet. We ended the quarter with a cash position of $461 million, up $51 million from Q2. Our free cash flow for Q3 was $48 million or 24% of revenue and our year-to-date, and year-to-date, we have generated over $115 million of free cash flow.
Accounts receivable increased to $180 million in the quarter, primarily due to increasing revenue, but our days sales outstanding remained at 82 days. Our inventory increased to $222 million in the quarter on higher planned revenues for Q4 and acceleration of inventory deliveries as a hedge against supply chain disruptions. Now turning the fourth quarter guidance. We expect revenue to be in the range of $210 million to $220 million. Earnings per share in this range will be anticipated to be between $1.02 and $1.16 per share. We also expect that our gross margins will be between 55% and 56%. Proper expenses were aggressively recruiting and expect additional headcount on board by the end of the quarter. Therefore, we're currently anticipating that our operating expenses will increase in the fourth quarter and be in the range of $53 million to $55 million.
And with that, I'd like to turn the call back to Mike for additional insight into Q4 and into 2022. Mike?
Thank you, Steve.. I'll start with commentary on the supply chain challenges impacting many companies, including onto innovation. We see risks in the supply chain likely to continue through the first half of next year. We believe our U.S.-based manufacturing operations and predominantly domestic suppliers are proving to be an advantage by enabling closer cooperation and some reduction in logistics risk. However, supply chains are multi-tiered and complex, and overall, we expect challenges will continue. Therefore, we are increasing our cooperation and proactive oversight with our vendors. We're taking an inventory as soon as it's available, and we're sharing our extended visibility with suppliers, so they're better prepared to support the growing demand we see for our solutions. So assuming no surprises from the supply chain, demand in the fourth quarter will result in our fifth consecutive quarter of growth, up 7.5% at the midpoint of our guidance range. We see the strongest demand coming from our specialty device and packaging customers with revenue growing over 15% from the third quarter.
In particular, we see increasing for compound semiconductor materials, such as silicon carbide and gallium nitride, the so-called third-generation semiconductors for electric vehicles, solar energy inverters, charging stations and power storage applications. In the last year, we've added significantly to our solution suite serving these markets. We now offer overlay metrology, inspection, planar films and integrated metrology, all connected through our enterprise software to reduce customer ramp times and improve yields. In fact, we expect revenue growth from RF power and image sensor customers to more than double in the fourth quarter, representing roughly 20% of overall system revenue projected in the quarter. Within the advanced node segment, we see a surge in DRAM, offsetting pauses in both logic and NAND, essentially matching the record-setting third quarter. We expect 2022 to be another growth year for the industry, supported by many customers announcing capacity increases across our core markets and advanced nodes and specialty devices.
With record backlog over twice the size of this time last year and success expanding our served markets, including traction and panel lithography, we're optimistic we will exceed the current wafer fab equipment projections of 10% for 2022. Finally, on the second anniversary front to innovation, I'd like to close by acknowledging and thanking the entire Onto Innovation team for their dedication to our customers' success and their innovative spirit demonstrated not only in the products we produce, but also how we approach and more importantly, overcome exciting new challenges. It's truly an inspiring team to be a part of.
And with that, I'll turn the call back and open the line up for your questions.
[Operator Instructions] We'll take our first question from Craig Ellis with B. Riley Securities.
Craig Ellis -- B. Riley Securities -- Analyst
Yes, thanks for taking the question and Congratulations on the strong results and guidance. Mike, I wanted to start by following up on some of the software comments that you made. It seems like there's some real strength in the business and it sounds like it's multipronged. So can you just talk a little bit more about what you're seeing with respect to customer engagement in software because certainly the 28% quarter-on-quarter gain as eye-catching and the interest is whether that was something that's really more episodic in the back half or if you see that following through as you go into 2022?
No, Craig, we've seen steady gains in the software business over the last several quarters, and we didn't mention it because we want to make sure this is a trajectory that we're going to maintain and not just a talking point for a quarter or 2. And we do believe it's a long-term trajectory. What we're seeing is demand, especially this rapid demand or growth for smaller companies, the OSATs, the specialty device makers, they're experiencing such demand. They need systems and software that can be more turnkey and allow for rapid deployment and rapid yields. So rapid deployment of the equipment and then the resulting analytics to drive yield. So we're seeing this playing out both at our equipment level. That's what we call the tool centric, and we gave an example of that. There are several others, leveraging other technologies we have and also at the factorywide level. And that includes not just fabwide analytics, but also control solar for automatic process control or equipment fault monitoring and things like this. The third people talked about was leveraging the tool-centric capability and those equipment control capabilities I just spoke about to augment the services we're offering in our services business, our customer success group by providing predictive analytics and predictive capabilities that increase the value of our equipment -- of our installed base.
Got it. Got it. Then it seems that, that strength is something that's giving gross margins strength in the fourth quarter. I wanted to follow up on the panel litho comments because that has been something that you've talked about recently as getting to that on-ramp that we've been looking for. And it seems like that's here. The question is, as we look ahead to calendar '22, from the three shipments that I think you mentioned you had in the quarter, what's possible from a shipment standpoint. And Steve, on your end, how should we be thinking about rev rec with panel litho?
So what's possible from a shipment standpoint, we're basically booked out for capacity. So I won't give exactly what that number is, but it's -- it would be a record year for sure. So if you go back, I think prior record year might be eight systems -- six to eight systems shipped, so it'd be more than that. And then I'll let Steve talk about rev rec.
Yes. From a rev rec standpoint, as Mike said in his prepared remarks, we've shipped our second tool, but this is the first of this model. So we're going through the process calls now. But I would not expect that because it's a process tool to be done by the end of the fourth quarter. So we're looking probably in Q1 where the tools that we shipped this year will be recognized in Q1.
Craig, just add on that. In case it wasn't clear, the demand we're seeing all the way through 2022 and into -- actually through 2023 is driving us to increase the capacity to fill that demand. So we're actually increasing capacity, which will come online in 2023 to fulfill the increased demand we see and booked or at least have commitments for 2023.
On that point, Mike, and I know the portfolio is diverse across advanced packaging and advanced nodes. Can you just comment on the level of visibility that you have across the business right now. Certainly, in [Indecipherable], it extends way out, but what about in other parts of the business?
We certainly have more visibility as we've become a much larger, more important supplier to our customers, we're getting access and having discussions earlier on about expansions going out into the following year. So visibility is definitely stronger just from that. Then you increase or you add on top of that the concerns with supply chain and being able to secure slots and some of our equipments in fairly high demand. So we're getting an added level of discussion as customers want to ensure that they have access to our equipment.
Got it. And that's really helpful, guys, good luck, and thanks for the help.
Thanks, Craig.
Our next question comes from Patrick Ho with Stifel.
Patrick Ho -- Stifel -- Analyst
Got it. Congrats on the nice quarter and outlook. Mike, maybe first off, in terms of the advanced packaging business, you mentioned Jet being driven by heterogeneous integration. -- from your overall advanced packaging portfolio, is that the big driver? Or are you seeing broad based type of adoption of your different product portfolio across fan-out. Can you just give a little color in terms of the application and what's driving your overall advanced packaging business.
Yes. Overall, I would say it's more what we mentioned. It's a lot driven by wafer lot type packaging, whether it's 3D TSV structures or micro bump and fan-out packaging, we've seen some resurgence in fan-out as well. So I'd say -- the more traditional wafer-level packaging is certainly driving, especially as we've seen large foundries, investments in packaging and driving down design nodes or RDL, the interconnect sizes continue to shrink, and that drives the demand for much higher resolution and much more precise systems, which we're seeing playing out across the IDMs and the OSATs trying to support that business as well.
Great. That's helpful. And maybe as my follow-up question, Steve, really strong gross margins in a challenging supply chain environment, you did highlight some of the variables and things you've done over the past few quarters to mitigate it. But with those strong gross margins, how are you able to manage costs overall, given that probably [Indecipherable] going down. How are you keeping gross margin in that mid-50% range in the near term while these issues persist?
Well, for the most part, as I've said on previous calls, we really -- I mean there has been some impact from the supply chain. Obviously, the one that people talk about the most is the shipping cost, the freight costs going up. Obviously, stuff that we bring over the water has been taking longer and longer lead times. So we've had some -- we've done some expediting to get around those longer lead times. So we had some increasing costs in the freight and logistics side. that we've seen. I mentioned that was kind of a little bit of an offset, but not really enough to move the margins because, obviously, we have pretty strong product margins. As for the overall cost increases from the suppliers you got to realize that we order out well in advance. Obviously, we're out with purchase orders. So we haven't seen any material price increases hit the numbers yet, but I think that's a risk that's out there that we keep looking at. But I think overall, our product mix, we've got a very strong product portfolio with a nice strong product margins. We've got the new products that are obviously adding more value, and therefore, coming with a higher margin. So as they continue to gain traction. I think they help any of the negative wins that might be coming in the direction.
Our next question from Quinn Bolton with Needham & Company.
Quinn Bolton -- Needham & Company -- Analyst
I'll offer my congratulations as well. I guess sort of big picture question, Mike and Steve, as you look into 2022, you talked about WFE growing 10% and your hopes or confidence that you'll be able to outgrow WFE next year. And I was just wondering could you sort of rank order maybe the top two or three drivers that allow you to outperform. You've talked about a lot of drivers on the call. You've talked about advanced packaging, heterogeneous integration. You've talked about JetStep. What are some of the biggest drivers you see going into next year?
Well, I think we see one of the biggest drivers is packaging in general. When I look at some of the numbers here, we see some significant spending happening in advanced packaging, particularly at the higher end, the more advanced or smaller interconnects that we just thought of. So that's in both the -- driving both the inspection. So it's both at the wafer level, but also at the panel level. So as you know, that those steppers are fairly expensive. So such a backlog is pretty, pretty impactful to the business. And then beyond that, we still see a lot of strength in the advanced nodes. So the adoption of the Atlas for some of the more critical measurements, the rolling out of sub-5-nanometer across several different customers that we're expecting. That's also driving what we talked about was a higher capital intensity and something that we think we're pretty well positioned to benefit from. So we see some nice growth there. And DRAM memory is also going to be much stronger next year, and we've always been well positioned for strength in memory. So that will be part of that advanced nodes growth we just talked about. I think -- and also the specialty devices. So if I go into three different buckets, the third would be the specialty devices, which we think is -- continue at some relatively high levels. So relatively meaning compared to several years back, prior peaks, specialty devices is growing pretty meaningfully.
Great. And then just wanted to ask a sort of specific follow-up. Mike, you highlighted some wins with the new integrated metrology. I think you mentioned six new customers that start to ramp next year. How big of an opportunity is that in terms of share gains? Is it a few million dollars? Is it tens of millions of dollars across those six customers. I wonder if you might be able to size that for us a little bit.
I think it's in the orders of tens of millions, maybe somewhere in that 10% to 20% range. It's hard to give you an exact figure, but it's definitely significant or I wouldn't have mentioned it. We're definitely seeing very positive feedback on the capability of our tool. And obviously, it's important decision for customers because it's a relatively inexpensive tool compared to the cost of the CMP tool and the importance of the process step. But the data we're seeing, the traction we're gaining. I mentioned the 50% growth in the first nine months of this year compared to the prior year, that's well ahead of WFE projections for the year. So we're definitely gaining traction and customers are meaningfully -- or having a meaningful impact on the advanced nodes revenue stream because of the integrated.
[Operator Instructions] We'll take our next question from David Duley with Steelhead Securities.
David Duley -- Steelhead Securities -- Analyst
Did you guys mentioned what the backlog was? I think you mentioned that you have a record backlog. Could you share with us what it is at this point?
We don't normally give out the actual backlog number. I think as Mike mentioned in his prepared remarks that we've seen a double from where it was at this point last year, but we don't put out a specific number.
Steve, maybe just tell me what the backlog was the last time you published it, that's probably at year-end.
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Insurgency: Pakistan pledges more support to Nigerian military<|fim_middle|> the promise in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) during celebrations of Pakistan's Defence Day in Abuja.
Kingravi lauded the remarkable success of the Nigerian military against the insurgents and urged them to intensify the efforts for total peace in the affected areas.
He said that his country and Nigeria had been cooperating in the past in the political and military fields to promote world peace pointing out that such needed to be boosted.
Kingravi thanked Nigeria for its open hearted support to Pakistan and on Kashmir cause in particular at various international forums.
The High Commissioner commended multi-task force of Niger, Chad and Nigeria in the fight against terrorism in the North-East saying that the joint effort had helped in the defeat of Boko Haram.
"I have to congratulate the Nigerian Armed Forces in bringing peace to the North East and commend the government in fighting extremism in this country" he said.
ry" he said. (NAN) |
Biola Lawal September 12, 2018 | 36 | |
By Mustapha Sumaila
Abuja, Sept 12, 2018 (NAN) The Islamic Republic of Pakistan has pledged more support for Nigerian military in the fight against remnants of insurgents in the northeast.
The Pakistan High Commissioner to Nigeria, Maj.-Gen. Waqar Kingravi (Rtd) made | 91 |
Canucks regroup vs. Lightning after being brought 'back to earth'
The Western Conference's best story hit a bump in the road earlier this week but has a chance Thursday to get back in groove in Tampa, Fla.
Following a 5-2 defeat in to the Florida Panthers on Tuesday, the Vancouver Canucks and new head coach Bruce Boudreau will face the Tampa Bay Lightning, whoopen a two-game homestand.
On Dec. 4 before Boudreau was hired to replace the fired Travis Green, the Canucks were 8-15-2 and slotted next-to-last in the West -- only ahead of the Arizona Coyotes.
Just 10 games into Boudreau's tenure, the rejuvenated Canucks have reeled off an 8-1-1 mark and are six points out of a wild-card spot.
However, they lost for the first time in regulation under Boudreau at Florida after having a layoff due to attendance restrictions in Canadian cities because of COVID-19.
The red-hot Panthers ran their overall point streak to seven games (6-0-1) and improved to 19-3-0 on home ice in the three-goal win, taking control with a trio of second-period goals for a <|fim_middle|>So we just thought that anytime we can give him some rest we'll give him some rest, and that's what we did tonight." | 5-1 lead.
Vancouver got markers from Jason Dickinson and Juho Lammikko, but Florida breached goalie Thatcher Demko five times on 26 shots.
Demko had been a major source for the team's success: He owned a 7-0-0 mark with a 1.40 goals-against average and a .955 save percentage with Boudreau behind the bench.
The new coach said he consulted with goalie coach Ian Clark about whether to replace Demko before the third period.
"I talked with Ian about it, extensively, but the one thing I didn't want to see happen was that they score 6-7-8 and Demko loses a bit of his confidence," Boudreau said. "He wanted to stay in. We went and asked him."
Vancouver's Brock Boeser returned after missing three games in the protocol, but J.T. Miller had his nine-game point streak end.
"It's never fun when you lose," Boudreau said. "This was bringing us back to earth a bit."
On Tuesday in Buffalo, Nikita Kucherov helped the Lightning get some payback for one of their worst defeats this season -- a 5-1 road loss to the Sabres on Oct. 25.
Kucherov notched his fourth career hat trick and first since 2017 as the Lightning routed the depleted Sabres 6-1, breezing to victory with five straight tallies to open the second meeting.
The right wing had failed to score since returning to the lineup Thursday following a 32-game absence, but he looked like his old self in Buffalo.
"I don't forget how good he is. I know how good he is -- we see it every day," said team captain Steven Stamkos, who produced at least three points for the fourth time this season.
"You give him time and space, that's what he's going to do. That's why he's one of the best in the world."
Kucherov's hat trick tied him for fourth with Tyler Johnson for the most in franchise history. Stamkos leads with nine followed by Martin St. Louis (eight) and Vincent Lecavalier (six).
Ondrej Palat left the game in the second period, but head coach Jon Cooper said the move was more preventative than any kind of emergency.
"(Palat's) working through something," Cooper said. " | 497 |
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Since 2009, almost every household in the US has had a smart phone and it wasn't long after that<|fim_middle|> are located. They can rest assured with the knowledge that their family is safe as long as the SOS button onboard the GSatMicro is not pressed, and can react to it when it is. Finally, two-way communication provided by the device offers a way of staying in touch regardless of where family members may be. Overall, the GSatMicro provides exactly what we want when trying to keep our families safe, knowledge that we can always stay in contact in those moments where it counts. | people started using the added features of these phones to track their friends and family. But for truck drivers heading to the frozen north of Alaska or through the mountains of Colorado, cell coverage isn't available. Trucking companies know this and use technology that seamlessly transitions from satellite communication to cellular technology when tracking their vehicles. If families are going to have the same sense of security for their loved ones, drivers need their own means of sharing their location and well being.
Environmentally sealed, the GSatMicro is a handheld satellite terminal that is suitable for the harshest and most challenging environments that are far from the reach of most communications systems. The GSatMicro provides personnel communications equipment that is exceptionally secure, light, reliable, portable, and rugged, with the addition of added behavior control.
In its handheld form factor, the GSatMicro is the world's smallest and lightest, self-contained Iridium satellite communications terminal. Within the ruggedized case resides an programmable intelligence capable of letting you know more than just the location of of an asset but the behavior of the asset and how the world around it is affecting it. In essence, the GSatMicro is more than just a tracking device, it is a powerful way of delivering peace of mind.
The last decade has seen a rise in M2M tracking that began with dispatchers monitoring location information and since has grown to monitoring everything from hours of service, vehicle diagnostic information and even allowing remote control of some portions of these processes. All of these feature sets have been fantastic for improving the overall safety, productivity, and longevity of any businesses delivering goods or providing services through logistics. Currently, however, it is rare for this information to be shared with a driver's family.
People are comfortable using smartphones for just about everything; what we are not as comfortable using is new technology. Drivers also have the responsibility of ensuring that they are not distracted, and that technology they are using works everywhere, in any circumstance. If families are truly going to monitoring their loved ones, they need a solution that does all of this and more.
If families are going to be aware of where their loved ones supplying the world's goods are traveling, they will need more than a simple cell phone with an Android or iOS app. Families will need an affordable solution that allows two-way communication on a network that spans the globe. The device they trust to monitor their loved ones must do more than provide positional information. The device they choose needs to give them peace of mind by sharing behavioral information, safety status and provide two-way communication in any environment.
The GSatMicro provides much more than just a dot on a map. The unit is meant to withstand extreme temperatures (-140 to 110). This far exceeds many of other devices with screens that crack and batteries that overheat. The powerful technology inside the GSatMicro handheld unit is used to monitor pilots flying in US military and keeping members of various armed forces safe. The GSatMicro can do the same to help drivers in remote areas.
The GSatMicro operates on the Iridium satellite network, which provides global coverage at a reasonable cost wherever drivers may be operating vehicles. Simply placing the handheld unit in view of the sky (like under a windshield) provides this connection. Families will be able to see the speeds of their loved ones, ensuring they are safe, and can estimate when their family is expected to return. The GsatMicro also affords its user two-way communication. Unlike some other satellite based hand held units the GSatMicro allows users to message contacts using their cell phone instead of a device they may not be familiar with. Finally the GSatMicro offers piece of mind with its man-down feature. If a driver has to leave his vehicle for any reason he can take the unit with him and press the SOS button increasing reporting rate and letting those watching him know that an emergency has occurred.
Families can have peace of mind that their loved ones are safe no matter where they are traveling. Using the same technology as truck owners, loved ones can now safely monitor their family no matter where they | 823 |
It's breaking my heart to see another wave of fear about money hitting many of you. Even some of you who make good money are letting your fears make decisions about your lives and the opportunities in front of you to live the life you really want.
It breaks my heart because it simply does not need to be. When you understand where money really comes from and the Laws surrounding it<|fim_middle|>. And when you follow these Laws, you will join those of us who are prospering right now – while at the same time bringing great service to the Planet!
Which one or two areas of the above laws really resonated with you?
How could you start living them instead of staying frozen in fear?
We'll be focusing on money in August in the Everyday Abundance program! If you want more support than I've given here, please join us! Everyday Abundance! | , you can create the money you need without fear, worry and doubt. And you will never be dependent on "good times" in the economy to feel secure again!
The first thing you must understand is where money really comes from. It comes from a Source that has unlimited abundance. Yes, it does come to you through people, but its origin is from a source of unlimited possibility. If you are following the Laws, you will not run out. And no one else will ever suffer because you have enough. The supply is not limited!
There are many Universal Laws concerning the creation of money, and I'll list some of them here so you can see where you might be falling short. Use this as a handy checklist to make sure you're doing everything you can to stay in the flow.
The Law of Intention: Write your intentions for how much money you want and what you will do with it. Read them every day.
The Law of Faith: Spend time every day connecting to Source and the Truth of Abundance.
The Law of Co-Creation: Listen to and act on the creative ideas that come to you when you're connected. Those ideas are coming to you from a much bigger and wiser source than your "rational" mind.
The Law of Gratitude: Live in gratitude every day. Love, gratitude, and compassion are the highest vibrations on the Planet and are most likely to draw to you the things you want.
The Law of Tithing: Tithe regularly to those who feed your Spirit. Even if you only have $1, give 10% of it to whoever is feeding your spirit. This is an act of thanks AND a demonstration of your Faith in the Truth of Abundance.
The Law of Life: More life to all, and less to none. Do not allow a competitive mind-set in any area of your life, including your business! You must be adding value to the Planet to create money in your life.
You're going to spend your 24 hours a day doing and thinking about something, right? Instead of spending them talking about "how bad the economy is" and worrying about money, spend it thinking about and living the Laws above. Then you won't have time for fear | 453 |
Nene Valley Harrier's cross country stars made their way to an unseasonably warm cofton Park in Birmingham on Saturday, to compete in the prestigious Inter Counties Cross Country Championships. Here's Barry Warne's report.
The club's successful season continued with some fine results against the cream of the British running crop, and pride of place went to Alex Hampson in the under 17 boys race finishing 29th in a high quality field. Hampson, who<|fim_middle|>Another notable double was achieved by the Ellison family with Ethan's 95th place in the boys under 13 race proving to be one of the highlights of the day. William Wright placed 246th in this race. The Nene Valley contingent was completed by Nathan Davey who finished 274th in the under 17 race. | was representing Lincolnshire completed the 6k course in a time of 20:29. This proved to be Nene Valley's strongest race with Bradley Spurdens, Jevan Robertson, Ollie Bowling Austin Herbert and Michael Cawood all running well.
The Harrier's leading lady, Cat Foley, wrapped up a hugely successful cross country season by finishing 50th in the 8k senior ladies race. Foley followed this up by winning a 5 mile road race in Derbyshire the next day.
In the senior men's race Lloyd Kempson was delighted with a run which saw him finishing 152nd, covering the 12k race in an impressive 39:28.
Nene Valley Harriers runners were representing either Cambridgeshire or Lincolnshire, having qualified for this event at the county championship races in January, and the under 20 men's race featured outstanding runs from Jake Richardson and James McCrae finishing 48th and 58th respectively.
The club's junior girls all ran well, and in the under 13's race Amber Park came home in 125th position, while Calypso Priestly battled her way to 216th. Megan Ellison capped her season in style finishing 102nd in the under 15 girls race. She was followed home by Josie Fortune in 253rd position, just 17 places ahead of Ellie Piccaver. Hermione Wright fought her way to 217 position in the under 17 race.
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Section E70-E88
E00-E07
Code E74.4
ICD-10-CM Code E74.4
Disorders of pyruvate metabolism and gluconeogenesis
BILLABLE
Billable codes are sufficient justification for admission to an acute care hospital when used a principal diagnosis.
E74.4 is a billable ICD code used to specify a diagnosis of disorders of pyruvate metabolism and gluconeogenesis. A 'billable code' is detailed enough to be used to specify a medical diagnosis.
The ICD code E744 is used to code Pyruvate carboxylase deficiency
Pyruvate carboxyl<|fim_middle|>ogenesis with anemia - instead, use code D55.-
Leigh's syndrome - instead, use code G31.82
MS-DRG Mapping
DRG Group #642 - Inborn and other disorders of metabolism.
ICD-10-CM Alphabetical Index References for 'E74.4 - Disorders of pyruvate metabolism and gluconeogenesis'
The ICD-10-CM Alphabetical Index links the below-listed medical terms to the ICD code E74.4. Click on any term below to browse the alphabetical index.
Deficiency, deficient +
phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase
pyruvate
Disorder(of) (see: Disease) +
gluconeogenesis
pyruvate metabolism
metabolism NOS
Equivalent ICD-9 Codes GENERAL EQUIVALENCE MAPPINGS (GEM)
Glycogenosis (approximate match)
Other specified disorders of carbohydrate transport and metabolism (approximate match)
This is the official approximate match mapping between ICD9 and ICD10, as provided by the General Equivalency mapping crosswalk. This means that while there is no exact mapping between this ICD10 code E74.4 and a single ICD9 code, 271.8 is an approximate match for comparison and conversion purposes.
Parent Code: E74 - Other disorders of carbohydrate metabolism
Source: http://icd.codes/icd10cm/E744 | ase deficiency is an inherited disorder that causes lactic acid and other potentially toxic compounds to accumulate in the blood. High levels of these substances can damage the body's organs and tissues, particularly in the nervous system. Pyruvate carboxylase deficiency is a rare condition, with an estimated incidence of 1 in 250,000 births worldwide. This disorder appears to be much more common in some Algonkian Indian tribes in eastern Canada.
Specialty: Endocrinology
MeSH Code: D015324
ICD 9 Code: 271.8
Oxaloacetate is the product of pyruvate carboxylase
Coding Notes for E74.4 Info for medical coders on how to properly use this ICD-10 code
Inclusion Terms:
Inclusion Terms
Inclusion Terms are a list of concepts for which a specific code is used. The list of Inclusion Terms is useful for determining the correct code in some cases, but the list is not necessarily exhaustive.
Deficiency of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase
Deficiency of pyruvate carboxylase
Deficiency of pyruvate dehydrogenase
Disorders of pyruvate metabolism and glucone | 271 |
Already as a youth Fr. North was something of a prodigy, finishing high school in Iowa and entering the Society of Jesus at age 15. His early formation as a Jesuit was at Florissant, Missouri, near St. Louis. There he had two years of intensive ascetical training and three years of classical studies in Latin and Greek which left him well prepared in these languages by U.S. standards. His later training was in philosophy at Saint Louis University, in teaching at Marquette High School in Milwaukee, and in theology at St. Marys, Kansas. He was ordained a priest in the Catholic Church in 1944 and continued close to the priesthood and to the Society of Jesus until the day he died.
Bob came to the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome in the years right after World War II and quickly gained the licentiate and doctorate in Scripture. His dissertation was published as "The Biblical Jubilee and Social Reform." From 1951 to 1991 (with interruptions) he taught Scripture and was professor of Archeology and Geography at the Institute. Early on he became attracted to the lure of biblical archeology and in the 1950s participated in various digs in the Middle East, including one under the formidable Kathleen Kenyon. For a time he was superior of the Biblical Institute house in Jerusalem. He was the director of excavations sponsored by the Institute in Ghassul in 1960.
On various occasions he taught at both Saint Louis University and Marquette University in Milwaukee as well as at universities and seminaries in Australia, the Philippines, Korea, and Canada.
He was particularly known and loved by hundreds of Biblical Institute students and others for thirty or so "caravans,"<|fim_middle|> made under Bob's supervision to Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria in July of 1975 and to Iraq, Iran, and Turkey in July of 1976. They were visits prepared meticulously and executed meticulously at the lowest cost possible and not designed for the faint of heart or weak of body.
In 1980, Bob assumed the responsibility for compiling the annual biblical bibliography of the Institute's quarterly Biblica, a task that he performed with immense energy and accuracy until 1998. With this work on the Elenchus Bob's gifts achieved maximum results. Stays in Lisbon, Budapest, Zagreb, Prague, Istanbul, and Warsaw ensured greater control of important secondary languages.
Bob retired from teaching at the Institute at the end of the academic year of 1991 to work full time on the Elenchus. He returned to his native United States for good in April of 2000, and spent his declining years at a Jesuit retirement home outside Milwaukee.
A man of boundless energy and dedication, and remarkable gifts for learning and retaining what he learned, Bob was a person not easily forgotten. His mastery of detail in whatever he tackled verged on the incredible. He was fluent in a large number of languages, all of which he spoke with a flat Midwestern U.S. pronunciation. (His spoken Italian was Tuscan in grammar and Omaha in cadence.) But he communicated. His numerous publications were of a varied sort, but, except for the truly monumental work with the Elenchus, do not add up to anything coherently outstanding. He was mildly eccentric but at the same time a loyal team worker, and his many, many colleagues and students will cherish their memories of a true servant of the Lord. His mark at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in both Rome and Jerusalem remains.
James Swetnam, S.J.,Professor Emeritus, Pontifical Biblical Institute. | which he conducted in Palestine and other parts of the Middle East from 1952 to 1978. The undersigned remembers with gratitude the visits | 33 |
The League of Essex County Sportsmen's Clubs is conservation-oriented umbrella<|fim_middle|>.
The objective of the league shall be to include in its membership representatives of the Sportsmen's Clubs in Essex County, to promote a cooperative program for protection, propagation and restoration of forests, fish, and game, to promote and establish more cordial relations between sportsmen and landowners, to cooperate and assist in the enforcement of the game laws and to promote, protect and perpetuate PUBLIC hunting, fishing and trapping in this Commonwealth.
The League is also an active and contributing member of the larger, state-wide sportsmen's network, the Massachusetts Sportsmen's Council. | organization that is made of a dozen individual fish, game and environmental protection clubs.
League Meetings occur on the 3rd Thursday of the month at Danvers Fish and Game in Middleton, MA. There are no meetings in July and August | 47 |
Promo Supplier M<|fim_middle|> 'Masks,' Label Mistakes and More | apt Gear Takes On Tradeshow Traditions In Adweek Profile
By Tom Higgins
A Mapt messenger bag
When it comes to promotion, less is more, at least according to Lynne Lambert. Lambert sees an issue with how promotional marketing often consists of a useful object brazenly branded with the name and logo of a company. While her comments could be seen as some as being provocative, it is important that folks in the industry should at least listen to them. After all, Lambert is the owner of Mapt Gear, a promotional products company that specializes in bags.
In an Adweek profile, Lambert explains her views on the shape of the industry, as well as how she took advantage of an opportunity to shake things up with her own company. By examining her own use of promotional products and observing how others use branded items, Lambert realized that a lot of items were going to waste. There seemed to be a few reasons for this, such as the overwhelming amount of products professionals tend to accumulate through traveling and making business connections at tradeshows and other events. One problem Lambert identified, however, stood out above the rest, and that was oversized or obnoxious branding.
In her view, people don't want to act as free advertising for brands. She points to the fact that a lot of promotional products end up in storage or in the garbage as evidence for this. While promotional products can be very useful for daily life, it is true that people tend to wear clothing and carry items such as bags or water bottles that look nice and allow them to express an individual sense of style. Here, retail items are at a definite advantage, especially in the professional world—people don't tend to carry branded briefcases or planners into business meetings, unless those items are branded with the name and logo of their own company.
While this is definitely one intention of the promotional products industry, it's also true that end-users want clients and other professionals to carry promotional products they will be able to associate with their brand and allow for its name and logo to accumulate enough impressions to make an investment in promotional marketing worth the price.
In response to what she saw as a shortcoming in the promotional marketing industry, Lambert founded Mapt Gear to create promotional products with a creative twist. Mapt Gear uses a license to access a cartographic library in order to print a map with pinpoints—such as for a brand's headquarters or a conference location—directly onto a canvas tote. The maps are customizable and leave some room for brand names and logos, though Lambert stresses that these are not the most important quality of a promotional product. Rather, the totes are designed to grab attention and to spark conversation, bringing brand recognition in a creative and more interactive way. "They're not going to forget that you gave them this beautiful gift," she claims.
Currently, Mapt Gear offers three types of bags and a padfolio style iPad case. Lambert says that the brand is also looking to get into apparel.
While not everyone might agree with Lambert, it is clear that she shouldn't be ignored. Every industry could use innovation as a means of ensuring future growth and continued success, and the promotional products industry is no different. After all, it has become more and more apparent that end-users are looking for unbranded products and apparel as of late. Maybe it's time for us to listen to the disruptors like Lambert. They might be on to something.
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Tom Higgins is the associate content editor and official Kid Rock beat reporter for the Promo Marketing Media Group.
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I've just taken a few deep, slow breaths before writing this article. Why? I hate writing - I'm not a natural writer and I find writing articles and newsletters the most difficult part of my job. As a result I tend to get quite tense and anxious when I have one to write and often my mind just goes completely blank. Simply taking a few deep breaths helps me to relax into a<|fim_middle|> | better frame of mind to "get the job done".
Your unconscious mind is constantly on the look-out for danger. It doesn't matter if that danger is a real one (like an attacker with a knife) or an imaginary one (like the fear of what other people will think about your writing style).
When your unconscious mind spots a perceived danger it immediately goes into "fight or flight" mode – you may have heard of that. This is when the body and mind prepares itself for fight or to run like hell.
One of the things that happens during this process is that the thinking part of our brain switches off. For survival purposes you don't want to spend time logically thinking things through – you want to react quickly and instinctively. That's when you get that completely blank feeling in your mind. I often work with clients who are scared of presentations or meetings at work and they nearly always describe this feeling to me. It doesn't matter how much preparation they have done, as soon as they stand up to speak all of their well-prepared material disappears!
Another common thing to be affected is your breathing - it becomes shallow, quick and high up in your chest. Also your heart beat gets faster, your blood pressure goes up, and your digestive system is affected.
Take some deep, slow breaths – 10 is a good number to aim for.
If you are very anxious or stressed you might need to build up to this. You may not go from very quick, fast breathing to slow and deep on the first few breaths. That's normal and it doesn't mean you can't do it. Take your time, focus on your breathing and gradually and gently slow it down.
Some of my clients find it helps to count the length of the breath. Others find it helps to imagine breathing in a colour that represents calm relaxation to them. Play around and see what works for you.
Identify the thought that is making you anxious or stressed.
Generally, it isn't a real thing that is causing your anxiety – it is a thought that has passed through your mind. If it is a real thing (e.g. an attacker with a knife) you are absolutely right to feel uncomfortable and do whatever you need to do to get away. But you can start to recognise that it's a thought that is usually causing the negative feeling. There isn't any real danger.
When I felt anxious before I started writing this article there was no real danger. There were some thoughts running through my head. "What if nobody reads it?", "What if the Hypnotherapy Directory doesn't approve it for publication?", "What will that mean about me?". But at the end of the day, even if one or all of those things turn out to happen it doesn't really affect me.
You can start to identify these thoughts, as you are breathing slowly and deeply and steadily – and then you can start to just let them pass through your mind.
Remember what you can and can't control.
Sometimes anxiety is caused by worrying about things there is no hope of controlling - i.e. worrying about what people think about us and worrying if we are going to lose our job. Many people also worry about death.
All you are doing when you worry about these things is using up valuable energy - energy you would be much better off spending on the things you enjoy in life.
If you spend all of your time worrying about illness and death whilst you are healthy, you will miss out on all the happy times you should be enjoying with your friends and family. And ultimately, it doesn't matter how much you worry about death I guarantee it will happen to all of us at some point.
Worrying about losing our jobs is a big one in the current economic situation. But worrying doesn't mean you won't be made redundant – it does nothing to stop it happening. Much better to turn up on time, do the best you can whilst you are there, take any practical steps to make sure your skills are up to date, and then get on and enjoy life.
Next time you are worrying or feeling anxious about something that "might" happen in the future, ask yourself if you can control or change it by worrying. I bet the answer is no. Then ask if there is anything practical you can do to change it. If you fear illness, a practical thing might be to eat a healthier diet. If you fear redundancy, the practical thing might be to get your CV up to date. If there is an action to take - do it.
Then take a few slow, deep breaths and relax.
If you need any help or want to learn more then find a well-qualified hypnotherapist via the Hypnotherapy Directory to help you. | 956 |
Hail ping-pon<|fim_middle|> | ged off my windshield like swollen molecules of an angry gas trying to get in at me. I crouched in the passenger seat where I had taken refuge, one boot on, the other still clutched in my dripping fingers. Outside the wind lashed the poncho I had hastily yanked over my backpack.
"Maybe this isn't such a good idea," I muttered to myself.
I had spent most of the morning jarring along gravel mountain roads beneath a mosaic of cold blue sky and blindingly white thunderheads bruised underneath with dull foggy drizzle, winding inexorably into the heart of California's King Range National Conservation Area. This stretch of the coast was once inhabited by the Sinkyone and Mattole Indians, the government brochure informed me. The so-called "Lost Coast" had been one of the most heavily populated Native American regions in North America for 8000 years before the white man arrived. Maybe so, but I hadn't seen a soul since I entered the area more than three hours ago.
At the general store in Honeydew a large, friendly fellow in worn coveralls warned me that the weather forecast on his CB radio had turned ugly. Ordinarily a little rain wouldn't put me off. After all, I spent good money on Goretex rainwear, a urethane-coated tarp, waterproof stuff sacks, and a state-of-the-art, four-season tent, all of which were packed slickly beneath the whipping poncho outside. I had expected a few scattered showers for the rest of the day, but nothing like this.
The Lost Coast is different. King Peak, at just over four thousand feet the highest point on the coast of the continental United States, manhandles the moist Pacific air, squeezes it against the sky, and wrings out an unholy amount of precipitation. Over 200 inches of rain fall annually in some places. And once it starts, it can go on for days. Long enough for condensation to wilt the loftiest down sleeping bag and clinical gloom to settle into a pilgrim's heart.
As I contemplated my empty boot, wondering if I was really into this much pain, the hail gradually became a sputtering drizzle, then stopped. Slowly the sky brightened. A dazzling sun burst from behind the clouds, a rainbow flared, and the wet gravel steamed contentedly. I slipped on my boot, snugged down the laces, and stepped out into the hot May sun.
Before me lay a dripping rain-forest of madrone, oak, and towering Douglas fir. A thick understory of blackberry, huckleberry, and salal was trying to choke the madrones, and a whole forest of brazen flesh-like limbs writhed in frozen agony. Moss clung to every available trunk, and sword ferns held what little ground remained. No cross-country work possible here, I concluded. Either stick to the trails or be eaten alive by the foliage.
The Lightning Trail is the shortest route to the summit. I soon discovered that the trail hadn't earned its name for speed, but because it zig-zagged straight down out of the sky. New thorny shoots grew into the narrow path like clawed hands, snagging my pack, and droplets showered me as I broke free. Unseen in the canopy a jay rudely decried my intrusion. The sun had disappeared, and low clouds brooded overhead, obscuring the upper slopes of the mountain. The air grew heavy, and I realized I was in a race to get my tent pitched before the next downpour. My shirt, soaked with sweat, clung cold against my skin. An icy headwind greeted me as I crested a ridge at 3500 feet and swung south into a steep canyon curving toward the peak.
With numb fingers I managed to erect my tent on a rocky flat wedged between a swift stream and sheer slope in a stand of Douglas fir. The canyon was a wind tunnel, funneling the cold northwest gusts down from the peak into my campsite. I gathered some damp wood and on my second try the fire caught. Why was it so cold? It shouldn't be this cold in May. My thermometer read 38 degrees and dropping.
Hunched over the fire with my back to the wind, I ate freeze-dried shrimp creole and a fistfull of cashews. After dinner, I set out for the summit. The trail cut through the thick manzanita of the upper slopes and looped up to King Peak. The sky had cleared enough for a cheap-seats view. Just below the bottoms of the broken clouds the mountains rose on both sides of the Mattole valley like crumpled wads of fuzzy paper. Four thousand feet below the Pacific pounded the Lost Coast. It looked a lot closer. The icy northwest wind quickly drove me back down to camp. But at least it wasn't raining. I slipped into my down bag confident things would be better in the morning.
Sometime during the night I was awakened by the "tat . . . tat" of a loose line blowing against the tent membrane. No, not a line, water dripping, probably condensation off the trees. I went back to sleep and dreamed of grinning savages romping through a field of wildflowers. When I awoke with first light, the dripping had become constant. I crept out of the tent. It was snowing. Snowing!
The snow metamorphosed into a steady drizzle. I resolved to outlast it. I resurrected my campfire and ate a dispirited breakfast. The drizzle became a driving rain. Smoke from my fire blew with increasing urgency in the wrong direction--east--as if sucked out to sea by the low-pressure inhalations of a looming beast. This was to be no passing sprinkle; the real bad-news weather was still hanging off-shore. I was cold, wet, irritable, and losing conviction. My spirit mildewed. After four hours of enduring the persistent wind-driven rain, the thought of my water-tight vehicle waiting an hour below at the trailhead, with its forced-air heat, reclining bucket seats, and Dolby stereo, became too much for me. I called it quits.
I slogged down the steep trail carrying an extra ten pounds of water in my soaked gear. How, I wondered, did the Sinkyone Indians manage? They had no GoreTex, no nylon taffeta, no polyurethane coatings, no high-tec walking boots, no geodesic four-season shelters. They couldn't simply add water to a freeze-dried dinner. If they didn't catch it, find it, grow it, or dig it up, they didn't eat. Yet they and their ancestors survived here for 8000 years. How did they do it?
The Sinkyone Indians had no other choice. It was this or nothing at all. No automobiles waited below at their trailhead. Rather, this environment chose them. The rain-soaked Lost Coast was one more of the countless harsh anvils upon which evolution forged the human being. Perhaps not as harsh as the Eskimo's arctic tundra or the stark slopes of the Sherpas' Everest, but harsh enough for me to throw in the towel for the weekend and run home to my color tv, electric blanket, and freezer full of Haagen-Dazs ice cream. | 1,529 |
A few key items can make all the difference in the fight for survival. Collect the things listed below. They can all squeeze into a small container, such as a 2oz tobacco or Altoids tin, that will be hardly noticeable when slipped into a pocket. Make a habit of always having it with you. Do not choose something bigger, you may find it inconvenient to carry and leave it out on the one occasion you actually need it.
Experience has proven that each item earns its place, though some are more useful in some situations than in others: fish hooks, for instance, may be invaluable in the jungle but less so in the desert.
Polish the inside of the lid to make a mirror-like reflecting surface and seal it, to be waterproof, with a strip of adhesive tape which can be easily removed and replaced. Don't then just forget the tin. Regularly check the contents, changing any which deteriorate, such as matches and medicine tablets. Mark all drug containers with use and dosage and a run-out date when they should be replaced. Pack spare space in the tin with cotton wool, which will keep the contents from rattling and can be used for lighting fires.
Invaluable for starting a fire as well as a light source. If made of tallow it is also fat to eat in an emergency or to use for frying – but be sure it is tallow; paraffin wax and some other candles are inedible. Tallow does not store well, especially in hot climates.
A luminous button compass – but make sure you know how to read it, as some small compasses can be confusing. A liquid-filled type is best, but check that it does not leak, has no bubbles in it and is fully serviceable. The pointer is prone to rust. Make sure it is on its pivot and swings freely.
Preferably brass wire – 60–90cm (2–3ft) should do. Save for snares, but could solve many survival problems.
For use where water is suspect and you cannot boil. Follow manufacturers' instructions.
This makes a good water-bag – holding 1 liter (1¾pt). It is easiest to fill it from a source that has an abundance of water and a degree of water pressure, like a waterfall.
Compact and easily stored, cotton wool is one of the best kindling materials available. Also stops the tin's contents rattling.
Key item for raising an alert, attracting attention, and preventing members of a group from getting lost.
It is essential to keep a record of important survival information – for instance, the locations of resources or lists of edible local plants.
If you're on the move and tear your clothes, safety pins can provide quick repair until you can fix things properly. The same can be applied for shelter coverings<|fim_middle|> is passed.
– Antibiotic: For general infections. Tetracycline can be used even by people hypersensitive to penicillin. Dose: one 250mg tablet, four times daily, repeated for five to seven days. Carry enough for a full course. If taking, avoid milk, calcium and iron preparations or other drugs containing aluminum hydroxide.
– Antihistamine: For allergies, insect bites and stings (may also help in cases of a bad reaction to a drug). Piriton is recommended in Britain, Benadryl in the USA. Sleepiness is a side-effect of Piriton, so useful as a mild sleeping pill. Do not exceed recommended dosages or take with alcohol.
– Anti-malaria tablets: Essential in areas where malaria is present. There are types which require only one tablet taken monthly.
– Potassium permanganate: Add to water and mix until water becomes bright pink to sterilize it, deeper pink to make an antiseptic and to a full red to treat fungal diseases such as athlete's foot. | . You can also use the pins as fishing hooks for catching fish or birds.
Use to seal the survival tin. Serves as an all-weather adhesive with applications ranging from building shelters and tools to securing medical bandages.
A good survival kit is one that is flexible and dynamic. When preparing a trip to the wilderness, it is essential to know how your needs will change depending on the anticipated range of conditions. The following is a list of basic items needed to build the most comprehensive Survival Kit tailored around your requirements.
Assorted sizes, preferably waterproof, for minor abrasions and keeping cuts clean. They can be cut and used as butterfly sutures (see Stitching Wounds ).
– Analgesic: A pain reliever for mild and moderate pain. Codeine phosphate is ideal for tooth, ear and headaches. Dose: one tablet every six hours as needed but can cause constipation as a side-effect so will help in cases of loose bowels. Not to be taken by children, asthmatics or people with liver disorders.
– Intestinal sedative: For treating acute and chronic diarrhea. Imodium is usually favored.
– Dose: two capsules initially, then one each time a loose stool | 243 |
Like all hospices, Jospice relies heavily on the local community for financial and practical support. Whether you are part of an organisation, church, club or an interested individual, there is a part you can play in helping us continue to care. There are a number of ways you.
St Joseph's Hospice simply could not survive without the support and generosity we receive from local individuals and groups within our local community.
Organising your own event can sound like a daunting task, but our fundraising team are<|fim_middle|> step of the way!
From art exhibitions to zumbathons, we've got loads of ideas, bags of enthusiasm and all the materials you need to make your event a big success!
Our collection boxes raise over £20,000 a year from a variety of shops, pubs, clubs and other outlets. Every penny really does count. Can you help?
If you don't have much time to spare, then bag packs and street collections are great for raising funds and awareness for Jospice on an ad-hoc basis. Come along and make some new friends, or bring yours with you - the more the merrier! | here to help you every | 5 |
Tonight Tonbridge Angels joined the list of clubs that have recently started to ask questions<|fim_middle|> and heading home to give Tonbridge the lead and sending the Longmead faithful into dreamland.
Naturally, Billericay threw everyone forward in the closing stages but the hosts were not to be denied and whilst they were forced to defend deep the players kept their concentration and marked superbly. | of the title favourites , Billericay Town, by inflicting a fifth league defeat in six matches. Whilst automatic promotion is still well within the Essex club's hands there is a glimmer of hope for Dulwich Hamlet and Folkestone Invicta all the time the Blues continue to falter.
Both teams served up an entertaining first half with Billericay enjoying more possession but the Angels prepared to play on the break.
As early as the 2nd minute a Liam Smith cross presented the onrushing Sam Bantick with a half chance but he couldn't control the shot. Six minutes later Xavier Vidal for the home side played a glorious pass to Bantick with the right winger getting behind his marker but his low cross eluded the Tonbridge forwards.
Bantick again on 10 minutes saw his snap shot go just wide. At this point Angels had provided the clearer chances but gradually the visitors started to get the upper hand. The Tonbridge woodwork was struck on 23 minutes and on the half hour a saving Jack Parter tackle prevented Billericay taking the lead. Eventually the league leaders did open the scoring on 37 minutes when following the failure of Tonbridge to clear their lines after a corner, Billy Bricknell 's deflected shot gave Angels 'keeper Jonny Henly no chance.
Just before half time Alex Akrofi gave the home supporters hope when he turned beautifully and gave himself a clear sight of the Billericay goal but the shot was never going to worry Alan Julian, the Billericay custodian.
The second period started with the visitors continuing to have the lion's share of possession but Tonbridge were always prepared to battle knowing that if they could keep the deficit to just one goal there would be a chance of getting back into the game.
They did in fact get the ball in the net courtesy of a defence splitting pass from Vidal to Turner whose cross was met by Akrofi but the Angels striker was adjudged to be offside although it was a tight decision. Nevertheless it seemed to spur the home side on with that man Akrofi forcing a good save from Julian onto the bar.
In the 75th minute Longmead exploded when Joe Turner met the ball 26 yds out and let fly with a terrific shot that had goal written all over it the moment it left his boot and gave Julian absolutely no chance. A draw for the Angels would have been a terrific result if they could hold out, but maybe , just maybe they could even go on and claim all the points.
The answer came in the 85th minute when a cross from the right sailed over Julian's head and there was Angels substitute , Nathan Elder, at the back post doing what he does best | 561 |
Quico says: So you want to know how a minimally responsible petrostate elite might manage the oil industry's boom-and-bust cycle?
Facing a worldwide slump that has seen energy prices tumble dramatically, the government has just announced a big boost in public spending. And how will they pay for it, you ask? Are they going zillions of kroners into debt to finance it all? Not a chance. They're spending just a fraction of the billions upon billions they saved up during the oil boom.
If it's macroeconomic coordination you want, they got that too. Their Central Bank is aggressively cutting interest<|fim_middle|>3%. Why? Because they were careful not to overheat the economy by overspending when oil prices were high. And how did they manage that? By saving up a bunch of the excedent . . . you know, the part they're spending now, when they actually need it.
Which, to be fair, doesn't mean Norway will manage to avoid a recession altogether…just that the recession they're having will be incomparably shorter, shallower and less traumatic for Norwegian families than the one they would've had if they hadn't taken all those precautions.
None of this is rocket science, people. It really isn't. | rates to boost aggregate demand and head off a slump. And, guess what? They can do that without worrying too much because they face an inflation rate under | 32 |
Artists are present | Winter Jazzfest | Cy Vance forum
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DON'T MISS: WED., JAN. 7, THROUGH SUN., JAN. <|fim_middle|> New York
Pop-rocker's return | Crowdfunding for Dummies | Park Avenue Armory exhibit
Whoopi and Wolfie | Largest menorah lighting | Ugly Sweater Run
Evening with Elton | Polar bear plunge | Temptations on Broadway
Salute to MLK Jr. | Women Entrepreneurs Festival | Cocktail pairing
Music at the Met | Biblical rock opera | Rubin exhibit
Winter Vintners | Undie run | Athena Film Festival
Danny Meyer-founded investment firm raises a new fund
Hotel industry endorses Hochul
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Innovative contemporary theatrical companies and artists from around the world showcase their work at the Public Theater's Under the Radar Festival. The event returns to the Public for its 11th year with work from Taylor Mac, who covers decades of music from the early 20th century, and Reggie Watts, channeling Marina Abramovic by inviting audience members to sit across from him for five minutes. Show times and locations vary. Most shows are $25, though some performances cost more, and some are free. For more information, visit undertheradarfestival.com.
WED., JAN. 7
The New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants hosts the 2015 Taxation of Financial Instruments and Transactions Conference. Speakers include Steve Rosenthal, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute. Topics include the impact of the latest Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act developments, tax inversions and fee-deferral planning. The session takes place from 8:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. at the New York City Bar Association, 42 W. 44th St. Tickets are $510 for nonmembers and $385 for members, and can be purchased at nysscpa.org.
Cinema Eye Honors holds its Eighth Annual Awards Ceremony celebrating nonfiction filmmaking. Thirty-six feature films and six shorts are up for honors. The festivities kick off at 6:45 p.m. at the Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35th Ave. in Astoria, Queens. Tickets are $75. The cost includes a pre-reception hosted by HBO Documentary Films and an after-party. For more information, visit cinemaeyehonors.com.
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THURS., JAN. 8
Through Sat., Jan. 10
The NYC Winter Jazzfest returns for its 11th year, offering performances from more than 100 groups at 10 venues in and around Greenwich Village. Musicians include Robert Glasper, David Murray and Jen Shyu. Performance times, locations and prices vary. For more information, visit winterjazzfest.com.
TUES., JAN. 13
Crain's presents a Business Breakfast Forum with Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. Topics include new strategies and tools to combat cybercrime, and how public-private partnerships can fight financial crime and human trafficking. The event takes place from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. at the Yale Club of New York City, 50 Vanderbilt Ave. Tickets cost $125 and can be purchased at crainsnewyork.com/events-calendar.
Through Sun., July 12
After smallpox, Guinea worm disease may soon be the second human illness ever eradicated, thanks to various global efforts. These scientific and social innovations are explored, along with efforts to eliminate other diseases, in the new exhibit Countdown to Zero, developed by the American Museum of Natural History with the Carter Center. The museum is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. at West 79th Street and Central Park West. Tickets for adults are a suggested donation of $22. For more information, visit amnh.org.
WED., JAN. 14
"Luka" and "Tom's Diner" singer Suzanne Vega and Dramarama lead vocalist John Easdale are part of the lineup at Light of Day Winterfest NYC. The concert raises funds for the nonprofit Light of Day Foundation, which supports research and treatments for Parkinson's disease and related illnesses. The event takes place at 7 p.m. at the Cutting Room, 44 E. 32nd St. Tickets are $45 to $75 and can be purchased at thecuttingroomnyc.com.
SAT., JAN. 17
Know when to fold 'em at the no-limit Texas-hold-'em Snowman Set 2015 Charity Poker Tournament. All net proceeds go to CureSearch for Children's Cancer, a research nonprofit. The event is scheduled to take place from 6:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. at Overlook, 225 E. 44th St. Tickets are $120 for players and $90 for nonplaying guests (each ticket includes two drinks and hors d'oeuvres). For more information, visit snowmansetpoker.com.
Jon Rosenbaum
MARK YOUR CALENDAR: TUES., MAY 26
See them, feel them. A few generations later, legendary rock band The Who (with Roger Daltrey, pictured) celebrate their 50th anniversary with The Who Hits 50!, a tour chronicling their impressive contributions to the genre. The band plays at 7:30 p.m. at Barclays Center, 620 Atlantic Ave. Tickets are $49.50 to $154.50 and can be purchased at barclayscenter.com.
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Terra Firma and 21 Centrale Partners announce refinancing operation for Cleor
Terra Firma has today announced its second support capital investment, a €15m investment in Cleor, the jewellery retailer controlled by 21 Centrale Partners which operates 140 stores in shopping centres throughout France. The investment comes only a month after its transaction with Equistone with respect to an investment in SportGroup.
Terra Firma is delighted to be partnering with another well-respected European sponsor, 21 Centrale Partners which recently acquired DL Software, French leader in ERP solutions for SMEs, in a Public-to-Private transaction. This investment serves as an alternative to an equity co-investment and will enable<|fim_middle|> Centrale Partners and to provide the additional capital."
Gerard Pluvinet, Chairman, 21 Centrale Partners, declared: "We have been accompanying Cleor since 2012 in a strong growth period, doubling the number of stores, structuring the company and developing new distribution channels. The entry of Terra Firma, in partnership with existing banks, marks the quality and potential of the company which successfully adapted itself to a very dynamic retail market."
Reed Smith LLP acted as legal adviser to Terra Firma and Desfilis acted as legal adviser to 21 Centrale Partners on the deal.
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Andrew Géczy, CEO, Terra Firma, said: "This deal is further evidence of Terra Firma's strategy of sourcing creative deals in action across Europe. Cleor has been through a significant transformation over the past few years and is about to enter the next phase of its growth. We are very pleased to be working with 21 | 87 |
Q&A WITH KENTUCKY LT. GOV.
From the Workforce 2022 Guide
From Hoop Dreams to Workforce Reality
How a highly decorated coach is transforming cradle-to-career prep in Kentucky
by RON STARNER
Kentucky Lt. Gov. Jacqueline Coleman has made a career out of defying the odds.
She decided at a young age that she would champion the cause of the underdog and turned herself into one of the most successful high school basketball coaches in recent Kentucky history. A career educator, coach and mentor, Coleman adopted one of her players and gave birth to a daughter on Feb. 8, 2020, shortly after being sworn into office as the 58th lieutenant governor of Kentucky.
She completed her coursework for her doctorate at the University of Kentucky while running for statewide office, an election she would win as the running mate of now-Gov. Andy Beshear in November 2019.
Now a mother of four, Coleman has never wavered in her pursuit of a better life for the people under her care and tutelage. In 2013, she founded Lead Kentucky to help college women in Kentucky prepare for leadership positions on campus and later in their professional careers.
More recently, she served as assistant principal at Nelson County High School and is nearing completion of her doctorate in educational leadership from UK.
Gov. Beshear tapped Coleman to become Secretary of Education and Workforce Development. In a recent interview with Site Selection, she discussed her priorities for the state and the people she serves.
What did you learn from coaching basketball that you are able to apply as Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky?
COLEMAN: I would say that playing and coaching basketball did more to prepare me for this position than just about anything else I did. The governor and I have talked a lot about everybody coming together as Team Kentucky during this pandemic.
From basketball, I gained the experience around what it means to be part of a team and to lead and to sacrifice. Perhaps the greatest lesson I learned was how to be resilient. You can seldom control what happens to you, but you can always control how you react.
You founded Lead Kentucky, which empowers women to become leaders on campus and in their professional careers. Are there any aspects to that program that can be replicated statewide?
COLEMAN: I founded Lead Kentucky because I recognized that girls were typically the leaders in high school. They are often the valedictorians, class presidents, etc. I saw the disparity across the board in elected office and CEO offices and corporate boardrooms. I did the research and concluded that women who lead in high school typically fall off the leadership track when they go to college. That was really concerning to me. College is the time when you plan the rest of your life. If you do not see yourself as a leader then, you never will. With Lead Kentucky, we recruit the best and the brightest and empower them to become leaders.
We allow them the opportunity to learn from leaders across Kentucky — CEOs, educators, business owners, etc. The lesson every year that the college women learn the most is that success is never a straight line. You learn more from your losses than you do from your wins.
You are currently working on your doctorate in education at UK. What are you learning that you can apply in your role as Lieutenant Governor?
COLEMAN: My doctorate is in educational leadership at UK. It was a great segue into this position. I finished all my coursework in the primary. Looking at educational leadership, it is as much about organizational leadership as anything. That has really helped in this role as I build relationships, organize task forces and committees, etc. All the skills and experience I had in that program really helped to shape the understanding and application of the concept of leadership in this role.
Workforce development is a complex system. How does higher education in Kentucky equip and prepare the state's workforce of the present and future?
COLEMAN: It is obvious to me, but I am not sure it is obvious to the public. I am a firm believer that our workforce and the quality of it and our ability to build a world-class educational system go hand in hand. Advancing and developing a workforce — that is a large ship to right. You do not build an economy overnight. It really does take an intentional focus that you can bring the most change and hope to.
We have developed the Commonwealth Education Continuum. It is about building a cradle-to-career educational system for career development. From early childhood education to the jobs of the future — every step along the way, the foundation is education. We are focused on getting our students in higher education to focus on expertise. We help young people to become experts in their field.
The Promise Scholarship program enables disadvantaged students to go to college and earn a degree without incurring debt. One of the biggest barriers to higher education is the cost. We can help our workforce advance their education to the next step. That can also give them the exposure they need. They can turn their associate degree into a bachelor's degree. They are continually advancing their ability. The more streamlined and efficient we can make that, the more adaptable we can be.
What is Kentucky's secret weapon when it comes to workforce development?
COLEMAN: Our secret weapon is our people. We have an entire commonwealth full of people who are known for their hard work and determined spirit. Kentuckians have banded together and pushed through the hard times. It speaks volumes that we are still able to create jobs in Kentucky. We were one of the first states in the nation to get our students back in the classrooms because we were the first to vaccinate all our teachers. We still lead the nation in vaccinations. We waived the testing fee for the GED. Anyone in Kentucky can take the GED for free. That is an example of how we can upskill our workforce. The cost of getting a GED was the main barrier to why people were not taking it. We have also invested $1 million into a program to recruit diverse teachers.
Representation is vital to our success. Our teachers are the first leaders our kids see outside of the home. We are continuing to push the Kentucky workforce forward.
Do you plan to run for governor someday?
COLEMAN: In the last year, I have been sworn in as lieutenant governor, I have had a baby, and I have helped lead this state through a worldwide pandemic. I love my job. I am going to keep doing my job until someone tells me not to.
What did Kentucky get right about its response to COVID-19 and the corresponding economic slowdown?
COLEMAN: The pandemic has taken such a toll on every aspect of our lives. Kentucky did it right because we have a governor who treated every Kentucky family as if they were his own. That is the highest compliment I can give Governor Beshear. He had to make tough decisions that he did not want to make, but he did it because it was the right thing to do.
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Kentucky is leading the South-Central region in capital investment projects per capita, according to Site Selection. Even when you must make tough decisions, when you put people first and invest in your human capital, good things happen. We are on track to generate new jobs. All of that is because we have worked to give Kentucky families opportunities to be healthier and better educated.
Did you learn anything new about workforce development and training during the pandemic that can be applied moving forward?
COLEMAN: We learned that we are much more flexible and adaptable than we thought we were. That helps the workforce in the long run. We have companies and organizations that are figuring out how to maintain that flexibility.
The greatest thing that came out of this was this: COVID-19 created its own set of problems, but it also exacerbated issues we had been dealing with for years.
One example was the transition to digital learning. Many kids do not have computers at home. The Digital Divide was something we had talked about for years. We deployed hot spots to every K-12 household in the state. We lowered lack of internet access from 15% to 2%.
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Bobbi Cochran, has lived in Holly Courts Public Housing for thirty-one years. He's a father, grandfather, community leader, and caregiver to the children and residents of Holly Courts. Since retiring in 2005, Bobbi has focused on bringing unity to the Bernal neighborhood and has served as the Sargent of Arms of the Resident's Council Holly Courts for the past six years. He talked with us about the transformation that's taking place there and the tight knit Bernal Heights community where he's raised his family. He shared some of his wisdom and experience to give another voice to the diversity of the B<|fim_middle|>TER TODAY!
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When did you move to Holly Courts?
My wife and I moved into Holly Courts in 1985 with our two kids and we've been here ever since. I worked for Boeing in Seattle, when I came to San Francisco for the first time and I feel in love with it. Since I was in the Aerospace Union, I thought we would move to Sunnyvale and I'd work for Lockheed. Then, one day, I went out on a house painting job with a friend and I loved it. For 20 years I worked as a house painter and then as a job foreman for a property development company until I retired in 2005.
What is Holly Courts and how do people come to live here?
It was originally built in the 1940's for Army doctors and nurses. In about 1950 the city turned it into a public housing development. We still have a few original residents who have been here since that time. People apply for housing through the San Francisco Housing Authority and get put wherever a unit comes up in the city. Most people don't even know Holly Courts exists and those who do want to live here because it's a tight community and we're a part of the Bernal neighborhood. You don't feel like you're walking past a project because we protect people and we don't want any violence happening around Holly Courts. I never liked the word "project", I always wanted to get away from that name. I like to use development or complex. We want people in the neighborhood to feel like they can call on us for help
What changes have you seen in the neighborhoods?
In Holly Courts we're going through a major makeover. About a year and a half ago Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center along with Bridge Housing (a private management company) took ownership of Holly Courts from the San Francisco Housing Authority. This has been a very good thing for the community. We had mold and mildew problems and the housing authority didn't have the funds to do the work. Now all 118 units are being remodeled. They started about a year and a half ago and they're in phase four right now. They take two buildings at a time, relocate the tenants for three months and remodel their units. They're also building handicap ramps in the courtyard.
We've always had a strong resident's council. It got strong around 1993-1997 when there was a lot of drug sales that went through here. I call that time the dark era. Drugs went through families like wild fire, one family after another. We bounced back because we put together a committed resident's council, we worked with the Bernal Heights community and Ingelside police station. Not as snitches, but as community workers to try to bring Holly Courts out of that dark era. By 2000 we felt it turn around. Even during that time there wasn't a lot of violence in Holly Courts. I've been here 30 years and I don't know of any break-ins. We have every race living together here, Indians, Hispanics, Cambodians, Caucasian and Samoans. I might not know everyone by name but when we pass each other on the side walk we recognize one another, we're neighbors. When I was raising my kids, families would play basketball and volleyball with the kids in the courtyard on the weekends. The resident's council has always been involved to keep it a very family oriented place and to keep it safe for the children.
How have you experienced the relationship between the Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center and the Holly Court Resident's Council?
The resident's council here has always been involved with the Bernal Heights community. The Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center helps us with public housing workshops and other community meetings where we get together, discuss our problems and find ways to work them out. Right now I sit on the Housing Corporation Committee and the Bernal Heights Safety Planning Committee. It's a mix of everybody who lives in Bernal Heights. We have regular community meetings, there's a map on the wall of the neighborhood to see what areas need better lighting, better ways to handle trash, we gotta all work together to keep Bernal Heights and the other communities around us safe.Supervisor Dave Campos and Hillary Ronen have come when we needed them to be involved. We've all been striving for unity for the whole Bernal Heights neighborhood and we respect each other.
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If you are a woman seeking respect in an industry where testosterone reigns supreme, i.e., financial services, you need to learn how to successfully navigate the arena, or you'll get eaten alive by the corporate wolves.
Many previously male-dominated fields are now opening their doors to women. But many still hesitate when it comes to letting women climb the industry ladder. Despite women proving their intellectual progress through advanced education, people treat women like they haven't earned respect in the workplace.
If you want to avoid being assigned the secretarial duties that none of the men want, here is what you can do to earn respect and be perceived as a valuable contributor.
1. Be in the Know in your Industry.
Read books. Listen to podcasts. Attend conferences. Join industry organizations. Stay up-to-date on industry trends.
Competence builds confidence. When you are able to communicate your recent findings about the industry or share information you heard at a conference, you will instantly have more confidence about your contributions to the team.
Want to use your natural writing abilities to take your knowledge to the next level? Write a compelling article about your industry, and your credibility will instantly go up.
2. Learn from Mentors Whom You Respect.
Don't try to navigate the landscape on your own. Accelerate your progress and assimilation by understanding what it takes to succeed.
Who better to show you the ropes than somebody who has been in your shoes and has successfully moved up the ladder? Find a mentor whom you can trust.
Mentors aren't limited to your place of<|fim_middle|> People respect those who are open and can communicate what they are able to do.
7. Focus on Being a Valuable Contributor.
There are many labels that can be placed on people to form divisions or levels of superiority in the work place. Don't focus on that. Spend your time thinking about how you can make the greatest impact in the workplace.
How will you add value today? Shift your mindset, and you will notice that people will change how they see you.
We are all human. Don't get trapped in thoughts of how being a woman can negatively impact you in the workplace. Instead, focus on the unique skills that you bring into the workplace that can take the company from where they are to where they want to be.
After being the first Certified Public Accountant (CPA) to win the title of Ms. Corporate America 2015 in a pageant held in Orlando, Fl, Charlene Rhinehart created the Career Goddess Academy to help female millennials attract career success and a lifestyle they love. She is also the Managing Director of CEO Unlimited LLC – a professional training consulting firm designed to help small business entrepreneurs and career driven employees create endless opportunities through online professional branding, career advancement resources, diversity and inclusion consulting, and workplace solutions. Charlene has been featured as a contributor for The Huffington Post, Your Coffee Break, Addicted2Success, and other publications on the web. | employment. Join professional organizations or online groups where you can build relationships with individuals who can serve as mentors. Don't only reach out to women. Find mentors of the opposite gender, too!
3. Continue Honing Your Skills.
Don't become old news in the workplace. Remain relevant and valuable by investing in your professional development.
Obtain certifications that show your commitment and professional competencies. Take advantage of company training sessions that allow you to become a subject-matter expert. Build your technical skills so you can increase your productivity.
Don't be surprised if your brilliant skills lead to an invitation to teach others what you have learned.
4. Be a Well-Rounded Communicator.
Your technical skills will get you in the door, but being able to articulate your views among different audiences will earn you the respect you deserve.
Many women fall into the trap of undermining their credibility by consistently using weak language. Using words such as "I think" or "just" sabotages the quality of your message. Incorporating filler words such as "uh," "you know," and "like" leaves others questioning your professionalism and the validity of your points.
Need to spruce up your communication skills? Join a local Toastmasters club, where you can practice your extemporaneous speaking, presentation skills, and even receive valuable feedback in a safe and supportive learning environment.
One of the most underutilized success tools for women in the workplace is the ability to ask for what you want. What are you afraid of? What's the worst that can happen?
Too many career desires remain unfulfilled just because you failed to ask. Asking does not always require you to verbally communicate your desires. Write a compelling proposal stating why you want something and how your having it will add tremendous value.
Being strategic in your approach by focusing on the potential gains for the company will increase your chances of getting the "YES" that you are seeking.
6. Engage in Candid Conversations with Your Boss.
Don't try to be superwoman. You don't have to overexert yourself to prove your capabilities. This could actually damage your reputation and cause people to slam all of the mundane work on your desk.
Be open. Practice honesty. Share realistic expectations.
Discuss expectations with your boss regularly and keep them updated on your status. If your boss wants you to take on extra work, let them know what you will need in order to make that happen in a reasonable time frame. | 492 |
Progressive Insurance posted significant profit gains between January and February 2012, but the insurer's monthly profits were down compared with February 2011, according to financial data released by the company on Wednesday.
The company had about $1.379 billion worth of written premiums last month.
February 2012 brought $106.3 million in profit for the company, up 41 percent from the month before.
Total revenues actually dropped 17 percent during that period, but that was offset by a decline in the total cost of paying claims, acquiring policies and underwriting. The combined cost of those categories fell $304.3 million, or 22 percent, between January and February.
Improvement in performance of the company's securities also helped buoy the numbers. Security gains went from $11.9 million in January to $29.4 million in February, an increase of about 158 percent.
Compared with February of last year, February 2012 results were down slightly, but it was still a relatively good month for the direct-to-consumer insurance company.
Total monthly revenues were up $63.5 million, or 5.3 percent, but those gains were wiped out by higher claims, policy acquisition and underwriting costs. The total cost of those operations was up $74.4 million, or 7.3 percent.
In the end, the company's February profits fell by $7.8 million, a drop of 6.8 percent.
According to data released this month by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), Progressive is currently the fourth-largest private passenger auto insurer in the country, in terms of market share.
The company got to that point by maximizing the potential of direct-to-consumer sales, in which Progressive consumers buy insurance online or over the phone instead of having to go through an agent.
Progressive's latest data show about 46 percent of the company's auto policies are sold to drivers through direct means.
NAIC data show that the company has written about $13.42 billion worth of car insurance premiums, which gives it an overall 7.94 percent share of that market.
About 70 percent of the company's policies are for car coverage.
The only companies<|fim_middle|>state and State Farm.
To read the experiences of current and former Progressive policyholders, readers can find user-submitted Progressive auto insurance reviews online. | ahead of Progressive for auto coverage sales are Geico, All | 12 |
By Alex Raymond, RD, LD.
As wonderful as the holidays can be, they can also be extremely stressful.
When healing from an eating disorder, being around food, maybe moving less, hanging out with family, can all be triggers to increased ED thoughts about food and body. With many of my clients, we spend time discussing these triggers and possible healthy coping tools. That's why I created this holiday guide. I wanted to give my clients space to brainstorm ideas about the holidays (struggles, excitements, plans, worries…etc) and different coping tools to use. You<|fim_middle|> an easy thing to do either during a holiday dinner or after that are usually pretty innocent (unless your family is super competitive like mine) and can steer the conversation away from diet talk. Some games to consider buying.. Apples to Apples, a deck of cards (Go Fish anyone?), scattergories, What Do You Meme?, Uno. Hopefully playing some games will lead to laugher and fun!
We often forget about the power of gratitude. During the holiday season, and really anytime you're feeling low, it may be useful to keep a running list of some things you may be thankful for.
3. Texting family and friends.
Do you have a family member or friend who acts as a strong support? Sometimes it can be really helpful to have someone at the table who understands what you're going through and can roll their eyes if someone starts to diet talk or body bash. If there isn't someone there in person, perhaps a friend could be on standby.
It can be difficult if there are lots of family members around the dinner table at holiday gatherings. Or overwhelming with the amount of people at a holiday party. It's okay to take a break and head to the bathroom. Or step outside for a bit of fresh air. Or if the holiday event is in your home, can you head to your room for a bit and take some deep breaths?
If you want more information about resources for eating disorder recovery during the holidays or on stress management and self-care for the holiday season, please contact us to talk to one of our amazing dietitians. Email alex@empoweredeatingrd.com or admin@empoweredeatingrd.com to set up a phone call with a dietitian. | can refer back to this guide throughout the holidays when you feel you need a reminder of what to do. I'd encourage you to add to it and to use with various members of your treatment team.
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A new way of charging e-bikes that can help avoid fires is being tried out in several residential complexes across the city.
At Guanglan Liyuan in the Pudong New Area, residents can<|fim_middle|> ago, nine have been hardly used.
An e-bike rider surnamed Dong said he doesn't use them because he had prepaid for both parking and charging, and didn't want to pay extra for charging from the new sockets. | scan a QR code, charge their bikes and receive a phone message when the battery is full. Charging will automatically stop.
Overcharging e-bikes can start fires because residents are not always around to monitor the process.
An e-bike being charged on a socket with the new QR code safety system in Guanglan Liyuan.
Meters show the total amount of electricity in charging e-bikes from each socket.
At this complex of over 600 households, 78 sockets enabling this way of charging have been installed, adding to more than 800 installed in around 20 residential complexes across the city in the past six months, according to Kunling, a local tech startup which came up with the solution.
If power strips are used, another fire risk, the sockets can detect them and stop charging, and if charging takes longer than normal, a message will be sent to the owner to check if there's a problem, the company said.
One charge lasts six hours, and no "fast charging" options are available, as that is also a fire risk.
A charge costs 1.3 to 1.5 yuan (19-22 US cents), slightly more expensive than using ordinary sockets.
An added advantage with the new system is that, because owners are notified when the battery's full, it will make it easier for police to track down a stolen bike.
Wei Conghu, the community police officer at the complex, said residents no longer charge bikes in the buildings or by using extension cables from apartments, yet another fire risk.
"Since the riders park their bikes in a parking spot with surveillance cameras, this residential complex has had no bike thefts in recent months," he said, adding that the fire authority had also welcomed the new technology solution to e-bike charging.
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Bloomsbury, New York, 2012. 277 pages.
2012 Sonderbooks Stand-out: #1 Non-Fantasy Fiction
I'm interrupting my posting of my 2011 Sonderbooks Stand-outs to write a review of a book that will most definitely be a 2012 Sonderbooks Stand-out, if not my favorite book of the whole year.
Shannon Hale's Austenland was a 2007 Sonderbooks Stand-out, though that was the year I was working on my Master's in Library Science and didn't get very many reviews written. The idea is a fun one, playing off all the Jane Austen frenzy that continues to happen in our time. It's about a young woman who goes to what is essentially a Jane Austen theme park in England. Guests come to an English manor and are submerged in Regency culture and finish off their vacation with a ball. The original book parallelled Pride and Prejudice in many ways and was a fun and romantic read.
In Midnight in Austenland, Shannon Hale has surpassed herself.
Now, I should say that this book is particularly delightful to me because this time the heroine is a divorced mom whose husband cheated on her. I definitely related to her and her feelings as she worked through the divorce. She felt like a complete idiot because she hadn't seen the clues that he was cheating, and as the book goes on, it dawns on her just how long he had lied to her. It's very easy to see -- when it's someone else -- that she should not beat herself up for believing someone who vowed to be true to her. But I completely related to all her turmoil about it.
I also loved this book because I am a Jane Austen aficionado. In college, I wrote my English Literature research paper on Jane Austen. I had more than a month to write it -- so I spent the time reading ALL her novels and wrote the paper staying up all night the night before it was due.
Pride and Prejudice is definitely my favorite, but Northanger Abbey is the most light-hearted and just plain fun. Midnight in Austenland parallels Northanger Abbey in so many beautiful ways. In fact, the similarities enhanced the story. You see, Charlotte, our heroine in Midnight in Austenland is playing a "Bloody Murderer" game after the lights go out. In the dark, lit only by a flash of lightning, she is in a secret room and touches a cold hand attached to a covered dead body.
But when Charlotte goes back the next day, there is no body. Did she imagine it in the dark, in the night? In fact, is this book simply paralleling Northanger Abbey, in which silly Catherine Morland imagines a murder has taken place where there was none?
I don't want to say too much more because I don't want to give away any delicious details. I did like that Charlotte has been reading Agatha Christie, so there was still a tribute to novel-reading, as Catherine Morland had been reading The Mysteries of Udolfo. Again, we weren't sure if Charlotte was drawing conclusions because she'd read too many detective novels.
I think I can stay spoiler-free if I simply comment that this book has the best heroine-escapes-from-deadly-peril scene EVER!
In short, Shannon Hale combines lots of humor with Jane Austen parallels, romance, suspense, mystery, gothic themes, and eerie atmosphere in a book that will make divorced women everywhere feel empowered.
You can read Midnight in Austenland without having read Austenland, though I do recommend reading both. The heroines and their stories are different -- they are just at the same theme park with some of the same actors and the same administrator.
To get you in the mood, I'll quote from some of the Prologue, where we're told about Charlotte. It does echo Northanger Abbey:
No one who knew Charlotte Constance Kinder since her youth would suppose her born to be a heroine. She was a practical girl from infancy, only fussing as much as was necessary and exhibiting no alarming opinions. Common wisdom asserts that heroines are born from calamity, and yet our Charlotte's early life was pretty standard. Not only did her parents avoid fatal accidents, but they also never locked her up in a hidden attic room....
We may never know what turned once-nice James away. Was it the fact that his wife was making more money than he was? (A lot more.) Or that his wife had turned out to be clever? (That can be inconvenient.) Had Charlotte changed? Had James? Was marriage just too hard to maintain in this crazy, shifting world?
Charlotte hadn't thought so. But then, Charlotte had been wrong before.
She was wrong when she assumed her husband's late nights were work-related. She was wrong when she blamed his increasingly sullen behavior on an iron deficiency. She was wrong when she believed the coldness in their bed could be fixed with flannel sheets.
Poor Charlotte. So nice, so clever, so wrong.
Charlotte came to believe that no single action kills a marriage. From the moment it begins to stumble, there are a thousand shots at changing course, and she had invested her whole soul in each of those second chances, which failed anyway. It was like being caught in her own personal Groundhog Day, only without the delightful Bill Murray to make her laugh. She would wake up, marvel anew at the bone-crushing weight in her chest, dress in her best clothes, as if for war, and set out with a blazing hope that today would be different. Today James would remember he loved her and come home to the family. Today she would win back her marriage, and her life.
Eventually the time came when Charlotte sat in the messy ruins of her marriage and felt as weak as a cooked noodle. She would never be nice or clever enough. Hope had been beaten to death. She dried her eyes, shut down her heart, and plunged herself into an emotion coma. So much easier not to feel.
Once numbness shuts down a damaged heart, a miracle is required to restart it. Things would prove rough for our heroine. Her only hope was Jane Austen.
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Expanding on the concept of SD-WAN, SD-Branch services allow for tighter controls of an in-branch infrastructure, including wired LANs<|fim_middle|> with them actually supports this. The question is: Will VMware ever jump into the infrastructure space, or will it rely on its parent company Dell to provide the necessary hardware to create an Aruba-like experience? To date, VMware has remained in Switzerland and operated as an overlay, which is the right strategy, but I do believe it should build a single-stack solution as well.
The SD-WAN market is evolving and shifting from transport only to addressing a broader set of problems. SASE is the new buzzword, but SD-Branch addresses the issue of integrating security and networking together. The one flaw in Gartner's definition of SASE is that they require services to be cloud-delivered. In actuality, cloud-managed achieves the same thing and gives customers a choice of where they want the infrastructure to reside. Although not explicitly stated, SD-Branch does take a broader view of network services. SASE could incorporate LAN and Wi-Fi, but most people I discuss SASE with say its WAN only, instead of the broader definition.
Nyansa is a good company with a strong technical platform, and customer feedback on it is very strong, and most buyers want it to do more. VMware can bring some muscle and money to a company that operated on a startup's budget and enable it to evolve much faster. VMware gets a solution that provides end-to-end visibility (this should also become part of the SASE definition), enabling it to move from SD-WAN to SD-Branch. It does have some work to do to catch Aruba, but at least it now owns the management layer and can help bridge the various pieces of infrastructure.
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This week, VMware announced its intent to acquire Nyansa, an innovative AI-based startup that analyzes massive amounts of network data, speeding up the troubleshooting process, and allowing network engineers to have a proactive strategy for addressing problems. While there are many AI-based analytic tools, Nyansa's flagship product, Voyance, has tight integrations with a number of third-party vendors such as Cisco Platform Exchange Grid (pxGrid), Aruba ClearPass, ServiceNow, and others, making it more of a management platform. No purchase price was provided, but based on the early-stage nature of Nyansa, I would think VMware paid sub $100M for the company, which is a good exit for a company that would likely have to raise more money to expand its sales force, marketing efforts, and product capabilities.
Nyansa initially came to market addressing one of the toughest challenges for network professionals and that's Wi-Fi troubleshooting. Identifying the source of Wi-Fi outages is notoriously difficult and time-consuming. My research has found many network engineers spend 10-15 hours a week doing nothing but Wi-Fi troubleshooting. Nyansa customers have told me, Voyance takes the process of finding the source of Wi-Fi issues down from days often to minutes, as it has an end-to-end view of the client, the wired network, and everything in between. Since its start, Nyansa has expanded into other areas such as AIOps, IoT monitoring, unified communications monitoring, WAN analytics, and security.
Upon closing, Nyansa will become part of VMware's VeloCloud SD-WAN portfolio headed up by Sanjay Uppal, who did the analyst pre-briefing. On the call, he discussed the importance of end-to-end monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities for the WAN and LAN. This is similar to the vision Aruba Networks provided when it acquired a Nyansa competitor called Niara. Aruba brought Niara into the fold as part of its SD-Branch solution, which can be thought of as a superset of SD-WAN. SD-WANs address the challenges with the wide-area network, where SD-Branch also includes the in-branch infrastructure such as wired LAN, Wi-Fi network, and security. VMware/VeloCloud will use Nyansa in a similar way, and it certainly validates the Aruba vision of SD-WAN evolving into SD-Branch.
The challenge for VMware is they don't own the rest of the infrastructure, so getting the granularity Aruba does will be a challenge – a thought supported by other analysts. When the acquisition was announced, I tweeted that VMware can now address SD-Branch, similar to Aruba. Moor Insight's Will Townsend added to the conversation by stating, "Similar but not the same @ArubaNetwork has a tight integration stack. It will take @vmware significant effort to integrate & deliver the same cust experience."
This is the difference between owning the entire stack versus being an overlay. Aruba has tight control over the wired network, Wi-Fi infrastructure, SD-WAN technology, and all the software that controls the stack. VMware runs as an overlay and relies on API integration with third parties. Nyansa took a similar approach and has tight integration with Aruba and Cisco but can't exert as much control or have the same level of visibility over the entire stack. For customers, this will come down to the age-old question of single vendor versus multi-vendor. I believe that as technology becomes more complicated, which it certainly has over the past decade, single vendor provides significant benefits as it simplifies deployment and on-going operations. In a sense, VMware buying Nyansa versus partnering | 773 |
Washington Navy Yard, Washington, D.C.
The Naval History and Heritage Command, formerly the Naval Historical Center, is an Echelon II command responsible for the preservation, analysis, and dissemination of U.S. naval history and heritage located at the historic Washington Navy Yard. The NHHC is composed of 42 facilities in 13 geographic locations including the Navy Department Library, 10 museums and 1 heritage center, USS Constitution repair facility and detachment, and historic ship ex-USS Nautilus.
The Naval History and Heritage Command traces its lineage to 1800, when President John Adams requested Benjamin Stoddert, the first Secretary of the Navy, prepare a catalog of professional books for use in the Secretary's office. When the British invaded Washington in 1814 this collection, containing the finest works on naval history from America and abroad, was rushed to safety outside the Federal City. Thereafter the library had many locations, including a specially designed space in the State, War,�<|fim_middle|>List". Naval History & Heritage Command (NHHC). Retrieved 9 March 2014.
This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Government document "https://www.history.navy.mil/about-us/organization/naval-history-and-heritage-command-origins.html".
Historical Society of Washington, D.C. | �and Navy Building (now the Indian Treaty Room of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building) next to the White House.
When the library was placed under the Bureau of Navigation in 1882, the director, noted international lawyer and U.S. Naval Academy professor James R. Soley, gathered the rare books scattered throughout Navy Department offices, collected naval prints and photographs, and subscribed to professional periodicals. He also began to collect and preserve naval records, particularly those of the American Civil War. Congress initially recognized his efforts by authorizing funds for office staff and combining the library and records sections into the Office of Library and Naval War Records.
Six years later the United States Congress appropriated the funds to print the first volume in a monumental documentary series, Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. Completed in 1927 with the publication of volume 31, the series marked the beginning of a commitment to collect, edit, and publish historical naval documents, a mission that the History Command continues to carry out in its American Revolution and War of 1812 documentary projects. In 1915 the appropriations for publications, the library, and naval war records were combined and the office received a new title—Office of Naval Records and Library.
Once America entered World War I, emphasis shifted to gathering documents on current naval operations. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels directed Admiral William S. Sims, Commander U.S. Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to collect war diaries, operational reports, and other historic war materials of naval commands in his London headquarters.
To handle World War I records in Washington, a Historical Section was established in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations and housed in the new Navy Department ("Main Navy") Building on Constitution Avenue. When the war ended, Admiral Sims' London collection, as well as photographs and new motion pictures from the various Navy bureaus, were transferred to the Historical Section. The library, by now holding more than 50,000 volumes, remained in the State, War, and Navy Building.
In 1921, a former member of Admiral Sims' wartime staff, Captain Dudley W. Knox, was named head of the Office of Naval Records and Library and the Historical Section. For the next twenty-five years he was the driving force behind the Navy's historical program, earning for the office an international reputation in the field of naval archives and history. The Historical Section was absorbed into Naval Records and Library in 1927. Knox's additional appointment as the Curator for the Navy envisioned a display of the nation's sea heritage in a naval museum in Washington. In 1961, Admiral Arleigh Burke, Chief of Naval Operations, established the U.S. Naval Historical Display Center (now the United States Navy Museum).
At President Franklin D. Roosevelt's suggestion, Knox began several documentary series. Seven volumes pertaining to the Quasi War with France and seven volumes relating to the war with the Barbary Powers were ultimately published. World War II halted plans for similar publications on the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Mexican–American War, and World War I. During World War II, Knox turned his attention to collecting documents generated by naval operations in the global conflict. He immediately began a campaign to gather and arrange operation plans, action reports, and war diaries into a well-controlled archives staffed by professional historians who came on board as naval reservists.
To complement the developing World War II operational archives, the Knox group pioneered an oral history program whereby participants in the significant Atlantic and Pacific operations and battles were interviewed as soon as possible after their wartime engagements. When Pulitzer Prize winner and Harvard history professor Samuel Eliot Morison was commissioned by President Roosevelt to prepare the fifteen-volume History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, he relied not only on his own combat experience, but also on those records assembled in Knox's archives.
In 1944, Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal established the Office of Naval History to coordinate the Morison project, as well as the wartime administrative histories being written by Navy commands, under the direction of Princeton professor Robert G. Albion. Knox served as Deputy Director of Naval History under the Director, Admiral Edward C. Kalbfus, but the Office of Naval Records and Library at first remained separate until March 1949 when it merged with the Office of Naval History to form the Naval Records and History Division of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. In 1952 it was renamed the Naval History Division.
The eventual home for the Navy's historians was the Washington Navy Yard in Southeast Washington, which in 1961 was converted from an industrial facility to an administrative center. The first component of the Naval History Division located in the yard was the Navy Museum (later the United States Navy Museum), established in 1961. In 1963, the Operational Archives moved to the Navy Yard. The other sections of the Naval History Division followed in 1970, occupying several scattered buildings.
An artifact conservator at the Naval History and Heritage Command inspects a piece of pottery recovered from the wreck of the sloop-of-war USS Scorpion.
The mission includes but is not limited to: plan and perform all maintenance, repair and restoration of USS Constitution; perform annual inspections of Constitution, reporting all work necessary to maintain the ship in satisfactory material condition to perform its mission; and provide a plan of action and milestones for any corrective action; as far as practicable, ensure material compliance and documentation with the historic requirements for the ship, as close to its 1812 configuration as possible. The detachment was established on 25 October 1991. NHHC DET Boston is a detachment under the direct supervision of the Director, Naval History and Heritage Command, Washington, D.C. Located near the ship, the USS Constitution Museum is a private museum that interprets the ship and her history.
Assigned to the History Command since 1991, the unit deploys its teams to U.S. Navy, joint, and combined commands worldwide where they conduct oral history interviews, collect historically significant artifacts and records, and document operations through photography and art. Their collection effort contributes to the Navy's lessons learned and preserves the history of current naval operations during crisis response, wartime, declared national emergency, or in situations as directed. Teams have documented the Navy's role in the Persian Gulf War, Operation Restore Hope (Haiti) and Operation Allied Force (Kosovo); counter-narcotics actions in the Caribbean; fleet exercises, special warfare activities, Information Technology (IT-21); the attack on, and the rebuilding of USS Cole (DDG-67); the 11 September 2001 attack on the Pentagon; and the Global War on Terrorism. In 2001 eleven unit members were recalled to active duty to support the History Command's documentation collection efforts related to Operation Noble Eagle and Operation Enduring Freedom. For Operation Iraqi Freedom and in support of the Navy's Task Force History, four unit members were recalled to active duty.
This non-pay Naval Reserve unit provides project support to the Naval History & Heritage Command in keeping with the larger goal of enhancing the Navy's effectiveness by preserving, analyzing, and interpreting its history and heritage. Unit members work on long-term historical projects with the NHC staff processing archival collections, conducting oral history interviews with Pearl Harbor survivors, and digitizing histories for the Command's website or for publication in print. VTU members also conduct end-of-tour interviews with key naval leaders.
Afterburner: Naval Aviators and the Vietnam War, by John Darrell Sherwood. New York: New York University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-8147-9842-X.
^ "Director Biography". History.navy.mil. Retrieved 30 October 2012.
^ "Naval historical command director resigns – Navy News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq". Navy Times. Retrieved 30 October 2012.
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The day started with a sheet of ice covering everything; pavements, roads, cars. Especially cars, as I spent 15 minutes defrosting ours, only for the windscreen to freeze again! Anyway, we met at a city centre conference venue (Ben's university room kitchen) and headed out.
Q. "We're starting a church, do you have any ideas how we could serve people in Preston?
And it went on. Most people were really friendly though. Met two separate groups who've come through All Saints so really good to hear about the good work they've been doing. I think the highlight was a group of Romanian men who could speak about 3 words of English between them and still wanted to help out. I ended up on the phone to one of their friends who spoke as much English as I speak Romanian... so that was a comical, slightly awkward 5 minutes!
No one wanted to be filmed! We gave people the option and most were happy to go through the questionnaire with us but didn't want to be in front of the camera.<|fim_middle|> identifying us next time. Something to make it clear we're not after anyone's money and aren't running a scam!
So all in all it was a good morning. Lessons learned, fingers defrosted, looking forward to next time in better weather! | We put this down to a couple of things. Firstly, it was ridiculously cold and the streets were fairly empty. No one really wanted to be outside and those who were there were going somewhere, quickly. Secondly we'll go in with some kind of banner | 51 |
Redskins Can't Corral Colts: 36-22
The Redskins were well aware of the Indianapolis Colts' quick strike offense, and for a half, their confidence in pulling off an<|fim_middle|> rushed for 214 yards against the Colts.
Indianapolis has won 28 of its last 33 games, regular and postseason. The Colts are 18-3 at the RCA Dome the last three years.
#### -- PROJECTED STARTING LINEUPS
89 Santana Moss
87 Reggie Wayne
60 Chris Samuels
78 Tarik Glenn
66 Derrick Dockery
65 Ryan Lilja
61 Casey Rabach
63 Jeff Saturday
77 Randy Thomas
73 Jake Scott
76 Jon Jansen
71 Ryan Diem
47 Chris Cooley
44 Dallas Clark
85 Brandon Lloyd
88 Marvin Harrison
8 Mark Brunell
18 Peyton Manning
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45 Mike Sellers
87 Ben Utecht
26 Clinton Portis
33 Dominic Rhodes
99 Andre Carter
98 Robert Mathis
96 Cornelius Griffin
90 Montae Reagor
95 Joe Salave'a
79 Raheem Brock
93 Phillip Daniels
93 Dwight Freeney
53 Marcus Washington
51 Gilbert Gardner
98 Lemar Marshall
58 Gary Brackett
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57 W. Holdman
59 Cato June
22 Carlos Rogers
25 Nick Harper
25 Kenny Wright
42 Jason David
40 Adam Archuleta
20 Mike Doss
21 Bob Sanders
4 Derrick Frost
17 Hunter Smith
3 Nick Novak
4 Adam Vinatieri
71 Ethan Albright
48 Justin Snow
46 Ladell Betts
10 Terrence Wilkins
83 James Thrash
-- SERIES HISTORY
The Redskins and Colts will be meeting for the 28th time in a series that dates back to 1953. The Colts own a 17-10 series edge, but the Redskins have won five of the last seven games.
The series has been contested only seven times since 1984, when the Colts moved to Indianapolis.
The last meeting between the clubs came on Oct.27, 2002, when the Redskins took a 26-21 win at FedExField. Playing in a nationally-televised Sunday night road contest, Indianapolis rallied from a 20-0 first-half deficit to a 23-21 fourth-quarter margin before falling to Washington.
Quarterback Shane Matthews connected on scoring passes of nine yards to Darnerien McCants and 33 yards to Chris Doering, finishing 17-of-35 for 210 yards. Running back Stephen Davis had 16 carries for 80 yards.
Colts quarterback Peyton Manning was 21-of-32 for 214 yards against a defense led by Redskins' coach Marvin Lewis. Manning threw two touchdowns, but he was picked off by Fred Smoot and Ifeanyi Ohalete. LaVar Arrington had two sacks.
The last time the Redskins played in Indianapolis was on Dec. 19, 1999, when the Colts won the AFC Eastern Division title with a 24-21 decision over Washington in the RCA Dome.
The series was contested annually from 1953-67, then in 1969, 1973, 1977, 1978 and 1981 while the Colts were in Baltimore.
-- TALE OF THE TAPE: REDSKINS-COLTS
REDSKINS 2006 STATISTICAL RANKINGS
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#### -- NEWS & NOTES
Redskins linebacker Marcus Washington will play his first game against his former team on Sunday. Washington was drafted by the Colts in the second round (59th overall) of the 1999 NFL Draft.
Redskins defensive coordinator-defensive line coach Greg Blache coached in Indianapolis from 1994-98. He was the Colts' defensive line coach.
The last time a Gregg Williams-coached defense played against Peyton Manning and the high-powered Colts offense was on Nov. 23, 2003, when Williams was head coach of the Buffalo Bills.
Williams's defense limited the Colts to just 17 points in a 17-14 loss. Manning was 26-of-42 for 229 yards, with no touchdown passes. Colts' wide receiver Marvin Harrison caught six passes for 47 yards.
The Redskins are 16-3 (including postseason) when playing indoors under head coach Joe Gibbs.
Earlier this season, the Redskins defeated the Houston Texans in Week 3 with the roof closed at Reliant Stadium.
Sunday's game is the second of four games this season that the Redskins will play indoors, with road games still to come at New Orleans and St. Louis.
Joe Gibbs is 1-1 all-time against the Colts, with both games played at the RCA Dome.
-- FAMILIAR FACES ON THE COLTS
Colts defensive coordinator Ron Meeks served as cornerbacks coach for the Redskins in 2000. | upset grew. Washington stayed with the high-powered Colts, leading 14-13 at halftime at the RCA Dome and even getting some knocks on quarterback Peyton Manning.
The Colts were rested, ready, coming off a bye and playing before a sellout crowd at their home stadium. It showed in the third quarter. Manning led the Colts to three touchdowns building a 33-14 lead.
The final score was 36-22, and the Redskins' record dropped to 2-5 on the season. In a season that began with optimism all around, Washington is in last place in the NFC East.
"We have to find a way to play and coach better and work our way out of this," head coach Joe Gibbs said. "I'm going to come out swinging and do my absolute best to fix it."
The Redskins head into their bye week looking for answers.
"We'll work on some things," Gibbs said. "We'll get a breath fresh air [in the bye] and hopefully get some guys healthy for our next game."
Mark Brunell finished the game 27-of-37 for 226 yards and two touchdowns, but he was unable to direct the offense to any points in the third quarter, when sustaining a drive would have kept the Redskins close.
Brunell's counterpart, Peyton Manning, completed 25-of-35 passes for 342 yards and four touchdowns. He picked apart a struggling Redskins' secondary that has suffered a myriad of injuries this season. Wide receivers Reggie Wayne and Marvin Harrison combined for 14 catches for 195 yards and three touchdowns.
Early on, the Redskins' strategy was clear: Keep Manning and the Colts' offense under wraps by keeping them off the field. The Colts were up to the challenge, though, stuffing Clinton Portis for minus-3 yards on the Redskins' first two offensive plays.
The Redskins were forced to punt, and Derrick Frost's 53-yard punt pinned the Colts back to their 8-yard line.
Showing no rust from his two-week break, Manning guided the Colts offense downfield with precision passing, completing passes to Wayne and H-back Ben Utecht. Manning found tight end Dallas Clark for a 40-yard pickup, giving the Colts a 1st-and-goal at the Redskins' 1-yard line.
After two stops, Manning threw to a diving Clark for a 1-yard touchdown pass, giving the Colts an early 7-0 lead.
Late in the first quarter, Washington's Antwaan Randle El produced a 24-yard punt return to give the Redskins the ball at the Colts' 45-yard line.
Brunell quickly completed a 15-yard pass to Santana Moss and a 12-yard pass to Brandon Lloyd, giving the Redskins a first down at the Colts' 18-yard line. Brunell was sacked by Dwight Freeney, but the Colts' Pro Bowl defensive end was called for roughing the passer, a 15-yard infraction.
Two plays later, Brunell found tight end Chris Cooley, diving in the corner of the end zone, for a 13-yard touchdown pass to tie the game.
On the Colts' next drive, Manning responded with completions to wide receiver Marvin Harrison for nine yards, Wayne for 13 yards and running back Joseph Addai for 12 and 20 yards. Quickly, the Colts had moved to the Redskins' 17-yard line.
The Redskins were able to pressure Manning, with defensive ends Andre Carter and Phillip Daniels combining to put a hard hit on the Colts' quarterback. Manning was able to throw the ball away for an incompletion, but the Colts had to call time out to give him a breather.
The Redskins then stuffed Addai on a run up the middle, forcing the Colts to settle for a 30-yard field goal by Adam Vinatieri.
Midway through the second quarter, the Redskins used a pair of big plays to get into field goal range.
On 3rd-and-10 at the Redskins' 28-yard line, Brunell found Randle El downfield for a 30-yard gain. Then Portis broke free for a 34-yard pickup to give the Redskins the ball at the Colts' 11-yard line.
The Redskins' offense self-destructed, though. On a 3rd-and-8 play, Brunell fumbled the ball, but was able to quickly pounce on it for a recovery. On the same play, Santana Moss was called for a 15-yard unsportsmanlike penalty when he slammed a Colts defender to the turf.
That pushed the ball back, and instead of a 32-yard attempt, Nick Novak had a 49-yarder. Novak's kick hit the left upright and bounced away.
On the Colts' subsequent drive, the Redskins forced a quick 3-and-out, and punter Hunter Smith came in to kick to Randle El. Smith sent a 41-yarder down the middle of the field, where Randle El collected it at the Redskins' 13-yard line.
Special teams blockers opened a huge hole straight up the middle of the field, and Randle El took advantage, using his speed to break into open field. Only Smith remained in his way, and Randle El dashed past him for an 87-yard touchdown return, silencing the RCA Dome crowd and giving Washington a 14-10 lead.
Late in the first half, the Redskins self-destructed again, giving the Colts excellent field position for a late field goal.
First, Randle El was called for an excessive celebration penalty on his touchdown, forcing the Redskins to kick off from the 15-yard line. Then, Sean Taylor was called for a 5-yard off-sides penalty and Frost was called for an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty after he took his helmet off in anger at the referee before the kickoff.
All of a sudden, the Redskins were kicking off from their 5-yard line.
The Colts eventually took over at their own 47 with 2:15 left in the half. Marcus Washington was called on a 15-yard late hit penalty on Manning, and the Colts were within scoring distance.
Manning connected with Harrison on two passes to get the ball to the Redskins' 1-yard line.
The Redskins' defense stiffened, however. Running back Dominic Rhodes ran twice, and then on third down Manning appeared to connect on a touchdown pass to Harrison in the right corner of the end zone. But replays showed the Harrison did not get both feet in bounds, and the pass was incomplete. The Colts settled for a 19-yard field goal by Vinatieri.
In the third quarter, the Colts used a quick-strike offense to, in Gibbs' words, "overwhelm the Redskins."
After a 37-yard kickoff return by Terrence Wilkins to open the second half, Manning took command and directed the offense downfield on a four-play touchdown drive. Addai broke several tackles on runs of 21 yards and 9 yards, getting the Colts to the 4-yard line. Then Manning threw to Harrison, running a quick slant pattern against Shawn Springs, for a 4-yard touchdown pass.
The Colts struck even faster on their next drive, as Manning connected with Wayne on a 51-yard touchdown pass. Wayne got a step on defenders Adam Archuleta and Kenny Wright and hauled in a perfectly thrown pass from Manning for the score.
Later in the third quarter, Manning connected with Wayne again on a 38-yard pickup to get the Colts in scoring range again. Then Manning threw to Harrison, who got open by out-maneuvering Mike Rumph, for a 1-yard touchdown.
Suddenly the Colts had built a commanding, 33-14 lead.
Meantime, the Redskins' offense struggled to sustain drives in the third quarter. Brunell used the short passing game, throwing passes to Portis and Betts, but the Colts' fast linebackers minimized big gains.
Early in the fourth quarter, the Redskins were still hopeful to engineer a comeback, but Novak's 35-yard field goal attempt sailed wide left. Meantime, Indianapolis added a field goal on a 47-yarder by Vinatieri to build the lead to 36-14.
James Thrash caught a 5-yard touchdown pass from Brunell with 18 seconds left, but the outcome had long been decided.
The Colts remain undefeated and appear headed for another postseason berth. The Redskins appear headed for change as they head into the bye.
#### -- PRE-GAME COVERAGE
The Redskins travel to Indianapolis this weekend for a matchup with the undefeated Colts on Sunday, Oct. 22, at the RCA Dome. Kickoff is 4:15 p.m. ET.
The Redskins are 2-1 against the AFC South this season. They have defeated Houston and Jacksonville and lost to Tennessee. Sunday's game against the Colts is the 28th all-time between the two franchises, but it is the eighth matchup since the Colts relocated to Indianapolis from Baltimore in 1983.
The Redskins-Colts game will be broadcast on FOX. Locally, the FOX affiliate WTTG-5 will televise the game. Dick Stockton will call the play-by-play and Troy Aikman will provide color commentary. Pam Oliver will serve as sideline reporter.
On radio, the game will be broadcast on Triple X ESPN Radio (94.3, 92.7 FM and 730 AM). Larry Michael handles the play-by-play with color commentary from Redskins legends and NFL Hall of Famers quarterback Sonny Jurgensen and linebacker Sam Huff. Bram Weinstein will serve as sideline reporter.
Washington is coming off a [disappointing 25-22 upset loss to the
](/news/article-1/a-real-downer-redskins-fall-to-titans/80976FF3-E557-4A3E-B5A3-51C4F3FCE04F) last Sunday at FedExField.
Indianapolis is the second of three teams the Redskins will face this season who are coming off a bye the previous week. The Colts last played in Week 5, when they defeated the Tennessee Titans by a score of 14-13 at the RCA Dome.
Down 13-7 in the fourth quarter, Peyton Manning threw a 2-yard touchdown to Reggie Wayne to give the Colts the win. It was the third consecutive week that the Colts had to come from behind to win--and stay undefeated.
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ITN and the BFA explore why a franchise is a career choice with great potential
by LLB Reporter July 4, 2019
written by LLB Reporter 4th Jul 19 6:08 am
The British Franchise Association and ITN Productions Industry News have co-produced a news and current affairs-style programme 'Franchising the Next Generation', exploring the value of franchising, highlighting the people behind the success stories and demonstrating why investing in a franchise is a career choice with great potential for new talent.
Presented by national newsreader Natasha Kaplinsky OBE said, 'Franchising the Next Generation' reveals the positive impact franchising has on individuals, business, society and the economy. The programme addresses what franchising is and how they operate, highlights how the bfa is supporting franchising in the UK and explores the latest emerging trends. The programme also demonstrates how young entrepreneurs looking to start their first business can become part of this growing success story with the added advantage of the support of a franchisor.
Franchising continues to go from strength to strength as more people than ever discover the benefits of the franchising model. With modern franchising ranging from multi-national brands to home-based operations, the opportunities open to potential franchisees are enormous. The franchising industry contributes £17.2bn to UK plc and employs 710,000 people, just over half of whom are in full-time employment. There are 48,600 franchise outlets, 93% of which are profitable.
Franchising the Next Generation will form part of an extensive communications campaign featuring bfa's members and professional partners, as well as journalists, writers, bloggers and relevant government departments.
Pip Wilkins, QFP, Chief Executive of the bfa said: "The industry continues to present strong growth. However, the association wants to ensure that this is sustainable through education and support of ethical franchising. Our partnership with ITN Productions is now in its second year and we are excited to launch with a programme showcasing the opportunities that franchising can bring to both businesses looking to grow and investors looking to build their own franchise unit."
Vicki Clubley, Interim Head of ITN Productions Industry News said, "We're delighted to be partnering with the bfa to produce a programme highlighting the value of franchising. We hope the content will educate people on how franchises actually work, as well as attract the younger generation to take franchising into their hearts."
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COLUMBIA - The Columbia Fire Department responded to a water-flow alarm at 2001 Corona Street, the Market Street Building in the Village of Cherry Hill at approximately 6:53 p.m. Tuesday.
The fire engine from Fire Station 6 on Chapel Hill arrived on the scene within four minutes and found water flowing from the three-story building and a strong smell of smoke present. Fire fighters on the scene immediately requested that additional fire units respond, as it appeared<|fim_middle|> was moderate water damage to the third and second floor area below the affected office suite. The building houses eight separate businesses.
Photo courtesy of Columbia Fire Department. | they had an active fire.
Fire fighters searched the building for the fire and within 15 minutes located and extinguished a fire in the attic space between the third-floor ceiling and the roof of the building. A fire sprinkler had also activated in the room below the fire.
Fire damage was contained to the ceiling and attic space immediately above the approximately 10' x10' room of an unoccupied third-floor office suite. There | 89 |
The host of the popular show, "Afternoons with Amos, died Friday.
The host of the popular Indianapolis radio show, "Afternoons with Amos," died Friday while visiting his parents in Chicago.
Calling for Amos Brown will be from noon to 6 p.m. Friday at Light of the World Christian Church, 4646 N. Michigan Road.
Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at the same church.
Amos Brown and Amp Harris never talked about just one particular thing.
They talked about sports, family, current affairs, community events they were involved in, Reggie Wayne, cars, to name a few. On Thursday, when they talked on the phone, something seemed different.
"Amp, I'm tired," Brown told him.
As he recalled that phone call with Brown, Harris said he was surprised. That was the first time in the 30 years he's known Brown that he ever talked about being tired.
"Doc, you gotta slow down. You're doing too much," Harris said, not really sure whether his mentor and longtime friend's exhaustion went beyond the physical.
"Yeah, I know," Brown said, adding that he was planning to take some time off from work to relax a little bit. He told Harris, a local promoter and radio personality, that he would let him know if he needed a fill-in for his daily radio show.
That was the last time they talked. Brown died Friday at the age of 64. The host of a popular radio show, WTLC-AM (1310)'s "Afternoons with Amos," he collapsed from what is believed to be a heart attack in his parents' home in Chicago.
Brown was known for helping people who asked for help, whatever that may be. He went to community events, attended town hall meetings, visited inner-city neighborhoods. Harris said he'd never seen Brown do so many things at once, particularly in the last few years, when crime became more prevalent in the inner city.
"He was trying to be everything to everybody," said Harris, who treated Brown like an uncle and fondly called him "Doc" for always trying to fix people's problems.
But as Harris learned from their last phone chat, Brown also was someone with limits, someone who got tired. Friends said that quality and Brown's more introverted alter ego are what many in the public do not know.
As many in Indianapolis remember Brown as a strong advocate for African-Americans and the poor, a loud voice for the voiceless, and a committed journalist who didn't hesitate to ask tough and uncomfortable questions, his close friends will remember someone who, more than anything, was a family man and a proud grandfather who adored his granddaughter. They also will remember someone else aside from Brown's more gregarious public persona, someone completely different.
When the radio microphone was off, when no one else needed his help or opinion, Brown, his friends said, was a private, soft-spoken and introverted man, who worked hard to<|fim_middle|> over statistics and census numbers, going through stacks of papers, or answering his emails.
"Around the station … Amos could be there and you would never know it," Ridle said. "He was the quietest person in the building."
Indeed, Brown was "not a man of fluffy words," said Kyla Woods, who worked with him for seven years before she pursued a career as a TV reporter in Cincinnati, but she remembered him as a man whose actions spoke for him.
His friends said Brown went out of his way to assist those who called him. Calls for help usually ran the gamut from mundane to pressing. Some called about a pothole on their street, or about the city not picking up their trash. Others called asking for help with legal problems or child support issues.
"He would take time and listen to that person or offer them advice, direct them on who to contact, whether it's a city councilor, the Department of Public Works or IPL," said Chris Moore, who was Brown's producer for 7½ years.
Shabazz said he and Brown had butted heads because of their politics — he was conservative and Brown was liberal. But Shabazz said he always respected Brown's constituency service.
As someone who was in the same business as Brown, Shabazz understood why he fought hard to keep his public and private lives separate.
"It helps you keep your sanity," Shabazz said. "Taking your work home gets old after a while."
Brown's survivors include his wife, Quinetta; stepson, Aaron Willis; granddaughter, Aar-Yana Willis; parents, Dr. Amos and Mrs. Johnye La Pearl Brown; and sisters, Adrienne Brown and Oveda Brown.
Calling will be from noon to 6 p.m. Friday at Light of the World Christian Church, 4646 N. Michigan Road.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at the church, with calling one hour before.
Funeral services are being handled by Flanner and Buchanan Washington Park North.
Star reporter Ellen Garrison contributed to this story. | keep his private and public life separate. Some even used the word "shy" to describe him.
"Away from the lights, away from the cameras, away from the bliss and bluster, Amos was actually relatively quiet," said political writer and radio and TV commentator Abdul-Hakim Shabbaz, who was also Brown's local rival, his "sparring partner," as the talk show host at WIBC-FM (93.1) put it.
Harris said that's one of the attributes he loved about Brown.
"In his little, quirky way, he was someone that didn't allow a lot of people to get to know him," Harris said. "When Amos went home, he went home."
Even at the station where he worked, Brown was very low-profile, said Cameron Ridle, news anchor and reporter for WTLC-FM and WTLC-AM. When he wasn't on the air, Brown was usually in his office, poring | 199 |
Memorial Day commemorated on Northshore
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For many Americans, Memorial Day marks the first day of summer vacation -- a chance to have a cookout, go to the beach or take advantage of a sale.But for those who have lost loved ones on battlefields around the world, Memorial Day is a bittersweet mixture of pain and pride. Memorial Day is personal."Everybody told me, you know, it's going to get easier. It doesn't get easier," Gina Guillory said.Her son, Marine Sgt. Michael Guillory, was killed in Afghanistan in December 2012. He was the first veteran to be interred in the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Cemetery when it opened three years ago. So many others have followed."We miss him terribly and still so proud of him and so thankful," Guillory said. "He was willing to do what he went out there to do for us, for all of us."Memorial Day services at the cemetery drew a crowd made up of families who'd lost loved ones and veterans who came home from conflict and never forgot their fallen comrades.Gov. John Bel Edwards, a U.S. Army veteran himself, attended the ceremony. "On this Memorial Day, we share the grief of every family who has lost a loved one in the line of duty and we honor the service of every veteran past or present," Edwards said. The traditional gun salute echoed the thunder of battles past over a field of heroes whose markers stand in perfect formation next to the flag to which they pledged their allegiance. "These vets gave their lives fighting for us and my husband was a dedicated veteran," Shirley Jackson said.She and her family stood next the grave of her husband, Sgt. Julius Jackson, a veteran of the Vietnam War. She is convinced America understands the significance of Memorial Day. "I think so. I think so. Each person treats it in their own way. Normally we just gather," Jackson said. "Making sure that we gather and pay our respects -- I think that's the most important thing we can do," Edwards said. Earlier in the day, a smaller crowd gathered at the St. Tammany Parish Justice Center in Covington to honor the fallen. "Memorial Day. I'm honoring the men that sacrificed their lives for our nation," said 97-year-old Ubert Terrell, a survivor of the Normandy invasion during World War II. "They gave their lives for our nation. We must honor those guys regardless of the situation." "It's not really about barbecues and picnics, it's about remembrance," said Dennis Andras of the Vietnam Veterans of America. Andras will never forget the buddies he lost in combat. "Ruiz, I lost near the A Shau Valley. He was one of my reconnaisance sergeants," Andras said. "The last thing I remember was the last words I told him, the last I saw him, was, 'Via con dios, amigo.' That's what I remember." "It kind of hit home as some of the families here today that gave so much as did their son or daughter," Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser said. In each person's heart on this Memorial Day there was a combination of pain and pride. As the gatherings came to an end, families spent private moments in the cemetery, walking through the real memorial -- the growing garrison of granite markers.Keep up with local news, weather and current events with the WDSU app here. Sign up for our email newsletters to get breaking news right in your inbox. Click here to sign up!
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For many Americans, Memorial Day marks the first day of summer vacation -- a chance to have a cookout, go to the beach or take advantage of a sale.
But for those who have lost loved ones on battlefields around the world, Memorial Day is a bittersweet mixture of pain and pride. Memorial Day is personal.
"Everybody told me, you know, it's going to get easier. It doesn't get easier," Gina Guillory said.
Her son, Marine Sgt. Michael Guillory, was killed in Afghanistan in December 2012. He was the first veteran to be interred in the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Cemetery when it opened three years ago.
So many others have followed.
"We miss him terribly and still so proud of him and so thankful," Guillory said. "He was willing to do what he went out there to do for us, for all of us."
Memorial Day services at the cemetery drew a crowd made up of families who'd lost loved ones and veterans who came home from conflict and never forgot their fallen comrades.
Gov. John Bel Edwards, a U.S. Army veteran himself, attended the ceremony.
"On this Memorial Day, we share the grief of every family who has lost a loved one in the line of duty and we honor the service of every veteran past or present," Edwards said.
The traditional gun salute echoed the thunder of battles past over a field of heroes whose markers stand in perfect formation next to the flag to which they pledged their allegiance.
"These vets gave their lives fighting for us and my husband was a dedicated veteran," Shirley Jackson said.
She and her family stood next the grave of her husband, Sgt. Julius Jackson, a veteran of the Vietnam War. She is convinced America understands the significance of Memorial Day.
"I think so. I think so. Each person treats it in their own way. Normally we just gather," Jackson said.
"Making sure that we gather and pay our respects -- I think that's the most important thing we can do," Edwards said.
Earlier in the day, a smaller crowd gathered at the St. Tammany Parish Justice Center in Covington to honor the fallen.
"Memorial Day. I'm honoring the men that sacrificed their lives for our nation," said 97-year-old Ubert Terrell, a survivor of the Normandy invasion during World War II. "They gave their lives for our nation. We must honor those guys regardless of the situation."
"It's not really about barbecues and picnics, it's about remembrance," said Dennis Andras of the Vietnam Veterans of America.
Andras will never forget the buddies he lost in combat.
"Ruiz, I lost near the A Shau Valley. He was one of my reconnaisance sergeants," Andras said. "The last thing I remember was the last words I told him, the last I saw him, was, 'Via con dios, amigo.' That's what I remember."
"It kind of hit home as some of the families here today that gave so much as did their son or daughter," Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser said.
In each person's heart on this Memorial Day there was a combination of pain and pride. | 1,887 |
ef~a tale of memories 5–The Outlines of Our Lives
Author: gendomike Published Date: November 7, 2007 7 Comments on ef~a tale of memories 5–The Outlines of Our Lives
ef~a tale of memories continues its march toward artistic and romantic harmony with this episode, which in many ways is about the beginning of the stages of writing–no wonder it's called "Outline." I should know, because like Chihiro, I myself have written far more outlines and half-finished stories than completed ones, and it is the outlining process which gives the most joy and pleasure. Even though, in the case of Chihiro's story, it is a reflection of terrible pain and sadness; it is her cry of life nonetheless.
The romance is increasingly integrated into the main themes of the show, and I think I'm finally either getting used to it or not as jarred by it as I once was. Anime romance conventions increasingly grate on me, and the past two episodes were chock full of them alongside the much richer reflections and visual symbols; either this one had less of them (I think this is the case), or there was just simply more emotional honesty than usual. I actually really liked the confrontation scene between Miyako and Kei. Miyako uttered what I'm sure will be a crucial line for Kei very soon: "you're showing your honesty in the wrong place." That's a genuine insight, the kind that can make or break a person once she realizes what it means (and what she thinks that meaning is is a good reflection of where her mind is). The humor in Renji's home between his mother, Kazu, and Chihiro was also well-timed and actually funny. Especially since I now always think of Renji = Raki. I mean, he even cooks and even jokes about having a diary. Can you get more girly-man than that? 🙂 (The brief but simple and beautiful scene between Kazu and Chihiro as he takes her home is also revealing, which makes it the best kind of scene of this sort.) Plus, learning how the accident that injured Chihiro happened is a grim, appropriate way to unite the romantic and artistic themes of this show. I still thought, though, that Kyosuke's confession was abrupt and underdeveloped, a victim of having so many plotlines to follow. I almost forgot: this is only episode 5!
But you probably came here for more reflections on creativity and how it contributes to the intellectual and artistic prowess of this show. Learning that the words flashed in the terrific OP are, in fact, the novel outline Chihiro is writing was quite telling. Words and the stories they contain are life for her; they surround her in the OP and everyone else and they make and break the silhouettes of the characters. I find it interesting that the words are all in English, as is the song's lyrics, and the show's very official title (there is no Japanese title, as the next episode preview announcer poorly pronouncing "ef~a tale of memories" testifies). I suppose English words for Japanese are more iconic? That would be ironic given that kanji/Chinese characters are themselves very pictoral, artistic even.
Moreover, I've realized that the show is not just about artmaking in general–it's about storytelling. All three male artists are working in narrative forms (manga, film<|fim_middle|> Tokyopop Profile (and a test post…)
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7 thoughts on "ef~a tale of memories 5–The Outlines of Our Lives"
lk says:
Why a light novel, pray tell?
Because I've always wanted illustrations, that's why. 🙂 We are very close to getting an artist. Stay tuned. (I've written "proper" novels before, and I know light novels are mostly dominated by dialogue, which for me is very easy to write compared to prose descriptions. I may not be able to resist writing lengthy descriptions, though. Those are fun to write! I figured though that doing a comedic light novel with some manga-style illustrations–which are much easier in terms of commitment for the artist than a full blown manga–would be a good change of pace for me. I tend to write angsty lengthy internal disquisitions.)
Zhong Lu says:
If you made an anime romance story, what will happen to the main characters at the end of the series?
Ah, cool cool.
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@Zhong: you'll just have to find out, won't you? 🙂 Let's just say my plan is to use those conventions for the purposes of heartfelt satire.
smashingtofu says:
I've always wanted to be a mangaka ever since I was little when I first grabbed a korean volume of Dragonball and even now, I still want to be one.
Although for many different reasons, but they all come boil down to the fact that there is so much you can do with storytelling in manga.
Manga needs to be paneled and designed in a way 'effective' in Japan according to the genre, but in the end, its all about the mangaka.
I haven't watched this anime yet, but I'd like to judging by all your posts so far : )
good luck with your light novel!
and if you need a back-up artist, I'll gladly help out : 3
Joe Sargent says:
Hy, Michael! So, I agree with the mainly theme of the anime. Is about storytelling. I like very much your previous analisis, but since Renji doesn't work with images (well, literary images, ok, but not exactly visual images), your present analisys is more accurate. Memory is the source of history. Telling history is always remember something. Art is a form of telling something in a new shape (even conceptual art, because that is a commentary about something, a critical retelling).
I will keeping reading your comments. As also, I think that would help me to enjoy better a work that deserves our praise. | , novel), and there is an explicit part of the flashback where the beginning of Hiro's manga career was when he realized he had to learn to put together a story from the sketches he was drawing. Good storytelling is hard and in many ways is a separate skill from being able to shoot a great shot, draw a lifelike drawing, or even writing well. These characters are still teenagers, in a stage of life when their own narratives are still in flux. For there's no question that the stories that these writers are telling are roman a clefs for the most part, direct echoes of their own lives. Especially Chihiro's story, with the sad and compelling symbol of the chained sheep enclosed in a circular pen. (I'm very impressed by how it lead and ended the episode and tied the theme together.) What I'm curious is whether any of them will be able to get out of the outline stage. Planning a story was, for me, the most fun part; actually producing it was often a chore, though if I made it all the way through the feeling of completion was unbeatable. But I suppose that is the fear all of us with a little creativity have: that we will never be able to produce anything worthwhile and those glorious visions locked in our heads will never escape. Chihiro must feel that pain acutely–I mean, she tried 31 times in four years to write a damn story. If that's not a sign of a frustrated writer, I don't know what is.
I'm curious about the nun/angel figure who appears from time to time. I've jokingly referred to her in my talkbacks as the voice of God; we see her hanging around near the church the first time. It's likely this is another Shinbo-ism and a representation of conscience, as other than her there is no hint of anything fantastic or supernatural about this story at all. She always appears at a time when a character is alone and is going through a dilemma or crisis.
This is rapidly becoming the most memorable show of the current season for me. I'm now very fond of the OP song and the Shibo-esque imagery; I can't get it out of my head. I'm also hoping that one of the hints given at the end (Kei, Kyosuke, and Hiro are all together now) means that the three of them will be collaborating on something. Thanks to Owen for showing me some additional insights into how the visuals of this episode contributed to the theme (monochrome as a way of showing a character's limited viewpoint, etc) and for plugging my review of episode 3, which was one of the most joyous of reviews for me to write. It was like the light had finally completely gone on with regard to this show.
You know, this episode reminds me…I really ought to be outlining my light novel now. Man, I'm so easily influenced by the media after all. 🙂
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This 'zipper truck' and Lego-like concrete blocks are revolutionizing tunnel construction
The technique doesn't require mortar and is 90% faster.
Michael Graham Richard
The Zipper Truck holds the unfinished tunnel together while new blocks are being installed. (Photo: Lock Block LTD)
You<|fim_middle|> that the tunnel costs a fraction of the price, and because there's no steel in the structure, it's not impacted by rust and can last indefinitely.
This is the Roman aqueduct in Segovia, Spain. It's made of 25,000 granite block without mortar. (Photo: Zarateman/Wikipedia)
Structurally, the design of the tunnel's arch is similar to Roman arches, which have been around for 2,000-3,000 years, so it truly is a time-tested way to do things. If you don't trust that mortar-less arches are solid, just look at this:
This tunnel is held together by gravity; there's no mortar anywhere. (Photo: Lock Block LTD)
Gene Kim at Tech Insider has put together a great video that shows the zipper truck and Arch-Lock system in action (the un-edited full version of the video can be found here).
And if you're as fascinated by this machinery as I am, the company has released longer videos that show the zipper truck in action. The first video shows the first time they used it:
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The 3-D barrier transfer machine company's ArchLock technique doesn't require mortar and is 90% faster. | might be familiar with barrier transfer machines, also known as zipper machines. San Francisco has recently installed a 1.7-mile long, $30 million flexible barrier on the Golden Gate Bridge to reduce head-on collisions, and one of these machines moves it around from lane to lane every day in just a few minutes, a bit like a giant coat's zip fastener. Here's what it looks like:
These machines save vast quantities of time and money. Imagine how long it would take to move a heavy barrier like that by any other means. But these barrier transfer machines only use a two-dimensional "zipper." What if we could do something similar, but with a three-dimensional structure?
This is what a company called Lock Block has been doing with its Arch-Lock concept. Thanks to a different kind of zipper truck, they're able to build tunnels made from special interlocking concrete blocks that don't require mortar, and it takes 90 percent less time than traditional methods. This means | 200 |
Q: Computing FIRST and FOLLOW sets for a grammar? I have to compute the FIRST and FOLLOW sets of the following grammar:
S -> ABC
A -> a | Cb<|fim_middle|> the FOLLOW set is not needed since there are no productions with empty right-hand-sides (such productions can be used to model LL(2) languages in LL(1) grammars at the cost of an increase in parser complexity).
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B -> c | dA | 1
C -> e | f
However, I am not entirely sure if I understand how to do it. According to my understanding I get the following computation:
FIRST(S)= {a, e, f, b, c, d}
FIRST(A)= {a, e, f, 1}
FIRST(B)= {c, d, a, e, f, b, 1}
FIRST(C)= {e, f}
FOLLOW(S)= {$}
FOLLOW(A)= {c, d, a, e, f, b}
FOLLOW(B)= {e, f}
FOLLOW(C)= {$}
Is this correct? Did I miss something? If so, could someone please explain what I missed and how I would go about computing the correct FIRST and FOLLOW sets? Also, by looking at the sets produced, how can I tell if its an LL(1) grammar?
A: When S (the goal nonterminal symbol) expands, the first terminal in its derivation must come from A only, since that is exactly what the grammar indicates in S->ABC. (Unless "1" in your grammar means epsilon, an empty right-hand side; in this case, we move on to B and find B's FIRST set.) A can expand to a and 1 directly, and via C to e and f. So the FIRST set of S is a,1,e,f (the union of all these terminals). The grammar looks to be LL(1), since each actual token appears to determine which right-hand-side to use at each step in the derivation. Calculate all the FIRST sets to confirm this guess. If the same terminal is in the FIRST set for two RHSs of the same nonterminal LHS, then the grammar is not LL(1) since that terminal would cause an ambiguity in the choice of which production to use in the derivation. LL(1) grammars must be unambiguous and have a nonempty FIRST entry for each nonterminal, meaning that the grammar has no left-recursion.
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There are a number of major challenges that a single parent will face throughout their life, and once of the main challenges that will rear its ugly head is how to maintain a balanced household. This is generally easier to do when there is more than one parent around to assist with discipline and chores and so on, but for a single mom or dad some single parent tips for a balanced house are necessary.
A single parent is anyone that has a child under the age of 18 living with them for whom they are responsible. So a grandparent that has sole care of a child can also be considered a single parent. All of the responsibilities that would normally be handled by two parents will be handled by one, which often results in problems when it comes to maintaining a household that runs smoothly. The challenges are heavier and the stress is more when you have to deal with being a parent on your own.
Childcare challenges: as a single parent you will almost definitely have to work, and it is very difficult to ensure that your home stays balanced if you are not there during the day. In addition childcare can be expensive to afford.
You may not be able to spend as much time with your child as you would like.
Your child may be forced to contribute the household income when they are old enough.
These are major challenges, but most challenges can be overcome and a balanced home that runs smoothly can be achieved.
Get a friend to help you with the kids. Set up a schedule related to when your friend will take care of them for you.
The same goes for family support structures. Family members may even be willing to move in to help you with the children.
Look into living with another single parent as you will be able to split costs and responsibilities and your child will have a peer.
The important thing is not to be afraid to ask for help when necessary.
Maintaining a balanced house is not necessarily going to be easy and you will be required to work at it if you are to achieve success in your aims. There are a number of basic tips that you can consider using, but remember that not all of these tips will work for all single parents. For example the first tip mentions using lists to stay organized. For some people lists are simply not useful because they prefer different methods. Use the ideas listed here as guidelines rather than as rules that are set in stone. Think back to how you kept things organized when you were not a parent and see if you can apply those strategies that worked to your current situation.
Create a reasonable budget that can be spent on each category of items that you need to buy (e.g. clothes, food).
Plan well ahead so that you know what you need to get and do not often come up against unexpected expenses.
Keep ahead of sales. Make sure that you have a good working knowledge about what stores in your area are having sales and on what items so that you can get what you need for less. This will mean a bit of extra money left over to spend on other aspects of maintaining a balanced home.
A balanced house required discipline. This is not the most enjoyable single parent tasks, but it is one of the most necessary ones. You have to ensure that you set the relevant boundaries from a very early age. As soon as your child is old enough to understand you need to ensure that he or she has a thorough understanding of the family rules and boundaries and knows what he or she can and cannot do. You do not have to be overly strict, merely firm on certain important issues. Discipline can and should be done in a warm and caring family environment in a way that demonstrates to the child that you feel with them and understand their point of view.
It is important that you consider all aspects of family life when looking into single parent tips for a balanced house. That is what the word 'balanced' means: you need to pay appropriate attention to all aspects of family functioning. One of these aspects is outings and fun. When you want to take your kids on an outing be sure to plan ahead. This will make things a lot easier and will also mean that you'll stand a higher chance of having a successful day. Take everything you need with you and have at least a rough idea in your mind about how you would like the outing day to unfold for you and for your children.
Everything is going according to your predefined plan and is therefore well balanced.
You will have the opportunity to perhaps look at scheduling some "self time" into your schedule to spice it up a little.
One of the keys to keeping a balanced house lies in your ability to keep positive and see the good side of everything. If you are able to do this, half the battle is already won. Remember that you are blessed and that being a single parent can be a rewarding experience above all else.
Communication is of key importance in maintaining a balanced house as a single parent. Your children need to know that despite the fact that you are an extremely busy person, they can always come to you with any problem. Do you best to foster a home environment where people can discuss their thoughts and feelings openly and without fear of judgment and where they can be guaranteed of receiving the guidance and support that they need in order to develop optimally and get through life in an effortless way. Do not keep any major secrets from your child. Discuss your family situation openly and indicate that there is nothing wrong with being a single parent. Ensure that rules and boundaries are openly spoken about as well.
Part of maintaining a balanced house means a focus on safety. You should engage in conversations with your children that are aimed at getting them to think about what situations and scenarios are safe and what are not. Reinforcing safety in your home is clearly an important necessity and it will be your job as the responsible adult in the relationship to make sure your children have a working knowledge of what they can and cannot do safely. Make sure that you promote a relationship in which your child can come to you if they hear or see something that may or may not be safe, but that they are unsure of. This is related to the afore mentioned tip about communication.
Life becomes somewhat predictable if there is a regular schedule to follow, resulting in chaos.
Everything that needs to get done will get done, some without any hassle and without anything being left out.
Schedules can be written out in full and kept in a place where everyone can refer to them, such as the refrigerator. Try to plan about a month in advance, although the core schedule should remain more or less the same.
<|fim_middle|> demonstrated in order to reinforce the fact that that is the kind of behavior that you like and that you expect him or her to present as often as they possibly can.
Diligence is required in creating a smooth running and well balanced home. What we mean here is that when you find a method of doing something that works and that promotes the harmony of the home, stick to that method. Make sure that you maintain the structures within the home that keep the home running well. However you also need to be aware that as children age ad change there may be certain structures which are no longer appropriate. As children get older some methods may in fact cause discord in the home rather than promote smooth running. In these instances you need to be prepared to adapt to the situation.
Serve the practical task of keeping the house clean.
Create a sense of family unity as you all work together to get the job done.
Give your children a strong sense of work ethic that will stand them in good stead later in their lives.
This is perhaps one of the more important and valuable single parent tips for a balanced house as it is something that all single parents will face and the solution is one that is widely applicable.
Of course many of the tips given in this article are easier said than done. It will require a lot of hard work and motivation on the part of the single parent in the situation to create a home that is balanced in all regards. There are numerous challenges that present themselves to single parents who are living without another adult in the home, but there are also a number of things that you can do in order to make the situation far easier for everyone involved. Your children will thank you later in life if you are able to provide them with a balanced home by using some of single parent tips for a balanced house mentioned here. | A balanced home requires cooperation from your children. This means that you need to discourage any negative behavior that does not add to the balance while at the same time encouraging any positive behavior by rewarding them for the good and kind things that they do. The rewards needn't be fancy, but be sure to at least give a verbal acknowledgement of the positive behavior that your child has | 74 |
From birth to grade 6, our Children's Ministry is a place where your child can connect to Jesus through play, lessons, and experiences.
This is a time provided during our 11 am worship at the during the sermon for kids (if they desire) to leave the service and have a Bible lesson. Kids return during the greeting, so that they may continue to worship together with their family members.
Preschool – 6th grade children gather for an opening in the lower level of the church building for an opening beginning at 9:45. Children learn hymns and other songs used at VBS.
We have 3 classes: preschool, grades K-2, and grades 3-6. Students study the same Bible story for three weeks through a series of workshops. The class design is experiential, helping the children grasp the story from different areas including science, drama, Bible games, video, music, art, and cooking.
4th, 5<|fim_middle|> picnic activities.
This congregation takes seriously the trust placed into by the families that participate in our ministries. We have established a child protection policy that can be download for your study. | th, 6th grade youth connect with Jesus and each other through devotions, community building, fun activities, and games. These youth are led by our high school leadership team.
To help families pass on the faith from generation to generation, St. Paul uses Faith Milestones to walk alongside families and children at specific life events, helping all to see how God is at work in their daily lives.
Join us for this year's VBS, Miraculous Mission, July 29-August 2, 2019 from 9 am – 12 pm.
St. Paul's VBS has the following activities are part of their celebration: crafts, Bible storytelling, Bible challenge, games and recreation, snack, and a VBS band to help us learn music.
We will have a celebration service & picnic (free to all) on Sunday, August 4 at 11 am. Children will have the opportunity to lead songs and participate in the | 197 |
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The Current is the student newspaper at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, published weekly through the fall and spring semesters on Mondays, in print and online. Originally, The Current was the monthly "Tiger Cub" from 1960–63 and the bi-weekly "Mizzou News" from 1963–66. The newspaper's name became "UMSL Current" in 1966; "UMSL" was later dropped from the name as a way to foster an identity independent from the University of Missouri in Columbia.
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BOULDER — Next year, it's all about butter, bitter flavors and brain foods. The topics are among the top 10 leading culinary<|fim_middle|> trend spotters.
View the 10 cutting-edge culinary trends in 2019. | trends in 2019 compiled by the Sterling-Rice Group.
"(All of these trends) have in common the desire to optimize the human experience," said Elizabeth Moskow, creative culinary director at the Boulder-based firm. "Ask any chef how they make a recipe better, and they say, 'I add butter.'"
Today's consumers seek foods and beverages that enhance cognitive function, physical appearance and performance.
"Consumers have access to information all the time that I think it's this frenzy to constantly improve," Ms. Moskow said in an interview with Food Business News. "To me, the human experience now is getting the best out of the experience… the most health, the most flavor, the most satiety, the most bang for your buck.
To develop its annual list of food trends, the Sterling-Rice Group taps the expertise of more than 175 experts, sociologists, chefs, nutritionists and | 192 |
First of all can I thank you all for your patience over the last few weeks. Summer is always one of our busiest times and the recent heatwave meant that we have had a longer waiting list than usual. Our services are always in demand, the result of having a successful salon!
Despite demand we can only groom a certain amount of dogs in a day as we believe that every dog deserves the time they need to have a pleasurable time whilst they are with us. Which brings us to our yearly price increase, our expenses have increased over the last year , so in<|fim_middle|> please let us know and we can update this for you.
Thank you for your continued custom we appreciate each and every one of you! | order to continue bringing you the same fantastic service we have implemented a small price increase to cover our costs. This will enable us bring you the very best experience for your pet. Please take a look at the 'Prices' section of the website for a general overview of prices. If you would like an exact quote please contact us direct.
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Will Your Next Car Be an Award Winner?
<|fim_middle|>que) may not make sense for every new car shopper. Our Best Car for the Money Awards run down every class of car, and our award winners represent vehicles that have the best combination of praise from car reviewers, lower upfront costs and lower long-term ownership costs than their competition.
If you're looking for a family-focused vehicle, our Best Cars for Families Awards highlight cars, minivans and SUVs that provide the best combination of features, utility, safety and reliability for families.
Shopping for an award-winning new car? Check out the U.S. News rankings of this year's best cars. Then, look for a great deal on a new car by checking out this month's best car deals. You can also find the best local prices in the area by using our Best Price Program. Also, be sure to follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest. | Autoblog writes that the list of semifinalists isn't too surprising. Redesigned affordable midsize cars make up a decent chunk of the semifinalists, as the Chevrolet Malibu, Ford Fusion, Honda Accord and Nissan Altima have all made the cut. The BMW 3-Series, Cadillac ATS, Dodge Dart, Lincoln MKZ, Scion FR-S, Subaru BRZ and Toyota Avalon have also made their way onto the short list.
Nominees for the Truck/Utility of the Year are comprised of a number of small crossovers, including the Acura RDX, BMW X1, Ford Escape and Mazda CX-5. Midsize SUVs include the Hyundai Santa Fe, Nissan Pathfinder and Infiniti JX35, while wagon entries include the Audi Allroad and Ford C-Max. The Ram 1500 is the only truck to make the cut for the 2013 NACTOY awards.
The Hyundai Elantra currently presides as the 2012 Car of the Year, while the Land Rover Range Rover Evoque took the top spot among trucks and SUVs. NACTOY will announce its 2013 winners at the Detroit Auto Show in January. The award also affects how the winning vehicles perform in our rankings.
While NACTOY awards recognize a car and truck that have raised the bar in their classes each year, last year's winners (Elantra and Evo | 301 |
Momo Hirai (japonais : , hangeul : ), mieux connue sous le nom de Momo (coréen : ), est une chanteuse, danseuse et rappeuse japonaise née le à Kyōtanabe<|fim_middle|>omo, Minatozaki Sana et Myoui Mina).
L'une des reprises les plus notables de Momo est de Taemin, exécuté avec Mina, Dahyun et Chaeyoung.
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Momo commence la danse lorsqu'elle est très jeune et décide de devenir chanteuse grâce à Namie Amuro. Elle s'intéresse à la k-pop à travers les artistes Rain et Lee Hyori. Elle est contactée par la JYP Entertainment après que le label l'ait remarquée dans une vidéo où elle danse avec sa grande sœur. Elle auditionne à la JYP avec sa sœur le , mais elle seule est retenue.
Stagiaire depuis 4 ans à la JYP, Momo participe à l'émission Sixteen pour choisir les membres du futur girl group de l'agence. Elle est éliminée au bout du épisode et envisage de tout arrêter, mais lors du dernier épisode, J. Y. Park, PDG de la JYP, décide de l'intégrer au groupe final grâce à ses capacités en danse et son travail acharné lors de l'émission.
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What I Learned From a Week in Virtual Reality
With the recent launch of the Samsung Gear VR, virtual reality finally can be brought home. But do you want it?
By Alexander George
Devon Jarvis
The cockpit of a jet fighter, Angkor Wat, a Paul McCartney concert—I visited all of them without wearing pants. Those weren't my first experiences with virtual reality. I'd tested the Oculus Rift at tech conventions, and recently I explored a Volvo that wasn't on the road yet. But I never got to bring virtual reality home and try it from my couch. Samsung Gear VR ($200) gave me that opportunity.
The device requires a Samsung S6 or Galaxy Note 4 phone, headphones, and, if you want to take full advantage of the games, a $60 controller. (Also important: a swivel chair.) The phone slides into a compartment of the headset, where two lenses magnify its image to fill your field of view. You control a cursor by moving your head, and click to access programs through a touch panel over your right temple.
Although VR has been around for decades, mostly in arcades, the at-home product is still nascent. All you can really watch is short content. But there is some variety, and I was determined to experience everything VR could do.
Within the first few days I'd been through all the safari videos and dune-buggy ride-alongs in the Oculus Store (an app accessed through the headset), but the sensation of all of them is so stunning that I wanted everyone I knew to try it. Showing my mom a 360-degree photo of Petra, Jordan, a city she visited decades ago, made her want to travel again. One friend bemoaned a future where everyone will wear these things. Another asked about the Runtastic VR workout app and was disappointed to discover that the headset didn't stay fastened during a burpee.
I wanted to try creating my own experience, so I found a panorama app (360Cities), photographed the Popular Mechanics offices, and loaded it onto the Note's SD card. I was astounded when it actually worked. I could look around our headquarters, albeit with a warped ceiling and floor where the camera stretched the photograph. It wasn't high quality, but strapping a VR-capable camera to my surfboard and<|fim_middle|>'t an option. I can't be tempted to catch up on Instagram or return emails during a lull in the action. Inside the Gear VR, you're forced to do nothing but watch the movie, something many of us have forgotten how to do.
It's only going to get better from here. Oculus is working with Pixar alums to produce immersive films within the year—an entirely new medium in which you're not just watching a movie but living it. And with Jaunt and Bubl, two 360-degree-camera makers, you'll soon be able to make your own immersive films too. The only unsolvable issue is how weird it will always feel to take the helmet off—a little like walking after running on a treadmill or jumping on the ground after using a trampoline. But coming back to reality has never been easy.
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Right now, however, where the technology really shines is in movies. Plain old 2D movies. Netflix doesn't work on the Gear VR, so finding a compatible movie meant using a file converter of dubious legality. I ripped versions of Enter the Void, The Red Balloon, and clips from 2001: A Space Odyssey, then had to transfer them to the Note and the Oculus Cinema app via the SD. The app doesn't do much—it adds a layer of digitized seats in front of you and makes the movie look like it's projected on a huge screen.But that's all I needed. Each movie stirred up everything I love about being in a theater. The trippy and exhilarating opening credits to Enter the Void made me shiver, especially when I looked to the side and saw the red velvet chairs reflecting the screen's flicker. The best part is that distractions aren | 190 |
\section{Appendix}
\subsection{Impact of individual features}
\begin{figure*}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.7\textwidth]{figures/gam_components.png}
\caption{Component functions of each feature in the the generalized additive model. Shown are the values model estimates (solid black line) along with the 95\% confidence interval (dashed lines). {\color{red} TODO: make graphs more readable. pick which ones to show: only significant ones}}
\label{fig:gam_components}
\end{figure*}
We learn a generalized additive model (GAM) to isolate the impact of each feature in the park on poaching activity. Unlike black-box machine learning algorithms, GAMs are interpretable in that the contribution of each independent variable is independently encoded \cite{hastie1986generalized}. Generalized linear models (GLMs) have a similar type of interpretability, but can only learn linear relationships. By contrast, GAMs learn smooth functions on each variable, which are nonparametric.
{\color{red} need to state what you are predicting with the GAM somewhere}
For this analysis, we use the ranger observations from QENP on a timescale of 3 months. Using the \texttt{mgcv} library in R, we learn a GAM across smoothed functions of each feature. We avoid including any interaction terms, which depend on two or more variables.
The p-value on each smooth term indicates the strength of the effect each feature has on poaching. Coming with no surprise, current patrol effort is extremely significant, with a p-value below $2 \times 10^{-16}$. Distance to roads and villages both have p-values below 0.001. Distance to patrol posts and number of African elephants are very significant, with $p < 0.01$. Additionally, past patrol effort, distance to boundary and lake, and number of hippopotamus are all significant, with $p < 0.05$.
The component functions of the GAM are shown in Figure~\ref{fig:gam_components}. Consistent with the patterns observed in Section~\ref{sec:logistic-model}, the slope of past patrol effort is negative, indicating that increased ranger patrol reduces the likelihood of poaching in the next timestep. The slope of current patrol effort is also positive, which again is consistent with our expectation and earlier findings.
To interpret the plots, note that larger absolute values indicate that feature is a strong predictor of poaching likelihood. Positive values indicate that, all else held equal, the feature is correlated with an increase in poaching probability; negative values indicate a decrease in poaching. The landscape features distance to boundary and distance to villages both have strong negative impacts on poaching, which makes sense: having to travel greater distance from the outside and from their homes would disincentivize poachers. Distance to road has a strong positive trend, which may seem counterintuitive. However, this trend can be explained by the fact that animals are unlikely to travel near roads, as wildlife tend to flee from noise. Thus, poachers will have to travel further from roads to set their snares where animals are.
Another interesting trend can be seen in the plot of patrol posts. The function is initially slightly negative, then rises above 0, then falls back down to negative. This trend suggests that poachers avoid laying snares close to patrol posts, where rangers are based, and are more likely to poach further from these patrol posts. Further out, the decline in poaching probability might be due to the fact that areas further from patrol posts are less accessible.
Several animals, such as leopard, topi, and Duiker are correlated with an increased likelihood of poaching.
\section{Author names}
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\maketitle
\begin{abstract}
Applications of artificial intelligence for wildlife protection have focused on learning models of poacher behavior based on historical patterns. However, poachers' behaviors are described not only by their historical preferences, but also their reaction to ranger patrols. Past work applying machine learning and game theory to combat poaching have hypothesized that ranger patrols deter poachers, but have been unable to find evidence to identify how or even if deterrence occurs. Here for the first time, we demonstrate a measurable deterrence effect on real-world poaching data. We show that increased patrols in one region deter poaching in the next timestep, but poachers then move to neighboring regions. Our findings offer guidance on how adversaries should be modeled in realistic game-theoretic settings.
\end{abstract}
\maketitle
\section{Introduction}
Illegal wildlife poaching threatens scores of endangered animals, from elephants and tigers to turtles and seahorses.
The majority of funds---over 1.3 billion USD each year---invested to combat the illegal wildlife trade goes towards protected area management \cite{gulland2019illegal}. Unfortunately, the majority of protected areas are still under-resourced, with too few rangers to patrol these vast lands. Improving the efficacy of ranger patrols is therefore imperative to protecting wildlife.
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been leveraged to prevent poaching, focusing on learning poacher behavior to plan ranger patrols \cite{gholami2018adversary}. During these patrols, rangers directly protect wildlife by confiscating snares that would otherwise sit out and trap endangered animals. An indirect impact of patrols to protect wildlife is through \textit{deterrence}, reducing the frequency at which poachers attack in the future.
Past work has investigated deterrence to inconclusive results \cite{ford2017real,dancer2019evaluation}. Previous models typically accounted for deterrence simply by including past patrol effort as a feature in machine learning models, without specifying any behavior of the effect of past patrol effort \cite{xu2020stay}.
Deterrence is believed to be the dominant means by which patrols reduce illegal activity \cite{levitt1998increased}, as rangers rarely apprehend poachers and only remove an estimated 10\% of snares \cite{moore2018ranger}. To justify the high cost of ranger patrols, we should therefore expect a significant deterrence effect.
However, the challenge of demonstrating deterrence in real-world poaching data remains unanswered.
In this paper, for the first time, we demonstrate measurable deterrence, where increased patrolling decreases the likelihood of poaching in future timesteps, and also \textit{displacement} in that poachers move toward nearby regions. Using real-world poaching data from Queen Elizabeth National Park (QENP) and Murchison Falls National Park (MFNP) in Uganda, we study the effect of varying levels of patrol effort on poacher response.
We find that (a)~deterrence can be measured at the one square kilometer resolution; (b)~the amount of patrol effort in kilometers patrolled determines the strength of the deterrence effect, not simply whether or not a target is visited; (c)~ranger observations of illegal activity has the greatest impact, not simply past patrol effort; and (d)~increased patrols in one region cause poachers to become more active in nearby regions.
Our findings help guide future research, both in predictive modeling and game theory. Specifically, we suggest that an accurate adversarial behavioral model should account for past patrol effort in both the individual region and also neighboring regions.
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\caption{(Left) Map of Uganda, with locations of MFNP and QENP shown. (Right) Dozens of snares confiscated by rangers.}
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\end{figure}
\section{Background}
Researchers in both AI and conservation biology have independently pursued the question: do ranger patrols deter future poaching activity? Despite these efforts, most past work have been unable to find strong evidence of deterrence. Inconclusive results have come from trying to detect deterrence across an entire park or failing to properly account for the effect of patrol effort. This open question has important implications on a growing body of game theory work that aims to accurately model adversarial behavior.
\paragraph{Past game-theoretic models.} A realistic model of deterrence is critical both to predict poaching and to design effective defender strategies. The AI literature has made assumptions of a deterrence effect in their machine learning and game theory models. In building predictive models, predictive models add past patrol effort as a covariate, leaving the machine learning algorithm to freely learn the impact without imposing any constraints \cite{gholami2018adversary,xu2020stay}. On the game theory side, Yang et al.\ \shortcite{yang2014adaptive} models the problem as a Stackelberg security game by assuming the poachers are reacting to the rangers' current action, rather than being deterred by past activity. Nguyen et al.\ \shortcite{nguyen2016capture} stipulates that poachers' action depends on the poacher behavior at the previous timestep, but not on ranger effort. Fang et al.\ \shortcite{fang2015security} provides an adversary model that responds to a convex combination of the defender strategy in recent rounds, which generalizes the deterrence effect.
\paragraph{Park-wide deterrence.} Despite a survey of Ugandan villagers which reveals that increased law enforcement would be most effective at deterring them from poaching \cite{harrison2015profiling}, conservation biologists have acknowledged that empirically showing deterrence remains a challenging task \cite{critchlow2017improving,dancer2019evaluation}. Dancer \shortcite{dancer2019evaluation} studies deterrence effects across four protected areas by analyzing change in patrol effort versus change in catch per unit effort (observations of illegal activity per kilometer patrolled), looking for deterrence across the entire park rather than within small regions of the park, as we do here. Dancer finds that increased patrols deter snare activity in only one of four sites, with a weak correlation at a one-month timescale. Dobson et al.\ \shortcite{dobson2019detecting} take a similar approach, but conduct analysis only on synthetic data which prevents us from drawing any conclusions from their work.
\paragraph{Region-specific deterrence.} A question of particular importance for strategic patrol planning is whether deterrence can be detected at a finer scale, within a single park. The following literature investigates the impact of patrols on future likelihood of poaching at the $1 \times 1$~km or $500 \times 500$~m resolution.
Plumptre et al.\ \shortcite{plumptre2014efficiently} find reduced levels of poaching activity within $8$~km of patrol posts. They conjecture that this spatial pattern demonstrates deterrence, due to the increased ranger presence in the area, but did not analyze whether poaching decreases due to increased past patrol effort.
Several others report no clear evidence of deterrence \cite{barichievy2017armed,okelly2018robust}.
Two other papers do suggest region-specific deterrence, but do not properly account for the impact of patrol effort.
Ford \shortcite{ford2017real} looked at the probability of detecting poaching as rangers exerted high effort at a region in one month then low effort the following month, compared it against the probability of detecting poaching in regions where rangers went from low effort to high effort. Ford observed that poaching observations decreased in regions where rangers changed from high to low effort, but that decrease may be explained by the fact that by exerting low effort, rangers are less likely to find snares. Conversely, when observing more poaching in areas that went from low to high effort, that increase may simply be due to rangers being more thorough in finding snares. Thus, without accounting for the effect of current patrol effort, we cannot isolate the effect of past patrols.
Moore et al.\ \shortcite{moore2018ranger} analyze poaching data from Nyungwe National Park in Rwanda to show that the probability that poaching abates in a cell increases in areas that rangers have visited more frequently. However, their analysis do not control for differences in current effort. The rangers may spend more time patrolling regions that they infrequently patrolled before and hence find more snares because of higher effort, which could explain the pattern without suggesting deterrence.
One question that has been overlooked in past work is exploring where poachers are deterred \textit{to}. That is, are poachers deterred out of the park (thus producing a large-scale deterrence effect across the entire park), or are poachers deterred to other targets in the park? We provide evidence of the latter.
\section{Domain}
The poaching data we use come from two national parks in Uganda, Queen Elizabeth and Murchison Falls. They are home to elephants, hippos, lions, and leopards alongside other mammals and more than 500 species of birds. Poachers hunt in these parks for both commercial (e.g., elephants) and noncommercial (e.g., bushmeat for personal consumption) wildlife \cite{critchlow2015spatiotemporal}. We use patrol data from 2010--2016.
We divide each park into $N$ targets, each of which is a $1 \times 1$~km region. We discretize the data both spatially, into the $N$ targets, and temporally. For the analysis in Section~\ref{sec:logistic-model}, we use three different temporal discretizations: one month, three month, and one year. For each target at each time step, we calculate the total ranger patrol effort (measured in kilometers patrolled) and count the number of instances of illegal activity detected. The patrol effort is constructed from 138.4k GPS waypoints in QENP and 94.7k in MFNP. Observations of illegal activity is predominantly in the form of snares, but can also include bullet cartridges, traditional weapons, or direct encounters with poachers.
Each target is associated with a set of static geospatial features. These features include distance to park boundary, roads, permanent rivers, semi-permanent rivers, lakes, towns, villages, and patrol posts; slope, NPP, and wetness; and animal density estimates of Uganda kob, waterbuck, Jackson's hartebeest, topi, African buffalo, African elephant, warthog and giraffe.
\section{Analysis}
We want to understand the relationship between ranger actions in the past on poacher behavior in the present. To do so, we learn the impact of ranger actions in the previous timestep---first patrol effort in kilometers walked, then number of snare confiscations---on the number of instances of illegal activity detected in the current timestep. In doing so, we find clear evidence of deterrence in that higher levels of past patrols reduce the likelihood of poaching, even when accounting for current patrol effort. We also find that more intensive past patrols on neighboring targets \textit{increase} the likelihood of poaching, suggesting displacement.
\begin{figure}
\centering
\input{figures/logistic_model.tex}
\caption{Relationship between the features, patrol effort, and illegal activity at each target. Attractiveness, current patrol effort, and past patrol effort directly impact our likelihood of detecting illegal activity in the current timestep.}
\label{fig:logistic_model}
\end{figure}
\subsection{Impact of past patrol effort}
\label{sec:logistic-model}
We learn a logistic model to understand the effect of current and past patrol effort on poaching activity. We know that poachers have an underlying preference for poaching spots based on convenience and their understanding of how likely a placed snare is to successfully trap an animal. Their preference can be understood as a measure of relative attractiveness between the targets, which is dependent on the geospatial features of each target. We only know about the poaching activity at targets that we visit. Furthermore, our likelihood of detecting poaching activity in each time period depends on the amount of effort that we exert.
See Figure~\ref{fig:logistic_model} for a diagram of the relationship between each of these aspects. As shown, the factors that directly influence the probability of detecting illegal activity in the current timestep are attractiveness, current patrol effort, and past patrol effort. Our goal is to learn the relative influence of each of these factors.
Each target in the park has its own attractiveness value, which is unknown. We let the attractiveness of each target be a parameter learned by the model, rather than trying to fit as a function of the features. Past work has shown that we can learn good models of poaching likelihood based on the features \cite{gholami2018adversary,xu2020stay}, but rely on complex models. A linear model would not be able to learn the interaction effects of different features, thus would learn a significantly inaccurate estimate of attractiveness. For the purpose of this analysis, we do not care about the individual attractiveness learned for each target, only their values relative to the impact of past patrol and current patrol effort. Let $a_i$ be the attractiveness of target $i$. We have the parameter $\beta$ as the coefficient on current patrol effort, which measures the detection likelihood, and $\gamma$ as the coefficient on past patrol effort, which measures the deterrence effect we are trying to isolate. Thus for a park with $N$ targets, we are learning $N+2$ total parameters.
Specifically, we learn using the Adam optimizer \cite{kingma2015adam} the probability of detecting illegal activity in target $i$ as a linear combination of
\begin{align}
a_i + \beta \cdot \small{\texttt{curr\_effort}} + \gamma \cdot \small{\texttt{past\_effort}} \ ,
\end{align}
which is then squashed through the logistic function.
See Table~\ref{tab:coef-effort} for the learned values of the average attractiveness of each target $\overline{a_i}$, the coefficient on current effort $\beta$, and the coefficient on past effort $\gamma$. The rows specify the timestep over which we study this effect. For example, year/3mo looks at the impact of a year of previous patrol effort on likelihood of detecting illegal activity in the subsequent three months.
The inputs are normalized, so the coefficient can be interpreted as the effect of one standard deviation of effort on poaching probability, before being squashed by the logistic function. For example, $\beta = 0$ indicates the rangers are exerting a historically average amount of effort. To get a sense of the un-normalized results, we can analyze the standard deviation used to scale the original data. For example, for QENP 3 month, standard deviation of \texttt{curr\_effort} was $1.597$, and of \texttt{past\_effort} was $1.373$.
\begin{table}
\caption {Learned coefficients, where $\gamma = $ past patrol effort} \label{tab:coef-effort}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{ r|ccc }
\Xhline{2\arrayrulewidth}
& $\overline{a_i}$ & $\beta$ & $\gamma$ \\
\hline
& \multicolumn{3}{c}{MFNP} \\
\hline
3mo/3mo & $-9.284$ & $1.076$ & $-0.162$ \\
year/3mo & $-9.287$ & $1.062$ & $-0.216$ \\
year/year & $-8.56$3 & $2.159$ & $-0.306$ \\
\hline
& \multicolumn{3}{c}{QENP} \\
\hline
1mo/1mo & $-9.285$ & $1.074$ & $-0.165$ \\
3mo/3mo & $-10.624$ & $0.685$ & $-0.077$ \\
year/1mo & $-9.287$ & $1.061$ & $-0.217$ \\
year/3mo & $-10.629$ & $0.676$ & $-0.042$ \\
year/year & $-8.559$ & $2.159$ & $-0.306$ \\
\Xhline{2\arrayrulewidth}
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{table}
The learned value of $\gamma$, the coefficient on past patrol effort, is negative across all datasets and settings. \textit{Thus, increased past patrol effort does have a measurable impact on deterring poaching.} Note that the attractiveness of each target is a relatively large negative number. This may seem counterintuitive, but $0$ in a logistic function corresponds with a $0.5$ probability, so negative values simply indicate the probability of detecting poaching is below $0.5$. In practice, observations of illegal activity are relatively rare, so we expect these values to be negative. The value $\overline{a_i}$ indicates the average base attractiveness value. The standard deviation of $a_i$ is between 4.34 and 4.98.
\subsection{Impact of past snare confiscation}
Just as rangers do not have perfect detection of poachers, poachers are also unable to perfectly observe the actions of rangers. In fact, poachers and rangers are unlikely to be at the same target at the same time. Out of 89,491 patrol observations over the period from 2010 to 2016 in QENP, 2,063 observations were of poaching activity, and only 111 of those were direct observations of poachers on the ground (54 of which led to arrests or fines, the remainder being unsuccessful pursuits). Based on the rarity of poachers and rangers being in direct contact, poachers are likely only to observe patrol effort when the rangers successfully confiscate a snare. Therefore, we hypothesized that detections of illegal activity---where rangers actually remove snares---would therefore have a greater impact on deterring poaching in the next time period.
To test this hypothesis, we repeat our analysis from earlier, but replace past patrol effort with past detections of illegal activity.
The relationship is therefore
\begin{align}
a_i + \beta \cdot \small{\texttt{curr\_effort}} + \rho \cdot \small{\texttt{past\_illegal}} \ .
\end{align}
\begin{table}
\caption {Learned coefficients, where $\rho = $ past illegal activity} \label{tab:coef-illegal}
\begin{center}
<|fim_middle|> neighboring areas increases the likelihood of poaching on a target. This result is consistent across the three spatial resolutions, and strongest for the narrowest window of $3 \times 3$. Observe as well that the values for $\overline{a_i}$, $\beta$, and $\gamma$ are remarkably consistent, demonstrating the robustness of our findings.
\begin{table}
\caption {Learned coefficients, with neighbors included} \label{tab:coef-neighbors}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{ r|cccc }
\Xhline{2\arrayrulewidth}
& $\overline{a_i}$ & $\beta$ & $\rho$ & $\eta$ \\
\hline
$3 \times 3$ & $-10.627$ & $0.687$ & $-0.098$ & $0.399$ \\
$5 \times 5$ & $-10.634$ & $0.689$ & $-0.096$ & $0.383$ \\
$7 \times 7$ & $-10.632$ & $0.689$ & $-0.096$ & $0.562$ \\
\Xhline{2\arrayrulewidth}
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{table}
\section{Discussion and conclusion}
Our results offer compelling evidence that ranger patrols are indeed effective at deterring poaching, substantiating the value of ranger efforts to wildlife conservation beyond the direct effect of removing snares. Additionally, rangers may be able to spot-patrol to deter poachers from a specific region, perhaps one that has exceptionally valuable animal habitat.
Our finding that past observations of illegal activity has the most measurable deterrence effect gives us reason for optimism. Suppose to the contrary that only km of patrol effort influences deterrence. Accordingly, deterring poachers would require we hire more rangers to cover more ground. However, illegal activity implies that \textit{we can achieve significant deterrence with the same number of ranger resources} by focusing on increasing their effectiveness, specifically targeting areas that are at higher risk of having snares. Thus, the same number of rangers at the same cost can have a larger impact on preventing poaching. This effect is on top of the direct impact of removing more snares without increasing ranger resources. Future game theoretic algorithms should ideally optimize for this result.
Furthermore, the displacement effect that we uncover provides better insight for modeling adversarial behavior and does not suggest that ranger patrols are futile in that they simply move poachers around the park. An open question for future work would be to more clearly explore the degree to which deterrence occurs across an entire park, in successfully pushing poachers out and preserving the biodiversity within these protected areas.
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| \begin{tabular}{ r|ccc }
\Xhline{2\arrayrulewidth}
& $\overline{a_i}$ & $\beta$ & $\rho$ \\
\hline
& \multicolumn{3}{c}{MFNP} \\
\hline
3mo/3mo & $-9.283$ & $1.066$ & $-0.134$ \\
year/3mo & $-9.314$ & $1.086$ & $-0.306$ \\
year/year & $-8.609$ & $2.290$ & $-0.517$ \\
\hline
& \multicolumn{3}{c}{QENP} \\
\hline
1mo/1mo & $-9.285$ & $1.066$ & $-0.135$ \\
3mo/3mo & $-10.632$ & $0.688$ & $-0.097$ \\
year/1mo & $-9.312$ & $1.085$ & $-0.307$ \\
year/3mo & $-10.647$ & $0.693$ & $-0.186$ \\
year/year & $-8.614$ & $2.291$ & $-0.516$ \\
\Xhline{2\arrayrulewidth}
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{table}
The learned coefficients are shown in Table~\ref{tab:coef-illegal}. Again, the coefficient $\rho$ is negative in all cases, indicating that increased detection of illegal activity deters future poaching.
Furthermore, the values for $\rho$ are higher when using past illegal activity than when past effort. This result confirms our hypothesis that confiscating snares, which poachers will directly observe, has a greater impact in deterring poaching than simply walking more during a patrol.
Observe that the effect is strongest when analyzing on a year-by-year basis. That is, increased patrolling sustained over an entire year has a stronger ability to deter poaching compared to increased patrol effort across a single month or a period of three months.
\subsection{Impact of patrolling nearby targets}
Ideally, when poachers are deterred by ranger patrols, they would leave the park completely and desist their hunt of wildlife. Alternatively, they may move to other areas of the park. We show that the latter appears to be true.
We study the spatial relationship between neighboring targets to see whether increased patrolling in one region may deter poachers toward an adjacent region. To do so, we look at the cumulative past patrol effort of neighboring targets, using three spatial resolutions: $3 \times 3$, $5 \times 5$, and $7 \times 7$. Let \texttt{past\_neighbors} be the sum of the past instances of poaching activity on neighboring targets, so we learn
\begin{align}
a_i + \beta \cdot \small{\texttt{curr\_effort}} + \rho \cdot \small{\texttt{past\_illegal}} + \eta \cdot \small{\texttt{past\_neighbors}}
\end{align}
where $\eta$ is the coefficient on past poaching observations on neighboring cells. See Table~\ref{tab:coef-neighbors} for the learned coefficients, using data from QENP. All values of $\eta$ are positive, indicating that greater past detection of illegal activity on | 795 |
Nicky, was joined by over 200 other parliamentarians in Westminster earlier this month, all encouraging people<|fim_middle|> fundraise in their homes, schools or workplaces, and help us to continue to fund world-class research into this devastating disease. | across the UK to take part on wear it pink day and raise money for Breast Cancer Now.
Nicky is calling for her constituents in Loughborough to join her, as well as thousands of others across the UK to sign up and take part in wear it pink which takes place during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and to date has raised over £31million towards Breast Cancer Now's important work.
"Breast cancer is still the most common form of cancer in the UK. Each year around 11,500 women and 80 men lose their lives to the disease. That's why I'm so passionate about encouraging everyone in Loughborough and our surrounding towns and villages to take part in wear it pink day on Friday 19 October.
'"I'm delighted to be supporting wear it pink this year – it is a fun and fabulous fundraising event which brings families, friends and work colleagues together to help fund research into this devastating disease.
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Web Security Testing with Ruby
To ensure the quality and safety of Web applications, security testing is a necessity. So, how do you cover all the different threats-SQL injection, cross-site scripting, buffer overflow, and others? James Knowlton explains how Ruby combined with Watir-both freely available-makes a great toolset for testing Web application security. Testing many common security vulnerabilities requires posting data to a Web server via a client, exactly what Watir does. The Ruby side of Watir, a full-function programming language, provides the tools for querying the database, checking audit logs, and other test-related processing. For example, you can use Ruby to generate random data or large datasets to throw at a Web application. James describes common security attacks and demonstrates step-by-step examples of testing these attack types with Ruby and Watir.
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Meet "Ellen": Improving Software Quality through Personas
Users are the ultimate judge of the software we deliver because it is critical to their success and the success of their business. However, as a tester, do you really understand their tasks, skills, motivation, and work style? Are you delivering software that matches their needs and capabilities-or yours? Personas are a way to define user roles-imaginary characters-that represent common sets of characteristics of different users. David shares how his team at Microsoft defined and used one persona named "Ellen" to help them design, develop, and test the first version of a new product. David shares before Ellen and after Ellen examples of the product, showing how the product changed when Ellen joined the team. See examples of the robust test cases and acceptance scenarios they defined from unique insights<|fim_middle|> quality software doesn't just happen-quality must be built in from the start. In this highly interactive presentation, Tom Staab defines quality and explains why quality planning is important. Join in the discussion about where most defects are injected into software, how to establish meaningful quality metrics, ways to communicate results to management in language they understand, and how to calculate the return-on-investment that can be expected from quality improvement activities. Quality must be defined in a project's specific context, quantified at the beginning of the project, and measured throughout the development lifecycle.
Thomas Staab, Windridge International LLC
Scaling Agile Processes
Agile processes are revolutionizing the software development industry. Projects embracing agile development are expected to be faster and more efficient than traditional software development. Agile processes enable developers to embrace requirement changes during the project, deliver working software in frequent iterations, and focus on the human factors in software development. Unfortunately, most agile processes were designed for small or mid-sized software development projects-bad news for large teams. Having worked with many larger teams transitioning to agile processes, Jutta Eckstein shares her insights into ways to tune your practices as you scale up to larger projects. Harness the adaptability of agile software development for large projects to ensure frequent releases even with several teams working together.
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Welcome to the Mainstream
As agile software development leaves the early adoption stage and moves solidly into the mainstream, Mary Poppendieck reminds us that fads in software development have come and gone before. What makes us think that agile is different? Unless we learn from previous attempts to improve development practices, we are destined to repeat the mistakes of the past. Mary describes three proven paths to failure: (1) Copy what successful companies are doing-You don't get to be world class by chasing after best practices, you get there by inventing them; (2) Force everyone to follow the standard process-The best path to success is leveraging the intelligence of "ordinary" people in the relentless improvement of your current process; and (3) Focus on technical success-Technical success is a euphemism for business failure.
Mary Poppendieck, Poppendieck LLC
Even Cavemen Can Do It: Find 1,000 Defects in 1,000,000 Lines of Code in 30 Days
Due to the increased emphasis on computer security, great advances have been made in static analyzer tools that can detect many code errors that often elude programmers, compilers, test suites, and visual reviews. Traditional tools such as "lint" detectors are plagued with high false positive rates. Gregory Pope discusses the steps his organization used to evaluate and select a static analyzer tool and pilot its implementation. He describes how they rolled out the tool to developers and how it is being used today. Greg shares the results they achieved on real code (C, C++, and Java) and the valuable code metrics they obtained as a byproduct of its use. Greg discusses the skills needed to use the tools, ways to interpret the results, and techniques they used for winning over developers.
The features of static code analyzers
Defects that can be found with these tools
Gregory Pope, William Oliver and Kimberly Ferrari, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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Applying Lean Production to Software Development: A Worldview
Lean production has made it possible for many industries to develop products faster and more profitably, building a loyal customer base while lowering business risk. Now, Lean has proven it can do the same for software development-and do so better than any development approach to date. Lean is more than a management system, method, tool, or environment; the areas where software methodologies normally focus. Lean is a worldview-a way of thinking that fundamentally changes and humanizes industry. The power of Lean is in the goals it leads us to pursue and the ways in which we coordinate our work. Therefore, Lean allows us to continue using many of our current software techniques. James Sutton returns to the beginnings of Lean, as conceived in the mind of W. Edwards Deming, and moves forward in time to compare and contrast Lean with agile development.
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Creating Habitable Code
A major challenge for software organizations is to create software that can continue to adapt and change over time-a codebase the team can live with "forever." Jeffrey Fredrick and Paul Julius review the concepts and features of CruiseControl, a popular continuous integration tool that provides an architecture for habitable code. CruiseControl is an open source success story, contributed to by more than 200 different developers and downloaded more than 400,000 times. For developers who are tired of brittle code that often must be discarded and rewritten instead of reused, CruiseControl provides valuable lessons and a design that encourages reuse. Jeffrey and Paul discuss inversion of control, dependency injection, separation of concerns, and the role of a project architect in creating habitable code. Although the code examples will be in Java, the principles are language independent.
Jeffrey Fredrick, Independent Consultant
Successful Teams are TDD Teams
Test-Driven Development (TDD) is the practice of writing a test before writing code that implements the tested behavior, thus finding defects earlier. Rob Myers explains the two basic types of TDD: the original unit-level approach used mostly by developers, and the agile-inspired Acceptance-Test Driven Development (ATDD) which involves the entire team. Rob has experienced various difficulties in adopting TDD: developers who don't spend a few extra moments to look for and clean up a new bit of code duplication; inexperienced coaches who confuse the developer-style TDD with the team ATDD; and waffling over the use of TDD, which limits its effectiveness. The resistance (overt or subtle) to these practices that can help developers' succeed is deeply rooted in our brains and our cultures.
Rob Myers, Agile Institute
The Many Styles of Pair Programming
Joining an agile team can be very challenging-new programming styles, new coding standards, new check-in requirements, new leadership styles, and more. Adding pair programming to the mix can be "the straw that broke the camel's back" or it can be key to team empowerment. Paul Julius has been a dedicated pair programmer since 1999, working on many projects with 100 percent pairing. Paul has distilled a set of positive and negative patterns that can develop when teams attempt pair programming. He begins by discussing the most frequent objections to pairing and then outlines why pair programmers deliver better applications. Paul demonstrates the techniques and skills you-or members of your team-need to become a successful pair programmer.
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Defining Software Quality
"Quality" is one of the most misunderstood and elusive aspects of system development. Ask five people to define quality and you'll probably get five different answers. Although everyone thinks he knows what it is, very few can really define it in context. High | 762 |
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Ann was previously the co-founder of ClickZ, one of the first sources of interactive marketing news<|fim_middle|> with it: How to create the kind of content that truly engages audience; how to create content in a way that's sustainable and repeatable for enterprise; and how to leverage content all across the social web. In this team session, Ann will share how to create the kind of stuff that is truly worth sharing. Then, Michael will address how best to amplify and leverage your efforts: How do get the most bang for your buck? How do you best match the message to the medium? | . Prior to that, she spent 12 years as a business editor/writer for a bunch of places, including the Boston Globe and those magazines in the back pockets of airline seats.
Businesses have grasped the notion that they need to be producing content as a cornerstone of their marketing. But many still struggle | 63 |
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2021 WCBL All-Star Game Coming to Okotoks
Star-struck and homer-happy baseball fans in Western Canada have something to look forward to next year, with news of All-Star Game festivities coming to southern Alberta.
The Western Canadian Baseball League (WCBL) and the Okotoks Dawgs held a joint press conference to announce that Seaman Stadium will play host to the WCBL All-Star<|fim_middle|> Season Preview
The Okotoks Dawgs 2018 season gets underway on Friday in Edmonton, against a Prospects team that eliminated them from playoff contention.
After that, the Dawgs head back to Okotoks for their home opener on Saturday.
Here's our season preview of the team, which once again has chamionship aspirations.
Read More Okotoks Dawgs 2018 Season Preview | Game on July 24, 2021.
The event will feature the summer collegiate circuit's best players competing in a Western Division versus Eastern Division tilt that displays top-end talent from Alberta and Saskatchewan teams.
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It is a baseball oasis in the middle of Canada's prairie landscape.
In under 20 years, the Okotoks Dawgs college and academy programs have become the benchmark for success.
When looking at the path it took to get there, you can't blame managing director John Ircandia for smiling from ear-to-ear as he looks at his own field of dreams.
We chatted with him in a recent episode of Alberta Dugout Stories: The Podcast to learn more about his mindset and vision going forward.
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1 Thru 9: Brodie Stairs
The Weyburn Beavers are off to a torrid start to the 2018 season.
One of the key pieces is reliever Brodie Stairs. The Calgary product has been a part of the club since their last regular season division title in 2015.
We chatted with the right-hander for the latest "1 Thru 9."
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1 Thru 9: Jacob Bouzide
Home field advantage is something the Okotoks Dawgs are hoping to capitalize on this season with a bevy of home-grown talent, including Jacob Bouzide.
The Dawgs Academy product is the focus of the newest "1 Thru 9."
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Cite concentrates on commercial
Tuesday, 30 November 2010, 11:36 am
Press Release: Cite Limited
No matter where you work, if you feel comfortable, you're more motivated and therefore more productive.
It's the philosophy behind Vitra's citizen<|fim_middle|>ite has decided to focus entirely on contract commercial work.
"Cite will continue as the commercial and contract master agent for European furniture brand Vitra, foregoing Vitra's residential offering, so we can be more single-minded in our approach," says Cite director Euan McKechnie.
Euan McKechnie says commercial premises are no longer just workplaces, but new environments that are more accessible and accommodating to individuals.
"There's no doubt there's a growing appreciation of user-friendly design in the commercial space," he says. "But design for design's sake lacks conviction in a commercial environment if it does not meet the test of being conducive to productivity.
"It's no longer a matter of providing a desk and a chair and telling your people get on with it. People work the way they want to. Our aim is to create an office environment that is alive, facilitates interaction and productivity without drawing distinctions between working and living. Rooms, furnishings and objects exert a strong influence on staff well-being and mood.
"A citizen office encourages the occupants to work using a range of postures and to move within the office as much as possible. Working while standing or assuming various casual postures provides variety and relaxation and helps maintain staff health," he says.
"Office design today takes us a step further than traditional ergonomics – physical activity is integrated with office etiquette in a natural way."
With the post-recessionary softening of the domestic interior design market, McKechnie says the time is right to focus on commercial contracts.
"We believe it's the best way forward for us and with the Vitra range providing leadership in the citizen office space we plan to grow that area of our business significantly."
McKechnie says the change in business direction will also mean a host of new European commercial brands will be represented by Cite including Actiu, Unifor, K&N, Sinetica, Belux and Seven Salotti.
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Cite Limited is a proudly New Zealand owned and operated company based in Mt Eden, Auckland. Cite is the New Zealand dealer for respected European furniture brands Vitra, Arflex and Seven Salotti and lighting manufacturer Belux. Cite also works closely with a selection of New Zealand manufacturers to provide custom furniture solutions to meet the needs of individual commercial projects.
Find more from Cite Limited on InfoPages. | office theme and other developing trends in commercial interior design where physical activity is integrated with office etiquette in a natural manner.
In recognition of exciting new developments in the office contract space, Auckland specialist design consultancy C | 40 |
Why every customer craves attention and affection
Trent Leyshan
Not far from where I live there is a petrol station run by an older gentleman whom I call Gus. He is about 160 years (not out) draped in a long white/grey spindly beard, and shuffles in slow motion as he walks from the station office to the petrol pump.
To paint the picture, his station is slightly rundown (okay, a lot run down) and fails to possess the flashy signage and shiny features many of his nearby competitors display. Yet Gus has something the other petrol<|fim_middle|> feel that important.
Trent Leyshan is the founder of sales training company BOOM! and the author of OUTLAW & The Naked Salesman. | stations in his local area don't have – he's got a constant stream of customers.
When you go to Gus's petrol station you may wait a few more minutes than you would at another station. But you don't mind because Gus takes his time with the good old-fashioned service. He shuffles over, says g'day and asks how your day is. He then cheekily quizzes if you'd like you car filled up? He pops the pump into your tank. While he's doing that he gives your windshield a scrub. Sometimes he'll demand he fills you tyres with air, because his kick test suggests they are low.
Gus does all of this at his own time and expense. You see, Gus is from the old school, he understands what people want, and it's clear he understands what makes people tick. Despite the winds of change howling and the world spinning (fast!) Gus celebrates the simple things, the fundamentals, that don't and won't ever change: People will always desire to be respected, appreciated and remembered.
Gus isn't doing all this to get a promotion, nor is it a publicity stunt to attract attention, he's doing it because he loves it – it's who he is. Clearly, all his customers, like me, love it too.
I drive past four competing petrol stations on my way to see Gus, each closer, all sell the same product, but I'm not interested in same. What's more, I've never queried the price. Why? Because, Gus is that special and he makes me | 315 |
Rebecca Garrahy stars as Donna featuring Patricia Anderson as Tanya and Alana Simone as Rosie in Charm City Players' production of Mamma Mia!.
The storyline for this beloved musical seemed a little over the heads of the 12 and under crowd that amounted to nearly half the audience for the hit show "Mamma Mia!" presented by Charm City Players in Baltimore.
However, the electricity generated on stage permeated throughout the auditorium and the show was a delight beyond my expectations. "Mamma Mia!" brought all the disco frosting and glitter that made this such a lauded production –first across the pond and then in America.
This show was truly a fuzzy, warm-feeling kind of show and I recommend taking the kids before it ends March 24.
As someone who grew up in the '70s, I simply could not resist feeling a flood of emotions during the musical numbers, so I wondered if the parents and grandparents in the audience were welling up, too. The flashy costumes, the crazy bell bottoms and high heel boots, and the large choreographed ensemble choked me up –mostly because of the memories attached to the songs. Though I admit, the wedding scene did a real number on me because my preteen daughter was sitting next to me and the thought of that moment for her in the future was too much for me to handle<|fim_middle|>. The music level was a bit low and a little muddy, but the energy and excitement of the production were too lovely to resist. Scenic artists Annmarie Pallanck and the director himself put together an attractive resort façade and practical stage set up. Overall, the aesthetics of this production deserves a bit of praise –from the venue (the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Auditorium at Mercy High School) down to the final musical number, "Waterloo." This show was truly a fuzzy, warm-feeling kind of show and I recommend taking the kids before it ends March 24.
For more information about Charm City Players and to purchase tickets, visit their website by clicking here. | . That aside, the show was far more charming than I anticipated.
I give a lot of credit to the costumiers Tara Hebert, Patricia Anderson (who also played Tanya) and Emmie Grant for the lovely attire –as everyone looked quite comfortable in their beach shorts, as well as the disco getups. The ostentatious and loud habiliments for "Dancing Queen" was exceptionally eye-catching.
Director Stephen Napp put together a wonderful show that was mostly family-friendly and totally fun to watch | 104 |
filed: May 22, 2012 • Massachusetts
Anti-turbine group gets boost from Falmouth
Credit: By Tom Dalton<|fim_middle|> a direction that says this project looks like it will be good for Salem," the mayor said, "but we want to continue to answer questions folks have and gather information."
There is no timeline for building a turbine, Driscoll said. The project will require state funding and City Council approval.
Carlton, the Salem Wind representative, said noise and other problems have been documented around the world and here in Massachusetts.
There have been many complaints from Falmouth residents, he said, and also concerns raised in Fairhaven from a turbine that went into operation just a few weeks ago.
"As soon as you start raising (noise) levels with these wind turbines, they start creating lots of neighborhood problems," he said. "… I don't think the mayor fully understands the impact these turbines could make."
The state recently held three public hearings on wind turbines and only got a few noise complaints, said Ed Coletta, a spokesman for the DEP.
"Really, the only complaints we received were from folks in Falmouth," he said.
As a result of the Falmouth test, however, the DEP is considering new noise regulations.
Source: By Tom Dalton, Staff writer | The Salem News | www.salemnews.com | 22 May 2012 | , Staff writer | The Salem News | www.salemnews.com | 22 May 2012 ~~
SALEM – Recent tests showing that a wind turbine in Falmouth exceeded state noise guidelines has bolstered a local group trying to block a turbine planned for Winter Island.
Peter Carlton of Salem Wind, a group fighting the proposed Salem turbine, said the latest test results prove that wind turbines are much noisier than predicted in the studies done by local municipalities.
"I think that confirms our suspicions all along that the noise studies (by cities and towns) are flawed," he said. "(Noise from turbines) affects neighbors a lot more than they tend to admit."
The sounds from a 1.65-megawatt wind turbine in Falmouth were more than 10 decibels above the baseline, ambient noise level for that area, according to the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection.
The excessive noises were recorded at one of five locations that was tested near two Falmouth turbines, the DEP said. The high levels were found at a residence about 1,300 feet from the older, and presumably noisier, of the two turbines.
As a result, Falmouth selectmen ordered one of two turbines shut down and the other to operate only during the daytime for a period of 30 days, while the DEP does more testing.
The other four sites tested in Falmouth were within the guidelines, the DEP said.
Salem Wind contends the proposed 1.5-megawatt turbine on Winter Island will create similar noise problems and also could impact residents' health. They say the "industrial-sized" turbine should not be located close to residents.
The noise controversy in Falmouth surfaced as Salem was conducting its second round of sound tests. For two weeks this month, the city placed monitors at sites near Winter Island and across the harbor in Marblehead, where residents are also concerned.
Results from the recent wind tests, which were done to determine the ambient noise levels near Winter Island, have not yet been analyzed.
Although a monitor near the Plummer Home for Boys was vandalized during the tests, a city official said they may have been able to get usable data even though it was in operation for only a few days.
Mayor Kim Driscoll, a strong backer of the turbine, said the latest noise test results at Winter Island will be shared with Salem Wind and the public.
"We are certainly trying to go about this the right way," she said.
Driscoll said the city is trying to "provide as much information as we can so we can make an informed decision. … We don't want it to have a negative impact on this beautiful area and the neighborhood that abuts it."
The city conducted tests a few years ago that showed there should be sufficient wind on Winter Island. Salem officials say the turbine will generate between $200,000 and $700,000 in annual revenue from electricity sold to the grid.
"So far, the information we have gathered has pointed us in | 628 |
Home Development How to fix 500 Internal Server Error in WordPress?
If you are a regular visitor and surfer of the web, then you mostly have seen the HTTP 500 Internal Server Error at few times.<|fim_middle|> your host and, if you have a good one, you can be able to work with them to identify the problem quickly. Good luck and hope this has helped!
Next articleThe Most Common Mistakes Web Developers Make! | Internal Server Error is one of the most common issue that arises in WordPress, that can put a WordPress developer (beginner) in panic mode. It never has a straightforward solution, requiring a lot of troubleshooting that can eat up your time and patience. But there is no need to panic. Take a deep breath and know that others before you have had this issue as well.And, here's everything you need to know about this error and also how to fix it!!
The 500 internal server error appears on every page of your website when there's a problem with the internal server or file system as it is powering your site. The cause most likely persist in the root directory, where your WordPress files are, but it can also be caused by a problem on your host's server.
Internal server error is not specific to WordPress, and it can happen with anything that is running on your server and inside your server as well. This error has the most generic nature, that it does not tell the developer anything. Fixing an internal server error is like asking your doctor to relieve your pain without telling them where the pain is. Commonly, internal server error in WordPress is often caused by plugin and/or theme functions. Other possible causes of internal server error in WordPress that we know of are: corrupted .htaccess file and PHP MEMORY LIMIT or having improper file permissions, but there could also be other conflicting causes, such as outgrowing your hosting plan or an issue with your hosting provider.. We have also heard internal server error only showing up when you are trying to access the administrator area while the rest of the site works fine.
No matter what the cause, there are many ways to troubleshoot and fix this error,that may include restoring your site from a backup to simply turning on WordPress debugging mode.
First-of-all, the most important precaution is to BACKUP YOUR SITE, in case anything goes wrong.The solutions for fixing this problem require making a lot of changes in your site's root directory.So, It's highly recommended that you backup your site prior to trying any of these solutions.
The first thing that is recommended to do for troubleshooting the internal server error in WordPress is to check for the corrupted .htaccess file.
To do this, open your WordPress root directory in FileZilla,cPanel or your preferred FTP client. This is mostly called public_html. Here you can see folders having names wp-admin and wp-content. If you don't see your .htaccess file or any dotfiles, make hidden files viewable by clicking Server and selecting Force Showing Hidden Files.
Once you have renamed the .htaccess file, try checking and loading your site to see if the problem has solved. If it did, then give yourself a pat on the back and if it did not work for you, then you need to continue reading this article..
Sometimes, the cause for the error can be Exhausted PHP Memory Limit.
iv) Upload it into your /wp-admin/ folder using FTP.
If this worked, then consider it just a patch. A temporary patch. Because there's something in your WordPress Account that is jamming memory, and it will probably after some time will reach the new limit that you've set for now.So. You'll need to identify the underlying problem before you run out of space again.
Once you find that conflicting plugin make sure to report the error to the plugin author after getting rid of that plugin.
And if you are not lucky enough to fix error then keep trying below solutions..
If the plugin option didn't solve the internal server error, then it is worth trying re-uploading the wp-admin and wp-includes folder from a fresh WordPress install. The process will not change or remove any of your information, but it can solve the problem in case any file was corrupted.
If you've gone through all of these steps and still cannot find a solution,then perhaps your host may have it. By looking at the server file logs, they might be able to get to the bottom of things.
We hope that you're not reading this because neither of the above solutions worked for you!
Finding the cause and fixing 500 error can be one of the most frustrating thing that you can experience. It's such a general yet widespread error that it can drive you insane for fixing it down. These are just solutions for the most probable problems. So, don't give up if this hasn't worked for you. contact | 892 |
nancye's art and beautiful junk: Wow... what a ride this is.
Wow... what a ride this is.
This is going to be quite a ride. It has been so far. This week, it going to be every short for me because I am so busy doing everything I need to do while I still can. I went to chemo class yesterday and it all sound pretty scary to me right now so I try to forget about it and take it one day at a time. Today I have two more tests to do at the hospital. Then I need to finish redecorating two rooms because I have a small surgery to insert a port cath on Thursday and then chemo on Friday. I will post pictures of my two finished rooms if I get them done. One is for my grandson and the other is a guest room in case I need one. Right now they are a real mess because I thought I had all the time in the world to do them. The chemo will take about six months and then<|fim_middle|> are on and what kind of breast cancer you have.
If there is anything I can do, by way of maybe hints for the chemo please let me know.
I will definitely keep in touch Nancye.
None of the art on my blog is mine, I do the writing, but none of the art. Although I love art very much. Your dolls are stunning.
Nancye, it is all overwhelming, and so I don't want to overwhelm you more but I have been on many chemos and if you are on one and I have been on it, maybe I will have some tricks up my sleeve.
Good morning! Thanks for coming by my blog.It is frustrating when people take your work as their own and I am so grateful to those of you who teach . I also saw your going to be journaling and that you put up the teesha moore videos . I loved them and I am going to be beginning too. I also wanted to say that I understand breast cancer. I had an aunt go through it and since her all most all of my great aunts have battled it. I want you to know you are in my thoughts and I am happy you are blogging about it . I am sending you hugs and strength as you begin this journey. | surgery and radiation. At least that is the plan now. Again, good at denial, I'll take it a day at a time. Well off the hospital to do the tests. Until next time....peace!
Dear Nancye, I hope your procedure today went smoothly. I know you barely know me. I am new to your ning doll group. I just wanted to be sure to get this info to you about vitamin D and research on breast cancer survival.
I also don't want to overwhelm you as you have so much to think about right now. Just save these links and watch the video when you can. A dear friend passed this to me recently, and I then asked my doc to test my D status and found out I (and my daughter) were quite low. It's easy to find out, easy and cheap to supplement. Nothing your doctors would object to doing along with your treatment. May all your angels stay on high alert! You were meant to be here.
Do you know what chemo you | 205 |
(ABC)–Kirk Cousins found a groove and undrafted rookie running back Robert Kelley made the most of his chance and the Washington Redskins beat the Buffalo Bills 21-16 Friday night in the third preseason game.
With the Bills (1-2) resting almost their entire starting defense, Cousins overcame a rough start to finish 12 of 23 for 188 yards, three touchdowns and an interception.
Despite coming mostly against Buffalo's second- and third-stringers, it was an important recovery for Cousins, who had thrown only five passes in the preseason and didn't play last week in an effort to test backup Colt McCoy.
Kelley ran for 51 yards on 12 carries in a personal showcase with Matt Jones and Chris Thompson out and after seventh-round pick Keith Marshall sprained his left elbow on his only carry of the game.
Bills starting quarterback Tyrod Taylor played only two series, by coach Rex Ryan's design, going 2 of 5 for 11 yards before being replaced by E.J. Manuel.
Ryan also opted to rest running back LeSean<|fim_middle|>. … RT Morgan Moses left the game with a left ankle injury. … CB Quinton Dunbar left the game with a shin injury that came after Rashad Ross fumbled a punt return. … RB Matt Jones (shoulder), RB Chris Thompson (undisclosed), Baker (hamstring) and WR Jamison Crowder (knee) didn't play. | McCoy and several key defenders, including defensive tackle Kyle Williams, linebacker Jerry Hughes and cornerbacks Ronald Darby and Stephon Gilmore.
Coach Jay Gruden took a more conventional dress-rehearsal approach to the third preseason game for the Redskins (2-1) and got the kind of performances he'd like to see from top players such as tight end Jordan Reed, receivers DeSean Jackson and Pierre Garcon, left tackle Trent Williams and cornerback Josh Norman.
Reed, Garcon and receiver Ryan Grant each caught a touchdown pass from Cousins, and Norman looked sharp on defense along with second-year linebacker Preston Smith and lineman Ziggy Hood.
Bills: RB Jonathan Williams ran for 42 yards on 11 carries, including a 37-yard touchdown before leaving with a rib injury at the end of the third quarter. … CB Kevon Seymour, a sixth-round pick, continued his impressive preseason with four tackles.
Redskins: LB Su'a Cravens was used on several key third downs in the first half with the first-team defense. … CB Kendall Fuller broke up a pass and intercepted another in the end zone in the final minute.
Bills: K Dan Carpenter was 3 of 3 on field-goal attempts, connecting from 28, 52 and 52 yards. … WR Dez Lewis didn't help himself with a first-half drop, while Walter Powell had five catches for 55 yards and a 16-yard punt return. … TE Nick O'Leary lost a fumble and quite possibly his grip on a roster spot.
Redskins: Kelley was decisive in his runs, picked up extra yards after contact and was excellent in pass protection. Mack Brown ran for 43 yards on 11 carries in the second half. … OL Spencer Long returned after spraining his right ankle, while his competition at left guard, Shawn Lauvao, had a false-start penalty in the red zone. … C Kory Lichtensteiger committed three holding penalties two days after Washington acquired C Bryan Stork from the New England Patriots. … Hood had a sack and thrived in a bigger role with DE Chris Baker getting the night off.
Bills: TE Chris Gragg suffered a knee injury on a tackle by DeAngelo Hall in the second quarter and did not return. … DB Jonathan Dowling hurt his left knee in punt coverage in the second quarter. … QB Cardale Jones (shoulder), LT Cordy Glenn (ankle), WR Marquise Goodwin (concussion) and S Aaron Williams (concussion) didn't dress.
Redskins: LB Ryan Kerrigan left after the first series with a groin injury | 544 |
Sean Richards scored three times to pace the Vancouver<|fim_middle|> North.
The Mustangs are trying to win the tournament for the fourth year in a row. Vernon beat Yellowknife 9-5 in last year's championship. | Thunderbirds to a 13-2 romp over the host Vernon Watkin Motors Mustangs in the opening game of the 48th annual Vernon Winter Carnival Coca Cola Classic Pee Wee Hockey Tournament Thursday morning in front of a huge crowd at Kal Tire Place North.
The stands were packed with parents and students from Vernon elementary schools.
Richards and Aidan Mukai gave the T-Birds a 2-0 lead five minutes into the game before Maguire Nicholson got Vernon to within a goal with a great individual rush, culminating with an inside-outside move and a bar-down shot over Vancouver goalie Ethan Ma's left shoulder. Tyson Matthews drew an assist.
Richards completed his hat trick before the end of the frame, giving Vancouver a 4-1 advantage at the intermission.
Goals from Luka Shcherbyna and Tristan Ferris in the second period extended the Thunderbirds' lead to 6-1. Vancouver then scored seven times in the final 20 minutes, goals coming from William McIsaac, Ryan Gurney (2), Jean-Loup Leonardon, Shcherbyna, Jared Chin and Louie Sim.
Charlie Swartz got Vernon's second goal at 3:43 of the third, assists going to Jeffrey Curtis and Devon Sales-Parno.
Zachary Bouchard was under siege for most of the game in the Vernon goal and played well.
The Mustangs took on the Los Angeles Kings from California in the featured game of opening day at 5:30 p.m.
Other games opening day have the Kings playing the St. Albert Stars, and the Stars taking on Vancouver in Coca Cola Division play.
In the Sun Valley Division, the Edmonton Canadians play the Port Moody Panthers and the Yellowknife Wolfpack face the California Wave.
All games are at Kal Tire Place | 376 |
April 8, 2017 February 2, 2018 HKSEF Get Informed,<|fim_middle|>
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Ford Foundation Shifts its Focus to Fighting Inequality
Edited by Dr KK Tse
Ford Foundation is the world's second largest foundation, just behind Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. It is giving away over US$500 million in grants every year.
If you have that amount of money to do good for the society, how would you spend it? What kind of issues would you focus on? Why those issues? What impact would you like to create? How do you measure your effectiveness?
These are also some of the questions Darren Walker asked himself and his leadership team when he took over the President role of the Foundation four years ago. It was a deep soul searching for this established Foundation. The result is a major shift in emphasis – and hopefully it will be a paradigm shift for the philanthropic sector at large.
The Foundation announced two years ago that it will shift its focus on fighting inequality in its many forms around the globe.
A Forbes article published last year highlighted the implications of this shift to non-profit organizations.
Three Ways Ford Foundation's Shift to Inequality Will Affect Nonprofits Everywhere
Forbes Nonprofit Council, May 24, 2016
You know Ford Motor Company, the automotive giant. But what you may not be familiar with is the multibillion-dollar grant-making foundation established by its founder Henry Ford's son in 1936. Today, the Ford Foundation gives over $500 million in grants every year and is second only to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in assets.
You can imagine the hype it created when Ford Foundation announced last year it would focus its efforts entirely on inequality. This shift introduces new funding opportunities for nonprofits that work to combat poverty, the marginalization of women and minorities, and similar issues. But it also incentivizes other funders to approach inequality with more urgency, especially considering Ford Foundation's influence over its smaller counterparts.
Three nonprofit executives from Forbes Nonprofit Council discuss what Ford Foundation's public shift to inequality means for the nonprofit world as well as how it will affect their own organizations.
Peggy Smith, president and CEO of Worldwide ERC, an association for the mobility of labor, says Ford Foundation's new focus on inequality was right on cue.
She explains: "In recent years, we've seen more companies focus on inequities and develop or expand their community outreach and charitable giving. This happens for a couple of reasons – certainly in response to need, and because employees want to work for companies that are socially aware and responsible."
Smith says that social media has played a huge role in carrying the message of these socially conscious businesses. This type of transparency educates individuals about the work of organizations, which initiates action from them… (READ FULL ARTICLE)
Notes from KK:
I was intrigued by this shift of focus and tried to know more about the new President's background and approach.
I found this fascinating story in The New Yorker about the upbringing and careers of Darren Walker prior to his appointment as the Foundation's President. Have a read.
Tagged 2017, business, DevelopmentGoals, goodreads, impactinvestment, innovation, KKTse, philanthropy | 642 |
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Is it hard to make this type of drink in a nightclub?
There are definitely some challenges because of the speed of the place, you know, because we have so many people coming at you. We try to prep really well to still make it fast enough so people get their drinks on time. We've gotten to where we're in a good groove where we plan better rather than having so many more steps. Like we did the Nitro Cuba Libra, where it's already batched, it's carbonated and we put it in the frozen machine so we still serve the freshest cocktails but just trying to execute speed, but we don't take any shortcuts or anything like that. It's challenging but worth the while for me.
What's next for you and Nightingale Room?
I don't want to give up all our secrets. We're trying to get some really good acts, like on three-day weekends where people know that they have Monday off, have a special show on those days. We're working toward that. This year I really want to branch out to the colleges and things of that sort and try to speak there about what we're doing at Nightingale Room. So we can get those young bands in there too to give them some experience, to learn how to be professional in sound checks. They're things they've never had to do, so they can be prepared. We're going to start holding classes with sound and engineering and if you want to learn it, then you can come out and learn so we can get people to sharpen up their craft. It's a lot of work but that's what I would like to see in the future.
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By Paula Nino Kehr on Feb. 17, 2016
When Mike Criss opened downtown bar, Nightingale Room, in November 2014, he melded two of the things he loves most: good music and cocktails. Criss describes the bar, which he opened with Bobby Huegel and The Clumsy Butcher Group, as a high-energy place, where people can have fun, listen to good music and make good memories. Now, a little more than a year after it opened, the Nightingale Room is looking to become more of a live music destination.
We caught up with Criss about what's new at the downtown spot, which recently expanded its live music offerings and revamped its cocktail menu, its growing vinyl collection, and what's next for him.
Tell me about the changes at Nightingale Room.
The changes are that we have a cocktail menu where we take throwback drinks and try to make them fresh. Like our Midori Sour, we call it My Midori Sour, where we actually juice the honeydew melon so it makes fresh Midori. So it's more fun but it's still kinda clean as far as cocktails go. And last year we only did one day of live music but we wanted it to grow, because I felt, we all felt, that Houston's music scene was on the cusp of growing a little bit. Instead of doing one day a week, we're actually now doing five days a week of music. It's good because it gives artists that don't get those chances to play in venues a chance. You get that opportunity to be put on a slow night and if you have a good following, then we put you on a busier night. I thought it was really good to share the stage with people like that, where young artists can learn how to market themselves and put on a show in front of a crowd. It's a good thing to do locally.
Was that what you envisioned when you opened?
Yeah, I think I wanted it to be that way. I'm so impatient sometimes about things. I want things to happen now, but I'm glad that we took our time. I envisioned doing music five days a week but I didn't know how the guests were going to perceive that. So I felt like if we introduced it to them a little bit at a time then they'd get this whole concept of who we are and what we were trying to do as far as Houston music goes. It's gotten a great response. It's pretty fun. It brings new energy every time. People come in and they say, wow, you guys spin vinyl too? It's kinda cool because a lot of these artists when they have demos, they burn them onto vinyl and give them to us.
About that vinyl collection, what is it at now?
It's probably over 4,000 now at the bar. I don't know if you know this but basically we exchange. Our guests bring us vinyl and we exchange but the coolest part about it is everybody on staff, from the bar backs to the bartenders to myself, everybody gets to pick an album a week and it can be anything that you want to listen to. It doesn't have to be anything in particular. It's kinda cool because you get different personalities. For me, I love jazz, I'm all over the place, but some people may bring some stuff that I've never heard so it's like we're all learning at the same time. I think we have like a No Doubt record and then we have like a Marilyn Manson record. They're so different, and then there's Miles Davis Kind of Blue in there, so it's just all over the place.
So if I walk in there, I won't know what I'm going to be in for musically …
You know there's going to be good music, let's put it like that. We get a lot of Shazams in our building. I always see people putting up the phone, like, what is this? That's my favorite part. They didn't know what the song was but they liked it so they grew musically at that point. On the weekend it's great because it's a really high energy, sing-along kinda thing. Our most sung along song … it's between two right now: I Want To Dance With Somebody by Whitney Houston or Biz Markie's Just A Friend. Between those two, everybody sings.
Going back to the cocktail menu, what's different about it?
We have this Blue Hawaiian on the menu, which is frozen and garnished with umbrellas and mint and pineapple. We have this thing called the Inconceiva-bowl; it's a tiki bowl that's on fire. There are three kinds of rum that go into it with lime juice. A lot of our cocktails are a little bit elaborate in color and presentation so Bobby and me thought it would be really, really cool to do that and bring some more energy with our cocktails instead of putting out the same stuff. We thought, well, let's have a lot of fun with it, let's put umbrellas in it and crazy straws that have the loops on them. That's the only thing I really tried to create in this menu, just to be fun, like somebody sees it and thinks wow, this is crazy, look at what I'm drinking. I thought it | 1,375 |
Cleveland may not pop into your mind as a center for literary activity<|fim_middle|>ar said he has no doubt that it will. It's the Cleveland way. | , but a recent report points out that the city has a long tradition of supporting writers and their work.
The report, "Inside the Margins," describes a network of writing groups, libraries and independent bookstores that foster a vibrant literary arts scene in the city. The study was released by the advocacy group Arts Cleveland. CEO Megan Van Voorhis said the local writing culture grew from grassroots efforts.
"Cleveland has always had a strong support infrastructure for writers," she said.
The Poets and Writers League of Greater Cleveland – later known as The Lit – started as a grassroots organization in 1974. In more recent years, support for area writers has blossomed, including groups like Literary Cleveland, A Guide to Kulchur, Lake Erie Ink, Brews and Prose, and the Sisterhood.
"I think that climate and those activities to help one another is something that's really exciting," said Van Voorhis.
National literary lights such as Dan Chaon and Thrity Umrigar are part of Northeast Ohio's writing community. Former Clevelander Huda Al-Marashi, whose new memoir is attracting national notice, got her start here.
Though she now lives in California, Al-Marashi still stays in regular touch with her Cleveland influences, exchanging work over Skype.
Former Plain Dealer book editor Karen Long said that a city like Cleveland can't compare to literary giants like New York or San Francisco, but it is right-sized for collaboration. Long, who currently manages the 83-year-old Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, added that a prime source of that nurturing is an unusually large network of libraries across the region.
But, Cleveland's history of support for writers hasn't always been universal. Poet Daniel Gray-Kontar didn't find help so easily.
"Opportunities for me as a young writer of color came from opportunities that I had to create," he said.
Gray-Kontar and fellow African American poets didn't feel local writing groups spoke to their needs, so they formed the Black Poetic Society in 1994. The members found fellowship, exchanged ideas and created performance opportunities in area clubs to take their work to larger audiences. Gray-Kontar said he used that experience to pay it forward for a new generation by creating an organization, Twelve Literary Arts, in 2016.
"The reason that Twelve Literary Arts exists is precisely so that young writers of color don't have to make their way in the same way that I did," he said.
Over the past two years, Twelve Literary Arts has set out to provide a safe space for marginalized writers of all stripes who come from the inner city. The young organization is moving into the first floor of the recently rehabbed Madison building on the Glenville Arts Campus. Gray-Kontar has a makeshift office in one corner, surrounded by freshly painted dry wall. In the middle of their new digs is the counter for a soon-to-come café.
But, Gray-Kont | 600 |
CLEVELAND, OH (May 24, 2007) - Ganeden, Inc., a leading consumer products company featuring once-daily, over-the-counter probiotic treatments that promote digestive health, recently entered into a supply and licensing agreement with IdeaSphere, Inc, a global healthcare company specializing in vitamins, minerals<|fim_middle|> Self Healing newsletter and is the Director of Integrative Health & Healing at Miraval Life in Balance Resort.
Twinlab currently provides over 1,500 nutritional products, including tablets, capsules and powder drink mixes. Twinlab formulas reflect the latest medical discoveries, incorporating meticulously researched premium ingredients. The company is committed to providing products and information that help people achieve wellness and promote a healthy lifestyle through a holistic approach. The company markets under the brands Twinlab®, which includes the Fuel® line of sports and nutritional supplements; Ultra Harvest®, a premium food-based line of vitamins and minerals; Natures Herbs®; Alvita Teas®; Rebus Publishing®; Metabolife® and Dr. Weil supplements. | and other nutrition products, to develop and launch probiotic supplements for Dr. Andrew Weil and Twinlab.
Dr. Weil is an internationally-recognized expert on integrative medicine, medicinal plants, mind-body interactions and the future of medicine and health care. Twinlab is a leading manufacturer and marketer of high quality, science-based, nutritional supplements.
GanedenBC30, the probiotic strain of bacteria used in Dr. Weil's Daily Digestive Support Formula® and Twinlab® Super Probiotic Formula, was selected because it has a history of safe use, is an extremely hardy organism that is able to survive the heat and pressure of manufacturing, has a long shelf life without refrigeration and can survive the acidic environment of the stomach - a vital factor for any probiotic, since friendly bacteria can only have a positive health benefit if they are alive when they reach the intestines.
"The unique GanedenBC30 strain I chose for my Daily Digestive Support Formula is remarkably hardy, requiring no refrigeration and delivering 35 times more live cultures to the intestinal tract than yogurt," said Dr. Weil.
Probiotics, which means "for life," are beneficial or friendly bacteria that help support a healthy digestive system and inhibit harmful bacteria in the gut, while also supporting the body's immune system. Probiotics have proven effective in helping reduce symptoms of digestive disorders ranging from general upsets to diarrhea, constipation, urgency and in some cases, the relief of symptoms associated with Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
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Dr. Weil's books include the national bestsellers Spontaneous Healing, 8 Weeks to Optimum Health, Eating Well for Optimum Health, and The Healthy Kitchen. His latest book, Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Guide to Your Physical and Spiritual Well-Being, was published in October 2005. He also authors the popular | 675 |
The Stillwater Amateur Radio Club holds FCC amateur radio licensing examinations every month after the conclusion of the regular club meeting. Examinations for all license classes are offered, and walk-ins are more<|fim_middle|> your new privileges until your new license class appears in the FCC's ULS database.
Must I be a US citizen or resident to receive an FCC amateur radio license? | than welcome. The Stillwater ARC volunteer examiners are accredited by and conduct the exams under the authority of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) and W5YI Volunteer Examiner Coordinator. Monthly meeting is the FIRST TUESDAY of each month, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Come to the meeting, and stay for your exam.
Complete EXAMS information continues below. If you still have questions or if you want to schedule a licensing exam, Please contact us here.
Is there an age requirement for an amateur radio license?
No! You can test for and receive an FCC amateur radio license at any age!
There is a $15 fee (Cash Only) per candidate for each examination session in order to cover costs associated with exam administration and processing. You are entitled to take all three license exams (Elements 2, 3, and 4) in a single examination session. However if you fail an exam you must pay another $14 examination fee in order to retake the exam.
No, there is no set time limit for any of the exams.
How many questions must I answer correctly to pass?
Almost immediately! Once you are finished with an exam the volunteer examiners will grade it and let you know the result.
May I find out which questions I missed, if any?
No. The volunteer examiners are only allowed to inform you whether you passed or failed along with your score.
I passed! May I attempt the next higher level exam?
First of all, congratulations! Second of all, yes you may. Your examination fee covers the taking of all exams, in order, that you are able to pass.
I failed! May I retake the exam?
First of all, don't despair if you failed! Many hams have experienced this "temporary delay" in their progression along the licensing trail. If there is enough available time in the examination session and another version of the exam is on hand you may retake the exam immediately! However you must pay another $14 examination fee in order to do so.
When may I get on the air with my new license or privileges?
If you do not have an amateur radio license you are not allowed to transmit on any amateur radio bands until the FCC assigns you a callsign. You can find out your new callsign through various tools such as the FCC ULS database's license search or through the ARRL's FCC License Data Search. Your callsign should appear within 7 to 15 days after passing your exam, and your paper license should arrive within a further 7 to 15 days.
If you already have an FCC amateur radio license and successfully passed an exam to upgrade your license class you are allowed to exercise your new privileges the moment the CSCE is in your hands! Remember though that you must append the appropriate temporary suffix to your callsign (/KT for Technician Class, /AG for General Class, and /AE for Amateur Extra Class) when exercising | 599 |
My programming "career" starts 30 years ago when I was 9 or 10. I was fascinated by video games at the beginning of the 80s. Those were my first steps into computer programming. From there I started programming at the local mall with other kids and soon got my own computer. After programming in Basic on a C64 and Amstrad CPC I moved to assembler programming (6502 and Z80). In the late 80s I bought one of the first Amiga 500s in Germany (later an Amiga4000/040<|fim_middle|> took some time because of my manager jobs - I went to Berlin to found a startup with some friends. We got funded - with me as CTO - by a VC and specialized in a knowledge managment software solution in Java, EJBs, XML and XSLT. Although being one of the earliest commercial social media startups with a tagging, wiki and blog solution for companies, we later had to close shop with the bursting of the dot com bubble, investments dried up and because the market window for blogs and wikis hadn't opened yet. But I've learned a lot. What did survive was my widely used Wiki render engine.
After some years of research and consulting into software development at Fraunhofer and as a team manager at ImmobilienScout24, the biggest real estate portal in Germany, I've been working for brands4friends, a fashion startup in Berlin. After brands4friends had been bought by eBay I was working as the CTO in the executive team of eBay Fashion Germany/brands4friends. Since 2015 I work as an Interim CTO for startups, one of them eventsofa. In my spare time I like to give speeches at conferences and help people optimize their software development.
Your blog is called "Code Monkeyism", what does that mean? The term is taken from the song "Code Monkey" by Jonathan Coulton and is often used as a self-describing, ironic term for software developers. So Code Monkeyism is about everything relevant to code monkeys and people who deal with them. | /Retina), kept going with assembler development (68k) and got involved in the demo scene. Along the way I've learned E, Pascal, C and several other languages on my Amiga and DOS at school.
At the start of the 90s I went to university and came in contact with the first examples of the internet in Germany, years before the world wide web and even before DNS. We wrote IRC clients by hacking IRCII in C and some first web applications - in C (!). During my university years I've learned and used lots of languages like Modula-2, Oberon, Lisp, Prolog, Perl, TCL/Tk or C++ and used DEC Alphas, SUNs and NeXT cubes. My proudest moment was a 'realtime' raytracing program on a DEC cluster. Major subjects were distributed systems and databases, sprinkled in with some medicine as a minor subject and philosophy as a second field of study.
When the internet became commercial in the mid 90s I applied for a development job at a biotech startup, which brought a laboratory into the internet called virtual laboratory. Because of company growth I was soon head of development. With several such posts in some startups, with merges and spin offs, I've came into contact with Perl, Delphi and mostly Python. Working on the technical edge there I've written one of the first open source fulltext search engines without much information out there.
After finishing university - which | 302 |
Eco Park: A group of teens enjoy the natural environment. Fall colours<|fim_middle|>, and our outdoor pool that adds to a spa-like setting.
The Hayloft also offers Association Members the perfect venue for events year-round, including frequent pub nights, dances and parties. Annual events, like Spring Fling and Halloween's Haunted Hayloft allow many opportunities to participate and are great entertainment.
Boating, swimming, walking, cross country skiing, and community-organized activities all provide wonderful opportunities to enjoy the community with friends, family and neighbours.
Bayshore Village is graced by a lovely Eco Park which includes a beaver pond and hiking trails. The Eco Park is maintained by an enthusiastic committee of volunteers and is available to all Association Members.
Click on the photos below to see larger pictures and a brief explanation of each one. | make Eco Park Pond even more beautiful. Trails are maintained by dedicated volunteers. Wildlife abounds in Eco Park.
There are many varied activities available to members in the Village, and to their guests. Enjoy a round of golf on the par three golf course or a game of tennis or pickle-ball on our courts. All activities are centrally located in the Village adjacent to the Hayloft, and are available at no extra cost for Association Members and a limited number of guests.
Get together with friends and neighbours at the Hayloft – the Bayshore Village club house - featuring library/solarium and card room (bid euchre and bridge are played weekly), men's and women's saunas and showers | 140 |
across a number of sports - so you don't have to.
crafted with the latest tools and technology<|fim_middle|> well as traditional data publishing. | .
databases for you to use in your publication.
Working with a huge variety of data sources across the globe, we aggregate, manage and interrogate high volumes of sports data for almost every major international sporting code. This allows us to provide high value, detailed analysis of sporting events in real time, often before the picture can tell the story.
Today's consumers expect publishers to keep them up to speed and up to date with the action from all the major sporting events as they happen. Whether it's the latest news and video, live scores, fixtures and results, or tables and standings, broadcasters and publishers need to deliver up to the minute, real time updates for all sporting events and teams.
Digital media is perfect for updates and bite sized pieces of information however when customers are looking for detailed analysis, reviews and favourite columnists, print media is still a favourite place to go. Newspapers and magazines are still incredibly important in the publishing mix and most consumers have their favourite 'go-to' print titles that they read regularly.
The high penetration of tablets and larger screen smart phones has led to an increased demand for cross platform publishing solutions and in particular 2nd screen experiences are frequently being deployed by broadcasters for delivery of audio and video content as | 248 |
Application programming interfaces (APIs) are considered the cornerstone of the new integration and data access capabilities in the enterprise. Until recently, the creation of APIs has been undertaken by developers who write code in a specific programming language and manage the corresponding hosting and management infrastructure. This approach becomes a challenge for mobile development, which requires the rapid enablement of APIs to facilitate backend capabilities of mobile apps.
To address this challenge, platforms such as mobile backend as a service (mBaaS) have emerged with ready built APIs immediately available to mobile developers.
Consider a scenario where building a mobile application that accesses data from a SAP instance behind a firewall with an mBaaS platform like KidoZen that comes with prebuilt SAP APIs vs. having to build all the SAP integration APIs from the ground up. It's obvious which would be the easier and more affordable option. This factor alone has been a catalyst for the adoption of enterprise mBaaS platforms like KidoZen. However, pre-packaged APIs are just part of the solution.
Having access to large collections of APIs can accelerate the time to market of specific solutions. However, most enterprise mobile applications will require additional APIs which expose different types of business logic and components required by the solution. These new APIs typically leverage infrastructure building blocks, such as connectivity, security or integration, which are typically exposed in more enterprise mBaaS infrastructures.
In other words, instead of building entire new APIs from scratch, the new business APIs should leverage foundational APIs that abstract integration and infrastructure capabilities in a consistent manner. Basically, we should be building new APIs by leveraging and orchestrating existing APIs also known as low-code APIs.
Low-code APIs define an API authoring model that leverages existing APIs in order to enable its infrastructure and integration capabilities. Consider a scenario where we are building a new invoice processing API with an enterprise mBaaS platform that includes SAP and Active Directory Authentication APIs. In this model, the new API should provide the invoice processing business logic while leveraging the foundational building blocks enabled by the SAP and AD Authentication APIs.
Extrapolating the low-code<|fim_middle|> of low-code APIs is relatively new, flavours of it are emerging in different enterprise mBaaS platforms. | API concept in the context of enterprise mBaaS platforms, we can see how new APIs can be authored by leveraging enterprise mBaaS APIs. If we use our traditional enterprise mBaaS API taxonomy composed of business, infrastructure, data access, enterprise systems and mobile APIs, we can see how new APIs can be enabled based on those building blocks.
Low-Code Data Access APIs: Can be created by combining infrastructure, business, data access and enterprise systems APIs.
Low-Code Business APIs: Can be created by combining business, data access, enterprise systems and infrastructure APIs.
Low-Code Mobile APIs: Can be created by combining infrastructure and mobile APIs.
We are moving towards an API Economy where access to data and integration functionality is made available to enterprises 'as-a-service'. At the same time, the demand for innovative cross platform mobile apps continues to increase from within different business departments such as Marketing, HR and Operations. Low-code APIs will play a critical role in lowering the traditional IT overhead and scheduling challenges faced when launching new enterprise mobile apps.
Low-code APIs are essentially the building blocks for current and future mobile apps enabling accelerated time-to-market (or release to internal users). Enabled through an mBaaS platform such as KidoZen, they act as a broker between the mobile application and the key requirements IT have such as security, auditing and most importantly, access to the line-of-business systems where data needs to be surfaced from. With low-code APIs the business and IT can work toward a joint outcome where IT overhead is low and the business value of mobile apps is high.
Although the concept | 319 |
McDaniel splits<|fim_middle|> year's NFR, it's actually the seventh straight night he earned a paycheck by placing among the top six bareback riders.
"My hand was coming out at about the five-second mark," he said, noting he held on with his fingertips to make the final three seconds to secure a qualified ride.
But problems started when the ride was over. In the process of getting off, Cool Water stepped on McDaniel's foot to cause the injury.
"I felt 100 percent until today," said McDaniel, who missed much of the 2010 regular season because of a back injury that was surgically repaired in February; he's also fought through shoulder pain, which is very common among bareback riders, who wedge their hands into a tight rigging that is strapped tightly to a bronc's back during the ride. "My back feels great, and my shoulder feels good."
Despite the pain caused by the sprain and fracture, McDaniel plans to take the same approach during the final two nights of the 10-round competition that has worked for him the previous eight. He leads the average race with a cumulative total of 672 points; he leads Mote, the No. 2 man, by 10.5 points, but he's well off the average record of 859 he set two years ago – he would need to score 93.5 points in each of the final to rounds to match that aggregate.
The winner of the average title wins an additional $44,910, so there's plenty of motivation. That could go a long way into crowning the 2010 world champion – McDaniel's season earnings have grown to $138,717, but he trails world standings leader Steven Dent by $31,773.
"I try to win the go-round every night I go out there," McDaniel said. "If you do that, everything else will take care of itself."
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D.V. Fennell, left, listens to his friend and traveling partner, Justin McDaniel, as McDaniel is presented his Montana Silversmiths go-round buckle on Thursday night at South Point Hotel & Casino. (PHOTO BY TED HARBIN)
LAS VEGAS – When Justin McDaniel walked onto the stage at the South Point Hotel & Casino for the Montana Silversmiths Round Buckle Presentation Thursday night, he was sporting new footwear.
The walking boot to protect a new broken big toe and a sprained ankle didn't deter the Porum, Okla., cowboy from celebrating his first Wrangler National Finals Rodeo go-round victory in more than a year. McDaniel scored an 86-point ride on the Andrews Rodeo horse Cool Water to split the eighth-round bareback riding victory with three-time world champion Bobby Mote of Culver, Ore.
"That was the horse I wanted in this pen," said McDaniel, 24, who pocketed $15,676 and moved his NFR earnings to $56,867. "I won a go-round on him last year."
That was the last time he earned the top prize at ProRodeo's grand finale, and it happened during the third round at the 2009 championship. While it's the first round win of this | 314 |
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