Drew Madden Distribution in the Healthcare Industry

Drew Madden successfully attained a degree in Industrial engineering from the University of Lowa. He is an accomplished man who majors in information technology in the healthcare industry. Madden is the founder and chief executive officer of Evergreen Healthcare Partners. His experience of the healthcare world is approximately over 10 years. He put into place competent workforce, dynamic company culture and strong customer relations. He works hard, for instance, bringing together his skills and EMR background so that he could advance the healthcare field by telling it to the experts in healthcare.

He has the capabilities to handle planning, health records, and execution. He has collaborated with various companies so as to apply, solve and find some challenges that deal with medical reports. In two year, Drew Madden worked for Cerner Corporation as a consultant. After that, he moved to Healthia where he was also a consultant. Ingenix then bought this organization and as a result, Madden was appointed a director of regional sales for Ingenix.

Her prosperity kept going on thus becoming the president of Nordic Consulting Partners. He handled recruitment, business development as well as daily tasks. The effort of Drew made an accomplishment of the company gaining 75 employees from 10 and this resulted in the revenue increasing to $130,000,00 from $1,000,000 which took place each year. Since he could greatly handle information technology and project management, he took a leap of faith to begin Evergreen Healthcare Partners due to is experience in both fields.

Evergreen Healthcare Partners provides consultation services to a number of healthcare technologies as well as electronic health platforms that are on records. He helps a number of enterprises to be able to handle IT investments so that they can boost their outcomes to accomplish customer satisfaction. The firm also offers talent management solutions for the purpose of maintaining their relationship with clients. He is hosting various movements that will improve the equipment of medical institutions as well as their software thus patients will receive good treatment. He is a prosperous man who urges the professions of healthcare to use 3D printing and brain-computer interfaces to boost the healthcare industry.


Sunday, April 13, 2014

Kamila Shamsie: 'Where is the American writer writing about America in Pakistan? There is a deep lack of reckoning'

by Natalie Hanman)

As a single woman, London is a nicer place to live than Karachi' … Kamila Shamsie. Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian

I want to go to Peshawar," a young Englishwoman with a passion for archeology tells her mother in Kamila Shamsie's latest novel, A God in Every Stone (Bloomsbury), "because there's more past than present there." While Vivian Rose Spencer goes on to dig her way into the past literally – in a dramatic hunt for an ancient artefact as Britain's imperial reign crumbles – Shamsie does so with words. "I love the part of history that is story," she tells me from her flat perched high among trees near Lord's cricket ground in north London. "If a thing is interesting enough, then I want to find the story in it."

Shamsie's stories, in the six novels she has published so far, explore huge themes such as war and love, while zooming in on the intricate detail of her characters as they cross continents and decades in search of themselves, and the truth. One narrative device she deploys is that of the twinned storyline, as a way of exploring how people's lives are shaped by history. "As a novelist, there's a dramatic interest in having the individual lives and then this much larger canvas," she explains. "This notion that we are individuals who control our destiny is an absurdity if you grew up in a place like Pakistan."

Shamsie was born in 1973 in Karachi – "a really violent, damaged city but also the most cosmopolitan and energetic and vibrant place in Pakistan" – to an English-speaking family. It was hard to get hold of good books during Zia-ul-Haq's dictatorship. Shamsie's mother, a literary critic (and the third in, now, four generations of women writers in her family), made a concerted effort, pestering travelling friends to bring books back and subscribing to Granta magazine. The editions of the 80s and 90s, which championed contemporary realist fiction from around the world, lined one of the family's bookshelves, and were well-thumbed by Shamsie as a teenager. A year ago Shamsie was included in Granta's latest list of best young British novelists. Her mother has a copy of the issue of the magazine, on that same bookshelf. "Growing up, if you'd said to me, 'And one day you will be here', that was ridiculous," Shamsie laughs.

Her first four novels are set in Karachi, most of them in the same neighbourhood where she grew up. Karachi is "the canvas of my life", she says. I ask about the tendency for western journalists to label work by non-white writers "autobiographical", something the writer Aminatta Forna has called "intellectual laziness … those journalists did not recognise the things I wrote about as coming from their own lives, ergo they must have come from mine". Shamsie acknowledges the process of othering: "There will be journalists who come to you and they want to find the Muslim in you, the Pakistani in you."

After a nomadic decade moving between the US, Pakistan and the UK, Shamsie settled in London six years ago and she recently became a British citizen. Writing about the thorny process of applying for citizenship, she reflects on being both "betrayed and betrayer", as the British-Libyan writer Hisham Matar calls it, in relation to Pakistan. She has found it harder in the last few years to feel optimistic about the country of her birth, and there has been an unlocking and moving away from Karachi in her work, as well as in her life. Her fifth novel, the Orange prize-shortlisted Burnt Shadows, marked a departure in terms of place, with its opening set in Japan. And then, "as a single woman, London is a nicer place to live than Karachi".

A God in Every Stone unpeels one such story, of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, who led a non-violent resistance to the British Raj and opposed the creation of the state of Pakistan – someone Shamsie never heard about when growing up because he didn't fit into "a certain national narrative". The novel builds by telling the overlapping stories of Viv and a young Pathan man, Qayyum Gul, who served in the British Indian army, up to the moment when Ghaffar Khan's followers clashed with British troops on the Street of Storytellers in Peshawar on 23 April 1930, leading to hundreds of deaths, including that of a young girl. In witness accounts Shamsie discovered references to trucks taking away the bodies of the protesters to dispose of them without the knowledge of their families. She spent days researching in the British Library until she found in the colonial archives an official letter admitting to what had happened that night. "I remember looking up at all these people just doing their work, feeling delighted because it gave me what I needed for the novel, but also disturbed by the historical awfulness of it," she says.

Shamsie observes these events through a postcolonial lens (Viv's informal tutoring of Qayyum's younger brother is called "her Civilising Mission"), and this is a key part of what makes the novel so much more than just a thriller. The "urgent historical question" she is addressing "is the ongoing one of the empire. The real loss is the loss of a girl's body rather than the loss of the 2,500-year-old artefact."

Shamsie is a political writer, and in an era when many artists are silent on the urgent questions of our time, unashamedly so. A former trustee of English PEN and Free Word, and currently one of Liberty's "Writers at Liberty", she is passionate about "the novel as a place for politics", without being dogmatic. "Thank God that in the world there exist novels like Cold Comfort Farm," she says. "The book that can just make you laugh, without really worrying about anything else except laughing, is a fantastic thing. We need those books in the world. We need books like Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping, which is about women in one house, but is the largest novel as well. So it would be wrong to be prescriptive to any individual writer about what they are writing. But out of every country, if you have enough writers, some of them will engage in some way with the politics of their nation."

This is what Shamsie is doing. Pakistan's place in the world, and how its becoming has altered people's lives, drives her stories. "Writing a novel is the best way I know of exploring an idea, a place, a time," she says. "I don't think there's anything like the novel for empathy … If you write non-fiction it's as though you are from the outside looking at something. But if you write fiction, you are behind someone's eyes looking out, and that's the difference."

She is scathing about what she sees as a lack of rage in the fiction coming out of the world's superpower, a country with such a tangled involvement – both past and present - in the region she comes from. "I am deeply critical of American writers for their total failure to engage with the American empire. It's a completely shocking failure, not of any individual writer … but it's the strangest thing to look around and say, 'Where is the American writer writing about America in Afghanistan, America in Pakistan?'. At a deep level, there is a lack of reckoning."


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Finding Parallels Between Services and Life

Characteristics of a Master Sushi Chef

If you are going to take cooking to a higher level, you will have to invest in time, training, more practice and dedication to learn more, especially, if becoming a chef is what is at stake. A sushi chef is one exciting profession that has intriguing skills in preparing the specialities in a sushi bar that reflects a personality that is not common to all chefs. In a conventional restaurant sushi can be a part of the menu in the list but a dedicated sushi bar is a different setting and experience.

Making the preparation of sushi needs artistry and innovative skills partnered with discipline and patience to maintain consistency in a routine work that does not compromise quality and taste. There are still more info that are important about a sushi chef that you need to know in order to determine a professional and skilled one. Check on the knife and tools of a sushi chef and when you see a perfectly tailored and maintained tools, with evidence of care and tending, that is an indication of a sushi chef that is concern to what he uses to make a good sushi and making sure that it will serve him very excellently in every day’s preparations. A professional chef is also concerned and mindful of his surroundings by making sure all through the messy and plenteous preparation of ingredients, cleanliness, and order is in place from manpower, tools, cooking utensils, and even the food itself.

A trustworthy and responsible sushi chef will make sure that all ingredients will be carefully and appropriately handled as he is aware that it can affect the consistency of his cooking if done otherwise, thus showing accountability with his work. Personal hygiene is very important here for a sushi chef especially that ingredients for this food are handled by hands, therefore it must be evident not just on his hand but even in the over all aspect, hair and face, clothing and the area where he works. Also a sushi chef who loves his work and has passion in what he does will be identified by how he presents his skills and how he delicately handles everything that pertains to preparing sushi.

Therefore, when you are sitting in a sushi bar, you can make your own evaluation based on what you now know about a good sushi chef and its characteristics.


Wednesday, May 5, 2010

More sidewalk patio issues

The former Melrose groceteria (now there's a word we don't use much any more...) will become a gourmet pizza establishment. The owners are looking for a way to have some outdoor patio.

The front sidewalk area is tight, but I think it is doable. But do the new owners want their gourmands dining beside the tavern entrance? They proposed a patio at the back of the building (but I gather, not the side ...). They are opposed by the local neighborhood association representing neighbors who feel the back yard patio will be noisy for their adjacent houses. The Assoc. suggested to the owners, that they consider a building frontage of opening glass doors/windows, so you can dine indoors yet open air to the sidewalk.

Profit margins in most businesses are thin. Grabbing a few extra seats and getting bodies in them during some good summer weather is a cheap way to increase sales when demand is high. The patio also offers aforesaid pizza gourmands an environmental choice: A/C indoors, patio outdoors. Wide open windows does not increase seating capacity, and can bugger up climate control for those sitting inside but not at the window (and for the kitchen too).

Given the little hierarchy of patio choices I put in a post a few days ago, I would suggest NO to the backyard patio, maybe to a sideyard one, and YES to a front yard one. Now, it remains to show some imagination in how to get that patio built. I gather their is pressure for the city to relocate the gray switch box in front of the building. The owners could also look at renting and decking over the first parking space to detour foot traffic around their patio. Or maybe the city might increase the bulb out to take over that first parking spot.

  1. I'm just excited about having wood oven pizza in the neighbourhood whether it be inside or out! At least the rumour I heard was that they would have a wood oven for cooking the 'za's. I used to live at Stoney's Pizza in Kingston on Ontario street.

  2. Hi Eric,
    FYI: The Elmdale Tavern (at least when there's a show on at night) locks the front door next to the Melrose, and uses their side door, off the KFC parking lot as the entry/exit


GCodeTools Engraving questions.

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GCodeTools Engraving questions.

Сообщение stormbringer » 08 окт 2016, 17:50

First - Thanks for the gcode extension. It is quite a nice tool. Trying to teach myself both Inkscape and CNC machining, this extension has helped greatly.

Now to the questions.
Is there a english version of the gcode manual available? Downloadable or HTML?

Setup: converted a bitmap to path (sample svg attached) the path is shown as double line surrounding stroke.
Question: Is there a way to force gcodetools engraving to cut the stroke rather than follow the paths?

Setup: I have been trying to read the documentation to setup the cylinder cutter tool; so far no joy. I continuously get "cutter has no shape" error message. Cutter is a 1/64th inch (.03125 inch) carbide end mill. Ref. question above the cut needs to be .03125 NOT .0625.
Question: What is the easiest way to define the tool with spindle speeds, diameter, shape, feed rates etc?

Setup: Using a MaxNC-15 3-Axis machine with 0,0 coordinates on the lower left of the table (as you are looking at this machine)
Question: Does gcodetools accept a defined X,Y zero point or is that set in Inkscape?

Does anyone know a good resource or machinist's manual to determine cut depth/feed rates?

I am enjoying the challenges presented by CNC, but a little guidance can go a long way. :twisted:

Thanks to everyone in advance.
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Reading is the gateway to new worlds and possibilities.

Successful readers are not born; they are made. The act of reading, though a seemingly single process, requires the brain to perform several functions at once, from decoding words to analyzing the information obtained. Reading is made up of five different components, each of which must be mastered and aligned to create quality readers.To obtain the best results, each of the components must be introduced in a logical sequence and in a method that ensures the information is clear, focused and illustrative. This allows each principle to build upon the previous ones, thus procuring the proper alignment.

Phonemic Awareness

The first step in reading involves learning to recognize and identify the various sounds within words. Phonemic awareness focuses more on sounds than sights and reveals that words are made up of a collection of different sounds, called phonemes. Phonemic awareness is greatly benefited by nursery rhymes and songs which often serve as the introduction to rhyming sounds and phonemic patterns.

Phonics involves the association of letters and sounds, as well as the combination of those letters to create blends and words. Phonics also focuses on the relationship between written and spoken letters and words by exposing individuals to flashcards, worksheets and other materials bearing printed letters while reinforcing the sounds made by those letters.

There are two portions of vocabulary: spoken and written. Spoken vocabulary refers to words and terms that people use and are exposed to during their lifetime. Children, in particular, are very curious and quick to ask about words they don't understand. It is imperative that adults don't shy away from words they assume are too complex, but rather take the opportunity to use and explain the terms. Written vocabulary refers to the words that people can read and identify on their own. An individual's vocabulary, both spoken and written, should increase steadily throughout his lifetime.

A fluent reader is one who reads accurately and smoothly at a consistent speed. Fluency also encompasses proper expression, a trait that is often overlooked by beginning readers. As people become more comfortable in the first three reading components, their fluency should improve.

The entire purpose of reading is to absorb knowledge, whether it be to learn something new or to dive into a fictional account. If nothing is gained from the effort, there's no reason to read. Comprehension is the process of taking the information that was read and assimilating it into something useful. Comprehension involves both understanding and the application of that understanding. A person with good comprehensive skills probably won't be able to recite what they've read word for word, but he should be able to give an accurate account of the information.


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Is there any news on providing a facility to make duplicate CSS Classes?

Often we want to use a class which has all the basics of a new class, and in this case the ability to duplicate would be very useful.

Please please please ?

This has been requested a number of times already.

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Burnished concrete floors are a popular flooring finish, due to it’s minimalistic charm.

The natural reaction of curing concrete sided with the tooling procedures of steel trowed finishing techniques, provide a non aggregate cement lustre across the surface, generally it will take on a darker appearance than earlier, though the natural blemishes somewhat tie it all together.

It is important to have the appropriate MPA strength to begin with,  generally 32MPA would be suitable. The concrete surface requires multiple steel trowel passes to achieve flatness and blemishes,

that give burnished concrete it look.

Standard practice suggests allowing the concrete to hydrate before commencing works.

It is a great advantage if the floor is as flat as it can be from the concreter.

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What is gut dysbiosis?

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As 2015 approaches, in-house Legal and HR professionals with growing international workforces tend to look for uniform branding and consistent approaches to global workforce management. One vehicle to achieves these goals is through company employment policies. This can seem challenging given local legal differences and varying cultural expectations.

As such, companies are faced with questions such as - should we develop a single, broad policy to cover our entire global operations in a consistent and predictable manner, or should we develop local policies, implemented according to local laws by the local employer? Or, is there something in between? Although there is no single answer to these questions, there are recognized and tested approaches based on a company’s growth needs, global footprint and workforce profile.

Three Approaches to International Policies

Generally the key approaches to drafting company employee policies for an international workforce fall into three categories: (1) Global Policy; (2) Local Policy; or (3) Hybrid Approaches, each of which has advantages and disadvantages depending on the type of policy and its implementation requirements.

  1. Global Policy

A single global policy that applies to a company’s entire U.S. and international workforce is the most efficient approach and ensures the greatest amount of drafting consistency. A common trade off, however, is a limited ability to actually enforce it against employees outside the U.S. This is because, to avoid offending local laws, the policy must be relatively general and include phrases such as “to the extent permitted by applicable law.” This leaves a question as to what the law actually is and how a local court will interpret the law to be.

Additionally, in seeking uniformity, a single global policy that is not properly drafted could actually extend U.S. protections to non-U.S. employees that would not otherwise apply. For example, an overly U.S.-centric global employee handbook or work rules may extend Title VII protections against discrimination or harassment based on categories such as gender or sexual orientation that are protected under U.S. federal and state laws, but not in other jurisdictions. In some cases, local law may actually require discrimination, such as in a reduction in force in many countries, where employers often need to consider employees’ national origins, ages, disabilities, when making the required “social selection”.

As such, there are only a few topics that can (and in fact should) be properly addressed in a global policy, such as an equity plan and a code of ethics and business conduct.

  1. Local Policy

The local policy applies only to the workforce in one jurisdiction, and can offer a company the greatest possible protection under local law while achieving consistency with cultural norms and expectations. For some U.S. multinationals, however, the management of numerous local policies combined with the concern of losing a uniform global identity discourages this approach.

Despite these concerns, in some cases fully localized policies are strongly recommended. Employee handbooks, for example, include a collection of topics that are strictly governed by local laws (e.g., working hours, leaves of absence, time off, IT monitoring and use, etc.). These types of policies must recognize local legal requirements.

  1. Hybrid Approaches

In an effort to obtain both the uniformity of a global single policy and the jurisdictional compliance of a local policy, companies often invent various middle-of-the-road approaches. The two most common hybrid approaches are: (1) regional policies (for APAC, EMEA, etc.), and (2) a modified U.S. policy with country-specific addenda.

Regional policies can be used for certain topics in areas where there are common rules across a region, such as a properly drafted anti-harassment policy. For other topics, however, even where there is regional regulation, local laws implement the regulation so differently that a regional policy will have the same consequences as a global policy. For example, although the EU working-time directive sets a maximum working week of 48 hours, countries like France still limit the workweek to 35 hours, whereas the U.K. allows employees to opt out of the 48 hour limit by separate agreement.

An alternative hybrid approach, is drafting locally complaint amendments to a U.S. parent company policy. This creates the appearance of a global policy while satisfying local requirements.

Practically speaking, however, it can be complex and even confusing for employees who have to review both the U.S. policy and the local supplement to understand what rules apply to him/her directly.

Once the company adopts an approach and drafts the policy, the next step is to ensure that it is properly implemented. Regardless of the approach, if a policy is not rolled out according to local requirements, the policy can become a nullity, in which case the company cannot rely on the terms of the policy, or even create liability. What is required for proper implementation varies by country, but may include translation (e.g., France and Russia), adoption by the local board, notification or consultation with works councils (e.g., Germany) or employee representative bodies (e.g., the democratic process in China), filings with labor authorities (e.g., for internal regulations in France, for work rules in Japan), proper distribution (electronic or hardcopy) to employees, and collection of acknowledgements or consents.

Whether to adopt a single global policy, local policies or a hybrid approach to employment policies depends most importantly on the type of policy, the jurisdictions where it will be implemented, and the company’s philosophy, values and risk tolerance for deviation from local law. Often, the first step in this process is to engage in advanced planning and discuss the various approaches with counsel.

If the right approach is selected and carefully managed, employment policies can be an invaluable tool to protect the company, respond to employee questions, guide local HR teams and globalize the company’s values and mission.


How does new hero Ana fit into the Overwatch metagame?

When you think of a hero you might not think of a sixty year old one-eyed mother with a rifle, and that’s why you don’t work at Blizzard. Less than two months after launch, this week Overwatch sees the introduction of a new hero, Ana. Missing her right eye and mother to the jetpack-wearing, rocket-slinging Pharah, Ana is bound to shake up the competitive Overwatch scene. She’s the breath of fresh air that support players were waiting for and an important addition to the game’s lore for everyone else. The question is: how does Ana’s arrival affect the way we play Overwatch?

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Ana has a few unique abilities. Her main weapon, Biotic Rifle, is a sniper rifle that does damage over time if you hit an enemy and does healing over time if you hit a teammate. Her sidearm, Sleep Dart, is a single-shot projectile that will put any enemy to sleep for five seconds or until that hero is damaged in some way. Ana’s Biotic Grenade is a projectile that can be used at an incredible range. When enemies are hit by her grenade, they can’t receive any healing for five seconds. Teammates caught in the Biotic Grenade’s blast instantly get healed for 100HP and receive bonus health from other healing abilities. Last but most definitely not least is Ana’s incredible ultimate ability, Nano Boost. It can be applied to a teammate to boost their movement speed, damage, and damage resistance. A Genji, Soldier: 76, Reaper or Winston with the Nano Boost buff will eat through an entire enemy team without looking back.

 No one (wo)man should have all this power

Ana has a few game-changing abilities, so how do you best make use of all of this power? First off, you’re a support player who should be focused on keeping your team alive. Try getting into a position where it’s easy for you to see your team but hard for the opponent to see you.  During large team fights, this requires distance to make sure the opponent can’t easily take you out. If a Tracer or Genji get close to you, you’re going to get ripped apart and Ana can’t easily get away. Try using your Sleep Dart on opponents with their ultimate ability up and your Biotic Grenade on important targets that your team is going to try to kill. If the enemy is doing a lot of damage to all of your teammates, use your grenade to heal them quickly. You can throw the grenade from quite a range so don’t worry about needing to close the distance.

Your Biotic Rifle doesn’t only heal, it can also do damage, and quite a bit of damage at that. While healing should be your priority—you want to keep your team strong and healthy—you should be using Ana’s offensive abilities as well. Her sniper’s scope is very quick and, unlike Widowmaker, no charge up is required for her to do maximum damage. You’re going to most likely be aiming in the direction of the fight anyway, so you might as well try to get a couple shots into your enemies when nobody in your team requires healing.

Her ultimate, Nano Boost, is best combined with one of your offensive heroes’ ultimates. A Genji with Nano Boost and Zarya’s shield bubble is virtually impossible to kill and constitutes an ‘overpowered’ combination in any sense of the word. As Ana, it’s important to communicate well with your team. You need your teammates to know that you’re going to give them Nano Boost or they might realize it too late, putting them in a position where they can’t use it as well as they otherwise would.

 What does she mean for the meta?

Ana is the first hero to be introduced after the launch of the game, so it’s not a surprise that there were high expectations for her. Combined with a rather stagnant metagame in the pro scene—where Mercy, Lucio, Reinhardt and Roadhog were simply required for a team to perform—places pressure on her design. Ana couldn’t be impactless, but she couldn’t be essential either. Unfortunately, the latter seems to be the case.
As it currently stands, Ana’s ultimate ability is in a state where any skilled offensive player blessed with it becomes unstoppable, unless—you guessed it—the opponent can use their Ana’s sleep dart to temporarily knock out the now stupidly-strong hero for the duration of the Nano Boost. This means that if one team has an Ana, the other team needs to have one as well.

In the tournaments that are already being played among the best players, we’ve seen team fights come down to who has the ultimate advantage a little too often. Generally, the team who can use two or more ultimate abilities at the same time will win a fight. With Ana, this just gets worse. Waiting for Ana and Soldier: 76 to both have their ultimate abilities up and then attempting to take a point is a perfect way to bust your opponent’s defenses without ever having to aim or think.

There are advantages to having Ana in the meta, however. For example, if you can use your sleep dart to take out an opponent’s Mercy, she might not be able to resurrect her team in time to affect a teamfight. This means that Mercy might not even appear in the new meta—after all, teams have a new healer with an ultimate that can turn fights around completely.

 Old but not obsolete

Ana is now playable on the official Overwatch servers. While even professional players are divided when it comes to her role in the meta game, it’s clear she’s going to have a tremendous impact on both casual and competitive play. As we’ve seen in the past, it’s likely Blizzard will be tweaking Ana and other heroes until they’ve found her sweet spot, so enjoy slicing through an enemy team while you still can. Ana’s fate might be no different than that of her nemesis, Widowmaker, once the nerfs start raining from above.


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Wednesday December 13, 2017

The last day of women’s team competition saw plenty of sparks, but the only surprising result was Fujisawa Rina defeating the2017.12.13_Women's team medalists world’s top-ranked female player from China, Yu Zhiying.  Japan was then in a position to tie or defeat China, depending on the outcome of the other game bewteen China’s Lu Minquan and Japan’s Nyu Eiko. In that a game, Nyu played well to be ahead for most of the game, but she slipped in the yose when both players were in byo-yomi.  After 6+ hours of play, the score was an unusual W+1.5 point due to a single-shared-liberty seki.  Another game that could have sent shockwave through the tournament was between Canada’s Sarah Yu and Korea’s Choi Jeong.  Sarah was in a difficult position from the start, but she fought hard and was about to win a large-group semeai with a favorable yose-ko.  Sarah was in byo-yomi 2017.12.13_Men's team medalistsand could not read in out, missing her chance.  She missed a second chance to create a triple ko, which would have tied the game according to the tournament rules. As a result, Korea took first place, China dropped to second, and Japan received a hard-earned bronze medal.
On the men’s side, the games were all lopsided.  Taipei could not follow its previous day’s performance and lost to Korea 0-2. In the end Korea was first, China second, and Taipei third.
Tomorrow the action switches to Pair Go and men’s and women’s blitz go. In two days, there will be three more medals to be won.  For all three tournaments, the first day will be a three-round preliminary.  Participants are divided into two groups.  Preset seedings separate China and Korea, Japan and Taipei, North American and Europe into the two groups.  The groups’ top finishers will meet to determine 1st and 2nd place, etc, in the second day.
- Thomas Hsiang; photos: (right) women’s medalists; (left) men’s medalists


Sail - James Patterson, Howard Roughan Sail by James Patterson co-authored by Howard Roughan tells the story about the dysfunctional family of Dr. Katherine Dunne, a heart surgeon who had lost her husband, Stuart, in a scuba diving accident off their boat, The Family Dunne. Now she has re-married Peter Carlyle a hotshot defense attorney. She and her three kids Carrie, Mark and Ernie, along with her former brother-in-law Jake, takes a summer sailing trip in their boat THE FAMILY DUNNE. Hours into the trip they start facing problems starting with Carrie trying to commit suicide to someone sabotaging the boat.
Whenever I have read a James Patterson book I have had the feeling that the book is somehow incomplete, the plot is incomplete, the characters are incomplete, this happens mostly with the books which he have co-authored instead of the ones written by him ,alone, but come what may, the thought of putting the book down hardly crosses my mind. And, this is where I think Patterson surpasses many of his contemporary thriller novelists. He manages to hold on to the readers interest with short chapters, short paragraphs, and makes the book reading exciting, with very few dull moments. It's almost like a roller coaster ride, it’s the same thing, but still the excitement seeps through the spine every time I stand in the queue for taking a ride.
In this book for instance, all the typical Patterson points were present. Minimum character development, plot filled with coincidences and WHAT-IF-THIS-DID-NOT-HAPPEN moments. The identity of the culprit revealed halfway down the book. For the last half of the book there was hardly any suspense except, how the good guy will catch the bad guy aspect.
But, still I finished the book in 1 day flat, and that is the reason why gave it 4 stars. For me a thriller should be just something as the name suggests, SOMETHING WHICH WOULD THRILL ME, and Patterson manages to do that in every book of his. There are books out there in the market with better plot, characterisation, but also with an advanced level of BOREDOM attached to it. So, as long as Mr. Patterson continues to deliver edge of the seat thrillers, he will continue to be one of my favorite authors, for he does just the thing which every thriller novelist should try to do, HE ENTERTAINS!!!


Sunday, June 23, 2013

Super Hero Concepts:I need your vast blogger, comic, and nerd knowledge!

Here are a few Super Hero Concepts and a few suggested skills, powers or whatever.

I need the vast knowledge of my fellow blog readers to read over this list and see if I totally missed any concepts!

I was watching the story and action flow on The Avengers and I must say the less rules the more explosions and collaterial damage you can come up with!

Don't roll up a character! Write up a character!
If you have ever read over my Freeform version of Hero's Mag then you know what this list is. IF you have not take a look!

Absorber – You have the ability to absorb physical or energy damage and make yourself more powerful.
Acrobatic – You are a highly trained acrobat capable of doing incredible feats of crime fighting daring.
Agent – You are a super agent of some government agency. You have many weapons and devices each issue.
Alien – You are an alien from another planet with strange and terrible powers.
Amphibian – You are a hero with the ability to breath underwater and withstand the great pressures of the deep.
Android – You are a highly advanced living machine of great power. You can have many powers and abilities.
Angel – You are a divine being of great power. Most angels have wings.
Animal – You are a gifted or intelligent animal that may even have super powers.
Animorph – You can change into an animal and/or something in between.
Anthropomorphic Animal – Intelligent animals evolved into humanized forms.
Arachnoid – You are a hero with the powers of wall crawling and web spinning as well as incredible feats of agility and perception.
Battlesuit – You have a powerful Battlesuit with sensor array, flight system, weapons systems, and super strength.
Beast Rider – You ride some sort of beast. You act as one unit fighting crime or spreading evil.
Beastman – You are a hero with beast like powers such as claws, tracking, and quick healing.
Berserker – You a a being who’s powers come from anger. The madder you are the more powerful you become.
Birdman – You are a winged hero. Many are mistaken for angels.
Blaster – You have the power to project powerful blast of energy of your choice.
Bowman-You are a skilled archer with many arrows of different powers.
Brawler – You are skilled at fighting beyond most people.
Brute – You are a super strong and super tough able to withstand huge amounts of damage.
Bullseye – You have the ability to throw or shoot any item and not miss.
Controller – You can control some kind of energy or force of your choice.
Contaminator – You touch either poisons, weakens, or diseases others.
Cowboy – You are a modern day gunslinger and roper.
Crazy – You are a hero or villain with a gimmick such as clown makeup, riddles, or something from arty to silly.
Cyborg -You are half man and machine of great power.
Detective – You are a costumed detective fighting against the underworld with your stealthy ability, fighting skill, and devices.
Density Control – You can control your density where you can become incorporeal or immovable.
Demon – These are fallen angels. Most seek to cause trouble on this world.
Dimensional Traveler – You are a traveler of different dimensions.
Devil – You are a powerful evil god of fearsome appearance of some ancient time.
Drainer – You have the ability to drain other heroes powers for a short time and use them
Driver – You drive a very special vehicle full of weaponry and devices.
Dwarf – You are a secret race of short stocky bearded underground miners.
Elemental Body – You have the ability to change into something else such as fire, stone, metal, liquid, or whatever you think of.
Elemental Control – You have the ability to control a form of energy or matter.
Elf - One of the most ancient races of the world. Most are very human like and have signature pointed ears and great beauty.
Emotion Controller – You control the emotions of others.
Explosive- You have the ability to release large amounts of energy damaging all people in the area.
Fey – You are a fey from the fairy realm. You can be beautiful or terrible. Most are harmed by cold iron or other strange things.
Freak – You are something weird(er) than weird.
Gadgetry Master – You are a heroes full of devices each issue.
Genius – You have super high intelligence able to create new science, devices, and come up with plans.
Giant – You are one of the ancient races that plagued or helped mankind.
God – You are an ancient god of great power.
Golumn – You are a free willed creation that is powered by magic.
Healer – You have the powers to heal and regenerate others. You are very valuable in a battle.
Hex – You have the ability to make other have really bad luck and hurt themselves.
Immortal – You are a hero that cannot die
Immovable – You can plant yourself into one place and cannot be moved. This makes you kind of a brute.
Insectoid – You are a hero with the powers of an insect such as flight, stinger, wall crawling and any others you think of.
Invulnerably – You cannot be harmed by most physical damage. Most Invulnerable people are quite strong as well.
Jet Pack – You have a jet pack and know how to use it.
Jet Pilot – You are a pilot of a jet full of weaponry. Most likely a very special jet.
Knight -You are a highly trained hero trained in martial weapons and with powerful armor.
Lucky – You can make yourself lucky to win against opponents.
Lycan -You are a were creature. Most Lycans are werewolves but you can be of any other kind of were creature.
Mage -You are a master of magic. The mage is the most common name but there are many others such as Wizard, Warlock, Witch, Druid, and whatever you think of.
Martial Artist – You are a master of the martial arts. There are many titles such as monk, kung-fu or karate master, ninja, and whatever you can think of.
Master of Disguise- You have the skill to change your appearance to completely fool others.
Mecha – You have giant robot that you drive around.
Merc – You are a highly trained solider of fortune with many weapons. You are trained enough to take on supers.
MIXED – This is a character that is mixed with many of the other clinches.
Morph – You can shape shift into anything you desire.
Multiplier – You can make copies of yourself that function independently. You are a one man army.
Mutant – You are an evolved human of great power. Most mutants are hated due to their fearsome power and unusual looks.
Nature Spirit – You are a powerful forgotten ancient force of nature personified.
Ninja- Many Ninja are simple shadow assassins but there are many super powered beings that are also ninja.
Nullify – You have the power to nullify others powers.
Omnivore – You have the ability to bite through anything and digest it.
Orc – You are one of the ancient evil races hidden on our world.
OTHER SKILLS and ABILITIES – Any other skills and abilities not listed here.
Patriot – You are a national hero powered by the patriotism of the people of your country.
Perfect – You are a super strong, invulnerable, flying super person with possibly x-ray vision and laser eyes.
Psion – You are a master of mental powers such as mental blast, force fields, telekinesis, and any other cool neat psionic powers.
Phase – You can become incorporeal and phase through solid objects. You are able to damage things from the inside out.
Plantman – You have the abilities of plant and human. You must decide what these powers are as there are thousands of plants.
Primordial – You are one of the ancient godlike beings that inhabited the universe before time.
Reptileman – You are a person with the powers of a lizard, frog, turtle, or some other kind of reptile.
Robot – You are a free willed machine.
Saint – You are a hero powered by your religion.
Samurai – You are a Japanese samurai.
Seer – You are one that can predict or see the future.
Shaper – You use a strange form of energy that you can form into shapes and devices for a short duration of time.
Shooter – You are a hero with a special type of super gun that does different types of damage.
Size Changer – The kind of hero who can get bigger and/or smaller.
Speedster – The super fast speeding hero.
Spinner – A rotating and spinning character.
Streetwise – The skill of knowing the street.
Stretchy – You are a hero with the ability to stretch.
Super Soldier – You are a highly trained and genetically altered soldier.
Summoner – You can summon minions of some kind to fight for you.
Swashbuckler – The fancy talking sword/bow/whip/throwing dagger using throwback from another era who is dashing and heroic.
Taint – You are a villain that is powered by evil gods and devils.
Teleporter – You have the ability to jump from one place to another without crossing space.
Time Traveler – You can travel through time.
Transmuter – You can transmute one element into another.
Tunneler -You have the ability to tunnel thought the earth.
Undead – You are one of the living dead that exist to fight evil or get vengeance with many powers.
Unstoppable – You are the type of hero that can ram into things like a bull or rino and cannot be stopped by normal means.
Vampire – You are one of the undead of great power that must feed on blood to survive. Vampires have many different powers
but common ones are gaseous form, bat and wolf form, claws and teeth, regeneration, and super strength and speed.
Wealthy – You are super rich and can afford almost anything.
Weapons Master – You can use ancient weapons of all sorts with superior martial skill.
Wildman – You are a primitive hero in a modern world. You have superior hunting, fighting, and survival skills.

1 comment:

  1. That list looks pretty solid to me. I will give it a bit to marinate and see if I can come up with anything.


Why Do I Need to Upgrade My Workstation?

If you use CAD/CAE or just creative applications, have you ever thought about why you need to upgrade your workstations, and if there is a real timetable you should follow?  If so, here are four things to consider:

1) Design and creation activities are critical to your success, they represent your competitive advantage. This starts with you, the engineer and/or creative person who conceive the idea and the design. In addition, it includes the methods you use to design it, the software you use and the hardware that runs the software. Also very important, is how fast you design and create, as you can’t afford to get behind the competition, or miss a critical due date. All these things combine to give you a creative and innovative competitive edge. Both creation and schedules are two critical elements of your success.

2) Nothing is stagnant in this world, and this is true for the world of design and creativity. For example, new features are constantly being added to your design and the design is being shared in new ways using software like Product Life Cycle Management. Designers learn more from organizations like manufacturing and adapt their designs according to the latest technology trends available. In addition, the software they use changes, new revisions come out, new fixes and even additional software features to take into account. Designers want to know more about their design decisions and attach histories and notes to the design files. All of this results in larger 3D models being created. If you think back, 3D files have continually grown larger over time. Large files of just three years ago are considered average today. This has been the case for a long time, it is estimated that 3D files double in size every two to three years.

3) Larger design files have a major impact on designers, as well as larger application sizes. The newer applications and the larger files when run on older systems cause everything to bog down. The larger files and applications take longer to process in the CPU and graphics card; it takes more memory, and more storage then previous model sizes and applications. This happens gradually, so many designers don’t notice it changing. We see this change as our systems growing slower when, in fact, the models and applications have gotten larger.

4)  Hardware changes are generally on a three year cycle. Workstations are getting faster, enabling them to handle the larger and more complex load of files and updated applications and technologies. Here is a proof point (see Figure 1) of Lenovo’s attention to detail that makes your design activity work better for you, and your systems to run faster to handle the increased load.

You can see from this benchmark chart that our newer ThinkStations are up to six times faster than those of just three years ago. The testing is based upon industry standard Spec benchmarks and Passmark, showing comparatively configured and priced systems. Not only do the new ThinkStations handle the load, but they also improve your design productivity by allowing you to get more done in a quicker amount of time.

In summary, over time 3D file sizes increase, applications and software update and technologies change and grow. The extra load on workstations causes the system to respond more slowly. To compensate for the industry growth, workstations are updated to meet the latest technological advances in this industry. Quicker refreshes in hardware provides added productivity to the design cycle, allowing more design iterations to be created in the same time period. This enables companies to stay competitive and create even more amazing products. Refreshing every three years or sooner is recommended to keep pace with the changes and your competition. Your race goes on, and you need to win. Refreshing your hardware with Lenovo ThinkStations can be your winning edge!


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WASHINGTON — The United States, France and Britain launched military strikes in Syria to punish President Bashar Assad for an apparent chemical attack against civilians and to deter him from doing it again, but also stirred up angry responses from Syria's allies and ignited a debate over whether the attacks were justified.

Russian President Vladimir Putin denounced the Friday night raids as aggression that will make the humanitarian crisis in Syria worse and called for an emergency meeting of the United Nations' Security Council. Putin added that the strike had a "destructive influence on the entire system of international relations."

Syrian television reported that Syria's air defenses, which are substantial, responded to the attack. Syrians poured into the streets for defiant demonstrations of their national pride.

President Donald Trump said the U.S. is prepared to sustain economic, diplomatic and military pressure on Assad until he ends what the president called a criminal pattern of killing his own people with internationally banned chemical weapons. The allied attack set off a fierce international debate about whether it was justified.

The Syria attack drew support from the European Union, Germany, Israel and other allies while British Prime Minister Theresa May said reports indicate the Syrian government used a barrel bomb to deliver the chemicals used in an attack on Douma. She said the use of force was "right and legal" in this case.

Mattis said the assault was a "one-time shot," so long as Assad does not repeat his use of chemical weapons. The strikes were carried out by manned aircraft and from ships that launched cruise missiles from the Mediterranean Sea. Mattis disclosed that the U.S. had not yet confirmed that the most recent suspected Syrian chemical weapons attack, on April 7 in the Damascus suburb of Douma, included the use of sarin gas. He said at least one chemical was used — chlorine, which also has legitimate industrial uses and had not previously triggered a U.S. military response.

Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the U.S. did not coordinate targets with or notify the Russian government of the strikes, beyond normal airspace "de-confliction" communications. But the description from an ally described things differently.

The Syrian government has repeatedly denied any use of banned weapons.

Mattis estimated the latest air campaign was about twice the size of the 2017 strike. He added that the U.S. expects the Syrian government and its allies to conduct a "significant disinformation campaign," which the Pentagon would rebut with additional information Saturday morning.

The U.S. missile strike a year ago, which targeted the airfield from which Syrian aircraft had launched their gas attack, was meant to deter Assad from further use of chemical weapons. Since that did not work, a more intense attack would aim to degrade his ability to carry out further such attacks, and would try to do this by hitting Syrian aircraft, military depots and chemical facilities, among other things.

The strikes appear to signal Trump's willingness to draw the United States more deeply into the Syrian conflict. Just weeks ago, Trump said he wanted to end U.S. involvement in Syria and bring American troops home to focus on the homeland. The participation of British and French forces enables Trump to assert a wider international commitment against the use of chemical weapons, but the multi-pronged attack carries the risk of Russian retaliation.

"As other nations step up their contributions, we look forward to the day when we can bring our warriors home," Trump said. "And great warriors they are."


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Method C2

Here we again look at the locus of P for the relationship AP = r x BP.
We start with r = 1.2 again but this time increase it to 4 and then reduce it to 1/4 (ie 0.25).

Before running the movie it is worth asking what happens to the locus (ie the circle)
- as r becomes less than 1.2
- as r reaches 1
- as r becomes less than 1
- as r reaches 1/4
- when r = 4 and when r = 1/4 ?

On the next page we look at the triangle ABP and at the line segments from P to the positions of P where BP is a minimum and a maximum. We consider why P moves on a circle, ie we try to develop a proof.


Investing By Process, Not By Emotion

What process do you use to manage your investments?

Research shows that investors who follow a process do significantly better than those who make decisions based on emotion or other subjective criteria.

Every year Standard and Poor’s (S&P) studies the performance of investment managers. Consistently, very few investment managers do better than the market index. Only 19.6% of Canadian equity funds outperformed the index over past 5 years, while only 5.1% of US equity funds outperformed the index over the same period. Most people’s investments are underperforming.

Even more surprising is that the average investor underperforms the investment funds they own by a significant margin. Yes, they actually do worse than the funds they own because of emotional investing decisions such as buying and selling at the wrong times. According to Morningstar Research, investment funds in the US delivered on average 7.30% annualized over the 10-year period ending Dec 31, 2013. Over the same 10 years, individual fund investors experienced a 4.81% annualized return (see chart below).

This means that investors experienced a return that was 2.5% per year below the average fund. Over 10 years, this adds up to a 42.3% difference between the returns of investors and investment funds.

Here are two common examples of investors making poor decisions based on emotion, rather than a defined process.

Example 1: Selling When the Market is Down

In 2008 and 2009, investors could have seen their portfolios fall 50% or more. History shows that many investors sold out at or near the bottom of the market, likely because they could not handle the emotional challenge of the losses they were experiencing. While a portfolio should have good downside protection measures in place, there will always be times when your portfolio goes the opposite direction you want it to. These times, provided you hold quality investments, are not the time to sell. This is the time to hold your nerve, and perhaps even put more money into your investments. Those who held their nerve in 2009 saw the Canadian stock market (TSX) rise by 93.3% and the US market (S&P500) rise by 204.3% from the low of March 2009 to the end of 2014 (source: Quotestream Professional).

Example 2: Over-Allocating to “Hot” Investments

While the first example is a decision based on fear, the second example is based on greed. When individuals see an investment doing well, or the promise of a particular investment to excel, they are tempted to allocate too much of their portfolio to it (and often at the wrong times). In the 1990s technology stocks were flying high. Many individual investors allocated too much of their portfolios to this sector, and many borrowed money to put into the market. This emotional decision led to disastrous results for many individuals and families when the tech bubble burst in 2000. Decide on an asset allocation that makes sense for you and your goals, and then stick with your strategy. Resist temptation to over-allocate to high-growth investments.

Follow a Disciplined Process

At Tycuda Group we believe in the importance of following a disciplined process. We do not select investments based on gut feel, what is popular or what has the most marketing dollars behind it.

Instead, we rigorously analyze every security in the marketplace according to specific criteria. We look for an investment or investment manager’s ability to generate higher returns, with a lower amount of risk, and with shorter recovery cycles. If an investment does not meet our strict criteria, it is not included in our strategies.  Ultimately, the investments that do make it into our portfolios are ones we have very high conviction in.

Once we understand our clients’ goals and circumstances, we often combine a blend of our strategies into an overall portfolio for each client. This is based on meeting each client’s goals, with the most appropriate amount of risk. If a client requires a specific level of returns to reach their retirement goals, we do not need to assume unnecessary risk by aiming for higher returns. Once again, we based this on process and discipline, not on emotion.

Stick With the Process

Once we embark on the journey of investing, there are opportunities to stick with the process or give in to emotions. When markets pullback, as long as the investment is sound and appropriate for a client’s goals, we will advise strongly to stay the course. In many cases we’d recommend clients add more money to the investment. Sticking with the plan in these times is what keeps investors from underperforming their own investments and sets them up for greater success.

Do you have a defined process for managing your investments? There is no time like today to take the necessary steps to ensure you have one in place.

Feel free to reach out to us at to chat about our investment process, or any subject raised in this blog.