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Nothing short of a plane crash or getting run over by a truck...
Read about the Resurrection of the Les Paul. IT LIVES!!!!
August 1st. A fateful day. That was the last time we saw our friend and co-worker safe, sound and intact.
Les Paul - before
9:00AM: The guitar, band, and baggage left for the Orlando airport and checked in on Southwest Airlines flight 1752 to Las Vegas.
1:00-1:30PM: Everyone and everything transferred from flight 1752 to flight 3927.
After 4:00PM: The flight arrived at its destination and the guitar did not appear on the baggage carousel. After a long wait, the oversized baggage door rolled up and this was pushed out:
Les Paul - after
Yup. That's exactly what it looked like. Nice, huh?
What you're looking at is a mangled Anvil Case--a case specifically made for travel and the gorillas that handle bags. The foam inside is custom cut for the guitar and covered with a plush lining. In my opinion, nothing short of a plane crash or getting run over by a truck would damage the contents.
Let's look inside, shall we?
Les Paul - after
The TSA Notice of Inspection is a nice touch. Excuse us Mr. Passenger, we had to inspect your checked item.
And the guitar?
Les Paul - after
Oh. No. Ohhhhhh nooooooooo!
Okay, bring out Ashton Kutcher along with the real guitar. This is not funny!
Unfortunately it wasn't an elaborately staged episode of Punk'd, but the real thing. A 1959 reissue Les Paul hopelessly crushed.
This is/was his number one guitar, his sound. When he didn't take this guitar to a show, people wrote in and asked why he wasn't playing it. The wood, the tone, the instrument had reached its peak and now it was destroyed.
Take a look at the knobs. This is a solid body guitar and the knobs are pushed into the body.
Les Paul - after
The new bridge is broken.
The body is severely cracked.
Les Paul - after
(Thanks to G for the photos from the airport.)
As you can imagine, R was in a state of shock. The Southwest baggage staff checked the computer database--a problem report was filed in Las Vegas. Apparently as the case was transferred from one plane to another, it fell off the baggage cart and [you guessed it] was summarily run over by a truck. A rather big truck from the looks of it.
Now I ask you, how does this happen? This is a large case. It is easy to see if it is lying on the ground. How does it get run over by a truck unless 1) the truck is moving too fast, 2) the driver is not paying attention, or 3) the driver runs over the case intentionally?
The Southwest employees said they were not equipped or qualified to resolve the issue and the property would need to be sent to Dallas. R took what he needed from the case and requested that they pack it carefully so as not to lose any of the pieces. The guitar was then out of his possession and solely in the hands of Southwest Airlines.
Oh, but they did give him a credit for the price of the flight from Vegas--so, as R commented, he could "look forward to doing it all over again."
Let's look at the Southwest Airlines web site and what they say about Liability and musical instruments:
Liability: Unless excess value is declared and charges paid at the time of checkin, Southwest Airlines' liability for lost, damaged or delayed baggage is limited to $3,000.00 per fare-paying Customer.
The Anvil Case alone cost $500 so you can imagine how much he valued the contents. Regardless of what R paid for the guitar ~10 years ago, to find an exact replacement would be near impossible. How do you put a value on that? Granted, this is their policy and according to a Southwest agent, they are limited to a $3,000.00 maximum by Federal law. Lesson learned, do not check anything that may exceed the maximum liability.
Musical Instruments
- If your musical instrument does not meet the sizing requirements for carryon items (10"x16"x24"), it will be handled as checked baggage provided you do not wish to purchase a seat for the instrument.
- In the event you are traveling with a musical instrument that is larger than our sizing requirements for carryon luggage and is fragile in nature, you may purchase a seat for the instrument and carry it in the cabin under the following conditions:
- The instrument must fit in the seat without blocking aircraft signage and be secured with a seatbelt.
- The instrument must be placed in the first row and in a seat closer to the window than any other Customer in that row.
- Reservations must be made and a ticket must be purchased at a charge no greater than the Child's Fare. Musical instruments cannot be transported in place of a free companion under any fare promotion.
- Instruments that are transported in a soft-sided case or other packaging that is not strong enough to protect the instrument under normal baggage handling conditions will be conditionally accepted, which means that Southwest assumes no liability for any damage sustained to the item during transport.
Unlike Yo-Yo Ma, R isn't able to buy a seat for his musical instrument. He carries a second guitar on the plane and puts it in the overhead compartment. He must travel for work and took reasonable precautions. Unfortunately that was not enough.
It took 3 days of calling and leaving messages before R could talk with a human being at Southwest. That person did not know if the guitar had arrived in Dallas, but even more disturbing was this tidbit of information: Southwest's policy is that if they pay out the maximum, they consider it to be payment in full for the property--meaning the property is not returned to the traveler.
OMG. Are you kidding me? I was sick when I heard this. What do they want with it? As if it means anything to them. Possession. They had the upper hand. Once the guitar was out of his, its fate was uncertain. All I could think of was they didn't want to return it because he'd buy a new guitar with the settlement, apply a little Elmer's glue to the broken body, and then he'd win! 2 guitars! Yeah. Right.
R sent them a FAX providing 2 references for experts in the field who could assist in appraising value and appealed for its return:
... Your mission statement says that you "always try to do the right thing". Well, apparently that might not be possible due to federal law. I would however like to appeal to your corporate values and ask that you return the remains back to me after we agree to whatever it is we can agree to. Hopefully you can allow me this simple request due to the extreme nature of the event.
They acknowledged receipt of the FAX and said that it would take up to 30 days to make a decision. Apparently they had many other claims to process and "it wouldn't be fair" to put him ahead of anyone else. Fair? Fair?! Maybe if they didn't damage, lose, and otherwise destroy so many bags their queue wouldn't take up to 30 days to process. grrrrrrrr
Long story short, they paid the maximum and agreed to return the remains. It's funny, the message that the woman left on our phone made it sound like we were supposed to call her back and thank her. Not a chance.
The guitar pieces arrived in a box--the neck with its new fret job was completely separated from the body.
Les Paul - after
Les Paul - after
Les Paul - after
Les Paul - after
Here's another item of note--the last bullet in the musical instruments blurb above and this paragraph make one thing very clear.
Conditional Acceptance: Improperly packed and/or fragile items will be conditionally accepted and Southwest will not be responsible for any damage to items that are tagged with Conditional Acceptance.
If he didn't have the guitar in the Anvil case, they might not have paid anything at all. Another lesson learned. Use flight approved cases and if asked, do not sign a waiver. In this case they didn't present a waiver when piece was checked in, but they have in the past.
Now that the check has cleared and the guitar is home, I am able to go public with the story.
Release of all claims
I am happy to report that R has a new friend.
A new friend
They have 2 gigs under their belt and are still getting acquainted.
Read about the Resurrection of the Les Paul. IT LIVES!!!!
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Members of the Financial Accounting Standards Board held a two-day meeting this week with officials from the Accounting Standards Board of Japan how they could better align accounting rules.
The meeting on Monday and Tuesday was the 12th in a series of discussions between the two national standard-setting boards, which are now meeting on a biannual basis. They also come in the context of a delayed decision by the Securities and Exchange Commission on whether it will incorporate International Financial Reporting Standards into the U.S. financial reporting system.
On Thursday, the Trustees and Monitoring Board of the IFRS Foundation, who oversee the International Accounting Standards Board, issued reports on changes in governance and strategy at the international organizations, putting extra pressure on the U.S. to support IFRS, saying they would re-examine which countries would be permanent members of the IASB (see IFRS Groups Release Key Reports).
During the meetings this week in Norwalk, Conn., Japanese accounting standard-setters said they support the efforts by FASB and the IASB to develop a single set of high-quality global accounting standards by converging U.S. GAAP with IFRS. Like FASB, the ASBJ is working on convergence between Japanese GAAP and IFRS.
During the meeting, FASB and the ASBJ provided updates to one another on their convergence efforts with the IASB. The ASBJ also explained its comments on the IASB's planned agenda to U.S. officials. Furthermore, FASB and the ASBJ exchanged views on various accounting standards projects, including the credit impairment model for financial assets, classification and measurement of financial instruments and insurance contracts, hedge accounting, revenue recognition, leases and investment companies.
"Our ongoing dialogue with the ASBJ has led to a deeper appreciation of the issues that both the U.S. and Japan face in working toward our common goal of developing high-quality, comparable accounting standards," FASB chair Leslie F. Seidman said in a statement. "Our discussions this week were very informative and will help us achieve that goal."
Representatives of the two national standard-setting boards agreed that their ongoing discussions are useful in promoting mutual understanding on the significant items to be improved with the IASB that will contribute to subsequent deliberations at FASB and the ASBJ and to the future development of high-quality accounting standards. The ASBJ and FASB agreed they would continue to exchange views on accounting issues and potential future concerns.
"In times of changing environments of global accounting standards, we had constructive discussions with the representatives of the FASB regarding financial instruments, revenue recognition and leases, most of which are of high interest to Japanese constituents," said ASBJ chairman Ikuo Nishikawa. "We believe that the discussions in this meeting contribute to the finalization of convergence projects between the FASB and the IASB and the development of high-quality global standards."
The next joint meeting will take place in Tokyo during the second half of the year.
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There is much shame, guilt, and self blame in trauma. To counter this and promote healing, we can introduce acts of self love. By actively loving ourselves or at least going through the motions of loving ourselves even if we do not feel it, we encourage our recovery. When you catch yourself using language of self blame, try to understand yourself instead and change it to language of compassion. Survivors often talk about what they "should" do, for instance, or what they did wrong, calling themselves stupid or inept. When these thoughts come up, try to understand where they come from and replace them with supportive thoughts that highlight your good points and accomplishments. See how it feels to receive acts of love from yourself instead of criticism.
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"Global security breaches have reached epidemic proportions" says expert
Current teaching practice needs to change as coders learn security best practice too late leading to applications with poor basic security processes
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The teaching of application design and programming needs to undergo a substantial change as students are not taught and have not practiced secure design processes at an early enough stage within most courses.
In the view of Pieter Danhieux, SANS instructor and co-founder of the security and hacking conference BRUCON in Belgium, "Programming students will typically attend a single module on security during a course and it often comes in the later part of the educational cycle. The result is often a class of very talented developers but they don't think with security in mind."
In his view, this leads to poor security practices such as building applications with buffer-overflow and SQL injection vulnerabilities that are widely exploited by hackers. Danhieux who will be teaching the SANS SEC542: Web App Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking course in his native Belgium in February points out that many of the fundamental mistakes that he was exploiting as a penetration tester 10 years ago are still the most common issues today.
"But you can't just say it's just down to insecure program design," he notes, "the bigger problem is still due to insecure passwords, over privileged users and poorly patched systems."
Danhieux is familiar with the reality on the ground in his work for BAE Systems Detica, an information intelligence company, "We deal with incidents and security assessment results every day and when you look at the root cause analysis, 80% of the time it was one of these issues."
However, he is also keen to point out the scale of the problem. "The US is one of the only countries with a well-developed disclosure culture around security breaches," he comments, "So the assumption might be that there are relatively few incidents and that America is the epicentre - I can tell you for a fact that the scale of the attacks is at epidemic proportions and it is organised, well-funded and global."
The upcoming SANS course is aimed at helping web site designers, architects, and developers understand and learn web app vulnerabilities in-depth with tried-and-true techniques for finding them using a structured testing regime. "The goal is to learn the skills of an attacker so that students can become better defenders," Danhieux adds.
The 'SANS SEC542: Web App Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking' course taught by Danhieux will be running at SANS Belgium from February 18th to 23rd at the NH Hotel du Grand Sablon in the heart of Brussels. SANS is also offering an 'Early Bird' discount of up to up to [euro]250 for any full course paid for by January 9th of 2013.
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Stafford continued their unbeaten run against a resilient Leamington side, who showed a great deal of fight and relief in coming away with a draw.
Stafford went in to today's game knowing that a strong performance was needed against a team who gave us more than a game at Beaconside earlier in the season. A slightly changed team from last week, Stafford started sluggishly, and after about 15 mins found ourselves behind to a well taken slipped goal.
This seemed to wake up Stafford, and the pressure on Leamington started to tell as Stafford commenced their pressing game and started to camp in the Leamington half, deservedly equalising through a Glennon flick (a legitimate one this time!)
From this the game seemed stuck in midfield and half time arrived with both teams believing the game had more goals.
Stafford improved greatly in the second half, but could not find the killer blow. The pressure was well and truly on Leamington as Stafford created chance after chance but could not find the all important winner.
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On Thursday the White House released their "skinny budget" for Fiscal Year 2018, the blueprint for a later, more detailed budget request. The White House also sent their long-promised defense supplemental request, for $30 billion in additional Fiscal Year 2017 spending to the Hill this week. It's clear that new Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director and fiscal hawk, former Representative Mick Mulvaney, made a commendable effort to ensure that at least a majority of the massive increases in new defense spending the budget and supplemental call for are paid for. Unfortunately, both requests ignore opportunities for waste reduction and fail to address our long-term fiscal challenges.
The FY18 budget calls for a $54 billion increase in defense spending, a 10 percent increase over the $549 billion Budget Control Act (BCA) cap. The budget would also provide $65 billion in Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) funding. The base budget plus-up is offset by significant reductions in non-defense discretionary spending that target many programs that ought to be outside the purview of the federal government, such as the National Endowment for the Arts, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) - a corporate welfare agency. Other broad cuts to many federal agencies reflect this week's Executive Order calling for sweeping reorganization, that should ultimately - and laudably - reduce the scope of federal government.
Still, taxpayers would be better served if such savings were redirected to much-needed deficit reduction. It's far from clear that the Pentagon needs - or even would know how to use - the injection of funds proposed by the White House. Both the Pentagon and Congress have extremely poor track-records when it comes to wasteful defense spending, as NTU has consistently documented.
Rather than prudently fund strategic priorities, taxpayer funds are plowed into costly programs with questionable utility, like the long troubled F-35 and Littoral Combat Ship. In this regard, Congress shares more than a little of the blame for the Pentagon's waste woes by providing insufficient oversight, treating defense dollars like a jobs program for their districts, preventing the Pentagon from pursuing potential cost-savings through the closure of excess properties, and continuing protectionist policies.
Before the Pentagon gets a major funding boost, taxpayers should be given some certainty that their dollars won't be wasted. One of the biggest roadblocks standing in the way of fiscal responsibility is the fact that the Department of Defense, the largest federal agency in terms of discretionary dollars, is the only one that hasn't yet passed an audit, as required by law. The fact that the Pentagon can't conclusively account for taxpayer dollars poses a serious fiscal and security threat.
Equally troubling, outside the FY18 timeframe, it's unclear that the Administration's budget will paint a rosier economic picture for taxpayers. Again, OMB and the White House deserve credit for ensuring that most of their new spending is paid for by commensurate cuts (with the notable exception of $7 billion in the supplemental, an important reason to oppose this type of typically unfunded "emergency" spending). But, the budget falls short in addressing the biggest drivers of our debt: entitlement spending.
The Pentagon provides a good illustration of the problem at hand: personnel costs, including health care and retirement benefits, constitute nearly one-third of the DOD budget - and that figure is growing! Without reform, these costs could continue to eat away at funding for our national security needs. Similarly, by failing to address the rising costs of entitlements, future budgets could be squeezed even further - which could spell less funding for both defense AND non-defense discretionary programs.
The Administration has espoused big goals in terms of defense and economic growth, both of which could be imperiled without urgent action to rein in our growing debt. If we choose to fund an outsized Pentagon without tackling entitlements, taxpayers can expect higher taxes, more debt, or worse - both.
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I see that senile, gibbering old socialist Vince Cable, who made his name by regurgitating whatever he last read in the Economist during the bank crisis, has been playing to the gallery again.
""The Government's agenda is not one of laissez-faire. Markets are often irrational or rigged. So I am shining a harsh light into the murky world of corporate behaviour."
Don't bother presenting any facts to substantiate slandering an entire industry, especially when much of the City was for years very vocal in criticising the very banks that were rescued. That'll bring foreign investors flooding in then. Well done Vince boy......... you're doing a better job than Harold Wilson in driving our best away and keeping foreign investment out.
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The shadow banking system is quietly being deleveraged and that leverage is going straight onto the taxpayers balance sheet. The middle class will be eviscerated in paying for it. The poor will be poorer and will eventually take to the streets and those who can get out, will get out. There is still time to arrest the problem but the clock is ticking. Vince Cable is chasing made up monsters and yet again, we'll all suffer for it.
Cable is not a business secretary, he's a business terrorist. The sooner he's fired the better; muppet.


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The web has changed. It's no longer a one to many communication, where people just consume information being broadcasted. It's now a many to many channel, where people produce content, using social media technologies (such as videos, forums, blogs, chat, ratings, comments, voting, etc) to interact with other people. This brings a big challenge to your organization to take a part in this new reality, by providing such tools and technologies to your customers, but also to be able to analyze, understand and use the information produced by your customers to improve your business continuously and bring your brand closer to the customers.
What is RTB Web & Social Analytics?
It´s a powerful tool combining web analytics (visitors, visits, page views, etc) and social analytics (comments, ratings, social networks usage such as facebook or twitter). VILT has developed this vertical application on top of RTB (Real Time Biz) platform, providing you an integrated solution with web and social analytics data, helping you empowering your site if you´re using social media features and social networks to engage your customers, partners or employees.
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RTB Web & Social Analytics observes a high level of integration with the OpenText Web Content Management product suite, namely dedicated installers and out-of the-box configurations. RTB Web & Social Analytics enables a seamless integration, providing an integrated solution with web and social analytics data on all events that occur within OpenText Web Content Management products suite.
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Greta has been making people on the internet laugh from her hilarious sayings and observational humor for some time now. But she's not a Twitter comic-- she's a 4-year-old girl. Using an app called LittleHoots, Greta's parents are able to share her amazingly funny points of view with the rest of the world.
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During the 1970s the Star of Israel building opened only during the High Holy Days. It was derelict, with a leaking roof that would let water and bits of debris fall on the congregation during services. As the congregation dwindled, the building was nearly sold. However, it was saved by that small congregation and its leadership, and years later it was restored to its former glory and rededicated in Hanukkah 2011.
In addition to restoring and updating the whole building, gorgeous stained glass windows are slowly being installed. Susan Klein, stained glass artist, works with volunteers to create each window by hand. Find out more about this amazing project in this article from the New Jersey Jewish Standard.
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Something rather wonderful happened in the 1980s regarding the horror genre, among the slew of slashers which boomed in the first four years of the decade, horrors also became self-referential and were laced with comedy. They quickly became known as a sub-genre within the horror community named as the cheesy movie. The rules were pretty simple, group a bunch of… Read more »
It would be easy to presume that horror movies were made more for men than for women. How many times have you seen in the movies and perhaps in real life of a woman screaming and hiding in her lover's arms when a scary and gory scene comes up. "Is it over, tell me when it's over," they say. Well,… Read more »
A howl, a full moon, a silver bullet and the transformation are the key ingredients of a werewolf movie that have changed little over the last 100 years. There is something close to us, the viewer when watching a werewolf movie. Perhaps it is the fact that we descended from an animal that draws us into this horror sub genre?… Read more »
If there's one thing that horror fans are blessed with it's the franchise movie. Quite literally there are hundreds of them and if an original movie does well at the box office you are almost certainly guaranteed that there will be a sequel. Fans are the lifeblood of the franchise without them you're only getting one movie despite the rave… Read more »
So naming the 10 best horror sequels shouldn't in theory have been such a hard task. Given that there are over 5,000 mainstream horror movies at our disposal and sifting through my 1,000 plus horror movies I thought this would be a fairly straightforward assignment. I was wrong. What I did learn was that even though there have been some… Read more »
The reference point for the slasher movie always seems to rest with Alfred Hitchcock's classic Psycho. Made in 1960 on a shoe string budget and influenced by his own television show, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, the movie was a massive box office success and reinvented the horror genre overnight. However Psycho is not an out and out slasher movie per se,… Read more »


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Interactive Concert Art
Nadina Mackie Jackson
I bring the music, the audience brings the colour
Nadina introduces the activities – art is everything we make, sound, colour, lines, words. She play music, tell you some stories about it and herself, you listen, make art and respond Music will include pieces by old and new composers, all evoking emotions, image and colors.
Important: the art-making is completely voluntary; it is equally good to sit and listen if desired.
Black and white sketches on cards (6" x 4")
Blank cards for original drawings
Canvas strips for attaching art
Colored markers
Black markers, pens
Paints (if the space allows)
Pencil crayons
Sparkles & glue (optional)
Tables/chairs for people to work (or something to support the artwork e.g. clipboard)
Somewhere to hang the interactive art (it can be suspended from a coat rack or pinned to a wall


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Politics and The English Language
Washington Post Metro Columnist Marc Fisher takes O'Gov to task about the drastic difference between his rhetoric and his actions, specifically on his differing stances on slots and same-sex marriage before and after the 2006 election.
Okay, so a politician flip-flops on two sensitive issues. Wake me when you have some real news, right? Except that O'Malley, more than almost any other politician these days, rose to power on his soaring rhetoric about government's obligations to the poor and others who have been left out. In an age when pols speak mostly in pre-masticated, focus-grouped slogans, O'Malley delivers elegant paragraphs laced with poetry and Scripture. He is, almost uniquely in elective politics, a man of the word….
Bottom line: Words matter, especially for a politician who's built his career on his ability to inspire.
"Believe," said the billboards Mayor O'Malley erected in Baltimore to instill hope in a dying city.
It'd be a shame if voters watching Gov. O'Malley had to conclude that they just don't know what to believe.
Some of us already knew this to be true and saw it coming.
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Experience the next generation of in-seat video for twin aisle aircraft with the enhanced Total Entertainment System (eTES™) from Rockwell Collins. The eTES enables your passengers to enjoy Audio and Video On Demand (AVOD) and interactive features on 8" to 17" seat displays with the same high-speed network connectivity they experience at home and in the office.
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The Rockwell Collins' Airshow 4200 deliver real-time flight information in a rich multimedia format that allows passengers to be kept informed and connected en route to their destination. Based on actual satellite imagery, utilizing NASA's Blue Marble Map data, passengers can enjoy extensive features, details maps and true to life renditions, delivering unparallel 3D realism.
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Angela Rummage bounded from the long-jump pit and let out a shout Saturday when the distance was announced: 17 feet 7 inches. It wasn`t until later that it was learned she had not been entirely satisifed.
``She wanted 18 feet so bad today,`` said Cindy Urich, an assistant coach of Thornton`s girls` track team. ``I`ll bet you by the end of the season, she`ll have it.``


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This is the 90th Anniversary of ISM! In celebration, we will be working on large murals dedicated to our 90th Anniversary Theme: "Sharing a History, Creating a Future".
The sixth graders have just begun working on their brainstorms for this mural. Each individual will complete a 12 inch by 12 inch panel that will communicate our theme. These panels will fit together in to one unified art work. Many of the sixth graders are researching Philippine cultures, tribes, indigenous crafts, and art works in order to represent what we all share, that is our home: the Philippines.
Please visit ARTITUDE, the student website, in order to see photos of on-going progress on our mural.


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Simplifying Workflow for Reactor Assembly and Full Core Modeling
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The evolution of efficient scalable solvers and multi-physics codes in the past decade has considerably increased the requirements on computational needs for high-fidelity simulations of nuclear reactors through resolution of more heterogeneity in the physical models. In this paper, we present the Reactor Geometry (and mesh) Generator (RGG) toolkit, which is a part of MeshKit library developed at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). The extensions of the RGG toolkit have been used to create PWR, ABTR, VHTR, MONJU and several other types of reactor geometry and mesh models for consumption in state-of-art physics solvers. RGG uses a lattice hierarchy-based approach to create these reactor core models and has been designed to scale on even large models with up to 1 billion hexahedral elements. Details on the RGG methodology and description of the parallel aspects of the tool are provided. Several model full core reactor problems (PWR, ABTR) are also presented along with openly accessible mesh files for reproducibility. A GUI for RGG tools (AssyGen and CoreGen) is available currently in the open-source domain for all popular operating systems and can significantly simplify the complexity in mesh generation for nuclear reactors.


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Our Pacific Choice plant on Humboldt Bay has been a staple of the fishing community in Eureka, CA for over 30 years. Originally operated as the Tom Lazio Fish Company, Pacific Choice has been processing virtually every species on the West Coast for Pacific Seafood for decades. Our operations in Eureka are considered one of the most modern seafood processing plants on the West Coast.
Pacific Choice is a major processor of Bottomfish, Salmon, Pacific Coldwater Shrimp, Dungeness Crab, and Albacore Tuna in a 50,000 sq. ft. operation center. We operate under strict HACCP guidelines and are regularly inspected by the FDA to ensure the highest quality seafood available.
To consolidate and make better use of our facilities and equipment and to enhance our quality control program, we acquired Eureka Fisheries in 2001. This acquisition also included numerous West Coast landing stations to ensure a constant supply of fresh seafood, e.g. Brookings OR, Crescent City CA, Bodega Bay CA, Fort Bragg CA, and San Francisco.
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text: "Hosea Helps", formerly "Hosea Feeds the Hungry", has spent the last 26 years housed in the building located at 1035 Donnelly Avenue in southwest Atlanta. The organization was founded by the late civil rights icon Hosea Williams 45 years ago, and is known for its massive community holiday dinners. Now, his daughter Elisabeth Omilami, CEO of Hosea Helps, says the organization is homeless. "We were talking to some realtors about the building and about our goal to buy the building when they offered them more than $600,000 cash and bought the building", she says. According to Omilami they have to move out in about 4 months. Omilami is trying to stay hopeful, "It may be a message from God saying 'look I've got something bigger and better for you somewhere' but it's a shock to the organization." Not only do they have to move 17 staffers and all the equipment associated with them, says Omilami, "we also have to move over 300 pallettes of food, we also have a large walk-in freezer, and right now we don't have anywhere to go." They've been given until the end of March to move. She calls a meeting this week with Mayor Kasim Reed "positive" adding "he was gracious and seems intent on helping Hosea Helps find a new location."


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We're facing a period of significant change in health and social care. We know we need to make changes to how we deliver services - not only to make sure they'll be fit for the future, but to make sure that they work well for the people who use them.
The first step on this journey is understanding the experiences of people using social care today - that's why we're recruiting volunteers for two research projects.
Who we're looking for: Current social care users from a range of backgrounds. We want to get a snapshot of the different types of social care users, so we welcome applications from people using any Adult Social Care service.
What's involved: We're looking for people who can share their experiences - both good and bad - of navigating the social care system. We'll expect you to complete a regular video diary over the space of two to four weeks - ideally we'd like you to record a daily update, but we can agree a frequency that works for you. You'll need to attend two short sessions at the start and end of the project.
How will my video diary be used: Your videos will be watched by our market research officer, who will use what you share to write a report outlining your experiences in a way that will help the Adult Social Care team better understand the challenges you face - and what we can do better in the future. This report and key features of it will be shared publically, but all content will be anonymised.
When do I need to be available: You can complete your video diary between November and December 2017.
Who we're looking for: We'd like to recruit current or recent social care users, their carers, their families and their professionals to tell the story of what Adult Social Care in Portsmouth is like. We want to show to diversity of services offered by Adult Social Care, so will select participants to reflect this.
What's involved: We're looking for people who can share their experiences on film - both good and bad - of navigating the social care system. We want to get to the heart of what social care means to you. We can visit you at home or any other suitable location in the city, and expect interviews to last no more than 2 hours.
How will my video diary be used: Your videos will be used as part of a toolkit, which will include a five to ten minute film and a discussion guide to help people explore some of the themes, experiences and challenges shared in the film. It will be shown with council and NHS staff and the wider community, so you'll need to be happy with your views and experiences being shared with the general public.
When do I need to be available: Filming will take place in October 2017.
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Problems at WS Atkins' London Underground joint venture Metronet cost the engineering consultant £1.4m in the first half of the year, prompting it to stress that improvement is vital.
Metronet, in which Atkins owns a 20pc stake, has been dogged by controversy over delayed engineering works and issues with track and signalling.
Keith Clarke, Atkins' chief executive, said: "Much still remains to be done to enable Metronet to achieve its goal of being economic and efficient overall at the end of the first review period in September 2010.
"The recovery in the performance of the Metronet Enterprise remains crucial to its eventual success and the realisation of Atkins' returns."
In the last week alone, Metronet has been blamed for causing chaos for thousands of the capital's commuters, with disruption on the Central, Circle, and District Lines for a number of reasons including late running engineering work.
Last week, the Underground's Public-Private Partnership arbiter Chris Bolt attacked Metronet for not performing in an economic and efficient manner or in line with good industry practice. Mr Clarke said the Metronet consortium was taking steps to resolve the problems: "We are working with all of Metronet's stakeholders to review the current arrangements to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of delivery."
Mr Bolt's judgement makes it more likely that Metronet and its shareholders will have to meet most of the firm's projected £750m cost overun in 2010, the end of the first part of the 30-year PPP contract. The other Metronet shareholders are Balfour Beatty, Bombardier, EDF Energy, and Thames Water. Across the board, Atkins saw a 17pc rise in group sales to £605.5m, with profit before tax up 9.5pc to £30.9m. The increase came from growth in the Middle East and a recovery in the UK retail market. Mr Clarke added: " The markets in which we operate continue to provide good prospects and we are confident that our wholly-owned operations will continue to grow."
An interim dividend of 6p-a-share, up 33pc, is to be paid on January 26.


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The Flavor Project Mango Matcha Review
What a tropical delight! Traditionally, matcha has an earthy, vegetal palate, but that's not for everyone. So if you want the health benefits of matcha in a fruity package, this is a great option. Mix it in hot or cold water, or even smoothies for an extra healthy boost first thing in the morning.
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|CHAPTER 12. Night Operations
Night Vision
Generally, most pilots are poorly informed about night vision. Human eyes never function as effectively at night as the eyes of nocturnal animals, but if humans learn how to use their eyes correctly and know their limitations, night vision can be improved signifi cantly. The human eye is constructed so that day vision is different from night vision. Therefore, it is important to understand the eye's construction and how the eye is affected by darkness.
Innumerable light-sensitive nerves called cones and rods are located at the back of the eye or retina, a layer upon which all images are focused. These nerves connect to the cells of the optic nerve, which transmits messages directly to the brain. The cones are located in the center of the retina, and the rods are concentrated in a ring around the cones. [Figure 12-6]
The function of the cones is to detect color, details, and faraway objects. The rods function when something is seen out of the corner of the eye or peripheral vision. They detect objects, particularly those that are moving, but do not give detail or color—only shades of gray. Both the cones and the rods are used for vision during daylight.
Although there is not a clear-cut division of function, the rods make night vision possible. The rods and cones function in daylight and in moonlight; in the absence of normal light, the process of night vision is almost entirely a function of the rods.
The fact that the rods are distributed in a band around the cones and do not lie directly behind the pupils makes offcenter viewing (looking to one side of an object) important during night fl ight. During daylight, an object can be seen best by looking directly at it, but at night a scanning procedure to permit off-center viewing of the object is more effective. Therefore, the pilot should consciously practice this scanning procedure to improve night vision.
The eye's adaptation to darkness is another important aspect of night vision. When a dark room is entered, it is diffi cult to see anything until the eyes become adjusted to the darkness. In the adaptation process, the pupils of the eyes fi rst enlarge to receive as much of the available light as possible. After approximately 5 to 10 minutes, the cones become adjusted to the dim light and the eyes become 100 times more sensitive to light than they were before the dark room was entered. About 30 minutes is needed for the rods to become adjusted to darkness; when they do adjust, they are about 100,000 times more sensitive to light than in the lighted area. After the adaptation process is complete, much more can be seen, especially if the eyes are used correctly.
After the eyes have adapted to the dark, the entire process is reversed when entering a lighted room. The eyes are fi rst dazzled by the brightness, but become completely adjusted in a few seconds, thereby losing their adaptation to the dark. Now, if the dark room is reentered, the eyes again go through the long process of adapting to the darkness.
Before and during night fl ight, the pilot must consider the adaptation process of the eyes. First, the eyes should be allowed to adapt to the low level of light. Then, the pilot should avoid exposing them to any bright white light that would cause temporary blindness and possibly result in serious consequences.
Temporary blindness, caused by an unusually bright light, may result in illusions or afterimages until the eyes recover from the brightness. The brain creates these illusions reported by the eyes. This results in misjudging or incorrectly identifying objects, such as mistaking slanted clouds for the horizon or a populated area for a landing fi eld. Vertigo is experienced as a feeling of dizziness and imbalance that can create or increase illusions. The illusions seem very real and pilots at every level of experience and skill can be affected. Recognizing that the brain and eyes can play tricks in this manner is the best protection for fl ying at night.
Good eyesight depends upon physical condition. Fatigue, colds, vitamin defi ciency, alcohol, stimulants, smoking, or medication can seriously impair vision. Keeping these facts in mind and taking appropriate precautions should help safeguard night vision.
In addition to the principles previously discussed, the following actions aid in increasing night vision effectiveness:
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