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I'm starting to be tired all the time again, but I think it's more from not sleeping the greatest and nothing else.
This pregnancy is still the most different and difficult. I'm going to say it's age more than anything. I have thought throughout almost this whole pregnancy that I was going to have twins, even though the ultrasounds (I've had 2) and fetal heart monitor only shows one. There were too many weird things happening...for instance, before I would be able to feel the baby at both top and bottom (and on opposite sides at that) I could feel movements at the same time...At my anatomy ultrasound (the 20 week one) he wouldn't stop moving and blocking the tech from getting any good pictures. I swore he was hiding his little sister...and the movement...OMGoodness! It's been almost 24 hours a day since about 10-11 weeks! I am glad he doesn't have as much room (though it doesn't stop him part of the day) so he doesn't move as much! It hurts REALLY bad now when he moves!
At the anatomy ultrasound we found out (well, my friend found out and kept it from me for a couple weeks until Josh was home from underway) we were having another boy! I am sooooo excited about this! I would've probably cried if it had been another girl...my girl is a handful enough on her own! That means we will have ourselves a little Zane Donovan running around.
Both kids have now accepted Zaney as their own and can't wait to meet him. Because I'm in so much pain (My abdominals are starting to separate some, I have to watch for hernias now and have been put on a few restrictions because of this) they keep telling him to come out and meet his family. He's slowly listening to them, but it's not fast enough for my liking!
My new restrictions mean I have to rest as much as possible (without being on bedrest), no lifting over 20 lbs (but she'd rather me not lift over 15), no pushing or pulling anything other than a grocery cart with no more weight than 2 gallons of milk (so about 15 lbs total), and nothing that makes me use/contract my belly muscles unless it's necessity. That means...no more Zumba *tear*
I was in Labor and Delivery last Monday and was dehydrated but was having regular, fairly strong, contractions too. They checked me and I was dilated to a 1, 25% effaced and at a -3. I was back in L&D yesterday (for the constant pain that put me in tears the last 3 days) and they ended up checking me again just to be sure. I'm now dilated to a 2, 50% effaced and at a -2. The doctor is hoping I'll make it to 37 weeks but said she wouldn't be surprised if I went into labor any day now. She also said they wouldn't stop it if it did start happening. She said there is pretty much no way I'll make it to 40 weeks and it would be a miracle if I did.
I'm also bigger this time around than with either of my other pregnancies...which was another reason for the twin feeling. It's just weird to me. I knew I would be bigger from the first to the second, but I thoguht if I would be bigger, it would only be slightly bigger than my second since it was just the same memory thing. WRONG! I look like I'm about to deliver any day and I have 5 weeks left technically! People can not believe I have 5 weeks left. It's unimaginable that I would be able to grow anymore belly...and I see their point...and feel it...
Now, I do have to end on a positive note. Zumba. I started around 14 weeks pregnant again (when I could stand to do anything else other than lay on the couch and sleep). With the new restriction, my last week was 2 days before I turned 35 weeks pregnant. I only missed a few weeks in there due to sickness or not having a car to get there. I do have to say, I'm proud of myself. I was hoping to last a couple more weeks, but I'd rather be safe than sorry. I'm still allowed to stretch and walk (if I can...I've had hip problems this whole pregnancy and it's hard to walk) so I'll still get some exercise. That at least makes me happy. Just hate that I didn't get to say good bye to all my wonderful Zumba friends before having to take my leave for baby.
That's about it for now. After putting away dishes and starting some laundry, I'm exhausted. I'm going to lay down on the couch and hopefully get a little nap in before the washer is done. Have a wonderful day, week, month, year....who knows when I'll be back!


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Music in the Round: Chiaroscuro Quartet
Music in the Round returns to the Studio Theatre at the Crucible on Thursday 1 February for a performance by the Chiaroscuro Quartet, as part of Music in the Round's World of Strings concert series.
Alina Ibragimova (vioin), Pablo Hernan Benedi (violin), Emilie Hornlund (viola), and Claire Thirion (cello) will be performing Beethoven's String Quartet in C minor Op.18 No.4, Fanny Mendelssohn's String Quartet in E flat, and Schubery's String Quartet No 13 in A minor D.804, Rosamunde.
The Chiaroscuro Quartet will perform these two contrasting masterpieces – Beethoven's powerful and urgent, dramatically intense piece, and the more profound, melancholy and lyrical Rosamunde. The music of Fanny Mendelson will showcase the quartet's technical ability and a composer with intense imagination. After the show, the Chiaroscuro Quartet will undertake an informal Q&A with the audience.
Music in the Round put on a series of concerts throughout the year in Sheffield, featuring some of the best musicians from the UK and beyond. If you have never been before, first timers can buy a ticket for just a fiver, and under 35s also qualify for a £5 ticket, get yours on the Sheffield Theatres website.
The concert starts at 7:15pm, see Alive After 5's food and drink section for inspiration on where to eat before the show.

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Maryville College closed out the 2017-18 regular season on a high note Friday night, as the Scots toppled the Scotties, 63-49.
The Scots finish the season with a 16-9 record, while boasting an 11-3 mark in USA South play. Maryville enters the USA South Tournament as the Western Division's third-ranked team.
Maryville will host the opening game on Wednesday, Feb. 14. Tipoff is slated for 7 p.m.
A back-and-forth first quarter found the two teams knotted at 9-all with 4:37 left. The Scots would use an 11-1 run through the remainder of the quarter without allowing an Agnes Scott field goal.
The would take a 20-10 advantage to the second, extending it to a 15-1 rally before the Scotties broke the 6:26 silence with a lay-in by Anna Weimerskirch.
Maryville would continue to put together buckets, making the run 23-4 for a 32-13 lead with just under four minutes left. The Scot would ride that for a 39-24 lead at the break.
Agnes Scott would cut it to 12 with 2:30 remaining in the third, but Maryville would again find a key rally. Over the next three minutes, the Scots would outscore the Scotties, 9-0, for a 21-point lead, 55-34.
An 11-1 Agnes Scot run would cut into Maryville's lead, before the Scots would outlast them for a 63-49 victory.
Maryville was led by Madison Maples' 16 points and four rebounds, while Rachel Hawn added a double-double 12 points and 11 boards. She added four steals and three assists for a complete game. Lauren Biliter had seven points, five rebounds, three assists and a steal for Maryville, as Elsa Eckenrod tallied seven points off the bench.
Haley Talbots had six points, as Amber Huygens tallied five points, three rebounds, three assists, a steal and a block. Holland Jerrolds and Kelley Wandell each had four points, while Libby Gardner had three assists, two points, two steals and a rebound.
The Scots shot 38.3 percent (23-of-60) while connecting on five treys. They went 12-of-18 at the charity stripe, while out rebounding the Scotties, 38-30. MC had 17 assists on their 23 made baskets.
Agnes Scott (3-20, 2-10 USA South) saw Garis Grant finish with 13 points and nine rebounds. Natasha Banks had nine points, five rebounds and four assists for the Scotties.


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Transformer oil testing is a key part of any preventive maintenance program and should be conducted on a regular basis. It is an early warning system that helps you set priorities before they become emergencies.
The following are some of the most common tests for transformer oil:
An annual Dissolved Gas-In-Oil Analysis (DGA) is the most important test for transformer oil and can give an early indication of abnormal conditions. As the name describes, this test analyzes the type and quantity of gases dissolved in the oil, using a small sample that is examined in a laboratory. Certain quantities and combinations of gases typically found in the oil can indicate insulation overheating/overloading, liquid overheating, partial discharge (corona) or arcing in the transformer.
The screen test is a collection of physical, electrical, and chemical tests for transformer oil. Typically, a 1 liter sample of oil is collected. No single test alone will indicate the true condition of the liquid, so it is suggested all be performed. The group of tests include:
The water content test detects the moisture content in parts per million of the liquid insulation. A test to determine polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) on a percentage value or as a parts-per-million value is available.


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This term break in March, we decided not to travel but play tourists on Sentosa Island. How to get to Palawan Kidz City? We took a Monorail and alighted at Beach Station. Turn left upon exiting the station and follow the signboard above your heads.
Go up the escalator and walk along this bridge, it will lead you to the building of Palawan Kidz City.
Surely, you will not miss the building on your right.
Take another escalator right up to the entrance of MOSHI! while taking it down leads you to Kidzania Singapore.
You will be greeted with the lovely doodles on the wall upon reaching the entrance of MOSHI!
We made our first stop at MOSHI! for our 3D2N staycation in Sentosa.
Let us bring you a quick tour around MOSHI!
Xav headed for this station first and added colours and created a design to the plain Mosh!COTS ! I was surprised that he coloured a few pieces despite that fact that he is not a fan of colouring.
Grabbed himself a seat and started working on it.
|Japan imported furniture
These crayons were specially imported from Japan as well. The durability is quite strong and the crayons do not break easily.
|Japan imported Ponky crayons
Colour as many sheets as you like and bring it over to the scanner when you are done.
One of his works, he named it "Jedi-MOSHI!
Xav was trying to spot his but to no avail. He probably had missed it but the staff was nice to "reset" the screen back to a clean screen. Spot his MOSHI!cot bouncing on the screen.
Orchestrate the fireworks using your body movements and send those fireworks all over the world! I love this attraction the most ! It makes me feel light and happy no doubt that the fireworks are not real. But still, it's a happy space to me. =)
Spot those famous landmarks from around the world at the bottom of the screen including the icon of Singapore - Merlion, rotating as the fireworks burst just right on top.
I bet Xav had a great workout prancing and dancing around.
Make your paper planes come ALIVE ! Vera was happily checking out the vintage pilot caps while she gladly allowed me to put on one on her head.
She found it so funny to see herself wearing the cap and goggles.
Xav did not know how to fold a proper paper aeroplane. Fear not, the friendly staff sat down and ran through the instructions step by step with Xav.
The daddy demonstrated on how to make the plane come alive.
|Daddy, are you sure that the plane is going to transform on screen ?
Watch this !
Vrrroooooom !! It became a virtual plane !
Not only one plane can be thrown at one time,
Trying throwing multiple planes at the same time and it gets pretty fascinating ! If you are tired of throwing planes, catch them on the screen instead. Don't worry ! Nobody will tell you not to touch the screen or whatsoever. This area here is totally kids friendly !
The brightly lited and colourful, interactive table, attracted my attention as soon as I stepped into the room.
Simply place your hands onto the Hide and Seek Table, create some giant bubbles and life up your hands. The little MOSHI!cots will appear and run all over while you attempt to catch them. Vera gave up playing as she was not tall enough to reach further in.
Xav was stuck here for the longest time ! Those hearty laughter I heard coming from him, told me that he enjoyed himself tremendously. He simply loved the multiple scanning of his doodles and "flood" the digital screen with his master pieces. By the way, who says you can only have marine creatures in the digital sea ? Be creative and draw anything that comes to your mind !
Xav had even made some new friends instantly on the spot and created their own card game with their doodle cards and flooded the screen with his drawings along with the other boys.
Spot Xav's big round "bun" lookalike MOSHI!cots floating in the digital sea. The whole cluster on the left were all his ! He created an army of them to "go after" the rest of the creatures which did not belong to him.
So much so, we were there for an hour plus and Xav was so reluctant to leave. I have to tell him that we will make our visit again on another day. If you have decided to make your visit, MOSHI! is located at:
31 Beach View #03-01,
Palawan Kidz City, Sentosa
Singapore 098008
Website: www.mosh.com.sg
Facebook: Mosh!
Admission Fee :
Child : $22 (FREE for children under age 3)
Adult : $28
*Family Bundle A at $48 includes entry for 1 Adult and 1 Child
*Family Bundle B at $96 includes entry for 2 Adults and 2 Child
(10% off Family Bundles for MasterCard Holders)
Something which I don't quite understand why the admission fee for adult is higher to that of the child. If it's accompanied parent, it will be more affordable for the adults to pay a nominal fee than paying a full price of $28. Seriously, am the type of mum who does not mind paying to allow my children to have fun but I will not pay this price for myself to go in, unless there is no accompany adults going in with them.
MOSHI! opening hours is from 10 a.m to 9 p.m daily
*Playtime of 2 hours will apply on Saturday, Sunday, Public Holidays & School Holidays
Disclaimer: This is a media invitation for review purpose only. No monetary compensation is involved and all opinions are of my own.


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I was up all night because of rumors swirling around the interwebs right now… This is potentially the equivalent to all the Christmas Eve's of my lifetime all wrapped up in one… The night before it is announced that Chris Hansen has purchased the Sacramento King's with the intention of moving the team to Seattle. The night before us grieving, wounded Seattlites are finally made whole again with the return of our team. I am talking about the return of the Seattle SuperSonics!!!!
Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports is reporting that the Maloof Brothers, owners of the Sacramento Kings, are very close to a deal selling the team to an ownership group who wants to bring the Kings to Seattle. The Maloofs have a history of being squirrelly, to put it nicely, but AW said that the deal is essentially at 1st and Goal from the 1 yard line… just needs to be punched in. The details are as such: $500 million from the Seattle ownership group, the Maloofs will retain a very small ownership interest in the team, but have no decision making power, and the team will play in Key Arena for two years until construction on the new Seattle NBA arena is complete. There are also reports that the deal is moving along nicely, but the goal is to have it finished by the end of January.
Continuing our saga of the City of Seattle and our relationship with the Supersonics and the NBA, we now look at how we clawed back into the discussion and got to where we are right now – on the cusp of getting our team back.
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text: Boy, this is harsh. I thought the discovery of the Batcave by Rorschach was ridiculously easy too, but I don't think the point was to show the process, more the result to make the story go forward. The resurrection needs some kind of explanation too, and fast, but still, being at the very end of the issue, I have hope it will be explained sooner than later. Hope you don't give up reading the series though! Cheers!


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William Woods University is offering Cape Girardeau area residents the opportunity to pursue a variety of business degrees without quitting work.
New classes leading to a bachelor of science in management (BSM), a master of business administration (MBA) and an MBA with an emphasis in human resources will be starting soon.
Orientations will be held at 6 p.m. Feb. 25 for the BSM and 6 p.m. Feb. 26 for the MBAs at locations to be announced.
Prospective students are encouraged to contact the university's Graduate and Adult Studies program prior to then, but walk-ins will be accepted. Call 1-800-995-3199 or contact WWU by e-mail at email@example.com.
The curriculum for all of the business programs offered by William Woods has been designed to reflect the appropriate mix of business theory with real world practice.
The BSM is geared for the working professional interested in completing the baccalaureate degree with an emphasis in management. Admission into the program requires the completion of 50-60 semester credit hours and at least two years of work experience.
Angela Sumner-Hahn completed her BSM through the Graduate and Adult Studies program at the Jefferson City campus of William Woods University. She was pleased with the program because "The flexibility of the adult studies program at William Woods has given me the opportunity to complete my BSM degree while continuing to work full-time."
She added, "One of the most notable attributes of the program is that course facilitators understand that students do have full-time lives outside of the classroom setting."
Kathy Pabst completed a master of business administration (MBA) in Jefferson City. She selected William Woods University "because the instructors are leaders in their profession and are able to share their knowledge and expertise with the students."
The MBA with human resources concentration is intended for the professional who is involved in management decisions and practices that directly affect or influence the people who work for the organization. The program focuses on three distinct areas of human resources: Employment Law and Labor Relations; Compensation and Benefits, and Performance Management, Training and Development.
In the beginning, the Graduate and Adult Studies programs were located only in mid-Missouri. Now, thanks to the growing demand, William Woods has expanded Graduate and Adult Studies programs to locations across the state for the convenience of interested students.
These programs make it possible for people with full-time jobs to complete a baccalaureate or a graduate degree while remaining employed. The programs are designed to prepare students for career advancement and to enhance their marketability in the job market.
Employing a model of accelerated learning developed especially for the convenience of the working adult, these educational programs are structured so that a degree can be completed in as few as 18 months.
To guarantee the graduation of many well-rounded professionals, William Woods offers degree programs that utilize a cohort model, emphasizing learning through student-directed study groups of three to five students.
The word "cohort" describes a group of people who collaborate to reach a common goal. WWU's program utilizes the diversity of the individual members to broaden the learning experience of the class as a whole as they work together. The school recognizes that learning can and does take place outside of the classroom and that theoretical knowledge is only useful if applied to real-life on-the-job situations.
To better fit the schedules of the ever-busy Graduate and Adult Studies students, classes meet once a week in the evening for four hours. Study groups can meet once more to prepare projects and assignments before the upcoming week.
"With the teamwork approach of using study groups and projects within the cohort model, students can draw on a greater pool of ideas, and they have the opportunity to learn quickly that the effectiveness of one person can be greatly enhanced by utilizing the other members of the group," said Betty R. Tutt, vice president and dean of academic affairs at WWU.
Because of the nature of programming—focusing effort on one course at a time—75 to 90 percent of all students finish their program successfully. Each course normally runs five to 10 weeks in length.
"William Woods University is a leader when it comes to designing quality programs for nontraditional adult students. Everything we do here at WWU in our Graduate and Adult Studies program is specifically designed to help adults succeed in reaching their goals as efficiently as possible," said Tutt.
Non-traditional students reflect a growing national trend as more full-time working adults realize the value of maintaining a sustained involvement in higher education. Many adult students recognize that they need additional education either to advance in their current positions or to change careers.
In addition to the these programs, William Woods offers several other Graduate and Adult Studies programs, including an associate of arts degree in liberal studies, the ACCESS program of general education, a bachelor of science in computer and information management, a bachelor of science in management (BSM) with human resources emphasis, a bachelor of science in marketing, a bachelor of science in paralegal studies, a master of business administration (MBA) with accounting emphasis, an MBA with health management emphasis, a master of education (M.Ed.) in both administration and in curriculum/instruction and a specialist of education in school administration.
William Woods can tailor any of its programs for a particular business or community. More information is available on the William Woods website at www.williamwoods.edu.


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Guaranteeing access to the network
Achieving equitable access to the network
As rail network manager, SNCF Réseau is responsible for allocating train paths (time slots for trains to travel from one point to another). This work consists of defining the most efficient utilisation of the rail lines as possible (network optimisation). As part of this task, SNCF Réseau handles the train path requests made by its customers in relation to:
- available capacities,
- the type of line and train,
- while respecting the regulations stipulated in the Network Reference Document and ensuring equitable access as far as possible
Time slots are also reserved for recurrent maintenance as well as for isolated and urgent works on the lines ("works-intervals" are scheduled for 1500 works on the lines each year).
Tools for continuously improving access to train paths
The SNCF Réseau teams work to meet customers' requests more efficiently. For instance they propose reserving train paths from an order catalogue, either predefined or customized (specifically created on the basis of customers' needs). They also continuously strive to lower the number of conditional train paths (time slots reserved on condition that no concomitant works are being carried out on the lines). The teams also attempt to more effectively handle last minute requests for train paths, i.e., less than a week before the day in question, primarily by shortening response times.
Feasibility studies can also be carried out before ordering train paths to help railway companies organize their business. SNCF Réseau also dialogues with its customers by regularly offering opportunities for discussion. And lastly, a platform for collaborating and arbitrating "train paths – work slots" has been set up to improve the allocation of slots for traffic in the event works have been scheduled on the line.
- 6.15 million train paths requested from RFF (SNCF Réseau since 2015)
- + 2.4% of definite day train paths allocated
- 6.115 million train paths requested from SNCF Réseau
- again, + 2.4% of definite day train paths allocated


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The CD of the transcription and inventory of Pearce Chapel Cemetery, Monroe County, Mississippi, is now available for immediate shipment. The CD includes a list of burials and dates, an alphabetized list of burials and dates, as well as links to photographs of the grave markers found at Pearce Chapel Cemetery in 2009. Other information on the CD includes a map of the cemetery and information about using the lists.
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A confirmation email will be sent and shipping information/date of shipping will be emailed to you. CDs are mailed by first class US mail. The cost of the CD, including shipping, is $5.00
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Welcome to Signature Dental Care, the dental practice of Simona Ziliute , a kind and compassionate dentist dedicated to quality care in Hickory Hills. Dr. Ziliute understands what an honor it is for her to follow in the footsteps of Dr. Leona D. Petreikis, a longstanding and reputable dentist who has joyfully treated many patients and friends for almost forty years. Dr. Petreikis has confidently placed your dental care in the hands of a trusted professional whom she feels a deep kinship with. They both share a passion for restoring and rejuvenating smiles, and treating each patient as a unique individual
A graduate of the University of Illinois, Dr. Ziliute takes pride in her meticulous and detail-oriented treatments, whether it be to prevent dental problems, treat damage or decay, replace missing teeth or alleviate pain. She maintains the highest standards for every single patient, making sure you feel the sincerity and quality of her care.
With the same supportive team that has been a trademark of this office, Dr. Ziliute and her staff respect your valuable time and maintain the same caring and kind atmosphere you have come to know and expect. We will make certain to provide you with whatever dental care you may need, including:
Dr. Ziliute uses the latest technology to give you state-of-the-art care that is proven and effective. With cost-effective CEREC technology, she can place crowns and fixed bridges immediately, saving you the trouble of temporary prosthetics and additional dental visits. CEREC equipment takes a three-dimensional scan of your oral structure and sends the images directly to the equipment that manufactures your restoration. The scan provides a precise image of your tooth, so a durable, precise, and lustrous porcelain crown can be fabricated.
In Hickory Hills, the dental office of Dr. Simona Ziliute will continue to provide you with the kind, respectful, and excellent service you have been accustomed to receiving with Dr. Leona Petreikis. Providing treatment for a wide range of dental needs, Signature Dental Care's conscientious care will make your smile radiate health and beauty for a lifetime.
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Dragged into a controversy over the identity of the Republic of China's (ROC) capital, Minister of the Interior Lee Hong-yuan (李鴻源) yesterday said that Taipei is the nation's capital because it is the seat of the central government.
Lee was asked about the issue at a meeting of the legislature's Internal Administration Committee after a Ministry of Education document sent to schools on Monday identified Nanjing, China, as the capital of the ROC. The document "reminded" elementary and high school administrators that the capital is Nanjing, in accordance with constitutional provisions.
Responding to a question by Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Johnny Chiang (江啟臣), Lee said the ROC Constitution does not specify the location of the capital. The capital is where the central government is located, he said.
"Since Taipei is the seat of our central government, it is our nation's capital," he said.
Nanjing was established as the ROC capital in 1927. In 1937, the KMT government moved from Nanjing to Chongqing because of the Sino-Japanese War and World War II. Nanjing became the capital again in 1946. The KMT government relocated to Taiwan in 1949 after losing the Chinese Civil War.
Lee said the government issued a decree in 1949 proclaiming Taipei the new seat of government.
K-12 Education Administration Division head Chiu Chien-kuo (邱乾國) apologized for the error on Tuesday, saying the ministry should have explained its stance more clearly.
Chiu said the document was meant to be a reminder to schools about the maps they buy.
It said Taipei should be marked as the capital of the ROC with an explanation saying the city is the seat of the central government, because according to the Constitution, Nanjing is the ROC's capital.
"Previously, some teaching material suppliers used the same color to identify Taiwan and China on their maps or globes. We issued the document to ask school administrators to remind their textbook suppliers not to repeat the mistake," Chiu said.
Chiu said he was willing to take responsibility for the error.


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TOKYO: 28 February 2013 — Owner satisfaction decreases when vehicle downtime occurs due to a shortage of parts during after-sales maintenance and repair service, according to the J.D. Power Asia Pacific 2012 Japan Heavy-Duty Truck Ownership Satisfaction StudySM released today.
The study measures overall satisfaction with heavy-duty truck manufacturers and their respective authorized truck dealers among commercial fleet owners, including managers of truck freight companies. Satisfaction is determined by examining four key factors (in order of importance): service (47%), sales (23%), vehicle (15%) and cost (14%).
In the 2012 study, overall satisfaction averages 621 (on a 1,000-point scale), which is unchanged from 2011. For all manufacturers, 2012 unit sales of trucks (payload capacity of four tons or more) are higher than they have been since 2009, boosted by reconstruction demand due to the Great East Japan Earthquake. Despite strong unit sales, the level of owner satisfaction remains consistent with the level in 2011.
As was the case in 2011, service has the greatest influence on overall owner satisfaction, compared with the other factors.
"After-sales service will remain important to increasing owner satisfaction," said Taku Kimoto, executive director of automotive division at J.D. Power Asia Pacific, Tokyo. "At a time when manufacturers are increasing unit sales, they should ascertain the nature of demand for after-sales service; which after-sales service requirements are necessary for increasing owner satisfaction; and specific follow-up activities to be carried out after the sale of new trucks."
With respect to downtime, overall satisfaction is 60 points lower among owners who indicate they experienced vehicle downtime than among those who indicate they did not experience downtime. Moreover, overall satisfaction is 79 points lower among owners who experienced downtime due to parts shortages at the time of in-house after-sales maintenance and repair than among those who did not experience downtime due to the same reason.
"To reduce the risk of deterioration of owner satisfaction due to parts shortages, manufacturers and dealers alike should take measures to prevent shortages," said Kimoto.
The study finds that overall satisfaction decreases as the number of repeat repairs increases with respect to dealer after-sales maintenance and repair service. There is a 119-point gap in satisfaction between owners who do not experience repeat repairs and those who experience needing the same problem repaired three or more times. Furthermore, the study finds that the proportion of owners who say they "definitely will not" purchase a vehicle from the same dealer again is one percent among owners who do not experience repeat repairs, compared with seven percent among those who experience repeat repairs three or more times.
"In the trucking industry, any amount of vehicle downtime may affect the livelihood of owners," said Kimoto. "Measures by manufacturers and dealers to improve the repair quality in order to avoid repeat repairs and increasing vehicle downtime rates due to parts shortages may have a strong impact on owner loyalty."
The study finds that the percentages of owners who say they "definitely will" purchase a vehicle from the same manufacturer again and "definitely will" use after-sale services from the same dealer again increase in direct proportion to overall owner satisfaction. Notably, among owners who are highly satisfied (satisfaction scores above 800), approximately one-half say they "definitely will" purchase and "definitely will" use the same dealer again.
Among the four brands included in the study, Hino ranks highest for a fourth consecutive year, with an overall satisfaction score of 631, and performs particularly well in the service, sales and vehicle factors. Following Hino in the rankings are Mitsubishi Fuso (621), UD Trucks (616) and Isuzu (615).
Now in its eighth year, the study is based on responses from 3,303 truck owners nationwide from 2,165 businesses. Each owner evaluated up to two manufacturers, with overall scores calculated based on fleet owners' evaluations of 62 attributes. The study was fielded between November and December 2012.
The Japan Heavy-Duty Truck Ownership Satisfaction Study is one of 10 benchmark studies conducted by J.D. Power Asia Pacific in Japan. Other studies conducted by J.D. Power Asia Pacific include:
- The Japan Winter Tire Customer Satisfaction Index Study
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Summary – The Trap of Things-To-Do
Do you consider yourself as an organized person? Or at least a person who is attempting to organize his/her life? If you do, there is one trap we may have fallen into. The trap of Things-To-Do.
Things to do is not something new when it comes to getting things done or organizing. In fact, it is one of the basis of the concept. If you want to get things done, you need to come up with a to-do list.
But what will happen when you see everythings in life as a things-to-do? What if all you are doing through out your day is a task? Some examples are like when you even view your family time as a task. And you will stop spending time with them after an hour to focus on other things.
Or you allocate specific time to call your parents to say hi (Maybe every Saturday 12pm). And you find it disturbing if the parent call you when it is still not the time. Deep down you are blaming them for messing your schedule
I know, you may wonder, do such people exist? The truth is, they do. Not in such extreme cases though.
How do you know you are one of them?
Simple.. it is when you never satisfy with your life. Or you suffer the same frustration of not finishing your work even after your working hour. Or you are feel tired most of the time for no apparent reason. If these describe you, I'm sorry to inform you that you have fallen into the trap. Everything you do is work for you.
How do you get out of the trap
1) Determine whether you're already trapped or not
This is a routine step 1. In order to solve a problem, we must know that we have a problem.
2) Add 25% free time in your schedule
When we have 18 hours everyday (assuming we sleep 6 hours), Free up 4.5 hours for us to do anything we want. It may be anything as long as it's not work.
3) Be flexible
By flexible, it means that the previous 4.5 hours may not necessary be 4.5 hours every day. If you want, take a day off for yourself sometimes. Get in bed with a thick book to read.
However, being flexible itself is quite dangerous. You must know how flexible to be. Things will backfire if you are too flexible with your time, up to the point that nothing is being done. The keyword is always "finding balance"
4) Do something spontaneous
Take a road trip to a place 2 hours drive from your house. Spend sometimes there, snap some pictures and return home. The whole point is to mess your schedule once a month. This way, your mind will be trained to accept the idea of not completing work gradually.
5) Mingle with people
Another unmentioned sign of people trapped in the things-to-do trap is when they prefer to be alone rather than with friends / family. This way they think they can finish up more work. Take some time to hang out with friends. Go for a drink with them. Your mind need this more than you do.
6) Take up bigger project
Imagine a college proffesor. Proffesors are supposed to be one of the most brilliant mind on earth and we expect them to come up with better ideas or solve problems. Now imagine they're living their life solely to teach students. No research done. Just plain teaching day in day out. Don't you think that will be a waste of brilliant minds?
They still need to teach the students, nobody else can do that. But who will solve our global problems like global warming etc if not them?
Take up project for you to do. Maybe try to be more active in your support to your political party etc. Bigger thing for you to spend time on.
7) Revise all this
This is however the most important steps. As you can probably see, all the 6 suggestion in the list will help our mind to not view life as one big to-do-list. That's really the whole idea.
However, in reality we still need to get things done for us to accomplish more in life. So revise all the list and check whether or not you are still able to finish up your important things-to-do. Try to find the balance between the two.
If you manage to do just that, trust me on this. You will live a happier life, with less stress and frustration from not finishing work,
/end list
– I wonder –
Anybody find this familiar?
——- Personal Note ——–
The mrs is now in her 38th week of pregnancy. If for some reason you see the blog without update for some time, most probably she is delivering the baby, and I'm there with her. Please be patient then kay?
Excited, Scared, Smiling, Worried – All these emotion in one time, no wonder most parent is suffering hypertension 🙂
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A web form's background is most important for its design. when creating a form the default background color is white, but this can easily be changed.
There are 3 options to determine a background:
1- Making the form background transparent..
This option is great if you want to place the email form in your web page, which already has a background.
Changing the color to transparent is easy – all you need to do is:
a- Open the form in the form creator.
b- Go to the background color listbox in the design toolbar.
c- Choose the first color in the list (it looks white but when you choose it the form's white background disappers and looks gray)
d- Save the form
2- Changing the form's background color to another.
All you need to do is:
A- Open the form in the form builder.
B-go to the background color listbox in the design toolbar.
c- Choose one of the colors in the list.
d- go to the "Background Color" field in the form settings
e- Enter a valid color number like: #000000 (black) or the color's name like: red
d- Save the form
3- Placing a background image.
If you have an image you want to use as background you can do so by:
a- Dragging an image element from the element toolbar.
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Lasse Saarinen • Director general, Finnish Film Foundation
"No hago promesas que no estoy seguro de poder cumplir"
por Marta Bałaga
- Cineuropa ha entrevistado en Helsinki a Lasse Saarinen, el director general de Finnish Film Foundation, que celebra este año su 50° aniversario
Este artículo está disponible en inglés.
As the Finnish Film Foundation turns 50 after its inception in 1969, producer-turned-CEO Lasse Saarinen took part in a discussion with Cineuropa to take a look back at its past achievements, but also to discuss its goals for the future.
Cineuropa: Having worked as a producer for years, you came to the Finnish Film Foundation from the other side of the fence. Do you think it gave you any kind of advantage?
Lasse Saarinen: It was the first time I ever applied for a job [laughs]. I did it because there has never been a Finnish Film Foundation head from the filmmakers' side. I have been their "client" for the last 30 years, always blaming them for one thing or another, but it has been healthy for me – I had to change my point of view.
When I applied, I pointed out that distribution is changing and we need to react; there are different ways to screen films and different ways for people to enjoy them. We would like to support TV series more, but we would need to take money from two or three films, and why should we punish them? We have €1 million right now, and it's not enough, but more talent is heading to TV, and they use a bigger workforce than films. Our support could help them get more money abroad, and this international aspect is very important for us nowadays.
It seems that Finnish films are more visible internationally than, say, a decade ago, when it was still all about the Kaurismäki name. How do you see the foundation's role in that?
There is a new generation of talented filmmakers – directors, screenwriters and also new producers – who have emerged during these last ten years. And luckily, there have been people at the foundation wise enough to support them! They present themselves better at festivals, are more open and can talk about their work. Our international department has recognised that. There is more interest in films like Aurora [+lee también:
entrevista: Miia Tervo
ficha del filme], which are completely different from what people traditionally expect from Finland.
I have been there a little under three years, but I always tell our consultants that we need these new voices, and if some companies have established themselves internationally, we can't ignore it. That's the future. You shouldn't just support the projects you personally like; you should choose the ones that can be important for the country.
You have been supporting many films by female filmmakers; is this a conscious decision?
We don't really care, but generally, these projects are well prepared and the applications are better. It's funny because it's something that's reflected by my personal work history. Two years ago, I was participating in a panel, answering questions about everything that's wrong with the system – including the claim that the Finnish Film Foundation gives all its money to men. I said that if you took all 82 projects I had ever produced, over 40 were made by women. I didn't even know these numbers before – I counted them because of these panels.
It's funny because all of these countries calling for 50/50 by 2020 can't keep their promise. Let's take Sweden: our figures are better, even though they were promoting it all over the world. It's one thing to say how good we are and another to say what we are actually doing. I don't make promises I'm not sure I can keep. Last year, 43% of our production support went to female producers and 42% to female directors. Average production support for female directors was €640,000 and for male ones €609,000.
In Finland, people still pay to see local films. How do you keep it that way?
We are usually in the European top ten, and in the year of The Unknown Soldier [+lee también:
ficha del filme], we were number three. If you support 18 features per year, you need to make sure that includes films for the Finnish audience, arthouse titles meant for the festival circuit and those in the middle, which are artsy but with some commercial potential. Every year, we try to find a few of those because our numbers depend on them. This year, we supported Birds of a Feather by first-time director Hanna Bergholm, for example [see the news], which is a bit of a horror story, and genre films often fall into that "middle" category. They are easier to distribute abroad, but we prefer them to be shot in Finnish or Swedish, rather than English, although language is also something we need to think about. After all, we supported the world's first Somali-language film [Khadar Ahmed's The Gravedigger], and there is another set to be shot in Russian.
The foundation is financed through the Ministry of Education and Culture from lottery and pooled funds; was this always the case?
It changed in the mid-1970s, when the lottery money started to grow and Lotto came to Finland. Nowadays, the revenue from that is dwindling, so the only way to make films with bigger budgets is to look abroad. We would like to support more international co-productions, films with budgets of between €3 million and €5 million. For the first few years, the Finnish Film Foundation was actually funded through sold cinema tickets. American blockbusters paid for Finnish productions! Unfortunately, that has not been the case in the last 35 years.
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|Editable User Interface
The two prevalent user-interfaces for applications on a (unix or windows based) PC are the Keyboard User Interface (KUI) and the Graphical User Interface (GUI).
The graphical user interface seeks to replace actions by widgets (such as icons and items in menus) that can be pointed to and clicked at. The specificity of the actions represented by the ultimate widgets and the impossibility of dynamically combining the ultimate widgets leads to the proliferation of widgets in any moderately complex application's graphical interface (widgets can be combined statically into a new widget, but one cannot form mega-widgets as and when needed, dynamically, the way one forms commands from keystrokes). The graphical interface is very good for beginning users of applications who execute a few simple actions. However, the atomicity of a widget's action (minute graphical action unrelated to the application-related action of the ultimate widget) and the static nature of the widgets necessitate several point-and-clicks to achieve the ultimate goal; which binds the user to the perceptual level.
So most users, seeking to be ever more productive, eventually outgrow the graphical interface of frequently used applications and switch over to the keyboard interface. This preference for the keyboard interface by the experienced user is true not only of engineers but also of non-technical users such as secretaries.
A keyboard interface enables the user to interact with the application using commands with a precise grammar typed from a keyboard. Such an interface is not restricted to being a command line as in a console based ftp application but can be a full-screen interface as in the lynx browser. Such interfaces are usually ''intelligent'' in the sense of having features such as history and auto-completion.
What is even more significant than the fact that non-technical users too shift from the graphical interface to the keyboard interface is the fact that this shift happens even if the keyboard interface is a pseudo-keyboard interface such as that afforded by windows' applications. The keyboard interface of windows' applications is a pseudo-keyboard interface because of four interrelated reasons.
This need to focus on the perceptual consequences of ones actions and on the structure of one's conceptual equipment rather than on one's actual goals and on the concepts themselves is destructive. However, this mind-set required for a pesudo-keyboard interface is preferable to the percept bound mind-set required by a graphical interface.
To understand the interface appropriate for a conceptual being, we first need to understand the text editor.
A papyrus -- or a text editor -- is a fundamental tool for a conceptual being. Simple editors go a little beyond supporting the entry and deletion of characters next to the cursor by supporting the deletion and addition of highlighted lines. But a text editor can greatly facilitate the process of capturing one's thoughts by providing support for insertion, searches, repositioning text, movement, repetition, auto-completion, formatting white-space and alignment etc. Text editors can have hooks to help with the transfer and receipt of messages. And when one's thoughts pertain to manipulating and controlling inanimate objects, a text editor can play a more significant role by supporting the processing of such thoughts.
Although some developers of applications with the graphical interface keep re-creating simple editors for each application: one for consoles, one for small files, one for large files, one for messages, one for C-programmers etc. with the editor being permanently attached to each application, there are also those developers who recognize the abstraction of a text editor and provide their text editor as an optional aspect of their application, allowing the user to use almost any other editor with their application.
Anyway, the point to note for now is that there are sophisticated text editors that can support anything that one would want to do with a text editor -- and if they can't readily support something, they have hooks that allow the user to enhance the editor to his own needs. While they allow customization and enhancement by users, these editors do not restrict themselves to sophisticated users -- they have graphical interfaces for the beginner and allow the beginner to acquire mastery over the editor at a pace dictated by his own purpose.
Rather than go off-track into consideration of formatted output and of Tex, Word and FrontPage, it more fundamental and relevant to user interfaces to next consider what the PC is as a product.
The PC is a tool but it is unlike common tools such as knives and cars: it is a domain in which the user can integrate his other tools and build other tools, the other tools being not just applications but also tools to interact with devices that are local or distant to the PC. Each PC becomes as individualized as people are because it reflects the intellect and motive of its user. (This is similar to how Recreational Vehicles become subject to a myriad of customizations because they reflect the lives of their owners.)
The same application, such as the same email client, ends up being used differently by different people. The use of an application involves creative thought -- even an application running in a mindless batch mode reflects the creativity of the person who sought and set up that batch process. People can live with a few number of choices for aspects of an application that are inconsequential to its functioning (such as its color-scheme) but a mind cannot be told that it has to think only this way or only that way in regard to the method of using an application. No matter how many ways of using an application have been pre-thought out by its manufacturer and facilitated with widgets, there always will be people who would rather exercise the application in some other way. (Yet it ought to be legally OK for a person to make an application that can be used in only one way and to offer it for sale at any price he wishes.)
While some may use the PC mindlessly, the essential customers for a PC are those who use it for being productive in an endeavor other than that of selling PCs. These productive users, unlike the mindless users, can afford to pay for the PC and so benefit the manufacturer of the PC. Such proper users cannot be expected to be interested in spending time modifying and rebuilding sources in the name of customizing the application. (Those who, for whatever reason, are penniless cannot demand any product as a right but can only be grateful for whatever charity comes their way.)
It is possible for an application to not be widget-bound and yet be finished, and to not be the raw sources and yet be expandable (meaningfully by all users including lay users). And it should not be surprising that best form for an application is exemplified by the key application needed to exploit the PC: the text editor. In the course of being productive, both beginners and experienced users find that the sophisticated text editors mentioned in the preceding section facilitate their work while they continue to discover even more ways to use the editor to be more productive. Given that the text editor is indispensable to the user of a PC, in time, his text editor is the application the user is most proficient at.
Given the nature of the text editor, it makes sense to use it as the interface to applications on the PC. Although this way of using the text editor has not before been isolated and conceptualized, say, under the term ''Editable User Interface'', there have been applications that used the text editor for their interface -- a simple example being Vim's file explorer.
But the lack of that conceptualization has tended to make some developers incorporate the application into the text editor as a monolithic product (several applications tightly bundled with a single text editor) and other developers to resist any integration of the text-editor with other applications for non-text-editing functions.
The conceptualization of the ''Editable User Interface'' helps define and delimit the role of the text editor in facilitating the use of diverse applications. In such a role, the text editor is delimited to being an interface only, i.e., in regard to support of non-text-editing tasks, it is delimited to
In the above, rendering refers to display of text; I have no particular opinion about supporting the display of images (such as corner analog clocks or image based stationery or charts) or redering other things in a text editor.
As a specific example of the abstraction ''Editable User Interface'', the code presented here, eui_vim.vim and eui_vim.pl illustrate how one can use the Vim editor as an user interface to other applications.
Eui_vim has been tested on Windows 98 with the ''Big version with GUI'' Vim 6.2 (requires +clientserver, but perl support is not required). It is unlikely to work as-is on unix (the port to unix is likely to be simpler).
Essentially, unzip eui_vim.zip over the vimfiles directory while preserving folder names and regenerate the help-tags.
Unzipping deploys three files:
vimfiles\plugin\eui_vim.vim, vimfiles\perl\eui_vim.pl and vimfiles\doc\eui_vim.txt
The help-tags can be regenerated, for example, by executing '':helptags $vim\vimfiles\doc'' from within vim.
In systems that don't have perl, eui_vim.pl can be replaced by a self-contained executable, eui_vim.exe available from the author.
Usage involves issuing the command '':EUIProcess <command> [<data>]''. This command is received by eui_vim.vim and sent to eui_vim.pl. Eui_vim.pl then sends its response to the user by directly commanding the vim-server.
Issuing the command '':EUIProcess foo'' results in a pop-up dialog box which, essentially, informs the user that foo is undefined. The message in the dialog box might also include the buffer name, line number and column number of the cursor's position when the foo command was issued. (The exact message is not mentioned here to avoid having to modify this manual each time minor changes are made to the software.)
Although the foo command failed, it has helped illustrate that the external program can cause vim to pop-up dialog boxes (depreciated unless one really wants to grab the user's attention).
Issuing the command '':EUIProcess list'' results in the user being shown, on the command line, the list of defined processes. For example, the command line might show:
The defined processes are: list, demo_plot and quit
Before executing demo_plot, create a new buffer (for example, by issuing the command :new eui_demo) and enter this text in it:
1 2 2 5 3 10 4 17 5 26
The demo_plot command can be used to get simple statistics (min, max, average) of the second column and, if pgnuplot.exe is in the system path, to plot the second column against the first column.
Copy the first column into a register, say, a and the second column into another register, say, b. If you are not sure how to do this, you may continue this tutorial by entering the following two lines:
1 2 3 4 5 2 5 10 17 26
and yanking them to two registers (by placing the cursor on first line and issuing the normal mode command ''ayy; placing the cursor on the second line and issuing ''byy).
So now registers a and b contain the data for the demo_plot command (nothing special about registers ''a'' and ''b'' -- any two registers could have been used). Keep the cursor on a buffer for which you have wirte permission, say the eui_demo buffer just created, and issue the command '':EUIProcess demo_plot a b''.
You may do anything (such as move the cursor in any manner, and even close the buffer from which the command was issued) after issuing the command. In particular, in the case of commands that take a long time to execute, the user can continue working at the vim server. (The demo_plot command executes very quickly with the preceding data and so this feature is not apparent right now.)
The issued demo_plot command will result in the following text
The minimum is 2 The maximum is 26 The average is 12
appearing below the cursor (if the lines show up staggered it could be because smartindent is on for the buffer). And if pgnuplot.exe is in the system path, a graph of the data will pop-up.
This section is in case you are curious about how the transfers between the vim-server and the external program take place. The communication is half-duplex. Two different methods are used for realizing each direction of the communication.
Vim's ''client-server'' feature allows two vim-sessions to transfer command and data between themselves. Vim doesn't act as a server in the usual sense of an application that listens at a port and spawns a new process to talk to each client that attaches to the port and then continues listening at the port.
Notwithstanding the fact that Vim's client-server feature is restricted to Vim programs, the external program can (and does) use this feature for transferring its command and data to the vim-server. This is done as follows:
The external program makes a system call that transfers the command and data to a freshly launched intermediate vim, which in turn has the command executed and the data processed by the vim-server by means of vim's ''client-server'' feature.
Commands and data go from the vim-server to the external program through an intermediate ''fifo-file''. In essence, the vim-server writes to the fifo-file and the external program reads the fifo-file. There is a well defined format for the contents of this file (which will be explained shortly). If need be, the user can view this file, say, in Vim even while an eui_vim session is active -- he will be able to see the vim-server adding stuff (meant for the external program) to this file. To a certain extent, he can even delete things from this file -- there is special logic in the external program that allows for this deletion.
To look at the fifo-file, issue the '':ls'' command and look for a buffer in the system's temporary directory (e.g., in c:\windows\temp) whose name starts with the name of the vim-server (e.g., GVIM) and continues with a string of digits -- so, for example, look in the output of '':ls'' for something like:
10 h "C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\GVIM1075760835" line 0
Note the number in the left-most column (''10'' in the example) and issue the command '':sb 10'' (without the quotes and after replacing ''10'' with the actual number you see). This might bring up a dialog box about the file having been changed -- select the option to load the file (or just select the OK option and then issue the command '':e!''). You will then be looking at the fifo-file.
The very first line of the fifo-file is a time-stamp giving the date and time when EUIProcess was first called. The digits in the fifo-file's name represent the time-stamp too -- they can be converted to a human readable form using the strftime command (for example, strftime(''%I:%M:%S %p, %a %b %d, %Y'', 1075760835), which yeilds 02:27:15 PM, Mon Feb 02, 2004).
Below the time-stamp will be one or more blocks delimited with ''START'' and ''DONE''. Each such block corresponds to an issuance of the EUIProcess command.
Each block has the form:
START <command> <full path to file of buffer>=<line number>=<column number> [<data>=] DONE
where <command> is the command that was issued with '':EUIProcess''; <file of buffer>, <line number> and <column number> refer to the position of the cursor when the command was issued; and [<data>=] refers to the contents of each register that was specified with the command.
Note that the position of the cursor (specified toward the beginning of each block) usually corresponds to the location where the external program writes the results of the processing it did. (Perhaps, this position can be thought of as also the ''address the function call is supposed to return results and control to''.)
Issuing the command '':EUIProcess quit'' results in the deletion of the fifo-file buffer, deletion of the fifo-file and termination of the external program.
The '':EUIProcess quit'' command is automatically run whenever the vim-server terminates.
Here are two of the several applications that one can develop involving eui_vim.
Conventionally, pet-dogs have been viewed as bringing the morning newspaper to their master. VimPuppy performs this task in the realm of the web. It is an application that speeds up the process of viewing web-sites that one frequents -- not merely by bringing the web-site to its master but -- more significantly -- by processing the web-site before displaying the site to its master. The master can have VimPuppy perform additional tasks based on what he sees in the newly fetched data. VimPuppy would need to be trained (configured) for each website that one desires it to retrieve.
To see what's involved, consider the web-site vim.sourceforge.net. From the point of view of daily viewing, this site has three main sections: announcements, scripts and tips. VimPuppy would collect the latest (since its last visit to this site) announcements, scripts and tips, suitably organize them and display them in Vim -- it would be organizing the actual content of the new announcements, scripts and tips and not just the introductory lines for these items. (VimPuppy could also look at the marginal information on the web-site and alert its master should they have changed.) Its master can then have VimPuppy fetch and install selected scripts and/or add notes to tips. VimPuppy can do this while its master is working on other tasks; it can even cause the vim-server to source the newly installed scripts and inform its master that they are ready to be tried out (and also uninstall undesired scripts).
By seeing how VimPuppy works on one of its target one can see that the time that would be saved by VimPuppy would be worth much more than going from 14.4K to DSL. VimPuppy is just one application of eui_vim -- other applications would lead to additional savings.
Briefly, this application, Vimms (Vim Mail Suite) would use different sub-windows of Vim for managing the processes of fetching, filtering, organizing, reading and sending mail and news messages. There would also be auxiliary items such as address books and ticklers.
Suresh Govindachar (email: <initial><last name><at><yahoo>)
I came up with the following on my own.
Should you have occasion to discuss or use any of the above, please be sure to give me due credit. I thank you.
Copyright (C) 2004 Suresh Govindachar
The material provided here: eui_vim related code, executable and information are provided as-is without any warranty -- without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. The author assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions or for any sort of damages resulting from the use of or reliance on the provided material.
A reader of the preceding asked me:
This is interesting--it looks like you've put a lot of
thought into it. I had always assumed that the GUI was
better for beginners and the command line was better for
regular uses, but then I read an article on Slashdot that
suggested that maybe GUI isn't so great for newbies after
Have you read this? If so, what do you think?
Here's my response:
I read that article carefully, and I don't think much of it. Here are some remarks that might help in grasping the truth.
Most of the remaining remarks are based directly on what's in the article:
The correct conceptualization, or the truth, is that Aunt Tillie is a human being and so she can teach herself to deal with things -- with anything objective. No one can deal with non-objective things -- one merely rejects them; but GUIs are objective and can be used.
The non-conceptual base leads the author to attempt to defend the CLI by rationalizing the CLI as being Aunt Tillie's way of doings things and the GUI as being distal to her way (the way she makes tea, organizes her work, does her shopping etc.). But one can also make a similar rationalization for the GUI: Apple's manual suggested that people could view the GUI as a place to keep their work just as they (and Aunt Tillie) kept papers and folders on their desks. In fact, this view of the GUI formed the basis for the terminology ``desktop'' for the main screen! But to be strict: this way of thinking doesn't really help in using the GUI -- I mention it only to highlight the rationalism in the article's argument -- such rationalistic arguments can be made to support any view. (Using the desktop argument to justify the GUI would amount to making the same mistake the author does.)
What does help toward using the GUI is to grasp the basic concepts of a GUI: the computer, its input and output, controlling it, icons, mouse, selection (point and rubber-band), activation (clicks and drag-and-drop), common-menus and context-menus.Another argument the author uses to try to sell his point is that the CLI leads the user to think he is having a dialog with the computer! One does not understand the inanimate by animating them -- it is pre-scientific to do so. If Aunt Tillie finds it comforting to think that rain is the tears of sad Gods then there is something seriously wrong with her; people claiming to be interested in her welfare should help her understand her mistake and not augment it by presenting the computer to her while making the same mistake. (And arguing that GUIs too can communicate with the user via dialog boxes would amount to making the same mistake the author does.) A corrupt premise in the article is the view that some products are/can-be/should-be aimed at stupid people. Notwithstanding the author's disclaimer that such is not his view, he does view his students as too primitive to grasp a GUI, to grasp the workings of a computer without animating it, and to out-grow the routines of their slothful life (and, in general, ``[to feel happiest when deluding oneself into thinking one is the] most intelligent or knowledgeable [in a conversation]''). A self-respecting teacher would ``demand'' that his students raise to the level of the subject; he would not demean himself by the futile task of dumbing down the subject to the level of some imagined mental shortcoming in them. The truth about interfaces is that the appropriateness of an interface depends on the context. In general, the GUI is best for applications one is new to (the ``newbieness'' is relative to the application and is irrespective of how experienced one is in regard to computers in general), for less often used applications and for visual (image/video etc.) applications; and a text based interface is best in the remainder of cases.
For example, most web-sites are visually arranged and intended to be viewed with a graphical browser (rather than with a non-graphical browser such as lynx). Web-pages have banners, advertisements and other marginal information visually arranged around their core information. But if there is a particular site that one visits on a regular basis then it becomes worthwhile to consider automatically fetching the core information from that site via a text (script) based interface to the internet.
As another example, one might use a graphical interface to do a search on the internet that results in hundreds of links; then -- if the information in each link is presented in the same html-format -- instead of graphically visiting each link, one can write a script that will visit each link, extract the core information from the link and create a single file with the consolidated information from each link. Note that this text based approach relies on repetitiveness: each link provides information in the same format. (I actually use this technique while searching for jobs!)
(Note that ``text based interface'' is a wider concept than a CLI: and that my ``editable user interface (EUI)'' is a text based interface that is not a CLI.)Note that the appropriateness of an interface is not based on the extent of the user's experience with computers. A person's experience with computers or lack thereof determines the abstractness of the material he learns first and not on which interface and/or operating system he learns. The GUI and CLI interfaces (and the Windows and Unix operating systems) are built on rudimentary ideas and operations that can be learned by beginners.
(And the choice of interface and operating system is no reflection on the user's intelligence.)The author is wrong in attempting to single out a single best interface: GUI or CLI. It is best for users of the computer to mix and match various interfaces depending on their personal contexts. And it makes no difference which interface and operating system (OS) a beginner learns first -- one can be productive and continue growing as long as the learning is conceptually correct. If you continue exploring this subject, you will find that Microsoft develops its products under the premise that its customers are bodies without minds, and that the Open-Source and Free-Software-Foundation advocates work under the premise that people are minds without bodies. Neither of them recognize life as a combination of the mental and the physical.
Those are the remarks.
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Because we live in a society where sex is advertised, accepted and encouraged, it may be hard to distinguish between healthy sexuality and a sex addiction. Sexual addiction can be compulsive masturbation, excessive use of pornography, paying for sexual experiences, infidelity, and in extreme cases, criminal activities involving sex. You may feel that you have no control over your sexual urges and that your actions are making your life difficult. You may feel embarrassed and ashamed of yourself, but you feel that you can't stop.
In some cases, sex addiction may not be about sex itself, but pleasure in general. People get addicted to activities because of the euphoria they get from it. Addicts may seek pleasure through sex to avoid stressors and other issues. Similar to drugs like tobacco, sex triggers pathways in the brain that cause craving, leading addicts back for more to feel satisfied. Addicts may use sex as a way to escape feelings of anxiety, depression, anger, loneliness, and self-hatred.
If your relationship with sex seems unhealthy, it's time to make a change. The right therapy can help you feel in control again, and help you regain your integrity. You are not alone, so you don't have to be ashamed of seeking help. Approximately 30 million Americans suffer from sexual addiction and sex is the number 1 searched topic on the internet. Sexual urges are powerful and dangerous, and you are doing the right thing by seeking help to put an end to it.


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These are all the News & Announcements posted in October, 2011.
Monday, 31
Special Ballet Storytime
The Logan Library is excited to be hosting a Special Ballet Storytime presented by the Cache Valley Civic Ballet! Come hear the story of The Nutcracker and to see a ballerina from the company dance and speak about her experiences as a dancer.
Posted By Logan Library at 11:53 AM / Category:Children
Tuesday, 25
Halloween Storytime
This Halloween stop by the Logan Library for our annual Halloween Storytime!
When: Monday, October 31st at 11:00 am
Where: Jim Bridger Room
Come dressed in your costumes for spooky books, frightfully fun tales, and a special prize for every child that attends! Every child, mummy, & monster is welcome. Children under 3 years old must be accompanied by an adult.
Costumes and registration are not required.
Posted By Logan Library at 8:30 AM / Category:Children
Monday, 17
Staff Reading Pick
Here is another reading pick from the Logan Library Staff.
Book: Scribble, Scribble, Scribble
by Simon Schama
Recommended by: Joseph, Nonfiction Librarian
Historian Simon Schama has a wide range of interests and a flowing pen which combine beautifully and to great effect in his latest book, a collection of articles and book reviews spanning three decades. Whether you are interested in art, history, travel, cooking, or politics, it's all here in Schama's wonderfully descriptive and award-winning style. Here's to hoping there's a second collection in the works!
Want more reading suggestions? View previous staff picks.
Posted By Logan Library at 8:43 AM / Category:Staff Picks
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Due to the recent warnings by the U.S. CPSC and an advisory on sling carriers by Health Canada, Mother Me is advising new families to acquaint themselves with the rules and guidelines for safe babywearing provided by a Health Canada and an international nonprofit organization devoted to the practice of safe babywearing.
Babywearing International Inc. is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote babywearing as a universally accepted practice, with benefits for both child and caregiver, through education and support.
This site provides information on the recent advisory by Consumer Product Safety Commission regarding baby sling safety as well as rules and guidelines for safe babywearing.
Health Canada also provides an advisory and information on the use of infant slings and soft infant carriers.


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I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand.
In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.
When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!
I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me.
This idea of trying to repeat a success doesn't interest me. It's only really done to make money.
My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.
There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.
I have always had strong maternal instincts.
Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow.
I must be allowed to be as I am.
It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security.
There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.
It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!


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Compare this scenario to a shoplifter carrying merchandise, or holding a bulging purse. The visual cue is present that there might be stolen product, which makes it much less discrete for a shoplifter leaving the store.
Concealing merchandise is about plausibly deniability. Even if the alarm responds to the concealed security tags on clothes, a shoplifter who is seen empty handed can blame the clothing alarm on something else. They can believably deny their attempt to shoplift.
When the shoplifters include the use of boosters or bolsters to conceal stolen items, they greatly increase their chance for success.
Boosters can include false casts on arms and legs. There are ways to add extra hidden pockets to an already puffy coat. Sometimes it is as simple as a booster under a woman's dress that looks like a pregnancy belly, but is really a hollow shell designed to have stolen clothing stuffed inside of it.
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System integrators are today's new users
CONTROL contributor and WBF Chairman, Maurice Wilkins, offers his thoughts on where all the end users from manufacturing companies who attend events have gone in this installment of Batch Dispatch.
AT RECENT WBF conferences, people have stopped me and asked, "Where are the users?" And it does seem that fewer users (as in people who work for a manufacturing company) attend these events any more, which started me thinking. Beyond the obvious issues over cost and travel, who and where are the users these days?
If you consider that almost all major companies have not just downsized, but decimated their automation functions (along with many other traditional central engineering functions), it is no surprise that we don't see users (in the old sense of the word) at conferences any longer. So where are the new users?
In my opinion many of the "old users" are now working as consultants or integrators, often for the companies that deemed them unnecessary a few years ago. The growth in systems integration companies has been phenomenal.
So, it goes without saying that one group attending WBF events that we have seen a big increase in is systems integrators, both small and large. Systems Integrators seem to have filled the void left by the disappearing central engineering group. They are, in fact (in my opinion), the new users. Many of them have such close relationships with manufacturing companies that to all intents and purposes they are the central engineering group. The advantage to the manufacturer, though, is the ability to "turn them on and off," and keep the accountants happy.
Many of them are also certified either by one or more of the larger control systems suppliers or by the Control Systems Integrators Association (CSIA). In fact, this is also important to the manufacturers too as shown by the kind of questions being asked of integrators on bid evaluations these days:
- Provide a list of references and/or trade and professional certifications or affiliations that indicate commitment to subscribing to industry best practices and guidelines.
- Regarding your experience in chemical processes or manufacturing, do you have experience implementing Advanced Controls?
- Are you familiar with ISA-88 or implemented batch controls? If so, describe your experience.
- Is your company a registered member of the Control Systems Integrators Association (CSIA)?
- Describe your experience in the integration of and networking of open systems utilizing OPC, ControlNet, Foundation Fieldbus, Modbus and others.
Now, more than ever, manufacturers rely on good systems integrators to "peak lop" in times of high capital expenditure. But more than that, many of today's integrators offer system upgrade, maintenance and management services, and even training. They are able to do this on-site or remotely. They form relationships with a small number of manufacturers and become an extension of the workforce.
At WBF we have recognized this and, with our upcoming North American conference, have started a trial sponsor category for Systems Integrators. We will be holding a "Systems Integrators Café" where these companies can discuss their services and implementation "war stories." WBF has always been very much into the application of the standards, as well as playing a key part in the standards themselves.
The XML schemas developed by a WBF working group are in heavy demand at the moment and we see this group of integrators as possibly being able to help manufacturers with their implementation as ISA-95 becomes more widespread.
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I think I am starting to enjoy being single – in some ways at least. The being lonely part sucks, but at least I don't have to check up with someone constantly to see if they approve of my elaborate plans, or if they are okay with me spending lots of time with my friends. It's…refreshing.
Last night I saw a friend that I hadn't seen in a year. She's got her own place now, so we chilled there. It's so odd having friends with their own place – like their actual own place, not a "rent-a-room" like I had. I also saw two other friends I haven't seen in forever, and the four of us went out for Chinese food (which I dislike, by the way. I know…I'm like the only human being in the world who dislikes Chinese food).
Today I spent the day at McPout's planning her Jack and Jill with most of the wedding party. That was fun, and interesting. I'm beginning to get excited! I was sort of dreading it…just because it takes so much planning and thought and detail, and because I've never actually been to a Jack and Jill so I don't really know what that entails. Now I do though, and I'm pumped! Perhaps it's because they enjoyed my idea of a kissing booth…hehe. 😀
So. I have a confession. I do have a crush on somebody. But he is uninterested…how very surprising. All the guys I crush on are either complete assholes unworthy of my attention OR they actually are good guys, but they just aren't interested. For an interesting person, I'm not very interesting to the good guys. I don't know why that is…but I seem to only have immature pricks interested in me. Go figure. Anyways, because I know he isn't interested, I'm not even going to bother pursuing it. I really have no idea why I mentioned it…probably because it's on my mind currently. I'm sure I'll get over it. The next asshole is waiting, just around the corner!


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Feature: Creationism
Beginning life as a LudumDare #24 winner, Evoland is now a complete, released game, that sets you on a journey through RPG history. Literally. As you play, the genre evolves around you. Mixing together elements from Zelda, Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest and Diablo, is the result the sum of its parts, or falling through the cracks between? Here's wot I think.


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The Candidates page provides access to all candidate information included in your Checkr account, and allows you to manually add new candidates and initiate new background checks, as needed. Use this page to:
- Search for candidates by keyword, status, or background check program
- Issue invitations to single or multiple candidates
- Order a background check manually
- Review individual reports
Search for Candidates
Use the Candidates page to search for and manage your candidates. The default view includes all candidates at any stage in the background check process in your company's Checkr account.
Click Date to sort candidates by the date their background check was initiated. Click a returned candidate to view their report.
Click Export to CSV to download a CSV file of generated reports for the selected date range. When complete, a link to download the file will be sent to the email address listed for your account.
The Candidates page also allows you to create a manual order, or invite more candidates by email.
Search for Continuous Check Candidates
Use the Checkr Dashboard to search for Candidates enrolled in Continuous Check.
From the Candidates page, click show advanced filters.
Select Packages: Continuous Check.
Invite candidates by email
Use the Invite Candidates option to generate invitations to individual or multiple candidates for selected Packages.
- Click Invite Candidates.
- Select a Geo (if enabled), a Package, and a Program (if enabled), then enter up to 25 email addresses to which the invitation will be sent.
Checkr will initiate the invitation workflow, issuing an invitation to participate in the selected Package to the email addresses listed. By default, Checkr will resend the invitation every day for seven calendar days until the candidate either completes the background check authorization or unsubscribes from the invitation. Contact Checkr Customer Support to change the number of days invitations will be sent.
Note: When you invite a candidate, their name will appear in the Candidates page with Invitation Sent as their status. Once the candidate has accepted the invitation and completed the background check, you may click into and view their Report from this page.
Manually order reports
The Candidates page also allows you to manually enter candidate information necessary to run a background check. Use this option to generate a background check without requiring the candidate to enter their information through Checkr's Candidate Portal.
Note: Manual orders require your certification that proper authorization has been obtained from your candidate(s) and are therefore not enabled by default. Contact Checkr Customer Support to enable manual orders.
To order a background check manually:
- From the Candidates page, click +Manual Order.
- In the window that opens, select a Package, Geo, and Program (if enabled), enter the candidate's information, and click Continue.
- In the panel that opens, select the checkbox to confirm that you have collected the candidate's authorization to run the background check, and click Submit to initiate the report.
Authorization Certification Required: By law, it is your responsibility to collect a candidate's consent to run a background check. Checkr requires clients submitting candidate information manually to certify that they have complied with applicable consumer reporting laws and regulations governing the timing of requesting a background check. Manual orders will not be accepted unless you check the box underneath the certification language. For more information on collecting proper consent, see Disclosure and authorization: gaining consent to run background checks in the Checkr Help Center.
Review reports
Use the Candidates page to click down into a specific report. Report views are available as soon as a report has been created. You'll be able to review the PII entered, any exceptions presented to the candidate, and selected background check information (including package and date created). Candidates with no reports will show a status of no report and candidates with multiple reports will show a drawer that opens to all of their reports.
For more information, see Reports.