text: Volume 11 – Issue 2 Volume 11 Issue 2 News & Review Join us in welcoming our new CLSOs and CMLSOs… Message from the Director Before summer is upon us, let's pause to reflect back on our time together in Atlanta at the 2017 International Laser Safety Conference (ILSC), ANSI ASC Z136 annual and ancillary meetings, and BLS reception and Commissioners meeting. As most of you know, I am involved in each of these, making this an exceptionally busy and wonderfully fulfilling week for me. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our CLSOs and CMLSOs in attendance at ILSC. Without you, we would not have had the Medical or Technical Practical Applications Seminars. Chairs: Kay Ball, Vangie Dennis, Patti Owens, Leslie Pollard, Eddie Ciprazo, Jamie King – what a phenomenal job you did to coordinate speakers! Speakers: So many of you stepped up and shared your experiences! Our CMLSOs presented several papers pertaining to smoke hazards, as well as everyday concerns, new technologies, and innovative treatments. Our CLSOs packed years of practical laser safety programming and training into literally a day-and-a-half – overviews of lessons learned, refresher training, setting up a laser lab, automating your safety program – as was promised talks to fill your "LSO Tool Box!" Thanks go out as well to those who chaired or presented during the concurrent Laser Safety Scientific Sessions. It should be no surprise that these folks also participate on ASC Z136 and its subcommittees – bioeffects, non-beam hazards, product safety, user controls and outdoor safety. For them, the week started early Sunday morning with the ASC Z136 annual meeting (more on that In Safety News). The highlight for me was the CLSO & CMLSO Appreciation Reception. What a great honor to present the inaugural BLS Illumination Award! Equally as rewarding was handing out 10-year pins to those in attendance with ten or more years tenure. For those of you with that distinction who were not able to make ILSC, look for your pin to arrive this summer. In the meantime, sit back and enjoy our ILSC memories! https://www.lasersafety.org/2017/05/30/ilsc-2017-highlights/ Barbara Sams Executive Director Board of Laser Safety In Safety News Annual Meeting Overview On March 19, 2017, Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) Z136 held its annual meeting at the Sheraton Atlanta Airport, Atlanta, GA. Just preceding the International Laser Safety Conference (ILSC), this year's meeting boasted the highest number of attendees in recollection, with 47 members and 22 observers participating. Opening the meeting, Barbara Sams, LIA Director of Standards Development announced the appointment of Edward "Ted" Early as ASC Z136 Secretary, and the reappointments of Robert Thomas and Sheldon Zimmerman as Chair and Vice-Chair, respectively. Following approval of the agenda and previous year's minutes, Dr. Thomas presented the report of the Administrative Committee (ADCOM), which included the yearly activities of ASC Z136 consensus body balloting, announcement of subcommittee chairs and membership transitions. Notable changes: The addition of two new subcommittee chairs; Ted Early will be replacing Jeff Pfoutz as standards subcommittee 4 (SSC-4) chair and Jennifer Hunter will be replacing Bruce Stuck as technical subcommittee 1 (TSC-1) chair. SSC-4 is responsible for the maintenance and further development of the Z136.4 Recommended Practice for Laser Safety Measurements for Hazard Evaluation, while TSC-1 is the technical subcommittee that addresses bioeffects and medical surveillance across all standards. Patti Owens, formerly alternate representative for the American Society for Laser Medicine & Surgery, stepped down to assume the primary representative role to the committee for the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses. Taking her place as alternate ASLMS representative, we welcome David McDaniel. Vangie Dennis, former primary representative for AORN is now primary representative of new organizational member Emory Healthcare. Joe Greco and Dan Palmerton, previously representing organizational members were approved as individual members, and join new individual member Daniel Seaman. Finally, we welcome new organizational member Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center with Damien Luviano as its representative. Also discussed during ADCOM reporting was the number of votes one member could hold, recognition and adoption of ANSI Code of Ethics, orderly meeting conduct and LIA business inquiries. Following the ADCOM portion of the meeting, an overview of each subcommittee's activities was presented by its chair. Following lunch, the committee heard from Mike Woods on the National Fire Protection Association's 70E Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace, Article 330, Safety-related Work Practices: Lasers, revisited risk management, and discussed progress made with respect to last year's addition of the Graphic Design Group. New Business explored expanding the standard's table of contents listing level, whether control measures should appear in the horizontal Z136.1 or the vertical standards and concluded with some final committee housekeeping topics, e.g., maintaining one's account, nominating individuals for LIA awards, and suggestions for upcoming meeting sites. BLS Illumination Award The new award recognizes an institution, company, or organization that directly employs a certified Laser Safety Officer & makes outstanding contributions to the laser safety community The Board of Laser Safety (BLS) is proud to announce the first recipient of the BLS Illumination Award, Mount Sinai Health System. The award was presented at the BLS CLSO & CMLSO Appreciation Reception during the 2017 International Laser Safety Conference on March 20 at the Sheraton Atlanta Airport in Atlanta, GA… [more] OSHA Final Rule Issued to Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses Provisions call for employers to electronically submit injury and illness data that they already record Why is OSHA issuing this rule? This simple change in OSHA's rulemaking requirements will improve safety for workers across the country. One important reason stems from our understanding of human behavior and motivation. Behavioral economics tells us that making injury information publicly available will "nudge" employers to focus on safety. And, as we have seen in many examples, more attention to safety will save the lives and limbs of many workers, and will ultimately help the employer's bottom line as well. Finally, this regulation will improve the accuracy of this data by ensuring that workers will not fear retaliation for reporting injuries or illnesses… [more] E-News Survey We'd Love to Hear Your Feedback! Whether you just want to tell us how much you enjoy the newsletter or you have a great idea that would improve it, we want to hear from you! Our goal is to bring you content that is relevant and visually appealing. Please follow the link below to leave your feedback on our online survey; it takes about 5 minutes to complete… Click here to take the survey. Featured CLSOs: Kristy and Merrick DeWitt Tell us about yourself We are the DeWitts, Kristy and Merrick Kristy: I have a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Virginia, and a BS in Chemistry & Physics, with a minor Mathematics at Mary Washington College Merrick: I have a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry as well from Wayne State University, and a BS in Chemistry, from Lawrence Technological University. When did you start working with Lasers? Kristy: I started working with lasers for research (presuming grocery store self-checkout kiosks and DVD players do not count) at the beginning of my graduate career at University of Virginia (UVA). Between my graduate work, post-doc at the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST), and first job in a small laser-development company I have hands-on experience with a wide variety of laser systems, large frame gas lasers (excimer and CO2), solid state CW and pulsed lasers (YAG, YLF, and Ar+), dye lasers, ultrafast lasers and optical parametric amplifiers (OPAs), and fiber lasers. In either a hands-on or laser program oversight capacity, I have worked with lasers for 16 years. Merrick: My graduate research at Wayne State focused first on laser-based mass spectrometry for rapid DNA sequencing in 1991. Challenges we faced in solving that problem led to the fabrication of a chirped-pulse amplified ultrashort laser that I used in studies of fundamental interactions of light and matter and intramolecular redistribution of energy in excited molecules leading to ionization and fragmentation. During graduate research, I used excimer lasers to pump dye lasers for the DNA sequencing studies. The chirped pulse amplification system included argon-ion lasers to pump femtosecond lasers to seed the amplifiers and neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet lasers as the pump sources for the amplifiers. In my post-doctoral studies at the University of Virginia and later in work at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, similar ultrashort pulsed laser systems evolved to include diode-pumped, neodymium-doped yttrium lithium fluoride lasers as much better pump sources for both the femtosecond seed and amplifier lasers as well OPOs and OPAs to increase the range of available laser wavelengths for research, from extreme UV to THz. How did you become the LSO? Kristy: The first company I worked at after my post-doc was developing prototype laser wind speed and direction indicators. When the company began selling the prototypes commercially, they needed someone to make laser emission measurement and prepare product reports to apply for FDA accession numbers. Merrick: I worked for a company developing prototype LIDAR systems for detection of wind speed and direction, and for landing assistance for helicopters in low visibility conditions. When the company began selling the prototypes commercially, they needed someone to make laser emission measurements and prepare product reports to apply for FDA accession numbers. Do you like being the LSO? How has becoming certified benefited you in your career? Kristy: I have found my LSO certification to be very useful and beneficial to my career, even as I have changed my role with respect to laser work considerably. In my first position I was directly involved in the development of new commercial laser products, so my LSO duties were perhaps the most "conventional", measuring laser output parameters and preparing product reports for FDA registration. As I have transitioned to a program oversight role, first as a technical support contractor at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and then IARPA and now as a government program manager at IARPA, I no longer make direct measurements of laser products. However, I use my LSO knowledge to evaluate laser performance characteristics and safety plans in proposals to the government, and in test plans for systems under development. Having the credentials of a certified LSO adds weight to my evaluation of laser safety in both proposed and ongoing government projects, in the projects I directly manage, and other projects for which I provide technical subject matter expertise. Merrick: Following work at the LIDAR company, which sponsored my first CLSO classes and certification, I began supporting research efforts at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in a variety of optical and laser based technologies for which my experience as a CLSO was critical. In one specific case, a program using lasers to detect air disturbances required approvals to operate outdoors by the Laser Clearinghouse, a group of military laser safety personnel who assure safe use of lasers outside the lab. Being able to speak in the "language" of laser safety has always made those interactions much easier than they can be. Other work with projects involving laser guide stars for adaptive optics correction for telescopes and the related safety concerns is another example of how both my experience with lasers and my experience and certification as a CLSO has continued to benefit my work. In fact, in the job I recently left at Parsons, I was the Laser Safety Officer for my division; I oversaw both the safety certifications for and was involved in much of the fundamental research and design work of the portable camera systems that used IR laser illuminators for spectral scene discrimination at night. Featured CMLSO: Terri Clarkson Tell us about yourself My name is Terri Clarkson. I am a Registered Nurse and the CMLSO at SpaMedica in Toronto, Canada under the direction of Dr. Stephen Mulholland. When did you start working with lasers? I have been working with cosmetic surgical/aesthetic lasers at SpaMedica for 20 years now. We have a broad spectrum of technology covering every wavelength available for cosmetic/aesthetic applications. How did you become the LSO? As we grew and expanded, I was asked to be the MLSO and oversee the programs. I became certified in 2004. Do you like being the MLSO? How has becoming certified benefited you in your career? What I enjoy most about being the CMLSO is the continuing education, teaching and sharing of knowledge with colleagues within the workplace. For example, in 2010, I had the privilege of reviewing and critiquing a new training video called "Focal Points" for the Laser Institute of America. Certification has validated my credibility and allowed me to work with different laser companies to assist in their training programs as well. CLSO Charles Wilson CLSO Dušan Zadravec CLSO Joanna Casson CLSO Khalid Alqarni CLSO Leon Harris CMLSO Cindy Montgomery CMLSO Julie Phillips CMLSO Kay Ball CMLSO Tucker Scherger CMLSO Richard L. Roudebush Save the Dates Refresher Training – Earn CM Points! LSO Courses Comprehensive LSO (Kentek) Westford, MA 06/12/2017 – 06/16/2017 LSO with Hazard Analysis (LIA) Denver, CO 06/05/2017 – 06/09/2017 Phoenix, AZ 10/16/2017 – 10/20/2017 Miami, FL 11/06/2017 – 11/10/2017 Principles of Lasers & LSO Course (RLI) Chicago (Evanston), IL 06/19/2017 – 06/23/2017 Cincinnati, OH 08/21/2017 – 08/25/2017 Phoenix, AZ 10/09/2017 – 10/13/2017 MLSO Courses Medical Laser Safety Officer Online (LIA) Medical Laser Safety Officer (LIA) New York, NY 08/12/2017 – 08/13/2017 Rosemont, IL 09/16/2017 – 09/17/2017 Phoenix, AZ 10/14/2017 – 10/15/2017 Miami, FL 11/04/2017 – 11/05/2017 Medical LSO (Reliable Laser Solutions) San Diego, CA 07/13/2017 San Francisco, CA 08/10/2017 Los Angeles, CA 09/07/2017 Tucson, AZ 10/04/2017 Phoenix, AZ 10/19/2017 Medical LSO (RLI) Cincinnati, OH 08/24/2017 – 08/25/2017 Not only did the Z136 standards travel with us to ILSC in Atlanta, but our own CMLSO Kay Ball was onsite and available to autograph sample copies of her soon-to-be-revised book, LASERS – The Perioperative Challenge. Thanks Kay! Tools of the Trade This promotional mailing was generated by the Board of Laser Safety (BLS). BLS is the professional society dedicated to providing a means for improvement in the practice of laser safety by providing opportunities for the education, assessment, and recognition of laser safety professionals. If you prefer not to receive industry related announcements from the Board of Laser Safety you may email email@example.com or contact the BLS at 13501 Ingenuity Dr, Suite 128, Orlando, FL 32826. Tel: +1.407.985.3810 Fax: +1.407.380.5588 http://www.lasersafety.org.


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We traded 20 copies of Poems With Water Trilogy for this new EP out on Wyatt Records in Canada. Only 300 were pressed. Scoop it up bud.
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SELA's JuniorK programs is for children who are preparing to enter Kindergarten the following year.
At the age of four, children are ready for a more academically challenging program. Our Full-Immersion JuniorK program provides a multilingual learning environment that prepares our students to be successful in Kindergarten and all of Elementary school.
Our Global Early Education Curriculum was designed knowing that every child develops and thrives best when given a nurturing, loving, academically challenging, and responsive environment. Our curriculum creates meaningful experiences for children that extend their cognitive, linguistic, physical, and socio-emotional development.
SELA understands that children develop at different rates and therefore provides a student-centered curriculum which helps us to learn the differences in learners, their learning styles, individual needs, interests, and routines. Our role is to be a facilitator of this learning process thus we offer an environment rich in challenging and age-appropriate activities.
Su Escuela's full immersion Vertical Coherence Curriculum provides an opportunity for students to build on what they have learned previously and the lessons reinforce knowledge across the units and levels. SELA curriculum has a logical sequence so that students are learning the knowledge, concepts and skills that will progressively prepare them for a more challenging, higher–level work.
Students will learn how to formulate comments and questions using appropriate syntax. They will be able to ask about unfamiliar vocabulary words and make meaningful connections with it. Students will be able to tell a story with full sentences and sequence, demonstrate understanding of the stories that are read aloud, and make comments. Students will also begin to understand humor.
Writing & Grammar
Students will recognize his or her name, begin to write the alphabet and numbers, write his or her name, create stories using drawings, start using dictation, clap syllables to simple words; write his or her name and 2-4 syllable words. Students will also begin using cursive.
Algebraic Thinking: Students recognize numbers, quantities, and become capable of counting 1-20-50. Children will solve simple addition & subtraction problems, whole and 1⁄2.
Geometry: Students will be able to recognize Shapes & Attributes; produce geometric patterns and simple patterns AB, ABC, ABB.
Measure & Data: Measure & attribute, graph, estimate.
Students will explore cause and effect through different hands-on experiences and using the scientific method. They will create their own hypothesis according to observations and interpret outcomes, individually and in small groups. Teachers will use a lot of questioning techniques to promote the use of the second language.
Students will expand their creativity and be able to express and represent what they observe, think, imagine, and feel through two- and three-dimensional art. They will explore the natural world through observing how colors interact with each other and with different lighting. Students also are exposed to artists and begin to appreciate characteristics and styles of artists.
Students will learn facts about geography, maps vs. globes, where they live, community members,and national and international celebrations. They will learn to recognize their country, state, and city, as well as, to identify the president and other symbols of the United States. Students will review geographical concepts like mountains, rivers, seas, etc. Also they will learn about some of the major ancient civilizations around the world.
Self-help skills are developed through the day in various activities which will strengthen behaviors that eventually lead to independence. Zippers, buttons, snaps, putting on shoes and socks, managing outerwear independently, hanging up coat and backpacks, putting their books and homework in their backpacks, bringing his or her homework when its due, eating with utensils, setting the table for snack, independently open containers, toilets independently, working on knowing their phone number and address.
Students will jump over objects, zig-zag, use big muscles for balancing, skip, walk up and down stairs, ride and steer tricycle, somersault, and maintain balance.
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Button or unbutton, zip and unzip, complete 8-20 piece puzzles, cut on the line with scissors, draw a person with 6 or more parts, copies letters, draw simple objects, color within the lines, model with clay or play-dough, write first name, use pencil and brushes with pincer grasp.
Students will begin to recognize different elements of music like rhythms and tempos. He or she will begin to recall new songs, learn the chorus of the songs, make up songs, dance according to music, can understand the lyrics.
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Brands now have to exist in a much more participative and social online environment. They're expected to be more engaged with their audiences and customers online, more flexible in the way they create and share content and more responsive to the needs of the people they talk to.
Brands also have to contend with a more fragmented media environment and the greater plurality of sources from which people receive messages. According to the Edelman Trust Barometer research, people now need to hear a message between three to five times from different sources before they are willing to believe it:
Source: Edelman Trust Barometer 2013
These changes mean crafting a digital strategy demands more care and consideration than ever before, whether you're a large organisation operating in several markets and countries, or a smaller business working to establish a profile. There are plenty of considerations to think about when developing a strategy; here are five that from experience I've found to be particularly important:
- Executive sponsorship: Support from senior leaders and their recognition of the value digital can deliver to the organisation is crucial to driving change. For digital to fulfil its potential, it needs to be considered an integral part of the business strategy. This means the digital strategy must be aligned with organisational goals and designed to deliver against key business objectives so that its value is quantifiable.
- Scalability: The digital landscape – and social media in particular – is evolving rapidly, in terms of technology and user behaviour. The strategy must be flexible enough to enable the organisation to adapt swiftly to change. It must also be capable of scaling with the business, enabling activity to be deploying quickly in new countries or markets with a roadmap in place to support this process.
- Organisation: Digital typically demands and encourages greater integration between organisational divisions to create content and manage interactions with audiences. As you plan the digital strategy, think about internal process or organisational changes that might also need to happen to make it work.
- Engagement: The strategy should give you the opportunity to conduct controlled pilots for digital campaigns and evaluate outcomes to determine how activity should be scaled across the business. In this way, you can increase your digital maturity in a safe and manageable way, extending programmes and service improvement ideas across the organisation based on the outcomes of the trials.
- Evaluation: The digital strategy must be founded upon a robust measurement framework that enables you to track the relationship between digital activities and outcomes relevant to the objectives of the business. This framework should underpin all digital pilot programmes and large scale initiatives so that everything can be evaluated according to a common set of criteria. Evaluation will not only allow you to measure the effectiveness of activities in reaching audiences and stakeholders, but also identify when changes can be made to improve future performance.
There are plenty more that could be added to the list, so please do add any that from your experience are particularly important.


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Now that the paperwork is in place for both a publishing company and an EIN with the IRS, the next step is to open a bank account. Keeping a separate business account will make everything easier for taxes and maintaining your business records. For me, it was as easy as filling out an application with my … Continue reading
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DIY Scarlet Witch, version 1
"I can't control their fear, only my own." I don't have many "making of" pics for this costume because it required little updating other than buying the clothes: Black boots (I used ones I already owned) Black knee-high socks/stockings (I got thicker knit ones, similar to these) Black dress (I got an older version similar … Continue reading
Death and Taxes (in Self-Publishing)
With a self-publishing roadmap in hand and company paperwork in order, it's time to move on to everyone's favorite topic: taxes. This blog post from Helen Sedwick outlines why it's so import to file for an EIN with the IRS, instead of relying solely on your Social Security Number. It's quick and easy to fill … Continue reading
Creating a Publishing Company
Early in self-publishing journey, after doing a lot of research (you can find some links in my previous post), I decided to create my own publishing company. This allows me to have more control in the long-term and offers more legitimacy for being a self-publishing author. I decided on a name first – Emerald Rose … Continue reading
DIY Daenerys Targaryen Costume
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Embedded systems have become commonplace in today's society and the number of functions and their complexity are steadily increasing. This can be attributed to the advances in the microprocessor technology and the continuous development of more powerful and power-efficient microprocessors, which, in turn, allows more elaborate software implementations. Consequently, there is a strong interest in finding methods and tools that support flexible and efficient development of embedded software.Component-based design is an attractive approach for design of complex software systems. It reduces development time and cost and improves overall maintainability and robustness of the system. These benefits have been proven difficult to realize when designing software for embedded systems. In particular, it is a challange to manage the extra-functional properties of such systems (e.g. timing).This thesis presents a component-based software design methodology that enables constructing complex software for resource-constrained embedded systems, in particular systems with limited processing power and memory. The underlying component model is based on reactive objects, which are suitable for modeling embedded software. The component model along with the design methodology allows both functional and timing properties of a system model to be preserved during implementation process. Further, it enables the developer to offer platform-independent correctness for real-time systems, provided that the software can be scheduled on a given hardware platform.An effective use of the methodology requires tools supporting it. An integrated development environment (IDE), REKO, has been developed and is presented in this thesis. REKO supports constructing system models graphically and generating C code from the model for execution on bare metal. Using C code makes it easier to integrate REKO with existing tool chains used in industry. The thesis also includes a case study, in which REKO is used for designing a real-life system.The case study demonstrates the potential of the methodology to bridge the gap between state-of-the-art in component-based software design on the one hand, and the methods and tools currently used in the industry on the other.
This paper describes work in progress on a tool for component-based design of embedded real-time software. The tool supports graphical modeling of software systems using concurrent reactive objects and components, as well as generation of C code from the model. The resulting application code can then be combined with a lightweight kernel for execution on bare metal.
Designing software for embedded systems is complicated by such factors as the tight integration between software and hardware, scarceness of available resources, and hard real-time requirements. In our earlier work we proposed a component-based approach based on modeling both hardware and software using reactive objects and time-constrained reactions, which should allow us to overcome these difficulties. We also presented a software design methodology for embedded real-time systems.Here we describe a system developed using this methodology and discuss its advantages. The system is a personal alarm device that should be worn at the waist of a person and that should detect his or her fall and send an alarm signal. The implementation of the system was verified using a Simulink-based simulator. The simulation demonstrated that, even though calculation of acceleration was simplified to allow for an efficient execution on a resource-constrained platform, fall detection remained satisfactory.The case study demonstrates the advantages of the proposed software design methodology, including the fact that functional and timing properties of a system model can be preserved during implementation process by means of a seamless transition between a model and an implementation.
Model and component based design is an established means for the development of large software systems, and is starting to get momentum in the realm of embedded software development. In case of safety critical (dependable systems) it is crucial that the underlying model and its realization captures the requirements on the timely behavior of the system, and that these requirements can be preserved and validated throughout the design process (from specification to actual code execution). To this end, we base the presented work on the notion of Concurrent Reactive Objects (CRO) and their abstraction into Reactive Components.In many cases, the execution platform puts firm resource limitations on available memory and speed of computations that must be taken into consideration for the validation of the system.In this paper, we focus on code synthesis from the model, and we show how specified timing requirements are preserved and translated into scheduling information. In particular, we present how ceiling levels for Stack Resources Policy (SRP) scheduling and analysis can be extracted from the model. Additionally, to support schedulability analysis, we detail algorithms that for a CRO model derives periods (minimum inter-arrival times) and offsets of tasks/jobs. Moreover, the design of a micro-kernel supporting cooperative hardware- and software-scheduling of CRO based systems under Deadline Monotonic SRP is presented.
Embedded systems are inherently reactive and they often operate under resource and real-time constraints. Hence, a model supporting these fundamental properties is desirable for an efficient and correct design process. To this end, we have developed a component model and design methodology that enables component-based design of embedded software. Moreover, we have developed an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that ensures a systematic development of software in accordance with the methodology.
In this paper we review the IDE and it's underlying modeling framework and demonstrate its applicability through a use-case with typical properties - a control system with real-time constraints and hardware interaction. This paper describes the whole design process – requirements specification, conceptual model, component-level design, component implementation, code synthesis, testing, and verification. In particular, we show how the modeling framework enforces a static component and communication structure reflecting the concurrent behavior of the system and its interaction with the environment (target platform).
Our results (a working protoype) indicate applicability of the presented design approach, and show the IDE's ability to generate efficient executables. Additionally, we show how to prove the schedulability of the target system in the IDE using standard scheduling theorems and machine assisted WCET measurements.
In conclusion, this paper demonstrates both the applicability of the software design methodology and the functionality of the developed IDE.
Embedded systems have become commonplace in today's society and their complexity and number of functions are steadily increasing. This can be attributed to the unceasing advances in the microprocessor technology and the continuous delivery of more powerful and power-efficient microprocessors, which, in turn, allows more elaborate software implementations. Consequently, there is a strong interest in finding methods and tools that support flexible and efficient development of embedded software. Since these qualities are typically attributed to component-based design it makes sense to develop new design techniques targeting embedded systems based on components. This thesis aims to adapt the traditional component-based design approach for development of embedded real-time software. Component-based design relies on the existence of consistent and coherent models of individual components that can be composed to model the whole system. However, it can be argued that the special characteristics of embedded systems make such modeling challenging. One reason is that embedded systems typically exhibit a strong integration between hardware and software, which leads to a need for a common design space, or at least the possibility to create consistent models of both hardware and software components of an embedded system. Another reason is that the majority of embedded systems can be viewed as real-time systems and therefore it is necessary to express timing requirements alongside functional properties in the model. In order to overcome these difficulties, we adopt a reactive perspective, in which the functionality of both hardware and software is described in terms of time-constrained reactions of reactive objects. This enables capturing the complete functionality of the system (hardware and software) along with timing requirements in a single model.The reactive view lies behind the modeling framework for embedded real-time systems and the component-based software design methodology presented in this thesis. The methodology allows both functional and timing properties of a system model to be preserved during implementation process by means of a seamless transition between a model and an implementation, whereas the modeling framework enables the developer to offer platform-independent correctness for real-time systems, provided that the software can be scheduled on a given hardware platform. Further, this thesis includes a case study, in which the methodology is used for designing a real-life system. The case study demonstrates the potential of the methodology to bring the benefits of classical component-based design to the realm of embedded systems.
The increasing complexity of embedded software calls for a new, more efficient design approach. A natural choice is to use well-established component-based design; however, its adoption to design of embedded software has been slow and riddled with difficulties. It can be argued that these problems are due to the following peculiarities of embedded systems. Firstly, the tight integration between hardware and software, typical for embedded systems, makes it virtually impossible to model and implement software separately from hardware. Secondly, it is difficult to express timing requirements, an intrinsic part of functionality of many embedded systems, in dataflow abstractions traditionally used in component-based design. We propose to overcome these difficulties by introducing a uniform, consistent modeling of both hardware and software and by integrating timing requirements into the model. We present a modeling framework based on the notions of reactive objects and time-constrained reactions, which enables component-based design of embedded real-time systems. Within this framework, functionality of both hardware and software components is defined in terms of reactions to discrete external events, and timing requirements are specified for each reaction relative to the event that triggered it. We also present a detailed software design methodology for embedded real-time systems based on our modeling framework.
About one third of home-dwelling people over 65 years of age fall each year. Falling, and the fear of falling, is one of the major health risks that affects the quality of life among older people, threatening their independent living. In our pilot study, we found that fall detection with a waist-worn triaxial accelerometer is reliable with quite simple detection algorithms. The aim of this study was to validate the data collection of a new fall detector prototype and to define the sensitivity and specificity of different fall detection algorithms with simulated falls from 20 middle-aged (40-65 years old) test subjects. Activities of daily living (ADL) performed by the middle-aged subjects, and also by 21 older people (aged 58-98 years) from a residential care unit, were used as a reference. The results showed that the hardware platform and algorithms used can discriminate various types of falls from ADL with a sensitivity of 97.5% and a specificity of 100%. This suggests that the present concept provides an effective method for automatic fall detection.
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Both categories: Current Cost Wireless Energy Monitor – With this gadget you'll know how much energy you are using each moment. It'll help you keep costs down and reduce your carbon footprint. The display tells you your real-time electricity use in kWh, cost in pence, and there's a memory for the previous day/week/month, as well as the time and temperature!
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Opposing this move Ayush Lohia, CEO, Lohia Auto Industries said "Keeping the Electric Vehicle industry at 12 percent tax band can prove to be harmful for this industry."
" The reason being that states such as Rajasthan & Uttrakhand already have 0 percent VAT on Electric Vehicles; in such a scenario levying 12 percent GST on this industry will negatively impact sales and impose a burden on consumers and dampen demand , as the cost will go up by 12 percent" he added.
Company also believes that GST will increase overall product cost.
The company believes that initial 3-4 years the government should have given a short term relief.
Lower taxes would have resulted in sales push and would have improved consumer experience and help built a customer base.
He further added that "it will be good if under new tax system, the government at least brings down the GST slab on Electric vehicles to 0-5 percent. Moreover, in times to come the government should encourage the sales by offering subsidies etc. so that demand for these vehicles goes up significantly.
Also with the applicable rates for GST customer will gain comprehensive benefit". If GST is kept low for EVs then the government's tax earnings from EV industry will obviously increase as it will boost sales and increased production.
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One amendment to the Canadian Trade-marks Act that is expected to be implemented in 2018 dispenses with the need to file a Declaration of Use affirming sales of the goods and/or the performance of the services identified in a proposed use application in association with the applied-for trademark in the normal course of trade.
This radical change in the registration process has meet considerable opposition as many fear, inter alia, that it permits entities to include a broad list of goods and/or services, in their trademark applications when they have no intention of ever selling most of the goods or performing many of the services in Canada.
Some non-Canadian applicants are undoubtedly very happy with this coming change. However, it may not come without "a price".
Canada is currently one of the cheapest countries in the world to file an application. It only costs $250 to file an application for any number of goods and services with a registration fee of $200. The Canadian Trade-marks Office is in consultation over fee changes and is proposing to eliminate the registration fee and charge government filing fees on a per-class basis.
Fees that have been proposed in public consultation by the Office are:
– $330 for the first class of goods or services
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– This will result in significant increases in the cost of multi-class applications.
Long term costs borne in maintaining multi-class registrations will also increase. Currently the Office charges a flat fee of $350 to renew a registration for a term of 15 years. Under the new regime, the Office is proposing to charge renewal fees of $400 for the first class and $125 for each additional class in a registration for a term of 10 years.
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As the economy sputters like a car engine running on fumes, no other place in Iowa feels the economic downturn like this community of 4,300.
The Des Moines Register reported that nearly one in 10 people is unemployed in Hancock and Winnebago counties, which Forest City straddles.
Many of those without jobs here once worked at Winnebago Industries Inc., the motorhome manufacturer that just five years ago had 4,220 workers and three buzzing production lines. These days, instead of getting overtime pay, factory employees who still have jobs work 32-hour weeks. One production line that's eight football fields long is shut down. The company's employment is down 60%, to 1,700 workers.
The border between Hancock and Winnebago counties has become the fault line where Iowa's manufacturing economy has cracked.
The state's most recent unemployment rate showed 4.6% of Iowans were unemployed in December, up from 4.3% the month before. New numbers are expected to be released this week, showing whether Iowa's economy has worsened.
Nationwide, unemployment rose to 8.1% in February. The economy has shed more than 4 million jobs since the recession began in late 2007. Two states, Michigan and Rhode Island, topped 10% unemployment in December.
Iowa has the country's sixth-lowest unemployment rate, according to the most recent data. And even though there are 13,200 more unemployed people than a year before in Iowa, the jobless rate is nowhere near a record high. That came in 1982 and 1983, when 8.5 percent of Iowans were unemployed during the farm crisis.
Still, in the counties that most lean on struggling Winnebago Industries, the employment picture seems bleak.
The Register reported that Hancock County, home of Winnebago, has Iowa's highest unemployment rate at 9.1%. Neighboring Winnebago County is third at 8.5%.
"We don't have 50 companies up here that are laying off half (of their) employees," said Teresa Nicholson, executive director of Winn-Worth Betco, an economic development organization for Winnebago and Worth counties. "We have one."
That one company, however, has shed some 2,500 jobs in five years.
Driving into Forest City, rural charm meets you at the door. The first noticeable building in town is the Forest City Cow Palace, a livestock wholesaler. Forest City is a place where neighbors call if your dog's loose, the elementary school principal knows every student by name and $4 still buys a movie ticket at the one-screen Forest Theatre.
Residents brag that their small town comes with bigger-town amenities: Two locally owned grocery stores. Other big employers such as 3M and an engine filter manufacturer. A college, Waldorf, still attracts international students despite financial worries. A new aquatic center. And a full-service YMCA.
But it's a sign of the times that the Forest City YMCA now offers scholarships for families of laid-off Winnebago employees. The food bank served 146 families last month, twice as many as a year ago. Twenty of those families had never visited before.
An outsider might expect ex-employees to be angry. But people here are loyal. They know what Winnebago has meant to this area.
When the travel trailer factory opened in 1958, Forest City's future wasn't bright. The farm economy was struggling. Young people were leaving.
In 1970, Winnebago expanded, and the company was listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The stock appreciated nearly 500 percent in 1971. Playboy magazine wrote about Forest City in an article titled "Oh, Little Town of Millionaires."
According to the Register, Winnebago grew the next several decades. Annual sales surpassed $1 billion for the first time in 2004, the good days, when gas was cheap and credit was easy.
Times have changed.
"When the market is down like it is and people aren't buying large discretionary products like RVs, it's hard to have a work force standing around, waiting to fill orders," said Kelli Harms, a Winnebago spokeswoman.
People in this town have faith the RV market will turn around.
"When this market comes back, it'll come back crazy and it'll come back fast," Harms said. "People love traveling, love RVs, love the great outdoors."
But people also love a surplus of jobs. For now, that's something Winnebago can't offer.


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Last Hobbit dwarfs done
I've got the last dwarfs done as well as Bilbo for my Smaug model. All that's left to call my hobbit box done is the one goblin scribe. For some reason I didn't do him with the rest of the goblins. He's been base coated and washed, so its just some final highlights for him. I can't believe how long this project has been unfinished... it appears I did an unboxing December 2012, so 3 years. Yikes, how hobby time gets away from you.
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Stained glass, restored moldings highlight Oakland Queen Anne Victorian
The stately Queen Anne Victorian at 648 Chetwood St. is one of the original homes in the Rose Garden subsection of Oakland's Grand Lake neighborhood. But when Cecil and Janet Pulliam, purchased the five-bedroom home more than 20 years ago, it was definitely showing its age.
The exterior paint was peeling, the bathrooms were dated and the windows couldn't keep heat from escaping the home. But the bones of the home were strong and many of the Victorian finishes like the wainscoting and stained glass in the foyer remained intact. Seeing the potential, Cecil Pulliam, now a retired contractor, set out to revive the majestic tri-level home.
"We didn't have to do any stripping inside," he said. "All the fancy stuff in the living room and dining room was intact."
The exterior, however, was another story. To get inspired, the couple drove across the Bay Bridge and looked at Victorians in San Francisco. They observed a plethora of colors splashed on the homes around the city. Ultimately, they settled on a scheme of a mellow beige highlighted with white trim, while forest green, brick orange and copper paints provided fine detailing.
Additionally, the couple added balconies off the back of the home on the main and top levels. The covered porch off the main level provides a shaded gathering place with steps leading down to the backyard.
In addition to the grass pad, the backyard includes a concrete patio and detached cottage. Reflecting the neighborhood's past as an agricultural community, the cottage features a hayloft door similar to those found on barns.
But the cottage is not just there for looks, said Brian Cheek of Alain Pinel Realtors, who is listing the home for $995,000.
The cottage includes plumbing and a full bathroom. Though permitting would be required, the next owner could install a kitchen in the detached building as well, he said.
"The potential is there," he said.
The home is defined by Victorian detailing and architecture. Ceilings on the bedroom level are steep, and the front bedroom offers a view of the Bay Bridge through its gabled window. Pocket doors separate the kitchen, dining room, living room and family room, but the main floor does not feel compartmentalized, Cheek said. The sliding doors enable each room to be its own space, but the layout flows when the doors are recessed.
With high ceilings, hardwood floors and a view of the Piedmont hills, the country kitchen is a highlight of the home. Though it has modern amenities like stainless steel appliances and a gas range, the home embraces its history with a Wedgwood stove in the corner of the kitchen.
While remodeling the home, the Pulliams came across coloring books, postcards and pictures from the original owners, as well as the original electric permit from 1916. The permit has been framed and will be given to the next owners, Cheek said.
The period details are among Cecil Pulliam's favorite features of the home. From bay windows peering out at the neighborhood to buttresses supporting doorjambs on the main level, the home exudes Victorian elegance. The master bedroom includes a private balcony, loft area and skylights, while other bedrooms offer built-in drawers, crawl spaces and uniquely angled windows.
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Exclusive Interview with Poker Lion's Navneet Makharia
The poker industry in India is booming since the last couple of years and while live poker is more restricted, online poker is growing in most parts of the country. Riding this wave of the poker boom, one of the latest in the poker industry which has been pretty impressive thus far is Poker Lion.
Poker Lion is owned and operated by the Kolkata-based Ability Games Group who decided to enter the Indian poker business by purchasing a team in the Match Indian Poker League - Goa Lions. It was around the same time when the group also launched their poker website - www.pokerlion.com.
To get to know the brand better, Gutshot Magazine caught up with Poker Lion Founder and Director, Navneet Makharia. The 28-year old has completed his B.Tech from Vellore Institute of Technology and his MBA from IMT Nagpur, having worked previously with SpeedMedicine, Leo Cements, ICS Dyechem and others.
"I began playing the real money games during my college days along with my mates gradually. Poker was always my first preference while playing the real money games. Not just me, the other founders of Ability Games, under which Poker Lion has been developed are poker enthusiasts as well," said Makharia about his introduction to the game of poker.
Further, he told us about how he got into the poker business, saying, "When playing real money games on different Indian websites, I faced huge hindrances making cash transactions, whether depositing or withdrawing any amount. Many of the sites didn't even have a user-friendly interface. It was good that I had prior experience of poker before I started playing on different websites, or else new players had to face hardships in playing and understanding the game on these websites. These things made me think about getting into this business – to make an error free online poker website for Indians. Another major thing that brought me to this venture is to spread poker as a sport to the common people, just like cricket, football and other sports are."
Q. Tell us about the experience of being part of the Match IPL with your team, Goa Lions. How did the idea of buying a team come up? What are your plans for this team in the future?
"Being a part of Match IPL with our team Goa Lions was the first step in our aim to establish poker as the game of skill and make it a sport in India. India is a nation, where poker is still not accepted wholly by the common people. Hence, through our team and MIPL, we aim to get poker accepted nationally and then globally. This was our key reason to own Goa Lions. In future, we hope to get success to this initial purpose and make poker a widespread popular game."
Q. Tell us more about the Poker Lion platform.
"Pokerlion.com is the latest real money poker website of India. As a leading and advanced supplier of online gaming software solutions for gaming sites worldwide, Microgaming has developed PokerLion's gaming software and incorporated their technology to our website. Microgaming has got its feet firmly into the online gaming sector with a rich choice of games and superb quality."
"Hence, we ensure that the structure and the manner in which we offer games developed by Microgaming on our website is not misused by restricted states and users below 18 years. Our website has simple navigation, security by eCogra, an intelligent fraud analysis system, a strictly collusion free software and safety from chip dumping. This helps the players of Poker Lion play the games in a risk-free manner and have ultimate fun during their gaming sessions."
Q. What are the minimum and maximum deposit limits? What is the turnaround time on cashouts?
"There is as such no minimum or maximum deposit limits to play poker at Poker Lion. A player can deposit from Re.1 to any amount of cash he wishes to play games on the site. Our turnaround time on cashouts is a minimum of one business day."
Q. What are the different customer support services provided by Poker Lion?
"Yes, we have a 24x7 customer support team working to solve queries technical issues faced by our players. The players can also write to us at [email protected]"
- Helpdesk Number: 033-66078555
- WhatsApp Number: +91 9073335666.
Q. How are you combatting the issue of bans from poker players from states like Telangana, Gujarat, etc?
"Geo-blocking is the system used to limit users' access to the website, based on their geographic location. The laws in Assam, Odisha, Telangana and Gujarat restrict residents of the states from using the services offered on our website. Hence, we use geo-blocking to restrict the usage of our website from those states. Further, strict KYC norms help us filter out the penetrates if any."
Q. Could you explain PokerLion's bonus offers, VIP programs and rewards system? Any special offers for new joinees?
"For the new players, Poker Lion has Rs 500 as the welcome bonus. For its regular players, PokerLion offers other amazing promotions to motivate players from all over the nation for improving their poker skills and making money out of it. The players can keep checking for more exciting bonus updates on the website and its social media channels.
- 50% bonus on deposit up to Rs 499
- 100% bonus on deposit of Rs 500
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- 200% bonus on deposit of Rs 2000 + 1 movie tickets
- 300% bonus on deposit of Rs 5000 + 3 movie tickets
- Lastly, referring a friend brings Rs 1000 as a referral bonus to a player
Q. With many poker sites coming up every month, how do you plan to carve you own identity and space in the growing Indian poker landscape?
"With top-quality graphics, easy user interface, easy cash transactions and innovative technology Poker Lion aims to bring alive the classic on-screen poker. We have a unique concept binding all the Poker lovers under one roof to start the game!"
Q. Please elaborate upon your future expansion plans.
"With the continuous development of Pokerlion.com and the poker team Goa Lions, other projects like 11wickets.com - a fantasy cricket game website and Rummy 24.com - an online website for the game of rummy are on the development phase and will be launched soon."
On a parting note, Makharia said, "We hope our readers will visit pokerlion.com for once and play the game to get the experience of this game as a sport. Thank you"
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Tidewater and weather-exposure tests on various aluminum alloys, magnesium alloys, and stainless steels are now being conducted by the National Bureau of Standards. Exposures were begun in June 1938 and, according to present plans, are to continue over a 3-year period. The methods of exposure and the materials being investigated are described and the more important results obtained up to the conclusion of the first year's exposure are reported.
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The Sofitel Champs Elysees:
"C'est Unforgettable"
Myrna Katz Frommer
Harvey Frommer
Parisian taxi drivers can become instant confidantes. On our last trip
several months ago, Henri became a fast friend as he drove us from Charles
de Gaulle Airport into Paris. We had not yet cleared the airport when he
turned around and asked, "You are Americans, no? How do you like the
singing of Nat King Cole?"
He's one of our favorites, we said.
"Bon!" said Henri. "Mine too. If you like, I can play some songs for you." And before we could reply, he had popped a tape into the player. Who could complain? We sat back and, oblivious to the early morning traffic, sailed into Paris accompanied by the old romantic refrains: 'Too Young,' 'Mona Lisa,' and 'Unforgettable.' "Ah," he sighed after this last song, "c'est magnifique!"
Driver and passengers were so lulled by the music, we forgot to discuss our destination, and now as we approached the city, Henri suddenly turned and asked "But which hotel are you going to?"
"The Sofitel Champs Elysees."
He gave us a quizzical look. "I know many Sofitels, but not one on the Champs Elysees."
We dug up our confirmation. "The address is 8 rue Jean Goujon."
"Ah, Jean Goujon? Mais oui," said Henri. He turned off the beltway and onto the Avenue de St. Ouen heading towards the eighth arrondisement and the Champs Elysees. There followed a series of twists and turns down narrow one-way streets lined with town houses, small cafes, and elegant shops, a loop around a small plaza, a turn into a single small block, and our taxi had pulled up before a manor house from the period of Napoleon III with strikingly modern glass doors. "Voila," Henri announced, "the Sofitel Champs
This trip to Paris had been a last minute affair and not having time to shop around for hotels, we selected the Sofitel Champs Elysees primarily for its right bank location and for its being walking distance from many of our favorite Parisian haunts. One cross street of the rue Jean Goujon is the Avenue Franklin Roosevelt and directly across is the Palais de la Decouverte or science museum.
The Grand Palais which hosted the acclaimed 1900 Exhibition was just beyond. The right bank of the Seine is a single block away, and from that point, it was just a short walk to our favorite bridge the Pont Alexandre III. We crossed this exquisite classical structure back and forth from the right to the left bank and back again. In the opposite direction, the Rond Point of the Champs Elysees was also a single block's walk. With the Arc de Triomphe at one end, and the Place de la Concorde at the other, we were able to stroll the length of the legendary boulevard, watch the pedestrian parade while sipping café au lait at an outdoor café, linger beneath the flowering chestnut trees, and still walk back to our hotel. From the Sofitel Champs Elysees, we walked to the Tuilleries, the Louvre, the Rue de Rivoli, and the Musee d-Orsay. Or we toured the other corner street of the rue Jean Goujon, the Avenue Montaigne which is lined with private residences, small upscale hotels, and expensive shops. For distant landmarks like the Sunday Flea Market or Le Marais, we took the metro from the Franklin Roosevelt stop which also was a single block away.
But, we soon discovered, there is more to the Sofitel Champs Elysees than a good location. While it shares the luxury Sofitel logo, this forty room hotel has more in common with boutique hotels than those belonging to a huge international chain. Its cheerful and attentive staff got to know us quickly and were at the ready to dispense the advice travelers always require. We were even greeted by Michel Fernet, the movie star-handsome Directeur General, who upon learning we were celebrating a special event arranged a dinner reservation at the two-star Michelin Le Pre Catelan located in the depths of the Bois de Bologne where we were welcomed like members of the family and treated to a special desert, courtesy of the chef.
The glittering Sofitel Champs Elysees is an interesting combination of the old and the new. Its bright marble lobby is minimalist-modern yet has a statuesque turn-of-the-century staircase which grandly winds its way up to the second floor. Its recently re-furbished rooms are twenty-first century streamlined with sleek built-ins, recessed lights, and state of the art bathrooms while a ground floor courtyard garden speaks of the leisure of old fashioned afternoons. But the overall scene is one of concentrated activity as the Sofitel Champs Elysees doubles as home to the Press Club de France. Our first morning, a group of journalists were milling about in the lobby waiting for the son of the late Shah of Iran who was about to hold a press conference. And our comings and goings throughout our stay brought us in contact with newspaper and television journalists who had stopped by for a drink and conversation or to attend press conferences.
When we booked our room at the Sofitel Champs Elysees, all we knew was that it was a well- situated four-star hotel. But as it turned out, this small luxurious establishment with the environment of an intimate guest house and at the same time a fast paced newsroom provided us with an experience that was, like Henri's favorite song, "unforgettable."
Sofitel Paris Champs-Elysees
8 rue Jean Goujon
75008 Paris
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About the Authors: Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer are a wife and husband
team who successfully bridge the worlds of popular culture and traditional
scholarship. Co-authors of the critically acclaimed interactive oral histories
It Happened in the Catskills, It Happened in Brooklyn, Growing Up Jewish in
America, It Happened on Broadway, It Happened in Manhattan, It Happened in
Miami. They teach what they practice as professors at Dartmouth College.
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as well as cultural history and Jewish history and heritage in the United
States, Europe, and the Caribbean.
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