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Yes. For each additional room or zone you wish to monitor you need to purchase one Rialto additional thermostat: pair it in few seconds to the Rialto WhiteBox gateway, simply following the instructions on the Rialto App.
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TV DOLLARS…IN 2015? Are the NewFronts an attempt by Web video companies to get at TV ad budgets? If so, you'd think the Web video players would present more – actual shows maybe. But as the first day of the NewFronts kicked off in New York, those big buzzy TV dollars stealing hits were hard to envision.
Yahoo came the closest during its splashy presentation at Lincoln Center. The embattled portal has greenlighted two half-hour comedy shows from big name directors, including Paul Feig ("Bridesmaids," "Freaks and Geeks"), who is producing a sci-fi comedy called "Other Space," reports WSJ's Digits. The other series is "Sin City Saints," a sitcom about a lousy Las Vegas-based basketball team. Amazingly, neither show will premiere until next year, and thus Yahoo had no clips for advertisers available. Thus, Yahoo spent much of its presentation talking about Tumblr, native ads and brand lift from search and display ads – talk that had to have any invited TV buyers squirming in their seats. If anything turned advertisers heads, it was the announcement of a deal with the concert promoter Live Nation that will result in Yahoo streaming a different live concert every day of the year. More in full post.


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Solartopia Green Power and Wellness Hour – 08.24.17
ELECTRONIC ELECTION THEFT, RENEWABLE GREEN POWER & THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE fill our souls today in Solartopia today.
ELECTRONIC ELECTION THEFT, RENEWABLE GREEN POWER & THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE fill our souls today in Solartopia today.
Donald Trump. (photo: Bill Clark/Roll Call)
By Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman, Reader Supported News
13 February 17
s the nightmare reality of Donald Trump sinks in, we need to put our resistance in a larger perspective.
There's no need here to list what he is doing and is prepared to do to what remains of our rights, freedoms, economy, ecology, human dignity, sense of justice, the future of our children and much, much more. Donald Trump appears at this point to be our worst national nightmare.
For many of us, it will be the challenge of a lifetime to solve this problem. Millions of words will be written about it in the months to come.
But we might start by comparing him to the kinds of leaders our nation has forced on other countries, and by making some kind of amends. Trump is, in fact, our own imperial vulture come home to roost.
Indeed, he's actually (so far) a moderate compared to scores of murderous dictators the US has installed in other countries throughout the world. Especially since World War II, our imperial apparatus has constantly subverted legitimate attempts by good people to elect decent leaders.
In all such cases, people no different from most of us have suffered terrible, tangible consequences. No matter how much pain we may now feel in America, it pales before the horrors we've imposed with Trump-style dictators in other nations.
To get them installed, the Central Intelligence Agency and other imperial organs have often merely subverted elections. As was done here in 2016 and for countless elections before (and perhaps to come), substantial portions of the population have been systematically stripped of their right to vote. Where that's proven insufficient, vote counts have been flipped by electronic and other means to guarantee a secure corporate outcome.
But where even that's not been enough, our imperial minions have simply exiled, killed outright, invaded, employed mass violence, concocted civil wars and done whatever else necessary to remove those popular leaders that have not suited the American corporate interest.
One recent instance has been in Honduras, where the elected president, Manuel Zelaya Rosales, was ousted in a U.S.-backed coup and the military took over from 2009 to 2013. Honduras became the most violent non-war zone on Earth in those years.
Here is a partial list of other duly elected leaders the United States has had removed, disappeared and/or killed to make way for authoritarian pro-corporate regimes. In each case, their demise resulted in death, denial of democratic rights and massive suffering to individuals within those countries who stood in the way of America's imperial agenda:
Lumumba, Congo; Allende, Chile; Aristide, Haiti; Mossadegh, Iran; Arbenz, Guatemala; President Joao Goulart, Brazil; Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou, Greece; Sukarno, Indonesia; Tecumseh, John Ross, Sitting Bull, Chief Joseph, Sealth and countless other indigenous Americans; and too many more.
Here is a very incomplete list of violent, torture-prone kleptocrats the US has installed to serve its corporate interests:
Pinochet, Chile; Duvalier, Haiti; Somoza, Nicaragua; Marcos, Philippines; Suharto, Indonesia; Diem, Ky, Thieu, Vietnam; Pol Pot, Cambodia; Batista, Cuba; Saddam Hussein, Iraq; the Shah, Iran; the Regime of the Colonels, Greece; and too many more.
Taken in sum, the horrors these coups have imposed on innocent people throughout the planet comprise a terrible karmic debt our nation owes the rest of humankind.
The idea that such retribution would come home to roost may have been best stated by our 16th president. It is chiseled on the wall of the Lincoln Memorial in our nation's capital, for all to see.
At the end of the Civil War, in his Second Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln mourned that this "terrible war," which killed more than 620,000 Americans, had come "as the woe due to those by whom the offense came."
The offense, of course was slavery. To pay for it, Lincoln warned, we would see the war "continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword."
Are we, as modern Americans, now being called to pay for the blood drawn and the pain imposed by our imperial armies? And for all the wealth and comfort and dignity unjustly stolen from innocent peoples around the world?
As we squirm and mourn and march and organize, we might keep in mind the image of Donald Trump as imperial payback.
We might remember that as we work to overcome this homegrown vulture of our own making we must make right what we've imposed on so many others.
And that the restoration of sanity, dignity, and democracy to this nation can only come with a genuine sense of perspective … and with the resolve to never again impose any such suffering anywhere else in this world.
Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman are co-authors of THE STRIP & FLIP SELECTION OF 2016: FIVE JIM CROWS & ELECTRONIC ELECTION THEFT at www.freepress.org, where Bob's FITRAKIS FILES are available. Harvey's SOLARTOPIA! OUR GREEN-POWERED EARTH is at www.solartopia.org.
Reader Supported News is the Publication of Origin for this work. Permission to republish is freely granted with credit and a link back to Reader Supported News.
Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman talk about the anomalies in the 2016 election.
by Steve Palm-Houser
On September 14, two candidates for Franklin County Prosecutor answered questions about how they would respond to officer-involved shootings, if elected. As the candidates' forum at Mt. Olivet Baptist Church proceeded, only one mile away 13-year-old Tyre King was pursued and shot multiple times by Columbus police. He was taken to Nationwide Children's Hospital and pronounced dead a few minutes after the candidates' forum ended.
Adrienne Hood spoke at the beginning of the forum. Her son Henry Green was killed by Columbus police on June 6. "It's unfortunate that the person who can give me the justice that my son deserves is not here," she said, indicating the empty chair reserved for Ron O'Brien, the incumbent County Prosecutor candidate. O'Brien has not responded to demands by Green's family to indict the officers who shot him and appoint an independent prosecutor to oversee the case.
People's Justice Project organizer Tammy Alsaada posed the first question to Democratic candidate Zach Klein and Green Party candidate Bob Fitrakis. "Would you keep families together by expanding diversion programs for youth, for addiction, and for mental health issues in underserved and overlooked communities?" she asked. "And how would you help keep people out of the system and get the treatment they need?"
"Yes," Zach Klein said. "I'm a firm believer that the cycle of incarceration breeds a cycle of poverty, which breeds a cycle of incarceration. I think we need to be aggressive in expanding our diversion program to ensure that there is treatment" for drug addiction and mental health issues. "We also need a diversion program that recognizes when some people turn to crime to make ends meet. It may be a small number of people, but there are people who lack opportunity. Jail is for people that we're afraid of, not for people we don't know what to do with."
There is currently "no rhyme or reason or policy directive out of the prosecutor's office for who is eligible for diversion," Klein said. "It's all at the whim of whether the prosecutor knows the defense attorney. That's not fair, open, or transparent."
Bob Fitrakis also responded "yes" to Alsaada's question. "As prosecutor I will not arrest anyone for drug possession," he said. "It's a medical problem, and that's how it will be handled." Instead, he would go after the people involved in heavy drug trafficking. "Many of these are connected with legitimate businesses. The people who fueled the crack epidemic in this town in the 1990's were Southern Air Transport. They were bringing heroin and other drugs into this country. Instead of going after someone with ten balloons in their stomach, let's go after the large aircraft that are coming in by the planeload, contaminating these communities."
Fitrakis cited the recently revealed admission by Richard Nixon's domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman that the War on Drugs was started not to curb drug use, but to marginalize blacks and the hippies who opposed the Vietnam War. "This has been a systematic campaign against the poor community, against the black community," he said. "We need to redefine the problem."
"Research shows that mass incarceration disproportionately affects low-income people, and people of color," said Jasmine Ayres, field director for the Ohio Organizing Collaborative. "We need more information to make evidence-based decisions on policies and practices. For example, black people in Franklin County are 3.8 times more likely to be in jail than whites.
"Will you collect and share demographic data — including race, gender, and income level — on who is charged, what they are charged with, what plea is offered, and what bail is recommended? And how would you set alternative metrics to evaluate your staff?"
"Will I comply with the open records law? Yes," Bob Fitrakis responded. "There needs to be full transparency. For many years, before the Free Press went after the judges, they were double-bonding people. The bondsmen were running the court until they were exposed.
"I'm going to remove the jump-out boys," he said, referring to plainclothes police officers who patrol so-called "crime hot-spots," a code word for neighborhoods with many poor, black, and Latino residents. "They post white police, walking around with money, pretending they're on drugs, acting like bait. They should be removed or charged criminally, because they're causing the violence. They need to get off the streets."
Fitrakis recalled teaching police officers about the U.S. Constitution in 1980. "They weren't really receptive to it, but we were able to work out certain things," he said. "We should pay our police well, and we should make sure they know our fundamental principles."
Zach Klein responded, "Yes, as someone who's running for prosecutor, trying to get that information that you seek. It doesn't exist. We should have an open, transparent system in the prosecutor's office that uses the best practices and technology, that's not only available, but easy to understand.
"In 2014, which is the last year this data was available, there were 12,000 criminal filings in Franklin County. 190 went to trial. Think about the 11,810 cases that never went to trial, that fall squarely within the programs and opportunities that you're talking about. But outside of knowing they didn't go to trial, we don't know anything about the defendants, the pleas, or the cases.
"Having an open and transparent prosecutor's office restores the community's faith in the criminal justice system," Klein said. "We need to have a prosecutor's office that is outward-facing, that is engaged in the community, that doesn't just go home to the suburbs, that looks like the community," Klein said. "What do I know about Ron O'Brien's office? Four percent of his lawyers are African American. I think that's abysmal. We need to have a more aggressive approach to recruiting African American, Latino, LGBT, and female lawyers."
"Youth should not be tried as adults. Research shows that if you send youth to adult prison, they are more likely to re-offend. They are more likely to be sexually abused," said Candice Williams-Bethea, a grassroots educator with the People's Justice Project. "How will you handle the practice of trying minors in adult court? And how will you use developmentally-informed decision making appropriate to youth?
"Those statistics are real, which is why any prosecutor should be careful about charging any juvenile as an adult, or as a juvenile," Zach Klein responded. "A prosecutor's office should be working with faith and community leaders to play quarterback on this issue and others, to give juvenile offenders a chance to pull themselves out of the cycle. A proactive prosecutor will bring the parties together with a mentor program that can give kids an opportunity to make a difference, not just treat them like a number."
"I'm not charging any juvenile as an adult if I am prosecutor," said Bob Fitrakis. "Social science states the obvious: the amount of lawbreaking between affluent suburban white kids and inner-city kids is about the same. The only difference is who gets charged, who gets a record, and who ends up doing time and being profiled for the rest of their lives."
As an attorney, Fitrakis sees "more justice when I go to mayor's court in Worthington, Grandview, and Hilliard, when youth are charged with a minor misdemeanor because they're good boys and girls and about to go off to a private school." For the same offense a young person in Columbus might be given a first degree misdemeanor or a felony charge, he said. "That must end in the prosecutor's office."
Independent prosecutor for police-involved shootings
"Recently the Supreme Court of Ohio acknowledged the bias of the grand jury process when it comes to indicting police," said Aramis Malachi-Ture Sundiata, statewide organizing director for the People's Justice Project. "Will you appoint an independent prosecutor to investigate all police-involved shootings in Franklin County? And if not, how will you handle police-involved shootings?"
"If you appoint an independent prosecutor, who do you hold accountable?" Zach Klein responded. "When I am prosecutor, I want you to hold me accountable for decisions I make, not only in police-involved shootings, but in any issue of crime."
Klein cited Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty, who lost a re-election campaign when he failed to indict police officers in the killing of Tamir Rice. "He was held accountable and got fired," Klein said. "If we appoint independent prosecutors, I'm afraid that we might lose the accountability. You can't vote an independent prosecutor out of office."
"I have no problem with an independent prosecutor," Bob Fitrakis said. "I just don't think it goes far enough. I believe that there needs to be an independent civilian review board, with subpoena power, that is elected from the area commissions, and that is responsible in these shooting cases.
"Part of the problem is the tremendous hold the FOP has on elected officials," Fitrakis said. "That has to stop. We need not only an independent prosecutor; we need a civilian review board with an auditor. We need real citizens from the high-crime neighborhoods. We should be able to elect people from those communities, because they're the victims."
At a Columbus City Council candidates' forum last fall, Zach Klein went on record as opposing a civilian review board with subpoena power.
Both candidates agreed to meet with the groups who held the candidates forum' 100 days after the election.
For each of the questions posed, the audience applause was consistently louder and longer for Bob Fitrakis than for Zach Klein.
From Nicole's youtube channel:
"Streamed live on Jun 10, 2016
This week, the video of a meeting about election integrity in California in which attorneys Bob Fitrakis & Cliff Arenbeck explain why they've filed lawsuits demanding the release of exit polling and returns to show that fraud is inherent in our system. This morning, Bob Fitrakis joins in to tell us of their concerns, give an update on the lawsuit, and what comes next.
Find out more and watch the full video of the 5-27 meeting at trustvote.org
In hour two, we'll open the phones to get your reaction at 954-889-6410 or via Skype to nicolesandler."
Bob Fitrakis on "Fight Back": Libertarian candidate r talks with Bob about local and national politics
Listen and call in this Wednesday, August 1
7 – 8 PM eastern time.
Call 877-932-9766
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May 5, 2012
Recent events in northern Ohio underscore the new COINTELPRO assault on activism. On Tuesday, May 1, federal authorities arrested five "anarchists" charging them with conspiracy in trying to bomb property used in interstate commerce, according to the Associated Press (AP). The target of this alleged plot was a bridge running through the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, 15 miles south of downtown Cleveland.
Media immediately identified the men as linked to the nonviolent anti-corporate Occupy Cleveland movement. The next day, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson refused to renew the permits for Occupy Cleveland's downtown encampment site. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Ohio questioned why the Mayor would revoke the permit the day after the arrests. "Individuals are responsible for their own actions, not the groups they affiliate with," said James Hardiman, ACLU's Ohio Legal Director.
An undercover employee of the FBI later identified as an ex-convict sold the Cleveland "anarchists" fake explosives to blow up the bridge, according to the AP. As an axiom in activist politics, if anyone approaches a demonstrator and suggests violent activities and offers to procure guns or bombs – they are in all probability a cop or working for law enforcement.
Friday, May 4 was the 42nd anniversary of the Kent State shootings. Recall that the shootings only occurred after the mysterious burning down of the Kent State ROTC building on May 2, 1970. Numerous accounts of the event indicate that the Kent State police never attempted to stop the arsonist and the University's own investigative study reported: "The persons involved in the actual incendiarism were few, were separated from the main crowd, and could easily have been apprehended by the police."
The Ohio National Guard would have never been called to the Kent State campus without the ROTC arson.
William A. Gordon's book "Four Dead in Ohio" noted that the Kent State University police made no attempt to prevent the ROTC fire despite the fact that their own intelligence warnings alerted them to the impending arson. One detective even admitted telling a TV camera crew, "Don't pack your cameras. We're going to have a fire tonight."
The special grand jury report done under the auspices of Portage County Common Pleas Judge Edwin W. Jones concluded that, "It is obvious that the burning of the ROTC building could have been prevented with the manpower then available."
In 1976, Senator Frank Church and his Senate investigation committee exposed the government's Counter Intelligence Program (CONINTELPRO). The FBI admitted to the Church Committee that on May 7, 1970 they deliberately set fire to an ROTC building in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Six pages concerning ROTC fires were redacted in the Church Committee report.
As Alan Canfora, one of the students shot on May 4, said "some of the students there did try to light the building on fire. It was like the Three Stooges trying to burn the ROTC building. When we left, that fire was completely out."
In his book, Gordon noted that a biker showed up with a can of gasoline and gave it to a high school student, George Walter Harrington, who then burnt the building. Gordon and others have speculated as to whether the biker worked for the FBI or federal authorities. Despite the presence of fire and police officials, neither the biker nor Harrington were every prosecuted.
The original COINTELPRO ran between 1956 and 1971. Its purpose was to discredit any peace and social justice movements. The tactics they used were those of psychological warfare. Tactics included smearing the reputations of individual activists and organizations through planting false stories in the media; forging documents; planting evidence leading to wrongful imprisonments, sending in undercover agents and snitches to promote illegal activities and violence; and even assassination.
The initial evidence in Cleveland, as in Kent State 42 years earlier, points to a rejuvenated COINTELPRO movement designed to destroy the reputation of the highly successful Occupy Wall Street movement.
David K. Shipler, the author of "Rights and Risks: The Limits of Liberty in Modern America," pointed out in an April 29, 2012 New York Times op-ed that most recent terrorist plots in the United States have been hatched by the FBI. Shipler wrote "But dramas were facilitated by the F.B.I., whose undercover agents and informers posed as terrorists offering a dummy missile, fake C-4 explosives, a disarmed suicide vest and rudimentary training. Suspects naively play their parts until they are arrested."
Two days after Shipler's words, the five anarchists are arrested with fake C-4 in Cleveland. As Shipler points out, "Some threats are real, others less so. In terrorism, its not easy to tell the difference."
Shipler should have added, some terrorist threats are manufactured by the government to destroy social justice movements.
It has already been widely reported that Homeland Security was involved in harassing the Occupy movement. (See, Free Press, January 5, 2012)
A little known but highly influential private organization, The Police Executive Research Forum, an international non-governmental organization with ties to law enforcement and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, emerged last November as coordinating the crackdown on the Occupy movement. They were coordinating conference calls with major metropolitan mayors and police chiefs.
It should come as no surprise that five so-called anarchists, with no capacity to blow up a bridge on their own, were sold or given fake C-4 from an ex-convict working with federal law enforcement. And then, a big city mayor uses it to attack the Occupy movement. From the Kent State killings to Occupy Cleveland, this is the face of the new COINTELPRO, same as the old COINTELPRO. The 1% are still protected by the illegal activities of the security industrial complex that routinely violate the civil liberties of U.S. citizens seeking nonviolent change.


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CDISA5082E An unexpected zookeeper related error occurred. The error message is 'KeeperErrorCode = ConnectionLoss for /com.ibm.im.streams'.
Answer by Jason T (216) | Jan 02, 2018 at 05:58 PM
Hello @khloud,
If you have the ability to log a PMR please do so and support can investigate this with you.
Short of logging a PMR...
Are you running v4.0.1 of Streams?
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You said all streamtool commands are failing?
What is the output from the following command?
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Advanced along track Scanning Radiometer
FIDUCEO Vocabulary
An uncertainty given in the same unit as the measured value. This is generally written as the standard uncertainty u(xi).
The closeness of agreement between a measured quantity value and a true quantity value of a measurand.
The AEROCOM-project is an open international initiative of scientists interested in the advancement of the understanding of the global aerosol and its impact on climate
(AErosol RObotic NETwork) program is a federation of ground-based remote sensing aerosol networks
Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit
Aerosol Optical Depth
Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
An offset (additive) or scaling factor (multiplicative) that affects all measurements by a particular instrument. The bias may be estimated, in which case it can be corrected for (a correction), or may be an unknown error.
Bi-directional Reflection Factors
Calibration is the process of converting the raw signal recorded by the satellite to the measurand. Examples include converting raw AVHRR counts to a radiance or brightness temperature. The calibration process is normally defined by an algorithm and a set of calibration coefficients.
Copernicus Climate Change Service
(ESA) Climate Change Initiative
Climate Data Record
Climate Data Store
Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) Working Group on Information Systems and Services
Climate and Forecast (metadata convention)
Common errors are constant (or nearly so) across the satellite image, and may be shared across the measured radiances for a significant proportion of a satellite mission. Common errors might typically be referred to as biases in the measured radiances.
An adjustment made to correct for a known bias. This may have a functional form (e.g. a straight line) with multiple correction parameters (e.g. an offset and slope). Note that even after correction there will always be a residual, unknown error.
European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts
Essential Climate Variables
European Reanalysis of Global Climate Observations -2
The unknown difference between the measured value and the (unknown) true value. The error is a specific draw from the probability distribution function described by the uncertainty.
Expanded uncertainty is the standard uncertainty multiplied by a coverage factor, k. The coverage factor is chosen to obtain a desired level of confidence. Most commonly a 95 % confidence interval is chosen. For a Gaussian distribution this is achieved with a coverage factor k = 2. (Note that strictly this provides a 95.45 % confidence interval).
Fundamental Climate Data Record. The project's working definition of FCDR is:
An FCDR consists of a long, harmonised record of uncertainty-quantified sensor observations that are calibrated to physical units and located in time and space, together with all ancillary and lower-level instrument data used to calibrate and locate the observations and to estimate uncertainty.
This term refers to the process by which the geographical coordinates (e.g., latitude and longitude) of each satellite measurement are determined. The precise determination of geographical coordinates requires information on the time, satellite orbit, the satellite attitude parameters, and the Geoid. In the case of absence of this information, geographical coordinates are often determined by techniques that use landmarks and control points. The result of geo-location is a geo-referenced satellite measurement without a change in the original geometry of the measurement.
This term refers to the process by which a geo-located or navigated satellite measurement is transformed into the grid of a known coordinate system or type of projection. This process requires interpolation techniques such as cubic-spline or nearest neighbour. Geo-rectification results in gridded satellite measurements. Geo-rectification is synonymous to gridding for satellite measurements.
This term refers to satellite measurements that have been geo-located or navigated.
This term refers to the process that assigns a geo-referenced satellite measurement to the appropriate cell in a predefined grid. This step is used to aid the visualisation of satellite imagery as a map in which one grid-cell can be interpreted as one image pixel. Gridding results in gridded satellite measurements. Gridding is synonymous to geo-rectification for satellite measurements.
GCOS Reference Upper Air Network
Global Space-based Inter-calibration System
A harmonised satellite series is one where all the calibrations of the sensors have been made consistent with (a) reference dataset(s) which can be traced back to known reference sources, in an ideal case back to SI. Each sensor is calibrated to the reference in a way that maintains the characteristics of that individual sensor such that the calibration radiances represent the unique nature of each sensor. This means that two sensors which have been harmonised may see different signals when looking at the same location at the same time where the difference is related to known differences in the responses of each sensor such as differences in the sensors spectral response functions. Harmonisation can be achieved to within an uncertainty that should be estimated, and the uncertainty contributes to the component of uncertainty that is common across the whole record of a given sensor.
High-resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder
Unlike harmonisation, homogenisation is where all satellites are forced to look the same such that when looking at the same location at the same time they would (in theory) give the same signal. In reality the signals from different sensors would be different and homogenisation is adding in corrective terms to each satellite to make them look the same. It is likely that these corrective terms will not be 100% effective and that the process of homogenisation will add in scene dependent errors to the uncertainty budget which may be difficult to assess.
Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer
Independent errors arise from random effects causing errors that manifest independence between any pair of measured values $m'$ and $m$, such that the error in $m'$ is in no degree predictable from knowledge of the error in $m$ (were that knowledge available). In an image, independent errors therefore arise from random effects operating at the image pixel level, the classic example being detector noise. The independent component of uncertainty (or, loosely, independent uncertainty) is the uncertainty contributed by the independent errors.
Intercalibration is the process of cross comparing one satellite with another dataset used as a reference. Often the reference dataset is another satellite whose calibration is better characterised and/or updated relative to the satellite of interest and so can be used to recalibrate and/or provide information on problems/biases in the satellite of interest.
Local Area Coverage
(CEOS definition)
Reconstructed unprocessed instrument data at full space and time resolution with all available supplemental information to be used in subsequent processing (e.g., ephemeris, health and safety) appended.
(CEOS definition)
Reconstructed, unprocessed instrument data at full resolution, time-referenced, and annotated with ancillary information, including radiometric and geometric calibration coefficients and georeferencing parameters (e.g., platform ephemeris) computed and appended but not applied to Level 0 data.
Level 1A data that have been processed to sensor units and contains acquisition time and satellite pixel location with associated uncertainties. (Note this is the satellite raw grid). Data processing is performed in a consistent manner for the entire data set.
Level 1B data that have been georeferenced in a standard georeferenced grid.
Derived geophysical variables at the same resolution and location as Level 1 source data.
Variables mapped on uniform space-time grid scales, usually with some completeness and consistency.
Where measured values obtained together (having small separations in time and space) have highly correlated errors, whereas errors in measurements separated by longer space-time scales are independent and uncorrelated.
A sensor "point" measurement that is matched with another sensor's "point" measurement sufficiently close in space and time.
In a more practical context, a match up consists of two or more sensor pixels (with optional surrounding pixels) that have been acquired at almost the same time and cover almost the same location. Time and spatial difference allowed are defined by the scientific aim. The match up data consists of all data variables at the location and all metadata for each sensor.
The quantity that is being measured (e.g. radiance, reflectance, temperature).
The number and unit obtained from a measurement of a measurand.
The process of experimentally obtaining a result. The act of measuring.
The number, unit and uncertainty of a measurand that comes from measurement
A non-negative parameter characterizing the dispersion of the quantity values being attributed to a measurand, based on the information used (VIM). Usually, the standard uncertainty is the quoted parameter unless otherwise stated. The concept is that the measurement uncertainty characterises the degree of doubt remaining about the value of the measurand after measurement.
Multi Sensor Match up system
Meteosat Visible Infra-Red Imager
NetCDF (network Common Data Form) is a set of software libraries and machine-independent data formats that support the creation, access, and sharing of array-oriented scientific data
National Metrology Institutes
Numerical Weather Prediction
A qualitative term describing the spread of obtained measured values. A high precision data set has small uncertainties associated with random effects. This says nothing about uncertainties associated with systematic effects. Quantitative information is provided in the associated uncertainty.
This term refers to a systematic transformation of the latitudes and longitudes of locations on the surface of a sphere or an ellipsoid into locations on a plane. Different transformations have been developed and they vary in terms of the priorities they assign on the conservation of angles, area, or distance and on the region of the globe they are optimized for. Projection results in gridded satellite measurements in a specific type of projection.
Random errors are errors manifesting independence: the error in one instance of a quantity is in no way predictable from knowledge of the error in another instance: the error in each instance is considered to be an independent draw from an underlying probability distribution; "random" implies in this context both "unpredictable" and "uncorrelated between measured values" (within a given processing level); random errors therefore tend to "average out" across many measured values, and the uncertainty in the average of the measured values decreases with more measurements; random effects may be operating at the same time as other types of effect, in which case only a component of the total error is random; an example of a random effect (an effect giving rise to random errors) is electronic noise in an amplifier circuit.
A complication arises in a chain of processing in which a quantity subject to random errors at a one level then influences many values in a higher level of processing: the originating effect may be random (or, "aleatoric") but at the higher level the resulting errors across many values are not independent. For this reason, we use "random" to discuss the nature of an effect, and "independent" to signify "uncorrelated across measured values".
Random effects are those causing errors that cannot be corrected for in a single measured value, even in principle, because the effect is operates by chance, i.e., is aleatoric. Random effects for a particular measurement process vary unpredictably from (one set of) measured values(s) to (another set of) measured values(s), and produce random errors in those measured values.
This term refers to the process of transforming the information represented in one grid into another grid.
This term refers to the process of transforming the information represented in one type of projection into another type of projection.
A recalibrated dataset is one where the calibration coefficients and/or the calibration algorithm has been updated relative to the operational calibration used to create the original satellite Level 1 datasets. The operational calibration is normally derived from pre-launch measurements and there are many instances where the pre-launch data/algorithm is insufficient to calibrate the sensor in orbit either due to changes in the satellite response while in orbit or due to problems with the pre-launch data/algorithm itself or both.
An uncertainty given in relative units (per cent, parts per million, fractions, etc). This is generally written u(xi)/xi
Scene normalisation is a process which attempts to remove some of the variance seen in EO data to create values that are independent of view angle or atmospheric state or observing time etc. to give a uniform measure of a given variable across an image. It can be considered as a method to give what would have been observed by the same instrument under viewing identical conditions.
Sustained Coordinated Processing of Environmental Satellite Data for Climate Monitoring
Some Level 1 correction schemes involve determining corrections to already calibrated radiances based on some defined reference. These sensor bias corrections can then be applied to correct for gross errors in the original calibration. One example of this are the corrections provided by the GSICS (Global Space-based Inter-Calibration System) consortium for a number of sensors. Note that the terms "Harmonisation" and "Homogenisation" can be applied to this form of correction.
Spinning Enhanced Visible Infra-Red Imager
International sytem of units
SI-Traceability is traceability where the "stated metrological reference" is formally calibrated within the International System of Units (SI) through a National Metrology Institute that participates in the Mutual Recognition Arrangement and whose measurement for this parameter is thus audited through formal international comparison and peer review.
Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer
Simultaneous Nadir Overpass – a location on the planet where the nadir tracks of two satellites intersect within a given spatial and time distance. Both distance measures can vary, depending on the context. This is a special case of a match up as defined above.
Spectral Response Function
SEVIRI Solar Channel Calibration
Special Sensor Microwave/Temperature-2
Sea Surface Temperature
Standard uncertainty describes the standard deviation of the probability distribution describing the spread of possible values.
Structured errors are a concept introduced to characterise certain errors in satellite imagery. Structured errors arise from effects that influence more than one measured value in the image, but are not in common across the whole image. The originating effect may be random (aleatoric) or systematic (but acting on a subset or locality of pixels), but in either case the resulting errors are not independent, and may even be perfectly correlated across the affected pixels. Since the sensitivity of different pixels/channels to the originating effect may differ, even if there is perfect error correlation, the error (and associated uncertainty) in the measured value can differ in magnitude. Structured errors are therefore complex, and, at the same time, important to understand, because their error correlation properties affect how uncertainty propagates to higher-level data. The uncertainty from structured effects (or, loosely, structured uncertainty) is the part of the uncertainty contributed by structured errors. A structured random effect would refer to an effect that is unpredictable in terms of origin while leading to a predictable pattern of correlated errors across measured values in an image.
An example of a structured random effect is the impact of a random error in the measurement of signal while viewing a calibration target, which causes unpredictable but inter-related errors in all measured values which use that calibration cycle.
This term refers to the data that a satellite collects by scanning the area below its current location, i.e., the swath or the width of this area perpendicular to the satellite's flight direction.
Systematic errors are those that could in principle be corrected for if we had sufficient information to do so: that is, they arise from unknowns that could in principle be estimated; they are epistemic rather than aleatoric. Systematic errors influence many measured values, including, but are not limited to, effects that give rise to constant error for a significant proportion of a satellite mission—i.e., biases, for which the structure is a simple error in common. In terms of correlation properties across an image, therefore, effects that are systematic in origin give rise to either structured or common errors.
Systematic errors therefore "average out" slowly or not at all across many measured values; systematic effects may be operating at the same time as other types of effect, in which case only a component of the total error is systematic; an example of a systematic effect is a mis-characterised calibration target.
Effects for a particular measurement process that do not vary (or vary coherently) from (one set of) measurement(s) to (another set of) measurement(s) and therefore produce systematic errors that cannot be reduced by averaging.
Top of Atmosphere
Traceability is defined by the Committee of Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) as:Property of a measurement result relating the result to a stated metrological reference through an unbroken chain of calibrations of a measuring system or comparisons, each contributing to the stated measurement uncertainty.
Traceability involves both an unbroken chain to that reference – a clear link of "A was calibrated against B, which was calibrated against C and so on to the reference" and the documentary evidence that each step was performed in a reliable way, with clear uncertainty analysis in the form of an uncertainty budget for each step which includes the previous step as input as well as the uncertainties introduced by the current step. Ideally this documentation is reviewed through peer review or formal audit.
Note that there are other common uses of the term "traceability" including that it is possible to "trace" the origin of all the input data sets and that there are appropriate algorithmic documents (e.g. ATBDs) and that software is formally checked. These are all important aspects of a quality system. Metrological traceability includes all this, and also the unbroken chain of calibration and uncertainty analysis.
The GUM distinguishes Type A and Type B methods for evaluating uncertainty. A Type A method uses statistical analysis of repeated observations. Usually this is used to estimate the uncertainty associated with random effects. It is possible to use Type A methods to estimate the uncertainty associated with effects that are systematic for the measurement of interest but consciously randomised for the purposes of uncertainty evaluation (e.g. by realigning an instrument that would normally not be realigned, or varying a temperature that would normally be constant). In Earth Observation Type A methods are generally used to estimate noise statistics – a random effect process.
The GUM describes Type B methods for evaluating uncertainty as using "other methods". This may include prior knowledge (e.g. from a calibration certificate or the behaviour of similar instruments), it may include performing theoretical modelling.
Uncertainties in Ensembles of Regional Re-analyses
The GUM defines uncertainty as:A parameter, associated with the result of a measurement, that characterises the dispersion of the values that could reasonably be attributed to the measurand.
Uncertainty is a measure of the spread of the distribution of possible values.
A record of satellite observations of a geophysical quantity (such as sea surface temperature) in which estimates of total uncertainty (or error covariance) and/or dominant components of uncertainty (or error covariance) are provided or characterised at pixel-level (and potentially larger) scales. The CDR should be provided with all relevant auxiliary information for the data to be meaningful, including, e.g. time of acquisition, longitude and latitude, solar and viewing angles.
A record of calibrated, geolocated, directly measured satellite observations in geophysical units (such as radiance) in which estimates of total uncertainty (or error covariance) and/or dominant components of uncertainty (or error covariance) are provided or characterised at pixel-level (and potentially larger) scales. The FCDR should be provided with all relevant auxiliary information for the data to be meaningful, including, e.g. time of acquisition, longitude and latitude, solar and viewing angles, sensor spectral response.
Upper Tropospheric Humidity
Vicarious calibration is a method that makes use of "invariant" natural targets of the Earth for the post-launch calibration of a sensor. This is most commonly used for reflectance channels where there is no on-board calibration source available to track changes in the instrument response.
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The scientific program features a range of distinguished keynote and state of the science lectures as well as presentations by leaders in the various fields of data analysis in symposia, workshops and controversial debates.
The conference also includes a workshop on Library and Information Science.
The conference language is English.
Soon you will find the first draft of the CONFERENCE PROGRAM. Please note, that the program will be updated periodically. Participants will receive a copy of the final program with conference material on-site.
Organized session:
Invited person can submit organized session on Conftool website (Your submissions -> Organized session) by proposing topic, abstract, chairs and symposium papers.
Scientific Program Committee:
Chairman: Józef Pociecha (SKAD)
Members (random order):
Krzysztof Jajuga (SKAD)
Marek Walesiak (SKAD)
Andrzej Sokołowski (SKAD)
Berthold Lausen (GfKl, BCS)
ndreas Geyer-Schulz (GfKl)
Adalbert Wilhelm (GfKl)
Daniel Baier (GfKl)
Claus Weihs (GfKl)
Christian Hennig (BCS)
Fionn Murtagh (BCS)
Andrea Cerioli (CLADAG)
Salvatore Ingrassia (CLADAG)
Maurizio Vichi (CLADAG)
Roberto Rocci (CLADAG)
Jose Dias (CLAD)
Paul McNicholas (CS)
Giannoula Florou (GSDA)
Sabine Krolak-Schwerdt (EuADS)
Rozen Dahyot (IPRCS)
Akinori Okada (JCS)
Ahmed Moussa (MCS)
Sugnet Lubbe (SASA-MDAG)
José Fernando Vera (SEIO-AMyC)
Mohammed Nadif (SFC)
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a genre of science fiction that has a historical setting and typically features steam-powered machinery rather than advanced technology.
a style of design and fashion that combines historical elements with anachronistic technological features inspired by science fiction.
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Animana will now keep track of changes made by all users. This is particularly useful to correct errors, find unwanted changes, or if you have an audit of your practice. Changes will be visible for the clinic Admin users under the menu Extra > Log. The following actions will be logged: Creations, Links, Unlinks, Deletions, Updates, Logins, and Logouts. You can also filter the log by; date period, user, change type (patient, client, product, invoice detail, stock, etc…), ID, user IP address, and action type. For each action you will be able to see the details of the change; for example for Updates, you will be able to see both the value both before and after the change that was made. For more information on how to use the Audit Log, please refer to the knowledge base article; How do I track changes made by users?, or contact your Animana Customer Support team.
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Christmas tree..."TAKE TWO"
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OMGOSH Shellyyyy I LOVE IT!!! Reminds me of my tree growing up...except for having it up in the middle of a playpen so my little brother and poodle couldn't get at it!ReplyDelete
You did it! GOOD FOR YOU!!!!
WOW about that other tree...what the heck??!
Have a JOYOUS Holiday family with that cute sweet family of yours and FAB new tree! xoxox Cindy
that's the funniest freakin thing i've seen in awhile...oh my...the second to last photo...without the lights...that's worse than a charlie brown tree...that's just too funny!ReplyDelete
good for you! much better!
Gorgeous! Next year, you should do what my Mom did when I was a kid--have TWO trees!!!! Your real one in one room and the whimsical white one in another. My aunt has a white one that she puts green and blue lights on with silver ornaments and it's pretty spectacular.ReplyDelete
The same thing happened to us one year! Crazy! Ours was pretty good until a few days after Christmas and then everytime someon walked by, it was tinkling! LOL! I like your new tree though, so perhaps it was a good thing!ReplyDelete


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Jean Prouvé Giving a lecture at the CNAM
© Fonds Jean Prouvé
Recliner, 1928
Arch. dep. Meurthe-et-Moselle, Fonds des Ateliers © SCE Jean Prouvé
Granipoli table, 1939
Protoype shell of a house located outside the domestic arts hall, 1951
© Fonds Jean Prouvé
Tropical house in Mondtada Maxéville
© Fonds Jean Prouvé
(left): Silla de Madera Desmontable, 1941 (right): Sillón de Dirrección nl. 352, 1951
Detachable Cabin
Arch. dep. Meurthe-et-Moselle, Fonds des Ateliers © SCE Jean Prouvé
Design for Citröen Bus Station, 1933
Arch. dep. Meurthe-et-Moselle, Fonds des Ateliers © SCE Jean Prouvé
Curated by the British architect Norman Foster and by the Professor of Architecture Projects Luis Fernández-Galiano, the exhibition revisits the whole of Jean Prouvé's career.
From the originality of his earlier furniture to the sophistication of his later constructive systems, the oeuvre of the French genius is an example of committed engagement with prefabrication and industrialisation, and also serves as a bottomless source of inspiration.
The exhibition follows a chronological layout in ten sections, each one featuring original drawings and photographs accompanied by critical texts. The selection includes a wide range of furniture, architecture models and fragments of buildings, like his celebrated 6×6 house: a spectacular 1:1 scale prototype that is in turn a manifesto of Prouvé's interest in lightness and prefabrication in architecture.
Jean Prouvé 1901-1984: Industrial Beauty
September 1 – November 12 at Ivorypress Art + Books Space, Madrid, Spain
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About PSSA
The Portrait Sculptors Society of the Americas strives to be a resource for the sculptor, the student of sculpture, educator, friend, and patron. Several classes of membership will have privledges that are tailored to your role in the portrait sculpture community.
Original Co-Founders of the Society, established in 2010 include:
On board as of August 2011: Joel Levinson
Selma Burke. American Sculptor (1900-1995)
Membership Classes
Information about joining the PSSA
Professional (p.pssa)
The Professional member is actively showing their work in galleries or is completing commissions for figurative sculpture.
Educator (e.PSSA)
The Educator member teaches figurative sculpture as a part of their curriculum at a university, college, K-12 school, or local arts organization.
Youth (y.pssa)
The Youth member is under the age of 18.
Friend of the PSSA (f.pssa)
The Friend of the PSSA believes that our mission is important and would like to support our efforts through membership.
Affiliate (Af.pssa)
The Affiliate member is a welcome part of the portrait sculpture community and is an artist currently pursuing sculpture where it is felt that their approach or style does not fit with the main objective and thrust of this organization.
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The Game of Baseball and Starting a New Year
Some years ago I played baseball in Japan. If you looked at our team, you wouldn't think much of us. Our team was a collection of older office workers and a couple husbands who had put on a few pounds around the waist over the years and one tall gangly American. We looked like an easy win, but for three years our team was one of the best in the league and always had a chance to advance to the national tournament.
It didn't take much to convince me to play. I had always loved baseball from the first time I had pulled on a glove when I was eight. The team's captain and catcher was also a friend at the board of education and he was quite pleased to have the "American Fireballer" on his team even though he had never seen me throw a pitch.
Since I was a pitcher he didn't expect much of me when it came time to bat. My first game he had me batting ninth and was probably the right spot in the order for me. I struck out in my first at bat. As I walked to the plate for my second at bat, he told me, "Now the key to having a good at bat is forgetting about the previous at bat." The New Year has come and this statement reminds how baseball and the New Year are so similar.
Each at bat is unique. My buddy was basically saying that you don't carry your feelings about the last at bat into the next one. Each at bat is a new opportunity. Even if you have struck out ten straight times, the next at bat you can turn it all around.
You never know what a pitcher is going to throw you. Just when you think it should be a fastball, he throws a ball that seems to spin in mid air and drop two feet at the last second. Life is just as unpredictable.
Always run out your hits. I have seen so many players hit a chopper to the shortstop and thinking it was going to be an easy out, they didn't run to first. Then the ball took a bad hop or the shortstop juggled it and the batter would have been safe he had run from the crack of the bat. Good players always try their hardest, even when it doesn't look like the effort is worth it.
Baseball is a game of endurance. There are a 162 games a year. Some players start really strong, hitting homeruns at a record pace. But when you check back halfway through the season, they only have a few more homeruns and aren't even close to setting a record. It takes discipline and dedication to have a great season.
There are moments of beauty and moments of heartbreak in baseball. Just like a homerun can send the crowd into a frenzy, a stolen homerun or a bases loaded strikeout can break their hearts. Life has even more twists and turns in plot than the best baseball game.
Money doesn't buy happiness. How many players chose money over the chance to win and then later in their careers did everything they could to get traded to a winning team? Likewise, my pursuit this year is not going to be money.
When the play is close you have to slide. The right approach (a headfirst dive) is sometimes the only way to get home safely.
One swing of the bat can make you a hero. I have seen the fans boo a player and as soon as the ball clears the fence they are jumping up and down chanting his name. But only the players who don't let the booing get to them can hit that homerun.
Baseball is a game of inches. A few more inches and the ball clears the fence. A few more inches and the fielder gloves the ball and throws the runner out. A few more inches and the ball is a strike. A few more inches and the batter hits the ball instead of missing it. Life is a game of inches too, and every inch matters.
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Homes We Love Series: From a carefully restored historic American Foursquare in High Point (you can stay here!), to a farmhouse with family touches in Lumberton to a mountain couple's warm and rustic home and vacation cabin in Brevard (yep, you can stay here too), these comfortable spots in North Carolina have us eager to kick off our shoes and settle in.
Picnics and tents are all fine and well on the weekends when your brother and your nephews — and you yourself — are hunting and four-wheeling on your 235-acre family farm outside Lumberton. For a while. But eventually, Susan Noble thought it might be nice to have a bona fide bathroom. And a bed. "Heck," she says, "I just decided: I'm going to build a little house." That was five years ago.
Like everything else, farmhouses evolve. Two rooms become three — four when Grandma moves in. And Noble has fostered that evolution, enlarging her "little house" room by room, project by project. It's become Folly Farm, a name she's been saving ever since she glimpsed a sign on a college study-abroad trip to England.
Noble, a retired family and consumer sciences extension agent, has had no formal training in interior design or decorating — she simply loves farms. So she took her farmhouse themes from what she knows, what she loves, and what's going on around her. And Noble loves a chicken. Chickens in ceramic, metal, needlework, paintings, and fabrics are all over the house: on pillows and plates, atop the entrance columns, and even on the tasseled handle of an antique corner cupboard. An old egg-gathering basket has become a "chandelier," recalling her father's stint in the egg and produce business. A coop for the real thing was recently constructed and will welcome its first residents in the spring.
Noble describes the house's decor as "a whole lot of things that have been handed down, and a whole lot of things that have been picked up." Three generations' worth of furniture, including her great-grandfather's cedar chest, a rocking chair, and a settee, keep comfortable company with Imari porcelain and more modern Majolica, gingham-trimmed lampshades, and an antiques-fair mirrored mantel in the kitchen. The bent nail in the mirror's original frame holds recipes perfectly, at eye level.
As for adapting to what's going on around her, Noble has yielded to the hunters in her family, including her brother, Les, a frequent visitor. The upstairs loft bed is made up with camo shams, and a necklace of duck calls — instead of, say, pearls — dangles from the handle of a gun safe. A sliding barn door separates the bedroom from the bathroom, whose walls are covered in shiny, silver, corrugated tin roofing — what better waterproofing? Oversize hooks from pulleys have become towel holders.
Repurposing farming tools is a favorite challenge for Noble and her mother, Jean, who also lives at Folly Farm. "Agri Supply is our favorite place," Noble admits. Floors throughout are pine, a decision her contractor balked at because of the wood's softness and propensity for denting. But Noble didn't care, she insisted. A true farmhouse has pine floors.
One of the most charming features in the house is the hall, which the Nobles call "the dogtrot," because it has a door to the outside at either end. Local artist Thomas Ard painted a mural, in pastel greens and golds, representing a whimsical, childlike version of Folly Farm. There's the chicken coop, the pond where Les's dog swims, the fields. When the contractor complained that he wasn't in it, Ard added a toolbox outside the barn.
A galley workroom-with-a-view is filled with items that represent Noble's farmhouse mistress personality and talents, from canning implements to an antique flower press to drying racks for the potpourri she makes with her homegrown blossoms to the chains of hot peppers dangling and drying, slated to become Christmas wreaths. Spatterware buckets have been repurposed as a double sink.
Noble hasn't missed a farmhouse trick. Outside, herbs thrive in an old watering trough. A trowel, hung vertically, offers a handy pull to get yourself up the steps to the porch. Tree stumps, not wicker, provide seating around an outdoor fire pit. Farmers, after all, invented the concept of reduce, reuse, recycle.
"We're nowhere near finished," Noble says. The twin themes of farming and hunting are down-home enough to keep her "little house" expanding, need by need, beam by beam, chicken by chicken.


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How Did John Denver Die? – 15 Year Anniversary Of John Denver's Death
This Sunday Morning, October 14, 2012 we will honor the career of John Denver on the Classic Country Hall of Fame Show from 6-9am on 1077 GNA. It was 15 years ago that we lost the 'folky' Country Music superstar.
Sadly, John Denver, at age 53, was flying an experimental two-seat plane near the Monterrey Bay in California when he plunged into the water from approximately 500 feet on October 12, 1997. According to Taste of Country, Denver was an experienced pilot, but his plane ran out of fuel in one tank and he was unable to safely switch to the other tank before plummeting to his death. While he was plagued by alcohol-related legal issues in the years leading up to his death, a toxicology report revealed no drugs or alcohol in his system.
Not many people realize the success Denver had in Country Music, but he was a huge star on Country Radio earning Country Music's top prize, The CMA's Entertainer of the Year Award in 1975. Denver's No. 1 Country Hits included 'Back Home Again' (1975 CMA Song of the Year), 'Thank God I'm A Country Boy' and 'I'm Sorry.' The multi-genre environmentalist also had the final hits of his life in Country Music with 1981's 'Some Days Are Diamonds,' 1983's duet with Emmylou Harris on 'Wild Montana Skies,' and 1989's collaboration with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band on the Top 20 hit, 'And So It Goes.'
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STEVE HANSEN declared the Welsh nation has a rugby team to be proud of again after his players nearly pulled off one of the biggest upsets in World Cup history.
Hansen's young guns outscored England 3-1 on tries before eventually succumbing 28-17 in a World Cup blockbuster in Brisbane.
But even though his team fly home tomorrow, hansen feels it has been a memorable World Cup campaign and the Wales side is going to get better and better.
Wales even led Clive Woodward's World Cup favourites 10-3 at half-time and looked on course for one of the greatest results in our history, before 23-point fly-half Jonny Wilkinson booted them out of the tournament.
But Hansen feels Wales will return with their heads held high, having pushed New Zealand and England so close and having lit up the tournament with their thrilling brand of rugby.
He also hopes Wales' performances will have generated a feel-good factor back home that will help the regional revolution prove a success.
"Every sportsman and every coach wants to win and when you get as close as we have it's really gut-wrenching," Hansen admitted.
"But when we reflect back, I think not only the players and the management, but the whole country can be very proud of what we have done out here.
"We came to the World Cup with a plan. The first plan was to qualify. We had to do that without showing everybody the way we wanted to play against the two big sides, because of their ability to analyse and work out everything you do, before you've done it to them.
"We had to keep something up our sleeve. The players were asked to qualify and they did that - and they were then asked to stand up against New Zealand and England in seven days and they've done that.
"So from a coaching point of view, I couldn't have asked them to do any more. They have done themselves proud, they have done the management proud and I think they have done their country proud.
"The only thing they could have done more was maybe win. But rugby's like that.
"Sometimes you give everything and the result doesn't come your way, so you've just got to take it on the chin and move on.
"Hopefully, it's put a smile on everyone's face back home and got them excited. Hopefully it's also got some sponsors back home excited because we could do with a few pounds.
"But most importantly the people involved in rugby in Wales need to get excited and get in behind the changes that are being made.
"Change is sometimes a very frightening thing for people and at this moment we need to make changes and we can't do it by ourselves.
"We have to join together and become one nation rather than a group of little villages. If our performance has helped that, then the tournament has been a tremendous success for us."
Hansen feels the Welsh players will return home boosted by the experiences they have been through Down Under.
"They will have a couple of weeks break from rugby and then head back to their regional sides," he said.
"They will really improve those teams with the momentum they have got from this tournament and carry on the good work they've done here and then look forward to the Six Nations."
It is such a far cry from earlier in the year when Wales lost 11 games on the trot and Hansen's job was on the line during the World Cup warm up matches.
"This team was asked by the management in July and August to really work hard, at the risk of being criticised for not playing well in the August Tests," said the Kiwi coach.
"We were training that hard they shouldn't have been playing games, but we had to play them.
"We have been building, building and we've come a huge way.
"We scored five tries against Canada and their form in the tournament wasn't too bad.
"We scored two against Tonga in the rain, three against Italy, four against New Zealand and three against England, so we've scored a lot of tries in the tournament for a side that's not very good supposedly.
"The way we've played in the last two games is the way we want to play. I think that's the only way you can play rugby.
"Hopefully we can continue to do it and get some wins out of it."


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So we have met Zoe's 2 sisters Faith and also Hanna, but Hope was never introduced. I wonder who this mysterious sister is. I know Helena Chang made her but we know nothing about Hope.
Who is hope
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Posted 16 September 2016 - 20:32
Maybe we'll find out more about her in the short stories, or one of the other Kickstarter rewards? I hope so, because it seems odd that a fourth girl would be introduced and then never followed up on.
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It's possible she's the dreaming girl from Chapter 1 and Chapter 2. I say this because in Chapter 9, there's a girl who looks and sounds exactly like her, only now she's in Marcuria and having very prophetic dreams about Zoe, Nox and Lux, like Zoe's and Hanna's dreams.
"But even if we don't reach that lofty goal this time around, we hope to some day still be able to tell this story. April's story, all of it. All that remains of it. Because it needs to be told. And you all deserve to hear it. And we would love to share it with you." - RTG, March 1, 2013
"Even if we don't get to $2 million, we will still look into ways of making The Longest Journey Home a reality...some day. It's a story we all want to tell, and we won't let it die." - RTG, March 9, 2013
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Where can I find these short stories? Is there any more content featuring April Ryan?
Posted 17 December 2017 - 17:26
Where can I find these short stories? Is there any more content featuring April Ryan?
They were part of the original Kickstarter, but haven't been released yet, even to backers. It's not known at this time whether they will be available for purchase for those who weren't part of the Kickstarter.
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April Ryan is my friend,
Every sorrow she can mend.
When I visit her dark realm,
Does it simply overwhelm.
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The economic and regulatory environment of the insurance sector has been undergoing radical change for many years: tighter regulation, fight against money laundering, new rules governing the distribution of goods, adapting the sector to new European demands (the 'Solvency' and 'Basel' regulations etc.). Whether you are in the insurance or reinsurance sector or are a client of such, you are conducting your business in a complex environment, one that has been made unstable by economic, financial and environmental crisis. Our specialized lawyers have a well-developed knowledge of the market, which allows us to answer all your questions quickly and effectively.
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In order to reduce the chance of another large dip in US stocks, the SEC will be testing new rules to govern trading first on S&P 500 stocks. The new rules, slated to go in place until December 10, will suspend trading in any S&P500 stock that rises or falls more than 10% in any five minute period. After the 10% dip, the individual stock will cease trading for five minutes.
Circuit Breaker Goals
The SEC hopes that by creating circuit breakers, the stock markets will react more rationally during sell-offs. By pausing for five minutes after a 10% plunge, traders will be forced to sit on positions, without an ability to sell.
In addition, the circuit breakers prevent runaway losses due to stop loss market orders. Contrary to popular belief, stop loss orders, which investors set to exit a position when it falls below a certain price, are actually market orders, not limit orders. As we saw in the 1000 point plunge in the Dow a few weeks ago, stop loss orders can send the market into freefall, as more stocks come up for sale as prices plunge. The rules would also restrict upward movements of greater than 10%.
How Will the Circuit Breakers Work?
The circuit breaker system will only work between 9:45 and 3:35, allowing for large changes in price at open to reflect overnight developments, and the system will cease before market close to not restrict investors from cashing out of a position before the day ends. This is important for day traders and swing traders, who usually rely on leverage and are charged carry fees on the margin if positions are held overnight.
Rules Expansion
The SEC will look to expand the rules to more individual stocks and ETFs "as soon as practical," hoping to curb rapid selling or buying sprees spawned by electronic trading on all stocks.
In addition, although not mentioned in the recent release, analysts expect a similar macro circuit breaker to be applied to general indexes. Whether or not the rules will stick is still up for debate. A ten-day session will soon be held to discuss the effects of the circuit breaker system on the stock markets.


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Today's random geometric construction is the perpendicular line from an end point. I like this one a lot because it utilises a circle theorem.
First, draw your arbitrary line, with an arbitrary dot, ideally near the end point of the line like so:
Next, construct a circle with its center as the dot, and radius as dot-to-edge:
Next draw a diameter from point of intersection furthest from your line endpoint:
And finally, join the diameter to your line endpoint:
The angle in a semi-circle is always 90 degrees. Job done! All that's left is to colour it in, because colouring maths diagrams is underrated.


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Pals, I am coming straight to you from my kitchen island at 8:21 a.m. with (2-day) bedhead and my cup of Pumpkin Spice tea to give this important message (or, as Calvin would have said back in 2012, "A very important newsletter." It's been six years and we still reference this at least once a week. Never gets old!)
Father Boyle has a new book coming out!
If you have known me for more than one hour or if you have read Falling Free or heard me on a podcast or sat with me at Bible study or just talked to me in passing, you know that my favorite author in the entire world is Gregory Boyle, of Tattoos on the Heart fame.
His new book releases in a couple of weeks. It's called Barking At the Choir (!!!!!!!!): The Power of Radical Kinship and you can pre-order* it now, like I just did thirty seconds ago. Click here. (Sidenote: pre-orders really help the success of a new release. It's a great way to love an author!)
And now for some not-as-urgent backstory.
Back in 2010, Greg's publisher reached out to me to see if I would like a free copy of his book to review. He wasn't well-known at that time. My blog reached maybe 200 people. And this was the first offer I'd ever received of this kind. I was like, "Who, me? A free book? YES, please!" I thought I was Queen of the Nerd World.
They sent it.
I reviewed it.
And it knocked me sideways.
I have never recovered.
It changed the way I saw the world. It changed the way I saw God. This was back on the farm, back before Goshen and Robert and the jail. It was before we had ever set foot near a jail. God used Father B's words to move me in fundamental ways. I couldn't have guessed what would happen next, or why the rearranging of my heart and soul furniture would be so important. But I know, there are no coincidences.
True story: when we were going through the editing process for Falling Free, I had to TRIM BACK my Tattoos quotes. I had too many gems, like these, "There is a longing in us all to be God-enthralled." Or, "Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a covenant between equals." Or, "What seems to vex us is our tendency to conjure up a tiny God." I WILL STOP NOW. But trust me, I don't want to. My copy is almost obliterated with dog-ears and markings. It's just so stunningly beautiful.
A couple of years ago I was talking to my friend Emily about my book that would be coming out, and who I would ask to endorse it. She asked who my Dream Endorser was, and I said him, without hesitation. I set out to find a way to contact him, but it turns out that is easier said than done. No one knew how to reach him.


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Reminder messages are sent a few days before a patients appointment. They contain customised information, such as date, time, location and clinic, or a link to a website with more information.
Why would I use it
Patients forgetting the time, date, or location of their appointment is one of the largest reasons for Did Not Attends (DNAs). It is also the easiest problem to solve.
Sending an SMS a few days before the appointment dramatically improves DNA rates. Patients find them really useful too.
How do I use them?
First login to the management pages, and click on the 'Settings' button in the left hand menu.
You'll be shown a list of specialities. Click the speciality you'd like to set-up reminders for.
Hint - at the top of the page, and next to each speciality we show a 'coverage' metric. This is the % of patients receiving messages at the moment. The higher this is, the lower your DNA rate will be!
Once you've selected your speciality, you'll be presented with a list of clinic codes. These will match what you have configured in your Patient Administration System (PAS) or EPR. If you need to update something, change it in your master system and DrDoctor will automatically update.
You can choose to configure at an individual clinic code level, by clicking on that clinics name, or else configure defaults for the whole speciality by clicking the orange 'Configure defaults' button.
Tip - Search using the box above configure defaults, or sort the columns by clicking on the titles.
When you click on a clinic the settings page will pop up. The settings for reminders are on the first page just below the location and booking team info
From this screen it is possible to set up to two reminders for each appointment. You can adjust the days notice that the patient will get and you can adjust the content. You can see a live example of how the reminder will look as you change the settings on the page.


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File photo: Kaars Inc. is a Trenton scrap auto and towing company owned by Isam Abuhumoud. His brother, Nedal Abuhumoud, previously served as a co-owner.
(Alex Zdan/ The Times of Trenton)
TRENTON — Mayor Tony Mack sought cash payments from two brothers who own junk car and towing companies in exchange for squelching efforts by a city inspector to make sure ordinances were enforced at their businesses, the U.S. Attorney's Office said this weekend.
Government attorneys working in the last hours before Mack goes to trial tomorrow alleged the bribery scheme was just one of five "bad acts" that show corruption by Mack, orchestrated on his behalf by Joseph "JoJo" Giorgianni and others.
Their motion filed on yesterday asks Judge Michael A. Shipp to allow testimony about corruption outside a parking garage scheme that led to Mack's indictment, but where no criminal charges have been filed against the mayor or his brother Ralphiel.
"All of the corrupt endeavors pertaining to Tony Mack and/or Ralphiel Mack, and Giorgianni … involved conduct similar to the conduct in the parking garage scheme — Mayor Mack, principally through Giorgianni, sought to obtain money from others in exchange for Mayor Mack's official influence and/or exercise of his authority," the government attorneys wrote. "Moreover, all of this conduct occurred around the same time as the conduct set forth in this indictment and, therefore, has heightened probative value."
The FBI ran a sting that allegedly caught the Mack brothers, Giorgianni and former city employee Charles Hall III extorting cash from parking garage developers who were in reality informants. The similarities — from Giorgianni's role as a buffer to using the code words "Uncle Remus" to refer to cash — between the government-controlled garage deal and the additional corrupt activities will likely be highlighted by the prosecution.
Mack's trial is slated to begin tomorrow with hearings on the government motion, known as a 404b, and a defense motion that alleges Mack was entrapped by Giorgianni after Giorgianni discovered FBI surveillance in late 2011. Jury selection also is scheduled to begin tomorrow.
The mayor, his brother and Giorgianni were arrested Sept. 10, 2012, and indicted that December. Last month, Giorgianni pleaded guilty and has been removed from the case.
It remains to be seen whether he will testify on behalf of the prosecution.
Isam Abuhumoud, who owns Kaars Inc. in the city, along with his brother Nedal who owns Acres Auto in Hamilton and co-founded Kaars, allegedly wanted a city code enforcement official off their backs. Using the phrase "Uncle Remus," which Giorgianni said under oath last month "always meant cash," Giorgianni sought cash from the brothers on Mack's behalf in 2011 in exchange for stopping the inspector's enforcement, the government said.
In a conversation with Ralphiel, Giorgianni referred to one of the brothers whom the official had just ordered to remove signs that violated a city ordinance as "the lifeline," and added that "green's the name and getting it is my game."
The U.S. Attorney's Office had mentioned targeting the code enforcement official in an earlier filing, but this weekend was the first time the Abuhumouds were identified by name. Both brothers were named in an FBI search warrant executed at Giorgianni's home in July 2012, and Nedal Abuhumoud said in a 2012 interview he wanted the city's lucrative towing contract but had been unsuccessful at getting it.
Government attorneys also said the co-conspirators sought kickbacks from city employees, that Mack, Giorgianni and Hall steered a contract for T-shirts to a business in exchange for payment, and that Giorgianni stated he had given money in the past to Mack and another city official who remains unnamed.
In the fifth act, Giorgianni and Hall gave a city contract to power-wash steps in a park to an auto detailer in exchange for cash to benefit Mack. Giorgianni admitted his role in this scheme during his guilty plea.
Mack's lawyer Mark Davis did not comment today. Isam Abuhumoud did not respond to a request for comment left on his cell phone.
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An impressive and elegant entrance with white fencing and beautiful landscaping welcomes residents home to Sage Meadows. Sage Meadows is scenic golf course community situated around a fun and challenging public golf course and offers resort-style amenities, such as, swimming pool, tennis courts and a club house for community activities. Just minutes from Arkansas State University, the new NEA Hospital, thriving downtown Jonesboro, shopping and restaurants.
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This might embarrass you a little, BUT I just wanted you to know that I can hear you pee every morning. {I think something is seriously wrong with your water pipes.}
Anyways, I really don't like it. At all. But I did want to say thank you for having a biological clock that's right on time. I never have to take my cell phone into the bathroom while I'm getting ready anymore because you, my friend, are the alarm clock that goes off every morning at 7:00:
letting me know that I only have 15 min to finish up and head out.
Honestly, the whole thing grosses me out. But it's still kinda a little bit helpful.
So. {gag} Thanks.
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I'm getting closer to creating – what is to me – a useful wall-mounted wireless temperature sensor using the ESP8266 module.
However, one thing that I didn't want for this system is the display to be on all the time. The blue light from the OLED isn't that nice and I don't really need to know the temperature at every moment.
Instead, it would be good if the display only came on when someone is trying to change the display. More specifically, it would be good if the display only came on when the rotary encoder was being used and for about 60 seconds after the last turn.
So that's what I've done!
I've updated the VERY simple FSM to include two more states and quite a few more transitions. Below is a messy diagram showing the state, the triggers, and the transitions for the new FSM. The letters in boxes correspond to the square brackets as explained in the transitions below.
I now have two states in this FSM: waiting & sleeping
- waiting
- This is when the display is on.
- The display should stay on for 60 seconds after the last change in the rotary encoder.
- The display will show the latest temperature and the latest desired temperature. If either of these change in this state, the screen is updated.
- sleeping
- This is when the display is off.
- This state will happen 60 seconds after the last change in the rotary encoder.
- If the encoder is changed during this state, the FSM moves to waiting.
- If the temperature or MQTT desired temperature are updated in this state, the new values are stored, but nothing is shown on the screen. The screen will remain blank.
The triggers for the new FSM are explained below.
- Happens every 60 seconds.
- Causes the system to get the current temperature.
- Happens every 60 seconds when in the waiting state.
- Causes the device to go from waiting to sleeping.
- Happens when the encoder has changed.
- Causes the system to come out of sleep mode or:
- Causes the system to obtain a new desired temperature.
- Happens when a new desired temperature is sent to the device via MQTT.
I now have a number of new transitions are shown below. The numbers in the square brackets correspond to the square numbers on the FSM diagram.
- transition_waiting_to_sleeping [1]
- Turns the display off
- transition_encoder_move_from_sleeping [2]
- Turns the display back on
- transition_obtain_temp_display [3]
- Obtains the new temperature and displays it
- transition_new_desired_temp_mqtt [4]
- Updates the new desied temperature and displays it
- transition_obtain_temp_display [5]
- Takes the new temperature from the encoder and displays it
- transition_obtain_temp [6]
- Obtains the new temperature, but doesn't display it
- transition_new_desired_temp_mqtt_sleeping [7]
- Updates the new deisred temperature, but doesn't display it.
The code for this is still VERY messy, but as far as I can tell, it all appears to be working well. I've uploaded a short video to Youtube showing the device working. I've changed some of the times to make it easier to see (time until going to sleep is set as 10 seconds, temperature update interval set to 5 seconds).
You can see the video here Sorry for the terrible video quality…
Next Step
My next step is to start improving the circuit used. I'm going to start designing PCB that uses the ESP-12E board. That way I won't be relying on the NodeMCU board, but this does mean that I have to design more of the circuit myself. That shouldn't be an issue, but the ESP-12E isn't the most breadboard friendly device!


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Orcas becomes Visual Studio 2008
Visual Studio "Orcas" has been dubbed Visual Studio 2008, and it includes a streamlined IDE called Visual Studio Shell, Ed Tittel reports.
Now that Visual Studio "Orcas" has been dubbed Visual Studio 2008, Ed Tittel is giving it a look. Here he describes the release, which includes a streamlined IDE called Visual Studio Shell.
In the wake of Microsoft's May 15 announcement of Windows Server 2008 at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference, aka WinHEC, Microsoft has given a similar name to the forthcoming release of Visual Studio.
Orcas has been renamed Visual Studio 2008, nomenclature that made its debut at Tech Ed 2007 in Orlando, as developers got together to chew their way through all kinds of interesting stuff; check out Virtual Tech Ed for pointers to materials originally presented or recorded there.
A new beta (Beta 2) for Visual Studio 2008 is expected some time later this summer and is expected to expose some brand-new functionality as well. Chief among these coming attractions is the Visual Studio 2008 Shell, aka Visual Studio Shell. This toolset is positioned as a streamlined Visual Studio development environment; it is designed to speed development and to accommodate custom tools and programming languages.
Visual Studio 2008 provides a mechanism to merge applications built around the integrated Shell -- called integrated mode -- with any other versions of Visual Studio it finds running on a computer. This makes additional programming languages and language extensions immediately available within a typical Visual Studio desktop --check out the screenshot of Visual Studio with Iron Python running inside a Python project window.
On the other hand, applications can be built around the isolated Shell -- called isolated mode, naturally -- so that they run side-by-side (rather than along with) other editions of Visual Studio installed on the same machine. Microsoft also includes a snazzy screenshot of the Fabrikam Home Automation Studio running in isolated mode in Visual Studio.
The difference between the two modes is intended to enable developers to create tools that leverage Visual Studio capabilities along with their own custom efforts (integrated), and to custom brand applications independently of Visual Studio (isolated).
Here is one other important tidbits of Visual Studio Shell information: This element will be built into the Visual Studio SDK when Visual Studio 2008 is released, and may be deployed in applications royalty-free. This SDK also includes documentation and examples to help developers start integrating their products into the Visual Studio Shell.
Additional tidbits are available in the VSX (Visual Studio Extensibility) Team blogs, most notably a whole slew of soapbox videos around the subject of the Visual Studio Shell:
- Craig Skibo talks technical about Visual Studio Shell
- Catherine Crim talks about the Visual Studio Shell
- Anthony Cangialosi talks about VSX and VSIP at TechEd07
This should make the next beta of Visual Studio 2008 pretty darn interesting. We just hope they'll let it out of the bag sooner rather than later.
Ed Tittel is a writer and trainer whose interests include XML and development topics, along with IT Certification and information security. E-mail email@example.com with comments, questions, or suggested topics or tools to review. Cool tools rule!