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Everyone may be waiting to see what exactly Nokia does with Windows Phone 7.5, as the company is expected to announce its first Microsoft powered handset at Nokia World in London this week. However, HTC has been quietly getting on with things on the Windows Phone front and we've already seen its humongous Titan handset. If that phone is a bit too big and bulky for your tastes, then you might find the Radar a better fit. It's essentially a mid-range smartphone, that supersedes the Trophy and Mozart and as a result fits in somewhere between the two.
The Radar turns out to be a very neat package, offering most of the features you could want from a mid priced smartphone. It's got a good screen, 5.0 megapixel camera, decent battery life and the Window Phone 7.5 UI turns out to be a pleasure to use.
HTC is offering the phone in two colour schemes: white and silver or black and gun metal grey. We had the black and grey version, but we've seen the white version in the flesh and think it looks a bit more funky. Either way, neither handset is a real stand out in the looks department, but they're both attractive enough, feel very robust, and their curvy designs makes them comfortable to hold.
Along with the three usual Windows Phone touch buttons at the bottom of the display, the Radar makes do with just three other controls – a combined power button/lock switch at the top along with a volume rocker switch and dedicated camera button, which are both found on the right-hand edge. Thankfully, the phone also has a normal 3.5mm headphone jack as well as a microUSB port that's used for both charging and syncing – although the phone can also be synced over Wi-Fi if you prefer.
The comfort factor of the Radar is much better than the Titan, mainly because it's narrower due to its more normal 3.8inch sized screen. The display doesn't have the extreme sharpness of the iPhone 4's screen, as it instead tops out at 480 x 800 pixels, but bear in mind that this a mid-range rather than a high-end device. And besides, the screen is actually one of the phone strengths as its black levels are deep and colours are bold and strong. It's bright too, and very responsive to the touch, so quick flicks across the screen or pinch to zoom gestures are instantly responded to.
It's easy to look at the Radar's specs and feel that it's outdated before it has even hit the market. After all, it relies on a 1Ghz processor and has just 512MB of Ram. However, this would be a mistake because the phone actually feels very quick and responsive to use. In fact it feels as fast as many of the supposedly higher-end Android devices we've laid our hands on recently. A large part of this seems to be down to the OS, as Windows Phone 7.5 seems to be quite happy running on less demanding hardware. That's a sentence that we though we'd never write about a Microsoft operating system.
Really, Windows Phone 7.5 does shift along nicely on this phone. Microsoft has written the UI to take advantage of graphics hardware acceleration, so the 3D flip effect used on the menus, as well as vertical and horizontal scrolling is always beautifully smooth and slick.
The Mango update has also finally brought multitasking to the party. Press and hold the back button and a deck-of-cards type view of currently loaded apps pops up for you to select between. Not all apps actually run in the background -- many are just suspended, especially those that haven't had a proper Mango update yet. However, the resuming is quite quick and apps that have been updated, such as the eBay app, are now able to do notifications -- say for when you've been outbid on an item.
The updated IE browser is also significantly faster at rendering pages and there is now support for conversation treading in emails. The excellent People Hub – where all your contacts and social networking feeds are grouped together – has also been improved and now includes LinkedIn and Twitter support. And that's really a large part of the charm of Windows Phone 7.5. Many of the things you want to do with your phone are just built into the OS, especially on the social networking side, so you don't have to rely on loads of third party apps.
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Posted by Boris Evelson on July 29, 2011
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Would you trust a car salesman who's not driving the type of car he's trying to sell you? Would you trust a nutritionist or a dietitian who's not in a good shape? Probably not. There are two things that I suggest we all ask of BI vendors. Ask if they:
- Use their own BI tools to run their company. Next time you interview a BI vendor, ask for a proof that their own CxOs and all other strategic and tactical decision-makers are using their own tools. I know of some cases where they don't. How can a vendor convince you to buy its solutions if it hasn't convinced its own people?
- Adhere to the same best practices they suggest you implement using their tools/solutions. Transparency is one of them. One of the top use cases for enterprise BI is transparency: full visibility into companies processes, people, policies, rules, and transactions.
Unfortunately, my current BI pricing research is showing a wide range of transparency (or lack thereof) from BI vendors themselves. Some vendors welcomed our research RFI and are happily providing all the info we requested. Some are less transparent and are insisting that we only publish price ranges or a comparative analysis (who's more or less expensive than the others) without showing their exact quotes. Others have declined to participate altogether.
For the sake of not creating a precedent, I won't call out any specific names here, nor in our upcoming report. But IMHO how transparent a vendor is, the way a vendor treats analysts and responds to their RFIs is directly related to the way it is transparent or not with a customer and the way it treats its customers. You can draw your own conclusions from that statement!
In addition to the pricing research, we will also kick of a customer survey asking them about their experience with the total cost of ownership of their BI applications. Look forward to the results and the report by the end of September.
If a vendor uses their own BI
Comment from Mani Periasamy (not verified) on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 08:34
If a vendor uses their own BI tools to run their company, I would feel confortable in evaluating the product further. However, I would also like to know to what extent the use the product in strategic and tactical decision making. I think this is also critical as anyone can claim to use their own product.
I agree, transparency is key
Comment from Jennifer Howell (not verified) on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 02:25
I agree, transparency is key to choosing any BI vendor, I'd hope every BI vendor was using their own tools in-house! Also what you said about vendors not wanting to reveal their pricing is very true, its not just avoiding giving their pricing information to the competition, its also used to drop the price to win a deal and then stick the buyer with high CALs, MSA fees and potentially as a door to buying their own proprietary data warehousing systems. As always, buyer beware, if the deal seems to good to be true, read the fine print. At DSPanel, we do use our BI software in-house and are willing to provide our pricing right on our website, $9,500 for a server version without CALs. http://www.DSPanel.com
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Set for its 10th annual running on the first weekend of December, the U.S. Ameribank Brandon Half Marathon & 5K sees more than 400 runners cross the finish line each year — including more than 250 runners in the half marathon alone — at a race that takes runners on a fast, flat course through the streets of Brandon and nearby Tampa.
Run entirely on paved surfaces, with a few gradual uphill and downhill stretches, the race takes runners over highways and through residential neighborhoods in this community that lies just to the east of the Tampa-St. Petersburg metropolitan area.
Finishers' medals were presented to every runner who crossed the finish line, as well as trophies for those runners who placed in their respective age groups.
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PALM DESERT, Calif. - The Riverside County Sheriff's Department is hiring. It held an open house Saturday to demonstrate what joining its team is all about.
"We're offering people the opportunity to see what dispatchers do and to let them know what other positions we have in the desert," said Cheryl Evans, a captain with RSD.
The line of potential applicants was out the door, people from all backgrounds with a common interest in the agency's mission and benefits.
"I'm looking for something rewarding, something that's helping the public," said Alma Garcia of La Quinta.
"I've been in the military for 10 years and I'm looking to transition over," said Melvin Fields of Indio.
"If I can improve my lifestyle and my working life that would be great for me and my family," said Nelida Ortiz of Pomona.
They got a tour of Palm Desert's dispatch center and a rundown of what each job entails.
"It was very helpful, very useful and the tour was very nice," Fields said.
And don't worry if you think you lack the experience to join.
"Most of our positions are just that basic, entry-level type of knowledge because we do all the training you need," Evans said.
In addition to 20 dispatcher openings, the department hopes to fill about 400 positions for the East County Detention Center in Indio, set to open by late 2016.
"They range from deputy, correction deputy, 911 communication officer; but also we need food service workers, correctional counselors, we need office staff, we need accounting staff. We need a lot of people to help us when we open that jail," Evans said.
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Left: Jackson Pollock, Orange Head, 1938-1942, Collection Lee Krasner Pollock, Courtesy Jason McCoy, Inc., New York. Top Right: Picasso, Head of a Weeping Woman, Study for Guernica, 31 May 1937, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid. Bottom Right: Picasso, Guernica,1937, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid.
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OMC Peekie, you are so Beautifur! Do you have to be brushed everyday to look so purrfect?
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Thanks everykitty for your compelmunts. Finney, you are my poof hero, and I would be over the moon to be poofier than you. I think maybe we are about the same poofy floofinesses!
In this picture Peekie you are super duper pooferlicious! MOL. My poofiness has been flying all over the house and getting stuck on the ceiling fans lately. Mom hates it cause she has to clean them so often or the stuff flies in her food! MOL
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Wow! Pooferlicious is right! I'd say you're poofier than me. I get mats in my mane, do you have that problem? But I do drool a little though (shhh!) so that causes some of it. I'd bet you're too pur-ty to drool!
My GOODNESS!!! Mom just wants to get lost in your fur! "Pooferlicious" .... MOL! Great term!
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'Zoophobia': Fear of an animal planet
Vivienne Medrano's Zoophobia stars a young woman named Cameron who's desperate for a job and will take any available position in her field of counseling. She's basically duped. When she hears there's a job that it involves relocation, she expects, quite reasonably, that the students will be of the human persuasion. To her surprise, she's whisked away to Zoo Phoenix Academy in Safe Haven, a land full of anthropomorphic creatures. That's not ideal because, as the title suggests, animals give Cameron the heebie-jeebies.
When you get down to it, Cameron's journey is not unlike Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. A bold statement, I know, but think about it: Cameron gets suckered into counseling animals, while Ms. Eyre is duped into a teaching job at a spooky manor house inhabited by a creepy ghost woman or something. Shoot, there's even a supernatural element established early on. It turns out that Cameron's recruiter … is a warlock of some sort? What's got her so interested in a clueless educator who just happens to have strange dreams at night?
Fortunately, it turns out that many of Safe Haven's citizens are very understanding and super-accommodating … even when Cameron is basically guilty of assault. Also exacerbating matters somewhat: talking animals are the least of Cameron's problems. Safe Haven exists at some sort of pandimensional crossroads. This world also home to shape-shifters vampires, and the Son of Satan himself.
Also not helping matters much: Everyone is drawn to look like they have no skeletons, thanks to Medrano's artistic style. Characters slink around, to and fro, as if they were made of particularly soft blankets. They also have a tendency to sidle up close to other characters, with their big bug eyes almost touching the pupils of the other characters and uncomfortably breaching personal space. It's an unconventional style that's loose and rubbery like a John Kricfalusi cartoon. Yet it's something that totally works in the context of Zoophobia's themes. The characters who inhabit Safe Haven might not be conventionally frightening, but they are otherworldly. Also visually appealing: how Medrano's style works well with Cameron's facial expressions, which are often bristling with uneasiness. Eventually, though, Cameron finally sees her comrades less as snarling monster animals and more like the friendly animal creatures they are.
Zoophobia also acts a little like an anthology series, following different students and their own adventures in anthropomorphic Hogwarts. The Son of Satan character, for example, must face his overprotective father (which, if you weren't following, is basically Satan), as he's sneaking out to Safe Haven because he feels lonely and out of place in Hell. (Hell: literally Hell for teenagers looking for a social life.) It's a decent storytelling approach, but it has its weaknesses. First of all, I thought the story of Cameron overcoming her fears of the animal planet was a little rushed, because she disappears for long stretches of the comic.
Secondly, though, all of these animal characters tend to look the same. Most of the time, they resemble catlike creatures covered in a dripping fur coat. They don't stand out much as individuals, and their adventures don't leave much of an impact. I think there was some sort of a vampire creature who attacks the school and is then placed in a cage in the Dean's office. It was a pretty major storyline, yet the vampire creature doesn't leave much of an impact — either positive or negative. He was just … there, appearing for a bright moment and then fading into the background like wallpaper.


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Charles Darwin is an enemy of fundamentalist religion. I heard him proclaimed as such, a man who sought to take the Creator out of creation, during biology classes at my Baptist-run middle school. And I realized him to be such years later when, convinced of Darwin's argument that natural selection both could be responsible for the diversity of life and, in fact, was, I dismissed meddlesome divinity from my understanding of the world around me.
But Darwin was not born to beef with God, which Bozeman resident and award-winning science writer David Quammen makes clear in The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, an essayistic biography of the 19th-century naturalist who conceived the theory that most now think of as evolution. In fact, Darwin trained for the clergy as a youth—not because he was especially devout, Quammen writes, "but by the least-worst logic that it would allow him to find some respectable niche as a parson-naturalist."
Still, Darwin wound up an apostle for apostasy, forcefully contradicting the prevailing dogma of his time: that the species in existence on earth were immutably established by an omnipotent creator, and remain fixed, as Quammen deftly puts it, "like ideas stored in the file cabinet of God." Darwin did not aspire to radically undermine the natural order as it was understood in his time. In fact, his first ideas about what he then called "transmutation" scandalized him, and he secreted them away in pocket-sized notebooks. His first insight that what he later dubbed natural selection—offspring changed randomly from their progenitors combined with Malthusian survival pressures—could result in speciation took place in 1837. More than 20 years transpired before he finally circulated those insights and his accumulated proof in The Origin of Species, published in 1859.
Quammen's biography starts with Darwin's early insights, explicitly excluding Darwin's years as a naturalist on the British naval ship Beagle, years when Darwin collected the data that led him to his transmutationist speculation. It's the first of several choices Quammen makes to excise and compress portions of Darwin's life in favor of minute treatments of other biographical episodes and thematic points. A glance at The Reluctant Mr. Darwin's table of contents reveals dated sections that sometimes overlap each other and other times leave gaps unexplored; the second to last—"The Fittest Idea"—stretches from "1860 to the future." Quammen's goal is not to exhaustively chronicle Darwin's life but to illuminate his work.
He succeeds marvelously. The Reluctant Mr. Darwin lavishly treats the contents of The Origin of Species, the debates that followed its publication and the legacy of the ideas it contains. Quammen's summation of Darwin's ideas is exquisite, rigorous and readable simultaneously. Items aside from Darwin's life and ideas enter as necessary; readers make the acquaintance of Alfred Russel Wallace and Gregor Mendel, each for their part in helping Darwin make his case, while topics such as taxonomy, induction, biogeography and others integral to Darwin's attempts to make sense of nature also intrude. Such robust contextual content makes The Reluctant Mr. Darwin better than biography.
But the book also succeeds as a concise biography, because it is trim and attentive to context, and because Quammen's prose is both subtle and supple. For example, early in the book, Quammen expends several pages on a pregnant kiwi, a 5-pound bird "painfully replete with motherhood" that lays a 1-pound egg: "An X-ray photo of a gravid female kiwi, taken fifteen hours before laying, shows this: a skull, with its long beak; a graceful S-shaped neck; an arched backbone; a pair of hunched up femurs; and at the center of it all, a huge smooth ovoid—her egg—like the moon during a full solar eclipse. She herself is just a corona…The point is simply metaphor. Every time I see that X ray of the mama kiwi, I think: There's Darwin during the years of gestation." Quammen's kiwi digression not only illuminates his study's subject but poses to the reader the same sort of question that drove that study in the first place. After all, what sensible designer would burden a small bird with an egg one-fifth its size? In the parlance of the continuing kerfuffle about origins, what's intelligent about that design?
The answer, of course, is nothing, and rightly so considering there's no need for any designing intellect to permit the kiwi's divergence over epochs from its closest living relatives, like the ostrich. Natural selection elegantly explains the existence of life in the absence of a life-giving force and does so without shearing wonderment from the firmament. As Darwin writes in concluding The Origin of Species, "There is grandeur in this view of life…[that] from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and wonderful have been, and are being, evolved." Still, at the time Darwin wrote, natural selection's amoral, mechanistic view of those endless forms' entry into the world was an unappealing replacement for special creation, divinely-purposed evolution or, as Quammen writes, "the supposed godliness of Man" that either entails.
For Quammen, Darwin's exposure of diversity's genesis is not just ingenious but courageous, given the social and ecclesiastical doctrines it invalidated. Combined with the convincing summation of Darwin's case that it contains, The Reluctant Mr. Darwin makes plain that contemporary creationist holdouts stand their ground not for lack of evidence for Darwin's assertions, but out of callow distaste for their implications.


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Cuisine: Japanese
Location: Perth CBD, Barrack St between Murray and Hay St Malls
Well after my filling breakfast at Greenhouse, I was wanting to get lunch but had a meeting so I starved. After the meeting, I thought I'd pay another visit to the food court at Brookfield Place but that was closed. After a bit of thought I decided to visit Zensaki and try their version of donburi.
I arrived quite late in the afternoon but there were still people filtering in. I ordered at the counter, took a serviette and a fork and patiently waited for the donburi. I ordered a regular serve of katsu don ($9) which was katsu chicken prepared in a donburi with egg and onion. I'm not a fan of egg so I asked for this to be omitted but I don't think they understood as my meal was served with fried egg much to my distaste. I also was served a small bowl of miso soup. The katsu chicken became soft under the fried egg and after all these years of avoiding egg, guess what, I still don't like it. There was a decent serve of the katsu chicken and it was tasty. The rice was well cooked, soft, flavoursome and tasty. There wasn't too much onion in this version so it was a lot less rich but the presence of the egg, did add another element of richness. Quite a different version to that I first enjoyed at Shiro, but far less rich although Shiro's was far tastier. The presence of the strong and slightly saltish miso was the perfect accompaniment. The salty flavour provided a real contrast to the richness of the donburi and was delicious. The serving size was just perfect for my appetite and I left a satisfied customer.
Zensaki Food Review Summary
Verdict: Third visit here, this time to try the katsu donburi. I enjoyed the soft plump grains of rice cooked in the broth which was flavoursome. The tender tasty katsu chicken was delicious but I missed the crunch it normally would have if it were not smothered by the fried egg. The fried egg and onion do add a richness to the meal, but the salty kick of the miso soup cuts through and enhances the overall meal. Delicious and such great value.
Price: Bargain
Taste: Delicious
Value: Excellent
Recommendation: Recommend
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Food Review of Zensaki – 11 May 2012
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Forty years ago in the aftermath of the famous "Six Day War," Israel took possession of the West Bank and the assumption of its nation's leaders was seizing control of this area was a temporary step until a peace could be arranged with Arab nations. However, as years passed without any desire on the part of Arab nations to negotiate peace with Israel, forces of Jewish religious fundamentalism gained power and pushed the concept that the West Bank should become part of Israel. There can be no peace between Israel and Palestinians unless the West Bank is the core of a new Palestinian nation. Defense Minister Ehud Barak ordered that a college in the West Bank town of Ariel should be recognized as a "university center" even though no such designation exists in higher education in Israel.
The Israel Council for Higher Education opposes this recognition, but the West Bank is basically controlled by the Defense Department. It appears this "university center" eventually will become a new Israel university and make even more difficult any effort at peace with Palestinians. The right wing government appointed a committee, but made certain only conservative professors were on it in order to gain support for this move.
The end result will, most probably, lead to boycotts by universities in other nations. But, of course, this is Israel which refuses to acknowledge that it lives in a world with other nations.


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Along the north end of the unit adjacent the Salmon River, elk can be found in the dry foothills during the day. They move to fields along the Salmon River at night. Access is more restrictive here and landowner contacts would be helpful in this area.
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Augumenta AR Software Turns Your Palm Into a PIN Pad
In the wearable-wired future Augumenta is looking to help build, you'll be entering your debit card PIN number on your palm, where no one else can see it. Or maybe you'll be adjusting the operating speed of machines in a factory by making a few swipes on your hand. The Finnish company just debuted its new software platform for wearables, one that will let you utilize a host of augmented reality and gesture controls for both entertainment and productivity apps.
We got an up close look at Augumenta at this year's Wearable Tech Expo in New York, where the company showed off several apps that would combine traditional gesture controls with virtual AR surfaces. The Augumenta demo interface (which was running on a smartphone but also works with most smartglasses) featured app icons for Twitter, the web, a PIN pad app, a settings menu and a rock, paper, scissors game.
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The demonstrator navigated the menu by moving his fist about, and opened each app by making a thumbs-up gesture. He started with a game of rock, paper, scissors, which not only recognized the game's three titular gestures, but more obscure ones, like a lizard or the iconic Spock sign from Star Trek. This game didn't interact with the real world in any way, but it was a solid look at how accurately Augumenta can capture gestures. To close the app, our demonstrator simply made a thumbs down.
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Dutch Youth Players Arrested for Killing Linesman
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Richard Nieuwenhuizen, a father who had been a linesman in his son's soccer game, died on Monday after being beaten and kicked to death by youth players in the Netherlands on Sunday. Three players ages 15 and 16 years old from the Nieuw-Sloten club began punching and kicking the 41-year-old, ...
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Los Angeles Galaxy target Kaka played a starring role as Real Madrid's steamrolled Ajax Amsterdam in Madrid on Tuesday, winning its final UEFA Champions League game 4-1 to finish second in Group D and qualify for the second round of the competition. The Brazilian both captained and scored during the ...
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Manchester City crashed out of Europe on Tuesday night, falling 1-0 away to Borussia Dortmund and finishing the UEFA Champions League with just three points, the lowest point total of any English team in the competition's history. The result meant that the reigning English Premier League champion finished at the ...
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Hulk has said he could leave Zenit St. Petersburg during the January transfer window if his issues with Coach Luciano Spalletti do not improve. The Brazilian striker joined the Russian club for $52.2 million in September. Following Tuesday night's 1-0 win away to AC Milan, which saw Hulk substituted with ...
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The family of a part-time model, who lived a life blighted by cancer, are holding a special baking day in her memory.
Victoria Van Der Westhuizen (née Eastman), from Hook, died of a rare and aggressive form of cancer in January aged 29.
Hundreds of people attended her funeral at All Saints' in Odiham, the church where she married her husband CJ just 13 months earlier.
The same church was the venue for the funeral of her father David, who died of cancer aged 69 in January 2013, just a month after her big day.
Victoria's mother Fiona, brother Alexander and CJ have set up a charity in her memory called Victoria's Promise, which aims to use her positivity and energy to help support others through their battle with cancer.
The charity has launched a special Victoria Sponge Bake Day on Saturday June 14, what would have been her 30th birthday.
Fiona said: "Victoria had taken up baking in the last year of her life and it gave her huge pleasure creating cakes and sharing them with family and friends. So we are asking people to help fulfil Victoria's dream, a dream we all have, and bake a cake and share it with family, friends and colleagues."
Businesses, retail outlets, cafés and restaurants are also being urged to raise funds by serving Victoria Sponge Cake to customers and staff, in canteens and staff rooms and making a donation to the charity.
"Every penny of every pound raised will be used both for cancer research and to directly help those suffering from aggressive forms of cancer," added Fiona, 59, who survived her own cancer scare aged 38.
Victoria, a make-up artist and who grew up in Winchfield and went to Robert May's School in Odiham, was first affected by cancer aged nine when her grandmother Patty Irvin died of the disease.
Three months later Fiona was struck with bowel cancer but fortunately fought and won her battle.
She said: "Victoria's driving desire throughout her fight with cancer was to beat the disease and live to spend time with her husband and raise a family. She wanted to use her positivity and energy to find a way to help support others through their battle with cancer. That was her promise."
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Just over a month later he was back for his father's funeral service.
"I said goodbye to a wonderful man, dad and friend," said Alexander. I then took a seat and watched my sister deliver a beautiful, heartfelt poem that she had written, leaving her with bittersweet memories of the alter I stand before now. Marrying one man she loved only to lose another so soon after."
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The team together with Edwin Wong decided to suspend development of the Eclipse plugin for next few weeks. The exact time is not known yet. The plan is to put all the force to finish version 2.0 of the Idea plugin. It will contain enhanced Crucible integration (will work only with Curcible 1.6) and is planed to be released more or less in the same time as new Crucible. After that we will resume our work on the Eclipse plugin (existing Bamboo part and new Crucible part).
Are web UI review systems the best?
I was thinking how to make code reviews carried out from IDE like IDEA or Eclipse an interesting alternative for Crucible users (and also users of other web based review systems like ReviewBoard) who got used to their web UI.
For me an "interesting alternative" is when performing review from IDE:
- is significantly better
- is significantly different and better in some important aspect
than performing review via web UI.
Why web based review system often suck
My problem with web based code review is (regardless of concrete implementation):
- web UI is very cumbersome to navigate back and forth between files and file fragments (classes, methods)
- they are rather diff oriented and reviewers often don't pay enough attention to global implication of innocent changes. Typically you are deprived of the whole project context and can see only those files & their changes which were included in review
- you are left without so vital and natural in modern IDE features like: finding usage/references of given language element, navigating to implementation, static analysis, code coverage, etc. As result I find myself anyway resorting to using IDE while carrying out most of reviews.
- I tend to find more value in regular lightweight code reviews of whole classes, packages or components than for the set of changesets spread out through the whole codebase.
Say "no"
I think I finally found the solution. It's very simple but it is not obvious as it requires saying "no" to many requirements and features which could be good in general approach. I was inspired by a great book Getting Real and its chapters about selection of the features (e.g. Start with no).
I say "no" to ability to perform in IDE reviews:
- for the code in programming language which my IDE does not support
- for the projects which I don't have IDE configured for
- which involve obsolete source code which would require me constantly updating/reverting to some old versions/revisions from SCM
- which concentrate just on modifications introduced by given person and not on the code quality in general
Ultimate solution
My dream is:
- to carry out code reviews completely from IDE
- when you start performing review, the plugin in your IDE will download all the information from the server to be able to mark all the code changes included in the review and highlight all the comments.
you can easily navigate back and forth through all the comments, corresponding code fragment and files included in the review
the code shown in IDE is your normal code. Not alien, not read-only. If plugin detects that your code currently open in IDE is the same as the one which is included in review, then just the code (e.g. Java file) from your current project is being used.
- you can use all features of your IDE while analysing the code under review: quickly navigate to implementation (CTRL+click), find all references, implementators, callers, run unit tests, debug code fragments, check unit test coverage, run static code analysis tools (like checkstyle, findbugs, famous IDEA inspections), etc.
- you could actually modify and commit back the source code which requires changes (if your review policy allows it) instead of just describing how the proper code should look like and thus avoid very time consuming create review/perform review/read reviewers' comments/fix defects/created re-review cycle. Such modification could be linked back to the review.
- you can add comment at any time at ANY line of ANY file just belonging to the project while you browse the code to analyse the fragments you are reviewing
- no easy way to perform review of the code which is not the most fresh (HEAD). But is it really a problem? What is the reason to review code which does not exist anyway as it was changed with subsequent commits? The only purpose is educational I believe.
- you cannot easily review locally modified files. Again you could always use clean working copy for performing reviews. Alternatively you will not be able to review at all locally modified files (but you could the rest). Also it's doable (with some additional work) to write the plugin in such a way that it can handle also locally modified files and block review only for those modified fragments which collide with reviewed code.
I can live with this drawbacks definitely. And in all these cases (95% or more I guess) I will have a system which is vastly better than any web UI code review system.
We can start from IntelliJ IDEA (and all languages it supports) as we are 95% advanced with building blocks to make this dream come true. The next is Eclipse. What next in the future?
It depends on you.
What do you think?
The team focused on the Idea version of the plugin in the past iteration as we want to improve handling Crucible and release it in the same time when new Crucible will appear (probably the end of August but the date is usually postponed few times before final release).
The only features we implemented for Eclipse are showing full build log inside the IDE and browser view for Bamboo servers and plans.
The first feature is self-explanatory. When bamboo build is selected you can click new toolbar button 'Show Build Log' to open read-only editor with build log. Everything is presented on the screenshot. Unfortunately Find/Search does not work in the editor yet.
The second feature provides additional view called 'Bamboo Servers' where we can add bamboo server and browse plans defined on that server. In the future we will use that list to select watched plans (copy them to the 'Bamboo Watched Plans' view), start build on the plan and probably many more.
Next two weeks I'm on the vacation. Unfortunately Pawel, who worked on the 'Bamboo Servers' view decided to leave the company so next two weeks probably no one will work on the Eclipse version of the plugin. Because of that you can expect next version not in two weeks but at the end of the August.
0.3.1 version of the Eclipse plugin has been released.
Only few minor features has been added this time as I had to spend few days working on Idea version of the plugin.
What's new:
- In configuration dialog you can check 'use favorites' builds so in the bamboo view you will see the list of builds marked as favorites on the bamboo server.
- In the bamboo view buttons 'label' and 'comment' are active
- Icon in the status bar informs about general state of watched builds (red means at lest one of the builds failed, green means all builds passed, gray means that there is a connection problem). Double click on the icon opens bamboo view (in case it was hidden).
Empty 'project' and 'server' columns bug has been fixed as well.
We still work on handling multiple bamboo servers which is not finished yet.
For couple of months our team has been working on creating decent IntelliJ IDEA and Eclipse plugins for a few Atlassian developer tools: Crucible, Bamboo, JIRA and FishEye.
During this time we have learned that writing IDE plugins for web applications is not so easy.
Here is why:
- It's pure integration work. For all who know what "integration" is and that it consumes vast majority of IT budgets in nowadays enterprise environments this single argument is often enough.
- You shoot at constantly moving targets. Not only you have to follow evolution of IDE API-s (e.g. significant changes between major Eclipse or IDEA releases), but also we have to constantly answer to evolving web applications: their new features, new remote API-s.
- You are constrained by both application limitations and IDE limitations. Fortunately we can modify on our own our web applications (after all they are from Atlassian ) and when the change is not relatively costly to add (e.g. exposing an existing stuff via REST API), we can quickly add it on the server side. It's not so easy on IDE side. In case of IDEA we just don't have access to sources, in case of Eclipse contributing anything significant is often quite overwhelming unless you are really devoted to extending this platform.
- You meander in new, complicated and quite specialized technologies
- closed source for JetBrains IDEA with not-so-well documented OpenAPI. (fortunately folks from JetBrains try to be really helpful)
- open source for Eclipse, but huge (millions lines of code) and with overwhelming documentation and endless possibilities
Your long experience as developer does not often help you here.
- You are often a pioneer who explores new undiscovered areas of IDEs - there is no hints or help at forums or documentation available. You shape the world.
- You always have to think what to implement on IDE side and what does not make sense. Typically web UI is very powerful (now in AJAX times) and there is no point in just repeating the same on IDE side. The point is to leverage IDE power - the fact that it's code-centric and provides all these facilities to navigate, edit, analyse, run, debug and test the code. For me an IDE plugin for a web application makes only sense when it has a feature (or better many features) which make developer totally dependent (positively) on IDE plugin and very reluctantly resorting to web UI for an operation he normally could better! do from IDE.
- It may be complex from threading point of view. Remote access to your web application may be slow and faulty. You need to perform most of the operations asynchronously in separate threads. You have to also gracefully handle timeouts, network failures and temporarily outages.
- Remote communication with web applications impose on you some design limitations. You cannot freely call your web server as many times as you wish (e.g. while traversing object hierarchy) as the performance would be unacceptable. You have to group calls into batches, you have to fetch "deep" objects, you have to sometimes fetch data in chunks (and add subsequent chunks in the background)
- You may often stumble upon integration-hell and unintended interactions between various plugins from different vendors.
your automatic testing (both unit and functional) is somewhat difficult (similarly to testing EJB components in old J2EE) - you sometimes just depend on IDE)
- Plugin is just software. Writing all software is hard
Having said all that, I think that writing plugins for IDE may be real fun.
It's challenging, educating, creative and most of all you can relatively fast achieve things of great values for developers by taking advantage of existing powerful IDE frameworks.
And there is nothing more important for me than hundreds or thousands of developers who actively use your plugin and contribute ideas.
We have recently exceeded 2500 downloads (only for IDEA version) and believe that with growing Eclipse version, incoming improvements and great new features we will make much more developers happy.
0.2.0 version of the Eclipse plugin has been released.
This time we added standard Eclipse notification about background plugin activities like retrieving list of plans, status of builds, etc.
You can also find new features in config dialog:
- List of plans available for defined server so you can just easily select which ones you would like to watch. Favorite plans from your Bamboo server are marked with yellow star.
- Refresh button which lets you retrieve list of plans using server's data entered into the form instead of data saved in configuration
- Test Connection button which allows you to instantly test whether the server data is correct or not
That release was the first one we built automatically using maven with ant script inside. Unfortunately the side effect is that your plugin configuration is empty after update. To retrieve the old one just change your old configuration file name from atlassian_eclipse_plugin.prefs to atlassian-eclipse-plugin.prefs
We also started work on handling multiple bamboo servers and labeling/commenting builds. I hope those features will be available in the next version in two weeks as well as using bamboo favorite builds.
Release notes will be available at http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/IDEPLUGIN/Atlassian+IDE+Plugin+0.2+for+Eclipse+-+Release+Notes
Here's a short list of things that will be implemented over next days, weeks and months. Just to let you know what we are working and thinking about.
So in this iteration (due in a week):
Atlassian IDEA Plugin will (here's a full list):
- accept untrusted SSL certificates,
- have NullPointerException, that occurs sometimes when project is loading, removed,
- JIRA viewer will have clickable links in description,
Atlassian Eclipse Plugin will (here's a full list):
- support more than one Bamboo server!,
- show you list of Bamboo plans configured on server, with your favourites too!,
- have an improved nofitication when Bamboo plans list is reloaded,
But that's not the most important thing I wanted to share with you. Actually that was only an introduction to the second topic - future. So what you can expect?
We're working hard to make Crucible support a state of the art. As of Crucible 1.6, which will be released in July/August, it will be possible to do a lot of new things from your IDE - we are silently working on improving Crucible's remote API and this will allow us to fully support pre and post-commit reviews in your IDE. You'll be able to follow whole Crucible workflow from within your IDE - create a review, comment it, and close. No other code review product will have such a good IDE integration.
As of Eclipse version we are trying to follow IDEA version (so you can expect the same support for Bamboo). We don't want to duplicate stuff that's already available in Mylyn, so we're not going to work on JIRA support. We are also thinking about enhancing Mylyn with additional features - there's an idea of making Crucible reviews a task in Mylyn, what do you think of it? As you know we just finished the second iteration, so we are still investigating available opportunities.
So this is a short summary, if you have any feedback please share!
Just wanted to let you know that if someone has a wish to test unstable releases for Eclipse now he/she can do it easily :-D
We just configured nightly releases - they will be executed during our normal automatic builds. They will be deployed to http://update.atlassian.com/atlassian-eclipse-plugin/weekly/e3.4/site.xml (to use them just add this as a remote site in Eclipse->Help->Software Updates->Find and Install).
So why would you want to use unstable software in your work? Well, we do as we want to test Eclipse plug-in all the time (it's called eating your own dog food .
But why you? Well, thanks to this you'll be able to see what's going to be implemented and released, so you can influence how we do things? Really - if you see that's something what we are implementing isn't what you'd expect just give us a hint - here in comments, on JIRA - http://studio.atlassian.com/browse/PL (and http://studio.atlassian.com/browse/PLE for Eclipse).
Version 0.1.0 of Atlassian Eclipse plugin has been released.
Release notes will be available at http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/IDEPLUGIN/Atlassian+IDE+Plugin+0.1+for+Eclipse+-+Release+Notes
Current version allows to connect to a single Bamboo server, subscribe to several plans, see the results in Eclipse Bamboo view, rerun build, go to the build web page (double click the build row). It fires popup notification about builds (configurable) and allows to configure bamboo server polling time.
Few screenshots below:
Just a test page (yeah, a lamer thing to do
Soon, we'll start posting here details about Atlassian IDE Plugin development.
Kind regards,
The Plugin Team
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early 13c., from an unrecorded Old English word or else from Old Norse gapa "to open the mouth, gape," common West Germanic (cf. Middle Dutch, Dutch gapen, German gaffen "to gape, stare," Swedish gapa, Danish gabe), from PIE *ghai- (see gap). Related: Gaped; gaping. As a noun, from 1530s.


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Hello All,
Recently I have determined that one of my neighbors teenagers has decided to refine his hacking skills on my home network. So I thought it might be a good time to make an investment into a Cisco ASA 5505 Appliance.
Here is my issue, when I entering the management IP Address (https://192.168.1.1/admin) a webpage appears asking to "continue to the website" so I select this option. The Cisco ASDM 6.2(1) appears. There are three options to select, Install ASDM Launcher and Run ASDM, Run ASDM and, Run Startup wizard. If I select "Install ASDM Launcher " I receive an error when entering the password. Eventually I'll cancel after several attempts and get an "Authorization error" from ie. I am receiving the same response for the other two options. I have set the firewall the the factory default. I am running Java version 6 update 23 (build 1.6.0_23-b05) 32 & 64 bit for ie browers since I have both versions.
What am I doing wrong? I have been at this all day. I need the expertises of someone who obviously understands this better than I do. I have already had one bad experience by purchasing a used PIX 501. never got it to work. This Time I decided to purchase something new with more features.
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1. Ping the router upstream from thas ASA and make sure it works.
2. What DNS servers are you using?
3. Do you get name resolution?
4. Can u load pages using IP address on the browser? http://188.8.131.52 work?
5. can u ping the asa's inside interface from the PC?
If layer 3 doesn't work then we have to fall back to layer 2 and issue "debug arp" and see what is going on.
The thread should also be marked as solved as the original problem is resolved.


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So...tomorrow I'm going to start. I am a little concerned about soy proteins which I see repeatedly mentioned as I avoid soy for it's phytoestrogen effect so I think I'll avoid that route. I'm normally a vegetarian but I have been craving chicken, so finding some antibiotic, cruelty free chicken is stomachable to me right now.
Anyone else?
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Here is the version I follow http://www.bradleybirth.com/PD.aspx
and the checklist I use http://jennlawson.files.wordpress.co...preadsheet.pdf
My main sources of protien are beans & rice, peanut butter, nuts & eggs along with dairy.
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I'm not doing any soy, as my nursing boy is allergic. At home, we eat a vegetarian diet.
I have a hard time getting in all of the calories. Most days I feel like I am on the Atkins Diet.
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However you plan to get the protein, it is important to remember that the Brewer Diet is not just about protein. For this diet to work as it's intended to work, it needs to include extra protein, PLUS extra calories, PLUS extra salt. The goal is to increase the mother's blood volume by 60%, by increasing the osmotic pressure in her bloodstream, and those three components in the diet are what helps to do that. The reason that the blood volume needs to increase is to service the growing placenta. When that level of blood volume increase does not happen on the schedule that it wants to, that is when we see the cascade of effects that can include things like a rising BP, pathological edema, IUGR, clots behind the placenta, hypoxia of the placenta, constriction of blood vessels in the placenta, and premature contractions.
I would also like to issue a caution concerning the philosophy that a smaller baby is easier to push out than a larger baby is. That idea started in 1800, and I think that we now have good reasons for why that doesn't work as well as might seem obvious.
One reason that that plan might not work so well is that the uterus needs to grow so much new muscle tissue during the pregnancy. Before pregnancy, the uterus weighs only 2 oz. At the end of pregnancy, the uterus alone should weigh about 2 lbs, which means that the uterus has to grow 1 lb 14 oz of new muscle cells. If the baby is on the smaller size because the mother has been restricting her nutrition for the purpose of having a smaller baby, the uterus has also been getting less nutrition, and may have less muscle tissue as a result. According to Brewer, this results in a less-strong uterus that may be more prone to dysfunction during labor, and more likely to need medical help such as pitocin.
Another reason why this plan might not work so well is that the pelvic bone needs to stretch during the pushing stage of the labor. The pelvis appears to be one solid bone, but it is actually composed of three bones held together by ligaments. In the non-pregnant body, the pelvis functions as one solid bone because these ligaments are so tight. During pregnancy, the placenta secretes the equivalent of 100 birth control pills a day. One of these placental hormones has the function of loosening these ligaments that hold the pelvic bone together. If a baby is on the "larger" side due to the mother's eating a better diet, the placenta will also be better nourished and more capable of making a good amount of this hormone that loosens these ligaments, resulting in a stretchier pelvis. So if a baby is on the "larger" side because the mother has been eating better, it is possible that that baby could be easier to push out through a more-stretchy pelvis than a baby who is on the "smaller" side and is being pushed through a less-stretchy pelvis from the mother restricting her food intake for the purpose of having a smaller baby.
I recognize that one thing that is problematic with a discussion like this is the lack of standard definition of what "larger" and "smaller" mean. In mainstream medical obstetric practice, 5 lbs is the standard dividing line between "normal" and "low birth weight", and from what I've heard in responses from mainstream professionals, they seem to regard any birth weight over 8 lbs to be "too big". On the other hand, Dr. Brewer used to quote a researcher who considered any birth weight less than 7 lbs 2 oz to be less than optimal. And in the natural-birth and homebirth circles that I've worked with, it seems that the average birth weight is about 7.5 lbs. to 8.5 lbs, with many babies reaching 9 - 9.5 lbs without anyone being concerned. I personally have helped with at least 3 homebirths of babies who weighed around 10 lbs, two of them with no apparent extra difficulty in the labor. Also, about 15 yrs ago, we had one local homebirth practice of doctors who had one 15 lb baby born at home with no problems to either mother or baby. So the idea of what an ideal birth weight is can be rather relative, at least where the above-seven-pounds range goes. But I do think that the bottom line is that it can be risky for the mother to try to have a smaller baby by eating less food.
Here is more on that question from Dr. Brewer....
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But I do think that the bottom line is that it can be risky for the mother to try to have a smaller baby by eating less food.
Also, I can easily see how someone who didn't eat well before pregnancy could benefit from this diet, but it's not the only healthy way to eat during pregnancy. FWIW, my MIL (and all of the women in DH's home country, for that matter) never had a cup of milk during her pregnancies and likely very few eggs, and had 6 healthy, beautiful average-sized babes all at home.
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I survived 16 mos! Ask me about breastfeeding a baby with posterior tongue tie, high palate, and weak oral motor skills- whew!
|She certainly isn't suggesting that I starve myself or have less than optimal nutrition, but rather not overload myself with carbs and fat.
I guess the operative word here is "overload". What can seem like an overload to one practitioner can seem like a normal level to another practitioner. And it is another undefined, unstandardized word, so we may actually be in agreement here.
I would also like to point out that the servings that are recommended in the Brewer Diet are often smaller than most people realize. So sometimes it is helpful for people to look at the serving sizes before they decide whether what is recommended is too much for them. That information can be found on the "The Diet" page of my website.
I would like to also clarify that the Brewer Diet tries to emphasize healthy carbs (including whole grains, for example), rather than empty carbs.
And as you probably already know, getting some carbs and fats is very important in pregnancy, so that the mother is avoiding ketosis, and so that fat-soluble vitamins can be absorbed, and I think that fats are important for brain and nerve development as well. And the Brewer Diet recommends items like nuts and avocado and nut butters and healthy oils for the fat needs, so it can be done in a healthy way, which you probably also already know.
|And, since GD runds in my family, I don't want to test my limits on the carbs especially.
But I can understand your wanting to be careful, with that kind of experience in your family.
|Also, I can easily see how someone who didn't eat well before pregnancy could benefit from this diet, but it's not the only healthy way to eat during pregnancy. FWIW, my MIL (and all of the women in DH's home country, for that matter) never had a cup of milk during her pregnancies and likely very few eggs, and had 6 healthy, beautiful average-sized babes all at home.
The symptoms of a blood volume that is not as high as it should be include pathological edema, a rising BP, and fetal growth that is falling behind. Also, the earliest symptom of pre-eclampsia is actually a rising hemoglobin/hematocrit, because as the blood volume falls, the blood becomes more "concentrated" and so the Hgb/Hct value rises.
As far as the eggs and milk go, the main reason that Dr. Brewer started there is that he was initially working with women with very low incomes, and eggs and milk are the lowest-cost high-quality proteins available in our grocery stores. So this was the easiest way for them to get the kind of protein that they needed.
The other reason is that eggs and milk provide so many of the vitamins that pregnant bodies need--such as calcium from milk and Vitamin A from eggs (which helps to prevent bladder infections during pregnancy). So especially for mothers who may be less able to afford to buy extra vitamin supplements in pregnancy, the eggs and milk were a great place to start.
Momma to DD (12/04) and DS (11/09) .
I survived 16 mos! Ask me about breastfeeding a baby with posterior tongue tie, high palate, and weak oral motor skills- whew!
The answer to this question is pretty controversial. Some people will tell you "Absolutely Yes! You can get too much protein!" I would disagree with them with some qualifiers....
People with pre-existing kidney or liver problems should be careful of how much protein they eat.
But normally it's probably not possible for the average pregnant woman to get too much protein. Usually the extra protein that a pregnant woman eats actually protects her kidneys and kidneys from the normal stresses of pregnancy. It's also usually true that it's easier for pregnant women to have less protein than they need, rather than too much. And it's also true that just one day of protein that high will not be enough to have any negative effects on you.
You can find more information about this on these pages....
You may find some help from my "Special Needs" page (scroll down halfway for the list of special need situations)....
For breastfeeding during pregnancy, she recommends adding 20 grams of protein and 200 calories to the Basic Plan. So that would add up to 100-140 grams of protein and 2800 calories, assuming that you don't have any other extra protein/calorie/salt expenditures in your life.
My MW doesn't recommend it. She stated that it's too much food and protein for most people. She really pushes the "Eat to Live" diet for her moms, which includes tons of raw veggies, beans, and low dairy/carbs. She said labors are faster/easier by growing a smaller but healthy baby. I can't argue w/ that!
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For many entrepreneurs, choosing which industry to enter doesn't warrant a second thought – they enter a particular market based on their experience and business idea.
But for those entrepreneurs that choose to start a business simply for the challenge, it can be quite overwhelming deciding which path to choose.
Vito Russo faced this hurdle when he was setting up his business, Expanda Van Homes. With no concrete idea to go off, Russo spent some time deliberating over which industry to enter.
"I was looking for a business venture which supplied a product that customers needed… I felt a business with a product that was needed by consumers, rather than just wanted, would make it more recession-proof," he says.
"The business had to service a growth market and be able to be easily expanded by multiplication. I also had to enjoy what I was doing."
Russo initially considered the building industry, inspired by his passion for the sector, before deciding it was too volatile. However, he soon had a change of heart.
"There has been a housing shortage in Australia for as long as I remember, and the shortage of new homes built is getting to a crisis stage. This made me look closer at the building industry," he says.
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"When there is a downturn, and people have to downsize their home because they cannot afford it any longer, this increases the number of people looking at affordable housing, again making the affordable housing market bigger."
This led Russo to the conclusion that affordable housing solutions represented a viable business venture that would weather the storm in the event of a downturn.
Expanda Van Homes was founded in 2008 and recorded revenue of $600,000 in the previous financial year. But before it could make its mark in the industry, Russo had to deal with the various legalities associated with building the homes.
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Expanda Van Homes manufactures a housing patent solution, which looks and feels like a mobile home but has the legal status of a caravan, making it a unique product in the market.
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In a message dated 4/20/02 4:25:28 AM, nitlion at mindspring.com writes:
>This seems like such a simple thing, yet I've search through the big book
>trying to figure it out. Perhaps someone can help me...
>Given a list of integers that generally contains the same number many times,
>I'd like to reduce it to a list that just gives me the number/count pairs.
>For example, I'd like to convert the list
> {1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4}
> {{1,5}, {2,3}, (4,6}}
>Is there a built-in function to do this? Seems like a histogramming
>operation, but I get no useful matches from ?*Hist*.
lst = Table[Random[Integer,{1,4}],{10}];
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Courtney Bumpers was "that child," she says, the child who quickly found her way out of her crib, the child with boundless energy who required an outlet. Growing up, Bumpers tried to find that outlet through activities like ballet, figure skating, tennis, swimming and diving. But it was a 'Mommy and Me' gymnastics class that did the trick. "I've loved it ever since," she says.
By the time Bumpers chose a college, she was looking for the right combination of academics and athletics, and she found it at Carolina. "For me, it was the academics as well as the strength of the gymnastics team," she said. Bumpers recognized that she wasn't going to become a professional gymnast, so "I wanted to go to a school where I knew I could get a really good academic education, so that once I finished college I'd be able to go on and go to grad school, or use my degree and be able to get a job. That was something very important to me."
Bumpers found that Carolina's gymnastics program was very academically minded. "I liked that the gymnastics team all seemed to be smart women," she said. "They had good grades and they went on to do other things after gymnastics. That was important as well."
College gymnastics offered a team atmosphere that was a bit different to what Bumpers had competed in growing up. She was a Tar Heel; she wore Carolina colors and had the support of a team structure. "When you're wearing Carolina colors, you're part of a group, part of a team that means something," she said.
At Carolina, Bumpers found her best events to be the floor exercise and the balance beam, and she competed in the all-around. "Once you get to college, [the coaches] look and see where your strengths are, and sometimes you get to do all-around, and I was fortunate enough that I got to do all-around for all four years," she said.
Her career began with a bang. Bumpers won the all-around competition at her first four meets and earned a perfect 10.0 on the floor at the fourth meet of her career. For her efforts, she was named East Atlantic Gymnastics League Rookie of the Year. That season, she took fourth place in the balance beam at the NCAA National Championships.
In 2004, Carolina missed qualifying for the NCAA National Championships by .025, but Bumpers qualified as an individual with a 9.90 on the beam and 9.95 on the floor.
"I don't know if it's the most difficult skill, but for me the most memorable was my first tumbling pass," she says today. "It's a double layout and then a punch front, so I'm going in one direction, and then I land and immediately go in the other direction. I think that was exciting because nobody in college gymnastics that I can remember was doing that skill."
At the National Championships in Los Angeles, she tied with Alabama's Ashley Miles for the national title, with a 9.9375 on the floor exercise. As a sophomore, Courtney Bumpers was an NCAA champion. "It was almost a surreal feeling," she says. "I don't want to say like a dream, but it happened and I won, and it was exciting." Even after securing the Carolina program's first national title, Bumpers kept reaching higher.
"I think you're always trying to get the perfect ten," she said. "You always want the perfect routine, and unless it's perfect, you always have something to work on and I think that's the biggest thing is looking and saying, 'Well, I've always got something to work on.'"
And so she worked. Bumpers appeared in Nationals for a third year in 2005. With a national title to her name, she knew she'd need to bring her best to the floor. With new music and a new routine, she wowed the judges and secured the first (and still only) perfect 10 since the NCAA went to six judges in event finals in the 1990s. "I just think I was in a zone that day," she said. "You have some competitions where you're just in the zone, and everything comes together: your training, your hard work, the hard work that your coaches and your teammates helped put in to help you do well, all of that just comes together at one moment, and you just hope that it's the national championship when it comes together."
After Carolina, Bumpers earned her juris doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania. Today, she practices as a federal prosecutor in Charlotte. Although it's been a long time since she's tumbled-you're more likely to find her running-she continues to draw on her experiences as part of the Carolina gymnastics program. "The idea of always trying to get better, always wanting to learn and to grow and to develop," she said. "I think that's the one big way I really see my experience in gymnastics kind of moving into my professional work experience.
"There's so much I have to learn and so much I have to do, just pushing every day to try to be a better attorney. With gymnastics, I was always trying to be a better gymnast." In addition to that drive to better herself, Bumpers continues to enjoy working in a team structure. "You have to grow and learn from other people, and you rely on those other people you're working with," she said. "Gymnastics was the same way. You learn from the other people who you are on the team with and their support."
Bumpers raised the bar and helped lay the foundation for a program that had been on the cusp of breaking through. "I think sometimes when you're not used to going to nationals or winning the championships, it's almost feels unreachable so I think when I did win the championship, when I did go nationals, people realized it could be done," she said. The two-time national champion says that the program was headed in the right direction, but she helped prove that a national championship could be won in Carolina blue. "They were already kind of on that path already. They just needed somebody to show it could be done."