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The Internet of Everything - Harnessing the Full Potential of Internet of Things
Dr Ishwar Parulkar, Cisco Distinguished Engineer and Mobility CTO, Cisco India
The article was Published in ET Online
In recent years, we have undergone a technology and lifestyle revolution with the connection of billions of smartphones and tablets to the Internet and a phenomenal range of applications. We are now entering the next revolution - the Internet of Things (IoT) - where smaller, real-world devices such as home appliances, sensors, consumer electronic devices, etc. are getting connected to the Internet.
The number of such devices connected to the Internet is expected to reach 50 billion by 2020, which is approximately 10 times more than the number of current Internet hosts, including mobile devices. In economic theory, a network effect is defined as the effect where the value of a product or service increases exponentially with the number of others using it.
The full potential of IoT will be realized with such a network effect, when three more elements are added to it - people, data and processes - to create the Internet of Everything (IoE). By adding the 1) ability to gather data from the connected devices, 2) developing platforms that perform analytics on that data, and 3) connecting to existing processes or creating new processes, unprecedented opportunities for industries, businesses and people can be created.
There are some key reasons why now is the right time for this IoE technology inflexion point to occur. First, powerful technology trends - such as the dramatic increase in processing power, storage, and bandwidth at very low costs; the rapid growth of cloud, social media and mobile computing; the ability to analyze Big Dataand turn it into actionable information - are making it possible to realize more value from connectedness.
Second, barriers to connectedness are dropping - for example, the 32-bit addressing scheme for Internet hosts is being phased out by a 128-bit addressing scheme, radically expanding the number of devices that can be connected.
Third, hardware form factors continue to shrink. Today, a computer the size of a grain of salt can include a thin-film battery, memory, sensors and wireless antennas.However there are still some technology challenges.
- Standards: The variety of sensor types has led to a proliferation of standards, compounded by the lack of a central overseeing standards organization. The convergence to open standards is critical to wider adoption.
- Security: Paradoxically, the very principle that makes IoE so powerful - the potential to share data in real-time with everyone and everything - creates a cyber-security threat. Privacy implications include unlawful surveillance, active intrusion in private life and data compromise for businesses. A new, two-step approach that monitors device users through traditional means like authentication and validation, but also monitors the state of the devices in use is needed.
- Device power: While tremendous advances have been made in building low-power sensors and devices, currently most run on batteries with limited shelf life. Prolonged battery life that sources energy from unconventional power sources is necessary for embedding intelligent devices, especially healthcare and human-wearable devices.
- Data control and sharing: Data is the currency of the IoE world. Deciding who gets access to data and how that data is used to develop further products or services useful to consumers or sold to advertisers and third-parties is a complex problem.
IoE has applications in several domains, the mature ones being in manufacturing, energy and retail and the rapidly emerging ones being in healthcare, smart cities, transportation, connected home and human-wearable devices. The IoE value at stake in India has been pegged around Rs.21,000 crores by some sources. The primary challenge in realizing the full value is quality and penetration of IT infrastructure.
However that is improving gradually with the impending 4G rollouts and initiatives like the Bharat Broadband Network project. India's unique IoE opportunity and advantage lies in greenfield innovation and potential for outsized gains by leap-frogging to state-of-the-art technology. While the current Indian private and government sectors are well poised to make use of IoE technologies in manufacturing and energy sectors, it is in domains such as smart cities, healthcare and agriculture that India has the potential to be a global technology leader.
The government of India has announced a budget for the development of 100 smart cities. Smart cities can use IoE technologies for making infrastructure network and delivery of services more efficient. This can be done across verticals such as telecom, transportation, safety and security, electricity, garbage, water and gas supply using smart meters, sensors, video surveillance, global positioning systems and data analytics.
In the healthcare sector, monitoring and diagnosis technology, with remote connectivity to doctors in urban areas can make healthcare accessible to more rural areas. In agriculture, farmers can be connected with weather data, soil conditions and yield via sensors and analytics to increase agricultural output.
The Internet of Everything has a central role to play in India's renewed focus on infrastructure, empowering rural population and developing urban centers.


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I can't believe how dingy the entire place looked. I was actually surprised since I had frequently visited the place when I was younger. The food is less than mediocre at best yet the staff is very friendly, for the most part. One more complaint that I have is the hours of operation. Sometimes they are open early and sometimes they aren't. It is confusing to the public when the hours of operation aren't consistent. I would think that with all the money that the bowling industry makes annually, they could afford to keep the facilities updated.
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The tennis world was rocked today with fresh scandal as superstar Maria Sharapova devastatingly announced to having failed a drug test. In a press conference held in LA on Monday afternoon, the Russian, winner of all four grand slams, admitted she had made a 'huge mistake' after the International Tennis Federation informed her she had tested positive for Meldonium.
WADA only changed the status of the drug last year
The drug, which was only banned as of January 1st 2016, is an energetic metabolism, especially for people whose family have a history of diabetes. Sharapova announced that she had been taken the drug for over ten years, including during her five grand slam wins, and even during this year's Australian Open, where ITF officials tested her positive for the drug.
Still legal in both Latvia and her native Russia, the drug was added to the World Anti Doping Agency's banned substance list on the 16th of September 2015 (You can find the full report here), with the changes taking place the following January. Sharapova admitted to having received an email in late December with a list of the newly banned substances, but claims that she did not open the link and therefore had no knowledge of the change to the legal status of the drug, which she claims to have taken legally for over ten years.
John Haggerty, Sharapova's lawyer, tells #NYT Sharapova will be provisionally suspended on March 12 & will not ask for B sample to be tested @Christopherclarey on Twitter
Another huge blow to Russian sport
She is not the first Russian athlete to have been tested positive for the drug in recent times, with ice skater Ekaterina Bobrova also announcing today that she too had tested positive for the same drug; however, Bobrova claims to have had knowledge of the change in status of the drug and had thus been avoiding it.
The shocking revelation comes shortly on the heels of the match-fixing scandal which rocked the tennis world going into the Australian Open. In a joint BBC/Buzzfeed investigation, it was alleged that a number of players had purposefully thrown matches, including grand slam winners.
The news will also come as a blow to Russian sport in a year which also saw the All-Russian Athletic Federation banned from competing in all track competitions following an investigation by the International Association of Athletics Federations.
When prompted, Sharapova said she did not know what would happen now and that she awaited on talks with the ITF before she knew what punishment she would face. However, she did hope she would be given another chance to play in the sport again.


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Could you elaborate more on your home page what this tool does? What problem does it solve? How does it compare, supplement, or compete with the BizTalk Deployment Framework (BTDF) on CodePlex? Does it help or assist with doing automated
builds in conjunction with TFS?
Recently, I tried to do an MSBuild on BizTalk 2006 with VS2005, and had this issue:
I was just trying to use MSBuild instead of DevEnv to do a build on my own machine.
It gives error saying ".btproj - is not supported by MSBuild and cannot be built"
See the third comment beginning with "Quite right" in this blog.
Does "BizTalk MsBuild Generator" solve this issue?
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Willmar School Board meets Monday
WILLMAR — The Willmar School Board will meet at 4:30 p.m. Monday in the boardroom on the first floor of the Willmar Education and Arts Center, 611 Fifth St. S.W.
The agenda includes resolutions to adjust salaries for non-certified and certified substitute employees and for a group of other employees.
A discussion of problems with a reroofing project at Willmar Senior High is on the agenda, along with a report on restructuring the district's special education program.
The board will listen to public comments related agenda items at the beginning of the meeting. Those who want to comment on issues not related to the agenda may do so at the end of the meeting.
Board meetings are shown live on Willmar local cable access channel 18 and are recorded to be televised later on channel 19.
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Doing Good by DadBlogging
September 13th, 2010 | by Nathan | Published in Uncategorized | 2 Comments
Regular readers of this space will recognize that we have very few moral ambitions on this blog. We do not blog for world peace, we do not call for an end to cancer. We do not aspire, like the excellent PhD in Parenting, to hold multinational corporations accountable for their anti-child profiteering.
Mostly we just want to make it home on the subway without our children taking a dump on us.
But we will raise a glass to those DadBlogs out there that actually succeed in making a difference, which is why I want to a belated congratulations our friend Ryan at Pacing the Panic Room for the hypersuccessful launch late last month of his charity children's album Do Fun Stuff.
I have been reading Ryan's blog for some time now because he's a Floridian and a gifted photographer and an obviously committed father. But I had no idea he was also a get-shit-done kind of guy, that he could organize a Big Deal charity project the way he has.
The charity: PRISMS, for further research on Smith-Magenis Syndrome (SMS), which his stepson was diagnosed with in 2009. I don't presume to have best information about the syndrome, but Ryan's blog tells you all you need to know about it: SMS affects the lives of those who have it and their families deeply, and more needs to be known about it.
What's inspiring is that Ryan actually managed to rise above his own family's struggle and do something about it. I've listened to a few tracks from the album, and they're great. Do Fun Stuff is (or at least was recently) #1 on iTunes in Children's Albums. It's quite an achievement.
Buy the album on iTunes here. And renew your faith in humanity, or at least in dadbloggers.


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- Updates from the College of Management Student Managed Fund
Learn about updates from the this year's graduate and undergraduate Student Managed Funds.
- UMass Boston Students Visit the New York Stock Exchange
On May 16, CM students in the Student Managed Fund (SMF) visited the New York Stock Exchange.
- College of Management Graduate Students Place in Alpha Boston Equity Pitch Challenge
Four teams were chosen as finalists and after presenting their research report on McCormick & Co (NYSE MKC), UMass Boston's College of Management team placed second in the competition.
- Student Managed Fund Pays Big Returns
Every Monday night, 30 undergraduate students gather in a basement room in the Healey Library to discuss the state of the market and pitch new investment ideas.


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There are just two days left to have your bonny baby pictured for the Northants Telegraph's Super Tots 2012 competition.
Photo sessions are being held today, Friday, and tomorrow, Saturday, in Kettering and Wellingborough.
Just take along your tot to have their picture taken, and their photo will appear alongside dozens of others in a special supplement in the paper.
Readers will vote for the bonniest babies and the family of the overall winner will get a fantastic week's holiday at Pontin's.
Three runners-up will win a three-night break at the leisure resort.
Dates and locations for the sessions:
Friday, October 19, and Saturday, October 20, from 10am to 4.30pm – Newlands centre in Kettering (outside Card Factory) and Matalan in Wellingborough.
There are four age groups - 0 to 9 months, 10 to 18 months, 19 to 35 months and 3 to 5 years.
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Descrierea jobului - România
To be responsible for the procurement of equipments through the development and implementation of procurement strategies plans and the management of supplier relationship. Other areas of responsibility include price negotiation, planning, logistics, inventory control.Build and develop relationships with key suppliers and services providers. Prepare purchase requisitions, approve and issues purchase orders in accordance with company policy and negotiated terms and conditions . Maintain and update the MIS. Prepare reports, summarize and compare bids and offers received. Meet with new suppliers to develop and establish new sources of supply Tendering Process, Contract Review
Bachelor Degree / Masters Degree in Economy Minimum 5 years of industrial experience in the project / industrial procurement Proficient in MS Office Good team player with integrity, interpersonal, organization and time management skills Work well under pressure and able to work independently
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Have you ever imagined how the celebrity house looks like? Or you imagine living in the celebrity house? If you do, then your dream can come true. Celine Dion's fancy house is on market. You better check first of how fancy her house is.
Just like another celebrity house, this fancy relaxing house is luxurious with its largest water area on the Jupiter Island. This house is overlooking the Florida Ocean where it is absolutely relaxing to stay in this kind of house, just some steps away; you are reaching the beach water.
There are five separated pavilions which five of them face the clean and large swimming pool. This two-story building uses white as the basic color scheme, thus, makes this large house even looks bigger and spacious. The first level is used for the general rooms while the second floor is used for private rooms, such as bedroom and bathroom.
Monochrome color of white and brown is what used for the interior. It gives the relaxing and comfortable atmosphere for this house. The floor is made from the brown wooden material fits to the living area that is filled with brown cozy sofas and its cushions. The kitchen area is just as large as the other rooms.
The long and big cabinets are used to place the kitchen decorations. Family area is facing the outdoor view of the beach and bordered with glass walls. The main bedroom has the rectangular shape with its monochrome of white and black.
The ultra-king size bed looks so glam with the black bedding and the textured black rug facing the beauty of the beach landscape. Another bed room is made in the brown scheme color and still boasts its luxury even though has the smaller size.
Over all, this house offers the luxury and peaceful atmosphere altogether. At the least, you can use this fancy relaxing house design as your idea sources for your own house.


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On Test Generation through Programming in UDITA
We present an approach for describing tests using non-deterministic test generation programs. To write test generation programs, we introduce UDITA, a Java-based language with non-deterministic choice operators and an interface for generating linked structures. We also describe new algorithms that generate concrete tests by efficiently exploring the space of all executions of non-deterministic UDITA programs. We implemented our approach and incorporated it into the official, publicly available repository of Java PathFinder (JPF), a popular tool for verifying Java programs. We evaluate our technique by generating tests for data structures, refactoring engines, and JPF itself. Our experiments show that test generation using UDITA is faster and leads to test descriptions that are easier to write than in previous frameworks. Moreover, the novel execution mechanism of UDITA is essential for making test generation feasible. Using UDITA, we have discovered a number of previously unknown bugs in Eclipse, NetBeans, Sun javac, and JPF.
Keywords: software testing ; symbolic execution ; lazy evaluation ; linked data structures ; software reliability
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Nadine Gordimer was born in Springs, Transvaal (now Gauteng), an East Rand mining town outside Johannesburg in 1923. Her father, Isidore Gordimer, was a Jewish jeweller originally from Latvia and her mother, Nan Myers, was of British descent. From her early childhood, Gordimer witnessed how the White minority increasingly weakened the few rights of the Black majority.
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BackGround Music: Mia Love's Christmas Music Countdown
December 15, 2017 05:00 AM PST
CHRISTMAS TIME IS HERE! And what better way to celebrate it, then by creating a countdown full of some of the best Christmas tunes out! Sit down, snuggle up and grab a nice warm cup of hot chocolate and vibe to Mia Love's Christmas Music countdown.The BackGround Music to 2017
November 20, 2017 07:17 AM PST
2017 is coming to an end, and what better way to end it than to sum it all up with a recap! On this episode of BackGround Music, I am recapping the years guests, bloopers, inspirational moments and even included a little soundtrack to 2017 from some of the songs on the albums that inspired my guests.BackGround Music Anniversary Episode: The Hamiltones
September 08, 2017 05:00 AM PDT
DO YOU KNOW WHAT TODAY IS? It's BackGround Music's Anniversary! To celebrate, I wanted to have a group of the hottest and incredibly talented artists out right now, to be apart of the show. Who else other than The Hamiltones! I was super excited to get personal with them and find out their influences and to discover the inspiration behind their sound. What album inspired The Hamiltones, Tony Lelo, Twoey and J. Vito, to decide that music what IT? Well, sit back and relax and check it out here on BackGround Music.
BackGround Music Special Episode: Dennis Reed & Inspire the Fire
August 01, 2017 09:53 PM PDT
Earlier this year, I sat down with Dennis Reed on an episode of BackGround Music. Not only is he a musician, but he is also the CEO of an organization that is taking over the city of Charlotte, NC. The mission is to inspire the youth through the arts. On this episode, I decided to sit down with the youth and advisors of the organization to see what inspires them and find out what type of impact the organization has had on their lives. I also sat down with the head man himself, to find out what inspired him to create this organization. Follow me on my musical journey with the amazingly, talented individuals of Inspire the Fire.
BackGround Music: Greg Cox
July 09, 2017 10:11 PM PDT
I had the chance to sit down with THE amazing Greg Cox; Singer, songwriter, guitar and keys player, producer, arranger and the list goes on and on. He talks about how one particular album assured him that music was the one! Listen as he discusses his own musical background and how the album helped shape his musical career.
BackGround Music: LeJuene Thompson
June 04, 2017 01:17 PM PDT
On this episode of "BackGround Music", I had the chance to sit down with one of my FAVORITE vocalist/artist...LeJuene Thompson, who is best known for the kind of voice that can't be compared to anything else and that will absolutely BLOW. YOU. AWAY. It was super inspirational to hear the album that not only inspired her, but caused her to fall in love with music! She let me in on her personal inspirations, quirks, tips and musical background. Listen as she tells a story of how she knew that music was the one for her.
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Wordless Wednesday – Quitting Tip from Maxine
This Wordless Wednesday post is dedicated to The Only Cin who is in the midst of giving up smoking. Because all of us that do smoke and have tried to quit the habit know just how hard it is to stop. And we need all the help, support and advice we can get. This Maxine's suggestion.
From the multi-coloured pens of the celebrated Hallmark cartoonist John Wagner, the Maxine series has become a classic. That's one feisty old girl there.


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Nathanial McIntosh, 23, was convicted of a "sustained attack" which included kicking and punching three victims.
He admitted using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with intent and given a 12-week suspended prison sentence and an eight-week curfew.
But a magistrate later agreed to lift the curfew so McIntosh could go on a pre-booked, month-long break to the Ko Phi Phi in Thailand.
McIntosh, who had a previous conviction for assault in 2010, asked magistrates for an amendment as he had already paid for the holiday to Thailand.
His 7pm to 6am curfew was relaxed for the duration of the holiday and is set to start again on his return on April 3.
The decision was slammed by justice groups after it was revealed in his local newspaper, The West Briton.
McIntosh, of Falmouth, Cornwall, has now sparked outrage after posting a shirtless picture of himself wearing swimming shorts on a sun-kissed beach.
The picture, posted on social networking site Instagram, has the caption: "Put this on the front of the West Briton ... W------ !!"
Local resident Adam Petrauske, who spotted the picture, said: "I find it absolutely disgusting how he has been able to get away with this."
Another victim added: "It's absolutely ludicrous that the curfew was relaxed and says the law is nothing and bends to suit you."
McIntosh, an amateur footballer, admitted the public order offence at Bodmin Magistrates Court on August 21.
It followed an incident in Newquay, Cornwall, where he attacked three people in a "sustained attack included kicks which resulted in injury".
But he later went back to magistrates in Truro on January 22 and the curfew was lifted so he could go on the month-long holiday to Asia.
Peter Chapman, chairman of the Magistrates' Association's sentencing committee, said courts do have the power to lift curfews.
He said: "If the curfew clashes with work, a pre-booked holiday, a relative's wedding, or a job interview, magistrates can adjust the curfew as they see fit.
"The punishment imposed by a curfew consists of the number of days and hours on which the offender's liberty is restricted by having to be at home.
"If the magistrates wish the offender to suffer a financial loss, they will order a fine to be paid.
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The game favors the Cowboys for several good reasons. First
- the Dolphins have not been playing well and scrambled to
barely win last week at home against a bad Redskins team.
Williams has not ran very well and now on the road against
a tough defense will make him less a factor.
The Cowboys are at home with slightly more preparation time
than the traveling Dolphins and in a game with less time to
prepare, the better defense is almost always on the winning
team since gameplans tend to more generic versions that are
more easily defended.
It should be a lower scoring affair but an entertaining way
to digest that Thanksgiving meal. The last time these two
met on Thanksgiving the Dolphins won thanks to Leon Lett's
slide into the blocked field goal but there is no snow in
the forecast this time.
Miami Notes
The Dolphins rise to 7-4 in an very unimpressive win over
the Redskins last week. They are two games behind the Patriots
in the AFC East.
After Brian Griese had thrown two interceptions last
week he finally got the hook and Jay Fielder came in
to lead the Fins on two touchdown drives to win the game.
Since Fielder had no unusual soreness in his knee after the
game, he is a lock to start this week. Griese started well
with an 80 yard bomb to McKnight last Sunday but was ineffective
from that point.
Running Backs: Ricky Williams
turned in his second straight 100+ yard game and scored
twice last week, looking stronger as the game continued. Perhaps
the defense changes, but he ran far better after Fiedler came
into to the game. Williams now goes on the road where he has
not had a decent game since week two.
RG Todd Perry should be back in the lineup this week but
LG Jamie Nails may not play because of a sprained ankle.
Receivers: The 80 yard
scoring strike last week to James McKnight was the
fourth longest scoring play in Dolphins history but he only
managed two more catches for 16 yards which is much closer
to his average. McKnight only has two games this season over
33 yards receiving.
Chris Chambers ended with only 34 yards and four catches
and though Fielder has moved the offense better than Griese,
Chambers has never been a big beneficiary. Two of his best
games this season came in the first two weeks when Griese
played though he did gain 118 yards and two scores against
the Texans with Fiedler in week two. The Texans and the Cowboys
are quite different in their ability to cover the pass.
Much like Chambers, Randy McMichael did better with
Griese this season than with Fiedler. Problem is that the
running game seems to open up better with Fiedler in the game
though one big qualifier here is that McMichael has had his
better games when the Fins face good cornerbacks so McMichael
will likely come into heavier play this week.
Match against the Defense:
The Dolphins managed to comeback and beat the Redskins last
week but should have pummeled them out right from the start.
Now they face one of the stingiest defenses in the league
with relatively no time to prepare.
The Cowboys have allowed only three passing scores in the
last four weeks and two of those were to Patrick Ramsey in
trash time. When Brady had 212 yards two weeks again in NE,
it was the only time since week four that a quarterback had
exceeded 151 yards passing and Jay Fiedler will find a much
tougher time locating open receivers this week.
With Chambers covered by CB Terrence Newman and Thompson
able to take himself out of the game, it could open up for
Randy McMichael more but Dallas has been very tough on tight
ends the last eight weeks. Both Crumpler and Shockey scored
on them the first two weeks when the defense was still coming
Ricky Williams faces a defense that has been very tough everywhere
and more so at home. Stephen Davis only managed 59 yards last
week and Henry was tops with only 80 yards there. Williams
will dip back under the century mark this week.
Dallas Notes
The Cowboys come off a big emotional win over the Panthers
and rise to 8-3 to remain tied with the Eagles in the NFC
The Cowboys surprised the Panthers last week when they did
not even try to run the ball much. Instead, they allowed Quincy
Carter to throw a season high 44 passes for 29 completions
and 254 yards with two touchdowns. Since the Panthers had
a good run defense anyway, the Cowboys needed to score via
the pass and did exactly that. This should be the case again
this week.
Running Backs: Troy Hambrick
only had 12 rushes for 26 yards last week and outside of his
100 yard game against the Redskins, he has not scored nor
gained over 41 yards rushing since week seven. Since Adrian
Murrell was cut again, Aveion Cason came back into
the game plan and had 26 yards on six carries including a
rushing score. Richie Anderson turned in six catches
for 28 yards.
This is not a rushing team for the most part, at least not
well and the gang will get carries largely to keep the defenses
honest and helps kill the clock later in the game if Dallas
has the lead.
Receivers: Terry Glenn
comes off his best game in a month with 74 yards on five catches
against the Panthers and Joey Galloway (3-50) and Antonio
Bryant (3-35) did just enough to keep the chains moving.
Galloway had a touchdown in the game as well.
Jeff Robinson had the other passing score but it was
on his only catch of the season. No wonder he was not covered.
Dan Campbell had six passes and three catches for 22 yards
last week and the rookie Jason Witten had his best game of
his career with six catches for 49 yards.
The passing game worked because it never locked on to any
one receiver and that will again be important this week.
Match against the Defense:
The Dolphins have a top ten rushing defense and the Cowboys
do not run well anymore, so expect another lesser game from
Hambrick. There is a decent chance for a rushing score though
since the Fins have allowed one in four of their last five
games. The scorers were more like Hambrick than Cason, so
while he will have low yardage he could sneak in a touchdown.
The Dolphins have killed opponents when they had an average
quarterback and been killed when the opposing quarterback
was good (Manning, McNair, Brady). Where Carter falls seems
to change but it is a safer assumption that he will not post
big numbers against a secondary that has kept most opponents
under 200 yards passing in the last month.
The most likely wideout to score would be Bryant as the #3.
The good corner play of Miami can hold down Galloway and Glenn
but several #3 receivers have scored against them (Walters,
Givens, Calico). That will be the result of a single long
pass and no receiver should rack up big yards.
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• In 1865, inspired by the decorative handle of his office window, Maurice Hennessy created the star symbol that he would use to classify his cognacs. Thus was born the Three Star Cognac, better known today as V.S.
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• The powerful bouquet is dominated by overtones of oak, giving way to reveal a delicate scent of hazelnuts.Intense and floral, V.S combines the sweetness of red fruits with a hint of vanilla that lingers on the palate.
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Mr. David Chambers
I am delighted to begin my 29th year as an educator/administrator with the Madison County Public Schools. I have been blessed to make as many lasting impressions as I have over the years and I truly look forward to making an impact here as well.
I come to Madison County from New Britain, Connecticut where I was the principal of New Britain High School, one of Connecticut's largest high schools with 2600 students. Prior to working at NBHS I worked at Hartford Public High School as principal of a Nursing Academy. Additionally, I worked in East Windsor and Bloomfield Connecticut, Newton Massachusetts, Cape Cod, Massachusetts and Champaign, Illinois. Having worked in each of those environments, I have extensive experience with middle and secondary school as well as working in urban, rural and suburban environments. Overall, having worked in both a magnet school system and a traditional public school system, I feel that my experiences match with the needs of the students at Madison County Central School.
I received my bachelor's degree from Wake Forest University in 1987 and my master's degree from the University of Illinois in 1998. While I have continued my pursuit of education for my advanced degree, I recently completed my Superintendency Endorsement from Central Connecticut State University in 2015. My plan will be to pursuit my PhD in the very near future.
In August of 2004, I married my lovely wife, Stacy Chambers in Bloomfield, Connecticut. Currently, she is the Director of Florida State University Schools located in Tallahassee, Florida. We both are educators who believe in the goodness of students. We believe that they all need adults to give then love and guidance.
Overall, our belief in education is based on Neil Postman's book, The Disappearance of Childhood, in which he states on the first line, "Children are the living messages that we send to a time and place that we may never see." We have to provide the guidance and love to all of our children so that they will be able to develop into life long learns who dream about their future in terms of college, career and their post-secondary options.


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Hawaiian Steel Guitar is ready to make music
This was an extremely fun project. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. It's satisfying to make something out of wood that makes music when it's done. Actually, it's more like noise than music at this point, as I'm learning how to play slide! I do think it has a great sound though, and all that figure in the Mango wood sure is nice to look at!
Here's the finished guitar ready to play!
Here's my high-tech spraying set-up. Garden twine, a pine tree branch, a respirator and spray finish. Here's the recipe:
(After sanding a dark pore filler smooth with 320 grit paper)
1. Two coats sanding sealer, sand with 320
2. About 10 light coats of nitrocellulous laquer, sand with 320
3. About 10 more light coats of the laquer, final sanding with 400
4. Four light final coats
I worked on the bridge while waiting for the various layers of finish to dry. A nice piece of curly hard maple.
When the finish was dry, I clamped the bridge in place, scribed around the border, and scraped the finish away. This allows for a strong wood-to-wood glue joint. The small brass screw acts as a locater to keep the bridge from slipping around as it's clamped in it's final position.
A deep reach C-clamp and two cam clamps lock the bridge to the top. A caul inside the guitar helps to spread the pressure evenly.
A front view of the set-up guitar.
Back view
Headstock detail
Check out the new-old-stock tuners from the 1920's!
Bridge detail
Ivoroid end-pin detail
Soundhole detail


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Voronet Monastery
The giddying size, scope and detail of the Last Judgment fresco, which fills every reasonable square centimeter of the exterior western wall of the Voronet Monastery has been roundly declared as the most marvellous Bucovine fresco. Like all of the surviving exterior monastery paintings, it's something of a miracle; the paint pigment is only two millimeters thick, making the lasting robustness of the frescoes difficult to explain. With the exception of the northern wall at Voronet, which has absorbed the brunt of centuries of Romania's punishing elements, the exterior frescoes remain implausibly vibrant.
The northern wall depicts Genesis, from Adam and Eve to Cain and Abel. The southern wall features a tree of Jesse with the genealogy of biblical personalities.
The vibrant, almost satiny blue pigment used throughout the frescoes is known worldwide as 'Voronet blue'.
In the narthex lies the tomb of Daniel the Hermit, the first abbot of Voronet Monastery. It was upon the worldly advice of Daniel, who told Stefan cel Mare not to give up his battle against the Turks, that the Moldavian prince went on to win further victories against the Turks and then to build Voronet Monastery out of gratitude to God.
In 1785, occupying Austrians forced Voronet's monks to abandon the monastery. Since 1991 the monastery has been inhabited by a small community of nuns.
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Criticism of God's word is nothing new. It was there in the beginning (Gen 3:1) and it lives on today. The ideas are always the same, just repackaged and recopied from someone else. Sometimes the tactic is simple mockery – taking a beautiful work created by someone else and flipping it onto its unbiblical head. It requires some dedication but little imagination. Case-in-point: the most popular visualization of "contradictions" from Project Reason is not much more than a re-hash of Chris Harrison's original award-winning visualization of cross references.
Now, a crafty programmer, Daniel Taylor, has copied the exact same idea again and dressed it up with lots of interactivity at bibviz.com. Don't get me wrong: I admire Mr. Taylor's skills in creating such a site. In a very short time he has made every part clickable, searchable, and sharable. It's a clean, easy-to-use design of commendable quality. Yet it's thoroughly unoriginal.
This lack of creativity doesn't deter the popularity of such things, however. Accolades can be found anywhere there are people debating religion on the internet as well as among the professional dataviz community at large. In the first week, BibleViz boasted over 370,000 page views from 160,000 visitors. This is due in part to a friendly media response (big surprise) from names like Gizmodo and Slate.
Charting the Bible's contradictions: http://t.co/xPl9269cOx
— Slate (@Slate) August 24, 2013
The contradictions found among sites like the Skeptic's Annotated Bible and Infidels.org (the data sources for this viz) are just a repackaging of centuries-old attacks. This thorough refutation of each alleged contradiction draws largely on a work produced in the 1600s. As long as they keep using the same worn-out claims, the least they could do is come up with a new way to visualize them.


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MENDOTA HEIGHTS, Minn. - Police in Mendota Heights confirm they are looking into reports of inappropriate contact between a faculty member and up to three students at St. Thomas Academy (STA) High School.
Sergeant Eric Petersen says police were notified Tuesday of the allegations, and that the investigation is preliminary at this time. He did not detail whether the reported conduct was physical or via social media, but shared that additional potential victims and witnesses are being interviewed.
Petersen added that no arrests have been made, and no additional St. Thomas Academy students are in danger or jeopardy.
In a statement released early Wednesday afternoon a STA spokesperson acknowledged the situation and confirmed that the faculty member linked to the allegations is no longer employed by the school.
"We became aware of a situation involving a faculty member and immediately contacted the Mendota Heights Police Department," the statement reads. "Out of respect for their investigation, we are deferring all questions to them at this time. Because the well-being of our students, faculty and staff is our top priority, the faculty member involved is no longer employed by Saint Thomas Academy."
Mendota Police say the investigation is ongoing, and no additional information is likely to be available until Monday.


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Lots of construction at the airport these days, plus activity related to the current filming: planes, busses, and cars. Wow.
The "Sweetheart Dance: Stepping Back in Time" last night at Sala De Madrid on the HU campus was a gift to the community from the Friends of the City of Las Vegas Museum -- really, quite a suite of gifts.
Today's Santa Fe New Mexican reports that Highlands University Athletic Director Ed Manzanares will be leaving Highlands on September 13 to become the new assistant athletic director for major gifts at the University of New Mexico.
In preparing this story, ace reporter Mercy Lopez tagged Williams but overlooked Eric Martinez Questa Schools--on paid leave since March 2011; Marc Space, somewhere in New York--placed on paid leave by the local School Board in August 2010 for the entire school year; Paul Rockhold is a perennial candidate for Superintendent positions--is he working somewhere now? Jim Reed of Dora, Superintendent of 21 teachers and 241 students in 2005-- sounds like assistant principle material. Keep up the good research Mercy (hint: google).
-- Anyone know what they are building at Walmart? All of a sudden there are many construction trailers, supplies, and "other stuff" on the south end of the store, by Legion...
-- Whats going on at Allsups at 4 corners? Replacing pumps or renovating or what ????
-- And last, but not least, what about the construction of where the old Bell gas station used to be??
Any Ideas??? Thanks!!1
J.D. Vasquez a career educator and administrator with the Las Vegas City Schools, died over the weekend. Since the Monday Optic hit the streets before the weekend, notice of services for Mr. Vasquez will not appear in time. So here is the scoop. There will be graveside service for Mr. Vasquez at the Masonic Cemetery Monday morning at 10 a.m. and a memorial service and lunch starting at 1 p.m. at the First United Presbyterian Church of Las Vegas, 1000 Douglas Ave.
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Ilfeld Auditorium 7 p.m. (Saturday), 3 p.m. (Sunday) Tickets: $5 (HU Students free with ID)
Carl Bernstein and Marilyn Priddy will be performing at El Zocalo Gallery for their "Second Saturday" event, January 14 from 2:00pm - 4:30pm.
There as an impressive looking fire burning in a building at the Dee Bibb Industrial Park this afternoon.
The scoreboard on the now-empty football stadium at Robertson reads Home 34 visitors 7. That's the story.
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Momentive Performance Materials workers approve new contract
February 14, 2017 11:43 PM
WATERFORD - What should have been sweet victory on this Valentine's Day, seemed to be more of a bittersweet realization.
"We have 25 members that were victims of the strike," union president, Dominick Patrigniani said.
Momentive Performance Materials and CWA leadership finally came to an agreement on a two and a half year contract.
A major sticking point for union workers was something called ARC- their annual retirement contributions.
"We were able to for over 450 people in this contract, hold the line on it and not lose the 1% that was a big thing for a lot of our younger members," Patrignani said.
He adds that people were willing to keep picketing.
378 people voted to ratify while 211 were against this agreement.
Sensitivity training will begin Wednesday and workers will be phased back in this weekend, but the main focus for many of them now is to reinstate the 25 people who were fired during the strike.
"They were discharged falsely by the company for picket line activity and there's some that are absolutely so ludicrous it makes me want to vomit some of the things they charged people with," Patrignani explained.
"I was the first termination on the picket line for walking back and forth here," Michael Walbroehl said.
Walbroehl was let go during the first week of picketing.
"You don't feel like a productive father you're not going to work and coming home and doing what you're supposed to be doing," he added.
A third party investigator will begin the process of binding arbitration.
"These guys right here I would do anything for them and I wouldn't change anything I've done for the past 105 days for any one of them," Walbroehl said.
The colleagues became like family for 15 weeks and these camps along Route 4 like their home.
Dennis Trainor, Vice President for CWA District 1, released the following statement:
"We're pleased that Momentive workers have ratified the tentative agreement and their 15-week struggle to protect good jobs in upstate New York has come to an end. It is understandable that some members felt that they didn't achieve everything they wanted or deserved, but this agreement represents a substantial improvement over the company's "take it or leave it" offer that sparked the strike last November. The Momentive workers and their families can be proud of the battle they waged, and we are all grateful for the amazing support they received from the labor movement, the community, and from elected officials."
February 9, 2017
Jack Boss, President and CEO of Momentive said:
"We believe this agreement provides a fair, market competitive package for our employees and their families while allowing Momentive to remain competitive. With the endorsement of CWA leadership and the local Union presidents, we look forward to ratification of the agreement so we can work together to serve our customers and build a stronger Momentive."
Updated: February 14, 2017 11:43 PM
Created: February 14, 2017 05:53 PM
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I'd like to start texting this guy and I'd like to become his friend, and I'd like to be able to text him after school or on the weekends, and how would I get him to start texting me?
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really? you go up to him, smile, say, "hey, whatsup, my name is Anonymous User" more than likely he will reply with a similar phrase, this would be an excellent time to say, "i was wondering if you would want to hang out some time" then probably (if he wants you to text him) he will say something along the lines of "sure, that'd be cool" and from here your possibilities are essentially endless... "ok, can I get your number?" "nice, just give me a call at ###-####" "lemme get yo digits" whatever your style is, it really doesn't matter00|00|0


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Marian Calabro (email@example.com) is the author of 14 books and a highly experienced writer, editor, and publisher of business books in particular. Through her New Jersey-based company CorporateHistory.net, Marian has worked nationally with executives at Fortune 500 companies, midsized and family-owned businesses, and nonprofits. She helps clients shape and articulate both the big picture and the crucial details of their story. "Marian is a joy to work with," says PSE&G client Paul Rosengren. "She worked well with everyone from the CEO to the field worker."
As author, Marian Calabro has written histories of Annin Flagmakers, The Clorox Company, A. W. Hastings Inc., The Pep Boys—Manny, Moe & Jack Inc., Phoenix Wealth Management, Public Service Enterprise Group/PSE&G, Sandvik USA and the nonprofits Clinton County (NY) ARC, Melwood Horticultural Training Center (co-written with Melwood's CEO), and the Plattsburgh Airbase Redevelopment Corporation.
As publisher and editor, Marian Calabro has project-managed books, anniversary Web sites, and videos for Advance Auto Parts, Dempsey Uniform, Dominion Energy, Jackson Walker L.L.P., Northwest Community Hospital, Towers Watson, and a family foundation in central New York.
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407 West Main Street
Bozeman, MT 59715
Bozeman, MT 59715
Website: www.healthworks.edu
Location: Rocky Mountains CO ID MT UT WY
Location: Rocky Mountains CO ID MT UT WY
Get a snapshot of Health Works Institute with this general overview, including student enrollment and graduation rates, average test scores, student demographics, and more.
Mission StatementHealth Works Institute exists to enhance the physical, emotional and spiritual health of individuals and society, by providing experiential learning programs that foster personal and professional development. We actively support high standards of education and practice.
School Characteristics
33 Students
(33- Undergraduate Enrollment)
Length of Study: Private for-profit, less-than 2-year
Religious Affiliation: Not Applicable
Test Scores & GPAAverage GPA: No
School ProfileTotal Enrollment: 33
UnderGraduate Enrollment: 33
Retention Rate: 95%
School AccreditationNational: Yes
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Federal: Yes
Male / Female Enrollment
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Source: School data comes from the Department of Education's Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), 2015. Data may vary depending on school and academic year.


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- Medium
- Oil on burlap
- Dimensions
- 36 1/4 x 28 3/8" (92.1 x 72.1 cm)
- Credit
- The William S. Paley Collection
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- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
In spring 1891 Gauguin traveled to the South Pacific island of Tahiti, then a French colony. He hoped to find an enchanting paradise, far from the modern metropolis of Paris. However, by the time of Gauguin's arrival Tahiti had been profoundly altered by French colonization: poverty and sickness were rampant. Still, in his paintings of the island Gauguin included elements of the imaginary, configuring Tahiti as a pre-modern land of leisure. His use of bright, flat, and unrealistic colors and his interest in recovering a "pure" subject, closer to nature, were greatly influential to the next generation of European artists, including the Fauves and German Expressionists.
The Polynesian goddess sits on a blue-and-white cloth. Gauguin's style fuses various non-European sources: ancient Egyptian (in the hieratic pose), Japanese (in the relative absence of shadow and modeling, and in the areas of flat color), and Javanese (in the position of the arms, influenced by a relief in the temple of Borobudur). But there are also signs of the West, specifically through aspects of the pose derived from a work by the French Symbolist painter Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. The color, too, is eclectic: although Gauguin claimed to have found his palette in the Tahitian landscape, the exquisite chromatic chords in The Seed of the Areoi owe more to his compositional eye than to the island's visual realities.
In the origin myth of the Areoi, a Polynesian secret society, a male sun god mates with the most beautiful of all women, Vaïraümati, to found a new race. By painting his Tahitian mistress Tehura as Vaïraümati, Gauguin implied a continuity between the island's past and its life during his own stay there. In fact, Tahiti had been profoundly altered by colonialism (the Areoi society itself had disappeared), but Gauguin's anachronistic vision of the place gave him an ideal model for his painting. This vision was particularly powerful for him in its contrast with the West, which, he believed, had fallen into "a state of decay."
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This node module uses Apple's SMC subsystem to query the system for the CPU temperature, number of fans and for each of the fans retrieves the current RPM.
This packages works on OSX only.
npm install smc
var smc = ; Object; var i f = smc; for i = 0; i < f; i++ console;
On my Macbook Pro this prints out the following:
TB0T Battery TS_MAX: 34.59765625TB1T Battery 1: 34.59765625TB2T Battery 2: 32.59765625TCXC PECI CPU: 78.875TC0E CPU 0 ??: 80.56640625TC0F CPU 0 ??: 82.16015625TC0P CPU 0 Proximity: 65.875TC1C Core 1: 77TC2C Core 2: 78TC3C Core 3: 77TC4C Core 4: 75TCGC PECI GPU: 78TCSA PECI SA: 78Th1H NB/CPU/GPU HeatPipe 1 Proximity: 51.625TM0P Memory Slot Proximity: 53.125TM0S Memory Slot 1: 53.1171875TPCD Platform Controller Hub Die: 57Ts0P Palm rest L: 32.5Ts0S Memory Bank Proximity: 40.23046875TW0P AirPort Proximity: 48.5F0Ac Fan 0 RPM: 2160F1Ac Fan 1 RPM: 2001
Most of the work was done by Sébastien Lavoie in his osx-cpu-temp code. I just took it and made it into a node module, as it was convenient for me to use it that way.
Additional credit goes to Hendrik Holtmann, the author of smcFanControl as his code inspired osx-cpu-temp and as I used part of the code of smcFanControl to query the fan speed and format the result.
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How to organise your bathroom?
Keeping your bathroom organized saves you a lot of time. You can organize your bathroom by applying some basic tips which can save a lot of time. First of all, choose the walls that are shock and humidity resistant, and can be cleaned quickly and easily. For the ceiling and upper part of the walls choose acrylic paint that is suitable for wet areas so that it can be wiped clean in a flash. When choosing flooring, opt for materials that are non-slip and suitable for wet areas. Then comes the ventilation part. Without proper ventilation, bathroom becomes smelly, and unhygienic. Good airflow and efficient extraction of steam is the key to keeping your bathroom fresh. If you have only a small window for ventilation considers installing on opening skylight for both light and ventilation. An electric exhaust fan ducted to an external vent can be mounted in either the ceiling or on the wall. Wherever possible, make sure you have a good supply of natural light coming into your bathroom, via opaque windows, glass bricks or skylights. Mirrors increase the amount of light in a room and give the impression of space. Two mirrors positioned opposite to each other create illusion of an endless room. A mirror shaving cabinet is perfect for storing medicines and keeping toiletries handy.
Now coming to the bath basics, if you can, choose a bath that's big enough for you to stretch out in. Consider a spa bath - an affordable option for soothing away the stresses of the day at any time, without having to leave your home. If you have a shower-bath arrangement, consider installing a folding shower screen to minimize splashes and consequent clean-up time – no mouldy-rimmed shower curtains to wash, either! Install water –saving shower heads and flow-control nozzles in taps. Taps that turn off automatically are a great choice if you have children. Help to save time and water by installing a timer in the shower.
Organize your bathroom storage so that there's room for all the items you need for bathing and grooming, and you'll instantly save time. Opt for a vanity unit with plenty of drawers and cupboards space to store towels, soaps, toothpaste, and other toiletries. Make use of the space over the toilet cistern by installing narrow shelving or a shallow, lock-up cabinet for medicines. Position towel rails and hooks close to the shower cubicle, the bathtub and hand basins for easy access.
When it comes to bathroom cleaning, keep a basic bathroom kit in the bathroom cupboard so it's always on hand for a quick clean. To do the job properly, you'll need a microfiber cloth or sponge, a glass cleaner, all-purpose cleaner, a toilet cleaner and toilet brush.
Tips for a sparkling bathroom
· Clean your bathtub with a non-abrasive product so that you don't permanently dull the surface.
· For fiberglass bathtubs, simply use a mixture of warm water and dishwashing detergent, rather than a product that is too abrasive. The same mixture can be used for cleaning wash basin.
· To ensure the toilet bowl is completely clean, brush it often as possible and use a toilet cleaner once or twice a week. Clean the toilet seat, cistern and the outside of the bowl with a detergent-and-water mix, then rinse thoroughly.
· When the whole family has finished using the bathroom, wipe down the bath, the shower walls and the basin to prevent soaps scum building up, and keep things looking sparkling. Train your family members to wipe out the bath or shower after using.


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The ill-fated £300 million ocean liner named by the Duchess of Cornwall last year crashed into a dock in Malta on Wednesday.
The 90,000-ton Queen Victoria failed to stop as she was reversing into port at Valletta and hit the concrete with "some speed", causing a 20ft dent in the stern of the ship.
It is understood the throttle failed as the craft manoeuvred into the quay and the vessel's 1,900 passengers were left stranded as investigators assessed the damage.
No one was injured in the latest in number of setbacks for the ship, which was launched last December.
When the Duchess swung the champagne bottle against the hull of the liner and it failed to break during the launching ceremony in Southampton, it was seen as a sign of bad luck.
Three weeks later, on her second voyage, scores of passengers were struck down by the contagious stomach bug norovirus, which causes vomiting and diarrhoea for up to three days.
Wednesday's incident was seen by many of the passengers out on deck. "We were reversing and, being at the back of the ship, we could see what was going to happen before it did," said one passenger.
"We couldn't believe it. Seeing the 90,0000-ton ship back into the dock was incredible. The concrete exploded with the force of the impact. It is very embarrassing."
A spokesman for the Malta Maritime Authority, which manages the harbour, said the disruption was minimal.
"The captain has requested more tests to make sure the ship is OK and a team of private engineers is working on it.
"All the passengers have been safely disembarked. It was a minor matter, a 20ft scratch in the back of the ship as it was reversing."
The crash took place towards the end of the Queen Victoria's 14-day voyage that started in Southampton on May 6. The liner called at Seville, Corsica and Naples.
Michael Gallagher, a spokesman for the ship's owners, Cunard, said that the damage was still being examined but repairs would take place overnight. The vessel was expected to sail this morning.
He said that passengers would be compensated for the disruption to their voyage – which cost a minimum of £1,700 – once the scale of the problem had been assessed.


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New home, new directions
First, let's get the big news out of the way: Wanderella Story has said goodbye to Finland and is now based in Vilnius, Lithuania! In July, I packed up my belongings and my little family to embrace an exciting job opportunity in this lovely little city I'd only passed through once before. The blog naturally followed.
Now, discovering my new environment with a new job and a new tiny baby in the picture (because why settle for one life-changing event per year when you can have them all?) hasn't been the smoothest process. Some progress has still been made. Among the most interesting and surprising discoveries I've made are abandoned bunkers hidden in Vilnius suburbs, a giant derelict Soviet-era sanatorium, a Baroque manor undergoing renovation and a left-behind construction site reminiscent of a Hunger Games battle arena.
Perhaps most importantly, I have finally, finally visited Skrunda-1: the abandoned Soviet radar station in Latvia that every ruin explorer has dreamed of seeing at one point or another. The plot twist? I did it with a four-month-old baby.
The road to Skrunda-1
Skrunda-1 had been on my must-see list since I first read about it, but I certainly wasn't expecting to live the dream out quite as quickly after arriving to Lithuania as I did. During one of our earliest conversations, my new coworker Christian revealed himself as an aspiring ruin explorer and actualized car owner – that is, the exact person I needed to team up with to get to Skrunda-1.
We talked about scheduling a trip across the Latvian border for a little later in the year, only to be informed by another knowledgeable coworker that in a matter of weeks the ghost town would be taken over by the Latvian army. It's not that it was ever officially open to the public to begin with, but now it was definitely becoming closed-closed.
As this was inevitably going to be a family outing, and the idea of pushing a stroller around a crumbling concrete maze while being shot at by Latvian soldiers wasn't very appealing to any of us, we knew we had to go immediately. So one Friday afternoon in August the four of us – Christian, Paul, Baby K and me – stuffed ourselves into Christian's car and started the six-hour drive towards Skrunda-1.
The town behind the woods
Despite its near-legendary status, Skrunda-1 isn't exactly easy to get to. Hidden among dense birch forests in the Southwestern Latvian countryside, it attracts curious visitors from the capital of Riga and beyond.
Once you reach the general area, though, you can't miss the town. Visitors typically drive to Skrunda-1 through its neighboring town called… Skrunda. This Skrunda-without-the-1 is a perfectly ordinary and still-active small town that has nothing special going on for it, except for the eerie twin town that it shares its name with.
How did the two towns, one active and the other abandoned, come to carry the same name? The answer, as you might imagine, is found in Soviet military strategy.
Like Vogelsang, the Brandenburg ghost town I visited last year, Skrunda-1 belongs to a group of some 40 secret cities whose existence was a top-level national secret. These "closed administrative territorial entities", or ZATOs, provided the technical and strategic foundations of the Soviet military by hiding manpower and weapons at strategic locations throughout the USSR. Some of them are still going strong, though their existence is no longer a secret.
In an attempt to conceal their existence, the closed cities were often named after their closest officially recognized settlement. In the case of Skrunda-1, the number 1 was added to the name Skrunda to give it the appearance of a suburb or border village rather than its own town.
And yet, a town it was. Skrunda-1 was built during the early 1960s as a radar station to scan the sky for incoming missiles from Western Europe. In the subsequent years, it came to host 5000 army employees and their families. The inhabitants enjoyed all the modern amenities from entertainment to education, from health care to sports. The standard of living is said to have been higher than the national average – a good incentive for the people to stay committed to common project.
Arriving at Skrunda-1
The day of our adventure got off to a good start when the sun pierced through the dull gray veil we had become so accustomed to seeing over the past several weeks, revealing a brilliant blue Baltic sky. Normally I like to keep my ruin tourism low-key – leaving the vanities of civilization behind is kind of the whole point – but this time we had chosen to stay at a wonderfully cozy country manor close to Skrunda-without-the-1. After a good night's sleep and a second serving of the breakfast buffet, we were ready to cross the final few kilometers to Skrunda-1.
Looking at the time, I was a little worried. If there was anything I knew about ghost towns, it was that they can be, well, big. We only had around 6 hours at our disposal. That had been enough to get a decent feel of Vogelsang and Krampnitz Kaserne last year, but back then I wasn't accompanied by anybody who needed frequent milk and snuggle breaks. To make the most of the little time we had, I'd printed out some maps of Skrunda-1 created by other explorers and marked down locations that seemed particularly interesting. We were going to focus on those and not worry about the rest.
As Christian pulled to the old check point marking the entrance to Skrunda-1, something I had read online was confirmed. In front of the dilapidating guard booth, a man wearing a safety vest was selling tickets to the ghost town lurking behind the huge metal gates. The formerly free-for-all site was now an official tourist site.
I made the deliberate choice to not be too disappointed. Although the newly established entrance fee of 4 euro made Skrunda-1's status as an "abandoned place" highly debatable, it made complete sense for the otherwise non-remarkable Town of Skrunda-without-the-1 to milk the one spectacular thing they had going on for them. And I say that completely unironically.
Besides, we were the only ones there. Just because Skrunda-1 was now officially open to the public did not mean that people were lining up to see it – not this early in the morning, anyway, as we would later find out. We paid the guard and went in.
Into the urban wild
My first reaction to Skrunda-1, seeing it from the other side of the metal gates, was excitement. If the entrance procedures had felt too much like the civilization I'd wanted to leave behind, here we were left on our own devices. No attempts at manicuring the wild-grown environment or implementing safety measures had taken place: every ramshackle building was accessible at your own risk.
We walked down a dirt road leading directly into the heart of Skrunda-1. To our right, huge abandoned apartment buildings rose to the skies. Not too far behind them stood the water tower, marking the other end of the town.
Seeing how close we were to the water tower was a relief. It meant that he town was a lot more compact than it had appeared on the map. We could allow ourselves to relax and forget about the time after all. Our strategy was to enter buildings in pairs, with one of the group always staying outside and looking after Baby K – you didn't really think we would bring him inside those death traps, did you?
Christian and I took the first infiltration turn and entered a low building next to what might have once been the town square. To my delight, it turned out to hold some colorful wall art, including a fantastic Lenin mosaic, that I knew from other explorers' images. The old clubhouse was one of the nicest locations we would explore that day.
Discovery of Skrunda-1
If it seems improbable that a town the size and complexity of Skrunda-1 could stay hidden forever, that's just because it is. In fact, the reason of its existence also became the reason for its discovery by the greater Latvian population. Organized around the two early-warning radar systems, it's strategic role was always to defend rather than to attack. It was the sound waves originating from these very radar systems, picked up by local radio and TV stations, that gave the town's existence away.
Not that this had much of an effect for the lives of the people of Skrunda-1. Life went on as usual until the 1980s, when mother ship Soviet Union began to sink.
By the early 1990s, funding for Soviet military projects had been discontinued and the inhabitants of Skrunda-1 were leaving in numbers. The future lay uncertain. The town officially remained under Russian control until 1998; however, the radar systems had been ceremoniously demolished by the Latvian government already in 1995 (see left). A musical score had been composed to mark the hugely symbolic event.
The last resident moved out of Skrunda-1 in 1999. After that the town became free to choose its own path, and it chose the path of wilderness.
Life finds a way in Skrunda-1
Considering that Skrunda-1 had been abandoned for nearly 20 years, I was surprised to discover quite a bit of furniture, kitchenware, posters, vintage machinery and other memorabilia inside the buildings. Compared to Vogelsang and Krampnitz Kaserne, which had been thoroughly looted, Skrunda-1 retained plenty of traces of human life.
Something about the way we found many of these items bothered me, though. They were positioned against walls and each other just a little too aesthetically, a little too conveniently to look natural. It was obvious that they had been arranged by previous visitors wanting to create the "perfect abandoned scene" for their photos.
While there are certainly bigger crimes in the world than meddling with abandoned scenes, the urban exploration community has something of an unwritten rule against it. Photographing abandoned sites is likened to photographing the natural world: it's the photographer's job to capture phenomena already occurring in nature, not to manufacture them.
We might have been alone in Skrunda-1, but the marks of active and on-going human activity were everywhere. And soon we weren't even alone anymore.
Tourism comes to Skrunda-1
We'd been exploring Skrunda-1 for about an hour before we saw the first other group of visitors. Two families with children – and we thought we'd been radical by bringing our kid! – were walking down a footpath shadowed by giant apartment buildings.
From there on the flow of people became seemingly endless. These were not your typical ruin explorers either. Dozens, if not hundreds, of flip flops, strappy sandals and lily-white converse walked on broken glass and mud. Children skipped about without much in the way of adult supervision.
And of course, with the crowds came the troublemakers. As I was exploring the top floor of the town's old kindergarten building, home to some of the nicest and best-preserved murals in Skrunda-1, I suddenly heard the sound of glass breaking. Then another sound. And another. It sounded like heavy glass items being thrown against a hard surface and being shattered into thousands of little pieces.
I quietly snuck downstairs and exited the building. I didn't feel in danger myself as I knew that I wasn't alone in the area. Still, I had no interest in meeting the culprits face to face. On my way out I caught a glimpse: two teenage boys holding glass bricks picked up from the ground, their right arms flung back and ready to throw. Two girls with their cellphones out, filming the boys' hilarious antics.
It was only a few moments later that I, reunited with my own team of two men and one baby, saw the same teens running out of the kindergarten and into one of the derelict apartment buildings. The next thing we saw was various pieces of furniture flying out of the windows on the top floor.
First a cupboard. Then a bathroom sink.
The furniture crashed to the ground like tiny matchboxes, breaking in different ways. Us people below watched in confusion, trying to figure out if we had a moral obligation to intervene in the mindless destruction of an already-doomed place. One young mother with two children at her side screamed at the teens to stop, which they did – at least for long enough for us to roll our eyes and move on with our exploration.
The final hour
As more and more people poured into Skrunda-1, we proceeded to explore the South end of the town where most of its technical and administrative operations used to be concentrated. First up was the canteen.
Up next was the prison of Skrunda-1. I hadn't actually realized that there was one in the first place before Christian pointed at it on the map. The idea a prison inside a closed city felt strange and unsettling. What did it feel like to be a prisoner in a place that officially didn't exist? What kind of crimes could lead a person to be doubly condemned like that?
The town's administrative headquarters had a somewhat more cheerful atmosphere to them. It's there that I came across the most wonderfully peculiar sight: a former lookout room that looked like a flying saucer that had crashed through the outer wall and decided to stay.
After we had left the building and had our picnic lunch among the ruins, my grown-up companions were starting to lose energy. I had hoped to still check out one of Skrunda-1's two underground air raid shelters, but I realized that getting there and back would take at least another hour – an hour that was better spent getting ourselves back to Vilnius before dark. It was time to start the long way back home.
Urban exploration goes mainstream
Are we really justified to call Skrunda-1 "abandoned"? While nobody lives or works there anymore, the town is very conspicuously not without life. The marks of active and ongoing human activity are everywhere. I'm willing to believe that not every day at Skrunda-1 is like the circus we experienced during our outing – the town's impending closing was probably to blame for the crowds – but to me it's clear that it has crossed the line between an urban exploration site and tourist attraction.
In many ways, Skrunda-1 is Latvia's version of Chernobyl, Bodie and Hashima Island, all world-famous abandoned places turned into tourist sites. Through social media and our own expeditions, we latch on to these places that seem so different from the ones we know, we consume them and make them our own. In doing so we give them new life. This makes me wonder whether we should, after all, not be talking about urban exploration and tourism as worlds apart, but consider how they intersect in the increasingly popular pursuit of dark tourism: travel to "places which are associated with tragedy, suffering or death".
Perhaps all of this was always meant to be one chapter in the life of Skrunda-1. Only time can tell what the next one, written by the Latvian military, will look like.
Many thanks to Paul for contributing a few images to this monster of a post.
Inside the Soviet ghost town: Old uniforms and tiny prison-like apartments are rediscovered 18 years after Cold War settlement was abandoned, Daily Mail (08/03/2016)
Skrunda-1: Exploring a Soviet Ghost Town in the Forests of Latvia, The Bohemian Blog (2016)
Skrunda-1: Latvia's Last Ghost City, The Baltic Times (10/04/2015)
Skrunda Soviet Radar Station, Latvian History (02/03/2013)


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Since July this year Foursquare has moved from an app that allows you to check-in to an app that "learns what you like and leads you to places you'll love." Which is great for travellers I say. So far I've been using it on my travels and it's been great and here's why:
Always get the best coffee
As a coffee lover, I'm always on the lookout for the best cuppa in each city I visit. And with Foursquare this is easier than ever to discover. That said, for some reason there's always a whole bunch of Starbucks listed as top hits (because of all the people voting Starbucks as 'good' coffee), but you can easily ignore that in favor for the eclectic cafe with a delicious roast.
Never ask for the WIFI password again
I hate having to awkwardly ask for the wifi password at cafes, restaurant or bars. It always makes me feel like I'm only there to use the free wifi – which I usually am – but I don't want them to know that! On Foursquare not only does it list which places have free wifi, someone will almost always leave a 'tip' with the wifi password, meaning you'll never have to ask for it again.
Never eat crap food again
One of the sucky things about travelling to a new city is that you always get suckered into eating crappy tourist food because, as a tourist, you don't know any better. Now Foursquare scans your surrounding and gives you a list of rated places that you can go to. I've been using this and it's been great. Sure every once in a while you'll find a place with lower ratings that taste great (funnily enough the opposite doesn't apply with restaurants – good food is good food) so every once in a while I'll try out a place that is rated between 7-8 just to see if I'm missing out.
Learn about non-tourist locations
Because Foursquare is powered by locals checking-in and/or leaving reviews, you get a taste of what locals like and where they frequent. This includes nightclubs, events, sights – not to mention restaurants and cafes. I can't tell you the amount of awesome restaurants I've 'discovered' with delicious food or bars that I've been to that aren't filled with tourists.
Discoverer things nearby
This has always been a pain point because sure you want to go some place nice but sometimes as a tourist without a car, you can't be bothered to make the trek. So it's nice to discover things that are nearby. Thanks to Foursquare, you can pick how far out or how close you want to discover.
Oh, and in case you're wondering, no I don't work for Foursquare nor am I affiliated with them in any way. I just really like the app! Be sure to download it for your next adventure!


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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the city of Tyler, Texas, agreed to significantly upgrade its sanitary sewer system to resolve alleged violations of the federal Clean Water Act (CWA). The city will also undertake extensive operational improvements to its sanitary sewer system and pay a total of $563,000 in civil penalties.
Corpus Christi Water Update from EPA Region 6
Use of Tap Water May Resume in All Zones
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) and Department of State Health Services (DSHS) have integrated their operations in both Austin and Corpus Christi to ensure the situation is handled as swiftly as possible. The top priority is a transparent response and the safety of Corpus Christi residents, and both organizations will continue to provide any and all support to remedy this situation as quickly as possible. The entire team of highly qualified and dedicated professionals from the City and State have done an outstanding job to flush the system and quickly address the situation.
New TCEC-led report finds Texans should be optimistic about ERCOT's ability to ensure uninterrupted electric grid despite anticipated coal plant retirements
Texans should be optimistic about the state's ability to ensure uninterrupted electric power despite the anticipated retirement of coal-fired generation plants, economists at The Brattle Group find in a new report prepared for the Texas Clean Energy Coalition (TCEC).
Released, the report explores reliability issues that could arise within Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) market (which covers 90 percent of the state's electric load); the key drivers of potential coal-fired power plant retirements; the impacts of the potential retirements on reliability; and the options ERCOT may have to mitigate the risks in the short-term and long term.
Marcus Hiles - Gifts 59 Acres of Land for Community Parks
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Toyota Aims for Net Positive Impact: 2016 North American Environmental Report Tracks Progress
For Toyota, boldly shaping the future of mobility starts with making a positive impact on the environment in diverse communities across the United States and Canada.
In the recently published 2016 North American Environmental Report, Toyota outlined these positive impacts. Over the past year, Toyota's North American operations have reduced water usage by nearly 100 million gallons, the equivalent to the annual water use of more than 900 average American families. Toyota also announced plans for a 7.75 megawatt solar array at Toyota's new headquarters campus in Plano, Texas, which will reduce annual carbon dioxide emissions by 7,122 metric tons, or the equivalent of the electricity used by almost 1,000 homes in a year.
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