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CNN's Human to Hero series celebrates inspiration and achievement in sport. Click here for videos and features.
(CNN) -- There are not many Bond villains who survive to tell the tale of their encounter with 007.
Sebastien Foucan is neither shaken nor stirred, although that's more than can be said for his character "Mollaka" -- who was blown to smithereens by Daniel Craig in the 2006 epic "Casino Royale."
Foucan has proved even more elusive than the acrobatic bomb-maker he portrayed in the villages of Madagascar, where he vaulted through jungle and a construction site, leaping perilously off buildings and cranes.
Rather than "Die Another Day," the career of Foucan -- known as the founder of free running and a developer of its close relative Parkour -- has taken off in a way he never dreamed of.
"Being in the James Bond movie was just amazing," the Frenchman tells CNN's Human to Hero series. "It was fantastic working on a big stage, fighting James Bond and having the helicopter shoot everything.
"Knowing that I've never done any acting, I didn't plan to be in a movie like this. It was just fantastic.
"For the discipline, I think it was a big platform and I think it just made free running bigger and bigger.
"It keeps growing. I worked with Madonna on her 'Confession' tour and my life changed at this point because I went from being a free runner, an ambassador, to something even bigger."
Foucan has come a long way since running around Paris as a teenager with the likes of Parkour founder David Belle.
Parkour -- which is taken from the French word "parcours" meaning "route" or "course" -- consists of being able to "move freely over and through any terrain using only the abilities of the body, principally through running, jumping, climbing and quadrupedal movement."
Foucan, while a keen student of Parkour in his teens, believed that the discipline was far too narrow and lacked a spiritual aspect.
Instead, he created a fusion of the art -- taking Parkour and a new philosophical approach to bring about free running.
"It's a lifestyle," he says. "There is no beginning, no middle and no end. It is part of my life.
"It's like a bird. When a bird wakes up, it's a bird, it's flying, and for me it's exactly the same thing.
"It's when I wake up, I am free running; when I'm sitting, I'm still free running. When I talk to you, I'm thinking about free running. It's part of me now, it's like walking."
In 2003, Foucan finally decided to break away from Parkour after performing in London, where he now resides.
His belief that "all the world is a playground" gives him a feeling of freedom which he treasures.
"Parkour at the beginning was very one-dimensional," he says.
"It was very A to B, 'we shouldn't do this, we shouldn't do that,' which doesn't work for me as an artist.
"I really feel like I want to express myself. I don't want to have any limitations.
"Free running is known as using the environment and expressing yourself -- which means you can do anything you feel. It's part of you.
"You can do flips, tricks, swing, anything which is creative and feels beautiful -- it's more my way. It's freedom of expression for me."
While most of us would simply walk around our city or neighborhood by using the sidewalk, such an idea is almost alien to Foucan.
If there is a slope to slide down or a wall to run up, then he needs no invitation to perform some of the moves witnessed in that breathless sequence where he runs from Bond.
"As soon as I get outside, my mindset turns to free running," he explains.
"I use the whole environment and instead of just following a straight path, I do my own way of going outside.
"If it's just to jump, to perform, you have to be really focused on what you're going to do, where you're going to put your step, on your technique also because the surface is completely different.
"It can be metal, it can be concrete and there are so many elements -- sometimes you can have also people coming and walking past.
"You need to pay attention and that's what you're thinking about before you do a single move."
The expertise to be able to pull off the stunts which Foucan does comes after 20 years of training -- five to seven hours a day.
Those who want to apply need only a high level of flexibility, excellent spacial awareness, unparalleled sense of balance and the ability of Spiderman when it comes to jumping and climbing.
Yes, even those who suffer from acrophobia -- a fear of heights -- can have a go, says Foucan, who has coped with the problem since his childhood.
While his background is in track and field, Foucan is a keen rock climber, plays football and ice skates -- even appearing in a British TV show, "Dancing on Ice."
All these skills garnered from different sports help to provide new inspiration and ideas for his free running.
"Each time I look at the city, I start to see how functional it can be," he said.
"It's normal to walk down the stairs, to go to a different place, but for a practitioner from Parkour to free running, it is important for us to see how functional the environment is
"For example, a slope can be something you can slide down and feel your balance. Stairs -- you can see how many times you can bounce down them.
"We have also got a technique that we call 'tick tack' where you use the wall to the side.
"The environment is like a computer game where you see a ghost of yourself. You picture a line or a route and you think to yourself, 'Can I do this path?' That is how I see the environment."
Free running has become more and more popular in recent years, with Fourcan setting up his own academy.
His expertise and advice is invaluable to those fellow thrillseekers who fuel their escapism through adrenaline.
But as Fourcan confirms, free running does come with a health warning.
"It is a very risky discipline," he says. "If you don't know what you are doing then you can hurt yourself and even die.
"Fear and risk is a perception and if you do something without knowing what you're doing, you're going to be in trouble, you're going to hurt yourself.
"There is danger everywhere. Whether you're taking the car, the plane, whether you are Olympic athlete, there is risk and you can hurt yourself.
"People need to know everything required -- dedication and a lot of practice."
Now 39, you might expect Foucan to be contemplating retirement from such an extreme sport.
That option is not even a consideration at this moment in time -- if ever.
"I see myself even more than an athlete," he says. "I would see myself as an ultimate athlete.
"In a sense, I'm closer to an animal, to my inner nature. There is no end of my career; you don't have a point where you go, 'Oh, now you're 29 or 30 years old and now you're finished.'
"It doesn't work like this for me. It will be forever, I will practice this forever until I die."
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Quae visa placent. —St. Thomas Aquinas—
The website Rational Hero is actually a play on the initials RH which stands for Reproductive Health. The website, launched late last year, is a venture of controversial tour guide Carlos Celdrán, Manila Times journalist Ana Santos, Elizabeth Angsioco of the Democratic Socialist Women of the Philippines, and Ryan Tani of Filipino Freethinkers.
At first glance, one would think that the website is just one of those numerous online sites attributed to or honoring the national hero José Rizal since it bears his familiar photo as well as the tag "Rizal alive in every Filipino". However, upon further browsing, one will soon realize that the website is all for the support and passing into law of the controversial, divisive, and hotly debated Reproductive Health bill which originated from Albay 1st District Representative Edcel Lagmán (brother of slain leftist leader Filemón "Ka Popoy" Lagmán). And this website is using Rizal's name to help further its cause. Worse, many articles in the said website attack the Church itself, and not just about the Church's stand against the said bill.
Disturbingly, this website is toying around with, nay, taking advantage of Rizal's well-known battles against the Church, a battle that is already history, and even before Rizal was executed, was already history. Nevertheless, the idea of using Rizal's former bias against the Catholic Church seemed to be —especially among today's youth too drunk with intellectualism and a high for romantic adventurism— an ingenious catapult for Celdrán and his group.
If they ever know anything about Rizal's retraction, then it is obvious that, despite the overwhelming evidence of the document's veracity, they deny it. Thus, they continue praising Rizal's anti-Catholic stance to the highest heavens. And this they use to their benefit. They deny that Rizal died a Catholic, that he was deeply sorry for the troubles his novels had caused, and that he was even given a Christian burial (more on this in a future blogpost).
But what if Rizal were alive today, would he even support the controversial bill?
Let us, for argument's sake, consider Rizal still steadfast to his Masonic beliefs. Let us pretend that Rizal is still anti-friar. Would he join Celdrán et al?
The answer will be in the negative.
No, Catholic or not, Rizal would not even dare support such a bill. He is too rational to commit such stupidity. And why? The way Rizal wisely admonished Pío Valenzuela in Dapitan against the inevitable failure of a bloody revolution (or should I say, rebellion), Rizal will definitely admonish the proud members of Rational Hero. To him, the RH bill will be rubbish and downright evil.
Deism was perhaps the greatest effect of Masonry to Rizal's mind. For a brief period, Rizal left Catholicism and embraced the idea of natural religion. Rizal believed that through reason and observation of the natural world alone, one can determine that a supreme being created the universe without the need for either faith or organized religion.
When he was in Dapitan, he had a healthy debate (through mail correspondence) with one of his spiritual advisers, Fr. Pablo Pastells, S.J. In the exchange of ideas about the existence of God and of God himself (as compiled and translated by Fr. Raúl J. Bonóan, S.J. in The Rizal-Pastells Correspondence), Rizal wrote:
Even so, I venture to think of him as infinitely wise, mighty, good (my idea of the infinite is imperfect and confused), when I behold the wonders of his works, the order that reigns over the universe, the magnificence and expanse of creation, and the goodness that shines in all.
Unable to pass judgement on what surpasses my powers, I settle for studying God in his creatures like myself and in the voice of my conscience, which only can have come from him. I strive to read and find his will in all that surrounds me and in the mysterious sentiment speaking from within me, which I strive to purify above all else.
It can therefore be gleaned that, even without Christianity in his life, Rizal's belief in an unknown deity was based on a reasonable reflection of nature. And when we speak of nature, it should be observed that all elements that make it up is filled with harmony: everything in it, from predator-to-prey "relationships" to procreation to speciation, cannot exist without the existence of harmony. And this harmony is based on a metaphysical thread called "unity". This unity means that every real being is either uncomposed or composed of parts, i.e., if it has no parts, those parts must be united in order for that being to exist, whereas when a composed being falls apart, that being ceases to exist.
Contraceptions prevent life. Therefore, it is anti-life. To make it more simpler, it goes against the natural order of things, something that a deist like Rizal will fight against. In the metaphysical sense of the word, there is no "unity" in the prevention of the creation of life. There is no unity, no harmony, no naturalness whenever man's baser instincts prevail over the creation of something that is natural, i.e., life.
Furthermore, Rizal's only child died during birth. Just imagine the grief, the pain of an expectant father whose hopes had died on the day he was expecting it. And after such a traumatic experience, do you even think that Rizal would have opted for "pro-choice" methods? No, I don't think so.
A newborn human life is supposed to please the senses, our lives. But nowadays, not anymore. In yesteryears, pregnancy is a celebration, a preparation for blessing. But today, the mere mention of pregnancy engulfs the mind with fear. How twisted.
In closing, these proud self-styled "heroes" are merely shaming Rizal by invoking on his name that is clearly anti-Rizal.
Rizal alive in every Filipino? I reckon not. Just ask Willie Revillamé.

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A recent study by IMS Research, "The World Market for Smart Meters — 2010," forecasts a surging radio frequency- (RF-) Mesh market in the United States, while powerline carrier (PLC) shipments are expected to dramatically increase in Europe and Asia. Current market projections from IMS Research anticipate more than 100% market growth in 2010 in smart electricity meter unit shipments for both RF-Mesh and high-speed PLC meters, led by North America and Europe, respectively.
The market for communicating electricity meters in North America has seen record growth during the past year, with 2009 shipments exceeding 8-million units, of which one-third were RF Mesh. However, 2010 is expected to see well over 7-million unit shipments of RF-Mesh meters alone, raising the product share of RF-Mesh in communicating meters to more than 50% in North America.
Large rollouts in Europe (namely Spain and France) are anticipated to more than double PLC-style shipments in the near-term. "These expected rollouts in Europe will give the market a surge beginning in late 2010, with further market volume realized globally as anticipated PLC shipments of smart meters begin in China in 2012, and onwards," says Senior Analyst Michael Markides. "Past the known installations upcoming in Spain and France, what is quite interesting is what type of technology will be used in other parts of Europe which must adopt smart metering. It appears Ireland will head toward using RF-style solutions, but what about the United Kingdom, Germany, and the Netherlands? Solutions other than PLC are in play here due to more complicated and layered electric utility structures in each of these regions."
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Friday, May 18, 2012
NetSuite Manufacturing: Right Direction, Long Road Ahead
Bottom Line: NetSuite is making the right decision and good progress to build out manufacturing functionality as part of its core system, but there is still much work to be done to achieve functional parity with other cloud and on-premises solutions in the marketplace. Nevertheless, the rapid development capabilities of NetSuite's platform offer hope that it will get there quickly.
From Partner Solutions to a Core OfferingUntil recently, NetSuite's approach to serving manufacturers was to provide what it called "light manufacturing," coupled with customer-specific customizations, supplemented by partner solutions such as Rootstock when heavier manufacturing functionality was required. But this approach could only take NetSuite only so far.
As a result of this realization, NetSuite in 2011 began work in earnest to build out its manufacturing functionality. In a briefing during NetSuite's conference I met the key players hired for this mission. They include:
- Support for manufacturers is essential in light of NetSuite's product strategy. As explained by Zach Nelson in a small group briefing, the customer order is central entity in NetSuite, and NetSuite wants to "own" anything that is input into, or output from, the customer order. In the manufacturing sector, this would include production work orders. It makes no sense, therefore, for NetSuite to hand off these business processes to partners.
- At the same time, the manufacturing sector represents a large potential market for NetSuite. There are more manufacturing companies—especially small manufacturers—in the US than in any other sector. Inadequately serving such a large potential market made no sense as NetSuite looked to accelerate its growth.
- However, some basic features for manufacturers have been missing. For example, standard costing were not addressed in the core product, and few prospects would be willing to customize their implementations for such a fundamental need.
I'm pointing out the experience of these individuals to show that NetSuite's push into manufacturing is more than a marketing campaign. It has put together a serious team of individuals to lead the product development effort for this vertical.
- Roman Bukary, Head of Manufacturing and Distribution Industries. Roman previously worked for SAP, Baan, and other software companies. Earlier in his career, he was a manufacturing engineer.
- Ranga Bodla, Director, Industry Marketing. Ranga held product management positions at SAP and Pilot Software.
- Thad Johnson, Sr. Product Manager for Wholesale Distribution and Manufacturing Verticals. Earlier in his career, Thad was a product manager at QAD and also held several materials management positions in industry.
- Frank Vettese, Practice Manager. Frank has manufacturing software experience with IFS and Effective Management Systems.
- Gavin Davidson, Vertical Market Expert, Manufacturing. Gavin's experience includes implementation work with manufacturing systems from Baan, Epicor, Microsoft Dynamics, and Visual.
An Expanding FootprintIn terms of manufacturing methods, NetSuite is primarily targeting discrete manufacturers although it intends to provide some support for process manufacturing down the road. An ideal prospect would be a discrete manufacturer that does a mix of in-house and contract production.
Let's take a look at some of the manufacturing functionality that NetSuite has recently added or will be adding. From these few points we can get a sense for where NetSuite is in its current and near-term ability to better support manufacturing customers.
I believe that NetSuite means business in pursuing the manufacturing sector. However, as can be seen, many of these capabilities (e.g. routings, cycle counting, labor reporting) are very basic manufacturing requirements, things that have been present in systems such as ManMan, AMAPS, BPCS, and others back into the 1980s. Furthermore, some of the planned capabilities will lack key things that a manufacturing prospect would expect. For example, the team characterized NetSuite's material planning system as a "lean manufacturing system," which to me is a polite way of saying, "minimal."
- Standard costing. As mentioned above, the lack of this capability in the past was a showstopper for many manufacturing prospects. But NetSuite reports that it added this capability in 2011, along with standard cost rollups.
- Bills of material. NetSuite has had BOM capabilities for some time, and it will soon support revision levels on BOMs along with effectivity dates. Users can also set a default scrap percentage on BOM components. Support for alternate BOMs is not in the roadmap.
- Routings. NetSuite added production routings to the standard system in 2011. These, of course, are used to create production work orders. Alternate routings will not be provided. .
- Cycle counting. Standard NetSuite code will now support cycle counting of inventory by ABC code.
- Material Requirements Planning (MRP). NetSuite now does a BOM explosion, but it does not generate reschedule messages for purchase orders or production work orders. Neither does it support all types of lot-sizing methods.
- Unit of measure conversions for purchasing, receiving, and inventory management have been part of the standard system for some time.
- Multi-facility planning. It appears that NetSuite will allow customers to maintain separate material plans for multiple facilities while still providing a global view of inventory. If so, this would go beyond what is typically offered in most Tier III on-premises manufacturing systems.
- Labor reporting. The team demonstrated a basic clock-in, clock out process using a tablet computer that can be used to report production completions and labor from the shop floor. This capability is currently in proof-of-concept.
- Capacity Planning will be supported, based on the NetSuite's "demand plan," but it does not appear that it will highlight capacity constraints as it will not track available work center capacity.
- Inventory Allocations and Available-to-Promise (ATP). This basic capability—to allocate available inventory and scheduled receipts against customer orders, and to provide visibility into projected inventory availability—is also scheduled as part of standard NetSuite functionality. (Kudos to NetSuite CTO Evan Goldberg for providing a layman's explanation of ATP during his keynote.)
- Lot and serial number traceability. The team claims capabilities in tracing lot numbers and serial numbers from receipt through production into finished goods. I did not have a chance to verify this functionality, but if present, it would be of interest for a number of manufacturing sub-sectors such as high tech electronics and medical devices.
Contrast this with NetSuite's current capabilities and roadmap for eCommerce (SuiteCommerce) or support for back-office processes of software vendors, which go far beyond what most other ERP providers offer.
Now, it may be that the major opportunities for NetSuite will not be in the hard-core job shops or industrial manufacturing companies. Inasmuch as many manufacturing companies in the United States and elsewhere in the world are outsourcing much of their heavy production processes, it might be that the feature set in NetSuite's roadmap will be enough to satisfy the majority of its target manufacturing market.
The Time and Place for CustomizationOne thing that I do not think will satisfy such prospects, however, is the use of customization to fill basic functionality gaps. NetSuite promotes its ability to augment its standard processing with customer-developed or partner-developed customizations, without modifying standard NetSuite code. During his keynote, Evan Goldberg gave an impressive demonstration of the latest version of NetSuite's development platform, SuiteCloud. I continue to be impressed with the ease-of-use that providers such as NetSuite and Salesforce.com are delivering with their Platform-as-a-Service offerings.
However, the ability to customize and extend the solution should not be taken as an excuse for not offering expected features/functions in the standard product. When prospects need full-blown work center capacity planning, for example, the last thing they want to hear is, "Oh, we can use SuiteCloud to build whatever you need." For customer-unique requirements, SuiteCloud is a powerful attraction. For what should be standard functionality, no.
Rapid Progress PossibleI'm encouraged by NetSuite's renewed interest in serving the needs of the manufacturing sector. However the feature set currently in the roadmap does not go as far as I would like to see in building comprehensive functionality for manufacturers. Nevertheless, I believe NetSuite will see success with its product strategy for two reasons. First, as mentioned earlier, it may be that a comprehensive footprint is really not needed to serve the majority of prospects. Second, NetSuite's cloud platform—like other PaaS systems—offers a rapid development environment. NetSuite will certainly make more rapid progress in filling out its feature set than it would if it were a traditional on-premises vendor.
Compared to the services industries, the number of cloud ERP providers for manufacturers has been limited. But with NetSuite's renewed focus, the list is now getting a little longer.
Disclosure: NetSuite paid for my travel expenses for its user conference in San Francisco
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Reader Comments:EBIT LLC www.ebitllc.com has several customers who are already using these features in a live environment.
Even though GunSafe is catered to the firearms industry, the auditing and reporting features can easily be applied to any manufacturing firm, especially food, drugs, high-tech hardware, etc.
-- Alex Auseklis
As a manufacturer using netsuite I can tell you that the "light manufacturing" module that netsuite promotes is not very good. I will also so that for a small company less than 20 employees we are finding it very difficult to use netsuite and move forward without paying a crazy amount of money for the full manufacturing module.
All that being said when I read the article above and you talk about routings being added to the standard system this is just not true. Almost all these fetures listed above are extra modules and cost more money. For example Demand Planning is an additional $500 a month for a small 10 user site. Routings are non-existent unless you buy the full manufacturing module that more than doubles the cost of your license.
Correct me if I am wrong here but I do not see netsuite adding these features to the "standard" product.
To the previous anonymous commenter: I did not investigate pricing options on any of the new functionality that NetSuite is introducing for manufacturing. But your comment does pique my interest to find out how these new features will be packaged and sold. Thanks for the tip.
Following up further on the previous anonymous comment. I checked with my contacts at NetSuite and found out the following: (1) Demand Planning is a separate module because it is not universally needed by NS customers, but it may NOT carry a separate price, depending on what bundle the customer purchases. (2) The additional functionality being added for manufacturing will mostly be delivered as new features without separate price points.
For existing customers of NS that want access to modules they didn't have in their original contract, my advice would be: look at when your contract is up and think about negotiating additional functionality as part of your renewal.
I spent a lot of money with Netsuite but it was very very laggy in the UK as their datacentre was in the US. As soon as i moved to LA I was fine, but a warning to those outside the United States... test it and don't believe the line we got which was "when you go to a production server it will be much faster..."
Great blog by the way.
Neil Havington
As a reseller of NetSuite, I'm really satisfied with the pro-active approach they take to make functionality a primary focus. We also do custom development for NetSuite, so the changes are always part of the business. However, you always like to sell a product that offers customer-oriented services.


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Hero Tower Defense Thursday: Day 40 - Revised Graphics and Interface Progress!
Welcome to Hero Tower Defense Thursday!
Some of you have commented on how it felt clunky and a bit confusing and that's definitely one of things we've addressed. This new set up should make all the menu screens much easier to navigate and more intuitive. One of the main features is that you can change characters from any screen and the navigation buttons that let you go to other screens are always available. We'll also be making use of tooltips for further instruction as well as displaying things like skill and item details.
With the interface out of the way I'll be able to help Evan with some of the 3D assets which should also help speed things up. Evan is working on the animations for the Human Male character which requires rigging the model in order to make it easier to animate. I'm getting a render scene set up which will be used for importing any assets and then rendering out frames for all three angles, lighting, and position. Once we have those frames Sam can take and implement them into the new system which will allow him to proceed faster and easier since he'll have some reference graphics.
So things are moving along slowly but surely. As I mentioned before we hope to have a new version available for you guys next week which should include all the new interface menu screens. We hope you guys will like it and we'll definitely be looking forward to everyone's feedback!
In the Works:
- Pet System (50%)
- Interface Revision (85%)
- Unit: Human Male - Revision (85%)
- Unit: Fire Gecko - Melee Concept (75%)
- Unit: Fire Gecko - Ranged Concept (75%)
- Unit: Meerkat Non-Combat Pet - Concept (25%)
- Unit: Goblin - Concept (25%)
- Graphic Processing Revision (65%)
- Saving Inventory and Equipment Setup (0%)
Check out Kevin's blog, KXN @ HTD for HTD art-related concepts, WIPs, polls, and more!
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Carlow gets the call he always wanted
Kevin Carlow didn't need his Brown education to know the score: a winless senior season in the Ivies, a wilderness on its best day for the intelligentsia of baseball. Sure, the scouts give you Ron Darling. Mostly, though, for Ivy kids, it's "not tonight, darling."
But there's always the audacious, "yeah, but what if?" Carlow, the kid from Fitch High, did touch 94 on the gun during the season, amid 30-degree weather in Washington. He's smart enough to believe that if the dream is big enough, the facts don't count.
He was ready to play in Europe. He was ready to find a regular job, if Ivy kids get regular jobs. But, you know � phones are made to ring.
"Let's just say I owe coach Drabs a lot," Carlow was saying on the phone the other day.
"Coach Drabs" is Brown coach Marek Drabinski, whose phone call to one of his former players helped Carlow get his shot.
So now Carlow joins his other two mound mates from his days at Fitch - Matt Harvey and Jesse Hahn - in professional baseball.
Carlow will report to the St. Louis Cardinals in early April for extended spring training. And a shot to make the Cards' Short Season A team in State College, Pa. We might even see Carlow pitch at Dodd Stadium this summer.
The Cardinals director of scouting, Dan Kantrovitz, is a former All-Ivy shortstop at Brown. Carlow's progression, "learning how to pitch, instead of trying to throw it by people," as he says, conspired with his character to earn him a chance.
"No guarantees," Carlow said, "but it's an opportunity."
Carlow was working at Thuzio, a New York-based online platform that connects the public with professional athletes with a variety of experiences - dinners, corporate speaking, client entertaining and events and even birthday parties. It wasn't permanent. He was headed to Spain to play.
"I was prepared for the call never to come," Carlow said.
This is a story that's beyond local boy makes good. Kevin Carlow night seem extraordinary because he was smart enough to get into Brown. Maybe even blessed with good hands, what with his dad, Steve, the mender of many a meniscus as the region's best orthopedic surgeon.
Except that he's much closer to Everyman. Lots of other kids his age throw 89-91. Lots of other kids his age aren't blessed with LeBron's body. Lots of other kids doubt whether the call will come.
And then comes the lesson for lots of other kids his age: Try to be Kevin Carlow. Open a book, be a good guy, a good teammate. Try. Persevere. No guarantee the call comes. But it might.
"I'd tell everybody to seek every opportunity you can," Carlow said. "I was ready to go to Spain where I didn't know anyone and didn't speak the language."
Carlow's chance underscores a golden era at Fitch that few schools in perhaps the country can match. Think about it: In a five-year period, a group of Fitch kids won a league basketball championship, state baseball championship (and No. 1 ranking).
There was a kid who started the All-Star game (Harvey). A kid who throws in the mid to high 90s (Hahn, now with the Padres). A kid who made it to Double-A (Matt Browning). A kid who played professional basketball in Europe (Todd Doyle). A kid who set conference passing records in college football (Justin Walz at Western New England). A kid who played college soccer (Pat Grater at Bates). A kid who threw a no-hitter in the state championship game (Eric Korteweg).
And then maybe the best of them all (Brian McGugan).
"That staff I was on at Fitch with Matt and Jesse is the best on I'll be on, probably, until I make the big leagues," Carlow said, only half jokingly.
Best part: He has his shot at the big leagues now. Turns out that hope triumphs every now and then.
This is the opinion of Day sports columnist Mike DiMauro.
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Paul Revere "in want of iron"
The "Abolitionism in Black & White" symposium went very well, thank you. And while I was relying on posts prepared well in advance, the Salem News and Boston Globe reported on the discovery of a Paul Revere letter in the archives of Marblehead.
On 15 Nov 1787, Revere wrote to Jonathan Glover, who had been the Marblehead treasurer during the war and held other important offices:
When I was last at Marblehead, I took notice that there were a great many old cannon at different places, which appeared to me, to be good for nothing but the old iron; upon inquiry, I found that they mostly belonged to your town; I am informed that a person who had seen them, supposed that they belong to the State, he has petitioned the Governor [John Hancock] and Council to sell them to him.Revere was starting to shift his business from a workshop creating luxury goods in silver and gold to a factory producing metal sheeting and other products. He was seeking a good deal on, in effect, army surplus goods—old cannons that Marblehead had mounted to protect its harbor during the war.
As I am in want of iron, for the furnace which I have built in Boston, I should be glad to purchase them. . . . If you will be good enough, when your Town is to be call'd together, to git an Article inserted in the Warrant, for that purpose, you will oblige,
Sir your most humle. Servt.
Paul Revere. . . . .
Revere asked Glover to put the sale of those cannon on the agenda ("Warrant") for a town meeting. Meanwhile, he understood, someone else was angling for those cannons as well, working through the state government. Are there more documents on this story in the Marblehead town records, the Massachusetts Archives, or Revere's surviving account books?


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Sunday musette
Also - while I'm thinking about it - I should mention that there are two web albums hosting photos I've used here. One is on Picasa. The other is on Flickr. They both have pluses and minuses. Flickr offers a rudimentary photo editor. Picasa does too, if you download their photo application to your computer, but the web albums allow you to re-size photos in a batch.
In the last couple of days, I've been playing with another batch re-sizer called FastStone photo resizer. Most of the shots I've taken are 4 megabyte files. I like this because I can take a section and enlarge it to a usable image. This is most useful when shooting wide angles without actually looking at the viewfinder or the rear screen.
This was cropped and straighten in Picasa. It was taken from a moving Jeep as I held the camera out the window and guessed at aiming it. And it helps that the Canon keeps taking pictures as long as I hold the button down. My older Kodak only takes 3 or 4 shot bursts.
Storage gets to be a problem with all these photos, because as I said, they're 4 megabyte files. Resizing them reduces the storage space needed, and I can keep the originals on CDs or other media.


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Derbyshire Wildlife Trust is urging people to contact their MP to ask them to attend and take part in the Parliamentary debate and vote against the badger cull tomorrow, Thursday, March 13.
MPs will be debating whether the Government's culling policy should continue. It comes after it was recently reported that findings from the Independent Expert Panel - set up to monitor the effectiveness, humaneness and safety of the pilot culls in Somerset and Gloucestershire – would show that a wider roll-out of the policy would be unacceptable. Whilst the panels report has not yet been published, it is understood that the number of badgers shot fell well short of the target deemed necessary and that more than five per cent of badgers took longer than five minutes to die, failing the humaneness test, said a spokesman for the Trust, based in Belper.
The cull was part of the Government's strategy to combat the devastating problem of bovine Tuberculosis (bovine TB).
The Wildlife Trusts continue to urge the Government to drop badger culling from its bovine TB strategy and prioritise badger vaccination, alongside a comprehensive package of cattle measures: better biosecurity, stricter movement controls, improved TB testing and development of a cattle vaccine.
Derbyshire Wildlife Trust has been fundraising for a badger vaccination programme, which will begin this May in Derbyshire. The Trust has already achieved its original target of £50,000 and is continuing to appeal for support to enable it to vaccinate more badgers in the county.
Conservation Manager Tim Birch is co-ordinating the Trust's vaccination programme. He said: "The fact that we have had so much support for our vaccination programme shows that people are keen to find another solution to bovine TB. We would urge everyone who cares about wildlife to contact their MP, ask them to attend Thursday's debate and to vote against the cull."


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Man arraigned in Travis Baker murder
The man accused of murdering a Catawba County teen was arraigned Tuesday in court.
John Lee Mitchell, 48, is charged with murdering Travis Lee Baker, 19, who was reported missing in 2007.
Mitchell's attorney, Lisa Dubs, was present for the arraignment, which is the formal reading of a criminal complaint against a defendant. Mitchell is in Catawba County jail with no bond.
Investigators combed the county for signs of Baker or his red Camaro, and the teen's remains were located in June 2009 on a property in Catawba County.
Mitchell was arrested June 24, 2009, in Orange County, Fla., and transported to North Carolina. Police charged Mitchell with first-degree murder.
He allegedly shot Baker after the two got into an altercation.


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Vail Cascade Resort & Spa in Vail, Colo., is offering deep discounts on rooms this spring for a two-night stay. The ski-in ski-out hotel takes up to 60% off room rates, which could be a good deal for those still planning their spring break.
The deal: Spring on Sale rates require a two-night stay at the hotel. Use the code "vcspring1" when making a reservation online or by phone.
When: The sale is good through Jan. 31 for stays Feb. 24 to April 13.
Tested: I checked online and found some of the discounted rooms a bit more than the promised 60% off. I found availability for a midweek rate Feb. 25-27 for a room with a king- or two queen-sized beds for $169 a night plus tax (instead of the published $459 a night). I also found a $219 a night rate instead of $579 a night for the weekend March 8-10. Note: Price doesn't include a $27-a-night resort fee.
Contact: Vail Cascade Resort, (800) 282-4183.
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Guard-based auditing
From Erights
This is a new design for auditing in E. It is currently provided in E-on-CL. It is an alternative to the unshadowable-names/synEnv system currently implemented in E-on-Java, and the give-the-auditor-access-to-everything previously used by E-on-CL.
Basic implementation
In environments, nouns are associated with "bindings" instead of slots. A binding is an object which holds a slot and a guard, and alleges that that slot was returned from that guard (except for object expressions; see below).
These properties of binding objects happen to make them very much like VarSlots except for being immutable, so they implement the slot protocol and are called CoercedSlot. CoercedSlots are PassByConstruction and non-transparent Selfless.
Note that FinalPatterns and VarPatterns must get FinalSlot and VarSlot guards; e.g.
def x :int := 1 results in the binding object
makeCoercedSlot(FinalSlot[int], makeFinalSlot(1), null) (except that implementations may optimize it to not require constructing an intermediate FinalSlot if the guard coerces).
If a pattern does not have a guard, then
any is used. Examples:
def x := y has a binding guard of
FinalSlot[any], and
def &x := y has a binding guard of
Environments gain the methods fetchBinding/2, getBindings/0 (returns an object mapping nouns to bindings), and getSlots/0 (returns an object mapping nouns to slots), and lose iterate/1.
Auditions have one relevant method, getGuard/1. Given a noun (string), it returns the guard of the matching binding. If the noun is not one of the free variables of the audition's object expression, or if the audit has already terminated, then an exception is thrown.
An additional component on kernel ObjectExprs: the "
as" clause, syntactically preceding the "
implements", behaves like it but with the additional effect of making its value be the guard for the binding of the object name (without coercing the object). That is,
def x as Y {} audits x with Y, and also causes the binding to be
("x", makeFinalSlot(<x>), FinalSlot[Y]). In theE AST, the current list of auditorExprs is replaced with a new node type "Auditors" with fields (as :nullOk[EExpr], implements :List[EExpr]).
Bindings may be reified in E programs using the prefix && operator. (This is necessary to support nonkernel
meta.getState(), and beneficial to the extends-syntax "
super".) "&&" is a single token and operator, not two prefix operators. As an expression, it is BindingExpr(NounExpr); as a pattern it is BindingPattern(NounExpr). The pattern does not take a guard like SlotPattern does.
The expansion of ObjectExpr's "extends" clause is changed such that "
extends someNoun" results in
super defined as:
def &&super := &&someNoun
Because bindings are Selfless, the evaluator need not make any effort to preserve their identities.
All bindings in the safeScope expose their values in their guards; that is, they are <code>("foo", bar, FinalSlot[Same[bar]]).
CoercedSlots are PassByConstruction; their uncall is makeCoercedSlot.attempt(guard, value). This performs guard.coerce(value, ...); if the guard fails, or returns a reference which is not the same as the original value, then the resulting CoercedSlot has LostApproval[guard] instead of the original guard. LostApproval is equivalent to any, and is used merely to report what the original guard was and why it is missing. (XXX LostApproval is not implemented in E-on-CL)
Implications for auditors
Implications for guards
To support multiple independently-written auditors on the same object, it must be possible to have single guards which satisfy multiple auditors' criteria. It is also desirable that programmers need not write code to match exactly an auditor's view of what is necessary. Therefore, we add the optional operation rangeSupersetOf/1 to guards.
to rangeSupersetOf(other :Guard) :nullOk[boolean]
If X.rangeSupersetOf(Y) returns true, X is claiming that every value returned by Y (as a guard) would have been returned by X under some circumstances; that is, the 'range' of X is a 'superset of' the range of Y. For example, int.rangeSupersetOf(1..10) should be true, as should DeepFrozen.rangeSupersetOf(int).
Returning false indicates that X is not a range superset of Y; returning null indicates that X doesn't know.


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Confessions of a former booth babe
Five days later and I'm still NAMM-ed out! Spent last weekend drooling over the newest guitars and music toys behind the orange curtain…and of course, posing for pictures with men who leave their wives behind for these sorts of things, freeing them up to openly leer at the fairer species as if it has been years since they last had a piece. And I'm not talking about cake. Any time I'm at a convention, whether it is a comic con, music, or car convention, I marvel at this activity: men collecting pictures of themselves with the women that stand listlessly in front of trade show booths, handing out pamphlets. You don't even have to be a booth babe to take part in this phenomenon…just being mildly hot and IN a convention hall makes you fair game for a mini photo shoot with a strange dude and his buddy. And his buddy's buddy. Having run the circuit of porn conventions back in my days with Playboy TV, I'm used to this scene. Never the less, it still makes me giggle to witness how differently men seem to be wired at times.
These days, I am no longer paid to go to conventions and pose coyly in front of a booth to draw in customers for big companies. I go with my own agenda: promoting my band, The Butcher Babies, or promoting my comic books. Both are things that I am extremely proud of, things that I used my BRAIN to create, not my looks. I was absolutely thrilled to be premiering my first published comic book at Comic Con 2011, but once on the convention floor, my excitement quickly turned to disappointment. As I hung out in front of the Deep Cut Productions, deep in male territory, men snapped pictures of me assuming I was simply a booth babe. They spoke to the illustrator (the fabulous Anthony Winn) about our book, but just looked dazed when I told that I was the author. To add insult to injury, in multiple on camera interviews I gave, the men that spoke with me only wanted to talk about my appearance or my boobs…I had to repeatedly voice that I was there because I had written a comic book…a damn good comic book at that.
One man with a puzzled look on his face asked me why I would write a comic book in the first place. "You're hot. You don't need to do anything," he said. It was my turn to be puzzled. Why were men giving me such praise for my physical looks that I didn't even have a part in making…why weren't they MORE interested in the fact that I had written something? I didn't understand a world where it was ok to just be hot and…do nothing. What about setting goals? Personal fulfillment? Doesn't it get boring just standing around being hot? Wouldn't men eventually get bored with a girl that just stands around looking hot?
That thought led me to another question: are women lowering their own standards? If we are ok with just being props in a man's world, then they have every right to treat us as such. We all have encountered THOSE women; the ones whose life goals consist of not much more than marrying themselves in to a comfortable situation. Luckily, however, I know loads more BRILLIANT women out there, whether they are in the music world, business world or otherwise, who would never be content with simply playing the hot chick role. I embrace these women.
I do greatly appreciate the support I HAVE gotten from the men who dig what I do and what I bring to the table. After our Butcher Babies shows, my cohort Heidi Shepherd and I usually have a line of former non-believers with penises anxiously waiting to tell us how hard we rock out…for chicks. Ahhhh, there's that dang girl thing again! I'd love the compliments even more if people would stop throwing the word female in front of the things that define us. I am not a female musician, female writer, female artist…I am simply a musician. A writer. To say it any other way takes the power away from what you do; it insinuates that if a male were doing it, it would be better. Besides, everyone can see that I have tits…I don't think I need the extra adjective!
That all said…I don't mind posing for said convention pictures. I quite enjoy being a pretty girl. I don't want you to stop noticing me just yet. But if you're going to wrap your arms around me for thirty seconds while your buddy fumbles with his camera, at least buy a friggin comic book that I wrote or take a listen to my band!
XO - Carla


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Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Dresses for this years overseas trip
Sorry to neglect my sewing blog... I have had lots of ideas of things that I wanted to post but no time. But at least I have been sewing!!!
Here are the two new dresses I have made in the past month (along with other things... ) A third dress (dress no. 2) was abandoned in despair - everything went wrong with it. I want to post about my experiences and try to recover it.
I am sure that there will be numerous photos of me wearing these dresses during the Urban Sketchers Symposium in Santo Domingo. I am also looking forward to chatting about sewing with one(at least!) of the sketchers there! What fun!
Will write more when I get home... all about my secret pockets etc etc....
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Carlos Lando
Carlos has more than 40 years experience in radio. While still in high school, his first night on the air was January 13, 1968 on the Armed Forces Caribbean Network in Puerto Rico. In 1970, Carlos was the week night host on WOUR in Utica, NY, one of the first FM "underground rock" stations in the country.
Carlos moved back to Puerto Rico in the late '70s where he produced and hosted a new show on WZAR called Jazz Where It's Been and Where It's At. During this time, he met and interviewed many jazz greats, including Count Basie, Betty Carter and Dexter Gordon.
Carlos returned to Denver in 1980 where he spent five years as Music and Program Director and mid-day host at the nationally recognized soul station KDKO. After working a year for KBCO in Boulder, Carlos joined KUVO in 1987. As Program Director, he helped establish KUVO as one of the most respected community-based jazz stations in the country. Carlos remains committed to airing culturally diverse programs with significant appeal to people in the Latino and African American communities.
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Dr. Taylor, Ms. Kendrick, Ms. Thompson, Ms. Hicks, Mr. Twomey
Dr. Klostemeyer, Mr. Coggin, Mr. Gonzalez
President Delaney, Dr. Workman, Dr. Serwatka
The Executive Committee began the meeting by approving the minutes from the August 15, 2006 and September 5, 2006 committee meetings.
Following approval of the minutes, President Delaney briefed the trustees on the study on the State University System which was completed by the Pappas Consulting Group. The discussion focused on issues about funding, including Bright Futures and Florida's prepaid college tuition fund; the discussion of mission leap; the need for a state-wide agenda, in contrast to individual university agendas; and the proposed "sub-system" which would emphasize baccalaureate degree production at some universities and colleges. During the discussion President Delaney talked about the Times Union article on the study.
The trustees also spoke about the relationship between the Pappas Consulting Group study and the efforts of Lynn Pappas's committee work. This committee is trying to emphasize the need for greater system-wide collaboration and cooperation. The trustees spoke about the different levers the Board of Governors could use to build better cooperation in the system.
President Delaney told the trustees in attendance that he would have more to report on Friday, after the Board of Governors' meeting on Florida Atlantic University's campus later in the week.
The next item up for discussion was on hiring consultants to complete the Presidential and Board reviews detailed in the Presidential Evaluation protocol adopted by the Board of Trustees. Chair Taylor told the trustees that he had talked to staff from the Association of Governing Boards and was working with them to identify potential consultants for these reviews. He was to spend more time with AGB defining the particular agenda for the reviews.
The trustees discussed their different perspectives on the reviews and suggested thye should not focus on questions about the University's vision or strategic plan as opposed to questions about whether the University has a vision and a plan. The review should also look at the relationship between the President and the Board. Members of the Board also voiced interest in knowing if the Board was operating effectively.
Chair Taylor said he would continue to pursue working with AGB to identify the consultants.
The final item of discussion was potential nominees for the vacancy on UNF's Board of Trustees. The trustees reviewed a list of several possible candidates and asked Chair Taylor and President Delaney to continue working on narrowing the list to three or four names that they could recommend to the Governor.
The meeting adjourned at 4:50 p.m.
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Team pursuit is arguably the most skilled discipline in track racing as riders follow each other centimetres apart at 60km/h, swapping turns on the front with miltary precision and balletic grace.
Today in Manchester, Denmark surprised everyone and qualified fastest, breaking the four minute barrier with a time of 3:57.73 to push hosts Great Britain into second place with 3:58.98.
But in the final, it was a totally different story. Britain's quartet of Ed Clancy, Bradley Wiggins, Paul Manning and Geraint Thomas delivered a stunning performance to win the gold in a time of 3:56.32, setting a new world record in the process. The Brits shaved 0.3 seconds off the previous record, set by Australia at the Athens Olympics nearly four years ago.
Denmark had to be content with silver, although they did go under four minutes in the final. The bronze went to Australia, who defeated New Zealand by nearly two seconds.
Stephen McMahon was in Manchester to capture all the action.
|The Korean team started the qualifying rounds of the men's team pursuit and expectations were high.
|Colombia was next up, finishing in a time of 4
|Focusing before the off - the French team wait for the start of their qualification run.
|The French team in action...
|...and getting the split time information.
|Spain finished seventh, just over half a second slower than the French squad.
|The Russian squad clinched fifth spot by a quarter of a second from France.
|The Netherlands had to settle for eighth place
|Bradley McGee leads the Australian squad to fourth place in the men's team pursuit.
|The German team on their way to ninth position.
|New Zealand took third place in qualifying, beating Australia by just over a tenth of a second.
|The Danish team took the start looking determined before a convincing victory in qualifying.
|The Ukrainian team had to complete the final kilometre of their qualifying session with three riders
|A tightly knit quartet. Defending champions Great Britain qualified second to make the final
|The British men's team pursuit team were ecstatic at winning & setting a new world record
For more reports, results & photos from the track world championships, see Cyclingnews.com.


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This series of infographics was created to supplement the Here, There, Everywhere (HTE) exhibit and connects cross-cutting science content (Earth and planetary sciences and astrophysics) with everyday phenomena, helping to demonstrate the... (View More) universality of physical laws and the connection between our everyday world and the universe as a whole to non-experts. (View Less)
The bending and scattering of sunlight to create blue skies and red sunsets is explained and illustrated in this article. SciJinks is a joint NASA/NOAA educational website targeting middle school-aged children and their educators. It explores... (View More) weather and Earth science through articles, videos, images, and games. (View Less)
This comic addresses the question "What is color?" Using the Sun as an example, the comic discusses how visible light (white light) contains all the colors of the rainbow. It goes on to describe why our Sun is white, our sky is blue, and why sunsets... (View More) are red/orange. The discussion ends with a thought-question and provides further information on NASA missions and websites that address issues related to the Sun. The comic is illustrated mostly with NASA imagery and is part of the series Tales from Stanford Solar, featuring Camilla Corona and Colours O'Iris. The topic "What is Color?" was inspired by the 2014 Alan Alda Flame Challenge, an international competition asking scientists to communicate complex science in ways that would interest and enlighten an 11-year-old. (View Less)
Two comic characters, Camilla Corona, a rubber chicken, and Colours O'IRIS, a peacock, explore spectrographs. This comic is part of the series Tales from Stanford Solar.
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This is an activity about magnetic fields. Learners will use various magnets, magnetic film, and a compass to see and illustrate what magnetic fields look like. This is the fourth activity as part of the iMAGiNETICspace: Where Imagination,... (View More) Magnetism, and Space Collide educator's guide. Instructions for downloading the iBook educator's guide and the associated Transmedia book student guide are available at the resource link. (View Less)
Two comic characters, Camilla Corona, a rubber chicken, and Colours O'IRIS, a peacock, explore questions relating to colors of light from the Sun. This comic is part of the series Tales from Stanford Solar.
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2 Week Specials, Care & Community in Nepal by Sally Bodle
I came across a Projects Abroad flyer at school and was interested straight away in going overseas to do some voluntary work. I had always wanted to help out a third world country in some way, and felt this would be the perfect opportunity. Once I got the nod from my parents, I asked my friend if she wanted to come along too.
After months of fundraising and working we were finally headed to the airport on our huge 20 hour journey to Nepal. Projects Abroad had given us all of the information we needed so we were pretty confident in what we were doing. When we finally arrived it was a bit of a change to what we were used to. The airport was a bit daunting but once on the road to the hotel we relaxed a bit and took it all in.
Once we had met our friendly group members and super helpful Projects Abroad staff we started work at our first placement, a small school 30 minutes away, where we were to paint 4 classrooms and transform them from bare concrete walls to colourful and inspiring learning areas. This was a good start to our volunteering as we could work as a team and get to know one another better.
During breaks the children were so eager for us to play with them and hold our hands. It was very warming to see how happy these children were.
Evening activities and weekend trip
Each night after work we would head out to our main shopping street where we could go into any shop and get the usual souvenirs (this included stopping at a Saree shop to get decked out in local Nepali gear). A hotspot on that street was a French Baguette store, the guy made a fortune from us!
Once week one was over, we packed our bags for a weekend trip to Chitwan National Park. The journey there was a good 7 hours and a bit different to driving here in New Zealand, our driver was very safe though and provided some good music!
We arrived to our Jungle Lodge where we were assigned our cabins then set off to catch the sunset at the river's edge. The next day we had an early start for our first activity of canoeing down the River Rapta. The canoes were really narrow and long and threatened to tip a few times, which we were most certainly not keen for that as we had seen the huge crocs sunbathing the previous day.
After an hour of canoeing we pulled up to the side of the river and started a jungle walk back to the lodge. On the way we stopped at an elephant sanctuary where we saw how they fed and looked after them. The next day we were crossing the river again to make it over to the other side for a five hour jungle safari. We loaded onto the little jeeps and set off, seeing Deer, Crocs, Lizards and a huge Rhino!
After the safari we had dinner (which was an amazing curry and vegetables) and then loaded onto a back of a ute and headed off to see a cultural show. We were invited up on the final dance to join in, soon we were laughing and dancing in the Nepalese style! We then headed back to another exciting week of volunteering.
The second week was spent at another (larger) school where we taught educational games to preschool aged kids and also primary aged school children.
They were all really excited, so much so that it was sometimes quite hard to teach. However, their English was really impressive and they listened to us carefully. We taught them new games which they promptly picked up and started playing themselves, which was really cool to see.
We also took the pre-schoolers in a lesson to brush their teeth properly. We gave them an introduction of how and why we brush our teeth and then handed out their very own toothbrushes for them to try out and take home. It was all very exciting and we all shared lots of laughs.
For the final Friday we headed back to our original school where we hung out with all the kids and said our farewells. They all wanted to show us their songs and games. A farewell was held by the staff and they thanked us with a cup of tea and some biscuits. We were also gifted a bottle of mustard seed oil, which was made locally, as a thank you for painting the school. At that stage we didn't realise how much we would miss the smiling faces of the children. On that happy note we then went out for dinner in our Sarees for our own farewell.
Nepal was one of the most amazing trips that I have experienced. The country was so different and the people had so much to give and always had a smile. To this day I still contact the friends I made in Nepal. Without the awesome help of the Projects Abroad team and the bunch of friends that we made it wouldn't have been the same. Doing a volunteer project like this is something I highly recommend doing! It's a chance to see a new country and do something worthwhile... and it will be an experience that you will never forget.
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This is a story.
The emperor, who was also the head Karate instructor of a ryuha and wanted to be remembered, created a new Karate kata (named after him, of course). He called all the students and other instructors together and performed the new kata for them.
The kata was terrible! The emperor obviously had only a shallow understanding of Karate and the kata reflected this. It was the worst kata ever!
The emperor finished the kata and took a very long and dramatic bow. "Now that you have seen my magnificent new kata," he announced, "I would like to hear your impressions."
The gathering of students and instructors was about to erupt with their frank assessments...
"And let me also say that you are all promoted one dan or kyu rank in honor of this auspicious occasion!" added the emperor.
"Bravo!" yelled the crowd!
"The best kata ever!"
While the emperor might not have been very good at Karate, he was great at controlling people. After all, he was the emperor.
A person does not become great because of incentives. Wait, sometimes they do.
Charles C. Goodin
The Emperor's New Kata
This is a story.
Posted by Charles C. Goodin on Wednesday, December 09, 2009


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Rule #1 - Be Patient - Rule #2 - Don't ask when, if you don't contribute - Rule #3 - You have coding skills - LinuxMCE's small brother is available: http://www.agocontrol.com
Q. Are they suitable for Linux and PXE boot environments?A. The units are currently only available with Windows CE and the only PXE boot option is to boot to another Windows CE image (for more information regarding PXE boot click here). Linux implementations are being investigated by Chip PC's R&D department but there are no timescales for this as yet.


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You know that feeling when you get finished with a workout? Your blood is flowing and you feel hyper alert. Imagine sitting down to slay some peasants in your favorite FPS game while riding that runner's high. How many times have you neglected going to the gym because you were too busy gaming? Do you keep procrastinating and telling yourself you'll do it tomorrow? Putting in the work is essential to mastering a game, but keeping your mind and body fit is also a huge part. Taking the time to go to the gym or go out for a run is well worth the time lost practicing your gaming skills. Keeping your mind sharp and your body fit is a necessity when playing games competitively. ...Read More »
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This week's episode of The Hunting of the Snark is pleased to present you with Snark Hunter Number Six, the Billiard-Marker!
the Billiard-Marker is not busying himself keeping score in Victorian
pool-halls, he's available for cameo, walk-on roles in such popular
thrillers as Conan Doyle's "The Greek Interpreter ", where he appeared
as an extra in a scene involving Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft Holmes and the
Boots (duly noted by Martin Gardner, the Herodotus of Snarkology).
Snark watchers will also remember his scene-stealing appearance in Fit
the Fourth of The Hunting of the Snark, where he chalked the tip of the
Bonnet's nose, with hilariously predictable results as we can see in this
In his spare time, the Billiard-Marker
enjoys gardening, cooking, reading the novels of Pierre Loti and
attending Carrollian events dressed up as Raymond Roussel,
the French novelist and poet whom Louis Aragon dubbed "the president of
the republic of dreams." The Billard-Marker has garnered numerous
awards and citations for his pitch-perfect, Rousselian rendition of le non-sens haut …
shall reach the heights; I was born for dazzling glory. It may be long
in coming, but I shall have greater glory than that of Victor Hugo or
Napoleon … This glory will reflect on all my works without exception; it
will cast itself on all the events of my life … no author has been or
can be superior to me … as the poet said, you feel a burning sensation
at your brow. I felt once that there was a star at my brow and I shall
never forget it."
Billiard-Marker has been known to finish up his Rousselian
"performances" by placing a hot casserole dish upon his head and then
mailing electric heaters to any friends desiring souvenirs of tropical
India, all whilst employing detective agencies to search out and hire
suitable illustrators for an alexandrine, protohypertextual epic endowed
with a crushing five-fold level of nesting texts.
We'll be right back with our first question for the Billiard-Marker, after this important message …
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I've finally made the step and reinstalled my Android phone with Cyanogen. Here's my comparison of Cyanogen 10 (4.1.2) with Vanilla (4.1.2) on the Google Nexus S.
To make it short: Cyanogen is a comfortable improvement. My phone had been pretty slow and laggy recently, probably due to having too many apps with background services installed. Now with a fresh Cyanogen installation and only the apps I actually use, it's very fast.
But Cyanogen also fixes and tweaks many annoying little issues with the baseline Android version. For example, you can now select default apps for certain file types again. Unfortunately, the voip client integrated in the phone app still doens't work.
Also, there are some nice new features, such as zram support, controlling the media player with the volume button (long press means next song), lighting the display buttons to show there are new messages, always showing the battery percentage on your lock screen and/or next to the battery icon, more settings for the phone app, power profiles, and many more.
And then there's root, which makes some apps, such as cputuner, work again. Some other apps, such as Ivona TTS, only worked properly now, though that might be due to having too much installed before. So far I'm very happy with the switch.
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Barry Gilliam, a popular FedEx driver whose contract termination last month sparked a community outcry and inspired a grassroots effort to get him reinstated with the company, is back on his East Hampton Village and Wainscott route as of this week.
"Sometimes you can fight City Hall," said Mary Croghan of the East Hampton Business Service, who collected over 400 signatures in three days last month urging FedEx to reconsider Mr. Gilliam's termination.
FedEx Ground sells delivery routes to independent contractors, who service the routes with their own trucks. Mr. Gilliam had owned and driven his route for 11 years and had one employee driving a second truck.
In the month since his contract was terminated, a number of other drivers had filled in on the route, and the rumor was that they planned to pool their resources to buy the route, then hire Mr. Gilliam back as the driver. Mr. Gilliam had not returned a call as of press time to confirm that arrangement, but regardless of the specifics, his customers are just happy to have him back, as can be seen in the dozens of posts since Tuesday on the Facebook page We Want Barry Gilliam Reinstated at FedEx Ground.
"Welcome home, Barry!" Ms. Croghan posted yesterday. "You are so deeply appreciated by a grateful community."


text: Our fifth annual survey on the way organizations use social tools and technologies finds that they continue to seep into many organizations, transforming business processes and raising performance. Companies are improving their mastery of social technologies, using them to enhance operations and exploit new market opportunities—key findings of our fifth annual survey on these tools and technologies, in which we asked more than 4,200 global executives how organizations deploy them and the benefits they confer.1 1. The online survey included 4,261 respondents across sectors, geographies, company sizes, tenures, and functional specialties. As with surveys in past years (when we referred to social technologies as "Web 2.0") the survey covers the adoption and usage of technologies, their benefits, and corporate performance. This year, we also asked about how organizations are using social technologies and the types and magnitude of the organizational and process changes that could result. When adopted at scale across an emerging type of networked enterprise and integrated into the work processes of employees, social technologies can boost a company's financial performance and market share, respondents say, confirming last year's survey results. But this is a very dynamic environment, where the gains from using social technologies sometimes do not persist, perhaps because it takes so much effort to achieve them at scale. Some companies, respondents indicate, reaped fewer benefits and thus became less networked, while a smaller percentage learned how to deploy these technologies to become even more networked. Executives say that their companies are using them to increase their agility and to manage organizational complexity. Many believe that if organizational barriers to the use of social technologies diminish, they could form the core of entirely new business processes that may radically improve performance.Usage at scale and continued benefits Social technologies as a group have reached critical scale at the organizations represented in our survey. Seventy-two percent of the respondents report that their companies are deploying at least one technology, and more than 40 percent say that social networking and blogs are now in use (Exhibit 1). These technologies are being deployed across sectors, at the high level of 86 percent of the respondents' companies in high tech and telecommunications, but at 62 percent of companies even in the energy industry (Exhibit 2). Levels of reported benefits not only remain high when respondents' organizations use social tools for internal purposes but have also increased among those that use them for communicating with customers or for integration with partners and suppliers (Exhibit 3). Exhibit 1 Rising adoption rates Exhibit 2 Adoption of social technologies across industries Exhibit 3 Benefits remain consistent over time The performance edge of networked enterprises Last year, we identified a small group of respondents who indicated that their companies had experienced superior performance from the use of social technologies across key stakeholder groups. We repeated the analysis this year, looking at the average level of improvements in business benefits that executives reported. Four clusters emerge from our analysis. Executives at internally networked organizations note the highest improvement in benefits from interactions with employees; those at externally networked organizations, from interactions with customers, partners, and suppliers. Executives at fully networked organizations report greater benefits from both internal and external interactions. In the fourth and by far the largest group, developing organizations, respondents report lower-than-average improvements across all interactions at their organizations.2 2. As we did last year, we sorted the respondents into four clusters based on the average mean improvement reported across the different benefits when Web 2.0 is used in interacting with employees, customers, and external partners or any combination thereof. Fully networked enterprises are defined as those with an average improvement greater than 10 percent when Web 2.0 is used to interact with employees, customers, and external partners. Externally networked enterprises are those with a greater than 10 percent average improvement when Web 2.0 is used to interact with customers and external partners. Internally networked enterprises are those with an average improvement greater than 10 percent when Web 2.0 is used to interact with employees. The remainder of respondents work for what we classify as developing enterprises. As we found last year, the number of fully networked organizations is small. But the percentage of externally networked organizations is higher and that of internally networked ones lower (Exhibit 4),3 3. See Jacques Bughin and Michael Chui, "The rise of the networked enterprise: Web 2.0 finds its payday," mckinseyquarterly.com, December 2010. reflecting the fact that the gains from the use of social technologies are not static (see discussion below). We call the companies in the fully and externally networked groups extended enterprises, since their use of social technologies in customer and partner outreach blurs the boundaries of the organization. Exhibit 4 Tracking the four types of organizations We found statistically significant correlations between self-reported corporate-performance metrics and certain business processes that networked enterprises use (Exhibit 5). The market share gains respondents report are correlated with two such processes. First, these organizations use social tools to scan external environments. Second, they use them to match employees to tasks: internal wikis and social networks help project leaders to identify employees with the most appropriate skills and to assign these employees to the projects for which they are best suited. Exhibit 5 Correlations with corporate performance Another key performance measure, self-reported operating-margin improvements, correlated positively with the reported percentage of employees whose use of social technologies was integrated into their day-to-day work. Among the companies of respondents who took the survey in previous years, these improvements also correlated positively with gains in the reported percentage of employees whose work is highly integrated with social media. Market share leadership in an industry, the final self-reported performance measure, correlated positively with the integration of social tools in employees' day-to-day work, as well. Consistent with last year's analysis, we found that market leadership correlates negatively with fully networked and externally networked organizations. While market leaders may use social technologies within the organization, they might be less inclined than market challengers to push for a full range of benefits.Networked organizations: Not a steady state We also analyzed the responses of executives who participated in both the 2010 and 2011 surveys for changes in our defined enterprise clusters. According to these responses, a surprising number of organizations made the transition from one type of enterprise to another. Roughly half of the internally and externally networked enterprises slid back into the category of developing organizations; that is, they did not maintain the benefits of using social technologies that they had achieved earlier. Less than 15 percent of the companies in any given category moved up to the next tier—in other words, from a developing to a networked enterprise or from an internally or externally networked enterprise to a fully networked one (Exhibit 6). It appears that it is easier to lose the benefits of social technologies than to become a more networked enterprise, which suggests that significant effort is required to achieve gains at scale. We also found initial indications that if the percentage of employees who integrated social technologies into their day-to-day work declined, their companies were more likely to backslide. Exhibit 6 Shifting network classifications Changing processes We asked respondents about current and future uses of social technologies for a range of business processes and found that the greatest number say their companies use these tools to scan the external environment for new ideas. Respondents also report that different technologies are better suited to specific types of business processes, as the accompanying heat map shows (Exhibit 7). Social networking and blogs, in particular, are used most heavily in externally focused processes that gather competitive intelligence and support marketing efforts. Respondents expect social technologies to modify many of their organizations' current processes. In addition, many believe that entirely new processes could arise if barriers to use—cultural obstacles, for example—fall (Exhibit 8). The respondents affiliated with fully networked organizations are the likeliest to believe that greater process change will occur in their own organizations. In larger numbers than respondents in other clusters, they think that social technologies will lead their companies to adopt entirely new processes under current conditions and to do so even more aggressively if all constraints were removed. This optimistic view may reflect the fact that these respondents are seeing the greatest level of benefits across the board. Peering ahead three to five years, many respondents expect still more profound organizational changes (Exhibit 9). They say that with fewer constraints on social technologies at their companies, boundaries among employees, vendors, and customers will blur; that more employee teams will be able to organize themselves; and that data-driven decision making will rise in importance. Exhibit 7 Supporting a variety of processes Exhibit 8 A mix of old and new Exhibit 9 A blurring of boundaries Looking aheadOur research shows that respondents affiliated with fully networked organizations say that they continue to realize competitive gains and performance improvements. Senior executives should think strategically about how social technologies can support business processes by helping organizations to navigate the external environment and to forge stronger links with customers and vendors. Integrating social technologies into the workflow and using them to optimize internal processes will, these results suggest, provide additional competitive benefits.Don't rest on your laurels: competition will increase as the adoption of social tools and technologies continues to rise and as progressive companies use them to improve their processes. Indeed, many companies we categorized as networked organizations last year slipped to a lower rung this year as the benefits their executives reported fell. Integrating Web technologies into the daily workflow, our results suggest, is the most effective way to maintain competitive position or become more networked.Companies should prepare for more substantial disruptions. Since many executives believe that significant changes will occur as (or if) constraints on social tools and technologies are lifted, companies that can create change themselves—instead of reacting to it—are likely to benefit the most.


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It's always nice to have a little twist on a classic, and mine is this creamy chicken chili with the added touch of black beans along with the white – that's why I call it Tuxedo Chili. Plus, this version is simple to make and packed with flavor.
It's always nice to have a little twist on a classic, and mine is this creamy chicken chili with the added touch of black beans along with the white – that's why I call it Tuxedo Chili. Plus, this version is simple to make and packed with flavor.—TheRunawaySpoon
Food52 Review: WHO: TheRunawaySpoon is a food writer from Memphis Tennessee. Just being in the kitchen makes her happy!
WHAT: A complex, creamy white chili (with black beans -- hence, tuxedo!) that's quick enough for a weeknight meal.
HOW: Two cans of blended white beans add instant richness and body to a chili base of spiced ground chicken, corn, beans, and green chiles.
WHY WE LOVE IT: This chili comes together quickly from pantry staples you have on hand, but tastes like anything but -- your family and friends will wonder when you spent all that time in the kitchen! —The Editors
Serves: 6
medium white onion
cloves garlic
tablespoon vegetable oil
pounds ground chicken
teaspoons dried oregano (preferably Mexican)
teaspoons cumin
1 1/2
teaspoons chili powder
teaspoon ground black pepper
teaspoon cinnamon
cups water
3 (15)
ounces cans great northern or canellini beans
cups chicken broth
1 (16)
ounces can black beans
1 (16)
ounces package frozen white shoepeg corn
1 (4.5)
ounces can chopped green chiles
- Chop the onion and garlic finely. Add to the oil in a large Dutch oven. Saute over medium high heat until soft and translucent. Do not brown. Remove the onions and garlic to a bowl and set aside. (If the onions brown and overcook, the final color of the chili will be muddy. It will still taste delicious, but won't look as nice. You can always top it with lots of cheese). Add the ground chicken to the pan and cook until browning slightly, breaking it up into small pieces.
- Mix the oregano, cumin, chili powder, pepper and cinnamon in a small bowl, then sprinkle over the chicken. Add the onions and garlic. Pour in three cups of water and bring to a boil. Lower heat to a simmer and cook until the water has reduced by half and the chicken is cooked through.
- Meanwhile, drain and rinse two cans of white beans. Place the beans in a blender with the chicken broth and puree until smooth. Drain and rinse the remaining white beans and the black beans. Pour the pureed beans into the chicken mixture, stir well and bring to a boil. Lower the heat to medium, add the remaining drained beans, corn, and green chiles and simmer until cooked through and thickened, about 30 minutes.
- Serve in big bowls topped with grated cheese, sour cream and chopped cilantro.
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It can be hard to fit a fitness routine into your busy schedule. You always want to know that the time you put in will be worth it. We have come up with a few tips to help your workout be a little bit safer and more productive.
- Find a great workout buddy. You want a friend who will motivate and inspire you not discourage you. You should look for someone who is available during your routine and can keep up with you or make you work harder to keep up with them.
- Choose your perfect music. Think about music that gets you pumped and makes you want to go. The choice is up to you remember you do not have to pick what others would consider exercise music but what you consider exercise music.
- Remember to stay hydrated during your fitness routines. Drinking water is fine until you have been exercising for more than an hour, by then a Gatorade type drink is better to help give you a beneficial replenishment boost.
- Exercising outdoors and getting some fresh air can be great, but you also get harmful UV rays. You should look for a sweat-proof sunscreen with a SPF of thirty or higher, be careful of the waterproof or water-resistant types. You also should have a lip balm with a SPF of fifteen or higher, a hat and sunglasses are also beneficial. Now there are even t shirts you can purchase with built in UV protection that you can use instead of your normal workout t shirt.
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When you send in your entries for the photo contest. In the subject line of your message could you please title it the Catagory for the week your entering.
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That way it doesn't just say photo...or whatever. It's a bit hard to go thru and not miss a photo...(like I did this week) because I get other pm's durin the week other than the photo contest.
Thanks ya'll It'd sure help make it easier to post the contests.