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Nearby Stadiums
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- Grace Road 2.65 miles away
- Leicester Racecourse 3.05 miles away
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- UK National Space Centre 0.75 miles away
- Guru Nanak Sikh Museum 1.08 miles away
- De Montfort Hall 1.35 miles away
- William Carey Museum 3.01 miles away
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- Spinney Hill Medical Centre 0.73 miles away
- St Peter's Health Centre 1 miles away
- Leicester Royal Infirmary 1.34 miles away
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A given task that seems straightforward and minor cluster fucked at first. But as the requirements to do the task are gathered, each sub-requirement is found to be a cluster fuck in and of itself and requires it's own set of tasks and sub-sub-requirements to fix. And more so down the line
A continually clustering cluster of cluster fucks...Or, Branching Cluster Fuck.
A continually clustering cluster of cluster fucks...Or, Branching Cluster Fuck.
Have you seen the new change management process? I have to put in a request for change, then send that to 2 managers to approve, then it comes back to me and I have to then contact the group that will put the change in and get their approval. then that comes back to me and I have to get those 2 managers to approve AGAIN...And only THEN do I sit on a weekly meeting to have the change management admins give their final approval?! I mean, how much of a branching cluster fuck can you get!!??
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New London police union says crime on the rise; administration disagrees
New London - The president of the police union said Monday that crime is up in the city and staffing shortages are jeopardizing public safety.
But the police administration cited Uniform Crime Report statistics that show serious crime is going down. In 2011 there were 7,841 crimes reported in the city and for the first nine months of the year, 5,267 crimes were reported, according to Capt. Brian Wright. That projects to slightly more than 7,000 crimes reported for the year.
"I've heard downtown isn't safe and violent crime is way up. ... The numbers are not showing what I'm hearing," Police Chief Margaret Ackley said during a two-hour City Council Public Safety Committee meeting at City Hall.
Councilor Wade Hyslop, chairman of the committee, brought before the committee the police chief and her entire administration - three captains and the deputy chief; along with Union President Todd Lynch and Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio to discuss a spate of violent crimes that have occurred over the past six months and to address concerns that there are not enough police to properly patrol the city.
The meeting was recessed without any action taken but will reconvene at 5 p.m. next Monday to continue the discussion.
Hyslop said the meeting was helpful in that all sides voiced their opinions and the councilors were able to hear firsthand comments from the union and the administration.
"I think we need a concentrated effort by the council, the mayor and police department to work together,'' Hyslop said after the meeting. "We need people to understand we are all working together on public safety.''
The community also has a responsibility to help keep the streets safe by reporting criminal behavior, he added.
Lynch sent a letter to the mayor in September and quoted headlines from the newspaper and a readership poll from an online news organization saying the data "paints a troubling picture" of crime in the city.
On Monday, Lynch said there is a disconnect between the administration and rank-and-file who feel they are being penalized for trying to prevent crime. Officers would like to go back to a pro-active type of policing he said, as opposed to a community policing model the chief has implemented.
"The men and women of this department do not feel they can go out and police the community," Lynch said. "And I stand by that statement."
He added that problems in the administration are compelling officers to leave the department.
"People are leaving the city left and right,'' Lynch said. "It does seem they (the administration) aren't looking for solutions to the problems.''
According to Lynch, 27 officers have left the department since July 2009 when Ackley became chief. Those leaving the department include seven retirements, including two long-serving captains; the contract for the deputy chief was not renewed; three officers were forced to resign or quit; and 12 made so-called lateral moves, meaning they left to work in another police department.
During that same time period - July 2009 to the present - the city hired 17 new officers, replaced the deputy chief and promoted two captains from within its ranks.
The department now has 80 sworn officers, down from a high of 95 two years ago.
Although the 2012-13 budget left 10 positions vacant, there is still $250,000 to hire new officers. But bringing on new hires can take several months for a transfer from another department, to more than a year for a brand new officer who has to go through the police training academy.
Capt. Steven Crowley said some have left because they feared they would lose their jobs. During the city's contentious budget debate, 10 officers received layoff notices but all the layoffs were eventually rescinded.
Capt. Todd Bergeson said he is working on better scheduling to save overtime costs, sometimes foregoing filling an empty slot on a slow day so he can bring in extra officers during a busy weekend.
Also in an effort to control costs and maximize manpower, Deputy Chief Peter Reichard changed the scheduling matrix to have more officers on during busy times when they can be deployed to high-crime areas.
"I didn't expect miracles out of this meeting, but I think it's healthy to get everyone's comments on the record all at once and all together,'' Council President Michael Passero near the end of the meeting. "I'm leaving feeling we are headed in the right direction.''
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DeNA reports record revenues for Q2 2012
Japanese mobile gaming giant DeNA generated $609m in revenues during Q2 2012.
The company reports that's a 37 per cent increase when compared to the same period last year and the highest quarterly revenue it has ever achieved.
Operating profit for the three months ended June 30th came in at $235m, a year-on-year increase of 22 per cent.
A whopping $689m was spent on DeNA's mobile currency Moba-coin – another record for the firm and a particularly impressive achievement given new regulatory concerns over the 'complete gacha' mechanic.
'Complete gacha' games mean players can win rare virtual prizes after purchasing enough in-game items. Japan's Consumer Affairs Agency has ruled that this is an illegal sales method, according to The Daily Yomiuri.
DeNA has since removed this aspect from its games, and observes that spending on Moba-coin has still continued to increase.
Key titles included Rage of Bahamut, which topped the iOS and Android top-grossing charts in the US, and racked up 17 consecutive weeks at the top of the US' Google Play top-grossing chart.
Other hits include Blood Brothers and Ninja Royale.
"Our first financial quarter of the year marked our highest global revenue to date, as well as proof positive that we are beginning to see a thriving business in the West," said DeNA CEO and president Isao Moriyasu.
"We are squarely focused on our goal of building the world's top social games platform.
"We will achieve this by continuing to refine our technology, building the strongest game portfolio through internal studios as well as third-parties and great IP partners, and serving our customers through our platform worldwide."
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Effective Date: 09/30/2010, Docket: RP10-1032-000, Status: Effective
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Australian League begins anew Down Under
Four hours after the Boston Red Sox ended the 2013 Major League Baseball season by defeating the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 6 of the World Series, a whole new season began more than 10,000 miles away. Back for its fourth year, the Australian Baseball League opened up in front of a sellout crowd at Narrabundah Ballpark, home of the defending champion Canberra Cavalry, presented by Rolfe Renault.
Hosting the Jet Couriers Melbourne Aces, the Cavalry took the season opener, 10-3, and went on to win the first three games of the four-game set, before the Aces salvaged the finale, 7-6.
Four hours after the Boston Red Sox ended the 2013 Major League Baseball season by defeating the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 6 of the World Series, a whole new season began more than 10,000 miles away. Back for its fourth year, the Australian Baseball League opened up in front of a sellout crowd at Narrabundah Ballpark, home of the defending champion Canberra Cavalry, presented by Rolfe Renault.
Hosting the Jet Couriers Melbourne Aces, the Cavalry took the season opener, 10-3, and went on to win the first three games of the four-game set, before the Aces salvaged the finale, 7-6.
Leading the charge for the Cavalry was former Phillies farmhand Jeremy Barnes, who went 7-for-16 (.438) with five RBIs in the series. Blue Jays prospects Michael Crouse and Jack Murphy also made major contributions, with Crouse producing six RBIs -- tied for the league lead -- and Murphy going 6-for-14 (.429) with three RBIs.
On the mound, Brian Grening made a stellar start for Canberra on opening night, striking out eight Aces while allowing just one walk and five hits. The righty yielded three unearned runs over seven innings. Nick Pugliese, a one-time member of the Angels organization, looked sharp out of the bullpen for Canberra, making two scoreless appearances and recording five of his seven outs via the strikeout.
For the Aces, Rockies prospect Ryan Casteel led the team with seven hits, collecting at least one in each of the four games and going 3-for-3 in Game 1 of Saturday's doubleheader. The 22-year-old Casteel is coming off a strong season with the Class A Advanced Modesto Nuts, in which he blasted 22 home runs and drove in 76 runs.
Melbourne native Brad Harman, who played four games for the 2008 World Series champion Philadelphia Phillies, sat each of the first two nights, but went 5-for-8 with two home runs while playing in both halves of Saturday's twin bill. Fellow Aussie Scott Wearne -- who made headlines this past summer for his remarkable 7-10 bowling split with two baseballs -- also had a strong weekend for the Aces, going 5-for-11 with a pair of RBIs.
While most of the opening-weekend action was being played on the East Coast, the Perth Heat and Sydney Blue Sox opened the season at Barbagallo Ballpark on the West Coast in Perth in a series that featured both the Pitcher and Player of the Week for Round 1.
The Heat took their season opener, 10-0, but the Blue Sox responded by taking the final three games of the series by a combined score of 23-6.
Perth's Tucker Nathans, an Orioles product, led all ABL players with nine hits while batting .500 over the weekend, and his teammate Brandon Tripp led the league with five runs scored. Tripp -- who has spent seven years in the Minors as part of the Orioles, Marlins and Phillies organizations -- saw four of his six hits go for extra bases, including two home runs. The outfielder led his team with five RBIs and was named the ABL's Player of the Week for Round 1.
Sydney, after being shut out on opening night, flexed its muscles the rest of the weekend and was led by outfielders Keon Broxton (D-backs) and Trent Oeltjen (Angels). The 23-year-old Broxton was 6-for-14 with three RBIs over the weekend, coming off his first season with the Double-A Mobile BayBears.
The veteran Oeltjen, meanwhile, clubbed four doubles and drove in six to lead the league in both two-baggers and RBIs after the season's first four games. A native of Sydney, Oeltjen has put together a storied career that includes a silver medal at the 2004 Olympic Games, 99 games in the Major Leagues with the D-backs and Dodgers, and a career .295 batting average in 1,267 Minor League games.
Chicago White Sox prospect and 2013 third-round pick Jacob May also made major contributions for the Blue Sox, picking up five stolen bases. No other ABL player swiped more than two bases during the opening weekend. The 21-year-old May stole 24 bases in 66 games with the Great Falls Voyagers and Class A Kannapolis in his inaugural pro season.
On the bump, Perth's Mike Ekstrom delivered the most dominating performance of the weekend, allowing just three hits and striking out nine over seven innings in Friday's 10-0 Heat win. The 30-year-old Ekstrom, currently a part of the Angels system, has made a total of 51 Major League appearances over the course of five seasons with the Padres, Rays and Rockies. He earned ABL Pitcher of the Week honors for his efforts.
Angels prospect Aaron Sookee provided a shutout effort of his own for Sydney, fanning five over six innings in the Blue Sox's series-clinching 11-0 win on Sunday. Former Brewers farmhand Connor Whalen also made a solid start for Sydney, earning one of the two wins on Saturday after allowing just one unearned run on three hits in five innings.
In Brisbane, it was the visiting Adelaide Bite, proudly presented by SA Power Networks, that became the only road team to win an opening-night affair, downing the Bandits, 10-6, in their first home game at historic Halloway Field. The Bandits recovered, however, and took the series by sweeping Saturday's twin bill and edging out a 4-3 squeaker on Sunday.
James Baldwin (Dodgers) and Joe Sclafani (Astros) each delivered four hits for the Bite in Friday night's win, and Sclafani went on to finish the weekend with three doubles, a home run and four RBIs. A 2012 14th-round pick out of Dartmouth, Sclafani is coming off an impressive 2013 campaign in which he hit .294 with seven home runs, 62 RBIs and 19 stolen bases in 111 games for the Class A Quad Cities River Bandits and Class A Advanced Lancaster.
Adelaide's own Ben Lodge, the 2012 ABL Rookie of the Year, also had a strong weekend for the Bite, going 6-for-13 with three doubles and two RBIs.
For Brisbane, Rays prospect Joey Rickard powered the Bandits with a pair of home runs -- one in each of the first two games -- while 21-year-old Indians prospect Andrew Campbell led the team with six hits. Rickard, a ninth-round pick in 2012, is coming off a solid season for Class A Bowling Green, in which he collected 122 hits, 29 doubles and 30 stolen bases.
Phoenix native Casey Barnes, 25, the Bandits' Game 3 starter, turned in the strongest start of the series, shutting out the Bite over five innings in a 4-0 win. The right-hander allowed just three hits and finished with three strikeouts.
The Brisbane Bandits and Melbourne Aces will both be idle this weekend, while the Cavalry head to Sydney to meet the Blue Sox for three games. Perth travels to Adelaide for a four-game set that includes a Saturday doubleheader.
Craig Durham is a contributor to MLB.com.


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Newell Rubbermaid Inc. (NWL) Falls 2.64% for February 05Equities Staff Follow |
One of the S&P 500's big losers for Friday February 05 was Newell Rubbermaid Inc. (NWL). The company's stock fell 2.64% to $36.53 on volume of 5.7 million shares.
The stock opened the day at 37.31 and traded between a low of $36.49 and a high of $37.61. The stock finished the day down $0.99 per share. Newell Rubbermaid Inc. has an average daily volume of 4.01 million and a total float of 267.1 million shares. The 50-day SMA for Newell Rubbermaid Inc. is $41.92 and its 200-day SMA is $41.48. The high for the stock over the last 52 weeks is $50.90 and the low is $34.50.
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The $100 question this spring has been, "Will beef demand be strong enough to give packers some margin at these higher price levels and allow us to sustain the strong fed prices we've been experiencing?"
Many industry pundits have been surprised by the strength of beef demand, but improvement is needed to maintain these types of fed prices. The industry is finding it difficult to gauge beef demand as it has in the past. The hard numbers and economic indicators used to be strong indicators of consumer attitude, but beef demand softened significantly last year during a time of strong economic performance. The trend then reversed itself in the first quarter of this year, with beef demand rising in the face of leading economic indicators that were solid but softer than expected.
I think the reason for this disconnect between consumer attitude and actual economic performance is that 2006 was an election year. Despite a very strong economy, the media were willing coconspirators in raising doubts about the economy and shaking consumer confidence.
Since the Democrats took over the House and Senate, the economic rhetoric from the mainstream media has mellowed drastically. Part of the change can be attributed to more media emphasis on the war in Iraq, but there's also been a significant change in the media's depiction of the economy over the last several months.
As a person with a fairly strong conservative bent to my politics, I'm not advocating the U.S. elect a liberal president, but I definitely think we'll see far more favorable reporting of economic conditions with a Democratic administration in power.
The biggest driver in demand change is no longer economic conditions, but rather how the media depicts those economic conditions.
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Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen used her testimony to the Senate Banking Committee Tuesday to subtly remind investors that Fed policy intentions can change and that rate hikes could come before next summer.
If the economy proves to be stronger than anticipated by the Committee, resulting in a more rapid convergence of employment and inflation to the FOMC's objectives, then increases in the federal funds rate target are likely to occur sooner and to be more rapid than currently envisaged.
So what does this mean?
Dean Maki, chief U.S. economist at Barclays, thinks the earliest a rate hike could come in March.
At the moment, Barclays sees the first rate hike in June of next year, and forecasts the unemployment rate will be 5.6% at that time.
But the unemployment rate has been dropping like a stone. If it stays on the same torrid pace, it would reach 5.7% in December, Maki noted.
That would be at the upper end of the Fed's forecast for the unemployment rate to average in the fourth quarter of 2015 and would also not be far from the Fed's definition of the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment. That's the estimate of how low the unemployment rate can go without causing inflation, and the Fed now estimates that rate in a range between 5.2% and 5.6%.
"If we reach an unemployment rate of 5.6% in the first quarter, you could see them moving in March rather than June," Maki said.
He said he doubted the Fed would move sooner. The central bank will be buying bonds until October and tightening at the next meeting in December would be quite a switch, he noted.
The Fed likes to make big moves at meetings with a press conference so March is the next candidate.
Other reasons to wait for March and not January 2015 is that the Fed is still working out the kinks of its exit plan, he noted and Yellen still believes there is more slack in the labor market that the unemployment rate is not capturing.
Other economists are not so sure.
Michael Hanson, senior U.S. economist at Bank of America, said Yellen's comments do not lower the bar much for a faster rate hike. He noted that it would take more than a drop in the unemployment rate to get the Fed to move quicker, as they would be looking at broader measures than just the unemployment rate.
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What's cooler than throwing out the first pitch at a Major League Baseball game? Try taking batting practice with the home team before the game. That's exactly what Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea did with the Cincinnati Reds on Tuesday, one night before the Peppers rocked the nearby US Bank Arena as their summer tour continues to roll across North America.
Apparently Flea is friends with Reds pitcher Bronson Arroyo, so he and his bandmates got the invite to stop by before Tuesday's game against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Flea even donned a full Reds uniform for the occasion.
"I'm speaking with [Reds manager] Dusty [Baker] about getting in the lineup tonight," Flea joked to a Cincinnati Enquirer reporter after his turn in the cage. "I'm looking forward to it."
The bassist revealed that it was the first time he took batting practice in a major league stadium. "It was awesome, man. It was so fun," he said of his turn. "It was a once-in-a-lifetime great experience."
Bandmates Chad Smith and Josh Klinghoffer also donned Reds red and visited the ballpark Tuesday (Anthony Kiedis was nowhere to be seen), although it looks like Flea was the only one to hop in the cage. You would think that the Los Angeles-based musicians would be bigger Dodgers fan, but at least the Red/Reds color scheme makes sense.


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By Carey Roberts
A few weeks ago Hillary Rodham Clinton surprised a San Francisco audience with the announcement, "I'm not running as a woman candidate." But then HRC had a change of heart, and on March 6 she unveiled her "I Can Be President" effort designed to appeal to women.
That was a smart move, because the last few weeks the Hillary-for-First-Mom bandwagon has hit some rather unpleasant road-bumps. Now Barack Obama is closing in on Hillary's once insurmountable lead.
First the New York Post revealed that her campaign had agreed to buy the endorsement of South Carolina state Senator Darrell Jackson to the tune of $10,000 a month. A few days later the Washington Post reported that Mrs. Clinton had failed to list a family charity on her Senate financial disclosure report – not once, but five times.
More proof, I assume, of Hillary's claim that "the presence of women raises the standards of ethical behavior and lowers corruption."
Then in late February media mogul David Geffen took a swipe at the Clintons by saying, "Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it's troubling." And a week later former House Speaker Newt Gingrich called Hillary "a nasty woman" who runs an "endlessly ruthless" campaign machine.
Ouch, that hurts!
That hardnosed campaign apparatus was highlighted in a Feb. 25 Washington Post article that revealed the edict to bar any discussion of Bill's sexual improprieties. "Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has a new commandment for the 2008 presidential field: Thou shalt not mention anything related to the impeachment of her husband," the Post revealed.
Is this the harbinger of an open and honest election campaign?\
Then there was her secret appearance at the homosexual Human Rights Campaign meeting on March 3 – secret in the sense that it wasn't listed on Hillary's official campaign schedule. But someone forgot to shut off the camera as the introducer detailed how HRC schemed to block the Federal Marriage Amendment.
The next day the campaign staff sent Mrs. Clinton to Selma, Alabama in a bid to upstage Mr. Obama. Speaking in her New York imitation of a southern drawl, she told the congregants at the First Baptist Church that as a high school student, "I had the great privilege of hearing Dr. King speak in Chicago." That speech inspired her to support "the great revolution that the civil rights pioneers were waging on behalf of a more perfect union."
Do you know what Hillary did to advance the great revolution? Get ready for this…
Young Hillary, a Republican at the time, went out and bought herself a cowgirl outfit so she could dress up as "a Goldwater girl," as she wrote in her memoirs. Of course it was Barry Goldwater who soon joined with southern Democratic segregationists to oppose the Voting Rights Act of 1964, a law that had been inspired by Martin Luther King.
Clinton was thoughtful enough to withhold that tidbit from her Selma audience. After all, it's considered impolite to partake of incredulous belly laughter in church.
So the next weekend Mrs. Clinton found herself in New Hampshire. For the umpteenth time she reflected on the challenge of becoming the first female president – but this time with a new twist:
"A lot of people back then said, 'American will never elect a Catholic as president.' But those who gathered here almost half a century ago knew better. They believed American was bigger than that and American would give Sen. John F. Kennedy a fair shake … So when people tell me, 'A woman can never be president,' I say, 'We'll never know unless we try.'"
Mrs. Clinton, I can think of a number of persons who remind me of your shabby ethics, your shrill rhetoric, and your obsession with playing the victim. But JFK isn't one of them.
And finally is the sizzling reprise of the famous Apple Computer 1984 commercial, this time depicting Hillary as Big Sister.
Over the last several months we have witnessed the sad unraveling of several high-profile figures including Ana Nicole Smith, former astronaut Lisa Nowak, and Britney Spears.
Presidential wannabee Hillary resembles a celebrity musician more than a traditional political candidate. Every few days the star makes an appearance, goes through her well-rehearsed routine, and poses for the camera.
But the emotional high is short-lived and the audience tires of the glitz. To compensate, the performances become more fevered, the music gets louder, and the gyrations more strained.
Hillary Clinton is pursuing her quest for the White House with Britney-like intensity. But with 20 months left until the election, one wonders how long her high-octane crusade can maintain the pace.
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These days, integrated Bluetooth is an increasingly common option on new cars, even on many entry-level models. But if you're not in the market for new ride and would still like to have hands-free (and headset-free) calling from behind the wheel, BlueAnt's Supertooth 3 Bluetooth Handsfree may be just what you're looking for.
The $129 Supertooth 3 is a rectangular device measuring 4.8 x 2.4 x .7 inchesthat's roughly the dimensions of an iPhone (with which it is compatible)that clings tenaciously to a windshield visor via a magnetic clip, but it comes off easily when you need it to, like when you want to transfer it to another vehicle (a spare clip is included). The Supertooth 3 supports pairing to up to 8 phones.
It offers voice prompts for device setup, status reports, and announcement of incoming calls. Six languages are available including American and British English; we found the synthesized female voice a tad too monotone and robotic, almost bordering on mournful, but you get used to it.
We tested the Supertooth 3 with two phones. One was a T-Mobile Dash that had been upgraded to Windows Mobile 6 (up from version 5 that it came with) and the other a BlackBerry Curve 8330 from Sprint. Both phones paired to the Supertooth 3 without difficulty.
We were able to transfer the entire contact list of the Curve to the Supertooth 3, but since the Dash didn't have a "select all" option for contacts we were forced to endure the laborious process of transferring entries one at a time.
When a call comes in to the paired phone, the Supertooth 3 announces the name of the caller or else simply reports the phone number if the caller's not on the device's contact list. Large send and end buttons are easy to access and light up for night visibility and you can also answer calls by voice, a feature which worked well for us.
The Supertooth 3 also has a voice dialing feature that lets you initiate calls by speaking contact names. It worked just fine with the Curve, but not with the Dash.
Sound quality was excellent, both from our perspective and as reported by those on the other end of the line, and the speakerphone volume was also sufficiently loud to be heard over the din of a moving vehicle.
The Supertooth 3's battery is rated for up to 15 hours of talk time and up to 800 hours on standby. We did notice that although the Supertooth 3's manual cites a three hour charge time, when we charged it from a wall outlet it took almost ten hours before we saw the green "fully charged" indicator.
BlueAnt bundles AC charger and cigarette-lighter charging cables with the Supertooth 3. Since the power jack is a mini-USB connector, you can also charge the device via a PC in a pinch, though you'll need to supply your own cable.
Although the ease of setup and availability of voice dialing will vary depending on the capabilities of your specific phone, the BlueAnt Supertooth 3 Bluetooth Handsfree is a solid product that can make in-car phone use safer and more convenient.
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HADLEY, Mass. – The New England Small College Athletic Conference announced its 2012 Spring All-Academic selections today, with a record 929 student-athletes receiving All-Academic recognition. To be honored, a student-athlete must have reached sophomore academic standing and be a varsity letter winner with a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.35. A transfer student must have completed one year of study at the institution.
Of the 809 individuals honored last spring, an impressive 411 students returned for the 2012 edition of the All-Academic squad. The Spring All-Academic selections also included 124 competitors that were honored as both All-NESCAC and All-Academic this season, while 57 students garnered both All-Sportsmanship and All-Academic plaudits. Twenty-seven individuals were named to an All-America team by the governing coaching body for their respective sport.
Nine student-athletes distinguished themselves by receiving All-Conference, All-Sportsmanship, and Academic All-NESCAC. The individuals that collected all three honors were Amherst senior Meredith LaRose (Cranford, N.J.), the Bates tandem of junior David Hardison (South Portland, Maine) and sophomore Katharine Nixon (Medfield, Mass.), Bowdoin senior Caroline Dewar (Katonah, N.Y.), Connecticut College sophomore John Kelly (Bronx, N.Y.), Middlebury senior Victoria Aiello (Milton, Mass.), Trinity senior Anson McCook (Miami, Fla.), senior Michael Bai (Great Neck, N.Y.) of Tufts, and Williams junior Felix Sun (Potomac, Md.).
The Ephs' Sun was one of many notable standouts on the Spring All-Academic Team. The 2012 NESCAC Men's Tennis Player of the Year, Sun added All-NESCAC honors to his resume for the third year in a row with a second consecutive appointment to the Singles First Team this season. Playing in the number two position in the Ephs' ladder, Sun went 16-1 following the start of the spring portion of the Williams schedule with 15 of his 16 victories coming in straight sets. During the fall, Sun reached the semifinals of the USTA/ITA New England Regional Championship. He advanced to the quarterfinals of the NCAA singles championship last week in Cary, N.C.
Juniors Bob Cook (Winnetka, Ill.) of Amherst and Oliver Van Zant (Westport, Conn.) from Bowdoin enjoyed standout seasons on the baseball diamond. Cook became the second Lord Jeff in as many years to come away with NESCAC Player of the Year honors, as he was masterful for Amherst both on the mound and at the plate. From the rubber, the right-handed Cook earned a 5-0 record over seven starts with a 2.51 ERA and an opponents' average of .244. He struck out 33 batters while allowing just seven walks (4.71 K/BB) in 46.2 innings of work. In the batter's box, Cook posted a .380 average with a .505 on-base percentage, connecting for 30 hits, six of which were doubles, and scoring 21 runs while driving in 38. When not on the mound, Cook was stationed at first base and recorded a .987 fielding percentage on 230 chances, helping turn 14 double plays. An All-NESCAC Second Team selection in 2010, Cook added First Team recognition to his postseason honors.
During his first season in the league back in 2010, Van Zant was honored as the NESCAC Pitcher and Rookie of the Year along with All-NESCAC First Team recognition. Van Zant added his second Pitcher of the Year award this season, as he has scratched out a 2.21 ERA over 11 starts (5-3) with a .202 opponents average, 95 strikeouts (11.66 per 9 inn.), and two shutouts for the Polar Bears. He was also named to the baseball First Team.
Joining Van Zant from Bowdoin in earning top honors from the conference this year was senior Elsa Millett (Manchester, Conn.). Millett came away with the Sabasteanski Award as the Most Outstanding Female Performer at the 2012 NESCAC Track & Field Championships in April. She won her second consecutive NESCAC crown in the 200-meter dash in 25.41 seconds and added the 400-meter title in 57.35, the third time in her career that she has taken the 400 at the conference championships.
Other notables among the Spring All-Academic selections included Williams senior Kristin Alotta (West Islip, N.Y.) and junior Bryan Chow (Schenectady, N.Y.), both members of the Ephs' tennis teams, and Middlebury senior track star Margo Cramer (Seattle, Wash.). Alotta was recognized by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) as the Senior Player of the Year. Chow earned the NCAA's Elite 89 award, which honors the individual who has reached the pinnacle of competition at the national championship level in his or her sport, while also achieving the highest academic standard among his or her peers competing at the NCAA finals site, for the second year in a row. Cramer, who is also a member of the Panthers' cross country team, received a prestigious NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship earlier in the year, as only 174 of the awards are given out for applicants from all three NCAA divisions.
The NESCAC Spring All-Academic Team also featured numerous individuals that were a part of a conference championship squad and a few who helped their institution win a national title. A total of 109 student-athletes were members of a NESCAC champion team, while 28 individuals won a NCAA crown, as the Trinity women's lacrosse team (7) earned the program's first national championship while the Williams women's rowing (18) and tennis (3) teams continued their streak of bringing the NCAA trophy back to Williamstown (seven and five, respectively). Amherst senior Luis Rattenhuber (Munich, Germany) and junior Keri Lambert (Amherst, Mass.) became individual national champions last week. Rattenhuber was one half of the winning doubles team in the NCAA men's tennis individual tournament. Lambert claimed the NCAA title in the 3,000-meter steeplechase.
Founded in 1971, the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) consists of 11 liberal arts colleges and has consistently reflected its commitment to the values of athletics and academic achievement. The member colleges of the conference are Amherst College, Bates College, Bowdoin College, Colby College, Connecticut College, Hamilton College, Middlebury College, Trinity College, Tufts University, Wesleyan University, and Williams College.
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The same media which prides on coverage of Gujarat 2002, even 10 years down the line has forgotten the peaceful protests of 11th August in Mumbai. Those protests resulted in the self combusting of a few OB vans and about 40 odd policemen tripping over themselves (kudos to this slideshow by Mid-day) and falling on stones and injuring themselves. The Amar Jawan Smarak in CST, Mumbai was desecrated (incredibly, see the low number of msm reports on this one) as well and there was not much outrage on it. The media has not yet taken the organizers to task. This was followed up yet another peaceful protest in Lucknow which resulted in the desecration of a Mahaveer statue in the full view of cameras. The Times of India had a despicably apologetic report written on it.
And in both places police barely lifted their lathis. Two
Predictably, none of this has resulted in the media running their marquee shows asking if these groups ought to be banned or taken to task. The same media which ran in a loop footage of a dargah demolished in Gujarat few years back is scared to run the Mahaveer statue video or the speeches delivered in Azad Maidan on 11th August. Ask yourself why.
And the government has responded by blocking various twitter handle, websites etc. While you slept, this is the story of the government that rules you and the media that seeks to inform you. While seeking to block groups that supposedly incite hate, the government has also gone ahead and blocked respected journalists who were telling the truth. While seeking to block internet sites that did carry hate propaganda, the government has calmly turned a blind eye to physical, real threats that resulted in quite a few people from NE India to return home from many parts of the country (Pune, Hyderabad and Bangalore).
As someone pointed out on twitter, this government has given us Chinas Freedom and Indias infrastructure. Jai Ho!
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If you walk into any thrift store from coast-to-coast and wander over to the electronics section, you're likely to find an old bedside radio castaway amongst the discarded tube televisions, and 100-disc CD changers. This German company's taking those vintage audio electronics and turning them into gorgeous speakers for your smartphone.
These individually hacked-together speakers from Tombox are all about aesthetics. The company takes old speaker boxes and guts, and adds a simple volume dial to the side as well as a 1/8th-inch cable that plugs right into the headphone jack of your favourite gadget. Each unit is individually numbered and carries its own unique specs depending on features of the original enclosure. Do you want a wood, metal, or plastic? One speaker or two? The Tomboxes cost £160-£190 plus £12 shipping in Europe. You can expect to pay a little more if you want one sent to the United States. [Diefabrik via TechCrunch]


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Thanks folks! The feedback is killer. Mike also sent me this picture of the new Yeti's pulley system (Jon from Moots, check this out):
The yoke looks interesting too. Not sure if it will be a mud trap or not. My Rock Lobsters are all super stiff without the yoke and no build up of mud:Thanks again for the comments on the last post!
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The Community Foundation of the Lowcountry's Board of Trustees recently voted to award $95,700 to six local nonprofits through its competitive grantmaking process that occurs three times a year.
A grant in the amount of $18,200 was awarded to OSPREY Village. The mission of this organization is to develop and operate an inclusive, intergenerational residential housing community that will accommodate and support persons with developmental disabilities. The funding will be used to conduct a market analysis.
A grant in the amount of $15,375 was awarded to the Bluffton Historical Preservation Society (BHPS). This organization provides a welcome center for Bluffton visitors and has the function of preserving the history of Bluffton. The grant dollars will fund the material and labor to construct a handicap ramp for the Colcock-Teel house.
A grant in the amount of $12,500 was awarded to Bluffton Self Help for an education support program for the organization's low-income, underemployed or unemployed client base. The program will include identifying career opportunities offered at local colleges and universities, assisting with federal and state educational grants, coaching on the enrollment process, and providing various types of financial help for such things as books, child care and transportation costs. Candidates for the program will be identified through the interview process already in place for financial assistance.
A grant in the amount of $31,950 was awarded to Friends of the Hilton Head Branch Library, a nonprofit organization that raises funds to help the Hilton Head Island library meet community needs. The grant will be used to fund equipment and materials to establish a Family Success Center Learning Lab that will allow the public to have opportunities to learn technology skills and have access to additional computers required for academic, job hunting and work pursuits.
A challenge grant in the amount of $7,000 was awarded to the Gullah Museum to provide for marketing, site signage and additional renovations. The museum depicts life in Hilton Head Island's post-Civil War farming and bartering community and focuses its research on the original families who left Mitchelville and moved into 10 major neighborhoods which were known to be the Island's Gullah communities.
A grant in the amount of $10,745 was awarded to Literacy Volunteers of the Lowcountry (LVL) to expand its Bluffton Learning Center program in order to meet the growing demand for adult literacy services at this site. The grant will enable LVL to sustain at least 30 additional students by offering two additional nights (6 hours) of small group instruction, extending the evening small group schedule by three weeks (from 33 to 36 weeks a year), and expanding opportunities for computer-assisted learning.


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My first full day at the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions annual conference, going on now in Orlando, was packed. Some notes on the meeting as a meeting.
I'll get the whining out of the way first:
-Yes, I already have stuffed-brain syndrome from having way too much thrown at me in too little time with no connection between session topics and no time for reflection built in.
-We hit the "I know you can't read this slide, but..." wall before the first general session was over.
-We hit the "I know this classroom setup makes it almost impossible to break into small groups, but we'll have to do our best..." shortly thereafter.
-Healthy food is good, but replacing the chips with bean salad and the cookie with an apple in the bag lunch seems a bit over the top. Must we resort to Starbucks for all our dietary sins?
-Speaking of over the top, is it just me, or are there way too many sessions to choose from? I know, tough problem to have, but I'm finding myself torn between six or seven I want to go to in every single time slot. It's making me crazy to be missing so much good content (and hearing people tweet about some of those sessions to the #acehp12 hashtag just makes it worse).
Awesome aspects, meeting-wise:
-Free WiFi! Thanks to Bernie Halbur, PhD, FACME, ACEHP's Professional Development & Meeting Management Director, for making it happen, along with everything else we're enjoying logistically. I gave her a standing ovation when she was recognized yesterday at the general session, and I wasn't the only one.
-Love having the brief outdoor breezeway walk to the exhibition area, and the tables set up for eating/hanging out/computing along the way. At least we're assured of the opportunity to catch five minutes or so of the gorgeous Florida weather as we go back and forth, instead of never even knowing if the sun is shining or not, as so often happens at marathon meetings.
-Beautiful hotel (the JW Marriott), beautiful rooms, nice jogging path, great fitness center. I don't know much about golf, but the course looks good to me.
-Being able to hold the new CCMEP celebration out on the patio last night was a wonderful touch. Again, being able to get outside in January means a lot, especially to those of us who hail from the frozen North!
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Sound Tigers gain a point but winless streak hits five
WORCESTER, Mass. -- The Bridgeport Sound Tigers spent Saturday in this city, and far too much of Saturday night in an 85-by-75-foot portion of it.
Bridgeport spent too much time in its own end of the ice and didn't have the puck nearly enough in the Worcester Sharks' zone, making life too easy on Troy Grosenick and losing 2-1 in a shootout at the DCU Center.
"I don't think we had the jump to get to pucks as quickly as we'd like," Bridgeport defenseman Dallas Jackson said. "A lot of little things kept the puck in (Bridgeport's end)."
Worcester defenseman Taylor Doherty tied the game 4:47 into the third period.
The Sharks won the shootout 2-0, just as Providence did against Bridgeport on Friday night.
The Sound Tigers got a point out of both games, but they're winless in five.
"We're in a gray area," Bridgeport coach Scott Pellerin said. "We're happy with a lot of things, but it's not where I think our team should be. We're working. ... I don't think there were any breakdowns. We didn't give up too many odd-man rushes.
"Overall, we've got to find a way to win. You can say anything you want, but we've got to win."
Kenny Reiter gave them a chance for the second night in a row, making 37 saves. He stopped 79 of 83 shots the past two nights. Doherty's shot, on a four-on-four, appeared to go through a screen.
Even on that four-on-four, the puck stayed in Bridgeport's end.
"We've got to find a way to get some more zone time," forward Ryan Strome said. "We were letting them break out too easily. At the same time, we played 65 minutes. We've got to draw the positives."
Jackson scored Bridgeport's goal as Strome came out to the blue line, beat a man there and passed to defenseman Mike Cornell at the left point. Jackson went to the net, made eye contact with his defense partner and deflected home Cornell's pass.
That was one of only four Sound Tigers shots in the first period. Worcester outshot them 13-4 in the period (lots from the outside, though) and 38-20 through 65 minutes.
Bridgeport had five shots in the five-minute overtime, more than it got on Grosenick in either the first or third.
Partly because of the possession disparity, Bridgeport didn't get a chance on the power play for the sixth time in franchise history. There may have been a call or two that referee Trevor Hanson could have made.
"At the same time," Pellerin said, "if we don't beat anybody off the boards, we're not going to get that hooking penalty, that interference penalty."
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First Period: 1, Bridgeport, Jackson 2 (Cornell, Strome), 13:58. Penalties -- Johnson, Bpt, minor-major (unsportsmanlike conduct, fighting), 2:07; Bonneau, Wor, minor-major (unsportsmanlike conduct, fighting), 2:07; Gallant, Bpt, minor-major (unsportsmanlike conduct, fighting), 2:09; Pelech, Wor, minor-major (unsportsmanlike conduct, fighting), 2:09; Mayfield, Bpt, minor-major (roughing, fighting), 3:37; Hayes, Wor, major (fighting), 3:37; Halmo, Bpt (roughing), 8:56; Brace, Wor (slashing), 8:56; Cornell, Bpt (holding), 15:46.
Second Period: No scoring. Penalties -- Kabanov, Bpt (hooking), 4:14.
Third Period: 2, Worcester, Doherty 1 (Schwartz, Hamilton), 4:47. Penalties -- Diamond, Bpt (unsportsmanlike conduct), 3:11; Brace, Wor (unsportsmanlike conduct), 3:11.
Overtime: No scoring. Penalties: None.
Shootout: Bridgeport, Sim NG, Strome NG, Diamond NG, Sundstrom NG; Worcester, DaSilva NG, Reid G, Livingston G.
Shots on goal: Bridgeport 4-7-4-5-0--20. Worcester 13-9-9-7-1--39
Power play opportunities: Bridgeport none, Worcester 0 of 3.
Goaltenders: Bridgeport, Reiter 1-3-2 (38 shots-37 saves). Worcester, Grosenick 3-2-0 (20-19).
Attendance: 3,305. Referee: Hanson. Linesmen: T.Whittemore, J.Millea.
3 stars
1. TAYLOR DOHERTY, WORCESTER: Big defenseman got a shot through a screen to tie the game.
2. KENNY REITER, BRIDGEPORT: Really good for the second night in a row.
3. DALLAS JACKSON, BRIDGEPORT: Went to the net to score Bridgeport's goal.
UNSUNG HERO: Mike Cornell set up Jackson with a nice pass to the front.
UP NEXT: Sunday vs. St. John's, 3 p.m.


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Happy Art Print Monday on Release Me Creations Blog!
Here are the prints I am loving this week:
by Derek Eads
by Andre de Freitas
by Kris Tate
by Mark Powell
by Patricia McKellar
by Elle Moss
You know! The first print you list is EXACTLY what I needed this morning!! THANK YOU! I think I will order a T-Shirt today!!!
I love your blog and your work.
I have told you this before, but it bares repeating on this beautiful Monday.
Thank you!!!
<3 Sari <3
hi from TAG. now following your pretty blog. thanks!
Really love the first print! Great selection of prints you have here. :o)
Oh I love the "bigger things" print!!
Great selection of prints.. love the first one.. the perfect pick me up on a monday morning.


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A carefree eater goes shopping.
I stopped at Kroger tonight after work to pick up a few groceries. The last shopper's list was lying in the bottom of the shopping cart, so I picked it up and read it. Here it is -- just five items.
- 6 bananas
- 1 lb. bacon
- 1 doz. eggs
- 1 crispy c. donuts
- beer bratwurst
This list suggests to me that its author keeps donuts in the house regularly, just like bacon, eggs, and bananas. Krispy Kreme Doughnuts as a staple of life! What a concept!
Related: Friday Donuts


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The SEO of Now
The Uninitiated Looking for "The SEO of Now"
I suppose it's time to throw my two cents in on the "SEO is Underground" topic. The prerequisite reading for this post are as follows:
"SEO Goes Back Underground in 2009"
"Some Popular SEO Experts Don't Know Much About SEO"
What's today's special?
That's the mentality that breeds within the SEO community. Everyone is looking for shortcuts to search marketing success (i.e. what corners can I cut?). I am asked ALL THE TIME, what's the easiest thing I can do (implying there are "tricks" or otherwise "some magic potion" I can sprinkle on their website) to stimulate instant growth and success. With little to no work. The uninitiated are always looking for the SEO of now.
The SEO of Now is simply a reiteration of a 'soup du jour' concept: what's hot today? I have to agree with both John and Aaron, that the majority of SEO professionals are underground. Some of the things I read are simply laughable. Similarly, there is a mentality among those SEO publishers that we should "do as I say, not as I do". The professionals doing the bone-grinding work; the solid-method-not-flashy-testing, are locked away in a room going blind sifting, analyzing data and seldom publishing those efforts. That said, there are professionals out there do, with best intentions in mind, stand in the limelight and provide great information. They are out there, but far and few between.
It's the rockstar (the "me-me-I-I-meme") socio-cultural tendency that leads to the SEO of Now. It's the want/need to be center-stage that allows the Jell-O SEO out into the open. That's the true savagery of the of community: this idea that you have to have stardom and face-time to be heard and taken seriously. It's that thinking that propagates the SEO of Now horseshit. People talking to just talk and make a headline for themselves.
Why I Welcome the SEO of Now
It may sound strange, but I keep praying for the SEO of Now folks to keep pumping out their garbage. The truth of the matter is short-cuts and fluff are going to get you burned. And, yes, it's going to burn those of not involved too, but the strong survive.
It'll be those proclaiming expert, professional knowledge, and producing nothing but junk, that die off first. You can fool some people sometimes, but you can't fool all the people all the time.
Sep 3 2009
It's really easy for Google to eliminate the SEO of Now people.
About a year ago everyone was buying "Build A Niche Store" (BANS) software, SEO'ing sites and basically syndicating eBay listings across dozens, sometimes hundreds, of niches.
Then GoDaddy started offering 99 cent .info domain names and people were again buying dozens, sometimes hundreds of matching domain names, and coupling them with the BANS software.
Well, it didn't take long for Google to figure it out and they did two things. First they demoted .info domains from being a near top-level domain and all the .info domains got buried (or altogether disappeared) in the search results. Second, they identified the BANS footprint (specifically version 2.0 which was the popular one at the time) and penalized those sites as well.
The person(s) that discovered the formula of .info and BANS sites were pretty smart. Plus they actually built well rounded sites with plenty of useful original content, and lots of whitehat backlinking and article marketing. But they told their hundreds of thousands of readers about it. So a shit ton of – well shitty – sites that basically replicated eBay's categories began to pollute Google's search rankings
So … Google pulled the plug on ALL the .info and BANS sites.
Needless to say the person(s) who originally discovered this formula was pissed that everyone abused it and destroyed his hard work as well. He has since gone underground himself, only offering his tips and advice to people that buy into his membership site.
I can't say I blame him.
Over the past year there have been other instances where SEO experts have divulged some of their strategies at SEO Conferences, which in turn end up getting blogged about by all the attendees. The result is the strategy is duplicated thousands of times, detected by Google, and subsequently quashed.
I'm all for staying underground 🙂
Sep 20 2009
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Sony came out with a new Action Cam and is now competing with the Hero GoPro3.
Looking for some feedback on the Hero3 Black Edition vs the Sony Action Cam!?
Here is a little video that Andy Yates shot few days ago with the new Sony.
the slow mode looks sic.


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|Interaction Lab
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The study of distributed multi-robot systems (MRS) has received increased attention in recent years. This is not surprising as continually improving technology has made the deployment of MRS consisting of increasingly larger numbers of robots possible. With the growing interest in MRS comes the expectation that, at least in some important respects, multiple robots will be superior to a single robot in achieving a given task.
Potential advantages of MRS over a single robot system (SRS) are frequently discussed in the literature. For example, total system cost, it is frequently claimed, may be reduced by utilizing multiple simple and cheap robots as opposed to a single complex and expensive robot. Furthermore, the inherent complexity of some task environments may require the use of multiple robots as the necessary capabilities are too substantial to be met by a single robot. Finally, multiple robots are often assumed to increase system robustness by taking advantage of inherent parallelism and redundancy. Therefore, negative effects on task performance caused by individual robot failure or the dynamic addition or removal of individual robots can be minimized.
However, the utilization of MRS poses potential disadvantages and additional challenges that must be addressed if MRS are to present a viable and effective alternative to SRS. A poorly designed MRS, with individual robots working toward opposing goals, can be less effective than a carefully designed SRS. As such, in most cases just taking a suitable SRS and scaling it up to multiple robots is not adequate. A paramount challenge in the design of effective MRS is managing the complexity introduced by multiple, interacting robots. In order to maximize the effectiveness of a task-achieving MRS, the robots' actions must be spatiotemporally coordinated and directed towards the achievement of a given system-level task.
Unfortunately, the design of coordinated distributed MRS remains more of an art than a science. Current design methodologies are, in the best case, driven by informal and undocumented expert knowledge. In the worst case, MRS design methodologies are driven by resource-intensive trial-and-error processes. Demonstrated systems are usually highly task-specific and are infrequently accompanied by formal analysis of the expected system performance or bounds of applicability. Furthermore, formal explanations are rarely provided to justify the superiority of the given system relative to possible alternative designs.
This research project aims to align the design process closer to the realm of science through the advent of a principled distributed MRS reactive controller design methodology. The presented design methodology is composed of integrated robot controller synthesis methods and methods for the predictive analysis of resulting system behavior.
Our principled MRS controller design methodology provides a framework for precisely defining and reasoning about the intertwined entities intrinsically involved in any coordinated MRS -- the world, task definition, and the capabilities of the robots themselves, including action selection, sensing, maintenance of internal state, and inter-robot communication. This framework provides a formal foundation that is used in an integrated suite of robot controller synthesis methods and MRS modeling methods used to produce effective controllers for task-directed MRS. Figure 1 provides a high-level diagram of the design methodology and additional details on the MRS synthesis and analysis methods are provided below.
|Figure 1: High-level diagram of the MRS design methodology.
Synthesis is the process of constructing a specific instance of a MRS which meets design requirements such as achieving the desired level of task performance while meeting constraints imposed by limited robot capabilities. Our approach to the synthesis of coordinated MRS is to use the formal framework mentioned above in a prescriptive fashion. This formalism provides a foundation upon which our synthesis approaches are derived. Specifically, we synthesize a MRS by synthesizing individual robot controllers, such that when every robot in the MRS executes the controller, system-level task-directed coordination is achieved. Typically, robot controllers are synthesized by hand, relying on expert knowledge of the designer and an intimate understanding of how the robots will interact with each other and with the world during task execution. Our approach is novel in that it represents a systematic and automated method for MRS synthesis. The designer's responsibility is reduced to defining the task domain using the formal framework, information a hand-designed system inherently requires as well. Using this formal definition of the task domain, the synthesis methods automatically produce a complete robot controller that may be executed by all robots in the MRS to achieve task-directed system-level coordination.
The synthesis methods we have developed represent a limited but important sampling of the space of possibilities and provide a means to study the formal synthesis of a range of MRS using a variety of common robot coordination and control features, such as probabilistic action selection, the maintenance of persistent internal state [4,5,6], and the use of inter-robot communication [2].
The design of an effective task-directed MRS is often difficult because there is not an accurate understanding of the relationship between different design options and resulting task performance. In the common trial-and-error design process, the designer will construct a MRS and then try it out in either a simulation or on actual robots. Either way, this process is resource-intensive as it requires much effort and time to evaluate many possible designs. Ideally, the designer should be equipped with an analytical tool for the analysis of a potential MRS design. Such a tool would allow for quick and efficient evaluation of different design options and likely result in more effective MRS designs as the design can more effectively be optimized with respect to some desired performance metric.
Our formal MRS design methodology includes the capability for analytical evaluation of potential MRS designs. We have developed two MRS models based on the MRS formalism that we use for the analysis of MRS. The first is a Bayesian macroscopic MRS modeling approach [5] and the second is a probabilistic microscopic MRS modeling approach.
Using both physically-realistic simulation and physical robots, we have experimentally demonstrated our formal approach to the synthesis of coordinated MRS in a multi-robot construction task. This task requires the sequential placement of a series of cubic colored bricks into a planar structure. The construction task starts with a seed structure, which is a small number of initially placed bricks forming the core of the structure.
Our simulation experiments were performed using Player and the Gazebo simulation environment. Player [10] is a server that connects robots, sensors, and control programs over a network. Gazebo [11] simulates a set of Player devices in a 3-D physically-realistic world with full dynamics. Together, the two represent a high-fidelity simulation tool for individual robots and teams that has been validated on a collection of real-robot robot experiments using Player control programs transferred directly to physical Pioneer 2DX mobile robots. In all simulation experiments 8 robots were used, and in all real-robot experiments 3 robots were used. The robots were either realistic models of or actual ActivMedia Pioneer 2DX mobile robots. Each robot, approximately 30 cm in diameter, is equipped with a differential drive, a forward-facing 180 degree scanning laser rangefinder, and a forward-looking color camera with a 100-degree field-of-view and a color blob detection system. The bricks are taller than the robot's sensors, so the robots can only sense the local bricks on the periphery of the structure (i.e., robots do not have a birds-eye view of the entire structure).
Details on the application of our MRS design methodology can be found in [2,4,5,6,7]. Futhermore, videos of the resulting MRS design can be seen demonstrated in simulation and on physical robots in the videos below.
|Controllers using internal state synthesized by the formalism in action performing a multi-robot construction task in simulation. [AVI] (~46M)
|Controllers using internal state synthesized by the formalism in action performing another construction task in simulation. [AVI] (~6.5M)
|Real-world demonstration of synthesized controllers using internal state with 3 Pioneer 2DX mobile robots. [MOV] (~12.8M)
This work is supported by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Grant F30602-00-2-0573 and by National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant EDA-0121141.


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City of Lincoln
Mayor's Office
Mayor's Office
Lincoln Parks and Recreation officials today announced that the Murdock Trail from 70th Street to the Shanda Dixon Connector Trail just west of 84th Street will close for repair Monday, November 26. The trail will remain closed for about three weeks.
Repairs include replacing a section of the crushed limestone north of Mahoney park in an area where a washout occurred. The limestone will be replaced with 10-foot wide concrete.
For more information on the City trail system, visit lincoln.ne.gov (keyword: trails).


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Therefore, I believe this page should encourage people to add the user to the audio group to avoid such problems. Would it be this correct? Would it be OK?
Therefore, I believe this page should encourage people to add the user to the audio group to avoid such problems. Would it be this correct? Would it be OK?
== Manually reloading settings from ~/.asoundrc ==
== Manually reloading settings from ~/.asoundrc ==
Revision as of 13:17, 2 July 2013
Adding udev rules for usb sound cards?
I used this udev rule to allow for hotplugging of my usb card and defaulting to the system card if the usb card is not present. http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/random_tip_redirecting_alsa_to_usb_sound_card/ Someone might want to add this to the wiki. I don't have time now but if I get it I will. Lmn123 01:26, 24 January 2012 (EST)
Modified HDMI Does Not work.
I added the line that included just restarting alsa. It seemed weird that the only method offered was to restart the entire system. If this causes any harm please correct me. I have tried this myself and it seems to work just fine.--Shoe 04:54, 16 August 2011 (EDT)
EDIROL UA-1A and Intel HDA: What worked for me
I will put this here as I have not yet understood the magic of ~/.asoundrc and because I am not sure if it were a good addition to the article.
After trying countless of configurations, I found one that allows me to 1) set the default sound card, 2) play multiple sounds simultaneously for both devices, 3) still use alsamixer (many configs gave me "cannot open mixer: Invalid argument").
options snd-hda-intel index=0 options snd-usb-audio index=1
defaults.pcm.!card 0 # set to 1 for snd-usb-audio defaults.ctl.!card 0 # set to 1 for snd-usb-audio defaults.pcm.!device 0 defaults.ctl.!device 0
-- Markus00000 10:26, 24 November 2011 (EST)
Thanks I was looking for this, maybe it's a good idea to add it to the wiki? --jordz (talk) 09:24, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
user in audio group
the wiki page says:
Users with a local login (at a virtual terminal or a display manager) have permission to play audio and change mixer levels. To allow this for a remote login, the user has to be added to the audio group.
But once my sound had disappeared (I believe after trying to install gnome / I use fluxbox). The sound was actually working, but only when logged as root. The way I solved the problem was by adding my user to the group audio. Besides the sound, the alsamixer run by the user had also much less controls that before the pane, but the controls came back after I put the user in the audio group.
Therefore, I believe this page should encourage people to add the user to the audio group to avoid such problems. Would it be this correct? Would it be OK?
- Please add a signature by typing four tildes (
~~~~) next time.
- It's not necessary to add the user to audio group, see systemd#Supplementary information.
- -- Lahwaacz (talk) 13:17, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
Manually reloading settings from ~/.asoundrc
Since the old "sudo rc.d restart alsa" and "sudo alsa force-reload" commands don't work anymore, it took me a bit of time the other day to figure out how to restart alsa without restarting the whole machine. Sometimes I make changes to ~/.asoundrc and want to make them effective without rebooting and this was the only command I found that could acheive this:
alsactl kill rescan
This should probably be added to the wiki somewhere but I wasn't sure where the best spot for it would be. Should it be a new section? There's a few areas of the alsa wiki that just say to "restart alsa" without specifying how to do so. These could probably be updated as well.