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Steps to Health: H-E-B adding nutrition info
Trying to decipher the nutrition panel on food packages can be an exercise in frustration.
Is 24 grams of sugar high for a 1/2 cup of trail mix? My doctor told me to eat more fiber — is this cereal a good choice?
That's why H-E-B, headquartered in San Antonio, has implemented a nutritional labeling system to help shoppers easily identify seven common attributes of foods. The tags use color and text to mark foods as heart healthy, low in sodium, etc., and appear beside the price tags on store shelves.
"Making healthy choices can be confusing," said Kate Rogers, H-E-B's vice president of communication and engagement. "Typically when customers are in the store, they want to be able to shop as quickly as they can, so this seemed like an easy way to help customers navigate the aisles."
The system uses nutritional guidelines from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration.
H-E-B isn't the first supermarket to employ shelf labeling.
The Guiding Stars program, used in some chains in the U.S. and Canada, scores the nutritional content of foods on a scale of zero to three stars. Popular in the United Kingdom is the "traffic-light" system, which uses red, yellow or green labels to indicate high, medium or low levels of nutrients to limit.
Some Texas supermarkets use the NuVal system, which scores food on a scale of 1-100. And Whole Foods has several systems, including the Aggregate Nutrient Density Index in its produce department.
So does it help?
In fact, shelf-labeling systems have been shown to benefit consumers, says James Hersey, researcher at independent research group RTI International, which conducted a literature review of 38 studies on consumer response to labels on shelves and on the front of food packages. The study appears in the January issue of the journal Nutrition Reviews.
Research suggests that sales of products labeled as healthful choices do increase over time.
"It may take consumers awhile to get used to this. They'll probably need some education on how to read the labels," Hersey says. "But this information really can begin to affect consumer behavior."
But there's a problem with retailers developing proprietary labeling systems, which has been a trend for the last several years, says Phil Lempert, editor of SupermarketGuru.com. Shoppers can become confused by different systems in different stores, he says.
"Not only is there not a common language between them, but the criteria may be different," Lempert says. "You go into one store, and XYZ product has a rating of 94. You go into another store, and it might have a two-star rating. I'm not sure we're any closer to helping consumers understand what they should be eating to be healthier."
He'd like to see an open algorithm for evaluating foods that everyone can understand.
"When we have transparency when it comes to these kinds of criteria, that's when somebody learns and gets empowered to eat healthier," he says. "The reality is, everything that you and I need to know about a food is on the package already. It's in the Nutrition Facts, it's in the ingredients, and we are just lazy and want something at the front of the package."


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Day one at Mobile Internet, Berlin
I've heard loads of interesting and challenging stuff today at Mobile Internet in Berlin (see 'speaking at' links, left). I've met some interesting people too.
I was twittering live throughout, as I will be on April 1 and 2. That means those that follow www.twitter.com/davidcushman get to ask questions, too.
Was great to hear from Antonio Vince Staybl, CEO at GoFresh/Itsmy.com from the stage and to have a conversation with him in a round table. I'm a big fan of itsmy's focus on community first and mobile first. They have an incumbent- rocking model. As Antonio points out a new media leads to new leaders; before cars there was no BMW. Before the internet, there was no google... before mobile there was no itsmy!
I also like the itsmy ad model. Users don't get a share of the revenues they create. BUT they do get to choose if their ugc carries adverts - and if it does, what sort of adverts. The users are allowed the power to treat the ads as content (the content as ads).
Interesting itsmy stats: The first pic of the recent UK earthquake was uploaded to itsmy within 30seconds (only content created on a mobile can be uploaded to mobile). Each user looks at 60pages per visit. 42% had never used a social network before using the mobile-only itsmy!
Cyworld's Christian-Peter Heimbach revealed the South Korean MoSocialNetwork is retreating to asia after a failed european experiment. Christian himself will crop up working in Brighton soon. Brighton types - give me a shout so you can welcome him in, he's a nice chap.
The Cyworld back-track was clarified after Jonathan Macdonald (following via twitter) asked Christian, via me, what the plans for a launch in the UK were. Answer, er none just yet. It's back to rebuild the aging tech with a view to returning someday soon.
Yahoo's Alex Romero had some nice things to say about my presentation (I was on before him, and before lunch!) and talked about new products such as oneconnect, among other things. It allows you to bring together all your social networks merging all your contacts. To which www.twitter.com/stoweboyd asked if yahoo thought this was something we actually want.
I caught up with Alex later and he explained the idea is more about a user gathering their routes to networks in one place - not sharing your digital identities and each identity's connnections. Need to investigate this a little more before drawing a conclusion, I feel.
Alex was fascinated by my eeepc. A few more sales coming Asus' way. Wonder when I'll get my commission...
I was also interested in Tim Hyland's youtube stats eg: every minute of every day 10 hours of video is uploaded to youtube. youtube uses more bandwidth today than the entire internet did in 2000.
Spent some time chatting to Luke Brynley-Jones of Trutap. Aim to catch up with him some more over the next few days. Luke revealed one user had sent 1200 messages in a day. Who knew thumbs could do that? And two Finlands a month are going on to contract in India each month at the moment. Now that's a growing market!
Finally (and apologies to those I haven't mentioned here, I may have reported previously via www.twitter.com/davidcushman) Martin Duval of orange gave us an interesting insight into the orange start-up programme which has orange working with vcs to develop and help new businesses take shape. He's creating a value web in the best traditions.
More from conference tomorrow, Follow it live at twitter.com/davidcushman and look out for opportunities to ask questions.
Starts again at 8am UK time.

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In one of our neighboring communities, Iola, there is a fun and artistic place and lots happening within it's walls. Lessons From the Art grew out of a need that was seen in the Community by it's owner Tammie Jo Berg. Lessons from the Art offers music lessons, voice lessons, art classes and a really cool idea "Picasso parties". How fun would it be to get together with a group of friends and create pieces of art. They offer these "arty party's" for groups of 6 to 15 for $8 per person. What a great idea to offer for groups of girlfriends, children's parties, even a group of teens to get together and be creative, or a group of "red hatters" to enjoy time with one another. Registration must be done a week in advance as they need time to pull together the materials. On their website http://lessonsfromtheart.com, they give suggestions such as button art, canvas creations, shoe art, tie dye shirts ( come on now, who doesn't remember tie dye), t-shirt rugs, however you are not just limited to these, custom arrangements can be made. They have their schedule up for Art classes for the month of April so check them out. Waupaca County is a very large artisan county and this is just one more example of that. Lessons from the Art has also offered several day long retreats for women, some time to reflect and reconnect with not only yourself but others as well. Stay tuned for more on this wonderful and innovative place, but for now, check out their website and see how to get yourself plugged into the Artist community that is Waupaca County.
Lessons from the Art
March 30th, 2012 by Judy Trull


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What's your "tech ecosystem"?
- First of all, love this forum, looking for some discussion and sharing about your tech set-ups.
Here we go!
- iPad - the heart and soul of my setup- for day to day internet browsing- 5 year old core 2 duo Win 8 laptop with a bunch of USB hard drives attached (this thing was a beast back in the day) - on living room TV
- photo management - directly imported via adapter from my Oly EPL1. The photos are automatically shared to my iphone (for browsing) and PC (for back up) via photostream.
- SplashTop (app) for remote access to my living room laptop
- PLEX - access all my media content from the PC with such style
- Airplay - play anything from my iPad wirelessly (video and audio)- torrents, youtube, PLEX, music management (wireless sync through itunes)- Apple TV - on bedroom TV, only for wireless playback from iphone/ipad
- Airport Express - Kitchen speakers, 1 click wireless speaker for my iphone
- iPhone 4s - best way to carry music on a phone as far as i know, airplay, photo stream (love it, only keep photos for 30 days unless you save it, no need to manually manage space)
- Xbox. though it's not really part of the ecosystem
I really want the Surface, it will make media & photo management and productivity much easier. but it doesn't have the easy wireless capabilities that Apple has. Play to Xbox is only mediocre when I had the chance to play with it.
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- Amazon love it buy all my MP3 on it use there cloud storage I love it (Cloud Player can store 250 songs for free and cloud storage of 5GB)
PlayStation brought stuff off it and will continue to PS4 (it better impress if it going to last 10 years )
Microsoft love there product offices, skydrive, outlook all good
There might be more but I forgot until I see email saying you haven't use this for over a while please come back we miss you
Am open minded and don't like being tied down to one ecosystem if another ecosystem not compatible I take it on the chin (and look for alternative )01-10-2013 04:18 PM
- My tech ecosystem is predominantly Microsoft. I have an Amazon account which I use to Purchase MP3s and other stuff and I have a Google Account for YouTube.01-10-2013 09:05 PM
- So far all products are basically ms, but none of them are synced to each other unless you count smart glass.
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- Microsoft all the way. Home setup is lenovo 27" AIO touchscreen beauty linked to a 2TB NAS, Surface RT, xbox 360 and an HTC 8X. Xbox music subscription with everything stored on the NAS so i can access from anywhere on my RT. Picked up a couple of jawbone jambox speakers for xmas as they were reduced, quite impressed with the sound they pump out for their size and the range from the device its playing from. Got one for music upstairs and one for downstairs so can always play music wherever i am in the house. Got two outlook accounts that ive had for years giving me a nice 50gb of skydrive storage.
Having everything windows 8 is a pretty flawless experience. Everything is set up just how I want it and works just how i want it to.
Ive got to admit I did have issues with transfering music over from Zune but since I got rid of my windows 7 desktop and got everything on windows 8 with xbox music its pretty good
Also got to admit im not impressed with smartglass so far. Novelty has worn off using internet through my xbox and using my phone as the keypad. Having my surface laying around makes it just as easy to go on the internet on that. The additional functionality that was supposed to be present is a bit slow in coming they have only just started releasing films on xbox movies that have the additional information but they cost a bit more to buy which i think is a bit cheeky as some of the films are pretty pricey already. Theres still no upgrade to netflix using smartglass so a lot of the films that i watch through that the surface only acts as a rather large remote control.
Thinking about it im actually a little worried about future demos of future products - Have got a kinect as well and can remeber seeing stuff for that demoed thats never seen the light of day.
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- Desktop PC at home runs Windows 8 Pro
Tablet is Surface RT
Phone is Lumia 920
No gaming console newer than GameCube, dont see any reason for console gaming, my PC is a gaming rig.
Fiancee's phone is a WP7,5 :P
Don't use any iTunes/Spotify/Xbox music-kinda software for anything. Use Netflix to watch movies.
All of my other services I've moved from Google to Microsoft when I got a Windows Phone. So Gmail and Google docs turned into Outlook and Skydrive. YouTube I still use, not trying to replace that :P
I'm happy with my Windowsified setup :D01-11-2013 09:52 AM
- My home network revolves around my Windows Home Server. All of my pics, videos, documents, music is stored onboard, and my three PCs back up daily to it. I have two desktop PCs at my desk running Win7, and my laptop running Win8. I stream from the home server to the living room through a Playstation 3 that sadly, is mostly an overpriced HTPC, I haven't played a game on it for a long time.
All of my pictures are backed up to Skydrive of course, and I back the entire home server up to CrashPlan.
I get my music mostly with the Xbox music pass (I still have the grandfathered MP3 plan), and I buy a few albums from time to time on Amazon, I also stream Slacker Radio on my phone.
I watch movies over Netflix streaming and discs or Amazon or a few movies I have stored on the home server box.01-15-2013 11:51 PM
- Mostly Apple - 2 iPads (best tablet device on the market), 2 AppleTVs (perfect for watching TV series/movies and showing my photos/videos on large screen in most easy way imaginable), MacBookPro (for all my laptop needs... Unfortunately it is too old to properly use AirPlay functions with AppleTVs), iPhone 4S (not being used as cellphone since I'm trying to like teh Lumia 920 right now), lots of music/videos/TV shows in an iTunes library. Separate PC for playing games and testing out Microsoft's wacky experiments (like Windows 8 and its "fabulous!" but oh-so-redundant Tetris GUI). A couple of gaming consoles (Xbox360 and PS3) solely used for entertainment of simple-minded guests (who prefer to experience gaming in an inferior way) ;-) That's about all of my "ecosystem".01-16-2013 12:19 AM
- Phones - Nokia 920 and 900, iPhone 5 and two (2) iPhone 4S, Optimus G, Galaxy S3 and S2, Palm Pre (for s&g) and some others I can't think of atm.
Tablets - iPad 3 and iPad 2, BlackBerry PlayBok and Galaxy Tab 7.0 plus
5-6 year old Dell XPS 9200 with (recently purchased) Asus 23 inch widescreen as well as Gateway NV series laptop.
Xbox 360 and for the moment, a PS3.
I missed a lot of other stuff, but I'm sleep and can't think right now.01-16-2013 12:35 AM
Personally I was always using Windows Mobile and later Windows Phone devices and Windows on my computers. I even use a Windows computer at my office what rises some compatibility issues.
I don't like Apple as iOS looks like it was designed around 10 years ago (what it probably was, it never changed) and the company should have written 'Hypocrisy' on their logo. Android is too "every app can read out your contacts and send them to wherever it wants"-like for my taste.01-16-2013 03:05 AM
- I'm almost all in the Microsoft ecosystem.
-Xbox music: I have Xbox music. I also have a Xbox music pass as well. Work perfectly for me
-Xbox Video: i do download videos and watch them on my Xbox and win 8 computer.
-windows 8: i have a windows 8 desktop. The dell one 27 AIO. And i also have a tablet. Which is the Samsung Ativ Smart PC.
-Windows phone: I currently have a 8X and a Samsung Omnia W. :-)
-Xbox 360. I also have a Xbox 360. Which i use smartglass, play games and watch and listen to music and videos.
Xbox smartglass: I use this regularly because I sometimes can't be bothered to use by control.
Xbox Games for windows 8: I love getting achievements from my windows 8 Xbox games
-SkyDrive, outlook.com and IE10 and Bing: i use these web services as well. Pretty useful to me.
Office 2013: of course I'll use this all the time
So yes I'm basically fully in the MS ecosystem
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- Computer (both dual booted) - custom built Win8/Win7 machine, MacBook Pro with Win8, and I'll throw the Xbox in here as it is a non mobile gaming computer (technically)
Mobile - HTC titan (soon to be Lumia 920), iPod touch 4th gen, HTC Flyer
Software - SkyDrive, Xbox music, Zune, Office 2013, MSDN, Xbox live, amazon kindle.
And that's all I can think of for now.01-16-2013 05:46 AM
- Rich EdmondsPC EditorIt was heavily Apple dominated, but now my ecosystem is pretty Microsoft orientated. The only Apple product still in use is the Airport Extreme, but this will be gone today since I no longer require dual-band WiFi - let's save some power and use the Virgin Media modem / router.
So I have the following:
- Virgin Media Tivo Box - Absolutely love this piece of kit, for all my television needs.
- Custom-built desktop - sports AMD Bulldozer quad-core, 16GB RAM, SSD, fan-less AMD GFX card and some other eye-orgasm goodness. Used for gaming and video editing.
- ASUS Vivobook S400 - My pride and joy, Windows 8 laptop for all work to be processed.
- Xbox 360 - For those moments where fraggin' on the PC just isn't enough.
- Lumia 920 - The main Windows Phone, worth a plug!
The only item I lack is a tablet, which is likely to be an Acer.01-16-2013 06:59 AM
- There's so much that I use
Apple: Apple TV, iPhone 5, iTunes, and AirPlay.
Microsoft: Hp all in one with windows 7, hotmail, skydrive, and Zune
Google: gmail, google maps, google drive, looking into the chromebook, google play music, and that's all that I can think of01-16-2013 07:12 AM
- Microsoft: Nokia Lumia 920. Dell xps 14 upgraded to Windows 8.
Apple: iPod classic 30 Gb (Nothing beats that for music)
Google: Nexus 7
Sony: PS3 for gaming
Mainly use Box for file transfer but now leaning more towards Skydrive because of the integration with the Lumia 920.
Torrents for watching movies and shows lol01-16-2013 07:21 AM
- Sony VAIO Z 13.1"
Quad Core i7, 64x2 RAID 0 SSD, 4GB RAM, 1080P Full HD Screen, 10+ hrs battery life, Power Media Dock, Windows 8 Pro x64
Dell 24" Ultrasharp IPS Monitor
Phone: Nokia Lumia 920 Unlocked
Apps, entertainment and multimedia device: iPod Touch 5th Gen 32GB!
Contacts, calenders through Google
Mail through Outlook (trying to switch to GMail)
Cloud Storage: Skydrive, Dropbox01-16-2013 07:29 AM
- I'm somewhat diverse with a Lumia 920, iPhone 4S, iPad 3 and an iPad Mini (that I won in a contest), Win 8 on desktop and laptop.
Outlook.com for mail, calendar & contacts, SkyDrive (25 GB!) & Box (50 GB!), and I've kept my Google account open for business reasons (mainly Google+) though I'd can it if I could. (Just forward Gmail to Outlook.com and I don't have to use the Gmail interface.) I even use Live Domains to host my business domain email/calendar/contacts (free!).
Some iCloud for syncing stuff on the iPhone and iPads, and Dropbox for those apps that only offer that for sync. Also, Evernote and OneNote (redundancy is a friend).
A little tinkering required, but it all works.01-16-2013 08:34 AM
- 15" MacBook Pro, iPad 3, Lumia 920 with my old 800 as a backup, iPod touch even though I hardly use it anymore, PS3 but I'm thinking about getting a cheap 2nd hand 360 or maybe just waiting for the next XBox. I use SkyDrive for storing stuff online, I prefer it to iCloud because I get more storage and iCloud is just useless imo, I like being free to decide what I have online.01-16-2013 09:07 AM
- Hardware:
- Lumia 800 (daily driver for information, messaging, email and entertainment on the go)
- i5-2500K 3.3GHz with 128GB SSD as system disk desktop running W8 Pro
- Fujitsu UH-572 Ultrabook running W8 Pro
- Acer Aspire One AOA150 Netbook running XP (no real point upgrading to W8 because the resolution is too low on the device for Met...*krhm* Modern UI Apps)
Mail contacts & cloud storage:
- Outlook.com (Primary mail and contacts)
- gmail
- Skydrive
- Dropbox
- Gdrive
Apps and music
- Windows Phone Store
- Windows Store
- Nokia Music
- Xbox Music Pass
Pretty much MS I'd say... :)
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- We're more or less a Microsoft shop. Since I work in IT, I've become the unofficial IT Director for the family, and I like keeping things as uniform as possible to make my life easier.
At home, my wife and I both have Lumia 920 phones and Windows 7 laptops. We're using Office 2013 (the preview for now, but we'll be signing up for the yearly subscription), with SkyDrive rapidly becoming our backup solution. I'm considering moving us over to Windows RT devices (the Dell XPS 10 is my current interest) and a Windows Server 2012 box.
I have my in laws on Windows 7 as well, with Office 2013. They have Android devices, but may be moving to Windows Phone 8 when they renew with AT&T. I know my FIL loves my Lumia. My MIL has a Nexus 7 tablet, so I may keep her with Android just for sake of continuity of UX for her.
My mom lives out of town, so I have her on OSX and iOS because it's easier for her to get help from the Apple store.01-16-2013 10:08 AM
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- PC Hardware:
i7 2600 @ 4.3Ghz
Maximus IV Extreme
Corsair Vengeance LP 16GB
Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB
(In short, a powerful Windows 7 gaming desktop :P)
- Also considering buying a Surface Pro for use in my classes.
Phone: Currently rocking an HTC 7 Trophy, real solid phone, I use it primarily for web browsing, email, music, videos, and sometimes note-taking. Though soon to be a Lumia 920. :)
Mail: Yahoomail as my primary email and Gmail for some other important stuff. Though, probably replacing Gmail with Outlook soon. Already ditched Chrome and Google search for Firefox and Bing respectively.
Music: Foobar 2000, really great music player, recently ditched iTunes for this due to much noticeably better sound quality. Zune for synching my Trophy, (well, not anymore since it doesn't get detected by my computer as of late..) as well as the occasional music player (I love the interface :D)
So yeah, pretty much MS here as well. ;P
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- PC: i7-2700K, 8GB of RAM, NVIDIA GT560, and 256GB SSD with 500GB RAID 0 HDDs running Windows 7 (need it for remote purposes for work)
Laptop: Lenovo Yoga 13
Tablet: Nexus 7
Gaming: PC (see above), PS3, Wii, N64, SNES, NES, PS Vita, and 3DS
Current smartphones: Lumia 920 (have an HTC One X as a back-up device)
Have a Lumia 900 for which to code, although, I may be finished with WinPhone 7.x and about to sell it
Mail: just got my stuff moved from GMail to Outlook. Everything sent to my gmail now forwards to my outlook accounts.
Music: Google Music on the PC and my Lumia 920's plain old "Music+Videos" for on the go. I have a pair of Skullcandy Aviators in the office, a pair of Sennheiser 558s at home, and a pair of LG Tones (bluetooth) for when I'm working out.
DSLR: Sony SLT-A77 with an A33 as a backup. That A77 is my baby.
I'm mainly MS. I was all Android and Linux, but after starting up a business, I've gone all MS (I've always been a .NET developer, so I always had Windows around). I've just become so wildly impressed with their user experience, even if they are more of a walled garden than I'm use to.01-16-2013 01:43 PM
- first, a 5 year old hp pavilion laptop win7 AMD turion x2 dual core 2.5 ghz and ATI radeon graphics, 4 gb of ram and 500gb of hard drive.. LOVE IT
second, my black 16gb nokia n9, and no issues just yet and the best phone i've had... im planning to get a L920 when it comes to my country
third... uhm... let me see.... i guess that would be the 32" LG led TV on the livingroom
and i don't know if my beats audio headphones count.... i don't think so... but you know ;)01-16-2013 03:50 PM
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The United States Department of Commerce ,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA) , National Weather Service (NWS)
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for the protection of life and property within the United States. These forecast
services also provide for economic and environmental well-being through improved
water resources management. The continuation and advancement of these services
is occurring through NOAA's Advanced Hydrologic Prediction System (AHPS) .
The deaths and economic losses resulting from The Great Flood
of 1993 and our Nation's subsequent floods
and droughts have forced the need for improved predictions to
support flood/drought management and damage
mitigation. Furthermore, the allocation of water among competing
demands (i.e., fisheries, irrigation, hydropower
and municipalities) looms as a national problem that requires
improved water quantity forecasts for sustainable use.
AHPS products with extended forecast lead times (up to several
months) will greatly improve the Nation's
capability to take timely and effective actions that will
significantly mitigate the impact of major floods and
droughts. The system will also provide products to water
resource managers for the
evaluation of water availability and allocation for water supply,
navigation, hydropower, ecosystems and agriculture.
National Weather Service (NWS) River Forecast Centers (RFCs)
typically issue stage forecasts for only 1, 2,
and 3 days into the future at most forecast points and crest
forecasts out to about 1 week for a few selected forecast
points. The NOAA "National Disaster Survey Report: The Great
Flood of 1993" (NWS, 1994) reports that federal,
state, and local groups have a need for advanced
hydrometeorologic/hydrologic forecast products with increased
lead-times. Many of these groups express the need for a range of
forecast stages with associated probabilities of
occurrence. Similarly, during the widespread drought which
affected most of the country in the mid-1980's, people
were asking for hydrologic forecast information that was not
available. During these events, agriculture, navigation,
and water supply problems amassed damages in the billions of
dollars. AHPS advanced hydrologic forecast
products, with extended forecast lead-times, will greatly improve
the capability of emergency managers to take timely and effective
actions that will significantly mitigate the impact
of major floods and droughts.
3.1 AHPS Defined
AHPS is a critical component of an Advanced Hydrologic
Prediction System (AHPS; Fread, 1995) which
builds upon the following:
(2) the NWS infrastructure including the 13 RFCs and the NWS River Forecast
System (NWSRFS) , a very large software system used by RFC hydrologists to
produce forecasts of time series of discharges or stages at selected locations
(approximately 4,000 along the Nation's rivers); and
(3) the
NWS Modernization
which is providing NWS River Forecast Centers (RFC) with
Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS)
equipment, a powerful suite of networked computer workstations
with graphic
AHPS provides the pathway to:
(2) develop a NOAA Hydrologic Data System (NHDS) ;
(3) increase the use of short- to long-range weather and climate
forecasts within the NWSRFS through appropriate
hydrometeorological coupling algorithms;
(4) effectively calibrate and field-implement the advanced
hydrologic/hydraulic models within the NWSRFS;
(5) implement a
Snow Estimation and Updating System (SEUS)
which provides gridded estimates of snow water equivalent; and
(6) provide more timely, accurate, and informative
forecast products (e.g., Figure 1) to government and
quasi-government water and emergency managers and to private
sector intermediaries who provide value-added services to
specific industries.
3.2 AHPS Implementation
During fiscal year 1995, NOAA began AHPS implementation activities within
the upper Mississippi River basin through a significant commitment by personnel
of the North Central River Forecast Center (NCRFC), the Regional Hydrologist
and other staff of the NWS Central Region , and the
NWS Office of Hydrology . AHPS short-term implementation goal is to demonstrate
an operational long-term probabilistic forecast system for the Des Moines River
basin by the Spring of 1997. AHPS functionality and associated implementation
activities at the NCRFC include:
Implement dynamic streamflow modeling in river reaches with
significant dynamic effects caused by
backwater, levee overtopping, or other transient phenomena;
Implement the Extended Streamflow Prediction (ESP) procedure in order to provide
probabilistic hydrologic forecasts into the future from weeks to months (e.g.,
Figure 1);
Include the effect of reservoir operations in both
short-term and long-term forecasts;
Couple meteorologic forecasts at all time scales within the
Extended Streamflow Prediction (ESP) procedure;
Provide advanced products (e.g., probability of occurrence
information) for water resources management
activities to other federal, state and local organizations.
Once AHPS has been implemented for the Des Moines River basin,
activities for its implementation in other
NCRFC basins will occur. As an increase in resources become
available, AHPS implementation can be expedited
within the Mississippi Basin as well as early implementation in
one or more additional basins in the United States,
e.g. the Columbia River Basin which is of critical economic and
environmental importance to the Nation.
Coordination among individual Weather Service Forecast Offices
(WSFO)/Weather Service Offices (WSO),
RFC's, national centers, and regional and national headquarters
is a vital part of the warning process. As the NWS
issues forecasts and warnings, those products are distributed in
near real-time to a wide variety of other federal,
state, and local agencies. In the Modernized NWS, this internal
coordination and product dissemination will be
enhanced, in part, through the application of advanced hydrologic
forecast products.
4.1 Today's Hydrologic Forecasting
The magnitude and duration of the Great Flood of 1993 (NWS, 1994) placed enormous
stress on the forecast system infrastructure and NWS forecasters. Given the
system's limitations and the resources available during that event, the forecasts
and warnings were incredibly good. For example, at the peak of the flood along
a stretch of the Mississippi River near Hannibal, Missouri , approximately 50
percent of the estimated 4 million gallons of water per second was flowing outside
the "main channel" of the river and behind the levee systems. In spite of these
complex hydraulic conditions, the NCRFC provided forecasts for the city of Hannibal
that were sufficiently accurate and timely to allow the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
(USACE) and the city of Hannibal to take action to reinforce the major levee
system protecting the city. Although numerous anecdotes of major mitigation
actions can be cited, there are still substantial opportunities for improvements
that will provide significant benefits during future flood events and pay even
larger dividends to the Nation.
Today's River Forecast Centers (RFC) typically make river
forecasts on a mainframe computer at the NOAA
Central Computer Facility (NCCF) in Suitland, Maryland. Input
information is prepared at each RFC and submitted
via phone lines for batch processing at the NCCF. Once the batch
job is executed, model output is returned via
phone lines to the RFC and the forecaster must examine forecast
output on large amounts of printer paper or, in the
case in the NCRFC, on a monitor. The forecast process is slowed
by the long the turnaround time for the model runs
and by this outdated output format. Next, if the forecaster
determines that data-input or model states need to be
updated, it is a time-consuming process to format the input
necessary to make the changes, resubmit the job to the
NCCF, wait for the results, and work through a second pile of
line-printer output. The long range forecast process is
even more inflexible. Clearly, a cumbersome forecast process
adds unnecessary stress to forecast periods of critical
need. Implementation of AHPS will streamline RFC operations.
4.2 AHPS Services
AHPS implementation will greatly improve the Nation's
capability to take timely and effective actions by
providing new tools to forecasters and new forecast products to
cooperators and the public. AHPS will develop
approaches to package and disseminate advanced graphical and
digital products that will convey more information
with greater clarity than the short term single value stage
forecasts which are currently the norm for river forecasts.
A baseline product packaging development task is to work with potential users
in order to develop types of products needed. As the NWS issues forecast and
warning products, they are distributed in near real-time to a wide variety of
other federal, state, and local agencies. Major cooperating agencies include
the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the USACE, and local and state
emergency management agencies, to the media and to the general public.
In most cases during the Great Flood of 1993, these
coordination activities were effective. However, in the
future cooperating agency personnel have requested that during
such extreme events, interagency communication
could be enhanced by on-site NWS personnel being available to
provide rapid, clear interpretation of the NWS
forecasts and warnings.
Similarly, during the Great Flood, the media were highly
complimentary of NWS cooperation and the high
quality of the information the NWS provided. To help
broadcasters meet public demand for early, daily information,
members of the media requested that the river stage information
and flood forecast product issuance be coordinated
with broadcast schedules. Radio and television broadcasters
would then be able to tailor products for specific
audiences. The AHPS initiative will address these coordination
issues by providing a framework for cooperation
and by providing advanced forecast products.
4.3 Tomorrow's Products
For the AHPS program, new types of products based on
probabalistic forecasting techniques are being
investigated and new software to conveniently generate those
products are being developed. The AHPS short-term design
features include probabalistic long-range outlook hydrographs for
stage, discharge and flow volume that
have accompanying indicators of uncertainty (e.g. figure 1).
Long-term design features include gridded estimates of
snow-water equivalent, soil moisture and flash flood guidance,
and probabalistic flood inundation mapping
capabilities (e.g. figure 2).
Probabalistic forecasts are generated from analyses of the
NWSRFS ESP function time series traces. At this
time, that analysis is completed when the traces are generated
which makes the system inflexible. AHPS
implementation will provide forecasters with a new software tool
called the ESP Analysis and Display Program
(ESPADP). ESPADP will enhance the forecasts in several ways.
First the ease with which the analysis can be
accomplished will lead to greater of use of the ESP forecasting
technique. Second, by providing a variety of
interactive graphical displays the forecaster will be able to
understand more easily and more completely the
probabilities generated by an ESP forecast. Finally, by
providing more attractive and easily read graphical products
NWS cooperators will find it easier to use forecast products.
With the added flexibility and graphical displays available
through this modernized software, a variety of
enhanced forecast products can be generated by the RFC's.
Investigations into possible products are underway to
asses cooperator interest and system development including data
input, data storage, software design and product
formats. For example, several end users of NWS long range stage
forecasts have requested that NMC long lead
meteorological outlooks be included in these long range stage
forecasts. Inclusion of such forecasts requires the
development of new scientific algorithms, the definition of new
input data streams, new data storage facilities and the
development of appropriate displays of the forecast data. The
AHPS program has provided the impetus for such
One enhanced product that will be available for the AHPS demonstration project
on the Des Moines Basin in the spring of 1997 will be probabalistic hydrographs
(see figure 1). This type of forecast that would have been useful for disaster
managers during the Great Flood of 1993. With this type product, forecasts with
explicit probabilities, or confidence bands, will convey to the end-user the
confidence, or level of certainty, that the forecaster has in any specific forecasts.
In this way, modernized hydrologic forecast products will provide not only the
forecaster with a mechanism to impart more hydrologic forecast information to
the end-user but also will provide more information to the end-user to construct
a risk analysis for alternative hydrologic scenarios. This new product is a
huge step forward from the previous ESP output format. Where in the past the
forecaster was forced to review tabular output for a limited period, he or she
will be able to review the expected flows over a range of forecast periods.
In addition, it will be possible to pass the graphical displays on to the end
users directly, thus enhancing their understanding of the state of the hydrologic
Coupled with the ESPADP software will be utilities that permit
the user to verify the effectiveness of their
forecast over selected periods in the past. Such verifications
will generated with the forecasts and will be useful for
managers as they integrate a multitude of pieces of information
into a single decision.
Two long-term goals of the AHPS project are to develop the
capability to generate inundation maps (see
figure 2) based on the probabalistic stage forecasts, and second
to provide gridded estimates of a variety of state
variables describing the hydrologic system. The goal of inundation
mapping will be to provide local emergency
managers a clear definition of the areas that are likely to
experience flooding. By coupling the mapped areas with
probabalistic forecasts, emergency managers will be able to
evaluate the importance of evacuating specific areas.
The translation of the forecast river stage to actual locations
on the ground will be more readily communicated with
these types of inundation maps.
Gridded estimates of hydrologic variables will provide
forecasters and users with an in depth view of the
natural system. Gridded estimates of the snow cover, and soil
moisture, will enable forecasters and managers to
evaluate the probability of flooding, and in more localized
NOAA has the national responsibility to provide river and flood
forecasts and warnings for the protection of
life and property and for the economic and environmental
well-being of the Nation. The advanced
hydrometeorological modeling provided by AHPS will greatly
improve NOAA's capability to provide more
timely and accurate forecasts. For these multiple uses of AHPS
advanced forecasts, NOAA will provide advanced
products which meet multiple objectives through the most
effective means available.
The operational AHPS, along with these advanced products, will contribute
to DOC's leadership role in fostering economic gains for environmentally sound
decision making. AHPS is a focused program of the President's National Science
and Technology Council (NSTC) Committee on Environment and Natural Resources
(CENR) and one of DOC's highlighted programs contributing toward sustainable
Fread, Danny L., June 1995: A Pathway Toward
Improving Hydrologic Predictions. Iowa Hydraulics
Colloquium Issues and Directions in Hydraulics, 5
NWS, February 1994:
Natural Disaster Survey Report, The Great Flood of 1993,
NOAA Natural Disaster Survey
Report. U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration, National Weather
Service, Office of Hydrology.
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S is for squelching.
A squishing actually, of a perfectly innocent bystander.
"Mom, you have to see this really cool bug!" Ryan called.
I was getting them off to school, and he was outside already.
I was inside, trying to galvanize into action his dreamier younger brother who says "I can't" to anything he can do that he doesn't want to, like tying his own sneakers.
We were in the midst of one of those "you can" arguments while he was bopping a withering balloon from his birthday party around the house.
"In a minute," I called to Ryan, the older-let's-face-it-more-responsible brother.
He was out in the driveway, crouched over the spectacular bug. "He's really, really cool. You have to see him."
It was getting late, so I resorted to tying Kenny's shoes myself, but not without a lecture about now that he was seven, he needed to start taking responsibility for himself.
"Sure," he said, and ran outside, forgetting his backpack.
"Mom, you have to see this!" Ryan screeched with great exuberance. The kind I wished he showed toward his homework.
Now they were both crouching in the driveway.
But I'd already turned cranky. I grabbed Kenny's forgotten backpack and was on the verge of another lecture when I went outside to see the bug myself.
He was spectacular. A caterpillar. A beautiful shade of lavender, with handsome black Vs down his back.
And quite enormous.
I went over to a bush for a leaf to scoop him up. "We need to get him out of the driveway so he won't get run over," I said.
And as I was retracing my steps back to the bug with the leaf...I stepped on him.
He was so big, I felt it. The squish. The squelch.
He looked like road kill.
Ryan covered is face and screamed. "Nooooooo! "
He started crying, the bawling of the truly devastated, a quiet crying hiccuping.
I was stunned myself. "I didn't mean to..." I stuttered. My meager words fell meaninglessly. Dropped unheard like the faded white petals drifting down around us from the cherry blossom trees.
My son had covered his face. Ryan can be prone to dramatics, but this was no drama.
I went over to pull him to me. "I'm so sorry."
His face buried in his hands he buried into my stomach. And from deep within the buried levels, I heard his muffled scream: "You KILLED him!"
Kenny got into the car. "Yeah. That was kind a gross. I mean, he was ginormous."
Kenny clearly was consolable. Ryan wasn't. But as much as I could have stood there all day trying to console him, we couldn't be late for school again. They already had too many pink late slips for all the times I've left the lights on in the car for the battery to go dead.
"Ryan, Hon, please get in the car."
"I don't care. I'lll tell them it was your fault. We're late because you killed something!"
I began steering him by an elbow, as he wouldn't take his hands down from his face.
I had to put his seatbelt on for him.
Then it was Kenny, the younger brother, who said quietly, "It was a bug, Ryan."
It was then when Ryan finally took his hands away from his red swollen eyes. "Shut up!"
And it was time to squelch what now actually was turning into a drama. I looked at Ryan in the rearview mirror: "First we don't say shut up. Second, if you're going to get upset over a caterpillar, you should pay more attention to your gerbils who are much higher up on the food chain. And when was the last time you remembered to feed your frog?"
He stopped crying. He stared out the car window. And in a quiet, but perfectly even little whisper said: "You didn't have to step on him."
Did I wish I hadn't stepped on him? Yes. Would I pursue this topic? No.
And good thing too, because as quickly as he had been devastated, he was able to rebound, as some school friend called to him when he saw Ryan getting out of our car.
While Ryan at eight is now more apt to affect some kind of saunter, his hands deep in his pockets, he is also, thankfully, still able to forget himself and break into a skip.
He skipped down the hill to meet his friend, and I went home to hose away the squelched.
Because after school I knew what was coming: "So, mom what did you do with the bug you killed?"


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Bill Hicks only really made it big in the US once he came to the UK. I saw him play the Mitchell Theatre in Glasgow back in nineteen canteen - he was trying out material for the UK audience and he performed for about three hours. I was in physical pain for about three days afterwards from laughing so much.Cap'nsam wrote:Bill Hicks - supremely sarcastic, ironical and much missed. The exception that proved the rule.
He made a big hit with Channel 4 here, after that the US networks started paying attention to him.


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Tic, the Cap'n, and the Bottle Rocket get the win.
Dustin Tokarski [7] was brilliant in the win stopping 38 of 39 shots he faced. He took Andreas Nodl's lunch money twice in the game to make sure the Admirals got the win and the necessary 2 points. When he's on like he was tonight, he's cooler under pressure than Billy Dee Williams and the other side of the pillow, combined.
First Period
NOR Craig, (22) (Tyrell, Mihalik), 7:14
ADK Dingle, (5) (Klotz, Lehtivuori), 14:39
Second Period
NOR Hall, (15) (St. Pierre, Tyrell), 19:43
Third Period
NOR Tyrell, (9) (Jackson, Craig), 19:18 (EN)
Tokarski, Adam Hall [8], and Dana Tyrell [9] were the game's three stars.
The unsung hero of the game, though, was Ryan Craig [10], who not only was Johnny on the Spot on the first Admirals goal, popping in a rebound that was laying beside the goal line, but whose faceoff wins set up the other two Admirals talleys, including his critical faceoff win on Tyrell's empty netter. He is leading this team by example, and his line with Hall and Tyrell is arguably one of the 5-10 best in the AHL right now. I sure hope the Lightning can find a way to keep Ryan in the organization, because he's one heck of a captain for the Admirals. In fact, I'm beginning to think the "C" stands for commodore. I just promoted him in rank.
For Tyrell, it was the first 3-point game of his pro career. His previous 7 multi-point games this season were 2-pointers. He shot from downtown tonight. He now has 23 points in his last 18 games and 8 multi-point efforts in that span. He set up the Admirals' first goal by beating out an icing with his speed, he helped shovel the puck back to the points for a helper after Craig's faceoff win on the second goal, and his blazing speed victimized former Lightning forward Jason Ward [11] to beat out another icing for the empty net goal.
Vladimir Mihalik [12] set a new career high in points with 17 with his assist on the Admirals' first goal. He was also as surly as I've ever seen him at his own net front.
In the standings, which mean everything right now: Norfolk still sits in 3rd place in the East Division with 78 points in 71 games and 9 games left to play. 2nd place Albany fell 2-1 to Binghamton tonight, so the Admirals have pulled to within 6 points again of the River Rats and the Ads hold 1 game in hand. 4th place Wilkes-Barre/Scranton defeated Rochester 5-4 to keep pace with the Admirals and remain 1 point back of Norfolk with 1 game in hand. The rest of the division looks done with Binghamton 10 points back and Syracuse and Adirondack now 12 points back.
In the crossover, which is becoming a cluttered mess again, Manchester defeated Bridgeport in overtime, which unfortunately awarded a 3rd point in that game, and Lowell defeated Portland in overtime as well. So the Atlantic Division looks like this: 3rd and 4th place Manchester and Lowell have 79 points, 1 ahead of Norfolk, with the Monarchs holding 2 games in hand and the Devils holding 1 game in hand. 5th place Bridgeport is 2 points behind the Admirals with 1 game in hand. Why is this important? If the Admirals fall to 4th place in the East Division they must finish ahead of the 5th place team in the Atlantic to reach the postseason.
So, coming down the stretch, things are starting to bunch up with 6 teams fighting for 5 spots. And, that sets up a colossal 2-game set at The Scope on Wednesday and Friday between Norfolk and Wilkes-Barre/Scranton that could be season defining for the Admirals. Both teams will bleed, sweat, and pay the price with 3rd place in the division and possibly the playoffs on the line. And, with David Hale [13] coming off IR in Tampa Bay, one wonders if some defensive help might be on the way from the Lightning just in time.
Box score [14] from TheAHL.com.


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(Los Angelopes arrives to greet the team last year. The mass confusion of cyclists rolling in that were not part of AIDS LifeCycle riding all sorts of freak bikes, lots of hugging and screaming, and confused ALC staff, was priceless.)
As long time readers will recall I headed up the effort to have a Midnight Ridazz team at AIDS LifeCycle last year. It was an epic experience, from the training and planning, to the tons of fund raising and of course the eventual week long ride. We raised over $56,000 last year, and this year with even more riders, and a higher fund raising minimum to ride, this years team has raised over $81,000 in the fight against AIDS. They've been out there all week riding bikes for an average of 80 miles every day, and they return to L.A. tomorrow. If you want to join the welcoming committee, they will be arriving at the V.A. Center in Westwood tomorrow afternoon, and two Midnight Ridazz rides will be converging there, Los Angelopes, and a group meeting at the Bicycle District. Details about the closing ceremony are located here. I'm excited to see everyone come in and hear the stories of how their ride went and which muscles hurt.
Saturday, June 6th, 2009
VA Center
11301 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90025 [map]
Ceremony Starts At 4, but riders arrive by 3 or earlier if you want to catch roll ins.


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Customer Service in Long Term Care FacilitiesCustomers are the lifeblood of virtually every business in every industry. Organizations and individuals who strive to deliver exceptional customer service are more likely to be successful. Providing good customer service is one of the most important things in healthcare.
Customer Service in Behavioral HealthExcellent customer service is one of the most important things in providing quality health care and can make a significant difference for service providers as well as their clients, patients, and consumers. This course provides an introduction to customer service in the behavioral healthcare setting and how to identify the difference between mediocre and exceptional customer service.
Customer AdvocacyAdvocates have a huge influence over other current and potential customers as they are seen as "one of them". Companies that promote a customer advocacy management program can reap the benefits these advocates provide. Customer Advocacy is a specialized form of customer service where companies focus on what is best for the customer.
Offering Fair AlternativesCustomer service failures are an inevitable part of doing business; no matter how committed a company is to providing exceptional customer service. The first step in providing a fair alternative is to listen to the customer's needs. Next, apply fairness to the process that meets the customer's need while maintaining company integrity.
Consultative ServicesTaking a consultative approach to customer service can build a loyal, profitable customer base. This course discusses how to take a consultative approach to customer service.
Solving Customer Service ProblemsNo matter how hard a company or customer service provider works to please the customer, there will always be some customers who complain. This course discusses ways to resolve customer service problems.
Responding Effectively to CustomersIn order to have a customer-centric organization, all company employees must be responsive to customer needs. This course discusses how companies and workers can best respond to their customers.
Measuring Customer SatisfactionEach company has its own unique business objectives, but they all share a common need to measure customer satisfaction if they want to meet this objective. This course discusses ways to measure satisfaction, which in turn helps companies deliver exceptional customer service.
Managing the ROI of ServiceCustomer service is a business investment that impacts a company's bottom line. This course discusses how customer service impacts returns on investment.
Written InteractionFrom simple e-mails to formal customer letters, customer service representatives will need to compose documents that educate, persuade, inform, or enlighten the customer. They will need to be as savvy and professional in their written communications as they are in-person and verbally if they are to meet their customer's needs. This means customer service workers should understand their audience, and write in such a way to meet that best serves them. This applies to both "snail mail" and digital text communications. Practicing good written communication skills helps customer service work


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Short of hospital nurses in recent years, St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica hired a recruiter in England and flew one of its top executives to London to interview job candidates.
The recruiter's firm, Stateside Nursing, found 105 nurses and the hospital paid the company nearly $700,000 in recruiting fees and for providing "acculturation services" to help the foreigners adjust to life in Southern California.
Despite all those payments, none of the nurses ever arrived in Santa Monica.
Now the hospital is pursuing a court fight over this costly failure, saying it was the victim of fraud, bribery and unfair business practices. But the legal battle may also yield unflattering details about the inner workings of one of the area's best-known hospitals, which recently saw a high-profile management shake-up.
In the case headed to trial next month, St. John's accuses the recruiter, Lisa Taylor, of paying about $128,000 in bribes to Victor Melendez, the hospital's former vice president of human resources. The hospital is suing the pair in Los Angeles County Superior Court.


text: It's odd when bicycles are classified on the city's infrastructure as play toys so that automobiles can conveniently be driven irresponsibly. That's what I was thinking when I saw this bicycle sign posting a limit of "6mph". Are you kidding me? Meanwhile are cars are whipping down SW Marginal Way well over the speed limit. Coincidentally, the sign had been run over by a car.


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It is been going swimmingly and I have encouraged others to join in. To-date I have indexed a total of 36 sheets - approximately 1,440 records. I indexed 11 sheets from Colorado, 1 sheet from Delaware, 7 sheets from Kansas, 2 sheets from Minnesota, 4 sheets from Nebraska, 9 sheets from Oregon, and 2 sheets from Virginia. My accuracy rate is 98%.
I was feeling pretty good about myself until yesterday when, horror of horror ~ I had to return my first batch because I just could not read the enumerator's handwriting and I was getting a bit frustrated ~ so back to FamilySearch went a batch from Nebraska! But I downloaded a batch from Virginia ~ thankfully that enumerator had excellent penmanship and I was back at it again!
What have I learned in the past 12 days?
- Check out the Community Program and watch the tutorial put together by FamilySearch.org on indexing. It is a great introduction and provides a nice overview to the whole process.
- Download the Indexing Manual from FamilySearch.org ~ browse through it and have it available for any questions you may have (it is a great resource).
- Be sure to pay attention to the tips and explanations included in the right-hand side of the indexing software ~ it answers some of the most common questions.
- Check in with the Archives website on the 1940 Census.
- Check out the FamilySearch blog on the 1940 Census. There are plenty of updates and helpful tips.
- Check in with other indexers on Twitter, Facebook and Google+. There is always conversation and someone to answer your questions.
- Learn how to use the adjust highlight button ~ it will make your indexing life so much easier!
- Learn how to use the previous/next page button ~ sometimes it will help you understand your page better!
- Check in with DearMyrtle's webinars (the first week's webinars were really helpful and DearMyrtle plans to continue the process on a regular basis).
- Score some points not only for yourself but also your favorite participating society or organization. Thomas MacEntee explains how to do it on his most recent post. I signed up and designated the Seattle Genealogical Association. Check out which associations and organizations are involved and join one.
I signed up to be a 1940 Census Ambassador ~ so I am going to keep providing updates and encouragement. Why not join with the rest of us and index the 1940 US Census. There are weekly contests and posts to keep us all motivated ~ so let's all get to it!


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Quick Review: James P. Blaylock's The Aylesford Skull
From Amazon: "It is the summer of 1883 and Professor Langdon St. Ives - brilliant but eccentric scientist and explorer - is at home in Aylesford with his family. However, a few miles to the north a steam launch has been taken by pirates above Egypt Bay; the crew murdered and pitched overboard. In Aylesford itself a grave is opened and possibly robbed of the skull. The suspected grave robber, the infamous Dr. Ignacio Narbondo, is an old nemesis of Langdon St. Ives. When Dr. Narbondo returns to kidnap his four-year-old son Eddie and then vanishes into the night, St. Ives and his factotum Hasbro race to London in pursuit... "
I had come across the name James P. Blaylock several times in my reading, usually associated with Tim Powers, usually connected to the emergence of Steampunk. I had always meant to get around to checking him out, and now I can say I'm sorry I waited so long.
James P. Blaylock's The Aylesfore Skull, to me, was more of a throwback to pulp's thrilling adventures than the steampunk it claims to be. Gadgetry and airships were a part of that tradtion long before folks at sf conventions started wearing pith helmets. That being said, I really, really enjoyed this book. From the mysterious prologue to the mad dash of a plot that followed, the story constantly rushed forward. Things would slow down just enough to tease my curiousity once more before another mad dash would set forth. I enjoyed the steampunk elements, but they never got in the way of the story, which can happen in so many books labled as "the newest epic in the xxxx-subgenre."
I did happen to glance upon a review that didn't like Blaylock's characterization, claiming it tended to be shallow. I disagree. I knew enough about Langdon St. Ives (think part Sherlock Holmes, part Professor Challenger) to want him to thwart the evil plans of Dr. Narbondo. Again, following in the pulp tradition, you're not going to find any Hamlets running around London in these types of stories. When the protagonist was thinking back to a previous adventure in the first chapter, I knew this had to be a series character. One look on Amazon confirmed as much. To find the deeper St. Ives, perhaps one needs to read more of his earlier adventures. I'm sure you'd find some interesting tales and tangents, but what is in this volume serves. Everything in here works as a stand-alone yarn.
One of the great joys to me of this book was Blaylock's writing. The prose often reminded me of the best of those turn of the century writers. It was elegant and refined but never stuffy and awkward. He is defintely a writer I will be following in the future, just as St. Ives is a character I definitely want to revist.
Several, if not all, of the St. Ives adventures are available in ebook format at Amazon.com.
(Full Disclosure: Titan Books provided Nerdbloggers with a preview copy of this novel. We received no payment or compensation for this review and find the act of writing paid reviews pretty scuzzy).


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for any coprime numbers a and b, all natural numbers >= (a-1)(b-1) are linear combinations (with integer coefficients) of a and b.
[1] is this conjecture true?
if so:
[2] what is it called? (couldn't find it online)
[3] are/can the linear combination coefficients be restricted to the natural numbers?


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DEAR AMY: I started dating a woman in July. After a month of seeing each other, she was still having trouble detaching from her former romantic partners.
I told her to wait until she was ready to date me. After almost a month, she asked me to start a relationship. It was great until we found out that she was pregnant. Ultimately she terminated the pregnancy, and we continued to date.
At Christmas, she informed me that she had cheated on me numerous times with both of her ex-boyfriends. I was heartbroken but in love.
I forgave her under the condition that she stop communicating with them. About a month later, she told me she couldn't handle not talking to them — but she promised they were just friends.
For three months I thought we were in an exclusive relationship, but two days ago she said we were just "friends with benefits" and that she is starting to have feelings for someone else.
Should I listen to my heart and wait for her to realize that what we had was important? Should I wait and hope that she comes back? Or should I walk away?
DEAR CONCERNED: The relationship I'm most concerned about is the one you have with yourself.
Your erstwhile girlfriend is a one-woman relationship wrecking ball. She is unable to commit to anyone, and your efforts to control her do not work.
If listening to your heart means that you will continue to commit to someone who is cruel and depleting, then you must work hard to change this script.
Love is not cruel. Love is kind. Someone who loves you will never ask you to compromise your own personal integrity to be in a relationship. My neutral opinion is that you should disassociate completely from this cold-hearted relationship killer. Find a thoughtful friend or therapist to discuss this with. Your goal should be to reclaim your life, love yourself and love her not at all.
DEAR AMY: I support gay equality, but most of the people in my circle are strict fundamentalists.
They're close family or family friends, so cutting them out of my life is out of the question.
Is there a way to ease my way out of this circle or change their opinions?
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02 April 2012
Final beta test for PL/SQL Challenge 2.2
I invite (no, rather, I implore) you to visit beta.plsqlchallenge.com and help us do a final round of testing for release 2.2 of the PL/SQL Challenge website. We've added many new features that will help you get more out of our growing repository of quizzes and resources.
You can log in using your normal username and password; the beta database contains all quiz results and player data through the end of March. The quizzes you can play, of course, are not the same as those you will find on the production site.
Feel free to give us feedback through the form on the website or in comments to this post.
Many thanks in advance,
Steven Feuerstein
Activity Points
Up through 2.1, the only reflection of your activity on the PL/SQL Challenge was your ranking in the daily PL/SQL quiz, or some other quiz. Of course, the vast majority of players will never find themselves in the top rankings for these quizzes, but they nevertheless spend lots of time and effort at the PL/SQL Challenge improving their skills. In 2.2, we now award points to players for all of their activities on the site (taking quizzes, submitting quizzes, reviewing results, engaging in discussions about quizzes, etc.). Your points total now appears next to your name. Click on the Players menu button to see the points of all players.
Practice Quizzes
Prior to 2.2, you could take a quiz when it is initially offered, and then review results and answers through the Library afterwards. You could not, however, take past quizzes if you'd missed them, no could you re-take a quiz. Now, you can set up practices based on past quizzes, specific features about which you want to learn more, or your favorite authors. You can also use the unique Autotune feature: the PL/SQL Challenge will automatically create practices for you, based on predefined criteria.
Quizbook: Quiz as PDF
One of the most long-sought enhancement requests on the PL/SQL Challenge, the Quizbook feature makes it easy for you to generate a PDF document of one or more quizzes. These can be formatted as an offline test (no answer information included), a player scorecard (showcasing your performance) or a knowledge document, containing all answers and resources. You can save and reuse your Quizbooks, as well as sharing them with other players.
Note 1: we are still finalizing the PDF layout and content, so don't be surprised if something is missing or, well, ugly, but also do not hesitate to tell us what you think needs to be changed. And if, by the way, you have experience with Jasper Reports and would like to help improve our report definition, please let me know.
Note 2: You may have to disable your popup blocker to see the PDF document in your browser; we are working on getting this fixed ASAP.
On-Site Discussions
Rather than discuss interesting aspects of quizzes on the PL/SQL Challenge blog, you can now start or answer a thread directly on the Quiz Details page. You can also ask for help (it must be related to the topic of the quiz) or even post an objection to the quiz. In other words, if you think there is something wrong with the quiz, you can register your concern on both the post-quiz feedback page or on the Quiz Details page. You can also easily see if another player has already submitted a request for a correction.
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It is now much easier and quicker to submit a quiz. Rather than fill out a long "all or nothing" form - and possibly lose data if there is an interruption, you can now enter a minimum amount of information, save your quiz, and then return later to finish and fine-tune the quiz.
And Lots More...
We have re-designed and re-organized the Quiz Details page (accessible through Library and other pages) to make it easier to navigate through and access the ever-growing amount of information presented. We've moved the Feedback, FAQ and Blog links from the main menu to hyperlinks in top right corner of the page - to make room for our new features. The Winners page is now under the Players tab on the main menu.
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One player send the following feedback:ReplyDelete
I have just checked beta site. There are a lot of good new features there. I will just mention some: practice, retaking quizes, quizbook and so on. What is not clear: trophy1, trophy2, 3 and 4 - what do all those trophies mean? Could not find explanation.
And what I don't like So significant change in scoring... :( A lot of new ways to get points - some are doubtful to me. Week 100% - might lead to extensive cheating. 2 * Week 100% = Quarter 100% - not too equal Viewed Quiz Results - I hope only once? points for comments - might lead to cheating, when friends or colleagues will approve comment And what is most important - the competition will be less clear and transparent Example: you compete with somebody for the first place. Before final day you have advantage 100 points. You take the last quiz well and feel good. But tomorrow you might find yourself to be only the forth or in the tenth place. Other guys just published a lot of threads, comments, filled it their profiles and so on. What does it have in common with PL/SQL language and challenge?
My response:
We will add explanations of the trophies, but generally they reflect different levels of accomplishments.
This players has strong feelings about a "significant change in scoring." But there is no CHANGE in scoring, if by scoring you mean the daily quiz ranking. We have simply added another way to measure your participation on the website. Suppose you are strongly committed to improving your PL/SQL skills, but (a) you cannot manage to play every day and (b) you are not, and will not for a long time be, an expert. So you can make extraordinary efforts and yet your ranking remains high (though hopefully steadily improving over time).
The activity points offers a way to demonstrate your efforts at improving your knowledge of PL/SQL and your expertise in writing PL/SQL programs, and they are not intended to be competitive, at least not in same way as the daily quiz (and other quiz) rankings. It's just like the points system at websites like Stack Overflow. You might not be able to rate very high in competitive play, but you CAN rate high in your engagement with discussions, with studying the knowledge available on the PL/SQL Challenge site, and so on.
I hope this makes sense. I actually never thought that there would be anything objectionable about this.
Hello Steven,ReplyDelete
I just made a first quick visit on the beta-site, and I only can say a single word: AMAZING :) :) :)
All what the PL/SQL Challenge developer team has accomplished
here is simply GREAT !
I can only express once again the frustration I feel by not having any experience with APEX development ... when I see so many exceptional features implemented, I have a feeling of "well, maybe it is too late to start with a product that is already so mature ?" , though , there is always a hope, at least theoretically :)
I am sure it will take us some time to get familiar with all the nice new features, so just a few quick comments:
1. As I understand from your answer to the previous post,
the scoring for the competition itself will continue to be
calculated in the same way, and this is ok.
Together with this, I can only welcome extremely positively
the idea of rewarding players for their overall participation
on the web site.
I do know very well how dedicated you should be for putting
aside other things and committing yourself to the
PL/SQL Challenge under its many aspects, and it could be
really frustrating if, let's say it directly, no one remarks
your endeavors if you are not ranked among the top leaders,
so, I can only say "Chapeau" for this idea !
2. Regarding the Quizbook feature, I would suggest a small
addition that I suppose might be trivial enough
to implement in comparison with the exceptional filtering
already existing:
For the Knowledge base option, if possible, to allow for
simply filtering by a chosen period (From Date, To Date),
that would allow us to create a Quizbook of ALL the quizzes
played in a given period, in the same order as they were
played, for our future possibility "to re-live the life
later !".
Of course, such a date filtering can come in addition to the
other existing ones or simply be used alone for a complete
history book, in fact the best-seller that once I suggested !
I am sure I will continue to praise further all the new features, I only need the time to dive deeper :)
Cheers to the whole team, you can be really proud of your accomplishment !
Thanks & Best Regards
Iudith Mentzel
( a frustrated "non-knower" of APEX )
Plain text and code font sizes are less than in 2.1. Rather, ones are too small :(ReplyDelete
Iudith, great idea about a date range for the Quizbook. We have added this (this is for Quizbooks by Competition).ReplyDelete
Vitaliy, could you please clarify your concern about text and code font sizes? Where is this happening? Can you zoom in, in your browser, to increase the font size?
Most of plain text in Library, Question, Ranking now has different font ("Trebushet MS" instead of former "Tahoma") which, having the same font size, looks smaller but occupy more space.ReplyDelete
Regarding code I now can not confirm any changing the font.
- Anonymous05 April, 2012 17:11
Similar to the existing version, when viewing an individual's profile, the graphs only present the first 12 months of activity, rather than the most recent 12 months and/or all activity if greater than 12 months, with no option for changing the date range or viewing all activity.ReplyDelete
We have added your chart request to our ER list.ReplyDelete
One player asked for the following:ReplyDelete
Enhance the Library page as follows: 1. Allow players to search library by technology (topics tree), competitions (current view) or author. 2. Add indicators to the quizzes to show if there is an objection, discussion, etc. and the last date on which a comment was made.
I have also been thinking for a while that the Library page needs work. But I am also concerned about "jamming" lots of information into the current interactive report on the Library page.
So what do you think of the following:
1. Add a selector at the top of the page for the technology of interest (PL/SQL, SQL, etc.) and also one for author, letting you focus your searches on quizzes by a particular person.
2. Change from a single interactive report to a set of tabs:
By Feature: click on this tab to select a feature from a tree (as you see in Practice and Quizbooks). Then click Next to see a report of all quizzes about that feature (or any feature below it in the tree). So you could, for example, check the "Dynamic SQL" feature and see quizzes related to dynamic SQL.
Competitions: the current interactive report, focused on helping you see/check results of your answers to quizzes.
Contested: shows you all quizzes for which a player has submitted an objection.
Help Needed: shows all quizzes for which a player has submitted a request for help.
Discussions: all quizzes for which there is a discussion posted.
By breaking things up this way, each tab could show information that is relevant to that type of search.
Looking forward to your feedback, SF
- Marga11 April, 2012 08:23
First of all: nice work!ReplyDelete
Some observations:
1. I choose 'Quizzes never played', maximum number of quizzes = 2
I have chosen the features of the technology on which I would like to be quizzed and it showed there were 4 intermediate and 1 advanced in it.
When I finished the wizard I got the following error:
Error ORA-20000: Unable to Create Practice There are no quizzes for your practice. Please adjust your criteria.
2. How can I review the practice quizzes I have taken?
Is it possible to put auto complete on the field for username(email adress)?
That's it for now.
1. Before you choose the feature (and where it shows you the number of quizzes per feature), you also select the amount of time since you originally took the quiz. The default is a month. It is possible that all 5 of those were within the date range. So two things here:
a. we should add logic to show numbers next to features that reflect the exclusionary date period (but I don't think that will be in place for the release).
b. it could be a bug. Could you please send me an email (email@example.com) with your email address used to log in to PL/SQL Challenge, and the specifics of your selections when setting up this practice?
2. Auto-complete for login: I will look into it, but isn't this something that can be done by easily in your browser?
- Marga13 April, 2012 13:06
1. I sent you an email with a document attached with screenshots (you must have received it by now).
2. Sometimes, when I navigate to the plsql challenge site my loginname is filled in as Iudith also wrote, but sometimes it is not. It is not only a matter of how my browser reacts, because when I log in into my webmail, my username will appear when I type in a letter. I don't know if it is possible in apex to get this going. What I do know is that it is possible to accomplish an autocomplete list based on the contents of a column, especially if you use version 4.1 or higher.
Well, we will see what the result will be.
Kind regards,
Hello All,ReplyDelete
Regarding Marga's question about Auto-complete:
My browser always shows me the e-mail address already filled in
on the Login page. I think it is a direct result of having cookies enabled in the browser.
I even did not use the "Remember me" for having this done,
which would probably mean to remember the password as well.
It is not exactly the same as the Auto-complete, which would mean that you enter the first letter(s) only and have the others filled out automatically, but I think it is exactly what you need if you are the only one playing from the same browser.
If several people use the same browser, then probably the cookie will always remember the last one used.
Regarding the self-practice quizzes:
As far as I understand, when you create a self-practice you also choose a time limit within which you are supposed to take the quizzes. Does this mean that at the end of this time your self-practice would be automatically deleted ?
Could it be that further, even if not in this release, we could
build a "dynamic" self test whose parameters only will be preserved indefinitely (under a custom name of our choice), while the quizzes list itself will be generated/optionally refreshed on demand each time when you ask for it, like for example:
"Show me all the advanced quizzes of the last quarter".
All the new features are great indeed, a fantastic work !
Thanks a lot & Best Regards,
Yes, unplayed (and closed) practices will be autmoatically removed.ReplyDelete
Regarding your idea for a "dynamic self test", very interesting idea. I will add that to our ER list for the future.
Autocomplete: I am sure there is more we could do here, and I will also add that to our ER list.
Regarding the auto-complete:ReplyDelete
Viewing the HTML source of the login page shows the input form with these parameters:
<form action="wwv_flow.accept" method="post" name="wwv_flow" id="wwvFlowForm" autocomplete="off">
autocomplete="off" tells the browser, that it should not remember what previously has been typed in the inputs. With autocomplete on, the browser remembers, so that next time you can just type the first letter or two and you get an automatic dropdown picklist where you can select what you typed previously in that input.
Maybe it is an attribute of the form in Apex whether to generate the HTML form with autocomplete off or on?
Thanks, Kim, I will look into that.ReplyDelete


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