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For the love of goat -- WITH VIDEOS
Jenny Brown acknowledges that the novelty of a one legged Woodstock woman standing up for a three legged goat draws attention - and donors.
When the New York Times told her story on the front page of its metro section last month, the response almost overwhelmed Brown, in a good way.
The path the goat took to come under Brown's care is a matter of speculation. Albie, the now-famous goat, was probably en route to a New York City slaughterhouse before he somehow escaped. When found in a Brooklyn park last August, the goat was wounded badly in one leg - likely from straps meant to immobilize him. Soon after, he wound up with Brown's Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, where she gave him the best care they could manage.
Still, the goat lost his left fore-leg months later.
Brown's empathy for Albie is strong, partly because cancer led to the amputation of her own right leg when she was 10 years old. Brown wears her own prosthetic leg most of her waking hours, walking with only a slight limp. So after Albie's leg was amputated, the idea of fitting him with a prosthetic made sense to her.
Dogs and some other animals may be able to survive well minus a leg, but Brown said the wear and tear on a hoofed animal such as Albie would mount too quickly. The remaining front leg probably won't be able to take the strain much longer.
As Brown spoke, Albie was eating grass a few feet away, down on one knee and his stump.
For the last few months, Brown and Albie have been working with Erik Tompkins - the same prosthetist who fitted Brown's right leg with its current below-the-knee prosthetic.
Tompkins, who mostly works out of an office in Kingston on human patients, molded a new lower leg for Albie this week.
"The technology that we're using is pretty simple," Tompkins said. "It's known as an endo-flex prosthesis."
Brown pointed out that an added challenge, with Albie, is all his fur, which makes redness and soreness more difficult to detect.
And the fact that goats can't talk doesn't help.
Already, some $5,000 has been spent on the amputation surgeries for Albie, and it is uncertain how much more his veterinary bills will cost during his lifetime. Tompkins is donating his services.
For critics who argue that those dollars might be better used for human-to-human kindness, Brown said these dollars weren't gathered at the expense of any other agencies. A marathoner used a pledge drive to raise $11,000 to go toward Albie's expenses and the donations triggered by the attention the latest New York Times article have dwarfed that.
That wave of support has already exceeded $60,000, she said, and a session with a CBS Morning Show crew is in the works that could add to the tally. Right now, the donations are going toward a new veterinary building with radiant floor heating in the heart of the shelter property.
For Brown, it has been important to use some of the attention she's garnered from Albie's story - and her own - to promote her vegan beliefs. Like many of the volunteers who work at the shelter, Brown doesn't eat meat or eggs or dairy products and she said part of the mission of the Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary is to convince others to do the same.
Or at least cut back.
"Incremental change is good," she said. "We have so many issues today in terms of world hunger and how there's a food shortage, and when you consider that it takes 30 pounds of grain to produce one pound of beef and that 30 pounds of grain could feed six people a day's ration of food."
Without the education component, the shelter would have relatively little impact on what Brown sees as the larger problem, large-scale factory farms that she said raise animals in misery.
While she tries to avoid "gloom and doom" while explaining what factory farm animals go through, she said she believes Americans should know the part they play in the cycle of meat and dairy production.
Even children.
"Of course we temper the message, but you have to step back and look at telling kids the truth," she said. "We're not just a rescue and rehab and sanctuary for some pretty lucky critters who have found their way here."
Even among the socially conscious, Brown has found a lot of ignorance.
The same people who refuse to eat veal because of what veal calves go through before slaughter may not realize that by drinking milk or eating dairy products they are supporting the cycle that produces veal. Dairy cows must have offspring annually or they won't produce milk, she said, and male calves are almost always slaughtered soon afterwards and served as veal, she said.
Brown pointed out several steers on her property that were veal calves rescued before slaughter. Their names are Ralphie, Andy, Elvis and Dylan.
Cheese eaters and milk drinkers beware, she said. "What they don't realize is they're complicit."
Tompkins said the time he has spent with Brown has opened his eyes to some aspects of the impact of factory farming on our world.
And for her part, Brown said talking with Tompkins has sharpened her interest in the rights of humans who use prosthetics. His work lobbying for prosthetic equity - trying to require insurance companies pay for their fair share of care for those who use mechanical limbs - could someday help Brown with her own medical coverage.
If her coverage lasts.
A one-time television producer, Brown has been relying on the health insurance brought home by her film editor husband, Doug Abel, co-founder of the sanctuary. The time Abel spent working on "30 Rock" kept them in health insurance for awhile, she said, but it is running out. "He worked enough hours on that job for me to get a leg."
The human-animal prosthetic story could come full circle in Tompkins' regular practice, Tompkins said. As Americans with inadequate health insurance - or no insurance at all - beg for prosthetics, they may have to accept more-basic mechanical legs like the one being developed for Albie.
Tompkins said he first learned how to make this style of endo-flex prosthesis as part of a project he worked on a few years ago helping teach technicians from third world countries to make cheap, effective prosthetics. While they function, they aren't as good as the more technical prosthetic legs most westerners use.
"In the future we may have to use some of this technology for some of our lesser-insured patients," Tompkins said.
Brown said she will continue to air her views on factory farming, and she doesn't mind showing some prosthetic leg if that will help. Keeping the sanctuary in the minds of the community is a good thing.
Since few of the volunteers with her group eat eggs, the eggs her chickens produce go to neighbors she wants "to suck up to."
The community also absorbs some of the animals the shelter has rescued.
"We adopt animals out to loving homes that promise to never eat them or exploit them or breed them, because there are so many animals that are being seized," she said, counting off issues of neglect and cruelty.
The no-breeding rule is important to her.
While she tries to ensure comfortable lives for the 130 rescued cows, goats, sheep, pigs, turkeys and chickens at the sanctuary, she won't allow them to have offspring, she said. "We do not allow reproduction here, that would be irresponsible of us. To bring more lives into the world when there are already so many we can't even help, right now."
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A continuing theme of George Willis's research since he received a PhD from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1981 has been the interaction between algebra and topology. However, the focus of his research has shifted from analysis to algebra, and he has also moved from being primarily a problem solver to being a creator of new mathematics.
His early work was in functional analysis, which is an all-embracing framework for such fundamental techniques as Fourier and Laplace transforms and the spectral theory of linear operators. In a subject called `automatic continuity', he demonstrated that algebraic properties determine topological ones in many circumstances and he has also established the strongest known results that distinguish between approximate and exact factorization. Most notably, he showed in 1991 that the compact approximation property for Banach spaces does not imply the approximation property, thus answering a question that had been open for 20 years. This result sheds light on how well infinite-dimensional spaces may be approximated by finite-dimensional ones.
In his more recent work, since moving to Newcastle (Australia) in 1992, he has done much to create the modern structure theory of totally disconnected, locally compact groups by introducing the notions of scale, tidy subgroups and flatness. Some of this work has been surveyed in the book `Banach algebras and the general theory of *-algebras', Volume II, Cambridge University Press (2001) by T. W. Palmer, where it is called `Willis theory' and said to provide `a whole new level of insight'. It has also been described in Mathematical Reviews as offering `genuinely original insights' into a `notoriously intractable' subject. Links with ergodic theory, geometric group theory and with arithmetic groups are currently being explored, amongst others.
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This research aims to develop methods for analyzing radical Banach algebras that would apply in realms beyond the reach of such widely applied spectral methods as: eigenvalues; the spectrum of linear operators; and the Fourier, Laplace and, more generally, Gel'fand transforms.
Topological algebra:
Other areas of topological algebra of interest include: approximate identities and factorization; random walks on groups; abstract harmonic analysis, cohomology of Banach algebras and amenability; operator algebras; and Banach space approximation properties
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What Makes The iPhone Location Logging Story So Bad?
Following up on my previous post about iOS 4 powered devices logging your every move, I just noticed this story from Time:
The Michigan chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has accused the MSP of using devices to extract information from the cellphones of drivers they've pulled over without the owner's knowledge, thereby violating Fourth Amendment rights. Mark Fancher, an ACLU attorney told reporters that cellphones "can contain information that many people consider to be private, to be beyond the reach of law enforcement and other government actors... There is great potential for abuse here by a police officer or state trooper who may not be monitored or supervised on the street."
These devices, the Cellbrite UFED, have been in use since before 2008. It doesn't matter if you password protect your phone or not – it will retrieve the data in about 30 seconds. What 4th amendment?
The police aren't the only ones you have to worry about either. Curious spouses, private investigators or anyone at all. The data is stored in your phone in very unsecure manner. Got a stalker? Great – just let him grab your phone in a bar. Now he'll know everywhere you have been and can figure out a pattern.
All we can hopeful now is that some one in Congress will take notice and do the right thing. Steve Jobs needs subpoenaed and forced to answer about this egregious invasion of privacy. If he refuses to answer there, then it's time for the DOJ to take action. This isn't an issue of right or left, but rather right or wrong.


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Post-Oil City - Exhibition / 28.01.2011
Back to the future, or how we can find the roots of our future in the past utopias of the 1960s and '70ies.
After its success in Berlin and Stuttgart, Vienna's Academy of Fine Arts hosts this teasing and fascinating exhibition - the exhibition hall, a former theater scenery depot (the Semper Depot), being an eye-catcher for itself (at free entrance).
The city, after oil ran out, is something most of us will still experience - to form the way leading there will fill our lifelines. Already as far back as 1755 (Lisbon earthquake) we started to look at our impact on nature. The concepts of sustainability, city-gardening, alternative travel, building and habitation were ideas of the past. But as seen in todays projects of high-tech, energy-autarkic cities like Masdar (Abu Dhabi), or the low-tech model of rural Ethiopia (NEST - New Energy Sustainable Town), those ideas bear the fruit for the future.
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A good start
.So January has come and gone and it's not been a bad month for Rolodecks. After quietly launching at the turn of the year, the response has been amazing. The feedback from fans and artists alike gives great motivation.
Rolodecks has been mentioned on both Nigerian and South African websites as well as starting this month out by receiving mention on South African radio, needless to say; it's greatly pleasing but there is a whole lot of work yet to be done.
There are a lot of features planned for the coming months. One of which is the introduction of an artist embed widget that will allow artists and bloggers to embed small widgets that will allow them to both link to their Rolodecks artist profiles and the artist's online presence. No more multiple hyperlinks to different sites for bloggers and journos. Along with that is the introduction of trend tracking of the statistics tracked by Rolodecks. Soon we'll be showing you who has been making the greatest impact on digital & social media. Whilst an artist may be in the top 10 of the Rolodecks rankings that doesn't mean that they are the one's moving and shaking currently.
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The vicinity of Pen y Fan is not ideal for wild camping, as it gets rather busy, especially on summer bank holiday weekends. There are few hollows for hiding your tent and pitching late is going to be after most 5 year old bedtimes.
If you are able to arrange transport the Mynydd Du would be more suitable. There is lots of empty space and there are lots of places to tuck a tent out of sight.
Otherwise, you might find it easier to start with a taxi and finish at the Storey Arms. Assuming you climb Pen y Fan on your last day the previous camp site ought to be within 2 miles of the summit and at least 336m high. You could probably find campable ground on Bryn Teg, or in the valleys either side if you don't mind a steep drop to get there, or on the ridge south east of Cribyn.
Last week I walked up Craig y Fan Ddu and noticed in the valley below to the right (SO059186) there seemed to be relatively flat spots near the stream. At the bottom of the valleys there are woodland tracks, waterfalls, streams. These might be more interesting to a youngster than the bleak hillside higher up.
There are flat spots on the ridge south and east of Fan y Big, with one or two sheltered hollows.
Along the main ridges there are no streams, so you might have to carry a day's worth of water. There are trickles of water on the bypass to the south of Cribyn and on the 'Roman' road that crosses Bwlch ar y Fan.
It's quite a tough proposition for taking a 5 year old and you might be better off choosing a more amenable venue. Maybe Dartmoor, where wild camping is officially allowed, so you can stop anywhere.
Being busy, Pen y Fan is relatively safe, in that there are sure to be people around if you need help. However if the weather turns nasty you don't want to up on the high ground with one so young. Tough military men have died up there in bad weather. I presume you have a dependable tent so you can bundle him inside in emergency.
lots of easily accessible camp spots around Usk reservoir, and surrounding area. Going slightly further afield the Carmarthen Fan is also quiet and quite easy to get to Llyn y Fan Fach from the car park (15 minute walk in)
or at storey arms just cross the road and camp near fan fawr tucked out of the way
of course the easy camps are to be had in the east in the black mountains area in and around abergavenny and of course llanthony priory "campsite" (a field) which is the gem of the beacons
There is an informal campsite at Cwm Llwch (no facilities to speak of), which will probably be fairly busy over the BH weekend; Llyn Cwm Llwch is a lovely wildcamping spot, but popular, esp. with DoE groups.
You should be aware that a Jubilee Beacon is being lit on Pen y Fan on the Monday, organised jointly by ATC, National Trust and Central Beacons Mountain Rescue Team, so it'll be busy there on Monday night. If you and the mini-stove wish to come along to see this, it should be fun - and come and say hello to me! Good wildcamping on Cefn Crew, S.W of Corn Du.
Being busy, Pen y Fan is relatively safe, in that there are sure to be people around if you need help.
Cheers for that everyone. Just to put people's minds at rest, its not his first backpacking trip; he's overnight backpacked in California, the Alps and Snowdon (entirely under his own steam up & down, at age 4). The great thing with a 5-yr old is that if he's had enough it would be pretty easy to hoist him onto my back and carry him (fortuantely I've never had to).
Thanks for the heads up on the beacon - sadly we're heading home on the Monday otherwise that would be a lot of fun. If I'd known I'd definitely have planned to be there.
Useful to know about Fan Fawr from Storey Arms as if we're ahead of schedule on Pen Y Fan then descending to camp would be a good option.
Kate - if you're on the hills on Sun/Mon and see a small high-speed blur pursued by a sweating dad with backpack, say hello.
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These contents have been obtained from the paper "The European Standardization Body for Learning Technologies" by Frans Van Assche and Mike Collett and edited for presentation. Please contact them for additional information on terms of use.
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The CEN Workshop for Learning Technologies was officially launched in February 1999. The initial activity of the Workshop has been the preparation of a report identifying requirements for standards-related activity in relation to learning technologies. This report was published as CEN Workshop Agreement CWA 14040 in October 2000 on which the following objective is based.
The Workshop's objective is to encourage the effective development and use of relevant and appropriate standards for learning technologies for Europe by
Encouraging participation in global initiatives in order to ensure that diverse European requirements are properly addressed by those global initiatives;
Creating specifications, agreements, guidelines or recommendations where appropriate, i.e. when no initiative addressing the identified requirements is in place yet or when global solutions developed elsewhere need to be localized to European requirements;
Providing a forum for the development and implementation of requirements-driven Learning Technologies e.g. through the development of a network or test bed for interoperability testing or through the creation of reference examples;
Carefully examining and taking into account the various effects, of the diversity of cultural backgrounds and languages that exists within Europe, on learning and training technology standards;
Publicizing the Learning Technologies Workshop's activities and results to relevant European projects, technology developers and end users;
Providing a discussion forum for European projects and other initiatives.
The workshop on learning technologies is - like other CEN Workshops - an open working group aimed at producing specifications on a consensus basis, as guidance or other material. The Workshop is open to all; it makes use of electronic working methods, enabling participation by companies, organisations and academia without the need for attendance in person at the Workshop meetings.
The CEN Workshops produce CEN Workshop Agreements (CWAs), which are consensus-based specifications drawn up in the special open Workshop environment. They are developed along straightforward lines, with a minimum of bureaucratic rules. CWAs may contain technical specifications, but they may also contain guidance material of a purely informative nature, such as guidelines or codes of practice, or they may address the implementation of existing standards.
A CWA reflects the consensus of identified companies and organisations responsible for its contents. Unlike a European Standard, it does not depend upon the votes of national delegations for its acceptance, nor is it designed to support legislative requirements. Instead, its purpose is to offer interested parties a flexible and timely tool for achieving a technical agreement where there is no prevailing desire or support for a formal standard to be developed.
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are however published by CEN National Members (the national standards bodies).
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The current work programme in the CEN/ISSS WS-LT is organised around four projects:
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Previous activities of the WSLT included investigations into digital rights and copyright protection, interoperability frameworks, learner profiles, accessibility, harmonisation of vocabularies, and the establishment of a learning technology observatory. More specifically, below are enumerated and described the previous activities of the learning technologies workshop:
. As digital learning materials become more widely available and it becomes easier to edit, combine and redistribute resources, the issues of digital rights and copyright protection become even more complex. Publishers want to protect their investment against illegal copying and non-commercial organisations or individuals want mechanisms to share materials with certain restrictions.
The Workshop examined digital rights management and coordinated with international developments and offered a European perspective. In particular, it focused on use cases and best practice, links to standardization initiatives and made suggestions for developing and harmonising European educational licence conditions.
Interoperability Frameworks
. Most of the information that supports school administration is now stored and transferred electronically. It is important that the correct information is preserved and that information remains up-to-date in all instances of a record, but this is often made difficult because not every application uses the same vocabularies, format and structure.
The Workshop aimed to provide interoperability specifications for a range of information exchange. This work item support the outputs of the OASIS project (Open Architecture and Schools in Society - IST-2000-26216), that enables different applications and systems to share information and the SIF project (Schools Interoperability Framework).
Existing specifications were adapted to meet the needs of a broader audience so they are suitable for standardization. Any specifications produced should not duplicate international standards activity. Additional information available at
Interoperability frameworks for exchange of information between diverse management systems
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. It is inevitable that information about users will be stored electronically and transferred between learning systems. There are issues about privacy and data protection but it is important that various systems can interoperate to exchange learner information records. The Workshop dealed with the development of data models, protocols and bindings that are capable of expressing specific European requirements and concerns for learner information, for example an acceptable model for handling competency that allows the secure handling of this personal information in open and distributed learning environments.
The development of European contributions as part of future international standards was required in order to avoid conflict with European privacy or security demands. The Workshop encouraged harmonization of effort and provided input into international activities such as Participant Information being developed by ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC 36 and the Learner Information Package from the IMS Global Consortium.
The Workshop produced recommendations for a European competency repository and various mappings taking into account the European Diploma Supplement, CEDEFOP specifications (European CV format, CV supplement) and language capability definitions. More information available at
Handling of Learner Profiles in IT - supported learing environments from a European perspective
. Accessibility to all forms of information and communication technologies for everyone, regardless of their requirements and abilities, was a high priority. The Web Accessibility Initiative of W3C enables, for instance, production of web-sites that are accessible to all, including people that are visually impaired.
The Workshop studied the accessibility requirements for learning objects for learning communities with special needs. One specific activity was to propose vocabulary and elements extensions to be integrated into the IEEE LOM. More information available at
Description of Language Resource Capabilities with Respect to Accessibility Requirements
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. (
The current Web site
) Uptake of learning technology standards is increasing, with numerous commercial products under development, and many RTD projects exploring the issues in this area.
However, there is widespread confusion and misunderstanding about the relationships between the relevant standards and specifications, as well as between the organisations that develop, define, profile or implement them.
To respond to this need, the Learning Technologies Workshop decided to establish an accessible and sustainable web-based repository that acts as a focal access point to projects, results, activities and organisations that are relevant to the development and adoption of e-learning technology standards.
What is thus offered is a neutral source that addresses for instance the relationship and main differences among specifications and standards for the same category (e.g. how do IEEE/LTSC LOM and IMS metadata interrelate).
The on-line repository of taxonomies and vocabularies
. A web based registry of vocabularies, thesauri, classifications, taxonomies relevant to the field of education and learning technology, is available to assist the users of the Learning Object Metadata model who want to create their own controlled vocabulary while indexing their resources.
Users should contribute to the repository's maintenance by submitting new descriptions of a vocabulary, taxonomy, and thesaurus or by modifying an existing description. Links to the registry are provided through the Workshop's home-page. More information available at
Repository of taxonomies/vocabularies for a European Learning Society
Quality Assurance
. The public perception of the quality and awards obtained through learning schemes that involve use of learning technologies must not be compromised if such schemes are to flourish.
Standards on quality requirements of different processes cannot be established before the processes themselves are defined. Moreover, such standards should not be prescriptive, especially when dealing with stylistic or pedagogical issues. As an example, descriptive elements might be used to ensure the transparency of design and development processes. Such elements may include reports and documentation.
The Workshop produced an analysis of existing approaches, focusing on two main aspects: Process-oriented approaches and transparency of learning resources. The outcome of the project was CWA 14644, "Quality Assurance Standards for IT-supported Learning, Education and Training", published in January 2003. More information available at
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Now that LOM is formally approved in IEEE, the CEN/ISSS/WS/LT has initiated a process to translate it into a number of European languages. Translations are available for downloading from this web-site:
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From its very start, the Learning Technologies Workshop has decided, as a matter of principle, to not duplicate work that is already done elsewhere. The work for instance that was done in relation to the
IEEE LTSC Learning Object Metadata (LOM)
is a clear example of this principle.
Similar to IEEE/LTSC, the Learning Technologies Workshop has a special status towards the
ISO/IEC JTC1/SC36 committee on Learning Technologies
, which enables it to feed its deliverables into the formal international standardization process for becoming ISO/IEC standards. For instance, results on
Quality Assurance and on Description of Language Capabilities
have been input into SC36's work programme.
Technical specification providers such as the ones mentioned in an earlier section are also following up on the work of the Learning Technologies Workshop. They are feeding their experiences into the Workshop or including the Workshop's results into their own specifications.
Finally, in the domain of eLearning and eTraining, considerable efforts are invested under the
IST programme
as well as via many national or
European initiatives
. Projects producing specifications, architectures, reference models, etc. with an interest of getting a broader support and recognition of their work, can use the Workshop as a useful tool for reaching a European-wide consensus on their deliverables.
More specifically, the liaisons of the workshop are enumerated below:
Formal Liaisons
. Standards in information technology in the areas of Learning, Education, and Training
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. Management and Delivery (for Learning, Education, and Training)
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InLOC -- "Integrating Learning Outcomes and Competences" -- is a project of the CEN Workshop on Learning Technologies, to produce a CEN Workshop Agreement, which is later intended to form the basis of a European Standard. Its subject -- information defining and structuring learning outcomes and competences ("LOCs") -- is important for training and educational information systems, for recruitment systems, for many other systems involved in learning, development, assessment or recognition of skills or competence, and for advances in learner mobility and the labour market.
InLOC provides a relatively simple model for this information in terms of separate "LOC definitions", each of which defines a particular learning outcome: an area of knowledge, a skill or a competence of an individual. LOC definitions are associated together within "LOC structures". This kind of structure can be found in many places, sometimes called "skills frameworks" or "competence frameworks", or sometimes "occupational standards". Representing levels of skill or competence has been a major obstacle in the past, and InLOC introduces a novel approach which is both quite simple and intuitive, and rich enough to support many envisaged functional requirements.
InLOC does not itself define any learning outcomes or competences, but provides a model and guidelines for authorities to define and communicate the ones they own, for use by learners and others.
The InLOC project has consulted many stakeholders, and examined many existing published frameworks and structures. But to ensure that it is effective and fit for purpose, it needs to be checked out fully in practice. Both framework owners, and developers of tools and services, can help at this point. Firstly, they can look through InLOC's final draft materials, and add comments where improvements could possibly be made. Secondly, they can try out the InLOC approach, with help or guidance from the team (up to the end of the InLOC project), and feed back any suggestions to make it even more useful and effective. Any comments will be warmly welcomed by the team.
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A happy "accident".Today is March 24 birthday of the three Olympic champions. Two of them are no longer with us.
They represented different countries in different events and have individual medals. The eldest of them is the only athlete of his country, which made gold double on a single games. Only one medal of the second athlete was 10th in this event for his country. In order to win in this event, this athlete had set two Olympic records. Formally, the third winner is the first champion in this event for his country. How considered by many that an athlete won thanks to a certain situation in the competition. Because of this, he earned the nickname, which is the name of a famous American movie eighties (four Oscars). Call names of these athletes. PS Sorry The second athlete has one more silver medal.
Re: A happy "accident".No wish to congratulate the Champions or need clues?
Re: A happy "accident".So guessed medium age athlete in another topic.
Indeed, the tenth gold medal from 19 for the U.S. in 110H won Bill Porter in 1948. In the semi-finals and finals, he established the OR - 14.1 and 13.9. Now we can tell Happy birthday to Bill Porter ! Clue for Seniors. Two events in which athlete has won it the most popular in his country. Total in this country 14 Olympic champions in these two events M/F. Clue for junior. Oscar for Best Actor in a leading role in this movie has received the actor with the initials D.H. The name of topic refers to this athlete.
Re: A happy "accident".I'm guessing the actor might be Dustin Hoffman. I believe he won the Oscar for "Rainman". Are you saying the athlete's event relates to Dustin Hoffman or the athlete shares the same initials as Dustin Hoffman (Dawn Harper)?
Re: A happy "accident".Maybe I'll write bad English.
The third athlete has a nickname as the title of the movie. Tip for the title of the movie Best Actor in a leading role in this movie D.H. Now you know Junior's nickname. Perhaps he is called so not in all countries, but in his country he is called as "Rain Man" very often.
Re: A happy "accident".The athlete's nickname is Rain Man. Someone who performed well in the rain. I'm afraid you have me there. Anyone know this?
Re: A happy "accident".In which event the offensive heavy rain can be "happy" for one and "unhappy" to other athletes?
Go from Beijing down and remember, "Rain Man".
Re: A happy "accident".Clue for Seniors.
Two events in which athlete has won(classic double) is the most popular historically events in this country. There are a total of 14 Olympic winners in these two events (M / F) for the country. He is not American.
Re: A happy "accident".For "Rain Man" I thought of Jacek Wszola because of all the rain in Montreal. Not sure he was born in March.
Re: A happy "accident".Sergey Klyugin maybe?
Re: A happy "accident".
Indeed, in the Montreal contest in high jump took place in the pouring rain, and rain was an accident for all, without exception. You have correctly guessed the event. Now we have to guess the year and read the initial question.
Re: A happy "accident".
Yes, it's Sergey Klyugin, who is in Sydney, managed to jump 2.35 before there was a heavy rain. As the jumpers began attempting 2.35, rain began to fall. After the other six all missed, Kliugin sailed over cleanly on his first try. He jumped the last in the list. Almost immediately, the rain came down more heavily, and none of the second-and third-attempt jumps came close to a clearance. Behind the medallists came Javier Sotomayor, Stefan Holm of Sweden, Konstantin Matoussevice of Israel in fourth and fifth, and Mark Boswell of Canada and Staffan Strand of Sweden, tied for sixth -- all at 2.32. Last edited by gennady on Wed Mar 28, 2012 11:32 am, edited 1 time in total.
Re: A happy "accident".So unhappiness for the other was a happy occasion for one.
Since then, many in Russia, even the TV commentators called Sergei Klyugin as "Rain Man." A sufficient number of people believe that if it were not for heavy rain, it would not Klyugin Olympic champion, I do not belong to this part. And late in saying Happy Birthday Sergey Klyugin.
Re: A happy "accident".My congratulations to LopenUupunut and sorrow for DoubleRBar.
Perhaps your additional questions helped LopenUupunut . What will happen to the Seniors? Did you leave him without greeting?
Re: A happy "accident".Very good LopenUupunut. I had forgot about Sydney and I was there in the rain!
Re: A happy "accident".I was thinking of champions with the Olympic double, like Peter Snell in Tokyo, and I remembered Albert Hill. He might fit your clues.
Re: A happy "accident".Finally it DoubleRBar.
So it really is Albert Hill, who at the age of 31-year, despite all the difficulties, that were with him in England, and in Antwerpen, has made golden double 800/1500. In addition, he has received a silver medal in the team race 3 000m. Of course, middle-distance running is one of the most popular in the UK. My congratulations to DoubleRBar and Happy Birthday to Albert Hill. Your greetings and a question DoubleRBar!
Re: A happy "accident".Thank you, gennady. Albert must be pretty old now. I realize he must have died years ago.
Re: A happy "accident".
Yes, he died in 1969.
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struct vec4
float x, y, z, w;
//an SSE3 instruction (haddps) provides the means to remove
//fadd instructions. To fully utilize the SIMD we must do 4
//vectors at once. The vectors are normalized in place and
//lengths is filled with the original lengths.
inline static void Normalize4Vectors
(vec4* a, vec4* b, vec4* c, vec4* d, vec4* lengths)
mov eax, a
movups xmm0, [eax];//copy a to xmm0
movaps xmm4, xmm0;//save copy of a to xmm4
mulps xmm0, xmm0;//xmm0 contains the components of a squared
mov eax, b
movups xmm1, [eax];//copy b to xmm1
movaps xmm5, xmm1;//save copy of b to xmm5
mulps xmm1, xmm1;//xmm1 contains the components of b squared
haddps xmm0, xmm1;//xmm0.x = a.x^2 + a.y^2, xmm0.y = a.z^2+a.w^2
;//xmm0.z = b.x^2 + b.y^2, xmm0.w = b.z^2+b.w^2
mov eax, c
movups xmm1, [eax];//copy c to xmm1
movaps xmm6, xmm1;//save copy of c to xmm6
mulps xmm1, xmm1;//xmm1 contains the components of c squared
mov eax, c
movups xmm2, [eax];//copy d to xmm2
movaps xmm7, xmm2;//save copy of d to xmm7
mulps xmm2, xmm2;//xmm3 contains the components of d squared
haddps xmm1, xmm2;//xmm2.x = c.x^2 + c.y^2, xmm2.y = c.z^2+c.w^2
;//xmm2.z = d.x^2 + d.y^2, xmm2.w = d.z^2+d.w^2
haddps xmm0, xmm1;//we now have xmm0 filled with the 4 lengths squared
;//xmm1.x = a.x^2 + a.y^2 + a.z^2 + a.w^2
sqrtps xmm1, xmm0;//square root each
mov eax, result
movups [eax], xmm1;//output lengths
pshufd xmm0, xmm1, 0;//xmm1 filled with a's length-shuffle 0,0,0,0
divps xmm4, xmm0;//xmm4 contains normalized a
mov eax, a
movups [eax], xmm4;//output new a
pshufd xmm0, xmm1, 0x55;//xmm1 filled with a's length-shuffle 1,1,1,1
divps xmm5, xmm0;//xmm5 contains normalized b
mov eax, b
movups [eax], xmm5;//output new b
pshufd xmm0, xmm1, 0xAA;//xmm1 filled with a's length-shuffle 2,2,2,2
divps xmm6, xmm0;//xmm6 contains normalized c
mov eax, c
movups [eax], xmm6;//output new c
pshufd xmm0, xmm1, 0xFF;//xmm1 filled with a's length-shuffle 3,3,3,3
divps xmm7, xmm0;//xmm7 contains normalized d
mov eax, d
movups [eax], xmm7;//output new d
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Despite their fine start to the season Northampton director of rugby Jim Mallinder wants his side to "step things up" against Worcester on Saturday.
The Saints host the Warriors on the back of three successive Premiership wins. But with Worcester having shown their competitiveness in their own matches Mallinder believes more is needed from the men in black, green and gold.
"We've won our first three games, which is good, but there has been plenty to work on ahead of Saturday's game," he said.
"We've gone ahead in games and then let the other team back in, which is something we've got to stop doing, especially in such a tight competition like the Aviva Premiership.
"Worcester have played some good rugby in their first three games, and have been very competitive. Richard Hill has brought some good players in and it's going to be a difficult game for us.
"We've got to look at our own performance and to step things up if we're going to continue our good start."
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Lena Dunham and Judd Apatow bring us a show all about the trials and tribulations of living in NYC. Lena Dunham plays Hannah who is shocked when her parents cut her off financially and she struggles to make it work. Also catch the other great Sunday AMC favorites 'The Killing' and 'Mad Men'.
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The toughest decision that lawyers, in-house or otherwise, help clients make is whether to impose the employment-law equivalent of capital punishment: termination of an employee. While clients look to attorneys for counsel, sometimes they really want us to make the decision -- for that cup to pass from them. Here are five questions to ask to ensure the decision is the right one at the right time.
No. 1: Is it a game of "gotcha" at work? Difficult employees are everywhere. Perhaps they should be terminated. But sometimes problem employees are terminated for minor or trivial reasons. So, when operations comes to the lawyer and says, "Now, we finally have a reason to get rid of this employee," counsel needs to put the brakes on the decision-making train.
Why? The manager may not be terminating the employee for a good reason. Rather, the manager's statement suggests that he may have a problem employee but he has not bothered to counsel him adequately on his performance. The manager conveniently sees a minor infraction as a way to make an end run around the task of laying the proper groundwork for a clean termination.
No. 2: Is there a rush to judgment? There are things you know and things you only think you know. A lawyer at another firm told me about a case in which his client concluded that an employee with a checkered past -- let's call him John -- was a thief. When I asked why, he said that the client had a telephone conversation (not an eye-to-eye meeting) with someone -- let's call her Jane -- who blamed John for a theft. But it turns out that Jane had been terminated under suspicious circumstances and may have borne a grudge against John.
The lawyer really didn't know John was a thief. But the belief fit a preconceived view, and that was that. Here is a gut-check question: What solid and verifiable facts are there to support the belief that the employee (fill in the blank on the purported misconduct)? If the lawyer can't answer the question, then hit the stop button on termination.
No. 3: Is tunnel vision developing? Remember reading Les Miserables in high school? Inspector Javert was the detective who obsessively went after Jean Valjean. Or, more recently, the movie The Fugitive depicted Deputy Marshal Sam Gerard (played by Tommy Lee Jones) chasing Dr. Richard Kimble (played by Harrison Ford). Kimble yelled out, "I didn't kill my wife," to which Gerard famously replies, "I don't care."
While entertaining in fiction and film, tunnel vision is devastating in the workplace when making a termination decision. Here are the danger signs:
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More men in the United States die from lung cancer than any other kind of cancer, and cigarette smoking causes most cases. Smoking also causes cancers of the esophagus, larynx (voice box), mouth, throat, kidney, bladder, pancreas, stomach, and acute myeloid leukemia. Nonsmokers who are exposed to secondhand smoke at home or work increase their lung cancer risk by 20%–30%. Concentrations of many cancer-causing and toxic chemicals are higher in secondhand smoke than in the smoke inhaled by smokers.
One of the most important things you can do to lower your risk of cancer is to stop smoking if you smoke, and avoid secondhand smoke.
Obesity, Overweight, and Lack of Physical Activity
For more than 30 years, excess weight, lack of physical activity, and an unhealthy diet have been considered second only to tobacco use as preventable causes of disease and death in the United States. Since the 1960s, tobacco use has decreased by a third while obesity rates have doubled.
In men, the following cancers are associated with being overweight: colorectal cancer, esophageal adenocarcinoma (a type of cancer of the tube that connects your throat to your stomach), and cancer of the kidney and pancreas. Several of these cancers also are associated with not getting enough physical activity.
Adopting a lifestyle that includes healthy eating and regular physical activity can help prevent these cancers.
Sun Safety
Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the United States. The two most common kinds of skin cancer—basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas—are highly curable. But melanoma, the third most common skin cancer, is more dangerous. About 65%–90% of melanomas are caused by exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light—an invisible kind of radiation that comes from the sun, tanning beds, and sunlamps. Overall, men have higher rates of melanoma. But among young people, women get it more.
A few serious sunburns can increase your risk of skin cancer. To protect your skin from the sun, seek shade or go indoors during midday hours; wear long sleeves and long pants, a hat with a wide brim, and sunglasses; use sunscreen with a sun protective factor (SPF) of 15 or higher; and avoid indoor tanning.
Types of Cancer
Prostate Cancer
Prostate cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death in men. All men are at risk for prostate cancer, but older men, African-American men, and men with a family history of prostate cancer have a higher risk.Not all medical experts agree that screening for prostate cancer saves lives. Currently, there is not enough evidence to decide if the possible benefit of prostate cancer screening outweighs the risks. CDC supports informed decision making, which occurs when a man—
- Understands the nature and risk of prostate cancer.
- Understands the risks of, benefits of, and alternatives to screening.
- Participates in making the decision to be screened at a level he wants.
- Makes a decision consistent with his preferences and values.
Colorectal (Colon) Cancer
The third leading cause of cancer deaths in American men is colorectal cancer. Screening tests for colorectal cancer can find precancerous polyps so they can be removed before they turn into cancer. Screening tests also can find colorectal cancer early, when treatment works best. Everyone should be tested for colorectal cancer regularly starting at age 50.
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