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City & Guilds Certification
Galvin Restaurants is the first company in the world to adopt the brand new City & Guilds Global Certification for Hospitality. Chris Galvin has been heavily involved in designing this benchmark, the first of its kind.
Despite high profile closures, particularly in restaurant chains, the UK hospitality industry is the UK's fourth biggest and expected to have sales exceeding £100 billion when 2018 figures are published. Almost one in ten of all workers are employed in this sector which has grown 20% in the last five years.
Chris and Jeff Galvin, probably the only brothers with a Michelin star currently working together in the UK (anywhere in the world), see this new certification as vital for their industry.
Brexit has had a significant impact on the UK Hospitality Industry with increasing pressure on the number of people wanting to work in the sector. City & Guilds has established a framework of digital badges designed to "Make Skills Visible" and help provide clear career pathways within the hospitality industry so that individuals around the world can get recognition for the skills and experience they have developed on the job.
"Our industry faces two major problems" comments Chris Galvin. "The first is that there simply aren't enough bodies. Not enough people to fill the vacancies. The second is that too few people at all levels, from school leavers to university graduates to mature workers see Hospitality as a career they want to pursue"
"There is a perception that it is a low-grade sector but in fact the reverse is true. We are a young people's industry and progress in a career can be both rapid and lucrative."
City & Guilds' Jeremy Dahdi, Executive Director for International and Digital Credentialing expects acceptance and take up of the Global Certificate to be rapid. "We have used the latest technology available to generate 21st century, mobile and data rich digital badges. There are huge advantages for both those wanting to work in the industry and employers looking for skilled staff, with the right attitude.
"Instead of having paper certificates, individuals can now provide a digital footprint of their career against standards which have been co-designed with leading employers. We've worked closely with Chris Galvin to make sure that the framework is realistic and easy for any hotel, bar or restaurant to adopt. We know that all leading [OR quality?] brands have their "bibles" – you might call it the Galvin Way of doing things for example. Our Global Certification meshes seamlessly with these individual operations manuals."
Starting in May Individuals working in hospitality can register. Everyone working in the hospitality sector can gain recognition – whatever level they are at. Career mapping is clear. Even a cleaner or casual staff can get a badge for gaining experience in hospitality operations. If they then move into working behind the bar or joining a kitchen brigade they can gain additional skill badges. This goes all the way up to the Chef or General Manager at a huge international hotel.
For the first year, City & Guilds will be focusing on embedding the certification with leading international, high quality brands. "We are keen to make sure that we are building very strong credibility for the framework before opening it out more widely so that it becomes a truly global benchmark for the industry" said Jeremy Dahdi.
Chris Galvin and Fred Sirieix, General Manager, Galvin at Windows have a long history of supporting careers in their industry. Galvin's Chance, founded in 2009 is an into-work programme for young people. The programme leads to pre-employment hospitality training, a work placement and sustainable employment. Galvin's Chance seeks to help those at risk of crime and offer them a real alternative and to support young people who face various barriers to employment.
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I just finished reading the new book by Seth Godin: Tribes. The book is essentially about "opportunities for leading your fellow employees, customers, investors, believers, hobbyists, readers...etc." One of the sections is called "Where credit is due"
It says that leaders don't care about credit...this made me think of the shark community: photographers, videographers, scientists, non-profits, activists, and the hundreds of online communities that have sprung up on Facebook and other social networks. It is unfortunate to see that lack of togetherness because too many people want credit - they want credit for bringing the media's attention to something, changing a law, making a movie, getting a grant…the list goes on.
I see the bickering between people on Shark Group forums; I have heard that scientists do not like one another and that organizations refuse to work together. Too many people have their own agendas and are just using sharks and their misfortune as an opportunity to springboard themselves to "fame". If everyone's agenda was to save sharks - sharks would be safer today.
Unfortunately I feel that our shark community has no leader and therefore not as much gets done and change is slow. I hope that whoever reads this does not in any way feel attacked (and if you do, you are probably one of the people that wants credit).
The section of the book ends with: "There's no record of Martin Luther King Jr. or Gandhi whining about credit. Credit isn't the point. Change is."
Credit isn't the point. Change is.


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Happy enough with Sweden's win. Ibra immense in the first half and then went missing, not like him at all...
Happy enough with Sweden's win. Ibra immense in the first half and then went missing, not like him at all...
Jesus brings life eternal
Let's be realistic - given the talent currently available to Capello, if the right team is selected, England should qualify for the Euro finals. But don't seriously expect them to come close to winning the competition. They're just not in the class of Spain, Holland, Germany, etc.
I resent that.
Montenegro leading in Bulgaria at half-time 1-0.
Injuries really forcing England to scrape through the hole in the barrel. Lescott playing at the centre of defence now. Expecting a total bore-fest but always a chance of a goal with our back four.
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I guess the logic is that he and Jagielka have played together a fair bit in the past.
marc71178 - President and founding member of AAAS - we don't only appreciate when he does well, but also when he's not quite so good!
Anyone want to join the Society?
Beware the evils of Kit-Kats - they're immoral apparently.
Still have gone with Cahill, myself.
0-0 for my quid.
Cricket Web's current Premier League Tipping Champion
- As featured in The Independent.
"There is presumably such a thing as a good second-ball duck. This was not one of them." - Barney Ronay on James Vince's innings v. Australia
Clearly not going to be a goal-fest, but wouldn't be surprised to see England scrape a 1-0 here perhaps.
Thankfully no comments here about Rooney scoring away from home, or getting the away leg over.
Anyone see what happened to Walcott in the buildup to the goal?
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Apparently so. He's gone to hospital for x-rays, fingers crossed it's just a sprain really. Depends whether his studs were in the ground or not I guess.
Sounds like England should have had this game won by now.
Anyway Bulgaria lost at home to Montenegro. So 2 wins for Montenegro who are the lowest seed in the group. Interesting.
Belarus 0 - 0 Romania
Or something.
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Cybersecurity Bill Stalls Again, Executive Order Coming Soon?
The comprehensive cybersecurity legislation has stalled again in the United States Senate, effectively killing the bill for the rest of the year. Will the president issue an executive order to protect the nation's critical infrastructure from cyber-attacks?
On Wednesday, the Senate voted 51-47 to end debate on the bill and move to a final vote. However, the bill needed 60 votes to break the filibuster and move forward. The proposed bill failed a similar vote back in August.
The Cybersecurity Act of 2012—from Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif), and Tom Carper (D-Del)—offers private companies incentives for adopting best practices. Under the voluntary program, organizations will be able to request federal assistance on cyber issues and receive immunity after an attack. The bill would allow the private sector and federal government to share information about threats, incidents, best practices, and fixes.
"Once again, Senate Republicans have chosen to filibuster much-needed cybersecurity legislation and, in so doing, have ignored the advice of the country's most senior military and national security officials," said Rockefeller.
"It is disappointing that senators haven't yet been able to reach an agreement on cybersecurity legislation—but stalemate doesn't make the issue go away," BSA President and CEO Robert Holleyman said in a statement.
Supporters of the bill had argued the legislation was necessary to protect critical infrastructure, including power grids, water systems, transportation systems, and communications networks from ever increasing cyberattacks.
"Every day that we wait, our country becomes more vulnerable to a serious cyberattack, indeed a catastrophic attack," Collins said in a statement.
Opponents had cited concerns over privacy. The Electronic Frontier Foundation called it "dangerously vague." The legislation, if it had passed, would have watered down existing privacy laws, the EFF claimed.
Most Republicans also opposed voluntary standards, arguing it would eventually lead to mandatory regulations.
"Members do disagree with the notion this problem requires legislation that increases the size of the federal government bureaucracy and places new burdens and regulation on businesses," said Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), calling the bill "flawed."
Eyes on the President
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) called the bill "dead for this Congress" even as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Congress may take up the issue again "sometime in December."
While Congress can revisit the bill again, either next month or next year with the new session of Congress, there is a possibility Pres. Barack Obama will take steps before then. Shortly after the bill stalled in August, several lawmakers had urged Obama to issue an executive order to strengthen the country's cyberdefenses. Reid reiterated the call on Wednesday.
"A bill that was and is most important to national security was just killed and that's cybersecurity. I hope President Obama uses all the authority of the executive branch at his disposal to fully protect our nation from the cybersecurity threat," Reid said.
The White House was exploring ways "to more effectively secure the nation's critical infrastructure by working collaboratively with the private sector," Caitlin Hayden, spokeswoman for the White House National Security Council, said after the vote.
A draft of the executive order has been circulating for a few months, under which the National Institute of Standards and Technology would set cybersecurity standards for eighteen critical infrastructure industries. The Department of Homeland Security would encourage private sector agencies to adopt the standards. Appropriate agencies responsible for regulating those industries would propose regulations for those organizations. The draft also set up information sharing mechanisms to make it easier to share data while ensuring privacy.
Hayden did not rule out the possibility of the executive order but emphasized that it would not be a substitute for new legislation. The order won't be able to create new powers or authorities or offer companies liability protection after a cyberattack.
"The president is determined to protect our nation against cyber threats," Hayden said.


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There, we got it out of the way. When you read the headline, of course an image of a tiny Cold War-era hatchback popped into your head. We bet you also shuddered at the thought of a Pontiac Aztek.
We love to poke fun at failure, and no failure made a punchline better than the Yugo. We found that out while talking with Jason Vuic, author of The Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History. Vuic was aware that the Yugo fell far short of being a good car, but what truly amazed him was how many people who had never driven a Yugo knew just how bad it was. In failure, it became a wild viral marketing success.
Not all cars rose to level of infamy embodied by the Yugo. To paraphrase Shakespeare, some cars were born awful while others had awfulness thrust upon them. Some automotive atrocities were the result of automakers trying something new and falling far short of the mark, while other cars failed from a lack of effort. Still others were perfectly adequate cars but came to represent a regrettable moment in time.
Here we display all three kinds of auto-trocities, highlighting famous failures and digging deep to dredge up detritus better off forgotten. Yes, we know there are many, many more automotive atrocities and this list only scratches the surface of the heap. You'll have a chance to list your favorite heaps tomorrow, so stay tuned.
Above: Peel Trident 1965-1966
Famous from appearances on Top Gear and Monster Garage, the Peel Trident was a "shopping car" built on the Isle of Man. Along with the bubblelicious BMW Isetta and the fiberglass Reliant Robin, the Trident was ridiculed for its small size and three wheels.
Photo: Casaflamingo/Flickr
Reeves Octoauto 1911
Almost a century before the Octomom, M.O. Reeves attracted stares with the Octoauto he built by adding four more wheels to an Overland. As the ad says, this was done to offer the smoothness of a train ride and to save on tire wear. After the Octoauto proved to be a failure, Reeves built a six-wheeled Sexto-Auto that sold exactly one unit.
Briggs & Stratton Flyer 1920
Now known for building lawnmowers, Briggs & Stratton built an almost-automobile that looks like a failed Soap Box Derby entry. With a wood frame doubling as chassis and suspension, the Flyer (on the right, natch) is so easy to build and terrifyingly fun to drive that plans for replicas are readily available online. The Flyer sold for as low as $125, making it the world's least expensive car. You can't even buy a push mower for that much these days.
Photo: michix.2002/Flickr
Helicron 1932
As passengers on aircraft taxiing to the runway, we've often wondered what a plane would be like if it spent all its time on the ground. The makers of the Helicron concept obviously had similar ideas, but unfortunately brought them to reality. The French car uses a propeller to move it slowly down the road and up hills. According to Old Cars Weekly, top speed is "a gusty 60 miles per hour."
Photo: Jim Merithew / Wired.com
Renault Dauphine 1956-1967
Underpowered, prone to rust and imported from France, the Dauphine was destined to become a punchline. With a positively anemic rear-engine driving the rear wheels, the bug-eyed Dauphine was capable of a 0-60 sprint in a leisurely 37 seconds. It topped out at 70, but we wouldn't recommend any speeds over 35 on a road that presents such challenges as curves or wind. Despite its drawbacks, its low price made it a million-seller in Europe faster than any car that came before it.
Photo of Renault Dauphines at Southland Motor Imports in San Diego: aldenjewell/Flickr
VEB Sachsenring Trabant 1957-1991
When it debuted in East Germany in 1957, the Trabant was a decent car that could compete with subcompacts from the West. When the barely-improved Trabant ceased production some 34 years later, Easterners abandoned them on roadsides after moving West — if they got that far (video). Despite a small footprint and good gas mileage, the Trabant was an environmental disaster with a smoky two-stroke engine and a Duroplast body that could not be recycled or disposed without creating toxic fumes.
Photo: realname/Flickr. What has to be the world's biggest masochist is rally racing what has to be the world's nicest Trabant RS. We're surprised the navigator isn't pushing the car.
AMC Gremlin 1970-1978
One of the first "import fighters," the AMC Gremlin was a small car in the days before the first oil crisis, and as such immediately appeared out of place. By the standards of the 1970s, it was a decent car: Unlike its domestic competitors — the Ford Pinto and Chevy Vega — the Gremlin never gained notoriety for catching fire when hit from behind and didn't have an aluminum engine that could barely last 50,000 miles. Still, its silly name, avant garde styling and association with the 1970s made it a joke on wheels.
Photo: Let There Be More Light/Flickr
Highway Aircraft Corp. Fascination 1974
Another aircraft-auto disaster. Looking like a parasitic relationship between a Dymaxion car and a Buick Riviera, the chromed-out Fascination was originally built to be propeller-powered like the Helicron, but a traditional drivetrain and Volkswagen engine were installed at the last minute when a propeller failed during a test run. The current owners lovingly restored it, but keep it as a trailer queen due to the risk of distracting other drivers.
Photo: Jim Merithew / Wired.com
Ford Mustang II 1974-1978
The Mustang II was Lee Iacocca's response to pollution laws and crash test requirements, and as such it lost most of the pony car performance of the original Mustang. While it was a decent automobile for the time, the II was widely derided by enthusiasts as what happens when government regulations get in the way of building a great car.
Photo of the 1976 Ford Mustang II Cobra: Ford
Aston Martin Lagonda 1976-1989
A departure from the traditional coupes that made Aston Martin famous, the Lagonda featured four doors and an opulent interior. With a three-speed Chrysler transmission, an unreliable digital instrument panel and styling like a Volvo 740 stretched out on silly putty, it's now hard to believe the Lagonda was once one of the most expensive cars ever sold.
Photo: Aston Marin
Zastava Koral, aka Yugo 1980-1988
The most infamous car since the Edsel, the Yugo was a Yugoslav-built version of a Fiat 127 that started out as a wild sales success after its US debut. A Consumer Reports review recommended car buyers spend their $3990 (actually $4400 — read the fine print) on a used car. Sales dried up and cash-starved Yugo America folded, but the tiny car from a Communist country lives on as a joke.
Cadillac Cimarron 1982-1988
Badge-engineering at its worst, the Cimarron was a thinly disguised Chevy Cavalier that tarnished the image of the Cadillac brand. The car was rushed into production to compete with smaller, European luxury cars. Unfortunately, it had all of the performance and refinement of a Cavalier — at double the price. Amazingly, the General let it live for six years.
Photo: General Motors. GM has scrubbed all evidence of the Cimarron from the Cadillac photo archive, but we found this in Flickr. Thanks, Hugo90!
Hummer 1992-2010
Remember what we said about cars representing a moment in time? The Hummer embodied all of the hegemonic hubris of the 1990s and early 2000s, and it's fitting that the brand is in the process of being wound down after a Chinese buyer backed out of a deal. Yeah, even the comparatively small H3 was a capable SUV, but it comes with far more baggage than could ever fit in its 25 cubic feet of cargo area.
Photo: General Motors. For some reason, "international strongman" Warrick Brant plays tug-of-war with an H3.
Pontiac Aztek 2001-2005
Like many "bad" cars, the Aztek was actually halfway decent. One of the first crossover vehicles, Pontiac promoted the Aztek as having all the best attributes of an SUV without the lousy handling and marketed it to young, active consumers. Unfortunately, they also made it ugly as sin. Even a blind painter can do better.
Photo: General Motors. Lynn Meyers, who was Pontiac's general manager at the time, high-fives partygoers after introducing the world's ugliest automobile at the Detroit auto show.
Porsche Panamera 2009-present
The verdict is still out, but we nominate the Porsche Panamera as a future automotive atrocity. Is it an exceptionally capable luxury sedan? Of course. But like the Cayenne before it, the Panamera is an anathema to Porsche purists. With four doors and room for four suitcases in the trunk (a trunk! In the rear!) the Panamera has already been ruthlessly mocked by 13-year-old boys and 911-owners alike. If, over time, it proves to dilute the overall brand for the sake of immediate sales, it will be enshrined as a true automotive atrocity.
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Computer programming students from the University of California, San Diego were anything but "hackadaisical" when a week-long Web programming extravaganza -- Yahoo! Hack U -- came to campus in April. In a 24-hour computer programming marathon that spanned an entire Thursday night, UC San Diego student teams hacked together a concert finder, a tool that adds favorite movies from friends' Facebook profiles to your Netflix queue, a date-scheduling application, an early-morning multitasking program, and many other new online applications. Students created each app by combining tools, resources and data already available on the Web.
The camaraderie and energy generated by the overnight coding event inspired Gabriela Ponce and the rest of her all-female, all-freshman computer programming team to ask Yahoo! to track down their famed "code like a girl" tee-shirts. Four from the team wore their stereotype-breaking shirts the following week to their data structures midterm (CSE12).
"I thought I wasn't going to like computer science because I didn't fit the stereotype of a computer science person, but I really like it. I'm definitely a possible [computer science] major now," said Ponce, recalling her mindset last fall as an incoming freshman.
During the 24-hour coding session, Ponce and her teammates hacked together an automatic class-schedule generator. Add the classes you want to take to a spreadsheet, and the new application creates all possible schedules.
"Seeing all the different scheduling possibilities, we thought that would be really helpful," explained Ponce. "What discussion sections are going to mess up your schedule?" This is the kind of question the hack can answer, said Ponce.
The winning UCSD team -- they call themselves iRock -- certainly did make an impression on the judges, who were each given an iPhone at the start of the presentation. Running on each iPhone was the team's hack -- a location-aware Web application that finds nearby, upcoming music concerts that fit the user's music preferences.
"For each of the shows, our hack returns the date and time, the address, and from that, you can view a map," explained David Vanoni who hosts the hack at www.rockmyworld.dvanoni.com.
One of Vanoni's teammates, computer science undergraduate Andrew Huynh, is still working on the project. He and electrical engineering (ECE) Ph.D. student Luke Barrington are integrating algorithms for listening to music into the hack.
"When I first tell people about Yahoo! Hack Day, they usually ask 'What are you hacking into?' I explain to people that it's not hacking into something but hacking something together," said Vanoni, who is finishing up his computer science undergraduate degree this quarter and is weighing his options for graduate school.
"Hanging out with a group of people for 24 hours was fun, and it was fun to work with the Yahoo! engineers, too. We got good input from the Yahoo! guys on what we were doing," said Vanoni.
About 75 UCSD students -- primarily computer scientists -- on 30 teams took part in Hack U 2010. The judging panel included Yahoo! Engineers, computer science faculty Rick Ord and Gary Gillespie, and electrical and computer engineering (ECE) professor Gert Lanckriet, all from the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering.
The first place team -- they call themselves iRock -- will travel to Sunnyvale, California, later this year to compete in the Yahoo! Grand Hack Championship. Other universities that have already participated in Yahoo! Hack U 2010 include IIIT Hyderabad in India, Georgia Tech, and the University of Texas at Austin.
The Final Results for Hack U 2010 at the UCSD Jacobs School are as follows:
- Best Overall
- 1st Place
Hack: Rock My World: Geo-location based iPhone web application to find the nearest music gigs. Team: iRock Students: Andrew Huynh BS CSE'10, David Vanoni BS CSE'10, Matt Peterson BS CSE'10.
- 2nd Place
Hack: Friends Favorite Movies: Application that enables Facebook users to browse their friend's favorite movies, and add them to a Netflix queue. Team: UCSD Team Bean Students: Qays Poonawala BS CSE'11, Lance Castillo BS CSE'11
- 3rd Place
Hack: Date Roulette: Bringing romance to UCSD via free time based random date scheduling. Never spend another loveless moment waiting by yourself. Team: Ground Up Designs Students: Jacob Lyles MS CSE'10, Thomas Weng MS CSE'10, Jawon Lee BS CSE'12, Doran Joy BS CSE'13
- Best Mobile
Hack: Breakfast -- Morning multitasking for those who need another excuse to delay getting out of bed. Check missed email, messages, local news, local traffic reports, and stocks all from the comfort of your bed with just one click. Team: We Can't Cook Students: Jeff Chang BS MAE'10, Jeff Chien BS MAE'10, Avinash Ananth BS CE'13
- Hack for Good
Hack: Saver List -- Application that looks up disasters data (e.g. earthquakes) and confirms the status of the users in a certain mile radius from its center. The potential victims of the disaster will be accessed in a real time. This application also reports response (safe, hurt, or not found) for those in the affected areas. Team: Life Savers Students: Amir Shirkhani, Allan Souza, Mohammad Zohour
- Honorable Mentions for the Overall Hack Category
Hack: Breakfast -- Morning multitasking for those who need another excuse to delay getting out of bed. Check missed email, messages, local news, local traffic reports, and stocks all from the comfort of your bed with just one click. Team: We Can't Cook Students: Jeff Chang BS MAE'10, Jeff Chien BS MAE'10, Avinash Ananth BS CE'13
Hack: Memory Apocalypse - A flashcard memory system which uses the spacing effect to maximize studying efficiency. Good for the end of the world. Team: Unicorn Apocalypse Students: Bulat Bochkariov BS CSE'13, David Watson BS CSE'12, Li Pi BS CSE'12
Hack: UTagIt Search - Custom community tagging that lets you experience the better parts of searching the web. Team: Tag Team Students: Robert Dunlap BS CSE'12, Hung Tran BS CSE'12, George Wu BS CSE'12, Joshua Greenfield BS CSE'11


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Some members of the State Board of Education don't favor increasing the number of districts beyond the current 15, but told Texas legislators Tuesday it would be good if they got help answering phone calls, sending out newsletters and generally responding to constituents.
The Texas House Redistricting Committee took testimony because of concerns that population growth will make it hard for the 15 members to represent their districts. They currently represent about 1.6 million people each without any staff. That number could increase to 2 million per member after the 2020 Census.
"The current structure works well," State Board of Education Chairwoman Barbara Cargill, R-The Woodlands, told the committee.
Texans are able to find board members, she noted, referring to some 12,000 emails from folks offering opinions on new science curriculum standards and another 15,000 emails regarding history curriculum standards.
"Keep the board at 15 members. I think it works very well," she said.
House Redistricting Chairman Burt Solomons, R-Carrollton, remains concerned that future redistricting sessions will make it hard to carve up the vast state into 15 State Board of Education seats.
"What do you do as the state grows phenomenally? It just concerns me," Solomons said as some members must represent a hundred or more school districts and have no staff. "Our concern is the size and number of people and how (members) communicate with their constituents."
SBOE member Bob Craig, R-Lubbock, represents more than 200 school districts spread out over 75 counties. Carlos Garza, R-El Paso, has to travel more than 700 miles from one end of his district to the other.
"I don't know how this is manageable. Constituents don't know who you are," House Redistricting member Rep. Carol Alvarado, D-Houston, said.
No one disputed a need for State Board of Education members to get some staff help. George Clayton, R-Dallas, noted that he has to use his own computer and printer and ink to respond to constituents.
It will be easier for the Legislature to appropriate money for the 15 State Board of Education members to hire help than increasing the number of board seats.
Solomon emphasized he simply wanted "to start the discussion" for future lawmakers to continue as the state's population keeps growing.


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We are pleased to offer a wide variety of acoustic testing protocols and consulting services nationwide and worldwide. Here is a sampling of what is available:
- Noise measurements in standard decibel ratings (dB-A weighted) – Used for compliance with local, state, and/or federal requirements
- FIIC / AIIC – Field / Apparent Impact Insulation Class – Used for measuring the sound transmission of a ceiling/floor structure in commercial spaces, houses, and apartments
- FSTC / ASTC – Field / Apparent Sound Transmission Class – Used for measuring the sound transmission of a wall structure in apartments, houses, commercial spaces and condominiums
- Noise Dosimeter Testing – A simplified sound level meter is attached to an individual in order to assess their noise exposure during a predefined period
- Noise Surveys – Often required by HUD and other Federal agencies when properties such as houses, apartments and condominiums are located near noise sources like Airports, Train Tracks, Highways and Freeways, Manufacturing Plants, Sewage Treatment Plants, and Power Stations noise surveys are timed studies detailing the noise levels for a specific time period
- Noise Spectrum Analysis – Used for determining what frequencies in the audio band a particular noise is coming from when measured from an adjacent house, apartment, condominium or commercial space
- Vibration Analysis – Used for tracking down vibration coming from machinery, and sometimes to determine whether a machine assembly is in balance. We can provide both real-time and long-term logging of vibrating structures including FFT analysis.
We are able to offer most ASTM, MSHA, and ISO tests in the acoustic area. Please contact us about your specific requirements for your commercial space, condominium, or apartment.
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The star was performing his track Beautiful People at the TCU Place in Saskatoon when he fell to the floor.
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Queensland's Environment Minister Andrew Powell says a new best management program for the grazing industry will benefit the state's environment.
The State Government has launched the program, which is similar to existing schemes covering the cane, cotton and grain sectors.
Mr Powell says it is a voluntary program and does not tangle graziers in red tape.
"This is a real win-win for both producers and the environment," he said.
This is about getting alongside producers instead of sitting them down, making them have to fill in paperwork that really doesn't in the end produce on-farm outcomes.
"This is about letting farmers do what they do best and that's farm."
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AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer PRO
Anytime, Anywhere, Wireless Network Monitoring and WiFi Troubleshooting with the AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer Pro
- Wireless network monitor provides real-time accurate, independent and reliable Wi-Fi analysis of 802.11a/b/g/n and ac wireless networks, including 3 X 3 802.11ac wireless network analysis without missing any traffic
- Highly portable wireless network analyzer that travels to the source of the wireless network troubleshooting problems enabling faster and accurate fault-finding without any AP downtime
- Dedicated WiFi network monitoring and troubleshooting software solution guaranteeing any wireless network fault detection as compared to "time-slicing monitoring functionality" built inside the wireless network infrastructure
- Wireless network monitor and WiFi troubleshooting reduces IT costs, simplifies workload and minimizes user complaints by obtaining instant answers to ANY wireless network connectivity, WiFi signal strength, wireless network performance, roaming, interference* and wireless network security issues using the AirWISE intelligence engine WiFi Monitoring Software
- Unique wireless network monitor active toolset to isolate and troubleshoot WiFi connectivity and monitor wireless network performance issues
- Strengthen your wireless network security by monitoring, detecting and eliminating any wireless network threats and vulnerabilities
- Auditor-ready WiFi Security compliance reporting for multiple verticals including wireless PCI compliance, SOX, ISO and many more
- Troubleshoot BYOD induced performance and monitor wireless network security issues
*Interference detection and analysis from both WiFi and non WiFi sources can be performed. Please refer to Complete WiFi Interference Detection & Analysis section under Features.
How to Buy
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AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer is the industry standard WiFi analysis and monitoring software tool for mobile monitoring, auditing and WiFi troubleshooting enterprise WiFi networks. AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer helps IT staff quickly solve end-user issues while automatically detecting WiFi signal strength, security threats and wireless network vulnerabilities. The WiFi network analyzer enables wireless network managers to easily test and diagnose dozens of common wireless network performance issues including throughput issues, WiFi connectivity issues, device conflicts and signal multipath problems. AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer includes a full compliance reporting engine including wireless PCI compliance, SOX, and ISO, which automatically maps collected network information to requirements for wireless network compliance with policy and industry regulations. With the latest support for 802.11ac, AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer is the industry's most accurate 802.11ac WiFi network troubleshooting and optimization tool that never misses any WiFi traffic and helps solve problems right the first time.
"I was doing the SANS GCIA security course and the instructor let us use the NETSCOUT network wifi analyzer to gain useful insights into the presence of wifi networks and their attributes. It basically brings learning to life."
Don S.
Security Analyst
FundSERV Inc.
Toronto, ON CA
AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer is the industry standard tool for mobile auditing and troubleshooting enterprise WiFi networks. AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer helps IT staff quickly solve end-user issues while automatically detecting WiFi signal strength, security threats and wireless network vulnerabilities. The solution enables network managers to easily test and diagnose dozens of common wireless performance issues including throughput issues, WiFi connectivity issues, device conflicts and signal multipath problems. AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer includes a full compliance reporting engine, which automatically maps collected network information to requirements for wireless network compliance with policy and industry regulations.
AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer is available in "Express" and "PRO" versions. AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer Express provides the core building blocks of WiFi troubleshooting and WiFi security auditing with the ability to see devices, automatically identify common problems and physically locate specific devices. AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer PRO significantly extends all the capabilities found in the Express version and adds many more to provide a WiFi tool to solve virtually any type of performance, security or reporting challenge in the field.
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Never Miss Any Wi-Fi Traffic
With AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer, you have the ability to capture any Wi-Fi traffic for 802.11a/b/g/n/ac networks, including the latest 3 X 3 802.11ac traffic. With this ability you never miss any Wi-Fi traffic, which allows you to solve any Wi-Fi network troubleshooting problems right the first time without costly rework or escalations.
Built-In Wireless Expertise
The AirWISE® engine automatically detects the root cause of dozens of wireless network troubleshooting issues across the spectrum AirWISE® eliminates the need for users to manually interpret complex packet decodes and wireless data by taking the proactive role of identifying and explaining more than hundreds of threats and performance issues before they impact the Wi-Fi network. The user-friendly AirWISE® interface explains alarms in straightforward details, provides access to additional diagnostic data, and offers advice on corrective actions.
Portable Wi-Fi Troubleshooting Solution With No AP Downtime
It is important to note that all wireless network troubleshooting solutions or software tools are not the same, and it is very critical for you to solve the wireless network troubleshooting problems right the first time, irrespective of the location of the problem and more importantly with no impact to the performance of the AP infrastructure. There is a huge misconception that by using freeware apps or basic troubleshooting capabilities built inside the AP infrastructure, you can monitor and solve Wi-Fi issues that impact the security and performance of the network.
Freeware apps or the ones that cost only a few dollars, provide nothing more than a list of Wi-Fi networks and their properties, and do nothing to solve real-world problems. They do not match the capabilities of a true wireless network analyzer like AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer that can monitor and solve any troubleshooting problem in the Wi-Fi network.
Many of the AP Infrastructure solutions claim built-inside troubleshooting with partial scanning or full time scanning options. Both of these Wi-Fi network monitoring options have severe limitations on solving problems. Part time scanning methods lead to slower detection of problems in the network and could even miss the issue altogether. With full time scanning, you are limited by taking the AP away from its core purpose, which is providing data services, for dedicated scanning or sniffing. Moreover, the APs are fixed on the ceiling and cannot travel to the location of the problem. With AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer, all of these limitations are enabled with full-featured dedicated on-site Wi-Fi troubleshooting with zero AP downtime.
Instant Alerts to WLAN Security and Performance Issues
AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer automatically detects and alerts the user to dozens of wireless intrusions, penetration attempts and Wi-Fi hacking strategies including rogue devices, "stumbler tools", devices sending unencrypted data and a host of potentially damaging wireless security configurations. These proactive measures enable IT to take corrective action before a problem occurs. The AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer PRO version additionally detects sophisticated wireless attacks against the network. The AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer Find tool locks onto rogue or policy violating APs or stations and guides the user to their physical location.
Even the most secure wireless network will fail to meet its objectives if it does not reliably meet the demands of network users. Furthermore, certain Wi-Fi network performance issues can escalate and open up the network to unknown risks. For this reason, AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer includes over 50 alerts to identify an entire range of performance issues including traffic patterns, bandwidth utilization, device configuration issues and infrastructure or hardware failures or resets.
Wireless Network Health Summary
AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer provides users with the complete inventory of the devices, including APs, clients and smart devices that are operating in the environment. For each device, users are powered with detailed configuration information and traffic statistics for each device. AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer also includes a dashboard that provides a live snapshot into the overall health of the wireless network and helps users focus on top issues that need immediate attention to ensure maximized wireless network security and performance. Users are powered with a variety of charts, including ones for channel utilization, top talkers in the network, wireless network interference levels, mis-matched configurations, overloaded APs, security and performance problems, etc. Users can drill down for deeper investigation into WLAN statistics for every device, channel and wireless frame. It helps users focus on things that matter to them, before digging into the application for advanced analysis. This helps save a lot of time and effort for the user as they troubleshoot any issues in the network.
Wireless Network Troubleshooting
Along with the unique capability of providing instant answers with AirWISE, AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer users are provided with in-depth frame statistics for every channel and device operating in the spectrum. With the channel utilization and throughput trending graphs, users can troubleshoot many of the issues that lower the overall performance of the wireless network. AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer users can view trending graphs for signal strength, noise, frames, errors, retries, bandwidth and many more for every wireless network channel and device. These valuable network monitoring graphs provide critical pointers to troubleshooting issues that are influencing the wireless network performance. For example, graphs for packet retry and error rates reveal areas where wireless network communications are failing. On AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer's Decode Screen, users can view and analyze a list of real-time packets including 3X3 802.11n and 3X3 802.11ac packets, and also includes support for monitoring upper-layer protocols. AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer gives users the option to apply a filter in order to isolate particular packets of interest, based on a specific channel, SSID, node, IP address, or type of frame WPA-PSK and WPA2-PSK encrypted packets can be decrypted. With the multi-adapter support in AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer PRO, users can monitor multiple channels simultaneously using individual adapters inserted into the same PC.
WLAN Client Roaming Analysis
One of the core benefits of wireless technology is to provide mobility for users, and in a typical environment it is expected that the client devices will roam across APs and at times network boundaries. Ensuring a smooth roam, without any dropped calls or sessions and in a way that is not noticeable to the user is key for any deployment. AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer PRO leverages support for multiple WLAN adapters plugged into the computer to troubleshoot client roaming problems – one of IT staff's most commonly reported problems for WLAN networks.
AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer provides advanced details on all roaming transactions for any WLAN client including stations, phones, and handheld scanners. Users are powered with AirWISE® expertise to get detailed reasons for the roaming event taking place, device and channel parameters that influence the roam, and visibility into whether the roam was good or not.
For VoWLAN phones, users can monitor voice delays and other statistics as the phone roams from one AP to another in the middle of a conversation. The application provides VoFi-specific data (such as WiMOS, Signal Strength, etc.) leading up to the attempt, and packet transmission rates for the conversation.
With this root cause analysis on roaming problems, users can minimize the likelihood of any roaming problems recurring in the WLAN network, thus improving user satisfaction and improving user/network performance for mission critical applications.
Active Wi-Fi Troubleshooting Tools to solve user complaints
AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer PRO is the industry's only wireless network analyzer that includes a suite of active Wi-Fi troubleshooting tools to quickly pinpoint and solve wireless network troubleshooting problems. This includes users not being able to connect to the network, users experiencing slower connections to the network or WLAN applications, 802.11n and 802.11ac mis-configurations, traffic/infrastructure overloads, hardware failures, roaming problems, multipath interference problems and more. With these Wi-Fi troubleshooting tools available at the user's fingertips, they can solve any kind of problem that are impacting the network performance. These Wi-Fi troubleshooting tools include:
- Device Locator: Geiger-Counter tool that helps physically locate any unauthorized or policy violating device.
- Connection test: single-click end-to-end network connectivity (DHCP, ping, trace) and application performance (HTTP, FTP, Audio, Video) measurement tool.
- Signal Distribution tool: detect any multipath issues in the network.
- Roaming tool: measures roaming times for clients between Aps.
- Performance/Iperf tool: measures uplink and downlink throughput performance of the network.
- 802.11n and 802.11ac throughput calculator tool: compare vendor AP performance based on specifications and capabilities of those devices.
- 802.11n and 802.11ac efficiency and analysis tool: analyzes conversations between APs and stations, and indicates if the network is using 802.11ac and 802.11n to its full potential using simple color legends.
- 802.11n and 802.11ac throughput simulator tool: calculates the network throughput, utilization and the overhead under user-specified conditions by simulating the existing infrastructure or simulating the addition of new APs or stations in the network.
Complete Wi-Fi Interference Detection & Wi-Fi Analysis
Interference is one of the leading cause for poor connectivity and performance problems in the network. This interference can be from other Wi-Fi devices due to poor channel planning (adjacent or co-channel interference) or could be from non-Wi-Fi interference sources. Wi-Fi interference occurs due to co-channel/adjacent channel interference from the corporate or neighbor's WLAN, hidden nodes in the environment or non Wi-Fi devices operating in the 802.11 band. AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer's interference status indicator lists the overall interference status for each Wi-Fi channel, calculated based on the Wi-Fi interference score for the devices contributing to the interference; a list of hidden nodes and non-Wi-Fi devices (non- Wi-Fi detection requires AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer PRO and RF spectrum analyzers installed on the same machine) operating in the channel. This enables users to easily plan future Wi-Fi deployments or modify their existing deployment to minimize interference and in turn improve network performance.
Integrated Reporting
AirMagnet-WiFi Analyzer PRO's integrated reporter makes it easy to turn Wi-Fi analysis sessions into professional customized Wi-Fi network monitoring reports. Choose from a library of pre-built reports or generate targeted reports by selecting specific items of interest from the user interface. Wi-Fi network monitoring reports cover all areas of management including RF statistics, channel reports, device reports, security/performance issue reports and auditor-ready compliance reports for a variety of regulatory standards including HIPAA, PCI, SOX, DoD 8100.2, FISMA and many more. For the compliance reports, you are powered with a step-by-step pass/fail assessment of each section of the standard, along with details on the devices that are in/out of compliance.
BYOD Classification
AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer PRO instantly detects and classifies smart phones and tablets that connect to the network. This capability allows IT professionals to authorize these devices, quickly troubleshoot and resolve issues caused by these devices as well as determine performance and security impact to the WLAN network. For example, user can very quickly see rogue smart devices that connect to the network, and determine whether a specific smart device is consuming a lot of bandwidth by accessing the Top Talkers graph in the dashboard.
802.11ac Analysis and Troubleshooting
802.11ac is the next generation wireless network standard that promises gigabit speeds, but with this great promise comes a lot of challenges that the users are expected to deal with AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer, network engineers are equipped with the critical data needed to quickly solve end-user issues and prevent costly rework and escalations. AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer is the industry's only wireless network analyzer that does not miss any 802.11ac traffic with full 3 X 3 support and can solve any problems on the 802.11ac network. More importantly all of this is done with full time scanning and by traveling to the location of the problem for more effective troubleshooting with zero AP downtime (no need to take the AP offline for monitoring and troubleshooting) as compared to reusing the AP for the purpose or other tools that rely on fixed APs for troubleshooting. It also plays a critical role in helping users optimize the migration path from legacy technologies to this new standard with its unique 802.11ac toolkit to give clear direction and details on how to leverage new 802.11ac options to maximize throughput and performance. This 802.11ac analysis and troubleshooting toolkit includes:
- 802.11ac throughput calculator tool: Compare vendor AP performance based on specifications and capabilities of those devices.
- 802.11ac efficiency and analysis tool: Analyzes conversations between APs and Stations, and indicates if the network is using 802.11ac and 802.11n to its full potential using simple color legends and helps pinpoint performance problems.
- 802.11ac throughput simulator tool: calculates the network throughput, utilization and the overhead under user-specified conditions by simulating the existing infrastructure or simulating the addition of new APs or stations in the network.
Models & Accessories
|Model Number/Name
AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer PRO
AirMagnet Spectrum XT (optional)
AirMagnet Multi-adapter kit for WiFi Analyzer (different versions available depending on regulatory domain)
NETSCOUT D1080 802.11A/B/G/N/AC USB Adapter (different versions available depending on regulatory domain). Click HERE
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AirMagnet WLAN Design & Analysis Suite Bundle (Survey Pro/Planner, WiFi Analyzer Pro and Spectrum XT)
AirMagnet WLAN Design & Analysis Suite Bundle with Multi Adapter Kit (Survey Pro/Planner, WiFi Analyzer Pro and Spectrum XT + 3 NETSCOUT 11ac USB adapters) Available in US & Canada only.
AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer and Survey Pro/Planner
Handheld Network Test Solutions
Wireless Lifeycle
Data Sheets
AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer
AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer Datasheet
Datasheet: NETSCOUT 802.11a/b/g/n/ac 3x3:2 USB Adapter
AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer User Guide
White Papers
802.11ac Migration White Paper
802.11ac Migration White Paper
Bringing BYODs into the fold
Employees want to bring their own Wi-Fi enabled smart devices into the workplace, and businesses have much to gain by embracing the BYOD trend.
BYOD Analysis using AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer
BYOD Analysis using AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer
BYOD: Meeting the Network Challenge
This white paper explores the in-depth security challenges, regulatory changes, network stresses, device management, signal interference, new work cultures, and more, and explains why it is essential that IT professionals lead digital transformation from the front.
Five Common Wi-Fi Problems (With Simple Solutions!)
This paper looks at solutions to Wi-Fi problems a different way. The goal here is to keep solutions simple. Each and every problem listed in this paper has a simple solution. What's more, all of the problems are common, and all of the solutions are in WLAN infrastructure settings.
Implementing 802.11ac – Revolution Or Evolution?
The increasing demand for wireless bandwidth and growth of BYOD are driving the development of new standards to increase capacity and throughput and address congestion.
3 Wi-Fi Pain Points and How to Avoid Them
Determining the Cause of a High Retry Percentage
The Top 8 Things Your Wi-Fi Test Application Is Not Telling You
In this whitepaper you will learn the top 8 things that your Wi-Fi test application is not telling you, What they are and why they're important
Unconnected Chatty Devices
White Paper: The Case for Portable Wi-Fi Analysis
Wi-Fi Troubleshooting Connection Problems
Learn more about identifying and troubleshooting connection issues on the Wi-Fi network, to ensure top performance.
WiFi Troubleshooting: Slow Speeds
Learn how to quickly and effectively troubleshoot "Slow Speeds" that will vastly improve Wi-Fi performance.
Handheld Network Test Wi-Fi Solutions
Case Studies
Houston Methodist Hospital Case Study
See how Houston Methodist Hospital uses NETSCOUT's AirMagnet wireless tools to keep their critical WiFi network running at top performance.
For Houston Methodist Hospital, providing reliable Wi-Fi is crucial. With over 6 million square feet including 6 remote sites, providing top level performance with a diverse set of client devices – from voice, to video to data – is a top priority for the organization.Before using the AirMagnet wireless tools, conducting a site survey for the network engineering team was a very labor intensive process.
Houston Methodist Hospital uses NETSCOUT wireless tools to ensure accurate planning, deployment & verification, and troubleshooting of the wireless network. With these tools, the old labor intensive process is a thing of the past and done automatically by the products.With the proper tools and training in place, the network engineering team at Houston Methodist is able to deliver top performing WiFi to the hospital's physicians, nurses, patience and guests.
"If you're a wireless engineer, you have to have a very reliable tool set, and the NETSCOUT suite brings that to the wireless engineer." -George Stefanick, Wireless Architect, Houston Methodist Hospital
Love's Travel Stops Case Study
NETSCOUT Helps Love's Travel Stops Deliver Clean Places and Friendly Faces at 300+ Retail Locations Nationwide
Love's Travel Stops and Country Stores is a family-owned chain of more than 330 truck stops and convenience stores across 39 states. The company's principle of "Clean Places, Friendly Faces" guides its growth and has positioned Love's at the forefront of the travel center and convenience store industry. With more than 10,000 employees nationwide, any network performance hiccup can impact the point of sale process, from the checkout counter to Love's advanced freight and truck services. The result affects worker productivity, as well as the overall customer experience, jeopardizing Love's goal of serving the nation's drivers with superior service and innovation.
Love's Travel Stops now uses AirMagnet Survey Pro to plan wireless network access points. The company also uses AirMagnet Spectrum XT during both planning and after installation to scan for interference. And after installation, Love's uses AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer to identify and troubleshoot performance issues beyond interference. The result helps the Love's network team deploy wireless access points intelligently and battle outside interference from a wide range of devices—even the occasional gaming console and WiFi jammer.
Trusted Network Solutions Case Study AM WiFi Analyzer
AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer Provides Troubleshooting Solution, Accurate Reporting and Increased Clients for Network Consulting Firm
Trusted Network Solutions is a network and services consulting firm in Salt Lake City, Utah, servicing hundreds of clients in a variety of fields including government, healthcare, education and small business. Their clients' productivity is highly dependent on well functioning networking systems that address a widely varying spectrum of wireless needs. With a small team and several large-scale customers, Trusted Network Solutions needed an accurate, time-efficient way to diagnose issues, suggest solutions and gain new clientele.
NETSCOUT' AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer allowed Trusted Network Solutions' team of engineers to quickly survey customer environments, identify any issues or rogue connectivity threats, and then devise a plan to either repair the broken parts of current systems, or analyze a better solution. Because of the instant reporting system, technicians were able to assess the environment in real time, with the client if needed. The more detailed reports and easy-to-understand data was useful in justifying new solution costs to hesitant customers.
System Requirements
The installation and operation of AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer (software-only) requires separate hardware with one of the following minimum system requirements below.
Application Operating Systems: Microsoft® Windows 7 Enterprise/Professional/Ultimate 64-bit or Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro/Enterprise 64-bit or Microsoft Windows 10 Pro/Enterprise 64-bit
- Intel® Core™ 2 Duo 2.00 GHz (Intel® Core™ i5 or higher recommended)
- 4 GB memory or higher
- 800 MB free hard disk space
- An ExpressCard slot or USB port; or an AirMagnet-supported internal WLAN adapter
- Multiple slots in the PC when using multiple adapters. AirMagnet recommends the use of its multi-adapter kit.
- AirMagnet-supported wireless network adapter(s)
- Optional spectrum adapter and license (required for viewing spectrum data and non-Wi-Fi devices; AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer Pro only). Integration supported with AirMagnet Spectrum XT
Note: AirMagnet Spectrum XT adapter is in the USB form factor
- Operating Systems: MAC OS X v10.9 (or higher) running a supported Windows OS (as noted under Laptop/Notebook PC/Tablet PC section) using Boot Camp®
- Intel®-based CPU 2.0 GHz or higher
- 4 GB memory or higher
- 800 MB free hard disk space
- An internal Broadcom 802.11ac WLAN adapter (MacBook 2013 and 2014 models), an Atheros-based Airport Extreme 802.11n WLAN adapter, or a USB port (whichever applicable)
- Multiple slots in the PC when using multiple adapters. AirMagnet recommends the use of its multi-adapter kit.
- Optional spectrum adapter and license (required for viewing spectrum data and non-Wi-Fi devices; AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer Pro only). Integration supported with AirMagnet Spectrum XT
Note: AirMagnet Spectrum XT adapter is in the USB form factor
- NETSCOUT OptiView XG Network Analysis Tablets running Microsoft® Windows® 7 Professional SP1 64-bit operating system or Microsoft Windows 10 Professional 64-bit operating system
The AirMagnet Directional Antenna will enhance the RF detection and capabilities of the AirMagnet Analyzers in a single direction helping narrow down the search pattern far more effectively. It is small, light and portable.
Users need to attach the Velcro base (supplied with the directional antenna package) to the laptop and connect it to the AirMagnet card and start analyzing the wireless environment in the specific area.
Note: Supported only on Ubiquiti SRC 300mW MMCX
- 2.4 GHz Band
- 5 GHz Band
2.4 GHz
4.9 GHz
2.5 GHz
5.9 GHz
Supported Adapters
AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer Adapter Check UtilityAirMagnet WiFi Analyzer Adapter Check Utility is intended to provide you with an easy way to verify whether your current OS, adapter(s) and driver(s) combination is supported by AirMagnet software. Utility also provides links to information about supported OS, adapters and AirMagnet drivers.
Before running the utility, please make sure you have all the drivers and WiFi cards installed and functioning correctly.
- Preferred adapters: Adapters that have been comprehensively tested by AirMagnet and are recommended for use with the AirMagnet products.


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Actor and screenwriter Will Ferrell is not generally thought of as a model of sophistication, given his onscreen personas. After all, this is the man who, during his seven-year stint on Saturday Night Live, delighted viewers as a clueless cheerleader, a chronically head-bopping nightclubber, and a cowbell virtuoso.
Since leaving the program in 2002, Ferrell has made a specialty of playing terminally adolescent characters in a long list of blockbuster movies, from a middle-aged frat brother in Old School to a man-child raised by Santa's helpers in Elf.
Click here to go inside Will Ferrell's loft >>
That rollicking body of work—which includes cofounding the websitefunnyordie.com and writing his Tony Award-nominated one-man show You're Welcome America: A Final Night with George W Bush—garnered him the Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2011.
But Ferrell's goofball genius has an urbane flip side. Consider, for instance, the Manhattan pied-à-terre he shares with his Swedish wife, Viveca Paulin-Ferrell—an auctioneer at Los Angeles Modern Auctions—and their three children. Located downtown in a converted Victorian-era printing factory, the nearly 2,800-square-foot loft exudes contemporary refinement, with sleek surfaces and mindfully preserved architectural details serving as a backdrop for 20th-century art and furniture.
Not that the home was always so pristine. When the L.A.-based couple bought the apartment in 2010, the place was in major need of an overhaul. "It was very dark and heavy," says interior designer Shawn Henderson, whose expertise the pair enlisted even before closing on the property. (Ferrell and his wife had met him through a mutual friend.) Despite the apartment's obvious flaws—generic cherry built-ins, drab slate wall tiles, glass partitions—everyone saw its potential. "We love history and anything with a good story and good bones," Paulin-Ferrell says, adding that "it was exciting to think the floors were once covered in ink." Explains Henderson, "The main task was to brighten up the place as much as possible."
With that in mind the designer oversaw a dramatic renovation, enhancing the interiors with natural materials and custom finishes. He also replaced the outdated baths and completely redid the kitchen, where fossilized-granite counters and a mottled zinc backsplash now complement satin-finish lacquer cabinetry. The loft's existing maple floors were whitewashed, a treatment that lends a softly neutral, somewhat Nordic touch.
In many former industrial spaces, structural elements can prove cumbersome, awkwardly interrupting a broad expanse or necessitating clumsy room configurations. Here, Henderson deftly incorporated the original details, such as the exposed-brick arches and the cast-iron columns, one of which helps break up the vast living room, giving the area a more human scale.
For furnishings, the decorator drew largely on the couple's enviable collection of 1940s and '50s American and Scandinavian design, much of which Paulin-Ferrell acquired through her work. "Scandinavian design is really moving in its simplicity," says the auctioneer, who also serves on the board of trustees at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "Even the parts you don't see, like the underside of a table or a chair, are thoughtfully conceived."
Together she and Henderson took inventory of the family's California home, the designer recalls, "sizing everything up and figuring out what would work in the apartment. It was a real collaboration." Arranged in front of a minimalist fireplace in the living room are armchairs and ottomans by Hans J. Wegner and Milo Baughman as well as contemporary boulderlike seating by Smarin. Those playful mounds are magnets for the clients' three young sons—Magnus, age eight, Mattias, six, and Axel, three—and were among Henderson's new purchases for the residence. Other eye-catching furnishings include modernist sculptures by woodworker Mario Dal Fabbro, whimsical Tejo Remy milk-bottle light fixtures (suspended above a Paul T. Frankl dining table), and a group of graceful walnut counter stools for the open kitchen.
People are always piled up along there," Henderson says of the kitchen counter, which is a favorite gathering spot not only for the Ferrells' immediate brood but also for the extended family members who use the apartment. "There are kids everywhere, all the time," the designer adds. "The idea is, the more the merrier."
Cheerful accents abound in the home, and the art especially strikes an upbeat tone. Among the array of contemporary works the actor and his wife have accumulated are many brightly colored prints, including depictions of flowers by Donald Sultan, an interior by Roy Lichtenstein, and numerals by Robert Indiana. There's also an Alexander Calder-inspired weaving splashed with swirling abstract forms in the master bedroom. Echoing the schoolhouse palette of those pieces are nearly a dozen Eames side chairs that artisan Tanya Aguiñiga resurfaced in blue felt and two beds upholstered in a vibrant orange fabric.
"Even though there are these great pops of color, the apartment feels very balanced, very soothing," Henderson says. And isn't that, in the end, exactly what a busy Hollywood star would want?
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But baseball season is just around the corner for the Lipscomb Bisons. One area where they have shown consistency in the preseason is their location in the polls with most prognosticators, including Atlantic Sun Conference coaches, picking them ninth.
Coaches usually greet preseason polls, whether they are positive or negative, with a shrug. Bisons' coach Jeff Forehand is hopeful the dire predictions will motivate his players to elevate their games.
"I told the team that is about right," Forehand said. "All it is based on is what happened last year and what players people think we have coming back.
"We've got question marks on the mound and question marks in other places in other people's eyes. We feel like we are a lot better on the mound and that we are going to be a lot more competitive than ninth."
The top six teams in the A-Sun qualify for the tournament which is being held for the second year in a row at Lipscomb's Ken Dugan Field at Stephen L. Marsh Stadium.
"It is going to be disappointing if we are not in that tournament," Forehand said. "Our goal is to be the first seed in the conference tournament, but in a league with 11 good teams if we can't be first then we want to be in the tournament.
"They pick teams in preseason polls for a reason because they think this is what is going to happen. They have called us out. If everybody knew what was going to happen it would be different."
The A-Sun is one of the more competitive conferences in NCAA Division I. The talent level is deep this season with many teams.
"With the teams that Mercer, Florida Gulf Coast, ETSU, Jacksonville and Belmont are sending back it is going to be tough," Forehand said. "Everybody in the conference is going to be better. If you go into a weekend not prepared to play you can lose three."
The Bisons did not place anyone on the preseason all-conference team. Forehand is confident that at least one Bison, pitcher Richie Goodenow, will be an All-Conference selection before the season ends.
Goodenow, a left-hander, was primarily a reliever during his time with the Vanderbilt Commodores before deciding to join the Bisons.
"Richie has played in the Southeastern Conference," Forehand said. "He has experienced every situation. He has been in a starting role, and for sure, he has been in a reliever's role.
"Usually when he has gone into a game it has been a clutch situation. I think he is going to be well-prepared for anything that comes his way. He has the experience and poise to pitch in our league."
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On March 17, Saint John's University hosted a Global Ethiopia Conference. The conference emphasized the cultural diversity of Ethiopia in terms of ethnic, linguistic, religious, economic and local diversity - including various forms of Christianity and Islam and over 70 languages and ethnicities such as the Oromo, Amhara, Tigray, Gurage, Afar, Somali and many others. The conference also explored the many ways in which Ethiopia's history connected with world history, and raised questions about the world we live in today. There were presentations on subjects ranging from archaeological finds of early human civilization, the preservation of ancient and medieval Orthodox Christian manuscripts, the many languages of the region, the use of Ethiopia as a symbol for African-American struggle against racism in the United States, the work of an Oromo immigrant community center in St. Cloud, and the current debates about Ethiopia's current education policy. Ethiopian students at CSB and SJU shared their culture, and a new documentary film "Jeans and Marto," produced in Italy in 2011, was screened. Thanks to the efforts of librarian David Malone and curator Matt Heintzelman, Saint John's Alcuin Library featured many texts, some of which are quite ancient, and all of which reflect the diversity of Ethiopia, its immigrants to the United States, and its relations with other cultures around the world. A short overview of some of these texts, which are on exhibit in the Alcuin Library through April 1, can be found on the HMML website.
The conference showcased the world-renowned resources of the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) at Saint John's as well as the expertise of HMML faculty Fr. Columba Stewart, OSB, Dr. Getatchew Haile and Dr. Adam McCollum, and the scholarly work of CSB/SJU faculty Dr. Steven Thomas and Dr. Aric Putnam. In addition, Dr. Michael Rogers visited from Southern Connecticut State University and Dr. Roy Kay visited from Minneapolis DeLaSalle High School. The conference also welcomed the return of CSB alumna Angela Mathis who presented a version of a paper that she had presented at a national conference on multi-ethnic literature in Florida last year while she was still a student.
More than 70 people attended the conference, and the audience was very diverse, including students from CSB and SJU, Saint John's Preparatory, St. Cloud State University, Hamline University and the University of Minnesota-Duluth. It also included many different people from St. Cloud, including members of the Multicultural Community Center of Central Minnesota, the Midwest Oromo Communities, CentraCare, St. Cloud Area Somali Salvation Organization, and other local organizations. Lively interaction among the many conference participants and audience members followed each panel and continued over a dinner of traditional Ethiopian and Italian food. The global cuisine was appropriate to the theme of the conference, considering how much of Italy's culture exists inside Ethiopia today.
The conference was organized by Assistant Professor of English Dr. Steven W. Thomas with considerable support from Joe Rogers, director of the Center for Global Education. Financial support came from the Center for Global Education, CSB's Office of Student Development, the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, the CSB/SJU Communication Department, the CSB/SJU English Department and the family of John and Lois Rogers.


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FANUC Robotics Introduces World's Strongest, Super Heavy-Duty Robot
FANUC America Corporation Posted 06/22/2009
FANUC Robotics America Inc. introduced the new M-2000iA/1200 super heavy-duty robot, able to lift parts weighing up to 1350 kg (3,000 lbs) at the 2009 International Robots & Vision Motion Control Show at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont (Chicago) IL, June 9-11, booth #1411.
"The M-2000iA/1200 has the highest payload and the strongest wrist compared to all other electric six-axis robots available today," said Ian Orr, product manager, FANUC Robotics. "It can support a 1350 kg payload with a 0.6 m offset from the faceplate and full articulated motion at the wrist. One M-2000iA/1200 robot can handle a super heavy part, which previously required dual robots, conveyors, lifts and other fixed automation."
The new M-2000iA/1200 is the second in FANUC Robotics' line of heavy-duty robots designed to handle truck, tractor, and automotive frames, and other large castings. The M-2000iA/900L robot, offering a 900 kg payload (1,984 lbs) was introduced at IMTS 2008. The rigid arm design of the M-2000iA/900L has a vertical lifting stroke of 6.2 m for transferring extremely heavy items such as a car body.
At the show, the new M-2000iA/1200 equipped with iRVision® 2D error proofing and Dual Check Safety (DCS) Speed and Position Check Software will demonstrate its high capacity payload and wrist by loading and unloading a machine tool bed weighing 1350 kg into a machine tool. The robot will transfer the machine tool bed in front of a 2D camera, and iRVision error proofing inspects the part for proper machining of T-Slot guideways that hold tools.
The M-2000iA/1200, like all FANUC robots, operates with the company's latest R-30iA controller with integrated intelligent functions such as vision and force sensing.
M-2000iA - key features and benefits:
* M-2000iA/900L standard payload is 900kg
* M-2000iA/1200 standard payload is 1200 kg with a1350 kg payload option
* Vertical lifting stroke of 6.2 m (M-2000iA/900L)
* Rigid arm offers stable transferring of heavy payloads
* Strongest wrist in the world handles super heavy products with stability
* Wrist is IP67 protected for operation in harsh environments
* Built-in vision and force sensing
* Reduces costs associated with fixed automation
Integrated (built-in) Vision
The FANUC iRVision system is a ready-to-use robotic vision package, available on all FANUC robots, requiring only a camera and cable – no additional processing hardware. It has a 2D robot guidance tool to accomplish part location, error proofing, and other operations that normally require special sensors or custom fixtures. For robotic vision processes that exceed the capability of 2D vision systems, FANUC Robotics offers an integrated 3D vision system.
Dual Check Safety (DCS) Speed and Position Check Software
Prior to the application of safety rated robot software, all safeguarding of the robot needed to be external, either as a safety rated limit switch or cam system, safety rated area scanners, or other devices to limit robot travel or enhance protection. DCS safety rated robot software allows the safety design of the robot system to use the robot itself for some of the safety functions.
The most significant benefit of DCS Speed and Position Check is in applications where the travel of the robot needs to be restricted due to floor space or process limits that are less than the full reach of the robot. Restricting the robot motion in Cartesian space means the robot can be restrained to exactly the area in which it works; something that is not possible with the current systems that limit robot motion externally using limit switches.
"By moving some of the safety functions to within the robot, customers will realize significant savings in floor space, flexibility in system layout, reduced hardware costs, and improved reliability," said Claude Dinsmoor, general manager, controller product development, FANUC Robotics.
In addition, safe "zones" can be enabled and disabled from an external source such as a safety PLC. Designing a system with multiple zones means an operator can safely enter and leave the workspace of the robot.
"This streamlines the design of robot cells because it prevents the robot from entering the load area when an operator is present," added Dinsmoor. This type of application is possible with existing technology, but it is typically difficult to setup, expensive to implement, and requires more floor space than a system using DCS."
FANUC Robotics America, Inc. designs, engineers and manufactures industrial robots and robotic systems for a wide range of applications including arc and spot welding, material handling (machine tending, picking, packing, palletizing), material removal, assembly, paint finishing and dispensing. The company also provides application-specific software, controls, vision products, and complete support services. After 27 years of success, FANUC Robotics maintains its position as the leading robotics company in the Americas. A subsidiary of FANUC LTD in Japan, the company is headquartered in Detroit, and has facilities in Chicago; Los Angeles; Charlotte, N.C.; Cincinnati and Toledo, Ohio; Toronto; Montreal; Aguascalientes, Mexico; and Sao Paulo, Brazil. Over 200,000 FANUC robots are installed worldwide. Contact FANUC Robotics at www.fanucrobotics.com or by calling 1-800-iQ-ROBOT, option 5.


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New Promoted Class - A new Archer promoted class, Ranger, was added.
New Preferences - You can now change the font for the main character stat screen.
WASD Command Pop-Ups - When in WASD mode, objects that can be interacted with via the keyboard commands will now show those commands while you stand in front of them.
- Martial Artist's Evasive Strike damage increased to 4 per Rank (from 2 per Rank).
- Kensei's Absolute Pace bonus damage increased to 200% Scaled STR (from 50%).
- Grand Summoner's Judgement Blade can now use Swords as casting tools.
- Black Knight's Board Shaker; Damage cap changed to 100*Rank, now gains 10% extra Earth ATK scaling per Rank.
- Monk's Kadouha adjusted; Pierce and size growth effect @ 10 Ki, explode effect @ 20 Ki, knocks down @ 30 Ki. Ki damage bonus changed from flat value to a percentage bonus.
- Priest's Mercalan Mist; HP Regen changed to 25% of Light ATK, with a minimum of 2*Rank.
- Priest's Malmelo; HP Recovery is now equal to Scaled FAI/2%, to a maximum of Rank*6%. FP cost changed to 20+4 per Rank. Momentum cost is now 3.
- Hexer's Death Knighting; Bonus stats changed from Rank*2 to Rank*1.
- Spellthief; Copy spells now have a global 3 round cooldown.
- Armor of Eyes; Hit bonus changed to UL/2. Critical reduction effect changed from UL% to make critical multipiler 1x to UL% chance to reduce critical multiplier by UL%. (IE, 150% Critical Modifier VS 15 UL would become 135% Critical Modifier instead.)
- A time limit of 1, 3, or 5 minutes can be selected for turns when challenging someone to a PvP battle.
- Opaque versions of the Fasionable discer walls have been added.
- Storage objects now display what mode they are set in the title of the storage window.
- A new basic skill called Limit Potential has been added. While toggled on, if your weapon potential is a passive skill, it is rendered inactive.
* Bug Reports
- Flip Shot could target yourself or allies.
- Flip Shot was not classified as a movement skill.
- Retreat Flight would sometimes not perform the attack on an enemy.
- Thunder Bolt's magic circle was left behind if it managed to defeat the last enemy.
- Cherry Blossom's Annorum effect was not hurting all enemies.
- Forest Walk was not classified as a movement skill.
- Nest of Nests' duration bonus wasn't applying.
- Domino Resonate wasn't applying its effects on enemies that collided with the original target.
- Setting Sun was dense.
- Shine Knighting's invoke-ready momentum cost was incorrect.
- Fox God's Blessing was applying outside of combat, in some cases.
- Cripple Arm was not preventing the effects of Hands slot items in some cases.
- Several basic attack skills weren't showing attack forecasts.
- Worn Gumshoe's material was metal instead of cloth.
- Vines created by seed effects weren't counting as plants.
- Caravans arriving in Tannis did not spawn NPCs.
- Many racial skills were qualified as Offensive skills when they shouldn't have been.
- Item effects like Swordmaster's Ring were not applying to items that had mutated weapon types, or multiple weapon types.
- Mortissimo's stat scaling changed to 55% STR and 50% SAN.
- Prinnies didn't have the Head tag.
- Staff of Forging was not actually repairing weapons.
- Charm could cause incapped units to jump in the way of damage.
- Escape victories weren't possible if a party member was unconscious.
- Dullahans could not unlock Ranger.
- Weapon change potentials were treating the weapons as if they were still ranged for a number of different mechanics.
- Noble Axe's description was incorrect.
- Hurricane could push you into walls.
- Biter was affecting/not affecting mutated Fist weapons.
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Thank you for serving as a Preceptor for 3rd and/or 4th year ATSU-KCOM medical students. Please complete the form below to request your CME credit.
This form is for 3rd and 4th year KCOM clinical rotations. Do not complete this form to request credit for the Early Clinical Experiences Rotations completed with 2nd year students. Please contact the Missouri AHEC Program at 660.626.2887 regarding credit for 2nd year students.
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Osteopathic physicians serving as preceptors in any AOA approved osteopathic medical education program may be granted Category 1-B credit. A maximum of 60 hours of AOA Category 1-B for preceptoring may be applied to the 120-hour requirement. Upon receipt of the completed Clinical Performance Evaluation for the rotation, CME credit will be confirmed. Credit for osteopathic physicians is submitted to the AOA on a quarterly basis (April, July, October, January).
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Preceptor credit will be issued to allopathic physicians upon request. Upon receipt of the completed Clinical Performance Evaluation for the rotation, CME credit will be confirmed and you will receive a letter from the KCOM-CME office indicating the number of hours of credit earned. Please allow 6-8 weeks for processing. Allopathic physicians can then submit the CME credit letter to their accrediting agency.
Continuing medical education credit is hour for hour credit. For example, if you work 40 hours with a student, you will receive 40 CME credit hours. You should only claim the number of hours you spent with the student. You cannot claim more than 80 hours for a 2-week rotation or more than 160 hours for a 4-week rotation.
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After Google Maps disappeared from Windows Phone, Google announced it was working hard to solve the problem. Now Maps is back, so WinPho users can find their way with Google once more.
Verge reports that Google has re-enabled the web version of its maps for WinPho users. For a time, a redirect was put in place, which pushed users to a search page when they tried to visit Maps. First Google claimed that it'd removed access because the mobile app was optimized for WebKit browsers like Chrome and Safari, but not Internet Explorer. Turned out that wasn't true. So Google backtracked and said it was the result of a performance test. Since, it's been "working on a solution".
Anyway, the net result is that the shit storm's over and Google Maps is once again available on Windows Phone. [The Verge]