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Supervisor Warehouse Operations - 1st Shift
Date: Apr 24, 2019
Location: Memphis, TN, US, 38118
Company: XPO Logistics
1st Shift, Monday - Friday, 7:00am - Finish
Logistics done differently.
You know how to bring out the best in your team. You're ready to grow as a professional—to go bigger and better. As the Warehouse Operations Supervisor at XPO Logistics, you'll be responsible for day-to-day warehouse operations and ensuring that customer satisfaction exceeds expectations. On our team, you'll have the support to excel at work, and the resources to build a career you can be proud of. If you're looking for a growth opportunity and a better lifestyle, join us at XPO.
Pay, benefits and more.
We are eager to attract the best, so we offer competitive compensation and a generous benefits package, including full health insurance (medical, dental and vision), 401(k), life insurance, and disability.
What you'll do on a typical day:
- Ensure efficient day-to-day operations of the warehouse
- Supervise your team: providing them with training and coaching as necessary
- Monitor work quality to consistently deliver exceptional customer service
- Prepare schedules
- Demonstrate an understanding of XPO Supply Chain quality policy
- Adhere to the XPO 7S program and maintain a clean environment at all times
- Communicate well with leadership, team members, and other departments
- Implement continuous improvement action plans
What you need to succeed at XPO:
At a minimum, you'll need:
- Bachelor's degree, preferably in Logistics or related field, or equivalent experience
- 5 years of experience in warehousing or 3PL (3rd Party Logistics), including 2 or more years of managerial/supervisory experience
- An understanding of warehouse operations and supply chain management
- Proficient with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook) and computerized scanner equipment
- Ability to perform the essential functions of the position, including: lifting objects of various shapes, sizes, and weights; bending, stooping, squatting, twisting, pushing and pulling, standing, sitting, or walking for long periods of time; able to use hands and fingers to handle or feel tools or equipment
- Ability to tolerate hot or cold warehouse environments
- Ability to work a flexible schedule, with possible overtime when needed
It'd be great if you have:
- Experience in AS9100 or ISO environment
- Bilingual Spanish/English skills
Be part of something big. #LI-BH1
XPO provides cutting-edge supply chain solutions to the world's most successful companies, including Disney, Pepsi, L'Oréal, Toyota and many others. We're the fastest-growing transportation company on the Fortune 500 list and we're just getting started.
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, disability, veteran or other protected status.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified. All employees may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.
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A 28-year-old man has died from exhaustion after working a 34-hour shift at Foxconn, according to a Hong Kong newspaper.
Yan Li, was reported as suffering from shortness of breath, and died at home, shortly after his 34-hour shift, according to his family. Li's wife of three months (pictured above), claims that these types of long shifts were common. Foxconn has not issued a statement regarding the death.
The news comes after the Chinese government demanded that Hon Hai, the Taiwanese company that owns Foxconn, find a way to curtail the suicides. A high ranking official recommended unions as a solution, and Hon Hai has announced a 20 percent wage raise to its workers, although no date for the pay raisehasbeen set. The increase would raise monthly wages from $130 to around $160.
So far this year, 11 people have committed suicide, and at least 10 more have attempted suicide at Foxconn. Hon Hai officials still claim to have no idea why its employees continue to kill themselves at an alarming rate, and dispute the accusations of "Sweatshop-like" conditions. Apple, HP, Dell, Sony and Nintendo all have products manufactured at Foxconn, and all have vowed to investigate working conditions.


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EEO/AA: Females/Minorities/Disabled/Vets
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Hertz is an equal opportunity affirmative action employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status or domestic partnership status, disability, protected veteran status or military status, genetic information, or any other category protected under applicable law. Hertz is committed to taking affirmative steps to promote the employment and advancement of minorities, women, persons with disabilities and protected veterans.
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Question submitted on Dec 21, 2012.
QuestionFor the 529 plan for the college. If I open account for my daughter. She is 7 years old. When it is time she is going to college. Her college is not in US but other country like Asia or Europe. Can she still use the money? Both of us is working on the education industry. It is likely that she might be go to college free or reduction tuition rate. In this case can we use the money for other purpose? Not for tuition but for living in the college.
There are many 529 plan-eligible overseas institutions as determined by the US Department of Education. Currently, 452 are listed and can be found by searching at the following link (choose "Foreign Country" in the State drop-down field):
Because there are multitudes of different 529 plans, it is best to check with your advisor to see if your specific plan allows out-of-country institutions and if it will cover costs other than tuition, such as room and board.
If you withdraw the money for any purpose other than allowed by the plan, you will pay income tax on the earnings and penalties. If you deducted any contributions on your state tax returns, you may have an income recapture item as well.
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Chiefs' top draft pick robbed at gunpoint
The Kansas City Chiefs' first round draft pick was robbed at gunpoint in Texas on Friday night, according to the Smith County Sheriff's Office.
Mahomes and three others were robbed. No one was injured.
The sheriff's office said the robbery happened at 9:17 p.m. in the 8800 block of Mansion Creek Circle in Smith County, Texas. Deputies said a man believed to be armed with a handgun approached the victims as they were exiting a vehicle.
"As the suspect approached the victims, he was seen gesturing as if he had a handgun in his waistband," the sheriff's office said in a news release. "The suspect then demanded property from the victims. The suspect fled the location in his vehicle."
Deputies were able to track down the suspect vehicle after speaking with the victims.
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First thing I suggested was Gullaskruf (Sweden) who made lots of handblown tableware (mugs, bottles, decanters) in the shape of both animals and humans especially in the 1940s.
They always used a single colour of glass, like amber, clear or ruby.
http://tinypic.com/esw4zp.jpgThis is the Gullaskruf pig - it is supposed to have a cork stopper with a pierced coin in its nose.
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The Importance of Second Chances
Yefim Bronfman
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Yefim Bronfman is well known as a fearless pianist for whom no score is too demanding. But a more poetic touch has lately complemented his brawny prowess. The shift is all the more noteworthy given Mr. Bronfman's hulking physique, for what you see is not always what you get with this gifted artist. In recent seasons, Brahms—whose music requires formidable technique and soulful expression—has been a near fixation, with the composer's two piano concertos and Sonata No. 3 appearing regularly on the pianist's programs.
Last week, Mr. Bronfman joined the Emerson String Quartet at New York's Carnegie Hall for an all-Brahms program, and this week he partners with Lorin Maazel and the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall in four performances of the composer's Piano Concerto No. 1. Then, on Jan. 30, he returns to a favorite venue, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, giving a solo recital featuring Brahms's Third Sonata, Prokofiev's Sonata No. 8, Schumann's "Arabeske" and the premiere of a new work by Esa-Pekka Salonen titled "Sisar." (He repeats the program at Emory University in Atlanta on Feb. 2.)
"Brahms is difficult to understand and to play," Mr. Bronfman, age 54, said with characteristic modesty last month, the morning after performing the Third Sonata and other works at a private event in this affluent beach community. "Brahms writes very clumsily for the piano, which is surprising because he was himself a pianist."
Mr. Bronfman—who was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, then part of the Soviet Union, and lived in Israel before becoming a U.S. citizen in 1989—first came to appreciate Brahms through his chamber music, which the pianist calls "the heart and soul" of the composer's legacy. "I entered his world though the violin sonatas, the horn trio, the quartets, the quintet," he said. "His music is in a way very abstract."
He cites the five-movement Third Sonata, written when Brahms was only 20, which can be performed with youthful vigor or in a more pensive mode, according to Mr. Bronfman. "The third movement is like drunken music," he said, "but one can play it very slowly, like Claudio Arrau did. Somehow, Brahms was always mature in his writing, even when he was young."
Having made the Piano Concerto No. 2 a virtual calling card by performing it more than two-dozen times last year, Mr. Bronfman returns to the piece this spring. "When you play the Second Concerto, the pianistic challenges are enormous," he said. "I think it's the most difficult concerto ever written. I can say for sure you cannot fake it; you've got to be honest. And it's very hard to do what's written. It requires a lot of loud playing—at a symphonic level. You know, it's not only Rachmaninoff that asks you to play loud. The first two movements are devilishly written dynamically, and the same is true in the First Concerto."
The pianist learned the First Concerto as an adolescent, but his esteem for it has deepened considerably over the years. "I think the second movement is in a way a religious experience," he said. "The first movement is challenging, not only to keep the line but also some very difficult octaves. It should never sound labored; it should sound like a sunrise. How Brahms is able to depict nature in the horn calls, that's quite unique, I think. It's genius what he developed with that."
The concerto's opening is notable because the piano enters almost imperceptibly. "It comes in piano," Mr. Bronfman said, using the Italian word for softly, "after a huge, maybe the grandest, of orchestral introductions—like Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. And one expects the piano to enter that way, too, but it doesn't. Then it grows and evolves and becomes something very special, and it makes up for the missing grandeur in the development section. It's lyrical and singing and quite a simple reaction to all that orchestral drama."
Though Mr. Bronfman speaks eloquently about the scores he plays, he prefers not to describe them. "I don't like to talk about music that is that great, because whatever you say doesn't do it justice," he said. "It's hard to play, I know that much. And you're at the mercy of the instrument. You have to have good sound—a big sound—without feeling that it's forced. That's maybe the biggest difference between playing Brahms and Rachmaninoff."
Mr. Bronfman appears more comfortable discussing how he approaches his craft generally. "It's important to have a second or third look," he said regarding scores he had performed previously. "Hopefully, you have a chance to do that. I picked up Prokofiev's Eighth Sonata last year after not playing it for 20 years, and I see so much that I had not seen before. It's like rereading a novel. When you're 20, you can go through pages of things without really knowing what the author is trying to say. But then you go back, and suddenly you see the points. There's a lot in this music that I've not seen before. And now I think I have a better grasp of it. Everything I play is different every time, and that's a good thing."
Furrowing his brow as he becomes more reflective, the pianist suggests that growing older plays an inevitable part, too. "After 40, you start thinking that you are mortal, after all," he said. "And with that in mind, one changes one's approach to music. As you mature, you realize that this music has so much more dimension to it than you've ever seen before. It's a lesson to me to strive for other dimensions. I know it's there. So I try to grow and reach out for it. For me, it's always my goal."


text: At 07:40 PM 11/26/2005, Joe Landman wrote: >Jim Lux wrote: >>At 09:04 AM 11/26/2005, Mark Hahn wrote: > >[...] > >>>why? because low-end clusters are mostly a mistake. > >I disagree on this for a number of reasons. It may make sense for some >university and c <snip> >>However, this sort of logic (the economies of scale) push clusters >>towards the model of the "mainframe supercomputer" in it's special >>machine room shrine tended by white garbed acolytes making sure the >>precious bodily fluids continue circulating. > >Yes!!! Precisely. But worse than this, it usually causes university >administrators to demand to know why department X is going off on their >own to get their own machine versus using the annointed/blessed hardware >in the data center. As someone who had to help explain in the past why >our university did not want us to be running on the same million dollar >plus IBM 43xx mainframe that ran student records, and buy a real >supercomputer, I can tell you that this is a painful battle at best. >Department X may be getting its own machine due to the central resource >being inappropriate for the task, or the wait times being unacceptably >long, or the inability to control the software load that you need on it. > >There are possibilities to find a happy middle ground, where the central >folks manage the resource, and allow cycles to be used by others when the >owners of the machine are not using so much of it. Moreover they can >connect it to central disks, authentication, and so forth. That is, the >value of the centralized IT is realized, even if it is a separate resource. > >Forcing all users to use the same resource usually winds up with uniformly >unhappy users (apart from the machine designers who built it for a >particular purpose). > >>One of the biggest values of the early clusters was that they let people >>"fool around" with supercomputing and get real work done, without >>hassling the instutional overheads. Sure, they may have been >>non-optimized (in a FLOPS/dollar sense, certainly, and in others), but >>because they were *personal supercomputers*, nobody could complain. >>They were invisible. > >Not really invisible. And not all workloads make sense to characterize in >terms of FLOPS/$. I suppose I used FLOPS/$ as a shorthand for whatever optimization cluster builder A optimizes for, in distinction with whatever optimization cluster builder B cares about, which are all probably different from what the actual user cares about, which is getting *easy* access to more computational horsepower than they can get from their desktop workstation. I think (and according to what Joe cites in the market studies) that there are a lot of people who have problems that are "just a little bit bigger" than what is practical on a single desktop machine (say, 1 or maybe 2 orders of magnitude). Sometimes, it's from a lack of vision (or well-justified skepticism of availability) on the part of the person asking the question. Researchers tend not to ask for huge leaps from what they have available... be it computing time or data rates from outerspace, because historically, a little bit more right now has a higher chance of becoming reality than a whole lot more in some speculative future.. It's also in the nature of how answering questions works out.. one tends to want to scale up gradually, rather than going for the whole shooting match all at once. If for no other reason than you need to validate the output of your big new code, and one way is to run a formerly small problem on the new code and see if it matches what you got with the old code, and then do some scalability of results tests. (make the polygons smaller, make the mesh a bit finer, do a few more variables, etc.) [An exception might be a monte carlo type analysis, where you're just trying to get large numbers of "tries"... ] >>There is, I maintain, a real market for smallish clusters intended to be >>operated by and under the control of a single person. In one sense, I'm >>wasting compute resources, but, I'm also doing this because my desktop >>CPU spends most of its time at <5% utilization. Having that desktop >>under my personal control means that if something isn't working right, I >>can just abort it. Or, if I am seized by the desire to dump all the other >>stuff running temporarily and run that big FEM model, I can do that >>too. No calling up the other users and asking if it's ok to kill their >>jobs. No justifying processor utilization to a section level committee, etc. > >The interesting thing is that if you look at the numbers from IDC and >others you realize something very interesting. First, the real HPC >hardware market (this is a 7B$ market today, growing at > 10% CAGR) has >its largest section by volume and largest growth in the 25-50k$ >region. Second, the large market is shrinking. Again, this is not a slap >against Jim and Mark. The real HPC cluster market is moving down scale, >and the larger ones are growing more slowly or shrinking. This is going >to apply some rather Darwinian forces to the market (has been for a while). Well.. I'd hardly consider a slap.. since I too think that smaller is where its at in the near term. I personally LOVE the idea of personal supercomputing. >This is not to say that there is not a big cluster market. There is. Its >real. Its just not growing in dollar volume. Some of us wish it would, >but budgets get trimmed, and hard choices are made. You have to go >through fewer levels of management to justify spending 50k$ than you do >500k$, or 5M$. In rough terms, I'd say that the number of levels scales as log10(dollars).. It would be the rare researcher who has to get approval to spend $1K. Even 10K is usually within the "I can decide to spend it, but I have to write a justification, or get multiple bids to make sure we're not getting ripped off". At 100K, you're starting to look at things that would be considered "capital equipment" and at 1E6 and up, you're in the "big investment with justifications" regime. It's probably correlated to the annual wages of the person making the purchase. >>To recapitulate from previous discussions: a cluster appliance > >Yup. A 100k$ cluster appliance won't sell well according to IDC. If your >appliance (board/card/box/...) sits in the 25-50k$ region and delivers >10-100x the processing power of your desktop, then you should see them >sell well. This is where the market growth is. And this is a fairly straightforward price:performance point to hit... The $2500 DIY cluster was probably in the 5-6x performance area, and there was a uncompensated labor component in the build. Figure 16 nodes instead of the 8 in that cluster, and double or triple the price to account for packaging, sales, configuration and support, etc. and you're right at 20-30k with 12-15x improvement in power. >Companies retreating to the high end of the market risk the same fate as >all the other companies that have tried this before (e.g. any exec pushing >that strategy should take a long hard look at the HPC market and the >players that have retreated to the high end, most of them are gone and buried). > >[...] > >>this is the real MS/Cluster disconnect... Clusters just don't seem to fit >>in the MS .NET world. On the other hand, MS has a lot of smart people >>working there, and it's not out of the question that they'd figure out >>some way to leverage the idea of "commodity computers with commodity >>interconnects" in some MS useful way. > >For one thing, I would expect that .NET will eventually == grid. Doesn't >make it HPC, but this is what I expect. > >What Microsoft could bring to the table is forcing people to build >reasonable interfaces for the HPC systems. Today we have lots of APIs for >MPI, DRMAA for schedulers,.... Technology doesn't become useful for the >masses until it becomes easy for them to use. If Microsoft makes this >simpler by either creating/forcing a standard upon the cluster world, this >might not be such a bad thing in the longer term. I find nothing wrong >with the notion that more HPC users means more HPC. > >That said, I am not sure that they can do this without trying to force >windows upon the users. That kind of depends on whether MS really believes "the road ahead" is the internet or Windows. Certainly, the "windows-ness" of all the backend stuff is pretty buried.. once you get that 1000 processor SQL server farm up and running, the fact that the OS is "Windows" is sort of a non-issue. You've bought a pile of hardware and software and people who know how to feed and care for it at some price that you presumably thought was reasonable. All you really care is that it responds to those billions of transactions. To a high level IT manager, they're just buying SQL queries, and the gory details of the underlying technology is just that: "underlying details" about which they give the same amount of thought to what sort of padding is installed under the carpet in your new house.. A lot when you buy it, not much after that, other than to budget and plan for ongoing costs, and perhaps to consider whether it was a good choice when you go out to buy the next batch in a few years.. Just in case my wife, who IS a highlevel IT manager and spends quite a lot of time in purchase decisions, reads this, I concede might have overly simplified the comments about how much thought they put into the technology.. but it's in illustration of a point... computing resources are perceived as a commodity, and the details of how a commodity is manufactured or grown don't usually have a big influence on how purchase decisions get made. Marketing (as opposed to sales) is, in large part, an effort to de-commodity the thing you want to sell. >The demo at SC was ok, but you can do stuff like that today with web >services systems. The issue is that there are no real standards >associated with that. Not w3c stuff, but higher level standards that >make programming these things easier for end users. It's tough to say what level of abstraction those standards should be at. Make them too low, and they might not accomodate the next new technology. Make them too high, and they can be either so general they aren't really a standard or so specific to a given application that they're of limited utility. The standards that endure are, oddly, low level things that have a high degree of commonality.. think of RS-232 or the fact that everywhere in the US has 60Hz power. >Joe James Lux, P.E. Spacecraft Radio Frequency Subsystems Group Flight Communications Systems Section Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mail Stop 161-213 4800 Oak Grove Drive Pasadena CA 91109 tel: (818)354-2075 fax: (818)393-6875


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3rd International Urban Research Symposium
The 3rd International Urban Research Symposium at the ICLEI World Congress 2012 brought together researchers from around the globe who focus on urban sustainability, sustainability cities, eco-cities and sustainable communities. The symposium convened researchers to exchange their concepts, studies, findings and ideas for future research, and to enable them to exchange with local government practitioners in order to strengthen the link between research and practice.
The International Urban Research Symposium was an event complementary to and integrated with the ICLEI World Congress 2012. The symposium combined interaction with the core program of the ICLEI World Congress 2012, in which the researchers were invited to play a key role, as well as dedicated time slots with agendas focused on the needs and interests of researchers. Two principle opportunities existed:
1. World Congress Research Symposium Parallel Sessions (Sat 16 June):
Exploring experiences with researchers and city practitioners/city governments' interaction.
2. "Researchers' Own": Closed researcher sessions in parallel (only for researchers)
Across disciplinary boundaries and along the ICLEI World Congress themes, the symposium:
- Addressed the existing gaps, opportunities and challenges between research and practice.
- Used the expertise available at the conference to identify success factors and barriers for sustainable communities, and to develop local strategies that can be used by many communities around the world.
- Enriched the ICLEI World Congress program with findings, challenges and benchmarking activities.
Specific Aims
Parallel Session:
- Explored how research and local decision makers can better interact.
- Identified needs of and opportunities for interaction between researchers and local decision makers.
- Discussed tools, knowledge, and challenges for more effective interaction.
- Improved municipal sustainability capacity by increasing collaboration between researchers and local authorities.
- Established a basis for future cooperation among researchers and local government practitioners and develop an international research network consisting of academic researchers, research consultants and local government practitioners focused on local sustainability issues.
- Provided opportunities for municipal officials to interact with researchers to jointly identify research needs and to share local case study knowledge and examples.
"Researchers' Own":
- Enabled collaboration among researchers committed to comprehensive approaches to sustainability at the municipal level.
- Developed a research agenda that supports a (local government) movement towards sustainable communities.


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Dual-CPU Linux games console to ship this month
GP2X pitched at music, movie fans too
The successor to the Linux-based GP32 handheld games console will launch in the UK on 18 May, promising to bring gamers a gadget capable not only of playing native games and well-known titles under emulation, but also movies, music, and picture slideshows.
The GP2X contains two 240MHz processors, 64MB of RAM, and 64MB of Flash. It sports a 320 x 240 LCD and is powered by a pair of AA batteries - enough, claimed the console's UK distributor, for six hours' gameplay. There's an SD card slot for expansion, and a USB port for PC connectivity.
Since it's based on Linux, the console is ready to run a range of open source games, emulators, and ports of older titles. It can also play host to a number of media players supporting pretty much all the standard video, music and picture formats. The console ships with a full software development kit.
The version of the GP2X being offered in the UK is the second release, sporting an updated display and version 2.0 firmware. The console will cost £125 inc VAT, or $190 if you're buying from outside Europe. Pre-orders are now being taken at www.gp2x.co.uk. ®
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — The Denver Broncos will start Tim Tebow against the Miami Dolphins when they return from their bye week, according to a person with knowledge of the decision.
A member of the organization confirmed the move Tuesday, speaking on condition of anonymity because coach John Fox hadn't made the official announcement. He's scheduled to address the media following Tuesday's practice.
Tebow supplants Kyle Orton, who has struggled ever since winning the job with a spectacular training camp.
Replacing Orton at halftime Sunday, Tebow nearly led the Broncos back from a late 16-point deficit, falling a desperation pass short in a 29-24 loss to San Diego.
Tebow had his troubles — rust, three fumbled snaps and six misfires in 10 pass attempts — but he ran for a touchdown and threw for another while energizing the Broncos and fans frustrated by a franchise mired in mediocrity since its last winning season in 2005.
Orton continued a puzzling slide Sunday when he went 6 for 13 for 34 yards against the Chargers and threw his seventh interception, tied with Michael Vick and Philip Rivers for most in the league.
He also has two fumbles, including a costly one against Oakland in the opener when he lost the ball without being hit while winding up to throw to a wide-open tight end for the go-ahead score late in the fourth quarter of a 23-20 loss.
Orton, who's in the final year of his contract, is 6-21 since winning his first six games as Denver's starter.
The Broncos tried to trade Orton, who's making $9 million this season, when the lockout ended, but talks with Miami broke down and Fox instead threw open the quarterback competition, something for which Tebow proved ill-prepared.
Orton had worked extensively with teammates in workouts organized by safety Brian Dawkins during the lockout. So had Tebow, but he also spent time pitching products and his autobiography across the country.
Orton's and Brady Quinn's offseason workout program paid off when training camp rolled around.
Orton maintained his stranglehold on the starting job and Quinn appeared to win the backup job despite a poor performance in the final preseason game, but Fox said this week that wasn't really the case: Tebow was his No. 2.
This despite Tebow showing almost no progress in becoming the pocket passer that Broncos football chief John Elway has said he must become to make it in this league.
His footwork was still flawed, his throws were still off-target, and he even had trouble with the most basic of football plays: the center-quarterback exchange, after spending most of his football career playing out of the shotgun.
He showed, however, that there was some validity to the notion he's a "gamer" by posting decent stats in preseason games, but he clearly was outplayed by Orton.
So, it was Orton's job to lose — and he did.
Tebow, who received a $6.7 million bonus in August, was used sparingly by the new coaching staff at first. He came in as a decoy in the slot when the Broncos ran out of receivers against Cincinnati in Week 2, and he took one snap, running for minus-2 yards at Green Bay two weeks ago before gaining 2 yards on a keeper against San Diego in the first half Sunday.
When he was heading up the tunnel at halftime, offensive coordinator Mike McCoy informed him Orton was out and he was in. Following punts on his first three drives, Tebow found a rhythm and the Broncos nearly overcame a 26-10 deficit.
Now, the Broncos will have to determine if they want to continue pressing him into becoming a prototypical pro passer or focus instead on capitalizing on his skills that made him a great combination college quarterback — some say the best ever.
Despite a resume that included All-America honors, two national championships and a Heisman Trophy, Tebow never came close to beating out Orton last season, either.
Tebow started the final three games last season — going 1-2 — after Orton got hurt and the organization decided to see what they had in Tebow, whom former coach Josh McDaniels had selected with the 25th overall pick in the 2010 draft.
As a rookie, he completed 50 percent of his throws and collected five touchdown passes and three interceptions. He also ran for six TDs.


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Israel Prime Minister Golda Meir once declared, "I must govern the clock, not be governed by it." While she was referring to peace with Arab nations, scientists have been working to understand the mechanisms of our body's own internal clocks, called circadian rhythms, in an effort to control any malfunctions that could be contributing to the rise in obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and other health conditions.
Last month, a finding from Brigham and Women's Hospital and the University of Murcia in Spain determined that dieters who ate their largest meal earlier in the day lost 25 percent more weight than those who consumed it later in the day — likely due to the timed fluctuations in the body's metabolic rate and in hormones responsible for storing energy as fat.
Other recent experiments with mice suggest that snacking on fatty snack foods during normal sleep time produces obesity even when overall calorie consumption remains unchanged. And previous studies have established the health risks of night shift work: increased rates of heart disease, obesity, diabetes, and certain cancers, that are thought to be caused by a chronic body clock confusion.
With this accumulating evidence, chronobiologists who study circadian rhythms worry that we're damaging our health by engaging in frequent overseas travel and a regular pattern of working, snacking, and staring into bright screens well beyond our body's preferred bedtime.
"Has circadian misalignment contributed to the rise in obesity and diabetes? This is hard to prove, but all evidence points toward negative health consequences of disturbances in circadian rhythms," said Frank Scheer, director of the medical chronobiology program at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
An animal study released last week in the journal Current Biology provides more strength for these claims.
The research, conducted in mice by a team of Vanderbilt scientists, found that insulin, which regulates carbohydrate and fat metabolism in the body, follows a 24-hour cycle. Cells are relatively resistant to insulin when mice are asleep and fasting, the study showed, with sugar primarily converted into fat, rather than energy. This could mean that snacking just before bed is particularly bad for the waistline, according to the authors.
As researchers tinker in labs with experimental drugs designed to synchronize circadian rhythms in those who have disruptions due to genetic conditions or erratic work schedules, there are certain steps you can take — like eating, sleeping, and exercising on a predictable schedule — to keep your clocks running on time and in sync.
The body tells time in numerous ways, primarily sensing day from night by light passing through the eyes into the retina, which sends signals to the brain's master clock — a group of nerve cells called the suprachiasmatic nucleus, or SCN. This structure sends messages to the body's hormonal and nervous systems, signaling the brain's pineal gland, for example, to release the sleep-inducing hormone melatonin at night in the absence of light and to shut off melatonin production at dawn.
While the SCN also sends signals to the heart, brain, or liver — to rev you up first thing in the morning by increasing the hormone adrenaline and blood sugar levels — it also receives messages from tiny clocks within these organ cells, that also work on 24-hour cycles, to regulate metabolism.
Scheer's latest study, soon to be published in the journal Obesity, found that when people are studied in a lab setting — with controlled meals, sleep, and activity habits — they tend to experience the most hunger at around 8 p.m. and are the least interested in food first thing in the morning. This may help explain why some of us are bedtime snackers and not ravenous in the morning, even though we haven't eaten the whole night.
In the study published last month, Scheer and his colleagues gave 420 overweight Spaniards a Mediterranean-style eating plan — based on fresh produce, legumes, fish, and whole grains — to help them lose weight. While the amount of calories consumed and burned throughout the day didn't differ significantly among the early and late eaters, the early eaters lost 22 pounds after 20 weeks compared with 17 pounds for the late eaters.
"It was really the timing of the main meal that predicted the success of the diet independent of calorie intake or estimates of energy expenditure through exercise," said Scheer.
In a study published last year, researchers from the Salk Institute found that mice fed a high-fat diet during their normal waking hours were protected from diabetes and obesity compared with those fed the same diet with the same number of calories over 24 hours.
Those findings could lead to new weight loss drugs that manipulate the timing of hormone fluctuations.
"There is a cyclic clock protein that acts as the brakes on sugar production in the liver. This protein is low at the end of the night, when we have been 'fasting', and allows the liver to produce sugar in preparation for activity as we awake," said Steve Kay, a professor of biology and neurology at the University of Southern California. His lab is testing a drug that increases this clock protein to see if it can reverse obesity by preventing this rise in blood sugar.
Perhaps most pressing is the need to more fully understand the impact that erratic body clocks have on disease risks. In a 2009 study, Scheer and his colleagues recruited 10 healthy volunteers to live in a lab at the Brigham for 11 days on a 28-hour daily cycle with no natural light or other time cues from the outside world. "Their internal circadian system was never able to adjust to this regular 28-hour sleep-wake cycle during the study," Scheer said.
Besides sleep disruptions and moderately increased blood pressure, those with continuously out-of-sync clocks experienced a sharp rise in blood sugar and the hormone insulin, which is a risk factor for diabetes. Three of the participants had blood sugar levels that put them into full-blown insulin resistance or pre-diabetes within the first three days of study, a condition that reversed after the end of the study.
Those findings don't bode well for those who confuse their body clocks with frequent travel across time zones or night-shift work. And it raises concerns about possible health risks faced by a significant percentage of the population who have naturally disrupted circadian rhythms.
About 10 percent of the population have strong morning or evening preferences in their circadian rhythms, making them night owls or larks. About a third of these folks are at the extreme end, having a sleep disorder that makes their bodies yearn for sleep early in the evening or several hours past midnight. These genetic tendencies can make their sleep habits seem downright wacky in our culture that expects most office workers to arrive at around 9 a.m. — not at 4 a.m. or noon.
"I suspect that they're sick in a deeper biological way; they probably have abnormal rhythms throughout their body, not just in their sleep-wake cycle," Dr. Robert Thomas, codirector of the sleep center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, who has treated more than 1,000 patients over the past decade with the conditions. "But there's very little research data on these patients; they aren't the ones studied in circadian labs."
Often misdiagnosed as having insomnia, people with a condition called delayed sleep phase syndrome feel chronically jet-lagged, as if they are set on Hawaii time while living in Boston. Those with advance sleep phase syndrome feel as if they're on European time, or on an earlier schedule.
Treatment for a delayed sleep phase often involves nudging the clock ahead hour by hour over days or weeks. Patients use a light box that mimics outdoor light at a scheduled time in the morning, starting around when they would naturally wake up, and getting progressively earlier every few days. They also take melatonin supplements a few hours before their scheduled bedtime to send their brain a message that night has arrived. Treatment for advance sleep phase is similar, but with light therapy given later in the morning and melatonin later at night.Deborah Kotz can be reached at dkotz
@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @debkotz2.


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Sixty something days...
I chopped my hair off on September 30th. Like...all of it. I had maybe half an inch of hair and I wish I'd taken the photo with my hand in it so you could see how there was NO WAY to put my hands IN my hair. I wrote about this and I've been getting messages from natural hair enthusiasts congratulating me and validating my decision. I chuckle because I've been completely chemical/relaxer free for 4 years now.. In any case here we are two months later and I've posted virtually NO updates about my hair growth. Well...last month was a bit anticlimactic. I also nearly forgot and the only picture I have is one I snapped at work one random day when trying to get my webcam set up. I'm not smiling and I look mean...but whatever its supposed to be about the hair, right? Anyway, so here I am bare-faced with lipgloss (my usz) and completely confused about what to do with my hair, so what I was doing was washing it at night, brushing it back and tying it down. I was essentially giving myself a fro-y helmet. Awesome. I started going back to natural hair blogging sites to read what other BC-ers did and were doing to not get bored with their looks. I eventually ended up going back to wigs when I got bored because, well...there's not much that can happen when your hair is an inch or so long.
But then *bells and whistles* IT GREW! I seriously feel like this happened over night. I was sitting on my couch watching TV when I started twirling my hair around my finger mindlessly. It was then that I realized I was twirling my hair around my finger! I twisted my hair up in two strand twists and actually wore the twists out one day! Then the next day decided I hated how I looked with the twists and deleted all ocular evidence. In any case, its growing. My mom remarked that my hair has always grown pretty fast. The thing that excites me, well the three things are:
1. My hair is growing back straight up 4C hair. This is fine with me--because last time it was such a mixture of curl patterns (3C in back and 4C in crown) and honestly even if its 4c, I'll take it because it seems to be much more uniform this year than it ever has been before.
2. It is certainly not thin or "whispy". One of the reasons I hated twists before was because my hair was SO thin and when I did twists they were always scalpy and awful looking. This time, I did twists and I didn't hate it (until the day after) mostly because it looked full! The thing that I really loved about the twist was the day after twistOUT! It was amazeballs, but my hair was dirty and needed to be washed. That hasn't changed. My hair still requires washing 2x/week at LEAST or it is not happy.
3. I love that I BC'd after already being natural because I know how much heat-damage sucks so I'm staying away from it.
When I want straight hair, I'll throw a wig on. Furthermore, I know what products work best for me. I know not to spend a ton of money on all the things other people say works for them, etc. I have coconut oil, and some KCKT. I shampoo/condition with Organix coconut milk and that is IT. I do want to get some honey and ACV because my hair loves those when the air is dry, but I am content. It works and since I've already done the mid-length thing I'll know what to do when I get there. I have to say, I love where it is right now though. Short is so easy, but I do miss my big curly fro. I'll be happy when I get back there...but no rush. No rush.


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World's Shortest Living Woman Has a Big Spirit [VIDEO]
At just under 25 inches tall, some toddlers can reach shelves she can't. But 18-year-old Indian student Jyoti Amge has a claim to fame they don't: she's just been recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's shortest living woman.
Amge — who until her 18th birthday was already recognized as the world's shortest teenager — has a form of dwarfism called achondroplasia and likely won't grow any taller than she already is, but it hasn't stopped her from living a somewhat normal existence. She's attended a regular school since the age of four, just finished her high school exams, and plans to go to college. Her ultimate dream? Bollywood stardom.
And while many would find her daily life daunting, the bubbly teen says she's grateful for her tiny stature:
If I weren't small and had not achieved these world records I might never have been able to visit Japan and Europe, and many other wonderful countries," she says.
Watch Amge's amazing story below.
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Wabash Celebrates 1832 Society• May 4, 2011 Share:
President Pat White thanked members of the College's leadership giving circle, the 1832 Society, Sunday by telling stories of three students whose lives have been transformed by the education and experiences they've received at Wabash.
Micah Lembke, Filip Lempa, and Nathan Line, the president said, have accomplished things they never dreamed possible when they enrolled here from Griswold, Iowa, Poland, and Crawfordsville, respectively. "These guys took advantage of all the opportunities Wabash provides — made possible by your gifts to the College — and they will leave here as absolute world-beaters," President White said.
The annual gathering of the 1832 Society was held at D'Amore on the 48th floor of the Chase Tower in downtown Indianapolis. Long-time Trustee Joseph D. Barnette '61 served as master of ceremonies. See photos from the event here.
"This is an important event that recognizes your philanthropic leadership of Wabash College," Barnette told the assembled crowd.
"Your annual generosity demonstrates your belief in the good work that takes place at Wabash each day and your trust in the College's mission… Leading effectively is an integral part of the College's mission and each of you in this room models effective leadership for our students — and for future generations of Wabash men."
The 1832 Society comprises alumni, faculty, staff, and friends of the College who make gifts of $1000 or more each year. Approximately 750 families support the College at the leadership level annually.
Dan Rogers, Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Chair of the Department, gave the keynote address.
Professor Rogers had the audience engaged in his remarks, which he entitled "The Secret Lives of PhD's." Rogers quipped that when his wife, Jill learned of the title, she responded by saying, "I have known a lot of PhDs and if they do have secret lives, I'm sure they aren't that interesting. On the other hand, the good news is that you are giving an after-dinner speech and so it won't be too long."
Rogers got more serious when he spoke in glowing terms of the faculty who, with him, came to the College in 1998. Included in that cohort of then-new faculty were chemistry professors Scott Feller and Ann Taylor, rhetoric professor Todd McDorman, and physics professor Dennis Krause. He likened each of them to legendary professors through the ages, quoting Byron Trippet.
"[One] thing that comes through loud and clear in Trippet's book [Wabash on My Mind] is that many if not most of our best beloved faculty chose to stay at the College. William Norwood Brigance could've taught anywhere, but he chose Wabash. The same could be said of Ben Rogge and Trippet himself. While my colleagues who started back in 1998 have a long way to go before ending up in the next book about the College, they do share a vital link with the faculty who came before them; every single one of them is accomplished enough to teach where they like, but they choose Wabash."
Indeed, all five of those professors are well on their way to legendary status, for example Dr. Feller was recently named Lloyd "Doc" Howell Chair in Chemistry and Dr. Taylor holds the Haines Chair in Biochemistry.
"I remember asking Bill Placher once why he had stayed at Wabash and he answered simply that Wabash was where he belonged," Professor Rogers said. "All of us leaving graduate school make a kind of choice. On the one hand you can choose to teach at a large research university where if you are a biologist, for example, your job first and foremost will be to teach graduate students through your research. This can be a very gratifying way to spend a career I am sure, but it is categorically different from what we do at Wabash College. To be sure, a political scientist or historian at Wabash may steer some students to graduate school in their respective fields, but the mission is more broadly conceived. I know that some might disagree, but I think that in the end, the best Wabash professors choose students over their own disciplines. And while the two are not necessarily mutually exclusive, the most successful professors I have known understand that Wabash College's first, best destiny is to develop young men."
Director of Annual Giving Joe Klen '97 said the 1832 Society dinner celebrates the link between the tradition of philanthropic leadership and the opportunities for students and faculty such giving provides.
"Dan's remarks reinforce the strength of Wabash faculty and faculty-student interactions," Klen added. "His comments also validate the place of the Challenge of Excellence at this time in the College's history and the need for all alumni and friends to play a role in supporting the four initiatives of this major fundraising campaign, which focus keenly on enhancing the student-faculty experience."


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12th Digital Communications Conference
September 11, 1993
- Using Airborne Digital Repeaters in Emergency Communications
by Gary Arnold, WB2WPA
- Introduction: The state of Florida is, as pointed out so dramatically on August 23-24, 1992, vulnerable to the destruction of a hurricane. Communications links so vital to recovery are often among the weakest, most vulnerable tarqets. Linking the southern half of the state with the state capitol in Tallahassee is more than difficult, because of the distances involved (Figure 1). On the southwest coast of Florida in Naples, 110 miles due west of Ft. Lauderdale, the Collier County Emergency Operat-ions Center provides link from EOCs up the west coast to Dade, Broward and Monroe Counties, including the National Hurricane Center in Coral Gables, Florida. A dual port network node is located at Ochopee providing 220 and 440 links to the east coast. Another is planned for a federal government site near the Dade County line, providing redundant sites along US 41 between Naples and Miami.
- A Prototype TNC-3 Design Approach
by Bill Beech, NJ7P, Doug Nielsen, N7LEM, and Jack Taylor, N7OO
- Abstract: Many TNC design proposals have been advanced over the years. However, with few exceptions, the venerable TNC-2 and it's clones still proliferate the marketplace. Factors influencing this situation include: (1) A very cost-competitive market between various entry level models. (2) Proprietary operating software that has tended to stifle TNC development. This paper describes a design philosophy that the authors believe will lead to the next generation TNC.
- DSP Implementation of 300- and 1200-Baud FSK Packet Demodulators
by Jon Bloom, KE3Z
- Abstract: This paper gives the theory of operation for a DSP implementation of 300- and 1200-baud FSK modems. Specific algorithms are described and filter characteristics are given for an actual implementation.
- The ARDS Project
by Roy V. Ekbert, W0LIQ, and Martin R. Schroedel, K9LTL
- Abstract: ARDS is an acronym for Amateur Radio Data Syntheses. Three kinds of systems can be synthesized: manual, computer-aided, and automated. We have only tested models of the first two via using simulation. Meanwhile, we're awaiting permission from the F.C.C. to try over-the-air tests. Part 97 amateur radio rules forbid secrecy. A secrecy waiver is necessary because ARDS' radio signals cannot be deciphered without ARDS systems. This paper reveals how computer- aided systems work and how they can supplement ham communications.
- Usage of TCP/IP Over ROSE in the Tampa Bay Area
by Chuck Hast, KP4DJT/TI3DJT
- Abstract: With the usage of NOS in the Tampa Bay area, we have found the need to link between NOS users using the ROSE network. Like other areas where ROSE is used as the primary networking system, up until a year ago, the only way to do so was using SLIP over TNC's running in transparent mode. Manually setting up the link then issuing the slip connection to the distant IP facility.
- Unique Identification Signals for CCIR 625
by Michael J. Huslig
- Abstract:
When an AMTOR master (CCIR 476) calls an AMTOR slave, it uses a 4-character
identification. Since the AMTOR alphabet is based on the RTTY code, these four characters
can only be uppercase alphas [A...Z]. But an amateur call sign can be from 3 to 6
characters, of which at least one is a number. The amateur community is using some
workable algorithms to map callsigns to these 4 characters; unfortunately there is no way
to map these 4 characters back to a unique callsign.
- When CCIR 625 was added to AMTOR, the number of identification signals expanded to 7. However, because of a checksum calculation that is used during the initial connection, the 7 characters can only be a subset of the uppercase alphabet. Because the checksum uses a modulo-20 addition, only 20 alphas can be used out of the 26.
Network Information Services
by Brian A. Lantz, KO4KS
- Introduction:
In the early days of packet radio, you were lucky to find a station or two that you could connect to for a digital QSO. As time has progressed, BBSs took the role of "generic information providers", with bulletins, and E-Mail as their strengths. Current BBSs are used nearly 100% for message handling. The BBSs have a distinct weakness in the area of providing information to the user. The two main ways that BBSs provide generic information are: 1) Requiring the user to read certain messages 2) Requiring the user to download certain files. Both of these provide a learning hurdle to a new user, which will probably cause the user to try to "stumble through it" without the needed information.
- ROSE (and other networking tools) have taken the first steps of network information services by placing a screenful of text in the memory of the switch/node to answer a few questions the user might have. This is made simple for the user, requiring him to connect to an alias; no new actions to learn.
- The average new user has limited computer experience and very probably NO experience with other E-Mail systems. Networks are a concept that scares even many long-time packeteers. An information provider should take these into account and also provide a way to be interactive, at least to a point.
- ROSE (and other networking tools) have taken the first steps of network information services by placing a screenful of text in the memory of the switch/node to answer a few questions the user might have. This is made simple for the user, requiring him to connect to an alias; no new actions to learn.
- Networking ANSI Color Graphics
by Brian A. Lantz, KO4KS
- Abstract:
A typical network supports two kinds of users; regular users and super-users. The regular users provide the NEED for the network. Without those who wish to USE the network, the network is useless! It doesn't matter if it is ROSE, NETROM, TCP/IP, or SplatRouter-200(); if there are no users, there is no need. The second class of users, super-users, try to MEET the needs of the regular users. There are usually BBSs, but can also be information providers, Interret mail routers, non-radio wormholes to distant places, and any other resources that might be needed or desired. While both classes of users should he given equal status pertaining to the use of network resources, the regular users, obviously, should he given special consideration. Their needs and desires should be constantly evaluated by the local administrators of the network, as well as by the writers of packet software.
- The users in the early days of packet, the users had low expectations, since this was all a new experience. The users of 1993 have developed a desire to do more. They want new capabilities. They want to be able to do things more like landline networks. This brings us to ANSI color graphics. This paper will hrietly descrihe the needs, the shortcomings, the facts, and the solutions to making our networks support ANSI color graphics.
- Interfacing Between ROSE and TCP/IP
by Thomas A. Moulton, W2VY
- Abstract: The goal of the RATS Open System Environment (ROSE) X.25 Packet Switch from the beginning was to develop a radio network based upon standard protocols. It was also required that it provide reliable and completely transparent communications to all users of the AX.25 protocol. For over a year now ROSE has properly supported passing AX.25 frames of any protocol type (PID). This was just the first step taken by ROSE in providing fully transparent services to TCP/IP users.
- Packet Radio in Disaster Situations
by Robert Osband, N4SCY
- Abstract: Packet Radio, a mode of data communications over amateur radio frequencies, was seldom used during communications operations following Hurricane Andrew. This paper will detail the situation as found by a user who went there to help, and proposed suggestions for future disaster recovery packet radio operations.
- The HUB 5/29 IP Routing Experiment
by Paul Overton, G0MHD, and Ian Wade, G3NRW
- Abstract: This paper summarises the disadvantages of default IP routing, which often leads to total traffic loss when attempting to forward over lon~ distances. This is followed by a description of how to set up a hub routing scheme that overcomes these problems. An experimental scheme along these lines has been successfully implemented in Regions 5 and 29 in the UK (hence the Hub 5/29 in the title of this paper).
- A Low Cost Transceiver for 19.2 kb/s FSK Transmission in the 23 cm Band
by Wolf-Henning Rech, N1EOW/DF91C
- Abstract: Why 23 cm ? Why not ? Yes, it is well known that many packeteers become quite unsure when they see a circuit diagram full of obvious short circuits (some people call them strip lines) connected to parallel capacitors - what a nonsense ! And why to use even discrete transistor stages instead of the fine HCMOS inverters ? Speaking about microwave transmitters finally cause the complete panic, and everyone assures that he has nor a lathe neither a network analyser at hand. But, don't panic! 23 cm isn't yet so exotic as you may think perhaps. A lot of good semiconductors and other components are available at low prices, and with a well-designed printed circuit board the assembly is nearly as easy as for a TNC. Yes, there are some special rules to care, but they are few and simple.
- Low Cost Entry Into Packet Radio Using BayCom
by Christopher C. Rendenna, KB2BBW
- Abstract: This paper picks up where last year's topic, "Low Cost Entry Into Packet Radio Using Digicom" (11th ARRL Computer Networking Conference) left off. Its purpose is to acquaint the beginner or experienced packet user with the versatile BayCom Modem as well as providing information on setting up a low cost packet radio system via the BayCom modem and software. It assumes the reader is minimally computer literate and has a basic knowledge and understanding of packet radio basics.
- Improved TNC Interconnections
by Donald A. Rotolo, N21RZ
- Abstract: Hardware for interconnecting TNCs to form a TheNET or ROSE network hub has been further refined for greater convenience. An updated version of the well-known Diode Matrix Boardfor RS-232 network hub backbones is introduced. The new board has been re-packaged into a bacic land-line configuration, eliminating the need and expense of cables for the RS-232 signals. Additionally, a new circuit is described which allows multiple TNCs to be interconnected at high speed via their modem disconnect headers, with fullflow control, using only two signal wires.
- Packet Tracker - A Graphical Packet Tracking Program
by Mark Sproul, KB2ICI
- Abstract:
Packet Radio is a very interesting and growing part of Amateur Radio. For the new
person investigating Packet Radio, there are many things to be learned and lots of
different aspects of Packet Radio that will not be grasped for a long time. Even the
advanced Packeteer usually does not understand everything going on with Packet Radio.
If someone wants to know what kind of Packet services and what BBS's or other activity
is going on in their area, they are usually told to hook up their TNC and put it into
MONITOR mode to see what is going on. This process will give them screen after
screen, day after day, of almost un-intelligible garbage flying across their screen. Unless
they take the time to start writing down call signs and understand some of the different
protocols, they will be COMPLETELY lost and confused.
- Packet Tracker is a program that monitors that stream of 'garbage' and presents a graphical representation of all of the different conversations occurring on the frequency at one time. It does this by showing icons representing the different stations and draws lines from one station / icon to another representing who is talking to whom. It also shows where retries are happening and who was the most recent person to actually transmit and how many packets were transmitted by each station. Packet Tracker also keeps track of lots of statistics about the activity of each station and also statistics about actual band, usage.
- Mail Tracker - A Graphical Mail Tracking Program
by Keith Sproul, WU2Z
- Abstract: Packet Mail Forwarding as we know it today works pretty well. [1] The end user enters a message into the system and, other than having to address it correctly, he does not have to do anything else to make it get to its destination. If the message is addressed for some place local, it is handled via VHF only. If it is addressed for someplace far away, it gets routed to the appropriate 'gateway' to get it there. This gateway might be an HF gateway, or a SATELLITE gateway, or a WORM-HOLE, but somehow, the system knows or thinks it knows the best way for a message to get from where it is currently to where it should be. There has been much discussion on routing methods, automatic updating of routing tables, and on the best way to route messages. This can be an extremely volatile topic of discussion and will not be discussed here. This paper discusses a network utility program called MAIL TRACKER that will look at messages and graphically show the route those messages have taken from the point they entered the network to their final destination. This paper will not discuss how to route traffic, only how to evaluate the routings being used.
- The Client/Server Bulletin Board System (csbbs)
by Jim Van Peursem, KE0PH, and Bob Arasmith, N0ARY
- Abstract: The current Bulletin Board System (BBS) network is showing signs of age. There are problems with duplicate messages, new users are intimidated by their interface, the channel is becoming congested, etc. By looking at the underlying assumptions of the current systems, significant improvements can be made. Some of them require substantial changes, but the benefits far outweigh the trouble involved. This paper looks at a client/server architecture currently being developed by NOARY, KEOPH, WB6YRU, and N6ZFJ, called the csbbs (client/server bbs). The paper describes the goals of the new system, and some of the ideas being considered.
- RMAILER: The Next Generation
by Frank Warren, Jr., KB4CYC
- Abstract: At the Eleventh Computer Networking Conference, RMAILER an add-on server for the remote ad hoc mailing list protocol known as RMAIL (Remote MAlLer) was introduced. RMAILER has evolved since that time taking some at times interesting turns in development.
- SoftWire
by Aaron Wohl, N3LIW
- Abstract: SoftWire is a system for designed schematics using digital logic. The schematics are translated into assembly code for a target microprocessor.


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Frederik Wellmann
A. MS. notebook
At the beginning CSP offers the following plan for his lecture series: "1. What makes a reasoning sound, 2. Existential Graphs, Alpha and Beta, 3. General Explanations, Phenomenology and Speculative Grammar, 4. Existential graphs, Gamma Part, 5. Multitude, 6. Chance, 7. Induction, 8. Abduction." Collection and multitude syllogism of transposed quantity Fermatian reasoning first and second ultranumerable multitude continuity (pp. 78-122). Gamma graphs (pp. 124-138). The beginning of a lecture occasioned by the death of Herbert Spencer. Mentioning his personal encounters with Spencer, CSP writes on Spencer's evolutionism and his influence on philosophy generally (pp. 140- 158) .
Abduction, Collections, Continuity, Evolution, Graphs existential, Induction, Fermatian, Induction (see also Abduction Argument Deduction Induction Reasoning Syllogism), Logic (modal see Modality), Multitude, Lowell Lectures, Phenomenology, Probability and Chance, transposed Quantity, Reasoning (probable see also Probability), Speculative grammar (see also Stecheology), Spencer Herbert, Syllogism
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Like Rome, Lisbon, Portugal sprawls over seven hills. It is situated at the mouth of the Tagus River, named the "Straw Sea" for the way the sun turns its waters gold. In the early 18th century, Lisbon was a city renowned for its stunning architecture. Then one day in 1755, the earth shook. Buildings fell and tidal waves swept over the rubble. When the earthquake subsided, 40,000 were dead and 17,000 buildings had crumbled. The city was rebuilt, however, and there is much to see and enjoy in Lisbon as it stands today. Only the Alfama Quarter remains of 18th-century Lisbon, but the city's new and rebuilt attractions are equally impressive.
10 Must-Do Activities in Lisbon
The Lisboa Story Centre is a great place to start. It opened last year and features a multimedia account of the earthquake. The Story Centre is located in Praca do Comercio, the riverfront square rebuilt with elegant arcades and a triumphal arch after the catastrophe.
Take tram 28 from Praca da Figueira to the Castelo de Sao Jorge (St. George's Castle), which affords a splendid panoramic view of the city center. The castle area has been variously fortified by the Romans, Visigoths, Moors and the Christians. Located above the city center, the castle survived the earthquake and is one of Lisbon's original buildings.
Next, talk a walk along the winding narrow streets of the Alfama Quarter, stopping for a lunch of bacalhau, a Portuguese codfish dish (usually salted) that is prepared in many forms.
Many once-private houses that loom over the streets have become venues for performances of "fado," age-old Portuguese songs of love and loss. Spend an evening enjoying dinner and performances at a restaurant such as O Faia in the nightlife district of Bairro Alto.
To visit Iglesia de Santa Maria (St. Mary's Church), take tram 15 from Praca da Figueira to outlying Belem. The church's slender pillars somehow survived the earthquake. Be sure to see the Mosteiro dos Jeronimos (Monastery of Jeronimos) and its cloister with lacelike arches, as well as the Torre de Belem (Belem Tower). All were erected in the late 15th and early 16th centuries and are near the site from which such navigators as Vasco da Gama departed. The buildings were King Manuel I's gifts to celebrate the success of Portuguese explorations. They are famous for window casements and pillars embellished with ropes, globes and anchors fashioned of stone (called Manueline style) to honor these explorers.
While in Belem, the next essential sites are the Museu da Marinha (Maritime Museum) and the Museu Nacional dos Coches (National Museum of Coaches). The Museu da Marinha features ship models and actual fishing boats, and the Museu Nacional dos Coches is one of the largest of its kind in Europe — with gilded vehicles from the 16th through the 19th centuries.
In the heart of Lisbon, be sure to stroll along the black and white mosaic pavement of Rossio Square, with its Baroque fountains and 19th-century neo-Manueline-style train station. Visit the Museu Calouste Gulbenkian and the Museu Nacional do Azulejo (National Tile Museum). The former contains art of all ages, but is especially notable for its 19th-century French Lalique glass.
The National Tile Museum can be reached by bus from Praca do Comercio. It is housed in the 16th-century Convento da Madre de Deus (Convent of the Mother of God), which includes a chapel designed with tile floors and walls and a monumental nativity scene. One of the tile walls features a depiction of Lisbon before the earthquake.


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- 1 The Wikimedia Donor Privacy Policy
- 1.1 Welcome!
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- 1.4 What This Policy Covers
- 1.5 What Information We Collect
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The Wikimedia Donor Privacy Policy[edit]
Welcome to the Wikimedia Foundation's Donor Privacy Policy. The Wikimedia Foundation ("WMF") has put this policy in place to protect the privacy rights of our donors. We recognize that our donors care deeply about how their personal information is used and shared, and we value the privacy and security of our donors. This Donor Privacy Policy addresses our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing donor information. Please carefully read this policy together with our Terms of Use. We will never sell, trade, or rent your nonpublic personal information.
Important Information[edit]
By donating to WMF, you consent to the collection, transfer, processing, storage, disclosure, and use of your information in or to the United States ("U.S."), and other locations that may have different or less stringent data protection laws than your country, for the purposes stated in this policy. If you do not agree with the terms of the Donor Privacy Policy and the WMF Terms of Use, please immediately discontinue use of Wikimedia fundraising sites, such as donate.wikimedia.org.
"WMF", "us", "we", and "our" refer to the Wikimedia Foundation.
"Donor Privacy Policy" and "policy" refers to this document.
"Personal information" is information you provide us or information we collect from you that could be used to identify you. While we may not collect all of the following types of information, we consider the following to be "personal information" if it is otherwise nonpublic and can be used to identify you:
- Your real name, address, phone number, email address, password, identification number on government-issued ID, IP address, web browser user-agent information, credit or debit card number, bank account number and routing number, personal identification number in association with the relevant account; and
- When associated with one of the items in subsection (a), any sensitive data such as date of birth, gender, sexual orientation, racial or ethnic origins, marital or familial status, medical conditions or disabilities, political affiliation, and religion.
What This Policy Covers[edit]
This Donor Privacy Policy covers the collection, transfer, processing, storage, disclosure, and use of personal and non-personal information collected from you during the process of making a donation to the Wikimedia Foundation and through your interactions with fundraising-related emails from WMF, fundraising-related banners on Wikimedia sites, and Wikimedia fundraising sites, such as donate.wikimedia.org. This policy does not cover the collection, transfer, processing, storage, disclosure, or use of your information related to your use of other WMF projects or features, such as Wikipedia. For more information regarding WMF's broader privacy practices, please review our main Privacy Policy. This policy also does not cover the collection, transfer, processing, storage, disclosure, and use of information collected from you during the process of making a donation to, or other interactions you may have with, a Wikimedia affiliate, such as a chapter. For more information about the privacy practices of those organizations, please review their respective privacy policies.
What Information We Collect[edit]
As a result of your interaction with our donation pages, making a donation, participating in a survey or providing feedback related to donating, WMF may collect certain personal information, as defined above. We also may collect some non-personal information, such as:
- the web page that referred you to our donation pages
- the amount you donated
- which of our pages you request and visit
- the date and time of each request you make to our donation pages
- the name of your internet service provider
- comments and suggestions from you
- correspondence between you and WMF
- any other information you provide to us
We keep both personal and non-personal information confidential, meaning that we will not share this information outside of the Wikimedia Foundation except as permitted by this policy or in anonymized form.
Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies[edit]
As you interact with the WMF donation process, and fundraising emails, surveys, or feedback mechanisms from WMF, we may use automatic data collection and other locally stored data technologies such as tracking pixels, JavaScript, cookies, and local storage to collect certain information about your device.
WMF uses cookies and other locally stored data to enhance your donation experience. We also use this information to create a safer online environment and gain a better understanding of donor preferences and interactions with Wikimedia fundraising sites, such as donate.wikimedia.org, and donation-related emails. In general, cookies and other locally stored data are used to:
- Help Wikimedia fundraising sites, such as donate.wikimedia.org function and deliver new and relevant content to you.
- Provide you with a personalized experience by storing your preferences so that they can be used the next time you visit a Wikimedia fundraising site, such as donate.wikimedia.org.
- Analyze the performance of donation processes so that we can better understand how they work and improve them for you and other WMF donors.
- Analyze interactions with fundraising emails so we can refine and improve the donation process.
Limiting Data Collection by Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies[edit]
We believe that the collection of this data helps improve your donation experience; however, you may remove or disable some or all locally stored data through your browser settings. While not a comprehensive list, you can limit the use of cookies and other locally stored data on your device by:
- Removing or disabling specific locally stored data on your browser's settings.
- Using a browser that can block-third party cookies.
- Installing a plugin to block locally stored data, if available.
Although donations to WMF via Wikimedia fundraising sites, such as donate.wikimedia.org, are possible without cookies and other locally stored data, please note that the removal or disabling of these features may affect your navigation of these sites.
Do Not Track[edit]
WMF is committed to protecting the information we collect from all of our donors. We do not share this information with third parties, except in the specific circumstances described in the "Sharing Donor Information" section of this policy. Because of this commitment to protect all donors, we do not change our behavior in response to a web browser's Do Not Track signal. For more information about DNT, please visit Do Not Track Us and the World Wide Web Consortium's Do Not Track Specification.
How We Use Donor Information[edit]
Here are some examples of how we use information collected from you. It allows us to:
- administer our donation pages
- test features
- customize content
- understand donors' interest in WMF
- thank donors for their donation
- improve our fundraising processes and efforts
- update you about upcoming fundraising and other WMF activities
- comply with U.S. tax requirements
- conduct internal analyses, such as research and analytics
- communicate substantive changes to this policy and related policies
- report to applicable government agencies as required by law
- engage in other purposes related to WMF's fundraising operations
- provide greater security
- set language preferences
- distribute donation receipts
- maintain our internal records
- conduct survey and metric reports
Accessing Your Donor Information[edit]
WMF works hard to accurately process and maintain donor information. If you would like to access, correct, or delete the personal information we have about you, or you would like to change your WMF communication preferences, you (or an authorized representative) can let us know by contacting us at donatewikimedia.org. While we will make reasonable efforts to comply with your request, there are certain situations where we will not grant your request (such as when we cannot adequately verify your identity to give you access to personal information, when we are legally required to retain information, or when we are not technologically able to change or delete information). Therefore, the granting of such requests remains at the sole discretion of WMF.
Sharing Donor Information[edit]
We understand that donors may wish to remain anonymous, and we strive to honor such requests and preserve your anonymity. However, in limited circumstances, we may share donor information in the situations and under the conditions described below. We will never sell, trade, or rent your nonpublic personal information.
With your permission. With your consent, we may share your information for a particular purpose. For example, we may give donors the option to have their name publicly associated with their donation.
In anonymized form. We may publish or share anonymized donor information. For example, we may share anonymized data sets to show donation trends.
Comments and suggestions. We may publish any comments or suggestions that donors provide us, including in promotional materials, in anonymous form. In the rare instance that we do publish such information with donor attribution, we will do so only with your written consent.
Online payment processors. In order to facilitate online donations, we have partnered with payment processors. When you make a donation to WMF online, whether by credit card, debit card, or other methods of online payment, these payment processors receive the information that you have provided as well as information they collect independent of WMF. We do our best to use contractual agreements and other mechanisms to help ensure that these processors treat your information consistent with, and in a manner no less protective than, the principles of this policy. However, please be aware that WMF is not responsible for the privacy practices of these processors; please consult the privacy policies of individual payment processors for more information about their practices.
Other service providers. We use third-party service providers or contractors who assist with the organization and facilitation of our fundraising programs, or who help run our donation pages or improve your experience with them. We may give access to your personal or non-personal information to these providers or contractors as needed to perform their services for us or to use their tools and services. While we cannot ensure the privacy or security of services provided by third-party providers, we do our best to use contractual agreements and other mechanisms to help ensure that these service providers or contractors treat your information consistent with, and in a manner no less protective than, the principles of this policy.
For legal reasons. On certain rare occasions, we may access, preserve, or disclose your personal information if we reasonably believe it is necessary to satisfy a valid and legally enforceable warrant, subpoena, court order, law or regulation, or other judicial or administrative order. If we believe that a particular request for disclosure of a donor's information is legally invalid or an abuse of the legal system, and the affected donor does not intend to oppose the disclosure themselves, we will do our best to fight the request. WMF is committed to notifying you via email at least ten (10) calendar days, when possible, before we disclose your personal information in response to a legal demand. However, we may only provide notice if we are not legally restrained from contacting you, there is no credible threat to life or limb that is created or increased by notifying you of the request, and you have provided us with an email address or other current contact information.
Nothing in this policy is intended to limit any legal objections or defenses you may have to a third party's request (whether it be civil, criminal, or governmental) to disclose your information. We recommend seeking the advice of legal counsel immediately if such a request is made involving you.
If the organization is transferred. In the extremely unlikely event that ownership of all or substantially all of the WMF changes, or we go through a reorganization (such as a merger, consolidation, or acquisition), your personal information will remain confidential, except as provided in this policy. We will provide notice to you via the Wikimedia sites, and a notification on WikimediaAnnounce-L or similar mailing list, at least thirty (30) calendar days before any personal information is transferred or becomes subject to a different donor privacy policy.
To protect you, ourselves, or others. If necessary, we may need to share your personal information to: enforce or investigate potential violations of our Terms of Use, this Donor Privacy Policy, or any Foundation or user community-based policies; investigate and defend ourselves against legal threats or actions; prevent imminent and serious bodily harm or death to a person; protect our organization, employees, contractors, users, or the public; or detect, prevent, or otherwise assess and address potential spam, malware, fraud, abuse, unlawful activity, and security or technical concerns.
How We Protect Your Donor Information[edit]
To ensure a high level of security and confidentiality, WMF employs a variety of physical, administrative, and technical measures, policies, and procedures to help protect your personal and financial information from unauthorized access, use, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. However, you should be aware that no storage system or data transmission is 100% secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee that our security protocols will not be compromised.
How Long We Keep Your Donor Information[edit]
Once we receive personal information from you, we keep it for the shortest possible interval that is consistent with the maintenance, understanding, and improvement of the WMF donation process, and our obligations under applicable U.S. law. Certain information may be retained indefinitely.
For information on Wikimedia's general data retention policies on the Wikimedia projects, please see our Data Retention Guidelines.
Wikimedia Affiliates[edit]
Wikimedia affiliates (such as chapters) are independent organizations, which sometimes conduct their own fundraising efforts. While some affiliates may give a portion of the funds they raise to WMF, WMF is not involved in processing donations made to these organizations. Wikimedia affiliates have different privacy policies and practices depending on local legal requirements and other considerations. While affiliates who participate in fundraising are generally expected to adhere to the principles set out in this policy, this policy does not explicitly cover donations made to them.
Changes to This Donor Privacy Policy[edit]
From time to time, it may be necessary to modify this policy in order to accurately reflect our data collection and disclosure practices. We reserve the right to do so, and we will provide notice of such changes in a reasonable manner and time. We encourage you to review the most up-to-date version of our Donor Privacy Policy periodically.
Governing Language and Law[edit]
Please note that in the event of any differences in meaning or interpretation between the original English version of this policy and a translation, the original English version governs. Any disputes, claims, and causes of actions arising out of or in relation to this policy will be conducted in English, and shall be governed in all respects by the laws of the state of California. Any disputes relating to the Donor Privacy Policy shall be resolved solely in the state or federal courts located in San Francisco, California.
Contact Us[edit]
WMF values what our donors have to say about our services and our policies. If you have questions or suggestions about this policy, or the information collected under the Donor Privacy Policy, please email us at donatewikimedia.org or contact us directly. For more information about the privacy practices that govern the Wikimedia projects, please review our main Privacy Policy.
This Donor Privacy Policy went into effect February 1, 2017. Previous versions can be found below:
Donor Privacy Policy (September 2011)
Donor Privacy Policy (July 2011)
Please note that in the event of any differences in meaning or interpretation between the original English version of this Donor Privacy Policy and a translation, the original English version takes precedence.