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A Kaduna-based rights group, Centrum Initiative for Development and Fundamental Rights Advocacy (CEDRA), has demanded "a full independent investigation" of last Friday's alleged killing, by the Nigerian Army, of 35 Shiite Muslims in Zaria, among them three sons of the group's leader, Malam Ibraheem El-zakzaky.
The demand was contained in a statement issued yesterday in Kaduna by CEDRA's Convener, Dr. John Danfulani.
The statement, a copy of which was made available to News Express, reads as follows: "On 26th July 2014, Shiite sect embarked on their annual international QUDS procession. The rite is part of their last Friday of month of Ramadan activities that was declared in the 80s by the spiritual leader of the Iranian Islamic Revolution Ayyatolah Khomeini.
"Here in the Nigeria, the sect has been observing QUDS tradition for the past 32 years in many cities. Most of these processions went without clashes with either the law enforcement officers or public.
"This year's procession ended with incidences of shooting of Shiite members in Zaria. Their leader Malam El-zakzaky lost three of his children and other members. Till this moment, corpses of two of his sons and those of his members have not been given to them for burial. And they are yet to have access to the wounded in the hospital.
"The right to peaceful protest in support or against local or international issues is constitutionally guaranteed and supported by many international protocols. The only time such rights are lightly tempered with is in war with other countries and emergency rule. To the best of our knowledge, we are in neither.
"We therefore condemn in strongest terms the shooting and killing of peaceful protesters in Zaria on 26th July 2014 and call on for a full independent investigation of the Zaria Killing by bodies charged with monitoring and reporting of human rights violations.
"Governments in Nigeria must know that the dark days of ruling with impunity are over and have no place in a democracy. The chief duty of the State is to protect life and not take it away without authorisation of the body responsible of snatching away life from citizens.
"We want to use this opportunity to thanks the leader of Shiite in Nigeria, Malam El-Zakzaky, for his restraint and calm disposition to the great loss of his sons and members. We will walk with him and his organisation in their quest to seek for justice on the QUDS procession incidence.
"And we pray to God to forgive the souls of those killed and grant them Aljana."
•Photo, courtesy of PM NEWS, shows El-Zakzaky's sons allegedly killed by soldiers. L-R: Mahmood, Hamid and Ahmed.
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Prime Minister, Dr Keith Rowley and his wife Sharon Rowley, have left the country on a private visit to Miami.
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Do you ever notice it's usually aggressive, "don't-make-me-play-by-your-rules" children who usually get most of the attention in many families. While the compliant, rule-following children often recede into the background and get less attention. Parents often make concerted efforts to make sure the compliant children get a fair share of attention and accolades.
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1. Introduction
Today, knowledge is regarded as one of the key concepts of being successful on personal and organizational level. Nevertheless, knowledge may also be short-lived and it may lose its value quickly, particularly if it is not exploited efficiently. Therefore, the importance of sharing knowledge is frequently emphasized by scholars (Gurteen, 1999).
Knowledge may be classified in many different ways, but in this study, it is categorized as explicit and tacit knowledge based on Polanyi's (1966) conceptualization. Explicit knowledge comprises the knowledge in the books, documents, reports, and databases whereas tacit knowledge is the knowledge that is confined in the brains and experiences of workers (cited in Nonaka, 1994). Knowledge sharing behaviour is described as a desire of the individuals in an organization to share the knowledge that they obtained or created with the other individuals (Bock et al. 2005). By its nature, knowledge cannot move freely like a commercial good or service and its movement cannot be independent from the subject that possesses it (Hendriks, 1999, 92). On the contrary, one of the various natural human inclinations is the reluctance to share the knowledge at hand; and there are various reasons for this reluctance (Bock et al. 2005). Hence, various personal attributes of the individuals that possess the knowledge directly affect the knowledge sharing process. Among these various personal factors, this study investigates the effects of occupational commitment and occupational self-efficacy on knowledge sharing process.
Occupational commitment is described as an individual's perception of his/her occupation's importance level in his/her life (Can, Baysal & Paksoy, 1999). Previous studies that examined the relation between occupational commitment and knowledge sharing behaviour proposed that individuals who found commonalities between their beliefs and occupations have positive attitude and emotions towards their occupation (Aktaş & Gürkan, 2015). Moreover, the individuals who have high level of occupational commitment are proposed to care more about the development of their occupations and, hence, become more willing to share their knowledge (Lachman & Aranya, 1986; Lin, 2007). On the other hand, occupational self-efficacy is the level of competence that an individual believes he/she has regarding that individual's ability to successfully undertake the duties and responsibilities of his/her occupation and it is considered a specific type of self-efficacy (Füllemen et al., 2015). Bock et al. (2005) found a positive relation between an individual's self-efficacy perception and his/her attitude towards his/her knowledge sharing behaviour.
In domestic studies, knowledge sharing behaviour is mainly investigated on organizational level (Göksel et al., 2011; Yeniçeri & Demirel, 2007); the studies that investigate the knowledge sharing behaviour on individual level are extremely scarce. This study examines effects of personal factors such as occupational commitment and occupational self-efficacy on the knowledge sharing behaviours of physicians from the perspective of knowledge providing individual.
2. Methods
Research included data collection from 251 dermatologists via delivered questionnaires and quantitative analysis of that data. "Knowledge sharing behaviour" is measured by a 10-item scale that established utilizing the scales of Bock et al. (2005), Chennamaneni (2006) and Swift & Virick (2013). "Occupational commitment" is measured by a 6-item scale that adapted from Lin et al. (2007, 425)'s organizational commitment scale. Lastly, "occupational self-efficacy" is measured by adapting Schyns & von Collani (2002, 221)'s scale to be appropriate for dermatologists. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses have been carried out to provide for the validity of research scales. Moreover, results of reliability analysis demonstrated that Cronbach'a Alpha levels of all the scales are above the acceptable level of 0.60 (Hair et al., 2000).
3. Findings and Discussion
Multiple linear regression analysis has been carried out to examine the nature and the strength of the effects of occupational commitment and occupational self-efficacy on the knowledge sharing behaviour. Analysis yielded a significant regression model (R2 = 0.159, F=23.466; p<0.001). Occupational commitment (β= 0.203; p< 0.05) and occupational self-efficacy (β= 0.250; p<0.001) are found to be significantly and positively affecting the knowledge sharing behaviour. This finding validates Swart et al. (2013) and Lin (2007)'s proposition that individuals with high level of occupational commitment will care for the development of their occupation and will therefore be more inclined to share their knowledge.
In this study, the effects of occupational commitment and occupational self-efficacy on the categories of knowledge were also investigated. When explicit knowledge sharing behaviour is treated as the dependent variable (R2 = 0.149, F=21.788; p<0.001), occupational commitment (β=0.177; p<0.05) and occupational self-efficacy (β= 0.260; p<0.001) are found to be significantly and positively affecting the explicit knowledge sharing behaviour. This result validates the previous studies which found a positive relation between occupational self-efficacy and knowledge sharing behaviour (Hsu et al., 2007, Ryu et al., 2003, Wasko & Faraj, 2005, Bock & Kim, 2005). Furthermore, when tacit knowledge sharing behaviour is treated as the dependent variable (R2 = 0.106, F=13.160; p<0.000), occupational commitment (β= 0.247; p<0.05) is found to be significantly and positively affecting the explicit knowledge sharing behaviour whereas the effect occupational self-efficacy (β= 0.121; p>0.05) is not found to be significant. This mainly contradicts with the previous literature (for e.g. Endres et al., 2007) and one possible reason for that may be the unwillingness of the individuals caused by the difficulties in sharing tacit knowledge (Hislop, 2003).
4. Conclusion
Deriving from the results of this study, one may propose that increasing physicians' occupational commitment and occupational self-efficacy may encourage their knowledge sharing behaviour. Knowledge sharing behaviour can never be enforced; it may only be supported, encouraged and improved. Therefore, the best way to increase the occurrence of knowledge sharing behaviour may be to stimulate the intrinsic and extrinsic motivational factors behind it. The perception that knowledge belongs to the occupation should be favoured as oppose to the perception that knowledge belongs to individuals, particularly considering the physicians who perceive knowledge as a source of power and, hence, inclined to keep it for their own purposes.
Despite the importance of knowledge sharing behaviour both for individuals and for organizations, there is a scarce of work regarding its precursors and outcomes. Future studies might improve the knowledge sharing literature by focusing on the effects of the factors such as personal attributes, leadership styles, and trust on knowledge sharing behaviour. Knowledge sharing behaviour is peculiar to humans, so in order to understand it, one should first understand humans and the factors that motivate them to share their knowledge.
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The use of calibration standards and the correction for sample self-attenuation in gamma-ray nondestructive assay
The efficient use of appropriate calibration standards and the correction for the attenuation of the gamma rays within an assay sample by the sample itself are two important and closely related subjects in gamma-ray nondestructive assay. Much research relating to those subjects has been done in the Nuclear Safeguards Research and Development program at the Los Alamos National Laboratory since 1970. This report brings together most of the significant results of that research. Also discussed are the nature of appropriate calibration standards and the necessary conditions on the composition, size, and shape of the samples to allow accurate assays. Procedures for determining the correction for the sample self-attenuation are described at length including both general principles and several specific useful cases. The most useful concept is that knowing the linear attenuation coefficient of the sample (which can usually be determined) and the size and shape of the sample and its position relative to the detector permits the computation of the correction factor for the self-attenuation. A major objective of the report is to explain how the procedures for determining the self-attenuation correction factor can be applied so that calibration standards can be entirely appropriate without being particularly similar, either physically or chemically, to the items to be assayed. This permits minimization of the number of standards required to assay items with a wide range of size, shape, and chemical composition.
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Emergency Lighting Guidelines
The size and type of your premises and the risk to the occupants will determine the complexity of the emergency escape lighting required. In simple single storey premises where borrowed lighting or torches are not appropriate, single 'stand-alone' escape lighting units maybe sufficient and these can sometimes be combined with exit or directional signs. The level of general illumination should not be significantly reduced by the sign.
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Failure is no stranger in the real estate industry which is why we are excited to bring Nathan Brooks to The BiggerPockets Podcast today, an investor who knows firsthand that real estate can be tough!
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**FINALIST for the Scotiabank Giller Prize; FINALIST for the Goldsmiths Prize; a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year**
The stunning new novel from the author of Outline, a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and one of The New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year
In the wake of family collapse, a writer moves to London with her two young sons. The process of upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions—personal, moral, artistic, practical—as she endeavors to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city she is made to confront aspects of living she has, until now, avoided, and to consider questions of vulnerability and power, death and renewal, in what becomes her struggle to reattach herself to, and believe in, life.
Filtered through the impersonal gaze of its keenly intelligent protagonist, Transit sees Rachel Cusk delve deeper into the themes first raised in her critically acclaimed novel Outline, and offers up a penetrating and moving reflection on childhood and fate, the value of suffering, the moral problems of personal responsibility, and the mystery of change. In this precise, short, and yet epic novel, Cusk manages to describe the most elemental experiences, the liminal qualities of life, through a narrative near-silence that draws language toward it. She captures with unsettling restraint and honesty the longing to both inhabit and flee one's life and the wrenching ambivalence animating our desire to feel real.
"Cusk's writing is the literary equivalent of a glass of Greek white: cool, bracing, a little salty."
"Such deft positioning is Cusk at her most brilliant, feminist best-a reminder that she, and her readers, won't be pinned down by stories, but freed."
"Brave and uncompromising in its literary ambition, Transit is a work of cut-glass brilliance that quietly insists on the reader's thoughtful attention. One beautifully crafted sentence follows another."
"Cusk is now working on a level that makes it very surprising that she has not yet won a major literary prize. Her technical originality is equaled by the compelling nature of her subject matter, and Transit is a very fine novel indeed."
"Alienating yet intimate, dreamlike yet grounded, slim yet substantial, delicate but fierce, Cusk's writing feels, exhilaratingly, unlike any other fiction being written these days."
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"A work of stunning beauty, deep insight and great originality. . . . Compulsively readable. . . . It is a work of great ambition, beautifully executed, a worthy successor to the brilliant Outline, and a harbinger of great hope for the third and final installment—soon may it arrive.
"[Transit's] themes of transience and dislocation are contiguous with a broader conversation about the fluidity of identity resulting, in part, from an increasingly—and contentiously (see Brexit, Trump, etc.)—borderless planet."
"One of the most daringly original and entertaining pieces of fiction I've ever read."
"The rare capital-L Literary writer who can make an entire novel about irresolution feel as gripping and binge-worthy as any thriller."
"Cusk is a master of sparse, exquisite prose. . . . [Outline] successfully conveys all of her admirable honesty in the safe harbour of fiction, and somehow delivers more human truths than most memoirs ever could."
"Cusk's perspective on the human condition provokes and bewitches."
"A stellar accomplishment."
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"[Transit] rests its claim to our attention on the consistent keenness of its insights into our human relationships."
"Cusk's ear for language and dialogue is sharp; her characters speak about universal ideas, such as anxiety and lust. This marvelous novel continues the author's vivid exploration of the human condition."
"[Transit] is tremendous from its opening sentence. . . . Cusk is always an exciting writer: striking and challenging, with a distinctive cool prose voice, and behind that coolness something untamed and full of raw force. . . . page-turningly enthralling and charged with the power to move."
"Quietly radical. . . . Ingenious."
"Brilliantly written and structured, which is nothing new from this superlatively gifted writer."
"Cusk is one of the most lucid, powerful novelists working today, and Transit reflects her ability to make a profound impact with deceptively simple and always elegant prose."
"With the sparest prose, Cusk has again created an expertly crafted portrait in this distinctive novel about the fear and hope that accompany change, and one woman's quest to conquer them. A masterful second installment to a promising trilogy."
"One of our most astute writers. . . . Cusk is very good at creating characters who seem fresh; they blossom under her pen. . . . This is part of what makes [Transit] so effective and smart."
"A reading journey you wish didn't have to end . . . Cusk gives us engrossing, probing conversations . . . Her prose is exquisitely precise."
"[I]n her effort to expose the illusions of both fiction and life, she may have discovered the most genuine way to write a novel today."
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"Cusk's story-invention powers are so rich that the format feels as fresh the second time around as it did the first."
"That Cusk makes such satisfying and original use of [her tribulation] is something of a modern literary phenomenon."
"A novel no less dedicated to uncovering what it feels like to be human. . . . The daisy chain of encounters made for addictive reading."
"How much should we say, this novel asks, and when should we say it? To whom? In Cusk's case, a few words are enough to keep readers engrossed, waiting for more."
"In Transit, Rachel Cusk masters the art of revealing the one through the many."
"[Transit] is a delightfully fun read. Cusk knows how to write a great novel, and this one satisfies on many levels . . . she is producing work that is beautifully refined."
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EYA 2018 Feedback Breakfast Meeting conducted
The Association of Tanzania Employers (ATE) on Monday 29th April 2019 organised EYA 2018 feedback meeting where the consultant presented EYA Report to members on why the winners won and receive constructive feedback from participants on how to improve this event this year.
Giving the opening remarks, Executive Director of ATE Dr. Aggrey Mlimuka thank all participants of EYA 2018 which took place on Friday 14th December 2018 at Mlimani City Conference Centre.
He said that Employer of the Year Award (EYA) is increasingly becoming an important event for Employers recognized at National level and therefore it is important that they get to understand the process and give your feedback to ATE so that we make this Award better and better
'Based on your recommendations for the past 4 years consecutively now we have had this feedback session whereby the consultant takes you through the EYA Process and give reasons on why the winners and receive feedback from you on how to improve the event on this year 2018''. Dr. Mlimuka clarified.


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In this world that's Sherlocked, we think, 'Hey, Holmes might crack GMAT with great scores'. Anyhow, Critical Reasoning in GMAT deals with two types of reasoning: Deductive and Inductive but we deal more with inductive reasoning than with deductive reasoning in GMAT.
Here is a table that differentiates Deductive Reasoning and Inductive Reasoning.
|Deductive Reasoning
|Inductive Reasoning
|DR is all about coming to a conclusion from one or more premises that are given in the argument.
|IR is reasoning that bolsters a conclusion with strong evidence/proof.
|A conclusion is deduced is the absolute truth.
|IR deals with strengthening the probability of a conclusion.
|It's valid as long as the given statements are true.
|IR establishes that the probability of such a conclusion is very highly probable.
|The conclusion of a deduced argument is certain.
|IR just says that the argument is probable.
|Conclusion is certified because of the facts stated in the argument.
|Conclusion is probable. We weaken or strengthen arguments with IR.
Now, let's look at some examples:
All Lions are Cats. A is a lion. Hence, A is a Cat. This is DEDUCTIVE REASONING.
There are 7 cats in my house. And there are 2 dogs. You have more cats than dogs. INDUCTIVE REASONING helps you to conclude that I like cats more than I like dogs. Now, this might be false. But the argument is based on the inference from the given statements and has a higher PROBABILITY of being valid.
These examples help showcase the difference between Inductive and Deductive Reasoning. We see that real world examples that involve reasoning are based more on inductive reasoning than on deductive reasoning. DR is black and white. There is no shade of grey in between. Problems are akin to mathematical structures. 2 plus 2 is always 4. There is no denying that in any case. But unlike that, quite often, there is scope for an inducted conclusion to be wrong. In the world of deductive reasoning though, there is no scope for such discrepancies.
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This is wild.
Last week people begun to see something different in Lush's window as they walked through their city to work or whilst shopping, rather than the usual smiley faces of Lush employees, they saw the striking face of a police officer with the text 'paid to lie'.
As the news spread, people also took to Lush's social media pages to question them. Upon reaching these pages, they saw they had also been updated for the 'paid to lie' campaign.
Whilst many jumped to Twitter and Facebook to shout at Lush and express their anger and confusion at the campaign, one police officer approached things in a different way.
The anonymous officer submitted this to UK Cop Humour page, talking about how he is "PAID TO LIE" on the job.
Dear LUSH UK,
I have seen your front window display and the accusation that as a police officer I am "Paid to Lie". I have given this considerable thought over the last 24 hours. I have looked over my 16-year career, from Constable to Inspector, and I must say that I agree with you wholly and passionately, because I am indeed "Paid to Lie".
I Lied. I spent 8 hours of a 10-hour shift cradling a young baby in my arms. Her Mother was in Police Custody for stabbing her Father. Social Services were too stretched to attend. I used my own money to buy her milk and nappies. A member of the public remonstrated with me when they saw me buying these supplies, said I was "Wasting Tax Payer's money doing my shopping when I should have been serving the public". I rocked that baby to sleep, her tear stained cheek on mine. I whispered to her, I promised her she would be fine. She wasn't. She is now a teenager; my colleagues deal with her daily. She is not fine. I lied.
I lied. I talked a suicidal male down from the balcony of his own flat. He was on the 'wrong' side and said he had nothing to live for. I spent an hour talking to him, convincing him that he had everything to live for. He came down. I saved his life that night. I referred him to the appropriate agencies to support him through his crisis. He engaged with Mental Health Services for a while. He killed himself the following year. He left a suicide note saying he didn't have anything to live for. I lied.
I lied. I attended my first 'sudden death' as a new Police Constable. I was 23 and the male that passed away was 21. I performed CPR whilst waiting for paramedics to attend. Any opportunities to save his life failed and he was pronounced dead. I checked his whole body for any suspicious activity and then I confirmed his death to his parents and his younger siblings. It was the first dead body I had seen since my own Grandad had died. This happened 19 years ago. I can still smell the air freshener in that house. My sergeant asked me if I was okay. I was not okay. I Lied.
I lied. I attended the scene of a report of a domestic violence incident in progress. The neighbours called police, concerned for the safety of a female. I found that female, she had significant injuries. An aggressive male threatened to stab me if I didn't leave his property. I stayed. I arrested the male. I sustained injuries to my hands and wrist as a result. Colleagues took too long to assist me, they were dealing with their own incidents. The female refused to tell me what had happened. I persuaded her to give evidence and support a prosecution against him. She did. She placed her trust in me. She showed bravery beyond anything I could ever comprehend. He was charged with assault and remanded to court. I wrote the most convincing remand application to the court that I have ever written in my whole career. The court released him the next day. He went back to her and they resumed their relationship, she can't leave him. The calls to Police continue. I told her she would be safe. I lied.
I Lied. As a Police Constable I was placed on two cell watches within one shift. When prisoners in custody are identified as being at high risk, an officer is assigned to watch over them to make sure they remain safe whilst in Police Custody. Risks are broad but can include medical issues, alcohol intoxication, illegal drug use, through to risks of self-harm and suicide. I was placed on a cell watch of a suicidal male, he had been arrested on suspicion of child sex offences. He tried to hang himself in the Police cell by binding his socks together to make a ligature. I pulled the ligature from his neck preventing his death. My actions were later commented upon because I should have stopped him before he got the opportunity to tie the socks together in the first place. During such duties you never take your eye of the detainee for a second. The same shift I was placed on a second cell watch. A male arrested on suspicion of murder also said he was suicidal. I was sat at the entrance to his cell and he was covered in the provided blanket. He removed the blanket to reveal his penis and started to masturbate. He told me I was pretty, he liked blondes. I had to maintain visual on him, to ensure his welfare, until such time I could raise the attention of a male colleague to take over from me. We all laughed afterwards at my expense. The Sergeant asked me if I was fine. I laughed and said I was and I went home. I lied.
I lied. I went to the report of a sexual assault. A 14 year old child had been raped by her Step Father. I consoled the child whilst my colleagues arrested the Step Father. I asked the child to hide in another room whilst her mother attacked me, scratching my chest and neck with her fingernails, furious because I had taken her boyfriend away from her. She had numerous contagious diseases. The child victim then turned on me, she bit me and I had to restrain her by the arms to prevent her injuring me. Her Mum hated the Police so she did too. I remember working a double shift that night. When I eventually got home to my own 14-year-old daughter, she gave me hug and asked me if I was okay. I said I was I okay. If she saw the marks on my neck she chose not to say. Once she was asleep I crept into her room, watched her sleep and I cried. I cried for that abused child. I cried that I was so blessed. I cried that my own child worried about me and I cried for the burden I placed upon her. I wasn't okay. I lied.
You see Lush, I do lie, I lie to those I try to help, to my own colleagues and to my friends and family. I am not alone and I am sure that my colleagues reading this would agree they have done the same.
Whilst I can see there may have been good sentiment behind your latest campaign, it has been appallingly executed. Believe me nobody wants to see a corrupt practise or a corrupt officer held to account more than a decent hard-working officer. Unfortunately, your abhorrent window display depicts something far more sinister. I was shocked to see that you removed all un-supporting 1* posts from your Facebook page yet you did not remove those supporting posts that gave you 5* and used the slogan ACAB. This is more insulting than the campaign itself."


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Some images from a really fun e-session. When I met with the bride, she mentioned that her fiance was a "cowboy type" and that he'd probably want to wear boots and a cowboy hat for the engagement photos. I do a lot of my sessions at the UC Davis arboretum, and it just so happens that the arboretum is conveniently located next to the Veterinary Hospital, and there's a big horse pasture right where we usually park... I had high hopes for getting some good pictures of the "cowboy" in his element, and the horses were happy to cooperate, once we found some stuff for them to chew on, we had to fight them off (one of them almost took a bite out of my flash as I was leaning over the fence trying to get a better angle!)
The couple met while playing rugby, so they also bought their rugby jerseys and a ball along, so after the arboretum/horse pasture we went over to one of the big UCD football fields for some rugby action shots. Those were lots of fun too.
And finally we finished off the day with a visit to a nearby ag field filled with haybales, for some more cowboy style shots.
This was just one of those sessions where everything came together - really nice couple, very friendly and comfortable with each other and the camera, quick to smile, and some nice, appropriate settings.
As always, critiques/suggestions are welcomed and encouraged.
1. This was his "tough guy" face. It was hard to get him to stop laughing!
8. At the end of the session as we were walking to the car, we found a jackrabbit stuck under one of the haybales, so she helped it out and set it free.
Thanks for looking! More on the blog.


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At 16:18 in this Rig Rundown for Fredrik Thordendal of [Meshuggah](https://equipboard.com/band/meshuggah), his gear is displayed, showing a Behringer FCB1010 MIDI Foot Controller.more
According to [this](http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/22661-rig-rundown-testaments-alex-skolnick-eric-peterson-steve-digiorgio) Premier Guitar rig rundown.more
Corey uses a the behringer foot switch to controll all of his effect changes. all of the effects are built in effects in the kemper. he tweaks these effects to get the desired tone that he likes. on the controller, he has two cc pedals. one is set as a wah, while the other is set as a volume pedal. when volume pedal is backed off all the way, it will mute the signal, and activate the tuner on the kempermore
For his effect switching, Paolo uses a beringher foot controller. this is the same foot controller used by the rest of the band. he uses this to switch between built in effects on the kempermore
According to [this](http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/22661-rig-rundown-testaments-alex-skolnick-eric-peterson-steve-digiorgio) Premier Guitar rig rundown, Eric Peterson uses a Behringer FCB1010 Foot Controller.more
Used in 2016 South America Tourmore
In this little studio tour, a Behringer FCB1010 is visible underneath Jack's Wurlitzer.more
Moving on to a footswitch board, Mark describes this as as being cheap, having circuitry moving about, yet having the most editability functions.more
In a photo posted on twitter by @DanRothmanLG in 2014 we can see that he use a Behringer FCB1010.more
Peter uses a Behringer Foot Controller, as shown in [this](http://www.guitargeek.com/peter-koppes-the-church-2011-guitar-rig-and-gear-setup-diagram/) Guitar Geek rig diagram.more
In a 2013 video, Daniel shows a rundown of his gear beginning with his pedalboard. This pedal can be seen at the 0:04 mark.more
Use as a MIDI and footswhitch controller. Modified with the UNO chipmore
"Managing all the effects is a well-hidden, barely visible Behringer FCB1010 MIDI foot controller," states [Premier Guitar](http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/21840-rig-rundown-gwar-2014).more
According to this page, this is one of the effects and other things he uses.more
"I got the new Behringer FCB-1010 midi controller pedal. I was skeptical about it at first, but after reading all those manuals, I decided to buy it and give it a try. This thing kicks ass. They call it an ultra-flexible foot controller, and they aint bullshitting. This thing made my head spin. It's got the standard 10 button bank up/down configuration. It also has two expression pedals and two analog 1/4 inch switching mechanisms! I'll give you an example of what this thing can do. When you select a preset, it can change your effects settings, midi settings, start a computer, change channels on an analog amp, assign functions on each device to the expression pedals, and more! I sound like a friggin' salesman, but this thing is great! I'm totally using it on Tuesday This has allowed me to get rid of some un-needed crap in my rig, it has made things a lot simpler for me. I must be honest though, it took me over 2 hours to program the pedal, but now that it's done, it's really great. I can't control volume and effects parameters all from this unit!"more
I also use a Behringer FCB1010 foot pedal to trigger samples in Ableton Live.more
Whether you play a MIDI instrument, or want an easy way to control your MIDI arsenal, the FCB1010 will help you get the most out of your gear – without tying up your hands or slowing down your performance. In addition to its impressive MIDI...more
Just bought this for my bassist to control effects on ableton. A universal effect pedal
You can't beat this thing for the price. A lot of it is plastic, but very mod-able.
I just got a VERY sued one... sturdy as hell but a bit annoying to program with multiple MIDI devices even just for preset changes. I haven't even delved into the CC changes beyond setting up a global tap tempo on switch 10.... worth it to have 8 or 9 presets controlling pedal-based drive/distortion, delay and what amps are feeding my speakers
Very programmable MIDI unit. Supports triggering MIDI notes (yes, I've used it to play pedal keyboards) — it's unfortunate it doesn't have 12 note-pedals! There's an amazing modding community in the internet, but I haven't modded my unit.
the functionality on this thing is SO FAR BEYOND my needs, and despite behringer's bad rep mine seems sturdy as heck.... the downside of all the functionality is that it takes forever to program. After spending a lot of time creating nice presets on the devices I have it controlling its hard to get motivated to map the FCB to switch them all together...
He bought a FCB1010 and an Un0 chip for use with Guitar Rig 5 and Amplitube 4. This is not an ordinary multi-effect pedal, it's a midi foot controller designed for digital racks and rack-based vst plugins
It's very flexible!, you can control everything with MIDI inputs
Better than setting up an analogue board with 3 extra cables.
Es un dolor de cabeza configurarla "a pelo", pero con el chip UNO y un software de configuración, se resuelve todo. Muy versátil y robusta. Muy buen precio.
I have change the original chip for an UNOprom non oficial. The original have a problem: It sends always a strange tap tempo signal. Dont understand why Beringer dont change this after the years of knowing.. Is just a tiny transformation...


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Six years ago this week, I invested 45 minutes walking down the Embarcadero in San Francisco with Warriors point guard Stephen Curry. His child Riley was 10 months old at the time, and he pushed her down the street in a stroller; we talked quietly so we did not wake her. (Every new parent knows how tenderly such unusual incidents of a daytime nap outside need to be dealt with.) I was a new papa myself, and most of our interview was simply a discussion between 2 very tired fathers about how simply how drastically our worlds had actually changed in a very brief amount of time.
Obviously, Curry's life was about to alter much more. Suffice it to state, that specific May in 2013– right after the Warriors made a surprise run in the Western Conference Playoffs prior to losing to the Spurs, and right prior to he made 6 straight All-Star groups, won 2 MVPs, three championships and essentially revolutionized the whole sport– was the last time you could get Curry to simply randomly meet a press reporter he didn't know for an hour. The soon-to-be-superstar was so green then that he invested a solid part of that hour lobbying me to consist of a link to his partner's cooking blog site.
As Curry begins his 5th successive NBA Finals today, this time versus the Toronto Raptors, it deserves analyzing his specific location in the sporting landscape. On the court, he has actually changed the video game in a manner couple of ever have, with his otherworldly shooting ability opening up all sorts of offending possibilities. However what's maybe simply as outstanding is how he has handled to do all of this while not pushing away fans in the way many other dynastic superstars have– from Tom Brady to Alex Rodriguez to Cristiano Ronaldo.
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Stephen Curry might be one of the most effective and widely known professional athletes in the world, however he's likewise the player every kid pretends to be in their yard. He's a truly dominant athlete who in some way has never been the focus of the social networks hate most super stars accept as merely coming with the area. Teammate Kevin Durant is eye-poppingly dazzling on both sides of the court. But a lot of people hate him. Not as many dislike Steph.
Curry has likewise done this without pulling the all-things-to-all-people generic public personality of a Derek Jeter or a Tiger Woods. He's a doting and progressive dad who is a role model to parents all over. When a 9-year-old lady wrote him a letter asking why his Under Armour Icon Curry 5 tennis shoes were not offered for girls, he worked with her to design a line for girls. And he has actually always been active politically, working with President Barack Obama on an anti-malaria initiative and being really goofy with Michelle Obama and some turnips.
There's something about him that still makes him easy to root for. He's the underrecruited, undersized, underdrafted kid from Davidson, despite the fact that he's also among the best players ever. One could argue that he has never been more beloved than he is right now, after exploding in these playoffs in the wake of Durant's injury. Curry developing and scoring like insane has fans sentimental for the pre-Durant days, when the Warriors were brand-new and revitalizing. The Warriors with Durant are a superteam you cheer versus. The Warriors with Curry are something various.
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This homemade costume for boys entered our 2014 Halloween Costume Contest.
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Hairy skin and bodies doesn't seem to be on trend in the fashion world at the moment. Both men and women are depicted in magazines and in movies as being almost hairless, so it's not surprising that the majority of people in the U.S. remove unwanted hair in one way or another. For men, hairy backs are a no-no, while overly hairy chests, arms and stomachs aren't always considered aesthetically pleasing by everyone. For those who stick with their natural state, more power to you! In the population that removes hair, more and more men in the La Cresenta area and elsewhere are starting to opt for laser hair removal.
How It Works
The reason laser hair removal works so well is that it directly affects a hair follicle's reproductive capacity. Take plucking and waxing, for instance; they pull the hair out at the root. That's wonderful, for a time. But, the hair follicle remains in perfect working condition. It just creates another hair. Lasers set their sights on the pigment in hair, focusing light heat onto the hair, which sends the heat energy down into the follicle itself. The result is permanent hair growth reduction, and smooth skin in La Cresenta.
It Does Have Its Quirks
Laser hair removal isn't perfect; it does have it's foibles. For example, it typically doesn't work on lighter colored hair, such as blonde, white, gray or red. Why? Because it targets pigment, and the darker the pigment the more it will attract the laser. Men who have darker hair will have better results. Additionally, the laser is only effective at stopping hair growth if your hair is in the growth phase. Doctors mitigate this phenomenon by staggering your sessions, making sure they are spread out enough to target everything at the right time.
The Results Last a Long Time
Let's face it; generally speaking, men aren't the most hygienically-wired creatures on the planet, and they often prefer putting in a minimum amount of effort to achieve a goal(think: training the dog to get a beer from the fridge). When it comes to body hair and body image, though, they can be just as interested in looking good as women. That's why laser hair removal in La Cresenta is so appealing. After a few sessions, the hair doesn't grow back! Good-bye shaving every other day, or covering up when you can't. Hello long-lasting, hair-free skin!


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Hi, everyone!
I'm back with another challenge from Use It Tuesday!
It's a fun and super easy one.
You just have to pull out an un-inked stamp to ink up.
I know you have some in your stash. :)
***REMEMBER: All of our challenges call for you to use your hoarded supplies! A challenge requirement is to tell us in your post what you used!***
As always, one lucky participant will be randomly chosen to be a featured guest designer in an upcoming challenge! This week, we have Nicki joining us after winning Challenge #14. To see her project along with those from the Use It Tuesday Design Team, and more info on the challenge, please visit Use It Tuesday!
Now here's what I came up with for the "Un-inked Challenge".
This adorable onesie was originally made years ago for a friend's baby shower.
The directions for it was available over on Lauren Meader's blog.
She now has a file for the onesie for purchase HERE.
I had bought the Baby Button Bits stamp set from Papertrey Ink a couple of years ago.
I inked up the pea shaped stamp but the rest of it has gone un-inked!
I couldn't decide which SU ink color to stamp with to go with the Barely Banana onesie. I even called a couple of my dear friends, Michelle and Jana, for their advice.
In the end, I rummaged around a bit and found two packs of brand new SU! ink pads!! They are new colors that I had bought and never opened. YIKES! The Pear Pizzazz was perfect for what I had in mind. SO glad I found these packs. :)
Also unopened and unused is my bag of Papertrey Ink Vintage Buttons.
These particular colors are not on their website for sale.
However, other fabulous sets of buttons are available HERE.
See the lavendar threads that I put on the button?
Unopened bag of embroidery floss from Michaels!
Yup, yup... more hoarded goodies! LOL!
Okie dokie! That's it for now.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Google said it would no longer force employees to settle disputes with the company in private arbitration, expanding on an earlier pledge to do away with the practice in cases of sexual harassment or assault.
Google informed its staff in an email on Thursday that the new policy would take effect globally on March 21 for current and future employees. Gina Scigliano, a Google spokeswoman, confirmed the changes.
In November, the company agreed to scrap forced arbitration in individual cases of sexual harassment or assault after 20,000 Google workers staged a walkout demanding changes to how it treats employees. The walkout was prompted by a New York Times article that revealed Google had given a senior executive, Andy Rubin, a $90 million exit package even after it found he had been credibly accused of sexual harassment.
The employee organizers behind the walkout demanded that Google also stop forcing employees into arbitration for other types of disputes. Google said it had decided to make the blanket change after comparing its policies with those of other companies. Employees who prefer to arbitrate privately will still have that option.
"This victory never would have happened if workers hadn't banded together, supported one another and walked out," Google Walkout for Real Change, the organizer behind last year's employee walkout, wrote on Twitter. "Collective action works. Worker power works. This is still just the beginning."
Google had 98,771 employees globally at the end of December.
For years, Google's employment contracts have included a clause requiring staff to hash out grievances behind closed doors instead of suing the company in the public court system.
Arbitration is a common practice among technology companies to resolve disputes outside the courts. It has been especially controversial in cases of sexual harassment because it tends to limit victims from speaking out about their experience.
But under growing pressure from employees, companies are eliminating forced arbitration. Over the last year, Uber, Lyft and Facebook have done away with the policy totally or in part.
Google said the policy change would not apply to former employees with unresolved disputes, although current Google workers with open disputes will not be forced into arbitration.
The company said it would also do away with the practice for temporary staff, contract workers and vendors it hires — although it would not force third-party staffing companies that supply the vast majority of contractor staff used by the company to adhere to the policy.


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The Water Department protects the drinking water supply of the Village of Edgerton. The water crew maintains a drinking water source protection plan, in accordance with the Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA prescribes regulations which limit the amount of certain contaminants in water provided by public water systems. Information about contaminants and potential health effects, especially for immune-compromised persons, can be obtained by calling the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Hotline at 1-800-426-4791
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- Properly plug abandoned wells, as these wells threaten drinking water because contaminants can directly enter the aquifer through the well.
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Here is a Google album of Matt Johnson updating his V16R2AK pedal-boat in the lead up to the 2018 Race to Alaska (R2AK). Matt was able to lighten Rouleur by ~20 kg (60 pounds) by removing the wooden decks and amas and replacing them with a lighter material — divinycell foam sheets strengthened by fiberglass — and by fabricating new, lighter beams from a foam core and laminated cedar bottoms/tops. He also added a suite of features to make pedaling 18-hours per day more comfortable, including a sea-kayaking rudder, wave shedder, and a new cockpit cover — including a spray skirt and sun/rain bimini.
Rouleur's canting dagger boards: balancing lift & drag in small R2AK boats
An interesting aspect of helping Matt build his Race to Alaska boat is learning from him, the boat designer Rick Willoughby, and other contributors how important aero- and hydrodynamics are to creating an efficient boat. When you can only provide ~250 watts of propulsion power (or 500 in Matt's case), rather than the normal 3600 watts you get from a 5 hp outboard, you need to minimize drag in order to attain admirable boat speeds.
Matt's boat is version 16 of a pedal boat designed by Rick. This V16 R2AK is modified for the Race to Alaska in many ways, but one key one is the canting daggerboards. These foils are designed to be elevated above the waterline so that Matt can pedal without any water drag from them, and then lowered during sailing to to provide lateral resistance and lift that helps keep the boat from heeling.
When lowered to the maximum angle of about 55 degrees below horizontal, the leeward daggerboard will help with upwind performance. On a reach it could be raised to provide more lift, while on a run it can again be pulled up clear of the water.
Here are some photos of the dagger boards — both during construction and initial sea trials.
We ended up deciding to shorten the struts from about 63 cm to 58.5 cm LOA. This allows the struts to come up above the water line (and hopefully many of the smaller waves) and be lowered down to near 55 degrees below horizontal.
Here are the struts after being shortened experimentally to about 60 and 58.3 cm LOA…
It was clear during testing in the lake that the bare aluminum struts were creating a LOT of drag. Rick explained that fairing them (with a symmetrical foil shape) would reduce the drag by about a factor of 20. Sailing with them immersed was equivalent to pulling a second Rouleur hull behind us!
Here are a few more photos of the fairing of a second set of struts (made with slightly thicker walled aluminum tubing, too, I think). This set was faired with cedar, though we may fair the original tube with foam insulation to have a backup (lighter duty) second pair.
The astute reader will notice that I drilled the holes 90 degrees off in the ends of the struts! This was remedied by re-squeezing the ends (I did this in the vice already without cracking any epoxy, thankfully) and re-drilling (much easier to line up the holes when you've got the faired foil shape behind the bit in the drill press!). Any strength lost from the initial errant holes I hope to regain by injecting silica-epoxy plugs 2-3 cm into the tube ends.
I'm excited to see what these faired struts do for Rouleur's speed. So far she's not quite attained the sailing speeds that Rick expects from his modeling…
First salt water launch and initial speed data
On Sunday (5/22/2016), Team Take Me to the Volcano launched the "V16 R2AK" at the Secret Beach in Ballard, Seattle. Around 6pm Matt, Mark Dix (Team The Windsurfer, Stage 1 R2AK, 2015), and Scott finished bolting iakos to amas, having leveled the main hull and amas before drilling the final bolt holes in the inboard end of the iakos. We loaded up the main hull on Mark's car and the amas on Scott's and headed (carefully, remembering Colin's tragedy) down the curvy road to Puget Sound.
At the beach Chris and Mik met us and helped unload onto the sandy beach. High tide was approaching, so once we re-connected the amas and main hull with some help from Sam (of Team Puffin, R2AK 2015), set up the seat and other gear, it was easy for Matt to pull the boat into the sea.
With Matt aboard and a fair amount of gear, the step out from the lower to upper hull was 95-105 cm above sea level. We tried loading 50 pounds of weight behind the seat, but thought that pushed the rudder assembly a little too deep. When Matt was pushing hard the steering arms on the rudder were mostly submerged. With the 50 pounds removed, the rudder arms were clear of the water (except when waves passed over it). Overall, it looks like it will be helpful to get some more weight up forward — which of course will happen when the sailing rig gets stepped (just forward of the forward beam).
With the initial trim set and some confidence that it wasn't leaking, Matt brought the boat back to shore for a proper Christening. Lisa and Ciana had arrived with champagne and proceeded to help Matt name the boat "Rouleur." The beautiful Douglas fir bows were glowing in the setting sunlight, glistening with the recent heavy rains, and foaming with celebratory champagne as we all hailed the arrival of another fine boat on our ocean planet!
Matt then took Rouleur out for another longer spin. A few minutes after he had disappeared "upstream" toward the Ballard locks, it was an awesome sight to see him blaze bast a couple cruising kayaks. It seemed he was suddenly off towards Ketchikan at high speed! But he eased off on the power at the last-minute and circled back to us. Near the beach a set-screw gave in to the tremendous torques Matt was pushing through the right angle drive, so our sea trials of the pedal propulsion system had to cease. It was easy to return to the beach with gentle pedaling, and earlier it was clear that the back-up human power method of a SUP paddle was also effective.
The initial speed data suggest that in flat water and no wind, Matt should be able to keep this boat in the 5-10 kph range pretty easily. Remember for the ~1200 km Race to Alaska, 10 kph mean VMG will get you to Ketchikan in about 5 days; 5 kph will get you there in 10! Averaging 15 kph 24/7 will beat Elsie Piddock's record handily; you'll be there in 3.3 days!
For comparison, when Greg set the world record for distance in a human-powered boat over 24 hours, he averaged 10.22 kph. Here's a spreadsheet of long(-ish) distance speed means for human-powered boats. While sprinting kayaks can hit 17-20 kph, a huge question in the 2016 R2AK — especially if there are extended windless periods — is whether Matt's cycling prowess and the Rouleur's pedal-propulsion system can sustain ~10 kph over significant stretches of the BC coast.
My favorite part of the evening was seeing Rick Willoughby's design assembled and afloat. The curved iakos seemed to connect in a near-circular arc. Rouleur seemed perched on the water's surface, wings outstretched — both embracing the sea and poised ready to streak across it.
Canting twin daggerboards
One of the unique features of my new Race to Alaska trimaran are the canting dagger boards. They were designed by Rick Willoughby. Not only will the boards provide lift, but they will help counteract the heeling forces from the sail. I have very low volume stabilizer floats, so this lift will help keep me sailing level in a moderate breeze.
Cutting a big hole in my boat
Tonight I tackled the installation of the pedal mast and gearbox. Just another challenging job that I couldn't afford to mess up. First I had to cut a big hole in the boat where the Mitrpak right angle gearbox will go. The shaft in the photo runs between a pillow block inside the pedal mast, and out to a coupling to the gearbox. The lower 14 tooth cog will attach to it.
Next I did my best to line everything up
The prop shaft will actually run along the side of the boat. The hole is cut in the cockpit sole which hangs over the main hull about the width of the gearbox.
Here everything is epoxied into place. The Pedal mast aluminum plates are bedded in epoxy, and sitting on a little square of fiberglass. Tomorrow I will fiberglass over the top of the attachment plates for the pedal mast.
The boat: V16 R2AK by Rick Willoughby
Below is a drawing of the latest design by Rick Willoughby. — a custom trimaran or stabilized monohull focused on enabling Matt Johnson to compete in the 2016 Race to Alaska (R2AK). Rick is an Australian engineer who designed the V series of pedal boats, on of which was used to set a World Record for 24-hour distance attained in a human-powered boat. Rick has pioneered the flex shaft propulsion system and dipping rudders, and in this R2AK-specific sailing design has also included a centerboard and canting foils.
Building hulls through the winter
Over the winter of 2015-2016, I stopped by Matt's house in Ballard a few times to help him build the hulls for his V16 R2AK. It was a pleasure to work in his recently re-organized shop, in part because I always get good ideas about how to improve the work space in my garage and often get to try using nifty tools — some of which I've never seen before!
December 8, 2015
After checking out the table and chop saw work bench that Matt built, we epoxy coated some long lengths of door skin and then started laying out the bulkhead positions for the amas. I love that Rick's plans are all-metric!
We used hot glue to tack the foam bulkheads in place. It seemed to work pretty well, though you had to work fast and together to insert the bulkheads before the glue cooled too much.
The amas have a nice knife-like profile. Suddenly straight door skin panels start to look like they might move through the water pretty fast…
January 3, 2016
After the holidays we dry-fitted the base of the main hull. It was tricky to get the longer door skin panels to hold a smooth curve, especially between the bulkheads and near the re-curved part of the bow.
After consulting with Rick, Matt decided to add a few stringers, so we worked together to rip them on his table saw. I also did some sanding of some a previous epoxy coat that had beaded up in an interesting pattern of stippled patches. It was nice to have the shop vac set up to filter out the dust.
February 11, 2016
Now the main hull is taking form enough that one can imagine pedaling and sailing within it!
We weighed it and Matt portage-posed with it before settling into the main job at hand: gluing decks on the amas.