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Professor Menou received his B.S. from University of Angers (France), and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Astrophysics from Paris XI University (France). He was a Chandra Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton and a Celerity Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Virginia. He worked as a research scientist at Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris before becoming an associate professor at Columbia.
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SM Entertainment will collaborate with '10 Corso Como' for a remixed compilation album as well as various products that will be paired up with the various artists of the agency.
10 Corso Como is a 'concept' store that also launched the perfume 'Girl' inspired by Girls' Generation. Because the Seoul store has reached its 5th anniversary, the store will celebrate by having a collaboration project that will include�TVXQ, Super Junior, Girls' Generation, SHINee, and f(x)!
The collaboration was announced through SM Entertainment's official Facebook, revealing that a compilation album is in the works.The compilation album will feature a remixed song from each group for a total of 5 songs.
The store will also launch collaboration products with TVXQ paired up with BE@RBRICK figures, Super Junior with SUPER sunglasses, Girls' Generation with CARVEN collars, SHINee with THOM BROWNE cardigans, and f(x) with AUDIO TECHNICA headsets.
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By: hillaryhoffman: Jun, 24, 2010 16:48 PM
Injuries are definitely part of the game, and not just for basketball players. I've heard about at least a dozen World Cup soccer players who've been sidelined due to knee, hip, or ankle problems.
According to this 2006 study about the epidemiology of athletic knee injuries, soccer and skiing are the most dangerous activities for your knees.
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Injuries are part of the game. Kobe Bryant was also recently talking about his knee injuries. He had to have his right knee drained earlier in the season.
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The title of this blog is named after one of my all time favorite songs, Difficulty, by my all time favorite artist, KT Tunstall.
Growing up, I was always skinny for my age, until about 13 or 14 when a couple of things happened. One, my chronic stomachaches stopped the summer before I entered 7th grade and I realized I could eat a lot more (chocolate/sugary food/etc.) and not feel sick afterwards. And two, I discovered I did not inherit the metabolism that the majority of my mother's side of the family (including her) did; size zero jeans, small boobs, clear skin, all that good stuff. It wasn't until the last couple of years that I've really realized just how much those chronic stomachaches defined my childhood, and shaped my life. I can remember always being so excited for lunchtime at school, because it was the only meal of the day where I was 'guaranteed' to feel hungry, and to feel well. It got to the point where I even had my own little system of eating lunch: Mom always made my PB&J sandwiches on potato bread (which I still buy today because sentimental value), so I'd eat the crust of that first (however, if the sandwich was for whatever reason on wheat bread I would tear off the crust because picky eater/gross), then the middle. Then I would very meticulously eat the rest of my foods in a specific order, usually saving the cookie Mom would always pack me for last. Since my parents were divorced, there were even days when I would save the plastic bags or wrappers of things that my mom packed, as a way to keep a part of her with me, since I wouldn't be able to see her for the next two to three days. I would then deliberately avoid the kitchen that night at Dad's, so as not to see him throw it away, and then just shrug when he'd inevitably ask why I wasn't capable of doing this myself. I hadn't realized at the time that I just didn't know how to answer him.
Yes I realize that a lot of this already sounds crazy, but as a child if my anxiety didn't manifest itself as a stomachache, it often turned me into a mild Obsessive Compulsive.
There was only one time where an evening stomachache actually turned into something more serious (the 24-hour flu), and that was February of 2001, so the 3rd grade. I remember this night vividly because (knock on wood) I haven't thrown up since. Normally, dinner times would consist of me taking a few bites of food, my stomach yelling at me to go lie down and rest, my lying down and resting, then trying to eat some more. The whole process generally took about an hour, and half the time I would just nudge the food around on my plate so it would look like I'd eaten more than I had. My favorite TV show, Arthur, would also be playing in the background, because if I ever missed an episode the inside of my head went ballistic. The same went for breakfast; because I had to get to school I never had time to lie down or watch TV, but I can remember on more than one occasion getting in trouble for not eating the food that was in front of me. Needless to say, I became familiar with the term 'wasteful' at a very young age, and that there were kids who had it a lot worse than me who would kill to eat breakfast every morning. That had just made me feel even more powerless, because I couldn't seem to will myself to feel better. If I could have given those 'worse-off' kids my food, I would have.
When I was 10, about one week into the 5th grade, my mom, Grammy, Papa, and I took a weeklong trip to North Carolina for my papa's brother's memorial service. It was the first time I had traveled across the country that I could remember, and certainly the farthest I'd ever been away from home. It wasn't the original plan for me to tag along, but the thought of being away from my mom for a week terrified me, so I had begged her (silly 10 year old Erin not understanding that airplane tickets cost money). Looking back, the three things I remember most about that trip are these: the memorial (of course), the humidity, and the food. Even the simplest of things tasted so different, like my go-to McDonalds cheeseburger. One morning we went to breakfast with my papa's sister at this place that served the biggest, most delicious looking pancakes. Of course I had ordered them, but could I finish them? Nope. I remember sitting in my char, trying to nibble on the bites my mom had cut up for me, and failing miserably. My great aunt had even noticed something was up, and asked me if I had a 'tummy ache.' I just nodded, feeling so bad and like I was ruining everyone's time. It was such a normal question you'd ask a child whom this didn't constantly afflict. I desperately wanted to cry, and I remember going into the bathroom, taking a TUMS, and thinking for the first time in a long time I'd be physically sick, and for no reason at all! Later that afternoon, when my stomach finally calmed down and I felt hungry, my papa – who had absolutely no idea how normal of a thing this was with me – looked me in the eye and said: "well whose fault is that?"
Cut to our last night in North Carolina when we had dinner at my great aunt's house. A lot of the family was there, and they were barbequing a pig in the backyard, something I had never seen before, let alone tasted. I remember looking out the window, seeing the thing cooking, and thinking there was no way I'd feel well enough to eat it. Never mind that I was sort of a picky eater anyway. I always thought I knew my body well enough to predict when these stomachaches would come on, but sometimes it would surprise even me; I managed to eat a full serving of dinner that night, strange Southern foods and all.
Once I hit high school, my relationship with food did a complete 180. Like I mentioned before, the stomachaches pretty much stopped around 7th grade, and I realized I was capable of eating a wider array of foods without feeling sick afterwards. This quickly became both a blessing and a curse; a blessing because in the 8th grade I could finally go to the grocery store after school with my best friend Haley and buy (and eat) several giant Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, yet a curse because throughout that year I also noticed my hips growing increasingly wider, and the love handles a little more prominent.
But I didn't care. I was just a kid, and for the first time in my life I had been given a taste of freedom (in the form of chocolate and peanut butter).
Anyway, high school. My first two years, I had been an "athlete" and was on the volleyball team in the 9th and 10th grades. I use quotation marks around the term "athlete" because I really do mean it in the loosest sense of the word. I started playing sports in the first grade, and tried just about every one in the books; softball, volleyball, basketball, soccer…but none of them ever fulfilled me in the way I noticed sports fulfill some of my friends, classmates, and family. I come from a total sports family, and don't get me wrong I love Oregon football and Dodger baseball, but in my family you were supposed to play sports, and you were supposed to love it. Yet I never really felt like I was in shape the way "athletes" were supposed to be. I could go on a tangent about my life as an "athlete," but I'll spare you this time around.
Slowly but surely, by mid-10th grade I had quit all forms of team-related, mandated exercise. I had, on the other had, joined choir, which I could go on another tangent about how fulfilling that ended up being for me, but again, I'll refrain this time. For as long as I could remember, I had always had something to do after school in my adolescent life that was sports related; that was just the way it was and I never questioned it. Yet there I was, sitting at home after a seven-hour day at school, with nothing. Grades and academic performance were very important to me all throughout high school because I knew that's what I needed to get into college out of state, so getting homework done was never something anyone had to push me on. In fact, I was so obsessive over getting straight A's, that I actually cheated on an exam in my 9th grade Honors English class, because I would rather cheat than admit to my teacher that I was lost and needed help. Naturally I got caught and thus was certain I had just bought myself a one-way ticket to hell, but I digress.
Sophomore year of high school was very difficult for me for reasons other than just my anxiety and depression; a lot of transitions were happening for me all over the place. I had gone against the grain of my family and quit sports. I had tried to go to the gym and work out on my own but *insert laughter* that really didn't work. I had actively started exploring my own faith and spirituality, realized I did believe in God, wanted God to be a bigger part of my life, and began my self-guided journey toward becoming a Christian. I had drifted apart from a lot of the close friends I had had in middle school, and at the time felt like I only had one person I could really lean on – shout out to you Isabel, you were my lifeboat. Things at home were very different; changing all around me and I felt like I could barely catch my breath let alone keep up.
So, what was the one constant through all of this?
Here are two photos. One (top) was taken early in my junior year of high school, and the other (bottom) was taken summer of 2014, in Disneyland with my mom right after I had graduated from college.
I could not tell you how uncomfortable I was in this photo on the top. I am smiling, but I can say with 95 percent certainty that what I was thinking about had more to do with double chins, zits, and how I was sure my stomach was sagging over my jeans. I would not have been caught dead in the outfit I'm wearing on the bottom, if only because of how tight the t-shirt is. I would have felt self-conscious, judged, and most of all, exposed. I would have hid myself away in a panic because to me that was better than subjecting the world to my own shame.
You never realize just how long the simplest of comments on your body can stick with you until you're 23, staring into a mirror at your hips, and remembering how, eight years ago you could barely take off your puffy North Face jacket let alone stare into a mirror for more than a nanosecond.
"You're not skinny, but you're not really fat either."
"Just stress yourself out. Then you'll get a stomachache and that'll keep you from eating."
In 9th grade, I had gone on Weight Watchers for three months, when it suddenly hit me one night that eating a lot meant gaining weight. Because I had been playing volleyball, 12 pounds fell right off of me. Granted, I was not eating enough. At all. The amount of calories I was eating would be for someone who sits at a desk all day, not a 14-year-old who exercised at least two hours every day. So while I could feel the approval in the eyes of those around me and within myself – because guys! I did it! I could lose weight just like the best of them! Who needed giant Reese's Cups anyway?! – I was not healthy. Foods such as pizza, hamburgers, things that used to be no big deal to me, became the enemy. I ate once slice of pepperoni and I swore I put on five pounds. I wanted to look like the rest of my family. No one ever spread rumors. No one ever muttered behind my back. I never got the impression that people viewed me as "the ugly girl" or anything like that, but I never got the impression they viewed me as really "pretty" either. I just existed.
The day I decided to quit Weight Watchers was the day the ultimate binging began. I could tell you how much I ate the day I realized I wouldn't have to stand on a scale in front of my mother and a handful of strangers once a week, but I'll spare you the gruesome details. I grew tired of feeling guilty for eating a piece of cheesecake – I still wanted approval, but maybe I could "let loose" a little more. I was now in control of my own destiny!
Apparently, my "destiny" included going home after school every day in 10th grade, avoiding the scale, and consuming almost 1000 calories.
Except I never threw them up.
To me, what I ate became the one thing in my personal life I felt I could control. I could get stellar grades in school, take on Independent Study courses for extra credit, and show up to class every day so that all my teachers and classmates would think everything was fine and dandy; but inside I was screaming, and food silenced me.
I would eat until I was so full that standing up hurt. I would eat until it became extremely obvious how quickly food was disappearing from the fridge, and why.
Please know that this is not easy for me to type. I've spent a lot of time feeling embarrassed of myself, and it was only recently that I came to accept this as a part of my past. I remember every day I would go to school wearing baggy jeans and a t-shirt, and then I'd cover said t-shirt with a hooded sweatshirt and black North Face jacket. I was beyond ashamed of my body, and I felt like if I showed any part of it, then other people would be too. Meanwhile, there'd be beautiful girls who'd literally wear black sports bras to and paint their bare stomachs for Friday night football games. They never looked ashamed of their bodies (although they very well could have been). Why couldn't I fit in with them?
And yet, the only way to lessen the feeling of shame was to eat more.
"Why is no one calling me beautiful?" I would think to myself, pitifully. "Words of Affirmation" is my Love Language, and I had figured that since I wasn't getting them from anyone else, I didn't deserve them from myself either.
When really, it should be the other way around. There are plenty of other ways to tell someone they're beautiful than by just saying: "you're beautiful;" I just wasn't listening. I didn't know how to love my own body, or myself, so how could I have accepted love from anyone else?
Now, at 23, I'm lucky in that my time in college helped me find methods of silencing the noise that didn't include cleaning out the fridge in a single afternoon, and in summer of 2012 I worked a job that forced me to eat healthier. Since then, I have thinned out and my metabolism is giving me a little more of a fighting chance – and by that I mean, I can eat not one but two slices of pizza and not hate myself for it 🙂
There are a lot of things about my body that I'm still learning to love – my broad shoulders and big feet, for example – but my hips are not one of them. What used to be the area that I most wanted to hide, I actually enjoy. I wear tight jeans and tight tops; hell, I own two bikinis! I'm still pretty Plain Jane compared to your typical young, stylish, Anthropologie-shopping hipster girl, but at least I'm not hiding behind a thick North Face jacket anymore (which is also good because I live in Los Angeles and wearing a North Face jacket all the time down here would be a form of torture all on its own).
I wanted to post this so that people could see that there is, in fact, a very clear correlation between anxiety, depression, and eating disorders. And that when you're in the midst of an eating disorder, it's nearly impossible to see anything for what it is. In my case, an eating disorder happened because I have anxiety and depression, but didn't know how to communicate it. All you want is that control; over how thin you are, over the food you put into your mouth because it's the only thing you have control over, over the clothes we wear to show ourselves off, or hide ourselves.
I would be lying if I said I always eat extremely healthily these days, but I do listen to my body. I know my limits, so I'm no longer over-eating. If I feel sluggish, I go for a run. If I realize I haven't eaten a vegetable in over a week, I go to the market and stock up.
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[This article began as a study of lofting or tossing nuclear weapons.I became fascinated with the notion of using the prop-driven Skyraider for this purpose, and the story evolved into an account of what it would have been like to drive this WWII-era plane to Sevastopol on the first day of World War III. The article published in Foundation magazine of the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola in its Fall 1999 issue. -- Dan Ford]
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You're Breakeven Four Zero One--one man, one engine, one bomb. The year is 1957, the month February, the hour 0200. You're sitting on your parachute in the tidy cockpit of a Douglas AD-6 Skyraider, better known as the Able Dog, checking its systems by the small gooseneck flashlight that hangs from a chain around your neck. A Wright R-3350--the engine that powered the B-29 super-bomber of World War II--swings a four-bladed propeller through a circle almost 14 feet in diameter. Just behind the whirling blades, there hangs a slenderized version of the Fat Man atomic bomb that on August 9, 1945, laid waste to Nagasaki.
The MK 7 weighs 1,700 pounds and measures 15 feet long by 30.5 inches in diameter. If you need to return to USS Forrestal with it still on the centerline--tires flat and oleo struts compressed--the nuke will clear the steel flight deck with six inches to spare. You're sweating beneath your pressure suit, flight suit, survival vest, and inflatable life preserver.
On the angle to your left, the jet pukes in their A4D Skyhawks are being shot into the night like so many rockets. Breakeven Four Zero One doesn't rate a catapult: you circle the flashlight, the flight-deck officer gives you the okay, and you push the throttle to the stop. With a bellowing growl, that 3350 drags you toward a marker that's invisible until you're moving fast enough to pop the tail up. Then all you can see is the red light that glows on the far end of the flight deck, which first leaps toward you and then disappears beneath the nose. The oleos thump off the end of the deck, and you descend to your cruising altitude.
World War III has come, and Breakeven Four Zero One is at the pointy end of the spear, heading for Russia at a fuel-thrifty 140 knots. You switch from internal fuel to the 300-gallon drop tank beneath the port wing. Then inflate the rubber doughnut that cushions your butt. Every three minutes, by the red glow of your flashlight, put a time tick on the chart, closing the distance from Crete to Rhodes. Every 15 minutes, calculate the fuel you've burned. Watch your altitude!
"In our squadron of 22 pilots, we lost three killed by flying into the ground or water during a 20-month period. I thought this was normal."--Tom Beard, Port Angeles, Washington
The clock on the instrument panel is set to Zulu--what the military calls Greenwich Mean Time. Here in the eastern Mediterranean, the day is two hours ahead of Greenwich, and by 0300 the sky has softened from black to gray. You turn north, threading between the islands, each more visible than the one before, meanwhile smoking a cigarette from the sleeve pocket of your flight suit.
At 0312--right on schedule--the Turkish port of Bodrum appears before you, with its palms and fishing boats and pretty castle on a point of land. Remembering the Naval aviators who splattered themselves onto the brown cliffs of Turkey, you advance the throttle, pull back on the joystick, and clear the castle at a cautionary 200 feet and 170 knots. Feet dry! You power the canopy open, lose a section of chart into the pines, and unroll the Turkish flight chart from the toilet-paper core that keeps the route organized. Your course lies northeast, between the mountains. Legalized flathatting!
At 0407 you leave the town of Usak to starboard, rewarding yourself with an apple from the box lunch supplied by Forrestal's galley. Just after 0500--full daylight now, on a cloudy spring morning--it's feet wet and 50 feet again, across the Black Sea toward Sevastopol.
On your right-hand console is the Black Box. You toggle the switch labeled INSERT/EXTRACT, whereupon the green light goes out and the yellow light comes on. In the MK 7, a battery-driven screw gear moves the 10-pound capsule of uranium 235 into a soccer ball of tamper and explosives; when detonated, they will squeeze the capsule and make it "go critical." Long minutes later, the yellow light goes out and the red light comes on. The MK 7 has become a bomb.
Despite the rubber doughnut, a pain introduces itself to your right buttock. You shift weight to the left cheek, pop an aspirin, and wash it down with orange juice from your thermos, sucked though a tube. The 3350 coughs: port drop tank empty! You gain altitude, switch to internal fuel, tickle the primer, and when the engine sounds okay you switch to the starboard drop tank. You could lose the empty into the Black Sea, but the drag doesn't amount to much. Anyhow, you're supposed to bring the tanks back to Forrestal, in case there's a second launch.
It's 0600. In training, you saved lunch for the long flight home, but this isn't training, and the pain is climbing your spine and spreading into your right thigh. You break open the sandwiches. While chewing the ham-and-cheese, which seem especially dry this morning, you practice flying with your right eye closed.
"We didn't have goggles that went opaque until the 1960s. Shut one eye and then open it after the flash was the idea."--Ron Pickett, Phoenix, Arizona
The military calls it "monocular occlusion." Old-time navigators used the technique, too, closing the right eye while staring into the sun with the left, when finding their latitude with a Jacob's staff. You could walk down a London street in 1600 and spot the old sea captains, their left eyes dead as agate marbles.
Your own bomb isn't the problem: bright suns will be rising all over Russia this morning. Not just Able Dogs, but most of the single-seat turbojets in the U.S. Navy and Air Force have been adapted for low-level attack with nuclear weapons, along with the twin-engine Canberras of the Royal Air Force. Following their strikes, the Strategic Air Command will be along with its big Boeing B-47s and B-52s, each with multiple copies of the MK 15 hydrogen bomb.
In addition to flash, there's the blast from your MK 7. A turbojet whips along at 500 knots or more, putting a respectable distance between it and the explosion, but the Able Dog at combat power is less than half as fast as the shockwave.
Not to worry! You'll honk back on the control stick and loft the MK 7 onto the target while you're still two miles away, meanwhile doubling back the way you came. This is LABS: Low Altitude Bombing System.
Back on Forrestal, you reckoned the loft backward from the target to the release point to the pull-up. Then you found an easily recognized landmark to serve as your Initial Point, which today will be Pokrovskiy cathedral in the center of Sevastopol. You've never actually seen the Sevastopol peninsula, but you've spent hours over the spy-plane photographs, and you know the place as well as Pinecastle bombing range in Florida.
Next you calculated the time that will elapse between the IP and the pull-up. This value--15.5 seconds--has been set in the Black Box. In the Hell Hole--the avionics bay on the Able Dog's belly, behind the oil-cooler flaps and therefore encrusted with half-burned oil--the ground crew set the desired release angle and G force. Now, before Sevastopol comes into view, you must accomplish the following:
[Sorry! Since I published this stuff as an e-book, I find that Amazon objects if the whole thing can be read online for free, so I had to take down the rest of the story. To make up for that, I include a couple of sidebars that went with the original article. There's lots more material in the e-book as published. — Dan Ford]
The constant-G pullup was key, so the loop's radius remained unchanged from the start of the pullup until the bomb released. Writing in Air University Quarterly Review in 1957, shortly after the technique was made public, Colonel John A. Ryan Jr. gave this example of the calculations involved:
A Thunderjet pilot approached his target at 880 feet per second (520 knots), 50 feet off the deck, and began a 4-G pullup. His loop had a radius of 8,000 feet. The bomb was programmed to release when the Thunderjet pointed 40 degrees off the horizontal, separating from the underwing pylon at 1,920 feet above the ground. By this time, the Thunderjet's speed was 809 feet per second (478 knots).
Following gravity's rainbow, the nuke kept climbing, reaching the top of its arc 16.1 seconds later, at an altitude of 4,240 feet. Then it fell, reaching burst altitude 31.4 seconds after parting company from the Thunderjet. Meanwhile, it traveled 22,000 feet horizontally--a bit more than four miles from the release point.
"The flight path of the aircraft is somewhat more complicated to calculate," Colonel Ryan conceded. "The aircraft would be at the top of the [loop] the same time as the bomb reaches its summit and during the remaining 19 or so seconds to burst would be accelerating outbound from the target, placing the aircraft some 35 to 40 thousand feet from the burst." Call it seven miles. In theory, this was sufficient for the Thunderjet to escape a 100 kiloton burst.
A variant called "over-the-shoulder" was used against targets that had no easily-identified IP, or if a straight-away escape was desired. Here, the pilot threw the nuke backwards, after he passed the vertical but before he reached top of the loop. He then completed the loop and pulled out at blast level without changing direction. Over-the-shoulder was easier to perform, but it provided less separation from the blast.
Lofting remains a feasible way to deliver bombs (British Harriers used the technique to attack Stanley airport during the Falklands War) but has passed out of favor for nuclear weapons. In the 1960s, parachute-retarded nukes came into the inventory, giving a turbojet time to escape without acrobatics. On the prop-driven Skyraider, a Boar missile replaced the MK 7 ballistic bomb, so the warhead could be lofted from a lower and safer angle, with the rocket engine boosting it extra miles toward the target.
Heinemann sailed aboard Lexington, interviewing the men who were flying those older planes against the Japanese. Despite its archaic appearance, therefore, the Skyraider was wonderfully laid out, gauges easy to read and switches easy to find. "I've flown about 7,000 hours in as many as 30 different aircraft," says Tom Beard. "Some I can't even remember how to get into. But I think I could get into [a Skyraider] and fly it today."
It went into service as the AD--attack plane from Douglas. In the phonetic alphabet of 1945, the letters were pronounced "Able Dog." When the Navy wanted to show that it too could fly nuclear missions, Douglas strengthened the Skyraider for LABS, and in May 1953 one of these AD-4Bs set a single-engine weight-lifting record of 14,941 lb. (When carrying a nuclear warhead, they were stripped of weapons and armor, the holes covered by a special "300 mph tape"--what the world now knows as duct tape.)
In the 1960s, American and Vietnamese pilots flew the Skyraider on ground-support and rescue missions. In Vietnam also, its pet name became "Spad"--another play on AD, with a wink to the redoubtable wood-and-fabric biplane of World War I. Meanwhile, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara was trying to rationalize the U.S. military, a process from which the plane emerged with a new, inter-service designation: A-1.
Douglas built 3,180 Skyraiders, in configurations from single-seat bomber to 12-seat evacuation transport. They went out of service in the 1970s, about the time Bureau Number 135300 flew from Tucson's Davis-Monthan graveyard to Pensacola's National Museum of Naval Aviation. It sparkles there now, with no trace of the half-burned oil that encrusted it through a quarter-century of Cold War operations.
Question? Comment? Newsletter? Send me an email. Blue skies! -- Dan Ford
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32086603.post9133359472538929751..comments2018-12-04T08:11:13.991-05:00Comments on Trail Hacker: 2009 Bobcat Trail Marathon Race ReportLuchttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32086603.post-40916465060200764492010-09-01T07:26:40.349-05:002010-09-01T07:26:40.349-05:00John, Thanks for the comment. Good luck this year ...John, Thanks for the comment. Good luck this year at the Bobcat race; you'll love it! The race is mostly trail, so trail shoes would be a better choice than street shoes IMO. Hope this helps and have fun!Luchttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32086603.post-46503546596278330972010-08-31T10:35:01.319-05:002010-08-31T10:35:01.319-05:00Luc, found your post in my prep for the 2010 Bobca...Luc, found your post in my prep for the 2010 Bobcat Trail Marathon. This will be my first major trail run. Do you recommend "trail shoes" for this event?John email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-32086603.post-14095629451960509752009-11-17T12:55:17.014-05:002009-11-17T12:55:17.014-05:00Luc, I really enjoyed the most informative report!...Luc, I really enjoyed the most informative report! Way to dig in that final mile! Luv the pics! I will most certainly keep my options open this time next year -- I really enjoy scenic courses. Thanks!

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Custom Toolbar Configuration
In my first NetBeans Platform post I show you how you can change the default toolbar configuration of your NetBeans Platform application:
- Change the default toolbar icon size to 16px
- Right aligned toolbar
- Non-floating toolbar
- Create your own set of Toolbar configuration
After reading this article about general toolbar configurations and some investigation in the NetBeans Platform source code I found the solution for the items above. The improved DTD for toolbar configuration (version 1.1) introduced with NetBeans V6.7 allows you to use the new attributes "align" and "dragable", e.g.:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE Configuration PUBLIC "-//NetBeans IDE//DTD toolbar 1.1//EN" "http://www.netbeans.org/dtds/toolbar1_1.dtd"> <Configuration> <Row> <Toolbar name="File" visible="true" /> <Toolbar name="Clipboard" visible="false"/> <Toolbar name="UndoRedo" visible="false"/> <Toolbar name="Memory" visible="true" draggable="false" align="right"/> <Toolbar name="Picture" visible="true" draggable="false" align="right"/> </Row> </Configuration>
Overwrite the default toolbar configuration in the layer.xml:
<!-- http://wiki.netbeans.org/DevFaqHideShowToolbar --> <!-- http://blogs.sun.com/geertjan/entry/toolbar_configurations --> <folder name="Toolbars"> <file name="MyToolbars.xml" url="res/MyToolbars.xml"> <attr name="position" intvalue="100"/> </file> </folder>
A NetBeans Platform application comes with the two toolbar sets:
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In the example configuration above I created a new one named "MyToolbars".
Now I want "MyToolbars" as my default toolbar configuration. Additionally I need to have 16px icons as default.
To achieve this, write a custom Window Manager Properties file:
<!-- File: res/windowManager.xml --> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE windowmanager PUBLIC "-//NetBeans//DTD Window Manager Properties 2.1//EN" "http://www.netbeans.org/dtds/windowmanager-properties2_1.dtd"> <windowmanager version="2.1"> <main-window> <joined-properties centered-horizontally="true" centered-vertically="true" relative-width="0.9" relative-height="0.9" /> <separated-properties centered-horizontally="true" relative-y="0.1" relative-width="0.8" relative-height="0.08" /> </main-window> <editor-area state="joined"> <constraints> <path orientation="horizontal" number="60" weight="0.7" /> <path orientation="vertical" number="40" weight="0.7" /> <path orientation="horizontal" number="40" weight="0.7" /> </constraints> <relative-bounds x="33" y="24" width="42" height="44"/> </editor-area> <screen width="1280" height="1024" /> <active-mode name="explorer" /> <maximized-mode name="" /> <toolbar configuration="MyToolbars" preferred-icon-size="16" /> </windowmanager>
… and registered in the layer.xml:
<folder name="Windows2"> <file name="WindowManager.wswmgr" url="res/windowManager.xml" /> </folder>
2010-12-3 at 15:39
Dear anchialas,
I tried to make some of my toolbars to be dynamic based on the topComponent's existence or absence. I created my own customToolbarConfig.xml and change the default Standard.xml to change the visibility of some of my custom-made toolbars to be false so i can let em visible after the required components being active or inactive. My standard.xml file is defined as follows (as if i have a custom created toolbar named MyToolbar) :
The problem : First time it works some how ok ( sometimes ). By using ToolbarPool.getDefault().setConfiguration("Standard");
in the componentactivate or componentdeactivate methods of myTopComponent, i can control the visibility or invisibility of my targeted toolbars.
After quiting the application and re executing it, it seems the platform doesn't following the standard.xml i have created, and reading from some plain or default standard configurations. It only shows FILE , UNDO/REDO and MYTOOLBAR which are not the things i have defined in my standard.xml.
the result is the same if create a new toolbar which i wanted to be invisible by changing the standard.xml. The platform doesn't pay attention to the XML file and shows the newly created toolbar. Have you got any solutions or tips regarding this problem ?
2010-12-17 at 15:42
Thank you for that …
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I am new in development field; I try to develop custom toolbar from your blog and success in custom toolbar for my project.
2012-05-31 at 13:46
You can save changes that you make to the toolbars in custom Toolbar Configuration. Once created, Toolbar Configurations can be backed up, transferred to different computers, and shared with other program users.


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So I've been thinking about these important Numbers, and I wanted to share my thoughts with every Lost fan here!
In an episode this season we saw the number 108 in a Lighthouse with the name: Wallace.
I think this person could be very important!
I think, Wallace is just a nickname like Jeremy Bentham.
But this time, it isn't John Locke, but..DESMOND HUME!
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We all have met Desmond, as the Hatch-Man in season 2.
- He was the one who put the numbers in the computer every ''108'' minutes
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- The song Make your own kind of music that Desmond plays in the hatch is stopped by the explosion after ''1:08''
- I also found another funny coincidence, the name 'Wallace' makes me think of William Wallace, who was also Scottish! It could be a sign.
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4 + 8 + 15 + 16 + 23 + 42 = 108
We all know, that Desmond has a strong connection with every Candidate, especially in the alternative reality, he want's to make sure that everyone remembers their 'previous' life.
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Does it mean anything? Maybe I'm completely wrong, but I just wanted to explain my theory why Desmond could be number 108.
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WASHINGTON TWP. (Morris) _ Plenty of personal records were set in the Morristown girls lacrosse team's 20-5 victory over West Morris on Thursday, April 26 but the Colonials players didn't seem to be keeping count.
The only score, however, that was important to them was on the scoreboard.
Callie Sundin had six goals, Annika Begley had four goals and three assists and Nicole Ferrara had three goals and five assists for Morristown. Begley scored her 200th varsity goal and Ferrara had her 100th career assist during the contest but the only thing that mattered was that the Morristown team continued to roll.
"I didn't know it was my 200th goal," Begley said. "I scored and everyone was cheering but I was like… OK."
Ferrara, a junior, was equally non-plussed although she admitted she favors assists to scoring goals anyway.
"I didn't even know that (was a milestone) until he (coach Evan Mager) told me when I came off,'' Ferrara said "I like assisting better than scoring. It builds a better team atmosphere when we all have assisted goals. It's prettier, too.''
The offensive-minded girls give full credit to the defense for the team's success. When the Colonials come up with a terrific stop, it only makes the offense want to work harder.
"When the defense pushes and works hard the offense wants to return the favor and put some goals in the back of the net,'' Midfielder Callie Sundin said. "It goes back and forth. When the offense is playing well the defense knows it needs to keep the other team out of the scoring zone.''
Morristown has been getting solid defensive efforts. Grace Godfrey, Sophia Culmone, Kay Murphy, Tara Goldhirsch and others have contributed as the season has progressed. Goalkeepers Kara O'Brien and Katie Baskin share time between the pipes depending upon their opponents and the situation. Against West Morris, the duo shared five saves.
"Early crashes, strong crashes and one on one defense is looking really good,'' Sundin said. "It's something they have improved on from the beginning of the season. It looked amazing today. I'm excited to see how much it improves later on.''
The draw is also shared between Begley, Sundin and sometimes midfielder Sarah Chupak who take turns facing off and battling for the ball.
"Sarah will sub for me and get into the circle sometimes,'' Sundin said. "She is amazing, too and she works so well with us.''
Although they have had a .7-5 season so far, the Colonials have a difficult strength of schedule. Facing the likes of Chatham, Mendham and Oak Knoll have taught them some lessons that they have taken to heart. It's also made them resilient, such as their efforts in the 11-10 overtime victory against Mountain Lakes on April 10 that assured them a top seed in the Morris County Tournament.
"That was a fun game especially since they were the ones that kicked us out of the tournament last year,'' Begley said. "It's always a tough game against Mountain Lakes. When we play them again we are always going to have that in the back of our minds.''
Their tournament has been good so far with an 18-3 win over Villa Walsh in the opening round this past Saturday. The Colonials have never gotten to the MCT finals. With the way they are improving, they figure it is finally their time.
"The main thing for me is that it's not that were scoring more goals,'' Ferrara said, "It is that we are having more fun. We are doing everything better. Things that we made mistakes on in the past we are fixing. We are playing a cleaner and more complete game.''
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December 12, 2016
President Robben Fleming's birthday
Old school: U-M in History
Topic: History
President Robben Fleming stands amidst a student demonstration on June 18, 1969. (Photo courtesy of the Bentley Historical Library)
This month in history (100 years ago)
Robben W. Fleming, the ninth president of the University of Michigan, was born on Dec. 18, 1916, in Paw Paw, Illinois. A former chancellor of the University of Wisconsin and professor of labor relations specializing in arbitration and mediation, Fleming led U-M from 1968 to 1979. Fleming was known for his patience and negotiator's skills, which were used during his time at the university to work with student activists. In one 1970 incident, the activist group Black Action Movement asked for an increase in African-American enrollment to 10 percent and spearheaded a student strike. Fleming's negotiated agreement with the students called for "an increase in financing for recruiting qualified black applicants and setting a 10 percent enrollment goal without committing to it as a quota." After his time at U-M, Fleming led the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for two years as its president. He died Jan. 11, 2010, in Ann Arbor when he was 93.
— From the U-M Office of the President and The New York Times, "Robben W. Fleming, University President in Turbulent Times, Dies at 93," Jan. 21, 2010


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Project Lifecycle
Every project goes into phases that are interrelated. In general, these phases can be summarised as
- Concept
- Initiation
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- Closure
Each phase builds upon on phases that precede it and needs to be accomplished prior moving to the next phase. In reality, project don't happen in such a linear process and such phases can easily overlap or even run in parallel to each other.
Reflecting on your projects discussed earlier, can you map these phases into them?
So let's discuss each phase in more detail.
During a concept phase of a project you are generally exploring different ideas to solve a given problem. Projects get created to solve problems due to a change in strategic direction, a need to improve and/or changes in the environment, such as customers' expectation, new legislation or new market opportunities.
In this phase you are looking more into defining the problem more accurately to entertain the different ideas that you are going to produce. These ideas are yet to be qualified in detail but the overall approach to solve a problem is being laid out.
Think back to your previous projects, what problem were you looking at to solve?
In this phase, you would normally summarise all your findings (not necessarily detailed solutions) in a document, which is usually called a 'concept brief'.
A concept brief clearly outlines the problem at hand and introduces a framework, where a solution can be initiated, delivered and finally closed.
The concept phase is the starting point for all phases to follow.
Every project will require some level of investment in resources to get it started. So, once you have created a project concept, you will need to 'sell' its benefits to the people, who will approve and invest in your concept to make it a reality.
This is the phase where most projects get scrutinised and qualified before they proceed to become 'real projects'. Such qualifications include a good understanding of
- the real worth of the project
- a cost/benefit analysis
- a project time plan
- the required resources
- the stakeholders
- the potential risks
- ... and more
It is therefore, the initiation phase is also referred to be the 'first' phase in the project management cycle. It sets the
- Objectives
- Scope
- Purpose
- Deliverables
Watch the video below to learn about the steps, yo need to take initiate a project.
The project initiation steps are
- Develop a business case
- Undertake a feasibility study
- Establish a project charter
- Appoint a project team
- Set up a project office
- Perform a phase review
All the above activities can be summarised in one (or more) document, which will be the basis for the project delivery phase, once the project gets approved for implementation.
The project delivery phase is about execution, management and continuous monitoring until project deliverables have been achieved. Concepts that have been put into plans supported by resources are to become realised. During this phase you will be executing the project plan and managing several aspects, such as
- Time
- Cost
- Quality
- People
- Risk
- Processes
- Communication
The heart of project management lies in the project delivery phase.
The delivery phase shows how important the concept and initiation phase are for the project to succeed. For examples, if you have not considered potential project risks in your initiation phase and planned measures for their occurrence, how will you 'react' during the delivery?
Reflect on your previous projects to highlight aspects of risk management measures that you used to better manage the delivery of your project.
Project Closure involves handing over the deliverables, releasing teams from their duties and informing stakeholders of the closure of the project.
Now that you have successfully delivered the main milestones of your project, did everything run smoothly as you planned? In most cases, the answer is
"No, not everything."
After the project has been closed, a post implementation review determines the project's success and identifies lessons learned. Such lessons help to ensure future projects are delivered. successfully on time and on budget.
What are the lessons you have learned from your previous projects?
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A long march
'Excuse me. Do you know where the people are marching?' asked J.
The guy looked at J. He had a smile as warm as Ka-fai's. Ka-fai was J's classmate in his matriculation class. J has not seen Ka-fai for more than a decade. Like Ka-fai, this guy's eyelids pressed tight into convex grooves when he smiled. Muscles on his cheek formed deep folds too. In fact he looked exactly like Ka-fai in the school days. J did not venture to ask whether he was Ka-fai. J felt content and at home nonetheless.
This is a street. Most of the people are walking in one direction. Next to Ka-fai stood a short guy. J knew him too. He was also in the class and they had spent much time together then. J tried to remember what his name was. His surname might be Choy, J thought. But he was uncertain. J and Choy said hi and made an eye contact. J felt a little bit uneasy as he was still unable to call him by name.
'Let's go together,' said Ka-fai smilingly.
'Do you think we should ask somebody where the march will start?' asked J.
'Let's sit down have a drink and ask somebody,' said Ka-fai, by his shoulder pointing to a tea house by the street.
Sitting down, J realised the march might have started. He was very unhappy that he was sitting here while thousands of people were flowing through the boulevard like a stream of lava. The TV set above their heads are showing that.
'Hot tea.' A waiter placed the cup before J.
'Could you tell us where the march starts?' J asked the waiter.
'It's not far,' said the man as if J was the tenth customer asking the question. 'Hey, you are late already.'
'We know,' said Choy, 'but it shouldn't matter.'
'A friend of mine will come here in a moment. He is going to the march too. You may go with him.'
They sat there five minutes.
'Oh my god!' said J to himself all of a sudden. 'I have left my placard at home. I wanna go home get it. Bye.'
J got on a bus. He intuitively knew this bus would take him home. The placard said what he wanted most to express, without which it would be pointless joining the march. What's the name of the short classmate? Choy? Chung? Chiu? J could clearly remember that he had emigrated to a neighbouring country mid way through the class. He was not envied by anybody then but his decision turned out to be wise. And how about his first name? Did he have a western christian name? J looked at his watch. It was already one hour past the march¡¦s launch time. J felt more nervous.
J sat on a side bench over the left rear wheels of the bus, looking through the window of the opposite side. The sky was blue as the Mediterranean Sea. The bus was going down a zig-zagging slope to a beach. It was not where J lived. J might be on a wrong bus. He decided to get off at the next stop. He dared not see his watch. He was almost angry for his stupidity.
The bus stopped on the slope. As there were not any cars going up the slope, J had to walk. He was hoping for a ride or whatever to take him back into town where he could find his way home. 'My goodness,' said J. 'I have set out to join the march. It is only two hours late. It is still possible.'
[This is a piece I wrote two years ago. Recently I recall that the short classmate was called Choi Fai. He could eat as spicy as the head boy and I did. But Choi sweated more profusely than we two did. Dedicated to my matriculation classmates.]
Sam Mok


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Matthew West on Overcoming Insecurity, Identity Issues in New Book (Interview)
Behind his American Music Award and Billboard chart-topping songwriting credits, Christian contemporary singer-songwriter Matthew West has struggled to overcome his insecurities.
Instead of putting up pretenses for the world, West is being vulnerable about his journey in his new book, Hello My Name Is: Discover Your True Identity, that he hopes can help others find their true identities.
West, 40, once put his worth in his career. But when the famous singer-songwriter lost his voice 10 years ago, everything changed and he was forced to re asses his life.
"I know I've had a platform as a singer-songwriter; I get to do concerts all around the country and God has blessed me so much. Who would believe that I, just like everybody else, battle for my identity as well," West told The Christian Post. "I write about it in the book, a season in my life when my voice was taken away from me. I was unable to sing and that really rocked me because I humbly came to the realization that I placed too much emphasis on my identity as a singer."
"When my voice was taken away from me, I wasn't quite sure who I was anymore."
The singer and budding author later realized that he had learned a life-changing lesson that comes when one places their sole idenitity in their work, and then it's taken from them.
"God uses experiences like that in my life and everybody else's life to remind us that even if everything else is stripped away, if we perform our best or perform our poorest we are still simply loved by our Creator," West said.
"He says I'm His child whether I have a good show or whether I lose my voice. Whether I sell a million books or not, God loves me."
This realization was a game changer in West's life and he hopes it can have the same impact on others. He also insisted that in order for people to grow in their God-given identities, they must shed their worldly one.
With his new book Hello My Name Is: Discover Your True Identity, West shares his perspective on people shedding their proverbial name tags that don't accurately define who they are. Many times in life, be it at conferences or business meetings, people are required to identify themselves by name by wearing a "Hello My Name Is" sticker so that people know who they are.
This is a concept that West explored with his 2012 song "Hello My Name Is" before deciding to further expound upon the concept in his book.
"One of the things that I talk about in the book is how each of our name tags can get pretty crowded over time. You make a mistake and a word like regret or failure winds up on your name tag," he said. "If you struggle with discouragement, maybe someone has depression on their nametag. You've been bullied in school and someone's damaging words spoken to you may wind up on your nametag and make you feel like you're worthless."
For West, it's been a struggle to get rid of his own name tag that identifies him as being insecure.
"I think sometimes someone might come to my concert, hear a song on a radio, hear an interview or read an article and they might think, 'Well man, he's got so much confidence,'" he said. "I think I've gotten really good at showing that image of confidence. But inside I think some people who project confidence from the stage can be some of the most insecure people out there."
West also finds himself struggling to be authentic after years of feeling pressured to present himself as a perfect professional Christian.
"I was the preacher's kid growing up and kind of felt like I had all the eyes of the church on me, maybe holding me to a higher standard at times. Then I became a Christian singer and people were always watching me," he revealed. "It all comes back to authenticity. I wanted to write about that in the book because I wanted people to see that very real part of me."
"I also needed to lay down that pretender part of me," West added.
These days, the entertainer said he is on a mission to be more authentic than ever before. His latest book is a testament to that and also a tool that West hopes people can use on their journey to rediscovering their identity.
More than just an internal issue, the budding author insists that reshaping a person's identity is a spiritual battle.
"Satan wants to do everything he can to get us to believe a lie about who we are because if he can get us to own a false identity, ultimately that false identity will turn around and own us," he said. "The further we stray away from our true identity in Christ, the further we stay away from finding a way to live a fulfilling and authentic life."
While West doesn't claim to have all of the answers, he does his best to be transparent and authentic in hopes that his journey will inspire others.
"This book is showing that I myself am a work in progress. I wanted to write from an authentic place in hopes that other people would be inspired to find an authentic place in themselves," he said. "We have to take a really good look at our life and maybe be willing to stop long enough to take inventory of our nametag and ask God if it's true. Ask God to realign your identity just like He did for me when I was recovering from that vocal chord surgery."
For more information about West's book Hello My Name Is: Discover Your True Identity, click here. The website also gives readers access to a free digital curriculum that serves as a study guide for those who want to dig deeper into the book's concepts.


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Veterans Affairs officials warned the
Obama-Biden transition team in the weeks after the 2008 presidential election
that the department shouldn't trust the wait times that its facilities were
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which [Veterans Health Administration] reports unreliable performance data; it
affects quality of care by delaying — and potentially denying — deserving
veterans timely care," the officials wrote.
The briefing materials, obtained by The
Washington Times through the Freedom of Information Act, make clear that the
problems existed well before Mr. Obama took office, dating back at least to the
Bush administration. But the materials raise questions about what actions the
department took since 2009 to remedy the problems.
In particular, the 2008 transition report
referred to a VA inspector general recommendation to test the accuracy of
reported waiting times.Such tests, the report noted, could prompt
action if results reveal "questionable differences" between the dates shown in
medical records and dates in the Veterans Health Administration's scheduling
system. It's unclear whether that recommendation was adopted because VA
officials have not responded to request for comment.
(…) "Audits
of outpatient scheduling and patient waiting times completed since 2005 have
identified noncompliance with the policies and procedures for scheduling,
inaccurate reporting of patient waiting times and errors in [electronic waiting
lists]," the briefing papers state.
little was done to address the problems surrounding scheduling and wait time
accuracy during the George W. Bush administration.
"Although VHA has recognized the need to improve
scheduling practices and the accuracy of wait times data, no meaningful action
has been taken to achieve this goal today," officials wrote.In fact, officials added, nine recommendations
arising from inspector general audits from 2005 to 2007 were not implemented by
2008 when officials prepared the report for the incoming administration.
(…)The briefing materials do not reveal any
concerns about outright fraud in manipulating waiting times, but they make
repeated references in summarizing past audits and reviews about data accuracy.


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Although GS1 EPCglobal's second-generation ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) RFID standards have been in place since 2006 to help track reusable pallets, containers and other reusable assets, until present it has been unclear how to best tag these items.
Now, thanks to efforts by two GS1 working groups, clear guidelines exist to use RFID to identify pallets and other reusable assets that are essential for transporting goods through the supply chain.
Ensuring returnable transport items return to base
Under the leadership of Keith Sherry (general manager, BT Supply Chain Services) and Ju Seon Kang (Manager, Korea Container Pool), the Returnable Transport Item (RTI) Interest Group brought together major manufacturers, retailers, transport providers and solution providers to agree on how best to apply GS1 EPCglobal second-generation UHF RFID standards to returnable trade items such as pallets, roll cages, returnable plastic containers, tote boxes, and ingredients bins.
"The use of returnable transport items is an increasing phenomenon in the modern supply chain, with companies constantly seeking to reduce costs, increase handling efficiencies and improve environmental responsibility through less waste," explains Sherry. "But for that to happen, companies need standard ways of identifying these assets to be able to track and trace their flow through the supply chain."
The guideline contains detailed descriptions of multi-party business use cases to understand the need for identification and management of pallets and other RTIs, requirements that relate to what data is to be captured in user memory portion of tag, how it is to be maintained securely and advice about the placement of tags to optimise accurate data capture.
"This guideline sets a solid foundation for companies to use GS1 EPCglobal RFID standards as an integral part of their asset tracking capabilities. Ultimately, it will lead to more efficient supply chain and greater visibility of both the assets themselves and the goods they are transporting. The business case is clear, now it's up to companies to start implementing," concludes Sherry.
The full guideline for returnable transport items can be downloaded by clicking here.
Helping RFID tags survive the rugged supply chain
Containers used in ocean, air, road and rail transportation experience some of the most extreme conditions in the supply chain including wide variations in temperature, humidity and pressures and exposure to fluid contaminants, dust and dirt.
The Technical Implementation Guide for Conveyance Asset Tag (CAT) Environmental Testing aims to establish a baseline level of testing for passive second-generation UHF RFID tags to meet the rigours of transportation. It also provides guidelines for the placement and encoding of RFID CAT tags for the tracking of assets such as sea containers, dry vans, air freight containers, rail cars and intermodal containers. The group that wrote the guideline involved participants from iControl, Damco, Boeing, SPAWAR Systems Center San Diego, Exel/DHL Supply Chain Americas and FedEx.
"Hardened passive RFID tags already exist. Ultimately, these tags need to function correctly under a wide variety of conditions and they need to be both usable and durable. Until this guideline was written there was no common understanding about how these tags should be adequately tested. Now both tag manufacturers and transport industry companies have a benchmark that will improve the reliability of products and solutions in the market," commented Tony Hollis, director of product development and innovation for Exel/DHL Supply Chain Americas and co-chair of GS1 EPCglobal's Transportation & Logistics Services Industry Action Group (TLS IAG).
The guidelines have built on experience of three successful transport and logistics pilots initiated by the GS1 EPCglobal's Transportation & Logistics Services Industry Action Group (TLS IAG). The most recent pilot enabled supply chain partners and customs authorities to have real-time access to information about products and shipments as they were travelling along the supply chain. Further piloting is taking place at company and country level to refine and develop best practices.
"The Implementation Guide will help ensure RFID tags are manufactured to withstand the rigors of a global supply chain, and ultimately provide end-users with an improved understanding of how to apply EPC Gen II RFID technology to transportation assets so they can increase visibility and efficiency in both global and local supply chains," said Hollis.
The full guideline can be downloaded from http://www.epcglobalinc.org/standards/implementation_guidelines/.


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Behavioral Health Toolkit
As an extension of the 10th Scope of Work care transitions project, MPRO was awarded a Special Innovation Project by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services offering an opportunity to focus on a unique patient population. Patients presenting with chronic health illnesses and potentially debilitating behavioral health conditions, such as diabetes and depression or heart disease together with a substance abuse disorder (SUD) are typically not adequately identified and addressed through traditional care delivery models. These comorbidities often inhibit a patient's ability to successfully manage medications, understand self-care requirements and navigate post-acute care, thus increasing the frequency of hospital readmissions.
This toolkit is presented as part of MPRO's Behavioral Health Initiative (BHI) aimed at reducing readmissions of patients with comorbid physical and behavioral health conditions and improving coordination of care across multiple settings. Root cause analysis among BHI participants revealed providers struggle to effectively care for patients with comorbid conditions due to unreliable information transfer, unsupported patient activation and a lack of standard known processes. Providers expressed the need for a comprehensive resource document to guide process improvement efforts and address care coordination for this patient population. The guide is divided into three main sections:
- Identification and screening for behavioral health care problems
- Communication between all stakeholders in assisting the person to recovery
- Next steps for referral and follow-up
The toolkit contains narratives and embedded resources to assist providers in establishing an efficient screening process, enhancing communication skills and effectively coordinating care for the patient beyond the current care setting.
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Five Shifts to Common Understanding Across the Generations
When young professionals understand why seasoned professionals place great importance on certain things and learn how to think and act in harmony with their elders' worldview, they will become more effective communicators. Likewise, when seasoned professionals understand why young professionals see the world the way they do, they will more effectively tap into the talents and skills of the youngest generation.
Challenges arise because we all define "respect,†"feeling valued,†or "working hard†in different ways. Taking the time to understand what people really mean when they make comments that upset you will help tremendously. If you probe a little deeper and perhaps ask what was meant by the comment, you'll likely find the intention was not what you thought. When the focus in conversation is about "right†vs. "wrong,†it is helpful to come back to the common ground between people.
The following chart, "Five Shifts to Common Understanding,†shows the corresponding viewpoints of both young and seasoned professionals, with a focus on creating common ground in each example:
When you or your team members are unclear as to the organization's direction or individual career goals, there's a much greater need to protect and covet rather than share and contribute. However, when there is alignment between your company/department mission and individual career goals, synergy results. Team members see how their contribution affects the whole and the conversation switches from "Why am I not getting what I want?†to "How can I further support my organization, while advancing my career?â€
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Lots of folks out there in the tiny house movement might cringe at the idea of going into debt for a tiny house. In some ways, it seems totally opposite of the idea of financial freedom and the simplicity of living tiny. Why would you want to waste all the money on interest and stick yourself with loan payments for so long if the main point of going tiny is financial freedom?
In some ways, I struggle with it too. My husband and I have been really focused on finances over the last couple of years, and thanks to working hard and the magic of YNAB (You Need A Budget- more on that another time), we just paid off all our credit card debt, we have an emergency savings, we have a little money set aside for retirement, we've almost paid off our new car, and we won't be blind-sided by self-employment taxes. We are by no means in perfect financial shape, but we are really proud of how far we've come. So you'd think the last thing we want to do is go into debt again.
Here's the thing. For some people, financing a tiny house really is the best option- and I really do feel that we fit in that category. For us, honestly, going tiny has been a quick decision. We've been admiring tiny houses for a long time, but until we started seeing larger homes that are easier for families, and looking into parking options in our area, we really didn't think it was realistic. So we haven't had a long lead up to saving lots of money towards this. Even if we had, we were focused on our wedding in Augus and paying off a car loan, so it wasn't really an option anyway. Right now, I switched to working part time and going to grad school for the next two years. So even though we're making enough to get by, there's really no bandwidth for savings (despite serious budgeting and pulling back in lots of areas). That means that even if we wanted to wait and save, it would be pretty much impossible for the next couple years.
Add to that knowing that even though building would be an amazing project an accomplishment, we really don't have the time (work during the week, grad school on weekends), and hiring a builder is really our only option. Builder = more money (justifiably). On top of that, we want a bigger 28 foot model, which is significantly more expensive than a smaller tiny house. Plus, we want quite a few high-end finishes in there (what can I say…we want to enjoy it if we're there full time) so that adds up fast.
Then comes timing. For us, we're really thinking of going tiny as a stepping stone. We want to start a family in a couple years and we imagine living tiny for the next 7ish years and then potentially transitioning to another home. We know that many families live tiny with older children, and totally respect that decision, but at this point we don't expect that to be our path. So that puts a little incentive to jump start our decision and make it happen sooner rather than later!
Lastly, we live in the highest rent area of the country (bay area california, just south of San Francisco) and rent here is astronomical and skyrocketing at a very scary rate. We pay $1500 a month for a tiny, somewhat crappy studio apartment in a great location. Anywhere near 45 from work we'd pay at least that much to rent, so no alternatives really. And rent is likely to go up another $400 this year (last year it went up $300 in another apartment so we moved)! A good reason to get out of the rental market ASAP.
So while we hate the idea of paying interest, when we've done a cost comparison in our rental market over 7 years depending on how much we pay for parking, we'd be saving between $10,000 to $100,000! That's accounting for interest and $100 rent increase per year (which is conservative here). That doesn't account for other factors like changes in utility costs, home maintenance, gas costs for a longer commute, saving on dining out since we'd be farther out, and more, but it gives us a pretty clear picture of the opportunity. Not to mention, once it's paid off our additional savings potential. For someone looking at going a lot smaller or to a simpler tiny house model, the savings could be far more significant!
I would never advocate for going into more debt if you're already struggling to get out of debt and haven't made a serious financial plan for stability. That is definitely step 1. If that is in place though, it can be the best option for some people.
In a round about way, taking out a loan will lead us to the financial freedom we are seeking!
If you're planning to finance your tiny home, what are your reasons? How do you plan (or how did you) to do it?
Are there unforeseen negative consequences of taking out a loan on a tiny house?
Stay tuned! Up next: the challenges of actually getting financing for a tiny house on wheels!
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Mid City College opened its main campus in Baton Rouge, LA in January 2000 as the Court Reporting Institute of Louisiana, a State Licensed School for educating men and women to work as judicial and legal reporters. In 2006 the Court Reporting Program began offering real-time writing disciplines for broadcast captioning and CART. By 2013, the school moved to Mid City Tower in Mid City, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In 2015, the school received approval from the schools' accreditation agency to begin using the name Mid City College.
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