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It used to be a regular sight in our towns and villages, but men congregating in the open air to 'put the world to rights' seems to now be a thing of the past.
This picture from the Market Rasen Mail of 1962 shows one group of men doing just that.
They were described by the reporter of the day as 'The Grand Old men of Middle Rasen' and they were named as, from left, Mr S E Codd (75), Mr T Boardman (72), Mr George Marrison (75), Mr W Hyde (71), Mr Robert Johnson (84) and Mr J P Rhodes.

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I'm having great fun this week here in the Unicorn Tree!
Not only have we/I been making lovely cards, doing altered art jewellery and modding goggles since our 'In The Style of... Steampunk, Victoriana & Grunge Collage' days, but yesterday I decided in honour of 'The Asylum Steampunk Weekend Convivial' that's on up at The Lawns this weekend (of which we from here will be attending in Costume as we stand a bookstall for Quirk Publishing!) that goggles weren't enough and I needed to make a space gun or two using some of the altered art principles I've been playing with!
Cue looking at anything with goggles of wonder instead of eyes! Everything is potentially something else with altered art, yes even old coke bottles and plastic book & plate stands!
Of course this was also a fantastic idea for a short story or writing cue exercise too!
So that's what we've done, come in and see the amazing stylistic future guns of 2130 & 2149, used respectively by the Airship Corps and Pirate/Bucaneer Fraternities.
Read the short overview wackipedia style histories of 'Munitions & The Cola Corps' - and overall just let your imagination go and dare to be a little bit silly, it's an amazingly freeing experience, thats why as we all know I do it all the while whilst the minions look on in amazement (horror?Pity?fear?).
So see you in the shop soon, and remember mines the caramel latte and you can bring whatever you like to drink too!
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Steampunk, Fiction and Modding Space Guns!
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Thursday, January 2, 2014
This is the last of my 'A Watercolor a Week' project. It's been so helpful to stick to this goal over the past year. Some of the things that really aided me in moving forward were these:
• Encouragement from friends. It's really amazing how a thumbs-up motivates me to push through the tougher challenges to the next week.
• I took two watercolor workshops which forced me to try techniques that I wouldn't have done on my own. Big thanks to Michael Reardon and Thomas Schaller. http://www.mreardon.com/, http://thomasschaller.com/
• Paul Kratter would offer up suggestions but only when I asked, and his comments were always straightforward. I didn't always opt to take his advice, but his encouragement was huge. Turns out he's a nice guy.
While it takes courage to lay yourself out on a blog or website I really encourage it. It forces you to stick to your goal and just one nice comment can really make a difference in moving forward to the next week.
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text: This is the accessible text file for GAO report number GAO-04-315R entitled 'Posthearing Questions Related to Aviation and Port Security' which was released on December 12, 2003. This text file was formatted by the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) to be accessible to users with visual impairments, as part of a longer term project to improve GAO products' accessibility. Every attempt has been made to maintain the structural and data integrity of the original printed product. Accessibility features, such as text descriptions of tables, consecutively numbered footnotes placed at the end of the file, and the text of agency comment letters, are provided but may not exactly duplicate the presentation or format of the printed version. The portable document format (PDF) file is an exact electronic replica of the printed version. We welcome your feedback. Please E-mail your comments regarding the contents or accessibility features of this document to email@example.com. This is a work of the U.S. government and is not subject to copyright protection in the United States. It may be reproduced and distributed in its entirety without further permission from GAO. Because this work may contain copyrighted images or other material, permission from the copyright holder may be necessary if you wish to reproduce this material separately. December 12, 2003: The Honorable Ernest F. Hollings: Ranking Member: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: United States Senate: Subject: Posthearing Questions Related to Aviation and Port Security: Dear Senator Hollings: This letter responds to your November 17, 2003, request that we provide answers to questions relating to our September 9, 2003, testimony on transportation security.[Footnote 1] The questions posed by Senator Frank Lautenberg to GAO, along with our responses, follow. I am concerned that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) are dealing with our nation's pressing life and death security needs by playing shell games with critical resources. Last week, Secretary Ridge announced that 5,000 new air marshals would be trained, but that these individuals would come from the existing ranks of custom and immigration agents. During high-threat periods, this cross-training plan might enhance air security but will come at the expense of border and ground security. Under the Administration's plan to utilize current immigration and customs employees to double as air marshals, how will DHS ensure that, during high-threat periods, there are adequate personnel both in air marshal roles and at the border as customs/immigration agents? DHS's plan does not explicitly address the adequacy of the current immigration, customs, and air marshal workforces to address concurrent high threats to border, ground, and aviation security. Rather, the plan provides for temporarily enhancing the air marshal workforce to respond to high threats to aviation. Specifically, according to Secretary Ridge, cross-training immigration and customs officers in air marshal tactics would give DHS greater flexibility to adjust its law enforcement resources according to varying threats and provide a surge capacity during periods of high threats to aviation. The immigration and customs officers would not be used as air marshals during every high-threat period; they would be used as such only when there was a high risk to aviation. DHS's cross-training plan could have some benefits; but, as we recently reported, it also poses training and administrative challenges.[Footnote 2] According to the Secretary, the cross-training for immigration and customs agents and federal air marshals will be centralized. Centralization could eventually produce some cost efficiencies. However, cross-training will expand the roles and responsibilities of all three law-enforcement workforces; and a needs assessment will have to be conducted to identify each workforce's additional training requirements. Cross-training requirements and curriculums also will have to be established and approved. In addition, each affected workforce's organization will have to coordinate the new training requirements with its other mission requirements, as it schedules its officers for cross-training. Finally, planned changes in the roles and responsibilities of the federal law enforcement officers could have implications for their performance evaluations and compensation. Currently, the three law enforcement workforces are under different pay systems and are compensated at different rates. DHS has efforts under way to deal with these issues. Are any new air marshals currently being trained? New air marshals are currently being hired and provided basic training at the rate of about one class per month, a rate sufficient to offset attrition and maintain the current number of air marshals. According to the Federal Air Marshals Service, there is no surge in hiring or training forecasted because the goal for hiring air marshals set by the Secretary of Transportation after September 11, 2001, was met in July 2002, as planned. In addition to the required basic training, the Service instituted a 4- week advanced training course for air marshals in October 2002. All air marshals hired from October 2001 through July 2002 were required to complete the course by January 2004. Air marshals hired after August 2002 attend this advanced training course after completing their basic training. In August 2003, the Service reported that proposed cutbacks in its training funds would require it to extend the January 2004 date to mid-2004. According to DHS, the Service's transfer to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will not adversely affect either the funding for air marshals' training or the schedule for newly hired air marshals to complete the 4-week training course, since a total of $626.4 million is being transferred from TSA to ICE. However, it is not clear how much of the funding will be allocated for training. Given the importance of training to ensure that air marshals are prepared to carry out their mission, we believe that maintaining adequate funding for training should remain a priority. DHS has recently tried to divert $30 million from the Operation Safe Commerce pilot program intended to identify and implement the systemic port security initiation in order to cover a budget shortfall in airport security. Do you believe federal port security programs are adequately funded? Effective maritime security requires the ability to put preventive systems, controls, and infrastructure in place. According to transportation security experts and state and local government and industry representatives we contacted, funding is the most pressing challenge to accomplishing this task. While some security improvements are inexpensive, most require substantial funding. Additionally, given the large number of assets to protect, the sum of even relatively less expensive investments can be cost prohibitive. According to Coast Guard estimates, the cost of implementing the new International Maritime Organization security code and the security provisions in the Maritime Transportation Security Act (MTSA) of 2002 will be approximately $1.5 billion for the first year and $7.4 billion over the succeeding decade. These costs are substantial sums, but it is not clear at this point how the costs will be paid, as the following examples illustrate. Funding difficulties can be seen in the implementation of TSA's Transportation Worker Identification Card (TWIC). Although no national estimates of the cost are currently available, they are likely to be substantial. According to a TSA official, nationwide the agency expects to issue five to six million identification cards a year from mid-2004 to the end of 2007. In our work at Los Angeles, port authority officials expressed concern about how much it may cost to implement this card and all the steps and equipment associated with it, such as the installation of card readers throughout the port, the issuance of cards to port personnel, and adding staff to operate and maintain the system. A study for the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach estimates that it will cost at least $45 million to perform the necessary start- up tasks. Because of these significant costs, maritime stakeholders are concerned about who will ultimately pay for the TWIC. One port authority official indicated that the cost may be passed on to workers as a cost of their employment. Another example of funding difficulties can be seen at the federal level, where an MTSA requirement for a vessel identification system is being phased in over time, partly because of funding limitations. This identification system, called the Automated Identification System (AIS), uses a device aboard a vessel to transmit a unique identifying signal to a receiver located at the port and to other ships in the area. This information gives port officials and other vessels nearly instantaneous information about a vessel's identity, position, speed, and course. Such a system would provide an "early warning" of an unidentified vessel or a vessel that was in a location where it should not be. MTSA requires that vessels in certain categories [Footnote 3] install tracking equipment between January 1, 2003, and December 31, 2004, with the specific date dependent on the type of vessel and when it was built. Effectively implementing the system requires considerable land-based equipment and other infrastructure that is not currently available in many ports. As a result, for the foreseeable future, the system will be available in less than half of the 25 busiest U.S. ports.[Footnote 4] Installing AIS at the remaining ports depends in part on when funding will be available. The only ports with the necessary infrastructure to use AIS are those that have waterways controlled by Vessel Traffic Service (VTS) systems.[Footnote 5] Expanding coverage will require substantial additional investment, both public and private. The Coast Guard's budget request for fiscal year 2004 includes $40 million for shore-based AIS equipment and related infrastructure--an amount that covers only current VTS areas. According to a Coast Guard official, wider-reaching national implementation of AIS would involve installation and training costs ranging from $62 million to $120 million. Also, the cost of installing AIS equipment aboard individual ships averages about $10,000 per vessel, which is to be borne by the vessel owner or operator. Some owners and operators, particularly of domestic vessels, have complained about the cost of equipping their vessels. As we suggested in our testimony,[Footnote 6] where the money will come from to meet these funding needs is not clear. One theme we have heard from maritime stakeholders is that the current economic environment makes this a difficult time for the private industry or state and local governments to make security investments. According to industry representatives and experts we contacted, most of the transportation industry operates on a very thin profit margin, making it difficult to pay for additional security measures. In addition, nearly every state and local government is facing a large budget deficit for fiscal year 2004. For example, the National Governors Association estimates that states are facing a total budget shortfall of $80 billion this upcoming year. Given the tight budget environment, state and local governments and transportation operators must make difficult trade-offs between transportation security investments and other needs, such as service expansion and equipment upgrades. According to the National Association of Counties, many local governments are planning to defer some maintenance of their transportation infrastructure to pay for some security enhancements. At the same time however, the federal government faces its own challenges in finding considerable additional funding. Due to the costs of security enhancements and the transportation industries' and state and local governments' tight budget environments, the federal government is likely to be viewed as a source of funding for at least some of these enhancements. While federal moneys have been made available, requests for federal funding for transportation security enhancements will likely continue to exceed available resources, given the constraints on the federal budget as well as competing claims for federal assistance. In responding to these questions, we relied primarily on our past work. We reviewed and analyzed data provided by the Federal Air Marshal Service and interviewed DHS officials. In addition, we visited the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to obtain the views of port officials. Should you or your office have any questions on aviation matters discussed in this report, please contact Gerald Dillingham at (202) 512-2834. For questions on maritime issues, please contact Margaret Wrightson at (415) 904-2200. Key contributors to this report include Steve Calvo, John W. Shumann, and Teresa Spisak. Sincerely yours, Gerald L. Dillingham: Director, Civil Aviation Issues: Margaret Wrightson: Director, Homeland Security and Justice Issues: Signed by Gerald L. Dillingham and Margaret Wrightson: (540085): FOOTNOTES [1] U.S. General Accounting Office, Aviation Security: Progress Since September 11, 2001, and the Challenges Ahead, GAO-03-1150T (Washington, D.C.: Sept. 9, 2003) and U.S. General Accounting Office, Maritime Security: Progress Made in Implementing Maritime Transportation Security Act, but Concerns Remain, GAO-03-1155T (Washington, D.C.: Sept. 9, 2003). [2] U.S. General Accounting Office, Aviation Security: Federal Air Marshal Service Is Addressing Challenges of Its Expanded Mission and Workforce, but Additional Actions Needed, GAO-04-242 (Washington, D.C.: Nov. 19, 2003). [3] All vessels of certain specifications on international voyages; self-propelled commercial vessels 65 feet or more in length; towing vessels 26 feet or more in length and more than 600 horsepower; vessels of 100 gross tons or more carrying one or more passengers for hire; and passenger vessels certificated to carry 50 or more passengers for hire. [4] In addition to Los Angeles/Long Beach, the other ports currently scheduled to have this system are New York/New Jersey; the mouth of the Mississippi River; New Orleans; Houston/Galveston; Port Arthur, Texas; San Francisco; Seattle/Tacoma; Alaska's Prince William Sound; and Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. [5] Similar to air traffic control systems, VTS uses radar, closed circuit television, radiophones, and other technology to allow monitoring and management of vessel traffic from a central shore-based location. [6] GAO-03-1155T.


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[www.stabroeknews.com] – Civil society organisations and western missions today again urged that all political parties work together for the staging of local government elections by August 1 this year.
These elections have not been held since 1994 and have been repeatedly deferred. New local government bills have been passed and Parliament recently approved a bill to pave the way for elections by August 1, 2014. However, there have been murmurings from the ruling PPP/C that it is of the view that the Guyana Elections Commission might not be adequately prepared.
The joint statement issued today follows:
A year ago, political party leaders, civil society, private sector representatives, and members of the diplomatic community expressed their hope that 2013 would be the year in which Guyana would move forward to ensure its citizens benefit from strong and effective local governance.
While 2013 passed without local government elections being held, significant progress was made to set the stage for these historic elections in 2014. Four bills establishing a reinvigorated framework for local governance were approved by the National Assembly and three received Presidential assent. Together with the 2010 Local Authorities Act establishing the electoral framework for local elections, the legislative path to elections has been cleared.
In anticipation of local government elections, the Guyana Elections Commission has been intensifying its preparations and expanding voter education outreach to familiarize people with the voting process. The Ministry of Local Government has been hosting seminars and workshops with stakeholders to promote voter education. GECOM's Chairman has stated that the Commission is fully equipped and ready to stage the elections. It has already demarcated the boundaries and constituencies in 69 of 71 districts, and each district has been targeted for voter education. Once a date for elections is announced, GECOM can begin the statutory steps required by law to hold local government elections. By all accounts, GECOM is well prepared and poised to ensure free, fair and transparent local elections whenever called upon by the government to do so.
Throughout 2013, all political parties repeatedly expressed their eagerness for local government elections, their desire to make their case to the voters, and their interest in competing in localities throughout the country. As President Ramotar observed in July, local government elections are "badly needed because many of the problems we face are due to the fact that we did not have local government elections." The PPP/C, APNU, and the AFC have all begun campaigning in many regions in anticipation of these historic elections.
All of this augurs well for 2014 as the year of local government elections. Indeed, as the Guyana Times observed last July, "there is a dire need for local government elections to give citizens the opportunity to choose whom they wish to represent them at the local level." As international development agencies have long recognized, the tangible benefits of local democracy go far beyond the act of casting a vote. Effective and efficient public administration coupled with healthy local governance can drive development efforts. Local government institutions bring government closer to the people, fostering greater inclusion, civic responsibility, empowerment and participation. We agree with the Times that "only when people have transparent and accountable institutions at all levels of government – national, regional, and local, will they have confidence in their future."
The constitution affirms that "local government is a vital aspect of democracy" that should allow as many people as possible to participate actively "in the task of managing and developing the communities in which they live, and it mandates that local elections be held every three years. The Commonwealth Charter to which Guyana subscribes refers to an individual's "inalienable right to participate in democratic processes, in particular through free and fair elections in shaping the society in which he or she lives. Parliaments and representative local governments and other forms of local governance are essential elements in the exercise of democratic governance."
So now, the legislative foundation is in place for elections by August 1. The election machinery is ready. The political parties have reaffirmed their desire to hold local elections and are making campaign preparations. It is therefore our hope, as the PPP/C, APNU, and AFC pledged in their 2011 election manifestos, that local government elections will be held, "bringing much needed reinvigoration into local government entities." That is something all parties and civic stakeholders should agree on in 2014.
Berbice Chamber of Commerce
British High Commission
Consultative Association of Guyanese Industry
Embassy of the United States of America
Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Guyana Association of Women Lawyers
Guyana Bar Association
Guyana Manufacturing and Service Association
Guyana Trades Union Congress
High Commission of Canada
Justice Institute
Private Sector Commission
Transparency Institute Guyana Inc.


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Social Technology through Diagrams
This page discusses Social Technology as the expression has been used by the author for a long time. It uses diagrams to as an aid to understanding the goals and methods described here.
To understand the goals of Social Technology, it is useful to consider thesevery simplified diagrams.
This is a diagram of a section of social structure which we may use to represent the current situation. In it the lettered boxes represet individuals and the arrows represent connections between them. For our purposes here, these arrows may represent various kinds of friendships, sexual or non-sexual, or other kinds of social relationships, such as those of the workplace. Thin arrows represent minimal levels of relationship, such as casual friends, while thicker arrows represent stronger relationships, such as intimate ones. Arrows leading off the edge of the diagram represent links to other people, that is to say, links within a larger section of social structure.
For example, the individuals labelled Q and K on the righthand side of the diagram have a fairly strong link between them, but only weaker links to other people, outside in the larger section of society not shown here. The three individuals labelled C, N, and H have no links outside of this diagram, which we may interpret to mean that their interations with the rest of the world are insignificant. Within this small group of people, N and C have a stronger relationship than N. Of the three, C and H have no significant relationship except as mediated by N. This might be, for example, N, his wife C and his friend H, where this wife and friend never come communicate directly.
We may notice some individuals who are very well linked up with others, while there is one person, L, who is entirely by herself, without any friends or significant relationships.
This diagram does seem to represent the social connections which may exist in our society today. It is not a satisfactory one, not at all. One goal of Social Technology is to remedy this situation. A key insight is that an enormous improvement is possible by simply changing the connections, having people gently replace their existing friends with new ones, and probably acquire new relationships as well. To see the possible extent of such changes, look at the diagram below, in which all of the connections shown here have been replaced by new ones, and more added. Note that in this second diagram all of the arrows are thicker than any in this first one.
We should note right away that in this diagram the person labelled L, above, who had no significant relationships at all is now connected to K, G and M. What's more, these are very strong connections, better than anyone had in the diagram above. We may assume that person L had never met or never had the opportunity to form relationships with any of these three people. By introducing them and giving them some means to get to know one another so they could build relationships, L is no longer isolated, while her new friends also benefit from their relationships with her. L may now have a husband and two close friends, or perhaps a husband, a best friend and a mentor.
In such a well linked section of social structure as represented here it is unlikely that the people shown on the edge of the graph, A, B, C and others would be the only people with links to the outside world. Surely L, M and N have too, so this diagram is probably omiting lines which cross one another. As shown here it is what graph theorists would call a planar graph. The previous diagram might indeed be a planar graph, but the one shown here is probably not as good a representation of any such well-linked section of society. A three dimensional diagram with more links shown would probably be a better one, but this should have illustrated just how much of a change can be made by just relinking people.
For more information about how people may be linked and what kind of links may be made, please see the diagrams below.
It would be a mistake to think of these thick dark lines as any kind ofrestraint. They are not meant to indicate anything tying a person up in aweb of rigid connection. Instead they should be thought of in terms of bandwidth,or the ability to communicate.
|This diagram shows one interpretation of the thin and thicker lines. Friendship, communication and cooperation between friends are not exactly like the communications links between computers. Social Networking is no exactly like computer networking. But there is a strong analogy to be made. The thick dark lines are not like iron bars forcing people to work together, they are more like the fast communications links which make it easy for people using computers to work together.
Looking at the links between people as if they were simply communications channels is not entirely satisfactory. Friendship of any kind is not just communication, and should at least include cooperation. And some sort of activity could be going on in the social network, even if none of the nodes are initiating any. We might describe this by saying that network has an energy of its own and that waves of activity pass over the net even when individuals are relatively passive. To indicate this, a different analogy may be useful.
Another way to look at the connections between people is as springs.
All four boxes should be thought of as connected through springs into an endless array of boxes with springs between them. There are several advantages to this interpretation. For one thing, an array of weights suspended between springs can store energy as vibrations. These connections need not be passive, as with the communication channels waiting to be used, they can instead be active. Moreover, actions are passed on throughout the network. If one item is moved, the others will move slightly as well, a large displacement of one item resulting in smaller displacements of neighbouring items and even smaller displacements of their neighbours, endlessly.
This model also captures the notion that an excess of feeling, an emotional reaction too strong for one person to handle, can be drained away or moderated by sympathetic interactions with others.
The connection changes between the first and second diagram at the beginning of this page should be examined in more detail. It can be helpful to look at sequences or chains of individuals. Below we have sequences of six people. The individual friendships and the communication they involve can be taken as implying communication between the beginning and end of a sequence. Such communication is important in tying society together, but can be very poor, depending on how well the individuals with their friends. One might consider the sequences below as if they were part of the familiar experiment often demonstrated in schools, where one person whispers a sentence into the ear on the next person, who then repeats it to the next, and so on.
This experiment is, by the way, one of the very few things from the social sciences shown to schoolkids who might otherwise know science only from demonstrations or simple experiments from physics, chemistry or biology. The result is inevitably that the last person in the sequence gets at best a very garbled version of what was said to the first. But how much the transmission of information along a sequence of individuals causes distortion depends on how well the individuals communicate.
|The first chain of individuals includes weak links, as shown by the thin lines.
|All links are stronger here. Alan, Candy and Edward remain, but the others have been replaced.
|More realistically, if Alan ceases to be best friends with Bruce and forms a strong friendship with Bill, this will affect all of his social relationships, so that none of the other people in the topmost sequence are present in this one.
|It should be noted that any of the above chains can easily be made into loops by the addition of other individuals. This 8-person loop is exactly what is used for the lowest level classes in the ficticious Social Technology School described in the author's online book Technological Fantasies. See books. .
In the diagram above we drew only a sequence of relationships, as if noneof the individuals knew any of the others except those they were immediatelyconnected with. Let us assume that is true. But there are derived relationships,as shown here.
In the first line of the above diagram Candy was connected to Alan only throughher husband, Bruce, Alan's friend. Similarly, Candy was connected to Edwardonly through her own friend, Donna, who was Edward's wife. But despite theirlack of direct connections, Candy's life would most likely have been stronglyaffected by both Alan and Edward.
The diagram to the left shows possible connections between Alan, Candy and Edward -- actually it shows two versions of these derived relationships.
The first sequence shows a possible strength for some relationships as derived from the top sequence above, where Candy is married to Bruce and has Donna for a best friend. Those are weak relationship, as illustrated by the thin lines in that top sequence.
If Candy divorces Bruce and marries Bill, while replacing Donna with Dorothy as a best friend, those much stronger direct relationships lead to much stronger derived relationships, as in the second sequence at the left.
It does make sense to describe these relationships as derived ones, or to refer to the amount of communication and cooperation between these indirect relationships, but this must not be taken as assuming human relationships are transitive. Candy will almost certainly be affected by what Alan does, regardless of which person they share, but that doesn't mean Candy would actually like Alan in person. Whoever is Alan's friend or Candy's husband affects only the derived relationship or communications channel between Alan and Candy, who may not have even met.
Above we considered the sequence of individuals Alan, Bruce and Candy, notingthat there is a derived relationship or communications channel between Alanand Candy. One impediment to a more direct relationship between them mightbe a language barrier. Alan and Candy might speak different languages. WithoutBruce or Bill to translate for them, Alan and Candy may not be able tocommunicate at all.
|This illustrates a hoped for communications channel between two people, one who speaks Swedish and one who speaks Russian. If each is unilingual, speaking only one language, their ability to communicate may be very low. If together in person, they may be able to communicate somewhat by gestures, but over a telephone line we would expect no significant communication at all.
|If we interpose one or even two translators, a high level of communication may now be achieved. Even in the case shown here, where two translators are used, good communications should be possible. That remains true even though the Finnish language is entirely unrelated to the Swedish and Russian languages.
Above we have used arrows of various widths to indicate the amount of friendshipor the ability to communicate or to cooperate, which may be aspects of thesame thing, compatibility. But people may actually be incompatible, not justlacking friendship but being actively hostile to one another. Instead oftrying to communicate and cooperate they may interfere destructively withone another.
|One way to illustrate compatibility and incompatibility are using arrows that now only differ in thickness but also in colour, where red indicates incompatibility. Just as the thin black arrow indicates less compatibility or less friendship than the thicker black arrow, so the thin red arrow indicates less incompatibility or hostility than the thicker red arrow.
The diagrams below illustrates how one may set up an incompatibile relationshipwith another person by making a wrong choice. Let us suppose that of thethree individuals involved, Yvonne and Zelda have a good friendship, as indeedthey do in both diagrams. Now let us consider Xena being added to the group,as perhaps a third employee may be added to a small office which previouslyhad only two people in it. This new person, Xena, may have to work with both,but may be able to make a choice, to be friends with Yvonne or to be friendswith Zelda. How well will her choice succeed?
|This illustrates what might happen if Xena makes the wrong choice and tries to become friendly with Zelda. Xena and Zelda are shown here as being incompatible by means of the red arrow. They will not get along and may be actively hostile or disruptive.
|By simply rearranging the connections, everything could be improved. If Xena makes the right decision and tries to be friendly with Yvonne, she may indeed get herself a good friend, as shown by the black arrow. Now all three people have one good friend. Using Yvonne as an intermediary, Xena and Zelda may even be able to work productively together.
But how bad or good would these relationships be? How bad a relationshipmight Xena be setting up with Zelda if she did make the wrong choice? Howgood a relationship would she be setting up if she chose the friendship ofYvonne?
The diagrams do not answer these quesions, but a consideration of probabilitiescan. In the case considered here Xena has only two choices, Yvonne or Zelda.From a pool of two candidates, the chances of either relationship being verygood or very bad is small. But suppose that Xena is instead added to a collectionof 10 or 100 people, and can therefor attempt to set up a relationship witha person chosen from among 10 or 100. Xena may then be foolish enough tomake the worst relationship out of 10 or 100. She may be wise enough to makethe best relationship out of 10 or 100. In either case she is more likelyto make better or worse social connections than if her choices had beenrestricted to just Yvonne or Zelda. Indeed, the worst choice out of 100 wouldprobably be worse than the worst choice out of 10, while the best choiceout of 100 would probably be better than the best choice out of 10 candidates.
From this probabilistic argument we can conclude that the level of compatibilityor incompatibility possible depends on the size of the pool of candidates.
This gives us a way of describing how compatible or incompatible two peopleare. Two people may be as compatible as if the they were the best choicefrom a pool of 10 candidates. If more compatible than that, we may, for example,say they are as compatible as if the best choices from a pool of 100 candidates.The larger the effective pool size, the more compatible, or the moreincompatible. This is illustrated in the table below, which gives a levelnumber as a compatibility rating, based on pool size.
Incompatibility Level
Pool Size -- number of candidates
Compatibility Level
Pool Size -- number of candidates
|Level 0
|no choice -- only 1 candidate
|Level 0
|no choice -- only 1 candidate
Bad Choices
Good Choices
moderately bad
moderately good
|Level -1
|worst of 10 candidates
|Level 1
|best of 10 candidates
|Level -2
|a worse choice, worst of 100 candidates
|Level 2
|a better choice, best of 100 candidates
|Level -3
|worst of 1,000
|Level 3
|best of 1,000 candidates
|Level -4
|Level 4
|10,000 candidates
|Level -5
|Level 5
|Level -6
|bad luck, worst of a million
|Level 6
|good luck, best of a million
|Level -7
|10 million
|Level 7
|10 millon
|Level -8
|100 million
|Level 8
|100 million
|Level -9
|worst in 1,000,000,000
|Level 9
|best in 1,000,000,000 candidates
|Level -10
|more than the population of the world
|Level 10
|more than the population of the world
|Level -11
|possible for extremely unlucky person
|Level 11
|possible for extremely lucky person
very bad
|very good
This table should serve to explain the terminology used in all of the author's books, available to read or download from the books page described below.
It is not hard to define the problem and to decide how it should not be solved. It is harder to provide a real solution. Both will be attempted here.
|This is a simplified view of the problem.
|We must definitely make sure we do not turn this into a travelling salesman problem, which is easy to state but hard to solve -- an NP-complete problem which would be entirely intractable for large numbers of people.
|It is possible to turn this into a bipartite matching problem, or more correctly three bipartite matching problems. These are solvable, but still difficult to solve for large numbers of people.
To actually solve the key problem of social technology, as described at the top of this page, we should look again at that first diagram, then look at a related one, in which queries between adjacent people have been added.
The arrows labelled with a question mark are to be interpreted as queries and replies, information flow for a specific purpose. To make sense of this it is best to assume that each of the boxes represents not just a person but a person with a computer and connection to the Internet. The queries are not intended to initiate interpersonal relationships, instead they are to initiate a flow of information which will permit the larger problem to be solved by the resulting network of computers addressing the overall matching problem. This is a connectionist approach, an attempt to use distributed processing. The difficulties of the algorithms discussed above are to be overcome by making use of the fact that each person added to the problem also provides one human brain and one computer towards solving the problem. The formerly isolated person called L is not now attempting to establishing a relationship with her neighbours, D, P, J and Q. Instead she is making use of the derived relationships or derived communications channels to find and establish relationships with the most compatible people in this section of the social network.
In the solution given in the second diagram, L is connected to G, K and M. None of these would be people queried directly. She uses her queries to D, P, J and Q as a means of finding the right people for her, and should eventually connect up with G, K and M, because these are indeed part of a network of connected people which includes both the people she asks and the people she should find.
This could be done without computer help, and would have to be in poor regions where people do not have computers and Internet connections. But without computers this would require a set of elaborate protocols or an etiquette so that people can mediate for others without unpleasant and unwanted emotional involvement.
A clear example of how this might work is to look at L's query to Q. Q does not know any of the people compatible with L, but will be querying M. If Q passes on L's query to M, then L and M might get together, forming a very strong relationship.
This would be best done with the aid of computers. L would enter a lot of data about herself into her computer, which would process it into a detailed descriptor. Her computer would then send this to others, who would then pass it on. L may be completely isolated, as shown in that first diagram, and may have nobody to send her descriptor too. In that case, some service, preferably a free service would provide possible links. It would process her desciptor, compare it to information on file, then pass her descriptor on for her to some small number of people, some possible matches and some people who might be able to intermediate on her behalf.
The use of a service to make initial links is similar to the use of the old village matchmaker to suggest matches between people, but it is more than that. It includes suggesting people who would be reliable intermediators, people who are not matches themselves but could give good advice. The problem with the traditional village matchmaker is that she would be likely to develop a proprietary interest in giving advice, wanting to serve that role entirely herself,not recommending others who might also give advice.
The networking scheme being suggested here is much more connectionistic than one involving a central service or public matchmaker. It is somewhat like a person wandering into the village and asking anyone he meets who might help him become an ordinary village person, integrated into the social structure of the village. Given some suggestions, he would then go to those people and ask the same question. By this means he should eventually come in contact with the right people for him. This is an approach or algorithm that scales up well. Instead of a small village, a person could enter New York City and start asking the same questions, over and over again.
While this low-tech approach should work well enough, something making good use of computers would be better. That will require the development of good software for the purpose. The author has been studying this problem for many years and found nothing suitable, yet. I have written some software myself, but what I have done is just a bare beginning. What I can say is how the analysis, design and implementation of this software should proceed, and I have worked through some of the difficulties. That work is described elsewhere, and will be further described as time goes on.


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We've seen pleanty of "Think Pink" hoops kicks over the years, but not so many cross trainers. It shouldn't be a shock though, with all of the support shown for Breast Cancer Awareness Month shown by the sport of football.
This classic trainer, originally worn by Deion Sanders, features a black and pink upper, with silver trim. They are available now at Sneaker Politics, and retail for $135.


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|Around 70 miles south west of the Isles of Scilly only ocean can be seen
From there we continue to Porcupine Abyssal Plain and so the ship's scientific teams have been busy over the past couple of days preparing our sampling equipment for our arrival.
We have the Autosub team, consisting of Stephen McPhail, Maaten Furlong, Miles Pebody and Dave Paxton.
|Maaten Furlong and Dave Paxton working on Autosub6000
Diving to 4,850 metres is no mean feat and everything has to be perfect. Once deployed Autosub will capture two photos per second over an 18 hour mission, generating over 100,000 photos (around 1 terabyte of data), no one wants to find out that the flash ended up not working! So the team have been writing computer code for running diagnostic tests to make sure everything is fine.
|Brian Bett explaining the principles behind the megacorer.
The cores bury into the seabed by being slowly pushed down
by the force of a 400kg lead weight!
The next few weeks are going to be hard work, but immensely enjoyable. We are all looking forward to tomorrow where we shall gather our first set of scientific data.
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Flight Display Systems' new Dual USB Charger has received FAA Parts Manufacturer Approval. The Dual USB Charger provides 5.2V DC for full power and fast charging capability for carry-on devices such as media players, smart phones, tablets, and other personal electronics.
The USB Charger also features an internal fan for cool operation. Keeping the component cool means that it will provide a consistent power supply to the charging devices, company officials said. This new model also has a 2-pin Molex connector, which is easier to install, officials noted.
"This is such a simple item, but very important." says David Gray, President of Flight Display Systems. "It offers convenience to passengers by letting them arrive with their devices fully charged."
Personal electronic devices can be used in flight while they charge. The Dual USB Charger is compatible with the latest Apple, Android, and Windows personal electronic devices. It converts standard aircraft 28V to 5.2V. The Dual USB adapter does not provide data communication or syncing, only power.
Spec sheets and manuals for the Dual USB Charger can be found here


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Last night I revisited an old place on impromptu. An old place where I first discovered back in mid 2010 and I did many night photography here. I even brought Master Night Photographer, Troy Paiva here in Oct 2010 when he first visited Singapore. Now this place has been renovated and redeveloped.
I had the great pleasure exploring the whole place which is named Loewen by Dempsey Hill. Located where the military hospital used to stand, Loewen by Dempsey Hill has transformed into an education and lifestyle destination offering restaurants, pottery classes, art classes, chocolate-making classes, programmes for children, and more. More info on Loewen by Dempsey Hill here.
Troy came back in late July 2011 and we found ourselves back to this place where we had never explored the year before. We had a group photo shoot here, too.
Troy came back in late July 2011 and we found ourselves back to this place where we had never explored the year before. We had a group photo shoot here, too.
Last night I made some digital night photos in Loewen Cluster area along with my TLR camera on Fujichrome Provia 100F. Four more frames to complete this second roll and one last roll to go. I'll post the best results once I got it all ready.
Coming back to the night photo shown above, I wanted to expose this night scenery of an emitted pale blue light in a room on Provia but just couldn't decide. Hence I picked up my iPhone 6 Plus and made this shot in square format to see how it looks like. And surprisingly I like it.
I like it for its simplicity, warm and cool light collided. Most of all, the sense of tranquility along with the available ambience lights and casted shadows of tree leaves set against the building. All elements that made this night photo so romantic, if not poetic. With that said, I will certainly return with my TLR camera for a few exposures.
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Apple iPhone 6 Plus on default mode Square format and post-processed in Snapseed 2.0 and color-corrected in Photoshop.


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Wednesday, April 12, 2017
The only surprise about Jeffrey Orridge's ouster from the commissioner's chair is that it took this long to happen.
Many connected in league circles during last November's disastrous Grey Cup week -- remember the Pizza Pizza fiasco, and then thousands of free tickets given to Bell employees to paper the house? -- weren't sure if Orridge would make January.
But, as my grandmother so often would say, these things take time, and Orridge's was up when his bosses had fully lost confidence in his direction. That took merely 25 months to happen.
Orridge was miscast for the position from the beginning. At his introductory press conference, a native New Yorker tried to convince Canadians he grew up glued to the CFL. There's no need to be a lifer to be commissioner, of course, but starting that way was a warning sign, wasn't it? An insecurity? The realization that his next proclamations required a grain of salt.
That wasn't his only public misstep, and ones that followed were painful. In each of his 'state of the league' addresses at Grey Cup, he was lost in the wilderness, seemingly unaware of the real issues facing his office. In 2015, he pulled open the curtain on a new logo and said a new league Web site was about to be unveiled. Until an aide ambled up on stage and whispered in his ear that they were still weeks away from launch.
It hit rock bottom in 2016, not when he referred to that same league Web site as a dot-com, but when he doubled down and vehemently denied any link between the game of football and brain diseases.
What the CFL wanted in Orridge was a marketer, and a leader to promote growth and harmony. It didn't happen. There was a showdown against the Edmonton Eskimos over the live mic'ing of players; the Tiger-Cats were at war with the league office over Kent Austin's discipline for making contact with an on-field official. The football side of the Saskatchewan Roughriders, who remain the pulse and lifeblood of league business, openly questioned the discipline brought forth by the league office.
Many who worked there, in downtown Toronto at CFL headquarters, would often find the commissioner's door closed -- a departure from the open communication Orridge's predecessor, Mark Cohon, had.
By promoting Glen Johnson to head football czar under his watch, the Orridge on-field regime became more about trying to draw attention to "innovative changes to our league," rather than addressing what had to be done to fix the issues in the game. It was as if the department wanted attention from south of the border, that they were doing new things the NFL wasn't, to gain some sort of validation and love. The league's PR department became obsessed with their American TV partnership, even inviting ESPN football writer Kevin Seifert to watch a game from their replay command centre, and interview Orridge. When the commissioner gleefully spoke of Johnny Manziel coming north, which led to CFL personnel lighting up his phone angrily, Orridge claimed he was misquoted.
As confidence eroded in the ability to get calls properly diagnosed through replay review last year, the league dealt with another crisis from one of their "innovative changes." The game became too choppy with coaches throwing challenge flags as if they were screen passes into the flat. It led to a mid-season about-face and a rule change on the fly in the summer.
Amidst the fascination with US television, the ratings domestically took a pounding during Orridge's time in office. The 2016 Grey Cup had the lowest ratings in over a decade, down 12%. He was brought in to attract a broader and younger audience. It didn't happen.
And then there's player safety, which the league insisted under Orridge was a priority, but then didn't live up to the billing. In addition to the incredulous declaration that football doesn't harm the brain, the CFL players' union of late has taken the league to task for how poorly they treat injured players that require further rehabilitation past one season.
Beyond all else, either Orridge did not understand, or was unable to figure out, how to play well in the political cauldron that is the CFL sandbox. This remains a league where nine governors have their own agendas in mind -- and that hasn't changed since the game was broadcast in black and white TV. Orridge was often referred to as "the invisible commish" by many league stakeholders -- from fans to owners. He was never quite able to understand the mix between the grassroots core the league has, and the corporate presence it so badly craves.
It wasn't Orridge's fault the Toronto Argonauts situation was the disaster he inherited, nor the circus it has become. But that the league did not step in to try and fix a broken 2016 Grey Cup last fall -- when it became quite apparent to so many of the disaster ahead -- was another nail in his coffin.
Orridge empowered Johnson to run his football department, pushing aside Kevin McDonald -- who had been in the role previously and had better relationships with team coaches and GMs. It is well known that Johnson craves the commissioner's job, and has angled himself politically with governors in an attempt to take over the chair. This, while Orridge was still in charge.
And so it was then, late last November at his state of the union -- one bumped up by 30 minutes, presumably after the league panicked, hearing the players union would hold a news conference of their own that Friday morning -- that I asked Orridge of his future. If he was confident he'd remain in charge.
If you've known the history of the CFL, and the folks that govern it, when the storm clouds are near, it may be too late to batten down the hatchets. Orridge didn't even see the cyclone coming.
He proudly boasted that day of how confident he was of his leadership. That the owners had just approved his long-term, strategic plan. That he was excited for what was ahead.
Orridge made it to January, but didn't get to opening day. In a vintage CFL move, they waited until the opening day of the Stanley Cup Playoffs to make the announcement. The story likely gets buried further then, than their usual Friday afternoon doping infraction results.
The CFL is in desperate need of direction, vision and leadership from someone in its most important position. And, six weeks away from training camps opening across the country, they are without someone providing that, yet again.
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Very well said.
I predicted last year that he would not be here long. Some of the decisions were not well thought out and not well researched.
Who do the fans want?
Someone who appears at games wearing the home team's jersey. Someone who will sit and have a hotdog/hamburger or beer with fans. Someone who has an open door and is completely approachable.
What is Marc Cohon up to?
- April 12, 2017
Arash Madani for Commissionaire!
- April 12, 2017
To quote the guys on Letterkenny, hard NO on Cohon coming back. Cohon was a complete dud as a Commish and many of the problems Orridge faced stemmed from Cohon's tenure. Sure he was good for hanging out with the fans and having a few beers but he neglected almost every other part of the job. The CFL was in trouble from a marketing and operational standpoint long before Orridge got the job. Cohon relied on the popularity of the Riders being good to carry the league but in this day and age when they aren't it became apparent how neglected the league had got. Unfortunately Orridge was way over his head in terms of being the guy to fix it.
The CFL cannot afford to screw up the next Commish hire. Sure the league is in decent financial shape now but that can all change in a hurry if the ship isn't pointed in the right path. Marketing, football ops and relations with the players are paramount issues that must be addressed. But first and foremost, the new Commish must immediately terminate Glen Johnson's position. His ridiculous view of the CFL game has done so much damage it's not even funny.
Gunderson's Yorkton
- April 12, 2017
- Linda Griffitts said...
Pinball Clemons
- April 12, 2017
The new Commissioner's first job should be to fire the incompetent Glen Johnson. We don't need more apologies from him admitting they screwed up last week.
- April 12, 2017
I agree with Mr. Yorkton. No way hozhay to the return of Mr. Cohon. The best man for the job probably ain't interested and that would our Mr. Jim Hopson.
- April 12, 2017
At a very minimum, can we hire a Canadian this time around? I knew that was trouble from the beginning (in fact, I said so on this blog).
- April 12, 2017
I think the new commissioner will need to re tool the overall archic thinking. They need to create/generate interest in the younger fan base.
IE: if you check the TSNGO app they still have the Demeski draft up there on draft tracker. Even after numerous attempts to point it out to CFL and TSN there has been no change.
Officiating is a huge obstacle with our league as well.
I would also like to see developmental camps for NCAA quarterbacks that know they need more development to have a shot at NFL. We need depth at that position in our league.
My 2 cents
- April 12, 2017
Jim Hopson......a great football mind but quite possibly not interested
- April 12, 2017
A commissioner that wears the home team jersey? Seriously? We have bigger issues than that. Way bigger.
- April 12, 2017
I like that choice.
- April 12, 2017
If Glen Johnson is named CFL Commish I will cancel my season seats immediately. His brand of football has done more damage to the CFL brand than anything Orridge ever did. Perhaps Orridge's downfall was not skidding Johnson when he should have. Hopefully the new Commish does so immediately. Mr. Reynolds and Mr Morsky, I know you both read this blog. Please push for this as a requirement of any new guy taking on the job.
- April 12, 2017
Joe's Seafood Prime Steak & Stone Crab in Vegas on the Strip Rod.
- April 12, 2017
There should be a penalty box in hell for the fools who spout off "I will cancel my season tickets blah blah.." Come up with some other line, please.
- April 12, 2017
Enough with this Glen Johnson for commissioner talk. The CFL will hire another business executive with a legal or marketing background. Not some ex CFL referee that sold software for a living
- April 13, 2017


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September car sales come out Wednesday, and while the summer's strong momentum continues to lift most of the industry, Ford Motor Co. isn't one of them.
Ford made it clear this week that it's struggling. The company slashed its full-year profit forecast to between $6 billion and $7 billion, which is about $1.5 billion less than its previous forecast. Poor sales and weak margins in emerging markets, especially Russia, were blamed for the downward revision. Costly recalls in the U.S. market were also mentioned.
But recalls aren't the only problem Ford faces at home. Sales are also down, shrinking its share of the U.S. market as new models from Chrysler and General Motors ramp up the competition.
Overall, industry analysts predict this past month's U.S. auto and light truck sales will rise between 9.7% and 11% from September 2013 levels to about 1.25 million vehicles. If their predictions prove correct, that would extend this summer's exceptionally strong sales and put the all-important SARS (Seasonally-adjusted Annualized Rate of Sales) number at 16.5 million vehicles.
Ford's September sales, on the other hand, are expected to slide. According to analysts at Edmunds.com, Ford is set to report a 4% drop in car sales for the month. Part of that is due to the fact that Ford has wound down production of its best-selling F-150 pickup truck as it tools up for the new, radically revamped, aluminum-bodied F-150. It plans to roll out the first ones in late October, with commercial fleet orders headed to dealerships early next year.
Analysts at TrueCar were even more pessimistic. They predict Ford's September sales will drop 5.1%, reducing its U.S. market share to 14% from 16.2% a year ago. Reversing the trend hinges heavily on how the new F-150 is received by the truck-buying public.
And Ford's share price could use some good news. So far this week it's down nearly 8.8%. It's down 11.7% over the past 12 months, surpassing General Motors shares' 11.2% price drop over the same period.
GM sales, on the other hand, are expected to jump as much as 22% compared with September 2013, as the company emerges relatively unscathed by the flood of recalls that hit it earlier this year.
Here's how the industry's top manufacturers are expected to fare in September, based on an average of unit sales estimates provided by analysts at Edmunds.com, TrueCar and Kelly Blue Book.
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Alpha Phi Sigma
The Alpha Rho Chapter of Alpha Phi Sigma National Criminal Justice Honor Society is devoted to promoting academic excellence and leadership through campus programs and community outreach.The goal of Alpha Phi Sigma is to recognize and promote high academic achievement among actively participating members and to create a competitive atmosphere for further advancement of criminal justice students.
Meetings are held bimonthly to plan events and discuss issues and concerns about academic careers. Each year Alpha Phi Sigma hosts a career fair attended by local, state, and federal agencies within the criminal justice profession. The career fair gives students from all majors an occasion to discuss employment requirements and application processes with agency representatives. Alpha Phi Sigma also participates in Homecoming activities and the "Beat Auburn/Beat Hunger" canned food drive in November.
Alpha Phi Sigma is open to all qualified CJ majors and minors who have completed a minimum of 12 hours of CJ coursework and maintained minimum GPA requirements of 3.25 for undergraduates and 3.4 for graduate students.
If you are interested in joining, please contact the faculty advisor, Joshua Wakeham (firstname.lastname@example.com). Applications should be completed online and delivered, along with a check or money order for dues, to the Department office in Farrah 432-C. We elect new officers each November.
Criminal Justice Student Association
As a campus-wide, student-led organization, CJSA is comprised of UA undergraduate and graduate students who share a common interest in all things criminology and criminal justice.
Through the various guest speakers, tours, community service projects, and "brown bags" it sponsors, CJSA provides its members with the following benefits:
- Access to criminal justice agencies and knowledgeable professionals not normally provided in a typical CJ course.
- Up-to-date information on current criminal justice employment opportunities and trends.
- Education on how to prepare for graduate school, law school, and the criminal justice workforce.
- Opportunities to complete service projects that benefit the wider community.
Membership in CJSA is not bound by major or program of study. Any UA student may join.
If you are interested in joining, please contact the faculty advisor, Doug Klutz (firstname.lastname@example.com), or pick up an application in the Department of Criminal Justice main office, 432C Farrah Hall.
CyberCrime Club
The primary focus of the CyberCrime Club (CCC) is to educate students on cybercrime and cyberforensic techniques, as well as provide information on options for grad school and careers related to this field.
The club meets every month and typically has a guest speaker at each meeting, but we have been known to host a movie night, as well. Past guest speakers have included agents from the FBI and the Internet Crimes Against Children task force of the Alabama Bureau of Investigation, as well as IT specialists from The University of Alabama.
CCC is open to all UA undergraduate and graduate students; our members come from a variety of majors and minors, including criminal justice, computer science, and psychology. The only requirement is an interest in cybercrime.
For more information about the club, email us at firstname.lastname@example.com, or speak to our club advisors, Leslie Dixon (firstname.lastname@example.com) and Dennis McMillian (firstname.lastname@example.com). You can also keep up-to-date on club activities via the University of Alabama Cyber Crime Club on Facebook or @UACCC on Twitter.


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Fletcher Granite Company has always led the industry innovating production systems geared to improving response times. In the 1940s, Fletcher pioneered in-quarry wire sawing and 'jet-channel burning" which created a revolution in slab extraction.
A standard gauge, short-line railroad with over one mile of track is used on our site to transport stone from the quarry to fabricating facility.
With a fabrication plant covering over 65,000 square feet, our state-of-the-art equipment included computerized jumbo diamond saws, with capacity to handle blades up to 14' (4.2m) in diameter, automated diamond wire saws and a series of smaller saws for cut-off and edgework.
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Today, stone quarries around the world use Fletcher Granite inspired technology to save time and money in granite production.
Our most valuable resource is our people. With over 150 years of combined stone cutting experience, we can replicate any finish.


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Two dishwasher loads in one day. Not bad.
I got up at 7:30, futzed on the BBS for an hour, then settled down to work on The Brakan Correspondent. This chapter has been a bear. Cree and her father have reached a pivotal moment, and it's essential that each of their actions be not just understandable but inevitable. Yesterday, I doctored Cree's scenes; today, I cut away to General Voss and his hijinks. Much more fun to hang out with the Dobolu horde than the poor doomed Huurans anyway. It took me three hours to write a little over 1000 words. Not bad, not great. Afterwards, I finished getting whupped by Jacob on the Warcraft boardgame (yes, there's a boardgame), and then I rewarded myself by cleaning the kitchen. Next, I hopped over to the BBS, did some critting, then got started on dinner. On the menu tonight: beef shank ossobuco and focaccia. I added too much olive oil to the focaccia dough, which led to a pleasant discovery. The end result was much airier than usual, almost cake-like. The ossobuco turned out well, too, even though I didn't have any lemons. While waiting for the ossobuco to cook, I played a bit of World of Warcraft, but Jake took that over as soon as I figured out how to buy a pet. He's upstairs right now, training his newly purchased scorpid, Jeff. Tossed off that computer, I came downstairs and started a mammoth project: I'm revamping Medical Consumer's Advocate. I've added some cool links to the ear candling page, in case you're interested, including a link to the infamous butt candling website. Anyway, with over 160 articles to edit, this is going to take some time. Karen's taking Jake to the neurologist tomorrow. With a normal CT, MRI, and labs, it's unlikely Dr. Ali will find anything. I just hope he'll have some useful treatment recommendations. I promise to be more interesting next time. D.


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My first two years of school were in houses, because the housing subdivision north of Dayton, called Huber Heights, outpaced Wayne Township's school capacity. In second grade, our teacher became ill and was replaced by Mrs. Dora Hobbs. As little kids, we only knew that our teacher was sick, and Mrs. Hobbs helped us in many ways that she may never have known.
I brought home glowing reports to my parents about how beautiful Mrs. Hobbs was & how kind she was to all of us. Then Mom attended a PTA (Parent-Teacher Association) meeting and returned home in tears. She told my dad, "Honey, Mrs. Hobbs is a physical wreck! She is crippled from polio, wears very thick glasses & barely gets around."
All I knew was that Mrs. Hobbs cared, she loved us -- and that memory remains strong as ever, 51 years later. It is my hope that this dear woman -- who worked full time teaching youngsters at a time in her life when her health might well have kept most people home -- would be proud of the curly-haired, blue-eyed student that told her parents about the beautiful Mrs. Hobbs.
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We have decided that 100% we will serve beer (from kegs, and bottles) and wine (red and white)
We have designed, and ordered our koozies (yes I used a Greek licensed vendor, I am a chapter adviser, so it is 2nd nature)..
.... and we are thinking of ordering pint glasses as well. C came across a wedding with with a beer garden, and they had created the below adorable pint glasses... Our would have our wedding logo above of course.. but we are still thinking about it..
So next up, what else shall we serve. Yes we will have water, and perhaps soft drinks for those abstaining from drinking alcohol. But do we need a "Signature drink" and if so what?? We set out looking for a drink that included bourbon or whiskey thinking those would be "traditional Southern wedding" drinks, but is there a staple drink for southern weddings, do you have a favorite mixed drink that is a hit at nearly every party. We would love ideas...
and as for as Non-Alcoholic drinks, in addition to water what about lemonade or sweet-tea, or should be do sodas.. Oh the choices..


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Emma is a stubborn violinist with few family or friends. Theo is an immature restaurant owner lacking direction. They both have a lot of crap to work through to get their lives back on any kind of track. Currently updating Monday through Friday in full color. Comments strongly encouraged, particularly constructive criticism.
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Remember, voting is good!
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It looks like Theo is like me. he ain't all that afraid of her. She at least brought food!
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I'm getting the feeling that maybe Emma is overreacting?
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Twice a week is still good. I haven't even posted a comic cause I know I'd never update. Great page, btw. I love the neighbours spotty skirt! I get the feeling I'm the only one who comments on the clothing. But its cool and dotty!
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Good Denver Cupcakes: The Shoppe
There are tons of Good bakeries, coffee shops, and cupcake shops in Denver these days. One place to go to grab Good cupcakes is The Shoppe on E. Colfax.
On Sunday, some friends of ours threw an engagement party for us and my future sister-in-law brought cupcakes from The Shoppe. Though I had seen The Shoppe many times (usually while eating dollar tacos on Tuesday evenings at Odelay Tacos), I had never been inside. Part of this is probably due to the fact that The Shoppe doesn't have its name written on a sign outside, there is just a large, pink cupcake.
Nonetheless, when the cupcakes arrived at the engagement party this past weekend, they were definitely an eye-catcher. The Cookies and Cream cupcake, for example, comes with half of an Oreo standing upright in the frosting, the s'more cupcake comes with a graham cracker on top, and the key lime cupcake is garnished with a slice of lime. The cupcakes are impressive to look at, but the more you look at them, the more you want to eat them. Luckily, the taste does not disappoint; the cupcakes are delicious.
After thoroughly enjoying the cupcakes this Sunday, I stopped by The Shoppe today and found out that they have LOTS more Good and unique cupcake flavors. Piña colada, strawberry rhubarb, margarita, banana cream pie, and chocolate peanut butter were just some of the 30 or so different kinds of cupcakes they were offering today. I also found out that The Shoppe sells mini-pies (which are dangerously Good), and they also sell 25 different types of cereal by the bowl with the option of adding "tasty toppings" such as frosting, house made granola, and caramel syrup.
As if The Shoppe wasn't "sweet" enough, I also found out today that it is open late: until 11pm Tuesday-Thursday and until 2am on Fridays and Saturdays. And they deliver…
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David Chase Taylor
November 5, 2014
SWITZERLAND, Basel — Based on breaking news and events, it appears that the CIA is planning a wave of cyber and terror-related attacks across the world on November 5, 2014, namely in the U.K. and the United States. The impending attacks will predictably be scapegoated onto the state-sponsored cyber-terror group known as Anonymous.
While the impending Anonymous cyber-attacks could theoretically target airports, retailers or various factions within the intelligence and military communities (e.g., CIA, MI5, NASA, NSA, etc.), they will likely strike U.S. utilities (e.g., electrical grid, nuclear facilities, etc.) via the Utah Data Center (see below), and/or the heart of America's financial system, namely the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and/or the Federal Reserve Bank (FED).
In a YouTube video uploaded on October 30, 2014, it was revealed that on November 5, 2014, members of Anonymous will hold demonstrations in 150 countries around the world. Dubbed as the "Million Mask March", the protests are currently slated to take place at over 481 locations, making it the largest collective protest in the history of the world. The event is curiously being sponsored by Russia Today, a red flag that attacks will be executed and aired "live" around the world.
Considering that "Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November" is the undeclared motto of the state-sponsored terror group Anonymous, their minions will be out in force on November 5, 2014, a perfect scapegoat to show the public in the wake of earth-changing cyber-attacks. In other words, when things begin to go haywire electronically speaking, CIA puppets like Obama will simply point to the millions of Anonymous supporters in the streets as the cause.
Anonymous Stock Market Attack
In what appears to be a pre-Anonymous cyber-attack terror warning, Fox Business published a report on February 6, 2014, entitled "Hackers Set Sights on Market Mayhem" which curiously featured a photo of the Guy Fawkes-Anonymous mask. Among other things, the report stated that "today's cyber evildoers also want to mess with investors", citing a report from the cyber-security firm Prolexic which warned that "hackers are deploying distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in an attempt to manipulate stock prices or even cause market mayhem". The report speculated that "a cartel of cyber criminals or even an individual hacker could capitalize on a selloff in a hacking target's share price by placing bearish bets, called short positions". In other words, billions could be lost due to the actions of one person, most likely an alleged member of Anonymous.
Anonymous Capital Attack
November 5th commemorates Guy Fawkes' failed 1605 Gunpowder Plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament in London, England. The foiled terror attack was made popular by the "V for Vendetta" (2005) film (see trailer) which glorified the notion of vigilante terrorism, ultimately paving the way for the emergence of the state-sponsored terror group known as Anonymous who adopted the films credo and symbology. Therefore, a similar attack on the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., and/or the Palace of Westminster (UK Parliament) in London is also theoretically possible.
Anonymous NSA Attack
An Anonymous cyber-attack, should it happen, will most likely target the NSA's new Utah Data Center which will likely result in the collapse, malfunction and/or explosion of U.S.-related infrastructure on the west coast of America (e.g., the electoral grid, dams, oil, gas, nuclear, water and sewer facilities). Known as the "Utah Data Center", the NSA's first Comprehensive National Cyber-security Initiative (CNCI) Data Center, was completed in September of 2013. The $1.5B data center is located at Camp Williams, Utah, just 25 miles (40 km) south of Salt Lake City.
About the Author
David Chase Taylor is an American journalist and the editor-in-chief of Truther.org. Taylor currently lives in Basel, Switzerland where he has applied for political asylum after the release of The Nuclear Bible, a book credited with foiling a state-sponsored nuclear terror attack upon Super Bowl XLV in Dallas, Texas on February 6, 2011. Taylor has also authored The Bio-Terror Bible, a book and website exposing the global bio-terror pandemic planned for 2014. To date, David Chase Taylor has blown the whistle on over 100 state-sponsored terror plots, including the 2012 Democratic National Convention Terror Plot, the man-made asteroid attack planned for 2014, and the drone strike which killed "Fast and Furious" star Paul Walker. Taylor was also the first to expose Alex Jones' treacherous links to STRATFOR.
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Grassley, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said it's illegal for banks to deal with marijuana sale proceeds, and that only Congress can change those laws.
"The administration can't change the law with a memo," he said in a statement released late on Friday. "While the Justice Department's memo tries to guide prosecutorial discretion, that discretion shouldn't be used to facilitate illegal conduct."
Grassley said the Justice Department was encouraging an "improper use of prosecutorial discretion," and tied it to the more general GOP criticism that the administration is seeking to do too much with executive authority.
"This is just one more area in which the Obama administration is undermining our system of checks and balances and the rule of law," he said.
Marijuana is officially a Schedule 1 substance in the eyes of the federal government, but medical pot is legal in 20 states and the District of Columbia. In Colorado and Washington, it is legal to buy, sell and use marijuana for recreational purposes.
The Obama administration has taken a hands-off approach to those state laws, and pledged not to interfere. Last summer, the Justice Department issued a memo advising prosecutors to prioritize keeping childen safe and other goals, instead of cracking down on low-level drug busts.
Still, banks have been reluctant to get involved with marijuana dispensaries and other businesses. They have expressed concern that serving those companies could open them up to federal prosecution for money laundering.
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Under the guidelines, banks are also told to watch out for suspicious behavior such as a business owners' inability to show the correct paperwork or "cash that smells like marijuana" from someone trying to hide their weed business.
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A Year for the Books.
Starts with Soap wrapped up its first year as an organization and surpassed our wildest dreams. We conducted 4 national projects and grew to 173 members across 12 high school and college chapters.
Starts with Soap wrapped up its first year as an organization and surpassed our wildest dreams. We conducted 4 national projects and grew to 173 members across 12 high school and college chapters.
Starts with Soap is comprised completely of youth; however, most of us are Coca-Cola Scholars, a group of 150 selected from a group of 90,000 applicants based on accomplishments and leadership abilities. Our Executive Board is comprised of students at the nation's elite universities, many of whom have already started their own nonprofits or have experience in executive positions of boards. Our regional managers and executives were selected based on leadership ability, work ethic, passion for education, experience managing projects as well as accomplishing goals far beyond their ages. As such, we maintain the belief that our youth is not a limiting factor in our ability to succeed and combat inequitable education.
That passion for making a difference lead to the creation of Starts with Soap, a national 501(c)(3) organization that utilizes supply implementation in order to develop large education initiatives for at-risk schools. Here at SWS, we are students working for students. The organization promotes the creation of chapters on high school and college campuses which work with local underprivileged schools, building sustainable relationships to promote equitable education through the "basics." (hygiene products, school supplies, etc.) In addition, Starts with Soap works on a national level, leveraging our network of like minded students to carry out projects with larger impact.
Along with an entire reading cirriculum to a Detroit public school.
8 computers helping 600 students achieve computer literacy.
What a whirlwind this past year has been for Starts with Soap. As your founders, we'd like to thank you for being part of it in any capacity you can, whether you made a donation, bought a t-shirt, or simply took some time to educate yourself on issues related to education equity. For more on how it all began, click here.
Our national team has seen a productive year, with the Deland Uniform Project, Computer LIteracy 4 Indy, and Detroit Literacy Project all making waves in communities across the United States. In Deland, FL., we were able to donate nearly 150 uniforms and 600+ school supplies to an elementary school in which 99 percent of students live below the poverty line. In Indianapolis, we partnered with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to provide a brand-new computer lab for students and senior citizens, along with thousands of school supplies. In Detroit, we ran a pilot version of our now fully-comprehensive literacy program for third graders at Bennett Elementary, and are excited to be rolling it out in full force come Fall 2017.
Beyond these, we are continuing to grow at the national level with nationwide projects that aim to provide health and science education to low-income and minority students through our Youth Nutrition & Diabetes Prevention and Starts with Science initiatives, with metrics and progress tracking done by our Project Evaluations Committee.
At the grassroots level, we've grown to include twelve chapters at major U.S. universities including Johns Hopkins University, the University of Michigan, and Vanderbilt University, just to name a few. Together, these chapters have raised over $7,000 and have brought countless smaller-scale projects to life in their respective local communities. With our motivated members and our intersectional, multi-faceted nationwide approach toward promoting education equity, we at Starts with Soap believe anything is possible.
We've had a successful first year as an organization, and are striving to make even greater waves in our mission to promote education equity as we move through 2017 and beyond. The heart of our organization may be in the east coast, but we're hoping to expand our movement westward across the U.S. as we aim to double the number of chapters and ongoing projects, both at the chapter and national level. Last year, our national team raised a total of $12,000 outside of chapters, and we're hoping to up that number to $18,000 by the end of 2018. We're also working towards making our projects more issue-based and policy-driven, with a focus on research and goals of partnering with state and local governments to help bring about actual reform. The ultimate goal? Increase awareness amongst today's youth, those individuals who still thrive under the U.S. education system -- after all, they're the ones with the power to make the change that will define our future.


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