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NFL Trade Speculation: Mike Wallace and 12 Players Still on the Trade BlockApril 9, 2012
NFL Trade Speculation: Mike Wallace and 12 Players Still on the Trade Block
The NFL draft is fast approaching, and every football team wants to have a firm understanding of its roster before the big day arrives.
A host of players are still on the block, and as mid-April looms, nothing is certain in terms of potential trades.
Look for a number of the following players to be moved before the season starts.
Mike Wallace
The cover boy for this piece, Wallace is a rather predictable start to an unpredictable article.
The star wideout still hasn't signed his restricted free agent tender, and the Steelers will look to move him if his contract issues spill over into late April.
The speedy receiver is astoundingly productive, having put up 1,193 yards and eight touchdowns on 72 catches in 2011.
Alphonso Smith
A former second-round pick, Alphonso Smith may officially be a bust after Lions fans watched the cornerback get dismantled by the New Orleans Saints in the playoffs.
A league source said that Smith is on the trading block and that the Lions have shopped the defensive back to at least one team.
For a small price, Smith could provide valuable depth as a nickel or dime package corner.
Asante Samuel
Of all the cornerbacks on the trading block, Asante Samuel is far and away the best player available.
Samuel's high salary has made things complicated for a Philadelphia Eagles team that splurged on free agents during the 2011 offseason.
An elite zone coverage defensive back, Sameuel should end up as the No. 1 cornerback in a Cover 3 scheme.
Osi Umenyiora
Now a two-time Super Bowl champion with the New York Giants, Osi Umenyiora has expressed a desire to seek employment elsewhere.
The rise of second-year defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul has served to make Umenyiora expendable.
General manager Jerry Reese doesn't typically shake up his roster, but moving Umenyiora could be good for both the locker room and on-field production of the Giants.
Wayne Hunter
The Jets' 2011 collapse was the result of a number of factors, one of which was very poor play from the right tackle position.
The culprit, Wayne Hunter, is up for trade according to ProFootballTalk.
Though general manager Mike Tannenbaum intimated that Hunter would be a Jet next season, we can't be sure of the team's true intentions.
Leodis McKelvin
The Bills got good play from rookie cornerback Aaron Williams last season, and the team may be looking to move Leodis McKelvin as a result.
McKelvin, a former first-round pick, could fetch a solid draft pick given the universal need for defensive backs.
Buffalo is trying to piece together a playoff roster for 2012, and the team would be well-suited to pursue a trade for this corner.
Danny Amendola
The Rams acquired former Eagle receiver Steve Smith, making the roster need for another possession wideout like Amendola almost non-existent.
A poor man's Wes Welker, Amendola is capable of bringing in a lot of throws and adding a horizontal dimension to any vertical offense.
Look for a team to take a flier on Amendola, as his price can't be terribly high coming off of an injury.
Lance Briggs
The Chicago Bears have been very active during this free agent period, so it can't come as much of a surprise if they decide to move Lance Briggs.
At the start of the 2011 season, the Bears linebacker requested a trade. I have to figure that, after the Bears didn't make the postseason, Briggs' wish is still on the table.
A number of teams would love to bring in this 4-3 linebacker, adding a measure of veteran leadership as well as sure tackling to their defense.
Ben Tate
With running back Arian Foster locked up long-term, the Texans would be well suited to explore trade possibilities for talented back-up rusher Ben Tate.
The Cleveland Browns have been mentioned as a potential suitor, which makes sense considering the team just lost feature back Peyton Hillis.
Tate can be a difference maker somewhere, but in Houston, he won't get the opportunities that he deserves.
Bart Scott
In early March, it looked as though Bart Scott would be one of the first players traded in the new league year.
Back in late February, the Jets gave their middle linebacker permission to seek a trade, according to the New York Daily News.
As the Bart Scott trade saga spills into April, expect the Jets to either reaffirm the veteran's standing on the team or move him to another club.
Ryan Tannehill
With Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III almost set in stone as the first two picks off of the board, quarterback Ryan Tannehill's draft stock grows by the day.
The Minnesota Vikings have been shopping their third overall pick and, presumably, the team that bites on their asking price would try to draft Tannehill as their franchise signal caller.
Teams like the Cleveland Browns and Miami Dolphins could both try to move up and grab the Texas A&M star.
Jonathan Stewart
The Carolina Panthers have already moved Mike Goodson out of their crowded backfield, leading to speculation that powerful rusher Jonathan Stewart could be next.
Newly minted Panther Mike Tolbert can do everything that Stewart did for the team last year, furthering his chances of getting dealt.
Stewart's situation points to a high likelihood for a draft day trade—look for the running back's trade value to increase in the days leading up to the draft.
Matt Forte
Signing Michael Bush wasn't the best move for the Bears' already testy relationship with disgruntled superstar Matt Forte.
This premier running back wants the big contract he feels he deserves or he wants out.
The Bears need to act decisively on Forte's current situation or risk alienating one of their team's best players.
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Guantanamoron (gwan ta na mo ron) NOUN. Any murderer, rapist or torturer who claims they did not know that murder, rape and torture are illegal. Also, 'Gitmoron.' From the U.S. Army prison guards and CIA interrogators at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and "moron."
I saw these burn marks on the kid's neck. So I asked him, "What happened? and he said, "I bad." The father had been burning his six-year-old with lit cigarettes. I confronted him and he said, "We do it all the time in my country." We got Child Protective Services on his ass and they locked up the Guantanamoron.
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"Nuclear Girl Origins" from The Battle for Earth – Review
Have you ever found yourself thinking, "Gee, I wonder where Nuclear Girl came from"? If so, here is your answer. The newest episode from The Battle for Earth is all about the origin of Nuclear Girl (hence the title, Nuclear Girl Origins). In my opinion, this is the best episode from The Battle for Earth. It features a really good performance from the lead actress, who looks great in her skin-tight red catsuit, and a surprisingly involving storyline.
We begin with a nice-looking unconscious young girl being carried into a dank, empty room. We fans of The Battle for Earth will recognize her Nuclear Girl. She's brought in and placed on a table, and when she wakes up, she demands to know where she is and why she's been brought here. She's informed that she's going to be trained and given powers greater than other Battle for Earth heroines like Avalon and Trinity. Right away, I liked the actress' performance, and this scenario.
She's given a catsuit to put on, presumably because it will assist in her training, but more likely because the producers though (correctly) that she would look really, really good in it. The training begins and she fairs really poorly against her attacker/trainer. Some of these early training sequences are pretty funny, with Nuclear Girl's feisty personality contrasting with her incompetence as a fighter.
Eventually, after being physically abused in a variety of ways, Nuclear Girl starts to learn to use her powers and to hold her own against her trainer. Spawn intervenes and, disappointed with the lack of progress in her training, orders her trainer to speed things up.
This all leads to an interesting showdown between the two main characters, with the student forced to fight her trainer. I thought this story development worked really well. I won't give away the ending, but there is definitely room for a sequel. (Of course, the other Battle for Earth episodes featuring Nuclear Girl can already be considered sequels).
Like I said, this is my favorite episode of The Battle for Earth. The actress looks great and gives a nice performance. I actually found myself involved in the story and genuinely interested in the outcome, which isn't always the case in this genre. So I highly recommend Nuclear Girl Origins.
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Daily illustrations, thoughts, and discoveries of an aspiring Children's book author and illustrator.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
National Poetry Month- Shel Silverstein
I thought in honor of National Poetry Month some of the Mizzles will become hipster poets reading their favorite poetry. Molly is first up with her favorite poet, Shel Silverstein. She has picked out a few as inspiration for us writers from his book Falling Up.
Writer Waiting
Oh this shiny new computer--
There just isn't nothing' cuter.
It knows everything the world ever knew.
And with this great computer
I don't need no writin' tutor,
'Cause there ain't a single thing that it can't do.
It can sort and it can spell,
It can punctuate as well.
It can find and file and underline and type.
It can edit and select,
It can copy and correct,
So I'll have a whole book written by tonight
(Just as soon as it can think of what to write).
Hmmm... I wonder if my computer will write my book? That would be nice!
The Voice
There is a voice inside of you
That whispers all day long,
"I feel that this is right for me,
I know that this is wrong."
No teacher, preacher, parent, friend
Or wise man can decide
What's right for you--just listen to
The voice that speaks inside.
I'm looking forward to spring break coming up so I can carve out time to focus on writing, or perhaps get caught up in the PB dummy book challenge. I'm so far behind. As for the 12x12x12 writing challenge, I've been doing well with writing a rough draft each month. I am still trying to figure out a technique or routine that works for my writing. I read that writers should go to a different location to write. I have been taking a notebook with me when I go early to my yoga classes. It has been those 15 minutes on Mondays that seem to have a magical writing moment for me. It probably has to do with how calm and peaceful I feel.
Where are your favorite writing spots? What techniques do you use to inspire your writing?
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Shel Silverstein is one of my favorites as well. That's awesome that you found a writing routine that works well for you. I'm still trying to figure mine out.ReplyDelete
You might want to try writing in a location that is not your usual routine. I have discovered that writing before yoga or somewhere that is not home or work has helped a lot. My plan is to spend part of my spring break trying out various locations nearby as "writing" zones.ReplyDelete
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Two years ago this past week I posted my first review of the movie, About Time and Second Run Reviews was officially born. Over the course of two years I have posted 131 book reviews. I created my own features, In the Spotlight and Scenic Sundays. I've partnered with some pretty amazing bloggers to host the #ShelfLove Challenge. I started looking for ways to add variety to my content and share my project management skills.
I'm excited for this next year. I'm slowly piecing together a new design and layout. I'm working to increase traffic and improve my conversations with others. It's a fun challenge and one I'm enjoying. I can't wait to roll out the new look and feel to the site. And if you have a keen eye, you've probably already noticed some minor changes.
So on this 2nd anniversary of my first official blog post, I reflect on where I've been and where I want to go. I hope you'll continue on this journey with me.
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Captain Crunch
About John DraperPosted on 12. Jun, 2012 by awsome_helper in
I saw John [Draper] at a 2600 meeting a few months ago. He is doing good, he was off to India the day after. he is big into raves now and meditation. he was trying to get me to go to some meditation session with him. Hes a funny guy. Even though he is a lot older than us (i'm 22), it's like hanging with one of the guys :) --ryan
Thank you, even though I happened to know this one. I have helped John a lot recently. I gave him a PowerBook to use and sent him a better one in India (had to pay 45% import duty). I host his web site on an iMac in my 'office' home. I hear from him all the time.
John Draper (Captain Crunch) always had amazing stories about flaws in Ma Bell and ways to take advantage of them. Once he showed me how to tap the FBI and I did it myself, from a normal phone. That's just one of many many things. John was a little to weird and dangerous to be a close friend but I always wanted to see him every few months to catch up on interesting hacker stories. Life wouldn't be as fun without this sort of thing, even though I didn't really do it myself. I originally believed that John was an ethical hacker, only using a blue box to find flaws in the system. So I was that way, in his stead. I learned how to do all sorts of stunts with the blue box but I paid for all my own long distance calls from the dorm. That's true. I was so careful only to do what I considered right that I told my parents everything that I did with the blue boxes and other boxes. That's true also. In later years, I found that very few phone phreaks were this 'ethical' type, even John. Check out his domain: www.webcrunchers.com
Captain CrunchPosted on 12. Jun, 2012 by awsome_helper in
Woz, I was in contact with Captain Crunch a while ago, do you have a link to his homepage? ..He mentioned you in one of our conversations. Take it easy. --Neil
I actually host his server, on an iMac, in my 'office' home. His domain is webcrunchers.com and his email is: John Draper firstname.lastname@example.com
Blue BoxPosted on 24. May, 2012 by awsome_helper in
How did you make the blue box? Do you still own one? Also.. Do you have the Apple I still or any screen shots of it and programs? If so send me some. Thanks, Andy age:12
I read an article in Esquire Magazine. It was about the October edition in 1971. The article was entitled "Secrets of the Blue Box--fiction" by Ron Rosenblum. Halfway through the article I had to call my best friend, Steve Jobs, and read parts of this long article to him. It was about secret engineers that had special equipment in vans that could tap into phone cables and redirect the phone networks of the world. The article had blind phone phreaks like Joe Engessia Jr. of Nashville, and the hero of them all, Captain Crunch. It was a science fiction world but was told in a very real way. Too real a way. I stopped and told Steve that it sounded real, not like fiction. They gave too many engineering details and talked on too real a way to have been made up. They even gave out some of the frequencies that the blue box used to take control of the international phone network.
The next day was Sunday. Steve and I drove to SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, the same place the Homebrew Computer Club would meet 4 years later) because they always left a door or two unlocked and nobody thought anything about a couple of strangers reading books and magazines in their technical library. Finally we found a book that had the exact same frequencies that had been mentioned in the Esquire article. Now we had the complete list.
We went back to Steve's house and built two, somewhat unstable, multivabrator oscillators. We could see the instability on a frequency counter, but we were in a hurry. We would set one oscillator to 700 Hz and the other to 900 Hz (for a "1") and record it on a tape recorder. Then we'd adjust the oscillators and record the next digit, and so on. But it wasn't good enough to make a call as in the article. So we tried one oscillator at a time. It still wasn't good enough. I was off to Berkeley the next day so it would be some weeks before I designed a digital blue box that never missed a note. The key to debugging it was a guy in the dorm, Mike Joseph, that had perfect pitch. If it didn't work, he'd tell me what notes he heard. If one of them was a C-sharp and was supposed to be an A, I could look up the C-sharp frequency and find out where my frequency divider was off, and replace a diode that was bad. All my problems were diodes that I bought at Radio Shack in a bag where some might actually work.
The key to the phone network then was a high E note, two octaves above the high E string on a guitar. It was 2600 Hz. The Captain Crunch cerial whistle could blow this note and seize a phone line. The blue box then took over with it's dual frequency combinations known as 'multfrequency' or MF, similar to touch tone frequencies but not the same. Some phone systems worked on SF, or Single Frequency. The 2600 Hz Captain Crunch whistle could make the entire call. One long whistle to seize the line, a short one for a "1", two short ones for a "2", etc. The blind phone phreak, Joe Engressia, could dial an entire call just by whistling it out of his own mouth!
If you want to test this principal, play 2600 Hz into and long distance call and you'll be disconnected. We had fun doing that in the dorms. But don't be stupid and try to make a blue box today. It's much easier to make or program, but you're nearly guaranteed to get caught right away in most places. I experimented with it in 1972 but even then I paid for my own calls. I only used the blue box to see how many things I could do.
I have Apple I's and original software and things but they're in storage and I don't have time to get them out and get them working right now.


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Quo Vadis? – a poem about the martyrdom of Peter.
August 10, 2011
Quo Vadis?
"My Lord, where do thou walk?"
says the steward of an ancient house.
"I walketh to the gates, where your destiny lay."
Peered past lakes of youth and gainfully labor'd days,
did the wizened disciple
see what plucked him up from peaceful labors there,
though willingly, he followed it.
The gaze of Almighty-God beckoned, he a sinner beset
and he ardently leapt like a shepherd's lamb to trace
those footsteps of his Lord.
Upon roads cumbersome amidst stones and netted-thorns,
where spoken, the Lord's name coaxed the very keys of heaven
to fall from their lofty vault.
Gold touched earth, soil renew'd where sprouted forth a Kingdom's fruits.
Binding and loosing bestow'd upon weak men
and defiance borne toward ruling darkness.
"I shall follow you," said the disciple.
Verily did he pass dreary pathways;
raucous squabbling fellow-men,
past grand thoroughfares; sweats, toils and hatred.
Now a ram grown, he drove the flock,
fending away dogs and wolves who
compass'd about, paused shortly afore death.
Verily the threshold thereof, loomed mightily;
its imperial winds howling.
Saith again his Lord:
"Walketh I the gates and twice endure most-bitter passion for thy sake?"
No, twas deigned his courage show and walk him where his Lord should go.
Along the way, tree-necks bow'd, creation hailed:
"Ave! Shepherd who follows his Shepherd, prince trailing after his Prince."
Did skies still and woods shout praise:
"Salve! Vicar who heeds his General, slave towards his Master."
And how men bound him,
enemies unknown by God, and took him hither he would not go.
How with mockery,
they grid and carry'd him in conceit
onto that gruesome bough.
There the disciple begged, his head not be exulted
but hung near the ground.
Then, was servant with Master upheld,
everlasting testament given
to goodness, mildness and truth.
In that place, God's head crown'd to touch the crown of his head.
Bride and Bridegroom together wept and bled.


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October 5, 2016
(Almost) Wordless Wednesday - Merceline :)
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Merceline is a beauty!ReplyDelete
Oh she is exquisite! Purrs!ReplyDelete
Emma and Buster
Merceline looks so sweet!ReplyDelete
What a beautiful tabby girl, she has such a sweet face! Purrs she finds a wonderful and true forever home very soon.ReplyDelete
Merceline, you are one gorgeous girl. Sure hope you find a great home and soon. You all have a great day.ReplyDelete
What a sweetheart :)ReplyDelete
What a gorgeous kitty. Seems a little bit shy, but I bet she's soon going to be a true lover.ReplyDelete
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She does have beautiful, soulful eyes. That second picture is so precious! Hope she finds the most perfect home soon.ReplyDelete
What a precious doll you obviously are, Merceline. So beautiful! Purrs to you, and hopes that you're in your forever home soon!ReplyDelete
Such a cute tabby girl! These photographs reflect her personality beautifully.ReplyDelete
What a lovely lady she is!ReplyDelete
Such a lovely ladycat!ReplyDelete
Merceline you are such a cute lady and we hope you will soon be in a loving forever home.ReplyDelete
Aww... what a beautiful kitty! I wish I could pet her through the screen.ReplyDelete
She looks super sweet. We hope her stay at PAWS is a short one. Sending lots of love to Swizzle when you see her next. XOCK, Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth and Calista JoReplyDelete
what an adorable face!ReplyDelete
TW has a soft spot for tabbies. I hope she finds the forever love she needs.ReplyDelete
Merceline looks such a beautiful and sweet kitty!ReplyDelete
Purrs to her and I hope she finds her forever home very soon xoxo
- AnonymousOctober 5, 2016 at 1:00 PM
I'll never tire of seeing kitties. I just adopted a kitten from a shelter last month, I'm in love!ReplyDelete
Merceline is a true beauty! She looks like the kind of kitty that likes to cuddle. :) Very precious indeed. I hope she finds a forever home soon!ReplyDelete
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She is so pretty, I hope she gets a forever home soon.ReplyDelete
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What a beauty. And you're right: She really does look like love personified. Head bumps and body rubs galore!ReplyDelete
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waves two ewe gorgeouz merceline frum all oh uz heer in de land oh fish N friez........ewe look like gram paw dude but way mor gorgeouz urr..... ☺☺☺ we send de best oh fishez & mice creem dishez that ewe iz part oh octoburrz grad ewe waitin class...N yur in yur new place bye SUN day ~~~ ♥♥♥☺☺☺ReplyDelete
Aww, Merceline looks so sweet. We are sure she charms everyone at PAWS :)ReplyDelete
Thank you so much for the words and thoughts for Luna!
What a beauty Merceline is!ReplyDelete
I love visiting your blog and seeing all the different characters who need a new home. I hope they all find one tooReplyDelete
Dang beautiful Merceline, if you were 2 years older I'd swear you were my twin sister. Good luck sweetie!ReplyDelete
she is such a sweetie!! Praying she finds her furever home soon!!! xoxo catchatwithcarenandcodyReplyDelete
Good luck Merceline. So sweet.ReplyDelete
What a beauty. She looks a little sad, though.ReplyDelete
She's so pretty and there's so much love in her eyes!ReplyDelete
We hope she find the home she deserves very soon. Sharing as always :)
Purrs xx
Athena and Marie
What a pretty girl ! We hope she finds a forever home vey soon ! PurrsReplyDelete
So beautiful a girl. And she does look so loving. I wish she were ours.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 6, 2016 at 10:11 PM
What a sweet girl. We hope she is adopted into the great home she so obviously deserves. Hugs.ReplyDelete
Merceline is a beauty and looks like such a sweetie. I hope she finds a loving forever home very soon.ReplyDelete
Happy WW Kevin - Merceline is such a sweetheart! :-)ReplyDelete


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LA PAROLA A… Erik Guttman, chairman of 3GPP TSG SA, Dino Flore, chairman of 3GPP TSG RAN
3GPP is the SDO which boasts countless attempts of imitations…What is the key to its success, in your view?
Guttman - 3GPP's success rests on the shoulders of ETSI's success standardizing GSM. The essential and well-proven practices, approach of combining formal and informal work and high technical expectations that led to this remarkable achievement were retained in the formation of 3GPP.
The partnership project model incorporates regional participants into a global structure. This way, results can be adopted easily. The composite nature of the project ensures that partner organizations interests are always taken into consideration and can provide oversight over the organization itself.
Flore - One of the keys to 3GPP success is its inclusive process. While this has meant to sacrifice some efficiency, it has ensured broad industry support and recognition.
LTE is attracting more and more verticals: from critical communication to Intelligent transport system, IoT and many more coming in with 5G … This means a huge cost benefit for everybody, but also may change 3GPP appearance in the coming years. Achieving consensus in a multi-faceted world industry arena may not be so easy as in early 3G times, almost 15 years ago…
Guttman - There are clear challenges to support both interests in broadening the 3GPP industry to encompass new verticals - such as machine type communications and critical communications, while at the same time deepening the technology with enhancements. While broadening the industry is of potential interest to all vendors and operators, opportunities tend to come with costs and the conditions of the new market will differ from the established business. 3GPP increasingly serves the interests of a broadening diversity of contributing and concerned parties. A balance must be struck, since at the least, the core business and its constituent technologies offer general and fundamental tools and opportunities for offering service to an enormous base of subscribers by means of existing (incrementally upgraded) infrastructure.
- enormous base of subscribers by means of existing (incrementally upgraded) infrastructure.
- how would you expect to manage such a diversified market representation"
- 3GPP has successfully offered interworking and convergence solutions for fixed broadband service providers and numerous tools for integration of other wireless standards (notably CDMA2000 and WLAN.)
Flore - This transformation has been happening for quite some time. Achieving consensus has become more difficult as 3GPP has grown in participation over the years. This is also reflected on the fact that there is an enormous competition for 3GPP resources, meaning that we all the time have to deal with many more project proposals than what can be reasonably processed by the Working Groups (and the number keeps increasing). So in some sense 3GPP is becoming victim of its own success. On the other hand, despite these increased challenges 3GPP has been managing fine and continued to achieve good progress. And I expect this to continue in the future.
we have been hearing about virtualization a lot: how is that impacting your work or work 3GPP is doing?
Guttman - 3GPP standards define behaviors and interfaces between entities without specifying how these entitites are implemented. Virtualization is a set of mechanisms and infrastructure for implementing solutions, and thus, there is no impediment for any vendor to offer virtualized solutions today. In 3GPP we have begun to consider how 3GPP standard behaviors, interfaces and operations can be enhanced to better support virtualization. Some initial steps have been taken already in Release 13.
First, there is work to assess existing management interfaces for improved support of virtualization. Also, some features like DECOR and FMSS will potentially ease service deployments through minor optimization of the user plan and control plan of the 3GPP core network. In Release 14 a study is underway that considers a number of enhancements including virtualization.
Flore - So far the virtualization discussion has not impacted 3GPP RAN. Most of the existing discussions are focusing on the virtualization of core network functions and therefore they are largely in the 3GPP SA domain. The virtualization of baseband functions has been mentioned in the past. To enable this 3GPP RAN would have to standardize an open interface between baseband and RF functions at the eNB. However no concrete proposal has been brought forward to 3GPP RAN on this.
more in general, we are all heading towards more agile and flexible technologies…do you see a need for changing the way 3GPP standards will be built and delivered? Somebody is claiming that standards will not be needed anymore in an open-source highly cloudified world: what is your view?
Guttman - Standardization has allowed an astoundingly rapid advance in the fields of networking and telecommunications. Long before standardization, communications technology existed, though solely in proprietary markets: an excellent example is the SNA (System Network Architecture) protocol suite. Even when this market became open to multiple vendors, the protocols did not advance as standards per se. The deployment, applications and overall impact of this market remained small. What we have seen in the last 25 years is that standards, developed by a community of concerned parties including companies, research institutions and governments, has produced the most agile and flexible infrastructure yet devised, that at the same time has allowed global adoption. Open source implementations and centralized flexible infrastructure may allow broader adoption and alternative means to acquire or develop technology, but I do not see that it in any way replaces the need for standards to define how the implementations interact and behave. If standards fail to advance, I seriously doubt the rapid advance in new applications, deployment scenarios and new vertical applications would continue. Instead, innovation would occur within proprietary architectures, which consistently reduces opportunities of a market to expand.
Flore - Standards will exist as long as it is highly beneficial to have interoperability between products from different manufacturers. This regardless of whether functionalities move to the cloud or remain at the edge of the network, or of whether some of the protocols go open-source. However standards need to evolve and make use of the latest available technologies to the extent that these can offer more performing and cheaper solutions for the ecosystem.
New brand for LTE. Why is it needed and what are the benefits for the end customers?
Guttman - A new brand for LTE will allow subscribers to identify and understand the benefit they can receive by upgrading their terminals. It allows a clear and consistent means for communication regarding developments in the mobile telecommunication industry. Without a brand name, different marketing terms will be used and confuse investors, consumers and render difficult a clear understanding of the progress of the industry adopting 3GPP standards.
Flore - The capability of the LTE platform has been significantly expanded since the introduction of LTE-Advanced in Rel-10. Beside further enhancing the efficiency of LTE to cope with the exploding mobile broadband demand, we started expanding the LTE platform to address new services/verticals. For the end customers this will not only mean the usual increase in actual datarates (which has been the only metric that mattered so far for end users), but a wealth of new services. Note that some of these new services will come with different modes and new end customers (think about IoT space).
Learning from failures: during the last 17 years of life, 3GPP delivered features have not always been the top of success of the mobile industry. Can you provide examples of failure stories and what are the lessons learned we should derive from them, in your view?
Guttman - 3GPP features may not be successfully adopted at all, or they may take quite some time to see adoption. Some cases of 'failures' in the past have been adopted later - for example, current use of 'untrusted non-3GPP access' came 6 years after standardization completed. Other standards, for example some enhancements of GSM, have never been included in products. At the same time, GSM has continued to serve subscribers globally for decades and will continue to do so. Rather than concentrate on failure stories, I rather consider how fortunate it is that 3GPP remained open to developing different options and changing direction as needed. This has increased the agility of the entire industry to move in directions one could not have foreseen as the standard features were under development.
Flore - Some *waste* is part of the process. Part of it is inherent to the fact that we start to work on things that will see the light of the day in the market many years down the road. So pointing at some specific feature that failed and try to derive some lesson learned with hindsight it may not be the most relevant questions. Many features failed and this is because we don't have a perfect crystal ball. One thing that could help though would be trying to reduce the overall time-to-market of features (from the beginning of the discussion in 3GPP to the actual commercial deployment). This may include some 3GPP restructuring to fit the new industry needs. While we will still have an imperfect crystal ball, the less in advance we need to predict what the market needs the more reliable will be our predictions.
…and say in one word one thing you would retain and one you would see changed in future 3GPP
Guttman -
Retain: cooperation
The willingness to collaborate to achieve consensus decisions based on technical merit in a short time by diverse parties remains the greatest strength of the 3GPP standards body.
Change: e-meetings
I believe there are opportunities to work productively without necessitating travel and face-to-face meetings. E-meetings could reduce financial and personal burdens on standards delegates, their companies and prove ecologically beneficial. The technology, investments and understanding of e-meeting options will require a long time to mature, though I have confidence they will.
Flore - I would definitely retain its inclusiveness. But I would certainly try to adapt the 3GPP to be more fit to the new industry needs.


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All Quiet on the Western Front Brutality of War Introduction The End World War 1, also known as the "Total War" due to the fact that the war became each involved country's first priority, took the lives of over 9,000,000 soldiers in a period of four years. The war is known as one of the most tragic, all-consuming wars in the history of worldwide conflicts, second to the Holocaust during World War II. The brutality of this war was endured by all sections of the army, specifically the infantry. Ranging from trench warfare to the death-ensuring "No Man's Land," World War I perfectly encompasses the theme "Brutality of War," and is further exemplified in Erich Remarque's novel All Quiet on the Western Front. Trench Warfare The Hospital The Hospital Continued In conclusion, Paul finally understands the extent of deceit experienced by his teacher Kantorek. Paul, Joseph Behm, Tjaden; all of his fellow nineteen year old soldiers had been cheated by their patriotic teacher. The naivety of these soldiers is shattered upon entering the front line. Brutality of War plays a major role in the novel by forever scarring and impacting Paul negatively (shown by his disappointed arrival Trench Warfare, the creation of a series of large deep canals in to provide protection from enemy fire, artillery, and shelling provided to the stagnant progression experienced in the middle of World War I. Some trenches were permanent and designed for long term stay, while others were temporary and much less accommodated. Regardless of transiency, living in the trenches was simply horrible. Soldiers lived in constant fear of being attacked either by artillery or by chemical means (chlorine gas was leaked in enemy trenches). Exiting a trench could ensure sudden death in "No Man's Land" where it was certain you would be shot. Imagine living a week to week with almost nothing to eat or drink in constant battle. All Quiet on the Western Front truly exemplifies these living conditions. Gruesome Sites Instead of traveling to Russia, Paul travels down to the front line again, passing a devastated wood with tree trunks shattered and the ground torn apart. "In the branches dead men are hanging. A naked soldier is squatting in the fork of a tree, he still has his helmet on, otherwise he is entirely unclad. There is only half of him sitting up there, the top half, the legs are missing. 'What can that mean?' I ask. 'He's been blown out of his clothes,' mutters Tjaden (208)." These horrible sights he views capture the essence of the brutality and grotesqueness of the battle. His prior innocence upon witnessing this is shattered after the death of the man is explained. This is a pivotal moment for Paul as he truly understands the devastation of the war. As Paul and his fellow soldiers are leaving another village, they are attacked by enemy shelling and are injured. "Then I take a look at myself. My trousers are bloody and my arm, too. Albert binds up my wound with his field dressing. Already he is no longer able to move his leg, and we both wonder how we managed to get this far. Fear alone made it possible; we should have run even if our feet had been shot off; - we would have run on the stumps" (241). This reference to previously seeing men "running with stumps as legs" truly captures the fear and utter horror of fighting on the front line. After Kropp and Paul are severely injured
on the front line of battle in chapter nine, they must stop at the Catholic hospital where they
truly see the devastation and atrocities of the war.
Paul is operated for two days straight when he arrives at the hospital, for his leg
will not grow back together after he has been shot. Albert, another soldier in the hospital, is not so lucky and must lose his leg. "The whole leg has been taken off from the thigh. Now he will hardly speak any more. Once he says he will shoot himself the first time he can get hold of his revolver again." (260-261). Despite Kropp and Paul's recovery, the gruesome amputations and sights they had seen in the hospital truly show the brutality of warfare. "Here a man realizes for the first time in how many places a man can get hit. Two fellows die of tetanus. Their skin turns pale, their limbs stiffen, at last only their eyes live-stubbornly. Many of the wounded have their shattered limbs hanging free in the air from a gallows; underneath the wound a basin is placed into which drips the pus. Every two or three hours the vessel is emptied. Other men lie in stretching bandages with heavy weights hanging from the end of the bed. I see intestine wounds that are constantly full of excreta. The surgeon's clerk shows me X-ray photographs of completely smashed hipbones, knees and shoulders" (263). The Hospital scene shows the reader how many soldiers have participated in this traumatic and brutal warfare. The shocking extent of the injuries Paul views in the hospital is a perfect example of the senselessness and large extent of the war. It further provides to Paul's lack of motivation to return to his prior state; he has seen the unthinkable. After Paul inhales poisonous gas on the line (chemical weaponry), he loses his motivation to continue. "Let the months and years come, they can take nothing from me, the can take nothing more. I am so alone, and so without hope that I an confront them without fear" (295). In conclusion, the brutality of war and traumatic experiences Paul endured with his companions have truly brought him to the point of hopelessness. r Earlier in the novel, Paul, on the front line facing the Germans, violently and furiously works to destroy his enemies. "The days go by and the incredible hours follow one another as a matter of course. Attacks alternate with counter-attacks and slowly the dead pile up in the field of craters between the trenches" (124). This particular quote truly shows the seemingly senseless devastation of the war and capture the mass amount of death and destruction that had occurred throughout the war. When Paul returns back to the front in Chapter 9, he volunteers to delve into "No Man's Land" in order to gain information about the enemy. However, during the mission, the enemy begins firing; he must lay down and pretend to have already been shot. "I lie huddled in a large shell-hole, my legs in the water up to the belly. When the attack starts I will let myself fall into the water, with my face as deep in the mud as I can keep it without suffocating. I must pretend to be dead" (214). This quote provides a perfect example of the horrific job an infantry member must face exiting the trench. In Chapter 11, after Paul has been in the trenches for almost two weeks, he states,
"But we are emaciated and starved. Our food is bad and mixed up with so much substitute that it makes us ill... dysentery dissolves our bowels" (280). This quote exemplifies life in the trenches; dysentery from public latrines, little to no food on the front line, and little rest. Disease was common and widespread due to the lack of sanitation. Trench Warfare Cont. Shelling and Devastation Hospital Beds World War 1 Trench Warfare Trench Latrines Trench Weaponry WW1 "Graves" The majority of the graves during WW1 for befallen soldiers were crude; burials were shallow and oftentimes deceased members would resurface.
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When Hilary Saltwood, the new missionary reaches the Cape, he finds that his inspiration, Simon Keer is not as popular as he led on. The Boers and Afrikaners hate him because he sided with the blacks and Xhosa, supporting their desire for freedom from slavery. Hilary quickly sees things from his point of view. He selects a site four hundred miles from the Cape on the Sundays river to build his church. The first white man he meets is Lodevicus, who warns Hilary that any Hottentots who come to him from his place are to be returned as he has bought and paid for them. For a year they have no contact, but then Lodevicus returns asking Hilary to help him defend charges of cruelty and murder by the Black Circuit commission, established because of a book...
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"This is about the dog who adopted me," writes Sukanya. She knows that he happened to her, that he helped her make wonderful memories, that she loved him so very much and always will. Here's a heart wrenching account of how a dog walks into one's life and how, after he has left, there remains a void, a hole.
Sampson: Dec 24, 2003 to April 10, 2016
'April is the cruelest month.' ~ TS Eliot
Somewhere, sometime, I must have done something very good. If we believe in karma, then this must be my good karma, and good karma gets rewarded in this lifetime. I was rewarded, and it came in the form of a fawn four legged boxer dog. How he happened I know, why he happened, I will never know. I just know that he happened to me, that he helped me to make wonderful memories, that I love him so very much and always will. I don't know if it was destiny or fate, or just serendipity.
Why is that, that one perfect morning, after I had said goodbye to my kids and saw them off in the school bus, I was face to face with this big boxer boy. Why is that, in this huge neighborhood, with so many people this dog came across me – I, who have a weakness for boxer dogs. That morning I brought him home, I introduced him to my two other boxers, Argos and Theia. And little did I know that three years down the line, this very same dog will become a huge, huge part of my life!
Today, as I am writing this, he is no more.
Sampson belonged to Jocelyn, and that Halloween of 2012 – right after Theia had died (Argos died two years before that) – while trick or treating, we knocked at Jocelyn's door and Sampson with his huge head was there to greet us. After some small talk, Jocelyn graciously asked if we would like Sampson to visit us – to let us have our boxer fix. And that is how it started. Sampson came for visits. Then Sampson used to come in the mornings (I was not working then) – stay with us throughout the day and return in the evenings to his mom. In my mind, I thought this was easy, he is Jocelyn's dog – I will just like him, I will not fall in love with him – and everything will be easy. You see with love comes big pains, terrible pains…the pain of losing a dog is terrifying. For us a dog is not a dog, a dog is our family. And loving and losing a family member hurts, hurts bad…and dogs leave us before, much before – their longevity is so short. They fill our lives with love and one day they are gone, leaving a void in your heart. Time eases that pain and happy memories creep in, but that hole remains: a hole in the shape of them.
Yes, Sampson came into my life when I needed him the most. At a time when all could have gone wrong, he was there. He was there as I made the right decisions; he was there, as I made the wrong ones. He was there as shifts and changes happened. He was a big presence in my life. And I fell in love with him. Loving him was easy and I loved him so very much. Soon after he started living with us…from morning to evenings, then he started staying during the week and in weekends he would go back home. Then he started staying through weekends, then months. In the last year or so he never went back –he started staying with me, completely. And Jocelyn still remained his mom; a mom who was kind enough to share her beloved dog with me. With her big heart she realised that Sampson now has a home with kids, kids who love him, and she let him be. She loved him enough to give him up to me. While she took care of the medicals, I took care of his life. What a wonderful relation we all shared. I got my Sampson and I made friends for a life. And I became Sampson's mother.
With Sampson my life added more meaning. Like with all my other dogs, I learnt more about patience, compassion, empathy, love. For Royina and Rohak, Sampson was more special. They had him when they were much older, and as grownups, they learnt to take care of him.
Today was a beautiful April day with mildest of mild sun and a cool breeze blowing, as we sat in our front yard we said goodbye to our Sampson. Today morning, I could feel that something is not right, but you still hope. You hope that all will be alright. That things would be as they are. Unfortunately that was not to be. Today Sampson was struggling. His gag was worse, his breathing since last night was shallow. He paced around, looking at me with those eyes which speaks volume. He lay down, his tail wagging a bit and his body was shutting down. I did not want to know, but I did – I knew my boy was slipping away. His mom, Jocelyn, her mom Terri, my friend Mark, John and Cindy… and we all were there. My friend Cindy is also a vet – a kind, compassionate one – sat with him. The Lasix shot that Cindy gave him, which was supposed to help with the fluid retention, did nothing much. One hour later, without any visible improvement, we knew and we decided. With much effort Sampson went outside and as he sat in the front yard surrounded by all he loved and who loved him, as I rubbed his paws, felt his lumps and bumps, touched his soft ears, as my eyes lingered on him, taking in all that Sampson is, was and will ever be….he was gently put to sleep.
His bowl filled with water lies, his food bowl lies empty and my hand smells of the food that I had just fed him. His bed lies empty. I hold his collar tightly close me…all that is left of him. And many, many memories that linger on. Absorbing it is not easy. It will come in spurts. As I am driving and the sun looks amazingly yellow, I will remember him. I will remember him, as I crawl into my bed. I will remember him when I am cooking and I turn around and I don't see him. I will remember him when I am tired and sitting on my couch and my hand absent mindedly seeks him, longing to touch his soft ears, wet nose and furry body. When it gets cold and I want to tuck my feet under his warm body that is when I will remember him. I will remember him all the time. And some days, I will smile and other days I will burst into tears. And it is okay to cry for the ones you love so much. And I will miss him so much!
Sharing a poem I had written about him a while back.
There on the couch lies Sampson
He is kinda ugly and kinda han'some
All over he is white and copiously brown
His nose sniffs and his brows have a constant frown
His tail was snipped, and now it resembles a stub
When he sees us, in delight he wags his nub
His body shakes n makes shapes like kidney bean
The moment from a distance us he has seen
He steals the couch, he steals the bed
All he cares for sleep and being well fed
He sits and stares when you eat
Will not budge, till you share your meal in defeat
He sniffs each grass, when he goes for a walk
In sleep he chases rabbits and convulses in shock
He didnot belong to me , lived two houses down
But he cadged an invite and now wears our house crown
So this is Sampson a Boxer by breed
Him, a good book, in life all I need
Either I am crazy or I love him so deep
Way past midnight, writing dog poems instead of sleep.
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Sukanya Juno Biswas grew up in Kolkata, India. She did MA in English from Calcutta University. She loves books, Bob Dylan, Baez and Boxer dogs. When she gets time away from two human kids and two animals, she writes. A complete realist, off and on romantic, an atheist – in the present climate of uncertainty, would have loved a perfect world, though aware it's not possible. She has been living in Texas for last 17 years.


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She is still at a 58% rating, third behind Mike Huckabee's 61%, and Mitt Romney at 60% among presidential contenders, but her unfavorables are rising.
But Palin's unfavorable numbers are significantly higher than they are for any of these possible competitors. Fully 37 percent of all Republicans and GOP-leaning independents now hold a negative view of her, a new high.
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Microsoft has been surprisingly active on the Android platform of late, especially considering it has a lot on its plate on the mobile front, with the recent release of the Windows Phone 7 Mango software. Hot on the heels of the Hotmail app we looked at last month, the company has released this app for its Bing search engine.
Featuring a similar interface to the normal web-based search engine, it presents you with a new large format picture each day. It also includes price comparison features, Bing maps and directions, movie reviews and location information. What's more, there's also voice recognition built-in so you can search just by talking into your phone.
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South Tipperary Intermediate Hurling Championship Final
Ballybacon-Grange 1-13 St Marys 0-11
Ballybacon Grange resumed their domination of the the Martin's Fruit & Veg sponsored South Intermediate hurling championship with a 5 point victory over holders St Marys in the Final played at Cahir on Sunday last. This was their eighth South titles in the grade since 1999 with Brendan Cummins, Johnny English, Alan O'Gorman and Nigel Carrigan all winning their eighth medal.
Although the standard of hurling never reached great heights, the good sized attendance was treated to an enthralling contest as both sides contested every ball with ferocious intensity and until the closing stages there was never more than two points between them with the sides level on nine occasions.
In a game where both defences were on top a goal was always going to be vital and it arrived on 19 minutes of the second half when goalkeeper Brendan Cummins blasted a 20 metre free to the St Mary's net after Tom Kirwan was fouled under a dropping ball. This put them into a 1-10 to 0—10 lead and they quickly added points from Tom Kirwan and Danny O'Regan. See this weeks Tipperary Star for full report.


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The right of a coastal state to pursue a foreign ship within its territorial waters (or possibly its contiguous zone) and there capture it if the state has good reason to believe that this vessel has violated its laws. The hot pursuit may – but only if it is uninterrupted – continue onto the high seas, but it must terminate the moment the pursued ship enters the territorial waters of another state, as such pursuit would involve an offence to the other state (unless during conflict); in these circumstances extradition should be employed instead. The doctrine applies equally to aircraft that intrude into local airspace.
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Nicholas Coleman was born in Provo, Utah in 1978. Brought up in an artistic home, Coleman has been painting and drawing for as long as he can remember. Coleman has found much of his inspiration in his travels across North America, Canada, Europe and even into Africa. Hunting and fishing along the way his interest often include exploring hidden streams and valleys looking for signs of wildlife. He gained an appreciation for the subtle details hidden in plain sight. In his own words he wants to "preserve the heritage of the American West."
How did you start painting Nicholas?
I have fond memories of visiting my dad's studio at a very early age and begging him to let me paint on his paintings...Read More


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KISSIMME — More registration sites will be available for seniors wishing to sign up for the Silver Savers Discount Book and membership card. The registration, sponsored by the Council on Aging and the Retired Senior Volunteer Program, is for people 60 and older.
The discount book and card will be mailed out in November by the Southwestern Bell company.
Sites in addition to the RSVP office, 110 W. Drury Ave., and the council's offices, 17 S. Vernon Ave., include:
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Instrument for transits by Stackpole, 1874
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This elegant little instrument is marked "Stackpole & Brother New York 1522." It was made for American observers of the Transit of Venus of 1874. New it cost $215. The U.S. Naval Observatory transferred it to the Smithsonian in 2005.
The instrument was apparently made with two top assemblies, and so could be used in two different ways. With a telescope mounted in wyes, it would measure horizontal angles. With another telescope attached to a vertical circle, it would measure horizontal and vertical angles. In this example, the former telescope is missing as is the mount for the latter telescope. The horizontal and vertical circles measure 3 inches diameter.
Object contributed by National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
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Embedded deep in our philosophy is a commitment to education and learning, whether it is in the classroom or here at the theatre.
Each season, we ensure our plays address significant areas of the curriculum including music, language, equity, social studies, health/physical education and drama. Our Teacher Resources provide effective teaching tools for the classroom, including Study Guides, hands-on student workshops, and professional development programs for teachers designed to enhance the learning experience. We encourage you to consider a visit to our theatre as you plan your activities for the school year.
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Join Sprucecourt School as they visit the theatre to see Emily's Piano and go behind-the-scenes.
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Ever wondered what it's like to work at one of the largest companies in the aerospace, defense, security, and technologies industry? Check out our profile on The Muse and wonder no more!
Lockheed Martin is seeking a QA Engineer for a position in Ocala, FL.
This role:
•Reviews documentation related to internal and external manufacturing processes to ensure quality products are delivered to the customer.
•Analyzes and resolves process issues varying from basic to very complex.
•Attends and leads program corrective action meeting, identifies trends, assists in problem resolution and insures responsible parties meet commitments.
•Participates as an active member of Material Review Boards and Failure Review Boards which includes dispositioning non-conforming hardware, identifying hardware containment requirements, identifying appropriate root cause and corrective action is taken to prevent recurrence.
•Performs assessments and audits on processes and procedures to ensure compliance to specifications, engineering drawings, procedures and ISO-9001/AS9100.
•Interfaces with customers, suppliers and program personnel on quality related issues.
•Utilizes lean initiatives to reduce waste and maintain continuous improvement.
•Makes the final decision on acceptability of product.
This position will be for second shift.
This position will be located at a facility that requires special access and requires the selected candidate to be a US Citizen.
Basic Qualifications
-Bachelors degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education, with 2 years of professional experience; or no experience required with a related Masters degree.
-Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications
-Ability to work 2nd shift
-This position will be located at a facility that requires special access and requires the selected candidate to be a US Citizen.
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CCA (circuit card assembly) or electronics experience
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As a leading technology innovation company, Lockheed Martin's team of 113,000 people works with partners around the world to bring proven performance to our customers' toughest challenges. Headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, Lockheed Martin has employees based in all 50 states and more than 570 facilities that span 70 countries.
Join us at Lockheed Martin, where we're engineering a better tomorrow.
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Help Captain Fluoride Save A Smile!
| Date Posted: 5/8/2017
Help Captain Fluoride Save a Smile by participating in a dental supply drive to collect supplies to be distributed to underserved children who are patients at FirstHealth Dental Care. Some of the supplies needed most are basic items such as children and adult toothbrushes, dental floss and toothpaste.
Saturday, May 20, 2017, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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Items we need the most:
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Kendall/Heaton Associates Inc.
Structural Engineer
CYS Structural Engineers Inc.
Ove Arup and Partners, Hart/Howerton, Interior Architects Inc., Simon & Associates Inc., and Hensel Phelps Construction Company
Peter Aaron/Esto Photographics
California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) Headquarters
The CalPERS building complex offers office and retail space, proposed housing, and two levels of below-grade parking. The building has successfully responded to the city's urban fabric as well as the client's sustainable design goals. Its careful planning and construction allowed the building to perform 28% better than Title 24 minimum standards and attain LEED® Gold certification.
The high expectations of their client motivated the entire team to participate in green building workshops early in the design process. Through these workshops, the team was able to prioritize the green strategies for the project and reach the client's goals for their large-scale headquarters.
A large focus was put on the building's use of natural light. Shading projections, light shelves, floor-to-ceiling glass and integrated planters allow for a reduction in electric lighting. The building is also broken up by a courtyard and atrium-- two aspects that the jurors agreed made the building a "great place to work." The jurors also noted that CalPERS was the only winning entrant that utilized underfloor air distribution, helping to reduce the cooling energy requirements of the building. The project's high levels of energy efficiency and unique architecture made it a highly appropriate choice as winner of the honor award.
Charles Eley, FAIA, PE
Title: Vice-President
Company: Architectural Energy Corporation
Location: Boulder, CO
Mr. Eley is an architect and mechanical engineer with about 25 years experience in energy efficient and sustainable design. Mr. Eley has made significant contributions to the California energy standards, ASHRAE Standard 90.1, and energy codes in Hong Kong, Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa and Australia. Mr. Eley is now working with the California Energy Commission to update the state energy efficiency standards in response to the recent electricity crisis.
In addition to his energy codes and policy work, Mr. Eley has also developed a number of important publications including the Advanced Lighting Guidelines, the Lighting Fundamentals Handbook, and numerous other technical manuals on energy efficient and code compliance. Mr. Eley is the primary author and technical editor of the ASHRAE/IESNA Standard 90.1-1999 User's Manual. He is also the executive director of the Collaborative for High Performance Schools and is the technical editor of the CHPS Best Practices Manual.
Mr. Eley consults with other architects and engineers in the design of landmark energy efficient buildings. He also directs the software development team within Architectural Energy Corporation, which is responsible for VisualDOE, EnvStd, and a number of other computer programs for the energy efficient design of buildings.
Jack A. Paddon, AIA
Company: Williams + Paddon Architects + Planners, Inc.
Location: Roseville, CA
In 1981 Jack joined Jim Williams to establish Williams + Paddon Architects + Planners, Inc. Since that time, the firm has won the continued respect of clients and the communities they serve through many successfully completed projects.
Jack's leadership in Client Focused Design has guided almost two decades of value enhanced services for Williams + Paddon's many clients. Under his direction, the firm has become recognized as a leader in innovative design with an emphasis on regionally influenced sustainable projects for public and corporate clients.
Jack is a LEED Accredited Professional since 2002. Consistent with the firm's core values, he continues to volunteer his time to community and professional groups. Jack has served on the AIACC State Board of Directors, and served a term as president of the AIA Central Valley. He serves in multiple capacities in support of the California Board of Architectural Examiners.
Scott Shell, AIA, LEED® A.P.
Title: Principal
Company: EHDD Architecture
Location: San Francisco, CA
Mr. Shell is a nationally recognized expert on high-performance buildings and sustainable design and has written and lectured widely on these topics. He has designed a number of EHDD's most successful, sustainable design projects, including the award-winning Global Ecology Research Center for the Carnegie Institution of Washington on the Stanford University campus and the recently completed Chartwell School in Monterey, which is anticipating a LEED Platinum rating.
Mr. Shell emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach to creating new models of sustainable design, focusing on low-energy and carbon-neutral buildings. He is currently working on the Lifecycle Building Challenge, using recovered building materials and Design for Deconstruction (DfD) to reduce building material impacts over the life of a building. Concurrently, he is working with his colleagues to make EHDD a model sustainable community and architectural practice.
Mr. Shell holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Auburn University and a Master of Arts in Humanities from Stanford University and studied Tamil language and culture at the University of Chicago and the American Institute of Indian Studies in Madurai.
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This C# Program Performs Binary to Decimal Conversion. This C# Program converts the given binary number into decimal. The program reads the binary number, does a modulo operation to get the remainder, multiples the total by base 2 and adds the modulo and repeats the steps.
Here is source code of the C# Program to Perform Binary to Decimal Conversion.The C# program is successfully compiled and executed with Microsoft Visual Studio.The program output is also shown below.
* C# Program to Perform Binary to Decimal Conversion
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
namespace Program
class Program
static void Main(string[] args)
int num, binary_val, decimal_val = 0, base_val = 1, rem;
Console.Write("Enter a Binary Number(1s and 0s) : ");
num = int.Parse(Console.ReadLine()); /* maximum five digits */
binary_val = num;
while (num > 0)
rem = num % 10;
decimal_val = decimal_val + rem * base_val;
num = num / 10 ;
base_val = base_val * 2;
Console.Write("The Binary Number is : "+binary_val);
Console.Write("\nIts Decimal Equivalent is : "+decimal_val);
Here is the output of the C# Program:
Enter a Binary Number(1s and 0s) : 101010 The Binary Number is : 101010 Its Decimal Equivalent is : 42
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A severe case of mortal denial came to light yesterday when Citigroup announced that it will raise the salaries of their staff with 50% "in order retain the best employees". Citigroup executives said that some workers have already left for small boutique banks or larger competitors that are not so beholden to the government.
Gutshpa, they call it, but it could also mean that Wall street did overhaul Obama instead of the other way around.
Moral of the story:
"We'll soon start to blow the next bubble with the assistance of the Treasury Department, this is the way we will get the economy going again. And when the gullible investor buys our derivative junk again we will be able to pay commissions as never before. Obama c.s. is in our pocket".The New York Times continues:
"But maybe it's a little like the canary in the mine, and you say that things are getting better", said Alan Johnson of Johnson Associates, a compensation consulting firm. Mr Johnson is not the best man to ask as he must have seen his commissions in the banking industry take a dive with a minimum of 50%. He has a vested interest in spin. And to talk about Citigroup as if it is a canary in the mine is just the wrong remark to make to a gold bug.
Nevertheless, I wonder if somebody told Citigroup that they are bankrupt and being kept alive by taxpayer money? The denial is stupefying.
We quote Jesse: "The banks must be restrained, and the economy brought back into balance, before there can be any sustained recovery".
New York Times
Citigroup Has a Plan to Fatten Salaries
After all those losses and bailouts, rank-and-file employees of Citigroup are getting some good news: their salaries are going up.
The troubled banking giant, which to many symbolizes the troubles in the nation's financial industry, intends to raise workers' base salaries by as much as 50 percent this year to offset smaller annual bonuses, according to people with direct knowledge of the plan.
The shift means that most Citigroup employees will make as much money as they did in 2008, although some might earn more and others less. The company also plans to award millions of new stock options to employees in an effort to retain workers and neutralize a precipitous drop in the value of their stock holdings.
Like Citigroup, financial companies, like Bank of America and Morgan Stanley, are raising employees' base salaries to try to shift attention away from bonuses and curb excessive risk-taking. So are banks like UBS and other European competitors.
The Citigroup proposals, discussed internally this week, present a crucial test for the Obama administration, which has vowed to rein in runaway compensation at companies that have received large taxpayer-financed bailouts. Citigroup has gotten not one but two rescues from Washington. Soon the government will assume a 34 percent stake in the company, whose share price has plunged nearly 84 percent in the last year.
Despite Washington's new role at Citigroup, and public anger over big paydays on Wall Street, administration officials have little power to prevent the company and others in the industry from raising salaries for rank-and-file employees.
Kenneth R. Feinberg, the administration's new "pay czar," has the authority to set compensation for only the top 100 employees at troubled companies. The rest — which at Citigroup, means fewer than 300,000 people — can be paid as executives see fit, provided any increase does not rank them among the 100 most highly paid workers.
Outsize pay on Wall Street, particularly the industry's bonus culture, is widely seen as having encouraged the risk-taking that led to the gravest financial crisis since the Depression. But industrywide, total compensation is expected to rise 20 to 30 percent this year, approximately to the levels of 2005, before the crisis, according to Johnson Associates, a compensation consulting firm. Total industry pay would still be below the record levels of 2007, but only a bit.
"You can say it is outrageous," said Alan Johnson, the president of the firm. "But maybe it's a little like the canary in the mine, and you say that things are getting better."
Indeed, despite the simmering anger over Wall Street pay, some of the 10 big banks that repaid their federal aid this month — a big step toward disentangling themselves from the government — are gearing up to pay outsize bonuses. For many, profits are up, despite the troubled economy. On Monday, Goldman Sachs, which returned $10 billion of bailout funds, denied reports that it planned to pay out the highest bonuses in its 140-year history.
Mr. Feinberg, the special master for compensation, is the person who ensures that companies receiving federal bailout money are abiding by executive pay guidelines. This week, Mr. Feinberg, who oversaw the federal government's compensation fund for victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, held introductory meetings with Citigroup executives and their counterparts at several other companies that have received two federal bailouts. He will start reviewing pay packages for the 25 highest-paid employees, as well as compensation formulas for the next 75, in the next two months. He declined to comment on Tuesday.
For months, Citigroup executives have sought guidance from the Treasury Department about how to alter compensation. But after reviewing the new rules, the bank determined it did not need Mr. Feinberg or other government officials to sign off on pay for the rank and file. While Mr. Feinberg can request information on the pay polices at financial companies that have received two federal bailouts, the companies can reject his guidance.
Citigroup executives are so eager to keep employees from fleeing, that in some cases, they are offering them guaranteed pay contracts. Managers began notifying bank employees of the proposed changes this week. They could take effect shortly.
For some Citigroup investment bankers and traders, the changes could mean salary increases of as much as 50 percent, depending on their position. Legal and risk management employees, as well as those in the credit card and consumer banking units, whose pay is typically skewed toward salary, rather than bonuses, are expected to receive smaller increases.
Citigroup executives said the changes were aimed at retaining employees. Some Citigroup workers have already left for small, boutique investment banks or large rivals that are not so beholden to the government.
Citigroup officials declined to discuss the issue on the record, given its sensitive nature. But they said that the changes would bring the bank's compensation plan in line with the widespread view on Wall Street that bonuses were not one-time payouts, but rather a form of deferred salary. They said the new system would let them adjust bonuses more sharply to reflect employees' performance.
Stephen Cohen, a Citigroup spokesman, said that any changes would be intended to adjust the balance between salaries, which are fixed, and bonuses, which vary from year to year.
Citigroup also plans to introduce a new stock option program later this year. Under the plan, it will award employees one stock option for every share of restricted stock they have accumulated. The program could open the floodgates for the release of tens of millions of stock options that could be cashed out over the next three years.It is unclear what the strike price will be. But the hope is that the options program will give employees another incentive to stay despite offers from rivals.


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|Photo1 Lavonne Suwalski demo
Lavonne Suwalski has phenomenal energy and showed several watercolor techniques in 30 minutes flat!
|Photo 2 Lavonne waving paper in her demo!
Returning to the floral transfer (which had beautiful soft edges and had almost dried) deeper analogous colors were added and gave more depth by allowing some of the lovely soft first layer to show through.
Then, she bought out her weapon of choice for calligraphy….a stick-with leaf still attached! She dipped it into Higgins india ink and made expressionistic outlines around some of the petals and foliage. (See earlier example she had made in photo 3).
|Photo 3 Completed Floral "rice paper pour" watercolor painting
Lavonne showed that the stick could be soaked in water overnight and then peeled back (bark and inner layers) to create a "star" shape. Another great calligraphic tool in her arsenal! The varied black calligraphic lines were a nice contrast to the soft watercolor poured edges!
She shared many examples of her demonstrations of numerous creative techniques for classes that she teaches all over this area on week days. Below are a couple of images that I captured.
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Bolton residents wed at the boathouse
Congratulations to Michelle Cushing and Michael Huck who were married April 24. Michelle is Bolton's recreation director and owner of the Pampered Pet. Michael is a marine surveyor and a wooden boat restorer at Saw Mill Wooden Boatworks. Michelle is the daughter of John and Pat Cushing. Michael is the son of Richard and Kathy Huck and grandson of Alice Coon.
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Lecture slated at Sembrich Museum
On Wednesday, July 14, at 1:30 p.m., Neil A. Chassman, a professor and longtime friend of the artist will deliver a lecture, "The Intersection of the Art of Peter Schwarzburg and the Estate of Marcella Sembrich", at the museum located at 4800 Lake Shore Dr. The cost is $5.
Artist, professor, and philosopher Peter Schwarzburg was considered by many to be one of the greatest intellects of the 20th century who excelled in philosophy, science, teaching, and not least of all, landscape painting. An eternal source of inspiration for the late Schwarzburg (1945-2002) was the scenic estate of Marcella Sembrich, where he created nearly 100 paintings of Lake George.
Help Support our Library
The Bolton Free Library has scheduled its annual Gigantic Book Sale and is in need of volunteers. The sale will be held July 22-July 25 with a variety of shifts available. Organizers ask that volunteers work for at least a 2-hour shift, if possible. For details, call Megan at 644-2233 or Cindy Farbaniec at 240-6009 if you are available that weekend.


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Cash Environmental Resources
Cash Environmental Resources LLC is a diverse waste management company with the ability to recycle, divert and collect multiple waste streams. Waste solutions include inert and C&D landfills, aggregate processing and waste-to-energy technologies. Cash Environmental Resources is a premier waste operator and processor in the Southeast. Offices are located in North Georgia and Florida.
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
Margaret Mead
"Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land."
Aldo Leopold
"Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance."
Ban Ki-moon