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Giving my office a deep cleaning, I stumbled across this essay I wrote about my golden retrievers, Ben and Chapel, at the end of Ben's life in the late '90s. Have any of you had a similar experience?
Best Buddies Forever
by Diane Chamberlain
I sat in the breeder's kitchen, waiting to meet the dog she was giving away. Only a few days earlier, I'd lost my three-year-old golden retriever, Kona, to a post-surgical infection. When I called the breeder to see if she had any puppies available, she asked if I would be interested in an older dog. Having recently decided to stop showing her five-year-old golden retriever, Ben, she'd had him neutered and was looking for a good home for him. Although a five-year-old dog was hardly what I'd had in mind, I said I would take him for a week to see how he got along with my husband, our year-old golden, Chapel and myself.
The breeder called Ben into the kitchen. He trotted into the room, his tail wagging and his very white, old man face peering out from inside a peach-colored bucket. He had a hot spot on his skin, the breeder explained. She'd cut the bottom from a plastic bucket and tied it to his collar to keep him from chewing at the sore spot. I don't want an old dog with a bucket on his head, I thought to myself, but since I'd already promised to take him home for a visit, I headed out the door with him.
The breeder told me that Ben liked to ride in the passenger seat, so I opened the front door and he climbed in. Once next to him in the driver's seat, I removed the bucket from his head for the ride to my house. As soon as I did, Ben lay down with his big head in my lap and I began to soften toward him. He was, I had to admit, a teddy bear.
Once home, I let him out in my yard where Chapel was wandering around like a lost soul without Kona. She took one look at Ben and literally jumped for joy, all four feet off the ground at once. She and Ben ran toward each other, took a moment for the requisite sniffing and wagging, then began romping around the yard as if they'd been best buddies for years. My mind was made up. No way was I taking this cuddly, amiable dog back to the breeder. Ben was ours.
From that moment, Chapel and Ben were inseparable. They explored together in the woods behind my house. They took obedience classes and earned their Companion Dog certificates together. They loved to play-fight over a toy, growling viciously, tails wagging furiously. When they were worn out from their adventures, they would lay together on the rug, Ben's head resting on Chapel's side.
Over the years, Ben's face grew even whiter, and Chapel's fur lightened as well. My dogs were aging. Ben began to stumble a bit. I took him to an acupuncturist who worked with dogs, and the stumbling was gone within a few months. At thirteen, he seemed almost like a pup again. Then one night, I noticed he was breathing more rapidly than usual. By the next morning, he was lethargic and showed no interest in his food. I took him to the vet, who x-rayed him and discovered the cancer in his lungs.
At the vet's suggestion, I took Ben outside to have some time alone with him as I thought over my grim options. Ordinarily an extremely affectionate dog, Ben ignored me. He sat as far from me as his leash would allow, staring away from me, and I knew he was suffering. There was only one choice I could make.
As the vet and I discussed putting Ben to sleep, I was able to keep from crying until I thought of Chapel. Hard as it would be for me to lose Ben, what would it be like for her? I'd heard about dogs who searched relentlessly for their vanished mate, and I couldn't bear to think of Chapel being confused by Ben's sudden disappearance. I had also heard that it can be helpful to have the surviving dog present when his or her buddy is put to sleep. I mentioned this to the vet and he said it would be fine for me to bring Chapel in.
I left Ben at the vet's, then returned with my husband and Chapel. When we walked into the small treatment room, Chapel bounced around in delight at finding her best friend there.
"She's oblivious," said the vet.
She certainly was, at least for the moment. But as soon as she realized that Ben was simply lying on the floor, looking sick and weary and not the least bit interested in her antics, she lay down next to him. The vet injected Ben with the lethal dose of anesthesia. As the breath left Ben's body, Chapel rested her head against his, suddenly as somber and serious as if she'd been given a drug herself. The change in her was simple, quiet and stunning. No one will ever convince me that she didn't understand that Ben had left her world.
Chapel did not once search for Ben. She, like my husband and myself, moped around for the first few days, but once she realized she was getting 100% of our attention instead of 50%, she perked up.
Her face was suddenly whiter, though, and her step was not so sure. I believe she was waiting, in that patient way goldens have, for the day she could play with her best buddy again.


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As France's presidential choosing nears Sunday with lightning-rod claimant Marine Le Pen shutting a opening on her opponent, Emmanuel Macron, a Paris 2024 Olympic bid organisation would rather equivocate contention of contending opposite Los Angeles for a Summer Games underneath a Le Pen presidency.
"You know what? I'll be unequivocally happy to call we in dual weeks and I'll give we a comment, though we don't wish to criticism right now on a formula of this election," Paris 2024 bid arch Tony Estanguet said.
" … We wish to revoke a impasse of a domestic world. They are there to support. But we confirm where to put a Olympic village. We confirm a tellurian judgment that has been there given a beginning."
If inaugurated to a five-year term, Le Pen would bind a care position by many of a routine heading to a Games.
Given her divisive rhetoric, that has murderous some adults and barbarous human-rights figures, a repercussions are a good unknown.
The daughter of a former National Front celebration co-leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who has spoken poisonous statements that embody referring to a Nazi gas chambers as "a fact of history," Marine Le Pen pronounced final month that "France isn't responsible" for a comfortless "Vel d'Hiv" part in 1942 when 13,000 Jews from Paris were dull adult by French military and housed in an indoor cycling stadium, firm for Auschwitz.
Preaching isolationist and populist views in line with Brexitand a choosing of President Donald Trump, Le Pen has extrinsic her voice into a Olympic transformation by chiding a Paris bid's English slogan, "Made For Sharing," that quickly hung underneath a Eiffel Tower.
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Le Pen's talk, however, now has Paris officials intent in written gymnastics to defuse politics and concentration on foe while Los Angeles touts a farrago and creativity.
Although, Los Angeles will also face questions per a new president.
Questions about Trump and L.A.'s bid were amplified during a new 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, where International Olympic Committee members voiced concerns about Trump's positions on NATO, general trade and immigration.
LA 2024 Chairman Casey Wasserman finished it clear, like Paris, that Los Angeles is behest for a Games though delay.
"Los Angeles is a right city for 2024 during this critical time for a Olympic Movement and is usually behest for 2024," Wasserman pronounced in a matter emailed to The Times. "With no permanent venues to build and 88% open support, LA 2024 offers a lowest risk and truly tolerable resolution for a destiny of a Olympic Movement in 2024 and beyond."
An International Olympic Committee Evaluation Committee is set to examination Paris' and Los Angeles' infrastructure and venues this month and a cities will make presentations during IOC domicile in Switzerland in Jul tentative a grave opinion Sept. 13 in Lima, Peru, among 195 IOC members.
Speculation increases for a supposed "double allocation" that would endowment Paris and Los Angeles a 2024 and 2028 Games, though Paris has pronounced it wants to go first.
Estanguet, a former IOC voting member, couldn't censor his certainty about Paris' position in this singular two-horse race.
"With several proposals, it's formidable to compare," he said. "It's easier for a jury with two. We'll have to be some-more clear, stronger in a approach of convincing, though we like this plea and we have all on a side to win this battle. This is a unequivocally clever bid. We don't see a weaknesses of Paris. … we don't see because we should not win."
While bid cities are taboo from publicly criticizing any other's efforts, a Los Angeles entrance was famous to have chafed when word followed President Trump's choosing that Paris was meddlesome in "building bridges, not walls."
"It's not for L.A.," Estanguet said. "It's to send a summary to a universe that pity bridges is a approach we're feeling, and France defends those values, so we unequivocally wish to play a purpose for people."
While Paris says that 95% of a venues are complete, one of Los Angeles' many manifest edges is a existent corner Olympic Village and training core during UCLA while Paris' Olympic Village has nonetheless to be constructed.
Estanguet pronounced that his Olympic Village will leave houses where residents can live after a Games.
"We have a many compress judgment — 22 sports within 10 kilometers of a village," pronounced Estanguet, a three-time Olympic bullion medalist in canoeing. "This is what a athletes need. They've been training for 4 years. They don't wish to rubbish their appetite in prolonged ride a day of their competition. In my sport, a athletes wish to sight in a foe venue, and that's utterly a box in any sport."
How severely politics will conclude a foe is unclear, deliberation that China and Russia have staged Olympics in a past decade.
"More than ever, we consider we are tighten to winning," Estanguet said. "But it is not done, and we have to combine in a best probable approach until a end."
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Police criticised over response to M4 'dangerous' lorry
A driver claims he had to call police three times before a lorry driver who was allegedly "swerving all over the place" on the M4 motorway was stopped.
Steven Barnes, of Bristol, said he followed the "dangerous" vehicle for more than 80 miles (128 km) before the driver was arrested near Reading.
He said: "It went through three different constabularies before anything was done."
Avon and Somerset police said the call came in when it was out of their patch.
Mr Barnes was driving from Bristol to Northfleet in Kent on 8 November, when he became "aware of this driver".
"It was in front of us - one of the really big artics with high sides - and it was travelling at 60mph and swerving all over the place," he said.
"One minute he was in lane one and the next minute he was half way over the hard shoulder."
Mr Barnes called the new police emergency number 101 and spoke to Avon and Somerset Police and was "put straight through to control" and explained the situation.
"But eventually - because nothing had happened - we had to phone them back again," he said.
Between junctions 19 and 12, of the M4, Mr Barnes claimed he called 101 twice and "went through three different constabularies" before finally calling 999.
"The first phone call was at 1045 the last phone call was at 1149, that's over an hour waiting for somebody to do something," he said.
"And the fact that we had to eventually do a 999 call to actually get something done - I think is pretty scandalous."
He said he was eventually told by Thames Valley Police the lorry driver had been arrested on suspicion of drink-driving.
An Avon and Somerset Police spokesperson said the vehicle was "out of their patch when they received the call".
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Back when Warner Bros. revealed the Season Pass for Batman: Arkham Origins, it was dominated by an abundance of costumes, while also including the Initiation DLC and an "all new story" for your $19.99 investment.
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The idea of retiring early — putting the workday behind you and living a life of leisure before you're too old to enjoy it — is incredibly tempting and there is no shortage of not-so-nice people out there willing to stoke that pipe dream at seminars where smooth-talking speakers make it all seem so attainable. Alas, it's not so simple and a lot of these seminars will do nothing but leave you with less money than you had beforehand.
This is why the folks at the Securities and Exchange Commission (better known as the SEC, but not the one with all the good football teams), have put together a helpful document to inform consumers about the things to be on the lookout for the next time you consider attending one of these early retirement seminars.
Among the SEC's suggestions:
1. Be skeptical of "free lunch" seminars. Even if those events take place at or near the workplace, don't assume that your employer is behind the event.
2. Be wary of early retirement pitches based on little-known loopholes. While IRS Section 72(t) is a "little-known loophole" that allows you to access your retirement funds early, there's a lot more to a successful early retirement than avoiding a 10 percent tax penalty.
3. Figure out the unintended consequences of early retirement. You may also wish to consult an attorney about any other unintended consequences, especially if you are in debt or owe child support or alimony. Depending on the laws in your state, cashing out of your retirement plan may mean that your creditors can collect against that payment you receive–even if you're rolling the assets to a traditional IRA.
4. Be mindful of "guaranteed" returns. Trading any type of securities carries some degree of risk, and the level of risk typically correlates with the return an investor can expect to receive. Low risk generally means low yields, and high yields typically involve higher risk. Fraud promoters often spend a lot of time trying to convince investors that extremely high returns are "guaranteed" or "can't miss." Don't believe it. High returns represent potential rewards for investors who are willing and financially able to take big risks.
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Crawling Up
The sky is about constant change, morphing from one form into another only to change again. It is fascinating to watch but even more fascinating it is to observe the changes occurring in us over time. I begin to notice more and more how I change myself and how much broader my own perspective becomes. And even though there is some validity to words Jean Kilbourne wrote in her book (we learn to dread the natural process of growing older and we feel terribly devalued as we age in her book "Can't buy my love"), I do both enjoy and cherish the changes undergoing in me over time.
My first tattoo was just for the heck of it, because I wanted to experience what it was like to get tattooed if there were any subconscious reasons behind my decision, I was blissfully ignorant in this regard. A few years later it is still about the joy and thrill but yet it is also about so many other things. And it is not only about the mere process of tattooing but also about its history, how it is perceived now, what it can or could mean. Body modification is also about modification of our minds; not surprising as mind is an integral part of the body.
The second session of my right sleeve was scheduled (03/ 20/ 08 just for the record's sake) back in January and the long waiting period began. At first it was not that hard to tackle the waiting although gawds out there do know how much I suck at being patient. In the meantime I got a second, part-time, job and the main reason behind it was earning more money only for my "mod fund"; I made sure to work out and run as much as possible as I still, and I think I always will, believe that physical activity is the most basic, crucial and enjoyable form of body modification ever, and I immersed myself in reading books on body modification from various perspectives. Almost always perceived as a feminist and never feeling like one, I did enjoy reading books also from a feminist perspective although arguing against many of its points was equally enjoyable. I have been too busy to count days but, seeing as almost a one-fourth of my arm was covered with ink during the first session, I was looking forward to continuing the process.
March was approaching fast, however, and I started feeling impatient. A week before the date I started counting days. I did not have a particularly good streak of luck then, so I started getting paranoid (not the first time, actually!). Two days before the appointment Slawek called me to discuss the design and how both he and I imagined the sleeve. I realized that I got so focused on getting at least a half-sleeve done after this upcoming session that I lost from my sight the whole design and this was not good! "How much" is pointless if there is no "what" behind it, so I felt some relief when I finally remembered what I decided to make parts of my sleeve.
Two days later I jumped on the bus to Poznan, shivering from the unusually low temperature for the spring time in Poland. A few hours later, after running several errands and making sure I got sandwiches and juice for the guys, I headed in the right direction. The familiar sound of a tattoo machine in action was a welcomed sound and I liked how all my frustration and stress seemed to be flying away.
After some chatting and catching up with all the news about our lives and whatnot Slawek was ready to start and I could jump onto the chair. I took out a book to read (Tom Robbins; he's one of my favorite writers now!) and reached out my right forearm.
No stencil this time around, either although Slawek's free-handing was not all that spontaneous. As he pointed out earlier, and quite right I think, good free-handing is not possible if it is not preceded by some research and planning. In front of him there was a printout of my sleeve design, so he could refer to it for colors and proportions of the sleeve elements. He drew a few lines for soon-to-be-tattooed clouds and the fun began.
My wrist needed some fixing as the outline of my, now almost completely covered up, first tattoo still was quite visible, so this was the first step of the process. The needles hurt quite bad and I got reminded again why wrists are not my favorite placement ever. On the bright side, it was probably the last time my wrist(s) was tattooed as I do not plan to do anything about the way my wrists look.
Then it was time to move up, to my forearm, and I was still wondering if I would be lucky enough to leave the studio with something close to a half-sleeve. Slawek seemed to be working amazingly fast on this sleeve so far and it kept growing right in front of my eyes with an astonishing speed. As he said, however, there is a huge difference between my left and right sleeves, both design- and working style-wise, so there is nothing surprising about the way my cloudy sleeve keeps progressing.
The small containers with various colors of the ink were ready to use on Slawek's work station and I liked what I saw orange and yellow, dark blue and aquamarine. Colors that no one would suspect me of liking and yet I welcomed the sight of them. Slawek did not discuss them with me no need for that as they had already been used the first time around and now it was just a sort of adding to the base of my sleeve.
During next three hours I did not open my book even once as somehow I was too busy with talking to guys, both laughing and goofing around and discussing more serious subjects. It has been snowing on and off throughout the whole day, so now and then I caught myself at looking out of the window and watching snow flakes swirling down on the pavement. The TV was set on the Polish weather channel, so I could have a look at weather conditions (I am serious about my new passion!) and there was a nice swing music in the background. A peaceful, relaxing atmosphere and nothing could ruin the positive way I felt then and there, even the growing numbness in my arm as Slawek kept working on my sleeve.
No procedural pictures were taken this time, so it was only us who got to witness this great re-occurring wonder of skin being slowly and irreversibly covered with new colors. I got reminded of Tolkien's "Lord of the Ring" where there is so much talking about growing darkness, crawling out slowly from Mordor towards the Middle Earth. No darkness in my case, just this overwhelming mix of colors, crawling their way up my arm, colors that seem so unusual to me and yet so fitting at the same time.
When we were done for now, I could admire my "new" forearm for a while; Jacek was kind enough to take a few shots of it and then I got all wrapped and taped up. My mod session was not finished then yet, though, as I was supposed to stretch my septum piercing to 8ga.
I was a little apprehensive about this whole stretch thing as my body does not seem to be very stretchable. I knew that there was enough room for bigger jewelry but I was not sure how the stretch would go. Jacek was as reassuring and comforting as ever and it was great to find myself again in his piercing room as it has been ages since we did something together. The new jewelry, a wonderful niobium retainer by Anatometal from BMEshop, was autoclaved and ready to use hours ago. I insisted on taking out my old 10ga retainer myself (I would hate to realize Jacek removed a "dirty" retainer from my nose!) even though Jacek did not want to hear about it. A few seconds later his gloved hands inserted a taper into my nose and pushed it slightly there was some pressure and, even though my eyes started watering almost right away, it was not overly painful. Right after my piercer put a new retainer into my nose, turned it in properly and here I was with stains of mascara under my eyes and sore septum mission accomplished and I was almost elated to have it done! Yet another reason to feel good that day.
As Slawek told me, this session was the last one as far as the clouds in my sleeve go and next time we are going to start working on my upper arm which is supposed to be covered with autumn leaves. Since I want to incorporate my love for "Beowulf" here, we are also going to throw in carefully chosen words and phrases in Old English from the poem. My fascination with the poem and the values that stand behind it seems to grow more and more over time, so I am really looking forward to making the poem also a physical part of me.
When Slawek and I started to work on my right arm we had a totally different concept for my possible right sleeve, both design- and color-wise. Somehow, however, it looks like my own interests and my forearm tattoo are meant to fit together and create something that reflects and illustrates my feelings on more than just one level. Maybe my subconsciousness has been working all this time or maybe it is just a coincidence. Whatever it is, I like what unfolds in front of my eyes.
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Bolshoi Ballet
'The Pharaoh's Daughter'
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by Odile GB
August 6, 2004 -- Royal Opera House, London
Premiered in 1862 in St. Petersburg the colourful Egyptian spectacle "The Pharaoh's Daughter" was Marius Petipa's first big success in Russia. Although popular and frequently revived it was withdrawn from the repertoire during the Soviet area after a brief reappearance in 1928, and gradually became forgotten. In 2000 Pierre Lacotte restored the work to its old glory with the help of the detailed libretto and some remaining fragments of pre-Revolutionary choreographic notation. In the end he redesigned and recreated the entire work in order to "resurrect not the letter but the spirit of the age".
The ballet tells the story of Lord Wilson who on his travels through Egypt takes refuge from a sandstorm in a nearby pyramid. After smoking an opium pipe he falls asleep and dreams himself back to ancient times where he, now changed into the Egyptian Taor, falls in love with Aspicia, the Pharaoh's daughter. Her father wants her to marry the King of Nubia so the lovers flea and after some trials and tribulations the Pharaoh gives the young couple his blessing. In the midst of the rejoicing Lord Wilson wakes from his dream. The story is not really that important but merely the excuse for great ensemble, solo and pas de deux dances. At one point Aspicia even throws herself into the river Nile in despair which leads to an underwater divertissement featuring the Ruler of the river Nile who bears a strong resemblance to Neptune and a corps de ballet dressed in pale blue romantic tutus.
Apart from the underwater scene which was a bit too kitschy for my taste the lavish sets and costumes are charmingly beautiful. Pierre Lacotte certainly did not restrain himself in any way. Aspicia has seven different outfits, her slave Ramze has three, and this is only the count for two main characters. The choreography is very French with lots of delicate footwork, so unlike the big, bold style one normally associates with the Bolshoi. Interestingly, the pas de deux are focusing a bit less on the ballerina than one would normally expect in a Petipa ballet. Quite often Taor appears right next to Aspicia performing the same steps.
On Friday night Svetlana Zakharova and Sergei Filin danced the lead roles and easily won the audience over. The entire company looked in very good shape and the fine performances in the many solo variations were too many too count. A couple of the big ensemble scenes looked slightly overcrowded but that is understandable since the piece had been created on a bigger stage.
I would say "The Pharaoh's
Daughter" is a very enjoyable piece of light entertainment but it
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or "La Bayadere". In that respect it is probably hampered
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Today the criminal career of Terence George Adams, 52, has been halted, albeit perhaps temporarily, as he begins a seven-year sentence for laundering £1m.
Like Al Capone in 1932, it was not the violence, the extortion or the narcotics that finally put the head of the notorious north London-based Adams family behind bars, but a forensic trail of his dirty millions by a select group of detectives, which took 21 months, cost £10m and involved the transcribing of thousands of hours of surveillance tapes.
With his wife Ruth and daughter watching from the public gallery of court 11 at the Old Bailey, Adams remained impassive as Judge Timothy Pontius sentenced him. The judge issued a confiscation order for £750,000 of his vast but uncalculated assets, and ordered him to pay £50,000 towards the prosecution costs of more than £4m.
Adams's delaying tactics following his arrest three years ago had caused "colossal and unprecedented costs" to the public purse, the judge said.
Because of his persistent refusal to declare his assets, Adams now faces an investigation by the Legal Services Commission and at its conclusion he will be forced to pay all of his defence costs - expected to exceed £5m. His conviction, detectives hope, will finally bring down his massive empire, built on more than 20 years of violently controlled protection rackets, extortion and drug trafficking.
As the judge ordered him to be taken down, Adams raised a double handed salute to his wife and daughter, before disappearing to the cells. He will be taken to the category A wing of Belmarsh high security prison.
The court heard that having spent the last two decades placing his millions in the hands of third parties, nominees and false companies, Adams confidently told the Inland Revenue in 1996 that all he had was "£50 with no other assets".
But the truth was very different. By his mid-30s, Adams was in possession of such a large fortune that he was able to turn his back on frontline criminal activity and retire to his luxurious and numerous homes in London and Cyprus. He left the dirty work to a band of enforcers; hardmen like Gilbert Wynter, known for his extreme violence and now believed to be dead.
"Adams had reached a point in his career when his name alone had a value from which he was able to profit," said prosecutor Andrew Mitchell QC yesterday. "By reason of his past criminal activity, the name Terry Adams and that of his family had a currency of its own that he guarded closely, like a board of directors would guard a trademark."
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text: As many of you may know, I have Tourette Syndrome. I wrote this poem a few months ago, and recorded/posted it in hopes that some other young person, perhaps newly diagnosed with TS, might see it and realize that the disorder is more than just some punchline. Growing up with this disorder in an environment that didn't understand it was hard, but I've persevered and learned and I hope I can help make it easier for somebody else.


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Sensors 2013, 13(2), 1902-1918; https://doi.org/10.3390/s130201902
3D LIDAR-Camera Extrinsic Calibration Using an Arbitrary Trihedron
Department of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, Zhejiang, China
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Received: 14 November 2012 / Revised: 8 January 2013 / Accepted: 24 January 2013 / Published: 1 February 2013
(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
AbstractThis paper presents a novel way to address the extrinsic calibration problem for a system composed of a 3D LIDAR and a camera. The relative transformation between the two sensors is calibrated via a nonlinear least squares (NLS) problem, which is formulated in terms of the geometric constraints associated with a trihedral object. Precise initial estimates of NLS are obtained by dividing it into two sub-problems that are solved individually. With the precise initializations, the calibration parameters are further refined by iteratively optimizing the NLS problem. The algorithm is validated on both simulated and real data, as well as a 3D reconstruction application. Moreover, since the trihedral target used for calibration can be either orthogonal or not, it is very often present in structured environments, making the calibration convenient. View Full-Text
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A skilled and experienced engineering manager needed to find a new position quickly after being laid off from his employer of just two years in upstate New York. Prior to that job, Lawrence Jones, an accomplished high-tech and manufacturing professional in his mid-40s, had spent six years in project management with a Fortune 500 company. He was reluctant to relocate, but jobs for specialists with aerospace, high-tech and fabricated-metals products backgrounds don't grow on trees there. Would his resume be up to the task?
Fortunately, Mr. Jones's employer paid for him to receive outplacement counseling. While networking for job leads, he sought advice on revising his resume from Phyllis Griswold, one of the counselors at the nonprofit career-management organization, Career Development Services of Rochester, N.Y. Here's her account of Mr. Jones's search issues and how his resume was changed to resolve them:
The situation: After leaving a large high-tech employer in 2002, Mr. Jones recognized he had to switch industries if he wanted to live in the Rochester area. He landed a project-manager position at a manufacturing company but was laid off in a downsizing in spring 2004. He hoped to find a project-management role at another local employer and wanted to strengthen his resume to emphasize his leadership ability in a range of industries and at companies of all sizes.
The challenge: When he began his search, Mr. Jones's existing resume needed to be updated to include his most recent position. But the document's main problem was its blandness. It didn't have a clear focus or job target or sell employers on his competencies, or clusters of skills, says Ms. Griswold. "It was blah in terms of its descriptions," she says. "You couldn't tell what he accomplished."
The fix: The first step was to strengthen the professional summary at the top of the resume. This section is sometimes called the "sell window," and it must present a compelling picture of a candidate's worth within 15 seconds, which is the amount of attention most resumes ever receive, says Ms. Griswold.
A strong job target -- senior engineering manager -- was announced at the top, with three of Mr. Jones's strongest skills -- project management, new-product development, and project design and portfolio management -- cited immediately below. Next, the candidate and Ms. Griswold worked to develop a professional description that wove his varied industry experience and accomplishments into a persuasive statement.
As written, the professional summary also highlights his personal attributes and approach to his work as well as his project-management credentials and a significant company award he received. The summary concludes with a list of his primary abilities and tasks. These serve as important "key words" that employers might request during a computer-based search for professionals with those abilities.
"We came up with words, like 'trench-hardened expert' to say he had been in the trenches," says the career adviser. "We built a picture of him and who he is, and we said here's what he accomplished and that he wins awards while doing it, too."
Mr. Jones's experience follows but includes more pertinent details, such as the divisions he worked for, than his earlier resume. The new version also makes better use of the available space and includes his experience with the U.S. Air Force as a systems-analysis engineer, which is an important technical area he wanted to discuss with employers.
The result: Within three months, Mr. Jones had received three job offers by networking and then sending employers his new resume. He turned down one potential job because it would have required relocating. An offer from his most recent employer to oversee some offshore manufacturing was enticing and would have meant a promotion and a larger salary. However, he declined that as well because of intensive travel requirements.
The third employer, a medical insurance company, needed an executive to manage its business information-systems applications. The executive would supervise all the project managers working on various information-technology applications. This would represent a promotion for Mr. Jones.
Concerned that he didn't have a strong enough background in information systems, Mr. Jones specifically added his Air Force experience in systems analysis to his resume. He presented a portfolio of his accomplishments during his first interview and was invited to a second interview with the vice president of IT. From his research, Mr. Jones learned the executive had written a book and secured a copy. The resulting interview helped him to dispel any concerns about his systems background.
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Fred Pattison, founder of The Evangelical Network (T-E-N), has written this first-person account of his life journey and the history of T-E-N.
I came into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord in November 1947 as a 15-year-old teenager. It was through a small independent fundamentalist Baptist church located on Long Island where I first heard the Gospel. It was while attending this church that I opened my heart and life to Jesus Christ. Previous to that time I had always been "religiously" inclined. My parents were Protestants and always saw to it that I attended whichever church they were attending. We moved several times always finding and attending a mainline Protestant church in the community where we were living at the time. My life journey began in Westchester County in New York's Hudson Valley, then on to Brooklyn and finally to Long Island where I grew up. As a young child and youth I always loved going to church. In fact from my earliest recollection I had wanted to enter the ministry for my life's work. Upon coming into a personal relationship with Christ this desire to serve God intensified.
Attending that independent Baptist church on Long Island drastically changed my life and molded my belief system for the rest of my life. I immediately plunged into serving God as best as I knew how to. I became president of the youth group in this church, began carrying my Bible with me to school each day, became actively involved in a group in the metro New York area known as High School Evangelism Fellowship (Hi-BA) and became an avid reader of Holy Scripture. At that point in my life I not only devoured Scripture but I committed to memory many Bible verses. As a zealous newly born again teenager I began passing out Gospel tracts and witnessing not only to my classmates in school but also on the streets, in restaurants, and wherever anyone was willing to listen to my testimony. When I was 16 years old I began preaching. I formed the youth group of my home church into a Gospel Team calling ourselves: Christ's Crusaders. Since my earliest recollections I have had a special love for people of color. The majority of my preaching in those early days was in small African-American Baptist and Pentecostal churches.
Upon graduating from high school I went off to Northeastern Bible College. During my junior year there I began a Sunday School close to my home on Long Island. We met in the basement of one of homes of this inter-racial community. There was only one church in this community and it did not welcome the black residents. Our Sunday School sought to reach the African-American residents. Our group began to grow. It soon organized into a church. This congregation continues to exist having observed its 50th Anniversary in 1954. It continues to be a predominately African-American congregation with a few non-black attendees and members.
While pastoring this congregation I worked with the New York Billy Graham Crusade in 1957. Then in 1958 I believed that I needed to move on. I relocated to Tucson where I founded Faith Baptist Church. I remained pastor of Faith Church until 1970. It was by this time that I finally accepted the fact that I was indeed homosexual. All through those many years I struggled with my sexuality. Growing up as a rigid, strict and legalist fundamentalist Christian intensified this struggle with my sexuality. This struggle became so unbearable that I finally came to the realization that I had to leave pastoring. At that point in my life I was unable to reconcile my Christian Faith with my sexual orientation although as a Baptist I never doubted that I was a child of God. I'm one of those people who believed then and continue to believe that once an individual is "in" Christ that individual is kept secure by the power of God. See John 10:25-30; Romans 8:1; 1 Peter 2:10; John 1:12-13.
From 1970 to 1976 I floundered in my faith. Leaving Tucson and moving to Phoenix I attended various churches but vowed that I would never again get involved in a church. I could not just walk away from my faith in total. Then, in December 1972, I met the man who in May 1973 became my lover, my companion, my partner in life. He was a lapsed Catholic who professed to be an agnostic and here I was a backslidden fundamentalist Baptist. What a pair we were.
In 1976 we discovered the Phoenix Metropolitan Community Church. We began attending that church. Joseph, my spouse, liked it and persuaded me to attend the services with him. After attending for a short time we both became members of the church. From Christmas 1976 to Easter 1977 the pastor of the Phoenix MCC was house bound due to illness. Knowing that I had pastored other churches the MCC District Coordinator David Farrell appointed me as the Worship Coordinator of the Phoenix church. The church's pastor returned to the pulpit on Easter Sunday of that year and gave his resignation. By this time the congregation had gotten use to me as their pastor. On the first Sunday of October 1977 I was officially installed as senior pastor of the Phoenix MCC. The very next Sunday the old building that the congregation had purchased was firebombed. But that's another story. Two years later we erected our own building at a different location. My life-partner headed up the building of the new structure. At that time we were the very first gay-oriented outreach to build its own building.
By this time in my life I had come to the point of understanding that one can truly be a Christian and be gay. I studied the so-called clobber passages of Scripture and came to the reconciliation of my faith with my sexual orientation. There are two individuals who greatly influenced me to come into this understanding. The first one was Troy Perry, founder and head of the UFMCC. The other individual was Ralph Blair. He had founded a group known as Evangelicals Concerned. For me, as an evangelical, this was exciting to finally come to know of two evangelical Christians who were also homosexuals.
As pastor of an MCC-related congregation I became involved in the denomination. However, you must keep in mind that I was from a very rigid separatist fundamentalist background. Being part of a denomination was new to me. I hate to admit it but I became a thorn in the side of the leadership of MCC. I had carried over with me my fundamentalist mindset as well as my Baptist emphasis on autonomy and sovereignty of the local church. In retrospect I created problems that I should not have. From 1977 to 1988 I created waves, not all good ones, in the UFMCC. And though I continue to disagree with that movement in some areas I am thankful to God for leading Bro. Troy Perry to have the vision to launch out, when he was a lone voice like the prophets of old, to the gay and lesbian community. I am truly sorry for the discomfort and trouble that I caused my brother in Christ.
By this point in my life I no longer viewed myself as a fundamentalist but as an evangelical. My doctrinal stance had not changed but some of my rigidness and legalistic behavior mellowed. This has continued to be my experience through the years. In my younger days I viewed nearly everything in terms of black or white. I now view many things in terms of gray.
During this time I had put out feelers to find other evangelicals who were part of the UFMCC. I did this mostly through newsletters and folders that I wrote and mailed out. By the way I have long buried and am somewhat ashamed of much of what I wrote in that material of yesteryear. However, I did receive a number of encouraging letters from a few MCC'ers. Then in 1987 I believed that there was a need to network with fellow evangelicals who were part of the denomination. It was at this point that T-E-N was born. Our original plan and purpose was to reach evangelicals within the UFMCC. However, this never came to fruition. It was also at this time that the church in Phoenix was having disagreements with the District Coordinator over the Deity of Christ. The church had let it be known that unless the District Coordinator could and would affirm belief in our Lord's deity the individual would not be permitted to preach when visiting the church. The District Coordinator asked the leadership of the church as to why the church remained in MCC when it appeared that the gulf between the two was widening. That did it. A specially called congregational meeting was held and the congregation voted, with a near unanimous decision, to withdraw from the denomination.
This decision affected the vision to T-E-N immediately. No longer was the original intent and purpose of the network the same. The networking now focused on reaching evangelicals not necessarily affiliated with the UFMCC.
The first T-E-N Weekend was held in February 1988. For many years thereafter the T-E-N Weekend was held the last weekend of February each year in the facilities of Casa de Cristo. The original Council consisted of a number of people nearly all from non-MCC churches such as the late Sylvia Pennington and the late Jerry Felix Russell worked with me in establishing T-E-N. Cornerstone Fellowship, Casa�s sister church in Tucson, with their pastor Rada Schaff, were vital in T-E-N coming into existence. Soon an Annual Labor Day Weekend was held in Vancouver, British Columbia. Some of those ordained to the Gospel Ministry by T-E-N in its early years included: Rada Schaff of Tucson, Jim Elsbury of Chicago and Rick Morcomb of Vancouver.
During those early years T-E-N grew but never to the point that it is today. We had both our ups and downs. T-E-N had a number of churches either officially affiliated with it or supportive of the concept in a number of states as well as in Canada. A group of churches in Tanzania, East Africa affiliated with it. As the founder of T-E-N I believed that there was a need for a school to equip and train others for public ministry. I founded Phoenix Evangelical Bible Institute (PHE-BI) and headed it up until retiring and turning the reigns over to Dr. Joseph Pearson. The school is no longer located in Phoenix and has changed its name to Christ Evangelical Bible Institute.
I withdrew from T-E-N affiliation shortly before I retired from active pastoring. As I look back on the reasons for my disagreement with the leadership T-E-N at that time I regret that I made the move that I did. I guess that what they say that hindsight is better than foresight is true after all.
I am truly excited as to what I observe happening in T-E-N today. Todd Ferrell is indeed a man of vision that I believe God has raised up for this hour in T-E-N�s ministry. I've known this brother-in-Christ for many years and encouraged he and others a number of years ago to establish Freedom in Christ Evangelical Church of San Francisco. My prayer is that God will continue to bless and use my brother as he seeks to obey God in leading this network of evangelicals ministering to the GLBT community.
Upon retiring I founded Olive Tree Ministries, in Strawberry, Arizona, which is non-denominational and takes an evangelical approach on most matters. We publish literature as Strawberry Views dealing with Sundry subjects. This material is written with both gays and non-gays in view. We also conduct seminars and workshops and seek to minister to people regardless of sexual orientation. We also maintain a small house church in the mountains of central Arizona. We are available to come to minister wherever and whenever the Lord leads.
Fred Pattison died on July 9, 2012. He and his partner and companion in life Joseph Sombrio celebrated their 39th anniversary this year.
(This statement provided by Fred Pattison with death notice from announcement by The Evangelical Network.)
Biography: March, 2010


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